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Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
NAYS TRY THE ROBOTS

DRITONS who saw the end of their long ordeal ID approaching with the invasion of France got a shock only six days later.
 On June 12 'the things started coming into London.
 '"The things were eere. As they shot across the sky their tails of flame lit up the blacked-out Lon don night There was hideous roar as they came close moment of dead and menacing silence, and then thunder of falling buildings shatterlng glass and the cries of the wounded and dying.
 The Nazis called them their V-1-their Vergel- tungswaffe their vengeance weapon. Brltons called them "doodlebugs" and "buzz- bombs. 7 They were small pilotless, et-propelled aircraft sent oil from launching platforms 100 or more miles away. They skinned over the roof tops day and night at speeds of almost 400 miles an hour.
 The English who had suffered through the bltz of 194O went back into their cellars and subway barracks Barrage balloons were rushed in to form ring around the city. New anti-aircraft stations sprang up along the coast Fighter pilots parolled the skies to shoot 'the things" in flight.
 In the first week F per cent of the robots were shot down In the second the percentage rose to 24 in the third to 27 in the fourth to 40. But the Vergeltungswaffe relatively cheap weapon for the Nazis to make and use. And no matter how successful their defense against it, Britons knew they would not be safe until the launching sites were overrun.
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IKE sWEATs IT OUT

EISENHOWER was on spot. His invasion would ID have to be in late spring or early summer to
 tive the air force long days in which to make its
 sperority count. The spring tide would expose the
 Naz beach obstacles at low water and enable eng1-
 peers to try to break them.
 The commanders weather prophets had picked lMe date-June B. 1914. On June l troops began bading More than 4000 ships assembled in ports Isong the English coast and at Belfast
 On June B. the winds began blowing and the Nouds dropped low. Early the next morning Elsen- hover postponed the invasion. The weather
 rophets then predicted better weather for the 9th, but they could not tell how long it would last | Allied leaders watched their barometers and
 weated They had estimated four days of good weather would be needed to insure success. Land ngs on the 9th under poor conditions could be dis lyrous. But if they postponed again the tides and other factors would not be right until June l9. IAnd too many persons now knew invasion was on lis way The secret might reach the NaZis.
 Eisenhower grimly decided to risk it on the 9th.
 Before dawn black-faced paratroopers, loaded with so much equipment they could hardly walk, seated themselves along the benches of huge trans port planes Arborne infantrymen eased themselves into gliders between jeeps and guns. Fighter pilots stepped into the cockpits of their planes. Battle Ihp crews holding the rails at their stations as Their vessels plowed through the Bay of the Seine, lquinted through the mist to catch sight of the boast of France Thousands of ships, fast and slow, arrived at their assigned places in an almost in- credible demonstration of split-second timing. This was the invasion This was the biggest thing pf it's kind in the history of the world
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INVASION,

THE plans called for the Americans to land at two beachheads - Omaha in the Viervlle- colleville sector of the bay and Utah" near st. Martin Varreyille. The British and Canadians were to move in near Caen.
 Warships shelled the beach areas Rockets zoomed from converted landing craft. Heavy bombers Oared up and down the coast, blasting pillboxes and other defenses through the thick clouds with heir radar range-fnders. Other bombers sped arther inland, hitting airfelds, troop concentra- lions, railways, truck conveys communication cen- ers-everything within radius of 100 miles the azis might against the invaders Fighter planes sought out the Luftwaffe but found few Nazis in he skies The airborne troops landed behind the coast, dynamitng rail lines, cutting communications, eizing crossroads.
 The huge armada of landing craft moved to shore.
 Infantry assault troops went first. Sprayed with machine gun fre they raced up the beaches to pick out the pillboxes.
 Then tanks roared in, followed by engineers who would try to dynamite the criss-crossed poles of wood and concrete strung along the shallow water 10 halt the landing craft.
 As the engineers began their work in the chilly, waist deep surf, mortar and artillery shells burst all around them. Machine gun bullets whistled into he water. The wounded frantically clutched the poles and the torn bodies of the dead foated onto the beaches
 The landing craft now moving in could not unload water. They needed the beach desperately But he Instructions still held them off.
 One hope was left The craft smashed head-on mt0 the obstacles. Some hung nelpleSSiy tuners bundered. But most of them got past
 The invasion was less than half an hour old. More mgineers came ashore to clear the beach of mines and set up traffic lanes for tanks and heavy guns. New infantry raced in with heavy mortars, anti tank and machine guns. Trucks and bulldozers be- gan to appear.
 In three hours more than 10000 men were ashore at the three beachheads, and German defenses were weakening. At Omaha beach, the Tanks ran un- expectedly into Nazi counterattack division on maneuvers and slowed down Omaha's coast de- lenses proved powerful and the low clouds pre- vented bombing as effectively as had been planned
 But the beachheads were building up fast lnfan- try divisions were formed more and more land- ing craft banged through. Boxes of ammunition piled up Tanks rumbled up the slopes and inland
 When darkness closed in on June 6, 1914, three big spots on the Normandy coastline were cluttered with bulldozers tractors tanks, anti-aircraft guns. mortar artillery jeeps trucks bullets, shells, and many thousands of men who had preached the
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HITLER GETS BLl1zED

DUZZ- BOMBS were expected to make it up to ID Herr Schultz, the German man in the street. for having been bombed out of his own home by inc Allies But Herr Schultz had many other wor- ries on his mind, and the heils he once shouted when the trail of swastikas led to the gates of Stalingrad now were lowered to whisper.
 Everywhere the news was bad It was obvlous to Herr Schultz that another ally soon would be out of the war, for the Russians in summer offensive beginning June 10 had broken the Man. nerheim line and captured Viipuri, Finland's sec ond largest city It was obvious, too that East Prs- sia. the Balkans and western Poland would soon
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ENTER THE "MULBERRlEs"

the end of invasion day, the Allies had 15OOOO ashore. The push across the Normandy peninsula began.
 The Germans had expected the invasion at Calais since landing at Seine Bay would leave Eisen- hover far from big port to handle reinforcements. Even now they thought the Normandy offensive might be feint, and Field Marshal Gerd von Rund- stedt in overall command, temporarily hesitated in mounting a large counter-attack. But he had large garrisons defending the ports the peninsula and the Allies, he reasoned, would be unable. to bring in enough supplies over the open beaches
 The British had foreseen this problem and long before had laid astute plan before General Ike. Now the plan began to work
 As part of the invasion armada fleet of tugs chugged out from England, hauling concrete cas- sons Off the beaches Seabees sank the cassons to form breakwater. Inside the breakwater floating pierheads were set up, and pontoon roadways ran from the pierheads to the beach. These artificial harbors were called "Mulberres." There were two of them capable of handling large ships-one at the Omaha beach, and one in the British sector at Arromanches. Five smaller breakwaters- Goose berries" were set up by sinking old warships and merchant ships just off the beaches to provide refuge for smaller craft in rough weather.
 The ingenious scheme solved the port problem. During the first week the Allies moved over the "Mulberries" and "Gooseberries" 74000 troops, 0,- 900 vehicles and 17,000 tons of supplies
 The beachhead widened slowly. Bradley's men took the ancient cathedral center of ~Bayeux on the 7h and cautiously edged into the little village of Ste- Mere Egse two days later. Rommel brought up his tanks aganSt Caen ana the oattle Wltn ont- gomery for that vital anchor of the invasion line flowed back and forth while the city itself was hammered brick by brick. By the end of the week the Americans were third of the way across the peninsula and their planes were covering the bat tlefelds from landing strips in France.
 The blockade by air now paid dividends. Nazls trying to move south found bridges smashed, rail- road lines bombed out, highways pitted Truck con- voys critically needed at the front hid in the fields to escape straing planes that seemed to be every where Whole divisions were immobilized for days
 While Montgomery held Rommel, Bradley shot across the peninsula to close it off and then swung LID along the road to Cherbourg.
 Of the beachheads the weather gods now had an ironc fling The wind freshened during the night of June 18 and then really began to blow. The caissons in the Omaha Mulberry" broke apart. By the time the storm ended on June 22. more than
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300 ships had been thrown up onto the beach-rnany of them wrecked beyond salvage.
 June l9, the day the storm reached it's greatest fury, was the day Eisenhower would have chosen for invasion had he failed to go through with 1t on the 9th.
 Allied warships now moved over to blast Cher bourg and the Yanks fought through the streets to take the city on June 27 Engineers swarmed m to get the harbors working The battle for France lay ahead
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In Normandy would be unable to swing up against Kim for weeks If he struck at Normandy, the nOops at Calais would be blocked
Postscript of the Apache sentinel. [volume] (Fort Huachuca, Ariz.) 1945-1946, 1945-11-30
zuD nn0.r ks X

p exredite the release Of hundreds
IF enlisted men AND Wamen now perfo rTa-
iaf; essential duti es at ASF Senarati in
canters, an intensi Fl ed canoai On has
been launched to replace nilitary vi tn
civilian employees, it was announced
today by Eaj Gen VIZ e. Shedd. codama nd.
ne General, Einth Service Command, at
Fort Douglas, Utah.
survey just comp1 ted reveals that
8 IN post tions are avai1eble at the
Tour personnel centers In the ESc. Of
this number, g, $50 are Graded civil sSr-'
vice 20 tions wi tn cay ranging from
81, SOC to 50, $50 per year, based IN a
AO-hour week. TIE relaain ng 98l 60 ST IT,
ms are ungraded, WI t.. b1urly scales
dependia. upon the work perfn rIed.
Ft. 1ewi 8, Nash, has 1919 potential
sitions for civilians, of wti ch J., 1858
are GRADED. The personnel center ct. cr.
Beale, Calf. has 1881 available % ST.
tions including /, cl2 GRADED % ST tinns.
Ft. Douglas, Utah has .ooon rtuni ii es FIR
4l3 civilians and TT NncArt thur, Calf.
could employ 248 civil ians.
In a7nea1ins; to civilian W rs1ers To-
iwesti gate JOB onro rtuai ties at the
personnel. centers, Gen shedd neinted nut
the many advantages. IF civil service
g., 11y.ient. In addition to the 50 ii sfo-.
(continued On Pare 2 Column j.
Postscript of the Apache sentinel. [volume] (Fort Huachuca, Ariz.) 1945-1946, 1945-11-30

ACorC1nuSd from PeSe Is 70 1unn y
He brought home, "a 4-potnt b1ack.tails
buck last week. His bro Their, Boyste is
here on 80 day conval scent fur1o ugh.
1t Col D. H. Beck and Can't I'm H.. Jar
rett have returned to work.. b tn sus tained
tnjuri es~ In q recent au tomobile wreck.
Don jackson, also a victim IF the same
crash has returned to work at the Fire
Depar tment. -.
liz & Yrs Ear1 ey H. Kauffman spent the
Thanks giving holiday in Pho enix wi til Mr.
& Mrs James Kendri cks.
MIR Albert aut roz vi 81 ted Tucson. Tues
IN 'businAss. Mr. ouirSz. along wi th his
job. Is also a successful catt1 eman.
Oe1Munz DEM5 b ny Auz
cnpt & Mrs. c. Cola entertained capts
& kasdanes George o1astead & John T.
..acHugh, at a spaghetti inner, Sunday
evening. Cards and games we're played
after dinner.
Miss Inez Clayton, recently di scharg-
ed from the local VAC Det, hos returned
t. the Fart after visiting her home III
Texas and ioined the office force.
Can't Cecil 2. Bryan, Hq Nj nth Service
coraaerd Stock Contro1 "Divt sion, is pay
tns. ii 9 .routtna visit to the Ordnance
stoc2e Rec I'd Section this week.
1t fRysh 74,nk p AAl Rkd4rson
New emphasis is being placed upon the
War Dept plan of solicit ting Suggestions
fror it's civilian End Military person.
mel by the Enrol ,yees Suggestion Commit
tee.
The ori nal plan was adopted early
in the wpr resu1 ted in the following
Conservation If r4aupower. material, time,
md space: II I'M ~ tton Of unneces sary
PR cesses; Improvement # cendttion af-
fcctin. safety md heelth and other iE-
prov e-ents,
eora ~
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
The Kicking Starts

Latham dashed of the Gin
cinnati bench 90 the plate, yelled
something at Hurst and threw
his cap 10 the ground. Tim
kicked the cap. Arlie picked II
up. slammed II down again and
Tim gave II another kick.
"This went on for some time,
Latham slapping II down and
Tim kicking IL, Until me had
kicked IL all the way down the
line to third base. The crowd
and players howled in glee.
Hurst was serious at first, and
then broke nut laughing. But
Arlie was fit 90 be tied"
MIR. Mack, then with Milwaukee
IN the old Western League, recalls
Rube Waddell in 1898 was with
Detroit in the Western when he
Mack first saw the lefihander
who in later years was 10 become
famous with -ths -Athleties After
Detroit, Naddeii joined Louisville.
tom LOTUS, who ran
tavern out in Dubuque. had
tipped me OFT 10 WaddeII," Mr..
= Mack went back into the years.
''But before l had gotten around
60 IL. Waddell became the prop
erty of the Pittsburgh club. That
came as result of a merger
between the Pirates and Louis
vile.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Give Us Sun. Sun!
Cry SOgg.y Tigers
BY LEO MACDoNELL

The rains came--and stayed!
Today's double-header with the
Athletics was rained out again.
Now tho Tigers have seven post
poned games listed for play at
Briggs Stadium later in the sea-
son. four of them with the Ath-
letlCs.
Sieve ONeill would like 10
catch the wag who called up his
home IN Rosedale Park last eve
ming and wanted 10 know IL the
Tiger skipper would like TO enter
a boat in the boat races at Briggs
Stadium.
II wasn't always thus.
We had only two games 10
play OF last year and only one
of them was postponed because
of bad weather. Jack Zeller,
The Tiger general manager, re-
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Giants Call Sub
For a S|ugger

NEW YORK, May II CUP)-
The New York Giants came up
with the newest brother combina-
tion in the majors today when
they brought in first baseman Al
Gardella from their Jersey City
farm club to team with substitute
outfielder Danny Gardella.
AL a younger brother. is a lone
ball hitter like Danny. Manager
OFT said he Xoald be used As the
No. l substitute for the regular
initial sscker, Phil Weintraub.
He probably won't see much
action, however, unless Vein.
traub gets hurt. At the moment
Weintraub is tied with OFT fol
the league lead in hemers with
seven and is second 10 teammatc
Ernie lombard in runs batted ir
with 21.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
GIVE HER A CHANCE!

Don't be intolerant. give her a
chance to live again. Ii you think
she has roamed too far in strange
seas then look over the list below
of some of the company she'll be
keeping in the Percentage-Handi-
cap Class.
There's Spook. Ed Zerbe'S gaff-
rigged R-boat. as proud and
naughty as when she was first
brought out for Sonny Winton 81
years ago. The girl whose name
ever has belied her looks. So
says Sammy Colburn. her muscle
man. and If you speak diSparag-
ingly of SpoCk he becomes Fight
ing Sam" She's the Eva Tanguay
of the fleet.
Then there's Mouette. another
r. owned by Fred Bingham, old
enough to vote but she has a
shapely sheer and is ready for
another go at a racing life.
Frann now belongs to Harold
Knubbe but this go" has had a
career One of her former owners,
for the love of a lady, is supposed
TO have bumped himself Off.
Fantasia was conceived in a
dream by Russ Alger and she
looks il. but her present owner
Frank Barlage, is willing to forget
these things presumably because
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Rube BelIiqerent

Eddie, this is Connie Mack
nf the Milwaukee club. would
like TO have you do a little pitch
ing for me-"
II IKE II here, Rube replied
belligerently.
"But I would pay you good
money. You could pitch my club
10 pennent and the people
there would like YOU"
II told you j like II here,
Waddell said sharply as he
hung up.
Mr.. Mack thcreupon went
back 10 the Wisconsin metrop-
oils cmpty-handed. But the long,
lean MIR. Mack was a petSevering
fellow. He kept shooting wires
al Waddell. Finally the pitcher
broke down and replied by wire:
"Come and get me"
And Mr.. Mack got him But
Il toek money to get the RHbe
out of hook IN PunXsutawnCy.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18

called. "The other was the play
Oft of tie game with the Red
SoX. Moreover, 1 believe we
lost only two games on the road.
They were at Chicago. l know
we didn't lose any In the East"
But Zeller remembers that in
the spring Of 1913, the Yankees
spent four days here without get
ting out of the Book-Cadillac
Hotel.
3 The American League last year
enjoyed the finest weather in its
history. Only 35 games were post
poned. This was the lowest total
in years. The average is about 6S
Only two double bills were post
poned all year one in New York
and the other in Philadelphia.
Back in 1885. there were 81
postponed gameS-believed to be
a league high for a single season
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18

Ties - that's long time ago,
isn't it?
1T was the time Tim Hurst
kicked Afiie Eathamis cap. Gosh,
was funny. laugh every time
i think of II. II WAS In the old
National League, YOU know. l
was catching for Pittsburgh and
we were playing the Cincinnati
Red Stockings. Those Red Stock
ings were great boys. So we're
the Pirates.
"Hurst, one OF the famous
early umplres who later came
into the American League, was
the only umpire In charge of the
game. Tim was calling 'em from
behind the plate A close play
came np at third base and Hurst
called the Red player out.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
10000 i'm
Meet

LANSING AMayzl7= up
Elimination contest for the Upper
and Lower Peninsula track and
field meets May 20 Will be held
Saturday in IA regional centers
with some 10000 contestants. rep
reSenting $50 Michigan hig n
schools. slated 10 participate.
Top favorites in the Lower
Peninsula Class division Include
Saginaw Arthur HIil. the defend
ing champion Saginaw Eastern.
Flint Northern, Grand Rapids
Ottawa Hills and Ann Arbor
On the basis of part perform
anceS. Saginaw Eastern is rated
slight tavorite despite the fact IL
was noSed oaE by Flint Northern
last week for the Saginaw Valley
championship Northern won the
title with 3Sis points to Easterns
3S. Arthur Hill came in third
with 35.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18

across the direction line. The wide
open stance shortens the back
swing and permits a rounded,
full. follow through.
In the lower diagram is pic
tured a square stance for a
straight faced No. / iron or wood.
This long club calls for a more
rounded and a less perpendicular
swing than the short irons.
The more lofted the club, the
closer the heels are together. the
more turned toward the hole" is
the left foot and the further back
Of parallel with the direction line
is the left foot.
With the longer clubs you
widen your stance.
The best way TO understand
this is 10 send to Sam Snead, care
Golf Editor, Detroit Times 81. for
my free diagram showing correct
stance for all clubs. Enclose
stamped self-addressed return en-
velope.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Three Winners
For Otto Grohs

ARCADIA. Cal. May II tUP)-
Otto GrohS held an early lead in
the Jockey race today by riding
winners in the first three races at
Santa Anita race track.
GrohS narrowly escaped being
trampled in yesterdays featured
seventh race when he was thrown
by the favorite. Orio. as the eight
horse field broke from the start
ing gate.
Mrs. B. ~. Hutchinson's Pr
Ernest won the first division Oh
the featured San Miguelito in
III l-5 and paid Sl420. Pari-
Brazen. winner OF the second
division. paid So so.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Jail Ex-Colgdie Star
As Draft Evader

BOSTON, May II CUP)--
Josiah r. Lancaster of New York
was under two year federal peni-
Tertiary sentence today for fall
ing to report for his army indYc-
ton.
Lancaster, former Colgate "
versity football and wrestling
star. testified he should have been
exempted from military service
as a conscientious obiector.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
FredFOrd,PrO
Golfer. Dies
List Services
For Tomorrow

Funeral services for Fred Ford.
veteran district golf pro. who died
suddenly, will be held tomorrow
at 2 p. m. at Spaulding & Sons
Funeral Home, 500 West Nine
Mile road, Ferndale.
Ford came to this district more
than 20 years ago as pro at Red
Run Golf Club, joining his brother
Ernie here. The latter died two
years ago in Flint. Fred was pro
at Tam o Shanter for some years
before entering war work.
Surviving besides the widow
and a son Jerry. there are a
brother and a sister living in
England and a sister in Australia.
Fred was born IN Somerset, Eng
land.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18

How Old Dodgers
Stopped Losing Ways
By BOB MURPHY
Sports Editor

They aren't buns any mora
Even il you're rabid fan Of I'd
Brooklyn Dodgers, you've got TO
admit that nickname isn't suitable
now.
Those inimitable Dodgers ara
causing a furore In the baseball
world with their IL straight VIC
tories. No one seems able tosStop
that streak. Even the management
is taking chances and the gamble
is paying off.
Youngsters Vic lombard, Tom
Seats and Leroy Pfund were VIC
tors in their first major league
starts. And while the magic spell
is on. Leo Durocher may assign
other first-year pitchers to work.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Mango Singh
Coming Back

Mango Singh. that recalcitrant
Hindu mailman who hasn't dis
played his devilish mat attack
around here for some years, has
been signed to meet Wladyslaw
Talun. giant Polish grappler. in
one of three hour bouts in wreS-
tling triple-header at Fairview
Gardens next Tuesday night. Bert
Ruby VS.. Walter Roxy and Louis
Klein VS.. Stanley Buresh are the
other bouts.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Collegiate Swim
Team 10 Be Named

EAST LANSING. May II CUP)
The college Swimming Coaches
Association OF America is eN.
pected to announce the first all
American collegiate swimming
team ever chosen within a few
days. il was announced today by
Charles McCaffree, secre tary.
treasurer.
McCaffree. swimming coach al
Michigan State College. said re.
suits are now being tabulated by
a three-man committee headed by
Mai Robert Starr, West Point
swimming coach.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Max S(hnneGnq
In Hamburg

LONDON, May II (UP)--An
Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Hamburg said Max Schme-
ling, former heavyweight boxing
champion, was found there today.
An Exchange Telegraph corre-
Spondent said Schmeling was
arrested on the Hamburg water
front by two military policemen
of the SD Welsh Division.
He was in civilian clothes. the
agency reported, and said he had
been discharged by a paratroop
regiment. The MPS who arrested
him had seen him in the ring. the
dispatch said, and evidently were
certain of the Identity.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-18
Wayne Golfers
Defeat Spartdns

EAST LANSING. May II (UP)
Wayne University's golf team
defeated Michigan State yester-
day. 1ll2 TO Ga.
The match was played at the
Walnut Hills Country Club in a
driving rain. MedaliSt was Stan
Setera, Wayne, who covered the
CourSe in 81