ig, A6F t an 4:D:Itt!J WEATHER Freezing with Winds and Cloudy 16. 1! VOL. LV, No. 113 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS japs Retreat Before New Yank Invasion Army-Navy Revue Will Sta rFieldingNavyBand Servicemen To Prnsent All-Campus Show at Hill Auditorium Wednesday * * * * * * * * '00 The 80-piece Navy band and Doc Fielding as master of ceremonies will be featred in the first all-campus Army-Navy Revue to be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Auditorium, it was announced yesterday. Containing approximately 140 ser- vicemen, the huge show is being pre- sented under the sanction of campus Army and Navy units and the spon- sorship of the Union, the League and The Daily. All proceeds will be offered to Army and Navy Relief Societies. Navy Orchestra In addition to the Navy band, mu- sic will be furnished by the 15-piece Lots of Cigs It could happen only in the Army! One recently graduated judge advocate left a package of cigarettes in his discarded enlist- ed man's blouse when he changed to brand new officer pinks, The Advocate, JAG School weekly, re- ports., Another shavetail, anxious to leave all ties behind, left an ear- ring in the pocket of his discarded trousers. "If there had been two," the oldier checking clothing grumbled, "they would have made a nice Easter present" Student Forum Will Discuss Teen-Age Vote The eighteen-year-old vote ques- tion will be the subject of the Stuent Town Hall's informal discussion, open to all students, to be held at 7:45 p.m. today in Lane Hall lecture hall. The open meeting will follow a de- bate that has been planned to present arguments for and against the basic issues involved in lowering the age requirement for voting to eighteen years. Speaking on the affirmative side will be Sheldon Selesnick and Joyce Siegan. Betty Lou Bidwell and Howard Cole will present the negative view. This forum is the second in a ser- ies of three meetings designed for discussion of student affairs. Its co- chairmen are Martin Shapero and John Condylis, who will announce the subject of the third meeting, to be held April 19, later. * * U Debaters Tie Wayne Squad Compulsory Labor Arbitration Discusse Five debates on "Compulsory Ar- bitration of Labor Disputes" ended in a draw yesterday between the Uni- versity team and representatives of Wayne University. Michigan won the first and the sec- ond debates, tied in the third and lost the fourth and fifth contests to Wayne. Michigan's winning debat- ors, who upheld the affirmative side of the question, were Martin Scha- pero, John Condylis, Mary Battle and Betty, Lou Biswell. The winning de- bators for Wayne were Patricia Carey, Rosemary Wallace, John Stuart and Barney Solomon. Joyce Siegan and Mary Ellen represented the Univer- sity in the third contest which ended in a tie. The basis for ,judging the debates was the degree to which the previ- ously held opinion of the audience were changed. Ballots were handed out both before and after each con- test. Dr. Hance, Mr. Land, Miss Wishnevsky and Miss Wood acted as chairmen. CAMPUS EVENTS' Today Student Town Hall fea- tures debate of 18 year- old vote question at 7:45 p. m., Lane Hall. April 6 Prof. W. H. Maurer speaks on "Dare We Educate fors Navy orchestra under the direction of Frank Worden and Foo-Foo Fen- ner's Fascinating Five will provide jive music. Also contributing to the Navy's half of the Revue will be the Navy glee club and Pete Farago on the accordion. Farago is a Navy medical student and played the ac- cordion over a Chicago radio station for a number of years before joining the service. The Army will be represented in this benefit show by five different acts. Sgt. Vernon Anderson, of the headquarters staff will do imitations similar to the ones he used to do professionally before joining the ser- vice. A quartet from Co. A will har- monize for the audience of students, faculty and townspeople. Pfc. Bill Corkery will sing a few solo numbers and Cpl. Bill Borges will perform feats of magic. Pfc. Dick Thomas will be featured on the piano. Doc Fielding To MC . According to Doe Fielding, who is producing the show as well as being master of ceremonies, the Revue will also spotlight a surprise star from the "home front" Wednesday night will be a holiday for University students as women have been granted 11 o'clock per- mission by the dean's office and both Army and Navy servicemen stationed on campus will be permitted to re- main out until 11 p.m. if they attend the show. Tickets may be obtained at the Union, Leage, USO, local bookstores, restarants and drug stores downtown and near the campus, the American Legion post and at the VFW. Pan-Hellenic Petitions Are Due Saturday Petitions for five administrative po- sitions on the 1945-46 Pan Hellenic Council are due at 12:30 p. m. Sat- urday in the petition box in the Undergrad Office or the Pan-Hel Office at the League. Interviewing will take place from 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at the League. A sign-up sheet for interviews will be posted Saturday outside the Pan-Hel Office, and all petitioners should sign for their interview as'soon as possible. Duties of President The president of Pan-Hel is in charge of the weekly dinners for Percy Jones veterans as well as her general presidential duties. The important function of the rushing secretary is an all year job and is not confined to merely the rushing period. She is in charge of formulating rules and supervising rushing. War Activities, In addition to regular vice-presi- dential duties, the vice-president of Pan-Hel supervises war activities. She is in charge of all speial drives spon- sored by Pan-Hel, and checks the activity sheets turned in by each house. The secretary performs the duties of correspondence and minute re- cording as well as planning exchange dinners between houses. The position of treasurer entails arranging the weekly USO coffee hours on Sunday nights, and also financial supervi- sion of Pan-Hel affairs. Americans Capture Suhl __ SAUTE Kassel, Gotha; No Close on r urt D Third Army Breaks HOLL Into Thuringian PlainR By The Associated Press PARIS, Thursday, April 5-U. S. Third Army tank forces, breaking into the open Thuringian plain, cap- Gene tured Kassel, Gotha and Suhl yester- RUS day and closed in on Erfurt, 130 miles southwest of Berlin, in their swift race to split the dying Reich. In the north, British armored for- ces hurdled two major river barriers, the lower Weser and Ems Rivers, and plunged on toward the great German north sea ports of Bremen and Em- den. Drive to Lingen One force pushing into Lingen, 55;* miles south of Emden, and sweeping onward, was only 45 miles from cut- ting the last Nazi escape route out of all Holland, and Canadian troops on the western flank were overrun- ning V-bomb sites. Karlsruhe, capital of Baden on the WHER upper Rhine, fell to the French First and di Army at the extreme southern end of of Kas the front, a French communique an- Russia nounced. The adjoining U. S. 7th - Army pushed to Uffenheim, 34 miles northwest of Nuernberg, Nazi con- Law vention city and key road city con- trolling the Berlin-Brenner pass routes into Italy. The Americans and French also were threatening Stutt- gart, big South German city. Revis Hit Nazi Factories All Allied armies were pounding ahead in a swelling tide that overran State underground Nazi factories, vital air- To S fields, and other war plants. The Nazis were losing more than two divi- A refresh sions daily in prisoners alone. veterans w Field Marshal Montgomery's Brit- or law stu ish 11th Armored Division swept . around Osnabrueck, where the last ment, will bitter German resisters were being Universityc slain, and crossed the Weser river, one and other of the last two water barriers before The prog Berlin, in an apparent double strike because no aimed at Hannover and Bremen. b men will b 1 1 3 *Stasson sai Soldiers Give Detroit Pro For form To Red Cross a ten week be given i Funds from U Units Here fields whic tlo r0ing the wa T verJ t$Y,99P'9F practical p A total of $2,258.21 was contributed teiest to p to the American Red Cross by Army course will units in Ann Arbor during the drive the four st which closed Saturday, Lt. Col. Reg- versity ofD inald C. Miller, Commandant of the sity, the t 3651 Service Command Unit, . an- the Detroit nounced yesterday. with the S Although no solicitation for con- There wi tributions was made to enlisted men, time cours in accordance to War Department lawyers tha regulations, a substantial portion of legal fields the total contributions were made by directed i them, Capt. Charles P. Atkinson, wok in th Commanding Officer of Company Review Fu 'G' and head of the drive, pointed ,A series out. will be giv "The response of all officers, en- have not i listed men and civilian personnel to order to re the Red Cross appeal," Col. Miller or during said, "was very gratifying and it study. maintains the record of whole-heart- Any vete ed cooperation established by the these prog unit in War Bond Drives, March of the G. I. B: Dimes and Community Chest ap- five year a peals." refresher c Race * * * To Split * * = * * * * East Indies " NC Strasbour g n e' FRANC Um dht b ra I~ Fr bur M NIC Muhouse. \ $albur r A\ \\\\ ~ nrNU$tRAd 4ej erAresae -\\ HUNGARY SWITZERLAND E ALLIES CONTINUE PUSH INTO MID-GERMANY-Arrows on western front show location irection of Allied offensives into northwest Germany and Holland, into mid-Germany in the area sel, Gotha, and Fulda, and into Wuerzburg sector in the push toward Nuernberg. Meantime n forces continte drive on Vienna from the southeast. Shaded area is German-held territory. Reich Advances Cut Lines to Dutch Resistance Slight To Okinawa Forces By The Associated Press A. new American invasion in the Philippines and fresh advances for Yank soldiers and Marines of the 10th Army on strategic Okinawa were officially reported by Army and Navy Pacific commanders late Wednesday. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announc- ed invasion of Masbate Island, in the Central Philippines against little re- sistance, while fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that Marines and doughboys on Okinawa were meeting only scattered opposition as they pushed their lines forward in all sec- tors. 40th Division Lands Elements of the 40th Division land- ed on Masbate, astride the main water shipping lane through the Philip- pines. Aided by guerrillas, they were rapidly securing the entire island. On Okinawa the Yanks, pushing toward what may mean a real scrap in the south, have met little fight in taking 80 square miles or one-sixth of the island which lies only 325 miles southwest ;of the Japanese homeland. Control Coast Sections The 10th Army was in control of a large slice of the coastlines of two eastern Okinawa bays-Kimmu and Nakagusuku. The eastern coast from Yaka, on the north, to Kuba, on the south, was in Yank hands. To the northeast of Okinawa Amer- ican carrier planes struck heavily against the Japanese airforce and shipping in the Amami Islands, also in the Ryukyus. Radio Tokyo acknowledged that the Yank 10th Army has cut Oki- nawa in two by driving from the west to the east coast. It made the unconfirmed claim that 11 additional American ships-a battleship, four cruisers and six transports -- were sunk off Okinawa. * * * * * * Veterans e OfferedW eW Course Law Schools ponsor Program per program for returning ho were practicing lawyers dents before their enlist- be offered shortly by the of Michigan Law School legal groups. ram is tentative but only one knows just when the be back, Dean E. Blythe d. gram ner lawyers there will be part time evening course n Detroit. It will cover h have changed most dur- ir, as well as some of the rocedural subjects of in- practicing lawyers. This 1be jointly sponsored by ate law schools: the Uni- Michigan, Wayne Univer- rniversity of Detroit, and College of Law, together tate Bar Association. ll also be a one-term, full- e in Ann Arbor for former at will emphasize changing .dIt will leave time for ,ading and self-refresher e Law Library, ndamentals of special review lectures ven for law students who finished their training in view fundamentals before the continuance of law ran studying under any of rams will be financed by ill of Rights. The twenty- ge limit does not apply to ourses. Russians Capture Bratislava, DestroyGermn n ugary Fight Into Southern Suburbs of Vienna; Ukranianjs Repulse Nazis in Yugoslavia By The Associated Press LONDON, Thursday, April 5-The Russians captured Bratislava, cleared the last Germans out of Hungary and fought into Vienna's southern suburbs yesterday in a day of sen- sational successes all along the south- eastern front. The combined blows of the second, third and fourth Ukrainian Army groups also hurled the Nazis back in northwest Yugoslavia in the Mura Lecturer Says America Gives Filpinos H1o)pe "There can be an understanding between all peoples, because in my country you and I worked out the principles of friendship and peace," Mrs. Pilar Hidalgo Lim, of Marin- duque, the Philippines, said last night in an address sponsored by the Philippine-Michigan Club as part of. a program commemorating the re- turn of American and Filipino forces to thp islands. Faith in America In her speech, "The Orient Sees America's Vision," Mrs. Lim stressed I the faith that the Filipinos have in America as the defender of their lib- erty and has given them the means for that liberty. She expressed the gratitude and faith that her country has in the American armies now fightinghin the Philippines by saying that she wan- ted the United States to feel her people as "a strength, a force, a sup- port for peace". Vision of Philippines Whatever should be decided at the international peace tables, Mrs. Lim, said, "the vision must never be shat- tered." That vision, she explained, is the one which the Americans built up when they brought education, commerce, better methods of sani- tation and agriculture, and demo- cratic government to the Philippines. Following Mrs. Lim's address a program of music and dancing was presented against a festive native background by members of the Phil- ippine-Michigan Club. VtaersElect John Crispin As President 1--s, r1i* r 1no ro1 InZr1 river valley and overcame the enemy foothold in the little Carpathian mountains north of Bratislava, pres- aging the early clearance of all Slo- vakia. Bratislava Stormed Premier Stalin announced the storming of Bratislava, capital of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia and a key Danubian stronghold of 160,000 population, less than 24 hours after Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Sec- ond Ukrainian group had laid siege to the city. The subsequent Moscow broadcast communique announced that Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrain- ian forces seized more than 30 com- munities south and southwest of Vienna, one of them-Zwoelfazing- only a mile and a half from the south- ern city limits and seven and a half from the very center of the Austrian capital. Aided by Bulgarians Almost due south of Vienna the Russians announced they had hurled the last of the Germans off Hungar- ian territory and were pressing their liberating invasion of Yugoslavia. This drive, which took ten Yugo- slav towns during the day, was aided by Bulgarian troops. Similarly, Czechoslovak army for- ces aided in the southwestward thrust of the Fourth Ukrainian Army in northwest Slovakia. l i t i Nurse Trainees Must Register By Ari23 Girls wishing to register for next semester ip the nursing program now being offered by the University of Michigan School of Nursing must do so by April 23, Prof. Rhoda F. Red- dig, Director of the School of Nurs- ing and of the Nursing Service, an- nounced. Those wishing to enter the pro- gram in the fall, she said, may reg- ister in October on the first day of general registration. All girls who register in this degree program, Prof. Reddig explained, are eligible for en- trance into the United States Cadet Nurse Corps. Under this plan the government will pay the nurse's ex- penses in the professional part of her program. The degree program being offered leads to a Bachelor of Science de- gree and a diploma in nursing, Prof. Reddig stated. WA VE OF PROSPERI'TY:e IBaruch Predicts Many Jobs For Servicemen After ,War HIGHER LEARNING: Jfungle Colleges Attract Servicemen Such "institutions of higher learning" as "Jungle College" and "GI College" are attracting thousands of service men in the South-West Paci- fic Area, Lieut. Charles H. Peake, former instructor in the English Depart- ment and Chief Resident Adviser of the West Quad, said in an interview yesterday. Lieut. Peake has been home on sick leave after almost a year in New Guinea, where he was chief of the Information-Education Section of a. base. Through the Southwest Paci- fic Branch of the Armed Forces In- tinued. "The Army, through the I stitute, servicemen are enabled to & E Division, supplies the texts. The continue their education in prepara- men meet at any time which suits tion for return to civilian life. them, and can continue the class Service Men Teach when their unit is moved. There are The South-West Pacific Branch of the API had expected a maximum en- rollment of 10,000 but 35,00 had en- rolled by last September. "Bookkeep- ing and accounting is the most popu- lar course, but all kinds of courses are being taken by men who plan to continue their education under the GI Bill of Rights." Postwar Plans Asked about post-war education plans, he replied, "It is generally known that the Army plans to estab- LONDON, Thursday, April 5-(P)-- Looking confidently into the future, Bernard Baruch, adviser to President Roosevelt, asserted in an interview published today that American ser- vicemen would not have anything to worry about when they got home, that "there will be more work in the United States than there will be hands with which to do it." This wave of pr'osperity, he told a reporter for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, would carry over for five to seven years after the war ''no matter what is done or not done." Confers With Churchill The 75-year-old financier, who has held several conferences with Prime Minister Churchill, was reluctant to talk about the exact nature of his "And one reason I am over here is to hold the big stick over the big boys to make damn sure they're not go- ing to foul up the peace. "We've got to so de-industrialize Germany and Japan-at least for a generation-so they won't go to war again. Also we've got to see that those subsidized slave labor countries do not again flood the world with theircheap products, lowering the standards of living of the United States," Publication Withheld After Lasky's version of the story had been put into type and an ab- stract had been transmitted by the Associated Press to the United States, where it was widely published, Ba- ruch's secretary asked that it be with-