, it IiAr 4 aitt4 Weather Continued cold VOL. LIV No. 48 ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS New Re grivesP shinto Dnieper Bend Allies Report New .reakthrough inItaly San Vittore Captured by Americans "> Allied Troops Advance All Along Italian Line; Nazis Resist Fiercely By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL- GIERS, Jan. 7.-The fortress village of San Vittore, just six miles from Cassino and the flat plains leading toward Rome, fell to Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army at 3:37 p.m. yes- terday after three days of desperate, no-quarter street fighting with a German garrison. More than 100 prisoners were taken and at least that many were slain as the strong point in the Germans' win- ter line was overwhelmed, Don Whitehead, Associated Press War Correspondent reported from the wrecked town. German supply Route Cut SanVittore was captured after Bri- tish and Anmerican troops had threat- ened to outflank it entirely in their march toward the Italian capital. American forces to the east of Cas- sino hacked their way forward four miles to storm 3,500-foot Mt. Maio, cutting the German supply road from Cervaro to San Vittore. Meanwhile British troopsrpressing upthe Gar- igliano River from the south reached the edge of the Cassino plain, where their tanks might go into action for the first time. Americans near Cervaro Germans defending ,the crumbled remains of SanVittore were in im- nminent danger of being trapped and cut off by these converging Allied columns. The Americans who seized Mt. Maio were less than four miles from Cervaro, which lies in the Cas- sino plain three miles above San Vit- tore and between that village and Cassino.. . Although the Fifth Army's 10-mileI wide offensive had, gained from onec to four miles since the jump-off early Wednesday morning, there yet was no indication of a substantial break- through. The Germans were retreat- ing from one defense line to the next after making the Allies pay the high-I est possible price. Hull Attacks New Bolivian Government WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.- (P) - Strong evidence that the United States will refuse to recognize the revolutionary government of Bolivia came today frgm Secretary of State Hull in these words: "Information now available here increasingly strengthens the belief that forces outside of Bolivia and un-l friendly to the defense of the Ameri- can Republics inspired and aided the, Bolivian revolution." Only yesterday Hull announced that all the American Republics ex- cept Argentina and Bolivia have agreed to confer on the Bolivian coup. While Hull did not mention Argen- tina in connection with the "forces outside Bolivia, his statement gave added point to the exclusion of Ar- gentina from the international con- sultation. It followed widespread re- ports that Argentines may have play- ed an important part in the Bolivian overthrow. Argentina stands alone in the west- ern hemisphere in its continued re- lations with the Axis; proof of any further course gravely out of line with her neighbors might conceivably lead to strong action The possibility of trade pressures and even a break in diplomatic relations with Argentina has been talked in diplomatic circles here. * * * Bolivia Hits Hull's Claim Of Alien Aid in Revolution LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, Jan. 7.-VP)- Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Ta- moyo declared tonight that of infor- mation which United States Secre- tary Cordell hull said "increasingly PESCARA - - Sas T- "*s ITALY " rona, _ Celano ..,~ soli -samo-na Avezzano Germans'Italian "Segfried Line- « rcnognone SAlfedena Arerna Veticuso -~ ~ A-W* ASINO a add :dg n' R Piedmonte -tr Minturn - Gaeta s T $ TATUTE MILES German prisoners report Reich engineers completing an Italian "Siegfried Line," a few miles behind the present battle lihe. (Heavy Line.) It is supposed to be the 'strongest in the Cassino area and inland from Pescara. Arrows indicate where Allies have scored gains. GOP MAKES PLANS: Rdepublican Convention To Be Held inz Chicago AAFDowns 42 Nazi Fighters Over Germany French Invasion Iioite Hit by Allied Bombers In Day-Long Attacks Fy The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 8.-For- ty-two German fighters were de- stroyed yesterday by hundreds of U.S. Flying Fortresses, Liberators and long-range fighters which smashed deep into southwest Germany as more than 750 other Allied war planes delivered day-long series of blows at the northern France inva- sion route. The cost of the heavy raid into Germany, which was conducted against generally weak Nazi fighter opposition, was 12 bombers and seven fighter planes, with the pilot of one fighter reported safe by the joint U.S. Air Force and Air Ministry com- munique. Swiss dispatches said one American bomber landed safely in Switzerland. With the aid of a secret naviga- tional device, which was recently announced by the U.S. Eighth Air Force, the heavy bombers pressed home their attack through heavy clouds in the region where the rec- ord 1,500-plane American fleet struck Dec. 30 and which neutral dispatches then identified as the great chemical and poison gas center, Ludwigshaven. With yesterday's bag the total number of German fighters knocked down so far this month in three major American raids stands at 149. Of the seven fighters lost six were U.S. long-range escort ships which covered the attack the entire dis- tance of some, 800,Mies roundtrip while the other was from RAF, Can- adian and Allied supporting forma- tions which covered the withdrawal. 25 Air Cadets Killed in Army Bus Collision KINGMAN, Ariz, Jan. 7. - (R) - Twenty-filye aviation cadets, a gun- nery instructor and their bus driver, an Army private, were killed last night in a collision of an Army bus and a fast Santa Fe freight-the worst crash in Arizona history. In addition to the 27 dead, King- man Army Air Field officers reported that eight others cadets were critic- ally injured and that none of the 36 servicemen aboard the bus escaped injury. The collision came at 9 p.m. near the entrance of the field as the bus was returning the young fliers to the base from a gunnery range across the railroad tracks after a night gunnery mission. Gambling In Toledo Is Probed By the Associated Press TOLEDO, 0., Jan. 7.-Armed with a $2,500 special fund appropriated by the Lucas County Judiciary, Prose- cutor Joel S. Rhinefort today began gathering evidence for a Grand Jury investigation of Toledo gambling- thrown into the limelight by the sui- cide of a Detroit advertising man. Reporting all Lucis County gam- bling spots closed, Rhinefort confer- red with Toledo Safety Director Ed De Angelo. The prosecutor said the Grand Jury convened Monday, but "it prob- ably will be late in the week or the first of the following week before they get around to investigating gambling." Under a state law authorizing County Common Pleas Judges to ap- propriate up to $10,000 annually for Russians Crush Five Nazi Divisions Konev's Army Surrounds Kirovograd While Vatutin Smashes into Old Poland By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 8.-A new Russian offensive in the central Ukraine has broken through five German divisions on a 62-mile front, has surrounded the Dnieper bend stronghold of Kirovograd and today was near- ing a link with the unchecked northern Ukrainian drive, part of which was now 22 miles inside the old Polish border. The new offensive by Gen. Ivan S. Konev's Second Ukrainian Army began Jan. 5 and sent perhaps 75,000 Germans retreating in disorder, abandoning their military equipment and supplies, said the Moscow mid- By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Wendell L. Willkie's expressed willingness to hold the 1944 Republican nominating convention in Chicago cleared the way tonight for that city's easy se- Music of WAC Show Planned By Wa yTne King1t Band Leader Arrives To Map Final Details For Recruiting Rally Moj. Wayne King will arrive in Ann Arbor today to confer with Henry Barnes, Jr., executive officer of the civilian WAC recruiting com- mittee, about the final details of the Michigan WAC Recruiting Show which is to be given at 8:30 p.m. Monday at Hill Auditorium. Maj. King is in charge of the musi- cal portion of the program. The show will include Pvt. Lee Edwards, formerly one of the King's Men in HenryDBusse's orchestra, and Pvt. Fred David, who was a member of the stage and screen version of "This Is the Army." Maj. Mary Agnes Brown, execu- tive officer and military advisor, will headline the list of speakers. Maj.- Gen. Henry S. Aurand, Sixth Service Command of Chicago; Gov. Harry Kelly, and Mayor Leigh J. Young will be other speakers. Lt. Gertrude Patio Lund, one-time mess-sergeant with the WACs in North Africa, will tell of her many experiences in that theatre of the war. At 6 p.m. a dinner in honor of Gov. Kelly will be given at the American Legion Memorial Home. Invitations to some 60 local, state, and national guests have been sent. A military parade will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Packard and S. Main Streets. It will consist of three divi- sions: Army, state, and local. The parade will proceed north on Main to Huron, east on. Huron to Thayer, and south on Thayer to Hill Audi- torium. Complimentary reserved tickets for the show may be secured by faculty members and students from Miss lection; party members are already warming up on platform discussions. The only other possible stumbling block to harmony at next week's con- vention-planning meeting of the Par- ty's National Committee in Chicago, as seen here by some party chieftains, is the method of setting up an ar- rangements committee. Senator Taft of Ohio has said that certain unidentified individuals may try to force election of this group through the National Committee ra- ther than the National Chairman, who usually makes the choices. Foreign Policy Difference Willkie, 1940 Republican presiden- tial choice at Philadelphia, made his no-objections-to-Chicago statement in an interview today at New York. Heretofore his supporters have op- posed Chicago on the ground that it was a pre-war isolationist center; Willkie and the Chicago Tribune share a mutual dislike, largely be- cause of foreign policy differences. Foreign policy matters are in the forefront of platform talk now. Vandenberg Speaks Replying to queries by a Willkie supporter as to whether the "Macki- nac charter" adopted by the Repub- licans' post-war advisory council in September has been pigeon-holed, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a council member, said that it is far from dead. The Senator, chairman of the council's committee on foreign policy had a prominent part in writing the peace plank finally adopted at Mac- kinac. He said he would call a meet- ing of his committee in advance of the national convention to "bring down to date" the plank's phraseol- ogy. Dick Kuehn, Is Reported BettLer At TU' Hospital Fears that he suffered complete body paralysis after sustaining a broken neck Wednesday, in a prac- tice wrestling match were abated to- day as Navy matman Dick Kuehn rallied in University Hospital. Kuehn, a reserve on the wrestling squad, was injured while bridging and suffered what .Dr. Alfred Coxen, -Associated Press Photo Notes left s George Wilcox, 48, (above) Detroit advertising man found dead in a Toledo hotel, in- formed authorities he lost $30,000 to gamblers in Toledo in two years. His suicide led to an investigation of Toledo gambling. crime investigations, the Lucas Coun- ty Judges granted Rhinefort's request for $2,500 as an initial probe fund. Meanwhile, 21 persons nabbed in three raids by Sheriff Charles L. Hennessy at Club Devon, near the Ohio-Michigan line, pleaded innocent to gambling charges and trials were set Jan. 12 and 13. Rhinefort, who pledged Gov. John W. Bricker "a full investigation," said the Grand Jury also would re- ceive a report on the death of George D. Wilcox, 46, Detroit advertising ex- ecutive, who wrote letters denounc- ing Lucas County gambling shortly before his body was found in a hotel room. Wilcox said he had lost $30,000 to gamblers in two years. Coroner Frank Kreft returned a suicide ver- dict. Bricker threatened a probe by the Attorney General unless all gambling places were closed. 'Screening' Stopped by Draft Revision Physical Exams To Be Given Previous To Actual Induction By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-In a sweeping revision of the system for physical examination of draft-eligi- bles, Selective Service today abolished "screening" examinations by local boards and arranged for final exam- inations to be given at least 21 days before actual induction. Under the new system, which is to become fully effective Feb. 1, post- induction furloughs also are abolish- ed. Currently these are three weeks for those inducted into the Army and one week for those who go into the Navy. Aimed at complying with the man- date fromu 'Congress for preinduction physical tests and eliminating un- certainty by draft eligibles over whe- ther their physical condition meets service standards, the new system will work in this manner: Men in class 1-A who are about due for a call to service will be dispatched to induction stations. There they will be examined by Army and Navy phy- sicians. All will be sent back home as civilians with those who were found acceptable having assurance that they will not be ordered to report for induction for at least three weeks. It is intended, as a pool of physical- ly acceptable men is built up, to af- ford an even longer period between examination and induction but if a man is not inducted within 90 days a new pre-induction examination will be required. Army Paper Conducts Poll Soldiers Seek Vote in This Year's Elections ALGIERS, Jan. 7.-(AP)-The Stars and Stripes, published for several hundred thousand American soldiers in this theater, declares in an editor- ial to appear in Saturday's issue that soldiers polled by the Army newspa- per are overwhelmingly in favor of participating in U.S. elections this year and calls upon Congress to enact a'uniform ballotinglaw. The two-column editorial, a rarity in The Stars and Stripes, expresses disappointment in a Senate-approved measure which leaves soldier-ballot- ing up to the states. Soldiers believe, it says, that "they would be unable to make proper use of the franchise unless Congressmen passed some kind of uniform law making it simple for citizen soldiers to vote. "They asked the question, 'can you imagine what percentage will act- ually vote if each has to proceed through various state methods, most of them not even knowing the re- quirements of their respective states; the process takes months, and we have little time to spare.'" Mrs. Herbert. Hoover Dies NEW- YORK, Jan. 8.-(x'-Mrs. SVrTar Annear RR vO AfA orf farm pr night communique recorded by ,the Soviet monitor. 120 Towns Captured More than 120 towns and hamlets were captured in this break-through that advanced 25 miles in the first three days and netted large numbers of prisoners from the routed Nazi divisions. This new drive was less than 56 miles from the southernmost portion of the great offensive arc of the First Ukrainian Army under Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin. The top of this arc, stretching more than 300 miles from northwest to southeast, reached Ke- sow in a 12-mile advance inside old Poland. Red Army units on the lower rim curled eastward to capture Rzhishchev on the middle Dnieper below Kiev, linking with a long-es- tablished Russian bridgehead south of Pereyaslav. Berlin went even further than Moscow and in a broadcast by Capt. Ludwig Sertorious said "it now ap- pears as if Vatutin's left wing has contacted units of Gen. Konev's army eastward and southward of Belaya Tserkov." Two Armies Join Hands If the two armies had not already joined hands it appeared they would do so shortly for the Germans seem- ed unable to stand against the might of the two rampant armies. The late Soviet bulletin gave add- tional details of Konev's successful drive that his surrounded Kirovo- grad, an industrial center between between Smela on the north and Krivoi Roy on the south. The town was expected to be captured shortly as its garrison lost all hope of sup- ply. The Russians forced the Ingul River which runs north and south on the west side of Kirivograd and cut the rail line which runs west to Novo Ukrainka. Zagoreb Reports Allied Landing In Yugoslavia LONDON, Jan. 7.-(P)-Reports tracing back to Axis-controlled Za- greb said today the Allies had landed "in force" in Yugoslavia, but Allied Headquarters in Algiers denied it, and a highly-placed British source suggested all the smoke came from a spark of fact: that for some time small parties of Allied officers and specialists have been going into Yugoslavia to help the Partisans. In possible explanation of Zagreb reports of "heavy fighting," there was a Partisan communique recounting Partisan raids and sabotage at sev- eral points and acknowledging a fighting withdrawal after six days of street battles in Banja Luka, base of the German Second Tank Army. The periodic landings of little groups of Allied liaison officers could harly be called troop movements, London quarters commented. Jap Barges Hit In Rabaul Raid ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUAR- TERS, New Guinea, Saturday, Jan. 8. -(P)-Allied fliers striking again at Rabaul, the Japanese plane and sup- ply base on the northeastern tip of New Britain, have killed and wound- ed at least 100 of the enemy in at- tacks on more than 30 barges in the area and along the coast of the huge island. Other airmen continued the ham- mering of enemy vessels around the Japanese supply base at Kavieng, New Ireland, bombing a destroyer and cargo vessel. Both Rabaul and tarn h a i ry ar an 1.44-arm nA .A a* SRA LECTURE SERIES: Dr. Francis McMahon To Give First Speech of Year Tonight Dr. Francis McMahon of the Uni - versity of Chicago will present the view of the Catholic Church toward totalitarianism in the first lecture of zations urging American support of Britain and France in pre-Pearl Har- bor days, Dr. McMahon has recently been in the public eye as the result of a disagreement with officials of Notre Dame. Forced to leave the University this fall after he refused to have his speeches censored by a faculty board, he has since then ac- cepted a position with the philosophy department of the University of Chi- cago. In 1942 he spoke here under the sponsorship of the Post-War Council when he expressed his opinion em- phatically about the danger of allow- ing anti-Russian feeling to divide the Allied forces. "The Association has undertaken this lecture," E. William Meuhl, act- ing director of the S.R.A., said, "in the belief that an understanding of the position of Catholicism relative to totalitarian philosophy will be in- creasingly important as the end of