•
• '
/. • ....
J
I
1./
ct
.
The latest from the
M
rshall islands is
a bit of detail indicating the
nearness
of full
American success. r:;he
~±:ea
forces going ashore
I
A
/ \ -
I\
on Iwajalein atoll
1
are carr7ing posters announcing
rules
·
and regulations -- these proclaimed b7 Admiral
Ni ■ itz
a:e
the new Governor of the Marshall archipela o.
The posters are printed· in English and
Japanese,
since the Jape hav~ been in poaseasion out there for
twenty 1ears and have taught the natives their own
lingo.
In other words, ~ormal American
po11e11ion
is already in sight.
.,
The
strate
y
of
th
e
inva
ion
of
Kwajalein
I
Atoll n
ow
be omes evident - in
news
disp
a
tches
from
Admiral Nimitz tod
a
y.
Let's ta e
another
look at that
large coral formation in the mid-Pacific - the
} ■ age
lagoon forty miles long, surrounded by a string of
islets,
most
o
f them small;and1 several larger ones.
The first American
a.ndings
were not on
thea
largelt..
one"
- ~ ~ ~ - > n
ten of the smaller bits of coral
land. These were mere beachheads, intended as stepping
t
,d. .
t.
1
.
t.
f
th
~
l
lt
s ones....,. 1n1 1a
pos1 ions
or
e
~ea
assau
s -
~
against the larger islands.
Admiral Nimitz sta£es today that the Jape
were
taken completely by surprise. They must have
known
an
American attack was coming. The incessant air bombing
must have inf
o
rmed them of that well in
advanc4,
but
they
a
p
ear to have thought that the American thrust
I
~
would
be l
a
unched a
g
rinst
some
other atolls
- like
,v
-----
ietj
or
Jaluit.
e a
re n
r
r
to the American
bases
in
the
Gi berts,
and would have
been
more
obvious
points
o
att&ck - ea ier.
ut the American
high comm n
selected the most ambitious of
all
and
I
lun ed straight at Kwajalein Atoll.
So the Japs apparently never expected
what
ap
eared.~iant fleet, the greatest
naval task force
~
in hi.story,
whtuh hurld great salvos from naval guns
/\
~
a deluge of bombs from carrier planes. These huge
bombardments smashed the Japs completely on the ten
tiny islets picked for the initial landings. There was
little or no resistance, an·d we sustained very light
losses.
-(From the seizure
.
of
the ten beachheads, on
the tiny bits of land, the American forces went right
on and
drove
to their major objectives. These
were
three~- Kwajalein Isl-:J;' and Roi Islt't~, about which
1,
A
we heard
1 as
t
n
i
h
tJ -
SM
a
1 so N mu r Is
1 and
.
Gun
8
set up on
the
t
n
b
·
chhea
_
s
o
ened
their own
bomba
r
men
f
the
lar
er objectives -
coo
_
erat
ing
with
the war
hi
and
carrier planes in basting
Kwajalein,
Roi
nd Namur.
To this concerted temp~est
~
\
of
fire
,
,
there
w
s
little
op
,
ositio~
once
again
t:o
1-1,t
i ~
the second
wave
of
American
landings
A
au"
losses
were
light.
Then, on
the
three major isl"=., the
Jape
A
rallied for a fierce defensi, and
he vy
fighting was
encountered -
but
atill
our own losses
were
not
heavy.
Today's communique from
the
Pacific fleet headquarters
declares: "e have suffere~ n~ naval losses, and
casualties
are
very moderate.•
The situation tonight is this: "Our forces
have
captured
I i
Roi Islan"d" ,
,
s
ye
the
Navy
communique
I
That
place
is
at one end of the lagoon
of
the
atoll,
and is
of
the
greatest
import nee - bee use it has
8
J
.
..
S
-
4
4-9----------
....
--~--
i
rs t r
a
t
e
f
1
n
r·
f
i
1 d
,
h i
ch
~
vf
th~
umber
ne
Ja.panes
-
air
s • i n t e
Prcific
.
.L
amur
!61....&
is ne'r Roi, right next door -
1-
at
tne northern end
of
the
Kwaj leiR Atoll.
There
the
_!!arines have
driven the Japs back, and have pressed the
~
1
the extreme
.0.
Th
other
major objective,-
Iwajalein
Islan ,
,
'ki
o,;t-
~
~
~
ot-~
~ii,!r
.~., .
~
American
troops are
firmly
established.
lliaz ■ xaz ■J
!foldier~the Seventh Infantry
'
.
11
.t
irmly established
and
pressing
bac~," says Admiral Nimitz.
/
~
be:? com
fetel
/
The
invasion
of
the
,
arshalls
repre
s
ents
a
d
e
cided American success, but it already brings
~
new
trouble
for the much
harried
news~
·
in war time,
We've
already
been driven
half
out of
our
minds
by
•
ird
foreign
names and
n~w along comes a ne• crop.
For example• a late dispatch states that ~eterana
of the Seventh
R:!l:~~=IJIC
heir first day's
objecthe
when
they
swarmed
across t h - ; ~
of
linni, which is easy;,
Ennuj
·
ubi which
I hope is
correct, and En
.
nylabegan
which
I can't pronounce
at
all, I'•
sure.
And
there ia still
another
one,
the islet of GE
BB.
Bow do you pronounce double
,__.,
.....
,,,._,
--
BB?
I suppose with a sort of gas~but
anyway
·
we captured
those
islets
ahead
of
time --
especaill7
GE H H.
U ~
IA
............
--...-
OSCO
a l o
un
t
h
_
>
th
e
d A
rmy h
sept
a.
cr
oss
t
b
r e
r
f
stoni
-
s
w
p
t
across for five
An
d s
o the expe
c
te
d ha
s
h
a
p
ened.
After
drivin
g
from
R
ussian territory
into
P
oland some short
,
•
bile a
o, the Soviets have done the same thing in the
~~
case of the Baltic
state of Estonia~- an
important
,....
marker in the progress of the
Russians
in
driving
t
he
Nazis
out
f
their
country.
push
The Red
A
rm~,••••~ into Estonia has captured
the ton
of
Vanakila, and this
·
lace is near th•
larger city of
Narva.
One report is that the
Germana
.
~
are
abandoning
Narva - ..._
the seizure
of~l:&•l
place
will
have a lot of historical
•meanin
g
for the
Russians;
~
Bec
a
use it i s • site here a historic battle was fought
I'
bet een thos
t
o
p
aladins
o
f
war - Russian Peter.-the--.
Great
a
n
.
Ch
l
es-the-Twelfth
of
Sweden.
The Russi
a
ns
took an a ful lickin th
~t
time
from
the Swedish
mili
ry
enius, who
s c lled - "t
h
e lion of the
north." But it's different thes cou
~
le of centuries
later, with the Russians scoring a success at Narva.
Still another rumor;-this one from Stockhola,
pictures the Germans as preparing to abandon Tallinn,
a
place not so prominent in history but more
i ■ portant
nowadays.
For Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, that
Baltic state which figures so largely in Soviet
calculations.
Here's
a
re
p
ort th
a
t Sovi
e
t
Russia
has handed
an ultimatum to
Fin
-
and.
~
a
y
soun· odd, because
an ultimatum usually precedes a
ar, and Fin_and is in
conflict with Russia right now.
However, we hear••
from Stockholm that
Moscow
bas said to Finland -
•Get out of the war
within
six
weeks
or face the
,.
consequencel - an ultimatum to withdraw
fro ■
the
conflict right
away~
or else.
AI
II
----------
It bec
o
me
monotonou
r
tot
11
time after
time
of
d
a
i ht r
·~d
f
llo
-
i
n
n1
ht
r
1
·
s
against
the
~azis
- the
Am ric
a
ns by
a
y,
an
d
the British by night.
And it certainly must ~e 1erribly
more
monotonous for
the Germans themselves, who have to endure that
alterna ion
of
being bombed in
·darkness
and light.
Today, American warplanes hit the
Nazis
along
the invasion coast of France, smashing at installations
mannei
by German troops. And last night British
mosquito bombers assailed Berlin once
again
- the Germ
capital, which was still blazing
with
tremendous fires
that had been set by the last previous bombing.
';aese
i-il4!e, ·1eritable
t.empeet,-11
of flame-,
eee ■ ea
+se,
haJJe
beea
some
of the
-wO"Tet eYer--
NPRiBg
wiib .£u:H:.
Gti'
JI.
S
------
One thin
m
·
ch
i"'cu
..
d
tod
~
is -
the state
of
n
r
o
le
.
(-Jkiw
Ole t.he
Hel, with eo
mYeh
tiieeA~er
in
Rueeie
min
of
the
Ger
8e1ma11
enti ee
■ aaf
,~aeh &ruaAfritisb
Informatio Service
issues
an
analysis of German morale, based
on
the
latest
reports
from the land of Hitler.
The ·analysis notes
what
it
calls -
•a growing apathy among the German
peoryle,
which does not
seea
to
respond to any stimulus."
The report illustrates this by a description,
of
the
mood
of
Germans
who
e-ndure the constant air
raids.
"Cases are reported," it says,
"where
bombed
citizens
h
ve become so
listless
nd
dispirited
that
they
stroll
imlessly ab
o
ut,
watching
burning
buildings
and
refusin
g
to lend
a
hand to
fire fighters. Except,
3ometimes, to rem ve
nd r tain
ny
portable
loot."
H
d
s
thi
p
un
h
-d1
·
un
..
con·
it
ion bear upon
G
E
.' ,
NS -
-----~-----
the cours
e
f
the
a
r?
The British
stu
y
w
a
rns th t the
ap thy of the Ger
a
n does not ma
~e
the
Allied task
any
easier bee use it minimizes
a
the chance of.a revolt to
overthrow the
Nazis.
Ame
i
c n troo
s ha
v
brok
n th
rou
h t
·
Nazi
Gust
v
Li
n
for
il
e
fr
n
t.
In
the
Cassino area,
the
sm
he
t
ir w
thr
uh
the
s
tubborn bed e-hog
defenses
n
d
have
re
~~h
ed unfortified round.
If
they
can exploit the break-through
ro
p
erly
and
pour
forces
' \ . . ~
through the
gap,
it
would
p
u~e=~•si~
squeeze on
nine
Germ n
divisions,
more than
.J~
~
three.ten~
, .,
outflank.Aand
~ _ _ _ _ ,
a hundred th usand
menX
encircl
The fighting in the forcing-of-the-hedge-hogl
~~
/\h&s been of a violence that is best described by a
•
French veteran. Among the
•••01te•
American forces are
French units, some of the officers
o
f
which are veterans
of the
last
war. And they say that the German mortar
ft
s
fire
on the Cassino
front ha• been
worse
than the
I\
stunendous
barr
n
es
at
Verdum in the
last
war.
The epic
of Ver
d
um s t
a
r
ec
ord for mass
ed
Germ n c
a
nnonfire,
but
this
ha
been
exceeded by t
o del
u
e
of mo
rtar
LEAD
MARSRALLS
--------------
Say, Fred, you
have
expressed my sentiments
exactly!
Because of
my
re
_
ul r
hour
on
the
air
I
miss he~ring you fellows.
And that's sad for me!
The big news tonight is still the story from
tbe
Marshall Islands,
.
ber~s the
latest:
The American forces going ashore on Kwajalein
atoll are carrying
posters
~nnouncing rules ~nd
regulations--these proclaimed by Admiral Nimitz, the
new Governor os the Marshall archipela
g
o.
The postei
are
printed in English and Japanese, since the Japs
have been in ossession out there for
twenty
years
and have taught the natives their own lingo.
In
other words, formal American
possession
is already
iaax in sight.
Admiral Nimitz says the Japs
ere taken com-
pletely by surprise.
They must
h
ve
known
an
American
attack was
coming.
The incess nt air bombin
must
have informed
them oft
at well in
a
vance; but
they appear to
have
thought the
American
thrust would
be launched
against
some other atolls-like
auje
or
Jaluit. which
are
nearer.
ITALY
-
------
shells
flun
from
the
he
d e
-ho
d
e
~se
s
around
Cassino.
d
for
••••
On the Rome front, enemy resistance ia
reported to be increasing steadily,
as
the Germans
bring up more reinforcements.
The
focus of fighting
·
1a
at two towns about
which we
heard last night,
Eampo
C.
..!;.
Leone
and Cisterna.
~t
Campo
eone,
fifteen
miles
fro•
Rome,
the
Br
itish ~e driving to cut the railroad
from
Rome t
o
Naples, while
a
t
Cisterna
Am
er
ic
a
n troops are
in
comb
t i n the
outs
k
irts
of
the town.
To
d
ay
is
he et
the
G»owaa
Ho~
Bey e&n~uet
jp
~eenyille,
Ohja.
But I
aian·t go. What
wae •~.ssef
di ei
J
l11s ioomeot
~ x p o s e '
All becaaa@
6!'4
launched by a
speci
a
list on rodents for the Chicago Museum
ot
Natural History, a lady scientist, Miss Loraine Lloyd.
hieten to +,hie
Ii ■
L.ifth\ aaa
tae
••ot
of 70
11 •-
It sounds like b
l
asphemy. "The
groundhog,•
she declares,
•is no weather interpreter.
Be
1
(s
only a first cousin
to a rat.• And that certainly is
putting
the poor old
groundhog back in his hole. Ce~eia to a rat, aad
whoever
heaPd
ef a rat foreeae~ing
i~,
weetherl
"The groundhog,• she explains, •is an
accomplished hibernator, and during the time he spends
in the
ground
,
his
temperature drops to just
a
bit abov
freezing,
and he sleeps. When
the
weQther
warms up a
bit,"
she
goes
on, "the
g
ro
u
ndh
og
f
eel
s
it down
there
GROUNDHOG - 2
--------
in
his
hole
a
n
d
comes u
p
for
a look.
If the outside
world
fee
l
s too cold,
he
oe
ba
c
k
for a nap, but,•
dee
are
the specialist on rodents,
"h£
doesn't
know
.
whether
it
will
be six
weeks
or six months
until
Spring."
s-~
-dd.J
So that's all he is - the rat.
82d; '•• ••••
n
'?
/'-
h ~ ,
-e....K{
=..Tl
'
(,-r"the
b
DJ
;
r
•
a
tad ca,l
I ••
I
I
gt; ·••--
r
-
G
i
h
r t
·
,
,,.
-
more obvio
s
points of attack - easier.
But the American high command selected the most
ambitious of all and lunged straight
at Iwajalein
Atoll.
The situation tonighb is this:
•our
forces
have
captured Roi Island•
says
the
iavy
co ■■ unique;
~
!bit
plw..ae
......
;-.
_
at one end of the l\lagoov
o:f
Lbe
1+, ..
1
i~
•,;-4
= b t g ~ e a t e s t
importance;#-•~
it
b■s ■:.
~
first
rate
flying
field, wbicb ••• a Number One
Jap•a•-=-
air
base in the Pacific.
Kamur
Isle is near Roi, ri ht next door
at the northern end of t
h
e [wajalein Atoll. There the
Marines have driven the Japs back, and have pres
s
ed
the enemy into the extreme northern end of their
coral refuge.
The other
major
objective -
Iwajalein
Island, is at the other side
c,f
the lagoon
·
- the naval
baae~rican troops are firmly
established.
K,S,
.P
Soldiers of the Seventtl,Infantry.
A
!J1P■ IJ
eil18ll1Li*
•nd
P»l ■■ iAI
tbe
i•••
Jap•
back•,
••r•
a1■ 1:oa1 ll ■ it
•
The invasi
o
n of the
arshalls represents
a decided American succ
e
ss, but
it
already
brings
new trouble for the much harried
news
man in
war
tiae
1
: w : a - f : Y ~
e
eii71.T-S-Yen:::li i
U
e yf. e
f
iii'
■
i
i41
Is;;
~ e i r d foreign namesj-..d
11ow-- 1:toas
coas
a
new
crop.
for example, a late dispatch states that veterans
of the
Seventh
Army extended their first day's
objective when they
swar■ ed
across the islands of
Binni, which is easy, Ennujubi which I hope is
~ ~ t t - !
correct, and
1
Ennylabegan
• •
l:J,b
I
oaa•
t pPu&caaaa
at
IH=;
I••
Ats.
And theTe is still another one,
the islet of GE
H
H.
Bow do you pronounce double
BB? I suppose with a sort of
gasp
but
anyway
we captured those islets ahead of time - especailly
~-~
-
DRAFT DO GERS
---------------
It would seem that draft dod
g
ers are insolent
enough to h ve a language of t
h
eir own, a draft-
dodging alang.
This was disclosed today by
J.
Edgar
Hoover, D1rector of the
F.B.I.,
who announced the
arrest in Washington
of
eighteen
aka
evaders
of
Selective ervice. One
of
these is a prominent
lashington
swing
band lea ar: And the arrested
patriots
were
kidding the draft boards by the
use
ot -
bennies.
What's a
bennie? Hoover of the
r.B.I.
,
explained that it's a kind
of
drug that causes
teaprary
high blood pressure.
The dodger takes
a
bennie or two before reporting to his draft board,
and medical examination shows him tohave blood
pressures ■
so high he's about to burst.
therefore
Sot\*•••••1l■z
he's turned down.
That
is - turned down until he's
caught.
Another dodging devic
is to pretend nervous
disorders, and so
n
e of those ar
~
e
s
ted today tried both
a
t the same time.
They too
k
some bennies for high
DRAFT
DO GE S
- 2
_______
.,.
______ _
blood pressure, and also
played
neurotic.
They call
the combination - •the song and the story•.
Well, for those. bennie boys the song now
is likely to be - arrest; and the
story
- punishment.
~ l ' \ . , M l - F ~ ~ ~
~~~°'~·
The
batt eline
th
re is
lon
the foot
of
the
Alban Hills, an
d
th
a
t t
kes
one's
memory
back to
schoolboy Rom
a
n history. Thdse cla sic Alban Hills~
named after the town of
A l b a ~ '
It
was
because
of dynastic troubles in that antique town of the
Alban
Hills-
th
t
the le endary Romulus and Remus were
abandoned in the
wilderness·as
infants, and were suckle
by the she wolf, which became the symbol
of
Rome.
Romulus and
Remus,
whom tradition says built Rome.
s*1story of the Eternal City
stems
to those
Alban
Hills, along the base of
which
the battle is going on
tonightj
~
~
~
~~~.~
-
~,
,
~------·
~
~,
c:1t-
~ ~ ~ . - - - a .
~
s
ti.A
The latest from the Rome front is a night
dispatch stating that thin
g
s have grown quiet
temporarily, after a series of violent local attacks
with neither side making any appreci~le advance.
/
•
1il11-1I_
end e
11 \
i 11
k
i
to d
&
y
c
me o
u
t
w
i th a b
as
t
a
0
ains
t
e
tax
prn
rams of both the
Presi
ent and
Con ress.
The
President
wants new taxes to raise ten
and
a
half billion
~
ol
ars.
The ideas of Congress
are
much smaller, something
like
t
·o
billion.
Does
illki think the two billion is too
much
fo~
the public to pay?
No
sir!
He says that ten
billion is not nearly enough - he wants it doubled;
in other words, twenty billion to be raised by new
taxes.
His idea is further expressed in these
words:
"ruth essly tax every dollar in every income group
for the
res rvation of the American future.•
He
too
cognizance of congressional opinion
that the
eo
p
le
won't stand for
what Willkie
colls -
"a tough tax bill."
He thins they will. "Give the
peopl
an understanding of the issues invo ved," says
,
'ill
:
·
ie,
"an
d
they
will
do
their
uty
to
their country-
ho ev
_
r
incredibly painful
it may
be',
To
d
y
Govern
or
Dewey
of
ew
York spoke out
on
the subject
of
the
soldier
vote.
He
announced
that
he
was
01)posed
to any federal ballot isst:.ed to the
soldiers
which
does
not include the names of candidates for
state, county and local
offices.
The federal
-
soldier-
-
-
vote-bill now being considered by
-
-
the Senate,
provides
that the ballots
issued
to men i
~
service shall
~zo
t
1d
•
only the names of candidates for national office, like
.
11e
president.
In a
telegram to Senator Styles Bridges
of
~-
New
Ham
_
s
ire,ADewey took the stand that any ballot
which
did not include state·and local offices
would
violate the Constitution
of
the State of New York.
The Sta
l
e
Constitution
re
q
uires that
all
candid
a
tes be
listed,
an
d
that
a ballot
A
incomplete
without
this.
DR
A
FT D
O
D
G
ERS
________
.__,__
It wou
l
1
seem th
a
t draft dod ers are insolent
enou h to have
a
lan
c
ua
g
e
of
their
own,
a draft-dodging
slang. This
was
disclose
d
tod y by J.Edgar Hoover,
Director of the
F.B.I.,
who announced the arrest in
Washington of ei
g
hteen evaders of Selective
Service.
One
~ h e
of these
is a
prominent Washington
swing band leader
arrested patriots were kidding the draft boards by
the use of - bennies.
What's a bennie? Hoover of the F.B.I.
explained that it's a kind of.drug that causes temporary
high blood pressare.
The dodger takes a bennie or two
before reporting to his draft board, and medical
examination
shows
him to have blood pressure so high
he's
about
to burst. So th~refore he's turned down.
That
is - turned down until he's cau
gh
t.
Another dod
~
ing
d
evice is to
retend nervous
disorders,
and
some
of those arre
st
d t
8
od
ay
tried
both
DRAFT
DO GE
S -
2
___
, _
_________ _
at the s
a
m time. They too
some bennies f r high
blood
~
re sure, and.A.~
played
neurotic.
They call
the combination - "the son
an
d
the story."
ell, for those
aaaaiaaxt••
bennie boys the
song
no
is likely to be - &rrest; and the story
punishment.