The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

i i RVTJIERFORD COUNTY THE WEATHER 1, Fair tonight. Tuesday, consider- able cloudiness, -scattered after Dairying Cehter of the South lnoorLihundershowers. COUNTY'S SINCE 1845 Volume 95 No. 89 Associated Press Wire Service Murf reesboro, Monday Afternoon, June 12, 1944 By Carrier, Per Week 20c Single Copy Se i xr jr I i "SI First Chapter Of Invasion-By Land And Air Finn Lines Beaten Nazis -aiik Beaihiead Carentan Falls Civilian D-Day Marks Opening Of Bond Drive Today is Civilian D-Day in-America. A11.

over the United States, communities swung into action in the Fifth War Loan drive, supporting the invasion with bond purchases. Official opening of the drive will Germans Admit Loss Of Key City; Front Now 60 Miles Long Aifv rhoPpel Ells fst 1 HarTLwa Jf BELLE lb 2Sj vV AJours STATUTI MllfS Blackened area on Normandy beachhead indicaUs approximate area the four day after D-Day, as continued Allied aerial bombardments belt and area' heavily bombed throughout the weeks preceding the Changsha Eiicircled; Under Heav Attack BreakUnder Red Attack Soviet Trobps Pour Into Karelian Isthmus Through Break In Mahnerheim Defenses; By the United Press Unbroken columns of Russian tanks, guns, -and troops are pouring Finland's shattered Mannerheim Line. The Red army is reported pursuing the Finns so closely they are unable to blow' up roads, and bridges. A front dispatch in Pravda Communist party newspaper said huge. Soviet forces are speeding through a yawning gap in the Karelian Isthmus defenses.

The ou rn al repredneraL ieon id Govorov commander of the -new offensive" opened the -drive "with an earth-shaking bombardment of enemy positions. The shelling left the. Finnish survivors dazed and unable The most concentrated attack was leveled against the steel and concrete fort at Beio Ostrov. The Russians moved up guns within 1,200 yards of the bastion's main turrets. The shels tore deeper and deeper into the fort- and gradu-aly sielnced the Finish guns.

The next morning Govorov's guns opened up along the entire front. They ripped ud barbed wire entanglements, filled trenches with earth, and Wasted out gun emplacements. This bombardment went on for three "hours and then Soviet tanks and infantry stormed forward. They met stiff resistance at first near the coast iut Finns quickly abandoned their positions. NcnaeESnhish army fled northward to' escape 'entrapment.

The Red army then plunged ahead 15 miles to within 48 miles of their first big objective the town of Viip'uri. Soviet troops cap--4urtmore than-80-towns andviK lages in the course of their advance. Among them are the important stronghold of Terijoki nine miles below the Leningrad to Helsinki railroad; and Karva-la -r- 33 miles above Leningrad. Significance Of Blood Plasma Tag Day Explained The Daughters of the American Revolution are sponsoring a blood plasma dr'ive whioh is nation-wide in its scopes-Each chapter is ask- ed to participate. In 1943 a tag day was held in Memphis, and this year the DAR chapters in Middle Tennessee "are cooperating with tag Realizing that the public is farniliar with various other tag days and drives which are held annually, the Colonel Hardy Murfree Chapter of the DAR decided that there was a heed to" sponsor a publicity program pre-, ceding this tag day drive in order to familiarize and inform the public as to its meaning.

The second of a series of talks by people "Various occupations who can contribute different viewpoints occurs tonight at the Princes theater through the cour-t of the a a San-ford Cox. The Rev. Hugh Riley, minister of the Central Christian church, speaks at 9 o'clock, presenting the views of a teacher of the gospel. He will be presented by Mrs. John Woodfin, Jr.

Miss Louise Robinson was heard Fri day giving the views of a Japan ese prisoner of war. Other speakers will be announced later. In pursuance of the policy of familiarizing the public, the Colonel Hardy Murfree Chapter of the DAR contacted the heads of the various civic organizations of (Continued on Page Eight) French General Weygand Said Shot By Nazis London, June 12 UPh-A British dispatch from Switzerland said French officers imprisoned by the Germans have been told that their former. General Maxime Weygand, was shot while attempting to escape. Weygand became commander of Allied armies just before the fall of France.

Hevsucceeded Genera? Maurice Gustav eamelin after the FleeAtTop Speed hi Italy By the United Press Allied troops in Italy are step p'ing up the pace of their furious assaults on the beaten German 10th and 14th armies. Til British Imperials inhot pur: suit of the 10th. The Nazis are retfeatingTattbp speed along a front stretching from the east bank of the Tiber 30 miles, above Rome to the mouth of the Pes-cara river on the Adriatic coast. They are trying fcaticaJly to escape encirclement by the Allied 8th Army in the central and east era Appenines. The British have completely cleared the enemy from the south bank of the Pescara jjver.

They are preparing for a full-scale thrust across the stream. The Nazi 14th army has suc- rtumbed to as-terrible -a-fateas can befall any military unit in- war. General Clark's men have turned it from a great powerful battle force into a mass of isolated bands fighting each other to the death or cars and trucks. The army has ceased to exist as an organized formation. Its scattered- Surviving fragments have only one thought: To grab some "kind of avehicle by which to escape.

The Germans are fleeing on foot and in horse-drawn farm carts and only Weak rear guard detachments "sometimes stop and turn around to fight. They are promptly wiped out. At least 20,000 crack troops of the 14th already haveVbeen captured by the Allied Fifth Army. Our troops are smashing ahead brilliantly over coastal and mbun-tain highways 51 to 70 air miles "aboveKome. They are approach-, ing the port of Orbetello some 90 road miles beyond the capital.

And 40 miles inland from the west coast other- Filth Army spearheads lunged 16 miles beyond fallen Viterbo. The Allies are now two thirds way-p the Italian pentn- sula and less than 90 miles from the city of Florence. Strong formations of Allied figh ter-bombers are supporting the lsnd advance vigorously, They strafed the enemy's road columns continuously and struck hard at bridges and communications tar gets- Best Weather Since D-Day Aids Aerial Support London, June i2 (JP) The seventh day of fighting has been marked by the best weather since D-Day, and the. greatest aerial More than 10,000 sorties had been flown by the middle of the afternoon, following RAF-blastings of Berlin and French rail lihes during the nit.t. Every type of plane rortwRAF Spitfire to American Flying Fortresses was in action in cloudless skies.

Targets included German-air fields, troop and supply columns and rail lines as deep in France as 100 miles behind the fighting fronts. New Allied landing fields in Normandy were used repeatedly by. fighter planes, thus saving a roundtrip flight of 200 miles home to Britain. German resistance inthe air was the strongest since the invasion began. However, EigHth Air Force Headquarters announced as darkness- fell "over" tTieChannel that" American pilots had succeeded, for the most part, in carrying out their dive-bombing and strafing missions behind the German lines.

An RAF officer has disclosed! that every- bridge between Rouen and Paris is either down or damaged as a result of air attack. 'The Germans are using ferries. Three From Slate Die In Action Washington, June 12, (UP) The War department made public today the names' of 1,511 United States soldiers killed in action. Included were, from the European area, three Tennesseana Moore, Sgt Henry Jr. Memphis.

Stanford, 2nd Lt. Thomas N. Murf reesboro. Waller, SSgt. Robert W.

Memphis. FIRST METHODIST PRAYER SERVICE i- The Revr Hugh Riley, pastor of the Central Christian church, will conduct the Wednesday evening prayer service at the First Methodist church. Mrs. Thomas McFerrin will give a solo and lead the singing. The pastor, the Rev.

Willard H. Blue. Is attending the Pastor's School at Springs where he serves I as Dean of the school. hp ton ight, when-Presiden Roose velt will address the nation over a countrywide hookup at 9 o'clock, CWT. His address will be part of an' hour-long progranvvhich has been arranged to mark the start of tfie'Jjetmpaign for 16 billion in War Bond purchases.

Rutherford county today was underway on its drive for a goal of one million, five, thousand dollars. County rural committees have been and quotas have been announced for each community. These for the coun- for Murf reesboro: Named today was the following with assisting ny or all community committees in reaching their' quotas: Wade Stockard, chairman, Ivan Brown, Frnest Jordan, Ennis Harris and Wcldon Taylor. A town committee will be named at a meeting to be held tonight, arid will be announced tomorrow, R. T.

Belli county chairman, said. rostwar mismess Must Employ 54 Million People Washington, June 12 (AP)4-The Senate's special postwar planning committee has issued its report on anticipated conditions after the war. The Senate group said full employment for-between 54 and 56 million people must be available in the postwar period. The committee said that this means business and. industry in the United States must employ eight to ten million more people in the postwar period than have ever been employed before in peacetime, even if we keep two or three million men in the -armed forces.

The Senate group estimates present employment in this country at about 50,000,000 persons, not counting those in uniform. The committee expects about of those now working to quit after the war, with discharged veterans filling the gap. The Senate group warned that even then, we must have -more people in more jobs than ever before in order to enjoy real prosperity. The comrnittee warned that the toughest job period will be the six months- period -justr af -r ter the war, when war- workers are discharged and veterans "'come' back." The Senate group listed much greater gross national pro duction than ever before as the solution. Last Riles Held For Andrew James Mullins Smyrna Funeral services-were held this morning or Andrew James Mullins, 53, who passed away Friday night- at a -Nash-vile hospital, from the LaVergne Church of Christ.

Brother Raymond Sanford conducted the rites and interment was in Cityview cemetery. Mr. Mullins is survived, by his wife, Mrs. Ada Hayes Mullins; his mother Mrs. Annie Mullins of LaVergne; five Mrs.

J. J. Trotter of Nolensville, Mrs. Tommy Rose of Joelton, Mrs. Hickman Higdon of Murfreesborto, Mrs.

Raymond Cline of LaVergne, and Mrs; Luther Meadows of Walton's Creek, four sons, Freeman of LaVergne, Thomas of Nol-ensville Robert of Gary, and Andrew, IT. S. Navy Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Mamie Gotto of Mt. Juliet Mrs.

J. B. Smith of Smyrna and Miss Beulah Mullins of Estill Springs; two brothers, iee of and Tom of Texas, and 14 grandchildren. Pallbearers were Walter CaCrJier, Claude Potts, Roy, Blair, Clarence Thohias, Warmuth Blair, and Bill Thomas. Arrangements were in charge of the Hoover funerarhome.

BRITISH DIPLOMAT, TALKS WITH FRANCO New York, June 12 (AP) The British ambassador to Spain has had a conference with (Seneral Franco. London radio said sador Sir Samuel Hoare todav had a long talk" with Franco. Sir Samuel is said to have returned recently, to Madrid. 1 Nevs Briefs (By The Associated Press) Madrid, (AP) Advices from Spain reveal that Vichy authority in Southern France is disintegrating except where: it Is close to Cerman protection. French underground forces ar? cutting communications between enemy garri-sons.

The- Germans have pro claimed that Frenchmen resisting the Nazis, will be executed when captured, (UP) A Nazi news agency says the Alies have thrown 20' seaborne ancTfive airborne divisions, or more than 350-thousand troops into beachhead. The enemy broadcast calls this one third cf tu.e Allied invasion forces stationed in Britain. Those, of course, are'German figures. London, (UP) Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey, the- Allied-naval has returned to London" after visiting Allied assault area and said he is very satisfied with Allied" progress. However, he -said "The invasion was made -under 'the-worst possiblecon-ditions." But the weather over the Channel is running in the Allies favor today with clear sunny skies artd a smooth sea.

Washington (AP) The biggest news in Washington -is thebelief "that pla hs are" already underway for a Washington, meeting this suhnmpr of American, British, Russian arid Chinese representatives. United Nations discuss in detail the formation of an international "se curity organization to keep the peace when this war is New York, (AP) The British radio says that Marshal Erwin Rommel is bringing up reserves" beyond the Normandy beachhead front as quickly as the Allied air forces will allow. The broadcast adds that when this larger force the invasion campaign will turn overaI "new leaf. London- (AP) The favorite phrase at Supreme Aljied Headquarters is "sober satisfaction." At least 600 square miles of France are firmly in our. hands and gains can now be exploited inland.

Aboard United States port Off France (UP)4-A man from Omaha has tiirned up on an American beachhead as a prisoner of war.NHe has'Tderi tified himself as Claude Merri-man. He says he fought with the American Army in World War I. Merriman married a French girl -who persuaded him to settle down in France. When the Nazis Tnvaded "France, tdey conscripted him into a labor gang building fortifications. Naval officials say there is no -doubt he is happy to be a prisoner.

116 NURSES' ARRIVE ON WESTERN FRONT New York, June 12 (UP) One hundred and sixteen Amrican purses are reported to have arrived on the western front. An American radio newsman said when padded figures wearing two layers of men's uniforms waded ashore, soldiers bilnked thf if 'eyes "and scarcely believed they could be girls. The nurses did not take time to change clothing before starting to care for the wounded. Most of the girls are from the Middle West. Some already have seen front line service in Africa and Italy.

Margaret. Stanville of Haiti, was the first nurse ashore. INVASION KEEPS CENSORS BUSY Supreme Invasion Headquarters, June 12 (AP) -Censors scrutinized 2,500,000. words in the first five days of the invasion. An official estimated they deleted an average of less than one word from every hundred.

They also viewed 35,000 still pictures and 106,000 feet of. movie film. Franee, (U P) American invasion troops have captured Carentan key German base on the Cherbourg peninsula. Press war corres pondent Henry Gorrell, In a ispatcJirmT! thejroiii, re veals that the base fell to American shock troops at 8:30 a.m. today after an aff night fierce battle through its streets.

By the-Associated Press American forces have taken a long stride through the cracking German lines in the middle of the Normandy beachhead to reach a 18 miles inland. The landing strips stretching along 60 miles of coastline have been transformed into a full-blown front. The United States troops driving for the communications hub of St. Lo have captured the whole forest of Cerisy. The Ameri- cans converging on St.

Lo from the north and east are less thart nine miles away. In this area, the new second front has pressed its maximum- depth Berlin-: said" British formations are concentrating" in the Balleroy area, 2 miles inland, flanking Cerisy forest on the east. The British would be in position to aid the American drive on St. Lo. Supreme Headquarters bras now confirmed tan, fall of which has beeri acknowledged by the German high-command.

Flooded Carentan is the key traffic bottleneck the tottering French port of Cherbourg. Carentan guards the narrowest neck of the peninsula. Headquarters revealed that the Americans are within 14 miles of Cherbourg from the southeast. The-doughboys tiave punched halfway across the cape threatened to seal off the. tip.

Headquarters tells of further gains around Montebourg, southeast of Cherbourg. A Berlin broadcast described seaborne forces landing at St. Vaast La Hogue, 15 miles east of the port. Enemy radio accounts say Caen is menaced by encirclement. Caen is the eastern bastion on.

the French front. British troops are sid to have smashed nine miles east of the city. A front dispatch dated yesterday placed Allied troops within a few miles" of Caen after once blasting the Germans out of 'the TURKS DETAIN NAZI SHIP London, June 12 (AP) The Turks are said to have detained a German war transport at the Black Sea entrance to the Bos-phorus. The British radio quoted dispatches from Istanbul to that effect. WSA MEN IN FRANCE London, June 12 (AP)-War Shipping administration employes have reached France.

They are directing the control and movement of merchant shipping and British-bound convoys from the Normandy beachhead. Jeep Survived Glider Crash; Named Flak Happy With the Ninth Air Force-Carrier Command, France June 12 (UP) A sentry call "ed the Sergeant of the guard on a beachhead northwest of Carentan and reported "It looks like a secret weapon approaching." The sergeant had a look and replied, "Let it pass; that's a flak happy jeep." Thus the jeep, the first' to 7 gain renown among American troops on Cherbourg peninsula, was christened Flak Happy. The jeep had been abandoned by tfrdnance men when a glider lying troops and equipment behind the lines cracked up. But Second Lieut. Charles George of Seminole, Texas, found the machine In the wrecked glider and repaired it so well that it provided transportation for 12 glider pilots back to the beachhead to be evacuated for further mis- sions.

captured by Allies at the end of struck at objectives in shaded first landing on the continent. OWI Broadcasts Invasion Report To Europeans London, June 12 (AP) The director of the overseas branch of the Offjce of War Information, RoberfSherwbod, has broadcast a special message to Europe. Sherwood termed, the attack upon the Atlantic Wall as successful so far. Headded'thatrtltedeTfeTalship is beating the German high command at its own game. Sherwood made his broadcast over the American and British stations in Europe.

He declared that the developments of the past syeek in France were in fulfillment of the plans'- made at Teheran. He said the assault was at 1 least part of the master plan for the defeat of Hitler's Germany. Added Sherwood, "Hitler and the German high command underestimated Allied courage, daring and imagination." He said the Germans have learned differently now and Other lessqjis will follow. The OWI official said that although the" Gefmanhigh command has been warning, of invasion or monthsVthe Nazis never really believed that the Allies would try it. Dougliboys Under Merciless Fire Took Carentaii With United States Assault Troops Outside Carentan, June 12 (UP) American force's battled for Carentan against fanatical German paratroops.

An eyewitness account by United Press correspondent Henry Gorrell says United States assault troops dug theNazis of concrete -pilN boxes like terriers going after rabbits. Gorreii watched the doughboys move in against the fire of rifles, mortars and if rocket guns. He said the rocket projectiles come over with an unearthly scream that makes you think the shells are aimed right at the back of your neck. The 'correspondent watched" American soldiers move up to take their places in this bitter fighting. He said their eyes were fixed forward tdward the battle and xheir faces were grim with antici- These infantrymen didn't seem to hear the screaming Gorrell said th'e GI's don't duck unless a shell is really headed in their -direction.

Then they just sort of -hunch their shoulders like boxer. 1 The war in France 7s making these boys veterans. In walking-across a field, Gorrell noticed an amazing contrast to the surging battle, A Norman peasant woman, with a frilled lace cap and apron, was calmly milking a cow as if the war were a thousand miles off. -Yet, a short distance away lay ff hal-dozen dead German soldiers, Seconds later, the correspondent had to duck for hla life when a- German -88-mm shell exploded nearby. WEATHER FACTS -Temperature at 1 p.m.

87." Highest last 24 hours, 95. Lowest last 24 hours, 69. Sun rises tomorrow, 5:25. Sun sets today. 8:04.

FDR Says Nazis Still Pursue Mass Extermination Washington, June 12 (AP)J President Roosevelt said today that Nazi realization that the Germans have lost the war has made them determined to complete their mass Tha President, told Congress that" as the final Nazi defeat approaches, "TJie fury of their insane desire to wipe out the Jewish race in Europe continues undiminished." Roosevelt said arti-Jewish Nazi measures are but one exnple. Headded that many Christian groms-Akoare being murdered. The President sent Congress a report, on arrangements about caring for war refugees. Het termed the extermination program just one manifestation of Hitler's aim to salvage victory for. Nazi principles, front military defeat.

Mr. Roosevelt said the Nazi prinplesareJtheViiieswhich. the war must destroy unless we shal. have. fou ght in In the report on the care of war refugees, the Chief Executive outlined arrangements to bring 1,000 refuges to this country for temporary shelter in military camp near" Oswego, N.

Y. Mr. Roosevelt said the refugees" will be returned to their homeland-after the war. Congress Hopes For Early Recess Washington, June 12 (UP) House and Senate leaders are Joying to-clear-the -way for- an early Congressional recess. They hope to work- but some 'fiTftngemerit so that all vital legislation can be disposed of within the next two weeks.

This would permit Congress to recess just before the Republican national convention opens in Chicago on June 26. The recess would end afterthe-close of the-Democratie convention, probably about July 2.1. The most serious obstacle to the recess plans is legislation to extend price control. The Senate-approved bill, now before the House, is violently opposed by the Administration because of the sharp restrictive amendments contained in it. The price 6ntr61 act, the basis of the OPA, is now scheduled to expire by June 30? Elsewhere in Washington, the War Production board announces that it will control the assignment of manpower in the cotton textile industry The WPB will grade cotton products in terms of their essential need.

New labor will be recruited into those cotton mills producing the" most necessary items. i Seven Temiesseans 1 Missing In Action Washington, June 12 (UP) The War department today announced the names cf 597 United States soldiers missing in action. Included were the following Ten-nesseans, in European area: TSgt. Howard H. Mathis, Johnson City; TSgt.

James R. Radford. Memphis; Sgt. Eugene Wolf, Nashville; SSgt. Eugene E.

Wright;" Nashville- In' the -Mediterranean area: SSgt. Cannon Allen, Nashville; James F. Heiskell, Spring City; Sgt. James M. Igou, Chattanooga.

By the Associated Press i The key Chinese city of Changsha apparently has been encircled by the Japs. An indication tothis effect appeared in "today's communique from Chungking, which told of the Hunan province capital being attacked- constantly from all directions. Chinese defenders have beqi ordered to. fight to the last, man. And, so far, the ChU nese have repulsed enerny attempts to cross a river ithe Liuyang) about six miles directly east of Changsha.

is an important link in the long railroad running bS-tyeea Hankow in the north to Canton in the south. The Jap's all-out drive against the city evidently is part of the enemy's over-all campaign to create its own "West Wall" in China, thus sealing off eastern China as buffer protection for the Nipponese home islands. This could be accomplished if the Japs gain control" t.hi railway between Hankow and Canton. In addition to the Jap drive southward in the Changshft area, the enemy also is pushing northward in new offensive along the railroad from Canton. The situation is becoming so serious that Major General Claire phennault or the American 14th" Air Forcelias declared that the Jap'anese war could: be prolonged for years if the Japs, manage to build a defensive wall along the railway.

The news is much more favorable from other Pacific and far eastern fronts. In northern Bur-mahe main Japanese base of Myitkyina is all but Lieutenant jGeneral StilwelTfe forces are pushing deeper into the city. On the southwest China end of the Burma road, the Chinese have scored the biggest success of their Salween river offensive by the capture of Lungling. New Rules On Sale Of Used Cars Outlined All used passengert cars arelae-ing brought under price control effective July 10, the Office Of Price Administration has announced. All sellers, both private individuals and licensed automobile dealers, pome under the program.

The OPA District Office at Nashville is setting up machinery to administer the program and will soon supply the local War Price and Rationing Board withrfull information, including tables giving the ceiling prices for all makes and models, Director Sam M-Boney says. Major points in the used car regulation are: 1. Specific dollars and. cents prices at the levels of January, 1944, are. set up by model and body types for 23 makes and about 6,000 models of passenger cars manufactured from 1937 through 1942.

2. Two types of ceilngs are set for each model and body type: an "as is" price and a "warranty" price. 3. Ceilings will drop at the rate of four per cent of the "as Is" price every six 4. When a sale has been completed, the buyer and the seller must fill out a transfer certificate and turn this in to the.buyer's local (Continued on Page 8) 11 9.

disastrous German break-through in May, 1940. General Weygand disappeared when the Nazis overran southern France In November, 1942, after -the Allied landings in North rica. There was some talk that the 1 77-year-old general was arrested as a hostage for General Henri Oiraud, who had escaped from the Nazis and Africa. ti.