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THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1944. SPOKANE WEEKLY CHRONICLE. PAGE THREE. Americans Receive News of Invasion Calmly; Churches Opened for Prayer War Plants Brief Moments" of Silence. By the Associated Press.

America received news of the invasion of Europe calmly yesterday and turned to the altars of its faiths to pray for peace with Victory. In the nation's hamlets and great cathedrals synagogues people, went churches, tate and to participate in the services scheduled for There were few demonstations. Groups gathered at newsstands and stood before radio loud ers. Comment generally reflected the combination of hope and trepidation which marked the end of the tense waiting period. Thousands of men and women war production plants observed a brief moment of silence, followed by an immediate resumption of the flow of materials of war.

Plant officials announced uniformly and proudly that, the announcement came without a slackening of out- put. Schedule Prayers. In New York a public prayer observance, to be held at 5:30 at the Madison Square Light--World war I. memorial, was announced, ceremonies which will repeated in communities in all parts country. Some cities, such as Alhuquerque, announced D-day and H-hour with sirens and whistles, summoning men and women to their places of worship.

the United States veterans' hospital in New York, 1800 men still hospitalized 25 years after World war I. were given the news by nurses. Patients, in pajamas and bathrobes, walking on crutches and canes, gathered on the hospital lawns and bowed in silent prayer. Newspapers issued extras and radio broadcasting companies pushed all scheduled programs aside. The New York Daily News threw out its regular editorials and printed instead the Lord's Prayer.

Special prayers, previously made public by church leaders, were prominently displayed in all newspapers. Emergency orders for augmented personnel went out from the tion's telephone companies. French Sailors Happy. As American service men accepted the news in their stride a light note was struck by a group of French sailors in New York who linked arms and joyously danced down Broadway. American Red Cross officials reported that their offices were flooded with telephone calls from prospective blood donors.

Major race tracks suspended their programs, but generally sports events went on as scheduled. Virginia Civilian Defense officals sent over the civilian air raid warning system a summons to 8 p. m. prayer meetings in all cities and most towns. Lord Taylor, New York specialty shop, closed for the day and its 3000 employees were given the day off "to pray and hope for victory." REGARD FREEDOM SPIRITUAL GIFT BOSTON, June 5.

(AP) The Christian Science board of directors today told the annual meeting of the mother church, the First Church of Christ. Scientist, that freedom is essentially a spiritual gift "to be realized only through understanding and attainment." Freedom from want and fear, freedom in worship and speech, the directors stated, constitute more than a political slogan or government ideology "for our great way-shower, Christ. Jesus, proclaimed centuries ago that freedom accords with God's will and law. He gave simple, clear direction for the attainment of full freedom for the individual and through the individual for all humanity." Several thousand members from this country and Canada heard the report. Name Seeley President.

Paul Stark Seeley, associate editor of the Christian Science Journal, Sentinel and Herald, was elected president of the mother church. Adair Hickman of New city, member of the Christian Science board lectureship, was named first reader, and Mrs. Helen Chaffee Elwell East Hebron, N. and Boston, second reader, for the usual Six new members year, tergusie tian Science board of lectureship include Gordon V. Comver, Denver.

Reappointments to the lecture board include: Herbert W. Beck, San Francisco; Peter B. Biggins, Seattle; Leonard T. Carney, Beverly Hills, Earl McCloud of San Antonio, Texas; Miss Florence Middaugh, Los Angeles; Herschel F. Nunn, Portland, Ore.

Huge Fire Starts Probe by Federals PITTSBURG, June 5. (UP) -Federal bureau of investigation agents today were investigating the A Redwood $2,500,000 fire Manufacturing which razed pany plant, reportedly the largest lumber yard in the world, before 1000 firefighters brought the wind -whipped inferno under control early Sunday morning. SOLDIER OCCUPIES IL DUCE BALCONY NEW YORK, June 5. (AP) -The allied entry into Rome received its crowning touch today when a soldier stood with one of his on the marble balcony overlooking the famous Palazzo Venezia where Mussolini used to harangue the Italian people and made a speech about the fallen dictator, NBC said. A cheering crowd of Italian men, women and children stood below and although they didn't understand a word he said they laughed cheered and waved flags.

MODERN COOKING. Waiter: Yes, sir, we're up-to-date here. We cook everything by electricity." Diner: "Is that so? Well, suppose you give this steak another BIG CHIEFS Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, 53, master-minded the Anglo-American drives that chased the Nazis from North Africa, Sicily, and up coast of Italy. Texas-born Eisenhower has proved himself a master at handling details, coordinating action in many fields.

BRITISH TRIED TO AID NORWAY IN SPRING 1940 By United Press. As superbly trained allied invasion troops swarmed ashore yesthe terday, makeshift little British force observers recalled ruefully which made abortive landings in Norway four springs ago. Outnumbered five to one, without artillery, mechanized equipment or adequate aerial support, the invading columns were hammered mercilessly wherever the Germans willed. Answering Nazi-ridden Norway's call for help, the British landed one force at the little town of Namsos north of Trondheim and another at Andalsnes to the south. They hoped to pinch off the ancient port and use it as a base for operations in central Norway.

Simultaneously far to the north another British unit went ashore at Narvik, the arctic outlet for the Swedish iron mines at Kiruna. One-Sided Action. But the action was doomed to be one-sided from the start. Nazi bombers harassed allied troops incessantly, bombing their and communication lines and machinegunning their advancing soldiers, unprotected by effective anti-aircraft fire. tanks and armored cars swooped down on allied contingents virtually unchallenged.

On May 2, three weeks after the landings, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told commons that to German local air superiority" it had been found impossible to land British tanks and artillery. The order for the evacuation of the Trondheim area, he said, had been given. Resistance continued some weeks at Narvik, but early for, June it too had to be abandoned, completing Britain's most stunning invasion failure. POLICE SEARCH FOR KIDNAPER SEATTLE, June 5. (AP) -The twoday kidnaping of 5-year-old Florence Susie) Marks still was shrouded in mystery today with police carrying out an intensive search for an old, dirty sedan believed to have been used in the abduction.

The child, daughter of Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Jacob Marks, formerly of Chicago, was from her home early Saturday morning and abandoned a few minutes later less than a mile from her home. Police said they were told by the child that two men participated in the abduction, one of whom was dressed in a blue uniform with stripes on the sleeve like a navy officer. One of the men, she said, called her by name. One man was picked up for questioning Saturday night, police said.

He still is being held. Ease Work Shortage PORTLAND, June 5. (AP)L. C. Stoll, man-power director, predicted that the government's new man-power control will ease the labor shortage in this area because it provides, for interregional recruiting.

Portland-Vancouver, area needs 20,000 additional workers, he said. Hold Railroad School SEATTLE, June 5. (UP) ---In a campaign to ease a shortage of railway workmen in the state of Washington, a school will be opened here June 19 to train railroad brakemen, switchmen and firemen, A. F. Hardy, state man-power director.

announced today. RED CROSS AGENT GOES TO GALENA UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOSCOW, June 5. -Charles DeKlyen, field director of the American Red Cross, left Moscow Saturday for Spokane, where he will be located at Galena airport. He has been serving in connection with the trainees at the university army, Washington State college. SIRENS ANNOUNCE INVASION START DENVER, June 7.

(AP) Sleeplocked eyes of Denverites opened at the bull-throated roar of sirens announcing the invasion strike. Some residents greeted the news with skeptical inquiry; others, pajamaclad, huddled about radios, Switchboards in newspaper offices and hotels blinked their incessant. firefly lights. The question of the hour: "Is it true One downtown church sexton called a newspaper office to inquire: "Is it all right for us to ring (the bells OF Tedder, R. A.

F. air chief marshal, led the air drive that helped break the Nazi line in Egypt and destroyed the Rommel myth. Short, lean, cocky, he has been a flyer since World war researched in combat aviation between wars. He is 53. Deputy Commander Sir Arnold SECOND FRONT Commander of the allied airforces, 55-year-old Air Marshal Tafford Leigh-Mallory Then helped lead the fight against Nazi blitz on Britain, put the air umbrella over Dieppe in the commando invasion test, then headed the R.

A. F. fighter command. He is heavy-set, brainy. War's Biggest Secret Is Born at Cleverly Hidden Shangri-La By WES GALLAGHER.

By SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY 'FORCE, June 7. (P) -In this military Shangri-la, cleverly hidden from snooping German spy planes, the war's greatest secret was hatched early this year. Adolf Hitler would have squandered the lives of 10 divisions and much of his wealth to have learned it, even up to a few hours ago. But yesterday he was given "free of charge." And it may cost him his life and power eventually. The secret naturally was "D-day and H-hour." D-day was military, terminology the of allied attack.

11-hour was the exact hour British, Canadian and American soldiers were expected to set foot the soil western Europe. Hard supply of, necessities and the complications of modern amphib10uS warfare made it necessary that these two factors be known months in advance. Dates Are Set. The dates were set for the arrival of troops, guns and tanks. The dates for air attacks on specific objectives.

Dates for establishing bases. Dates for the capture of key ports, Dates are not figures on the calendar. They are scheduled in terminology like this: D-plus-five, or D-minus-six. The first means five days after the troops land. The second means six days before the day for attack.

Hundreds of thousands of lives depended on a successful D-day choice. If the weather was bad and water rough, thousands of soldiers might be drowned in the treacherous surfs off the European coast. If it was too light at night the convoys might be broken up and the soldiers landed on the wrong beaches. If the tides were wrong the ships might be stranded. Any one of a hundred things might go amiss.

Supreme Commander. Every aid of military science hiding under a cloak of camouflage here was brought forth to aid the supreme commander in his difficult choice. British and American weather experts studied reports for the last quarter of a century over every foot of coast. They figured the exact hours of darkness and light. Canadian, British and American air force chiefs were given specified objectives and estimated how long it was going to take to beat the German air force to a pulp.

Then these men walked down the long corridors, heavily guarded by M. P.s, and presented their invasion date to Eisenhower. Allied supply chiefs estimated how many guns and tanks were required and by what date they could be assembled at designated points. Navy men made their estimates. Russians Study Problems.

In Moscow, Russians studied their problems and how best to correlate operations on both east and west fronts. In the Mediterranean, the allied staff there sent in their data. With all this before him, the supreme commander spent long hours in his office selecting and rejecting--finally hitting on one date. It probably didn't coincide exactly with any submitted but was the best possible compromise. And Eisenhower is "lucky" general.

He picked D-day for the Aurican invasion 60 days ahead of Both the Spaniards and the English claim discovery of Palau islands. Invasion Thrills Tacoma Eisenhowers TACOMA, June 7. (AP)-The Edgar N. Eisenhower family here was sleepy yesterday after spending the night listening the radio and receiving telephone calls from friends. Eisenhower, Tacoma attorney and brother of the commander of the allied liberation forces, told interviewers, "I'll bet the people who are really cheering this morning are the French." He said "The only question is: How costly those landings will be.

And I hope to God it's not too much. I have no doubt what's going to right happen. Those the forces are and goacross country the paratroopers really will mop for them." General Eisenhower's personal announcement of the long anticipated invasion was the first time Attorney Eisenhower had heard his brother's voice since the general spoke in recent War Bond broadcasts. CAPITOL OFFICES WORK FULL TILT WASHINGTON, June 7. (P)- Key offices of the war department were fully manned and working feverishly when the long-awaited invasion of Europe began early yesterday.

General George C. Marshall, the chief of staff, wag in his office continuously since yesterday except for a brief interlude last evening when he went to the Russian embassy to receive from Ambassador Gromyko the Order of Suvorov, first degree--the Soviet Union's highest military decoration. The operations section of the general staff, the signal corps message section and the military islands activity in the otherintelligence division were wise dark vastness of the Pentagon building, and officers and messengers scurried through the corridors relaying messages between them. Nazi Broadcasts Started. The German broadcasts on the invasion began to bring news reporters and radio men into the department in the early hours of this morning.

As soon as the news was flashed from General Eisenhower's headquarters duplicate copies of his first communique were distributed in the Pentagon, along with the text of the statement by the general of the armies, John J. Pershing and a background information discussing the general terms of invasion preparations. Director Elmer Davis of the office of war information was at his office, helping on incoming radio reports through the night hours. time, with the scientific odds nineto-one against him that French Morocco's iron coast would be swept by, tides and waves that would make landings impossible except for three days of the month. But D-day found the waters fairly calm.

Ho picked the Sicily invasion date more than a month in advance and except for a high wind early in the night the time was almost perfect. The same happened at Salerno. Eyes of World Are Upon You, Eisenhower Tells His Troops LONDON, June 7. (AP) -General Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the following order of the day to his invasion troops yesterday: Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force: You are about to embark on a great crusade.

The eyes of the world are upon you and the hopes and prayers of all liberty loving peoples go with you. "In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. "Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.

But in this year of 1944 much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940 and 1941. "The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground, our home fronts have given us overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, have placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned and free men of the world are marching together to victory. have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle.

We will accept nothing less than full victory. Good luck and let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking." HEAD Naval commander, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay saved the day for Britain in 1940 when he directed the spectacular evacuation of Dunkerque. Former chief of staff home fleet, came out of retirement when war broke, last year helped to plan the invasion of Sicily. He is 60. NORTHWEST LURE FOR NEW CITIZENS (Editors: This is another in a series of articles on the future of the northwest in relation to hydroelectric power development, treating the industrial picture as seen by engineers of the Bonneville power administration in a new report on northwest Opportunities.) By JOHN W.

DUNLAP. PORTLAND, June 5. (UP) -Now that the federal government has invested $300,000,000 in the Bonneville power administration and private utilities expanded their facilities to meet the war effort, it is inevitable that private industry will cast covetous glances at the Pacific northwest. The construction of 14 additional dams, already approved by the governors of the Columbia basin states, vould provide an estimated direct employment for 50,000 persons, in-' direct employment for many thou sands more, and an increase of 2,000,000 population in the next 15 years. This estimated population would break down into 200,000 on probably 50,000 new farms, 800,000 supported by 250,000 new industrial jobs, and 000 by 350,000 service jobs.

Some idea of the present extent of aluminum- cited as a typical ingained from the output of these northwest reduction plants: Vancouver, Aluminum Company of America, 182,000,000 pounds per year, 182,000 kilowatts, $17,000,000 plant investment, 800 employees. Troutdale, Defense Plant corporation, operated by Alcoa, 130,000,000 pounds per year, 000 kilowatts, $20,000,000 investment, 800 employees, Spokane, Defense Plant corporation, operated by Alcoa, 195,000,000 pounds per year, 195,000 kilowatts of power, $25,000,000 investment, 1050 employees. Tacoma, Defense Plant corporation, operated Olin corporation, 42,000,000 pounds per year, 42,000 kilowatts, $6,500,000 investment, 490 employees. Longview, Reynolds Metals company, 66,000,000 pounds per year, 66,000 kilowatts, $5,000,000 ment, 580 employees. MEXICAN AIRLINE SHOWS BIG GAIN MEXICO CITY.

(UP) -Volume of air cargo carried by planes of Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, a Pan American Airways subsidlary, jumped 300 per cent in 1943 and included a wide variety of articles from fresh lobsters to daily newspapers. Indicating Mexico, like many, Latin American, countries, has also enjoyed transition from the burro to the airplane, are CMA figures revealing that 11,685,073 pounds of freight were handled by its planes in 1943-a 300 per cent increase over 1942. Air mail poundage also doubled last year. Newspapers enjoy a uniform rate of 10 cents a pound to any spot in the republic, and CMA carries an average of 1320 pounds of papers daily as far south as the Yucatan peninsula and as far north as Mexicali, Baja California, which miles from the capital. Other Air Cargo.

Every week more than 4,000,000 pesog (about $800,000) is flown to remote areas to meet pay rolls. Movie films at about one ton a month are distributed outside the capital plane, and three tons of Mexico's famous silver jewelry are carried into Central and South America monthly, Fish food from both the Pacific and Gulf coast ports is flown into Mexico City daily. One man in Tapachula, Chiapas state, suffering diabetes, has been receiving a loaf of aked bread every other day on the morning plane from Mexico City for many months. CMA also operates a special air express shopping service wherein the purchaser deposits his money in one town and CMA buyers purchase the desired article somewhere else and ship it back to him. Paratroop Planes Ahead of Schedule SANTA MONICA, June 7.

(A)-Donald Douglas reported today to General Henry H. Arnold that 400 extra paratroop planes ordered "for military purposes great urgency," were completed Monday, a month ahead of schedule, by the Douglas Aircraft company's Santa Monica and Oklahoma city plants. The C-47 transport planes, Douglas said, were in addition to more than 2000 bombers other war planes on regular production I schedule for the period FORCES Commander of the British army, General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery has scored unbroken successes against the Nazis in Africa and Italy. Nonsmoking, nondrinking, 56-year-old Monthas been a soldier since gomery, He rules his troops with a.

strict and Spartan hand. DRIVING Commander of United States strategic air forces, Lieutenant General Carl A. Spaatz headed the northwest African air forces before his new assignment. Nicknamed Tooey, he has been an airman since 1916, built the largest flying school of World war I. He is 52, likes jokes but is a disciplinarian.

Today's Great Invasion Blow Biggest Preparation Job Ever SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 7. -Millions of American and British civilians, without knowing it, started two years ago in June, 1942, forging the weapons and supplies for yesterday's opening of the western front. cry for a "second front" went up For the last two years while the from Russia, the civilian populations of Britain and America and Europe's anxious and oppressed, military men of Britain and America been ceaselessly working on a single operation for smashing the German west wall. Today's great blow carries out the same plan, with slight that General Dwight D. Eisenhower came to Europe in June, 1942, to execute.

It is the American and British combined chiefs of staff plan. Here for the first time is the story of what might be called plan, and the greatest supply problem in the history of warfare how it was solved by military and civilians combined. Bigger Than All Others. By WES It is larger than the North African, Sicilian and Italian operations combined--larger not only number of men then eventually variety to and be involved but in quantity of weapons and materials. Because of the necessity ing heavily fortified shore positions weapons never dreamed of at Africa the original landings in North year and a half ago are being carried into today's battle.

When General Eisenhower came England in 1942 his orders were carry out plan. It prelem and the Americans and sented tremendous supply probBritish started carrying it out. Few weapons needed were ready the time but the United States army started building the vast reservoir of foodstuffs required. For example, enough tomatoes for a million men were shipped one convoy. Then in August, 1942, a result of the Roosevelt and Churchill meeting, plan was temporarily shelved and the plan for the invasion of North Africa was given priority.

This different type of smaller scale operation disrupted the preliminary work done on plan. Supplies built up in England were torn down piece-meal and fed into the North African operation. The Mediterranean had top priority and of necessity England and the plan were far down the priority scale, but never forgotten. Plan Is Gigantic. waiting for this theater regain top priority a handful allied supply experts drew up one the most detailed and gigantic plans of the type ever conceived.

There was more to it than just piling up millions of tons of supplies here and there in England. Each shell, each bootlace, implement from 30-ton tanks surgical instruments had to placed in a certain spot. There were more than 250,000 types of spare parts for mechanical behicles alone. Supplies had to be taken from ships loaded on an already overcrowded railroad system to nearest unloading points, then on trucks dumps on lonely roads where carefully mapped spots guns were lined up at one place, canned salmon at another, and SO through countless thousands of ticles. Months before the jump-off thousands of tons of articles to be placed at positions so they could be loaded on invasion ships again in a certain order.

Like Moving Big City. You get a rough idea of the problem if you visualize an attempt take a city the size of San Franleisco and move every one in it, cluding every household article, automobile and diaper by ship Alaska, then across Alaska Russia. British barracks and warehouses were evacuated and turned over tact to Americans. Whole, areas became overnight 100 American or 100 per cent Canadian or Pole. All this work was well under way even before the invasion Italy.

It was carried out by sung American and British service of supply troops. Bookkeeping just what materials arrived where located made necessary fice forces many times larger the biggest business in the world. It is to the everlasting credit planning of the service of supply troops that the great system supply dumps was able to meet every important demand. island seethed with preparations and confusion. OFFICER IS SUICIDE, SAN FRANCISCO, June 7.

(AP) -Army authorities said Major Wayne McHenry Akers, 45, finance officer at Letterman hospital at the San Francisco Presidio, shot himself to death in his office Monday. He lived at 2119 Fairmont boulevard, Eugene, Ore. AT NAZIS Commander of the United States Eighth air force, California-born Major General James H. Doolittle has been flying 26 years, since he was 21. A flying cadet in the first war, he later set peace-time speed records, became America's first Tokyo bomber, headed the strategic air forces in Africa.

CHURCHILL LAUDS INVASION START IN HOUSE SPEECH Flying Is Religion of General Spaatz By the Associated Press. Lieutenant General Carl (Tooey) Spaatz, a taciturn, Pennsylvania Dutchman who wasn't keen on being a general because it would cut into his flying, is commander of all the American strategic air forces operating in western Europe. His face is grim under graying red hair, and his speech is blunt, but he is the man who built the Eighth air force from nothing, then went to North Africa to develop the "Spaatzwaffe" that smashed Pantelleria. almost unaided played so large a role in the North African, Sicilian and Italian cam-1 paigns. Spaatz insisted he wanted bigger game, inquiring, "What's the use of bombing rabbits in Italy when you can bomb wildcats in Germany Fifty-three years old, Spaatz stills goes at the pace that made world's first endurance flyer with the old "Question Mark" tion was coming out of its cocoon.

decade and a half ago, when a avia1918 in France. In days a His air experience goes back, to combat pilot, he shot down two German planes and the Distinguished Service Cross. He was married in 1917 has three daughters. He has made daylight precision bombing his forte, and even despite Eisenhower's frowns has made a number of combat missions on particularly tough assignments. Poker playing is his hobby--and there are some in the army who he does it badly.

Flying is his say religion--and all agree he does it marvelously well. MEMO TO TROOPS ON HOME FRONT NEW YORK. (AP)- recent "Newsmap" for soldiers, prepared by the army information branch of the army service forces, carried the usual charts plus a special message. It read: "MEMORANDUM FOR THE ARMED FORCES. "Subject: Home Front Production.

"1. Attention is invited to the facts and figures on home front production submitted herewith for your approval. 42. The numbers mean that the United States is turning out more equipment than all the rest of the countries in the world combined. "3.

The vast numbers are only part of the story. They are the result of the sweat and prayers of millions of men and women on the production line. That line now includes boys girls working after school, housewives who place their children in well-supervised day nurseries while they are at the plants, and men and women who have come back out of retirement to bring the end of the war closer. "4. The job on the home front is to produce, transport and distribute.

Most of the folks at home do that job with the same loyalty and energy as you fight Photographs illustrated such production statistics as: 424,000 pieces of artillery made from January 1, 1942, to January 1, 1944; 000 rounds of ammunition turned out in 1942 and 1943; 9000 planes last March. MAYOR SUMMONS FOLK TO PRAYER ALBUQUERQUE, N. June 7. (AP)-City sirens and whistles announced the invasion of Europe Mayor Clyde Tingley confirmed news of the landings France through the Albuquerque Journal, Associated Press member paper. "I carried out my promise to the people of Albuquerque to notify them, and call them to prayer the minute the invasion began," said Tingley.

Meet in Midair KILGORE, Texas. (UP) -It was almost. al midair collision when Private Barney J. Thurman, stationed with an airborne division in England, met up with a relative of his whom he hadn't seen for two years. Private Thurman was floating down after making a parachute jump when he looked into a passplane and saw the pilot was his cousin, Lieutenant Clint Cowden.

G. LAUGH LAST. LAWRENCE, Kan, (UP) -Jean- ice Allen, student at the University of Kansas, believed she was putting over a fast one by dating three G. who were complete strangers to each other--so she thought. The tables were turned one night recently, however, when all three called and talked to her on the Isame nickel.

LONDON, June 7. -Prime Minister Churchill told a cheering house of commons yesterday that the allied liberating assault upon Hitler's European stronghold was "proceeding according to plan-and what a plan!" In tones of confidence he reportthat the allied forces had been transported across the channel to the shores of France by "an immense armada" of ships with several "probably the thousand greatest smaller, crafter assembled." Mass air-borne landings also have been successfully effected behind the enemy's lines, he said. "There are already hopes that actual tactical surprise has been attained," he continued, "and we hope to furnish the enemy with a succession of surprises, during the course of the fighting. "The battle which is now beginning will grow constantly in scale and in intensity I shall for many weeks to come and not attempt speculate upon its course. "The landings on the beaches are proceeding various points at the present time," Churchill said.

Shore Fire Quelled "The fire of shore batteries has been largely quelled." He said that "obstacles which were constructed in the sea have not proved, so difficult as was apprehended." The prime minister said the American-British allies are sustained by about 11,000 first-line aircraft, which can be drawn upon as needed. "So far," he said, "the commanders who are engaged report that everything is proceeding according to "And what a plan!" he declared. Churchill said the vast operation was "undoubtedly the most. complicated and difficult which has ever occurred." Speaks on Rome. To cheers by menbers, Churchill parliament, cog.

nizance of the liberation of Rome," and added: "American and other forces of the Fifth army broke through the enemy's last lines and entered Rome, where allied troops have been received with joy by the population. "This entry and liberation of Rome means that we shall have power to defend it from hostile air attacks and deliver it from the famine with which it was threatened." Britain's war leader paid high tribute to both General Sir Harold Alexander and General Mark W. Clark in Italy and said: "Complete unity prevails throughout the allied armies. There is complete confidence in the supreme commander, General Eisenhower, and his lieutenants and also in the commander of the expeditionary force, General Montgomery. In discussing the Italian campaign, where he said the allied forces "with the Americans in the van are driving ahead northward in relentless pursuit of the enemy," Churchill said it was hoped that the 20,000 prisoners already taken would be followed by further captures in the near future.

Of the new European operations, Churchill said "this great new front will be pursued with the utmost resolution, both by the commanders and the United States and British governments whom they serve." In response to a question, he told commons that certainly in the early part of the battle he would endeavor to keep the house fully informed. "It may be," he added, "that I shall ask their indulgence to press myself upon them before we rise tonight." Sun Never Sets on This Family TOLEDO, Ohio. (UP), -The 51111 never sets on the family Mr. and Mrs. Dale Miller, whose two daughters, 9 and 7, mark time off with their names- Dawn and Eve.

'The Millers say that to keep things simple, Eve goes to bed with Dawn, and Dawn gets up with Eve. But the neighbors report that it's just, a little confusing to hear Mrs. Miller call, "Dawn is here, it's time for Clergy Rejoices SEATTLE, Tune 5. (UP) -The Seattle clergy rejoiced today the liberation of Rome without destruction of that historic city. "It will rebound very much to the credit of the allies that they have succeeded in handling a din.

cult situation in such a creditable manner," declared the Most Rev. Gerald Shaughnessy, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Seattle..