It Iailhi Weather No Change VOL. LIII No. 56 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9, 194 PRICE FIVE CENTS 'Army Allies Hit Nazi Lines in Tunisia Tanks, Planes Erase Axis Gain at Tebourba; Deadly Fight Continues for Tunis-Bizerte Arc By LEWIS E. HAWKINS Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 8.- Allied tanks supported by waves of planes have erased gains made by the Germans in the Tebourba sector of north Tunisia, a communique said today as the United States scored a great bloodless victory in acquiring Dakar for United Nations navies and planes. The deadly fighting on the defense arc of the Bizerte-Tunis positions was in its third night. Eisenhower's Account Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's ac- count of the fighting directly coun- tered a claim by the Berlin radio that British and U.S. positions at Tebour- ba had been outflanked and dis- lodged. The agency DNB said large quantities of equipment and ammuni- tion were lost by the Allies. The ac- count said six U.S. heavy bombers were destroyed on the ground at an attacked air base. Tebourba, 20 miles west of Tunis and 35 miles south of Bizerte, is one point of the defense triangle. Djei- deda and Mateur, which the Germans also control, are the others. Rival air fleets battled for air superiority which the Germans held in some sections where they had for- ward air bases, and the Allied had at other points. An Allied position was penetrated Sunday, the Allied communique 'said " Allies Counterattack "Yesterday one of our armored units delivered a strong counter-at- tack," headquarters said, "during the night the enemy withdrew." The attack and counter - attack were described as probably the two heaviest days of fighting in the Tu- nisian campaign. The new U.S. P-38 Lightning fight- ers swept over southern Tunisia, de- stroying two planes at the cost of one. Headquarters revised the figures on aircraft losses Sunday by adding three Axis and five Allied planes to those previously announced as de- stroyed. One Allied pilot was saved. Be A Goodfeiiow Engine Council Elects Prexy Howard J. Howerth Named to Position The Engineering Council, official student governing body of the Col- lege of Engineering, last night elected Howard J. Howerth, '44E, of Detroit, as its president for the next two se- mesters. The Council also elected Bob Mott, 144E, of Detroit as vice-president; Karl Reed, '44E, of Erie, Pa., as'treas- urer; and David Wehmeyer, '44E, of Detroit, as secretary. Howerth, whq has served as secre- tary of the Council during the last two semesters, succeeded Jim Ed- munds, '43E, as president. Other re- tiring officers include Tom Poyser, '43E, and Robert, Sforzini, '43E. The election which is usually held during the spring term was held last night at the direction of Edmunds who wanted a successor named before he enters the armed service. Rumors I To Establish Weather School Here (4) Victory Ball Candidates Announced by Council Senior Literary College Class Officer Elections Postponed-until Tuesday; Petitions Due Saturday U4 Coupled with the announcement of the candidates to fill 14 positions for Victory Ball, the Men's Judiciary Council stated last night that senior class elections in the literary college have been postponed until next Tues- day. Voting will continue from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at seven campus vot- ing booths. Qualified voters are asked to present identification cards. The Victory Ball combining both J-Hop and Senior Ball will be run by two co-chairmen, the junior and senior receiving the most votes in the literary college..- Juniors in the literary college will elect three women and two men to the committee while seniors will be CHORAL UNION: Shostiakovich Seventh to Be Played Here entitled to three men and two women. The engineering college will elect one junior and one senior, and the col- leges of Architecture, Forestry, Phar- macy and Business Administration will choose one junior. Jean Ranahan of these combined colleges was automatically declared elected to the senior position by vir- tue of the fact that hers was the only senior petition submitted. Petitioning will continue for liter- ary college class officers because an insufficient number were submitted Location of voting booths will be found on page 2. for today's scheduled election. Peti- tions will be available from 3 to 5 p.m. every afternoon this week in the Union Student Offices. Appointments for interviews to be held from 2 to 5:30 p.m. next Monday must be made this week. In a new ruling the' Judiciary Council declared that no campaign- ing will be allowed before candidates names are announced. Following is the list of junior can- didates in the literary college: Helen Mae Kressbach, Bill , MacRitchie, Martha Opsion, Millie Otto, Mervin Pregulman, Carolyn Rees, Don Ren- dinell, Bud Rudy, Bob Shott, Sue Simms, Janet Veenboer and Jean Whittemore. Senior Representatives The seniors in the literary college will elect their representatives from the following: Bob Templin, Dick Stern, 'Doe' Spracklin, Jeff Solomon, George Sallade, pat Young, Ruth el- by, Elaine Richert, Harriet Pratt, Bill Loughborough, HHildaJohnson, Jim Collins, Shirley Altfield. Al Jacobson, Frank Rand and Chuck Dotterrer will vie for the jun- ior position in the engineering college. The senior from the engineering col- lege will be chosen from Bill DeCour- oy and Robert Sforzini. The colleges of Architecture, Phar- macy and Forestry will elect one jun- ior. The candidates are Arnold Agree and Sid Kaplan. Be A Goodfellow - French West African Army Joins Allies LONDON, Dec. 8.- (A')- French West Africa has joined the United Nations as an ally in "the prosecution of the war against the Axis" and has made available its airfields to short- cut the Allied plane transit routes and port facilities and fleet units at Dakar to end the U-boat menace in the south Atlantic. The announcement was made today by Lieut.-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower from his American headquarters in North Africa. This latest contribution to the Al- lied cause was arranged in agreement with Governor-General Pierre Bois.- son, who once bloodily repulsed a British-supported Fighting French attempt to take Dakar from the sea, and Admiral Jean Darlan. U.S. Planes Disperse Jap Relief Fore Allied Airmen Score Direct Hit on Warship; Enemy Counterattack at Buna Is Repulsed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 9. (Wednesday)- ()- Six Japanese destroyers "at- tempting for the fifth time to bring relief' to their ground troops" in the Buna-Gona area of New Guinea wer intercepted yesterday by Allied air- men who sent two 500-pound bomb crashing into the leading vessel which quickly burst into flames and was deserted in flight by the other five warships, a communique said to- day. "An enemy counter-attack in the Buna area," the communique said of the land fight, "was repulsed with heavy casualties. Our air force con- tinued harrassing attacks on enemy localities." Attack Hospitals The latest Allied communique also charged thatJapanese airmen have "violated the laws of war by repeated attacks upon Allied hospital installa- tions, killing doctors, medical person- nel and patients." Three specific oc- casions were cited. Repeated Japanese naval efforts to ferry reinforcements and supplies to the enemy. troops pocketed in the Buna-Gona sector emphasized the critical position of the Japanese, who have been under heavy American and Australian pressure, for weeks now. The communique did not say what happened to the destroyr, which was "quickly enveloped in flames" after being hit twice. The five other ships apparently left it at the mercy of General MacArthur's heavy bombers off the New Guinea coast. Japs Lose Cruiser Japanese efforts to reinforce their troops since Nov. 20 has cost them one light cruiser,and four destroyers. Two others, counting the latest to be struck, may! have been sunk. In addi- tion the Japanese lost 23 fighter planes early this month from a screen accompanying a destroyer flotilla that was routed. Scores of Japanese planes also have been lost in the last month in air combat over New Guinea, or de- stroyed on the ground at Lae in up- per New Guinea. Another attack on Lae yesterday resulted in large explosions and fires amid Japanese fuel and ammunition dumps, today's communique said. Be A Goodfellow Forty Future Leathernecks to Form Club Forty future Leathernecks, mem- bers of the United States Marine Corps Reserve, met yesterday and de- cided to organize an active campus Reservists' club. Led by Kimon Vasilio and Dan Clark, the Reservists voted in a meet- ing at the Union to form a unit to provide basic drill training and to allow the members, many of whom will go into training together at Quantico, Virginia, to get acquainted. Vasiliou said that officers of the Detroit Marine Recruiting office had been contacted and had given their approval for formation of the Unit. At the meeting it was suggested that the campus Naval ROTC Unit be asked to contribute one of its officers to preside at drill sessions. Plans are under way for providing the new unit with uniforms and drill equipment. Since the club will have no ranking officers, Reservists who have had ROTC or previous military training will act as drill sergeants. Organization of the Unit will be completed at a meeting at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Union. .................................. ...................... I editerranean Sea TUNISIA I :.j i 0 10 STATUTE MILES BIZERTE RAILROADSx v MAMfL N L FERRY VI LLE MATEURGulf of PROTVILLE Tunis LA SEBALA -- JEDEIDA TEBOURBA +. KORBOUS SOL IMAN "EJEZ EL BAB CHEYLIS G GROMBA LIA A heavy battle was reported in progress near Tebourba (1), at the southwest corner of the 'Tunisian Triangle' (shaded), through which Allies (black arrow) were attempting to drive to Tunis and Bizerte. Key cities in the triangle are Mateur, Tebourba and Diedeida. Allies were reported earlier to be holding heights dominating the area and awaiting'planes and reinforcements. SENIORITY UNIMPAIRED: FDR Extends Guarantee to Workers Accepting War Jobs' Battle Rages in 'Tunisian Triangle' Training Will Begin March 1 Air Corps Privates to Be Given Primary Meteorology Work in Six Month Program SERGE KQUSSEVITZKY Directed by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony will present the sixth Choral Union concert at 8:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium, presenting a program built around Haydn's Symphony No. 88 in G ma- Jor, followed by the famous Shos- takovich "War Symphony." The concert will be the Boston orchestra's single appearance in Michigan, the organization maintain- ing a 12-year period of yearly visits to Ann Arbor. The program, according to Dr. Charles A. Sink, president of the Choral Union Society, has been de- signed especially for its Ann Arbor audience, presenting as it does the greatest piece of music to be devel- oped during the war period. Only a large orchestra, such as the Boston, which numbers 110 men, can adequately perform the symphony in which the ideals, struggles, aspira- tions and efforts of Russia in the war are portrayed. The first concert performance of the Seventh Symphony in this coun- try was directed by Dr. Koussevitzky. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-- (P)- President Roosevelt today asked em-1 ployers to encourage workers to transfer to war jobs by assuring themr ha.t they can. return to their former work with seniority rights unimpaired when victory is won.' He noted in a statement that under the draft .law, returning soldiers are accorded these rights. The same pro- Goodfellows Receive Full Campus Aid Annual Campaign Is a Michigan Tradition The Annual Goodfellow campaign has become a Michigan tradition-it is the only charity drive which has received the cooperation of all cam- pus organizations. The drive originated in 1935 then campus leaders determined to begin an all-campus charity campaign to aid needy Ann Arbor families and University students. Featured by the sale of a special Goodfellow Daily, the Drive was launched at the request of local wel- fare agencies and University adminis- trators. Leaders of fraternities and sorori- ties, dormitories and a men's senior honor society were active in organiz- tection, he said, should be given to the civilian "who leaves his job to accept employment to help with the war effort." Mr. Roosevelt read his statement to a press conference, prefacing it with a remark that he hoped to correct misinformation on a question which has been a cause of worry for many war workers. "One way we can encourage skilled workers in civilian industry to shift to employment in war plants is to see to it that when victory has been won, employes can return to their peace time work without loss of all the sen- iority rights- which they have accum- ulated over the years," he said. All, he continued, were conscious of a "great need for additional man- power to make munitions," and all were anxious to do their part and realized that a job in a war industry was a "direct contribution" to vic- tory. But many workers have, over the years, accumulated valuable sen- iority rights "and seniority privileges' have become an institution in Ameri- can industry."a Be A Goodfellow Strong Boiler' Movers Needed by Manpower Manpower Corps volunteers- with muscles-are needed for a quick day's work today removing two six-ton steam boilers from the West Engineering Building. An East Coast aircraft plant needs the boilers, according to E.C. Pardon, head of the Building and Grounds Department. "The boilers have to be removed and ready for Army inspection by 6:00 p.m. to- day," Pardon said. Dick Dick, member of the execu- tive staff of the Manpower Corps, Sasks volunteers to telephone him at 2172 all day today for work from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00' p.m. Volunteers should report to the offices of the Building and Grounds Department. The boilers, formerly used to heat the University, are of no use now, because operating pressure in- the heating plant has been changed from 150 pounds to 200 pounds, 25 pounds beyond the boilers' ca- pacity. 1 Be A Goodfellow --- Russian Bayonets I Down More Nazis l MOSCOW, Wednesday, Dec. 9.-(4 -Soviet troops plunging across th Z snow-swept central front wiped ou several German garrisons in the Veli e kie Luki area 90 miles from the Lat Pre-meteorological training will be given 400 Army Air Corps privates here beginning March 1 as the first large scale military use is made of University facilities. Where the 400 uniformed men will live is yet undetermined, but the East Quadrangle figures prominently in most guesses by officials. For six months the selected pri- vates, who later will become officers, will be instructed by faculty members in physics, mathematics and electrical engineering. Promotions to the rank of cadet will come at the end of the pre- meteorological course and the men will then attend another nine-month course at selected schools to get com- missions. Students Should Apply Interested students whether enlist- ed in the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps or not are urged to apply for entrance into the course, Complete information may be obtained at the War Information Center, 1009 Angell Hall. University War Board officials ex- pect a number of civilians to be ac- cepted into the program yet while Enlisted Reserve Corps members may transfer to the schools. Requests to be stationed at the University may be made. Although the program is primarily for Army men, civilian men and wo- men may apply for training in met- eorology through the intensive pro- gram. Math Needed Applicants must have completed one year of college including courses in college algebra, trigonometry and analytic geometry. They must be in good health, 18 to 30 years of age and citizens. They will receive $50 monthly pay, free tuition and an al- lowance for quarters. Hard work will be in store for the trainees as they attend six hours of classes six days per week and take one hour per day of physical educa- tion and military training. Clark Tibbitts, director of the War Board, said yesterday that the draft of 18 and 19-year-olds will probably leave plenty of room for the trainees. The :school i&, under.the.direction of the University Meteorological Committee, an inter-university or- ganization arranging the program for the Air Corps. It selected the Uni- versity as one of its stations. Be A Goodfellow 20 French Ships Miss Scuttling 51 Sunk or Damaged, Four Escape, says Knox WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-(P)-The attempted suicide of the French fleet at Toulon left 20 ships apparently in- tact, Secretary Knox reported today, and an unspecified number of vessels, including three battleships, were merely damaged and might be re- claimed. At a press conference, the Navy chief issued a memorandum, pre- pared on the findings of reconnais- sance flights over Toulon, showing that of 75 ships in the harbor, 51 were sunk, damaged or are missing, four escaped, and 20 went unharmed. Knox's version differed sharply from that given the world by Ger- man-controlled sources. These had spread the impression that all French ships were scuttled. Knox suggested today that the Germans might actu- P) ally have been convinced at first that e the whole fleet was put put of action. it Fighting French sources at London, - commenting on Knox's findings, said - that many of the ships described as HE PLANNED 'U' BUILDINGS: Albert Kahn, World-Famous. Industrial Designer,_Dies at 73 The latest rumor is that the vaca- tion will begin December 18 and last until December 30. That rumor has been confirmed Designer of most of the newer Uni- versity buildings, Albert Kahn, world- famous industrial architect, died at his Detroit home yesterday. His death wrote finis to a 73-year career during which he rose from an immigrant apprentice to one of the world's best known architectural gen- iuses. His industrial work included most of the world's automobile fac- tories, the Chrysler Tank Arsenal, and the mammoth Willow Run bomb- er plant. Best known in Ann Arbor for his work on University buildings, Kahn's first campus job was the West Engi- neering Building, the city's first re- LL.D. in 1933. At one time he donated a scholarship to the architectural college. Kahn's contributions to the archi- tectural and industrial worlds include revolutionary construction of factory buildings to allow for mass production under one big roof, the modern steel- glass factory wall, and fast new tech- niques for design. Appointed building czar for a Sov-' iet government industrialization plan in 1928, Kahn designed, among other structures, tractor factories which now turn out tanks used by the Red Army in throwing back Nazi invaders. The architect's son, Maj. Edgar A. Kahn, is now in England with the GOODFELLOWS ALL! Abe Lincoln Cooperative, Chi Omega. ing the drive, in additon to Dean Joseph A. Bursley and The Daily. These leaders agreed that money raised by the Goodfellow Drive would be allocated to the Dean of Students' office which would handle division of funds between students in need and the Family Welfare Bureau, which has since become the Family Child and Service Bureau. Be A Goodfellow Girls to Take Aeronautics "Engineering Cadettes" will be the title of the group of college women who will take advantage of the train- ing program which is now being of. fered by the Curtiss-Wright Corpora- tion, one of the largest aeronautical concerns in this country. A representative of the corporation will be in Ann Arbor Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 16 and 17, for th I i I Sweater Girl Discloses Expected Visit of Stork .1 I _1!