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,FIVE CENTS ~.. "MOU.~'" ..... IOWA CITY, IOWA THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1945 VOLUME XXI NUMBER 169

.. Yanks Advance

Reds Advance Moment at Hand for- ,m. Ninth 57 Miles , ha.,. ~ ai .,_ In Vienna Russian--Allied Split of Germany From Berlin leld In By Klrke L_ SimpSon doubt in the south. And it well pre-determined position to the cheek may be the signal for a three west where close tactical as well 1m lip AlIIOClatecl Prell. War Analysi Drive 42 Miles West Hard charging American Ninth power proclamation outlawing as strategic integration of opera­ Longest Single Thrust e teflll tions would be possible. I hOI­ army tanks are on the Elbe river, continued resistance In Germany. Made in Germany; Toward Linz, Munich, . Yet American arrival on the The Elbe In the Madgeburg area er III last water barrier on the road to would seem to fill that geographi­ Opposition Light ICOUca Nazi Radio Reports Berlin a scant 64 miles away. Elbe is only part 01 the fast de­ veloping pattern of an allied cal requirement and, if that is iOlliJ) At Madgeburg, Elbe metropolis, true It will be only hours until the PARIS, Thursday (AP)- LONDON (AP) - Red arm Y General Simpson's leading ele­ assault that is slashing inner Ger­ Armored columns of the United shock troops stormed across the many into mop pin g-up areas. well rested and powerful Russian - ments also are within 115 miles or armies strike out to effect a junc­ States Ninth army swept within Danube canal in Vienna yester­ That Oder-Neisse Russian front less of the nearest Russian armies tion. 57 miles of Berlin and within day, clearing the Germans from poised In mighty strength on the east of Berlin Is the only Inactive Front line a d vis e r s report -Photo by Fred Jlu'dluloD hall of their Island strongholds Oder-Neisse line. The moment 115 miles of the RussiBD front ~RE IS WHAT THE 75 mile-an-hour wind slorm which slruck Iowa City yesterday afternoon did at sector of the whole vast front en­ American engineers with river " between the canal and Danube for combined allied-Russian ac­ circling the dying Nazi Reich. yesterday in a startling advance the munlllipal airport. Three planes in the hangar were wrecked and one on the field destroyed. The bridging equipment moving up al­ of more than 50 miles that car­ freak storm did not as much as touch the lunchroom north of the hangar or the oUlce bulldll1J' of Shaw river and freeing more than nine­ tion to split Germany apart ap­ Even in Italy, the long forgotten ready on the heels of tank spear­ tenths of Vienna on the Danube's pears at hand. tront has flamed to life at both ried to the Elbe river at Mag­ Anna Aircraft company to the south. Damage caused by the storm at the airport Is estimated at nearly $20,000. heads. I south bank. That impending united nations' ends. There is small chance that The Elbe is Germany's last hope deburg. A crossing of this last a local .1(1. "" .. *' * * ••• While a brief communique an­ junction ot lorce~ In the heart of e,ny of the score or more German of any protracted stand to delay water barrier before the Ger­ , were divisions in Italy can escape ex­ man capital was believed im­ Mary'. nounced advances in Vienna in Nazi Germany Is the beginning of physical dismemberment of the which 2,300 prisoners were taken, cept In fragments to Alpine passes :. Carl the end. Coupled with the British Reich and isolat'on of Nazi troops minent. the German radio reported that drive In the northwest aJready or through them. in successive pockets for annihila­ The sensational e as twa I' d the Red army had driven 42 miles knocking at the gates of Bremen There is some indication that tion or forced unconditional sur­ drive, Ion g est 'single day's at Freak Wind Hard west 01 the Austrian capital to­ and Hamburg, It will turn all It thurst yet made on German soil, 807 1 Hits the Russians on the Oder-Neisse render. has been reached by ly suI • • ward Llnz and Munich. north central Germany into an line have been withholding their the Americans under cIrcum­ was accomplished by the Second Marg . . Berlin said Marshal Feodor I. heroic scale repetition ot the Unal effort to reach Berlin or stances that make It utterly im­ (Hell on Wheels) armored divi­ Tolbukhln's Third Ukrainian army Ruhr trap and shatter last Nazi outflank it to north and south probable that the foe can muster sion, which by-passed the manu­ rother, ffangar, four Planes facturing city of Brunswick and y, and Okinawa Casualties tank spearheads had lanced to the hopes ot any orderly retreat into either until spring thaws diminish any semblance of formidable or­ British Eighth Danube river between Krems and the prepared Alpine last stand re- or until allied forces reach some ganized resistance even there. roared through the heart of the Reich against practically non­ ceme- Wrecked at Airport Amount to 2,695 Melk, within 116 miles of Ber­ chtesgaden, Adolf Hitler's moun­ existen t opposition. tain retreat. A late front dispatch said the One Man Injured; Army Crosses Army, Marines Meet Americans Strike At a Glance- river could be bridged within a Moscow's war bull e tin an­ House Passes few hours unless unexpected re­ Wind Velocity Heavy Artillery Fire, nounced that the Russians had sistance developed. This wouLd Uall cleared the southeastern half of To Free South Luzon Hits 7S Miles Stiff Resistance set the stage for an early junction Sanferno the seven-mile-long island In with the Red army. Correspon­ If La. Vienna after the free Austria Today's By JOE MATHER 40th Division Moves State Employe dents said the lineup might be radio broadcast an unconfirmed made within a few days. Iowa Daily Iowan Staff Writer ROME (AP)-The B r it ish report tha t the occu pa tlOD of Around Northern End A freak wind storm which Eighth army has burst out of its B·29', Raid Tokyo Vienna had been completed. Lleut. Gen. William H. Simp­ ~li nton Iowa City al 12:48 yesterday aft­ WASHINGTON, Thurslday Of Negros 30 Miles son's Ninth army troops. were 57 bridgehead across the Senlo ri vel' UnoCflclal Moscow reports also Iowan Retirement Bill ernoon smashed a hangar at the against stl'ong opposition and (AP)-Tokyo caught it again miles away from the southwestern said that the final escape routes MANILA, Thursday (AP) City- municipal airport, destroyed four reached the Santerno river at yesterday from the Superfor­ .. .. * limits of greater Berlin, which pljlnes and injured one man, tore tresses-perhaps more than 150 for the fanatic Nazi garrison had American forces are moving U. S. Ninth army within 57 DES MOINES (AP)-The hOllse many places, it was announced swiftly to liberate southern Luzon, miles of Bel'tin. includes Potsdam, and the Rus­ Avon, roofing from buildings and up­ last night. of them supported by fighters been severed and the capi~l en­ this afternoon passed, 70 to 36, a sians were 32 miles from the capi­ rooted trees in the city park and of the Seventh airtorce. circled while other Soviet troops 6Jfploding the enemy's disorgan­ senate-approved measure to set up Other troops of the Eighlh army B-29'. l'aid TOkyo. talon the east wi lh the city itself dden- the north and west paris of the The 20lh alrforce announced in Vll d e d Czechoslovakia's war ized s t~te, Gen. Douglas Mac­ a statewide retiremenl system for stretching some 25 miles between have landed on the shOl'e of Lake Arthur announced today. city, Comacchio four mlles behind the the daylight raid (today, Tokyo production c e n t e r of Moravia Iowa public officials and employes. these two pOints. The wind ranged up to 75 miles time) struck Industrial targets within 35 miles of the arsenal city Dismounted troopers of the Russlall5 hold nine-tenths of The measure is expected to affect umon!, German positions in the amphib­ First cavalry division advanced 14 Vienna. Essen and Bochum. great arma­ an hour in velocity. The storm ious leap-frog operation, a special in the Japanese capital and in ot Bruenn. between 40,000 and 60,000 persons miles from Lucban to occupy and cost them and the govern­ ment cities in the Ruhr trap, fell Mason lasted only a few minutes. communique disclosed. the general area, the B29's Berlin acknowledged the fall of to other Ninth army troops, and Weather observers at th e Rir­ operating in very large force. the East Prusslan capital of Sampaloc and sent advance units Freak 75-mile-an-hour win d mental divisions employing them At the same time the American to Mauban on the east coast of hits Iowa City last night the Paris radio sajd ,ldon- part described the storm as a line Fifth army was reported to have Koenigsberg two days after the a total of $5,400,000 a year. 'squall, a localized disturbance of fortress gave up and 134,000 southeastern Luzon. Dortmund also had been cleared in advanced more than three miles GUAM, Thursday (AP)-Amer­ House passes state employe re­ The House spent most of a day the crumbling pocket. pello- air caused when a warm mass of north of Massa against heavy re­ enemy troops were killed or cap­ Elements of the lIth airborne and a hall on the retirement mea:>­ ican casualties of 2,695-432 dead, division meanwhile moved in til'ement measure. First army forces to the so uth all' is trapped under a lasl-mov- sista nee. The Americans also 2.103 wounded and 160 missing­ tured. West of Koenigsberg, Mar­ ure, which provoked the liveliest shai Alexander M. Vasilevsky's lorce into the Atimonan area, on debate of the session in the house. sped within 120 miles of a junc­ ville- ing mass of cold air. pusHed nearer Carfara. in the first nine days of the '. Damage from the storm was The success of the Eighth army Okinawa invasion were announced Third White Russian army rapidly the east coast, and the 158th regi­ ture with Russian troops while the centered in Iowa City. No dam- '\ put troops at least foul' miles today by Fleet Adm. Chester W. was overrunning the last resist­ mental combat team pressed its Third army, springing to the at­ ance on the Samland peninsula attack In the Legaspi area, cap­ Japs Counterattack Proposal Defeated tack again after five days of com­ l. to 8 I ge has been reported from nearby beyond the Senio as allied head­ Nimitz as United States marines towns or other pOin.ts in the state. Iquarters announced the capture and infantrymen fought bitterly and was driving on the escape turing 14 pieces of artillery and DES MOINES (AP)- The parative inactivity. blazed ahead port of PilIau, 24 miles west of other military equipment. third proposal this session to along a 60-mile front, capturing 1. and Persons at the airport saw the or three towns and said the enemy on both ends of that rain-swept is­ In Honan Province storln coming and rushed to (ie defenses on the Senio rivet' had land just 325 miles south of Koenigsberg. On Negros, the 40th division, acquire a home for the governor Coburg and encircling Erfurt. advancing 30 miles around the was defeated in the house ap­ lrd.' down airplanes on the field. Paul been "reached on a broad front." Japan. On the southern end of the front Kennedy was injured when the United States Firth army troopE northern end of the Island. forced . CHUNGKING (AP) - The propriations committee this IIft­ the United States Seventh army Doughboys of Maj. Gen. John R. enemy remnants Into a narrow wind ca~.ght the plane' il? ~hich he led by the lough and experienced Hodge's 24th army corps were Chinese high command announced ernoon. lost some ground but at the same ' pocket. last night that Japanese forces Rep. G, T. Kuester (R., Gris­ ":85 taxllng and. flung It mto the 442nd regiment. composed of Jap­ stalemated in the southern sector Explosion, time stormed to a point only 29 were counterattacking wold), chairman of the appro­ 1 all' and over on Its back. anese-Americans, and the 473rd for the seventh straight day amid Gen. Douglas MacArthur an­ in north­ miles nOI'thwest of the big Nazi nounced Wednesday that his vet­ wesLern Honan province, presum­ priations committee, said no el­ convention city of Nuernberg. Five minutes after the storm regiment of the 92nd division, a a full-blown artillery fire and for fort was made to put the latest was , first seen, the wind struck. Negro outfit, captured Massa on the first time since the Easter eran 41st division seized Jolo is­ ably in an attempt to smash British troops in the north Chinese forces barring the inva­ proposal belol'e the house with­ To observers it seemed as if the the Italian wcst coast. Sunday invasion the marines in Fire Kills Five land, key position In the chain punched to within 45 miles of -' out a recommendation after the wind rushed into the open doors the north ran into organized re­ leading trom Mindanao to Borneo, sion route into Shensi province. Hamburg but were still held four on Monday. The communique said the enemy committee voLed not to recom­ of the hangar. lifted up tJ1e l'OOt, sistance. mend it. miles outSide the port of Bremen; pushed over one wall and flung British Units Attempt DES MOINES (AP) - Three Yank forces now are posted on attack was based at Loning, on f~ Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger'S Third the Lo river 80 miles from the to lheir west the Canadians crossed I the roof down. men and two women were killed the north and northeast flanks of the Issei river deeper into Holland, To Cut Off Japanese marine amph ibious corps holds Shensi border. and three olher men were injured Borneo-on Palawan to the nort\,! The bill would permIt retire­ where scores of thousancls of Ger­ Damage to aircraft in the hangar about two-thirds of the Notobu The Chinese, in a diversionary Escape to Thailand peninsula on Okinawa's west in an explosion and fire yesterday lind in the Sulus to the northeast. ment aL the age ot 65. The maxi­ mans were trapped. was estimated at $10,000 by Paul at the Super Products company ------. thrust eastward, attacked Japanese mum pension payment would be B. Shaw of Shaw Aircraft com­ coast. positions southwest oC Shanhsien, $85 a month and the plan would Thousands of allied warplanes pany. Four planes were completely CAL CUT T A (APl-Brilish which makes plastic wood and joined In the scourge of the Ger­ ~ . armored units drove east yester­ Infantrymen of the 24th corps plastic cement. on the Lunghai railway 60 miles not go into effect untll Jan. 11, destroyed and several others re­ who invaded Tsugen islet, of! the Coal Miners Sign man army and pilots reported see­ day from captured Thazi in an The dead, all workers at the from the Tungkwan gateway into 1946. Employes and employers ceived minor ·damage. The loss is mouth of Nakagusuku bay, on Shens!. each would contribute one per ing white flags raised in many not covered by insurance. effort to intercept Japanese troops plant, were identified as Thomas towns and villages. Many thou­ attempting to escape eastward Tuesday, overran the entire island Pact for $1.07-a-Day Chinese troops in southwestern cent of the employes' salary the yesterday after eliminating all K. Carmichael, co-owner; Mont sands. of prisoners were rounded Fred Gartzke, city engineer, es­ into Thailand from central Burma Walters; William Marshman; Mrs. Honan provInce are continuing first three years and two per cent timated damage to the hangar at. points of resistance. their attacks. thereafter. up as tbe ground forces swept for­ along the Thazi-TaunggYi high­ Mildred Peterson and Mrs. Mar­ Il!crease in Pay ward, capturing cities and clear­ bet~een $8,000 and $10,000. Al­ way. Taunggyi is 85 miles east of garet McDannel. though the hangar is desperately ing pocekts left behind by the on­ ..;:. ThazL Four persons were reported WASHINGTON (AP)-A new JAPS FAKE OKINAWA AIR STRENGTH rushing tanks. needed. now, Garlzl(e said that it Forward elements of the British is ..old and obsolete and probably Allies Continue killed immediately after the ex­ soft coal agreement carrying a Resistance Itself varied on dif­ would have had to be replaced in column were reported to have piosion but a fifth body later \yas basic $1.07 -a-day pay increase and ferent fronts. The Seventh army a few' years. reached ffiaingdet, a village eight recovered from the debris. an extension clause intended to was forced to withdraw from the miles east of Thazi, important Bombing of Berlin, end periodic end-of-contract crises While wind and sheets of rain Treated at a hospital were W. communications center of Crall­ junction on both the Mandalay­ Ray Hitchins, 52, co-owner; his was signed yesterday by operators shelm. 47 miles sou t h w est of lashed at the city, t.he tempera­ Rangoon highway and railroad. and miners. ture dropped 16 degrees in half an German Armaments son, Murray, 30, and Kenneth Nuernl:>erg. But even though the Other British forces pushed Brewer, 25 . Subject to war labor board ap­ Tenth armored division found this hour as cold air replaced warm pr,?val and a rise in coal prices, southward from Thazi toward LONDON. Thursday (AP)-AI­ The only other person in the narrow salient too hot to hold it air. At 12:48 lhe temperature Rangoon, 280 miles south, estab­ the contract was ratified by John Was 71; by 1:28 it had dropped lied planes pounded Germany building at the time was Helen managed to bring back 2,000 pris­ lished a roadblock south of Thazi again during the night after a day L. Lewis' United Mine Workers oners in its withdrawal. 1055. Fitzgerald, 26, who escaped unin­ and owners' representatives alter on the main highway and am­ in which more than 4,000 medium jured. At the City park the porch was bushed a column of retreating and heavy bombers and fighters weeks o't negotiation. Signing tipped off the pavilion and more Firemen said chemicals u~ed in came as the government moved to Japanese troops. In a brisk en­ blasted the Nazis' southern arsenal the factory exploded and that the Chicago Fire Razes than 25 large trees were uprooted . gagement 200 of the invaders were get back into operation scattered Many large limbs were ripped area and pounded traffle in front fire followed. Thl! bUilding de­ killed and eigh t artillery pieces of the allied armies. mines where shutdowns have in­ horn other trees. 'rhe park is stroyed was a one-story brick terrupted the output of fuel for captured. structure. Four Lumber Yards ' hOW littered with debris of the Medium bombers of the Eastern The German radio reported that the war effort. between 10 p. m. and midnight storm. air command attacked a Japanese Operators said a coal price in­ CHICAGO (AP)-Fire Com­ . Sheets of copper roofing were supply base at Kyaukpadaung. three separate attacks were made Spain Breaks Relations crease, which wouid have to be missioner Michael J. Corrigan said \Prn from the roof of the Fine against the Berlin area. approved by the office of price fireman last night brought under Arts building on the west side of .-- . During tbe day United States With Japanese administration, would be necessary control the estimated $500,000 thcl'lver. The copper sheets were All Bad Weather I Ninth airforce fliers, who made to meet higher production costs blaze whlch des t roy e d four twisted and llung iar from the more than 1,500 fighterbomber MADRID (AP)-Spain severed occasioned by the higher wages. lumber yards and a 20,000 ton building. I Has Passed City I sorlies, reported they destroyed 74 relations with Japan Il4st nleht Lewis has agreed to join in the coal stockpile and in which at ~------~ Roofing was also tOl'l1 from the Today it will be clear, and you German planes on the ground on and announced in a cabinet com­ operators' request for a price in­ least 17 fireman suffered injuries leology building, Old North hall may heave a big sigh of relief for fields around Brunswick, Halle, munique that there was "no crease, amount of which is not and burns. and many ot.hel' buildings in the that. The cloudy spell Which Jena and Erfurt and at Eger in doubt" that Japanese soldiers yet known, but Is estimated at Fanned by strong winds and city. reached its climax yesterday, and Czec]lOslovakia. murdered Spanish nationals and about 25 eents a ton. None of the fed by dry material, the blaze what a climax!, is passed. Al­ In an hour-long dogfight north­ destroyed Spanish propedy ' In added cost can be abSorbed, the several times threatened to spread House Objects to Italy though it won't be cloudy today, west of Magdeburg, United States Manila. operators contended. out of Its two-block area along it will be somewhat cooler because Thunderbolts shot down 17 new The communjque was issued the south branch bf the Chicago Being Full Ally a cold front has passed us. Focke-Wulf 109's while protecting following a meeting of the cabinet Yasui Joins Cabinet river to other nearby lumberyards The high was 71 yesterday, just the Second arm 0 red division at which Generalissimo Franco SAN' FRANCISCO (AP)-Lieut. and coal piles, but after two and WASHINGTON (AP)- P I e a s before the wind storm hit, about spearhead that reached the Elbe presided. Gen. Fujlharu· Yasul, member of a half bours fireman brought It for recognilion of Italy as a full which you may read elsewhere on at Magdeburg. Following the announcement of the powerful Japanese military under control. lilly were heard today by the this page. The low yesterday These kills raised to at least the break in relations, there w,s taction known as the Kwantung Corrigan theorized that spon­ "bouse foreign affairs committee morning was 55, but at 1:30 in the 898 the number of enemy planes no unusual activity evident at the army clique, bas joined the new IN A VAIN altempt to fake a larre air foree, the Japanese p"e~ taneous combustion in a sawdust but Representative Mundt (R., afternoon it was back to 55 and de,stroyed in five days. The Ninth Japanese legation. Only the usual Nipponese cabinet as a minister dummy planes on two aldlelds on Ute Islancl of Okinawa. Planes auch bin of the Red River Lumber S. D.) objected that the committee at midnight the mercury was reported loss of 12 planes during guards were on duty in front of without portfolio, Tokyo radio aa the ODell above, which are made 01 wicker, were fouad by Amerlean company caused the contlagra- \1U &bing outside its province. down to 49. the da),. the buildini. said yesterday. lnvaden on tbe Katena alntrlp. tion. ______1 r ------

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