FIGHT I NFANTILEF PARALYSIS A6F tgan .Apw VM1,19W WEATHER Partly Cloudy with Light Sno W .r rrie VOL. LV, No. 66 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, JAN. 23, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS -- _, Russians Surg * * ith 151) ies of Berlin * * * * * * * * * ermans Route bAerial Sla ughter in Ard ennes 4'-,..__. Mass Blows, Knock Out Belgian Buge U. S. Third, First Disperse Enemy I By The Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 22.- The Belgian bulge collapsed in a German route today and swarming Allied warplanes knocked out nearly 3,000 enemy ve- hicles and tanks-enough to equip almost an entire enemy panzer army -in an aerial slaughter without equal in this war. The U.S Third Army, racing ahead up to five miles, found the Luxem- bourg half of the shattered Ardennes salient virtually deserted and resis- tance disorganized, and the enemy stand crumpled before'the U.S. First Army in Belgium. Few Nazis Escape Pilots reported hardly any of the German columns fleeing from the Ardennes made good their escape; earlier accounts had put the number o enemy vehicles caught on the roads at about 3,000 They reported 65 tanks and arm- ored vehicles, 1,593 trucks and 635 railroad cars destroyed, and 62 tanks and armored vehicles and 1,179 trucks dantaged. Hundreds of Ger- man troops were slain. Three hundred smedium and light bombers set the stage for the kill by blowing up bridges and blocking roads along the paths of retreat. All-Day RaidBasts Germans All day long the German columns, withdrawing too late from the Ar- dennes, were ripped in a hurricane of bombs, rockets and bullets by swarming warplanes snarling down through the mists on the transports, massed so densely on icy roads that pilots said they could not miss. Front dispatches quoted fighter- bomber pilots as saying the scene of havoc, stretching from northern Lux- embourg into Germany east of the Siegfried Line, was worse than at Falaise, where Allied aerial execution was so terrible the enemy could not rally for a stand on the Seine. Ivan Sbasie' S Cabinet Ousted Yugoslav King Peter Orders Defiant Ouster LONDON, Jan. 22-(P)-'King Pet- er of Yugoslavia ordered the ouster of the cabinet of Premier Dr. Ivan Subasic tonight in a defiant attempt to avoid appointment of a regency for his war-torn country. Subasic, who had concluded an agreement with Marshal Tito for a coalition government of Yugoslavia under a regency, immediately called a meeting of his cabinet for tomorrow to consider this latest turn in the Yugoslav crisis. Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons last week that the young king would have to accept a regency or his acceptance would be assumed and the arrangement be- tween Subasic and Marshal Tito for an interimp government would be put into effect anyway. The best diplomatic opinion here tonight was that Peter was grasping at the last straw in firing his govern- ment and that he would probably lose. CAMPUS EVENTS Today Eliot Janeway will lecture at 8:30 p. m., Hill Audi- torium. Today. Student-Faculty tea, 4:30 -6 p. m., University Ele- mentary School Library. Today Registration for Blood Bank, center of the diag- onal. Ja n. 24 Dr. Lawrence Preuss will lecture at 8 p. in., Rack- Daily Sales Net $529 for Polio Drive 4S March of Dimes Campaign Confinues A total of approximately $529.00 was collected by the student com- mittee for the March of Dimes cam- paign in the sale of Dime Dailies on campus yesterday. All the proceeds will be given to the National Foundation for Infan- tile Paralysis. The 1945 campaign which began officially onJan. 14 will continue until Jan. 31. Contribution boxes to facilitate the drive have been placed in all resi- dence halls and University houses, pus branch bank. Faculty members, campus stores, theatres, and the cam- University employes, and merchants have been contacted by members of the student committee. The totals thus far from these sources has not been announced. The proceeds from the nationwide campaign will be divided equally be- tween the County chapter and the National chapter of the foundation to be used for the purchase of equip- ment to aid infantile paralysis vic- tims; for continued research on the cause and cure of polio; and for funds to aid all victims of the crip-. pler. An army of student volunteers sold the Dime Dailies on campus yester- day. Other coed volunteers, under Pat Coulter and Deb Parry, co-chair-. men of the women's division, will continue to man the contribution boxes in, the theatres and campus branch bank until the end of the campaign. Ojn Dumbarton Oaks Proposals Ann Arbor is observing Dumbarton Oaks Week in honor of Dr. Lawrence Preuss of. the State Department who will speak on "Roots and Branches of Dumbarton Oaks" at 8 p. m. tomor- row in the Rackham Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Post-War Council and the League of Women Voters. Under a proclamation issued by Mayor Leigh J. Young, several local groups will meet this week to discuss the issues of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference. On Sunday pastors of local churches will devote their ser- mons to a discussion of world peace plans. Howard K. Holland, social science instructor of the University High School will address Moms of Amer- ica today on the social significance of world peace. Three events are planned for Thursday. Prof. Preston Slosson of the History Department will lead a discussion at Stockwell Hall. All Mosher Jordan women are invited to attend. Prof. Mentor Williams of the English Department will discuss lab- or's role in an international organ- ization before the Trades Council Red Army Slices Into East Prussia Vast Soviet Offensive Forges History's Most Powerful Potential Eneirclements By The Associated Press London, Tuesday, Jan. 23-Russian troops driving due west from Warsaw have now advanced to within 150 miles from Berlin, halfway between the German capital and the jumping off place of the soviet offen. sive. Killing or capturing many thousands of Germans in steady strides westward, the Russians drove to within eight miles of Oppeln and were only 30 miles from Breslau on the Oder River. capital of northern Silesia and the Reich's ninth city. Marshal Ivan S. Kooev's First" KAMPUS KAPERS STARS-One of the outstandin g student acts that will be highlighted in the second production of Kampus Kapers will be the dance duo of Dot Murzek (left) and Bev Wittan. The show will be held at 3:30 p. m. Sunday in Hill Auditorium an d tickets are available at the Union, the League, at the USO, and in a campus bookstore. Draft Bill Addition Proposed; Bill Introduced To End Loan Powers By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-Senator George (D-Ga.) struck the first strong tactical blow in the Senate today against turning over vast Federal loan powers to former Vice-President Henry A. Wallace. George introduced legislation to set aside President Roosevelt's Executive Order of 1942 under which the Fed- eral Loan Agency, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and subsidiary agencies were transferred to the com- merce department. The effect would be to split up the twin job of loan chief secretary of commerce to which President Roose- velt nominated Wallace at noon to- day. Jesse Jones, the big, white-haired Houston, Tex., banker, has ridden herd on both assignments since 1940 and his removal to make room for the President's former lieutenant aroused protest among Republicans and a number of Democratic Senators. Whether the revolt was powerful enough to foreshadow rejection of the nomination remained to be seen, but the outcry from Jones' friends was immediate, loud and unequivocal. Chairman Bailey (D.-N.C.) of the Commerce Committee announced that group would take up the Wallace nomination tomorrow morning. Some members of both parties took the stand that the President should have the widest possible lati- tude in choosing his cabinet advisors. And there were those who applauded the selection of Wallace. Measure To Forbid Closed Union Shop By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-A jail- backed Manpower Control Bill em- bodying an Anti-Closed Shop amend- ment won tentative approval from the House Military Committee today. Slated for House consideration late this week-with a vote unlikely be- fore next week-the legislation will be reviewed by the committee Wed- nesday before being formally sent to the floor. In the meantime, a new bill embodying changes agreed to by the committee in closed session will be drafted. It is applicable to, any man between the ages of 18 and 45; any man in that group who leaves an essential job without local -draft board ap- proval, or who refuses to take a job at the direction of the board, faces in- duction into the Army or Navy, if physically acceptable, or five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine if over draft age or physically unfit. No man accepting a job in accor- dance with a draft board request or directive shall be required to join a Union unless he wants to, regardless of whether the job he takes is in a closed or union shop. This provision was approved by a 14-10 committee vote in closed session. Starr To SpeA On Organized Labor in U.S. "Organized Labor in the United States" will be discussed by Mark Starr, Educational Director of the International Ladies' Garment Wor- kers' Union, in an address sponsored by the Department of Economics at 4:10 tomorrow in Rm. 101, Economics Building. Trends in the labor movement. la- bor's relation to the war effort, con- temporary society and the post-war economy will be discussed in Starr's address. "Labor in America," a basic text in American labor history, which Starr wrote in collaboration with Prof. Harold Faulkner of Smith College, was recently published and given favorable notice by the critics. Formerly president of an American Federation of Teachers local and a national vice-president of that un- ion, 1940-42, Starr is on the execu- tive boards of the American Labor WAR AT A GLANCE EASTERN FRONT-Reds move within 165 miles from Berlin; Nazis call on all Germans to defend fatherland as Polish, East Prussian towns fall. WESTERN FRONT-Allied air attack virtually erases entire pan- zer division fleeing Ardennes sal- ient; Third Army takes Wiltz in Luxembourg, first advances within two miles of St. Vith. PACIFIC-Yanks grab two more Luzon cities, move within 60 airline miles of Manila; new carrier raid against Manila announced; Ledo Road in Burma reported open to convoy traffic. Blood Donors Register To Fill Campus Quota. More than 100 students registered yesterday to donate a pint of their blood to help fill the January quota for the campus Blood Bank of 320 pints. "With such a fine response on the first day of the campaign, I feel sure that we can expect to go over the quota early in the week," Wayne Bartlett, of the Union War Activities committee, declared yesterday. Forced indoors most of the day because of the continued snowfall, attendants contacted students in the main corridor of the General Library yesterday. Weather permitting, they will maintain the registration booth at the center of the diagonal between classes from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Directors of the drive have urged that houses and campus organiza- tions register and make appoint- ments to donate blood as composite units. Appointments for the actual process of giving blood are being made for times between 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. Feb. 8 and 9. The drive is under the general supervision of the Washtenaw chap- ter of the Red Cross, and a Red Cross mobile unit will be stationed at the Women's Athletic Building to handle blood donations. Ukraine Army, the Silesian invad- ers, alone had killed or captured 81,000 Germans in ten days and destroyed or captured 734 tanks, Moscow said. There are four other Soviet armies driving through Eakst Prussia, Poland and Czechoslovakia whose figures still are to be made known. Germans Appeal for Aid The German radio appealed for help against "this bestial, overwhelm- ing mass onslaught." Berlin said that the two Soviet armies attacking on three sides of East Prussia alone totalled more than 1,000,000 men, and it was estimated that 30 or more German divisions were caught in the fast-closing Rus- sian pincers cutting through the shell-torn forests. The big East Prussian bases of In- sterburg, Allenstein, Osterode and Deutsch-Eylau fell in quick succession to the Russians who had cut one Ber- lin-East Prussia trunk railway at five points and were only 33 miles from the last supply artery running through Elbing. War's Mightiest Offensive Riding the crest of the war's might- iest offensive, the hard-hitting Rus- sians were less than 28 miles from Poznan, last big west Polish strong- hold on the direct road to Berlin; others were almost at the entrance to the Polish Corridor jutting up to Danzig, now only 60 miles away; still another massive Red Army was dig- ging deeper into industrial Silesia, menacing the capitals of Breslau and Oppeln in southeastern Germany. Victory Guns Fire Salute It was another great night in Mos- cow. The capital's 224 victory guns began firing 100 salutes orderedby Premier-Marshal Stalin in five orders of the day announcing these tri- umphs: 1. The capture of Deutsch-Eylau, Osterode and Allenstein on the Ber- lin-East Prussia Railway by Mar- shal K. K. Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army. Berlin said this force striking toward Elbing, 37 miles north and 38 miles northwest of Deutsch-Eylau and Osterode, numbered 58 infantry divisions and six fast motorized corps. 2. Insterburg, 60 miles east of Kon- igsberg, fell to Marshal Ivan Cher- niakovsky's Third White Russian Army, striking directly along the highway from the Lithuanian border. Other units were reported about half that distance from Konigsberg on the northeast. Insterburg is a city of 41,000 and a munitions center. 3. Gniezno, a nine-way junction 165 miles due east of Berlin and 28 miles from Poznan, fell to Marshal Zhukov's legions. They also captured Inowroclaw, another point on the Berlin-East Prussian Railway running through northern Poland just below the Polish Corridor to the sea. Carrier Planes Destroy 140 Jap Warplanes Third Fleet Inflicts Damage on Formosa By The Associated Press U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR- TERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan 22.-Mak- ing the fifth strike of the month on Formosa and nearby small islands, Third Fleet carrier airmen last Sat- urday destroyed 140 Japanese war- planes and inflicted heavy damage on enemy shipping and ground in- stallations Adm. Chester W Nimitz's commu-, nique today announcing the foray said, "One of our major ships was damaged, in the raid, undertaken only five days after the Third Fleet had finished its first attack on China coast ports. US. Warship Damaged The disclosure that a major United States warship had been damaged was the first officially reported ship casualty in the Third Fleet's high- speed marauding against Indo - China, China and Formosa in the last two months. Forty-three Japanese planes were shot out of the air and 97 destroyed on the ground in sweeps ,over air- dromes at Heito, Choshu, Matusy- ama, Eiko, Kuputsua, Giran, Koshun and Taien. Reports Still Incomplete Nimitz said reports on the shipping damaged were still incomplete. At the Takao naval base, on southwest- ern Formosa, two large ships were left burning furiously. The Takao docks and the indus- trial area also were observed flaming. with large fires. Shipping targets were leavily hit also at Keelung, Toshien and Nan Wan, in Formosa, and at Mako in the Pescadores Islands between Formosa and the China Coast. Shipping also was bombed and strafed in the Sakishima Islands in the Ryukyu chain northeast of For- rnosa. Speech Given By Van Dusen 'Mass Acute Suffering Throughout the World' "There is probably more mass acute suffering throughout the world to- night than there has ever been be- fore in the history of the world. And I am not thinking alone of those directly taking part in the war, but also of large areasof civilian popula- tion," Dean Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Sem- inary affirmed in an address spon- sored by the Student Religious Asso- ciation last night in Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. "One of the three things this gen- eration can be sure it will encounter after the war is suffering, suffering, cruel and undeserved," Van Dusen dclwared. POLITICS IN CHINA : Com munists Must Be Treated Realistically,' Liang Claims "We must neither condemn nor romanticize the Communists; they must be treated realistically and respected as a political party," Hubert Liang, Chong King journalist and formerly Chinese correspondent for the Detroit News, said recently in an interview. Liang, who studied at Depauw University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, headed the journalism department at Yen Ching University in Peiping for four years. The Chinese do not fear the Com- <° HORIZONS FOR DEMOCRACY: Janeway, Author, Student of Foreign Affairs, Speaks Today munists as a 'menace,' Liang empha- sized, drawing a parallel between the Kuomintang and the Communists and the Republican and Democratic par- ties of this country. "Though some' still cling to the cratic constitution before the end of 1945, one of the primereforms de- manded by the Communists. China's political problems, like her economic problems, the journalist be- lieves, are a product of the wartime Eliot Janeway, prominent young journalist and student of foreign af- fairs will speak at 8:30 p. m. today in Hill Auditorium with "New Hori- zons for Democracy" as his topic. Janeway has made himself quali-' ness editor of Time. He is prepar- ing a book analyzing the political, so- cial and economic rises threatening in the United States. A native New 'Yorker, Janeway at- tende~d Cornell zand the London