THE MICHIGAN ,DAILY SUNDAY, APRiL 22,31945 U Allies Drive en Miles Past Fallenog_ Beginning of Final Italian Victory } Seen in City's Fall b Gen.Clark x% k } Yanks Strike To Cut Off German Retreat; Italian Civilians Say Enemy Without Supplies 3 r 3 t} Mexicans Anxious To Attend English Institute By The Associated Press ROME, April 21-The U. S. Fifth and British Eighth. Armies quickly toppled the great fortress city of Bologna today and swept on 10 miles northwest in pursuit of German troops fleeing for their lives across the Po Plain. Nazis.. (Continued from Page 1) was three-quarters encircled by a huge 70-mile are of steel thrown, around the city in a gigantic pincer operation. This was effected when the Rus- sians reportedly lunged south of the capital in a spectacular 65-mile over- night sweep that drove to Beelitz, 13 miles southwest of the city's famed Potsdam gate. The Germans said that motorized infantry, supported by hundreds of tanks, had pushed north from Luck-l au another 31 miles and reached Berlin's southeastern suburbs of Koenigsberg-Wusterhausen, site of Berlin's silent long-wave Deutsch- landsender radio station. Another spearhead of Soviet assault forces, advancing after being caught by a flood of water released from a dynamited hydro-electric power dam, advanced to the area of the big mili- tary training center of Wuensdorf,1 15 miles south of Berlin, and the So- viet power-house was pressing tow-, ard Zossen-Allied-bomber site of the German high command head- quarters. Between Berlin and Dresden, the tidal wave of Soviet mechanized pow- er surged across the Brandenburg plains on a 58-mile front from cap- tured Senftenberg south to the out- skirts of Koenigsbrueck, only 14 miles northnortheast of Dresden. Official Report Given Hurling back suicidal charges by drunken German troops the Soviet drive was officially within 48 miles of the American armies standing on the Mulde river. Farther southwest in Austria, Mos- cow announced that Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army was moving across the plateaus of the southern approaches to Prague in a 35-mile front. Gen. Mark W. Clark told his 15th Army group that the fall of this an- cient city of 270,000 'population- which through the winter's bitter fighting stood as a defiant German symbol of resistance-"Represents to us the beginning of final victory in Italy."1 Troops smashing into the city met only light resistance and by tonight the great pursuit of the Germans was well under way. San Giovanni, f0 miles northwest of Bologna, was over- run and Polish troops went on to score gains northeast of the city. At the eastern end of the front the British Eighth Army drove three miles beyond Portomaggiore, captur- ing Marrara, and were reported with- in eight miles of Ferrara, important communications center just below the Po River and 30 miles northeast of Bologna. These troops were driv- ing to cut off and annihilate seg- ments of the retreating Germans. Hoo per Slaying Susp*lec'ts Held S eret Witnesses See Four Men in 'Show-Up' JACKSON, Mich., April 21.-()- Four men detained for questioning concerning the slaying last Jan. 11 of State Senator Warren G. Hooper were viewed today by secret witnes- ses at a "show-up" at the state po- lice post, but what the result may have been was not disclosed. Elaborate precautions were taken by the officers to conceal the iden- tity of the witnesses. "We have made progress in the case," Capt. William Hanson of the Jackson state police post said, and added, "We feel we are nearing a solution." Capt. Hanson declined to say on what facts his optimism was based. Nor would he say whether today's witnesses were those disclosed early in the murder investigation to have seen a maroon-colored automobile with at least two occupants near and at the spot where Hooper was found shot to death. By PAT CAMERON Men prominent in Latin-American education, taxi-drivers who want to become tourist guides, and house- wives who want to learn English in order to understand American movies and fashion magazines-these and many other groups are attracted to the English Language Institute in Mexico, Dr. Albert H. Markwardt, di- rector of the Institute in Mexico dur- ing the past two years and associate professor of English here, said in an interview yesterday. "Fifteen-thousand pzople in Lat- in America are now learning Eng- lish in U. S. government-sponsor- ed projects, and at present there are no less than 22 cultural in- stitutes to care for these needs," Prof. Marckwardt said. Supported by the Division of In- tellectual Cooperation of the State Department, the English Language Institute in Mexico is not only teach- ing English as a foreign language, but it is also helping Mexicans to teach English to the Latin-American pub- lic. i 'Although this program may be de- scribed as a general adult education project, teacher training is an im- portant aspect of its work. People from the United States who want to teach English to their fellow-country- men receive valuable 'in-service' training at the Institute," Prof. Marckwardt explained. The curriculum comprises three years of study and emphasizes the spoken language, with the result that by the end of the third seme- ster, the language classes are con- duced entirely in English. In the past two years, the enrollment in Mexico City increased from 150 to 900. The staff, composed of a majority of Michigan-trained people, also pre- pared text materials for the teach- ing of English. 'Few good text-books have been' written that are adoptable for use in teaching English as a for- eign language," Prof. Marckwardt said, "but Mrs. Aileen Kitchin and Miss Virginia French, under the di- rection of Prof. Charles C. Fries of the Department of English here, are preparing materials for publication." The Institute also acts in an edu- cational-advisory capacity. Prof. Marckwardt gave the example of the Universidad Femenina which was to begin a program leading to a Mast- er's degree in literature and which sought the advice of the Institute in formulating its curriculum. In 1943 Prof. Marckwardt was invited to serve as a visiting pro- fessor at the National University Iof Mexico. In this capacity one of his duties was to direct the Insti- tute located in the Benamin Franklin Library in Mexico City. This semester he resumed his posi- tion in the University Department of English. Other members of the staff who were trained at the University of Michigan were Mrs. Marckwardt, Mrs. Mentor Williams, Miss Estelle Grif- fiths, Mr. and Mrs. James K. Pas- serelli, Howard Tessen, and Jane Griswold. BUY MORE BONDS : GERMAN BARRACKS BLASTED NEAR TRIESTE--Clouds of smoke rise from German occupied bar- racks at Postumia, 25 miles northeast of Trieste, Italy, after an attack by rocket-firing South African Air Force Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force, one of which is shown banking away after firing one of its rockets. This is a British Official Photo. 1ev. Fai'rnim LET'S SWIM TO MUSIC: Will Speak at Radios Can Be Water-Proofe Baptist Church By Insulation of New Silicon i Pw Th Ag +nr n - ---- C A d Film Will Be e Shown Today -41 th V Michigan S _ -0SO THURSDAY April 26 I Verdi's "'IL TROVATORE" SUPERB CAST Symphony Opera Orchestra TICKETS NOW Curtain at 8:20j Prices $1.20, $2.40, $1.80, $3.00 inc. tax Corps de Ballet Box Office Opens 10 A.M. Rev. Marlin D. Farnum, assistant secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Missions, will be the guest speaker at the First Baptist Church today. Farnum's address at the morning service will be "The Church's Oppor- tunity Tomorrow". At the Roger Williams Guild at 5 p . He will speak on "Vocational atisfaction". He will have conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and Wednesday evening will speak in the Guild House on "How Northern Bap- tists are Organized for Foreign Mis- sion Service". Farnum worked for eight years in the Inland Sea area of Japan, and for five years in Tokyo where he acted as mission secretary for the Baptist work there. * ~* * C4 REV. FARNUM . .. to speak. Church Guilds List Programs . .Y The Canterbury Club will have Mary Hayden, a graduate of the University, and now a member of the American Red Cross, as its guest speaker at its meeting today at 5 p.m. EWT (4 p.m. CWT) in St. An- drew's Episcopal Church. The third in a series of speeches on "Love and Marriage" entitled "Marriage and Home Building" will be given by the Rev. Eugene Zendt at 5 p.m. EWT (4 p.m. CWT) today at the Congregational-Disciples Stu- The program at the Wesleyan Guild will include favorite scriptures and hymns followed by the supper and fellowship hour at 5 p.m. EWT (4 p.m. CWT) at the Methodist Church Guild Hall. Dr. Franklin Littell will speak on "Growth Through Cooperation" at the Westminster Guild at 5 p.m. EWT (4 p.m. CWT) at the Presby- terian Church. The Lutheran Student Association will entertain the Chinese Christian group at 5 p.m. EWT (4 p.m. CWT) today at the parrish hall. Gamma Delta, the Lutheran stu- dent club, will have a bike hike along the Huron River Drive: Members will meet at 2:30 p.m. EWT (1:30 CWT) in front of the Campus BikeI Shop. one or two weeks Championship at Cue Ball Another silicone is a grease, the color and consistency of transparent Joe Sobeleski bested opponents turquoise. There never was a grease Ken Hannah and Wayne Crozier last like this. It won't melt in a frying night to become pocket billiards pan with sizzling bacon. It won't harden at 60 below zero. champion of the University, the Won't Burn nor Freeze tournament being held in conjunc- Michigan hunters have been using tion with the "Cue Ball" in the Union a silicone gun grease and another ballroom. silicone to keep their boots soft and Sobeleski, who won the finals 50- waterproof. There is also a silicone 30, first played pool three years ago. CLASSIFIED AnvfrITISING 'i i x53 xie rassociaLea rress 1 ski Grease to Slim taster over MIDLAND, Mich., April 21.-You can take your radio set in swimming this summer, if it has been insulated with silicone, then shake out the water and dry yourself on the beach to a jive tune from the set. Silicone is a new chemical com- pound, made mainly from sand. Pro- perly speaking, the name is sili- cones, for it comes in many forms- liquid, soft and solid. But all are from sand. Dozens of Uses-Discovered The waterproof radio is only one of dozens of new uses found for sili- cones at the Dow Corning Corpora- tion, where they were developed. One silicone which looks like water is a glass polish. Used on eye glasses, it provides a new surface, leaving the glasses brilliantly clear. Those who have tried it say one application lasts snow. Had Hitler possessed one of these silicone greases in his first winter in Russia, his big guns would not have become useless at 40 below zero when their greases hardened and disintegrated. One of industry's fire hazards has been burning electrical insulation, sometimes from overheated motors. At Midland a blow-torch was turned against an electric motor insulated with a silicone; the insulation did not catch fire. In 1942 when the first silicone insulation-a form of varnish-was used, the motor ran at the unheard-of heat of nearly 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit without burning out. Sobeleski Wins Billiard "New England," March of Time film, will be shown at 7:30 p. m. EWT (6:30 p. mi. CWT) today in the In- ternational Center, accompanying a lecture by Prof. Arthur E. Wood of the sociology department. Prof. Wood is a native of New England, and worked with former president Hoover's Commission on Home Building and Home Owning. Author of several books in this field, he has studied social problems in Germany. 11 WAR BONDS ISSUED HERE! Continuous from 1 P.M. NOW PLAYING DAY OR NIGHT LOST AND FOUND Michigan Now Showing LOST: Covert topcoat from Lane Hall Thursday night. My coat con- tained Allentown label.yExchange. Roy Boucher. Lawyer's Club. Phone 4145. TAN CORVETTE TOP COAT with block label taken by mistake from League ball room. Please call Jer- ry Bloom, 3734. LOST: Diamond ring in League. Please call 3808. Carol Hill. Re- ward. LOST: Black and white striped Schaeffer pen lost Friday on cam- pus. Call 394 Jordan. LOST: Gold ring, initialed F, on cam- pus. 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