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-Associated Press Pnoto
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, shown
in a White House automobile, met yesterday in Washington while more
than hints of action to come in the Pacific was reported. Presence of
officers from the Pacific Theatre showed that the leaders of the English-
speaking people would discuss the problems of driving the Japs to their
knees. Meanwhile, the complete destruction of Axis armies in Tunisia
was revealed. Gen. Jurgin Von Arnim was captured with his staff and
thousands of fascist troops. The Allied armies are now poised for
attacks on the Mediterranean coast of Europe (map) which is still solidly
held by Hitler and Mussolini. Lines show how heavy bombings and
eventual landings can concentrate on Italy, one of the more vulnerable
spots of Europe's "underbelly." Arrows show how the British Eighth
Army, starting from Egypt, crossed the entire north coast of Africa,
passed from El Agheila to Tripoli and theni to Tunisia for the final mop-
up. The arrow labeled by American and British flags shows the direction
of drives by the British First Army and the American Second Corps into
the very heart of the strategic area and finally into Tunis and Bizerte.
Now that Axis troops are cleared out of Africa, attacks, promised by both
British and American leaders, may be made on Europe. The final battle
thus has marked another turn toward victory.
FDR, Prime Minister Map
Out New Blows Against Axis
United Nations Air, Land, Sea Commanders
From Great Britain, India, China Will Meet
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
Associated Press Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 12.- New blows against Japan, as well as the
European Axis partners, it was made clear today, are being mapped by
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in their momentous war
talks.
Any questions as to this was removed by disclosure tpat the military
men here for the talks include the commanders of British land, sea and air
forces in the India theatre of opera-
tions. They are Field Marshall Sir
Archibald P. Wavell, commander-in-
chief in India; Admiral Sir James
Somerville, commander-in-chief of
the eastern fleet based at Ceylon,
and Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard
Peirse, air officer commanding in
India.
Stilwell, Chennault in Capital
Also 'in Washington are Lt.-Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell, commanding
American forces in China, and Maj.
Gen. Claire Chennault, commanding
American air forces in China.
Although purely in the realm of
speculation, there was a disposition
among some military men to regard
the conferences as having two princi-
pal purposes:
1. To make plans for decisive cam-
paigns against Japan, and
2. To make a last-minute checkup
on plans already made for invasion
of Hitler's European fortress.
It was suggested in these quarters
that the conferences of the President
and Prime Minister are concerned
usually with matters to be carried
out several months later-are pri-
marily of a long range nature.
Victory Opens Mediterranean
The Allied situation with regard to
the Pacific war has, however, been
fundamentally altered by the victory
in Africa and the imminent reopen-
ing of the Mediterranean Sea route
from Britain and America to the
Middle East and India.
It means the saving of 5,000 miles
in the journey from American ports
to India, and is the equivalent of
adding millions of tons of shipping
to the Allied merchant fleet. It may
mean that the British and American
leaders feel free now to launch cam-
paigns against the Japanese which
have been withheld heretofore for
lack of shipping to supply them.
One such campaign might be the
vitn ir f th Burma Road.
John Hoffman
Made Leader
Of Congress
Leaders of
Union Will
Be Elected
Vice-President From
Each School Will Be
Selected Tomorrow
Each school of the University will
choose a vice-president of the Union,
at the elections to be held from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Since no petitions to place addi-
tional names on the ballot were re-
ceived before the 5 p.m. deadline yes-
terday, the following men selected by
a special nominating committee will
run for office:
Literary School, Dave Striffled, '44,
Dean Monson, '45, Bunny Crawford,
'44, Bud Brimmer, '44, and Irwin Lar-
sen, '45; Engine School, Art Geib, '44,
Bill Jacobs, '43E, and Chuck Dotter-
rer, '44E; Medicine, Bob Taylor, '44M,
and Ronald Bishop, '44M.
Others are, Dental School, Howard
O'Dell, '44D, and James Hayward,
'44D; Law School, Bob Grimshaw,
'45L., and John Hoglund, '43L; and
Don Smith, '44 BAd, Joe Shreoder,
'43BAd, Pete Speek, '44F&C.
The nominations were made by a
special nominating committee com-
prised of campus leaders. Additional
nominations could be made by peti-
tion.
Eligibility cards of all men peti-
tioning must be turned into the Un-
ion by 5 p.m. today.
Bomber Fund
Nears Quota
For Semester
Additional Gifts Bring
.Scholarship Drive to
Within $109.62 of Goal
New contributions have brought
the Bomber Scholarship to within'
$109.62 of their $500 drive this week
in order to make their quota of $ 15,-,
000 worth of war bonds for the cur-
rent semester, George Sallade, '43,1
Promotions Manager of the Bomber
Scholarship, said yesterday.
Making their second contribution
this week, Martha Cook donated $200
to the Fund, $100 in honor of theC
Martha Cook Womanpower Corps!
which has been organized by Miss
Sarah Rowe, Martha Cook house di-
rector, to relieve the shortage of kit-
chen help by putting each girl on a
schedule of an hour's work each week
and $100 from the Martha Cook
treasury.
Hillel Council donated $50 and
Congress Cooperative House $32.50' inI
memory of Jack Shiraga, '42, form-
er member of Hillel Council and of
Congress Cooperative, who was killedz
in a plane crash March 22 in Har-
lingen, Texas, where he was an in-
structor in aerial gunnery at the
Harlingen School of Gunnery.
The Bomber drive, which will end
Monday, is the last chance for other
campus organizations to follow the
"splendid example of Martha Cook
and support the Fund," Sallade said.
fied.
The board now may raise wages H enry Russel
"to aid in the prosecution of the war~
or correct gross inequities," with the aGiven
limitation that such adjustments ItL at
must not cause price rises or stand in
the way of price reductions. To
Gross Inequities May Be Righted
Byrnes' policy directive permits Dr. Carl Alfred Moyer, assista
the Board to determine in each labor professor of surgery, was awarded 't
market or area what is the represen- Henry Russel Award yesterdayl
tative, tested range of rates for each the award committee.
occupation, or class of work. It may The presentation of the award w
find in Detroit, for instance, that the made by President Alexander
tested range of rates for machinists Ruthven.
is 90 cents to $1.10 an hour. These The Henry Russel Award is a
are not necessarily the extremes of nually presented to an instruct
the rates that are paid. There may or assistant professor in the Unive
be both higher and lower rates paid, sity for having performed the m
but only those below 90 cents could outstanding scholarly work and
be adjusted upward. They would be showing the most promise for futu
raised only to the 90-cent figure. achievements.
While restoring authority to elim- Because of the absence on lea
inate "gross inequities" the Byrnes of Prof. I. L. Sharfman, acting
directive did not restore to the board head of the Railway Emergen
the power to correct "inequalities" Board in Chicago, the Henry Rus,
which it had prior to April 8. Under Lecture of 1942-43 was omitted a
the original executive order on wage the award was presented at a priv
stabilization issued last Oct. 3 these ceremony in Dr. Ruthven's office
two categories were thrown together Dr. Moyer, a native of Barag
and no clear distinction between Mich., received his A.B. from t
them ever was made. Northern State College of Educati
No Historic Differences Fixed . in 1930 and attained his M.S. fr
One board member explained to- ganted irsiMD.in srgeryhere
night that two establishments might 1937.
be paying different rates for the,__________
same kind of work. This might be
considered an inequality, but if theEngine Council
inequality or. differential is an his-
toric one, it is not to be deemed a "
gross inequity arising out of wage Elections Held
stabilization, and therefore cannot
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CLARIFIES FDR RULE:
Byrnes Restores Power
To War Labor Board
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 12.- Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes
today restored some of the War Labor Board's discretionary authority to
make wage adjustments in addition to those permitted under the 15 per cent
little steel formula and the correction of "substandards."
The President's hold-the-line order of April 8 had limited the Board's
authority to these two categories and the Board had complained that'the
order was "unworkable" unless clari- -
Von Arnim Is
Taken; Action
Stops in Tunis
Battle Officially Over
As Staff, 150,000 Men
Are Captured; Lines
Destroyed Completely
By EDWARD KENNEDY
Associated Press Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, May 12.-All or-
ganized Axis resistance in Tunisia
ceased at 8:15 p.m. tonight after the
capture of the German commander
in chief, Col. Gen. Jurgen Von
Arnini, 11 other generals, and 150,000
enemy troops.
A special communique declared
that isolated pockets of resistance
still were active, but the battle of-
ficially was considered ended.
British Clean Up Cap Bon
Captured today with Von Arnim,
54-year-old tank expert who succeed-
ed Erwin Rommel, were Maj.-Gen.
Graf Von Sponeck, commander of
the 19th Light Division, and Maj.-
Gen. P. Roich, commander of the
10th Panzer Division.
Von Arnim and most of his staff
were taken by British armored units
in a quick clean up of the Cap Bn
Peninsula.
"It is estimated that the total of
prisoners captured since May 5 is
about 150,000," the special bulletin
announcing Von Anim's seizure-said.
"Vast quantities of guns and war
material of all kinds have been ap-
tuned including guns and aircraft in
a serviceable condition."
Thus six 6onths and four days
after the Allied landing in North
Africa, the Battle of Tunisia had
ended in a complete triumph-
clearing the way for an Allied In-
vasion of Europe.
A nine-mile-wide circle of Axis re-
sistance was reported holding out in
the Zoghouan Mountains southwest
of Cap Bon Peninsula, but the enemy
was in a hopeless spot there and was
expected to surrender or be wiped
out quickly.
400,000 Total Captured
The capture of 150,000 prisoners in
the final eight days of the campaign
brought to 400,000 the number of
Axis soldiers taken since the fighting
began in Africa nearly three years
ago.
(The Italian First Army leader,
Gen. Giovanni Messe, apparently also
is due for capture on this front.)
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Exiled Dutch Heads
Urge 'Defy Nazis'
By JAMES M. LONG
Associated Press Correspondent
LONDON, May 12-Holland's 400,-
000 ex-servicemen were instructed in
unprecedented action by the Dutch
Government in London tonight to
defy a new German registration or-
der -and to "defend" themselves
against any resulting Nazi attempts
to arrest them.
The order, marking the Dutch exile
government's first counsel of out-
right violence in resistance to the
Germans, was issued at an hour
when Adolf Hitler's fortress Europe,
already ridden with disorder, was
shaking under the impact of ,Allied
victories in Africa and the heavy
threat of invasion being discussed in
Washington by President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill.
The temper of resistance to the
Nazis seemed to be hardening
throughout the Netherlands. The ex-
ecution of five more Dutchmen was
announced tonight, making a total of
43 since May 1. The five, from the
south Holland town of Eindhove,
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Army To Take Complete
Control of Selfridge Query
JOHN HOFFMANI
The appointment of John Freder-
ick Hoffman, '44, of Rochester, Ind.,
to the presidency of Men's Congress,
unaffiliated men's organization, was
announced yesterday by the outgoing
senior officers and the faculty ad-
visory committee of Congress.
A student in the literary school,
Hoffman has maintained a high
scholastic record, and has been active
in extra-curricular work throughout
his college career. In addition to
serving as chairman of the personnel
committee of Congress in his junior1
year, he has acted as secretary of
Senators Hear Arguments Against'
Committee-Approved Tax Plan.
By The Associated Press one of the coalition majority which,
WASHINGTON, May 12.- The reported it out of the Finance Com-
Senate heard the "skip-a-year" plan mittee, asserted it was untrue that
for current collection of revenues at- the proposed cancellation of a fullk
tacked today as a possible move to year's tax to get on a current basis
wouldprove a boon to the rich.
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"hop-skip-and-jump into the depth
of inflation" and defended as a non-
partisan effort to give equal tax-
abatement to all.
In the first of what administration
leaders hoped would be only two days
of debate, Senator Connally (Dem.-
Tex.) denounced a modified Ruml
Plan approved by the Senate Finance
"These external critics of the bill
are not to be blamed, because of the
Treasury's prejudicial, class-baiting
arithmetic on this subject," the
Michigan Senator declared.3
He said that all taxpayers wouldI
be treated alike, except those with
"bonanza" war incomes who would
pay more taxes under the bill's wind-
fall provisions.
D ony Will Be*
Sentenced Soon
DETROIT, May 12. -(,P)- Theo-
dore Donay, former partner in a Ger-
man-American Importing Company,
will be sentenced in United States
Distirct Court here on May 24 for
Burnett, Maccoun W in
Posts Until Graduation
Juniors William E. Maccoun and
Leslie R. Burnett were elected to the
Engineering Council in Tuesday's
elections and will serve until their
graduation.
Loe Linder, '45, was re-elected by
members of the sophomore class for
a period of four terms. John De Boer,