iVIw fiC.iU vum~~~~Iuu '*tn. 'S n. R A JUIn IHE MARCH nF n1MFC I Wvr v9I EEC F FIGHT NTILE PARALY ICEMEREEIMM ig,4r airp Ni WEATHER Cloudy wvitli Occasional Light Snow. VOL. LV, No. 69 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1945 allace Rebuffedy Senate ommi PRICE FIVE CENTS ttee; * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Soviets Reach Danzig Free State Border Red Offensive Rolls Through Hindenburg Rogozno, 140 Miles From Berlin, Taken By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 27, Saturday-The Soviet High Command announced last. night that the Red army has' killed or captured more than 381,330 Germans in its two-weeks-old winter offensive, which yesterday rolled on unchecked through the big industrial city of Hinderiburg in Silesia, reach- ed the Danzig Free State frontier, and cut off East Prussia with a thrust to the Baltic Coast. From 20 to 25 Nazi divisions-per- haps 200,000 Germans-now are trapped in East Prussia. Cross Warta River Outflanking Poznan, big Polish stronghold, the Russians also crossed the Warta River ten miles south of the city and speared to within 136 miles of Berlin with the capture of Mosina. This was the closest ap-: proach to the Reich capital yet an- nounced by the Soviet command. North of Poznan the Russians took Rogozno, only 20 miles from the Ger- man frontier and 140 miles northeast of Berlin; other units striking to- ward the coveted Reich capital from the southeast in Silesia were only 143 miles away. Staggering Losses A special Russian communique an- nounced the . staggering losses in- flicted on the Germans in the gigan- tic offensive between Jan. 12, when; it began at the Vistula River bridge- head below Warsaw, and Jan. 24.- Moscow said that five Russian arm- ies had killed more than 295,000 Ger- mans in that period and 'captured 86,330, and" also had destroyed or captured 592 planes, 2,995 tanks and self-propelled guns, 7,932 guns of all calibers, 7,386 mortars. 20,019 ma- chine guns, 34,019 trucks as well as vast quantities of other war material. Nearing Breslau On the 15th day of their powerful winter offensive the Russians were reported to have driven closer to the rim of besieged Breslau, Silesian cap- ital, to have crossed the Oder River defense line and broken into Brieg, on the west bank 22 miles to the southeast, and also to have fought their way into Beuthen, five miles east of fallen Hindenburg, whose normal population is 126.000. Berlin said Russian troops in nor- thern Poland had crossed the Brom- berg Canal west of Bydgoszcz (Brom- berg), indicating that Marshal Greg- ory K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army units now were sweeping northward into the Polish corridor to widen the salient between the German homeland and the cut-off Junkers province of East Prussia. Russians Kill or Capture 381,330 Nazis in 12 Days LONDON, Jan. 26-(P)-The Rus-, sian offensive cost the Germans 381,- 330 men in killed and captured-most, of them killed-during its first 12 days ending Jan. 24, a special com- munique by the Soviet Information; Bureau said tonight. The communique, broadcast from Moscow, said the enemy lost more than 295,000 officers and men in kill- ed alone during the period Jan. 12-24. The First White Russian front ac- counted for 80,000 killed, 37,700 cap- tured; Second White Russian front, 65,000 killed, 5,530 captured; Third White Russian front, 60,000 killed,t 4,000 captured; First Ukrainian Front, 70,000 killed, 31,900 captured, and Fourth -Ukrainian front, 20,000 killed, 7,200 captured. Allied Forces Capture Posts Near Dusseldorf Ninth Army Forces Advance to Roer; Germans Retreat Across Moder River JBy Tice Asswiated Press PARIS, Jan. ?6.-All German re- sistance collapsed today west of the Roer River system at the gateway to the prize Ruhr industrial valley and the U.S. Ninth and British Sec- ond Armies-with 35 miles of the west wall behind them-seized as-1 sault positions only 25 miles from! Dusseldorf. The Ninth broke a six-week lull Kampus Kaper Show To Be Held Tomorrow All-Student Production To Feature Bill Layton Final preparations were completed with rehearsal yesterday for the sec- ond all student production of Kam- pus Kapers which will be held at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow in Hill Audit- orium. Ticket sales continued at a high pace and they will remain on general sale today in the Union, the League, at the USO, and in a State street bookstore. All remaining tickets for the show will be put on sale at 3 p. mn. tomor- row at the Hill Auditorium boxoffice. No seats will be reserved and doors will be open at 3 p. m. This production of Kampus Kap- ers-a student inspired entertain- and pushed to the Roer on a five- mile front as the U.S. Seventh Army far to the south threw a new German' drive into reverse, erased all itsI northern Alsatian gains and liftedI the threat to Strasbourg by drivingi the enemy back across the Moder River. Fighting Dwindles By nightfall the fighting had dwin- dled to sporadic machinegun andI rifle fire along the entire 20-mile front. The U.S. First and Third Armiesj crushed virtually the last of the Ar-3 1 dennes wedge in Belgium and Lux- embourg. The Third Army pushed eastward: to a number of points where the enemy's December offensive kicked off, moved its lines up to within a mile or two of the German frontier' along most of the Luxembourg front, and put five divisions on a ridge-top highway overlooking the west wall. Five More Towns Taken The First Army to the north cap- tured five more towns and edged eastward within two and a half to five miles of Germany against such light resistance that it was asserted officially German troop shifts to_ meet the Russians had definitely re- laxed pressure in the west. In southern Alsace, French and American troops of the French First Army fought into Houssen, three miles north of Colmar for the closest approach yet made to that strong- hold in the Rhineland pocket. Other! ground lost to counterattacks in this area was re-won.I Nazis Evacuate On the front north of Aachen, Lt.- Gen. William H. Simpson's Ninthn Army in a pre-dawn attack foundt the Germans had pulled out westn of the Roer and reached the river 11 miles inside the Reich with such ease that a scheduled artillery barragen was cancelled.0 At the same time, Scottish patrolsV of the British Second Army moppeds up the remainder of the sector to7 the north All the way to the strong- hold of Roermond, where the Roer 1 joins the Maas. Jap Artillery Attacks Yank Aviation Center 1 Critics Claim 48 Votes i Senate Group Approves George Bill Shifting RFC From Commerce Department By The A§§Ociated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-The Senate Commerce Committee coldly rebuffed Henry A. Wallace today, voting 14 to 5 against his nomination as Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Administrator. The adverse report went to the Senate, where the nomination may be acted on early next week. Critics of Wallace, contending the former Vice-President is without the experience necessary to handle the big lending agencies, are claiming 48 to 50 votes in the Senate-enough to beat him. The Committee's decision after hearing -the deposed Jesse Jones and Wallace himself amounts to this: it sends President Roosevelt's nomina- tion to the Senate with a black mark against it. Similar actions in the past, however, have had varied recep- -- - ----___ __ tions by the full body which some- pR A times backs up its committees and Td BER4 DL sometimes overrules them. Overrles eorgeBillBy The AssociatLed Press Overrules George Bill 1-EASTERN FRONT: 91 miles At the same time, the Commerce (by German account Russians were group decided, 15 to 4, to report out near Brandenburg province border, the Bill of Senator George (D.-Ga.) 91 miles from Berlin at neare-t stripping the Commerce department point.) of the Reconstruction Finance Cor- 2-WESTERN FRONT: 310 miles poration anal all its subsidiary financ- (From Linnich-Julich-Duren area). ing agencies. 3--ITALIAN FRONT: 544 miles This leaves the cabinet post only (From Reno River). such routine bureaus as the Coast and Geodetic survey, the Census and kin- .1 dred activities. Governor T0 WALLACE TURNED DOWN-The Senate commerce committee voted 14 to 5 against Henry A. Wallace's nomination as Secretary of Com- merce and Federal Loan Administrator. The report now goes to the Senate, where the nomination may be acted upon next week. Four New Appointments Made By Board of Regents Yesterday Dr. F. C. Bald Named 'U' War Historian; Gifts Received Total More Than $26,000 It was not made clear immediately which would get the green light in the Senate first-the nomination of Wallace itself or the George Bill. House Gets Measure A similar measure divorcing the lending agencies from the department has been introduced in the House but leaders there say it will take consid- Recommend Appropriations $121,900,000 Is Needed for Schools * ~ *.~**V'LUZON, Saturday, Jan. 27-(/P)- LyClark Field, in American hands, is be- ing shelled by Japanese artillery, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. "The enemy has brought up artil- lery and is shelling the Clark Field BILL LAYTON area," MacArthur said in his Sat- urday communique. Clark Field was captured early Thursday morning by ment show-will feature seven star the 40th U. S. Division. It is the most acts rep;esenting a vai ety of talent highly-developed aviation center in on campus. the Philippines. Headed by Doc Fielding as master; Lt. Gen. Tomuyuki Yamashita's of ceremonies, the show will feature Japanese forces , on Luzon showed Bill Layton and his orchestra; the their first signs of a fight in ,the dancing of Bev Witan and Dot Mur- zek; cadet nurse trio; Judy Ward,- BULLETIN - featured singer with Layton; a JGP skit by Tady Martz; and the 60 voice WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Sat- Women's Glee Club. urday) - (1') - Superfortresses of All proceeds from the show will be the 20th Airforce are blasting at given to the local USO center and the Japan's bases in Indo-China to- Bomber Scholarship Fund. day (Jan. 27 India calendar) Gen- Approval for the show has been eral of the Army H. H. Arnold, given by the University with words of announced this morning. praise from many faculty and stu- dent leaders. central, plains sector south of the Bamban River Friday. tT T d A__1_Today's communique reported no Ii I.- The Board of Regents made four new appointments and accepted gifts totalling more than $26,000 at their monthly meeting held here yesterday. Dr. Donald G. Marquis, formerly of Yale University, was appointed chair- man of the University's Department of Psychology. He succeeds Prof. Walter B. Pillsbury in the chairman- ship. Prof. Pillsbury retired in 1942. Taught at Yale Born June 22, 1908 at Two Har- bors, Minn., Dr. Marquist holds de- grees from Stanford and Yale and has taught at Yale since 1933, where he was head of the psychology de- partment. He has been executive di- rector of the Office of Psychological Personnel of the National Research Council. Other appointments announced by the Regents included the appointment of Col. Robert B. Hall as professor of geography. Prof. Hall will re- asume his duties after a leave of ab- sence in the Army. Colton Storm, formerly Curator of Maps, has been named Curator of Manuscripts at the Clements Library, and Dr. F. C. Bald, of the history department, has been named University War Historian. Both succeed Howard H. Peckham, who has been made director of the Indiana Historical Bureau at Indian- apolis, Ind. Instructor of History Dr. Bald has been an instructor in the Department of History since 1943. Formerly he taught at Detroit Daily Editors RecehVe on ors Six journalists, students at the Uni- versity, were last night honored for their achievement in the profession when they were initiated by the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity,. This organization, entering its fif- teenth year in Ann Arbor, honored Institute of Technology and did his doctoral dissertation on a phase of Michigan history. His appointment makes the office of University War Historian a full-time position. The Michigan Historical Collection con- tinues to be the headquarters for the University history work. Mr. Storm has been Curator of Maps since 1942 at the Clements Library. Prof. Charles M. Davis will re-as- sume his duties in the geography de- partment after a leave of absence with the Navy. Leave of Absence A leave of absence for the next four months was granted by the Regents to Prof. Lionel Laing because of ill health. The Regents accepted gifts total- ling more than ,$25,000, headed by a grant of $10,000 from the estate of the late Edwin C. Goddard. The gift in Series G Savings Bonds, was for the Edwin C. Goddard Loan and Scholarship Fund. Volkssturm, German Guard, Is Cal led Out LONDON, Jan. 26-(/'--Germany's Volkssturm-organized to defend the Reich-was called out today to help keep order on the home front as the mass of westward fleeing refugees swelled with each mile of Russian ad- vance. While Nazi propagandists wained the people to "prepare for more dis- appointments" and tried to whip up their resistance by threats of their fate under Red domination, the Ger- man radio reported the home guard had to help handle snarled traffic at jammed railway stations. A Moscow broadcast told of "chaos I {' , I erabe timie tor passage. Governor Kelly's state Public Edu- There are a number of possibilities cation Study Commission will recom- now. Wallace could be rejected by mend to the Michigan Legislature the full Senate-a majority vote is that $121,900,000 be allocated annu- needed for confirmation. The George ally for state public schools, during bill could be passed. The President 1945 and '46, it was decided at a could resubmit the nomination for the Study Commission meeting yesterday pared-down job of Secretary of Com- held at the Union. merce. Many Senators have said they This figure, decided upon at a have no objection to Wallace in that Commission subcommittee meeting role-the primary point of contest Thursday, represents an increase of is the supervision of the multi-bil- more than $15,000,000 over the 1944 lion dollar RFC which Jones headed state appropriation. up for 13 years. Average Salary Is $2,400 Jones Replaced Under the proposed plan, 32,000 Jones was replaced by Wallace on teachers receiving an average salary Inauguration Day, Mr. Roosevelt say- of $2,400 per year, would get a total ing in his letter of announcement allocation of $76,800,000 as compared that he owed a political debt to the with $67,000,000 during 1944. retiring Vice President. Over all average of Michigan tea- Despite the action in the Senate I chers for 1944 was $2,146, with state Committee today, friends of Wallace J1rural instructors receiving an average continued to plump for him in the of $1,391. dual job. Operational costs during 1945-46. An organization named the Na- were placed at $45,100,000, which is tionl Bsinesme fo Walacesen five million over last year's figure. tional Businessmen for Wallace sent Inddtntohagsn het- word to Vice President Harry Tru- In addition to changes in the esti- man protesting that they had been mate needs of Michigan public denied a hearing in Wallace's behalf. schools, the Study Commission, head- ed by Dr. Eugene B. Elliot, state The businessmen sent their word to superintendent of public instruction, Truman in a telegram signed by 250 recommended : men, including War Contractor And- Recommendations rew Jackson Higgins, J. Louis Rey- (1) That returning veteransre- nolds and James H. McGill, Chairman of the Board of McGill Manufacturing gardless of age, be counted in public of te Bord f Mcillschool membership for the purpose Company. of computing state aid unless schools in which they enroll are receiving federal or state aid, j X-K nsas City(2) That the 4thClass School Dis- Strict Act be amended to include 'Boss Dies at 72 approximately 5,500 primary school districts not now listed as 4th class; (3) That a seven mill tax be levied Thomas Pendergast's on the present state equalized land Ailment Undisclosed valuation of $7,400,000,000. Dr. Elliot told the 26-man Com- mission, composed of members rep- KANSAS CITY, Jan. 26-/P).- resenting the Farm Bureau, the PTA, Thomas J. Pendergast, 72, former the State Legislature and the CIO, Kansas City machine boss died to- that these' recommendations would night at Menorah Hospital. be placed before the legislature as The stocky Democratic boss who soon as possible. made Governors and Senators and whose nod of approval was sought by Missouri politicians for years before N ik etC ffee his downfall in May, 1939, had been in the hospital of an undsclosed ail- l ment since Tuesday. He had been s in poor health for some time. It was in 1939, after years at the Spiking recent rumors "that you top of a political machine which rul- can't get a nickel cup of Java in this ed Kansas City, Jackson County and town," Washtenaw OPA officials yes- i SU' "rchi estra CAMPUS EVENTS Today Mixer dance, sponsored by Independent League i Will Perform Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" will be featured on the University Symphony Orchestra's first concert of the cur- rent season at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow sizable gains anywhere on Luzon as the enemy maintained his bitter re- sistance against the U. S. First Armyj corps on the left flank. This resist-1 ance has been almost constant since the Jan. 9 invasion. But the 14th corps, whose spear- heads yesterday were reported to be at Angeles, a little more than 40 air- PCII11 Ciclill Rnhrart ('-nlrlmari Ta rnr " I caul bisro i oUe Uuoiumn, taoun and panic" in Berlin. Dixon, William Mullendore, David Loewenberg and William Lambert, all' itTackling its toughest propaganda members of the Michigan Daily staff. job yet, the Nazi press and radio The initifttion ceremony was con- sounded a theme of strength through ducted by the present executive board, fear. .... _ _ ......7 .. A ire. . .