I MI it qii l i i i Y lirigmi Daitt Weather Partly cloudy and much colder today. VOL. LV, No. 4 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Budapest in Panic as Russians Near City U.S.Troops Close In on Roer River Schinidt Captured By Advancing Yanks By The Associated Press SHAEF, Paris, Nov. 3.-The southern flank of the U.S. First Army assault swept two miles southeast of cap- tured Vossenack today, overrunning the German village of Schmidt only three-quarters of a mile from the river Roer, next enemy barrier on the way to the Rhine 28 miles to the east. * The doughboys gouged out their advance in hard fighting through heavily-mined woodland under lead- en clouds so low that close air sup- port was virtually impossible. But fighter bomber pilots of the Ninth Air Force, flashing out of the WESTERN FRONT-Southern flank of First Army sweeps two miles southeast of captured Vosse- nack, overrunning village of Schmidt. RUSSIAN FRONT--Red troops within sight of Budapest's spires. PACIFIC--Troops of 24th Divi- sion push five miles west of re- cently-captured Carigara. Pursue withdrawing Japs. AN EDITORIAL: Give to War Chest YOU'VE JUST RETURNED to the Michigan campus. You came back to Ann Arbor loaded with money. You planned on having rent to pay, meals to buy, a few books to purchase, a lot of little inci. dental expenses that go along with a new semester. You put a little extra money in your pockets just in case. In short, these first two weeks will be the one time this year that you cannot honestly say that you're broke. You're set for a good time this term. Now there may be one or two others someplace in the world who haven't got their pockets heavy with American dollars. They're spend- ing invasion money-liras and francs and South Pacific yens. For years a lot of other people have been forced to use "occupation" German marks and Japanese yens. Some of those people, had to starve for'that money-some in uniform maybe had to do a little fighting and shed a little blood to get theirs. They don't expect to have much of a good time. MAYBE a lot of foreigners don't mean much to you. Maybe those guys in uniform aren't very close to you. But you and your people and the things you represent mean an awful lot to all of them. They're looking to you for help. You can't help them physically. But you can} give them your support in one fine way. Give to the War Chest now. You've got only two more days. --Ray Shinn DRIVE NEARS END: War Chest Campaign Expected To Exceed Last Year Totals Reds Capture Sari; Guns Heard in City Berlin Admits Critical Situation Exists But Plans Street-by-Street Defense By The Associated Press LONDON, NOV. 3-Russian troops swept within sight of Budapest's spires today with the capture of Sari, 15 miles to the southeast, and 100 other localities, as Berlin admitted "A critical situation" amid Axis defenses on the approaches to the Hungarian capital. A Bucharest radio broadcast recorded by Reuters said "A revolution is in full swing" inside Budapest, but there was no confirmation of this report, and the Budapest radio at a late hour still was functioning. A Red Star front dispatch said panicky civilians were fleeing Budapest toward the Austrian border, 90 miles to the west, and Stockholm reports said some personnel in Prime Mini-v < - ster Ferenc Szalasi's puppet govern- of the Reich had repulsed attacks by ment also had abandoned the imper- large enemy tank and infantry for- illed city. ces north and south of Goldap, 19 t t C I RECONSTRUCTION-U. S. Army engineers blast debris before rebuild- ing a bridge blown out by Germans in Belgium. ACCORD IN EAST: Soong Denies U.S. Exerted' Power on China To Oust Reds clouds, dealt what blows they could, knocking out three tanks and prob- ably destroying three others of the German armored supply. Fight To Open Docks. Although the impact fell heaviest on the German home front there, fighting as fierce was going on in the last hours of the battle for Wal- cheren Island, which will open the docks of Antwerp to a flood of Allied shipping. The tempo of battle also rose along the Mark River line, five miles south of the Maas in western Holland, and beyond Vaccarat in Franzce; _.reme Allied armies are battling toward the passes which lead through the Vosges Mountains to the Rhine and Ger- many. The swampy south Schelde pocket was liquidated as the last Nazi sniper nests were cleaned out late in the afternoon, and for the first time since the Canadian offensive brokey there 28 days ago that front fell silent. , Nazi Guns Silenced On nearly-drowned Walcheren Is- land to the north, the last of the port-blocking big guns of the Ger- mans fell silent too-most or pos- sibly all of them by now knocked out or captured. Vlissingen (Flushing) was cap- tured. Its garrison commander. Lt.- Col. Reinhardt, and a good many of his men surrendered. The rest fled to the east into a triangle menaced by a British-Canadian bridgehead broadening on the east shores of the island around the causeway from south Beveland Island. - Give to the War Chest - Jack Miner, Famous Bird-Lover, Dies KINGSVILLE, Ont., Nov. 3. -- (A?)-Jack Miner., who in 1904 started his now world-famous bird sanctuary with seven wild geese in a pond on his farm near Lake Erie, died today at the age of 79 in his home at Kingsville. Bird lovers from all parts of the world have visited the sanctuary. Four years after the first seven geese were attracted to the pond near here, 11 more visited the spot and in recent years the annual num- ber of wild ducks and geese has been estimated at 30,000. Miner began banding the birds in 1909 and thus added much to the knowledge of migration routes across the conti- nent. CA1PUS EVENTS Nov.4 Choral Union Concert Helen Traubel, soloist 8:30 p.m. at Hill Audi- torium Nov. 5 Daily poll f or songs for Guy Lombardo programs Nov. 5 Glee Club Smoker 7:30 p.m. at the Union Nov. 6 End of 'U' War Chest Drive Nov. 6 Daily tryout meeting, 4 p.m. at the Student Pub- lications Building. _ "In spite of the fact that the War Chest Drive for funds was disrupted by the break in semesters, I am con- fident that we can raise by Monday afternoon an amount matching or exceeding our total last year, Pro- fessor Harold M. Dorr, co-ordinator of the campaign on campus, said yesterday. "I am very enthusiastic about the way the campaign has been organ- ized among the students, and the fIt ih Fays ' Jap Home.n IsP ~Wie Ope' By The Associated Press SAN DIEGO, CALIF., NOV. 3--Ja- pan's homeland has been left pretty wide open by reduction of the enemy to a fifth rate naval power and prac- tical elimination of Japanese naval aviation, Vice Adm. Marc A. Mit- scher, task force 58 commander, said today on his return home on leave. Despite the great successes on land and sea and in the air, the veteran officer said the Pacific war soon probably would shift from high to low gear because of the supply problem. "Americans have no idea of the amount of effort it takes to get food and ammunition and other supplies out to the islands in the Pacific," said the Admiral. "It means a lot more shipping than we have avail- able now." Reciting publicly for the first time the plane and shipping destruc- tion racked up by his mighty task force 58, Mitscher said the box score showed 795 naval and merchant yes- sels had been sunk or damaged from January 29 to October 27. and 4,425 Japanese planes destroyed. Mitscher said Japanese naval aviation had been assigned the task of protecting the Empire's island outposts and had been practically eliminated in the American drive across the Pacific. Defense of the Japanese homeland was assigned the army air force, the Admiral said. Recent battles off Formosa and the Philippines reduced Japan to a fifth rate naval power, Mitscher said, adding he didn't believe the enemy had more than a few battleships left, and only one or two major car- riers and several baby type carriers. - Give to the War Chest - Pilot And Crew Die In Bomber Crash j OSCODA, MICH., NOV. 3-(IP)-A pilot and three crewmen of a medium army bomber were killed today when the plane crashed and burned 1 /z miles west of Glennie, Mich., in the Huron National Forest, the public relations officer at the Army air base interest shown by both the student and faculty solicitors and contribu- tors," he declared. Paul John, '46, and Peggy Morgan, '45, directors of the student cam- paign, have contacted representatives in each of the organized residences on campus. These include a dozen men's houses, and some 98 women's dormitories, sororities and league houses. Special agents haye solicited each student in their houses, and the number of contributors approaches Contributors Help Servicemen "Most of the girls have relatives or sweethearts in the services and they want to give to this War Chest cause, because they know that this is an opportunity to help their fighting men," declared, Miss Morgan. To facilitate faculty contributions, the campus has been divided into two parts, with Prof. Kenneth Hance of the Speech department directing the drive in the west half, and Prof. James Gault of the engineering col- lege in the east half. Houses Set Quotas Although no definite quotas have been set for each house, many resi- dences have set their own quotas. A rough estimate by the directors indicates that close to $16,000 has already been reported. Women so- licitors should turn in their receipts by 5:30 p.m. Monday, to the Under- graduate office of the League; men should turn in theirs at the Student offices in the Union. For those students who were not contacted by one of the agents, a desk will be set up in the Union to receive contributions between 1 and 4 p.m. Saturday and Monday. -Give to the War Chest - Election Results May Be Delayed Soldier Vote Can Be Deciding Factor, NoV. 7 NEW YORK, NOV. 3-(P)--If the presidential race is as close as four nationwide polls predict, the winner may not be known until the soldier votes are counted--days or even weeks after election day. Eleven states, with a total of 123 electoral votes, will not count all their military ballots election night. At least three of them-Pennsylvania, Maryland and Missouri-are classed by the polls as "doubtful." One opin- ion survey has concluded that Penn- sylvania's 35 electoral votes will de- cide the election. Pennsylvania Vote Decisive In the event of such a close race, the winner might not be known un- til Pennsylvania's tabulation of its 250,000 or more soldier votes is com- pleted. The tabulation will begin Nov. 22 and may take several days. Should the election hinge on Cali- fornia's 25 electoral votes, however, as it did in 1916, the winner might not be known for an even longer By The Associated Press CHUNGKING, NOV. 3 - T. V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister, de- clared today that China and the United States have reached "com- plete agreement" on closer military, political and economic cooperation and denied reports that the U: S. had exerted pressure on China to settle her Communist piloblem. In the first detailed statement from a Chinese government offi- cial since the recall of Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell as commander in chief of American forces in the C'ina- Ka ers To Show Campus Life Entertainment and novelty, activ- ities and campus life are the themes of the newest show to be staged on campus-Kampus Kapers to be held at 8 p. m. Wednesday, November 15 in Hill Auditorium. Featuring an array of student tal- ent including singing, dancing, mu- sic and mirth, the Kapers is being staged completely by University students and only student talent will participate. Billed as "an all-campus show for all the campus," the Kapers will feature such campus favorites as Bil- ly Layton and his band, Doc Fielding as Master of Ceremonies, The Varsity Men's Glee Club headed by Prof Da- vid Mattern, Bill Beck, a piano player, and a host of other student "stars". The forces of the Daily, the Union and the League have combined to make arrangements for the show which will be open to the entire campus free of charge. Burma-India theater, Soong said the recall was "entirely a question of personality"-that Stilwell and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek simply did not like each other and could not work together. "The recall of Gen. Stilwell was entirely a question ofpersontand has nothing to do with any difference of policy between China and the United States," the foreign minister said in a written statement, which he later supplemented in a talk with foreign correspondents. "On the contrary," he said, "when Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley and Mr. Donald Nelson, as per- sonal representatives of President Roosevelt, came to confer with my government on closer military, po- litical and economic cooperation, complete agreement was reached between us. "Far from any rift developing be- tween China and the United States, I believe that from now on relations between the two countries will be more understanding, more intimate and more fruitful than ever before." -Give to the War Chest - IFC Registration Tops Summer Total Combined civilian and Navy totals for the summer semester were topped when 180 male civilians registered with the Inter-Fraternity Council, according to Bliss Bowman, Council president. Budapest's factory belt now lies within Soviet artillery range and the thunder of the big Russian guns could be heard in the city. Budapest is Prized There was no indication that the Germans planned to spare Budapest, a beautiful city lying on both sides of the Danube, from the saattering ordeal of a vicious street-by-street fight since the capital is a great com- munications prize op the road to so'uthern Germany. From Budapest, a city odf 1,217,000.1 railways radiate not only into Au- stria and Germany, but into Czecho- slovakia, Yugoslavia and northern Italy. The city also is in important, Nazi arsenal with one of the biggest electrical works in Europe. Hint Reds Cross Tisza I The Soviet bulletin did not mention the middle Tisza river front in north- eastern Hungary, but Berlin hinted the Russians already had crossed. that stream by announcing a heavy assault on Tokaj, wine center of the west bank of the river 27 miles east of Miskolc, pre-war Hungary's fifth city. --in German-- EstrPrussit -'where the first heavy snowfall of the winter was reported, the Russians announced': that Gen. Ivan D. Cherniaknovsky's third white Russian army invaders Patterson Hits Detroit Strikes By The Associated Press DETROIT, NOV. 3-Strikes by mechanics closing 24 Detroit war plants today brought from Undersec- retary of War Robert P. Patterson a statement that they were "striking our fighting men from the rear" and that "such conduct is equivalent to treason." Patterson's demand that the strikes be halted at once was made in a tele- gram to Matthew Smith, national secretary of the Mechanics Educa- tional Society of America, an inde- pendent union. MESA leaders claimed the union's entire membership of nearly 20,000 in this area walked off their jobs at 10 a. m. in sympathy With the union's, jurisdictional dispute with the United Automobile Workers (CIO) in the Toledo plant of the Electric Auto-Lite Co. However, some spokesmen - of companies involved and officials of government agencies placed the total idle at 7,000 to 11,000. miles inside the Nazi provin.e Heavy losses in men and material were inflicted on the Germans, the bulletin said. - Give to the War Chest- 'U' Builds $4000 4 Pre-Fabricated Model House A mo;ern five-room house com- plete with bath, built out of seven pre-fabricated units, has been finish- ed by the University, it was announc- ed yesterday. Designed by Prof. George. B. Brig- ham, in the School of Archtectuore; in cooperation with the War Pro- duction Board, the experimetal house is expected to sell for approx- imately $4,000 during the postwar period. New Features Included Planned to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer,, featurs f the new house include: absence of furnace.dps.a -~ and h1Ja t4K plumbing.rHot, filtered air fromthe furnace forced into a. ten-inch ade between floors provides ahe system. Heavy insulation prevens heat loss downward. , Rooms are heated by registers cut into the floors. Units Bolted Together Units of the house, which are bolt- ed together, can be unbolted and re- arranged into new room combina- tions These units can be transport- ed to °the building site, placed, on foundation posts, and bolted togeth- er. In the experimental house there are 15 doors, 16 windows, two sky- lights, a storage room, combination porch and car shelter, laundry rooM, furnace room and kitchen. In addi- tion there is a combination living and dining room. Prospective home-owners may in- spect the house located' on E. Univer- sity near the East Engineering Build- ing. -Give to the war Chest- Favorite Tunes To Be Featured Lombardo To Air Five Winners of Daily Poll "Let's Sing a Song About Susie..." Not your favorite tune, you say? Well, then, what is? Whether or not you're possessed of the mind of a Koussevitsky, wheth- er or not your mother gave you piano lessons as a child, whether or not you know anything about harmony, you still know which song you like best to hum. Your favorite song and the favo- rites of everyone else on campus ae news today. For Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians are going to play the Favorite Five songs of the Michigan students on his Musical Autograph show at 10 p. m., Satur- day, Nov. 18, over the nation-wide Blue network and station WXYZ Every student is assed to write the name of his favorite melody on the special ballot he will receive with his Sunday Daily. These ballots must be turned in by 4 p. m. Tues- day. In case you don't get a ba- 'lot, there'll be some extras on hand at the Student Publications Build- ing on Maynard street. Ballot boxes will be set up in the Union, the League, at the center of the diagoilal, the Engine Arch, and at the Daily. Registration for the Navy held Monday and Tuesday quadrangle. Civilians canr Wednesday and Friday from p.m. at the IFC office in the will be in the register 3 to 5 Union. ~~~ SUCCESS STORY: Helen Traubel Metropolitan Soprano, To Sing Here Tonight at First Concert N. Helen Traubel, the all-American soprano from St. Louis who will be heard in the first Choral Union con- cert at 8:30 p. m. today at Hill Audi- torium, believes that opportunities for a singer to be heard always have existed, but that what mattered most was one's readiness for them. While other American-born and American trained singers have long bemoaned the lack of professional opportunities for them in their own country, Miss Traubel has preferred to come up the slow way and deferred her Metropolitan Opera debut until four years ago, when she had already passed her 35th birthday. -.. .. .* .. .- Sang in "Die Walkure" When she finally did emerge from her preparatory period, it took only three weeks, highlighted by her New York debut at Town Hall, and her historic first performance as Siglinde in "Die Walkure" for the Metropoli- tan Opera, to establish her as one of the greatest dramatic sopranos of all time. She has since then been voted "the Metropolitan Opera's great all-Am- erican soprano"; has been presented with the turquoise and diamond brooch worn by the Metropolitan's only other American-born Isolde. I - ~