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window screen and entered. the ladder police found the iron imprint of tennis shoes. Describes Man A neighbor of the Glenns told poshe saw the man run down the She described him as slightly hatless and wearing brown and a white shirt. At 3139 Graceland ave. Mrs. Velma Wrightsman, 21, was awakened by someone holding her wrists. The man told her he would count to three, and if she screamed, he'd kill her. He started to count, She screamed. He left by the bedroom window and jumped to the ground from the porch roof.

Police Get Call

At 4:04 a. m. police were called to the home of Mr, and Mrs. Charles R. Farmer, 3362 Washington blvd. Mr. Farmer said a man climbed to the porch roof by means of lattice work on the porch, flashed a flashlight twice through their bedroom window, and left when Mr. Farmer

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found tennis shoe footprints on the ground. M. C. Brown, custodian of the Sloanewood apartments, 3444 N. Pennylvania, today found a butcher knife under the window of apartment 5 which the prowler entered last night. In the apartment, Miss Doris Ketner was awakened when the man pulled down the window shade, shutting out a light whica shone in her room from an adjoining apartment,

Woman Screams

When he started around her bed, she screamed and, with Mrs. Louise Steger, who was awakened by her screams, locked herself in the bathroom. The man left through a dining room window. The prowler was reported two minutes later at 3460 N. Pennsylvania st. The young suspect was arrested in the 3500 block on N. Pennsylvania st. by Patrolman Jesse Hadley. Police had been looking for the youth in connection with a vehicle-taking case.

MIKE MURPHY LEADS GLIDERS TO FRANCE

Lt. Col. Mike Murphy of Lafavette, nationally known stunt flier, piloted the first glider to land during the invasion of France yesterday, reports from London today. Col. Murphy was a sky writer for an oll company and gave numerous exhibitions here. His plane, “The Fighting Falcon,” was purchased with $20,000 in war bonds subscribed by Greenville, Mich, students. Col. Murphy operated a flying fleld at Kokomo for several years.

PAROLES ADVISED FOR COUNTY PAIR

Paroles were recommended for two Marion county men today by the state clemency commission.

They are Leroy Moss, who has| German resistance to the Ameri-|forces who landed between two high command last night as saying (seasick. As I saw the beach loom] served 15 years of a life term for can, British and Canadian troops British beachheads were “ahead of that “great fresh enemy formations” and Robert! who invaded northwestern France schedule,” while pilots returning had approached the French coast Oliver, who was sentenced in Jan- yesterday already was stiffening, from flights over the beachheads potvaen Calais and Dun’ erque and

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vary, 1939, to a term of 10 years for robbery and grand larceny. The commission rejected the parole plea of Eugene Hampton, who waz sentenced in August, 1941, from Marion county for a term of 10 vears for robbery.

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tween the main columns.”

was found dispersed and unsuspecting. But now they have been able to move up reserves, and the fighting is bound to get tougher with each mile of allied advance. Nazi propagandists were getting tangled in their own reports of large scale allied operations in| northwestern France and the channel, Report Calais Drive

One Berlin bgoadcast said the allies had made "a second invasion thrust at the Pas de Calais region| of northwest France along the Straits of Dover. Obscure references to the action failed to make clear what had happened, if any-| thing. Nazi radios had reported a! move against the Boulogne-Calais! area yesterday, including the pur; ported allied seizure of an aindrome,: but no word of such an action}

| The Paris radio sald an allied | jarmada of some 6000 vessels, in-| lcluding heavy cruisers serving as, escort and landing vessels of all types, was cruising off the Cher-! bour§ peninsula. The guns of this fleet “are engaged in duels with) German shore batteries,” the broadcast said. The Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda reported on dubious authority that a state of siege had been declared in Paris. A great number of workers were recruited to rebuild bridges de-! stroyed by allied bombings, it said,’ and German troops were confined to their barracks. { More than 400 United States gliders, one section making up a skytrain 50 miles long, poured pow-| erful reinforcements into the Cher'bourg peninsula last night and today, strengthening the allied grip (on the first sections of western Eu{rope wrested from the Nazis. | Fires Everywhere | Wing Cmdr. W. I. Deas, R. A. F. pilot, said after a flight over the peninsula that “there were fires everywhere, and it looked as if the] enemy was trying to lay waste the! country. Suddenly there was a big explosion in the peninsula, and the sky was lit up for miles with a bright orange light.” | The report suggested the possibility that the Nazis might have put {the ‘torch to everything of value in the section of the peninsula they {held preliminary to puiling out. | Reports of fighting in Caen, on {the Cherbourg-Paris trunk railway. indicated Nazi communications were crippled or threatened at the base of the peninsula, and it might be isolated soon.

Down Nazi Transports

Indications that the Germans also were rushing troops to Normandy by air were seen in an annoncement that British planes shot down five big Junkers 52 transport planes while on missions over the continent.

‘and an official spokesman reported {very heavy fighting in some sectors. ’ | A dispatch yesterday morning said Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, commanding the U, 8. ground forces, was aboard the Augusta, and had admitted that the heavy surf and | other difficulties made the operations hazardous, | Americans in one sector were having “the toughest sort of opposi-

Report Gen. Rommel Racing to In (Continued From Page One) By noon, however, the situation was “decidedly more ~ Heavy fighting was going on where the main allied| ers and British Commandos were maintaining liaison be-

The Nazis apparently were surprised and confused in the initial stages of the invasion.

(allies had established one beach-

(Caen, 28 miles southwest of Le|erationa) reserves were concentrated Havre, to Bayeux, 22 miles to the on the perimeter of the beachhead |

. said, assault troops and tanks—covered 8n Anglo-American airborne divi-

‘and stripes were flying from a flag- | staff in one town.

acks: | ercept Invaders

; the less than had been hoped for. flew a record 13,000 sorties from dawn yesterday to dawn today. While bombers smashed at enemy communications and other military targets behind the battle area, fighter-bombers and fighters flew low to blast and strafe motor truck] columns. A consant air umbrella was maintained “successfully” over the English channel and over the assault area, Eisenhower's communique said. Air losses yesterday totaled one

ay forward. American Rang-

One armored division| engineers hit the beaches,

however, they met stiff opposition. Not until midday yesterday were

tion in battling with the Nazis from the landing craft and on’ the the beachheads finally clear of the beaches,” it was reported. \direct fire of the enemy, he said. The Americans were able » land | He decided a tendency in “many GS lh . Adm, Hagens SE lied grea 3 rtram Ramsay, Air borne troops landed behind naval commander in-chief. ted a one area with specific orders Jo hold press conference last night, howcauseways and block the movement ever, that the allies had “broken of reiuioresm me © Je dispatch Hie eruet of Germany's vaunted rom the Au wes \ A transocean report said. Caen,| “we have started off on the right described by the Nazis as the main foot and caught the enemy on the base of an allied beachhead on the wrong foot,” he said. “We've gotten Norman coast, was blue last through the defended beach zone Bg, Joe Sames being ve le Too {4d Wa Shave made it possible for . aces in!Gen. ( ernard L) Mon e the area also were on fire, the to fight a land battle.” eomery

agency said, gency Casualties Light

‘Report Hard Fighting Ramsey said the allied navies The DNB agency reported brisk were “in effect” 100 per cent sucfighting in St. Mere Eglise,"at the) cessful in putting shore the invasouthesiany base of the Cherbourg sion forces and described the lack ninsuia,

Thirteen night bombers were lost. Night intruders partly offset the loss by shooting down 12 enemy aircraft without loss. Weather Improves Supreme headquarters reported the weather, which proved one of the principal threats to the landings yesterday, had moderated slightly, though the wind still whipped up waves three feet high.!

The improvement in the weather)

the full weight of their power

footholds. Five waves of troop carriers de-| An American navy spokesman livered reinforcements to the French g5iq there had been no additional

another today. Twelve gliders and | goosevelt announced yesterday that | predominantly American, in the) 12 C-47 transport planes were miss- | tyq American destroyers and a western task force, which put the, ing in the day and night operations. | jon ging craft were lost in the first | American army under Lt, Gen. For good reasons the allies were! 9 youre of the landing. | Omar N. Bradley ashore.

not telling anyone much about the| my. fa. treo i Beachhead | casualties alread invasion. If they did, it would be. . Steering back across the Jia k

a Godsend to the German high...) t, Britain. A Red Cross!

whether more landings are coming | and if so whether they will over- frst wounded through shadow the current fighting. | There still was no specific word |. ;4 +10 Americans and British had | fixing the extent of oe Sed SUC" | brought up “considerable forces” by | cess beyonq Prime Minister nston snip and glider to a beachhead | Agusta and Quincy Churchill's word yesterday that oo oi pine trom Caen, 28 miles | sides at the enemy.

fighting was going on in the town t of Caen, nine and a half miles in- | "o. hwest of Le Havre, to the coast- |

land. Berlin acknowledged

Henry T. Gorrell, United Press;

northwest

that the Cherbourg.

nead—possibly the one credited to Nazis Claim Successes while another correspondent re-|

the British armor and troops—Irom| af,cced formations of German op-

northwest. {during the night and now were at- I Shaliow wader. The German Transocean agency tacking with “terrific said the allies had occupied 2a Transocean said. Prime Minister circular area between Valognes and, Churchill said yesterday that the (i penciled ~coesial Carentan in the eastern side of allies had penetrated Caen, nine | ag British paratroo e and glider-| the Cherbourg peninsula and opened miles from the coast, but there |p re ‘roo pas t ops ov Em | a corridor to the coast. The forces had been no late allied report from portant pe s Puree Several holding the pocket were reinforced the town. | The first re rison { by sea and air, Transocean said,| Another Transocean dispatch cluding coastal por Somers: Be but claimed German forces were Said six battleships, 15 cruisers and | Sorn8 of the enem , a5 counter-attacking from three sides 50 destroyers were supporting nin

towns |

{ Hallelujah!”"—rumbled out from the organs of the great cathedrals and small frame churches Worshipers in the tiny New England meeting houses and in the missions of the Southwest, camp chapels, the sheepherders on » heavy bomber and 17 fighters. | the range in Wyoming, the colored servants, into Thy kingdom. folks on the plantations of Alabama sang them

silent way home—to prepare for another day of prayer and another day of work, and for many more of each to come. Roosevelt said:

Many cases of seasickness among|long and hard. the invasion forces have been re- Strong, lead them straight and true Tor they will need Thy blessings.”

also raised the possibility that the lective prayer ever uttered. It was allied air forces would outstrip # Prayer not only for the Englishyesterday's record number of sorties SPeaking peoples but for all of huand for the first time could throw Manity; for those of 28 different

: to whom it was broadcast. against areas where allied elite involving the American ,¢ enemy © tion to th written by : e actual shock troops were expanding their, shouted at him. There again police |... forthcoming from allied sources. 82d and 101st air-borne divisions. |1andings as amazing, pe | Whi | Front dispatches revealed that| While he waited for the signa) that beac Rear Adm. Alan C. Kirk com. | {he landing boats had crossed the hheads. during the night, and | naval . | . : | English channel and that American casualties since President|manded 2200 ships and small craft, soldiers again were on the soil of France.

sent by short-wave radio; in niost of the newspapers of America it] i was printed in advance so tha‘ the| |: A dispatsy ig Marcel Wallen- people could recite it with their command, which still does not know | . stein datelined a e “Cherbourg president. train, six coaches long, Br i | ackhesd yestoniay iol) Bow S000 me great ,metropolises, the small & / (cities, the towns, villages, crossroad: fh hospitals during the night. oe; had moved in a regatta-like and farms confirmed That they a ¥id €Tman news agency dispatches, ocession to the beaches while the| “Give us strength ... in our dailv| i. battleships Texas, Arkansas and! tasks to redouble the contributions Nevada and the cruisers Tuscaloosa, we make in the physical and mate- | tossed broad- rial support of our armed forces,” | ithe President said.

al town of Bayeux, 22 miles to the war correspondent at the front, said purgh, tanks in Detroit, ammuniand 48 miles southeast of | American infantry slogged inland tion in Connecticut continued their through mud and slime waist deep, work uninterrupted |

ported that American tanks went aircraft factories, company presi- | i ashore after covering the infantry dents, chaplains or other executives ! {landings with their guns while stilliread the prayer over public ad- | dress f ~| Canadian troops won their beach- groups of workers erocity,” head in two hours and 45 minutes | rooms.

Canadian | lust of conquest,” the President said. |

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Altogether, the allied air forces Radio Plea for Free World lo—"with the cross of Jesus,

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Is Solemn Ending To D-Day

(Continued From Page One) dressed patrons put down

Some knelt unashamedly their night club tables. “Some will never return President said.

the soldiers in army ther and receive them, Thy

return to the haven of home,” honky-tonks

In the terrace room of Cleveland's Statler hotel, the Paradise room of Atlanta's Henry Grady hotel, in New York's swank Stork club, the well-

drinks and stopped their dancing to stand silently with bowed heads.

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will let all men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil,” the voice from the White House concluded in a lower = tone—and then with a pause between each word: a “Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.” 3

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and narrowing the poeket. \ground forces attempting to ites | sunk, arrived at an English port American Thunderbolt pilots re- the beachhead.

| late yesterday. turning from flights over the inva-| ine D. N. B. agency said two

R. A. F. heavy bombers fanned . ol ) out into the German Rhine sion zone said they saw allied tanks British airborne divisions were] are rolling into the outskirts of one

nearly annihilated in hand-to-hand | dining te night o bord the chemi. r fighting at Deauville, across the C2} and communications centers of town, which was in flames, |Seine estuary from Le Havre, last | Ludwigshafen and other raiders | night. Four officers and 80 men | Scattered mines in enemy waters, that were said to have been captured.

(all without loss. South of Cherbourg, D. N. B. said, |

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Front reports confirmed American, British and Canadaian

and supported by 11,000 planes and (Sion was “annihilated to the last 600 warships—had firmly secured Man.” ' Airborne forces which | their beachheads along a 60 mile landed on the channel islands of stretch of the Normandy coast of Guernsey and Jersey also were northern France between Cherbourg “Ped out, the agency claimed. (Continued From Page One) and the mouth of the Seine and Fresh . | Report Tom beschward I forgot all fear. We!

were pushing inland. | : . A front dispatch said Canadian Radio Berlin quoted the German |were all soaking wet and almost

up ahead I was so’ damned mad I| just wanted to get in there and fight | like hell™ i Johnny and his buddies said the Algiers later reported that the Ger- bombardment which preceded them mans had acknowledged the loss of | was so perfectly timed that the HigBritish troops and tanks were re- an airdrome north of Calais to al- gins boats reached the beach withvealed to have seized a 25-mile lied paratroops. However, there Pt mnte ater he bom stretch of the coast and to have gag no confirmation of any landings oo moe an thea h . reat wo driven ‘inland nearly. three and 8 except in the Normandy area. “Our Se Erer ¥ ream ore) PL les Io it 8 cout onde Bennower pried In Me Nai, Lon te wa Ye ers reinforcements at several key communique of the invasion that demolish as easily as if we had re-| points. the allies continued to land troops, hearsed the whole show on this very | The first real battles of the in. Suns: tanks and munitions through- peach. It was so wonderful to have

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| Brandt left the beachhead at 3 p. m. | yesterday, the Americans were firm. | ly ashore and beginning to advance inland, “The whole thing was an unbelievable sight,” Brandt said. “Planes criss-crossed overhead constantly, You never could look up| without seeing a formation of planes somewhere. P-38's and P-4Ts| zoomed right overhead all the time blasting the German defenses. | “Some boats were burning and a| pall of smoke hung over the beach. I saw some of the bodies of our) soldiers who had been killed in the! first landings floating in the water. | Some of the boats were swamped | in the choppy seas. “There were tremendous rafts, Just floating offshore jammed with| trucks, tanks and ambulances. On! one beach we landed tanks from LCT's. Then some waves of ine! fantry went in, followed by engineers and then more infantry. “On the beaches the men crouched behind jeeps, tanks, anything they could find for cover. At one point they made their way to the German concrete defense wall, and that was the first cover they found. “Right off the beach were tall

On French Invasion Beac

ra | weight of attack and by the time so

out yesterday without opposition the whole thing explained to us in (from enemy naval forces, Three en- advance and then find it exactly as emy torpedo boats with an escort thev said it would be. of armed trawlers had attempted to, “We planted our charge and lintercept the invasion armada as blasted hell out of the wall without I it approached the coast early Thes- losing a single one of our men, (day, but it was driven off with one| “Then. zing—a shell came over trawler sunk and another damaged and exploded nearby. A hunk of cliffs which were scaled by the severely, last night's communique shrapnel smacked my right hand ers. They captured gun posi- had reported. land—well, T guess my part of the tions within 15 minutes after they' “Airborne operations were re- Show was over. I was ordered back went in.” sumed successfully last night,” the to the Higgins boat for evacuation.” Despite fierce resistance, Brandt communique said without elabora.! It was Johnny's first taste of acsaid, everyone was calm and the tion. { tion, although he had served in operation was well organized. On The German luftwaffe put in its Africa. the landing boats going over, the first appearance in strength late; “I sure thought it would be toughtroops were So confident, Brandt yesterday under an order from er than that” he said. was worried. He saw Pvt. Charles Reichmarshal Hermann Goering to Ihe transport which evacuated Blackledge, Columbia, Miss., sitting halt the allied penetration at all Johnny brought the first large load amid bangalore torpedoes, bazookas, | cost. {of evacuees back to this port. On and other deadly weapons reading a | 13,000 Sorties | board wei the Sarvivers of a de- : { . , little black-covered Bible. | Twenty-six of a formation which ook DY Fhe enemy.

He snapped a picture of one boy | attempted to interfere with Ameri- | NOVENA TO START | asleep on top of a jeep five min-| can Flying Fortresses and Libera-| A novena will start at St. Joan of utes before landing. As the trooPs|tors bombing railways, communica- | Arc church at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow | went overside into smaller boats for | tions and bridges in the battle area night in honor of the Sacred Heart the assault, one yelled: “If you see were shot down. Four more out of land to seek success for the invaGeneral Ike, tell him we're the boys | 3 formation of 12 Junkers 88s which sion. | who can do it.” i . Two Negro jeep drivers stood at the rail looking at the looming continent. |

“Yassuh,” one laughed. she am!” After piloting an assault craft ashore and back to the larger ship, Seaman 1-c Forest Hillegas, Alléntown, Pa., called: “Anybody got a cigaret? I think I've got ene com-' ing after that.” .

Brandt hitch-hiked back on a boat returning with wounded in or- | der to get his pictures out. In a corner of the returning craft a }° . tk wounded soldier sat sobbing. He Thursday Night at 8:00 | told Brandt: » | “For three years I've been train. |

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