, IY 23, 1944 ~ RAnOH CALENDAR Ihe 23-Year, lolt hIs cap. PJlOC1:S\lED .'OOOS blue BtampB AS throllKh Q8 valid Indefinitely; Cloudy MeAT red stlmpa "8 t hrouIC" 'I'U valid IndeUnlt,ly; SUGAR stamp pOrch and 10, II (book 4) v.lId IndellnltelY\ .tamp 40 lor cannlnl sUlar ."plr•• DAILY IOWAN IOWA: Clo~ with ·dowen. rtb. 2•• 1.4&; SHOE Itamp. alrp arie Btamp. 1 and 2 (book 3) v.lId THE I. But thel', 1DdlllnJltly; GASOLINE A-II collpon explr•• Jun. 22; TUEL OIL leked with ptr. 4 and 5 coupOns ."plre sept. 30. Iowa City's Morning Newspap~r lownspeople 1e fli er anci nVE CENTS Tal: A1800lATID .al•• IOWA CITY, IOWA WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1944 Ta • .ASBOCIA'fIJl ..... VOLUME XLI" NUMBER 204 with rou'e big jOYiai was a 51st WATER SHOULDER HIGH IN MELODY MILL AREA ed and tried Iowa River II a boy in him COIne !el tonight." Allied. Armies. Launch eveled and Rises to Height lVered With over and • his mother f you eve~ Of 11.8 Feet Twin Offensives. Italy ry day that mother said. More Rain Predicted yers, MaIn ,n I For Today as Water At a Glance- Nazis Issue- Nn of 16,000 Continuel to Rile . Aerial Assault "lhat Wild I own plane Itops in his The swirling brown water of I the Iowa river had reached a Gloomy Propaganda Paces AHack into Patsy', Today's of feet by o'clock at the pro. height 17.8 8 LONDON (AP)- German prop-.this gloomy picture of inside last. night and was stiU rising, I I , aganda reached a deep pitch of France: IIsual, and while more rain was predicted Greatest Allied Force behind the for today. Iowan gloom yesterday, perhaps in all "The French r a II way system no "drinks As the flood swept past Iowa .. .. ... attempt to create allied over-con- Is in complete chaos. The allies Thrown Into Battle fidence on the eve of invasion. have successfully pulverized into City and crept through the M ••~ed allied armies laun~h si­ Outside Soviet Front omised free I8ndbags 1 i n i n g Mcmorial In a broadcast from the Na zi- rubble whole marshalling yards. 1e day Don multaneous attacks on Anzio controlled Paris radio, the French They have destroyed countless 10" Union, a crest of over 18 feet beachhead, main Halian front. ALL lED HEADQUAR­ ot to think_ commentator Robert de Beauplan comotives. TERS, Naples (AP)-.!\{assed JSt to cela­ was expected for early today by declaresJ, that as a result of the "Saboteurs have also put out of mingo There officials of the Iowa Institute Yank bombers, escorted by his­ allied nerlal offensive against action the whole hydro-electric allied armIes on the Anzio !rs who are of Hyd~·aulie s. tory's greatest lighter force, communicaUons t n \. ge t s. "the system in France. The entire beachhead and on the main Ital· and it made Flowing at the rate pound Nazi Europe. French roll way system is in com- problem of transport in France is ian front launched simultaneous plete chaos." a desolate sight and the temper of offensives y terday, touching cubic feet per second, the waters Conlfress approves streamlined It was the fifth anniversary of the population, especially that of off a great battle which may de­ averaged a velocity of five feet tax bill. IS come will the forma.tion of the axis military Paris, is risinl!, because no food termine the fates both of Rome per second, or between three and I I get free alliance and there wns sobriety is available, nobody can Ira vel nnd of the German 10th army I exclaimed. a hali to five miles per hour near NLRB member criticizes atti­ Ie ven in the message Hitler sent and there are restrictions in the tude of Montgomery Ward to­ within the next few days. the Burlington street bridge. Phot.G by Fred J1uddlel ton Mussolini on the occasion: "I wnn~ use of electricity. While many homes in the low ward labor. Paced by a terri fi c a rial on­ NEARLY SIX FEET 01 water marooned the Melody Mill nl&'ht club on Hil'hway No. 6 last nll'ht at to express my unshakable belief "Frenchmen are blaming the lands south of Iowa City were alaught which rained thousands the west end of Iowa City. Interior of the MUI was completely flOoded and Wilier was walstdeep on that despite all diIficulties that Germans for all this misery which of bombs Qn Nazi troops con­ completely marooned by three feet the dance floor. On the lowlands south of the city, many houses were completely surrounded by the have to be overcome, at the end ot hal! descended on France." of water, Coralville was reported e ntrations Rnd communications, brown waters and several families were evacuated from the area yesterday and last night. Additional 4,000 Allied Planes this struggle the tri-partite pow- Here in Bntaln still more pas- American and British troops of to be under two to five feet ot flood plotures on pages 3 and 6. ers will ha ve victory." senger trains were cancelled 8S water in some sections last night. Whatever their mot I v e, the timetables throughout the country the Fifth army la.hed out from A total of .31 inhes of rain fell Pound Enemy Targets Nazis permitted the French com- were put on a virtual day-to-day the beachhead less than 20 miles in Iowa City and vicinity during mentator de Beauplan to draw ( See PROPAGANDA, page 5) from the outskirts of Rome under the day yesterday, and the local Russian Patrols Leap Sixth Army Expands In 18-Hour Assault the personal direction of Lieut. forecast was tOI' rain and thun­ Joint·"Group Gen. Mark W. Clark, who had derstorms here. established field headqunrlers In Water was reported In the base­ Into Nazi Trenches Tor R·iver Bridgehead Aerial Attacks Tie.Up Congress Approves Senator Hits £ the battle zone .. ment Of UnIversity high school Veteran Americnn Infantrymen last night, and the city park was Accepls.Plan · Nazi Communications, I . Daring Reds Seek MacArthur Reports struck toward Cisternn in order under more than four feet of .. Streamlined Tax Bill First·Hand Information Americans Advance Says Paris Radio to cut the Germans' princi pal line water. ,Appeasement of communication with the main While power plant officials here For Coming Offensive . On Enemy Airfields . LON DON (AP)- American Measure Repealing Hallan tront, and British Tommies estimated that city lights might go For Vel ·Loan , heavy bombers escorted by the hit directly toward Rome. out If the water reached a height Victory Tax Gets LONDON, Wednesday (AP)­ ---- ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD- greatest fighter force ever sent on On the main nall"n frout of 19.4 yesterday, six pumps were Unanimous Vote Daring Red army patrols are WASHINGTON, (AP)-A sen- QUA R T E R S, New G u i n ~ a, a sinele mission blasted Nazi air­ Of Russia' Britons, Canadians and Poles kept working steadily in the base­ jumping l' i g h t into German ate-house committee cleared the Wednesday ( A P) - American fields, freight yards and other tar­ of the El,hth army at the ment of the plant to keep the trenches in search of information WASHINGTON (AP) -T h e same time .mashed fUriously water level down. first barrier ye:sterday on the way Sixth army forces pressing to- gets in occupied France and mlli- (or the coming offensive, Moscow · tary obJ'ectives in western Ger- streamlined income tax bill, de­ WASHINGTON (AP)-Senatol' at the main Rltlel' line de­ to a compromise on a broad p~o- ward t wo north ern N ew Gumea A survey of Johnson county reported today, although there many yesterday, rounding 18 ~ig ned to bl'ing about "laxation Bridges (ij.-NH) asserted yester­ fenses In the Llrl valley, 35 made by Red Cross officials re­ were few other signs of a major gram of veterans' penents by airfields have expanded their hours of assault in which more without irritation" for 50,000,000 day tbat the Russian government mile. ead of the beachhead, vealed that 30 to 40 homes had persons, was approved finally by new br\!ak on the eastern front. agreeing that the government brideghead at the mouth of the jha.l1 4,000 allied pll\nes rained hes violated its agreements for in· and American and French di­ been evacuated In the area, and Southwest of Tirnspol a Russian should lend serV~Cell;lel1 up ,to , T~I' river oppOSite captured Wjjkde 5,500 tons o~ bombs on lhe 'conllresS yesterday, and sent 10 visions battered ahe~d on a ternational collaboration and de­ tm families in Coralville taken In reconnaissance party wiped oul $2',500 to buy or bUild homes, or island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur enemy. the White nouse. runed fronl extendln, from friends and relatives. lly nearly n compnny ot Nazis in purchase farms or businesses. announced today. Double Duty Passed Unanimously manded to know whether an Pleo down to Terradna on Two Coralville 'familles have han.d-to-hand fighting and took The vet era n s' administration More than 1,000 Thunderbolts, The measure passed unani­ American cruiser had been trans­ the sea. been moved into the school house dozens of prisoners, the Moscow would handle the loans, utilizing Reinlorcements have reached Lightnings and ;Mustangs, some of mously in both houses-the first ferred to the Soviets "as part of n was the greatest allied strik­ there, according to Mrs.