Sri U1 I '" i t aitj Wn eather Fair and Cooler VOL. LIV No. 146 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1944 PRICE FIVE CE1 T°r Yanks Threaten Nazi's 'Last-Ditch' Line Track, Plant Row At Chryslei Shluts Units Employes Stage Walk-out; Pieket By The Associated Press DETROIT, May 26. - A renew outbreak of a dispute that last we made 11,700 employes in seven Oh. sler plants idle, kept 1,500 afterno shift workers at Chysler's Highla Park plant from their jobs today. A company spokesman said so 200 "pickets, including many wom ringed six gates of the plant and t the workers made no attempt to p the picket line. He said shortly b fore the day shift ended, 600 e ployes walked out of the plant. 16 Head Strike Chrysler's public relations off said today's " demonstration was by some of the 16 employes discha ed May 16 after unionists had ejecb three company supervisors from 1 plant. President R. J. Thomas of the U ited Automobile Workers (CI) urg employes to disregard the pickets. warned the pickets that they mug be expelled from the union. Thomas said the pickets apparen ly were influenced by disgrunt leaders of the group discharged the company in the row with sup visors. Other Shutdowns Result From that dispute grew the sh' down of other plants, a stoppage t ended only when the United Au mobile Workers (CIO) Internation Union threatened disciplinary act against local Union 490. This act: followed the end of the walkout, 1 International removing officers of t Local and appointing an administ: for for its affairs. In other labor disputes in Detr and Michigan, more than 7,000 w idle today. Boulevard Ball Will Be Today Remaining Tickets To Be Sold in Leagu Remaining tickets for "Bouleva Ball," to be held from 8:30 p.m. midnight today in Waterman Gy nasium, will be sold from 9 a.m. noon today in the League Lobby. The dance, which combines for first time the efforts of Panhelle and Assembly organizations, is only all-campus coed-bid event. will feature the music of Jerry W and. his orchestra and the songs his vocalist, Ginny Powell. Intermission entertainment will elude Doc Fielding as master of c emonies, the Co. D quartet sing songs from their forthcoming musi comedy, "Rumor Has It," and one the outstanding songs from the cent Junior Girls Play. In keeping with the theme "Boulevard Ball," Waterman Gy nasium will be turned into a pa complete with trees, shrubs and r tic benches. The central committee for dance is composed of a Panhelle and Assembly chairman for ea committee, and is headed by Mari Sharpe, '45A, and Florine Wilk '45. Members of the central co mittee include Nora McLaughl '46, and Lee Chaice, '46, patro Jean Wick, '46A, Marian Hrebek, and Elaine Bailey, '46, tickets; Fr ces Popkins, '45, and Joyce Liv more, '45, publicity; Peg Weiss, and Sam Watts, '45, music; Alice A Ritchie, '45BAd., and Jane Arch '46, finance; Jane Arner, '46, a Mary Elizabeth Chapman, '46, p3 grams; Barbara Moore, '44Ed.,a Betsy Perry, '45A, decorations. Poppy Sale for Disabled TennisS T raek T eam Will Defend 1943 Crown Wolverines, Illini Named Favorites By HANK MANTHO Coach Ken Doherty's Wolverine ed track squad which trekked to Cham- eek paign yesterday to meet all comers ry- in the Big Ten outdoor finals, will rybegin the defense of their crown on today with the preliminaries getting nd under way at 10 a.m., while the finals will start at 2:30 p.m. me Michigan, 25 strong, and though en they have been plagued by hard luck htall week, will still enter the fray as hat favorites. The main competition will ass come from Purdue and Illinois, as be- these three teams form the power- m houses of the midwest. Coach Leo Johnson of the Orange and Blue will be striving for points to add to the expected total that his ice star sprinter, Claude (Buddy) Young led will accumulate in the meet. Young rg- will probably take the 100 and 220 ed yard dashes with ease, and can with the a reasonable amount of accuracy be counted upon to take the broadjump, Tn- if Elroy Hirsch of Michigan cannot ed compete. At the same time, and He sensing the value of points in this ht meet, Coach Johnson may also run Young in the 220-yard low hurdles. nt- Thus, if he was successful in winning led these four events, Young would be by the first to match the record of 20 er points in one meet established by See VARSITY, p. 3 ut- Netters Point hat na 1O r Big Ten ion CronnTda the R1t/ 1 dCL the ra- By DAVE LOEWENBERG Special to The Daily oit EVANSTON, ILL., - Unbeaten in ere six Big Ten natches, Michigan's ten- nis squad will be favored to capture the title as nine teams will open play today in the annual Western Conference net championships. The Wolverine netters won their last championship in 1941 and in 1942 Northwestern edged them out by one point for the title. Last year the racqueteers finished fifth. The 1944 team has a record of e eight wins against one loss, their only defeat coming at the hands of and Notre Dame in a close 5-4 battle. to This year's team has no individual to standouts but it is one of the most m~ well-balanced teams in Michigan's to history. Merle Gulic, playing in the number three slot, is the only man the who has a perfect record in singles nic and doubles play. the Jinx Johnson, marking his fourth It year of competition for the Maize ald and Blue netters is a slight favorite of to capture the individual Big Ten championship. Johnson's only loss in- in conference competition occurred er- in the Minnesota Match against ing John Adams. Johnson, however, ical broke his glasses during the match, of See NETTERS, p. 3 re- of FEPC Saved by m- Four House Votes irk, us- WASHINGTON, May 26. -(p)- A four-vote margin saved one of Presi- the dent Roosevelt's most controversial nic agencies, the Fair Employment Prac- ach tices Committee (FEPC), tonight as cia the House passed the $1,033,358,367 ins, War Agencies Appropriation Bill. im- Less than an hour before a roll-call in, vote of 247 to 58 sent to the Senate ns; the omnibus measure financing al- '44, most a score of home front war an- agencies for the year starting July 1. uads Eye Big Ten I itles v E By Tanks, Infantry Velletri Bombarded Troops Drive Within 16 Miles of Rome; Capture Mountain Stronghold of Cori B The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, May 26.-Hard-driving veteran American tank and infantry forces tonight apparently were pushing the Germans ste tdily out of Velletri, strong-point of the Nazis' new "last-ditch" defense line 16 miles below Rome. The Americans in a companion drive today smashed six miles beyond newly-captured Cisterna and took the Germans' mountain strong-hold of Cori. Late tonight Daniel De Luce, Associated Press correspondent with the SERVICE AT DAYBREAK-Morning sunlight spot lights the cross as Chaplain Stewart Rankin, Putnam Station, N.Y., leads services aboard a Goast Guard cutter in the Atlantic. EIGHT DAY OFFENSIVE: Bombers Repeat Blast on Lyon, Rip Tailroads in South France By The Associated Press LONDON, May 26 - Between 500 and 750 Italy-based American heavy bombers blasted railyards at Lyon, funnel point for Nazi defenses in southern France, for the second time in two days today, and ripped other rail installations in the south of France, bringing a. furious aerial of- fensive against fortress Europe into its eighth straight day. Weather Halts British The weather halted the heavy of- fensive from Britain after a devas- tating week in which more than 32,- 000 Allied aircraft battered pre-in- vasion targets with some 35,000 tons of bombs. American Thunderbolts operating as fighter-bombers at- tacked enemy airfields and rail tar- gets in northern France in the aft- ernoon, however, and Britain-based Mosquito Bombers resumed their harassment against Nazi installa- tions in -the same area, attacking without loss. In the last daylight hours Ameri- can medium Marauders attacked bridges in northern France and an airfield near Chartres while a Havoc attack bombed an airfield at Beau- mont-Sur-Oise, also in France. 325 Planes Participate More than 325 medium bombers participated in the operation, in which one Marauder and one Thun- derbolt escort were reported missing. One enemy fighter was shot down. The Marauders, racing -40 miles southwest of Paris for their 17th attack on Luftwaffe bases in seven Patriotic .Instructor Adolph Scheeberger of Local Post Oraf 0'- Hara 423 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars said yesterday that the object of the drive now being launched by the V.F.W. is to get people all over the United States to write letters to men and women in the service on Memorial Day. The project, he pointed out, is being backed by newspapers over the entire country. It is hoped, he said, that every student and member of the faculty will aid in making the drive a great success. "We, the veterans of foreign wars." he asserted, "can understand a man's yearning and his hunger for letters that bridge the fox hole and the ship with home and real things of life." days, were reported to have caused heavy damage at Chartres. The flak there was intense, but lighter elsewhere, returning pilots reported. P-47 and P-38 fighter-bombers bombed two airfields, machine- gunned another and bombed a bridge in northern France. Russiaxns Sink InB arents Sea LONDON, May 27, Saturday--()- The Russians reported early today that bombers of the Red fleet air force had attacked German troop- ships in the Barernts Sea, north of Norway, early Friday morning, sink- ing two transports and a destroyer and damaging three others. Earlier the Germans, in a com- munique, had reported the attack on their convoy and claimed to have shot down 69 of 80 attacking planes. The Russian bulletin said only seven bombers were lost in repeated "mass attacks with bombs, gunfire and torpedoes." This was the first time in months any large scale German troop con- voys have been reported in Arctic waters. The Soviet communique supple-° ment said the convoy consisted of five transports, five destroyers and other "guard ships" and an air cover. Transports sunk the Russians said, had a displacement of 15,000 tons. The Soviets also claimed they had shot down ten German planes. There was virtually no ground ac- tivity, the supplement said, the only skirmishes being southeast of Stan- islawow where for weeks the Germans have been making reconnaissance raids. Triple Cuts To Be Given On M d Wedonday, Wednesday Students of the College of Liter- ature, Science and the Arts who are absent from classes on either Monday or Wednesday following the Memorial Day holiday will be given triple cuts, according to Assistant Dean Erich A. Walter. Kusaie Ponape Bombarded by Yank Planes Japanese in Marshalls, North Burma Face Ruin By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 26. - The Navy announced tonight that -Army and Navy planes had attacked Kusaie and Ponape Islands both in the Caro- lines, and also had bombed enemy positions in the Marshalls. Meanwhile outnumbered Japanese facing inevitable defeat are clinging doggedly to remnants of their north Burma base at Myitkyina, Allied com- manders reported yesterday. Superior Allied forces, firmly es- tablished on the nearby airfield and outskirts of the town, apparently were waiting for native troops driving' down from the north to get closer to Myitkyina before unleashing their final smash. More Allied reinforce- ments were flown in between rain- storms while mortars and machine- guns frustrated every Japanese at- tempt to escape from the trap or to bring in relief columns. Nipponese columns in eastern In- dia which once threatened to under- mine the Burma action faced a sim- ilar plight. Some 8,500 dead Japan- ese imperial troops have been counted in the area. Others are encircled, and their supply lines cut. Fifth Army south of Rome, reported t Asserts FDR Lacked Auxthority for Seizure Of Company' Plant By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 26. - Every government agency concerned with the Montgomery Ward case was taken sharply to task today in a Sen- ate Judiciary Subcommittee report which held that President Roosevelt had "no constitutional or statutory authority" to order seizure of the company's Chicago plant. The report, which attributed "er- roneous, misleading, irrelevant and immaterial statements and allega- tions" to Attorney General Francis Biddle, was assailed by the latter in turn as containing "absurd con- clusions." Biddle, target of the subcommitee's severest criticism, declared he had been denied an opportunity to appear before the group and likened its in- vestigation to "star chamber meth- ods." "No cases are cited in the report," Biddle asserted, "in concluding that the President did not have the con- stitutional powers to act in the Montgomery Ward case. The sub- committee makes no reference to the Supreme Court cases which clearly recognize such powers, ..." Biddle said he had referred the subcommittee to those cases since he had mentioned them in a brief filed in the Ward case. The subcommittee, which split two to one on its findings, said the At- torney General "was misadvised" when he ruled that the President was empowered under the War Labor Dis- putes Act to seize the Montgomery Ward plant. hat fires were raging in Velletri and that there were indications that the enemy had pulled his artillery back into the hills out of the city. He said there still were some pock- ets of stubborn enemy resistance near Velletri, but indicated these were be- ing cleared up, quoting the captain in charge of one tank force as re- porting his men had killed 200 Ger- mans in mopping up a single position. Nine Towns Captured The 'Allied armies swept ahead on all fronts, headquarters announcing the capture of nine towns and half a dozen important heights. The- plunge to Cori carried the beachheadl forces nearly halfway from Cisterna to the Via Casilina, escape highway for tens of thousands of German troops hastily falling back toward Rome from the shattered Hitler Line in the Liri Valley and ad- jacent mountains. The imperilled enemy forces represented the bulk of the German Tenth Army. Nazis Abandon Monte Cairo There was evidence the Nazis were aware of the danger and were with- drawing with all speed toward their new defense line. Today they aban- doned lofty Monte Cairo, towering height just north of Cassino, and the town of Roccasecca, eight miles fur- ther west. San Giovanni, at the southern edge of the Liri Valley and four miles from the Via Casilina, also was evacuated in the retreat. * * * Roosevelt Hints Invasion Is Soon WASHINGTON, May 2.- (J)- President Roosevelt dropped a hint today that the Allied offensive a- gainst Europe is not far off, saying the actions coming off this summer ought to be called the liberation rather than the invasion of Europe. In a news conference, Mr. Roose- velt also said he hoped to have an- other conference with Prime Minis- ter Churchill but was indefinite as to the time. Asked if he expected to see the British leader this summer, he said in the summer, the fall or the late spring. In a discussion of post-war plan- ning, Mr. Roosevelt said ideas for a post-war plan for over-all security have been reduced to a rough draft and, in response to a question, that he was finding Russia a satisfactory and cooperative collaborationist. Ca~mpaign for Bricker .Begun Managers Hold First 'Good Will' Luncheon By The Associated Press A home-stretch drive for support of Gov. John W. Bricker's candidacy for the Republican presidential nom- ination was begun by the Ohioan's managers yesterday with the first of a series of "good-will" luncheons at the Capitol in Washington. Every Republican member of Congress will be invited at one time or another during the next few weeks. Rep. E. Rowe of Akron, who held the first of the luncheons, attended by a dozen House Republicans, told a reporter afterwarm: "Several of my guests were strong- ly committed for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey when they arrived for lunch, but left with open minds." Bricker, Dewey and Gov. Eal War- ren of California, all GOP national ticket possibilities, will speak at the Governor's Conference in Hershey and Harrisburg, Pa, next week. FAR-EASTERN CUL TURE: 1 Stuent G iven Opportunity To Meet Chinese on Campus Editor's Note: This is the third and last in a series of articles on China. Today's article is by Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, counselor in religious education as told to The Daily. A full knowledge of a great people like the Chinese would require one to live in China and seriously dig into its important history and literature. For those of us who cannot do that, the privilege of meeting selected products of that culture will have to suffice. In this we are abundantly blessed at the University of Michigan because a large number of Chinese are al-' ways with us. 30 Years of Counseling One comes to appreciate the distri- bution of favorable characteristics as he deals with Chinese students year after year. As a result of 30 years counseling of Chinese at the Univer- sities of Wisconsin, California and Michigan, it is possible to report that there is no field in which American students excel, in which they cannot be equalled by these visitors from the land of Confucius. I've known them to win in oratory, debating, tennis, piano, architecture and to win elec- tions to honor societies because of proficiency in science, government, mathematics, religion and psychol- ogy. Movie Is Excellent The portrayal of current Chinese life as planned for the Rackham Au- ditorium this evening is excellent. May I be pardoned for asking my Am- erican friends to enjoy these movies with me as one goes to a worship or to a sacrament, having in mind that the most numerous people of any nation in the world today is ignomin- iously suffering invasion. W~e should remember that their loyalty andtheir skill are being forfeited with their lives for want of the machinery for defense. F',ilmrs on China Will .fe Showrn Todayv $88,000 IN GIFTS ACCEPTED: Regents Approves Conversion of Old Hospital Approving conversion of the old Psychonathic Hospital into living cilities has existed since the School of Nursing increased new enroll- to pay for the regular University tui- tion plus all required instruction in A result of several year's study of the problem of providing education