Jr itF AF tiattij WEATHER Fair anud Warmer Today 0 VOL. LV, No. 118 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945 anks Reach Brunswick in 28-Mile PRICE FIVE CENTS ain * * * * * * * * * * * * Miners, Operators Come To Contract Agreement 4' 1 Mines.Seized Before Parley Settles Issue Contract Will Be Presented Today By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 10-A new contract for soft coal miners was agreed on tonight a few hours after the government took control of 235 mines. The agreement, reached by operat- ors and president John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, will go be- fore a full negotiating committee for ratification tomorrow. Negotiations Ended Nearly six weeks of negotiations were ended by announcement of Ezra Van Horn, chairman of the Bitumi- nous Wage Conference, that the two sides had gotten together on a con- tract to supplant the one which ex- pired March 31. And that its form will be perfected by a subcommittee meeting at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. The full committee will meet then at 3:30 p. in. for final approval. Government Takes Over Mines The government stepped in to op- erate those mines affected by a wave of wildcat work interruptions which had partially closed plants turning out war-vital steel. It acted while the negotiators plod- ded doggedly ahead in their delib- erations. Van Horn's announcement came less than three hours after the federal action. Presidential Order Obeyed President Roosevelt issued an or- der to Secretary of Interior Ickes to assume operation of any or all mines where stoppages exist or are threat- ened. Ickes acted within an hour, thus putting the government into the coal business for the fourth time since the United States entered the war. Union Disclaims Respnsibiity The seizure occurred while John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, bargained with oper- ators on a new contract. They were in "tentative agreement" on all but one point. . The union disclaimed all responsi- bility for the strikes. Lewis had agreed to extension of the old con- tract until May 1, but in the field thousands of miners were idle. Tom Harmon Made Captain Promotion of First Lt. Tom Har- mon, University All-American half- back in 1940, to the rank of Captain was announced today by the War Department in a telegram to Har- mon's parents. Harmon is now stationed at Camp Van Nuys, Calif. as an instructor for .P-38's Harmon twice escaped serious in- jury when his plane crashed, once in South America and again in China. CAMPUS EVENTS Army-Navy To 3: :! .1. Present Gala Revue Today inth Army Tanks Take Coeds and Servicemen Granted Late Permission More than 140 campus servicemen will invade Hill *Auditorium tonight to present the Army-Navy Revue be- ginning at 8 p. mn. EWT (7 p. m. CWT). Late permission has been granted both coeds and servicemen to attend the huge show and all profits will be Russians Oust Germans from Austrian Capital Escape Route from Port Section Cut Off By The Associated Press LONDON, April 11, Wednesday- The Russians hurled the Germans from all of Vienna west of the Dan- ube Canal yesterday and thrust within three and a half miles of cut- ting the rail escape route from the narrow port district and eastern sub- urbs still held by the enemy. Heavy fighting raged inthe strip betweeen the canal and the Danube River, a space three miles long and less than a half-mile wide. Soviet artillery from three sides raked the district, which includes Prater and the commercial areas of Leopold- stadt and Briggittenau. All the main portions of Vienna, including the old city bounded by the Ringstrasse, were in the hands of Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army, while Marshal Ro- dion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrain- ian forces drove west along the Dan- ube's north banks to the city limits of Vienna. Yanks Engulf Sulu, Liberate Southern Luzon By Thew Associated Press The American steam-roller cam- paign in the Philippines has engulfed the strategic Sulu Archipelago, liber- ated all of southern Luzon and freed the famous Culion Leper colony. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported late Tuesday. These sensational developments were announced almost simultane- ously with Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's report that Yank doughboys fighting on the southern Okinawa front were held to a standstill by the Nipponese defenders. Marines to the north made gains of 2,000 yards after beat- ing off two small counterattacks. Japanese resistance on southern Okinawa continued stubborn. The Nipponese fruitlessly counterattack- ed after terrific artillery bombard- ments. American naval guns and planes supported ground forces. offered to the Army and Navy Re- lief Societies. Ten different acts from both the Navy and Army will be featured in the Revue. They are: 1. The 80-piece Navy band under the direction of William D. Revelli. 2. Doc Fielding as Master of Cere- monies and producer of the Revue. Fielding is a Navy medical student and has been popular on campus for more than a year. 3. Sgt. Vernon Anderson of Army headquarters. Sgt. Anderson per- fromed his imitation act profession- ally before joining the service. 4. The 15-piece Navy orchestra under the direction of Frank Wor- den. This orchestra, made up entire- ly of Navy V-12 students has played for Union afternoon dances and spe- cial parties. 5. A quartet from Co. A. This quartet was featured as intermission entertainment at the recent Victory Ball. 6. Foo Foo Fenner and his Fasci- nating Five. These five bluejackets from the Navy V-12 are the hottest jive players to hit campus in quite a while. 7. WPfe. Bill Corkery singing popu- lar songs. 8. The 30-member Navy Glee Club, directed by Leonard V. Meretta of the School of Music and accompanied by Paul Keuter. 9 Pfe. Dick Thomas on the piano. Thomas was connected with last year's Army show, Rumor Has It. 10. Pete Farago. He plays the ac- cordian and used to work for a Chi- cago radio station before becoming a Navy medical student. 11. Cpl. Bill Borges performing feats of magic. 12. A surprise number from the "home front." The Army-Navy Revue is sanction- ed by Army and Navy units stationed on campus and is sponsored by the League, Union and Daily. Campus coeds 'and Army and Navy personnel will be permitted to remain out until 11 p. m. EWT (10 p. m. CWT) to attend the show. Tickets may be obtained at the boxoffice and the doors of Hill Auditorium will open at 7:15 p. m. EWT (6:15 p. m. CWT). Einstein Leaves Princeton Staff Professor Emeritus PRINCETON, N. J., April 10-(/P)- Dr. Albert Einstein was retired from active duty on the staff of the Insti- tute for Advanced Study here and will continue his research as a Pro- fessor Emeritus, Dr. Frank Aydelotte, director of the, Institute, announced today. The mathematician, who was re- tired automatically after passing the age of 65, is working on the theory of bivector fields and other fields. gA U'MLh .eimsha\e "Luebeck \.jpCAnk lamn" $'o, remerhaven \\\\\ \ \ NChtzBdolco DeEmlenOdenb 'BREMEN ~ iIe>stve wedt \\1\\ Odnurg "\\U.ezen \eet ~ s Meppel . Ems R\ ee \\ HOLLAND zue \\ Ye \\ \\ \ BERLIN et Utrecht ranklfurtR Arnem \\ \ \luebb \POLAND ese Duisburg *Dortmund +oe tenP .- NTwERp EtKASSEL - " Le ,pzig Gen Duesseldorfi /1 G,"\\\, BRESLAU BRUSSELS e ... +Aachen oh- . erezd / f ? 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Newcoml Asks Education To Guide Germans Education and propaganda offered to the German people after the war, in the opinion of Prof. T. M. New- comb of the sociology department, must give them hope and point the way for their eventual participation in a world organization. Propaganda Work Prof. Newcomb, who nas been ac- tive for three years in official gov- ernment. propaganda work, will speak on "The Battle for the Mind of Ger - many" at 7:30 p.m. EWT (6:30 p.m. CWT) today in Rm. 320, Union. His talk will be under the auspices of the Post-War Council; Educate for Democracy "We must reveal to the Germans Play Production Will Present 'Uncle Harry' Starting Today The case history of "Uncle Harry" will be disclosed at 8:30 p.m. EWT (7:30 p.m. CWT) today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. The play is under the direction of Prof. Valentine Windt of the Depart- ment of Speech and is Play Produc- IRA To Elect Ofijcers, Plait Activities ioda y The Inter-Racial Association will s 1. : 1 T i t 7 what is the attitude of the rest of the elect a secretary and teasurer and world toward them," Prof. Newcomb plan future activities at a meeting stated in an interview yesterday, to be held at 7:30 p. m. EWT (6:30 "and at the same time, combat their resentment toward us." He explainedlin (CWT) today in the Union. that educating them for democracy The purposes of the organization should be our primary goal in the are, as president Herbert Otto said, long run but pointed out that short "to promote racial unity, help elimi- run propaganda would boomerang if nate the sourcesand causes of inter- it forced democratic ideals on the racial friction and discrimination, and people. thus promote the concrete realization Referring to the effect of defeat of a living democracy." on the German mind, Prof. Newcomb Among the activities sponsored by said he believed that each German the IRA in the past semester are lec- will concentrate on his particular tures, a Race Clinic, participation in fortunes. "The older generation," he Negro History Week; and campus- revealed, "has not been Nazified as wide distribution of the pamphlet much as the younger generation." "Races of Mankind." tion's first offering of the spring semester. "Uncle Harry" is a psychological study of the successful murderer. He himself tells the story of his expert planning and execution of the crime. Not only does he completely escape the law, but he is not even taken seriously when he confesses to the crime. Uncle Harry is left to haunt the local tavern, telling his unusual Ctory to any unfortunate victim fall- ing into his hands. The leading roles of Uncle Harry and his two sisters, Lettie and Hes- ter, are played by Byron Mitchell, Betty Blomquist, and Babette Blum respectively: Others in the cast include Dorothy Murzek, Janine Robinson, William Cooke, Onnolee Anderson, and Orris Mills. vJames Land, Harp McGuire, Henry Mant ho, Arthur Shef, San- ford Max, and Margaret Beckton complete the cast. Today's and tomorrow's perfor- mances feature a special rate to all students. Taylor Reveals Renaissance False Records Research in the works of Renais- sance writers discloses that bibli- ographies of non-existent books have been compiled, Prof. Archer Taylor, who spoke yesterday at Rackham Amphitheater under the auspices of the German department, pointed out. A specializer in folklore and me- dieval literature and chairman of the German department at the Univer- sity of California, Prof. Taylor de- scribed in his lecture bibliographies, guides, and records written by schol- are from 1500-1700. These early doc- uments became almost unknown, he said, after 1700 because learning af- ter that period shifted away from the use of Latin, in which most of these documents were written, others being written in Italian, French, and English. Increased nationalism and Steel Works Troops Drive 110 Miles From Berlin By The Associated Press PARIS, April 11, Wednesday-The U.S. Ninth Army, in a neck and neck race with the American First Army toward Berlin, quickly toppled Ger- many's 12th city of Hannover yester- day and swept on 28 miles into Brun- swick's outskirts at a point only 110 miles from the Reich capital. While tank units of the Ninth also overran Salzgitter, site of the Goer- ing Steel Works ten miles southwest of imperilled Brunswick, U.S. First Army troops in a 40-mile advance on the south smashed into Nordhausen and likewise struck within 110 miles of Berlin with the seizure of localities near Auleben, 45 miles west of Halle and 57 miles from Leipzig. Reach Erfurt Farther south the U.S. Third Army, capturing 285 members of the Ger- man Foreign Ministry at Muehlhau- sen, rolled on and reached the out- skirts of Erfurt and Coburg, 50 miles from the Czechoslovakian frontier in the swelling drive to split Germany. Thousands of Allied warpla1es were aiding the explosive advances into the heart of Germany and de- stroyed 377 German planes during the day. Tanks Cross Weser River In the north the British Second Army sent tank columns across the shattered Weser River line north of fallen Hannover, a city of nearly a half-million population, and reached the Aller River at a point within 60 miles of Hamburg. great German port. Berlin said units of this army already had crossed the lower Aller and were only 50 miles from Ham- burg. To the west the Canadians plunged within 25 miles of the seaport of Emden in their race to close the last corridor leading into Holland where between 100,000 and 200,000 Ger- mans are pocketed. Other units fought deeper into Holland itself. Elements of the First and Ninth Army fought savage rear actions as they compressed the shrinking Ruhr pocket where 100,000 Germans were trapped. Field dispatches said the Germans were flying in old planes by night and trying to rescue key offi- cers and personnel. Graduation Day Is Announced vySecretarv Commencement exercises for 979 University of Michigan students has been set for June 23, according to Herbert G. Watkins, secretary, who released the figures today. According to tentative figures com- piled by Watkins almost half or 450 of the 979 graduates will come from the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. The Graduate school is next, planning to give degrees to 166. The College of Engineering is third with 95 students scheduled for diplomas. Even though the commencement exercises are scheduled for June 23, the actual diplomas will not be sent out for ten days. During this period a compilation of grades must be sent to the Board of Regents for their final approval. Debators To Oppose Alma Unierityde atn tem wilg University debating teams will go to Alma and Central Michigan Col- leges today to discuss the question of compulsory arbitration of labor disputes. --- Today 140 Servicemen present Army-Navy Revue at 8 p. m. EWT (7 p.m. CWT), Hill Auditorium. Today IRA business meeting at 7:30 p. n. EWT (6:30 p. m. CWT), the Union. Today Prof. Newcomb speaks on Nazi propaganda under the auspices of Post-War Council at 7:30 p. m. EWT (6:30 p. m. CWT) in Rm. 320, the Union. Today through Saturday Play Production presents "Un- cle Harry" at 8:30 p. m. EWT (7:30 p. m. CWT), Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre. Today Dr. William Frankena rnka na n , "irra.rr i NOT CONFUSIN' BUT AMUSIN': Shrewd Students Ignore Change In Time r", EDITOR'S NOTE; Perry Logan, the Daily's roving reporter, whose own watch is set on Mountain War Time, has been assigned to note campus reaction to the recent University change from Eastern to central War Time. Logan, somewhat confused by the fact that he now gets up at noon for his 8 o'clocks, reports his observations below: - It ain't confusin', it's "amusin'! Campus reaction to the time change Monday has been rather less than was expected by many self- styled experts, who last week were there, and that in general, students, like spring, would be a little late this year. Those who were waiting to see the campus in turmoil were disappointed Monday when students and faculty alike almost without exception turn- ed up promptly at 7, 8 and 9 a. m. CWT for classes that last week had been 8, 9 and 10 o'clocks. They gaped with amazement when University offices whose door- windows said 8 a. m. opened to 7 o'clocks with no apparent extra discomfiture, when Michigan men be- gan making dates with Michigan women for the dances this weekend from 8 to 11 p. m., and when students only smiled when State St. clocks said 5 p. m. while the carillon tolled 4, the sadists gave up. For the campus had quite quick- ly realized that although Univer- sity clocks had been set back one hour, all permanent schedules, of- fice hours and class hours had been set back an hour too. The the same thing himself. Professional ethics and the AAUP forbid disclos- ing his name. But other than that, the time change seems to have gone prac- tically unnoticed. Girls are com- ing in on time, warm nights are still enticing nature lovers in an easterly direction, and the local railroads report that, to their know- ledge, nobody has missed a train as yet. Because there really has been no change in the actual time of campus