V AGE F tJ T IlE MiVC H IGAN DIA ILY TUESDAY, MAlCH 21, 1944 Major Jap Offensive Aimed at India Is Halted in Assam v _ Nips Suffer Great Casualties In New Clash Burmese Invasion1 Is Called Biggest Battle In Theatre Since '42 By The Associated Press NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 20.- A Japanese offensive from remote bases of the upper Chindwin aimed at an invasion of India and disrup- tibn of the Allied supply line over the Burma hump to China apparent- ly was developing today into the big- gest battle of the theatre since 1942. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia Headquarters an- nounced yesterday that the Japan- ese had crossed the Chindwin in force at several places, and today it was disclosed that a hard battle lasting two days had been fought in the Tid- dim area on the southern flank of the Japanese thrust. Japs Withdraw Although the communique said the Japanese were forced to withdraw after severe casualties in the Tiddim action, it reported the general sit- uation unchanged. The Japanese objective was to break through the jungle wall along the Assam frontier of India and strike into the rail, air and river line which feeds Allied supplies not only to Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese and Americans in northern Burma, but also to Maj. Gen. Claire Chen- nault's U.S. Air Force in China. Imphal Is Goal Striking northward along the west band of the Chindwin; one Japanese column eveidently was aimed at Im- phal, British base in Indian. Anoth- er column, striking from between Homalin and Timanthi farther north, was headed westward. Allied commanders appeared to feel as much enthusiasm as appre- hension at the new Japanese of- fensive, however. If the Japanese tried to supply their columns by air as the Allies have been doing, British and Ameri- can airmen could wish for nothing better, for they have dozens of fight- er fields within easy reach. Four Elected to E'ngine Council The four, newly elected Freshman and Sophomore representatives to the Engineering Council, were an- nounced last night by John Clippert who was in charge of the Council elections. Ray Hulce, USMCR, received the largest Sophomore vote, and will serve on the Council for the rest of his college days. A/S Jim Martin, also a Sophomore representative, will serve through the Spring semester. Charles Walton will be the perman- ent member representing the Class of '47 and Salvitore Sorice will serve on behalf of the Freshmen Engineering students this semester. The new members are urged to attend1 the Council meeting to be held at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow in Rm. 244 of the West Engineering Build- ing. Arrangements for the joint Slide-Rule and Engineering Ball and the administration of the honor sys- tem in the Engine School this sem- ester will be discussed at the meet- ing. Men of Co. C Hold Farewell Party The men of Company C held a fare- well party last night at the Pretzel Bell. Arrangements for the party were made by Sgt. Irwin Stup. Cpl. Ben Lipton was in charge of the enter- tainment which was provided by members of the company. Capt. Richard S. Campbell is the commanding officer of the company. _ 'N Ledo ' Ft.HNertz :.4; _ INDIA R.H angkwan sumprabum _ = Mogawlu un- =b =- Pinilebu - B-ham ~Buma or * Katha _ - --STATUTE MILES FORCING THE CHINDWIN River, Jap Forces (1) are aiming at an in- vasion of India and the disruption of Allied supply lines through Burma to China. Chinese troops are also meeting heavy Jap resistance at Jambu Bum (2), and airborne British forces landed southeast of Myit- lyina (3) won a strong Jap position in hand to hand fighting. DRIVER'S LAST TRIP: - Six Escape Deat as Bus Skids ito Passaic River Coeds Wanted To Tryout for Co. D Show Singing, Dancing and Speaking Roles Open For 'Rumor Has It' All coeds interested in roles in Company .D's original musical com- edy, "Rumor Has It," should try out for speaking parts between 7 and 10 tomorrow or Thursday in the USO ballroom. Singing and dancing try-outs will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. tomorrow in the USO ballroom. According to Pfc. Arty Fischer, director of the show, coeds interested in parts must have all types of try-outs. He said that they are particularly interested in getting coeds who were in the cast of "Tom Sawyer" and thus unable to attend previous meetings to try-out tomorrow. Other women interested in parts who have been unable to attend previous try-outs should go to the USO tomorrow at the scheduled times.. This will be the first time in six years that coeds have had an op- portunity to participate in a musical comedy. Over 200 had singing and dancing try-outs last week. Coeds interested in set designing and construction, make-up, wardrobe or in any other type of off stage work are needed for the show. A special meeting will be held in the near future for all persons interested in back-stage work. Sold ier Choir 100TH ANNIVERSARY: c"T---°-----a By The Associated Press PASSAIC, N.J., March 20.-A diver estimated late today that there were "about 25" bodies in a bus which had skidded from an ice-covered bridge into the 18-foot barge channel of the Passaic River nearly ten hours earli- er. ' Four bodies already had been taken to an improvised morgue and offi- cials said others might be under the bus or swept downstream by the out- going tide. Cold Offset Work Six persons escaped with their lives, and their esimates of the dead rang- ed from eight to 30 before Julius J. Cinamon, Passaic Director of Public M4olas To Talky On Paraguay Lecture Is Third in Spanish Club Series Dr. Mariano Molas of Paraguay will- present the third of a current lecture series sponsored by the So- ciedad Hispanica at 8:00 p.m. tomor- row in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Dr. Molas, who is at present work- ing for his master's degree in Public health, was formerly a professor of surgery at the University of Asunci- on, Paraguay. Recently in the diplo- matic service as minister to Mexico and to Uruguay, he decided to come to the University shortly after he resumed practice. "Paraguay is a small, undeveloped country and needs economic support from the United States," Dr. Molas said in a recent interview. "Its po- tential industries are mainly agricul- tural in nature, but Paraguay also has deposits of petroleum and other minerals." "Paraguay's population, which was decimated by the war with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay from 1865 'to 1870, needs to be built up by European immigration," he continued. In summary, Dr. Molas asserted that Paraguay looks to the United States for economic support in order to become the small well-developed nation for which she has the poten- tialities. Dr. Molas expects to return to Paraguay at the end of the summer and plans to specialize in public health work. His lecture will be mainly concerned with acquainting his audience with the main facts about Paraguay. Dr. Mott, Theologist, Lauds YMCA Aid to War Prisoners Safety, announced the diver's re- port. Rescue efforts were dramatic, but the bitter cold of the water offset much of the work. Dotting the surface were self-in- flating life rafts pitched with extra- lightwood from fourth-floor windows of the big United States Rubber Company plant beside the river, ropes and poles dangled from the bridge, cushions which floated free from the bus, and swimmers who dared the all- but-paralyzing water. But only seven passengers were pulled out alive, and one of these died in a hospital.. Driver Makes "Last Trip" The accident occurred during the morning rush hour and on a day when a storm of sleet and snow had sent extra thousands piling into buses throughout northern New Jersey. It occurred within seconds after the driver of the disaster-destined ve- hicle had commented he was making his "last trip." Stanley Raymond of Passaic, the man to whom the driver made the remark, turned to look for a seatj and an instant later was swimming inside the bus. He paddled, pastj corpses to the emergency rear door. and made his escape. Frances Griffin To G ive Recital The Bruch "Concerto in G minor, Op. 26" will highlight the violin re- cital of Frances C. Griffin, '44, at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Other selections on Miss Griffin's program are Handel's "Sonata in D major," the Bach "Sonata in D min- or" (for violin alone), "Sonata in A major, Op. 100" by Brahms, "Anor- anza" by Granados and "Jota" by de Falla. Miss Griffin, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority and Sigma Alpha Iota, music fraternity, is presenting this program in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the B.M. degree. In February, 1943, she entered the School of Music as a student of Prof. Gilbert Ross. During the past sum- mer she studied with Feri Roth, dir- ector of the nationally known Roth String Quartet which appeared here in January, and at present is con- tinuing work with Prof. Ross. To Sing April 2' "I wish I were as sure of the older generation, to which I belong, as I am of the younger," Dr. John R. Mott, one of the greatest living Christian leaders, said Sunday in a speech celebrating the centennial anniversary of the YMCA. Emphasizing the attitude, spirit and purpose of present-day youth, Dr. Mott said, "I have served in 3,000 different colleges and universities in the past 56 years, and the attitude of the Good Samaritan is spreading widely, even more so than in the last war." "Already in this present war, we are serving six million men, and if we secure permission from Russia to serve Germans, the total will reach ten million," Dr. Mott, who headed Almnae lub To Sponsor Tea Brazilian Will Speak At International Center The Michigan Alumnae Club will hold a tea and program for foreign women on campus from 3 to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at the International Center. A speech, "A Brazilian Looks at the USA" will be given by Nelson Sampaio, from San Paulo, who is doing work in legal research at the University. The program was arranged by Dr. Esson M. Gale, director of the Inter- national Center, George Hall, assis- tant to the director, and Mrs. John Adcock. Mrs. Carl Burklund, Mrs. D. C. May, Mrs. Louis Eich, Mrs. Robert Wurster and Mrs. J. S. Wor- ley, officers and board members of the Alumnae Club. Tea To Follow A tea and social hour will be held following the speech. Mrs. Alexander G. Ruthven, Mrs. G. J. Diekema, Mrs. A. H. Lovell, Dr. and Mrs. Gale and Mrs. J. Raleigh Nelson will receive. Hostesses will be Miss Edith Barn- ard, Dean Alice Lloyd, Dean Byrl F. Bacher, Mrs. Beach Conger, Mrs. William Walz, Mrs. Howell Taylor, Mrs. Hugh Keeler, Mrs. Martha Ray, Mrs. Walter Newell, Mrs. Hazel Over- ton, Miss Elene Ley, Mrs. Francisca Thivy, Miss Violen Oulbegian, Mrs. Ola Crawford, Miss Constance Taber, Mrs. Howard Holmes and George Hall. Coeds To Assist Presiding at the tea tables will be Mrs. Edward Adams, Mrs. Shirley Smith, Mrs. Stone Yoakum, Mrs. Evans Holbrook, Mrs. Walter Mad- dock and Mrs. H. A. K. Whitney. Assisting at the tea tables will be a group. of University women, Mary Brownrigg, Virginia Barnes Helen Dickinson, Elaine Glasner, Betty Grimes, Ruth Rodenbach, Marion Squire, Ann Terbruggen, Marion Torn, Elizabeth Updegraff, Margaret J. Walsh and Florene Wilkins. Riders Tryout Today Coeds who are trying out for Crop and Saddle or the University Wo- men's Riding Club will meet at 6:15 p.m. today in front of Barbour Gym. Tryouts will be expected to pay for their full hour of riding. For further information call Pat Coullter at 2-3159. war work among prisoners in the first World War, added. "We have organized colleges in prisons, we have collected millions of books to send across (we should have collected tens of millions), and we have organized sports for the men. One of the princpile expenses in this war is for musical instruments. There is no other means quite so effective to bring life from the 'dead'." "We are teaching some 40 trades among prisoners of war. In the field of religion our principal aim is to provide religious worship according to the tradition of theprisoner." "In short," continued Dr. Mott, "we are trying to turn the life of enforced confinementsfrom physical deterioration, mental stagnation and moral disintegration to a period of physical reconstruction, mental ac- tivity and moral reinforcement." "Of the 83 countries I have visited, there is none which is not surcharged with fears and suspicions, buthnever- theless my heart beats higher with hope than it ever has before. There are grounds for hope which make me believe that this time things will be different." "For one thing in every country that I have served, I have noted that discerning men and women are posi- tively alarmed; they are not discour- aged, they are not disillusioned, but they are awake! I cannot help feel- ing this as a reason to hope," Dr. Mott maintained. "Then too, there is the factor of our illimitable resources which we cannot ignore. Five-sixths of the present nations of the world believe war is not the best permanent means of settling international troubles," Dr. Mott pointed out. "We have in Germany a far greater number of people with us than we have against us." "A third ground for hope is the present-day evidencesrof Christian- ity," he continued. "Christ has never been better preached than He is now. The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church, and therefore I am not pessimistic.' Dr. Mott has served as interna- tional secretary of the YMCA, presi- dent of the World Student Christian Federation and chairman of the Institute of Social and Religious Re- search. Among the countries he has visited are England, France, Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Germany, Japan, China, Korea, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, the Philippines, Bulgaria, Poland and Italy. On Vocational Guidance Today A lecture on "Job Opportunities Now and After the War' will be given by Albert Cohen of the Detroit Jew- ish Vocational Service at 8 p.m. today at the Hillel Foundation. The lecture will deal primarily with those fields in which discrimi- nation against the Jews is not prac- ticed, and the lecturer will describe new fields in which minority groups can find employment. Discussing the large number of jobs now available for college grad- uates, Cohen will advise students who are undecided about their field of concentration or are dissatisfied with the choice they have made. A motion picture will accompany the lecture. The Nisei group on campus has been invited and special attention will be devoted to the employment problems facing Japanese-Americans. A vocational guidance test will be given Sunday, April 2, to a limited group of students. Those interested in taking the test or in half hour personal consultations with Mr. Co- hen on Sunday, April 16, should apply for an appointment on the night of the lecture. The meeting will be open to the public. Hopwood .. (Continued from Page 1) third prize of $20 for her poem, "To a Lost Cause." Fifty-four students submitted 62 manuscripts. Of that number, 31 were entered in the essay division, 22 in the field of fiction, and nine in the poetry division. Last year 45 students entered 50 manuscripts. Twenty of these were submitted in the field of the essay, 17 in the fiction division, and 13 in poetry. Judges of the 1944 freshmrar con- test were Profs. Arno L. Bader and Louis I. Bredvold, and Dr. Frank E. Robbins. Under the terms of his wil? one- fifth of Avery Hopwood's estate was set aside and given to the Regents of the University "for the encouraging of creative work in writing." In the thirteen years the awards have been given, they have amounted to $9,000 a year. The contest was open to "any freshman regularly enrolled in a composition course in the English Department of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts, or in that of the College of Engineering, Co. A Choralists Will Be City Orchestra Guests The Soldier Choir of Co. A will be the guest artists at a program with the Ann Arbor Civic Orchestra to be presented April 2 in the Ann Arbor High School Auditorium. Cpl. Joseph Running of Co. A is the director of the choir. Cpl. Run- ning was formerly a member of the music faculties of Stanford Univer- sity and of St. Olaf College. Dr. Joseph Maddy of the School of Music and director of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, is the orchestra director. He is now in Washington taking part in the Pe- trillo investigation. He plans to re- turn to Ann Arbor in time for the concert.- Thechoir will be featured in a capella selections. The orchestra will accompany them in one number. Cpl. Robert Muller, baritone, will appear as soloist. Cpl. 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