11,11, , I(H N DAii.N '11Y1_ Y , 4-Y. Aw. 4; ..+r.rG+r. w . .. ... :. ..._. ..F.r. s..._..r...a . r rx . .. ".. rs a. i r y. Th u. ..t_.at J.tW, ., Th4. SNOWDRIFTS MAROON AUTOMOBILES-Sub-zero weather, bitter winds and high snow drifts gripped Cleveland, O., as a cold wave marooned hundreds of automobiles in driveways. This is a scene of - stranded, frozen vehicles in University Heights, Cleveland suburb. Formosa, Okinawa Blasted by U.S. Carrier Aircraft Forces t the Bur- By The Associated Press rijcal ques- U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 3- ss man by Carrier aircraft of the U. S. Pacific 1problems production Fleet hit Formosa and Okinawa r function Islands, the latter in the Ryukyus, g to Prof. Tuesday, the Navy announced today,I d termina- in a daring foray three days aftert tracts, he Philippine based aircraft blasted of adult f business Japanese shipping east of Formosa. There were no details of the car - rier sweeps, the first since last Oct- ober on Formosa and Okinawa, indi- cating the action may be a continuing one. Nimitz Issues Communique IlThe communique from Adm. Ches- ter W. Nimitz merely said: "Carrier based aircraft of U. S. 'uSSed Pacific Fleet struck enemy installa- tions on. Formosa and Okinawa Jima he Fascist Jan. 2. Details of the strike are not F. Shep- yet available." the Exec- There was no indication here epartment whether the Naval air strike was 8:he las coordinated with blows by the Phil- n:30p. . ippine based planes of Gen. Douglas in ation.he MacArthur's command. MacArthur ilk onte announced yesterday that his north- )logi reofst ern air patrols had attacked enemy shipping near Formosa Sunday ollowed by (Philippine Time). The Naval sweep h refresh- be held in Co-ops To Hold1 ginning at Din ner Part , tic At Members of cooperatives will meet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow for a dinner )peg' party at Robert Owens House. 1017 Oakland. Hillel cost The dinner will be followed by a y evening discussion at 8 p.m. by Prof. Norman oday. E. Nelson of the English department ill be Mr. on "Cooperatives-their role in past, ;roit B'nai present and future." ce Service. Folk-dancing and games will com- ' Choosing plete the evening. Everyone is in- pen to the vted to the discussion and social program. over Formosa and Okinawa came1 three days later (Philippine Time). Okinawa at Jap Gateway Okinawa, at the gateway to Japan, was first raided by a fast U. S. car- rier force last Oct. 9 in a series of blows that spread - throughout the Ryukyu archipelago. The Ryukyus are a cluster of small islands only 160 miles from Formosa and 800 south of Tokyo. (nThe communique also told of the 26th straight daily raid on Iwo Jima, in the Volcano Islands, and the air bombardment of Okimura, a town on Haha Jima in the Bonin Islands north of the Volcanos. Revoking of, ,Stamps,,Vital OPA Chief Defends Ration Cancellation NEW YORK, Jan. 3-(R)-Recent cancellation of food ration stamps without previous announcement, Price Administrator Chester Bowles said today, "was the hardest decision we ever had to make" but necessary to "give everyone his fair share of 1945 supplies." He told an American Management Association luncheon that the coun- try never had faced "a more criti- cal period in our effort to hold war time prices in line and distribute scarce goods fairly." Food Rationing Is Major Problem Food rationing, he said, was but one of five major problems which must be solved "to protect the Amer- ican public against scarce supplies and inflationary prices." Bowles said others were clothing prices, livestock ceilings, reconversion pricing and the absorption to a reas- onable extent of cost increases by the distributive trade. Bowles Discusses Sugar Stamps Referring to the invalidation of sugar stamps, red points and blue points, the APO administrator de- clared: "When we originally said there would be notification in the case of invalidation of stamps, we did not estimate properly the number of stamps which would accumulate for the serious effect the spending of these stamps could have an reduced supplies. OPA Admits Error "ewere wrong. However, I was not willingto cover that mistake by working a hardship on the great ma- jority who need their stamps to get their fair share of food. "Our choice was simply this: first we could allow the old stamps to re- main valid and cut the value of the new stamp, or second, we could can- cel the old stamps and give everyone his fair share of 1945 supplies." Bowles said the drastic paring of food rations was due to a steady in- crease in consumer demands and the continued heavy fighting in Europe. Hall A nnounces In tern'at~inai Ball Patrons List Includes Ruthven Hernandez, Bursley Patrons for International Ball, an all-campus dance to be held from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. tomorrow have been announced by George Hall, chairman of the Ball. The patrons list includes Presi- dent and Mrs. Alexander G. Ruth- ven, the Hon. Jaime Hernandez, minister of finance of the Philippine Commonwealth, Dean Joseph Burs- ley, Dean and Mrs. Ivan Crawford, Dean and Mrs. Clarence Yoakum, and Dean and Mrs. Wells Bennett., Other patrons are Dean and Mrs. James Edmonson, Dean and Mrs. Russell Stevenson, Dean and Mrs. E. A. Walter, Dean and Mrs. W. J. Emmons and Dean and Mrs Peter Okkelberg. The list continues with Prof. and Mrs. J. Raleigh Nelson, Prof. and Mrs. Jose Albaladejo, Prof. and Mrs. Everett Brown, Prof. and Mrs. Frank Capley, Prof. and Mrs. George Car- rothers and Prof. and Mrs. Leonard Watkins. Instrumental Music Clinicl Will Meet Here Performances by the University Concert Band under the direction of Prof. William D. Revelli, and the -Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Prof. Gilbert Ross, with guest con- ductors Edwin Franko Goldman, Morton Gould and William Schu- mann will highlight the Seventh Annual Instrumental Music Clinic to be held here Feb 3-4. Sponsored by the School of Music and Michigan School Band and Or- chestra Association, the Clinic had its inception at the University during the winter of 1938. At this time the need for a reading clinic to hear Band and Orchestra Festival litera- ture before its adoption for official use was seen. The Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, organized in 1935,.has increased greatly in mem- bership. Dr. Goldman, one of America's Legislature Bewips War Tihe Session House To Settle Recount Disputes LANSING, Jan. 3.-UP)-The G3rd Michigan Legislature convened to- day, ahead of it a minimum of five months of arduous work on affairs of state in this second regular legis- lative session of the war. The House of Representatives moved to settle recount disputes in which two of its elected members face challenges of their right to serve, amid much eleventh hour scenes maneuvering by those having partisan interest in the disputes. Bills Introduced Early The first of hundreds of proposed bills were introduced in both the House and Senate without waiting for Governor Kelly to deliver tomor- row his message to the legislature outlining the administration pro- gram. The. House Republican majority ordered a recount of the votes cast for state representative from the Houghton District, in which Fred Kappler, Lake Linden Democrat, won a four-vote victory over Harry Her- mann, Laurium Republican, but re- ceded at the last minute from its earlier announced determination to deny Kappler a seat until the re- count is completed. Recount Petition Submitted The petition of Leeman J. McCar- ty, Kalamazoo Democrat, for recount of the vote by which Rep. James B. Stanley, Kalamazoo Republican, was reelected, was submitted to a special committee for study and Stanley was seated. Lieutenant-Governor Vernon J. Brown, presiding officer of the Sen- ate, and Speaker Howard Nugent, just elected to his fourth successive term as presiding officer of the House, took up their duties with pleas to the lawmakers to do their job honorably and well. Perry Clears Voting Machine Question, Fred C. Perry, city clerk, yester- day answered the City Council's questions on the irregularities of one of the voting machines in the fourth ward on Nov. 7. Perry stated that the spaces in the machine required for the presi- dential ballots and the constitutional amendment ballots was greater than a single column for those particular ballots. Faculty Notes Shirley Smith, vice president of the University will speak on the Uni- versity's part in the war and the busi- ness side of the administration under the new set up at a dinner to be held by the University Club of Cleveland -at 6:30 p. m. Monday in the Cleveland Athletic Club. Vice president Smith will also speak on his recollections of the previous presidents of the Univer- sity under whom he has worked. Rex. P. Dryer and Elizabeth Part- enfelder will arrange the affair which -has been limited to 125 persons be- cause of war time conditions. Dean J. B. Edmonson. will act as moderator at the second open forum of the University of Michigan Club of Detroit when it meets at 8 p. m., Jan. 17 in the Rackam Memorial Build- ing of Detroit. Those who will discuss the sub- ject. "Are We Equipping Youth to Meet Tomorrow's Problems?" are Lee A. White, Detroit News; D. W. Brooke Stabler, Headmaster of Cranbrook School; Laurentine Col- lings, Detroit Board of Education; and Dr. Howard A. Lane, of Northwestern University who is currently doing research for the Detroit Police Department. Others participating in the forum will-be Dr. Freitz Redle, Wayne Uni- versity and the Rev. L C. Johnson, St. Johns Episcopal Church. * ** Prof. Harold Dorr of the political science department will speak at the next meeting of the University of Michigan Club of Flint at 6:30 p. m., Jan. 10 at the Durant Hotel in Flint. Robert O. Morgan, assistant gen- eral secretary of the Alumni Asso- ciation will also show movies of the Michigan-Ohio State football game. Sayitwith FLOWERS Yes, you'll find that FLOWERS are always an appropriate gift for any occasion. We have a variety of different types of plants, cut flowers, corsages, and other novelties fob you to choose from. CHELSEA A FLOWER SHOP 203 East Liberty ' f <4,r i~! r 4 z 4 - 4 i Q''. C''"M '* most celebrated composers. has writ- ten "On the Mall," a march second in fame only to Sousa's. Clinics on problems in teaching the oboe, trombone, string and per- cussion section will be held during the sessions. Prof. Revelli will lead a panel discussion on "The Challenge of the High School and College Band to the American Composer." Keep A-Head of Your Hair LET US KEEP YOU WELL-GROOMED. TODAY! THE DASCOLA BARBERS Between State & Mich. Theatres K I R4(ihf etleaeur NEW CAMERA "SHOOTS" FLYING PROJECTILES -WVHEN Army ballistics experts needed to photograph speeding rockets, scientists at Bell Telephone Labora- tories built the special "ribbon-frame" camera. Their experience came from making high speed cameras to study tiny movements in telephone equipment parts. The new camera gets its name from the narrow slot that exposes a ribbon of film at a speed of one ten- thousandth of a second. These "stills," taken on ordinary film, show a fast flying P-47 firing its under- wing rocket. This is an example of the many ways Bell System I lit Me INSIDE RIDING RING ' E III at