Shamokin News-Dispatch from Shamokin, Pennsylvania • 5

SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, PA, FRIDAY, JUNE 1944 PAGE FIVE Though one of the original land aircraft were destroyed. Eleven of stretching along 60 or more mile of the coastline between Cherbourg S.R. REVEALS our fighters were lost but two of and Le Havre, the latter only a lit ings was known to have been made near Le Havre, there have been no further Allied reports from the area. the pilota tre safe. Rocket-firing fighters attacked tle more thsn 100 miles from Paris.

Oerman E-boets in the channel. However, clouds that descended to A German broadcast claimed that Allied forces In the Seine estuary PLANS ON CARE between 1.000 to 1.500 feet sviously leaving one in a sinking condition. Last night heavy bombers in force area had been wiped out. hampered air support of the ground attacked railway centers it Rennes. All kinds of Allied planes, from four-englned bombers to slngle- forces this morning, reducing the early formations of daylight raiders OF REFUGEES Fougeres, Alencon.

Mayenne and Pontaubault. Two heavy bombers are missing. Light bombers struck englned fighters, continued to sup to isolated task forces. The outcome of the American at railway target behind the battle port the Invasion despite deteriorating weather conditions late yesterday and last night. Some Allied tack on Carentan, at the Joint of the Normandy peninsula, and the With U.

S. Armed Forces planes were believed using airstrips One Thousand Now in Italy to Be Brought to Fort Ontario, N. Y. highway linking it with Cherbourg. 37 miles to the northwest, was expected to go a long way toward deciding the fate of Cherbourg itself.

in France. A pooled dispatch disclosed that "RAF squadrons" now were established in the beachheads. improvised emplacements, could have cut deeply into the landing force. Had It not been for the intelligence we did have, and its application by naval and airforce. firepower would have multiplied, and losses, which were costly, might have been prohibitive.

The key to the trouble was the failure to blow lanes through beach obstacles within a few minutes after H-hour so that boats carrying vehicles and men could get into position to fight. Shocking evidence of death and destruction still dominated the beach today, but the threat of disaster was giving away swiftly before the Americans' hard-won advance. Before noon, soldiers, who yes-terday were barely hanging onto this wreck-strewn bit of sea. sand and rock, were fighting their way forward to the deepest penetration yet scored in this sector. By ALAN MOORI1EAD BAYEUX.

France, June 9 U.R The French of this town have gone temporarily berserk with joy of freedom after four years' of pent-up hatred for the Germans and welcomed the opportunity to punish the collaborationists. The chief collaborationist of Bayeux. who also is the head of the "Anti-Bolshevist League," has Just been shoved through the main street in an hilarious and demonstrative crowd. A gray-haired, squat figure, blood was running down the side of his head. His shirt was half tom off.

his right leg was scratched and a wreath of roses crowned his head In an Ironical take-off of a ceremonial. His eyes were filled with fright and he stared wildly as he tried to dodge blows aimed at him. A young French guerilla armed with an Allied rifle tried to keep the people back but they kept surging forward. A while ago the crowd grabbed one of the collaborationist policemen and he was being beateh by the screaming townspeople. Thus France was observing her liberation.

American Flying Fortresses and Liberators attacked railway targets one of the best harbors on me French coast and with a direct trunk line to Paris. WASHINGTON. June (U.R) and airfields behind the enemv i President Roosevelt, announclnir Al- The loss of Carentan and the area during the night. ON A BEACH IN NORMANDY. June 7 (Delayed) (U.R1 Bad weather probably was the chief cause of relatively heavy American losses In breaking into some three miles of beaches running each way from here.

It Is probable that given more exact Intelligence data on strong point recently Installed along this beach, preliminary bombardment by both planes and naval guns could have been made more effective, It is unlikely that, with the weather as It was, the defenders, shorn of all strong points and armed only with machineguns fired from highway would leave the German garrison of Cherbourg only secondary roads over which to withdraw i lied plans for caring for European war refugees, said today that up to 1,000 of them now In southern Italy I will be brought to Fort Ontario, near Oswego, N. He said more refueees also were lines, while fighters strafed ground targets and destroyed at least 72 enemy aircraft at a cost of three bombers and 24 fighters. Last night. British heavy bombers In force attacked the railway centers of Rennes. Fougheres, Alecon.

Mayenne and Pontaubault. Light bombers simultaneously hit railway targets behind the battle area. Two heavy bombers were lost. from the port and at the same time would pave the way for an American thrust across the 20-mile neck of the peninsula to the west coast. Allied air and naval ascendency also was expected to play a part in dooming Cherbourg, which would provide an ideal base for a full- Rocket firing fighters attacked I scale Allied offensive in France.

German torpedo boats in the Eng KANT Corporal Albin Moraskie. above, has been promoted to sergeant at Camp Campbell, according to advice received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Moraskie, 41 Sherman Street. Sergeant Moraskie entered service in March, 1942, prior to which he served 18 months in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Elmsport.

Second Lieutenant Clarence R. Master Sergeant Theodore Stevenson, above, has arrived safely in England, his wife, the former Miss Bette Kirchner. of Mahanoy City, was informed. Sergeant Stevenson, formerly associated with Dick Construction Company, was inducted at Harrisburg, June 23, 1943, and received his training at Camp Ha-rahan, and Camp Millard, Bu-cyrus, Ohio. Sergeant and Mrs.

Stevenson are former resident of Shamokin. Mrs. Stevenson is advertising manager for the Record-American, Mahanoy City, and is living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H.

Kirchner. Martz, accompanied by his wife, is spending a leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin A. Martz, 223 North Franklin Street.

Lieutenant Martz is stationed at Pope Field N. C. Lester A. Miller, seaman second class, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Lester Mil Ush Channel yesterday and left one in a sinking condition. Another was sunk and three others damaged or sunk off the French and Belgian coasts Wednesday night. Some German coastal batteries resumed desultory fire on Allied convoys yesterday, but were silenced by Allied warships. American cruisers and destroyers continued to support the American advance on the Cherbourg Peninsula with naval bombardments. An official announcement revealed that American naval task force commanders under Rear Admiral Alan G.

Kirk included Rear Admiral John Leslie Hall, who participated in the North African, Sicilian and Italian Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon, gunnery expert who engaged in the North African operations, and Commander Campbell D. Edgar. The German DNB agency said Nazi torpedo boats sank a American cruiser and a destroyer off the east coast of the Cherbourg peninsula Wednesday night. Radio Berlin ciaimed that at least 23 fully-laden troop transports and landing boats totaling 120,000 tons have been sunk since the invasion began early Tuesday. Other vessels were said to have been damaged so severely they had to be abandoned.

Seaman Charles Mirack, 1019 North ler, 1308 Walnut Street, has arrived Pearl Street, arrived at Boston, today after a voyage to Af rica, England and European coun Though the Americans were hard-1 pressed for a time on their beachheads on the east coast of the Cherbourg peninsula between Cherbourg and Carentan. a spokesman for Eisenhower said they now were receiving a' regular stream of reinforcements. One beachhead was considered in excellent condition and the other, where going had been exceptionally hard, now was being improved steadily by a combination of "ingenuity and sheer muscle," the spokesman said. Wind, tidal currents and the configuration of the shoreline had handicapped the original landings. It was learned that some Americans pushed ashore in Cherbourg Bay, which stretches seven miles east and 10 miles west of the port, on "D-Day," but the present location of these units was not disclosed.

German broadcasts have reported American troops near 3t. Pierre-Eglise, 11 miles east of Cherbourg. British empire forces were finding Caen, midway between Cherbourg and Le Havre on the trunk railway and highway to Paris, a tough nut to crack as street fighting raged on into iu fourth day, but a correspondent at the front said the communications should fall "within hours, perhaps minutes." The British Sixth Airborne Division was toe first to drive Caen, and it since has been joined by seaborne forces from the beachhead at the mouth of the Cms River, nine miles to the north. in French Morocco, his wife, who lives at 1607 West Independence Street, was informed today. Seaman tries, his parents were informed by Miller received his boot training at Jeing moved out of Italy to camps in the middle east, with an increase of from 25,000 to 40,000 in the quotas of these camps.

A camp is being established in Casablanca, North Africa, to care for refugees, most of them French, who had gotten into Spain. Mr. Roosevelt explained that refugees were pouring out of the 1 Balkans into Italy in large numbers and were Interfering with military 1 operations. To meet this heavy and increasing influx, the capacity of refugee camps in the Mediterranean is being increased and some new I camps are being established. 5 Meanwhile, a survey of additional facilities is going forward in Tripo- litania, Sicily.

Cypress and Ciren-' aica. Following the President's news conference the White House made public text of a cablegram from Mr. Roosevelt to Robert Murphy, rank-: ing American civilian official in Al- giers, stressing the "real possibilities of saving human lives by bringing more refugees through Yugoslavia to southern Italy." Saying that it was important that le United States indicate its readi-; ness "to share the burden of caring for refugees during the war," Mr. 1 Roosevelt informed Murphy: "I have decided that approximate- ly 1,000 refugees should immediately be brought from Italy to this coun- try, to be placed in an emergency refugee shelter to be established at Fort Ontario near Oswego, N. where under appropriate security restrictions they will remain for the duration of the war." I The President told Murphy to as- sume that the shelter would be ready i to receive the refugees when they arrive and asked him to arrange their departure for the United States "as rapidly as possible." The refugees will be brought to the United States "outside of the regular immigration procedure" and "it is contemplated that at the end of the war they will be returned to their homelands." The President made it clear in his news conference that the number of refugees brought to this country would definitely be limited to 1,000.

That is all, he said under question- telephone today. Sampson Naval Training Station, N. Private Robert H. Bickelman, sta after entering service March 2 1944. tioned in Florida, returned to his military duties after spending a 10 day furlough with his parents on Corporal Neal D.

Martin, stationed at Camp Phillips, has arrived Franklin Street. Private Bickelman home to spend a seven-day furlough has been in service for five months. with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

A Martin, Overlook. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Obniskie, 1032 West Spruce Street, have been informed their son, Chester Obnis Private First Class Joseph Mack, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Leo Mack, 423 West Spruce Street, has arrived kie, U. S. Navy, who is stationed at Camp Peary, has been admitted safely in New Guinea, the parents were informed today. to the hospital to undergo an appen dicitis operation. Private Rennel Rodarmel, whose Hrnr I lowers Corporal Robert O.

Lupolt, U. wife lives at 329 South Coal Street Field Artillery, left today for Camp Shelby, after a 10-day visit was made "expert" on the machine gun, holding one of the highest scores in his company. The soldier with his wife, the former Alba Ferdig. and his parents. Mr.

and Other British elements 15 miles to the west were reported well south of Bayeux, ateo on the Cherbourg-Paris railway and highway, in an Summer flowers on comb or on velvet bands in Grants big new collection! is stationed at the Armored Replacement Training Center, Fort Knox Ky. Mrs. Preston Lupolt, 546 South Seventh Street. ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, London, June 9 (U.R) Text of communique No. 7: Allied troops have continued to make progress in all sectors despite further reinforcements of German armor.

Landings have continued on all beaches and by-passed strongpoints of enemy resistance are being steadily reduced. During yesterday there was desultory firing from some coastal batteries which were again silended by gunfire from Allied warships. Allied aircraft continued to support naval and land forces yesterday by attacks on a variety of tar apparent drive to cut the Normandy U.S. Armored Units Driving Westward Look cool look pretty with gardenias in your hair! Ideal with slacks or your best date dress. Mounted on a comb.

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In cleaning out the sector between Caen and Bayeux, the Canadians were forced to fight for each house and each street in some of the dozen Normandy towns overrun by them in a swift advance. Artillery rushed into the beachheads by both sea and air finally cracked the enemy's resistance. Front dispatches said the Ger-( mans were probing the Canadian perimeter with 30 to 35 tanks at a time in preparation for a full-scale counter-attack, but Canadian tanks and massed artillery firmly entrenched on slopes beyond Bayeux threw back each thrust. A three-hour tank battle was reported in one sector. German reinforcements were revealed to be moving up steadily all around the Allied beachheads despite a rain of bombs, bullets and even rockets from thousands of Allied planes.

Reconnaissance pilots said in some places the enemy was using horse-drawn vehicles, presumably because of a shortage of abandon Cherbourg, one of the principal harbors on the French coast and railhead of a trunk line Mortgages in Past Five to Pans. General Dwight D. Eisenhower' seventh communiaue of the inva area against stiff German resistance and counter- Northern France caused a reduction in the scale of air operations. Our heavy bombers in strong force attacked railway targets and airfields beyond the battle area. Yesterday morning they were escorted by medium forces of fighters.

These and other fighters strafea ground targets shooting down 31 enemy aircraft and destroying more than a score on the ground. From these operations three bombers and 24 fighters are missing. Medium bombers attacked a road bridge over the Seine at Vernon and fighter bombers struck at troop and transport concentrations, gun positions, amored vehicles and railway and road targets behind the battle line. Fighters patrolled over shipping and the assault area. Twenty-one Years Greater Than in 1939 sion renorted that American.

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Landings continued on both the American and British-Canadian beachheads and by-passed enemy strong points were being reduced steadily. The Berlin dispatch to the Stockholm Aftonbladet said the Germans feared a linking of the two beachheads the Americans between Carentan and Cherbourg and the British empire between Bayeux and a point west of the Orne estuary was imminent. Such a junction, the dispatch quoted the Germans as saying, would make the Nazi situation "very difficult" and perhaps force the abandonment of Cherbourg. The German-controlled Scandinavian telegraph bureau, also in a Berlin dispatch, reported that tank spearheads from General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's forces were approaching St.

Lo, 20 miles inland, after violent battles six miles southwest of Bayeux and at the Seulle River, southeast of Bayeux. The German communique said only that tank columns had advanced southwest and six miles west of Bayeux. It also acknowledged that American forces near St. Mere-Eglise, seven miles northwest of Carentan on the main road to Cherbourg, had "gained ground in the face of stubborn resistance." Radio Vichy reported "new massive landings" by Allied paratroops and glider-borne forces near Fa-laise, some 20 miles south of Caen, and the Nazi DNB agency estimated that the arrival of additional reinforcements by both air and sea last Summer Toiletries Buy your Summer beauty aids now and save at these low Grant pricesl y9 en in sizable numbers, the spokesman said, the total now running into four figures. The weather, one of the knottiest problems of the invasion, took a slight turn for the worse early today, the wind kicking in briskly from the southwest.

The word at supreme headquarters late in the day was that the invasion could be considered "making satisfactory progress." But as Allied beachheads expanded, Nazi resistance stiffened. The weight of armor engaged by both sides was increasing, and the fighting was severe. All enemy thrusts along the battle arc from the neighborhood of Caen to above St. Mere Eglise were held, and ground was gained afterward. (That statement from headquarters suggested the possibility, without clarification, that American and British beachheads had been joined to form a continuous front.) A late report said the Americans were at St.

Formigny, eight miles west-northwest of Bayeux, Wednesday evening and presumably they had advanced since then. The capture of Bayeux by British forces was announced yesterday. At the same time it was announced that new gains had been scored in the advance from Bayeux. The Canadian Third Division was revealed to be taking part in the Allied advance. Canadian officers and men were engaged in the initial parachute landings.

A front dispatch said the original British and Canadian landings were made in the regions of Bernieres sur Mer, 11 miles north of Caen and 10 miles west of the Orne estuary. Bernieres was captured, along with a number of other places. An advance unit of the United PAY-AS-YOU-GO CHECKS" mortgage phase of the FHA program got under way, amounted to $1,428,000,000 excluisve of HOLC refinancing," they said. "The European war, with its step-ping-up of business activity and the five years during which it has been the dominant factor have been accompanied by feverish new highs in the prosperity of the nation, and a concomitant expansion in home mortgage lending," they said. Vote Canvass Chairmen Named (Continued from Page One) The first consignment of canvassers' cards to be used in securing names and addresses of men and women in service was received by the CDC several days ago.

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