m U W U / 00, 41P 4g at~ Weather Snow and Colder VOL. LIV No. 13 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOV. 16, 1943 -- W PRICE FIVE CENTS 'Reds Sweeping Towards Pre-War Polish Border Russian Army Cuts Next to Last Nazi Railway Escape Line; Fight Raging North of Krivoi Rog By JUDSON o'QUINN Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 15.-The Red Army cut the next to the last railway escape line for the Germans in by-passed Gomel today, while far to' the southwest Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's forces swept to within 35 miles of the pre-war Polish border. Inside the Dnieper bend, the German high command said, a huge fight was raging north and northeast of Krivoi Rog. It admitted early gains by Russian troops which Nazi propaganda broadcasts said numbered nearly 500,000. Pressing for a clean-up of Axis communication lines through the Pripet marshes, the Red Army converging on Gomel seized the rail station of T Demekhi, 34 miles west of Gomel, and only eight miles west of Rechit- C m ar. S sa, to cut the Gomel-Kalinkovichi railway and highway. T L Other Russian units also are at- To LeaveHere tacking north and south of Gomel itself, lower anchor of the Axis line For Sea. D utyacross White Russia, and the single. escape avenue left to the Germans in that base now is the railway running Cmdr. Scott To Be northwest to Zhlobin. Executive Officer Baranovka Taken Gen. Vatutin's northern Ukraine For V-12 Regiment army had reached a point 42 miles west of f llin Zhitnmir +n +a. I a tJV U. S. Planes, Hfit Bulgar Rail Yards 200 Bombs Dropped In Successful Opening Of Balkan Offensive Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL- GIERS, Nov. 15.-Two waves of Am- erican medium bombers escorted by fighters smashed railway yards in the heart of Sofia, Bulgaria, yesterday in what an official Allied announcement termed the "successful opening of the Balkan offensive."~ Official reports of the assault on Sofia-the first direct blow at Bul- garia since that country declared war on the United States Dec. 13, 1941-described the bombing as "ex- tremely accurate," with the Mitchells laying thousands of pounds of ex- plosives squarely on locomotive re- pair shops, car assembly shops, a main line depot and acres of track- age. (The Turkish Anatolia agency broadcast a dispatch from its Sofia correspondent which said the attack had been carried out by 130 planes which dropped approximately 200 bombs, some of which were fused for delayed action and were still explod- ing today. I - - -- Catalina Bombers Score Direct Hits, Damaging Japanese Cruiser In Action Off Rabaul New Britain Roosevelt, Halifax, and Others Watch Signing of Relief Pact Merchautman Also Struck .c >By Raiders Lt. Cmdr. E. F. Scott will replace Lt. Cmdr. K. S. Shook, who is leaving some time this week for sea duty, as xecutive Officer of the V-12 men here. Cmdr. Shook came to Ann Arbor n July 1941 and was on the staff of the Departinent of Naval Science d Tactics until April, 1942, when h&'.was made Executive of the NRO- TC unit here. On July 1 he was made ,xcutive Officer of the entire V-12 xegimentstationed on campus. After graduating from Annapolis, Cmdr. Shook served on the Lexing- tnfor two and a half years and on a destroyer for five and a half years. When he leaves Ann Arbor later in toe week, his wife and daughter will move to California. Came Last June Cmdr. Scott came here last June as asenior instructor and Insurance Officer. His job as instructor in Naval Organization for V-12 men w-ill be tampn over by ,Lt. Ray Moore. Lt. (j. g.) Joseph Izzo, who is com- ing here from Naval Reserve Mid- sh.p..n' 'op in New York, will talk ver Cmdr. Scott's other duties. mdr. Scott graduated from the Academy in 1935. He served as Ju- nior Division Officer aboard the U. S. S.?ennsylvania, as First Lieu- tenanlid Daiage Control Officer on the destroyer U. S. S. Fannig and thence as First Lieutenant and Com- municatiohs' Officer on -the submar- ine S-43. 'On Convoy Duty At the outbreak of the war Cmdr. Scott was First Lieutenant and Damage Control Officer abroad the U. S. S. Ludlow, on Atlantic convoy and escort duty. He wears the bronze "A" on his American Defense ribbon for this pre-Pearl Harbor Atlantic convoy duty. He was serving as Executive Of- flcer aboard the U. S. S. Bernalou at the time that this ship along with another destroyer played a vital role in the African inasion last Novem- her. For this action, he along with his entire company, wears the red, yellow and blue ribbon of a Presi- dential Citation. rs. Clark Will1 Speak Saturday Wife of Commanding General To Come Here Mrs. Mark W. Clark, wife of Amer- la's famed commanding general of t Fifth Army, will speak on "When tle Boys Come Home," Saturday, lfav. 27, in Hill Auditorium under the auspices of the Michigan Alumnae During the lecture Mrs. Clark will show slides made from photographs taien by Gen. Clark and his staff of the African invasion, including pic- tures of the house in which he held invasion meetings with French offi- cials in Africa, of the Casablanca conference and the present Italian campaign. Mrs. Clark will read extracts from her husband's letters and diary about theSecret Mission and the progress of the Fifth Army. Proceeds. of Mrs. Clark's lecture will be given to the Camp and Hos- pital Committee for Christmas Fund for Disabled Service Men now in the hospitals at Camp Custer and Percy Jones, Willow Run. Tickets are on sale at the League and Union. went/ uiuen zmomlrLO take tBar- anovka, 35 miles from the old Polish border and 150 miles from the Ger- man-Russian border which existed in" 1941 before the Axis invasion. These Russian successes at widely separated sectors of the long front were tempered only by continued stiff German resistance at Fastov, 35 miles southwest of Kiev, on the road to the Rumanian border 145 miles away. Nazi Flank Threatened Turning south from Zhitomir, however, some of Gen. Vatutin's cav- alry and tank formations threatened the flank of the German army bat- tling near F'astov, 50 miles to the southeast. The Soviet war bulletin still made no mention of the action in the Dnieper bend on an 80-mile east- west line between Krivoi Rog and Zaporozhe. Will Rogers, Jr. ToGive Lecture Here Thursday . . The son of one of America's great- est humorists Hof ourtime, Will Rog- er , Jr., will open this year's Oratori- cal ,Association Lecture Series at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday at Hill Audit- orium with a talk on "The United States in Foreign Affairs." Mr. Rogers, who was elected to Congress straight from the army by an overwhelming majority, went to Washington hoping to see the war won for the soldiers whom he feels he represents. Spent Summer in England A member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives, he spent the past summer in England, living with soldiers and especially the RAF and American Air Force units, talking with military chiefs and with the best political minds of England. Single Tickets on Sale Season tickets for the series which. includes such notables as Fulton Lewis Jr., Byrton Holmes, Louis Lochner, Madame 'Wellington Koo. and Leland Stowe can still be ob- tained from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and from 2-5 p.m. through Thursday at the box office in Hill Auditorium. Single tickets for the Will Rogers Jr. lecture will go on sale at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Servicemen on campus may buy single admission tickets at a reduced rate. --BULLETIN.- NORFOLK, VA., Nov. 16-(Tues- day)-(P)-An explosion which the Navy and Virginia State Police said was at the Yorktown, Va., naval mine depot rocked the lower Vir- ginia peninsula and Hampton roads at 12:30 a.m. today. Windows were broken in Nor- folk and. Portsmouth, which are at least 20 miles by air line from the depot on the York River. Citizens of Norfolk were shaken in their beds by the rumbling explosions which appeared to continue for eight to ten seconds. The Fifth Naval District Public Relations Office said a first report that the explosion had occurred at the Norfolk Naval Air Station arose from a, false fire alarm at the sta- tion"z few seconds ater the York- town blast, Offilers at the depot later con- firmed that the a plosion had beep there, bu declin4ed to- lve nt, wsYinen any report on casua ties,,if any, and on property damage. Girls To Sell War Stamps The JGP drive to sell $30,000 worth of war stamps and bonds to Univer- sity women starts today in every dormitory, sorority and League house. 94 saleswomen have been appoint- ed to reach the girls in their houses and sell at least $1 worth of stamps to each girl every month. Booths' will be set up on campus to sell stamps to all students. Additional stamps will be sold through the war stamp corsage com- mittee, headed by Marcia Netting, '45. Orders for red and white carna- tions for the fall prom will be taken by the war activities chairman in each house. Deborah Parry, '45, chairman of JGP, announced'the names of the three girls who have been chosen to serve on the central committee. Ros- alie Bruno, '45, and Betty Willemim, '45, will serve as co-chairmnen of dor- mitory sales. Peggy Morgan, '45, will+ be in charge of sorority sales with Libby Davis, '45, as alternate. Canadian Minister Leighton McCarthy signs the- agreement establishing a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at the White House during a ceremony in which 44 nations joined. President Roosevelt leans across the table to talk w ith Lord Halifax, British ambassador. Sergio Os- mena (lower left), Philippine vice-president, and Ralph Close (lower right) of the Union of South Africa, watch signing. Student Board Elections To Be, Held Tomorrow Union Vice-Vresident, Members of Engian Council To Be Chmen Electidns for student members of the Board in Control of Student Pub *. lications, the Union vice-president and class representatives on the En- gineering Council will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Engineering+ Arch and University Hall. Candidates for the Board in Con-+ trol are Karl Kessler, Grad., Hoe+ Seltzer, '45 Med., Barney Laschever, '45E. and Bud Brimmer, '46L. All petitions of candidates for the Engineering Council must be turned in by noon today to the office of the Dean, West Engineering building.+ Petitions should contain signatures of fifteen members of the candidate's class, a list of qualifications and pro-1 posals for future activities. Petitions for Union vice-president must be turned in by 5 p.m. today in the Student Offices of the Union. Students must present their cash- ier's receipts to vote. King Chooses Governor LONDON, Nov. 16.--OP)-The Duke of Gloucester, youngest surviving brother of King George, will become Governor-General of Australia next July, it was announced today from Buckingham Palace. Hull Urging Acceptance of Moscow Plan By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.--Fresh fron the Moscow Coiference, Secre- tary of State Hull today urged the American people to accept 'the ptb- grans' of - inte rnatonal "cooperatiob laid 'dlwri there, and sa'd' forelh poliy shbuld be ,part from politics. Hull told a press conference that for more than a year he has been conferring with leaders of all parties on a united foreign} policy. The Secretary is scheduled to ad- dress an informal joint session of Congress Thursday noon. President Roosevelt notified Con- gress that financial aid is needed for relief of war victims abroad. Such appropriations, which would become part of the pool of the Unit- ed Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, are required, the President said, "as a matter of mili- tary necessity as well as of humani- ty." A resolution promptly introduced by Chairman Bloom (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, would, from time to time, give the President sums which Congress thinks sufficient as America's share in the relief program. Post-War Council To Meet Tomorro w "The United Nations-What They Are-What They May Become" will be discussed at 7:30 tomorrow night in the League at a panel discussion sponsored by the Post-War Council., Dr. L. H. Hostie of the law school, Prof. W. H. Maurer of the journalism department and Prof. Laing of the political" science department will speak. Allenel Hotel Owner Dies Angelo J. Poulos, presient of the Allenel Hotel, Inc., and co-owner of the establishment with Theodore Dames, died Monday morning at Uni- versity Hospital after an eight-day illness. Mr. Poulos was stricken with a heart attack on Nov. 6, and had numerous recurrences of the attacks up to his death. He was 53 years old. Born in Greece on May 20, 1890, Mr. Poulos came to Ann Arbor in 1914. For thirteen years, from 1916 'till 1090 he oerated a restaurant War Council Seeks Support1 For Curfew Housenothers Are Requested To Enforce Lights Out Programn The Women s War council sent a lett~er edict to' campus housernbthers yesterday asking for complete co-; operation in the "lights out" pro- gram for University women. The letter stated that "under the leadership of Pan-Hellenic Association and Assembly the wo- men of the University are spon- soring a health program to become effective immediately." The necessity for the plan, ac- cording to the letter, arises from the fact that "only two civilians may be admitted at Health Serv- ice at any one time." The rest of the Health Service facilities are needed for the armed forces sta- tioned on campus. Each house mother was informed that "your house president will see that all girls cooperate in arrang- ing for this program to be effective." It further stated that "all lights will be out by 11:30 p. m., Sundays- through Thursday." For those who have studying to do later than 11:30 p. m., a special room is to be reserved. "This room is to be used at a minimum," the letter added. In a statement from Health Service last night, the total ca- pacity for infirmities is 52 at the present time, well divided among civilians, sailors, and soldiers. We have never heard of the limit of two civilians at any one time," a Health Service official said. Previous objections to the lights curfew arose principally because the program was literally dropped in the midst of the coeds without a chance for them to voice opinons. bt Further objections came about be- cause the program, although sanc- tioned by Pan-Hellenic and Assem- bly, was not put to vote for approval by either of these groups. Doris Barr, president of Assem- bly, said yesterday that the plan is "a campaign, aiming to insure the good health of University wo- men. It is not compulsory," Miss Barr said, "therefore, it does not require a vote." The Women's War Council letter, however, stated un- qialifyingly, "All lights will be out by 11:30 p. m." The lights out proposal was sprung as a complete surprise to house presidents at a meeting Wed- nesday. Each president was asked + hnlr a ma pptin g WpAnla acpA v a _ Bougainvile Beachhead Is Scene of Renewed Fighting by Americans ' By The Associated Press SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AIlmiD HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 16 (Tes- day)-A Japanese cruiser-latest in a series of cruisers to be smashed by Allied planes-has been directly hit and severely damaeed by Catalinas off Rabaul, New Britain. Headquarters, in reporting the air action today, also reported a1 large merchantman bombed by the Cata- linas. Hit on Stern The cruiser was hit on the stern by a 1.000 pound bomb. A 500 pound- er hit the merchantman amidships. At Empress Augusta Bay, the Am- erican beachhead on the west central coast of Bougainville Island in-the Northern Solomons, the Marines and soldiers have clashed with Japanese patrols on the flanks. Seven enemy planes attacked the American positions at night, cal"sfig minor casualties. Four Zeros Destroyed Allied planes. attacking Japanese air bases at Buka, on Bougainville's northern tip, dropped 51, tons o bombs and destroyed four z , oh o the ground. thSince a 350-ton bombing attack An Rabaul on Oct, 12 touched off -te current operations in the Bougain- ville-New Britain -sector, tw ruis- ers have been sunk and more4 10 damaged by Allied planes ata, baul. Frank Leverett Geolooist, Dies Glacial Expert Was Formerly 'U' Lecturer Frank Leverett, famous geologist and former lecturer on glacial geolo- gy at the University, died Monday morning following a two weeks ill- ness. Born in Denmark, Ia. on 1ix4; , 1859, he studied at the Denmark Aca- demy, where he remained as a teach- er 'until his graduation from Iowa State College in 1885. In 1886 he en- tered the United States Geology Sur- vey, remaining with it for 43 years. He lectured at the University on gla- cial geology from 1908 until 1925. Mr. Leverett was married to Miss. Dorothy C. Park of Denmark, Ia., in 1895. He and his wife have been Ann Arbor residents since 1900. He re- tired from work ,with the Survey in 1929. Author of numerous books and pa- pers dealing with the field of geology, Mr. Leverett has been listed in every Who's Who since 1899. His sole sur- vivor is his wife. Navy to Get Late Leave for Concerts V-12 men who are doing satisfac- tory work can get late permission for Choral Union Concerts and for the Oratorical Lecture Series. Their ticket to the concert or lee- ture will be their authority to leave the ship, but they must have prior permission from their Battalion Offi- cer. The men will be allowed one half hour to return to the ship after the program is over. . Servicemen can get single admis- sion tickets to the lectures for half price. Tickets for this week's lee- ture will go on sale at 10 a. m. tomorrow in the box officeat Hill Auditorium. Men must show their ticketsrto their Battalion Offi- cer at the time they get last permis- sion. All Unclaimed '43 Ensians ,vri1 R. D-192oCAAM&%" "Is BERLIN FEELS MANPOWER SHORTAGE: Flyer Dispells Luftwaffe Superiority By NEVA NEGREVSKI "The once vaunted German Luft- waffe, claiming to be the World's fin- est collection of fliers, is today com- posed of a few war-weary old timers plus a lot of comparative greenbacks who are frequently shot down be- cause of rashness and inexperience," First Lt. John "Kirk" Martin, grad- uate of the University of Michigan, stated today. , Now home on a 30-day furlough, Lt. Martin has participated in 50 combat missions in the North Africa theater of operations and has been honored with the Purple Heart, the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf Clus- ters, and a recommendation for the Distinguished Flying Cross. them safely through the major part of fighting and finally went to rest at the bottom of the Mediterranean. All the crew were saved. This plane saw action in what turned out to be a major part in the air battle of the African campaign, which came at 'a time when the opposed forces were evenly matched. Sinks Warship Kirk's squadron was sent out to. dispose of an axis fleet convoying troops to Africa and in the figl which followed nine crew ships were sunk, his plane getting officially cre- dited with a large enemy warship. In this engagement, he was wound- ed in the leg by a fragment of a bursting cannon shot. Lt. Martin had another close, race, attended public school in Bir- mingham and was graduated from the Hoge Military Academy in 1936. He received his degree from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1941, where he was a member of the Chi Psi frat- ernity\, Enlisting in the Army Air Forces shortly after the attack on Pearl Har- bor, he received his basic training at Vernon and Randolph Field, Texas. Earning his wings and commission in August, 1942, at Foster Field, Texas, he took combat operational training at Colombia, S.C., Elgin Field, Flori- da, and DeRidder, Louisiana. He was promoted to the rank of first lieu- tenant a month before being shipped to Africa in February.