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in business. : said. > Hatred Mrs, Farmer taught to| A few days ago Joyce didnt Germans liked them, their friends liked them| “I fell behind and then I had to . —and thelr friends Jiks them, too. hurry. to cateh WD: she evplaived. Continued From In fact, in the past six weeks they| “You know you can ep a business ! Page Out) have been liked and bought to the|going unless you satisfy your. cuscould read fear on the faces of extent of $75 in war bonds, which|tomers and fill their orders.” the Germans” As I drove into|Joyce proudly has purchased with| And she added: “As soon as 1 Bayeux, I passed lines of German the proceeds. : have my first million, Ill call you. . On roadside “My brother, Sgt. Howard Sutton,| That should make a pretty good bodies of German and allied dead!is in the air corps in England and ”

lay unburied. For the moment, ‘every man was needed for fighting. What surprised me most was the

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guns. Some of these actions have been responsible for demoralizing the enemy. It is a fact that all the French people with whom 1 talked of the Nazi loss of courage. may not be beaten but they to it. Prisoners also said that the deRussia and Italy are known and file and they realize with their cause. of enemy air activity was major surprise of the battle beaches. We must have ed enemy airfields so systematically that they were unable ir air force into the skies. a wonderful target durthe first two days, as offshore were thousands of ships of sizes, Joaded with troops, armor d munitions, while smaller craft kept up a ferry service to and from the bigger vessels and shore, I did not see a single ship hit.

all the signs of a master mind. The vast machine worked without a real hitch. : Thousands of Ships 1 looked down the coastline to thousands of ships. It looked the solent filled with all kinds craft for a regatta. :

troops unloaded and streamed toward the fron while fired

she enemy. As the battle of the bridgehead loped it was evident that the

Germans were trying their utmost]

to recover from their initial surprise. They had staked all their cards on our landing over a short 21 miles between Dover and Calais. We knew that to be their strongest link in the so-called Atlantic wall. So we took the longer route and caught the enemy napping. I sailed with a convoy of armor from a British port and saw the entire operation on the beaches, It all went according to plan with such comparatively small losses that I

from 100 to 150 miles south, southeast and southwest of the Normandy beachheads. Rennes, Le Mans, Laval, Tours, Angers and Nantes on the main rail lines linking central France

coasts.

the channel.

challenge in increasing numbers.

The American heavies struck

with the channel and Atlantic

Clouds of Smaller Planes Clouds of “wiediumt bombers and fighter-bombers also shuttled across

’ Official reports indicated that the Luftwaffe was rising to meet the

More than 260 American Marauders and Havocs, in their second attack* since dawn, bombed Periers, La Haye du Puits, Lessay, Pontaubault, Volotens, St. Lo and other railway targets on the Cherbourg peninsula at noon. A force of Thunderbolts divebombed concentrations of enemy armor and trucks near Valognes and Treviers. The R.A.F.s four-engined night raiders launched the bombardment with a heavy attack on the Acheres, Versailles, Massy - Palaiseau and Juvisy railway junctions on the outskirts of Paris.

Only First Hurdle Passed—Stimson

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good to avoid excesses of optimism or pessimism.”

p. m. (Indianapolis time) Monday night (5 a. m. Tuesday in Europe). Then the first parachuters dropped in Normandy, followed by glider troops. Over 1000 planes participated in the greatest airborne troop operations ever attempted, with losses only slightly over 2 per cent from anti-aircraft fire. There was no enemy air opposition.

Nazi Planes Few

During the first phases, German planes were comparatively few, supporting the inference that despite all public speculation, the invasion caught the Germans by surprise. However, inroads on the

Gary Cooper, Veronica Lake May Attend Opening Here Monday. (Continued From Page One) for a state quota of $281,000,000 and

in invasion bonds. All seats will be free and no admission tickets are necessary. Several thousand seats will be reserved by sections for employees of firms who have already signed up for extra bonds during the June-July drive. As a part of an intensive advertising campaign, William H. Trimble, chairman of the county war finance committee, reported that through the co-operation :of the 21 dairies composing the Milk Foundation of Indianapolis, all milk delivered for the 10-day period begining Monday will have special fifth war Joan caps. C. Widfleld Hunt, executive secretary of the foundation, said the dairies had ordered 4,580,000 caps for the period. Trams te Carry Emblems Beginning Monday, busses, trolleys and street cars will carry suspended circular emblems reading, “This is it! Fifth war loan. Join the fight.” Tentative plans are being made to send an army barrage balloon aloft

luftwaffe by British and American air forces during the past year—

invasion—played its part. “We have come to grips at the beginning of the final test,” Stim-

“At the end there can be but one decision.” But “there will be hard days ahead,” he continued, and it will be “to our good to avoid excesses of optimism or pessimism.” He warned that “we should not allow our imagination to outstrip the factual developments.” . These developments, Stimson said, will include early launching of “real counter-action” for which even

Destroy Fuel Dump 3 Simultaneously, a fleet of possibly 500 Lancasters and Halifaxes raced across the channel in response to an urgent appeal from the invasion fuel dump hidden in a forest a dozen miles inland. Slamming In across their at a height of less than 1000 the black-winged bombers unloaded a great weight of blockbusters and fire bombs on the hidden fuel cache.

ANTI-MALARIA DRIVE OPENED IN COUNTY

(Continued From Page One) are ready to consider such a pro-

state health board's report.

by a recurring malaria attack is im-

to civilians.

United States and the south where the disease is prevalent, carry the malaria mosquito with them.

could hardly believe that this was really the western front. Then as I drove with the spearhead of our attack over sun-bathed countryside and through towns, I was soon made aware that this was a great day. The French people screamed “Liberation!” and. joy was overflowing from their hearts,

Streets Blocked

Streets were blocked with cheering men, women and children. Cafes threw open their doors and pianists began to play British and French patriotic tunes, as the crowds danced, shouting “Vive . Tommy! Vive Amerique!” Some villages were entirely deserted; in others some civilians remained and rushed out with clutching hands, screaming for Joy. One village woman, Madame Andre Nicholas told me: “Oh! The Germans were really wicked. They took everything we

had. Recently Rommel came to|

this village on a visit of German coast defenses. The Nazis turned out in force. Rommel told them “These positions are impregnable.’ We knew he was lying because most German troops told us frankly ‘The British and Americans are now too strong for us. But we'll fight on nevertheless until the last man.”

Anxious for News

the field pounded by the enemy beyond Bayeux. In Bayeux all were anxious for news of the invasion. . “Will you please go to Monsieur Le Matre and explain that we must radio sets returned?” a

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parachuted into France with it strapped to my chest. Our job was to silence a vital coastal battery which ‘if still in operation might have blown our ships to bits as they came in to shore. We silenced it. Our other just as vital job was to secure two important bridges over a canal and river north of Caen to prevent their being blown up and to hold them against all comers until the main armies arrived." We're still holding them and they're still intact. This story began in a great black bomber, C for Charlie, on the biggest airfield in Britain. There were Lancashiremen, Yorkshiremen and Northumbians in the “stick” of paratroopers. Preceding them by half an hour were gliders and planes of paratroopers who were going to make a do-or-die attempt to take those vital bridges, The gliders were going to crash themselves on the buttresses of

gram following their perusal of the

Army officials point out that a returned service man who is stricken

mediately hospitalized and isolated so that no malaria mosquito can {reach him and thus carry the germ

Some persons have suggested that army planes, shuttling between the affairs.” seas |

may STOUT FIELD TO HOLD

However, medical and, sanitary of- | [ficers at Stout field state that any | {plane returning from an infected

now “the Germans are gathering strength.” | Fury to Come

! “German troops are established

armies to eliminate a huge enemy In northern France in great num-|

bers,” he said. “Their air force has {certainly not yet been driven from

target the skies. Their military command feet, has plans of action which are un-

'doubtedly beginning to move. We must look for the full fury of savage counter-attacks in force at an early moment.’ Turning to Italy, Stimson de{scribed the fall of Rome as a “happy |augury,” the result of a well-con-{ceived and executed flank moveiment against the enemy. “While the city had been hard

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Before army and navy men leave mander. | the country they are trained to pro-| To co-operate wit | tect themselves from mosquitoes and | loan drive, the base will be open mosquito control programs -are set | up at all army and navy installations, the Stout field officers ex-

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were all madly shuffling down the hole into space, We felt the tremendous roar of the slipstream and then the blissful peace of the soft night as our chutes developed. But this time we were not going down to a safe landing on the dropping ground but to enemy territory covered with poles and holes and thick with enemy looking for us. 1 came down in an orchard outside a farmhouse. As I stood up with my harness off and wiped sweat off my brown-painted face,

Suddenly there was a rip and a tear in my flapping jumping smock and I flung myself to the ground as a machine gun rattled. There were. two more smashing explosions—hand grenades this

Dives Through Nettles I dived through a bunch of net-

actually the commencement of the

| Schools yesterday continued to re-

son said at his news conference. stamps and bonds as pupils sought

hit economically and many citizens ciation, Stationers, had suffered, authorities at the Cjgar-Whelan Stores Corp, and scene sald the problems of city | wilson Milk Co. Inc. administration were somewhat less| serious than anticipated,” he added. “The task of supplying food was planned in the advance of the occu-

over Indianapolis, but a suitable place from which to fly it has not been found. A clear space at least 150 feet square is required.

port unusually brisk sales of War

{to meet their goal before sessions | end for the summer of filling every | incomplete stamp book. | John Thornburgh, principal of | School 14, 1229 E. Ohio st., reported {that the five rooms of the. junior {high school yesterday morning | bought $409.60 in war stamps. The | school, which has averaged $832 in | sales for the last eight months, has | set a goal in excess of $1000 for the

| two-week period of June. New Pledges Raise Total New pledges yesterday from 13 additional employee groups representing 3206 men and women totaled $144940 and sent the grand total to date to $7,978,281 in the “buy-where-you-work’ phase of the drive. This represents signed covenant cards from 668 Marion county em-| ployee groups with 85,805 workers. The 2400 employees of L. 8. Ayres & Co. were the largest group on | the list. Other firms are Best Coal | Co.; Charley's Restaurant, Colum{bia Conserve Co.; Elpenn Garage, {Inc.; Fairmount Glass Works, Inc.; {Indiana Condensed Milk Co, The i Nik-O-Lok Co. Pearson Co. Inc, | Police & Firemen's Insurance assoInc, United

Boyd Sparrow, manager of Loew's theater, and Foster Gauker, branch

Pictures, notified Chairman {|C. Pulliam of the Indiana war fin-

“Rome is not a great military | ance committee, that Loew's, Inc., acquisition but its fall is a great blow to the Nazis who converted it...» bond purct into a center of political organiza-|a¢ tne kn ote rol tion, linking of Rome with southern | represents a proportionate of

Italy should aid Italian economy | o tal 000 and stabilize Italian governmental total $10,000,000 bond subscription

{had allocated $75,000 in fifth war

{by the theatrical corporation. The {total is divided among the cities in which there are Loew's theaters and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture of-

| ‘B-DAY’ OPEN HOUSE ®~== _ _ _ . “B-Day” (bond day) will be Sun- /|CHY CALLS MILITIA

day, June 18, at Stout field, accordis thoroughly sprayed with an ing to an announcement today by Maj. Wright J. Sherrard, base com- . | LONDON, June 8 (U. P).—The

h the fifth war Vichy government ordered its milito| tia today to mobilize for an all-out 1 attack on their own people who be made. Transport planes, gliders have resisted the German occupaland air force equipment will be on| tion and now are aiding

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'| Parachuted Into Europe With World's Bravest Men'

Only beyond in the west country could tracers be seen and the noise of battle heard as we beat back Nazi counter-attacks. But the situation was grim. There was no doubt of that when I got fo headquarters. We had taken the Nazi by ‘surprise, but he knew what was happening now and we could expect his tanks at any moment at the bridgehead quarters in a copse overlooking the River Orne. 3 At 20 minutes past 3 a. m. every paratrooper breathed a sigh of relief as he heard bombers coming in slow, towing gliders. We watched them unhook and dive steeply for earth. We saw one caught by ack-ack catch fire

a Marion county goal of $79,000,000 1

vasion are ahead of schedule, some jeven with it and some behind, it was said.

switched some air-reserves to fields near the battle area. Geographically they have the big advantage of

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the allied

Le Havre, to a British empire, force o yesterday split the enemy's tbastal/

forces and cut his main highway and railroad from Cherbourg to Paris, rs

, “to do has been completely justified.” : Excel Former Standards He said the allied naval units in the early landing operations “excelled in the high standard of their planning and their execution any

them engaged,” Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's forces in these words: him all troops are performmagnificently.” } German

of paratroops yesterday defrom an armada of 300 in the vicinity of Coutances coast opposite Bayeux nt effort to throw a

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% - Tne invaders also stormed across| the Bayeux-Caen road at a point to the southeast and at last reports were fanning out along roads to the southwest toward St. Lo and Coutances and northwest toward Cherboursg. A spokesman for Eisenhower sald the capture of Bayeux “opens up an advance in many directions.” He called the town a focal point for highway and railway communications,

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If the German report of allied paratroop landings in the Coutances area of the west coast, 36|'arY miles southwest of Bayeux, proves true, all of Germany's communications with Cherbourg would be threatened and the enemy would be obliged to evacuate the area. (The German high command communique reported that the allies were attacking toward the southeast from their Caen-Bayeux beachhead and German reserves had opened counter-attacks. The allies tried to reinforce their beachheads' but attempted no new landing, the| Nazis said, adding that German | Isigny, and St. Pierre Eglise, 23 4 strongholds within the beachhead | miles to the northwest and 11 miles area “are maintaining themselves east of Cherbourg, DNB said. {in unshaken defense.”) House-to-house fighting was said A front dispatch from Richard D. to be raging in St. Mer Gen. Sir Btrnard L. Montgomery, | McMillan, United Press war corre-| seven vs pe Curestian. Bynes commander of the -expeditionary|spondent, said he entered Bayeux Eisenhower reported in his fifth force, told a correspondent aboard a | with allied forces at noon yesterday. communique that the steady buildBritish warship off the invasion crowds went wild, he said, and!|up of his forces by air and sea had coast: | waved French tri-colors and British continued. “Everything is going excellently.” union jacks. | “During the night, forces of E- 3 Clearing weather and diminishing «Goq save the King!” the wel-|ooats made unsuccessful attempts 4 winds in the English channel after| coming villagers cried. “On tolto interfere with the continual ar- 3 two days of high surf and low-1ying| parisi. Vivi Tommy! Vivi Amer-| rival of supplies,” the communique 3 clouds speeded the landing of re-|jg;e1n : said. “Anti-tank guns, motor trans- 5 inforcements and supplies by both| A front dispatch from Caen said|ports and considerable supplies were air and sea at the crucial time when | torwarg troops of another erhipire | delivered to our ground troops by

the Germans were known to be column h y massing rves for an attempt ad reached the SER very sine air transport and glider rese .

to drive the invaders back into the

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back one German counter-attack| returned to England to replenish on the approaches to Caen, nine PALS CLUB $41 their munitions, but already were miles inland and 28 miles southwest pounding away at enemy strong of Le Havre, and Gen. Dwight D.| (Continued From Page One) {points and covering the endless Eisenhower reported in his fifth | {chain of landing craft ferrying recommunique of the invasion at 11 allotments whenever the recreation inforcements and supplies to the a. m. (4 a. m. Indianapolis time) Project needs money. | beaches. The only two enemy tor-" today: Now that Lewis M. Lewis’ agents pedo boat attacks reported on the “Progress continues despite de- have left town, the F. O. P. secre- invasion armada were beaten off termined enemy resistance. Fierce tary said numerous merchants have without damage. armored and infantry fighting has! indicated their desire to contribute! The German DNB agency claimed taken place.” {to the F. O. P. Pals club fund Nazi naval forces set fire to and Eisenhower also disclosed that through the purchase of ball tickets immobilized one of three allied seaborne infantry and tanks driv- not previously sold. . | destroyers in the Seine bay west of ing inland ‘from beaches along a|* In the future, said Mr. Swego,| Le Havre, Two British cruisers apfront of 60 or more miles have made police balls here will be sponsored proached Le Havre yesterday and contact with paratroops and glider- | by civic and merchant associations, loosed several broadsides at the borne forces landed behind the ene- dispensing with the necessity of a harbor area, DNB added. my's defenses, presumably in the professional promoter. He added] Field reports late yesterday dis Caen and other areas. {that in accepti only 25 per ceut closed that Eisenhower had cruised The fall of Bayeux, a town of of the total “take” for his duties, off the invasion beaches for 4% 3 7736 population five miles from the involving chiefly the sale of tickets, hours aboard a British warship with 4 Normandy north coast and about “Lewis received only half as much Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay, allied . half-way between Cherbourg andi as he gets in most other cities.” inaval commander.

made at frequent intervals along the west coast of the peninsula near Granville, a port 15 miles south of Coutances, and the road junction of Lessay, 13 miles north of Coutances, the German DNB agency said. Granville also was bombarded, DNB said. Report ‘Heavy’ Tank Fight

(A BBC correspondent at the front reported a “heavy tank battle” in progress in one sector of the French coast, Blue network monitors said.)

At present some phases of the in-

borne divisions. American girtroops were resisting stubbornly between Carentan, six miles west of

The Germans already have

a large number of airdromes within 100 miles of Bayeux andgCden. But it was questionable how many planes the strained German air force would be able to commit to the operation until the allied overall! plan becomes more apparent.

‘Major Battle Joined’ (Merrill Mueller broadeast word that reporters at the allied supreme headquarters in London were told that “the major battle in France is joined.” Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said in Washington that the full fury of German counterattacks in northern France can be, expected to begin at any moment.) Developing allied successes on the third day of the invasion were reflected "in a statement by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower that his confidence in the armed forces under his command had been “completely justified” and that the troops were “performing magnificently.” British troops astride the ParisCherbourg railroad were reported by the Nazis to be striking southeastward from Bayeux in the general direction of Caen, 17 miles distant, where a violent street battle Was going on. Troops Move Southwest German broadcasts told of a) movement of British troops southwest’ of Bayeux, indicating that a drive had started to seal off the Normandy peninsula, on which the Nazis said American forces had established footholds, and isolate the big port of Cherbourg. The United States 9th air force disclosed that the allies had established landing strips in Normandy and at least limited aerial service 1 i boutitiiead Bad been opened — — — [T'S ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY with the moving in of supplies and he | TR the evacuation of casualties. psa ERO, At least one high ranking officer RI ose already has-flown in and out of the Tas. ona assault area. He was Maj. Gen. : " Ernest E. Down, commander of a British airborne division, who landed and after a “considerable’ stay returned aboard a Mitchell bomber.

Probable Temporary Fields

There was no indication whether the allies captured coastal air fields or established temporary landing strips, but it was believed likely that big transports were landing on temporary steel mat strips probably laid by seaborne engineers. The establishment of fully usable air strips would mean greatly increased support for the land armies | by short-range fighters which could move 100 miles closer to the battlefront, As a result of the first 54 hours of the inuasion campaign, Eisenhower said in a statement at an advanced command post, “my complete confidence in the ability of the allied armies, navies and air forces

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a from us but we dodged them and reached high ground overlooking the coast. . Under cover of naval ships, invasion barges were coming in, | firing. We shook hands in knowl edge that the invasion at long last had begun. Since that time we have heard little of that invasion because ours has continued to be largely a private war. The Nazi reply to our arrival was ‘infiltration into our positions with armored cars, mobile guns and hordes of snipers. * I came upon one Nazi soldier groaning from a wound in the stomach. A paratrooper - said bitterly: “He's lucky to be alive. He's one of the snipers.” Across the canal bridge snipers’ bullets were zipping like fireflies, But the risk you took crossing was negligible compared with what the paratroop battalion holding the bridgehead was facing. Every few minutes Nazi counter-attacks were coming in but these Lancashire “lads were holding on. Until well

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