The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 1

Evening Citizen HE 101st Year. No. 311. Sunday: Cooler. Sun rose at 5.13: Sets at SSi.

OTTAWA. CANADA, SATURDAY. JUNE 17, 1944. 22 Pages. 3 Cents.

CrOoODTl fo) rmd Ms "Spits" Leading Defence Against Robot Raiders Allied Position East Of Orne River Steady In Face Of Onslaught 4 M' aAM i Thinks Huns Trying To Leave Cherbourg A VS. FIGHTER BASE IN ENGLAND, June 17. CAP) An American fighter pilot said today he believed German troops are attempting to avacu-ate the Cherbourg Peninsula to escape the trap being closed around them by American troops. Capt. James Barnhardt of Rutherford College.

N.C.. said he saw German trucks and staff cars moving southward over the narrowing strip between the advancing Americans and the west coast of the peninsula. "I think they want to get out of there, but our troops are moving in fast," he said. AIRBORNE INVADERS Tow planes and gliders of the 9th U.S.A.A.F. circle fields on Cherbourg peninsula for landing.

Of a number already landed, some did so safely, others crashed, with casualties. Outstanding Feats Of 3rd Canadian Division Troops From the Dominion Proved Their Mettle in First Six Days of Invasion, And Now With Eleven Days of Hard Fighting Behind Them, Are Ready For Next Move in Gigantic Battle. OFF TO THE CHASE A grim sort of "hunt club" meet is now a popular outdoor sport in Italy. The scene above, in Rome, shows a group of anti-Fascists, armed with rifles and shotguns, about to set out on a hunt for Fascists and collaborationists who went into hiding when Allies occupied Italian capital. Allied Communique No.

23 French Force Battling Foe On Elba Isle Troops Landed on Spot Best Known as Place of Napoleon's Exile. ROME, June 17. (AP) French forces landed today on the island of Elba, once the place of exile of Napoleon, and have secured it for the Allies, Allied headquarters announced today. ROME, June 17 (AP) French forces landed today on the island of Elba, best known as the place of exile for Napoleon but valuable to the Allies because of its proximity to already-occupied Corsica. A special Allied communique said tersely that a "detachment of the French Army 'B which was commanded by Gen.

de Lattre de Tasigny, at the direction of the supreme Allied commander, landed successfully on the, island of Elba." A D.N.B. broadcast dispatch, recorded in London by the Associated Press, said landings were made at both the southern and northern ends of the islands. Fighting Raging "Fighting is still going on," D.N.B. said. On the mainland Just opposite Elba, the Fifth Army yesterday captured Grosseto, nearly 100 airline miles north of Rome.

D.N.B. said one landing was made just west of Portoferraio, the Island's major city. For months the Allies have controlled the island of Corsica, some 40 miles to the west of Elba. The dispatch said that "at 3 o'clock this morning the enemy landed with 60 landing craft in the south of the island of Elba. "A short while later the enemy made several air attacks and at the same time further landings from the sea were made in the north of the island, west of Porto Serraio, and on the southeastern coast of Elba.

"Fierce fighting has flared up particularly around battery emplacements and the fighting is still going on." Started Career Here, John S. Allen Passes LONDON. June 17 (CP) John Samuel Allen, well-known Ontario railwayman, died at his home here yesterday. He started his railway career at Ottawa with the old Canada At lantic Railway and in 1918 transferred to the eastern line of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Sudbury as division master me chanic. He later held that position at Ottawa, Schreiber, Brownville Junction, Maine and Montreal, coming to London in 1934.

He also worked at Carlton Junction, Chap leau and North Bay. Dive Through Ack-Ack Fire To Get Planes One German "Buzz-Bomb" Wrecks Nurses' Home, Killing Several. Group Trapped in Cellar Saved After Six-Hour Digging. By James F. KInr LONDON.

June 17 (AP) Ger many's new explosive robot plane, dispatched across the English Channel In weather that sharply reduced Allied air activity, struck blindly in parts of southern Ens-land in intermittent attacks through the night and momlcs hours today. Several persons were killed and a number injured when one of the fire-spitting projectUes made a direct hit on a nurses home at a hospital. Rescuers said ther thought a number of persons were buried. Trapped in Cellar Another wreckiKl a shop, trapping four people for six hours In the cellar. Firemen had to fight flames before rescue squads could start digging, and when the four were released, water in the cellar almost reached their necks.

During the night, British planei, following in the path of American heavy bombers late yesterday, struck the Pas-de-Calals coast the region from which the robots are believed launched. Fast German night fighter-bombers also rumbled through the English skies, ducking in and out of the clouds and dropping flares in apparent attempt to confuse British defences, but rockets from ack-ack batteries plunged steadily upward and a number of the pilot-less craft were reported crashed. Flocked Into Shelters Putting caution before curiosity, people of southern England flocked into bomb shelters, most of which were jammed throughout the night. Even as the Germans were send ing over scores of the small unmanned craft. American heavy bombers were pounding military installations in the Pas-de-Calais area, generally believed to be trie robot launching grounds.

(Concluded on Tafe 12. Col. Capture More Italian Towns 8th Army Makes Contact With Partisan Forces. ROME. June 17 (AP) Allied armies in Italy are continuing their rapid strikes, headquarters announced today, with British 8th Army formations sweeping on to Foligno, about 28 airline miles north of Terni.

whose capture was announced only yesterday. Spoleto and Trevl. both on highway 3 between Terni and FoUgno. also were captured. In the Adriatic sector, other units of the 8th Army made contact with partisan forces who already were in possession of Teramo, 16 miles from the Adriatic coast and 33 airline miles northwest of Pescara.

Teramo is 45 miles northwest of Ortona. captured by Canadian forces last December. 100 Miles North On the west coast American troops of the Allied 5th Army have c.vptured Grosseto, nearly 100 airline miles northwest of Rome and on the mainland opposite Elba. Other forces pushed 12 miles north of Orvieto. Sixty-five to 75 miles up the peninsula from Grosseto Is Pisa, the west anchor of the Pisa-Florence-Rimini line at which the Germans may take a stand against the Allied armies, the naval base of Livorno, and the city of Florence.

Grosseto, with its airport facilities, is expected to be of immediate value for air attack on German-prepared positions in the northern Apennines, whose foothills come down to these cities. 3Ir. William PaftHes On in Toronto Mrs. Agnes Roberts Mitchell of 221 Patterson avenue died at tht residence of her son. James R.

Mitchell, of 2 Wilberton road. Toronto, yesterday. She was 63 years of age. Born in Scotland, she came to Ottawa in 1914. She was predeceased by her husband, William Mitchell, in July 1941.

She was a member of St. Giles Presbyterian church. The survivors are four sons, James, Toronto: William. Montreal, and Johnnnd Alec of Ottawa. One grandson lives in Torpnto.

The funeral service will be In the Hulse and Playfalr funeral home, 315 McLeod street, Monday afternoon at three o'clock, wita Rev. K. Markell officiating. The Weather TORONTO. June 17 'CP Forecast: Ottawa and Upper St.

Lawrence Valleys: Moderate winos. partly cloudy and somewhat cooler tonight and most of Sunday. To Houseclcan Says Coldwcll Arriving Here C.C.F. Parly Lender Asserts Non-Political Civil Servants in Saskatchewan Sure of By Austin F. Cross There's going to be some house-cleaning In Saskatchewan that's the message given out by M.

J. Coldwell. C.C.F. party chieftain, as he stepped off a plane this morning, triumphant, after a whirlwind campaign in Saskatchewan. At the same time, he said non-political civil servants were i sure of their jobs.

Another feature of his brief statement, in an interview with The Evening Citizen, was that he has politically counted ten over John Bracken, as far as his being a political force in Saskatchewan is concerned. "The Liberal press of Saskatchewan," he said at another time, "were our best help In the campaign." It was a tired man, but a mentally buoyant one, that stepped oil the silver TCA plane this morning at Uplands. He looked like a man who had slept in the plane all night. But this outer rim of fatigue could not conceal the gleam of satisfaction in his eye. the repressed thrill that he seemed to feel when a little group of stal warts turned up to meet him.

Clarence Gillis, rough and tum ble miner-member from Cape Bre ton, created the informal note when he exclaimed: "What a poli tician!" A Froud Daughter Miss Coldwell, his daughter, threw her arms enthusiastically about her father's neck. "Oh, daddy," she said, but she meant volumes more. She was a proud daughter of a successful father. Greeting him also were William Bryce. new M.P.

for Selkirk; Walter local" high school teacher and prospective candidate next election in Ottawa West: A. D. Macdonald, parliamentary secretary to Mr. Coldwell; Miss Margaret Telford of the secretariat; Miss Agnes Anderson, Mr. Cold- well's secretary, and Mrs.

Frances Druland, Mr. Macdonald's secre tary. "What about it?" asked The Evening Citizen, as Mr. Coldwell walked from the plane. "What about what?" parried Mr.

Coldwell. Then he was asked what he thought was responsible for the landslide. "Our campaign was a good one. he began. "We educated the electorate.

The people knew exactly what they were voting for. But if they didn't, then the local press did it for them." Mr. Coldwell remarked that the best campaigners he had were "the Liberal press." He was grateful for their help, he remarked, ironically. (Concluded on Page 12, Col. 6.) Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, 28-1, Winner of Derby NEWMARKET.

EnRland. June 17 (CP) Ocean Swell, a lowly regarded outsider owned by Lord Roscbery, won England's fifth wartime Derby today at odds of 28 to 1 In an exciting finish with Tehran and Happy Landing, who finished second and third. The Aga Khan's Tehran started at 8-1 and Walter Hutchinson's Happy Landing at 22-1. Major David Will's favorite, Growing Confidence, which started at 9-2, ran out of the money. Ocean Swell, a bay colt by Blue Peter out of Jiffy, with W.

Nevett up, took the lead less than a half-mile from home in Britain's top cla.sslc for three-year-olds, and stood off Tehran's blazing finish to win by a neck. Happy Landintr was also closlnK fast at the finish, showing by a head. Time was 2.31. Favorite Finishes 10th Garden Path winner of the 2,000 Guineas and the only filly in the" field of 20 was pre-race favorite, being quoted as low as 6-1 in call-overs this week, but failed in the stretch and finished 10th. just in front of Growing Confidence.

Tehran, with E. Smith aboard, and Happy Landing, ridden by R. A. Jones, were lying fifth and sixth behind Ramcses, Orestes and Garden Path when Ocean Swell moved into the lead, but they swirled past tiring horses in the stretch to stage a finishing drive to catch the winner that brought a rolling roar of excitement from the crowd of more than 10,000. Victory in this fifth wartime Derby the race normally is run at Epsom Downs brought Lord Rosebery a purse of about $23,600.

Tehran paid 2-1 to place and Happy Landing returned a little better than 5-1 to show. American Troops Move? Closer to Hun Last Cherbourg Laml Link. Had Weather Delays Unloading Operations. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS. Allied Expeditionary Force, June 17 (CP) British troops on the Allied bridgehead east of the Orne river repulsed two strong German counter-attacks and the American thrust across the Cherbourg peninsula moved slowly closer to the enemy's last land link with Cherbourg, headquarters reports said today.

Meanwhile bad weather and rough seas hampered unloading of hips and other operations and mare it unlikely the Allies would attempt to mount a full-scale attack until the weather improves and they can use their air superiority to the full. Today's SHAEF communique reported only slight activity along the 100-mile beachhead front, although the German attacks east of the Orne river were described as heavy and "extremely costly" to the enemy. These attacks were aimed at penetrating Allied positions at Breville and Escoville, respectively eight and six miles northeast of Caen. (The German high command claimed Nazi counter-attacks had regained the greater part of the forest area south of Bavent, 3 miles north of Troarn, in the sector east of the Orne.) Local Advances In the center of the Normandy bridgehead, British armor and Infantry punch out local advances despite heavy opposition between Caumont and Tilly sur Seulles. South of Caumont British units have thrust inland more than '20 miles the deepest penetration anywhere.

0 Sidney Mason. Reuter correspondent at SHAEF, said Tilly, east of Caumont and southwest of Caen, was in German hands again. Earlier in the week British armor thrust into the village. The American advance across the Normandy peninsula threatened to turn the port of Cherbourg into another German Sevastopol. (Concluded on Page 12, Col.

4.) Berlin Among Night Targets 33 Bombers Lost in Wide Operations. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, June 17 AP) About 1.000 R.A.F. heavy bombers smashed last night at enemy installations in the Pas de Calais area of France, from where the Germans are believed to' be launching their pllotless planes, while other British formations hammered a synthetic oil plant near Duisburg and targets in Berlin. R.CAJ. heavyweights flew with the RAJ night raiders, sharing in the attacks on a synthetic oil at Sterkrade- in the Ruhr and on the Pas de Calais installations.

Thirty-three Lost Thirty-three bombers were lost, of which two were Canadian, the Air Ministry said. The night blow against Pas de Calais came a few hours after United States heavy bombers In the last hours of daylight yesterday pounded these same installations. Although miserable fl 1 leather once more hampered the air support of the invasion armies yesterday, supreme headquarters said 2,500 sorties were flown by Allied air units about 1,000 of them by American heavy bombers and their escort in the twilight smash at the Pas de Calais. (Concluded on Page 12, Col. 5.) Citizen Features Page i Air Fore Caaualtlr 21 SAmurment 20 Batman and Robin 14 Book Table 13 Bridge 19 Bug Bunny 14 Church Page 8 I Crossword Puzzle 16 I Dick Tracy 15 Financial 12 Fun Pages 14, 15, 1 Gallup Poll 3 Girt Guides 11 Glimpses of Parliament 17 Home Page 4 Lit Abner 14.

Little Benny 22 Mr. and Mrs. 15 Napoleon 15 Once Over Lightly 22 Ppy Diary 22 Badlo 17 Serial Btory 18 I Sewing Lessons 4 I Social, Personal 5, 8 Sports 10, 11 TJucle Ray 13 1 TTnder the Reading Lamp 13 Want Ads 18, 19 Today's Events Dominion Observatory, talks and obserraUons on astronomical subjects. I a.m. to 11 p.m.

Nation' Gallery, open from 10 a.m. tn 5 p.m. week days: Sundays. 2 p.m. 5 nun.

i -a. A- score of towns, throwing back a series of fierce German counterattacks and finally consolidating firmly on the perimeter of the de fences of Caen, vital communica tions hub six miles inland up the Orne river. Prove Their Mettle This involved six days of hard fighting and in the last five days there has been a comparative lull on this sector as the Germans went on the defensive and the Canadians prepared for the next' phase of this operation. These Cana fighting their first battles after long training in England, did everything expected of them and showed their mettle particularly in the stem test on the beaches and in turnin? back heavy blows from enemy armor and infantry in the inland battleground. (Concluded on Tage 2, Col.

1) U.S. Army Casualties In Normandy 15,883 WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCE, June 17. (AP) The American army had 3,283 killed and 12,600 wounded in opening the western front in Normandy, Bradley. ITJ5. field commander, said today.

The total of 15,883 casualties was for the first 11 days of the campaign, and included reports up to midnight last night, Bradley said. Alcohol Causes Deaths of Eight SAINT JOHN. June 17 (CP) Death of five men in hospital today brought the toll of fatalities- from drinking methyl alcohol here in the last two days to eight. A ninth man, it Is reported, may also have died from the same cause. The alcohol, part of a shipment going overseas for the Canadian Red Cross, was said by authorities to have disappeared from a shsd on the waterfront at West Saint John early yesterday.

All the victims were stevedores except one, an Indian crew member, of a freighter, who died yesterday. Eight men were known to have died from alcohol poisoning. Another man died yesterday, apparently from the same cause, but it has not been definitely established that alcohol had brought on his death. Several other men were admitted to hospital after drinking the poison liquor. The condition of one of these was described as serious today.

The "announcement has caused great disappointment among the Romans who had hoped that the Allies would arrive with big trucks of food ready for distribution. AlmoRt As High. Black market prices yesterday were almost as high as In the last cays of the- German occupation. Flour brought $1.50 a pound, sugar sold at the same price and $5 a pound was asked for cocoa. American cigarets issued to soldiers have already found their way into the black market and are selling for 50 cents a pack.

Many thousands are being fed daily in soup kitchens operated by the city with food furnished by the A.M.G. 1 Ross Munro. chief Canadian Press war correspondent in the field, landed on Normandy's flre-swept beaches with the Canadians on D-Day, June 6, and has been with them as they fought their way slowly inli nd against bitter German opposition. Following is a review tf 11 days' campaigning in Fiance by Canada's invasion forces. By Ross Munro WITH THE CANADIANS IN FRANCE, June 17 (CP cable) The Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, commanded bv R.

F. L. Keller of Kelowna, B.C., with Canadian tanks followed up the gallant assault on the coast of Normandy by penetrating inland through more German anti-invasion defences, capturing a Finns Fleeing From Russians Viipuri Being Evacuated As Fall Nears. STOCKHOLM, June 17 (AP) Compulsory evacuation of the Finnish city of Viipuri toward which the Russians are driving with a great weight of men and armor now is in progress, Helsinki dispatches reported today. Refugees also are streaming from other Karelian towns under long-standing plans, dispatches said.

Finnish reports said a large-scale battle was being fought in the vicinity of Siiranmaki. For the first time in the Finnish-Russian war the Red Army was said to be employing rocket cannon. Blowing Up Bridges MOSCOW, June 17 AP) The Finns are blowing up all the bridges on two highways leading to Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus, seeking to halt the Red Army's entry into the city, front dispatches said today. But Soviet capture of the city appeared Inevitable. The rumble of Russian big guns already was echoing strongly in its streets.

"As the offensive develops the battles assume a more violent character," said Red Star correspondent Grigory Ivanov. "All attempts to stop the offensive are failing." With more than 100 newly captured populated points behind them the Russians with strong artillery and bomber support hurled an impressive weight of tanks, tommy-gunners and infantry in massive waves across the Karelian Isthmus. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 17. (CP) Communique No. 23: Allied troops continue their advance with leading elements in St.

Sauveur Le Vicomte. Local advances were made in the face of heavy enemy opposition between Caumont and Tilly. East of Caen a strong enemy attack was off. Throughout yesterday Allied cruisers and destroyers engaged gun batteries which the enemy had established on the eastern bank ol the river Orne. Concentrations of enemy armor northeast of Caen were bombarded by H.M.S.

Ramlllies (Capt. Q. H. Mlddleton, C.B.E., AJJ.C, R.N.). Guerilla Action Flares in France LONDON, June 17.

(CP) Guerilla action has flared up 150 miles south of the Caen battlefield, Spanish border dispatches said today, while underground reports to official French quarters in London declared battles of French patriotis against Vichy militia and German occupation troops were spreading throughout France. Several hundred guerillas, riding in trucks, entered Bressuire Wednesday, isolated the Nazi garrison, then spent four hours wrecking five rail lines that cross the town, and dynamiting roads and bridges, the dispatches said. The raid indicated the guerillas were moving toward the Loire valley in the Saumur and Tours area, where German supply lines are located. The underground reports asserted increasuig numbers of police and gendarmes were deserting to Join resistance forces in Vichy-controlled France. Chrome "Found in Reich LONDON, June 17.

(CP) The Vichy radio relaed today a- Berlin report that Germay was hopeful of becoming independent of all imports of chrome and wolfram, ores vital to the armament industry. "Chrome has been found in Germany now and it is hoped that lost imports can be replaced," the broadcast said. troops normally land equipped on what is called "assault scale" which includes only the merest fraction of transport and a great deal of preliminary infantry fighting has to depend upon what is carried by the man himself. As full fighting scale approaches priorities come into the picture and the administrative and supply side of the operation no longer depends on the preconceived plan. New decisions must be made and often very quickly if troops are to have what they want.

That is the stage now reached and there Is good reason to believe it is working smoothly. Little now remains of the crossroads village of Tilly Sur Seulles where fierce local attacks have been going on in an effort to straighten the British line. The enemy is making the most of every tree, hedge and cornfield, holding on tenaciously, and still (Concluded on Tage 12, Col. 1.) Convoys Keep Crossing. Merchant convoys continue to arrive at the beaches, steadily and in safety.

Adverse weather again restricted air operations yesterday afternoon and evening. Heavy bombers attacked enemy air fields near Paris and Laon, and objectives in Pas De Calais. Railway targets, road transport and tanks behind the battle zone were attacked by fighters and fighter-bombers, and an ammunition dump near Caen by medium bombers. Fighters also flew protective patrols and escorted bombers. During the night our light bombers attacked supply dumps in the Cherbourg Peninsula.

Two enemy aircraft were shot down over Normandy. King Impressed By Allied Project LONDON, June 17. (CP) Returning from his historic visit to the Normandy beaches yesterday, King George last night sent the following message to Gen. Eisenhower, Allied supreme commander: "Today I 'have visited the beaches of Normandy, which will be forever famous. "All that I saw on the journey and on the soil of France has moved me deeply.

I have come home feeling an intense admiration for all those who planned and organized so vast a project, and for the gallant and successful execution of it in all its varied phases, by every one of those now engaged in this great battle." Birthday Overseas Sgt. Bernard A. Hall, R.C.A. M.C., son of Mrs. Hall and the late James Hall, 82 Bell street, has celebrated his 28th birthday in England.

He was formerly employed by Dominion Stores and Gladstone Meat Market. Iceland's President REYKJAVIK. June 17. (AP) Sveim Bjornsson, who has served as regent for the past three years, was chosen today as the first president of Iceland. Death Notices EDGETT At his residence, 103 Broadway avenue, on Friday June 18.

1944, Charles Herbert Edgett, beloved husband of Harriett Delahunt. Funeral at above address on Monday. 19th at 2 p.m. Interment Beechwood ccmeterv. 12 O'GRAnV At Brooklyn.

N.Y.. on Friday. June 18, 1944, Mrs. Matllaa In her 78th year, beloved mother of Leo B. O'Orady.

Resting in the drawing room chapel of the Brady and Harris Residence, 375 Lisgar street. Funeral Monday morning, June 19, to St. Patrick's church for solemn mass of requiem. Burial at Notre Dame cemetery. Time later.

12 WELLINGTON At a local hospital, on Saturday, June 17. 1944, Hugh Wellington, beloved husband of Madalen Conlon, 67 Bosedale Ave. Besting at the parlors of McEvoy 235 Kent cor. Nepean. Funeral Monday, 19th at 8.45 to St.

Margarft Mary's church, for requiem mass at 9 o'clock. Burial at Notre Dame cemetery. 12 i BALDWIN At a local hospital on Friday. June 18. 1944.

Sgt. Edward A. Baldwin, beloved husband of Hilda P. McArthur of 133 McLeod in his 50th year. Resting at Hulse and Play- lalr, 315 McLeod St.

Funeral service In St. John's Anglican church on Monday, the 19th at 2 p.m. Interment Plnecrest cemetery. MITCHELL Suddenly at the residence of her son, Mr. James R.

Mitchell, 2 Wllberton Road. Toronto, on Friday, June 16. 1944, Agnes Roberts, widow of William Mitchell, age 68 years, of 221 Patterson Ottawa. Resting at Hulse and Flay-fair. 315 McLeod street, where service will bo held in the chapel on Monday, 19th inst, at 3 p.m.

Interment Plnecrest cemetery. lt The Times Today: Comment From This Morning's London Tunes, Cabled to Tha Evening Citizen by Us London News Bureau. (Copyright by The Southam Co.) Black Mart Booms Again, Food For Rome Limited LONDON, June 17 With the capture of St. Sauveur and approach to within six miles of Le Kaye, the threat to Cherbourg is substantially though slowly increasing. The enemy must now find communication with the port difficult as the last road is under fire.

Were he to carry out reinforcement he might be throwing good money after bad. He may therefore confine himself to counter-strokes in the direction of Carentan, says The Times military correspondent. On other Normandy fronts continued heavy fighting does not appear to have resulted in any territorial change to speak of in the past 24 hours. In the building up of the Allied invasion force, the stage has now been reached when the question of Just balance becomes the predominating factor in the supply problem. In amphibian operations ROME, June 17.

(AP) Black market prices in Rome, which fell sharply when the 5th Army entered the city, have shot upward again following an announcement by A.M.G. officials that, with the exigencies of war and limited classifications, they could make only a limited amount of relief food available for civilians at present. A.M.G. officials said that more would come later. The bread ration remains for the present the same as it was under the Germans.

100 grams or about a quarter of a pound daily, compared with the Naples ration of 250 grams. ft.