Ne I ".,Moi !, _- -, 1 , 1. 4R aiI Weather VOL. LIII No. 72 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JAN. 10, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Jap Soviet Army Threatening fir Fleet Crushed Near New Guinea * * * Thomas Promises Aid against Wildcat Strikes UAW President Announces Union Support of Action against Unjustified, Unauthorized Strikes Ro stov Lines Desperate German Counterattacks Fail to Halt Drive as Reds Sweep Aside Tanks By The Associated Press MOSCOW (From Soviet Broad- casts), Jan. 10. (Sunday)- The Red Army, its flanks flung out over a front of 80 miles, is rolling on toward Rostov and the arterial route of sup- ply for hundreds of thousands of Ger- man troops, after sweeping aside more than 100 tanks and strong in- fantry forces which the enemy threw into a desperate counter-attack, the Russians announced today. Twenty-two more towns and vil- lages along the Lower Don, along the Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk railway and in the Caucasus have been reclaimed under the Red banner in the latest series of advances, the Soviets added. B11goyavlenskaya Taken The northern wing of the advance captured Bogoyavlenskaya on the north bank of the Don and 11 other villages, a Soviet communique broad- cast by the Moscow radio said. The town is a little less than 20 miles above the confluence of the STOCKHOLM Sweden, Jan. 9.- (MP)- German Marshal Fedor Von Bock, speaking for a number of Ger- man generals who were alarmed by the dangerous position of the German armies in the Caucasus as a result of the developing Russian offensives, is reported in Berlin to have urged Ad- olf Hitler to withdraw his lines while there is still time. Neutral sources just returned from Germany said Vn Bock, formerly the commander on the Stalingrad front who was relieved of his duties in apparent disgrace during a shake- up of the German command when the Nazi armies failed to take the city on the Volga, had returned to a command at the front in November. These sources did not know where Von Bock took charge but they re- ported that he visited Hitler at his field headquarters and declared that he and other officers he represented could no longer take responsibility for the situation unless Hitler ordered a retreat out of the Caucasus. Donets with the Don, and is about 80 miles from Rostov. The southern wing advancing along the Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk railway to- ward Salsk and Rostov, the artery of military supply for all the German armies, already had reached to within about 65 miles of that objective and re~orted the capture of five more vil- lages. Inthe Caucasus, too, the Russians broadenedtheir front along the Ros- tov-Baku railway, and threatened to flank Georgievsk by capturing Sol- datsko - Aleksandrovskoe, 20 miles northeast of Georgievsk. Four other villages were taken into the Russian net, including the railway station of Zgora Tanks Swept Aside The rush of the Red Army astride the Don swept aside more than 100 tanks which the Germans threw into a desperate counter-attack, the com- munique said. In a violent engagement, the large enemy tank force and its supporting tank units were forced to retreat and abandon dozens of crippled tanks, a large number of killed and wounded, the announcement added. The Russians then went on to cap- ture two of the villages listed in the communique. Ration Banking to Start Jan.27 WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. (P)-Na- tionwide operation of the "ration banking" program, intended to ease bookkeephig burdens and speed the handling of millions of coupons by rationing boards and dealers, will start Jan. 27, the Office of Price Ad- ministration announced today. The program was tried out first in the industrial and commercial area in New York State comprised of Al-, bany, Troy, Schenectady and sur- rounding communities. DETROIT, Jan. 9.- (')- R. J. Thomas, President of the United Au- tomobile Workers (CIO), declared to- day at a press conference that his union would take disciplinary action or support such action when taken by management "wherever justifiable" in wildcat srikes. "Our Union has made a pledge to the President of this country not to use our strike prerogative during the war," said Thomas. "The leaders of this union and the majority of its Republicans to Oppose Flynn Appointment Will Demand Hearing, Full Investigation If Nomination Is Made By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The min- ority leader McNary of Oregon served notice today the Republicans would demand a hearing and full investiga- tion of the record of Edward J. Flynn, the resigning Democratic National Chairman, if President Roosevelt ap- points him envoy to Australia. Flynn, announcing in New York yesterday that he was resigning the party chairmanship, said Mr. Roose- velt was appointing him his ambas- sador and personal representative and would send to the Senate Mon- day Flynn's nomination as minister plenipotentiary to.Australia. Flynn added today that he expected to leave "early in February." Meanwhile there was no word from the White House but it has been cus- tomary in the past to withhold offi- cial announcement of the appoint- ment of an ambassador or minister until the nomination actually goes before the Senate. McNary told reporters that if the nomination is received he would ask that it be sent to the Foreign Rela- tions Committee for a hearing. "In view of the charges made against Flynn before a grand jury, I think it wise to ask for an investi- gatiorr," McNary said. The Republican leader alluded to charges made before a Bronx grand jury last April that a Belgian court- yard on Flynn's Lake Mahopac estate had been paved with New York City materials and city labor. The grand jury exonerated Flynn of any wrong- doing. Urge Miners to End Strike WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 9.- 'P)-- The War Department appealed today to approximately 24,000 strik- ing anthracite miners to return to work at once and thereby put an end to what solid fuels coordinator Harold Ickes termed a serious situation to the oil-rationed East. Speaking at a mass meeting of more than 1,000 miners in the ball- room of the Redingston Hotel, Lieut. Col. C. W. Kerwood, representing the War Department, added, however, he had no authority to force the men to return. Col. Kerwood's appeal followed by 24 hours a similar action by the com- mittee of 12-the industry's govern- ing body-in an emergency meeting at Philadelphia. The committee urged the strikers to return to their "posts of duty at once in order that the na- tion may receive the maximum quan- tity of coal to which it is entitled in the existing emergency." rank and file members are doing everything in their power to live up to the pledge." Thomas said there were five rea- sons contributing to 'the "restless- ness" of workers in the UAW-CIO "but not one of them is a sufficient excuse for striking at this time." He described the five reasons as: lack of arbitration in disputes; the "breakdown" in the War Labor Board's machinery for settling dis- putes; the "failure" of the federal government to equalize wage rates among workers in Detroit; "the mis- use of power by industry;" and "the failure of rationing to work." "None of these is an excuse for a wildcat strike," he said. "They are merely important contributing fac- tors to the attitude of the worker and if they were settled once and for all there would be no strikes." In discussing disciplinary action, Thomas said: "Being a democratic union, we have a Constitution which I must follow. If I didn't, I would be assuming dic- tatorial powers and I do not feel that such a policy would be helpful to either the country or the union. Ho- mer Martin tried to do it when he headed this union and created such an uprising among the rank and file members that if it happened now it would surely wreck the war produc- tion effort. No®Further Cut in 'East's Gas Now Planned Reduction in 'A' Ration Would Take 5,000,000 Needed Cars Off Road WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. -(A)- No further reduction is imminent in the present 3-gallon value of "A," "B," and "C" gasoline coupons in the east- ern shortage area, Price Administra- tor Leon Henderson said today. Henderson told a press conference he opposed suggestions that "A" cou- pons be suspended or reduced in value. Such action, he estimated, would leave upwards of 5,000,000 cars stranded. He made public a telegram from Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile Association, calling attention to "persistent re- ports that certain interests inside and outside government are urging to- tal suspension or wholesale devalu- ation" of "A" books for an indefinite period. Henry predicted such a step would bring about a breakdown in transportation in the affected area, and scuttle the program of the Bar- uch Committee for maintaining all cars in operation on limited mileage in the interest of the war effort and civilian economy. Decision Pending President Alexander G. Ruth- ven, still considering the Univer- sity senate advisory committee's report on Professors Carl E. Dahl- strom and Christian F. Wenger of the engineering English depart- ment yesterday, is expected. to re- lease a statement of the case to- morrow. The two associate professors were relieved of teaching engi- neering English I on Dec. 30 and have brought their case before the advisory committee. The committee submitted its re- port to President Ruthven on Fri- day. Allied Planes Blast Bizerte in Huge aid Flying Fortresses Lash Out at Tripoli, Tunis, Supply Routes in Widespread Attacks By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 9.- Three waves of Flying Fortresses have sub-! jected the Tunisian naval base of Bizerte to one of the fiercest bomb- ings of the war, while other AlliedJ planes attacked Tripoli, supply routes I to the south and Tunis and Sfax, it was announced today. These farflung air blows yesterday which cost the Allies six planes and the Germans nine, were announced soon after Lieut.-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz commander of all American and RAF air operations in this thea- tre. Five of the Allied planes were1 P-38 Lightnings destroyed over Bi- zerte. Mud Hinders Advance Only patrols ventured through the, mud on the front before the narrow Axis positions stretched along the north and east coasts of Tunisia. Deep in the desert south of Tunisia, a French camel corps raided Tachiu- met inside Libya across the border from Algeria. The French said prison- ers were taken. (A Fighting French column mov- ing across the Sahara into Libya from Lake Chad captured El Gatrun, Axis outpost southeast of Murzuch, 500 miles south of Tripoli, taking much booty and 177 captives, Brig. Gen. Jacques Leclerc said in a communi-i que. Enemy hangars and workshops at Sebha were razed also. Axis Forces Withdrawing (The British Eighth Army, 180 miles east of Tripoli in the Wadi Zem-Zem region, sent its planes to attack the withdrawing Axis forces between Homs and Ziliten, 65 to 901 miles east of Tripoli. No report ws made on ground forces. Eighth Army planes also bombed Tunis and Sfax in Tunisia. (The ninth U.S. Air Force struck shipping and harbor facilities at Tunis in daylight Friday, a Cairo communique said, but results were obscured by heavy clouds. One chal- lenging German plane was destroyed.) RAF Bombers Smash at Nazi Steel 'Plantj LONDON, Jan. 9.- W)- Speedy new American-made Ventura (Vega) bombers of the RAF smashed at the Ijmuiden iron and steel works in Hol- land today, planting bomb bursts on furnaces and coke ovens, in the sec- ond assault in 24 hours on Germany's steel and industrial works, the air ministry announced.' The raid, which was protected by Spitfire squadrons, was a follow-up to a night assault on the Ruhr, the fourth of the week on the teeming in- dustrial valley. Fast new British wooden mosquito bombers also attacked railway targets in northern France and Belgium while squadrons of fighters swept over the same areas and engaged in bat- ties with defending Focke-Wulf 190 fighters. In one such encounter with 14 Focke-Wulfe's near Abbeville, France, latest model Spitfires manned by Fighting French and West Lancashire pilots shot down one of the intercep- tors. The Air Ministry for the first time designated the new Spitfires by their official name-Mark Nine. Last Jap Footholds on New NEW GUINEA.. Guinea r ;f ./ LA E -SALAMAUA 11 GONA '-- ." .. S5ANANANUD KOKODA PORT MORESBYU A BA O 70. CTATIITEILF J l li f V G a" -. .... Black shading indicates Allied drive in New Guinea across the Owen Stanley Mountains that culminated, according to Generel MacArthur's headquarters, with elimination of all Jap troops from Buna. One pocket of resistance still remains in that area, at San- ananda (Jap flag), where Japs have defenses extending two miles inland. Further northwest, Allied air forces heavily bombed and strafed Jap positions at Lae. BORN 30 YEARS TOO SOON: Dean Lloyd Says That Slacks Are Not for Campus Wear 77 Planes Smashed by Allies Umbrella of Convoy Blasted in Three-Day jRunning Sea Battle at Crucial Lae Area By C. YATES McDANIEL Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA,Jan. 10. (Sunday)-( -A mighty victory of the air-a* least 77 Jap planes shot down, witk the figure for probables and ground- ed planes soaring the total to around 100-was scored in a three-day, around-the-clock attack on a New Guinea-bound Jap convoy which suf- fered three transports sunk and at least three others badly smashed. Amounting to an understatement~ Gen. Douglas MacArthur's noon com- munique, in telling of the aerial and convoy destruction, stated today that "the enemy's air losses over the last three days in this area may /re- garded as serious." Thirty-Eight Planes Downed Thirty-eight Jap planes were shot down for certain in the first two days as Allied planes, consisting of Flying Fortresses, Liberators and all other categories, swarmed over the 10-ship convoy and kept bombing it intii remnants of the troops it conveyed reached Lae on the north New Gui- nea coast-only to undergo more strafing and bombing after they anded. The communique for Saturday also listed seven Jap fighters as probably ;hot down, 15 damaged and two bombers and two fighters destroyed at the 'airdrome. Today's (Sunday's) communique, in addition to reporting 39 more Jap planes as certainly shot down, listed 17probables, along with the destruction of four fighters on the Lae airdrome, the damaging of a medium bomber and six fighters. Costliest Aerial Enterprise This easily is one of the costliest single enterprises from an aerial standpoint undertaken by the Japs in the southwest Pacific. Maintaining virtually a non-stop assault for the third successive day, American and Australian airmen grove home 16 separate attacks which left one Jap transport burning and another heavily damaged by direct iits fore, aft and amidships. The battered convoy, which lost three transports sunk in the first two days of the Allied attacks, was joined Jana 8 and 9 by two more ,ra sports. Remnants of the convoy, including six escorting warships, last were seen steaming northwest from Lae after landing what the Allied >pokesman described as "more frag- nentary" reinforcements at Lae. Three Transports Sunk Communiques of the past three lays specifically have mentioned six transports in the convoy of which three officially were reported sunk. Headqual'ters asserted the Allied bombers scored badly damaging hits on four transports. Inasmuch as the Allied airmen have attacked almost continuously day and night, it is pos- sible that individual Japanese vessels have been hit and damaged more than once. Adding to an impressive total of enemy planes shot down in air melees Turn to Page 8, Col. 2 By BETTY HARVEY and DAN BEHRMAN Emily Post may say that slacks are correct for under-heated classrooms, but Dean Alice Lloyd pointed out yes- terday that Michigan coeds will con- tinue to dress as their mothers dress- ed because 1. University classrooms are more overheated than underheated and 2. "Slacks are not an appropriate dress for library or classroom." Explaining her apparent flaunting' of America's foremost etiquette au-! thority, Miss Lloyd asserted that only a sloppy campus could result from too-liberal use of slacks. She made this statement after numerous coed complaints about the University's anti-slack ban had been- climaxed by an Emily Post dictum approving, trousered schoolgirls. "This is a request, of course, not an order," Miss Lloyd said and point- ed out that the issue can be reopened by the League Council. She urged all University women to "dress for the weather, by all means." Dressing for the weather, accord- ing to Miss Lloyd, means heavy stockings which, she declared, "will keep you warmer than a loose trou- ser leg." This dress was suggested by Miss Lloyd "after Jordan residents had requested slacks as hiking Registration of Restaurant Help Will Continue "Since student help offers the only possible solution to the severe Ann Arbor restaurant labor shortage," Manpower Corps representative Bob Oddy has announced that registration of prospective student workers will continue at the Manpower office in Angell Hall. Pointing out that signing up merely indicates a possible desire to work and involves no obligation, Oddy urged all those even considering tak- ing jobs next semester to come in and record the fact with the Manpower Corps. A recent survey of all Ann Arbor eateries taken by the Manpower Corps revealed a labor deficiency in all cases and at all hours of the day and night. Since this is true, students will be able to find working hours to fit into any kind of schedule, Oddy said. The prospects of insufficient re- clothes for their long walk to cam- pus. Although Miss Lloyd's statement apparently places her in direct oppo- sition to the one and only Emily Post, Miss Post's verdict was delivered to a high school girl who was freezing in her oil-rationed schoolroom. "Heat for University buildings is a by-pro- duct of the coal-burning University power plant, and there are no build- ings that cannot be adequately heat- ed," Dear Lloyd explained. F uinalists Are Chosen to Act in 'V' Vanities The all-campus stunt show, "Vic- tory Vanities", swung into the final stages of preparation before its debut next Friday in Hill Auditorium when elimination contest judges yesterday selected nine finalists who will com- pete for the war bond prizes. Four sororities, four fraternitie, and a magician were culled out of more than 30 contestants in the two- day preliminary contest which ended yesterday. The sororities were Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, Kappa Delta and Gamma Phi Beta. Beta Theta Pi's "Follies", the skit that won them notoriety two years ago in the Union's spring carnival, Michilodeon, again proved its enter- tainment value by securing them a place among the finalists, as did Theta Xi's Mississippi minstrel act. A three-man take-off on the Andrews Sisters, noted song team, likewise put the Dekes in the final bracket. Lyle Albright, '43E, also proved that blueprints and formulas aren't the only thing an engineer can juggle when his sleight of hand performance was judged good enough to be pre- sented to the crowd of more than 3,000 students, faculty members and townspeople who are expected to at- tend the "Vanities". The fourth fraternity to qualify was Phi Gamma Delta which won the judges approval with an operating table take-off. Girls Plan Post-War Diseussion Tonight Inaugurating a series of discussions of war and post-war problems, the girls of four University dormitories wil lvnth --ia £prpnincr o tr alkringc Scotty, the Boys Want You to Stay i RA, American Loose 'One-Two Planes Punch' By BOB MANTHO Scotty, the Bible-quoting Scotch- man with the Highland burr in his talk and a twinkle in his eye, was talking about leaving his beloved job as towel-handler "for-r all the boys" in the locker-room of the Sports Building yesterday. British Renew Burma Attack Cadillac car-r and then snub an hon- est man r-riding a bicycle," Scotty might begin, with a real concern for the little people. Then when the stu- dent objects, Scotty's eyes twinkle,I the burr rolls off his tongue for all it's worth and he is pursuing the ar- the fiery old gentleman with "you're all wet." "You Amer-ricans have to lear-rn to apr-reciate the finer-r things of life," Scotty will moralize. "For-rget making mor-re dollar-rs than the next fellow and help him along when you can." LONDON, Jan. 9.-(P)-Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's southward thrusting forces have renewed the fighting with Japanese in the diffi- cult lowlands north of Akyab in Bur- ma simultaneously with the loosing of a one-two punch by American sky dragons from China and the RAF from India. These widespread but closely co- ordinated operations were announced in communiques from New Delhi and Chungking as the British advance back into Burma, still somewhat of a military mystery, entered its fourth week.