GOOD EVENING
EV
E
rlYBODY:
~ . ~ . J .
~ 1 - < M . e ~ - t o
.We a~
ee ■ ~a1
al•••r •••
N:Nal'
t..e
-ti~•
1f!-eart of
ta
Japanese power in the Pacific,
Late
this evening came the dramatic news that a strong
JI
Aaerican
fleet has attacked the
Jap•1s1
at a point
only four hundred
~1::...;:;,:•
the
Philippi■••·
The
battle i s ~ ~ -
3illnt""
It began
r
at
daybreak
on
lednes!ay,
with
an attack
by
a po
U. S.
task
force
on
the
Palall I1lands.
ftt'h1>11
a
"group
cSt
•11.
rrlla"'
thous
and-and-
f
i
:fty-ti
ve
~ot:jF"~~
■ ilea
wast of
Trukj
In one respeat it failed in i~s purpo••1
which was to inveigle the main Japanese fleet into
a
show
down
battle.
But the
Jape
once
again•••••
'
~~
"~
As
soon
11
were
too<SA
for
that.
They ran
away •
.,
A
hips
••J•:a
as enemy
planes spotted
the American
wars
approac
h
ing.)
the Japanese
ships
fanw
.
d
out, scattered,
. . . - . ~
.......
steamed off before Uncle Sam•a men-o-war could
get a crack at them.
The Palau archipel go is a string of
ninety
miles
long
between Truk and the Phili~pinea.
There a r"-
\
a ■■ xt
some two hund
....
ed
s ■ all
islands
in
it,
most
of them
heavily wooded.
One of t h e m ~ ~
~"'l--Q
/\ca
xi.undred-and-forty-two B'tll&re
ai.les.
It,,.
at
the
western end of the Carolinas: and before the war
was one
cf
the principal bases for Japanese airlines
running between To~;nd the island ;&,;;::-,-lDJ
, way you look at
i
tA
tit
A
is the
~ ~ b a t Admiral Cheater
most spectacular;:,e:C-tM
~A..r·"'ti
A..e1",
lli ■ itz
has
1•~
stta-,i:
I.
It goes far west of any American attack tha~
-
has Jet
been launched in the Pacific.
It b7-paases the Jap
stronghold
at
Truk and the other bases which they
still hold firm in the Carolines •
.
Naturally we are not told the composition
of th~ task force. But, a spokesman
f
or Nimitz
ft...
allo~ed that it'fs similar in make-up to those which
attack
e
d Truk.
~
of course that it includes
A
carriers, battleships, crui er1 and destroyers.
Altogether this is the
of the
1oonth
~nd
we~~~
~~
.
.l>a: ttz1 =new!
tha•
ia ••
~e ■ --.
ost exciting event
az·
e a g e r ~ ~ e
While this great battle
was
,.:a. ..
~ : e r a l Douglas MacArthur
sent hia flyins
Liberators
fro
bases in the Solomons
,:.._;~;.;;.;.;;i,,iiia,,MI ...........
~ _ _ ,
islands in the
-
Truk lagoon.
~
also
raided an
island called Woleai, three hundred and eighty miles
to the south
of
Guam.--. and four hundred and 1ixt7
miles west of Truk.
The Seventh 0. S. Air Force
~
lli:1
~
attacked Rab aul in Rew -Sri
tain
and
lewak
in
Rew Guinea. Altogether, these raids bagged a total
of one hundred and seYent1rtwo Jap planes.
~ h e news
fro■
Buraa
Niilijil:C
is
r
JJUJ,u
•ore
favorab
l
e. Reports from
•zJ
Liu!U
Mountbatten'•
headquarters talk.t of a pincers movement cloaing on
the Japanese in the north.
In the
logaung Valley,
~-~~
...
General Stillwell'•
~i:+,aa•tU,nee .... rnt
ft.l••9A
troop•
are pushing ahead to meet the British
Coa■ ando
fighter••
J.
were
transported by air into
B~r■a
and are now
driving up the railroad from Mandalay. The two
foroe1
~~
~ l e s s than ninety ailes apart.
Once theJ
have
joined up, the Japs in northern
Bur■a
will be caught
in a trap an
d
the way will be prepared for
reopenin1
communications between India and ~bina over~and.
Two
~apanese in
f
antry battalions are already surrounded in
the Yogaung Valley.
New Delhi also reports that the four
Japanese
columns driving into the state
of
Uanipur have
been
--~
Mountbatten's headquarters
Aepo~
that
something like
twenty-five hundred of the
enemy
have
been
killed.
l ■perial
~roepe have 9rokeu the deadloek whieh ~••
i
\ae
■ain eae ■J
li.ae1 ef
ee ■■ uai.oati.ea,
.
)
-
_..._ I
-~-
The troops of Soviet Russia have
Cernaut
A
'
t h i ~ r E ; - - t ( . J n Rumania,
No:>t:lie
Balka~
~
covers the approaches not
gateway to the
only to
Ruaania
but to
Hungary.
'.-
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The news
from
Berlin, which announced
that the town had been
eva uated.
Moscow,
a few
hour•
later, reported that it ha been taken by
atora, after
bloody fighting in
the str
eta.
Stalin
made
it the
occasion
of another order
day,
and
celebrated it
with
twenty
salvos of
I
Be that as
occupied
by
the
First Ukrainian Army under Marshal
Zhukov.
Laaa
than thirty
miles
west of his
advance guard~,
is the
Tatar Pass, through the Carpath~ If they
P~•b
through that, the Red
colu:n~-
can~nvade the
eastern
f)J(PQ_Th
~
outflank
part of old
Czechoslovakia. },.:.
ey
can
all the Germ n
and
Rumanian
positions
along the Prut
~
Rive1Jhat will lay the entire eastern frontier of
Rumania o
p
en to invasion.
~
The Ber
l
in bulletins today
~ • i •~
that the
Nazis are
p
reparing to evacuate Odessa. The way they
put it is that their troops disengaged
themselves
fro ■
the enemy alon
the lower reaches
of
the
Bug River in
the Ukraine.
However, the Germans also insist that
they checked th enemy south of
Balta, ani in the
re
g
ion between the Dniester and the Prut
Rivers.
The
Soviet armies tonight are probably
less than
fifty
miles .,,_, from Odessa.
Giaekael■
repoPi
\ha\
\here ie fiepee figat1a& fo»
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J-e.nev
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i ■ peptaa.
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The official newspaper
0
f
the Soviet
1
for an agreement
government today
p
rinted an appea
G
t Britain and Russia,
between the United States,
re
a
_
_
__
over the
p
oli
t
i
ca
l situation in Italy.
-An
eaitG11ial
. ! ' ' . " " ' T W ' f " ' W - - - ~ ~
The most dramatic event of the air war over
A...-v;tl_G,,
Europe today was
~
attack on Sofia.
a
••~arrhd
u..
::===::
out
by
the largest force of
9Xf!li,..,1N,t.¼
heavJ boaber
~~
ever sent out from
Italy/\•a ■ ta-;\
a single target.
As the Flying Forts and Liberators
they
left the capital of Bulgaria
flaring ten thousand !eet,., into
~
~.
be seen for fifty milei!••••••
turned for
hoae,
wtL{_
abla1e, .._
flaaea
fo
.:..1'..t-
tbe sky,A..._l'oould
were
gi•••
out, but the guessing is that no fewer thaa four
hundred heavy bombers took
ran into heavy ack-ack and
part in the attack.
Tb•J
exCeptional½trong fighter
opposition.
Our formations destroyed aeveral
•••aJ
interceptors.
~
second raid on Sofia in two day•~
R1')::SWs-1,he
the fifth this month.
Prime Minister
inston Churchill achieved
~~~n
the Bouse of Comaona today.
Be
won a vote of confidence for hi• gove
t
D
naen, an
overwhelmin
g
vote -- four hundred and twenty-fiYe to
twenty-three.
The members debated only two hours,
while
griamest
Churchill, with
hi~1zi■■■'1expression,
sat frownin~
F>':
at them,~ his front seat on the government bench.
-:--
He himself contributed only one sentence M the debat!,
"
shortly after it began.
He referred to the
ia1ue whiola
had caused that government defeat on Tuesday, a defeat
by
one vote.
The Prime Minister used these
words:
'Until we are fortified by a vote of confidence fro•
the House, taking the form o~ a deletion of this clause
the government does not feel entitled to embark upon
promises."
- 2
In
the
face of
Churchill's challenge, the
House of Commons backed down. He even
received
tha
vote of
the woman meaber who had offered th.\ equal-pay
~
,.
-
.
aaendment.
She
voted to a trike
itA However, ahe
!!!
~
"under protest. •The Prime Minister,!
ee.
a a i ~1
'Has
left no other possible course open to
us
than
to
support him in this vote of confidence.• ind she
added:"In t
h
is great democracy of ours,conYention for
"
once s
e
ems
to
have
overruled
common sense.
~ o v e r s e
a
s army
-ae
t•e-
Unlf 40
SIi
I
a
now
~ti&,
.....
numbers/\two million, five hundred thousand officer,
and meu. Secretary of War Stimson told us today that
this was the number on January First.
By
the ead of
the ye
a
r, it will be doubled, five
■illion,
~ - - .
•• ._
/\
.,
.
At his press conference today, the Secretary
ueed plain terms about the Battle of Cassino. 'The
simple faot,ft he said, •is that the Germans stopped u.•
Boweve~ he added that
it
will be a severe setback
only if we do not learn our lessons.
t ·
I
■
B1
ae ••
aa •
I
Kali an
euapa
I
go
1-ee
➔
1 ••
••, •• ..
,.
,
t.
11u1wered,
I
·and andez no
eircamatances.
Aa4 ..in
PA
id
~
•
b a r
,a~aia••
eal7
tbe ssaaal~
GD Lllfi1Q8
DaD
4-..._
•
The
Germans,•
ha
admitted,
~
t»he
t.
ime
ee
iag.
• have sho1t~ a
g
ain
that they
•
are obstinate au d
I\
effective soldiers.
When they
ordered
to hold
a
key
point at all co
s
ts,
theyr.lk!:!111:~
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--
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'C:.:.:..._J;. _______ _
Late this afternoon, the
■ oaent
arrived in the
federal court at Hollywood for which spectators had
been eagerly waiting.
Defense Lawyer Giesler
said:
•r
call Yr. Chaplin•.
To the stand went the short, slim, white-haired
man, who is known from California to Calcutta,
fro ■
London to the Pearl Fisheries of the South Pacific.
But the man on the stand was not the little te
low
with the bashed-in derby hat, tiny mustache,
ba111
trousers and canal boat shoes, which are knowe to all
the world.
Charles
Chaplin
in ordina~y
olothea ia a
saall but distinguished looking rather bandsoa• fello
never
And ••~z
does he look like the villain of the
piece.
~
"
Bis face this aft
_
ernoon • s deadl7 aerioue, hi•
voice low pitched and quiet.
Be began by saying be had signed a contract
CBAPLI
-
__
...
_..
....
--
with
•
iss Jo n
Barry
in
ineteen Fort
-One, and
sent
er
t~
the
ax
Rheinhardt d
amat
ic
school
.
He
coached
her himsel
f
,
and
also
direct
ed
tests
of her
at
the
studio,
d
esi ned
her
wardrobe, and bought a story in
which
she
to
lay
a
part.
He told the jury he
h
ad
believed Mies
Barry
mi
ht become
an
actr
es
s, bu
t
.
she·
had
n
ot
made
good
in
school.
He l
ost
faith
in her
and ahe
tried to
.
do
better
for herself at another studio.
~
few
week•
He
.
re:iewai
tlCiP &-tildP)
from seventy,five
ta
a
&-uag,red
,a
week,
-
aiui
.
eeat,
eel'
·
;,e e
.
Elen;,iet,
A
He told
th
e court
that
rt
was Jue•
i--lr9'
,rh,e.
J-
h
b
e
·
r to
»ew
·
york. after she had
a
d
asked
him to send
.
n
•
failed
in a
school
play.
She
became
hyst~rical,
said
Chaplin.
Be tol
her he
coul
d
not let her go to
New
York,
bu
could
not stop her if she wanted to go.
I
she
~e
k
eQ
aim te, ~eoauoe
~be w~e
·
h
eatn1ng a
a~B&Pe~
a week.
S
om
t
im
a
ter, Phe bu st
in upon him while he
was
dict
ating
t
o his secre
tary.
he
said
to him:
"Look
here, I
m
no
t
an actress, I
am
t
hrough acting,"
and
she
added:
~Hollywood is no good.•
.
Then
she said th
a
t
if
he would pay the fare for
her an
d
her
mother
to
New
York, they could call the
whole thin
off.
To that he agreed,
and
dismissed the
matter from
his
mind• after
payiBg
&G ■ e
~illa that
Yi1a
0
Ch
ap
lin ten
ave
his version
o
f
the time
.
w
hen
~
is
0
B
ar
ry
bro
e
into
h
i
s
tia~J.L
smash
ed
win
d
ow
nd
~
sat
into
)\
revolver
in
he
r
a
nd.
ous,
t
hr
ou
e
h
a
h·s bedr
oom
with
a
His
c
hild
e
n
ere
d
o
wns
tairs at
the time,
he
said, and
w
hen he
told
of th
at
his
voicj chosked
~ .
tl«,k~l..~4r
-
a
nd te r
s fi
l
l
ed
h i ~ -
; ~
/\-i.e
.
went
out onto the
balcony
and
s
the
butler and
hjs
two
sons below.
Be tol
d the
little
fe
llows there
w s
trouble
and
they
h
ad bet
t
er
g
o
ome
to
t
h
eir
mother.
But, they
co
uld
not
go
bee
use they did not
have a
car.
All
thi
s
ti
m
e
Joan was holding
the
% ■
gun in
her
hand.
~~a_~
He
ur
g
e
d h
r
tol(@P9"1\bec
a
use the children
were
there.
She
replied th
a
t she
was destitute
and bad no place
to
stay and insi~ted
upon staying there.
Ch
apl
in talked and talked
and
talked until
he
bro~e
he
r
d
on,
so he told the
jury,•••
8nd
i
finally
gav3
e
r sixty
doll
rs out of
bis Ji
pocket.
Th
t
not
mo
e
if
e
•
2
nou
g
h
for
am
her but
he p
romised
her
ould
c
o
e the
next
day
an
d
get
it
from
t
e bu 1
r.
y a d
mit
Ins
ort,
Ch
t
plin
contradict
e
d most of the
\
alle ed
facts th
a
t
iss Barry
bad
told on the stan~
and
completely
denied the interpretation she had
put
onto such events as he
admitted.
Be
t
h
en denied that he brought
Miss
Barry
fr
om
N
w
Yor
to C~li
f
ornia. Be admitted having
given
her
th
t r e
e
h
undred
dollars
for
which
she
bad
asked but
~
d
no
idea she
\\
Ould
use
it
to
go
back
Be gave her
the
money he said
becau
se
to
Hol
l
ywo
od
.
she told him
she nee
ded
it,
and
he
r
mot
er
bad bills.
because she
d no job
QJ,)
-t£;t-
~
81
Ii:
t r he
retu
rne
to Bev rly Hills
he
n1
oy
d
i
for
t
n
davs wi
t
h
tele
hone c lls.
'l,
SHA
---
G
eo
r
e
Be
rna
rd
ha
th
i
nks
we should
have
an
- J u , r ~ -
al
pha
bet
of forty-
two
letters instea
d
of,,twenty-six.
ore
e
era
we
have, the
H
is ar
u
ent
is
that
them
1
tt
e
as
ie
r it
is to simpl1'fy
s
p
el11·n
g
.
Be
points out that
in
R
ussian,
ith
an alphabet of thirty-five letters,
y
o
u c
a
n
s
pe
ll
his
n
me
,
"
Sh
aw
fl,
w
it
h
t
w
o letters instead
of
four.
Fro
m
th
a
he draws
the
curious inference that
this
will
m
k
it exceedin
g
ly
difficult
for the British
people
to compete economically
throu
bout the world
with the
R
ussians.
Maybe
some of you
.
listening in can understand
that ch
a
in of
argument.
to
back
u
p
his
o
p
inion
At
any rate, Shaw is willing
#~~
r
ith money.
b i s
going to
~
bequeath everything be owns to the establishment of
an
E
n
lish
lph
bet
w
ith forty-two
letters,
th at iS,
him
provi
d
e d ~
war
taxation in Britain le
a
ves
anythin
to
be
quea
th.
The
great
dramatist then used
-
2
the
e
ords:
"If
only the
British
government
were as
intelli ent os I
am!"
~~~.
fl.tt
gh
,
~
"'""4.
n
t'Q.11
i::
5
@
n
Lo
1G-a ~..,
s
h
o
ne
ent
story in war time!
'""'- >
e have
net
~.~
ye
a
r
s
A It
Uee ■ e
ti~
ae at-=i&•••
t
t
l
on
since
the pre
s of
the entire
orld
s
fu
1
o
f
y
ar
ns of the submarine onster that
h
ad
i v
ad
e
t
h
e
eace
ful
a
ters of
L
och
ess in
\ c
o
t
an
.
T
h
o
e
t
les
e
re so repeated and
insistent,
t
for
lon
time many people believed them.
be one
wu ~•••
tod
y
c
o
mes
•hed 1
ausp1oee. We llave
B
from Radio
Vichy.
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~
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-*
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~
~
ie ~e
i:..ag&Pcieti
e.e
a
eo
aT
ee ef reliabl..e neN.
~chy r
io
base; its fable on
a
dispatch
in
a
"-
Barcelona newsp
a
er.
The Barcelona paper, in
turn,
·
ch·l
~;:P~
ere it
a
corres
p
ondent
1n
1 e,
~
round bout
t
Y
to
et
a
story.
A
it
is
'
:
A huge monster, covered
with
A
n
y
,
h
e
r
Pacific Ocean some here
on
the
h
a
ir, emer e
d
from
the
co
st
of
a
ton so
m
e
.h
re in
C
hile, and staled the
e
ch
,
-
disappeared in
e
se
..
1:o
•
mene~er wfta weished , ..
ea
t
se
l
:
~
! ,
tt
s
w
e
J
e:
l
.1
o
t
f
o
u
»..
tltO
o a a
Ha
po
an
i&.
rt-!!I
\ltt
er..o'.f'\IB
e
iRge
in
Qilb@t
t
!mci
•alli•aa'•
_ _
11
Tarr&didd!e,
ta1°1
adiddlc"
~el lol-1• 1
..
,..
e
s
or
s
0
e e
a
e
• r
tries. But· e
C
by le a
eans, n
e
t
i
ea
· an
ten
a
~
C
resa a reea,
Cog
es
- -
I
a s
a
act
re
e
4-fs,
who
nu er
s
e
e
~ f
k
e
1
~1on,~or
war
or.
t
e
r
1
H
rbor
,
,, il
,
c1v
ian
w
r
worker
was
accu
·
e
of
h
,
·n
sm
ac
ed
a
cou
ple
of
marine
gua
rds.
Tha
oun
d
bu
t
1
t
h
d
f
rDJF,-
tr
i
ed
in
h
_
in jail.
i
e a
r
d
a
nt wa
h underta
in~'4er
an:,
aeingl-cr-m&L,.
arre
ted
by
the
Provost
:
arshal
~
Co
,
rt. an
d
sentenced
to
six
months
Th
incident bas
gi.
ven rise
to
another
f -
a
r
e
-
up in
4;taai-
a.
a
i
1,.
Te,: 1 to 1+97
over the
'
continu
~
n~e of
martial
la.
The
attorney
for
thML
civili n
ent
to
the
federal
court, and asked fo~ a
writ of
Ha
beas
Co
rpus,
sayin
.
his
client
should
have
been
tried
in
a
civi
li
an court
and
that
martial
law
s
houl
d
be
_
bolished.
The
sheriff
in
return
a
.
eked
the
-
court to dismiss
the
writ, claimin
that
it'ls
vital
to
the
rosecuti<>n
o
~he
war,
that
marti
a
l
law be
••xii
i
contin
ue
t
•
bea C
or
us
suspended.
The
sh
er
iff
ls
no
n
h
n
u e
ahanamoku
,
once
f
mous
swimming
C
n
urf
r
by
utho
i t i
s
no
s
l
n
A
miral
Nimitz,
Com an
er-in-Chief
oft
e
cifc
Feet,
and
Lieutenant-Gene
al
Richardson,
at
Pearl
H
rbor.
Studen
s of history will remember that during
the
Civil
ar,
habe
s Corpus
as virtually susp nded by
non
other than Abrah m
Lincoln.
BQQ§_Y
EL
I
~
----
_ _ $ ~
Wu
b:aV.
news
about
the
President
today.
$
Secr
etary
Steve Early
announcei that
the
bronchial
f.'
& '
""R.
4
J\
irrit
atio
n
in
~
~a,,,e~';\
throat is clearing up.
~
l"I.
How
e
ver, Vice-A
d
miral
Ross
Mc!ntye, the
I\
presidential physician, insists th
a
t his
patient
continue to t
ak
e it easy, keep to a restricted
schedule .
.,,
J
I
.
e
r
nt ives
ua
interest
in
r
t
e
ir.
Th
en
of Unc e
s
•••
A
•
s,
8
1
over the world,
have
0
ed
e
eve
D
8D
forty-t
o Axis
-~
inc_
-es,
••
•eJ
lDLE
lt,
both Nazis and Jape.
The
cos
oft is destruction
to us has been two thousan
a.
e
h
un·re
a
five American
planes.
Si1+t
11
a
....
_,
- A
-
~ ~
~-
ratio
f
a
os
four-to-one}\ Our heavy planes and
fig
ters des
4
ro d
nine thousand, four hundred
and
~
a
ixt
-t
ree
ene ■y
aircraft
in c
■bat;/\
one thousand,
five
hu~dred
an
seventy-nine
n
the
ground.
~This,=•+
.;--uJ1+1,
is
an exceedingly
t
cons~rv
o
v
i
~:
ure ..._ does not
include
enemy planes
~,4-«JaA.
A
4
p
robab
y
es ro
ed~
I\
takin
In the
Pa
ific, :So
I I
ad
S-1 al
ua
Army bombers,
o f f # a s
e
s,va l ~ made their second attack
on the i
sland
of
Eten, in the Truk
atoll.
And
for
the
first time they
a
lso
raided
Moen,
in
the
same
group.
They h
a
d to fl
y
through fierce anti-aircraft
fire,
but all _.
planes
retur-;:..;:6-&.:
.
- LTP.1944.03.30i.pdf
- LTP.1944.03.30ii.pdf