1 frigmi We adther M .iiuW -ii Colder Ww VOL. LIV No. 33 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1943 Fifth Arm Meets Savage aziResist PRICE FIVE CENTS Aince Senate Approves Wage Increase by Wide Vote 744 Roll Call Authorizes 8-Cents-an-Hour Pay Raise for 1,100,000 Railroad Workers By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Urged on by the Democratic majority leader, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a proposed 8-cents-an-hour wage increase for non-operating railroad workers today despite protests from the Administration's top hold-the-line officials that it would be a wedge for inflation. A 74-to-4 roll call sent to the House the resolution authorizing the pay rise for 1,100,000 wage earners. If the House concurs the proposal will go to the President, putting up to* -- him the decision whether to veto it and uphold the view of his stabiliza- Allied Leaders tion chiefs-James F. . Byrnes and Fred M. Vinson. Declare U-Boat Senators Ellender (D-La.), Bailey (D-N.C.), Ferguson (R-Mich.) and Vandenberg (R-Mich.), voted against Fleet C ri ied the proposal. r Majority Leader Barkley of Ken-M tucky took the floor in the closing More Than 300 Nazi minutes of a day-long debate to tell Subs Destroyed from the Senate to "discharge our respon- sibility as we see it." March to November He said he was "not persuaded by arguments that this resolution is in- LONDON, Dec. 9.-(P) -U-boat flationary," a contention made by hunting Allied ships and planes War Mobilization Director Byrnes probably destroyed upwards of 300 when he singled out the railroad pay undersea raiders in the Atlantic from proposal in a Tuesday night .attack March to November, seriously crip- on' what he termed inflationary pling the submarine fleet 'which has thrusts against the Administration's been one of Hitler's main hopes for fight to hold down the cost of living, checkmating an invasion of Europe.; "When this money is divided An announcement tonight by Pres- among 1,000,000 employes it is not ident Roosevelt and Prime Mmister going to enable them to go on a Churchill said that once again, in long splurge of spending," Barkley November, the number of U-boats, argued.'"They're goingto' spend it sunk exceeded the number of their for food.."Tg victims, even though increasedhcau- Senator Truman (D-Mo.), author tion by the Nazis presented the Al- of the resolution; said the wage form- lied sub-killers with fewer targets. ; ula set up in the document had twice The exact number of German sub- been approved by the President. marines known sunk during Novem-, 'The 8-cent rise wasoriginally rec- ber was not announced, but it was ommended by a special .board ap- disclosed officially at the end of pointed. by the President to pass on October that 150 U-boats had been demands of the non-operating rail- smashed in the six months begin- road workers-the clerks, machinists, nmg in May, when the tide began and others who do not operate trains shifting strongly toward the power- -for a 20-cent increase. Vinson re- ful team of United States and Bri- fused to approve it on the grounds ain. it violated the Little Steel Formula In the peak-period of May and1 to hold wage-'time wage increases to June, and again in August and Sep- 15 percent above Jan. 1, 1941, levels. tember, U-boats were sunk at the Jackie Wall Is Separated From Parents Lack of Parental Care Is Important Factor In Youth's Delinquency By ROBERT GOLDMAN Eleven-year-old Jack Wall was found delinquent in the Nov. 19 acci- dental shooting of Barry Rothstein and was removed from the custody of his parents following a hearing yesterday. "I wish there were a law forbidding every woman with children under 17 to work," Probate Judge Jay Pray said, stressing the employment of both parents as a factor in the boy's delinquency. Mrs. Wall, a skilled lathe operator, still employed as a stock-stamper at Willow Run, has not been to work since the shooting. Plea Made for Leniency Despite County Prosecutor Francis Kamman's plea for leniency, Judge Pray announced that Jackie would be placed under the care of the Mich- igan Children's Institute here. Pray recommended that the youth be given a 30-day test at the University Psy- chiatric 'Institute. 'At,the. end of this period Jackie will be placed in 'a suit- able home by the Children's'Institute until his own home is approved by the Institute. The delinquency decision was based on the Michigan statute. which states that if the defendant points a gun intentionally, without malic. at an- other person and the gun discharges so that the latter is. injured, maimed or killed, the holder of' the gun has committed an ,act .of manslaughter. This law applies only to adults; there- fore, the state could ,not .convict Jackie ofPmanslaughter, but from,, the statute a delinquency charge could be filed. - Hearing Held in Chamber The hearing was held in Judge Pray's chamber in the County Court Building. Shortly after the proceed- ings began at 3:30 p.m., County Agent; Arch Wilson read his 11-page report on the case in which he stated that Jackie had committed a delinquent act. Wilson then turned over the prose-1 cution to Kamman. As the only wit- See PRAY, p. 6 Turkish-Allied Aims Clarified Relations Bolstered Minister Announces ANKARA, Dec. 8. (Delayed)-(A)- Turkey's foreign policy was left un- changed by the Cairo Conference, but her relations with. Great.Britain, the United States and Russia were great- ly strengthened, Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu announced today. Making the first authoritatitve statement since his and President Ismet Inonu's return from the meet- ing at Cairo with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, the foreign minister told a press confer- ence: "As you already noticed in the of- ficial communique, our alliance with England emerged considerably strengthened. (He stressed the word considerably.)1 "I can tell you our talks were so intimate and friendly that we can say that our relations with America and Russia are almost the same as with England." In answer to a direct question he said that the Cairo talks had led Turkey closer to the Allied camp. ua rkey's President Confers With Roosevelt, Churchill President Ismet Inonu (center) of Turkey sits be ween President Roosevelt (left) and Prime Minister Churchill (right,) 'during an 'interval in the conference at Cairo, Egypt. It was announced that they found their nations 'bound, byr the "closest unity." (AP Wirephoto from OWI via radio from Cairo). Aussie Force Takes Wareo In New Guinea Japanese Supply Line Cut in Six-Day Drive , In Jungles of Huon SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Friday, Dec. 10. -(A')--Wareo, a strong, natural de- fense point in the Huon Peninsula jungles of northeastern New Guinea and an important hub for Japanese supply lines, was captured Wednes- day by Australians after a six-day assault. The capture, announced today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, was achiev- ed by part of the same Aussie force which late in November stormed and won the high plateau fortification of Sattelberg four miles south of Wareo. Wareo is approximately 12 miles northwest of the Allied coastal base. of Finschhafen. The new success accelerated the campaign to drive out the Japanese from the entire Huon Peninsula which is separated at the closest point by only 70 miles of water from the invasion-menaced, pivotal Jap- anese island of New Britain. Point- ing to the possibility of such an in- vasion, Allied air forces steadily maintained the daily series of at- tacks on New Britain bases closest to New Guinea.I At Cape Gloucester, the Japanese air base on New Britain's western tip nearest to the peninsula ground front, Allied planes attacked through the tenth straight day. This time it was on a lighter scale, by Liberator reconnaissance planes. 200 Additional Men Will Donate Blood The Washtenaw County chapter of the Red Cross has announced that an additional 200 Military Police from Battle Creek will be here to give blood on Dec. 16, as well as the 200 arriving Dec. 17. ryf ;,, earle- -ti - - m tt ,m ll aan rate of one a day, and even if this rate of destruction were cut in half, it would mean that 15 more sub- marines were sunk in November. Drawing from this to estimate the Germans' U-boat losses for April and March; the total would come to at about 200 sunk since March, when, incidentally, the U-boat fleet was at its top strength of 600-plus. Although the Nazi submarines were more successful before that time, a good number were destroyed as they roamed the north and south Atlantic, attacking single ships as well as convoys. Allies Will. Aid Partisan Army . ./ WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-(P)-Gen- eral Anglo-American policy toward Europe's intra-mural fights emerged today with a disclostire that the Unit- ed States intends to send its main military support in Yugoslavia to the Partisan forces despite their opposi- tion to the duly recognized govern- ment of King Peter. Secretary of State Hull, in response to a question at a press conference, affirmed the British policy announc- ed in Parliament yesterday. Minister of State Richard K. Law told Com- mons: "We are sending more support to the Partisans (headed by General Josip Broz, called Tito) than to Mi- hailovic (King Peter's Minister of War) for the simple reason that the Partisans are doing more of the fighting against the Germans." 1eI'er Bend Loop Tightened ByRed Army Oig Tank Battle Rages; Nazi Counterattacks Repulsed Near Kiev; By JAMES X. LONG. Associated ,Press Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 9.-The Red Army smashed to within 18 miles of the in- dustrial center of Kirovograd today in a five-niile gain which tightened its annihilation loop. around the pocketd ril l hub of Znamenka in the DnieperiRFver iben& --. Wet of.'Kiev in the Cberny-akhov sector, where' one of the biggest tank battles of the war was raging, the Russians repulsed large-scale German tank and infantry counterattacks, Moscow announced in its communique tonight. .; '- 5,000 Germans Killed Moscow, dispatches said more than 5,000 Germans had been- killed and approximately 200 enemy tanks de- stroyed by Soviet gunners during the last three days in that explosive area where Axis forces are trying to achieve a mass break-through- toward Kiev on the middle Dnieper. The Germans were reported pour- ing into battle their tank and in- fantry 'reserves 'drawn from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and even Italy, spending them lavishly in a supreme effort to regain a part of their lost Dnieper line and relieve enormous Soviet pressure on the Axis fronts in White Russia to the north and in the Dnieper bend to the southeast. 75 Nazi Tanks Destroyed Berlin as well as Moscow einpha- sized -the fighting in the hotly-con- tested bulge west of Kiev, claiming Axis gains of 25 miles on the Zhito- mir - Chernyakhov - Korosten front.. But the Russians said their troops beat down these serious attacks knocking out 75 German tanks in the Chernyakhov sector along during Wednesday's fighting. Responding to an urgert request of the .War Prooluction Board, a campus drive to collect waste paper, cardboard; old newspapers and mag- azines to help relieve 'an acute na- tion-wide shortage begins today und- er the joint sponsorship of Assembly and Pan-Hellenic. Called one of the most important drives of this war, the one-week campaign 'will last until next Friday when collections will be' made at sor- orities and' leaguehouses. Will Be Collected '-Doris Barr, president of Assembly, and Frances Vyn, 'project chairman for Pan-Hellenic, are working out a system whereby sorority houses in the same neighborhood will bring their collections. together at one centrally located house where they may be picked up at one time. The 54 league houses on campus are already divided into eight zones and each zonedchair- man is to contact the houses in her zone and determine at which house the paper will be picked up. The drive on campus will be held in cooperation with the Washtenaw County Salvage Committee of the WPB, and George H. Gabler, chair- man, suggests tying old newspapers in bundles 12 inches high and maga- zines in stacks 18 inches high. Card- board boxes should be flattened and piled in 12-inch stacks while waste- paper should be packed into boxes so that it will be easier to carry., Dangerous Shortage Donald Nelson,, chairman of the WPB, says the current shortage is a dangerous threat 'to the country's paper board packaging operations. Many of the larger mills are down to four days' production instead of six because of lack of waste paper and alrealy an extensive waste paper black market has developed. Waste paper is the basic raw ma- terial from which finished paper containers, corrugated paper boxes and protective wrappers used by all branches of the armed forces is made.' Manufacture and shipment of practically every form of military supplies such as shells, bombs, am- William Padgett Is Granted New Trial The retrial of William Padgett, who was convicted of murdering eClifford 'Stang, Ann Arbor police- man, in 1936, will take place Tuesday in the Washtenaw County Circuit Court. Guy A. Miller, judge of the Wayne County Circuit Court, will preside. 1'n a+ ilnQhaan in _- n +-Q.n munition, food and medical supplies' all are dependent on an adequate' paper supply to package goods before' transporting them to the front lines. Altogether over 700,000 different' kinds of goods and equipment will be needlessly delayed in reaching our fighting forces overseas if the present' drive to collect plain, ordinary waste paper of every kind, texture and color is not successful. Chinese Forces Take Changtee WILL YOU HELP? Waste Paper Urgently Needed;* Campus Drive Begins Today Allies Break OuterGerman Defense Wal Enemy Counterattacks Met by Clark's Forces Near Garigliano River' By NOLAND NORGAARD Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL- GIERS, Dec. 9.-Driven from the crests of a chain of mountain ridges which formed the hard outer wall of their carefully prepared defenses be- fore Rome, the Germans with their backs to the upper Garigliano River fought back savagely today against the pressure of Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. On the Adriatic end of the Italian front the Nazis waged an equally desperate battle to hold the line guarding the 'important port of Pes- 'cara and the inland city of Chieti, throwing squadrons of tanks into a battle raging around the town of Orsogna, 10 miles from the sea. Enemy Counterattacks An Allied communique referred cautiously to "several inconclusive counterattacks"' launched by the en- emy against the Fifth Army, but there was no official indication whe- ther they cost Clark's forces any of the ground they won in the past week's hard fighting. British troops stormed and took a ridge of Mt. Croce, two and one- half miles southwest of the summit of Mt. Camino and only a mile fropi the Garigliano. Mt. Croce's 3,000- foot summit was seized a month ao at the same time the Fifth Army smashed enemy defenses on Massico Ridge near the Tyrrhenian Sea., Clark's warriors, pushing down the western slopes of Mt. Maggiore an'd Mt. Camino toward the flatlands leading to the major German strong- hold of Cassino, wiped out all by- passed enemy pockets except on the northwestern tip of the Maggidi'e incline and in the small village of Rocca Devandro, nestled against Camino. Summary Given Front line reports gave this sum- mary of the situation today: American and British units hold all high ground on three mountains -Camino, Maggiore and Croce- dominating from the south and southwest the lower edges of. the broad valley in which the Liri River flows into the upper Garigliano. The German defenders had been pushed back to within a mile of the Garigliano in one place. Their hold on Rocca Devandro promised to be brief, as the village was within easy rifle and mortar range of Allied troops on higher ground. Clark's fighters had to overcome desperate obstacles to win these mountain tops, sometimes literally clawing up steep, muddy slopes. Kelly Apprehended By Police in Nevada James Kelly, charged with stealing $6,000 in federal funds from the of- fice of the Willow Run Court Housing Project, has been apprehended in Las Vegas, Nev. after being identified by fingerprints taken from the office safe. He will be brought back to Ypsi- :anti by the Michigan State Police. Gen. Yu Is Iero of Battle for Stricken+ City CHUNGKING, Dec. 9.-U)-Chi-. nese forces under Gen. Yu Cheng- Wan, the "hero of Changteh," recap- tured that stricken city in particular- ly bloody fighting early this morning and moved on to push the Japanese invaders back from China's vital "rice bowl" region. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's headquarters announced Gen. Yu's victory in returning to avenge his 57th division. The division was wiped out except for 300 men in its 15-day defense of the city that fell to the Japanese Dec. 3. Chinese forces north of the Yuan river in the Panchiapu sector, north- west of Changteh, were attacking the Japanese who are already showing "signs of weakening," said a head- quarters bulletin. COMMITTEES MEET: Tax Bill Cut by 26 Million; Subsidy Hearings Near End WITAS~TUNTCOT'Th 1 De.9- '-e-U WXVAS=GT'~YC3NM D~e_ 9 --(P)- MINISTER TELLS EXPERIENCES: Life in a JapanesePrisonCamp By BARBARA HERRINTON "One of the things that amazed us was that we had so little spare time in the internment camp," Rev. Phillip Sullivan, who has just re- turned to the United States after having spent seven months in a Ja-. panese prison camp, said in an in- terview yesterday. ..ra~uatedin1 92 In the internment camp Rev. Sullivan and 12 of his American colleagues from St. John's set up a university. Classes were taught at night and "the only thing we were not allowed to teach," he said, "was history after 1914. We dug an ath- letic field out of a bombed village. There we had baseball and soccer football games. Bridge filled many repayof buildings and even but- chering, way done by' the internees. So Wehd;very little spare time." Cori itmieation Cut torituix' Commun iiation with the det te world was cut to a minimum in the camp. However, by means of a "contact" in Shanghai and the Red Cross, parcels do reach the intern- es A f or ettina infnmatinn I ate Finance Committeemen tore ano- ther $26,400,000 corner off the tax bill today. rejecting in the process a proposal to tax race track betting while approving doubled taxes on movie tickets and admissions to other entertainment. Knocking out the House-approved 5 per cent tax on part-mutuel wag- ering, together with minor excise changes, accounted for the reduction which cut prospective revenue under the tattered measure to $1,922,700,000 a year. The total now left in the bill is well below one-fifth of the $10,500,- 000,000 extra funds sought by the Y Treasury. To date, for every $100 Secretary Morgenthau asked, the Senators have voted $18.31. Further Hearings on legislation to scuttle the Administration's Food Subsidy Pro- gram neared an end before the Sen- ate Banking committee today as Farm Bloc spokesmen moved to force a Senate ballot on the bill before the Christmas holidays. Their drive for speedy action came after an Administration group renew- ed efforts to delay a vote on the House-approved subsidy repealer un- til after a year-end recess, with the frankly-expressed hope that a visit home would continue wavering sena- tors that there is a dominant popular sentiment in favor of subsidies to hold the line on food prices. Spurning the plea of Senator El- lender (D-La) that the Senate allow itself such a "cooling off" period.