THE ~MICHIG~AN TbAIV FRIDALMARCH t X94~ ' '.F .ti.. ..I 1 .1. 1 \. I 11 1 4) 111 1 \ L l-1 1 L 1 Ryukyus Shelled for SeventhStraight Day, Powerful British Force Joins U.S.Fleet in Attack By The Associated Press GUAM, Friday, March 30-The United States Pacific Fleet, augmented by powerful British battleship-carrier task forces, poured shells and carrier planes for the Seventh straight day Thursday at the Ryukyus where Tokyo said American transports are moving in for an invasion of Okinawa, 325 miles southwest of Japan. Shortly after disclosing that the 35,000-tot battleship jIMS King George V., the 23,000-ton carrier HMS Illustrious and other British warships attacked the southern end of the island chain Monday and MINERS VOTE ON WARTIME STRIKE-These miners vote at Library, Pa., in quarters of the Pittsburgh Coal Company mine on the question of a wartime strike. German Front Crumbling as, Yanks, British Smash Ahead (Continued from Page 1) ing straight east across the West- phalian plain and last was reported about 68 miles from a junction with the First Army. Simultaneously, the U. S. Third Army lunged out 20 miles east across the mid-German plain, herding the disorganized enemy before it and rounding up 14,000 prisoners. At last reports it was within 198 miles of Berlin, but the German radio said the Third Army's Fourth Armor- ed Division had driven at least 12 miles farther on and was within less than 100 miles of the border of Czechoslovakia. Far to the south, Mannheim, Rhine factory city of 283,000, fell to the U. S. Seventh Army. While the U. S. First Army wheeled abruptly north, and the British Sec- ond Army-with American infantry riding its tanks-roared up from theI west, German broadcasts wrote off CLASSIFIED DIR E CTORYI LOST AND FOUND LOST: Van Roy pipe and tobacco pouch between E. University and West Quad. Call Michigan Daily. 2-3241. 1ST: Identification bracelet. En- graved Ralph D. Dwyer 38496971. .Call East Quad Co. A. Reward. LOST: Navy blue leather wallet with zipper on 2 sides. Contained check and about $8. Call Lois Calvin 2-1288. Reward. LOST: Tan gabardine top coat. Call, Don Shapiro, 3022. LOST: Eversharp pen. Black with gold trim, near Angell and Uni- versity Ilhlls. Reward, Call Iarvie, 9724. HELP WANTED FEMALE HELP WANTED: Women or girls for lunch counter and soda fountain. If you are in need of part time, evening, or week end employment, contact Mr. B. John- son at 226 S. Main St. FOR SALE FOR SALE: Women's riding boots, size 7, excellent condition, $10.00. Call 2-4836. FOR RENT NICELY FURNISHED 4-ROOM apartment in suburban Ann Ar- bor. Also rooms, with or without cooking privilege, and private bath. Phone 9308. ROOMS FOR RENT at 1208 Oakland, one single, one double on insulated third floor. Shower. Students pre- ferred. Phone 3197. WANTED the once rich Ruhr, greatest of the enemy arsenals. The Ruhr, said one enemy war cor- respondent, was nothing but one wide field of rubble in which the army and the Volkssturm fight side by side with nothing to lose but their lives. Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead declared in a dis- patch from the field that the point near Paderborn was reached at3 5:35 p. m. (European time) and ar- mor was rolling on with nothing in front to hold it. German resistance collapsed in front of this powerful sweep by the+ one British and two American armies, and a field dispatch said the situa- tion had become a rout in front of the U. S. First Army. At the current rate of advance, the British and the U. S. First Armies might come together in the West- phalian plain in little more than two days, laying open the road to Berlin 7,000Idle in Hudson trtke DETROIT, March 29.- OP)- A strike of 110 inspectors in the air- craft division of the Hudson Motor Car Co. plant today halted produc- tion of parts for P-38 fighter planes and Navy Helldivers, as the manage- ment sent 7,000 employes home. Conpany officials and representa- tives of Local 154, United Automobile Workers (CIO) met with federal and state conciliators in an attempt to settle the dispute. A company spokes- man said the stoppage apparently resulted frcm discharge two weeks ago of a union steward accused by the management of telling employes not to work fast. Production of aircraft and marine engines at the Packard Motor Car Co. remained below normal today, although most of the workers who struck Wednesday in a dispute over discharge of a union steward report- ed on the job, New Post-Jar Council Officers Are Elected Officers elected at a meeting of the Post-War Council yesterday are Eliz- abeth Hawley, Grad., president; Har- ry Daum, Lit '46, executive secretary; Jean Cockburn, Lit. '46, correspond- ing secretary and Charles Draghi, Law '47, treasurer. - RE COD World War II Casualties Are ation' s iohest Army, Navy Dead Is Reported at 189,541 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, March 29-World War II has now taken the lives of more American men in combat than the Civil War, previously the costli- est in the nation's history. The army announced today that 153,791 soldiers had died in battle up to the beginning of Mrch and the navy reported its dead at 35,750. Total Casualties Revealed The aggregate for the two services since Pearl Harbor is 189,541, almost 3,000 above the 186,771 listed by the Army and Navy as killed or fatally wounded in the Union and Con- federate armies and the Union navy during the Civil War. The number of Confederate navy dead is not available here but it is believed not to exceed the Union navy's losses. The war between the states lasted four years, while the figures for World War II dead cover only three years and about three months of fighting. The toll may still be heav- ier by the time the missing are ac- counted for. Compared With War I In the eighteen months of World War I, Army and Navy figures show, 53,559 lost their lives in combat, in- cluding 50,510 in the army. Secretary 'of War Stimson gave out the figures on the number of soldiers killed in reporting that the army's over-all casualties had now reached 780,043 on the basis of names compiled here through March 21 and reflecting activities up to the begin- ning of March. With the navy's total losses of 92,819, this pushed the total for both to 872,862 since the beginning of the war. Today's re- port represented an increase of 13,275 over last week's. Convict Draft ToBe Fought LANSING, March 29-()-A pro- posal of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee to permit wardens of the State Prison of Southern Michigan and the Ionia Reformatory to re- lease convicts directly into the arm- ed services without a parole will be fought by the State Parole Board, the Board said today. A. Ross Pascoe, Board Chairman, said the proposal was sought only by Warden Harry Jackson of the South- ern Michigan Prison, and that War- den Joel R. Moore of the Ionia in- stituiton did not desire it. Pascoe said the plan would "circumvent" the Michigan parole system. Senator Clarence A. Reid, member of the Judiciary Committee, said the proposal came to the committee from "prison officials" and that he under- stood Warden Jackson had proposed it to Senator Harry F. Hittle, Lan- sing Republican and chairman of the committee. Michigan Farmers Will Receive Help LANSING, March 29.- (IP)- An army of 50,000 farm workers this year will help Michigan farmers care for what is expected to be the largest crop in the state's history, A. G. Love, head of the Emergency Farm Labor Office at Michigan State College, said today. Love said 13,000 foreign workers, including war prisoners, and 12,000 migrant workers from Texas and the Ozarks would be aided by 25,000 vol- unteer workers from within Michi- gan. This is a 50 per cent increase over last year in foreign laborers, Love said. Ho use Defeats AmendmentT Bar Officials Lack of Four Votes Prohibits Passage By The Associated Press LANSING, March 29-The House of Representatives, after a stormy two-hour debate, today defeated a joint resolution proposing a consti- tutional amendment to bar from pub- lic office forever any governmental official convicted of receiving or of- fering a bribe. The resolution, however, was tabl-I ed and will be considered later. It lacked four votes of the two-thirds majority necessary to pass. The vote was 63 in favor of the resolution, 29 against it. Republican SupportI The vote followed party lines close- ly--of the 63 yeas, 60 were from Re- publicans. Three Republicans join- ed the 26 Democrats who opposed the measure. Three Republicans and four Democrat members were absent., Rep. Elton R. Eaton, Plymouth Re- publican who introduced the resolu- tion, said he would seek to have it reconsidered when all members of his party were present. He said he would neither offer nor support am- endments to the resolution when it again comes before the house. Retroactive Measure Chief opposition in debate was centered on the contention the meas- ure would apply retroactively to per- sons previously convicted of such of- fenses, and that it was not applic- able to persons who confessed to a wrongdoing in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution. Rep. Ed Carey, Detroit Democrat and CIO0leader serving his first term in the House, opened the opposition when he sought to amend the resolu- tion to apply only to persons convict- ed after it went into effect, because it would "punish twice" people al- ready convicted. Campus Veterans To Elect (Officers Campus veterans will nominate and elect new officers at the meeting of the Veterans' Organization, 7 p. m. Wednesday in Lane Hall, Laz Heten- yi, president, announced today. All veterans are urged to attend and to bring eligibility cards with them to the meeting. h Red Cross' . _. FLOWRSQ Make your Selection from W CHELSEA FLOWER SHOP 1 203 East Liberty Churches Hold Good Friday Services Today Trinity, Zion, and the University Lutheran Chapel will conduct indi- vidual Good Friday services today. as well as St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and the Unitarian Church which will also hold their own wor- ship hours. The Trinity service will be held from 1 to 3 p. m. today under the direction of Rev. Henry Yoder who will be assisted by Rev. Erwin Bondo of Christ Lutheran Church, Willow Run. Following this two-hour wor- ship consisting of sacred Good Fri- day litany and meditations on the Seven Last Words on the Cross, there will be a communion service. Services will also be conducted from 1:30 to 3 p. m. today in Zion Luth- eran Church, and Rev. E. C. Stellhorn will be in charge. In addition, a communion service will be held at 7:30 p. m. for those who wish to partake of the Holy Supper on Good Friday. "The Cost of Redemption" will be the sermon topic of Rev. A. T. Scheips at 1:30 p. m. today in the University Lutheran Chapel, and communion will follow the service. Regular three-hour services will be conducted from noon to 3 p. m. today in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church with Rev. Henry Lewis officiating. Give To The : I a } ^d 'I t This Is No Msk r,~i v- II. M' ROOMATE WANTED to share+ fortable three room apt. woman. East of University, venient. Call 2-6467. com- with con- AT THE RADIO & RECORD SHOP 715 N. UNIVERSITY a gill I IIII G h - ..A 1 "a1t III