Brook, Win little. Change A. Cardinal. L~ lOWA: Npt milch ohana-e iD To Brave. temperature today. f THE DAILY IOWAN See Story on Page Iowa City'. Morning New.paper -. ' FIVE CENTS THI A.eOeIATiD ,alu IOWA CITY, IOWA SATURDAY, JULY 4,1942 TBI A880ClATEO ,al88 VOLUME XLD NUMBER 243 e " # as 0 U.lns * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * e e * e * * * * * * * * * rl IS I 'Axis Forces Rapidly Withdraw' SUEZ CANAL TO BE DESTROYED IF AXIS GAINS' IT From Engagements With British Conqoes of Base .Cost Reinforced Imperial Troops Halt Rommel One-Third. Million 'Men Forces 62 Miles From Alexandria With Hand-to-Hand Fighting War' sSom~er ~hadow Key City's Defense Major Factor CAIRO (AP)-British forces last night slaslll'd at A xis Fielcl Marshal El'win Rommel's rebuffed forces on the northern end of Shades Nahon s 166th ~ •• • ' the El Alamein line, 62 miles west. of A Jexanclt·ill. captul'ing nu­ merous prisoners and destroying a number of guns which the Fourth of July Holiday In SlOWing NaZI Spring Drive Ilxi troops were trying to dig in on fixed positions. (The British radio, quoting a Cairo dispatch, said tanks, ar­ tillery and British infantry moved against the axis laIc in I he da~' Men in Armed Forces MOSCOW, Saturday ' ( AP)-Sevastopol, Russia'. gr8llt Cri­ but th e enemy "withdrew rapidly from all engagements." Tbe Carry On as laborers mean Daval base and forti'eRs, has fallen a mass of rnins, Soviet broadcast, heard ill New York by CB , did llot elabol'ate on the Rus ill. oWcially announced today, bllt its magnificent defense action .) . Work at War Tasks was hailed as a. majol' factm' ill holding up thp, German spring of­ ' 1'h l1 l"nrnb1r of hrllvv gUllS could be hea)'(1 in Alexandria, but fensive and eost the axis UpWal'dR of 300,000 soldierR killed and By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the fact that the fighting kept more or less statie indicated Ihat wounded. With Amj!rican fighting men in reintol'ced imperial forces had bronght the axis advance t o II 'fhe Soviets announced that the Germlll19 lost 150,000 casualties, halt, at leaAt 1.emporarily. arms in lands and seas around the including 60,000 killed, in the lost 25 days of the si;)ge while the Dispatches from the front said.-----------­ globe, the 132,000,000 men, women Russian losses in that same period were ll,385 killed and 29,390 bayonet and hand-grenade fight­ and children of the "home front" wounded or missing. ing continued throughout Thurs­ gather today to celebrate the na­ "German troops suffered huge losses, g!'tting nothing but day night while most of the u.S. ·10 Have tion's 166th Independence day mill!!, the special communique added. tanks were withdrawn from the solemnly and fervently. It di. closed that the troops, comm.andcrs and wounded m!'n battle for overhauling and servic­ Allssies Join Yanks were evacuatl'd from the city, which was yielded to the axis lost ing. In Australia, 24-hours ahead of Wednesday. Rommel Reorcanlzes Sugar 'Bonus' I "The military significance of t.he defense of S!'vastopol is the United States in time, citizens Reorganizing after their first re­ huge," the communique declor dafter summal'izing the eost,in llulse since the British losi Tobruk joined the "Yanks" down under men and materipl. ''It pinned down a great number of German June 21, the main body of Rom­ to mark the Fourth of July with and Rnmanillu troops, frl1~tl'nted and messed np the plans of mel 's armored forces was still west Of '2 Pounds sports events, dances, singing con­ 01 the EI Alamein defenses. Theta tho G rman command. was no Indication they had re­ tests and oratory. "The il'on stcodfastnesR of tho Rev(tstopol defenders }lI\R been newed their powerful qrive aaainst Industrial, Institutional Ob~el'VQlll:.e of thl country's his., ---------~-- one of tlle most jmportant rea· torlc born during an Alexandria and the Nile delta. Users Get Increase holiday~ sons holding up the so-called The concentration points for the earlier war for freedom, was spring offen iy(' of the German. axis armies after the battering Of 10 to 25 Per Cent The Suez canal, one of mankind's ,-realest engineering achievements, will be destroyed It the axIs scheduled In several "good neigh­ Superior Guns The Germans have lost time and they received in their lirst aU-out advance Into Egypt threatens to make It a.valla.ble for enemy U8e. It has been announced authortt:l­ bor" nations to the south, includ­ onslaught yesterday against EI WASHINGTON (AP}-A sugar suffered huge 10. as in man­ tively in London. Two views of the canal are shown above. Top photo shows one terminus ot tbe ing Cuba, Equador and Argentina., T II power." Alamein were three or four miles "bonus" of two pounds for every canal-at the city of Sues. Lower photo shows a tramp steamer carrylnr copra down the canal. At home, war weighed heavily e • \0 the west of the British defenses ration card holder, purchasable be­ , upon the traditional celebration, In the last 25 days of siege, the of that anchor at the mouth of the In Egypt tween July 10 and August 22, was and production needs kept hun- communique said, the Germans Qattara bottleneck. announced by the office of pri\:e threw 300,000 troops against the administration last night because (Berlin dispatches to Bem, batiered. defenses of the city and without confirmation from any of "somewhat heavier shipments" Decisive' BOlttle' of World Wat~~:~:~~f~:~~!~~:::I::~: r:h:t Nazi SS-Millimeter used more than 400 tanks an4 other sources, said German and of sugar into this country than Long Range Weapon Italian troops were within 15 anticipated. 900 planes in their furious as- to 20 miles of Alexandria, Fri­ In addition, institutional users Out-Shoots British saults. day, that EI Alameln was con­ will lIet 75 per cent or their nor­ Wi//. Come i~ ' Fr~nce-~f)e Gaulle g~:§:?~~gr.:~ 6 Divisions Smashed sidered won, and that the British mal sugar consumption for Sep­ Along resort trails in the mid­ By EDWARD KENNEDY were re&reatlnr to &he Nile.) tember and October instead of the , dle west and into the mountain and AT THE EGYPTIAN FRONT, The Soviets said their men Unofficially, the success of the present 50 per cent, and industrial beach p1aygrounds of the tar west (AP)-Fierce fighting raged about smashed in those fearful last days British in holding their line was users wJll get 80 per cent instead Declares Axis Army rolled millions of motor cars filled here overnight as the great battle JS'x German infantry divisions, attributed to two obvious factors: of 70 per cent. F.R. ·As·sails Bremen Takes w'ith fa milies on picnic jaunts. for Egypt was pressed relentlessly three Rumanian divisions, one 1. The arival of the promised Householders may obtain tbe . In the gas-rationed 1'/ eastern by the British and axis African German tank division, an indepen­ reinforcements, and 2. General Sir dividend allotmen& by present­ Faces Final Struggle states, E'ourth of July motorists corps. Claude Auchinleck's crafty en­ Inr ratloB stamp No. 7 to the were reduced by more than half, Most tanks were pulJed out ot dent mechanized brigade, four in. ~ircling attack on Rommel's rear rrOCery store any ttme In tbe Tactics Used 4th Pounding while plane, train and bus travel the conflict for oiling and greasing, dependent regiments, and a large when the axis was using its custo­ six-week period. The bonus is In French Invasion routes were clogged with travel­ and the big guns were most silent number of units from other forces. mary tactic of attacking when the In addition to the regular two­ ers seeking nn outlet to the great after dusk for want of ligbt to aim. The Russians said the Germans slanting rays of the setting slln pound mOllthly allotments ob­ By THE ASSOOIATED ·PRESS outdoors. But the men continued to fight, be­ also lost in 25 days 2M tanks, 300 were in the opposition's eyes. tainable with card No.5, and By Farm Blo~ Uneasy and hungry Europe was In One Week On countless parade grounds, on cause the stamina of a man is planes and 250 guns. In addition. to these factors, the with card No.6. told by the F'ree French Leader village streets and greens, soldiers, greater than that of a tank or can· The regular midnight commu­ British hope of eventual success Price Administrator Leon Hen­ sailors and marines paraded with non . WASHING. TON. (AP. ) -Presi- Gen. Charles De Gaulle, last (light LONDON {AP)- British and nique announced the red army also of saving Egypt and the middle derson, in announcing OPA's deci­ that the decisive battle of the war civilian defense wardens, auxil­ This means that the bayonet and had destroyed hundreds of Ger­ east was pinned on the facts that sion, said it represt'nted a "con­ dent Roosevelt bluntly warned the would be fought in France, and as Canadian pilots left the , German iary firemen and police. hand grenade came. into Its own in man tanks and thousands of nazi Rommel's supply lines, ever haras­ servative gamble" on the likeli­ congressional farm ' bloc yesterday he spoke the German masters of V-boat nest of Bremen a mosaic the moonlight. infantrymen in bitter fighting now sed by American and British hood of sugar supplies continuing that the people ' would hoM it the continent were hastily rein­ of flam.e early yesterday after Too Powerful .