Council Bluffs Nonpareil (Newspaper) - February 6, 1944, Council Bluffs, Iowa Save am am Ammunition for Waste or Throw Me Away WORLD COUNCIL ESTABLISHED IN 1851 EVERY RE VOL 37 COUNCIL BLUFFS SUNDAY FEBRUARY 6 1944 PRICE 10 CENTS Sales Through Friday Mount Weak Spot in Allied Lines Counter Attacks South of Rome Driven Back With Heavy Losses to 67 Per Cent of the State's Quota DEs state war committee announced Saturday that Iowa bond sales in the fourth war loan campaign to bonds between now and Feb 15 if the E bond quota was to be ed Business reports from over the taled or 67 per cent state indicated good Friday ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers Iff British forces have soundly beaten a new and furious drive by nazi shock troops and tanks against the allied south of Rome throwing them dose of the Committee with heavy losses allied sald that meant workers through quarters announced Saturday The British met the attack staunchly in the sector north of just 20 miles south of Rome and Saturday allied com- manders marshalled their troops to contend with an expected all-out German attack on the beachhead On the mam 5th army f i ont Germans and Americans fought with everything from snipers to tanks in the house to house fight for fortified gateway to the Lin of the quota and Saturday but leaders in the Sale of her es E bonds still were lagging with the total up to 900 000 or 46 per cent of the quota Sales to individuals ng the series E bonds to taleri 300 000 or 51 per cent of the quota Eight business davs and one of those a remain the Several special events were scheduled for the closing week of the campaign School boys and girls in many cities and towns will put on a special treasure hunt on Thursday which is Schools at bond drive were of the opinion that I War Day in the campaign Their the buying was not yet at the level necessary to reach the quota out the state would have to put forth a super sales on E Iowa Over Top in War Chest Drive While the Germans in the south sought to delay the 5th s ad- vance through gaps in the Gustav line and prevent the junction of j the main body with the units hold ing the beachhead it became dent that the nazi offensive south of Rome was in its early stages The Germans still were for a weak spot at which to fling main attack The Geiman communique quoted Berlin military spokesmen as saying that the fighting in Italy such violence and Exceeds 1943 Quota by DES P lowans con- 52 488 036 22 to the na tional war fund duing the state wide campaign conducted last year undei the direction of the Iowa War Chest Inc it was announced Sa tin bv Weeks of Des president of the state chest Tint was 22 over the campaign goal of 272 779 Iowa Chest Inc was last j ear to coordinate and direct all fund raising ties of the USO war aid had reached such violence aim Seamen s Russian embitterment that it equaled I relief lnd 12 crucial struggles on the eastern wai appeals included in front out the allies had failed to the war fulla achieve leally outstanding Campaigns fleld m all of low as 99 counties through local county war chests organized by Iowa war chest Twenty-two cities cess dispatches said German declared himself in a special message had his troops to fight their best to eliminate the allied beachhead Weather Hampers Airforce Although bad ed an operations aircraft of the U S 12th an force bombed and strafed motor and camps een the main 5th aimy front and the beachhead to prevent the having local community chests combined the national war fund with the home front welfare peals Eighty of the 99 county war chests reached 01 exceeded their quotas 13 counties are within 10 per cent of their goals while six ate within 20 per cent Ml of the community chest cities attained or Germans from withdrawing forcements from the south to smash allied troops occupying the coastal strip behind the Gustav and Adolf lines Flying penetrating southem France bombed the Toulon naval base ard near cannes They ran into a 20 minute battle 0 man fighters some using lockets Three of the enemy were destroyed One Fortress collided w ith an j enemy plane and fell in flames In their mined effort to pinch off the allied beachhead be- fore the bulk of Lt Gen Mark W Clark s army could come to its sistance the flung in one of the best armored m also concentrated laige of in- fantry for the of dominating ail and highway routes south of the Threaten to Outflank On the outskirts of an- guns and tanks slugged away at each other and the struggled to en large their in the town it- self Allied advances roith and south of the town to outflank the nazis entrenched there forces flung the mans out of most of their posit ons on Mount Maiola Desperate fighting engulfed the entire area positions in the outskirts of changed hands times As the fighting reached vet new heights of the Germans in setting moie big self- pi guns tinl s and six into thp ind constituted i fortress British fighting on the west bank of the tured Mt three miles of Tin Rovno and Lutsk Taken by Soviets LONDON The ted in a major sweep has captured Rovno and Lutsk 81 miles inside old Poland Moscow disclosed night while a soviet communique today announced the Germans had lost 4 500 more men and 95 tanks m a effort to crack the sian trap closing on 10 nazi sions facing swift death or surren- der near the Dnieper river The march into Poland in the last few days has reconquered 200 towns and hamlets along the main railroad to Warsaw carried the red army to within 50 miles of the Russian German and to within 290 of Cer Two divisions routed incl 2000 r i n ti I Hi i 11 captured in this Democrats to Defend Party Home Policies Fight to Emphasize Stand on Domestic Issues Bv D Harold Oliver WASHINGTON Iff have emphasis to domestic issues in then pre convention as republicans get ready to select next Saturday in New Mexico the first delegates to either political national convention j Both Robert E new chan man of the democratic nd tional committee and Senator OMahoney of Wyoming just named to direct the 1944 drive to le elect to the senate aie charging the opposition with efforts to capitalize on popular discontent with the war time eco- nomic controls Hannegan told a Jackson dav rally in Alabama that patriotic realize that economic sacrifices aie and that must answer to the of making capital of m- arising from such things ad and price con- Admits Discontent O Mahoney in taking over the senatorial campaign committee chairmanship said the tion of the nations economy to meet the requirements of wai lias been a burden which has produced discontent There is already an evident at- tempt to mobilize these discontents in such a manner he to overshadow the substantial of the last 10 jears first effort will be to get people to complete partly filled wai stamp books and get them turned in for bonds Their next effort w ill be to sell extra bonds The Boy Scouts will put on a special sales campaign Boy Scout wek to sell extra bonds Many cities and towns will hold special rallies on the final day of the campaign designating that day as Over the Top Day title or by some Tojo in Warning Sees Crisis Near Tells Home Folks Situation Is Critical B Judson NEW YORK topped their goals Weeks said Saturdays an- of campaign results officially closes the 1943 dine but the report is not final as some funds aie still coming in In a number of the count es that are close to but not quite leached their the local campaigning is continuing and most of them are expected to go over the top H Caldwell fo Fort Dodge former of the j the battle cry that then ty Fort Dodge of Com These replies to accumulation of republican charges of and mismanagement on tile home may some e- buttal attention in the Lincoln day speeches the GOP are I nmg at about 2000 dinners throughout the country next Thursday and Saturday Some republican leaders are deki Tojo speaking to the nese diet warned Saturday that the war keeps increasing in day by day and we are now being confronted with the situation where the fate of the GEA greater east Asia sphere and the rise and fall of imperial Japan will be decided spoke in response to a plea by a member of the diet for the Japanese people to stand united in the face of tierce battles in the Marshall islands New tain and New Guinea Tojo the way to win the war was bj total mobilization of the 100000000 people of Japan and to concentrate consistently and firmly the total power of the people on one win the decisive victory Tojos broadcast message was recorded by U S government monitors While the Japanese at home were repeatedly being warned thai the situation is serious efforts were made to show people in other countries that the allied drives were of little consequence Situation More Acute A domestic broadcast by the Tokyo radio told the Japanese that the American invasion of the shall islands was in dead earnest and that the wai situation fore is growing moie acute than was ever noted heretofore merce was executive director of the drue Caldwell said which oversubscribed their quotas would retain the surplus and it on calls of the national war fund ur Tin The Weather By the U S Council Bluffs and vicinity Fair and somewhat night Iowa Continued cold Sunday j party and the night diminishing winds Sunday fan wanner west Missouri Fair and colder Sun dav Much colder south and east portions Not so cold in west and north during the night would win the war quicker bv im- home front administration Trouble Within Expressions of dissatisfaction with the administration camt also over the week end from a Chicago meeting which the American democratic national committee and said it would dis- pute the right of the tion to put its candidates on the billot for the election This group charging that a palace guard1 is wrongfully in possession of the d e m o c r a 11 c said it would hold a con- vention and nominate candidates Its chanman Harry secretary of war ed that democrats should unite in supporting for president someone of State Cordell 12 30 p 1 30 p 2 30 p 3 30 p 4 30 p i 30 i 30 p 30 p 26 JS 28 12 30 p m bO 3 2b 1 Jo 30 p m 21 miles pei bulb Diy bulb md hour Maximum 24 hours 41 Minimum in last 24 houts 24 Total inch Tot il detail icv 07 inch in last like Secretary Hull New Mexico republicans will combine their Lincoln day rally w ith a meeting of their state con- to name eight delegates to the national convention It will constitute the fust delegates ng in parU The delegation is expected to be as in 1940 See In The Lincoln dav rallies will see nomination ties in action John W Bucker of Ohio addresses a lally here Thursday night Wendell L w ill speak Friday night at Tacoma Wash and Gov Thomas F of New Yolk ad- dress the National club in New night This asserted The enemy is pressing his advance into our inner south seas with the Gilberts as a ful strategic base m the centia Pacific and no doubt quickly ried out the Marshall operations in order to destroy the might of time which is a very strength of Japan The same broadcast said the western Pacific needless to say is the sphere of our control and the front line of national defense and added that the Man anas and Carolines lay in Japan s inner south seas On the other hand and language wireless dispatch to North America by the Japanese news agency Domei said that the United States had not changed its island tactics and that the main force of our navy re- mains intact and will select the most advantageous times and places to sally forth for the fense of great east Asia Tin Says Three in Line for Iowa Judgeship WASHINGTON Senator Gillette D la said Saturday that so fai as I know the justice de- has under three E Marshall of Sioux Cit} N Graven of Mason City and Luke E of the position of eral judge in the northern Iowa district The senator said he undei stood the department had whittled down an list of 26 applicants foi the post to those three men 19 Islets of Marshalls Now in U S Hands Conquest of Islands Proving Much Easier Than Expected Bj William Hippie U S PACIFIC FLEET QUARTERS Pearl Harbor I Clinching Americas grip on the biggest atoll of Japans Marshall islands 7th division sold ers have killed virtually all and captured Ebeye and Loi islands of the group of these three strategic at the southern end of the atoll announced Saturday by Chester W Nimitz runs to 19 the number of Kw s odd islets now in American hands Many of the remaining islands are militarily unimportant The victory affords the allies another potential an field on island and seaplane bases at Ebeye Fourth division had swept Roi and Namur islands to clinch control of the north end of the atoll Push Continued Continuing their steady push up the eastward edge of the big atoll army troops already are attacking just of Loi Admiral Nimitz press said had been strongly fied and Japanese answered the mighty can fleet s pre invasion ment On Loi invading wiped out the Japanese garrison quickly after a similar heavy shell ing and bombing is ex- to fall soon was four atter the first troops landed Feb 1 The battle was a bloody w struggle but its outcome was never doubtful and American losses remained erate An early island leport of 1 250 Japanese to 27 Americans killed has been tamed reports stated Carrier based planes still roam widely over the ing the ground invasion atoll in the northwest corner of the Marshalls an important enemy supply base was bombed Feb 3 Admiral Nimitz said Wake Bombed Time He also announced Wake island 600 miles of the was bombed for the eleventh time Friday night by two squadrons of Aimy medium bombers ing othe Marshall island Thursday night sank a small freighter in atoll and Mill atoll was machine gunned and bombed by fighter planes Feb 3 No U S planes were lost in any of the raids presumably out to keep down possible Jap anese attempt to bring in tional aircraft nautical miles northwest of and about 850 nautical miles from U S bases in the been the enemy s principal staging point for bringing panes into the Marshalls via the Carolines Yet only two enemy planes were caught on the ground there in the latest raid and not since widespread carrier raids Jan 30 have planes been reported m the air Damage inflicted at Wake was not estimated because of the of night time observation Naval phases of the Marshall in- vasion thus far have been duck soup and the absence of anese opposition has been ing War John R the combined American press reported from lagoon It s too ealy to tell whether the enemy s navy will elect to fight Real Adm Richard L Connolly Waukegan III declared He com manded the task force brought the 4th division marines ashor on Roi and That the American forces ready aie reasonably secure in their possession of the big atoll was indicated by Admiral Con- nolly who asserted Where the have landed thore the Americans will stay Dies Day Being Married to Sweetheart of Forty-five years LOS ANGELES White and Joseph F Hutton weie sweethearts 45 years ago but each married an- other the mates of both died they began corresponding and Friday they were mained by superior Judge Thurmond Clark Saturday morning the year old bridegroom died Tm Offer Substitute to Food Subsidies Aid to Low Income Families Proposed By Don WASHINGTON 000 000 a year program of food subsidy and limited to low income families was proposed Saturday by a group of senators opposing the administration s 500 000 000 system of food subsidies Designed to consumer subsidy aid to families having an- incomes under approximately 600 it is a modification of the food stamp which the war food tion estimates would cost 000 000 annually American Bombers Smash at Nazi Airfields in France to Wind Up Two Weeks of Raids Six Fields in Different Parts of Hitler's Domain Hammered Into Smoking Wreckage Air Interference Light But Flak Very Heavy By Austin Bealmear LONDON of probably planes out one of the heaviest operations against multiple in Fiance with heavy six of the to wind up two weeks of the most sky bombardment the has known The U S and slashed into Fiance to the of Pans and Tours The six to smoking have been used by nazi planes to and the allies bombei fleets County Passes Two-thirds Mark Over in Bonds Sold Here county has Senator Aiken an- passed the two thirds maik of its the modified version will be offered as an amendment to the by Senator Bankhead D Ala which would abolish food subsidies outright The senate ex to begin of the Bankhead measure next week Indicating he might the Aiken Senator D Md said he approved the principle of the stamp plan and described it as of thetic Although its objectives weie endorsed some time ago by the war food administration the stamp plan lias been opposed by some republican senators as a re- turn of the federal government to the business In hearings an agriculture tee the was bacKed by farm organizations who oppose existing consumer sub- but opposed by labor en who price controls continued Bankhead indicated he would oppose any attempt to attach the stamp plan to his His ure would continue the commodity corporations farm aid and price support but abolish consumer subsidies by June CO I think we have a of the votes Bankhead added Other amendments to be to the Bankhead include the administration s to authorize 500 000 000 in 1944 out- lays a plan by Sena toi R Ohio limiting sub sidy payments to an and a proposal by Eastland D and lan D which would force the office of price administration to raise milk pnceb so as to give producers the t of about one cent a quart more for milk Tin declassify Harry James HOLLYWOOD Hairy James said Saturday he has j quota m the sale of wai bonds in the fourth loan campaign it was estimated by Juel county war bond chairman The county s quota in the ent is and the chauman estimated that sales so fai amount to about 000 000 The first official figures mg sale of wai bonds in at- tamie county in the fourth loan campaign received Saturday by Mi Juel from the federal bank at Chicago listed the ty s sale at 728 861 75 The report I have is only up to and including Feb i Mr pointed out There have been lots of sales since Feb 1 and theie no doubt that the total date in Pottawattamie county ha5 hit tlu 000 000 mark Another foreign ition ing business in Council Bluffs allocated part of its bond purchase to Pottawattamie county Mr Juel said The Williams company has ci edited of its bond purchase to the county There aie other foreign ations doing business m Council Bluffs who may jet credit pait oC their to our We aie awaiting woid fiom them he added Tin Casket Companies Sued for Damages PHILADELPHIA A Ml id ower sued two casket companies for for alleged and shod suffered when he said his wifes body fell out of its coffin and struck his leg Charles Bauman of N J said the bottom of the fin gave away on thp steps of a chuich in Clinton N J last April 26 His hair prematures been reclassified from to 1A j grav and since the incident he s by his Beaumont Tex board fets from and will take a pie induction and homble dreams animation here next w eek I man said Bau Paul V McNutt Selected Iowa Jackson Day Dinner Speaker DES MOINES IT Paul V McNutt war manpower sio icr and of the federal security agency will be the Iowa Jackson day dinner speaker Jake Moie democratic state man announced More said tickets have been sold for the a plate dinner to be held at Hotel Fort Des Moines Feb 26 This dinner usually attended by 1000 or more is a combination democratic rallying meeting and fund affair It will be the only Jackson day dinner in the state this More said McNutt governor of Indiana national commander of the Legion and high to the Philippine islands w as a candidate for the democratic vice presidential nomination which went to Henry A Wallace of Des Moines in 1940 He will be the second to address an Iowa democratic Jackson day dinner More made the announcement of McNutt as this year i speaker ter a meeting of the democratic state central committee The com transacted only routine business More said Court Orders the Suspension of Ottumwa Police Commissioner A T ate suspension of Ot Police G E Dusty Rhoades was ordered afternoon by District ney John D Moon The new action Moon said came as a sequel to a series of lice raids on Ottumwa taverns night ind Moon claimed in the petition for removal and in a ment to the pi ess that the raids weie ordered by Rhoads foi the purpose of attempting to intimidate witnesses 11 with the cl aige Moon agi nst Rl for what Moon has described as a gambling and liquor Rhoads has pleaded innocent to the conspiracy charge The county attorneys district court removal action came as a surprise move Saturday afternoon Tlie courthouse had closed for the day and Moon summoned the court clerk and Judge Daugherty m der to present the new petition The judge ordered Rhoads poral y suspension pending a ing The judges order was based upon the allegations n Moon s pe tition and no was taken Rhoads w as not present The no t Ct ot na to be and Herbert Bagg former hotel upon Rhoads at once Seeks to Protect Moon said in the petition he was taking the action because he was seeking to protect witnesses from intimidation Friday night police raided five Ottumwa taverns Officers said was seized at the Arcade operated by Gus Theilen and at the Wonder Bar operated by George Kostas Theilen and pleaded in- nocent to charges of illegal sion of intoxicating liquor filed against them under state statutes and were released on bond Moon said Theilen and Kostas were without am new raiu being made and again were charged with illegal possession of time under a city again were to post bond Moon s formal statement to the press in connection with the case follows When the present investigation into payoffs in the city of Ot- tumwa began we were anxious to secure the co-operation of all of the officials of the city Therefore Mayor David was called for questioning and assistance but re- fused to give any assistance and refused to answer any questions on grounds that I might nate the and myself also filed a removal peti tion the council which council refused to act in the ter promptly as the people of Ot- tumwa had a right to expect So far as we can determine the cil has given no s reason for its failure to cooperate Intimidation Attempted When this investigation began it was announced that a large number of tavern operators were given full cooperation and ance Last night some of these tavern were raided and thrown in jail and charged under the state statutes This afternoon after they had posted bond were again and again charged with tne same offense j under a city ordinance Again they were forced to post bond to gain their liberty The chief of police ly denies any responsibility for this obvious attempt to intimidate state witnesses In view of these developments and since the city council refuses to take prompt tion we are forced to present the matter to the district court We feel that the people of Ottumwa are in no mood to tolerate further delays in a matter of so great im- portance Moon earlier this week had filed ouster proceedings with the council against and had asked that a be set within a few ciU council set the hearing for March 6 While official were ing U S aimy headquarters said the attacks were carried out by forces which mean that 700 heavy escorted by around 500 fighters dropped something like 1 000 tons of bombs At the same time huge tions of medium light bombers in- moie than 200 American Marauders pounded German installations on the French coast blocking the direct invasion route British Bostons and Mitchells hit still another field in northern France Twelve Planes Lost Twelve allied planes including two U S heavy bombers failed to from the days operations an aimy communique said late Saturday night Ten German planes w ere shot dow n four by the gunneis on the heavy bombers and six bj escorting fighters Declaring that good bombing re- sults weie reported the war tin said that once again tion from the air generally was weak though m some instances flak was strong five miles west of Paris was hit by the heavy bombers which also blasted fields at and Chateaudun each about 60 miles south of Pans and Avord and Tours all about 125 to 150 miles south and southwest of Pans RAF and allied medium bombers hit the airfield at Beau- m northern France Probably Out Bel powerful long wave ladio went off the air early Saturday night for technical reasons suggesting that RAF night bombers were following up the daylight raids with continued blows against the against Berlin itself which was blasted in the RAF's last heavy assault Jan 30 the giants ened the skies over Europe foi the eighth time m nine days can Marauders cracked down once more on the enemy s secret lations just across the channel fiom Britain Moie than 200 Marauders were included in the fleets of American and British light bombers which attacked the northern France in- vasion coast and men said the Germans threw up intense flak although nazi fighters were not encountered Two light bombers and two weie missing The American heavy bombers divided into combat wings each of which took an enemy airdrome according to plan and blasted ways hangars barracks and shops leaving masses of burning age Saw Airfields Burning Some of the fliers said they could see thiee or four airfields burning on their return trip at saw direct both on the landing strips and buildings resulting m explosions and fires We had three different groups of buildings to hit Lt ald Y Huff of Scottsbluff Neb a Fortress bomber on the Bricy raid All three were Mown to bits The weather was cloudless and the fields were bombed visually with great success the returning fliers reported said many German fighters were de- on the ground and that those which managed to get into the air were kept at bay by can ind British escort planes The attacks were one more step in the campaign to sweep tne waffe from the skies before the promised invasion of the continent and tied in with the destruction of Germany s aircraft factories in recent operations and the downing of dozens of German fighters in aerial combat Vour Tin California Soldiers Asking for Ballots Calif Nearly 10 per cent of an mated 200000 eligible absentee voters of California already ha e t applications for ballots and more than 200 aie be received the of of- j fice said
