Weather Warmer, Contiued Sihowers. 4t1tr an t9 1,4 ~I Editorial Russia No Threat To Permanent Peace . V(li.: ierr . N 7B0 V V .Jal. XA . 16 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1942 Z-333 'PARTVV Tiit7T d-l-VI PPO u .ova MIUZ kIVE UUNTS 8 I Nazis Control French Labor; Goering, Laval, Petaii Confer Observers Fear Meeting As Collaboration Move; May Discuss Martinique Despite U.S. Unconcern Wave Of Sabotage Sweeps France I I Enemy Sub Moves Inland Into Canada. BERN, Switzerland, May 12.-(IP)- The German occupying authoritie in France arrogated to themselves to. day vast power over French labo and coincident reports were hear here that Reichsmarshal Hermani Goering might meet tomorrow wit Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval t reach "final decisions" involving France's relations with the Unite States and her future course in the war. On the eve of the prospective meeting-which may steer France into military collaboration with Ger- many-information from Occupiec France tonight told of a new series of sabotage incidents against the Ger- mans. Hurled Bombs These accounts said saboteurs in night sorties hurled bombs into ho- tels used by the Germans as bar- racks. The incidents followed others of the past ten days, inspired ap- parently by the appointment of Gen- eral Oberg, one of Heinrich Him- mler's right hand men in the Ges- tapo, as head of the Paris Security Department. Following such outbreaks hereto- fore there has been wholesale repri- sal execution of hostages and depor- tations. Forty Frenchmen now are awaiting execution if the killers of two German sailors at Rouen are not produced by May 15. Foreign in- formants here said another 50 likely would face the firing squad and 500 more deported as a punitive measure for the Paris hotel attacks. General Otto von Stuelpnagle, mil- itary commandant of Occupied France, promulgated the decree by which authority to increase working hours in French plants was taken into Nazi hands and under which all French employers were ordered to turn in the names of workmen who, as a result of these longer periods, would be available for other labor. Labor Laws Annulled Although the old popular front la- bor laws had long since been an- nulled, much of French industry has been operating on a 40-hour week, and sometimes no more than 20 hours, in order to spread the limited employment available. It appeared that the Nazis intended to increase their supply of forced labor simply by throwing out many of those presently employed in French industry and taking them in hand through the reports required to be made by employers. As to France's foreign affairs, it was reported in foreign diplomatic quarters here that Otto Abetz, Hit- ler's personal representative in occu- pied Paris, had met Chief of Govern- ment Laval yesterday on the French demarkation line at Moulins to ar- range for a conference with Goering. Vichy's Reaction Can't Affect Martinique - Hull WASHINGTON, May 12. -(P)- Secretary Hull made it plain today that so far as this government is con- cerned Vichy's reaction has no bear- ing upon the current negotiations at Martinique to prevent Axis use of that island or other Caribbean French possessions to menace Amer- ica. The Washington government, he indicated to reporters, is interested only in the actual discussions with Admiral Georges Robert, the French High Commissioner at Martinique. He said the government was not en- deavoring to follow any other phase of the Martinique situation. Consult With Laval In Vichy, Marshal Petain was in consultation with Nazi-dominated Pierre Laval, the Chief of Govern- ment, after interrupting a vacation on the Riviera to return to the cap- ital. The discussions at Martinique were begun on Saturday, when Admiral John H. Hoover, commanding naval officer in the area, and Samuel Reber, the State Department's assis- tant chief of the Division of Euro- pean Affairs, arrived at the French- owned island. Axis Submarine Attacks, Sinks Canadian Boat; Waterways Violated (By The Associated Press) Axis submarines, creeping closer to the shores of the Western Hemi- sphere from Canada to Mexico, have violated waters impregnable in the last world war. The first submarine attack ever reported in the St. Lawrence River between the United States and Cana- da was announced Tuesday by the Canadian navy minister who revealed thatra freighter had been sunk by the raider. Canadians, who have feared such operations, prepared to put into effect special combative plans prepared long ago. Yesterday survivors of a British ship revealed that a submarine at- tacked them within a mile and a half of an Atlantic beach, the explosion bringing hundreds of people to watch. Reports of at least two ships sunk in the Gulf of Mexico showed that this body of water, harboring vital supply and industrial areas, had been dared by theAxis under-sea raiders. Instruct Ships The Mexican Navy Ministry also took notice of the German operations in Gulf waters by instructing their merchant ships to keep lights burn- ing' at night and the Mexican flag flying by day. One Mexican news- paper reported that a tanker met a German submarine in the Gulf and "saluted the Nazi ship with its flag and the salute was returned." An enemy submarine stealthily penetrated the heavy outer coastal defenses of Canada and for the first time in history torpedoed a ship in the inland waterways of the Domin- ion yesterday, injuring some members of the freighter's crew. Forty-four survivors of the vessel sunk in the St. Lawrence River prop- er, inland from the spacious gulf ofi the same name, were reported to have drifted to safety in the nearby1 tiny fishing coves.I Forty-two of them landed at one point today and a woman and child in another lifeboat turned up at a fishing village not far away.1 Crew Injured Reports here said none was miss-1 ing but that some of the crew were injured, not seriously. All the survivors were taken to a nearby town where the injured were treated in a hospital, and it was in- dicated all would leave later for Montreal. The first announcement of the at- tack was made at Ottawa by Navy Minister Angus MacDonald, who withheld the name of the vessel and1 the locality of the sinking. In making the distinction that the ship was sunk in the river rather 1 than in the gulf outside, Navy sources said Anticosti Island was consideredt the division point between them. The river widens as it approaches r Anticosti and the southern channelk between that island and Gaspe Pen- insula, the larger of the river's twoc mouths, is about 50 miles across; the1 northern channel is 25 miles-wide. Two Million Dollar Park Project Plan Proposed a ANN ARBOR, May 12. -OP)- Al two-year program calling for expen-r diture of $2,000,000 to provide recre- ational facilities for 3,000,000 personso in the area of the Detroit-Huron-r Clinton Parkway was proposed today.I Harry B. Earhart of Ann Arbor, chairman of the Parkway Authority,a said $425,000 of this sum would bec spent on a park for Willow Run$ bomber workers near Belleville Lake, f Nazi Airmen Sink Three Destroyers New British Ships Blaste In Mediterranean Sea 100 Seamen Are Los Malta's Defenders Score New Victory LONDON, May 12.-UP)-The Ger- man Air Force, broadening its cam- paign to drive the British Navy from the middle sea, dive-bombed and sank threepowerful new British destroyers yesterday in the eastern Mediterran- ean. Loss of the ships, the 1,920-ton Lively and the Kipling and Jackal, of 1,650 tons each, was announced today by the Admiralty which said 500 officers and men-all but about 100 men of the total complement of the sunken vessels-were rescued. Rescue Survivors A fourth destroyer picked up the survivors, carrying out its gallant mis- sion in seas littered with wreckage, splashed with blazing oil and rent with exploding bombs. Avenging the naval losses, Malta's defenders today boosted to 128 their four-day total of Axis planes de- stroyed or damaged over the island fortress. The day's bag included five enemy fighters destroyed, one bomb- er and three fighters probably de- stroyed, four fighters and three bombers damaged. Timing this attack with large scale raids on Malta, swarms of Heinkel and Junkers bombers assaulted the British flotilla just after three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Hit With Bombs The Lively was hit with four bombs in the first assault and sank within a few minutes, according to today's Berlin version of the battle. British Beaufighters repelled a sec- ond attack, shooting down one Hein- kel and damaging seven other enemy bombers. After this check the Ger- mans returned a third time to the assault, scoring two bomb hits each on the Kipling and Jackal. The Kipling went down at once but the Jackal stayed afloat and the fourth destroyer towed her out of the battle area. It was necessary, how- ever, for the British to sink the wounded destroyer this morning. Wider Tax Range Suggested In Bill WASHINGTON, May 12. -()- A last-minute suggestion that single persons who earn between $9 and $10 a week be asked to pay Federal income taxes waskpresented to the House Ways and Means Committee today as the members prepared to vote soon on the questions of lower- ing personal exemptions, raising rates, or choosing a combination of both. Colin F. Stam, head of the joint committee on internal revenue, pro- posed informally that if exemptions were to be lowered, the action apply only to normal taxes, with present exemptions retained so far as surtaxes are concerned. Just before Chairman Doughton (Dem.-N.C.) expressed the hope pub- licly that "we might start voting to- morrow" on individual taxes, Stam was reported to have suggested this alternative to a previous program he recommended and to the Treasury Department's scheme. Lower the personal exemption of a single person from $750 to $500 and of married couples from $1,500 to $1,00; retain the present $400 credit for each dependent. I Near Northern Australian Coast; Second Japanese Armada Masses Nazis Renew Drive Against ercl 102 Axis Planes Bagged In Eastern Crimea Area, Russian Report Claims Drive loward Oil Wells Is Renewed MOSCOW, Wednesday, May 13.- (W)- German troops again were hurled against the Red Army's lines in the Kerch area of the eastern Cri- mea yesterday in a renewal of the sharp fighting in which the Soviets announced they had destroyed 102 Nazi planes over a two-day period. After a Monday night lull in the Nazi drive toward the Caucasus oil wells across the narrow Kerch Strait, the Soviet's midnight communique said: "During May 12 on the Kerch Pen- insula severe battles took place with the enemy. Germans Counter-Attack "On other sectors of the front there were no significant changes." A supplement to this communique said that reinforced German units counter-attacking on the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow had been beaten off by Soviet troops with heavy casualties to the Nazis. Red troops commanded by Com- rade Demenyuk "drove the Germans into a bog and almost completely an- nihilated them," the communique said in describing that action. The bag of 102 Nazi planes occur- red Sunday and Monday, and pre- sumably most of them were knocked out on the Crimean front. Nazi Offensive The Soviets announced the first big Nazi spring offensive in the Kerch area on Monday, then yester- day afternoon tersely said that "no important changes'"had occurred- an official indication that Red in- fantrymen were holding their posi- tions after a Monday night lull in that vital sector. Red infantrymen were said to have broken the first German lunge and to have sent the Nazis reeling back to their original positions in all but one sector of the 12-mile front. Sixty-two of the destroyed German planes were identified as belonging to the 77th Nazi air squadron. Yearbook Hits Campus Today New 'Ensian To Feature StrikingPhotography The new 1942 Michiganensian, fea- turing complete campus coverage and emphasis on art and photography, is out today and distribution has al- ready begun. Receipt holders may call for their copies at the first floor of the Stu- dent Publications Building, all day 'Ensian staff meeting today. Pic- nic for entire staff follows at 4:00 p.m. until 5 p.m. The sale will last till Friday or until all the yearbooks are distributed. An identification card will serve in place of a lost receipt, if any have been mislaid. Balance payments must be paid to- day or the book will have to be for- feited as the supply is limited and the demand is high. Any books left unpaid for can be used immediately so it is essential that back payments be completed today. Government Halts Proceedings Against Pacifist Harold Gray DETROIT, May 12.-(P)-Criminal proceedings against Harold Studley Gray, prominent 48-year-old Ann Arbor farmer and pacifist who had refused to register for the Selective Service, were averted here today but Federal officials said Gray would be in difficulty again if he failed to fill out and return a draft questionnaire that will be sent him later. When , Gray, a conscientious ob- jector who served 11 months in Fed- eral Prison during the World War, appeared in the U.S. Marshal's Of- fice today at the behest of the At- torney General, he refused to sign a registration form filled out for him by U.S. Marshal John Barc. As pre- scribed by law, however, Barc signed it for him and forwarded it to the State Director of Selective Service. Gray was released on his own rec- ognizance after Bare explained an- other could register for him but that Gray would have to fill out and sign his own draft questionnaire. Bare pointed out that Gray, well- to-do and grandson of the first pres- ident of the Ford Motor Company, would not be called for combat duty but probably would be assigned to continue his farming. "f you try to conscriptsme," Gray told the Federal officials, "I won't go on raising food. Without con- be used in the war because I am not responsible for another man's acts just because Irput milk onhissdoor- step." Asserting he was acting because he believed war to be anti-Christian, Gray said that, should Ann Arbor be bombed, he would help the wound- ed just as he would aid wounded Germans or Japanese. But, he said, he could not be forced to help. "Conscription leads to totalitarian- ism," he said. "Oh, yes, I'm opposed to Fascism-I'm with our government 100 per cent. But if we engage in violence we'll probably be captured by the Nazi philosophy rather than by the Nazis themselves. West Virginian Mine Explosion TakesBig Toll 13 Lives Lost, 40 Missing In Tragic Osage Blast; Rescue Work Continues A scription I would not object to farm- OSAGE %W.Va., May 12.-(AP)-A ing, even though my products might terrific blast deep in a big West Virginia coal mine apparently took 53 lives today, with thirteen bodies 55 U'Students recovered and the word of rescue workers there was almost no hope for 40 others trapped underground. The estimate of 53 caught in the blat asevn i hn an official an- Into Air Force nouncement at the mine. Seventy men escaped death when they fled from the workings. In the largest public induction in One crew late tonight announced the state since the war began, more it had at last reached the scene of than 55 University students will be the explosion and discovered ten sworn into the Army Air Forces at more bodies. The members said an- 7:30 p.m. today on the steps of Angell other crew would bring them out Hall. shortly. Led by All-American Bob West- Oxygen-helmeted rescuers coming fall, the new inductees will enlist as out of the mine reported the opera- aviation cadets, and will be deferred tion badly shattered near the center until after graduation, of the explosion and said it might Also present at the ceremonies will be many hours before more bodies be the ROTC Drum and Bugle Corps, were brought out. a color guard for the local American T. E. Griffith, U.S. Bureau of Mines Legion Post, and Prof. Harry C. Car- engineer who acted as spokesman for ver, University adviser to the Army the Christopher Coal Company, con- Air Forces, firmed that there were 110 men in The induction ceremony will im- the pit when the disaster occurred mediately precede a mass meeting at about 2:30 p.m. 8 p.m. at the Rackham Building, The three whose bodies were re- where Lieut.-Col. Joseph H. Carr and covered by members of four mine res- Lieut. Rondel Cox, Mitchell Field of- cue teams-working in shifts at the ficers, will explain the Air Forces task of clearing away rock, coal and new deferred service enlistment plan, timbers-were found near the main The program will also include the driveway. latest sound pictures on Aviation The best estimates were that one Cadet training. entire section of the mechanized For those interested the traveling mine, one of the biggest producers in examination board will be at the northern West Virginia, was effected. Health Service until tomorrow to The condition of the gassed miner, examine candidates for both active Roy Williams, was not considered and deferred status. Mental exam- serious. inations will be given at 9:30 a.m. N. P. Rhinehart, State Mines De- and 12:30 p.m. each day while inter- partment chief, said just before leav- views for those interested in the re- ing Charleston for Osage that he serve program will be held from 9 was informed there is "practically no a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. chance the others are alive." Eye-Witness Account: Last Weary Burma Defenders Withdrawing Slowly To Assam By DANIEL DELUGE CALCUTTA, India, May 12.-(P)-have been completely supreme in the CAunkwtTwainia, Mayloggin aoo Burma sky, knifed from ambush by Drunk with weariness, slogging afoot blood-crazed bands of native trai- in both desert dust and the oozy tors, the haggard British riflemen, slime of dank teak forests, and swim- tank crews and wiry Sepoys from the ming muddy, swollen streams, the Indian units are now approaching last companies of the British and within a few score miles of the rugged Indian armies of Burma are fighting Assam border, which must and can on toward the mountains of Assam bsambdergihmunad a in the toughest withdrawal of this be held against the invader. How to save them? The final an- war. swer is not yet known. Back there Thirteen hundred miles and 13 in Burma the cruel lesson that some- days back I left them, and drove a thing more than willingness to mud- U.S. Army jeep from Schwebo to Cal-% dle through is needed to win this cutta over trails fit only for goats, war is still being taught. mules-and jeeps. Boys with matchless courage are No other type of motor vehicle in being slaughtered because they are Burma could have made the trip, in inadequate numbers, ill-trained, The exhausted remnants of two Im- poorly equipped. The last tired com- perial divisions which have been con- panies of what four months ago were tinually in action during the whole nrr n nd a,.t- i,,i- - i Air Fleet Reinforcements Bolster Enemy Navy; Port Moresby Raided Efforts To Check Drive To India Fail ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus- tralia, May 12. - (P) - Apparently forced to postpone an invasion attempt because of damages inflicted by the Allies in the Coral Sea battle, the Japanese invasion force was be- lieved tonight to be lurking in island hideouts north of Australia, waiting for seaborne plane reinforcements. The invasion fleet itself, particu- larly the transports, was believed comparatively intact, observers said. They added that it probably was well dispersed, but ready to reassemble quickly. Fleet In Mandated Islands Japan's mandated Caroline Islands lie just north of the Bismarck and Solomon archipelagoes and earlier reports have indicated that the grand fleet was somewhere in that area, probably at Truk. The Japanese apparently already have reinforced their aerial squad- rons operating in the invasion ring above Australian. waters, military correspondents reported. Reports from Port Moresby, New Guinea, which the Japanese would like to gain as an invasion base, said that bombers raided that port yes- terday for the first time since May 4. Japanese Zero fighters carried out intervening raids. The bombers apparently replaced those destroyed or damaged by Allied planes in a ten-day series of attacks which practically drove Nipponese bombers out of the New Guinea sky. The Allies suffered no losses at Port Moresby, where the hurried Jap- anese, aiming carelessly, dropped bombs into the jungle or at]Horn Island, off Australia's northeastern tip. Gives Warning Meanwhile, Australian Army Min- ister Francis M. Forde warned in an interview against complacency re- sulting from the Coral Sea fight and the new Australian Minister to Wash- ington, Sir Owen Dixon, said it was i great mystery why the Japanese did not take advantage of Australia in the time of her greatest weakness. Sir Owen, speaking at a reception given by Melbourne's Lord Mayor, Frank Beaurepaire, declared that the time for the Japanese had passed, largely because of the numbers of men and planes from the United States. Drive On India Unchecked By Chinese Resurgence LONDON, May 12.-(P)-The Jap- anese who have swept northward through Burma surged back and forth in desperate ,battle with the Thinese along the tortuous Burma load in western Yunnan Province oday 'and met another check in ,heir simultaneous drive toward In- lia in the other direction. But the unforeseen resurgence of ,he Chinese and the furious stand of ,he British both appeared to be too 'ate either to retrieve Burma or to :emove the increasing threat to In- lia as the Japanese quickly brought ip reinforcements for both main ven- tures, on thedeastern and western forks of, their drive. Japs Driven South The Chinese early in the evening innounced that the main force of the invasion column which had pene- rated Yunnan through China's back door had been driven back south- westward to Wanting, on the Burma border, but a later communique ack- nowledged that the Japanese had brought up reinforcements and were renewing the attack. This apparently was in the region between Chefang and angshih, 25 and"55 miles inside China, respective- ly. There the Chinese had said they were heavily engaging remnants and rear guards of the first Japanese force after having forced them back 30 miles from their deepest penetra-1 tion near Lungling. NOTICES There will be an important meeting at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday 1 1 , ,i i i i , 1 .i i I's : ; Netmen Defeat Broncos, 5.3; Nine Leads As Rain Intervenes I By BART JENKS Playing both good and bad tennis, Michigan's brilliant tennis team de- feated Western Michigan yesterday afternoon, 5-3, to close the most suc- cessful season in its history. For a while it looked as if the match would have to be played in- doors but fortunately the rain let up in time and the courts demonstrated their ability to withstand rain very satisfactorily. Rain got the last say, however, and forced the cancellation of the number three doubles in the second set. For the Wolverines the high spot of the match and the thing which carried them to victory was as usual the impressive performance of the last four singles. By BOB SHOPOFF DETROIT, May 12.-Michigan's baseball team seemed headed for victory against Wayne today but the skies darkened and a downpour cut loose to halt the tilt. The Wolverines were leading, 4-0, with Wayne bat- ting in the third inning when the rains came. Playing on the Northwestern field here, Coach Ray Fisher's squad wast- ed no time in scoring as Davey Nel- son started by beating out a bunt down the third-base line. After the "Mite" had stolen second, Don Hol- man walked and Don Robinson ad- vanced both runners with a sacri- fice. Bud Chamberlain, next up, drove a long fly into center field and Nel- Police Don't STalk'Turkey Hearing a noise at her front door yesterday, an Ann Arbor woman opened it to find a dead rabbit with green and red ribbons around its neck and this note: "To Hamu, In the Name of Hasan and Husain, From Your Shite and Alyite Friends, To Hell with Abbas." Police were as mystified as she was until she expressed the belief that it might have been a joke played by some Turkish students who live near her. Checking up, the police found that Hasan. Husain and Abbas were 7 i i t 1 yf L 1 i