r A"k w- ! ,'' a IIIIL JgIL' --. ........ Y a' t man kt t 144pr MWFF It t. VOL. LIV No. 22 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS ew Guinea Stronghold Falls to Aussies Gomel, Last Nazi Bastion in White Russia, Captured by Reds Reds Encircle 20Divisions Near Dnieper German Escape Route Is Pinched Tighter By New Advancements By The Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 26.-Gomel, guard- ian of the White Russian road to Po- land and the last Nazi bastion east of the Dneper River, fell today to en- circling assault by a Russian army which was swiftly closing in from the north and south to trap perhaps 20 Nazi divisions, or about 300,000 men. The Gomel victory, by a "bold out- flanking maneuver" was announced in a special order of the day by Pre- mier Joseph Stalin a few hours after the Germans declared they had de- stroyed the town and fallen back. . Escape Corridor Closes The newest advances pinched still tighter the narrow German escape corridor from Gomel to Bobrusk, now less than 50 miles wide. The on- ly railroad, to Zhlobin and Bobruisk, now was well within artillery range. The communique also reported continued successful defense against the German counterattack hammer- ing at the Kiev bulge in the areas of Korosten, Cherniakov and Brusilov' The Germans, meanwhile, declared that the Russian offensive had mush- roomed over a 100-mile front from Gomel north. Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, Berlin radio commentator, said "since the evacuation of Gomel Soviet forc- es form one solid offensive front from Rechitsa to a point west of Krichev." fled Offensive Spreads Moscow dispatches said the new Russian offensive in the north, an- nounced after three days of success- ful fighting yesterday, had smashed to the upper Dneiper River and cut the motor highway, one of the most important lateral lines of communi- cation in White Rusia. The new offensive was called a "major manoeuvre" by Moscow dis- patches which said the Russians were moving swiftly along terrain harden- ed by early frost. Highwater mark was said to be within 50 miles of Bob- ruisk, a White Russian city which the Germans once used as a base for bombing Moscow, and 120 miles from the White Russian capital of Minsk. Nazi Troops topped in Ital Y Y Enemy Counterattacks; Slacken in Sangro Area ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al- giers, Nov. 26.-()-Hammered by daylong relays of American and Brit- ish fighter-bombers, Nazi troops have been sharply repulsed in every onslaught against Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth Army, which improved its five-mile-long bridge- head across the Sangro river near Italy's Adriatic coast.' The enemy's fierce counterattacks from high ground overlooking the7 Eighth's hard-won positions slack- ened considerably, an official an- nouncement said today, due largely to the demoralizing effect of thou- sands of anti-personnel fragmenta- tion bombs flung from the air on German troop concentrations and targets. Shaken Nazi prisoners blamed the ceaseless aerial pounding for the fact that Montgomery's veterans were able to consolidate and enlarge their bridgehead and pour reinforcements and essential supplies across the flooded Sangro. Meteorologists To. Graduate The pre-meteorology students of the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command will graduate this morning in informal exercises to be Allies Blast Scene of Tra Key E.nemy Strongholds~ Berlin Bremen Hit By Huge American, British Air Armada By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 27.-The greatest armada of U. S. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers ever to take the air-with their escorts totaling close to 1,000 planes - blasted the$ German North Sea port of Bremen and targets in Northern France yes- terday, and a few hours later the Germans announced that the RAF raided battered Berlin last night for the fifth night in a row.s Heavy opposition was encountered by the American bombing force, which included both Flying Fort- resses and Liberators, and the at- tackers lost 39 planes, 29 of them ..:_.:. heavy bombers. A total of 56 Ger- Part of the wrecka man planes were shot down. Amer- troit-Washington train ican and RAF fighters escorted the men were killed and 50 U. S. bomber force. _____ereki__edand____ RAF Attack is Heaviest Day Raid R The official announcement of the RACE RIOT operations-which followed a heavy RAF night smash at industrial H m e Frankfurt-am-main and a Thursday night Mosquito stab as as fire-black- ened Berlin-said that the "largest ren in force" of British-based American heavy bombers ever employed in a B ELEANOR HUN daylight assault gave Bremen, an im- portant industrial city of 375,000 The race riots of Detroit h people, its 107th raid of the war. ed to accentuate the belief 56 Planes Shot Down regation is the only solutio Of the 56 German planes shot out problems, several . member of the sky, escorting fighter planes State Sociological Society s set a new record for accounting for terday at the afternoon sess 36, and the bombers got 20. The pre- Convention in the Rackha vious high for U. S. Eighth Air Force ing. Thunderbolts and Lightnings was 25 Presided over by Dr. N German planes destroyed in the Kas- Humphrey, Assistant Pro sel raid on July 30. Sociology, Wayne Universit cussion centered on the c suts and suggested preve , OR f $$ Qi$ the race riots. Riots a Trend Toward Fasc Service Aid Bill Dr. Humphrey said that might cause a crystalizat: caste system-a trend towar PresdentSancionscan fascism. In answer t Pesidet Sanctions speaker from the floor decl 7 Billion Dollar Plan the real hope for the ab( racial discrimination and st WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-()- in the trade unions. He po Congress got a $7,000,000,000 pro- that unions, on the whole, w gram today for financial aid to de- this by bringing Negro mem mobilized ' service men and women, the leadership as well as Introduced after President Roosevelt membership. urged such action, it calls for: Housing conditions, trans Up to $300 mustering out pay on and the influx of Southern leaving the service. Negro workers were discusse $15 to $25 a week unemployment of the cause for the riots. compensation, depending on the that native facists actively number of dependents, if without a up hatred on both sides .a . b .pressed by one of the audien civilian job at any time during the other important cause. first 15 months after leaving the ser- Newspaper Actions Importa vice. - One of the main reasons Social security credits, based on for the augmentation oft pay of $160 a month, for time spent after they were started was t in the service, of the newspapers. Smalln The program was introduced in hood papers, as well as lar four separate bills. Identical meas- papers, printing "vicious an ures covering unemployment com- stories, played a large pa pensation and social security credits development of the riots, on were introduced in the Senate by added. Senator Wagner (D-NY), George As a preventive of futur (D-MO), acting jointly, and in the was suggested that recreat House by Chairman Doughton (D- cilities, better housing condi NC) if the Ways and Means Commit- changes in the police and s tee. partments were needed. D tin Wreck Where Fifty Passengers Were Killed Sattelberg, Huon Gulf *.Beachhead, Cap tured Jap Loss of Manpower, Equipment Is Great; A1ies Now i'n Position To Invade New Britain By MURLIN SPENCER Associated Press Correspondent SOUTHWEST ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Saturday, Nov. 27.-(W)- Sattelberg village on a 2,400 foot spur overlooking New Guinea's Huon gulf -from whose coast General MacArthur is in position to invade New Britain -was stormed and captured Friday by Australians who strewed the high ground with dead Japanese and seized much war equipment, including field artillery. The Japanese survivors retreated north along the Wareo trail after yielding their first ma.jor point in the area since the fall of Finschhafen, eight miles to the southeast, on Oct. 2. The victory, achieved by Australians who had to overcome the most difficult type of mountain and dense jungle in addtion to fierce enemy resistance, brought to a close military operations which started Sept. 21 with a landing on the coast north of Finschhafen. Assault Started Nov. 17 The series of assaults culminating in Sattelberg's capture started Nov. 17 when medium tanks were thrown into action. The three Aussie forces were supplied throughout the campaign by American amphibious engineers. Tanks were unable to follow the main trail almost to the village itself -- --- -------- and played an important role in ge of the collision involving two freight trains and the Baltimore and Ohio's De- n, the Ambassador, is sprawled across the tracks at Newton Falls, O. Two train- passengers were injured. CUSSED: y Observes Fascist Detroit Disturbance N have tend- that seg- n to racial s of the tated yes- ion of the m Build- brman D. fessor of y, the dis- auses, re- ntives for ism the riots' ion of a rd Ameri- to this a ared that olition of ruggle lay inted out ere doing nbers into into the portation white and d as part The fact whipped was ex- ce as an- nt discussed the riots he action neighbor- ger news- ti-Negro" rt in the e speaker e riots it ional fa- tions, and chool de- Dr. Hum- phrey declared that since present inter-racial councils in Detroit were ineffective, an "information bureau" should be set up to stamp out false rumors of racial strife which, he as- serted, "newspapers don't do." Butler Slams U.S. Spending Wallace Apologizes To 'Good Neighbors' WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.- f(P)- Senator Butler (R.-Neb.) pictured, "Good Neighbor" spending by the United States today as a wild ex- travagance in which Uncle Sam is played for a "sucker." Vice-President Wallace replied with an apology to Latin America "for the shocking slur." Butler called the expenditures south of the border a bumbling form of dollar diplomacy which is winning us, at the best, the "sucker" label and, at the worst, a suspicious 'mistrust of motive. The Midwest Republican had hard- ly finished reading sections of a brist- ling report in which he told the Sen- ate also of stories of rampant graft by Latin American officials handling U.S. funds when Wallace issued this statement: "As Vice-President of the United States, I feel compelled to express my deep, regret to our Latin American allies in the war for the shocking slur which has been made against them today. "The fantastic figures which have been used in an apparent effort to discredit the good neighbor policy will be refuted by the agencies in- volved." Exclusion .Act Is Repealed By Congress j WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-u(P- Acting to correct what President Roosevelt has described as "an his- toric mistake," the Senate passed to- day and sent to the White House a bill repealing the 61-year-old Chinesel exclusion acts. The measure substitutes for a ban1 on Chinese immigration the applica- tion of a. quota under which 105 memb;-rs of the race would be admit- ted annually and Chinese residents would be eligible for naturalization as United States citizens. Passage was by a voice vote, with Senator Reynolds (D-NC) shoutingj an emphatic "No." World IN.ews InBri~ef ..i 'Mother May' Slosson Dies In Son's Home Funeral Services Will Be izeld Tomorrow in Congregational Church Mrs. May Preston Slosson, known May," died of a heart attack yester- day morning at 2101 Devonshire Rd., the home of her son, Prof. Preston W. Slosson of the history department. She was 85 years old. Dr. Leonard A. Parr will officiate at the funeral services at 3 p.m. to- morrow in the First Congregational Church. The body will be cremated and the ashes sent to Laramie, Wyo.. for burial. Friends may call at the Slosson home until noon tomorrow. First Woman To Get Ph.D The first woman in this country to get a Ph.D., she received her de- gree in philosophy in 1880 from Cor- i i l' L Iclearing the way for the infantry. United States "Black Cats" planes hit a Japanese cruiser 65 miles northwest of Rabaul the night of Nov. 24 with two bombs, causingex- plosions. Fires were started below the decks. Aussies Take 4 Other Villages In addition to capturing Sattel- berg mission, the Aussies seized four nearby villages as they cleared out the adjacent area. Allied bombers were active, attack- ing Wewak, to the northwest of the jungle front in New Guinea, Buka, the northernmost Solomon island, and Matchin Bay and the Buin-Faisi area of Bougainville. i * * * S.nr v RrL~ jp ee n h,i s ahvin IRRas nn, vr nell University. She served as chaplain at the state ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN thought to be the only woman to have ALGIERS, Nov. 26. - (P) - At least held a post of this kind. eight German bombers were blasted Mrs. Slosson was active in the wo- out of the Mediterranean sky early men's suffrage movement. last night when a force of 30 Nazi:Woemoeet Wrote Book of Poems planes attacked an Allied convoy and in turn were engaged by American, She was also the author of a book British and French fighters of coast- of poems, "From A Quiet Garden." al command. Mrs. Slosson is survived by her son An unspecified number of theI and daughter-in-law who was the planes shot down over the convoy former Lucy Dennis Wright, and by were big Heinkel 177 bombers, one of Wrigrtand Mary ElLabeth Wrght the newest Nazi types. who are University students, Flora t May Slosson and Edith Denny Slos- Churchill, Stalin Meet, .. . 'son. BERN, Nov. 26.-(P)-Foreign Barnahv. m'bov, 7 I PROCEEDS FOR SOLDIERS: Mrs. Clark To Present Inside News of Army' diplomatic circles who should know reported tonight that Prime Minis- ter Churchill is conferring with Premier Stalin, either as a prelude to a tri-partite meeting including President Roosevelt, or as a substi- tute for it. British Foreign Secretary Eden was said to be with Churchill. No confirmation here is possible, 3but informants believed the talks had been in progress for at least two days. Colombian S/hip Sun... BOGOTA, Columbia, Nov. 26.-(/P) -The sinking of a Colombian schoo- ner by a German submarine was an- nounced officially tonight. Newspapers reported three mem - bers of the crew lost their lives and that survivors were taken to hospital in Panama. Miners To Negotiate ... WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.--()- Virtually the entire soft coal in- dustry, except for southern opera- tors, was reported to be agreed to- night to negotiate for a wage con- tract on the basis of the agreement ......a _n.. __U. _ . . r- 4., bear glad tidings. We're going to meet lots of new people. Gosh, Mr. 'Mafle T ha ts.3wonderful! s7.s 4 t . . . Well, well, if it isn't Mr. O'Malley!I IWook on Willkie Angers Rankint WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.- IP) - Asserting that the story of the 1940 Republican National Convention, as told in a newly-published book- One Man - Wendell Willkie" - makes the Teapot Dome scandal look like a Sunday school affair," Rep. Rankin (D-Miss.) today de- m- rnr (tnc-e in, l r:TS#-tn 'Formosa Hilt In allied Raid CHUNGKING, Saturday, Nov. 27. -(,P)-Allied planes blasted the port city of Shinchiku on the northwest I coast of Formosa on Thanksgiving Day and destroyed 47 Japanese planes, a record number in this thea- ter, it was announced here today. Of the Japanese planes destroyed, at least 12 were declared to have been shot down in aerial dogfights, while all the Allied planes returned sarely. The announcement said that all the bombs fell in the target areas and smoke enveloped the ground when the attackers departed. *' * * Kikaid Takes Nav Command in Pacific SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Saturday, Nov. 27.-()- A spokesman for Gen. { Douglas MacArthur announced today that Vice-Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid had assumed command Friday of naval forces in the Southwest Pacific. Admiral Kinkaid relieved Vice- Adm. Arthur S. Carpender whose fu- ture assignment was not disclosed. Culbertson 'T1o Spweak Fridayr Ely Culbertson, famous world stra- tegist and author of the recently- published book, "Total Peace," will open the annual Post-War Council Conference at 7:15 p.m. Friday in Rackham Auditorium. Culbertson, best known as a bridge expert, will lecture on his "Plan for World Federation," which was called by Burton Rascoe "a highly realis- tic and practically fool-proof plan for world settlement." The lecture has been scheduled early so that concert-goers will be able to attend before the program of the concert be- gins. Tickets for Culbertson's lecture will be on sale at the League and Union, on the Diagonal, in "U" Hall and in the West Quad next week, Monday through Friday. Inside news on the soldiers in Italy will be given by Mrs. Mark W. Clark, wife of America's three-star general and commander of the Fifth Army in that theater of the war, when she speaks at 8 p. m. today in Hill Audi- torium. Mrs. Clark's lecture, "When the Boys Come Home,"' is sponsored by the Michigan Alumnae club of Ann Arbor. All proceeds will be given to the Camp and Hospital Committee for the Christmas fund for Disabled Rarir M2n M _,..rk ,wi, l ,hp in_ shows in such cities as Boston, Pitts- burg, Detroit and Chicago. Her lectures will also feature pic- tures of the African invasion, includ- ing the house where Lt. Gen. Clark held the pre-invasion meeting with French officials, and scenes from the Casablanca conference and the pres- ent Italian campaign. Will Read From General's Letters In the discussion, Mrs. Clark willl present the problems the boys will face when they return home. In ad- dition she will read extracts from the General's letters and his diary, which tP ae,,il t eS f- Afiicir:- r1"r * '. ........:.: M:.: S.