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VOL. LIV No. 58 ANN ARBOR, 1UCHIGAN, THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1944
Russians Make ains in Leningrad I
PRICE FIVE CENTS
1rive
British
Launch
NewOensive
They Fight Our Battle,
Garigliano Is Crossed;
Bombers Cut Railways
Bulk of Supplies to Eternal City Are Stopped,
New Offensive Advances Along Appian Way
Red Forces Take
Two Main Points
Smash on 12 Miles hr oug h City's
Outskirts along Twenty-five Mile Front
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. 19.-In terrific twin thrusts to free Leningrad entirely
from its two and one-half-year siege, the Red Army smashed 12 miles
ahead through the city's outskirts on a 25-mile front today, seizing by storm
two key fortresses, and a broad outflanking movement farther south ripped
19 miles across three strategic railways.
The second drive, on a 31-mile break-through in the German lines
north and west of Lake Ilmen, threatened to let the Russians in behind
the Nazis who face Leningrad, and already had outflanked the important
city of Novgorod both to the north
By The Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-
giers, Jan. 19.-Loosing a strong new
offensive along the ancient Appian
way to Rome, British troops have
smashed across the lower Garigliano
River and established bridgeheads at
three points in the face of furious
German resistance, Allied headquar-
ters announced today as American
artillery rained shells into Cassino
preparatory to. an assault on that
Nazi stronghold.
Latest reports said the British were
holding firmly to their footholds on
the western bank of the Garigliano
despite repeated Nazi counter-attacks
supported by tanks and heavy artil-
lery fire.
German Broadcast Heard
An official German broadcast heard
here said the Fifth Army had launch-
ed "several divisions" against Nazi
positions east of the Gulf of Gaeta,
and that ''fighting is in full swing."~
The Garigliano empties into the Gulf
of Gaeta 80 miles southeast of Rome.
This was the first important action
in the coastal area of the Fifth
Army front since Lt. Gen. Mark W.
Clark's forces reached the eastern
bank of the Garigliano over two
months ago. * At that time the wind-
ing stream was swollen and shortly
after broke its banks for a width of
a mile, but it since has receded.
Strike in Darkness
Three British assault forces struck
in darkness early Monday ight arid
met a curtain of fire from the strong-
ly entrenched enemy. The right wing
fought its way across the river near
the village of Suio, seven miles inland
from the coast, where it still was lock-
ed in hard combat..
A second force hit at a point about
four miles from the sea, where a
railroad from Capua to Rome reaches
the Garigliano and turns southward
seeking an easy crossing of the
stream. Still a third bridgehead was
established at the village of Argento,
almost on the coast itself. The Ap-
pian way at this point is only two
miles from the sea. The Nazis lashed
back with a strong but futile tank
attack at Argento.
~Bond Belles'
Collect $5,950
In First Days
Messenger Service
Made Available to All
University Employees
'Bond Belles' covered the far cor-
ners of the campus to sell $5,950 in
war bonds during the first days of
the Fourth War Loan Drive, Deborah
Parry, '45, chairman of Junior Girls'
Project which is sponsoring the
"Belles," said yesterday.
Averaging six calls a day, the Bond
Belles offer a messenger service by
which anyone on the University pay-
roll may, upon calling the Michigan
League, have a coed come personally
to take orders and deliver bonds the
following day.
Service Available on Week Days
The service is available from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. every week day, and
is in operation for the convenience
of the University staff in supporting
the Fourth War Loan.
Advances are being made in every
direction of the Ann Arbor front,
but exact figures on the amount of
bonds sold are still unavailable. An
audit will be made today.
Belles Only Part of Network
The University's Bond Belles and
Ann Arbor organizations are only
part of a far-flung nation-wide net-
work of issuing agents which total
53,000, a record-breaking number in
comparison to the first three War
Loan drives. Figures recently re-
leased from Washington show that
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By The Associated Press
A U.S. 15th AIR FORCE BOMBER
STATION IN ITALY, Jan. 19.-Am-
erican bombers have cut all the rail-
ways carrying the bulk of supplies in-
to Rome from the north, Air Force
experts said today after examining
reconnaissance photographs of the
area. '
Of the three major lines down the
Italian peninsula, only one is open
at present. This is the east coast
from Ancona to Pescara, which sup-
plies the Germans opposing the Bri-
tish Eighth Army.
Recent raids have at least tempo-
rarily blockedsthe others and the ef-
fects of these disastrous bombings
will be more acutely felt by the Ger-
mans when supplies now being used
are exhausted, experts said. Supplies
still may be brought in, however, via
bomb-scarred highways.
(London reported a Rome radio
broadcast saying that the capital's
waterworks were "destroyed in an
Allied air attack today on the out-
skirts of the city. Residents were
urged to use water sparingly.)
Heavy bombers on the 15th Air
Force and medium bombers of the
12th have made Rome's major supply
arteries virtually useless.
The important central line was re-
ported blocked at several points and
the west coast line has been out of
operation for some time. Subsidiary
lines also have been cut and the rail-
road'in' central Tuscany, south of
Florence, which serves as an alter-
nate to the central and west coast
lines, is unuseable.
Flying Fortresses, in their recent
raids, put out of commission the Cen-
tral line from Florence 'to Rome on
their raids at Pistoia, Prato and Pon-
tassieve, all near Florence.
Union Social
To Be Repeated
This Sunday
The second Union Sunday Social
will be held from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Sunday in the North Lounge on the
first floor of the Union, the Coopera-
tive Committee announced yesterday.
The committe feels that the re-
sponse last Sunday was not so great
as expected because of the interfer-
ence of sorority pledging which was
held at the same time.
The event is planned to fill a need
for some kind of organized entertain-
ment Sunday afternoons, and all
servicemen and civilian students are
invited to attend with their dates.
Bridge tables, cards and various
games will be provided. There will be
continuous music, and couples are
welcome to come and talk if they do
not wish to play games.
WA VEKS Will
Interview Girls
This Week
"The Navy not only needs WAVES
but wants them, too; there is a def-
inite job for you and every other wo-
man in the Navy," Lt. (j.g.) Helen
M. Stewart stressed in an interview
,yesterday.
Lt. Stewart and Harriet M. Simon-
son, Sp. (R) 3/c, will be in the lobby
of the Michigan League from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow to talk
with women who are interested in
joining the U.S. Naval Reserve.
In explaining the purpose of their
visit, Lt. Stewart said, "We are here
to give information; we are not pre-
pared to give tests or anything like
that. We are glad to answer any
questions, even if they seem like
trivial points. Our particular inter-
est is to speak with women who are
The Marine Raiders in the picture above are fighting for the liberty of mankind in the dense jungle
undergrowth on the beachheads of Torokina in the Bougainville campaign. These men are sacrificing
their lives that our democracy shall endure. But they are thousands of miles from home, and cannot
fight for their right to vote. it is up to us to protect their rights as they are protecting ours. It is up
to us to force Congress to pass a federal vote bill.
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But They Can't Vote ...
Clip This Out, Send It to Your
Congressman Immediately:
A federal bill guaranteeing our fighting soldiers their right to vote has already been
turned down by the Senate and by the House Election Committee. The issue is now in
the hands of the House Rules Committee.
As a citizen of the United States, I; the undersigned, demand immediate Massage of a
federal soldier-vote bill that will give the 11,000,000 men and women in service a voice
in the government of the country for which they are sacrificing so much.
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University of Michigan,
Senate Group
Passes Bill To
Ban Subsidies
Proposal Turns Down
Administration Plan
To Reduce Food Prices
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's domestic legislative
program suffered another setback to-
day when the Senate Banking com-
mittee approved a bill which would
ban all consumer food subsidies after
June 30.
In so doing, the committee reject-'
ed the Administration's request for
authority to spend $1,500,000,000this
year to hold down retail prices of
food and turned thumbs down on one
of the major proposals in the Presi-
dent's annual message.
The measure approved by the com-
mittee is a two-point bill by Senator
Bankhead (Dem., Ala.) It would con-
tinue the life of the Commodity Cre-
dit Corporation, which makes pro-
duction loans to farmers, and ban
the use of food subsidies after this
fiscal year which ends June 30.
The vote sending the bill to the
Senate floor, where it is certain to
provoke prolonged debate, was 10 to
9. Earlier this session the committee
had disapproved the bill, but Senat-
ors Taft of Ohio and Tobey of New
Hampshire, Republicans, swung over
to support of it in the new vote.
Chairman Wagner (Dem., NY)
said he hoped for early floor consid-
eration since the Commodity Credit
Corporation's life will expire Feb. 17.
Opposition to subsidies has come
chiefly from legislators from farm
states who contend the public is well
able to pay higher prices for food.
President Roosevelt has vigorously
advocated them for months and has
told Congress the ministration will
not be able to hold the line on wages
unless food prices are held down.
Methodists Hold
Meeting Here
Stamson Says
Men Overseas
Resent Strikes
Asserts People Favor
National Service Act
To Senate Committee
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Secre-
tary Stimson told a Senate Commit-,
tee today that men overseas are "bit-
terly resentful" of strikes at home
and the public is for a national ser-
vice law-"only Congress needs im-
pressing."
The House Military Committee
yesterday pigeonholed President
Roosevelt's request for a law to sub-
ject civilians to war production as-
signments. The. Senate's compar-
able committee, despite Stimson's
sharply-phrased urging showed little
disposition to hurry a decision today.
The members quizzed the Secretary
for three hours, decided to recall him
next Wednesday and Senator Austin
(Rep., Vt) said it might be spring be-
fore the Committee acts.
Stimson told the Senate group the
labor draft bill introduced more than
a year ago by Austin and another
Republican, Rep. Wadsworth of New
York, is the best approach to the
idea he has seen.
At one point Stimson differed
slightly from the stand taken by the
President who had asked a five-point
program and said that national ser-
vice was so interlinked with the other
proposals that it should not be
adopted without them. Stimson said
national service would be a good idea
even without the rest of the program.
Stimson hastened to say, however,
that renegotiations and war profit
taxes are needed.
Prof. Kraus To
Speak Today
"War and the Conflict of Ideolo-
gies" is the topic of a lecture to be
given by Prof. Wolfgang Kraus of
the political science department at
7:30 p.m. today in the Union under
Russian
Soviets Remain
Silent on Denial
Of Peace Story
British, Americans
Troubled by Pravda's
Report on Armistice
By The Associated Press
MOSCOW, Jan. 19.-The relation-
ship between Russia and her Allies,
Britain and the United States, was
the *biggest single topic of conversa-
tion in the Soviet capital tonight and
the subject has the whole town jit-
tery.
Pravda's peace rumor story Mon-
day had developed as the biggest
political news In Russia since the be-
ginning of the war, excepting per-
haps the Teheran Conference.
Russians Are Serious
Persons who might not have at-
tached much importance to Pravda's
publication of the Cairo dispatch
concerning a reported meeting of.
two Britbns and Nazi Foreign Min-
ister Joachim Von Ribbentrop now
have changed their minds. Now they
are attaching great importance to it.
Foreign observers do not like the
situation at all, chiefly because they
do not know what to make of it. As
one well informed source said:
"I didn't know whether the Rus-
sians were serious about this at first.
Now I know they are downright ser-
ious."
SOfficially, the Russian government
remains silent.
British Agency Quoted
The Soviet press gave the Russian
people news of the British Foreign
Office denial of the rumor that the
British had been discussing peace
with German Foreign Minister Von
Ribbentrop, but it carried only a
brief news dispatch on the denial
and it made no comment, editorial
or otherwise.
Failure to publish the text of the
British denial gave some worry to
British authorities there. They felt
that it would have been better if the
Russian press had printed the text
of theddenial rather than the item
they did carry: A one-paragraph
story from Tass, the official Russian
agency, quoting the British agency
Reuters.
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Red Magazine Affirms
Solidarity Among Allies
LONDON, Jan. 19.- (P)- The
Moscow magazine "War and the
Working Class" said today that Hit-
ler's hopes of splitting the Allies
were- buried forever by the decisions
of the Moscow and Teheran confer-
ences and added that "the peoples
of the countries allied with us and
their responsible leaders must under-
stand the efforts being made by Nazi
elements."
MYDA Asks
House Action
On Soldier Vote
Demanding immediate action on
the federal soldier vote bill, Michi-
gan Youth for Democratic Action
sent a night letter to the House Rules
Committee after a unanimous vote
of approvalforrthe measure by the
membership at a meeting yesterday.
Results of the campus poll taken
and the south.
The push immediately before Len-
ingrad, however, was by all odds the
day's most signal victory. There, the
Russian communique said, 20,000
Germans have been slaughtered since
Saturday.
In addition, said the communique
and an order of the day by Premier
Marshal Stalin, that five-day offen-
sive of Gen. Leonid Gorov has:
Gains Listed
Stormed and captured the heavily-
fortified towns of Krasnoye Selo and
Ropsha; retaken Peterhof, summer
home of the czars; captured more
than 1,000 Germans, smashed seven
German divisions; and taken many of
the great 16-inch guns with which
the Nazis have constantly shelled em-
battled Leningrad. I
In all, 195 guns were captured, in-
cluding 36 of 152 to 406-millimeter
calibres (6 to 16-inch), which had
been shelling the city from 15-mile
range.
Seventy-five to 100 miles south,
on the Volkhov River front north of
Novgorod and on Lake Ilmen directly
south of that city, the Russians an-
nounced that Gen. K. A. Meretskov's
forces had cut the Leningrad-Nov-
gorod direct rail line at Bolotnaya, a
more easterly line at Podberechye,
and both the highway and railway be-
tween Novgorod and Shimsk to the
southwest.
Novgorod Practically Isolated
This left Novgorod isolated except
for the new railway running through
the marshlands due west to Luga.
Still farther south, 300 miles below
Leningrad in the area north of Novo-
sokolniki, the Russians announced
capture of sveral more populated
places in a continuing offensive, while
on the first Ukraine front they took
Goshcha, 18 miles east of Rovno on
the main highway to that threatened
Nazi rail center in old Poland.
The Germans continued to counter-
attack in the far south, around
Khristinovka, but all their attempts
were reported repulsed with heavy
losses.
Roth Quartet
To Play Here
Fourth Music Festival
To Start Tomorrow
The Roth String Quartet will re-
turn to Ann Arbor for the third con-
secutive year to perform at the
Fourth Chamber Music Festival, the
first concert of which will be given
at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Rack-
ham Building.
Quartets by Haydn, Ravel and
Schubert will be performed on the
opening program of the Festival,
composed of three concerts, the
other two of'which will be presented
Saturday.
The Quartet in F major will be the
featured work on Saturday after-
noon's program, while the Schu-
mann Quartet in F major will high..
light the final concert at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday.
Harold Morris', Quartet No. 2 will
be heard for the first tine here at
the third concert. Among thedother
unusual works to be performed dur-
ing the Chamber Music Festival are
the Italian Serenade of Hugo Wolff
and the First String Quartet of
Casella.
Lance Wade, RAF
Ace, Killed in Crash
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL-
GIERS, Jan. 19.-( P)-Wing Com-
mander Lance C. Wade, regarded in
The Red Army by terrific twin
thrusts has advanced 12 miles in
the Leningrad area (A). A 31 mile
break-through in the area north
and west of Lake Ilmen threatens
the entire Nazi position in the
Leningrad area, and already has
outflanked the important city of
Novograd. Still farther south, on
the first Ukrainian front, the
Russians have taken Goshcha, 18
miles east of Rovno (D).
Leland Stowe
To Talk Here
Will Discuss Russia
In Lecture Tuesday
Leland Stowe, ace war correspond-
ent, will discuss "What I Saw in Rus-
sia" in a lecture at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday
in Hill Auditorium under the auspic-
es of the Oratorical Association.
Stowe has covered almost every
important political and diplomatic
event in Europe and South America.
Since July, 1941, he has been in the
Far East-Burma, Rangoon, Chung-