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,tlVE CENTS IOWA CITY. IOWA l'HURSDAY. TUNE 22. 19U VOLUME XlJV NUMBER 229 " ., Yanks Within One Mile Allies SPecify ·c · • . - Surrender a rrler Fotces Attack Of Cherbo Docks Deadline Battle Fleet .Fall of Port NURSES INVADE WITH YANKS Ultimatum Warnl Germans to Give Up Defense of Cherbourg Landon Forecasts At a Glance- RAF Hammers Berlin May' Come LONDON, Thursday (AP)-An First Ballot Decision Following Night Raid ultimatum to the Germa~ garri­ son of Cherbourg to surrender by Today's By 1,000 U. S~ Planes Within HQurs 9 a. m. today, British time (3 a. For Governor Dewey m., EWT). was broadcast this Airmen Break Contad morning by the allied army field Republicans Meet Iowan U. S. Liberaton Start Americanl Dilco"er radio station in Normandy. The With Enemy ShiPI broadcast was recorded here by To Draft Preliminary 24-Hour AHaclcs Underground Fortresl At Nightfall Monday the London daily sketch. Foreign Policy Platform America. *balD * ID* • r throUJh On Comet Platforml "If you don't stop the fight In Valognes Capture Cherbourg in suburbs only 1,500 U. . PAC I F I Fr~EET n9w. you will never see your CHI C AGO (AP)-As party LONDON, Thursday (AP)­ yards from waterfront. HEADQUARTER I P arl Har­ SUPREME HEADQUAR. homeland agaln," the ultimatum platform discussions formally got Berlin was blasted yesterdlY by f1\1d, and drl'e said. bor (AP}-United tal ar­ 'he Civil Aero. TERS, Allied Expeditionary 'Situation De.perate· under way. two prominent Re- Amerlean, JallADe. navies may more than 1,000 United States rier plane WOQP d down on a nes in the air Foree, 'rhursday (AP)-Amer. "Your situation is desperate. pubUcans forecast yester\lay that be locked in climactic battle that heavy bombers, under a fighter powerful Japan fl t be- le would han iean infantry patrols probed Thousands of planes are waitin, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New will decide war's length. escort of the same slu in the tw n the Philippin and the ties ., sD~h • for the signal to rain death on York would be nominated for the greatest raid of the war on the Mari&llAl> i lands about du k into the southern fringes of I erleans will M you. Guns of the allied navies are presidency on the first or second RAY. ' United State. air flHta German capital and early today Monday, Adm. hester W . Nim. able to afford It was disclosed that some of the Cberbourg yesterd'ay, reaelling aimed at you. You have no other ballot by next week's national hit Berlin, American planes fly itz announ d ye t rday in til transJIOrIaUo., points less than one mile from way out than to capitulate. convention. A third said Gov. John on to Russian bases. bombers had flown on to RUDia, "Should you, the commandant, W. Bricker of Ohio "has a good completing the first shuttle mis­ opening staKe or what may de­ the waterfront as the main army not surrender, you will bear fulJ chance." sion in history from bases in Brit­ v lop into th d i iv battl f massed an overpowering weigllt responsibility for the Ilves of Former Governor Alf M. Lan- Allies bstter enemy back past ain to alrf1eldS In the Soviet union. the war in the Pacific. of men and metal on the sur· your men. don of Kansas, 1936 Republican Peruiia In Italy. Dispatches from an American Contact with tb n my fIe t, "We give you until 9 a. m. standard bearer, arrived with this base In the U.S.S.R. told of the which includ d carri rs and rounding ridges in preparation today. June 22, to decide. prediction: _ landing. battleships, presumably was brOK­ for the final destruction of the "Should you surrender, send "Dewey will probably be nom- The Germsn radio said this en oft at nllhtlall. Lo ,on either Americans on Biak mighty assault by Flying Fort­ Germans trapped in that vital A GROUP of the first U. S. army nurses to land with the vancuard your emissary to our staff under Inated on the first baUot-cer­ protection of a white flag to thc tainly not later than the second." resses and Liberators was fol­ side had not been compiled, Nim­ Normandy seaport. of American troops on tbe Normandy beachbeads, is shown bere tak­ lowed up early today with another Itz said. Inr time out for chow outside tbelr field hospital. These nurses were crossroad on the Valognes-Cher- The second pro-Dewey predic­ Mop Up Jap Pockets Supreme headquarters in its bourg road at the village of Slo- tion came from a Keystone state attack on the Reich capital by There was no Indication whether on the job wben the first man needed medical aid. United states the batlle bad been joined again midnight communique said "Al­ Signal Corlls pbotocraph. ave at 8 a. m." delegate high In the councils of RAF bombers. The ultimatum warned the Ger- the councils of the party wbo Liberators Drop DNB sa id Berlin was raided Tuesday. Maneuv fI of both ar­ lied forces made further progress madal through Monday nllht mans in Cherbourg they were preferred not ~o be quoted by 165 Tons of Bombs "b tween 1 a. m and 2 a. m." in the battle for Cherbourg, and "compl tely cut off from the rest name. This hammering of the capital probably would determine wheth­ the area held by the enemy is Planes Make First- Reds Open Surprise of the German forces in Nor- It was Senator Taft of Ohio who With No Interception twice in 12 hours came as other er the long-awalled showdown steadily diminishing. Our advance mandy; the American army is declared "Governor Bricker has a ---- United States Liberators headed test betwec:n the American and Japanese navies was at hondo up the entire peninsula has been ready to attack; the sea cuts you good chance" for the presidential ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- a stream of planes in a round-the­ Action Against,Finns off from retreat; no reiruorce- nomination. QUARTERS. New Guinea, Thurs- clock bombardment ot the comet coula Spot Enemy rapid." ments can reach you; the Luft- TaCt, slated to become chairman day (AP)-Amerlcan infantrymen bomb launching platforms In the Scouting planes from the United 'MaUer of Hours' 'Russian Stales flUh fleet, commanded by Russians Drive North walfe is absent, as always," of the resolutions committee, met on Siak island mopped up Japan- Pas de Calais area. Fall of the port appeared to be Eisenhower MesP,e with that gl'oup to organize and ese pockets north of Mokmer air- 43 BoIDbi!ra Loat Adm. Raymond A. Spruance. spot­ but a matter of hours. Of Viipuri, Near Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's work out a preliminary platform drome In D swift advance alter The Americans' 12th and heavi­ ted the nemy fore Monday after­ Reports reaching headquarters radio spokesman urged the people draft. capturing Sorldo and Borokoe air­ est blow at Berlin cost 43 bomb­ noon. Carrier bombers awept In during the day said the advancing Landings Old Finnish Border of Cherbourg to prevent German Senator Austin (R., Vt.), who dromes. headquarters announced ers and 15 tlghters as they plowed fot the aUack. It wal the Unt time Americans had found a soft spot LONDON. Thursday (AP)-The sabotage of the port and to safe- brougllt to Chicago a one-page today. through clouds and flak. Forty­ since the bllttle of Santa Cruz. In BJong the Cherbourg inland road A U. S. •A1R • BASE• SOME- Russian army opened two new guard its equipment for allied use typewritten declaration of foreign While enemy resistance ham- nine G e r man fighters were October of 1942, that American and railway that leads up from the knocked down, 20 by lighters and carrier pilots hsd a chance a t a wlIEiU: IN tHE SOVIET UNION surprise offensives against be~ upon liberation of the city. pOlicy, said it followed closely the pered operations inland, Ameri- SQutb between the bristling forts The text of toe broadcast: Mackinac charter adopted by the cas advanced swiftly along Biak's 29 by bombers' tuns. Nipponese fleet. 1)11 IUlUlP (AP)-Heall)' bombers tJle I~aguered Fin jan d yesterday, an<:I Oc1evllle, and had ot "The supreme commander asks Republican post-war a d v j Bar y south coast to extend their beach­ A report trom We RAF /lAId Admlral Nlmltz. obvlously wlth. penetrated to within 1,500 yards famed U~~ed States Eighth air- striking far to the nOrth and east that dock and railway workerll of council last September. head which previouslY reached 15 some rocket-launching sites on out detailed information himsel1, of the Cherbourg waterfront. foree put down on Russian soil of the bloody battle zone of the Cherbourg be available for posi-I But It was reported to go be- miles from Bosnek vlllage 01) the the Cherbourg peninsula had been promised addItional communiques The German defenses on the for the first time ysterday in a tions where they are at present yond tbe Mackinac declaration by east to newly-captured Sorldo. captured intact, gLving allied IcI­ as quickly a8 possible. He told a shattering shuttle bombing against Karelian isthmus, and Moscow southern tim of the city include working. addition of the use of military Liberator heavy bombers ham- entlsts a cbance to develop fur­ press conference Tuesday night blockhouses and mutually-sup­ Hitler's fortress from Britain. said early today that Marshal "Proprietors of factories, work- force to keep the peace il neces- mered Noemfoor island just west ther methods of combattinl the that the entire Nipponese fleet porting pillboxes capable of sharp It was the first time in history Leonid A. Govorov's crack troops ers in factories. docks and rail- sary. The proposed plank was de- of Biak in Geelvlnk bay 011 norlh­ jet - propelled explosive. which may have been deployed for an crossfire, Don Whitehead, Associ­ any kind of bombers had flown were driving on well beyond Vii­ ways in Cherbourg are called scribed as having the approval of ern Dutch New Guinea, dropplnl have oeen hurled at 80uthern Eng­ allout contest n ar the Marianas. slblUty rePft­ ated Press correspondent, wrote. from Britain and landed in the puri, the fallen second city of Fin­ upon to protect against possible supporters of both Governors 57 tons of explosives on Kamirir land tor a week. which American forces have In­ :t of to~lV. The Germans, now back to their Soviet Union, although shuttle destruction by the Germans all Dewey and Bricker. Taft said he ajrdrome Tuesday. The Budapest radio went oU the vaded. .mlcaUy liable last-stand defenses. still show operation already was established land. industrial equipment. locomoti,,:es, bad seen it, adding "It Is a gOod Other Liberators from the Ad- air shortly before midnight, indi­ A massive American force of ely be a tWl­ signs ot the contusion which over­ between the U. S. S. R. and allied As a result today. the third an- signals, motor vehicles, rolling one." miralty islands raided Truk in tbe cating the Mediterranean air force hundreds of surface ships and ake tbe pia" took them when the Americans bases in Italy. niversary of Germany's dec lara- stock. and trains belonging to the Landon said he did not see how Carolines Monday with 108 tons of may be strlkin" at the Balkans. more than 1,000 planes comprised to fly for If. sealed au the peninsula Sunday. (It was announced in London tion of war on the SoViet, the Red public s.ervices and all tire fight- foreIgn policy would be "the issue bombs, touching off fires and ex- As Berllners dug caaualtlea the Invasion fleet, Rembert James, whole f.mII1, and have given up considerable that more than 1,000 United States army was within 20 miles of the Ing equipment. it should because Roosevelt and Iplosions. irom the smouldering rubble, the Associated Press war correspon­ of tomoJTOll'~ ground which American troops beavy bombers and a fighter es- border fixed at the end of the "Each of you must do ~Is ut- Churchill have brought about such There was no interception. German radio called the raid a dent, reported. There were hun­ thought stlOuld have been defend­ cart of equal size attacked Ber- 1939-40 Russo-Finnish war and most t? safeguard the equlpme~t a contused situation." ______retaliatory blow for the jet-pro­ dreds of landing boats and other ed. ain Wednesday and the Berlin the Nazis' chiet associate in the f?r allied" use when Cherbourg IS The administration handBng of pelled bombs which winged over craft to put many thousands ot 950 is modtSl German demolition squads la­ radio said part of the striking war against Russia again was re­ liberated. foreign affairs, Landon asserted, Army, Navy Bombers southern England for the seventh loldiers ashore. bored with explosives and flre to force roared on eastward beyond ported ready to sue for an arm- had brought about a "deteriora­ straight day. and added: "But no Warahl.,. Protect Beach try to wreck the great port facili­ the Reich border.) Istice. Pound Kuriles, Truk matter whether bambi are being That invasion, going well at la st ,uld mean \bit tion of our good neighbor policy ties, while allied planes showered Soviet and American fighters Reuters dispatch from Stock- Minister Apologizel in the western hemisphere and in dropped on Berlin or not. the reports. was one of the immediate ,e ai rpJane ·for them with leaflets advising im­ escorted the Eighth airforce crew- holm reported last night that a our relations with France." WASHINGTON (AP) - Army bombardment of London with the concerns of the warships under men on their mission and Soviet Finnish peace cabinet already had To United Statel, and navy bombers, ranging the and on \bit media te surrender. Allied 21st "So I don't see how we can 110 new weapon will continue." Spruance, for they must protect army group headquarters said the and American ground crews. been selected. Paci1ic, have pounded the Kur­ JU-..•• 1iIIo& De.. the American beachhead and as­ have JO,OOO House of Commons much further in our foreign af­ :il/ city was unlikely to hold out working in harmony, welcomed Springing into action on the i1es and the once-mighty Japan­ Thunderbolts, MUitu\p and sault forces wh\ch already had much longer in any event. fairs plank than the Mackinac ese base of Truk again, the navy Lieut. Gen. James H. Doolittle's new fronts less than 24 hours LONDON (AP)-Capt. Oliver declaration," he added. Li,htnings swept In to attack conquered virtuallY the southern Stay Advance Continues big bombers to Russia. after announcement of the fall of Lytteiton, Britain's minister of reported last nJght. about 50 of the defendiDi JU-aa'. third 01 the Island. d here toslJ1, The general advance up the "Just as was true with the 15th Viipuri, Finland's second largest war production, apologized direct­ An announcement Irom Pacllic and one pilot said about every The ,round forces were ad­ :e ms to be tIIII peninsula continued rapidly, with (Italian-based) airforce's original city, Soviet troops struck north of ly to the house of commons and fleet headquarters also told of JU-88 he saw was smokin" blow­ vancina north on Salpan, Nimitz planes as '« a headquarters communique an­ landings." said a commander, "so Lake Onezhskoe (Onega) with a indirectly to the United States raids by fighters and bombers on lnl up or it. crew ballinl out. reported. Protres8 also was beln, ,Jll be neitllll' nouncing the liberation of the it is with this-a real Russian- powerful t h rUB t that broke yesterday for remarks in an ad­ Jap Troops Advance Japanese at Mille, Maloelap and One Mustang g r 0 u p reported made against Japanese pocketed liate. Juniar's towns of Teurtheville-Hague and American operation." through Finnish lines east of dress Tuesday in which he was Wotje atolls in the Marshalls. shooting down eilbt while loaing at Nafutan polnt. on the south­ r of 1950 IVill Acquevllle, southwest of Cher­ But yesterday the smiling Rus- Medvezhegorsk and also opened quoted as saying that the United 10 Miles Nearer Nail)' Ventura bombers hit Shu­ one plane. eastern comer of Saipan. Severe 'rong resemb' bourg, in part of a broad thrust slans, who greeted the first Amer- another drive along the Svlr river States had provoked Japan to mushu in the Kurlles in a pre­ Stockholm reported that 12 tighting continued as the ground :~nt-da y \iii! thn t has carried the Americans icans with a terse "Allo. Joe," Ibetween Lakes Onezhskoe and attack. dawn attack last Saturday, start­ more bombers made emergency troops fought to clear the Island within five miles of the sea. unlimbered their growing Eng- Ladoga. In an almost unprecedented Chinese Rail Junction ing tires. Army and nail)' bomb­ landings in Sweden, makin, a that will provide a base for bomb­ pubt but whit On the southeast, the Ameri­ Ush vocabulary to: "Hello . boy, These offensives were along state~ent, the minister disclaimed ers kept up the assault on the total of 33 Lntwo days of wide­ er strikes at Japan Itself. ~ leaner, m: cans have driven forward astride welcome to the Soviet Union." the Murmansk-Leningrad railway, any intention of giving this as his CHUNGKING (AP)-Japanese Kuriles Monday, striking at Para­ spread raids on the Reich. Hi,h American naval sources '~ safer. the main road north from Val­ which thll Soviet high command belief. He did not deny press re- troops. bent on splitting China In mushiro. The Ninth airforce all1)Ounce- nan-Chlna'l most dlUicult battle nish statement on the politieal unW an armiatlce ls ruched "Our or part of the Japanese neet yes- lula, lOuth of the present Invallon allht. Fresh German graves and The vessel was believed to have aneae base of Myltlryina in north zone--ys Noz:i Pilots, Planes changed their minds." favor of incentive taxation, based way and to east and wut of it. -in developing a continental de- by Col. Allan Clark, Lamed, Kan., stopped in to say goodby. Tbey Improved Since D.Day And, they want to obl£in tl\tse fense. . on national income, with taxes had just crossed the Himalayan werc lea vi ng for tl).e front at OIlCe. During First flight same bases-or some o~ them-to, Another reason for Japanese Liberator Crewman hump on a transport mi ssion from "Gee, I can't wait to get over," LONDON (AP)-The per!Ol'm- build up their defenses "gaiJ:l;it ur.enc~ is the lallure of their China when Japanese fighters at­ Labels Robot Plane Fit.\Sburgh Sun-Telegraph, who each one said. "I've gaL to have a ance of German pilots and planes, In Yawafa Raid the American drive from the Paci- Purroa,~m campaign to cut off has gone on halt a do~en missions tacked onc by one. Each fighter chance to do my share in this fie which Admiral Nimitz plai»1Y supplies to the American lIir forces made only olle pass, the entire irgh ting." outnumbel'cd four to one cxcept Roosts 'Sweet Job' against the French coastal area, NEW YORK (AP)-Tbe storl has forecast would cOl1le against they ,k,new were buUdini up in ~-- • sa ide scrap lasting only 25 minutes. We talk of bcac~hea<;ls and the in occasional engagements, was the China coast. . China. A U. S. BOMBER BASE IN "The Germans have taken great SergI. HJ!rold Lanlwm of Ft. :sca coast of France without rcal- reported by a veteran United of one or thc B-20 SupcrfortresMI It was emphasized here by l1'i\l- Japanese success in China this Worth, Tcx" the rear gunm:r, d