PURSUIT ON IN ITALY
Allies pass Rome, cross Tiber as foe quits bank below city; planes join in chase
1,200 vehicles wrecked; 8th Army battles into more towns
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PURSUIT ON IN ITALY
Roosevelt: Rome’s fall marks ‘one up and two to go’ among Axis capitals
Warns way is hard; asks world to give the Italians a chance for recovery
By Charles Hurd
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Pope gives thanks Rome was spared
Voices appreciation to both belligerents in message to throng at St. Peter’s
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Italy’s monarch yields rule to son, but retains throne
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Federal law held ruling insurance
Supreme Court, 4–3, decides business is interstate and subject to Trust Act
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Conferees accept cabaret tax cut
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2 flanking drives in Italy expected
One to east along highway to Pescara and another to north are predicted
By Drew Middleton
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Gen. Clark sees 2 armies beaten
Foe’s 10th smashed, 14th unable to give effective battle, he says in Rome
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Washington waits three hours for flash
Pershing sees victory is ‘like war of liberation’ fought by sons of 1918 troops
Washington –
Washington learned officially of the invasion of Europe at 3:32 a.m. ET today when the War Department issued the text of the communiqué issued by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces.
This flash was the climax of three hours of tense waiting that followed the first German radio reports that hostilities off France had begun. Before that both the War Department and the Office of War Information said they had no information to confirm or deny the German reports.
The communiqué was handed newspapermen in the War Department by Maj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles, chief of the Army Bureau of Public Relations. With the communiqué was issued a statement by General of the Armies John J. Pershing which declared the sons of the American soldiers of 1917 and 1918 were engaged in a “like war of liberation” and would bring freedom to people who have been enslaved.
The capital awakened rapidly after the initial broadcasts. Lights flashed on and radios began to blare. Newspapermen hurried to their offices. Everybody was demanding to know whether it was “official.”
If the White House was aware of the report, there was no outward indication. Only a few lights glowed there and the customary guards patrolled up and down monotonously.
Only a few hours earlier – at 8:30 p.m. – Mr. Roosevelt had addressed the world for 15 minutes on the fall of Rome.
By 1:45 a.m., almost the entire public relations staff at the War Department had reported for duty.
Elmer Davis, director of the OWI, met about half a dozen newsmen in his office about 4:00 a.m. and told them the OWI had no assurance that the invasion was coming off this morning but thought that it might be. He said that OWI did not put out any of the German broadcast reports prior to official confirmation from Gen. Eisenhower’s headquarters.
Between the official flash and the time Gen. Eisenhower began his talk, the OWI was transmitting the text of the communiqué.
The OWI director added that ABSIE, the agency’s foreign radio, had broadcast Gen. Eisenhower’s speech in about 20 languages.
Pershing sees patriots rising
Washington (UP) –
Gen. Pershing, in a statement headed “American troops have landed in Western Europe,” said today that he had “every confidence” that the invasion would succeed.
The statement was released by the War Department.
The aged general said:
The overwhelming military might of the Allies advances. It will be joined by the men of the occupied countries, whose land has been overrun by the enemy but whose spirit remains unconquered.
Twenty-six years ago, American soldiers, in cooperation with their Allies, were locked in mortal combat with the German enemy. Their march of victory was never halted until the enemy laid down his arms in defeat. The American soldiers of 1917-1918, fighting in a war of liberation, wrote by his deeds one of the most glorious pages of military history.
Today the sons of American soldiers of 1917-18 are engaged in a like war of liberation. It is their task to bring freedom to peoples who have been enslaved.
I have every confidence that they, together with their gallant brothers-in-arms, will win through to victory.
McNaughton prays for invaders
Montréal, Québec, Canada (CP) –
Lt. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, former commander of the Canadian Army overseas and the man who trained the Canadians for their part in today’s invasion of the continent, said early this morning that “all I’d like to say is that my prayers are with them.”
Normandy airdromes wiped out
London, England (UP) –
The German DNB News Agency today broadcast a dispatch, unconfirmed by Allied sources, that the most important airdromes in the area of the Normandy Peninsula of France had been wiped out.
Davis warns of German trick
Washington (UP) –
Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Production, warned the American public today that the German radio might be trying to build up a reputation for accuracy in its news reports of the invasion so that “they can put one over on the Allies later.”
La Guardia pleases at change in Italy
Says he hopes that abdication means end of hereditary rule
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Rome is up at dawn to cheer 5th Army
Joyful crowds greet tanks and jeeps threading city, its treasures unhurt by war
By Herbert L. Matthews
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Allied Burma push encircles Kamaing
Chinese and Americans pull noose tighter on Myitkyina; enemy set back in India
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6 Japanese forces drive on Changsha
Chinese troops, U.S. airmen take toll of enemy columns; Kungan in Hupeh regained
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Stettinius urges shift of UNRRA fund
He says House action may prolong military operations
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Green orders AFL to aid WMC program
Union chief says job priority plan was necessary
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Would halt rise of women pilots
Ramspeck Committee says no more should be trained, in face of men flier excess
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Gillette takes lead in Iowa primary
Senator ahead; Blue names in GOP race for governor
Des Moines, Iowa (AP) – (June 5)
Senator Guy M. Gillette, a Democrat campaigning for reelection, took a long lead over his opponent, Ernest K. Seemann, in the Iowa primary today.
Returns from 748 of 2,463 precincts gave Gillette 12,093, Seemann 3,181.
Mr. Seemann, a Waterloo factory worker, was making his fifth bid for a place in the national political spotlight.
The winner in the Democratic primary is to meet Governor B. B. Hickenlooper in the general election. Mr. Hickenlooper was unopposed for the Republican nomination.
In the Republican governorship race, Henry W. Burma, Speaker of the House, conceded the nomination to Lieutenant Governor Robert D. Blue. They were trailed by Milton W. Strickler of Des Moines.
Returns from 757 precincts gave:
| Blue | 31,925 |
| Burma | 19,215 |
| Strickler | 3,548 |
Two of the eight Republican Congressmen seeking renomination were trailing opponents, Henry O. Talle in the 2nd district and Fred C. Gilchrist in the 6th.
Court restrains sedition defense
Justice Eicher calls a halt on repetitious objections shouted by lawyers
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4 appeal Nazi agent conviction
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Screen news here and in Hollywood
Donna Reed named by MGM to role in Son of Lassie; three new films today
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Display of war art at National Gallery
Pictorial show of U.S. action, 1776 to 1918, opens July 4
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Editorial: Invasion
At last, the supreme moment has come. The months and years of waiting are over. Troops of the United States, the British Isles, the Dominions, contingents from occupied but unconquered countries in Europe are at this moment setting foot on the continental soil. The men who left Dunkerque nearly four years ago are returning. They left as a handful of shattered divisions, armed only with the splendor of an undying courage. They return as part of a great force supplied with every known means of beating down the enemy’s resistance.
They are commanded by generals of proven worth, in whom there is universal confidence throughout the United Nations. The preparations have been thorough. Nazi resistance has been weakened by air attacks of unprecedented destructiveness. In equipment, in training, in courage and resolution, these men are doubtless the equals of any soldiers who ever marched.
They are meeting and will meet terrible obstacles. The Nazis have had four years to prepare, and no doubt they are ready. They have had ample warning that the invasion was coming, though they did not know the time or the places. They will fight hard, for when they are beaten now, they are beaten forever.
The next few hours and days will be critical in our history, and in all human history. We must wait in patience for news that may be slow in coming. We must be prepared for losses and for reverses at some points. The shape of the battle of Europe may be slow in emerging.
Today we can only pray, in our churches with other petitioners of the Almighty or alone and in our hearts.
We cannot pray that one we love be spared if a stranger must fall in his place. But we can call upon the God of mercy and justice to strengthen each soldier in his hour of trial; to give victory with the least cost in life, in suffering and in sorrow; to grant each soldier faith in his cause and full knowledge that our love and our hope go with him.
We may pray, too, that we ourselves may be given the fortitude that these young men possess; that we may have strength to face the dreadful waiting; that we may have courage to bear the sorrow that must be the lot of so many.
We may humbly pray for untiring bodies and hearts to support all the soldiers of the United Nations who battle for victory and for the liberation of those who are in slavery.
Finally, we may pray for the knowledge and skill to create out of this slaughter a just and lasting peace.
These are our sons. God bless them.