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Completes
THE TIME IS NOW:
Economy Board
To Assist Byrnes
Tell Them About .It!
In a front page editorial yesterday The Daily pointed out that our
University has thus far fallen short of its potential contribution to the
nation s war effort. We believe that the failure lies not so much with
the general student body as with those who are supposed to be the
campus leaders.
For this reason it is now up to the students themselves to demand
action from the head of every organization on this campus. They should
demand that every organization justify its existence by what it does to
aid the war effort and by that alone.
Below is a list of the men and women from whom action should
come. They are the leaders of the major campus organizations.
If they are not doing their part, TELL THEM ABOUT IT.
If you have any ideas of your own, TELL THEM ABOUT IT.
Enemy Grip On Aleutians
Weakens As Japs Desert
Bases;Still Holding Kiska
Former Justice Is Chief
Over Wartime Group
To Handle Stabilization
Anti-Inflation Law
Sets Crop 'Floor'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7-(A)-With
the appointment of two representa-
tives each from labor, agriculture
and management, President Roose-
velt completed today the membership
of a board which will assist, James F.
Byrnes in controlling the wartime
economy of the nation.
Byrnes announced the appoint-
ments at a White House press con-.
ference. Immediately afterward he
took the oath of office as Director of
Economic Stabilization. With a salary
of $15,000, a fourth less than he made
as an associate justice of the. Supreme
Court, Byrnes will draw as much pay
as a cabinet member. He is expected
to sit in on cabinet meetings.
Labor Represented
These were the additions to the
economic stabilization board:
Labor representatives, William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and Phillip Mur-
ray, President of the CIO.
F ar m representatives, President
James 0. Patton, of the Farmers' Co-
operative Union, and Edward O'Neal,
president, American Farm . Bureau
Federation.
Representing management, Eric A.
Johnston, president of the Chamber
of 'Commerce of the United States,
and Ralph E. Flanders, president,
Jones & Lamson Machine Company,'
Springfield, Vt.
In an executive order putting into
effect the new anti-inflation law, Mr.
Roosevelt had already placed on the
board the secretaries of the treasury,
agriculture, commerce' and labor, the
Federal Reserve Board chairman, the
budget director, price administrator,
and War Labor Board chairman.
Directors' First Act
One of the director's first acts after
taking his oath was to direct Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wickard, who had
recommended the step, to maintain
the loan rate on the 1942 corn and
wheat crops at 85 per cent of their
parity prices, as of the beginning of
the marketing year. This was done to
"prevent any increase in the cost of
livestock and poultry and to aid in
the prosecution of the war" by hold-
ing down feed costs.
The recently enacted anti-inflation
bill calls for loans designed to place
a 90 per cent parity "floor" under the
price of major crops, but provides
that the rate may be held down to 85
per cent if necessary to faciliate pro-
duction of livestock.
N..
Nazis Protest
Eish Raid
Japs' Moves
Pushed Back
ByApussies
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Oct. 71
(P)- The latest Japanese threat to
Port Moresby had collapsed tonight,
with the invaders pushed back to the
northeast downslope of the Owen
Stanley range and steadily pursuing
Australian advance forces in firm
control of the mountain pass.
There was no indication where the.
Japanese would muster strength for
a stand.
Dispatches from the New Guinea
battle zone said that since the initial
stages of the repulse, when the invad-
ers were turned back only 32 air-line
miles from Port Moresby by frontal
attack and flanking tactics, their rear
guard resistance lightened until now
the cautious advance of the Austral-
ians was unopposed.
One of the mysteries of the Japan-
ese withdrawal was the finding of a
number of enemy dead whose bodies
bore no wounds, as though they had
died of illnes.
A correspondent of the Melbourne
Herald said the Australians, who yes-
terday pushed on up the range be-
yond Kagi, within four miles of the
Port Moresby entrance to the gap,
had advanced early today to within
two miles of the far end of the pass--
headed for the downslope toward Ko-
koda, the main Japanese inland base.
Allied airplanes virtually ruled the
sky over the line of advance and they
repeatedly bombed Japanese supply
line back to tlge Gonabuna region on
the northeast coast of the island.
The official war bulletin fiom
southwest Pacific headquarters ex-
plained the slackening pace of the
ten-day advance with the comment:
"This incredibly difficult range of
mountains presents almost insuper-
able complications in maintenance of
supply lines for troop units .of any
size."
College Students
Swarm In Fields
To Help Farmers
BISMARCK, N. D.- (P)- Because
Mother Nature won't wait any longer
for Washington to act, North Dakota
dug up its own solution today for the
farm labor crisis.
Into its fields to harvest the most
bountiful crops in years, the state ij
sending its college men and women,
high school boys and girls, to toil
alongside the hard-pressed farmers.
By the end of the week, about 4,000
college students will have turned har-
vest hands in addition to thousands
of high school students. In fact, most
of the state's higher educational sys-
tem is at a standstill and in many
towns, that applies to local business
as well as the city goes out to the
country to give it an emergency lift.
Soviet Drive On German Flank
Continues; City Repels Attack
Assembly .. .......................... . Betty Newman,
Congress.............................. . Norton Norris,
Daily ............................ . . Homer Swander,
Daily Women's Editor ............:........Barbara de Fries,
Inter-Cooperative Council ..................Harold Ehlers,
Inter-Fraternity Council ...................John Fauver,
League ..............................Charlotte Thompson,
League Defense Committee ................ Margaret Ihling,
Men's Judiciary Council ................. Robert Matthews,
Pan-Hellenic Council ...................... Virginia Morse,
Student War Board ............ .. Robert Matthews,
Union . .Don West,
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Women's Athletic Association .........Nancy Filsttup, 4121, Ex. 702
Women's Judiciary Council ................ Lorraine Judson, 2-3251
Mine Workers
Vote To Drop
Ties With CIO
Lewis Gives- Convention
Ultimatum To Choose
Him Or National Union
CINCINNATI, 0., Oct. 7- (A)-The
United Mine Workers of America late
today voted almost,. unanimously to
withdraw from the Congress of In-
dustrial Organizations to complete. a
two-year, steadily widening breach..
John L. Lewis, UMW chieftain and
former CIO president, virtually told
the miners in a 56-minute speech to
decide between him and the CIO.
Although most speakers, previous
to Lewis, asked delegates to vote
against the split, only a scattering of
men stood after the majority had
shouted their approval of Lewis'
stand.
"I think this convention in honor
to itself and in honor to its officers
should adopt this report (committee
on officers' report which recommend-
ed withdrawal)," Lewis declared, end-
ing the debate.
"If you do not adopt this report,
then you do not want a man like me
as your president. You want a man
with more rabbit in him than I've
got," he added to set off a roof-shak-
ing demonstration in Music Hall.
Willkie's Opinions
His Own, He States
With United States Forces in Chi-
na, Oct. 7- ()- Wendell L. Willkie
traded information with officers and
men at an American Army air base
today after winding up his Chungking
visit with a declaration that he was
speaking for himself, when he made
statements such as his Moscow call
for a second front.
Replying to questions at a press
conference, he said he had been com-
missioned by the President to do cer-
tain things and that in anything con-
nected with them he was the Presi-
dent's representative and acted ac-
cordingly.
Nazis Execute
Fifteen Morea
In Trondheim
Two Others Sentenced
To 10 Years Of Labor
As Terrorism Reigns J
LONDON; Oct. 7.-(P)-Adolf Hit-'
ler's executioners took the lives of 151
more persons today at Trondheim,
Norway, the Oslo radio announced,
as° Nazi administrators bore down'
with a reign of terror-in ruthless de-.l
termination to mold the country into
"new order" subservience.
Along with 10 lawyers, editors, a
shipowner and other prominent citi-
zens who were executed yesterday,
the total thus was brought to 25 as
the result of'a state o emergency im-
posed upon Trondheim and a coastal
strip of 400 miles.
Two others today were sentenced
to 10 years at hard labor, while one
of a total of 18 brought before a
court martial was acquitted, the ra-
dio said. All were charged vaguely
with 'criminal offenses.
A thorough checkup of everyone
livingeinythe area of the state of
emergency was started by the Ges-
tapo which broadcast orders for per-
sons normally living in the district
but now residing elsewhere to register
at the nearest police station imme-
diately.
"They seem to have come down
and haphazardly picked out promi-
nent citizens and shot them as a
form of intimidation of the popula-
tion," said the Norwegian telegraph
agency here in commenting on the
first ten executed.
Noneof the men was under arrest,
accused of a specific crime or even
held as a hostage, it was said.
Roosevelt Asks
Tr ial, Penalty,
For Axis Head
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-(k)-A
post-war trial of Adolf Hitler for
high cries against humanity was ap-
parently foreshadowed today when
President Roosevelt said the terms
of United Nations victory would call
for punishment of "ringleaders" re-
sponsible for "organized murder" and
other "atrocities."
Without mentioning Hitler by
name, the President disclosed that
the United Nations were already mov-
ing to set up a commission to gather
evidence for use at post-war trials.
Drawing a sharp line between Axis
leaders and the people under them,
Mr. Roosevelt said in a statement:
"It is not the intention of this gov-
ernment or of the governments asso-
ciated with us to resort to mass re-
prisals. It is our intention that just
and sure punishment shall be meted
out to the ringleaders responsible for
the organized murder of thousands
of innocent persons and the commis-
sion of atrocities which have violated
every tenet of the Christian faith."
Later, Sumner Welles, Acting Sec-
retary of State, was asked by re-
porters whether Hitler was one of
those who would be placed on trial.
He said he would leave the answer
to the excellent judgment of those
who raised the question.
Nazi 'Tank Forts' Ripped
By Timoshenko's Men;
Rumanians Wiped Out'
MOSCOW, Thursday, Oct. 8-(P)-
The Red Army continued its drive
against the German left flank north-
west of Stalingrad yesterday and held
all positions inside the battle-scarred
city against the huge mass of men
and tanks the Germans have thrown
into the battle, the Soviet midnight
communique said today.
Earlier reports said Marshal Tim-
oshenko's relief offensive northwest
of Stalingrad had ripped into a line
of hundreds of Nazi "tank forts" and
overrun a stronghold, wiping out 1,200
Rumanian troops.
Battle Rages In City
The communique's reference to this
action said simply that "northwest of
Stalingrad our troops have been con-
ducting operations for the improve-
ment of their positions."
Inside the rubble-strewn city, the
battle raged on fiercely, but the Sov-
iet communique indicated the Red
Army had not withdrawn at any
point.
"All attacks of enemy tanks and
infantry have been repelled with hea-
vy losses," it said. "Our troops are
holding their positions."
During this fighting, it was stated
officially, the Russians killed about
500 Germans and destroyed 19 tanks.
Italian Radio Quoted
(In London the British News Agen-
cy Reuters quoted an Italian radio
report as saying Russian forces at-
tacking the German flank above Sta-
lingrad had thrown pontoon bridges
across the Don and sent troops to the
west bank of that stream.)
In the Mozdok area, in the Cau-
casus, the Russians retired to new
positions at one point after a fierce
engagement. At another point, the
communique said, 12 German tanks
managed to penetrate to the rear of
a Soviet detachment, but 11 of the
tanks were put out of action and
about a company of German troops
were wiped out.
Meanwhile, fresh enemy reinforce-1
ments were thrown into the Caucasus
battle. The communique said a new'
Rumanian division had arrived in the-
area southeast of Novorossisk, Ger-
man-held Black Sea base, and had
been fighting for two days.
Dfaily Standby
Hale Champion
Enters Army,
Today The Daily lost one of its
most reliable veterans.
Hale Champion, night editor, left
early this morning for Fort Sheridan,
Illinois, where he will enter Uncle
Sam's growing Army as a buck pri-
vate.
During Champion's three-year stayt
with The Daily, he has handled jobs;
ranging from special feature assign-4
ments to writing sports copy "outside
of his department." And he did every
job given him with a thoroughness,3
'accuracy and versatility that stamps,
him as one of the up-and-coming
young journalists.
'I'm happy I'm going," Champion
said, "because I'm breaking a shroud
of apathy that held me from Septem-
ber, 1940, to September, 1942. The
apathy kept me from doing what I
knew I should do."
In leaving for the Army, Champion
broke off his education one year shy
of a degree. A member of the special-
ly-created Army Enlisted Reserves
on campus, he asked permission for
active duty in order to enlist. As long
as he was in that organization, he
could have continued his schooling.
The Daily wishes luck to Hale
Champion on his new job.
Gen. Cramer Reviews
Judge Advocate, Unit
Maj. Gen. Myron C. Cramer, The
Judge Advocate General of the United
States Army, was in Ann Arbor yes-
terday to review the 64 officer mem-
bers of the Judge Advocate General's
school, now housed in the Law Quad-
rangle.
The review was held on the drilling
grounds just east of the Law Library.
Col. Edward H. Young, commandant
of the school, accompanied Gen. Cra-
mer in the inspection.
Gen. Cramer will address a special
meeting of the Judge Advocate Gen-
eral's school at 10 a. m. today.
Bombs Hit Attu Buildings;
Guadalcanal Reinforced
By AxisPlanning Drive
Defenses Threatened
In Solomon Outposts
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7- 0P)- Ja-
pan's hold on America's western
Aleutian Islands-appeared tonight to
be weakening rapidly.
The Navy announced there was no
trace of the enemy on either Attu,
the westernmost island and first
seized by the Japs, or on nearby
Agattu, where the enemy also had
placed small forces.
The Japs were still in possession of
Kiska Island, their most important
base of operations in the area, but so
far as was known that was the only
island they held, and it was under
repeated and heavy attack by air.
Navy Makes No Claims
This information was .given out in
a Navy communique which cautiously
refrained from claiming that the en-
emy actually had withdrawn from
Attu and Agattu. From the an-
nounced fact that considerable aerial
reconaissance had failed to produce
any sign of occupancy "for several
weeks," it seemed clear, however, that
a withdrawal had been effected.
Moreover, American bombers have
now destroyed most of the buildings
on Attu. Regarding Kiska, the com-
munique said that "attacks by 'our
aircraft continue," and reported spe-
cifically that on Monday army liber-
ator bombers, with fighter escorts,
dropped many demolition and incen-
diary bombs on the camp area, and
scored hits on the seaplane hangar.
Six enemy seaplane fighters which
rose to the counter-attack were shot
down at that time. The Japs also put
up light anti-aircraft opposition but
all the American Aircraft returned
to their base.
Japs Reinforce Guadalcanal
The communique did not mention
the situation in the south Pacific
where at last reports, yesterday, the
Japanese were reinforcing their
troopson Guadalcanal Island in the
Solomons in: preparation for a re-
newed attempt to capture the Amer-
ican defense positions and airfield.
The base from which the Ameridan
aircraft made their latest attack on
the Japs in the Aleutians undoubted-
ly is the newly developed operations
center in the Andreanof Islands,
which at one point lie only 125 nau-
tical miles from Kiska. Its occupation
by Army troops and air forces was
announced by the Navy only last
Saturday, . although it had been ef-
fecteddseveral weeks earlier.
German Exile
Speaks Today
Senate Passes
Tax Measure
Corporation Rates To Be
40 Per Cent Of Income
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7- (P)- By
an overwhelming vote, the Senate to-
day approved a 40 per cent tax on
corporation incomes above $50,000,
after rejecting, 75 to 9, a proposal by
Senator LaFollette (P-Wis.) to in-
crease that rate to 50 per cent.
Then, in a day of rapid action, it
voted to reduce the credit for depen-
dent children and others from $400
to $300 and turned to a discussion of
the problem of taxing income from
state and municipal securities histor-
ically exempt from federal assess-
ments.
Both votes on corporation rates
found the Senate following the ad-
vice of its finance committee and dis-
regarding the recommendations of
the treasury. The latter had recom-
mended a rate of 55 per cent on cor-
poration incomes over $50,000. By
comparison, the House approved a
rate of 45 per cent.
Attack
Stirs
On Sark Island
Handcuff Fight
LONDON, Oct. 7- (P)- A ten-man
commando raid last Saturday night
on Sark, smallest of the German-oc-
cupied channel islands, gave rise to-
day to an exchange of nearly 800
sharp and.. hostile words in official
British and German communiques as
to whether the British are handcuf-
fing their prisoners.
By all 4ccounts it was a very small
affair-just another of the little night
operations which seldom receiveany
publicity at all-with the 10 com-
mandos slipping ashore to get some
information about how the Germans
were treating the people on the is-
land, and capturing five prisoners,
four of whom were shot while getting
away.
But apparently the German High
Command saw something particularly
inhuman in putting handcuffs on a
man and was determined to'raise the
issue.
it waxed indignant, threatened re-
prisals, and devoted 400 of the 650
words of its communique, which also
told of the Battle of Stalingrad, to
the raid and its repercussions.
The Germans said there were 16
raiders who captured five prisoners,
bound them in fetters and then shot
and stabbed two dead and wounded'
a third.
The British War Office, in a spe-
cial announcement, denied any pris-
onnersof war had been so treated. and
A Woman Takes The Reins:,
Dorothy A. Johnson Appointed
Editor Of '43_Michiganensian
Reserve Programs Described
At War Rally; Interviews Today
v,
First Woman in the university to
hold such a post, Dorothy A. Johnson,
'43, of Farmington, has been appoint-
ed managing editor of the 1943 Mich-
iganensian.
At a meeting yesterday the Board
in Control of Student Publications
also announced the appointment of
Bob Sundquist, '43SM as associate
editor and Stu Gildart, '43A, as art
director.
Miss Johnson was a member of the
junior editorial staff last year and
has taken an active part in Soph Cab-
aret central committee, in Wyvern,
Mortar Board and Senior Society, and
as a member of the Marriage Rela-
tions Board Executive Committee.
She is recipient of the 1942 Ethel Mc-
Cormick Scholarship and a four-year
Alumni Undergraduate Scholarship.
A=i.e _nncn r~fn n8from anv
reach the $4.50 level and in the
spring, 'Ensians will cost $5.00 per
copy.
A third member of the senior staff
is Ruth Wood, '43. On the junior edi-
torial staff are Mel Englehardt, '44,
Carson Grunewald, '44, Robert
Schultze, '44, Suzanne Sims, '44
(schools and colleges), Betty Ann
Kranich, '44 (house group), Phyllis
Levine, '44, Jean Whittimore, '44 (wo-
men's activities), Griffith Young,
'44A layouts) and A. A. Agree, '44A
(sports).
Junior members of the business
staff include Martin Feferman, '44,
salesman; Buck Dalton, '44, Dick
Bieneman, '44E, Lois Fromm, '44,
June Gustafson, '44, Eleanor Howe,
'44, and Mary Keppel, '44.
Announcement of the managing
editor's annointment came late be-
With a stern warning to "decide
and decide quick," officials of the
Advisory Board for the Sixth Service
Command gave 900 students, who
massed at Hill Auditorium last night,'
a picture of the reserve programs this
University can offer.
Led by Marine Captain Paul B.
Rickard who predicted every reserve
program would close at the end of
this semester to all but incoming
freshmen, the program presented
speakers from the Army Reserves,
Army Air Corps Reserves, Naval Re-
serves, Naval Air Corps Reserves and
the Marine Reserves.
President Ruthven, who introduced
the speakers, held himself one "who
believes college students are taking
the war seriously." He lauded the re-
serve programs as "deliberate expert
will explain the program in Room 3191
while Capt. John H. Peterson and
Lieut. Francis A. Wilgus of the Army
Air Corps Enlisted Reserve will be
available in Room 321.
Interviews concerning Navy V-1
and V-7 will be given by Lieut. John
Howard in Room 323 while explan-
ations of Navy V-5, flight program,
will be given by Lieuts. D. L. Griffith
and R. G. Gibbs in Room 325. Capt.
Paul B. Rickard, chairman of the,
Board, will interview those interested
in 'the Marine Corps Reserve in Room
308.
The officers will not accept enlist-
ments but only advise students and
explain the details of the particular
reserves they represent. Enlistments
may be made through the Univer-
sity War Board, 1009 Angell Hall.
Dr. Schairer To Discuss
Nazis And The Peace
Dr. Reinhold Schairer, voluntary
exile from Nazi Germany and visit-
ing professor at New York University,
will discuss "Germany, Before the
Peace and After" at 4:15 p. m. today
in the Rackham Amphitheater.
Dr. Schairer is being brought to
Ann Arbor under the auspices of the
University Committee on Interna-
tional Studies and Administration,
and his lecture is open to the public.
During the last world war he was
organizing, at the German Legation
in Copenhagen, a close cooperation
between Russia, Britain, America and
Germany to better the position of
prisoners of war. Later, he was ap-
pointed by the German Republic as
head of a Central Bureau of German
Universities.
When Hitler came into power, Dr.
Schairer immediately left Germany
and fled to England. He has since de-
voted his energies to bringing about
a new educational policy in all coun-
tries of Europe.
Soldier Rights Assured
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7- The bill
to protect the civil rights of men in
the armed forces was signed by Pres-
ident Roosevelt today.
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