i uuii i 4!v m4ij mqpp- wtarqwr, 4, aili Weather Cloudy t VOL. LIV No. 138 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Striking Foremen OI Return to Work German News Agency Announces Evacuation of Cassrno Allies Stalled Before Town Forh4 Months Heavy Artillery Attack From British Forces Precedes Final Stage By The Associated Press LONDON, May 18, Thursday. - The German DNB Agency announced today that Cassino had been evacu- ated by the Germans. Dispatches from Allied corres- pondents in Italy last night had said the Germans in Cassino were being menaced from the north by British, Dominion and Polish troops after British artillery had delivered one of the most concen- trated bombardments of the war on the ruined town. The Allies had been stalled before Cassino since January. On March 15 they reduced it to ruins by a gigantic aerial bombardment, and New Zea- land and other troops broke into the town. But the Germans never com- pletely dislodged, and it was con- ceded that the March campaign against it was a failure. Now, after the British shelling and outflanking movement, the German official news agency announced this morning in a broadcast: "The defenders of Cassino have evacuated their positions according to plan in order to retreat towards shorter lines in connection with movements south of the sector" The two, 85 miles from Rome by road, the key fortress of the German Winter Line in Italy. Tough Nazi parachute troopers had clung to its shattered walls and deep caverns for weeks. Hitter LineS Is Next The Hitler Line itself is the next objective of the Allies in the Lini Val- ley leading towards Rome itself. The German announcement that Cassino had been abandoned assert- ed that the withdrawal "movements were carried out without interfer- ence, as British and American forces, in spite of all their strong attempts, have renounced any immediate at- tack against the German positions in the Cassino area in view of their heavy failure of about two months ago. "The evacuation of Cassino was carried out so completely that no heavy arms fell into the hands of the Anglo-Americans. Attempts to over- whelm the German rear guards were frustrated by a strong defense that cost the enemy high casualties." Alexander To Give Russel Talk Today The annual Russel Lecture will be given by Dr. John Alexander of the; School of Medicine at 4:15 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. In addition the winner of the Russel Award will be announced. Both the Lectureship and the, Award were established in 1925 by Henry Russel, a University alumnus and Detroit attorney, to honor con-3 spicuous achievements by members of the faculty, They are accompan- ied by cash gifts, the lecturer being chosen by the executive committee of the University Research Club and, a special faculty committee naming the winner of the Award. Dr. Alexander chose "Developments, of Thoracic Surgery" as the subject of his lecture. He won the Russel Award in 1928 and is now the first faculty member to hold both the Award and the Lectureship. On the staff of University Hospital, Dr. Alexander is also chief surgeon at the Michigan State Sanatorium in Howell and consulting surgeon of ether- institutions. He is the author of more than 50 publications on top- ics related to thoracic surgery. Massed Orchestra Concert To Be Presented Sunday The School of Music nd the Michi- gan Civic Orchestra Association will present the fourth annual Michigan Massed Orchestra Festival with George Dasch as guest conductor at ITALY..' STATUTE MILES . i % C lssoqV u Pontecorvo j Cervart Piope i "ata!oM AmuumAusonia * no CaseIovorato G -r' Sessa- GAErun Tean* ALLIED THRUSTS IN ITALY-Arrows locate principal Allied drive. against the Germans in Italy. Greatest progress has been made by French forces. Heavy line is approximate battle front. ADULT EDUCATION:- Post-War Labor Panel To End Institute's Three Day- Meeting Panel discussion on post-war labor and employment led by Allen B. Crow, president of the Detroit Eco- nomic Club at 3 p.m. today, will close the three-day 12th annual meeting of the Adult Education Institute con- vening in Rackham Building. The panel, to which students and faculty members are invited, will be composed of John W. Gibson, Detroit, president of the Michigan CIO Coun- cil; John L. Lovett, Detroit, general manager of Michigan Manufacturers' Association; Edward L. Cushman,, Detroit, director for the Michigan War Manpower Commission; Prof. John W. Riegel, of the business ad- ministration school, and others. Other sessions scheduled for today in the Rackham Building include a review of the book "How New Will First City A.ir ServiC e Will Start Monday An airline service connecting Ann Arbor with other state points will start Monday, Eli A. Gallup, superin- tendent of Ann Arbor parks, an- nounced yesterday. The airline, operated by Gerald Francis of Lansing, will make two flights daily to Ann Arbor connecting the city with Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Detroit and other points, Gallup said. According to Gallup, Gull-Wing Stinson airplanes capable of carry- ing four passengers, a crew of one, and some cargo, will be used. The service will be the first air- line route to link Ann Arbor with other principal Michigan cities. As yet, Gallup revealed, the company has no airmaial franchise from the government. Negotiations on the airline, which had been pending for the past three months, came to a head May 8 when the State Board of Aeronautics grant- ed Francis unofficial approval to be- gin the service. The Ann Arbor City Council has gone on record favoring the airline. the Better World Be?" by Carl L. Becker, given by Olive Deane Hormel, of Owosso, at 9 a.m.; a talk on the occupation of Germany by Prof. John W. Eaton, of the German depart- ment, at 10 a.m,, and a discussion on how Michigan's educational program will be supported, by Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, State Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction at 11 a.m. Shepherd to Speak Dr. George W. Shepherd, mission- ary in China for 20 ears and a close friend of Generalist mo Chiang Kai- Shek, will speak on Chiang Kai-Shek and modern China at 1 p.m. The portion of yesterday's program, an address by Governor Harry F. Kelly, failed to materialize when un- expected circumstances detained the governor in Lansing. His speech was read by Robert S. Ford, director of the Department of Business Adm- istration in the Executive Office of the Governor. The speech detailed the uses to which the abnormal financial sur- plus, swelled by war-boom tax col- lections, would be put. Program Begun He added that a portion of the sur- plus has been set asides to begin the foundation for a ,state-wide adult education program. Other morning sessions included a review of Stuart Chase's "Where Is the Money Corning From?", by Dr, Clare E. Griffin, of the business ad- ministration school, and a discussion of invasion geography by Prof. Ed- ward C. Prophet of Michigan State Colleges Describing the Far East as the "proving grounds for United States post-war foreign policy," Royal G. Hall, professor of history at Albion College, said in the outstanding dis- cussion yesterday of the 12th annual Michigan Adult Education Institute, that this country must provide means of improving standards of living in China without attempts at exploita- tion. In a session last night Dr. Raul Olivera of the University of Havana spoke on Cuba and its cultural life. He stated that the college students in Cuba participated more in the political field than in various social activities, Japs in Burma Caught in Hard Chinese Drive Situation near Honan Serious as Vanguards Set Up Loyang Trap By RAY CRONIN Associated Press Pacific War Editor With American-trained Chinese forces driving forward on three north Burma fronts yesterday the Japanese armies in that war theatre found themselves in a spot that was getting tougher every minute. On the eve of the monsoon rains the Nipponese were being pushed back by hard fighting Chinese who were heavily supported by American air forces. Honan Sector Threatened The picture on the other extremity of the Asiatic war zone was anything but bright from the Allied viewpoint In the bloody Honan sector of China Japanese vanguards appeared to be developing an entrapment loop for the Chinese forces battling furiously at Loyang. However, the Chinese strengthened their holds on a section of the north-south Peiping-Hankow railway to the rear of the sector where the invaders appeared to be forming their trap. Optimism prevailed at Allied south- east Asia headquarters where a spokesman declared approach of the monsoon found the Japanese on the defensive generally in the Ind- Burma region. Kamaing Smashes Continue Two of Lt.-Gen. Joseph W. Stil- well's Chinese columns continued their smashes toward the enemy base at Kamaing. One was nine miles to the northeast; another 15 miles northwest. The Chinese cut a main road leading to Kamaing as the Japanese battled "stubbornly." The Chinese offensive from the Salween River area of Yunnan prov- ince, coordinated with the Stilwell drives, was pressed through oun- tainous terrain. At one point the Japanese were reported to be resist- ing fiercely but the Chinese command said they were being encircled. Chungking announced capture of several additional towns. Exchange Ship Reaches' pain Gripshoihn Will Return To New York June 10 BARCELONA, May 17.-(P)-The diplomatic exchange ships Gripsholm and Gadisca docked here today and the transfer of some 900 American and British prisoners of war for 700 German prisoners and civilians began imedilately, As Allied soldiers and civilians de- barked at the bow of the Swastika- flying Gadisca and walked across the rier to go up the Gripsholm gangway the Germans went abroad the Gadisca at the stern, The Allied group was laughing and joking in distinct contrast to the Germans. few of whom appeared cheerful. (The State Department in Wash- ington said the Gipsholm is expected to arrive in New York about June 10. Names of the exchanges will be sent to next of kin and made public as soon as the exchange at Barcelona has been completed, which should be within two or three days.) Bomb German Rail Junctions Enemy Radio Claims Two Soviet Ground Divisions Endangered By The Associated Press LONDON, May 18, Thursday. - Russian long-range bombers heavily damaged Nazi transportation centers in White Russia and old Poland again Tuesday night, the Soviet commun- ique reported last night as the Ger- man High Command warned that "new and large-scale battles are to be expected" soon to break the lull on the eastern front. Rail facilities and Nazi military trains at Minsk,aBaronowicze and Chelm were bombed Tuesday night, said the communique broadcast from Moscow and recorded by the Soviet monitor. Three of the raiders failed to return from the flaming junctions. The Russian communique said there were "no important changes on the front" during the day, but a Ber- lin broadcast declared "at least two Soviet infantry divisions in the area of Grigoripol on the lower Dnestr have been cut off from rear commun- ications by German offensive opera- tions and face annihilation," The Russian communique declared that at Minsk the bombers started seven fires which "joined into one" and "many heavy explosions were observed." Baranowicze was "sub- jected to equally intensive bombing," the communique added. * * * Allied Bombers Plaster Europe LONDON, May 17.-Bad weather and the massing of Allied bombers for renewed blows spared Europe its usual avalanche of bombs for the fourth straight day today after fleet Mosquito bombers made their 15th call of the year on Berlin last night, unloaded blockbusters and returned, without loss. Rain and low banks of heavy clouds rolling in from the continent may also have kept Nazi raiders grounded, for they failed to show up after two nights of attacks along Britain's south coast in which they claimed to have drubbed the ports of Bristol and Portsmouth. While the array of bombers gath- ered strength for new pre-invasion blows, the Mediterranean Army Air Force hammered day and night at enemy strong points and supply cent- ers in support of the Italian offen- sive although weather kept heavy bombers aground. Tickets for Variety Show Now on Sale Tickets for the second Victory Vari- eties show to be given at 8 p.m. Sat - urday at Hill Auditorium are now on sale at the Union, League, USO, University Hall and the East and West Quadrangles. The hour - and - a - half show will feature six professional vaudeville acts, the farewell appearance of Bill Sawyer and his orchestra, the 50- member University Women's Glee Club and "Doe" Fielding as master of ceremonies. At Six Mass Meetings Action Taken on Instructions from Keys after WLB Show-Down Hearing By The Associated Press DETROIT, May 17.-The 3,300 striking members of the Independent Foreman's Association of America, whose walkout had been described as the most serious war production threat in a series of labor disputes that made 72,000 idle in Michigan, voted an immediate return to work in a series of mass meetings here tonight. William Vallance, national vice-president of the FAA, announced that the foremen's decision-arrived at in six separate meetings-was "virtually unanimous." The action was taken on instructions from Robert H. Keys, national FAA president, following a show-down hearing before the War Labor Board in Washington. Vallance met with leaders of local foremen's chapters this afternoon and handed them Keys' order to "effectuate a return to work as quickly as * * *- possible." The rank-and-file meet- GENERAL HENRY ARNOLD . > , scores strikers Anti-4th Term Group Meets With Setback South Carolina .Democrats beat back an attempt by avowed anti- fourth termers to take control of their state convention yesterday but apparently decided to have a look at the national party platform and can- didates before going much further. The anti-fourth term candidate for state chairman was defeated but the gathering named an uninstructed delegation to cast 18 votes in the national convention starting in Chi- cago July 19, and took the unprece- dented action of calling state Demo- crats into session again Aug. 2, a week after the national convention, to consider Chicago actions, In Arkansas, the Democratic state committee chose another uninstruc- ted delegation with 21 votes. Ver- mont Republicans selected nine GOP delegates and adhered to tradition by leaving free as to presidential choice, although-much sentiment for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was reported. The South Carolina convention unanimously instructed its delegation to fight in the platform committee at Chicago against proposals to abolish poll taxes, and to oppose anti-lynch- ing laws and interference with race segregation in the South. The effort by anti-fourth termers to wrest control of the South Caro- lina convention from the regulars was defeated by 194/ to 144%'/2 when Winchester Smith was reelected as state executive committee chairman over -former Chief Justice Eugene S. Blease. Senate Approves New Navy Chieff WASHINGTON, May 17- (p)- James V. Forrestal, former New York financier who directed the most tre- mendous fleet expansion program in history, became Secretary of the Navy today when the Senate con- firmed his nomination, Forrestal succeeds the late Frank Knox, whom he served as under- secretary. His nomination was ap- proved unanimously Monday by the Senate Naval Committee, which paid Red Airm r ',Decision Is Reached ings followed, with members agreeing to return to work as early as the start of their regular shifts tomor- row morning. General Henry H. Arnold warned at the WLB hearing that the strike was endangering lives of American airmen and "may even affect our in- vasion operation." Serious Set-Back Bristling and indignant, the chief of the Army Air Forces made a five- minute appearance to declare, "this is one of the most serious setbacks that the Army Air Force program has had since its inception; and to show you that I am not exaggerating, this strike so far has cost the U.S. Army Air Force 250 P-51 airplanes." Return of the foremen would clear the way for reopening several war plants closed because of the strike, and recall some 72,000 production workers to the factories. Of those idle, an estimated 34,100 were Pack- ard Motor Car Co. employes; 14,875 in Briggs Manufacturing Co. plants and 21,900 in the Hudson Motor Car Co. factory. Packard, anticipating rank-and-file acceptance of the back-to-work or- der, notified employes in all but four departments of its aircraft and mar- ine engine divisions to return to work at 7:30 p.m., Eastern War Time, to- morrow. The last departments to re- sume production were instructed to report two hours later. Out-State Plants Affected Labor disputes in ?ther Michigan plants made 11,500 Chrysler Corp. employes idle, and affected 3,800 Graham-Paige workers in Detroit and 2,300 employes of several smaller concerns in Flint, Saginaw and Mus- kegon. Earlier in the hearing, called by the WLB to decide whether to employ the penalties of the War Labor Disputes Act to get the foremen back on the job, Chairman William H. Davis told the foremen to end strike. Rogge Opens Sedition Trial Session Marked 'by Cries of Defendants WASHINGTON, May 17.- (p)- Punctuated by such shouted inter- ruptions from the defendants as, "That's a damn lie!" the govern- ment's opening statement was given to the jury today in the trial of 27 men and two women accused of sedi- tion, Chief Prosecutor O. John Rogge told the jury, selected after more than four weeks of legal battling in U.S. District Court, that he would present evidence to show the defen- dants conspired with officials of the German government and leaders of the Nazi party in Germany to cause insubordination in the American armed forces. Evidence also will be presented, he said, to show the defendants wanted to substitute a Nazi or fascist form of government in the United States. Judge Refuses To Set Aside Padgett Decision The third attempt of William Pad- gett, twice convicted of first degree murder in the slaying of Ann Arbor WE W ERE POOR, THE FASCISTS WERE RICH: Italian Villagers Decorate Yank Graves By KENNETH L. DIXON Associated Press Correspondent WITH THE AEF IN ITALY, May 4 (delayed).-High in the moun- tains overlooking the sea from It-R aly's southwestern coast an Ameri= can soldier lies buried and the peo- pie from the village of Ravello keep his grave beautiful with flowers. No matter how hard-boiled you are about the people who fostered the growth of Fascism, you find yourself touched by their constant He was among the handful of men who took the area around Ravello. Despite the fact that it was the king's home there was little fighting, comparatively speaking, in this sector in those early days of the Italian campaign. But five Germans dug themselves in on a peak just above Ravello and both Americans and British had to fight their way up the slopes from two sides to oust them. who had coei to liberate them from Nazism and Fascism-so they say now at least. They brought organges and ap- ples, all kinds of fruit and food, and some of their offerings of fodd and melical supplies were made with things almost impossible to get. When his comrades laid the Yank down to rest a moment they brought all of these gifts to him. And Ravello will always remem- htv hnwiu th. ,-I1ina n l n,, r~r-.i at things and get away, that he hat- ed the lot of us ." So they did, and the Yank died and Ravello helped bury him. And after his comrades had gone on the people of Ravello did a lot of think- ing about him. They brought flow- ers and prettied up his grave as much as possible and they kept it that way ever since, They tell you how badly they feel for his family that he should flip nin a, f'e-iaio-,- lan- 'Mpv fr iill