16 days till Christmas it 4 4~ au Weather Cloudy VOL. LIV No. 31 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Meeting esults in urkish-Allied Unity Fifth Army Forces Hold Positions on Rome Road Eighth Army Crashes Across Moro River; Yanks Throw Back Nazi Counterattacks By NOLAND NORGAARD Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL- GIERS, Dec. 7.-Stabbing their way onto heights six miles southwest of Mignano overlooking the flooded Garigliano River, Allied Fifth Army troops have driven a deep wedge in- to the intricate web of fortifications of the German winter line and now hold dominating positions in a 25- square-mile area commanding the road to Rome. American troops, who in a few months have become masters of mountain fighting, were throwing Byrnes Urges Action Against Inflation Threat War Mobilization Head Pleads for Subsidy Support, Higher Taxes By The Associate.d Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Ameri- cans, having shown the world how to mobilize quickly for war, must now beat down a threat of inflation with the same dispatch or risk an unstable future, War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes declared tonight. Byrnes, in a Pearl Harbor anniver- sary radio speech, mixed high praise; for the job done in two years with warnings that: 1 Government subsidies, attacked; in Congress, must be maintained or food prices will leap seven percent. Pressure Groups Must Cease 2 Efforts of "pressure groups" to1 jam through wage increases violating the hold-the-line policy against in- flation must cease.. The government must say to the wielders of such "po- litical pistols," that they must "lay their pistol down." 3 Greater savings and greater tax- es are imperative. "The prospect of a stable, peaceful and prosperous America is far from bright simply because the American people apparently do not realize the supreme importance of holding the line against inflation, Byrnes said. Allied Unity Seen The unity displayed by the four great Allied nations in their confer- ences; just completed should inspire unity at home, Byrnes asserted, and he added: "I know the power of the leaders of labor, agriculture and industry. I al- so know their patriotism. I appeal to them to exercise their great influence in support of the wise restraints we have imposed upon ourselves. I ap- peal to them to help their government hold the line so that we will not lose' the peace while our boys win the' wart, Linsey Given Appointment LANSING, Dec. 7.-(-)-Attorney General Herbert J. Rushton announc- ed tonight he had appointed Jay W. Linsey, Grand Rapids attorney, to his staff as special prosecutor of most of the criminal trials resulting from the current grand jury investi- gation of the legislature. The Attorney General said he had satisfied himself that Linsey was ca pable, and could undertake without prejudice any role he might be as- signed in connection with the grand jury's probing of charges that graft and corruption influenced the adop- tion or defeat of legislation. "I asked Linsey if he had any in- terests which might influence his judgment in connection with any case which might arise in the course of the grand jury's work, and he as- sured me he had none," Rushton said. "I am convinced he can do a good job, that he has no prejudice, and is not a politician--and we can't hire a lawyer who has never had a client." Members of Board 'back repeated frantic Nazi counter- attacks and slugging their way stead- ily forward against a strongly en- trenched enemy through rain, mud, flooded creeks, minefields and barbed wire entanglements. German Tanks Destroyed In an equally impressive showing against the reinforced and desper- ately resisting Nazis, the Eighth Ar- my's infantry and armor suddenly crashed across the Moro River nearj the Adriatic Sea before the enemyj could establish new fortifications on the northern bank of the stream. Four German tanks were destroyed in this sharp clash. How far General Montgomery's ad- vance guards penetrated beyond the Moro was not disclosed. Montgomery Slowed Massed German infantry, tanks and artillery stubbornly held up Montgomery's advance around the inland strongpoint of Orsogna, which the Nazis recaptured two days ago in an extremely costly counterattack, and around Guardiagriele, three and one-half miles southwest of Orsogna. The German command appeared willing to pay an increasingly high price to delay the Eighth Army's ad- vance and thus save-if only for a short time-the important town of' Chieti, capital of Abruzzio province. Evaluation Is Difficult . Full evaluation of the newest gains by General Clark's Fifth Army on the south side of the main Rome highway between Mignano and Cas- sino was difficult, partly because of the Allied Command's reticence about a companion American drive in the area north of Mignano. At points American troops were advancing through flooded areas with water up to their necks, but neither the dreadful conditions nor the fury of the enemy's counterattacks stayed their steady progress. Kimmel, Short Trial Postponed' WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. - (P) - Congress passed a resolution today permitting a further delay of six months in the courts martial of the men commanding at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck exactly two years ago. The resolution extended the two- year statute of.limitations by a half- year. Officials had said information of value to the enemy might be di- vulged if Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short were brought to trial now for alleged neglect of duty. During today's debate Senator Clark (D- Mo.) urged the impeach- ment of Secretary of War Stimson and Navy Secretary Knox unless they ordered immediate courts martial. The Senate made one concession to Clark. It struck out the House proviso extending the statute of lim- itations to one year after the Japan- ese war ends, and made it instead six months from today. The House ap- proved the revised version. Russian Army Nears Junction In Dnieper Bend Nazi Counterattacks Force Soviet Troops Back from Kiev Bulge By The Associated Press LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 8. - One Red Army spearhead has reach- ed to within four miles of Znamenka, rail junction in the Dnieper Bend, a Moscow dispatch said today, as three columns drove on the city from sep- arate directions-but in the north Russian defenders fell back from "a number of populated places" in the Kiev bulge before a German counter- attack using as many as 1,700 tanks. The fall of Znamenka -which would be a painful wound to German communications in the area,- was believed imminent as an important push by Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Third Ukrainian Army pounded into its third day. 1,600 Germans Killed More than 1,600 Germans were killed in this area alone, said the Moscow communique, recorded here by the Soviet Monitor from a broad- cast, while "a considerable number" of prisoners and three railroad trains complete with supplies fell to the Russians in the capture of 16 Ger- man strongholds. One of them was the railway station of Pantayevka, 10 miles southeast of Znamenka, a 12- mile advanee from Alexandriya whose capture Monday was acclaimed in a special order of the day from Pre- mier Marshal Joseph Stalin. Pantayevka Falls The fall of Pantayevka-with Tsi- bulevo, 14 miles northwest of Znam- enka, and Dimitrovka, seven miles northeast, leaving only the routes south to Nikolaev and southwest to Kirovgrad in German hands. Brief Music' To Be Given Season's Second lay Will Open Next Week "Brief Music," by Emmet Lavery, the second offering of Play Produc- ton of the speech department, will be given Thursday through Satur- day, Dec. 16-18 in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. "Brief Music" is a comedy of col- lege life in a suburban locale. The characters and traditions used are common on any campus. Seven girls are taken through three years of college life. Spiff, the college Amazon; Driz- zle, the frail and intense poet; Lovey, the class beauty; Minnie, the college "smoothie," Maggie, leftist and proud of it; Rosie, the college oracle and Jinx, the eternal straggler, pro- vide the character interest and con- trast throughout the play. Tickets will be placed on sale Mon- day at the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre box office. The box office will be open daily from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. It will also be open from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Chiefs Pause in Historic Discussio"ns Cairo Reaction Hints Allied Balkan Drive Fri ergdslii p HetweeIi S trategic Turkey, Russia, Coiifirmed in Joint Dispatch By The Associated Press +war around the world with General- CAIRO, Dec. 7.-President Roose- issimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Premier velt and Prime Minister Churchill Stalin. announced tonight the conclusion of Back Door to Europe a three-day conference here with Immediate reaction in Cairo to- President Ismet Inonu of Turkey in night was that a full-scale Allied which they studied the general politi- Balkans campaign now is planned cal situation. "examined at length for the future with the assurance the policy to be followed" and found that Turkey would cooperate directly that their nations are bound by "the or in some degree facilitate a drive closest unity." against this back door to Hitler's Premier Joseph Stalin (center) of Russia takes a walk in the driveway of the Russian Embassy at Teheran, Iran, during a pause in the historic discussions between his country and the United States and Great Britain. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the U. S. Army Air Forces, is on the left, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain in the uniform of an RAF air marshal is at right. (Back to camera). SUPPLIES BLASTED: North ern Are of New Britain Hit in Relentless Air Assault The firm friendship" between# strategic Turkey and the Soviet Un- ion, which was represented at most of the sessions, also was attested to in a joint communique on the par- ley, a significant sequel to the Cairo and Teheran conferences in which Roosevelt and Churchill mapped the USO Center To Be Openede With Dedicationt The new Ann Arbor USO club, 10- cated in recently revamped Harris Hall, will be opened with a formal dedication ceremony at 3 p.m. Satur- day in the club's ballroom, it was announced yesterday. An Army parade of about 100 men led by the Army band will precede the dedication. The parade will form at Army Headquarters at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and will proceed down State to Liberty, from Main to Huron and then to Harris Hall. Tentative program includes music by the Army ASTP band under the direction of Prof. William D. Revelli and by the Company A choir. Osias Zwerdling, president of the Ann Ar- bor USO Council and chairman of the dedicatory program, will present I. B. Rhodes, regional executive di- rector of the USO and Mayor L. J. Young, both of whom will give a brief greeting to the servicemen. Col. Frederick Rogers and Capt. Richard Cassidy will reply for the Army and Navy respectively. The invocation will be read by the Rabbi J. M. Cohen and Rev. Warren Peek will give the benediction. A Europe. The conference was held Dec. A, 5 and 6, with foreign secretaries An- thony Eden and Numan Menemen- cioglu sitting in with the principals for Britain and Turkey and Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's per- sonal advisor, joining on the Ameri- can side. The Soviet ambassador to Turkey, Sergei A. Vinogradov, also joined most sessions. Joint Communique Issued "Participation in this conference of the head of the Turkey state, in response to the cordial invitation addressed to him by the United States, British and Soviet govern- ments, bears striking testimony to the strength of the alliance which unites Great Britain and Turkey ikid to the firm friendship existing -be- tween the Turkish people and the United States of America and.-,toe Soviet Union," said the joint com- munique. "The study of all problems in a spirit of understanding and loyalty showed that the closest unity existed between the United States of Amer- ica, Turkey and Great Britain! in their attitude to the world situation." Cairo Flooded with Rumors Cairo was flooded with rumors during the conference, inclding .the prediction that Turkey was ready to enter the war impmediately on 'the side of the Allies. The sober fact seemed to be, how- ever, that Turkey is near sizeable German ground forces and air fields and that she would need Allied help if she should abandon her neutrality. Fifth Choral Union Concert Will Rc Today SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Wednesday, Dec. 8.-(P)-Heavy and medium bombers together with divebombing fighters blasted and shot up the northern arc of Japan's New Britain coast and nearby islands Monday in a relentless assault on the enemy's staging points and supply centers. The attack was concentrated on' the Cape Gloucester area at the Custer Soldiers To Give Blood "As a Christmas gift to the Ameri- can Red Cross, 200 limited service men from Fort Custer will come to Ann Arbor Friday, Dec. 17 to make a mass contribution to the Blood Bank," Roy Boucher, '45, co-chair- man of the Union War Activities Committee announced yesterday. "The unexpected donation of blood by these soldiers," Boucher said, "has caused the cancelling of the Union Blood Bank campaign for this month since they have filled the quota." "In view of the fact that we will have no campus drive this month our quota for January will be set at 300. We are expecting 150 to come from the Navy V-12 unit on campus," Boucher said. western tip of the narrow island. Li- berators and Mitchells in strong force scattered 150 tons of bombs over a variety of targets, bringing to 738 tons the load dropped there in eight days. More than 100 planes participated in the aerial strikes which extended from Cape Gloucester eastward to Cape Hoskins, in the north central part of the island across from Gas- mata, and northwest to the Vitu Is- lands in the Bismarck Archipelago. Junction Points Hit DIPLOMATIC ACHILLES HEEL: Turkey Occupies Strategic Position esman r tois, flag presentation is planned by the - - gether with the other targets of Rein American Legion. Bay, Borgen Bay and Cape Busching, "The Symphony for Strings," by represented centers from which the Te held at 83 phm Saturday William Schuman, young American enemy ha distributed tropsad will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday enemy adisributed troops nd with music by the Army swing band composer, will receive its first Ann under the direction of Pfc. Richard Arbor performance at the Choral paints on the overwater haul from Thomas, Company D. USO hostesses Union concert to be given by the and air base on New Britainbes under the direction of Mrs. Robert Boston Symphony at 8:30 today in and ir bse o NewBritin.Burton will entertain at the dance. The bombing was augmented by Bu _ni__tet__ah_ dne Hill Auditorium. fierce strafing and the results were : Dmitri Shostakovich's First Sym- described as whiolly satisfactory. Ne S Students phony as wellas selections by Mous- Rabaul Harbors Little Used sorgsky, Debussy and Rimsky-Korsa- Aerial observation, the spokesman , 1 koff are the other works which Serge said, indicated that use of RabaulK s k nd r hB Harbor by Japanese naval craft was Koussevitsky, conductor of the Bos extremely limited and that air fields A.i , , m ton Symphony Orchestra has sched- there contained somewhat over 200 A tiasist o i uled for tonight's concert. planes, preponderantly fighters. - Discusses Organizaiion The performance of the Shostalo- vich symphony will be the third or- Heaviest Liberator IThe Student Victory Committee, chestra work of this composer to be new anti-fascist organization, held heard by Ann Arbor audiences dur- Fleet Hits 1I/il- its first organizational meeting yes- ing the last two years. The Phila- terday in the Methodist Church. delphia Orchestra performed his WITH THE SEVENTH AMERI- Under the co-chairmanship of AliceFDr.yKo yaea redivl af CA ARFOC I HECNTA MacKenzie and Ann Fagan, the Dr. Koussevitsky gave a reading of CAN AIR FORCE IN THE CENTRAL nthe Seventh at the Boston Symphony PACIFIC, Dec. 4. (Delayed) --(,-- group discussed the many problems 'Ocetasapaac eels The largest fleet of heavy Liberator involved both in the principles wh Orchestra's appearance here last bombers ever assembled in the Cen- the group will support and the pro- Trained cedue o oraniatio. ATemor- Trained in Moscow, Paris and Lon- tral Pacific struck Mili, southern an- cedure of organization. A Tempor- don, Koussevitsky, who has been chor of the Japanese defense chain ary Organziation Committee was permanent conductor of the Boston in the Marshalls, today. set up to obtain university recogni- Symphony for the last 19 years, has (This raid, announced Sunday by tion for the group and to plan a pro- long been famous as a sponsor of the U. S. Navy Department in Wash- gram for the next meeting. modern composers. It is largely ington, occurred on the same day but The issues, pros and cons of which through his efforts that the composi- prior to a heavy assault on the Mar- were touched upon at the meeting, tions of such composers as Roy Har- shalls by strong carrier tasks forces.) include: methods and techniques of ris, Aaron Copland and Serge Proko- The Liberators were over Mili for organization; plans for eventual af- fieff have become familiar to the almost an hour at midday. Mili has filiation with the national American American concert public. been used by the enemy as an air- Youth for Democracy; and various craft staging area for Japanese raids proposals for group activities. No on facilities of American land-based definite decisions were made as to {}v s planes in the Ellice Islands. program or action for the group at) F the meeting, aid it was suggested N Battleship MusteringOut Pa that such decisions rest until the % Mu e g O Pa y group has taken definite form. Date Legislation Planned for the second meeting will be an- PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7.-( )-The nounced early next week. Navy floated its newest super-battle- ship, the Wisconsin, on this second WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-(,T)-Urg- Chinese High Command anniversary of Pearl Harbor-and ed by the Democratic and Republican pointed it straight at Tokyo. House leadership to expedite action Adints Loss of Changteh The sleek, high-snouted dread- By LEWIS HAWKINS Associated Press Correspondents LONDON, Dec. 7. - Turkey, a nation with a potential of 2,000,000 soldiers now boldly aligned with the Allies, guards the back- door to the Balkans, and diplo- matically is the Achilles heel of Hitler's Southeast fortress. It was Berlin's recognition of this very weakness that sent the suave, ace trouble-shooter of German diplomacy, Franz von Papen, to Turkey as Nazi ambassador. Now Von Papen appears finally to have lost a four-year-long, see-saw struggle. Turkish entry into the war as a fighting partner-opening an Allied drive overland into Bulgaria or Greece-would compel Hitler to abandon his Balkan treasurehouse, or garrison it heavily from his thinning forces. sia, or to mass shipping and naval power in the Black Sea for an of- fensive in concert with Russia against the Rumanian or Bulgarian coasts. Perhaps the best of Turkey's fine new air bases is at Eskisehir, Ana- telia, only about 420 miles from Ploesti. Others are scattered widely over the western part of the nation. Greece Within Range Nazi targets in Greece might be profitably hammered on a shuttle basis between southern Italy only some 650 miles away. Effective use of the Dardanelles would depend upon recapture or neutralization of German island bases in the Aegean. Turkey could contribute an army of about 200,000 troops now under arms, and increase them quickly to 500,000, with another 1,500,000, in reserve. Her soldiers traditionally that number, thanks to Lend-Lease and a vigorous training program. The Turkish Navy is small. Armies Are Ready Powerful Allied Armies stand ready for action in the Mediter- ranean. Hitler now has in Southeastern Europe about 23 divisions, plus some 35 satellite divisions of doubt- ful ability and enthusiasm. He could not reinforce them greatly without risking disaster elsewhere. On the air side, the Germans have only about 500 first-line planes in the Balkan area. Turkey (17,000,000 pop.) has been the object of a continual vig- orous diplomatic tug - of - war throughout the war. The decision finally in obvious favor of the Al- lies came after the meeting in Moscow of the foreign ministers of Russia, the United States, and 1 R on mustering out pay for the armed forces, the House Military Committee CHUNGKING, Dec. 7-AP )-Loss of naught, under construction more than 33 months at a cost of $90,000,-