~UNAXJAIUAK ii I~I ~THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEI E IF Nazis Smart Under First War Defeat 900 Volunteer For Ann Arbor "k r WT I Frankie Maher, Eight Year Old Volunteer, Honorably Rejected All-Campus Forum To Keynote Winter Parley, Jan. 16-17 (Continued from Page 1) cussed by the second panel under Dan Huyett, '42. Other student mem- bers are seniors Alvin Dann, Jay Mc- Cormick, Peg Sanford and Dick Shuey. When Japan blasted Pearl Harbor, she also'struck at the foundation of American religious, political and so- cial liberties. This "Crisis In Mor- als" will be taken up by the third panel with Don O'Connor, '42, as chairman. Margaret Campbell, '43, Herman Hudson, '45, Fakhri Maluf Grad, Lee Perry, '42, and Bob Warn- ea, '43, make up this group. America's armed forces will be dis- cussed under the student chairman- ship o Don Stevenson, '42. Robert Burstein, '43, Emile Gel6, '42, Bill Johnson, '44E, and Bob Matthews, '43 will comprise the rest of this fourth 0 panel. 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Phone 2-2678. LAUNDERING By KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Wide World War Analyst) Whatever the truth of widely rumored serious dissension between Hitler and High Command elements of his army, there is no question that Hitler- ized Germany is being forced to swallow its first bitter dose of defeat in this war. It is being meted out to them-in Russia on a scale that has silenced even the "according to plan" cliche of Hitler headquarters. And in Libya battered fragments of a once powerful Axis desert army are again in re- treat westward. Grave as is the plight of American-Filipino forces still battling Japanese invaders on Luzon and of Britain's great Singapore base, the Axis tripartite uefense W ork By PAUL CHANDLER FORT CUSTER, Jan. 10. -(M- Red.Cross, University Class Frankie Maher, the Kalamazoo eight- W 'illrs tu Eroylss year-old who wrote to Fort Custer W dinstruct EnirOlees 'asking for a job in the Army, is quite For Varied Positions aware that he has started something among the kids in his home town. With nearly 900 Ann Arbor resi- Frankie, who stands not even as dents on file for war work, the Civil- high as an Army jeep, was an honored ian Defense Volunteer Office closed guest at the post today and he mod- its initial registration campaign yes- estly confessed he was the envy of terday at the Armory. his neighborhood back home. 'rn+Q1 fnr IU I n fnnrIUUI vdy UiIV c. pact has failed again. It was designe conceived the Berlin-Tokyo-Rome fellowship, to immobilize America as an anti-Axis supply base, or, failing that, to concentrate American war activities in the Pacific. It was in- tended to counter the lease-lend program and American "shoot-on- sight" patrol of the western Atlantic. Nazi Efforts Futile? Nazi machinations which lured Tokyo into the struggle that, black Sunday in December now have proved futile. The war in the Pa- cific definiitely has not given Hitler the breathing spell he hoped for ih Russia or in North Africa. It has not diverted American attention or ever mounting help for Axis foes on those fronts.9 It has not forced Britain to sus-I pend her attack in Libya while she rushed aid to Singapore. It has not halted British counter bombing across the English Channel and over Germany, but only insured ultimate1 United Nation air mastery in Europe as well as in the Far East. That was the meaning of Presi- dent Roosevelt's stupendous new war program laid before a Congress al- ready busy with shaping swiftly its legislative framework. Scoffing Axis1 commentators dared not reveal toj their peoples the vast scope of that American design for total war. Thej mere recitation of the figures in, planes, tanks and guns to- be turned, out this year and next would have jarred German, Italian and Japan- ese eardrums like bomb blasts. Facts Will Be Known Yet sooner or later the facts both, as'o the size of the war production program and as to American indus- tral ability to fashion those weapons will seep through. They will become known in all Axis \countries about the time the scope of German de- feats in Russia and of German- Italian reverses in North Africa also are filtering down to the people. Warnings from London and Wash- ington against placing too much credence, in rumors of an internal crisis brewing in Germany are justi- fiable. There is ample evidence that either a popular uprising or even an effective army command coup to sweep Der Fuehrer into the discard is all but impossible. Yet this writer has been told by American observers returning from long residence in Berlin and leaving behind them many intimate, contacts with German business men and their families that in their judgment ei- ther of two possible war develop- ments could shake the foundation of Hitler's power and the iron rule of his Nazi regime. A food shortage in Germany was one. The other was a great defeat for German armies the public has been taught to believe in- vincible. Defeat Stalking Nazis The test of that may be at hand. Defeat is stalking the German re- treat in Russia from Leningrad to the Crimea. In the light of what is happening there realization that the great "crusade" against Communism has failed must be forced upon Ger- man public consciousness sooner or later. There is something almost pathetic in the way Berlin, Rome and Nazi- dominated radio voices in occupied countries enlarge on unofficial Jap- anese claims of fresh victories in the Far East. The attempt to cover up disasters of growing scope in Russia and in Libya is obvious. The Axis public in Europe as well as ini Japan is being fed with flat lies or utter exaggeratios certain to have a boomerang effect on morale when the truth comes out. There is a confession of internal weakness in Germany and Italy in that alone. There are many symptoms that the moment is nearing when effective blows can be struck by American, British and Dutch forces in the Chi- na Sea zone. British bombing of Japanese bases in Thailand is one. American bomber exploits against a big and heavily guarded Japanese troopship convoy in southern Philip- pine waters is another. Desperate and terribly costly Jap- anese efforts to smash finally Amer- ican-Filipino forces on Luzon can be ascribed to a time lag in the Nippon- ese conquest program. d by the German master minds, who China Holds Possibilities Of Jap Loss Nipponese Are In Danger At Many Vital Spots On Long Front NEW YORK, Jan. 10. - (Wide World) - The "Chinese incident," which developed a warfront as long as Germany's in Russia and which now has merged into a world conflict, today furnishes the brightest news for the United Nations fighting Japan.j At vital spots all along a 2,000-mile front, from Mongolia to Burma, the troops of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek are on the move in something resembling a general offensive after four years and a half of a bloody,! down-hill war. The Japanese are in much the same position as Germany in Russia. The Chinese, who claim to have in- flicted 2,000,000 casualties upon the Japanese army in four years anda half, appear no more willing than the Russians to give the Axis a breathing space. With a trained and seasoned army of anywhere from 4,000,000 to 6,000,- 000 men drawn from the great reser- voir of China's 400,000,000 population, General Chiang in the past week has sprung offensives in four main areas. One of these is aimed at Canton in the south. Another is directed at Hankow from three positions ar- ranged semi-circularly about the great Yangtze River port-Changsha, Nanchang and from northeast of Ichang. A third has been on the Yellow River front in the Cheng- chow area. The fourth was in inner Mongolia in the area of Paotow, the farthest west outpost of the Japan- ese in that far northern area. In addition Chiang has sent un- specified numbers of his crack troops into Burma to bolster the British positions on that flank of the Jap- anese drive toward Singapore. Commanders of the United Na- tions' forces are bound to watch these moves with the closest attention, for they may provide the means to bomb Tokyo. Wilson Reveals Defense Plans General Motor's President Tells Of New War Orders DETROIT, Jan. 10.-(AP)-C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors Corp., announced today the receipt of $769,330,000 in war contracts since Jan. 1 to add to a $1,209,863,173 back- log of unfilled orders. At the same time, he pledged Gen- eral Motors to produce one-tenth of the materials needed for war and predicted that the peak of peace-time industrial activity would be surpassed by the end of the year, or in 18 months at most. Chief of the items to be provided under the new contracts are tanks and tank parts worth $522,445,000, which will be produced at four cen- ters. On Dec. 31, such orders on hand amounted to no more than $69,244,- 496, Wilson's statement disclosed. In a press conference attended by Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner, mayors of Michigan cities in which General Motors plants are located, and military authorities, Wilson said unfilled orders equalled "six months capacity production of our plants as now organized," but said the cor- poration was well ahead of delivery schedules in some essential lines. Wilson estimated that the United States would have to double its aver- age industrial production to keep pace with the demands of war but he declared the feat set for industry by President Roosevelt's war program was still far from the bluff it has been termed in Axis propaganda. Ei T'otais for the tour-day drive, as of 6 p.m., showed 865 townspeople and University staff members en-1 rolled to do anything from steno- graphy to heavy demolition. Volun-I teers will be classified by the CDVO in the early part of this week.- According to the CDVO, estab- lished agencies such as the Red Cross will be used wherever possible in vol- unteer training., In some fields, how- ever, new courses will be set up in cooperation with the University. Although all enrollees will not be placed immediately, the CDVO has1 already received requests for volun- teers from several, public service in- stitutions in Ann Arbor. Among' those present during thej drive were a London-blackout am- bulance driver, a boat-building Uni- versity professor, several tri-lingual Europeans, and a trained dictaphone operator willing to bring her own dictaphone. An additional registration period will be provided in the near future for residents unable to enroll last week. Church Group To Meet Here Conference Will Be Held Jan. 19 In Rackhat The third annual Michigan Pastors' Conference will be held in conjunc-, tion with the Michigan Choir Mas- ters' Clinic Jan. 19-21 in the Rack- ham School of Graduate Studies. Bringing ministers from all over the state, the three day program sponsored by the Michigan Council of Churches and Christian Educa- tion and the University Extension Service will feature discussions of the place of the church in the present world struggle. The Choir Masters' Clinic is a new feature of the meeting and is being introduced through the courtesy of the School of Music and its director, Prof. Earl V. Moore. It will con- sist of a special program, designed to help solve difficult problems in or- ganization and direction of church' choirs. The pastors will assemble Monday morning for a meeting of the Coun- cil which is to continue through the afternoon, while the evening meeting will hear a panel discuss "The Pres- ent World Struggle.".I Other highlights of the conference will be forums discussing techniques of 'churchmanship' and relative val- ues of varied methods of religious education. Just a week ago post officials re- ceived a letter in inch high pencilled lettering with the lines sagging badly, asking "do you have something for me to do like carrying messages or something." The Army addressed its reply to "Dear Mr. Maher" and stat- ed: "Your volunteering for this duty is an example which is mest com- mendable and could be followed by many others. However, our messen- ger ranks are filled at the present time with soldiers." Frankie's letter was given publicity throughout the State and he received letters and clippings from several boys who wanted to know how his proposition had fared. Not only that, he flashed his Army correspondence to his third grade friends and they picked up the idea in a hurry. This week the fort received a score of new letters with uncapitalized 's" and the other characteristics of juvenile handwriting. One of them from 607 Washburn, Kalamazoo, pro- posed "I'm writing you in behalf of our club. We were wondering if you would give us some suggestions or in- formation on what we could do to pass the time. Our ages are 14 to 16 Anything we can do in the U.S. Army?" Most of the others followed Fran- kie's lead in volunteering to be mes- sengers. Fort Custer officials are patiently Twentty Pipes Each Fit Mood Of Casadesus "My 20 best friends are my pipes" -so says Robert Casadesus, the emi- nent French pianist and composer who will appear in the seventh con- cert of the Annual Choral Union Series at 8:30 pm. Monday, Jan. 19, in Hill 'Auditorium. Casadesus, a big, blonde,. blue-eyed virtuoso carries his collection of pipes with him on all his concert tours and has them at his side when he composes. He once told a newspaper reporter that each of his pipes was a decided individualist and that they all were suited to different moods. Casadesus was born in Paris of a family of international musical repu- tation. A prize pupil of the Conserva- tory there, he had a brilliant career from the very start. He was soon giv- ing recitals all over Europe as well as in North Africa and South Amer- ica. He first came to this country in January, 1935. In his debut in New York City he so impressed Arturo Toscanini that he was asked to ap- pear with him during the following concert season and to assist him later in a Paris concert. % IIaF ill '13i r, 'p . r' 1I LAUNDRY -2-1044. Soxt Careful work ate low price. darned. 2c WANTED TO RENT UPPERCLASSMAN seeking solitudej wants small bachelor's apartmentI with kitchenette. For one or two. 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