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IOWA SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1944 l'ID AI80CIAftD ...11 VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 276 lIrtu ni_ l~e r ~_ 1!S&a. :e th IS, f IR ·0 T Trap American Bombers .age of Ito get U 55 I a n roo P S Set Fire to French del' til Mighty American Forces (; to :a rages I YOUr 30,000 Men in Poland Ba:::~i:~:raSbOQJg . cata_ pasle undies 6 Miles Northeast I paver lash Against Seine River At a Glance- IU. S. Airmen Strike. Of Toulon 'n wiU Ready 10 Spill RO:\1.E (AP)-AItH'l'ican anci I wilb KINGCOBRA-NEW, BIGGER BROTHER OF AIRACOBRA Marianas, Carolines, French fi(,\,1'1l It 0 rnt)" troop .. Ie ~ 01 t Com_ Todoy's drov!' aguiust 'l'ulllulJ hulh ale)l]'" Only ·12 Miles e 01. On Nazi Soil Volcano Islands IhC' Cllllst alltl ~O mill ,).; illiulld ill [1 t1lrl'alt'ning nanking lfIo,'e· iCipate Ulent l1ehiuel till! gl'cut naval From Paris .e eity Iowan Japanese Rush t Germans Burn • Heavy Reinforcements Im~l' yt'stl'I'uay "'hill' !l \\'11\'1' of chair. Prussian Villages AIlI('l'i~al\ uwdiunt hllUlbcl':; hit Americans *reach * *vicinity o( lInc,] SI't !'il'!' to tlit· ,,' I'I'lIclt l>al1l1'­ Patton Troops I drive As Russians Approach To Hunan Province coltlg, Paris, hcad oCI stricken Nazi ,hip ~tt·ilo;I1Ull!').( which tll(' Ocr. Block Off Retreat 01\. Seventh army, lasb against By RAY CRONIN lIluns !tud 1>(' 'II u~illg as a cuU'sluL ' WNDO~, ,'ulunluy (AP)­ To French Capital Seine. Associated Press War Editor fOI'II'css i IJ I III' ItUJ'l1fl1'. I HWiliian troops yesterduy over· Maintenance of the pace of - - whelmed the west bunk Vistula It W8~ of[iciully <lisclo'wd In t I ,·UPREM.E HEADQUAR- RooseveU suggesls post - war America's powerful and relentless ni![ht that Ullt' of' :'IJu,i. {lell. 'ce river stronl!hold of , andomicl'z militarY-Civilian training for aerial oCIensive against widely 'l'Em;, Allied Epeditionary Alexnnder M. Patch's swift-mov­ FOI"e. 'aturday (AP)-The ill ccntl'al Polund aftcl' a bittel' nation's youth. separated Japanese Pacific island ing columns surged into the vjcin­ as been thl'ce·duy strCl't battle. and strongholds was o((lcially rel:lOrted ity oC .Sollies Pont, only six mile3 bulk of the German 15th II.nny ~WnY!le trapped tlll'eo GCl'lnan divisions Germans burn East Pl'ussian yestcrday by Admiral Cbcsl.el· W. nurtheasL of TOUl on, while rllt' to ~uU1'ding the n 0 I' t h French luty in lutuliul{ 30,000 lIlCII , wJlilc an· villages liS Red army prepares Nimitz. ilie north another s pea r h cad rock t eoa t h be n thrown to invnde "boly German soil." United States airmen struck into an 11th hour attempt to IS, fro m other powerful ' 0 ,. i eta rmy punched in lo tbe area o[ Brig­ 1UllIiIII!d 011 the Oerman East Wcdnesday ngalnsl the Volcnno noles 20 miles almost due north uvert a Nor'mandy d bile Ie and F. D. R. favors merger of army islands, 750 miles south of Tokyo, I Prussian ft'onticl' threutened of TOUlon In an ouHlanking drive. has Kone down to a defeat that Feb. 7, and navy departments aHer war. while oiliers hit in the Marianas I momentarily to spill onto Gcr· The 26.500-ton S l r 0 S b 0 u r g, may' spell an alii d victory in the Jilin at and tbe Caroline . partly submerged when the Frl!nch baUle for France, it was dis­ man soil fOI' the first time. Sutfen Resistance for ov- Sehirwindt, East Pl'llssian scuttled their own fleel at Toulon closed officially last night. I Meanwhile the Japanese rushed in 1941, wns sought out by 13-25 1 Ie mar- border town, and other villages Allied Planes Down heavY reinforcements into China's Mighty aliiI'll forces were Mitchells. Several direct hits were driving the beaten 15th and ev­ inside Germany's imperilled prov­ bloody Hunan province wbere the scored und fires nnd explosions enth armic toward the all but ince were reported by Soviet naval 3S Enemy Fighters prize is the strategic Hankow­ were caused by the bombs, cl'ew­ Canton railway. They also stif­ bridgeless SeIne, and Lieut. Gen. lliers to be in Hnmes, and Berlin mcn reported. George S. Pallon's tanks smash­ fened their resistance on the Sal­ B-25 erewmcn 01150 reported di­ THIS P-63 KlNGCOBftA, Just announced by tbe war department, Is a heavier, more powerful version ot said the Russians had hurled Destroy 51 Nazi ween river front ncar the Burma ing to the viclnlLy of Paris-only rect hits on tbe 7,600-ton cruiser the famed Bell '-39 AJracobra. The '-63 has a two-stage Allison ell,lne and a four-bladed propeller 12 miles away by German accounta " more ilian 150,000 men into the Planes on Ground bordcr but continued to lose La GaUissonnlerc, a destroyer und Which puls the powerful firMer nlane close to the 'lOO-mlle per hour class. -had blocked off ilieir retreat to­ balUe on an 80-mile front from ground in northeast India and a subamrine in Lhe habor. ward the French capital. nOl1.hern Burma. AlJIUstow in northern Poland and In Heavy Bombing llclldquarters announced t h C Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower the Nieman river in western On Lhe Paciric front Yank air­ Itnown American llssault casualtics Bill Proposed- summoned his !leld commanders Lithuania, LON DON. Saturday (AP)­ men blasted 1wo Jima, in Lhe Vol­ (01' thc sou thern FI'cnch invasion Paris Underground Allies Take Heavy to an urgent conference which Both Moscow and Berlin dis- Great fleets of a II i e d pianes cnno islands. Army Liberators wel'c only 300, all almost incred­ soon may be reriected in new and patches suggested great events blasted air fields in nor th ern bombed buildiogs, storage facjli­ ibly low Iigure, and said 7,000 Awaits Sigr.al , Toll of Japanese overwhelming blows to break the were Immlent, and axis broad­ France yesterday, rained death and ilcs nnd i nstaJJntlons near the Gcrm,ln prisoncrs hod be n l,aJ<:cn German grip on Ule wbole of destruction on the retreating Ger­ airfield. Several Japanese Clchler River France. casts said Soviet troops on the in a count still (ar rrom complete. long-dormant Romanian lront had mans, shot from the skies 35 plnnes were in the air but did not Further to the ellst other for­ Leader Holds 300 Nipponese The surging tines were develOp· enemy righlers of a temporarily intercept. No American planes • attempted to cross ilie lower ward elements of the Sevl'nth Press Conference Dead, Wounded ihlr a great enveloping movement Dnestr river-suggesting the emer­ resurgent German airlorce and were lost. army drove IlguinsL only slight op­ west of Paris, where a senior Brit­ were ouL agnin early today tor Rotn nnd Pagan islnnds, In thc System soon of another offensive di- position thl'ee miles west and In London In S-Mile Section ish oCllcer disclosed the Germans sence more blows at the enemy. rected toward ilie Ploesti oil fields, Marianas, were born bed and southWest of captured Oruguignnn, had rashly commlted roughly half lalit bIg German fuel reservoir. Lose Z3 Planes strafed. Warehouse areas at Dub­ the road c nter 16 miles west.- LONDON (AP)- A mysterious WASIllNGTON* * (AP)-Creation* SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND their crack 15ili army. In addition to the 35 pJanes lon, in tbe Truk atoll, were the HI!;ADQUAnTERS. Kanc.ly, Cey- This was the first intimation 7 Miles From City nortbwest of Fl' jus. voice bt'oke in on tht' long-silenl of Ii Misboul'i Valley authority The Russian daily communique downed, the allied airmen de­ targets of otber Liberators. L!lI'ge Ion (AP)-Allied forces took a ilial Field Mashal Gen.. Guenther stroyed at least 51 on the ground: fires lind explosions were observed Headquart rs announced L he wuvelcngth or thl' ;Ixis-eontrolled will' II1~truc'lnn to su.bmil t.o COIl- hen,v)' toll yesterday of Japant'se von Ktuge bad brought across the said Marsbal Konstantin K. Rok­ dl'lves Inlancl l]ud brOUl!ht cupluI·c. 'J • y Allied losses for the day In which t11ere. One. of six inl.erccptors W¥S remnani.a J'eLre~tmg CJ 'om Mani- Seine important elements or his OSfOvsky's Firs~ Wbite Ru~sian ot a 5Cco"d NazI generol in t\vtj Put'l:.; rd . 'yo:.l.efd~ a.tKl $houtcd /Ires' within two yeurs a comllr<J­ 6,000 plant! flew the west.­ Shot goWn. pur nlong the Tid dim road, army guarding the channel coast 4f'11I1 also Iuld g<me ever to the rrom days, and said thb generol 'pro- in Germlln, "they're coming," as bensive plun for full developmenl nnd south in efgbt attacks over FI ..M orr Threat stretch ing southward below thO nud the rocket roosts to 1ry to - '1)ffensive In some sectors just east fessed nmazemenl nt the news of strong Frenr.h undcrground war- (If "th gl'catest single riv r 5Y5- ofPraga, east bank suburb of Wnr­ four European countries, toWed In China heavy [Ighting raged Burm ~ -Indian border.