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VOL. LV, No. 106 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1945
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Allied Forces
Knife 27
Miles
0
into
Enemy
Lines;
'Germans on
'Western Front Beaten'
- Eisenhower
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Yanks Hit intoj
Cebu with Air,
Sea Support
MacArthur's Troops
March into Talisay
By The Associated PressE
American invasion of Cebu, anotheri
major island of the Philippines, andt
new naval gun and carrier plane ac-
tions in the strategic Ryukyus imme-
diately southwest of Japan's main
islands, highlighted U. S. Army and
Navy communiques late Tuesday.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported
that doughboys of the American
Division invaded eastern Cebu at Tal-
isay after naval and air bombard-
ments and speedily shoved inland to
within two and a half miles of Cebu,
second largest Philippines city. Front
dispatches said the Japanese were
destroying the city with explosives
and fire. Talisay is five miles south-
west of the metropolis of 150,000
population.
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz'
communique made no mention of an
invasion of the Ryukyus, as claimed
by the Japanese. He said carriedt
planes and warships continued their
attacks on enemy forces, defense in-
stallations and coastal positions in
the hyukyus while naval search
planes bombed shipping off Hachijo'
Island, 150 miles south of Tokyo.
A Japanese imperial communique'
claimed that American forces landed
on the Kerama Islands, 15 miles west
of Okinawa in the Ryukyus, last
Sunday. It pictured Nippon ground
forces as attacking furiously against
the Yanks. It also claimed, without
American confirmation, that five
large U. S. warships were sunk, five
seriously damaged and 154 planes
shot down in the Ryukyus region.
Blaze Injure-s
Four Firsemen
Muskegon County Hit
Hard by Forest ires
MUSKEGON, Mich.; Mar. 27--(G)-
Four firemen were injured, several
dwellings and two saw mills were de-
stroyed and approximately 7,000 acres
of woodland were burned over today
as forest fires raged through four
counties in this area.
Muskegon county was hardest hit,
as at least six blazes were reported
from different sections, and all avail-
able firefighters were mobilized and
were assisted by some 5,000 volun-
teers.
Allegan, Clare and Midland coun-
ties were also hard hit and in the
Allegan fire the Wildwood school-
house was reported destroyed. Alle-
gan county fire officials put out a
call for 1,000 volunteers late tonight
and they were reported congregating
at Bravo.
At Lansing, Duward Robson, head
of the State Conservation Fire De-
partment, reported tonight that all
available state crews were battling
the blazes, but said they were small-
er than usual because many of the
department employes were in mili-
tary service.
He reported the fires included: Al-
legan county, 1,000 acres; Muskegon
county, 2,850; Clare county, 1,400
acres and Midland county 2,000 acres.
CAMPUS EVENTS
Today Deutschter Verein meet-
ing at 8 p. m. in the
League.
Today Prof. George Clark, as-
-sistant professor of zool-
ogy at Harvard, will speak
on "Consideration of
Methods for Great Lakes
Problems" at 4:15 p. m. in
Rackham Amphitheatre.
Today Music Seminar, to be con-
ducted by Les Hetenyi, at
7:30 p. m. in Lane Hall,
will consider second part
of Beethoven's "Missa
Solemnis."
Today Post-War Council will
holda panel on the Pact
of Chalpultepec at 7:30
Rhineland Victory Acclaimed
War's Most Decisive Battle
Enemy Not Yet at Point of Surrender;
May Still Make Stand on Home Soil
PARIS, March 27.-(/P)-Gen. Eis- v
enhower asserted today that the Ger-
man army "as a military force on
the Western Front is a whipped
army" with its lines broken by one
of war's greatest victories, but there
was no hint that the enemy had
been driven to the point of surrender.
"I am not writing off this war,s
he told a press conference on his
return from
the front. "No one
DNB Admits
Front 'Shaken'
Nazi Soldiers Deserting
Along Western Front
By The Associated Press
LONDON, March 27.-The Official
German News Agency acknowledged
tonight that the German Army's
Rhine front was "thoroughly shak-
en" and described Lt.-Gen. George S.
Patton's deep smash across the
Reich's waist as "a surprising turn of
developments."
DNB Commentator Dr. Max Krull
quoted "competent German circles,"
52 Years
Young
With the U. S. Third Army,
March 27-(1P)-,A German soldier
captured in the Frankfurt suburb
today told his captors he was 52
years old.
"What is a mran your age do-
ing,.inthe army," asked Lt. Col.
Ernest Mitchell of Arlington, Mass.
With a weary grimace the pris-
oner replied, "I'm a member of the
Hitler youth."
however, as saying, "The Germans
are not lacking reserves in the hin-
terland to build up a new defensive
wall."
Plan To Separate Germany
Krull declared that Patton's drive
eastward which could lead to a junc-
ture with a Russian push westward
from Silesia, "points to other strate-
gical objectives, one being the his-
toric plan to separate northern and
southern Germany through a line of
the River Main."
Krull asserted Allied successes were
being paid for "with tens of thous-
ands of dead and other heavy los-
ses"
Soldiers Reported Deserting
German soldiers along the west
front were reported by the Luxem-
bourg radio to be "deserting in such
numbers that German authorities are
helpless to round them up."
The Luxembourg broadcast quoted
Swiss sources on the wholesale de-
sertions as the Nazi press and radio
ordered "all stragglers" and cut-off
officers and men to "report imme-
diately to their respective authorities
and take up again their duties in
defense of the fatherland."
Clapultepec To
e Discussed
The Pact of Chapultepec, discus-
sion topic of a Post-War Council
panel to be held at 7:30 p.m. today in
the Michigan Union, was formulated
at an Inter-American Conference at
Mexico City on March 5 for the pur-
pose of promoting hemispherical
unity.
Three students will discuss the is-
sues of Chapultepec in the Panel.
Harry Daum will speak for the Unit-
2d States, Blanca Alvarez for Vene-
zuela and Egberto Teixiera for Bra-
zil. Elizabeth Hawley will be mod-
erator and an open discussion will
xollow the panel. All students and
faculty members are urged to attend.
The United States and nineteen
Latin-American states agreed, in the
Act, to cooperate in the war effort,
prevent future aggression and streng-
then trade. "The Policy of the Good
Neighbor," Secretary of State Edward
Stettinius said recently in reference
to the pact, "has been accepted
thronhout the Americas. Now mi-
knows what the Germans will do in
his own country, and he is trying
hard."
No Race for Berlin
Warning against expecting any
race for Berlin, the Supreme Com-
mander said thatedespite the tre-
mendous Allied victory in the Rhine-
land "that does not mean a front
cannot be formed somewhere where
our maintenance is stretched to the
limit."
"My honest opinion," he contin-
ued, "is that there will be no nego-
tiated unconditional surrender. There
will be an imposed unconditional
surrender.
Germany Caught in Vise
"Between the Allies in the west
and Russia, we will take over Ger-
many. Whether the Germans know
it or not, we will know it is uncondi-
tional surrender."
Eisenhower authorized only the
direct quotations given in this dis-
patch.
Smiling and confident, Eisenhower
said the day would come when he
could tell correspondents that all
organized resistance on the Western
Front was broken, but he was making
no forecasts of when that would be.
"I believe that, so far as he is able,
the German will stand and fight
wherever we find him," the General
declared.
Reds Push into
Poland; Danzig
Near Collapse
By The Associated Press
LONDON, March 27. - Russian
troops crashed into the center of
Danzig and fought through the
streets of the neighboring Polish port
of Gdynia today as the fall of these
two vital Nazi naval bases on the
Baltic appeared imminent.
To the east, Moscow announced
that Third White Russian Army un-
its destroyed the remnants of the
German force which had been com-
pressed into the eight-square-mile
Kahlholz peninsula southwest of be-
sieged Koenigsberg. The Russians
captured 4,000 Germans, bringing
their total bag in this general area
during the past two days to 25,000.
Soviets Drive into Silesia
In Polish Silesia other Soviet units
dashed to within 14 miles northeast
of Moravska-Ostrava, Czecholslovak-
ia's third city guarding the northern
route to Vienna, already threatened
by Red Army units attacking through
Hungary.
The siege of Danzig and Gdynia,
ten miles northwest of the former
free city, was broken by Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's Second
White Russian Army. These troops
swept up -14 suburbs before driving
into the heart of Danzig, Moscow
said. It was over Danzig and the
adjacent Polish Corridor that Adolf
Hitler found a pretext for launching
the second world war.
Promised Quick Clean-Up
Rokossovsky's lunge promised a
quick clean-up of the two pockets,
freeing what Berlin estimates as a
force of a half million men for the
growing frontal assault on Berlin.
The entire JAG School will turn
out in formation in the Law Club
parade grounds to greet the 22 top
military legal officers representing 13
Latin American republics at 6:30
p.m. today when they arrive here
from Chicago for a three-day inspec-
tion of the School, campus and war
plants.
The visiting officers, six 'of whom
are generals, will be officially -wel-
comed at 10:15 am. tomorrow in
Hutchins Hall by Lt.-Col. Reginald
C. Miller, Commandant of the JAG
School, E. Blythe Stason, Dean of
the Law School, President Alexander
G: Ruthven and Maj.-Gen. Myron
C. Cramer, Judge Advocate General
of the U.S. Army, who is making a
special trip from Washington to
greet the officers.
Moot Court Trial
Prior to a JAG School parade at
5:15 p.m., which will be reviewed by
the visiting judge advocates and Gen.
Cramer, tomorrow's activities also in-
clude a moot court trial, which Maj.
Jose G. Vivas will interpolate from
English to Spanish. The moot court
trial, scheduled for 1:15 p.m., will be
followed by a tour of the campus.
Conference on Military Law'
The visitors will be feted in the
evening at the Judge Advocate Gen-
erals Dinner, to be held in their hon-
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WHERE THIRD ARMY BREAKS THROUGH-U. S. Third Army
Units, in a rapid advance, have driven across the Main river over a
bridge captured intact at Schaffenburg. Other Third Army troops
neared Frankfurt and reached the Main at two places west of that city.
Gen. Cr Amer,*Latin-Amer icn
Officers Ispect J1AG School
or by the JAG School staff, faculty
and their wives, "at the Allenel Hotel.
A conference on military law will
open the Friday session of their in-
spection and will be followed' by a
trip to Willow Run bomber plant in
the afternoon. A reception, spon-
sored by the JAG School and the
International Center, will be held in
the evening at the International Cen-
ter for the visitors.
To Visit Legal Library
Before leaving for an inspection of
the River Rouge plant Saturday
morning, the Latin American offi-
cers will visit the Legal =Research
Library of the Law School. Luncheon
will be held at River Rouge. The
Detroit Athletic Club will play host
to the visitors at 4 p.m., from which
they will leave for dinner at the
Latin Quarter, Detroit.
The officers, along with Lt.-Col.
Howard A. Brundage, who is in
charge of the trip and three U.S.
Army interpreters, will leave Detroit
at 11:30 p.m. for the next military
installation on their five-week in-
spection tour, Ft. Benjamin Harri-
son, Ind., where they will visit the
Army Finance Barracks, Billings
General Hospital, Disciplinary Bar-
racks and the Office of the Post
Judge Advocate.
First Army Leads
Dill RiverAssault
Enemy Tries Desperately To Rally
As Armies Smash Towards Berlin
By The Associated Press
PARIS, Wednesday, March 28-Allied Armies poured east in a
torrent through smashed German lines yesterday, led by U. S. First
Army Tank Forces knifing 27 more miles eastward and breaking across
the Dill River where the enemy was desperately trying to rally for a
stand 235 miles from Berlin.
The entire front blazed with the fires of victory as seven Allied
Armies pressed home what Gen. Eisenhower declared was one of the
greatest triumphs of any war. A front dispatch said "The rout is under
way."
The Rhineland battle, forever a black day in Prussian military
history, had stripped the Germans of the power to make another success-
ful stand although Eisenhower said they yet would form a temporary
line.
Germans Try To Repair Damage
But now one of those lines had
been broken by the First Army's dash,
which swept into Herborn and across
the Dill River, even as the enemy tried
to form a line there to repair the
disasters of the Rhine.
Twelve miles to the southeast, an-
other First Army Tank force was
closing on Wetzlar, 57 miles beyond
the Rhine.
News Blackout Declared
News blackouts closed over these
spearheads, just as they did over rac-
ing U. S. Third Army tank columns,
which had shredded defenses of the
River Main at many points south-
east of Frankfurt and by enemy ac-
count were loose 225 miles southwest
of Berlin.
On the north flank, the British
Second Army. broke completely
through the enemy lines on the
north German plain and dashed east-
ward almost unopposed under an-
other security blackout.
Cut Super Highway
The U. S. Seventh Army lashed
out from its new bridgehead north of
Mannheim, cut the Frankfurt-Mann-
heim Superhighway at a second point
and was nine miles east of the Rhine.
It probably had linked up with the
Third Army in its Mainz-Worms
crossings.
'U'Debators
Discuss Labor
Meet Bowling Green
In Return Engagement
University debaters will1meet Bowl-
ing Green State University at 8 p. m.
today in Kellogg Auditorium in a
public debate on the subject of out-
lawing strikes by means of compul-
sory arbitration of labor disputes.
John Condylis and Martin Shapero
will uphold the negative side of the
question. Dr. Donald E. Hargis will
act as chairman.
The debate will be judged by the
audience on "shift of opinion" bal-
lots. Listeners will be asked to record
their views on the questions at the
beginning of the debate as well as
changes in opinion brought about by
the arguments presented by the
speakers.
The contest is a return engagement
for a similar meet held at Bowling
Green last term. Next home debates
will be held April 4, when Wayne
University speakers come here for
five contests before speech classes.
Davis Reports
OWl Polcies
Will Stay in Europe
Till Pacific victory
LONDON, March 27.-()- Elmer
Davis, chief of the OWI, said today
in a press conference that his agency
planned to operate in Europe as long
as both the Japanese and European
conflicts last but after the war "we
are counting on the Press Associa-
tions to do the news job."
Davis said the OWI planned to
Rumors Flood
Country While
Allies Advance
White House Report
Starts Victory Talk
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March 27-A
wave of premature reports and rum-
ors-of victory in Europe spread over
the country today as United Nations
Armies continued their rush toward
Berlin.
One flood of rumors grew from a
White House disclosure that Presi-
dent Roosevelt wants his Cabinet of-
ficers and United States diplomats
abroad to stay at their posts during
the San Francisco Conference start-
ing April 25.
Reduce Transportation Strain
The White House later made it
clear that Mr. Roosevelt's memoran-
dum on the subject, sent to Secretary
of State Stettinius on March 16, did
not spell any immediate German col-
lapse. The purpose, it was explained,
was to reduce the strain on trans-
portation and hotel facilities in San
Francisco and keep officials at their
posts at a critical time.
Report of German Surrender
A widespread report that Germany
had surrendered arose fom General
Eisenhower's statement in an inter-
view that "The German army as a
military force on the Western Front
is a whipped army." The Supreme
Commander added "But that does
not mean a front cannot be formed
somewhere where our maintenance is
stretched to the limit." Earlier he
had said "I am not writing off this
war."
Sister Kenny
To Heed Order
Will Stay in Country
If President Requests
MINNEAPOLIS, March 27.-(P)-
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, -who has
threatened to leave the United States
because of opposition she says was
raised to her method of treating in-
fantile paralysis, said today she
would consider as a command any
suggestion from President Roosevelt
that she remain.
The Australian nurse made the
statement upon being Informed that
Rep. O'Toole (Dem., N.Y.) had asked
the President to try to dissuade her
from turning over her work to subor-
dinates and leaving the Elizabeth
Kenny Institute in Minneapolis. She
said she had not heard from Mr.
Roosevelt.
Sister Kenny said she had wired
O'Toole, reviewing claims made for
her methods and reiterating her de-
mand for congressional investigation.
She also said children of service-
men, and soldiersand sailors them-
selves, were not receiving the Kenny
treatment.
House Probes
Veteran Issues
Red Cross Still
SOlcitin Funds
So that all men on campus will
have the opportunity to give to the
Red Cross, the Union will set up a
booth from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow
on the diagonal.
The booth, which will be manned
by members of the Union staff, will
be opened in a last effort to bring up
the small total of men's Red Cross
contributions. To date, only $210 has
been turned by men's houses.
Navy personnel will contribute at
a booth in West Quad.
The final figures for donations by
University faculty and other person-
nel indicate that their total has
reached $5,834, which is well above
the quota set at $4,500.
Argentina Joins
In War on Axis
WASHINGTON, March 27--P)-
Representatives of the other Ameri-
can countries set up oiled machinery
tonight for recognition of Argentina,
which declared war on the Axis to-
day. Recognition is expected within
a week.
The ambassadors met on sudden
notice with Assistant Secretary of
State Nelson Rockefeller and are
scheduled to meet again tomorrow
morning.
By then, one said, they should re-
ceive formal notification through the
Pan-American union of Argentina's
war declaration and decision to ad-
here to the Mexico City resolutions.
'THE WAY OF THE CROSS':
Solon Alberti Will Direct the Oratorio To Be
Presented by Methodist Senior Choir Today
Solon Alberti, organist and direc-
tor of music in the Central Christian
Church in New York City, will be
guest director of the performance of
"The Way of the Cross," an oratorio,
to be given by the Senior Choir of
the First Methodist Church at 8 p.m.
today in the church sanctuary.
This work by the French composer
Alexandre Georges was discovered,
arranged, edited and produced for
the first time in America two years
oratorio occupies approximately one-
half of the work, according to Norton
who also narrated in the Choral
Union's "Messiah" performance last
December.
Prof. Hardin Van Deursen, bari-
tone, Bernard Mason, violinist; Mary
Oyer, cellist; Ruby Kuhlman, pian-
ist and Choral Union accompanist;
Frieda Vogan, organ and theory in-
structor, all of the School of Music,
will participate in the performance.