41t -0 '1" M-. 1 1 %1 I Weather Cloudy and Cold VOL. LIV No. 111 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Dewey Ahead in Primary Returns Wil:kie Supporters Await Urban Count In Significant Wisconsin Elections By The Associated Press MILWAUKEE, April 4.-Candidates pledged to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who telegraphed that he didn't even want his name used, took a runaway lead tonight in mounting early returns from a Wisconsin presidential primary which many policitians had eyed chiefly as a test for Wendell Willkie. The tabulations that gave this picture came from non-urban districts. Willkie supporters hoped for the slowly-counted city vote to cut into the early and inconclusive Dewey trend. However, returns from Milwaukee County's 569 precincts duplicated the statewide trend. With returns tabulated unofficially from 573 of Wisconsin's 3,076 Navy Reveals New Pacific Victories; i Fall of Polish Tarnopol ImmInent Soviets Escape Nazis, Near Last Route for Rumanians precincts on four delegates-at-large tion candidates pledged to Willkie& were last in the four-way contest. Lt. Commander Harold E. Stas- sen, formerly Governor of Minne- sota, stood second to New York's Dewey., General Douglas A. MacArthur ran next behind Stassen-and-ahead of Willkie. Although Wisconsin will have four delegates-at-large, the best Dewey could do would be three-the fourth Dewey man having withdrawn after the New Yorker objected to use of his name in the contest. The Dewey delegates came to the fore after candidates pledged to Stas- sen had been out in front on the basis of first unofficial tabulations. In only one of the early reporting counties-Dane, of which Madison, the capitol, is the seat-was Willkie out in front. In others, he was ei- ther running behind MacArthur or having a hard time keeping abreast. In 149 precincts, six delegate-at- large candidates endorsed by the state Democratic organization and pledged to President Roosevelt with the slogan "Roosevelt, Victory and Peace" led Democratic candidates whose slogan was "Stop Politics- Win the War." . The division marked a squabble within the state party organization. President Roosevelt's name was the only one listed. Republicans elected 24 delegates, including 20 by districts and four from the state at large. Democrats elected 26, of which six were dele- gates at large. Wendell Willkie, who lost Wis- consin to President Roosevelt by 25,600 in 1940, had a full slate of 24 delegate candidates in the run- ning pledged to him; 22 delegate candidates were pledged to Gener- al Douglas A. MacArthur; 19 to Lieutenant Commander Harold E. Stassen; and 15 to Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Willkie held that the Wisconsin re- sult would decide the course of the party's convention when it meets at Chicago in June. He campaigned in the state for 13 days, speaking in 25 cities. Stassen supporters also made a vigorous drive, through speeches and by mail. The Dewey and Mac- Arthur camps concentrated on per- sonal contact. MYDA Hears Dr. Onderdonk "We now face a crisis that will nev- er be equalled again in the history of the world," Dr. Francis Onderdonk, world traveler and lecturer, stated before a meeting of the Michigan Youth for Democratic Action last night in the Union.. Dr. Onderdonk illustrated his lec- ture on "From United States to Unit- ed Nations" with several films show- ings the necessity for an interna- tional government. Agatha Miller, '46, acted as chairman for the meet- ing. Onderdonk pointed out that the world has learned, by the experience of this war, that isolationism must be a thing of the past. Our action or inaction in the Spanish Civil War, China and Ethiopia makes the United States guilty of playing a part in the cause of war as well as Nazi Ger- many, he said. "We are a 'telegraphacracy' not a democracy," Onderdonk warned. He said that 42,000 telegrams con- trolled the wills of 130 million Am- ericans in the last war, and we should remember this when the deciding hour comes after this war. Police Aid in Hunt For Missing Plane DETROIT, April 4.-(P)-Civil Air Patrol officials enlisted State Police in a statewide search today for a to the Republican National Conven- O - Political Highlights By The Associated Press Oregon Primary.. .. SALEM, Ore., April 4.-President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie will be unopposed in Oregon's May 19 pri- mary. Roosevelt will have the pledges of the state's 14 Democratic delegates and Willkie the state's 15 Republican delegates to the parties' national conventions.. Petitions to file the name of Gov- ernor Thomas E. Dewey of New York in the Republican presidential ballot were withheld. St. Louis Meetings . . ST. LOUIS, April 4.-Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York, was indorsed as Republican candidate for President today at two con- gressional district meetings held to elect delegates to the party's na- tional convention. Identically worded resolutions adopted by the 11th and 13th dis- trict conventions called Dewey "The Man of the Hour" and in- structed each district's two dele- gates to "lend their efforts and abilities in his behalf." Dewey Talks... NEW YORK, April 4.-Governor Thomas E. Dewey said tonight that when peace comes there must be established a system of international cooperation in which free nations, large and small, "can be secure in the liberties which shall have been won at such great sacrifice." * * Willkie Speaks.. .. NORFOLK, Neb., April 4.-Wen- dell Willkie, in the last major out- state address of his five-day swing through Nebraska, declared here tonight one of the "great obliga- tions" of the Republican Party is to take the leadership in 'the cause of cooperation among nations. * * * Michigan Democrats... DETROIT, April 4.-A group of old-line Michigan Democrats headed by former Gov. William Comstock pledged themselves today to join the American Democratic National Com- mittee in a move to block a fourth term for President Roosevelt. "We have no illusions that we elect our candidates," O'Brian told the Comstock group. "Our objective is fighting the fourth term in the open and giving faithful party adherents a place to tie to." Diplomatic Force In Italy Revamped WASHINGTON, April 4.- ()- President Roosevelt reorganized American diplomatic assignments in Italy today but made no move sug- gesting great recognition of the Ba- doglio government. The White House announced this appointment. Alexander C. Kirk, Minister to Egypt, goes on the Allied Advisory Council for Italy with the personal rank of ambassador. Britain and Russia also have membership on this. council. By The Associated Press LONDON, April 5, Wednesday- The Red Army announced today that it had captured the greater part of surrounded Tarnopol in former Po- land and smashed to within two miles of the last rail escape route for per- haps 200,000 Germans and Ruman- ians now virtually pinned against the Black Sea near Odessa. Bearing down on the big Black Sea port of Odessa from the northwest, the Russians overran 50 localities, including Bakalovo, two miles east of Razdelnaya, control junction for Germans fleeing into Rumania via Tiraspol and Kishinev, said a broad- cast bulletin recorded by the Soviet Monitor. Nazi Rail Line Useless The capture of Bakalovo, nearby Ponyatovka, and the rail station of Veselyi Kut, 18 miles north of Raz- delnaya, practically destroyed the usefulness of the Odessa-Razdelnaya- Kishinev trunk route, forcing the Germans to rely solely on a small line running from Odessa to the ferry terminus of Ovidiopol. From there fleeing Germans would have to cross the six-mile-wide Dniester estuary by ferry to Akkerman in lower Bess- arabia. Tarnopol Nearly Won Slaughtering 3,000 Germans in three days, the Russians won most of the battle-strewn streets of Tarnopol, 70 miles east of the big communica- tions hub of Lwowo, after a ten-day fight. In Rumania Marsal Ivan S. Kon- ev's troops were attacking on the approaches to Iasi, a rail center, just beyond which lie some of Rumania's rich oil wells, front dispatches said. On the Polish front west of Dubno the Russians overran 30 villages thus expanding their front pushing to- ward the 1939 German-Russian de- marcation line on the Bug River. A dispatch to the government newspaper Izvestia said panicky Ru- manian soldiers attempted to flee pel-mell, and Nazi elite guard troops and army officers fired into their ranks, beat them with rifle butts and even bayonetted them to halt the flight. Izvestia correspondent Leonid Ku- drevitekh said that on the east bank of the Prut the Germans hurled Rumanians off barges and into the river and shot them in a mad flight across the water. Stormovik fighter planes were strafing German columns retreating toward the Black Sea, front reports said. Present Draft Setup Explained WASHINGTON, April 4.-- () - Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said to- night that after Selective Service takes men under 26 for combat it will move in a "progressively less strict" manner to higher age brackets. The group from 26 to 29 comes next.t At the same time, Hershey said, Selective Service will "aid to the li- mit of its ability" efforts to induct and put to work 4-F's who refuse to stay in war-important jobs. The less fit have a "duty" to re- place men under 26 in industry and agriculture and they constitute the greatest manpower pool for that pur- pose, the draft director said in a speech prepared for radio delivery on the Columbia network. He summarized the present draft program as follows: 1. Selective Service will furnish to the Army and Navy every man under 26 who can possibly be made avail- able. 2. These will not be enough, and it will complete the calls from men in the 26-29 group and then from the groups 30 and over, and in this pro- cess "the requirements will be pro- See HERSCHEY, Page 2 YANKS AT HOME IN ITALY-Relaxing before the fireplace, over which their favorite pin-up girls have been displayed, these two Yanks make themselves at home in the house of a mayor of a small Italian town. The men, Sgt. Vernon Dennis (left), of Northome, Minn., and Pvt. Harry Boone (right), of Oneonta, N.Y., members of a U.S. Army photographic unit are talking with the mayor's wife. RUMANIAN CAPITAL HIT: Yank Planes Pound Bucharest From Bases in Southern Italy By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NA- PLES, April 4. - American Flying Fortresses and Liberators for the first time bombed the Rumanian capitol of Bucharest today, flying to within 200 miles of the Russo-German front to strike the third Allied blow in 24, hours at Hitler's Balkan communica- tions. The American airmen flew 600 CIO Withdraws Claim to ILO President Is Free To Appoint Representative WASHINGTON, April 4.- (A)- President Philip Murray of the Con- Rress of Industrial Organizations re- lieved President Roosevelt of a politi- cal hot potato today by withdrawing the CIO claim to representation at the meeting of the International Labor Organization in Philadelphia April 22. His action left the President free to appoint a representative of the American Federation of Labor as the only representative of American workingmen at the session. The AFL took part in the original organization of the ILO and has had sole labor representative at its meetings ever since. Murray, in his letter to the Presi- dent, stipulated that withdrawal of the request for representation is "with the understanding that the delegates representing the American Federation of Labor at the ILO meeting will in no wise speak for or represent the point of view of the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions." AF of L Holds Wage Rates 'Out of Line' WASHINGTON, April 4.-(P)-The American Federation of Labor argued before a War Labor Board panel today that both the Little Steel wage formula and the cost of living index are out of line with the government's promises and the facts. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany said he could not accept the state- ment of any government official that prices have not risen in the last year and added that "after the failure of the rollback and holdback campaign" the government decided "it could at least sit on the figures." miles from bases in southern Italy to carry out this attack supporting the Red Army troops invading Rumania from the northeast. Like Budapest, capital of Hungary, which was pounded twice yesterday, Bucharest is an important rail cent- er of the Balkans, and its yards have been reported choked with supplies and troops moving to oppose the Russian invasion of Rumania. To- day's smash probably equalled yes- terday's 1,000-ton assault on Buda- pest. Sometimes called the most bizarre and corrupt of all capitals, Bucharest has been bombed three or four times by the Russians-possibly more-andI a year ago this month the govern- ment made a half-hearted attempt to remove the civilian population. But the Soviet raids probably were nothing like the strength of today's attack. Headquarters announced that 115 Nazi planes were destroyed in Sun- day's attack against aircraft factories at Steyr, Austria, by American heavy bombers. Finns Put Off Peace Action STOCKHOLM, April 4.-(A)-Rep- arations demanded by Moscowv of Finland as part of the price of peace were estimated by the Swedish press today up to $600,000,000 as Helsinki advices said a parliamentary decision on the armistice was not expected until after Easter. The Berlin radio broadcast a dis- patch from Helsinki saying the par- liament had held a brief meeting to- day at which minor bills were dis- cussed, and then recessed until April 12. The Svenska Dagbladet also de- clared that the Russians, as the re- sult of Dr. Juho K. Paasikivi's trip to Moscow, had expressed a willingness to make no claim on the naval base base of Hangoe, but the paper said it also felt certain Moscow was un- willing to give up its demand for the port Viipuri. A correspondent of the Stockholm Tidningens reported that Monday was a day of intense diplomatic ac- tivity in Helsinki and noted that au- tomobiles of American, German and Swedish diplomatic representatives were among those which drew up in front of the foreign office. Union, Class Officers To Be Chosen Today Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Engineering Arch and University Hall for senior and men students to vote for their class officers and Union vice-presidents. Miriam Dalby, Dorothy Darnall, Warren Monsen, George Morley, Ger- aldine Stadelman, John Timms and Lucy Chase Wright are candidates for senior offices of the School of Literature, Science and Arts. Presi- dent, vice-president, secretary, treas- urer are the offices that will be filled. Candidates for the School of Engi- neering posts are Haig Avedisian, Alvin Bek, Jerry Cardillo and John DeBoer. President,Cvice-president and secretary-treasurer will be selected from this group. Only potential June graduates may vote for these senior class officers. Candidates for Union vice-presi- dents from the Schools of Engineer- ing and Architecture are Karl Brenk- ert, Jr., and David Christie, USNR. On the slate for the combined Schools of Business Administration Forestry, Music and Public Health are Ace Cory, USMCR, Harvey Frank and Dave Strack, USMCR. Men stu- dents must vote in their own school. The poll for Engineering and Ar- chitecture students will be in the Engineering Arch. Lit students will vote in University Hall. Students in the combined schools may vote at either poll. Identification cards will be required of all voters. Men's Judiciary Council warns that any electioneering within 50 feet of the polls is strictly forbidden and that anyone guilty of this will be subject to disciplinary action by the Council. Vincent Admits Stabbing Girl DETROIT, April 4.-(P)-Prosecu- tor William E. Dowling and Sheriff Andrew C. Baird today quoted Rich- ard Vincent, 23, as saying he stabbed 14-year-old Joyce Raulston to death on a lonely city dump a week ago after she "said my girl friend was no good." Dowling recommended a warrant against Vincent charging first degree murder. Vincent, employed at a gasoline station and tourist camp where Joyce spent most of the week-end before she was killed, was questioned soon after the girl's partially stripped and beaten body was found last Tuesday on the dump a half mile from the camp. Officersasaid at that time he told such a goody story of his visit to a movie the previous night that he virtually was eliminated as a suspect. Finally, Baird and Gregory said, Vincent related that he left the mo- tion picture theatre early and picked Violent Naval Action Accounts for 17 Jap Ships, 288 Aircraft By The Associated Press Destruction of all 288 planes on the biggest remaining Japanese air base in the southwest Pacific, sink- ing of at least 17 enemy ships and probably many more, and a daring naval attack on three Caroline is- lands on the road to the Philippines were announced by American com- manders. Hollandia Air Force Demolished The Nipponese air force at Hollan- dia on Dutch New Guinea has been wiped out, General Douglas Mac- Arthur announced today in a con- tinuous air attack coordinated with a naval carrier strike on Palau, Yap and Woleai islands. Every plane based on Hollandia's three airdromes last week when ' the Palau attack started, has been "demolished or ir- reparably damaged." This greatest air blow on New Guinea was carried out while car- rier forces attacked Japanese fort- resses within 530 miles of the Philip- pines, sank at least three warships, and an untold number of other craft found in harbors on three strongly defended Caroline Islands. The ex- tent of the carrier attack was dis- closed be Secretary Knox of the Navy. Submarines accounted for the other announced sinkings. Five Liberators Lost In another phase of the Carolines action, seven Japanese planes were knocked out of a formation of 60 interceptors over Truk, central Caro- lines fortress on the eastern flank of Palau. Five Liberators were lost. Truk has been raided at least 12 times in six days. In an unrelated invasion, seabn cavalrymen occupied Rambuyto, the second largest island in the Admiral- ty group, now securely in American hands. Three Japanese warships were caught and sunk outside the .atolls. Chaplin 'Freed On Both Counts Decision Greeted by Storms of Applause LOS ANGELES, April 4- (P)- Charles Spencer Chaplin was acquit- ted tonight on both counts of a Mann Act indictment. The jury came in at 6:10 p.m. after six hours and fifty-eight minutes of deliberation. As court clerk Francis Cross took the verdict from jury foreman Roscoe Reeder and read the first count of the verdict "not guilty" a crowded courtroom burst into applause and federal judge J. F. T. O'Connor was forced to bang his desk heavily be- fore order was restored. As the verdict was announced the stocky, silver-haired producer- come- dian rose from his chair and seized his attorney Jerry Giesler by the hand, a smile broke over the actor's face and Giesler clapped him on the shoulder. It was a crowded courtroom when the verdict was returned and the by- standers immediately swarmed around Chaplin pumping his hand and putting their arms about his shoulders. He was overheard to say to one friend, "I had faith in the American people." McLean Violates 'OPA Ceilings W. D. McLean, State Street grocer, has been suspended for 30 days from selling processed foods and canned meats by action of the regional OPA office for violating price ceilings in 65 instances. Action was taken in Detroit Mon- day by Frederic S. Glover, OPA hear- ing commissioner. McLean, who had been placed on probation in Novem- ber, was charged with selling ration- ed goods as much as 14 cents above the ceiling price on some items. Wartime conditions, his fire in 1942 and his poor memory were all to blame for the violations, McLean said. According to a report in Detroit, NEUTRALITY MAY BE DIFFICULT: Student Helps Clarify Position of Turkey 4 Editor's Note: In an attempt to get a and the necessity of living up to true in this war. It is to Britain's contend that this occupation should