PAGE Tx THE MTl ICHT A TTv TTTESDAY, JTJNt G, 1944 a. t/ 11 1 V L'a L . .1 .L' . 1 L 1 'r _- - Allied Troops Chase Nazis Across Tiber Yanks Sink 20 More Jap Ships in Pacif ic U.S. Troops Aim at Mokmer Airdrome in Range of Philippines By The Associated Press Twenty more ships have been blown out of Japan's vanishing mer- chant and fighting fleets by Ameri- can torpedoes and bombs. Night flying Liberators sank a destroyer and damaged two other ships Saturday night in the Halrna- hera Sea, on Gen. Douglas MacArth- ur's path from New Guinea to the Philippines, Southwest Pacific Head- quarters announced today. Two di- rect hits left another destroyer dead in the water and probably sinking off Manokwari in Western Dutch New Guinea where a small freighter was sunk. Destruction of 16 more ships by. submarines and two by Central Pac- ific bombers were announced by the Navy yesterday. 18 Jap Planes Shot Down Eighteen Japanese planes were shot down in air battles Saturday-seven over Truk in the Central Carolines where one Liberator was lost, and 11 over Biak Island in the Schouten group off the Dutch New Guinea north coast. One column of U.S. Sixth.Army troops was halted on the Biak beach. tut a second force, fighting over .the ridges north of the beach, flanked the Nipponese defenders and began driving toward Mokmer airdrome. This field is one of three on Biak within bombing range of the Philip- pines. Sub Sinks Six Ships Six transports and ten cargo ves- sels were sunk by submarines. The Navy announcement did not indicate whether any of the transports were laden with troops. Since Pearl Har- bor United States submersibles have sunk 589 Nipponese ships. Tokyo is so hard-pressed for cargo space, another Navy announcement indicated, that naval patrol vessels are being pressed into service as freighters. . A single Navy bombing plane caught a convoy of the little craft in the Caroline Islands west of Truk Friday. It sank one and heavily damaged inside Truk lagoon Satur- day by a Central Pacific search plane. Jap Columns Near Changsha On the major warfrvnt in Asia six Japanese columns were closing in on Changsha, pivotal point on the Han- klow-Canton railway bisecting South- eastern China. One spearhead was 25 miles north of the city after a ten-mile advance. Another was engaged in bitter fight- ing in hills 40 miles northeast of Changsha. And 60 miles northwest of the Hunan provincial capital Nip- ponese made their third crossing of Lake Tungting within a week. "The fate of the nation depends upon the outcome of the present bat- Venice, Rimini Blasted from Sky Fighter-Bombers Spearhead Pursuit After Infantry Roars Through Rome ALLIES ENTER ROME-Allied troops riding on rear of tank and in other vehicles pass a sign on route 6 showing they have just entered the edge of Rome. They spent little time in the Eternal City, however, pushing on to chase the fast-retreating Germans across the Tiber. Invading troops found jubilant Italians waiting to welcome them with open arms and the liberators were almost smothered with roses and kisses. tie," said Gen. Hsueh ernor of Hunan who has thrown the invaders Changsha. Yueh, three back gov- times from Victory Dance The United Jewish Appeal will benefit from the UJA Victory Dance to be held from 9 to 12 p. m. Satur- day, at the Hillel Foundation. 'Doc' Fielding, master of cere- monies at the Spring Swing and Victory Varieties, will serve as MC and will entertain at the dance. Other entertainment features are now being planned and dancing will be to popular phonograph records. A twenty-five dollar war bond, contributed by Samuel Bothman, will be raffled off during the week and the winner will be announced at the party. A door prize of $10, do- nated by Osias Zwerdling, will be given to the student whose admission ticket is chosen from a box at the end of the evening. In addition, numerous handy items of merchan- dise, donated by Ann Arbor mer- chants, will be auctioned during the evening. The -proceeds from the admission charge of thirty-five cents per per- son will be donated to the United Jewish Appeal, closing the campus drive for the year. Bartlett Will Talk To Phi Kappa Phi Prof. Harley H. Bartlett, chairman of the botany department and di- rector of the Botanical Gardens will speak on "Pan-American Solidarity" at the spring initiation of Phi Kap- na Phi, national Scholastic honor 750 American Planes Pound. French Coast By The Associated Press LONDON, June 5-American heavy bombers up to 750 strong smashed again today at Hitler's bristling Atlantic wall, continuing a ceaseless pounding hurling more than 15,000 tons of explosives since Friday against that section of the French coast nearest this island arsenal. Flying Fortresses and Liberators, shepherded by 500 fighters, dumped 2,200 tons of bombs on the Nazi front-line invasion defenses in the area from Calais to Boulogne as the mighty Allied aerial onslaught thun- dered into its eighteenth consecutive day. Losses Not Announced Details and losses were not an- nounced immediately. It was the fourth continuous day of pounding for the area, and the sixth straight mission against those targets for the American heavies. During that period American and British heavy bombers also have slammed railroads in the Paris area and other objectives in occupied France with 5,000 tons of explosives. Peitioningr0 T For War Council Petitioning will c-lose at 5:30 p. m. tomorrow for positions on the summer Women's War Council, ac- cording to Natalie Mattern, '45, president of Women's Judiciary Council. Petitions may be secured in the League Undergraduate Office, and must be turned in there. There will be no interviewing for the posts. Senior and second-semester junior women may petition for the posi- tions of president, personnel admini- strator, secretary-treasurer, surgical dressings chairman, and president of judiciary council. Application for the chairmanship of Junior Girls Project, Soph Project, and Frosh Project is open to women of those closses, respectively, and three USO colonels will be chosen from women in any year. The summer council will follow the same pattern as the regular group in directing coed extra-curric- ular activity on campus, in particular war work. The importance of the continuation of campus projects is stressed by Miss Mattern, in urging women to support sum-mer campus activities. $171,000 Granted For Studlent Housing The War Production Board Facili- tie nivisinn in Washington annnrved KANSAS CITY, June 5.-(P)- The popcorn business is going pouf! Charles T. Manley, president of a company which sells a large amount of the nation's popping corn and popcorn machines, broke the news sadly today. 'The only way a civilian can get his teeth into the crunchy kernels, Manley indicated, will be to don khaki or Navy whites and visit a post exchange. "Only the armed forces will be eating popcorn this summer and fall," he declared. "There is no popcorn available for civilian use. There is not a legitimate processor in the United States that I know of who has a single bag of un-' popped corn for sale other than for military use. We have not sold one grain of corn for civilians since Dec. 2G, 1943." Scrol Taps 14 Coeds Into Ranks Scroll, honor society for senior sor- ority women, tapped 14 outstanding juniors to their ranks in the tradi- tional march after closing hours last! night., The women tapped were Margery Batt, Alpha Epsilon Phi; 'Barbara Bathke, Kappa Alpha Theta; Bett Carpenter, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Janet Gray, Kappa Delta; Joyce Liv- ermore, Chi Omega; Mary Lee Mason, Alpha Phi; Naomi Miller, Pi Beta Phi; Ruth Mary Picard, Collegiate Sorosis; Dorothy Pugsley, Alpha Chi Omega; Joan Pullum, Alpha Gamma Delta; Marcia Sharpe, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Mickey Thielen, Delta Delta Delta; Barbara Wallace, Pi Beta Phi, and Pam Watts, Delta Gamma. Y ing Victor Turns over Rule of Italy to Um berto Crown Prince Named Lieutenant General; Monarch Retains Title Without Power By The Associated Press , NAPLES . June 5-King Vittorio Emanuele stepped aside as monarch of Italy today as he previously had said he would do upon the liberation of Rome and handed to his 39-year-old son, Crown Prince Umberto, all "Royal prerogatives." Italian political pressure had been brought to bear against him since the conquest of Naples. In a decree signed by himself and countersigned by Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio, head of the Italian liberation government, the King Popcorn Wartime Is Latest Casualty .named his son Lieutenant General of I the realm. The monarch, however, retained his title as head of the House of Savoy andsremains as King without power. King Vittorio Emanuele, who be- came ruler July 29, 1900, had an- nounced last April 12 his "irrevoc- able" decision to withdraw from public life "on the day on which Allied troops enter Rome," and to turn his powers over to the Crown Prince. Little more than a figurehead since Mussolini assumed the dictator- ship of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele had won a reputation the first years of his reign as a sympathetic monarch. interested in his people and their problems. Prince Umberto, tall and erect, op- posed Fascism in Italy at the start but later made a truce with Musso- lini. In effect, Umberto becomes the King's regent. The withdrawal was presented to the Council of Ministers this morn mg, an announcement by the Mini- stry of the Interior said tonight,. Ma rshall Gets Red Decoration WASHINGTON, June 5.- UP- General George C. Marshall, United States Army Chief of Staff, said to- night "the final action in thissterrible European war is now focused on a single battle in which every Allied force will be represented." "It is to be a battle to the death for the Nazis and a battle to victory for the Allies," he told an audience at ' the Russian embassy where he was decorated with the Order of Suvorov, First Degree, highest honor of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The decoration, presented by Am- bassador Andrei A. Gromyko, was conferred on General Marshall "for outstanding military activities." Board Names Summer Term Senior Editors Jane Farrant, Stan Wallace Reappointed New senior editors and business manager for The Daily for the sum- mer term were appointed last night by the Board in Control of Student Publications in their monthly meet- ing and two appointments for the senior staff of the 'Ensian were an- nounced. Jane Farrant, a senior from Grand Rapids, was re-appointed to the position of Managinng Editor. and will head the senior staff dur-' ing the summer term.. As City Editor the Board re-ap- pointed Stan Wallace of Detroit, who has served in that capacity during the current term. Betty Ann Koffman, Detroit, was named Editorial Directr for the coming semester succeeding Claire Sherman, a graduating senior. Business activities of the Summer Daily will be directed by Lee Aimer, New York City, who was appointed Business Manager, succeeding Eliza- beth Carpentar. Griffith Young of Camisteo, N.Y. was appointed Managing Editor of the 'Ensian for the coming year while Al Srere of Detroit was named Associate Editor. As senior Business Manager of the 'Ensian, . the Board re-appointed Janet Gray of Aruba, N.W.I. In accordance with past years The Daily will publish only the first eight weeks of the summer term and will begin the week of July 3. Murphy To Give ine To Bribe Charges LANSING, June 5-(AP)-Special Prosecutor Kim Sigler said today former Lieut. Gov. Frank Murphy had, arranged to surrender Wednes- day to a grand jury warrant charg- ing that he had conspired with distillery operators to corrupt the 1941 legislature while he was presi- dent of the Michigan Senate. Circuit Judge Leland W. Carr, whose one-man grand jury returned the warrant, said he expected the other four individual defendants named in the warrant would sur- render tomorrow or Wednesday, They are Emanuel Rosenthal, presi- dent, and Charles Layton, sales man- ager, of the Mohawk Liqueur Cor- poration, and Abe H. Weinstein, president, and Samuel L. Schreirer, secretary-treasurer, of the Arrow Liqueur Corporation. By The Associated Press C ROME, June 5.-Allied armor and motorized infantry roared through the Eternal City today-not pausing to sight-see-crossed the Tiber, and proceeded with the grim task of de- stroying two battered German armies fleeing to the north. Flashing forces of Allied fighter- bombers spearheaded the pursuit, jamming the escape highways north- ward with burning enemy transport and littering the fields with dead and wounded Nazis. The enemy was tired, disorganized and bewildered by the slashing char- acter of the Allied assault, which in 25 days had inflicted a major catas- trophe on German-forces in Italy and liberated Rome almost without dam- age to the historic city. Bombers Blast Rail Yards Joining the relentless program of destruction, 500 American heavy bombers blasted rail yards at five points in northern Italy between Venice and Rimini along which the German might attempt to move rein- forcements and equipment to bolster Marshal Albert Kesselring's beaten armies. At 10 a.m. today Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark, tall commander of the victori- ous Fifth Army, entered Rome in a jeep and drove to the city hall, where he formally proclaimed the Allied occupation and praised the valor of his troops. Addressing his corps commanders and looking out over thousands of cheering Italians, Clark declared tha both the 10th and 14th German arm- ies had been at least partially de- stroyed, more than 20,000 prisoners taken and untold quantities of Nazi equipment captured. Balcony Is Empty He lauded individually the French, British and American troops of the Fifth Army and paid tribute to the "gallant men and women who made the supreme sacrifice" that made to- Final Rites for Mrs. Real To Be Tomorrow Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Travis Beal, widow of former Univer- sity Regent Junius E. Beal, who died at her home, 343 S. Fifth Ave., late Saturday night, will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the First Methodis Church. Social, Civic Leader A prominent socialand civic leader in Ann Arbor for many years, Mrs. Beal was 83 years old. She has been ill since early in May and had spent some time in St. Joseph's Mercy Hos- pital. Rev. Charles W. Brashares will officiate at the funeral services and members of BetaTheta Pi, her hus- band's fraternity, will serve as pall- bearers. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Wife of 'U' Regent She and Regent Beal were married on Thanksgiving Day in 1889 and immediately came to Ann Arbor to make their home. Her only son, Travis, died on July 27, 1923 and her husband died June 24, 1942. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Albert C. Jacobs, and three grand- children, Loretta Crinnell Jacobs, Sarah Huntington Jacobs and Travis Beal Jacobs. One of Mrs. Beal's last requests was that contributions be made to the Ann Arbor Community Fund in her memory by friends instead of sending flowers. Stan Hack To Join Cubs...* CHICAGO, June 5.-(U)- Stan Hack, Chicago Cub veteran, will leave his Oregon ranch and take up third base duties with -the club in about a week, Jim Gallagher, Cub vice-presi- dent, said today. day's occupation possible. Mussolini's famous balcony in the Palazzo Vene- zia, a few blocks from where Clark spoke, looked empty and deserted. The inhabitants' reception to the troops approached hysteria as the day wore on, and home-made confetti goon littered the streets. There was an almost carnival atmosphere. Lit- tle damage to the city was visible, the Nazis having limited demolitions to x. few installations of no artistic or °eligious importance. Stock Piles Left Behind The speed of the enemy's flight >nce his lines before Rome burst was ;vident in the great quantities of war :naterial left behind, stock piles suf- icient to equip several divisions. An Allied spokesman expressed the offi- ;ial opinion that the tremendous >ressure exerted by the Allies in the Final phase of the battle for Rome 'ad forced the enemy to flee beyond ' he capital rather than make a pro- racted fight for the city itself. Pope Pius XII, addressing an enor- mous crowd including many Fifth Army soldiers in St. Peter's square, 3xpressed thanks to God that Rome jad not been destroyed by war. Roosevelt Hails Capture of First Qf Axis Capitols FDR Cautions Struggle Ahead Will Be Tough By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 5-Hailing the capture of Roma with the jubi- lant phrase "One up and two to go," President Roosevelt declared tonight that the aim 'now is to drive Ger- many, "to the point where she will be unible to recommence world con- quest a generation hence." Mr. Roosevelt, in a nation-wide radio broadcast, cautioned that this truggie with the Nazis would be 'ough and costly and that the day of Germany's surrender "Lies some dis- tance ahead." Whether his reaffirmation that the fight would be pressed until Ger- many surrenders was a reply to the recent speech of Pope Pius XII was not stated. The Pope asserted last week that the idea that the war must end either in complete victory or complete destruction is a stimulant toward prolonging the conflict and expressed hope for an early peace. Speaking of Rome as the great symbol of Christianity, the President declared "It will be a source of deep satisfaction that the freedom of the Pope and of Vatican City is assured by the armies of the United Nations." But he declared that no thanks are due Hitler and his generals "if Rome was spared the devastation which the Germans wreaked on Naples and other Italian cities." ' "The Allied generals maneuvered so skillfully," he said, "that the Nazis could only have stayed long enough to damage Rome at the risk of losing their armies." "Our victory," Mr. Roosevelt as- serted, "comes at an excellent time, while our Allied forces are poised for another strike at western Europe- and while armies of other Nazi sol- diers nervously await our assault. And our gallant Russian allies. con- tinue to make their power felt more and more." The Italian people "are capable of self-government," Mr. Roosevelt continued. "We do not lose sight of their virtues as a peace loving nation.", Navy Band To Give Concert Highlights To Be Piano Solos, Drum Specialties The Navy V-12 Band of the Uni- versity will open. the 1944 summer season with a concert at 8 p.m. Friday in Hill Auditorium. Prof. William D. Revelli, conductor of the University Bands, will also conduct this Navy group. The band, which was heard several times last summer, is composed of approxi- mately 8t0 pieces and its personnel comes from all sections of this coun- try. Military and concert marches, to- .,ti - ,,.- - - - - --.,.,.,.t. ,..