Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1943-08-20
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HIGHTOWER lddresses 81a5111,ly Q EBEC (AP)-A dramatic assertion that the Anglo-American high command in it 'ccret ind mo.' se8i ions here i planning ways to "bomb, burn and ruthl ly d troy" both Germany and Japan caml! last night from the first high official to make a public statement on the progre of the his members President Roosevelt ~o ric Quebec conference. irt. The Commends Eis~nhower The spokesman was Brendan Bracken, British minister of information, and a frequent "isitor, 'stock in incc he arri:ved here late Wednesday, at tbe citadel where PI' sident R evelt, Prime Mini tor 'ards on On Success in Sicily Mackenzie King of Canada and Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain carryon their disous :he Iowa th Linn ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN sions. lVe dis. NORTH AFRICA (AP)-United 'While Bracken refrained from giving any details of the trategy, saying tho. e would be' re omunity States warshil?~ freed from coastal vealed only by "admirals, generals and air mat hals" in action, be made this general totement duty by the conquest of Sicily have when asked about the plans in progress: . joined allied heavy artillery and "These plans Bre to bomb and burn and ruthlessly destroy in every way available to us the battle planes in the swelling bom people r 'pon ible for creating thi war." . ermit bardmen t of the italian mainland, { ot the Bracken, quick and sometimes biting in his speech, used the word" ruthless" fr quently." At it was disclosed yesterday. ne point h spok of the presi rnarriage President Roosevelet congratu ler ROb lated Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower dent and the prim ministers as on, both in a message trom Quebec on the .' r 'peclabl but ruthl s gen· ilbur M. successful conclusion of the Sicil Reds Gain 3··7Miles in Attempl lcille K. tlemen." ian campaign "in accordahce with The Briton's comments empha the timing and p1anning of the sized the tinaltty of much of the aUies." To Isolale (ily of Kharkoy present strategy plannlng even New forces were massed at stra· as he spoke signs multJplied that tegic pOints all along the allies' the time for invasion of contin 2,OOO-mile Mediterranean line. LONDON, Friday (AP) - Rus were seized and enemy counterat ental Europe is at hand. Next Blow Soon sian troops seal oU Kharkov for tacks crushed. The ,eneral Iltuatlon u, There is little doubt that the in, annihillation gained from three to The Russian effort to make ,etted lhal lhe alJled hl'h com· next blow will corne soon against I Kharkov tall of its own weight mand had definitely decided the walls of Hitle~'s European seven mHes yesterday on three has resulted in a great wheeling a ...lnst try In .. to knock Germany tor tress. sides of the city, killing 2,400 Ger movl!ment 85 mi1es west and ont ot the war by strate.. lcal (The united nations radio at mans hurled alainst them in vain northwest of the city. Russian bombln.. and had ,Iven a ....0 A1giell! told the people of occupied counterattacks, Moscow announced units officially are declared less ahead" order to the massive Europe for the second successive early today. than eight miles from Sumy in amphibious forces poised to night to perfect their pre-invasion the northwest and 25 miles from strike at German's nank . With only on~ railway 'escape j • preparation~ and that the time of (See RUSSIA, page 5) This was the second full day action might be near,) routEl to the squthwest reported of the Roosevelt-Churchill meet The hammering of Italy and re , , . open to the enemy .garrison, a1- ing, and immediately before t.he cent heavy air raids on southern ALL-IMPORTANT war strategy conrerences between President arrived at the Citadel, ancle.nt fort where the conferences are belnl' \ ready fighting Soviet shock troops braken press conference a spoke Franc~ and Rumania, plus reserves . , . Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and other h~h."nJc: held, seated Vi the car with Mr. Roosevelt II the EJ,rl 0' Athlon~, man for the Canadian War Inform newly built up apparently are spilling into the northeastern Sub Toll Ing diplomatic and military leaders of the U. S .• Britain and Canada, 'governor general of Canada. S~ndlng behind the ea.r ar'e Prime Min Dealh \lUon board said that the president, urbs, the Soviet dally communique giving the Nazis and the satellites Churchill and the Canadian prime their worst moment in nearly four are underway in Quebec following, the arrlViI of President Roose Ister Churchill. lett, and the Canadian prime minister, W. L. Mao declared 'that more than 30 addi years of war. velt, above. The chief exeoutlve ot the U. S. Is sho~n, arrow, as he ~.~~ - tional villages had fallen to the minister were going steadily ahead ----------~---------------------------------- onrushing Red arr/lY on the west, with their work. Emulating its tactics of the per In Explosion Questioning about the nature of iod . before the invasion of Sicily, r,0rthwest and southeast sides of the Berlin radio repeatedly broad fhe city. proceedings at the Citadel, Brack cast that large allied naval and Another :Russian column attack en remarked thal he had dined there last night and oad seen the merchant -lorces- were ~onceot;:at ing frontally from the east last was M.ay prime minister. Mr. Churchill, he ing along the shores of Sicily and Nazis Leaving reported on the ' edge of the Hil2S north Africa. Ukraine stronghold in the fourtn related. "has not changed his Blow from Middle East ,reat battle for the prize railway KEARNY, N. J. (AP)-An ex- habits-he is not ODe of those' (,lity. perpetual busybodies called early Icome An allied blow launched from Reds Close In 20 Vll ....es Selled plosion wrecked one of the main ; and the middle east or the westernmost Only Non-Deferrable Move Might Be Intended to Save ~ecords, risers." ,extra JlQints in FreDch Morocco is equal The bulletin, recorded by the buUdings of the Congoleum-Nairn, In re,ard to Ihe war, Bracken , that iy possible. Soviet monitor, said that more than Inc., plant here yesterday where laid, "I think the war III ,olnl' British as well as :American Fathers May Go Archives From Force of Allied Air Raids 20 villages hlld been seized in the 30 employes were at work and very well Indeed but that It will you'll last a lon, tLme and be a very you'JJ naval 10rces struck at Italian ______--":.-.J.. ' - parallel drive imperilling the Ger- the Hudson county pOlice said the ~horeS, a British crulser-destroYl!r In October's Draft LONDON (AP)- An unconFirmed, roundabout report said man bastion of Bryansk farther toU 01 dead might reach 25. hard war." [ will force exchanging fire with Italian yesterday that" the whole Gellman go\'e'rninent has left B din," north, and a supplement also an- Rescue squads dug into the The vlctor ious mprch of events :otten long range batteries on Messina .... and the Nazis were also said to be ru hing' troops from their At- nounced gains southwest or Spas wreckage ot the five-story brick in our European war zone was strait. WMC Officials Say [antic wall to defend bases in northern Itllly: . ' Demensk on the central front. stressed today by the release of . Moscow dispatches said the Rus- and concrete buUding while flre- a message sent by President Roose uriog Allied airmen flew hundreds of The trallsfer of the Oerman government fro/ll .aerliu was reo slans were grinding down scores men tought blazes in the ruins missions over soutl}ern Italy. 'Strong Possibility' velt to General Dwight D. Eisen ported in l\ Bern, Switzerland, <i!spatc\l, quoting- ij:itlcrs' Voel. of.German tanks and thousands of there and in other nearby build Civilians emerged from caves Exists on That, Score hower, in Which the president and tunnels in the hills about kischer Beobachter, broadcast by the united nations radio at AI· reserve infantrymen thrown into ings ignited by the fire which underscored what can be accom Messina where many had lived the W ASHrNGTON (AP) - War gier yesterday. -' the battle lor Kharkov. A Reuter came after the blast. plished by planning and teamwork There was no ampll1'ieation of the report. Such a move might also said that the Red A company official who de- greatest part of six months under manpower commission officials, dl~patch among the allies. the allied bombing that was to free be intended to save l'CCOl'(Vs and archives from bombjng '01', less 'army was rolling with greater mo- elined use of his name said 14 disclosing that Odober's draft Prospects of an assault on Eur who them from German dQmination.