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lien. In France LM.iacv"-vM'.- r-" i norwnt rnaa juncnon nour i i 1 I Americans In Greatest Aer ial Blows To Date Sup porting Invasion Forces Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 12. (P) U. S. pilots over France encountered today the atrongest Luftwaffe resistance since the invasion began, Eighth Airforce headquarters announced tonight, but "pilots succeeded for the most part in carrying out their dive bombing and strafing missions behind German lines." Uorfi of lMK0 aim columns puswng bkiK mo i ..) urn annrnach.

Ijl WfH -1 RokoW fvVkV 1 NORMANDY jlfA '1 norinwcsi Viif, Alliffl headquarters an- today. hi Array columns advancing sides of the Tiber neared Rct Af th rivpr eel Into German Line-May Encircle Caen Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 12. (JP) American troops have driven 13 milei inland in the middle of the Normandy beachhead, capturing the whole forest of Cerisy, and tha German high command said today the strategic stronghold of Carentan had fallen to U. S. forces.

The smashing advance through the Cerisy forest punched the deepest dent yet in the Nazi line. Doughboys were converging on St. Lo, communications hub in tha center of Normandy, less than nine miles away, from the north and east. Headquarters did not confirm the fall of Carentan, guarding tha narrowest neck of Cherbourg Peninsula, but said Americans wera within 14 miles of Cherbourg itself from the northeast, and had punched halfway across the cape, threatening to seal off the tip. German broadcasts said Caen.

Jieli fast ot H. j-Jie mountainous ctrnirai ec- Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 12. (P) American heavy bombers and streams of lighter craft pumped a steady hail of bombs and lead into German defenses today in the greatest aerial blows to date supporting the French invasion. Flying in fine weather, the Allied air forces by noon had run up more sorties than all day yesterday when 7,000 planes slammed the Avezzano anu ns have been occupied while Adriatic sector all Germans i bicn cleared from the area i of the IVncara river and Al-', loops have pushed ahead to 'in contact with the with- Lrf Germans. Blackened area on the Normandy beachhead indicates aDDroxintate area caotured bv Allien at the i pin of la miles was an-tfd for Fifth Army units tnd of four days after I)-Day, as continued Allied aerial bombardments struck at objectives in the shaded belt an area heavily bombed throughout the weeks preceding D-Day.

the west coast, wear runzi-j the Germans two companies, but the arians beat them back and inaed the drive. Russians Advance 12 To 25 Miles In Finnish Offensive Vichy Regime Is Tottering London, June 12. (IP) Advices the arras to fall Into har.ds was Lake Fucino near 4 jmio. which some years ago Litrained and now is a tract of rich farmland. mm disclosed that the i South African armored di- Germans from dawn on after a night in which RAF bombers pounded four key rail centers in France and went to Berlin-heavies, mediums, lights, fighter-bombers and fighters raced over the battlelines and far into France, bombing and strafing.

A significant new point in the support campaign became apparent. Squadrons of RAF fighters were attacking specific targets in rapid-fire order on calls from ground units which meant that newly established air bases on French soil were clicking. Besides the speedy knockout of particular objectives immediately in front of the troops, the campaign was proceeding along two main lines disruption of transport lines within 100 miles of the battleline over which" Marshal Erwin Rommel is trying to bring up his tactical reserves and the bombardment of rail centers beyond the 100-mile radius through which the Germans might draw on strategic reserves in Southern France. The German air force was re Litwasamone the Lighth Army from Spain said today that Vichy authority in Southern France is disintegrating, except where it is close to German protection, and that French underground forces are cutting communications between enemy garrisons. which advanced through the ltd Sarco valleys.

to distinguishing itself in en- kgaents there, tnis division Meanwhile, in the harshest of a an i "ghost move" cy entering Fa Army territory, passing Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of Allied ground invasion forces, stands beside the amphibious "duck" from which he landed in France where he has established his advanced headquarters, This is an official British War Office photo. (AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps radio) series of German steps aimed at subduing the increasing resistance behind Nazi lines, Field Marshal Gen. Karl Gerd von Rundstedt pro through Eowft.4esp4te the awaon oi ine city ana men major activity along the long front.

The Soviet communique declared Russian forces had captured 82 towns and villages, including the rail junction of Terijoki, 27 miles airline northwest of Leningrad, and 160 miles east of the Finnish capital of Helsinki. Also captured, the bulletin said, was Yappilya, described as "an important strongpoint" seven miles northeaab of Terijoki, situated on the Leningrad-Helsinki railway, is about six miles west of the 1938 Russian-Finnish border, and 70 miles east of the frontier established by the peace treaty which ended the war between the two countries in the winter of 1939-40. The Soviets said the offensive was being supported only by masses of planes, but also by guns of the Russian Baltic fleet, and that heavy losses in men and material were being inflicted on the Finns. Moscow, June 12. (Launching a major offensive designed to knock Finland out of the war and isolate approximately 100,000 Nazi troops in the northern part of that country, the Red army rolled forward along the Karelian Isthmus above Leningrad today after cracking Finnish defenses on a 25-mile front.

A communique last night announcing the new drive said Soviet troops already had advanced 12 to 25 miles, and indicated they were moving forward everywhere in high gear. This offensive evidently was coordinated closely with Allied operations in France, and represented a step in the grand Allied strategy worked out at the Teheran conferences. Troops under Col. Gen. Leonid Govorov, who lifted the siege of Leningrad, launched the push Friday, just one month after the fall of Sevastopol a month devoid of northward more than 50 eastern bastion of the 60-mile long front, was menaced by encirclement with British troops slashing nine miles east of the city.

A front dispatch today said Caen had not yet been captured, although "a considerable German force has Tbeen brought to battle and hit hard." Another tory dated Sunday declared Allied troops pressed within a few miles of Caen "after blasting the Geraant out of the town" late Friday. This suggested the Nazis had pulld baclc at least the main part of their armored force from the city. Supreme headquarters said fur-, ther gains were made around Montebourg on the southeast avenue to Cherbourg, and reported "considerabh progress" around Carentan, a vital junction. The Doughboys were cracking the Cherbourg peninsula line in tha center, and a Berlin broadcast reported seaborne forces had landed at St. Vaast La Hogu, 15 miles east of Cherbourg port.

In the widening hole in the center of the beachhead to the southeast, Berlin said British formations were concentrating in the Balleroy area, 12 miles inland, flanking Cerisy Forest to the east, thus in position to aid the American drive on St. Lo. Headquarters said the beachhead front now had been lengthened to (Continued oh Page 13) claimed last night that Frenchmen katptne west oanK oi tne 11- resisting the Germans would be executed when captured. 1 it now quite clear," head-attn snnouncement said, "that The German commander in Hazleton Area Opens 5th War Loan Drive: Goal $3,728,100 France, in a decree broadcast by It original 14th Army of (Col. pa Eberhard von Mackenscn has a dispersed to the four winds." the Paris radio, based his action on "article 10 of the French-German armistice convention (of 1940) providing that French citizens who, after conclusion of this convention, are fighting against the German sponding with heightened strength.

About 100 enemy planes were over the battle area last night and American Thunderbolt fighter-bomber pilots returning from an early morning foray reported op A faipt tolling of the Liberty Bell relayed from Philadelphia by radio and an inspiring charge to workers by Chairman Alvan today started a large Angeles LOS Reich will be treated by German troops as franc tireurs position "the roughest yet." nrThund JP-5M Feels Quake French resistance leaders, in a by about 50 German fighters, but the Allied pilots said enemy flak Angeles, June 12. (ff) Japs Encircle sstinct earthquake, of about broadcast last night from the United Nations radio at Algiers, directed "all Frenchmen and women" to consider themselves mobilized to hamper the Germans by every second's duration, swayed Los Mat 4:17 a. Pacific War Chinese City today, following by half an means possible and to give all pos Fifth War Loan quota of This is "Civilian D-Day" throughout the nation and the spotlight centered on individual bond buyers as the United States Treasury began an effort to raise 16 billion dollars, six billion of which must come from individuals. Less than a week has elapsed since the Allied forces landed on the Normandy beaches in history's greatest invasion and all America was prepared to stage a bond-buy a i sharp shock felt in La- sible aid to the Allies. It was disclosed that Gen.

Missing War a Beach, Fapadena and nurner-i Portions of Los Angeles coun- Charles de Gaulle's official radio spokesman in London has visited FIFTH WAR LOAN Lower Luzerne County Goal $3,000,000 1,000,000 of War Bond Sales to Date as Reported by Chairman A. Markle, Jr. were no immediate re- of damage. "se second shock also was no- 'iMe in Pasadena and, in lesser in Long Beach, police still was the biggest hazard. The Germans also claimed to have sunk one small troop transport in the Seine Bay last night.

American Marauders and Havocs bombed railroad and highway bridge targets at Aunay Sur Odon, southwest of Caen, La Haye Du Puitswest of Carentan, and Conde Sur Noireau, south of Caen, without loss, and panicked concentration of troops at Failaise, southeast of Caen, flying so low that a sergeant gunner reported, "You could pick out German lieutenants from sergeants and shoot the lieutenants." Before breakfast time railroad yards, German road convoys and a seaplane base near Caudebec had been attacked by RAF mediums. Then a force of around 1,000 Fortresses and Liberators with swarming hundreds of escorting fighters swept in upon some of the airbases into which the Germans belatedly were shuttling part of their lean air force. quakes were not felt in San-Ara pr in nearby Montrose, i of the city, officials there the liberated town of Bayeaux' in Normandy and addressed several thousand Frenchmen in the market square. Earlier reports from Spain said French resistance groups had occupied Toulouse, Limoges and Tar-bes in Southern France but these were questioned in part by Frenchmen at the Spanish border. The latter said liberation of Limogoes and Periguex by guerrillas was quite likely and that seizure of Tar-bes was possible, but that Toulouse a strong German garrison city and.

it was unlikely the Wed. atriff's deputies at the Mali- Chungking, June 12. (JP) An indication that the city of Cliangsha was encircled was contained tonight in a communique of the Chinese high command which announced the Japanese were assaulting the Hunan province capital incessantly "from all directions." Invaders attacking from the oast reached a point only six miles from the beleaguered Canton-Hankow railway city, but attempts to cross the Liuyang river directly to the east were repulsed, the high command said. The gravity of the battle prompted Ma j. Gen.

Claire L. Chennault to declare the Pacific war could be prolonged for years if Japan were allowed to build a defensive wall along the railroad. Allied forces moved half a mile deeper into Myitkyina, main enemy North Burma base controlling th Burma-China road. The city has been under siege for weeks and is all but isdlated. Its airport is in Lt.

Gen. Joseph Stilweil's bands. fio-station said they believed which a few hours blocked the coast highway Jews Murdered Says Roosevelt Washington, June 12. (IP) President Roosevelt told Congress today that as a final Nazi defeat approaches "the fury of their insane desire to wipe out the Jewish race in Europe continues undiminished." "This is but one example," Mr. Roosevelt said in transmitting a report on arrangements for caring for war refugees.

"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 outlined recently-completed arrangements to bring about 1,000 refugees to this country for temporary housing in a military camp near Oswego, N. Y. After the war, he said, these refugees, mostly and children, will be returned to their homeland. Mr.

Roosevelt said the work of the War Refugee Board, composed of the Secretarys of State, Treasury, and War, has "brought new-hope to the oppressed peoples of Europe." miles north mav have roiiininB1 remained ing effort worthy of being considered an action supporting the attack which marks the beginning of the final phase in the crushing of Nazi tyranny and the liberation of the European continent. Che success of the landings in France give testimony to the results brought about through previous bond purchases which financed the equipping of the Allied forces for their great enterprise. But now as the battle of France and the campaigns in Italy and other theaters of war reach their full pitch the fighting forces will cry for more and more weapons which must be bought through new and additional bond sales. The Treasury Department's aim is to reach the quota of 6 billion dollars sold to individuals by June 26 and efforts will then swing to the raising of the other 10 billions -cuea Dy an earthquake. French would challenge the Nazis there.

Spanish advices agreed, however, (Continued oh Page 6) New Arrivals 1 ra was born today at the Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Workers Safe Bivalve, N. June 12. (JP) Twenty-five Philadelphia war workers missing in their fishing boat Playboy since last night, wera reported safe today by Lieut.

Charles Hartis of the Coast Guard station at North Wildwood. Hartis said, the vessel was located at the mouth of Delawara Bay, its engine dead. The craft, Hartis added, would be towed to the Coast Guard station at Philadelphia. Coast Guard cutters, other fishing craft and the state watch boat F. M.

Reeves took part in tho hours-long search for the missing boat, after families notified state police at Port Norris that the men had failed to return home last night. The war workers, employes of the S.K... Ball Bearing Philadelphia and Benjamin Bartley and Herbert Sterlit, owners of tha power craft, started out early yesterday morning on a fishing trip. After the men were reported miesing, state police found their five automobiles still parked near the boathouse and enlisted the aid of the searching party. Wishes He Could Oklahoma City, June 12.

(JP)A Prokopic of 561 Seybert y.c iimtiitT is tne iurmt-T rj Castrina, a graduate nurse Hull Back From Hershey Washington, June 12. (JP) Secretary of State Hull returned to work today after a ten-day rest at Hershey, Pa. A talk with the visiting Polish premier, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, was among his first activities. State Hospital. Jmfhter was born at St.

Jo- aonahan, of Jcanesville. through purchases of non-banking investors. Purchases of commercial banks will not be credited in 'wghterwas born to Mr. and 'Henry Skinwor nnKWnr). Spry At 100 Castle Dale, Utah, June 12.

(JP) Blitz Storm Cheyenne, June 12. (JP) After a 20-minute two Cheyenne residents reported finding stones 10 inches in 'h 1Iaz'eton, at St. Mrs. Anna Catherine Peterson the campaign. July 8 will mark the closing of "spiuu.

The mother was Open National Drive Tonight Texarkana Ark. June 12. (JP) Momentum already built up in the Fifth War Loan was termed "terrific" by Secretary of the Treasurer Henry Morgenthau, today as he arrived to open the $16,000,000,000 bond drive. The secretary declared the results thus far were "better than O. He said he would announce the cost of the advance from Sicily to Rome and estimate the cost of the war this year in a four-network broadcast officially opening the bond campaign at 9 p.

m. (Central War Time) Rasmussen celebrated her 100th birthday by dancing ten polkas. the drive and Luzerne county goal is $21,930,000. sercreant in the armv. as born at St.

Joseph's MM to Mr. anrl lt-m with city-owned flags on standards by orders of Mayor 115 Washington ave- James W. Kilner and many merchants displaying the colors, the Arrival Of Americans In Rome Has Boosted Prices JeU The father is traffic ticket for illegal parking drive got off to a good start here today. Chairman Markle spoke on iinauy caught up with Capt. Jamea D.

Adams, now stationed in New Guinea. f' BU OI. UU- 'Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. ar a special AZL broadcast at 10:15 which included the sounding of the Liberty Bell.

Mr. Markle will give another He returned it, observing: "I sure would like to be parked Mien. 4i asboi-n at St. Joseph's -f' l5 nd Mrs. George 3S), Of 94t Vt approximately ten feet from that fire hydrant right now!" pfj.y "11 i-iit Kneel, Reports On Job Need After War Washington, June 12.

(JP) After victory, says the Senate's special post-war planning committee, business and industry in the United States must employ 8 to 10 million more people than have ever been employed before in peacetime. A report presented today by Chairman George (D-Ga) estimated that even if 2 or 3 million men are retained in the armed forces, full employment must be available for between 54 and 56 million people. This comrares with the prewar peak of approximately 46 million employed, reached in 1929, 1937 and again in 1940. "This country never has had and never will have real prosperity without full employment," the report declared, adding that the huge number of jobs that must be provided "presents a challenge almost as grave as the challenge of war." Present employment in the country was estimated at about persons, exclusive of those in the armed forces. The overtime work they're putting in was reckoned the equivalent of an additional 5.000,000 persons.

After the war, the committee said, 4 or 5 million of the war workers will want to return to school, or withdraw from the labor market entirely. Off-setting this, of course, will be the veterans discharged from the Army and Navy. (Continued on Page 6) as horn at St, Joseph's Wr amI Mrs- John ri, i court. The Rome, June 12. (JP) A week of Allied occupation finds Rome topsy-turvy in some respects but surprisingly normal in others.

The Romans by now have become accustomed to the sight of doughboys in the streets, boisterous and friendly, and they apparently like them infinitely more than the Germans, who were well-behaved and contemptuous. Generally the Romans have welcomed the Americans with open arms and in lively anticipation of srettinsr something out of them. Bs born nf fit TADAt. rs. Loon fallen, as the Romans expect the Allies to flood the city with food and other necessary supplies.

Flour, which was $1.40 a pound just before the city fell, now is 20 cents. Gasoline, which was $5 a gallon, now is only $4. The capital has trolleys running but no buses, as the Germans carried them off. Lights and power have been restored to some-parts of the city. Houses in the center of the city have running water but in the outlying sections water must be drawn from street hydrants.

The telephone system is intact but not yet restored to civilians for security reasons telephones might aid German agents in reporting troop movements. Most interesting distraction to Rnmnn arv nv hunts. One bv Mr taesarmn Maple street. w.M.P: radio talk-from noon to 12:05 p. m.

tomorrow. This will be a part of a 21-hour broadcast by WAZL in connection with the National (Continued on Paire 11) Direct Shipping At Beachhead London, June 12. (JP) War shipping administration employes have reached France and are directing the control and movement of merchant shipping and British-bound convoys from the Normandy Beachhead. War Time Torrington, June 12. (JP) A Torrington Register reader has Report French Gen.

Weygand Was Shot London, June 12. (P) French officers imprisoned at Koenigs-berg were told by the Germans that Gen. Maxime Weygand. former commander-in-chief of the French nrrny, was "shot while attempting to escape," a Reuters dispatch from Zurich reported today. Weygand was made commander of Allied armies just before the fall of France, succeeding Gen.

Maurice Gustave Gamelin after the disastrous German in May. 1940. Weygand. 77, disappeared anon after the Germans overran all of. France r'ter the Allied landings in North Africa in November, 1942.

Some reports aid he as arrested by the German as a hostage for Gen. Henri Girand. who ecaped the Natia and went to North I Wormed. operation v. at St.

Joseph's Hershey Nurse Under Fire In Normandy London, June 12. (JP) A Hershey (Pa.) army nurse, Second Lt. Eleanor A. Geonvanelle, was one of five American nurses who flew into a tone of operations, landing on an improvised air strip on Cherbourg Peninsula, spent an hour and a half thera with shells bursting nearby, sent back three plane loads of wounded and returned to Britain carry ing bouquets of red poppies they picked on the battlefields. Among the prisoners flown 0 'id Mrs.

Carl Fish. 'id Mrs. Carl FUh. President Roosevelt will speak from Washington on the program. Morgenthau found Texarkana flying thousands of flags and packed with 20,000 visitors.

Texarkana exceeded its goal of $4,675,000 for the Fifth War Loan Drive in a gun-jumping campaign two days ago. However, Secretary Morgenthau will appear this afternoon at a bond rally after inspecting the Red River ordnance depot and the Lone Star ordnance plant. The secretary also will be guest of honor at a luncheon and ride in a parade preceding the bond rally. Treasury officials said the broadcast opening the national war bond campaign would contrast Nazi and democratic philosophies and that Morgenthau would inform that nation what it will face (Continued on Page 6) Giving them something in retunf 51 Bpoch trcct The Tt a of 253 South Hazlcton State gone to the trouble of figuring out seemingly docs not fit into tne ko-man conception of being occupied; already they made their sacrifice in the long wait they suffered for the Allies to deliver them, they point. While the arrival of the Americans has been accompanied by astronomical increases in the prices of goods sold to soldiers, black market prices generally have j.

the arme fn. s-t'r back the first flown from Franca one, known, spies, and especially that the elapsed time between the wanted Fascists, are being taken Fearl Harbor attack and the inva- from their hiding places by sol- sion of France was 912.6 days, or diers and carried off in army .505 of a day less than an even trucks, two and. a half years. 85 ofn the F'zt TfiM t0 Mr. and was a wounded Japanese, la German uniform.

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