w I L g at1 _Q G . - ' w VOL. LIV No. 25 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS FDR, Churchill, Chiang, Stalin To Meet ____ Lt. Evashevski Wires Harmons "'Tis the luck of the Irish and the wearing of the green" wired Lt. For- est Evashevski, former University grid star, to the parents of histeam- niate, Lt. Tom Harmon, who was reported safe in China Monday. Lt. Evashevski, blcker for half- back Harmon, signed the telegram "McShevski." Although all the details of Tom- my's rescue are not known, his par- ents believe that their s' was brought out of Jap territory y Chi- nese guerrillas. He was reported missing in action Oct. 90. Bits pof news from varied sources aided them in piecing together the story of Tom's safe return. -- Be A Ooodfeliow -. Dombrowski Sentenced on Perjury ,harge Carr's Jury Bares Graft in Legislature By The Associated Press LANSING, Nov. 30.- State Rep. Stanley J. Donibrowski, Detroit Den- ocrJt; confessed today.that he falsely aecused. another man of.bribing him, then peaded guilty in the Ingham County Circuit Court to a perjury charge, and was sentenced -to the stagte prison of southern Michigan for a term of'3%/ to 15 years. The sWift -moving developments which sent him to the Ingham Con- t!,Jai at Mason, to await removal to orison tomorrw, were an otgrowth of .Circuit Judge Leland. 'W. Carr's one-ma g f ury. investigation of ohrgs. of"airaftand corruption in th eislatm-r Tears rolled down ,the big, red- head~ed legislator's cheeks as' he re- i trated 'bftme the br of juste i the courtro f Circuit r-Judge Charles H. Hayden his repudiation of grand jury testimony that he had been paid a bribe by Major Charles F. Iemans, former regent of the Uni- versity of Michigan, in 1941 or any other time. "Yes, sir," the legislator said. It was just four hours from the time the legislator visited Judge Carr's office to the time he was sen- tenced, and not until the case went into court that the repudiation was allowed to become known publicly. Asked by Judge Hayden whether he ever would change this repudia- tion, the legislator replied: "I couldn't change it. It's the truth." Dombrowski's arrest was the first ublic intimation that he ever had accused IEemans or anyone else of bribing him. Judge Carr and Attorney General Herbert J. Rushton, the grand jury's chief prosecutor, said they were in+ conference in the judge's office when Dombrowski walked in shortly after 2:00 o'clock this afternoon and de- clared that he had given false testi- ' mony before the grand jury. -- Be A Goodfelow - Coup o Hitler Expected Soon Moment To O'ertlrow Government Awaited LONDON, Nov. 30.-(P)--An anti- Hitler group of old line Junker Ger- mans, according to reports from in- side Germany, is awaiting the psy- chological moment to attempt a gov- ernment coup. In London this group is viewed as likely to seize on any suggestion of merciful peace terms that may come from any meeting of Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin. The reports, which come through channels considered reliable although they cannot be identified, say this group already has made informal ar- mistice proposals which were reject- ed without discussion. These wholly unofficial tenders, the reports continue, were not regarded by the Allies as tenders at all and were dismissed, first, because they did not originate formally with the government in power in Germany, and ,second, because they fell. far short of the United Nations' uncon- 118 ARE TYPICAL: 'U' Coeds Shirk Local War'Responsibilities By MAVIS KENNEDY MANY Michigan women have not heard that this is an all-out war, that there is a job for everyone. A poll taken recently in Stock- Hall revealed that 118 out of 250 women are doing nothing but going to classes, and studying now and then. These 118 women are representative of hundreds of other Uni- versity women who are failing to do their part. The pathetically small proportion of women who are working hard on the '47 Corps to keep the campus clean, the others who are spending long hours at the University Hospital, at the University Laundry, and those who volunteer their services at the surgical dressings unit make the excuses of the 118 fall flat. "I won't do any volunteer work when all this money is being paid to war workers," is a popular excuse. But these same women wouldn't work in a.laundry even for 35c an hour because "it's such boring, uninspiring work." It isn't glamorous. The excuse-makers don't stop to think that servicemen aren't exactly. overpaid, and that sitting in a foxhole, drillingand scrubbing decks isn't the most pleasant kind of work. But soldiers, sailors and marines don't talk about not doing their best because they don't get enough money or because they are bored. Another frequently used excuse is, 'I just don't have any time." Yet other women carrying the same number of hours have time to work on at least one of the class projects, on a student publication, or as waitresses, librarians, or switchboard operators. These 118 coeds and their colleagues should look at an ASTP schedule to find out what work really is.: THE REAL REASON WHY UNIVERSITY:WOMEN ARE SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITY IS THAT THEY ARE TOO STEEPED IN NOSTOLGIC LONGING FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE LETTING THEIR. COUiNTRY AND THEIR COLLEGE ,DOWN. They spend hours in bull-sessions talking about the days when a coed's biggest worry was about her dress;for this. week's ball, whether or not the letter-man in chem lab was going to date her,' and if a partikular sorority was going to give her, a bid-days when' Guadal- canal, Mind #,ao, and the Aleutians were jusi names on a map that had to be learned the night before a geography, final. These women are trying desperately to forget the present by living in the past.' THEY MISS THE PROLONGED-ADOLESCENCE OF FOR. MER COLLEGE LIFE AND DISLIKE BEING:' REMyINDED THAT THE WORLD IS FULL OF UNPLEASANT PROBLEMS." College is no longer an ivory tower apart from reality but has been forced to get in step with the world. Soph Cabaret, JGP Night, and most of the glamorous activities of the good old days are gone. The froth is dissolved. The 118 don't like it. It took a war to swing colleges into the world of the living. Un- less the parasitic females of the University wake up to their respon- sibility and see that each one has a job that no one else can do, then peace time will mean the return of the stagnant lethargy of the good old days. And the 118 can crawl back into their ivory towers. FUNDS FOR THE NEEDY: Goodfellow Committee Starts Drive Toward $2,000 Goal British Take Nazi Anchor On 'Adriatice Eighth Army Captures Sangro Ridge; Enemy Winter Line Pierced By WES GALLAGHER Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al- giers, Nov. 30.-General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth Army shat- tered the eastern anchor of the Ger- mans' "winter line" across Italy to- day, capturing the whole of Sangro Ridge and driving the enemy out of a huge brideghead north and west of the Sangro River that extended at least 15 miles inland from the sea. Climaxing 48 hours of continuous, bitter fighting, the veteran Eighth drove forward in a smashing advance which threatened to turn the flank of the enemy's entire defense sys- tem before Rome. "The whole of the high ridge which overlooks and dominates the Sangro Valley is now in our hands," the Al- lied Command announced tonight in a special communique. "The two bridgeheads on the Adriatic side of the coast have now been joined 'up to form one large penetration in the enemy's defensive positions. "Our troops have broken deep into the main enemy.wnter line and en- emy counter-attacks 'during the aft- ernoon have all been beaten off." In today's advance Montgomery's warriors swept through four more towns-Fossacessia, Villa 'Santa Mar- ia,, Mozzagrogna and Romagnoli- bringing' to 12the number of tows and .villages taken since-they opened their attack" before' daylight Sunday after, a heavy artillery bombard net. Earlier today an allied cmmuni- que reported that 'the" enemy's d- fenses: on Sangro Ridge 'had' been penetrated nd "taebridgeheadacross the= Sangro' Rover enlarged' to a depth of four miles and a width of 12 miles in the face of desperate Ger- man resistance. - Be A Goodfelow Amru To Play Here Friday. Pianist Will Give First Concert in Ann Arbor Claudio Arrau, brilliant South American pianist, will make his first, Ann Arbor appearance at the fourth concert of the Choral Union Series, at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Hill Auditor- ium. Born 39 years ago in Chillan, a town in southern Chile, Arrau gave his first public recital in Santiago at. the age of five. His talents so im- pressed the Chilean government that it undertook to finance his musical education, sending himto Europe on a scholarship. - In 1924, a young man of twenty, Arrau made a brief visit to the United States, appearing as guest soloist with the Chicago and Boston Sym-; phony Orchestras. His first extended tour in this country two years ago met an enthu- siastic response. The Chicago Times proclaimed him to be far and away the best pianist introduced in several seasons." Olin Downes, music critic of the New York Times, described him as "a pianist of the most excep- tional equipment,-not only a virtu- oso but a poet to be reckoned with." FOOD AND THE WAR: New Play To Be Presented Today by Speech Department See PICTURES, p. 6 The first presentation of "It's Up to You," by Arthur Arent, will be giv- en at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Tteater by Play Pro- duction of the speech departmen. Directed by Valentine Windt and Herbert Philippi, "It's Up to You," a living newspaper drama, is being giv- en in conjunction with the Washten- aw County Food Merchants. Consist- ing of six scenes the production will Sailor's Bond Drive ' Opens Here. Today Goal of $30,543 Set For Pearl Harbor Day Sales Among Navy Men A goal of $30,543.75 has been set for the Pearl Harbor Day bond drive which.aopens today among all Navy personnel at the ,University.' Secretary of the Navy Knox has again set, aside"earl DHarbor Day" as the ones day in the year for all hands to- purchase extra', war ' bonds. On Dec. .7, .1942, the Navy' set an amazing--'one-day sales record of $7,5000Q0. ' With the increase intNavy person- nel. and. our, eyes focused on victory, the Navy opes to double thisfigure this yeaVr and buy. $15,000,000 worth of War Bonds on u one dayy The Navy men stationed here will be solicited by their squad leaders. Them6 meters have beenh posted in the 'ship't6 show. the percentage of each group. Onescale shows the percentage of sales 'among the Reserve Officers Naval 'Architect 'Group, another the percentage of the Naval medical and dental students, one -the percentage of the -NROTC men, one for the Marines, one for each of battalions I, II and III of bluejackets and one showing the percentage of the goal reached by all the Navy men on campus. These thermometers have been posted by the post officekof the ship on the first quarter dack. A special validating stamp will be used on all bonds issued during the campaign which will undoubtedly in- crease the sentimental value to the purchasers. - Be A Goodfellow - Vandegrift Made Marine Corps Head WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-()-Lt.- Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, vet- eran of some of the fiercest fighting ever engaged in 'by the Marines in their 168 years of history, today was named comimandant of the Corps. President Roosevelt chose the 56- year *old officer to succeed Lt.-Gen. Thomas Holcomb, commandant of Marines since 1936, who is stepping down from his post after reaching the statutory retirement age of 64. Vandegrift, burned red by the sun of southwest Pacific battlefields, was present when the announcement was made. He arrived in this country only recently, 'after directing the Marine landing on Bougainville, last Japa- nese foothold in the Solomons. feature .entre numbers of song and dance. The dance choreography was dir- ected by Blanche Holpar. Among the numbers to be used are "It's Up to You," "Get the Point, Mrs. Brown!," "Dirty Overalls," "Porterhouse Lucy," "We Can Take It" "Victory Begins at Home."' The cast includes Barbara White, Patricia Meikle, May Chosed, John Hathaway, Thelma Davis, James Norris, Miriam Ruge, Marjorie Leete, Blanche Holpar, Barbara Hulbert, Donlald Trow, Charles Benjamin, Maida Steinberg, Lucille Genuit, Marcia Nelson, Paul Davidson, Ralph Davis, Lillian Moeller, Jean Wester- man, Russel La Due, Barbara Green- berg, Eunice Woldhaussen, Virginia Rock, and Richard Pease. Tickets may be obtained at local food shops and may be exchanged for reserve seats 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2 to 5 p.m. and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. today through Saturday at the Lydia Men- delssohn box office. --Be A Goodfellow -- Germans Rout Reds in Drive A t Rail Junction Nazis Succeed in New Attack on Korosten 85 Miles East of Kiev By The Associated Press, LONDON Nov. 30. -The Rus- sians tonight announced the loss of the important Krailway juntion of Korosten, 85 miles east of Kiev, be- fore the strongest German counter- attack in four .months-a reinforced tank and infantry power drive which already has wrested Zhitomr from this westernmost salient of the Red Army. The Russians had hinted at their plight as early as last Saturday when they reported that the Nazis had brought up eight tank divisions-per- haps 120,000 men-to join forces who had been storming Russian lines for two weeks. Some of these divisions, Moscow said, came from Italy, Greece and Norway. The Russians were plunging ahead in five other sectors. Pursuing the German Gomel garrison of perhaps 20 divisions toward Zhlobin, the Rus- sians captured several populated places. Despite these and other Russian advances along the 600-mile active front, London observers were watch- ing closely the German counter-push west of Kiev with an eye on its im- plications in the strategy of the en- tire struggle. The Korosten set-back, 11 days after the Russians fell back from Zhi- tomir, was a serious blow to the So- viet drive that had rolled on since July from Orel and Belgorod across' hundred of miles to the eastern bank of the Dnieper and beyond. Korosten, taken by Soviet caval- rymen and mobile units on Nov. 19 in their dash from Kiev, is on the crossing of the Leningrad-Odessa north-south railway and the War- saw-Kiev east-west line. Its capture seriously affected German communi- cations in the area, especially be- tween the Nazi armies defending White Russia and the Ukraine. Reports Say II Parley To Be Held in Iran Reuters Dispatch Says That Cairo Conference His Already Been Held By The Associated Press A Reuters dispatch from Lisbon said President Roosevelt, Prime Mli- ister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had concluded a long session in Cairo preliminary to a meeting with Premier Stalin in Ir- an, and OWI short-wave broadcasts to Europe repeated the story again and again last (Tues.) night. "The three statesmen met on mne occasion in a tent in the shadow of the pyramids," said the OWI trans- missions, beamed out since 12:30 a.m. yesterday in English, French, Ger- man, Italian and other languages to friend, foe and neutral alike. "During the conference Cairo was cut off from communication with the rest of the world. Roosevelt and Chi- ang Kai-shek traveled to Cairo by plane, while Churchill traveled by sea." It was said that "a communi agreed on after the Cairo confezi will be published later this week." 'A telephone call to the NewYork Office of War Information eiited the information that the pro c nts were authorized by the office Cen- sorship after the Reuters dspatb- duly cleared by the British censor- ship through London-was recei ed from Lisbon yesterday morning. " Elmer Davis, OW chief, said in Wasington OWI broadcast the Ren- ters 'report because it "already isg See CONFEREE, p. 2 . - 2 - Be A GoodfedVtio . - Ruhir Bome By ortresses Manufacturing Cent e Is Hit in Daylight Raid LONDON, Nov. 30.-(JP)-American Flying Fortresses, winding up the Eighth Air Force's best operational month of the war, bombed the Ruhr city of Solingen east of Duesseldorf by daylight today in the first aled attack on that target, site of a high- grade steel plating mill and a ' plant making metal alloy parts for German fighter planes. The American bombers, accompan. led over their target by Thunder- bolts and Lightnings and covered in withdrawal by RAF, Dominion and Allied Spitfires and Typhoons, hd an unusually strong escort .for the mission, which brought the month's total of American heavy bomber at- tacks from Britain to a record 11. Two heavy bombers and five fight- ers were lost, while seven enemy air- craft were shot down, six by the withdrawal-covered fighters and the seventh by a Fortress. Solingen, three miles square, lies 14 miles southeast of Duesseldorf. It was well-known for the manufacture of cutlery and weapons, even in peacetime, and was celebrated in the middle ages for its sword blades. Although Berliners were left alone amid their destruction since Friday night's double-header attack against both the German capital and Stutt- gart, this was the fifth time in less than 48 hours that allied bombs were brought home to German soil. -- Be A Goodfellow - Far mers Blast Food Subsidies WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.- (P)-- Farm organization spokesmen de- nounced food price subsidies today as a disguised, inflationary and unjusti- fied wage increase for labor, and as a brake on the farm production they are designed to encourage; The farm leaders, Edward A. O'Neal, resident of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Albert S. Goss, master of the National Grange, presented their demands for an end to the price cutting payments before the Senate Banking Commit- tee. Almost coincidental with their tes- timony, the broadcast consumer price To reach its goal set ot $2,000 this year, the Goodfellow Committee will contact all sororities, fraternities, co- operative houses, and dormitories to- day for pledges. House pledges will be supplement- ed by the.sale of Goodfellow Dailies on campus and in business districts Monday, culminating the week-long Goodfellow Drive. This year the bulk of funds raised by the Goodfellow Drive will go to the Family and Childrens Service, a merger of the Family Welfare Bureau and Childrens Service Bureau. The money is used by the service to sup- plement incomes of local small-wage earning families who are caught without funds in special emergencies. "In times of -prosperity like the present, people do not consider that low-income families have a hard. time," Miss 'Mary Hester, executive secretary of the service, said yester- day. a "Higher prices which result from booms make it impossible for mar- ginal families, those living at mere subsistence level, to provide them- China's Posit ion Firm in North Hunan Sector CH UNGKING, Wednesday ,Dec. 1. -(P)-A general improvement of the situation in the critical "rice bowl" battle in Northern Hunan Province was indicated by the Chinese High Command today in a special commu- nique reporting the recapture of sev- eral towns and the seizure of a large Quantity of war supplies. selves with even the barest necessi- ties. It is our job to help these fam- ilies," she said. Goodfellow money not allocated to the Iamily and Childrens Service will go to the Goodwill F'dnd and the Textbook Lending Fund'. The Goodwill Fund, under the local direction of Dean of Students Joseph Bursely, releases money to Goodwill Industries, an agency by which hand- icapped and aged people 'are provided work repairing discarded 'articles of furniture and clothing for resale. The Textbook Lending Fund pro- vides money to University students for the purchase of books which they otherwise might not obtain. The Goodfellow Drive, initiated eight years ago and undertaken an- nually by University students in co- operation with The Daily, is the sole fund supported by students for the aid of local needy families. The Committee urges campus or- ganizations and residence halls to send pledges and contributions to the Student Publications Building as soon as possible. - Be A Goodfellow - Meat Point Values To Be Cut Sunday. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.- (A) - Price Administrator Chester Bowles announced tonight that ration costs of meat will be cut to allow a 30 percent larger ration in December. "Our meat supplies are in pretty good shape and for that reason I am glad to say that we are going to be able to cut the points on meat rather substantially during the month of December," Bowles said. "This re- duction in point values will give each member of your family about 30 per- THE DRIVE ON ROME: Eighth Army Launches New Offensive In typical Montgomery style, the British Eighth Army has opened a new drive across the Sangro River with an "exceptionally heavy" ar- tillery barrage backed by terrific air onslaught. Gen. Bernard Mont- gomery of the Eighth Army called for a "colossal crack" to drive the Germans nofth of Rome. In capturing Fossacesia, the British have cracked what the Ger- mans had called "their invincible winter line." This Eighth Army move will lessen the pressure on the American forces in the West and gives the British a chance to flank the whole German positions Terns ; . =-ITALY f ;Rieti ) .-Penne,, Pescara - -t4ila N' t - rtona jj>. 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