LY2 Sir i4an Elatt WEATHER Fair and Somewhat Cloudy Little Temperature Change t I VOL. LV, No. 108 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN PRICE FIVE CENTS Yanks Knife 55 Miles Deeper into Reich Good Friday Rites To Begin Today at Noon Church To Hold Union Services Good Friday services will be held from noon to 3 p.m. today in the First MethodisthChurch under the sponsorship of the Ann Arbor Min- Isters' Association, and will consist of three continuous hours of worship. The first hour will be a musical program, arranged by Hardin Van Deursen and under the direction of choir directors from three of the par- ticipating churches. Mrs. Frieda Vo- gan, organist at the First Presbyter- ian Church, will be the accompanist. Selections will follow the five sta- ges in the life of Christ, and repre- senting the Nativity sequence will be a violin solo of Schubert's "Ave Maria" by Bernard Mason. "A Leg- end" by Tschaikowsky, will make up the Childhood stage and will feature Dorothy'Smith as soloist. Hope Baer Eddy will sing "Sermon on the Mount" by Besly as a part of the Ministry stage, while Ruth MacNeal will conclude that sequence with Malotte's "The Lord's Prayer". "God, My Father, Why Hast Thou Gov. Kelly's Good Friday Message . . LANSING, March 29-(IP)-The following Good Friday statement was issued today by Governor Kelly: Tomorrow-the Good Friday of 1945-It is my hope and belief that our citizens will pause in theirlabors to thank God for our successes in battle - to express their prayerful hope that final victory will be achieved with a minimum loss of our treasured youth-to ask God for help in meeting our tests at home in such a way to reflect the courage and fortitude of our boys on the fight- ing front." Forsaken Me?" will be sung by How- ard Farrar for the fourth stage of Crucifixion, and Geraldine Huey, will complete that stage with "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?" by Burleigh The fifth and final sequence of Resurrection will feature Dorothy Steffes, who will sing Handel's "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth", and Harriet Boden will conclude the first hour of worship with "My Re- deemer and My Lord" by Buck. The second hour will be conducted by the Ann Arbor Youth Council, and the final hour from 2 to 3 p.m. will be in charge of Rev, H. L. Pickerill of the Congregational Church, and the sermon on "Forgiveness" will be giv- en by Dr. J. Brett Kenna, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Irene Applin Boyce will preside at the or- gan during the two last hours of the service. For Additional Church Services See Page 2 Cave-In Kills James Ulrichi James Ulrich, 14, son of Fred Ul- rich, local bookstore owner, was suf- focated yesterday when a tunnel he and two companions were digging in a hill behind 'U' Hospital caved in on him. John Smith, 15, and Thomas Mur- phy, 14, unable to rescue the Ulrich boy from beneath the sand, summon- ed aid from the hospital. CAMPUS EVENTS Today (Through March 31) "Gra- nd Illusion", French prize, winning film with Eng- lish sub-titles presented at 8:30 p.m., Lydia Men- delsshn Theater. Today Application to take Grad- uate txaminations due at information desk, Rack- ham Building. Today Lane Coffee Hour to be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Today Trinity, Zion, University Lutheran Chapel and Me- thodist Church to con- d,,t Cron ria.,. ries Threaten Total Isolation of Ruhr British Second Races to Within 68 Miles Of Junction with Advancing U. S. First By The Associated Press PARIS, Friday, March 30-Tanks of the U. S. First Army, scattering all resistance on a dazzling 55-mile sweep, roared up within 186 miles west of Berlin yesterday and all but cut the Ruhr basin from the rest of Germany, thereby robbing the enemy of his last great source of war material. The British Second Army raced across the north German plain under a news blackout, was at least 41 miles east of the Rhine by last account and was within 68 miles of a junction with the First Army.. Between the two armies were thousands of Germans in disordered flight. While the northern defenders of Berlin's approaches reeled under these tremendous blows, the U. S. Third Army slashed almost half-way across Germany's waist with a 20- C * * * i GERMANY'S SHfUNKING DOMAIN-Black areas indicate territor y held by Germany at the peak of the Wehrmacht's conquests but since lost. Shaded region is territory remaining under German control. (AP Wirephoto Map) ON THE BLUE DANUBE: Fying Red Columns Race Towards Vfrnna By The Associated Press LONDON, March 29-Marshal Sta-i lin announced tonight that rampag- ing Red Army flying columns, streak- ing 20 miles across Hungary, had reached the Austrian frontier, and the free Austrian radio said the Rus- sians already had invaded that gate-, way to Hitler's southern mountain fortress. Tearing through shattered enemy defense lines and driving within 43 miles southeast of Vienna, Marshal Feodor Y. Tolbukhin's armored for- ces captured the border town of Koszeg, 52 miles south of the cap- ital, and toppled the key Hungar- ian rail city of Szombathely. Capture of Szombathely cut a main supply and communication line be- tween Vienna and Italy and carried the Red Army within 175 miles of the Italian border. In a second order of the day, Marshal Stalin announced that Marshal Alexander M. Vasilivsky's Third White Russian Army had completed the liquidation of the coastal pocket in East Prussia southwest of still-embattled Koen- French Film To Be Shown 'Grand Illusion' Will Be Presented Today "Grand Illusion," French film pres- ented by the Art Cinema League, will be shown at 8:30 p. m. today and tomorrow in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The film stars Jean Gabin and Eric von Stroheim, popular Hollywood act- ors, and was chosen "best film of the year" by the National Board of Review. The French production has English subtitles, and French stu- dents are urged to make use of this opportunity to study the active use of the language. igsberg, killing and capturing 130,- 000 enemy troops in 18 days. Radio Luxembourg, quoting Swed- ish dispatches, said a state of emer- gency had been declared in Vienna as an avalanche of Russian tanks, mobile guns and infantry swept toward the-city. Vienna, the greater Reich's second city with a population of 1,930,000, is a big industrial center. Supported by Soviet planes fly- ing 5,000 sorties and blasting enemy strongholds ahead of the onrush- ing Soviets, two Russian armies were plunging through broken en- emy lines along both the north and south banks of the Danube. On the Danube's north bank, Ber- lin said that the northern wing of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Sec-, ond Ukrainian Army had lunged 17i to 25 miles west of' the Hron river, reaching the banks of the Nitra river Visitting Judge Advocates Will See Willow Run Following a morning conference on military law today, the 22 visiting judge advocates, here on a three-day inspection of the JAG School, will visit the Willow Run bomber plant. Returning in the evening, they will be guests of honor at a reception being held for them by the Interna- tional Center and the JAG School faculty and staff at the Intcrnstional Center. Before leaving Ann Arbor, Satur- day, the visitors will visit the Legal Research Library. After an inspec- tion and lunch at the River Rouge plant, they will be guests of the Detroit Athletic Club. They will have dinner at the Latin Quarter, Detroit, leaving later in the evening for the next military installation on their itinerary, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. at a point 47 to 52 miles east of Bratislava in a powerful new offen- sive. On the Danube's south bank, Tol- bukhin's army and the southern wing of Malinosvky's Army group were forging attacks on Vienna through the Bratislava gap between Bratislava city and the north shores of Neusiedler See (the sea of Vienna) and also around the southern end of the lake. Quotes Nearly Completed in Red Cross Goal The Red Cross War Fund went into the last two days of the annual membership drive today with quotas completed or almost filled. In the local drive, Ann Arbor has turned in 114 percent of its quota of $79,100. Washtenaw county has collected 119 percent of the county quota of $134,300. University personnel and faculty went over the top with a total of $5,834, exceeding their quota set at $4,500. The special 'U' quota, which includes contributions from the staff at University Hospital, the League, and the Union, is yet to be filled. The drive will continue through to- morrow, at which time the final totals will be announced. ADOLPH'S ACE? Nazis Develop Secret Weapon PORTLAND, Ore., March 29.--(IP) -A member of the Dutch under- ground declared today that the Nazis do have a secret-and deadly effec- tive-weapon. Jacob Van Berkel, here under aus- pices of the Netherland Information Bureau, told an interviewer that the European front is now a race be- tween victory for the Allies and Ger- many's resort to the ultimate wea- pon-"so powerfully destructive it is almost inconceivable. "The new weapon, a tiny gadget which could be placed in a rocket bomb, may be launched with com- plete effectiveness against the con- tinental United States," Van Berkel said. He declared that the Germans are{ saving it for a last stand, probably in the Bavarian Alps. "They are confident that their secret weapon will wipe out civilization and save them at the very end. Arl i