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Sale 49004 LARGEST Daily Circulation Weatherman Says: Fair Forecast for Maine: Fair with lower humidity and fooler except along southeast coast today Full Report I on Pago VOL 54 BANGOR ME TUESDAY JUNE 13 1944 FIVE CENTS Center Of Germans Normandy Line Breached Heavies Spearhead Nazi Scorning Back Of Beachhead Colope Gets Heavy Raid (AP Wirephoto) Fusion Of Beachheads Now Complete By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUAR ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Tuesday June 13 American tanka and Infantry smashed through the center of the German line In Normandy yesterday capturing the Cerisy forest If miles Inland from the sea toppling the stronghold of Carentan after a bitter fight and battling Nazi forces only 14 miles from the prize port of Cherbourg Headquarters said that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel waa using from )4 15 divisions 250000 German troops against the Allied forces but communique No 14 declared: fusion of our beachheads Is now complete and a coastal strip some (50 mile long la firmly In our hands Its depth is being Increased A later official statement also said: 1 enemy has been unable to build up hla attacking forces as rapidly as anticipated At the end of the first week of invasion fighting the Allies have taken more than 10000 prisoners a statement aaid Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery Allied ground commander said some regular Japanese soldiers were among the captives and liie Axis slain but did not explain their presence on the front The seizure of Cerisy forest put American troops near the mid-Nor mandy communications hub of St Lo and was the deepest Inland penetration yet Scored by the AUlea Slight advances were made east of Caen on the Britixh-Canadlan sector on the American left flank headquarters said and "American troops In the Cherbourg peninsula have made further progreaa to the north and in their effort to seal off an 800-aqua re-mile area Including Partial Cost of Invasion Row on row these American boys lie on the bitter sands of the Normandy coast THEY GAVE THEIR YOU GIVE ONLY DOLLARS More graphic more compelling than any words the above AP Wirephoto tells a story that all can grasp BUY WAR BONDS BUY MORE THAN BEFORE Your money bring these boys back to life it can however BACK THE ATTACK that is continuing in France Allied Planes Make 10000 Air Sorties By AUSTIN BEALMEAR SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Tuesday June 13 Cologne was reported by DNB today to have been bombed Just before midnight in an after-dark sequel to daylight invasion attacks Monday in which Allied air fleets flew up to 10000 sorties against German holdings in France Many Nazi-controlled radio stations in France and Germany shut down suggesting widespread activity by the RAF A record 1400 8 heavy bombers participated in the daylight attacks which met rising German Air Force resistance Sixteen enemy airfields and six bridges were among the targets DNB reporting the raid on Cologne Rhineland Industrial city of 750000 which has been bombed 130 times previously said British Aerial Please Turn to Page 2 Japs Included Among Prisoners Taken In France By ROGER GREENE WITH ALLIED TROOPS IN FRANCE June 11 (Delayed) (AP) Sir Bernard Montgomery announced tonight that approximately 7000 prisoners have been captured in the battle In France including some Japanese "A great many of the enemy have been killed" Gen Montgomery added in a statement at a press conference The Japanese regular soldiers not merely observers were fighting alongside their Axis partners Montgomery said and small numbers of them have already been taken prisoner and others killed Outspokenly pleased with the feats of American troops Montgomery said the where the landing of the Americans took place east of the Carentan estuary was found being defended by a German division which was not a coastal division It was a very good division and fought very well German prisoners said the division had just been brought up from behind to thicken the crust of the coastal defenses and it actually was in the process of carrying out exercises when the Americans attacked "There was very heavy fighting on that American beach all D-day swaying back and forth and by the end of the day the Americans were not more than 100 yards inland and were hanging on by their eyelids Prisoners Please Turn to Page 2 CARENTAN STRONGHOLD In bitter the German held city of Carentan and are now within was also bombed as an after sequel to daylight invasion fleets flew up to 10000 sorties fighting Allied forces crashed 14 miles of Cherbourg Cologne attacks in which Allied aerial Marianas Blasted For Second Day By CHARLES McMURTRY PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS Pearl Harbor June 12 tlnued American carrier planes and Caen east of the Cerisy forest tine port of Cherbourg i Fierce fighting between British and enemy armored units con-brtween Tilly-sur-SeuIles Japs Will Fold Faster Than Expected Says FDR By HOWARD FLIEGER WASHINGTON June 12 (AP) President Roosevelt said tonight we can force the Japanese unconditional surrender or to national suicide much more rapidly than has been thought The President speaking on a national radio program opening the $16000000000 Fifth War Loan drive said our original strategy of eliminating Germany first and then turning our full war strength into the Pacific can hasten the day of victory on all fronts Germany he said is on the list for and added: has her back against the in fact three walls at once the we have broken the German hold on central Italy On the east our gallant Soviet allies have driven the enemy back from the lands which were invaded three years ago Great Soviet armies are now initiating crushing blows head vast Allied air fleets of bombers and fighters have been waging a bitter air war over Ger- By GAYLE TALBOT Associated Press War Editor American troops lauded by Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery for their bravery have captured the German stronghold of Carentan at the nariowest pait of the Cher- Ernie Pyle Describes Readying Invasion Jaunt Across Channel By ERNIE PYLE ON THE NORMANDY BEACHHEAD (By It will be several days before military security permits us to describe in much detail the landings just made In the long awaited Allied invasion of Europe Indeed it will be some time before we have a really clear picture of what has happened or what is happening at the moment You must experience the terrible confusion of warfare and the frantic nightmarish thunder and smoke and bedlam of battle to realize this So we will take up this short Interval by telling you how things led up to the invasion from the viewpoint This column is being written on a ship in a convoy crossing the English Channel so that it will be ready to send back to England by dispatch boat as soon as we hit the beach When we secretly left London a few days ago more than 450 Amer lean correspondents were gathered In Britain for this impending mo ment in history But only 28 of tjiose 450 were to take part in what was termed the assault phase I was one of those 28 Some of the rest will come over later some will cover other angles some will never come at all We assault correspondents were under military Jurisdiction for the past month while waiting We had complete freedom in London but occasionally the Army would suddenly order us in batches to take trips around England Also during those last few weeks we were called-frequently for mass conferences and we were briefed by several commanding generals We had completed all our field equipment got our inoculations up to date finished our official accrediting to Supreme Allied Headquarters and even sent off our bedrolls 10 days before the final call (We will rejoin them some time later on this side we hope) Byrnes Calls For Tax Slash At End ivS 4 SEES HILDRETH WINNER Percival Baxter former governor of Maine was in Bangor recently He sees Hildreth the winner in the three cornered gubernatorial primary in the Republican party Ex-Gov Baxter for Hildreth Sees Him Winner in Primary Percival Baxter former Republican governor of Maine and one of the outstanding party leaders of the was in Bangor yesterday and in talking with a repre-sentathe of THE NEWS stated emphatically that he favored the candidacy of Horace Hildreth in the Republican primary next Monday Reports being circulated in this section of the State by persons interested in one of the other candidates are without foundation THE NEWS learned definitely after talking with the former governor Ex-Gov Baxter expressed the bour Peninsula and last night were fighting forwaid only 14 miles fromi Nazis Facing Defeat Speed Plan To Exterminate Jews Says FDR 1 I WASHINGTON Junr 12 AP principle which thi war muftt prMident Roosevelt said today the Mnlfda we shall have fought in tour of terday now occupied by the Americana the bulletin aaid Gen pwight Elsenhower supreme filled Invasion commander made a five-hour inspection tfie American sector yes-accompanied by Gen George Marshall chief of the Invasion Turn to Page 2 vain The President reported In a message to Congress on the work done by the United States to find temporary haven for refugees of the European war He explained that the nearly 1000 refugees who will be cared for in a military camp near Oswego New York will be returned to their homeland in southern Italy as soon as possible after hostilities cease Mr Roosevelt said the War Refugee Board-rcomposed of the secretaries of state treasury and has new hope to the op- pressed peoples of Europe The boalrd he said is entrusted the solemn duty of translating thW humanitarian policy Into prompt action thus manifesting once again in a concrete way that our kind of world and not will prevail It purpose is directly and closely related to mir whole effort" striking at the Marianas Islands for the second day and United States submarines have dealt new blows to Japan's Island empire and her shattered merchant fleet Adm Chester Nimitz an- nounced the continuing action against the islands within Mariana Please Turn to Page 2 1600 Nazis facing defeat are carrying on a "fiendish extermination against the oppressed peoples of Europe and added that Ithis government is determined to punish participants in these acts of nation is appalled by the systematic persecution of helpless minority the President said in a report to Congress the hour of the final defeat of the Hitlerite forces draws closer the fury of their insane desire po wipe out the Jewish race in Eu- rope continues undiminished This is but one example many Christian groups also are being that they have lost the war the Nazis are determined to complete their program of mass extermination This program is but one manifestation of aim to salvage from military defeat victory for Nazi principles the very By DOUGLAS CORNELL WASHINGTON June 12 (AP) Senators looking for a way to ease the economic change-over from war to peace began perfecting demobilization legislation today after hearing James Byrnes say it ought to be enacted promptly but that he want the job of directing reconversion -To members of a special Senate committee and a military subcom- mittee each of which is consider ing demobilization measures the war mobilization director submitted half a dozen recommendations One was that Congress put in now on a postwar tax bill because taxation should end with the end of the Chairman Murray (D-Mont) of the military subcommittee said a demobilization bill would be ready for the full committee before the close of the week He and Chairman George (D-Ga) of the special post-war committee are joint authors of a demobilization plan and Senator Kilgore (D-WVa) has i Introduced another All of them want to create an office of war mobilization and belief "that Slifimh the adjustment and Byrnes nominee of the Republican party Byrnes at the polls next Monday Please Turn to Page 2 Nazi 14th Army Dispersed To Four Winds Says Clark many and western Europe They have had two major objectives: to destroy German war which maintain the German armies Japs Will Fold Please Turn to Page 2 dispersed to the four winds All that remains Is a few scattered remnants who mainly are engaged in stealing one transport to get away as fas( as possible Prisoners describe the situation as wholly The German commander Feld Marshal Albert Kesselring not only has been forced to throw all but one of the 24 divisions he had in Italy into a desperate effort to slow the filled steamroller but has brought ih three fresh infantry divisions it was disclosed today What Is left of the Nazi 10th Army which once struck hammer the self Allied headquarters described the general invasion situation as than The entire Cerisy forest 18 miles Inland fiom the sea was in American hands and more than 10000 of the enemy including an unstated number of Japanese were in Allied prison cages MAGNIFICENT Montgomery the Allied field commander told assembled correspondents that troops did absolutely in the invasion and told how they recovered from a situation on the first day in which they were more than 100 yards inland and were hanging on by their Last Allied communique said: fusion of our beachheads is now complete and a coastal strip some 60 miles long is firmly in our hands War Summary Please Turn to Page 2 (POLITICAL AOVrRTISEMFNI great port of Cherbourg li Of the 28 correspondents in the Assault Group about two-thirds had already seen action in various war theaters The old-timers sort of gravitated together people such as Bill Stoneman Don Whitehead Jack Thompson Clark Lee Tex O'Reilly and myself We conjectured on when we would get the final call conjectured on what assignments we would draw for few of us knew what unit we would go with And Ernie Pyle Please Turn to Page 2 By LYNN HEINZERLING ROME June 12 The German 14th Army has been to the four Allied headquarters declared today as Lt Gen Mark American and British forces pursued the disorganized Germans up the Italian west coast approached Orbe-tello 71 miles northwest of Rome As depleted enemy units fell back toward the Florence area with the greater part of their equipment lost the Nazi high command faced the Immediate necessity of sending heavy reinforcements from France or elsewhere in Europe if any real attempt was to be made to hold northern Italy is now quite the Allied announcement said the original 14th Army has been FLEMING WANTS TO SEE YOU Johns-Manvillc Rockwool Home Insulation I THE BOARD OF REGISTRATION OF UOTERS will be open for the registration of members of the armed forces WEDNESDAY JUNE 14 1944 and every Wednesday until further notice HOURS: 9 to to to 9 Room 28 City Hall Marie Finley Chairman Is On Improvement That Will Not Cost You Cent Hem ewner are Ibemriof that J-M Irtallion not only giro nor Mr-'nud taatwi bet eveniaalfy )wr ter itaelf eet mt Fuel 8avtnr Flint Ross Inc riiNT rrM kbicksow it II Central lit Tel 7111 Bangor Me (POLITICAL ADVERTISEMXjrr) JRERNALID) roa GOVEHHOR! 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