RATION CALENDAR "HOCJ!:llt!W lo'OOl)S blue .tam"" A8 throul/h XU valid iuddlnllcly; Partly Cloudy Il£AT red stamps AB through M8 valkt Indellnltely; SUGAR I\amJ> 30. 31 (booJ< 4) valld indefinitely. stamp 40 {or canning 8U'8l' eJ(pllet Feb, 28. 1H5; SHOll stamp 18 (boole: 1) expjres April 30. IOWA: Partly cloudy. Warmer. aIlplane stamp 1 (baole: 3) valid lndefln~1Y; GASOLINE A-U coupon explru June 21 ; I'U1:L OIL per, 4 and 6 coupoaa .,.p\re Sept. 30; rfRE mSPECTlON: Reau1ar lmpecUona not required afiet Apnl 20. Iowa City's Morning Newspaper = atIVE CENTS TBI A8'0~T'D P•• I • IOWA Cfl'Y, IOWA SUNDAY, APRIL IS, 1944 ~.. ..'OO~T'D P&&II VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 172 .. Yan,ks Bomb CAVALRYM.\N QUIZZES JAP CAPTIVE Tojo Holds 1 Bucharest, War Council, Ploesti Again ' I'n Tokyo J 2,000 Allied Planes Conferees Proclaim Strike From Bases Firm Determination rn Italy, Britain To Fight Together LONDON (A P)-Powerful LONDON (AP)- The axis an­ At a Glance- Amel'ical1 ael'ial fot'cas, possibly nounced that an important council Missouri River \ totaling 118 many mil ny HS 2,000 of war was held at Premier Tojo's planes, Rtl'llCk from Britain and home in Tokyo yesterday at which the conferees. after discussing the Today's Italy yesterday, stTafing Ocr­ allied offensive of the past year Flood Rising lll!lll ail'fielc1 ~ and transporta­ and the promised invasion of the tion facilities and bombing the west, prOClaimed a firm determin­ Roma ninn capital of BnchRl'e~t ation to fight together to the end. Highway, Railroad Iowan Sov:iet Warships, ) ~l1d ttl oil center of Ploesti in Statements were reported made Washed Out in Spots ... .. .If. blows direc tl y snpportil1g the by both Tojo and German Ambas­ 'Planes Sinking Red army. sador Henrich Stahmer stressing' By Raging Waters 30,000 Japs have been killed in Evacuation Boats Admiralties since invasion Feb. F'lyini on t 1'1'010 Brit j~h bAses axis unity in such terms as to OMAHA (AP)-Both the high­ 29. ( . ~ , "'ig'htning's, Thnndel'boits suggest that recent allied progress TJONDO N, ~hlllduy (AP)-, and the western invasion prospect way and the raill'oad line con­ Anr1l\fu ~ tang'8 of tht' Big-hlh Rnd R 11 . gj all 't "0 4) P S Il III fi H h i 11 g had spread (ears among enemy necting Blair. Neb .• and Missouri American aerial forces strike Ninth air forces swept over 10 from Britain, Italy; strafe Ger­ through ,'e"ustopol 'R Quter uP. German sno German-occupied peoples that the axis partnership Valley were washed out In spots already darkened by Italy's sur­ last night by surging Missouri man airfields; bomb Romanian fen es r . terday , ptUl't'd point airfields with some formations CAPTURED by an advanced patrol of the first United States cavalry river flood waters, while down­ targets. 011 lJ. broad fl'ul1t, 01111 thrpe and peneh'ating as far east as an air- on Los Nell'ros Island. the Admiralties, this Jan Is being Questioned at render. might be crumbling fur­ ther. stream McPaul was newly threat­ one-hair "miles north of that field in the vicinity of Berlin. Yank headquarters. Note the Nipponese prl net's wounded and ened as authorities abandond ef­ Jsps block road to Dimapur opt . burning. rimeun cHad I, while Thirty American fighters fall eo ' ba.ndaged left arm and leg. A War Pool photo. In 'Particular. the axIs slrf'ssed forts to save dikes threatening the ot Kohima. in old Red firmy to return, the army announced the theme that the European 8at­ Poland onoth!?\' elJites were not wavering. town. crU!lI1f'a the ] 6,000 UlOO axis /ral'­ last night. This constituteo the The Berlin and Tokyo radios in­ A 50-foot section of highway Premier Tojo holds council of largest number of losses ever suf­ dson at Taruopol 011 th south­ dicated that top leaders available No. 3 connecting Blair and Mi,­ IVar in Tokyo. erll invasion route to Berlin fered by American fighters in a First Cava Iry Jap Attack Blocks in Tokyo attended the unusual souri Valley was washed out after single day's operation. a w:lll or water was released by n Red army crashes through outer aft r a 1 hre -we k sie ge, I\[os­ meeting. with the technical com­ cow Imnounced early today. The fighters which possibly • I Road in India mittee of the German-Japanese­ waShout, 40 feet wlde, of the Chi­ defenses of Sevastopol. totaled between 500 to 750 puppet Italian three-power pact cago and Northwestern railroad The fall oE Se"ostopol :1p­ planes shot down 18 German Stilwell, Chennault supplemented by generals and ad­ embankment-which had failed peared to be lIeor. planes In aerial combat. In ad­ Kills 1000 NIps mirals, Foreign Minister Shigemlt­ only once before, during last A midnight Soviet bu lIetin said dltton they destroyed and dam­ su, Naval Mil}ister Shimada "and ~ pring's flood. Soviet warshIps and planes were aged considerable number of Assault Bishenpur. Wallace to Leave "a · It· a number of army and naval ex­ The break in the highway was sinking evacuation boals; Lhou~ enemy aircraft on the ,round," In Ad mira les Silchair Rail Points perts and other official person­ n mile east of the Blair bridge. sands of G rmans and Romanians a communique said. ages." Water was still flowing over the Shortly for Chungking were giving up without a fight; Their low-level strafing attacks NEW DELHI (AP)-The Japan- "In view of the importance of abandoned dikes at McPaul last and large groups of other enemy also were directed at barges. tlak ALL lED HEADQUARTERS, ese have blocked the road to Dim­ the meeting," said a German night and a large part of the town Mission to Reassure troops were trapped jn the moun­ cars, a factory and locomotives Southwest Pacific, Sunday (AP) apur out of Kohimu and stUI hold broadcast dispatch dated Tokyo, appeared threatened. IJAMES A. FARLEY, former U. S. tains along the southern coast east' In Germany. Returning pilots re- -Three thousand Japanese have stretches ot the Bishenpur-Silchair "Japanese Premier General Tojo Sheriff AI Chtistopher said the Chinese That Burma postmaster ,eneral and ex-Demo­ or Alushta, which is 45 miles east ported they had damaged 17 loco- track out of Imphal, allied head- and Naval Minister Shimada at­ 180 German prisoners of war were cratic national chairman. Is SllOwn of Sevastopol. motives. been killed in the Admiralty is- quarters acknowledged yesterday tended the meeting. Opinions were sent back to the camp at Clarinda Delay Is Temporary at the microphone after belne The Russians also said units The assaults yesterday broke a lands since the American first as allied forces fought deadly jun­ exchanged on various measures in and other "(ork on the levees was unanImously re-elected New York of the lOth German SS tank WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice­ one-day lull in the heavy blows cavalry division landed there in gle battles to clear these land con­ regard to the war jointly waged stopped when water started run­ state De moe r a ~ I c committee division had "Just arrived frorn being rained on Hitler's defenses an invasion operation Feb. 29, nections between the Assam-Ben- by Japan, Germany and Italy and ning over them at several places. President Wallace will embark cbalrman at a meet.lne of the France" to shore up sagging' ~ nd supply lines. headqUarters announced today, gal railroad and the two threat- their allied powers against the The railroad line cutting through shortly for Chungking on a diplo­ eroup In New York ' City Farley, axis lines In rormer Poland, Thc The British-based operations The dismounted cavalrymen, ened allied strongholds In north- United States and Great Britain. McPauJ was counted on to protect matic mission designed primarily wlJo had oPPOled a thIrd term for late communique said these had which ran,ed over a wide are. part of Lieut. Gen. Walter Krue- eastern India. The discussions led to complete part of the small town, but that Pnsldent ROOIevelt, Indicated he been badly mauled by Russian part lyIng west of the lines lind to reassure Generalissuno Chiang woald elve his fun support to the of central and northern Ger- ger's Sixth army, piled UP mounds This was the first time the agreement of opinion." troops attacking III an arel~ <to threatened by the weakening dikes Kaj~Shek and the Chinese people party's nominee III the 1944. eioo­ many constituted one of the of enemy dead in capturing and southeast Asia command had made After reviewing the general war m~s II u th of btrptlU'ed Tamn" rreatest mass fighter attacks holdin.8. ;M;o!J1'!t jli.rJ.iro.Vle on.Lo. .ll:I}O'll't:) th~ Japllflete- Invlld $itW\iloll,~o' ~OW the (Jnlted contains mo.st of the resid ntisl lliaL any delay in an all-out allred lion. (InternatIollal) pot. ever launeMd. The eOl4lllUlJl- Negros island, !lnd ..... m~ en, ~ite al alJied efiorts, bad States and Britain in the past area. attemPt to retake Burma is only . The axis dealh toll on the Cri­ que did not name the tareeta eastward to Lorengau island In blocked the 311-mile rood 1rom year had "launched a counterat­ A breakthrough of the dike!! on men hod not been detailed by Mos­ of the fl,hters, which pressed the Admlralty jlroup to take Lor- Kohima to Dimapur, important tack from all sides" and had con­ which work was abandoned would te;:r:~~_president's round trip cpw, but Was believed to be al­ forward their attacks despite engau airdrome and the township, pOint on the railroad.