FIGHT INFANTILE PARALYSIS :J ..ddL I - AOF 40. tr4 gan Diaitj WEATHER Partly Cloudy and Continued Cold Today VOL. LV, No.72 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Eighth Army Forces Hit estern Luzon * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FlyingRed Armies 73 Yank Forces Smash into Siegfried Line Attack ApproachesE Full-Offensive Scale By The Associated Press PARIS, Wednesday, Jan. 31 -. More than 100,000 troops of the U. S. First and Third Armies, fighting in one of the heaviest snowstorms of the winter, thrust into a 40-mile sec- tor of the Siegfried line approaches today in a still expanding joint as- sault. The location of the attack-from the Monschau area below AachenE to the Third Army's new bridge- heads across the Our river from Belgium into Germany-suggested possible development into a full- blown offensive. The attack began three days ago as a series of local thrusts involving only two or three divisions. It devel- oped rapidly yesterday. By last night gains up to four miles had been registered. The doughboys overran a number of Siegfried Line outposts and front- line correspondents said the Ger- mans had previously evacuated the positions. Meanwhile, the French First Army. incorporating American units, crossed the Colmar Canal at several points in southern Alsace. Fromthe Canadian front in Hol- land there were reports that the Germans apparently were with- drawing troops from the line in order to transfer them to the east-{ ern front. American armor and infantry' swept forward through waist-deep5 snowdrifts and a light snowstorm1 which changed to rain in near-zeroy temperatures. The First Army drove ahead in an explosive nine-hour at- I tack in the rugged f rest region east of Monschau and Simmerath. : The action took place in the same area where two months ago' the Germans had smashed two U.S. infantry divisions in some of the heaviest fighting on the western front. Today the doughboys en- countered only reluctant defensive troops. One Third Army division drove at quarter of a mile east to a point three quarters of a mile from Welchen-, hausen which is 81 miles south of St. Vith. Six Chosen for Speech FM*als Winner of Contest To Be Picked Todayj Pat Owens, Fay Lorden, Jack Hin- des, Richard Bailhe, Beth Laiken,! and Carmon Lombard were named finalists in the semi-annual contest for beginning speech students, Dr Donald Hargis of the Speech De- partment announced yesterday. Finals for the six winners will be held today at 4 p. m. in Kellogg Auditorium whep the contestants who have been selected from the 11 speech sections in preliminary contests will deliver their speeches. Prof. G. E., Densmore, Chairman of the Depart- ment of Speech, Associate Prof. Da- vid Owen, and Associate Prof. Louis Eich will act as judges. 0 to0oSWEDE Memnel ' t THNA ~STA7TE tMtt'(5DENMARK SW-E SaKonigsberg North1.i-Kngbg 4i Sea atrzPRV55IA QBhaer. _y- Hamburg Seti-SchneidemuhI "/*x 'Bremen j Woldenberg " ' oru BELI (reesen Czrnkow GERMANam ArnhWARSAW, * ,Oder R rd '04'oBlRG ::hratj Lodz isuaR / Frotn ___Aachen Dresdeni /oon Breslau'lc Erfur rOppeln Beuthe ie lc",naao *FrankfurtKrko r Katk~~V owe p~~ I lx.gue n!Page ______ -u *Stutz art rBno Z 1ght , SSTRASBOUR g * Augsburq 0onube R8i~sw1-av1t FRANCE Colarlunih' 1 ' Venn MulhouseKomarom. SWITZERLANDHUGA' ':R Miles From Berlin Yanks Suf er No Losses, Land Without Opposition Ir Troops Push 11 Miles Inland, Approach . Sixth Army; Manila Only 30 Miles Away Clios~eiiJGP By The Associated Press GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Wednesday, Jan. '1 Jfirector 31-Another American army was thrown into the battle for Luzon Mon- day morning when elements of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger's new Eighth Army swept to a completely unopposed landing just north of Subic Peg Kohr Picked as Bay on the west coast. By nightfall they drove 11 miles inland toward a Assistant Chairman junction with the Sixth Army, which is within 30 miles of Manila. The Eighth Army Yanks, landing ate- ALLIES GAIN IN GERMANY ON BOTH FRONTS-The Allies advanced on German soil on both fronts (heavy lines.) In the west the Americans drove into the Reich south of St. Vith and farther south cap- tured Sinz, Germany. In the East the Red Army burst into Germany in a new area, capturing Wolden- berg and Driesen. In East Prussia the Russians neared Koenigsberg. In the south gains were made beyond Katowice. Near the Czechoslovakian border, Nowy Targ was captured. Whi~e White Russians Capture Stolzenberg in Das h edBalicOtlet Peg Kohr, Delta Delta Delta. has been chosen assistant chairman of Junior Girls' Play, JGP central com- mittee announced yesterday. Mardy McKeever, Alpha Phi, will be the director of the play with Carol McCormick. Kappa Kappa Gamma, as her assistant. The position of secretary treasurer has been given to Mary Bartley, Alpha Chi Omega. Co-chairman of the script commit- tee will be Marian Johnson, Kappa Kappa Gamma. and Marcia Well- man, Delta Gamma. Musical Committee Divided The music committee has been di- vided into several divisions. Evey Horelick, Sigma Delta Tau, will com- pose the music while Carolyn Brown, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Betty Kam- ens, Sigma Delta Tau, will write the lyrics. The choral group will be di- rected by Ann Crossley, Alpha Chi Omega, and Masako Ono, Betsy Bar- bour. Tady Martz, Kappa Delta, and Bobbie Hornsby, Gamma Phi Beta, will be in charge of the instru- said, -- niles On His 63rd . . rrr4 r~rxT"rr-kAT ~ * t* 10 By The Associated Press LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. 31- The First White Russian Army thrust within 73 miles of Berlin yesterday when it captured the Brandenburg province town of Stolzenberg in a 20-mile dash down the valley of the Netze river from Driesen. In Regular Communique! The capture of Stolzenberg was announced in the regular nightly communique broadcast from Moscow, which made no point of the fact that it represented the Russians' closest approach to the Nazi capital. Early today, the Moscow radio an- nounced that the Red Army was less than 50 miles from Stettin, Berlin's port on the baltic. Stolzenberg is 52 miles southeast of Stettin. German accounts of fighting on the east front Tuesday stressed Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's gains on his front farther south in the area west of Poznan and directly east of Berlin. In this sector, the Germans s Zhukov had come within 80 m of Berlin. Kustrin Threatened The Nazi broadcast said that, trin, an important rail center miles east of Berlin was threat by the Soviet frontal drive from east. With the penetration far north, Kustrin also is in dange being outflanked from the northe The plunge to Stolzenberg made along the Netze's right b through comparatively open coup It seemed clear that Zhukov ai to cut off Pomerania from the; of Germany, deprive Berlin of port facilities of Stettin and th around the capital from the north In their advances west of Poz ITuesday. the Soviets captured r Kus- 11 ened the ther r of east. was bank ntry. med rest the rust h. znan more WAS Preside ed the use hi agains dicted won. mental tha Co The Jo Ann with N and Lo as tech: sel, Alp charge I Remain SECOND APPEARANCE: Annual Music Meet To Feature Goldman as Guest Conductor SHINGTON, Jan. 30-QP-- ent Roosevelt tonight thank- millions of Americans who s birthday to back the fight t infantile paralysis and pre- that this battle, too, will be music. Jayne Gourley, Mar- ok, will direct the dancing. I stage force will be headed by ne Brundage of Martha Cook Natalie Maquire, Chi Omega, is Bassett, Gamma Phi Beta, nical assistants. Nancy Tres- pha Gamma Delta, will be in of scenery. wing Chairmen Selected hairmen of the costume com-' will be Dona Guimaraes, Pi hi, and Joan Portz, Alpha Phi. ake-up co-chairmen will be sher, Betsy Barbour, and Joyce Martha Cook. Elizabeth ell, Alpha Phi, will head the ies committee with Carol Pi Beta Phi, as her assistant. Gaffney, Delta Gamma, will harge of tickets. Publicity will aged by Betsy Perry, Pi Beta hile Carol Evans, Collegiate , will be in charge of programs. hers committee will be headed et Rubin, Sigma Delta Tau. San Narciso and San Antonio to seize five miles of beachhead 60 air miles northwest of Manila, took an airfield at San Marcelino in their quick drive to seal the fate of the Japanese re- treating to Bataan and to capture the vital Subic Bay Naval Base. Not a man was lost in the amphi- bious operation, which caught the Japanese completely by surprise. Not a Japanese gun nor plane at- tempted to interfere or even ob- serve as the 38th and 24th Division troops hit the Zambales coast beaches lined with flag-waving, cheering Filipinos. The American flag, planted by:Fili- pinos, was so clearly visible on the Subic Bay shoreline as-the convoy of more than 100 vessels approached that Rear Adm. Arthur Struble call- ed off the customary pre-landing bombardment. He was assured there were no Japanese ashore, and had not been for a long time. The Yanks moved swiftly to within 10 miles of the big Olongapo Naval Base on Subic Bay. The airfield was the 24th which Yank forces have captured on Lu- zon since the Sixth Army opened the invasion of Luzon Jan. 9 at Lingayen Gulf. The MacArthur move to seal off Bataan meant a bid to avoid a re- enactment by Nipponese forces of Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita of the long fight put up on that same rug- ged peninsula from January to April, 1942 by Americans and Filipinos. It came at a time when Japanese ele- ments which abandoned San Fernan- do Sunday were reported fleeing southwest from there into Bataan. Bombers Strike Jap .base Againt U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, Forward Area, Wed- nesday, Jan. 31-(IP)-More than 40 tons of bombs were dropped on oft-hit Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands 750 miles south of Tokyo on Sunday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. An explosion was observed on an airstrip and several fires were start- ed in storage areas. Marcus Island to the east was an- other target. WSSF Group To Organize Workers Will Plan For Drive Friday Representatives of campus organi- zations and all others interested in canvassing funds for the World Stu- dent Service Fund drive to begin on campus next week are urged to at- tend a meeting directed by Miss Alexandra Feldmahn, Assistant Ex- ecutive Secretary of the WSSF, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the basement auditorium of Lane Hall, George Herman, chairman of the drive an- nounced yesterday. Miss Feldmahn To Speak "The War Stricken Student" will be discussed by Miss Feldmahn in an address introducing the drive to campus at 8 p.m. Friday at Hill Aud- itorium. . The plight of students crowded in prisonand internment camps and of students living strange lives in strange lands as refugees; the suffer- ing of students starving in occupied lands whose universities have been closed, but where they continue to study behind drawn shades will be discussed in Miss Feldmahn's address Friday. The hope that enters the students' lives in the realization that they- have not been forgotten, when they receive help from other lands, will also be described. 'Something To Do' She will tell how the hope that comes with having something to do saves many of our captured service- men from insanity. The University of Michigan has been asked to contribute $4,000 of the $500,000 total to come from all United States colleges and universi- ties. In 1918, when fewer students were attending universities, the na- tionwide quota was $1,500,000. SOPRANO: Miss M avior To Be Concert Guest Saturday Dorothy Maynor, young American soprano, will be heard in the eighth Choral Union Concert at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Hill Auditorium. Miss Maynor was born in Norfolk and was reared in the parsonage of the Methodist Church where her father was the minister. She and her brother, a tenor, sang in the Congregational choir, while ,her sis- ter played' the organ. Enters Hampton At the age of 14 she entered the Hampton Institute where she spe- cialized in home economics, dress designing, decorating, and training for the teaching profession. She became a member of Hamp- ton's 120 voice choir, and was one of the 40 members chosen to tour the United States, and later England, France, and Germany. Given Audition After seven years at Hampton she went to the Westminster Choir School at Princeton on a scholarship. CAMPUS EVENTS Today Spanish Lecture at 8 p.m. in Rm. 316, the Union, Today Coffee Hour for Graduate Students from 7:30 to 8:30 -p. m. in West Con- ference Rm., Rackham Building. Feb. 1 WSSF'meeting for repre- sentatives at 8 p. in. in basement of Lane Hall. Feb. 2 Open House for students in Bus. Ad. school from 9 p. m. to midnight at { j t I t ( S EDWIN GOLDMAN guest conductor Dea Yoatkum Sponsors Mixer Giraduate School Will Initiate Social Hourj Under sponsorship of Dean C. S. Yoakum of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, a Coffee Hour and mixer will be given for graduatej students from 7:30 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. today in the West Conference Room of the Rackham Building. The purpose of this social program, I according to Miss Ruth Kelly, House '. w a , mie .a u u iiv v awxa Conductor of the famous Goldmanv than 200 towns. ICo-cl Band of New York City and composer _mittee of great marches, Dr. Edwin Franko Beta Ph Goldman will appear as guest con- oql sh'orta e w The m ductor with the University Concert Cam Ft Band for the second time in recent I T Affect years at the Seventh Annual Band C Siegan, and Orchestra Clinic to be held here' Campbe The nationwide shortage of coal propert Saturday and Sunday. will not affect the heating of Univer- Watt, Take Part in Discussions sity buildings, Edward C. Pardon Jean During the two-day session of the ,Superintendant of the Department of be in ch Clinic, Dr. Goldman will participate Buildings and Grounds, announced be man in informal and panel discussions on yesterday. . Phi, w modern bands. In addition, he will "We have enough coal in our stock- , Sorosis, lead the Concert Band at its annual piles," Pardon stated, "to last through The us] mid-winter program Sunday in is the winter." by Jan own Grand March, "University," thewite._ yan written as a tribute to the 100th anniversary celebration of the found- TO THE LAST OUNCE: ing of New York University. Sponsored by the School of Music 4 and the Michigan School Band and 3 Orchestra As ociati on, the firstit er e Reading Clinic took place at the University during the winter of 1938. At this time the need to hear Band LONDON, Jan. 30-W)-Adolf Hit-<' and Orchestra Spring Festival liter- ler, his creaking Reich invaded from f ature before its final adoption was the east and west and teeming with seen. war-tossed refugees, called upon the Though Dr. Goldman is best known German people tonight "to fight on as a band leader and composer, he no matter where and no matter under began his musical career as a mem- what crcustanes " ber of the Metropolitan Opera House' try crowns our efforts.' Orchestra. In 1912 he organized his The Fuehrer, making a radio ad- own band which has given regular dress to the German nation on the concerts, as well as frequent broad- 12th anniversary of his ascendancy to casts, since then. the chancellorshipf, declared "a hor-I Furthers Band Music rid fate is in progress in the East In the past few years he has de- today," but asserted this fate "will voted much of his time to the fur- be mastered in the end-in spite of therance of the cause of band music all reverses and stern tests." in the schools and colleges of the 1 "I expect every German to do . United States. his duty to the last," Hitler cried Other participants at the Clinic 'at one point in his, broadcast.i will include the University Symphony "Every fit man must stake his man people" by National Socialism and added. "If the spirit of Ver- sailles still prevailed in Germany today, Europe would have been swept away by the Asiatic spring- tide long ago." Hitler described himself as "a ruth- less national socialist and warrior of my nation" as he defiantly cried that Germany would never go down "be- fore the Bolshevists." Again as in previous dramatic utterances he declared that his own life mattered little. "I do not want to leave any doubt about another matter on this day; my present life is being determined solely by the duties which lie upon me to work for my lands Final Effort i