IiYu b Y ~*fr igan Daiii1 WEATHER Clear'ing and Ve'ry Cold Today VOL. LV, No. 53 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JAN. 9, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ene myBroadcast Announces U.S. Pacific Invasion Gen. MacArthur's Communique Makes No Mention of New Landing on Luzon Nazis Are * Retreating in Belgium * * * * * * * * Buzz Bomb Coast Attack Forecast Raids Probable In Two Months, ~U mini ~ SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8-A division of American troops has invaded Lingayen Bay, north of Manila, on Luzon Island, the enemy said today in a broadcast recorded by the Blue Network. "The enemy forces which have invaded Lingayen bay are estimated to number one division," was the version recorded here. This report, strongly suggesting the big showdown fight for the Philip-j pines is on in full fury, followed enemy broadcasts of the past few days that 450 American transports were moving, toward Luzon island behind 70 warships which dueled for two days with Lingayen shore batteries. f Lingayen Unnoted by MacArthur Gen. Douglas MacArthur's latest A R A T A GLA NCE communique told of aerial assaults on central and southwest Luzon, includ- ing the Manila sector but made no PACIFIC- Jap Radio reports mention of air attacks on the Lin- Yank invasion of Luzon at Ling- gayen scene, where the Japanese or- ayen Gulf; MacArthur and Nimitziginally invaded the Philippines. confer in Philippines. The manipulations of the Tokyo WESTERN FRONT-Americans broadcaster, as recorded by the Fed- cut neck of Nazi Belgian salient to eral Communications Commission, ten miles; 700 bombers hit German left the impression of a successful lines inside bulge. Japanese repulse without actually EASTERN FRONT-Reds repulse saying the Americans had embarked German counterattack at Buda- from the transports. pest, hold half of Hungarian capi- Broadcast Boasts One Division j tal, The broadcast said the Yank inva- ITALY-Canadians make gains sion force in the Lingayen area, a north of Ravenna. little over 100 miles north of Manila, GREECE-British chase ELAS is "estimated to be approximately one from Athens area. division strong," or about 15,000 men. The broadcast, filled with consider- able bombast on the readiness of Jap- Texas Statute anese forces on Luzon, was beamed to the United States for American Invalidatred Jbconsumption. y eThe report by the Japanese Domei News Agency claimed without 'ex- Ingramn Says 0 1C STATUTE MI South Set ---f upreme cour t Can't Force Organizers To Register Is Ruling By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-The Su- preme Court ruled unconstitutional today an effort by Texas to punish a union organizer for soliciting mem- bers without-first registering with the state. The decision, which recognized a state's right to regulate unions while frowning on the particular applica- tion of the Texas statute involved, was voted 5' to 4. Rules Against Texas The court, in an opinion by Justice Rutledge, said Texas went too far by prosecuting R. J. Thomas, vice- president of the CIO, for making a membership speech at an oil workers union meeting in Pelly, Tex., shortly after the state adopted comprehen- sive labor union regulations. A section of the state law required labor organizers to sign up with the secretary of state. Thomas, a Detroit man, had not lone so. He went to Pelly solely to make the speech. The Supreme Court held that the union had a right to meet, and its officials, "whether there for an occasion or sojourning longer," had a right to inform them. Thomas' invitation to membership was termed a necessary part of the speech. Says Free Speech Restricted Justice Rutledge asserted:' "They (labor unions) cannot claim special immunity from regulation. Such regulation, however, whether' aimed at fraud or other abuses, must not trespass upon the domains setI apart for free speech and free assem- bly . . . that there was restriction. upon Thomas' right to speak andI the rights of the workers to hear what he had to say, there can be no doubt." Child A rsonist Held For Juvenile Court YPSILANTI, Mich., Jan. 8.-(/1)- An 11-year-old boy was ordered held tonight for juvenile court arraign- ment after admtting, Leonard Young, chief assistant prosecutor of Wash- tenaw County, said, setting three fires in the Willow Run Housing Project, causing damage estimated at $40,000. CAMPUS EVENTS Toda M' Dames meet at 8:15 p. m. at home of Mrs. George G. Brown. Today 19th Century text books through are on display at Uni- Jan. 19 versity Elementary School Library. Jan. 10 Prof. Leslie White will - BULLETIN - By The Associated Press ABOARD VICE-ADM. JOHN Mc- CAIN'S FLAGSHIP OFF THE PHIL- IPPINES, Jan. 7.-(Delayed)-Car- rier-based planes pounded Luzon Island for the second straight day today as the jittery Japanese sent their ships fleeing to sea and hid most of their air force. planation that the defenders already have dealt a "staggering blow" to forces engaged in "an attempted landing." Gulf Is Important Seaway Lingayen Gulf is one of the most important seaways on the western coast of Luzon Island. The gulf juts into the land from northwest to southeast. Its mouth is 25 miles across and its length about 35 miles. Practically the entire gulf has an inner rim coral shelf but it does not extend too far out to prevent the landing of an army, as the Japa- nese proved when they invaded there { in December. 1941. La Union province forms the gulf's eastern shoreline while Pangasinan province is on the south shore. On the west side of the gulf are the hundred islands. The gulf has two deep sea ports. San Fernando, in La Union, and Lingayen City, in Pangasinan. Senate GOP Pledges Aid To Exert Pressure For National Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-V)-Sen- ate Republicans pledged aid in the enactment of manpower measures to- day with Senator Austin (R.-Vt.) calling on the administration to press hard for national service legislation. GOP To Cooperate Chairman Taft (R.-Ohio) said it was the consensus of the GOP steer- ing committee that the minority is "willing to do whatever seems prac- tical or needed to accomplish the re- sult" of increasing war production. Austin, who Taft said ,had been designated as spokesman for the committee on manpower questions, went further. The Vermonter told reporters who gathered at his office that it is up to the administration tormake an "active and earnest" effort to get nationalaservice legislation, some- thing he implied it thus far has failed to do despite President Roose- velt's repeated recommendation to Congress. Colmer Plan Chairman Colmer (D.-Miss.) of the House Postwar Committee, mean- time . tt .r1nn a 4>)ha nn"n ulprnr n t-o Effective Steps Taken To Cope with Threat AN EAST COAST PORT, Jan. 8- (M-A Nazi buzz bomb attack on the Atlantic coast is probable within the next two months, Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, said today. Ingram, who said he came here! aboard his flagship to take steps to cope with such an attack, succinctly declared at a press conference: Within 60 Days "It is possible and probable that the Germans will attempt to launch bombs against New York or Wash- ington within the next 30 to 60 days." But, he said, "there is no reason for anyone to become alarmed. Ef- fective steps have been taken to meet this threat, when, as and if it becomes a reality." Ingram said "the time for practice blackouts for New York and the east coast has ended. "The next alert," he said, "will be the 'real McCoy.' If it isn't ac- tion, the public will have advance knowledge." Armed Forces Prepared The Admiral said he had been authorized at a recent meeting with members of the general staff in Washington to make a statement as- suring the public the Navy and Army were well prepared to ward off any robot bomb assaults. "If such an attempt is made," he asserted, "it would probably be lim- ited to 10 or 12 bombs. These would not be of the blockbuster type. "They might strike a building and destroy it, but the casualties would be nothing like those which the people of London are suffering under." He said that his opinion was based on his own experience with the ene- my, not on military intelligence re- ports. Andersen Play To Be Given By Child Cast "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" will be presented January 19 and 2O at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre as the first 1945 production of the Ann Ar-! bor Children's Theatre, the Speech' Department announced yesterday. The play is adapted from the story of Hans Christian Andersen by Dor- othy Holloway, and tells the story of Peter, an average little boy, who is bored with his toys and seeks to find playthings more exciting and alive. He is stunned when he quietly comes into his nursery one night and finds his tin soldiers drilling, his Teddy bears fighting, and his lovely Paper Lady the cause of a duel. Needless to say, Peter decides that there is enough excitement right in his own room to satisfy all his desires. There will be two performances of "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," one on Friday, January 19 at 3:45 p. in., and the second on Saturday, January 20 at 2:30 p.. m. Tickets for the play will be placed on sale in all schools the end of this week. These tickets can be exchanged for reserved seats by either coming to or phoning the theatre box office, which will be open January 18, 19, and 20 from 10 a. m. until 5 p. in. each of these days. --- -Ilm ls P AL.A 00 PH~'ILII'PIr LESSAparri ISLANDS Longo yen Gu~' ' LUZON 4iTarlac Paicific ". POLILLO Ocean MANILA ' p ISLANDS MINDORO MAR INDUQUE CALAMIAN %IIU4o S A GUP PANA~Y "CEBU j1101liolo j EYTfi / ANNEGROSwQ Sulu Sea MINDANAO J ,Mindanao Se( Zmboanga , Dava f~ .JI NO RTH BORNE( 't ^ " ,; ''ARC41PELAGO Celebes Sea JAPS REPORT YANKS INVADING LUZON-American invasion for- ces (A) have penetrated Lingayen Gulf and are bombarding the coast, the Japanese radio claims. The radio added that other "powerful enemy convoys" are cruising westward south of Mindoro (B) and in the Mindanao Sea (C). Black areas are those taken by Yanks In the. Philippine campaign. PANS POST-WAR PLANNING : Prof. White States Need for Understanding Laws of Culture t i 4E U.S. Third Threatens Von Runstedt Position Menace to Strasbourg on Rhine Reduced As American Seventh Army Takes Initiative By The Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 8-The Germans were retiring tonight from the dearly- won tip of their Belgian positions-possibly all the way back to St. Vith, four miles from the Reich border-under tempestuous blows from four Allied armies that knocked out 15 miles of one main escape route and shred the second with artillery fire. Bulge Is Narrowed With the waist of his Belgian bulge narrowed to 10 miles, Field Mar- shal Karl Von Rundstedt was confronted with a new menace 10 miles farther east where the U. S. Third- - ArmoredDivision drove south to within five and a half miles of his j.Jap PtflaneLose last good highway. offestinatedvatnI000 A second German ofaensive in a northeast France likewise was thrownAr into i'everse as the U. S. Seventh By 'The Associated Press The Japanese air force lost more army seized the initiative and blunted than 1,000 planes in December; the a number of German salients that re- fourth consecutive month in which duced the threat to the French city of enemy aircraft destruction in the Strausbourg on the Rhine. Pacific has passed that figure. American counterattacks wrested The December losses, according back part of the German bridgehead to official communiques, totaled on the Rhine eight miles north of 623 in aerial combat and 430 on Strasbourg, the French stemmed the the ground. An additional 145 enemy push 16 miles south of the were probably destroyed. Allied city, and to the west in the Vosges losses were 80. doughboys recaptured Wingen; where the Nazi push had driven 15 miles 194X CAR : into France. Cracked Wide Open (A Berlin broadcast declared the ors French front had been "cracked wide open" by a new bridgehead south of Strasbourg from which German for- orser J ve ces overran six Rhine valley towns, including Kraft, only ten miles south of the city. The report was without Allied confirmation.) By RICHARD TOMPKINS More than 700 U. S. heavy bomb- (P News Feature Writer ers joined the battle in the Ardennes, E plastering road and rail Juntioi in- motorist is conservative in his re- side the Belgian bulge and the same quirements for a post-war car. He sort of targets far back into the may like streamlining but he doesn' Reich. want to sacrifice comfort and safet3 British Aid Arrives for appearance. The first airborne army was com- This is the consensus gathered i mitted to the battle of Belgium and survey's conducted by four news- Luxembourg with the arrival=of the papers in the east, west, south and British sixth airborne division. The middle west, at the request of th U. S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divi- Society of Automotive Engineers. sions already were in action. The results, as prepared for pre- The U. S. First Army plowing a sentation tonight at the annua mile or so through deep snow in the meeting of the SAE, were tabulate worst blizzard of the winter, overran by representatives of the New Yor five towns on the north, the British Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune mile on the west. San Francisco Examiner and Chicag ________Herald-American. .I 194X Automobile Assem bly Nig'ht The views offered by the reader of the four newspapers form a com posite answer to the question: "Wha To Be League kind of automobile do you want i 194X?" RnThe four-door sedan is the mos Recognition Ceremony popular body type. And the motor Ticket Sale To Close ists prefer plenty of head room t more rakish roofs of turtle an Tickets for Assembly Recognition tear-drop designs. And they wan Night, to be held at 8 p. m. tomor- little, if any, chrome plating. row in the League Ballroom, will be Want IncreasedVisibility on final sale from 3 p. m. to 5 p. mn. They want more vision, too-large today in the League. windshields-and seats that are ad Recognition Night, which will hon- justable up and down, as well a or outstanding independent women, forward and back, so they can get will also present Dr. Foburn T. Brum- better view of the road. baugh as speaker of the evening. He They want better ventilation, al has sent many years in Japan, and though they believe cooling system his topic will be "I Know Japan." are not worth the cost, and a larg Contrary to a previous announce- majority desire improved insulatio: ment, the keynote of the program I against noise. will be informality. Dorms and act- ive women will be presented withFi awards for war and scholastic work, and entries in the contest for an Assembly theme song will be judged To Be Restored and the winner announced. Also on the program will be humorous skits Students desiring restitution f by Wyvern, Mortarboard, and Sen- Stesuerinheretth n ior Society honor societies.a losses suffered in the fire at the Un:. C Speaking on the expansion of the scope of science, Prof. Leslie White, chairman of the Anthropology de- partment, declared last night before a gathering of Phi Sigma society at the Rackham Amphitheatre, that we must learn the nature and the laws of the culture under whose laws we live in order to adjust ourselves and behave rationally. Although we will not be able to change our culture, he stated, through an understanding of it and its laws, we will be able to adjust to and prepare for the vicissitudes of human experience. We can no more control, build or shape culture and the post-war world, he declared, than we can control the weather. We can, however, predict the weather, Prof. White said, and therefore prepare for it. Hold Primitive Ideas Declaring that we still hold a prim- itive attitude of culture, Prof. White warned that we will not be able to learn the nature of our civilization until we give up our primitive idea of the omnipotence of man and the misconception of free will. Free will and the primitive phil- osophy of man, supernaturalistic, an- AEF Smashes Rail, Road Lines Nqear Ardennes LONDON, Jan: 8-()-American heavy bombers blasted German rail and road lines in and around the i I imistic and anthropocentric, is now in conflict with science and, said the speaker, this conflict will become in- creasingly severe as primitive phil- osophy and free will is approaching its last stand. Citing as proponents of primitive philosophy in our society most of our educators and government leaders, Prof. White tabbed such propositions as the re-education of Germany and Japan as effective as when primitive people used formulas to stop rain. Educators in America, he said, look to education as a cure for social evils, as if change of culture by edu- cation were a "species of magic." They and our columnists and govern- ment leaders, Prof. White said, still adhere to the primitive concept of free will, that man is the master of his fate. "We think," he said, "that' we can build a post-war world ac- cording to order and plan because we do not know any better." Controlled by Culture Culture, he said, is a product of evolution and every people is domi- nated and controlled by its culture -not the other way around. People must submit to cultural laws, he de- clared, or be punished or eliminated. Claiming that social psychology is not the limit of the scope of science, Prof. White stated a need for a supra-psychology, a study of human institutions which is beyond the scope of present day psychology. During the initiation ceremonies preceding his talk, Prof. White was made an honorary member of Phi Sigma, a society dedicated to research in the biological sciences. In addi- tion to installing new officers, 23 new members were initiated into Phi Sig- ma at the meeting. n Pt y n 'r d rs ,n r- ..1 Ardennes bulge today in what ap-I parently was the start of a concen- trated effort to cut off Field Mar- ORATORICAL SERIES FD Tru WAS Presider influen gress to from th At th giving 1 correcti plicatio The shal Von Runstedt's escape route Opposes. from Belgium.thnW , R 1ppFsysngnthrough clouds so thick M c ie W, pilots were unable to see the othei W ie i p tst Exce nott planes in the formations, more thai W ife I il Sp 700 Flying Fortresses and Liberators - HINGTON, Jan. 8.- )- and 200 Mustangs of the U. S. Eighth Madame Wei Tao-ming, wife of nt Roosevelt today threw his Air Force dumped some 2,500 tons of the Chinese ambassador to the Unit- ce against the move in Con- ed States, will speak at 8:30 p. m. exempt insurance companies explosives on German transportation Thursday in Hill Auditorium under' me anti-trust laws. routes. the auspices of the Oratorical Asso-, e same time he said he favors Road and rail junctions opposite ciation. the business time for "orderly the Ardennes salient and within the Friend of Madame Chiang ion of abuses' before full ap- bulge at unnamed points in Luxem- An ardent feminist, lively, chic Ma- , n of the Sherman act. bourg and Belgium were attacked as dame Wei is a great favorite of Ma- Supreme Court, in a 4-3 deci- well as traffic hubs farther south dame Chiang Kai-shek. She was the A mbassador"s ' ak Thursday mandarin of the Manchu dynasty,' she participated in the Chinese revo- lution of 1911 and has already plead-j ed China's case in the Shantung problem in theUnited States. Travels Widely Madame Wei arrived in Washing- ton in 1941 enroute to France, where her husband had been appointed am- bassador. Japanese pressure barred versity Golt Course Cliub house must file notice with the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics, Athletic Director Fritz Crisler announced yes- 'terday. In order to receive consideration, Crisler said, the claims must be in the Board's offices at the Ferry Field IAdministration Building before Jan. 17. A fire Oct. 14 last year almost en- tirely destroyed the club house and all golf equipment stored in it by students. Police officials reported the fire evidently was ignited by a burning cigarette. Crisler said a pro-rata amount of 4 the "little" insurance that would ! be forthcoming for the blaze would be distributed among claimants.