i N 4Atrtl 4ai t Wfeather Slightly MWarmer VOL. LIV No. 110 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Red Arm trikes13 Miles into Rumania British Hit German B attle ship Norwegia 1iFjojorI Is Tir itZ Hideout By The Associated Press LONDON, April 3.-The Tirpitz, last capital battleship in Hitler's fur- tive navy, has been hit by several bombs from British naval planes, an Admiralty communique said today. This fresh blow to neutralize Ger- man sea power was dealt as the west- ern Allies rushed final preparations for a continental invasion in which domination of the seas- will be vital. The communique gave few details of the attack on the big battleship which has been hiding for months in Alten Fjord in far northern Norway, but it did say "several hits were ob- tained." Her hideout is more than 1,000 miles from the nearest British air bases so it was obvious the attack was carried out by planes from car- riers. American-built craft may have Nazis Admit Attack . . By The Associated Press NEW YORK, April 3.-The Nazi news agency DNB acknowledged to night that the German battleship Tirpitz had been attacked by aircraft at a northern Norwegian base, but said "the attack was dispersed by our defense and did not attain full effect." been used since it has been announced that Grumman and other American naval types have been in use by the British fleet air arm. Listed at 35,000 tons; the Tirpitz is believed actually to approximate 45,- 000 tons. Jane's fighting ships says she may be about 41,000 tons. She carries eight 15-inch guns, twelve 5.9 inch guns, sixteen 4.1 inch guns and ha's a normal complement of 1,500 men. Troo er Called To ProtLect Right Yank Bombers Smash At Budapest Railroads First American Attack on Hungarian Capital Hits Messerschmitt Plane Factory By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NA- PLES, April 3.-U.S. heavy bomber fleets bombed Budapest for the first time today, smashing hard at rail- roads linking Germany with the Bal- kan front already punctured by Rus- sian armies, and at an aircraft fac- tory making Messerschmitts for the Luftwaffe. A great force of four-engined bombers made the round trip of nearly 1,000 miles from Italy to strike at the Nazi war machine in the Hungarian capital astride the Danube, one of Europe's most beautiful cities. It was the first large-scale air at- tack ever made on Hungary or Buda- Dr. Onderdonk Will Speak at MYDA Meeting Highlight of Today's Lecture Will Be Films On League of Nations Dr. Francis Onderdonk, world traveler and lecturer, will speak on "From United States to United Na- tions" at a meeting of Michigan Youth for Democratic Action at 8 p.m. today in Rm. 316 in the Union. Dr. Onderdonk, who recently de- signed the United Nations flag, will present his opinions on post-war problems and the present crisis. His lecture will be accompanied by a film pest, although the city was bombed by the Russians earlier in the war. The bombers drove home the closest blow yet to the front lines of the advancing Red Army. Buda- pest is only some 250 miles from the Carpathian Tatar Pass, nearly reached by the Soviets, and about 400 miles from the Russian spear- heads driving into Rumania. Today's strike followed the blow Sunday by more than 500 Italy-based big bombers against Steyr in Austria, in which the bombers and escorting fighters got a record day's bag of more than 100 German fighters. The Allied force lost 33 aircraft in all ac- tions yesterday. These two great punches from the south were thrown as Britain-based Allied forces apparently remained inactive, with no major operation an- nounced since Mosquito attacks on three Nazi cities Saturday night. A German broadcast described great air battles over Budapest, and first accounts said 14 Ameri- can planes were downed. Other Flying Fortresses and Lib- erators meanwhile were hammering enemy-held Yugoslav railroad yards at Knin, Brod, and Drnis-lines im- portant to German forces engaged by Yugoslav Partisans. Bombers Strife Hungary Again By The Associated Press LONDON, April 4, TUESDAY.- Allied bombers were reported in a Berlin broadcast early today to have made a night thrust into Hungary following up the heavy daylight raid upon Budapest yesterday by Italy- based U.S. fleets. Soon after midnight, the German station said a "small number of planes" was approaching the Hun- garian capital. Ten New Atolls Are Occupied In Marslhalls U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR- TERS, PEARL HARBOR, April 3.- American forces have occupied ten more atolls in the Marshall Islands, giving them possession of all but Jaluit atoll in the western chain of islands and making a total of 14 from which the Japanese have been clear- ed, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an- nounced today. The new atolls over which United States sovereingty has been estab- lished are Ujae, Lae, Lib, Namu, Ail- inglapalap, Namorik, Ebon, Kili, Arno and Bikini. "Most of these atolls were taken without resistance," the announce- ment said. "Light opposition encoun- tered on the others was quickly ov- ercome. We took some prisoners.' American troops previously had oc- cupied Kwajalein, Eniwetok and Wotho in the Ralik or Sunset chain of atolls and Majuro in the Radk or Sunrise chain on the eastern side. Majuro and Arno are situated be- tween the important enemy-held atolls of Maloelap and Mili. MacA rthur Reveals Newest Jap Losses ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 4, Tuesday.-(P)- Further withdrawal of the Bougainville Japanese from the American perimeter at Empress Augusta Bay was reported today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur who also said big fires were set in a dawn bombing raid on Truk in the Caro- lines. Russians Take 50 Villages near lasi Northern Forces Kill 208,260 Axis Troops, Encircle 15 Nazi Divisions By The Associated Press LONDON, April 4, Tuesday--Russia's Second Ukraine Army, striking 13 miles into Rumania, has captured 50 villages and driven to within nine miles of the rail city of Iasi, a Moscow communque an- nounced last night, while to the north the First Army was credited with killing or capturing' 208,260 Axis troops and encircling the remnants of 15 divisions in a still-rolling offensive near the borders of German- occupied Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's Second Army, attacking on a 70-mile front inside Rumania, cut the 50-mile railway linking Dorohoi and Iasi at the village of Dengeni, on the east bank of the Jijia River, 13 miles west of the Prut River border, said the Daily Soviet bulletin. Dengeni is 25 miles southwest of Dorohoi. t AMBUSH LEAVES DEAD JAPS - Japanese soldiers lie dead. near Maingkwan in North Burma after they were ambushed by a company of the Chinese 22nd division troops fighting under Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell. BATTLE IN INDIA: Supply Roads to Allied .base At Imphal Are Cut by Japs Of Assembly WEIRTON, W. VA., April 3.-(A)- West Virginia state troopers went on guard today in the busy steel town of Weirton-one of the nation's larg- est unincorporated communities-as an outgrowth of arrests made during distribution of CIO United Steel- workers' literature near the Weirton Steel Company's plant. Led by Col. H. Clare Hess, state po- lice superintendent, a score of troop- ers appeared in the community and posted a proclamation by Governor Matthew M. Neely which declared: "It appears that various persons are being unlawfully deprived of their liberty and the constitutional right peaceably to assemble and there is imminent danger of recur- rences of breaches of the peace and resistance to the law within that certain part of Hancock County (Weirton)d." Troopers were directed to enforce the law and call upon all other peace officers to assist them if necessary, at the same time avoiding assistance to "either party in any labor trouble." ,Thomas Tells Strike Stand DETROIT, April 3.-(P)-President R. J. Thomas of the United Automo- bile Workers (CIO) announced today that the Union's executive board had modied and "clarified" its stand against wildcat strikes in a special meeting in New York last week. "The intent of the no-strike policy is in no way changed or weakened," Thomas said. A new clause in the union's state- ment or policy provides that Thomas may summon a local union to appear before the executive board, in the case of an unauthorized strike, "to show cause why it should not be dealt with in accordance with the union con- stitution." By The Associated Press NEW DELHI, April 3.-Japanese invasion forces have cut supply roads into the big Allied base at Imphal, capital of Manipur State in eastern India, it was disclosed today as fight- ing raged in the wild hills of the Na- ga headhunters east of Kohima, 60 miles north of Imphal. Imphal Temporarily Isolated An Allied spokesman, while con- ceding that Imphal had been tem- porarily isolated by main road, de- clared the crisis would be overcome shortly and that there would be no necessity for supplying the great ad- vance base by air. A full-scale battle had been joined east of Kohima, where a Japanese column was driving determinedly to- ward Dimapur on the Assam-Burma railway lifeline to Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese and American forces in Northrn Burma. Dimapur is 44 miles across the Naga hills from Kohima. A second Japanese force, thrusting toward Imphal from the Chindwin Two Union Men P'Lead Innocent Detroit AFL Agents Charged with Extortion DETROIT, April 3.- V!P) - Two business agents of the AFL Team- sters' Union, one of them a labor member of the Detroit Regional War Labor Board, and a trade association executive pleaded innocent in record- er's court today to extortion and con- spiracy charges. The three are Sol Sniderman, 34- year-old WLB member; James Cas- sily, 42, another AFL business agent, and Peter Ellis, 45, president of the Detroit Retail Florists Association. They were freed under $500 bond. The accused union business agents were charged with extorting $3,000 from a group of undertakers, with Ellis serving as go-between, in return for a favorable union contract. A second count in the warrant naming the three charged conspiracy to ex- tort money by malicious threats against 12 undertakers. Prosecutor William Dowling, who obtained the warrant after weeks of secret investigation, said undertakers "were required to join the union and pay dues or else make an outright shakedown payoff of $250." Unless they did one or the other, he added, the union picketed their establish- ments and union drivers for supply firms would not cross the picket lines. river area to the east, was reported thrown back by defending British and Indian troops. Southeast of Im- phal, near the lower end of the 200-, mile invasion front, Japanese artil- lery continued to shell the Tamu- Palel road. Chinese Troops Break Jap Line Dispatches from Northern Burma reported that Stilwell's Chinese troops had broken through the Jap- anese defense line just south of La- ban and had driven another three- quarters of a mile southward along the Mogaung road. (There was no Allied confirmation of a Tokyo broadcast claim Sunday night that the) British 26th Division had been forced to withdraw from around Buthedaung and Maungdaw.) Yanks Destroy 12 Jap Planes American fighter planes destroyed 12 Japanese craft yesterday, and air comando planes practically wiped out an enemy ammunition dump near Indaw, west of the Irrawaddy River in Central Burma. Dispatches said glider-borne Al- lied commandos now hold a consider- able portion of the main Japanese supply railroad between Myitkyina and Katha in northern Burma, ef- fectually cutting Japanese forces in that region off from their big depot at Mandalay. Finns Schedule Peace Parleys After Easter STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 3.- (P)-A decision on Finland's peace crisis appeared to have been post- poned tonight until after Easter, while some pessimisim prevailed in Helsinki on the country's chances of findig a way out of the war with Russia. Finnish political quarters here said that while there were reports of some modification in the Russian armistice terms following Dr. Juho K. Paasiki- vi's trip to Moscow, the belief now prevails that the terms are as harsh as ever and even more precise. The earlier reports had said the Russians made some frontier conces- sions, but placed high reparations demands on the Finns. In political circles in Helsinki, it was presumed the peace question hardly can be solved within the next few days. A similar convocation is to be held tomorrow morning before the mem- bers adjourn for Easter. 183,310 Germans Killed A special announcement issued a short time later told of the staggering losses suffered by the Germans in a 28-day period last month-a total of 183,310 Germans killed and 24,950 captured on a single front. On the basis of Russian announce- ments, this boosted to 537,160 the number of Germans and satellite troops killed or captured in nine major offensives which began in the Rumanians Asked To Quit By The Associated Press LONDON, April 4, TUESDAY.- The Moscow radio, in a broadcast in the name of the Soviet government, called on the Rumanian people today to abandon the Germans and "capi- tulate at once." winter snows of Russia and rolled on westward despite the coming of1 spring floods until today the Red, Army is attacking inside Axis ter- ritory for the first time in the war.1 Rumanian Lines CrumbleI German - Rumanian lines were' crumbling on a 450-mile front from deep inside old Poland down to Odessa' on the Black Sea area, the Russians said. In the Odessa area Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Third Army overran 100 more localities and tightened its developing siege arc on that prize port and former Soviet Black Sea fleet base. City Chooses GOP Officials In Light Vote Light election returns were pre- dominently Republican as Ann Arbor voters went to the polls yesterday to ballot on supervisors, aldermen and constables. All but four of the 21 officials elected in the normally Republican city were members of the GOP. The Democrats elected only one super- visor, an alderman and two consta- bles. All four amendments designed to make the city charter jibe with the state constitution passed. With competition slight for the of- fices, voters could choose from full ballots only in the fifth ward and both precincts of the second. There was no contest for supervisor in the sixth ward and the only Democrat to be elected supervisor, Edward L. Schumacher of the fourth ward, ran uncontested for office. City clerk Fred C. Perry estimated that upwards of 1,000 votes were cast during the 13 hours the polls were open. Doctors Report ,James 'Better' A slight change for the better has ben noted in the condition of A. A. "Jimmy" James, University staff member, seroiusly injured in a three- car crash Friday night, doctors at St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital reported last night. However, doctors added that while the condition of James improved, it still remained critical. Returning from the national AAU swimming meet in the Sports Build- ing, James, associate supervisor of Italian Troops Capture Peak Near Cassino Nazi Attack on Anzio Beachhead Is Stopped By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NA- PLES, April 3.-Italian troops fight- ing with the Allied Fifth Army have captured a third peak northeast of Cassino, it was announced today, and an attack by 150 German infantry- men against Allied defenses on the Anzio beachhead was thrown back with losses. The new hill seized by the Italians was identified as point 1,344. Pre- viously this Allied force was disclosed to have occupied 3,600-foot Mt. Cas- telnuovo and Mt. Marrone, about 15 miles northeast of Cassino, without opposition. (The Rome radio, with on Allied confirmation, broadcast Monday night that German troops had re- gained all of Cassino and its suburbs except the railway station south of the town. It said the Germans throughout Monday "continued to wipe out the last remaining Anglo- American pocket of resistance among the ruins of Cassino. Other groups of houses outside the town also have been incorporated into the German line of defense. Thus only the ruined railway station remains in Allied hands." (The Berlin radio also claimed Cassino success, reporting the recap- ture of "height 435, where a garrison of Indian troops was killed to the last man.") Officers' Court Martial Starts Neglect of Duties at Wright Plant Is Charge CINCINNATI, April 3.- (P) -A public court martial started today to determine whether three Air Force officers neglected their duties, con- spired to let quantity override qual- ity in aircraft engine production at the Wright Aeronautical Corp., plant in Lockland, and gave false testimony to a Truman committee member, as charged. The defendants, Lt. Col. F. C. Greulich and Major Walter A. Ryan of Detroit and Major William Bruck- mann of Cincinnati, pleaded inno- cent when arraigned before an 11- member court headed by Brig. Gen. Lehman H. Miller, commander of Camp Sutton, N.C. Col. Greulich was chief of the in- spection section of the AAF materiel command at Wright Field, Dayton, O., Major Ryan, district inspector, and Major Bruckman, resident in- spector at the Wright plant. No Increase in Gas Ration Seen WASHINGTON, April 3.- (P)- Secretary Ickes said tonight that "contrary to the impresson held in some quarters," there is no possibility DR. FRANCIS ONDERDONK ... to speak today. on the League of Nations and its work in combatting epidemics and drug traffic. A graduate of the Royal Technical Institute in Vienna, Dr. Onderdonk has traveled extensively abroad. He was in Geneva at the time of the Munich conference and attended the International Conference in France in 1938. Dr. Onderdonk witnessed the col- lapse of the Hapsburg regime in Austria during the first World War, and the founding of the republic in Austria. Dr. Onderdonk's lecture will be preceded by short discussions on fur- thering war activities on campus. A discussion period will follow Dr. Onderdonk's lecture. Truck Drivers Fail To Agree Cripple Freight in Battle Creek, Lansing LANSING, April 3.-(A)-Michigan truck line operators failed in anoth- er conference here today to agree among themselves upon a counter- proposal to their employes in a labor dispute which has crippled the move- ment of freight by truck. The truck movement of freight was WISCONSIN PRIMARY TODAY: Midwest Called Center of Political Stage Q By The Associated Press cultural leaders-five governors goes, the result may be a barometer