4 4 >4 ai4 Wemher Light Snaow VOL. LIII No. 81 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Air Reserves Are Slated for Duty in April Men Will Be Sent to 100 College Training Centers for Special Pre-Flight Courses By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Prospec- tive aviation cadets now in the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve will be order- ed to duty at about 100 colleges for special instructions under a new pro- gram expanding Army use of the Civil Aeronautics Administration's facili- ties.- A limited amount of flight train- ing will be given, tonight's announce- ment by the Army Air Forces said. This is expected to improve the effi- ciency and increase the output of regular Army flight schools by pro- viding a screening test to eliminate a large percentage of failures at the Army institutions. The college courses are expected to begin in April. Schools selected will include a number now participating in the CAA program. The name Civilian Pilot Training, or "CPT," is being changed to CAA War Training Service. It will have two parts. The first division will con- tinue the present courses for men expected to qualify eventually as transport pilots or instructors. "In the second division," said the Air Forces, "new special qualification courses will be conducted for a cer- tain proportion of prospective avia- tion cadets prior to their entry into regular AAF schools. The number will depend on the amount of equipment available. "At the present time a large num- ber of these men are in the Army Enlisted Reserve, awaiting call to active duty. It is expected that these men will be called in the near fu- ture and assigned to approximately 100 colleges selected throughout the country in localities where flying fields are conveniently available. The colleges selected will be announced as soon as the list'is completed." NAVY REPORT: Soldiers Kill 1,032 Japs. on Solo mons DENSMORE PLEASE NOTE: President Ruthven s Words Apply Today, "OUR NEWSPAPERS MUST BE FREED FROM THE PETTY CENSORSHIP THAT NOW HAMPERS THEM IN THEIR ESSENTIAL TASKS OF KEEPING THE PUBLIC IN- FORMED OF THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR AND OF MAIN- TAINING THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST GREED, INTOLER- ANCE AND SLAVERY, AND THUS SERVE AS RELIABLE GUIDES IN ADULT EDUCATION." -President Ruthven, in "The Nation's Schools," Jan., 1943 THE FOLLOWING WORDS of President Alexander G. Ruthvento the graduating class of 1942 provide excellent background for the present fight against a Board in Control of Student Publications which is attempting to stifle student thought and expression: "As we allow our minds to loaf, we become easy prey and effective tools for politicians, bureaucrats, demagogues, and other self-seekers--we become the serfs and make dictatorships possible. WE FORGET THAT THE EXTERNAL OONTROL OF OUA THOUGHT IS THE MOST COMPLETE AND ABJECT FORM OF SLAVERY." "We are, on occasion, being asked to accept at their face value the opinions, prejudices, and plans of many self-styled "authorities" and to swallow whole the generalizations of those whose chief qualifications for leadership are ambition and the ability to make a loud noise." "OBVIOUSLY, WE MUST HAVE ADVISERS, BUT WE NEED TO RESPECT ONLY TRUE AND INTELLIGENT GUIDES, NOT PHARISEES SELF-APPOINTED TO THI$ ROLE. We must have followers, but we should train with the intellectually honest, not with blind and ignorant disciples." "To be a creative thinker is hard work, and the results of the effort may often be expected to bring disapprobation, especially when they. are displeasing to those in high places. Such criticism shouid, how- ever, cause the conscientious citizen no deep Aoncern." S * * *, - "There is no disloyalty in honestly questioning your leaders. Indeed, it is the highest patriotism in ademocracy to refuse to become puppets of the state, mere cogs in 'an'y iiachine, or super- ficial followers Of any sect, ideology, or individual. . * * * * , "As you leave the University, I give you this charge: Be neither pessimists nor wishful thinkers. Fashion for yourselves an "armor of honest thought"; 'be just and fear not; let all'the ends thou aimest at be thy country's thy God's, ,nd truth's'." , * * * . We sincerely hope President Ruthven applies his words of last May to the present controversy. If he does; Prof. Densmore will not long be a member of the Board. -Homer Swander, MaanagIng Editor Morton Mintz, Editorial Director Will Sapp, City Editor 0 e Russian Armies Batter Germans, Move 17 Miles toward Kharkov; British, French Close on British Announce Sinking of 14 Axis Vessels by Pack of. Allied Destroyers By ALFRED E. WALL Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 20.-The Fighting French swarming northward from Equatorial Africa have joined forces with the British Eighth Army closing on Tripoli, it was announced tonight, while the British reported sinking 14 Axis vessels in the Mediterranean in the first three days of this week. These French troops swept up from the Lake Chad area over deserts and mountains, conquering the Italian Fezzan, and now "are continuing their advance northward and have established contact with the British Eighth Army," a communique from Brig.-Gen. Le Clerc's headquarter's announced. Aid 'Brilliantly' "These forces are brilliantly taking part with their British allies in the advance on Tripoli. They are attack- ing on the left of the Eighth Army moving northward," said the war bul- letin broadcast . by the. Fighting French radio at Brazzaville. The juncture was announced short- ly after the British had reported sinking 14 Axis ships in the central Mediterranean in the first three days of this week, and as twin British col- umns pounding toward Tripoli were reported within 40 and 60 miles of the bomb-battered capital of Musso- lini's vanishing Libyan Empire. The new threat from this French thrust increased the probability that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel would. fight only a delaying action at Trip- oli instead of making a final stand there. French under Leclere The Frence column had moved up under Colonel Ingold, the field coM- mander under Leclerc. Its new ad-" vance was announced by the authori- tative French radio station at Brazza- ville, and not the "Radio Brazzaville" used as a cloak by an Axis broadcast- ing station. A triumphant communique by the Admiralty tonight disclosed that a pack of destroyers, six British and one Greek, sank these vesselson Sun- Turn to Page 6, Col. 4 WLB Creates 12 New Boards Regional Plan Used For Labor Control WASHINGTON, Jan. 20'.-(Y)-The War Labor Board today formally an- nounced a plan to decentralize its activities through the creation of 12 regional labor boards empowered to make final decisions on labor dis- putes and on voluntary wage and sal- ary adjustments. WLB chairman William H. Davis said that under the new setup, ex- pected to begin operation within a week or 10 days, the national board will function "as a supreme court for labor disputes" by retaining the right to review regional decisions. Each regional board will have 12 members, with equal representation for labor, industry and the public. The WLB's regional advisory coun- cils in 10 cities will be reorganized as regional boards, and boards will be established in two newly created regions, Detroit and Seattle. - ! Retaliation Raid Debris Cleared Tripoli Voroshilovgrad Fall Held Near as London Claims Million Nazis Lost British girls and men clean up shattered glass outside a Lon- department store which felt the effects of a "feeble" air raid by the Nazis in retaliation for the huge raids on Berlin by the RAF. * * * * * * 66 BURIED IN DEBRIS:. Nazi Planes Bomb London 4 Times;Kill 30 in School By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.- Ameri- can troops, relentlessly pressing a campaign to eliminate enemy forces on Guadalcanal, killed 1,032 Japanese in five days of jungle warfare, the Navy reported today. In patrol skirmishes and in com- paratively large scale engagements, they advanced on the Japanese and wiped out group after group in the five days ending January 17. Many of the engagements were within a short distance of Henderson Air Field, base for American planes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 21. (Thursday) (P)- Allied jungle fighters, mov- ing so fast they didn't have time to count the enemy dead, further compressed Japanese pockets around Sanananda Point in New Guinea while Allied bombers at- tacked 10 points embracing prac- tically the whole south Pacific area yesterday and the day before. which have been bombing enemy po- sitions on other islands and attacking shipping in the Solomons area. One was an encounter in which American troops moved steadily for- ward, advancing between 3,000 and 4,000 yards to throw back the Japa- nese despite "stiff enemy resistance" last Friday. Again on the next day the ground forces forged ahead, with the enemy offering determined resistance from trenches.. Other skirmishes took American troops into action against pockets of enemysresistances-sma1l groupsrof Japanese holding positions from which they could harrass American movements. In one day of such ac- tions the Navy reported that on Sat- urday 150 Japanese were killed, a number taken .prisoner and a quan- tity of equipment captured. Farm Youth Army Will Be Formed to Meet Shortage LANSING, Jan. 20.-( P)-Plans for recruiting a farm youth army to help meet an expected labor shortage on Michigan farms will be formulated at Roth Quartet State Stalls' to Play Friday Plan for Post Beethoven, Dohnanyi War Reserve Will Be on Program LANSING, Jan. 20. -(P)- Oppo- nents of legislation to create a $50,- Presenting a program of works by 000,000 post-war reserve stalled ac- Haydn, Dohnanyi and Beethoven, the tion on that measure in the Michigan Roth String Quartet will open its Senate today until next Wednesday. Third Annual Chamber Music Festi- Senator Jerry T. Logie, Rep., Bay val at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Main City, attacked the measure as pro- Lecture Hall of the Rackham Build- viding "too much" of an immediate ing. reserve. The sponsor, Sen. Otto W. The program for Friday will in- Bishop, Rep;, Alpena, had proposed lude: Quartet in D major, Op. 76, to lay aside $20,000,000 out of cur- No. 5 by Haydn; Quartet in D-flat rent surpluses in the State Treasury Major, No. 2 by Dohnanyi; Quartet and to instruct the administrative in F Minor, Op. 95 by Beethoven. board to add future surpluses to the Under the leadership of Feri Roth, fund until the $50,000,000 mark was organizer and first violinist, the reached. Quartet has toured the United States Logie asserted the law-makers were since 1928, when it was brought to planning to "strip the Treasury to Sthis country to present the first of prove 'toyourselves you can't trust its chamber music festivals for which, the legislature while it's in session." according to Dr. Charles A. Sink, president of the University Musical J Society, it has become famous.Ch eSr The Quartet, Dr. Sink said, is noted for its practice of playing the works Ties - e of contemporary American compos- 'U ers, and will include a selection by SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 20.-(P)- one of them, Quincy Porter, on its program at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Chile Severed relations with the Axis powers today, and President Juan Flynn Charged with Antonio i,* told his people in a broadcaste tonight that it was a step Perjury in Senate toward continental soldidarity and in defense of democracy. ComitteeMeetin Rios explained the rupture with WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-(P)-An Germany, Japan, and Italy in a half- opponent's cry of "perjury" today hour address from the government capped Edward J. Flynn's denial of palace. wrongdoing, and the Senate Foreign The Chilean Senate approved the Relations Committee decided to get decision last night by a 30-10 vote, and Rios afterward signed the decree the views of Mayor Fiorello H. La- to oust Axis diplomats, A roundup of Guardia and other New York offi- all Axis nationals was quickly begun. cials on Flynn's fitness to be Minister Tonight Rios gave Chileans the full to Australia. explanation of his decision, reached Flynn, chain-smoking cigarettes, long after the original popular pro- went over one by one the charges test against Axis attacks on Chilean wentoverone y oe th chagesshipping had subsided. leveled by Republicans contending he ____p__________ded. is unfit for the Australian post, and branded them all political in origin Chicago U. Takes over i .; T By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 21. (Thursday)- The German Air Force stabbed at London four times during the night but indications early today were ,that the Nazis had done no damage after a: furious , daylight raid yesterday. which smashed a school.house . and killed at least 30. gaily-chattering children in the building. The showing last night and early today by the Nazi Air Force was re- garded by observers as insignificant as a military operation, for the Ger- mans only reached the outskirts of London once. Otherwise, the. four alarms in the London area, one of them in only one section, produced almost no incidents. Incendiary bombs were dropped in the southeast section during' one alarm. The German daylight raiders bur- ied 30 to 63 children and three teach- ers beyond hope of -life under tons of debris but rescuers were digging for them. It was the worst blow suffered by London schools since the blitz at- tacks began. Only six raiders eluded London's defenses and the school, in the heart of a residential section, was smashed into rubble. There wasn't a chance that the children and teachers buried in the Post-Holiday 'Garg' Goes on Sale Today With a saddle shoe on its cover and a multitude of pictures and cartoons on its insides the post-holiday issue of the Gargoyle goes on sale today. "In this issue-" are featured all phases of campus life. Rather than follow the typical student, the cam- eraman films a "double exposure" showing two sets of twins as they bowl, study, skate and date. Betty Kefgen asks "Darling, to you remember?" in a page of :sketches which show the change in student life since the war began. The Mich- igan winter scene is depicted by Mickey McGuire's pen drawings. ruins were alive, for they had beer chattering gaily at luncheon on thf first floor; but 200 rescue worker, kept digging for them., Only 11 children and one teacheui in the building emerged alive. Thirty bodies of children from six to 14 years of age had been[ recovered. The known victims besides the chil- dren in the one building were 10 chil- dren and six women killed by a bomt which smashed three London houses and six children and three women' killed when a bomb passed through the top of a cafe and across a street into a row of houses. Back to Work Drive Launched By Coal Miners 4,000 Union Workers Vote to Comply With Presidential Order WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 20.- (P) - Stomping, shouting miners launched a new back-to-work move- ment in Pennsylvania's strike-bound hard coal fields tonight. Cries of "back to work boys" rang through union halls as more than four thousand workers voted to com- ply with President Roosevelt's order that they end their three-week-old unauthorized walkout by noon to- morrow. Throwing parliamentary order to the winds, the 1,800 employes of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company's Pros- pect-Henry Colliery didn't even both- er to take a formal vote. In a five- minute session they yelled unani- mous approval when one worker call- ed out : "What do we want a meeting for? Let's go back to work!" They were the first to make such a decision since Mr. Roosevelt issued his ultimatum yesterday and warned that he would "take the necessary steps" unless the miners obeyed. More formal but just as detgrmined was the Lance Colliery Local of Glen Alden Coal Company, with 1;000 members. After the miners voted 250 to 110 to resume production tomor- row, Dave Cummings, president of the local for 20 years, said: "You boys should be like prize fighters. When one loses he accepts the decision. We all go back to work tomorrow.nk The big South Wilkes-Barre local, rprese~nting 1.400fl mnlnucs of +the By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 20.- The Red Amyr, driving deeply into the Uk- raine, gained 17 miles in the sweep toward Kharkov, and farther south Leached a point only 45 miles above Voroshilovgrad, Donets River indus- crial center, a special communique innounced tonight. The Russians now have rolled back the Germans to an area where the :esiient Red Army itself had retreat- d last summer when the big Nazi drive began. (The midnight Soviet communique tieard by the Soviet Monitor in Lon- ion said the Russians had captured Mityakinskaya, only 22 air line miles aast of Voroshilovgrad, a junction on a network of railways that winds down to Rostov. Thus the Russians aot only were closing in on the im- aortant Nazi base of Rostov from three sides, but might aim to sweep around it to anchor their flying col- imns on the Sea of Azov behind it.) Russians Near Salsk In the Cauicasus tl'ieissians now were near Salsk, big rail junction 100 mniles below Rostov. (British military observers said the 1ussians in. two months had ren- lered ineffective a total of 89 Axis livisions, representing the demorali- iation of some 1,335,000 enemy troops if they were at full divisional Strength.) The Southern Arm of the Russian sweep toward Kharkov captured By- elokurakina, 115 miles southeast of the big industrial center. A northern army is fighting within 79 miles of the city from the east. Byelokurakina was taken by Soviet 'roops advancing 17 miles from Novo-Pskov. Farther south another column took Byelovodsk, 45 miles above Voroshilovgrad. Other Russian anits were threatening Voroshilov- ,rad in a drive down the railway from Millerovo. Northern Arm Past Urazovo The northern arm is fighting be- yond the Urazovo area on the Voron- czh- Kupyansk- Kharkov railway. Seventy miles northeast of this Rus- ian spearhead the Red Army final- ly smashed a two-day Axis stand in ;ncircled Ostrogozhsk. Two railway grains loaded with motor vehicles and >ther equipment fell along with ,the ity.' In the Caucasus the Red Army overran Proletarskaya, about 23 miles rom Nazi-held Salsk,. a key rail and air base 100 miles southeast of Ros- tov. It is from Salsk that the Ger- mans have been flying in supplies to the 22 Nazi divisions slowly being throttled to death in the trap before Stalingrad. H~ichigan Told to Burn Coal DETROIT, Jan. 20.- (I)- A mandatory program of conversion of oil heating units to coal was an- nounced today for Michigan after a conference of representatives of the War Production Board, the Office of Price Administration and the Petro- leum Administration for War. Effective immediately, the pro- gram'at the outset will apply only to consumers who use 10,000 gallons or more a season, but James E. Wil- son, deputy regional director of the WPB in charge of priorities and allo- cations, said that eventually it would be extended to all consumers. The present program will affect apartments, hotels, theatres and in- dustrial users. Axis Powers Sign New Economic Pact A Berlin radio broadcast recorded by the Associated Press tonight said that Germany, Japan, and*Italy had signed an economic cooperation pact yesterday to utilize, "each in his own economic sphere," their resources for 'U' HEAT IS THREATENED: Sub-Zero Temperature Freezes ,Heating System's Coal Supply Arctic Ann Arbor weather periled the University's central heating sys- tem last night as a sub-zero temper- ature froze coal in the heating plant's feeding hoppers. A skeleton crew from the greatly, under-manned Building and Grounds department has worked for 36 hours breaking up boulders of frozen coal where it pours into the central stok- er, Supt. Edward C. Pardon said last night. miles of back highways around Ann Arbor, the Sheriff's office reported, but the County Road Commission predicted that most snowbound farm houses would be accessible by to- night. Main highways in and outside of Ann Arbor have been cleared, al- though road travel is still hazardous the Commissioner warned. Ann Ar- bor's police department noted a 25% decrease in automobile accidents.