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VOL'LIII No. 108 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1943

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Standley Says
Reds Silent
On U.S. Aid .
Russians Want Full
Credit, Ambassador
Tells Newspapermen
By EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press Correspondent
MOSCOW, March 8-Admiral Wil-
liam H. Standley, U. 8, Ambassador,
to Russia, told a press conference to-
day he did not think the Russian peo-
pie were being told the complete story
of United States aid to Russia.
"I find no political motive to this,"
Standley said. "It is only an effort to
create the impression with their own
people that they are pulling them-
selves through by their own boot
straps."
Congress Bit Hearted
Pointing out that a new Lend-
Lease Bill is now before Congress in
Washington, Standley added that
"the American Congress is big-heart-
ed. and generous, but if you give it
the impressiony that their help means
nothing there night be a different
story."
"I 'have carefully looked for an ad-
mission' in; the Russian press ta
hythey receive material ai from Amer-
ica," saidStandley. 'Yet I have failed
to find any real cknowledgement of
-The AmbassadQr said the Russians
were gettiu nimerous things from
the Uni ed States.
.You can say planes by the thou,-
sands," he declared.:
Standiy said the Russian people
know very few of the facts concerning
United States aid.
Russians Ignorant of Aid
"The Russian people have no op
portunitye to kno they are being
helped by the American. people," 4e
said. "I mean the plain American
people who are digging down in their
own pocket.
The Ambassador added that "many-
be help is getting to the Russion peo-
ple but the ; hussn people don't
seen to kno* "t."
It was pointed out- .to tandley that
recently several nissIan generals told
foreign correspondeits they were get-
ting no American help at the front
except trucks.
Lecture Today

British Hurl Back Six
Attacks, Take Initiative
German Tanks and Infantry Now Retreating
To the North and Northwest of Medenine
By HAROLD V. BOYLE
Associated Press Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 8.- The defeat
by the British Eighth Army of a series of six assaults by Marshal Rommel in
southern Tunisia and the recapture by the Allies of the initiative in the
northern sector, where several local gains were made, were announced today.
Rommel's first serious attacks against General Sir Bernard L. Mont-
gomery's veterans in front of the Axis-held Mareth line had been broken
with considerable losses for him-the
Allied communique announced that
in actions of Saturday 33 enemy Campus Red
tanks were destroyed without loss of
a single British tank-and by yester-
day afternoon both his tanks and in- Cross Drive
fantry had been forced to retreat to
the north and northwest of Meden- tarts Today
ine.

Excuse Please, So Sorry, But MustDo

"Round one is over," said an Allied
military informant, "and round one
has been won by the Eighth Army."
The small advances made by the
Allies in the north were not described
in detail by the Allied Command.
In the central sector only patrol
activity was reported. It was learned
that in this area American patrols in
two sorties had captured 95 Italians
LONDON, Tuesday, March 9.-
(R-- The Daily Mail said in an
Ankara dispatch today that Musso-
i~I. had mobilized a "Dunkerque
"leet" of small boats ready to evac-
iate the entire civilian population
of Sicily Jn anticipation of collapse
of Axis defenses in Tunisia.
about 20 miles west of Gafsa. At
Fichon, however, other American pa-
trols withdrew to the west to avoid
heavy Axis fire from the hills north
and south of the town.
Heavy Allied air action continued.
Aside from participating strongly in
the attacks that drove Rommel back
in the south; Allied airmen reported
the' destruction of an aggregate of
15 Axis planes. No American plane
was-lost.
The Axis-held port of Sousse was
heavily raided, bombers hitting a big
ship and casting explosives down
upon the quays, warehouses and rail-I
r0dd yards, while in the Mediterran-{
ean eight other Axis vessels were hit.
French Patriots 'Riot
In Streets of Paris
LONDON, March 8.- (R)- A bat-
tle in the streets of Paris between
German sentries and French patriots,
the killing of 23 German officers by
guerrillas at Lille and four attacks on
Nazi-occupied buildings during the
past three days were reported tonight
by the Fighting French.
A wave of heightening unrest was
reported sweeping France as the Ges-
tapo and Vichy police attempted to
round up 400,000 French workers to
fulfill chief of government Pierre La-
val's promises to Hitler.
The street fighting was said to
have occurred in the Rue De Laborde
when guerrillas overpowered corner
sentries and seized a German garage.
Donors Must Sign
Up by 5 P.M. Today
Today is the last day to sign up at
the Union for the Sixth Blood Bank
which is to be held Friday and Satur-
day.
While over seventy-five residents
of the West Quadrangle, among them
the 17 students just arrived from
Chile, have already signified their
intention to contribute to the Bank,
additional students are urged to reg-
ister from 3 to 5 p.m. today at the
student offices of the Union.

All Men Asked To Buy
Dollar Membership in
New Campaign Fund
A ten-day campaign that will cov-
er every dormitory, fraternity and
cooperative will be started today in
order to enroll every man on campus
in the Red Cross and to obtain $1,000
for this organization.
All men will be asked to buy a dol-
lar membership by members of a
committee working from the Mich-
igan Union. This committee Bunny
Crawford, '44, is open to any man
who wishes to devote some of his time
to this work.
A record of the progress of the
campaign will be kept by means of
a chart located in the lobby of the
Union. The extent of each house's
contribution will be figured on a per-
centage basis, so full credit will be
given to those -who deserve it.
"Considering the small contribu-
tion which we are expected to make,"
declared Crawford, "it is little enough
that we each enter readily our names
as members-of the RedCross. This is
their War Fund drive which is good
enough reason why we should be
more than conscious of our duty."
The money that is raised by the
men will be added to the amount col-
lected by the county. The committee
in charge of this campaign have set:
for themselves a quota of $53,000, of
which they have already obtained
more than $20,000.
Friers To Give
Lecture Today
Adventurer To Show
Latin-American Movie
Robert Friers, who by the time he
graduated from Michigan in 1940 had
travelled 107,000 miles without buy-
ing a single ticket, will give an adven-
ture movie, "Wheels Oves the Andes,"
sponsored by the Spanish club at 8:15
p.m. today at the Lydia, Mendelssohn
Theatre.
Once, on a bet with his roommate,
Friers made a trip around the world
with only $82 in his pocket. He
crossed to Europe and back from
Singapore on freighters, hitch hiked
in Germany, the Balkans and India,
rode a camel in the Arabian desert
and became a true champion among
vagabonds.
Upon returning from this trip
Friers said, "This wasn't just a stunt.
I needed money to continue my stud-
ies. Jobs are scarce. I like to travel
and I like to talk about my travels.
What was simpler than to take a trip
around the world, then come back
and lecture about my experiences to
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A Jap merchantman (above) has been hit amidships by a bomb
from an Allied bomber in the Bismarck Sea Battle which cost the Japs
an entire convoy of 22 ships, including 10 warships. This official RAF
picture was radioed from Melbourne, Australia, to the United States.

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"t'ussia Now' is the topic of a lec-
ture to be given by Sir Bernard
Paes at 4:15 p.m. today in the.Rack-
hain Amphitheatre, sponsored by the
history department..
Pares is well known as an English
diplomat and writer and is now tour-
ing- the United States under the aus-
pices of the Institute for Internal
Education.
Since 1917 pares has been a pro-
fessor of Russian language, litera-
ture, and history at the University
of .London.
Short Earthquake
Recorded Here
A sudden sharp shock of 40 seconds
duration which occurred at 11:27
p.m. yesterday marked the first
earthquake felt in: this area since'
1937.
On the basis of the readings of the
seismograph at the University obser-
vatory, Professor Pean McLaughlin
who was observing the stars when
the tremor occurred, indicated a be-
lief that the quake had its origin as
in 1937 in the Timiskaming region of
Canada.

Girl from Cuba
Awaits Decision
In P' Hospital
Quietly enduring examinations to
relieve her pressing brain tumor,
three-year-old Isabel Salvador Sole,
a daughter -of a Cuban physician,
lay in University Hospital last night
awaiting the doctor's decision to save
her.
Little Isabel, brown eyed and bru-
nette, was flown to Detroit from
Havana, Cuba, as a last resort to
cure her. Government officials grant-
ed her special privileges to make the
3,000 mile journey by plane.
Dr.. Sole, a pediatrician, made the
preliminary examinations at their
home in Cuba after the child com-
plained of frequent headaches and
failing eyesight. Dr. Sole tentatively
diagnosed the case as a brain tumor
and thought the University Hospital
the only place to bring her.
Peet May Operate
The last leg of her journey, from
Detroit to Ann Arbor, was by motor-
bus since there was no other mode
of transportation available.
Mr. Max Minor Peetc world re-
nowned brain surgeon, has conductedI
the examinations on Isabel and if
the attending physicians deem it
necessary, he will operate to save the
child's life.
Recurring spells of nausea have
prevented too frequent examinations,
but hospital attendants emphasize
the need of time. Exhaustive eye
examinations and skull X-rays have
been taken to determine the exact
origin of the tumor. Should the
tumor be located in the brain stem
-the most vital area of the brain-
surgery would be prohibitive.
Patient Cheerful
Doctors are examining and her
parents are praying that this is not
the case, for if otherwise, a success-
ful operation could be performed
with a certain degree of certainty.
Smiling and not quite aware of
the extreme danger that she' is ex-
periencing, Isabel has made a com-
plete hit with her hospital atten-
dants. "We couldn't ask for a more
cheerful patient," one of them said
yesterday.
If sheer will power and determina-
tion can save Isabel, she will weather
the storm.
Ruml Bill Again
Fails To Pass
Committee Refuses
Plan by Vote of 16-9
WASHINGTON, March 8.- (P)-
The Ruml Plan to skip an income tax
year was rejected again today by the
House Ways and Means Committee,
but Republican proponents an-
nounced immediately they would
carry the battle to the House floor.
Nine Republicans supported the
plan, the 15 Democrats and Rep.
Gearhart (Rep. - Calif.) voting
against it. Speaking for the nine
Renuhuican. ReD. Knutson of Min-

Reds forge.
Ring Around
'Vyazma Base,
Rail Town of Sychevka
Falls to Soviet Army
After Two Day Battle
By The Associated Press
LNDON, March 8.- Forging a ring
of encirclement around the German
base of Vyazma, the Russians tonight
announced the capture of the, rail
town of Sychevka after a stubborn
battle of two days in which 8,000 of
the enemy fell dead before a furious
Red Army onslaught.
Latest reports to London indicated
the Red Army had pushed to within
20 miles of Vyazma from the direc-
tion of captured Gzhatsk, which is
35 miles to the northwest. Military
observers said the Russians appeared
to have already sealed the fate of
Vyazma.
The town lies 35 miles north Of
Vyazma and the same distance south
of recaptured Rzhev on a railway
linking those two cities which for
many months had been strongpoints
in the German positions before Mos-
cow, now crumbling away.
The booty was impressive and the
list belied an earlier German asser-
tion that Sychevka had been evacu-
ated without opposition in accord-
ance with German plans for shorten-
ing their lines.
A special communique, broadcast
by the Moscow radio and recorded
here by the Soviet Monitor, said the
material captured included 310 tanks,
22 railway locomotives, 40 guns, eight
planes, 250 machineguns and 216
railway cars and fuel cars.
Advances by two columns swing-
ing down upon Vyazma were reported
in the midnight communique, hourly,
increasing the peril to Vyazma.

Active Duty
Soon for '
ROTC Srs.
Orders calling men in the advanced
ROTC here. to active duty are ex-
pected today or tomorrow, Col. Wil-
liam Ganoe, ROTC commandant, an-
nounced yesterday.
These orders will come from Chi-
cago and follow days of conflicting
reports on when the unit would be
called to active duty and where they
would be housed on campus.
"The unit will not be put into
barracks immediately," Col. Ganoe1
said, "and this move may not come
immediately because of official de-1
lays."
"The name and location of the in-
duction center has not yet been de-
termined, but we are fairly sure that
the men will return to the Universityf
after they are inducted and pro-
cessed."
The orders will affect 175 Univer-.
sity men who have been expecting
momentary notice of duty since the
first announcement was released in
February. The original release stated
that the orders would be received
about March 1.
In an attempt to clear up the sit-
uation Col. Ganoe conferred with
Washington and Chicago officials
yesterday but he said, "we can not
release any further definite arrange-
ments."
Under the original program, the
advanced corps -will remain in school
till tle end of the current semester
when they will be sent directly to
Officers Candidate School in the reg-
ular army.
43More 'Students
Called to ERC Duty
Over the week-end 43 more Uni-
versity students were added 'to list
of men called to active duty by the
Army in the Etilisted Reserve pro-
gram, bringing the total called to
date to 145.
these last orders came in two
groups, one on Sunday containing
orders for 16 men and the second
yesterday ordering 27 meh to duty,
Burton Thuma, campus armed ser-
vice representative, said.
The latest group will report for
duty March 16 at one of the four
M idwest reception centers named by
the Army last week to receive men
from this area.
In the orders received by the Uni-
versity War Board from the Sixth
Service Command since last Thurs-
day were notices for men in the ad-
vanced corps of the ROTC. "All
thea orders have been rescinded,"
according to Col. William Ganoe,
ROTC head.
"Through some clerical error,"
Thuma said, "we received orders for
men who were on the deferred list
sent to Chicago last month, but we
are now investigating these, and we
believe they will be revoked."
Orders are being received daily by
the War Board following the an-
nounced Army plan of inducting all
non-deferrable ERC men on campus
by March 20.

Trainees
To Live in
West Quad
Group Will Include
Students in NROTC,
Engineers, Pre-Meds,
Men in Basic Training
More than 1,300 Navy Enlisted Men
will arrive on campus on or about
July 1 to take up training in the
gavy's specialized war training pro-
ram, Prof. Marvin Niehuss, campus
war training director, revealed yes-
erday.
The University's tentative training
uota under the new V-12 program
will include 250 NROTC students,
900 engineers, 67 pre-medical stu-
dents, and 400 men in basic training.
The orders propose that the men
live in the 950-man West Quadrangle
which at present is completely occu-
pied, according to Francis C. Shiel,
acting director of Residence Halls.
Cassidy Gets Word
This information was telegramed
to Captain Richard Cassidy, head of
the Naval Science and Tactics de-
partment, yesterday by the Bureau
of Naval Personnel in Washington.
Captain Cassidy was requested to
organize housing and eating facilities
in the West Quadrangle pending con-
tract negotiations. Several high,
ranking naval officers were on cam-
pus ten days ago inspecting the
Quadrangle and other features of the
University plant.
Prof. Niehuss, who is the Univer-
sity representative in all contract
negotiations of this type, said that
he expects the Navy to return to Ann
Arbor in the near future and initiate
the contract discussions.
All trainees will be apprentice sea-
men on active duty receiving regular
pay for their rank. According to the
present tentative plans they will use
not only the entire West Quadrangle
but other University facilities, in-
ciding instructors and classrooms.
Complete Picture
When questioned concerning hous-
ipg facilities for regular students in
e Quadrangle during the summer
session, Prof. Niehuss stated that "it
is our opinion that all those men will
be in uniform by that time."
This Navy training program rounds
out the picture of service training
groups that will be stationed on cam-
pus, At present the Law Quad-
rangle, the Michigan Union, and the
East Quadrangle are housing men in
various units of the Army's college
war training program.
Marine Reservists
Grouped with VY42
College students enlisted in the
Marine Corps Reserve Class III (d),
excluding men in the current gradu-
ating class, will be included in the
new Navy program and go on active
duty as privates July 1.
This announcement was made over
the weekend by Marine Corps Head-
quarters in Washington and released
through the University War Board by
Prof. Burton Thuma, armed service
representative.
There are 58 men in this Marine
Reserve on campus, Thuma said.
The authoritative American Coun-
cil on Education stated that screening
tests will be given to freshmen and
sophomores to determine their quali-
fications for further college study.
The screening test will consist of a
general intelligence examination,
scholastic standing, probable apti-

tude, and recommendations of college
authorities.
The Marine plan will permit stu-
dents with one semester or less to
complete for a degree to obtain their
diplomas on an inactive status in
their colleges.
Under the arrangement, Marine
students will be assigned to certain
selected colleges. The University has
been approved as a war training cen-
ter.
In administering its new plan, the
Marine announcement said, Marine
men will be allowed to participate in
college athletics and other campus
activities, provided such activities
don't interfere with the prescribed
program.
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WINNING SEEMS UNIMPORTANT:
BobUfer Gains Empty Victory
.because Of Best .Friend's .Death


CASSIDY'S LAST REPORT:
Stalin's Words Reflect Red Thought

By PVT. MIKE DANN
"Bullet" Bob Ufer led his team to
the Big Ten Crown Saturday night,
but Sunday was probably the saddest
day of his life.
For when Bob returned from the
meet in Chicago Sunday he found out
that his closest friend, George Hilde-
brant, had just died at the University
Hospital.
"Hilde," as the boys called him,
was more than just Bob's Phi Delt
fraternity brother. Bob and George
had practically grown up together,
Along with Cliff Wise, the three had
gone through the famous Kiski Prep
School. And when they came to Mich-
igan they joined the same fraternity
and became roommates.
And two of them did-Cliff and
Bob.
Hampered by Injuries

serious, just a little back pain, don't
worry, this gives me practice for life
on Guadalcanal."
About a week ago, George told Ufer
that he wanted to go to Chicago and
see Ufer cop some titles at the Con-
ference.
George Ill
But the next day George wasn't
feeling so well so he went over to the
Health Service for a check-up. Be-
fore George left he hollered to Bob,
"Hose-nose, I'll tan your hide, if you
go to Chicago without me."
When Bob was ready to leave
Thursday for the "big meet," he went
over to see his pal. George isn't very
sick, said the doctors, but he won't
be out of bed for several days yet. So,
Ufer left saying, "see you Sunday-
after we win."
Ufer won but he didn't get to see
George.
Geora's bodv was on its way to

(EDITOR'S NOTE. With this article,
Henry C. Cassidy, chief of the Associ-
ated Press Bureau in Moscow, now in
America on leave, concludes his series,
"Straight from Moscow,". which has
been appearing in The Daily the last
nine days.)
By BENJY , CASSIDY
Associate4 Press Correspondent
(ADVANCE) NEW YORK, March
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a definite directive to his people,
repeated to them over and over
again, and kept before them, not
as a thing of the past, but as a
current order.
Before the war, Stalin's speeches,
articles and letters were collected
periodically in volumes entitled,
"Problems of Leninism."
During the war, his utterances
haveal hen nhulished textually in

Finglly, they are assembled, in
the original Russian, and in Eng-
lish, French and other Allied lang-
uages, in book form.
The latest edition comprises his
first broadcast July 3, 1941, his
speeches Nov. 6 and 7, 1941, on the
anniversary of the Bolshevik revo-
lution, his orders of the day Feb.
23 and May 1, 1942, on Red Army
Day and May Day, his speech of