PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN fiA lf.V SUNDAY. APAIL A. .44 ATAA VA M'lmC AA -11",A11 lA 'iL A AT1 tA V l.A1dW. 6 IAL Priee Charges Violated Pledge Caused 'Leak' Kellemns' Letters to Nazi Investigated Before News 'Break' WASHINGTON, April 8.- (P)- Censorship Director Byron Price im- plied today that somebody in the government violated a pledge to keep intercepted foreign mail secret and that's how letters of Vivien Kellems to a German count became public. Price told Senator Reed (Rep., Kas.) that his office has been inves- tigating since 1942 attempts by Zed- litz "to maintain a line of communi- cation between Berlin, Buenos Aires and the United States." Moreover, he said, an inquiry has been started into the "leak" that made Miss Kel- lems' letters public property. Coffee used quotations from the letters to criticize the businesswoman who suggested businesses skip income tax payments if necessary to set up post-war reserves. The Congressman said she was the sweetheart of the Nazi count. Her tart denial was followed by a demand by Senator Reed (Rep., Kas.) for an investigation of how her let- ters got into other hands. He said he expected the inauiry to be ordered by the Senate post office committee as soon as Chairman McKellar (Dem., Tenn.) returns to Washington. Sarah Hanby To Give Piano Recital Thursday Selections by Cimarosa, Beetho- ven, Tchaikowsky and Bach will be featured at the piano recital of Sarah Hanby, '44SM, to be given at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Assembly Hall of the Rackham Building. Miss Hanby of Connersville, Ind., is a student of Prof. Joseph Brink- man. She came to the University in 1942 from Smith College where she studied under John Duke and is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon and Phi Kappa Phi. Przemysl Iwow Tarnoplj 1 STATUTE MILES -; Proskurov StrPOLAND RUSSIA -Starislau Zhmerinka i/o Kamenets dunkacss -rn- tz DebrecenSatu- ,;yeltsi 0 ° are -- - Iasi ~ t- - Clu-: atra Roman Kshnev R A Bacau RL. HA ( AradMurres Barlad M-le R . - =B a o- =- = Tim iras F _ - - Galati CARPATHIANS-This map shows the strategic Car pathians and includes sectors of Russia, Poland, Ru- mania and Czechoslovakia. According to latest reports, the Red Army has reached the Czechoslovak-- Rumanian frontier. .TEHERAN'S THREE-FRONT WAR: Allied Siege Foreshadows Balkan Collapse ALL WOMAN CAST: 3 Eileen Blum To Play Role of Mrs. Hardcastle in Comedy One of the leading roles of Gold- smith's famous comedy will be por- trayed by Eileen Blum as Mrs. Hard-i castle when Play Production presents "She Stoops To Conquer" Wednesday through Saturday at the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. Following a custom established last" semester, Play Production has cast all male roles with women. The hero of the comedy, Charles Marlow, will be portrayed by Patricia Meikle. Blanche Holpar will be seen as Mr. Hardcastle, Zeta Barbour as the prankster Tony Lumpkin, Marilyn Mayer as Kate Hardcastle, Jean Westerman as George Hastings, Bar- bara Greenberg as Sir Charles and Catherine Bronson as Constance Ne- ville. Others in the cast include Margar- et Hamilton, Shirley Rosen, Priscilla Alden, Gloria McClure, Mary Jane Janiga, Jean Loree, Florence Under- wood, Phyllis Heller, Onnolee Ander- son and Claire Meisels. Director of the comedy is Valentine Windt, and settings are designed by Herbert Philippi. Tickets will be on sale tomorrow through Saturday at the Lydia Men- delssohn boxoffice. Hours tomorrow and Tuesday are from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wed-, nesday through Saturday the box- office will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Ford Doesn't Support Smith, Bennett Says DETROIT, April 8.- (/P) -Harry H. Bennett of the Ford Motor Com- pany, in a statement today repudiat- ed claims he said had been made by Gerald L. K. Smith, national director of the America First party, that Smith has the support of Henry Ford. Smith promptly stated: "My move- ment has no organic or financial connection whatsoever with the Ford Motor Company." Bennett's statement said: "I un- derstand from newspaper reports that Smith has told Governor Thom- as Dewey that if Dewey wishes to re- fer to Smith's followers he should understand that they include such persons as Henry Ford. I want to say definitely for Mr. Ford, Mr. Charles Lindbergh,a(employed by Ford), and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his sup- porters, nothing is farther from our intentions." In a letter to Dewey Thursday, Smith wrote: "I am a nationalist. If you insist on referring to my 'ilk,' remember it includes such names as Col. Robert McCormick, Arthur Van- denberg, Henry Ford, Gerald P. Nye, Robert R. Reynolds and numerous others who are known as national- ists." EILEEN BLUM . . . plays Mrs. Hardeastle in "She Stoops To Conquer." Prices for the tickets have increased 20 per cent as the result of the new federal law. Performances will begin at 8:30 p.m. each evenings with a special matinee at 2:30 p.mi. Saturday.. ie at 2:3 p -m . Saturday. BUY WAR BONDS 6aiter 1944 By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Associated Press War Analyst A Russian-Allied siege ring is vir- tually complete about Hitler's inner fortress and foreshadows possible early collapse of the Balkan segment of the Axis defensive arch. The junction was effected in south- eastern Rumania when American heavy bombers based in Italy started blasting such Nazi supply hubs as Bucharest and Ploesti at indicated specific Russian request. There were ;r ,& A y- Alif oV" ¢ in these MID-RIFF SHORTS SETS of intimations from both London and Naples that Allied air power is to play an increasingly important role in the Balkans as the Russian ad- vance into Rumania develops. Design Takes Shape It is the first staff implementation of the strategic design for three-point war on Germany laid at Teheran. It makes the Allied air bombardment of Hungarian and Rumanian targets the most significant development of last week in the European war thea- tre. There were repeat Allied bombings from Italy of Bulgarian targets also during the week. Since Bulgaria is not at war with Russia, however, they fall into a different category although they serve to illustrate the fact that Bulgaria rather than doubly war- stricken Rumania, now under the heel of the Nazi boot, is the weakest link in Hitler's Balkan military hedgemony. Berlin Worried About Bulgaria Berlin likely is more worried about Bulgaria than Rumania, and with good reason. Sustained Allied air attack on Nazi communications in Rumania could make Bulgarian rail- roads urgently necessary for Nazi use tQ bolster her Black Sea flank. Ger- man use of the roads unopposed by the Bulgarian authorities would cre- ate a Russian-Bulgarian crisis. There seems -little hope of more than unorganized guerrilla resistance to the Nazis in Rumania, for the present at least. The Nazi coup that took over a wavering Rumania war ally was apparently complete. Ger- man military deployments in the country and its close proximity to the Reich itself made that possible. Occupation Would Be Difficult Similarly swift complete Nazi occu- pation of Bulgaria would be less easy. It is more remote from Germany- and more disaffected due to the Rus- sian leanings of its people. The Bul- garian army is intact, having con- Red, 'Blue and White Blue, White and Black Orange, Black and White Sizes 12-14 $5.00 t V Cfo.-e Striped Cotton Gabardine t . I tributed nothing to the ill-starred Nazi war effort against Russia. In Washington, President Roose- velt noted enthusiastically during the week the swift Russian progress. He said to a press conference that the Red Army advance to the Carpathi- ans had given the Russians more places to go-to the west, the south- west or the south. Geographically translated, west would mean a Russian drive north of the Carpathians into western Poland and toward Germany's own pre-war frontiers. That is even now impend- ing in the Lwow sector: Route for Russia Southwest would mean the drive into Rumania's Danube Valley via the Galati gateway now in progress. That is the route from the east for a Russian thrust across the top of the whole Balkan peninsula to meet an always possible Allied invasion from the west. The President's reference to a pos- sible Russian drive south is not so clear. Short of a Russian march into Rumania's southern neighbor, Bul- garia, there remains in that direction only the Bulgarian Black Sea coast from the Dniester to the Rumanian- Bulga'rian border to be Russian- taken. That gives Mr. Roosevelt's words a possible ominous significance for Bulgaria. It amounts to a cryptic warning of what might happen if she fails to desert her Nazi alignment in time, or affords Germany any aid and comfort against Russia. Speed of Red Drive Puzzles Allied Generals By WES GALLAGiER Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, April .-American and British generals planning the invasion of western Europe would like to know how the Russians are able to move so fast against the Germans, and would like to be permitted by Moscow to study the problem first hand. The speed of the Russian advance is as much a puzzle to American and British military leaders as to the man in the streets, and thus they are lacking information which might aid the forthcoming assault on Hitler's western wall. The chief problem in western front preparations is supply, and the Allies -and undoubtedly the Germans too -would like to know how the Red Army is able to maintain its supply system over hundreds of miles of devastated land to keep pace with the swift advance of its forces. The Russians have been reluctant to permit Allied military observers or newspapermen to go to the front, "It is a source of constant amaze- ment how the Russians are able to go on week after week," said one Am- erican general, who has handled sup- plies in Africa, Italy as well as Eng- land. "It is something we would like to be able to study at first hand. Dr. Gale Will Show Slides Colored slides of American flowers will be shown by Dr. Esson M. Gale, director of the International Center, at 7:30 p.m. today at the Center 4 MONTH INTENSIVE College Students and Graduates Secretarial Course for A thorough, intensive, secretarial course - starting February, July, October. Registration now open. Regular day and evening school throughout the year. Catalog. A School of Business Preferred by College Men and Women THE GREGG COLLEGE President, John Robert Gregg, S.C.D. Director, Paul M. Pair, M.A. 6 N. Michigan Ave. Telephone STAte 1881 Chicago, 111. Victory GAGE LINEN SHOP 10 NIcKELS ARCADE Prayer I - -- . . -~ _ _ for Peace ~- ..-.' SprngVie You'll LLwear sltin, young clothes- bright colorfe minine frills-show- -.. °{ / A Promise of I I. . 8 NICKELS ARCADE III , :} :y .._ ;. i . ! : ^w. :: ' t "'bi >: : r... ,r - - ,. r :: '3q Sr: Y + C (, r -, -' r C'' ; ;° ;:i: 1 :. f '. '' {i t{ :: I . . y ,.A Spring fashion picture here. THE MICHIGAN DAILY SERVICE EDITION slopping accessories! Come see the _* ANN ARBOR, MICH. SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1941 rounding townships and that he would favor the proposal if the "whole country were to go along with it." However, Alder- man A. D. Moore, professor of electrical engineering, voted for the proposal. ABRAM A. JAMES, known as "Jimmy" James and 49- year-old associate supervi- sor of physical education at the University, died last week of injuries suffered in an automobile accident. He was injured when the car he was driving was struck by a heavily loaded trailer- truck and shunted into the path of another vehicle at Packard and Stadium Blvd. Fellow coaches and Uni- versity athletes had given blood transfusions to James. He had been a member of the University faculty since 1928 and was one of the originators of the PEM program. Coach H. 0. (Fritz) Crisler called his work on the program "constructive in ideas, tire- less in his efforts." * * * - APRIL FOOL'S DAY found University women's .; r ,1 ! { l r JJ /) " , . , r, r sr: 1 f d' ;, x peared and he gave up at 12:30 a.m. There was hard- ly a moment of peace at dinner for girls yelled for their waitresses, went in and out of the dining room whenever they pleased, smoked between courses, piled dishes on the floor, sang the tabu songs and campaigned for the office of president of the Gar- bage Collectors of America. BILL SMITH paced the highly favored Great Lakes squad to an overwhelming victory in the NAAU swim- ming championships held April 1 at the Intramural Building, amassing 54 points to Michigan's 20 runner-up markers. He won three events, which earned him a gold medal given each year to the out- standing swimmer. While winning these three titles, Smith broke his world rec- ord in the 220-yard free- style and also broke the AAU record for the 440- yard freestyle. DOROTHY DARNELL was elected r riean+ o+-D+p l+f- 7 ll (}( DRESSES-'Curtain Call' Fashions that are fol- lowed by admiring eyes- of course budget priced from $7.95. Better dresses to $35.00 r, ;'a : '_;' ACCESSORI ES SUITS-No. 1 candidate in our fashion hall of fame-young, soft, ver- satile-from $25.00. COATS in the News- The Chesterfield - The Bright Topper - The 'Boy Coat - Shorties from $29.95. CX r V t/ Are gay . . . we've Bags, Gloves, Blouses, Hosiery, Slips and Costume Jew- elry. (These are just a few tips from our collection of Spring Clothes. Won't you drop in?) RATTAN FROM NYLON-Another post-war possi- bility are these outdoor chairs made of rattan pro- duced from nylon strips, which are said to have many advantages over the usual type. These chairs Gabardine suit sketched is $35.00 Short topper is $16.95 I I - ".. 1 .