GOOD EVENING ~VERYBODY: Ont e island of i n, Uncle I m s 1.,eSl er- necks oft e econd Marine re fwy roug G rapan I the capit 1 oft e Marianas. Te same leat er necks / who conquered Tarawa. They have already knocked out half of the Japanese force on Siap n. In Garapkn, they had to fight their way not only through Ja s but through roaring flames, for the 1 ce is on fire. Those Marines, togetrer wit infantrymen mostly from New York, are now in pose sion of alLost two- thirds of Saipan. Admiral limitz tells us trat they have already counted six-thousand nd fifteen deAd Jape on the island. One reporter had a ch nee to wa ch the fight- ing from the top of a lofty cliff. Below him a batalion of American Marines was bat ling its way down a moun- tain side. Almost as tough job s their fig t u p the ol er si e oft e ouni in en. blocked by u e p nd~nu rees wit root e way w s ructures that stick out like the ribs of an umbrella. Te Marim had about RS much chop in to do fiRhting. T~ey took thrn-about, one group cho ing wile ot ers protected t em wit rifles an m chine guns. T~e tr il over the mountain runs al . o ~t steep as fall. It is lined wit ropes, withou w ic it would be impossible to climb either u or down. Near the t~p of the trail the reporter could see Marines emerg- ing from the jungle while Army units pushe forward in a bread front over the Platueau. At t a t Jist~nce, the off shore destryers were thoowing shells into the Japanese lines; and ahead oft e advancing infantry- men were bursts of shells from the American artillery. Uncle Sam's lads on aip nm y ve concluded the worst p rt of that job. Those who have seen all theatres of war agree that Saip l n has been the toughest of all, worse even that G u ale nal -- or Tarawa. It will no be long now before American inste d of Japane e outpose. ipan is an .!.. .:.~1 __ _ 0 fr t,'1 ? i C. ic o ni (..> h r_ J • C rt hu r h n e roo i 1 n d t o r th 0 u ' G -n , n is u. n c ~ 11e oe oor . 0 r men i th 0 0 ell th lr y h V a ir ro me , he bi of thr e on l i ' " 1 n . Th l of f r only · l i t 0 i:. o .. i ion . In ac t , , ac1\ rthur' Comm u n iqu r orted 0 3 ' . i h r in :-t ir , on h or on h Jro und. ' ' oe foo r l · 11 ov · 1- h · u. n fifteen mi les long, t~ l v e ·1 i , i - l V n:l t of Bia • At the rate our tr o ops a r e for 1n 0 h ea d her ·, e 11 s oon ha ve the hol i sle1n Th e o t 1 han ,,,,,,.... hun red seventy . s l s e v en a n miles fro m the o ut ern ti p f ht:! hili pi ne s . In nnouncin g e f 11 of i nsk n eel re that it t ken by ee ou 1 nkin m ne~- ver. The two armies assigne to the job wung aroun the city, and cua all the roads of re reat o en to the Nazis. Unless the Germans evacuated hree hundred thous nd o them h a ve been tr p ed. So f r , Moscow says nothin about casullties or the number of prisoner$. Tonig t Red Army a vance patrol■ are hundred and twenty-five miles from t e ~ronti~r of E as t Pruss . i a The Germans are still olding a stri of land cov ring so e five thous nd s uare miles. But they are mov·ng out fast, before the Russian avalanc~e. The Soviet High Command refers to Minsk, as one of the most · te ic centers on that front. The Re Armies, the largeet ever concentr ted in the history of warfare, adv need twelve miles in the last twenty-four hour, to accom lish tha at Minsk. victory / t ins e o ie le i o n a re now five hun re and ei ty-ei ht mile fro erlin. In Normandy, t e British and Am ric ns re ix hun r an forty miles a ay. G ener 1 Cl~rk's Fifth Army, pu~ing up t e est coast o I 1, is seven hundred and sixty miles from Berlin. An t a t w not t e on y , ctor on w ic the Russin advance . Ont e K eliqn Fron the Sovie ~ troops pu hed hhe d nort west and ' est of retro avodsk which they ca tured last Frid y . In o oing they took more than fifty in i~ ortant railway ling. ited places, s ations on a -----------------0----------- The Red Armies also spread out fur her south on the Baltic front, southwest of Polotsk a~ they're they took more than four hundred localities, including several important ones. The third white Russian Army is now inside the town of Polotsk, fighting raging in the streets now. All in all the Russian steam roiler seems to be bowlin along in high gear. The Nazi Armies appear to be hopele~sly outnumbered. L A T Y --- ----- - - e r e r y o r , ~ i i i c:: 0 'P n S mot fo r u n e y t . is eek. . e ent to I 1 to inspect t e Allied r oo1 , o i 1 n fr line . Ris lane lande is in Rome ju.tin time to le , rn that French tro op s afrom Algiers d c tured the i toric old city of Siena . All of which was particul rJl in- teresting for some oft e ne sp permen wit the Fift Army. For it was in Siena that they w re in erne for five months after Mussolinin eclared w r on Uncle ~am. Reynold• and Eleanor P ackard of the United Press report that they rode into e town in a jeep. The Sienese recognized manv of the newsp permen. When the ne · spapermen reached the Plazzo Publico, which is what the cienese call their city hall, city officials ran down the steps, embraced the report e rs an tried to turn the government of Siena over to them. The Packards explaine d to them t~at they were there only as correspon ents an all tre wante d was a place '•x to write t~eir st o r ies . So they were l ed to a sumptous office were e · v e LEA ITALY - 2 ----------- out ir i ' u r c on lP if f icul . ·es, ecauset e ro om i P i P , SOU in I t li ns, s p n t e m r a l1 ' k, an n ing t e bo les of eli ous n !l • • 0 ' e newspaper eopl e cou n' p . e ove rnm n of Sien, the compromise y t k in e wine. The ca p ture of ien wa rece e by a ~errific barge from Gener 1 Clar·'s artillery. When the ading was over, the Goums, t ose fieree Algeri n the French forces, sto m:e~/ ~ t ~h~ e~O~I.S------ ~ - - ~ And t a 1 ces t e Fift rm y ohly t irty m iles south of Florence. Ry capt.urin i en !l, t e Americans h ve cut he 1 s ain er 1 ro sou h of the i gh w y from Florence to . is ' t e main erma n line of efense. Also, to ay on t e ri tic en of t e Allie line, the British Eig t Ar y forg '.\ e 0 wi in eight miles of Ancona. The Ger mans are rushi ng r infor c nts, try i ng to stop the a V nee of the Fif t r m . v 13 S i npp roac es ' ' y J ~ ti t\ - -- - o n l r i, i e n f th e A 1 i 1 i l i. r i ~ i J-ta h in i 0 ht i l . o f C O r ' • r- 0 ~ t11 i h h V i • n into e h r 0 L to -Ml t. ' f• P. ar~ r l y mhling. 7P h r . -- · ... h i r 'nfo c e 1 0 n ) f I I ,11 th 9 IJU I ta; r y in t., 0 S O th ' V nee O th e F i f t h ~ t';''f, ~~ ~~o~ ..... ~ - - - : , ~ ~ f N M ! t , ' f n ot t o 1 &- e - f ' ~ ..aa..t. be 5 11 l t lffl'Pe w . eee\u 1 -rL~ t>b<t W~~~-~ anxious t ro y th e v a lu abl cu l tur 1 monum nts of i ~ n· j~'l•:a:qg= ' ~J~r.;~ c r r y i g a · y e v e r yt hin g t h at was or tabl n t h i dde n by t h e Itali · n i n h b i t nts. ~ Pe. ettr@ e a - - th J Ima IM. Th e y al o - ,~ e k e t h e el e ctric , ga s n t 1 t 0 h on p r li c u l a r J i n · s t e m . Wg:g ~o: . ~~::t . •=e:t:i:iuA r t i 1 1 e r y rrv-,, (~ . (' · .A i ty o f S i e na) 0 t e import nt se ort of Le on. The r : \ns they were nxious no to e troy e v lu~ le cul ural mon- uments of Siena. Nevert el ss, they took time to loot Siena; carrying a ay ever. t, in t and not hid en by the Italian in abi n por 0 hle T e lso wrecked t e electric, gas and elephone s stems. American artillerymen took par . icular ains to spare the glorious old city of Siena, with i Cat edral, and clock tower, an many other be u£iful monu- ments. All are undamaged. Spokesmen at headquarters eel re that many of the Nazi divisions are below str ngth. Because they have lost so heavily during their northward re- treat. A German document which fell into t e hands of the Frenc , indicates tha Generql Von M ckensen, Commander of the Fourteenth A my, was remove from his poet after losing most of . is men. One piece of news from Italy brings word that Gigle, the famous oper~ star is de You may recall that only a couple of weeks a o t ere w s a gre t to do ecause Ci le a been in ite . o in at sow from Americ n sol er s . I li n ne wspa p ~r por te ve h emently because of i g li' F scist s y mpat ies. T ey said he was much too frien ly with the Germans wile they occupied Rome and after the Allies drove the Nazis out. A mob attacked his villa an sacked it. And now comes the word that Gigli is dead. T enty-sever. y ve s ince - ay an in tha time e Allies V C a e t e G erm ns out of one thous nd, one un re snuare mil of I French territory. In other wor B t hey ow oc u y n are rou ly the ize of R 0 e I 1 and. T ey old a hun re and t enty-five miles of the con tlihe of Nor- mandy, and the territory t ey occupy exten 8 twenty- two miles inland t some points. upreme Rea uarters in London points out that t e Nazis have suffered more tan ninety thousand causalites, the e~uivalent of eight to ten enemy divisions. In a . ition to that, the Allies have taken more than forty thousand prisoners We have knocked out more than three undred enemy tanks, of which a hundre and lift were destroyed utterly. In a oition t o t at, the ,11iP 0 have knocked down or estrove on t e g roun o thirty Nazi planes a day, w icr ~ sup to a to•al of more than ei ht hun red. That b i elf i of great im ortance, it lin o n t e r n g 0 in the air. erm·ny A erman officer w o surren ered only two days after he arrived in Normandy, m de a bitter comment on this. He told a British officer that the German Fighters in Russia were told that the Luftwaffe was in the West. And now those in Normandy are being told that it's in the East on the Russian Front. German soldiers who have been on bot~ fronts, resent that said he. Accofding to Allied Supreme Headouarters, all the Luftwaffe can do now is to carry out hit-and-run raids and nuisa~ce attacks. --~------------0------------- General Omar Bradley's men had hardly their job of clearing the Cherboerg peninsula of Germans before they started another big scale attack. In pouring rain, the right flank of the American Army advanced all along the line in a southeastern direction Owing to the rain, planes can't operqte; so the infan- trymen are on their own. The Nazis are defen ing every hedge now, every tree, every s one house. And muc t h e r ai n, r a .a.un . ry of · e-14M!, o.n-tt i••· a.a.ks ..a.i w il&Q&.1.lV ~ O w ing to ' ta. pla ne b ca n• t o p e ~ a te~ so> the infantry- men a r e on their ew= he Nazis re d efendin g ev e ry hedge no w , every tree, . ~~ every stone h ouse. I j ">f th e fi g hting is hand to hand, w ith the bayonet. Before the men start e d, the Americ a n artillery kept u p a barrage all night) fadn}t:q:yg ·ih tl-~ uc11a lcnii J ic fighting on a f ~ ·1e front. If they continue as they h a ve started, • . . - ~ c h th e neck of th e p eninsul a of Britt a ny, at the end of which i s 1r th e great port of Brest. ~I~n~~~h~a!!"t't-11t~1~1~s~b,_..•~•~zar• - - II . . . a round - Qa lli!A~lON - 3 of the fighting is hand to hand, with the ayonet. Before the men start d, the merican artillery kept up a barrage all ni ht; an now they are fig ting on a forty mile front. If they continue s they have started before long t~ey'll rP ch the neck of the penift sula of Brittany, at the end of which is the great port of Brest. One Nazi Commentator admits that the Allies now have enough i• power in Normandy to drive on into the interior of France. Toni ht we are told what it is like to be al- most killed by a robot bome in En g land. A reporter for the United Press had a hair breadth e cape from one. He was riding to work on top of a bus. Sud- denly the passengers heard the roar of a winged torpedo. And there came two thousand pounds of flying tnt, heading straight for that bus. Reporter Murray of the U.P. tells how someone itiouted •It's going to hit us!• Murray took one glance and made a dive for the floor. An B.A.F. llirutenant was under the same seat as the United Press reporter. Be raised his face an~ said: •This is it,Chum!• Then tbe gears of the bus screeched and it lurched forward. At that moment the b~ bomb hit with a crash. Murray said his first sensation was of the bus rising up and hitting him on the chest. Then his lips sputtered as the vacuum cre~ted by the explosion drew the Rir out of hi lungs. All around could be heard the noise of splintering glass for minutes after the explosion. ~QQQ~l-~Q~R - 2 The bomb had missed the bus but had hit a nearby building and literally s illed it into the street. As the excitement subsided the driver of the bus exclaimed, •did you see how I dodged that one?• Then he added, "I pulled away just in time. I was looking the blooming thing right in the face when it blew up.• The reporter asked, •Why did you stop the bus in the first place?• •ob• he said,•the traffic light went red, but I jo~ly well got hold of myself and drove theougb it!• T o d a y t w o imp Dr t ant men at W as , i n gt on g a · e ou t information a out the w ar whic h , to say the le a st, is not discouraging. Forst of all, Gener a l Arnold of t h e Army Air Forces re p orte d that Allied Airmen have cut by two-thirds the G erman production of planes, gas and oil. And those are three of the most vi a tl parts of the Nazi war machine. In addition to that he sRid, the Air War h a s destroyed about half of the center of Berlin. The crippled condition of the German Air Foece said General Arnold, bacame obvious when the Nazi• a failed to use their planes to attack the huge c nv c vs crossing the English Channel to Normandy. The impotencE of the Luftwaffe was further illustrate d by its failure to att a c k the hugh concentrations of men and material on the Normandy Beaches. Be went on to say that German Oil Refineries ar• operating at only thirty per cent capacity. The German Generals have been forced to dip h eavily into their reserved of gasol i ne. Our bombers have h it all fRQQ~Q!lQ!_ - 2 fourteen of their eefineries in Germany were they produce their hundred octane gas. en the same day, we l ea rn that here on the home front our production of four-motored bombers is ahead of schedule for the Month of June. This from Charles E. Wilson, Chief of Aircraft Production. This includes the new B-29's. ROOS EV ELT --------~ Here is a m a n from New UrlPans it h a ueer story. He says P reaident Roosevelt will positively refuse to run for fourth term. The author of this report os J. J. Kramer of New Orleans, and he is the executive secretary of an or@anization that has been formed to draft Senator Barry byrd of Virginia for the Presidency. Ur. Roosevelt to turn down the nomination! If that were true, it would be news, to say the least. Now Bugh, how about some news from you?