*1 ir i q~rn ait~ W zai;'a VOL. LIlT No. 126 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Battered Axis orces Approaching Sfax House Rejects Ruml Proposal 215 to 198 Democrats Win Major Victory; Sidetrack All 'Pay-as-you-go' Plans By FRANCIS M. LE MAY Associated Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 30.-The House today rejected the Rum plan, 215 to 198, with Democratic representatives ringing up their first major victory of the 78th Congress, and then sidetracked all pay-as-you- go tax legislation, including proposals HOW THEY LINED UP WASHINGTON, March 30.- /P)- Here's how Michigan con- gressmen lined up in the roll call vote by which the House today re- jected the Ruml-Carlson tax col- lection plan: Democrats against the plan: Dingell, Lesnski, O'Brien, Rabaut, Sadowski. Republicans against the plan: Crawford. Republicans for the plan: Ben- nett, Blackney, Bradley, Dondero, Engel, Jonkman, Michener, Wol- cott, Woodruff. '.' for a 20 per cent withholding from wages and salaries. All current tax payment proposals went back to the Ways and Means Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Doughton (Demn.-N. C.), said he did not know whether the pay-as-you-go question "ever will come up again." Undismayed, however, Rep. Carlson (Rep.-Kas.), author of the rejected bill embracing the modified skip-a- tax-year plan of Beardsley Ruml, an- nounced he will renew his battle in the committee and seek to bring the measure before the house again. Democrats Cheer Democrats, who had called upon the scriptures and higher ,nathe- matics to lambast the. Rum1 plan, sent up a roaring cheer as the vote was announced. The Republican lead- ership lined up solidly for the propos- al, while the Democrats formed the opposition. In the voting, however, there were numerous crossings of party lines. New Barbour Scholarships Are Granted Fourteen Reappointed; Awards Go to Those Now Living in U.S. Four Chinese women, a Filipina, and an American-born Japanese have received new Barbour scholar- ships for the 1943-44 school year, Dr. W. Carl Rufus, chairman of the Barbour Scholarship Committee, an- nounced yesterday. Of the present Barbour scholar- ship holders, fourteen have been re- appointed by the committee, he add- ed. Policy Is Reversed "The awarding of all scholarships to women who reside in the United States represents a definite reversal of our former policy," Dr. Rufus said. "However, with the uncer- tainty of travel from the Far East, we wereunable to continue our usual peacetime program of giving prefer- ence to graduate students residing in the Orient." Two special appointments have also been made to women whd are now attending the University. One of the recipients, Mrs. Paz Salgado, a Filipina, will receive her master's degree in fine arts this summer. Haru Morimoto, from Hawaii, is working on her A.B. in Library Sci- ence. Four Are Chinese Four of the six new scholarship holders are Chinese. Mary Brown Chin, majoring in biology, has served as laboratory technician in the En- docrine Laboratory in New York Post-Graduate Hospital. Chin-wen Hu is studying social work and in- Wounded Soldier Carried into Portable Operating Truck One of two American Soldiers wounded by bomb freighters while on patrol is carried into a portabie over- ating truck from the amphibious jeep in which he was transported from the battle front. Note the camou- flage net over the hospital truck and other trucks near building in background. British Restrict Coast; Germans Fear Invasion England Prepares for Promised Invasion Of Europe by Allies LONDON, March 30-(P)-Exten- sive preparations for the promised, Allied invasion of Europe were taking shape today in an offensive spring- board belt restricted after April 1 to military operations all along Britain's south and east coastline and inland to a depth of 10 miles. Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security, an- nounced in Commons that authorities had taken an option on the coastal strip in anticipation of the possible "use of this country as a base for of- fensive operations" and said that beginning Thursday it would become a restricted area. Although the Allies have massed the best-trained and best-equipped military force ever assembled on this side of the English Channel, the time and place of the invasion remains the most closely guarded military secret in Britain. Only last week a highly regarded military critic, declared that an in- vasion of the Continent at present would be "a most costly venture" which could not "lead directly to a decision." Lone Fortress Blocks Convoy Jap Effort To Reach New Guinea Is Foiled ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 31, (Wednes- day)-(iP)-A Japanese convoy of four fast destroyers speeding through fog and rain in a new attempt to re- inforce enemy garrisons in New Guinea apparently was blocked yes- terday by a single American Flying Fortress, which is believed to have sunk one of the vessels. The Fortress spotted the convoy about five miles east of Finschhafen, and although the weather was so bad that the bombardier had to drop flares to illuminate the target he scored a direct hit on the stern of the largest destroyer, an Allied com- munique said. N The convoy was reported to have turned tail and made off northward at high speed, and when last seen was near Cape Gloucester on the western top of New Britain. Senate Confirms Land RAF R aids Berlin, Drops 900 Tons of Bombs in Heavy Attack By The Associated Press LONDON, March 30.-+-While Ber-I lin still staggered under the shock of its second bombing by the RAF in three nights, German authorities acknowledged today that the wave of Allied aerial blows possibly "marks the beginning" of an invasion of "the continent, and Britain started clear- ing the coasts for use as a spring- board for landings in Hitler's Europe. For the 60th time since the war began, RAF bombers roared over the German capital in an overnight raid described officially as both heavy and successful. Twenty-one big bombers failed to return, compared with the nine lost Saturday night when the RAF dumped 900 tons of bombs in the heaviest pounding of Berlin up to then. Other British bombers hammered war plants in Germany's Ruhr Val- ley last night and 12 of them failed to get back to base. The loss of 33 bombers in the combined operations was the sixth heaviest toll ever suf- fered by the RAF in a single night. In daylight today, RAF Mosquito bombers attacked locomotives in Brittany and a big radio works at Eindhoven in Holland without the loss of a plane. The Air Ministry said many bursts were seen on the Eindhoven target and several loco- motives damaged in the Frencht sweep. Wood to Lead Panel Todayv On Want in U.S. Prof. Arthur E. Wood of the sociol- ogy department will open a panel discussion on ''Freedom from Want in the United States" at 8 p.m. today in the League. After Prof. Wood opens the meet- ing with a short outline of the topic, Prof. Leigh J. Young of the silvicul- ture department of the forestry school and mayor of Ann Arbor and Prof. Harold J. McFarlan of the geodesy and surveying department will express their views. Following this, discussion will be open to the audience. Student Chairman will be Harvey Weisberg, '46. Some of the problems which the panel will attempt to analyze are how much security the government should guarantee to each citizen, the Russian-U.S. Conference Will Be Held Eden, Roosevelt Talks Set Stage for Future Discussions with Reds WASWINGTON, Mar4 . 30.- A)- President Roosevelt said today a Russian-American conference would be held soon along the lines of talks here with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The President as- serted that he and Eden had reached agreement on a wide range of prob- lems both of the present and future. Beyond his statement at. a press conference that talks xith the Rus- sians would be held soon Mr.Roose- velt declined to be more specific, but mentioned that Eden already had conferred in Moscow with Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders. No Pact Yet Eden's talks in Moscow last year led to conclusion of an Anglo-Soviet treaty. The President, however, dis- couraged any speculation as to the possibility of formal signed agree- ments between groups within the United Nations as a resulft of the Anglo-American talks' here and the forthcoming Russo-American parley. Pact, he said, is a bad word useful chiefly in headlines. Mr. Roosevelt emphasized that his exploratory talks with Eden covered about everything that might be put down as current, political or military affairs of the present and future arising out of the war, and declared that he and Eden were in entire agreement. More Meetings To Come' He stressed also that these confer- ences would be of great value in facilitating similar meetings between all the United Nations. He said they had disclosed a very close similarity of outlook on the part of the British and American governments and had achieved a very fruitful meeting of minds on everything that came under discus- sion. Reds Resist Heavy Nazi Tank Drive New Attack Opened on Donets Front; Germans Still Maintain Initiative By The Associated Press LONDON, March 31. (Wednesday) -The Germans opened a furious as- sault upon Soviet - positions along the strategic Upper Donets front yesterday, hurling strong tank and artillery forces into stubborn attacks which were blunted by repeated Red Army counterattacks, Moscow an. nounced today. This resurgence of violent fighting on this front after a comparative lull cost the Germans 500 officers and men killed, 22 tanks burnt out or damaged and several self-propelled guns destroyed, said the Soviet mid- night communique as recorded here by the Soviet monitor. The battle raged in equal fury overhead, the Russians claiming 15 German planes brought down by air combat and by anti-aircraft, rifle and ma- chinegun fire. The communique named General Simonov as the hero of thi defensive battle,, waged west of Kharkov along a 50-mile stretch of the Upper Donets betwee!-]flelohod and Chuguev which has come -to be known as "Hell's Half-Hundred." It was along this line 'that the Russians stopped 'the eran offens ;e which retook Kharkov,. nd' for weeks it has been the scene of extremely heavy fighting. The battle had hit a lull for several days, but the strong :renewal -dis- closed by Moscow this morning makes is clear the Germans still maint 14 thredtening initiative. US. Supplies to Russia Enter Iran TEHERAN, Iran, March 30.-(- The first'all-American train carry- ing U.S. war supplies to Russia has steamed into Teheran after a 650- mile journey from a Persian Gulf port, where it was landed by Amei- cans from American ships lying at American-built docks. The train was' operated to Teheran by American crews, and from here on to Russia. will be under Soviet control.' Maj. Gen. Donald D. Connolly, commanding the Persian Gulf Ser- vice Command, and Maj. Gen. A.N Korolov, Chief of Soviet Transpor- tation in Persia; and many American and Russian. officers and Persian railway officials greeted the train when it arrived. Filipino Awarded Art Honor Medal Eduardo Salgado, Grad, from the Philippine Islands, was awarded a medal of honor for distinguished work in the field of art by the Fine Arts Section of the Michigan' Aced- emy Saturday. The paintings that won Salgado the award were two panoramas of the : Philippines and two portrait studies, which-are very realistic, de- tailed and brilliantly colored, Mrs. Donald McLean, a member of the committee said. "We felt that his pictures are typical of his people, and illustrate the feelings of the Islanders to us," she said. Post -Victory Conference To Be April 9-11. Prof. Slosson Will Give Keynote Address; Panels Scheduled The semi-annual Post-War Con- ference on "Looking Toward Victory" sponsored by the Post-War Council, will open for a three-day session April 9, 10, 11. Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history department will give the key- note address on "International Gov- ernment" at 8 p.m. Friday, April 9 in Rackham Amphitheatre. Speakers Named The five panel discussions will be held simultaneously at 1:34 pam. Sat- urday, April 10, in the Union. The top18, with A partial list of speaters participating, are: "The Abolition of International Anarchy," Prof. Harold J. McFarland of the geodesy and surveying depart- ment, Albert K. Stevens of the Eng- lish department, Prof. Harold H. Laing of the political science depart- ment, Hobart Taylor, '43L, student chairman, in Room 316. "The Constitutional form of a Proposed International Government," Prof. Clark Dickinson of the eco- nomics department, Prof. John F. Shepard of the psychology depart- ment, Prof. Harold M. Dorr of the political science department, and Harold Sokwitne, student chairman, in Room 318. Fuller to Speak "The Principles of Boundary De- termination," Prof. Preston W. Slos- son of the history department, Max Dresden of the physics department, and Bill Muehl, '43L, student chair- man, in Room 305. "Global Education," Prof. Richard C. Fuller of the sociology department, Prof. Claude Eggertsen of the educa- tion school, Dr. Edward W. Blake- man, counselor in Religious Educa- tion, Prof. Mentor L. Williams of the English department, Henry Curtis of Ann Arbor and Marvin Boreman, '44, student chairman, in Room 304. Women's news and Sports news will appear together on page 3 today and whenever there is a four page paper. in northern Tunisia had launched an, offensive against the forces of Col. Gen. Jurgen von Arnim. It was an Algiers report broadcastby the Cairo Radio and heard by the London Daily Express. Algiers Reports Navy at Sfax (The Algiers Radio, in a broadcast heard by CBS in New York, said "The British Navy has landed at Sfax," but authoritative naval sour- ces in London several hours later said they had no confirmation of the report.) The German Luftwaffe tried in vain to fend off the devastating Al- lied attacks, but these were pressed home against the fleeing enemy transports, and 300 vehicles were either destroyed orhdamaged. Light- ed by the fires of his wrecked motor carriers, Rommel's retreat highway last night was like a scene fron, Dante's Inferno. Rommel's rear guard maintained stubborn resistance, and his sappers planted thousands of mines and booby traps to cover the Withdrawal, a retreat that had no aspect of a rout. Yanks Smash Left Flank On the Axis left flank, American forces were smashing-' at enemy machine gun outposts in the moun- tainous area east of El Guetar, and other U.S. troops in the Maknassy region hurled back three German counterattacks designkd to give Rommel elbow room on his retreat. New Zealanders were in the van- guard of the British pursuit of Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel and their advance through Gabes from the captured Mareth Line amounted to a gain of more than 20 miles in a day and night. E ighth Army Takes Gabes, El Hamma Americans Threaten Left Flatik as Rommel Loses 300 Motor Carr'iers By DANIEL DE LUCE Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 30.- Whipped on land and furiously bombarded from the air, Marshal Erwin Rommel's weary Africa Corps plunged toward Sfax tonight after being thrown out of Gabes and El Hamma, with the conquering British Eighth Army in hot pursuit and with American forces threatening his left flank. The Axis forces were drawing back on the coastal highway running o miles around the Gulf of Gabes to Sfax under relentless pressure. (A roundabout report reaching London said that the British First Army Cairo Says Blritish Open North Attack LONDON, March 31. (Wednesday) -The Daily Express heard the Cairo radio quote an Algiers report today that the British First Army in North- ern Tunisia had launched an offen- sive against the forces of Col. Gen. Jurgen von Arnim. This roundabout report said that violent fighting was going on. There was no confirmation from any other source of such action which would be an expected next step in the Allied offensive to drive the Nazis out of their last foothold in Africa. FDR Acts On-. Farm Labor Steps Are Underway To Relieve Shortage WASHINGTON, March 30.-(I)- President Roosevelt disclosed today that steps are underway to relieve the farm labor shortage by: 1. Releasing from the Army many experienced farm workers over 38, assigning some conscientious objec- tors to such work, encouraging work on farms by men with agricultural experience who were deferred from military service because of slight physical disabilities, and encourag- ing farm workers who have taken industrial employment to return to the land. 2. Organizing a land army of col- lege students, high school students, and volunteer workers who have had some farm experience and can help harvest the crops this year. 3. Importing agricultural workers from the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Mexico. PLAY PRODUCTION PRESENTS CAS TE': English Comedy To Op-en Tonight Janet Stickney has been chosen to portray the lead role of Esther, the daughter who marries into "society," in the first performance of "Caste," an English comedy by Thomas W. Robertson, to be given at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. "Caste," recognized as Robertson's masterpiece, depicts the life in Eng- land in mid-century Victorian days, when there was a shabby-genteel ig- norane of the wkingin Ilaes Tn' The estimable but worthy old Marquise de St. Maur will be enacted by Blanche Holpar while Harold Cooper Will be seen as her son, the Hon. George D'Alroy. Others in the cast include Clarence Foster as Capt. Hawtree, Nathan Bryant as Samuel Gerridge and Maximilian Bryer as Dixon. Prof. Valentine Windt will di- rect the production with Robert Mel- lencamp as art director and Emma Hirsch in charge of costumes. - The technica1 staff isn nmnnand n- 5%%EimuninE:4: