i -Aa dJ6 low 4R ow lq wt w an r ja _ I 4 tt Wcat Ir Sn!ow an ldCodr VOL. LIV No. 50 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JAN. 11, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Michigan WAC Recruiting Show Highlighted by Induction of 118 Reds Capture Sam yKill Maj. Aurand NoteQ Urgent Need, New Plan Announced By ANN SCHUTZ Highlighted by the induction o 118 WACs, Michigan's WAC Recruit- ing Show held last night in Hill Aud- itorium was witnessed by more than 3,000 persons and emphasized the "immediate urgent need for increased enlistment." Maj. Mary Agnes Brown, executive officer and military adviser to Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, national director of the WAC, headed the list of speak- ers. She told the audience that Army life was not easy. "However," she went on to explain, "that is why most women enlist. Their deep apprecia- tion of the freedom which they enjoy makes them want to play their roles in winning the victory." "My message to University wo- men is to study harder than they have ever studied before so that when they enlist in the WAC after graduation they can better use their skills and intellect. A college education makes a woman much more useful to the Army," she con- tinued. Maj.-Gen. Henry S. Aurand, com- manding officer of the Sixth Service Command at Chicago, announced the new enlistment plan which began yesterday and will lat for three weeks. Under the new plan a woman is permitted to choose the state in which she would like to be stationed at the end of her basic training. "In my service command alone, I am short 1,500,000 WAC. Our over- seas commitments have remained the same and I must release men for other duties. For every man released there must be a WAC to take his place," stressed Maj. Aurand. Lt. Gertrude F. Lund, who spent nine months in North Africa with the WAC, in telling of her experi- ences said, "The men in the Army in North Africa were amazed to see that women 'wanted victory so badly that they were willing to help win it. In fact the men claimed that they were 'darn glad' to see us arrive." Other speakers were Col. Owen J. Cleary, special deputy for the state commander of the American Legion; See WAC SHOW, Page 2 MYDA Gains II' Approval As Organization Michigan Youth for Democratic Action, new anti-fascist group, was approved yesterday by the Student Affairs Committee as an official cam- pus organization. As its first campaign, the MYDA will undertake a poll of campus opin- ion on the federal soldier vote bill Thursday. This poll will include all service personnel stationed on cam- pus, and will be taken in conjunction with The Daily. Officers of the MYDA are: Presi- dent, Agatha Miller; ecretary, Belle Rosenthal; and Treasurer, Alice Mc- Kenzie. Committees have been formed from the membership to take care of action, education, publicity, correspondence and finance. Any stu- dent is eligible for membership in the group who subscribes to the princi- ples stated in the constitution. These prinicples include the ideals of "racial equality, religious freedom, elmina- tion of fascism, and extension of so- cial, political and economic demo- cracy." Bills Presented On Soldier Vote WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.- (A)- Representative Bradley (Dem., Pa.) introduced today a bill to create a war ballot commission of four mem- bers to handle the soldiers vote prob- lem. The bill provides that the commis- sion comprise two Republicans and two Democrats to be appointed by the President. It would distribute and collect the ballots, leaving the counting to the states. Representatives Ludlow (Dem., Ind.) and Andrews (Rep., N.Y.) also introduced soldier vote measures. Ludlow's bill would limit the fed- eral government's part to the distri- bution of application cards to men in fT President Dies Congress Will 1Hear Annual essage Today President Expected j To iscuss Dom estic I _ - -- _I -- " - -e~L. i Issues, Labor Draft j ,WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 .-(P- Congress went through the motions (of reccnvening today and then sat back to wait for a Presidential mes- se that at noon tomorrow will set the session really on its way through a maz7e of issues complicated by elec- tion-year considerations. Psident Roosevelt has not recov- ered s ciently from the grippe, his physicai ruled, to deliver his annual "State of the Union" speech in per-! 4 son and it will be read by clerks. ANTANAS SMETONA Radio Address Tonight But the President added a note of Lithuanian president-in-exile, significance to the arrangements by died of suffocation following a fire deciding to broadcast a boiled-down n the Cleveland home of his broth- version to the nation at 9 p.m. East-I er Julius. Antanas was 59 years er War Time. old.e What the message will covei is a matter of speculation.I e i . Possibilities that have been ad- vauced include a home front review Of Bul + - . th,,t will hit at war production Nandi_ O f Bulgaria ps through strikes, at efforts to amend the renegotiation law to ease , profits restrictions and at pressure Blasted by AAF roups seeking special treatment un- der wartime regulations.j Nazi Communications Civilian Draft Predicted The Army and Navy Journal has Paralyzed; Fifth Army said it expects Mr. Roosevelt to call Moves Toward Cassino for a civilian draft to put workers where they are needed and keep them _ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-'there. giers, Jan. l0.-(P)-American Flying While a goodly part of the members Fortresses, operating from great new of Senate and House stayed in Wash- bases in southern Italy, struck a par-'mgton for the three-week vacation alyzing blow at Nazi communications ended today, other went home to see in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to- how their constituents are thinking day while the Allied Fifth Army, its this election year.J offensive supplemented by tanks, ed. pushed toward the outskirts of Cas- sino, 70 miles from. Romae, threaten- 1 ing that key German defense bastion. , fU % A one-sentence communique an- nounced the Sofia raid, saying only: For Congress "A heavy force of Flying Fortresses Co gr Marincs Wade Asho Y} .*4 Marines, wading waist deep, pus] Island, for the second invasion operat anticipation of casualties. One coas Fire Sweeps 9iX Morton Salt Plant Buildins" Loss in Marysville Blaze Estimated at Over $2,s00,000 in re at Cape Gloucester, New Britain Dnrleiper BulIge Fall of Rail Hub Puts RLussi tns 35 Miles in Poland 1y JUDSON O'QUINN By The Associated Press LONDON, 1'Tuesday) Jan. 11.-The Red Army smashed to within 21 miles of the Warsaw-Odessa railWay yes- erda, slashed two lines feeding into Ghat main German escape channel, and killed 16.000 more enemy troops, Moscow annoiced early today. 3oerlin reports via neutral Stock- holm said the Germans had evacuat- ed Sarny. rail junction 35 miles in- (ide old Poland, in the path of the steamroller. Rovno, another junction almost 50 miles to the south- west, was endangered by rapid Rus- sian strides. aid the Berlin corres- pondent of the Swedish newspaper D agens Nyhetr. l~gRiver Approached Other dispatches said the Russians had reached the Bug River, last nat- ural German defense line in the Ukraine. Only a few miles beyond thie Bug lies thec Warsaw-Odessa rail- wayv, which thef Russians hope to seize in ain eff'brt to doom upwards of 500,- 000 Germans in Southern Russia. Guerrila "Ghost Armies" spring- ing out of the snowy forests of old Poland joined Gen. Nikolai F. Vatu- tin's First Ukraine Army regulars at- tacking westward on a 40-mile front in old Poland. Imperilled Sarny ap- peared about to fall as the Russians captured two more localities below it. 4"errilas Wreck Rail Line The Guerrilas, presumably all Rus- rian-og;anized, also were declared by Moscow to be wrecking German rail acilities near Odessa on the Black Sea cil ong the pre-war Rumanian See RUSSIAN DRIVE, Page 2 ,, * Rusa'eands Pole Teriory ;h a jeep ashore as they land at Cape Gloucester, New Britain ion on the island. Note litters being earried by some of the men in t-guard manned landing craft is on beach at center. Iadang, K endari Bobe eavily b Allied Flyers Big Bombers Drop 168 Tons of Bombs On New Guinea Air Base, Aiding Troops ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Tuesday, Jan. 11. P-Allied air squadrons roamed the skies from the Dutch Celebes far th of Australia to the Solomons to deliver heavy bomb loads on Japanese es and barge supply routes, the high command announced today. Biggest smash was made in the Madang supply and air base area on northeast coast of New Guinea. where a total of 168 tons, of ~xnlosiv~s of the Fifteenth Air Force bombed Sofia, captital of Bulgaria, about noon today." But headquarters also announced, for the first time, that the big American bombers have mov- ed up to Italy, to positions vastly more favorable for attacking the Balkans and central and southern Europe than the former bases in Africa, 500 or more miles farther from German targets. (Location of the new bases in Italy was not discloseed, but after capture of the Foggia airfield area in south- ern Italy last Sept. 27 Presidentj Roosevelt described it as one of thej most important Allied successes,I bringing the air forces nearer Ger- many and permitting air cover for' operations in northern Italy and the Adriatic.) Ciano Receives Death Pwi, all LONDON, Jan. 10.-(/P)- Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's playboyj son-in-law and former Italian for-j eign minister, has been sentenced to death for "treason" to Italy and its deposed dictator, the Berlin radio' announced tonight. Ciano and 17 other members of the Grand Fascist Council were con- demned in a two-day trial by an extraordinary tribunal of Mussolini's revamped Republican Fascist govern- ment for voting to oust Mussolini. the broadcast said, quoting a DNB dispatch from northern Italy. WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. - (A) - MARYSVILLE, Mich., Jan. 10.-(A) President Roosevelt ruled today that -Fire swept the six principal build- legislators can't serve both in Con- ings of the Morton Salt Co.'s plant gress and in uniform. here tonight, and destroyed several Attorney General Biddle advised lesser structures, causing a loss which him that the Constitution forbids . service in Congress and the armed General Manager Fred Philbrick said forces at the same time, so Mr. Roose- would exceed $2,500,000. velt asked Secretary of War Stimson The plant, with a capacity of 250,- and Secretary of the Navy Knox to 000 tons a year, is the largest of six see to it that legislators confine which the company operates in the themselves to legislating. midwest. It occupies a two-acre site It seems that only two representa- on the shore of the St. Clair river, a tives were affected by the ruling: part of the connecting waters be- Henry M. Jackson (Dem., Wash.), tween Lake Erie and Lake Huron. who is a private in a tank destroyer The blaze broke out in a cooperage unit at Fort McClelland, Ala., and shop and warehouse, presumably in Albert Gore (Dem., Tenn.), who vol- a dry kiln, at 7 p.m. In less than four unteered recently and now is on fur- hours it raced through the six build- lough under orders to report at Camp ings, including a five-story dairy Shelby, Miss., Jan. 19. mill, a pan mill, a vacuum- mill, a Mr. Roosevelt's order apparently grainery and two warehouses. will prevent members of Congress who hold reserve commissions from a going on tours of active duty. A 1r .Roosevelt number of them have done that, in- cuding Senator Lodge (Rep., Mass.)., Rep. Maas (Rep., Minn.), and Rep. 1 Lyndon Johnson (Dem., Tex.). -(A nor base the i -ONDON, Tuesday, Jan. 11.-(IV) were laid on Madang itself, the protecting airdrome at Alexishafen and he Moscow Radio, indicating Rus- Bogadjim, Madang's main southern defense outpost. These blows should sia's intention to retain the bulk of materially aid the American Arty-------he territory she obtained in the 1939 invasion force at Saidor, 55 miles There was little change in the partition of Poland, declared early southeast of Madang. ground situation at Cape Gloucester, today that the approaching restora- American Liberator heavy bombers New Britain, where American Marine tion of Poland must be accomplished soared 750 miles northeast of Dar- patrols were operating extensively by return of land taken by the Ger- win, Australia, to drop 25 tons on the south of . the airdrome which was mans and not by Polish "seizing" of important enemy base at Kendari, on cleared of the enemy 10 days ago. Ukraine or .White Russian areas. the east coast of Celebes Island. The Other Marine units resumed their This was the first official Soviet unescorted bombers met heavy anti- advance south of Silimati Point, near statement on the Polish-Russian bor- aircraft fire and downed six and prob- the Borgen Bay area of the Cape der dispute, which has grown urgent ably four more of 13 intercepting Gloucester invasion holding, and met since the Red Army advance across Zeros which waged a 35-minute run- resistance Sundaymorning, anhead- the old Polish frontier last week. ning battle with the raiders. One quarters spokesman said. Hard fight- "The Soviet-Polish border could American bomber was lost. ing previously had been reported here, pass approximately along the so- The Kendari airfield, completed by American casualties including the called Curzon Line, which was accep- the Dutch just before start of the wounded since the Cape Gloucester ted in 1919 by the Supreme Co*.ncil war, now is the Japanese air force landing Dec. 26 are less than 15 per of the Allied powers and which pro- home base on Celebes Island. cent of 2,00 counted Japanese dead, vided for inclusion of the western TMUkraine and western Byelo-Russia White Russia) in the structure of the Soviet Union," it said. AAF Blasts Marsoh'allsThe Curzon Line, named for the Alate British Foreign Secretary, *I roughly followed the Bug River and a line between Grodno and Brest- Dg r y n '2 Jaj Sh J)S Litovsk as Poland's eastern boun- dary. It was not accepted by the PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 10.--(P--Navy Liberator planes, swooping low Poles, who then were at war with the over Wotje atoll in the Marshall Islands the night of Jan. 9, sank a Japan- Bolshevists, and the border even- ese auxiliary oiler and another small vessel, wrecked two enemy airplanes tuallyr was drawn up to 160 miles on the ground and damaged shore installations. e stward by the Treaty of Riga in ., - . f ,, .;,. .ff - - ^,^r 1 1 %T .1.11- ., 1921. That border existed until the Coiigrssrnan Asps Perk ins Resigiiation WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.-,P)- Thomas (Rep., NJ) today asked that the Democratic leadership call for the resignation of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins on the grounds that she and her advisers have brought "the house of labor" to where it isk endangering itself and the war effort.; WASHINGTON, D.C.. Jan. 10.-(/P) -Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President, will be in Detroit Wednes- day, Jan. 26, for a one-day visit to several war plants and child care nurseries, it was confirmed today by the Detroit War Production Board! office. r Mrs. Roosevelt's cousin, Mrs. Dor-' othy Kemp Roosevelt, specialist on women's problems in war industries with the Detroit Office of Labor Pro-j duction of the WPB, has arranged the visit. i This was the heaviest of four new air attacks on the Marshalls, an- nounced today by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The assaults were made by Army or Navy planes on Jan. 8 and 9. Wotje was hit twice and Jaluit and Kwajalein once each. All the attacks were carried out without loss of an American plane. One medium bomber of the Seventh Army Air Force was damaged by anti- --------- - -------- aircraft fire in the sweep over Jaluit Germans and Russians divided Po- land between them in September, 1939. I- . Resumes i- E,0 IS THIS THE TIME TO CHANGE HORSES? Halleek Says G4P Victory Will Shorten Wa tate Pastors S- To Meet Here the morning of Jan. 8. One crew l n tinent Jjai member was wounded by shrapnel. It was the seventeenth raid since mid- LONDON, uesday Jan 11.-P- November on Jaluit and the fifth of RAF bombers roared over the Eng- ish Channel in moonlight last night CHICAGO, Jan. 10.---t Election of a Republican president next No- vember will shorten the war "by months if not years" because it will guarantee America's military leaders home front support "they never had before," Rep. Charles A. Halleck, of Indiana, said tonight in an address prepared for delivery to more than 200 GOP leaders. Apparently anti- cipating a Democratic argument that now is not the time to "change hors- Pse~" inthe rmidst o.f war.T i11ek tol Nom ember will result in such an ac- The National Committee held a celeration of our war effort abroad closed session late today with state and at home that victory, the thing chairmen and vice chairmen to talk for which we all yearn, will be over campaign plans. brought nearer to us by months if Walter S. Hallanan. of Charleston, not by years." W. Va., senior vice chairman of the Halleck, new chairman of the National Committee, led in specula- House Republican campaign commit- tion over the chairmanship for the tee charged with the job of electing important convention arrangements committee. Committeemen Harry Republicans to Congress, was the Darby, of Kansas, and Harold W . principal speaker at a dinner ar- y, o en, an wer - ranged by National Chairman Harri- , of Vermont, also were men- Church Leaders Will Hold 5th Conference Problems challenging the church today will be explored by the fifth annual Michigan -Pastors Conference scheduled to begin its three-day ses- sion here Monday. The organization is composed of pastors representing all denomina- Heavy bombers of the Seventh AAFj were the first to strike at Wotie Sun- day. They swept over in the evening,' the announcement said, but there were no details. The attack by Navy Liberators came that night and brought the number of raids there to 10 since the Central Pacific offen- sive opened in November. It was the first time the Japanese shipping had been reported sunk or damaged in the Wotje lagoon. Navv Serch Tihrnators of Fleet to resume the blasting of objectives on the continent. German-controlled radios left the air. Prefects of the French Channel coast departments were reported by the Vichy Radio today to have met in Paris to discuss "possible evacu- ation of the French Channel coast, particularly the areas now subjected to heavy air atacks. Evacuation of country districts