p 4 aii Weater Caidie VOL. LIII No. 66 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JAN. 3, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Russians Drive Forward On All Fronts U.S. Planes Blast Jap Installations Strike at Bases in Aleutians, Solomons; Seven Enemy Ships ' Sunk by Submarines f WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.- (M-New aerial blows against Japanese instal- lations in the Aleutians and in the Solomons were reported by the Navyi today along with the recent sinking byrAmerican submarinesof seven merchant-type Japanese ships. The underwater craft also damaged an enemy destroyer, raising to 163 the number of' Japanese ships of all types sunk, probably sunk or damaged by American submarines. Of -these 112 are listed as sunk, 22 probably sunk and 29 damaged. The Army's Aleutian Islands air force, grimly determined to'eliminate the newest Japanese menace at Kis- ka, returned in force to that enemy base on New Year's Day, shot down one of six Zero fighters which at- tempted to intercept and scored at least a near hit on one small ship in the harbor. "Clouds prevented complete obser- vation of results," a Navy communi- que said today. "No U.S. planes were lost." This action was paralleled by heavy American air raids the first day of 1943 in the Solomons area of the South Pacific where bombings were concentrated on breaking up Japa- nese resistance on Guadalcanal Island and preventing use of the Munda Air Base on New Georgia Island. On Guadalcanal, Douglas Dauntless divebombers dropped their screaming cargoes of explosives in the vicinity of Kokumono, about seven miles west of Guadalcanal airfield, where Japa- nese headquarters for the island is believed to be -located. The section is heavily overgrown with jungle and no observation could be made of exact results. Business School Will Offer Girls Special Course A special speed-up program to train women students to fill the rapidly increasing demand for them in bus- iness positions has been announced by the School of Business Administra- tion. Starting next semester, the pro- gram will enable women to take posi- tions in seven fields after two terms of work in the business adminitra- tion school. These fields are personnel procedures, banking and finance, business writing, office practice, mer.- chandising, accounting and statistics. Students may enter the special pro- gram at the beginning of next term or any later term, the basic admission requirement being four terms in any accredited university, college or junior college. At the end of the two terms of bus- iness training, the announcement stated, students will be prepared to do work immediately in any of the seven fields, or they can continue for two terms more and obtain the degree of Bachelor of Business Administra- tion. If they leave school after two terms, it was announced, they may return at a later date to complete requirements for a degree. COLD FEET: ROTC Cadets Battle 4 Hours without Verdict Battalion was pitted against bat- talion yesterday in the largest winter maneuvers the ROTC has ever held with white and khaki clad cadets crawling belly down through four inches of snow to attack in a battle that ended without a decision being reached. For four hours the cadets maneu- vered and 'fought' under the com- mands of Cadet Lieut. Colonels John Stauch and Phil Levy. The Blues commanded by Levy had as their mis- sion the defense of a 'bridgehead' lo- cated in the meadows surrounding the Huron Hills Country Club, against the attacking Reds. Almost 900 men participated in the mock battle, in- cluding 125 medical personnel and five youthful 'scouts'. Proving to be the key men in the struggle the 'scouts', young men not yet in their teens, played havoc with the secrecy surrounding the move- ments of the attacking Reds. One captured 'scout' being quizzed by Blue captors who asked, "Do you know Phil Levy?" replied, "Sure, he is the fellow who promised me an ice cream cone for telling him what you are doing." He remained a captive. One entire platoon of the Blues was clad entirely in white snow clothes that rendered them almost invisible. Chief fault found by the officers judging the battle was that the troops were too cautious and the battle had to be called off befoe reaching its full height. The battle being called to a halt at 4:30 p.m. the troops had sandwiches and hot coffee which were prepared by the local 'MOMS' organization. Planning of the maneuvers was done by Cadet Lieut. Col. Art Volz and Cadet Major Harry Parmelee. Further details of amission re- q uiremtents may be obtained from the Secretary of the School, 108 Tappan Hall. Army Officers Begin Special Med Course Three groups of Army medical offi- cers will begin training in specialized medical subjects here tomorrow, Pres- ident Alexander G. Ruthven said yes- terday. The War Department announced Thursday that 12 colleges would be selected to give the important medical training. The University was desig- 'nated one of the training centers on Friday. A 12-week course in clinical labora- tory trainii~g and methods will be given to 30 officers while 10 more officers will receive a six-week course in thoracic surgery. The courses will be taught in the medical school and the men will be housed in the Law quadrangle. Twenty-nine officers will be given an eight-week course in epidemiology in the public health school. The course will concern control of disease among groups of people rather than individuals. These officers will live in the Union. East's Oil Curtailed WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-()-Price Administrator Leon Henderson to- night slashed 10 per cent from the fuel oil heating rations in the 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia. Ready for Big Attack on Wake Island Remontnaya and Eikhotovo Taken German Motorized Battalion Routed as Reds Retake Key Town of Elista By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 3. (Sunday)-The Red Army driving down the North Caucasian Railway beyond Kotelnikovski captured Remontnaya, 117 miles southwest of Stalingrad, yesterday, the Russians announced early today in a communique broadcast by the Moscow radio. Elkhotovo, 30 miles southeast of Nalchik, in the mid-Caucasus also was retaken by the Russians along with large amounts of booty, the communique said. Remontnaya is 27 miles beyond Kotelnikovski at a point where the railroad crosses the Sal River. German tanks, artillery, food stores, cattle and other supplies were taken at Remontnaya, and the Russians now are almost mid-way between Members of Col. William A. Matheny's crew get into their "Mae Wests" Dec. 24 at a mid-Pacific bomber base, as they prepare to take off for the mass aerial attack on Japanese-held Wake Island, which Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said was the largest mazs army heavy bomber raid in the Pacific war. Left to right are: Sergt. E. J. Bislew, Racine, Wis.; Serg t. C. R. Kealey, Downers Grove, Ill.; Sergt. T. E. Tedford, Little Rock, Ark.; Col. Matheny, Spokane, Wash.; Lieut. D. Manchester, Spokane; Olen Clem- ents, Associated Press correspondent, San Francisco; and Lieut. E. H. Carey, Gridley, Calif. New Physic6s Course Planned 'Refresher' Series to Be Given to Faculty A general meeting of faculty mem- bers desiring "refresher" courses in physics will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tues- day in Room 1041 of the Randall Building, Prof. Ernest F. Barker, chairman of the physics department, announced yesterday. At this time plans will be made for a series of courses which will review details of elementary physics courses that will be pertinent to the pre- meteorology program soon to be insti- tuted on this campus. Persons desiring this course must not necessarily be members of the physics department but should have had some previous training in this field either here or at some other competent college or university, Pro- fessor Barker said. It is expected, he said, that persons enrolling for the "refresher" courses will be faculty members now engaged in other fields of work.. The "refresher" courses will be giv- en concurrently with the regular ele- mentary physics courses and will be designed to help equip the enrollees for later teaching of physics. AFL Adopts Platform for '43 Legislation WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.- MP)-The American Federation of Labor an- nounced today its legislative goals for 1943 with a confident expression that, the new Congress would reject de- mands for "compulsory or punitive'r labor enactments. Green classified as undesirable bills which would prematurely permit na- tional job-freezing or would repeal the Wage and Hour Law and said anti-strike legislation would be "fool- hardy". ROTC juniors Can Complete*Sr n 4 m Spring Term Advanced Corps Men to Go on Duty in June Junior ROTC students will remain in school until the end of the spring semester, the War Department an- nounced Thursday. This Army order will mean that I junior advanced corps men will go on active duty sometime in June. They will go to replacement training centers where they will receive train- ing equivalent to the senior ROTC year here. After conclusion of basic training and screening tests, those who com- plete the course will be assigned to colleges for more training and to offi- cers' training schools. After the successful completion of additional training, they will be granted Reserve officers' commissions and will become members of the Of fi- cer Reserve Corps, a permanent peacetime organization. The new order puts approximately 200 junior ROTC men all of whom are Enlisted Reserve Corps members, on substantially the same basis as ROTC seniors who will finish the spring term and immediately enter officers' schools to get reserve com- missions. Freshmen and sophomores not in ERC will not be affected. Previously the War Department and the War Manpower Commission had announced compreheansive plans for all reserve corps members. The new Army orders clears up certain lack of detail that existed in the plan. Other Enlisted Reserve Corps mem- bers will begin leaving school on Feb. 13, two weeks after the end of the current semester. By the end of the spring semester virtually all reserve members will have active status. 3-Day Parley to Discuss War Role of Women Experts Will Speak on Coeds in Industry, Business and Service By BARBARA DeFRIES University of Michigan women will get a broad picture of how they can fit into the nation's war effort when occupational experts in the fields of business, industry and public service convene here for a three-day parley on "The Role of Women in the War Effort", Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Opening session of the conference will start at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday with the four other meetings sched- uled for 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday. All sessions will be held in the Rackham Building. Pres. Ruthven to Preside The University's first occupational conference for women is sponsored by the Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information in cooper- ation with the Committee on the Wo- men's War Program. Pres. Ruthven will preside at the first meeting Wednesday night, intro- ducing Robert Goodwin, regional di- rector of the War Manpower Commis- sion in Cleveland, and Montague A. Clark, chairman of the War Man- power Commission for the State of Michigan and director of industrial relations of the U.S. Rubber Co. in Detroit. Dean Alice C. Lloyd will also talk during the evening on the organ- ization, requirements and work of the WAVES, WAACS and SPARS. Business Jobs to Be Topic Thursday afternoon lectures will be devoted to business training jobs dur- ing and after the war with Miss Mil- dred Webber, assistant secretary of the Bureau of Appointments, acting as presiding officer. Principal speakers will be L. B. O'Loughlin, director of International Business Machines Co. in Detroit, who will talk on machine operators; Miss Mattie-Grace Sharpe, assistant employment manager of Detroit Edi- son Co., on secretaries and stenogra- phers; and Mrs. Florence V. Weeman Turn to Page 5, Col. 4 Wistert Weds Eleanor Koenig in California Al Wistert, All-American Michigan tackle, and Miss Eleanor Koenig, his Chicago schooldays sweetheart, were married last night by the Rev. James Beason, Jr., of the First Lutheran Stalingrad and Tikhoretsk, the junc- tion where the north-south railway meets the North Caucasian line. Russian troops also are operating mid-way between Stalingrad and the Nalchik sector in an effort to clean out the enemy from the area of Elista, a provincial capital in the Kalmyck area. Rout at Elista In the recent capture of Elista, the communique heard here by Soviet monitors said, Soviet troops routed the 60th German motorized regiment, a sapper battalion, a battalion of the 156th motorized regiment and other units. '"Pursuing the retreating enemy," the communique said, our detach- ments annihilated 800 officers and men, took 200 prisoners, and cap- tured six guns, many machineguns, trucks and other trophies." More than 1,100 Germans were re- ported to have fallen on the snowy battlefields of Russia yesterday in The War at a Glance By The Associated Press AFRICA-Allies and Axis swap aerial blows as British First Army still sticks in Tunisian mud but Eighth Army starts moving again toward Tripoli after fleeing Rom- mel. Berlin radio predicts imminent large-scale attacks in both Libya and Tunisia. DIPLOMATIC-Fighting French Chief De Gaulle proposes confer- ence with Gen. Giraud, Admiral Darlan's successor as North African high commissioner; De Gaulle as- sails Darlan-picked Imperial Coun- cil of Colonial Governors. PACIFIC-Allies continue whit- tling down Jap holdouts in New Guinea as airmen strike widespread lows. By BOB MANTHO It wasn't so bad. University of Michigan students, returning to classes for the first time in their lives on New Year's Day, found it was almost the same as on less significant occasions but hoped it wouldn't happen again, Those that took bluebooks, how- ever, were making their laments anq excuses yesterday. Said one dignified Phi Beta candidate: "It was grossly unfair to expect sheer miracles with- )ut very much preparation. I must -ow face my friends with humilia- tion." Ann Arbor was still the quiet little college city after mild New Year's Eire celebrations. At the big victory dance held by the Manpower Corps in the Sports Build- ing on Thursday night, they all had a big laugh when they were handed noise-makers made in Japan. Just before midnight, long snake- lines danced the length of the floor and at midnight couples exchanged the usual Happy New Years with gus- to. The early morning hours of the New Year found most of the males without dates. They passed the time singing in the streets or serenading girls' dormitories to get even for the early curfew. Most of the students who attended morning classes the next day reported that professors began lectures with' an introductory "this attendance is highly gratifying." Some, who thought classes should have been cut short, were disappoint- ed. Others, who didn't think or expect anything, had something ,to be pleased about when they received bolts or were excused early. Well, it's all over now. But let's start no more precedents, students warned. NEVER AGAIN: Students Spend New Year's in Classrooms operations ranging from Velikie Luki northwest of Moscow to the mid- Caucasus. After capturing Velikie Luki the Russians said their troops pushed on west of that key town to destroy five tanks and kill 160- Germans in another engagement. Forty-nine Nazi tanks, nine armored cars, and 30 trucks also were destroyed in the area west of Rzhev, another strongpoint which the Russians have been trying to knock out for weeks. Nazis Claim Velikie Luki (The Berlin Radio repeated again tonight that the Nazis still hold Veli- kie Luki. "The city still is firmly in German hands," the broadcast said, adding that the area had "become a mass grave of Soviet infantrymen.") In the operations at the other end of the Soviet front, the middle Cau- casus, the Russians said their troops took Elkhotovo after a street fight in which 400 Germans were slain. l l Flood Hits Portsmouth PORTSMOUTH, 0., Jan. 2.-(A)- SThe flooded Ohio River, which al- ready has driven 50,000 persons from homes along its banks and hampered war industries, crested tonight 1.1 feet from the top of a 62-foot wall protecting this manufacturing city of 40,000 residents. 'HIROHITO, YOUR TIME IS SHORT': Admiral Halsey Predicts Allied Victory in '43 VIE FOR VICTORY: 30 Groups Enter 'Vanities' to Aid Bomber Scholarship By J. NORMAN LODGE WITH THE UNITED STATES FLEET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Jan. 2.-(P)-Victory for the United Nations this year. is the prediction of Admiral William Halsey, Commander of the South Pacific force of the Pacific Fleet, The Admiral made this statement in an interview during which I learned that you don't beat about the bush when talking to him. Direct approach brings direct answers. I wanted him to gaze into the crys- they will never be able to rise again." "This year?" "Yes." "Do you include Japan?" "Yes, sir, and here's a few mes- sages I wish you would send to Japan for me. "To Hirohito: "As emperor and leader of traitor- ous and brutal Japan during the years of her foul attacks on peace- ful peoples, your time is short. "To ToJo : "When you unleashed your cow- ardly attack on Dec. 7 you started something you can't finish. Beneath if you are still alive. That peace willi be in the White House but the White1 House will not be as you envisaged. "To the American people: "Under my command the United Nations in the South Pacific have the finest fighting men our country ever produced. They are imbued with a fighter instinct and it is conceded we will not stop until there is a complete victory. "To the Japanese people: "That heavy rumbling you hear now will gradually grow into a shock imminent danger of personal viola- tion and death."f There was no further elucidation or approximate location of the island. "What do you think is the sig- nificance to Tojo's recent remarks?" I asked Admiral Halsey. Less Optimistic "He sees the handwriting on the wall," he replied, adding: "It was only a month ago that he annihilated the United States fleet for the fourth time." "Do you foresee a United Nations offensive in all parts of the world in a short space of time?" By BUD BRIMMER "Victory Vanities" Chairman Pete Wingate, '43E, yesterday disclosed that more than 30 fraternities, sorori- ties and independent organizations have agreed to participate in the all- campus stunt show, the finals of which will be held Jan. 15 in Hill Auditorium. This announcement was the result of a recent survey of campus organi- zations to determine the number cf entries in the show. ceeds will be donated to the Bomber Scholarship fund. Bud Brown, '44E, said yesterday that already 1,000 tickets have been sold for the "Victory Vanities";, but he added that it is the committee's goal to sell at least 3,000 more. In discussing proposed fraternity entries, IFC President John Fauver, who is the fraternity committee chairman, revealed that Beta Theta Pi will again present "Beta Follies", the skit which achieved notoriety two years ago in the Union's all-campus