A Ne ~frA4a 4.f fl 9/t t Peather Fn. is CioNdy VOL.,LIV No. 114 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS 28 Jap Ships Sunk In Attack on Palau 5Nazi FlnksTrapped;* ...y:;:... Siov iets Capture ./Paaki Red MobileiiUnits: Racing Around Odessa's .,"f?' Flank Near Last Nazi Route to Rumania ii:>:> : . " ::..:: -n By The Associated Press LONDON, April 8, (Saturday)- Rusian troops attacking northwest of Odessa have trapped the remnants of five or six German divisions- perhaps 25,000 to 50,000 men-and begun wiping them out, Moscow an- nounced last night, while other mo- bile units racing around Odessa's western flank smashed to within 13 miles of the last German escape route UroMas Kantdkurzenka RUSSIA R Berezovka Buyalik r a zdelnaya ~\Kubanka 1W Baden KStaton"*\R - StartyeBelyary -Dachne -. Mayak ODESSA "'ster - / -. ~~iOvidiopol Akkerma ia& e Bl*ack Sea SfSSAR B RED ARMY TROOPS - racing around Odessa's western flank are now within 13 miles of the last German escape route to Rumania following the capture of Mayaki. Russian soldiers attacking the prize city have advanced to within 10 miles of Odessa. into Rumania with the capture of Mayaki at the head of the Dniester Estuary. Rolling through 60 villages in a narowing siege are around the big Black Sea port the Russians also cap- tured Novaya-Dafinovka, less than 10 miles northeast of the prize city; Chebanka, 12 miles on the east near the coast; Novaya Emetovka, 17 miles on the north; and Karstal, 17 miles on the northwest. The capture of Mayaki in a 25-mile lunge from Baden down the east Nip pons Push Across I rphal Defense Line NEW DELHI, April 7.-(A)-Jap- anese invasion troops in India have driven westward across the Imphal- Kohima Highway in the heart of the Allied defense zone and are being hotly engaged in the jungles 35 miles east of the Gengal-Assam Railway, American-operated supply lifeline for Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's forces in Northern Burma, it,was announced! today. (A Berlin broadcast of Tokyo dis- patches declared that Japanese troops were "menacing" the railroad from an unstated distance, and said con- fidently that when it was cut the col- lapse of the Allied campaign in North Burma would "become inevitable." A Japanese news agency dispatch re- corded by Reuters said Japanese troops were within six miles of Im- phal from the east.) It had been known since Sunday that the invaders had installed road blocks on the 60-mile Imphal-Kohima road, completely isolating the big Allied base of Imphal except by air, but today's communique from Ad- miral Lord Louis Mountbatten's head- quarters gave the first indication that this enemy column had pressed on westward. Jdames Funeral To Be Today Funeral services for Abram A. bank of the Dniester River put the Red Army within 13 miles of Ovidio- pol, ferry terminus on the lower Dniester Estuary and bottleneck in German defense, whence ferries ply the four-mile-wide Dniester to Ak- kerman in lower Bessarabia. 'U' Approached With Proposed Training Plans Preparation Discussed For, Student Engineers In Post-War Work The University is among the schools that have been approached with a proposal to provide advanced engineering training to both foreign and students in preparation for post- war reconstruction, Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the School of Engineer- ing said last night. The proposal is now under infor- mal discussion by U.S. government officials and representatives of lead- ing educational institutions. The talks to date, basedionta report draft- ed by a foreign economic administra- tion engineer, have been of a prelim- inary nature. Drafted by Edgar J. Gealty, head industrial engineer for FEA, the re- port envisions a training program embracing between 3,000 and 4,000 students from Europe, Asia and Latin America. Similar training would be provided for selected American stu dents who wish to engage in post- war reconstruction abroad. In commenting on the proposal, Dean Crawford said that the govern- ment is now making a study of ways to assist South American and other foreign countries in training students in technical work such as steel manu- facturing, chemical industries, hy- draulic engineering, fuel technology 'and others. "The University of Michigan is one of the schools making preliminary studies in connection with this plan, and has been approached specifically in the fields of chemical engineering and hydraulic engineering," he said. Speaking of the training of Ameri- can engineers for foreign work, Dean Crawford said, "This training would consist largely of short, intensive courses stressing specifically the cul- ture of the countries to which the engineers would expect to go." LIBERATORS STRIKE IN INDO-CHINA-Dense clouds of smoke rise from the Ben Thui railroad shops at Vihn, in Indo-China, as this B-24 Liberator of th e U.S. Army 14th Air Force starts on the return trip to its home base after dropping its cargo on the Ja p rail center. Vihn is 160 miles south of Hanoi, on the Gulf of Tonkin. -AP Wirephoto from Army A ir Forces. U. S. Fleet Destroys 160Nip Aireraft 18 Other Warships Are Damaged or Left Beached and Burning, Nimitz Says By The Associated Press U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HAR- BOR, April 7.-Twenty-eight Japanese ships were sunk and 18 others damaged or left beached and burning and 160 aircraft were destroyed by United States warships which struck Palau, Yap and other smaller islands west of Truk, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today. Fifty-four other enemy planes probably were downed for a possible total of 214. planes. The announced cost of the attacks was 18 aircraft personnel and 25 planes, no losses of ships were reported. The task force struck at Palau March 29. That westernmost enemy fortress in the Caroline Islands is but 530 miles east of the Philippines. Yap is about 250 miles northeast of Palau. Palau and Yap are the Japanese administration centers for the Carolines. Nimitz' communique was the first word he had given out con- cerning the task force since his terse announcement of last Thurs- day night that it had struck. At that time he said the attack "continues." The box score at Palau: Sunk: Two destroyers, one unidentified combat ship, two large cargo ships, six medium cargo vessels, eight small cargo vessels, three large oilers, one medium oiler, one small oiler, one patrol vessel. Damaged: One destroyer. Beached and Burning: One large repair ship, one medium oiler, two small oilers, one small cargo ship. Burning: Two small cargo vessels. Beached and Damaged:' One large cargo ship, two medium cargo vessels, five small cargo vessels. Beached: One small cargo vessel. Forces under the command of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance at- tacked Palau March 29 and 30 (U.S. time), Yap and Ulithi on March 30 and Woleai Island March 31 with planes from carrier task forces commanded by Vice-Admiral Mark A. Mitscher. The following ground installations were destroyed at Palau: Forty buildings at Arakabuesan, just west of the main island; four hangars and small buildings at the seaplane base; more than 20 ware- houses at Malakal Harbor near Arakabesan. Docks were extensively damaged and, fires started. At Korer, Japanese administration center of all the mandated territories, warehouses, dumps and hangars were destroyed. At Angaur, a small island at the southern tip of the cluster around Palau, the phosphate plant, docks, storage buildings were damaged. At Babelthuap, in the Palau Islands, an ore dock was damaged. At Yap island, which in 1921 was the subject of bitter contro- versy between the United States and Japan over the control of the cable and other communications, airdrome facilities and buildings in the settlement were damaged. At Ulithi, the radio station and docks were damaged and several small vessels sunk. Ulithi, 100 miles east of Yap, is the largest atoll of the western Carolines. At Woleai, midway between Truk and Palau, seven Japanese planes were destroyed and probably five more were. A Navy spokesman described the task striking force as the most powerful ever to operate in the Central Pacific. THREE KILLED: Wrecked CAP Plane Found 7 Miles west of Ann Arbor The search for a pilot and two passengers missing since Monday was ended yesterday with the discovery of their wrecked Civil Air Patrol plane in a woodlot on a farm on Par- ker Rd.; about seven miles west of Ann Arbor, one-half mile north of U.S. 12. The plane and the bodies were found about 10:30 a.m. by three Ann Arbor boys, Thomas and Raymond Young, 15 and 13 respectively, and Robert McAllister, 17, who were rid- ing horseback through the woods. The plane left Benton Harbor Mon- day on flight to Detroit, during a blinding snowstorm. A control tower near Detroit received a radio message from the plane about two hours after takeoff. The pilot said he was unable to contact the Lansing airport and was heading for Ohio with enough gas to continue for 300 miles. The plane was last heard from over Northville. The men killed were Allen Dillon, 38, pi)t, of Benton Harbor; Richard Ford, 25, of Berrien Springs, and Robert Burke, 28, of Niles. Civil Air Patrol investigations con- ducted preliminary investigations yesterday. Main investigations will be carried on today. Ronald Hinterman, CAP investiga- tor for Ann Arbor, stated that the plane hit a tree, bounced 36 feet, and then skidded 330 feet over rolling terrain. The bodies were thrown clear of the plane and all three were apparently killed instantly. Mr. Hinterman further stated that the radio was in good working order. The engine also was running full throttle. The fact that the gas tanks were thrown from the plane, prob- ably accounts for their not being set on fire. The plane, which was flying on instruments, was not trying to land. CAP investigators believe that the plane had lost considerable altitude because of the storm, and had crashed into the tree. Presetice Controls Will Con linue WASHINGTON, April 7.--()-Or- ganized Labor's drive to break down the "Little Steel" formula bumped head-on today into a flat pronounce- ment by top White House economic advisers that wage and price control policies must be continued unchang- ed. With indirect endorsement by ap- proving comment, President Roose- velt made public at his news confer- ence a report to him that the stabili- zation program has succeeded to the benefit of all elements of the popu- lation. Price rises have been check- ed, it said, and the cost of living is actually lower now than it was a year ago, while wages have been stabil- ized. The report was in the form of a let- ter to the President from Fred M. Vinson, Economic Stabilization Di- See LITTLE STEEL, Page 2 4-F's Asked To Take Jobs in Ke Activities Costello Makes Appeal, Expresses No Pesire For Conscription Law By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 7.- Man- power Chairman "Paul V. McNutt and Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey join- ed tonight in asking 4-F's who are not already so employed to seek jobs in essential activities or those desig- nated by the WMC as "locally need- ed." A similar separate appeal aia' was made by Chairman Costello (Dem., Calif.) of a House Military Subcom- mittee who said he had "no desire to establish some sort of labor conscrip- tion." This group has been consid- ering legislation for a draft of 4-F's into a work corps if they do not voluntarily take essential employ- ment. Costello made clear this idea has not been abandoned. 4-F's Should Seek Employment McNutt and Hershey urged all 4-F's who are in doubt about their em- ployment to consult their local U.S. Employment Service office. They estimated that over 2,000,000 of the 3,600,000 4-F's are already in essen- tial or locally needed work. The announcement said the present essential lis, including 35 general fields of activity important to the war effort, is to be used in deter-' mining which 4-F's will be considered to be in essential work. Men Asked To Volunteer General Hershey has said that the others-those not working or those in non-essential jobs, who refuse to get essential jobs-will be inducted and forced to work in some activity that will help win the war. The Costello Committee expressed belief in a statement that man-1 power needs could be met "on a purely voluntary basis provided we receive the cooperation of every pa- triotic citizen within the nation." PRAYERS FOR ALL: Allied Soldiers in Italy Mark Easter with Varied Services By KENNETH L. DIXON Associated Press Correspondent WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD, April 7.-Al- lied soldiers at this beachhead below Rome were celebrating the Easter week-end tonight with varied rites in strange places - from frontline dugouts to ancient wine cellars in shell-spattered coastal villages. At the beachhead hospital ward tent soldiers of the Jewish faith were meeting tonight for Passover serv- ices, while Protestant doughboys were congregating in small groups wher- ever they were comparatively safe for Good Friday services and the Catholics were meeting in an old church for the stations of the cross devotion. Services Held in Wine Shop One Protestant service was con- ducted in an old wine shop. British soldiers were holding High Episcopal services in an old command post abandoned after repeated enemy shelling. Front line troops unable to attend group services were being visited by Regimental Chaplains who often were forced to travel, under cover of night in order to reach forward positions without drawing fire. 0-n1,. on - A %rXiAAf. ifof tinue to conduct similar services dur- ing the week-end. Chaplain Morrison Kertzer of Iowa' City, Ia., who recently arrived at the beachhead direct from the United States, was conducting Jewish serv- ices tonight marking the high hol'day Passover. The rites commemorating the Is- raelites' freedom from bondage in ancient Egypt were held in a sunken sand-bagged ward tent in the Amer. - can hospital area which has been shelled and bombed many times by the Germans. RAF Batters Enemy Convoy Targets Hit in Ruhr, Hamburg, Rhineland LONDON, April 7.-(IP)- Beau- fighters of the RAF Coastal Com- mand battered an enemy convoy off the Norwegian coast today as the Allied aerial offensive against the Germans continued after a night attack by speedy Mosquito planes against targets in Hamburg, the Ruhr Rhineland. Indicating that other Allied planes struck deeper against the Nazis, the German radio warned shortly before noon that enemy planes were over northern Germany, and tonight said Allied raiders were over northwest Germany. Beaufighter pilots said a large en- emy merchant ship was hit by an aerial torpedo in the attack off Nor- way and that two of five escort ves- sels were set on fire. In spite of in- tense anti-aircraft fire from ship and shore batteries, afl of the Beaufight- ers returned safely. Street Railway Workers Strike DETROIT, April 7.-(AP)-Approx- imately 1,200 maintenance workers of the street railways system walked out this afternoon. Although service to the public was unhampered, William C_ nii1nr.or m annoi man.er co Qir Enemy Vessel Set Afire Near New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in the SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 8, (Saturday).-(P)-A 7,000-ton enemy merchant vessel was set afire near Wewak on the New Guinea Coast and an oil tanker was set ablaze by at- tacking U.S. forces near Timor in the Dutch East Indies, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said. Night-flying aerial raiders also struck at the Japanese Airdrome oi Wadke, an island 110 miles west of Holandia on Dutch New Guinea. Other targets were Hollandia, Cape St. George and Bougainville, both in the Solomons. The attackin the Timor Sector in- cluded bombings of Koepang and Lautem, where fires and explosions were seen. U.S. long-range fighters dived low to attack and sink an oil-laden tank- er and two barges. They set fire to four other barges. Fires ignited ashore were visible for 50 miles, the communique reported. Allied light Naval units in night at- tacks sank two large barges near Bunabun Harbor on the New Gui- nea Goast and damaged another. Stettinius Arrives For London Parley LONDON, April 7.-(P)-U.S. Un- NEUROPSYCHIATRIC CASES: Mental Disorders Cause Discharges By BETTY KOFFMAN Neuropsychiatric disorders account for 40 percent of the Army's medical discharges and for 15 percent of the rejections at induction centers, Dr. Raymond W. Waggoner, Director of the Neuro-psychiatric Institute, said yesterday. Dr. Waggoner is at present an ad- visor to General Hershey, Selective Service Director, and acted as an ex- .riira n- .- ia--ref f - a n frn express themselves in many different ways, but in the Army their entire life is subject to the commands of the superior officers.. Under the new Medical Survey Plan which has been developed by the Selective Service System with the advice of Dr. Waggoner, more com- plete information is made available to the induction board about each nerson. enabling the examining sv- other hand, the prospective inductee mey manifest evidences of emotional disturbance that are not normal or his usual behavior pattern," Dr. Waggoner said. Screening Tests Are Important With the additional information at the time of screening, the psychia- trist is better able to determine the individual's probable reaction to mil- itarv +,'Qinincr he evninerd