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Released War Correspondent
Gives Inside Story on Nazis
By LARRY ALLEN
(ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR CORRESPONDENT
P ATRIATED ABOARD THE GRIPSHOLM)
JUST RE.
NEW YORK, June 7-(AP)-During eight months as a Hitler
prisoner of war I have seen Germany from inside and outside her
prison camps, have traveled through fortified areas and over her rail-
ways from Brenner Pass to the Polish Corridor, and am convinced that
she still expects to win the war.
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INVASION OBJECTIVES-Shaef reported yesterday the capture of the
Allies' first French city, Bayeux. The highway from Bayeux to Caen
was cut as troops advanced inland. Caen, inland from the channel
coast is approximately 125 from Portsmouth, England.
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the Allied invasion, forcing a
stalemate and an eventual negoti-
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Scholarships
E. G. Fassett, Abbott
Prizes Presented
Ten undergraduate students have
been awarded scholarships for the
school year 1944-45, it was announced
yesterday.
The Eugene G. Fassett Scholarship
which was established as the result
of a bequest of $20,000 made in 1938
was divided among four students.
They are: Charles Willard Moore.
'46A, from Battle Creek; Marion Kay
Gessler, '46A of Pontiac; Dorothy
Upham, '46Ed, from Fitchburg, Mass..
and Dorothy Rose Pravda of Ann
Arbor, who is enrolled in the College
of Literature, Science and the Arts.
Six women students were awarded
$500 each under the terms of the
Emma M. and Florence L. Abbott
Scholarship, which was established in
1940. The recipients of these scholar-
ships are: Joan Helen Portz, '46A,
and Ruth Harriet Nave, '46, both
from Detroit; Martha Louise Taylor,
'45, of Elmira, N.Y.; Frances Patch,
'46, from West Englewood, N.J.; Hel-
ene E. Thrasher, '45, from Jackson,
and Elizabeth S. Harrison, who lives
n Lansing.
Honor Society
Wyvern, Taps
New Members
Annual Michigan tradition was car-
ried out last night when Wyvern Jun-
ior Women's Honor Society tapped
the second semester sophomores and
first semester juniors who have been
outstanding both in activities and
scholastically during the year.
New initiates are Jane Arner,
Gamma Phi Beta; Rudy Bales, Delta
Gamma; Lee Chaise, Martha Cook;
Jennie Fitch, Pi Beta Phi; Jean
Gaffney, Delta Gamma; Frances
Goldberg, Martha Cook; Betty Hen-
del, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Jean Hotch-
kin, Chi Omega; Audrey Jupp, Helen
Newberry; Mavis Kennedy, Delta
Delta Delta; Rpsemary Klein, Gam-
ma Phi Beta; Claire Macaulay, Mar-
tha Cook; Nora McLaughlin, Alpha
Chi Omega; Betsy Perry, Pi Beta Phi;
Harriet Pierce, Stockwell; Ann
Schutz, Martha Cook; Beverly Wit-
tan, Sigma Delta Tau.
ated peace which to every German
would mean victory.
Her warlords tell the German
people and those of Nazi-satelite
countries that:
1. Germany has at least 3,000,000
crack troops in the west, backed by
powerful fortifications.
2. She has saved a minimum of
5,000 fighter aircraft alone to meet
the invasion, deliberately letting the
Alliesbelieve there is a shortage.
3. Her bombed-out war factories
are being rebuilt in new locations by
captive workers as fast as they are
smashed.
4. Communications s y.s-t e m s,
great, fast electrified railways, are
virtually intact except iri the Ber-
lin and northern French districts.
5. The high command claims
800 divisions - roughly about
8,000,000 men-are ready in both
east and west; that eastern front
losses are small because of ordered,
strategic withdrawals.
6. German internal food supply
and civilian morale, despite heavy
Allied bombings, is surprisingly good.
7. Lastly, but not leastly, Ger-
many says the Allies are morally
weak. She particularly singles out
the American as an "I want to go
home" soldier.
There was considerable sabotage
in Germany in 1941 and 1942. Today,
it is virtually non-existent, because
of Himmler's Gestapo and the Wehr-
macht police.
German officers smile at Allied
reports of thousands of tons of
bombs dropped, and at claims that
communications to the Eastern
front have been disrupted.
They don't deny the bombings,
but say the results are something
else,
A few weeks ago I was transferred
from a prison camp near Poznan, in
Poland, to Stuttgart. Thenbtaken
to Marseilles, liberated and boarded
a repatriation ship.
In the great railway terminals-
Poznan, biggest supply center for the
eastern front; Breslau, Gerlitz, Dres-
den, Augsburg, Munich, Innsbruck,
Salzburg, Regensburg, Karlsruhe,
Stuttgart, and in France, thousands
of German troops were on the move.
Passenger trains were jammed.
But in hardly any of these had
there been any permanent damage to
stations or tracks, although bombs
had left wide trails of destruction
through nearby war plants.
In Munich, where damage is
widespread, the great east station
is virtually intact, although the
south station is a shambles.
One answer to Germany's main-
tenance of transport is that she
forces millions of manacled pris-
oners to work like brutes repair-
ing trackage.
Reds Ready
To Drive East
Nazis Fail in Romania
As lasi Battle Ends
By The Associated Press
LONDON, June 7.-The German
drive in Romania north of Iasi ap-
peared to have ended today, and the
Soviet Army newspaper Red Star in
Moscow saidnthathRussia now was
ready to launch her own promised
offensive against the Germans from
the east.
10,000 Nazis Killed
The abortive German attacks in
the province of Moldavia cost the
Nazis more than 10,000 dead and tre-
mendous losses in equipment during
the savage fighting from May 30 to
June 6, Moscow announced tonight.
A Berlin foreign broadcast claimed at
least ten Soviet rifle divisions had
been" wiped out or decisively
mauled."
The Berlin broadcast said the bat-
tle north of Iasi ended yesterday and
added that only mopping up opera-
tions were in progress. This coincided
with tonight's broadcast Russian
communique, which said that action
today involved only small forces and
that all German attacks were re-
pulsed.
The Russians also announced an-
other mass bombing attack had been
made last night on Iasi itself, smash-
ing military trains and other objec-
tives at the rail junction. Two planes
were lost.
Damages Reported
In its recapitulation of the damage
inflicted on the Nazis during the
week-long battle, Moscow said 315
tanks were knocked out, 451 planes
shot down, 62 field guns destroyed
and that 29 armored cars and troop
carriers, 400 trucks and 240 machine-
guns had been demolished.
With the German attacks smoth-
ered, there was a growing belief that I
the Russians' long-awaited plunge
westward might begin at any time.
Red Star said Russia is prepared to
throw its full weight into the growing
offensive against Germany.
Melodrama To
Be Presented
Last Performance To
Be Given Saturday
"The Streets of New York," an old
time melodrama with costumes of
the gay nineties, will be presented
again today and through Saturday
at 8:30 p. m. in the Lydia Mendel-
ssohn Theatre.
A crafty villain, the heroine and
her poverty-stricken family and the
hero are portrayed in the play which
is offered by Play Production of the
Department of Speech. Written by
the Irish-American dramatist Dion
Boucicault, it has been a long time
favorite both here and abroad.
Tickets are on sale at the theatre
box office from 10 a. m. to cur-
tain time.
GEN. SIR BERNARD L. MONT-
GOMERY -- commands British
ground forces.
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AL-
LIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
June 8, Thursday-(/P)--For four and
one-half hours yesterday Gen. Eisen-
hower and Admiral Sir Bertram
Ramsay, commander of Allied naval
forces, cruised off the invasion beach-
es of northern France and held con-
ferences with operational command-
ers, it was announced today.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery,
commander of the invasion ground
forces, and Rear Admiral Alan Good-
rich Kirk, commander of the U.S.
naval task force in the operations,
were among the high officers who
attended the sensational conclave in
the midst of an armada of thousands
of ships as the supreme commander
obtained an up-to-the-minute pic-
ture of the progress of the invasion.
A meeting was held within five
miles of the enemy at one point
becauzse Eisenlhower felt that he could
thereby get better communications.
Upon his return the general showed
satisfaction at the results of the
conferences.
As Montgomery, in corduroy trous-
ers and fleece-lined jacket,iclam-
bered down from the warship into his
launch at the end of the session
Eisenhower grinned, stuck up his
thumb and called: "Good luck to
you."
Response to
Fifth War Loan
Drive Is Good
Invasion Is Boosting
Sales in Ann Arbor
The people of Ann Arbor are re-
sponding very well to the Fifth War
Loan Drive, which opened yesterday,
because of the invasion, Warren F.
Cook, Washtenaw County war
finance committee chairman, stated
yesterday.
"More bonds are being sold than
was anticipated," Mr. Cook said.
"We hope that everyone will buy
bonds voluntarily as soon as possi-
ble."
"Our job now is to back the boys
on the front, who are fighting and
dying to preserve our way of life.
The least we can do to fight on the
home front is to buy bonds," he said.
Reports on the sales of bonds for
the week will be made on Monday.
Thereafter the returns will be an-
nounced daily, he stated.
Ann Arbor's quota is $6,000,000, of
which $4,700,000 is expected to be
filled by the sale of non E bonds,
of which savings banks and corpora-
tions are expected to purchase a
total of $3,227,750 worth of bonds,
while $1,472,250 must be purchased
by individuals.
Washtenaw County's goal for the
drive has been set at $9,105,000. Ann
Arbor is again being asked to bear
the burden of the county's quota, ac-
cording to Mr. Cook.
Norton Brotherton, chairman of
the Ann Arbor payroll deduction pur-
chase campaign, stated that each
payroll plan participant is expected
to purchase $100 worth of bonds
during the drive.
BUY WAR BON DS
INVASION OBJECTIVE-The French city of Caen (above); is believed
to be one of the objectives of Allied armies invading France and Allied
paratroopers were reported fighting there.
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NAZIS LEFT BEHIND:
Allies Find 1,000 Wounded
Germans in Roman Iospita.Is
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'First Glider' City Goes Wild
GRFENVILLE, Mich., June 7.-
(A')-This city literally went wild to-
day with the news that its own glider'
"The Fighting Falcon" led the Allied
airborne invasion into France on D-
Day.
Greenville lays claim to the Falcon
because school children paid for the
glider with a war bond campaign a
little over a year ago and because it
was produced at the Gibson Refriger-
ator Co. here.
As the news began to seep through
the town, general excitement pre-
vailed. Telephone calls jammed the
local switchboard and workers at the
Gibson firm, where most of the 1,300
townspeople work, yelled like wild
men and then quickly returned to
their job of making more gliders.
ROME, June 7.-(AP)-A thousand.
wounded Geriman soldiers have been
found in the hospitals of Rome, Allied
military government officials said
today.
More than 25,000 casualties were
being treated here just before Allied
prof. Swinton.
Interned in Ja
Prisoii Ca ni
'U' Man, Daughter Are
Held at Santo Tolnas
Included in the group of Americans
interned at the Jap camp of Santo
Tomas in Manila, is Prof. Roy S.
Swinton, of the University engineer-
ing mechanics department.
Prof. Swinton was on leave from
the University visiting the University
of Manila when the war br'oke out.
For three months during the summer
of 1942 no word was received from
him. In September of that year the
International Red Cross informed the
family in this country that Prof.
Swinton, his wife and daughter were
interned in Manila.
Prof. Swinton, whose son Pvt. Stan
Swinton was formerly City Editor of
The Michigan Daily and is currently
with the Army newspaper, Stars and
Stripes, is reported in good health
and spirits.
Carl Mydans, Life' photographer
who has just returned from Manila
on an exchange ship, met Prof. Swin-
ton at Santo Tomas and reports that
he is extremely popular with the
other prisoners in the camp and has
pitched into camp housekeeping du-
ties with an enthusiasm unmatched
by many of the younger men.
Mydans says that people either sulk
and feel sorry for themselves because
they are in camp, or else they take it
in their stride. Prof. Swinton was of
the latter group, says Mydans.
In a letter to his grandmother, Pvt.
Swinton reports that his father has
continued making use of his tech-
nical knowledge. "He has used his old
Argo milling experience and engi-
neering knowledge to build what My-
dans called a 'Rube Goldberg' con-
traption, which proved very effective
in taking bugs out of the rice and
wheat they had.
occupation but the Germans succeed-
ed in evacuating most of them, it was
ascertained.
The transition of Rome from a
combat city to near normalcy began
within a few hours after occupation,
and within 48 hours soup kitchens
capable of feeding 400,000 persons
were opened.
AMG health officials said there
was not a single case of malaria in
the city, 16,000 hospital beds were
available, large quantities of coal
were obtained for power and some
parts of the city had electricity with-
in a few hours.
It was announced that two well-
known Fascist newspapers, Popolo
di Roma and Giornale D'Italia had
been suppressed. Others continued
publication but under new editorial
staffs.
Arrangements have been made for
the Japanese ambassador to the Vat-
ican, whose legal residence is outside
Vatican City, to visit the Vatican
whenever he chooses but his liberty
is restricted to a direct route from
his residence.
AMG also announced the Germans
had liberated all convicts in the
city's penitentiaries and .jails but that
at least a third of them had been
rounded up.
Speaker Indicts Stress
Oin Ecoin ic Aspects
Speaking on "Cultural Patterns in
Peru," Dr. Manuel Garcia-Calderon
said in a lecture yesterday that one
of the mistakes in inter-American
relations is the placing of too much
emphasis on the economic side.
"We have faith," he said, "in cul-
tural understanding rather than
mere commercial relations."
In support of this he cited agree-
ments for exchange arrangements of
students and official publications
between the United States and Peru
and said he believed the governments
are helping more and more to ad-
vance cultural understanding be-
tween the United States and Latin
American countries.
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