r E :YI 4p 41r 4 .f It r 44 ait- WEATHER Partly Cloudy and Warmer. VOL. LV, No. 170 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Kingsbury, Dixon Appointed Heads Of 'Ensian, Daily Pines, Strickland,Flint To Assume Leading Posts on Business Staffs League Economic Powers Favored 66 Florence Kingsbury was appointed managing editor of the 1946 Michi- ganensian and Ray Dixon was ap- pointed managing editor of the Daily by the Board in Control of Student Publications yesterday. Ann Wallerstein will be associate editor of the 'Ensian while Jean Pines was re-appointed business manager. Norma Johnson will be in charge of the summer directory business staff. Dixon will be managing editor. of the Daily for both the summer Large Budget Proposed for P acif ic War European Victory Cuts Last Year's Figure By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 11-The Ar- my proposes to spend $39,019,790,474 fighting Japan alone in the year beginning July 1, one-fourth less than it required in fiscal 1945 for war in both Europe and the Pacific. President Truman, submitting to Congress the War Department budg- et for the next fiscal year, pointed out that the figure represented a cut from the preliminary estimate of $45,500,000,000 made when the late President Roosevelt submitted the regular budget in January. That pre- liminary figure was based on the assumption that fighting against Germany might continue. The reduction was a direct out- come of the capitulation of the Nazis. "The amout recommended for 1946 reflects an . overall dec4ease of 25 per cent in the program for the fis- cal year 1945.which is estimated to total $52,600,000,000," a White House statement said. "The President estimated that the Army's strength will total 8,320,000 on June 30, 1945, and will be cut to a maximum of 6,968,000 during the succeeding 12 months. "The budget," Mr. Truman said, "not only contemplates financing the war against Japan throughout the fiscal year but it provides funds for munitions and equipment to be de- livered through Dec. 31, 1946. "Included is approximately $1,000,- 000,000 for international aid require- ments (military lend-lease) and for relief of civilians in areas occupied by our forces." Convict May Be In Ann Arbor Local police said last night "it is very likely that at least one of the two convicts who escaped from Jack- son Prison yesterday will head in the direction of Ann Arbor." Leo Maloney, 31, serving 40 to 50 years, has relatives in Chelsea and may go there, police indicated. The other escaped convict, Charles Lang- don, 37, serving a life sentence, is not a native of this area. CAMPUS EVENTS Today The All-Campus organ- ization will hold a mass meeting at 4:30 p. m. EWT (3:30 CWT) in Lane Hall. Today Sphinx members will meet at 7 p. m. EWT in the lounge of the West Quad. Today Members of the WAA Board will hold a dinner meeting at 6 p. m. EWT (5 p. m. CWT) at the WAB. Today The monthly pre-induc- tion meetings, conducted by the Ann Arbor Office of Civilian Defense and the Selective Service Board will be held at 7:30 p. m. EWT (6:30 p. m. CWT) in the small audit- orium of the Ann Arbor High School. June 13 V-12 Unit will present Navy Olympics, 7 p. m. EWT (6 p. m. CWT) at FerrvF ield. session and the fall term. Margaret Farmer and Betty Roth will as- sume all other senior duties for the summer. Daily business manager for summer session will be Richard Strickland. Fall business manager will be Dorothy Flint with Joy Altman as associate business manager. Miss Kingsbury, '47, has worked on the 'Ensian four semesters, hold- ing the position of junior editor for the past three semesters. A member of Gamma Phi Beta, she is a cap- tain of the League Merit Tutorial committee. Miss Wallerstein, who has also worked four semesters on the 'Ensian, is a sociology major and will be graduated in 1947. She has been a junior editor for the past two semesters, is a member of Wy- vern, and was recently appointed WAA dormitory manager for 1945- '46. Miss Pines, a junior psychology major, has worked on the 'Ensian five semesters assuming the position of business manager in November, 1944. She is a member of Scroll, of Wyvern, and of Sigma Delta Tau sorority. Miss Johnson, '46, has been a mem- ber of the 'Ensian business staff for three years, at present acting as ac- counts manager. A member of Kappa Delta, she is an economics major and has worked on JGP. Dixon, a senior economics major, has worked on the Daily since the spring term, 1942. He was a night editor for three semesters and city editor during the present semester. He is a member of Chi Phi frater. nity, Men's Judiciary Council and Sigma Delta Chi national journal- istic honorary. Miss Farmer, who has worked four semesters on the Daily, is also an economics major. She was a night editor for one semester and editorial director this semester. A June, '46, graduate, she is a member of Mortar Board, Senior Society, the Varsity debate team and Delta Sigma Rho collegiate speech fraternity. Miss Roth, '46, has worked on the Daily six semesters, holding the position of night editor two seme- sters. An economics major, she is a member of Senior Society and of the Inter-Cooperative Council. Strickland was reappointed as business manager of the Daily after serving in that capacity this seme- ster. He has worked on the Daily since summer term, 1944, acting as accounts manager from December, 1944 until March. He is president of Chi Phi fraternity and a mem- ber of Sphinx. Miss Flint, '46, is a business ad- ministration major. She has work- ed on the Daily four semesters, act- ing as contracts and promotion man- ager one semester and as local ad- vertising manager at present. She is a member of Senior Society.. Miss Altman, '46, has worked on the Daily for two years, previously holding the positions of services and service manager. A number of Sigma Delta Tau, she was associate busi- ness manager of the V-Ball Daily in March, 1945. Borneo Aussies Find Little Enemy Oppositionl MacArthur Leads New Landings By The Associated Press MANILA, June 12-Sweating Aus- tralian troops plunged steadily inland in British North Borneo against neg- ligible resistance today after four unopposed landings in the Brunei Bay area Sunday, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur bid boldly for the oil and rubber of the world's third larg- est island. Already the invasion had secured for the Allied navies Brunei Bay, one of the southwest Pacific's finest anchorages only 800 miles from Sing- apore; swept through the ruined town of Brooketon, where new Japa- * * = Is Invaded at Four Points San Francisco Commission Approves Pattern for Council First Section of World Charter Drafted; Security Mechaiiism Will Be Framed By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, June 11-A United Nations conference commission voted by acclamation today to bulwark a world league with powers to attack economic and social ills which have helped generate war in the past. Amid predictions that it will "carry a message of hope to scores of millions of people," the commission adopted a pattern for an international social and economic council--the first section of a world charter to be drafted in final form. Another commission assembles tomorrow to set in place in a com- mittee's words, "the keystone of the peace structure which we are in the process of building." That is the sec- T * * * * * Canadians Return Liberals to Office OTTAWA, June 11-(P)-Prime Minister MacKenzie King's Liberal government, which was under Tory fire for its failure to adopt total con- scription, was returned to power to- day in a general election which brought solid support from the large French-speaking, anti-conscriptionist province of Quebec. The Progressive Conservatives ran a relatively weak - second and the socialistic CCF a poor third in the first three-way nationwide election in the dominion since 1921. nese oil machinery lay ready to be taken to the wells, and secured the town of Victoria and Labuan Airfield on Labuan Island. Brunei, capital town of the British protectorate of the same name, was the next objective, and already the Australians had plodded within 13 miles of it in the oppressive tropical heat. The Australians, members of the tough Ninth Infantry Division-the famed "Desert Rats" of Tobruk and El Alamein-hit the deserted beaches Sunday at 9:15 a. m. (8:45 p. m., Saturday,, at four points; on the southeastern tip of Labuan Island at the mouth of Brunei Bay; on Muara Island, also in the bay; at Brunei Bluff, and at Brooketon town. Advances were general on all fronts, and within two hours after the initial landings MacArthur him- self went ashore with his air forces commander, Gen. George C. Kenney, and other top officers. MacArthur's regular communique this morning, however, made no men- tion of the Borneo invasion, announc- ing only continued aerial and naval torpedo boat activity on the Borneo coastal regions. Covered by Australian and Ameri- can warships and planes, the Aussies, seasoned on the desert battlefields of Africa, met negligible opposition as a Japanese force, estimated at between 2,000 and 5,000 men, was dirven off. the beaches by terrific bombardments. CONQUERING GENERALS ARRIVE FOR WELCOME-Generals George S. Patton, Jr. (left) and James H. Doolittle walk to their auto- mobiles after their arrival at Los Angeles, Calif. for a welcome home to their native California from victories in Europe. PLANNING FOR PEACE: Youth Group To Instruct U' Washington DelegateToday {,,____ Students will give instructions to the University delegate to the Wash- ington Youth Conference at the sec- ond mass meeting of the all-campus organization to be held at 4:15 p.m. EWT (3:15 CWT) today at Lane Hall. * The all-campus body, in the process of formation, will be an or- ganization of organizations to be made up of representatives from recognized University, groups and all persons, regardless of affilia- tion, who are interested. The func- tions of this body will be to pro- mote world youth unity, adopt a foreign University and send dele- gates to youth conferences. The Washington Youth Conference is a preliminary session of a series of world youth conferences planned for the future. A discussion of plans and platforms for the London Youth Conference to be held in August, and the International Youthn Conference to be held in November in either Prague or Paris, will be the business of the Washington conference. The name of the University delegate will be announced today. VisiLtng WAVE Will Interview Michigan Coeds As part of the drive to enlist 20,000 WAVES, Thelma Lewis, Sp. (R) 2/C, will be here tomorrow and Thursday to interview interested coeds at the League from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. EWT 9 to 5 CWT). Appointments may be made for those who are unable to contact her during that time. Approximately half of the newly- enlisted WAVES will be assigned to the Hospital Corp, it was announced. The other half will be assigned to general duty in storekeeping, re- search, photography, link training, communication and numerous other fields. Women between the ages of 20 and 36, who are American citizens will at least two years or business college training are eligible to join the ser- vice provided they have no children under 18 years of age. Boot training is eight weeks at the U. S. Naval Training School, Bronx, N. Y. WAVES may serve in the United States or volunteer for over- seas duty in Hawaii, Alaska, Bermuda, or the Panama Canal Zone. At the mass meeting students' will ratify a constitution for the all-campus organization, organize committees for the summer and arrange a date for the first meet- ing of the summer term. All persons who plan to attend the summer session or term may serve on one or more of the committees which will be publicity, expansion, correspondence, finance, public rela- tions and arrangements. Chinese Ram Jap Defenses Near Kweilin By The Associated Press CHUNGKING, June 11-Chinese troops have rammed within 10 miles of Kweilin, formerly the biggest ad- vanced base for American air power in the Orient, in a 15-mile burst through Japanesendefenses, the Chi- nese high command reported tonight. In a hard-hitting, three-pronged drive against the imperilled Japanese bastion, 360 miles southeast of Chungking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's veteran fighters threat- ened to isolate thousands of Japanese troops holding out in Liuchow, 90 miles southwest. While the Chinese closed in on both Kweilin and Liuchow, assault forces in extreme South China cap- tured two Japanese-held towns near the Indo-China frontier and battered 20 miles over ravine-cut hills toward Pingsiang, 100 miles northeast of Hanoi, capital of the former French colony. tion of a world charter setting up the measures a security council will take to halt conflict in the future. This second commission session of the week will be asked to approve a report from one of its committees drafted by Joseph Paul-Boncour of France. This report, it was learned today, says the peace-enforcement mechanism of the new United Na- tions organization will be a "definite" improvement over that of the old League of Nations. Report States Obligation "Military assistance, in case of ag- gression," the report declares, "cease to be a 'recommendation' made to member states; it becomes for us an 'obligation' which none can shirk. "If these proposals are adopted, the international organization will cease to be unarmed in the face of violence; a collective force the size, the degree of preparedness, the composition, and the general location of which will be determined beforehand, will have been placed at the disposal of the council to carry out these decisions." Veto Method Undecided But still to°be-decided was- how this security council would veto, and whether the five great . p6wers- France, Britain, Russia, China and the United States-would have the right to veto by individual ballots any specific steps the council takes to preserve peace. The report which the commission accepted said the social and eco- nomic council may, be expected to become the principal instrument "for the organization of peace." - It contemplates international col- laboration in the fields of trade, finance, communications, transport and reconstruction. It envisages "in- ternational cultural and educational cooperation and the solution of health problems." But an understanding was reach- ed that none of these purposes was to be construed as authorizing the United Nations league to "intervene in the domestic affairs of member states." Fighters Hit lap Targets GUAM, June 11 - (P) - Thirty American Mustang fighters sprayed targets of central Japan with bullets and rockets today, Tokyo reported, making the fifth straight day of air attacks on the Nippon homeland. The unconfirmed report said the fighters, raiding the Tachikawa and Aisuki airfields in the Tokyo-Yoko- hama area for an hour, were "led" by two B-29s. Five factories and military targets were bombed in the same area by 250 to 300 B-29s, escorted by Mustangs from Iwo, Sunday. 96th Infantry Makes Gains On Okinawa Suirrender Demand Unanswered by Japs By The Associated Press GUAM, June 12, Tuesday-Amer- can forces on Okinawa made substan- tial progress yesterday in the second day of their all-out frontal assault on the Yaeju-Dake escarpment. The 96th Infantry gained control of a small area atop the escarpment at a point about 600 yards south of Ynag- usuku. The U. S. Tenth Army commander, Lt. Gen.Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., called upon the Japanese to surren- der, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimtz announced today. There was no indication that the entrapped Japanese had replied. Gains Under Fire Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley's 96th fought off numerous small counter- attacks by Nipponese entrenched in caves as they scaled the rugged, steep slopes of the escarpment which runs more than three miles, almost from coast to coast, across Okinawa's southern tip. It was the day's most spectacular gain and was made against heavy, pointblank artillery fire, mortars and machineguns. Bradley's men called upon flame- throwing tanks to knock out enemy emplacements. Also employing tanks, the 32nd regiment of the Seventh Infantry Division on the southeastern coast occupied the summit of hill 95, south- west of Hanagusuku, after two days of bitter fighting. Hill Advantageous Hill 95 will be advantageous to Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's Sev- enth Division doughboys in gaining control of the eastern end of the Yaeju-bake escarpment. On the western end of the line, Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del Valle's First Marine Division advanced about 650 yards along the coast against sur- prisingly light resistance. The Divi- sion's left flank moved up about 400 yards to assault hill 69, west of Ozato, two miles inland almost directly east of Itoman town. Polish Dispute May Be Settled Hopkins Is Returning From Moscow Visit (See MERRY-GO-ROUND, Page 4) LONDON, June 11 - () - Hope mounted in diplomatic quarters here for an early solution of the deadlock- ed Polish dispute as Harry Hopkins, White House troubleshooter, sped homeward by air tonight amid unof- ficial reports that his Moscow visit had won a compromise from Premier Stalin. (A Washington dispatch said Hop- kins, who was sent to Moscow May 23 by President Truman, "reportedly carried, among other things, Marshal Stalin's view on plans for a big three meeting.") The optimism was not shared by members of the Polish exiled govern- THEME-SONG? Latest Son cHit in Germany Predicts Berlin's Comeback BERLIN, June 10-(Delayed)-(P) -A honey-voiced German torch singer in a flashy Berlin night club has given the country its first post- war theme song, a slightly Dixieland ditty called "Berlin Will Rise Again." The lyrics predict the resurrec- tion of practically everything ex- cept Adolf Hitler. The song had its premier at the swank Cafe Leon and Kabaret der Komiker on a street far from the heart of bomb-levelled Berlin, and was received with almost bobby-sox- er enthusiasm. Members of the au- dience sat starry-eyed during the performance. Some cried. They all cheered wildly when the singer, her piano and drum accompanists, and her three-fourths undressed but oth- erwise artless chorus, had finished. denburg Gates, . Kaiser Wilhelm statue - and just about everything except Der Fuehrer. We went to the night spot at the suggestion of a Russian officer who was conducting correspondents through the shattered remains of Berlin. A doorman dressed in a long orange coat was turning customers away - although it was only 5 p.m. and still broad daylight - but he called the manager, a Herr Lippman, who said "Oh, dear," but got seats for us near the front. The cabaret consisted of a thea- ter-like auditorium, a bar and tables. When we entered a male crooner was going through his act, but nobody paid any attention to him. They watched us. Other acts included a young Ger- STEP TOWARD SETTLEMENT: British Suggest Withdrawal Of Foreign Forces from Syria BEYROUTH, June 11-(IP)-The British proposed today that French and British forces be withdrawn from Syria and Lebanon simultaneously as a step toward a speedy settlement of the Levant states crisis. Sir Edward Grigg, British resident minister in the middle east, who sug- gested the troop withdrawal at a press conference, also made a new bid for American participation in set- June 1. New official estimates of the casualties were 600 civilians and gen- darmes killed, and 1,500 civilians wounded. The Syrian parliament building was damaged before Brit- ish troops intervened. Sir Edward denied charges by Gen. Oliva Roget, French com- mander in Damascus at the time of the fighting, that British agents had stirred un trouble. or that