t latty Weather Rain VOL. LIII No. 41 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1942 PRICE FIVE CENTS MANPOWER HEAD SPEAKS Borman Seeks Students for Labor in Factories By BOB MANTHO Manpower head-man Mary Borman announced last night that plans have already been begun to place students in Ann Arbor factories for four- hour shifts where needed. "Factories are having trouble getting vital labor," Borman said, "and we're going to try to fill in with students." He said that they will work either four hours a day or will work an eight-hour shift for three days in the week. Out "to help win this war for Uncle Sam," the Manpower Corps has already begun a survey of labor shortages in Ann Arbor eating places in- tended to supply student help in "any place of business whose continuance is in some way, directly or indirectly,-- necessary to the total war effort." According to results of the survey so far, the dormitories here are op- erating with "hopelessly" underman- ned staffs and need all the help they can get. The Union has had a "help wanted" posted in the cafeteria all fall. r Eating establishments along State Street row have also had "waiter wanted" posters in their windows for the last two months and one es- tablishment has been forced to go on a three-day week because it can't get any help. To get the help, the ManpoWr Corps will begin a gigantic new regis- tration drive which will try to "en- roll every man on campus." The drive will be launched Monday and will last all week. Furnish Woodchoppers Borman also announced that the corps will furnish students to chop wood on near-by farms, to harvest sugar beets, pick apples, pick car- rots and husk corn. He said that more students will be used as ward-helpers in the Univer- sity hospital and a tin can salvage drive will begin at once. A war stamp and bond drive "to invest in democracy" is ready to move and the scrap and salvage drive will be continued. More workers will also work with the University Building and Grounds department. Organized on Oct. 16 in a student- initiated move to get the University of Michigan behind the war effort, the Manpower Corps went to work five days later by conducting a huge registration drive. At present, the membership is slightly over 1,000 students who have done so well that they are being nick-named "University minutemen." The two biggest projects under- taken by Borman's hustling corps have been a scrap drive which brought in a total of 100 tons in a week and a 400-man "expeditionary relief corps" sent up to the state's crooked thumb district for sugar- beet harvesting. Although the beet- workers were handicapped by bad weather, they picked 50 acres of beets in three days or more than 137,500 pounds of sugar, Apple Pickers Sent Out Eight groups of apple pickers were sent out to the Soffe farm near Milan and they picked approximately 300 bushels each trip. Thirty-nine men harvested 78 tons of sugar beets prior to the Sandusky trip. A mixed group of 20 males and 15 coeds picked carrots at Professor Hyma's farm. Ten men have been working every day of the week at the University hospital serving as orderlies, store- room men and lab assistants. A hundred men helped out with the fuel rationing registration be- tween Nov. 9 and 13. The Corps has also been given full power to coordinate and approve the war projects of all campus activities before they may be put into opera- tion. PLENTY GAS Filib usterers Cause Delay on Poll Tax WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.- (iP)-- Filibustering Southerners and Ad- ministration Senators almost got to- gether today for a showdown vote on the Anti-Poll Tax bill but Senator Chandler (Dem.-Ky.) upset the ap- ple-cart, fearing their plan would be the death of the measure. The showdown would have come, under plans which Senators Barkley (Dem.-Ky.) and Connally (Dem.- Tex.) worked out after preliminary sparring, on a vote Monday on the question of invoking cloture rule lim- iting debates to one hour per senator. A two-thirds majority of those voting would be required to impose the rule. Connally agreed that the Souther- ners would permit the vote to be taken FDR Orders Compliance with WLB Decision WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.- (AP)- President Roosevelt stepped into the row between the War Labor Board and the Montgomery Ward Company today by directing the mail order house to comply with a War Labor Board order providing for a "main- tenance of membership" clause in a pending union contract. Although the company had rejec- ted WLB order as illegal and uneco- nomic, it had said that if Mr. Roose- velt as Commander-in-Chief should direct it to comply, the company would obey. Compliance Essential Mr. Roosevelt's action was taken in a letter to Sewell' Avery, the President of the company. The letter said that compliance was 'essential in the in- terest of our war effort" and directed that the board's ruling, be accepted "without further delay." The maintenance of membership clause gives compny enployes who are members of the union fifteen days in which to resign. If they do not do so within that period, they are con- sidered bound to continue their union membership for the duration of the contract, one year. Company Argues The company argued that "em- ployes who are members of the union would not be free to resign from the union, without being discharged, and Ward's would not be free to retain a competent worker who had resigned from the union." In addition Montgomery Ward con- tended that the Board's order would establish a pattern under which all unions could obtain a closed shop by simply appealing to the War Labor Board. The company also objected to a 'provision of the contract guaran- teeing maintenance of wages and working conditions. Such a proviso, it said, was unsound in such uncertain times. -BULLETIN - SALEM, Ore., Nov. 19. - (A') - Gov. Charles A. Sprague tonight termed the death of 47 Oregon state insane asylum inmates from eating poisoned eggs "mass mur- der" and said "the poison was evidently added in the preparation of the food." "As soon as I received the report that the deaths at the state hospi- tal were caused by a chemical poi- son, I directed the state police to take charge of the investigation and leave no stone unturned in the effort to affix the responsibility for this mass murder," he said He said, "The frozen eggs sup- plied by the Federal Surplus Com- modities Corporation were not re- sponsible. There , was nothing wrong with these eggs." FiveJap 'Resist Tells Frenchmen To Fight United Nations in North African Campaign LONDON, Nov. 19.- Marshal Phi- lippe Petain called on all Frenchmen in North Africa tonight "to resist the Anglo-Saxon aggression," and Fight- , . "; ing French sources here saw this as fresh evidence of Dictator Pierre La- val's calculated efforts to steer his # country into outright military alli- 6. ance with'Germany.: The 86-year-old Marshal, who yes- terday gave Laval full political pow- ers and designated him as his heir presumptive, said in a broadcast from Axis-occupied Vichy:, Disobey Allied Leaders "Frenchmen: Generl officers in the service of a foreign power refused to obey my orders. General officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers of the French army: Do not obey these unworthy leaders." The .Marshal was referring to Ad- miral Jean Drlan, ousted successor to etain and Laval's political enemy, { ' who has gone over to the Allies in North Africa, and other French lead- ers suich as Gen. Henri Honore Gi- , rand who .escaped from a Nazi prison and then =from Vichy to fight again. France now is'plunged into a politi- cal and military turmoil as grave as pis the days 'of collapse' to Germany in 1940. Prenchmen 'in Africa are flock- ing tothe Allies, and, the MoroccanF radio reported 'that General Barre, Fre French Tunisian commander, now was -fighting against the Axis in his AXI QerialaGive Ultiuiatum The radio said the Germans had Tub given the 'General an ultimatum to join the Axis last night and' upon its Ba expiration this morning General Bar- re ordered his troops to fight. and The whereabouts of General Max- by ime Weygand, former French North African commander who was dis- missed by Vichy under Axis pressure, LNI remained a mystery tonight. BrN Leon Morandat, prominent French The Bri trade unionist, who has just escaped by crac from' Vichy France to join the Fight- en bac ing French here, said that Weygand and fo was arrested by the Gestapo during miles o the Nazi occupation of the remainder naval b of France. Weygand, he said, had closedi turned down Petain's request to com- today i mand a new French army. North A Soviets Continue LON their co a. Ama L Barre, IF Counter-Attacks dawn to on Ger MOSCOW, Nov. 20. (Friday)- forces to (P)- A counter-attacking Red Army vance co killed 5,000 Germans in a battle last- tectorat ing several days outside Ordzhoni- radio re kidze, northern entrance to the Geor- Gener gian Military Highway leading handed through the Caucasian mountains, the comman Soviets announced last night in a ing the special communique, from Tu The regular midnight war bulletin fast-gat also told of stalwart Russian fighting Gen. K. at all other key sectors of the long Army. front, particularly Stalingrad where Spurn six German attacks were repulsed. he woul In one sector of the Volga River comply, city the Germans "succeeded in occu- Barre o pying a few demolished houses at a to atta cost of great losses," but this was the French t only slight Nazi gain. ed the B Ships allied Aggression' Between Battles, Ie Reads of the World To Come -Petarn American Forces :.:... Add Battleship, Three Cruisers Destroyer to Toll By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-- The great American sea victory in the Solomons assumed even more epic proportions today when the Navy an- nounced that a Japanese battleship or heavy cruiser, three large cruisers and a destroyer were sunk and three other enemy warships, including a battleships, damaged in a single en- gagement last Saturday night. These heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy by an American battleship task force, whose victory, coming on top of the smashing triumph scored Sunk Iomos -Asocited Press Photo A British Eighth Army soldier lying under a truck in the Egyptian desert reads a book about the sibilities of the post-war world. He got the book from a mobile library. This is an official British uore. nch Attack s Forces in es., Bizerte rre Defies Berlin d Vichy Demands Joining Allies - BULLETIN - DON, Friday, Nov. 20.-(A)-I tish First Army, supported k American units, has beat- k scattered German patrols )ught its way, to within 35, of the Axis-held Tunisian base of Bizerte, it was dis- in a dispatchhreceived early from Allied headquarters in Africa. By The Associated Press ON, Nov. 19.-On orders of mmanding officer, Generel French troops in Tunisia at day opened a general attack man and Italian occupying day in support of Allied ad- lumns sweeping into the pro- e from the west, the Morocco ported tonight. al Barre, the report said, was an ultimatum by the German der, General Nehring, order- French either to withdraw nisia or join the Axis in the hering battle against Lieut.- A. N. Anderson's British First ing the German threat that d be attacked if he failed to the report said, General rdered his provincial forces ck first early today. The troops wherever possible join- 3ritish and Americans. Win ate States IFC-anhe ls Vanities' Plant Bomber-Scholarship To Receive Proceeds Michigan's Bomber - Scholarship Plan, already $9,000 to the good since its organization last March, received an aaded boost last night when Pete Wingate. .'43E, announced "Victory Vanities," an IFC-Pan-Hel stunt show proposal. The "Vanities," now slated to be held Jan. 15 in Hill Auditorium, has a goal of $1,000 worth of war bonds which will be donated to the scholar- ship plan. Participation in this stunt show will be open to every fraternity and so- rority on campus and stunts may in- clude practically any type of 10-min- ute skit. "Anything goes," Chairman Wingate said, "original skits, talented acts, comedy, drama, or just some- thing that will be entertaining." Urging houses to begin working im- mediately on their stunts, Wingate disclosed that Beta Theta Pi members have already begun their rehearsals. The first elimination contest will occur shortly after Christmas vaca- tion. At this time the field of partici- pants will be narrowed down to five fraternities and five sororities which will compete in the Jan. 15 finals. Judges will be selected from Play1 Production and the winning houses will receive war bond awards. Wingate especially urged that ev- ery house participate in the event in- asmuch as there is a possibility of making "Victory Vanities" an annual event. British Force Now 50 Miles from Bengasi Threatens Axis Hold on Strategic Port in Swift Advance CAIRO, Nov. 19.- VP)- A swift British column has by-passed the Libyan hump and reached a point 50 miles south of Bengasi, threatening the Axis straggler racing desperately on today toward El Agheila for a prospective rear-guard fight for Tn- politania. The southern arm of the pursuing British was in the Antelat section, 80 miles northeast of El Agheila and 15 miles from the Gulf of Sirte, and overlooking the coastal road from Bengasi to Agedabia. Imperial forces in the north were pressing vigorously along the coastal road toward Bengasi while British and U.S. planes spewed explosive death on the disordered Axis exodus. Rem- nants of Marshal Erwin Rommel's force had lost most of their arms in the 600-mile flight from El Alamein. Medium bombers based on Malta flew the Mediterranean bottleneck to Tunis and attacked the German-held airdrome from which Axis planes are operating against the eastbound Brit- ish First Army's advance on Bizerte and Tunis from Algeria. The frantic efforts of the Germans and Italians to save something in North Africa was highlighted by the enemy's use of big transport planes to rescue men from the Bengasi area, flying them south to Magrum. two nights earlier, finally drove the enemy northward in inglorious re- treat. (It is not yet possible to reach a total of the Japanese losses because there, may be some duplication be- tween the damage listed in today's announcement and the data made public earlier in the week.) First Battleship Fight It was officially revealed that in the tremendous Solomons fight American battleships slugged it out with Japa- nese battleships, for the first time during the war in the Pacific. Today's communique was the sec- ond giving results of the series of sea fights which ensued when the Japa- nese ,tried to attack American-held territory on Guadalcanal Island with a nighty . armada of warships and transports. It was their greatest ef- fort in" amphibious warfare and the latest report made clear that it failed utterly. The first communique giving re- sults was issued last Monday. It dealt at length'with the first main battle of the series which was fought out shortly after midnight last Thursday (Guadalcanal time.) Heavy Jap Losses That communique listed 23 Japa- nese ships, including one battleship and three heavy cruisers, as having been destroyed and said seven, includ- ing a second battleship, had been damaged. It also reported that the Saturday night action had been fought but that details "have not yet been received." American losses were reported as two light cruisers and six destroyers sunk. Following this up, today's commu- nique said that reports just in from the south Pacific showed that enemy losses in the Saturday night battle were one battleship or heavy cruiser, three large cruisers and one destroyer sunk, and one battleship, one cruiser and one destroyer damaged. No fur- ther American losses were reported. May Have 'Been Announced The communique cautioned that "this report of damage (to the Japs) may include some of the damage al- ready reported" in the Monday an- nouncement. Not until a full sum- mary of the complex action has reached here can a full evaluation of the devastation worked on the Japa- nese navy be made. Should it then turn out that the Japanese actually had lost two bat- tleships sunk and two damaged in addition to all their other losses in ships, supplies and men in the Solo- mons last week, there would be little question that the navy of Nippon had received a crippling blow the effects of which would be felt until this war ends. Duplication Not Extensive While emphasizing that only frag- mentary reports on the Saturday night battle were in, the Navy spokes- man expressed the view that dupli- cation betweenthe two communiques probably was not extensive It seemed entirely possible, there- fore, that of the 15 or more battle- ships built or building with which Japan started the war, three, includ- ing the Haruna, which the Army re- ported sunk by air attack in the Phil- ippines early in the war, are now on the ocean bottom. Another measure of the terrific de- feat which the enemy suffered in the Solomons is the estimate by Naval officials that at least 20,000 and pos- sibly as many as 40,000 men with much equipment were lost. Naval ex- perts here expressed belief today that BLAIR MOODY PREDICTS Army and Navy May Take Over All Universities Soon (1urnished by the Washington Bu- reau of the Detroit News, The Daily prints this story because of the special significance it has for University students.) By BLAIR MOODY WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Col- leges, as Americans have known them, will soon be wiped out of ex- istence for the duration of the war. They will survive chiefly as mili- tary training institutions, under di- rect or effective control of the Army and Navy, or if not adaptable to this will in most cases close their doors. The future of college students, including those who already have in the fire, but the direction is already clear. The key fact in the situation is that 93 per cent of all college stu- dents are 18 years or older and thus eligible to the draft. In some cap- acity, the physically fit eventually will enter the armed services. That puts the future of colleges themselves in the hands of the Army, because few colleges if any, can live if the Army extracts all able-bodied students over 17. What the Army, Navy and leading educators are now trying i to work out is a fair system by which they will make a maxi- mum contribution to the war, without depriving the country of to close. About 50 small colleges already have closed. Others are merging, attempting to switch their programs to become useful agents of the war organization. The Navy has approximately 70 under con- tract. It will use some of the plants for technical training, others as mere headquarters to school new officers. The Army's decision will be even more far-reaching. Army policy has been that "every able-bodied male student in colleges is destined for the armed forces." Educators are arguing that such a program must not wipe out the training of scien- tists who are needed not only for +- n Q ,i n e _rnarasch ,fnr h President Roosevelt already has promised that 18- and 19-year- olds drafted will be assured a col- lege education after the war. He has not said how. At issue, is what will be done with students now in the midst of college courses. Should they be moved into camps, given basic military training and then moved back? Now or at the end of the term? Where is the dividing line between students chosen to con- tinue college training, those to be continued as buck privates? What sort of a practical yard- stick can be worked out for draft boards? Are colleges to be ar :a inaA ...m....r nammn. . n a "We can anticipate a more sys- tematic use than has been made up to the present time," Tibbitts said. "The University has received no definite information regarding when enlisted men are to be with- drawn, when 18- and 19-year-olds- are to be drafted or precisely how the colleges are to be used in pre- paring men and women for war service. "Indications have pointed for several months toward the drafting of all men and women upon grad- uation from high school and selec- tion by the War Manpower Com- mission and the armed forces of those to be sent to colleges for spe- ni.l nAnnnM r 'n'nan1 ,, 'ia a.iA