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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, OCT. 30, 1944
AMERICANS SCORE MOST DECISIVE NAVAL VICTORY IN HISTORY:
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Wiese, Nussbaumer
Star in Farewell Game
50,000 Spectators See Inspired Team
Hand Boilermakers First Big Ten Loss
By DAVID LOEWENBERG
Associate Sports Editor
Michigan's inspired football squad hurled a mighty valedictory salute
for Captain Bob Wiese and Bob Nussbaumer Saturday as the Wolverines
trampled Purdue, 40-14, before an enthusiastic crowd of 50,000, including
1,100 freshmen students who were seeing their school in action for the
first time.
This was the first Big Ten loss for the Boilermakers in two years
and marked the worst setback Michigan has inflicted upon Purdue in
the 51-year series.
Purdue's loss enabled Ohio State to take undisputed possession of first
place in the Big Ten merry-go-round race. Purdue's record is now two
" wins against one loss, while Michigan
with a three and one average, is tied
:RO TC Recruit with Indiana for second place in the
Conference. Michigan still has three
Conference games remaining against
D rive Starts for.Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio State.
5' ht2 - Wiese, Nussaumer Star
25th Year Here Captain Wiese and Nussbaumer ac-
counted for five of the six touch-
downs against the Boilermakers, with
Ranks Open to All Wiese chalking up three markers and
Male Civilian Students Nussbaumer accounting for the other
two. Eugene Derricotte, brilliant
The University's ROTC unit will Negro back, racked up the other
begin its twenty-fifth year on the score on a five yard plunge.
campus this week when recruiting Nussbaumer in his adieu to Michi-
begins under the direction of Army gan topped the runners with 165
Headquarters. yards in 15 tries for an average of 11
Founded in 1920 with an enroll- yards per play. This gave the fleet-
ment of 180 men, this organization footed Oak Park boy a six game total
has produced more than 1,450 Re- of 452 yards in 78 attempts. Wiese,
serve Officers, most of whom are however, is still Michigan's leading
now on active duty with the Army. ground gainer with a season's total
Open to All Meno tonof 467 yards in 103 tries. Wiese, in
Teank arMen his farewell appearance, rolled up 69
male student enrolled in the Univer- yards in 15 plays..
sity and information may be obtained The first Michigan tally came as a
result of a Purdue fumble which was
YOrecovered by Quentin Sickels on the
ORDER YOUR Wolverine 47. Twelve plays later,
Wiese bucked over for the touch-
DAILY ...Ldown from the one yard line.
rample Purdue,40-14
Six Ships in Fight
Nimitz Reports Destruction of 24 Nip
Ships in Overwhelming One-Sided Battle
By The Associated Press
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR,
OCT. 29-The third and seventh U. S. fleets sank or damaged 58
Japanese warships in the second battle of the Philippine Sea, scoring
one of the most crushing ocean victories of the war and perhaps the
most decisive in naval history.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz today reported first details of the three
related actions which were fought in the early days of las week, and
which cost only six American vessels.
This overwhelmingly one-sided victory was more devastating to the
Nipponese navy than the hammering given it in the first Philippines sea
battle last June 19, during the early stages of the American invasion of
Saipan in the Marianas.
Nimitz said that the toll of enemy ships in the second Philippines
battle, was 24 ships sunk, ncluding four carriers and two battleships; 13
so severely damaged they may have sunk, and 21 damaged.
"Amplifying reports, although still subject to revision as more
information is received, indicate an overwhelmng victory," the Admiral
stated in an 1100 word communique, his first since he receved prelimi-
nary figures Wednesday midnight.
The Japanese fleet has been decisively defated and routed. The
second battle of the Philippine Sea ranks as one of the inajor sea battles
of World War II in the Pacific."
n
Not more than possibly two Japa-
PART OF A NEW RECORD-Pictured above is one of the more than 80 girls orientation groups whose
combined total brought more than 950 freshman women to campus. Betty Hendel (pointing) is indi-.
cating some of the history behind Angell Hall in the course of the group's tour of the campus last week.
When final enrollment figures are tabulated, there will be more than 4,000 coeds on campus-the high-
est number in University history.
WAR NEWS AT A GLANCE
By The Associated Press
PACIFIC-Yanks sink or damage 58 Jap warships in Philippines
battle; MacArthur'announces two-thirds of Leyte cleared.
WESTERN FRONT-Poles capture most of Nazi fortress city Breda;
Allies pursue 40,000 Germans fleeing trap near Meuse.
EASTERN FRONT-Reds nab Hungarian station CSAP.
ITALY-Polish eighth takes town near Mussolini's birthplace.
MEDITERRANEAN-Greek guerillas take Platamon, Berlin reports
landings on island Melos.
OFFENSIVE POWER MOUNTS:
Allies Hurl Powerful Blows
In Effort To Trap 40,000 Nazis
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in Waterman Gym during the regis-
tration period or at any time at
Army Headquarters, on State Street
next to the Union.
The course of work in the unit now
is made up only of basic training
since a War Department directive in
December, 1942 eliminated the Ad-
vanced Corps for the duration. Four
" terms of basic work including map-
readings, field work, first aid, rifle
marksmanship, and Tactics are in-
cluded in the program and are direc-
ted by Army personnel.
Lt. George Ham Cannon U.S.M.C.,
C38E, was thehfirst member of the
ROTC to give his life for his country.
He was killed on Midway Island, Dec.
7, 1941 and was awarded the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor post-hu-
mously.
'U' Lends Support
The University along with other
large universities throughout the na-
tion has continually encouraged en-
rollment in the program and offers
one hour credit per term for work
done.
Army' Headquarters in announcing
the opening of the unit this term
emphasized the importance of train-
ing received before induction into
the Army and strongly urged stu-
dents to join.
Nussbaumer, Derricotte and Wiest
spear-headed this 53 yard drive in
which all of the yardage was picked
up via the ground. Burly Joe Pon-
setto's kick for the extra point was
wide of its mark.
Line Holds
Michigan then kicked off to Put
due and Boris Dimancheff ran it back
beautifully to the Purdue 46. Chal-
mers Elliott then skirted right end to
the Michigan 45 for an 11 yard gain.
The elusive Dimancheff broke into
the open and only a desperate tackle
by Nussbaumer on the Michigan six
yard line kept the Wolverines lead
intact. The Maize and Blue line
See FOOTBALL, Page 3
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Eligibility Cards
Freshmen Must Make
Grades for Activities
Students desiring to participate in
extra-curricular activities on campus
this year must secure eligibility cards
from the Dean of Student's Office,
Rm. 2, University Hall.
Although both first-semester fresh-
men and upperclassmen were per-
mitted to participate in public ac-
tivities last year, the old rules which
have been in effect for the past 20
ye rs will be reinvoked beginning
with the fall semester. This decision
was made by the Student Affairs
Committee.
The regulations require that
second-semester freshman must have
at least one mark of A or B, no
mark less than C and have complet-
ed at least 15 hours of academic
credit in order to establish his eligi-
bility. Upperclassmen must have
had at least a C average in the se-
mester preceeding work on a public
activity and have established a C
average for his entire academic
career.
Participation in a public activity
is dened as including service of any
kind on a committee, publication,
public performance or being a can-
didate for office in a class or other
student organization.
Athletic activities are. not included
in this rule.
$13,000 Needed
To Reach 'U'
War Chest Goal
Student Solicitations
Set for This Week
An all out effort on the part of
faculty and student leaders to fill
the $23,004 University War Chest
goal by the deadline Saturday will
be made this week with an attempt
to contact each unsolicited student
and faculty 'member.
Prof. Harold M. Dorr, of the politi-
cal science department, is over-all
chairman for the University part in
the Ann Arbor War Chest campaign
while Pat Morgan, '45, and Tom
Bliska, '46Arch, are conducting the
student drive.
$10,000 Already Raised
In advance solicitation $10,000 has
already been raised from the more
than 2,000 University personnel and
military men stationed on campus
and it was indicated that the balance
of the quota must come from. the
student body.
For purposes of contacting all
University personnel, the campus has
been divided into an east and west
section with building chairmen. Prof.
Kenneth Hance, speech department,
is chairman of the west division and
Prof. Joseph Gault, engineering, is
head of the east division.
Generous Contributions Urged
Prof. Dorr said that all persons
would be contacted before the close'
of the drive and urged all to contrib-
ute generously.
Through the house presidents and
the JGP, all coeds on campus will be
approached beginning Thursday and
at the same time the Union will con-
tact all men on campus in a three
day whirlwind student campaign.
The local drive is part of the
National War Chest Campaign now
in full force which will raise funds
for 20 relief organizations.
nese warships escaped destruction or
damage in the three phases of the
battle.
Nimitz' communique listed 58 to
possibly 60 ships in the three Japa-
nese forces.
Although the Admiral said re-
ports indicate an overwhelming U.
S. victory, the Japanese defeat
unquestionably was the most
crushing in the history of naval
warfare. Never before, so far as-
could be learned here, has any na-
tion's fleet been so nearly de-
stroyed.
Nimitz unqualifiedly said, "The
Japanese fleet" was engaged in the
overall battle. Naval observers
stated that Tokyo threw virtually
everything it had into the desper-
ate attempt to surprise and trap
the third and seventh U. S. fleets
and to wipe out Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur's mighty invasion force on
Leyte Island.
More ships were sunk and dam-
aged in the battle of Jutland in the
FLEET BOX SCORE
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz today
announced that 58 Japanese war-
ships were sunk or damaged in
the Philippine naval and air bat-
tles. This is the revised box'score,
from his communique:
MacArthur
Says
Jap Resistance
Ceases on Levte
MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUAR-
TERS, Philippines, Oct. 30. (via
Army radio)- (P1)- Gen. Douglas
MacArthur reported today that all
organized Japanese resistance in
Leyte Valley, central Philippines, has
ceased-that the Yanks now control
roughly 2/3 of the island and have
liberated a million and a half Fili-
pino people on Leyte and nearby
Samar.
All organized resistance in Leyte
Valley has ceased, and the Americans
control this vital area, after captur-
ing Dagami, a key communications
center on the main highway.
On the northern front, the 24th
Division made gains up to four miles
in a three-pronged drive toward the
island's northwest coast to cut off a
major enemy escape route.
Guerrilla forces and the 21st In-
fantry regiment have conquered the
southern one third of Leyte, and
patrols are cutting westward across
a narrow land neck from Auyog to
cut the island in segments.
The Americans hold an unbroken
LONDON, Oct. 30, Monday-(P)-
Allied forces were throwing powerful
punches throughout southern Hol-
land last night in an effort to pre-
vent approximately 40,000 Germans
from fleeing across Hollandsch Diep
and the Maas (Meuse) River in the
direction of Rotterdam.
As the offensive against the des-
perate Nazis mounted, the Allies yes-
terday marked up these advances:
1. Polish troops, under Canadian
command, stormed into strategic
Breda, midway. between Roosendaal
and Tilburg.
2. The Canadians linked up with
the British on south Beveland and
drove into Goes, the peninsula's main
communications center. (The Amer-
ican broadcasting station in Europe
reported Goes had fallen.)
3. The British captured Loon Op
Zand, north of Tilburg, and then
plunged within four miles of the
Maas.
A frontline dispatch disclosed that
American troops under Canadian
command had joined the spectacular
cleanup drive somewhere on a 22-
mile front between Bergen Op Zoom
and Breda.
The doughboys joining the drive
DeGaulle Decree
Produces Crisis
PARIS, OCT. 29-(M-The De-
Gaulle government precipitated a
first-class crisis today with a decree
disarming all save the regular army
and the police-a far-reaching order
to knock the Germans from the lower'
coastal corner of Holland and open,
Antwerp as a port to receive supplies
for the conquest of Germany seized"
several unidentified towns, it was
reported.
Late reports said . that the Poles '
who seized Breda, a city of 48,000 and
a key to German defenses in south-'
west Holland, found only a few Nazi
snipers left there and late last night'
moved up across the Breda-Roosen
daal road.
Allied fighter-bombers ripped at,
the fleeing enemy, and pilots de-
clared the area below the Maas was
"alive with transports." The bomb-
ers needed only good weather to take
tremendous toll of, enemy forces
forming to bottlenecks at bridge and
ferry crossings.
The German stand in the Schelde
estuary, with guns barring the water
pathway to Antwerp, likewise was.
crumbling rapidly.
Allies Publish
Bulgar Terms
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.- (AP)-
The United States, Great Britain
and Russia today published the arm-
istice terms made with Bulgaria,
disclosing that the defeated enemy
has'promised full aid in prosecuting
the war against Germany.
The terms also provided that Bul-
garia relinquish all claims to Greek
and Yugoslav territory which the.
Bulgars had sought to annex as long
Sunk
Carriers . . .4
Battleships 2
Heavy Cruis 6
Light Cruis. 3
Small Cruisers or
Destroyers 3
Destroyers 6
Totals ... .24
Prob.
Sunk
0
3
2
Large
0
7
Dam.
0
6
4
1
0
10,
13 21 58
Tot.
4
9
13
6
3
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first World War, but there the losses
were nearly equal, whereas in the
Philippine Sea all three Japanese
forces virtually were wiped out, but
the U. S. forces were only slightly
hurt.
IT AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE:
Only Four Fraternities Oecupy Houses
Entering freshman and transfer
students will find fraternity life at
Michigan greatly affected by the
war's shortage of male students and
of available student housing facili-
ties.
Only four fraternities, Phi Delta
Theta, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsi-
lon and Alpha Tau Omega, are occu-
pying their own houses this fall.
Some Theta Delta Chi's are living
with the A.T.O.'s and Phi Sigma
Delta is leasing the Kappa Sigma
house. Sigma Phi Epsilon is playing
host also to several members of
Acacia.
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ship of the International Center and
by a group of Army and Navy
officers.
ATTENTION MEN
Freshman and transfer students
interested in fraternities on the
campus are asked to register in
the Interfraternity Council offices
tomorrow, Michigan Union, third
-floor.
No man is eligible for rushing
or initiation unless he has been
registered with the IFC.
The Interfraternity Council, or-
ganization representing all campus
sist of alumni of various fraternity
chapters, faculty members and two
student representatives, the president
and secretary of the I.F.C. The first
thing that will be done after the
war, says Bliss "Bo" Bowman, presi-
dent of the I.F.C., will be a general
overhauling of all houses.
Registration for rushing will, be
held tomorrow at the Interfraternity
Council office on the third floor of
the Union. The opening date for
rushing has been tentatively set at
Monday, Nov. 6, and pledging will
begin two weeks later. Any freshman
who receives five or ten week grades
and has an over-all "C" average may
TRYOUT MEETING