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mohday
,
1^42.
(Broadcast given by Dr. Roy Chapman’Andrews)
GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY:
Heres news that Lowell Thomas woul(i lixe
/V
to be conveying to you:- The Australians and Americans
have control of the air over the northern approaches to
Australia. At least, so runs an announcement made today
yOX
General MacArthur*s headquarters in Australia./ The
Australian Air Minister, Arthur Drakeford, declared that
the A.llies have wrested superiority from the Japanese
over New Guinea and New Britain, and that makes a vital
strategic difference in that struggle
fuss over a claim that Japanese troops had
The Tokyo propaganda office today made a
urrounded Port Moresby, that jumping-off place at the
lead
- ?
tip of New Guiaea. The Mikado's army on that island
has reached a point less than thirty-seven miles away,
declares the Tokyo radio.
From Tok^o * s point of view it*s unfortunate that
this bit of propaganda is contradicted by such a simple
thing as a weather report. The rainy season has broken
loose in New Guinea, and no army in the world could
advance in face of those tropical downpours. V/hen it
rains there, even the ducks run for shelter. I know
how really terrifying the rain is^for I was off the
coast of New Guinea just at this time sone years ago.
Forty inches of water fell in the Markham Valley^ in
less than forty-eight hours. So, as an actual fact,
so far from getting within thirty-seven miles of Port
Moresby, the Mikado's forces on the contrary•have been
A
6
driven
back to their base at Lae
on the north coast of the island. And there they found
LSAD - 3
t6n PGP CGnt of Japan’s cruiser force crippled by the
warplanes of the United Nations. Air Minister Drakeford
reported that besides that, no fev/er than seven
Japanese transports had been sunk or beached at Lae,
ji
j
three destroyers damaged, and several small ships
![
destroyed ^ twenty-three vessels altogether. Thus the
flood v/aters of New Guinea^have fought on our side, and ’
if
forced a Japanese retreat,which is described at
MacArthur's headquarters in Australia as the most
important set-back the Japanese have sustained yet
y
in their advance on Australia.
In the interests of accuracy, it should be
added that this control of the air thatj^e^have over
New Guinea and New Britain^may be only^afflp®*«^
7
/V
That was
in on. st.t.nent of Br.kotord ■.,
• ton he s.-ia that .»«” ><■ that superiority shouid be
___ ^
LEAr_:i 4
only temporary, it ha^ at least^accomplished a serious
delay in 'Japanese operations and forced them to withdraw j
planes and flyers from other areas.
II
BURMA
On the Burma battlefield has been raining'too.
But even ikR a cloudburst couldn*t stop the sanguinary
fighting between the Japanese andChinese in the Toungoo
sector. The actual situation there is not quite clear.
I
At one time it was admitted that the Japanese had
i
I
Toungoo, but a later report indicated that the Chinese
had fought their way back into the place. But the
fiercest of the fighting has been going on north of
there. An American correspondent with the United Army
reports that some of the young soldiers in the Chinese
shock troops are only fifteen years old and wear
uniforms made of flour sacks. But for all that, he
r
/
/
0
describes that they were £±±103*? like veterans. The
literally
.
.
Japanese have been ^ittKisii^po'uring reinforcements
into that battle; two whole divisions to face the
Chinese. But they have not penetrated the Chinese
" ' ^
C
lccci
^^^
^
■m
bobma
-
• At one time, the Japanese had the Chinese
encircled, but the Chinese broke through and kept open
a way for a retreat to the north. The American
Lieutenant-General Stilwell has his Fifth and Sixth
!
Armies concentrated on the road to Mandalay. Those
I
Chinese are not impressive to look at but put a rifle !
I
or machine gun in their hands and they are first class ^
i
fighting men. That’s the description of American
observers. So, to sum up, it appears that the Japanese
are advancing there but much slower than they have been
owing principally to the desperate hanging on of the
Chinese. There’s no mention in today's reports of any
air force on our side.
The Japanese advancedon Toungoo from three
directions, but one British eport expresses confidence
that the Chinese are still in one section of the city.
i
i
torture
A story comes from China that the
Japanese have been torturing military prisoners in
order to get information.^ This 'colies from
i.
correspondent who had it from two Dutch officers who
GScapGci Ironi a Drison camp. They were officers of a
submarine, captured off iialaya just before the fall
of Singapore, after it had sunk three wTapanese troop
ships.
The Japanese first plied their Dutch
prisoners with wines and liquors, trying to get them
intoxicated and loosen up their tongues. At intervals,
the Japanese threatened to shoot their prisoners.
When liquor failed, they tried other blanaishments.
Then they took to torture, prevented the Dutch sailors
from sleeping for five days. The prisoners got
practicallay nothing to eat, and the wounded went
I
without medical attention. Soldiers beat them with
sticks. Finally, the Japanese got tired and sent them
to Hong Kong. From there, the two officers escaped.
1
torture
- 2
stol6 a sampan, and reached Free China with the
help of Chinese fishermen and guerrillas.
.The eeople of India have been invited to take par
in the war councils of the
This was /
announced in a radio broadcast today by Sir Stafford-
I
li
Cr ipps !j\They can be, if they choose, represented in
the British ^WsEr Cabinet, the Empire Pacific Council,
and the United Nations Council.
The direction \f the part to be played by India,
he said, must remain inXthe hands of the Commander- in-
Chief of the War Cabinet.\But Indians will be invited
i . 1
to participate in this contr^ not only in India itself i
but in all of its inter-relatic^s. Cripps declared
further
in his broadcast that\ success or failure
\
of the proposals he had made to the
leader^ is
in the hands of Indians and Indians only.
urged
the people of Hindustan to decide their own future and
/
accept his offer of dominion status after the wa^ and
ejjual partnership in the British Empire.
I
"T
INPIA - 2
But the reaction to that eleventh hour offer
of the British Government is decidedly mixed.
The
working committee of the All-India Congress ^met for
three hours today and told Cripps they would give him
their decision tomorrow evening. / The grapevine gass
report is that Mohandas Ghandi^is against it^ because
it goes against his doctrin^ of no violence,
non-resistance. The leade/s of the Right Wing extremis+s,
the Hindu minority, ar«f‘ reported to have informed Cripps
/
that they could not /ccept the British proposal^ be-cause
it leads to the \di^sptlption of India*s unity.
-................
-—y
-
A later cable from India brings word that a \
majority of the All-India Congress Party are against th^
plan offered by Cripps. 1 It is reported in New Delhi
V
tonight that the negotiations will colUpje unless-the
Churchill Cabinet allows Cripps to make changes in the
As we've been expecting for some time,
President Roosevelt has created a Pacific War Council,
to sit at Washington. The head of it will be the
a-
President hiaselfi and its first meeting will be at
the White House_ Wednesday. On the douncil will be the
Australian Minister, the Minister from New Zealand,
the Netherlands Minister, the Chinese Minister for
I
Foreign Af f a irs and the British Ambassador. Australia,
as a matter of fact, will be represented by the Foreign
Minister, Dr. Evatt. The President issued a statement'
in these v^ords:- ”It is imperative that all of the
United Nations now actively engaged in the Pacific
conflict, consider together matters of policy relating
to our joint war effort." Then Mr. Roosevelt said
fartherxxxX
further^that
the new Council will
be
in
intimate contact with a similar body in Con
The nev/s was cheered in Australia. Prime
^1
COUN£IL_- 2
Minister Curtin said it was an essential prerequisite
to offensive action and ultimate victory*
army
pay
More dough for the doughboys. The Senate
passed a bill raising the money in the pay envelopes
of enlisted men. The bill is now up to the House.
/
It provides that a orivate soldier and a seaman
apprentice v/ho now get only thirty dollars a month,
are in future to have forty-two dollars a month.
A first class private^and a second class seaman,^
f 0 ri^'-e ight dollars; corporal and first class seaman,
sixty-six dollars.
Vf'hat’s more, the present system of giving
the buck-private only twenty-one dollars for the. first
four months will be cut out. A man is to get fortjf^tw^
dollars the minute he's inducted. The pay of
non-commissioned officers in the Army and petty officers
y
n
nnH even that downtrodden
of the Navy is also raised, and even
li / /
• /
X
i c! to have more money.
soul, the Second-Lieutenant,^ IS
J
ABMY PAL_- 2
/
Eighteen hundred a year instead of fifteen hundred.
Likewise Navy and Coast Guard ensigns. Officers in the
higher grades are to have more subsistence and rental
allowances, which the Senators think are justified by
the general increase in the cost of living.
UNIONS
1
Senator Clyde Reed^of Kansas today declared that
Ubor unions throughout the country are taking in
more than thirty million^ a year out of work for the
ar Department. That is, in dues and fees collected from
r
their members. The Senator from Kansas adds that his
ij figures are estimates based on information supplied by j
Army engineers.
”0n the surface," declared Reed, "these figures
appear fantastic. But the whole labor scheme of
employment in these plants is fantastic. This is
government work," he added, "paid for with tax money
out of the federal treasury." Senator Reed used these
figures as an argument for quick action on. a bill that
he hes pending, a bill to forbid the enforcement of the
closed shop on any project financed by the government
And he used these words:- "I do not know how much was
actually collected in union
dues and membership fees
UNIONS - 2
•mm
1
- '
from the worKers. Nobody knows,” he added, ”but the
abor union of f icers and they do not tell anyone.
i
not even the members of their own unions. The only way
to disclose the exact amount would be through a
thorough and exhaustive investigation.”
The worst of all labor organizations, he declared,
was the International Hod Carriers Union. ”It is,” he
‘^aid, ”not only notorious but obnoxious and offensive
and smells to high heaven.”
gadgets
No more electrical gadgets! That's the latest
order of the War Production Board. After May Thirty-Firpi
factories turning out electrical appliances will be
converted to munitions work.X That means, no more
I
iir_l*irtriiarrt electric irons, no more toasters, no more
oermanent wave machines, no more electric razors.
^"1 Likewise food mixers, juice extractors, heaters.
electric fans, heating units for the range. And that's
going to be just too bad for people who do their cooking
by electricity
Members of Congress became quite excited over the
revelations by^ Chairman Dies that there's a Nudist in
r
the governnient. Chairnian Dies Eroused the ire of
/
Vice-Presioent li\Ellace, who declared that the effect
on our morale would be less damaging if Mr, Dies were
on Hitler * s payroll. That wasn’t quite the attitude
taken in the House of Reoresentatives. The nudist in
question is Maurice Parmelee, who gets five thousand
/
/
six hundred dollars a year,as principal economist for
the Board of Economic Warfare of which theyice-President
ill
is Chairman. Parmelee's book, called "Mudism in Modern ^ ^
Life",was being passed around the floor of the House
today. Congressman Cox of Georgia^was most indignant
about it, declared that if he had ever seen anything
filthy and dirty, it was in this book. And, azi said
Cox:- "I hope thdVice-President isn't jockeyed into the I
position of defending Parmelee." ti&xococaixaacxIidzarlxxKaac
DIES - 2
Oi course that was meet for the other side of S'
the House. R
k
^
tbs
Republican Representative Mason of
y
Illinois .iiiiinf Usa upon the episode to declare that,
in his words, Only o^ackpots would select crackpots
to hGip plan our war progras^or our post-war program.”
7^ practice of nudism^in the homes, business
The Repub1icanfrom Illinois^also scanned Parmelee’s
book and announced that it advocated the general
establishments, industrial establishments and offices
of the nation.
Somehow, the picture of myself addressing
this microphone without my trousers or anything els^
conjures up a picture somewhat eccentric, to say the
^
X .
• «rv,n+ ■;+ wnnid be like if television
east. But imagine what it
woux
.
q
___
were general.
A,
any rate, the fact remains, the author
x‘
11
. a
+« -Pif+v-six hundred a year as principi]
of those ideas gets liity-six uuu /\
>
/
5
‘\
,
1^42.
(Broadcast given by Dr. Roy Chapman’Andrews)
GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY:
Heres news that Lowell Thomas woul(i lixe
/V
to be conveying to you:- The Australians and Americans
have control of the air over the northern approaches to
Australia. At least, so runs an announcement made today
yOX
General MacArthur*s headquarters in Australia./ The
Australian Air Minister, Arthur Drakeford, declared that
the A.llies have wrested superiority from the Japanese
over New Guinea and New Britain, and that makes a vital
strategic difference in that struggle
fuss over a claim that Japanese troops had
The Tokyo propaganda office today made a
urrounded Port Moresby, that jumping-off place at the
lead
- ?
tip of New Guiaea. The Mikado's army on that island
has reached a point less than thirty-seven miles away,
declares the Tokyo radio.
From Tok^o * s point of view it*s unfortunate that
this bit of propaganda is contradicted by such a simple
thing as a weather report. The rainy season has broken
loose in New Guinea, and no army in the world could
advance in face of those tropical downpours. V/hen it
rains there, even the ducks run for shelter. I know
how really terrifying the rain is^for I was off the
coast of New Guinea just at this time sone years ago.
Forty inches of water fell in the Markham Valley^ in
less than forty-eight hours. So, as an actual fact,
so far from getting within thirty-seven miles of Port
Moresby, the Mikado's forces on the contrary•have been
A
6
driven
back to their base at Lae
on the north coast of the island. And there they found
LSAD - 3
t6n PGP CGnt of Japan’s cruiser force crippled by the
warplanes of the United Nations. Air Minister Drakeford
reported that besides that, no fev/er than seven
Japanese transports had been sunk or beached at Lae,
ji
j
three destroyers damaged, and several small ships
![
destroyed ^ twenty-three vessels altogether. Thus the
flood v/aters of New Guinea^have fought on our side, and ’
if
forced a Japanese retreat,which is described at
MacArthur's headquarters in Australia as the most
important set-back the Japanese have sustained yet
y
in their advance on Australia.
In the interests of accuracy, it should be
added that this control of the air thatj^e^have over
New Guinea and New Britain^may be only^afflp®*«^
7
/V
That was
in on. st.t.nent of Br.kotord ■.,
• ton he s.-ia that .»«” ><■ that superiority shouid be
___ ^
LEAr_:i 4
only temporary, it ha^ at least^accomplished a serious
delay in 'Japanese operations and forced them to withdraw j
planes and flyers from other areas.
II
BURMA
On the Burma battlefield has been raining'too.
But even ikR a cloudburst couldn*t stop the sanguinary
fighting between the Japanese andChinese in the Toungoo
sector. The actual situation there is not quite clear.
I
At one time it was admitted that the Japanese had
i
I
Toungoo, but a later report indicated that the Chinese
had fought their way back into the place. But the
fiercest of the fighting has been going on north of
there. An American correspondent with the United Army
reports that some of the young soldiers in the Chinese
shock troops are only fifteen years old and wear
uniforms made of flour sacks. But for all that, he
r
/
/
0
describes that they were £±±103*? like veterans. The
literally
.
.
Japanese have been ^ittKisii^po'uring reinforcements
into that battle; two whole divisions to face the
Chinese. But they have not penetrated the Chinese
" ' ^
C
lccci
^^^
^
■m
bobma
-
• At one time, the Japanese had the Chinese
encircled, but the Chinese broke through and kept open
a way for a retreat to the north. The American
Lieutenant-General Stilwell has his Fifth and Sixth
!
Armies concentrated on the road to Mandalay. Those
I
Chinese are not impressive to look at but put a rifle !
I
or machine gun in their hands and they are first class ^
i
fighting men. That’s the description of American
observers. So, to sum up, it appears that the Japanese
are advancing there but much slower than they have been
owing principally to the desperate hanging on of the
Chinese. There’s no mention in today's reports of any
air force on our side.
The Japanese advancedon Toungoo from three
directions, but one British eport expresses confidence
that the Chinese are still in one section of the city.
i
i
torture
A story comes from China that the
Japanese have been torturing military prisoners in
order to get information.^ This 'colies from
i.
correspondent who had it from two Dutch officers who
GScapGci Ironi a Drison camp. They were officers of a
submarine, captured off iialaya just before the fall
of Singapore, after it had sunk three wTapanese troop
ships.
The Japanese first plied their Dutch
prisoners with wines and liquors, trying to get them
intoxicated and loosen up their tongues. At intervals,
the Japanese threatened to shoot their prisoners.
When liquor failed, they tried other blanaishments.
Then they took to torture, prevented the Dutch sailors
from sleeping for five days. The prisoners got
practicallay nothing to eat, and the wounded went
I
without medical attention. Soldiers beat them with
sticks. Finally, the Japanese got tired and sent them
to Hong Kong. From there, the two officers escaped.
1
torture
- 2
stol6 a sampan, and reached Free China with the
help of Chinese fishermen and guerrillas.
.The eeople of India have been invited to take par
in the war councils of the
This was /
announced in a radio broadcast today by Sir Stafford-
I
li
Cr ipps !j\They can be, if they choose, represented in
the British ^WsEr Cabinet, the Empire Pacific Council,
and the United Nations Council.
The direction \f the part to be played by India,
he said, must remain inXthe hands of the Commander- in-
Chief of the War Cabinet.\But Indians will be invited
i . 1
to participate in this contr^ not only in India itself i
but in all of its inter-relatic^s. Cripps declared
further
in his broadcast that\ success or failure
\
of the proposals he had made to the
leader^ is
in the hands of Indians and Indians only.
urged
the people of Hindustan to decide their own future and
/
accept his offer of dominion status after the wa^ and
ejjual partnership in the British Empire.
I
"T
INPIA - 2
But the reaction to that eleventh hour offer
of the British Government is decidedly mixed.
The
working committee of the All-India Congress ^met for
three hours today and told Cripps they would give him
their decision tomorrow evening. / The grapevine gass
report is that Mohandas Ghandi^is against it^ because
it goes against his doctrin^ of no violence,
non-resistance. The leade/s of the Right Wing extremis+s,
the Hindu minority, ar«f‘ reported to have informed Cripps
/
that they could not /ccept the British proposal^ be-cause
it leads to the \di^sptlption of India*s unity.
-................
-—y
-
A later cable from India brings word that a \
majority of the All-India Congress Party are against th^
plan offered by Cripps. 1 It is reported in New Delhi
V
tonight that the negotiations will colUpje unless-the
Churchill Cabinet allows Cripps to make changes in the
As we've been expecting for some time,
President Roosevelt has created a Pacific War Council,
to sit at Washington. The head of it will be the
a-
President hiaselfi and its first meeting will be at
the White House_ Wednesday. On the douncil will be the
Australian Minister, the Minister from New Zealand,
the Netherlands Minister, the Chinese Minister for
I
Foreign Af f a irs and the British Ambassador. Australia,
as a matter of fact, will be represented by the Foreign
Minister, Dr. Evatt. The President issued a statement'
in these v^ords:- ”It is imperative that all of the
United Nations now actively engaged in the Pacific
conflict, consider together matters of policy relating
to our joint war effort." Then Mr. Roosevelt said
fartherxxxX
further^that
the new Council will
be
in
intimate contact with a similar body in Con
The nev/s was cheered in Australia. Prime
^1
COUN£IL_- 2
Minister Curtin said it was an essential prerequisite
to offensive action and ultimate victory*
army
pay
More dough for the doughboys. The Senate
passed a bill raising the money in the pay envelopes
of enlisted men. The bill is now up to the House.
/
It provides that a orivate soldier and a seaman
apprentice v/ho now get only thirty dollars a month,
are in future to have forty-two dollars a month.
A first class private^and a second class seaman,^
f 0 ri^'-e ight dollars; corporal and first class seaman,
sixty-six dollars.
Vf'hat’s more, the present system of giving
the buck-private only twenty-one dollars for the. first
four months will be cut out. A man is to get fortjf^tw^
dollars the minute he's inducted. The pay of
non-commissioned officers in the Army and petty officers
y
n
nnH even that downtrodden
of the Navy is also raised, and even
li / /
• /
X
i c! to have more money.
soul, the Second-Lieutenant,^ IS
J
ABMY PAL_- 2
/
Eighteen hundred a year instead of fifteen hundred.
Likewise Navy and Coast Guard ensigns. Officers in the
higher grades are to have more subsistence and rental
allowances, which the Senators think are justified by
the general increase in the cost of living.
UNIONS
1
Senator Clyde Reed^of Kansas today declared that
Ubor unions throughout the country are taking in
more than thirty million^ a year out of work for the
ar Department. That is, in dues and fees collected from
r
their members. The Senator from Kansas adds that his
ij figures are estimates based on information supplied by j
Army engineers.
”0n the surface," declared Reed, "these figures
appear fantastic. But the whole labor scheme of
employment in these plants is fantastic. This is
government work," he added, "paid for with tax money
out of the federal treasury." Senator Reed used these
figures as an argument for quick action on. a bill that
he hes pending, a bill to forbid the enforcement of the
closed shop on any project financed by the government
And he used these words:- "I do not know how much was
actually collected in union
dues and membership fees
UNIONS - 2
•mm
1
- '
from the worKers. Nobody knows,” he added, ”but the
abor union of f icers and they do not tell anyone.
i
not even the members of their own unions. The only way
to disclose the exact amount would be through a
thorough and exhaustive investigation.”
The worst of all labor organizations, he declared,
was the International Hod Carriers Union. ”It is,” he
‘^aid, ”not only notorious but obnoxious and offensive
and smells to high heaven.”
gadgets
No more electrical gadgets! That's the latest
order of the War Production Board. After May Thirty-Firpi
factories turning out electrical appliances will be
converted to munitions work.X That means, no more
I
iir_l*irtriiarrt electric irons, no more toasters, no more
oermanent wave machines, no more electric razors.
^"1 Likewise food mixers, juice extractors, heaters.
electric fans, heating units for the range. And that's
going to be just too bad for people who do their cooking
by electricity
Members of Congress became quite excited over the
revelations by^ Chairman Dies that there's a Nudist in
r
the governnient. Chairnian Dies Eroused the ire of
/
Vice-Presioent li\Ellace, who declared that the effect
on our morale would be less damaging if Mr, Dies were
on Hitler * s payroll. That wasn’t quite the attitude
taken in the House of Reoresentatives. The nudist in
question is Maurice Parmelee, who gets five thousand
/
/
six hundred dollars a year,as principal economist for
the Board of Economic Warfare of which theyice-President
ill
is Chairman. Parmelee's book, called "Mudism in Modern ^ ^
Life",was being passed around the floor of the House
today. Congressman Cox of Georgia^was most indignant
about it, declared that if he had ever seen anything
filthy and dirty, it was in this book. And, azi said
Cox:- "I hope thdVice-President isn't jockeyed into the I
position of defending Parmelee." ti&xococaixaacxIidzarlxxKaac
DIES - 2
Oi course that was meet for the other side of S'
the House. R
k
^
tbs
Republican Representative Mason of
y
Illinois .iiiiinf Usa upon the episode to declare that,
in his words, Only o^ackpots would select crackpots
to hGip plan our war progras^or our post-war program.”
7^ practice of nudism^in the homes, business
The Repub1icanfrom Illinois^also scanned Parmelee’s
book and announced that it advocated the general
establishments, industrial establishments and offices
of the nation.
Somehow, the picture of myself addressing
this microphone without my trousers or anything els^
conjures up a picture somewhat eccentric, to say the
^
X .
• «rv,n+ ■;+ wnnid be like if television
east. But imagine what it
woux
.
q
___
were general.
A,
any rate, the fact remains, the author
x‘
11
. a
+« -Pif+v-six hundred a year as principi]
of those ideas gets liity-six uuu /\
>
/
5
‘\