M r U A&Q-- 0 0 fw-- I -vt 446 Wethx .. oler. VOL. LIII No. 161 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Reds Smash Defenses of Novorossisk New Gains Threaten Entire Nazi Defense System in Cau casus By The Associated Press LONDON, May 9 (Sunday)-Rus- sian troops pouring thorugh an elaborate defense belt, girding Novo- rossisk today threatened to inflict a staggering defeat on Axis Caucasus forces and produce another debacle in quick succession to the Allied tri- umph in Tunisia. The midnight Moscow communi- que recorded by the Soviet monitor disclosed that a coordinated Russian infantry, artillery and air offensive had smashed an intricate German network of pillboxes, dugouts and other well-prepared fortifications within nine miles of the key port. German Resistance Overwhelmed Furious German resistance was overwhelmed in this steady advance which aimed to throw te Axis troops into the Black Sea and recover the narrow fringe of the Taman Penin- sula opposite the Crimea. Russian airmen, many flying American planes, and Red artillery paved the way for the assaulting in- fantry beating at the outer doors of Novorossisk, former home of the So- viet Black Sea fleet. The bulletin said 21 German planes were shot down at a cost of nine Russian aircraft. AnothernMoscow announcement recorded by the Soviet monitor dis- closed the proportions of the Rus- sian aerial offensive. It said that on Friday the Red airmen destroyed or damaged 190 Germantplanes com- pared to 62 Soviet craft lost. Nazis Nerve For Onslaught German dispatches reflected a growing nervousness over the mighty Russian onslaught. The high com- mand in Berlin claimed earlies that the Russians had been repulsed in "violent hand-to-hand fighting" northeast of Novorrossisk, but ac- knowledged that the Russian power was increasing. 'olish Division Will Form To Join Russian Army LONDON, May 9. (Sunday)-(P)- The Russian government has ap- proved formation of a Polish divi- sion on Soviet soil to join the Red Army in the struggle against the Germans, Moscow said today iri a broadcast recorded by the Soviet nionitor. City Votes for ax Alteration Increase in Limitation Favored by 325 to 110 Ann Arbor voters at a special town meeting yesterday in the, City Hall voted 325 to 110 for an increase in the city tax limitation. The passage of the proposal will raise the maximum tox limitation from 7/2 to 9 mills (or $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed property valua- tion) for the 1943-44 fiscal year. The city charter formerly provided for a limit of % per cent of the total as- sessment. The new measure will raise the limit to 9/10 per cent. The result of the new tax measure will be to increase city revenues by $66,000. Of this amount, $51,000 is needed to meet salary raises for city employees most of which have al- ready been granted, and $15,000 is needed to meet a deficit for garbage collection. The town meeting, which was voted unanimously at a special ses- sion of the City Council on April 28, was the first since Ann Arbor's early days. It was not a traditional assem- bly, but voters were asked to vote by means of the mechanical voting machine between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the City Hall. Judiciary Petitions Are Due Tuesday Noon Tuesday is the deadline for petitioning for the positions of presi- dent and secretary of the Men's Judiciary Council. All male upperciassmen are eligible for these positions and interested persons should submit written peti- tions to the Office of the Dean of Students, Room 2 University Hall. This move at the half year comes as a result of the graduation of both FUND LACKS $600: New Drive for Bomber Scholarship To Open lles Herd Battered Nazi Army Toward Hilly Cap Bon Peninsula; Opening an intensive campaign tomorrow for enough funds to meet its goal of $15,000 in war bonds for the semester, the Bomber Scholar- ship Fund asks for $500 in contribu- tions during the drive which will last until May 17. Starting tomorrow, contributions will be accepted at the Office of Dean of Students, where the money will be turned into bonds as it is collected in order to make the $15,000 total by the closing date of the drive. Faculty Contributions Asked Contributions are especially solici- ted from members of the University faculty, who supported the Fund ex- tensively last year, but have so far this year given little assistance, Coral De Priester, '43E, Bomber Scholar- ship Chairman, said yesterday. Houses closing at the end of the semester, and men leaving school to enter the services are also asked to take this last opportunity to con- tribute to this organization which plays a major part in the University's war effort, according to Dean Walter B. Rea. The fact that in the present uncer- tainty of the times no one knows whether or not he or she will need one of these scholarships in order to finish school after the war cannot be stressed too strongly, De Priester said. Students Are Eligible These scholarships will be made available to all students who com- plete two semesters here before en- tering the armed forces and then return here after the war in order to graduate. The fact that no discrim- ination will enter into the distribu- tion of the scholarships is another Col. Rogers To Serve as Post Commandant Former ROTC Chief Will Return To Head Campus Army Forces Col. Frederick C. Rogers, head of the University ROTC from 1933 to 1937, will return to Ann Arbor as post commandant for all Army forces on campus, it was announced yester- day by the Army headquarters at the University. Colonel Rogers, post commandant at Fort Sheridan, Ill., since the sum- mer of 1941, was ordered here by ,Col. John F. Davis, commander of the Sixth Service Command. The order was effective Thursday and Colonel Rogers is expected to arrive in Ann Arbor tomorrow. As head of the University ROTC and professor of military science, Colonel Rogers was stationed at the University from 1933 to 1937. In the spring of 1937 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie, S.C. Two years later he retired from active duty to his farm in Maryland, but in 1941 was recalled to take command at Fort Sheridan. Born in Wisconsin on Sept. 16, 1884, Colonel Rogers attended prep school in Beloit, Wis., and was grad- uated from the University of Minne- sota. He was appointed to West Point and was commissioned a sec- ond lieutenant in 190. He received his first lieutenant's commission in 1916 and was made a captain in 1917. fact which cannot be overempha- sized, De Priester added. "It is important that we make our goal if we are to continue as a part of the University's war effort in the purchase of war bonds," De Priester said, "and if we are to reach our eventual goal of $100,000 before the war is over. "Contributing to the Bomber Scholarship is one important way for University students to keep faith with those who have left to enter the services of the United States, as it may enable some of them who could not otherwise come back to return and graduate after the war." Contributions already donated and money pledged which has not yet been turned in are expected to bring the Bomber Fund to within $500 in cash of their announced goal of $15,000 for the semester. This goal can only be achieved if faculty mem- bers, sororities, fraternities, coopera- tives, dormitories, and all campus organizations and individuals finish up the year with a last contribution, De Priester claimed, Attu Islands Pounded by Allied Planes Jap Troops Bombed As Army Expands Air Attacks in North Pacific WASHINGTON, May 8.-- (A) - Army heavy and medium bombers and swift fighter planes gave Japa- nese troops on Attu Island their heaviest aerial pounding of the war Thursday, the Navy disclosed today, in a series of seven raids launching an expanded air offensive in the North Pacific. At the same time Warhawk fighter planes, doubling as light bombers, blasted installations on Kiska Island, Japan's main base in the Aleutians, in five raids. A communique said "direct hits were scored on enemy positions." The Attu assaults were made by Mitchell twin engine craft and Light- ning fighters. "Hits were scored in all target areas and several fires were started." Until Thursday Attu, westernmost of the Aleutians and 233 nautical miles beyond the American base on Amchitka, had been the target of only occasional attacks. Kiska had taken the heavy beating, with as many as 15 raids a day. Kiska is only 63 nautical miles west of Am- chitka, whose new American air base was announced by the Navy yester- day. Jap Transport Sunk at Madang ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 9 (Sunday)- (A)- A small transport, its decks and superstructure congested with Jap- anese troops, was fired and sunk yesterday in the second straight day of heavy Allied air attacks on Ma- dang, New Guinea. Three bomb hits from mast height sent the ship to the bottom near Madang's fine harbor on New Gui- nea's north coast, and another bomb hit started a small cargo vessel to sinking. Italians Anxious Cabinet, Military Ieaders Meet it) Secret LONDON, May 8.- (I)- Anxious Italy, jutting out like a sore thumb from Axis Europe into the hostile Mediterranean, faces the perplexing problem of celebrating "Empire Day" tomorrow for the empire she has lost, while Premier Mussolini's cab- inet and military leaders worry in secret session over means to save their mainland. No announcement was forthcom- ing after the first urgent cabinet meeting in Italy since the fall of Tunis and Bizerte left the beaten Axis armies a scant, slipping toe-hold in Mussolini's vanished dream em- pire. Zero Hour Suspected But the Italian public could read into an editorial by Virginio Gayda, who serves as a sort of official echo, the open acknowledgement of the imminence of Italy's zero hour. "The exigencies of tomorrow have made us restrict the use of our war material to the absolutely necessary minimum," Gayda wrote in a soured keynote to the Empire Day "celebra- tion." "Today this phase of the war has come to its epilogue. Today it seems the battle is coming nearer to Italy. All powers of resistance are neces- sary . . . This is the most dramatic moment of Italian history," Gayda wrote. Mussolini Dispels Fear And in a message which he ordered broadcast to "our far away brothers" across the Mediterranean, Premier Mussolini said "The sea has never divided us and is not dividing us now" though North Africa "has be- come the theatre for shameless prow- ess of Americans who are revealing their primitive redskin strain." The message concluded: "We shall return." Wildcat Mine Strikes Lessen; Only 1700 Out PITTSBURGH, May 8.- (P)- A strike of nearly 2,000 coal miners in protest against $1-a-day fines for unauthorized work stoppages appar- ently was lessening in Ohio and Pennsylvania today as union leaders urged the men to return to their jobs. John L. Lewis, international pres- ident of the UMW, replied "no com- ment" when asked in New York City about the strikes but his district officers generally expressed the hope of an early settlement. Fourteen hundred workers went back to the pits this morning at California, Pa. Two of Ohio's largest operations were shut down by a strike of 1,200 miners, and a stoppage was affected at the Shannopin mine of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation at Bobtown, Pa., about 70 miles south of Pittsburgh, employing about 500 men. Celebrate Under Arrest at Zero Hour Amnerican Armored Units Race to Gulf Of Tunis in Effort To Cut Off Escape A La Diiquerque' for Axis Remnants By WH LIAM B. KING Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 8.- Rem- nants of the beaten Axis African army, devoid of supply bases and air sup- port, were herded along the bomb-ridden roads skirting the Gulf of Tunis today toward Cap Bon peninsula with Allied armor and infantry in relent- less pursuit which will end only when the last Axis soldier in Africa is dead or captured. Axis Pocket Troops Fight On Dawn found stubborn Axis pockets of resistance still fighting on isolated hill positions, after the streets of Tunis and Bizerte had been cleared, but the enemy was not expected to be able to put up any real delaying action 0 except possibly in the mountains and COL. WILLIAM T. COLMAN ... (above) has been relieved of the command of Selfridge Field near Detroit and is under arrest at Percy Jones Hospital in Battle Creek, following the shooting of Pvt. William McRae, Negro, ac- cording to an announcement from headquarters of the Army Air For- ces base at Selfridge Field. Attempi at Bribery LaidI to Civilians DETROIT, May 8.- (P)- United States District Attorney John C. Lehr said today a Federal investigation has disclosed that "at least 50 civil- ians" have been involved in efforts to gain specific considerations for ser- vice men at Selfridge Field. Lehr said he would recommend to a Federal Grand Jury next week that indictments be returned against "many parties" for attempting to bribe government officials. The indictments, he said, would be based on efforts of the civilians to attempt to gain consideration for Detroit men, either through direct enlistment or transfer from other service branches in order that the service man might be near home. Ruml-Flavored Bill Approved Finance Committee Okays Tax Measure WASHINGTON, May 8-()-Rid- ing roughshod over the opposition of treasury experts and its own leaders, the Senate Finance Committee voted 13 to 7 approval today of a Ruml- flavored "pay as you earn" tax bill excusing either the 1942 or 1943 taxes -whichever is lower-of all persons with net incomes. Five Democrats combined with eight Republicans to send to the Senate floor a revised version of the Ruml-Carlson measure rejected by a four-vote margin in the House and called "inequitable" by Randolph Paul. Treasury general counsel. The amended bill came out of the committee over the futile opposition of Democratic Leader Barkeley of Kentucky and Chairman George (Dem. Ga.), both of whom had other ideas about methods through which the nation's taxpayers should be put on a current basis. Congress Protests Subsidy Pav Plan WASHINGTON, May 8.-(P)-The Administration's plan to use subsidy payments to cut retail food prices drew angry protests today from sur- prised members of Congress, along with intimations of legislative action to halt the move. Influential lawmakers said the Re- contruction Finance Corp., previously denied by Congress the subsidy au- British Await Allied Thrust At Germany African Campaign Is Preliminary to Bigger Things, London Says By E. C. DANIEL Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, May 8.- A series of summer assaults around the rim of Adolf Hitler's fortress from Norway to Greece-that's what the* British expect to see after Tunisia. "Itisewell at this moment of great promise," the Daily Telegraph said this morning, "to recall that this African campaign was never any- thing more than a preliminary to bigger things." Some of these next attacks may be feints. Some may have limited ob- jectives. But some will be the real thing. That, at least, is Britain's hope- the hope, as the Telegraph said, that the African campaign "has been con- cluded at small enough cost to make possible a deep penetration of the European fortress this year." Where and when the blows will fall is Hitler's worry, but neither he nor the British seem to doubt that this will be the decisive summer of the war. There is reason to believe in Lon- don that conferences for the final settlement of this decisive strategy already had been arranged-or are even partly under way. This belief was bolstered by Presi- dent Roosevelt's announcement that he was sending Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, to Moscow with a message for Prem- ier Stalin. Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 at the base of Cap Bon peninsula. As other Allied troops chased the shattered enemy forces into the pen- insula, American armored units smashed to the Gulf of Tunis to ct off all escape for Axis forces in northernmost Tunisia and prisoners were counted by the thousands. Cashing in on the capture of Tunis and Bizerte, the Americans cut the coastal highway between the two cities at a point 18 miles south of Bizerte, and the British captured Creteville, 14 miles southeast of Tunis on the northern side of the base of Cap Bon peninsula. There, only 5 miles from the Port of Hammamet on the southern side of the peninsula's base, British arm- or threatened to bottle up the main body of enemy forces in their last refuge on the African continent. Yanks Capture Chouigui The Second U.S. Army Corps, op- erating under a new commander, captured Chouigui, 21 miles west of Tunis, and pressed on against enemy rear guards. The Allies held Chouigui Pass, which guards the road to the junction of Tebourba. The 19th French Corps occupied Pont Du Fahs and British armored forces quickly took over three towns between that archor of the enemy's southern front and Medjez-El-Bab--- Ksar Tyr, Ain El-Asker and Bir M'Cherga. Bradley, Not Patton, Led Yanks to Bizerte Victory General Eisenhower disclosed for the first time that Maj. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 50-year-old infantry offi- cer, and not Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., armored specialist, com- manded 'the American troops which fought their way through the hills of northern Tunisia to capture Mateur and then Bizerte. He said the change was made April 17 because from that point on it figured to be strictly infantry warfare. 0 TO PLAN PREPAYMENT: Health Economics Institute Will Convene Tomorrow <+ PLAY PRODUCTION: Ba bington Stars in 'The Wishful Taw' John Babington will play Big Duke, one of the lead roles, in "The Wishful Taw," by Elizabethe Wilson, Grad., to be presented by Play Production of the speech department at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday night in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Lorny Duke will be portrayed by Barbara White, and her heart inter- est, Vincent St. John, will be played by Maximilian Bryer. Blanche Hol- par will star again in a character role, taking the part of Granny Goo- ber who "don't smoke no pipe cause it ain't genteel, but she do take her stick o' snuff between whiles." Marryin'-Buryin' Si, who says "This-un 'ull be the ding-bustinest, hawg-killinist play-party you e'er did see," will be portrayed by Clarence Foster. The role of Gramp Goober, Dorothy Chamberlin, Margaret Cox- on, Margaret Hamilton, Ellen Hoop- Szucs, Dorothy Wineland and Marcia Zimmerman. The list of the cast members con- tinues with Bethine Clark, Harriet Cooper, Thelma Davis, Armand Geb- ert, Barbara Hulbert, Elizabeth Law- rence. Patricia Lewis, Uditta Mar-: row, Marilyn Mayer. William Mike- lait, Robert Roman, Paul Schick, Janet Stickney, Barbara Stuber, Bar- bara Lurie. Sue Wood and Mary Lou] Meeker. { Emma Hirsch is in charge of cos- tumes for "The Wishful Taw," and Robert Mellencamp is directing the settings. Prof. Valentine Windt is directing the production.+ "The Wishful Taw" is drawn from+ Organization and administration of prepayment plans will be the theme of the Institute on Public Health Economics convening tomor- row for a two-week session at the 'preview opening' of the new School of Public Health building. The Rockefeller Foundation, through the Committee on Research in Medical Economics, has made a grant to meet the expenses of the Institute, which is under the direc- tion of Dr. Nathal Sinai, professor of public health, and is sponsored by the public health school in coopera- tion with various agencies concerned with health service plans. Each day of the Institute will be divided into three periods: morning, 9 a.m. to 12 a.m.; afternoon, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., and evening, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Morning and evening sessions are to deal with the basic factors in public health economics, organized programs of health service with par- ticular reference to social insurance and special subjects related to the organization and administration of I health service plans. Beginning Tuesday, May 11, and continuing through Wednesday, May 19, special courses will be offered Health Services and Health Needs." Dr. Franz Goldmann, Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, will lecture on "The Health Professions and Insti- tutions: Their Distribution and In- comes," at 3 p.m. "Public Health Economic Trends since 1930" will be the subject of a talk at 4 p.m. by C. Rufus Rorem, Ph.D., Director of Hos. pital Service Plan Commission, American Hospital Association. Institute To Use Rooms In New Health Building Bare conference rooms in the new public health building on Observa- tory Street will be used for the Insti- tute on Public Health Economics. Formal opening of the $650,000 edifice, still in an unfinished state, will be held within two months, when the temporary offices for Dean Hen- ry Vaughan and secretary of the faculty Dr. Nathan Sinai will be transferred from their present sites in the Kellogg Dental School and when the various units in the School of Public Health, now scattered all over the campus, will be consolidated a traditional story of a foreigner who thority to be exercised now, would re- comes to the hills, falls in love with ceive a cool reception if and when it the girl there. and pays with his life ,seeks additional funds. for the crime of chicken-thievin' that - '.. _.. ..'} ti's., . .._. L