The Ar g entine myste r y finally cleared today - after a fo g of rumor, and contradiction•. As late as last night, the Argentine Foreign Mir.ister dec l ared that there was no ch a n g e in the relations bet een his country and the Axis enemies of the United N a tions. But that was one of those diplomatic denials, because today in dramat fashion, the government at Buenos Aires broke with the '\f:Th . . . N . enemy powers. e reason given 1s - espionage. az1 Germany, in particular, is accu s ed of having operated a htge spy net in the southern republic, a thing that had been well known all along. ~ official German diplomatic representatives are stated to have been personally mixed up with the secret agent doings. The Argentine action is tied in with the case of the Argentine consular official who bears the most m ~ S f "Helmuth." ~ A arr s t ed by the un- panish nam e o ,, British on his w a y to Europe, and officially charged with doin g spy work or the ~azis. s .a headlin ,,_ i n Buenos A i es and widespre ad investigation was made by the Argentine Government - this followed tod a y by the official ch rge of es p iona e-plotting and he bre king of relations. In ashington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull promptly expressed his~ratificatio~, adding the hope that the Argentine government would folloi through with further ■ tka%Ameasures for the security of the Americas. MacARTHUR ----- Over in the southwestern Pacific, General Douglas acArthur ha s a broad chest. But I don't know how he wears all those medals - they're enough to cover a barn door. Tod~y, General acArthur received another. It was a birthday present, and it came from President t_who ts~ Roosevelt. The General,Ai•s~sixty-four, was decorated with the Distinguished Serviee Medal for what the presidential citation calls - •exceptionally distinguishe services as supreme commander of the Allied forces in the southwestern acific.• General MacArthur already held more than forty decorati on s, and now still one more. If he tried to wear all those shining medals, I suppose he'd have to hang some of them on his sleeves. PACIFIC -- ) Se en mor~ att ac ks against the . rshall Islands. The Jape in th t a rchipelago are c e * t ~ taking an incess a nt beating fr~m the air. he seven r e rted by the Navy today were directed a ainst four atolls~ three of which were ass u lte d twice in twenty-four hours. Four enemy p l a nes were shot dowrr, while ltt-at~ aircraft r e t u r ~ t h i s latest A ~ all tlau IIA1Lud A seven-fold blow that is re g arded as part of the preparations for the invasion of the Marshall&. And still later word from the Southwestern Paiific tells of an American air raid which sank five ~.,_ -~=tN~~ in the harbor of R a baul -- that Number One ,( Japanese base. In this lateat raid against Rabault Aaerican pl a nes smashed the enemy shipping with explosive blows, and twenty-four enemy fighter-planes were shot down. EU!IRQQ.E§ It wa officially disclosed today that United States airborne forces have been training in Britain for several months - they include paratroopers and glider units. These are definitely invasion force and, of course, give another hint of second front. The presence of the airborne troops in Britain has been, until now, one of those official secrets - which everybody kno s, especially the enemy. ~er week• In fact, the preciseness of the German information concern i ng a i r b o r n e ~ g ave a the movements of th ~ .. 7' ■ Uii¼III bunch of these a ne r vous t ime for a while. h e n they were on their way across, their convoy had to turn back seve~ll times because of fir)ittul weather. The course they navigated was around about and complicated, and yet Lord Haw-Haw, broadcasting ~~~- froa Berlin, k n e w , . A , ~ - ~That English renegade and other Nazi news commentators, broadcast daily accounta of the progress of the convoy of airborne forces across the Atlantic. All of which I suppose would argue a combination of espionage and some accurate spotting by submarines and scout planes. ' 1!!11 In the vicinity of Rome, Nazi resistance is stiffenin e , with the seaborne Allied troops pushing towa d the mount ins southeast of the Eternal City. The geography of the area around Rome is simple - and classical, familiar in every Boman history. ,~~--s•• M o4 oa1f'::::o7' 11,e · t1w large level 1paa11 in cea.t:oal-: As!:: ICi utZUI.N::k ilji, 4Uge aco ti I'd 1Ag ::tu It, al j I ii ,, S MD e iaw. a_ - L ~ i:uz_ ~ - ~ L~-'u: """""' · The antigue land called Latium, primordial home of the A Latins, is a reasonably level plain, the distances of which are reckoned in dozens at: 11 A . . of miles. One side is on the sea, and the other by m o u n t a i n s ~ w ~ 11ekee tN sides are ringed .ta a llied strate y has been to drive across the southern p art of the Latin plain - on to the t moun a ins, which they are approaching tonight. Allied spearheads are said . to be well beyond the Mussolini Canal, the crossing of which we heard about yesterdav AA4 tJJwy ...,. advancing from the plain into hilly country, where there are patches of scrub pine. The Appian Way, that most important road, appears to be well and thoroughly cut - and fighting still remains ~~ light. Yost of the eneay resistance was give~by emall German groups, which had n•• turned fara houses into ■ inor fortresses. American troops blasted them out of the farm houses a n d pushed on. There are reports · that the Germans intend to defend the City of Rome, with indications that they plan to make a hous e -to-house fight. We hear th at th ey are b l as~ing and levelin~ buildings, and are throwing up barricades across th4 streets in key districts. All of which sounds ominous for the city that contains so vast a wealth of classic antiquity. Much of ancient Rome might be reduced to rubble, if the Nazis make a street fight of it - and if the Allies elect to attack that way. 0 To the south, along th~ line which the Germana have defended so stubbornly - further fifth Army progress is reported. The Germans have evacuated Cassino, but it does not appear that the Allies have occupied the town. They are staying out because of heavy enemy guns placed in the hills nearby. The news tonight does not give any vivid hint of a general -fast German withdrawal, such as is c o n f i d e n ~ -:-the Nazis trying to get away ~ A b h n orth of them is closed. efore the trap sprung t o t e Today Stalin announced the capture of another big railro d city, which is described as a five-way junction. And it certainly has a five-way name - Iras-nog-var~diesk. That's on the Leningrad front, about twenty-five miles south of the second largest Russian city. And today's Moscow bulletin states that the whole ~erman position south of Leningrad is on the verge of collapsing. The Red army drive in~hat sector ~ ~ape the moat powerful of the war. A · Today ov iet Mo scow charged Nazi Germ a ny with that monstrous crime of which the Germans accused the Russians. That is - · the murder of eleven thousand Polish prisoners in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk. Months ag o, the azis announced the alleged discovery of the bodies of eleven thousand Poles. These prisoners had been aeiz~d by th~ Soviets when the Red Army took over the western half of Poland under the Bitler-Stalin pact. And Berlin accused the Russians of the wholesale murder, saying it was committed in lineteen Forty. This created a ~ensation, and the ~xiled Polish Government in London demanded an explanation of Moscow - the implication being that the Poles believed the Nazi story. Today Moscow issues a report made by a special Soviet atrocity commission which, says Moscow, has been -- - - t ak in g evi d en c e in the case o f the mass murder in the Ia t yn Forest. The document cites evidence to show that the Poles were k illed, not by the Russians in Mineteen , Forty, but by the Germans in Nineteen Forty-One. The contention being - that when the Hitler invasion rolled over the Smolensk area, the Germans sezied the Polish prisoners who were being held by the Russians - and committed the murders. The Moscow commission report give *estimony of eye-witness . es, and states that documents " on the bodies proved that the Poles were alive when the Germans captured Smolensk - in Nineteen Forty-One. Foreign correspondents were taken to the scene in the Iatyn For est, where the thousands of bodies were bein g du g up. And they tell a horror story - picturing ' a terrifyin autopsies. POLAN~ -- Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced today that Soviet Russia has rejected the offer of the United States to mediate the Soviet-Polish dispute Poland asked both the United States and Great Britain to intervene in the argument and help to effect a settlement. The United States acceded to the Polish re q uest and a pproached Moscow, but Moscow said - Nb, American mediation is not desired.-,(Hot at the moment, anyway, with Moscow explaining conditions right now are not auspicious for mediation. Presumably, conditions might change, and so the door would seem to be still left o p en. ~eme •tt~JM&9 that the Sevieta might e~ lti::il iag tf thu Poli!h exil1i gewe~ameat weFe aA&Rgea, tilt t,l!fll - ~ aw Sovje+ e.uacc!! onNries-1 • A111l tbeer:.it ill ~ \ H il e ~ the P6,lioh peepla(t.: ie 4.oal!ff:i- ·· t1re - 111Med A•11o · - - ~ POLAN~ • 2 - " i 1' p t1 I! he s f u1 the 1 A■eP1een medietion migh~ ee aeee~~aele te the ie¥ie\s+ 9P ■ ayae R8~~ Secretary Hull's announcement of the Moscow rejection follow4d a declaration made by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the · House of Commons today. The Foreign Secretary, by implication, supporte the Poles in their refusal to give to Soviet Russia the western half of the ter~itory that was Polish before the war. He indicated the British government will not recognize any change of ownership ~oll=ppc=ac-Em~t~ :!:o;:t:al=:te\l.A't~, unless the Polish government agrees to it of its own free will. SOLDIER VQl! - President Roosevelt today intervened personall1 in the Senate proceedings on the ,ote. He sent a special message subject of a soldier in which he ~nounced A the bill that nae eeea paaaea ~, ~he Seaa,e aai waia• systea eouN enable service aen in the Ara1 and Bav1 to vote ill the co ■ ing election. Tae Seaa~e ~aeeea taa\ eill for Slate eeDtrol, ~., ie aew »ecoDa 14eP iag it -- and bas befoz e it» ... eoaipapy ■ eaau»e, whiea ealla fep t~e ie4eral Qeve»aaeat The Pre o Weu:ti's upewza ■ ac: al oq SOLDIER VQ~~-~~ - -rt:-e---P~ ial:t n u s =: MA declaring that the bi·11 to ,, let the States handle the soldier vote was what he called __ ''a fraud on the soldiers, sailors and marines now training and fighting~) ~ repeated that t h e ~ ~ ~~ic~~~~ ... fl', ani tne reeelt would be that tfte ee•vioe ■ ea ix aai we ■ ea weeld ~e depri•ea of their rigft, ~e vo\e ► This presidential interv&nlion was immediately attacked by Republican Senator Taft of Ohio, who ai said it was -- an insult. •It is most unfortunate,• said Senator Taft, •that the President should see fit to inject himself into legislative aatters. ~ ~ insult /) ' ~~ ~ e.JJ/J~ to aeabers ....__<tf Congress," he added.)~ ~ ""ct''F~ - , - ~ 7,-tOX<,4•' A modification of the Federal Control bill - is being put forward by Republican Senator Stiles Bridges of Hew Hampshire. Be atta~ks the proposal containe in the measure-- whereby a serviceman would get a blank ballot and then write in his choice Senator's idell) 1 •••t•~•i:xiix~ is that the names of for President. The ' P ' ~ the various~candidates should be printed on the ballots and_2at the serviceman •bould select from these. TM E i ~ argttes th at a / iQLDIER VOTE .:...l ballot without naaes would give an undue advantage to l = " ~ ~ ~ t ! s ~ • ' ~ • h o , he assumes, is to be a Fourth Tera candidate. • A man who has been out of the country two years,• he argues, •might not be thoroughly familiar with the naae Qf the Republican nomi )) ee. BERO - Today in Chicago a deputation representing the Polish National Alliance called on Lieutenant Bruno Godlewski, at his mother's home and presented -wvd ' tie him 1~ check for thirteen thousand dollars. The aoney had been raised by nickel, dime and dollar contributions from Polish steel workers, scrub women, business men -- who had chipped in to pay homage to a hero of the air war in Europe. Bruno Godlewski was seventeen years old when he decided be wanted to fight in the war -- fight for the United States. But they wouldn't let him -- he was too young. So he went to·Canada, and there enlisted in a Polish Flying Squadron. Be became a tail gunner in a bomber, was sent to England,and soon was flying in raids over Nazi Germany. Be took part in eleven raids and 11:a compiled a personal record of eight German planes shot down. On his eleventh ana last raid, his bomber got into a savage battle with Bazi fighters. Godlewski, b But then a pack of busy with his tail gun, got tree. BERO - 2 - German fighters swarmed upon the bomber, and the tail gun was in the focus of a hurricane of enemy fire. And Gunner Godlewski got it in the aras __ hit in one elbow, and in the other wrist. With both arms out, he was crippled now, and couldn't do any more shooting. But he still could do a job. Be helped to direct the ship on its homeward flight -- watching below, peering downward, and calling out instructions to the pilot. When the bomber ~~ landed they found two thousand bullet/\holes in the wings of the fuselage. So that was - the hero•• who was honored in Chicago today -- honored with thirteen thousand dollars But they didn't hand ' the money to him -- hand would be the wrong word. They placed it before him, but he d .d 't h ld·n•t Both hands were 1 n pick it up -- · e cou • gone. One arm off at the elbow, and the oth~r off at the wrist __ as a result of enemy fire in that air b t had seemed to com entrate attle - - enemy fire tha _ _ C M \ ~ ~ . Q URO - J R bl£ GI £8, Be said today, this flier without hands, that he'd like to get back into the battles of the sky again. But there seems little chance of that. •I could be a navig~tor,• he explained ruefully, •but m1 officers say I couldn ' · t handle a parachute if I had to bail out.• No, he couldn't pull the ripcord, not without hands. Hollywood is a blaae sort of place, but even Hollrwood can et a shock once in a while. This was -1\ prove• by the unhappy experience of Miss Tanis " ~ Chandler, a girl who - so infatuated with the movies A that she disguised as a boy. 'TheArmy draft being as it is, they are a little short of young men to pla1 parts in the Hollywood produotions. So Miss Tanis Chandler,dressed as a boy, hadn't much trouble getting a job. AndJshe was in the aovies. They cast her in a·aaalJ_.9..i~ in a large feature, and then the action of the film story called for a sudden dive into a pool. The ~irector shouted to Miss Tanis Chandler: •Take off your shirt~• To which a wailing voice responded: •No, I · 1 • Whereupon the can't do that, I'm~ g1r • All WAR The air war based on Britain g ives us the same story as yest er day and pr e vious da s - battering blows hur ~ ed at the invasion coast. Nazis along the shore from Cal a is to Dieppe were bombed heavily for the fourth . ~ ~ successive day. They have been hi~thirty-five days)!" °7- tbirty-seven days - concentrated air action which may well be prep a ring the way for the second front invasion. Ted.ayT" -MUI a&y OTA' blA ehaiitte] CPI till&d tJ:t:ta-