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1 Knnnmi I Craft gje. MCFC EffUSO fyanoe Bonomi Made Premier Of New Italy Is Unanimous Choice Of Committee Of Liberation LEAD UNDERGROUND Was Former Premier, War Minister Of Italy ROME, June 9. i 71, underground leader and a pre-Mussohm priinier of Italy, was appointed today to replace Marshal Pletro Badoglto as premier of liberated Italy. Badogllo declined the task of forming a new cabinet, and Crown Prince Humbert, in his new capacity as lieutenant of Italy, named Bonomt premier on the unanimous recommendation of the Italian committee of national liberation, an official communique announced. The committee, consisting of political leaders from Naples, Salerno, and Rome, met last night under the chairmanship of Badogllo.

Bonomi was president of the Rome committee of national liberation, which directed underground resistance during the German occupation of the Italian capital. He previously had been premier of Ftaly from July 1921 to February 1922 and also had served in- the preceding Glollttl cabinet aa war minister. Badpfjip When Mas'pJU- nm 28 years ago, Bonomi from politics and carried on profes- glon aa a lawyer. emerged as a dark horse--at- th selection of 'a new iince Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza, the latter foreign minister in the Glollttl cablne a been considered the most likely choices. However, Bonomi was better known In Rome than either Croce or Sforza.

Badogllo previously had hinted he might retire as premier once Rome was liberated. He'had been unpopular In some underground circles because of his association with Fascist-tainted King Victor Emmanuel and his coopers tion, albeit reluctant, with the Mussolini regime in military campaigns In Africa and Albania. Emmanuel appointed Badogllo' premier following the coup etat which ousted Benlto Mussolini last July. Badogllo almost immediately sought contact i Allies and on Sept. 3 signed Italy's surrender.

Hope For Unity Of Italy Badogllo, Emmanuel, and Humbert fled Rome even as German occupation troops were entering the city Sept. 9, the day after the surrender took effect, and have remained In Allied-occupied terrl-. (See BADOGLIO on Page 10) Gen. De Gaulle Confer With Roosevelt Here President Says He Expects French Leader To Visit Within Month of, as flf If WASHINGTON, June 9. President Roosevelt 'said today he Is expecting a visit from -General Charles De Gaulle of the National Committee of Liberation.

Mr. Hoosevelt told news conference he has sent Gaulle, who Is now in London; on the invitation of Prime Minister Churchill, that he would be.glad to see him this summer -and suggested two dates between June 22 and 30, or between July 6 and 14. Ask Appointment Early this week, the President said, Vice Adm. Raymond. Fenard French navy visited him to the chief executive would be.

willing to' receive De Gaulle. The admiral Is now en route (to deliver tho President's message Do Gaulle; Mr. Roosevelt, said he has heard nothing further, A reporter asked, tho President why he chose the two particular periods to receive'the French general. The President, replied, those were the only time available. There is a convention coming along in importer said, obviously referring to the and Democratic conventions In Chicago this The Republican starts June 26; the Democratic July 19.

Oh yes, the President replied with a wave of will bo. an election in the fall" and Christmas is coming too, added, bringing a roar of Mfc Roosevelt's action apparently contained no promise of. a the government's policy (See De Gaulle on Page 10) Armv medics here prepare to remove fitters carrying American soldiers, wounded in action tKeinvaS an invasion craft.which returned to England. These were amone the first to engage the enemy on French soil. This is a U.

signal men were among the first to engage corps radiophoto. (International Soundphoto) Italy-Rased Bombers Strike i i ets French Paratroopers Effective Guides For Altfes In CherbpiUrg 'SUPREME ATHvIED 32 I I 0 NARY FORCE, June 9. French parachute troops arc. pnr'tjcipnt- ing in the invasion of Cherbourg peninsula, proving especially guides Ilirough. their knowledge of terrain.

Japanese Flee Southward In Kohima Sector Tank-Supported Troops. Keep Enemy'', Retreating Steadily SOUTHEAST. ASIA 'HEADQUARTERS, -Handy, Ceylon, June --Allied tank-supported troops sent the Japanese southward; along the Kohhna Imphal hig'hway a a they'drove a spearhead to a point 14 miles below Kohima. The thrust represented a three mile gain in one day" of fighting and officials said the enemy forces were retreating-steadlly before the advancing -Allied troops. It was not clear where-; the Japanese would make a stand, if they did attempt to stop the Allied forces.

In northern Burma, troops advancing down the Mo- gaung closed, a gap between their roadblocks northwest of Ka- malng, and a i said a more than killed in the The enemy -also, (See'IMPHAL onPage-10)- StilweWs Troops Take Portion Of Myitkyina SOUTJ-TEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, June' 9. -Gen, W. StlHveU's troops have north Myitkyina- airfield Burma," and British troops, trying to chase the Japanese out of 'driven 14 miles southward down 'Ko-' hima road toward -Imphal, Allied headquarters Maj. Gen. W.

air-borne 'ChindUs also -captured the- vlllage-of Kola two north- cast of Myitykina; while Chinese troops 'captured''' new -positions; in- slde'-the town, itself and drove off a Japanese -night attack. the. west valley, Chinese a- road block they had es- tabilshed of. Lachi G.a./.'six miles northwest 'Sakan. Asks Steps Be To-Prevent Race Riots wave-, Southern' lynch-: ings and -Northern' after last- 'war which for Ross, 'chairman tlie'i- committee -on said today should be now.

to. attacfc 'oh Nazi- wait blows' on German' i i i ice frorri' The bombers, flying intb' the' Munich or- time from'Italy, and Ing Lightnings, Mustangs Thunderbolts fought.throughc loiid.s. German fighters to Swiss dispatches in the Munich and -Augsburg (A "REG. broadcast said; the 'Allied Britain de- 'stroyed all'-reailiivay ''bridges- o.n'.'th.e- Seine "river- between Paris For --the. -'time official A'llied last -nighw i hours s'troyed''in the -aiivand were accounted -for-piiSthe as against; an 'Allied.

fighters 'and five 1 Germans made four figtiteu-bonib- attacks against- the invasion beaches early yestsrda'y morning and late last night, employing 'some 60 planes, "but 'driven off each time. The first three -attacks 'handled 'by RAF- Spitfires, which shot down three planes and damaged more without loss. The last attack cost the Germans seven planes, again with 'no loss Allies. v. S'e a 1 hundred 'RAF -heavy Bombers, flying through thick' clouds, hit the -switching yards junctions at Renn'es, Alencon, May en rid; Po'nta'ub'ault-.

last '-night. These- lie south and. w.es.t the fighting Two" of the ar.e from 1 1 lyentli'eiyHnnipci's Germans- An Weather Appeared 'also to be. hampering! the Germans, 'since the big, Lancasters. ewer, Nazi fight- 'ers.

than on the, previous 'British-' a i glimpses of the ground w- bright flashes from the -sea west of p'enin-' stiia, '-'where Allied warships 'ap- red be coast. said- attack on the. a of, smoke'. feet. 'A-llied b'6mb'ers struck the- battle En'g- Zealand.

Mosquito' trains'. '(See-jA'ERIAL on -Page; 10) Geri. Bradley JLeads -Yanks 'tin: jfa'qnce R- HEADQUARTERS: ALLIED, -'EX'PE -June the ''doughboy 'in 'France and I i 1 1 y-1 i 'disturb; aMnpcf rOSClt' -V 5 Fresk Fruits to Be Priced And Re OPA Action, The Firs.t To Be Taken In, This Field, Effective Soon' WASHINGTON, 9. (U.R)-- iTtie' office of price adaninistration brought '-a i-c 't ipTums, and. Italian and' said i reta.iV prices from- .15 to -'35 per cent.

action will. on fresh table, the. schedules, Ro Forward On Italian Front Follow Nazis Fleeing North, Northwest Of Rome AIRMEN I A A a Trieste Area, Railroad Yards In Yugoslavia POLAND TORGAAUD ROME, June 9. -(ff)-Fifth army troops racing after the retreating, Germans captured Viterbo, prize road and rail junction 40. miles northwest of Rome, in a swift seven-mile dash and also seized Tarqumia near the coast, 55 miles above Rome.

XT i There were signs the Nazi command had' been able to reorganize the fleeing remnants of the fourteenth and tenth armies sufficiently to attempt' a determined stand. The Allied advance also enveloped Veti'alla, on a lateral road from Taiqulnia-and about six miles southwest of Viterbo, So rapid was the above Rome that German forces the Adriatic also began retreat to avoid encirclement, and 1 troops- were rolling forward along the entire Italian front. Striving "to maintain close contact with the fleeing enemy, who has shown no make a determined "stand, fifty army north'" and northwest'from Rome. -W. col-; i i 'f cail -'fbr- retail 'markups' "over newly established dollar-.

and-cent prices prior, levels, the highest" 'when averaged. the whole', country. be: 1 About 'cents a pound for. Italian prunes; 40, '-cents a "for sweet cherries, except in California; Washington, 'Oregon, where the price' will'-" be about 36'' about -cents a pound foK except, in. the same where it will be- and a 19 pound -for Markups kCom ing, become 'effective June-lS-at-shipping-points- and 'the -retail mark'; tips' will', be' '-fprmally 1 In near The '-consumer mark-.

poiinci, are; as in which annual (See Page 10)' and moved- on- to capture. 34' -miles north of on the' east -side Lake Di a'nd about east of the highway junction town of. Viterbo;" An Allied- spokesman said that among prisoners taken-in the Lake were -Nazis from the 20th German' luftwaffe division, "This division came, lo Italy from Denmark, which according to the left only a week ago," said "The '20th. luf.twaffe' field-' division 'differs from the' normal infantry division only in the fact that its personnel is-drawn if rom the luft-waffe ground staff, as iiv the' case -the Hermann division." standstill- on' the lines i A i a i ended with the Germans starling a withdrawal the coast and Crecchip, five miles inland. Eighth arjTiy- forces tip t.wb- miles which i seven aiid a half miles from the of Chieti, The Nazi -promptly began'shelling the advance.

Talcc Montcrotondo In the fifth army surge north of Rome, 'the troops moved seven miles north to- win the Bracciano area. Another element seized the Sutri; six miles north of Lake Bracciano, The eighth with this" drive by a i thrust northward along the east side, of the Tiber, but progress there was slower to demolitions and mines, Just'cast of the Tiber 20 enemy and were knocked out. in.the vicinity of Mdnteroton.dp," whose Sir 1 forces have' gone several miles beyond Montero'tondo. jThe 'Palom- occupied during ten-mile, thrust ofi- Farther army units ap- the village Roveto. only seven and 'a half (See.

ROME on Page 10), Mere Eglise From Cherbourg Revolver Shots Fired When Indian Prince Appears Oil Balcony tt6aiE, Tii'iic 9.v(U.R)--Revolver 'shots were firdd 1 'todny'during a i-oyalist ration when Crown Prince Humbert ap- on a'balcony and waved to the crowd, but it was not clear immediately whether they were aimed "at tho, prince. Police arrested the wrong man In the excitement, and the one who fired the shots escaped. Witnesses said the man with the gun appeared to be against prince and seemed to be trying to put on a counter demonstration. Five thousand royalists Rath- cm! iii the'Palazzo Quirinalc and shouted "Viva II Principe" when Humbert appeared on the balcony. He was dressed in a gray lounge suit.

The shots were fired as the prince, newly designated lien- tenant general of Italy to whom Ki.ii Victor -Emmanuel had delegated all his powers, waved to the crowd. Trapped Japs Idling Reduced fir Americans 1 Artillery arid Warships Pound Enemy Hiding In Caves Near Mokmer By I)ON'XiASWELIv. A I HEADQUARTERS, Pacific, June 0. American'tanks, Artillery, and warships poured steady bombardment today into Japanese forces -trapped in and cliffs' east of newly Mokmer where -U, sixth army troops were poised one mile from Borokoe A the enemy on 'the ridge- bordering the' Biak coast, by American reduced gradually were mopping up Japanese remnants. The which brought about 'the fall of a Ihe' American positions within 'striking distance of and Soridb, the two remaining airfields on Biak 'loss than 900 miles south''of the Philippines.

Sorido is two miles west of Mokmer; Bombers Strike Shipping Long-range Liberator bombers again at Japanese shipping off the northwestern Dutch New Guinea coast and damaged an enemy cruiser, the third warship hit by Allied fliers in four Two 500-pound bomb hits were scored near the. bow of the cruiser as the Liberators a ship Wacigo' island i Sorong area at dusk Tuesday. A group of .12 fichtcrs ndcmpted to (See MOKMER on. Page 10) Cdsa Grande Man Killed In Bomber Crash -SAN 1 9. --Seaman George Lv of Casn Grande, was one of.

17 men killed when a Navy Liberator bomber crashed into -structures 'at Camp Kearney auxiliary nir.station Mesa Tues'day. naval district announced Navy men also were injured in the crash. erou -Assoc'iatied of 'the; iriyasiion peninsula. The; superb Allied forces already landed are geiiing. aheafl their job in business' I like but operation weather; We airc as i beien "wi th smooth; seas the enemy has set for.

his Jl; in the mak- 'ling, have' their v-i cut'oiit prftherii' 'Rommel Js-likely to iip in view of circumstances. We have compleied the trist phase of landing, as supreme Allied headquarters tells us. 1 This is the "securing of a foothold and the defeating of local German re-' serves." the second phase, with 'Hit- lerian reserves; that are from neighboring; phasej will "be Bight from the start vtfoc invasion forces sujpplies ladedvonf the beachesv with great difficulty because of; highi seas; lot the i weather (Seei ori Page 10) By WES GALLAGHER SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED- EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June S. troops-pressing toward the strategic port of Cherbourg have seized Ste. Mere, Eglise and cut-the road and railroad-to Cherbourg, leaving the Germans only a secondary and perhaps already threatened road on the TirpC German broadcasts placed the Americans within 18.

miles Cherbourg itself. Nazis Admit Allied Gains In Normandy Claim Heavy Casualties Ou New Reserves Of Allies LONDON, June -The German high command admitted today that the Allies have succeeded' in pouring strong reinforcements i their Normandy beachheads and have ground in two sectors despite furious. Nazi resistance. A German'" communique broadcast by. the Berlin'radio said Nazi naval and air forces inflicted, heavy casualties on, the incoming to and a i a motor torpe'do boats sank two large landing craft -off the- east' coast of the Cherbourg peninsula last night." Claim Sinkings An A'llied cruiser and a dest.royer were torpedoed and sunk i the same area Wednesday night, the.

communique said. The high.command communique also claimed heavy damage to four eight' special landing craft, a tank landing ship, and a destroyer, and asserted that .45 Allied planes were down over the invasion 'beachheads yesterday. In the ground fighting, however, the Germans acknowledged that their forces being -pushed back on the Cherbourg', peninsula by. Allied units driving north south of St. Mere' Eglise.

Say Counterblows Effective "From the bridgehead west of the Orno, tank forces, attacked Baycux in a i movement and advanced farther toward the west and the com- munique said. "They were, halted some 10 kilomcCers west of the town," Heavy fighting was reported continuing' southeast of Bayeux, between Allied invasion troops and German tank spearheads moved up from the The communique also claimed that a a counterattack gained ground -at an undisclosed point east of.the Ornc. Farley Move Shows Belief FDR Will Run Friends Fear No Bolt, Th(iik He Will Assume Attitude Of Neutrality By FRANCIS KELLY Assovialcd Press Staff Writer The resignation of James A. Farley as New York" -Democratic state chairman was. regarded by Washington politicians; today as an Inevitable consequence of his known to a for any President and his apparent belief that President Roosevelt will run again.

With nomination within the. President's grasp--if. he wants it-Farley's position as party leader of one most pivotal of. states, was fast becoming awkward if not untenable, they said. Neither Farley nor his long-time i Washington -gave any hint that -he the party or even- join in any anti-Roosevelt movement develop within the framework -of the party.

friends; will be a off Active --Tli'e, former posfnraster-gencral ex-riational Cwas resigh- his business duties- execu- give, enough- committee 'A successor is to be chosen July 11: Iir as state Page S. parachute troops seized Mere Eglise, hanging on until sea- borne infantry joined them. German accounts have already reported parachutists' landing on the 'western coast of the Cherbourg peninsula, in action near Lessay battleneck of the west coast road to and a spur vail line. Join Assault On Caen British Canadian forces at the other end of the steadily expanding a a joined for an assault on pivotal Caen, fighting a fierce armored battle for the large city where the Germans apparently planned-' "a major stand. American parachute and infantry- troops, linking up, gained at 'both.

ends of- the 28-mile salient in pie Ste. Mere Eglise sector and- head- announced "satisfactory progress" on all with battles against Nazi armored thrusts reaching new intensity. At least 2,400 prisoners haye taken, 600 of Americans. 1 "'Headquarters said the main Nazi counterattack, been repulsed "Caen sector and 'ground' gained-. there.

Field dispatches tpld of Canadian tank- battle the biggest yet, range into massed German formations. These dispatches described tank battle is tire biggest yet, and the Germans said hand-to-hand fighting was taking place. in Caen. if a 1 spearheads Formigny, between Bayuex and Ste. Mere Eglise and astride the main communications linking Cherbourg.

with the rest of France. Bradley Leads Yanks- With tho "doughboy general," Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley ashoi'e and personally loading his American forces, headquarters disclosed that. the Allied beachhead strength included the Canadian third division.

This was the fourth Allied division officially disclosed as on the head; The others are the sixth Brit-- ish air-borne, the first American', and the oOth (Northumbrian) British: divisions. i guns roared along front, Allied warships roamed and. clown the coast as 'roving lory spotting German pockets and 1 str'ongpoints. Deteriorating weather again, fell upon the channel, but headquarters said the wind was in a more favorable direction for unloading of supplies and Field dispatches disclosed British and Canadian landingsJSS D-day were in the region of BftK niers-Sur-Meivat the mouth of tBS" Ornc river and north of CaelC: Berhiers is in Allied ha-nds. ZZZ.

The German communique -con-', ceded the loss of Ste. Mere Eglise, astride one of the main' German- arteries leading to Cherbourg, say-, ing the Americans were pushing "north and from the laud-. ing head there. MHe. Further Then' a later'' broadcast said troops had advanced- mile beyond- the Valognes, southeast of port that would a great funnel for Allied reinforcements supplies into the battle 'for France.

American Rear Adm. John Leslie on a of the beacfi- h'e'ad, told correspondents' operations were going stressed the necessity, of quickly building up our forces. least Nazi prisoners. have been taken. A field dispatch? today said Americans had 600, including some Russians Poles.

Doughboys have occupied Fpr-v (See CHERBOURG on Page Thousand War Refugees WillBe Brought To June. 9. President Roosevelt said, today'-: 1,000 -European war refugees will be' brought to this country housed in an unused military' lishfn'ent at -Ft. Ontario, near wego, N. T.

The 1,000,, Mr. saidf; represented, the -total refugees 1 now destined In -cablegram AmDassaqorv Robert. President disclosed. that rom i i moved to havens Mediterranean.