Admiral Nimitz's statements were today taken as
a
possible indication
of
an American strategy
of
driving
a wedge
across
the
Pacific
to China -
a wedge
through
the
fringe
of
Japanese-held islands.
•rt
is
no secret,• aaid he, ~that
we
ahall
try to
land whenever
we
can in China.• And •land in China•
aight
well
■ ean
a
thruet straight across the
Pacific.
•r
believe,w
explained
our Pacific fleet
co ■mander,
•that Japan can
be
defeated only
fro ■
basea
,,
in China.
i ie
ae~ ~elieve
~aa~
lapaa
coul4
i•
••teated
~, eea alea-e.•
0
Here's a revealing story that flashes from
I
~
,
Iwajalein Atoll.
It begins with a day
about two weeks
ago, when the great convoy was steaming for the invasio~
~
P::::_~16_
/
~ -
,__Aboard the t oop transports/\the1e
was
■ ■■4ic
!
1
pf
· · • aet, •
GAO:
anger,
e.e ehip!B
lief•
)la11,:h•
bk&
&baa;
_, the Jap atrocities, the murderous mistreatment of the
~
aen of Batan, the march of
,._
L
en,
-t6ui
~
t;"
/.tJte
J
death. The soldiers were
enraged.
They
■ uttered
bitter curses, and spoke eaYag
about what would happen to any Japs that might fall into
their hands.
"We'll slice tliem to bits! We'll club
their brains out!" It looked bad for any of the
0
Mikado's
boys who might be taken priso~er in the
invasion of Iwajalein.
So what happened? Prisoners were taken, and
what
vengeance di1 the Amer1cans exact upon
the ■ ?
The answer is given toJay by United Press
~
'1,
Correspondent Richard
W.
Johnson,
who
flashes a story
.
from Kwajalein Atoll.
He tells how he trailed a party
of thirty Japanese prisoners from the time they were
captured• wha»a ua
u;v
uilil
worst thing that befell them,• writes the U.P. man,
•was a
series of verbal reflections upon the legitimacy
of their&••••* noble ancestors, re~lectione delivered,
anyway, in a language the7 didn't understand.•
fhe Jape had been da~ oy\ ef a tuaael
-1tJ
1olaieP8
ef
tae Seveata Bivi1ien.
lb•,
BCSI
··••F•4y~
aaa
one euae""Out
with•
•~ite
flag.
Tae
otaep1
foll$•••
waea
tae,r
•aw
that
-t.e♦
fi»1t ••••••net
baP■ ea~
They
l
s-o
~
LJ
~
~ ~ 4 ,
~
~?J
said they hadn't eaten for four days.J:-- &ttle-
..
hardenedx~pened their! ration~
g4.ve thef-,W
~
~
~
biscuits/~and water.
Half a dozen woundea were"'k t ~•d
to hospital stations, wher~ they got bandages and
plasma. When they were taken away on a transport, they
were hoisted aboard on litters, and even those with
mere minor lacerations didn't have to climb.
JAP PRISONE~§ -
3
!he Jape chattern
iaeeeeaatly -
with s~r~ri••,
oe ■pletely
aeteaiehe~
ey
the kiaa treatment tha~ waa
Johnson of the
U.f.
says he heard a lavy
boatswain growl:
b::i
1
,tar\r: •
I wonder i:t the7 would treat
ua thia wa7?• What was in the boatswain's aind waa
obYiouaf
~
■HOilP
&ail
bl!uh'LI
11111
!atJ
1etu&1
u■
,1sa
uao
o~
Bat an !dariq that march of
death.
•But,• writes the U.P.
■ an,
•I
i ■ agine
the
boatswain
would have been the first to intervene had
anyone atarted abusing bis prisoners.•
~~
..
' - )
After whic~±be 1tor~ro11
+1'
h •••
f:o]lo~rufl•e~•
•Aaerican soldier~ -r1Lei :\A
---
---
'91■
1
tvd
Pi·e•s
cor11eap0Aa:illt":
•are aagnificent and
relentless fighters, but they have not the innate cruelt
to pay back the Japs in their own coin.
lAP
rRISONE~~ -
4
4onsideration for prisoners,• he continues,
•aay
arouse
the ire of some parlor patriots, but in the heat of battle
\
it is a heart-warming thing to find that the Aaerican
■ oldier
has
an innate decency, which is one thing that
distinguishes
hi ■
from
the Jap.•
That fiction melodrama;
;
nd the more superheated
kind of m
o
tion
p
icture lot• occ
a
sionally get into
what is
supposed to be the solemn realm of legislation
J
~roved today
bv
a demand from
A
~
.,
Con ressaan Heffernan
of lew York -- who issued a call for theAmerican
I
l
'
conquerors of Iwajalein to initiate a search for
--c..11t~oJUl ~ -
Aaelia
Earhart.
Seven yearsAago ~hat world-famous
aviatrix vanished in the Pacific on a flight around
the world.
And since then all sorts of notions have
been
entertained about what happened to her.
Hollywood
filas
took up the matter and, of course, produced
something highly complicated which included Jape.
I
And tonight Congressman Heffernan
revives
a
theory th t Amelia Earhart may have been murder€d
by the Far Eastern devils bec
a
use, in the course of
her flight and a forced landing in the Pacific,
she
saw too much of their fortification
s
in the mid-Pacific
islands.
So, the Congressman now cal
l
s upon the American
conquerors
of
the IwaJalein to make a new search for
clues to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
•This
idea,• says be, •aay" be
just
a dreaa, •but at least
it's
within the real• of possibility.•
Ah, Congressman, there ar~ so many things
within
the realm of possibility.
·
The indications are that Rabaul, the big Jap
base on Rew Britain Island, has be
e
n virtually abandon
by Japanese warshi
J
s. Tonight's tidings from the
Southwestern Pacific tell• of another one-hundred-and-
twenty-nine tons of boabs dropped on the eneay fortress
but no Japanese warships were hit, or even
ai ■ed
at,
becau1e
they weren't there•
•Shipping at Babaul has
reached its lowest ebb,• said a spokesaan at Allied
headquarters.
Ho warsh'ips •ere seen by our fliers.
And only a pitiful handful of cargo vessels in the once
proud harbor . . . :Ct -would see• that conatant bombing
has virtually eliminated Rabaul as a practical Japanese
--1--
~~
-4-o~.-
base for ships.
~
o,iV\
~
-.-"ti-
~
~ ~
a
~
~
~.
In Russia, in the bend
of
the Dnieper - the
Nazis
tonight are threatened with the loss of their
last two strongholds in that area.
One - the iron
center of
'
I'ia-voi
,'.
Rot;. The other
-
the important city
Ihers0
Rog ie
a
focal
point of war,
aad
\he
lasie
held
Now we hear that the
0
great
iron center is about three-quarters encircled.-i-f:.e..
-2..b~-~
~
.••
- - t : - ~
~
~ V ' ~ ~ .
••i=l'.Le
precarioae poeit,ien of t»he Nazis there ie
■ad•
~ilf,
likopol
=
a~out
which we heard
yee~er~a,,
Soviet operations in southern Ruasia are moving
swiftly, in spite of tbe imp&diment of weather.
Not
Russian winter -,but Russian spring.
In the southern
Ukraine, spring has come early this year, way ahead of
time.
There are he vy rains and thaws.
Meadows are
turning green, trees are budding, and the deep black
1uss14_-
2
earth of the Ukraine is becoming a soggy aorasa.
In
place• there are floods, washed out roads, and everywhere
it'• wet and boggy going.
Yet, in spite of the
pre ■ature
spring, the Ruasians continue
A
their driving activity.
loud -
,
The news
f
·
om the Roman beachhe
a
d tonight ia
a thunderin~rtillery. Today
German batteries
opened a he
a
vy bombardment against the Allied positions
And this may be a prelude to the expected show-down
's-
attack. Today
1'-IR
action cons
·
isted mostly of tentative
A
jabs, with
the
eneay
thrusting here and there into the
Fifth Army
~
lines./he Germans are massing con
s
t
a
~tly
greater forces, and the word from Allied headquarters
ia that the final test cannot long be delayed.
The brightest feature of the Allied picture
continue~ to be air action - with planes today making
fifteen hundred sorties. They struck far and near - at
the great railro
a
d junct1on of Padua in northern I~aly.
And1
awaraa
of Allied planes delivered b
l
asting assaults
short distances behind the fighting line - hitting at
the German concentrbtions. These are particularly thick
~
round Cistern
a
, and there the Allied concentration
-
~
Vv
~
crn.R_
4 ~
,
ITALY - 2
--------
~ c
in
a
1
To the south, in
area, Fifth Ar•Y
troops are driving in a culminating effort to captur
that
■ uch
blasted place.
They drove further into the
town,
a
part
of
which, however,
is
still hedd
by
the
Germans.
Here is a piece of historical irony - a
story that in Bolland the dykes may be opened and the
water
let in to flood the land.
In the heroic
ti ■ es
of the
est, the Dutch had done t i s , defending
theaaelvea
against invaders
·
- opening the dykes and
drowning
the ■
out.
Bow,
however. it's the fazi eneay
who threaten
to do
this
- in the event of a second-
eeNrel
pPO"YiH•••
9pe&
dykes - the Hazi ene~y turning against the Dutch
and their allies - Holland's olc weapon.
However. there is some suraiae that the whole
thing
aay
have more of a .ropaganda th2n a military
ang,e. Observers
·
n
London
thi
~
th~t the re ort about
the openin
f
the dy~es wa
p~anted
byte
ffazis
n
order to discourage second front enthusiasm in Bolland.
The conquered people there have been openly cheering
"J-
-
'
'
the
n e w ~ i , l i e ~ r 1 ~ and
their
cheers might not be so hearty if they thought that an
Allied attack would mean the flooding of the land.
Or, at least, so the Nazis are said to figure.
Today it was round-the-clock in the bombing
the Nazi held coast of France.
Last night British
night bombers joined the assault that American planes
~
~
been making consistently during the hours of light.
An~ay the warplanes of the
U.S.A.
kept up their
unrelenting
work.
This morning more than two hundred
Aaerican Marauder bombers struck hard, and we are
told that since
dawn
ot
Tuesday, the Marauders.-,,~
flown on more than five hondred and fifty individual
sorties, without the loss of a single plane.
The invasion coast of France has been
boabed
forty-five times in forty days, and this is reckoned
to be on a pre-invasion scale.
IOIIBARDIER
For our daily hero and thrill story, take
this one.
In
yesterday's daylight bombing of the
Nazis,
a
Marauder flew over its target. The bombardier took a
good
aim,
and pressed the boab release - but nothing
happened. Whereupon he wa
s
a
worried boabardier -
was
•
-c-.
Sergeant Woodrow Loubey of St.J
,
,seph, llissour,\ S011ethin1
was wrong with the bomb bay, and he climbed down to get
the
bombs
free.
But they wouldn't budge.
and
Meanwhile,
they had·been
the ~ p r o p e l l e r vanes
1'
II
autoaatically fuse
d
,
on their noses
were
spinning, blown by the •ind that swirled up into the
bomb bay.
,._ -nose pr(?peller vanes would permit the
bombs to explode~th
the
bumpin
g
a r o u n ~
mi
g
ht
g o o f f a , ; f - ~ ~ •
So what did Loub~y do?
He threw himself down
on the bombs, sprawled qver them and stopped the
revolvin
g
of the little
In th
a
t
w
a
y,
BOMB
DI
R
-
2
...
-
......
-------
the
rauder rode home for a
safe 1
nding.
/fuL./
oday Lo
bey
s
i
d
:
"Heroic;{
~ -
It w
as
just as s
a
fe
sitting
on
the bombs
as
it
ould
have been sitting in the tail if the bombs
had
on
off."
SOLDI
V
OTE
-------
-
--
---
The
soldier
v
o
te
uestion
is bout
as
snarled u
p as
i
t
c
~
n
p
ossi
bly
b
-
this follo
1
in
the
vote in
the
House
of
Rep
resent
&
tives
tod
a
y, a
vote
rejectin
g
the Senate bi
l
l
for federal
so
ld
ier ballots.
This action
by the
Bo
us
e
was not
unexp
ec
ted,
since
the
Congressmen
had passed
their own bill for
state
ballots
by
a
large
majority of two hundred
and fifty
to
a
hund
red
and
sixty-four.
The whole thing n
o
w
g
oes to a joint committee
eellot
ideee,
w a i ~
Heuee committee
■ e ■eere
&Pe
@Etually stree~
1
wita
t,he ir own atatJe
eallet.
vePa
lea..
_ _
appointed:
The
congree.!men
11•i•t•ri
te the eemmibt,ee
t0clay
uta111:\
_:---
~wo
in
favor
for
complete state een~re1 e£
t~•
e
e
e
hew
t-De
AL
LA
CE
--------
At
8e
ttle
toni
,
ht
Vice
Pres
ident ~a
l
lace
denounced
wha
t
he c lled
-- "The American Fascists
of Wall Stre
e
t.•
H
e
said they have the wrong kind
of
economics,whi
L
e, on the other
h
a
nd, it is
tx
different
in Soviet Russia.
•Nearly everyone in
R u s s i J J ~ s
a
id the Vice
'1U~
President,
,Ahe
1s
working
~or
the
welfare
of the mole nati
o
n. He has
no fear whatever of being exploited for the sole
profi
of
the management or stockholders."
In other words the Vice-President
would
seem
to
prefer the Soviets to Wall Street.
Well, we've
heard both of them denounced as the vil
:
ains
of
the
\
world --
Soviets and Wall Street.
So,
boys
a
nd
girls,
step up an
d
t
a
.
e
your
pick.
CAVE-IN
---
-----
Toni
g
ht
&
t
Pit
ston
,
P
nns
y
l
v
·
ni
a
,
a
r
scue
~
crew
recovere
d
the
body of
t
w
o-ye
·
r-ol
d g
irl
w
ho
A
·:
as
sw
a
llowed
up
by
th
e
e rth y e s t e r ~ S l ~ a s
;
alkin
g w
:
th h
er a
unt
and b
rother
hen
s
uddenly
the
: ; ~ : ~ i
e
ne
a
th her
feet
--
the
cave-inff
he
a
mine on
h
i
ch the streets and houses o~aAtown we
r
e
( ~
built.
They foun
I\
the child's body
forty
feet below
the surf
a
ce of the e
a
rt
h
,
after
they had removed four
hundred tons of earth nd•stone.
The re
cuers
themselves
w
ere
axxi ■ JB%%
im eril~ed by cave-ins of
the subterranean mine
a
s they worked.
ff+r"~
Meanwhile,
local
·
author
it iesA
are
invest
ig
ting
the pitiful
case
of t
h
e small girl
swallowed
by the
earth.
On
previous
occasi
o
ns the col
-
a
psing
of the
.A..,
subteranean
s
p
ces
,..._
~
wrecked homes
A
buildin
g
s,
a
nd
·
~
b -:-d
tone time su
s1
ence
"
a
nd
business
of
the
gi%
round
caused
the
·
b
ndonment
of
a
h
lf million
do
ll
a
r
hi
h
school.
CAVE -IN -
~---------:--
Toni ht
ayor
John J.
Rei
~
ly of
Pittston
said he ho
p
ed
th t the St te of
Pennsylvania
ould
do
somethin
g
a
b
out
the old
ab
ndoned mine tunnels
that
wind
under the
ain sections o ~ ~ •
DOG
-----
n
y
ou
s
t
c
e
b
d
e
d
e
do
g
's
..t..
ife,
it'
s
o
thin
a
1.
nd
o
it
is,
es
eci
al
l
1
he
do
• A ne
i
c
overy
in
SC
ce in
o
r
u
t
o
d
y
th
o
'
life
is
just
as
miser
a
ble a.
an's
ife.
In
hin ton,
r. Be
.
· a
man,
e
senior
psychothera
ist at St.
af
as
riea of
res
pea~ehes ea +,he -weakneseea ef
\he=
aumsa
:iliH
atl:Be.
the
•••sa:ti•••
aeerPa:t.iene
ef
t,ne
ea11i-lt@
mirlul-.
A1Mi:
they
~a~
that
dogs suffer from
the same
ental i
l
ls that hum-an beings do:fFor example,
Fido
may
acquire a suicidal impulse. Or, as ~r
Ea1pma~
the
senior psychotber
ist,
says, •
o s co
mit
suicide
by
starvation
or
droning
hen
they
ar
uf~ering
from
boredom
or remorse.
dog,•
he
o s on,
·1
1 reflect and
hesitate
before
t&
ing
the
fi
al step. So etimes he
ill
gaze for
h
o
ur
a
t a
OG
-
---
0
r riv
before
a
in
h
lune."
oor
old
Fido!
But
ha
is
it thut drives
him
to
end
it
all?
Disappointment in the love of his
master
-
says
he senior ps chotherapist - loss of interest
in the household,
a
feeling
of
bein
cast off,
jealousy,
or remorse.
An
Fido
i
still
worse
than that.
He has
alcoholic tendencies.
ogs have a
fondness
for beer and
whiskey,
says
the
senior psychothera ist,
and
are just
as unscrupulous as huMan alcoholics in procuring booze.
Also -
they
are afraid of dar ness, suffer when they
J,_,__
are
snubbed, they tell
lies,
are moody and have
nightmares.
In
other
ords, it would seem as if
an's
best
friend is hi
on
orst
enemy.
4
----
o
·
·
y
in Fin
·
·
n
,
the subject of a
se
p
arate
p
eace br
o
ri ht out
into
th
open,
ith
an
edit.orial
in
newspa
er o ned b y t e lea
in
poli
ical
party
the
oci 1
emocra ic majority.
"It is high
time,"
states
the
ne
spaper,
"that
e
invest.igate
peace
terms.
·
·
e must h v e c
o
u r a
e t
o d
is cu
s s
e
ace
rob ems openly
•
"
And the editorial
goes
on
ith
a strong
ine
of
argu ent, that
Fin
~a
nd
must
do
something in response
to the Allied deman
s
that
Fin
l
and
et out of
the war
agiinst Soviet Russia.
In other
ords - start
moving
for
peace
.
This
o
o
en sta ement
of
the newspaper organ
of the majority
political
party
ere ted a sensation in
Helsinki today
-
the
people
talkin
right out
about
withdra ing from
the
war1~
wae th.a mER::a;"
~rTeni 'eeeause
.
ot-th
e
j
■ t■asi: ■-11
--
b.ombiag&
t.b.e
iiaai.ah-
Today
the
Am
ric
n
Federation
of
Labor
moved
f r th aboli
ion
of
the
Little
teel
For
-
ula.
The
F.
of
L. m
mbe
s,
ho sit on
t
e
ar
abor Board,
handed
in
a re uest that
the
Little Steel
way
of
calculatin wa e increases be
tossed
int
the discard.
They
want
the
.L.B.
to
reco mend
this course of action
to
President
Roo evelt.
The formula
permits
age increases of fifteen
per cent to cover raises in the cost of living.
ot
enough,
says
the
A.F. of L.,
which
points
to the fact
that the Bureau of Labor has given figures showing an
increase of more than twenty-three
percent
in the cost
of
living
since January of Nineteen Forty-One. And the
Federation members of the Board today said that even
this does not represent the true state of affairs
because
a
recent
re
,
ort shows that the
prices
have
and
a
half
per
cent.
GIR
---
To
a
enn
lv
ni,
thy ave
u
hope
of fin ·
t
e t o ye
r ol
irl
ho
as swallowed up
by
th
e rth yes erd y.
h
s
walkin
ith
her
aunt
an
br
ther,
when suddenly the
round collapsed
t
eath
her feet - the c
vin
in
of
a
mi
eon
hich the streets
an
houses are bui
t.
For hour, re cue
or ere tore
and
dug,
excavatin
t o hundred tons of earth nd rock, and they
were
endangered by more cave-ins,
as
other subterranean
spaces co la
p
sed. Finally tod
e
y, hope was abandoned
for the little girl ho
erished in that fearful way -
swalloied
by
the earth.
i
1
1
t
i
t,
a
case
0
'
a
a
i_
e
in
r
n
•
8
f
t
:
eat
at
·
oll
a
C
"
t red,
bit
0
and
c
a
l ed
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