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VOL. LIV No. 23 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, NOV. 28, 1943

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Germans

In

Hasty

Retreat

From

Gomel


Yanks Drive
800 Yards on
Augusta Bay
Four Days Required
To Extend Beachhead;
Jap Losses Are High
By ROBERT EUNSON
Associated Press Correspondent
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 28 (Sunday)
-American Marines and sldiers
have driven 800 yards to the north-
east during bitter fighting to extend
their beachhead at Empress Augusta
Bay-stepping stone on the west-cen-
tral coast of Bougainville in the nor-
thern Solomons leading toward Ra-
ap Losses Heavy
;4 spokesman for Gen. Douglas
lacAthur, in announcing the ad-
vance today, said strong enemy op-
position was overcome and, "although
no count has been made, Japanese
losses were heavy."
(More details were supplied from
the South Pacific Headquarters of
Adm. William F. Halsey where it was
reported that the fight opened Mon-
day, requiring four days to gain the
precious yardage. Halsey's headquar-
ters said both sides sustained consid-
erable casualties. ,
Move Overland
(The Japs appeared tobe moving
overland behind the beachhead from
the Jaba. River on the south side of
the American positions to attack on]
the northeast. An American naval
blockade has prevented the Japanese
from moving barges down the west
coast from Buka to supply punch for
such an attack.)
Play Production,
To Give Drama
'It's Up to You' To Be
Presented Wednesday
"It's Up to You," a living news-
paper drama in five scenes and entre
acts, by Arthur Arent, will be the
first presentation of Play Production
at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theater.
Sponsored by the University of
Michigan Speech Department and
the Washtenaw County Food Mer-
chants, the drama will feature a
movie, a loudspeaker, singers and
dancers, and special scenes from a
bus, butcher shop and on Guadal-
canal.
Tickets for the production may be
obtained free of charge from local
food shops. They are to be ex-
changed for reserved seats at the
Lydia Mendelssohn boxoffice be-
tween 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5
p. m. Monday and Tuesday, and also
between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Wednes-
day through Saturday.
Songs and dance routines to be in-
cluded in the production are "It's Up
to You," "Get the Point, Mrs.
Brown" "Dirty Overalls," "Porter-
house Lucy," "We Can Take It,'' and
"Victory Begins at Home."
Included in the cast are Barbara
White, Patricia Meikle, May Chosed,
John Hathaway, Thelma Davis,
James Norris, Miriam Ruge, Marjorie
Leete, Blanche Holpar, Barbara Hul-
bert, Donald Trow, Charles Benja-
min, Maida Steinberg, Lucille
Genuit, Marcia Nelson, Paul David-
son, Ralph Davis, Lillian Moeller,
Jean Westerman, Russell La Due,
Barbara Greenberg, Eunice Wold-
hausen, Virginia Rock and Richard
Pease.
Directors of "It's Up to You" were

Prof. Valentine Windt and Herbert
Philippi. Blanche Holpar was in
charge of the dance chereography.
Bursley Receives
National IFC Post
Dean Joseph T. Bursley was elected
Educational Advisor of the National
Interfraternity Conference yesterday
at te 35th annual session in New
Yor
The conference adopted a resolu-
tion approving federal assistance for
completion of the education of re-
turning servicemen, specifying that
the assistance should be in the form
of scholarships for the men "at insti-
4-i1tinhlQnof their on chiehg.p"

Famous Berlin Thoroughfare Reported Blazing from RAF Raid


Major Development of
War Is Expected Soon
Diplomatic Move Flashing Go-Signal for
Final Allied Blows Rumored Imminent

This is a view of Leipzig Strasse, one of the best-known thoroughfares in Berlin, which was reported
blazing "the whole length" according to a Swiss report of the effects a 1,000 plane RAF raid.
'. 1 11

Regents Name
Stevenson New
Bus. Ad. Head
Dr. Grif fine Replaced
By Former Member
Of Minnesota Faculty
Dr. R. A. Stevenson of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota was appointed
dean of the School of Business Ad-
ministration at the Board of Regents'
monthly meeting yesterday.
Dean Stevenson, who received his
A.B. in 1913 and his Ph.D in 1919 at
the University, succeeds Dr. C. E.
Griffine, who has been dean since
1927.
Goes To Iowa
After serving as instructor in eco-
nomics at the University in 1914,
Dean Stevenson went to the Univer-
sity of Iowa and taught there until
1920, when he was appointed head of
the Department of Commerce in the
Engineering College of the University
of Cincinnati.
In 1926 he was appointed dean of
the School of Bininess Administra-
tion at the University of Minnesota.
Directs Institute
Under his leadership there, the
school developed until it had a pre-
war. enrollment of more than 800
students. Since 1931, Dean Steven-
son has been director of the Employ-
ment Stabilization Research Insti-
tute, an organization which has car-
ried on a program of business re-
search in the Northwest.
Dean Stevenson, the author of sev-
eral accounting textboqks and sev-
eral articles on economics and busi-
ness administration, received the de-
gree of doctor of laws at the Univer-
sity in 1941.
Still on Faculty
Dr. Griffin retains his position as
a member of the faculty with the
title of Fred M. Taylor Professor of
Business Economics, a new profes-
sorship created by regental action.
His resignation was taken under the
regental resolution of 1934 by which
deans are eligible for relief from ad-
ministrative duties after compleihng)
15 years of such service.
General Promises Attack
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL-
GIERS, Nov. 25. (Delayed)-(/)-
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
called on his Eighth Army today to
"drive the Germans north of Rome"
and promised that "we will now hit
the Germans a colossal crack.",

RAF Bombers Smash German
Capital for Fifth Straight Night

By GLADWIN HILL
Associated Press Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 27.-RAF heavy
bombers spread fresh ruin through
stricken Berlin last night, in 20 mi-
nutes hurling down "much more than
1,000 long tons" of bombs in the third
mighty assault this week in the cam-
paign to obliterate that heart of Na-
zidom.
Other bombers hammered Stutt-
gart, 300 miles southwest, simultan-
eously.
Thirty-two Planes Lost
Thirty-two big planes were lost, but
the Air Ministry today paid unusual
tribute to the crusher American blow
at Bremen Fridayeand said the Amer-
ican drain of German air strength
had contributed greatly to the suc-
cess of the RAF's long hop in clear
weather to Berlin.
Guided by fires still blazing in the
German capital, the RAF gouged
great new wounds and set conflagra-
Guthe Resigns
Post as Head
Of U' Museums
Dr. Carl E. Guthe, '14, director of
the University Museums for 13 years,
has resigned his position here to be-
come director of the New York State
Museum at Albany.
His letter of resignation, which will
take effect Jan. 31, was accepted by
the Board of Regents yesterday. He
will take over his new post Mar. 1.
Almost immediately after his ap-
pointment as associate director of
the Museum of Anthropology in 1922,
Dr. Guthe went to the Philippine Is-
lands for three years as chairman of
a University expedition to study ear-
ly commercial relations of the Fili-
pinos.
His duties as research associate in
middle American archaeology of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington
in 1920 took him on three field
peditions to Peten, Guatemala, where
he explored the tropical jungles and
Dr. Guthe was named supervisor
of the East Asia section of the ASTP
Language Area program at the Uni-
versity when the war training pro-
gram was begun here.
No one is being appointed to the
vacancy here, according to President
Alexander G. Ruthven.

tions visible for 200 miles, their whis-
tlng bombs spiraling to 14,000 long
tons the total weight of explosive
heaped on Berlin in 1943, and boost-
ing the total for little more than a
week to some 6,000.
Fifth Night of Raids
It was the fifth straight night of
raids-counting two lighter mosqui-
to stabs-on sleepless, doomed Ber-
lin, and wholesale evacuation of the
city seemed ever more likely.
Stockholm newspaper said the new
attack was concentrated in the west
and central sectors, wth. huge. fires
in the Charlottenburg area, and that
500,000 Berliners were homeless. Un-
confirmed Stockholm reports said
that war workers had been forbidden
to leave Berlin, but that about 100,-
000 "escaped" without registering
their movements with the police.
The Germans' failure to break up
the attack was a "signal victory" for
the U.S. Air Force, which knocked
down 56 Nazi fighters Friday over
Bremen and did "much to take the
edge off the enemy's counterattack"
at Berlin, the Air Ministry declared.
Speaker's Club
To Visit Dorms
Inaugurating its new season the
Speaker's Bureau will visit various
residence halls this week to stimulate
discussions on the Ely Culbertson
World Federation Plan and the Re-
vised League of Nations.
On Monday, Martha Bradshaw, '46,
Joyce Siegan, '46 and Doris Peterson,
'44, wil speak at Helen Newberry resi-
dence hall; and Elizabeth Hawley,
'44, and Dorothy Servis, '45 at Mosh-
er Hall. Tuesday will find Doris Pet-
erson, Martha Bradshaw, and Mary
Lee Grossman, '45 leading the dis-
cussion at Martha Cook; while Eliza-
beth Hawley and Jean Loree, '45 will
be at Stockwell Hall.
Betsy Barbour Residence Hall will
be host to Joyce Seigan and Elizabeth
Hawley on Wednesday evening for a
similar discussion.
This project is being carried on
in conjunction with the Post-War
Council. There is still room for more
speakers. Students interested are
asked to get in touch with Joyce Sie-
gan or Dorothy Servis at Martha
Cook.

By JAMES M. LONGC
Associated Press Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 27.-Mounting evi-
dence of information from abroad
strengthened belief in London last
night that one of the major develop-
ments of the war is expectable mo-
mentarily-in the diplomatic rather
than the military field-closely re-
lated to Allied worldwide victory
strategy.
The nature and full implications
of such an important break could
obviously relate directly to the
flashing of a go-signal for the final
crushing blows which leaders of
the United Nations fighting al-
liance have promised Germany and
Japan.
Certainly the rumored move will
find Russia taking a full place along-
side the United States and Britain
Peace Rumors Denied
By Relief Conference
ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 27-(P)-
Rumors that the Germans were
seeking a negotiated peace met in-
credulity tonight among officials
from Europe, the United States and
Latin America here to attend the
United Nations Relief Conferene.
A story emanating from London
said that "credence" was being giv-
en here to a report that the Ger-
mans have taken or are about to
take preliminary steps for an arm-
istice.
None of the delegates most like-
ly to hear from their home under-
ground sources, from London or
from their embassies had heard of
any such move.
under the determined purpose and
the clearly-expressed accord of the
Moscow Conference.
Meanwhile,reports from abroad
gave a new turn to the recent welter
of foreign accounts of the possible
meeting of the Allied "Big Three" by
Galens Drive
To Open Friday
Medical Group To Sell
Tags for Hospital Fund
With a goal of $2,500, the fifteenth
annual Galens tag day will be held
Friday and Saturday, Richard Bates,
'44M, announced yesterday.
Members of Galens, honorary
medical society, will be located on
campus and in the downtown area
with their buckets, urging students
and townspeople to contribute to the
fund which helps young hospital in-
mates amuse themselves while shut
in.
Three different programs are made
possible by the drive. Approximately
150 kids, ranging in age from 6 to 14,
are able to learn to make their own
toys in a work-shop under the direc-
tion of a part-time instructor, to
have the benefits of a lending library
which furnishes books, games and
films to those unable to leave their
beds and to enjoy a Christmas party
for all the children in the hospital.
A majority of the funds collected
will be used to maintain and improve
the workshop situated on the hos-
pital's top floor. Through your con-
tributions, Galens is able to furnish
a supervised occupational and rec-
reational program where, throughout
the year, handicrafts are taught, and
where, at present, the children are
busy working on Christmas toys.

isuggesting a fourth big Allied power
also might be represented by its lead-
er at such a conference.
This is based on the likelihood that
any such talks would be of such
broad purpose that Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek might sit in with
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stalin.
One of the mystery men of the
conference may be Eduard Benes,
President of the provisional
Czechoslovak Government, who
left London for Moscow - where
his arrival never has been reported
-with the announced purpose of
concluding a mutual assistance
agreement with Russia.
The latest Bern report that two of
the "Big Three" leaders of Allied
governments engaged in the Euro-
pean war might already have con-
ferred in advance of any larger
meeting were heard with interest in,
London.
Bern heard that Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden also would ac-
company Churchill to any full con-
ference of United Nations leaders.
The Vichy radio commented this
week that Churchill was absent from
the opening session of the House of;
Commons nd the Swedish news-
paper Aftontidningen took this as
evidence the Prime Minister already,
was on his way to see President;
Roosevelt and Premier Stalin.
The Germans said that although,
there are no indications as to the,
time or place of this meeting "indi-
rect signs lead to belief that it will,
not take place in London."
Immunity Grant
Given Hamilton
Former Regent Linked
With State Graft Case
LANSING, Nov. 27.-(P)-Former
State Representative John F. Hamil-
ton, recently released from State Pri-
son after serving sentence for ac-
cepting a bribe while a member of
Detroit's city council, has been grant-
ed immunity by Circuit Judge Leland
Carr's one-man grand jury investi-
gating reports of legislative graft.
The grant of immunity, second to
be issued by the grand jury, was es-
tablished with the filing, of a formal
notice with the Ingham County clerk.
This document showed that the
immunity was given Hamilton to pro-
tect him from prosecution as the re-
sult of his answers to questions on
whether he was promised or 'received
any monye or anything of value for
an agreement to support any legisla-
tion during the session of 1939.
One of the questions concerned any
dealing Hamilton might have had
with a "Charles Hemans." Attorney
General Herbert Rushton tonight
identified Hemans as the former Re-
gent of the University of Michigan,
who he said is now attached to the
Provost-Marshal's Office in Washing-
ton.
Allies Penetrate
Nazi Defenses
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL-
GIERS, Nov. 27.-UP)-The Eighth
Army has sliced deeper ipto the ela-
borate German defense system
northwest of the swollen Sango Ri-
ver under cover of one of the war's
most intensive "bomb barrages," Al-
lied Headquarters announced today.
The exact extent of the gains made
yesterday in a drive toward enemy
hill positions was not disclosed. From
these high strong points German
guns poured a destructive fire into
the Eighth Army's hard-won bridge-
head across the river. Flooded by
more than a two-foot rise, th river

now is 1,000 feet wide in some places.
On the other end of the German's
winter line across Italy, the Ameri-
can Fifth Army smashed two count-
erattacks against their footholds in
the mountains west of Venafro, from
which it threatens a broad valley
leading toward Cassino and Rome.
SDailv NeedsifDrama . Criti

Red Forces
Pursue Nazis
Nine Miles
Soviet Columns Pound
At Sides of 50Mile
Wide Escape Corridor
By JAMES M. LONG
Associated Press Correspondent
LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 28.-Ap-
proximately 300,000 Germans were
forced into hasty retreat from Gomel
today, abandoning equipment and
stores, as Soviet guerrillas infiltrated,
to set mines and road traps in their
rear and a pursuing Red army regu.
lar force beat them back frontally
nine miles in 24 hours.
Other Soviet columns pounded at
the sides of the Nazis' 50-mile-wide
escape corridor, as they ran a gantle
extending northwest. fom 014
through Zhlobin and Bobrulsk tow
Minsk.
New Gains Reported
This picture was presented by bh
Soviet midnight communique, records
ed by the Soviet Monitor, which al4o
told of gains that punched out a n
salient along the lower Berezina Rt-
er and of successful defense agai
the German counterattack in the.
Kiev bulge which was reported re-
forced with eight tank divisions-
some of them from Italy, Greece and
Norway.
Uvarovichi is 17 miles northwest of
Gomel and only a few miles from tom
railroad along which the Germans
were falling back. Many trucks fll
of Germans were captured in one sec-
for and in another 19 guns, 86 ma
chine guns and numerous stores"
equipment fell to the Russins. 'A
total of more than 80 towns a#t
hamlets fell to the Russians in tifi
area.
Play a Dramatic Role
Guerrillas, who played an impor-
tant role in breaking the Dniepr
River line this fall by leading regur
troops through secret forest paths to
outf lank German defenses, were play-
ing a dramatic role in this newest bid
for a major German disaster.
The communique said several guer-.
rilla detachments operating in the
Gomel region mined the road of the
retreating German troops and set
traps on the road.
General's War
Str dMrs. Clark
Excerpts from Gen. Mark W.
Clark's letters and pictures which he
took with his own camera furnishing
a view of one of the most exciting spy
missions of the war-provided the
peak of interest in Mrs. Mark W.
Clark's lecture yesterday.
A few of the pictures shown were
the African farmhouse, with the dor-
mer window from which a light was
flashed to signal the negotiators' sub-
marine., the kitchen where the Amer-
icans hid their canvas, and rubber
kayaks, and the wine cellar where
the whole party hid. while Robert
Murphy, United States consul gener-
al, diverted the suspicions of French
gendarmes.
Casablanca Photos
Other later snapshots were made
at the Casablanca conference and
showed Gen. Clark with President
Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Generals
Eisenhower and Patton, and the King
of England.
"While democracy means different
things to different people," Mrs.
Clark said, "to the man in service

facing danger in far places, what he
is fighting for may became a passion'
for some particular spot that to him
means home, or any of the small bas-
ic things that appear large when tak-
en away." .
Promote Spiritual Democracy -
She, explained, that our political
procedure should not seek to attain
industrial democracy without pro-
moting spiritual democracy. "We
must approach our political and in-
dividual problems by developing re-
ligious zeal and a feeling of good will
towards all peoples."
"We must formulate a simple code
of good living based on kindness"
she continued. "It is necessary that
we honor mental as well as physical
courage, and that we remember that'
th rn nnr ile riiw hir e77 V

OVER $6,000 DONATED TO UNIVERSITY:
Regents Accept Gifts, Grant Leaves at Meeting

The University Board of Regents
accepted gifts totaling more than
$6,000 and granted 14 leaves of ab-
senses yesterday at their annual
monthly meeting.
Largest single donation was $2,400
from the Nutrition Foundation of
New York for Lathyrism research.
The Minnesota Mining and Manu-

the Lake Angelus Astronomical Sup-
port Fund, and John C. Spaulding,
also of Detroit, gave $125 for the gen-
eral library special book purchase
fund.
The regents also accepted $100 for
the Mortimer E. Cooley Foundation
of Engineering from Philip Carroll
of Maplewood, N.J., and $25 for the


the Michigan Athletic Managers
Club for the loan fund.
Other gifts accepted were $20 from
Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Loomis of Bir-
mingham, and $10 from Prof. Fred
Hodges.
Leaves of absence were granted to
Prof. Carl D. La Rue, botany depart-
ment, for the fall term to complete a

granted leave for the year to carry
out experiments in rubber production
in Mexico for the Department of
Agriculture. Prof. Harry Bouchard
and Prof. Harold J. MacFarlan of the
civil engineering department were
granted leaves until Dec. 31 because
of health.
Dr. Malcolm H. Soule, professor of