AIO t t WEATHER Cloudy with snow flurries, mildly strong winds. VOL. LV, No. 35 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, DEC. 12, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Yanks Drive N"W zi Across Roer P ELAS Said Ready for Withdrawal Guarantee Against Prosecution Asked By The Asoiated Pres ATHENS, Dec. 11._- Leaders of ELAS forces strategically massed in- side Athens and nearby were report- ed by an impartial source tonight to be ready to offer to withdraw from the capital and from the entire de- partment of Attica in return for guarantees that they would not be prosecuted. The Leftist leaders were described by this source as "realizing now that they will eventually lose" in the armed conflict and "relenting in their demands upon the Papandreou government and in their decision to fight to the end." Day of Bitter Fighting The report came at the end of a day of bitter fighting in some sec- tions, although much of the city was quiet. Both the ELAS and British forces in the city were reinforced, the ELAS infiltrating into the city during thienight and the British troops pouring in by day. Several apart- ment houses and other buildings were taken by the ELAS last night without opposition. The British obviously were prepar- ing for a showdown fight with the estimated 25,000 armed ELAS en- trenchd in and about Athens. However, the ELAS leaders, the well-informed source reported, "are now. expressing readiness to with- draw from Athens and Attica, but ae anxious to obtain guarantees try will not be prosecuted, indi- vi ally or as a party. Rumors Suggest Offensive Rumors circulated that the ELAS were preparing an offensive against the righttt EDES' territory of Epirus on the west coast of Greece. It appeared that the insurgents could not bring many more troops into the Athens area without weak- ening their dispositions elsewhere in Os'eece. Greek-A mericans Ask U. S. Mediation WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-(AP)-A Greek-American delegation today asked the State Department to medi- ate in the battle between British forces and Greek resistance groups. The delegati6n also protested to the British embassy, calling upon London to "cease its bloody attempt to. shackle the Greek people once more with dictatorship." Stelos Pistolakis, former member of the Greek parliament, was spokes- man for the group. Now president of the Greek-American committee for national unity, he said he was ex- pelled from his country in 1939. He said he is a member of the liberal party there. Axis Agrees on Tight to .end' LONDON, Dec. 1l.-(P)-The For- eign Ministers of Germany, Japan and fascist Italy exchanged "fight to the end" messages today on the third anniversary of the tripartite mili- tary pact, the German radio reported. Germany's Joachim Von Ribben- trop, admitting that all three parties were hard-pressed, declared: "The war has entered its decisive phase." Japan's Mamoru Shigemitsu said, "We Japanese are prepared to make the heaviest sacrifices . . CAMPUS EVENTS Today Prescott Club meeting at 7 p. m. in East Lecture Rm. of, Rackham build- mg. Today Osa Johnson, Oratdrical Association speaker at 8:30 p. m. in Hill Audito- rium. Dec. 13 La Sociedad Hispanica at 8 p. m. in St. Mary's Chapel.- Dec. 13 Dr. Anna Jacobsen of Hunter College will speak at 4:15 p. m. in Rackham Amphitheatre. Dec. 13-16 Play Production pres- ents "Junior Miss" at 8:30 Ward Workers Strike; Charge WLB Is Ignored Reuther Says 'UAW Will Lend Aid'; Union Claims 1,500 Workers Ont By The Associated Press DETROIT, Dec. 11-Pickets numbering up to 30 marched in ai snow storm today before each of four Montgomery Ward & Co. stores in the Detroit area as members of the United Retail, Wholesale & De- partment Store Employes (CIO) pressed their strike to force the com- pany to accept a War Labor Board directive. The strikers received the support today of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), whose vice president Walter Reuther said half a mil- lion UAW-CIO members in the area would lend their aid. Reuther said the Ward company had "defied the federal government and set itself up above the WLB." v eC alluSteps Ino Race for t Regent Positioni Senator To Vie with Eckert for Nominatione A two way battle for the Republi- can nomination for the coming va-t cancy on the Board of RegentsI shaped up yesterday as State Sena- tor George P. McCallum of Annt Arbor announced his candidacy fors the post.t Otto E. Eckert, general manager ofj the Lansing Board of Water andf Light Commissioners announced his1 candidacy Saturday at Lansing ands one will be nominated by the Repub- lican State Convention which will be held Jan. 12 at Grand Rapids. C Senator McCallum, who will re- tire from the legislature at the -end of his present term Jan. 1, pointed out that there is no Ann Aror resident on the Board of Regents at the present time. Regent Harry Kipke has moved to Chicago whilet Regent Herbert Connable has tak- en up residence in Kalamazoo. The terms of Regents Edmund Shields of Lansing and Robert J.t Lynch 6f Detroit, both Democrats, will expire on Dec. 31, 1944. Regent Shields has indicated that he will not run for reelection while Regent Lynch has not made a public state- ment on his position. Senator McCallum has been in the state legislature for the past 12 years and is a graduate of the University. lie said he would devote himself to the management of a Detroit land company of which he is president after his retirement. Sforza Sayst He Was Urgedt To Accept King ROME, Dec. 11-(P)-Count Carlo Sforza, former minister without port- folio who was omitted from the new cabinet of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi after the British raised objections to him, declared today that Prime Mini- ster Churchill had exerted "strong pressure" on him to accept Kink Vittorio Emanuele. In a 500-word statement answering Churchill's charge that Sforza in- trigued against the government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio and could not be trusted, Sforza asserted that the Prime Minister's influence in be- half of the Italian king was mani- fested during a two-hour conference in London on Oct. 11, 1943. (While there was no official reply in London to Sforza's charge, one British spokesman said Churchill re- peatedly had stressed Britain was determined to maintain law and or- der in all countries where British troops were stationed.) While Bonomi was seeking to re- form his cabinet, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said Britain did not view Sforza as a happy choice for foreign minister. Sforza said the whole incident was related to "My beliefs and deeds on matters of domestic Italian politics." It had nothing to do with his "lines of foreign policy," he said. See-Saw Fight Rages in Italy ROME, Dec. 11-G)-A fierce see- saw battle raged today on a four- mile front southwest of Faenza, with The strikes sought to enforce a demand that the company accept a 1942 WLB directive on union main- tenance of membership, dues check- off, seniority, back pay and arbitra- tion of grievances. Wards' Defies WL Order Roy Scoggins, Detroit regional di- rector of the Employes' Union, said pay Increases of $2 to $5 a week or- dered by the WLB were to have been retroactive to Dec. 8, 1942, and that the amount involved is approximate- ly $500,000. The four stores were open despite the picket lines, and a company spokesman said about 80 per cent of their regular personnel was on the job. This was disputed by union of- ficials who claimed approximately 1,500 of some 2,200 employes of the stores joined the strike. They said department heads and extra help were keeping the Dearborn store open. Other Stores Affected Other stores affected were two in Detroit and one in Royal Oak. The company has carried its oppo- sition to the War Labor Board to the .United States Supreme Court, which denied a petition for a review of a suit in which it sought to en- join the WLB from "exceeding its statutory jurisdiction" in orders is- sued in labor disputes. A FM Threatens Wild cat Strike NEW YORK, Dec. 11- )-Mark Woods, President of the Blue Net- work Company, said today that James C. Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians, had threatened to "order a series of wildcat strikes" against the Blue if the firm did not abide by a previous agreement with the AFM. Petrillo was not immediastely avail- able for comment. Woods said in a statement that the Blue had negotiated a new con- tract with Petrillo last January in which it agreed "to employ platter turners who are members of the Am- erican Federation of Musicians." Woods said the NLRB ordered the NABET continue to "control the ju- risdiction of platter turners, except in Chicago." Claudia Jontes To Address IRA The former editor of "Spotlight Magazine," Claudia Jones, will be the guest speaker at the Inter Racial Association meeting tomorrow in the Union at 7:30 p. m. Her subject will be "The Negro and the War." She is well acquainted with her sub- ject and qualified to speak because of research and writing she has done in that field. This week Miss Jones is giving a series of lectures in Detroit on "Post- war Reconversion," "The Negro in the War," "Universal Military Train- ing," and "Perspectives of the Elec- tion," under the sponsorship of the A.Y.D. of that city. yesterday. lc m a h ec st $ o tc m F fi a v p tc ti t1 ti a c n B i I U. S. FIELD GUNS FIRE ACROSS SAAR-A Battery of 105mm field guns fired on German positions across the Saar river, on the Third Army sector of the W estern front. 9E A GOODFELLOW: JVAR AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press DB e tSa To rviWESTERN FRONT-Yanks drive to within two miles of Duren, push A) Nazis east across Roer; Seventh Ar- ~Mrry hrs1a'for Needy myca Of gg my captures Hlagenau. __EASTERN FRONT-Reds advance The tenth annual campus Goodfel~ within five miles of Budapest; Berlin )w drive to provide a 'Merry Christ- able to those in need of small loans, reports city burning. ias' for Ann Arbor's needy children A woman whose husband was ill and AIR-1,600 American planes hit nd to aid the city's charities will be temporarily unemployed needed shoes Frankfurt rail area with 6,000 tons eld next Monday, when a special for her eight year old son. The snow of shells in new air attack. dition of the Daily will be sold to wouldn't wait for Johnny's father to dntn d townspeply le. sd get better so he could have new shoes. GREECE-Athens fighting subsides tudents and townspeople. ThFmiyndCide'Srve slightly; ELAS reported ready to ne- The goal of the drive this year is The Family and Children's Service gt 1,500. Sororities, fraternities, and kept his feet dry. gotiate. ther organized groups are asked Greater Demand Now ITALY-British fight off German o make special contributions and to In spite of the employment in- counterattacks near Faenza. man sales posts throughout the city. crease, wartime has brought an even PAC'FIC-MacArthur reports Jap aily, Children's Service greater demand for assistance from troops inside Ormoc destroyed and This season the largest part of the the Service. Among the problems more trapped to south; air raiders Lnds raised will go to the Family aggravated by the war are the care hit oil centers in Dutch Borneo, nd Children's Service, a social ser- of children of working mothers, ad- --_ _ _ ice agency which offers help to justment of new families moving into t " eople in trouble, showing them how the community to take war jobs, be- Junior iJss' o use their own strength and abili- havior of children whose father is in es to solve their problems. During the Army, and the physical and emo-S L1 f-Da he past year 365 families came to tional readjustment of men discharg- Sta . he Service seeking spiritual as well ed from the armed forces and return- s financial aid from experienced so- ing to their families. Ru '. Tomr roiw ial workers. The Family and Children's Service "There are always groups who do is supported only by the Community Scene 'akes Flare ot benefit by industrial pick-ups. Fund and the contributions made to ecause of the increased cost of t av the Goodfellow Drive. Be a Good- In New York Apartment ng, families without a wage earne fellow!D r those where a man is in the armed The living room of a comfortable Eiver Saar Basin Is Reached From South Haguenau, French Base, Is Captured By The Associated Press PARIS, Dec. 11-The U. S. First Army was driving the enemy across he Roer River today as the Third pushed to the Saar Basin from the outh after breaking all organized resistance in Saareguemines. The Seventh Army meanwhile seized Ha- ;uenau, greatest base left to the Na- is in France. Multiple attacks by the three U. S. Armies were pressing the enemy bac deeper inside Germany on the wet, and forcing him on the south to yield the French buffer zone before the Siegfried Line. The Germans were in retreat to top east bank of the Roer under re en . less blows of the First Army's renewedl ffensive, which in two days a hn- mered three miles through rugged de- fenses at the edge of the Cologne plain to a point 17 miles deep into the reich. Hodges' Forces Advance Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' for- ces broadened their assault lines to 13 miles, seized heights overlooking the Roer on the southern end of the front, overran three more towns and were but two miles or so from Durn; key to all enemy positions on the river. All important German rail enteq feeding the front were blasted by 1,600 American heavy bombers, tWn greatest bomber armada ever se it aloft, in an effort to isolate the de- mans and set them up for decisive blows. Heaviest Bomber Attack The attacks exceeded even those by heavy bombers which preceded the Normandy breakthrough, In northern Alsace one of the d'4's biggest prizes fell tothe U. S. 8evn1 Army north of Strasbourg, where it captured the enemy's big supply iid communications center of Haguenau on the invasion route to the indu- strial palatinate of Germany, whose border is 15 miles north. Third Meets First Test The U. S. Third Army, meeting its first stern test in the Siegfried, ine of the Saar Basin, warded off at least three determined counter blows at Dillengen and extended its lines slightly there and around Saarlau- tern, three miles southeast. On its southern flank, the Third in a mile and a half advance from its Saar bridgehead at Sarreguemines captured the town of Folpersviller, but a half mile from the Saar.border for its nearest approach to the ihdu- strial region from the south. The U. S. Seventh and the French First armies battled floods as well as Germans in their attempts to erase the last German pockets west of the Rhine. Biggyest Bomber F eet Pounds Frcankfurt .Area LONDON, Dec. 11-(P)-The greatest bomber fleet ever assembled-more than 1,600 American Fortresses and Liberators-pounded the German rail network in the Frankfurt area with 6,000 tons of explosives today as part of a massive air assault by more than 3,200 U. S. warplanes. The huge fleet of Eighth Air Force heavies, forming a sky train 300 miles long, was escorted by more than 800 fighters. From the operation 12 bombers and two fighters were miss- ing tonight. This loss from a force of 16,800 U. S. fliers-more men than are in an entire combat division of infaitry- was a record low for a raid of such magnitude. The German Air Force kept clear of the mighty U. S. armada and antiaircraft fire was meager. But heavy, billowy clouds caused the bombers to drop their explosives by instruments and obscured the dam- age done at Frankfurt, Hanau 10 miles east, and Giessen 30 miles north. In a simultaneous attack from the south, more than 500 U. S. bombers and 350 fighters struck into Austria services find unexpected difficulties arising," Miss Mary Hester, executive secretary of the Service stated. The agency's primary concern is to provide confidential consultation on problems which disturb family life, offering its aid to all individuals, regardless of race, creed or economic status. Financial assistance is avail- C Mrs. Johnson To Appear Here Explorer To PresentI New Jungle Movies I Senate Shelves Palestine Issue WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-- (P)- Heeding advice of the State Depart- ment, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today shelved by a 12 to 8 vote a resolution advocating unre- stricted entry of Jews into Palestine. Similar resolutions had been under committee consideration both in the House and Senate last year, but action was deferred then. Recent mublication of the War Refugee Board's report quoting two eye-witness accounts of how large numbers of Jews had been murdered in Nazi prison camps resulted in renewed agitation among Jewish groups in this country that the Unit- ed States seek to have Great Britain permit increased migration of Jews to Palestine. First Heavy Snow Ann Arbor yesterday was blanketed by four inches of snow in the first substantial snowstorm of the season, Snow started falling late Sunday and continued most of the night. City thermometers read 29.4 at 8 i m. Sunday i Osa Johnson, explorer and author, will supplement her lecture at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium with her most recent films, "African Par- adise and the Solomons." Appearing under the auspices ol the Oratorical Association series, Mrs. Johnson, widow of the late Martin Johnson, will tell the story of her stay in the heart of the African jungle. 'African Paradise' To Re Shown "African Paradise" wvas filmed in 1937 and appeared simultaneous] y with her new book, "Four Years in Paradise," and is a sequel to "I Mar- ried Adventure." It represents a con- tinuation of the life work the John- sons began together, and which was interrupted following an airplane crash on the Pacific coast which took, Martin Johnson's life and narrowlyI missed claiming that of his widow. To Show Cannibal Rites "The Solomons," includes the story and pictures of the cannibals of the islands. Mrs. Johnson has a pictorial record of the rites of the cannibals. Mrs. Johnson began her career of adventure in 1910, following her mar- riage, and her 27 years of travel include trips to Africa, Borneo, Aus- tralia and the South Sea Islands. Her work includes a trip to Africa to aid in the making of the Holly- wood production of "Stanley and Livingstone." New York apartment will be the scene of the antics of Judy Graces and her teen-agter friends in. "Junior Miss,"f the first performance of which will be given by members of Play Pro-1 duction of the speech department at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow in Lydia Men-a delssohn Theatre. The entire action of the play takes place in the apartment, ar "much lived-in" home due to the to vicacious daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Graves. The set was designed by Herbert Philippi, working withJ student stage crews. Remarking on the set of "Junior Miss," Philip- pi said that the main problem inI arranging the set was in providing enough exits for the action of the play. There are six exits, includ- ing two arches at the right and left rear of the stage which lead from the living room. The set is done in medium orange- tan with the walls and fireplace of this color and the rugs of a blending shade. The one main color relief is an equa couch on the right of the stage and the dark brown furnish- ings. "Junior Miss" will be presented to- morrow through Saturday. Tickets are on sale at the Lydia Mendelssohn box office. Senate Agrees On Utility Vote WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-(PI)-An agreement was reached in the Senate today to vote tomorrow on the pro- posed St. Lawrence Hydroelectric Power and Seaway development esti- mated to cost between $200,000,000 and $400,000,000. Senator Aiken (Rep., Vt.), who had discussed the project for several days, introduced it as an amendment to the $500,000,000 post-war rivers and harbors bill with a promise from Senator Overton (Dem., La.) that there will be no motion to table it. Overton previously was prepared to make such a motion, which would no be subject to debate. Aiken had held up formal offering of the amend- ment to get around that chance that KOUSSEVITZKY LOOKS AHEAD: monductor WantsngArt-Commmisariat Amidst much multi-lingual con- Commisariat of Art. Patronage longer the affable hand-shaker, he versation, Serge Koussevitzky, con- ductor of the Boston Symphony Or- chestra, spoke informally about the future of music after the concert last night in a backstage dressing room in Hill Auditorium. ought to pass from the hands of pri- vate individuals, he believes, to the government. "What will become of art, the greatest thing in life," Koussevitzky looked up with deep earnestness and said, "With an older man like me you must have the facts. I am not interested in what stupid magazines say on this subject."