i ..... Y Af zutr t Ian ~Iait WEATHER Cloudy and Continued Coi, Light Stow, VOL. LV, No. 60 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Allies Launch estern Front ffensive 0.* Soviet Troops Pour Through Nazi Defenses Report Reds 38 Miles From Germ an Borde. By The Associated Prss LONDON, Jan. 17.- Two great Russian army groups poured like red floods through broken Nazi defenses on the Polish plain south of Warsaw today, reaching within 38 miles of the German border.. Gathering speed as it went, the gigantic Soviet winter offensive re- corded gains of 30 to 38 miles on a twisting battlefront more than 200 miles long from Grojec, 25 miles southwest of Warsaw, down to Slom- niki, only 12 miles north of the his- toric citadel of Krakow. White Russian Army Premier Stalin in two triumphant orders of the day last night disclosed that besides the First Ukraine Army group that began the offensive Jan. 12, the powerful First White Russian group had leaped into the assault Jan. 14 and in three days had ad- vanced from the Vistula 38 miles on a 75-mile-wide front. The First White Russian group, commanded by famoushMarshal Gre- gory K.' Zhukov, with at least 44 generals under him, sealed its trium- phant drive with the capture at 8 o'clock last night of Radom, powerful German fortress 55 miles south of Warsaw. In three days this army has taken more than 1,300 communities, Stalin's orders disclosed as Moscow's saluting cannon roared.- A fuller picture of the stunning series of continuing blows dealt to the Germans was presented in the regular late night communique broadcast from Moscow. Konev in Battle It announced that troops of the First Ukraine front led by Marshal Ivan S. Konev, who had begun the winter offensive five days previously captured more than 200 additional Polish towns Tuesday, racing within 38 miles and within 40 at many points - of the German border. Konev's men, besids reaching with- in 12 miles of Krakow, seat of Ger- many's government-general for Po- land, took Koniecpol, only 23 miles east of the famous monastery-town and stronghold of Czestochowa. JA GO ff icers Honor Faculty In recognition of their work for the Army's Judge Advocate Gen- eral's School here, that organization presented a Certificate of Merit and Appreciation yesterday to Dean E. Blythe Stason of the Law School, Prof. Marvin L. Niehuss, Co-ordi- nator of Emergency Training and Dr. James K. Pollock, professor of Political Science. The certificate was signed by Ed- ward H. Young, then Commandant of the Army Unit here, and approved by Major General Myron C. Cramer, the Judge Advocate General. New Campus Bureau To Open Tomorrow An all-campus Acquaintance Bu- reau will officially open with regis- tration from 3:30 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. tomorrow in the lobbies of the Union and the League. Designed to promote new friend- ships between members of the stu- dent body, the bureau is open to all those students who are new on cam- pus I CAMPUS EVENTS I Today Dr. Maurice L. Moore will deliver lecture at 4:15 p. m. in Rm. 303, Chemistry Building. Today Future Interracial Asso- ciation plans will be dis- cussed at a meeting of the IRA to be held at 7:30 p. m. today in the Union. Today 19th Century text books through are on display at Univer- Jan. 19 sity Elementary School Library. Jan. 19 Fifth annual Chamber through Music Festival featuring Jan. 20 the Budapest String Quartet in three concerts at the Rackham building. Thu 10 "Th atadfa Tin nSo- Annual May Festival Program Announced ANNUAL SHIP'S BALL: Eleven Soloists Bobby Sherwood's Orchestn, To Participate Navy Chorus To Be Featured jn IU' Conceets Shin's Ball, the Navv-sponsored I formal to be held from 8 p. m. to midnight Friday in the IM building, will feature music by B obby Sher- wood and his orchestra and inter- mission entertainment furnished by the Navy chorus. Among the numbers to be offered by the chorus, will be "Night and Day," "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" and "Navy Hymn." The chorus has gained wide attention on campus following a program they presented at the Union last fall. Their ap- pearance Friday night at Ship's Ball 'Ensian' Needs Pho tographers The Michiganensian needs pho- tographers, preferably experienced camera bugs. If interested call the 'Ensian, 2-3241. Yanks Rolling Unhindered in Central Luzon U.S. Forces 83 Miles From Island Capital By The Associated Press GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 17-One week after landing in Lingayen gulf, a powerful American spearhead was more than one-third of the way to Manila Monday and still rolling southward in dry, clear weather down the broad central Luzon plain, vir- tually unchecked on land or in the air. Japs Counterattack However on the left flank of the broadened front the first Japanese counterattack of the invasion was reported in the'stubbornly-held Poz- orrubio sector on Sunday. General Douglas MacArthur's communique today said the blow was repulsed. Conservatively - worded official statements located the deepest Am- erican penetration as on the central of three main north-south highways 45 road miles from Lingayen and 83 from Manila. The Yank column which reached Camiling, 30 road miles south of Lingayen, on Sunday was reported officially to be working its way southward, but-the depth of the ad- vance was not pinpointed. Yanks Drive On Field reports said these troops were progressing against nothing stronger than an occasional harassing patrol. At this point they reached Mon- cada, ten miles southeast of cap- tured Bayambang. Capture of Moncada put the Yanks well along the main road to Manila. interview yesterday. Progress on all fronts was reported in MacArthur's communique. (See MAP, Page 4) will be their first of 1945. Directing the group will be Leonard V. Mer- etta. Log Book To Be Signed One of the outstanding events of the formal will be an immense Log Book that will be signed by all those attending the dance. In addition to the Navy Chorus, Phil Snyder will act as MC and refreshments of cokes and cookies will be served. Carrying out a campus tradition. Bob Bennett, general chairman of Ship's Ball has requested that no corsages be worn at the formal. The exact nature of the decora- tions for the ball will remain a deep mystery until the night of the dance. The only hint that has been given concerning them is that they will carry out some nautical theme. Tickets Available Remaining tickets are obtainable for V-12 members outside each mess hall at the noon and evening meals in the West Quad. CATS, RONAGS, and Navy medical and dental stu- dents will be able to obtain their tickets at the Union. Sherwood is billed as providing "Young America's Favorite Dance Music" and is known as an out- standing cornetist and guitarist. He and his orchestra have recently com- pleted an engagement in Chicago at the College Inn of the Hotel Sher- man and will go on to Meadowbrook in New Jersey for an indefinite stay. Open House To Be Held Jan. 20 V-12 Dance Band Will Play in Rainbow Room The Union, usually reserved as the exclusive playground for Michigan men, will be thrown open to the entire campus for the 25th annual Union Open House from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Frank Worden and his men of the V-12 dance orchestra will play the latest popular hits for dancing in the Rainbow Room from 2 to 3 p.m. and from 4 to 5 p.m., it was announced yesterday by Sandy Perlis, head of- the Union War Activities committee. Worden, who has already had over five years in the Navy, spent two and a half years at Pearl Harbor as a Navy musician. He was at that Pacific Naval Base during the Jap- anese attack in 1941. The ten-piece orchestra, composed of members of the campus Navy unit, contains sev- eral men with professional band ex- perience. Although the fact that women will be allowed the run of the Union, including such masculine holies as the Tap Room, the Pendleton library and the billiard room, is usually enough to insure a gratifying atten- dance at this annual Union event, the House committee has also plan- ned additional entertainment for the afternoon: The Athletic department has mov- ed its trampolin from the Field House over to the Union, and a corps! of tumblers will perform Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy To Be Here Eleven distinguished soloists will participate in the Fifty-Second An- nual May Festival, presented by the University Musical Society in six concerts to be given May 3, 4, 5, and 6, it was announced yesterday. Bidu Sayao and Eleanor Steber, sopranos; Blanche Thebom and Ros- alind Nadell, contraltos; Frederick Jagel, tenor; and Nicola Moscona and Ezio Pinza, basses, all of the Metropolitan Opera Association will contribute vocal aria, songs and or- atorio roles. Local Debut For Violinist Zino Francescatti, violinist, will make his Ann Arbor debut; and two pianists, Oscar Levant, and Ru- dolf Serkin, will be heard. Paul Leyssacdramatist, willappear as narrator in "Peter and the Wolf." Six of these artists are newcomers to Ann Arbor, Miss Steber, Miss The- born, Miss Nadell, Moscona, Fran- cessatti and Levant. The other five have appeared at concerts here on past occasions. The Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy and Saul Caston as conductors, will participate in all six concerts for the tenth consecu- tive Festival. Pinza To Perform * At the opening concert Thursday night, Pinza will sing several of his favorite basso arias. Interspersed will be appropriate orchestral num- bers, all presided over by Eugene Ormandy. The second concert Friday night will be All-American in character. Included will be a short choral work entitled "A Free Song," by the con- temporary composer, William Schu- man which will be sung by the Choral Union and conducted by Hardin Van Deursen. On the same program two important composi- tions by George Gershwin will be performed by Oscar Levant and con- ducted by Ormandy. Gershwin's "Piano Concerto" and "Rhapsody in Blue" will be played. "Peter and the Wolf" The Youth Chorus, under Mar- guerite Hood, will provide a can- tata, on Saturday afternoon. "Peter and the Wolf" will be heard with Leyssac as narrator. In the second half, Zino Francescatti will play the Paganini Violin Concerto. Saul Cas- ton will be the conductor. Saturday evening Van Deursen will conduct the women's section of the Choral Union in Debussy's "Bles- sed Damozel." The important so- prano role will be sung by Bidu 'Sa- yao, while Rosalind Nadell will ap- pear as contralto soloist. In 'the second half Miss Sayao will offer several arias and Saul Caston, con- ductor, will provide orchestral selec- tions. In addition to orchestral num- bers, Rudolf Serkin will play Bra- hm's Second Concerto on Sunday afternoon. Ormandy will conduct. Ninth Symphony The Festival will be brought to a close Sunday night with a _.monu- (See FESTIVAL, Page 4) VITAL GERMAN DEFENSE POINT CAPTURED-Arrows show Allied drives against the "Belgian bulge" where American First and Third Armies carved additional slices off what was left of Field Marshal Von Rundstedt's salient with the capture of the vital road hub of Houffa- lize. MARCH OF DIMES-1945: Student Cominttee To Solicit Faculty, Merchants for Funds Faculty members, merchants, and all University employees will be con- tacted this week by members of the University committee for the 1945 March of Dimes fund, according to Jim Plate, general chairman. The National campaign will con- tinue until Jan. 31, the night of the President'sbirthday.Students will be contacted all next week. On Monday a special edition of The 1944 'Forester' Is Ready for TU' Distribution Despite the manpower shortage and the draft, the 1944 issue of the "Michigan Forester," annual publi- cation of the Forestry Club of the School of Forestry and Conservation is ready for distribution to students, faculty and alumni, Prof. Earl C. O'Roke announced yesterday. Last spring seve) ral seniors under the editorship of Prof. Ramsdell undertook the task of putting to- gether the Annual, but when Prof. Ramsdell was drafted for the posi- tion of directing the Civil Affairs Training School for army and navy officers, he could no longer continue this work. Prof. O'Roke then took over the editorship, and the work was continued. With the appearance of this vol- ume, the record for publishing a Michigan Forester each year will remain unbroken. . This year's Forester is dedicated to the members of the school who have been killed while serving in the armed forces. It contains Senior Sketches, pictures of the faculty and students, and several articles on for- estry. Daily will be sold on campus. All proceeds will be given to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Faculty Members To Be Contacted Since it will be impossible to con- tact all faculty members individual- ly, the committee has requested that professors turn in their contributions to the secretaries of their respect- ive departments.' Faculty members will be contacted by members of the League, and mer- chants by members of the Union Tryout Staff under Joe Milillo. Contribution boxes will be placed in the banks, hospitals, and theatres, and. will be taken care of all day by girls from various campus houses. Dimes, Dollars Speed Recovery Last year America sustained the second worst epidemic of infantile paralysis ever to hit the nation in the history of the disease. More than 18,000 people were stricken. Dimes and dollars contributed by the people to previous Appeals of the National Foundation have help- ed thousands of children who are now recovered from infantile par- alysis from being disabled for life, Plate pointed out. ' Members of the student committee are Deb Parry, women's chairman; Pat Coulter, assistant to Miss Parry; Jim Plate, general chairman; and Joe Milillo and Henry Horldt, assist- ants to Plate. ArmyrUnits Start Anti-Polio Drive The March of Dimes campaign for all Army units stationed in Ann Ar- bor has been initiated under the di- rection of Lt. Emerson G. Spies. Contribution boxes have been in- stalled where all Army units are sta- tioned toitish Smash Nazis North of Key Stronghold AmericansU d er Ike' Advancing in Belgium By The Assoited Press SHAEF, Jan. 16--The British Sec- ond Army smashed eastward in a new offensive near the German bor- der north of Aachen today, exactly a month after the start of the Ger- mans' Belgian breakthrough, and during the first hours the Tommies progressed against moderate resist- ance. This switch to the initiative by General Eisenhower's Allied armies came as American forces in Belgium captured the highway hub of Houf- falize, virtually ironing out the Nazis' salient into the Ardennes, and made other gains in Luxembourg and in Germany itself. Drive Against St. Vith The U. S. First and Third Armies linked up again in Houffalize and drove on against St. Vith, last major communications center left to the enemy in this sector. Information on the new offensive launched by Field Marshal Sir Ber- nard L. Montgomery at this head- quarters late tonight was confined to word that it had made some pro- gress against moderate resistance and was continuing. The Tommies struck in a morning fog north of Sittard, which is 10 miles west of Geilenkirchen and 14 miles south of Roermond, and were smashing into a German-held trian- gle between the (Meuse and Roer Rivers. A terrific artillery barrage preceded the attack, which front officers said had started well. British Advance A late field dispatch from Associat- ed Press correspondent Roger Greene said British infantry had made "initial progress against mod- erate opposition." The German salient against which Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont- gomery's forces were driving, thrusts sharply into Allied lines just north of Sittard, which is 18 miles northwest of Aachen. During the past fort- night the Nazis have made several strong local attacks there in an ef- fort to extend their defensive lines, Al were repulsed. TAKE IT, NIP! Results of Air A ttick Revealed By The Associated Press Here at a glance is a Monday-to- Monday (Jan. 8 to Jan. 15) glimpse of what Adm. William F. Halsey's Third Fleet planes have done t the Japanese--and remember not even yet are all reports in: Jan. 8-They sank or damaged more than 100 enemy ships, most of - them small craft, and knocked out 98 enemy aircraft in the Formosa area. Jan. 11-Striking along the French Indo-China coast, the carier planes sank 41 enemy ships, totalling about 127,000 tons, damaged 28 totalling about 70,000 tons, destroyed or dam- aged 162 enemy planes and effec- tively bombed oil refineries, one of Asia's best harbors at Camranh Bay and the Saigon navy yard, to name only a few targets. Jan. 13, 14 and 15-Sweeping along the China coast in attacks on such cities as Canton, Hongkong, Swatow and Amoy and also smashing the big 'Takao naval base on Formosa, the carrier planes sank or damaged at least 104,000 tons of shipping, de- stroyed or damaged 94 planes and scored telling blows on a wide assort- ment of targets. Murphy To End Lecture Series The last of a series of lectures on "'Food-Handling," sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service and local health departments, will be given by Melbourne Murphy of University Health Service at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. today in the auditorium of the W. K. Kellogg Building. All food-handlers employed in commercial establishments are re- quired by City Ordinance to attend one series of lectures in order to IS COMMUNISM A MENACE TO EUROPE? Prof. Kraus Explains USSR Foreign Policy By MYRA SACKS "Only to the extent that England and the United States fail to offer a more positive policy based on the understanding that continental Eur- ope will consist overwhelmingly of have-not peoples, is communism a threat beyond the Balkans and the East in general." This is the opinion of Prof. Wolf- gang H. Kraus of the political science department. Answering the question as to the extent to which Russia is seeking to develop a broad sphere of influence in the Balkans and Central Europe, Prof. Kraus said: "Deliberate Soviet moves toward sia as a great power which is at the same time the most important Slavic nation has apparently been a decisive factor. Shades of the old pan-Slav- ism still' haunt the East and, as a matter of fact, Soviet Russia has in recent years revived that movement. It is also probable that the Balkan nations are disposed to regard the Soviet Union's recently more lenient treatment of the Orthodox Church in Russia as a good omen for the future. But there are many questions which remain. No one really knows what is going on now, say, in eastern Poland or in Bulgaria." Although communist movements may and do spring up from within not necessarily mean some under- cover revival of the Third Inter-' national, Prof. Kraus said that the men in the Kremlin are simply realists who interpret politics in accordance with their revolution- ary upbringing. Whether Germany will turn com- munistic, Prof. Kraus finds unpre- dictable because two conflicting atti- tudes exist there. One attitude, he said, is the deep-seated terror of Russian power and the consequences of communism. This viewpoint must have been tremendously stimulated, he said, by the war as related by German soldiers, who have had their toughest fighting in the East. out in favor of the establishment of a truly democratic Germany by which they doubtless mean a Ger- many willing to cooperate with Rus- sia-and this goes beyond the ap- peals of the Western powers. And yet, the unspeakably bitter hatred of the Russians against the Germans is quite evident and easy to explain." Whether the Russians under Sov- iet rule possess fundamental rights can only be answered in the light of the difference in the meaning of fundamental rights in Russia and in the United States, Prof. Kraus stated. "Under the New Soviet Constitution of 1936, the Russians adopted 'an elaborate bill of rights and duties," example an excerpt from article 125 of the 1936 Constitution: "In accordance with the interests of the toilers and with the object of strengthening the socialist system, the civilians of the USSR are guaranteed by law, freedom of speech, etc." And ultimately, Prof. Kraus stated, "it is the Communist Party which is expected to deter- mine whether free speech is in accordance with the interests of the toilers." Prof. Kraus emphasized, on the other hand, that in the Russian Con- stitution every right is implemented by special provisions which make that right obtainable to the mass of