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VOL. LV, No. 18 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, NOV. 21, 1944

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Third Army Plunges into Saar Basin



Yanks Gain
Steadily on
North Leyte

Chinese Retake Burma
Road Town of Mangshih
By The Associated Press
CHUNGKING, NOV. 20--Chinese troops are fighting inside Bhamo,
strongest remaining Japanese base in north Burma, and have recaptured
the Burma Road town of Mangshih, 62 miles inside China from the
Burma border, the Chinese high command announced today.
Against these Allied victories, the high command acknowledged indi-
rectly that two great Japanese forces aggregating probably 250,000 troops
who are invading -Kwangsi province from the east and north had completed

Vital Highway Held
Despite Nip Attacks
By The Associated Press
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD-
QUARTERS, PHILIPPINES, TUES-
DAY, NOV. 21-(IP)--Grim American
infantrymen of the 32nd Division
are making "steady progress" in re-
ducing strongly fortified Japanese
positions near Limon, at the north-
ern end of Leyte Island's Ormoc
Corridor, headquarters reported to-
day.
Attempt to Break Trap
The American road block across
Ormoc highway south of Limon still
holds, despite heavy Japanese at-
tack. The Imperial first Division,
added by artillery and armor, is at-
tempting to break through the trap
enfolding them round Limon,
The Yanks repulsed enemy coun-
terattack west of Ormoc Road, where
a three-hour bloody battle was re-
ported in yesterday's communique.
Air Force in Battlef
Leyte-based American fighters at- 
tacked enemy communication lines
and installations throughout the Or-
moc corridor.
Thirty-five enemy fighters and
divebombers ineffectively raided Am-
erican positions. Seven were shot
down by fighters and anti-aircraft
fire.
Another tropical typhoon, with
continuous rains, lashed the battle
area.
Mud Slows Progress
Bridges have been washed out,
streams flooded and roads trans-
formed into waterways, headquart-
ers said. All traffic by ground and
sea is "fraught with great difficulty
and hazard and battle conditions are
becoming static."
The Japanese were reported in a
frontline dispatch yesterday to be
infiltrating American positions on
northern Leyte, around Limon and
near Carigara Bay, more than two
miles northward.
Small enemy forces attacked near
Pinamopoan, more than two miles
north and in the rear of Limon,
where a considerable Nipponese force.
is trapped, and also east of Pinamo-
poan. Both attacks were repulsed.
Regent Leads
Discussion at
Iowa Meetlng
During the fourth session of the
twenty-second annual conference of
the Association of Governing Boards
of State Universities and Allied In-
stitutions held recently at the Uni-.
versity of Iowa, Regent Alfred Con-
nable led a discusison group on "A
Manuel for Trustees of Colleges and
Universities."
Among the points considered from
the book, written by Dr. Raymond
M. Hughes, president emeritus of
Iowa State College, were functions
of the trustees, functions of the pres-
ident, the faculty, overlapping inter-
ests and conflicts of authority and
the college and the individual.
President R. W. DeVoe of the As-
socition presided at most of the
eight sessions which were attended
by trustees, regents, directors and
members. of the boards of governors
from nationwide institutions of high-
er education.

Reds Open Big
Winter Drive,
Berlin Asserts
Russian Troops Fight
Into Miskolc, Fifth
Largest Hungarian City
By The Associated Press
LONDON, NOV. 20-Rusian troops
fought their way today into the out-
skirts of Miskolc, Hungary's fifth
largest city, and Berlin announced
that the Red Army had opened its
grand winter offensive on the frozen
terrain of Western Latvia, where 30
German divisions are pinned against
the Baltic Sea.
German escape roads out of Mis-
kolc, 8 miles northeast of besieged
Budapest, were cut on the east and
west as the Russians drove through
Csaba, less than a mile south of
Miskolc, a Russian bulletin announc-
ed.
Reds Drive Near Eger
Russian troops in Hungary also
drove to within two miles of Eger,
another mountain town command-
ing the invasion roads to southern
Slovakia, 22 miles southwest of Mis-
kolc.
Moscow did not confirm the Lat-
vian drive which Berlin said was
sprung from the Russian salient
around Priekule, 20 miles east-south-
east of the Baltic port of Liepaja, one
of two harbors available for any
Nazi escape by sea.
Soviets Loose Artillery
German radio accounts of the bat-
tle said it began Sunday-celebrated
throughout Russia as Red Army ar-
tillery day-with a crashing artillery
barrage along a front 20 to 30 miles
wide. They all agreed it was a ma-
jor assault.
This new onslaught, coming a few
days after the General Allied push
on the western front, was considered
the first of the "new devastating
blows" which Marshal Stalin recent-
ly promised would be struck in the
east.
Dea~. To Attend
NIFC Meeting
Dean Joseph E. Bursley, Educa-
tional Adviser to the National Inter-
fraternity conference, and J. Seger
Slifer, 'U' alumnus and national sec-
retary and treasurer of Chi Psi will
leave for New York City today to
attend the 36th annual meeting of
the National interfraternity Confer-
ence, to be held Friday and Sa ur-
day at the Commodore Hotel.
Problems dealing with the main-
tenance of 2,700 fraternity chapters
lege and university campuses throu
of 58 member fraternities on 180
college and university campuses
throughout the country and reorgan-
ization of college fraternities for a
post-war world will be considered at
three half-day sessions of the con-
ference.

7a junction west of Liuchow, severing
China and completing an unbroken
link all the way from Manchuria to
Hong Kong.
'The Tokyo radio in a broadcast
recorded by the FCC declared that
the U. S. Air Force in China had
destroyed and abandoned its air field
at Nanning (Yungkink), about 100
miles south-southwest of the point
where the Japanese junction appear-
ed to have been effected. The un-
confirmed Japanese report said the
Nanning field was "the sole enemy
air base in south China.")
Arrivals in Chungking reported
that all routes leading from the
danger zone in Kwangsi province
were choked with refugees--a sorry
spectacle of human misery. It was
conservatively estimated that a to-
tal of 70,000,000 Chinese now had
fled their homes since the war with
Japan began in 1937.
A communique said that Bhamo,
south of Myitkyina and 175 miles
northeast of Mandalay, was pene-
trated by Chnese troops Saturday
after a heavy American dive-bomb-
ing attack and that bitter fighting
was going on in the streets. The
town was encircled by the Chinese.
Any Chinese troops remaining in
a pocket southwest of Liuchow ap-
peared to have been trapped.
Mangshih, third imprtant Burma
road town to fall to the Chinese in
their offensive in western Yunnan
a frontal attack coupled with a
province, was captured last night in
double envelopment, the high com-
mand said.
War Loan Qota
Set at $50,000
JGP 'Bond Belles'
Aid Sixth Campaign
The Sixth War Loan Drive swings
into its second day today with the
University's share in the nationwide
drive set at $50,000, R. Gordon Grif-
fith, Associate Investment Officer
said yesterday.
Purchase of bonds during the drive
will be facilitated by members of the
Junior Girls' Project, who braved
rain and snow yesterday to sell rib-
bons to purchasers of war stamps.
JGP girls have again formed a "Bond
Belles" corps which established a rec-
ord in 1940 selling $50,00 worth of
bonds during the 1940 drive.
Prospective purchasers can request
that bonds be delivered to their of-
fices by the "Bond Belles." An of-
ficial receipts will be given the pur-
chaser by the Bell at the time of
payment.
Griffith said the University's quota
of $50,000 in SeriesdE bonds "is not
large and it should be well over-
subscribed."
Washtenaw County's overall quota
in the purchase of all bonds is
$8,164,000, $5,541,000 of which must
be raised by Ann Arbor.
Ensian Pieiture
Deadline Is Set
Senior pictures of February, June
and October graduates, in order to be
published in the single June issue of
the Michiganensian, must be deliv-
ered to the 'Ensian offices, Student
Publications Building, by February
1, 1945, Jean Pines, busines manager,
announced today.
Seniors are urged to make their
appointments with photographers
immediately and are requested to
hand in a four by six inch glossy
print. Senior picture coupons will
go on sale December 11.
Oct. 28 is Date of

Last Major Accident
There have been no major auto-
mobile accidents in the county since

B-29 Task
Force Hits
At Kyushu
Japanese Mainland
Bombed from China;
Ai-craft Center Target
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-"A large
task force" of B-29 Superfortress
bombers hit the island of Kyushu in
Japan's homeland today.
Flying from China, the big
planes dropped their explosivs
against industrial targets, said an
announcement by General H. H.
Arnold.
Kyushu is the southernmost of the
Japanese home islands. On it is
Omura, a big aircraft center. Omura
was among the spots hit Nov. 11
when the Superfortresses completed
their seventh mission in 27 days.
Announcement of today's attack
was made in these words:
"A large task force of B-29 air-
craft from the 20th Air Force to-
day attacked industrial targets on
the island of Kyushu, in the Jap-
anese homeland, General H. H.
Arnold, in his capacity as com-
manding general of the 20th Air
Force, announced at the War De-
partment.
"The mission was carried out from
China bases by Major-General Cur-
tis E. Lemay's 20th bomber command.
A communique will be issued when
further details are available."
REGISTER FOR BLOOD BANK
Registration for the Red Cross
blood bank will be held from 9 am
to noon and from 12:45 to 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
at the center of the Diagonal and
in the East and West Quadrangles
at a time to be jnounced subse-
quently.
State Educators
Discuss Change
In Security Plan
Michigan educators met in Lansing
yesterday to consider revisions of
the teachers' retirement fund, now
considered by the group inadequate
in its present form.
Drs. Charles H. Fisher and C. J.
Nesbitt of the University reported
the fund's present income would fall
$75,686 short of meeting demands
on it. Dr. Fisher left Ann Arbor
today to participate in the meeting.
Dr. Eugene B. Elliot, state super-
intendent of public instruction, said
that the State Retirement Fund
board would meet Nov. 24 to consider
a solution of the problem and that
educators would confer on the matter
Dec. 9.
Raising contributions of both the
state and teachers and liberalizing
benefits to teachers has been pro-
posed by the heads of the state edu-
cational system.
State appropriations of $200,000
per year, plus contributions by the
teachers, have failed for four years,
public instruction reports reveal, to
cover costs of operating the retire-
ment system. Suggested plans for
putting the fund on a sound basis
ranged in cost to the state from
$1,000,000 to $3,000,000.

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SIX ALLIED ARMIES .CONTINUE ASSAULT ON GERMAN WEST-
ERN FRONT POSITIONS-Arrows and flags indicate where six
Allied armies continued their great winter offensive against German
defenses on the western front. Canadians reached the Maas river,
Geilenkirchen virtually was encircled, Third Army troops broke into
Germany at Perl and entered Metz, the Seventh Army advanced on a
wide front and the French drove through the Belfort gap.
SECOND SPEAKER:
MlowrerToA nat'Yze "'he War
And Road l Peace' Tomorrow
r -

Edgar A. Mowrer, University alum-
nus, who has been most recently a
columnist and formerly a foreign
correspondent, will be the second
speaker on the Oatorical series at
8:30 p.m. tomorrow at Hill Audi-
torium.
With knowledge of the causal fac-
tors of war, gained in Italy during
the rise of fascism, in Germany
WSSF Off icial
-o Sle V
To peak at
League Today
"The Program of the World Stu-
dent Service Fund" will be discussed
in an address by Miss Annie Wiggin,
WSSF traveling secretary, at 7:30
p. m. today at the League.
To secure the interest of members
of various campus organization and
other students in the proposed WSSF
drive is the purpose of the hour
meeting which will be divided be-
tween Miss Wiggin's address and a
question period.
Miss Wiggin's lively interest in stu-I
dent relief work is exemplified by her
joining with the American Commit-
tee for Christian Refugees immedi-
ately upon the outbreak of the pres-
ent war.
WSSF is the organiztion through
which students help student prison-
ers of war, internees, refugees and
others whose education has been dis-
rupted by the war.

reporting the collapse of the Weimar
Republic and the coming to power
of Hitler, and earlier in covering
World War I, Mowrer will analyze
"The War and the Road to Peace."
Book on Republic
In the first year of the Third
Reich, Mowrer's book, "Germany
Puts the Clock Back," appeared,
tracing the disintegration of the
Weimar Republic, and relating the
development of. National Socialism.
As a result of this book, which was
banned by the minister of propa-
ganda, and the dispatches Mowrer
was sending from Germany, he was
expelled from the Reich.
His next assignment was to head
the Paris bureau of the Chicago
Daily News, where he watched and
reported the fall of France. He re-
turned to the United States in the
position of Washington correspon-
dent of the News.
Wins Pulitzer Prize
A winner of the Pulitzer prize for
distinguished foreign correspon-
dence, in addition to his book on
Germany, he is the author of "Global
War" and "Dragon Awakes" (China).
Mowrer received his A.B. at the
University in 1913, travelling then
to Paris where he continued to study
and write. While at the University
his chief interests were philosophy
and literature.
Tickets for the lecture can be
obtained today and tomorrow at Hill
Auditorium, and season tickets orig-
inally issued for the Carl J. Hambro
lecture will be valid for the Mowrer
lecture.

'Frenci Nazis Trade
Shots Across Rhine
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 20- The U.S.
Third Army plunged two miles into
Germany's rich Saar industrial basin
in a new invasion of the Reich today
-a momentous one for Allied arms
WAR AT A GLANCE
By The Associated Press
WESTERN FRONT-Yanls en-
ter Saar basin; French reach
Rhine in three places near Swiss
frontier; resistance ceases in Metz.
EASTERN FRONT-Berlin ra-
dio reports new Red offensive in
western Latvia.
ITALY-Polish forces lose Monte
Fortino in German counterattack.
PACIFIC-Yanks smash Jap po-
sitions near Limon; Navy an-
nounces ten American ships lost.
that saw the French in the greatest
breakthrough since Normandy storm
in force to the Rhine at three places
near the Swiss frontier.
The great fortress of Metz had
been overrun, and far to the south
outflanked Belfort- like Metz a
French fortress immune to capture
for centuries-rocked under the at-
tack of French colonial Zouaves
fighting inside the city.
French, Germans Trade Shots
Once more the French and Ger-
mans were trading shots across the
Rhine for the first time since early
in the war.
The German lines bent inside the
Reich and broke in France under the
shock of six assaulting Allied armies
swelling their winter offensive toa
furious pitch.
The Paris Radio said a French
armored division, which smashed 20
miles in 24 hours to the Rhine, was
assaulting the French city of Mul-
house in a rampage up the Rhineland
valley against the exposed southern
flank of the German armies.
French Bridge Rhine
Reports from Switzerland said the
French were throwing a bridge across
the Rhine for an imminent new inva-
sion of German, and another uncon-
firmed story from the frontier said
American troops had occupied Mul-
house.
Truman Signs
Paderewski
Score for 'U'
Senator Harry S. Truman, who
possesses considerable skill at the
piano besides his political attain-
ments, has sent an autographed copy
of a Paderewski score to the Univer-
sity's Clements Library collection at
the request of Dr. Randolph G.
Adams, director Dr. Adams said
yesterday.
Following his election as vice-
president, Senator Truman was pho-
tographed playing the piano at Dem-
ocratic headquarters. The number
was Paderewski's "Minuet in E
Minor."
Dr. Adams purchased the score
and sent it to the Senator with the
request that Truman autograph it to
add to the University's collection of
signatures of notables.
Truman complied and pointed out
several deficiencies in the score to
boot and added that he once had a
lesson from Paderewski himself on
the Minuet.
CAMPUS EVENTS
Today Sylvan Berman speaks
on "The Situation of
World Jewry" at 8 p.M.
in the Hillel Founda-
tion.
Today Tryout meeting at 4 p.m.
for Daily business staff.

Compulsory general bus-
iness meeting at 5:15
p.m.
Today La Sociedad Hispanica
meets at 8:30 p.m. in
the Michigan League.
Today WSSF Meeting, Anne
Wiggin, speaker, 7:30
p.m. at the League.
Nov. 22 Oratorical Association
lecture by Edgar Mow-
rer.


'STICK TO WAR JOBS':
Hamberg Asserts No Reason
For Workers To Leave Plants

ROBERT FRIERS:
World's Top Vaga bond'Comes Here'

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By BOB GOLDMAN
"There is no reason for war work-
ers in the Ann Arbor area to leave
their jobs for positions in civilian
production," Lawrence Hamberg, dir-
ector "of the local United States
Employment Service said yesterday.
Commenting on recent Washing-
ton warnings thatcivilian goods
production may be curtailed because
of labor shortages in essential indus-
tries, Hamberg told Washtenaw
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have to convert their equipment with
the resumption of peacetime pro-
duction."
In county establishments employ-
ing over 200, there has been a drop
in employees from 5,600 to 5,200
within a month, he stated.
War Plants on Critical List
"Quitting a war job is serious bus-
iness," he asserted, "numerous plants
in this area are still on the 'critical
list.'"
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By LIZ KNAPP this astounding technicolored trav-
Bob Friers, proclaimed the world's elough filmed by lecturer Robert
champion vagabond, is the fellow Friers" and Program said, "He has
who set a record, as he put it, by even outdone his previously grand
ts dtstuff on Paricutin in breaking into
taking a four year course and not the big time in lecture business."
finishing it for some six years, ar- New Type Travelogue
rived in town yesterday for a short Friers film is a new venture. He
visit. said, "We are doing something new
He had an excuse for his delayed in entertainment, attempting to in-
action in graduation, though, for he ject spirit and adventure into a fast
did quite a bit of travelling, once- moving, short and interesting travel-
around the world and then several ogue."
jaunts to South America and Mexico. An alumnus who attended one of
Traveled Around World the lectures said. "His nictures were

Friers set out to live up to his title,
incidentally, he collected the bet.
After his graduation he went to
South America, made a movie and
returned to campus to -show it. He
then began his post-graduate work
in speech but he said,%"With all the
panning that I received in class I
am surprised my lectures have turned
out as well as they have.
Lectured at 'U'
For a time after leaving the Uni-
versity he gave lectures under the
Extension Division of Michigan. Dur-
ing the period from 1942-44 he has