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VOL. LIV No. 65 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1944
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Norton Exposes Cab Fraud
City Taxicabs
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Overcharge
For Bundles
Extra Rates Are Not
Within City Ordinance;
Driver Receives Fine
The story behind the story.
Yesterday in Circuit Court Ray-
mond Jones 29, a cab driver for the
Campus Cab Co., was fined $14.35
for overcharging Hugh Norton of 500
E. William on a cab ride Thursday.
Norton rode the cab from his home
to a downtown laundry and was
charged 60 cents for what normally
would be a 35 cent run.
The driver explained the extra
charge on the basis of a laundry bag
carried by Norton.
"I believe," he said last night,
"that this is an example of flagrant,
unethical overcharging."
Ordinance Is Clear
The case was brought into court
when Norton preferred charges and
swore out a warrant for Jones' arrest.
Under the city ordinance govern-
ing taxi rates, it is definitely stated
that no extra charge can be made
when passengers carry articles with
them.
"I went back to the office," Norton
stated, "and demanded 'to see the
ruling that permitted them to exact
such rates."
"I was told," he continued, "that it
was a ruling of the management and
if I wanted to do anything about it,
I could go to the police."
The suggestion was made by a per-
son who represented himself as a
son of Carl Brening, proprietor of
the company.
The driver admitted to Norton in
the presence o city policeman Alfred
Toney that he had made the charge
and that-he- ho been.rdered to o4-
low this general practice by the com-
pany.
Example Cited
"I had not read the city ordi-
nance," Jones said, "but I was work-
ing under the instructions of the
company."
When questioned about the over
charge, the company spokesman cit-
ed as an example the fact that "we
always make such a charge when
carrying sailors with duffle bags."
"I believe it is about time such ir-
responsible charging should be stop-
ped in the interests of servicemen,
the student body on campus, and the
general public," Mr. Norton said.
Mr. Norton indicated last night
that his phone was busy all day yes-
terday with congratulatory messages
from people on campus for pressing
the case.
Many complaints of this kind
have been heard on campus, but
this case points to action. If you
are illegally overcharged, REPORT
THE MATTER TO THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
The police want to wipe out such
illegal practices, but they can do
nothing if they have nothing to go
on.
Allies Down
16 Jap Planes
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 27.-(A')-
Seventh Army Airforce Mitchell Me-
dium bombers and fighters downed
16 and probably 22 planes Wednes-
day in the biggest aerial battle over
the Marshall Islands since the navy
carrier-based raid of Dec. 4,Adm.
Chester W. Nimitz announced to-
night.
The air action over those invasion
menaced mid-Pacific bases, carrying
an air offensive there through the
21st day, occurred during an assault
on Taroa airfield on Maloelap atoll.
All the American raiders returned.
Union Group
To0 Meet Here
More than .25 selected delegates
from local 50 UAW-CIO at the Ford
Willow Run Bomber Plant will con-
vene here today in a three-day ed-
ucational training institute.
All meetings will be held in the
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Elections for Seniors,
V-Ball Will Be Today
An all campus election to be held
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today will elect
eight members to the V-Ball commit-
tee and senior class officers in both
the literary and engineering colleges.
Literary college students will vote
in the corridor of University Hall,
while all engineers will cast their bal-
lots under the engine arch.
+ All students on campus are eligible
to vote except servicemen, and iden-
tification cards must be presented at
the polling places.
The following candidates will be
on the literary college ballot for V-
Ball:
Allen H. Anderson, Stan Wallace,
Marjorie Rosmarin, Patricia Coulter,
Bette Willemin, Hariette Wiltsee,
Doris Coleman.
Three will be elected in this group
and voters are permitted three votes.
Fred Beltz, Rupert Straub, and
Henry Schmidt were declared elected
by the Men's Judiciary Council last
night by virtue of no challenging pe-
titions.
The candidate in this group who
receives the highest number of votes
will be declared chairman of the
dance. The literary college held the
chairmanship last year.
Harriet Boyer and Betsy Post were
declared elected to the committee
representing the combined schools
and colleges. Their petitions went
unchallenged.
Because theirs were the only petit-
tions submitted for senior class office
in the literary college, Burnette
Crawford was declared elected presi-
dent and Jean Whittemore named
secretary by the Judiciary Council.
Howard Snyder and Charles Dot-
terrer will contest the presidency of
the- senior 'cass'In"' the engineering
school. The man with the highest
number of votes will be made presi-
dent and the other will receive the
office of secretary.
All election results will be carried
in Saturday's Daily.
Prof. Tillich To
Speak T odayv
Religion, History To
Be Analyzed in Lecture
Prof. Paul Tillich, who is consider-
ed one of the greatest of modern Pro-
testant theologians, will speak on
"Protestantism and Moral Anarchy"
at 8:15 p.m. today in the Rackham
Ampitheatre.
His lecture, sponsored by the Stu-
dent Religious Association, will pre-
sent to the campus an analysis of the
relation of religious philosophy to
current history.
Professor of philosophical theology
at Union Theological Seminary, Dr.
Tillich has come to play a leading
role in the revival of theology in Eur-
ope and America today.
His sense of the disaster toward
which the twentieth century moral
anarchy was leading mankind was
heightened by the recent tragic his-
tory of Germany, his own nation, E.
William Muehl, acting director of
SRA, said.
A discussion of Dr. Tillich's talk
will be held at noon tomorrow in Lane
Hall. Anyone interested in attend-
ing may do so provided he makes a
reservation during the reception fol-
lowing the lecture or by telephone be-
fore 10 a.m. tomorrow, extension 2148,
Lane Hall.
Counterattacks
Increased
Nazis in Italy
Allied Troops Repulse
Tank-Led Smash by
Crack Goering Division
By The Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL-
GIERS, Jan. 27.-German counter-
attacks to check the expanding Al-
lied bridgehead south of Rome in-
creased in fury today after Allied
troops repulsed a tank-led smash by
elements of the crack Hermann
Goering Division below Littoria in
the Pontine Marshes, some 13 miles
east of the invasion beaches at Net-
tuno.
(A Swedish correspondent in Rome
wrote that the roar of Allied artillery
now was heard plainly in all parts
of Rome and that Allied aircraft
swarmed the skies about the Italian
capital.)
Nazi Counter-thrusts
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
appeared to be hurling all his avail-
able reserve battle strength against
the Allied attempt to get a strangle-
hold on his communications with the
Italian capital. Nazi counter-thrusts
against the main Fifth Army front
around Cassino virtually had ceased
as a result.
Heavy enemy traffic was observed
between the Cassino front and the
area just south of ,Rome, . and Allied
warplanes were taking a heavy toll.
The Hermann Goering Division,
recently refitted into a full armored
outfit, came up through the Pontine
Marshes and attempted to break into
the Allied bridgehead at a point east
of the Mussolini Canal, but was
thrown back after a violent engage-
ment. This first important test of
arms, since the Allied landing last
Saturday was fought in a torrential
rain and hail storm. At one time hail
stones covered the ground almost
like snow, a front dispatch said.
Yesterday's Encounter
Yesterday's encounter below Lit-
toria, the main town of the Pontine
Marsh agricultural development, was
the only fight specifically located by
the Allied command, and the Ger-
mans were equally vague as they told
of repelling Allied efforts to widen
the bridgehead.
The outcome of the impending
battle almost within sight of Rome
may depend on whether Allied ships
can pour in reinforcements faster
than the Germans can swing their
nine divisions on the main Fifth Ar-
my front up to face the new threat.
Harmon 7To Talk
Army, Navy
Documents
Relate Horror
Starvation, Torture of
U.S. Men Described
By Escaped Prisoners
By WILLIAM FRYE
Associated Press Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-A hor-
ror story scarcely parallelled in the
annals of modern war-how the
Japanese starved, tortured and in
some cases wantonly murdered the
gallant defenders of Bataan-was
told by the Army and Navy tonight.
Documented by sworn statements
of officers who escaped from prison
camps, the joint announcement
described a cold-blooded campaign
of savagery carried out after the
36,000 Americans and Filipinos on
Bataan and Corregidor were over-
whelmed by superior numbers.
The 4,000-word account began
by telling of thousands of deaths in
Japanese camps, and then recited
that:
When the Americans and Fili-
pinos first were taken prisoner,
those found with Japanese money
or tokens were beheaded. Surviv-
ors were beaten along a "march of
death" from the scene.
12,000 men were kept penned in
a 100-yard square area without food
for a week. There was a" 12-hour
wait to fill canteens at the one
water spigot.
A widely used torture was the
"sun treatment." Captives were
made to sit in the boiling sun all
day without cover and with little
water.
Six men-three Americans and
three Filipinos-ill from mis-treat-
ment were buried while still alive.
Men "literally were worked to
death." It was not unusual for 20
Per cent of a work detail to die
Marines Receive
Treatmn's~t
at Modern First Aid Station
A far cry from the crude first aid station in the early days on Bougainville is this December scene at a
Marine aid station behind the lines. (Seated, left): Phm. 2/c R. B. Stubbs, Massena, N.Y., prepares a
bandage for Marine T/Sgt. D. M. Black, San Diego, Calif., as Lt. (JG) L. L. Hamilton, Springfield, Colo.,
gives instructions. Seated in dentist chair at right is Marine Pfc. H. L. Andrews, Jr., of New Jersey, as
Phm. 2/c P. L. Maier (left), Champaign, Ill., assists Sgt. D. P. Dobson, dentist, of Iowa City, Ia.
and "in one instance, 75 per cent
were killed that way."'
Three officers who attempted to
escape had their hand tied behind
them, then'their hands were pulled
upward by ropes attached to an
overhead purchase so they had to
remain standing and bent forward
to ease the pressure on their arms.
They were left thus for two days
and periodically beaten with a two-
by-four. One officer was then be-
headed- and the other two were
shot.
Lesser brutalities, indignities and
humiliations were innumerable .
the Japs gave three chickens and
50 eggs to 500 men, then broadcast
to the world that their prisoners
were fed on chickens and eggs .. .
American flags were habitually and
designedly used as rags in kitchens.
From reports made by a Naval
officer and two Army officers who
escaped from the Philippines.after
almost a year as prisoners, the two
departments assembled the story,
including the report that several
times as many American prisoners
in the hands of the Japanese died
-mostly of starvation, forced hard
labor and general brutality-as the
Japanese have ever reported.
"At one prison camp, Camp
O'Donnell, about 2,200 American
prisoners died in April and May,
1942," said the. report. "In the
camp at Cabanatuan, about 3,000
Americans had died up to the end
of October, 1942. Still heavier
mortality occurred among the Fili-
pino prisoners of war at Camp
O'Donnell."
The calculated campaign of bru-
tality began against the battle-
spent, hungry American and Fili-
pino soldiers on Bataan as soon as
they surrendered with what the
survivors called "the march of
death," said the report.
The report was assembled from
statements made by Commander
Melvyn H. McCoy, U.S.N., Indian-
apolis; Lt. Col. S. M. Mellnik, Coast
Artillery, of Dunmore, Pa., and Lt...
Col. William E. Dyess, Air Corps, or
Albany, Tex.
Russians Are
Now 39 Miles
From Estonia'
LONDON, Friday, Jan. 28.-The
Red Army smashed to within 39 miles
of the Estonian border yesterday,
capturing the important rail junc-
tions of Volosovo and Tosno, and 50
other towns, and killing thousands of
Axis troops, including Spanish Le-
gionnaires, Moscow announced early
today.
Leningrad, former Czarist capital
and Russia's second largest city, last
night celebrated its complete libera-
tion from two and a half years of
enemy siege as Red Army command-
ers ordered a record salute of 24 sal-
voes from 324 guns for the historic
event.
As their troops steadily hammered
back the Germans and Spaniards
into the noose of a large trap, the
Russian commanders in an order of
the day proclaimed the complete lib-
eration of Leningrad "from enemy
blockade and from barbaric enemy
shelling."
More than 700 northern commun-
ities have been re-won in the two-
weeks-old offensive, and the Germans
have been hurled back 40 to 60 miles
from Leningrad, the order of the day
said.
A total of 8,300 Germans and
Spaniards were killed yesterday on
the entire Russian front, a Moscow
broadcast said at midnight. These
included 1,500 Germans cut down in
a violent all-day action in the Novo-
sokolniki sector 230 miles below Len-
ingrad, and 3,000 slain east of Vin-
nitsa in tge Ukraine.
Lt. Tom Harmon
Reaches Home
With his face still red and bear-
ing scars on his legs following his'
recent experiences in China, Lt.
Tom Harmon arrived home yes-
terday for the first time since
Christmas 1942.
In a room filled with battle tro-
phies and souvenirs gathered in
China, India and North Africa,
Tom recounted for his family how
he was shot down by a Jap Zero
and later rescued by Chinese
guerillas.
Harmon has been granted a 20
day furlough which begins today
and he said last night that "he
plans to rest and spend his time
with the folks."
Boy Drowned
In Mill Pond
'Mr. 00oley, Jr.'
To Open Today
Baskerville To Star in
Children's Theatre Play
Fletcher Baskerville I will star in
the role of Mr. Dooley, Jr. in the first
nerformance of the play by the same
name to be given by the Children's
Theatre of the speech department at
2:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Men-
delssohn Theatre.
."Mr. Dooley, Jr.," written by Jane
Lewin and Rose Franken, is a com-
edy built around the ownership of a
dog and the scenes are laid in the
home of Janie and Tommy and in a
pet shop. Tommy and Janie are
determined to buy the pet and, in
fact, it is a case of love at first sight.
In overcoming the parental objec-
tion and financial difficulties, the
children come out with some tremen-
dously unique ideas for raising money
which practically set the community
into an uproar.
The cast is composed of Maida
Stienberg, Marjorie Leete, Thelma
Davis, Catherine Bronson, Carol
Cothran,, Jean Christian, Jean Loree,
Doris Coleman and Barbara White.
Reserved seats for today's and to-
morrow's performances may be ob-
tained at the box office of the Lydia
Mendelssohn. Box office hours are
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
- BULLETIN -=
LONDON, Friday, Jan. 28.-()-
RAF Bombers battered Berlin again
last night, the British announced to-
day, in a smashing renewal of the ob-
literation campaign against the Ger-
man capital.
National New
I In Brief.
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By The Associated Press
No-Strike Pledge Upheld
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 27.-The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor Executive
Council called upon a membership of
six and a half million workers today
for strict adherence to the no-strike
pledge, cautioning them that tre-
mendous military developments are
impending and there must not be
needless loss of a single life.
* * *
Soldiers To Return
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 27.-The first
group of 32nd Division soldiers, con-
sisting mainly of Michigan and Wis-
consin soldiers, will return to the
United States after an 18-month ov-
erseas order beginning early in
March, Robert J. Doyle, the Milwau-
kee Journal's staff war correspond-
ent, said in a radio dispatch from
Saidor, New Guinea.
* * *
Oil Shipments Suspended
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The Un-
ited States has suspended oil ship-
ments from the Caribbean area to
Spain for the month of February.
Bowles Asks Support
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Price
Administrator Chester Bowles, in a
new appeal for continuance of food
subsidies, told Congress today he
must have its "vigorous support," if
low-income groups are to be protect-
ed against further increases in living
costs.
PINKNEY, Jan. 28.-Three
and
Here Feb.
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Lt. Tom Harmon will speak at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday on "The War Front
Reports to the Home Front" under
the auspices of the Post-War Coun-
cil, Elizabeth Hawley '44 announced
yesterday.
Harmon will discuss what the men
at the front think about the war-
what they are fighting for.
War bonds and stamps will be sold
at the door before and after Har-
men's talk.
SON OF COSSACK:
Sergeant Recalls Russian Revolution
one-half year old Billy Johnson,
missing since Wednesday afternoon,
was found dead last night in a mill
pond less than 100 feet away from
his back door.
More than 125 searchers, including
Livingston County sheriff's deputies,
state police, and 75 children, had
been combing the nearby countryside
for 24 hours.
Sheriff's deputies said last night
that he had drowned and dragging
operations were hampered by ice and
debris in the pond. He was found in
12 feet of water.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Grant Johnson, and his father is a
Packard Motor Car Co. worker.
Technic Will
Appear Today
So here it comes . . . the Michigan
Technic will be on the stands today.
Beginning with a flat tire it works
up to full speed ahead through three
sections.
McHigan, A.; fifty-seventh cousin
of dear O'Mally, is still with us. Due,
perhaps, to the current shortages in
anyone of McHigan's rare talents,
he has assumed the role of censor as
well as protector of the freedom of
the press. In his off-duty moments,
this month. he has found time to
Editor's note: This is the first in a
series of five articles on the experiences
of Sgt. Boris Yankoff of Co. A.
By DORIS PETERSON
"Life was greatly changed in Rus-
sia after the Revolution," Sgt. Boris
Yankoff, who is studying here with
Co. A, said yesterday.
Sgt. Yankoff, the son of a Russian
0n-cr 1rxr hpnnamra +o +he imnpr..
Army had machine - gunned our
house. We all crouched on the floor,
and several persons were killed.
"After the Red Army was vic-
torious though, we were not
harmed. Though I was quite young
at the time, I can remember talk-
ing to high ranking officers in the
Red Army at the time they
marched into our city.
"Af-th. 4, ' Ava,. mp, i n Pv-
in Russia among whom is an uncle
who is a major-general in the Rus-
sian Army.
In 1931 he toured Japan, perform-
ing in athletic events. After that he
went to China to study at Harbin,
where he made a distinguished rec-
ord as an athlete. He was middle-
weight champion of China from 1931
to 1932.
When he was in China he en-
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TO SING WAGNER:
Marjorie Lawrence, Soprano
Met Star, To Appear Sunday
Marjorie Lawrence, Australian so-
prano of the Metropolitan Opera As-
sociation, will present the eighth
Choral Union concert at 3 p.m. Sun-
day in Hill Auditorium.
Recovered from infantile paral-
ysis, with which she was stricken in
T,," n 1 gi .in-a-nrns.nsir
cert, gave to her the nickname of
"Melba," after another great Austra-
lian singer.
Trained by Ivor Bovstead in Mel-
bourne, Marjorie Lawrence made her
operatic debut with the Paris Opera
Company in the role of Ortrud in
"Lohengrin." Her first season at the