r30 A t xrn 'ait j Weather Cloudy, Warmer VOL. LIV No. 79 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, FEB. 13, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS. Yanks Tighten Hold on Anzio Beachhead Reds Reach Outskirts of Lugo, Capture 40 Towns 4,200 Nazis Killed in Desperate German Attempt To Rescue 10 Trapped Divisions Study-Weary Soldiers Revel 1n, Stoic-i(rlieg By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 13, Sunday.-The Red Army has reached the suburbs of the rail station of Luga, 80 miles south of Leningrad on the road to south Estonia and Latia, while in the Ukraine 4,200 Nazis were killed yesterday and 70 tanks wrecked in the desperate German effort to res- cue the remnants of ten trapped Nazi divisions near the middle Dnieper River, Moscow announced today. ' More than forty towns and hamlets were captured in the north as the Russians fought in the outskirts of Luga, and 18 miles to the east cap- tured the rail junction of Batetskaya and cleared the Leningrad-Batet- skaya-Novgorod raiload. Luga, midway between Leningrad and Pskov, is an important German defense point protecting the Axis re- treat into Estonia and Latvia along three railroads joining at Pskov. The fall of the town appeared im- minent tonight as the Russians wheeled through the heavy snow. Soviet forces pressed the hungry and exhausted Nazis into an 11-mile- long strip of land from Korsun north along a railroad. Golyaki was cap- tured at the upper end of this Nazi toehold and Kavashin, less than three miles southeast of Korsun, was taken at the southern end. In this fighting 2200 Germans were killed as the Russians drove wedges Union of Polish Patriots Forms National Body New Organization May Be Used To Establish Agreement with Reds LONDON, Feb. 12.-(P)VThe Sov- iet-sponsored Union of Polish Patri- ots already has organized a national council inside Poland, the Moscow radio disclosed tonight, adding a new climax to the open conflict be- tween Russia and the present Polish government-in-exile. The disclosure that the Union of Polish Patriots, organized in Moscow, had set up operations in Poland fol- lowed an editorial in the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, attacking the Polish regime in London anew and implying that a government acceptable to the Soviets might be established in Poland. The Moscow broadcast said that the council established by the Union of Polish Patriots included represen- tatives of the Polish Peasants Party, the Socialist Workers Party and "other democratic groupings," but gave no details as to how or where the organization was accomplished. The broadcast, made in Polish, added, "Formation of the national council is a step toward the consoli- dation of all national elements inside Poland in the face of the complete ruin and annihilation with which the Germans threaten the Polish nation." 3 Cars Leave Track As Train Is Derailed Three baggage cars went off the track when the 3:36 p.m. train from Chicago and Grand Rapids was de- railed yesterday a quarter of a mile west of Ann Arbor. No passengers or train personnel were injured in the accident which train representatives attributed to the formation of a hot box. The main train was side tracked to keep the line open and derricks worked all afternoon to get the bag- gage care back on the track. between the German strongpoints, winning one fortified position after another. The retreating Germans abandoned dugouts and trenches, throwing away their weapons in their rout. Insidethe cog seven tanks, 12 field guns, 55 ticks and other mat- erials also were captured by the Rus- sians.°, Meanwhile, the Germans outside the ring who had been attacking So- viet lines doggedly since Feb. 3 in hopes of breaking through to the sur- vivors of perhaps 100,000 men origin- ally trapped by the Russian coup failed again to pierce the encircling lines. Allies Continue Air Attacks in South Pacific Rabaul, New Britain, New freland Bombed; Starved Japs Found ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sun- day, Feb. i, 3.-(MP-,Allied airmen continuing their attacks on the Japa- nese defense bastions in the South Pacific destroyed 43 planes in at- tacks on Rabaul, New Britain, and' Kavierig, New Ireland, the High Command announced today. Thirty-two of the Japanese planes were shot down over Rabaul, target of almost daily assaults by aircraft from Admiral William F. Halsey's Solomon Islands bases. We lost four planes here. Airdrome Hit The attackers hit the Kavieng air- drome with 167 tons of bombs, while 174 tons were dropped on the Vuna- kanau and Tobera airdromes at Ra- baul, producing destruction which was blacked out from the attackers' view by smoke. The Allied communique also said that American Marine patrols at Borgen Bay, in the Cape Gloucester area in northwestern New Britain, have found many bodies of Japanese who apparently died 'of starvation and disease. Japs Starve to Death The experience of the Marines here duplicated that of the Australians in the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, campaign, where hundreds of Japa- nese were found dead of starvation due to the Allied activities in sever- ing the enemy's barge supply lines. Alliedowarplanes screaming out of the Solomon Islands which once swarmed with Japanese, have in- creased the tempo of their attacks on the once threatening enemy base of Rabaul. This may be the begin- ning of a final move to put Rabaul out of business. From before dawn until mid-aft- ernoon Wednesday 250 Allied fight- ers and bombers raked Vunakanau bomber base and Tobera airfield. 19 Die in Greenville Collision over Field GREENVILLE, S.C., Feb. 12.-A) -Nineteen men were' killed today when three planes of a bomb group collided and crashed at the Green- ville Army Air Base. The planes crashed at the weekly Saturday review. Flying low in for- mation, they touched wings and crashed just after they had passed over a bomber group on the field. They fell a quarter of a mile away, at the north end of the base. Flames were seen before the craft struck the ground. Fifth Army Shells German Positions Supplies Landed Despite Heavy Swells; Weather Break Needed for Air Support By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Feb. 12-Mud-spattered Fifth Army troops grimly tightened their grip on the Anzio beachhead tonight as their commander, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark,assured them that supplies were arriving for them and that their victorious march on Rome was "sure to come." Their hold on the shell-pitted battleground was firmer than at any time in the past 72 hours after a German attack was repulsed with the aid of warships which ranged boldly inshore and shelled the Nazi positions. The best way to make use of snow is to wash somebody's face with it, and these men from Com- pany A wasted no time. The unfortunate recipient of the crystallized super-heated water vapor facial doesn't seem too harpy, but he was outnumbered three to one, and there wasn't much he could do about it. However, the picture doesn't show the sequel to the story: friends of the victim rallied around and ganged up on the dictatorial three until they were sorry they ever heard the word snow. -Daily Photo by Cpl. R. L. Lewin, 3651st SU, Co. A DATELESS COED DATED: Men Swap,'Box15frV-Ball Datet "But I can't go with more than one man," sadly quoth Box 15 yes- terday as replies to her Daily clas- sified asking for a date for V-Ball continued to pour in. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and civilians have written in to Box 15 giving full particulars, height, weight, shoe size and in some cases have implored the little woman to spend the evening with them., In her classified announcement that ran Thursday, Box 15 offered to pay a man. an hourly rate for his escort services, but many of the replies have made a counter offer of all expenses paid. One or two army men who have replied indicated that military pay can't afford the price of admission and would be grateful for the date and a ticket. Hopkins' Son Is Killed in Action In response to these queries the Daily has taken it upon itself to es- tablish a get-acquainted service for these dateless men and Box 15 and any other coeds who wish to take advantage of the opportunity. Persons interested in a date eith- er male or female are asked to ap- pear in the Daily office between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. tomorrow for a personal interview. The Daily will make every at- tempt to satisfy all requests and specifications, but can't make a blanket guarantee. Excerpts from replies to Box 15 are: "I have got the stuff, if she has the ticket . . . I have been going steady with a slide rule, but I could break away for you . . . I am tall, blond, a good dancer, and people say I'm not conceited." Business Tax Reduction Bill V-Ball Tickets To Go on Sale Tickets for Victory Ball, which will feature the music of Les Brown and Fletcher Henderson, who was signed yesterday, will go on sale tomorrow in designated places for Army, Na- vy and Civilian students. Ticket sale has been allotted to each student group according to a proportion of theiy. number to the en- tire campus. The ball is formal and there will be continuous dancing from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. The following schedule will be ob- served for the sale of Pickets: Army-5-7:30 p.m. Main Lounge, East Quad, and Travel Desk, Michi- gan Union. Navy---5-7:30 p.m. First half deck- West Quad. Civilians-10 a.m.-4 p.m. 'U' Hall Corridor and 5-7:30 p.m. Travel Desk Michigan Union. At the close of registration Friday, more than a dozen barber-shop quar- tets had signed up to compete in the V-Ball contest. A private elimination will be held to select the three finalist quartets who Will sing the night of the dance. Competing quartets will be notified of their appointments for the elim-' inations. ansikivi Goes To Stockholm Peacemaker Denies Journey Is Political STOCKHOLM, Feb. 12.-P)-Dr. Juhu Kusti Paasikivi, who negotiated the 1940 Finnish-Russian peace, ar- rived quietly in Stockholm today on Landing of supplies for the bea despite heavy swells, and a slight bre Churchill Says Rome Will Be Won by Allies. LONDON. Feb. 12.-(P)-Prime Minister Churchill announced flatly today that Allied commanders in the Italian campaign had assured him Rome would be won and there was "no justification for pessimism."- The announcement, at the height of the swaying battle on the Anzio; bridgehead and around Cassino, was obviously intended to quiet mounting anxiety both in this country and the United States and to reassure the Al- lied and neutral world. It was inter- preted here as a sign of great confi- dence that the Anzio' bridgehead1 would be held. (President Roosevelt said yester- day that a very tense situation and, heavy figpting existed at the Anzio bridgehead. He told a press-radio conference that we are praying for good weather to aid sea and air op- erations.) Churchill quoted reports from Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied Commander-in-Chief in the Mediter- ranean, and Gen. Sir Harold Alexan- der, Commander of Allied Forces in Italy, as saying that in the Anzio beachhead the Allies "npw have a very strong army and superiority both in artillery and tanks." Liberators Raid Battered Calais No Fighter Opposition Met in Daylight Attack LONDON, Feb. 12.-()-American Liberators maintained the unprece- dented pace of daylight bombing with a thumping attack today against the Germans' battered forti- fications around Pas-de-Calais, ene- my-held French territory nearest to Britain. The four-engined bombers crossed the channel under a roaring umbrella of Mustang and Thunderbolt fight- ers and returned without loss to com- plete successfully their 13th opera- tion in 16 days. The fliers reported they did not see a single enemy fight- er in the sky. Two small formations of RAF Mosquitos also pounded military tar- gets in northern France under cover of typhoons and these too returned without meeting serious opposition. One RAF plane was lost, while the Typhoons bagged three German craft. "There was not too much flak" said Lt. Howard Holladay of Som- erset, KKy., a co-pilot on the Liber- ator sweep. "The Nazis must have used up their weekly ration in the past two days. "We really laid a good pattern of bombs," he added. "We didn't see'an enemy fighter, but our P-518 (Mus- tangs) were everywhere like a swarm of bees." Boy Dies of Injuries From Auto Accident Paul R. Hilge, 16, died yesterday afternoon at St. Joseph's Mercy Hos- pital of head injuries sustained when the automobile which he was driving collided with a GMC tractor and chhead was carried out successfully ak in the weather gave promise that overwhelming Allied air superiority might soon return to the aid of the hard-fighting ground forces. In a message to all his troops along the western Italian front, including those who slugged out limited gains in the Cassino sector, Gen. Clark urged his men to break through the Germans' "thinned out lines" and to crush the enemy on their way north. Supplies were arriving at the beach- head, Gen. Clark said, which would given the Allied forces there the op- portunity to kill Germans "in large numbers." (A British broadcast, recorded by CBS, quoted a British war corres- pondent as saying that the German More Nazis Called STOCKHOLM, Feb. 12.-)--The Berlin afternoon press announced the military call-up of all men still not mobilized in the classes of 1884 to 1893, those between 51 and 60 years old. All such men were directed to pre- sent themselves for mustering be- fore Feb. 16. The step apparently was a new sign of Hitler's increasing need for further manpower. radio was boasting that the beach- head force soon would have to take to boats. Such German statements never have been "within miles of the truth," the correspondent said, add- that the troops were facing their job with sober confidence). Issuing his message soon after his return today from a visit to the beachhead, Gen. Clark told the troops who have been battering down a week-long series of German counter-attacks there that their landing was a "splendid accomplish- ment." World Day of Pr'ayer Will Be Held Today Inter-Guild Sponsors Ceremony at First Congregational Church Students, servicemen and towns- people are invited to attend the an- nual World Day of Prayer service at *8 p.m. today in the First Congrega- tional Church. Sponsored by Inter-Guild, this ser- vice will include music, prayer, a re- sponsive reading, and a short talk. William Muehl, acting director of the Student Religious Association, will speak on "Prayer and the Real World." Harriet Porter will sing "The Lord's Prayer" with Harry Daum ac- companying on the organ, "Forever with the Lord" will be offered by Robert Waltz and Robert Dierks. Scripture will be read by Bertsung Li, and Ruth Daniels will present a poem. The responsive reading will be led by Vivian Ligon. Student groups all over the world will hold services similar to this one a week from today. The internation- al World Day of Prayer is under the sponsorship of the World Student Christian Federation, All contributions received at the service will be turned over to the World Student Service Fund, an or- ganiztion which is now conducting a nation-wide drive for text books. Diplomats Trapped In France To Return, WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. - M)-- WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. - (A") - .Meld irt Sei El President Roosevelt tonight inform- ed his long-time friend and adviser, Harry L Hopkins, that his 18-year- old son, Stephen, had been killed in the fighting to wrest the Marshall Islands from the Japanese. Hopkins was on his way south, to rest and to try to improve his health, when he received word of his son's death. The lad, a Marine who chose action in preference to service train- ing in college, was buried at sea. He was the youngest of Hopkins' three sons by the first of three mar- riages. Mrs. Hopkins, who disclosed the President's action, said no further details of Stephen's death were avail- able. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-P)-The prospect of post-war corporation tax reduction which will help clear the track for business to provide jobs for returning service men and war work- ers was held out today by two senior members of the Senate Finance Com- mittee. Chairman George (Dem., Ga.) and Senator Vandenberg (Rep,, Mich.) About all the encouragement George could hold out for individuals was that Congress will make the rev- enue laws more understandable. This job is going to be tackled immediate- ly, it was promised today by Chair- man Doughton (Dem., N.C.) and Rep. Knutson (Rep., Minn.) PLAN ACQUISITION OF 100,000 ACRES: Proposed Recreational Program what he said was "private business" a few hours after former Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko said g'b S C - his country was "considering every Discuse = au dr way possible in finding the road to peace." _-- -- ---'In excellent humor, Paasikivi dis- adult crime and race riots frequently claimed that his present trip had occur." He went on to say that this anything to do with politics. In 1940' lack of recreational facilities is one he had arrived here and gone secretly of the reasons for these things and to Moscow for peace negotiations.. although the proposed plan should "I expect to stay as long as possi- By EVELYN PHILLIPS Highlighting the evening assembly of the Southeastern Michigan Rec- reational Workshop which was held in thesRackham Building yesterday The program was initiated in 1928 to provide recreation areas in south- eastern Michigan which, considering the population pressure, suffers from a definite lack of recreational facili- sions of unusual danger build up un- der such conditions. Wholesome rec- reational outlets help to relieve them." Facilities Inadequate L t 1