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Show Temperatures! - Atlanta High Low High Low 80 68 New York 67 86 32 . . . 80 54 Portland San Francisco . . 68 . . 5t 83 62 59 Washington, D. C.. T3 ........ Chicago . Tl"47 Denver Lot. Angeles Price r Five Cents. Sait Lake City, Utah, Tuesday, June 6, 1944 v imew 'lice' Gives His Men Pep Talk Dim . Jt, , I t Q gd vas ii - German Resistance Less Than Attackers Expected For Nation On Invasion WASHINGTON (AP) My fellow Americans: In this poignant hour, I ask to join meirLpxayeiLj Almightv God Our sons, pnde of our nation, this dav have set upon a might endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. LeaJ,them straight and true, give strength to their arips, stout, ness to their hearts, steadfastness to their faith. They will need Th,v blessings. Their road will he long and The enemy is strong. hard. He may hurl bark our forres. Success may-n- ot come with rushing grace, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sans will triumph. They will, be sore tried, by jou -- CALLS FOR FILL VICTORY C,en. Dwight D. Eisenhower (left renter), gives order of the day Full victory, nothing else" to paratroopers before they took off in planes for invasion of France. (AP Wirephoto). -- U Eisenhower Stays Behind In Invasion SUPREME 'False-Flash-Gi- HEADQUAR- Allied TERS Expeditionary FORCE-(A- P) Aalha the western front raged in northern France, General Dwight D. Eisenhower occupied a lonely post on this side of the channel. After inspecting parachute troops before they went into the fray, the director of his-- 4 torys greatest amphibious strike stood on the roof of a house watching the huge air armadas roar across the channel , battia-openin- g , .Invasion 'As Planned' Roosevelt Declares WASHINGTON (AP) President Roosevelt said today the invasion of Europe is up to schedule." l'p to noon (EWT) today, Mr. Roosevelt - told his news conference, American Naval losses tn the Invasion consisted of two destroyers and one LST landing craft. Total air loses were one percent a figure the president described as relatively light. Norwegians Warned NEW YORK -- (AP) King Haa- kon of Norway m an invasion broadcast today to his homeland warned his people against prema ture Uprisings, said a broadcast from supreme headquarters, allied expeditionary force, heard by NBC. i The king broadcast special orders to both organized and unorganized resistance groups in - night and by day, without rest -ttH -the Tbe dark-- rictmxis ness will be rent by noise and flame. Mens souls Will be shaken with the violences of war,,. These are men lately drawn from the wavs of peace. eThey figfit not for the lust of conquest Thcv fight to end conquest. Thev fight to ltbeiate. They fight to let justice arise, and toleiShce and goodwill among all thv people. They vearn but for the end of battle for their return to the haven of home. EmSome will never return. brace these, Father, and receive them. Thv heroic servants, into Thv Kingdom. And Tor us at home father, mothers, children, wives, sisters and brothers of brave ment overseas whofe thoughts and prajers are ever with them help us. Almighty Opd, to rededicate ourselves irf renewed faith in Thee in this hdur of great sacrifice Many people have urged that I call the nation into a tingle r radio said tonight: "It must be admitted that the Allied beachhead area has been LONDON . (AP) . (AP) BARCELONA, Spain today said Allied forces were mouth of the Seine. . German reports received here possession of Honfleur at the in full Honfleur is just across the river mouth from Le Havre and the harbor was enlarged shdrtryTbeforelhTwar. From Honfleur the Allied forces were said to be fanning out to the east and south toward Audemer, J4 miles to the east, Beuzeville, seven miles inland and Point L'Eveque. The latter town was reported heavily bombed by Allied planes and already under Allied artillery fire. It is 7Vi miles inland from the fashionable beach resort of Deauville, . See PRAYER On Page 2 Big Offensive Costs In Blood By Wes Gallagher SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY I AP) FORCE The Allies landed in the Normandy section of northwest France early today and by evening had smashed their way inland on a brood front, making good a gigantic nvasion-agatnsL Germed unexpectedly-ligh- t opposition. Prime Minister Churchill said part af the , ing number of parachute and glider troops wera fighting in Caen,-nin- e miles inlandrond had seized a number of important bridges in the invaiioiUarea. Four thousand ships and thousands of smaller landing craft tookthe thousands of American, British and Canadian seaborne forces from England to Franca under protection of 11,000 allied bombers and lighters who wrought gigantic havoc with the whole elaborate coastal defense system that the Nazis had spent four years building. Naval gunfire completed the job, and the beachheads werf secured quickly. Allied Ipsses in every branch were declared to bb far less than had been counted upon in advance. . The Germans said the landings took place from Cher bourg to Le Havre a front of about 100 miles, and that a strong airborne force was fighting as far inland as Rouen, 41 miles east of Le Havre. Curchill told Commons: "All this, of course, although very valuable as a first and vitally essential step, gives no indication whatever of what may be the course of the battle in the next days and weeks, because the enemy will now probably endeavor to concentrate on this. area. "In that event, heavy fighting will soon' begin and will continue. It is therefore a most serious tima that we are entering upon." The grand assault scheduled for yesterday but pest- d found the poned until tpday because of bad weather German defenses much less formidable in every department than had been feared. Airborne trops who led the assault befora daylight an g cale suffered "extremely small" lasses in a the air, headquarters disclosed tonight, even though tha great plane fleets extended across 200 miles of sky and used navigation lights to keep formation.- re described at Navol fosses for theeaborne force-weheadquarters as "very, very small," although 4,000 ships and several thousand smaller craft participated in taking tha, -American, Canadian and British troops to Franca. Coastal batteries were virtually silenced by the gun airand-so- a By 'j'homas C. Watson London girl who (INS) The Associated false Press flash of the with United States the upset the invasion asked America to forgive-- . her today. Joan Ellis, the girl who electri through the machine to New. fied a nation, was interviewed cm York." the worn, brownstone steps of her The brow n haired girls eyes s home in Camfilled with tears ancj she said, j little, middle-clasThe last Thing I would have den town. wanted to do w as to upset tile She said: American people, i like AmerPlease tell the American peoicana and, I liked vvorking .witfl them. It is, hard to believe I w as ple howr sorry Lam for that the cause of such a terrible false fa)se alarm- - Ask them please " alarm. to forgive me. I didn't mean to "I've been in a Terrible muddle So it." ever since and so has my family.1' The 'that she Explaining how the now historic false flash cleared on the wires, would have invited her interviewer in but that her familv still was the girl said: upset. She added: . I was just practicing for in- terribly I just dont know what to do 1 would knew vasion day. with mvself. I do hope the Amerthey want me to be quick with he ican people forgive me. I v as only message then. practicing because I wanted to oo I thought if 1 typed it out on a good job w hen the time came. 1 w not ould machine a beforehand When asked "if 'she had been be so nervous about it when the fired the teletypist said real message tame, so I typed Well, they hinted that they w hat I thought the message didn't want me around any would read like. more. I don't know what to do. "I was operating a teleprinter I mustwork and I hope this out mistake wont prevent me from machine, where you punch FIRST Y. 8, CASUALTY BACK through-another to run has tape which rontlnuing teleprinter work."' before it machine goes wound from enemy small arms through to New York. I had in. Dow-Jon- es tended to tear the test messag Furnished bv 3 A Bogle k Co mem' off the tape. Stork Exchange Just when I finished typing bers ol New York Htrh I w Last. Chr .59 it I was handed a message to Industrials . 443 01 140 90 142 21 Rails .05 40 19 39 41 39 90 be sent at once. In my haste 23 14 22 II 23 01 4 .01 Vtllitiea LONDON The Ger(AP) to send the message 1 forgot 35 102 IB . Bonds man radio reported that four T 49 about the lest one and it went 95 33 . , ommodities British parachute divisions had landed between Le Havre and -- Cherbourg in This was record-shatte- , tvventy-two-year-ol- d - , - T IX ENGLAND An American paratrooper who received a head fire is lifted from an airplane after arriving hack in England. House Votes To Speed Pearl Harbor Trials Invasion Bulletins four times the size of the Nazi parachute force dropped on Crete in the Mediterranean, . Yanks Gain In Italy War Premier (AP) arshal Pietro Badoglio dissolved his Italian government today and was rharged by Crown Prince I'mberto with forming a new government to include political leaders in liberated Rome. , . NAPLES ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Fifth Army (AP) Naples forces drove steadily beyond liberated Rome today, some units plunging as much as five miles out from the historic Tiber River against what was bfficiallv termed only weak resistance. The battle to destroy the enemy continues without paused said, a communique. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's troops have crossed or reached the Tiber all the way from Rome to the sea and enemy divisions still In a Hands- - below the--el tya rein desperate straits. In the coastal area 3 lone well over 2,000 prisoners apparently will be unable to scramble out of the allied net because all Tiber bridges from Rome to the sea either have been blown up hr ef captured. In Rome, however, eleven crossings remained intact, and the Fifth Army poured across in a constant stream to chase the Germans fleeing northward in disorder. Allied! armored forces fanned a wide area. Iniantry also has crossed the' river in force and was reported driving ' due wegt of Vatican City. The only resistance anywhere came from I Isolated rearguards. outover Jop Radio Off Air INVASION NEWS BROUGHT GRINS to the faces of these Kearns soldiers, among the, The xork (AP) few persons an Salt Lake's down-tow- n streets when The' Deseret Nws' first invasion extra t Tokyo radio left the air sudden-wen- t to press at 4 a.m. today. These soldiers who grabbed far the giant "Invasion"! ,,'P,antj0" late" this afternoon deadline were Christie Russo of Brooklyn, and Tony J. Masterofrancesco of Pittsburgh. reported r- -- ined girl-expla- Averages g i Seeks Forgiveness ' The Yichy considerably, widened and that Allied reinforcements"arepour-inin." . , - rl LONDON t .- FDR Composes Prayer This is the invasion-praye- r, PresidenJ Roosevelt wrote while allied troops were landing $n the coast of France and which he will read to the nation hv radio at 10 p.m. (EWT) AonighU -- wanDee mi ' - - Associated Press The Berlin radio broadcast a DB dispatch saying that one allied rrulser and a Targe landing vessel carrying troops had been sunk Ih the are of St. Vaast-- 1 Ji 15 miles Hongue, southeast of Cherbourg By- - LONDON (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) House Republicans gained victory today In a drive toxforce court martiaLproceedings inXlhe Pearl Harbor case before the November general elections. After splitting earlier kjong partv lines the House passed, 05 to 35, legislation extending onlv three months the period ond which officers accused of negligence would be Immune from prosecution. -- highly-vaunte- history-makin- See INVASION On Page 2 German propagandists asserted today that despite the invasion of western F.urope normal in Berlin with no excitement, no extra editions, no special radio announcements. LONDON in a ( AP) Trans-ocea- n Berlin broadcast today said the Allies. had established a front from n mile to half a mile deep tween and A'iliers-Snr-M- be- Iron-vlll- This area is about seven miles south of the big port of Le Havre where docked in prewar days and takes in the beach resort area of Deauville. "SUPREME HEADQVA Allied Expeditionary Force (AP) More than 640 naval gnns ranging from four to 16 inches in size are bombarding the beaches and enemv strongpolnts in support of landing forces, it, was announced today. Prayer First, Says L D. 5. Presidency June 6, 1944 We have been asked for a comment upon the invasion. We feel this is a dav. not for comment, but for prayer for our loved ones "w ho are In the service and for the triumph of righteousness. HEB&R J. GRANT J. REUBEN CLARK JR.' DAVIDsO MCKAY The Flrsj; Presidency , ' jj WHERE ALLIES SMASH INTO EUROPE Arrows indicate the areas of Jthe dramatic Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europa today by allied forces. Late reports confirmed news of landings n Guernsey and Jersey Inlands and indicated the Invading forces were pounding steadily fora ward! in some places extending their Jbeachheads formas far as nine miles Inland. ' "V ;:r . .""TTTT " . |
