I RATION CALENDAR PROCESSED F'OODS bille atamps A8 through K8 valid indeUnitely; MEAT led IO-polnt alamps A8 Ihrou.h J8 vaUd IndefinltelYi SUGAR Partly Cloudy stomp 30. 31 (book 41 valid Indefinitely. sump 40 for eanntnll rular ClIp!reS Feb. 28. 1114~ ' SHOE &tamp 18 (book J) expires Aprll 30, airpiane stamp I (book 3) valid indefintely; GASOLINE A-11 coupon IOWA: Partly Cloudy witb expires .Tune 21: FUEL OIL per. 4 and 5 coupons expire Sept. 30; DAI"LY IOWAN Dlmlnlsblne WiDds, Warmer, TIRE INSPECTION deadline for A coupon hold .... March 31. fot B coupon holde .... June 3D, and lor C coupon holder., 10fay 31. Iowa City's Morning Newspaper = 80 t1VE CENTS TB~ AS800tAT~D ,a&81 IOWA em, IOWA WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12, 1944 VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 168 MARINE BARBER USES JAP 'APRON' ;f e ~. S. Bombers Yanks Control lese \Yel1 Reds" Capture Strategic mOde 01 Down 126 Nazi Greater Share In clubs i ed on ~ Planes in Air Of New Britain e wealth. ___RailJ~ _____________________________________"Junction, ~ . ______________________ Dzhankoi~ ________ ~ lar bOJrd '2,000 Planes ALL lED HEADQUARTERS, d during Southwest PaCific, Wednesday Make Heavy (AP)-Gen, Douglas MacArthur ~ unlver. At a Glance- 12.25 Per Daylight Attack announced today that American Thirty Known Dead casualties in the campaign for New Sfassen Leads Roll 19 Miles lunted to Britain island totalled 1,514 as • Ive cenu LONDO , Wednesda.v CAP) against previously estimated en­ In Arkansas Tornadoes -U. S. ail' forces ripped anoth­ I that a emy killed and wounded of 10,000. Today's er jagged hole in Germany's In Nebraska ~ts were This report followed General Over 100 Injured, Beyond Kerch aircraft industry and destroyed MacArthur's announcement that ]26 Nazi planes in the ail' yes­ the Japanese on New Britain, Many Homeless ~st, I had terday at a co~t of 64 bombers which was invaded last Dec. 15. Despite Write-In After Heavy Winds Iowan Other Troops 1001 wear and 16 e 'cortillg' fight!'t"> in the now are in full retreat toward Vote for Dewey, . ... ... ... said. their bomb-ravaged fortress of Thirty known dead in Arkansas Speed Into Heart most ti/wage ael'ial battle Amet'i­ Forges Ahead 2 to 1 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)- nd other calis have fought since their Rabaul for a last stand. Arkansas last night counted 30 tornadoes. Of German Defenses Since Dec. 15. General MacAt·- ------ 1250 per blow at Berlin March 6, thur said today. 442 Americans OMAHA (AP)-Desplte an un- dead, one missing. more than 100 d "0 few ~'h c b"'cat daylight attack, oi­ Hershey l88ues deferment Ust LONDON (AP)-'l'he Red have been killed, 1,062 wounded pl'ecedented write-in vote tor Gov. injured and many homeless as the for youths under 26. army de ccnded with spectacu, much as reeled at the plane factories in and 10 are missing. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, result of a tornado that swept out OschersJeben al1fl Bernburg and lar peed upon 100,000 belea­ on the I Control New Britain gained without any formal cam- of the west Monqay night to devas- JaPi swine around Kohima and at illuustl'ial t a !'gets in Rostocl{ gum'cd German and Romanian ook." The Americans now control the paign, Lieut. Comdr. Harold Stas- tate a number of widely separated attack road to Dimapur. and Arnimswalde, just east of bulk of New Britain, having forced sen, an avowed candidate, forged communities. troop. in the Crimea ye terday s and in swift development of its stellin, was the Japanese to abandon Gasmata ahead to a 2 to I lead over Dewey The wind struck late in the af- Red army races along short 'a frugal four-day-old offensive capturod nearly 2,000 bom bers and about midway along the south in returns iast night from the Ne- ternoon at Harrison in northwest route to Bucharest and heart of leasure," coast and Cape Hoskins about b Arkansas, swept south as far as the tl'ategic rail junetion of ers . d - raska Republican presidential Romania; gain in Crimea. ...,hen the • mi way along the north shore. preference primary. Magnolia near the Louisiana state Dzhankoi and the heavily-forti­ eld, stu. The Germans sent up hun· The communique today reported line, doubled back through Stutt- fied town of Kerch, two of tho that destroyers had moved Car up Reports Crom 259 of 2,031 pre- gart, Brinkley and Marlannan and the eve. dreds of Interceptors, . both sin· mo t important 'Points on the th e New G ulnea coast past the cincts gave Stassen 5,813 and apparently spent itself near Salem Allied Troops Inflict nt inter. lie aDd twlll-en&ined planes of allied ground front to shell the Dewey 2,783. Wendell Willkie, in the northeast corner of the state. entire peninsula, Premier Stalin dancing every type. In a desperate effort Hansa bay and Madang areas whose name was on the ballot de- Hardest hit was the eastern Ar- announced last night. On Sal. MARINE CORP. ITALO DICICCO, alias "Chico" the barber, of Ux­ Ket'eh at the east fll tip of 10 ward off the blow. Besides bridge, Mass_, uses a Jap flag as an apron while clipping the head without drawing enemy fire or op- spite his withdrawal. had 744. kansas plantation area near Brink- Casualties on Several :owed on the Crimea, fell to the Soviet !l)achine-cun and rocket fire, the of Pte. Fernand A. Armstrong of Biddeford, l\Ie .• on Cape Gloucester. position by sea 01' air. Ira Beynon ley, where 12 persons were killed hills lor Continuing to steadily slug at Republican nallona~ commlltee- and about 30 injured. Independent mar i tim e army, ImeUmes Americans were harassed by a 'l:hls is all official United States Marine Corps photo. Strong German Patrols weakening Rabaul, more lhan 200 ~an Ira Be~no~ of Lmcoln, vlew- J The tornado cut a 15-mile swath e quarry Dew "tank busting" cannon. which launched a third attack south Pacific p~anes went after Ing the wl'lte-m vote, unprece- east of Stuttgart to claim six dead against the axis troops of the bIg river to As a result the loss of bombers that base Monday, headquarters dented in state politi~al hist~.ry, and at least 13 Injured. The tiny ALL lED HEADQUARTERS, was the second heaviest ever suf­ reported. ' declared that Dewey tS the m- Woodson community south of Lit- Naples (AP)-In a flare-up of peninsula. These troops rolled 19 d Cull of Camacho Assailant :fighting on the Anzio beachhead, fered by the Eighth air force­ Jap Troops Southeast of Rabaui on Bou- evitable choiee of ~epubllcans ~1I tie Rock also suffered heavily. miles west of Kerch after taking ardShlps. gainvilJe, Americans enlarged their over the country. Beynon said Five residents 01 a farm security American and British troops have the fortress. eriod or four under the 68 knocked down thrown back and inflicted casual­ In Critical Condition ail' .base permeter eastward in the 'It looks now as It Dewey might administration project there were Gen. ,Feodor I. Tolbukhln's seemed during the first mass dayUght as­ direction of Torokina. Headquar- be selected on the first ballot" at killed and many left homeless. ties on several strong German pa­ Galer, trols at t e m p tin g to infiltrate fourth Ukraine army, rollin, sault on Berlin-and the total of Plant Sn~pers Physicians Work tel's said that total enemy dead the national convention. lank and Infantry forces for­ aI's con· counted on BougainvUle for the Stassen supporters viewed the through allied lines between Car­ I-earned 80 planes missing was one more MISSOURI FLOOD rocet.o and Littoria, It was 'an­ ward at a rate of 37 mUes In To Save Life period of a month ending April 8 growing vote for the former Min­ OMAHA (AP) - A close than the total of 79 bombers and nounced yesterdaY. four days. captured Dlballkol, at Of Mexican Lieutenant was 5,370. nesota governor as indicative of check on the flood situation the heart of the big "x" of raIl­ 1 fighters the Americans lost there, Along Road To the north in the Caroline IS- strong midwest backing for their along the Missouri river was (The Nazi-controlled V I c h y radio said Tuesday that American ways feedlne all the Crimea. Nine of the American bombers MEXICO CITY, (AP-Physi­ lands, which now draw air atten- candidate, who ran second in the being maintained last night by The town Is 15 miles Inside the in yesterday's raid. however, were cians worked yesterday to save the tion from planes based in both the Wisconsin primary a week ago. United States army engineers reinforcements had landed on the 'S NEW DELHI (AP)-H uri cd beachhead near Rome and that pentnsula proper and only 85 known to have made forced land­ Ufe of a Mexican army lieutenant central and south Pacific. navy State Republican Chairman A,. ot the Missouri river division back with sharp losses in their "it seems another allied offensive miles northeast of the big naval Ings in Sweden as the bitler aerial who was gravely wounded in a vain Calalinas from the lat~r sector T. Howard said at Scottsbluff the and Omaha district offices, who base of Sevastopol. Ir . first direct assault on the allied damaged two enemy cargo vessels. Dewey vote was "a very remark- said high watcr coming down in this sector is immlnct.") btawl spread back and forth dash (or freedom Monday after at­ The enemy's unusual patrol ac­ While these forces were ad­ across the Baltic sea.