73~ N igm 4 Weatherici 11 a,.1ier VOL. LIII No. 166 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS ermans Riot in Berlin ever Axis Captives May Climb To 175,0OOO 17 Enemy Generals Surrender to Allies in African Victory; Sicily Faces Air Poundings By EDWARD KENNEDY Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN' NORTH AFRICA, May 13.-(I)-The captive toll of Germans and Italians neared 175,000, including 17 be-med- ailed generals, today in a Tunisian triumph which put Allied airmen only a few minutes' unchallenged flight from Italian Sicily's already devastated ports and military instal- lations. The victory, which in one week had cleared the Axis from this spring- board to Europe, was termed by Gen. Sir Harold Alexander "one of the most complete and decisive in his- tory." Equipment Captured 'A military spokesman said the total of prisoners would approach 175,000, and General Alexander said tha~t 1,000 guns, 250 tanks, and a mass of trucks and equipment of all sorts were captured. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's deputy said the booty was so enor- mous it "probably will take days, if not weeks," to count it. Marshall Giovanni Messe, Italian First Army Commander, was among the last to surrender. He gave up to the British Eighth Army in the mountains below Cap Bon. In the Ste. Marie Du Zit sector farther north the Prussian Col. Gen Jurgen von Arnim, Axis supreme command- er, also had given up yesterday along with thousands of Hitler's finest fighting men-veterans of the Bal- kan, French, Polish and Russian campaigns. Italians Quit Last In defeat, Premier Mussolini ele- vated Messe, and the Italian high command said the captive marshal's army had "the honor of the last Axis resistance on African soil,"- qt'itting only on Mussolini's order. Turn to Page 6, Col. 1 'Pops' Band Concert Will Be Given Today The University "Pops" Band con- cert to be presented from 7:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. today on the steps of the general library will feature a march composed by Leonard V., Meretta, instructor in the School of Music and conductor of "Pops" band. "Kemper Cadets" is the title of the composition which is dedicated to Kemper Military School in Boon- ville, Missouri in honor of the cen- tennial celebration now in progress there. Mr. Meretta has been invited to conduct the Kemper Military Band in a performance of his com- position which will be broadcast na- tionally. Other selections to be played at the concert are "On Parade" by Gold- man, "Iolanthe Overture," by Sul- livan and Leidzen, "Mystic Land of Egypt," by Ketelebey, and "American Crusader," by Brockton. Crawford, Dotterer To Direct Union Activities Bunny Crawford, '44, was elected new executive secretary, was gen President of the Union and Charles chairman of the Soph Prom as as ticket chairman of the Vida M. Dotterer, '44E, Executive-Secre- Ball. He is a member of Phi Gam tary to serve for the summer semes- Delta fraternity. ter at the meeting of the Board of Both Crawford and Dott Directors selection committee last agreed that in the coming seme night. it would be the policy of the U "to make the service men on cam Crawford, who was publicity chair- and the Michigan student body man of the Union for the past semes- much at home as possible." ter is also president of the Wolver- Installation of the new offi ines. He is a member of the NROTC will take place at the Union ban and the honorary societies Sphynx Monday night. and Michigamua. In his sophomore year he went out for track and Vice-Presider is To wrestling. Crawford is now presi- dent of his fraternity, Phi Delta e E iecied Today Theta. Students will elect one represen In addition to his work as Social tive from each school of the Uni Chairman of the Union, Dotterer, sity to serve as vice-presidents of Union at the election to be held f 19 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. CW illU The following list of candida who were selected by a special n Speak Before Information on the location voting booths for election of U Joint Session ion vice-presidents will be fou on page 6. Congress Anticipates iating committee will run for Global War Analysis in fie: Address Wednesda Literary School, Dave Striffler, Wednesdy Bud Brimmer, '44, Engine School, Geib, '44, Bill Jacobs, '43E, Medic WASHINGTON, May 13.-( )-For IBbTyo,'4,adRnl the second time since the warbegan,Bob Taylor, '44M, and Ronald B Prime Minister Churchill is to ad- o,'M dress Congress. He will speak Wed- ,Others are, Dental School, Ho: nesday, and most legislators antici- ODell, '44D, and James Hayw pate a major analysis of the global '44D; Law School, Bob Grims2 warsitatin. 45L, and John Hoglund, '43L;a Therrittisl ehe rDon Smith, '44, BAd; Pete Sp The British leader, here for a new '44F&C. series of strategy talks with Presi-________ dent Roosevelt, accepted an invita- tion from Speaker Rayburn to make P rof . FuTo the address. It will be at 12:30 p.m. ~ J U1i)~... (EWT) before a joint session of Senate and House,and is expected Leave for Nav to be broadcast. Mr. Churchill last spoke to Con- gress on Dec. 27, 1941. The bitter W shock of Pearl Harbor weighed heav- School at Columbia ily on the country, and it could only watch in angry impotence as the Prof. Richard C. Fuller of Japanese over-ran American and Po.RcadC ulro British Pacific outposts. sociology department will leave Confidently, he told the legislators Arbor tonight to report to the Un then that although hard days lay States Naval Reserve Midshipm ahead the Allies would be on the School at Columbia University m offensive in 1943 and promised that lieutenant (g). the German-Italian armies in Africa would be destroyed. Those prophecies ile l report for instructio have been borne out. connection with the Naval Col TrainingmProgram which is expe His second address will come to begin July 1. against a background of heady suc- Professor Fuller is 35 years cess in Tunisia, growing revolt in graduated from the Universityu Nazi-occupied Europe, and accumu- an A.B. degree in 1928, received lating Allied power which carries the A.M. in 1930 and in 1934 rece certainty of eventual defeat of the a J.D. from the Law School. enemy. was appointed as an assistantp fessor in the sociology departmen Scholar W ill Speak 1937, associate professor in 1942 for this past year has served as On Religion in India ecutive secretary of the depart in charge of administering dep "The Religious Conflict in Indian mental matters. Freedom" will be discussed by Thom- Mrs. Fuller and daughter, N as Yakhub, noted Indian scholar, in Jean, will remain in Ann Arbor. a lecture to be held at 8:15 p.m. to- day in the Rackham Amphitheatre" ATTEND CONFERENCE Sponsored by the Student Religi- Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne of ous Association, the lecture is an at- literary college, and Prof. Marvi tempt to present information about Niehuss, coordinator of emerg the conflict between Mohammedan- training, will leave today forr ism and Hinduism which many con- York to attend a national conferi sider the main obstacle in the path on Navy college and university tr of Indian freedom. ing programs for the summer. Allied vior MarkedIn Tunisia eral well tory ama erer ster nion ipus as cers quet ita- ver- the rom tes, om- of Jn- md of- '44, Art ine, ish- ard ard, aw, and eek, T the Ann ited en's as a lege cted old, with his ived He pro- t in and ex- ent, art- ancy the n L. ency New ence ain- Axis Defeat Sabotage Grows In Low Countries Underground Activity Throughout Nazi Europe Menaces Axis Holdings By The Associated Press LONDON, May 13.- Rioting in Berlin among anxious relatives of German soldiers killed, wounded or captured in the concluded Tunisian fighting and spreading violence in Holland and Belgium against occupation forces were reported today. The attacks on military establishments in the Low Countries and the reported movement of German troops into them were taken as signs that an Allied invasion of the continent may be imminent. The Dutch news agency Aneta reported that Radio Orange, the Nether- ls stat~onin London., ..a........arnea... .oana's popu ....aton onn4-4.a4-%, -Associated Press Photo Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim (left) 54-year-old Prussian who suc- ceeded Marshal Erwin Rommel as Axis commander-in-chief in Africa, was captured by British troops as they overran Cap Bon Peninsula. He is shown as African commander congratulating a member of a German tank crew. This photo reached the United States from London. 1 * * * * * * BZERT r .. l~ot El Aouaria CapBo R' -_ Portoar FerryvilleA Farina: --a, ullGu of Mateu _Tuni Dedeida TUNISeKorbous Tebourb e Ba_ r Grombalia ob Med jez om St Marie /1 -du-Zit Nabeut Za houan * >. <. Hammamet . Pont' .du Fahs1. Bou Ficha * Y C . ..:::: U N IS A - v "STATUTE METES A rough circle north of Enfidaville marks the last pocket of resis- tance in Tunisia before it crumbled under Allied drives from all sides. German resistance earlier had dissolved in the Cap Bon region. $15,000 WAR BOND GOAL: Stockwell Contribution Boosts TU' Bomber Scholarship Fund Putting the Bomber Scholarship hellenic Ball. This amount, ten per below the hundred mark in their cent of the expenses of the dance, is drive for $500 in order to make their goal of $15,000 in war bonds for the separate from the already pledged semester, Mrs. Martha L. Ray, house contribution of the profits of the director of Stockwell Hall contribu- dance. ted $10 to the Fund yesterday. Other contributions totalling $102.- Now needed in order to make the 25 but already figured in the list of $500 mark by Monday, when the I turdirecently by led es . er turnedh,% mL recently0 by lands station in London, had warned 1 Germans were trying to provoke a pre The broadcast charged that the G House Renews FDR's Trade Pact Powers Democrats Block GOP Attempt for Legislative Veto of Trade Treaties WASHINGTON, May 13.-(-)- The House voted 342 to 65 today to renew President Roosevelt's recipro- cal trading powers, but only for two years. Republicans succeeded in cutting a third off the three-year extension asked by the Administration but Democrats battered down a Repub- lican-propelled effort to bring the trade pacts under a veto power of Congress. The House also rejected a series of other amendments that supporters contended would destroy the whole reciprocity program. The legislation now goes to the Senate. The Democrats, declaring the is- sue was the willingness of America to trade and collaborate with other nations in the post-war era, contend-. ed the reciprocal program was need- ed not only to build America's trade .but as a means of securing world peace and preventing other global war. Republican opponents countered that the act in its present form vio- lated the Constitution by transferring tariff and treaty powers from the legislative to the executive branch, and urged that Congress "recapture" its powers. The opponents described the history of the reciprocal policy as a "story of dismal failures.'' As the bill came before the House it called for the usual three-year ex- tension of the act originally passed in 1934, but the Republicans, joined by a segment of Democrats headed by Rep. West of Texas, drove through, 196 to 153, an amendment making the extension only two years. Russians Break Nazi Defenses Caucasus Area Is Scene of Fighting MOSCOW, May 13.-OP)-The Red Army, attacking under a tremendous barrage' of hundreds of big guns, has smashed its way into secondary Ger- man defenses northeast of Novoros- sisk in the Caucasus, dispatches said today. The agency Tass also reported to- night that long-range Russian bomb- ers touched off fires and explosions amid German ammunition dumps, stores, and railway installations at the Polish capital of Warsaw in a series of raids reaching far behind the lines to disrupt German offen- sive plans. Bryansk and Orel also have been attacked repeatedly in this strategic pattern. A Pravda dispatch reported that hundreds of guns had paved the way for an infantry and tank wedge in the new German defense line near Novorossisk after the Red Army had smashed its way through the first enemy line. The mass shelling of the German positions was on such a scale as to nr.cxrPa. final ig enntaiomed at Hollands population tonight that the mature revolt. ermans were distributing forged calls to rebellion to provoke the Dutch people to violence and added: "Resistance is only good if it is carried out in concert. Do not be provoked." The report of riots in Berlin was carried in a Reuters dispatch from Stockholm which was based on an account published in the Goteborg (Sweden) Handelstidningen. Thousands in Berlin It said thousands of women and old men gathered outside the infor- mation office of the German army in Berlin yesterday in efforts to learn the fate of their men in the beaten Africa Corps.- The correspondent of the Goteborg paper was quoted as saying their requests were turned off brusquely with the advice that they would be given the information at a more op- portune time. Then, the report said, the crowd began rioting and SS Elite Guard troops were called. They were said to have broken up the riot without resort to arms. The Reuters dispatch said similar incidents were reported from other parts of Germany. Railroad Center Attacked From the Low Countries to the Balkans rising patriot bands were reported concentrating and increas- ing attacks on vital rail arteries for Axis troops and supplies on a scale strongly suggesting that the under- ground war now emerging is guided by central orders to help clear the way from within for invasion of Europe. The newest attacks, forcing the Nazis to arm and guard virtually all trains, were reported spreading to Belgium from Holland, where two weeks of martial law and at least 43 executions have failed to restore order. Dutch Strikers (A Russian domestic broadcast re- corded by the U.S. government's For- eign Broadcast Intelligence Service said mass strikes of Dutch workers are taking place in many large cities of Holland in protest against the recent Nazi order that all former Netherlands soldiers must go to con- centration camps. (Quoting a Stockholm source, the Russian broadcast said railroad men and metal workers in Utrecht refused to work and that rail traffic has been stopped on many lines.) Nazis Bombed In West, East LONDON, May 13. -(IP)- Ameri- can, British and Russian aerial ar- madas smashed heavily at Hitler's war installations with three major bombing blows from the west and east in the last 24 hours. The Royal Air Force pounded Duis- burg last night with the greatest blockbusting raid of the war while Russian long-range bombers were hitting Warsaw, and today American heavy bombers blasted Meaulte and St. Omer in northwestern France. The Warsaw attack was the first on the Polish capital since it was virtually pounded to pieces by Nazi airmen at the start of the war in 1939. (Because of the stepped-up air at- tacks, Reichs Marshal Hermann Goe- ring has ordered construction of slit trenches for protection of civilians, the German radio said last night. (The broadcast, recorded by the Federal Communications Commis- sion, gave detailed instructions for building the trenches.) ! .-i3 . - - 4 - . A I drive ends, is a total of $99.62.1 $390,48 has already been donated this week by Martha Cook, Hillel Council, Michigan House, and Con- gress Cooperative House. Already figured in the above list is a contribution of $47.98 from Pan- Pacific Setup Remains Same CZECHS WILL RISE: Benes Believes in UltimateVictory Halsey, MacArthur In Complete Accord ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May 14. (Friday)- (AP)-The setup of Allied commands in the Southwest and South Pacific remain the same at the conclusion of a momentous conference between ^in ,ouglas Iarflr ana &3a- ple gts , eeJ IIUIItl~iby U Chi Omega, Chi Phi, Delta Gamma, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Sig- ma Nu, Theta Delta Chi, Theta Xi, and Zeta Tau Alpha. Of the $11,100 needed to buy $15,- 000 worth of war bonds, $10,660 has already been turned in to the Bomb- er Scholarship in the form of actual cash or pledges of money already made but not yet contributed to the Fund. Pledges still to come in include $400 from Richard Forsythe and the Detroit Alumni Club from the con- cert given in Detroit in March by Bill Sawyer, $440 from Victory Ball, $340 from M-Hop, $270 from Sing- time. $250 from Odonto Ball, and also the proceeds from Panhellenic Ball. and Slide Rule Ball. Fletcher Hall Gives Cash to War Efort Fletcher Hall, the only men's dor- mitory which will continue this sum- mer, donated more than half its treasury to war purposes. 'The dorm approved overwhelm- ingly the motion of its president, Robert Matia, to buy a $25 War Bond in the dorm's name and to donate another $25 to the Bomber Scholar- ship fund. The dormitory members have also pledged themselves to donate indi- vidually another $25 to the Bomber Scholarship to equal the dorm's col- lective contribution. WASHINGTON, May 13.- (A))- Predicting "one of the greatest vic- tories in your and our national an- nals," President Eduard Benes of Czechoslavakia; told Congress today that at the war's end his republic will begin reconstruction as a democ- racy "considering itself again the gold-child" of the United States. Prolonged applause greeted the chief of the Czech government in exile in both Senate and House. Later at a luncheon in his honor, Benes expressed belief that victory for the United Nations in Europe is not far off, but that the fighting to achieve it will be "the most terrible." I . Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Ad-k miral William F. Halsey, Jr., a spokesman for General MacArthur{ said today. Emphasizing that the two high ranking leaders were "kindred souls! and understand each other perfect-! ly," the spokesman added there need be no fear regarding united action between these two commanders ifs and when necessity arises." In recent months there has been a conspicuous lack of any reference by correspondents in this area to the division of command between the{ South Pacific and the Southwest: Pacific. -Associated Press Photo n anima e.rnvrratian .Preident auard Renes (left) of Czech- Japs Unsuccessful in Raid I