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Show I . Newsmen Keep Jnvasion Date Russia Delighted At Sicily Invasion Strict Secrecy r In MOSCOW people by Reiman H. Morin AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA (AP) This was D day. And no that its come more than 100 American and British correspondents in North Africa have a sensation of a heavy weight being lifted from their shoulders and hobbles taken off , .their tongues. Yottcan speak openly now ahnnt. the landing on Suiiiy" For months. whenever the subject was mentioned at all which was practically never correspondents called it that thing or the magoo or, simply, "it. In the middle of June Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called a press conference at his headquarters. These conferences are held fairly regularly, You get information straight from the horses mouth there. Some of it you can use and most of it you cant. But just knowing helps to ' Interpret events as they arise. i The Allied commanderInchierwas speaking generally - . of the situation as developing. Suddenly, without the slightest warning he said that undertaken within thejnontli. overseasoperationsjw ould The room seemed to freeze. It became as still as a picture and there was a sensation of glassy unreality. Nothing moved except the commanderlnehiefs icy blue "eyes whkli'Went slowly- Trorrfface To face. He said that the attack would be aimed at Sicily. And If there was surprise it wras sheer numbing shocks now. Toure accustomed tcTheai-in(ConUinu e (Tf romp age 1) or learning milltaiv informanation of a Sicily for invasion. A large ture but none of the khaki-clanumoer ot the island's 4,000,000 connewsmen in Eisenhower's residents was understood to exroom ever that day ference have been evacuated to the. and the to be place Italian mainland. pected gien of the opdate the approximate Formidable ueienses weie eration that w ill go dow n as one erected along Sicily s shoies dnd of the decisive events in historv. the Axis is known to have beEisenhower said that the Allies gun "scorched edith' ciynamit-uigfor a be bloody riding might of haibor lauhties dt Ira-pan- t nose" but that he thought the and elsewhete in anticipajob could be done. tion ot a relieat to me The picturesque smile seemed mountains possible lor the purpose of deto break the thread of tension. tense. Almost m unison the correspondAccordingly, the Allied units ents drew a deep breath, blinked, that landcu on Sicily in. Satui shifted in Their chairs and lit s houis must have cigarets. They asked a few ques- day dnd vigoious tions and Eisenhower answered, tun into prompt -the opposition that promised to plodisclosing some cretatlsof tline the fieicest battles of the coming operation Before the conference ended he whole conflict. Eisenhow ct s ti oops had a maze warned listeners not to talk. It of coastal pillboxes and machine was more than a warning. An edged, steely quality came gun nests, as well as fixed and mobile .aitilleiy, to ovei whelm Into his voice. Eisenhower he betoie they could secuiely consmiles continually when talks. His forehead wrinkles and solidate then beachheads. Then, his eves dart around rapidly. they wete conhonted with long He wasn't smiling at that mopiepated foi tilled Uons as they ment. the struck, inland and along his voice shoies which most ol Sicily s Something in cold was and struck deep. It abroad and highways paiahel hard. It felt like small splinters One thug, howevei, was down of ice riding your spine. certain. Whatever the ohisacles, He told us not to talk. It was an Eisenhowers ofticers and men order deliveied by a man who were ptepared to meet and con. know s how to utter orders. It hit weeks past the quer them. hard American and British tioops in After the conference one cor.North Africa had been training respondent murmured: I Ialmost have rigorously in embai king, disemwish he hadn't told us barking and all the other ti icks never been so conscious of a reand turns of invas'm waifare sponsibility. along coastal stretches closely And so through the next weeks lesembling those found cm you occasionally hedi'delabqial . casual references about the Hie Canadian tioop-- , whose Magoo and that things Meanwhile, the taut, breathless piesence in the Meaitenanean theater was revealed in Eisenhowfeeling grew. Each day in pass- er s first announcement ot the in ing was like another notch invasion, also had undeigone long a belt being pulled tight around. Convoys churned the Mediter- penods of naming in invasion Sicilys tenain, land ranean and came Into ports. Land- tactics. other fed tines foimcd and marks and magically craft appeared ing the- subject of cateful study for earned of trucks convoys long Eien them toward haibois. Then they a considerable lime befoie that the moment of hower judged disappeaied. One dav most was vvasready f ol ripe ancLSicily success the ships were gone too. I he tew . correspondents who had been se- a blow piomising When that blow- descended the- lected to accompany the landing news cletlufied coi respondents Still too. disappeared parties even at Allied headquarters, talked had been expecting though they desks You would notice empty the invasion of Sicily since last in the press roonvsome morning month The tidings weie w lapped asked never You that was all in a businesslike communique so vvheres today which said meielv that Eien-howet- s f that D That was the legions began landing close on Sicily early this day was verv One morning a few days ago opeiations morning a British colonel attached to The initial bulletin recounted the press relations branch made - thepreliminary-a- ir attack Hind said: He announcement. n brief the tak of the Allied naval I would advise all of you to fleet in escorting the assault night at telephone me every, forces and bombarding the nowHe on. midnight front roastal defenses as the enemy's numbers gave three telephone were in progress. landings reached. be he rould where Then a message -- from Etsen- told he everybody" Last night hewer, read aver the radio, told tu he in the conference room people of Axis held France 4.45 a.m. at that Sicilv had been invaded, but cot of the Most respondents warned them to Temain calm came down direotlv. There was no and not to expose themselves to if sleeping Even you closed jours Nazi reprisals during the "first eyes jou saw a series of stage of the liberation of the melting into one another Euiopean continent like special effects in the movies The announcer who read this faces of your friends, faces of message concluded w ith the ringofficers that you soldiers and proclamation. comma qd-e- r ing The knew-- the fdee of-tbattle Africans of over, as it was that daji a the battle of Europe has begun " month ago all those things. Americhief 4 45 At am, the and Salt Lake. The welders had can and British press officers asked for crafF Status and petithe pushed their way through tioned for collective bargaining rpom beneath hot rights to be represented by the brief a har unite lights. They United Brotherhood. typed communique. ' Following the (tearing, the forces Allied It said: 'began brotherhood filed a petition with the labor board asking that weldlanding operations. ers employed bv the 33 conti (AP) The Russian jovously welcomed news landing on Sicily of ' v today. Even before the newspapers had time to comment editorially, the people entered into excited discussions, calling the new' offensive a fine gift for the Red Armv, now striving to block the summer offensive' of the Nazis lt Is not the second finnt. of courser they were saving But it is another important blow to the Axis the.-AlIie- The In- - Deployment of the Allied LONDON (AP) of Europe now under way ing power along the uppr coast through Sicilv should not be re- of .North Africa suggested a garded as the onlv landing, nor strong possibility that the aseven as the landing planned bv sault on Sicily might be accomthe Allies, a British observer told plished at anv moment by coordinated moves elsewhere along correspondents todav. He also warned that hatd and the Mediterranean front, it was; prolonged.. fighting. must- - be. ex- said. pected" against the island s total This possibility also Vvas defense fotces, estimated at 400;" strengthened by Gen. Dwight OOO.v I). Eisenhower's statement in his personal message broadcast to Europe that the 'battle of Europe had now begun. The total strength of the Allied forces in the Mediterianean areai has never even suggested but Axis feel er bioadcasts repotted 44 inlan frmrr-t- i divisions, two Saturday, July 10, Page 3 t, 1 Creep Upon By Walter Karr London Dully Mail War units, leave ment through these terrible tralli, themselves An e .camp beside the river Mohlo. small, silentlv moving rubber The drenching- tropical rain perboats and native war canoes. mits no sleep, Under cover-- of Fourth day The enemy Is .still tropical rain sq rills, thev creep along the ene-m- following us..,The hills get higher . held cohst line, only a fev and higher. The column, as it feet away, to make a landing winds through the jungle, gets at a gap between Jap patiols at split up. k. a village called Regi Tlace, known A lieutenant just led a platoon , in a gallant charge. He captures only to natives A few houis later: a hill and (nils 18 Japs. After the mannes leave Regi Fifth dav Sergeant Zwlck, Place a stiong Jap fmeg.. inov cs of Pea)l Harbor, leads the believin, the marines still advance patty. Suddenly he finds jp, ihoie and dienclies the entlte himself within feet from a . rca with machine gun (lie. Jap gun m lzzle The marines S eond day Native scouis lead iling in blocks of TNT, tied tous into the jungle untloi gi ovv th gether in chains and plucked 'tow aids nu Jap foice at- - jfiom a w locked Zero ' at Guadai-I- n tack-- . mu icar guaid a savcanal The age ho it of filing, four Japs aie nest Is silenced. Fixe Ant oilcans. aiecui ThLough the jungle the Japl small hcavilv-armore- d pott and paddle Correspondent (Distributed bv International News Nervtcc?) ADVANCED AVER WITH CAN FORCES OV NEW GEOROne by one, GIA (INS) Japanese jsland bases are falling and their Japanese gait isons aie being completely wiped out by sudden, bold Ameucan thiusts The essence of the fighting heie, as lt now is developing, is the use of small, highly named inits earning iicntetuloits fire pctter ancl NUlh the ability to .move across urtch&ited truitotv. cantp out in the open andyet diseases dangerous Here is a lecotd of the laud fighting, giving a close up of the Y v -- - rni-m- v tv- - mu--pa- it'v ...... "tv our-troops- to the swamp, we ate Mood cuidling to advance onlv about seven mg Virti mills jyiJwclygJjpjjgs Each rbp-4- -i I IniYT 'dav am astonished eqtni'ped add aU.hougijJjlg.Jiadhcu'n.. no indi-- rnfmv scouts'" tanh(5T Ticaf of anv change in. the team the movements of tioops in the mannes can diag hig . vou which swept Tunisia clean. This.tor-dnveladio equip-- them in this boats, the mai inesdn Igvws. ammunition, had Gen. Sir Hat old Alexander of giound fotces and in char Son-lnLavLArrested Air Chief ath Tedder-- Scieams n and exc-etleTlT- f so perfectly 1 mo-jho- Invasion - - 19431 Marines Use Catlike Tactics On Japs Sudden Bold Thrusts Follow Silent Foe fi om Ow mg ith e yell-alil- y cam-catio- n practically step on jungle. In British newspapers vv allied readers to prepaie for heavy Josses and possible setbacks befoie Sicily is taken. There must be no deluding ourselves with hopes of a speedy oeiupation of Mussolini's front door island," d the Star. "For though this is Italy it also is Hitters outer gateway and thp Nazis have shown every determina- g highly-confident;- d American Officers Uncover Clues VASSl tion to hold it. We must be prepared for (P) baronet Alfied De Maiignv. dashing husband of Oakes eldest (laugh-- I Th Evening Standard comment- We are committed to an historand hazacdous adventute in which ticie will be setbacks mourn as well as successes to and from which there can be mo 'Turning back Th news said that no easy vietotv lies ahead and added "This is a stein business of invading a latge country well de-fended, alive to the prospect withj which it now ts faced It is a hazat doits and complicated duty- - 'i that the body of the American. i fingerpunts and Inter inquest will be resumed and Hallman said Tuesday, was some likelihood that Ihrre eedings, secret until theptoc now, yyoulcl be opened to the public. H G Chustie, a close fripnd of Sir Ilairv s and a guest Wed nesday in the rambling house includes 15 bed- looms, discovered the body when he sought to awaken Oakes An T Thmsdav morning For two days the world outin etistodv ISvcaiold Naney-Oikc- side of this colony was given De Maiignv, whose mar- -i only an inkling of the mysterii.ige in Mav. PJiJ, inruited the ous cue imstances The summondispiea-tu- e of her JatlieL. ended ing pf the Miami officers and the a vacation m Vermont to tom her announcement that there were on the bodv gave the incijjict. Ladv Oakes, at the familanjuney y s Bn Haibor, Me, summei only hint that Sir Hany had met While- gov-etn- ic pie-daw- analysis, ogatjon n ter, Ndiicvc was held on a formal charge of muider although he flutlv denied that it was he who clubbed the Gbycai-olknight to death - MidmProffteers called to Nassau by the Duke of Windsor, of the Bahamas, helped police make the mvesti potion which led to the accusa-pratstton agdinst the ac ht racer and spoilsman, who chopped the title 0f count which he used on his na live Indian Ocean island, the Dutish colony nf Mam it ills. Shortly before De Mviignv was taken Into custody at Oakes home, it was leve.iled loss- es ed Bdiamas In Oakes'-DeBahamas Slaying was multi - millionaire lound Thursday morning on ink ih.ir.ied bed, and tli.it Ihrre weie four sei mtis bludgeon wounds on tlie brad. Attorney Genet al F.ne Halli-itr.repoited that the bed had been afne. causing hut ns on-t- he Tech Officcis said an electnc fen in the room mav have ex- tinguished the flames, hefoie they cudd spiead and destroy West bout ne, Sir liativs huge estate on the gi minds of the Bahamas Countiv Club. born Tl.p auest of Si! Hauv Oakes' a sijitlmg hi ought son in law climax todav to the nnsteiv which gicw out of the death of British ihe immensely wealthy ian-tione- s - divisions, ready Salt Lake City, Utah DESERET NEWS Udf -- , e ttattaljor - - been-- bv Allied sources, ie e THE Sicily: Landing Held Only One Of Several e - her husband remained -s foul plav. e E W Melchen, one The coroner's jury viewed the Miami detectives, said the bodv at the scene, and it vvas re cital go rgamst the beaided De leased to he sent to Bar Haibor hair Maiignv was based on bump of-ti- C.ipt 1 - - y so-an-d tip-of- , he jam-packe- d Geneva ed for collective bargaining pur poses. From One) Page Mr. Royle announced (Continued yestera hearing on this petito me, Mr. Dix said. Im afraid day that would be held Julv 27 at 10 of what it might result in, he tion a m. m the governors board added. We "have "not been" officially room in ihe State Capitol."" During the recent hearings the advised of ruling," he AFL contended that the said. Nor have we receved any did not form a craft in and of official word fiom Genpva tothemselves, but were merely in. the-boar- d's dav It appeared that the AFPhad A GAY MOOD The Allied world received news of the invasion of Sicily with jubilation today, about like Prime Minis-teAYinston Churchill, who-raishis top hat on his stick to acknowledge the pJaftdits ot admiring Britons. With ( hnrclnll is his daughter, Mary ( htirchtll, a subaltern (senior) in the Ats. (Todays Pictures Today by AP A irephotoO g es y v . HES IX cidental to other crafts. Roosevelt e (Continued From Page One) a lineup of notables, including Secretary of State Hull, Admiral William D. Leahy, the' chief of staff, and Admiral Finest J King, commander of the U S fleet. For almost an hour Mr. kept his exciting himself at least lie made no open announcement of it. Ihed at thp conclusion of a meal, shortly betoie lit oclock, the president piepared to propose a toast and this gave him the opportunity to announce the invasion and dis. mss the present sfuation in Europp. "I have just had woid of the fust-attacagainst the soft tirdcr-bell- ncwtr v was his terse, of Hut ope, exciting fust remark. He then asked those pres-- nt not to say anv thing about the news until midnight. This restriction, was, .necessitat- d because of arrangements Htadv made for a joint disclosure ,n North Aftica, Washington arid London by the military autnon ties The president then told wnat he knew of the landings and continued' The opeiations have begun. We won't get definite news until later, but the news will be coming m from' now-oThe chief executive added;, This is a good lllustiation of the fact of planning, not the desire, for planning, but the fact of planning With the commencing of the expedition in North Africa, w ith complete cooperation between the British and ourselves, that was followed bv complete cbhpeiation with the Fionch in North Afu- qfietlandjntJLM gaJLhftrssuU. was not hatUe of all planning. That was coopeia-tton- , and from that of course, the major objective is the elimination of Germany. That goes w ithout saving. As a result of the step which is in progress at this morn enfrwe hope it is the beginning of the end. Last autumn the prime minister of England railed it the end of tlie beginning I think ean almost say that this ac e n.'' tion tonight is the beginning of the end We arr going to be in a naval onsp aie sense mili-taiDnee there, we have the of going in different and I want to tell Gen eral On and that we have not forgotten that Fiance is one of the dueetions One of our prime aims, of course, is the restoration of the people of Trance and the sovereignty of France. Fven C a movp js not directed at this moment to France itself. General Gnatid ran rest assured that the ultimate objective we will do it and in the best way is to liberate the peopio of France, not merely those in the south-ppart of France but the people i not them France Pans anil in this whole opeiatioiul should say rightly, that in the enormous planning we have had the complete cooperation of French military and naval forces in North Africa gradually the opposition has cooled and the older regime n breaking down. Me have seen what has happened or is happening 'nrtti e preven rrmtnrritT in'wraf-- ' tinique ancl Guadeloupe. That is a very major point toward the big offensive. t won the war yet J,'eonehaven of the happv things is hilt that with the help of Gen Gnaud w e have a unified Tniiitav situa licJn that goes a long way. --"We want to heljx teaim those French forces (early explained the president refened to the forces in North Africa) and to build up the French strength so that vvhen the time comes from a mihtaiy point of view when we get --into France and throw the Germans out, theie will be a French armv and French ships working with the British and ourselves a veryIt great 'symbol that Gen. Girdud is here tohe has that ronie over nightv totalk iatts-abo- ut Why Professor Tate spends his week-end- s as a Section Hand Professor Richard Tate teaches history. Meeting him the firsr time or two you'd never suspect that he also works on railroad track, with a section crew. of - Former Congressman From Utah npair and Mrsie all othsr kinds si Ksy Wind Clocks. Prompt sorrtca wilk special eonsidoratioa to war workers. Tennant Co. 303 SCOTT BLDG. Southern Pacific serves the great sweep of Vest and South and were in this war with everything weve got. Short of men and locomotives, were still going to meqt public transportation Jieeds all-o- -- Will -- de liver other P rofessoi Tate likes to think of himself as an example of whats happening to our whole country in this war. Nowadays, the Professor declares, we Americans are learning that a lot of tough work must be done if were to keep our right to a free, good life. o f a series of addresses STORY UNIQUE OF "I ce the trains go by packed with troops and war goods, and I know that railroad transportation is vital. Thats why l mraighty pleased I can do t job'of work 1 MORMONISM Public Cordially-Invite- d HALL block north of Hotel Utah Opposite Temple Square) SUNDAY. He Collection . (Half U& if you have spare time on your hands if you want to switch to w ar work come talk it over with S. P. Comework with us ta speed the victory promised by So I our singing rails! m on Southern Pacific track. Music to b furnished by the McKAY WARD CHOIR BARRATT Our strategically located lines eontact more military and naval establishments than any other railroad. S. P. tracks converge at key West Coast ports point like daggers at Japan. Steadily our war load grows. In mounting tempo until peace comes, the Victory train must roll. ' an on ths W - -- decision followed extensive hearings held in Provo SPECIALTY With this ad wc tapped a reservoir of manpower eager to tackle a real earthy job of wpr work. And because over twelve thousand S. P. regulars have gone to war, we need to enlit more patriotic men to keep the war trains rolling. "We need patriotic women, too. -- Mr. Rovle's OUR week-end- week-end- Con-rtliat- Alarm Clocks There ia a serions shortage of track workers. Ve must keep our track in first class shape to move vital war traffic. Yon are urgently needed to work on S. P. track s on in this vicinity." But Dick Tate working s on S. P. track is ft different man from Professor Tate delivering a lecture. He looks leaner , tougher, healthier. He eats" hungrier. And he s' definitely better pleased with his part in the war effort . . , DON B. COLTON National Labor Board or through the Utah courts Mr. Dix - said he understood that a member of the U. S. Service was en route to Geneva and It was expected that he would attempt to get the men baek on the lob pending a settlement of their dispute. CLOCKS REPAIRED Recentlt we ban an ad addressed to business and pro fessional men, to clerks and students. Ve said: He is a member of the golf club, often speaks at 7T ar Bond rallies, belongs to Rotary, Aot long ago his dah has won mention at a famous flower show. France. only two avenues of piooedure either through an appeal to the Norman Berndt full-tim- e Genial, plump and fortyish. Professor Tate lives with his nice wife and two youngsters in a pleasant western town where Southern Pacific trains stop frequently. problems, to help toward the same objective that all of the United Nations have the freedom-of France and with it the unity S. P. railroad. (A were proud, too, of our who the main part of the work load.),. regulars carry r Matbe tou dont Understand why we of Southern Pacific tell you about the life and views of Professor Richard Tate. Wee proud of him thats why! 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