PAGt TWO T HE - M ICHIGAN I)ATtVD TH TSIIAY, D~EC. 3, 1942 s __ .. ._s...__ . _.. . ra _ _ __._ . _ ,, : GRADS TO MEET A coffee hour for graduate students' will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. today in the men's lounge on the sec-a nd-Nfloor of the Rackham building. jMICHIGAN NOW SHOWING! lI Strike Conference Called LANSING, Dec. 2.- (/)- An an- nouncement by the State Labor Medi- ation Board said today the War Labor Board has called a conference for to- morrow morning in Saginaw in ar effort to avert a strike of Consumer' Power Company employes scheduled to start at midnight Friday. -"4 ARTKINO & JOSEPH BURSTYN' present II "A remarkable delineation of the Russian character, 1 cptures all the humor of a people who sing, laugh and love, even while they are engaged in a cruel war." -Ambassador Joseph E. Davies Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Dec. 4, 5, 6 8:15 P.M. at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Tickets 40c Mu solini S ays Italy Will Fight to End of War (Continued from Page 1) "Churchill asks Italians, 'How long wvill this last?' I, Mussolini, answer in a most solemn way: 'For- ever until we have achieved com- plete victory.' "If I had listened to that hyena Roosevelt, he would have thought me a 'chump.' Churchill says my empire has bone. I reply that the last word has not yet been spoken." In his longest speech of the war and the most urgent, -,apparently, ince the Italian stab in the back of France on June 10, 1940, he spoke bombastically of the exploits of the Caesars and said for Italy it now is the question: "To be or not to be . .. The Italian Premier flayed Presi- dent Roosevelt and took Prime Minis- ter Churchill to task as one "intoxi- cated" on tobacco and liquor, but he, got .around to agreeing with Mr.. Roosevelt's chtrge of long ago that Italy had stabbed France in the back. "Let us admit that we stabbed France in the back," Mussolini said, "but this is only one stab in the back compared to a hundred stabs France has made on Italy in history. France always has been arrogant . ." In his 81-minute speech to the ap- plauding Chamber of Corporations and to millions of bomb-conscious- Italians huddled about loudspeakers in the squares of the threatened land, Mussolini ranged from justifications of Italy's entry into war to a rather lightly considered determination to see it through. I. - Noted Speakers Will Consider Post-War Era (Continued from Page 1) Bizerte, Tunis Battles Joined in Allied Attack' (Continued from Page 1) FDR Grants Control of Gso inie to Ickes WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. - (R'} - President Roosevelt gave Secretary Ickes sweeping new powers over the petroleum industry today, plus spe- cial authority to control oil and gaso- line rationing in areas where there is a shortage. of those supplies.. The announcement .apparently sig- nalized the final abandonment of any plans to shift Ickes to the Labor, Department and make him Adminis- trator of Manpower. Some said Ickes was loath to take that double post. Alphabetical Ration Book to Spell Future Meat Diet WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-(P)-We'l. all have a new ration book early next year, filled with prettily colored, red and blue coupons by which OPA will guide and limit the kinds and quan- tities of meat that we eat. There will be red coupons stamped A-i, A-2, and so on, and others marked B-i, B-2 and on up the scale. The whole alphabet will ber used.. This is to be irepeated with a set of similarly lettered and numbered blue coupons. 'or the talks by Thomas and Russell A hint that the British Navy soon are continuing at, the desks of the . would be heard from in the seashore League and Union as well as on the action was contained in the com- Diagonal. Tickets for -these two talks which said briefly but sig- must be bought together although munique, thah e lyNauy s- those not able to attend both may nificantly that "the Royal Navy is transfer one of their stubs. assisting in the provision of cover for Since fraternity men are among the advance of our forces." that group the Post-War Council par- London:newspapers published a re- ticularly wishes to reach, Chairman port, attributed to the Morocco Radio Clifford Straehley has announced and: unconfirmed from any other hat every effort will be made to end quarter, that the British First Army ,he program Friday night early had cut the coastal highway between enough to accommodate those plan- the strong points, thus freeing its ning to go to the IFC Ball. The dance hand for a drive on Tunis, already goers have been invited to attend the less than 12 miles away l from Allied meeting in their formal clothes if advance units and within artillery they so desire, range. The railway already is severed. American P-38's and British Spit- Governor Asks for e ires swept widely over the French . protectorate, shooting down eight with Draft Registrations Germans and losing only one plane in the :last z24 hours, Headquarters LANSING, Dec. 2.- (P)- Public said. Flying Fortresseshave virtually >fficials and civilian volunteers were wrecked the Aouina Airdrome at Tu- galled upon by Governor Van Wag- nis, as well as the air base at Bizerte. ner in an official proclamation today A' French and American column o help with the sixth draft registra- previously was reported to have icn. breached the eastern coastal road Schedule of registration requires between Sfax and Gabes, severing nen born between July 1, 1924 and Axis communications with Tripoli. kug. 31, 1924, to register from Dec. 11 Thus the 20,000 to 30,000 Germans to 17; those born between Sept. 1, and Italians were loosely wedged into '924 and Oct. 31, 1924, to register be- isolated positions around Bizerte, Tu- ;ween Dec. 18 and 24; those born be- nis and Gabes for reduction in detail. .ween Nov. 1, 1924 and Dec. 31, 1924, Bombers.continued non-stop raids ;o register between Dec. 26 and 31; on Bizerte, where huge fires were set and those born after Jan. 1, 1925 to at the waterfront, and on Tunis and register. on their eighteenth birth- Tripoli. Others raked Sicily from one days. end to the other. RUSSIAN WAR RELIEF N_ R ', I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 11 MOVI E PREVIEWS 11 I . I' I At the State "The Big Shot," Warner Bros.' new film which opens at the State Thea- tre today, has a story and star com- bination which looks like sure-fir( screen entertainment. Tough is a meek word to describlx the type of role played by Humphrey Bogart in this film. He's cast as E three-time loser who can't go straigh4 because of his record and who i, afraid to qp anything crooked be- cause next time it's up the river foi keeps. He ducks the police like a plague and tries to give equal attention tc his former cohorts, but the effort i useless. He finally allows some of hi former pals to persuade him into act- ing as the "brains" in an armored cai stick-up.- Blond Irene Manning, a newcome3 to the screen, is cast as Bogart's ex- girl friend who keeps him from going through with the stick-up, events which follow are typical of a Bogart thriller. 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