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French Colonial Troops Land on Elba Island
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.Conferees Seek Agreement On Only Issue in Way Of Price Control.
WASHINGTON, June 20 (U, P). House and senate conferees on o the price control extension bill today sought to work out an acceptable compromise on the so-called | Bankhead amendments which would | # tie textile prices to cotton parity. They postponed a meeting sched- | uled for this morning, in order to permit further behind- the-scenes | ésefforts to draft a provision which | would be acceptable both to southern legislators who succeeded in writing the amendments into the # bill In the senate and to the ads ministration which charges they! would boost the nation’s clothing bill by as much as $350,000,000 a
Lo year,
Agree on Other Phases
There were reports that some e conferees had drafted a compro-
mise which was acceptable to Sen- |
ator John H. Bankhead (D. Ala),|
sponsor of the amendments, but ad-|
o ministration supporters apparently | were not persuaded of the a bility of accepting it. The conferees tentatively scheduled a meeting for this afternoon. The conferees reached agreement on all other phases of the bill including such controversial points as food subsidies and court review | of OPA regulations, session which broke up at 1 a
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~ FINNS SEEK ‘PEACE AT ANY CST
Fntond—
Ready to Accept All but.One of
Russ Terms.
By NAT A. BARROWS Times Foreign Correspondent
STOCKHOLM, June 20.— The Russian offensive against
Acme Telephoto. French colonial troops are shown leaving landing craft near Marina di Campo, on Elba, at the start of a whirlwind campaign which has resulled in the complete occupation of the island off the west coast & of Italy.
suddenly as it started, by Finnish decisions to accept the armistice terms offered them in March and permit Soviet troops IN FULL | FLIGHT - advance peacefully into south{ern Finland and perhaps even into !the Arctic. Internal events in Helsinki are moving at a dizzy pace. In the!
{midst of continued Finnish retreat | before Marshal Leonid A. Govorov’s
8th Wipes Out RB Out Rear Guard As Enemy Falls Back on 150-Mile Front.
ROME, June 20 (U.P.).—British| 8th army veterans wiped out isolated German rear guards in the
STOCKHOLM, June 20 (U.P.). ~—A Dagens Nyheter dispatch credited to “reliable private information” said today that the Russians had captured Viipuri.
Finland may be halted, as|.
streets of the ancient cathedral |
town of Perugia today as French] colonials smashed the last organized | resistance on Elba after a lightning 78-hour campaign that cost the enemy 500 dead and wounded and more than 1900 prisoners. Official reports disclosed that the Germans had resumed their retreat ito the north all across the 150-mile {Italian battlefront under savage at{tack by allied warplanes and the "pursuing 5th and 8th army ground! columns. Hard-fighting rear guards covfered the enemy withdrawal with ‘machine gun and mortar fire, but
The long range forecasts, issued from the Chicago regional forecast center, are received here at 7:30 a. m. on Tuesdays and Pridays, and a phone call to the weather bureau will advise vou of what's to come for the naxt five days. In case vou're skeptical, read over the forecast issued last Friday for the period ending today: “Temperatures will average
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Hoosier Heroptee
| the main Nazi forces refused to be 3 LOCAL AIRMEN drawn into battle and raced on at! top speed toward their Pisa-Flor-
ence-Rimini line, only 60 to 70!
| les beyond the allied spearheads. 27,000 Prisoners Taken Approximately 27.000 enemy pris-
oners already had been rounded up "Another Ik Recor Reported to Be by the advancing allies since the Ss
Finnish sources here said they were unable to confirm the report, but did not doubt it.
advance against Viipurl, desperate conferences of the Ryti government are seeking peace at almost any cost | and the imminent formation of a new government. This, however,
‘appears to be only a partial house- |
cleaning. The Finns are this moment seriously discussing the aeceptance of all the Russian terms proffered with the exception of the Finnish expulsion of German troops concentrated in northern Finland, private sources available to this correspondent reveal. The Finns are still saying that they are unable to make such a move against the Germans, but as it stands today, they are nearly ready to give the Russians permission to bring the Soviet army into the country if the Kremlin gives
Added Among Those " Missing. AERIAL COMBAT over four dif-
Indianapolis airmen to the Hoosier
ithan a month ago and the bag was
tart of their offensive little more (Continued on Page S5—Column 1)
CHURCHILL REPORTS
{mounting rapidly. British 8th army columns broke {into Perugia yesterday and fought on through the night against enemy
in a 12- hour snipers and mortar crews holding ) ferent battle areas has add three ma € added out in the streets. Other 8th army NAZI INVASION FAll ED today. But the senate he i
then on retaining the
ACQUITTAL PLEA IN SEDITION CASE LOST
Judge Leaves Way Open for
Same Motion Later.
WASHINGTON, June 20 (U. P.)— Judge Edward C. Eicher today overruled defense motions that he order a directed verdict of not guilty in the
eight-day old supreme court decision, but left the way open for renewal of the motion later. In a half-hour oral decision, Eicher said he had: “read and reread” the majority and minority opinions in the ‘so-called Hartzel case, in which the supreme court set aside a sedition conviction on grounds the evidence presented was
gold group of soldiers missing in action, KILLED . Arthur O, Pratt, oD ave, First Lt. Merrill H. Bowne, 1220 Park ave. Lt. John D. Lynch Jr, Meridian st. MISSING Second Lt. Henry A. Gardner, Bn Shelby st.
3024 N.
402 N.
8. SGT. ARTHUR O. PRATT, a flight engineer on a Liberator bomber, was killed in action April 23 in the North African theater after he had completed 16 missions. His wife, Mrs. Edithe Pratt, 3024
big sedition trial on the basis of an | N. Capitol ave. received a telegram
| Saturday night which read:
“Report received from the German
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TAYLOR TO SEE POPE ROME, June 20 (U, P.).—Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, arrived last night and was expected
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to be received by Pope Pius XII today or tomorrow,
Japs Threaten to Split China And Isolate Her From Allies
CHUNGKING, June 20 (U. P).— Japanese forces have broken into and probably captured the flaming elty of Changsha after a whirlwind three-week offensive through Hu-
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nan province that threatens to cut China in two and isolate her from her western allies, a communique disclosed today. More than 50,000 Japanese shock troops, including picked veterans rushed down from Manchuria, launched the final assault on Changsha Sunday, attacking behind a massive aerial and artlilery bombardment.
By mid-day, the city's outer defenses were beaten flat and the
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northeast, capturing the villages of
star list and a fourth to a tanks and infantrymen fanned out|
through the mountains to the!
Ripa and Civitella D’Arno.
Fifth army forces moving up| from the southwest by-passed the
Assault in 1940. enemy strongpoint at Citta Della to the north in a sweep appar-! | questions in commons, said today coast in 1940 for the purpose of . Grayback Lost; |iom the pore to cross the WASHINGTON, June 20 (U. P). ; ~The navy today announced the | terms the nature and magnitude cific where American submersibles| The prime minister explained Skipper of the vessel, who was concentration of men, but not in
Pieve and drove to the southern] VONDON.June 20 (U.P. .—Prime | (Continued on Page 5—Column 6) the Germans had heavy conceninvading England, but expressed 65 Me en Aboar Maar Vyvuyan Adams asked ‘loss of the 1475-ton U. S. submarine | Of 80Y German attempt to invade are taking a high toll of Japanese that the Germans set in motion listed as missing along with the crossing the channel.
Describes Axis | Plans for,
Ernie Pyle, famous Hoosier war correspondent of The Indianapolis Times, relaxes for a moment on a hillock somewhere in France during the arduous grind of covering the allied campaign.
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‘HOOSIER YAGABOND—
Goes fo Sleep
Full of Nazis—Dead Ones
By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspendent
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE (By Wireless) —Would you be inter-
Ernie Takes It Easy—For a Moment
in Orchard
Air Whe
2250 Planes Rip
Chirbpitgm
Strike Roughshod At Crumbling
Refineries in
Germany. Defenses. By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent United Press Staff Correspandent LONDON, June 20.—A rec-| ALLIED SUPREME ord fleet of 2250 American HEADQUARTERS, London, heavy bombers and fighters! june 20. —American flying blasted four big Nazi oil cen-|columns crashed through the ters into roaring pillars of outer defenses of Cherbourg fire today. to within three and one-half The mighty blow at the heart of miles of the burning port today the German war machine evoked, oy ile armored colum ovin only meager opposition from the! ) ns My g§ wp battered Luftwaffe. on their flank rode roughshod over the the crumbling German lines to the
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
Switching suddenly from
tactical campaign against enemy communications in northern France, the 8th air force sent well over 1500 Flying Fortresses and Liberators and half as many fighters over northwestern Germany to bomb and burn synthetic and natural oil refineries at Hamburg, Hannover, Magdeburg and Poelitz.
Weather Perfect
southeast to capture Montebourg and Valognes. A front dispatch from United Press War Corréspondent Henry Gorrell said Lt. Gen. Omar N, Bradley's veteran infantrymen were pounding northward on the twe main highways to Cherbourg, herding the disorganized Nazis before
i flame towering thousands of feet in ithe alr.
| Arthur L. Stecher, Los Angeles, Cal,
them into a narrowing death trap. Bradley's main force lunged straight up the Bricquebec-Cher-bourg road to within four miles of
The staggering blow at Germany's fast-dwindling oil resources was carried out in perfect weather. They came over their objectives almost unopposed and left great billowing columns of smoke and
LONDON, June 20 (U. PP.) The British radio broadcast a warning to the trapped German garrison at Cherbourg, which it estimated to number 20,000 men, that their pesition was hopeless and calling upon them io surrender.
While two hundred miles] away on their homeward flight, the | American crewmen still saw black | smoke clouds. A German tank ordnance depot at | Koenigshorn, near Magdeburg, and | an aircraft factory near Brunswick | also were bombed. “All Germany seemed to have the port city, meeting only #pore been the target and all Germany {adic fire from the giant coastal . seemed to be on fire,” said 2d Lit. | guns emplaced at the tip of the | peninsula. Simultaneously, other attacking spearheads 14 miles southeast if ) Cherbourg captured Montsbourg, He and other crewmen said flames |. ¢ the most bitterly-defended
a Fortress navigator, Smoke 3 Miles High
ested in hearing how we spent our first night in France? Well, even
if you wouldn't—
Just after supper we got an order to unload our vehicles from the
LST. One of those big self-propel
vehicles were driven off into it. These barges are called rhinos. They move slowly, and it took us an hour to get to shore. Then the beachmaster signaled us not to land, for the tide wasn't right. So we had to loaf around out there on the water for another hour, They were blowing up mines on the beach, and some of our big naval guns were still thundering away at the Germans. The evening was cloudy and miserable, and it began to rain as we waited. We were all cold.
x = = At last the beachmaster let us in. The barge grounded about fifty yards from shore, and runways were let down.
Every one of our vehicles had |
been waterproofed, so that the engines wouldn't drown out going | through the surf.
I came ashore in a jeep with |
Pvt. William Bates Westcott of Culver City, Cal. Wescott is a good-looking, intelligent man of 26 who used to be a salesman for the Edgemar Farms dairy at Venice, Cal. He is at war for the first time, and all this shoot-
shores of Lake Trasimeno 10 miles Minister Churchill, in response to trations of troops on the channel * U. S. Submarine the belief that no ships emerged {Churchill to indicate in broad | Grayback, presumably in the Pa-|the British isles in 1940. shipping. seaborne apparatus through the ship's complement of approximately| Emanuel Shinwell, laborite, then!
of Memphis, Tenn. [if such an invasion was made, it The first U. S. submarine to be was made unsuccessfully.” to which |
announced lost in three months,!ine prime minister smiled and the Grayback was approximately | ee said
299 feet long with a 27-foot beam. The Grayback is the 24th American submarine and the 160th naval
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
vessel sunk in this war. American| 6a. m..... 54 10a. m..... 66 submarines in the Pacific have sunk| 7a. m..... 57 11 a. m..... 67 607 Japanese vessels, probably sunk| 8a. m..... 59 13 (Noon).. 70 36 and damaged at least 115 more.| 9a. m..... 62 1 p.m... 70
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| 3 | The Marauders and Havocs flew, i! {through intense flak to reach the
65 men, was Cmdr. John A. Moore asked if Churchill could say “that!
FT. WAYNE SAILOR KILLED BY SENTRY
PHILADELPHIA, June 20 (U. P.).| ~The fourth naval district revealed today that a prisoner who was sjot and killed when he attempted to escape from a work detail yesterday
was Fireman 1-c¢ Donald James Mc- - | | (Continued on Page 5—Column 5) |
Curdy, 19, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
HINT BIG SEA BATTLE BREWING IN PACIFIC
Marianas Fight Indicates Jap Navy Is on Prowl.
By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staft Correspondent
i amamuaay wud Saipen and
™WO INCREDIBLE WEEKS: From Normandy to Yawata, Axis Sees Beginning of End
By LUDWELL DENNY Scripps-Heward Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 20.—The past fortnight has been incredible. Its mighty sweep of events has been the most decisive of the war. Unlike the similar period in 1940 from Dunkirk to Cherbourg, or June 1941 when Hitler overran west Russia, this global fortnight has changed the Pacific as well as Europe. As Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Guadalcanal turned Ihe enemy
and the Chetbowiy peninsula sealed off By the allies with light~
led bargelike things, made of steel
{ pontoons bolted together, came up in front of our ship and the
BOMBERS PLASTER |
New Nazi Secret Weapon
Appears Over Channel.
LONDON, June 20 (U, P.).—The U. 8. 8th air force hurled more than 200 Marauders and Havocs against the launching runways of the Nazis’ | robot bombers between Abbeville land Calais today during a lull in {the mechanical air attack on /southern England that made it one; {of the quietest periods since the| {new blitz began six days ago. The second tactical air force an- | nounced that bombers raiding the {robot installations, have encountered {another German “secret weapon.” { The weapon was described as a square, box-like missile, fired into the air to burst and scatter long | strips of silvery and apparently | metallic substance. The device { probably is designed to foul proi pellers of attacking planes, but was Isaid to be “completely ineffective.”
Fly Through Flak
well-hidden robot runways, located
roughly on a line 30 miles south-|
{ward of Calais to seven miles north | of Abbeville, in Pas-de-Calais. Most of the targets were only a
FRENCH RAILROADS “GUT BY PARTISANS
To Norman Peninsula.
LONDON, June 20 (U. P.).—Railroads from Germany-Belgian and ‘northern France vital for reinforcements to hard pressed German troops on the Norman peninsula have been cut by French underground resistance forces in a series of co-ordinated blows, a Free
ROBOT'S RUNWAYS ==
er escort and at least seven enemy |
short distance inland. | The crews said violent explosions | followed many of their bomb runs,
Slam Nazi Reinforcements’
| were leaping more than a thousand! | feet into the sky over the blasted |r mong a in ihe enemy's Selene oil plants and that thick black The Americans entered Falun 0 a this evening, Gorrell reported, to find the streets piled high with smoldering wreckage left by the | Nazis in a last spree of vandalism. Valognes, one of the biggest towns the rear while the Fortresses piss a ale, Ares a 4 were bombing Magdeburg. = Another | smashed by allied and German was hit by 50 rocket and cannon-| lartillery fire and bombing, and the firing fighters just before they oi eqting Nazis completed the job reached the German coast. Bot by wrecking everything in sight, attacks were broken up in short or-| gen preaking every wine bottle in der by the powerful American fight- |; on Gorrell said.
American heavy avy artillery wheeled
| smoke clouds mushroomed up {height of more than three miles. Only two bomber groups reported | {aerial opposition. One group ran into 30 to 40 sin-gle-engined fighters that swept in
planes were downed in the latter|
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INVASION—Americans storm to ITALY—British wipe out German within four miles of Cherbourg, | rear guards in Perugia; French threaten to engulf port within 43 smash last resistance on Elba,
hours: capture Motnebou and Vee 8 40%, PACIFIC—Destruction of 300 Japae | S in. AIR WAR—Fleet of 2250 American, ree apanes a as planes make pillars of fire among Reich oil installations; strike] CoD 8nd Japanese task farces are prowling within virtual battle range and may clash .in first test of major fleet units in two years,
robot plane installations in Pas de Calais; robot bombs hit southern England. RUSSIA—Soviets reach outskirts of CHINA—Japs enter burning ChangViipuri.
| sha; city may have fallen.
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