GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY: Yore spectacular victories in the News toni1ht! The British and Canadians, our own troops, and the Fighting French, are on the ra■page all oYer France, capturing cit1 after city -- fi•e in southern r aace alone. The British contributed the aoat iaportaat strike when their araor rolled into Aaiena (A~ ... ) today. The next most important was the taking of Bordeaux by t he Fig ht lag ~F~r:_!e!!n~c:,!h~•---------------- - B the capture ot A ■ iens, the British haYe outflanked the Hazis on the rocket coasi. and if the eaemy divisions there don't get out of the Calaia area in a hurry, they'll be cat off. We've known for some time that the Germans, lately, have been firing their baszing rocket~on p England, from Bolland and Belgium. But not as LEAD - 2 -- effectively as from right across, at Calais. Second in importance only to the taking of !miens is the possession of Bordeaux, which the French themselves took today. Eisenhower released a stateaent tonight in which be reported that the Allies in western France are way ahead of schecu 1 le. Which helps explain the disintegration of the eneay. Eisenhower tells us that his troops ha"e destroyed the ·creaa of the German rmy. That since D-Day, they have inflicted more than four hundred thousand ~asualties on the Geraana; have liquidated some twenty German infantry divisions and five armo ed divisions; haie cut up twelve more of their infantry divisions together with six,••••* panzer J columns. Along the French coast, four aore divisions are of la~~•, reported cut off. ~, And then in the a irA since D-Day, three thousand, five hundred and forty-five Bazid pl;:e:k:,a;e been d eetroy~d io the ~it and on the groun • own words Allied aircraft have ' administered a fearful beating to the Luftwaffe. And he said this in credit to the air ar ■ , ~ gug~: •It is ■y convictioihat except for this aerial preparation, including ,t prolonged ca■i- ign against the transportatio1 system of northwestern EurQpe, the venture could not have been logically undertaken.• And he continues: The air support of the ground forces has been ■ost effective. Supply and maintenance services h•Y• performed miracles.• Eisenhower then went on lazis lost out in this coaplete fashion becnae hazarded everything !p:1~-e-~ntaint.ac the7 the sacrificed the lives of their own men desperately, said Eisenhower• ~ ; ; , . ~ their entire lkizlixiz■J Seventh , A Army,plus the best elements of two more. That German Seventh Army and the newly formed Fifth Panzer Army LEAD - 4 ---- have been decisively defeated. Three field marshals and one army co mander have been either dismissed or been incapacitated by wounds; one German army commander, three corps commanders, fifteen divisional co■■ anders, and one fortress commander have been either killed or captured. ~ also announced that the field coa■ and of all ,.. American armies in northern France had been entrusted to U L ~ Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, who/'-WiGI 'tJ\:o~ on an equal footing with ~rll"f'.L41Pa' Montgo ■ ery, command of the British and Canadia eapbasized the " fact that this is not a demotion this IINH'e\ hai been planned.since /\. -~J-ttJ. o ery, l•'••--- . ...... ■ announced that the British War Office has raised Monty of El Alamain to the rank of Field Marshal as of Septemb r First. headqu arters announced that the Eisenhower's British h a ve made General l"atton and Major General . . s of the Most Honorable Monton Eddy Honorary Companion Order o f t h e Bath. Three other Yank g 1 . enera a rece1Yed decora t ions as eommanders of the Order of the British _,, /) lL.. /:I ,, -,_...L/1 ~ -1_/I' Empire. ~~ ~ ~~ Back in Washington, Assistant Secretary of tar Patterson held a press conference in which he supplemented Eisenhower's report. On the bright side, Patterson told newspaperaen that the fast rolling tanka of General Patton's columns are receivin1 their fuel through pipelines which are being laid over the soil of France at the incredible rate of seventy ailea a day. This has been a major factor in keeping supplies ■oving. Patterson also reported that when the Allies came to ax river, and the Nazis had destroyed the bridges, we had pre-fabricated bridges ready to throw a~ross the streams in almost no time. The Allies are moving vast quantities of supplie l into Fr a n c e throu g h Cherbourg and smaller porta, and it will not b e lon g before they have . the g~e/LA,~o:""1of LI Havre. A"44 ,,/UlwA.t- ~ "° ~ J;,., • -- LEAD - 6 -- On the grim side, Patterson announced that our casualties have increased considerably in the last few wee k s. The total . number for all our armies since December, Nineteen Forty-One, is two hundred and eighty- four thousand, eight hundred and thirty-eight killed, wounded, missing and prisoners of war. The Bavy, Marine ' and Coast Guard have a total of fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and fifty-three casualties. Now for the details of the invasion, north and south. Uncle Sam's First Army bas crossed the River Meuse and is now in the Ardennes Forest, that historic gap at the Bel g ian border where so many crucial fights have been waged. The Yanks of the First smashed the last German defenses in that part of northern France 11N broke throughta:-~firty miles. Late thia Yank Fl·rst Army have capture afternoon came w ord that the f Sedan, the scene of the the historic frontier fortress O · are o b v i ously on the~r w a y along the historic · route · for Ardennea ar i s , a roa that leads through ihe lfg■au Foret ~ . . ;:f.,~ . ~ .. · . past the Belgian fortresses of lllld ~uur .- to the A "' ban k s of the Rhine and Cologne. • As for Patton's me~, they rolled ahead fro ■ . . Chalons and are now at the Argonne Forest, where the Yanks of Nineteen Eighteen achie•ed their greatest Tictory. The Third Ar■y under Patton is in a race witb retreating Nazi columns, an obvious effort to get between the ■ and the Geraan border. According to th•. underground French radio, Patton has captured Ve rd un' tbere the French army under Petain withstood th e Ger■an attac k for so many costly and bloody months in the last •ar. If th a t is true, Pat ton is only fifty ■iles fro• the border of the Saar District. • !DD LEA~ Returnin g to the First Army for a •oaent, the · la e ne w s indicate~ it has reached the old French Maginot Line at Sedan, in fact has broken into the line . In the south, the French divisions under General de h1t t.>N---.k Tass ig~y have accomplished a blitz drive w estward from Marseille, along the shores o _ f the . Gulf of Lyons, ani have taken Uontpellier, Beziers a nd Narbonne. In the other direction, General Patch's Yanks have accomplished the capture of lie Tassi g ny met with no strong resistance along the ' eighty-two miles of his advance since Tuesday. Thad, is taken to mean that the Nazis , are withdrawing ooapletel1 froa southwestern F r a n c e . , ' - M i ~ ~ t l l . e , •~• ~ trying to reach the Lyon gate, two hundred ail•• northea s t, before the Americana pushing up the Rhone Valle~ cut off their escape. The capture of I Narbonne on l y a short distance from < -,{_ J _ ,f ..(.._ Patch'I men 4riving up y~J,u_ Rhone have s t romed through Valence, only fifty-six miles • SOUTHERN !E!J!£.E - - to t h e outh of Lyo n. Th e hi g hway along the east bank of th rod is littered with the wreckage of German motor vehi cle , ~rtill~ry and other ■unitiona. There are some indi cat ions that the Nazis intend to atte ■pt a des p erate stand at Lyon, but the Berlin news agency reports the Americans have already reached that city of silk. The Nazis claim that their garrison in Lyon has destroyed the Fre~ch forces inside the city. if' Earlier in the week, we heard that the French were in complete control of Lyon. - And n o come our Soviet allies with another victory. Stalin announced this afternoon that the advance u a rds of the Red araor has broken the Geraan lines orth of Bucharest, and is now inside the city itself. There it h s joined up with the Rumanian, rebellin f a ainst Nazi ~ ~ r ~ u~l~• ~ - :__~ . ..-:--------~:-:-: ------:-- The Secondf rmy of the Ukra iDe left the oilfields and the refineries of Ploesti in flames. The Nazis had drawn a strong ring of troops around Bucharest. But it crumbled under the shock of the Boviet armored columns. Moscow announces that Buchare s t is virtually set free and ik■ that the Reda have r es tore d co m munications with the outside world. Inciden t ally, it has bro k en German coaaunications. Btt t tme. t ' is not ell , i'MttbeP north, another ~eel, u red R fH}z,y;e-ill oaly A.J1~1 - - ~ l"!lll:-e1!! ~ D1>rtihe a~ ~ Pra g a, ~ ..... ..... ~ · n d u ~ .a - 1-ai- s11•erb o-f Wa p ea• oi:i ~ • ..-i 1Kr- b a n ef the V •tY ~ &- RUSSIA_ - 2 - Polish patriots inside Warsaw report that one district in the northern section of t ~ i t y is a mass baa . b ia lleadqnar.tera . iii t»ae ; it.~ ed. report& Lnat. fighting continues in the old c i t y , ~ , h ~h• Germans streets. 4 ~~.e~ 4. »ia ~ u ..... . - captured ~,:e1 al--eloa.e- aai \l:lPeL Another dispatch~oacow brings word that ,._ patrols of the Third White Russian Army are already operating in East Prussia, beyond the &1eN,rpp1t liver, ~ separates Prussia from Poland. A · A correspondent in Paris tonight reports an (loodhouae) interview with none other than P.G.Jodehouae, the celebratedlauthor of Jeeves and so ■ DJ other hilari ~. tal19>- Wodehouse explained his broadcasts overt •azi r dio after he was taken prisoner -- those•• a broadcasts which brought such a ator■ of critioia ■ on his head. These were his worda: •1 suppose all authors are half-witie4;• a he continues, •It ■ay sound idiotic, b•t it aeYer occurred to ae that it would be held againat •• if I used the German radio · to reply to the do1en1 of letters I reoeiYed fro ■ A ■erican reader• after I w I( interned in Ger ■ an7. The Hazis first toot Wodehouse to Berlin. Be had plent7 of ■oney because of ro7alties due hi■ fro■ the German translations of his books. TheJ hi. to ■ove after a while to treated him well, allowed the estate of a friend in the Bartz Mountains, and .as not interned but 1 t t P • 11 Wodehouse a er O r 1 S • rar S • • bad no idea he'd got was allowed to go to Lyons. Be f!RIS - 2 himself in wrong with all h i s ~ until llr1. lode house joined hi11. Re is going to aat perai1sion to return to England and square hiaaelt with tbe British government. You will recall that•• heard the other day that the Freach in Paris had arrested laurioe C the onoepopular ausical coaed7 aa4 ciaeaa 1\u. The iazis today clai ■ that the Maquis had beatea Chewalier to death. But there ia ao confirutloa of that stor7. GIRMAIY ---- The Government of the United Statea ha1 already taken steps in expectation of1he approachina collapse of German7. It has ordered Diplo•t Bober\ Murphy to London to plan a ■ ilitar7 real•• for the control of the Reich. The Germans toda7 acknowledged the reTolta againat their armies of occupation in the Baltana. ~ ~ The Allied eus,, ,A. conference) tt-.ite soon, ia of 8t ate are going to have Quebec. That aeana, President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and tbe Cbieta of Staff. Stalin will not be there. But tbe lashingto as usual belief is he will be represente~by Molotov. This news came tonight fro ■ IRahington but it has been the matter of coamon go11ip in political circles for several days, though of courae nothin1 could be said about it publicly until now. There was even a rumor that Iing George and Queen Elizabeth would visit C~nada while the conference was goin1 on. ~ ~ ... But that _ may be;t-•• peli~ical 1ea.til1L1N1•t PM*" . for the story fro• Jashington says nothing abou~'L The Washington dispatch reports that th• conference •ill be purely about military subjecta,Aon a scale auch smaller than the last aeeting in Quebec I year ago when the British bad four hundred ■ ilitary and diplomatic experts and the Americans two bu ndred. Political co ■aentatora tonight pointed out cynically that the Quebec conference, aa a aatter of aewa value~ff••••••lJ blanket the•••• of th• Republican political caapaign which will begin next week. It will depend upon the governaenta of the ~~~ various state~ how much veterans and unemployed war workers receive after the victory ia won. A aea1ure was before the House today which would have given the power over unemployment benefits to the federal government, ~ 111111 would have provided twenty-five dollars a week for ~ Awar workers, thirty-five for veteran•. But the Bouae turned it down, by a vote of a hundred and eighty-eight to fifty-four. There will be a serious shortage of che■ iata in the United States during the next twenty~five )~ars. So say some of the heads of the Aaerican ~ Chemic 1 Society. The charge ia that the govern ■ent has followed a near-sighted policy by per■ itting the wholesale drafting of scientific experts, graduate chemists and under-graduate students. The report says th a t tne affects will be felt in all typ•~ of industry. The development of new processes and •• formulas will be retarded because it will take a . quarter of a century to train new men to ■ ake up the shortage. £11\12!2_ There ill be a serious shortage of che■ i ■ ta in the United States during the next twenty~five year. So say some of the heads of the American Chemic 1 Society. The charge is that the govern ■ent has followed a near-sighted policy by per■ itting the wholesale drafting of scientific experts, graduate chemists and under-graduate students. The report says that the effects will be felt in all trpes - of industry. The development of new processes and n•• formulas will be retarded because it will take a quarter of a century to train new ■en to ■ ake up the shortage. he other d y Sidney Billman,Chairaan of the Political Action Committee of the C.I.O., told a committee of Congre 0 smen investigating hi, that they should investigate also the National Association of Manufacturers. The President of the Aeaociat·on appeare before the Committee today and told the Congresa ■en th the N.A.M. does not . contribute a cent to poltiiall ' campaigns in either primaries or general election•, and uses no other means or influence in.behalf of any candidates. Here is news from the heavens; not fro■ Beaven - not yet. It concerns the cavorting or a gigantic comet. It is also a matter of huaan intereat because it •ill affect ■ illiona ot people in South America and Borth Africa. The news comes from an aatrono■er in Bogota, capital of Colombia, whose obserYationa tell bi ■ that this comet is now r cing across the atiea into the constellation of Capricorn. Before long it will paae between the Earth and lars. Aa a result of which ther e will e earthquakes and high tides in the southern p rts of the Western Be ■ iaphere and alao in the north of Africa. This scientist Bi••• goes so far as to predict that the earthquakes will occur in southern Chile ao d . Wl ·11 • the earth fissures thousands open huge gaps 1n , of y rds long. ( ITALL - fro Italy we have news of anoth•r victor, by the Polish contingent of th British light-h Ar■J. They have ax forged ahead along the Adriatic coaat PS.SAR o.., and cap;ured _.,rzs • ~• the seaport aoae ailea above Ancona. They will soon be at ~--~grips with the la1 More strikes in coal fields. outlaw at,rik,ea. More ~ban nine thousand men have atopped wort at seventeen mines in ceot-ral Pennayivanta~ Thi• ■eana . a shortage of coal amounting to forty-aix thouaaod tons a day. President Roosevelt tonight inatruc d Secretary Ickes to take i,osseasion of seven of tboae coal mines.