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MIAMI DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY, JUNE 4. 1144 J-A RUSSIANS MASS ARMIES FOR BLOW AT GERMANY FROM EAST AVERY CLAIMS 2 DESTROYERS SUNK, 19 JAP a 3-Pronged Drive At Berlin Will Get Under Way With Reds' Ending Of Stalemate MOSCOW, June 6. (TP) Russian armies were understood Tuesday to be massing and preparing to perform their part of the joint Allied task of crushing Germany with a blow from the east, combined with General Eisenhower's invasion from the west and General Alexander's thrust up the Italian V.7fv". it' it I 1 1 The invasion of northwest France was the "second front" for which the Russians had called for three anxious years.

But the "second front" already had ceased to be a political issue here before Eisenhower struck. The controversy amounted virtually to a crisis in 1942 when Stalin called for a front in western Europe of "first-rate importance" and urged the United States and Great Britain to fulfill their obligations "fully and on time." The "second front" talk died down after the Teheran agreement on "the scope and timing" cf blows from the east and west. Moscow reported fresh forces of Nazi infantry and tanks attacking in the Iasl sector in Romania were repulsed Monday, while Red airmen hammered the Bessarabian railway junction of Chisinau, 70 miles east and a little south of Iasi. The Germans were said to have used self-propelled midget tanks of the same type that gave only a mediocre performance on the Anzio beachhead. Most of the cletrically-controllcd and explosive-filled vthicles were knocked out before reaching forward positions, the broadcast communique from Moscow said.

In Monday's fighting near Iasi the Nazis lost 41 tanks and 33 planes, Moscow said. Much enemy transport and equipment were destroyed at Chisinau, and military objectives in the town also were hit, the communique added. SIiriUO.MK CIIIKF AT TASK Somewhere in Britain, June Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied forces invading western Europe, studies map of France where his armies are landing. The general, at Supreme Allied headquarters in England, stood on a housetop and watched as the first waves of his mighty armada roared off.

jp photo GENERAL CALM AT liaaMK, aa Jk i nial -aM- THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS Washington, June 6. President Roosevelt wears a grim expression as he sits before the microphones just before addressing the nation Monday night from the Eisenhower Watched Men Take To Air For Big Push By E. V. ROBERTS Representing the Combined American Pre (IMatrltmim by lh Annorlatrd lm) NLRB 'PLOT' IN WARD SEIZURE WASHINGTON. June 6.

Avery, chai- of Montgomery Ward and Co, contended Tuesday that the National Labor Relations board "conspired together" to bring about seizure of the Chicago plant in order to enfc instructions "they knew to be illegal and unfair." Moreover, Avery told the house special committee investigating the Ward case. President Roosevelt exceeded his authority in authorizing the seizure. Avery waa ejected by soldiers when be refused to leave the plant upon request. The "illegal" order, Avery said, waa the WLB decision that Ward'a sign a union contract. The board chairman also told the committee that the NLRB "gerrymandered" the bargaining units "to insure a union victory" and that the WLB violated the law by granting a contract to a union which had refused to prove it had any legal right to represent Ward's employes.

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S. army, tell of the rarrfully-iaarn4 approach la the InraalniM EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS, June 6. The armed hordes which struck the coast of France Monday night set in motion the most complex military machine in history. White House. The chief of Rome, but cautioned ultimate victory "still lies some distance ahead." wir.Photo.

ROME'S FALL 'STRIDE TO VICTORY SAYS FDR Long And Costly March Ahead, President Says In Broadcast WASHINGTON, June 6. (iP) Allied conquest of Rome showed up in President Roosevelt's words Monday night as a welcome triumph, but only a stride in the long and costly march to final victory. "One up and two to go," was his way of checking off the first capture of an Axis capital, with Berlin ELMER DAVIS WARNS OF NAZI BROADCASTS WASHINGTON. June (UP) Elmer Davis, director of the Office of Information, Tuesday warned the American public thaf the German radio may be trying to build up a rrputation for accuracy in their news reports of the invasion so "they can put one over on the Allies later." Davis asked Americans to remember that "Mr. Goebbels is in business for his health and hot for theirs." "The enemy radio is broadcasting reports in their own Interests and not ours," the OWI chief said.

they have said thus far may be entirely true. I don't know because I haven't been following it, but the only information on the development of the invasion that can be relied on will be issued by Allied headquarters. "The Germans may be trying to build up the reputation for accuracy during the early pe riod of the Invasion so that they can put one over later." Davis, sitting at his desk in rolled-up shirtsleeves, listened to General Eisenhower's message to the European people and commented on the fine ra dio voice of the invasion chief. Davis had arrived at his office shortly after midnight MIAMI Y7 ji i if I 'Tf I Clean neat a skirt will long with PLANES BAGGED ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea. June 6.

The sinking of a Japanese destroyer by Lib erators ranging toward the Philippines from advanced bases was reported by AUied headquarters Tuesday along with the probable sinking of another destroyer off Dutch New Guinea and a 19 to 1 victory over the enemy's airforce. Reports also told of a successful flanking of Nipponese airdrome defenses in the bitter battle for Biak in the Schouten islands and co-ordinated attacks on Truk by Southwest and Central Pacific planes during which a supply convoy was heavily hit. The bag of 19 enemy planes was added to more than 30 luted Monday by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The' destroyers were the first reported caught by Southwest Pacific planes since March 21.

One destroyer was sunk and two small enemy vessels damaged Saturday night off Hal-mahera islands, and a Nipponese bomer was downed. To the southeast that same night Catalinaa left an enemy destroyer sinking 50 miles off Manokwari, Dutch New Guinea, and attack planes sank a small freighter. In the same Geelvink bay area, Mitchells blew up two barges loaded with Jap soldiers. The Japanese kept pouring more planes over the Biak Invasion scene. Headquarters said Thunderbolts shot down four and probably a fifth out of 42 enemy fighters encountered Sunday.

Southwest Pacific Liberators shot down seven of 20 interceptors as they blasted Truk Saturday for the second straight day, expending 79 tons of explosives. At Pearl Harbor, Adm. Chester V. Nimitz said search planes, in two days definitely sank one, probably sank another and heavily strafted other units of a small supply convoy west of Truk. He also announced new air raids on the Kuriles.

On Biak, where American invasion forces since May 27 have been struggling to capture three airfields, a column has flanked Mokmer airfield from the north. General's Wife Gets News Late NEW YORK, June 6. The New York Post, in a copyrighted story, said Tuesday that Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, wife of the supreme commander of the Allied forces, greeted news of the invasion early this morning with, "Why, that's wonderful! I'm so excited." A Post reporter telephoned Mrs.

Eisenhower at the Thayer hotel at West Point, where she is to attend the graduation Tuesday of her son, John, from the Military academy. "The invasion? What about the invasion?" she asked when she answered the call. "Well, it's started she was told. "Please forgive me," she said. "Did you say the invasion has started? I'm still rather asleep, you know." Later she said, "But why hasn't some body told me?" Music For Invaders Provided By Nazis LONDON, June 6.

(INS) "This is the Nazi controlled Calais radio in France said Tuesday. Then the announcer added: "We shall now bring music for the invasion forces." King To Broadcast NEW YORK, June 6. The London radio, in a broad cast recorded by the federal communications commission said that King George VI would deliver a special broadcast Tuesday night at 9 p. rn. London time, (3 p.

m. EWT.) Morale Soars At Gables AAF Hospital "Naturally it has picked up the morale of the patients tremendously. They are gathered around their radios, and have requested a Daily News every hour," Maj. John D. Brett, head of convalescent training and rehabilitation of wounded men at the AAF Regional Station hospital in Coral Gables said Tuesday of the news reaction.

"Their faces even look different since news of the invasion has come. Personally speakir, I think it is more or less a relief to get at the big job. Resistance as yet seems to be fairly light but we can't make judgments until we have more complete information. Here at the hospital, we are all very happy, because we know what it means. TRUCKING and WAREHOUSING French In Algiers Weep With Joy, Still Fear Nazis ALGIERS, June 6.

(UP) Frenchmen and women gasped, embraced and then wept Tuesday morning as the first reports of Allied landings in France, as announced by the Germans, came from early morning radio programs. Tears of joy rolled down the cheeks of many, but rejoicing muted by the realization of the death and suffering the news will mean to many Frenchmen and others alike. the troops once the invasion was under way. There was a staggering total of 125,000,000 maps. The final plans for the H-hour strike were drawn within sight of France, in specially-guarded buildings to which even generals could be admitted only by showing an authorization card.

In these buildings, maps of the French coast revealed the landing areas, to the foot, of each British, Canadian and American unit. Before these maps, staff conferences worked out to the minute and to the second the liaison between army and navy, between British and Americans, between infantry and engineers, between air forces and ground forces. These plans covered not enly D-day and H-hour, but in precise detail five days, 20 days, 90 days later. 51 U.S. Soldiers On Gripsholm JERSEY CITY, N.

June 6. (JPi Fifty-one ill or wounded American soldiers, who were prisoners of war in Germany, come home Tuesday on the Swedish liner Grips-holm. The ship, which left here May 2 with 700 German prisoners and civilians and carried out an exchange at Barcelona for American, British and Canadian repatriates, is due late Tuesday. More than 600 Britons left the ship at Belfast, northern Ireland. Among the 131 passengers making the Atlantic crossing were 37 Canadian soldiers, who will go directly to Canada, and 43 civilians, including eight United States citizens.

The other civilians are citizens of South and Central American countries. H-HOUR state of Kansas and what they did in civilian life and what their army job was. Then he added personal touches. He asked a young ster where he got his haircut and an ex-Dakota farmer how much wheat he grew per acre. He asked about the weird war paint of the paratroopers and was told it was a mixture of cocoa and cottonseed oil.

It tastes good, one trooper told him. The supreme commander's party reached the last base just at takeoff time. At seven-second intervals the big C-47s roared off the runway and lurched into the sky in a seeming endless stream. Eisenhower was escorted to the roof of headquarters for a better view as they circled above coming into formation for the great task ahead. He turned his face toward France and watched them vanish in the darkening sky.

Tokyo Radio Relays Nazi Invasion News NEW YORK, June 6. (UP) The Tokyo radio reported the Allied Invasion of France to the Japanese people at 6 a.m. Tuesday, two hours and 12 minutes after it gave the news in an language overseas broadcast. Both broadcasts gave only German versions of the landings. Vf Hi 1 and Tokyo still ahead.

"Our victory comes at an excellent tme," Mr. Roosevelt declared in a radio address Monday night, "while our Allied forces are poised for another strike at western Europe and while armies of ether Nazi soldiers nervously await our assault. And our gallant Russian allies continue to make their power felt "more and more." To this, however, he hastened to add that while the Germans have "suffered heavy losses," these have not been "great enough ta cause collapse." "Germany has not yet been driven to surrender," he said. Germany has not yet been driven to the point where he will be unable to recommence world conquest a generation hence. 'Therefore the victory still lies some distance ahead.

That distance will be covered in due time have no fear of that. But it will be tough "and it will bo costly," Complete Victory To many here his words bad the ring of a reaffirmation of the Allied intention to press the war to complete victory over Germany despite the statement by Pope Pius laat weeks that such a purpose would prolong the fighting. The president's broadcast was prompted by the fall of Rome. He addressed himself almost exclusively to that subject in a manner to suggest that while he considered it a considerable psychological and political victory he hoped that it would not be overrated as a great military contribution to the ultimate victory in Europe, To the people of Italy he held forth the suggestion that their country should seek a peaceful place in the family of nations as a "great mother nation" sending its sons to peo-pule many other lands, rather than seek expansion by aggression. "We want and expect the help of the future Italy toward lasting he said.

"All the other nations opposed to fascism and Nazism help give Italy a chance." Desperate Fight The fall of Rome, the president declared, was a prospect Blasted By ALLIED ADVANCED COM-MAND POST IN ENGLAND, June 6. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stood on a rooftop on invasion eve and watched a mighty airborne armada form in the sky and wing its way toward France and the beginning of the final phase of the war of liberation. The supreme commander radiated a calm confidence contagious to those about him.

He spent the greater part of the day among the troops, sea-bornei and airborne, walking from group to group chatting and laughing with the men. At 2:30 p. Monday, Eisenhower met with a small group of British and American press and radio representatives here. He told us that the invasion of Europe would be launched Tuesday and 'the machinery was already in motion. We were informed the operation wflnld be the largest of its type ever launched and that the Allies had assembled their mightiest land, sea and air force for the purpose.

i Eisenhower talked to us for an hour and a half. The conference took place in his command tent, a plain bare-walled structure about 20 feet square with canvas roof and walls of stained pine boards. At the start he greeted each of us with a handshake and friendly lopsided grin. He stressed the importance of the job his staff officers, British and American, had done in preparing and launching the blow and spoke earnestly of his de sire to emphasize this. The weather, we learned, had been the biggest Allied headache in the selection of D-day.

At one time Eisenhower interrupted his discourse to look out of the door and com ment with enthusiasm upon a patch of sunshine. The gen eral sat comfortably slouched behind his big battered desk. On the desktop was a green telephone, a desk lamp and inkwell and a packet of cigarets. During the confer ence he occasionally leaned forward to tap with a finger for emphasis. He smoked constantly, sometimes lighting one cigaret from another.

Beyond that he made no movement. He did not appear to notice the express train roar of constant Allied, air patrols overhead. We correspondents were permitted to tag along when the supreme commander visited the airborne units, but only with the understanding that we would remain definitely in the background. There is a warm personal relationship between General Eisenhower and his men and he made it clear to us that he wished it to remain personal. At the airborne assembly areas, Eisenhower walked swiftly and alone through the groups of men drawn up at attention.

He asked that they be placed at ease. He stopped frequently, picking men at random to talk with. Often he was completely surrounded by the -men and they trooped after him laughing ar.1 joking like schoolboys. I estimate that during the evening hours he talked with several hundred men individually. He asked them where they were from he seemed determined to find a paratrooper from his home A Healthful Habit to Cultivate mtifJitfl njt i war i It executive hailed the fall of such great importance to the Germans that Hitler hnd his generals put up a desperate fight "at great cost of men and materials and with great ancrifice to their crumbling eastern line and to their western front" "No thanks are due to them if Rome was spared the devastation which the Germans wreaked on Naples and other Italian cities," he continued.

"The Allied generals maneuvered so skillfully that the Nazis could only have stayed long enough to damage Rome at the risk of losing their armies." "It will be source of deep satisfaction," he also declared, "that the freedom of the pope and of Vatican City is assured by the armies of the United Nations." The chief executive said that in Italy the Allied troops had found "starvation, malnutrition, disease, a deteriorating education and lowered public by-products of fascist mis-lule" but "we have already begun to save the lives of the men, wemen and children of Rome." Germans Kidnap 10,000 Romans ROME, June 6. (UP) Allied military government agents reported Tuesday the Germans had carried away 10.000 Roman male, workers during the past few days but otherwise hardly molested the city. Removal of the workers was carried out under a "voluntary enforcement" program, the agents said. Public utilities, excepting the telephone system, were operating normally. There were a few incidents between Fascists and anti Fascists, but the AMG agent said Rome could be considered quiet.

At 9 p. m. curfew was ordered. Infantry barbed wire must be cut, and American soldiers have a wonderful weapon for this purpose. It is the Bangalore torpedo, which blows a wide swath through the wire.

Then the other members of the. team follow through the wire, and move up the beach. One of the most dramatic actions of the assault is carried out by the rocket gunners, firing the famous bazookas. Their mission is to attack the pillbox apcratures to silence enemy fire, and the accuracy of American rocket gunners is remarkable. The climax of the entire operation is played by the soldier with the flame thrower and the man with the demolition charge.

As soon as one pill box blows the entire section moves forward for another attack. During a landing operation these tactics are repeated by many squads along a considerable front there will be at least one division in and probably more. American. British and Ca nadian soldiers, sailors and airmen blasted the invasion coast with an unprecedented barrage of gunfire and aeral bombardment and stormed its beaches and cliffs in a furious assault of thousands of foot soldiers, each a walking arsenal. The imminence of the long-awaited assault had been evident to everyone but the actual hour was a well-kept secret, despite the fact that final preparations for the jump-off began a week ago, on May 30.

Those who saw the small advance parties with their light combat packs march to the Jumping-off points could not say "this is it" rehearsals over months of time had made the sight commonplace throughout the restricted and closely-guarded coastal zone, but the men knew they were saying good-by to England. Craft Assembled Weeks or months before, they had moved into assembly areas on the hills overlooking the ports. Landing craft had begun assembling. On May 28, the assembly areas were changed into marshaling areas. The troops had been briefed on their exact mission.

The designated assault troops were forbidden to talk to civilians or to unbriefed soldiers. As the eve of invasion approached, the hundreds and thousands of fighter bombers of the tactical air forces concentrated their attacks in a relatively narrow but important urgan area of northern France and Belgium. They went after strategic air bases, cities, railway yards, bridges, gun emplacements, canal locks, locomotives and barges. Fighter planes rushed at the enemy from altitudes of 1.500 1 feet down to the point where they almost touched the tree tops, at speeds of 400 to 500 miles an hour. Zone Isolated Before the invasion was launched, miles upon miles of coastal area in England were given over to the assembly of troops.

Persons not on official business were barred from this zone, hundreds of other elaborate precautions were taken. Back of -this area, all England was an arsenal. There were miles of ammunition storage more stored ammunition, shells and explosives of all kinds, than was used throughout the entire First World War. Full size trains, built to roll on the tracks of continental Europe, had been brought to England in pieces and assembled here. The latest radio equipment, much of it still on the secret list, was stored in vast quantities.

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(JV) Some of the bravest soldiers in the United States army it was a job only for the brave made the initial land attack on the fortress of Europe by knocking out 'pill boxes and other fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. Assault tactics, perfected in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, were drilled into troops in Great Britain for months before the actual invasion. Special training was given infantry units which were designated for the spearhead of the attack. The assault on concrete emplacements is one of the-most exciting and dangerous operations of modern war. It looks a iTBRt.

IIHir Will, FOURTH H00 impossible, but it isn't, as American doughboys have proved. The key to success is plain old fashioned intestinal fortitude spelled with a capital G. Originally, the reduction of fortifications was considered a job for engineers. However, after some experiences it became apparent that it would be more effective to train infantry with special engineer weapons and this was the technique used in Eurqpe. The preparation is provided by artillery, by naval guns, by i bombardment and by waterproofed tanks firing hull-down in the water.

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