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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1944
Women to Seek Softball Title
Outstanding players in the women's intramural softball tournament have been grouped into class squads and will begin games this week to see which class can claim the championship title, Miss Ruth Hoover, sponsor, announced today.
Juniors will meet the freshman squad Wednesday afternoon. Seniors will meet the sophomores on the diamond Tuesday.
The winners of the two games will try for the championship title on Monday, June 12. Losing teams will play the following day.
Members of the class teams are:
Freshman Squad
Freshman Squad-Mary Turkington, manager; Kathryn O'Leary, Pat Coolidge, Marjorie Free, Vera Stoebel, Annette Bigelow, Alberta Cornwell, Marilyn Nigg, Jane Topping, Sara Sachse, Betty Bixby, Marjorie Fadler, Iva Rothenberger, Shirley Plaff, and Audrey Harris.
Sophomore Squad—Violet Conard, manager; Maita Lenski, Jane Miller, Mary Ruth Murray, Edith Boehmer, Betty Nichols, John Ashlock, Mimi Nettles, Thelma Stutz, Lucy Smith, Kathryn Burchfield, Charlotte Price, Beverly Waters, Joan Burch, and Jean Fergus.
Junior Squad
Junior Squad—Margaret Barker, manager; Maxine Kelley, Leeta Marks, Sue McCluggage, Lavone Jacobson, Lucy Johnson, Jean Boardman, Sue Diggs, Margaret Kreidman, Donna Burkhead, Joan Justice, Barbara Winn, Janet Sloan, and Pauline Schultz.
Senior Squad—Marian Eisele, manager; Ernestine Shears, Frances Davison, Mary Taylor, Frances Raw, Jill Peck, Kathryn Hall, Mary Hughes, Shirley Rhoades, Althea, Vratel, Jean Hoffman, Martha Trate, Dora Felt, Alice Goff, Peggy Davis, and Barbara Baker.
INVASION---various landings, are "hitting the enemy at every point where such air support seems necessary," the Allied headquarters in London announced at 3:40 a.m. At least 45 square miles of Northern France was under attack within an hour after the official announcement of the start of "Liberation Day" was made in London.
(continued from page one) his military and naval leaders for a D-Day conference.
Secret Weapons Used
Bombardment Greatest In History
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces. (INS)—Official spokesman announced that 30,000 Allied airmen dropped more than 10,000 tons of bombs on invasion coastal targets in the 8-hour period between midnight last night and 8 am. today. The shattering bombardment was history's greatest onlaugh.
London, (INS)—The British ministry of supply announced tonight that many secret weapons were used for the first time by Allies in their invasion of western France today. Test Force Losses Small
London, (INS)—American naval test forces losses were surprisingly small headquarters announced. One battlefield moved in "very close" to silence a group of land fortifications.
The Berlin radio, however, said a "fierce naval engagement is taking place between Dunkirk and Calais in the English channel."
Germans Fire Over Channel
Folkstone, England-German guns across the English Channel opened fire at 5 p.m. today for the second time since then invasion began but ceased as soon as Royal Air Force planes appeared over them.
Allied forces landed in northern France at daybreak this morning to make the first assault on Western Europe. The Allied invasion began with an attack on Le Havre, France, in which parachute troops dropped on the coast of Normandy, near the mouth of the Seine river. The 75-mile coastal strip from Le Havre to Cherbourg on the English channel opposite Portsmouth constitutes the invasion area.
Allied airplanes, covering the
Psi's Stage Own D-Day
Shortly before closing hours, the Fsi's swooped down and removed doors from Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi Omega sorority houses. The Chi Omega door was found in Gamma Phi territory and subsequently restored. Kappa hinges, however, appear to be permanently abandoned.
For many sorority women on the Hill, D-Day began at 10 o'clock last night, the first blow being struck—not by Eisenhower's men, but by members of Phi Kappa Psi.
The fraternity men, according to the accounts of those invaded attacked with strategy, using one contingent to distract freshmen on phone duty, while a second group dismembered the sorority houses.
Other sorority houses suffered minor disturbances: old porch furniture was dragged up on the porch of the Theta house, benches were given to Gamma Phi Beta, etc.
In no case were the men caught in their vandalism. After listening to the radio reports this morning—it seems last night was pretty successful for everyone.
Allied troops, by 2:10 a.m. (CWT), had already forced their way 10 miles inland to Caen, located on the Orne river halfway between Le Havre and Cherbourg. Gliders Land. Shock Trench.
Gliders Land Shock Troops
That glider planes have landed specially trained Allied invasion forces miles inland, was reported from London by an observer who had just returned from a flight over the Normandy area.
First Word From Germans
First word of the invasion came from a German radio broadcast in which a commentator told of the dropping of the parachute troops and the landing of the seacraft, backed by the might of the guns of the battle fleet. The German radio filled the air with invasion flashes for three hours before the formal allied announcement came at 7:32 a.m. Greenwich mean time (2:32 CWT).
Earliest hint of the Allies that the invasion had started came from a spokesman for General Dwight Eisenhower, who advised people of
Commanding the Twin Dragon squadron, credited with the destruction of 123 Japanese planes in 58 days, is a former University student, Major Verl Dean Luehring, of Leavenworth. This fighter squadron is not attached or subordinate to any group, but takes orders directly from the tactical air force headquarters.
Luehring Commands Twin Dragon Force
"I believe our work causes major damage to the Japanese air effort in Burma," said Major Luehring. "Their losses were so high that they have been unable to replace them fast enough. This is indicated by the reduction of Jap air raids on Assam and China, and also by the fact that our transport planes operating across the hump to China report a reduction in harassing attacks."
The major attended the University for a year, coming here in the spring of 1940. His brother, Eldon, is now an engineering sophomore in the V-12 unit here.
The base of the Twin Dragon squadron is somewhere in India.
14 Per Cent Goes to S. America South America contains about 14 per cent of the globe's land surface.
the Netherlands to move back a distance of 22 miles from the coast.
Supreme commander, General Eisenhower, who launched the long awaited attack with an order of the day, said, "we will accept nothing less than full victory." De Gaulle in England
That Gen. Charles De Gaulle, leader of the fighting French, had arrived in England, was reported from London at 2:54 a.m.
Fliers returning from Northern France three hours after the invasion started were still reporting that there was no sign of the German air force. Allied planes, bombing every air field in the Normandy and Brittany areas, and covering the landing forces, apparently were meeting no opposition from German fighter planes. Anti-aircraft fire was very heavy, however, in certain areas. Brittany Airfields Wiped Out
"All important air fields in the Brittany area have been wiped out," a Berlin broadcast reported a few minutes before the official Allied announcement of the start of the invasion was made at 2:35 a.m.
That German coast defenses were battling Allied landing barges and attacking forces already landed all the way from Cherbourg to the peninsula of Le Havre was announced by another German news agency about 2:25 a.m. This includes an area of about 60 miles along the Bay of the Seine.
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Of the six nations forming the land boundaries of France, three of them—Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland are either in the hands of the Allies or sympathetic with the Allied cause. Two hundred eighty-five miles of the French border face Belgium; 25 miles face Luxemburg; 230 miles, Germany; 260 miles, Switzerland; 350 miles, Spain, and 250 miles, Italy.
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More than half of France's frontiers face open seas, necessitating defense by the Germans of 1.872 miles of coastline: 672 miles along the English channel, 831 miles along the Atlantic, and 569 along the Mediterranean.
Allies Strike at Nazis Via Vulnerable France
France is once again the battlefield of the world. Vulnerability to invasion has made it the route by which Allied forces are striking toward the heart of Nazi Germany.
Invasion routes through Northern France are shortest and lead into rolling and cultivated country, plentifully served by roads and railroads. The starting points are near enough to England to receive air coverage by British-based planes. Great risk is involved, however, in the northern routes. The northern shore defenses of sea mines, land mines, barbed and electrified wire, and concealed concrete emplacements for rapid-fire guns are reputedly the strongest.
Between Calais and Boulogne are sloping cliffs, heavily guarded, and low and sand terrain with dunes in the rear which allow easy Nazi observation. Brittany is rugged and indented, with long estuaries and fringing islands. Germans holding the Channel Islands can harass landings on the beaches near St. Malo. Further inland, France's Maginot Line, once directed against Germany, has its guns now trained on the Allies.
Geographical obstacles, too, present difficulties. The northwestern terrain is marked by a succession of outward-facing scarps, command of which is of great strategic value to defending armies.
The longer approaches to Germany through Southern France and along the Bay of Biscay are too far away from Germany to be as effectively guarded by the Nazis as the northwestern area. Good beaches and good ports are other advantages. At the same time the distance from Britain presents a considerable military disadvantage to the Allied forces.
D-Day Prayer Service To Be at 8 Tonight
Invasion day prayer service will be held at 8 p.m. in the Trinity Lutheran church, the Rev. Herbert C. Brockman, of the Centenary Methodist church and president of the Lawrence Ministerial Alliance, announced this morning when notified that the invasion had begun. A meeting of the Alliance committee on invasion day services will be held at 2 p.m. today to make definite arrangements for tonight's service.
The committee appointed to work out plans for D-Day services had not met yet but were planning to hold a meeting within the next few days, the Rev. Mr. Brockman said. He was notified about the invasion at 4 a.m. by a Kansan reporter who called to check on church activities. Other ministers called were also unaware that today is D-Day.
Many Lawrence citizens were awakened by the screaming of the whistle on the water works, blown in siren fashion at about 4:30 a.m. The whistle was blown to notify people that the "great day" had arrived, and that details of the assault on Europe were crowding the air waves.
Janitor Has Stroke Early This Morning
A veteran of the University staff for 42 years, King Adams, janitor at Marvin hall, suffered a stroke at 7:30 this morning shortly after he had come to work.
Mr. King was taken to his home at 318 Locust street by an ambulance. At 10 a.m., his condition was reported slightly improved.
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