y, 'f+1 e t Jr Sir 43~t 4&zt WEATHER Increasing Cloudiness and Continued Warm Today. Fresh, Winds 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 4 V * * * * * * 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- BAd Emt Lmburg / _ '~ Friedburg 8Bad aomburg+ oe /~Superhighway KaubFRANKFURT Hanau Offenbach MANAscha tenburg Bingen i (DARMSTADT 0 ppen e Obernburg /'7Neustadt MCn R ~jMV j1ensheim .rba.h Miorcbe'Q .-- .Lamperthe m ----GERMANY Frankenthal15 LUDWIGSHAFEN MANNHEIM ATE ic ' 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.