Weather Warmer w itF41 44o 4t VOL. LIII No. 131 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Yanks Bomb' Nazi Positions In Belgium Pilots Blast Airplane Works Near Antwerp; British Assault Kiel By The Associated Press LONDON, April 5.- Living up to Major Gen. Ira C. Eaker's recent promise to match the RAF blow-for- blow in a withering aerial attack on Hitler's industrial Europe, a huge force of American Flying Fortresses and Liberators pounded the Erla airplane repair works near Antwerp in Belgium today to follow up a heavy British assault on Kiel, Ger- many, last night. Score Direct Hits Today's attack by the high-flying, precision-bombing American) ships was declared to have been carried out with "good results." A DNB dis- patch broadcast by the Berlin Radio said the raiders scored direct hits "on blocks of houses, which caused fires and destruction and severe los- ses among the civil population" of Antwerp. Radio stations in Munich, Stutt- gart, Koenigsburg, Luxembourg, Lau- sanne and Burgomunster, Switzer- land, went off the air late tonight, indicating Allied bombers were over the continent again. British Attack Shipping The Air Ministry announced to- night that during the afternoon British venturas of the Bomber Com- mand, escorted by fighters, attacked docks and shipping at Brest. One enemy fighter was knocked down, but three British bombers and one fighter were reported missing. The Americans' first attack in the area of Belgium's second largest city was carried out by what observers on the English coast at Folkestone de- scribed as the greatest single force they had ever seen crossing the channel. New U.S. Bombers Faster, Fedden Says LONDON, April 5. - (A) - Two American plants are going into pro- duction of bombers which will carry twice the bomb load of the best cur- rent types and will travel farther and faster, Sir Roy Fedden, chairman of the recent British Air Mission to the United States said today. Fedden told a press conference the new bombers would be turned out by Boeing and by Consolidated and he said "We are putting in a strong recommendation that the RAF will use one of these types." Singtime Tickets To Go on Sale Concert To Include Classics and Swing Tickets for the Manpower Corps sponsored "Singtime-a Symphony in Song" will be sold tomorrow on the diagonal, Warren Watts, '44, ticket chairman, said yesterday. The concert will be presented Thursday in Hill Auditorium and will. include all types of music from sacred church chants to modern jazz. Bill Sawyer is directing the show which will include the University Women's Glee Club, the Men's Chorus and the Union orchestra. All the proceeds of the concert will be contributed to the Bomber Schol- arship Fund. Everything, from the talents of the orchestra to Hill Audi- torium, is being donated for the pro- gram. U.S. Bombers Pound Naples, CrippleVessels Leads Regent Race Ziegler Defeating Re id By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 5.- Nearly 100 American Flying Fortresses loos- ed 200 tons of bombs on the southern Italian port of Naples Sunday, set- ting fires whose billowing smoke blacked out the combustion of near- by Vesuvius and leaving the harbor littered with 24 crippled vessels and the main airport in a rubble of wrecked planes. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's com- munique today told of this greatest destruction yet heaped on Naples the Tunisian supply key. The assault Allies Blast Jap Pacific Forces 10 Bases' Harassed In Renewed Assaults ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 6 (Tuesday)- (P)- Allied planes carried new as- saults to Japanese concentrations in the southwest Pacific yesterday with blows at 10 enemy bases, including an harassing raid of more than three hours on Buka, an island at the northern tip of the Solomons, the high command announced today. While bombers continued a policy of hitting the enemy daily at as many points as possible, reconnais- sance planes took another look at Kavieng, in New Ireland, and re- ported that the persistent Japanese still had shipping-including war- ships-there despite the heavy blows of the past week which cost them heavily in warships and merchant- men. Reconnaissance showed some war- ships and merchant vessels are back in the area. It also showed a light cruiser beached, possibly the one re- ported sinking during Sunday's hea- vy attack on the harbor. County Adjusts' To Needs of War Workers Patriotic Merchants Keep Stores Open for Two Nights A Week "Defense workers are being offered more accommodations in Washtenaw County than in any other place in Michigan," Louis G. Christman, ex- ecutive secretary of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce said yester- day. According to reports of Chamber of Commerce secretaries at a state con- vention last week-end, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are the only towns in the state whose stores remain open two evenings a week. Christman, Ann Ar- bor's representative at the conven- tion, added that stores in many other towns stay open late one night a week, and a few offer no shopping hours later than usual all week. In Ann Arbor, downtown and State Street clothing stores now are open from noon until 9 p.m. Mondays and Fridays. Last week the banks also were open from 4:30 until 5:30 Friday and will continue with that schedule. Ypsilanti offers similar hours, with stores open two nights a week and the banks available from 4:30 until 6 p.m. Christman reported that barbers are arranging for late hours one eve- ning a week. Ann Arbor grocers met last night and decided to continue regular hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on week days and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Satur- days. Two city grocers remain open Turn to Page 4, Col. 5 overshadowed all the land fighting in Tunisia where the second Ameri- can Army Corps of Lieut.-Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., won a number of commanding hills near the Gabes- Gafsa road and pressed on to the east for an eventual junction with the strengthening British Eighth Army. The Americans, 12 miles or more southeast of El Guetar, fought on against strong German opposition and turned back a counterattack in which elite German troops tried to recapture the lost hills. Patton's command still was about 40 miles from the British Eighth Army, which was deployed against Axis positions along the Wadi El Akarit 20 miles north of Gabes. (From Axis radios in Europe came late reports that armored forces of the British Eighth Army were ad- vancing toward Axis defenses across the northern end of the Gabes Gap and that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont- gomery's artillery had renewed the attack on German-Italian positions.) Dispatches from the southern front disclosed that American infan- try consolidated newly-won positions in Birmrabott Pass, east of El Gue- tar, today. . * Giraud-De Gaulle Meeting Postponed LONDON, April 5.-(R)-The long- awaited North African meeting of Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Gen. Henri Girald for the fusion of all French into fighting unity was post- poned indefinitely today at the re- quest of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in what some diplomatic observers in- terpreted as a master plan for an agreement closely timed to come be- tween the Tunisian cleanup and the Allied invasion of Europe. In Race for ighaPot GOP Regents Far Ahead R. SPENCER BISHOP OPA Stabilizes Ceiling Prices On Retail Meat WASHINGTON, April 5. -(A)- OPA tightened its controls over meat today by setting retail cents-per- pound ceiling prices, effective April 15, for beef, veal, lamb and mutton, and forbidding stores to reduce point values on. any rationed meats and fats without also cutting prices. The two actions are designed, of- ficials said, to eliminate confusion arising from store-by-store variations in ceilings, help stamp out black markets in meat, and guard against abuse of the privilege stores have of reducing values in order to sell per- ishable rationed items. Today's order divides the country into 12 regions and fixes uniform ceilings in each except that small in- dependent stores may charge one to three cents a pound more. Fido, Tabby Befriended In Meat Rationing Ruling WASHINGTON, April 5. - (/P) - Fido and Tabby got something to eat out of meat rationing today, but it still looked like rather slim pick- ings. The Office of Price Administra- tion ruled that rendering fats, such as suet, and bones such as the rib bones produced in cutting a carcass or in boning of meat, may be sold point-free for use as animal foods. Bishop, Hayward, Republicans, Lead. In Election Battle For Regent Posts Returns from 1,088 precincts out of 3,734 in the 'state indicated early this morning an.easy victory for the two Republican candidates for Vni- versity regents, R. Spencer Bishop and Ralph Hayward. Hayward was leading with 5f,218 votes and Bishop was close beaind with 53,308. The Democratic candi- dates, Charles P. Nugent and Dr. Ira Dean McCoy, had 36,843 and 35,684 votes respectiviely. The other ctindi-1 dates were George A. Emerich and' Enos A. Potts, running on the Pro- hibition ticket. Bishop was appointed to the Uni- versity Board of Regents by Gover-P nor Harry F. Kelly in January to fill a vacancy. Reaffirming :his belief in the Ur.i- versity's fullest\ participation in the war effort, Bishop said, "I am in1 Turn to Iage 4, Col. 4 Ste phan To Ask Review, of ..Casej DETROIT, Apil 5.--VP)-Attorney' Nicholas Salowich said tonight that he would ask the! U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider itsdecision which today denied Max Stephan, Detroit restaur- ant owner sentenced to -hang for' treasoi, a review of his case. Declaring that i "fundamental con_- stitutionial rights! were violated" yI the high court in:. refusing ,to' reviEgwJ the case, Salowich asserted that "tle I law says 'in all cases of convicti'rnI of crime the punishment of whi h provided by law is: death.., an Tp- peal shall be allowed to the supre ne court' as a matter of right." i Reelected Mayor LEIGH J. YOUNG Young Captures All Precincts, Remains Mayor Prof. Leigh J. Young (Rep.) was reelected mayor of Ann Arbor yester- day over his Democratic opponent, Prof. John L. Brumm. in one of the lightest votes in years. Professor Young carried every one of the city's 10 precincts by a- clear majority, polling a total of 1736 votes to Professor Brumm's 748. This will be Mayor Young's second term in office. The mayor is professor of silvicul- ture in the School of Forestry. Pro- fessor Brumm is chairman of the journalism department. The other municipal candidates were unopposed. Glenn L. Alt was reelected as Council President and Fred C. Perry as City Clerk. Jay H. Payne ,was elected to the newly created post of Municipal Judge. All are Republicans. In another contest between two Turn to Page 4, Col. 2 Morgenthau j Seeks World Money Union WASHINGTON, April 5.-(P)-As- serting the treasury is "deeply con-E cerned with the threat of internation- al monetary chaos at the end of the war," Secretary Morgenthau disclosed today comprehensive Administration plans to stabilize post-war currencies and fix their value in terms of gold. The Administration program, which the Secretary emphasized is purely tentative, was outlined to an extraordinary closed session of the Senate Committees on Foreign Rela- tions, Banking and Currency, and Post-War Economy and Planning. It involves these major noints: 1. Creation of an international stabilization fund by the United Na- tions and their associates (a Senator who heard Morgenthau said he un- derstood the fund would have a cap- ital of $5,000,000,000), 2. Fixing the value of currencies in terms of gold. 3. An agreement among participat - ing members, of the stabilization funds. This would be similar to the tripartite agreement signed by Brit - ain, France and the United States in 1936. Slosson To Talli At Conference Post-War Discussion Will Be Held Friday Students will have an opportunity to become acquainted with the prob- lems of the post-war period and to exchange their opinions on what action ought to be taken at the semi- annual Post-War Conference spon- sored by the Post-War Council Fri- day evening and Saturday afternoon. Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history department will speak on "International Government" at 8 p.m. Friday in the Rackham audi- torium. Four panel discussions will be held simultaneously at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Union. There will be no charge for either the lecture or the discussions. Topic of one of the panels will be "The Constitutional Form of a Pro- posed International Government" with Prof. Clark Dickinson of the economics department, Prof. John F. Shepard of the psychology de- partment and Prof. Harold M. Dorr of the political science department participating, in Room 318 of the Union. Harold Sokwitne will be stu- deant chairman. COEDS CHEER NEW CHIEFS: Installation Rally Names Leaders Ziegler Sweeps Ahead in Run for State Highway Commission Job DETROIT, April 5.-(IP)-Charles M. Ziegler, the Republican challenger for the post of state highway com- missioner, swung into a growing lead over Democratic Lloyd B. Reid, the incumbent, in partial returns from today's state-wide election. The figures seemed significant in light of the fact more than half of the precincts counted came from Wayne County, traditionally a Demo- cratic stronghold upon which Demo- crats had counted to overcome the normal out-state Republican major- ity. Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, veteran Rep- ublican stte superintendent of public instruction, stretched his lead over the Democraticrcontender for that of- fice, Edward W. McFarland, Detroit educator and former chairman of the State Liquor Control Commission. Elliott, though trailing, was mak- ing a strong run in Wayne County and the trend, unless it were upset, would carry him to victory. A surprising ding-dong three way race developed in the tabulation for supreme court justice in which the four candidates ran on a non-partisan ballot. Justice Bert D. Chandler, Turn to Page 4, Col. 4 Russians Ga*in At Novorossisk Repel Enemy Attack In Donets Valley Area LONDON, April 6 (Tuesday)- (P)- Russian forces driving against the Nazi base at Novorossisk have captured several populated places in two days of hand-to-hand fight- ing in the Caucasus, and in the Izyum area of the Donets valley have turned back new enemy attempts to cross the river, Moscow announced today. The midnight communique, 1- corded here by the Soviet Monitor, said also that the Russians consoli- dated their positions in the ring around Smolensk, and one unit broke through the enemy lines south of Bely and wiped out the occupants of several blockhouses with grenades. The Germans over the week-end made what apparently was a major attempt to raid Russia's second city of Leningrad. PROPOSED. Student Group Draws Plans For Post-War By VALERIE ANDREWS Fiery discpssions were carried on last week-end at the Wesley Founda- tion all-campus World Congress where the issues of the basis for rep- resentation and the division of powers among the nations of the world were discussed as part of a practical recon- struction plan. Gregor Hileman, '43, member of the mock World Congress and leader of the victorious faction, summed up the purpose of the sessions as "It takes usout of our academic ivory tower and transports us to the pro- verbial 'smoke-filled back rooms of political caucuses.' A keynote address byDr. Wolfang Kraus of the political science depart- ment, opened the discussions Satur- day afternoon. He stressed the point that an international organization of any kind "must not freeze the status quo of any country in their social or economic conditions. Nations must have room for adjustment." As the meeting got under way, member after member took the floor and expressed his views. Votes were taken and retaken after verbal bar- rages were exchanged on both sides on such issues as the authorization of the world government to redistribute heavy industry and empowering a mnllmA~nfn Pa,,rm- c-i-n +n la- Heads of next year's campus ac- tivities were revealed before a crowd of approximately 1,500 coeds yester- day at Installation Rally, held in the Rackham Auditorium, where out- going officers also announced new auxiliary boards, and Serfior' Society and Mortar Board tapped their new members.I Monna Heath, '44, and Ann Mac- Millan, '44, recently appointed presi- dents of the Women's War Council and Judiciary Council, respectively, were officially installed along with other new organization leaders. Mary June Hastreiter, '44, took her place as the new president of Pan- hellenic Board, while D rls Barr, '44, was installed as head of Assembly, and Nancy Hattersley, '44, as WAA president. Geraldine Stadelman, '44, was named as first vice-priesident and personnel administrator of the Women's War Council, while Jean Whittemore, '44, will fill the position of second vice-president and surgical dressing chairman. Personnel of other, council offices will be composed of Jean"Bisdee, '44, secretary; Josephine Fitzpatrick, '44, treasurer; and Barbara Smith, '44, chairman of orientation. Jane Fag- gen, '44, will be chairman of tutorial committee, Morrow Weber, socil committee, and Sue Simms, child care. Outgoing president of Judiciary Council, Loraine Judson, '43, an- nounced Helen Willcox, '44Ed, to be the new senior member of the coun- cil, while Natalie Mattern, '45, and Eleanor Webber, '45, are the incom- ing junior members. Turn to Page 3, Col. I * MONNA HEATH ANN MacMILLAN SAGGING SEAMS FORESEEN: Tailors Turn to Soldiers as U.S. Restricts Civilian Sales By CLAIRE SHERMAN Sagging hemlines, unpressed suits and unaltered outfits will be the pass- word for the duration. The civilian tailoring business as it was known in pre-Hitler days and before Pearl Harbor is rapidly becom- ing nothing but a memory; tailoring shops are becoming geared to the war effort along with everything else. "Custom tailoring is non-essential work," Harold C. Barth, manager of -11, _ _ I ---i- __ T. - - . ..VI, - - as long as our materials last if we take the orders and send them to factories to be made. Moreover, we can still order civilian materials, but the ma- jority of the goods we get now are mixtures and not pure wool," he added. The help situation in the Barth shop is typical of all the tailoring business, Barth said. "Our normal staff consists of six men. But now we have only two left-my father, 171)_ n - - wt mf a n- n It's Not a Shooting Range Or Raid Cellar; It's a Lab The building under construction behind the West Engineering Build- ing is not, as sidewalk speculators would have it, a swimming pool for the soldiers, a new Army shooting range, or even an air raid shelter, but additional laboratory space for the electrical engineering department. The two-story frame structure, which will house the lighter electrical engineering equipment to meet the need for additional space is expected to be completed before the summer term. There will be an important meeting of the Gargoyle edit staff Funeral arrangements are being made today for Agnes Day Gilson, 19- year-old bride of two weeks who was fatally burned yesterday when a spot fire raced through her two-room apartment which only 24 hours before had been the scene of a gala house- warming party. And in the meantime, her husband, Dr. Charles Mark Gilson, 24-year-old Health Service dentist is lying in St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, severely hi..,..-,.A Af.,A,-,rr via ,ivc nI mv ia TRAGEDY IN FLAMES: Apartment Fire Is Fatal to Agnes Gilson, Student Bride cape from the apartment was a rear staircase. The young married couple dashed up the flaming steps racing through 13 feet of solid flames, and ten hours later the young bride was dead, her severely-injured husband grief-stricken by the news. Thirteen other occupants of the apartment escaped unscathed from the fateful fire which resulted in $8,000 to $10,000 loss. The apartment that turned into a Amot , .