1,194t == RATION CALENDAR PROC&SS&O ~'OODS crcen stlmp. AB. BII, ca. DI. Ilnd E8 (book 41 !J, eJCplre May 20; MEAT red la-point lIlamp' AI. 88. ca. D8, E8 and F8 ~book 4) "xplre May 20; SUGAR ..tamp 30 (book 4) valld Inddlnltely, narnp .. 0 lor canning hullar ex-pitH Feb. 28. 1945; SHOE stamp 18 (book II expires AprH 30. airplane stamp (book 3( vlllI<I Indellnltely; UnseHled I, GASOLINE A-II coupon expire. June 21 : FUEL OlL per• • and 5 coupon. expire SeP!. GO; TIRE INSPEC110N deadline l or A coupon lOW 10udJ' IlIf rolder. holders. March coupon hold..... coupon DAILY IOWAN 31, for B June 30. and lor C 'tilE I·} bolden. May 31. Iowa City's Morning Newspaper I Kno l_ FIVE CENTS 'I'SI ASIIOOIATED paul IOWA CITY, IOWA THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1944 VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 151 on, in- es. the )'~I ock At a Glance-- Ilional 36,000 Men Reds Capture · le ,lee_ Yank Heavy-- Bombers Strike .. Berlin l hillb ,ransferred Today's Rail Junction, erl on , &ur. IlI\ili- losing 22 Planes; Fight for German Iowan,- back_ From Air DUly Pervomaisk ,Uilary .. .. ... ngaI'\. American armada resumes batUe LONDON, Thursday (AP)-The years' Army Forced to Fill ot Berlin with heavy blow at Red army hurled back the Ger­ I COm- German capital.' Stronghold of Cassino Rises to Wild Pitch New Draft Quotas, mans at the southeastern end of ies in the Ukrainian batueline - the --- es. He Short Ground Forces . Jury selected for Chaplin Mann Nazi' easternmost extension in wand act trial. Russia- yesterday by capturing WA SlllNG'J'ON (AP )- ou­ the importa nt fortified railway I Nalis Rush to Construct- • • • . British Forces ienyey Germany reported ~xtendlng Allies Blast York fronted with unfill ed draft quo· junction ot Pervomaisk, driving to ,I stranglehold over ne ighboring the approaches of Voznesensk 10 Iquent tas and a "'cneral shortage or satelll tes. ' press I ground forces, th e army ' 8.n· I StroflR Fortress: Y'("hm-a-~,!r!ress Hif Rhineland 'nomic ~~:h~o~~::s~r~~ ~~~!~ ~I;O~~! Paratroopers nOlln e('(~ yesterday the transfcr Connes! pledres United States Bug estuary, Moseow announced: to aid in rebuilding war-wrack­ LONDON (AP)-Wilh Hungary_ are sttll arriving." The first an-e Coupled with repotts that \.he ne has to grouud duty of 36,000 young today. ' , ed nations upon their liberation On the northwestern end of th occupied and a puppet government nouncement said the Hungarian German miaht take imUar ac­ 'CUtive men who had been earmal'kcd from Nazi yoke. New Zealand Infantry ,fCal- I 50-mlle line a fierce pitched bat­ e tabllshed, Germany was re- 1I0vernment had re lined ~nd thaI tlon el ewhere in outhe. t Eur­ 5th Daylight AHack lent at for ail' h'aining. tle with fresh German re erves Engages in Fierce ported last nighl extending a the N zj forces "arrived In Hun- Red army captures railway stranglehold over neiahborln, sat- gary as a result of I mutual un- ope, was lin Ankara dispatch which On Nazi Capitol of the Meantime, a high military of· flung in for a counter-attack re­ junction of Pervomalsk; more sulted in the liquidation 01 detach­ Hand·ta-Hand Combat ellites in a feverish rush to con- derstandlng.'· said "there is every silln Rumania In 19 Days 'fNew ficial l'epor'tNl that draft boards I than 1,000 men killed in battle. ments of two German guards di- .truct !ortress-within-a-lortre The radio la t nllht s Id there may send one of h r lIenera~ Dan- had been failing fol' 13 month visions, the midnight Soviet com- ALL I ED HEADQUARTERS, against the Russians w 'tward w no re !stance to the occupa- acro B rabia's mud any day h~ In- LOX()OX, Thu....,day, (.\1')­ to mc('t tl1(' c:a lls of the armcd munique said. Naples (AP)-Allied artillery wa, surge and other allied threa . tion, but castigated a • small group now to ask for an arml'\lce from 139. forces, ami asseded t hat "the Am('I'ie n h vy born .... , ('. t More than 1,000 men were killed hauled up yesterday to blast poinl­ .. A general mobilization of all of anll -German politicians who gov- Congress Pledges the pavl t command." 'OIi!'d b~' powerful Fightl'!' for­ iity in time has 81'l'ivSld when we must and many prisoners and much blank at fanatic German para­ southeastern Europe" was the an- provoked a war of nerve ." booty captured in the baltle, chute troop clinging to the ruins The grey-clad N a z I lelion:; alnin, have the fighting men we need." 1 HI R b ·Id nounced aim. The Germans tol- "The.'e antl-G rman politician Illlltiull., truek Berlin throu,:r!1 This statement was the latest which the Russian located 8S i of the Continental hotel and a half lowed up their plune Into Hun- and crowd of Jews have now to marched in, said a Hungarian news : and 0 e p e UI h "Y flak ~' j· · t r<la~' , /0 ing 13 deyelopment in a tug of war be- near Podzamchye. Podzamehye, 13 dozen other building~ at the south­ ,ary, where Nazi bayonets erected be alarmed about what will hap­ agency communique broadca t by fo rth- W W N . oomht'1'l> IIlId nint' filtht ,lind st·war tween the al'med forces and In-I ar racked atlons miles east of Brody in old Poland, ern edge of Ca sino as the fight II Qulsllnll premier to direct 8 pen to them," the broadcaster the G rman radiO, "in order to .s­ dustry and agriculture for the I • was reported captured last Sun- for that Na~1 ~tronghold rose to its fuller Hun,arion part In the G r- threat ned. I t Hun, ry galn.'t th common till' lL\t' fulloWl'd lip with II I day. wildest pitch. man war e!tort, by P netratlng The German-contrOlled Buda· en my . in particular to Inten­ services of thousands of y.oung ..,tron~ '1ll8 h at f"r nkCurt anti men under 27. An aviation in- L • I • S The late bulletin, recOl"ded by Behind thi" raking fire, battle- Into Bulearla, Rumania and 510- pe. t radio told the Hunl rlan peo­ sity an effective struggle a,alnst dustry official countered with a egis ahon ent the Soviet monitor, said hundreds hardened New Zealand inf ntrY vakia, said dispatches Crom neu- pIe that Regent Nicholas Horthy, BOll;h vism by the mobillzatlon of 1111 pl'dfit'd oth!'!' )trlllllll tar· claim that blanket cancellations To White House of Germans wore drowned In the slogged forward foot-by-toot, often lral capitals. widely I' ported under Nazi de- 01\ energy, . ," grt in 1hI.' nill'ht. of draft deferments granted the ... For F. D. R. Signature Bug river when the Russians, in a engaging ID fiel'ce hand-lo-hand Germany's .eizure of once-tu- lention ince the German inva Ion The broadc st id Doeme 51to­ 'I'll B rlin tati n aid ill Il young men would cripple war- two-day baWe, cracked carelully combat. At thl' end of a w('ek of vored, but often recalcitrant Hun- arl' Monday, had worn In the jay, a former Hunearian army Qf­ hl'll(uh'/l I hortly II tpr midnight erected German defenses around savage fighting the Germans still ,al'Y wa ottldally told by the new pro-Nozi abinet In the c re­ fierr and Hungarian minister to necessary airlines. thlll "~trong Briti It bombrr . Plans for conrresslonal in­ WASHINGTON (AP)-Congress Pervomaisk. Movin, in from the were rcsLStini with a ferocit.y that German radio ye terday, and last monial hall of the royal castle Inte Berlin, had been named to head [m'lIllition, tonight b () III b j' d md of quiries Into charlfes that the pledged the United States yester­ east and the south the Russians has characterized their de( n of night it declared "German trooplI yesterday. a new p pp t governm nt. Ichool, pin ned the German garrison the road to Rome. plac In the Rhineland." Thl draft has been used as a lever to day to contribute its time, effort enemy report was promptly con­ drum­ force farmers into the covern­ against the river and wiped out Fighting lully as biller raged lpeter, and money to rebuild the health those who tried to hold on. Much on the steep slop . of Monastery Cirmed In London, with Identifi­ st, 'all ment agriculture program Ifave cation of Frankrurt as the major the situation a. new twist. and wellare of war-wracked na- war material and mallY prisoners hill w t oC CaSSino, from Which Allies' Responsibility ~onths Winds (arry Allied Pla·nes obJective. American h avy bomb­ The army airforces also an· tions once they arc liberated !rom were reported taken. Balaban(Jvka, German gun. nod mortllr ~ pumped .. 'i,ll be ers had attacked lhe Frankfurt nounced the suspension of enlist­ the axis yoke. eight miles from Nikolaev's out- terrific til into th brittle IIreH~. V I I Log" As Germans Plan area Monday. ments of 17-year-olds in its en­ Legislation committing tho U. S. sklrts, was caplured, the commun- Two more Nllzi counter-attacks' 0 canle to a big role in the united nalions ique said. again~t allied-held CIRtle hill, di-/ The American cia Ikht attack listed reserve, saying that under Jroatl· l'eItef and rehabilitation admlnls- Pervomalsk IS an Impol·tant [01'- r cUy above the rubbl ot Casino, Ash Off Aitape Sink t terday on Berlin wa the CiCth lesday th e circumstances it is inadvisable 10 Demilitarize Rome In 19 day, and the htAVY bomb­ to hold a reserve beyond immed­ tration was upproved linally and tiffed railway junction which ha' were f1unll back yv terriay.