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VOL. LV, No. 51 'ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JAN. 6. 1945
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Viletry, 54-53
Hoopsters Victorious
In See-Saw Contest
By DAVE LOEWENBERG
Associate Sports Editor
A timely last minute basket by
Ted Berce enabled Michigan to
come from behind and defeat a gal-
lant Indiana five, 54-53, giving the
Wolverines the inaugural victory in
the 1945 Big Ten race.
The Wolverines led throughout the
second half but the Hoosiers sparked
by Ray Brandenburg's two baskets
and scores by Al Kralovansky and
Gene Fars surged ahead, 53-50. Bob
Geahan then hit for the Wolverines
and Berce followed with his game-
winning marker, a one-handed push
shot from the right side of the floor.
Geahan Is High Man
Michigan's high point man for the
evening was Geahan, who dumped
in seven field goals and one charity
toss for 15 points. Indiana's scoring
punch revolved around Kralovansky
and Gene Faris who tallied 31 points
between them.
During the first half the lead
changed hands eight times with
Michigan finally going ahead, 27-
25, at the intermission. Early scores
by Don Lindquist and Keith Harder
gave Michigan a 3-0 lead but Indiana
quickly countered and regained the
edge, 8-7, on Brandenburg's shot
under the basket. Faris made it 10-7,
but the Wolverines then took the
initiative and went ahead, 11-10, on
Geahan's two free throws.
Lead Changes Hands
The score then changed hands
four times with Geahan again com-
ing through on a push shot to put
the Wolverines on top, 25-23. Don
Lund sunk a free throw making it
26-24, and a pair of charity tosses by
Kralovansky and one by Walt Kell
concluded the half-time scoring.
The play during the first half was
unusually rough, with 15 fouls being
See CAGERS, Page. 3
Landing Made
In Philippines
Attack Made Within
100 Miles of Mantila
By The Associated Press
A new landing by men of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur within 100 miles
of Manila was reported today and a
delayed flagship dispatch, breaking
the radio silence for a carrier task
force, disclosed that 97 planes were
destroyed, scores of others damaged,
17 ships were sunk and 35 others
damaged in the first day of attacks
on Formosa and the Ryukyus.
MacArthur's Saturday communi-
que told of an unopposed landing on
Marinduque Island,. in the Sibuyan
sea immediately east of American-
invaded Mindoro.
In a dispatch from the flagship of
Vice Adm. John S. McCain, the first
reports of the destruction wrought
by carrier planes against Formosa
and Okinawa, main island of ,the
Rkukyus, were filed by Rembert
James, Associated Press War Corre-
spondent, who also disclosed the
planes flew over the China coast.
James' ditpatch covered only the
attack of Tuesday, U. S. time, al-
though Adm. Chester W. Nimitz has
confirmed the planes continued to
attack Wednesday.
CAMPUS EVENTS
Today Swimming meet between
Michigan and Great Lakes
at 8 p. m. in Sports
Building pool.
Today Hockey game between
Michigan and Vickers
Athletic Club at 8 p. m.
at Colliseum.
Jan. 7 Members. of School of
Music faculty present all-
Brahms recital at 8:30
p. m. in Lydia Mendel-
ssoihn The~atre.
1700 Voters Participate
In Record Gampus Poll
Committee for Third Annual V-Ball Chosen;
Fink Elected to Student Publications Board
In an election termed one of theQ
largest in campus history, nearly
1,700 students turned out yesterday
to choose V-Ball committeemen and
a member of the Board in Control of
Student Publications.
Acting as a committee to co-
ordinate the third annual between-
semester V-Ball will be Paul John,
Doris Heidgen, Dave Loewenberg,
Alene Loeser and Norma Johnson
of the Literary College, Bill Mc-
Connell, Dick Mixer and John Sor-
ice of the Engine school, Jean Wick
of the Architecture school and
Morton Scholnick of the School of
Business Administration.
Monroe Fink, '47L, rormerly a
night editor of The Daily, was chosen
from a field of three others to become
the new student member of the
Publications Board.
"This was definitely the largest
expression of student preference in
the, last three. years," Thomas Bliska,
'45, speaking for the Men's Judiciary
Council which directed the campus
election, declared yesterday after-
noon. "I would say that the number
of votes cast was at least three times
U ----
Destroyer Reid'
Sunk by Japs
Off Philippines
No Announcement of
Casualties Disclosed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-(MP)-The
destroyer Reid has been lost to ene-
my action in the Philippine area, the
Navy announced today.
No announcement was made as to
extent of casualties, but all next of
kin have been notified.
The ship had a normal comple-
ment of 24 officers and 178 enlisted
men.
Commander Wounded
Commander S. A. McCornock, 34,
of Iron River, Mich., her skipper,
was reported wounded.
The Reid was the 12th Naval ves-
sel lost in the current Philippine
campaign, the 244th vessel of all
types lost since the beginning of the
war.
She was the 51st destroyer lost
during the war.
The 1480-ton vessel was at Pearl
Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. She parti-
cipated in the bombardment of Kis-
ka, Guadalcanal, Arawe, Cape Glou-
cester, Saidor, Biak and Wake Island.
During 1942 she sank a Japanese sub-
marine. Recently she engaged in op-
erations off Leyte.
The Reid was built by the Federal
Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., of
Kearney, N. J. She was 341 feet long
with a 35 foot beam and a designed
speed of 35 knots. She carried five-
inch 38 caliber anti-aircraft guns.
'Miss Hattie'
To Honor TU'
In recognition of the high stan-
dard of proficiency achieved by its
graduates in American industry, the
University engineering school will be
one of the many engineering schools
of the nation to receive special trib-
ute during the "Miss Hattie" radio
show, starring Ethel Barrymore, to,
be heard over the Blue Network at
3:30 p.m. tomorrow.
greater than in any other election
during that period," he said.
Bliska went on to say that he
felt the student interest was a con-
tinuation of the revived campus
spirit that exhibited itself earlier
in the semester for the flomecom-
ing week-end and Kampus Kapers.
Paul John, '46, chairman of the
social committee of the Michigan
Union, who led the candidates in
number of votes cast, declared yes-
terday evening, "I feel sure that
everyone on the committee will do
all in his power to make this year'
V-Ball one of the finest dancesain
the history of the campus."
Doris Heidgen, '46, Gamma Phi, in
addition to her new position with the
V-Ball committee, is membership
chairman of the Newman Club and
is with the JGP central committe
and the War Activities Council of
Pan Hellenic.
Alene Loeser, '46, is with the
WAA board, was a member of the
Frosh Project central commitee,
and was a Bond Belle during the
sixth war loan drive. Norma John-
son, '46, is the accounts manager
for the Michiganensian and an
editor for Kappa Delta.
Dave Loewenberg, '45, Sigma Al-
pha Mu, is associate sports editor for
The Daily, vice-president of Hillel
and secretary-treasurer of Sphinx.
Morton Scholnick, '46BAd, Zeta Beta
Tau, is a tryout with the Union social
committee.
Jean Wick, '45A&D, is treasurer of
Panhellenic, was ticket chairman for
the inter-sorority group last year,
and is a member of Scroll. Dick
Mixer, '45E, Phi Delta Theta, is
goalie with the varsity hockey squad,
a member of Triangle and chairman
of the Union orientation committee.-
* Ballot makers had not counted
on the unusually heavy voting yes-
terday, and in several cases, after
the supply of ballots had run out,
students voted on ordinary note-
book paper. These ballots were
counted as official by the Judi-
ciary Council.
"I believe the election was handled
very efficiently, and I could find no
evidence of any dishonesty connec-
ted with it," Bliska declared. "A few
ballots were destroyed because stu-
dents had voted for more than one
school's candidates, but not enough
votes were thrown out to have affec-
ted the outcome of the election.
Postmen Ask
For Clean Wank
Oswald J. Koch, Ann Arbor post-
master, has appealed to local house-
holders to use "salt or cinders, even a
shovel" to clear slippery snow from
dwelling entrances.
He explained that icy, snowy steps
and porches constitute a hazard for
mail carriers. "Postal regulations do
not compel the postmen to deliver
mail when danger is involved and
while each resident should be con-
cerned about the safety of members
of his family in ascending and des-
cending the front steps of his home,
he should also consider those whose
daily rounds take them and their
mail sacks to his door," he stated.
PLANES SET AFIRE ON YANK CARRIER BY JA P BOMBS-Fire-fighting crews of an unnamed U. S.
carrier battle flames in two planes which were hit by Jap bombs while on the flight deck of the flattop.
Photo is taken from an official movie reel of the second battle of the Philippines.
(AP Wirephoto from Navy)
HeadYank
Defenses
First, Nin1th Armies
British Troops Join
By The Associated Press
SHAEF, Paris, Jan. 5.-(A)-Field
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
ery has been commanding the US.
First and Ninth Armies and all
forces north of the German bulge
into Belgium for more than two
weeks, with .Lt.-Gen. Omar N.
Bradley commanding forces only
on the southern flank, Supreme
Headquarters disclosed today.
The quick change of commands
was orderedby General Eisenhower
when the Nazi offensive threatened
to split the Allies in two.
PARIS, Jan. 5-A second menacing
German offensive was unmasked in
northeast France today as the Brit-
ish Army joined the U. S. First in
Belgium in a concerted assault that
gained up to two and a half miles
on the north flank of the bulge cre-
ated by ehe enemy's first big push.
Regain or Withdraw
The embattled U. S. Seventh Army
was faced in northern Alsace with
the stern necessity of restoring its
positions or making large-scale with-
drawals as German vanguards cut
across one of its main east-west sup-
ply highways in the northern Vosges
Mountains.
The enemy filtered forces into Win-
gen, astride the vital Sarreguimines-
Haguenau Highway nine and a half
miles south of the Maginot Fortress
of Bitche and only 12 miles north of
Saverne in the gap of the same name
-a jugular vein of Allied forces in
northeast France.
Germans Use Motorboats
Simultaneously, the Germans-cross-
ed the Rhine in motorboats and were
engaging Allied defenders in a fierce
battle for possession' of Gambsheim,
on the west Ban nine Miles north of
the French city of Strasbourg.
Nazis Report
Yank Setback
LONDON, Jan. 5-0?)--The Ger-
mans declared tonight that their of-
fensive in northeastern France had
pushed back six American and French
divisions and pierced the Maginot
Line on a 25-mile line extending on
both sides of Bitche.
Berlin broadcasts said that U. 8.
First Army attacks on the north side
of the Nazi bulge in Belgium had
gained ground but failed to punc-
ture Nazi defenses, and that the U. S.
Third Army's punches on the south-
ern side of the bulge had been stop-
ped cold.
On the northeastern French front,
Berlin said, French army units were
thrown in hurriedly, weakening the
Allied grip on upper Alsace to bol-
ster thin American Seventh *Army
lines before the Saverne Gap, key to
Strasbourg.
Rulssia Formally Recognizes
New Provisional Gover n1ent
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. 5-Soviet Russia brought to a head one of the thorni-
est problems facing the impending "Big Three" parley today by extending
formal recognition to the Polish Provisional Government of Lublin and
making a clean break With the exiled Polish regime in London, which is
supported by the United States and Great Britain.
The Soviet move emphasized with finality the inability of Russia, the
United States and Britain to agree on the Polish question and brought a
definite split in Big Three unity.
_- U. S. Upholds Poland
Russians Repel
Countterattacks
Yigoslav Allies Wage
Battle on Austrian Soil
LONDON, Jan. 5.-(AP-The Red
Army reported tonight that it had
smashed back powerful German
counterattacks northeast of Buda-
pest for the fourth straight day of a
great tank, airplane and infantry
battle. To the southeast the Soviets'
Yugoslav Allies announced they were
fighting on the soil of Austria after
crossing the Styrian frontier.
As the entire eastern front ap-
peared to be stirring in preparation
for great winter operations, Berlin
reported new Russian stabs 120 miles
below Warsaw which may herald an
all-out Soviet offensive on that long-
dormant front.
Inside flaming Budapest Russian
storm troops seized another 233
blocks from bitter-end Nazi defend-
ers to boost the total in their posses-
sion to more than 1,530, and they
reported in their midnight communi-
que from Moscow that they had cap-
tured another 2,400 German and
Hungarian soldiers.
In the furious battle 30 miles
northwest of the Hungarian capital.
where a Germany army of at least
six armored divisions and several)
infantry divisions was declared to be
attempting to crash through to re-
lieve the encircled Budapest Nazis,
the Russians reported successfully
repulsing "a number of heavy at-
tacks" by both infantry and tanks.
Both Britain and America follow-
ed the Russian statement with a re-
iteration of their announcements:
four days ago that they still were
standing by the London Polish Gov-
ernment.
Caught between this terrific diplo -
matic crossfire, the London Poles of-
ficially expressed "regret from the
point of view of United Nations un-
ity," but said they were not surprised
at the development. Their spokes-
man said the Soviet action "makes
more difficult our position and any
hopes of reaching a settlement."
Offensive May Follow
Diplomatic and military observers
here believed that the Russians, hav-
ing made their decision, were ready
now to launch their long-expected
offensive in Poland.
The Soviets severed relations with
the London Polish Government in
April, 1943, in a dispute over the
finding of the graves of thousands of
Polish officers in the forests near
Smolensk. Russia accused the Ger-
mans of having killed the officers,
but the London Poles asked the In-
ternational Red Cross to investi-
gate a counter claim by the Nazis
that the Russians had committed the
atrocity.
Although the Russians plainly had
favored the Lublin group since it
was formed several months ago in
Moscow, they had not given it for-
mal recognition until today.
WAR AT A GLA.NCE
WESTERN FRONT: Germans
begin second major offensive with-
in 15 days. Attack involves U.S.
Seventh Army. Field Marshal Ber-
nard Montgomery named to lead
U.S. First, Ninth, British Second
Armies to counterattack on Bel-
gian bulge.
PACIFIC FRONT: MacArthur's
troops land within 100 miles of
Manila. Attack Japanese island of
Formosa.
BURMA-INDIA FRONT: British
capture Akyab, last big Japanese
naval and air base in western
Burma. Open road to Mandalay.
White To Speak
To Phi Sigma
Honor Group Meeting
Will Follow Lecture
Prof. Leslie A. White, Chairman of
the executive committee of the De-
partment of Anthropology, will speak
on "The Expansion of the Scope of
Science" at 8:15 p.m. Monday at the
Rackham Building.
His talk will follow a meeting of
Phi Sigma society, honorary society
for students of the biological sci-
ences, to be held at 7:30 p.m. Instal-
lation of new officers and initiation
of new members will take place.
TO AID SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH:
Sanitation Foundation Will
Locate Headquarters Here
f4
The National Sanitation Founda-
tion has been chartered in Michigan
with headquarters at the School of
Public Health in Ann Arbor, it was
announced yesterday by Doctor Hen-
ry F. Vaughan, dean of the School
of Public Health of the University.
The Foundation, which has been
established for the purpose of pro-
DICKINSON PREDICTS JOB FUTURE:
More Women To Be Employed After War than Before,
moting progress in environmental
sanitation health and education, will
be concerned primarily with the ad-
vancement of scientific research, ex-
periments, demonstrations, evalua-
tions and the practical application of
new and coordinated knowledge
which has developed in the field of
environmental sanitation.
To Study Food Sanitation
Early consideration will be given
to studies in food sanitation and food
handling techniques. Material aid
will be given to all those colleges,
universities and public health agen-
cies and departments of federal,
state and local governments who
sponsor selected studies.
The Foundation is financed by
gifts and contributions from manu-
facturers, distributors and other in--
By MYRA SACKS
"More women will work outside
their own kitchens after the war
than before."
the women now working outside the
home will want to leave their jobs
after the war. "After World War
I," he added, "employment of women
Turning to the question of women's
wages, Prof. Dickinson declared that
"the average hourly earnings of
American female wage earners dur-
to which trade union organization ac-
counts for wage differences by sex
is very difficult to establish. In trade,
office work and teaching, for ex-
women. A man teacher, for exam-
ple, is thought generally to be more
capable to deal with unruly school-i
boys than a woman.