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Show r TIIE T.FITI SUN. LEIII. UTAH . MiMMMSMwM'i""""'"'M'a'M,MM11'MM' WEEKCY1TEWS ANALYSIS Invasion Armies Maintain Pace Established by Allied Timetable; Red Troops Advance in Finland . Released by Western Newspaper Union. EDITOR'S NOTE! When enlnlons are exercised In these eelnmns. lhr Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and net necessarily or mis awiii.r.i m fti-vr i -i niyinrinfari nti Yaw'-TnT'ii mt i isviftaiviiivi iwtm rftua ur utu,tmmi U. S. soldiers wade through shallow water to an invasion beachhead along the northern coast of France. On shore LST boats unload more troops and supplies as reinforcements for the initial assault wave. THE INVASION: Keeping Pace As hints of forthcoming additional Invasions of Europe came from General Gen-eral Eisenhower, supreme Allied commander, a high command communique com-munique made it plain that the invasion inva-sion armies were keeping pace almost al-most to the hour with a timetable laid out a year ago. But the biggest battle in history was not without its setbacks. While the Allies were breaking through at Balleroy on the south edge of the Cerisy forest and were developing a strong attack on the eastern sector of the bridgehead to throw a pincers round Caen, the Nazis had started start-ed a strong counter-attack against Montebourg and Carentan, both of which were previously captured by the Americans. The Initial drive against Cherbourg Cher-bourg had been stalled with a resulting re-sulting shift of Allied momentum toward to-ward the east flank of the 100-mile Invasion front, where a joint Anglo-American Anglo-American column was reported making substantial gains in a plunging plung-ing drive to get behind Caen. Liberated Territory Allied sources said between 600 and 70v. square miles of French territory ter-ritory had been liberated almost exactly the amount which it was planned should be captured in that time under the master invasion plan developed in 1943. , Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had thrown a fourth of his entire available avail-able forces in France and the Low Countries against the ever-growing Invasion front. According to an Allied Al-lied official spokesman, the Germans are "fighting like hell," but our casualties casu-alties have been far lower than expected, ex-pected, A Strong pincers was clamped on the battered city of Caen by twin drives to the north and south of the city. The Nazis' desperate stand at Caen was with good reason. The city, if held by the Germans, would be a buffer against Advances toward to-ward Paris and Rouen. There were at least four identified German divisions In the Caen sector, sec-tor, where the fighting was toughest. IMPORTANT VISITORS: To Invasion Fronts Day after it was announced in Washington, that Gen. Charles de Gaulle, French leader, was coming to this country to confer with President Roosevelt, it was learned in London that he would visit the invasion coast to stir the resistance resist-ance of underground forces in his native country. Some sources said that his visit to France would take the nature of a gamble for a popular demonstration demonstra-tion by the French people to be used in strengthening his hand when be sits down to bargain for recognition recogni-tion by the United States. Earlier, other Allied leaders had visited the scene of action in Normandy. Nor-mandy. Within a week after D-Day Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, accompanied accom-panied by Gen. George C Marshal, Mar-shal, U. S. chief of army staff. Gen. Harry H. Arnold, commander in chief of the air forces, and Adm. Ernest J. King, commanding the U. S. fleet, crossed the English channel for a five-hour inspection tour of the front Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, together with his chief of the British Imperial Staff, Gen. Sir Allan Brooke, and Premier Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, visited British forces on the French toast the same day as the American Ameri-can inspection. The two parties did not meet. ITALY: Nazis Retreat From the Tyrrhenian coast above Rome to the Adriatic sea at the eastern east-ern end of the 200-mile front, the German army In Italy everywhere was in a retreat that approached a rout. The advance was most rapid on the Adriatic sector, where Eighth army troops crossed the Saline river, riv-er, some five miles north of captured Pescara. On the Tyrrhenian coast, American infantry encountered a new series of dug-in defenses east of Orbetello, and attacked through high ground, about 90 road miles from Rome. South of Terni, in the center of the advance line, the enemy continued con-tinued to put up a stiff resistance but some progress was made there also. Bad weather limited air activity, ac-tivity, but RAF bombers managed to sweep over Hungary and attack the Almasfuzito oil refineries near Komarom, northwest of Budapest, starting large fires. FINLAND: Red Troops Advance As a Helsingfors dispatch admitted admit-ted that civilians were prepared to evacuate Viipuri and other Karelian towns, Finland hurled fresh reserves Into the battle in a desperate attempt to stall the new Russian offensive. Although Finnish resistance had stiffened all along the line, Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad armies ar-mies made deep penetrations along a 23-mile front and overran more than 40 towns and villages. The Red troops had gone completely com-pletely through the new Mannerheim line, built by the Finns following their initial advance of the present war In the summer of 1941. The Russians Rus-sians were approaching an intermediate interme-diate defense line south of a third defense belt protecting the immediate immedi-ate outskirts of Viipuri. MARIANAS RAID: New Defeat for Japs An American carrier task force, operating for three days in the Marianas Mari-anas Islands, 1,500 miles from Tokyo, To-kyo, sank 13 Jap ships, damaged 16 more and destroyed 141 aircraft. U. S. losses totaled 13 planes. Ten ships were sunk and another 10 were damaged when a Jap formation forma-tion was surprised as it attempted to flee from Saipan. Meanwhile, Allied headquarters in New Guinea announced that the Mokmer airdrome on Biak island has been put into operation. Infantry troops on Biak pushed west toward the Borokoe air field. American casualties in Biak through the first week of June were announced as 85 killed and 340 wounded. " JAPAN: Earlier Defeat Cheering news came from President Presi-dent Roosevelt in a nationwide radio talk when he said that "we can force the Japanese to unconditional surrender or national suicide much more rapidly than has been thought possible." The President said "we still have a long way to Tokyo," but added that our smashes in the Pacific have deprived de-prived the Japs of the power to check the momentum of "our ever growing and ever advancing military mili-tary forces." The Allies have put Germany's back to the wall "in fact three walls," Mr. Roosevelt said. And, he continued, the United Nations armies ar-mies in France are ready to hurl back the full might of the Nazi military mili-tary machine. WHEAT: Record Year j Over a billion bushels of wheat will be harvested In the United States this year to establish the largest crop record In history, according ac-cording to the current estimates of the U. S. department of agriculture. Figures Just released forecast 714,-148,000 714,-148,000 bushels of winter wheat and 320,637,000 bushels of spring wheat for a total of 1,034,785,000 bushels. Bumper crops of both winter and spring wheat are largely responsible for the huge production, but the crop is not record breaking for either ei-ther kind of wheat taken separately. In 1919 and again In 1931 there was more winter produced than there will be this year. In five other years between be-tween 1910 and 1930 the spring wheat total of 1944 was topped. While there are weather factors which may still cut down estimated production, agricultural officials state that the crops are making excellent ex-cellent progress after a late start. AFTER VICTORY: Demobilization Plans Urging immediate action by congress con-gress to meet postwar problems, James F. Byrnes, director of the Office Of-fice of War Mobilization, announced the establishment of a plan for the discharge of men from the armed forces after Germany's defeat. Priority Pri-ority will be given to fathers and men who have seen front-line action. At the same time, a report to the senate by the special committee on postwar economic policy and planning plan-ning said 2,500,000 men from the army ground forces will be released during the year after Germany's collapse. col-lapse. The release rate will be from 200,000 to 250,000 a month. The postwar committee said jobs must be provided for between 57,-000,000 57,-000,000 and 58,000,000 men and women wom-en compared to 46,000,000, which was the highest employment the country saw before the war. It also listed 16 ways to avoid "economic chaos," mentioning legislation in the fields of postwar taxes and unemployment unem-ployment compensation. Aid for Nazi 4 HIGHLIGHTS in the S) week $ news STOCKS ACTIVE: Success of the initial stages of the invasion of Europe Eu-rope boosted "peace" shares on the New York and ether stock exchanges, ex-changes, with automobiles, utilities and steels most active. Stocks of companies manufacturing many kinds of civilian goods also benefited. bene-fited. Volume on June 11 touched 2Vt million shares, highest since November No-vember 8, 1943. CANADIAN LEND-LEASE: In the ten months ended March 31, Canada has sent goods worth $012,000,000 to the Allies on a lend-lease basis. Most of the materials went to the United Kingdom. It is estimated that the total has now passed a billion dollars. dol-lars. Canada is the only member of the Allies that does not receive lend-lease help from the United States. i In the corridor of a damaged building build-ing in Rome, an American medical corpsman gives aid to a wounded German soldier knocked out in the battle. PRICE CONTROL: Tough Battle When the senate passed the OPA price control extension bill bearing the controversial Bankhead amendment amend-ment providing for the adjustment of cotton ceilings, the legislation still had a long way to go. First it went to the house and clearing that body, to the President's desk. Most sources looked upon this last stop as the major obstacle this measure meas-ure faced. For the senate passage was viewed as a defeat for the administration's ad-ministration's unrelenting effort to eliminate the cotton ceiling adjustment adjust-ment and thus as OPA leaders said, "keep the lid" on living costs. Before it passed the senate, Chester Ches-ter Bowles, OPA administrator, warned that with cotton provision in it (this would give special price treatment to the textile industry and allow the increase in the cost of cotton cot-ton items) the bill would: "shatter the entire stabilization structure." Because the government wants its price control machinery to remain intact at least until the end of 1945, dopesters could see the President's veto coming long before he got the bilL CHINA: See-Saiv Battle Almost complete encirclement of the Canton-Hankow rail city of Changsha was Indicated by a Chinese bulletin which told of heroic defense measures and a battle of "fiercest proportions." To the west, near the Burma border, bor-der, Chinese troops were cleaning out enemy remants in the outer areas of Lungling, Yunan province base. The Japs still held strongly fortified positions on three hills outside out-side the town. American bombers and fighters blasted enemy troops, river craft and installations over the Hunan front. WAR COSTS: Hit 200 Billions The United States has spent $200,-000,000,000 $200,-000,000,000 on the war so far and before the end of the year, anothtr $35,000,000,000 will be spent These figures were released by Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-thau, Morgen-thau, who added that "To. march from Naples to Rome cost $6,700,-000,000. $6,700,-000,000. I leave it to you to imagine what it will cost to march from Rome to Berlin. Cost of taking the ! Marshall islands was $3,000,000,000. KTj JKgf Dkw PARSDH Washington, D. C. UNPROMOTED COMBAT FLIERS One thing that gripes the boys at the front is the way a lot of the desk officers in the war department and others here at home seem to get promotions more rapidly than the boys who are up on the firing line. Some of them feel so badly about it that they aren't anxious to come home, though given opportunities of furlough, because they are outranked out-ranked by their old friends at home. For instance, most of the new pilots pi-lots Just arriving in England are second lieutenants. They haven't been- on any missions at alL Meanwhile, Mean-while, men who have been in England Eng-land for two years, and have been flying over Europe constantly, still remain second lieutenants. "How many do you have?" asks some newly arrived pilot who has flown twice across the channel, each flight being a mission. e e TIRE-RATION PROBE The Office of Price Administration is quietly probing several cases of tire ration violations which promise to be sensational. They go right Into, some of the biggest tire companies com-panies of the country. One of the big tire companies Is being probed on a charge of having failed to void the tire ration certificates turned in to them by retailers. In other words, when a retail tire store or garage sells a tire, it has to send back to the tire manufacturer manufac-turer the certificate issued by the OPA ration board. However, Howev-er, the OPA is tracking down reports that these tire certificates, certifi-cates, instead of being stamped as used, are going back to the dealers, or else remaining with them in the first place. Thus, they are able to sell more tires without requiring more certificates certifi-cates in exchange. Another big company is being investigated by the OPA for buying buy-ing op new tires of various makes from dealers and later reselling them through the company's com-pany's own stores at considerable consider-able loss. Even though not the tires made by this company, the loss was considered a good investment in-vestment because it got motorists motor-ists Into the habit of trading with this company's retail stores. There may be some startling news breaking a this soon. '-'. GERMANY'S SMART CHOICES U. S. experts who have studied the Nazi military setup to resist invasion in-vasion figure that Hitler or whoever whoev-er did the picking for him was smart in his selection of German military leaders. Three of the best men in the German army have been given the job of combating what the Nazis know is the death thrust at Germany. No. 1 is Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, considered the best strategist and over-all commander in Germany. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, immediately under him, is the best man for lightning moves and panzer tactics. Finally, Colonel General Heinz Guderian is considered the best tank commander in the German army. U. S. experts, who believe in look-ing look-ing facts in the face, classify these three as among the top military brains of Europe. see DAYLIGHT SAVING TO ENDT It looks as if daylight-saving time were going to be abolished without with-out giving the President a chance to block the repeal. Several resolutions have been Introduced to abolish war time, as a result of protests from farmers in agricultural areas. These are now before Representative Repre-sentative Clarence Lea of California Cali-fornia and his Interstate Commerce Com-merce committee, and it looks ' as if one of them would be reported re-ported out and passed. If so, it cannot be vetoed by the President, for the original bill establishing es-tablishing war time provided that it was to end six months after the war, or upon a concurrent resolution by both houses of congress. This latter provision precludes a veto, since resolutions are not subject sub-ject to being overruled by the White House. In fact Congressman Lea wrote his original daylight-saving bill in this form for the specific purpose pur-pose of heading off the White House in case Congress wanted to abolish war time. e CAPITAL CHAFF C Congratulations to Lieut. Harry B. Paul Barnhart for bringing laughs to the boys in the South Pacific with bis army show "Stars and Gripes. Every day the state department condenses foreign news developments develop-ments for its officials both at home and abroad. It is one of the fairest news summaries in Washington. The navy is starting a school of government similar to the army's at Charlottesville, Va.. to train men to govern occupied territories. Some navy men are wisecracking that they don't need to train governors of occupation because the British take over all Pacific possessions as soon as we capture them. (The Solomons Solo-mons and New Guinea were largely British before the war.) Yanks on Way to Invasion by Air and Sea I I I, .4. W.'. f lie 1 V lW I Tat TV i. .ynNwMiiun nil " . F ' ' , ,.- t , , - jf-Tf" . -m 4i n: .tfn.riA In in In Invasion of Frenrh rnact tl. initial landings. The landing cran, one oi v m ... . i A...tr, (, first dav of invasion. sail I or somewnere ui rrsu "" - - Coastguardman 'Flagging' the Sarmi Invaders I - f - IC v ws. x rW- r iNrr i . r4r .': f ' ' N i , - lundei ias MS" arlyt littli umtof km up 1 fcr anc old i resi b am i woi id a lo' ben f h pus i of I ices fllteri Ich b ire not i today, best J are ilrown jid to lethini h ano anothe le told ed ail 'i wbi rope K much elt or de tbi Euri b in Intriei, idow ' re eas Way, Igled Itwaffe ease. Ins tau it Coastguardman B. W. Long, coxswain of Detroit, Mich., directs incoming LSTs to their beaching j Hons with semaphore signals from the shore at Sarmi, on the north shore of Dutch New Guinea. Ca; of Wakde Island and Sarmi beachhead after stiff Japanese army opposition brought two more vital Ian 6trips into American hands on their steady thrust westward toward China and the Philippines and that t: nearer to Tokyo and the final victory over the Japs. Heavy naval bombardment blasted Sarmi. First Nazi Prisoners Taken in France I Nazi 'Butterfly' awa-wvmhw -v Sln n sjwta feet :er sin trmany means lot and lldier ai fhat is i Biibious" First, i iearly tl These are among the first Nazi prisoners captured bv th r,n.-invasion r,n.-invasion troops on the soil of France in 7. Canaa tnrnine ships to England from toe fiVst hlT AUled tavasion- Ee" Dumber of Nazi prisoners, Sh werfheS' "?? Carried of American and British naval Jrcel " by hlw ttianbl shlP Honor American Dead at Anzio, Italy Ji-,,- ft & v-,, m ,vi ? I , J lc boi l" J " ' destn I vV v n l f actlca X Lf Nation kv - z ctures K :an ! TT" t be ta ' ' ' mon " ,.,.-fmti i A German "butterfly" Fit sonnel bomb is examined by M- Ehrmann, New York, comroat of the Bomb Disposal school ai erdeen Proving Ground, Md- ' n prell bombs are dropped from Wntj clusters. wit 95, ; : " Tbe Sii Invasion Baby IS to r. A firing squad sends a voUeyZTtTT -- American cemetery at Anzio, Italy It I vr PaTes of Solrs fa salute followed an address by ?S ,LT 1 ceremony. The Clark pven a few day, J eomm ander Lieut. Gen. Ma er. have been placed ntfl after the war rMce T"Porary mark: A W v I v J ' tpened - , - r henu ; r tan. it r rf; 4 . ptty ) 4 v;v f Mslona f H I ! foi i - I ' ' ,i fcamei - ' - 4 J Nej . fernni i. sa "inwacinn" the name f for boy born at the invasion Mrs. Anna Bodmar, -nics" Eleanor Eytkonen salutes.r7 arrival at Augustan hospi"1- Th r fjunced proad Knee, vim |