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S. Artillery; Reds Slash Finn Lines, Helsinki Goa Allied Armor Massed on a Normandy Beach Nazis Rush Aid To French Part, Expecting Attack By EDWARD W. BEATTIE SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. London, Tuesday. Juno 13 (UP) Under heavy American attacks that pjaced Cherbourg well within range of American "Lonp; Tom" artillery and which threatened losnof Eight-Mile Gain Made; Resistance To Push Stiffens By RUSSELL LAN DSTROM LONDON, Tuesday, 'June 13 (AP) Russian tanks and picked troops poured through breaches in the Mannerheim Line today and seized Raivola in an eight-mile advance that carried them to a point about 40 miles from the port of Vii-puri.

Finnish city second Hl WW I TO tEaBaKaaaak. 1 'their entire left flank, the only to Helsinki itself. Fighting through woods lacad with lakes, the Russians also over SsJisjinai-iasssssssssssM ran Kivennapa, about 10 miles northeast of Raivola, in the new offensive which haa the capital of Helsinki as a goal. Eight-Milt Gain Made Raivola lies eight miles beyond the coastal strong point of Terijoki. whose capture was announced yesterday.

More than 30 other populated placet were taken as the Russians swept up along the western side of the Karelian Isthmus, the broadcast Soviet communique here announced. Twenty enemy planes were reported shot down. Mill i. 2615 njmln Avenue, mother of Sgt. A.

E. minor who it now a patiant In an ontmy hospital in Germany, it ehdwn 'C'iving the firtt bond credited to the Oavidton County goal in tne Fifth War Loan Driv. Bascom Jonat, chairman of tha drivt, deliver! tha bond to Mrs. Millar. Five Rallies Launch Fifth War Loan Drive in County Mother of Nashville Boy Held by Enemy Makes first Purchase; Quota Here Is $30,592,000 Germans bejran rushing" reinforcements to the big French port last night in anticipation of an afl-out Allied attack The Yanks smashed through the center of the German beachhead front In France yesterday after capturing Carentan In an all-niRht pitched battle and American units had driven an lj-mile salient In the middle of the Nazi defenses.

American mobile patrols already were probing the approaches of Cherbourg and twin Yank columns neaied Valognes. only 10 miles below the valuable port, after bypassing Monteboutg on both sides and repulsing a sharpening counterattack. Warships Shall Port Position! Heavy Allied warahips. which in two days have eariied out the most concentrated bombardment la naval history, already were bleating; German positions around the port. A Berlin broadcast heart1 by A London radio broadcast said that "the Russians have landed Spurred by the Invasion.

Nash $300 worth of bond to aell in order tanks by air behind the Finnish to meet the retailera' auota of troops" and thia force was disrupt- LONDON, June 12 Allied tankt, jeepe and other vshicltt I tha Invasion of Franca. Equipment like this, tha beachheads snd mobilize aft.r reaching a Normandy besch, preparing Jo drive inland other battlefield position wart vitwtd by Allied Itadert today. $1,50.000. Vllllans yeste rday met in five rallies to launch the Fifth War Loan Drive, tha largest of the war 13 ing the Finnish communications. aaid that two new Allied divi- Finn Resilience Increattt In a midnight supplement to hnd landed northeast of Cher- A concert of patriotic music bv the 653rd Arrhv Air Forces Band from tha Nashville Army Air Center, under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer Arthur H.

Hoff East China Fate Can Force Japanese Into Full Surrender Or a regular communique, the Russia said that although the Inns critical battle raged through man, opened the morning rally. The its second day meanwhile oa tha opposite flank of the fused 100-mile beachhead as elements of three German tank divisions mad trip- L. Tllll. Rests in Balance Suicce Foster Than Expected-Roosevelt same nana played for the night shift rally at the Convair plant. The Paramount Theater rally (Continued on Page 2.

Column 6) nanclng campaigns yet undertaken Employes qf all retail stores and 2.500 other volunteer bond salesmen met at 9 o'clock yesterday morning at tha War Memorial Building to Initiate the Davidson County drive toward selling $30,592,000 worth of bonds. Rally Cloaaa Oay't Work Three bond rallies for different hifts opened tha campaign at Consolidated Vultea Aircraft Corporation plant hero yesterday, and a bond rally at tha Paramount Theater last night brought the opening I day'a activities to a cloae. "Invest While Thav Invade." will Germany, he said Is "first on the putting; up increasingly stubborn resistance the Rd Army's Karelian offensive continued successfully yesterday 'with infantry and tanks overcoming all obstaclea. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy, the communique stated. Churning up the Karelian Isthmus ravaged by the 1939-40 Russo-Finnlsh war, Russian artillery, bombs and guna of the Baltic fleet cracked the defenses along I p.

i 1HIIIII1.I iuimicmuni.ii Opens New Bond Drive; the semie River 10 miles wstof iCaen. had changed hands three Morgenthau Details I times in 24 hours and. with tanks ii r- ul duelling in the streets, the situa- Huge COStS Ot Battle (Hon there was "obscure" Waves of Allied planes assailed I list for destruction." and added: I "Germany has her hark against the, wall in fact three walla at lonce. I "On the south -we have broken Japs Pound Changsha; U. S.

Sea, Air Power Predominant Elsewhere Easing of Price the German hold on Central Italy On the east Our L'allant Soviet i German out of the air. the German reinforcement route 15-mlle front snd stunned the Finns Says Eliminating Nazis First To Hasten End Of War on All Fronts WASHINGTON. June 12 IP -President Roosevelt said tonight we can force the Japanese "to unconditional surrender or to national suicide much more rapidly than has been thought possible." The President, apeaking on a national radio program opening the fifth war loan drive, with a cannonading which echoed; By "ha. Associated Pratt be tha theme of tha entire cam-J paign 1b Tennessee. Grady Hud- through Leningrad, more than 25 miles away.

The Pacific-Asiatic war thundered to higher tempo yesterday Contruk Fought dleaton, executive manager of the Finns Declared Stunned wun cnler interest centering on Allies have, driven the enemy back I As a result Gorman production has, to Cherbourg from Brittany and from the lands which were Invaded been whittled continuously and the I a record number of 1.400 Amerl-three years ago. Great Soviet German fighter force now has only can heavy bombera blasted enemy armies are now Initiating crushing 'a fraction of its former power. 'airfields and bridges In North blows. "This great air campaign, strat- France. "Ove; head Vast Allied fleets'eglc.

and tsrtical, will continue with 10.000 Pritonert Taken of bombers aid fighters have been increasing power More than 10,000 enemy priaaneTa waging a bitter air war over Ger-i "On the wett The hammer blow have been captured in the first muiv and western Kurone TbeYiwhtcfi alrutr the coast of France i iniUn it Tennessee War Finance Commit tee. aaid last night. Tennessee has Moscow pictured the Finns as fierce battling in China that may dazed by tha suddenness and; decide the fate of the entire east-weight of the attack and as ill- ern section of that country. Assaults on Program scale As heroic Chinese forces resisted on: original strategy of, elirn- StirS Wide Opposition i Prepared for threats of big behind tMrtr lines i From Both Parties MebvUr of the Soviet Baltic flee fleet. snsert ai'ku94ita vna InatlntT 3ermahy first- have had two major objectives To tast Tuesday morning waa the cul- noHnped.

Including 1.S00 bagged strategic railway town In full war strength Into ueairuy veiiiin mumu minauon oi many monina or crt- nelr Carentan by an American air- More enemy poeitlons were being Province, the which maintain the German armies Japanese Invaders! drive northward I can hasten the dsar or borne force one-tenth their (lie. i i. been assigned $133,000,000 of the nation's $16,000,000,000 quota. Many To Oia it bond sold in tha county WWfhf the new drive was bought by Mrs. A.

E. Miller, 20J5 Benjamin Avenue, mother of Tech. Sgt. A. E.

Miller, 30. now a' patient In an enemy hospital now in Germany, where he js hold a Nazi prisoner. Announcement of the initial purchase was made at tha War Memorial and air forces; and to shoot theHContinued on Psqe 2. Column 5) fmen th. rw i.

jour victory on all fronts. parent effort to build a "West Wall against the Allies In virtually all other regi Allies 'Disperse' had-! WASHINGTON. June 12-UPI rolled up Hourly aa the Kussians Leaderships of both parties erected Co1 en Leonid Govorov, a aolid wall of opposition to of Leningrad, struck re-series of assaults on the price tne virtually constant trol law in the house today daylight of the northern summer. Rep Jesse P. Wolcott (R Mich)1 The Russians were reported to In a final.

Impassioned plea against nav'' crossed the Sestia River, a score of proposed amendments iwflich 'to southwest through that would relax some prico Terijoki, and to be flght-vlsions for certain commodities I Ing through lakes, swamps and tne vast Psciric-Oriental ater the Japanese were faring bad inn Between 14 and 15 German di-visiona. normally nearly 240,000 men. have been massed agalnsjt tha beachhead, but two of them have heen so ba'tered they no longer are regarded as fit fighting unlta. Among the prlaoners and tha Axis slain were some regular Japanese soldiers. Headquarter! did not explain their presence in the French theater of war.

It also waa reported that the Germans wera Record Air Aid Given Invaders Nazis In Italy 'y- Mariana Attack Continutt Out on the Pacific a powerful American task force carried Into the second dav ita air attacks told hia colleagues: hills of Karelia after breaking steel and concrete fortifications in the at- Hen Rides the Rods KNOXVILLE, June 13 wV-Inspecting the Carolina Special when It rolled into the station here the other night, W. T. Tin-dell, roundhouse foreman, found an old red hen sitting on a rod beneath the locomotive. Tindell caught the hen. smeared with grease but roosting as contentedly aa If on the limb of an apple tree.

He gave her to another roundhouse employe, who reports that she lava an egg every day. rally yesterday morning. "Before thia mighty struggle comes to an end. thousands of our boys shall pay. tha aupreme sacrifice so liberty will not perish." Bas-com Jones, chairman of the Davidson County drive, tojd the retail tore employes and other volunteer bond salesman yesterday morning Thayer Patients Speak Three veterans of World War II.

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR against the Mariana Islands of i -YNN HE I NZERLING ,0 th.r north of Leningrad and 160 miles S1PREME HEADQUARTERS "s'n Guam. Tinian and SaiDan 600 nssV are fighting here to preserve thia Allied Expeditionarv Force. Tues ROUS. June Ger-man 14lh Army has heen "dispersed to the four winds," Allied head- German broadcasts asserted that country for those boys who are, rorn japan ana tne rhilipplnes, fighting for it over there. Hopes of Armittice Blatttd all considered major Japanese quarters declared today as Lt.

Gen Uraet Broad Pronram me Dig Kussian guns also oiaai- runmta ine oniiaiigm nf nn arm i na uhleh Kfl I Mnd i lJ W. Clark American and nan' er tllv llULlin i i i i 1.WI a sh forces, pursuing the disor- the Soviet Union has been trying Almost simultaneously with dls-jBriti reVtnn vn.7m,t ZiiZ.Z negotiate sinct mid-February. cloaure that the taak force con- g.nl: The coirespendent of I tinued its operations within Japan's west Ized Germans up the Italian coast, approached Orbetello. prooiem ana Onct Ul. inner defense rlnir the n.v., Am.

71 VA 1 Ik. I ui Sanomats, reported United partment announced the sinking of: As depleted units fell all of them patients at Thayer General Hospital, told the bond seller of their combat experiences, and of tha necessity of buying bonds to keep the fighting men equipped. The soldiers were Lt. William 8. Derrybarry of the Army Air Forces, Nashville: Sgt.

Clarence Ellis, paratrooper, Indianapolis, nearly VK) 000 Allied troops have been landed, which would mean that almost 7M1.000 troops were locked In the first great buttle for Western Europe. A large delegation from the Allied inner circle inspected tha beachhead area today including Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Field Marsha! Jan Christian Rmvits. premier of South Africa; British Chief of Staff Gee Sir Alan Brooke: Gen. Dwigfet D. Elsenhower and the three top American service chiefs Gens.

day. June 13 UP) Cologne Was re-1 I port ed by the N. B. today to I have been bombed just befoie midnight in an after-dark sequel to1 i record daylight invasion attacks Monday in which Allied air fleets jflew up to 10,000 sorties against German holdings in France. A strong force of R.

A. F. bombers crossed Dover Strait to Northern France and flashes of bomb ex-j plosions and antiaircraft fire were 'seen the Pas de Calais area byj English coastal watchers. For neaT- ly an hour the explosions were i heard and later there were hlasta there' is It Sta tea-Finnish relations were grow-i 18 more Nippon csygo ships or ward the Florence area Roosevelt Flays ing worse since tne nusaian uy nim i iwi uiiii-igreaier pnii i inrii He apparently was hitting in ad heean and speculated that there rines. ihe total kill of the subs i lost, theJJazi high comma vance at the expected proposal by Rep.

Paul Brown Ga. to hitch irvi ilef ceilings to a parity price for might be a diplomatic break ahort-iince the start of the war has the imtrnwiate necessity of sending ly. reached 607 ships. The ntweat sink- heavy reinforcements from France and Pfc. Jesse Harnett, quarter Nazis' Savagery maater corps, Pulaski.

All three; raw cotton, a revision that wat! 'medium tr.n.nort and cargo attemnt was to bem.de to hold adopted by the senate over ad men had participated In the North could not be considered tpe start ships. Northern Italy ministration opposition. "It Is now quite clear. "the Allied cmVrTnv 11 i west ef Boulogne George C. Marshall and Henry H.

Arnold and Adm. Ernest King. the Ruaslsn summer un tne Burma norder advancing African action. Pillsbury Makes Apptal Wolcott announcement said "that the oriel-1 Mnnv Nszi-cont rolled radio sta- far forces, seeking to clesr the on a te: nl 14th Armv has been dlaDersed President Roosevelt said today in nd i Beachheads Are Contolidated is "isiiinii na susiaineu st vote to exempt freth th the torn price control. Th.

uaed only several divisions. from pric vital Burma Road, drove ttubhorn Japanese defendera from positions fruits to the four winds. All that re-! Nazis, facing defeat, are carrying down, suggesting widespread actlv- Invasion Communique NX 14 Brig. Gen. Henry c.

ttnsDury.i commanding officer at Thayer I General Hospital, appealed to the M.mKli, Knv liAnia met ihnl men house defeated the proposal, near Tatangtsu. freeing a trail imams is a few scattered remnants to 43 after Rep. Monroney over the Kaoli Mountains Chinese who mainly are iengaged in atealing artillery shelled the enemy oa the one another's rantiwi tfi get away Yates Trio Waives on a "fiendish extermination cam-ity by the R. A. F.

1 a record 1400 United States aid thBt tn beachheads now were SiKf fimfooe and addd'what Jhiheav bombers frticipated in "ont than plea of Europe and edded that Htj miiea atTHne, but officlar rtporte government is determined to Column 3l'said the landlnir area aotuallv injured in thi invasion "not be OM echoed Woicott's atatementt Btlnted on supplies and equipment." 'hat you might aa well exempt road about 20 miles west of Lung- as fast as possible. Prisoners deling, the important Japanese Tun-1 scribe the situation as wholly ish "all participants In these sets "When our men are hurt, -umu don't want them to h.v. morolyl P-r cent nfp UmmZry, HnnQ ri" the livln8 stretched unbroken more than tOSJ l-nf svncerv nan base now in Chinese hands. achaotic. JaDanese are beiner cleaned from The German adequate care," General Pillsbury miles, taking into account the curv commander, ieia ST ooaasiastsse This nation Is appalled by the The senate's cotton textile their stronr nositiona on Blak la Marshal Albert Kesselrlng, not only aaid.

"We want them to have the MANCHESTER. June IB: land west of Mokmer airstrip. Gen. has been forced to throw all but The Tullalioma grist mill Douelas MacArthur's headauartera 'one of the 24 divisions he- had In Two Air Alerts Sounded in London systematic persecution of helpless minority groups." the President, said in a report congress. "As the hour of the final defeat of the Hitlerite forces draws closer, operator, Roy Tatea.

and his twoUnnounce() todav. Italy Into a desperate effort to slow amendment was sponsored by Sen. John H. Bankhead Ala.) who came into the house this afternoon to watch the progress of the fight. Backers of the price control extension bill meanwhile warned that the repeated efforts to amend it.

sona. Dennis ana riaroia is, tar American infantry troooa were tne Allien steamroller, DUt na ing shore. The deepest point was below Isigny where the Americans drove to a point 18 miles Inland and only six miles from the vital rait and highway huh of St Lo, putting themselves astride the main road into that town from the nortfcaaat. (Continued on Page 2. Column 1) charared with murder in the May I Pagt Column beat possible." S.

H. McDaniel, chairman of local retail stores' bond drive, presided at the meeting and introduced leaden in Vhe campaign. Salesmen Given Quota "We're launching our own invasion with bond sales, and all armies will tryl to refceh Berlin simultaneously." McDaniel told the retailera on "Civilian D-Doy." 17 killing of James Robert (Continued on Pago 2. Column 3) i (Continued on Tullahoma high school student, to- the fury of their insane desire to lpe out the Jewish race in Europe Tuesday. June 13-lP) continues undiminished.

This ill London had two alerts earlv to- if successful to sny extent, would waived preliminary hearing first in nearly seven bring on a presidential veto and; were l0 the Coffee County day. the weeks. lequire emergency action io con- grand jury HarHlv hsd the all-clear sounded tinue the OPA after June 30. Defense Attorney Ieighton Ewell Convair Leaders Declare Nashvillh Prospects Bright McDaniel said that each retail after the first alarm, which brought TAJeiw'( Tannatetvi tt only a brief burst of fire from the LI OtJUV 5 I ennebbeun big antiaircraft aims fringing theF aaleaman would have a quota of pj, Nof said that the deciaion to waive the preliminary trial that had been set for next Saturday was reached last Saturday at a conference of state ahd defense attorneys. Dist Atty.

Dlemer Lamb said he had not de- but one example: Many Christian groups also are being murdered." 'Knowing that they have lost the war. the Nazis are determined to complete their program of mass extermination. This program Is but one manifestation of Hitler's aim to salvage from military defeat victory for Nazi principles the very principles which this war must destroy unless we shall have fought in vain." The President reported on the city, than' the second alert sounded. Invitations of the Pres! This time a heavier barrage went Vanlc Ccrnr. Ian On Murder Charge Aviation's high executives are re- to the prime minister of Pol up.

The German raiders approach CHICAGO. June 12 (INSi-Soylol elded whether to for a apeclal of th. r.nrf birv h.for r. i imsiisi uncertainties but Nashvillt as the On Vatican Visit Villegas. ze.

rbday pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in connection with the slaying of his the regular one which would be the that the Nashville unit is one of the four owned outright by the corporation. "Of course." he said "It figures prominently in any plana or discussions we have toward the future." An enhancement to Nashville's probability of becoming an out Tioine of the unit representing the ed nearer downtown and the gunfire was steady and more widespread. This also, however, ended quickly. The two alerts covered less than an hour. It waa the first time Indon had heard the sirens since April 27.

second week In August work done by the United States to Yates' daughter, Ruth, the com wife, whose body, stuffed in a VATICAN CITY. June 12-IP- (runk and sent to Ixs Angeles, second largest investment in the nation's largest aircraft corporation. Consolidated Vultee, will be find temporary haven for refugees panion of Sherrlll the night he was of the European war. He explain American soldiers In two jeeps found by a Railway Express i killed, is fret on $230 bond after and General de Gaulle of France, to confer on European mattera, is evidence that it is realized that no vital questions in Europe can be decided without the help of these two coon trie. Waiter Lippmann sayt in his column on Page 5.

Those two neighbors of Germany have a strong interest in decisions which must come out of gay armistice decided upon. high in any development that may ed that the nearly 1,000 refugees The JNax raiders did not pen- standing postwar aviation city. end oa six motorcycles eaconeu clerk being; held as a material witness. mm i A Tan.n... mhltiiajt dor Tk.

I -r- OOllie Woodheud cited its record duringlwho will be cared for in a military et rate the city's band of defenses to the Vatican, from Rome into i Francla Allegretti for trial 'of 10l000 each vT i i.I .1 v.tu.n ritv todav to see Vatican 1 dated Vultee officials Isst night at wartime production. icamp near Oswego, New York, will although first meager reports leads the country in be returned to their homeland injeated at least one bomb waa Southern Italy as soon as possible droDBOd in a London suburb durinr a him I party at the home of Mason Hougniana. a airecior in vuuee, on (Continued on rage 3, column Zl'arter hostilities cease. ithe first alert the eve ot tne corporations June board of directors meeting here to- Sewanee Speaker Discounts Current Short War Theory back Into Rome where he and other Axle diplomats are living under Allied protection During Bla two hour visit Harada arranged to move into neutral Vatican City. It Is expected that the Japanese, 1 1 -I Rnmanitn rd jsnurcniu, marsnaiL Eisennower.vrner Churchill, Marshall, Eisenhower, Othe uur aecona largeai investment is here, and we're going to do everything we can for Nashville, Allied Military Chiefs Tour Battlefield Gulf Sea Frontier, were among the Tom If r.ndier chairman Albert Hines Page 4 Amusements Page Answers to Questions Pag Armed Forces Page Comics Page Cross Word Puzzle Page Death Notices Pag 2 Editorials Page 4 Hambone Paga 4 Letters to T.nneasean Page 4 Market Newa Page 11 and Slovak delegation, to the, JMOPH, NE MURPHEY Vatican will move into the Vatican Staff Correspondent distinguished naval officers who the hn.rdf rnnniirtt.d Vnlte attended the commencement exer- 4i chairman of th board of City apartments vacated by Havroldj sewanee.

June 13 There li a Tinman. Preaident Koooeveiis pattern of American military con destroyer H. S. Kelvin and while they were aboard the ahtp joined in bombarding a German position duct, originally rooted in adver aity and tempered by patience and cisea wnicn oegan weanesoay. Republic Steel.

Combat Experience Forecast 1 "We cannot for see what will Discounting tha idea that the come, but we hope to cover the war may now be of short duration, entire field in tha postwar and we Admiral Jscohs, in hit addreaa, as- hope that wa can do a lot and, if sect c-d that "we have begun to as- we accomplish that, then Nashville Vatican repreaentauve. ana in. British, French. Belgian and other Allied envoys, who can now live In Romt. Normandy Private Breger Abroad Paga 5 on tin northeastern flank.

attention to detail, which haa confounded critics who underesti South Africa, and Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff. In Eisenhower's party were Gen. George Marshall, United Statea army chief of staff; Gen. Henry H.

Arnold. American air chief; Ernest King, commander-in-chief of the United States fleet: LA. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, commander ot By RICHARD KASISCHKE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, June 12 0-Prlme Minister Winston Churchill aet foot on French soil for the first time since 1940 today and Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander-in-chief ef the Allied invasion forces, led a party of top United Statea military and naval Arriving on the beaches shortly before noon, they spent three hours ashore: lunched with Gen. Sir Ber sume the offensive on a scale that naturally fits into the picture mated S. endurance in the face of discouraging odds, Vice-Admiral Randall Jacobs, USN, chief of naval Cloudy, Thundenhowers Girdler, citing climate, the labor Radio Page Raymond Johnson Paga IO Ralph McGill Paga 5 Religion in Life Paga 9 Samuel Grafton Pag 8 Bide Glance Paga 3 Society Pages Sport Page, Sunflower Street PsS a EJrTOCT: C.f personnel. Washington, p.

de nard Im. Montgomery, commander-in-chief of Allied ground forces in woaassaas. American ground forces in France; I France visited armv headauartera reservoir, the geographical location and the merits of Berry Field, amid that Nathvlll. wa an ideal location for plan, manufacture aad would maintain that position In future and Rear Admirals Alan G. Kirk I watched troooa and subnltea land haa hitherto been impossible, but we are still a long, long way from Tokyo.

No officer with whom I have talked, who haa come to grips with the enemy, expects anything but a bitter struggle of mounting ferocity," be continued. Addressing the 294 members of he navy's V-U unit at Sewanee, ha and John Leslie Hall, commanders and then steamed through the bat- commanders on a tour of the Amer I a. Tom Li tie Cartoon PagB 4 ican-held section of the Normandy of naval task forces In the inva- tie fleet which was bombarding the production clared today. The admiral made the statement In an address delivered at the 74th annual commencement exercises hare at the University of the South. Ad 11 1 ten I Jacobs snd Adm.

Andrew Carl Bennett, USN. commandant of the Eighth Naval District and task fore commander, 4 a. at. n. a i a.

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rhev crossed the channel in shore the corporation, aaid that th. cor- Britain's prime minister was ac-jan American destroyer During th. day Churchill wtt- iwitatinn nn.rat.a 11 nlsnta cnmnani.it hv Field Marshal Jan! Churchill and his comDaninns Walter Lippmann Pag i Walter Wlnchell Pag 5 West took Pegler Pagt Weather Kecortf Pag (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) 'of them for the government, and i Christian Smuts, premier of crossed the channel today on the iContinu.d an Page 2, Column 2) I i.