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VOL. LV, No. 92 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1945
PRICE FIVE CENTS
U.S.
Troops Advance ast of Rhine River
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Mermen, Thiclads Cihnch Big Ten
Nazi West Bank
Titles
Defenses
Weaken
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Conference
Crowns Now
Total '101'
Track Won by Point;
Swimming by 12
Michigan once again retained its
winning ways last night by captur-
ing the Conference swimming title at
Evanston with 55 points, and suc-
cessfully defending the Big Ten In-
door track crown in the Chicago
Stadium, thus bringing the Confer-
ence championship total to 101.
Coach Matt Mann's tankmen grab-
bed five first places to finish 12
points ahead of Ohio State. Indiana
wound up third with 19, Minnesota
and Northwestern tied for fourth at
15, and Purdue scored 11 points to
finish fifth.
Chicago Stadium saw one of the
closest photo finishes ever recorded
in championship track meet history
as Michigan and Illinois battled down
the stretch in a much-heralded duel.
The Wolverines, thanks once again to
team balance plus strength in the
distance events, finally came out on
top by one point-55 1/10 to 54 1/10.
(For further details, see pages 6 and 7)
Mana gement
Unf air, Says
Labor Leader
Automobile Industry
lnvestIgated, by Senate
By The Associated Press
DETROIT, Mar. 10.-A spokesman
for organized labor in the nation's
,automobile industry charged today
that management has taken unfair
advantage of the union's no-strike
pledge and "in too many instances
refused to bargain collectively for
the elimination of grievances."
The statements were made by Wal-
ter P. Reuther, vice-president of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO)
in testifying before a Senate sub-
committee investigating utilization
of manpower in the production of
war material in the Detroit area.
Reuther asserted there was much
idle equipment in Detroit factories
and said, "The War Labor Board has
blocked the efficient use of available
labor by rigid rules which prevent
the transfer of men to jobs requiring
lower skill while maintaining the
wage rate of the higher skilled jobs."
Romney Testifiesj
The committee also heard further
testimony from George Romney,
managing director of the automotive
council for War Production, who
charged that unions were "thwart-
ing efforts to get productive effi-
ciency" in automotive plants.
Reuther Replies
Reuther told the committee that
"failure to plan now for full employ-
ment after the war is responsible
more .than any other single factor
for the loss to war production in
Detroit and other critical areas."
Asserting that the UAW-CIO was
not satisfied with the volume of pro-
duction in the area, Reuther said:
"Manpower needs in the Detroit
area can still be met by more effi-
cient production scheduling and by
proper allocation and utilization of
available manpower, as well as by
the establishment for the workers of
a sense of security about tomorrow's
job."
CAMPUS EVENTS
Today Ava Comin Case will pre-
sent first in a series of
School of Music faculty
recitals at 8:30 p. m. in
Lydia MendelssohnThea-
tre.
Today The first of two perform-
ances of the ice carnival
"Blades on Parade" by
guest stars and members
of the Ann Arbor Figure
Skating Club at 8 p. m. in
the Coliseum.
Reds Sieze
Half of Key
Nazi Fortf
Bombard Danzig,
Advance On Stettin
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Sunday, March 11-Rus-
sian troops began shelling the great
shipping center of Stettin yesterday
and drove four armored spearheads
close to bombarded Danzig, while the
Germans announced that Red Army
shock forces had captured half of
Kuestrin, key Oder River fortress 38
miles east of imperiled Berlin.
In a new invasion of Danzig terri-
tory across the Nogat River from East
Prussia the Russians drove to within
17 miles of the former free city. Other
columns were 12 miles from their goal
on the south, within 10 miles on the
southwest, and 15 on the west. So-
viet planes began attacking the city
and port installations.
Murderous Battles Raging
.A late German broadcast said the
Russians had captured the northern
half, or new city district, of Kuestrin,
last big bridgehead held by thehGer-
mans on the east bank of the central
Oder. Then the Russians fought
their way across the Warthe River
into the older section of the town on
the south side.
"Murderous battles are raging for
every single house and every single
floor of every house," the enemy
broadcast said. The Germans said
the Russians were striving for a
quick clean-up of the Kuestrin area
so that they could shift thousands of
troops northward for thedeveloping
siege of Stettin, main port for Berlin
67 miles northeast of the Reich cap-
ital.
Stettin Being Shelled
. The Soviet High Command ignored
the flaming battle around Kuestrin,
where by German account the Rus-
sians also have bridgeheads on the
west bank of the Oder above and be-
low Kuestrin, and are threatening
to trap the Nazi garrison on the east-
ern shore.
But in the north the Russians said
their troops had pressed within three
miles southeast of Altdamm, Oder
River crossing town two miles from
Stettin's great ship basins, with the
capture of Franzhausen.
Ending of Iwo
Battle Is Seen
Japs Are Holding Out
At North Tip of Island
By The Associated Press
GUAM, Sunday, March 11-Over-
whelming American superiority
brought "The beginning of the end"
on Iwo Saturday afternoon, with ad-
vancing Marines cutting the sharply
reduced Japanese garrisons into three
parts for the kill. The enemy's power
to resist is crumbling.
The largest portion of the foe is in
a half mile square area at Kitano
Point, northernmost tip of the island.
A communique today reported that
the Fourth Marine Division which
had been held back for days on the
right flank, made-big gains by 6 p.m.
yesterday with patrols reaching the
beach at Tachiwa Point, easternmost
point of the eight square mile island.
Today's coimunique said the
Fourth, which is fighting up Iwo's
"bulge," made substantial advances
all along its left flank sector.
The report of decreasing resistance
suggested what staff officers have
predicted-that it is the "beginning
of the end" of the bloodiest, tough-
est fight of the Pacific war, now in
its 21st day.
V-Ball Extra Will Be
Distributed Tomorrow
Copies of the second edition of the
V-Ball Extra containing pictures
taken at the dance and photos of
V-Ball committee members will be
Yanks Gain Mile in Remagen Area,
Hit Germans in Eifel, Wesel Regions
By The Associated Press
PARIS, Mar. 11, Sunday-Ameri-
can troops gained almost a mile in
the Remagen bridgehead east of the
Rhine yesterday while collapse of
the German west bank bridgehead
opposite Wesel and the mop-up of
trapped pockets in the Eifel region
dealt new blows to the apparently
last-ebbing German defense which
may foreshadow an early end of the
gar in Europe.
,The Yanks across the Rhine at
Remagen made their advances-dee-
Big;Air Blow
NAVY FIGHTER Marine-piloted ready for the tak eoff, somewhere in the south Pacific. The propeller
tips make a pattern as the plane "warms up." (
Waterfront,
Area Left in
Industrial
Flames
RAINEY DISCUSSES SCHOOLS:
Realism Developing in South
Texas Educator Foresees
-, By BOB GOLDMAN
Although well-entrenched "special
interest minority groups now hold
power "I see the beginning of a new
day-a new realism is developing in
the South," Dr. Homer P. Rainey,
former president of the University of
Texas said yesterday, in an address,
"Education Problems in the South."
Speaking before a large audience
in the Rackham Auditorium, the for-
Army, Units .Add
$586 to Red
Cross Drive
The campus Red Cross War Fund
drive was augmented yesterday by an
added $586 contributed by the sevenJ
Army Units stationed on campus.-
Deadline for reports on women's
donations was announced by Deborah
Appeal from Miss Lloyd
The American Red Cross be-
comes the greatest service organ-
ization of all in time of war. In
time of peace the Red Cross is on
hand wherever disaster befalls to
minister to suffering humanity.
Now during a global war it has
saved. innumerable. lives . and
brought relief from mental and
physical suffering in all parts of
the world. Those of us who are
far from the devastation of war
should give the "last full measure"
of support.
-Alice C. Lloyd,
Dean of Women
Parry, '45, chairman of the League
drive, as March 20, and first reports
are expected early this week. Mem-
bership cards, pins, and stickers are
being distributed through the per-
sonal contacting of every coed.
Meanwhile, city workers planned
to redouble their efforts this week
in order to bring their total nearer
to the three-quarter mark in their
quota.
mer university president, ousted for
demanding academic freedom by
what he termed, "political forces
guided by emotion instead of intelli-
gence," said, "in the South, we are
beginning to find a solution to our
problems."
Removal Not Discouraging
He explained that his removal,
abouit to become a niajor political
issue in Texas, is not "ultimately
discouraging."
Pointing out that the South must
"change its way of thinking concern-
ing its problems," Dr. Rainey stated,
"The South has poor schools and
housing simply because of the way
we think. Institutions, after all, are
crystallizations of peoples' thinking."
Effects of Civil War
"The South is smarting under the
strain of the Civil War set back," he
explained. "We have taken our eco-
nomic losses out of peoples' lives,
their homes and out of the schools."
But the people are beginning to see
the value of education, he said.
"With the ever-growing industrial-
ization of the South, the whites and
(See RAINEY, Page 2)
U' Enrollment
Is Decreased
Final University enrollment figures,
8,560, released late yesterday reveal
an overall decrease of 439 in compar-
ison with the Mar. 10, 1944 total for
last year's spring semester.
Reduction of campus Army person-
nel from 2,239 in 1944 to 924 this
term, is the reason for the decrease.
While the Naval units stationed
here remained the same numerical
size there was a marked increase in
the civilian registration of both men
and women.
Civilian male registration soared to
2,032, as against 1,673 for the same
period last year, with 4,366 coeds reg-
istered compared with 3,816 for 1944.
Total include; civilian men, 2,032;
women, 4,366; navy trainees, 1,238:
army trainees, 924, (including 16
WACs); total, 8,560.
Berlin Reels
Under Heavy
Raids on Reich
By The Associated Press
LONDON, March 10-Berlin reeled
under a shower of blockbusters to-
night in a swift followup of heavy
day raids on the Reich and a spec-
tacular air battle that put to flight
German dive bombers trying to knock
out the Remagen Bridge and wreck
the Americans' span across the Rhine.
Swift Mosquitos of the RAF bomb-
er Command gave Berlin its 19th con-
secutive raid by night and the Ger-
man radio reported another forma-
tion over western Germany as the
Mosquitoes started home.
Thunder bolts, dripping below a
2,500-foot cloud ceiling over the
bridge, spotted six Messerschmitt
109s carrying heavy bombs and es-
corted by five Folke-Wulfe 190's fly-
ing above Linz in the bridgehead
area on a beeline for the vital Rhine
span over which the First Army was
pouring men and equipment.
McWilliams
To Speak Here
Carey McWilliams, prominent so-
ciologist, will discuss "Racial Minor-
ities" at 8 p. mn. Tuesday in the Rack-
ham Amphitheatre.
A celebrated author and lecturer,
McWilliams has focused attention on
the problems of racial minorities for
years. He has written extensively on
the subject in two books, "Brothers
Under the Skin" and his more recent
"Prejudice." Recently appointed ed-
itor of "The Nation" and a leading
contributor to the "New Republic"
McWilliams has also made frequent
radio appearances. He has partici-
pated in discussions of the racial
problem on the Chicago Round Table
and the Town Meeting of the Air.
The treatment accorded American
citizens of Japanese descent who were
moved from their homes and busines-
ses on thie West Coast to internment
camps farther inland is the topic of
McWilliams latest work, "Prejudice."
Here he points out that the solution
of this domestic problem will have
an important bearing on the outcome
See McWILLIAMS, Page 2
rs lo Visit
e March 28
at the ten day Northwestern con-
ference. Accompanying the visit-
ing officers will be U. S. Army
judge advocates who speak Span-
ish and Portugese. All lectures and
discussions will be conducted in
these two languages.
By The Associated Press
21ST BOMBER COMMAND, Guam,
Mar. 11, Sunday-At a cost of two
bombers, more than 300 Superfor-
tresses laid waste to 15 square miles
of Tokyo's industrial and waterfront
Saturday in a raid described un-
officially by some officers as the
most devastating single air blow ever
dealt any city in the world.
The raid "left nothing but twisted,;
tumbled-down rubble in its path,"1
said Maj.-Gen. Curtis Le May whose
B-29's only recently wiped out 240]
city blocks of Tokyo in another dev-
astating attack. .
Reconnaissance Photographs
The prepared statement by the
21st. Bomber Command leader added
that the devastating results were
"incontrovertibly established by rec-
onnaissance photographs taken on<
the afternoon of the strike."
As the full extent of the damage
by the more than 300 B-29's, which
struck the Japanese capital shortly
after midnight Friday (8 a.m., Fri-'
day, Eastern War Time), was being
assayed, other Superfortresses lashed
out from India at the Japanese rail1
supply line in Malay Saturday.
Fifteen Square Miles Ruined
Le May said the photographs con-
firmed earlier reports from the re-
turning pilots that the destruction
had swept beyond the ten square
mile target area in the heart of the
city.
The total of the ruined area was
shown as 15 square miles, from
which clouds of smoke had covered
the returning B-29's with soot.
Fires were still burning at seven
points in Tokyo when the photo-
graphs were taken Saturday after-
noon, hours after the night strike.
Prof. Lovell
Addresses SRT
Rural Electrification
Discussed at. Meeting
A talk by Professor A. H. Lovell of'
the College of Engineering on the
background of rural electrification
followed by a round table discussion
were the main features of yester-
day's Sigma Rho Tau meeting, at
which the University chapter played
host to the Beta and Zeta. chapters.
The meeting was held at the League
after a dinner in the Russian Tea
Room. Associate Professor R. D.
Brackett, faculty sponsor of the Uni-
versity chapter of the engineeringi
speech society, with engineering stu-
dent members received the guests.
Professor L. L. Henry, assistant
dean of the College of Engineering
at the Detroit Institute of Technolo-
gy, lead the Beta chapter, while Pro-
fessor H. O. Warner, head of the
Electrical Engineering department of
the University of Detroit, headed the
Zeta chapter.
After Professor Lovell had outlined
the many problems of rural electri-
fication the student members of the
various chapters discussed the finan-
cial problems connected with the pro-
gram. At the close of the discussion
a business meeting was held in which
nominations for national offices werea
made. A meeting in Detroit on the
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pening and lengthening their al-
ready powerful bridgehead-against
the desperate opposition of enemy
armor and infantry rushed there in
a frantic effort to prevent the U.S.
First Army forces from rolling up
the entire German Rhine line from
the rear.
Yanks Advance
On the basis of Associated Press
front dispatches from Remagen ear-
ly today, the Americans are punch-
ing inland and along the river. The
Germans, beset by battered com-
munications and lowered morale,
have not yet brought sufficient
strength into the bridgehead area to
halt the attackers.
A dispatch from the U.S. Ninth
Army front said that a spearhead
regiment of the 35th Infantry Divi-
sion had cut off the last remaining
escape route from the Wesel pocket'
late last night and had reached the
approaches of a railroad bridge
which reportedly was blown out.
From the Netherlands front came
reports by reconnaissance pilots of
extensive eastward movements of
German troops north of the Waal
Rhine. This may indicate that in
the face of heavy reverses and pos-
sible naval attacks on the Dutch
coast, the Germans have decided to
abandon all of Holland south of the
Zuider Zee in order to fall back on
the Ijssel River and a better defen-
sive position.
Dutch Cities Imperilled
Such a withdrawal would mean the
abandonment by the enemy of Hol-
land's main cities of Amsterc'm,
Rotterdam, the Hague and Utrecht.
The Americans were striking out
for the commanding hills some six
miles east of the Remagen crossing
as both sides massed men and tanks
for the crucial battle at Germany's
inner threshold. Only seven miles
east of the river (and apparently a
mile or less from the Americans' ad-
vance) runs one of Adolf Hitler's
new superhighways to Cologne, an
ideal avenue for a northward charge
towards the Ruhr industrial basin.
Ice Carnival
Opens Today
In Coliseum
Two Performances
Feature Guest Stars
The first of two performances of
the gala ice carnival, "Blades on
Parade," featuring guest stars and
a cast of 50 members of the Ann Ar-
bor Figure Skating Club, will be held
,at 8 p. m. today on the ice of the
Coliseum.
Starring some of "the finest figure
skaters in the midwest," "Blades on
Parade" is produced and arranged
by Lt. Melvin Flegal, a stage chore-
ographer before the war, now teach-
Ing military science and tactics at
the University.
Solo, Ballet, Comedy Dances
"The Fire Dance," a solo acclaim-
ed at the recent Lake Placid (N.Y.)
Winter Carnival, is one of many solo
dances, ballets and comedy numbers
to be presented at tonight's and to-
morrow evening's show. Other dan-
ces on the program include the tango,
fancy ten step and the waltz.
Members of the figure skating club,
eight of whom have participated in
midwest sectional competition of the
United States Figure Skating Associa-
tion, include in their repertoire a
great variety of dance steps and the
41 school figures of the USFSA.
Champions Will Perform -
Pat Kazda, novice champion in
midwest sectional competition of
USFSA in 1944, will appear as guest
star in the show, along with Barbara
Miller, Elaine Eschleman and Mary
Margaret Dean of Detroit.
Mary Frances Greschke, 1942 No-
vice Champion of the midwest, Betty
Ann and Mary Jane Courtright, Mar-
ilyn Jacobs, Mimi Lewis and Frances
Radford, representing the Club, will
hold featured sole spots in the Car-
nival.
Participating in the group ballet
21 NATIONS REPRESENTED:
Latin Military Le vaI Office'
Judge Advocate School Her
Twenty leading military legal of-'
ficers of nine Latin American Re-!
publics will visit the JAG School from,
March 28 to April 1 as part of a 39,
day observation tour of military legal
installations in the U. S. A.
Initiated by Maj. -Gen. Myron C.
napolis, Md.; and Washington, D.
C. Wright Field, 0.; Fort Knox,
Ky.; and New York City and Miami
Beach, Fla. will also be visited be-
fore the officers return to their
native countries.
"This will be a two-way confer-