u rtm fijI VOL. LIII No. 136 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Use the British Drive RomL Into 'Coffin Corn c General Montgomery Spurs Men To F I1atterel A frica Corps Back into the Ry EDWARD KENNEDY Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Apr by their commander's orders to make the Axis "endure a kerque on the beaches of Tunis," the British Eighth Army Sfax, the second largest Tunisian city, and drove on nort pursuit of Marshal Rommel's bomb-wracked and bleedin which was newly menaced on -its hinterland flank as well. Bombers Rip Romniel With heavy Allied bombers ripping and tearing at his retreating col- umns, Rommel appeared to be aban- doning all Central Tunisia and mak- ing with all speed for a new defense line on a ridge in the Enfidaville area, some 100 miles north of Sfax and only 50 miles from the capital, Tunis. (The Morocco Radio said planes from Allied aircraft carriers had Joined the massive Allied desert air fleet in the assault on Rommel's weary columns.) American twin-motored Lightning fighters, ranging out over the ap- proaches to northern Tunisia, inter- cepted a great aerial convoy rushing. fuel to the beleaguered Axis forces and shot 27 planes into the sea, it was announced. French Forces Advance (A French communique broadcast by the Algiers Radio said French forces in central Tunisia had ad- vanced more than nine miles north of Pichon and in the mountainous region of the Djebel Zela, "which commands the plain of Kairouan.") Four infantry divisions and arm- ored units of the Eighth Army pur- sued the retreating Axis forces with such crushing power and speed that for the first time in their 1,500-mile backtrack across North Africa Rom- mel's sappers had little or no time for mine-sowing to delay Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's victorious veterans. WSSF Drive To Be Opened Fund Aids Teachers, Students in War Areas With a view toward helping stu- dents and teachers in war-torn areas, the annual World Student Service Fund drive will open on campus Thursday, and will continue until April 21, Barbara Smith, '43, chair- man of the WSSF committee, said yesterday. . The goal this year for Michigan has been set at $2,000, she pointed out; and the national total has been raised to $300,000-three times the amount set last year. This fund, which is supported pri- marily by students, faculty and edu- cational organizations, provides di- rect relief for students and professors in China, Russia, the Far East, Aus- tralia, Canada, Switzerland, unoccu- pied France, Spain, Greece, and India, where American prisoners held by Japan are now receiving books from the WSSF. All money which is received by this non-secretarian, non- political organization is cabled to cen- tral officers in Geneva and in China. Nine nations besides the United States contribute to the fund. * *i T Axis Top ivilian mel Nationwide i .3 r War Finance orce Drive Begins Bond Purchases Will Absorb Excess Funds il 10.- Spurred To Prevent Inflation first class Dun- charged through By JAMES D. WHITE hward today in Associated Press Correspondent g Africa Corps, WASHINGTON, April 10. - The biggest war financing operation in Man? history begins Monday. Uncla Sam wants to borrow $13,- 000,000,000 from you and me. War costs money. We are taking the offensive. The Treasury esti- mates that current war spending ap- proximates $6,000,000,000 per month. The 13 billion dollars sought in the Second War Loan, plus current monthly bond purchases, taxes, and othr revenue, will thus finance the war for about three months, it is estimated. But there's another purpose- to drain off current surplus income into war bond savings to avoid inflation. Remember that inflation-an in- nocent sounding word-got the Ger- mans to such a point after the last war that their currency was worth less than the paper it was printed on. (And it wasn't very good paper.) Inflntion today has forced prices Giovanni Messe in ChungL*g up to 60 or 80 times ew commander- their prewar levels in some kinds of ia, supplanting goods. and Rommel, Imagine those conditions in America, and you can understand the serious tones in which our economists tell us we have all the I makings of Inflation in this coun- trwe try-now. That's why Americans are asked k., H it to buy nearly as many war bonds Turn to Page 5, Col. 3 Ships Hobbs Bill Arouses UARTERS INO osition in Senate 11. (Sunday)- nsport ship was WASHINGTON, April 10.- ()- ntman destroyed Powerful opposition developed in the hich dropped 30 Senate today to the House-Approved ewak, New Gui- Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Bill but nand announced supporters of the measure insisted they will push it to an early vote and enemy base on exhibited confidence in the outcome. uinea some 450 ' Providing for federal prosecution the Allied base of anyone interfering.with the move- ment of goods in Interstate Com- at Wewak were merce, the bill passed the House on a 207 to 107 vote despite the opposi- ers struck along tion of labor leaders, who contended New Guinea at it might be interpreted as infringing nd Madang. on what they regard as established used recently by rights under federal statutes. feeder base to bases of Lae and Sub Sinks Merchantinan it is considered bSnsM rhnia )f Allied fighter In Sneak Raid Off Coast KEY WEST, Fla., April 10.- ()- A submarine sneaked into heavily- onvicted guarded coastal shipping lanes early Lter Counts in April to make a hit-and-run at- I tack and sink a merchantman in W.- ()- Barnett waters off the eastern coast of the s owner of the United States for the first loss re- as convicted to- ported there since last summer. of manslaughter Forty men were lost, among them a holocaust that the gallant skipper who chose to go e nght club last down with his blazing ship, a medi- um-sized United States craft. %zw,,,, P.$r-W*..74h Uncle Sam $6,500,000 in Bonds Is Goal for County And University Drive Dimes and dollars from a coed's pocketbook or her boy-friend's bill fold are the same as any others, so when Uncle Sam says he needs "your help," he means Michigan students as well as 130,000,000 other Americans. In the Second War Loan Drive which begins tomorrow our county wants to borrow $13,000,000,000 from us, and Washtenaw County-which asked to furnish $6,5000,000 of the total. Within the next three weeks a Uni- versity committee headed by Gordon Griffith plans to contact every stu- dent and faculty member in an ef- fort to make bond-buying a campus habit. But don't wait to be asked. Grif- fith urges you to go to the Univers- ity cashier's office or the University hospital's information desk of your own accord and buy as many stamps or bonds as your budget will allow. Then buy some more. Checks are to be -made payable to the Uni- versity so that all bonds will add to, the campus total. A special military parade is sched- uled for Wednesday to provide im- petus to the bond drive and to show students and Ann Arbor residents what their money will purchase. Every military and defense organization in the city-including an escort of Army planes-will participate in the hour- long review. Warren F. Cook, chairman of the county's War Finance Committee, said there would be more than 700 "Gallants" canvassing Ann Arbor this week. Cook praised this group for being "completely enthusiastic and co- operative-but we have a long way to go before we reach our goal." He said that every series of bond is being sold, but that the "E" series is expected to be the most popular. This is the $18.50 bond, which is the low- est denomination sold by the govern- ment. Cook expects this type to raise $1,300,000 of the county quota. Weapo For Those W ho Die-Lend Y a-BuyBonds! our Money Students' Help Engineers Is Needed By In Army To Italian General ( has been named ne in-chief in Tunisi both Von Arnim London hears. Raiders At Wewaj Two Jap ALLIED HEADQ AUSTRALIA, April (IP)-A Japanese tra fired and a mercha by Allied planes wl tons of bombs on W nea, the High Comr today. Wewak is a key the coast of New G miles northwest of of Port Moresby. Shore installations wrecked. Other Allied raidE the north coast of Bogia, Alexishafen a Wewak has been the Japanese as a its Huon Peninsula 1 Salamaa because, out of the range c planes. Club Owner C On Manslaugh BOSTON, April 10 Welansky, listed a: Cocoanut Grove, w night on 19 counts which resulted from took 490 lives at th November 28. Students May Still Apply for Aptitude Test Blanks Have To Be Filled and Returned Tomorrow Afternoon Students wishing to take the all- campus aptitude test to be given at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Hill Auditorium may still do so by securing applica- tion blanks at the War Information Office in the Michigan League. The blanks must be filled out and returned to the office by tomorrow afternoon. These examinations are the first of their kind to be given by the Uni- versity and are designed to give each student a comprehensive objective measurement of his basic abilities. Students who did not enter the University as freshmen, that is, transfer students, will be asked to write a second test at 7 p.m. Thurs- day in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Examination For Seniors !Is Stll1 Open Graduate Record Test To Help Students Find Places in War Effort The annual Graduate Record ex- amination for literary college seniors will be given at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Students who wish to take the examination and have not yet ap- plied, may still do so by calling at the War Information Booth in the Mich- igan League and filling out the ap- plications by tomorrow afternoon. The examination is divided into two periods, the second of which will be given Wednesday evening. It is primarily for literary college seniors, but is open to seniors and graduate students of other schools and colleges. No fee is charged by the Univer- sity. The examination is part of the policy to help students find their, proper place in the war effort. Study Here First Contingent Here; Complement of 500 Will Be Filled Later An Army engineering training unit >f 500 men, one of the first to be stablished in the country, will be rganized here, the Sixth Service ,ommand disclosed yesterday. The first contingent of men has rrived and has taken up barracks in the East Quadrangle where the veather school and the 1694th serv- ice group are housed. The program began last Monday and the men will fill in the comple- ment of 500 as they arrive. Training Has Begun This announcement from Maj-Gen. Henry S. Auraud, commandant of the Sixth Service Command, comes after weeks of negotiation between Army Specialized Training Program officials and the University. The first contingent of men has already begun training in chemical, electrical, civil, and mechanical en- gineering, All the men in this program as well as the others under $he ASTP are selected from the ranks carefully chosen on the basis of academic abil- ity and aptitude. In order to come to school for specialized training, all men had to temporarily relinquish the rank they held before this special assignment. First Unit Set Up The engineering group is the first such contingent to be established in the area of the Sixth Service Com- mand and one of the first units of its kind in the country.% The University will provide techni- cal training and physical instruction. Col. William A. Ganoe commander Turn to Page 5, Col. 3 Initiation Rules Are Adopted Fraternity Pledge Date Sets Initiation Time Eligibility of all fraternity men for initiation will be determined by the date of their pledging as recorded in the Office of the Dean of Students, the Committee on Student Affairs de- cided yesterday in accordance with a petition presented by Interfraternity Council. It is extremely important that all fraternity presidents turn in the name of each man immediately after he is pledged, Dick Emery, '43E, IFC president, pointed out. The resolution adopted by the Committee on Student Affairs speci- fied that men pledged to fraternities after March 4, 1943, may be initiated one month after theirnames have been recorded in the Office of the Dean of Students, if they are under the following classifications: (1) Freshmen, in their first term at the University, whose grades at the end of the five week period are satis- factory. (2) Any student who has been in the University for one or more terms and who has a scholastic standing of C or better. (3) Transfer students, in their first term at the University, who were ad- mitted with a clear record. Also announced as a result of the meeting was the decision that any man who feels his case warrants per- mission for special initation must pe- tition the Executive Committee of In- terfraternity Council. Navy Flier Saved In 'Chute Tangle MIAMA, Fla., April 10. -(P)- A Navy flier who fell unconscious from a crashing plane was saved yesterday when the lines of his partly-opened parachute became entangled with the shrouds of a parachute with which another flier was floating to safety. The men dropped into the ocean 100 yards offshore, but Aviation Met- alsmith Ernest L. Elwell of Wichita, Kan., managed to keep Ensign Harry T. Gibson, of Whitehall, Md., afloat EYEWITNESS SPEAKS: Nila Magidoff Gives Personal Account of the Battle of Moscow By MARJ BORRADAILE Captivating her audience with a magnetic personality, Mrs. Nila Mag- idoff, wife of NBC's Moscow corre-I spondent, described in broken Eng- lish the story of the battle of that city. "On that fateful Sunday when the Germans unannounced attacked our country, peaceful Moscow changed in one hour," she said. "We had a! complete blackout the first evening . . . women and children rushed to the subway; they slept there from SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: StudentPost- WarPan els Outline Broad Pr~oposa is WC.>, 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. for three and one- half months. There was no panic, everything was under control." Exemplifying the careful 25-year preparation of the Russians for a great war, she said, "For years it was difficult to buy women's gloves in Moscow. On the first day of the war, every person was equipped with special fire gloves."' Women Are Heroes Mrs. Magidoff pointed to the wo- men and - children as the "greatest heroes of the war." "This year the women gathered the harvest, kept the factories going; two thousand of them became emergency pilots at the front lines. Eleven and twelve-year- old children work six hours a day in the factories during study-free summer months . . . Such great un- derstanding and responsibility among children has never been seen before." Proudly speaking of the determi- nation of the Russian fighters, she declared, "We are determined be- cause all of our 150 nationalities are living and fighting for a common cause-our country. We discovered it; we built it; we have it; and now we must keep it. No one person got it for us; we all got it, now we are all fighting for it." Art Will:Live Mrs. Magidoff said she was asked many times by Americans what Rus- sia would do with the Germans after the war. Her reply is always, "First we must win the war. Then Hitler, the Gestapo, and Fascism will be destroyed, but we can never destroy World News In Brief LONDON, April 10.-The giant Krupp armament works, one of the mainstays of Adolf Hitler's war ma- chine, is almost completely idle as a result of the RAF's shattering 900 and 1,000-ton bomb raids on Essen, the Air Ministry announced today, shortly after another big night attack on Duisburg and other Ruhr Valley in- dustrial objectives. The Air Ministry said that the lat- est evidence of the damage done the Krupp works was obtained in recon- naissance photographs 'taken two days after the big attack the night of April 3-4. S * * * LONDON, Sunday, April 11.- (Russian troops mowed down 300 Germans attacking their Donets River line yesterday near Balakleya, 35 miles southeast of Kharkov, boosting their two-day toll of the enemy to 1,500, Moscow announced early today. The midnight Russian communi- que recorded by the Soviet monitor said successive German efforts to crack the Red Army positions were repulsed. These attempts were weaker than those on Friday when the Germans were said to have lost 1,200 men-approximately half of the three battalions hurled into ac- tion. * * * WASHINGTON, April 10. -P)- The first United Nations Conference on post-war planning, to deal with food and agriculture, was officially set today for May 18 at Hot Spring, Va., and Judge Marvin Jones( who as a member of Congress helped push through much of the New Deal's farm legislation, was named chairman of the five-man American delegation. S* * ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. Anril 10.-One of The following resolutions were formulated by students in the three Post-War Panels that were held yesterday. Objectives and Measures International Control 1. There shall be a period of transition which shall provide for: a. A military police force under a civilian board composed of three men from each of the four United Nations. This board will have a maximum rule of five years, and the police force shall gradually be absorbed by the permanent world police force. 15 .Economic administration, di- ra-fd vP. nwriP-qA hmighwe1 in the period which shall provide for: a. Military function on an In- ternational Police Force with per- sonnel from all the United Nations under the control of the board in 1-a. These four United Nations shall have predominance of power over the International Police Force for a period not to exceed seven years after the transitional period. b. Economic organization by each nation of its own choosing subject to the following restrictions: (1) there shall be no tariffs, and to aid less developed nations, subsi- dies will be granted; (2) communi- cation and transportation shall be free and unfettered from national restriction and (3) there shall be an international stabilization board both majority and minority groups in a given area. 2. Frontier demarcations, there- fore, can be secure only within the framework of an international or- ganization for the maintenance of peace, 3. The importance of frontiers may be lessened by recognizing the difference between political units for defense, for social and eco- nomic, for cultural and for other purposes. These need necessarily coincide, 4. Self-determination, alike for European and colonial areas, is approved in principle and should be resorted to wherever possible andras soon as possible. b. Aim toward economic security for all people, toward peoples' gov- ernmen t oward free movement of peoples from one country to an- other and toward education against war. 2. There should be a Central Organization Committee made up of representatives from all coun- tries. This committee should pro- vide for: a. The exchange of students and teachers from one country to another. b. Research in education in or- der to understand every country's system.;