UTJON CALENDAR Rain PIIOCUS!D PC.ODS blue .tampe A8 throulh V8 valJd Indefl­ allely; MEAT rod Itamps A8 Ihrt>lI.h we valid Indefinitely; SUGAR llarup 30, 31 (book 4) valid Indefinitely. IItarnp 40 for cannlR8 lUlU DAILY -IOWAN • IOWA: 8110wen ... Warmu oplr•• rtb. 28. 1045; SHOE ,tamP. airplane ltampe 1 and a (book THE II villd Indellnltel)'; GASOLUU: A-Il coupon ex.,l_ June 22; roEL OIL per. 4 Dnd 5 couponl explr. Sept. 30. lowo City'l Morning Newlpape, ,tlVE CENTS IOWA CITY. IOWA l'HURSDAY. TUNE 22. 19U VOLUME XlJV NUMBER 229 " ., Yanks Within One Mile Allies SPecify ·c · • . - Surrender a rrler Fotces Attack Of Cherbo Docks Deadline Battle Fleet .Fall of Port NURSES INVADE WITH YANKS Ultimatum Warnl Germans to Give Up Defense of Cherbourg Landon Forecasts At a Glance- RAF Hammers Berlin May' Come LONDON, Thursday (AP)-An First Ballot Decision Following Night Raid ultimatum to the Germa~ garri­ son of Cherbourg to surrender by Today's By 1,000 U. S~ Planes Within HQurs 9 a. m. today, British time (3 a. For Governor Dewey m., EWT). was broadcast this Airmen Break Contad morning by the allied army field Republicans Meet Iowan U. S. Liberaton Start Americanl Dilco"er radio station in Normandy. The With Enemy ShiPI broadcast was recorded here by To Draft Preliminary 24-Hour AHaclcs Underground Fortresl At Nightfall Monday the London daily sketch. Foreign Policy Platform America. *balD * ID* • r throUJh On Comet Platforml "If you don't stop the fight In Valognes Capture Cherbourg in suburbs only 1,500 U. PAC I F I Fr~EET n9w. you will never see your CHI C AGO (AP)-As party LONDON, Thursday (AP)­ yards from waterfront. HEADQUARTER I P arl Har­ SUPREME HEADQUAR. homeland agaln," the ultimatum platform discussions formally got Berlin was blasted yesterdlY by f1\1d, and drl'e said. bor (AP}-United tal ar­ 'he Civil Aero. TERS, Allied Expeditionary 'Situation De.perate· under way. two prominent Re- Amerlean, JallADe. navies may more than 1,000 United States rier plane WOQP d down on a nes in the air Foree, 'rhursday (AP)-Amer. "Your situation is desperate. pubUcans forecast yester\lay that be locked in climactic battle that heavy bombers, under a fighter powerful Japan fl t be- le would han iean infantry patrols probed Thousands of planes are waitin, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New will decide war's length. escort of the same slu in the tw n the Philippin and the ties ., sD~h • for the signal to rain death on York would be nominated for the greatest raid of the war on the Mari&llAl> i lands about du k into the southern fringes of I erleans will M you. Guns of the allied navies are presidency on the first or second RAY. ' United State. air flHta German capital and early today Monday, Adm. hester W . Nim. able to afford It was disclosed that some of the Cberbourg yesterd'ay, reaelling aimed at you. You have no other ballot by next week's national hit Berlin, American planes fly itz announ d ye t rday in til transJIOrIaUo., points less than one mile from way out than to capitulate. convention. A third said Gov. John on to Russian bases. bombers had flown on to RUDia, "Should you, the commandant, W. Bricker of Ohio "has a good completing the first shuttle mis­ opening staKe or what may de­ the waterfront as the main army not surrender, you will bear fulJ chance." sion in history from bases in Brit­ v lop into th d i iv battl f massed an overpowering weigllt responsibility for the Ilves of Former Governor Alf M. Lan- Allies bstter enemy back past ain to alrf1eldS In the Soviet union. the war in the Pacific. of men and metal on the sur· your men. don of Kansas, 1936 Republican Peruiia In Italy. Dispatches from an American Contact with tb n my fIe t, "We give you until 9 a. m. standard bearer, arrived with this base In the U.S.S.R. told of the which includ d carri rs and rounding ridges in preparation today. June 22, to decide. prediction: _ landing. battleships, presumably was brOK­ for the final destruction of the "Should you surrender, send "Dewey will probably be nom- The Germsn radio said this en oft at nllhtlall. Lo ,on either Americans on Biak mighty assault by Flying Fort­ Germans trapped in that vital A GROUP of the first U. S. army nurses to land with the vancuard your emissary to our staff under Inated on the first baUot-cer­ protection of a white flag to thc tainly not later than the second." resses and Liberators was fol­ side had not been compiled, Nim­ Normandy seaport. of American troops on tbe Normandy beachbeads, is shown bere tak­ lowed up early today with another Itz said. Inr time out for chow outside tbelr field hospital. These nurses were crossroad on the Valognes-Cher- The second pro-Dewey predic­ Mop Up Jap Pockets Supreme headquarters in its bourg road at the village of Slo- tion came from a Keystone state attack on the Reich capital by There was no Indication whether on the job wben the first man needed medical aid. United states the batlle bad been joined again midnight communique said "Al­ Signal Corlls pbotocraph. ave at 8 a. m." delegate high In the councils of RAF bombers. The ultimatum warned the Ger- the councils of the party wbo Liberators Drop DNB sa id Berlin was raided Tuesday. Maneuv fI of both ar­ lied forces made further progress madal through Monday nllht mans in Cherbourg they were preferred not ~o be quoted by 165 Tons of Bombs "b tween 1 a. m and 2 a. m." in the battle for Cherbourg, and "compl tely cut off from the rest name. This hammering of the capital probably would determine wheth­ the area held by the enemy is Planes Make First- Reds Open Surprise of the German forces in Nor- It was Senator Taft of Ohio who With No Interception twice in 12 hours came as other er the long-awalled showdown steadily diminishing. Our advance mandy; the American army is declared "Governor Bricker has a ---- United States Liberators headed test betwec:n the American and Japanese navies was at hondo up the entire peninsula has been ready to attack; the sea cuts you good chance" for the presidential ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- a stream of planes in a round-the­ Action Against,Finns off from retreat; no reiruorce- nomination. QUARTERS. New Guinea, Thurs- clock bombardment ot the comet coula Spot Enemy rapid." ments can reach you; the Luft- TaCt, slated to become chairman day (AP)-Amerlcan infantrymen bomb launching platforms In the Scouting planes from the United 'MaUer of Hours' 'Russian Stales flUh fleet, commanded by Russians Drive North walfe is absent, as always," of the resolutions committee, met on Siak island mopped up Japan- Pas de Calais area. Fall of the port appeared to be Eisenhower MesP,e with that gl'oup to organize and ese pockets north of Mokmer air- 43 BoIDbi!ra Loat Adm. Raymond A. Spruance. spot­ but a matter of hours. Of Viipuri, Near Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's work out a preliminary platform drome In D swift advance alter The Americans' 12th and heavi­ ted the nemy fore Monday after­ Reports reaching headquarters radio spokesman urged the people draft. capturing Sorldo and Borokoe air­ est blow at Berlin cost 43 bomb­ noon. Carrier bombers awept In during the day said the advancing Landings Old Finnish Border of Cherbourg to prevent German Senator Austin (R., Vt.), who dromes. headquarters announced ers and 15 tlghters as they plowed fot the aUack. It wal the Unt time Americans had found a soft spot LONDON. Thursday (AP)-The sabotage of the port and to safe- brougllt to Chicago a one-page today. through clouds and flak. Forty­ since the bllttle of Santa Cruz. In BJong the Cherbourg inland road A U. S. •A1R • BASE• SOME- Russian army opened two new guard its equipment for allied use typewritten declaration of foreign While enemy resistance ham- nine G e r man fighters were October of 1942, that American and railway that leads up from the knocked down, 20 by lighters and carrier pilots hsd a chance a t a wlIEiU: IN tHE SOVIET UNION surprise offensives against be~ upon liberation of the city. pOlicy, said it followed closely the pered operations inland, Ameri- SQutb between the bristling forts The text of toe broadcast: Mackinac charter adopted by the cas advanced swiftly along Biak's 29 by bombers' tuns. Nipponese fleet. 1)11 IUlUlP (AP)-Heall)' bombers tJle I~aguered Fin jan d yesterday, an<:I Oc1evllle, and had ot "The supreme commander asks Republican post-war a d v j Bar y south coast to extend their beach­ A report trom We RAF /lAId Admlral Nlmltz. obvlously wlth. penetrated to within 1,500 yards famed U~~ed States Eighth air- striking far to the nOrth and east that dock and railway workerll of council last September. head which previouslY reached 15 some rocket-launching sites on out detailed information himsel1, of the Cherbourg waterfront. foree put down on Russian soil of the bloody battle zone of the Cherbourg be available for posi-I But It was reported to go be- miles from Bosnek vlllage 01) the the Cherbourg peninsula had been promised addItional communiques The German defenses on the for the first time ysterday in a tions where they are at present yond tbe Mackinac declaration by east to newly-captured Sorldo.