Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 1

rm fa) o) q'falfojfn rn WW WEATHERi Mostly cloudy end somewhat warmer with shower today, u-night $nd Saturday, ll'h today 05. low t'uiiaht 50, UliU Saturday i WW The Rapid City Daily TournalI Heavy Bombers Attack Targets In Munich Area Italian-Hased Planes Coordin-ate HIowh With Support Assault On French Inva FINAL EDITION "The Newspaper Western South Dakota" ASSOCIATED I'KESS LEASED WIRE NUMBER 18999. RAIMD CITY. SOUTH DAKOTA. FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1911 sion Objectives.

Allied Soldiers Wade In For Invasion Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 9 AP) U. S. heavy bombers slriliintf from the south 500 to ijO strong Ste. Mere Eglise Taken Strategic RailroadSeized Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 9(AI') U. S.

troops pressing toward the strategic port of Cherbourg have seized Ste. Mere Eglise and cut the road and railroad to Cherbourg, leaving the Hermans only a secondary and perhaps already threatened road on the west. German broadcasts placed the Americans within 18 miles of Cherbourg itself. U. S.

parachuto troops seized Ste. Mere Eglise, hanging on until seaborne infantry joined them. German accounts have already reported allied parachut- ists landing on the western coast of the Cherbourg peninsula, in action near Lessay bottleneck of the west coast road to Cherbourg and a spur rail line. British and Canadian forces at the other end of the 60-mile-long, steadily-expanding beachhead joined for an assault on pivotal Caen, fighting a fierce battered prime target in the Mu rich area of southern Germany today, In a new pincers attack on the nazi war machine coordinated with disruutive blows on German positions in France from the west The bombers, flying into the Mu nich area for the first time from Italy, and their escorting Light tiinus. Mustangs and Tbuuderbolts fought through clouds of German fifchlers to reach their targets.

Swiss dispatches reported explo aives in the Munich and Augsburg areas. (A BBC broadcast said the allied whiplash from Britain had destroy ed all railway bridges on the Seine river between Paris and the ea For the first time since D-day of J. armored battle for the large city IJlQ 11 lltlVC where the Germans apparently planned a major stand. ficial reports however, made no Time To Write American parachute and infantry troops, linked up, gained at both ends of their 28-mile salient In the Ste. Mere EglUe sector at the narrowest neck of the Cherbourg pen- insula -and headquarters announc-.

ed "satisfactory prugress" on all fronts with battles against nazi armored thrusts reaching new intensity- Fall of Ste. Mere Eglise cut one of the two main roads to Cherbourg, and perhaps the main peninsular railway as well a mile or so farther inland. (Berlin radio has reported allied parachute landings on the west coast of the peninsula and a threat to choke off the tip. Today a German broadcast heard by NBC said allied forces that had landed Thurs- mention of allied air-borne oper-turns last night. 52 in Air During operations of the past 24 hours 52 German planes were destroyed in the air and 20 others were accounted for on the ground, as against an allied loss of 35 fighters and five bombers.

Weather cut down the scope of the aerial operations supporting the invasion troops. Germans made four fighter-bomber attacks against the invasion beaches between early yesterday morning' and late last night, cm-ploying some 60 planes, but were driven off each time. The first three attacks were handled by RAF Spitfires which shot (Page 2. Column 8 (Editor's Note Tha London bureau of lht Associated Prats Isarnad today from Henry B. Jamtton.

AP war correspondent with tha allied forces, thai ha had ben slightly woundtd during ih landing operations. (To lha following dispatch Jamtion appended this note: "Theia two takes arc all 1 had timt to writ btfora I transferred to another ship bringing ma to port. My injuria! are not serious, but hava incapacitated ma for further carrying out my atiignment at the present tima. Will contact office quickest with mora copy." No further word has bean received from him. London laid.

(Jameson it a 32-year-old native ot Birdivilla, Ky. His wife is living in Burlington, Iowa, with their young son, born two months after Jameson left the U. S. to become a war correspondent.) (Jameson was the first war correspondent reported injured in the French invasion.) awaited invasion gets under way. At right is an American landing: crai't from which the men disembarked.

Under cover of naval shell-fire, American infantrymen wade through surf of English channel to make first landing on coast of France as long- jday near Granville, 15 miles south, southwest of Coutance. had been I "wiped out." There was no confir- U. S. Air Power Batters Jap Nazis Retreat On Adriatic As Italian Front Moves Up Moscow Reports Capture Of Important Point All Sifftis Point To An Early Opening Of Offensive To Navy Again FDR's Health Excellent Washington, June 9 (JP) Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire reported today President Roosevelt's health is "excellent in all respects." Detailing to reporters the result of a recent physical checkup the president underwent at the naval medical center, the president's personal physician said Rocsovoli's Rome, June 9 (A1) Fifth troops racing after the retreating Germans caotured Viterbo, prize Heavy Bombs Dropped On Enemy Cruiser; MacArthur i Is Hie Gaulle Announces Attacks On Destroyers Off New Guinea.

Match lilows On Western Front; Reds Confident. To Visit mation.) At least 2.400 prisoners have been 1 taken, 600 of them by Americans. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in proclamation called on the French underground to continue in present duties "unless otherwise instructed," and pledged that "We shall destroy the nazi tyranny root and branch so that the peoples of Europe may have a new birth of fiwdom.

Headquarters said the main nazi counterattack had been repulsed in the Caen sector and ground gained there. Field dispatches told of Canadian tanks firing at point blank 200-yard range into massed German formations. These dispatches described the tank battle as the biggest yet. and the Germans said hand-to-hand fighting was taking place in Caen. Central spearheads captured For-migny.

between Bayeux and Ste. Mere Eglise and astride the main Advanced Allied' Headquarters, Washington, June 9 (JP) Presi-3 New June 9 UP) Ameri HENRY B. JAMESON Aboard Admiral Hall's Flagship, June 8 (Delayed i (AP I watched the first 14 hours of the allied invasion of France from close range aboard a flat-bottomed Rhino ferry that had tq make four runs for it before being able to land on dent Roosevelt said today he is ex-! can air power again has stung the London, June 9 Moscow announced today that Soviet troops, seeking to improve their positions, have captured a hoight. of "great importance" north of lasi in Ro Japanese navy its highly vulner road and rail junction 40 miles northwest of Rome, in a swift seven-mile dash today, and also seized Tarquinia near the coast, 55 miles above Rome. There were no signs the nazi high command had been able to reorganize the fleeting remnants.

the Fourteenth and Tenth armies sufficiently a determined stand. The all'ed advance also enveloped Vetralla, on a lateral from Tarquinia and about six miles southwest of Viterbo. able cruiser-destroyer department. mania, wnere- a uemiari raeiio com- southwest Pacific headquarters re ported today. mentetor declared yesterday most k'' -'onted beach Because of shoulder and slight Russian armored forces had launch Jci.iiiit3 a uiv ii uiu utile I a i wiiuLicB de Gaulle of the French National Committee of Libe.atinn.

Roosevelt told a news conference he has sent word to De Gaulle, who is now in' London' on the invitation of Prime Minister Churchill, that he would be glad to see him this summer and suggested two dates Liberator bombers, gunning their way i through an enemy fighter Badoglio Out Of New Italian Government Ivanoe Bononii Assumes Task Of Forming New Cabinet To Exclude All Fascist Collaborationists. le injuries I was forced to leave the croft after the third attempt, which brought us under blistering fire from the enemy's camouflaged ed an offensive on a wide front. The broadcast Soviet, communique, however, made no mention of a large scale offensive. Ernest von Hammer, the nazi commentator, declared Red army troops advanced several miles in the The German high command announced evacuation of Tar coastal batteries before they were knocked out by the terrific naval bombardment. Three times during the first present weight is about 180 pounds.

"He is in better physical condition than the average man his age," said Mclntire. As a result of the president's spring vacation in the south, he added, Roosevelt is now in better health than he has been at any time for a year "and you know that is very good shape." The president's weight is "about four pounds under the weight we have always felt fine for him," Mc-Iutire said, "but he says it is the best weight he's had. The physician said all traces of the president's series of winter illnesses have been erased. During the winter the president suffered an attack of influenza which developed an intestinal upset, colds, a sinus and acute bronchitis. The doctor said he will keep the president on a restricted schedule If the routine can be worked out.

but the chief executive is not now on as strict a diet as he Was in the center and on the left flank tn the lasi sector. and said its rear guards were withdrawn north of the town. So rapid was the drive above Rome that German, forces guarding the Adriatic sector also bean to screen, dropped two 500-poune bombs with damaging effect near the bow of a Japanese heavy cruiser in Warparin bay. Waigeo island, northwest of Dutch New Guinea, on Tuesday. Twelve enemy fighters unsuccessfully attempted interception.

The Liberator formation damaged one, probably destroying it. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced last Tuesday that night air patrols sank an enemy destroyer near Hahnahera island and scored two hits on another destroyer off Manokwari. Dutch New Guinea, leaving it in a sinking condition. Waigeo, where the cruiser was attacked, is between New Guinea and Moscow.

June 9 All signs point to an early opening of an of- between June 22 and 30, or between July 6 and 14. Early this week, the president said, Vice Admiral Raymond Fe-nard of the French navy visited him to ask if the chief executive would be willing to receive De Gaulle. The admiral is now enroute to deliver the president's message to De Gaulle. Roosevelt said he has heard nothing further. A reporter asked the president why he chose the two particular periods to receive the French general.

The president replied those eight hours of the invasion we pulled toward the beach but each time were forced to pull back. On the third try we actually hit the beach under German fire and lest some equipment necessary for unloading the barge so we again pulled out to safer territory. retreat to avoid encirclement, and allied troops were rolling forward communications linking Cherbourg with the rest of France. With the "Doughboy General," Lt. Gen.

Omar N. Bradiey ashore and personally leading his American forces, headquarters disclosed that the allied beachhead strength included the Canadian Third division. This as the fourth allied division officially disclosed as on the beachhead. The others are the Sixth British airborne, the First American and the 50th iNorthumbrian) British divisions. Brig.

Gen. Paul L. Williams of Detroit, was disclosed as the commander of the 9th airforce troop carrier command who helped plan and direct D-day airborne operations to the beachhead, which German reports pictured as more than 10 miles deep at places. While guns roared along the Rome, June 9 (JP) Ivanoe Bo-nomi assumed today the task of forming a new Italian cabinet which, it was said, will be wholly anti-fascist in character and exclude any men who ever collaborated with Benito Mussolin's fascist regime. Marshall Pietro Badoglio, who stepped down as premier Tuesday, will "not be included in the new' government.

'The marshal was said to feel he had performed his duty in heading a government during the (Page 2, column 7) Demoted Officer On Way Back (Page 2, column 7) Nazi Prisoners Pessimistic London) June 0iJP) German prisoners were reported by army guards today to be "pessimistic about German chances of winning the war." There were four casualties one fatal on the third trip. This time we were close enough to get a clear picture of the battered beach and the German cement defense installations buried in the hillsides. The barge finally was beached with most of its equipment the next day. Halmahera. On Biak island, 135 miles east of Manokwari, American forces rushed repair work on! "Mokmer air early spring.

He has resumed swimming occasionally, and his doctor said every effort will be made to get the presi Washington, June. 9 (JP) An army promotion list disclosed to dent into the sunshine as much as posible, particularly for the week interim between Mussolini's tall Sgt.Orie Yirkers of Midland- ends. and the allied liberation of Rome. Bonomi, who is 71, was premier for a short period in the spring of (Page 2. Column 8) Nazis Report Circle Move London, June 9 (JP) The German high command today said allied tanks from the beachhead west of the Orne had made "encircling attacks'" in thrusts west and southwest of Bayeux and had only been checked when they reached a point about, six miles west of the town.

Although heavy losses were 1922 before the fascist era. He lived in obscurity under fascism. Former More Penicillin Depots Announced Chicago. June 9 (AP) Addition of 1.000 hospitals to those already serving as depot hospitals for the limited distribution of penicillin to The Weather (By Th Associated Press) ly associated with the socialists, Bonomi now is an independent, though he is close to the liberal (Page 2, Column 5) Indian Held For Slaying Yankton, June 9-(JP) Louis Bu-buna. Greenwood Indian, 43 years of South Dakota: Cloudy tonight Park, N.J who talked with many, quoted one soldier as saying, "For us the war is over.

For the German army it will be over in two Most of the prisoners were from labor' battalions which had been working on the Atlantic defenses. Many were unwilling helpers from the invaded nations Italians, Poles, French and even Mongolians captured on the Russian front. Eight German officers were stern and arrogant. When lunch of tea and crackers came, they turned their backs, walked away and said "If you want us to eat, you'll have nnri Saturday with scattered show upst nortion tonight; rain west civilians wes announced today by the chemicals bureau of the war production board. This brings to more than 2,000 Saturday, showers east portion rnntinued cool.

strip, which they seized from the Japanese Wednesday-morning. Yank veterans pursued the enemy, westward toward the island's other two strips Borokoe and Sori-doand one force was' reported within two miles -of Borokoe. Other forces cleaned, out small Japanese pockets "trapped east of' Lindbergh In Gilberts As Instructor Detroit. June 9 (AP) American fighter pilots in the Gilbert islands are receiving instructions in certain phases of high altitude flying from Charles A. Lindberg, a Ford Motor Co.

official has bpen informed. O. A. Johnson, chief of the Ford marine fleet, said the information came from his son, who recently arrived in the Gilberts. Lindbergh has been a consultant on aircraft operation for Ford and has done exceptional work in high claimed to have.

been. inflicted on the landing forces, the communique admitted that the allies had strengthened their bridgehead. North Dakota: Partly cloudy, day that a. major general, demoted in the iield to his permanent rank of colonel during the touch-and-go situation at Salerno last September; is on his way back to the top. Ernest J.

Dawley, a native of Antigo, was nominated yesterday by President Roosevelt for prpmotion to brjgadier generalthe first public disclosure that Dawley had been "busted." months ago he was a major of an army corps. He commanded the corps which struck' the' beach' at Salerno last Sept. 9. During that critical operation, a nazi tank column blasted Its way through the beachhead forces and actually reached the beach. The commanding general of the entire operation, Lt.

Gen. Mark Clark, on reaching the scene, is said to have decided that Dawley was too excited, had "lost his He im-mediataly demoted him and sent him back to the United States. The recommendation for his promotion once more to general officer' rank came from Lt. Gen. Lesley, J.

McNair, commanding general of the army ground forces an officer regarded in the army as severe in cases of demotion. The allies were also said to have the total number of hospitals serving as depots, he WPB The step was taken, officials related, to make the drug more conveniently available to hospitals in the less populated areas of the country. gained ground in a drive northwest from Ste. Mere Eglise toward Valo-gnes. A Transocean broadcast said this gain was about -a mile, and said the drive from Bayeux was in the direction of St.

Lo. to bring us something better than that." warmer west today, fair, little change in temperature tonight; Saturday partly cloudy and warmer. Nebraska: Showers and occasional thundestorms today, tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature; highest today near 55 northwest to 65 southeast portion; showers Sunday and in east portion Monday; rainfall will total heavy. War Refugees Coming To U.S. Washington, June 9 (President Roosevelt said today 1,000 European war refugees will be brought to this country and housed in an unused military establishment at Fort Ontario, near Oswego, New York.

The one thousand, Roosevelt said, represented the total number of refugees now destined for this country. In a cablegram to Ambassador Robert Murphy in Algiers, the president disclosed that refugees from southern Italy are being mov German armored forces counter age, waived preliminary examination Thursday before U. S. Commissioner Fred S. Vaughan on a charge of slaying Agnes Felicia, also of the Greenwood reservation early Wednesday, and was brought to Yankton and held in the city jail awaiting arraignment.

Commissioner Vaughan bound the defendant over to the U. S. district court without bail and last nisht Bubuna was taken to Mitchell by Deputy U. S. Marshal William Limp.

He will be held in the Davison county jail awaiting action of the federal grand jury. It is alleged that Bubuna killed the Felicia woman with a blunt instrument, probably a stick cf stove wood, following an argument over religion. Bubuna has served nine terms in the South Dakota and the federal penitentiaries, federal authorities say. GUIDES Supr.m. Headquart.rs Allies Exp.ditionary Fore.

June 9 (JPi French parachute troops ar. participating in th invasion of Cherbourg penimula. proving esD.cially effective as guides through their knowledge of terrain. KNUCKLE DUSTERS London, June 9 (JP) Berlin radio said today that "knuckle dusters such as are used by American gangsters were found in the full fighting kit of captured British and U. S.

airborne troops." The contained "everything from a grenade thrower to a long invasion knife," the broadcast added. attacking from Caen were declared by the high command to be engaged in heavy fighting southeast of Bayeux. One allied cruiser and a destroyer were declared to hatfe been sunk by E-boats. 24-HOUR RECORD TO 8 A. M.

TODAY hi altitude flying. Several weeks agr he went on leave and later reported to Admiral Chester Nimit2 in Hawaii for special navv duty. 53 53 54 57 Rapid City Airport Spearfish Philip ed to temporary havens in the Mediterranean area. "At the same time," the cable Governors Plead For Adequate Irrigation Custer 44 Deadwood 49 Huron 69 To DDi ah Chinese Remain At Changsha Farley Move Seen As Evidence FDR To Run Watertown Pierre Lemmon Mobridge Chadron. Neb 53 65 52 By FRANCIS J.

KELLY Chungking, June 9 (JP) Japa lo '43 46 46 46 40 38 49 40 45 45 44 48 54 42 47 51 51 50 43 52 49 46 57 47 46 63 58 58 74 55 Sioux City, la 58 Valentine, Neb 54 Sheridan. Wyo. 56 Miles City, Mont 67 Yankton 58 Mitchell 65 Neither Farley nor his long-time associates in Washington gave any hint that he would bolt the party or even join in any anti Roosevelt movement which might develop. Rather, his friends said, his will be a hands off The former postmaster-general and ex-national democratic chairman explained yesterday he was nese columns driving from the north are within seven and a half miles of Changsha, whose defenders have been instructed by Gener-alisimo Chiang Kai-shek to remain at their posts and do their utmost to achieve victory, a Chinese army spokesman announced today. Strength of the various columns Expert Infantry Pay Boost Given Recommendation Washington, June 9 -iPi An army-endorsed bill boosting the pay of expert infantrymen from 3 to $10 a month was approved unanimously today oy the senate military committee.

The committee acted after Senator Tobey R-NH) proposed endorsement instead of his own bill to provide a 50 perteut increase in pay for invasion tin well gram continued, 1 teel that it is important that the United States indicate that it is ready to share the burden of caring for refugees during the war. "Accordingly. 1 have decided that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from Italy to this country, to be placed in an emergency refugee shelter to be established at Fort Ontario, near Oswego, New York, where, under appropriate security restriction, they will remain for the duration of the war. "These refugees will be brought into this country outside of the regular immigration procedure just as civilian internees from Latin-American countries and prisoners of war have been brought here. "The emergency refugee shelter will be well-equipped to take good care of these people.

It is contemplated that at the end of the war I icy will be returned to their home-i ids." Washington, June 9 OP) Two western governors today pleaded for congressional assurance of sufficient water from the Missouri river to meet present needs and irrigate an additional 4,760.000 acres. The state executives. Gov. Sam Ford of Montana and Gov. John Moses of North Dakota, in an appeal to a senate commerce subcommittee considering the omnibus flood control bill, also asked that the states be given a "consultative voice" in shaping future water developments.

Recalling that they previously appeared before two committees in the house on Missouri river water development and before another senate subcommittee last month for presented a joint statement calling the disposal of the water of the Missouri river and its tributaries "a life and death matter." "We must," they said, "recognize the problem in its entirety and legislate for the conservation, control and use of that water not with flood control alone in mind, not only for the interest of navigation below Sioux City, but for the higher and more important use of domestic consumption, irrigation and reclamation, mining and industrial purposes, as well as control for Hood protection." The governors voiced support for the army engineers' proposal to construct a series of reservoirs in the Missouri basin but objected to (Pase 3. Column 3 I (Associated Press Staff Writer The resignation of James A. Farley as New York' democratic state chairman was regarded by Washington politicians today as an inevitable consequence of his known opposition to a fourth term for any president and his apparent belief that President Roosevelt will run again. With nomination within the president's grasp if he wants it Farley's position as party leader of one of the most pivotal of states was fast becoming awkward if not untenable, they said. Rooseveit's doctor, described the president yesterday as physically fit and this led to new fourth term specula- resigning because his business du advancing toward the Hunan pro- ties he's a Coca Cela company ax- t-vince capital, astride the Hankow- .06 ecu tiVe would not alluw hnn to Canton railway, was estimated at Aberdeen Sioux Falls Madison Brookings Chicaeo Duluth International Falls Kansas City I.os Angeles Miami 73 58 68 59 66 63 72 70 65 81 82 70 Ti those in comoat with tne enemy: and covering all the armed give enough time to committee affairs.

A successor is to be chosen July 11. In 1940 Farley stayed in as state chairman despite his opposition to a third term. Farley still plans to go to Chicago as a convention delegate. between 70.000 and E0.0OO. A big flareup of fighting in Ho-nan was predicted as signs were detected "that the Japanese are preparing for a try at reconquering the 70-mile stretch of the Peiping-Han-kow railway held by the Chinese, extending south from Yenchcng.

Tobey said he would oiler nr. elements seeking to liberalize th-v army bill hen it reaches the flooiv Paul Mrw Orleans Minneapolis-St, Jew York the same purpose, the governors jtion..