I IJ it 4 attp Weather SnoQw Flurries VOL. LIV No. 11 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, NOV. 13, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Navy Sinks 3 Jap Ships, Hits 12 Others Nazi Armies Split in Half By Russians First Ukrainian Army Advances from Kiev to Zhitomir Rail Center By JUDSON O'QUINN Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 12.- Gen Nik- olai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army, nmoving quickly to cut in two the Nazi armies of north and south Russia, drove westward along the main rail- Way from Kiev to within 15 miles of Zhitomir today in a direct assault on, that strategic rail center. The Red Army, sweeping in a vast semi-circle from Kiev, captured more Two Veterans Out of Badger Game Today Kraeger, Hirsch To Be On Bench in Contest Against Wisconsin By BUD LOW Only 15.000 fans are expected to be on hand for today's tilt with Wis- consin when the Wolverines will at- tempt to come up on even terms with idle Purdue in the Western Confer- ence race by handing the Badgers their eighth loss in nine starts this season. The game, which will be the fifth home contest of the year, will be the 19th time the two teams have met since the series began in 192. Michi- gan has won 13, Wisconsin has won 4, while.one game ended in a tie. Despite the fact that the Maize and Blue squad is expected to down the Badgers :by a large margin, Coach Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin will enjoy a personal triumph no matter who wins, for last week seven men from his great team of last year started for the Wolverines against Indiana. Today five, and quite prob- ably six, former Badgers will start for the Varsity, and the seventh, Elroy Hirsch, will probably not see any action because of an arm injury suf- fered last week, in the Hoosier game. It is a tough break for Hirsch not being able to play today. Not only was "Crazylegs" pointing for this tilt to show his former coach just how (Continued on Page 3) Daily Servicemen's Feature Staff -'- Force of 200 Planes Raid Rabaul Thursday Carrier and Land-Based Aircraft Down 88 Enemy Interceptors; Allies Lose 17 By WILLIAM F. BONI Associated Press Correspondent SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Saturday, Nov. 13 -Navy planes from aircraft carriers and land-based bombers-a raiding force of more than 200-sank three Japanese warships and damaged 12 others at Rabaul Thursday while the enemy expended 64 planes in four frantic but unsuccessful attempts to sink the carriers. An enemy cruiser and two destroyers were sent to the bottom of Ra- baul's harbor, a cruiser and 11 destroyers were damaged and 24 Japanese interceptors were shot out of the sky during a massive assault which opened Wednesday night and extended into Thursday's daylight hours. Then, as the Naval task force was withdrawing, the Japanese made their supreme efforts to deliver mortal blows at the carriers. Their medium bombers and torpedo planes were so consistently cut down by anti-aircraft of the ships and covering Allied planes that none of the planes in the first three waves scored a single direct To hit on the vessels, Headquarters said, Choral Union Toand the fourth wave never even reached their target. General MacArthur's spokesman Present arsaid light damage was sustained by some warships but the sea worthi- Anderson Here ness of none was impaired. There were minor casualties among the m i Cnrlopersonnel. Will Sing Monday t In Second of Series Standing, left to right-Pvt. Robert J. Holmes, Co. F; Pfc. Stanley Krenitz, Co. D, Managing Editor; Pvt. Delore Williams, Co. E; Pfc. Culver Jones, Company G; Pfc. David Lindsey, Co. C; Pvt. Richard Wolf, Co. B; Lazar Emanuel, Co. D, Editor in Chief; William Matthews, A-12; Cpl. Scott, headquarters rep. Sitting, left to right--Pvt. Melvin J. Berman, Co. F; Pvt Joseph O'Connor, Co. E; Lt. Catharine James, WAC; Pfc. Barney Schwartz, Co. D. * * * * * 4 VA n a STATUTEMILES Soviet forces were reported less than 40 miles from Zhitomir, vital rail junction, after capturing Vasi- )ev (A) in the forked drive on the region west of Kiev. In the south, tie Fourth Ukrainian Arn v was massing for a drive (B) into the Crimea. (A.P. Wirephoto) than 100 towns and villages, said the Moscow Communique, recorded by the Soviet Monitor. Among, them were Korostyshev, 15 miles east of Zhitomir, which is on the north- south rail line running from Lenin- grad to Odessa. The Russians in this most west. ward thrust of their big offensive were only 75 miles from the pre-war Polish border. Soviet forces were in position for a direct assault on Zhitomir. They crossed the Teterev River yesterday and captured Radomysl, eight miles up the river from Korostyshev. German .Forces Land won Leros CAIRO, Nov. 12.-(P)-German forces made a landing on the British- held Aegean Island of Leros this' morning and heavy fighting was in progress with the British and Pro- Allied Italian garrison fighting side- by-side to dislodge the attackers. A number of German landing craft were destroyed or damaged by the defenders as several landing parties were thrown back -into the sea, said an Allied communique. Others, how- ever, secured beachholds, and these "detachments are being dealt with," t)c communique added. Later reports said the fighting had fa:re c into a grim battle with the Vritish seeking to oust the Germans from their main landings at Pasta Di Sotto and Appetici, both on the northeast corner of the island. I)aily Gets ACP The Daily received notice yester- 6ay that it has been awarded the Associated Collegiate Press All- American Pacemaker award for the tenth time. Nazi Forces Counterattack Near Mignano Germans Are Figlhting Tenaciously To Regain Winter Line' Heights ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL- GIERS, Nov. 12.-(P)-Aided by a, cold rain in the lower areas and by. snow in the Apennine Mountains, German troops are counterattacking fiercely and continuously in an effort to regain strategic heights won by Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army fighters near Mignano on the en- emy's strongly-fortified "winter line" across Italy. Every Nazi thrust has been thrown back with losses in killed and cap- tured, Allied Headquarters reported today, and Clark's Americans have pushed on amid the frightful weather conditions to seize one more com- manding feature on the slopes of Mt. Camino near Mignano. This, however, was the, only Allied gain reported from yesterday's fight- ing, which consisted mainly of clash- es between rival patrols the length of the 90-mile front. * * Allied Bombers Strike At Italy's Supply Lines LONDON, Nov. 12.-(A)-With a brilliant 48-hour burst of coordinated air power Allied heavy bombers rang- ing thousands of :miles from both British and Mediterranean bases closed a strangling grip today around the three most important supply funnels feeding the German armies embattled in Italy. In a 1,400-mile round-trip mission, RAF heavy- bombers last night cross- ed the whole of Prance to smash the coastal Riviera railway in the vicinity of the resort city of Cannes, and in the preceding daylight Liberators of the new American Fifteenth Army Air Force operating from the south attacked the Antheor Viaduct on the same rail artery and also near Can- nes. EARLY TO BED: The special Army page, made up exclusively of news of the various, units on camps and written by ser'v- icemen, will make its first appear- ance in The Daily tomorrow. The weekly page will include edi- torials, gossip columns on each of the companies,.news stories about mili- tary events,. announcements and feature stores. All the details of make-up and newsplay will be handled by the servicemen them- selves. Fifteen Army reporters, represent- ative of each of the seven companies on campus, were designated last Angry Mobs Riot in Lebanon Against French LONDON, Nov. 12.-(MP--The French Committee of National Lib- eration, headed by Gen. Charles De- Gaulle, announced tonight, a few hours after the British government urged it to smooth the strife in Le- banon, that it was sending Gen. Georges Catroux, Commissioner of State, to Beirut with full power to settle the situation. Disturbances already were flaring in the streets of Beirut, capital of Lebanon, a Beirut dispatch report- ed, saying that French tanks and ar- mored cars appeared this morning when angry mobs demonstrated against the arrest of the Lebanese president, premier and several cabi- net members-the immediate spark of the crisis. The dispatch said French armed forces opened fire on the mobs with machine-guns, killing several civ- ilians, and that a grenade was hurl- ed at a tank; which burnt out. The Committee's announcement: of Catroux' departure, issued in Al- giers, was the first official recogni- tion there of the troubled situation. week. They are: Raymond Gage, ;T/5, and Jason Horne, T/5, from Company A; iPvt. Richard: Wolf of Company B and William Matthews, ASTP reserve; Pfc. David Lindsey and Pfc. Thomas Pattison, Company. C; Pfc. Stanley Krenitz, Pfc. Lazar Emanuel and Pfc. Barney Schwartz from Company D; Pvt. Delore Will- iams and Pvt. Joseph O'Conner from Company E; Pvt. Melvin J. Berman and Pvt. Robert J. Holmes from Company F; Pfc. Culver Jones and Pfc. Max Raabe from Company G. Pfc. Emanuel will serve as editor- in-chief of the page and Pfc. Kren- itz as managing editor. Most of the Army reporters have had previous journalistic experience, some of them as professional news- paper men. Pfc. Emanuel is a fort mer student of New York University and was editor-in-chief of the NYU Heights Daily News. He was also an editor of his high school newspaper. Pfc. Krenitz attended Ohio State University and majored in journal- ism. He held the positions of colum- nist and news editor on the Ohio State Lantern and is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour- nalistic fraternity. Pfc. Emanuel urges all servicemen who are interested in making con- tributions to hand in their copy to their regular orderly rooms or to their representatives. Marigny Defies Murder Jury Acquitted Count Says lie Will Stay in Nassau NASSAU, BAHAMAS, Nov. 12.- (A")-Alfred DeMarigny quietly de- fied today the murder trial jury which recommended that he be de- ported from this British colony-and WRITERS IN KHAKI: Campus Servicemen Edit New Sunday Daily Feature Page Kournakoff To Discuss Soviet Army Capt. Sergei N. Kournakoff will discuss the strategy of the Red Army which he has been studying for almost twenty years, in a lecture at 8 p. m. today in the Rackham Audi- torium. He fought the Red Army for almost three years, from the Donetz Basin to the arid sands of Central Asia, near the Afghan border. He also fought as a cavalry subaltern in the First World War. He is author of "Savage Squadron" and "Russia's Fighting Forces," and has written both technical and pop- ular articles on the Red Army. His analysis have proved astoundingly accurate. Capt. Kournakoff has paid with defeat and exile for a knowledge of the fighting qualities of the Red Army. At the time of the Civil War he knew only that his side was losing. After the war he made it his business to understand why this happened. His family has been identified with the fighting forces of Russia for sev- eral centuries. His great-great- grandfather won the Cross of St. George at the Battle of Borodino. Another great-grandfather as a young naval officer defended the famous Fifth Bastion during the Siege of Sebastopol. He is speaking here under the aus- pices of the National Council for Am- erican-Soviet Friendship. Prof. John F. Shepard is Chairman of the Ann Arbor branch. Drivers Enter Milk DiscuIssion1 DETROIT, Nov. 12.- ()- Milk drivers made a formal entrance today in discussions of Detroit's milk short- age, serving city officials with a "no- tice of dispute" with creameries and chargingthe latter with discriminat- Songs by Hadyn, Brahms, Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as Negro spirituals, will be featured at Marian Anderson's Choral Union Series re- cital at 8:30 p. m. Monday in Hill Auditorium. Among the Brahms Lieder to be performed by Miss Anderson are, "Der Selmied" and "Sind es Schmer- zen, sind es Freuden," while her one selection from the operatic reportoire will be the Aria, "Plourez mes yeux," from "Le Cid" of Jules Massenet. The famous spiritual, "Sometimes X Feel Like a Motherless Child," as well as "Ride on, King Jesus," "Lord, I Can't Stay Away," and "Honor, Honor" will also, be sung by this noted contralto. - Educated in both Europe and-Am- erica, Miss Anderson achieved inter- national fame when at the Motzar- teum in. Salzburg in 1935., Arturo Toscanini upon hearing her sing re- marked, "A voice like yours is heard only once in a hundred years." OCS To Give Commissions Half Recommended As First Lieutenants Approximately 60 officer candi- date members of the 2nd OC Class received their commissions as sec- ond lieutenants yesterday in a graduation parade, and half are be- ing recommended to Washington as first lieutenants. Formal graduation exercises for both the 2nd Officer Candidate and 12th Officer Classes will take place at 9:30 this morning in Hutchins Hall. Maj. Gen. Myron C. Cramer, the Judge Advocate General, will make the address and present diplo- mas to the 95 members of the gradu- ating classes. Other guests include Col. Edward H. Young; Lt. Col. A. W. Rigsby, as- sistant chief of personnel, Washing- ton; Col. John F. Davis, General Service Corps and Dean E. Blythe Stason of the law school. In accordance with custom a fare- well banquet was held last night at the Allenel Hotel. Nov. 26 h Date of Union Blood Bank The Blood Bank, conducted by the Union in cooperation with the Am- erican Red Cross, will be held from 12:30 to 4:15 p. m. Friday, Nov. 26, in the WAB. Appointments to donate a pint of blood may be made by calling 2-5546. the number of the Ann Arbor chapter of the Red Cross, from 9 a. mn. to 5 p. M. on week days, and from 9 a. m. to 12 noon on Saturdays. Roy Boucher, '45, co-chairman of the Union War Activities and in charge of the Blood Bank, urged all Halsey's Air Force At Work The heavy smash at the key stronghold on which Japan's tot- tering South Pacific hinges was the work of the airforce of Adm. Will- iam F. Halsey. Dauntless divebombers, Avenger torpedo bombers and land-based Liberators loosed the new devasta- tion on Rabaul, protected by Hell- cat fighters from the carriers. Land-based fighters covered the aircraft carriers and their escorting ships. In all the actions, 17 Allied planes were lost against the Japan- ese plane toll of 88. Somne of the Al- lied pilots were saved. Photos Show Damages Aerial photos taken prior to the new raid-the latest in a series which have dealt crushing blows, particularly among the cruisers, .at Rabaul-showed 23 Japanese war- ships in Rabaul's harbor just, out- side Blanche Bay. -Reconnaissance also brought out that Japanese aircraft strength, which was approaching 300 before this latest assault, had been consid- erably reduced the following day. Bougainville Unchanged In a special statement, General MacArthur's spokesman said the "greater part of the Japanese air effort now apparently is being used to support the situation on his We- wak-Rabaul front." There was no change in the situa- tion on Bougainville where Marines, and Army troops have secured a firm beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay, 260 miles southeast of Rabaul. Japa- nese positions near the beachhead took an aerial pounding and Allied planes continued to render Bougain- ville's airfields inoperative. °. (Tokyo Radio has made extensive claims of sinking several capital ships, including carriers, in the South Pacific recently but Navy Secretary Frank Knox said the Japanese had not so much as succeeded in putting a dent in a carrier during the recent operations.) * Correspondents' Tent Struck by Jup Bomb SOUTH PACIFIC ADVANCED AL- LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 10- (Delayed)-()-A Japanese bomber demolished a war correspondents' tent at 2:30 a.m., Nov. 7, on Bougain- ville Island, killing the Australian writer, Keith Palmer, 37, and wound- ing four others, among them Rembert James of the Associated Press. Palmer, of the Melbourne, Austra- lia, Herald and Newsweek magazine, an American publication, was killed instantly. Campus Drive Navy Sets New Curfew A 7:15 p.m. curfew for all Naval V-12 men on campus will go into ef- fect Monday. The order, issued by Navy com- manders here, requires all men to report back to the West Quadrangle 9:30 p.m. may do so if they first ob- tain permission from the Battalion Officer before 4 p.m. or from the, Duty Officer before 7:30 p.m. Those trainees doing excellent} academic work, maintaining an ave- I at the same time uieari him of the charge that he murdered hispretty ing against drivers, wife's father. Sir Harry Oakes. As the situationt "I'm staying in Nassau," he told plex, Local 83 of t vcporters who had written about his Workers (CIO) de 22-day trial in the Bahamas Sup- meeting of farmers. I'('me Court. Iconsumfers to talko With him as he talked at his Vic- and declared "unec toria Avenue Cottage was his wife, of milk had permitt Nancy, radiant with happiness on Russel L. Ballard the first day of freedom her husband dent, said in a tel has known since he was arrested Edward J. Jeffries t July 9. has been "placed atR DeMarigny showed no sign of wor- tage by the dealersa r'y about the ousting suggestion from M'lk Producers Asso the jury. Someone mentioned a re- has to answer to ti grew more com- he United Dairy manded a joint , distributors and over the problem qual distribution" ted unfairness. , Local 83 Presi- egram to Mayor hat the milkman I Students and servicemen on cam- pus have gone over the top of their original goal of $20,344 in Ann Ar- bor's Community War Chest Drive. Walter A. Geske, executive secre- Goes over Top - - an unfair advan- University students to give blood. tary of the Community Fund, re- and the Michigan He emphasized that "donating blood ported last night that the contribu- ociation when he is an easy, yet effective way to really tions from the University totaled he general public help the war effort. Blood plasma is $21,550.