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44v Mg 719aid 44 TWELVE I- 41 FORT WORTH Friday June 9 1944 'z7 vkA 4t A 31 ERICANS MARCH AMERICAN SOLDIERS with their rifles ready and alert for hnmediate action plunge through the surf onto the through small French town beach along the Normandy coast of France during the op ening of the invasion (AP) to t9'1 a 7 eet'airlillftow 'SP 4 )4 01 il 1 I 7 4e Wexpid zpts Peatetized 44f 4k 4 41: t- i I ItVi 'Ira -4 'V- 4 i 4 -I'': TVELVE FORT WORTH Friday June 9 1944 44A-i 14 si ::7: i IX '9 1: 7 -''W' 1 1 tt 5 vcA- ts05- 0 ii: i I- 1: 4 i- 04 A 14- -'4 i I memo-4 A100P1001011101101N 1114' Isito 401 4 o-i I 4 l'1- 6 -it 41- '47' 4 040ifhdis' i 1 4 -'4 i tik '-1' 4 4 :4 1 -9W f'''' iikiti 7 ii( kr 1r 'e its II 'INCA 4 )4 moo lIftre09 tIttopoijiave 4' olkt 4 -p104- 7 41 it 4 of 1'''' -Iiii 4 0 1i all'Ilit -4 1 4 e-: 4 -0 I-- A 4- ---0-- -t 01i9-4---- 4(- 1: 1 li -q: 111401Z-: 4i0- 'f- "--C 10 tr: '4'k 4 'dial fo 1 i or -44 A 1 4 i 4 4011 4 i--t 41r''S'eilrir '4-4 4004 11 -o ''7 -41': 11-'' 4 11 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the landing on the French coast of Normandy (Signal Corps Photo) VP) 'mow' ''et CANADIAN SOLDIERS wounded in landings await removal to casualty station Pillbox in background (INS) 3eZkilio Aiat Sgilt amMoillinlinanksr AWNWAWSQ- Rifstakc Press Wirepttoto American paratroopers display a Nazi flag captured shortly after they landed behind the German lines in France NOW00An00100W000 FDR Tells Air Ace He's 'Mighty Young Major' NitSlAIAIRC11 N101D1ERS 04) jt CFI 'vf 4t rv i' 4 4 Nif "9 fper- Arp-A-- 'to 1 etot--Ir' lokr --e 364k -xntt 4pltit bkiti 111 I 4 j1t4b011 A 4 tA le4 IOW lior Na tift 4 '1 t--- 'i Ilettdi 04A4 4 ss 1' A 0 IL 11 FILES OF AlTERICAN ASSAULT TROOPS move inland in long lines as inore inva- 1) 1 --1 PI 400-17 'I sion fi ghtMg men go ashore in landing craft and mechanized equipment moves in Na 1-p4 r71' a A fr ti with them in the landing On the rench coast of Normandy (Signal Corps Photo) (P) 14 't4 i 's It A 1 ro I k- 1 0 1'" Aai'1' -si v--i'041-trj) ---40--- 111iv: I liv4' 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rol ii CANADIAN SOLI)IERS m'ounded in iandings avvait re- vnovai to casualty station l'ilibox in' background (INS) FDR Tells Air Ace He's 00 My ight Yo jo ung Mar' Ls 1 1 16 Playgrounds Open Programs for Summer 16 Playgrounds Open Programs el Senate Group Votes Pay Hike for Doughboy senate Group VotesPay Hi ke TN 1 1 Tough Glider Pilot Tells Of Paratroop Landings Glider Pilot Tells Tough li in I Press Wire photo German prisoners captured in France march through an English coastal town on their way to an internment camp WASHINGTON June 9 (INS) Maj Robert Johnson air ace who shook hands with President Roosevelt was telling his friends about it Friday The flier credited with haying shot down 27 German planes may get credit for another which he shot at and saw falling but did not see strike the ground "You look mighty young to be a major" the President said "Good luck to you" 'tne ruler creutieu VIM nav ing shot down 27 German planes get credit for another which he shot at and saw falling but did not see strike the ground "You look mighty young to be a major" the President said "Good luck to you" WASIIINGTON June 9 (INS) Maj Robert Johnson air ace mho shook hands (sith President They Agreed If Was iNazia Dead Left Time for a Divorce Court clerks blinked Friday 111 Disorderly when they read a man's petition for divorce and agreed he was one entitled to ithdrawal Court clerks blinked Friday when they read a man's petition for divorce and agreed he was titled to one en Is! Division Is Still Living Up to Its Fame IluLL 1-11L If 111 Up to Its Fame Through a typographical error the man alleged he had lived LONDON June 9 (i-T1)--The men xith his wife from April 8 of the 1st Division and the 1014 to May 1 1944 British 50th Northumbrian Divi-' Sixteen summer playgrounds been opened by the City Recmay reation Departmcnt Glenn Wilcox is in charge of these grounds where children vitt be supervised in sports and art crafts from 8:30 a rn to noon and from 3 to 7 In! Singing and ring games sand craft and clay modeling will be of- fered small children tion Building will be held to Sheller Dancing classes at the Recrea- dilly from 8:30 am to 12:30 un- 1 000 Refugee der the supervision of Mrs Dora- thy Brandt assisted by Miss Nancy-belle Webster Evening classes in 'ballroom and jitterbug dancing WASHINGTON June 9 01---1 will be held for adults President Roosevelt said Friday' Tumbling classes directed by 1000 European war refugees will Wilcox will be held at the Recreabe brought to this country and tion Building on Wednesday and housed in an unused military es- Saturday mornings Rhythm classes tablishment at Fort Ontario near will be offered to children on the Oswego playgrounds by Miss Sudie Hooper Thp ntip lInosevelt 1 Misl Marie Welsh will instruct to Sheller 1000 Refugees The one thousand Roosevelt! Miss Marie Welsh will instruct BY RICHARD 31cMILLAN (Representing the Combined Allied Press) WITH THE ALLIED INVASION ARMY IN FRANCE June 8 (A)) Germans got out of here so fast they didn't even stop to bury their dead Forty-eight hours after the invasion assault the biggest phenome sion who spearheaded the Allied inx asion from the sea into France acific Flier were measuring up Friday to their great traditions of gallantry Fighting in the van was no new 1Back in experience for these division It has been their custom to lead the way irst Lt Walter A Beneke Three times these two divisions of Orange nephew of Mr have fought side by side They did IS Beneke of 2911 Cantey and Cantey and 5 11 non of the battle of Western rope still is the amazing lac Nazi resistance in this lame large lack of slice I SUPREME HEADQUARTERS1g1ider pilots led paratroop andl WASHINGTON June 9 Allied Expeditionary Force June infantry combat teams The Senate Military Affairs Corn- 9 bloodshot eyes formed into pools and split ul mittee reported favorably Friday and a heavy growth of beard Cold before fanning out to take our a measure giving the doughboy 'a Bagby of Evanston Ill 9th objectives I pay increase for combat duty Troop Carrier Command glider 'Our airborne engineers already The pay increase would apply pilot and paratroop authority who I are working on landing strips: only to infantrymen under regujumped with the first wave of 'Glider pilots being more familiar lations to be drawn up by SecreS paratroopers in the invasion' with Nv i currents and other de-1 tary Stimson who indorsed the was back in England Friday to re- tails pertinent to air activity are i measure port on airborne troop activities 'directing the work on these 6trips' Foot soldiers who engaged in Colonel Bagby completely ex -I Six feet tall and weighing 1901 actual combat would receive $10 hausted from his experiences Is Colonel Bagby a "rough la month more and a "combat in-the first parachutist to return to 1 and tough" ex-football Player who fantryman" badge while $5 a England from the Battle of Nor- is 48 pears old looked every inch! would go to the man "premandy but others are expected to a commando when he returned I paring for combat" who received return during the next few days from the Battle of Normandy the "expert infantryman" award Fatigued from exertion and Ile had not slept sine the morn- The committee approved the lack of sleep for the last 79 hours lug of June 5 and had not shaved i measure introduced by Chairman Colonel Bagby declared that the night before of North Carolina in 9tics gliders and paratroops land-I It was his first parachute jump preference to one sponsored by ed in their designated areas with and he made it "to learn first Senator Tobey of New Hampshire "uncanny precision" 'hand the effectiveness of the Al- giving a 50 per cent pay -increase "Cloud formations completely 'lied troop carrier airborne inva- for combat duty to all service men masked our operations from the I sion thrust" and women not already covered enemy until we were right over by special pay provisions our drop zones" he said "Direct-1 ly over the drop areas holes in tWCTU Gets Report Toby said he would try to amend Reynolds' bill on the Senate the clouds gave us the opportunity floor in an effort to broaden and to land safely and the moon ill- on Local Option increase the pay provisions luminated the entire target area' Maj Gen Miller White chief "The whole thing was done with a lot less confusion than a train Reports on petitions for a local of personnel told the committee election and on participa-Ithat the Army wished to make the ing exercise" he said tion in the Fifth War Loan drive Infantry combat soldier "the chain Colonel Bagby reported that the 1 paratroops captured bridges via-1 were made at the meeting of the of the service" by giving him addi- lfIorris Sheppard Chapter WCTU tional "fight pay" ducts German gun positions pill-1 morning at First Baptist Tobey insisted that the 50 per boxes road junctions and other! 'Cli rch cent additional pay now given to military objectives and "with very II members of the Air Forces Sub-little opposit ion" Mrs Andrew McCampbell (Ili- "Casualties among our boys were (rid marine Service and Parachute president urged further work I Corps should go also to others so light it was almost tinbeliev- on the local option election peti- the actual fighting" able" he said tions in which the organization is After capturing their initial ob-lco-operating with the General MinI jectives the paratroopers linked 1 isters' Association Bond sales and 111 Movable Material up with ground troops which made purchases were discussed by Mrs: landings from the sea several hours' William Tatum district vice pres-l later he said 'Went A vote was passed to Holland Evacuated Colonel Bagby said the 9th troop Istitute a day at the Red Cross surcarrier glider pilots who landed Igical dressing room for the annual airborne infantry troops and picnic in July LONDON June 9 an authorities began a hurried equipment shortly after the para- Discussion of plans for circula evacuation of all movable raw ma-troopers had jumped began fight- lion of petitions calling on enforce- terial stocks finished goods and ing the Germans just like regular ment officers to close any gam-lequipment from occupied Holland immediately infantry bling places that may exist in Fort -m diately after the Allied in vasion of France began a Tass "In many cases" be said was postponed csA 17: LONDON June 9 (INS)--German authorities began a hurried evacuation of all movable raw material stocks finished goods and equipment from occupied Holland immediately after the Allied invasion of France began a Tass At before in the deserts of North Africa and then in the mountains of Sicily The 1st Division formerly was part of the American 5th Army and the Northumbrians part of the British 8th Army A 1 11w -40414054 Eastern Outfit i tnan a year as i an A-24 fighter Originally most of the boys in 1- ii- i the 1st came from the East bun- 1 531st Dive Bom 44 dreds of them from Brooklyn but 4 lot with the it has had so many replacements a me Squadron it now is an all-American outfit i in the 'i H--'-' Sou The Northumbrian Division con- thwest Paci- fie sists of sturdy fighters from the ind-swept pastures of England For wounds 's 4 North ake Country I received on his Men of the 1st Division are de- i last mission termined to equal the record of BENEKE when he had to their predecessors of the last 'return to his base in a flaming It's a man-sized ambition for the Lieutenant Beneke has been -Fighting First" of World War 1 the Purple Heart lie also as the first American division to 1years the Distinguished Flying go into action in France It took CVETY objective assigned to it dur- and Air Medar with two in 1917 and 1918 and captured I(lusters 100 German prisoners for every Last April in llonolulu be mar-man the Germans took from the Iried Miss Eleanor Schnitzer of division iNew i l'I'SPV who is with him at New Jersey who is with him at than a year as an A-24 fighter pilot with the 531st Dive Born- Squadron a ua di -oi he ti Southwest l'aci- fie For wounds' received on his last issi oni when he had to in a flaming' Lieneke has been Heart Ile also iguished Flying ledar with two onolulu be mar- Schnitzer of is with him at ti 11 005::4 rieltd413P-A 410 "-Plo' said represented the total num-lart classes at Trinity Park each ber of refugees now destined for I Monday and Friday Sycamore this country I Park each Tuesday and the RecreaIn a cablegram to Ambassador lion Building Wednesdays and Sat-Robert Murphy in Algiers the urdays Sketching trips will be President disclosed that refugees I made every Thursday starting from southern Italy are being mov from the Trinity Park Shelter ed to temporary havens in the House mediterranean area Tennis classes directed bk Miss The President said that refugees Mary Parsons and swimming still are pouring out of the battle classes under the general super-zones making new problems forIvision of Frank Gummi director military The capacity of refugee Of first aid swimming and life say-camps overseas is being stepped ing for the Red Cross will be of-up from 25000 to 40000 persons feted throughout the summer and new camps are being created Swimming classes will begin June Refugee areas are being estab- 20 at municipal -pools in Forest lished at Casablanca to held Marine Sycamore i i French 'refees out of Spain and Meadowbrook and Dixie parks havens are being arranged else- Free park movies will be providwhere along the Mediterranean ed week night at two of the following locations: Capps Marine Sylvania Hillside Itidglea Rose- Dawson Again Heads mont and Trail Drivers parks NV Stripling Junior High School Baptist Peace Group and Liberator Village In co-operation with the Little Theater the WACO June 9 (p) Pat Recreation Department will pre- Neff president of the Southern sent plays free to the public in Baptist Convention Friday reap- park amphitheaters during the man 17 of te chair- summer Regular rehearsals will ther begin next week under the direcPeace Committee tion of William Gonder Dawson will preside over the Directors for park playgrounds meeting of his group in Nashville are Dorothy Wilkinson Rosemont next week after which a state- Viola Tucker Marine Clara Conment will be issued on the corn- lee Trail Drivers Flora Lay Armittee's demand in the peace nold Ann Vinson Ripley Arnold terms for religious liberty includ- Velma Aven Sylvania Martha Toting the right to teach and evan- bert Sycamore Bettie Iledgpeth gelize Hillside Dorothy Michael Meadow 410 wood Mary Blanche Dixie Rose First Aid Courses Set Mae Stephenson Butler Place and Verdie Gratts Lincoln Two Red Cross first aid courses Those supervising playground will begin Monday A standard work at public school grounds are course to be taught by Mrs Mar-Jchn Chandler Arlington Heights garetCaskey will start at 7 mlclementary Vinsen Strain Amon at the County Health Center and Carter Riverside High and Billyelu an advanced class will meet at 7:30 Henderson I) McRae Elementary 1 in at the First Precbyterian 'Connie Merrick will direct flay-Church annex Walt Etolenberger activities at the Recreation will be the instructor (Building I of French soil around Bayeux Mrs Boyd which the Allies have liberated of 2835 Fifth By letting us grab off Bayeux a Ave has re- vital point on the Bayeux-Caen turned to the highway the enemy's troops far- States after I ther out on the penin: serving or sula have been placed in grave danger Why didn't the eneriny trY to hold out? One theory expressed by officers here is that we stic ceeded in landing so much ma- guns and other the Germans are withdrawing their isolated panzer units to mass them for a resound- ing counter-attack i They may be But meanwhile the Allies are consolidating their on the very considerable chunk of territory we've already sliced off and it seems unlikely that the Nazis would be able to resist the steel jaws that we are closing upon them This does not look like an orderly withdrawal The bodies of Germans litter the countryside around deliriously-joyful Bayeux The men who manned their coastal defenses gave up the fight in the first round and our deep penetrai tion inland followed Coastal defenses which I examined lacked method in construction as Ail as continuity They also sorely needed guns of adequate caliber Those Germans who could get away simply took to their hells Someone Temarked: "Who would ever believe that the second front would be like maneuvers on Sailspanese bury plain in peacetime?" Everyone was asking: "Where is the Luftwaffe?" Back on the beaches thousands of supply yes-dress sets are disgorging infantry di visions stores munitions gasoline and food with the regularity of an English port in Pace time It all seems very mysterious message from Stockholm said Friday Rolling stock had been specially set aside for this purpose the news agency said adding that "this unceremonious plunder has been conducted with the help of Dutch Nazi leader Anton Mussert" convalescing three con- three General's Son Escapes by Bashing German on Head Landed in Africa IMiami Beach where he Is In this war the 1st landed in N'a les i Non Africa Nov 8 1942 and Beneke has been in service ti took Oran For many weary bat- 1Years ties in Tunisia it was the only in- i fantry force on the American front Ex-Prisoner of Japs Dies to prevent a Nazi break-through 1 IC il- A I iliAC A 11 Miami Beach where he is Bencke has been in service to prevent a an oreaK-tnrougni OSKALOOSA Iowa June 9 ere he is in service Japs Dies June 9 1 1 ti13) Then it helped in the battles which broke the German hold on I Dr Cecil Warren Troxel 54 of awa (P) Troxel 54 of BY LOU AZRAEL beginner companies to land was i Baltimore News-Post Correspondent! SU rprised by the Germans as he 'a' of Beaten Child Free SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE' was heading away from the beach: land sent back under guard 1 A 27-year-o1d mother Friday had June 8 (Delayed) (INS)Capt After a short time the from city jail after John Lee junior son of Lieu-inearest him began piling up earth Iher war worker husband had prom-tenant General Lee deputy corn-Ito Make an enclosure Capt Lee lised welfare authorities she would mander to Gen Dwight i Eisen-1 grabbed his shovel and knocked repeat severe beatings of their hower was captured by Germansi him unconscious He then picked17-year-o1d son On an invasion beach and escaped the German's rifle and ran to 1 Police had arrested the woman by knocking his guard on the head 1 a roadside embankment and brought the child to the city with a shovel it was learned lie remained in that region ly- department after half-Friday i jug in a foxhole until the coast neighbors reported the boy Ills capture occurred on clear Then he rejoined hiswas being subjected to hard beat-Lee captain of one of the iing The boy was returned home Mateur and Bizerte and ended Hit- Chicago for 40 years a missionary ler's North African hopes China and for two years a In Sicily less than two months afterward the division stopped the prisoner of the Japanese died Fri- prt Hermann Goering Division barely 1 day at University Park- Iowa of 1000 yards from the landing a stroke suffered Thursday beaches and then captured 18 Dr Troxel had gone to Univertowns in the next 37 days Isity Park- to address the Iowa It landed in England Nov Holiness camp meeting He 1943 Its total battle casualties he- returned to the United States last fore the present engagement were year aboard the exchange liner listed at 6885 Gripsholm ars a missionary or two years a died Fri- Park Iowa of Thursday gone to Univer- the Iowa up meeting He 'nited States last exchange liner 1 1 I i.