Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1944-06-30
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" JUNE 29, l~ -======- ':L\\"!ON CALENDAR Cloudy PROCESSED FeOD!! blue Own.1 "'. throliP V' valid Ind.lI nltely: MEAT red slampo A8 IIL1'OUCh wa v.U4 ln4e1lnhely' !!UCAS Itlmp 30. 31 (book 4) valle! Indeflnltelr.' _tamp 48 1M eaonln, IU, .. IOWA: cw..lr, wara.r. expire, Feb. 28, 11145' SHOll wtall\P, a rplane itampo 1 -...J J (book THE DAILY IOWAN 3) valid Indellnltelj'. OASOLINE A-12 COUIlOlJ expln.. Sepl. 22: i'1JEL on, per. • anti ~ eOllpon. el<prl'e sept. » . Iowa City's Morning Newspaper fIVE CENTS IOWA CITY, IOWA fRIDAY, JUNE 30. 1944 VOLUME XlJV NUMBER 234 • · · PI UI SI Troops Capture 2I 000. Amerlca n . a nes Castagneto Despite Britis~ Repel Germans Hit Deep into Germany In~~::~~~i~~~~g Out of Monticiono . In Bold T arnk- Offensive 15 Bombers At a Glance- Russians Describe In Advance on Siena I Defeal of Germans ROME (AP)-Fightinr In stit- FIRST YANKS TO ENTER FALLEN PORT OF CHERBOURG ling heat and against Intenslfled Show-Down Todoy's o H" I German reSistance, Lleut. Gen. 'FaU to Return IA S Grea tes t.1O IS ory I Mark W. Clark's American troops I clubbed their way another fIve Nali Fighters Swarm Iowan Moscow Dispatches miles up the west Italian coast BaHle Nears To Challenge Attack Disclose Nazi Losses Wednesday and captured the town of Castagneto, 25 miles trom the Nazi. Pour Reserv •• On Aircraft Factories Nuill pour* reserves * * into Nor At Vitebsk, Bobruisk major port of Livoi'no (Leghorn). mandy battlefront. Into Normandy Fight LONDON FRIDA Y (AP) _ Another Yank column, plunglnll LONDON (AP)-Two thou· From Central Franc. 60nd United. 'tat II wOl'planes United states planes strike deep I More than ~ll , OOO Ger~an troops Inland up hIghway 73, hurled the ~ ,O O<1 lH'ovy bomhpl'R mlr1 an inside Germany. have been killed ot' captured in I ~azis out of Monticiano and con. TIEADQ AR rrJll81 fighter P. cort - strul'k the fighting around Vitebsk and tmued on within. less than 12 miles I TER. , Wed Exp<,ditiollary rirer illin OPI'many yestpl'day MO!Icow c.rrelpondents label Bobruisk, the Russians announced o~ the com':lunJc8tions center of deteat handed Germ a n s in l For ,Friclay (AP)-'I'h 1' Rud ~lUfI~ h l'd ul ~cvp n ail'Craft today, as terror and disaster over- SIena, 31 mIles be ow Florence. While Russia "greatest in his mall hurled 811 avoilablt> armor f'oclol'i ps lIUrl II I1l1mh(\I' of oth!'l' took the Nazi defenses in White . Nazi Prl!oner 8&, tory." Russia for what some Moscow dis- HIghways behmd the hard-hit- J 't nif(hl in 0 bold bid to J p tfll ·l.(l'l~ whilp ~d li pc\ f'ig hl r r~ AmI patches described as "the greatest ting American tmops were littered orf Ihe m n8dng Srili h Ihrll t 11111 hom AWfl l'nH'rl OVPl' mrd i h(ll'~ U. S. troops push ahead despite defeat in history." with enemy dead a nd bur~ed-out I hI' NOI'I1lIllHly bat tlefielcl in ~i \It' mill'H below lit rolegic ('01'11 increased enemy resistance in Bobrulsk, last German. strong- and abandoned enemy equIpment. but W re I hrown btl k a rna hN)I'ch i IIg ~ II P pOI'1 of groll nd Italy. hold on lhe "fatherland line" in Tile round-up of GeJ1man prison enemy rt'l!('rve'! sl J't'Oml'd tl'om , II·oO pS. the east, fell lo the RUSSia ns yes- ers continued, ~ith more than 1hl' Plak and swarms of German terday, and with it was completed 25,000 now in Fltth army endo cenlral Fl'unce and Rich it If (or th d,' loping how· fightel'R chall enged this mighty the liquidation of five encircled sures, and an allied spokesman air fleet and 33 enemy fighters Fierce Ground BaHle Nazi infantry divisions. declared that the Nazis were down bottle or Normandy. were knocked down by the vigi Terrible Flcht1nC "show ing signs of confusion" in A Brili h Iltaf! offi<' 1" 10111 lani escort, while bomber gunners Rages on Saipan Fronl In this defeat, accomplished in the coastal sector. A ociat d PI' one pOlld nt picked oCf three more which two days of terrible fighting by In an eCfort to check Clark's re Ro,er D. Gr ne that FIeld Mar the First White Russian army oC lenlless pursuit, which has been fought lhrough lo the heavies. Amerjcans Blot Out shal G n. KGrl Rudolph Gerd von 18 U. S. Planes Mlsslnr Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, 16,- aided in recent weeks by ihe cap- Rundstedt h dInt hi. tanks ham- Fifteen United States heavy All Jap Resistance 000 Germans were left dead on the tllre of several LIsa bie potts, the bombers and thl' e fighters are battlefield and 18,000 were taken Germans were resorting to the Bulletin 1l1issing. E 1 eve 11 other enemy In Southeast Corner prisoner. most elaborate demolitions-even LONDON (AP) - Th Berlin planes were shot down over Nor For his triumph Rokossovski has to CeiJing trees IICI'OSS the roac\s radIo a serted that resld nts of th mandy und foul' allied planes were U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- been promoted to a marshal or the and stringing the limbs with booby French capital altcmpted to lynch missing in that area. QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor (AP) Soviet union, it was disclosed. traps. American prisoners a they were Methodically the heavyweights -Battling against fierce resist- Another 52,000 were killed and (War Secretary Stimson said in IAN AMERICAN tank, one of the firs \. to enter the port, thunders doWll a Cherbourr . treet alter the marched through the streets. unloaded their cargoes of destruc ance, American ground torces 25,000 captured in the Vltebsk Washington that the Nnzis evi- tan ot that Important French coastal city to the allied forces. "There were some Incidents tion visually on plane plants of have made small gains all along area in the first {our days of the dently were IIchieving all possible -------------------- co used by the populatlon who Leipzig, Oschersleben, Aschersle the iront extending across stra- great summer offensive by the delay in the alHed advance while Amerl"CanS Abandon I r OPA Restores POI"nls tried to lynch Am rlcan soldiers." ben, Magdeburg, Bernberg and tegic Saipsn island and have First Baltic army and the Third they built uo their defenses on the ID ewey 0 K S Wittenburg, all within a 150-mile blotted out all Japanese resistance White Russian army, Moscow also "Gothic" line between Pisa and • • merllli at the (Ianks of the firm radius southwest of Berlin, and in the southeast corner of Nafutan announced In a special communi- Rimini, their last belt of ' forti- AI"rbase at Hengyang On CanntIJd Goods' bridgehead acroh the Odon river FIIUersleben, 40 miles east of Han- point. que. fications before'lhe Po valley.) GOP PI f " to try to dent the Un s but "h Dover. 'Severe' Jap Defense Premier Stalin personally an- One German intantry company al orm Is not succeed in,." RaUroad Yards Bit A "severe" defense was being nounced the capture of Bobruisk which attempted to slow the Yank Brttiah MalI:e Gain Other bombers hit synthetic oil put up by the enemy at the moun- and also of Petrozavodsk, capital advance by intiitntion tactics was Reports Label Vital Three Listed Now, plants at Bohlen, near Leipzig, tainous central sector, Adm. Ches- of the Karelian Soviet republiC, in reported to have been wiped out. Railway Junction I E II 'I Bowles Indicates Only Z 1-2 miles north of Caen, and airfields at Celle Stendal and ter W. Nilnitz said yesterday in a two special orders ot the day. A newly organized enemy artillery Inn Ire y utride the road to Paris, the Urg, west of Berlin, as well as two communique reporting the latest . Vast .lmpoJ1a.nce unit was destroyed by a surprise I Japanese Stronghold' Further Restrictions British sluned out local , Ins in important railroad yards and other · developments of the American 7~ e liberation of . Petrozavo~sk, blast. Crom American IfUls and In fierce fl.hUng, the Supreme Heod- miUtary and industrial targets. ground thrust ,PolnUnjl · tOW-Bras .... c.tv. Qt. 7~.OOO In .Q4\iCetlme, .. "00. ...· ~tor th .. ~ . 10 ....~ OJlUNOKlt.O, mId" ,I'lr)- ----- wn.,... .., .... v..-. \n' ,-&00" "".- ... ·Aiii;d ai;~iht',"';j,lch-;.~aShed J . opened VUi l1ul_y kJ Mutri'ifttsk, tants, v. ,tins tW4} anti-tank Encircled and battered Henllyang CHICAGO (AP)- Gov. Thomas fice ot Price Administration last r ae~~t~:(~~~~~g ::s ~l~:~= a~~~ther carrier aircratt strike and was of such vast strategic i~- guns and 15 cais;ona, has been b.}mbed by American E. Dewey Invited RepubHcuns nillht ordered the restoration of at the stratell troop re rves . t P portance that stalin ordered thIS French Troops .. ' vance plan"s and lef' aClame atter aban Wednesday night with an RAF d C I I 0 t of was ma d e T ues da y agams agan ",Q ", - everywhere yesterday to share the t' I t I' ed Id th bi II l r M .- ul lh e P as- e- a II s c as lsI d th f S . A t ~ victory ! aluted by 24 saivos !rom French troops advancing on the donment of the American base . , . ra Ion po n va u .or conn ro on e ,ra cen er 0 e ... , France against the German flying- an, .nor 0 kalpan'd wa eoI 324 of Moscow's big guns com- inland wings of the Fifth army near-bY, it was disclosed last night dTlver s seat wilh hIm for the peas, tomatoes and asparullUll, ef- turned Its aUenUon to the tactical bomb installations.