GOOD EV NINGEVERYB DY: I am ri~ht at the foot of the Rockies tonight, broadcastin from a great University of Denver banquet. All day th news of the world has been pouring in to me over my special wire at the Brown Palace. And here is a summary of it: The development of the invasion would seem to indicate two major thrusts -- the Allied offensive concentrating its power in two different areas. One in the section of Caen and Bayeux. That's where the Norman coast runs east to w est, horizontal!y on the map. Our beachhe a salon that co rs t . are ood and deep now, antl new advances in ' a d have been scored. British an anadians have joined forces ~ t en, which has n t y t b en captured ' 'ter four days of savage INVA I ~ - ,.. ------- nk ba tle , the Germans ar ounterattb c in. But from captured Bnyeux, the . llies are driving on. A dispatch from the front line states that the German ■ beyond Bayeux have been split into small groups, and, at certain points , the enemy has retreated so rapidly that the Allis have lost contact even with the Nazi t'ear ~uards. From the Caen-Bayeux sector, the coast, running horizontally east to •~st, takes a sudden turn north. The coastline makes a righ~ angle bend - to form the Cherbourg peninsula. The second major Allied objective is at the base of the peninsula -- iriving into the neck of land, to cut off a large area of territory, including the gre t port of Cherbour~. And the latest tonight indicates that •m r1·c ~ Br1·t1'sh and Can dian troops have thrust l '. c!. n, inl nd for at 1 ast seven milfls, an have cut the INVA ION - ~ --------- ., main ~ a il an d h i hway line to he peninRu l a. A n ,, , th e y ' v c a t u red a 1 a e o n 1 y e ig ht e en miles fr o m h rb ur, which mks it a ppe r that they might isola e the country to the north, including Cherbourg. And, indeed, there is word t indicate that the Germans intend to pull out -- while the pullin , is good. In this event, Cherbourg would be the first great prize of the invasion; one of the great ports of the orld. One bi difficulty for the A ~ lies right now is the lan in of reinforcements and supplies -- thes having to be ut a hore on the beachheads, along the • west co st of the Cherbourg peninsula. The weather ha turned b u a • ain. All Llong, s·ve for a brief period, the inva s ion ha not been blessed ¥ith g ood we ther. Still, troo p s an d a rm a rn nt a r e p ou i.n r EJsh o r , nd the Ge n · s ' ener n r • 3 an ed e1 teen divi ions, nearly two hundred a n i ty thousand Yet ho~ m u c h bet er it ou e i had Cher bou r , wi ha ine arbor! ) As an ex a m ~ l o f th ~ fury of the .a i d e fense, tak 0 's acc o unt o sni ers: hear th a t the Germ n a re em lo in ni p ers s n e ve 11a · in them ore f a major factor attle than the war has yet known. We are tol d of su· ide snipers, fanatic 1 ,azis resolved to ive th~ir lives for their Fuehrer -- the'r evil o , liitl r. These oper ie int • o . T y st&y behind wh nth ir main forces re reat, air of ni er, an their shooting from conce lm n un i l thy a p ed out. h f o the ex e c te major counters tack, all ind i ca i n s e h· , th Ge ■ . n c brin in u p fo rc e .. from m ny d i r · t · c., n s , f o r con c entr a tion aeain the A li rl b c hhe a . They a e in this in th a c o f c n r n as s by 1 d air o r - and the e m· n~ b · e tin hel from the weather. Allie p a ne re b ly handicop ed today by blinding cloud conditions. Inf ct virtu ally rounded. All in all, desperate days of the fi erces t fightin g seem to be ahead. And the Allies will need all the n o . Pr thy can throw cross the wat r, po w er that they are t rowin nd will continue to throw es eci~lly wh n they P,et the p ort of C herbourg. OON F R E NOB: It is an ounoed that the oom~anders of the army, n a vy and a ir forces have one to Fr nee-- General larshal, A dmi r al Ying and G eneral ~N O D. The White H ou ~ e expl ins that they ~re attending a •••ting planned a~o, a conf e rence of high commanders schedul ed to take place as eo , n a e po s s i b 1 e a f t e r D- d :a:':• __.__. ------ - - - -- -- -... J • I . · . f Stil no sign of wh,re the Germ ns int ~ nd to make a stand in Italy. Today thr Allies c ~ ptured the important railroad town of fiterbo -- on main line from Rome to Plorenc•. Viterbo is forty-five miles north of ROME and it~ capture is just ano her sign of the speed of the Allied adYanc, and German r f tre t. Pitth arm3 troops On the coast ,~ttliasJaaa,~have pushed on twel•e miles more--with the eizure of another of those places that brin ~ back the Dhmes familiar in school book history of Rome. The tow of Tarquinia -- reoa ling l••taln.._.h L P.Po~ th, ltruecant, the story of Lucretia, and the thti-iller of Horatius on the bridge. le• to --- . . ntiea •arious o,heF ~ish scbeel eateh linee-, Hieb it ■ ay amaee yea te •••••~••• With all the shootin~ going on in lu1op1, a sensation was created in Rome today by several reTolTer shot~. These r ng out at a royalist 4taonstration, with a crowd hailing Prince Uaberto. Since the retirement ot ling Victor l■anuel, Umberto officiates as Lieutenant.,feneral ot Italy, and the throng ~ as c6eering him--when 1om1body pulled a pistol and fired. It isn't quite clear whether it was an attempt to shoot at Lieutenant-G~neral Umberto or whether lt was just an asti-royalist demonstration by an enthusiastN who punctuated bis political sentiment with a pistol. In the ensuing confusion the police made an arrest, but they grabbed the wrong man, and the person who did the shooting escaped. Along with this ie haTe word that retiring Marshal Badoglio will not be included in the ne Italian cabinet--~erYing under Umberto. i ith the capture of Rome and the retirement of ling Viotor l ■ anuel,Badoglio declined the task to fora a new cabinet. In oon equenoe of which, Li1utenant-01n@ral Umberto called U ~ 8'\the Yeteran anti-Pascist politician, Bonomi, who played a atar part in the Italian government just before the advent of Paeolsm. Today Boaiao was trying to line- up a set of ministers for his cabinet')~aDd 1tat••• • • •011 le ae t ird t1e .:::. Jbvl.e1l iot+ • c ~ : t ; Hr ~ :•~:N:~h~:~: - P~::~:~!-N:•:~s;~~~~~;~1•:D+,~::H:~: ~ l~:•ll•tf•:L.9:.•::'::r::y /) association with ussolini.•ad Faeei••• SO UTH ~ _- T ~NP I F IC: In the S outh w estern P ac ific, a fli~ht of Billj M itchell b o mb e r . si ~ hted even Ja _ w a rshi ~ s off the oo a st of Ne w J Uine a . hat hap ened? Pour Jap d e s troyers were sun y in the b L mbing attac k and n enemy crui ~ er and anoth e r de ~ troyer ran away. The Japs w e re trying to g et sup lies to their troops in the neia h borhood of Biak lslAnd, whatever forces they have left th e re. DE AULLE --------- A most !nterestin · visit was announce d today in Washington - General De Gaulle is comin g over to see President Roosevelt, which certainly is timely. French territory already under Allied control -- and more to come. This ashington news ties in aptly with a dispatch from the Allied front in France. One of the war correspondents with our forces is Richard D. MacMillan of the United Press. Be has been talking to the local French people in the beachhead areas occupied . by the Allies and he cables: •The French people liberated so far from the German yoke by the Allied Second Front are certainly behind General De Gaulle.• . Refugees fro Nazi dominated Europe are to be admitted to the United States. The pre c ident announced today that one thou · nd will be br o up.ht to thiq country, &nd will be housed in emer~ency shelters to be ~ et up at Fort Ontario, n1 u r Oaw,19 1'ew York. The pr•~ident explain~d that an increasing . ~ number of refugees are escapinP,,Athe Naii Geetpao, ■ akin~ their way through Yugo-a.A.via to 1outhern Italy. Ht aaye that facilities abroad fo~taking Cla.1:aof th, .., are beine ov~axed. 1n fact, r1f1t ' ••s from the Balka~sfre ·pouring into Italy in such large number s that . military operations are being hampered. A•• ia cao ~ eqUr4f,a number o f ' --tile Qnlted 3ta,ee 1 a1 'hnuetad of •hem lo be· N\1.llecl iD . , , . . . llew:: Yort; s ta:a,, "'f\.C . . ,.., ~ t i t , e?· The president st ~ tes that, in accepting refugees, consideration must be given to those -- ''for whom,! says he, "other havens of refuge are not i aediately avai able." And they are to include, what the president called, a "reasonable proportion of various categories of persecuted .,, ~tates h ~ PARLBY: The resignation of Jim Parley as Democratic state chairman is a thing calculated to stir the bu11 of political gu8ssing to a frenzy. His retirement as titular head of the Democr~t• . _ ,akes of Mew York stat~James a. Parley final . y Gnd ooapletely out of the Democ r a1ic organisation, and terminates the ~equence of events that began .. ., when genial Ji ■, ae campaign mana~•r, had a - epaoioue place aboard the goo ~ evelt chariot of triumph in nineteen thirty-two. After which, ae postmaster general and ch~irman of the Demo- cratic national e~mmittee, he · was away up there Since then, at increasingly ~nta . onistic odds with the preqident, he ~as departed from one position after another, until only the local lew York state chairmanship was left--and now he has renounced that. V s g h FARLEY - 2 ------ So what's t e ossip an gue c in, pRrliculRrf in shington, t t metro ol~s of ossip n gue s. e have a round-up oft e surmises, a summary given by United Press ashington corr spon ent Lyle Wilson. Re says t ~t Farley's resignation, as announ ced today, is interpreted to mean that Big Jom will permit his name to be put in no,ination for t~e preaidency--standing up there in person agRinst a fourth term, as he did against a t ird term four y~ars ago. Thus he will make another s forlorn. d, hopeles and Of course, Farley won't have a chance to be nominated, and he knows it- ~ut he knew the same thing four years ago, when he offered himself as a ~opeless candidate. Anyhow, the word is that to speed up t~is line of action, he has resigned his state c~airmanmip whieh was no good to him ~way. However, if the R~publicans t ink that a fourth tera nomination will cause Farley to olt the icket, they'll be disappointed. If the resi ent is renomina ted again, Jim will vote for him nest November, and w will announce in R vance his intenti n to no so. He is a party man, and he couldn't be ma enough at any- body to bolt. This, we are told, is the concensus of opinion among the political wisemen in as ington. e What i the political trend in t~e country at the moment? Well, Here in Denver, at the University of Denver, the no. I. educational institutiin in the I Rocky Mountains where I attended years ago, they r.ave I what is called the National opinion Research Center. I visited it. Today and saw some figure indicating that Governor Dewey if nominated and if F.D.R. runs that Dewey will giv . . him a real race for it. and ~as a chance to win. D In Holly ood tod y, a movie ctress got a divorce and recite a poem. It was the s~cond time she got a divorce, and also t ~ secon time t a t s , e issued the same oem. B~ck in ninetieen hirty-five Joan Blondell wasp rted from amP.ra-man GeorgP. Barnes She said th t life with him had become intoler!ble a~ and she wrote the following verse: •Life is phoney with Baloney, From the st rt until it's done. Gold or taters, neither matters, It's the strife of life that's fun." Well, figuring that the strife of life w s fun, she got married again, this tome to ovie Actor ick Powell. Now she has broken the bonds of matrimony wit J I him, charging extreme cruelty. And once again sere- l cites the poem, "Life is Phoney with Baloney." No matter whom she divorces those are her sentiments. And what are your sP.ntiments Mark Cr~ndall. ~R BOND RALLY -------------- I am at a war bond rally this evening. In fact, I am talking to you from t 3 i orical old Block House, in ittsburgh, at w at is called t e point of the Golden Triangle. In pre-Revolu ionary days this was a wilj _ rness. A young . ritis Colonial Major, by name George as ington, suggested to the English Royal Governor Din~iddie, who sRt t fas iona Williamsburg, that a fort be built here. Rere at Pittsbuggh Point, at the junction of the Alle hany an Monongahela rivers. Yes, I am standing right at the beginning of the Ohio River. IIXII Where Givernor Dinwiddie sent forty men to start the c,nstruction but when the fort was almost completed, on an.April evening in 1754, a silent flotilla of canoes and small boats manne by Frencn, Canadians ana Indians, landed at the forks and wcaptured" the fort wit out a single shot being fired. Our own Georse Vashin ton, then a Colonel, was ordere to retake the Fort. And a Voltaire wrote co concerning the first shot t. hat wa fire by \ll s ingt BOD RAILY ~-~------- •It w~s t h e sot t a t set Europe abl ze, for i started the seven y e r w ar in Europe a nd the French and Indian wars here in America. Yes if t i s old Block Bouse could talk, it could tell exciti g tales about fight and fires, floods, fortunes and famine• and the gre struggle between the British and the French for the poss e ssion of the continen•. Just as tonight I am telling you of fighting in Normandy, in Italy and in the P acific t that will decide the fate of the world. Anyhow, I'm in that old Block House this even- ing. BONDS ----- From my pres wire at the William enn, I've ashed down here to old Fort Pi t in company ·ith menlt of the committee who c~mpaigning i t i s part of Pennsylvania for the Fift . ~r Loan. nd we've just been t lking but i , the r in ncial of ~le : ~anv Co. and of the coincidence that the Second Fro e~a line broke u on the world just a week ago and the new war loan drive began~ yesterday. All of which means that the accident of events h~s dramatized the Fifth War Loan in the most vivid way--has dramatized our dity to buy bonds. We are all given the most opportune chance to support the invasion, by buying more bonds.