tfj. 'J J ‘1 RUSSIA For picture of what is happening in Russia we must refer once again to that geographical factor called -- •the great Bend of the Don.* The Nazi war machine now occupies the entire^rea withi n the large deep loop formed by the river.\So what are the Hitler commanders doing?*^he B|ig Bend extends eastward, and has a north side and a so^lith side. f On the north side -- nothing. The GermUns are simply holding along the river there, as is the case of the / bitterly contested city of Voronezh sjtill farther north. Above the great Bend of the Don ther^ is nothing for the Nazis to go after -- noth ing\^m^^^4^ant. Their objectives are east lind south.IF^o the east lies all- important Stalingrad and the River Volga. The Nazis are pushing in that direction, but it is not clear what has happened. The immediate Russian town at that easternmost part of*the Don is a place called Kalach The Germans claim to be liKjtmKi both northwest and « X • 4 . plpar whether they have south of Kalach. But it isn t clear wneu j R ussia - 2 actually got across the river. Any thrust across the Don and on, right there, would be an instant threat to Stalingrad and the VolgaIttTo the south of the great bulge formed by the Don lies the Caucasus and oil -- and that*s the area of the principal German advances -- as reported today. They have crossed the river »»» captured Rostov, and have pushed on south. A They have bridged the Don at other places -- further along in the direction of the Stalingrad area. And there they have advanced -- driving into the Caucasus. Tonight the S bk tone from Moscow is darkly pessimistic Istating that the Nazis are pressing on in huge force. Moscow that they have brought A up eleven new divisions, one-hundred-and-sixty-five "1 thousand men -- from France -- Hitler throwing everythiig into the fight; '^nd the Germans are landing behind the Russian lines by air -- landing tanks*, and Moscow tells how big transport planes landed whippet tanks to the rear of the Soviet positions -- but these tanks were aa RnS£IA_-_2_ knocked out by artillery fire, brut the Germans continue A to throw in new material -- never mind the losses. Moscow indicates that the enemy is moving in almost are in great danger. i irresistible force to the south of the great Bend of | ^ s I there I the Don, and states that Marshal Timoshenko * s^ « Today, a stern and ominous warning was addressed to Nazi Germany. It was spoken by British Marshal Sir A. T. Harris, in a broadcast from London. He told the Germans that their country will be by bombing. \The beating the German cities have already taken are only a beginning. "You have no chance," the .British Air Marshal told the German people. "Soon we will be coming over every, night, every day, rain. flood or snow - we and the Americans. That is our j object," he went on, "and we shall pursue it remorselessly, city by city." He said the British and American bombers would smash the Nazi war centers, the armament factories. j nmuncp neorle who work in these plants and he warned;- "Those peopxt; live close to them, and therefore we will hit your houses." He said there would be nc end or let-up city by city\ "Let the Nazis drag you down to disaster R.A.F. - 2 with theni if you will," cried the British Air Marshal. Then he told the Germans the way out. "It is up to you to end the war-bombing. You can overthrow the Nazis and make peace," he said. We hear from Stockholm that the Nazis are moving entire industries to the eastern part of Germany - hoping to get them out of the range of bombing. All this ties in with a series of articles that has been running in the NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM, - articles by Thomas L. Stokes, who states a powerful argument in fqvor of the theory af that Nazi Germany can be bombed out of the war, knocked out by continuous giant raids blasting German cities and war industries. The bombing of Hamburg on Monday brought Nazi retaliation in the form of a vengeance attack on London and other Britihh cities last night. The Nazis lost heavily. Out of fifty planes in the raid, nnp — sixth of them. Today eight were shot down, near y F.A.F^ - 3 w6 h6a.r that this was because of a new secret anti-aircraft gun, which cooperated with the R.A.F. night fighting planes in knocking bombers out of the sky. British air activity today took the form of raids against Nazi-occupied France -- fehe R.A.F. making railroads their targets. They bombed railroad trains and disabled a number. American air units took part in the attacks, and one American pilot put two trains out of commission. il'i i! I i I > SUBMAPINES In the war of the Aleutians, our subitarines f have broken a rule - they violated one of the established principles of war. At least, it was supposed to be established. All the authorities were agreed that submarines do not ’attack destroyers. It was the other way around - destroyers attacked submarines. They are the principal and most dangerous | enemy of the undersea craft. AxxMk^iEtxxwx A sub was supposed to shoot torpedoes at any other kind of warship - but not a destroyer. Let that speedy depth bombing craft alone - dive and duck. That was the rule^-H»^ our submarines in the Aleutians have been violating it. They have been sinking Jap destroyers. & story today tells how one American undersea A boat went sneaking into the Jap controlled harbor at Kiska - and three destroyers were in there. Did our sub dive ^d^uck^en ^'"spotted them? Not at all. I SUBMARINES,- That American under-water boat proceeded to torpedo and sink the three enemy destroyers. s U PR E -VIE_ C 0 UR T_ A^E A L There were no new developments today in that appeal of the eight Nazi saboteurs to the Supreme Court of the United States. Legal proceedings begin tomorrow -- with the highest tribunal of this land passing on one of the most : important and dramatic cases that has ever come before Jj it. 1 :. I 1 : i \ >■■■- mu SI'PnTF.TlBS - CONSTITUTION f) y/ a The appeal of the saboteur case 'to-=th« ;li*l 'y t^-in1rp->rTt--ar-t.law-^.haA-:iBteg^;a<=^ea» | tti-y^rtdarof-:ArnejJe.smaa, In the first place, it shows i ii i that this nation is scrupulously careful of the legal rights even of enemy spies and saboteurs who, w the ii rules of war accepted everywhere, are subject to the extreme pena Ity. In Axis countries, for example, there rould be a swift and summary court martial - 4 . • appeal to the Supreme Courtl and prompt execution. etirntiis—^ -t4m» indicates how conscientious this country is about the structure of civil rights under which we live and enjoy freed om.^I think it will be a f national benefit to have a cons titutional definition commissions, the of the status of military the president for the trial kind of court convened by of the saboteurs Military commissions date back to the Civil War, SABOTEUES - CONSTITlITTnn . 2 and iit is characteristic of our kind of government to have the Supreme Court defineltheir place and powers under the Constitution. Today, wanting some enlightenment^^^ the /■) constitutional aspects, a noted authority AA /V ^ Professor Edward Corwin of Princeton. He explained to me the legal distinction between the two saboteurs who are citizens, and the six who are alienis. The two citizens have constitutional rights.The others, | as enemy aliens in time of war, have none. The two citizens, as traitors to the country to which they swore allegiance, could be tried for treason - that would be under civil law. But they can also be tried as spies under military law.The six aliens, not liable to trial ^*or treason, can likewise be classified as spies. That puts all of the saboteurs in the same category. ^XKKK^^facing military law. Constitution, raised the following interesting point. ^0TEnRS_-_C0NSTITUTI0N - 3 . invi ylc. Cry\^ Proiessor Corwin, as authority on the A The case is taken to the Supreme Court for a decision on whether or not the military kbkxxx commission app ointed by the President has proper jurisdiction, the right legal status. Professor Corwin points out that the Supreme Court is a body to which you appeal from Save in rare exceptions, you don't go to the Supreme Court with an original case - a case that has not been .*l^So..the question is this'.- is the saboteur affair being taken to the Supreme Court as an in another court. So^.the ques original case? Or - as an appeal from the military ission? If it is an appeal from the military comm lA that not i^ecognize the commission ommission, would tnat nuo ^ as a court? Professor Corwin thinks that the hig tribunal may consider the case as an appeal from the the decision of other courts. That is the usual way. j HK H giRnT^UES - CONSTITUTION - 4 military comriiission, and then pass on the jurisdiction and status of the commission - from which the case was appe aled I cite these abstract legal reasonings as a further instance of the heartening fact that our country extends the full process of its constitutional law to everyone^and all^ - eves traitors and enemy saboteurs. And furthermore - all scrupulous care is observed to make sure the structure of our civil rights A under our Constitution is preserved. F.B.li The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has had all kinds of tips concerning the three Nazi saboteurs - Walter Kappe, Rheinho'ld Rudolph Barth and Joseph achmidt. The F.B.I. asked the publid to be on the lookout for them, and the public has given plenty of response. Hundreds of people have reported various suspects, but these tips are all an illusion. The F.8.I. does sot belie., the three s.boteurs h..e arrived V oo VO+ they have been merely ordered on our shores as yet - uney over here by the Nazi Gestapo. rt-p +hp tins turned in by the However, many of the tip public are vpni ”We have received a great highly useful. we deal of important information about the three men. . • T + flv He added that the , , j Tn T nfficiul^®^ ay stated an F.B.i. ou- ^ r,onnle who knew the three information comes from p + V i 1 side of the ocean. saboteurs when they ^ived on A mistaken theory was exploited in the Senat A today -- the idea that a large part of the cost of the war could be paid by limiting incomes to twenty-five thousand dollars a year^ Senator Vandenberg said that he had asked the Treasury about that, and got a disillusioning reply. He says the Treasury told him what would happen if every individual income in the United States were cut down to twenty-five thousand dollars, iti3^ \ i The Government would get an extra six-hundred and-sixty million dollars, and that would be enough to finance our part in the war for just four days and ten hours. WOBK HOURS Today eight government agencies came out in favor of a forty-eight hour week. These agencies, headed by the War and Navy Departments, described the fortyeight hour week in these words:- "The best schedule for sustained efficiency." The gxacKk joint recommendation argues that, while a forty-hour week is generally accepted in peacetime, longer hours are needed for war production. It is emphasized that the forty-eight hour recommendation does not contradict the labor law provision requiring time and work in excess of forty hours a week. BEEF The Secretary of Agriculture stated today that civilian consumers may have to adjust their diet of meat to fit the situation created by the foodstuff requirements of the armed forces. Secretary Wickard told a press conference that the Army and Navy are buying up great quantities of be^f cattle, and this is forcing up the price of beef -- that is, livestock on the hoof. The President today made the comment that at least one-war-time shortage is being brought home to the American people -- the meat snortage. 1 GOLD Word from Washington indicates that we are not going to have a golden Statue of Liberty. The suggestion i that we ^ould have one was propounded by a leader of the ■ British Labor Party, who was formerly a member of the London Cabinet - Arthur Greenwood. He argued that the j: United JStates had most of the world's gold, and always wo uld have. So, he said, we might as well use it to make ^ a ne w statue of Liberty - even bigger than the present jj giant Miss Liberty standing at the entrance of New York 5c harbor, one of solid gold, gleaming and flashing in the A sunlight. British Arthur Greenwood said this would . , ... j- we no longer worship the indicate, in his words - ttiat we uu s E.lden o.lf>? Id other .ords, beat yo«r golden o.lf into . Statue of Libert, - .hich .o«ld eee. to have ao.e if vou can figure it cut. sort of political meaning —r ------ ----- , ‘^tiiac taken to the big boss of :a7;X7f?^he proposal wa. taKen '=7'>W- America's gold - the Secretary of the Treasury, rCedi 1 1 longevity In the history of the law, you will find many a strange reason given by a prisoner in asking for leniency. For example, there is the old chestnut about the murderer who killed his father and mother, and then n begged for mercy because he was an orphan. Today, we have a novelty along this line - in the case of a man convicted of forgery in New York. He asked the judge to go easy with him. And the reason he gave was this:- His family has a record of living long lives, and he wants to do his bit in maintaining the standard of longevity. An extended prison sentence might shorten wouldn't the judge kindly give him a his life - so short term. . j ni+od the fact that his father Adolph Friedman cited tne mniher at e ighty - eight, died at ninety-three, his 1 j. Qpventv'”®^^ and Mu three sUter. .re elghty-orie, ...enty-lhree respectively. He longevity - 2 eightyseven and another of seventy. Adolph himself is the baby of the family, a mere sixty-eight -- and his relatives expect him to go on for many Jiears more His police record goes back to Nineteen Nineteen. But he doesnot want to disgrace his family by not living long enough. For prison would shame his relatives by reducing his lojigevity. And now lest this broadcast reduce your longevity, here*s that ever-youthful tonic -- Hugh J ames.