;Y See Story Page 1 Litigan ~Iaiti Editorial Col. Brannan's Job WV1ell Done.. VOL. LII. No. 70 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1941 Z-323 PRICE FIVE CENTS Senate Passe6 Revised Draft Bill Modifying House- Deeree Changed Measure Makes All Men From 19-44 Liable To Army Call Resolution Returns' To Representatives WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.--UP)-The Senate responded today to an Army appeal for young soldiers of 'enthus- iasm and stamina, voting to make all men from 19 through 44 years old liable for military service and to re- quire the registration of males from 18 through 64. The chamber passed the measure by the overwhelming vote of 79 to 2. California's two Senators, Downey, Democrat, aid ,ohnson, Republican, recorded the only "No" votes. The bill now goes back to the House, which i expected to route it to a joint conference committee for adjustment of differences, chief of which was the House-established minimum age of 21 for active service. Letter From Marshall After hearing a letter from General George C. Marshall Army Chief of Staff, .stating that it would be "un- wise" not to lower the limit to 19, the chamber voted 49 to 33 against an amendment by Senator Danaher (Rep.-Conn.) to fix 21 as the mini- mum. Sen. Brown (Dem.-Mich.) op- posed the proposal; Sen. Vanden- berg (Rep.-Mich.) supportedit. In his letter. Marshall said the1 Army wantedayoungmen who "pos- sess the vitality, enthusiasm and physical stamina necessary to the suc- cessful performance of certain types of duty." Highly skilled technicians,. Marshall said, could be obtained from the upper age brackets. Passage of the measure came after more than six hours of debate, during which the, provision for registration of men from 18 through 64 was attacked by Downey as "stupid and asinine." Census Worthless Downey said that an occupational census of these men, which the Army proposed to take at the time of regis- tration, would be worthless and would not provide any usable information for two or three years He contended that 1,000,000 men could be drawn from present class 1-A registrants without reducing the age limit and asserted that if more than 1,000,000 were ipducted within a year they would have to "train with broomsticks and sleep on the ground." Answering this char e, Reynolds and others cited the estimony , of Army officials that there was no in- tention of inducting men until equip- ment was ready. Beyond that, how/ ever, Senator Chandler (Dem.-Ky. warned that this was a young man's war, asserting that the Army had to have the young men to attain its greatest efficiency. British Bomb German Ships At Brest 'Base LONDON, Dec. 18.-()-The RAF today heavily bombed the Bret dry- docks where the German battle cruis- ers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Priz Eugen are under re- pair. Swarms of Germanfighters took to the air during the daylight raid and the British acknowledged loss of five bombers and one of their own es- coting fighters. But, they said, the raiders rocked the cradles of the Ger- man ships, set a fire that raised thick black smoke from the Gneisenau's dock, and dropped "very heavy bombs very close if notion one of the ships." Eight of the German planes were shot down, the announcement said, in dogfights in Which 50 planes at a time participated through the thick bursts of anti-aircraft fire. JaO Army Officer Stops Pop-Vending To Rejoin Mikado MANILA, Dec. 18.-()-An "ex cuse, please" murmuring little Japa- nese shopkeeper named Hara, wh&" for the past few years sold loaves of bread and soda pop to residents of Vigan, was unmasked today as Major 1 A _ A I Axis Armies Reported RetreatingIn Libya Strong Moscow December Offensive Hurls Nazis Back, Recaptures Positions enemy Transport Reported Sunk By U.S. Submarine Fleet In East; aps Fail To Gain In Luzon Area Ck (By The Associated Press) CAIRO, Deg. 18.-The shattered German and Italian armies in Eastern Libya were reported officially tonight in full retreat pursued by British- manned American tanks and blasted by RAF bombers. Allied troops were pressing Inorth- ward toward Derna after reaching the east-west Tmimi-Mekili Road, some 160 miles inside Libya, the British communique said. t"The enemy's front has everywhere been broken," the bullettin said.-r But the RAF reported smashing blows against Axis tanks and troop transports fleeing westward from meppy Ctrijima i With ,this issue, The Michigan Daily suspends publication for the Christmas Vacation. The editors take this opportunity to wish all readers a Merry Christmas. Pub- lication will be resuned as usual on Monday, Jan. 5. Miflk Company Sends Appeal t-o President Van Of In Wagoner Is Accused Urging 'Dirty Politics' Detroit CIO Strike Derna itself on the long road to Ben- gasi in an apparent effort to escape British encirclement. A fierce five-day ,fight west and southwest of Gazala preceded the Nazi rout, the British said. Thus far in the month-old offensive against the armies of Gen. Erwin von Rommel and his Italian helpers, the British were reported to have taken almost 10,000 prisoners. Axis casual- ties also were said to be heavy. Although the rout of the Axis des- ert legions caused hopes to soar that a final knockout blow was near at hand, an informed source said frankly that "We'll have to capture a hell o a lot more prisonerspbefore the first real sign of collapse." Red Army Offensive Pierces Nazi Salients MOSCOW, Dec. 18.-(R)-A new line of the Regl Army's December of- fensive was developing tonight, with the Russians throwing back the Ger- mans directly west of Moscow after breaking off Nazi salients on the flanks north and south of the capital. Military dispatches said that the army of Gen. Govorov, operating in the heart 'of the Moscow front, had recaptured 200 settlements and that his vanguard was approaching Ruta, about 40 miles west of Moscow. Thus the offensive became general along the whole Moscow front, On the flanks, west of Kalinin in the north and,. Tula on the south, the Red Army was continuing its pursuit of the Ger- mans. A fierce drive was pressed against the Finns and Germans in the north- west, the Russians striking in the Novgorod sector south of Leningrad after rolling the Germans back 45 miles from Tikhvin and freeing Len- ingrad from the threat of complete encirclement. (British reports said that the Fin-' nish line between Lakes Onega and Ladoga was smashed and that Lenin- grad's million defenders had joined in the attack on the Finns.) President Gets New Authority Wilson Powers Extended For War Em1ergency WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. - (P) - President Roosevelt today signed leg- islation giving him new and sweeping administrative authority to prosecute the war against the Axis. The powers,,which reenact and ex- tend those granted President Wilson in 1917, include authority to: 1. Establish a censorship over all forms of foreign communications. 2. Redistribute government admin- istrative functions. 3. Modify defense contracts and permit them to be entered into with- ut cbmpetitive bidding or perfor- nance bonds. 4. Control alien financial transac- tions and utilize in the national in- erest approximately $7,000,000,000 of lien property in the United States. Three New Leaders Pictured above are three high naval officers who have been ordered to positions in the Pacific area, according to an announcement by Secretary of War Stimson, to replace other members of the high com- mand who were on duty at the time of the Pearl Harbor incident. Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (left) will replace Admiral Husband E. Kimmel as comman der of the Paeific Fleet; Lieut. General Delos C. Em- mons (center) will relieve Lieut. Gen. Walter C. Short in commanding the Hawaiian department' of the air combat force; General C. L. Tinker (right) has been sent to Hawaii to take command of the air forces. I . Take Command In Pacific After Shake-Up DETROIT, Dec. 18.-(A)-Interven- tion of President Roosevelt in a strike of the United Dairy Farmers (CIO) aimed at diverting the milk supply of metropolitan Detroit was urged today as reports of violence continued to increase. In a telegram to, the Chief Execu- tive, George- A. Johnson, president of the Johnson Milk Company, declared. that "milk is being dumped, trucks put out of commission, and drivers sent home by pickets" although "less than 10 per cent" of the farmers who supply milk to the Detroit area are on strike. "As a taxpayer, I appeal to you personally for protection," he told the President, "as just a breath from you will set Governor Van Wagoner right." Johnson accused the governor of "playing dirty politics" by granting state police protection only to farmers living along main highways. "Hijackers are goings along the side' roads and dumping milk cans set out by farmers," he charged. State police 'dispatched-scout cars to Washtenaw, Livingston, Macomb and St. Clair counties after sheriffs, of those areas reported roving groups of strikers were interfering with ship- ments of milk to Detroit. Reports of milk dumping came from widely-scattered areas following an- nouncement by the United .Dairy Farmers, who seek an increase in thei price of all milk from $2.69 to $3 a hundred-weight and abolition of the base-surplus system, that "more1 forceful methods" would be employed. Van Wagoner' To Guard All' Defense Areas Asks Citizens To Obey Regulations Of Forces After Shooting Of Girl LANSING, Dec. 18.-(/P)-Governor Van Wagnier today issued an execu- tive order designating defense areas in the state that have been placed under military or police protection and appealed to the public to obey regulations of forces guarding them. His action followed the shooting ib Detroit last night of 20-year-old Betty Mastin by a sentry of the Michigan state troops. In this category, Van Wagoner placed the bridges and tunnels link- ing Michigan and Ontario, airports, Federal communications lines, armor- ies, docks and harbor facilities and "other areas and facilities for which protection may be. deemed necessary." He declared that these areas were under protection of the state troops or state police and that the com- manding officers of these two branches were responsible for guard- ing against "any treasonable or mis- chievous acts."; Poor Li'l Weather Feels War To- Censored! As far as Daily readers are con- cerned there is no weather. ; The weather has been censored. "For military reasons," the United States Weather Bureau has decided to discontinue its ad- vance predictions. That's why The Daily has been left holding the bag. Gone "for the duration" (ap-. parently) are the long-range fore- casts and the national daily weather round-up. No more will the Associated Press teletype ma- chine send over this all-important{ news item-at least, all-important to those who are acquainted with Ann Arbor's highly unpredictable weather. As a result, gone is one of The Daily's earmarks. The box on the top left-hand side henceforth will lose all significance to appre- hensive readers. Famed Aviatrix aileByFBI Laura Ingalls Is Accused Of Nazi Propaganda Local Faculty To Attend 1941, Speech Session Prof. Densmore Will Be Leader Of Conve4tion Committee At MeetiAg Eight members of the speech de- partment will attend the annual con- vention of the National Association of Teachers of Speech to be held from Monday through Wednesday in De- troit. Prof. G. E. Densmore, chairman ofi the speech department, will preside at the three-day session as chairman of the convention committee. Prof. H. Harlan Bloomer, directpr of the speech clinic, will be chairman of the Tuesday afternoon progiam on experimental phonetics. At this session, Dr. Arthur Secord will pre- sent a paper on "The X-Ray Study of Pitch Change in the Human Larynx." Professors Valentine B. Windt and William P. Halstead will report on a theatre survey of, lending libraries and back-stage organization at the convention. Other facultymen who will attend are Mr. Henry M. Moser, Dr. Hyde Shohara, Mrs. Ruth Watt Metrauz, Prof. Albert. H. Markwardt and Prof. L. M. Eich.- Arm' Plane Is Lost SiX Days In Pacific WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. --(P)- Major General Herbert A. Darguef and seven other Army officers and men have been missing for six days on a transcontinental flight which, it is believed, was the first leg of a ,flying trip to reinforce Hawaiian defenses. Dargue may have been under or- ders to tpke command of the air forces in Hawaii, though there was no official confirmation of this in the War Department's announcement today that his plane had not been. heard from since late Friday when it was about two miles south of Palmdale, Calif.. On Friday, Dargue left Mitchell Field, N. Y., boundi for Hamilton Field near San Francisco. Their plang was a transport. N&Avy Department Claims 'Probable' Destroyer Hit- In Official Communique Filipimos Strengthen American Land Unit (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. - The Navy Department reported today that United States submarines active in the Far East had sunk an enemy transport and probably sunk a de- stroyer as well. ' y This information was contained in the Navy's late-afternoon communi- que, which reported "no new develop- ments" in the central and eastern Pa- cific. It said also that the naval sit- uation had been without incident in the Atlantic area, where heavy wea- ther prevails. Fifth Transport Sunk Previous official reports-have dis- closed that four other Jap trans- ports have been sunk and at least three badly damaged by American forces. Announcement of the new naval success, which followed news of an- other hard-hitting and the successful attack on the Japanese in the 'hil- Japanese Imperial Headquarters claimed early today that its troops had landed on the island of Hong- kong, to which the British had withdrawn under siege after losing the mainland section, but acknow- ledged in effect that the colony and naval base were far from sub- dued. ippines, brought cheer to a capital already elated at greatAlied isto'Ie&. in Africa and Russia, but acutely con- scious of a danger spot on the ap- proaches to -Singapore.\ Official reports from Manila told of an enemy defeat which pused the invaders back many miles in the Vi- gan area of Luzon. The invaders, who apparently had set out toward Man- ila, left an indefinite number of dead behind. Plan To Unify Command Washington, meanwhile, heard an increasing discussion of plans for uni- fying the Allied High Command so that grand strategy for prosecuting the war the world over would proceed from a single source. Washington was mentioned, in London dispatches, as its probable base of operations. It appeared to some observers that the war in the Pacific, as it affected American-held territory, had stalil- ized itself, following the first attaclks at Pearl Harbor and the effort to invade Luzon. The Japanese seemed stopped either by the nature of the resistance offered, or by a decision to concentrate their power on the bat- tle for Singapore. Importance Of Base The importance of the British naval base there to American operations when the large-scale offensive against Japan is undertaken, is scarcely min- imized by officials here. And so word of a British retreat in the jungles north of'Singapore came as bad news. This loss of ground,-. however, was considered to have been more than offset by the continued victories of the Russian Army, and the apparent smashing of Axis forces in Libya, where the British reported the enemy fleeing "in chaos." Filipinos Consolidate With American Troops MANILA, Dec. 18.-()-the entire army of the Philippines was inducted today into the United States Army of the Far Vast in a day of consolidation and strengthening of the American forces which found the Japanese in- vader again avoiding any effort to extend his small and precarious foot holds on Luzon. At one of these doubtful beach- heads-about Vigan in the northwest of the island some 200 miles above Manila-it was disclosed, in fact, that the Japanese had been thrown back many miles in fighting on Monday afternoon. Nothing was said as to the subsequent developments in that area, where the Japanese also had lost at least 26 planes. The fighting was south of Vigan it- self. (This suggested that a Japanese Wolverines Meet High-Scoring Ramnblers In Basketball Today By DICK SIMON: A red-hot battle is in store for Michigan basketball fans who remainK in Ann Arbor to see the Wolverines ' V.. " " . :"*" play a high-scoring NotreDame quin- tet t 7:30ap.m.-.today in Yost Field House. For although the Irish cagers have only won two of their four games, they nevertheless have been able to :.. :. ';.::" average about 45 points per game. Not only that, but they came within a hair of beating Wisconsin, last year's National Intercollegiate chain- pions. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's squad will not be at full strength for to- nights tilt with the Iiish two mem- Admission to the Michigan- ! :";. Notre Dame basketball game to- night is free to all students bear- ing identification cards. The ^ prices for non-students are $1.00 for reserved seats and 75 cents for general admission. He pointed out that two civilians1 had been shot within the past week: WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-P)-An because of failure to heed warnings adventure in which aviatrix Laura of sentries to halt. Ingalls said "I guess I overreached myself" brought her to jail today on wa charge of failing to register as an NBagent of the German government, The widely known flier, first of her' sex to pilot a plane non-stop across (By The Associated Press) the continent from East tb West, was Indication of U.S. Naval accord unable to post the $7,500 bond fixed when she was arraigned before United allaying dangers from French West States Commissioner Needham Turn- Indies reported by State Department age. after French Commander announces She protested to Turnage that FBI U.S. Admiral flew to Martinique to agents who arrested her yesterday convey . Roosevelt's personal assur- had held her incomunicado in a small ances there would be no attack or room, and that she had been without sleep for 36 hours. *e o: J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, said claim landing on Hong- that the arrest climaxed several Japanese cli adngo og months of investigation of Miss In- kong Island but admit fierce Bri- galls' activities during which she "re- tish defense; colony's fall not ceived a specified salary from an claimed. agent of the German Reich for her' ** * ' efforts in spreading the propaganda U.S. submarines sink Japanese which they furnished her," and that transport and probably a destroyer in she frequently visited Washington to contact Nazi representatives. 1 Par Eastern waters. * { : M Japanese extend assault by bomb- ing Philippine port of Iloilo but Philippines are holding firm and officials disclose Japanese thrown; back several miles below Vigan in early action. * * * Main British line in Malaya is pushed back to area about 300 miles above Singapore, but base is not un-C der imminent menace. *' * Campaign Goes Wide Of Mark: Goodfellows Need Pledged Support To Save Drive From Record Low "If the organizations who prom- ised their support to the Goodfellow drive would hand in their contribu- tions, the day could yet be saved for the drive and this year's record low could be erased," Charles, Thatcher, bring their contributions to The Daily. Seven groups have turned in money since yesterday's Daily went to press. They are Delta Gamma, Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Delta, Alpha Epsilon Phi and Sig- I hers of the team which Cta.rtPri a.ga.inst.