O G t BD pS " . - . .!I I- - -- , *t 4t Weather Fair and Warmer VOL. LIV No. 59 ANN ARBOR, MICIGAN, FRIDAY, JAN. 21, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS International Intrigue Told By 'Countess' Steps in Education for Espionage Revealed as Spy Ring Trial Opens DETROIT, Jan. 20.-(P)-Chicago Grace Buchanan-Dineen, self-styled countess, began a story-book tale of international intrigue from the wit- ness stand today, as the trial of two men accused with her of conspiracy to spy in the United States for an enemy power got under way in U.S. district court. Six persons have pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charges. Standing trial are Dr. Fred William Thomas, Detroit obstetrician, and Bertrand Stuart Hoffmen, former merchant seamen. Countess Is Chief Witness Miss Buchanan-Dineen, slender and dark-haired, was heralded as the Government's chief witness. She be- gan a recital of the steps in the edu- cation of a spy-telling of secret inks, codes and orders-which she will continue tomorrow. She told of meeting Sari de Ha- jeck, an acquaintance, on a visit to Budapest in 1941 and of receiving a proposition to furnish information about war activities in the United States to the German government. Goes to Berlin A trip to Berlin followed her ac- ceptance, she said, and there was laid the groundwork for her mission. "What were you to receive?" asked Assistant District Attorney John W. Babcock. "I was to get $500 a month," she replied. Other witnesses were Augustus B. Kinzel, New York chief metallurgist of the Union Carbide and Carbon Co., research laboratory; Miss Nadya GArdner, Bermuda, member of the British Office of Censorship; Harry Kobel, Detroit, special investigator with the Detroit Office of Immigra- tion and Naturalization. Ten women and two men, with two women alternates, compose the 12- person jury. The trial will re-con- vene Friday morning. Mrs. Wlliams ykse. r o Mystery Shot Victtm, Dies CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-(')-Mrs. Frank Starr Williams, 55, victim of a mysterious shooting in her luxur- ious Drake Hotel apartment last night, died tonight at St. Luke's hos- pital. The wealthy and socially promi- nent wife of a Washington State De- partment attache was shot through the head last night, Police said, by a mysterious woman who secreted her- self in the hotel room and fired at Mrs. Williams and her 28-year-old; daughter, Mrs. Patricia Goodbody. Death occurred at 7:45 p.m., the hos- pital announced. The theory that the slaying might; have been inspired by a revenge mo- tive was advanced today as Assistant States Attorney Wilbert F. Crowley stated: "It appears to be a revenge shoot- ing. We have learned Mrs. Williams had some enemies." He said relatives and friends would. be questioned further in an effort to learn the names of persons who could be regarded as enemies. Chicago avenue police reported they had learned that Mrs. Williams had cocktails with an attractive, dark-haired woman a few hours be- fore she was shot. They began a search for the woman, who was re- ported to have met Mrs. Williams just before she went to a hairdresser. She was described as middle-aged, five feet, two or three inches tall, weighing about 130 pounds, wearing a short Persian lamb coat or jacket, 'U Graduate Credited with 35 Rfltids Berlin lasted in New Raid; R~ed Army Seizes Novgorod _ Capt. Harold A. Eisele, USMC, (above) a former University student, has completed his second tour of duty with 200 hours and 35 raids and patrols in a combat zone in the South Pacific. Capt. Eisele, who was enrolled in the College of Engineering from 1936 to 1941, was in one of the first Marine fighter squadrons to land on Munda Field, a former Jap airbase on the northern tip of New Georgia Islands in the Solomons. His squadron also played an important role in the offense and occupa- tion of Rendova Island and Vella LaVella in the Solomons. On strafing raids his squadron accounted for the destroying of every plane on Kilhili Field on Bougainville Island. Escorting Marine dive bombers, Capt. Eisele saw them sink five Jap ships. The 25-year-old flyer from Fowlerville was a member of the Aviation Pilot Training program while he attended the University. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in Feb- ruary, 1941, and won his wings in January, 1942. SUPER SALESWOMAN: University Bond Drive rfotals Take Leap with $5,000 Sale The University War Bond 'drive, sparked by Junior Girls Project's "bond belles," is "gaining moment- um day by day," according to R." Gordon Griffith, chairman of the University War Bond Committee. The totals took a leap yesterday morning as belle, Jean Loree, '45, who never realized she was a super-sales- man, told a member of the University faculty, "Yes, we do have $1,000 bonds." "Well, how shall I buy?" he asked casually as Miss Loree, somewhat surprised, said it was up to him. "Would five be enough," he asked. Upon being told that would be "just fine," he wrote out a check, and the League bond office had to send for a new supply of $1,000 bonds, which have been going like a B-17. The "bond belles" claim they will go anywhere for an order . .. if the purchaser will call the League be- tween 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on week days. Totals for the Army are also climb- ing hour by hour. Latest reports show that $4,200 have been invested in War Bonds by the men stationed on campus. This figure is the actual cash value of the bonds and not the maturity value. Of this amount $2,625 has been from the state complement and Roth Quartet To Play Today Three Concerts Will Be Presented at Rackhan1 The first concert of the Fourth Annual Chamber Music Festival, with the Roth String Quartet as the solo organization, will be given at 8:30 p.m. today in the Main Lecture Hall of the Rackham Building. In all, the Festival will consist of three concerts, the other two of which will be performed tomorrow. The Quartet in E-flat major of Hadyn and the Quartet in D minor of Schubert, as well as one modern composition, the Quartet in F of Mau- rice Ravel. One of the last works of Beethoven, the Quartet in F major, Opus 135, will be the feautred selection on the second program to be presented at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. The final con- cert at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow, will be highlighted by a performance of Schumann's Quartet in F major. $1,387.50 actual cash from Company G. Reports from the other companies have not yet been turned in, but all have received orders, according to Lt. Melvin G. Flegal, in charge of the Army's share of the drive. The Army campaign is being con- ducted by "minute men," one to ev- ery 20 men in each company., Civilian employes of the Army are also participating in the drive. Ninety percent are deducting at least one- tenth of their salary each month for the purchase of bonds. Three $1,000 bonds have been sold, Lt. Flegal said. Most of the sales are in the E series. The first audit of Washtenaw County bond sales, made yesterday, revealed that $448,622 of the $7,477,- 000 goal has already been contrib- uted. This audit included all types of bonds purchased in the county from Jan. 1 to Tuesday noon. Sales will be audited each day. Post-Wa*r Job Plans Outlined City Group Acts To Provide LI111)ployi mn A sixteen-man committee headed by Alderman Cecil 0. Creal, met yes- terday to outline plans for meeting post-war employment problems. The committee is composed of University, city and public utilities officials. Alderman Creal stated that vari- ous local agencies have proposed nearly a dozen post-war construction projects which will aid in providing employment for workers and return- ing soldiers who may be unemployed during the reconversion period im- mediately after the war. Creal stated that public construc- tion as well as private construction work has been curtailed since the outbreak of the war. Because of this curtailment there will be a construc- tion boom which will probably last two to three years. It is during this period that provisions must be made to assure returning servicemen and laborers, now employed in war plants, uninterrupted employment. Creal added that the state legisla- ture would be asked for funds for post-war work. Approximately $55,- 000,000 will be requested of which the University wishes to obtain about $8,000,000, Creal declared. Soviet Troops Press Forward To Trap Nazis fly The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 20.-The Red Ar- my's six-day-old northern offensive today toppled the ancient bastion of Novgorod, hiked the enemy's dead and captured toll to 44,000, and crushed forward steadily to engulf many scattered German units which now are being wiped out, Moscow an- nounced tonight. Take City by Storm Two powerful Soviet armies were engaged in a huge nutcracker opera- tion which might trap 250,000 Ger- mans southeast of Leningrad, dis- patches said. Some of these enemy troops apparently already had been cut off. Gen. K. A. Meretskov's troops, at- tacking 100 miles below Leningrad,1 crossed the frozen Volkhov River andi Lake Ilmen, surrounded Novgorodj and then took that stronghold byl storm. Troops Join Forces To the north, Gen. Leonid Govor- ov's troops were within 13 miles of Krasnogvardeisk, a rail junction controlling a network of lines radiat- ing to Leningrad, to the Baltic states, and eastward to the Tosno area. where huge German forces hold a 'V' salient which is being hit from both sides by the Russians. Indicating great danger for all the German forces in the Leningrad area, the daily Soviet communique said Govorov's troops fighting south- westward from Leningrad had joined forces with other units advancing southeastward from the Oranien- baum bridgehead 20 miles west of Leningrad on the gulf of Finland. Reiieg otgoons Ap)proved by Seae Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-(W)- The Senate Finance committee to- day abandoned several proposals to ease the war contracts renegotiation law and unanimously agreed to a compromise slated for consideration in the Senate tomorrow. The action was an obvious victory for Senators Warlsh (Dem., Mass), Connally (Dem., Tex) Lafollette (Prog., Wis) and Lucas (Dem., I), cormnittee members who issued a minority report sharply critical of five of the amendments previously approved by a majority of the 21- member group. All five of the criticized amendments either were thrown out or materially modified. The revisions were written into the pending $2,275,600,000 tax increase bill, all other features of which have been approved by the Senate. The committee gave up its plan for mandatory exemption from rene- gotiation of contracts for standard commercial articles, such as bolts and truck axles and electric motors. As in the House bill,exemption of such contracts would be discretion- ary with the War Price Adjustment Board. World News In rielf.. By The Associated Press Prtmes Hit We ak , . , More than 150 Allied planes srtuck Japanese-held Wewak on northern New Guinea with 133 tons of bombs, General MacAr- thur's headquarters reported to- day, while other raiders continued to hammer the enemy's shipping base at Rabaul, New Britain. [Union Leaoders Meet . MIAMI. Jan. 20.-The AFL execu- tive council today set next Monday to consider the proposed reinstate- ment of the United Mine Workers as news was disclosed of a secret meet- ing on the issue between the es- tranged presidents of the two or- March of Dimes' Drive To Begin Here Monday "Students of the University are asked to contribute a minimum of a dime-a-day during the week of the March of Dimes drive which will begin Monday," Jim Plate, '45, chair- man of the University committee, announced yesterday. To facilitate these daily contribu- tions "March of Dimes" boxes will be Compromise Soldier Vote Bill Approved Senate Elections Group Okays Union Federal Ballot, {Qualification By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-A compromise soldier vote bill pro- viding for a uniform federal ballot, but empowering state and local officials to decide voter qualifica- tions and validity of service men's ballots, was approved by the Sen- ate Elections Committee late to- day. Designed to meet the objections of legislators who want the states to retain control of election ma- chinery, the revised bill of Senat- ors Lucas (Dem., Ill) and Green (Dem. RI) won a 12 to 2 majority on the Elections Committee and is to be hurried to the Senate floor next week. Senators Tydings (Dem., Md) and Lodge (Rep., Mass), authors. of alternate bills to set up a federal balloting system, announced they would withdraw their proposals and support the amended Green- Lucas measure. Ca ,)uPaper Drive Opens placed Sunday in every University residence on campus. Further plans for the campus drive include a special "Dime Daily" which will be sold Tues- day for at least a dime. More People Stricken The National Foundation for In- fantile Paralysis points out that be- cause of the high cost of the 1943 "Polio" epidemic this year's drive is of special import. Virginia Schumacher and Mrs. Carl Rehberg who are co-chairmen of the Washtenaw County campaign, revealed yesterday that plans for the local drive have also been completed. Local Plans Completed There will be "March of Dimes" boxes in all the local theatres and stores, and in some of the factories and stores where there are several employes a box will be passed around accompanied by a scroll. All those employes contributing will sign the scroll which will be sent to President Roosevelt with wishes for a happy birthday. In accordance with Governor Kel- iey's proclamation that the week of January 22 to 30 is "Theatre's March of Dimes" Week a short feature by Greer Garson will be shown at all local movie houses. The collections in the movie houses will be made by University coeds, local high school girls, and by mem- bers of a University alumnae group. House Moves T o Cut Down UNRRA.-Funds Representatives Claii Ratification Needed For U.S. Participation WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. --()- Amid cries that America must guard its own interests, a move was launched in the House today to cur- tail a proposed $1,350,000,000 contri- bution to a United Nations "kitty" for aiding the peoples of war-devas- tated lands. A group of legislators critical of administration policy served early notice of that intention and of a plan to spell out in exact terms the scope of a pending measure ratifying participation by this nation in the United Nations Relief and Rehabili- tation Administration. Representative Jessie Sumner; (Rep., Ill.) and Representative Gear hart (Rep., Calif.) argued that the agreement for U.S. participation ii UNRRA constituted a treaty which should be submitted to the Senate for a two-thirds vote of approval. Rep. Fish- (Rep., N.Y.) told the House that several amendments would be offered, among them: 1. Reduction in the ceiling on the American contribution for UNRRA from $1,350,000,000 to $675,000,000. 2. Restriction against use of any of the funds for educational pur- poses. 3. A clause to assure relief for the people of India. 4. A guarantee that 90 per cent of the American contribution would be used for supplies purchased in this country. 5. Stipulation that UNRRA work would be devoted exclusively to re- lief, with none of the funds going to rehabilitation. U.S., British Planes Attack Rome Suburbs By The Associated Press LONDON, Friday, Jan. 21-Royal Air Force night bombers hammer- ed Berlin last night, it was official- ly announced early today, in the eleventh massive attack on the great- est of German targets since the ex- termination campaign against the Reich capital began Nov. 18, 1943. A continental radio blackout last night suggested that a strong force of night bombers was out, probably hitting more than one target. First announcement of the Berlin raid came from the German radio. Germans Inflict Losses "The German defense inflicted losses on the attacking bombers," the German Transocean Agency said in a broadcast dispatch. "Details have not yet been announced." British bombers last conducted a major operation on Jan. 14, when Brunswick was hit. The last pr- vious heavy blow in the obliteration campaign against Berlin was Jan. 3, when 1,000 tons of explosives were dumped upon the Nazi capital. There were subsequent Mosquito attacks against Berlin. Rome Hit The Rome gadio yesterday reported an Allied attack-the second in two days-on the outskirts of Rome. Nazi-controlled stations in Ger- many, Holland, Poland, and Czecho- slovakia went off the air and the Ber- lin station was shut down for almost two hours, which-is a signal the RAF was over Europe-indicated the attack was in'force. Earlier the Rome radio announced that British - American squadrons which "came from the north" had attacked targets on the outskirts of the Italian. capital. Tonight 'there' was' a ysterious flurry at the Rome radio station. As- sociated Press monitors said that over the voice of the announcer, a woman broke in saying "we are con- tinuing a broadcast which had been interrupted for technical reasons." IUni1On Will Hold New GI Stomp Coeds Will Serve as Hostesses Tomorrow The G1 Stomp will be -repeated from 3 to 5 p.m. tomorrow and every Saturday for the remainder of the semester in the north lounge of the Union, it was announced yesterday. Nearly 400 women and servicemen were present at the Stomp last.,Sat- urday, which was termed a "huge success" by one Union spokesman. Primary purpose of the entertain- ment is to give women and service- men a chance to become acquainted. Members of Delta Gamia, Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi and resi- dents of Betsy Barbour have been specially invited to act as hostesses this week, but all women are wel- come. Music for dancing will be pro- vided by juke box tunes, which in- clude 30 new records recently added to the Union collection. The Stomp, sponsored by the Un- ion Social Committee, was originated last summer as a means of bringing women and servicemen together. It proved so miccessful that the com- mittee has decided to resume the program this winter. CIO Leaders To Meet Here A three day conference of 30 union leaders from UAW-CIO Ford unions in this area designed to teach prin- ciples of group discussion and back- ground material in subjects of im- portance to labor unions 'will be held in the Rackham Building next- Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday. All of the Ford Motor Company lo- cals of the CIO will participate in the course, with the bulk of the group coming from Local 50 at the Bomber Plant, Local 600 at the River Rouge plant, and Local 400 at Highland Park. They will be aided in their work by the University Extension Assembly, Head New Panhellenic Campaign The second campus waste paper drive to help relieve the critical na- tionwide shortage will start today under the joint sponsorship of Assem- bly and Panhellenic and in conjunc- tion with the current Ann Arbor cam- paign. Next Friday collections will be made form all sororities, dormitories, league houses and cooperatives by representatives of the Washtenaw County Salvage Committee. In the December drive over 45 tons of waste paper were collected on campus. Doris Barr, president of As- sembly, stated that the same sys- tem would be used of bringing col- lections to centrally located league houses and sororities where they may be picked up at one time. Waste paper should be packed into boxes to make it easier to carry while newspapers and magazines should be tied in bundles about a foot high. Many of the nation's paper mills have had to restrict production be- cause of the waste paper shortage. Manufacture and shipment of prac- tically every form of military supplies are dependent on an adequate paper supply to package goods before send- ing them to the front lines. and having a red decoration on hat or hair. her ICC To Hold Forum Today The future of the cooperative movement will be the topic for dis- cussion at a public forum-social to be held at 8:15 p.m. today in Unity Hall in the Unitarian Church by the Inter-Cooperative Council. Participating in the forum on "Are Cooperatives Merely a Means to an End, or an End in Themselves?" will hb Prnf .JohnS henard of the nsvch- FORCE VERSUS LAW: Con fiet Between Fascism , Democracy Is Discussed Bunyan's Axe Is Swiped "This war is a clash between the fundamentally different ideologies of fascism and democracy," Prof. Wolf- gang Kraus of the political science department said yesterday in a lec- ture sponsored by the Post-War Council. Contrasting the democratic em- uhasis on "the safeguarding of hu- The essence of democracy, he said, is "rational participation in the af- fairs of state by equal members," while fascism relies upon "irrespon- sible leaders representing the na- tion." In discussing Russia's position on the side of the democracies, Prof. Paul Bunyan hasn't got an axe to fact, one report, said coeds were seen