.d&- Ak . AW 4fltr Ig."n 4 WEATHER C-iil.I Vty i th Showers VOL. LV, No. 169 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS ............ ... - Japs Report Allied Invasion of Labuan Clubs Select Delegates For Executive Council Mass Student Meeting Will Be Held Tuesday Campus groups will select repre- sentatives for the summer session to sit on the Executive Council of the all-campus organization and to attend the first Council meeting to be held at 4 p.m. EWT (3 p.m. CWT) tomorrow at Lane Hall. A mass meeting for all students will be held at 4:15 p.m. EWT (3:15 p.m.j CWT) Tuesday at Lane Hall, at which time the constitution will be ratified, the date for the first sum- mer term meeting will be set, officers will be announced and committees will be organized. The organizations which will be invited to send representatives to the first Executive Council meeting have Male Chorus To Be Featured At Campus Sing Will Present Concert Numbers on Thursday An all-campus sing featuring the Men's Varsity Glee Club, under the direction of Prof. David Mattern, will be held at 7:15 p.m. EWT (6:15 p.m. CWT) Thursday on the library steps. Singing three concert numbers, Sullivan's "The Lost Chord;" Fred Waring's arrangement of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the Ne- gro spiritual, "Set Down Servant," the Glee Club will present what Prof. Mattern called "a fling before the finals, which should see every student join in on the good old songs of Michigan." Plans have been made, he said, to hold the all-campus sing in Hill Au- ditorium if it rains Thursday eve- Students attending the tradi-s tional all-campus sing wil also hear several stunt numbers by members of the Glee Club. Three soloists, Jerome Horwitz. Harold Kulbarsh and Raymond Buntaine, were an- nounced by Prof. Mattern. IvorE Gothic will serve as accompanist. At the final business meeting of the Glee Club on Tuesday, officers for the coming year will be elected and the Glee Club keys will be pre- sented. Subscribers to the 1945 Michi- ganensian who will be out of town this summer should leave their addresses at the Student Publica- tions Building between 2 p. m. and 5 p. m. Monday through Friday. Receipts must be shown. been chosen arbitrarily by the plat- form committee, which has empha- sized that groups not contacted may secure membership by presenting a petition at the first summer term meeting of the Council. Those organizations who will be asked to send representatives are the Union, Women's War Council, the Daily staff, Panhellenic, Assem- bly, Hillel, Inter-Racial Association, Inter-Cooperative Council, Post-War Council, Student Religious Associa- tion, Inter-Fraternity Council, En- gineering Council, Graduate Council, Veteran's Organization, World Stu- dent Service Fund, All-Nations Club, Inter-Guild, Newman Club, Michi- ganensian staff and Michigan Youth for Democratic Action. The agenda for Monday's meeting is: 1. Present the constitution which has been drafted by the platform committee. The constitution will re- ceive final ratification at the mass meeting. 2. Elect officers for the summer term., 3. Elect a delegate to attend the Washington Youth Conference June 25 and 26. 4. Prepare a petition to present to the University Student Affairs Com- mittee in order to gain University recognition. BULLETIN GUAM, Sunday, June 10-(P')- Between 150 and 200 Superfort- resses struck five Japanese indu- strial plants and repair bases on Honshu Island in daylight this morning in the second consecutive day of precision raids on key enemy warplants. Chutists Land In 'Shangri-La' HOLLANDIA, Dutch New Guinea, June 9 -(R)- Filipino parachutists, refreshed by parachuted American beer, labored to build a glider landing strip in marshy ground in New Guin- ea's isolated valley of "Shangri-La" today so that three survivors of a U.S. Army plane crash can be res- cued. Squadron Leader Michael J. Leahy of the Royal Australian Air Force, a glider expert who is well acquaint- ed with the New Guinea jungles, is acting as aerial advisor in the rescue program. Leahy is expected to pilot the glid- er which will land when the strip is completed, take aboard a U.S. WAC corporal and two army men, and then be snatched into the air by a i transport plane. "U'Graduation Exercises To Be On June 23 Ruthven To Speak At Commencement Approximately 1,042 students will be graduated at the annual com- mencement exercises td be held at 10:30 a. m. EWT (9:30 a. m. CWT) June 23 in Hill Auditorium. Introduced by President Ruthven, Dean E. Blythe Stason of the Law School will give the commencement address after the playing of the na- tional anthem by Prof. Palmer Chris- tian. Following several numbers by the Navy Chorus, the dean of each de- partment will present his candidates for degrees to receive their token diplomas. - Dean Clarence Yoakum will present the remaining degree groups of the Graduate School. After an address by President Ruthven to the Naval graduates, Capt. Michaux will commission them in the Naval Reserve. Seniors are to assemble for the traditional procession at 9:30 a . EWT-(8:30 a. m. CWT) on the diag- onal of the campus. The line of march will proceed along the diag- onal to S. University, turning on to State St. and then N. University, end- ing at Hill Auditorium. Of the 1,042 graduates approxi- mately 418 will receive degrees from the School of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The School of Education will present 42 candidates; Architec- ture and Design, 12; Engineering, 94; Law, 9; Pharmacy, 5; Dentistry, 61; Business Administration, 18; Fores- try, 15; Music, 44; Public Health, 60; Nursing, 67; and the Graduate School will present degrees to 197. Forty-three NROTC men will be commissioned as ensigns of the line. Seyenteen dental students will re- ceive commissions as Assistant Den- tal Surgeons. TWO LOVERS: Hitler Married Braun Before Fall of Berlin BERLIN, June 9-(P)-Adolf Hit- ler married his sweetheart, Eva Braun, two days before Berlin's fall and the lovers might have escaped from the German capital by plane, Marshal Gregor K. Zhukov, Rus- sian conqueror c the city, said to- day. "We have found no corpses which could be Hitler's" Zhukov said in the first authoritative report on the Hitler mystery. Zhukov said the German Fuehrer and his bride had good opportunities to get away from Berlin after one of history's most macabre marriages. Cites Chance To Escape "He could have taken off at the very last moment for there was an airfield at his disposal," said the head of the Red army's occupation forces in Germany. The Soviet commandant of Berlin, Col. Gen. Nikolai E. Bezarin, also said that Russian soldiers had not yet found Hitler's body. "My personal opinion is that he has disappeared somewhere into Eu- rope," Bezarin said. "Perhaps he is in Spain with Franco. He had the possibility of taking off and get away," Believed 'Somewhere in Europe' (NBC broadcaster Robert Magidoff attributed to Zhukov the statement that Hitler might be hiding in Eu- rope and said that Zhukgv added: "Now it is up to you British and Americans to find him.") Ward To Take Case To Supreme Court CHICAGO, June 9-MP)-Montgom- ery Ward and Company served notice today of intention to carry its legal fight against government seizure of properties in seven cities to the U. S. Supreme Court. Company counsel asked a stay of mandate from the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which yesterday in a 2 to 1 decision held the seizure was legal. A Ward's lawyer said this action informed the appellate court the com- pany intended to ask the high court Claim Landings Of Borneo Coast AIlied Blasting of Brunei Bay Area Reported by MacArthur Comm unique By The Associated Press MANILA, June 10, Sunday-The Japanese reported Saturday an Allied invasion of Labuan Island off the northwest coast of rich Borneo. Gen. Douglas MacArthur did not confirm the enemy radio report but his communique today announced heavy air raids for the eighth consecu- tive day on Labuan and the Brunei Bay area in which Labuan is situated. Allied light naval forces also shelled the northeast coast of Borneo, MacArthur announced. U. S. 13th Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force and U. S. Seventh Fleet heavy, medium and fighter-bombers dealt the Borneo blows as the air war in the East Indies reached( - - A BRITISH ARMY CAPTAIN orders a German women back into a British garrison theater at Burgsteinfurt to see a second showing of a film recording conditions in the Nazi prison camps at Belsen and Buchenwald. The captain acted when he saw the woman laughing after viewing the film once. This is a British official photo. U. S. ToKep Nazi Prison R eich To B eDeIndts trialized Allies Will Remove Enemy War Plants By The Associated Press SHAEF, PARIS, June 9-A repara- tions program to strip Germany of its war plants and avoid the unsuccess- ful post-war world, one plan of at- tempting to recover war damages in dollar value by revitalizing German industry was outlined today by Am- bassador Edwin W. Pauley. "Our primary policy is to de- industrialize Germany, to destroy its war potential in the future," said Pauley, who is president Tru- man's personal representative on the allied reparations commission. "With that in mind there is con- siderable material for reparations." Pauley did not outline all German industries that would be permitted to. operate if Britain and Russia adopt the United States view that all those of war nature should be removed or destroyed. However, the first to be dismantled would be armament plants followed probably by aircraft, shipbuilding and machine tool industries. Presumably all manufacture of consumer goods will continue to help feed and clothe the German people. The same goes for the mak- ing of medical supplies. Pauley told a press conference the United States realized mistakes were made in reparations policies after the last war and "we don't intend to, make the same ones this time." "It would be futile for us to seek repayment for the total cost of our war effort," he asserted. "Both the money and the lives are gone." He contrasted this view with that! following the last war when the vic- torious Allies laid down a program of monetary repayment. He declared the United States will assert a claim, "although as to what it will be I am not prepared to say." The German gold hoard, uncovered by the American Third Army in a Merkers, Germany, salt mine, will be considered by the reparations com- mission as a means of restitution. ~Germans To Wor~k e Rebuild Europe By The Associated Press SHAEF, PARIS, June 9-- United States armies, which held 2,852,000 German prisoners in Europe when Victory came, will keep 600,000 of them as- laborers, Cal. Robert J Gill disclosed today. Anotherr200,000 to 225,080 Ameri- can-held troops will be handed over to France" for labor in this country, said Gill, chief of the prisoner of war division in the European theater provost marshal's office. With nearly 500,000 prisoners in the United States and another 25,000 in Britain, Gill estimated it would take at least nine months to cut the total figure to 600,000 by various means, some of which still have not yet been decided upon. Gill reiterated previous state- ments of high American military authorities that German prisoners would be "permitted" to remove land mines but declined further comment on that subject. He emphasized, however, that all plans for employment of prisoners in the rehabilitation of battered Europe were based on rules of the Geneva convention despite the fact the German Government-which was a signatory of the convention-has ceased to exist. About 160,000 Germans now held by Americans in three prison camps north of Cologne will be turned over to the British when occupation zones are definitely established, Gill said. The captives to be turned over to France now are held in seven. enclosures in France, he said, add- ing they will come under 'complete charge of the French just as if French armies had captured them. Gill also disclosed that about 18 per cent of the total bag of prisoners would be discharged and sent home under a plan to turn loose all miners, farmers, transport workers, women prisoners and men over 50 years of age who are not suspected of war crimes. a crescendo. Liberators Bomb Labuan Liberators of the 13th air force cascaded a heavy tonnage of bombs on Labuan and on a nearby airfield, while delayed reports showed the RAAF on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday smashed the nearby main- land town of Brunei in a succession of raids, destroying many Japanese buildings. These strikes were follow- ed by another 13th Air Force raid on the same area. Tokyo had said that Allied invad- ers went ashore on Labuan after Japanese positions on the isle were battered by battleships, cruisers, de- stroyers and 50,small warships.. , American Planes Set Fires MacArthur reported American planes set fires in harassing raids on Taihoku on Formosa, caused a large explosion with a direct hit on the Woosung.docks near Shanghai, China and bombed a small arms plant near Canton, besides doing extensive dam- age to railways on Hainan island and in Indo-China. In the Philippines cleanup cam- paign, he announced that the U. S. 27th Infantry Division, in an eight- mile advance along the winding road leading towards the Cagayan valley of northern Luzon, had liberated the town of Solano and reached within four miles of the Bagabag highway junction. Medium and attack bombers drop- ped 330 tons of explosives on the Japanese in that area and destroyed a grounded enemy plane, while light naval forces shot up Japanese posi- tions on Luzon's north coast. Other Fronts GUAM - (P) - Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey's U. S. Third Fleet sent courier planes on a return visit to Japan Friday, attacking Kanoye air base on Kyushu. They destroyed 28 planes on the ground and two in the air at a. cost of four raiders. Fleet headquarters announced the strike in a communique today. Pilots of all four American planes were rescued. Halsey's planes had hit Kyushu on two days last weekend, marking the return of the "Bull" to the Pacific theater. * * * . OKINAWA-(P)-Fierce last stand Japanese resistance on the southernj tip of Okinawa Saturday temporarily stalemated the drive of the Marines and soldiers to finish the 4-day old campaign, the Navy announced. Jap- anese casualties through Friday total- led 67,703 killed. On Friday, while carrier planes of Adm. William F. Halsey's Third Fleet attacked a Japanese base on Kyushu used by the enemy's special attack (suicide planes), the Nipponese sent over more raiders against American shipping at Okinawa. Jap Cabinet To Rule by Decree Hirohito Directs Diet To Support Holy War By The Associated Press Emperor Hirohito directed the Jap- anese Diet yesterday (Sat.) to hand over virtually all its power to the war cabinet, which will rule by decree in an effort to cope with what Premier Kantaro Suzuki called "the most crit- ical situation in the history of our nation." Opening of the two-day emergency Diet session in bomb-ravished Tokyo with a prediction that the unprece- dented war powers would be granted quickly was reported by the Domei agency in a series of broadcasts re- corded by the Federal Communica- tions Commission. Forecasts Invasion Addressing both houses, Premier Suzuki forecast an American inva- sion of Japan and warned of new shortages of food, munitions and transport, but rejected unconditional surrender and declared that Japan's only choice was "to fight to the last." In a brief imperial rescript, which was read before Suzuki spoke, Hiro- hito called on the people to "fulfill the purpose of the holy war" and ordered the Diet to "do your duty of deliberating and supporting the war emergency measures "in accordance with our imperial will." Called 'HolyWar' Suzuki, who quoted the emperor on the "Holy War" angle, lashed out at what he called "the tyrannical atti- tude" and "evil designs" of the Unit- ed States and Britain, and declared: "Japan is fighting a war to up- hold the principle of human justice, and we must fight to the last." Suzuki contended that Japan would have the advantage in supply and concentration of troops in American invasion of the homeland, and "we certainly will be able tohrepulse the enemy and crush his fighting spirit." 'Critical Time' Repeatedly he mentioned the diffi- culties ahead, however, and warned that "it is truly a critical time." Gen. Korechika Anami and Adm. Mitsumasa Yonai, Ministers of War and Navy, who also addressed the Diet, uttered similar defiance but likewise portrayed Japan's military situation as grim. Praise Suicide Tactics Anami also praised the suicide tactics, which he called "a unique way of fighting which no other na- tion than the Japanese is capable of employing, and which I believe will certainly open the way for victory," Student Play Will Be Given 'Girl's Best Friend' Is Written by Comins Louise Comins' play, "Girl's Best Friend," this season's second student- written production, will be presented by the Laboratory Theatre at 8 p. m. EWT (7 p. in. CWT) tomorrow in the elementary school auditorium of University High School. Sorority life on a campus titled "the Vassar of the Middle-West" pro- vides the plot for this three-act com- edy dealing with the "sisters' "efforts to romanticize the life of the hero- ine, Corrinne Essig. Other members of the cast will be John Momeyer, Glenna Baratta, Connie Schwartz, NOW FLOWING BACK: Britain Shipped Gold Overseas- At Threat of German Invasion LONDON, June 9-(P)-Flowing back to England today was some of Britain's gold supply, virtually all of which was shipped across the oceans when a German invasion threatened, a Bank of England spokesman dis- closed today. Every type of ship, from tramp. stetamers to big liners-some run- ning through U-boat infested wat- ers without an escort-carried the gold to secret hiding places and left virtually empty the vast vaults of CAMPUS EVENTS. Today Russky Kruzhok (Russian Circle) will present a pro- grain of songs and dances at its Russian Night cele- bration at 7:30 p. m. CWT in Rm. 316, Union. Today Richard Sokatch, pianist, will give a recital at 8:30 p. m. at Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. June 11 Mary Louise Nigro, grad- uate student in music education, will present a recital at 8:30 p. m. at Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre. June 11 The second student-writ- ten production this seme- ster "Girls Best Friend," by Louise Comins, will be nresented at R v m. in the the Bank of England during the blitz years of 1940 and 1941. This greatest gamble in financial history was revealed as the British treasury announced it would pay four shillings and three pence more per five ounce for gold in the sterling area as the shipping risk had been "sub- stantially reduced." An official announcement said that the readjustment of the price from 168 shillings per fine ounce to 172 shillings and three pence was made merely in line with changing wvar con- ditions and should not be regarded as a gold point nor as made ih antici- pation of Bretton Woods. It has "no bearing on any questions of exchange policy or exchange rates," the state- ment said. During the entire war, the spokesman for the Bank of Eng- land said, movements of gold amounted to roughly $4,000,000,000 with losses totaling hardly more than $20,000,000. Some of the lost gold was recov- ered even after gold-laden ships were sunk. In one case, Australian divers retrieved from the ocean bed 423 feet down all but $325,000 worth of a gold cargo of $8,000,000. Great stores of gold were concen- trated in naval bases and other stra- tegic spots throughout the world. Huge shinments were moved to New SHEPHERD PREDICTS: Soong To Copy ChiOng 5 Po litics * * * Claiming that the recent change in the Chinese government, which saw T. V. Soong replace Chiang Kai- Shek as premier portends no change in Kuomintang attitude toward Yen- an (communist) China, Rev. George W. Shepherd, political adviser to Chiang and other Kuomintang lead- ers for many years, interpreted Soong's appointment only as one of convenience. "Soong's integrity as Minister of Finance, his competence as a banker and his influence in Washington," administration. Such an overwhelm- ing influence," he added, "is not probable in China unless imposed with outside military force; in which case its permanency would be ques- tionable. At present, the Chineseuare one hundred per cent for Russia, but also, one hundred per cent against interference from Russia, Great Brit- ain and the United States." He call- ed attention to the little-known fact that Russia has a token air force in China operating against Japan. Emphasizing the strong current of traditionalism which guides China, Rev. Shepherd stated that Russian :r{r.Fv xvv+. L ...