.
,
.
-
I•
ldmirel limitz, by •ay of
Pearl Ha
r
bor atta
c
k, ~ s
today
·
A
commeaor
a
ting the
that all the six
Jap aircraft carriers which attacked on December
Seventh, Nineteen forty-One, are now at the
botto ■
of
the sea. Four of them our ftavy s
a
nk in the Battle of
Midway,
June, Nineteen forty-Two.
After a
ceaseleea
bunt, our fleet caught another one of those carrier•
in the tirat Battle of
the
Philippines in June of
thla
year
a
nd sent her to the bottom.
That left
one, which
was the pride of the Jepanese
Ravy
and more
eluaiYe
than the rest.
It took
Nimitz's men three years to
find her. Finally they cau
g
ht her, on the Twenty-Fifth
of October, just six weeks ago, northeast of Luzon.
And, added the Adairal, •the sea is three miles deep
where she
l
ies.w Bimitz then used these words:
"That has laid the last ghost of Japanese
g
lory
stolen at Pearl Harbor.w
~ a d d e d that most of our so-called ghoa
fleet
which
our
e
nemy
said they bad sunk or dam ged at
Pearl Barbor beyond hopes of repair, is today restored,
reco■missioned
and fight~i:n~g~· ..... ..-............ ...-.........
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•
An
o
ther Su
p
erfort r
a
id on Japanese installation•,
just to celebrate their attack on Pearl Harbor.
Thia
formation described as a large task force
went
to
Aukden,
bombed ~n aircraft plant and other
atrategic
targets.
~
a~J
Je l o s t ~ B-29f/',t destroyed twenty-six
Japanese
f
ighters
1
definitely
'A
probably
thirteen
■ ore,
and damaged twenty-four.
They
went over in Daylight,
with
good
YiaibilitJ,
:
and the Twentieth Command reports that they had
excelleat
1
bombing
results.
~
retaliation, the
Mikado's
air
command
senf
a formati
o
n of . . . . ~ ~ n e s e
ho
engined
bombers to Saipan. They did'"/(" dama
g
e,....., lne
s
tory d o e ~ ~ - ; : : ~ whether they
~ a i p a n
g
arrison by surprise or n o K . y destroyed one
.A
superfort, damaged t~o, kille
d
one m
a
n, and wo
u
nded
s
e
ver
a
~ other
s
.
~ ~ n . d
flak!
s
hot down six
of
t
h
eir
ten. "
tth-ey
4
-
~ -
-_;~e
t.be -oe
t;
~er
of
~liter ...
~~
ADD JAPAN
---------
lbile the main formation of superforts
was bombing Mukden a couple of
■ •It•
B-29
pilots
were on a reconnaissance
-
flight over Tokyo
just to improve the occasion, they dropped their
bombs
on the ~ikado's capital for god
measure.
The Japanese have
come
one
step closer to their
objective of
knockin
China out
of
the war. Chungking
today
admitted
that the eneay
bad
captured Tuyun. That
\s less than fifty
■ ilea
away from Iweiyan1, which
la
--.
the capital of
Ml
! ' t i ~
province and the strategic
~
hub of all transportation in aoutbwestern China.
That
■eana
that the Japanese have advanced
thirty-three miles
fro ■
Tuhaban.
They took that
oi._,
several days ego, but the Chinese only
ad ■ itted
it to4a7
What
is
more, the Japanese forces in French Indo-China
are now cooperating with the coluan• in
soutbweatera
China.
S e•here on this
a~€t
there
h~s been
a
Yiolent
eart~que e
en
there
is
hope
th-
i
aay ba•e
~ ■■ xzz
ha pened in
:
apan.
Instr
ents
in t.he
obserYat.or7
at
Bro ■Yich,
int.he !ngliah •idlanda, recorded a t.errific
shock and powerful
tre ■ lor•
which lasted for
aiz hoara.
Accor ·ni
to those delicate
gadgets,
the center of tbe
s
J
Ck
as fiYe thouaan·, fi•e baadred and
eightJ all••
-
11'1
~
••-,
fro ■
London,Apoaaibl7 Japan, the
Iuril•••~•• • •
~leutian■•
Earthquake
experts
at Ceorgeto•• Uai•erait7
alao obser•ed signa of a great agitaticn of
the ear-..
aoaewbere.
Father Sobon,
tirector
of
the obaer•atorJ,
like•iae
e-ieved
th£t it
■ ight
poasi
ly
be in Japan.
But
be
a:t ■ o
pointed out tha
·
there is a lot of water
in
•b~
.
art of
the •orld an~ the
ate
aay have
hp .
ened in
the
iddle
o
•
he
ce
~
n,
near Ja
an.
Ifz
it
D
octor Beno Gutenberg of the California
in
s
titute of Technology seems inclined to agree
that the earthquake was in the general region
ot
Southern
Japan.
But, he aeclined to
say
specifically
that the shock occurred on l
a
nd or
at sea.
Dr.
Gutenberg says that wherever it
was,
the quake waa
aore po
·
erful than the faaoua cataclysm of lineteen
Six at San Francisco.
General
MacArthur
celebrated
Pearl Harbor
Day
by
a
new strate ic operation, which caught the Japanese
on Leyte completely by surprise.
Be made an amphibious
attack,
landing troops in force
in
Oraoc Bay.
They
caurht the eneay so by surprise, that resistance was
nothing to
speak
of and the Yank divisions were quickly
on the march northward behind the Japanese
lines
fro•
the point
where they landed.
Iamediately after this operation, our plan••
caught sight of a large Jap . .
•••
convoy
bringing
reinforcements to
••r~•ukea- •'
Oraoc.
Our planes
attacted,
and
sank all thirteen Jap ships, •ank
the■
without their
having
an opportunity to land a single
aan.
The Jape on Leyte -
now~t thirty-five
thousand.
This latest operation
has
put
them
in
a
precarious
osition.
Our pilots shot down sixty-two more
Jape•••
planes.
1f'we
lost
a destroyer,
a am
11
transport
and
five
planes,
but
all
p
ilots
were
saved.
.
.)
~!,.:,_
_
!,.
__
t•
.
t
..
a
of Honor.
or
AHt
n
aea
i~ ••••-
The citation reads~
~hat,
ae
■ axaa■ x*II•
,
.
conspicuous
gallantry
and intrepidity in action
ia
above and beyond the call of
duty i
n
the
southwest
Pacific area, October tenth
Q
November fifteenth,
Nineteen Fourty-Four.
.
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PHILIPPIN
-.,<·
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...
-
The
u
se
of lepr
e
.
e
nt
·
tiv
s
today had a
i tin ui
he,
n
d
ll
a
nt vi itor,
B
ri
g
a
d
ier General
Carlos Roaulo,
e
s
ident Com
m
issioner
of
the
Philippine
s
to the Unit
~d
~tates.
Upon his return
toda
y
fro
rc
Le
.
te, Romulo told the Representatives
that, in spite of the tragedies at Bataan and
Cor
r
egidor, we have
b
een maintaining constant and
practical
communication
with
Filipino guerrillas
ever
since the capitulation at Bataan.
e•ve
even supplied
them
ith clothing
a
n
d
muni
t
ions. American
su~■arines
~
have landed radio sets, ~igarettes, and chewing
gu ■•
Romulo sai
d
th
is
-
the che~ing gum - irritated the
Japanese to such an extent th t they announced that
any
t
o
d.
y c
a
uP,ht ,
:
ith
a
stick
of
che
w
ing gum
would
be
ex
e
cute
d
.
He
a
d
d
ed the inform
a
tion th
a
t the Filipinos
.
were kept f1l
l
y
infor
m
-1 of General M
·
cArthur's plans
and were r
ea
dy with active help.
hHTri
Romulo ia
particularly proud of the fact that the reeatabliahaent
of civil government on Philippine soil has been effected
with great order and
cal ■,
as coapared with the
disorders, riot• and even civil war in the liberated
European countries.
YF. THO
'
I.
A
'
:
Thu
s.
--------
~•••le.
Be still has a patch on his jaw. On
Th3nkagiving night you reported he had been injured
in battle. As a consequence he received 2)9 cables.
They were sent
to
hi
m
at Leyte, but, as there ia
no telegraph service there, they
went
to
and thence
by
air ~ail to San Francisco.
Br
iabane,
They
were
or just Ro11ulo.
addressed
•~olonel,•
•General•
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you~rsona
i n f o r ~ ,
Romul~l
be
Y~ Sat. and Sun.,
at
the W~rt.
tonight£n Re• York/tt•,~ Thterican Club
yo meets-_.
assen oft1loa,
at
Pearl Harbor
Dinner;
Ame
r
i
c
aa
migh
m.
!okye
members of the
_..._tel.
Be t ot
ut
go
!ESTER!i_F,ROHT
•
In the v a1ley of the Saar, P tton' s Yanks
driving straight for one of the principal coal
aining
centers of that district, were also aiming for a vital
sector of the Siegfried Line.
And that was happenin&
when the Germans chose the same
■oaent
to throw a atron&
infantry counter-attack at the
Aalrican
line southeast
of
Saarbrucken; backed by araor -- at least fort7
tanks.
After tbe7 had lost at least ten tanks, \he
Ger ■ana
gaYa way.
t
out
•
I
As for the city of Saarbrucken, tonight it.Y'
Ill in flames, with Patton~s aen only three
■ ilea
away.
b.
Already they have shut the Germans off froa tb~coal
mines.
---o ... --
,,,-
ev
enth
anothe
own, and have a vanced seven
BIRO
--
itb the Fort7-fifth Division on the
leatera
Front,
is a
private
froa
Pittsburgh, one George
laainak7,
whose job is that of carr7ing
aa■unition
to
the front lines. The other day George was left
alone,
on guard at an outpost that his coaaanding officer
thought
safe
froa
attack. But it so happened that the
lazia
picked that identical apot as the focal point
for a counter-attack
at dawn.
PriYate laainat7,
luctil7,
was oa
the
alert.
And, be turned bis
■acbine
gun on those
Ger■ana. So■•
took cover, and otbars kept ri1ht on
co ■ ing.
So Geor1e,
using bis left band to bold do,n the tri11er of the
■ acbine
gun, started throwing grenades with bis right,
pulling the pins with bis teeth. Quite a trick that!
Well, be knocked the lrauts back on their
heels.
Be made them retreat. But, presentl7 the7
ca■e
back
•ilkxa
at this Yank strong point.
What
did George
do?
Well, he wisely fell back on an American tank,
for support. This time using the tank for a fortress,
he and the tank crew held off the German attack until
)ERO
-_L
the
main
shock troops of the
Aaerican diYiaion
arri•ed
on the
scene.
RUSSIA
At Bu
d
apest, one Red Army now has isolated
the eastern half of that double ci
on the bank•
At the
sa ■e~me,
another
aray
of the Ukraine
has pushed the Germans in front of them for eight ail••
along the west bank of the Danube and is approachin&
the Ban1arian capital
fro ■
the south aDcl only twenty-two
■ ilea
away.
The two Soviet
ar ■ iea
between thea include abo•t
a million
■ en;
closing in on Budapest on the south, eaa\,
~
and lortheaat.
11th still other It Red forcesAonlJ
forty
■ ilea fro ■
the Auatrian frontier.
The Russians aay they have cap\ured iixty
■ore
places betweea the Danube and the nortlleastern end ot
Lake Balaton.
GREECE
------
In Greece, the British today were using warship•
aa well as artillery and planes
to
fight the discontent
At the
aa ■e ti■e,
British gr•n4
troop• raked
th bea•y cannon, aachine
guns,
aortara
Pre ■ ier
Papandreou begged for the ayapathJ of
all the Allies and their help against the aenace
ot
ci•i
war.
tiri
JIAI!
P
OIE!!
Congress
/
took a scolding froa Production ~hief
~
Irug.
Be said the shortage of aanpower and the
lag in production should be b~amed on the lawaakers,
refused to pass a national aerTice act
•1,h
~
teeth in it.
J
£
added that it
•ts
too late now.
~
keep war
plant
worker■
on the Job ia to
enforce
■ore
•trictl7 the regalation b7 which no
■ aa
aa7
take a Job
without having a certificate of a•iilabilit7 f r • hie
pre•ious eaployer .
•
-
lhile Irug was telling tbrl.....' lar Onder-Secretar7
/
\
~A
Patterson announced that aanition plants in loveaber had
1
produced aaaunition for the big cannon~according to
achedule
)
for the first tiae in aan7 months.
IIIIIDIDX
O•er-all production, be added, is behind.
After seven months of wrangling in court, after
all that expense to the taxpayers, the mass
prosecution
tor
sedition in Washington was
pronounced
a mistrial.
After the death of Judge Eicher, w h i c h ~ 1a7
~
was~•••""
by
tbe
unruly conduct
of the defense
lawyers,
only one of the defendants was willing to continue the
case
under another Judge.
So the jurors
were dischara•4
under orders not to
speak
to anybody about
the caae.
fllfilH!
The rebelious inmates of the Atlanta Penitentiary
g
ot their wish today.
A column in the Atlanta Journal
p r i n t ~ l i s t of their
grievances.
Morgan
Bla
k
e, the
.
k.
school teacher newspaperman who wrote the column, handed
thea a co
p
y or the
p
aper to show his good faith.
You aay
reaeaber that they agreed to surrender and give up their
hostages as
aoon as they saw their case in print.
Their
ao
religious
prisoners
in
complaint• were;-iaproper medical care,
aervicea1,.acri■ination again■t so■■
~
the
■atter
or pay.
Certain
of.I'~••*•~~~
criminals
object to being in the aame cell block ~itb
'/--z__
ne
.
groes.
All
~
obj'ect to
being
quartered
with Nazi
saboteurs
and spies and having to listen to
the
Nazis~
~
ave
to
and se erely
CAtH.DA
-------
Prime Minister
Macienzie King
won a parliaaentar7
akiraiab
at Ottawa today.
There was an amendaent before
the Bouse providing that the goYernaent aust send
overseas only voluntary recruits, not conscripted
■ en.
The
Rouse
defeated that
amendment
by
a
vote of a
hundred
and
aizt7-eight to forty-three.
DEMILLE
-~--------
The dispute bet een Cecil DeYille and
the ra
d
io
a
rti
s
ts union reach
ed
t
h
e courts today.
' j ) ; a ~ l a w y e r
obtained
an
injuncti
o
n
from a
superior
ju
d
6
e at
Hollywood forbidding the American
Federation of R
n
dio Artists ~ t . e r f e r f • i t b
DeMille'a broadcasts until December fifteenth.
On that
day,
the union will have to
show
cauae
why
the injunction shall not be
made
per ■ anent.
'
Delille
baa
~
received offera from all
over the country from fans who want to
pay
his
one dollar assess~ent.
Naturally, he declined
• i th thanks because it is
·
not the dollar th a.t
troubles him.
It need hardly 1>e added that the
old llaestro of the
films
i-:r:;,~
UP.
fop
a
doll•••
he ie
pre.b ably one
Gf
~ite=
rieheK-il'e& in Buath-efll,..
-Gti-i-ra.»aia.
Be
just does no~ want to assessed by
a
union.
DORSEY
__
...
--
So t
h
e Dorsey trial is over.
With its
char
g
es and count
e
rc
,
ar
g
es, it IKe hardly
e•••
reached
the level oi legal di
g
nity and berious consideration.
After the last exploits
of
the
J ■ xaa
young man from
Panama
the Judge
grant
e
d
the
motion
of the prosec~tor
to
dismiaa
the char~e&
against t h e A ~ ~ l • • •
his
wife
and his gambling two-fist
~
d ........ ..,...
_,,,
The Judge di
n~t
spare
the
youna
man
Panama.
Be
escribed
hia as a •fabulous,
fanciful, fabricator
of
falsehoods•.
Evilently
the jud e is addicted to 4-lliteration. Then he
went
on to call him a •perjuror pure and simple•.
the trial,
the
lew
took hold
of
the lad from Panama~
county
·
booked
him at the~•••t•f\jail on a charge
of
..,
suspicion
of
perjury.
1-t
)
It is a
l
ea
sure to le
a
rn th
a
t no finer soldierl7
qualities have been ahown by any branch of the Ar•Y
ot
the United States th
a
n the Americans
of Japanese
parents
in the European theatre
of war.
le have thla
on the word of an Aaericaa general officer, Major
General John
E.
Dahlquist,
co ■mander
of the Thirt7-Sistb
DiYiaion. There was
a
cereaon7 in France toda7, la
wbiob
the Four hundred and fort7-1econd
Regi ■ent
waa publlcl1
honored with a cit,tion.
ffcJ-
laybe you will remeaber the battalion
Nil~
waa
/
,
lost last October, during the fiercest
fightin1
in tbe
forest
of Buertgen.
lt wa
s
the Four hundred and
forty-second,
co ■posed
of
lisea,
Americans of
Japaneae
-
-
C
'
birth, whilb rescued that lost battalion. General
Dahlquist decor
a
ted twenty-nine of those fighters.
Eight others, who perished in action, received
posthumous decor
a
tions.
And
D
Ahlquist
th
6
8
id
to
e
Four hundred and forty-second: •Your fighting bas been
-
-
auperb.
It has
been bitter anrl hard, even heart-
rending. You had to fight through
eo ■ e
of the
.
■ oat
difficult terrain in the world, but you took every
one of your objectives.• To which he added: •tour
determination
and
your courage are inspiring.•
IESTERR F
RO,II. -
2
-
miles through t be foothills of the northern
Voagea
Mountains
~lea
to within fou
of an ancient fortress at the
border of the Palatinate.
And
OD
the lower Alsace
plain, the Seventh pushed ahead for two
■ ilea
and
captured a town five
■ ilea fro ■
Colmar, referred to
••
the last bi&
ler ■an
stronghold on the upper Rhine.
Then, the D.S. first
Ar ■J,
driving throagb a
aaze of b
a
rbed wire, aade a junction with the lintb
Ar■J
at the Roer River.
The7 report that the
Geraana are
working at top speed, building 1eeat tor£iflcatlona
on the east
aide
of that river.
%Al
It
looks
more and
■ ore
possible th
a
t there will
be no increase in the Social Security payroll tax.
~ .
As
you have heard, the Bouse froze the payroll
taxe1
at
the
present rate
by
a
huge
■ ajority
on
·
Tuesday.
Today the F ina
'
nce
Co ■ai
ttee of the
Senate
~
followed auit,
reco ■ mending
that the
Senate/,approve
the bill~•"•· The vote in
Co ■■ ittee
was thirteen
to
two.
buildings on a huge scale.
Father Lynch, the distinguished
aeiz ■ ologiat
of Fordhaa University, said definitely he thought the
center of the earthquake was in southwestern Japan.