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azis Pulling Out of Cherbourg
Death Ctrunal Panion on Cainan Guns Raking U.S.INVASION DEAD3,283
Death Struggle Raging on Saipan Escape Road =============
VALICCIIICIAITIIRIUT All’ D A PARpaid high tribute to the courage of doughboys in establishing the
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Girl, 3, Back
With Mother;
Quiz Woman
> A three-year-old girl report-
ed taken late Friday after-
noon from the T&P park was
back with her mother shortly
Defore noon today and the
woman who had her in cus-
tody was being questioned at
the police department.
The child disappeared, ac-
cording to Mrs. William Gutz-
D kow, her mother, about 4 p. m.
Friday when a woman known
only to her as Elizabeth Ann
left with the youngster to visit
a store, saying she would return
, in a few minutes. When she
• had not come back shortly after
” 6 p. m., Mrs. Gutzkow said, the
affair was reported to police and
a search was started. A picture
of the child was furnished po-
lice.
This morning the child was no-
JANET AND MOTHER
ticed by Clark Schooley in the halls
of Cowden-Paxton hall, at Hardin-
Simmons, which recently was open-
tod to families of soldiers at the
urgent request of the Army. A check
by Schooley, In charge of the hall,
disclosed that it had been brought
to the building by Mrs. Elizabeth
Ann Hinajosas, who had been reg-
listered in the room for two weeks
“and was referred to the hall by the
Travelers Aid.
Mrs. Hinajosas told Schooley the
child was her own and had Just
been brought to Abilene by her sis-
ter. Schooley refused to permit her
to leave the building and summon-
See CHILD Pg. 2 Col. 3
MILES OF MAIN JAP CITY
PEARL HARBOR, June 17.—(UP)— Two divisions of
Japanese troops—some 20,000 to 30,000 of the emperor's elite
fighters—were locked in a death struggle today with the
American invaders of Saipan in what may become one of
the most decisive battles since U. S. Marines stemmed the
enemy’s southward drive to Guadalcanal.
Reports from Saipan since the fighting began four days
ago gave only the barest details in the see-saw battle. It was
reported that Americans, battling through intense mortar
and artillery fire, breached Japanese lines north of the
sugar-mill town of Charan Kanoa to bring their forces to
less than five miles from Garapan, largest city on Saipan
which straddles the enemy’s central Pacific line 1449 miles
southeast of Tokyo.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said he previously had as-
sumed that Saipan was strongly held. For this reason Ameri-
can units are battling with everything from tanks and heavy
artillery to knives and bare hands in a do-or-die effort to
exterminate the enemy.
Saipan, at the apex of a main defense triangle south of
Japan, has been converted in-
to a formidable fortress which
probably will take many days
to conquer.
Adm. Chester Nimitz reported
the Japanese failed to offer aer-
ial opposition to the Saipan
landing last Wednesday, per-
haps because an Allied task
force at that same time was
attacking the Bonin and Kazan
Islands, half way between the
Marianas and Japan.
Nimitz said two Japanese ships
were sunk and 10 damaged, and 47
airplanes destroyed In the Bonin-!
Kazan raid. One hundred and ten
survivors from one of the ships were
taken prisoner.
r**
The Jittery Japanese, stung by
repeated aerial and-naval blows the
length of their Pacific front with-
in the past week, complained of
new American attacks.
A Domei agency broadcast said
planes "attempted to raid the
northern Kurile Islands Thursday
afternoon. A Tokyo broadcast said
27 Allied bombers raided Truk in
the central Carolines Wednesday
for the second straight day. but
that 11 of the attackers were dam-
aged. There was no confirmation
by American sources.
The Japanese continued to depre-
cate 'the Thursday night raid by
See map, photo on page 2
Lieutenants Get
Marriage License
A marriage license was issued
yesterday by the office of county
clerk to a lieutenant and a lieu-
tenant.
Both from Detroit and both sec-
nd lieutenants. Lt. Joan Hall,
Army Nurses corps la stationed in
Topeka, Kans., and Lt David
Bidne is stationed at Camp Bark-
eley._____
Former Abilenian
Dies in Jap Prison
Justin Gray Jr., son of Mrs.
Justin Gray, former Abilenian, died,
presumably in a Jap prison camp,
according to the War department.
“Gray was mobilized with the Na-
tional Guard of Albuquerque, N. M .
and fought in the battle of Ba-
taan. He was previously reported
missing in action.
Mrs. Gray now lives in Los An-
seles, Calif.______________
The Weather
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WEATHER BUREAU
AND VICINITY — Partly
elouayyuis afternoon, tonight and Sun-
dax,sr TEXAS: Partly cloudy this aft-
eRA tonight and Sunday. Scattered
munuersnowers southeast portion this
tumnoon and Sunday afternoon.
TEXAS-Fair this afternoon,
ont and Sunday Not quite so warm
in" Panhandle tonight FEMPEATURES
Sat-Fri Fri-Thuts
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CTORY
B-29 Superfortresses upon Japan's
great steel mills at Yawata. Ameri-
can witnesses of the raid estimated
a fifth of Japans steel production
may have been knocked out, and
said flames from the bombing were
visible for 60 miles.
"Enemy claims to the contrary,
Yawata’s mills were undamaged,"
said Domei. "It is presumed that
the enemy mistook the first of
burning wheat stalks for the fires in
the industrial section.”
Four of the Superfortresses
were lost in the raid, but one
crew was rescued. The Army an-
nounced that only one B-29 was
shot down. Two were lost in
accidents and the fourth is
missing.
The Japanese in a broadcast es-
timated the Saipan invading force
at 15,000, and said the Americans
suffered 1,800 casualties.
Nephew of Abilene
Man Crash Victim
Cadet James Flournoy Jr., 20, of
Cisco, nephew of J. M. Hooks of 1181
Sayles, Abilene, was killed when his
training plane’crashed near Mission
Thursday.
He was to have received his wings
as an air force pilot July 1.
Cadet Flournoy was stationed at
Mission. According to messages re-
ceived here, his body was found in
his crashed plane just over the Rio
Grande river in Mexico
Funeral for the cadet will be Sun-
day at 4 p. m. in the first Christian
church of Cisco. The Rev. B. J.
Wright, pastor, will conduct serv-
ices.
The only son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Flournoy Sr of Cisco, Cadet
Flournoy was a 1942 graduate of
Cisco high school and attended Tex-
as Christian university st Fort
Worth before entering service. ‘
His grandmother, Mrs. F. M.
Hooks lives at Cisco Three other
uncles are Price Books of Amarillo,
Milton Hooks of Fort Worth and
Doyle Hooks of Corpus Christi.
The body will arrive in Cisco 2:30
a. m Sunday.
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Germany Alerts
Northern Coast
LONDON, June 17—(P)—The
Moscow radio, quoting a Tass news
agency report from Stockholm, said
today a state of siege has been pro-
claimed along the entire northern
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Plane bases
SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, June 17.
—(AP)—RAF heavy bombers
smashed last night at enemy
installations in the Pas de
Calais area of .France, from
where the Germans are be-
lieved to be launching their
pilotless planes, while other
British formations hammered
a synthetic oil plant near
Duisburg and targets in Ber-
lin.
The night blow against Pas
de Calais came a few hours
after U. S. Flying Fortresses and
Liberators in the last hours of
daylight yesterday pounded
these same installations.
Althought miserable flying wea-
ther once more hampered the air
support of the invasion armies yes-
UNDER ATTACK—Here are
Saipan and Tinian Islands in
the Marianas. Troop landings
were reported by Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz on June 15
to be continuing on Saipan
against strong opposition. (AP
Wirephoto).
Chinese Troops
Seize Kamaing
SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon.
June 17—UP)—The Chinese 22nd di-
vision has captured the Japanese
base of Kamaing, approximately 40
miles northwest of besieged Myitk-
yina In northern Burma, it was an-
nounced officially today.
CHUNGKING. June 17—(FI-
Heavy fighting is taking place - in
the southeastern suburbs of Chang-
sha, but the Chinese garrison in
that strategic Hunan province city
is complying with Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek’s orders to defend
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, June 17—(PP—American troops attacking north and west of
St. Sauveur le Vicomte have advanced two to three miles and es-
tablished themselves astride the River Douve.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITION-
ARY FORCE, June 17.—(AP)—American troops driving to
pinch off the top of Cherbourg peninsula brought the Ger-
mans' last escape road under hammering artillery fire today,
and a U. S. fighter pilot reported signs of German flight from
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AL-
LIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
June 17.—(A)—American heavy
bombers pounded half a dozen Nazi
airbases in a great arc extending
nearly half way around the Nor-
mandy battle zone today.
terday. supreme headquarters said
2.500 sorties were flown by Allied
air units—about 1.000 of them by
American heavy bombers and their
escort in the twilight smash at Pas
de Calais.
.... **** 1--
The night attack on Berlin was
made by Mosquitos, while British
Lancasters and Halifaxes continued
the Allied campaign aimed at dry-
ing up Hitler’s war machine by
dumping tons of explosives on the
Fischer Tropsch synthetic oil plant
at Sterkrade, about five miles north
of Duisburg. It was the second time
this week the RAF had gone over
Germany in strength
Thirty-three RAF bombers
were missing from last night's
operations, described by the air
ministry as involving a "very
strong force.” This indicated
about 1,000 planes were used.
RAF bomber crewmen said op-
position in the Ruhr area last night
was as strong as ever. The Ruhr
defenses put up an intense barrage
and many fighters were out all
along the route.
A fleet of nearly 1,000 U. 8. Fly-
ing Fortresses and Liberators and
escorting fighters hit the Pas de
Calais area late yesterday and three
Nazi air bases in the vicinity of
the cape and its great port
One U. S. column blazing west of Carentan fought with-
in four miles of La Haye du Puits, the Nazis’ last main road
junction at the shortest neck of the peninsula, and forces
farther north had cut Cherbourg’s western railway by seiz-
ing St. Sauveur de Vicomte. Still other Americans had re-
captured Montebourg, 14 miles southeast of Cherbourg.
Even as artillery blasted the Germans' last read on
their dwindling western strip of the peninsula, an Ameri-
can pilot said he saw enemy trucks and staff cars moving
south, and declared he believed the Germans “want to
get out of there, but our troops are moving in fast as
hell.'’
Cherbourg threatened to become another Sevastopol for
the Germans, with their escape cut off except by sea, as hap-
pened in the Crimea.
On the eastern end of the battlefront, supreme head-
quarters declared strong German attacks were beaten off
east of Caen, and a headquarters officer said two unsuccess-
ful Nazi counterblows in the Troarn area, seven miles be-
yond Caen were “extremely costly to the enemy.
Toward the center, the Allies punched out local ad-
vances despite heavy opposition between Caumont and
Tilly-sur-Seulles, the communique said.
Bad weather and rough seas hampered unloading as well as other
operations and made it unlikely that the Allies would put in *
full-scale attack until the weather improves and they can use their
campaign. . n
Bradley said casualties on the central beachhead, where the
American First division and elements of the 29th division landed,
had run higher than anticipated, but that casualties in the peninsula
area to the west had been lower than anticipated.
This casualty report confirmed Bradley’s confidence before the
vasion when he predicted that the continent could be invaded without
creating the bloodbath which the enemy insisted would result and which
many persons expected. . _.
Bradley’s first words to the correspondents who gathered in the
tent under the shade of a huge beech tree were in praise of his dough-
boys and parachute troops and their leaders. ..
’ "Only by guts, valor and extreme bravery on the part of the men
and their leaders involved were we able- to make the landing a suc-
“and I cannot say too much for the parachute troops
who dropped in the rear and made the job easier for the beach troops.
Aid a
did entrar disclosed that since D-Day there had been two critical
periods when the Germans might have created a serious situation by an
air superiority to the full. x
Only slight activity was reported along the 100-mile-plus beach-
head front, although the Germans made two heavy and "extremely cost-
ly" counterattacks in the Troarn area, east of Caen, which were repulsed.
In these attacks Field Marshal Erwin Rommel used tanks and In-
fantry in efforts to penetrate British positions at Breville and Escoville,
respectively seven and four and a half miles northeast of Caen.
Biggest news of the day was the weather, which again blew at force
four” from the north. Any wind
from “force three” or above delays
Britain's King Pays
Visit to Beachhead
unloading on the beachhead. Su-
preme headquarters said.
It was disclosed officially that
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
American ground commander,
LONDON. June 17—(P)—King has two army corps under his
George VI visited the Normandy
beachhead yesterday, his trip mak-
ing the first time in four centuries
that a reigning sovereign of Eng-
land has set foot on Norman scil to
visit his armies fighting there.--1----------------—
The king crossed the channel on It was these forces which regis-
the British cruiser’Arethusa and
landed from an amphibious duck."
Louis Wulff, Reuters correspondent
representing the combined Allied
press, said in a dispatch from the
warship.
When he stepped ashore on a
beach just west of Courselles,
the king heard shells screaming
10 miles inland. It was the first
time in this war the king had
command, the fifth and seventh.
The fifth is composed of the
First. Second and 29th divisions
while the Seventh includes the
82d and 101st airborne and the
Fourth infantry divisions.
tered the only new advances along
the bridgehead front.
American forces which captured
St Saveur yesterday, after heavy
fighting were busily digging in and
getting set for an expected he/
German counterattack The ad-
vance farther west in this sector ap-
peared likely to be slow since the
country is marshy and hilly in spots
ind lends itself readily to defense.
At La Haye du Putts, seven miles
south of St Saveur, another Amer-
witnessed actual firing at en-
emy positions.
Before he returned safely to an
English south coast naval port the
_---------------------------, monarch lunched with Gen. Sir
escorting fighters failed to return. Bernard L. Montgomery at ad-
vanced headquarters and ___.
Maj. Gen R F Keller a commander 1 writ within artillery range of the
Paris and Laon, 10 miles to the
northeast. One bomber and four
American fighters also bombed
and shot up railroads and truck
convoys south of the beachhead.
ican drive posed an even greater
threat to the peninsula. Capture of
ta Have would cut the last main
road up the peninsula. Bradley’s
made troops were about four miles away.
of the British empire.
town.
See YANKS Pg. 2 Col. 4
French
de
Yanks, British Gal
ROME,
June 17- (P) - French 1 preme Allied commander, landed
successfully on the island of Elba.
The regular communique dis-
forces landed today on the island
of Elba, once the place of exile of
Napoleon, and have secured it for
the Allies. Allied headquarters an-
nounced today.
A special Allied communique said
tersely that a "detachment of the
French army ‘B which was com-
manded by Oen De Lattre de Tas-
signy, at the direction of the su-
Finns Wrecki
Viipuri Bridges
MOSCOW June 17.—(P)—The
Finns are blowing up all the bridges
on two highways leading to Viipuri
on the Karelian Isthmus, seeking
to halt the Red army’s entry into
the city, front dispatches said today.
But Soviet capture of the city ap-
peared inevitable The rumble of
Russian big guns already was echo-
tag strongly in its streets.
With more with strong new-
ly-captured populated points
behind them the Russians with
strong artillery and bomber
support hurled an impressive
weight of tanks, tommy-gun-
ners and infantry In massive
waves across the Karelian Is-
thmus.
(A Finnish communique admit-
ted the Finns had abandoned Uusi-
kirkko. about 32 miles southeast of
Viipuri after severe fighting in
which they previously claimed to
have killed 2000 Russians and
knocked out 25 tanks
(The communique also announ:
ced withdrawal from Seiviszoe and
Kanneljaervi, in the same area, and
said "the enemy’s pressure contin-
ued very powerful ”
the city at all costs, the Chinese
high command announced last LONDON.
night.
Chinese troops in Honan pro-
vince to the north blunted a
Japanese advance progressing
southward with the aim of re-
capturing the gap in the Pelp-
ing-Hankow railway, bat other
Japanese forces, moving south-
ward parallel to the railway,
have taken Junan, hub of eeven
highways 125 miles south-
southeast of Chengchow, the
Chinese said
Maj. Gert. C. C. Tseng, army
spokesman, said Chinese troops still
have an escape loop-hole at Chang-
sha to the southwest, but have
elected not to use it. He reiterated
belief that the Japanese were aim-
ing at conquering the whole of the
Canton-Hankow railway, since the
main body of the Japanese force has
by-passed Changsha headed south.
Flying Bombs Streak Blindly to England
June 17 —(P) —Ger- I a stratight low course and hum |
rythmatically like a motorboat.
The Allied aerial hammering for
many's new explosive robot planes
zoomed intermittently across the
English channel through the night,
closed that the Allied armies
in Italy were continued their
rapid strides, with the Eighth
army sweeping on to Foligno,
about 21 airline miles north of
Terni, whose capture was an-
nounced only yesterday.
Spoleto and Trevi, both on High-
way 3 on the way to Foligno, fell
to the Eighth army.
In the Adriatic sector other units
of the Eighth army mad? contact
with Partisan forces who already
were in possession of Teramo, about
15 miles from the east coast and
30 miles northwest of Pescara.
On the west coast American
troops have captured Grossete,
nearly 100 airline miles from
Rome and on the mainland op-
posite Elba. Other forces pushed
12 miles north of Orvieto.
Sixty-five to 73 miles up the
peninsula from Grosseto is Pisa, the
west anchor of the Pisa-Florence-
Rimini line st which the Oil III—J
may take a stand against the Al-
lied armies, the naval base at Li-
vorno and the city of Florence,
Grosseto. with its airport facilities, "
is expected to be of immediate value
for air attack on German prepared
positions in the northern Apennines, .
The Mediterranean air force took
a heavy toll of enemy aircraft in
widespread attacks, destroying 70 9
enemy aircraft at a cost of 12 heavy
bombers and nine other aircraft al
missing. ”
Medium bombers attacked rail
and road bridges in the Flor-
ence-Pisa-Bologna area, while-
fighter bombers hit roads, rail
lines, bridges, motor transport *
and railway rolling stock. Fight-
er planes attacked enemy con- - 3
centrations in Yugoslavia, de-
stroying s large number of mond,
tor vehicles.
These attacks were in addition to
the raid by strong forces of heavy ’
bombers yesterday on five oll re-----.
fineries in the Vienna area and an-
other at Bratislava in Czechoslo-
vakia 1
months of the Pas-de-Calais coast
and Prime Minister Churchill’s
warning in the House of Commons
months ago that new methods of
attack could be expected appeared
good enough proof for the man in
the stre t that the Allied high com-
were hit. I mand had not been caught nap-
Fast German night fighter- ping.
bombers also rumbled through the And some recalled, too, a raid of
English skies, ducking in and out nearly a year ago—one that seemed
of the clouds and dropping flares strange at the time-when several
in apparent attempt to confuse hundred heavy RAF bombers
British defenses, but rockets from----4-4 - ----* - -------4--
ack-ack batteries plunged steadily
upward, and a number of the pilot-
less craft were reported crashed
striking blindly and indiscriminate-
ly in parts of southern England
Some new casualties were re-
‘ ported in the second successive
period of dusk-to-daylight at-
tacks and additional buildings
45th Division Man
In Naples Hospital
Capt. Curt A. Schmid, whose wife
is the former Eleanor Young of
Abilene, is in a Naples hospital suf-
fering from neck wounds received
in action near Rome. .
News of his injury, described by
him as “not serious", came in a ca-
ble and letter from him to his wife,
row in Denver, Colo, with his peo-
ple. The messages were telephoned
to Mrs. Schmid's grandmother.
Mrs J F. Young, 2102 Sayles.
Captain Schmid has been fight-
ing with the 45th division He was
wounded shortly before American
troops entered Rome.
Putting caution before curiosity,
people of southern England flocked
into bomb shelters, most of which
.were jammed throughout the night.;
• * •
RAF Spitfire pilots, with the same
daring that brought them fame in
the 1940-41 battle of Britain, were
diving through terrific fire from
their own ack-ack guns In bids to
destroy these new German buzz-
bombs.
At least three persons were
killed and others injured by one
of the flying bombs which
crashed last night Before it
came down It was observed
streaking across the sky with,
orange names darting from its
tall and ack-ack bursting all
around it.
I heavy
pounded a forest at Peenemunde on
the Baltic coast near Stettin They
battered a research station where
Germans were believed experiment-
ing with the robots
A Stockholm dispatch said Swed-
ish correspondents had quoted a
German military spokesman as
saying “what has happened so far
is only the overture. It still is a
question whether the new weapon
will mark another phase in war as
did the airplane in the last world
war.”
Germans released no details
about the flying bomb but said
that England on Frida: exper-
ienced "a 14 hours alarm, the
longest of thla war."
British morning newspapers as-
serted that If Hitler had hoped to
disrupt British morale and weaken
their will to war he had failed ut-
Abilene Youth, 15
Drowns in Lake
Billie Glenn Moore, 15. only child
of Mr and Mrs. Glenn Moore, 3633
South First was drowned In Fort
Phantom hill lake about I o’clock
this morning. __
City firemen with grappling
equipment were called to the scene
at 9:20 a m. and at noon had not
recovered the boy s body. E
Circumstances of the drowning
had net been-learned. The accident
occurred near the city pump house
on the east side of the lake.
While everyone Is speculating
about the robots, thi much seems
to be agreed—that they have high
speed, a bright red light tail, spit
I flames from their exhaust, fly on Express.
terly. /
"The British people will not de-
mand protection at home to the
detriment of the major task
abroad," declared the London Daily |
ENGLISH HOUSE HIT BY PILOTLESS PLANE— Rescue
workers dig in wreckage of house in South England for
bodies of family buried when what is believed to have been
an enemy pilotless plane crashed into it, according to cap.
Uon accompanying picture. (AP Wirephoto via Signal Corps
Radio).
Coleman Women’s
Husband Killed
SHREVEPORT, La, June 17—mn
—One airman was killed and an-
other was injured in the crash of
a basic trainer plane from Barks-
dale field near Troup, Texas yester-
day. A
Second Lieut. George H Rowline
son, 24, Bayside, N. J., was killed.
Injured was Second Lieut. Howard
B. Seay, 23, of Birmingham, Als,
who was hospitalized at Jacksone
ville, Texas. He suffered a crushed
foot and other injuries. His WIT
is the former Jean Crye of Cole-
man, Texas.th -
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