4 W1Pthe 4aitj Weather Warmer VOL. LIII No. 22 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY; OCT. 29, 1942 PRICE FIVE CENTS JunkYard Swamped By Scrap Student Volunteers Create Unexpected Bottleneck At SalvageDump Pile More Men Needed To Clear Out Metal Hard-working student volunteers, called by the Manpower Mobilization Corps to do special salvage work this week, have done such a good job in the last two days that an unexpected bottleneck has developed at Lansky's junk yard on North Main St. The University Building and Grounds department sends most of its scrap to Lansky's and right now the yard is so full that it just can't take any more scrap. But the trouble will be cleared up in a jiffy, the Manpower Corps says, and everybody "keep on hustling so we can fill our quota. According to Richard "Double Dick" Dick, the Manpower scrap and salvage man, Lansky's hasn't got enough experienced help to clear the metal and prepare it for shipment out. 30 Needed For Junk Yard "The Manpower Corps can use about 30 men to work at Lansky's sorting metal and binding paper," Dick said last night. "These men must be prepared to work-for excellent wages-at least two consecutive hours each day because it takes a little time to teach them what must be done." Another appeal for special work came in last night from the Building and Grounds department. Men are needed to work-on acetylene torches. At'present the B & G has only two men melting metal with torches. "But students can be taught how to do this sort of work in. a hurry," Richard Dick said and asked for help. Meanwhile, 35 men from The Daily spent the entire afternoon yesterday doing salvage work for the Building and Grounds department. More Staffs Turn Out Today four staffs will supply almost 200 more men for salvage work. The ROTC will turn out 100-strong, the Union has promised 35 men, the New- man Club will give an afternoon for Uncle Sam and 30 dorm men will also pitch in. Yesterday the scrap drive finished its third day and enthusiasm was all-out, Manpower head Mary Bor- man reported. Calling attention to the "Hitler barometer" put up on the diagonal, Borman told students to "chart the progress of the scrap drive by watch- ing the mercury climb right up to Hitler's britches." When that happens, he said, 400 tons of scrap will have been collected by the students of the University of Michigan. "And the quota set by the Manpower Corps will have been filled." To do what they could about burn- ing the pants off Hitler, members of the Phi Psi fraternity yesterday were seen hauling out all the old bedsprings in the house and piling them in front. If you haven't thought about bed- springs yet, take a hint and get them out right near your front door. The trucks will be coming pretty soon. Allies Strike At Jap Bases Nipponese Retreat North Across New Guinea HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL MacARTEUR, Australia, Thursday, Oct. 29.-(4P)-Allied bombers winging far north of hotly-contested Guadal- canal in the Solomons hit a Japa- nese warship and another vessel at Rabaul, New Britain, and started fires visible for 80 miles at Buka, another enemy base, a communique said today. Allied-headquarters also announced that Australian ground troops strik- ing across the Owen Stanley moun- tains in New Guinea had "forced the enemy northward along the main trail to positions in the vicinity of Alola," and that stubborn fighting against isolated Japanese detach- ments and strong points was contin- uing. Thus the Allied troops were within eight miles. of Kokoda, mid- way point across the waist of the island. The night aerial attacks on Rabaul and Buka were "in enntinunu ssn- The Memory Still Lingers: SJap .Forces Reping Game Is Still Disputed By BUD HENDEL Daily Sports Editor The score stands-Minnesota 16, Michigan 14. The dropkick controversy is a dead issue, but it still has a lot of life. Major John Griffith, Commissioner of the Western Conference, and Coach Fritz Crisler of Michigan both issued statements last night concerning the crucial dropkick play, and their state- ments conflicted on'the most impor- tant part of the entire dispute-how much time would have been left if referee James Masker had penalized Minnesota for an extra time out. Griffith charged Masker for failing to impose a penalty on the Gophers, but he also said, "If Masker had stepped off the penalty against-Min- TRY THIS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM A Michigan Daily reporter went through the motions of nicking up the ball, pacing off five yards, set- ting down the ball, blowing a whis- tle and raising his hand. A friend timed him with a stopwatch. It took a minimum of ten seconds. nesota, during which time the clock would have been circling, the Gophers would have had considerably less time to execute their play. But I have no way of knowing whether Minnesota still would have had time to kick its field goal." Crisler, on the other hand, .-said, "... . time would have expired before any play could have been executed." In his statement, Crisler made it clear that Michigan had no formal protest to make. He said: "So that Michigan's position be not misunderstood, I want to point out that Michigan coaches and play- ers at no time questioned whether it was a dropkick, whether Minnesota had 12 men on the field or whether there were seven men on the line of scrimmage. The only question that Captain Ceithaml raised was in re- gard to a penalty which should have been assessed with the clock running and since the kick was made in the last second, time would have expired before the play could have been exe- cuted." "It was one of thoseunfortunate mistakes which was a bad break for Michigan but any person is human and likely to.make mistakes. We bear no ill will; and as far as we are con- cerned we would be glad to have the same officials work any of our games." Masker and two of the other offi- cials in the Minnesota game will be here next week to officiate the Michi- gan-Harvard contest. A Matter Of Seconds The dispute evolved around Bill Garnaas' last second dropkick field goal which gave the Gophers their two point victory. The clock stopped running when end Jerry Mulready en- tered the game, and Masker signalled for it to continue. He should have penalized the Gophers five yards, however, with the clock running as he paced off the penalty. There were only nine seconds left when Mulready came in, and since the ball .was snapped on the winning play with only one second to go, it seems doubt- ful that the Gophers would have had enough time had Masker not erred. Griffith said, "College games are never played over and scores not re- versed . . . once the game is ended. However, ; there has been so much public interest manifested in this play that I present these conclusions." Russian Armyoncedesew German GainInStalin ingnrad Report Slight Nazi Advance In Northern Factory Area As Reds Smash Into Flank Northwest Of City Against]I British U.S. Airmen Have Biggest Day of Campaign; Bag 7 Axis Fighter Planes Battle Widens Way For New Onslaughtk By DON WHITEHEAD Associated Press Correspondent CAIRO, Oct. 28.- The advance tank force of Britain's Eighth Army has won the first round with Field; Marshal Rommel's armor in battles through the Alamein minefield gaps, and dispatches from the desert front said today that the British onslaught was steadily widening the way for the major test of rival steel and gun- power. Over the shell-pocked battleground and the bomb-pitted ports of Rom- mel's supply lines the Allied air force kept German and Italian planes on' the defensive. Allies Lose Six Planes United States fighters reported their biggest day of the campaign, downing seven planes out of yester- day's Allied bag of 18. Three of them were shot down by Lieut. Lyman Mid- dieditch, Highlands, N. J., fighter. pilot in the Black Scorpion Squadron. Total Allied losses were six planes. The British Middle East Command announced that further progress had been made Monday in night fighting. Dispatches from the front indicated that Axis losses already had been heavy, both in tanks and men. There was no authoritative estimate, how- ever, on the number of Rommel's tanks put out of action in the first five days of the fight, and it was clear that by far his main armored power was poised back of the battlefront. Under Trrific Barrage Groups of prisoners trailed back over the British supply lines told of the terrific brage the El Alamein line has been under day and night since the start of the offensive as British artillery blasted a way through the minefields and barbed wire for infantry of the Army of the Nile. German and Italian communiques said the British attack was pressed hardest on the north or seaward flank of the battle line. The Germans said they were putting up "heavy but suc- cessful defensive fighting." (The exact extent of the Eighth Army's penetrations of the Axis de- fense system has not been defined, but a Reuters dispatch to London from a correspondent at the front was datelined "West of the El Alamein Line," indicating that the British were fanning out behind Rommel's first defenses.) British Sweep Front Even before joining in the action, Rommel's main tank forces were un- der attack at their gathering points back of the line by British and United States bombers and fighter-bombers who swept the front and ranged back to the port of Matruh. "The desert air task force of the United States Army forces in the Middle East continued relentless at- tacks against the enemy throughout Tuesday," said a communique from the U.S. headquarters. "In a series of combined operations with Allied light bombers, medium bombardment aircraft bombed enemy landing grounds, motor convoys, tank concentrations and the Matruh dock area. Many direct hits were observed." U.S. Marines count Japanese dead on the shores of Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, after they drove into the strategic area to. seize Henderson airfield. Now the Japanese are trying to get it back. Students Can Help Win The Warw B Writing its For The Army Nw iFj1Hebrides, Fj!Bss Vin First RudI gp ...p Japanese Dead On Guadalcanal Japs Being Mowed Down On Guadalcanal, Navy By HENRY C. CASSIDY Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (Thursday)- The Russians today acknowledged their second withdrawal in the battle- torn city of Stalingrad in 24 hours, but reported that the Red Army had made gains .northwest of Stalingrad and on the Black Sea front of the West Caucasus. The midnight Soviet communique said the Germans had advanced about 200 yards at one point in the factory district of North Stalingrad after 16 Are Killed In Detroit Bus, TrainCollision More Than Score Hurt; DSR Motorbus Driver Held ForQuestioning DETROIT, Oct. 28.- (R)- Sixteen persons were killed and more than a score injured, several critically, today when a Detroit Street Railways mo- torbus, jammed to its doors with school children, office workers and factory employes, was ripped in two by a passenger train. The bus halted at the Caniff Ave- nue crossing of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad to permit a north- bound freight train to pass, then moved directly into the path of a southbound passenger train. The locomotive of the Chicago- Detroit train sliced through the rear end of the bus, hurled the front end to one side, scattered bodies along the right of way for two blocks and ground to a stop a quarter mile away with the bodies of six youths mangled against the front of its boiler. Suburban Hamtramck police took into custody for questioning the bus driver, William- F. Clos, 25, who has been a regular motor coach operator for two years. Fred A. Nolan, general manager of the municipally owned DSR transpor- tation system, said the accident was the worst in the system's history. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ordered a complete investigation. Marie Giles, 21, a passenger seated directly behinsd the bus driver, told how standing riders obscured his vi- sion. "There was a car ahead of the bus," she said. "When the freight train eleared. this car started across. gaining about two blocks during the previous night by throwing in huge masses of men, tanks and planes. At another point, the communique said, a company of motorized infantry broke through Soviet lines to the southwest outskirts of one factory, but was completely wiped out. The intensity of the fighting in Stalingrad was indicated by Russian claims that Soviet artillery and mor- tar fire and air attacks had destroyed 12 companies of German infantry (more than 2,000 men), 30 tanks, 90 trucks and 18 artillery batteries. Moscow radio reported that the Red Army's relief attack northwest of Stalingrad had resulted in . further Russian gains after fierce hand-to- hand fighting which cost the Ger- mans 1,200 dead. Launched Eight Counterattacks The communique, referring to fighting in this sector, said the Ger- mans had launched eight counterat- tacks against one height, but that all the attacks wererepelled and the Russians launched counter-blows kil- ling more than 500 enemy troops. Soviet dispatches from the Black Sea area reported a dramatic rever- sal of the military position in which the Nazis were rolled bank from Tu- apse in heavy mountain combat. The communique said the Germans had thrown reserves into this sector and had tried to take a height held by the Red Army. The Russians, how- ever, fought until the Germans were exhausted and then counterattacked, killing about 200 Germans. You're not in the Army, Student Jones, but you can help write Hit- ler's death warrant from your study- room desk. Four to ten-minute comedy skits or historical skits like "Cavalcades of History" are needed by the War De- partment to entertain the soldiers of Uncle Sam now training in Army camps all over the nation. Barclay Leathem of the ServicesDivision of the War ment writes that "dramatic tion ranks next to athletics as a recreational activity for in the service." trying to provide scripts for the en- tertainmerot of the men in service. To date, there are about 30 stu- dents working on their own hook to supply scripts for the Army. Eight scripts have been sent out. In another month, another batch of skits will be needed. But hurry, Student Jones. The Army is calling for fast work. Al- though your scripts will be royalty free for the armed services, the laugh they'll bring will go a long way to- ward winning the war for us. Swart hout Will Present .recital Today Nipponese Suffer Equipment Losses By WALTER B. CLAUSEN Associated Press Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 28.- The hordes of Hirohito were mobilized with a superiority of ships, planes nd men today for what appears to ie a major thrust against key Ameri- an bases and communication lines n the route to Australia-the New jebrides and the Fiji Islands. The mobilization was coincident with the assault to recapture Guadal- anal, where even before the naval battle of October 26 the enemy had landed tanks and artillery and had welled troop forces to perhaps 40,000 nen. Significant Factors Noted There were three significant factors In regard to the naval battle. First, a Tokyo naval announcement said it -took place in the midst of Japanese mobilization; second, the Japanese term it the Battle of the south Pacific, and, third, it took place.; some ,300 miles northeast of Guadalcanal and within a day's strik- Ing distance of American positions in the New Hebides. The Japanese had completed two mass landings on Guadalcanal, and while these forces started land as- saults against Marine and Army troops, a powerful striking force of battleships, carriers, cruisers and de- troyers was streaking eastward aroundthe SolomonIslands-appar- ently moving toward the New Hebri- ds whenthe battle contact was made with American sea and air forces. Aleutian, Solomons Activity Also The only other Japanese moves, since the Battle of Midway in June crumpled their Hawaii invasion plan, have been the building of a subma- rine base at Kiska in the Aleutians and the infiltration of the Southern. Solomons-the latter having been halted August 7 by American Marines landing on Guadalcanal. During these past four months, a powerful invasion armada apparently was being made ready at Truk for the South Pacific drive which now is underway. Solonmons Fighting Reported In Lull WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. - (1) - Japanese trying to take the vital air- field on Guadalcanal are being mowed down in far greater numbers than the American defenders, the Navy announced today in a com- munique which alsoddescribed the damage to enemy equipment as "very heavy." Possibly because of the losses they have suffered since they launched their full-scale offensive on Oct. 23, the Japanese reduced their operations on the night of Oct. 26-27 to several "small scale thrusts" against the American positions. All of these at- tacks were thrown back. Lull In Battle Otherwise, naval officers inter- preted a communique making these announcements today as indicating that the fighting in the Solomons was in a lull. They emphasized how- ever, that there was nothing to indi- cate the Japanese naval forces had withdrawn from the area of the fighting. After a series of furious sea battles which erupted at several points in the vicinity of the Solomons over the week-end, it was only natural that both sides should be catching their breath and taking stock of the resulting situation. Describing the losses in the land fighting, the communique said: "Enemy losses in men and euip- ment in troop actions on the island since Oct. 23 have been very heavy as compared to our own." U.S. Losses Light Naval officers added to this the information that American losses have been light. The period covered by the state- ment of losses included much land fighting. This reached an apparent climax on the night of Oct. 24-25. Then an attack from the south pentrated nositions held by the Special Depart- produc- in value the men And that, Student Jones, is where you come in. Your skit should call for simple sets, properties and effects, and it should provide for all-male casts. So if you're a graduate from Mr. Seager's advanced composition course or if you've taken Professor Rowe's drama-writing course, maybe you can out-Saroyan Saroyan. Your script-if it's acceptable-will be rushed to the National Theatre Conference office at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and from there out to the Army camps. If you want to tackle the rush job, contact Prof. K. T. Rowe of the Eng- lish department at once. His office is 3228 Angell Hall and he is the chairman of the Defense Committee Senate Committee Asks Measures To Curtail Civilian Doctor Shortage WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-(1P)-The "unplanned recruiting" of doctors for the armed medical services has led the nation to "a dangerous health emer- gency," a Senate sub - committee charged today in calling for immedi- ate action to assure medical care for civilians as well as soldiers. Senator Pepper (Dem. - Fla.), as chairman of the labor sub-committee on manpower, issued the report as- serting that there had been "a tre- mendous unnecessary over-militariza- tion of the doctor supply at the ex- pense of the civilian population" and that "the nation has been fortunate to have avoided serious local or even national epidemics to date." there will be an average of only one doctor for each 3,000 civilians, con- trasted with a national average of about one to 1,100 before the war. "In some counties in the southern states, hitherto fairly well supplied with physicians, there is now only one Foaming Boar Runs Hog-Wild In Back Yard Crashing through a fence and chas- ing Mrs. F. N. Calhoun's twelve year old son to cover in the chicken coop, a hog, which was described as "a doctor for 7,000 individuals," it con- tinued. The report charged that "foolish and dangerous" methods used to re- cruit physicians for military service had resulted in "hoarding and freez- ing unused doctors in the American armed forces in a ratio double that of the British." "The conditions are so acute and dangerous," Pepper's report said, "that this preliminary report is made public with the recommendation that at the earliest possible moment the following steps should be taken: "The President,as commander in chief, should order a survey to be made of over-supply and under-sup- ply of medical personnel for both the GLADYS SWARTHOUT . ..Metropolitan .Star Gladys Swarthout, star of radio, screen and opera will offer a song recital at 8:30 p. m. today in Hill Auditorium for the second of the 1942-43 Choral Union Series. The world famous prima donna of the Metropolitan, only woman ever to have sung before the entire assem- bled United States Congress, Supreme Court and President, will be heard in a program featuring the works of Handel, Granados, Griffes and the contemporary Americanscomposer, Clarence Olmstead. Mr. Olmstead's song, "Time," will be given its world premiere by Miss Swarthout. Remaining tickets for the program will be on sale at the University Musi- cal Society's offices in Burton Tower _4,1 ,. A + , . n n * 1,x