12, 1944 • =13 mOhlha ealand h, RAnOH CALENDAR N &latiOll. Cloudy I'IIOCI:aED FOODS blue slarnpo A8 Ihrou.h Q8 valid htdellnJt~IY : "- t and h.. JlL\T red slam.,. AI IbroUlh TI vaUd Indellnitely; SUGAR atamp ;. .. 31 (book t) valid IndeIlnll~Y ••lamp 40 lor ""nnlnl IU,U IOlC­ lew.: Cloud, and Cooler pirw 1~: SHOE slamp. airplane Slampa I and 2 (book 3) DAILY IOWAN ,eb.•• THE voIId IIIIhfInileiy: GASOLINE A-II coupon expl_ Iune 22: FUEL On. por. t and 5 tOU pons expire S.pl. I. Iowa Citr's MornIng Newspaper y, SOn or ,dsey, 718 t'IVE CENTS Ta, AIIOOlATaD n.1I IOWA CITY, IOWA SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1944 na 4UOC1AftO ..... VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 195 recenU,. mt in the ing in the AMERICA'S NAVAL STRATEGISTS MEET IN CALIFORNIA ber ot the . ' arine air Yanks·' Smash has~ has ~ Allies -Mount Full-Seal e lhe entirt Five Big Nazi . :, Jr., SO!t , 924 IOwa Oil Refineries a training larUts at Offensive o'n Italian Front ris. American Airmen i, Son of Meet Strong Enemy Jefferson At a Glance- England Fighter Resistance Aerial (over il affai1'8 he com. LONDON, (AP)-Srnasbing odoy's ge course through swarms of German P,e-_'n_vo_s_io_il_D_ecree T Aids Assault 1 trainln, fighters in one of the wal"s WASHINGTON, (AP) - Allied tous policy of opposing the Inevit­ 100versity. fiercest aerial battles, an Ameri· radici pounded the peoples of axis able allied victory, while there 15 m Reeds salellites last night with a pre- yet time for them to contribute to tlD sky.f1eet of 2,000 bombers Iowan Fifth, Eighth Armies Ig assign~ Inv8$ion ultimalum to turn against the allled Victory." and fighters struck yesterday at Germany now or abandon all hope The Implication was clear that of. of. ... Hit Southern Wall five big Nazi synthetic oil plantli of saving themselves from "dls- if theY persist In working with Of Hitler's Fortress 'raneis J, Allied Flf1h, Eighth armies un­ and shot down 150 enemy planes astrous consequences. Germany then they must expect dertake lull-scale offensive in a Coffey, .t a cost of 42 bombel's and ten Issued jointly by the United no terms shori of complete and Italy. AL LIE D HEADQtrAR'I'­ ~en com. fighters. States, Great Britain and Russia, unconditional surrender followed ER., laples. (AP)-,.,h allied an Diego, A total of. more tllan 3,000 al· the ultimatum wai directed alike by severe armistice terms. • AmerlCl&ll bombers hit Nazi syn­ F i f t han d E i g h t h armies med. En. to 'inland. with which the United On the other hand. it they get lied planes based in Britain theUc oU plants. mount d a full· cal offem,iva home In States is not at war; to Bulgaria, out now, the promise was they yesterday to destroy the Ger­ bammered Nazi targets by day· I with which Russia is not at war, would receive mOre favorable RWIIIlan annI.. mop up last ot man annie in Italy, advancing light and at midnight German and to Hungary and Romania. treatment In direct relation to the axis troops near Scvastopol. radios warned that allied planes THREE TOP U. S. naval stratertsls are shown at a surprise meetlnr In San Francisco. The naval chief. The United States government contribution they make to allied against tile ()Uthern wall of & ;Hitler's European COl'trcss were -approaching westel'n Ger. are, left to ri ..ht, Admiral Ernest J. KIn .., commander-In-chlef of the U. fleel: Admiral Chester L. thereby apparently served notice victory, either In a mliltary or Reportl Indicate fewer men over along a. blazing 25·mile front i many. Thus the RAF's night shift Nimitz, commander-in-chief of U;le Pacific fleet, and Admiral William F. Halsey, commander-In-ehlef on the people of Finland that It psychological way. 26 will be needed for rest ot this apparently was car r yin g the of the south Paclne fleet. The occasion was the awardlnr to Admiral Nimit:& the dlsUnruJshed serviCe has reached the end of its poUcy of The joint statement completely year. from ina to th Gulf of world's greatest aerial campaign medal, a.warded by con ..ress and presented by Admiral Kin... Mrs. Nimitz anel their daurMer, Mary, setUng them apart from the other by-passed the sateUite govern­ Gaeta. into the firth straight week of pre­ rlrM, look on. German coilaborators. Russia ap- ments, to which various appeals Under an unprecedented aeri­ invasion assault. parently Intended the same kind have been made In the past, and al cover and with UppOl't of the The main blow was dellv­ of warning to lhe ,people ot Bul-I was directed to the peoples of Reds Wipe Oul Axis gr at , t artillery barrage evel' Ilred tn the Lelpzlr area, garia. FInland, and ,he three Balkan loosed in the l\f('dit cl'l'lIn ean "These nations must decide countries. 10 that respect it was where the Germans had COll­ Yank Liberators Federal Jurist Drops Troops at Sevastopol area, the alli ed armicl'l opened centrated 4 important refin­ Allies Bomb• now," the u It i mat urn said, an appeal for revolution against their assault at 11 o'clock Thurs- eries turnlshln&" a lifeline for "whether they Inlend to persist in the governments U they persist in Down 6 Jap Fighters Petition Against Ward their present hopeless and ealami- an alliance with Germany. day night. By tonight they had Hitler', armies on the weltern Moscow Announces gained their Initial objectives at and lOuthern fronts, and in Lodged 111,587 Romanians, some paints and at one" sPOt had ~dltlon two formation, of Japs Americans Fight Off • I • Dismisses Request a d van c e d approximately 2,000 Fortresses thundered acrOSll Nazis Killed, Captured 30 Planes to Make To Prevent Officials' IRep. Martin Dies yards. tile border Into Czecho-Slo­ Fewer·Older The Fifth and Elrhlh vallia for the flnlt time In the 96·Ton Raid on Truk Near Im'phil Interference at Plant LONDON, Saturday (AP)- The armies, com pie tel y re­ war and blasted another Ger­ Quits Political Arena Red army wiped out the last axis .. rouped since the bloody and man-operaled 011 plant at ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- CHICAGO, (AP)- The govern- ! Men Needed remnants trapped west of Sevas­ Indenlslve baUle 01 Cusino 8rux. SOUTHEAST A 5 r (\ HEAD- ment's petition tor an injunction two months a .. o, struck to­ It was on this stab that the most QUARTERS, New Guinea, Satur­ Withdrawal of Texan topal on Cape Khersones Friday, savage fighting of the day ap­ day, (AP)- American Liberators QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon (AP) to restrain Montgomery Ward and ending a flve-wcek-old Crimean .. ether a ..alnat the Germans' Expected to Mean End formidable Gu tav line and parently occurred. fought off 30 Japanese fighters - Allied air forces sent unprece­ company executives from Inter­ campaign in which 111,587 Ger­ dented swarms of bombers and Of Committees ran Into fierce Gernun resist­ As many as 250 Nazi figh tel's and shot down at least six Wed- fering with federal operation of In.' 44 Draft mans and Romaoians were killed fighters to the direct support of .. ance all alonr the fron&. chaUenged the Americans in a the fi rm's Chi cago plants - now or captured, Moscow announced vain attempt to save the vital oil nesday in pressing home a 96-ton ground troops yesterday I n II back in the hands or the manage­ WASHINGTON, (AP) - Rep. Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, the plants which the Germans so des­ bombing of Truk, key enemy base smash at Japanese lodged on the ment- was dismissed yesterday by WASHINGTON (AP) - Only Martin Dies of Texas bowed out early this morning. allied commander, declared in an perately need to meet the coming in the- central Paci!lc, head- edge of India's Imphal plain. Judge Wlillam H. Holly without 150,000 to 200,000 men 26 and of the political arena yesterday The axls toll apparently was order of the day that "We are With the sky swept clean of the prejudice. going to destroy the German Invasion from the west. quarters announced yesterday. over n~ed be drafted for the rest and his withdrawal Is oxpected to even ireater, because tho broad­ armies in Italy" and that allied The communique of the United Results of the 35-minutes run- enemy, waves of allied heavy and The "without· prejudice" proviso medium bombers poured 200 tons of this year, Informed government mean th& end of the house com­ cast report by the Soviet informa­ forces were massing from east, States strategic air forces said meant that the government could tion bvreau said that Ru!sian simplY that "Strong enemy fighter nlng air battle were given in a re­ of bombs Tuesday and Wednesd !1 Y file a aimilar suit again, wlareaa offiCials estimated lall night, and mUlee on un-American activttles west, north and south "ror the resistance was encountered," but capitulation of the raid which was on embedded tanks, pillboxes and a "with brejudice" ruling would selective ~vlce was I'epor&.ed ap. Which he piloted through six planes and ships of the Black sea final battles" to destroy the returning crew-men declared that announced yestcrday when head_ bunkers manned by thousands of have ba rred insti tution of such prehenslve that too many older stormy year• . fleet sank a total of 191 ships, In­ enemy. Japanese at Nlngthougkohong, Lieu!.