® o ' LY G ,x 1 t Dati WEATHER Cloudy and colder with light snow. VOL. LV, No. 43 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1944 German Attack Moves EAhad inBe PRICE FIVE CENTS ~ium U'ChristmasParty WAR AT A GLANCE ristm - s artyBy flTe ssoiated Press WESTERN FRONT - SHAEF FY11announces that German counter-E '1o___ e d d offensive is "the big thing" and is nern o day increasing steadily in fury. 14 to T 15 German divisions swarming intoj breach in First Army's lines. PACIFIC FRONT- Battle of Carols, Message Will Highlight Fete Leyte rapidly "drawing to an end," MacArthur annaunces. Jap Yama- To Be Held at 8 p. m. in Hill Auditorium shita line destroyed. RUSSIAN FRONT-Reds take ndAMY d Venlo>\.t.J 4 oeoo -GladbacIV~V W~r %ijnn -ch\ \"aluch 9th A RM Y" o s rf . A :HE C LIEGE Monschau * Kesternich pi Malmedy J Stavelote Heckhu'scheid t1st ARMY ~ . Vaanden t chesh" BRIER -LUX Sour R. , Final arrangements have been made for the All-Campus Christmas party sponsored by the Union Executive Council to be given at 8 p. m. today at Hill Auditorium. Highlights of the program will be President Alexander G. Ruthven's annual Christmas Message and a varied selection of musical numbers. According to Paul John, chairman, Santa Claus will also be in Ann Arbor for the party. Shoemaker Will MC Art Shoemaker, A/S, USNR, will act as master of ceremonies. Shoe- k a mapmbpr f the Navv V-12 unit at Notre Dame before being 13 more towns in advance toward Losonc. Britain Will Not Impose ma0'er was U~urvitu 1V - -'I Lmeyte laps' Resistance Squelched By The Associated Press GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Philippines, Thursday, Dec. 21-. , -The battle of Leyte island is "rapidly drawing to an end," Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today, announcing the complete de- struction of the once-powerful Japa- nese Yamashita line on the northwest shoulder of the island. The enemy's "cohesion is now com- pletely broken," the communique said, "and he is no longer capable of an integrated defense." Few Japs Remain Small remnants of the Japanese forces have been broken into isolat- ed groups and are able to resist only temporarily and at isolated points. Scattered Japanese forces are flee- ing toward Palompon on Leyte's northwest coast, the only< port re- maining in enemy hands. Destruction of the Yamashita line in the Ormoc corridor was accom- plished when the 77th Division, New York's own, advanced four miles north from Valencia, Japanese head- -quarters whose seizure was announc- ed Wednesday, and took a road junc- tion at the same time the first Ca- valry Division drove south from Lon- oy. Cavalry Takes Kanango The cavalry seized Kanango and approached to within a mile of the 77th, completing the deadly squeeze play on the Japanese. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported counting another 1,541 Japanese dead Wednesday. The enemy also has lost six months supplies to the onrushing doughboys, making his supply problem more cru- cial. The Japanese now are "incapable of an integrated defense" and able to resist only temporarily at isolated points, the communique said. There was no enemy ground oppo- sition on Mindoro which American forces reinvaded without resistance last week. NUEA To Hold Detroit Meeting The National University Extension Association will meet in the Detroit Rackham Building the second week of May "to further adult education in this country, and to transact the association's business," Dr. Charles A. Fisher Extension Service director said yesterday. Dr. Fisher, president of Extension Association said that representatives of the American and the Canadian Associations for Adult Education will join the meeting. Additional groups requested to send representatives include: the National Education Association, Ad- ult Education Division, the Associa- tion of Urban Universities, and the Association of Teachers Colleges. CAMPUS EVENTS Today Michigan Technic goes on sale. Today All-campus Christmas party at 8 p. m. in Hill Auditorium. Dec. 22 Christmas vacation starts nt A n m. 'transferred to the University. He will: be in charge of the Navy Relief Program to be presented later in the semester. The completed program will in- clude community singing led by the Women's Glee Club and the Navy Choir. Favorite Christmas carols, "Little Town of Bethlehem," "Hark, the Herald Angels," "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "Deck the Hall," "The First Noel" and "Silent Night" will be sung by everyone. The Navy Choir will sing the first two verses of' "Silent Night" and will then be joined by party guests and the Glee Club. Navy Band To Play A Navy Band led by Joe Fenner, AS, USNR, tenor saxophone player will also be on the program. Other members of the band are Don Ram- bacher A-S, USNR, Skip Skillman A-S,,USNR, Hal Jackson, A-S USNR, and J. McKelvy A-S USNR. The band will make its first formal ap- pearance at the All-Campus Christ- mas party. Prof. Julio Del Torro, of the Ro- mance Language department, has made arrangements for the appear- ance of an International Center quartet. The Women's Glee Club directed by Miss Marguerite Hood, will sing "A Shepherd Christmas Song, with Marilyn Watt as soloist, and "Glory to God in the Highest" with Ruth MacNeal, Jean Gilman, and Arlene Peugot as soloists. Beverly Sowle will be the accompanist. Fraternity To Usher Alpha Phi Omega, national fra- ternity organized to serve the com- munity, the schools and the coun- try, has volunteered to direct usher- ing for the party. The All-Campus Christmas Party is to be given as a gift to the Uni- versity from the Union. Dean of Students Joseph E. Bursley and the Student Affairs Committee has back- ed the idea with enthusiasm. Dean Bursley said,"This is a splendid idea with which everyone can cooperate," Invitations have been sent to all faculty members and to every officer training group. In addition every men's and women's residence house has received an invitation. Thomas E. Bliska, president of the Union, has asked that everyone co- operate by supporting the party with enthusiasm and plenty of Christmas spirit. Percival Price, of the School of Music, will play a Carillon concert of Christmas carols preceding the program. - Soviets Predict Nazi Sabotage Of Peace Plons MOSCOW, Dec. 20--1P)--The Rus- sian army newspaper Red Star said today that German agents were at- tempting, "through reactionary cir- cles in the United States and other countries, "to block the formation of an international peace organization and were preparing for a third world war. The article also said the Germans were seeking to stir up controversies among the Allies over the question of Germany's future. "In the past few days the Hitler- ites have pointed with unconcealed pleasure at the activity of the isola- tionist elements in the United States who already have started agitation against participation by the United States in a worlel organization of in- ternational security," the article said. G-reeff K inl Roden Eden Confers With FRANCEtS ~ "'~ Forbach Commons on Policy By The Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 20.- ( 1l-Assuring 3rd ARMY1 the House of Commons that Britain's bayonets would not impose a king onfNANCY the Greeks, Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden tonight eased political controversy over Britain's armed in-_. tervention after reports of differences among the three big Allied powers ACTION ON THE WESTERN FR( had received partial confirmation Western Front (heavy line), whet from Prime Minister Churchill him- reported to have carried to Stave self. U. S. First and Ninth armies ma No Immediate Meeting River. To the south the Third fo Eden, apparently giving up hope in the Saarlautern Area. and the S( for an immediate meeting of the Big ----- -- --- Three but bent on finding a method of eliminating future misunderstand- STAFF APPOINTED: ings, pleaded for re-establishment of quarterly meetings "between the for- eignHotclikiii, eign secretaries of the great powers as we used to have to deal with some of these matters." Return o Sin The House rose long after dusk tonight in agreement that it would adjourn tomorrow until Jan. 15. A complete staff both in business These were the main points of and editorial work for the 'Ensian, Eden's explanation of the Greek situ- the campus yearbook, has been ap- ation: pointed by the Board in Control of 1. Terewas"no uesion ofStudent Publications and work has 1. There was "no question" 01a te95di'ls Britain's armed intervention in already begun on the 1945 edition. Greece "without consulting our al- Going into its 49th year of con- lies." tinuous publication, the 'Ensian is 2. We could perhaps have been censured for not having intervened Yan s Fight'n in Athens on behalf of law and order at an earlier date." No Advantages Sought Near Bologna 3. Britain is "seeking nothing for ourselves in Greece-neither strate- gic advantage nor economic advan- Polish, Indian Troops tage nor any other advantage of that kind at all." MOp Up Resistance 4. "If we had not taken this action ROME, Dec.B20- P-American there would have been mass starva- forces south of Bologna are engaged tion all over Greece and members of in bitter fighting with German troops Parliament would have come to the in the Tossignan area, while Polish government and said, 'What are you and Indian troops have virtually doing about all this?'" wiped out all enemy resistance south 5. "We are not trying to impose a of Senio river on the eastern end of right-wing or a left-wing govern- the Italian battle front, the Allied ment. All we wish is that the ship command reported today. should keep an even keel." n hinh c.inna in- A 1i t~L j l~w hi vv i d in- A r - .. e a 0 i n Dortnund 0zisI3u Ruh R.STATUTE MILES N azis H ui Wave int rWuPPertal ,ELDORF.' vi n LOGNE t U. S. First Army 1 BoNN .GERMANY 1 --Giessen Crack German T By The Asso SHAEF. Paris, Dec. 20.-The Ger men and armor into their deepening p FRANKFURT Army front in Belgium and Luxembou Wiesbaden -first great assault was made by 13 t This great force, which, it was -MAINZsix armored divisions and eight to ni of the same armor the Allies met at C if not most, of the infantry divisio Ida, woims home guard. stAmericans Stem Onslaught ~~&brsten Ludw ssha lenhoegad St ..1Crack American troops appeared to MANNH 7/1be stemming the onslaught at one LAUTERN 1point, but elsewhere the Nazi power AARBRUCKEN Landau gathered steadily, and a late Asso- Bundenthal\ ciated Press dispatch from the front : 'KapsweyeR said the situation along the entire ARLSUHE 60-mile-wide line was "both confused Lauterbourg and serious." Rasat' Another late dispatch from the Stavelot sector some 20 miles inside 7th ARMYr Belgium said both the Americans and ' STRASBOURG - the Germans were paying great prices - *KehlI Iin lives and material. " Foul weather continued to keep the great defensive-offensive strength )NT-Arrows indicate action on the of the Allied air forces in check as re a German counteroffensive was American tanks and infantry clung lot in Belgium. To the north the to hastily-dug positions and threw de small advances along the Roer in all the power they possessed to ught to clear Dillengen and Roden blunt the enemy drives in some sect- eventh took Bundenthal. ors and to hold in the breakthrough passage elsewhere. Yanks Recapture Monschau Monschau, German town at the extreme northern end of the enemy's ,.es H ead 'Ensan- assault, was recaptured by counter- 9 attacking Yank troops, who sur- rounded and presumably seized Nazi i iss forces who had fought into the town. Monschau, 16 miles southeast of Aachen, was the jump-off point for roa short-lived American attack last 'year practice that was interrupted week. . by experimentation with the three Front dispatches, released in de- issue method used last year. tail through censorship for the first time, disclosed that the main Ger- Jean Hotchkin of Scarsdale, N.Y., man drive is being made in the re-i was appointed Managing Editor for gion of Stavelot, a key Belgian town the new year while Jean Pines of 20 miles from the German frontier. Worcester, Mass., was named Bus- Previously it had been known only iness Manager. that the drive had reached this area, Miss Hotchkin, a Chi Omega, is a I and it had not been clear whether junior in the literary college and has this was the scene of the principal been active in campus life. She is a push. member of Wyvern, junior women's Fighting Rages Around Stavelot honorary, and of the central con- Fighting raged today in and around mittee of JGP. Stavelot, where Lt. Gen. Courtney A member of Sigma Delta -Tau, Hodges' doughboys, backed by anti- Miss Pines, a junior in the literary tank guns, beat . back four ::avage college, is associated with the Child German attacks today. 1Care project and is a member of JGP. Three times today the Germans Following are the other appoint- hurled everything at the battered I ments to the editorial staff and their town, striking under cover of a cling- positions: ing fog and mist, but each time they Harriet Pierce, Chicago, Art Edi- were flung back. Tonight the em- f tor; Florence Hingsbury, Detroit, battled doughboys were reported 1 junior assistant; Lorelei Nierman, driving the Nazis from the town Chicago, junior assistant; Joan street by street in bitter fighting. Rothman, Detroit, junior assistant; Associated Press field correspond- Ann Wallerstein, Richmond, Va., ent said the enemy offensive was be- junior assistant; Al Srerc, Detroit, ing likened to the final do-or-die Seditorial assistant; and William punch thrown by thenGermans in SGliman, Birmingham, sports as- 1918, which had some initial success sistunt. but later collapsed. An American of- On the business staff. the foilov - hficerdeclared confidently that if in esn 'cie tf on- the present drive is crushed the war mg persons received staff appoint- can be won right here." ments. ri Second o Battle lard Hit in Assault; oops Deepen Wedge ciated Press mans flung a second powerful wave of aenetrations of the hard-hit U.S. First rg today as it was disclosed that their o 15 divisions. said here tonight, numbered five to ine infantry divisions, included some Caen in Normandy last June. Many, ons were Volks Grenadiers, Hitler's Enemy Pa 'For Yanks' 'Heavy Loss C f s s v By The Associated Press IN THE STAVELOT SECTOR, Belgium, Dec. 20.-American troops engaged in trying to stem the Ger- man breakthrough are suffering a big battle price in men and material, but are making the enemy also pay a fearful cost in blood and munitions for his great western front counter- offensive. Attack Hurled Back Along this sector of the front the German advance has been stemmed and broken and was hurled back this morning when the Germans launched a series of violent attacks at points on a 20-mile front. These blows failed in piles of broken bodies and twisted metal One veteran American unit knocked out eight panther and tiger tanks in two hours this morning. Farther LONDON, Dec. 20.-The German radio claimed tonight that "sev- eral" Allied divisions had been rushed from the Aachen and Saar fronts to check Marshal Karl Gerd Von Rundstedt's counteroffensive and boasted that "according to incomplete data, three to four American divisions either have been destroyed or badly mauled." The German daily war commu- nique claimed that 10,000 prisoners had been taken in the Nazi coun- teroffensive. south, however, the German uanzer advance was showing the profes- sional punch the Nazis exhibited in 1940. As various units fought their way back to this sector through the Ger- man lines, it was beginning' to be possible to piece together a picture of the early fighting. 1,200 Nazis Slain One infantry unit returned to American lines in bits and pieces, but its losses were amazingly small considering that the group claimed to have killed 1,200 Germans. The unit had lost much of its equpment, except for rifles and bazookas. Another badly-mauled American formation, which bore the full fury of the Nazi assault, claimed to have stopped 60 Germans tanks in three days. But it, too, had lost a great deal of its artillery and motorized equipment. Elections Open Sphinx Term The addition of five new men and Dave Loewenberg's election as Sec- retary-Treasurer, inaugurated Sph- inx's activities for the 1944-45 season. Sphinx is Michigan's junior hon- orary society and men are chosen on a basis of outstanding campus achievement. Those men selected this term include Jack Hackstadt, Walt Kell, John Mullaney, Sandy Perlis and Herb Upton. Loewenberg is associate sports edi- tor of The Daily, vice-president of Hillel and a member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Hank Mantho re- tained his position as president of the organization. Formal initiation for the five new members is scheduled for 1 p.m., Dec. 30, in the Michigan Union. ws - r. l C Directories on Sale . .. Sales of the Student Directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of all students on campus will continue today and' tomorrow, according to Jean Pines, who is in charge of the sales. Directories may be purchased from salesmen stationed on cam- pus, at the Union, League, Student Publications Building and at lo- cal bookstores. mlrercan par-s18 Wlcl s ppeu 1 to Tossignan reported that heavy barricades had been erected in all of the streets of the town. and that strong Nazi patrols guarded all roads in the vicinity. Operations of the Polish and In- dian troops of the Eighth Army end- ed two weeks of stubborn fighting by the Nazis to hold their positions in the Senio area. Northeast of Faenza other Britisl Eighth Army forces made limitec gains against a nine-mile wide Ger- man salient bulging into Allied lines between captured Faenza and Bag- nacavallo. S 3 d s Norma Johnson, Detroit, ac- counts manager; Mary Lou Rook- us, Detroit, advertising manager; Bud Tamarkin, Youngstown, O., circulation manager; Betty Hen- del, Minneapolis, Minn., sales man- ager; and Pat Owens, Detroit, coin- tract manager. COL. MILLER HEADS ARMY UNITS: Col. Young Leaves Ann Arbor for New Post Colonel Edward H. Young, JAGD, Commandant of the Army forces in Ann Arbor, has been relieved of his post here to accept an important as- signment.overseas in the Judge Advo- cate General's Department. The War Department has an- nounced that Lieutenant Colonel Reginald C. Miller, JAGD, will suc- ceed Col. Young both as Commandant of the Judge Advocate General's School and as Commandant of the Army forces in Ann Arbor. He was named head of the School by Major General Myron C. Cramer, The Judge Advocate General of the Army, and ni~r~~nrl + +a a++cp. nctby n rm. ber, 1942. Upon the retirement of Colonel Frederick C. Rogers in June, 1944, he was named Commandant of all Army units in Ann Arbor and Professor of Military Science and Tactics of the University. 'In leaving Ann Arbor I want to express my appreciation to my friends here who have been so help- ful to me and the Army units and I hope that they will continue the same degree of cooperation for my successor," Col. Young stated before leaving here for Washington where he will remain a few days before proceeding overseas. Miller Was Assistant, The new Commandant, Col. Miller, has been Director of the Military Affairs Department at the School since February, 1943. and has acted Veterans Given Own U, Office At Lane Hall The announcement that a perma- nent office has been secured at Lane Hall for the Veterans Organization and a talk by Dr. Frank Huntley of the Civil Affairs Training School highlighted last night's meeting of the Veterans Organization. Speaking of our postwar treat- ment of Japan, Dr. Huntley declared, "We must understand the Japanese and ourselves" for we must live in the same world with them after the war. The so-called "Jap traits," he said are the result of education and are not inherent in the race. The great repercussion that defeat will have on the Japanese people, never before defeated in war, he stated, will make Japan easy to occupy. A great administrative ma- chineiy is already in existence in Japan, Huntley, who spent some time in Japan, said. The great infiuence of the emperor, he claimed, would i . ... .. ._...f ....... ...i-A ci5 _i :......