46AIW t 1 WEATHER Cloudy, Continued Cold, Light Sno faii VON. IVNo. 73 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, FEB. 1, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Annual V' Ball ed Drive on Berlin Gains 10 Miles Set for March 9; 'cIn tyre To Play Servicemen, Wonmen Granted Late P~eisision for Biggest Social Event Preliminary plans for the third annual Victory Ball were completed yesterday and the gala dance will be held on Friday, March 9 at the I-M Building, Paul John chairman announced. At the same time it was revealed that Hal McIntyre and his orchestra have been engaged to play the dance and plans are proceeding to place tickets on sale at an early date. Address Will Opera Campus WS Drive 'The War-Stricken Stdent' To Be Topic Introducing the World Studen Service Fund drive to the campus Miss Alexander Feldmahn, Assistan Executive Secretary of the WSSF' will speak on "The War-Stricken Stu- dent" at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Kellogg Auditrium. "flow To Canvass" will be Miss Feldmahn's topic when she addresses representatives of campus organiza- tions and other interested students at 8 p. m. today in the Lane Hall basement auditorium. Committee of Advisors Named Dean of Students Joseph A. Bur- sley; Prof. Donald L. Katz of the College of Engineering; and the Rev- erend Chester Loucks form the Com- mittee of Advisers for the WSSF drive. WSSF is a worldwide relief organ- ization through which students do- nate gifts to students in at least 1 countries and on four continents Students in prison camps, internees and others whose education has beer disrupted by war receive books, stud3 materials, food and clothing bought with Fund contributions. University Quota Set The University of Michigan quote is $4,000 out of the $500,000 nation- wide goal. $15 of this money will buy one Chinese student a month's supply oJ food; $1.00 a month will provide so bean milk for Chinese students threatened with tuberculosis; $15 wil supply for a month a kerosene-pres- sure lamp around which forty Chi- nese students can study; $200 wil supply a National Reconstructior Scholarship for a specially selectec student and $5.00 will ibuy from on to six books which will bring new hope to discourage student prisoners. George Herman, Grad., is chairmar of the campus drive; Mary Shepherd '46, is vice chairman; and Elizabet Wright, '45, secretary treasurer. Representative Revives Death Penalty Issue LANSING, Jan. 31-(P)-The cap- ital punishment issue was renewe today in the lekislature, with intro- duction of a bill by Rep. Joseph E Warner, Ypsilanti Republican, t punish first degree murder with death in the electric chair at the Stat Prison of Southern Michigan. Warner predicted the unsolvec slaying of Senator Warren G. Hoop- er on Jan. 11 would provide a shove which would carry the measure t enactment. It would define as first degree mur- der requiring the capital penalty al willful and premeditated slayings those by poison and "lying in wait,' and those committed in attempts a rape, arson, robbery, burglary, kid- napping for ransom, escape from pris- on, or while being transported t prison- CAMPUS EVENTS Today WSSF meeting for repre- sen tatives,at 8 p.m.ain basement of Lane Hall. Feb. 2 Open House for students in Bus. Ad. school from 9 p. m. to midnight at the League. Feb. 3 Eighth Choral Union Con- cert featuring Dorothy C Maynor, soprano, at 8:30 YT:1 A ...44- - Servicemen Given Late Permission All Army, Navy, and Marine per- sonel stationed on campus were granted 2:30 a. m. liberty for the dance by military authorities here yesterday while coeds will have 2 a. m. permission. ' Victory ball first originated on campus in 1943 when the war em- ergency forced the combination of traditional J-Hop and Senior Ball into one dance. All previous V-Balls have attracted more than 2,000 couples and the committee expects a capacity turnout for this dance. t McIntyre's Band Acclaimed McIntyre was acclaimed the be'st "new"band by Billboard magazine in its annual college poll and the orchestra has experienced a rapid rise to fame since Glen Miller sug- anks Olangapo Isk Taken; Grande Iland Invaded, Manila-Bound Army Is 28 Miles Away By The Associated Press GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD-I QUARTERS, Luzon, Thursday, Feb. 1i -In a series of significant successes, Eighth Army troops have captured Olongapo which already is being de- veloped as a naval base in Subic Bay and have landed on an island at the Bay's entrance while the Sixth Army seized Calumpit and crossed the Pam- panga River, 28 ml-s from Manila. The successes were announced to- day by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Surge Into Calumpit The surge of the Sixth into Calum- pit, in an advance of 13 miles south- ward down Pampanga province, car- ried motorized units of the 14th Army Corps safely through a narrow stretch of land compressed between two swamps. Beyond, the plans open wide to Manila with no good de- fenses for the Nipponese in between. While the Yanks of Lt. Gen. Rob- ert Eichelberger thus advanced more than 20 miles from' Monday's beach- heads on the Zambales coast to win Olongapo, Sixth Army columns rolled 10 miles southwest of San Fernando toward a juncture with the Eighth which would seal off Bataan Penin- sula. The two army elements are push- ing toward each other along a wind- ing road of 60 miles from the Zam- bales coast to San Fernando. Other Eighth Army units landed on Grande Island at the entrance of Subic Bay, whose waters can supply the U. S. Seventh fleet a fine base on the very fringes of Manila Bay. New Facilitiest Seizure of Olongapo gave the Am- ericans a drydock and extensive ship repair facilities. At Calumpit, scene of a gallant stand by Americans and Filipinos at the start of the war, the Americans secured bridges spanning the Pam- panga River. Grande Island, largest in Subic Bay, commands the entrance to the arbor.pIt lies about five miles o Olongapo. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, announc- ing these gains in his communique today, said the Americans who seiz- ed Grande Island and Olongapo "are now using this excellent anchorage, and the development of a naval base is already under way." General MacArthur said Japanese pockets in the Fort Stotsenburg are to the north of San Fernando have been cleared out. Brownout Rule Effective Today Washtenaw County officials yester- day refused to predict future effects of the nation-wide brownout which started at 12:01 a. m. today but inti- mated that most Ann Arbor resi- dents will take the ruling "in stride." Contrary to current opinion, local police officials do not expect an in- creased crime or accident wave with the dimming of this area's lights. In fact, with neon lights out, traffic signals will be more effective, was the concensus. James Byrnes, director of war mobilization predicted that the brownout order will save approxi- mately 2,000,000 tons of coal annually. Score Subic Bay * * * * CAPE ~- B Caba eBAGUIO/ avombong- ®t ingayen UZ r5 Damort R.*"L UZ N S.Fab a :Dagupanf ,~'San Manuel LINGAYE d aS Quintin SanRoles CruzJose ! uimba lip 0 ~~VTARLAC w ARACABANATUAN Palauig LN ~Clark IBA Field :il% A Araya San Narciso -_S n SAR 0 Marcel noESAN I 4ER NA 4' S. Antonio Castc e os 2alumps Malolos SAMPALOC 9 n, Montalban - PT.4Balangat MANILAY BATAAN Manila Boy Cavite 0 20 Mariveles-Nichols STATUTE MILEs . CORREGIDORF YANKS MAKE NEW LUZON LANDING-American forces (arrow at left) have invaded the Zambales coast of Luzon in support of the south- ward advance (arrow at center) from Lingayen Gulf which has passed San Fernando. FORESTERS' FROLIC: Tickets Go on Sale Today for Informal Paul Bunyan Formal German Radio Reports Soviets -45 Miles Away Zhukov's First Army Captures Beyersdorg, Takes Communications Center of Landsberg LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 1-The Red Army, dashing unchecked across the frozen approaches to Berlin, was 63 miles from the Nazi capital by its own account today and a scant 45 according to the alarmed German radio. The Soviet communique late last night announced the capture of Beyersdorf, 63 miles northeast of Berlin-a distance equal to that from Philadelphia to Newark, N. J. This represented a 10-mile advance in 24 hours for Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army, which took the big communications center of Landsberg in passimg. German Radio * Successes HAL MC INTYRE . . . to appear here. gested that McIntyre form his own band. He was formerly a featured member of Miller's orchestra. Ruth Gaylor, Al Nobel, and John- nie Tumbull are featured with Mc- Intyre's orchestra which may be heard at 11:30 p. m. every day over the CBS network. Nationally Known McIntyre's band has played at such outstanding spots as the Glen Islef Casino, Commodore Hotel, the Palla- dium, and the Paramount and Strand theatres in New York. Thecommittee elected in an all campus election early this month is composed of Dick Mixer, Norma Johnson, Dave Loewenberg, Syd Sor- ice, Doris Heidgen, William McCon- nell, Mort Scholnick, Alene Loeser, and Jean Wick Debate Squad Is Announced Six Teams Will Open Series at East Lansing Prof. Kenneth G. Hance of the Department of Speech and manager of the Michigan Debate Squad yes- terday announced the members of the 1944-45 regular squad and the debate schedule for the remainder of this term. Members of the squad includle John Condylis, Martin Shapiro, Joyce Sie- gan, Mary Ellen Wood, Margaret Farmer, Dorothy Murzek, Mary Bat- tle, Betty Lou Bidwell, James Land, Archie Carmichael, Marilyn Sperber, Harriet Risk, Barbara Levine and Alice Wishnevsky. According to the present schedule, 6 teams will travel Feb. 12 to Michi- gan State College for a series of de- bates that afternoon. Two teams, representing the affirmative and neg- ative, will hold debates Feb. 13 at Albion College. Two teams will also debate at Bowling Green State Uni- versity at Bowling Green, Ohio Feb. 14. John Condylis and Martin Shapiro will represent Michigan. Joyce Siegan and Mary Ellen Wood, representing one team, will debate Feb. 21 in Lansing with the Univer- sity of Detroit. Seitz Wlill Head r-~.. Tickets for the "most informal for- mal" of the year, the Paul Bunyan Birthday Celebration which will be held from 8:30 p. m. to midnight Fri- day, Feb. 9 in the Union, will go on sale today at the Union desk. Paul Bunyan To Appear Sponsorship by the Forestry Club for the entire campus, the dance is open to everyone. Tickets will be sold from 10:15 to 11 a. m. today and tomorrow, from 12:45 to 1:30 p. m. Monday and from 4 to 5 p. m. Tues- House Rejects Amendments to Manpower .Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 31-(P)--The House took its longest and most im- portant stride toward passage of a limited national service bill today. Two amendments some members had feared would jeopardize the whole bill were firmly rejected. In succession, the membership turned down the proposals that a man compelled to go to work in a "closed shop" war plant need not join the union; and that race, creed day. Any remaining tickets will go on sale after Tuesday. According to J. W. Johnson, USMCR, Paul Bunyan himself accom- panied by his blue ox, Babe, will be present at the dance. To make Paul feel at ease at his birthday party all guests are asked to wear clothing appropriate to lumberjack life in the Great North Woods. Bill Layton and his band will furnish music for the dance and will appear in blue jeans and plaid shirts. A special acommittee of musical foresters has been appointed to lead celebrants in an intermission-time community sing. Central Committee Announced Other members of the central com- mittee making arrangements for the dance include Paul Ehinger, USMCR, tickets, Gabriel Caldevilla, decora- tions, and Dave Beull, USMCR, and president of the Forestry Club, mu- sic and decorations. Because a Paul Bunyan Formal is an annual tradition at the Univer- sity, navy V-12 men have been grant- ed liberty until 12:30 a. m. in order to attend the dance. Wallace Dispute To Be Decided WASHINGTON, Jan. 31-(P--Ma- jority leader Barkley today summon- ed Democratic Senators to an emer- gency conference in an eleventh-hour effort to compromise the disputed Henry Wallace cabinet appointment. The Democrats, split wide open over the issue of granting the former vice president power as the govern- ment's chief loan agent as well as the Commerce Secretaryship, are to meet at '10 a. m. (EWT) tomorrow, two hours before the Senate convenes for what may be the stormiest meeting of the new session. One report from the German radio placed Marshal Zhukov's men north of Frankfurt-on-the-Oder in the Oder River Valley, not more than 45 miles from the capital, and driving on Kustrin, a rail center 41 miles east of Berlin, scarcely more than the dis- tance from Washington to Baltimore. The Soviet communique reported continued advances along the entire Eastern Front, from East Prussia, where surrognded German divisions were squeezed inside less than one- fifth of the province's territory, to besieged Budapest, where 8,200 pris- oners were taken Tuesday. Breslau Not Mentioned The Moscow bulletin made no men- tion of besieged Breslau and the Sile- sian sector where Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukraine Army is oper- ating, but the Berlin radio, contend- ing that the line west of Breslau had been stabilized, acknowledged Rus- sian crossings of the Oder at many points in that area and placed the northern end of Konev's line at Sor- au, 45 miles inside Germany and 30 miles west of the Oder. Sorau is 84 miles southeast of Berlin. Topper Captured In the First White Russian Army's sector directly, east of Berlin, the Soviet communique announced cap- ture of Topper, 70 miles due east of the capital and 11 miles west of Schweibus, a town which fell to Zhu- kov's army earlier in the day. The northward spread of the First White Russian Army in Pomerania brought the capture of Flatow, Jas- trow and more than 50 other popu- lated places. The thrust to Jastrow represented an advance of 12, miles in a drive which threatened to cut off the greater part of Pomerania from Germany and endangered Stettin, Berlin's port on the Baltic. Maine Tragedy Claims Lives Of 16 Infants AUBURN, Me., -Jan. 31-(P)-A privately operated boarding home for babies became the funeral pyre of 16 infants and a nurse early today in the worst disaster of its kind in recent Maine history. Stunned relatives filed slowly into the morgue tonight seeking to identify five of the babies who died in their temporary home. An undertaker said this might, in some instances, be impossible, so bad- ly were they burned. One woman nurse, Mrs. Rosa Cote, 50, also perished in the flames that destroyed the home, operated pri- vately by Mrs. Eva Lacoste for the benefit of mothers engaged in war work or other daily jobs. Maine's worst tragedy of its kind in recent years broke out at 5:40 a. m., when, Mrs. Lacoste said, gas formed in the kitchen stove in which she was burning soft coal, exploded. Flames caught the nearby walls, she added. The explosion awoke her. She seiz- ed two cribs, the babies still in them, and started for the door. "Then I fell down," she related hysterically. "I had them in my arms. I lost them when I fell down." Senate Appeals Draft of Farmers Aachen Gap Expanded in U.S. Smash Drive on Siegfried Line is Intensified By The Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 31-American dough- boys of the U. S. First and Third Ar- mies smashed across the German bor- der in rain and slush at four new places today and widened the Aachen breach in the Siegfried Line by two additional miles and overran at least a dozen more towns, some of them in- side Germany. Pushing a full-scale offensive along a 40-mile section of the westwall, the power of the American twin-drive carried the troops of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., and Let. Gen. Court- ney H. Hodges as much as 5,000 yards further east. The Front extends all the way from the Aachen breach along the Roer River to the Welchen- hausen bridgehead along the Our River. Driving East As heavy U. S. artillery and armor were poured against the western face of the Siegfried 'Line American troops under the French Army Command in Southern Alsace drove east and south in their maneuver to encircle Colmar, the last major unliberated city in France. French forces captured Witten- heim, northwest of Mulhouse. The American Seventh and Ninth Army sectors remained compara- tively quiet, but on the northern flank of the long western front, Can- adian and British troops mopped up the last remaining German- units which were holding out among the numerous dikes on the Maas Island bridgehead north of Tilburg, Hol- land. Trudge Through Mud All Allied supporting air forces were grounded today by a heavy overcast and a steady drizzle which, combined with the rising temperatures, quick- ly turned recently fallen snow into ground-soaking slush. Soph Committee To Be Selected or color should not be a employment. Disposition of the two sues left nothing in the approval condition of explosive is- way of final {4 Correction . . . Contrary to previous announce- ment, Carol McCormick will be director of Junior Girls' Play and Mardy McKeever will be the as- sistant director. JG Play, which will be an original musical comedy, is scheduled for early this spring. Cabaret Will Be Petitioners Interviewed NUTSHELL SURVEY TOPIC: Polish Border Dispute Is Discussed Interviewing for the central com- mittee of 1945's Soph Cabaret will continue from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow and from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in the Undergraduate Office of the League. All those coeds who have signed for interviews -have been requested to bring their petitions to the inter- view if they have not already placed them in Virginia Councell's box in the Undergraduate Office. Women who have already volun- teered their services to the various committees which include talent, floor show and costumes, decora- tions, patrons, tickets, refreshments, finance, publicity, and recorder of eligibility will be contacted as soon as the new central committee is appointed. Soph Cabaret will be presented at the hearinninao nf nevt smete in By ART KRAFT A definite danger to peacetime relations among Soviet Russia, Great Britain and the United States is growing out of the current dispute over Polish boundaries, results of a ca.-n n r,^11 tlrrn roentlu in estern. ity of those interviewed, believed that Soviet Russia will be granted her demands to Polish territory east of the Curzon line. Five believed that the dispute would be adjudicat- ed differently, giving Poland her 1939 showed knowledge of Polish history. Most interviewees admitted that their knowledge of the present situa- tion came from hearsay, while some stated that they have kept in touch with the Polish boundary dispute +~hmonh n monnavrs l~ni m;tnamw