12 A6F 4bp llmk -Isal ti WEATHER Showers This Morning, and Coaler This Afternoon 4 VOL. LV, No. 99 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Yank Planes bombard Jays on Honshu . c Norway's Patriots H it Nazi Railroads Sudden Sabotage Strike Called Greatest Of War, Pins Down 200,000 Germans By The Associated Press LONDON, Mar. 19-Norwegian patriots, striking suddenly in one of the greatest single acts of sabotage by any underground organization dur- ing the war, have wrecked railroad facilities and pinned down more than 200,000 German troops in Norway. They struck Wednesday night, the Norwegian government disclosed today, and isolated Oslo from southern embarkation points in a welter of Superforts Drop T ons on Nagoya Japan Blasted Again by American Task Force For Second Straight Day By The Associated Press U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Tuesday, Mar. 20- Carrier planes of an American task force, attacking Japan for the second straight day, raided Koke and Kure on Honshu island and other enemy installations around the Inland Sea, Monday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. The carrier planes, which had swarmed on Kyushu island, south of Honshu on Sunday, attacking in strength estimated by Tokyo at 1,400, dealt the second day's assault on the, destruction that may require weeks b OPA Holds New Prices Freeze Mark-Ups on Clothes, Furnishings By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.- OPA tonight froze the price mark-ups of some 300,000 retailers selling clothes, dry goods, -furniture and house fur- nishings. The aim, the agency ex- plained, is to insure that consumers get the benefit of lowered factory pri- ces which are forthcoming. ' The action was announced by Price Administrator Chester Bowles as half of the War Production Board- OPA plan to cut clothing costs six to seven per cent and "return greater quantities of lower priced goods to the civilian market." March 19 Price Effective Each store was frozen to the mark-up margin that it had in use today, March 19. Price-tagging pro- visions were written into the order to help shoppers become their own price policemen. The action will not roll back retail price increases which already have taken place on garments, shoes,- dry goods, lamps and the other products affected, Bowles said, but it will guarantee that when their cost to the retailer is reduced, the price to the customer also will go down. Ties in Consumer Prices OPA already has announced its "maximum average price order," de- signed to roll back manufacturers' price lines to the average level of the years 1942 and 1943; the new action ties consumer prices into that rollback. Small stores were exempted by a clause permitting them to use the existing price orders if they preferred, but this applies only to concerns hav- ing net sales of less than $2,500 a year for all the items listed. Argentina May Declare War Declaration on Axis Will Be Decided Today WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.- (P)-- Argentine government is slated to decide tomorrow whether to declare war at once on both Germany and Japan. President Edelmiro Farrell, accord- ing" to diplomatic informants here, has called a cabinet meeting at which the critical question of bringing Ar- gentina's foreign policies into line with those of the other American nations will come up. There was no definite assurance that war would be declared. It is understood that some persons power- ful in the country favor a declara- tion against Japan but not against Germany. A declaration of war against both Axis countries is understood to be the first important step that Argen- tina would have to take in order to re-enter the American family of na- tions. CAMPUS EVENTS Today Sophomores may sign up for Soph Cabaret Com- mittees from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the League. Today Emile Sargent, director of Detroit Visiting Nurses Association, will speak on "Nursing on the Home and Battle Front" at 8 p.m in Kellogg Auditor- ium. to repair. n The troops, trying to get out of Norway to reinforce the embattled Eastern and Western fronts, had been concentrated north of Oslo or in the vicinity of the capital where they now are isolated. Unequalled In Any Country A government official said the act was the "greatest single" blow .struck by forces of the interior, and that the extent of damage in a 24-hour per- iod indicated nothing equal to it had occurred in any occupied country heretofore. He said railway lines were broken at scores of places, vital bridges had been blown up, and switch points and signal boxes put out of action. Three Ports Cut Off Because of these attacks, the official said, three ports on each side of Oslo Fjort-Halden, Fredrikstad and Moff-and all ports and towns on the west side of the fjord and along the south coast as far as Stavanger had been cut off from Oslo and the rest of southern Norway. "All German attempts to evacu- ate further divisions from Norway through these ports have been brought to a dead stop for a consider- able period," the spokesman said. The patriots ranged up and down railroads running east and west of Oslo fjord, breaching them at in- numerable places. Women To Keep Orchestra Jobs, Defauw Says "Women in symphony orchestras today have gained a nation-wide rec- ognition which will not be lost after the war," said Dr. Desire Defauw, Tom Thumb-like conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a Daily interview after last night's concert. Praises Women Praising the nine women members of the Chicago Symphony, Dr. De- fauw said that they are among "the best," in many cases exceeding the male members. He pointed out that the English horn player had a fine tonal quality. ''The opportunities for women in the future-after the war when many of the men return-will continue and become even greater," Dr. D- fauw continued. The lead which the United States has taken in this move- ment will be followed by Europe, he ?,aid. He expressed the hope that the orchestra may one day tour the continent. The white-haired Belgian conduc- tor was pleased at the enthusiastic reception of the orchestra's perfor- mance by its Ann Arbor audience. "Their warmth inspired us and made us want to reach out to them-such cooperation denotes a music-loving group," he said. Pleased at Response Dr. Defauw was particularly pleas- ed than so many people enjoyed the Chausson "Symphony in B flat ma- jor," which he and Dr. Sink had decided upon when planning the program in Chicago. 0 RECONNAISSANCE GROUP IN WRECKED CITY- A reconnaissance group of the 63rd Division walk cautiously through the wreckage in the streets of Guedinger, Germany, six kilometers from Saarbrucken. The column of smoke is unexplained. Russian Tanks Plow 25 Miles to Breslau-; Germans TrapOw Troops T Stop Yanks - --- C"; Gen. Patton Drives Across Saar Basin By The Associated Press PARIS, Mar. 19.- The Germans blew the Rhine bridges today at Mainz, 12 miles in front of the on- rushing U.S. Third Army, dooming many of 80,000 enemy troops who were abandoning tanks and guns in a retreat from which they may never rally for a stand beyond the river. Patton Flys Across Saar Lt.-Gen. George S. Patton's flying columns engulfed 30 more towns, snapped a trap on an estimated 2,000 Germans in the western Saar, were swiftly closing two larger nets, and were only 14 miles from the enemy's man traffic center of Kaiserslau- tern. Retreating German columns were flailed by warplanes all day long as the enemy tried to pull back for the Rhine before Patton shears off their last line of retreat. The Nahe River line had been shattered and Bad Kruezenach, German army head- quarters in World War I, was in American hands. Seventh Cuts Siegfried Line The U.S. Seventh Army from the south broke clear through the -Sieg- fried line east of Saarbruecken and $8,000 Needed To Fill Quota 12 Days Remaining In Red Cross Drive With only $8,000 to go before reaching their Red Cross War Fund quotas, both Ann Arbor and Wash- tenaw County went into the last 12 days of the annual membership drive. Local theaters began soliciting Red Cross contributions in conjunction with National War Fund week being observed by movie houses throughout the country. Coeds and Junior Red Cross members are serving as collec- tors of the donations. The local drives are part of a nation-wide annual membership cam- paign which furnishes the funds with which the Red Cross continues its career of services. Every American has been urged to support the Red Cross army of mercy. was 15 miles from a junction with the Third Army in the heart of the Saar Basin that would seal off all the region's major steel foundries. Eastward, the last Germans were driven from French soil save for two small pockets. French Invade Reichi The French along the Rhine in- vaded the Reich for the first time since early in the war and were less than nine miles from another enemy escape hatch at Karlsruhe. Northward, the U.S. First Army swung into position for a possible breakout from its Remagen bridge- head into inner Germany Robert .Friers Will Present Film Travelocyrue Robert Friers will appear in person in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre to- night and Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. with his new color travelogue, "Mexi- can Holiday." Sponsored by La Sociedad Hispan- ica, the motion picture film will last about an hour and a half. It fea- tures scenes of Paricutin volcano, bulfights, the mummies at :Guana- juato, the falls at Guadalajara, Tax- co and many oth er points of interest.. Several Mexican celebrities including Dolores del Rio and Diego Rivera are shown at work and play. Friers, a graduate of the Univer- sity in 1940, has traveled extensively and is a well known speaker. "Mexi- can Holiday" comes to Ann Arbor directly from a showing at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Tickets for both nights are now on sale at the box office in the League. Towvn Hall To Meet Thursday Will Debate Military Training After War Student participation in the Town Hall discussion forum that will open at 7:45 p.m. Thursday in Lane Hall was urged yesterday by Dr. Kenneth G. Hance of the speech department, faculty adviser to the new campus discussion meetings. Dr. Hance Invites Students In asking all students to attend the first meeting, which will deal with compulsory post-war military training, Dr. Hance stated that he ''considers forums essential to the democratic process for two reasons. First, for an informed citizenry, and secondly, for an articulate citizenry." Ton Hall's co-chairmen, John Con- dylis and Martin Shapero, added that the series of three informal meet- ings, to be held every other Thurs- day, will be under the direction of a student moderator and that all stu- dent opinions are welcome. -u-h1 na Ot jP f"__ Russians Aim At Silesia, Nazis Say By The Associated Pess LONDON, March 19-Berlin said tonight that Soviet tank forces had plowed 25 miles through Nazi de- fenses southwest of besieged Bres- lau in a three-day offensive aimed at clearing industrial upper Silesia, while Moscow announced that Rus- sian troops had driven within two and a half miles of the east Prussian stronghold of Braunsberg. German Reports Unconfirmed The Soviet high command, evi- dently awaiting a major break- through before announcing the pow- erful Soviet surge in extreme south- eastern Germany, did not confirm German reports that Red Army troops had driven 25 miles from the Oder River and broken into the streets of Neustadt, three miles from the Czechoslovak frontier. Restricting its communique to a report on the Red Army's prolonged battle to wipe out the Nazi pocket southwest of the east Prussian cap- ital of Koenigsberg, Moscow disclos- ed that the third White Russian Army had clamped a 13-mile siege are around Braunsberg, key coastal bastion, Ruth Buchanan Asks for Dailies Sends Used Copies to 'U" Men in Service Mrs. Ruth Buchanan of the Uni- versity Museum Building, known to thousands of former "U" men in the service as "Aunt Ruth," is again re- questing students to bring their used copies of the Daily to her. "Aunt Ruth" sends these Dailies to boys in every branch of the armed services and speaks of the gratitude of the men, who are glad to receive news of what's going on at home. Her Christmas mailing list this year contained the names of over 1,600 of these servicemen. Requesting that the Dailies be giv- en to her in good condition so that they will not get torn in the mails, Mrs. Buchanan urges all students to bring their copies to the museum. same day that more than 300 Super- forts dropped 2,500 tons of incendi- aries on Nagoya, Japan's third lar- gest city. In hitting Kobe, the carrier planes pounced on Japan's largest shipbuilding city and port while it still was smouldiering from the 2,500 ton incendiary attack made Saturday by the B-29s. Kure is a Japanese naval base. The Inland Sea of Japan is a life- blood artery through which Nippon moves vital supplies from Korea, Manchuria and China to the home- land. Kure, Japan's most important naval base, is 200 miles west of Osaka, an- other city hard hit by the Superforts. Today's communique reported a continuing search for enemy snip- ers on conquered Iwo and air raids on the Bonins, the Kuriles, the Western Carolines, the Palaus and the MArshalls. A communique issued at U. S. Pacify, ,'leet Headquarters here con- firmed the Sunday raid on Kyushu air fields by "a strong force of car- rier aircraft." Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's car- rier task force-which raided the Tokyo-Yokohama areas Feb. 16-17 and again Feb. 25-26-was undoubt- edly still ranging south of Japan. ByrnesStymied B NY Defiance Of Curfew Edict WASHINGTON, Mar. 19-(AP)-War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes said today he is powerless to crack down on New York's defiance of his midnight cur- few, but he appealed anew for na- tion-wide cooperation. "We must convince our fighting forces that the home front is pre- pared to sacrifice for their support," said Byrnes in a statement which he declared had the "full approval" of President Roosevelt. Can't Relax "Now is not the time to relax in any way our effort at home," the Di-j rector of War Mobilization and Re- conversion said of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's announcement that New York night spots may stay open until 1 a. m. Byrnes' appeal was an obvious ef- fort to avoid a spread to other cities of La Guardia's modification. It was plain that the big town's defiance could conceivably, mean the begin- ning of the end for the 12 o'clock closing limit, since Byrnes said he could not enforce it without the sup- port of local authorities. "The government has no police force of its own available to discover local violations," he said. "It has no intention of building up such a force.- It is obvious that this effort would in itself be a diversion from the war effort. Need Local Support "I believe that a controversial en- forcement of the measure in New York City without the support of lo- cal officials would be impossible." Yanks Hit Panay .isle 40th Division Lands With Naval, Air Aid By The Associated Press MANILA, Mar. 20, Tuesday-For- tieth Division infantrymen under Maj.-Gen. Rapp Brush, with naval and air support, invaded Panay Is- land in the central Philippines Sun- day and rapidly closed in on the cap- ital city of Iloilo. The landing, on the southeastern shore, was made with practically no loss, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said in hip communique today, again a- chieving "complete tactical as well as strategic surprise." Tnis was the 25th Philippine inva- sion and the seventh of major im- portance. Ashore at Tighauan The Yanks went ashore at Tig- bauan, 14 miles west of Iloilo, and immediately drove inland four miles to Cordova and eastward along the coast seven miles to Oton, halfway to the capita] city. Rear Adm. Arthur D. Struble com- manded the amphibious move, de- signed to clear the huge archipelago of Japanese hindering free move- ment of shipping. The landing beach was 180 miles west of the original Philippines inva- sion beach' on Leyte, and is 250 miles south of Manila. Threat to U.S. Holdings Panay, bombed frequently by hea- ly bombers, was an ominous threat to the convoy route to American-held Mindoro and Luzon while Japan still had serious strength in the Philip- pines. Ships passed within sight of the triangular island. In a small-scale operation, other American troops landed the same lay, Sunday, an Malanau Island, south of Zamboanga at the south- western tip of Mindanao. Revelli Reveals Band Openings Six Chairs Vacant in Wind, Brass Sections Prof. William D. Revelli, conductor of the University Concert Band, an- nounced six openings in the brass and wind sections of the Band yesterday. The Concert Band has planned an active program for the spring term, according to Prof. Revelli, including a weekly broadcast over WPAG, the new Washtenaw County radio sta- tion, outdoor concerts beginning next month and the annual spring concert in May. All students and service- men on campus who are interested in the band may audition from 4:30 to 5 p. m. on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, in Morris Hall. First semester freshmen are eligible. Members of the band will play at an Army-Navy 'E' presentation cere- mony next Tuesday (March 27) in Litchfield. Gordon Packer, '28, head of the defense plant, was formerly drum major of the University Mar- ching Band. 'Eusian Sets April 4 Deadline The deadline for purchasing sub- scriptions to the 1945 'Ensian has been set for April 4, Jean Pines, business manager of the yearbook, announced yesterday. HORN OF PLENTY? Congress Attempts To Find Remedy for Food Shortage SECRET AGENT X-29- uick-Thinking Lads Uncover Plot WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.- (P)- Amid increasing signs that the Amer- ican horn of plenty is running out, Congress undertook today to find causes and remedies for the food shortage. At the same time Chairman J. A. Krug of the War Production Board 33 after some members had stressed the declining supplies of eatables. It was emphasized everywhere that there is no actual prospect of a civilian economy breakdown, but at the same time there was no effort to disguise the fact that the time has come when any claimant's call for crnr and nnis n st. h e men.- A subversive fo credit students i Michigan, wasi terday by a gr quick-thinking e While rumm abandoned locke nasium, these la withheld out of narentsae mo To Sabotage Unwersity rce, designed to dis- n the University of the case. After a diligent perusal, uncovered late yes- and testing with candle flames for aup of enterprising, invisible ink, it developed that the ngineering students. writers had ingenuously let one num- laging through an ber stand- for each letter of the al- r in Barbour Gym- phabet (A-i, B-2, etc.) but this had ds, whose names are not stumped the code breakers for f respect for their long. )n a treatise annar. Realizing that if the news cnn-