1 l r it Nit Wtm ther VOL. LIV No. 96 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1944 llied Troops Drive into assrno Railwat PRICE FIVE CENTS ation; U. S. Planes Smash Vienna in Trans-Alpine Raids RAF Heavies Bomb Dutch, French Bases German Radio Station Goes Off the Air During Continuous Assaults By The Associated Press LONDON, March 17.- Ita,ian- based U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators roared over the Alps today to bomb military targets in Vienna as Allied planes from Britain in con- tinuous assaults blasted Nazi com- munication points in France and Holland. Tonight the Frankfurt radio sta- tion signed off suddenly in the mid- dle of a program, usually an indica- tion that RAF night bombers are over the continent. Cacena Bombed In addition to the attack on Vien- nese targets, medium bombers from Allied fields in southern Italy bombed Cacena, a vital railroad junction in northern end of the peninsula. The strong force of American big bombers up from the south, escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightnings, found the Austrian capital blanketed by an overcast through which a heavy anti-aircraft fire was poured. There was no German fighter oppo- sition, however. The Algiers radio said the target was an aircraft fac- tory. Strike by Night The Mediterranean air force also struck northward into Europe by night, hitting rail communications at Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, for the second night in a row, employing big RAF Halifax bombers for the first time from this theatre. The day operations followed an RAF night precision-raid by Lancas- ters 30 miles southwest of Vichy. Senators Favor Soldirs' Bill Committee Approves Servicemen's Benefits WASHINGTON, March 17.-(IP)- Wrapping up in its 46 pages every benefit for veterans of the present war except a bonus, the $3,500,000,000 "G. I. Bill of Rights" measure 'was sped on its way today toward over- whelming Senate passage by a unan- imous vote of its Finance Committee. Senator Johnson (Dem., Colo.), one of the spopsors of a pending $30,- 000,000,000 adjusted compensation or bonus bill, told reporters he would seek Finance Committee hearings on that proposal after the omnibus measure had cleared Congress. Finance Committee Chairman George (Dem., Ga.) estimated max- imum benefits under the "G. I.' bill at $3,000,000,000, exclusive of a $500,- 000,000 authorization for construc- tion of additional hospital facilities to care for the wounded and disabled, Fib' aS Char ge IS DismiSSed GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. March 17.-(P)- Handsome, curly-haired young David Filgas was set free of a murder charge in his girl friend's petting party death today in a sensa- tional court room scene. ., Filgas, a Greenville High School student, was accused of killingpret- ty, 17-year-old Patricia Winters the night of last Dec. 10. The girl's body was found in a fire-swept automo- bile, but the cause of death was never established. Ford Motor Officials Discipline Workers DETROIT, March 17.-(P)'- The Ford Motor Company announced to- night the completion of disciplinary action in connection with two recent Rouge plant disturbances. A total of 106 employes were penal- ized, the Company said. Thirty penalties were announced Need for Adult Education Discussed at Acadenmv IMeeting Industry, Labor, Agriculture Represented at 49th Annual State Session of College Leaders Highlight of the 49th annual meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters yesterday was a joint panel discussion by repre- sentatives from industry, labor, rural areas and women dealing with the necessity of adult education now and after the war. A few sections of the Academy will mee't again today and a business meeting for the election of new officers will be held at 3 p.m. in Rm. 2009 of the Natural Science Building. All meetings will be open to the public. Members of the panel agreed that adult education is vitally neces- sary for the health of the nation and the establishment of a satisfactory post-war economy. In fact, President Alexander G. Ruthven stated in summing up the discussion that, "From the results of my recent trip to England and from what I have seen here today, I feel that I can now stop talking about adult education for at last it seems to have gained almost universal appeal." "From' my experience you can expect better results from well conducted discussions among adults from any group of society than you can from any class of undergraduates in a university," he added. Willard Martinson of the education department of Local 50, UAW-CIO, said that "It's not the students that will make the decisions but the present- day adults. He told the assembled ---------------------------------- 4 I Red Drive 'Terrific Threatens Assaults Rumanians Rock City By The Associated Press LONDON, March 17.--The Rus- Nazis Retain 11eold cian rnt d tnni ht tha thn ~ !t-r ar sins r epor tie s. onIgnjJt InaLtn e Red Army had driven to two points only 11 mile's from the Dniester River, pre-war border of Rumania, whilej to the northwest other troops lashed out in a new offensive westward t In southwestern Part Of Battle-Torn Town Ki. 0p 50 ''4 ? p~r tntUtt ILE ? -.--.'., Vanak ' -' i JI Georgie Tapps, recognized internationally for his tap routines, will headline the first Victory Varieties show to be presented by the University at 8:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Tapps, who recently starred in "Pal Joey" and the George White Scandals on Broadway, is coming to Ann Arbor from Chicago's famous night club, the Rio Cabana. 'U' VAUDEVILLE SHOW: Famous Tap Dancer To Appear I n Victory Varieties T oday Georgie Tapps, internationally fa- mous tap dancer, will be one of the feature attractions of the first Uni- versity Victory Varieties show to be presented at 8:15 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. Formerly _appearing in the Roxy Theatre and the 44th Street Theatre of New York, Tapps comes to Ann Arbor from Chicago's popular night club, the Rio Cabana. ' Ticket Sales Increase "Demands .for tickets have in- creased, and to facilitate the sales, we will open the Hill Auditorium box office between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. today," Dean Walter B. Rea stated. "Judging from the ticket sales thus Dr. Carol Aronovichi, a distin- guished authority on housing and city planning, will speak on the topic of "Regionalism" in a lecture spon- sored by the Department of Sociology and the School of Architecture at 4:15 p.m. Monday in the amphi- theatre of the Rackham Building. A lecturer on city planning in Columbia University, Dr. Aronovichi has recently written "Housing the Masses," a treatise of post-war hous- ing problems. The public is invited to the lecture. far, the committee believes there will be a capacity house for the first University vaudeville show," he add- ed. Tickets, priced at 75c, may be secured from the USO, University Hall corridor, the East and West Quadrangles, the League and Union, University Hospital newsstand, resi- dence halls. State Street and down- town stores, and after 7:15 p.m. at the Hill Auditorium box office. Seven Acts Featured Headline stars of the seven act show include Lischeron and Adams, well known ballroom team, and the Singing Commanders, who appeared at the Edgewater Beach Hotel and the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, Bert Lynn with his vibrolyn guitar, who recently completed a show at Radio City Music Hall, and the Five Taylor Kids, popular professional acrobats, who were seen .at the Oriental Thea- tre in Chicago. Cam pus Men Ivited T o Uiiioi Smoker All men on campus are invited to the smoker which will be held at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in Rms. 316, 318 and 32U of the Union. This first smoker of the season is to introduce newcomers to the work done by the various Union commit- tees. social scientists that, "We need your technical knowledge and social psy- chology, but we have got to learn how to bridge the gap between the uni- versities and the people." Speaking as a representative of in- dustry, Wayne Brownell emphasized the necessity for efficiency in an adult education program. "You can't just put a notice in the papers that there is a meeting or they just won't come," he said. Brownell also plead- ed for greater use of athletic facilities in schools by adults. John F. Yaeger of the Michigan State Farm Bureau, said that the greatest need in rural areas is for teachers, trained in leading adult discussion groups to come out in the field and teach people how to organize into functioning groups and to give them a constructive program that will be something more than mere "pooling of ignor- ance." He explained that there are more than 500 community Farm Bureaus and adult discussion groups estab- lished for the purpose of analyzing current problems and that there are about 60,000 people taking an active part in these groups. "We want leaders," he said, "not only with the knowledge of how to do it, but with the realization of the necessity." Helen Bryant of the League of Wo-) men Voters said that social scientists have the technical information to make it possible for adults to educate themselves if they would act as "a clearing house for ideas and a source of simple, unprejudiced documenta- tion of information." President Ruthven told the as- sembled social scientists that "You can expect not only as much, but more returns from a group of adults than you are accustomed to receive- ing from your classes of undergrad- uates. Our job," he said, "is pri- marily training for citizenship and we cannot dodge responsibilities if we believe education must be con- tinuous to be 'effective. I believe you social scientists have got to in- sist upon and draft national plans for adult education."s Dr. Leigh J. Young, president of' the Academy, said in his presidential address on "Michigan's Forest Po- tential" that "if present cutting See PANEL, Page 4 rnvi n Yank OTroops Take Lorengau In Admiralties Airdrone on Island Seized Ships Aid in ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March 1.- JP)--American troops have captured Lorengau airdrome on Manus Island in the Admiralty group, Allied head- quarters announced today. Another Japanese attack on the Allied beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island in the Solomons has ben hurled back. En- emy troop formations were decimat- ed, headquarters announced, and Japanese casualties have been count- ed in the thousands. In the Manus Island offensive, First Cavalry Division troopers have advanced within 600 yards of the village of Lorengau. American des- troyers threw over a barrage and aided in the capture of the airstrip. Allied bombers again hit Rabaul, the Japanese base in New Britain, this time with 135 tons of bombs. The attackers were not opposed in the air. Returning for the sixth straight day of attacks on the enemy base at Wewak, New Guinea, Allied aircraft dropped 143 tons of explosives from a total of almost 900 tons for the six days. Buildings and gun positions were destroyed in the latest attack, World New in Bref Mans IS as U.S. Capture Arrows indicate Russian drives on the southern front, where Mos- cow reported Red Army forces have captured Vapnyarka and Noyaya Odessa. In two points the Reds have driven to within 11 miles of the Dniester River.E through old Poland, capturing Dub- no, "an important strongpoint in German defenses,'' and Demidovka, 18 miles beyond. The Moscow communique, recorded by the Soviet Monitor, said the Rus- sians had captured Klembovka, 11 miles north bf the river and 12 miles from the former border town of Yam- pol. Also reported captured was 01- shanka, 14 miles southeast of Klem- bovka, and likewise 11 miles from the winding river. Klembovka is 30 miles southeast of Mogilev Podolski, another important Russian objective on the Dniester's banks. The Russians also seized the dis- trict center of Peschana, 13 miles southeast of Olgapol and 16 miles from the Odessa-Zhmerinka trunk line. Chilean Professor To Lecture Today Prof. Luis Alberto Sanchez of the University of Chile will lecture in Spanish on different aspects of Uni- versity education in North and South America at 8 p.m. today in the Rack- ham Building amphitheatre under the auspices of the Latin America Society. * Vell known throughout Spanish speaking countries as an author and lecturer, Prof. Sanchez is now in the United States for the second time. By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NA- PLES, March 17.- Allied troops fought their way into Cassino rail- way station today and Indian Ghur- kas clawed within 100 yards of the summit of Mt. Cassino, but fiercely- resisting Germans still retained a toehold on the southwestern out- skirts of their ravaged stronghold. Changes Hands The railway station had changed hands frequently during the bloody two-months battle for Cassino. Bitter fighting raged on the slopes of Mt. Cassino, and Allied troops there were under intense fire from Nazis in the ruins of the ancient abbey on the crest. A small number of New Zealand tanks moved into the battle this afternoon and one was destroyed by four direct hits from self-propelled German artillery. Stubborn Resistance All day the rubbled ruins of Cas- sino shuddered under violent attack, but when night came the Nazis still clung to their caves, tunnels and dugouts and there was a discernible feeling here that they might not be routed soon. New Zealand troops spearheading the Allied assault from the north had fought their way through the rubble to the town's outer fringe and had joined forces with Indian Ghurkas who were storming up the slopes of towering Mt. Cassino on the west. Allies Slowed Up Making use of ruined buildings to mount machine-guns and hide snip- ers, the Germans were fighting des- perately and capitalizing an the slowness of the Allied advance through the churned-up wreckage. To Be Probed n ' WASHINGTON, March 17.-(/P)-- A feud between Walter Winchell, radio commentator and newspaper columnist, and members of Congress who claim he is attempting to "smear" them, boiled to a climax today as the Dies committee ordered an investigation of Winchell's broad- casts for the last two years. Chairman Dies (Dem., Tex.), who has excoriated the commentator in several recent House speeches, an- nounced that the Committee on Un- American Activities has issued a sub- poena for scripts and recordings of Winchell's programs for the last two years. He added that a thorough investi- gation of Winchell's programs prob- ably would require the appearance of about thirty witnesses, including officials of the Jergens Company,, 29 COMMUNITIES REPRESENTED: SCollege Religious Leaders C. ~.FZ..N. V ~ -s.. ~ ~ i "Our Men in the Wartime College" will be the address given by Chaplain Jule Ayers, lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, to open a conference of representatives from 29 college com- munities in Michigan, when they convene at 10 a.m..tomorrow in Lane Hall. The conference, which is open to college and university religious coun- selors, teachers of religion, campus ministers, directors of student foun- dations, association secretaries and Agency Board members in Michigan, will deal with the question of "Reli- gion in the Wartime College." Students To Participate Congregational Church. Faculty rep- resentative will be Prof. Howard Y. McClusky of the School of Educa- tion; William Muehl, acting director of the Student Religious Association; Elizabeth Hawley, former chairman of the Post-War Council, and Make- peace Tsao, student at the Univer- sity, will also speak. Sponsored by the War Emergency Council of the Christian Associations and the Conference of College Teach- ers and Ministers of Religion in Michigan, the conference sessions will center around religious counsel- ing of civilian and military students, post-war education and i"eligious Technical Training Command, will also attend the conference. "The Situations Which Challenge Leadership" will include representa- tives from various types of colleges and universities. In the group dis- cussion at 11 a.m. will be Charles Kraft, representing a church college; John Price, a state college; Dorothy Zimmerman and Dean Joseph P. Sel- den of Wayne University, a munici-, pal university, and the Rev. C. H. Loucks, minister of the First Baptist Church, and Rabbi Jehudah Cohen of Hillel Foundation, representingI the University. Symposiums on "Rcligious Coun- fi ' ovS7' ,'1 r "Crn t R£licrin~c, TP. T£ l - i E {f{ E Tax Bill Simp..li.id WASHINGTON, March 17.-(IP- Responding to a national outcry against the recent siege of decimal jitters, the House Ways and Means Committee approved today a far- reaching plan to simplify the tax statutes, relieving some 30,000,000 of the 50,000,000 taxpayers of the neces- sity of ever computing another in- come tax return. Beginning next Jan. 1, under the plan, the present withholding system against wages and salaries will be revised to deduct the full tax liability for persons earning up to $5,000. F.DJL ad Draft$''* WASHINGTON, March 17.-(1P-_ President Roosevelt, saying there are few men under 26 really indispens- able to industry, indicated today he is leaning toward the armed services' view that virtually all physically fit men under that age must be drafted. Formula Rumors . . WASHINGTON, March 17.-(})- The administration was reported on WITH THE ALLIED BEACHHEAD FORCES IN ITALY, March 17.-YP'- In the first ceremony of its kind ever held under fire, 139 non-citizen U.S. doughboys fighting on this beach- head became naturalized American, citizens yesterday and today. The oath of citizenship was admin- istered by Thomas Estes, American' vice-consul and the designated rep- resentative of the immigration and naturalization service. The U.S. official explained that the Naturalization Act of 1940 was amended for the benefit of soldiers,. the only requirement being that sol- dier-applicants for citizenship legally entered the United States. I The first non-citizen naturalized ing to get my papers for some time, but when I started I never dreamed I'd finally make it on the battlefield of Anzio." Just a few moments before the first ceremony began, two 500-pound bombs fell, 50 yards on either side of the spot chosen for the rites. "These boys are actually perform- ing one of the basic duties of citizen- ship by defending the United States," commented Maj. Hugh A. Scott, of Salem, Ore,, whose division contrib- uted 65 new citizens. "Any man willing to offer his life to his country deserves the privileges of citizenship," Maj. Scott contin- 1 P[i OATH UNDER FIRE: 139 Non-Citizen Dougbboys Are Naturalized near Anzio , '