-- - --w - -~~-w -- - - - - r w r- -- - w- - -- - IW EI> it aigtn 4 aht Weather Slightly Colder Vol. LIII No. 138 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Mac rthur WVarns of Attack Gigantic Military Units Will March To Sell U.S. Bonds Greatest Parade in Local History Will Begin at 4:15 P.M. Bands, soldiers, sailors and civilian orkers-in short all of Ann Arbor's ,;ar might-will turn to the import- ant job of selling bonds in the gigan- tic, colorful military parade today. The greatest military show ever to be staged in Ann Arbor will begin promptly at 4:15 p.m. and will fea- ture every branch of the service plus their fighting equipment. The hour long review will show its audience of prospective bond buyers just what their loans will purchase for the war effort. Massive aircraft from the Army and Navy will zoom overhead as an aerial escort for the war loan parade. The giant Liberator bombers plus Navy pursuit planes from Grosse Isle will provide the air pageant. Navy Air Squadron To Come Lieut.-Comm. Harry Kipke, form- erly Michigan football coach, has ar- ranged for the Navy air squadron. In the parade the pride and joy of the Army mobile units will be driven by local Red Cross drivers. The first demonstration of the monster am- phibian commando which can trans- port fifty men will be held here. Besides the Army drab and Navy blue the parade will feature the bril- liant uniforms of four blaring bands. An all-girl drum and bugle corps from Ypsilanti will provide a colorful unit. This group has gained state- wide fame for its precision mieroh- ing. Patriotism Is Keynote Patriotism is the keynote, and so the people making the supreme sac- rifice-the men in the Army-will be a major portion of the parade. All of the Army schools now on cam- pus will march together for the first time, making up one-third of the procession. From the Army of all officers-the Judge Advocates school-down to the youngest unit in the ROTC every branch will be represented. Lieut. C. D. Vaughan will be marshall of the parade. Floats, beautiful and bright or gaudy and gay, will portray other groups not marching in the parade. The University band will lead the parade which forms at Washington and State. The line of march will be south on State to Madison, west to Packard, then down to Main, north to Huron, east to State, south on North Uni- versity and finally back to Univers- ity Hall. Mexico To Be T opic I Of Lecture Today Mrs. Caroloina B. de Escalante, Grad, will speak on "Everyday Mexi- co" at 8 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre in the fourth of a series of lectures on Inter -American- ism sponsored by the Latin-Ameri- can Society. The lecture will concern the eco- nomic and social aspects of Mexico today, stressing the tendencies of the Mexican Revolution and their reflec- tions in the popular education of the cnmtry. War Loan Parade Will Be Held H Manpower Petitions Due Today Tomorrow Two students are destined to take over the important work being done by the Manpower Corps when the Student War Board selects the new directors this week. Petitions should be turned into the Union today and tomorrow, and in- terviewing will begin tomorrow night. These directors will actually supervise the organization when the present head Mary Borman retires to an advisory position. One of them will soon become head of the organization. Duties will be divided between the two to speed up the spring projects. All campus ac- tivities plus working with the Big Ten organization will be under one director. The other student will supervise community activities. His greatest project will be the establishing of the high school junior organization 'Arts for Peace' To Be Discussed Post-War Council Will Sponsor Panel Today which will take over much of the work done by the college group. "These jobs are really important," Borman said yesterday, "and we H~elp Wanted Fifty men are needed by the Manpower Corps this Saturday to husk corn. They will be paid 14 cents for every bushel they husk. "The men are desperately needed, because of this crop isn't harvested soon it will be a total loss to the nation's grain supply," Mary Borman, Manpower head said yesterday. Another "urgent" call came from a local war plant engaged in the manufacture of essential war products asking for six men from 6 to 10 p.m. six days a week. They will be paid the regular hourly wage of 65 cents. Any men who have the free time are urged to contact the Manpower Corps office in the Union immedi- ately. want enough men to petition so that we can make good choice." In order to get the best men for the job the Board is opening the positions to any person regardless of his classifi- cation. Tryouts are to submit their peti- tions, giving their qualifications, to the mail box in the Union. The Post-War a public panel Arts for Peace" Council will sponsor discussion on "The at 8 p.m. today at the League. Prof. DeWitt Parker of the philos- ophy department, Prof. Glenn Mc- Geoch of the music school and Emil Weddige of the architecture college will participate. Elizabeth Hawley, '44, will act-as student chairman. Audrey Bratman, '43, was in charge of arrangements. The panel will discuss the contri- bution music, fine arts, philosophy and literature can make in creating an international post-war world. Fol- lowing short talks by the faculty members, the audience will partici- pate. The Council is sponsoring a special panel discussion on "An Interna- tional Police Force" for men in arnied service stationed on campus at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Rationing or Not- Garg Is.,Out, Today Rationing may have hit the cam- pus-at least for the duration, but you'll get some good advice on how to meet it in the April Garg on sale today. J. Baroque Wormsley has stopped off in Washington where the ration- ing problem is really bad, he says. Featured in the issue is a short story by Bill Kehoe, a photo-crime story on the "Candy Bar Murder Case," informal shots of the Slide Rule Ball, and the monthly Album of Beauty. . Axis Bridgehead Shrinkis; Allies' Trap Tightens Armored Units Punch Through Weak Lines 50 Miles from Tunis By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 13.- The Axis Tunisian brid-gehead was' shrinking rapidly today under pres- sure of general Allied advances at the south and northwestern sides of the envelopment box being drawn up before Tunis and Bizerte, and no- where along the front had the enemy shown any disposition to attempt a decisive stand. Everywhere, the Allied forces were making progress. The British Eighth Army and part of the British First Army, moving up inexorably from the south, beat on beyond Sousse and Kairouan, smash- ing at Marshal Rommel's rearguard while his main bodies were with- drawing through the Enfidaville Line, which runs inland and north- west from the sea. Armored Units Attack Battlefront advices late this after- noon said Allied armored units punched through meager enemy rearguard defenses below both En- fidaville and Debebina, towns 17 miles apart and 50 miles south of Tunis. (The Allied-controlled Algiers Ra- dio broadcast that the Allies had occupied Enfidaville, 27 miles north of fallen Sousse. Substantially all of the Italian Vittoria Division had been captured, it was said.) As British First Army advance patrols drove north in the direction of Djebebina, an important inland road junction, French troops mop- ping up the Grand Dorsal Range captured Debel Kerachoun, 12 miles southwest of Debebina- The Eighth Army, advancing along the coastal highway from Sousse, pushed back the enemy rearguard which attempted resistance near Lake Kelbia. 1,000 Prisoners Taken The French forces announced the capture of almost 1,000 Axis prison- ers. Today's Allied communique men- tioned specifically the operations of the British Eighth and First Armies and of French troops, but made no reference to American ground troops. To the north, other units of the British First Army, striking out in the Medjez-El-Bab sector only about 40 miles from Tunis, swept over a number of hill vantage points. (In London it was estimated that in pulling back into a rough rec- tangle before Tunis and Bizerte Rommel and the northern Tunisian Axis commander, General Von Arn- im, would have at their command an aggregate of about 210,000 men, 150,- 000 of them Germans. 105 Dental Students Donate Blood in Drive The Dental School went all out for the war effort when 105 students gave their blood to the Red Cross Bank last Saturday, Cecil Sink, '45E, Union War Committee Chairman in charge of the Blood Bank, an- nounced yesterday. A total of 320 pints were given on Friday and Saturday to the Bank. Battle for Tunis ...B IZE Matur W haouac b Be a II T ,~du Fa Le Kef Enfi 44 Robaa 4 F The Allies, sweepng past inland, have punched throug tighten the box' around Rom now hold an area as small as t direction of drives toward Tuni STABILIZATION: UAW To S Agreements DETROIT, April 13.-- P)- United Automobile Workers ( disclosed today that it plans to a master wage agreement throu te automotive, aircraft and re industries on the basis of equa for equal work. In making this announce Walter P. Reuther, vice-preside the union, said he had notified eral Motors Corporation that UAW-CIO is invoking its rig reopen wage clauses of the a ment between the union and th poration. Reuther said a meeting o National General Motors Negot Committee would be held shor plan procedure on the wage qu and also a 1943 vacation alloA clause, Reopening of wage negot with General Motors is provide in the contract between the cor tion and the union signed las 19. The UAW-CIO notice wa Miners Ask WLB Settleme Coal Operators Unit To Break Deadlock NEW YORK, April 13.- Northern Appalachian soft coal operators today joined souther ducers in asking that their co dispute with the United Mine ers be certified to the Nationa Labor Board. While operators contended the negotiations for a wage in for 450,000 soft coal miner reached a deadlock, John L.I UMW president, announced th ers had accepted, "what the lieved to be an authoritative" sition from the government," would have meant a $2.25 daily increase, "despite the little ste mua or any other restriction." Meanwhile, Edward R.I president of the Southern Coa ducers Association and spokE for the southern operators, sai operators had received no re yet to a telegram sent Pre Roosevelt yesterday, asking steps be taken to place the d before the War Labor Boar taking it out of the handsc John R. Steelman, head of th Conciliation Service. Six-Day Week Guaran Ag.Ie.iinted hv 1. L Ie on Australia ere TodayCaims Allies Must-Maintami ia Nearing Showdown Comnand RT2 TUN*B ...... 'Western Pacific Battle El Aouaia Will Be Won or Lost ..........~ ...... ..... By Proper Application ...Of Air-Ground Team' UNIS By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 14 (Wednesday) General Douglas MacArthur, avil e whose planes have blunted two big Japanese aerial thrusts at New Gui- nea by shooting down 76 of the en- emy, warned today that powerful Japanese Naval Forces are within A..... striking distance of Australia which KMahdcan be held off only if the Allies keep ondoukh k command of the skies. ... . Naval Forces Will Count "The Allied Naval Forces can be counted upon to play their own mag- nificent part but the battle of the 0 - 25--Western Pacific will be won or lost 4 SAX N STATUTE MILES by the proper application of the air- ground team," his statement said. Sousse on the coast and past Kairouan He asserted that "the first line of h weak Axis defenses near Enfiaville to Australian defense is our bomber Mel and Von Arnim. The enemy armies line" and "the range of our air force he state of Connecticut. Arrows indicate is and Bizerte. over surrounding waters marks the stretch of no man's sea which'is the measure of our safety." His statement, coming on the heels of a warning by Gen. Sir Thomas A. eek M iaster w a_ Blamey that the Japanese have massed 200,000 first line troops in the arc of islands above Australia, on Equaity Basis was issued on a day when the com- _--- -- -- -- munique from his headquarters made The warded to General Motors under clear that once more the Allies held CIO) date of April 5. Reuther said today the aerial initiative. seek that it would stand despite the wage- No Mention of Jap Thrusts freeze executive order issued by Today's communique told of a ghout President Roosevelt on April 9. heavy raid at low level by Allied lated Approximately 300,000 workers in four-motored bombers on Japanese 1 pay 100 General Motors plants are cov- shipping in Hansa Bay on the north ered by the UAW-CIO contracts. coast of New Guinea, during which ement Industry-wide wage stabilization, a 10,000 ton ship was left sinking nt of Reuther said, "offers the only way and an 8,000 ton ship set afire. Gen- of correcting the present wage differ- No mention was made of Japanese t the entials and inequalities, aerial thrusts such as those on Sun- ht to day against Oro Bay and on Monday Lgree- against Port Moresby, New Guinea. e cor- furLB S tnds General MacArthur's statement pointed out that a primary threat to f the m , Australia does not require a great iating Firm on H old initial concentration of naval strik- tly to . ing power. estior The Line ilan "As a matter of fact, Japanese wance Naval Forces in great strength, al- WASHINGTON, April 13.-1)-In though now beyond our bomber ations its first decision since the President's range, are within easy striking dis- d for hold-the-line order, the War Labor tance of Australia. pora- Board refused today to correct what Secretary Knox Comments t Oct. it conceded is a wage inequality, and (In Washington, Secretary of the s for- declared it intends to observe the Navy Knox, commenting on General "literal meaning" of the anti-infla- Blamey's observations, had said: tion order. "You must remember that an attack Following up this decision, it dis- on Australia must be accompanied patched policy instructions to this by a tremendous sea force and there Ant effect to its 12 regional boards. Offi- is no indication of a concentration cials said the result would be a denial pointing to that.") of about 10,000 of some 17,000 pend- Commenting upon the strategic Le ing requests for approval of proposed potentialities of the war in the increases to which maiagement had southwest Pacific, General MacAr- agreed. thur said, "The Japanese, barring up__ Labor, industry and public mem- our submarine activities which are )mine bers rendered a unanimous decision not to be discontinued, have com- in eJ in the case of the Universal Atlas plete control of the sea lanes in the ntra- Cement Company, Universal, Pa., Western Pacific and of the other Work- where a referee had recommended approaches towards Australia." I War an increase of 51/ cents an hour to bring rates into line with two other et G that plants of the company and with the Soviets am crease pattern of steel industry wages srhad which they have followed since 1937. Lewis, The company is a subsidiary of U.S. At Sm olens eiSteel Corporation. y be- The Board instead allowed only Patrols Slash Nazis y op- two cents, which the company con- ceded is permissable under the 15 At Leningrad Front Yank Meets Tommy -Associated Press Photo U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph Randell (right) of State Center, Iowa, and British Lance Sgt. William Brown of Holdsworthy, Devonshire, England, were the first soldiers to meet as units of the American and British Armies joined forces on the Gabes-Gafsa road. Picture from Cairo via radio. k tv FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE; Michigan Schoolmasters 'Club To Meet Tomorrow The fifty-seventh annual meet- ting of the Michigan Schoolmas- ter's Club will officially get under way at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the University High School auditorium with the opening of the fourteenth annual conference on Teacher Ed- ucation. The ninth annual conference on m 0h1crn in shoonnand cr1ollege co- the annual business meeting at 8:45 a.m. in the Rackham lecture hall. Ballots will be cast for the election of a new Club president, vice-president and one member of the executive committee. Meeting Friday also in connec- tion with the Schoolmasters' Club are the annual conference on Teacher Supply and Demand and director of the American Council of Learned Societies, will talk to the group on "Scholars in Govern- ment." Group conferences scheduled for Friday afternoon are art and edu- cation; biological and general science; business education; clas- sical; deans of women and counse- lors of girls; English; geography; ence. The play,'"Listen, Mr. Speak- er," a patriotic revue, will be pro- duced by a cast of 150 students from the Theodore Roosevelt High School, Wyandotte. The third and final day of the conference will open with a gen- eral session at 9:30 a.m. in the Rackham lecture hall. Prof. Ar- thur B. Moehlam, University pro- V wageper cent Little Steel formula. el f or- Alcatraz Convicts Burke, l Pro- Fa*1 in m jailbreak .esman aI ra id the SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-(/P)- ply as Four convicts sought freedom in a sident spectacular break from rock-bound that Alcatraz Penitentiary today and be- lispute fore nightfall all were believed ac- d and counted for-one dead, two recap- of Dr. tured and the fourth evidently ie U.S. wounded and swept to his death in the waters flowing swiftly past the island prison. The notorious Harold Martin Brest tee and Fred Hunter were recaptured. WiS ,Brest is serving a life term from! LONDON, Wednesday, April ,14.- (IP)-Russian patrols thrusting for- ward on the Smolensk front dis- lodged the Germans "from fortified positions of great importance," Tues- day, while to the north on the Len- ingrad sector the Soviets have turned back an outbreak of Nazi tank and infantry attacks with "heavy losses" to the Germans, Moscow announced early today. Several score Germans were killed by Russian patrols that pushed across a river and snaked through mine fields in the heavily fortified Smolensk sector west of Moscow to seize the strategic but unidentified positions, said the midnight com-