THE MICHIGAN DAILY Goebbels Attempts To Silence Rumors of Hitler's s outside the ... worried to death, signs Himm- No. 1-pos- TRADITIONAL: 4 odes Mve' s sAc' To Be East Prsi man" were Given Dec. 17 1 >kesman, Dr. hat Himmlei ule 's proclama- £VOCAe.W s the Fuehr- or. Himmler rHimerbut The University Musical Society's; Hitler's but people "will annual Christmas performance of - using the Handel's monumental oratoio, "Mes- siah," will be presented at 3 p. m. i homeyser- Sunday, Dec. 17 at Hill Auditorium. fact Himm- The performance of the "Messiah," roadcast the has become traditional in, Ann Ar- terday under bor. The history of the University o way proof" Musical Society, which was organ- at Hitler was ized in 1879, has been closely asso- ciated with the performance of this Hitler's con- work. generally re- When the Society organized the he was last Choral Union chorus, for the first four doctors season it was known as the Messiah ster, an out- Club, whose principal purpose was who treated to sing choruses from that oratorio. >mmel before The second season, however, it ex- doctors were tended its repertoire, and also its Hitler's per- membership to include singers from ; Doctor Za- both the University and the com- an regularly munity. d Prof. Suer- This years performance includes sri and thus the United services of distinguished Sin only for soloists. Ellen Osborh, young Ameri- can soprano, who has been heard at concerts and operas in New York, will sing the soprano solo parts. ib Mary Van Kirk will sing contralto, Hardesty Johnson will be the tenor and Gean Greenwell will be bass oday soloist at the performance. The University Symphony Orchestra un- will hold its der the direction of Prof. Gilbert semester at Ross will provide instrumental back- ague. ground and Frieda Op't Holt Vogan la, director of will be at the organ. will discuss The University Choral Union, com- tion, particu- posed of singers from the University Bated by the and Ann Arbor, will perform. The to the Advis- entire ensemble will be led by Har- ope, stressing din Van Deursen, conductor of the play in the University Music Society. pe. Tickets may be purchased in per- ted, and fol- son or by mail, now, at the offices neeting there of the University Musical Society, r which will Charles A. Sink, president, Burton French songs. Memorial Tower. Hillel Group Opens Drive for Membership Goal Is Set at 100 Per Cent Enrollment A one-week membership drive aim- ed at 100 percent membership of Jew- ish students to the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation chapter at this Univer- sity begins today under the direction of Judy Jacobs, Dave Loetvenberg and Betty Ginzberg. Membership to the Hillel Founda- tion has been constantly increasing, approximately 80 percent of the Jew- ish students on campus joined last year. This year, membership is ex- pected to reach a new high, directors of the drive hinted. The Hillel Foundation at Michigan is the first of 118 college chapters to have bought and paid completely for their own house, known nationally as one of the largest and most com- pletely equipped. The Foundation is a functioning democracy in spirit and practice, all student activities originating with and controlled by a 25-member, an- nually elected, student council. The student council formulates policies and translates them itno action through some 20 committees, each headed by one or more council mem- bers and a student director. In addition to various war activi- ties, the Foundation sponsorsasuch varied activities as Friday evening religious services, holiday services, dances, such as the popular "Mixer" which last Saturday drew more than 400 students, cost suppers, bridge tournaments, study group classes, newspaper activities, record concerts, dramatics, forensics and photo- graphy. ,A rack, in the foyer contains about 25 nationally distributed magazines and newspapers that are currently received by the Foundation. Progress of the membership drive, which has been divided into several sections, will be recorded on a chart in the Foundation. The three main divisions of the drive and their leaders are the soror- ity, fraternity, league houses division under Sonya Heller; co-operative house division under Edythe Levin; and men's and women's dormitories under Zena Etkin. Judy Jacobs is in charge of soliciting for indepen- dent men and women. fi)( . ' g"--=_ STATUTE MKEs SWEDEN R'ga LATVIA North DENMARKVtebsk DTTENMARK20 jDE _ "~a AT~ Sea EN iCND Mamo Mmel " Smolensk ENGLAND Q damosMik° HoidapAND M HR USAI Amb u i S. HOLLADburStettin G dGomel LONDON fBremen 6 BERLIN 304 Mie POLAND RUSSIA " Arnhem WAAw Dover Essen 30to' .Esn3 Lodz . "Kowe1 Kiev. Dunkerque oln°Pw LubewnK"-P Cologne I LeSHavre ) AfRhenDNKrakoRLowYetdichev ,'Trier rae l Met z i P~O raguelCgFde pAR *5MetKarlsruhe CZECV AKV Aas ourg.Cernauti -iM Munich'Ve FRANCE -BASTRAARIA VichyT FSWITZERLAND-HUNGARYe riAN ThrdA Trieste ,k Milan Zagreb \Plet ou i Tur n Bucharest s n c S e dp Geno Bologna Mseitle SSit on be Toulon L-oro TA Y o ,PP tIs BUL G A RIA no eSol1, WHERE ACTION FLARES ON THIRD ARMY FRONT-grows locate American Third Army from the Berg area south to Migneville. To the north the American First Army made slight gainst west of Vos- senack. Shaded line is approximate battlefront. Itichigah I, Editor's Note: Contribution to Michigan Men at War should be sent to The Mili- tary Desk, The Michigan Daily, Student Publications Building. For "extraordinary achievement" during bombing attacks on Nazi war plants and on military 'targets in support of Allied ground forces, Flight Officer Alan Goldman, 21, a former student at Michigan, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Goldman, navigator on the Eighth Air Force (England) B-17 Flying Fortress, "Gremlin's Hideout," al- ready holds the Aid Medal with three oak leaf clusters. Newman Club Elects New Officers New officers elected by the New nClub for Catholic students are as Mary Jo Cadarette, secretary; Mary follows: Bob Stevenson, president; Driver, treasurer and Doris Heidgen, Ted Emith, men's vice-president; Tom Donnelly and A. H. Vanderhaar Dottie Uhl, women's vice-president; on the executive committee. received the Air Medal for "merit- orious achievement" while partici- pating in bombing attacks upon war plants in Germany and upon Nazi military defense in France, William M. Spurgeon, who receiv- ed his Ph. D. in chemistry in 1942, is now a captain in the South Paci- fic. A letter recently received from him tells of passing through a vol- canic ash storm near one Pacific isle. Also of the Eighth Lt. Paul Marince, pilot Air Force, of a B-17, MELODIES LIVE O1N George Szell S tates Music Survives in Occupied Countries ASSOCIATED FLYINGSERVICE Flying Instruction gien in Piper Cub, Stinson and Waco planes REASONABLE RATES For Appointment and Trans por tatioh Contact BOB MAC VICAR Day, 25-8823 . .. N i te, 2-6301 "Music is one of the few things that have survived in the Nazi domi- nated countries," George Szell, guest conductor of the Cleveland Orches- tra, stated in an interview after the concert Sunday night. The Nazis may have burned the scores, and killed the musicians, but Francis Sayre To Open Series PhIilippines Will Be Topic of First Lecture Speaking on "Our Relations with the Philippines," the Hon. Francis B. Sayre, High Commissioner to the Philippines at the time of the Jap- anest invasion, will open the 1944-45 Oratorical Association series at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Sale of season tickets will close Thursday and those desiring the series are urged to obtain tickets-now. After Thursday only individual tick- ets will be sold. The Oratorical Association has a 53 year old history and, series of previous years give a panoramic view of American times. Appearing on the programs have been President Taft, Emerson, William Jennings Bryan, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The series this year begins with Sayre's discussion and includes talks by the Hon. Carl J. Hambro, head of the Norwegian Parliament and Presi- dent of the League of Nations Assem- bly on "How To Win the Peace," Nov. 22; Lillian Gish, "From Holly- wood to Broadway," Nov. 30; Osa Johnson, "The Solomons" with films, Dec. 12; Madame Wei, "China After the War," Jan. 11. Eliot Janeway, editor of Fortune magazine, will speak on "New Hori- zons for Democracy," Jan. 23; Ruth Draper, "Character Sketches," Feb. 16, and Joe Fisher, "Land of the Maharajahs" with films March 15. they have not and never will be able to kill the love for music in the hearts of the people, he said. "Will music be revived in the con- quered countries? I can only say that it will be one of the first arts to be revived. When people are happy, there is music in their hearts and they will sing it and listen to it," he added. Mr. Szell left Czechoslovakia in 1937 to direct the Scottish Sym- phony. When he completed his sea- son in Scotland he went to The Hague to direct the symphony or- chestra there. From The Hague he went on an international tour to Australia, and the United States. He was in this country when the war broke out, and has remained here since then. He now has his first citizenship papers, and says, "I can hardly wait for the day when I will be able to call myself a citizen of these United States." "This is not my first trip to the United States. I was here in the early part of 1930 and directed the St. Louis Symphony, "The audience tonight was just marvelous, and I can say the same for the 'hall. I haven't seen very much of Ann Arbor itself, but what I have seen has impressed me very much. I have enjoyed every minute of my stay here, and hope that I can come back again some day," he concluded. e 1* 5POLS COATS, sizes 14-18, were 35.00 now $22.0 SUITS, sizes 12-16... .... ..,.. 20% Off DRESSES, sizes 10-20, were 24.95, now 16.00 JUMPERS, sizes 9-17, were 12.95, 20% Offj LANZ DRESSES ..............20% Off SWEATERS ..................20%C Off BLOUSES ....................20% Off WHITE SLIPS, sizes 38-44..... 20% Off II AMVuIT 4 eeir11 11 KEEP A-HEAD AF VAlI IRAIR 111 11 my -3, more dae oDrhs sao ikt.1 I