1 it -AL k . Itt Weather Colder VOL. LIV No. 44 ANN ARBOR, iIWHOIGAN, TUESDAY, JAN. 4, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Soviet Tank Columns Sweep into Poland 4 1,000 Ton RAF Blow Rips Berlin P R Hitler's Chancellory Made a Shambles Swedish Sources Say By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 3.-Berlin was rip- ped and seared by another 1,000 tons of explosives and incendiaries early today in a second successive assault by RAF bombers spilling doom from the skies. Hitler's proud chancellory was made a shambles by block-busters, with hundreds of persons believed trapped in its big shelter, Swedish travelers said. There was n indica- tion Hitler was'here at the tine. Traffic within the city was para- lyzed. There were no street car or eleated service. Subway trains alone eefntoig esaeswr were functioning. Newspapers were printed, but were not deliveie'd. There were no bread deliveries. Fleets of Lancasters and Halifaxes bored through freezing gales and a strong barrage of fighters to hit the Nazi capital at 3 a.m.-the same hour as on Sunday-in the 10th mammoth raid since Nov. 18. Those 10 strikes have dumped more than 14,000 tons of bombs on Berlin -twice what; London. took in 11 months-and the Nazi center ap- peared marked for building-by-build- ing extinction. Berlin is but half of London's size in. area and population. Hails of flak and reinforced swarms of fighters failed to halt the RAF, which lost 27 bombers over Berlin and in.other operaon, twenty-eight. fell the previous night, when Hamburg also was hit. New-type flares, shot from the ground, guided the German fighters, which began at kng -f fromer- li, Blw ood Donors May ig Now Union Council and . Officers Set Example Registration for the Union blood bank, sceduled Jan. 13 and 14, will be held from 3 to 5 p.ni. beginning today and continuing everyday except Sun- day until Jan. 10, Roy Boucher, '45,' general chairman, announced yes- terday. The president, secretary and exe- cutive council of the Union have al- ready pointed the way by registering themselves 100 per cent. Donors may sign up for any 15 mi- nute interval between 12:30 and 4:15 p.m. on either of the two days, Jan. 13 or 14. Anyone registering to give blood will be excused from PM on the day of his scheduled appoint- ment. The entire quota for Washtenaw County is being drawn from Uni- versity students this month. Of the quota of 322 men, 200 will consist of naval personnel, signed up in the West Quadrangle. Bob Precious and Bob Lindsay, NROTC, are in charge of registration of blood donors from the naval 'unit. Civilian and army trainees may complete the quota by signing up at the Union. Paul John and Roger Walker, Union try-outs, are in charge of civilian registration. Boucher said the response of the navy has already been "tremendous" and emphasized, "It is paramount that University civilian men meet this challenge to do something worthwhile in aiding the war effort" Col. Hobby Unable To Appear at Rally Col. Oveta Culp Hobby will not be able to attend the WAC rally to be helds at 8:30 p.m. Monday In Hill Auditorium, as was previously an- nounced, the Sixth Service Com- mand Headquarters in Chicago re- vealed Saturday. The release said that "war depart- ment orders have come up necessi- tating changing Col. Hobby's sched- ule for January." Other guests scheduled to appear at the rally are Maj.-Gen. Henry S. Aurand, commandant of the Sixth Service Command, Gov. Harry Kelly, Spn Trmer WArauhon and President Jap Airfield on e aloelhp Atoll Raided American bombers in a November raid on enemy airfields in the Marshall Islands attacked the J wanese anrstrip on iMaloelap atoll and ships in the harbor. GENERAL ACCUSED: Marshall Linked with Report That Labor Has Helped Nazis £. f 4 4 Jury Charges Plot To Incite Army Mutiny 30 Accused of Three Year Plot To Set Up Nazi Regime Here By The Assoditted Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.---A three- year plot to incite mutiny in the armed forces, unseat he government and set up a Nazi regime, was charg- ed by a Federal grand jury today with the indictment of 28 men and two women on conspiracy charges. The bill declared that, by pam- phlets, books and circulars, the ac- cused sought since 1940 to spread word that: 1-Democracy is decadent; a Nazi or Fascist form of government should be established and a Nazi "revolu- tion" is inevitable in the United States. 2-The major political parties, Congress and public officials "are controlled by communists, interna- tional Jews and plut~crats." ' 3-The U.S. deliberately provoked war with the Axis nations which are seeking only to live at peace with the rest of the world. 4-President Roosevelt and Con- gress "sold out the United States and forced the Axis powers to wage war upon us." The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor was "deliberately invit- ed in order to involve this country in a foreign war." 5-Communists, international Jew- ry and war profiteers prevent "an honorable and just peace" being brought about speedily. Twenty four of the 30 were named in previous sedition indictments which however did not allege an ac- tual conspiracy to set up a Nazi gov- ernment here. Vatutin's Troops Advance Unchecked Stockholm _____ Ty teningrad STATUTE MIMES SWX7E ESTONIA Stray SWEDENsaa Line Of Fart hest ess SOVIET E AST on mdvans RLIN PRUSLI k RUSSIA GERMANY *a P Dcrnezh Korosten "E 27, ECh Zhitomir. Khark OS A Berdichev' Sta aPin Dne HU1NGAR petrovsk Z, oro " Odessa YUGOSLAVIA ,-' L RUMANIA s tpol i Black Sea. With Berlin 600 miles to the west, General Vatutin's troops, past the fallen bastions of Korosten and Zhitomir, are now considered to have crossed the old Polish border. To the south the rail junction of Berdichev is expected to fall shortly. WINDOW SMASHER: U.S. Destroyer Blows Apart Off Lower New York Bay By The Associated Press NEW YORK, Jan. 3. - A United States destroyer blew apart near the entrance of Lower New York Bay to- day with a blast so terrific that it hurled men and guns into the sea. The blazing ship sank in 40 min- utes as Coast Guard craft edged to her side to rescue 163 men, including 108 injured. Hours after the first blast, which occurred at 6:18 a.m. (EWT), the Navy said the cause had not yet been determined. There was no announce- By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-General George C. Marshall was linked pub- licly tonight with the New Year's eve statement that U.S. labor troubles have hurt the Allies; President Roos- evelt was described as thinking "along the same lines;" and AFL President Allied Planes Raid Kavieg, Hit Jap Ships ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUAR- TERS, NEW GUINEA, Tuesday, Jan. 4.-OP)-Planes from a South Pacific carrier force have hit two heavy crui- sers and two destroyers in a raid on the Japanese base at Kavieng, New Ireland. Both' of the enemy cruisers were set afire in the raid, which was the second assault by carrier planes in recent days. On Christmas day car- rier-borne planes sank a destroyer, damaged a second and sank two 10,000-ton cargo vessels. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com- munique also announced that Ameri- can troops of the 32nd Division, which landed at Saidor, on the north coast of New Guinea, last Sunday, had secured their final objectives after overcoming light enemy resis- tance. The communique reported that 13 Japanese planes were downed by the Americans in the Kavieng raid. Meeting of InIvasionI Council Inimiiel- LONDON, Jan. 3.-(A)-The first meeting of the Allied "invasion war council" is imminent and Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, whose arri- val was disclosed tonight, told friends "I don't expect to be here long." ^ Montgomery, designated as com- mander of British land forces for the invasion of western Europe, added, "I'm always on the move these days." William Green challenged Marshall "or any one else" to prove such a1 thesis., It was Green who named Marshall in -connection with the originally anonymous warning that rail and steel strike threats may have delayed victory by providing grist for the Axis, propaganda mill. Green said that the Army Chief of Staff was reported to have made the statements. The White House did not identify Marshall as the source of the re- marks. Stephen Early, presidential secretary, contented himself with saying that the source was a "little bit more military" than the President. Green's vigorous challenge, which also contained a sharp blast at gov- ernment officials for their handling of the labor situation, climaxed a day of swirling developments arising from the publication of the statement. Ensian ToSell Subscriptions The sale of subscriptions for the three--stage 1944 Michiganensian will begin on campus tomorrow. The Ensian will come out in three issues, one for each semester. Sched- uled for distribution in February, the first issue will contain pictures of the fall semester graduates, organiza- tions, the fall sports program, soror- ities and campus life. The second section will contain, in addition to pictures of the spring graduates, features and fraternity pictures. The third and final section which will come out at the end of the summer semester will cover its activities as 'well as pictures of the graduates. "Students may purchase either the entire 1944 Michiganensian, which will contain all three sections, or any individual sections they desire,'; Rosemary Klein, '45, Ensian Sales Manager said. An additional charge will be made for a hard cover in which the Michiganensian can be bound. GENERAL REPORTS: Arnold Says Air Force Aims to Cheapen Invasion Costs ment regarding loss of life, but des- troyers in wartime carry crews rang- ing from 150 to 300 men. Blast Breaks Windows The blast, breaking windows ashore and arousing thousands of metropol- itan New Yorkers from their beds, ripped the ship as she was preparing to get underway six miles northeast of Sandy Hook, N.J., and just a few miles off Coney Island, N.Y., naval spokesmen said. An eye-witness said another ex- plosion "split her in two" about five minutes after the vessel was aban- doned at 7:05 a.m. It sank a short time later. The spokesman gave no indication of whether the sinking could be attributed to a torpedo attack, a mine or an accident. Cog geshall Will Direct Center Doctor To Head West Coast Marine Project Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, chairman of the department of tropical diseases of the public healh school, has been given complete charge of a new Mar- ine medical center on the West Coast, it was learned yesterday. This new medical branch of the Marine Corps will be used as a train- 6,000 Nazis Killedin Wake Of Offensive Hundreds Surrender; Entire Companies Throw Down Arms By JAMES M. LONG Associated Press Correspondent LONDON. Tuesday, Jan. 4-Van- guards of the Soviet Army, rolling forward in a smashing offensive west of Kiev. drove into old Poland yesterday after the main body of the Russian forces had occupied Novograd-Volynski and the pre-. war frontier town of Olevsk. Crossing of the 1939 border was eunfirmed in dispatches from Mos- cow after a Russian communique, broadcast from the Soviet capital, had announced the capture of 01- evsk and 170 other villages by the on-rushing Red Army columns. Hundreds of Germans were sur- rendering, throwing down their arms and going "over to the side of the Red Army" by entire company lots, said a midnight communique describing one of the worst Nazi debacles since the Stalingrad disaster. Equipment Taken Huge quantities of war equipment fell to Gen. Nicolai F. Vatutin's forc- es, which included Siberian infantry- men. The torrent of power unleash- ed by the first Ukraine army and the crumbling of German lines over the entire area opposite central Poland made it almost certain that flying Soviet columns now were across the old frontier below the Pripet Marshes. The border recognized by Moscow, however, lies 150 miles beyond cap- tured Olevsk, once a customs station seven miles from Poland. The Stockholm paper Svenska Dagbladet said in a private dispatch from Moscow that the Russians also had reached the old Polish border at Gorodnika on the Slucz River 30 miles southwest of Olevsk. Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin In an order of the day late yesterday an- nounced the capture of Novograd- Volynski, a rail and road hub 15 miles from the former frontier. Railway's Cut To the south other Red Army units moving toward Rumania had slashed the Kazatin-Zhashkov and Kazatin- Uman railways serving the German forces in lower Russia, On the Baltic front Soviet troops under Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian cap- tured 70 localities north of Nevel in an expanding arc aimed at the Lat- vian frontier. Co. A lass To Graduate Today Frederic Sterbenz, foreign. editor of the Cleveland Press, will be the main speaker at the graduation cer- emony for the January class of Co. A at 10 a.m. today in the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre. He will discuss the trend of the war. Other speakers will be Capt. George G. Spence, commanding of- ficer of the company, Capt. Paul F. Rusch, Dr..Joseph C. Yamagiwa and Col. Frederick C. Rogers. Cpl. Rob- ert H. Brewer of Co. A will speak on behalf of the class. The second movement of the Brahms "Sonata in A Minor" will be played by Cpl. Robert C. Kurks on the violin and Cpl. Otto G. Graf on the piano. Cpl. J. Arthur Flynn, tenor, will sing two solos. They are "Aroso-I Pagliaci" by Leoncavello and "Ave Maria" by Shubert. He will be ac- companied by Cpl. Arthur M. Mac- Evoy. The invocation will be given by Rabbi Jehudah M. Cohan, director of Hillel, Rev. C. H. Loucks, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will give the benediction. Program pianists will be Cpl. Elia M. Figundio.and Cpl. MacEvoy. They will play selections on two pianos from "Nips in. the Bud," a musical See COMPANY A, p. 4 Fighting Ship Lost In North Atlantic WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.--4A)-An American destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic on December 24, the Navy reported to- .7_ By The Associated Press Genhal H. H. Arnold,.Chief of Army Air Forces, said today the pri- mary aim of his command "is to make the coming invasion of Ger- many as economical as possible by drastically reducing the war poten- tial of the Third Reich and its satel- lites." Into a report on the operations and history of the air forces, Arnold put these statements: "Our strategic air plan is predicat- ed on the fundamental fact that our bombers can fly deep into enemy territory, drop an effective load of bombs, and return to base "without losses disproportionate to the dam- age accomplished. We have proved that we can do this." The near future likely will deter- mine "the survival or destruction" of the German air force as an effective agency. The destruction of the ene- my's fighter strength is aimed at through two methods - the bombing of fighter plane manufacturing Student Meningitis Victim Is Now 'Doing Nicely' Raymond Robins, ASTP dental trainee whose contraction of menin- gitis following a New Year's Eve par- ty at the Alpha Omega hduse led- to mild restrictions on approximately 50 University students, including coeds and ASTP dental trainees, is now "doing nicely," according to.Dr. Wil- liam Brace of the Health Service. Those students who came in con- tact with Robins were forbidden to indulge in physical exercise although they were allowed to attend classes. plants and the destruction of planes in the air in battle with Allied bomb- ers. The United States now has "the world's largest air force," manned by 2,385,000 officers and men. The War Production Board has 145,000 planes scheduled -for produc- tion during the next 15 months. V-12 Men Aid Sick Mascot "Gunner is sick and probably will not live." That was what Navy V-12 men were told about their popular canine mascot in general orders which they received at 8 a.m. yesterday morning. The men were asked to make contri- butions in order to keep their pet in the dog hospital and by 9 a.m. the sailors and marines had raised $56 for their dog. This was the fastest response ever made by the men to a request of this kind, according to Lt. George Jennings. He was connected with the affair from the beginning, for it was his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Jennings, who first discovered Gunner in the Union Friday afternoon looking miserable and very sick. The dog was rushed to the veteri- nary and was pronounced in a criti- cal condition. The doctor said it was pneumonia and he doubted if Gunner would live. However, yesterday, the mascot was pronounced out of danger and it is hoped that he will be on deck by the end of the week. FEARS OF BRAIN TUMOR ABATED: Dr. Peet Operates To Save Life of Cuban Child DR. LOWELL COGGESHALL ing and rehabiliation center for ad- vanced cases of various tropical dis- eases. Dr. Coggeshall will receive a com- mission in the Marine Corps which he expects momentarily. In this new work he will have com- plete charge of selecting his staff, and he has recommended four men of the University for positions on the staff. They are Drs. Harv Carlson, Robert G. Haskett, Samuel Spector, of the staff of the University hospital and W. V. Charer of the school of public health. Within the past year Dr. Coggeshall has been touring Africa and the Mid- dle East establishing medical centers for the air ferry routes of Pan Ameri- an- Airuro'r By STAN WALLACE Early fears that she was suffer- ing from a tumor pressing against her brain were abated yesterday when Dr. Max Minor Peet, world famed brain surgeon, removed scar tissue from two and a half year ^M r,1av ,.araeras Cohanseln- He said that the condition was quite rare, although he treated a similar case recently on a four months old boy. "The scar tissue on this boy was developed after the patient had pneumonia," Dr. Peet said. "His recovery was com- nMet after the removal of the scar tissue was only hard dense scar like material. Dr. Paul Perdomo of Venezuela on the surgical staff of the hospi- tal acted as interpreter for the family as they speak no English. Dr. Herrara, a general practi- tioner in Havana. declined to wit- the tumor caused Isabel's death last summer.. It was on the advice of Dr. Sal- vador that Gladys was brought to Ann Arbor. Dizzy spells and at- tacks of nausea caused Dr. Her- rara to believe his daughter was suffering from a brain pressure