r. •
'1.
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I ck>n't aup
n
oae there
1a
much
question about
whether
uot
tllere
will
really be an
invasion,
but
in
any case, here's
an
.uawer to the qu
s
t.
ion
-
as 1 t ia given b Y
President
Rooseveltr.
'fe41a,-.
• 1
h•• •••
•fhi
President stated detinitely
that there would be a
Second
Front Inftaion
ot
the Nazi continent
--.. 4o ••'
wle!l
tlo
be
pa1
ado:ieel ...
said
it would not be an invaaion.
.,JJ■; ■«""1t
would
• • w
-
be a
kbaxaJ.iliu
liberation •
.C •
l••nl Proa, • • ~•
o••••
et
■1100•..,
The President spoke with
high optimian about military operations to be conducted on the continent
tbla aWllmer.
To wbiab he coJllllented that the word invasion didn't
quite cover the whole thing. Liberation
was a
better teni, beoeuse
our
plans
are on the baaia
ot
achieving the liberation
ot
tire-
$
conquered people and of arrangiJ:Jg tor the postwar period.
LIAI> ITALY
The Nazi controlled Vichy radio atatea that the Germana
will not
n
detend Rollle.
Beoeuae, aay the Germane .. "Ro•• haa
already been declared an open city". And the oorrespo ndent of
a
DUtch news aerTioe tlaeh•• trom Berlin that the Germana
will
deten4
a line •uob turther north than Rome.
ITALY - 2
Tod
e
y'
the b•ch -head toroe•
.. oap tur ed the town
ot
Cisterns, tor which a
)
muoh bitter battle wea waged. And they
promptly proceeded t
o
tan out monng al
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t~o~w
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...
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d~'
Rome - tor three ... mile
l:)
.
.And
._
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r
- • , . .
•••••
important
/\
,(
atrategioally - they
'*
thrust
lnwzxlw
·tarther illland, and aeized
a
ton called Cori.
Thi•
p4ao•
1 ■
only nin
e
miles trom the Via
caailina, the bi
g
h1gh•y - mich
t~•er■ea
t.he nlley
ot
th,• Liri
R1Ter.
When
our
toroea reach the Via Caailina, they will out
ott
the
main line
ot
retreat or the Nazis who are opposing the
Briti ■h
in their dri•• up the nll
ey
ot
the !iri.
The
Ger11ana
iii the Talley are described
a■
being in
tull fiight, trying to make their eaoe:re up the ri ffr line. .And it
would ap
p
ear tb!lt they'll keep
goidlg -
to
eaoape the bNoh -head
am,
which is reaching out toward them.
•11
ot
which
110uld
make
tt
probable the next German detenae tront
will be
away up in tront
ot
Rome -
1r,
indeed.
the enemy intends
to make
a tight
tor
the
Eternal
City.
The
.
British Eighth A.rmY in
the
Liri Valley baa captured
i(.;f-
peakAao long
was a
N
azi artil
l
ery tortreae,
G'.{
M
ount Cairo,
1lltN
trowning
"
fl'Om lhich big guns huri ed destruction against the Allies.
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ADD ITALY
AS
a
too
tno te
to thi
a we
may
take a new a
41 apa tch
rrom
London which now
reveals that aome montba ago St.
Jame/Palace
...
,
waa
hit
by
Nazi bomba.
St. Jamee ia one
ot
the oldeat
ot
the
~ j l ' " ~
~
l,.j.,..e..,._
~~.
reaidenoea
ot
Brit1ah Royalty.A.And nearby
were
the ahopa
ot
art
!
dealer• -- aome
ot
London'•
aoat tamoua.
These
were
wreolced, 81ld
t
tabuloua art ,reasurea were destroyed.
Q
)
AIR
11
.6.B
The air war new
tro
m
Europe tell• or
bad weather again
6
the Nazi
rt
in pe oe.
In
target a,
amo
--.11
~ T h e e41
terraneen weather
was
:,
and Plying Portreaaea
and Liberators
baaed
on Italy
amaahed
German
war centers in aouthern
France;- Nioe
and Lyons.
.til
et
•1oa
mete
it
ano1'her • • ,-.
t ■III
11:
ti)
th
a ca
•!Waei
n
f.ta!:.'!'
s,~TERN PACIJIO
On
o
e again the newa trom atar tella
or
bomba hitting
Jape in New Guinea.
One place•• the target that haa become
tailiar during the paat
r~
.
4aya,
Biak. ~other haa a name
w1
th
'
a new aound,
'
Manokftri.
Violent exploaiona and raging tir•• ,-
the
ueual result
ot
bombing.
lAPS
Here's an odd question - where do the Japa get
all
the
automob1lea •
all
those big abiny oera? The query
1
8
propounded
bJ
American tlie
r
s who blasted the big air and naTal baae at Surabaya.
DO
They
encountered almost/opposition, the Jape caught
Ilana
napping - asleep, taking it easy.
The aerican opinion 1• that
1n conquered Java the Mikado's
men
baTe been lazying around, loating,
living on the tat
ot
the land •. Having a good time -
id
th a lot
•
ot
Joy-riding in automobiles.
~
-•i-ioane,
~
hi't-thl
automobl'li
1t1noll 1
,ttelr um
oo\itiifl9';
i ? ~ l l i d
tlf
lti
N
1.a
f.ila&trat.4
~
Lieutenant
John Gavin
ot
MilweukeeJ
a
tlew in the raid against surab&Ja
and
tells
ot
panic among the Jap
a.
"I
saw a Japanese A4mlral aoooting
down
the steps
ot
a
big
oo
norete building"• he re
la
tea•
"I
oould see th• gold braid
on
hi
8
unitom
and
almost
u
aee
the expression
on
hie taoe
aa
he
duolted into a big black
u
sedan
ad
Illich whizzed
ott".
the Li eutenant tr<D Milwaukee aaka in a
wiattul
Whereupon
tone:
"I
wonder where the
Japa
get
all
those new care?
eeem
-
-to
be
4eeene all o~r
,ae
pl.a••.!!..•
J!PAN
Z
SI
P
RI
S
ONER
The Terdict
ot
a coroner••
Jury
waa banded down today
in the case
o
f
the American-born Japanese who was
killed
at
TUle
Lake.
At that segregation oenter Shiochi James Okomota drove
a
truck
to
the
oemp.
He w
e
a stopped by a aentry, and made ugly
raarke.
And,
according to
t■•ttwnwr
teat1aony given, be raised
h1a arm ••
i t
in aoae moti
o
n
or
J1uJ1 tau. Whereupon the aent17
tired.
The Jury's Terdiot 11 Ok011ota waa abot by a mil tary aentry -
in the line
ot duty.
Keanwllile a
ailitary boe~d
ot in~uiry ie investigeting
tor the Army -
lnTe ■tigating
the
oeae,
ot Illich the Tokyo 80Te?1DHDt
takes what it calla, "a serious
new".
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JITCE IOCTOR
In a court
ot
law at Johannesburg, South .ltrica, today
there was n
a
weird and orelb\w trial
th t
1 1
-.-1
•
-
e r a
ot an
eighty year
old
black
w1
toh doctor
tor
the human aaoritioe
ot
hie
son.
In
the evidence the
•tor1 • •
told how in the wild
Drateaaberg
m
o
untain• of llatal. a dry •J>ell oame upon the earth.
There
was no
rein. and the land
was
parched and
dry -
no
graaa
tor
the oattle or the bleak trib•••
1114
the•• were in deepair.
In one stricken nllage the people looked
to
their w1toh
4ootor, the aged wizard of
ao
muah magic.
Tiley gazed at
hia
reproaohtully, beoauae it
was
hia duty
to
bring moiature and rain.
Be
mew
how to appeaee the eTil apirit• that kept th• rain
troa
talling.
Today in the Johanneaburg·oourt
1
t was told wbat the
witch
doctor did.
The
apirit•
were
angr1, and 4-n4e4 a ••orifice -
the aaor1f1ce or
a
human being.
.And
the ancient wizard knew a
•
1tual tor tbat. For
8
nctlm he took his young son, took him into
the
mountains
and there
sacritioed·
him
to
the
d•ons or drought.
#1th
the traditio
J
el
aorcet"f
he
smeared
blood on
cattle borne,
and out of the body he :nade - rain
edioine.
In court the witch
doctor
explained to
the British Judge:
!JTCB DOCTOR - 2
•1 loTed
•1
aon,
but I bel.ieTed that
it
I aaor1t1oed
hia
I
would
bring plenty
ot
rain and
tood
tor 111 people, and
u
we
would not
need to work
again".
When the endenoe wa 1n,
the Judge,
aooor41ng
to th•
tom• ot
Britiah
law, aake the prisoner it he bad anything to aar
before he was
eentenoed.
The ancient
••1■t
■agioian
replied: "I
aa
aorry
tor
what I
did.
I
haTe
oatt1e:
Tak•
th•
in
pa,amt
ot
the
oriae•.
B• thought he would
be
pWli ■hed
aooor41ng
to
th•
n■ toa
ot
the
blaok
tribe■,
aong
whoa an
aot
ot
blood
1•
expiated bJ th•
payamt
ot
the only ooin
they
know
~
oattle.
But the
Britiah Judge pronounoed a White
un••
••ntenoe
tor
murder - death,hanging.
SIANCU'I'l'
Thie afternoon at Camp Anza, California,
a man, an
Al"DlJ
otticer, heard the 4eeth eentence pronounced upon hi.II.
He wae
entirely unmoved, aa it it were a mere bit ot impersonal
conv eraa ti on. Lt. Beaufort Swancutt, who•went on a shooting rampage
and killed tour persona, 1aolud1ng the girl he loved.
It didn't take long tor the twelve ottioere
a
ot the
.,.
court aartial Jury
t.o
reach their deoi&ion, which wae thereupon
,umoU11ced
by
the court iartial preeident -- the eentence
ot death,
hanging.
ill
eyea were
on Snnoutt•a tece, which ahowe4 not
a
•
tlicter
ot ohange. The
.lrllJ
captain, hie chief 00U11ael, placed
an arm aoroea
hia
ahouldera
t.o
oonaole
hia.
Later the Captain
aai4:
"Be wae not trembling, and ae•ed little affected
by
the verdict•.
Army guerde reported 1,ter that
.
the cond111Ded officer
ns cheerful. smi
l
ing_ as it in relief. They eaJ he had otteL
told them he preferred death to lite 1.Jlpriaonment.
IION'roOMERY
Today
a Senate Sub-Committee
iaaued a report on the
.,,,,
• owneap
•s•,
en•~• .... •~~Jee,.,
~
The Senate rinding h a
obarge
that the l'ederal
authorities were in the wrong in the llontgcmery Ward attair. ~ttorney
General Biddle 1a orltiolzed tor adT1a1ng President lboae•elt that
.
he had the author1 ty
to
aelze t.be
oo■
p
any
and tor hia oontent10na
relating
to
the magnl
tude
ot
the prealdential war-ti.lie power. Th•
Sub-Comittee aoou••• B14dle
ot
•king
what lt oalla ••rroneoua,
mialeading, irr•l••ant and lnmlaterial atatementa•.
iJm
MORTOOY!RY WARD
senator llacrarland
ot
Arimna third member
ot
the three-
un
com.mittee, retuaed to sign the report •• Be criticized th•
1nTe ■tiga
tio n, and ea14 it toiled to get all the toota.
~
JOLLOW MONTGO
ME
RY
W
ARD
Tonight the Attorney General denounoea the Terc11ot
of the Cong~eaaional Suboo11mittee.
d Be
aay■ it■ oonolu■iona
were reeohed on what he
oell ■
"hearaay 1Dtonaat1on". And be
orltloizea the subcommittee tor not
g1Ting
goTenuaent
witne■ ae ■
a
ohanc e to present their
aide
ot
the oaae.
\
jffROPRli TIO N
The Adm1n1atrat1on won a nctory 1n Congreea tonight,
when the Lower House Toted money, halt a Million Dollars to the
prea1dent•a
tail'-em.oloyment•practioe ◄omittee.
Th•r•
•a a
■trong
...
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...._
att•"'t led
by
eoutbernere to kill the appropriation -- the idea being
to put an end to the fair practi~• oollDlittee.
But the Adllliniatration
opinion preTailed, and the money•• Toted.
coffERENCI
President Boosevelt today celled a new oonterenoe -
one baYing
to
do
w1
th money.
Porty-three united and assooiate4
nations invited to send representatiYes
to
dlaouas plans tor
1
tab111z1ne world currenoies in the
po ■t-war
period. The oonterenoe
.1--tGt~oZfE1t--nci-:W~
will be held in Bretton Woode,
New Bupahire, and one
thing
to
be
J
A
diacuaasd will be -
a 11>rld bank tor poet-war reoonetruotion.
ROOSEVELT
-»••a,.
Q
man
went
to
a
hospital
in Maryland tor a
oMok-:ptcj-:,;r-;;;:;
1a
or
more than
■ore
di
1
/ '
•
oa interest,
.,rta
ot
poll tioal 11peoulatlona are being
lDTen
around
visit - because it was President Roosevelt who went to the great
naftl med1oal center
at Bethes4a, Maryland, and there was
g1
ven a
ocaplete physical examination.
'!'be
purpose
1a explained by White House phyaioian A4m1ral
lloI11t7J"e, who states that the ~otora ma4e a oheck-up to see
it
the
"
Int Preaid
P.
nt•s physical oondition
1•
as much improved as it appear••
to be, atter his sunlh1ne vacation or t.be aouth. Dr. 1101nt7J"e explain•
tbat,
aa a
result
ot
t.he vacation, he seems to have thrown
ott
all
traces or the bronchi ti• and sinus 1rri tations that had bothered hia
all winter.
That is - so tar
as an ordinary diapoaia can deteraine.
But the Doctors want
to
be
sure, and today they investigated with all
or
their acientitio resources -
X-R•1•
moat17.
This 1
8
the phya1oian•a account, but
ot
oourse
a mere
doctor
ot
medicine wouldn't understand the deeper politioal angles.
It
takes a
/
o
penetrate
those
devious
raraitications. And our news story from
·s
e.shington
tonight
tt te
l
ls
~
~
~
ua thet the che ck-un may
have
a
lot
t.o
do
ta
w1
th,A• fourth term
•
A
.
ROOc:-!VILT - 2
ot
F ~
e
A
iat
en
ag
11
y,I
!
ra
1
,,
•• •*'
J
j
t
~
belle Te that the Prea14ent won •t run
tor
unless he is certain that hia health 1a "A" n\lllber one.
re-election~
Nobo47 reall7
mo••
whether or not
the
Preaident hillaelt regar4a hi•
0111
ph7■ laal
oondi
tic-n
aa a
maJor tao
tor
in h1
a
4eola1on, but the
Washington
political goaaip la that it toda7•a oheok-up at the llal'fland Hospital
-
-e-
lhowa that
1'.D.R. baa oompletel7 reooyered trca
hie
.,tronohlal
and
linua trouble a, be will pr1 fttel7 lntom the Demooratlo
leadera;-
oka7,
111..
~
take
the
,utw
nomination
tor
a tourth tel"II.
flllll•
e President
public
de
laration
unti
dratted.
,
~
.lDD H)OSEVELT
~ •
newa
oonference
t.cclay •
the President •••
asked
ab
o
ut
th
e/\ ch
ok-up
and
th
e Fourth tenn, but he
parried all question
a
w1
tb
gay
qui
p
s end laughter.
LISTDING DEVIDE
Here is news trom Washington that should bring a great
eenee
or
relier.
It•a
an
ott'iclal denial
ot the
exiatenoe
ot
a
gadget
ao
territying thet it mi@Jlt well disorganize aoohty, disrupt
the beat regulated taauliec and turn the DD&t reapeotable
neighbor-ooda into battletielda.
.
For some llhile Washington bas been buzzing
w1
th goaaip
about
a new
inYention, which they'Te been calling -
The .,_z
SUper-
■an
Gadget.
Thia is deaoribed •• a liaten1ng-1n deTioe, with which
-
7ou
oan tune in on priTate oonYeraationa anywhere within
a
radius
ot
a
three
■ilea.
Suppose 90me goaaip
w
.
ere
going on in the house
down
at the end
ot
the street - all you would have to do would be
to
turn the dial
ot
a superman gadget, and
you
oould hear what they
were
saying.
uaybe
something about yourself. Th!
poaaibilitiea
are
enol"lll
us.
The
listening-in magio oould
make
you indeed
a
aupermall',
not
to
mention a superwoman.
I
~ o o d ol 51vernment.
-
!be
-
s t o ~
ener-al
Ja,eurio,.-OOllt'any &nd-was -beirns
-
eaploye.4
I
I
by ' "
~ecut1: ve-V1
e-e-=uhanwaa-
'"°'
ilhe
Wall
LISTDING DEVICE - 2
.,I.
Wi¼NII,
who-- .....
M-h .__.__.__~ - ..
.. ... "'"~~~ -6eneral
~
D••'•'o.
The
story
has
been told that Charles
1
Qe~mn1
'*
1
. ,
chairman
1!A
Peer11a ••*aiied
•~Wilao~ot the
W.P.B.
~
uaed the device to listen ln
on
a
private conversation
C
at the home
ot
James V. Forreatal,
now
secretary
ot
the
N&TJJ
~
:r
.
rOmiJllDt
Forreatal entertei11ing a group
ot ,.._
. .
..,
peraona including
a
A.
•
high goTermaeJlt ott1oiala ud the elder
atateaman
Bernard Baruch -
and
a
whole
lot
ot
political matters
were
diacuned - secretly,
~
aub-roaa, on the
Q..T.
And.-A
th
aecuti ve Vice Chairman
ot
the War
Production
Boa
rd tuned in on all tbs
t
was
■aid
behind thoa
e
closed
doors.
~ :
whole thing•• llaking noh an under-oover 1en1etion
"
in the National Capi
tel
that the Washing-ton Poat published
an
editorial about
the superman reports. The Post said 1 t waa - "shocked\'
Beo
'
auee such a contraption WC'uld, in the words
ot
the editorial,
"violate
the
priTecy of
homes,
Doctor■' ooneultiug rooms,
the ihtimate conversation
ot
friends,
con
.
teaeionel
boxes,
bedrooms,
4
n
d
wivei.
ot
parent•
and
the contldences
ot
lovers, or huaben •
8
children".
vi
ing
w1
th alarm, went still
The
new1:-peper editorial,
ew
1
toat
sooner or lat
e
r th
e
superman
further -
w1
th
the
su
gg
est on
LISTINI!C DEVI C! - 3
listening-in device would be equipped with telertaion.
ad
then-
'Phe-Wsahlngton
Po■1":-t
-.
au~a-w-1~rsa
tu
the e
·
woNle
:--c-
wUll 111'.._,,onldn •
.
~
iU-
Well tolka, in oaee JOU'Te been thinking
ot
going
right
out
and
purchasing
tba
t auperm&ll 11atener-iD,-llere ia the real low
down.
The Execut1Te Vioe Preai4ent
ot
the War iroduotion
Board
aaya there 1 a
nothing
to
8olaani1t
, U:e
W,P,Be
.
17MV1il"
adct& idfth&r
ttat.
t~
tantastlo!
oan't
be done!
wel 1
I •m
g1
ad
ot
that,
beoa uae
I
n1
b
eginning to
be
afraid that _ . _ _ , aomebody, with one
or
those oontraption1,
llli,Jlt be
listenin
g
right at this moment - might hear
what
I•m
tiaiatq
a eying to Jou
___
and mi
g
ht also hear the
very contldential
things that Hugh Jam
e
s la about
to te
l
l you.