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THE WEATHER High yesterday 97 Low today 65 Rainfall Season (Airport) R.01 Your ago (Airport) D.fit Season (Land fi.io Tear ago (Land Company) 11.46 rair and warm. FOR VICTORY! Buy More War Bonds, Stamps Vol. 56 TWO SECTIONS BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1944 16 PAGES No. 266 Nazis on Run From Rome to Tyrrhenian Sea With Small Resistance; 2000 Surrender to British, Enemy Blows Up Tiber Bridges in Rout NAPLES, June 6. Of 1 Pietro Badoglio dissolved his Italian government today and was charged by Crown Prince Umber to with forming a new government to include political leaders in Rome, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, June 6.

Allied Fifth Army drove the battered Germans in disorderly retreat across the Tiber river on a 17-mile front from Rome to the Tyrrhenian sea today and sent powerful armored columns 5 miles beyond the river under orders to destroy the fleeing enemy. Front dispatches said Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's broken Fourteenth Arjny was offering only the feeblest sort of rear-guard resistance as the Allied tanks and riflemen burst across the winding Tiber at score of points north and west of Rome. At many points the enemy retreat had turned into a disorganized rout under the raking fire of Allied planes and tanks, and 2000 Nazis threw down their arms and surrendered to a fast-rolling 1 British column that trapped them on the east bank of the river, near the sea coast. Every bridge across the Tiber below Rome had been blown up by the fleeing Germans, but 11 of the 14 main spans inside the capital were intact and Allied troops were crossing in a steady stream. Only in the northeastern outskirts of Rome did the Germans offer any resistance.

A force of enemy tanks was reported battling desperately around the Littoria airport in an attempt to stem the swift Allied advance long enough for the main body of Kesselring's troops to escape. By-Pass Vatican TRUSTGHARGES LOAN FIRMS 13 CHAINS ACCUSED OF FIXING INTEREST WASHINGTON, June 6. Thirteen chains of loan companies in the south and west, involving 40 corporations and 75 individuals, and operating more than 400 offices, were charged today with conspiracy to violate the Sherman antitrust act by agreeing to fix interest rates. Wendell Berge, assistant attorney general in charge of the anti-trust division, said the case "represents only one phase of the general investigation now being conducted by the anti-trust division into violations of the anti-trust laws in banking and credit fields. This Investigation is continuing." The indictment asserts that the defendants conspired to create "slush funds" by assessing individual units and offices owned by them and to use the funds in influencing members of state legislatures and city councils not to interfere with the high-rate loan business.

The indictment also charges that the chains employed public officials, including state legislators as agents to oppose enactments of regulatory laws in states where the high-rate small loan chains operate. Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that a federal grand jury in San Antonio, Texas, has returned an indictment charging that the defendants conspired to maintain interest rates and charges ranging all the way from 60 per cent to 1000 per cent a year on loans of $5 to $60. The indictment charges that in a majority of loans, the interest rates and charges ranged from 120 per cent to 240 per cent a year. The defendants operate in 23 states from the Carolinas to the Pacific coast. Index to Advertisers Official sources said the Vatican had been by-passed in all Allied operations in and around the city.

"With the capture of Rome, the Allied armies in Italy have brought another phase of their campaign to a most successful conclusion, a communique said. "The battle to destroy the enemy continues without pause. Troops of the Fifth Army are now crossing the Tiber at many places and have advanced some 5 miles beyond." French troops on the Fifth Army's right flank knifed deep into the hills east of Rome, seizing the highway junction of Tivoli, 16 miles outside the capital. The French thrust threatened the line of retreat for tens of thousands of German Tenth army troops falling back slowly before the British Eighth Army in the mountainous country north and east of the Via Casilina. Continuous Front The Eighth and Fifth Army fronts were linked In a continuous front winding 70 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian coast, through Rome and Continued on Page Five DEN EIRE pod Liver ETH Rotterdam Plymouth Arros Rouen Beau Cotn Rhe Oman Louenfr Mtl Cho Romilly BRtNNER LAN BoliOno ITALY INVASION ON Havre, great French port at the mouth of the Seine river, Allied troops swarmed ashore under cover of naval fire, paratroopers and the greatest aerial cover the world has ever seen to open the long-awaited invasion.

First news indicated the progress was satisfactory. Truk, Ponape, I INVA Marshalls Hit in New Raids ENEMY LOSES 20 SHIPS IN TWO DAYS, SUBS WN 16 VESSELS PEARL HARBOR, June 6. Army, navy and marine air forces, ranging over a 1000-mile front in the central Pacific, attacked Truk, Ponape, Nauru and the Marshalls in a series of seven raids Saturday, Sunday and Monday, a Pacific fleet announcement said today. By Associated Press Destruction of Japan's dwindling seapower mounted today with General Douglas Mac Arthur's announcement of sinking a destroyer and the enemy's total losses to 20 ships in two days. Liberator bombers potted the Japanese destroyer off Halmahera and the freighter was bagged in New Guinea waters.

Other planes from MacArthur's command left a second destroyer dead in the water. Six Japanese columns tightened around Changsha, key city on the Hankow-Canton railway in China's Hunan provinces. American invaders outflanked the Japanese defenders and cut in on Biak island's Mokmer airfield from two directions. Booth's Brock's Citizens Cuiiiton Rock Laundry John Dorsey, Jimmy East Side Cleaners Flickinger-Digier Fox Theaters Frank Meat Compan 4 Granada Theater Hopson Mortuary Ivern Furniture Judds 7 KERN 12 Kern Fish Market 7 KPMC Urn, T. 0 McMahan's 7 Montgomery Ward 4 Nile Phillips Music Company 12 Potato Growers ,7 JL HCcl Sears, Roebuck 7 Sierra Sketches 12 Union Cemetery 15 Vaught's Tailoring Service 6 F.

W. Post No. 1468 13 Virginia Theater ..13 8, 11 3 SPOTLIGHT FOCUSES UPON of the world rest upon General Dwight D. Eisenhower since news that troops under command of the supreme commander Allied invasion forces landed in France, established beachheads in Normandy and leaped some of the first hurdles in the road to complete victory. LONDON, June 6.

German DNB news agency reported tonight that Marshal Karl von Runstedt and Marshal Erwin Rommel, Nazi commanders in western Europe, "are on the spot of the developments." STOCKHOLM, June 6. from Denmark said today that German troops in the protectorate have been ordered on an invasion alert since early morning. SAN FRANCISCO, June 6. National Broadcasting Company said today it had not heard Tokyo radio since 11:55 a. m.

(Pacific war time) but the Office of War Information said it had no indication the station was off the air. The OWI said the only station recorded, as not broadcasting was Saigon, French Indo-China. LONDON, June 6. Wilhelm Hansteen, commander-in-chief the Norwegian underground, broadcast an order to all organized fighting groups inside Norway today to "be prepared to take part in the great settlement." WASHINGTON, June 6. the European invasion "up to schedule," President Roosevelt announced today the loss of two United States destroyers and an LST (landing ship, tanks) in the first push.

These covered ships reported lost "up to noon today," he told his news conference, adding: Aircraft losses were approximately 1 per cent. LONDON, June 6. than 640 naval guns, ranging from 4-inch to 16-inch, are bombarding the French beaches and enemy strong points in support of the Allied armies, Allied supreme headquarters announced today. LONDON, June 6, German Transocean news agency said today that Allied paratroops were landing on the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, west of the Norman peninsula. LONDON, June 6.

(U.P)—Casualties among Allied airborne troops descending on France have been light, supreme headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces, announced today. LONDON, June 6. German Transocean new agency acknowledged today that the Allies had gained footholds on several islands off the coast of France LONDON, June 6. (U.R)—DNB, German news agency, acknoweldged today that Allied tanks had penetrated several kilometers between the towns of Caen and Isigny on the Normandy peninsula. LONDON, June 6.

German Transocean news agency said today that about 80 medium-sized Allied warships were approaching the town of Oiiistreham in the estuary of the Orne LONDON, June 6. German Transocean news agency said today that a battle was in progres sin the English channel north of Le Havre between German naval units and Allied forces attempting to make a landing. Continued on Paire Five Yank, British, Canadian Forces Win Complete Air Control in Hour, Shore Batteries Silenced, Barges Push Into Orne, Vire River Estuaries, Tanks Cut Inland 10 Miles at Caen By VIKGIL P1NKLEY United Press War Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, LONDON, June British and Canadian invasion forces landed in northwestern France today, establishing beachheads in Normandy, and by evening had "gotten over the first five or six hurdles" in the greatest amphibious assault of all time. Prime Minister Winston Churchill re vealed that Allied troops were fighting 1 i inside Caen, miles inside northwest France, that the invasion penetrations had reached several miles in depth in some cases, and that footholds had been established on a broad front as the operation proceeded "in a thoroughly satisfactory manner." General Dwight D. Eisenhower's supreme headquarters revealed that the Allied armies, carried and supported by 4000 ships and 11,000 planes, encountered con; siderably less resistance than had been expected in the storm- R.

to Lead Prayer for Invaders PRESIDENT SUMMONS CHIEFS FOR INVASION PARLEY By LVLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent June Admiral Ernest J. King, commander of the United States fleet, said after a conference with President Roosevelt today that the invasion of Europe is "doing- all right so far." Air. Roosevelt conferred with King, General George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and TEXT OF I'llAYKK Text of President Roosevelt's invasion prayer will be found on page 9.

General H. H. Arnold, commander of the army air forces, for an hour and a half. The service commander.s and the President went over the latest information and analyzed it. When they came out of the White House Marshall was asked, "How is the invasion going?" "I can't make any statement," the general told reporters.

"You know all about it." Doing All Right however, said, "It's doing all right, so far." The President had been up much of the night, following the Allied invasion of western Kurope Continued on Page Eleven King, I) HAY NAMESAKE NORFOLK, June ti. Dee Day Edwards was the name given today to Randolph here. to a and daughter born Alice Edwards NAVY FLIERS KILLED SAX DIEGO, June 0. An undetermined number of naval fliers were killed and injured today when a Liberator bomber crashed and exploded at the Camp Kearney Air Base, 15 miles northeast of here, the Eleventh announced. aval District DEBT LIFT AI'l'ROVED WASHINGTON, June (i.

The Senate today approved compromise legislation raising the public debt limit from $210.000000,000 and cutting the cabaret tax from 30 to 20 per cent. The House still must approve the conference committee version before, tixe bill goes to President Roosevelt. A. F. L.

BARGAINING GROUP WASHINGTON. June 6, The International Association of Machinists, Lodge 824. A. F. has been selected as collective bargaining representative for production and maintenance employes of the Rheem Manufacturing Company, Richmond, the National Relations Board announced today.

ing of Adolf Hitler's vaunted west wall. Nazi Broadcasts reported Allied troops pouring ashore most of the day along a broad reach of the Norman coast and to the east, and admitted that invasion landing barges had penetrated two estuaries behind the Atlantic wall. The apparent key to the lightness of the Nazi opposition to invasion forces opening the battle of Europe was tained in a disclosure that thousands of Allied planes dropped than 11,2000 tons of: more bombs on German coastal fortifications in eight and a YV ALllC half hours last night and early today. As massive air fleets took over complete command of the skies over (he invasion zone, Reh'hsmurshal Hermann Cioering issued an order of the day to his air force declaring that the invasion "must he fought off, even if it menus the death of the luff- wnfTe." Late in the day Prime Minister Winston Churchill, milking hiw second statement of tho day to commons, the invasion was proceeding- "in thoroughly satisfactory manner." Earlier he told commons it was going "according to plan and what a plan." Simultaneously the German DNB News Agency reported that the invasion I'ront "has been further widened." Nazis broadcasts throughout the day old of the amphibious assault developing on a grand scale, with fighting as deep as in miles figure apparently extended by the last enemy report. 21-lluiir Delay Supreme headquarters revealed late in the day that bad weather had forced 24-hour postponement of the invasion.

The Allied command i gave the go-ahead order last night despite strong northwest winds and Continued on Pago Two Enemy Scene at Hour WATCHES TROOPS HIT BEACH FROM PLANE, SEES PARATROOPS LAND By RICHARD C. HOTTELETT cMemlns the Combined S. Networks) LONDON, June 6. watched the first landing barges hit the beach exactly on the minute oC H-Hour. I was in a Ninth Air Force Marauder flying at 4500 feot along Ul) miles of the invasion coast.

From what I could see in these first few minutes, there was nothing stopping the assault parties from getting ashore. I spent about half an hour over enemy territory. We flew over and bombed some of tho coastal fortifications but except for light flak from inland positions, and from some types firing at us. we saw no enemy gunfire. The only other sign of life in enemy territory were some white and yellow parachutes dotting the ground where our parachutists had hit.

The weather was favorable to the operation. Heaviest Bomber Assault of War Precedes Landings LUX DOX. urn- C. than 1DOO K. A.

K. heavy bombers struck the mightiest blow of the war ut the chain of German batteries along the northern coast of France lust night and early today just before the Allied invasion. Ten waves of 100 or more four- engined raiders each swept across the channel starting at 11:30 p. rn. und continuing until first assault troops stormed ashore at daybreak.

Many 1 the German gun nests were blanketed by thick cloud formations, but the British bombers sent their blockbusters crashing down dead on the targets through flare rings dropped by their pathfinder planes. Throughout the night the skies over the channel reverberated to the ceaseless beat of Allied planes and the roar of exploding bombs rolled back-to the British coast. While the British heavies smashed at the coast, swarms of Allied me- dium bombers ranged over the network of road and rail lines leading up to the channel forts, bombing und strafing bridges, embankments, highway junctions and other key points in the complex German communications system. Convoys and strings of parked enemy truck were blown sky-high, In an attempt to choke off the fiow of supplies and reinforcements to the invasion front. Returning pilots reported, however, that there was very little movement on the highways and rail lines throughout the night.

SEEK ESCAPED CONVICT MARYSVILLE, June 6. OD Police today were searching: for AU- niore C. Brown, 25, Los Angeles, of two San Quentin convict a who overpowered their guards whilp en- route to the prison from Qulncy after escaping from a state-operated county forest i IL 'r Ir'.