L2 *itr43rn 4kv iiatt!j WEATHER Cloudy. showers. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN& WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Kampus Iapers Show To Be Given Today U. S. Carrier Plane Raid Costs Japan 14 Ships Fall of M Expected Come S By The Associate LONDON, Nov. 14 troops, crashing in up three directions, were c from the famous fortr south and southeast t front dispatch declare peared to be but a mat not hours. As the Americans c for the kill, the British 150 miles to the not WAR AT A G By The Associate WESTERN FRONT miles from Metz. Fal city seems matter of RUSSIAN FRONT- set stage for fall of I PACIFIC FRONT- threatened by Americ men in bloody Orm Nimitz announces hea Jap ships and planes. NORWAY - Norw re-invade homeland Isles. strong drive in southea and in the initial s across two canals an least two towns. Ught Resistance Lt.-Gen. George S. P who opened their wi just a week ago, met light resistance as the upon reputedly impreg the nearest forces cam south and southeast advanced to points wit] of the city on the wes As the fighting arou appeared to be rush swift and totally una max, the British tro eastern Holland lashed roaring barrage of 4 strong drive east of th of Nederweert, 18 mile Venlo and some 38 in of Aachen. Except for the size c barrage which preced off at 4 p.m., there wa of the scope of theI The Tommies quick bridgeheads across tw Nederweert, and dispa German resistance w The town of Meijel, w employed some 50 tan a few weeks ago, was been evacuated by the a village a mile and a of Nederweert, was qu Tbi onville Surrenuters Paris radio reporte garrison of Thionville, fled steel center 16 n Metz, had surrendere weeks American troops part of Thionvilleon of the Moselle, with to the eastern half of1 was no Allied confirm city had been captur - Kampus Kapers George C Post To I Detroit Degr4 To Lead Cere A championship deg Detroit will conductt stallation ceremonies, of the newly-formed gion Post 348 which 8:30 p. m. today at Legion Home. This post, officially George Ham Cannon] ed only this summer a entirely of World WE most of whom are 1 Manila Bay etz Area Hit by 00HHuge Force A Press Two Destroyers, . American on Metz from Cruisers Damaed only two miles ess city on the By The Associated Press onight and a U: S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-1 d its fall ap- QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, ter of days, if NOV. 14-American Third Fleet car- rier planes sank or damaged 14 Japa-] losed in here nese ships and one floating dock, Second Army shot down 28 planes and strafed 130 rth opened a more in renewed raids on the Manila area Sunday. The enemy counter-attacked the LANCE ~carrier task group but no American :d Press ships were damaged, Adm. Chester1 W. Nimitz announced in a communi- -Yanks two que today. 11 of fortress- (Both Tokyo radio and the Jap- days. anese-controlled Manila radio an- -Red troops nounced earlier that 800 American Budapest. planes struck Manila Bay shipping, -Jap troops hitting the Cavite Navy Yard and an infantry- Clark Airfield. Tokyo claimed one foc corridor. American battleship was sunk by vy damage to suicide pilots east of Luzon Island). Nimitz summed up this damage tegian troops inflicted by Hellcat fighters, Aven- from British ger torpedo planes and Helldiver bombers: One light cruiser badly damaged. Two destroyers exploded (possibly stern Hollane sunk, but the communique did not tages stormee }o specify). d occupied at An estimated 11 cargo ships andi ailers sunk or left ablaze. One floating dock torpedoed. atton's forces Many docks in the Manila Bay nter offensive area and Cavite Navy Yard were astonishingli struck. y smashed ir There was no indication whether1 nable Metz. A any of these ships were previously e up from th' damaged in the October naval ac- other units tion in the Philippines or by car- hin three mile' rier strikes, or whether they were t. newly-arrived at Luzon and thus nd Metz thu' may be added to the previous high ing toward toll of Japanese shipping. ,nticipated cli. Ten Japanese planes were shot ops in south. down while attacking the carrier i out behind t;roup and 18 out of 20 which inter- 00 guns in epted the American raiders were e Dutch villag shot out of the air over Luzon. s southeast o. An estimated 130 to 140 single and iles northwest Twin-engined planes strafed Legaspi, Manila and Clark fields on Luzon. of the artiller3 'Admiral Nimitz disclosed that Rear ed the jump Adm. Frederick C. Sherman com- s no indicatior nanded the carrier task groups in- British attack volved. ly establishee Marine Corsair planes sank a small o canals new enemy vessel in a bombing and straf- tches indicatec ng run on the northern Palaus Sat- as not heavy arday. Hellcats and Liberators hich the Nazi bomber Koror, Malakal and Araka- ks in capturing besan islets in the Palau group. found to have - ampus Rapers Tonite - >enemy. Eind half southeas Yank ickly seized. the GermarThreaten Jap , heavily forti- miles north o Yancshta Line d. For severa shave held the the west bank GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD- Nazis clinging QUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. 15., the city. There Wednesday-(IP)- American infan- ation that the trymen, pressing down the bloody ed. Ormoc corridor, have effected a wide Tonite - envelopment that threatens Japan's Yamashita line, Gen. Douglas Mac- IfifOn Arthur announced today. The enveloping move was made through the mountains southwest of PinamapoannOn Carigara Bay, and threatened the Nipponese line below ~ Limon. ee Team1The Japanese there are being con- monies tained by direct frontal thrusts along the Ormoc Road, the communique said.I ree team from Seventh MovesI the formal in- For the first time in more than a of the officers week, MacArthur reported movement American Le- of the American Seventh Division will be held at south of Ormoc, Japan's only re- the American maining reinforcement port. The Seventh, MacArthur said, re- chartered the pulsed a small enemy force attempt- Post, was form- ing to land from barges at Damulaan, and is made up 14 miles south of Ormoc. ar II veterans, Units of the American First Cav- University stu- air a e losing in on the Ormoc Norwegians Land in Norway From Britain Invasion Detachments Operate with Russian Troops in Arctic Area . By The Associated Press LONDON, NOV. 14-Norwegian troops, re-invading their own home- land from the British Isles, have landed in Norway and are operat- ing with the Russians against the Germans on the Arctic front, the Norwegian exiled government an- nounced tonight. Swarming ashore somewhere in the far north, the first detachments to return since the ill-fated 1940 campaign joined the Russians as the Germans, in retreat over the barren wastes of Finnmark, prepared de- fense lines in the south against a! possible Allied invasion from the west linked with an all-out Soviet drive. Led by Col. Dahl The small vanguard, numbering under 500, was led home ny Col. Ar- ne Dahl, commander of the famous Alta battalion during the last bitter days of Norway's hopeless stand at: Narvik. Dahl also returned as head of a Norwegian military mission which includes representatives of the Navy, Air Forces, and a number of gov- ernment departments. One was a representative of the Minister of Justice, sent to carry out measures to deal with Quislings and traitors. Germans Reported Retreating With the announcement that Nor- wegian troops were operating on home soil, a government spokesman reported "increasing numbers" of Germans inretreat from Finnmark to Troms Province, who were leaving a trail of "nightmarish devastation." Large units of German infantry and motorized troops were said to be moving west along highway 50, the main force now being at Porsangen- fjord. The spokesman said the Germans were reported to have ordered the -destruction of every building from Narvik northwards, and the removal of the whole population. - Kampus Kapers Tonite - British Blow Up il-Sh ipConvoy LONDON, NOV. 14-(R)-The Brit- ish home fleet struck another blow at what is left of German seapower Sunday night, soon after the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz by the RAF, when it blew up or sank nine ships of an 11-ship convoy off Norway and drove a tenth Nazi vessel ashore, it was disclosed tonight. Two cruisers and four destroyers swooped down on the German con- voy rounding Lister Fjord, south of Egersund, Norway, travelling north and inflicted the losses without any material damage to themselves. The Nazi convoy, an admiralty communi- que reported, included several M- class minesweepers and was taken entirely by surprise. ProgramPresents Student Talent Doe Fielding Will Act as Master of Ceremonies; Naval Trainees May Attend All preparations have been completed and all is in readiness for a gala Kampus Kapers show to be held at 7:30 p. m. today in Hill Auditorium. Campus enthusiasm, generated since the show was" announced two weeks ago, and Monday's announcement of liberty for all Naval trainees not on probation to attend the show, are expected to draw a capacity crowd for the production. Special tickets will be distributed to Naval trainees attending the show after the performance is over so that they may get back into the West Quad. An all campus show for all the campus, the Kapers is the first pro- duction of its kind to be wholly produced by and to feature students. t., The following acts will be included in the program: DOCTOR M. C.-'Doc' Fielding, the boy with a gag for every occasion, will emcee the Kampus Kapers tonight. - -Photo by John Horeth BILLY LAYTON and his orche- stra with Judy Ward in some spe- cial arrangements. DOC FIELDING, master of cere- monies, will include his famous record renditions. JUDY CHAYES sings blues with a lilt in her voice accompanied. by DICK THOMAS. BILL BECK, master of the key- board, will give the ivories a good work out. ALL-GIRL TRIO-Mary Greg- ory, Rae Pierce, and Marcia Ely- harmony in a mellow manner. ACTIVITIES will be taken up by Tom Bliska, Union president, and Marge Hall, War Council head. CAMPUS SPIRIT - Varsity Men's Glee Club under the direc- tion of Prof. David Mattern wiil bring back old memories. Hailed as an "all campus show for all the campus," the Kapers is being staged by the Union, Daily, and League with the main purpose of "arousing that old Michigan com- munity spirit in campus life and ac- tivities." Plans for WSSF Drive Laid at First Meeting Funds Go to Students, Men in Prison Camps Plans for the World Student Ser- vice Fund drive, to be carried on with the aid of major campus organiza- tions, were formulated at the first meeting of the steering committee for the drive last night. George Herman, Grad., was elected chairman; Mary Shepherd, '47, vice- chairman; and Buff Wright, '46, sec- retary of the provisional steering committee. World-Wide Organization WSSF is the organization through which students help students in Eur- ope, China and America whose edu- cation has been disrupted by the war. Food, medical care, clothing, books and study materials bought with student contributions will en- able men in prison camps throughout the world to get university training, in some cases with credit. All those interested in helping to put the drive across are urged to telephone Miss Wright before Thurs- day at Helen Newberry. An early meeting for representatives of cam- pus organizations and other inter- ested persons was also planned for next week. Aids All Nationalities WSSF is international and inter-I racial, helping students of more than 37 nationalities and many races and non-sectarian, helping Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Buddhists and Mo- hammedans. Even in China, India and France, where students have suffered griev- ously, students have given aid to those in other parts of the world. Indian students alone raised 1,600 rupees for student relief in China. Working with the national secre- tary of the WSSF, the campus or- ganization will set up offices in Lane. Hall. Booklets explaining the pur- poses and uses of the funds are also available there. JUDY CHAYES featured Kapers thrush. -Photo by John Horeth Sayre Series To Open of Guest BARITONE- Bill Layton, com- plete with voice, trumpet and or- chestra, will lead kapricious Kapers music. Strikers Return To Packard Co. Jobs in Detroit DETROIT, NOV. 14--(P)-Striking employes of the Packard Motor Car Co. voted in a stormy four-hour meeting today to return to their jobs immediately. Some 2,000 Negroes were absent from work, beginning with last mid- night's shift. Other departments continued to operate. The plant em- ploys a total of approximately 39,000.1 The strikers explained that they were protesting what they regarded as discrimination against the up- grading of four Negroes to metal pol- ishing jobs. A strike of 200 white employes in metal polishing depart- ments a week ago was described as a protest against the upgrading of the Negroes. Speakers Here Opening the 1944-45 Oratorical series, the Hon .Francis B. Sayre, High Commissioner to the Philip- pines and former Assistant Secretary of State, will speak at 8:30 p. m. to-! morrow on "Our Relations with the Philippines." Sayre, who has gained a thorough knowledge of the problem of the Islands in his capacity as chairman of the Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine Affairs and as a mem- ber of the bddy planning new eco- nomic ties between the United States and the Philippines, has taken a favorable attitude toward Philippine' independence. When commissioner, he declared that the Islands should be cut loose in 1946. Despite his insistence on Philip- pine independence, he has been wary of the possibility of dictatorship in the Islands, stressing the necessity of teaching the Filipinos what democ- racy is. Sayre served earlier as adviser in3 foreign affairs to the Siamese gov- ernment and prior to that had been a member of the law faculty of Har- vard University. As Assistant Secretary of State, he worked directly with Secretary Hull in the making of the recent recipro- cal trade treaties. His most recent books include: "The Way Forward," "America Must Act," and "Cases on the Law of Ad- miralty." Next lecturer scheduled on the series is the Hon. Carl Hambro who will appear Wednesday, Nov. 22. Former president of the League of Nations Council and Norwegian Par- liament. his topic will be "How To Win the Peace.K s - Kamipus Kapers '1'onite - A special feature of the show will be some community singing led by the Glee Club and Prof. Mattern. Song sheets with all Michigan fav- orites on them will be distributed to all. . Doors of Hill Auditorium will be open at 7 p. m. and no admission is being charged. - Kampus Kapers Tonite - Con gress Meets For Last Six Week Session WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-(A)-A flurry of requests for new legislation greeted Congress today a, it re- assembled for a six weeks session before giving way to the newly- elected Congress next January. Fewer than half the members were on hand. however, when speaker Rayburn and Vice-President Wallace banged their gavels at noon. Leaders leaned to the view that it was useless to undertake more than a brief legislative program in the dying days of this Congress. They began mapping a short schedule topped by extension of the President's extraordinary war pow- ers, now due to expire Dec. 31, and revival of crop insurance which both Democratic and Republican party platforms endorsed. Rayburn said he thought a fed- eral-state highway program also should be passed since 42 of the 48 state legislatures convene early next year. A $1,500,000,000 program is pending and the state legislatures cannot act to assure state coopera- tion until Congress acts. While the newly gathered legisla- tors busily swapped election con- gratulations and condolences,,'the following proposals were placed be- fore them: From President Roosevelt-$400,- 000,000 in supplemental appropria- tions for a score of federal agencies, including $339,112,445 for the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks. - Kampus Kapers Tonite -- Ensian Distribution MODERN FOXHOLE STRUGGLE: Fight Rages for Escape Route INSIDE FORT L'AISNE WITHIN THE METZ FORTRESS RING, Nov. 14.-(I)-The battle for Metz tonight was a modern foxhole struggle on the rainswept Pouilly ridge inside the ancient defense ring. The doughboys who swarmed past this toothless, mossbacked and bur- ied fortres sre trying to rout the Machinegun mounts were the only indication of armament found in them. Shells and bombs bounced off this tortoise shell fort like peb- bles, but protection was its only virtue. In the end, the Germans walked out and we walked in. But barren and shell-pocked Pouil- The ridge remains a hotspot about 8,000 yards long and some 620 feet high. It has forts-still in enemy hands-at one end and woods at the other. Enemy guns thus cover its slopes both ways, although both ends also CAMPUS EVENTS Today Kampus Kapers, 7:30. Nov. 16 Oratorical Association lecture by Francis B. Sayre. 8:30 p.m. at Hill Auditorium. Nov. 17 Choral Union Concert; Fritz Kreisler, 8:30 p.m. at Hill Auditorium. Nov. 17 Union Dance. Nov. 18 Guy Lombardo broad- est. 10 m. WXYZ. Will Be This Week Copies of the October issue of the Michiganensian will be distributed