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A A AMARILLO DAILY NEWS DR'S NOTEmpWEWS ON THlPPMPOF THE AVRRCK ON INVASION COAST OF EUROPE IS COMPLETE UP TO 3 A. M. THIS MORNING) VOL. XXXV. NO.

185--(if) Day and Night Leased Wire AMARJLLO. TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1944. PRICE 5 CENTS I Bombs-Intensify Roar in West LONDON, June sV--The Ger- mans conceded that the fall of Ro5ie was a blow to their pres- tlpe while the thunder of Allied bombs bursting on channel-edge fortifications told Adolf Hitler In i a language he could understand that a gathering: storm from the west was sweeping nearer. Hitler's hiph command rushed to the radio to say the Germans A "withdrawn" from Rome, but I qjatchfs in Stockholm of the rman-controllrd Scandinavian ess bureau pave this summary j-df Bcriin newspaper comment: 1 "Glvinjr up one of the Axis cap- itaJs involves a loss of prestige for Germany." 1 With the ceaseless aerial batter-' Ifiic of the Atlantic wall. Britons; waited expectant and confident for; tljip cround assault and some re-j called Prime Minister Churchill's after Duukcrque to a.

hushed i Cjommons and a tense nation just; years nnd a day ago: shall never surrender will carry on the struggle itil in God's pood time the Newj orld In all its strength and might! 'sets forth to the rescue and libera-i of the old." For Invasion Battle-clad Canadians and great United States Army mechanized and equipped for a tremendous part i that promised task of liberation now! arc swarming over this island. I A Berlin broadcast, in an ap-1 parent attempt to belittle the set-) backs in Italy, declared that "it wants to force, a decisive i then he must carry out ivasion in the west on a grand i scale." Lord Woollen, minister recon-1 struction, implied ihe Germans might- not. have long to watt. Com-i meriting on Rome's capture he "I am sure it Is a precursor things that are to come." A message read for the fallen Benito Muolini from his retreat in Northern Italy called the Romans to "make life as hard as possible" for Allied troops, but it- must have had a hollow echo in a city resounding to shouts of citi- zen? welcoming t.heir liberators. i Nation Shaken A communique from The German; high command reported violent, fighting raced northeast of Rome, and said a last-minute attempt had! been made to declare it an open 1 city.

To a German rmlion shaken by. Home's fall. Propaganda Minister; Paul Goebbels' workers declared to- A LONDON Bristol Channel. Antwerp UTtepMt, English Channel --CHANNEL ISLANC t'iiionrdiditr 4 it Rctheb REIMS Choteou Thietty NORMANDY lit. grieuc MK Jr.

Michel NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE Awxtm HANTK 0-Mile I Bond in Britain SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A i Expeditionary Force, June 6 (AP) Gen. Dwioht D. Eisenhower's head- quarters announced today that Allied began landing on the northern coast of France i omrning strongly supported by naval and air forces. Text of the communique: Under the command of Gen. Eisenhower Allied naval forces supported by strong air forces began landing Al- lied armies this morning on the coast of France.

The Germans said the landings extended between Le Havre and Cherbourg along the south side of the bay of the Seine and along the Northern Normandy coast. Parachute troops descended in Normandy, Berlin said. In a special order of the day to all soldiers, sailors and air- wide Normandy Peninsula. men under his command. General Eisenhower said.

I "We will accept nothing except full victory." i Eisenhower told his men i were "em Heavy fighting also was report- ed between Caen and Trouville. One of Berlin's first claims was that the first British parachute thev division was badly mauled. on a The Allied communique -ss read sade toward which we have striven over a trans-Atlantic hookup direct these many months." and warned! from General Eisenhowers head- at! them that they were facing quarters at 3:32 E. disignat- tough, well-prepared enemy. Berlin said the "center of gr ity" 6f the fierce fighting was Caen.

30 miles southwest of Le i Havre and 65 miles southeast of i Cherbourg. i Oaer. is 10 miles Inland Jrom the sea, at the base of the 75-mile- The Allied bulletin did not say exactily where the invasion was taking place. The German radio gave the.first reports of the invasion "while cor- respondents were hurriedly sum- moned -Irani bed to supreme press headquarters and locked in a press conference room until the com- munique was released several hours after the landings were made. The great Allied anr.sdas.ilwsrfed anything yet seen on the sea.

Huge iransport planes filled with paratroopers pulling airborne troops in gliders over trie German west wall to drop their cargoes ki the rear. vsi no immediate Allied nans also said that Allied were furiously bombarding, the big German- ort of Le Havre at the mouth of the Seine River, 100 miles west of Paris. zen fi i Blasts Jar Nazi Wall Constantly ed Communique No. l. A second innouncement by SHAEF said that "it is announced that Gen.

B. L. Moatgornery Is in command of the army group carrying- out the assault. This army group Includes British, Ca- nadian, and U. S.

Forces. 1 By The Associated Prest LONDON, Tuesday, June German, news agencies tonight flashed word to tHt 'world that an Allied invasion of Western Francehad-beguR with Allied parachute troops spilling jouf of the dawn skies over the Normandy Peninsula and sea-borne forces landing in the Le Havre iarea. There was no immediate Allied confirmation. The Germ French po i German shock troops also Swere hurled against Allied I i troops rushing ashore from' 'landing barges, the broad-! cast said. i oNDON, June 6.

spokesman for Gen: Dwight and Calais JD'. Eisenhower, in.a London broadcast, told the people jus't acro s7the channel'coastiliving on Europe's invasion coast todajrthat "a from Britain, were under at-jof the Allied air offensive has started and warned tufim tack by strong formationsjto move inland to a depth of 35 kilometers bombers, DNB.said. Jmiles). "The lonjr-exrjected In a special broadcast over the BBC, directed, to sion bv the "British and! France and other coastal countries, the spokesman.said.: Americans was begun in'the! "A new phase of the air offensive has started It wll I first hours of the morning affect the entire coastal zone situated less than oo I of June 6 by the landing of i kilometers inland.from the French coast. People -Will be troops in the by special announcements dropped from Allied mouth planes.

declared the Transoceanl attack will take place less than one hour later. By The Associated Press War Editor i broadcast. Us soon as the warning has b'een given, the following Twenty more ships have been blown out of a a Allied headquarters remained.s'Horders are to be followed: were smoking from the forenoon ing a and i i fleets by American torpedoes a cn TM, Gern an NB said IxJ "First, leave the town at once. saiilt when medium Marauder bomb- bombs. Harve was' being "violently bom-i "Second, choose such a route OUC Of town as to avoid Night flying Liberators sank a destroyer and damaged twojtjarded at the present moment" i main road.

it German time, or i A. "Third leave on foot onlv carrying essentials. are en-i go to the country at least two kilometers GERMAN INVASION CLAIMS broadcast early today said'Allied paratroops had landed at Cherbourg, Le Havre and Abbeville, all marking prime targets of Allied air forces for months, A violent naval battle was re- ported raging off Le Havre. The three centers of action are marked on the map by targets, indicating raids by Allied bombers. Only twice during their eight; missions crowded in since Friday morning have the American heavies; penetrated beyond the "rocket-gun In the second of Saturday's two raids and in the thirci of yes- terday's triple-header attack they: went as far as the Paris area to; unload their deadly cargo on rail-! roads and other objectives.

The coastal installations still: Allied Subs Cut Deeply Into Enemy Supply Lines Fanee. mld- nieht the Allies faced a much hard-1 in west because, "never! uv 1 winced over Northern has there been a coast in the world! A i a heavy bombers up nde Thunderbolt, escort i EO ready for defense as the-Atlantic; 750 strong smashed a a i day, to heap further destruc wall." i a at Hitler's bristling A a i a i targets. rr forces are en-; CorreEp-nririont, LuU Koch, broad-; wa i i a ceaseless' 'S helped to set the west Pacific, headquarters announced today. Two direct i na8 ill tiilht jth enemy land-'from town, casting from the west wall which i mo th by dive-bombing ground a destroyer dead in the water and probably sinking craft 0 tne coast "Do not assemble in groups which might apj fons of since in Western Dutch New Guinea where a a alld which; were "tens of thousands ot! i a a a i a section the Marauders accomplished thes" 6 1 6 a enemy's base at Myitkyina inched; important tree trunks all wire-mined into a i coast nearest i mission without loss. Destruction of more ships forward yards.

Outside the city. invasion coast 150 as possible away from roads and railroad lines and to deadly net" which would become; i an( a a Kwkcd End to End a i and two by British troops hammered ort heast of Le Harve." i a nothing-'With them they Cannot carry personally. "an expiodinc forest." TT i i 5i Only a small force of a aci ic bombers were a 01 ac DNB added that "no enemy land-I 0kes mail concluded with the advice a the Navy fnm the nm those able to leave the 35 kilometer coastal belt should Eighteen Japanese planes were; Aleutian-based bombers, Vi, ex-1 do SO at once, adding that those who cannot lejive HOW which concentrations." air, vc The broadcast advised, the people to keep as. far s-iand arsenal. The Mwrow radio broadcast ai A Stratefic Air com- RW Geneva report, however, that massj munl 1 ue announced a six Amcr- bu heir Hteck brouKnt lo arrests were beinR mnrte in ican bombers and two fighters were; 8,000 the number of sorties abcfut' flown 1 many on charges of defeatism, missing from the operation.

Appar- ayainsi the French coastal defenses rei.cn of terror by the Gestapo was ently they were downed ey tlalc. Friday forenoon, reported in France where even Vichy officials were reported tinder' countered. this surveillance, pnd a TBSS Four bombers previously reported from Enrich said a Nazi iron riilc! mi i 'nR in Sunday's operation have (o was tichteninj: throughout returned safely to their bases, the Alsace-Lorraine. Slovakia and Mo-i cominlln uc EaK yia. Fourth SlraisIK Day German army bulletin sniii; PlyinR Fortresses and Liberators.

'the Allies in Southern Itnly by 500 fighters, o'umiwd to force us to send reserves to this 1 2.200 tons of bombs on the war theater" whioli wf-rc belnplicld I nt-line invasion defenses in rrndv or tlic probaWe war theater arca Irom Calais to Boulogne as the their tln Vnr1 as ihrv pressed to sliuti Details and Irwcs wore not an- oft (he last ot supplies to! 1 11 011 Orrniain' tliroush neutral ithin miles of Japan proper. assault, rooket-firins Tvphoons 1 vr! ovt J5 1 lt Since the start of the war. Amen- etraird deeper into NortJiern France; Schouten group off the Dutch New cim submarines have 5Unk 5S9 the Myitkyina's southern fenses and native soldiers yesterday. lrora the north obvSpusly planes werei Aleutian-based bombers, flying: that 'the Germans were northern "short line to pect A uied assaults all along the. rt the Allies give warning.

7 separating and eleven over Biak Island in the! will COOK to London at the end of on any nomy rarlirv installations. Since the first of June, (lie 200- milc French coastline, bristling with Nazi guns, has been rocked from end to end by Allied bombs. The previous record period for the num- ber of operations of British-based American heavies was from May 7 to May 11. when struck at the continent seven times in five days. A srcat part, ol this destruction Allied broadcasts have warned for that the Germans wren over Truk in the Central Car- hit Paramusmre) alld Ke toi i nte rvenino 5a miles olines where one Liberator was lost, i 4sn of Jan3n TM i ijunKClQUc aim j.

The German broadcasts on the June. Surely this indicates tiie oninea roast invasion" by the; event will not start before numths past OUinea nonji cwst, Japanese ships of which were Alli werc ri laytxi both North: The Germans, however, haa flmlo uncreient One column of U. S. Sixth combatant vessels. In recent-months.

merica sm i t( German' in strins of announcements over, 'S a a a Ia sc flmou troops was halted on the Biak the average sunk has been close i lomf The latter were told by. their Berlin transmitters snuounc-'Of Allied invasion operations in an But. a second force, fighting over.so one a day. a rate believed to broadcists at dawii ins the bii- military operation. effort, to bring patriotic French the ridses north flanked the Nip: nnd bepan driving toward Mokmer airdrome.

This field is one of throe' i 25 of lwm merrtiantmcn'tiVaV "ihere can be no mistaking" luring airfields on Biak within bombing range of an(i usval auxiliaries, in the Germans icported "a land- t.ue the landing the Philippines. cent operations in the Mediterranean, ing area of the Somme cs- troops. Six transports and 10 csnto ves-'and Aegean the admiralty an- tuarv." rate believed to ihe surpass any possible replacement by 1 "yoii said alter a -It is believed that there 8 TM-; out into the open for annt- defeno'crs; the Japanese shipbuilding lv cllecl vccortjmgs of the said German British submarines sank 31 Axis' a one. A. M.

broadcast 1 "have been s.iven the task of cap- lu an one 1 was the fourth continuous day ls poundins for the and the rls of BoHlpgnc. Calais. TM-l A I i sixl1 stmisht mission against those nnci Du I HP i Pi tnrerts for the American hcavirs. I I IV. I pn jo(1 Amol cnn 1 Rviiish heaw bombers also have has been visited upon the Pas-dc-! 50 5 wore sul siibmarmes.

The.nounced. Calais area and German strong- Navy announcement did not indi- Submarines also siirvoimdmE the channel cate whether any of the transports shore tsrsets Attack The the Knin ministry today railway yards ot Saumur. AMARILI.O AND I I I Kan-, slammed rnilronris in the Paris arer. Trappes and IVrgnicr are now wily noiiiiy Wrdnrsdny: nm i other objcetives in ivcnjiied known to have been severely dam- Fl 11 00 ri(xxi tons or BRcd in recent raids. nun Today's It.

assault followed rrn's' Vitllrv rttt nf i i i nfternoon by a a on nsSnR (r i fn-i Dieppe were laden with tiwps. Tokyo is so hard-pressed for cargo space, another Navy an- nouncement, indicated, that naval patrol vessels are beins pressed in- to service as freighters. A caught and Souih French coasts Cu-ie, the. iuimil'alty said. Cabaret Tax Cut Approve WASHINGTON.

June 5 hilation. order to facili-. There also was the further para- a if the announcement is trw, it could be only a diversion, or "The harbor of Le Havre is at hu-ge-scaie raid. it appears," said CBS. the moment being bombarded.

Music for Liberators shelled a number "that the Le Havre bombardments: too Miles from TsrU At 7 A. M. (12 midnight, on the Italian and the paratroop hindings to "GTW-m naval forces have en- 0 tim i the Trniisocean broad- and on which a gtigcd enemy landing cralt off the vas as followed by this broad- refer are two separate i)perations." coast," Trensivean continued. Ca5t by DNB. official German iCBS in New York said that l.e Havre, one s'-'eat French i Sl It said: I alter a re-check of one German polls an the Atlantic, is only -rhc invasion started in the fits' broadcast there "can be no mi.s- miles northwest of Paris on the hours of the mwnins: of 6 (jpj A tf.kins" ihat Allied troops also had main rail line leading the fhute troops Inncllns Cavy bombing plane House-Senate confeivnce commit- lav.ded si the mouth of the Somme French ee.oital through Rouon.

lc mouth ot of the little craft tee asveed today to cut back the 'River e.i Abbeville. "5 miles north- The bigsest miliiory armadas the eon tlunnlrr- tun RAP phines last- without loss, flew through SUMS of ruin i it's, mterseclions. lixvmotues strike at the invasion wall and to other rail Wrfets Omflans. penelratp as far as The RAF also laid mines in enemy the Caroline Islands west of uk -1 1(i 1 sftlllt bul ''eavily strafed the others. An ins 1 1 i 'V was sunk and another 'the abaret tax from SO tn 20 per cent, west eliminated a provision exempt- service men and women i nisht club levy.

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r. i I i ITS 'IftS Gisors, Mexicrros and a i on Norlhrni France and at. Mons in by Thundevbolt liciuijiMs of the li. s. i i Air in Fiur.ce, were blasted.

TheM 1 (ifiylifilil lilinv.s lolKnvcii 1 ilinekly the third inclil i liy the A on Ihe "iuytery i the Channel lie I'uhus at'Ci'. Canine Marines Take Rest Cure a cure at ivre. history have 'jtvu gatherer in Brit- Ti ie viny :ai.i it appearej. theic- ports for the taflul by the Associiited Press were, pref- Allied troops had. of -aced and ended with the line "spr- tsvo points in sevuralf t'onlirmatlou bulletin." inside Truk lagoon Sat- detuied put ihe m- accordinj; t) the Ger- Rum 1 stockpiles of equipment, and The German-controlled Cnlair, urday by a Certral Pacific semvh tional Hunt ai uisns.i u-t coucentisUions of men-Amer- JK, came on the- aiv todny with plane, nMiiesteu by the ad- But halt an hour a Ihe luM icuns, Btilons.

Canadians. Dutch luliuwlng in On major will-front In Asia ministration. Geinuui broadcast the: ami have been ivntei'eti in nt ecluuins were clo-NUii; Aeliou the commit- landings, tlie Hrili.vh invasion biise.v. "Thi.s l)-Day. We in on CliaiiKslvv pivotal jvuu on uv i 10 sjKikeMnau.

Robert lcU 1 rtU- halt iunir a i i ihe German bring niiiMc ftn- th-. 1 1 ir The luloanally plav. lUxuued oi ihe war situation: Mvo.idcnsl Allied headquarlers hiu.l but nieinbi-i's s.iid the dec I- "It npivars we have been i i i failed to confirm the German re- The Seine iilvcr i i i i stand'as the another month ot siace before the p.m. A i i i I a a i 1 and i i a nvoi.iiwiuintuvi the Houso- will sun. A tMev.

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