Task force hits Japs in Marianas
Guam, Rota rocked five straight days
By William F. Tyree, United Press staff writer
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Loses 60 pounds in 4 hours –
Captain bakes to death in car as heat dehydrates body
Unaware of fate as he drives along in 130-degree heat on desert trail
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Steel needs grow, while output drops
Industry unaffected in reconversion plan
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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54,000 Nazis taken prisoner in Normandy
Invasion going well, Montgomery says
By the United Press
Allied forces in Normandy have captured more than 54,000 prisoners and are “developing our offensive operation in accordance with our plans,” Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, commander of ground forces in France, said today in his first message to his troops in a month.
Gen. Montgomery’s message, broadcast by the London radio, said the first month of the invasion has given “good ground for satisfaction.”
He said:
The pace has been hot and it was clear that someone would have to give ground sooner or later. It was equally clear that Allied soldiers would see it through to the end and would never give up, and so the Germans have been forced to give ground, which is very right and proper…
We have given the enemy forces a tremendous pounding and we know from prisoners what great losses they have suffered. We have enlarged and extended our lodgment area and, in that area, we are very firm and secure…
And so, to every Allied soldier in Normandy, I said, “Well done!” Well done, indeed! You have done a great task in a manner which is fully in keeping with the great traditions of the fighting stock of which we all come!
Yanks batter Jap air base off New Guinea
Meet no opposition in raid on Sorong
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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39 ‘educated’ Negroes register in Alabama
Dothan, Alabama (UP) –
Houston County election officials revealed today that they had allowed 39 “educated” Negroes to register for voting, but that the Negroes would not be permitted to cast a ballot until after next February when they pay their 1945 poll tax.
Allies replace Nazis as ex-Fascists’ guests, Italian paper charges
Conscientious Romans resent impunity with which Germans’ former friends operate
By Edward P. Morgan
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Roosevelt forecasts long amity with Russia
By the United Press
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War veterans to get identification cards
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Eisenhower warns of tough fighting
Says Allies will battle for every foot
By Edward W. Roberts, United Press staff writer
Allied advanced command post, France –
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said yesterday at his first press conference since the invasion that the overall war picture could be viewed with optimism sobered by the very definite conclusion that from now on, the Allies would have to fight for every foot of ground.
Reviewing the war situation including the robot bomb and the weather, Gen. Eisenhower confided that if President Roosevelt planned an early visit to the European War theater, he had not been advised of it.
The Allied commander called the robot bomb a damnable thing, but said that it did not appear that in the measurable future it would be made more effective.
Sees heavy losses
The Allies, Gen. Eisenhower said, must now be prepared in all their operations right round the perimeter of their lines for bitter fighting of the most strenuous character, with resultant heavy losses to all.
NBC’s Merrill Mueller reported that Gen. Eisenhower said the possibility of a crack in German morale was not excluded but that he believed Gestapo control of Germany was so complete that hope for an internal collapse was false.
Discusses optimism
He acknowledged that in view of the tremendous Allied victories of the last two years in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Russia and the Pacific, people in general could not be blamed for allowing optimism to rise greatly.
Gen. Eisenhower indicated his satisfaction with the progress the Allied armies are making in Normandy.
The American drive on the Allied west flank in Normandy, he said, will be continued as part of his overall plan.
Weather big worry
Discussing the weather, Gen. Eisenhower indicated that it was still one of his chief worries. He said he would swear that he did not believe there had ever been a time when anybody had been as lucky with the weather as the enemy had since D-Day.
The Earl of Halifax, British Ambassador in Washington, visited Gen. Eisenhower and lunched with him before he started on a tour of U.S. military installations.
At a press conference, Lord Halifax said that he was not in Britain to arrange another conference between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.