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VOL. LIV No. 21 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1943
PRICE FIVE CFVNtS
Four
Jap
Destroyers
Sunk
Near
STINGY MEASURE:
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Residents of Muriel Lester House, Chos en as
Typical College
f' od 3e) t,
House Passes Tax Bill;
Ignores Treasury Plea
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-The Ad-
ministration was dealt its second ma-
jor defeat in as many days as the
House today shouted approval of a
$2,139,300,000 tax bill, repudiating
the Treasury's request for $10,500,-
000,000.
The second wartime revenue mea-
sure was tossed over to the Senate;
a day after the House voted over-
whelmingly to kill the Food Subsidy
program, described by President
Roosevelt as the keystone in his an-
ti-inflation bulwark.
Passage was by standing vote, 200-1
27, without a roilcall.
Action Swift
With many members anxious. to
spend Thanksgiving at home, the
speed of action probably constituted
a record for a tax bill, only 6 hours
being consumed in debate although
two days of discussion had been sche-
dled.
Some speakers demanded curbs on
Government spending and on "bu-
reaucracy," instead of higher taxes.
Others claimed the measure was a
weak approach to wartime taxation.
Here's how the measure affects the
personal incomes of taxpayers:
Provisions Listedj
1. The Victory Tax is repealed.
2. The normal tax is increased9
from6 percent to 10, to replace the
Victory tax.
,.XPresent personal exemptions and
credit for dependants are retained.
4. The earned income creditis re-
i efled. Married persons filing separ-
ate returns are limited to a single
person's exemption of $500 each.
Local Churchest
Will Celebrate
hanksgivng
In observing a national holiday,
students, servicemen, and towns-
people will assemble today at the
local churches to give thanks.
Five ministers and a rabbi, repre-
senting the Jewish, Catholic and
Protestant faiths, will participate in
the Union Thanksgiving service to be
held at 10:30 a.m. today in St. An-
drew's Episcopal Church.
Dr. Benjamin J. Bush, pastor of
the Westminster Presbyterian
Church of Detroit, will be speake
for the service, His sermon theme is
"The Thanksgiving of Jesus."
Included in the program of the
worship will be the Rev. Henry Lewis,1
pastor of St. Andrew's, the Rabbi J.
M. Cohen, E. F. Conlin, the Rev.
Leonard A. Parr of the First Congre-
gational Church, the Rev. T. R.a
Schmale, pastor of the Bethlehem
lvangelical and Reformed Church,
and the Rev. C. W. Carpenter, pastor
of the Second Baptist Church.
Music for the service will be fur-7
nished by the choir of the Firsti
Methodist Church, under the direc-
tion of Prof. Hardin Van Duersen.i
The selections include "Bless The1
Lord, O My Soul" by Ippolitoff-Ivan-
off and "A Prayer for Our Country"
by Voris. The first number will be
presented in antiphon form, with the
Rev. Ralph G. Dnulop reading, and1
the choir singing the responses.
The offering from the service
which is sponsored by the Ann Arbor,
Ministerial Association, will be
turned over to Greek War Relief.
other churches will hold special
services of their own.
At 10 a. m. the Rev. E. C. Brauer
of St. Paul's Lutheran Church will
See CHURCHES, p. 2
Cornmander
Visits Class
Maj.-Gen. Frederick L. Martin,
commanding general of the Army Air
Forces Central Technical Training
Command headquarters at St. Louis,
Mo., visited the University of Michi-
gan and the meteorology class here
yesterday.
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Joint returns still carry $1,200 ex-
emption.
5. A minimum tax of 3 percent of
the net income in excess of a special
personal exemption of $500 for a
single person and $700 for married
persons, and $100 as a credit for
each dependent is provided, as a
means of retaining on the tax rolls at
about their present burdens some 9,-
000,000 to 12,000,000 persons now re-
mitting Victory taxes but with earn-
ings not large enough to come under
the income levies at present exemp-
tions.
Fires Rage in
Berlin After
Massive Raids
Broken Water Mains
Handicap Firefighting
Efforts in Nazi Capital
By The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 24.-Walls of
flame more than- a -half mile long
were reported licking at Berlin build-
ings after the second massive air at-
tack in two nights, but travelers said
tonight that rain was helping Nazi
firemen to keep them from spread-
ing.
Broken water mains, however, still
handicapped firefighting efforts in
the paralyzed capital.
An eyewitness of the raids Mon-
day night and Tuesday night who ar-
rived here by plane said the first at-
tack was much worse than last
night's, 'but that the second raid
caused more confusio. The Air Min.-
istry building, personally designed by
Adolph Hitler, was reported burned
and not a house was left standing
along the Friedrichstrasse.
Reports to the Swedish press said
parts of Berlin were "an inferno of
flames," while other sections were
pulverized by blockbusting bombs.
Navy To Give
Exam Tuesday
Tests Will Be Held
In Rackham Building
V-1-2 men who are supposed to take
the Comprehensive Achievement test
to be given by the Navy must take
this test Tuesday in the Rackham
Auditorium.
All V-12 students, including Ma-
rines, who by March 1, 1944, will
have completed only two terms of
college work, including that taken'
prior to entry into the V-12 program,
must take the test.
V-1 and V-7 transfers to V-12 who
by March 1 will have completed more
than two terms of college work, in-
cluding that taken prior to entry into
the V-12 program, and who did not
take one of the qualifying tests given
April 20 or Sept. 28 also must take
the tests to be given next Tuesday.
There will be no test given Friday,
contrary to an announcement in The
Daily yesterday.
Rabaul
'e Fifth Enemy
Ship Hit, One
Undamaged
Second Naval Battle
Fought Close to Jap
Base on Thanksgiving
By The Associated Press
Southwest Pacific Allied Head-
quarters, Thursday, Nov. 25-Amer-
ican light naval forces sani four
Japanese destroyers and damaged a
fifth during the first hours of
Thanksgiving day in a naval actio4
fought for the first time in waters
close to the enemy's naval anda
fortress of Rabaul.x
A sixth destroyer, alone escaped t~
torpedoes and gunsftie Aerica
which emerged unscathed from
second naval battle-to be fouht
the Northern Solomons
Enemy Unit Intercepted
Intercepting the enemy unitsot
the northwest coast of invaded Dci-
gainville shortly after midnight, the
American ships-probably destro
ers-virtually annihilated the Jam-
nese after a long, thrilling- batte
which ended with the two survi .
enemy destroyers fleeing to the
north.
Decisive Engagement
The action was most daring, for
the- Americans, pursuing the enemy
to within easy range of Japanese .ar
cover.
It was even more decisive.than the
first engagement in which fivs i 2
enemy ships were sunk and fru oth-
ers damaged.
-BULLETIN-
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Nov..-
IP)-The Ambassador, fletroita
'New York' passenger:tano~h
oshow Baltimore & Ohio, hesd
s freight train tonight lear Nefttn
- ---~ Falls and first reports said thE ±n
gineer was killed and mireA s
~~gY score of passengers were injured
St. Joseph's Hospital at Warren
Hear said ithad received 2-0- njredpe-
sons, while the Warren City Hos-
pital received seven' and reported
hers "More are coming in."
of the U Coe
ciety will .e.o om pletes
ociologists
betinit Gilbert Drive
be inning
Building.
at Mich- Yank Ground Forces
dward J. Hunt Jap Remnants
Michigan
A at Cold- By CHARLES H. McMURTY
Hawley of PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Nov. 24,
epartment --(P)-American invasion forces
classifica- completed the conquest of the- mid-
ison, sub- Pacific Gilbert Islands Tuesday with
ganization the capture of Betio Island and its
d human strategic airfield after killing most
of the 4,000 defenders.
e League, Conquest of this key island in the
r of the Tarawa Atoll came as other United
t of Cor- States ground forces hunted down
roup. the remnants of Japanese on Makin
e will be- and Abemama Atools, already firmly
discussion in American hands. The Gilberts
ns of the provide a potential springboard for
Dr. Nor oci- new amphibious or aerial attacks on
presiding. Japan's outer island defenses
A desperate enemy counter-attack
Talk before noon Tuesday failed to shake
the Marines' grip on Betio. The
Leathernecks of the second division
blems broke it up. Then they forged on to
take control of the Island before
ofessor of nightfall.
Northern
Education,
effects of e k rU rs:
the uppr Yeke re
morrow in Positive Peace
Muriel Lester House, cooperative on campus, will be featuredin t>his
week's Saturday Evening Post. Morning cleanup, the exercise period,
and an Inter-Cooperative Council party were photographed. t
how the life of the co-op girl differs from that of other students
Allied Troops
Seize
San gro
NAZI DRIVE HALTED:
Counterdrive Aimed at Kiev
Stopped by Red Resistance
River Towns
By The Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-
giers, Nov. 24-(R)-Stabbing for-
ward over rough terrain through six
intervening towns and villages,
Eighth Army troops have seized the
two Sangro river towns of San Angelo
and Alfedena near the center of the
Italian line, virtually clearing the ap-
proaches to the Germans' main de-
fense system along a 45-mile stretch
to the Adriatic Sea.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's
British and Canadian fighters
plunged 10 miles due west from their
last reported position at Castiglione
to capture San Angelo on the east-
ern bank of the Sangro,_ a headquar-
ters announcement said today.
In a final five-mile advance into
the burning and gutted town of Al-
fedena, which was fired by the Nazis
two days previously, the Eighth
blasted its way through the stoutly-
defended villages of Montenero Val
Coccinara and Bocca. Alfedena,
some 45 miles from the eastern end
of the battle line, is on the very
backbone of Italy, near the sources
of the Sangro.
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 24.-The German
counteroffensive aimed at Kiev re-
coiled before stone-wall Russian re-
sistance today and the Red army im-
proved its positions in the threatened
Chernyakhov and Brusilov sectors,
Moscow announced tonight.
As the Soviet communique for the
first time in 11 days told of success-
ful defense in the area where they
have already lost Zhitomir, the Ger-
man radio broadcast an unverified
report that Brusilov, 45 miles west
of Kiev, and Chernyakhov, 13 miles
north of Zhitomir, had -=been taken
by the Germans.
But the Russians reported a stif-
fening of their lines.
Battles of great violence were rag-
ing on the lower flank of the Kiev
bulge with German tanks and infan-
try lunging forward under massive
air cover, Moscow dispatches said.
The Germans were said to have
failed to achieve a break through in
depth in the area despite three suc-
cessive withdrawals which the Rus-
sians have made, but front line dis-
patches indicated the main Red army
line was intact for the decisive stage
of the battle.
The German radio military com-
mentator Col. Ernest von Hammer
said Russian relief attacks were
sprung from north and northeast of
Zhitomir-which would catch Field
Marshal Fritz von Mannstein's at-
tack on its weakest flank.
World News
In Brief...
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State SociolIC
Society To I
Three Speal
The annual conference
Michigan Sociological Soc
hear three leading state sc
in the morning conference1
at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Wes
ence Room of the Rackham
Vernon Fox, psychologist
igan State Prison; Dr. E
Humphrey, psychologist at
State Home Training Schoo
water; and Dr. Amos H. F
the University sociology de
will present papers on thec
tion system in Jackson Pri
average groups in the org
of society, and ecology an
ecology.
At a noon luncheon at th
Dr. Garret Heyns, directo
Michigan State Departmen
rections, will address the gr
The afternoon conferenc
gin at 2 p.m. with a panel
of "Sociological Implicatioi
Race Riots in Detroit" with
man D. Humphrey, professc
ology at Wayne University
Dr. Burrows To
On Social Prof
Dr. Albert H. Burrows, pr
sociology and economics at
Michigan State College of I
Marquette, will present the
war on the population of
peninsula at 4:15 p. m. to,
the Rackham amphitheatrf
Dr. Burrows, called the
sociologist of the upper p
MENACE OF INFLATION:
'U' Professors Voice Opinions on Subsidies
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL-I
GIERS, Nov. 24.-()--Large for-
nmations of Flying Fortresses at-
tackedthe Nazi-controlled French
naval base of Toulon today while a
group of Flying Fortresses branch-
ed off from the main formation to
bomb against the coastal rail via-
duct of Antheor near Cannes, about
60 miles east of Toulon.
Patton's Removal Urged
WASHINGTON, Nov 24.-(AP)-One
Congressman urged the removal of
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., from
command today and a Senatorial
committee called for a full report
from the War Department on the
General's action in slapping and be-
rating a war nerves' patient in a Si-
cilian Army hospital.
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Senate To Pass Bill?..
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-(A)-
Administration forces cast frantic-
ally about today for a compromise
of the food subsidy issue, hue op-
ponents predicted the House bill
killing such payments will sweep
through the Senate without being
weakened.
Juvenile Escapists
By DORIS PETERSON
"I'm inclined to think that sub-
sidies would bring us fewer trou-
bles than we would have without
them," Vice-President Shirley W.
Smith, who is in charge of business
and finance, said yesterday.
"I think that we will have more
inflation without subsidies than
with them," he stated.
Prof. Preston Slosson said, "I'm
no judge of the merits of subsidies,
but I think it's wrong for Congress
to take a purely negative attitude
wages to correspond with the in-
creased cost of living," Prof. Slos-
son said.
"Non-organized, fixed salaried
people in the United States will
suffer frightfully in the inflation
which must inevitably follow fail-
ure to maintain subsidies. Congress
is now sowing the wind and we
consumers are going to reap the
whirlwind," Prof. Mentor Williams
of the English department said.
"Subsidies are the only way to
prevent inflation and I am a very
strong supporter of them," he add-
the bill and Congress will uphold
this veto," Prof. Pollock said.
-"This bill will have an inflation-
ary effect if it ever becomes a law,"
Prof. Z. Clark Dickinson of the
economics department said, "as its
passage would encourage demands
.for more wages. Subsidies are the
lesser evil of the present alterna-
tives."
"Subsidies make possible suffi-
cient payment to the farmer in
order to get him to produce the
large quantity of goods which is
necessary and still keep prices
down," William Palmer, instructor
of economics, said.
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"leading
eninsula,"
Holding that no organization can
survive unless it affords cooperation
on an economic basis, James Grif-
fiths, labor member of the British
House of Commons, yesterday came
out strongly for a positive concept of
peace, to maintain and strengthen
the associations of nations built up
during the war.
"We won the last war, but lost the
combination," he declared at a
luncheon meeting of the Rotary Cl*b
and emphasized that "this time we
must not destroy the combination
that made for victory but should
draw nthersintn it tn ahievi ntar.
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