t4O#u 'N 2t igarn 4~tt Weather VOL. LAV No. 72 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, FEB. 5, 1944 A 'E 'N a PRICE FIVE CENTS Allied Armada Lands in Ialian Harbor Yanks, Tommies Within Sight of Rome Radio Masts; Pacific Forces Find No Opposition in Marshalls This vast Allied Armada (top) stretches over th e harbor inrthe Anzio-Nettuno, Italy, area after land- ing troops of the British-American Fifth Army behinmd the German "Gustav Line." Bottom: Tractors are on the beach after Navy men set up this pontoon causeway for the unloading of LST's. These are two of the first original pictures of the landings. l FDR Signs Mustering-Out-Pay Bill; 20,000 War Workers Prolong Strike Law Provides Cash Payrnents for Veterans Of Second World War By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-President Roosevelt's signature on Mustering- Out Legislation tonight guaranteed veterans of the Second World 'War cash payments to help them make the adjustment from military to civ- ilian life. The law provides from $100 to $300 for each eligible veteran. Muster-out pay of World War One amounted to about $60. This new scale and the .oninensurately higher number of military personnel in this war will' cost the nation approximately $3,- 000"000,000. There already have been 1,300,000 discharges since Pearl Harbor. These servicemen may apply now to the War and Navy Departments for their Mustering-Out Pay. Within 30 days of the application, it is to be acted upon. As he signed the bill, Mr. Roosevelt urged Congress to move full speed ahead on other proposals he has made for aiding the servicemen upon discharge. They provide for pro- grams to allow the young men and women to continue their education grant them Social Security credits at partial Government expense; for their period in the service, and set up a plan for Unemployment Com- pensation benefits. The Mustering-Out pay is denied to those eligible to retirement pay,' those discharged to take civilian jobs, the dishonorably discharged, those whose total period of service has been as a student in a special train- ing program, and those ranking above a captain. Union Officers To Be Inducted Formally Today Newly appointed Union officers, President Roy Boucher and Secre- tary Rupe Straub, will be formally inducted at the Installation Banquet, which will be held at 12:15 p.m. to- day in the Anderson Room of the Union. Outgoing President Bunny Craw- ford will act as toastmaster, and out- going Secretary Chuck Dotterrer will review briefly the past year's acti- vities., . Boucher will announce the new junior executive council for the com- ing semester. Also on the banquet program is the presentation of keys to junior executive and sophomore staff members iftrecognition of work during this semester. The Union board of directors and the entire Union staff will be present. Arrangement for the banquet are be- ing handled by Dick Chenoweth, co- chairman of the social committee. Ruthven Appointed To Annapolis Board Wonrd was eved r1vsterav an- E' Bond Sales Lagging B ehind In *Loan Drive Ann Arbor Surpasses Quota for Other Bonds More Than $200,000 According to the latest audit, which included all war bonds sold up to yesterday, Ann Arbor has purchased $4,192,419.50 worth of bonds toward a goal of $4,725,000. Although the city promises to more than fill its quota, sales of Series E bonds are lagging behind, Warren Cook, county chairman, said yester- day. The Series E bond quota is $1,500,000, and only $745,798.50 worth, or about half, has been sold. The quota for other type bonds in Ann Arbor has been passed by more than $200,000. Cook Predicts Success Cook predicted that "we'll go over our full quota from the sale of other type bonds." However, he said, "It is the desire of the committee that everyone buy-an extra E bond." As a special incentive for investing in Series E bonds, the State Theatre is featuring a "War Bond Premier," Wednesday, Feb. 9. The attraction will be "Destination Tokyo" with Cary Grant. Free tickets will be given with every E bond of $50 or over issued at any theatre. Ten Days Left Almost two and one-half \million dollars worth of war bonds must be sold in Washtenaw County during the last ten days of the Fourth War Loan drive if the county is to fill its quota of $7,477,000. To date $5,055,- 805.75 worth has been sold with Series E bonds accounting for $1,218,850.75 of this total. Cook remarked that the county will probably go over on the E bond quota in this drive as in the last one, when a large amount of purchases were Threat of WLB To Issue Sanctions Defied By MESA Secretary By The Associated Press DETROIT, Feb. 4.-A strike of an estimated 20,000 Michigan and Ohio War Workers continued tonight in the face of condemnation from spokesmen for the Armed Forces and. Government agencies. Meantime the striking Union's leader-Matthew Smith, National Secretary of the Mechanics Educa- tional Society of America-defied a threat by the War Labor Board to invoke sanctions and penalties against the union. Smith, replying to a WLB order for Union officers to appear at a hearing in Washington Monday, said "impossible." He said the Union's machinery, involving votes of dele- gates to the Executive Board, could not be brought into action by that time. "Only the WLB's ignorance of a labor union's structure could be re- sponsible for such an order," Smith said. "I don't know what the sanc- tions or penalties are, but we are pre- pared to meet them." Seizure of the plants by the gov- ernment would make the criminal provisions of the War Labor Disputes Act operative. Persons who encour- aged a strike then could be prosecut- ed and, if convicted, subjected to fine and imprisonment. The MESA, an independent union, called the strike today in protest of the National Labor Relation Board's handling of a jurisdictional dispute with the CIO's United Automobile Workers. The unions have long been rivals. Woodring Calls for Democratic Unity CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-(0)-Harry H. Woodring, a leader of anti-Ad- ministration Democrats, suggested today that the party should unite in supporting someone like Secretary of State Hull for president,' and pro- posed that President Roosevelt serve as leader of the American delegation to the peace parleys. Woodring, former Secretary of War in the Roosevelt cabinet and onetime governor of Kansas, also re- ported that he planned "to call "all loyal Democrats"*to a national con- vention to consolidate their forces and determine their strategy. U.S. Occupies Three Islands In Marshalls Aerial, Naval Forces Hit Two More Bases; Take Kwajalein Atoll By The Associated Press U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 4.---American invasion forces have swarmed on three more islands in strategic Kwajalein atoll of the Mar- shalls and brought two others under naval and air assault while still un- challenged either by the Japanese navy or air force. In the latest reported moves, half of an important seaplane base was occupied in the face of resistance. Moderate opposition was overcome on two other islands.s Troops of the Seventh Army Divi- sion landed on EbeycIsland north of Kwajalein Island and soon forced the Nipponese back from half of it. New Landing Unopposed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz re- ported in a communique tonight that the new landing was unopposed but resistance was encountered a short distance from the beach. Admiral Nimitz also reported: Two small islands between Kwaja- lem and Ebeye have been occupied following neutralization of moderate opposition. Gugegwe and Loi Islands just north of Ebeye are being subjected to bombing and naval gunfire. The enemy is answering our fire.- Resistance on Kwajalein Island, at the south end of Kwajalein atoll, continues but progress is,1ingk a e. Casualties Moderate Virtually no news was received from Kwajalein Island where, Ad- miral Nimitz reported, operations continued satisfactorily and progress is being made. Ebey will give the United States complete control of the southern and northern ends of Kwajalein atoll, although the Japs presumably do have the western tip and control the center of the eastern side, on which is one of the main entrances to the lagoon. Kwajalein atoll has numerous is- lands, probably a third of which are occupied by U.S. forces although the figures have not been given. There still is no indication the United States has suffered any naval losses. U.S. Military Rule Is Proclaimed in Marshalls U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 4.-(AP)-A proclamation setting up an American government in the oc- cupied 'portions of the Marshall Isl- ands and "suspending the powers" of Emperor Hirohito of Japan in those areas was announced today by Fleet headquarters. This evidence of American victory was flung in the face of the Japanese by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, backed by the might of his Pacific fleet-- anchored in the placed lagoon of Kwajalein Atoll. Copies of the proclamation, ex- pected to be a model for similar ac- tion when other Japanese territory falls, were distributed in the wake of American Marines and Doughboys who invaded the Marshalls only last Monday. It was signed by Nimitz as military governor of the Mar- shalls. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Service vote legislation apparently .headed toward at least a temporary deadlock between the Senate and House today when Administration supporters won successive Senate tests on a federal war ballot. By A 42 to 42 tie vote, the Adminis- tration defeated an attempt to shelve the Green-Lucas War Ballot Bill in favor of a House states' rights meas- ure after beating off, 46 to 42, an earlier opposition move. The latter vote came on a proposal to substitute for the Green-Lucas Bill a "states' rights" measure spon- sored by a coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats. Since all the opposition to a fed- eral ballot was united behind the move and the outcome was generally accepted as meaning the Senate will approve the Administration plan which the House rejected lastnight when passing a bill for state absen- tee ballots. The Senate quit for the day with- out taking further action and major- ity leader Barkley of Kentucky called a Saturday session (11 a.m., EWT) to try' to wind up work on the~ measure. He indicated the Adminis- tration would follow the strategy of substituting the Green-Lucas Bill for the House-approved measure and sending it back to the House for action on the Senate amendment. With the two chambers deadlocked, the eventual outcome might be a compromise-worked out by a Senate- Raymond Clapper Deadlock Reached over Soldier Vote Legislation Administration Defeats Attempt To Shelve Green-Lucas Bill, Favoring a Uniform Ballot House committee, or no measure at all. The legislative situation was this: 1. The Senate passed a "states' rights" bill in December. 2. The Administration put a substitute into the Senate last month trying to revive the federal ballot plan. 3. Before the Senate could de- cide on the substitute, the House passed the states' rights bill and sent it back to~ the Senate with amendments today. Reds Close In On Ten Trapped Nazi ]Divisions Soviet Troops Clear Road from Leningrad To Marova River Mouth By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 4.-The Red Army closed tighter an iron ring of anni- hilation around ten trapped Nazi divisions in the Ukraine today and destroyed 73 big Junkers transport planes from a fleet the Germans ap- parently were using to fly out troops as they did at Stalingrad in a last desperate attempt to avert disaster. In the north, Moscow announced,- Soviet troops completely cleared the 110-mile coast of theGulf of Finland from Leningrad west to the Narova River mouth inside Estonia. Other forces wiped out the last Germans on the railway from Leningrad to Novo- gord, the second north-south line freed since the battle of the north be- gan. Soviet Monitor Record The Germans trapped in the Dnie- per Bend, numbering probably more than 100,000, were being wiped out as the Red Army closed the encir- cling ring on nearly every side and captured seven more towns, said the Moscow mommunique, recorded by the Soviet monitor. Significantly a communique told of bringing down 13 Junkers, 52 trans-. ports in the air and the destruction of 60 more of the tri-engined Nazi planes on their landing grounds in an all-out assault by the Russian Air Force. Russians Clear Gulf In the north the Russians not only cleared the Gulf of Finland to a point ten miles past the Estonian border but to the south were advanc- ing along the eastern banks of Lake Peipus, the communique said. The westward drive had bypassed the gateway town of Narva with the cap- ture of villages both to the southwest and northwest. British Heavy Bombers Blast West Germany LONDON, Feb. 5, Saturday-(IP)- Two waves of heavy British night bombers crossed the moonlit, wintry Dover strait last night for another ontinental attack following daylig bombing assaults by hundreds of fighter - escorted American heavy bombers on Frankfurt and other tar- gets in western Germany. The big RAF night bombers roared out on their first mission since their attack on Berlin on Jan. 30. Twenty-one U.S. bombers and one fighter failed to return from yester- day's mission-the sixth major at- tack for American planes in seven days. The American aerial armada which brought down 12 Nazi planes slashed its way through a sky flam- ing with anti-aircraft fire to reach Frankfurt, an important German industrial and communications cen- ter. Allies Hold Off Fiere Nazi Attack American Troops Gain 'Toe-Hold' in Cassino; Hand-to-Hand Fighting By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN IT- ALY, Feb. 4.-American and British veterans fighting side by side within sight of Rome's radio masts tonight were stubbornly holding off fierce at- tacks of German infantry and tanks against their two-weeks-old beach- head less than 20 miles south of the Eternal City. A dispatch sent at 5:05 o'clock this afternoon from the battle scene by Associated Press Correspondent Dan- iel De Luce, said the Allied troops "in staunchly defended foxholes" were "holding off the growing storm of the German counter-offensive," aided by heavy artillery support. Streets, Buildings Taken Farther south a battlefield dispatch said American troops had gained a "good toe-hold" on Cassino, anchor of the Germans crocc-Italy southern line and that American Doughboys were in buildings in the town and controlled some streets. With air forces grounded by bad weather artillery of both sides was belching forth thousands of shells in a ceasless cannonading and infantry troops were locked in bloody hand-to- hand fighting as the Allied troops checked the heavy counter-offensive of the Germans against the Anzio beachhead. Four Smashes Repulsed Allied, H eadu arters nfl ol d that the first four smashes by the Nazis had been repulsed with heaW. losses and that American troops im- proved their positions somewhat west of German-held Cisterna, the "town of 1,000 pill-boxes" on the Appian Wady 24 miles southeast of Rome. Droves of tanks, including 60-tol Tigers, led the hard German thrusts, with Nazi planes frequently sweeping in ahead of them to bomb and strafe the dug-in Americans and British. Bath sides were using tanks at at- tack units and as mobile artillery. 'Ship's Ball' To Be Held Tonight Chester's Band Will Play at V-12 Dance Bob Chester and his -orchestra, billed as the "nation's newest sensa- tion" will feature their arrangements of the country'sblatest hits at the "Ship's Bal," to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight today in the Intramural Building, under the sponsorship of the V-12 Naval and Marine Unit. Extending an invitation to join in the festivities to all naval and ma- rine officer and enlisted personnel on campus, the central committee has promised special entertainment during the intermission by Pvt. ,Charles Benjamin of the Marine Corps. In addition the Navy-Marine Chorus will sing its version of "Don't Give Up the Ship," "The Navy Hymn" and "Night and Day." Members of the central committee are Allan Mactier, general chair- man; James Martin, Robert Pear, building committee, and Howard Wescoat and Pat Trahan, entertain- ment committee. Members of the patrons and guests committee are Wiliam Snell and Clifford Myll; of the decorations committee, Carl Nichols and George Hach; ticket committee, Charye Dotterer, and publicity, John Laur.. sen. In keeping with University tradi- tion, the central committee has asked that no corsages be worn to the dance. Ruthven Talks To Convocation More than 4,000 servicemen sta- tioned on campus attended the con- vocation which was held yesterday ryI made at Willow Run. In the War Loan drive Washtenaw will receive five-twelfths of Run purchases. Fourth County Willow Raymond Clapper (above), well- known Washington columnist and political commentator, lost his life in a plane accident while covering the invasion of the Marshall Is- lands. This picture was made Jan. 17 as he prepared copy aboard the plane of Vice-Adm. Fitch, Com- mander Aircraft, South Pacific. - BULLETIN - BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 4.-(A)- The Argentine government an- nounced tonight it had broken off diplomatic relations with Vichy France, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary--all Axis satellites-fol- lowing up its rupture with Ger- many and Japan last month. Dr. Christian Will Present Organ Concert Dr. Palmer Christian, organist, assisted by the University Choir, will present the first concert in a series of three afternoon organ recitals at 4:15 p.m. Sunday in Hill Auditor- ium. Making its first public appearance of the year, the University Choir, fifty-voice choral group directed by Dr. Christian, will sing a group of sacred numbers by Kodaly, Arensky and Panchenko and a second group by Randall Thompson and William Schumann, modern American com- posers. Dr. Christian's program will in- clii nubmhrs hv cnmnnpr from I AIR FORCE STRIKES.r Bombers Smash Wewak Airdromes Editor's not: A heavy attack on Jap- an's main New Guinea air base was re- ported in the communique Saturday by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Here is the detailed story of that raid. By ASAHEL BUSh Associated Press Correspondent A FORWARD AIR BASE, NEW GUINEA, Feb. 3.-(DELAYE)- More than 100 heavy and medium Wifth Airforce homhrs in a con- Boram and Wewak airstrips at the eastern end of the enemy's chain. They unloaded more than 175 tons of bombs, mostly 1,009-pounders, directly on the two runways, de- molishing approximately 20 enemy aircraft and rendering at least one field unserviceable. Then Mitchell Medium bombers in even greater number followed about an hour later, bombing and least eight of the 40-plane Japan- ese intercepting force were shot down, and 72 parked planes were destroyed. "Our damage and cas- ualties were light," the communi- que said.), On the point of planes lost, Da- gua suffered the most heavily- perhaps 40 or 50 grounded bombers and fighters were caught there- while at But the raiders scared up