ig N Ii:Aj 1A A14 Warmer ,Q _._ VOL. LIV No. Zo ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 1943 =pu v m "!vnqI A - ArI'AudE L Yia E4amw Fi llied Conference Held in Teheran, Iran Aussies Near NipFortress In New Guinea Jungle Troops Close In on Wareo; Mop Up Enemy Holds on Way By The Associated Press SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Saturday, Dec. 4. -Australian jungle troops, supported by artillery, are closing in on Wareo, a Japanese stronghold on the Huon Peninsula of northeastern New Gui- nea. Wareo is inland approximately 11 miles northwest of coastal Finsch- hafen, the base which the Allies cap- tured Oct. 2. New Britain Pounded Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head- quarters, announcing the latest pro- gress today, said the Aussies were mopping up on enemy strong points along the track which leads from Allied won Bonga on the coast north of Finschhafen westward to Wareo. To the east, just across narrow waters from the Peninsula, Mac- Arthur's bombers continued to hit at targets -on New Britain in an area of that important enemy island which is most vulnerable to invasion. Borgen Bay. Is Target ,For the second straight day, Bor- gen Bay's dumps and supply barges were the targets. Sixty-three tons of explosives were dropped by Mitchell medium bombers which flew as low as the tops of the trees. Borgen Bay is on the north shore near New Britain's western tip. Halsey's Bombers Hit Kara In the . northern Solomons, the bombers of Adm. William F. Halsey hit the enemy's Kara airdrome on the south coast of Bougainville and the Ballale airdrome on an island just off the coast with 57 tons of bombs. These enemy bases have been bypassed by Americans now holding a beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay. The raids formed a part of 200 sorties which Admiral Halsey's head- quarters reported were made by Navy, Marine and Army planes Dec. 1 over Bougainville. For the tenth succes- sive day, the raiders did not encoun- ter a single Japanese plane. Enemy anti-aircraft shot down one dive- bomber and anotherddivebomber and a Corsair fighter were reported miss- ing. ---Be A Goodfellow --- Arrau Admires Appreciation of bPA merican Public "Open mindedness combined with an attitude that the most important reason for coming to concerts is to enjoy them" is the expression which Claudio Arrau, famed Chilean pianist used to describe American audiences in an after concert interview yester- day, "They are not," he continued, "like audiences of Europe and Latin Am- erica who are much more difficult for an artist to win over." This spir- it of friendship which North Ameri- can audiences display becomes ob- vious to the artist as soon as he ap- pears on the stage." It is in the field of musical com- position that both the Americas," Arrau said, "are making great musi- cal progress. We of Latin America have Villa Lobos, Domingo Santos Cruz and Carlos 1'Chavez while the United States has given the world Roy Harris, Aaron Copland, Charles Mills, Robert Palmer and many oth- ers. "The tendency to use folk themes in their compositions varies with the Latin American composers. It is interesting to note," Arrau continued, "that the composition by the Span- ish composer Albeniz which I per- formed tonight is the only one in which he made use of native melo- dies." - Be A Goodfellow - Servicemen and Students To Call for Ident Cards All civilian students and service- Students As To Goodfel Entering the last two days of the annual Goodfellow Drive, the com- mittee in charge yesterday urged that all sororities, fraternities, coopera- tives, and dormitories send their pledge contributions to the Student Publications Building as soon as pos- sible. Final arrangements for Monday sales posts of Goodfellow Dailies and securing buckets for street sales are being made, the committee indicated. Campus Coeds To Sell Twenty-seven campus and city cor- ners will be manned by an army of campus coeds, entirely taking over the sales post occupied in former years by both men and women. Six- teen sororities, nine dormitories, and The Daily have agreed to assume the Goodfellow salesman positions this year. Many organizations have yet to indicate their support of the drive, the committee indicated. "Half of the $2000 goal is dependent upon them," one committee member said. "We urge all campus organizations to con- tribute to the utmost this year when money is more plentiful than in for- House Coalition Calls for State Control of Vote Ballots To Be Made Available to Servicemen At Home and Abroad WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. - (P)- A coalition of. Republicans and South- ern Democrats over-riding the Sen- ate leadership, today junked the idea of federal supervision of servicemen's voting by absentee ballot and passed a bill calling for state control. The new bill substituted for the pending measure on a 42 to 37 roll- call and finally approved by a- voice vote, calls on the states to make ballots available to members of the armed forces at home and abroad. Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky) immediately condemned it as "A pi- ous ladies and society resolution" under which few if any votes would be cast. Senators McClellan (D-Ark.) and Eastland (D-Miss.), sponsors of the measure with Senator McKellar (D- Tenn.), asserted that the substitute which now goes to the House would retain state control over elections. The legislation now is in a form reportedly acceptable to a majority of the members of the House Elec- tions Committee, where war ballot legislation had been held up awaiting Senate action. The original bill would have waiv- ed all state voting requirements ex- cept age and residence. A bipartisan federal ballot commission would have supervised absentee voting. Several amendments were made during five days of debate. Now, the plan calls on the states 'to distribute post cards to men in uni- form, to be used to request absentee voting forms. The Army and Navy would aid in circulating the cards and in returning the absentee ballots to the states. - Be A Goodfellow - Post-War Peace Is Discussed Lindeman, Fritchman Speak at Conference I "After this war the United States will be the most powerful nation the world has ever seen and with all this power concentrated in one country, if we don't demand peace, there can be no hope of ever having it," Dr. Ed- ward C. Lindeman, of the New York School of Social Work, said yester- day. "There is a new variety of isola- tionist who is extremely militaristic. They want the United States to maintain peace through building huge armaments. Unless we have some plan ready, we can expect any- one who has a peace plan to get a big following, even if he is a militant isolationist," Dr. Lindeman said. "America has wrapped its youth in wool and it took the V-12 program, the action of youth on the battle- ked To Give low Drive mer years. Every student must be a Goodfellow to make this drive suc- cessful," he said. Clothes, food, Christmas baskets, and medical supplies are distributed to needy Ann Arbor families by the Family and Childrens Service, an ag- ency to which most of the Goodfellow total is directed. Part To Go to Textbook Fund The remainder of the goodfellow total will be allocated to the Goodwill Fund and the Textbook Lending Fund. The Goodwill Fund is a year- round charity organization which comes to the aid of the needy in any emergency. The Textbook Lending Fund brings the results of the drive directly to University students who have diffi- culty in financing the purchase of textbooks. All contributions are to be made out to The Michigan Daily and sent to the Publications Building before 5 p.m. Monday. --Be A Goodfellow --- RAF Bombers Pound Berlin 41 British Planes Fall During Battle LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 4.-(AP)- RAF bombers streamed out for a new attack on the continent early today, following up a shattering raid Thursday night which sent 1,500 long tons of new fire bombs and ex- plosives crashing down on smolder- ing, rubble-carpeted Berlin. During the Thursday night raid, which left perhaps half of the Nazi capital in ruins, with the entire heart of the city blazing, swarms of German fighters met the four-en- gined bombers along, paths of flares lit as far As 50 miles from the Ger- man's No. 1 city. In that operation, 41 British planes fell during a mighty air battle in skies stabbed by searchlights and torn by intense flak. Daybreak found the wreckage of planes scattered through the doomed city after this fifth heavy assault in two weeks. ---- Be A Goodfellow - Harmon Escape Is Surprise To .Dr. Tien Dr. Hing-Chih Tien, of the Ori- ental language department and a native of Kiukiang, China, the town near which Lt. Tom D. Harmon was reported to have been downed, ex- pressed surprise yesterday that Har- mon was able to escape from the Japanese-held territory. "Because of the fact that Kiukiang is in the hands of the Japs and far from the Chinese battle line, the Chinese students at the University had given Harmon up for lost," said Dr. Tien. "The land in the south of Kanhsien district is extremely hilly, and the fact that Harmon reached safety is undoubtedly due to the aid of Chinese guerrillas and his own quick action from, football training," he added. Dr. Tien's own family was evacu- ated from Kiukiang when it fell into Japanese hands and were now safely in the interior of Kanhsien. Dr. Tien came to the United States in 1940. Soviet Army Strikes at Nazi Railroad Red Troops Resist New Counterattacks Near Cherkasy Area By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 4.- Mud-spattered Red Army troops bit into the important German railway network northwest of .Gomel in two directions yesterday, stood firm against repeated Nazi counterattacks in the hotly-contested Cherkasy area and expanded their Dneiper river bridgehead below Kremenchug 15 miles to the west through powerfully defended territory Moscow announc- ed early today. German troops recoiling before the Soviet attack northwest of Gomel sustained heavy losses, the Soviet midnight bulletin said, as the Rus- sians swept up more than 100 villages and hamlets. Determined Soviet troops, blasting their way forward through complex German trench systems and dug outs protected by mine fields and barbed wire entaglements took Novo-Geor- gievsk, a district center of the-Krovo- gard and carpeted the. approaches to the town with hundreds,. of 'German dead, the communique said. With this -westward thrust of 15 miles into the Dneiper sack blow Kremenchug, the Russians moved to relieve the. pressure %on their com- rades ,.holding on in, the up-river bridgehead near Cherkasy. This Cherkasy bridgehead, a relatively small one, has been the scene of hard fighting for days and the communi- que said, that in one sector alone the Rissians threw back -seven German counter-attacks and killed approxi- mately 800- Germans. --- Be A Goodfellow - Mayor Fights For Subsidies Says Inflation Faces Cities Without Food Act WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.- (JP)- Mayor La Guardia of New York fought to save the government's tot- tering food subsidy program today, declaring that without it the urban areas are threatened with inflation and financial collapse. The peppery little executive of the nation's largest city told the Senate Banking Committee food costs have shot up 39 per cent in New York since 1941 and the housewife "can't eat statistics." La Guardia testified as Chairman of the United States, Conference of mayors, opposing legislation to out- law food subsidies-government pay- ments designed to hold down retail prices and yet permit the producer and processor to make a legitimate profit. The ban was approved by the House and there were free predic- tions that the Senate would take the same action. President Roosevelt ve- toed a similar prohibition last sum- mer.. There was some question whe- ther the anti-subsidy bloc, however strong, could get enough votes to override another anticipated veto. The Senate Banking Committee also heard support for subsidies from Mayors Cornelius D. Scully of Pitts- burgh; Maurice J. Tobin of Boston; George Welsh of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cooper Green of Birming- ham, Ala. Site of Historic Allied Conference 7R"', Bandar TRAS-asra ;Shahpur PODA ARABIA Persia Map locates Teheran (A) where President Roosevelt, Prime Min- ister Churchill and Premier Stalin issued their historic ultimatum to knock Germany from the war. This meeting followed a conference at Cairo (B) among Roosevelt, Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang- Kai-Shek and their staffs. Distance of each city from nearest German- held territory (black areas) is indicated. WORLD SETTLEMENT: Ely Culbertson' Preset~its Plan For Lasting Post-War Peace Stating that "We must win the battle of the- peace within the next five 'years or we probably will not win it at* all," Ely Culbertson spoke yesterday on his "Plan for World Settlement" under the auspices of the Post-War Council. Culbertson's plan depends- com- pletely on the new era in : warfare which 'we have now entered. "No longer is war waged between men, with machines as auxiliaries, but by machines, with men as mere pawns,"' Culbertson' asserted. Thus the na- tion with the greatest industrial po- tential, is by that very fact the na- tion with the greatest military po- tential. "It then follows," Culbert- son said, "that our own security will be threatened by the inevitable in- dustrialization of the vast lands of the East." Form Perpetual Alliance Culbertson's plan is an attempt to guarantee our security by the forma- tion of a "collective, integrated per- petual alliance among the nations of the world." Basic structure for the new order is a division of the nations of the world into 11 regional federa- tions forming a world federation. The regional. groups would be the American, British, Latin-European, Galens Collects. $950 First Da Galens collected $950 in the first day of their campaign to raise funds for children confined in University Hospital, it was announced yester- day by Pfc. Robert Taylor, publicity chairman for the drive. " Collections fell far short of the $1,300 contributed by students and townspeople on the first day of last year's drive," he said. Galens, an honorary society for junior and sen- ior medical students, has set a goal of $2,500 in this their fifteenth annual campaign. Funds are used to support the Ga- lens workshop in the hospital, to furnish books, films and games for those unable to leave their beds and to sponsor a Christmas party for all children in the hospital. Chinese, Germanic, Middle - Euro- pean, Russian, Middle-Eastern, and Japanese Federations with the Ma- laysian and Indian Federations au- tonomous but under temporary trus- teeship of the United States and Great Britain respectively. Quota Force Principle Securing total peace through this world federation will be accomplish- ed by the "quota force- principle"- an adaptation of the world police force scheme. Each of the 11 region- al groups will have a national con- tingent alloted to it under its quota.. A twelfth contingent will be recruit- ed from the small nations to form a Mobile Corps under the direct con- trol of the world federation itself. The ingenious element of this. scheme is that the Mobile Corps quo- ta of force would control the balance of power among the nations. Also the Big Three nations would to- gether control 50 percent of the world's heavy arms, which, as Cul- bertson stated, are not "Land-hun- gry." An Armament Trust would en- force the strict limitations on arms. -- Be A Goodfellow - Fif th's Forces Stab Onward Aerial Attacks Pace Clark's Italian Attack ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL- GIERS, Dec. 3.-4P)-Paced for the second day by aerial assaults on ela- borate, well-prepared Germanaforti- fications, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army stabbed forward from Calabritto against the right flank of massed German troops guarding the main road to Rome in the fourth day of the biggest Italian offensive since Salerno. Great clouds of smoke and lust hung over the battlefield. Air force pilots participating in the methodical destruction of enemy gun positions and entrenchments ahead of Ameri- can and British forces saw signs of a fierce combat raging below. Official accounts gave no indication whether Clark's troops yet had reached the hard core of the Nazi line. Equally bitter fighting raged on the Eighth Army front, where the right wing of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont- gomery's British, Indian and New Zealand forces slugged six more miles up the Adriatic coast, and approach- ed the important highway and rail- road center of San Vito Chietino, on- ly 16 miles from the big port of Pes- cara. - Be A Goodfellow - MCA Defers Post-War Action Action on proposed scholastic stan- dards affecting students now and in the postwar period was deferred by the committees of the Michigan Col- lege Assocation which met here yes- terday. 1:)-I,, + T ttr11 :... - - A - , .2f New Military Action Against Nazis Planned Conferees Determined To Knock Germany Out Of War Without Delay By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 4.-Pres- ident Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin in the greatest such meeting in history have conferred at Teheran, the capital of Iran (Persia), and agreed upon both military and political plans for the war against Germany, Moscow radio announced today in the first official disclosure of the parley. Cutting through numerous Axis and neutral reports of the "big three" meeting, Moscow in a broadcast re- corded here by the Soviet monitor stated officially that the talks were held "a few days ago," and that "dip- lomatic and military representative took part." "At the conference," said the offic- ial Moscow broadcast, "questions on the conduct of the war against Ger- many were discussed as well as a number of political questions." To Be Made Public "Corresponding decisions we adopted which will be made public Ilater.", The Soviet Monitor stated that 9, details of the conference, might be announced between noon and 2 pi; Eastern War Time today, basing ths prediction on the usual routine of'te Moscow radio when announcing fu- ture broadcasts. The announcement from Moscow came as a surprise to British officals, The Minstry of Informaton said it had no official announcement of the conference. Bulletins from London, where the broadcast was monto, were delayed briefly by censors for a check by the Ministry-more evidence of the element of surprise. Went from Cairo Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Claurchill went to the Iran conference from their historic five-day meeting In North Africa with Generalissimo Chi- ang Kai-shek, which was concerned primarily with the war against J- pan. That meeting, held from Nov. 22 through Nov. 26, was attended by a galaxy of military and naval authorities who presumably journey'- ed on with their leaders. Berlin Radio Issues Nazis View of Allied Conference LONDON, Dec. 3.--(P)-The Berlin radio declared today that the confer- ence between President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Pre- mier Stalin has been completed at the Persian city of Tabriz, and that a Christmasrultimatum to Germany to "give up or die" had been agreed up- on. Crediting dispatches from a variety of sources, including "Reuters circles in Lisbon," the busy Axis propagan- da machine which was the first to re- port a tni-power meeting actually un- derway, asserted that an official co- munique from the conference would be issued tomorrow and that it would again call for the scrapping of the Nazi party and unconditional surren- der by Germany. Allied circles scouted predictions that any official declaration would come so soon, considering the time lag between previous conferences and their official announcements. - Be A Goodfelow - Pontiac 'Man's Plot To Kill FDR Revealed' WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. - (P) A strange story came to light today of how a man with a wild plan to as- sassinate President Roosevelt sulked about the White House vicinity fore10 days last month-and finally was ar- rested for walking against a traffic light. The arrest by city police came at a time when the Secret Service was searching Washington for the man after receiving word from his wife of his intention which, a Secret Serv- ice offical said,, he attributed to "electrodes running through my brain." Secret Service agents, who told the story, said the man is Walter Best, 38, former worker in Pontiac and RICH CULTURE WILL RETURN: Faily Foresees Persia 5 Future "? By' BERYLE WALTERS "With the prospect of a lasting peace ahead, as proposed by the At- lantic Charter, Persia will be able to develop her potentialities to the limit,. and will again become a nation to which the world will look to with admiration," John Faily, University teaching fellow and son of Persia's ambassador to Iraq, predicted in an interview yesterday. For centuries Persia has been racked by wars-internal as well as from without. Faily lays the back- Persians think of Americans as an altruistic people with high ideals." Faily related that Americans were the first to come to the aid of his people during a disastrous famine that swept Persia after World War I. He further stated that-because Ameircans are so highly thought of by the Persian Cen- tral Government, they dominate the list of foreign advisors. First Impressions Faily's first impressions of Ameri- cans show the wide chasm between the Persian way of life and the Am- erican. While working in a Detroit factory it was necessary for Faily to Faily tells this story of the popular version of weather in Persia: "A lady in England once asked the first Persian ambassador to that country if his people were sun wor- shippers. The ambassador replied, 'Madam, if you saw the sun, you, too, would worship him.'"' "Most Americans think of Persia as a land of endless hot sands," he said, "and Arabs with flowing capes mounted on white steeds riding the deserts." Faily says that this is far from the truth, for a great deal of Persia has a climate colder than Michigan. While much of the trans-