The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1944, Page 1

v tn sy “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLII.. NO. 9677. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUE.SD/\Y JUNE 13, 1944. ___MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS FRICE TR CENG THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENT" - ALLIES START PINCER MOVE ON GERMANS —— RUSS ARMY ADVANCING IN FINLAND | Finns Dazed by Swiftness| of Soviet Thrust at | Karelian Isthmus | MOSCOW, June 13.—Backed by | terrific gun fire provided by Col. Gen. Govorov, artillery specialist, | the Red Army mobile units moved | steadily over roads and through for- est defiles deeper into the Karelian Isthmus, reaching points beyond captured Raviola, about 36 miles from Viipuri. A front line dispatch to Isvestia reports many Finns are surrender- | ing and appear to be dazed by the Russian offensive. Raviola, like Terijoki, was not burned, the Finns did not have time | to apply the torch so rapid was the | advance. Raviola fell to the Red Army in 40 minutes. i The Finns are reported hurrying | many reserves to the isthmus and | African forces moving toward Or- | kniie beside him, Richardson said, blown up. a headquarters spokess hard fighting appeared to be in |vieto ran into a stiff battle atjaccording to the men at the com-,ma,, said, and added, store for the Soviet units just now | beginning to reach the hard core | of resistance, according to the Fin- nish communique picked up here. ‘ A broadcast from Berlin says the Finns have repelled all attacks against the Karelian defenses and | 63 Soviet tanks have been destroyed in three days. HARRY SPERLING BACK FROM DUTY IN SEATTLE ALY G SRErling. Adminisirative 1! Officer for the Forest Service, is back in Juneau after an absence of | three months. Sperling was detailed to Seamc\ in March to assume the temporary duties of Assitsant Manager in charge of the Alaska Spruce Logw Program office. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. nnbert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON—The President” s\ political advisers aren’t shoutmg‘ about it, but they have now re- ceived a 20-page report on the Texas ‘revolution” from Texas New Deal leader Alvin. Wirtz, plus a word-of-mouth = report from one confidentiial envoy - arriving from the rebollious Lone Star State. These appear to confirm the re- port that Jesse Jones and ‘will Clayton forces were behind the move in the Texas Democratic convention te instruct electors to disregard century-old precedent in the Electoral College and not neces- sarily vote for the winner next No- vember | Here are some of the facts laid before White House political ad- visers: Chaitman of the Democratic State Execvtive Committee who led the anti-Roosevelt group is George Butler. Jesse Jones' nephew and attorney for “Jesse H. Jones interests,” including banks, radio stations newspapers, office build- ings, building and loan associations. The White House has been inform- ed that Butler has the reputation m Houston of never doing any- thing without consulting Uncle Jesse, and that many Texas in-| terests seeking to do business with Jones' Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration employ Nephew Butler as their attorney. It is inconceivable that he wouid act without Jesse's approval. LEADERS OF REVOLT Chairman of the Harris County (Houston) delegation which spear- headed the revolt against Ruoseveltr was John WH. Crooker, attorney ! for Will Clayton, the man who sits at FDR’s right hand when it comes to posi-war liguidation. Working with Crooker was Lamar Flemine, head of the giant Ander- son- Clayton & Company, biggest cotton brokers in the world, of which Will Clayton is a partner. Both Fleming and Crooker came to Austin in advance of the con- vention to spearhead the drive against Roosevelt. (Continued on Page Four) | Fifth Army troops have smashed ! man 162nd Turcoman division, and NORTHITALY Nazis Guilty NAZI LNES In Murder of STIFFENING Paratroopers Germans Attempt fo HamReporterkeflals[videncei Allies Smashed on | ©f Crime Committed Both Sides of Front on U. §. Soldiers NEW YORK, June 13.—Stanley | ROME, June 13.—The Germans | Richardson, NBC reporter in Lon- north of Rome fought bitterly to- | don, said in a broadcast from Lon- day along their new line of defenses | don last night that there is “in- from Lake Bolsena to the sea, but | disputable evidence that the Ger- mans tortured and murdered” Am- [ erican paratroopers in the early ! hours of the Normandy landings. | Richardson, who had just return- ed to headquarters from the Am- | through and occupied nearly all of | the eastern shore of the lake. They all but wiped out a strong point east of Orbetello, 71 mile¢ north- west of Rome, and are moving up | erican airborne division near Car- both sides of Lake Bolsena. entan, said in one instance the The Allied forces on the western | podies of three American enlisted shore have captured Valentano, a | paratroopers, stripped to the waist junction of three highways some 55 | and with both hands bound, were miles north of Rome, and have found in a heap beside a wall of a | pushed on, nearing Latera which is | former German command post. | four miles farther north. i In the second case, the body of a Stiff Battle | second lieutenant was found with | Northwest of the South | his throat cut and a German nuny‘ lake, Bagno Regio. » mand poat who discovered the body. | On the Tyrrhenian coast Amer- | ican doughboys encountered a new | | series of dug-in defenses east of | | Orbetello, and attacked through | high ground directly toward ‘lamcmli Highway 74, which is about 90 road - miles from Rome at that point. In a sharp, bloody engagement they captured 145 prisoners of the Ger- DIST. GOVERNOR | OF ROTARY WILL | MAKE VISIT HERE 1t was announced at today's Ro-| tary meeting that the annual visit| of the Rotary International District Governor, 101, Robert Cheyne of | crossed the | yicoria, B. €., will be ‘next week killed 100. Rapid Advance The advance is considerably more rapid on the Adriatic sector, where |the Eighth Army. troops | George C. Kenney's JAP PLANES LOST IN BIG | ONOPENING PALAURAID Liberators from Dufch New | Guinea Bases in Sur- | prise Attack | By ROBERT EUNSON { ADVANCE ALLIED HEADQUAR— TERS IN NEW GUINEA, June 138, —Apparently catching the Japanese| off guard, Liberators of the Fifth| Army Air Force raided Palau on Friday, destroying 22 planes on the ground in the first daylight rnld) by landbased planes on the enemw island foriress 536 miles from thp‘ Philippines. i Headauarters announced the Lib= erators were not intercepted, ine| dicating the Japanese were taken by surprise. In addition to the, destruction o' the 22 planes on the| ground, many buildings in the vicinity of Palau’s airdrome were| “This re= of L. Gen bomber line is| the resilt of cur capture of Dutch New Guinrea air bases within the ilast two months.” Fruk 1,000 miles west of Palau m the western Carolines, unders went a heavier attack on the same| markable extension day, - Liberators . dropping 60 tons f bombs. The Japs sent up 30|% \fighters, three of which were shot; down, and one Liberator was lost. | In the Manokwari area of Dutch | New Guinea, at the entrance 'wa_\ [FDR SPEAKS BOND DRIVE Chief Execfi{i; Say's Ger- | many Has Her Back to Three Walls WASHINGTON; June 13—Presi- | | dent Roosevelt said we can force the Japanese “to unconditional sur- | render or national suickle much more quickly than had been thought | possible,” speaking on a national radio program opening the Fifth War Bond Drive. The President asserted that the original strategy of eliminating Germany first and then turning the full strength to the Pacific front can hasten the day of victory on| all frorts. Germany, be said, has “her bacl to the wall—in fact, three wall t once,” and after surveying the European theatre on three fronts, he add'd, “We still have a lnng! to go to Tokyo” but “we are on the offensive all over the world bringing the attack to our ene- mies.” The President said Americans have deprived the Japanese of any | power o check the momentum of our forces, reduced Jap shipping by 3,000,000 tens, and cut off from their homeland tens of thousands | of Japenese troops “who face star- tion «r surrender.” Secretary of ‘Treasury Henry| Morgenthau Jr. on the same pro- | gram, speaking from Texarkana on 10! the Texas-A-kansas border, said Jewish Race $42,462.50 Kcomplcm their program of mass | tory of Nazi principles the very BIG FOUR TO BeingWiped = BONDSSOLD Oul by Nazis {5th War Loan Drive Opens | Hitler May Attempt fo Sal- ‘ vage Victory by | Fire Boys and Sorority | Sell This Evening | Murder | WASHINGTON, June 13—Presi-| juneau is off to a good start in dent Roosevelt told Congress that | the Fifth War Loan Drive, the total | ! as the final Nazi defeat approaches | reported this morning heing $42 - | “the fury of their insane desire to 462.50. wipe out the Jewish race in Europe | Last night the Girl Scouts were continues undiminished.” I credited with selling bonds amount- | In transmitting the report for ar- | jng to $2,230 and the Miss Liberty rangements for caring for war re- | contestants, $4,200 worth of bonds. | fugees, he said, “This is but one| Bonds will be sold in the booths | example of the many Christian | tonight by the Beta Sigma Phi Sor- groups which are being murdered. | ority and the Juneau Fire Depart- | Knowing that they have lost the | ment and tomorrow night by the war, the Nazis are determined to | Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sis- terhood and the Federal Employees. Merchants and business Rouses | and professional men and women are purchasing bonds and are mak- ing donations of a minimum of $3 toward the outfitting of the Miss | Liberty contestants. The contestant | having the greatest number of votes | and the four runners-up will be dressed from “tip to toe” for the occasion of the coronation on July | |3 and for their reign on July 4. | Beauty shops which will do their share in adding to the youthful | beauty of the five young women are l the Baranof, Lucille, the American, | Frances Ann and Florence. The shops which will do the outfitting at a liberal discount are the B. M. Behrends, Yvonne's, Channel and i’ Jones-Stevens. If there are persons in Juneau (ONFER HERE who do not know the candidates, 2 . ~L¢hey and the friends: of .the girls, xtermination. This program is but ne manifestation of Hitler's aim to alvage from military defeat a vic- principles this war must destroy unless we shall have fought in vain.” The President outlined arrange- ments to bring about 1,000 refugees to the United States with temporary housing at a military camp near Oswego, New York. After the war, he said, the refugees, mostly women and children, will be returned to their homeland. e — IN JUNEAU OBJECTIS TO ISOLATE CHERBOURG Six American Divisions Fighting on Plains of Normandy BULLETIN — SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCES, June 13. — The Allies in Nor- mandy burst forward mightily on all fronts late today, the Am- ericans cracking Cherbourg's defenses by seizing three towns and driving the advance patrols within 10 miles of the port. The Supreme Headquarters described today's advances as “very, very satisfactory.” HAMMER TOWARD CHERBOURG SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, June 13.—-Fighting men of the United States Fourth Division, | hammering toward Cherbourg, have | captured Montebourg, 14 miles south of the prize port, after a fierce bat- tle, headquarters said. Montehourg toppled even as other U. 8. forces plunged several miles | beyond Carentan in a drive to chop off the Cherbourg Peninsula at the | shorest point, By a Berlin account they are fighting toward airborne Allied forces already landed on the western shorts In a pincers move. Six Am- erican divisions are now identified | a8 fighting in the powerful invasion armies, with perhaps 600,000 men Geelvink Bay. medium bombers at"‘thc cosi, of the march from Naples Saline River some five miles north of captured Pescara, in several and because of this, the weekly noon meeting, scheduled for June| 20, has been postponed and in lu-u‘ of the luncheon, there will be a| banque!, the following evening. The | affair will begin at 6:30 o'clock and will be held at the Baranof, with, Mr. Cheyne as guest of honor. Guest speaker at today's meet-| ing was Licut. L. Shaffer, Port| Quartermaster, who spoke on sub-| ‘ places. These Allied forces took Popoli on the Rome-Pescara road, | | 10 miles north of Sulmona whére the advance halted only long enough to take 20 prisoners. 5 South of Terni in the center of the advance line, the enemy con- tinded to put up a fight, but some progress was made there also |sistence, and displayed Army field| | rations. ! Guests included Frank Crutsin- | [ger and John W. Merrill, Public| |Housing Authorities from the Wesr,‘ | Coast; Hemy M. Williams, auditor | LONDON -— American bombers | witn 'the Public Health Service; | based in Italy penetrated Germanip,. ; y Smith, new Assisthl areas today and blasted the Munich | | Medi Siad "and Tnrabratk, Auatvis, | cal Director of the Alaska In- \dian Service; Lester Wingard, Ro-| ,tarhm from Petersburg; Bob I-!el-l |geson, well known Juneau boy now lin the U. S. Army; Jack Darnell, | iof Fairview, Virginia, son of Red! Darnell; Flmer W. Copstead, USCG; John H. Felthouse, new engineer on lhe staff of radio station KINY; G. H. Sampson, representative of visited the Normandy battle field the Standard Oil Co. from Seattle; | today, touring the sectors with |Sgt. Charles Hebert, and -Curtis Commander Eisenhower. He steam- |Shattuck. ed to France on a destroyer as other naval vessels were shelling Ger-| man positions on the French coast. LONDON—Hundreds of warplanes blasted the western front today,| supporting the American troops moving on Cherbourg and pounding | German airdromes behind the hat»‘ tle line. LONDON — Winston Chutchill| e | TWO FLIGHTS TODAY FOR PAN AMERICAN A flight was made to Whitehorse | imis mornirig by a Pan American | plane with the follgwing as pas- LONDON — Belgian authoritlesmcnge,s Miss Katherine Keevers, | here said they have learned the| par] M. Woods, George D. German, Germans have moved King Leopold | jess Harkin, Veon Stacy, and Fran- from Brussels to Germany as & Se- | cis I, Pratt. curity ‘measure and he is confined| A second flight was made to Seat- under heavy guard for the reason fejo carrying Geraldine Ringstad, he is technically commander of the | jack Conright, and Kenneth At- Belgian Army. well. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS — Commander Eisenhower tonight ad- LONDON—Over 1,000 RAF bomb- ers attacked German transport cen- ters and synthetic oil manufacturing | center at Gelsenkirchen. | . — DYCKS ENROUTE SOUTH ! garrison. | munique |be furnished by the All-Girl Or- Iplayed generally tomorrow, not only | Itacked Japanese shipping, destroy- ing a 1,000-ton freighter and six |coastal vessels. The Japanese twice attempted llast week to send reinforcements to this area in an apparent effort; to reinforce the Schouten I‘iland‘ Gen. MacArthur's com-| reported that the gruux\d; at Hollandia, Aitape, and| the Schouten Islands situation Biak in static, is| — e — | LT. COL. RIEGLE, | CHIEF SPEAKER, | 'ing the Marshall Islands $6,000,000,- 1000, He added that he would “leave 'NEW "6l BILL OF 'RIGHTS” PASSED BY to Rome was §6,700,000 and of tak- it to your imagination what will be the cost of marching to Berlin | and to go from the Marshalls to Tokyo.” | ———.—— SENATE, GOES HOUSE BULUETIN — WASHINGTON, 1 June 13.—The compromise ver- sion of the “GI Bill of Rights” ELKS FLAG DAY/ Lt. Col. Roy W. Riegel, fmmm\ Commeader at Duck Creek, and | now stationed at Fort Richardson,| will make the address at the Flag! 'Day services of the Elks tomorrow Inight at 8 o'clock in the Elks Hall to which the public is asked to| |attend, because of special signific- 'ance in the present wartime. The history of the flag will be given by Past Exalted Ruler R. E.| Robertson, and Exalted Ruler A.| B. Hayes and the other officers will give the intreductory exer- cises ard altar services. Music will chestra. Henry Messerschmidt is Chairman ' of the Flag Day Committee, and |invitations have been sent to all groups in the city to attend. It is requested that flags be dis-! on sta'fs and in store windows, but also at residences. | JEANETTE RINGSTAD dressed messages to commanders of | Capt. T. J. Dyck, of the Salvation DIES AT ROCHESTER passed yesterday by the Senate, was overwhelmingly passed by the House today and sent to the White House. June 13. The | Senate has pas.sed and sent m the House a compromise version of the | “GI Bill of Rights” embodying a to veterans of the present war. | The cost of the program, includ- ing hospitalization, education, un- employment compensation, loans for | purchdse of homes, farms or busi- nesses s estimated from three m‘ six and one-half billion dollars. | —_——— ! MRS. HOOKER IS REPORTED TOBE | MUCH IMPROVED| According to a wire received here irom Mrs. Tom Stroebe, daughter of Mrs. Katherine Hooker, it is re- ported that Mrs. Hooker is much improved and will be up and about soon. Murs. Hooker, well known Juneau | woman, went south recently to visit| with her daughter in Eveérett, and tographs of the contestants taken !channel' | Ambassador, is returning to Mos- |known to be working on an agree- TOTAL OF JAP . - 1 by Fern Eaton of the Hammersley | | Studio. | in the windows of the Alaska Elec tric Light and Power Company. The outstanding event of this week is the bond premiere Thurs- day night complimenting the con- | testants. The host is Homer GaYvin | of the Capitol Theatre. The picture to be shown is one of the choice productions of our war years. Ad- | mission is through bond purchase. | The regular show will close at 9 o'clock. The doors will reopen im- | mediately and at 9:30 o'clock the bond premiere will get under way. | The Miss Liberty contestants will | marsh down the ramp in their smart | ifrocks, and “Flight for Freedom" will take the audience for a breath- taking flight into the skies, to the | islands, and into the hearts of | patriotic America. MISS LIBER'I‘\’ CONTEST At 1 o'clock this afternoon the vote fcr Miss Liberty stood as follows Joyce Smith 4225, Betty Mills, (3575, Betty Nordling 1673, Kath- leen McAlister 1403, Lila Sinclair 275, Lois Allen 250, Mary McCor- | imack 1580, Ruth Kunnas 75, Betty | Bonnett 75. THIS Su ER will be interested in seeing the pho- Formahon of Postwar Or- ganization Purpose of Next Confab WASHINGTON, June 13.—A mid- summer meeting in Washington of American, British, Russian and cmnese representatives to discuss the formation of an international security organization is apparently | in the making. The State Department has report- edly received informal assurances | that Britain and China are ready to | talk business on the implemenung, | of the Moscow pact. Russian ac-| | ceptance is expected as soon as it | can be cleared through dlplcmauc Andrei Gromyko, Russian | ! cow, and officials here expect that he matter there. | Meanwhile, Allied diplomats are | ment for the handling of defeated | | Germany in the time immediately | iolhwlng the, fighting.. While there | is no evidence of any early collapse of Germany, the expected attitude e b is to “be prepared for any possi- BIG TIME TONIGHT bility.” | At noon today the Fire Bovs» The terms for Germany are under- 'held a quick get-together nlvetlum stood to call for complete industrial jand formed a high jinks for tonight | demobilization and dismantling of (at the'r booth, There will be| | all war plants into those devoted to music and lots of “gaf” besides,| peaceful production. and the purchaser of a $1,000 bond ST will be permitted to kiss Betty Mill, | one of the Miss Liberty contestants. | - eee SHIPS SUNK | COUPLECLUBNOT REACHES 609 TOMEET THURSDAY| These are now on display | Reported | Progress l Supreme headquarters reported i progress all along the battlefront, now lengthened to 80 miles. Another American force is driving |across the peninsula between Mon- !tebourg and Carentan and have captured Ponte Abbe, three and one- | half miles west of a railroad near Ste. Marie Eglise. Berlin declared the Amed forces are driving on the central Normandy road hub of St. Lo, and placed the Americans within seven miles of the Deepest Penetration A front line dispatch said the United States Second Division struck at Paet in the Cerisy Forest {to the northeast of St. Lo, making the deepest inland peneration of 18 miler. The Fourth Division Is spear- heading the attack below Cherbourg |in the area previously entered by the 82nd and 10lst American air- borne divisions. The American First ‘and 20th divisions are also fighting |in France. Estimates on both sides {said 600,000 or more men are fight- iing on the Normandy plains. Nazi General Killed The German command announced the death “In the foremost line™ of artillery, General Marcks, com- manding the air corps on the Cher- bourg Peninsula on the eastern flank. ' Headquarters said that Tilly Sur Seulles, west of Caen, has changed hands several times. Berlin report- ed praticularly heavy fighting in this sector and said a wedge was driven into the Nazi lines east of the Orne River. The Second Di- vision, bursting the center of the sagging Nazi line, “are still push- ing forward” past the Cerisy Forest’ and have captured a huge ammuni- tion dump near the woodlands. A front line dispatch said the @Germans are falling back so rapidly |they did not even have time for demolitions and the placing of mines. It added that one Berlin The| The of the Army, and family are enroute to about a week ago was severely in- | jured in a fall in one of the down- town stores. Mrs. Hooker's physician reports that she is in remarkable physical former employee of the Department, ¢Ondition and 1s in the best of of Health, where she was on the S spirits. The concussion which she staff for several years. suffered is healing very r.;pldly\ Geraldine Ringstad, Office of and her fractured right leg is mend- Price Administration employee, and N wlfhout the use of a cast. | sister of the deceased left imm(‘d“ o iately by plane for the States, and | their father, who is superintendent } “0(“ ouo""ous | of the P. A. F, cannery at Sitks,| NEW YORK, June 13. — Closing | will fly south tomorrow. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Jeanette Ringstad left here December for Bellingham, Wash- ‘91% Anaconda 26, Beech Aircraft | ington, and later underwent an 8%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Curtiss- appendectomy, from which compli- | Wright 5, International Harvester | cations developed. Accompanied by 76%, Kennecott 30%, North Amer-| her mother, Miss Ringstad went |ican Aviation 8%, New York Central | East for a checkup at Mayo Broth- |17, Northern Pacific 16, United | ers Clinic at Rochester. The news States Steel 55, Pound $4.04. Word was recelved in Juneau this ! morning of the sudden death at Rochester, Minnesota, of Jeanette Ringstad, well known here and troops in France that he has the| yancouver, from which point they | highest hopes for V":IWYI after ac*| wi journey to Toronto. Capt. Dyck | complishments of the first seven,wm report to the Salvation Army | days of the invasion. Headquarters there and will be as- M signed a new post for future duty. RAINBOW GIRLSWILL | g ‘I)ORA SWEENEY ON VACATION le[ woRK "ONIGH'I‘ Dora Sweeney, of the Shattuck Insurance Agency, left this morning for the South to attend the Grand Officers of the Order of Rainbow | Assembly of Rainbow Girls. She for Girls will exemplify their ritualy! | was accompanied by her niece, Mar- istic work this evening at 8 o'clock | garet Clark. before members of the Order of | ————————— Eastern Star at the Scottish Rite MARY HUNTER SOUTH Temple. Mary Hunter and son Buddy are Miss Beverly Leivers is Worthy|enroute south for a month’s visit Advisor of the Rainbow Girls. with Mrs. Hunter’s parents, Mr. and JOHN BISHOP LEAVES Mt E ,"i'ii’ffl iy ON BUYING TRIP| ypg [EIVERS LEAVES John Bishop, Mandger of B. M, Mrs. J. W. Leivers left this Behrends Department Store, left to- marning . for- the Bouth. db:'.Yae day for the South on a buying trip cation tric. She expects to return and will be gone about six weeks, !B About two menths, of her death was a complete sur- Dow, Jones averages today are as prise as it was believed that she folfows: Industrials; 145.07; rails, was recovering. 40.08; utilities, 23.38, WASHINGTON, June 13. toll of Jap ships sunk by American subs rose to 607 with the Navy an- nouncerent today that 18 more ves- sels have been sent to the bottom. Those reported today were cargo| |vessels or merchantmen, needed by the enemy for supplying their uullyA ing posts These cighteen sinkings, accord-; ing to latest announcement, is the| largest total reported in any single |steamer on their first communique. The sub Yleet in the Pacific has now stepped up its aver- {age sirkings to two daily. Sixty- in stock today is 6%, American Can |three ships have been accounted for by communiques within the past thirty days. > — DEGANAHLS LEAVE Mrs. Joseph DeGanahl, accom- panied by Charles and Virginia! DeGanahl, left this morning on a vacation trip to Seattle. They will return Jate in the summer | mumhly mermu: | Preshyterian Church, scheduled to trip out- side. They will visit in Seattle for a short while and then will continue 'to Mount Vernon to the farm of their aunt, Mrs. Yda Pet- crson, where they will spend the | remaindef of their vacation. UHALIBUT RECEIPTS Alaska Coast Fisheries were pur- chasers today of 4500 pounds of halibut, brought in by the Sophie, and 1200¢ pounds brought in by the Th<lma, |Couple Club of the Northern Lluht‘ Ibe held Thursday, has been post- poned. The next meeting of the| club will be held in July. i ->>>— - JOHNSON BOYS LEAVE | b Willilam Johnson, Jr, and his brother Stephen left today by broadcast sald the signal for “start- | ing the obviously impending battle for Caen has not yet been given by either side” but both the Allles and the Germans are bringing up | special units to the town of 61,000, the eastern bastion of the Oermlns Normandy line. i e ‘Women Snipers Shoot At Allied Troopers in France;They're Killed WITH THE ALLIED FOI IN FRANCE, June 13.—It is officially announced that snipers’ action in France includes women, several hav- ing been killed in the act of shooting Allied troops. -, —— BUY WAR BONDS |