4tirt qan I t Weather Thundershowers I VOL. LIV No. 159 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS merican Forces Penetrate 1 n * * * * * * * * 55 Faculty Promotions Approved by Regents 'U' Budget of More Than Seven Millions Will Cover One Year's Operating Cost The Board of Regents approved a budget of $7,793,319.25 for the fiscal year 1944-45 at their regular monthly meeting yesterday and approved 55 promotions of faculty members. They also approved the appointment of Prof. Walter J. Emmons to the post of assistant dean and secretary of the College of Engineering. He will replace Dean Alfred H. Lovell, who is resigning to become a full, time professor of electrical engineering. The more than seven million dollar budget will cover total operating costs of the University from July 1 until the following June 30 and will be used for salaries, current instructional expenses, maintenance of build- ings, operation of plant, research -- ilesinto France Troops Nearing Port of Cherbourg Fusion of Beachheads Now Complete; Depth of Coastal Strip is Inereasing By WES GALLAGHER Associated Press Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Tuesday, June 13-American tanks and infantry smashed through the center of the German line in Normandy yesterday, capturing the Cerisy Forest, 18 miles inland from the sea, toppling the stronghold of Carentan after a bitter fight, and battling Nazi farces only 14 miles from the prize port of Cherbourg. it Headquarters said that Field Marshal Gen. Erwin Rommel was using go. from 14 to 15 divisions, 250,000 German troops, against the Allied forces, but communique No. 14 declared: Headquarters said that Field Mar- FIRST P-38 LANDS ON FRENCH FIELD-U. S. fighting men watch the first P-38 fighter plane as lands on a newly constructed landing strip built since the Allies began their invasion of France a week ag addition to the University budget, the work and the extension service. In Regents also approved a budget of $3,230,176 for the University Hospi- tal which is a self-supporting institu- tion. Gifts Accepted The Regents also accepted more than $5,000 in gifts to the University. Among other appointments ap- proved yesterday was that of Prof. William H. Worrell who has been ap- pointed to the post of acting chair- man of the Oriental language and literature department. Prof. Leroy Waterman, who is chairman of the department, will be on leave of ab- sence. Profs. Kenneth K. Landes and Irv- ing A. Leonard were appointed to membership on the Executive Board of the Horace H. Rackham School of .Graduate Studies for a five-year term. Prof. Walter E. Lay was named to executive committee of the College of Engineering for four years and Prof. Edgar H. Gault received an ap- pointment to the executive commit- tee of the School of Business Admini- stration for two years. Kinkehaus Resigns The Regents accepted the resigna- tion of Louis E. Kinkelhaus as assist- ant professor of engineering and granted a leave of absence to Dr. Wilfred Kaplan, mathematics in- structor, to serve in the Office of Scientffic Research and Development from July 1 to the end of the fall term. Two new men were appointed to the University faculty. They are Glenn H. Easton, who will be an assistant professor of naval archi- tecture and marine engineering in the College of Engineering, and Dr. Reeve Bailey, who will be the new associate curator of fishes in the Museum of Zoology. The Regents approved promotion of the following faculty members yesterday: College of Literature, Science and the Arts: From associate professor to professor: L. C. Anderson, chemis- try; H. M. Dorr, political science; A. J. Eardley, geology; A. L. Fergu- son, chemistry; F. G. Gustafson, bot- any; C. D. LaRue, botany, and L. S. Ramsdell, mineralogy. From assis- tant professor to associate professor: J. L. Davis, English; K. G. Hance, speech; M. W. Senstius, geology; F. K. Sparrow, Jr., botany, and M. Titiev, anthropology. From instruc- President Says Nazis Intensify Drive on Jews WASHINGTON, June 12.- (A')- President Roosevelt said today the Nazis, facing defeat, are carrying on a "fiendish extermination campaign" against the oppressed peoples of Europe and added that this govern- ment is determined to punish "all participants in these acts of savag- ery." "This nation is appalled by the systematic persecution of helpless minority groups," the President said in a report to Congress. "As the hour of the final defeat of the Hitlerite forces draws closer, the fury of their insane desire to wipe out the Jewish race in Europe con- tinues undiminished. This is but one example: many Christian groups also are being murdered. "Knowing that they have lost the war, the Nazis are determined to complete their program of mass ex- termination. This program is but one manifestation of Hitler's aim to salvage from military defeat victory for Nazi principles-the very princi- ples which this war must destroy un- less we shall have fought in vain." Demobilization Planned i tor to assistant professor: R. C. Boys; English; A. H. Hawley, sociology; W. Kaplan, mathematics; K. F. Lag- ler, zoology; H. V. S. Ogden, English, and J. K. Yamagiwa, Japanese. H. van der Schalie was promoted from instructor to assistant professor in zoology and from assistant curator to curator of mollusks. College of Engineering: From as- sistant professor to associate profes- sor: G. L. Alt, civil engineering; F. N. Calhoon, mechanical engineer- ing; R. C. Cole, mechanism and engineering drawing, and L. C. Maugh, civil engineering. Medical School: From associate professor to professor: R. C. Wan- strom, pathology. From assistant professor to associate professor: J.W. Conn, internal medicine; F. D. John- ston, internal medicine; R. M. Pat- terson, psychiatry, and R. T. Wood- burne, anatomy. Froin instructor to assistant professor: R. W. Buxton, surgery; J. F. Holt, roentgenology; D. A. Kerr, pathology for dentistry; W. A. Stryker, pathology; J. M. Wall- ner, phychiatry, and E. H. Watson, pediatrics and communicable dis- eases. From research associate to assistant professor: S. Johnson, der- matology and syphilology. School of Education: From asso- ciate professor to professor: M. E. Rugen, health and physical educa- tion. From instructor to assistant professor: B. 0. Hughes, education. Law School: Marvin L. Niehus was See REGENTS, Page 4 Col. Young To Head All TU' Army Forces Edward H. Young, commandant of the Judge Advocate General's School, has been appointed Commandant of all Army training forces at the Uni- versity according td an announce- ment made yesterday by the head- quarters of the Sixth Service Com- mand in Chicago. He was also named Professor of Military Science and tactics at the University by the Board of Regents yesterday. Col. Young will retain his command of the Judge Advocate General's School in addition to his Clark's Army Drives Close To Orbetello German 14th Ariiiy Dispersed by Alies By The Associated Press ROME, June 12-The German 14th Army has been "dispersed to the four winds," Allied Headquarters de- clared today as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's American and Britsh forces, pursuing the disorganized Germans up the Italian west coast, approached Orbetello, 71 miles northwest of Rome. As depleted enemy units fell back toward the Florence area with the greater part of their equipment lost, the Nazi High Command faced the immediate necessity of sending heavy reinforcements from France or elsewhere in Europe if any real at- tempt was to be made to hold nor- thern Italy. "It is now quite clear," the Allied announcement said, "that the orig- inal 14th Army has been dispersed to the four winds. All that remains is a few scattered remnants who mainly are engaged in stealing one another's transport to get away as fast as possible. Prisoners describe the situation as wholly chaotic." The German commander, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, not only has been forced to throw all but one of the 24 divisions he had in Italy into a desperate effort to slow the Allied steamroller, but has brought in three fresh infantry divisions, it was disclosed today, What is left of the Nazy 10th Army, which once struck hammer blows at Allied troops clinging to the Anzio beachhead, appears to have been put on an every-man-for-him- self basis in the flight toward Flor- ence. Nips Are Driven From Positions On Biak Island ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUAR- TERS, New Guinea, June 13, Tuesday -(AP)-Japanese are being cleaned from their strong positions on Biak Island west of Mokmer airstrip, headquarters announced today. American infantry troops were ad- vancing westward from captured Mokmer drome Sunday against en- emy machinegun fire coming from bunkers. . Headquarters also disclosed that Palau and Truk again were bombed Saturday night. Palau's airstrip was hit and installations on Truk were attacked by planes from Southwest Pacific bases. Truk and Palau are 1,000 miles apart in the Caroline Island group. At Sarmi in Dutch New Guinea, patrols reported 173 more enemy dead Sunday and 223 more at Hol- landia. AFTER-DARK SEQUEL: DNB Reports Night Bombing of Cologne A fter Daylight Raids By the Associated Press SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AL- LIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Tuesday, June 13-Cologne was re- ported by DNB today to have been bombed just before midnight in an after-dark sequel to daylight inva- sion attacks Monday in which Allied air fleets flew -pup to 10,000 sorties against German holdings in France. Many Nazi-controlled radio sta- tions in France and Germany shut down, suggesting widespread activity by the RAF. A record 1,400 U. S. heavy bomb- ers participated in the daylight at- tacks, which met rising German air force resistance. Sixteen enemy air- fields and six bridges were among the targets. The heavyweights, in the greatest force ever sent on a single mission, lost seven planes to flak while their fighter escort shot 17 of the enemy from the sky at a cost of 14 fighters. The supreme command threw ev- ery class of bomber and fighter into close support of the expanding Nor- mandy Beachhead, and the Ger- mans, putting up their stiffest oppo- sition since the Channel crossing, were unable to check this whirlwind of Allied aerial might. U. S. Fortresses and Liberators Fate of China May Hige on, Cantont, Hunitan By The Associated Press The Pacific-Asiatic war thundered to higher tempo yesterday with chief interest centering on fierce battling in China that may decide the fate of the entire eastern section of that country. As heroic Chinese forces resisted furiously at besieged Changsha, stra- tegic railway town in Hunan Pro= vince, the Japanese invaders launch- ed a new drive northward from the Canton sector in an apparent. effort to build a "west wall" against the Allies. In virtually all other regions of the vast Pacific-Oriental war theater the Japanese were faring badly. - Out on the Pacific a powerful Am- erican task force carried into the second day its air attacks against the Marianas Islands of Guam, Tinian and Saipan, all considered major Japanese bases, and extended the onslaught to Rota Island, north of Guam. Almost simultaneously with dis- closure that the task force continued its operations within Japan's inner defense ring, the Navy department announced the sinking of 18 more Nippon cargo ships or merchantmen by American submarines. The total kill of the subs since the start of war has reached 607 ships. scoured air fields from St. Nazaire to Lyon to which the Germans had been shuttling their lean air force, and one pilot declared that "every airfield within a radius of 50 miles of our target seemed to be under attack." Other heavyweights planted ex- plosives on six bridges and other in- stallations, while clouds of lighter bombers, fighter-bombers and fight- ers filled the skies over northern France, some engaging in dog-fights with as many as 20 enemy planes. Fifth War Loan Drive Opened By President By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 12-Presi- dent Roosevelt said tonight we can force the Japanese "to unconditional surrender or to national suicide much more rapidly than has been thought possible." The President, speaking on a na- tional radio program opening the $16,000,000,000 Fifth War Loan Drive, said our original strategy of elimi- nating Germany first and then turn- ing our full war strength into the Pacific can hasten the day of our vic- tory on all fronts. Germany, he said, is "first on the list for destruction," and added: "Germany has her back against the wall-in fact three walls at. once. "On the south--we have broken the German hold on central Italy. On the east-our gallant Soviet al- lies have driven the enemy back from the lands which were invaded three years ago. Great Soviet armies are now initiating crushing blows. .7 "The time has come for the people of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County to dig deep into their purses and furnish early assurance that the county will go over the top in the Fifth War Loan campaign," Warren F. Cook, Washtenaw county war finance committee chairman, stated yesterday. To date, Ann Arbor has sold a total of $159,303.25 in bonds, of which $98,081.25 was collected by the sale of E-bonds, $40,280 by the sale of non-E bonds to individuals, and $20,942 by the sale of non-E bonds to corporations. The total sales for the county amount to $237,325. The sale of E-bonds has netted $139,827.50, non E-bonds to individuals $76,120, and non E-bonds to corporations $21,- 367.50. shal Gen. Erwin Rommel was using from 14 to 15 divisions, 250,000 Ger- man troops, against the Allied for- ces, but communique No. 14 declared: "The fusion of our beachheads is now complete and a coastal strip some 60 miles long is firmly in our Soviet Army Advances on Finnish Port Spearheads Breach Mannerheim Line By the Associated Press LONDON, June 12--Russian tanks and picked troops struck through breaches in the rebuilt Mannerheim Line today in a drive toward the big Finnish Port of Viipuri-less than 45 miles away from advanced spear- heads-with the capital of Helsinki itself as the ultimate goal. Churning up the Karelian Isthmus ravaged by the 1939-40 Russo-Fin- nish War, Russian artillery, bombs and guns of the Baltic fleet cracked the defenses along a 25-mile front and stunned the Finns with a can- nonading , which echoed through Leningrad, more than 25 miles away. Seized Railroad Centers Dispatches from Moscow said the Red Army had seized several large railroad centers beyond the 1938 Russo-Finnish border and that Fin- nish casualties, heavy from the start, were increasing: They pictured the Finns as dazed by the suddenness and weight of the attack and as ill-prepared for threats of big-scale landings behind their lines under cover of the Soviet Baltic Fleet. More enemy positions were being rolled up hourly as the Russians under Col. Gen. Leonid Govorov, lib- erator of Leningrad, struck repeated- ly in the virtually constant daylight of the northern summer. The newspaper Pravda declared the break-through was "great and significant" and that "now the hour of severesrevenge has arrived." Cross Sestra River The Russians were reported to have crossed the Sestra River, which flows southwest through captured Terijoki, and to be fighting through lakes, swamps and hills of Karelia after breaking steel and concrete fortifications in the powerful push. Terijoki is 27 miles north of Lenin- grad and 169 miles east of Helsinki. Among the points taken was Kuok- kala, six miles east of Terijoki on the gulf, where dispatches said the studio of the famous Russian painter Ilya Repin was found in ruins. Election of bGraf t Jury Is Begun Challenges Indicate Long Task Is Ahead MASON, MICH., June 12-(AP)- Selection of a jury for trial of 23 defendants charged with conspiracy to corrupt the 1939 Michigan legis- lature started in the Ingham County circuit court today, with indications it would be a long and painstaking task. Thirteen of 14 jurors had been selected tentatively when court ad- journed for the day, but there was a constant change of faces in the jury box as the defense and prosecutin hands. Its depth is being increased steadily." A later official statement also said: "The enemy has been unable to build up his attacking forces as rapidly as anticipated." 10,000 Prisoners Taken At the end of the first week of ins vasion fighting the Allies have taken more than 10,000 prisoners, a state- ment said. Gen. Sir Bernard L> Montgomery, Allied ground com- mander, said some regular Japanese soldiers were among the captives and the Axis slain, but did not explain their presence on the front. The seizure of CerisyForest put American troops near the mid-Nor- mandy communications hub of 'St. Lo, and was the deepest inland pene- tration yet scored by the Allies. Slight advances were made east of Caen on the British-Canadian sec- for on the American left flank, head- quarters said, and "American troops in the Cherbourg Peninsula have London Has Air Alert LONDON, Tuesday, June 13-(AP) -London had its first air alert since April 27 this morning and gun fire was heard immediately after sirens sounded. made further progress to the north and west" in their effort to seal off an 800-square-mile area including the port of Cherbourg, Fierce Fighting Continues Fierce fighting between British and enemy armored units continued be- tween Tilly-sur-Seulles and Caen, east of the Cerisy Forest now occu- pied by the Americans, the bulletin said. *uh l,* Visit France i SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AL- LIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 12 -- (AP) - Prime Minister Churchill set foot on French soil for the first time since 1940 today and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Com- mander in Chief of the Allied inva- sion forces, led as party of top U, S. military and naval commanders on a tour of the American-held section of the Normandy battlefront. Britain's prime minister was ac- companied by Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, Premier of South Africa, and Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the imperial general staf. Dean Crawford To Speak T oday Senior Engineering Class Plans Meeting Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the Col- lege of Engineering will speak on "The Future of Our University" at the senior class meeting of engineers to be held at 7:30 p. m. today in Rm. 348 of West Engineering Build- ing. T. Hawley Tapping, general secre- tary of the Alumni Association, will discuss the alumni service. Instructions as to frrmation of march and seating arrangements for commencement will be given by Prof, Glenn L. Alt of the engineering de- partment. There will be also a gen- eral explanation ofrules of gradua- tion. Nursing School To Offer New Degree COL. YOUNG ... is promoted. new post as head of the 3651st S. U. He replaces Col. Frederick C. Rogers who reached the age of retirement on June 1. He has served in the Philippines, at Plattsburgh, the Army War Col- lege, and was a White House aide during parts of both the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. He received his JD in 1936, and was professor of law at West Point for three years. Next he was Chief of Branch, Military Affairs Divi- sion, of the Judge Advocate Gen- eral's Department until his assign- ment to the JAG school when it was opened in February, 1942. He came PARTY SPLITS ON 4TH TERM ISSUE: Texas Democrats Revolt Against FDR By The Associated Press A court battle over the fourth term issue was shaping up today (Tues- day) as a result of an intra-party split among Texas Democrats. The Texas Democratic Executive Committee, meeting yesterday at Dallas, voted 37 to 6 against certify- ing a slate of pro-Roosevelt presi- tors and instructed them not to sup- port the party's presidential nominee unless the two-thirds nominating rule is restored at the national con- vention and other conditions are met, Elections Considered Correct Chairman George Butler of the executive committee contended this should be bound to support the par- ty's presidential nominee, Appeal Was Planned Aware that the defection of a single state's electoral vote easily could be the deciding factor in a close election, the Roosevelt support- ers planned a quick appeal to the