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VOL. LIV No. 92 ANN ARBOR. MiCHIGAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1944
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Jap
Attack
on
Bougainville
Is
Repulsed
Border Between Eire, North Ireland May
Be Closed
Nips Lose
One-Third
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Reds Extend
Finns Time To
Make Decision
Finland Must Accept
Armistice Terms Soon,
Says Censored Report
By The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM,March 14, Tuesday.
-Soviet Russia was understood to-
day to have given Finland a few
more days to accept her armistice
terms in a stern answer to the week-
old Finnish request for an opportun-
ity to negotiate conditions under
which Finland would quit the war.
A heavily censored message from
Edwin Shanke, Associated Press cor-
respondent in Helsinki, suggested
that the Finnish government must
make a decision quickly-possibly at
a scheduled parliamentary session to-
day-or face severe consequences.
The exact nature of the reply Mos-
cow made yesterday to the Finnish
counter proposals is unknown but it
.was strongly indicated that Russia
stood to all purposes on its original
principal demands that Finland in-
terne German troops in the country,
withdraw to her 1940 borders and
repatriate Russian prisoners.
Neither government, was believed
here to have closed the door to even-
tual agreement.
(A London broadcast quoted the
Finnish radio as saying that Rus-
sian forces "are concentrating in the
Murmansk area" against Col. Gen.
Eduard Diet's German troops in
northern Finland.)
In Sweden it was believed that the
complicated factors involved in get-
ting Finland out of the war were still
regarded as "unsolved." The Rus-
sians were understood -to have taken
the view that no real effort yet had
been made by the Finns to effect a
solution for an armistice.
Russo-Polish
Confl ict T o Be
Panel Topic
Sponsored by the Post-War Coun-
cil, Prof. Preston B. Slosson, Prof.
Roy W. Sellars and Prof. Felix W.
Pawlowski will discuss the Russo-
Polish border question in a panel
at 7:45 p.m. tomorrow in the League.
The Post-War Council member-
ship meeting will be held in con-
junction with the panel discussion,
Gloria Rewoldt, '45, Council presi-
dent, announced, and all interested'
in joining the organization are in-
vited to come. At present there are
openings on personnel, publicity, con-
ference, deputation and program
committees with some chairmanships
open.
Plans for the coming semester will
also be made at the meeting, and1
the Council will continue to hold
seminars and panels featuring facul-.
ty members and out-of-town speak-
ers, Miss Rewoldt said. As in the
past, a conference will be held this'
semester.'
Faculty advisors for the Council
are: President Alexander G. Ruth-
ven, Prof. Slosson, Prof. James K.
Pollock, Prof. Lionel H. Laing, Prof.
Howard McClusky, Prof Kenneth G.
Hance and Prof. William B. Willcox.
Ph'i Eta Sigma
Initiates 45
New Members
Michigan Chapter of Phi Eta Sig-
ma, national freshman honor society,
held its annual initiation banquet
Sunday at the Michigan League for
those men who attained a 3.5 scho-
lastic average during their freshman
year."
Highlight of the program was an
address by Dean Joseph Bursley in
which he gave a graphic picture of
the University in the post-war set-
up. He was introduced by toastmas-
ter and out-going Vice-President,
Patrick McGee.
'The~ newly elected officers for
Germans Back from Sub Trip
British -ish
Largest JAG Class Will
The caption for this photo of German origin, supplied by a Swedish
news agency, says it shows "A German submarine returning from her
victorious -trip. Obviously the news the crew got about their families
at home are not very good judging from their faces."
A SHOW IN TOWN:
Vaudeville Entertainers To Be
Here in Victory Varieties'
The best available professional
talent from night clubs, theatres and
hotels will be featured in }the first
University Victory Varieties show at
8:15 p.m. Saturday in Hill Auditor-;
ium.
"This show is not to be confused
with the former Victory Vanities,
sponsored by the Bomber Scholar-
ship Fund," Dean Walter B. Rea
pointed out. "That show was made
up of acts put on by the students.
The University vaudeville program
is a combination of the most popular
professional acts that we could
secure for a single night's showing.
Georgie Tapps, for instance, who is
internationally famous for his tap
routines, is coming to Ann Arbor
from Chicago's Rio Cabana, and
after his show here Saturday he will'
World News
at a Glance
By The Associated Press
Yanks Attack Wake
U.S. PACTFIC AFLET HRAD-
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
March 13.-Army and Navy heavy
bombers delivered a 50-ton bomb at-'
tack on Wake Island on Saturday,
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announc-
ed today, while other American!
planes bombed Nauru island, and
three enemy-held bases in the east-
ern Marshall Islands.
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Legislators Stand Mute
LANSING, March 13-Seventeen
past and present members of the
Michigan legislature and five off i-
cials of small loan and finance
conpanies stood mute in the Ing-
ham County Circuit Court today to
charges that they conspired to cor-
rupt the 1939 legislature through
bribery.
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Guffey Hits Compromise
WASHINGTON, March 13.-Sen-
ator Guffey, (Dem., Pa.) broke into
the Senate's row over service vote
legislation today with a charge that a
pending "states rights" compromise
will disenfranchise 12 million service-
men and pereptuate "the greatest or-
ganized election steal since 1876."
Germans Given Blame
WASHINGTON, March 13.-
The United States served notice
tonight that if Rome becomes a
be featured at the Grand Terrace in
Detroit for two weeks."
Tickets for Victory Varieties may
be obtained in University Hall corri-
dor, the East and West Quadrangles,
the USO, the .Union and League,
University Hospital newsstand and
campus and downtown stores.
"The show is strictly a non-profit
function," Dean Rea declared. "The
University is putting on the best
show it can at the lowest possible
cost to the students, servicemen and
townspeople. If there should be a
profit, the money would go into the
next show, which would probably be
scheduled a month later."
Army, Navy To
Give A-12. V-12
Test at Rackham
Army-Navy qualifying tests for A-
12 and V-12 specialized training pro-
grams will be given tomorrow at 9
a.m. in the main auditorium of the
Rackham Building.
Those expecting to take the exam,
however, must be in the auditorium
by 8:45 a.m.
Applicants must present their ad-
mission - identification cards, certi-.
fied by either Dean Joseph A. Burs-
ley or Dean Walter B. Rea, and bring
two soft lead pencils with them. No
slide rules, calculators, dictionaries
or other similar items may be used.
Students who took this test on
April 2 or Nov. -9, 1943, and who are
still eligible to apply for the college
programs, are required to take to-
morrow's test if they wish to be
considered again.
According to a recent statement,
the Army intends to make use of the
examination in spite of the recently
announced curtailment of the ASTP,
but will take a smaller quota of
men over 18. Navy plans are un-
changed.
Applicants for the Navy program
must be between the ages of 17 and
20, must be in college, a high school
graduate, or a high school senior
who will be graduated by July 1,
1944, and must be in good physical
condition. Requirements for the Ar-
my program are the same, except
that an applicant may be 22 years
of age.
MRDAMeeting
Is Scheduled
A meeting of Michigan Youth for
Democratic Action will be held Mon-
day at 7:45 p.m. at the Union to
Travel Will
Be Curtailed
No Formal Sanction
Against Free Irish
Seen in Near Future
By The Associated Press
DUBLIN, March 13.-A high au-
thority said tonight that the border
between neutral Eire and northern
Ireland would be closed.
Even while this information indi-
cated a drastic extension of the Brit-
ish-Irish travel ban, it was said that
there would be no immediate formal
sanction against Eire by the Allies.
The authority, who cannot be
identified by name, indicated that
any hopes the neutral Irish might
have that the decision on stopping
traffic across the 200-mile border
might be left to the Belfast govern-
ment were unfounded.
"Any interference with this free
flow would create very considerable
problems for business concerns and
transport companies," a Dublin resi-
dent commented. "War conditions
have created a tremendous develop-
ment of tourist travel between the
north and south.
Closing of the Eire-Ulster border
would create little further surprise,
but some persons here took the view
that this power rests with Belfast
and not the British government.
There was some question as to
whether the British will permit farm
labor to come under the urgent work
classification exempt from the ban.
If not the ban will hit British farm-
ers, it was pointed out.
Nazi Losses
High as R eds
Tak e Kherson
By The Associated Press
LONDON, March 13.-Gen. Rodion
K. Malinovsky's Stalingrad veterans
toppled the big German base of
Kherson at the mouth of the Dnieper
River today after a week of whirl-
wind advances in which the third
Ukraine front armies killed 20,000
more Germans and captured 2,500,
Moscow announced tonight.
Kherson fell after a sharp street
fight and Premier-Marshal Joseph
Stalin's order of the day termed it
"a large junction of rail and water
communications and an important
strongpoint in German defenses at
the mouth of the River Dnieper."
The capture of Kherson opened
the way for coordinated Red Army
drives on the next big Black Sea
objectives, the ports of Nikolaev and
Odessa.
Other Russian units already are
within 30 miles of Nikolaev.
The regular Russian broadcast-
communique recorded by the Soviet
Monitor announced that Russia's
three southern armies were poised
within 50 miles of Rumania's fron-
tiers at three widely separated
points.
(The Polish telegraph agency said
the Germans, "without an attempt
at concealment, had massacred more
than 10,000 persons at Lwow, 75 miles
west of Tarnopol, and were burning
their bodies in preparation for evac-
uation.
The Russians under Gen. Malin-
ovsky and Marshals Gregory K. Zhu-
kov and Ivan S. Konev were reported
striking ahead with incredible speed.
Forts Strike at
North France
LONDON, March 13. - (A) - U.S.
Flying Fortresses in small force
smashed today at German forward
positions in northern France-target
of an estimated 15,000 sorties in the
last three months-as the time for
a newly intensified, and perhaps de-
cisive, period of the air war ap-
proached.
Again the Germans failed to send
up a single fighter to defend this
sector, closest to Britain, where the
enemy is known to have emplaced
anti-invasion weapons.
Receive Diplomas Today
79 Men of 4th OC Class Are Commissioned as
Second Lieutenants; 131 Officers To Graduate
AX
The largestgraduating class in the
history of the Judge Advocate Gen-
eral's School-131 men-will receive
their diplomas in exercises at 10:30
a.m. today in Hutchins Hall.
The class includes 79 second lieu-
tenants who were commissioned yes-
terday in a colorful review parade in
Yost Field House.
Gen. Aurand To Speak
Maj. Gen. Henry S. Aurand, Com-
manding General of the Sixth Ser-
vice Command, will give the main
address at the graduating ceremon-
ies. Other speakers will be Maj. Gen.
Myron C. Crammer, the Judge Ad-
vocate General of the Army; Col. Ed-
ward H. Young, Commandant of the
JAG School; and Dean E. Blythe
Stason of the Law School.
Following the speeches, Gen. Cra-
mer will present diplomas to 27 mem-
bers of the 14th Officer Class, 25
members of the 25th Officer Class,
and the 79 newly commissioned
members of the 4th OC class.
Generals Review Parade
The 5th OC Class as well as the
three graduating classes took part in
the review parade. It was reviewed
by Gen. Aurand, Gen. Cramer, and
Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Green, an as-
sistant Judge Advocate General,
"It was a fine review," Gen. Aur-
and stated. "The members of the
two officer classes as well as the new-
ly commissioned officers deserve the
highest praise."
Band Praised
He added that Col. Frederick C.
Rogers should be commended for get-
ting together such a fine AST band
in so short a time. The band, led by
Pfc. John Schier, drum major, parti-
cipated in the parade. Pfc. Robert
Commanday is band master and Sgt.
Al Leiman, band sergeant.
Brig. Gen. John F. Davis, Chief of
Staff of the Sixth Service Command,
Ambassadors
Of Italy, Russia
Are Exchanged
NAPLES, March 13.-()-Premier
Marshal Pietro Badoglio's govern-
ment announced tonight that it and
the Soviet Union were exchanging
ambassadors.
This marked the first diplomatic
recognition of the Badoglio govern-
ment by one of the United Nations..
Normal relations between Russia and
Italy had been broken by Benito
Mussolini's declaration of a state of
war.
The Soviet action apparently was
taken without consultation with
other allied governments, which also
have Badoglio's requests for ex-
changes of diplomats.
A British diplomatic official here
yesterday professed lack of any
knowledge of the step, although Ital-
ian communist leaders said they
knew a week ago it was impending.
On the other hand, American offi-
cials here were understood to have
had advance knowledge of it, al-
though none would comment on the
matter which, it was said, concerned
only the Italian and Soviet govern-
ments.
Eugenio Reale, secretary of the
Italian Communist Party, said, how-
ever, the action would have no effect
on the party's opposition to Badoglio
and its demand for the abdication
of King Vittorio Emanuele voiced
yesterday in collaboration with the
socialist and action parties at a mass
meeting in Naples. Reale said the
party still is "against Badoglio."
was scheduled to come to Ann Arbor
for the graduation but was unable to
come due to a change of orders.
Other Visiting Generals
In addition to three generals, other
visiting officers were Col. Robert M.
Springer, an Assistant Judge Advo-
cate General, Wash. D.C.; Lt. Col.
Howard A. Brundage, Chief of Con-
trol Branch of JAGO, Wash., D.C.;
and Cl. Samuel A. Ringsdorf, Com-
manding Officer of Section One of
the Sixth Service Command with
headquarters in Detroit.
The 79 newly comissioned officers
wore their gold bars and new uni-
forms for the first time when they
attended a farewell banquet for the
graduating class at the Allenel Hotel
last night. Gen. Cramer was the main
speaker at the banquet.
Mary Be Cut
Possibility Looms of
Lowered 'A' Cards
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March 13.-A gas-
oline ration cut for "A" card holders
in the West and Mid-West appeared
as a possibility tonight, holding them
down to thettwo weekly gallons allow-
ed motorists on the eastern sea-
board.
Western and midwestern drivers
now can get three gallons a week
with their "A" ration.
Co1. Bryan Houston, deputy ad-
ministrator of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration, said the cut has been
advocated by the Petroleum Adminis-
tration for War and may be an-
nounced when new fuel allotments
are set by PAW, possibly tomorrow.
Although officials conceded the
change would mean only a small sav-
ings in gasoline consumption, PAW
Administrator Harold L. Ickes has
wanted for a long time to equalize
gasoline rations on a nation-wide
basis.
Yugoslav Force
Seizes F ootholDd
OLn Brac Islandc
LONDON, March 13.-(AP)-Led by
an unidentified American officer, a
Yugoslav Partisan force has seized
a foothold on Brac Island in the
Adriatic, a rocky sentinel athwart the
entrance to the German-held port of
Split, the Yugoslav Army of Libera-
tion declared today.
The port of Pucisceon the north-
east coast of Brac was occupied, the
broadcast communique said.
The operation presumably was part
of the continuing Allied effort to
broaden and safeguard the Adriatic
supply route to Marshal Tito (Josip
Broz) and might be the prelude to
an attack upon Split itself, the fin-
est Yugoslav harbor.
Another possibility was that the
Allies were seeking to break up Ger-
man coast-wise shipping, which in-
creased noticeably after the Nazis
seized Italian naval vessels at Fiume
when Italy surrendered.
The Cairo radio broadcast uncon-
firmed reports that the Allies had
sunk six German transports off Zara,
up the coast from Split.
Of Force
U.S. Cavalry Division
OILos Negros Takes
Two More Islands
By The associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 14,
Tuesday.-A desperate attack by
three to four thousand Japanese on
American positions at Empress Aug-
usta Bay on Bougainville Island in
the Solomons was turned back Sat-
urday, with about one-third of the
attacking force killed, the Allied
communique said today.
All the Japanese who succeeded in
getting through the defenders' barb-
ed wire were wiped out before night-
fail.
Nearly 150 American Navy bombers
supported the ground troops by
smashing enemy infantry, artillery
and machinegun positions and sup-
port troops. "It was a well-organized
attack," a headquarters spokesman
said of the Japanese thrust.
Concentration of Japanese troops
around the beachhead near Cape
Torkina, where the Allies have two
airfields, had been noted for several
days.
Troops of the first cavalry division
moved from their well established in-
asion positions on Los Negros is-
n land in the Admiralties to occupy 2
'small islands on Seadler Harbor,
Hauwei and Butjo Luo. Occupation
of the two islets puts the Americans
in additional strategic positions for
possible thrusts at Manus island.
MacArthur's comunique today re-
ported that Rabaul was hit again,
this time with 117 tons of bombs di-
rected mainly at the township, Vuna-
pope airdrome and harbor craft.
Fifth Army air force bombers with
escort struck Wewak, Sunday, for the
second successive day, dumping 112
tons of explosives on Boram airdrome
and installations.
Men Give $520
To Red CrosS
Campaign Here
The campus Red Cross drive was
augmented yesterday by contribu-
tions from units of the 3651st S.U.
and from men's houses which
brought the total in the Union man-
aged drive to $520. Totals for wo-
men have not been announced yet.
In addition, the Judge Advocate
General's School has made contribu-
tions of $310. Reports are just be-
ginning to come in during this sec
ond week of the campaign with one
house, Zeta Psi, filling its quota 100
per cent.
No reports had been received at
the League up to last night. How-
ever, Miss Ethel McCormack, social
director of the League said, "I am
confident that we will make our
$3,500. goal. Everyone is very much
interested, and the women appreciate
what the money goes for and how
badly it is needed." She commented
that the attitude of the house presi-
dents when they received their quo-
tas was "cheerful and confident"
and that no one seemed to regard
the solicitation for $1.25 from every
woman as a burden.
!U' Instructor
ies at Hospital
Albert Selke Taught
Political Science in Fall
WOMEN WANTED:
Coeds Interested in Co. D's
Show To Try Out This Week
Albert Selke, an instructor in the
Political Science Department at the
University of Michigan, died last Sat-
urday after a month's confinement
at the University hospital.
Mr. Selke secured his Bachelor of
Arts degree at the University of
North Dakota, where his father is a
professor, and came to the University
of Michigan in October, 1942 to study
for his Ph.D degree in Political Sci-
ence, while working as a teaching
fellow in the department. In Octo-
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Tryouts are still in progress for
Co. D's original musical comedy,
"Rumor Has It" and no parts have
yet been assigned, according to Arty
Saturday, are asked to go to the USO
ballroom for dancing and singing
tryouts at the scheduled times.
One coed, who happened to be in
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