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. Finally it came-i-the news of the
great invasion-through the head
lines of the morning paper for
thousands, through the radio for
.' those who listened late. Without
flourish, with little dramatic flair,
r just the "report from the German
: radio and then the communique
of Gen. Eisenhower. That was
the way it came, even as some
. had anticipated, 1 with the first
, word coming through enemy chan
i nels.
The news, the real news, is more
' favorable than was feared: . Mal-
; lied naval losses have been very,
$ very small;" "air-borne troops
' suffered extremely small losses;"
i "the highly - vaunted German
defenses much less formidable in
every department than had been
feared; "losses of aircraft were
extremely small. Beachheads
; have been established orf the Nor-
:mandy coast;: paratroops have
; seized strategic bridges and are
' attacking German communications
behind the-west wall. Thus it ap
pears that the dreaded D-day did
not prove so disastrous to the at
tackers as was predicted. As is
often the case,' the fears so long
nourished and built up flattened
out somewhat at the actual cli
max. .
However it would be a mistake
to be premature in our conclu
sions. The Germans latterly have
. admitted it was possible for the
allies to effect landings. Apparent
- ly their strategy has been to guard
the perimeter as much as they
could, but to depend in large mea-
sure on counter-attack. Rommel
. is said to command the armies
held in reserve at Aachen in Bel
gium, ready to strike at the point
where the invaders develop their
- real beachhead in the effort to
roll them back into the sea.
It would be Anzio on a far more
colossal scale. We dare not min
imize the skill of Rommel or the
punch' he will packrtn? his fight
fng force, though , thr is the pos
sibility that Ihe German strength
t is bled in four and (continued on
- Editorial page) ' . --
Exchange Ship
SS Gripsholm
Arrives in US
JERSEY CITY, NJwftJune fl (ff)
The sixth diplomatic exchange of
: repatriates between the United
States otnd axis- countries 'Were
J completed today when the Swed-
ish liner Gripsholm arrived here
; with 131 passengers, 51 of them
. ill or wounded American soldiers
who were " prisoners of war in
' Germany. i ,: -
. The liner docked at 3:40 p. mT
I (EWT) . after . a nine-day j voyage
from Belfast which navy officials
" said ' was ..without incident She
: left here May 2, carrying 700 Ger-
man prisoners and civilians who
- were exchanged at Barcelona. In
addition to the American soldiers,
. she also-brought back 37 Canadian
soldiers and 43 civilians. .
Of the civilian repatriates, only
eight were United States citizens.
Among them was Larry Allen, As
sociated Press correspondent who
was captured by the Italians at
Tobruk September 13, 1942, when
the British destroyer to which he
. was assigned was sunk.
. t Allen told interviewers the Ger
man peoples were confident their
war machine could repel the al
- lied invasion and "force a stale-
mate" y
, That would be as satisfactory
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Oregon Hears
Of Invasion
With Prayers
& the Associated Press
.Allied invasion news set on a
wave ' of prayerful enthusiasm
throughout Oregon yesterday and
one of the first results was early
morning crowds in churches and
synagogues.
Later in the day groups in ship
yards and other war plants col
lected before bond booths to sign
pledger for heavier purchases.
. In Prinevillelhe fifth war loan
tampaign swung into action six
days ahead of schedule, as W. B.
Morse, Crook county war finance
committee chairman, hastily re
organized - his plans - to coincide
with" the invasion reports. ? -'
Crowds in Portland collected
around newspaper vendors all day
long, and at Ashland Carriers arose
early: to distribute complimentary
copies of the Ashland daily tid-
tr.zs to every doorstep in the area.
The 115,000 shipyard workers
in the Portland - Vancouver area
kept on their Jobs, spurred on by
regular public address system re
- crti ci tba European attack.
NINETY-FOURTH YE
N
With Disbrdeu
I
North of! Mom
West Invasion
Allied Campaign for Italy;
Clark's Men Giii Five Miles
By NOLAND NOBGAARI)
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS JNaples, June 6 ( Af)
Remnants of the German army fled in disorder north and
west of Rome today, as Fifth aMy troops swarming over
the historic Tiber in many places Ind against weak resist
ance advanced another five
"The battle to destroy
pause, the allied communique saiq, ana u was maae ciear
that as the United Nations mount the great invasion of tiie
west, there is to be no halt to the slugging Italian campaign.
Allies Select
Landing Spot
Months
By LEWIS HAWKINS
Associated Press Corretpondent Repre-
enttac . the. combined American PreM.
LbNDON, June 6 'P)- The
beacher across which the Ameri
cans drove"? mio. FratKetoday
were selected ' many months ago
but only recently did the Ger
mans seriously start to build up
the defenses there and the attack
found them far less heavily gun
ned and fortified than the great
port areas in Denmark, the Neth
erlands, Belgium and France.
This chosen stretch remained
almost without beach obstacles
and the .inshore , defenses were
nothing like as massive as those
stretching for hundreds of miles
on either side., V.' v ' : . ' ''
This left a breech of about 60
miles between the northern wing
of the defenses keyed around the
Elbe and Weser estuaries hook of
Holland, and the porta of. Dunker
que, Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe and
Le Havre, and the- southern chain
running ' from. Cherbourg through
St Milo, Brest Lorient Nantes
and Bordeaux. "
SiThe"low priority which kept
materials and weapons away from
this area made it the Achilles heel
of the nazi defenses was due
largely to the urgent necessity for
protecting every - port first and
also to the lack of manpower,
transportation and supplies to
create' a continuous wall from
Denmark to Spain.
Week by week through the win
ter allied reconnaissance showed
the slow progress in converting
scattered houses into strongpoints
and fingers were kept crossed In
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Pattern
- - --IS SCOTLAND
lit 'Td-iih
ENGLAND
fUti j r
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FRANCE
-S. ; SwJmh.
VJ
0 ' : ' 300 tuolmJ
0 I. I. wit f
Allied landings an the north coast
the Rosslaa front confronted Germany with pressure from three
feiicate strategic distances from t; Havre to Ecrlis, from Ccae
1U. (AP Wlrepbeto)
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Will Not Halt
miles peyond the river. !
the enemy continues without
"Wjth uie capture oz itome, ine
allied armies in Italy have
brought another phase of jthjeir
canjpaign to a most successful
conjclusion," said the bulletin. :
Tothe northeast, 15 miles from
Rome, French troops have j cap-
Vitroli on the important
Ave4ano road (highway 5); ind
ye Fifth army offensive rolled
forward, fanning out west; and
nortll of the eternal city or a
broa4 front, additional thousands
of ?rsoners marched to the rear.
The momentum of. the Fifth's at
tack f and the disorganization of
the) enemy hourly were becoming
more: apparent j" . .-, I :
An the war Yf rem 'Kern e
. the Isea the treoys ef Lt. Gen.
Mark W. Clark have crossed r
raebed the Tiber, and iaj tje
eiemal elty itself they plaagd
Lii af eenstaat stream across tae
pans still remaining!
taiefi to chase the Germans to
thefnerth. Infantry crossed; tie
Hyer in feree and was report-
irtvina dae west ef Vatican
Hf, and allied armored ferees
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'tee Hits Bus
dICillThrey
1ANON, Ore June 8-v-A
-foot-thick fir. tree whipped
f line by a gust of wind; as
Sirs felled it crashed across
front end of a Valley Stage line
mi the South Santiam
high
way near Cascadia late today, kil
ling three passengers and injuring
sif others. . . . ,n j;r; -
-' Dead are Arthur Holmrreen. 53.
Wildport an unidentified woman,
arid P. C. CKelly, Mitchell, g
fious injured were Hugh Ki
lAlbany, driver; Mrs. - P. 1 G.
ellr. Mitchell, who - suffered
id and chest injuries: Charles
Bend, back :injuriesJ and
Gillis, Bend, rib 'fractures.
H. W. Powers of Rmd ind
iSlavens of John Day were
treated at Lebanon General hos
pital for minor injuries.
ofj Allied War
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af i Fiance plus the drive In Italy
)toJX!A-,v-l v-tr """ "-e
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Gmarded overhead by barrage balloons, the (allied Invasion armada,
Infantry, plows along throagh
long-awaited Invasion af Fertress
FDR Leads Nation
In Victory Prayer
WASHINGTON, June f -ijPh, President Roosevelt led millions
of Americans in prayer .tonight for divine aid for the great allied
liberation assault on Europe
with success thus far. ; .
From the White House, the
voice over all radio networks
fighting for country and for free -
dom for humanity, and for those
at home. '
With him at the 10 p. m. (EWT)
broadcast were Mrs. Roosevelt,
their daughter Mrs. Anna BoettH
ger and the latter's husband, Ma
jor John Boettiger. Because of the
solemnity, Mr. Roosevelt declined
to permit 1 photographs of the
broadcast
Earlier the president told
news conference the allied oper
ation was "up to schedule. ,
: Before beginning his prayer, Mr.
Roosevelt made this prefatory re
mark; : r '
"Last night when I spoke w;
you . about T the fall of Rome,
knew at that moment that troops
of the .United States and our al
lies were' crossing .the channel
another : and ' greater operation
which has come to pass with suc
cess thus far."
His prayer, on which the chief
executive had worked for several
days, finishing it early this mor
ning v while American ' soldiers
stormed the . shores of France,
asked divine aid in the "struggle
to preserve our republic, our re
ligion and ouf civilization, and
to
set free a suffering humanity
", Mr. Roosevelt's - news' confer
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Strategy
and the MtentUl new ef fenslves
an
sides. Shaded arrows and f!rnres
to Cerlla and fro a Lwsw to Ecr-
i. , - ,
the English channel headed for beachheads an the French coast far j the
Europe, (AP Wirephote from coast guard via signal
which he said has ""come to pass
president read in a solemn, strong
his plea fof God's aid for the men
O
Huge Armada
Of Invaders
Amazes Pilots
LONDON, June .-0fP)-Ameri-can
airmen returning from to
day's big! Invasion assault ex
pressed ! amazement at ' the huge
armada of allied invasion craft
crowding I the English' channel,
and ' fighter pilots reported that
nd" German - fighter planes ' and
scarcely! any flak had been en
countered up to noon.
-. Hundreds of a 1 1 1 e d planes
packed the air lanes Fortresses,
Liberators and medium and light
bombers many of them without
escort ehuttled . back : and forth
over the i channel to' drop bombs
on nazi; military strongholds.'
Swift fighters darted high and
low to protect allied naval craft
and pave the way for ground
troops., ;jj'i" :
"It looked like 42nd street and
Broadway," Lt Paul . E. J Huff,
fighter pilot -of rSwartz-i Creek,
said of ihe channel. ";1 .".
From I Lt- John W. t Bursinger,
Los Angeles, pilot of a lead ahip,
came the comment: MI -never have
seen so many Forts in the air. As
far as L could ' see -there were
Fortresses. soaring - stroll the
channeL Through a break In the
skies I isaw a battleship lobbing
shells on to the coast
Later,! several returning pilots
reported . .Xierce opposition : . from
ground defenses. Capt Charles
W. ; Schobet, pUot, Ft Lee, NJ,
said "Every Jerry in France who
had a gun has been shooting this
morning.
Lt Marcel B. Gleis, pilot, Los
Angeles, said: "The Jerries were
throwing up everything in the ar
senal at everything they saw in
the air. . "
D-Day Brings Cheers
From f Italian Prisoners '
' LOS ANGELES, June C-(ff)
Italian prisoners of war, now
operating as work : companies at
the p o r t of embarkation, here;
were jubilant .today over news of
the allied invasion of Europe. !
,?Maybe now :.'th war. will .be
over In Shree moathssaid their
spokesman, v Capt -Iliccardo Mar-tella-'of
Rome. "Then we can re
turn home and go to work," I'
Reamer ' 7 .
f 1' . . ? " f '..
, Minim am temperatare Tuesday
75 degreei; minim ton 49; no pre
elpitatlon; river ft J - I
Partly elendy Wednesday and
Thursday; scattered k d e t
showers ! east portion, not such
change a temperatOTe!-
Fpr France
o
1 '
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m
composed chiefly ef ; landing : craft
carps radio.)
1000 Aircraft
U:: .. il l- I - I
Deliver
Air Army
i LONDON, Wednesday. June ?
(PJ- A great force, of RAF bomb
ers swept 'across the English
channel last night continuing the
mighty aerial assaults) that pre
pared the way for the allied in
vasion, during which j more j than
1000 troop-carrying aircraft at
dawn yesterday dropped thalarg
est air-borne forcej in history; into
France. ' c ' j
: : An official statement said the
RAF planes had siruck at targets
in German occupied territory! dur
ing the night apparently in! sup
port of the ground! troops fighting
inland from - beachheads in
mandy. A Reuters! dispatch
Basle, Switzerland, said air alarms
had sounded there, j ;
- In 'all yesterday, American war
planes alone flew more than 9000
sorties as allied airmen ruled not
only. "the invasion beaches! but
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Frcliojiw
Told to Ft
i LONDON, June!! e H3)-!! Gen
Charles De Gaulle called oh his
countrymen today to resis the
Germans declaring that for the
sons of France, f whoever; and
wherever they may bej the simple,
sacred duty is" tofigfit: with.all
means at their disposal,'
' In bis broadcast De Gaulle, who
heads the French' national commi(
tee told the French people that it
was ndw necessary io obey or
ders of the true government of
France appointed 4 by i the legiti
mate representatives of the French
people." V
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Dubacti Sees YMCA
Force-for World Peace
The YMCA is going to be one
of the great forces to j save us In
the problems ahead," pean U.'G.
JJubach of Oregon; j State college,
told 250 members of three Salem
men's . service clubs j and j other
guests at the centennial luncheon
held at the YMCAj Tuesday noon.
"When this war's over, hates are
going to be .so strong that It's going
to be a difficult problem to make
peace. The Y will teach the world
that love can be a reality in the
minds of men.". !i j
"Supernatiohalism is coming..
Race" problems are going to be f
bearcat in this countryWe are in
the greatest ; danger! of : class
hatreds, hatred between labor and
capital," Dean Dubach declared in
enumerating some of the problems.
"The "Y! will bring us labor and
capital and professional 'men to
gether and make us realize that
our cause is commion."; He pointed
out that the Y! has always been
practical in its approach to, things
rpiritual, educational, jand spcrts-
manlike.
r - II , .I i 1 T -
NEW TOKK, Jane American and British troops : hare ae-
enpied a 50-mlle stretch af the Frenchceast and have advanced Inland
at some places to a depth af 12 miles ar more, tlerbert M. Clark, Mae
network cerrespandent radioed today from London. . j .
' Clark said that American troops were mevfaur Inland rapidly to
Join with alrberne forces landed In
LONDON. Jane 7-tfVTwe British airborne battalions ! were al
most wiped eo at Deavrille'last
borne mnits were pressed back to
today. There was ne allied confirmation. r,
The Berlin report said 48 men
more than is, at L Bavra.
LONDON, Jane 7-rVthe German Transeeean news agency said
today In a Berlin broadcast that fierce German counter-attacks had
been launched against allied Invasion troops eaat af Cherbourg.
Just after midnight the agency
er formations attacked allied warships and landing craft off the Bay
af the Seine and north of Le Havre. "Details are purposely kept back
as yet bat results were good," the
By
WES GALAGHER
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS. Allied Expeditionarv
oree, Wednesday, June 7
cleared Normandy beaches of
punishing sea and air! bombardment and armor-backed land
ing parties ranged inland today in a liberation invasion
which the Germans themselves
inforcements; streamed across
The uerntan radio, in a
had made "further landings at
cover of naval artillery" and
ing on the coast, r i
Some resorts reached here
Montgomery's men had cut
railway,, a main route supplying Hitlers defense forces in
ANKARA, Jue CrGPr-Ahkara bossed tonight with reports
af an allied landing In the Peloponnesas and, although there was
ne official confirmation, responsible quarters said'lt could be
true now or shortly, j : .. . t
(Peloponnesas (island af Pelops) Is that part af Greece sooth
of the lsthmas af Corinth and Is a potential allied stepping Stone
to the Balkan mainland.) : :
A high soarce said, however, that ait allied landing .there
definitely would net ehanr Turkey's neotrality at this time.
Turkish reads are closed to foreigners. A considerable part af the
Turkish army Is en Its annual maneuvers, - A
Opening af the western front la Europe was heard la Ankara
with interest bat without manifestations. ; j I
(Later the United Nations radio at Algiers said Berlin had
broadcast an Ankara i report that allied troops-had , landed at
Fatras, an the northwest coast er the Feleponnesas. The German ,
broadcast also quoted reports from Sofia as saying that allied atr v
activity ever Greece had
the Chertwurir peninsula. The
ever, insisted that no allied troops had penetrated Caen. ;
Up to early morning, there were no reports from any
quarter of a single major engagement. I I
Prime Minister i ChurchiU first disclosed that' alHed
troops were fighting in Caen, on the River Orne, nine miles
inland, a hub of roads and railways radiating all over north
ern Normandy. He said the invasion was proceeding "in a
thoroughly satisfactory, manner and with unexpectedly light
casualties. -f -;y. V:i.;'.: ',.. :v- 5
Returning RAF! pilots said : We could easily! (ell the
beaches were secureU-we could see our soldiers standing op."
-x In the first dispatch received from the soil of France,
Canadun Press Correspondent Ross Munro said the Cana
dian invasion force won its beachhead and moved inland
after just two hours land 45 minutes of fighting. . )
Caen" was the only point specifically; named here as a .
scene of fighting, although penetrations as deep as 13 miles T
were reported. - '';r-T-": "--'.. -" r l ; -f,
Nazi-controlled radios, however, reported allied landings
at. a dozen points, with the most important on both sides
of the estuary of the River Orne. ' l -I j. ,
r v From west to east along the 100-mile shoreline, axis
accountssaid allied sea-borne and air-borne forces struck at:
The port of Barfleur, 15 miles east of Cherbourg; the
fishing village of St. Vaast La Hougue, five miles! south of
Barfleur; both sides : of the Valognes-Carentan highway, a
section of an important supply road to Cherbourg running .
five miles inland from the peninsular coast; the 27-miIe-long
area between Carentan and Bayeux; the River Orne
estuary; a 15-mile stretch of beaches in the Villers-jTrouville
region across the Seine estuary from Le Havre; and; the town
of Honfleur, on the Seine six miles southeast of lie j Havre.
. The German-controlled Vichy radio also said that a
vicious fight 'developed last night north of Rouen," on the
Seine 41 miles east of Le Havre, "between powerful allied
paratroop formations and German anti-invasion forces.
A landing of United States air -
borne troops in - a three-square-mile
area near the coast was de
scribed by a fighter-bomber
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As
Eev. Dudley Strain of; the First
Christian church -"delivered thi
invocation and Rev. J. C Harrison
of I the First - Methodist!, church
prayed for the success the in
vasion. Instrumental music was
provided by V-12 men of the. US
navy stationed at .Willamette un
iversity under -the leadership . of
George Lund. Several songs were
conducted by Dean Melvin Glest.
- Two triangles symbolic of the
TTs work in body, mind and
spirit, each holding S0 1 candles,
were placed before the j speakers'
table, together with the huge four
deck cake, denoting the 100th an
niversary of the YMCA. Miniature
flags .for each country engaging
la "Y activities stood beside the
flower decoration givenf by Miss
Sally Bush, Dr. Kenneth Waters,
Mrs. C. A. Kells and: Raynor
Smith. v V -Mi
: During the luncheon, : officers
of the Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis
clubs announced a Joint service
'cluh meeting next "Wednesday at
, T (Turn to Page ,2 Story A)
the first phase af the invasion, i '
nlsrht whilr at Le Havre allied afar-
the eeast the Berlin radle said
were eaptored at DeaavUle aa
eontinnaed. strong German bomb
agency added. -
( AP) Allied troops swiftly
the dazed nazi survivors of a
predicted would expand. Re
the white-capped channel.
dawn broadcast, said the allies
the mouth! of the Orriej under
that heavy fighting Was rag
i
that Gen. Sir Bernard L.
at Caen the Paris-Cherbourg
Terr heavy.)
Geraan high command, how
Or
Invasion Week
SetbyfBig3r
WASHINGTON, Junie ! -Tr
President Roosevelt disclosed to-;
day that the approximate time of
the . allied . cross-chanQel assault
on Hitler's European fortress was
set last December at his Teheran
conference with r Prime
Minister
Churchill and Premier
Stalin, i
' - It was agreed then that it should
come the last of May or the first
week in June, he told a news con
ference, adding that the decision'
was dictated chiefly by ; weather
records. Those showed that in the
late May-early June period there
is usually small boat Weather ; in
the notoriously, rough f English
channel. - 1 1-
The exact date, Mn Roosgvelt
said, was fixed only k few days
ago and was first set for June 5.
Because of bad weather, there was
a last minute decision Ux wait an
other day. - ;';.:;-, : :':..
As a matter of fact, the plan
ning for the invasion began right
after this country was thrown in
to the war, Mr. Roosevelt said. He
and Prime Minister Churchill be
gan it when the British leader
came to this country after Pearl
Harbor. It was a Question of get
ting the weapons and trained men.
ready to do the job.
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