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Show rff - WtOVO. CTAH COUNTf WPA t FRIDAY, JCKB IS; 14 r XfiAHY iWli Ernie Pyle in France fcrofection bf Supply Lino bst Vital Task In France if. m VkMi wnflrn vnri w ' NORMANDY (By Wireless) tf'On of the moat Vital resppnsiblli-Y'tfes- during 'these opening Week - of our war on the continent oil f, Europe has been the protection of 'our unloading beaches and sports. -.' '' For ever and through them moat 'X paaa, without interruption, and in great masses our buildup of men V. a reneral of fleer, which indicates how Important It "la. Hit hundreds of gun -batteries even intercept planes ' before they near vie beaches. The gun 'positions are plotted on a big wall map In his command tent, Just as the battle Unea ereplotted by infantry units. A daily score is kept: of the planes shot down confirmed ones and material in sufficient masses Land probables. Just as an example to roll the Germans clear!, back out of France. ! Nothing must be allowed to Interfere f with . that unloading. Everything we can! lay our hands on Is thrown into, the guarding of ' those beaches t end "ports.' .Allied I grounds troops1 police them from l the land aide. Our two . navies pro tect them from sneak attacks by sea. Our great, air supremacy makes .daytime air assaults rare V and ;costly. - It w Qnly at night that the Ger-.mani Ger-.mani have- a chance. They do keep pecking! away at us with light bombers, but their main auc-' auc-' cess in this so far has been in keeping us swake and making us , dig our roxnoies aeeper. The , lob of protecting the beaches at night hM . been given oyer to the anti-aircraft vartillery, of ack-ack. I read recently that we haVei here on the beachhead! the-reatst concentration of antl 'aircraft guns ever assembled in an equivalent space. After three solid weeks or oeing Kept awatse u ' night long by the guns, and hav ving to snatch your little sleep in odd moments during the daytime, that is not hard to believe. Here on the beachhead the fall ia flak becomes a real menace - of the few times I've known to happen m this war. Every nightf or weeks, pieces of exploded l anellsnave come wniznng xo earui V- urfthin ao varda of mv Itent. Once an un exploded ack-ack sjhell burled Itself hairVa stone's throw from my tent. - A rood portion of our army on the beSchheadv now sleeps all 1 mgni in roxnoies.ana some or uie troops have swung over to the Anxio beachhead custom! of build ing dugouts in orderXto be safe zrom laumg iiax. x x it - For a long time' I have intend ad doing a series about theanti-alrcraft theanti-alrcraft gunners. I'm glad I nWer got around to it before, for here I on the Normandy beachhead ouK ack-ack seems to have reached its peak. .Figures are not permissible, but I can say that right now we ive many, many ack-ack sol diers on the beachhead and that by the time everything has arrived ar-rived the number will be much larrer. V ..And that Is speaking only- of ack-ack men who do nothing else In addition there are thousands of jgunnere attached to divisions and other units who double in brass v when planes come over and shoot at anytnmg that passes low. . Our ack-ack ia commanded by Prom ffiflippRTeif of the effectiveness of our ack-ack, on four-gun battery alone shot down lo planes m the first two weeks.' : Up'to t&e time .this written the Germans "don't seem to have made up their minds exactly what they are trying to do in the air They wander" around all night long, usually in singles bnt sometimes in numbers, but tnev don t do a great deai .pf oomDing. Most or them turn awav at the first near burst from one of our 9-mm. guns. Our ack-ack men say they think the German pilots are yellow, but having seen the. quality of German fighting for nearly two years now tnat is hard for me to believe; Often they will drop tlares will light up the whole beach area, and then fail to follow through and bomb by the light at their flares. The ack-ack men say that hot more than two out of ten. planea that .approach the beachhead ever make their bomb runs! over our shipping; You are name to fee a com 9 anywnere along the coastal area, for many of the Germans apparently just salvo their bombs and hightail home. , " j . XXX It is indeed a spectacle to watch the antiaircraft fire when the Germans actually get over the beach area. All the machine guns on the ships lying off the' beaches cut loose wltn their red tracer bullets, and those on shore do too. Their bullets' arch in all directions and fuse Into a sky-f Ullng pat tern. The lines of tracers bend and. wave and seem like1 streams of . red water from hoses. The whole thing Mcomes a gigantic, animated fountain of red In the black sky: And above all this are the split-second golden flashes of big-gun aheus as they explode high up toward the atara. The noiae la terrific. Sometimes low clouds catch the crack of these many runs and scrambled em ail into one gigantic roar lch rolls and tnunoers like we blood-curdling approach of a hur- nc TouX tent walls puff from the concussion of the guns and bombs. and the earth trembles and? naKes. If yours sleeping in a foxhole, little clouds 61 dirt coma rolling down upon you. When the plane are really close and the guns are pounding out a mania of sound, youx puton your.; steel helmet In bed andxsc-metimes you drop. off to sleep. with it-on and wake up with , iff orivln the morning 'and feel very, foo! f if ,v4 V Allied Troops In Ita IvPoiirThru NazlBa tfle Line A lOTIGE! The FoIIowIiif; ' PAINT STORES WILL "BE OPEN All Day Saturday .and Closed All 'Day Monday beWettps GESSFORD'S Inc. IMPERIAL PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. UTAH VALLEY . PAINT & GLASS Wcti the COP ci?nvia. ton In Chicago, where' Ixt is representing the Philippine gov-ernment-in-exile is John W. Haussermann of Richmond. Oi President of the Banquet Con- souaaiea Aiinins to.. wnose staff' is Interned by the Japs,. Haussermann escaped only be-,' saaiteisB Vjs liiHnaMsu4 a Ka ie N rastsra aa nayviiw aw ew r this country en business. Americans May Be fvacuated From Finland Soon fir JACK FLElSCIIEB United Press Staff Correspondent "7 Seabee Develops Now Way to Stain Windows CAMP PARKS. Shoemaker. Gal. (TIE) The Seabees have added td their roster of achievements de velopment of a new method of, staining cnurcn windows.-George windows.-George Zystra, painter 1-e from San Francisco, was requested by the camp chaplain jto prepare stained glass windows for the chapel. Zystra had neither col' ored erlass nor a kiln ftr color baking, so he could not use the normal procedure or painting on colored panes, men Durmng pig ment into the glass. After five months of expert mentlng with lacquers, pasting cellophane, acid colored sheets of gelatin, he mixed various dyes with clear, soluble gelatin and painted his pictures on the insides of windows. Then he put a second STOCKHOLM June SO m Edmond A. Gulli6n,U. S. charge d'affaires in Helsinki,' wai under stood today to he prepaHng for possible evacuation of American citizens from .Finland, but reli able sources said he had received no instructions from Washington yet regarding any-break, in diplo- maue reiauons. . Finish foreign Minister Henrik Ramsay called guillon to his office yesterday and endeavored to ex- plan the reason behind Finland's decision to ask for German help tocontinue the War against Rus sia rather than make peace at Uhls time. It was not known whether he gave Guluon any spe cial communication for transmis slon to Washington. How many Americans would leave Finland in the event of a break in relations was uncertain. Most Americans there were more Finnish than American, having rone to Finland years an? J some as children. V Reoorts from Helsinki saL life in the capital continued calm ' no visible further increase In number of German "troops despite kNazl promises of full assistance to meet the advancing Red armies converging on Finland from tne soutneast ana . east. However,; there has been a eon siderable. increase during the past 10 days invthe numbers of emiian dad Germans in Helsinki, iney stood out because of their ob vioua good healui despite military age at a time when virtually every fit. Finn has beenXcalled into the armed forces. . -L. The Finns were salcHo be highj; susnicious of the "visitors," be lieving them either Gestapo agents or.military men. t 7. V . By- REYNOLDS PACKARD United Pres War Correspondent ROME, June 30 rtLE) American and French troops j poured through gaping holes in the Ger man battle line In western ltaiy today .and raced northward to within ?20 miles of Livorno (Leg horn) 4nd seven miles of Siena. driving the Nazi into "headlong flight behind a, screen of mine fields and demolitions. All along a 60-mile front ex tending inland from the Tyrrhen ian seacoast the Germans-were In full retreat, breaking oft contact hurried withdrawal toward their Pisa-Floreiiee-Riminl lihe..'onlv. 30 odd miles to the north. , The pursuing, American ; and French columns captured, almost a dozen, key towns yesterday and hammered out advances running run-ning to about nine miles. , . Simultaneously, the British 8th army cracked through strong enemy en-emy rear guard resistance west of Lake Trasimeno, capturing the fortified towns of Caatlglione Del Lago , and1 Monte gulclano, and fanned out to the rorth and northwest toWard Artzzo and 1 Siena.. As the., ground forces swung into-- their'general advance, Allied warplapes heavily attacked the Naii supply and communications lines in , the norths The air as- soult centered on the railway iUne south of Forji, where Allied raiders smashed the bum. of a big: .Shipment of about 500 motor vehicIesrgasoline , supplies and numerous tanks enroute to the front. Returning airmen said they al so destroyed 54 railway cars and locomotive and damaged 90 more cars and three locomotives. American armored coli pushing up the west coast hig way paced the swift 8th army ad vance. Tney drove forward nine miles . yesterday to within 1,500 yards tof Cecina against only fee ble opposition, while other American units captured Bibbina, five miles inland. Farther Inland. American .tanks and Infantrymen advanced nerth-ward nerth-ward over roads that had been mined heavily by the fleeing Germans Ger-mans and piledrhlgh with wreck- age. - - J Castemuovo. on the Folloniea-i Volterra highway , was taken by J tne u. s. columns, along with Monteverdi, five mites' northeast of Sassetta; and RadicondAli. ight miles northeast of Castel- nuovo. - French forces on the American. right flank swept through similarly sim-ilarly feeble enemy resistance on the approaches to Siena. Frosini and Pogrfo Siena Vec- chia. the latter 10 miles 'southwest 'south-west of Siena, were captured. OVERCHARGE RETURNED Voluntary contribution of $404,10 was made to the United States Treasury by Conn and Lubow company. 262 South Main street, Charles R. Bradford,' OPA enforcement 1 attorney announced today. - The contribution was paid to cover excess ? overcharges on mens auits and pants."- Mr. Bradford stated, "which had been sold in violation of the highest price line limitation." sheet of glass over , the paintings to perserve them. Zystra. born Amsterdam and student -in Dutch art schools, believes this to be an entirely new iormuia xor produc ing tne effect of stained glass. THE OLD JUDGE SAYS . . . jr ' ! "I can't think of anything else ytou'll need for your Victory garden. Judge J., you've got pretty nearly everything" V MI think sb, too, John!. Ever feet your asparagus patch going?" ., "I gave that up last year. Judge j Tried it ' six years in a row with no luck. Justi haven't got the right soil, I giiess?" . "WeUV I flu you're wise; Joh?t...no Use keeping on trying things you know won't work. Just like Tjrotybiti hibition has beeft tried in this country seventy-two times in the last hinety years. It has been adopted fortyseven times in the past thirty-three years and discarded everywhere except in three states. Same thing was tried in eight provinces in Canada and in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia but it was ah adnfitted failure and universally abandoned. "The reason is prohibition , does not prohibit. All you get is bootleg liquor instead in-stead of legal liquor, plus !no end of crime and corruption . - ' sasA -mm ;v m w-- sas . mm mm sVbi.a.-. ! uurma campaign is no ricnic - - ' 7 I.-'- r y-m tfyiwl iK i i -1 . v ill. . i, i I' , J -t r-'tr,--..:--- "r'-V'vr?.rv.v.i.. 1 1 'm4GmmWHlt!gmm'i mmtym mmmmm ' " t M&BBBBmmmtlmWtofe1' " aiui waaaasawsMssasasssBassassssssaaaMaMassai I "IfJ"j- V '-''4 '- - 11 " f f i t ; s ):ff f'" Jr- ,' - ' i7-Ati' '--:i- rs i nciW - -v ii g:!,, vi nn a-i. ni tier Guinea Coast IVIIUUl UUI .if ,4f St. . J By PON &ASWIX4L .' " 'A United press War Correspondent ALLIEX) ksil)Qt7ARTS5lift Southwest Pacif lev .June 30 . , American warptane and PT ' . boats destroyed or damaged 22 . Japanese barges in aweepa along : , the northern New Qulnea ; coat ; 7 While liberator bomoers again struck into the Carolines . 4p - hit y Tap,5 Palau and Sorol islands,; ,'$, comiuniquf announced today ). The long-range Llberatora, tw-'3 ing from bases in the Adrralt islands, shot down, two and 4anvv age five ot 27 enemy mtewaptort ft during tha raid 6n Yap Tuesday.? Two other grounded Japanese : planes were destroyed wnen w Liberators dropped 28 tons : bombs on the airdrome,' In tha :,; seventh stuck of the war on Yap.- v.' V Th other Carolines UrrSU Were Sorol. 10 miles, southeast of Tap. and PeleUu alrdome at raiau, 0 mUes east of the Philippines. . . U. 8. air patrols and PT ooa in loint drives along the Altape- Wewak coastal, sector vtov British New Guinea sank l enemy oar-ges oar-ges at MaschuTsland and destroy ed or aamagea iwr wwi Kairiru island, to cut off possible means of escape or reinforcement for trapped jJapase forces. Two additional' oarges, loaded:' with ammunition and - personnel, were sunk by P-T boats near'Blak island, in Geelvlnk Byl whew fj. S Infanltryment were moppingup scattered Japanese troops. . Air patrols again feomhed the alrdromea oh Noemfoor island, near Btak, on Wednesday for the 12th time In the last 14 days, Ui a campaign to, keep the three enemy en-emy airfields neutralised. Though overshadowed by the Normandy invasion, fighting in the Burma theater goes on and is still I as tough as any In the? war, as these photos suggest. At upper left an Allied soldier lies dead on tna MyJtkyina Airdrome, taken by Merrill's Marauders afteif bloody fighting. He was killed by one of Jap Zero plane which constantly strafed the field after Chinese and American Qghters seized it. At uSer. right, CpL James ttTnxmstrong of Corsicarta, Tex., looks over Japs killed when a hand grenade Wasted- their rock barricade. Below, American soldiers, Including a correspondent and his typewriter, take refugt from Jap sniper's bullets under wing of s c-7 on xnyiufyina Airorome., ; i A 4- . ake. refuge fron Ji Lnts' Chances Reaching5 There were more than 28,100, 000 passenger cars In Use at the time, of peart-Harbor. Two years later, approximately 24,500,000. VI Dionne Quints' 20 in 100 of Reaching -. NEW YORK (EE) The Dionne quintuplets, who entered their 11th year. May 28, nave survived oaas encountered by one person In llv-ins llv-ins to the are of 60, and now have at .least 20 chances In 100 of cele brating their 65th birthday to gether, according to statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company. The Dionnes. only quintuplets to have lived ao long, and the only set, with the exception of the re cently reported Argentinian quints, to have survived more tnan a short 5ttme after birth, are enter ing the safest period of their uvea, the statisticians said. JAccording to present average mortality conditions, the chances are 98 in 100 that the girls will all survive to 16; 68 In 100 that they will aU reach 45." they said. "But actually their chances are much better than these average figures, because of the unusually good care that these girls 'have had and probably will continue to have." switcning ures every zuuu muss will lengthen tire lire up to 25 "per cent. , i 1 i 1 sr 'a - - - 1 1 "Slices Taylor Bros., Provo's Foremost Stojfe for Men unless absolutely necessary f w tpuuntd V-Q$mMi f Akokelic Bmrafi Imdtatrim It 0 I SATURDAY. 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