i I Weather Cooler it 4 71.atttl Editorial Capitol Red Tape Slows War Effort . VOL. LIl No. 33-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1942 2:15 A.M. FINAL Nazi Troops Batter Closer To Stalingrad Kaiser Awaits Roosevelt Nod To Build Huge Cargo 'Airships Shipbuilder Promises First Ship Will Be Turned Out Ten Months After Plans Have Been'Given To Him Martin Is Confident Of Quick Production By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 30.-Henry J. Kaiser solemnly assured" two Sen- ate committees today that a signal from President Roosevelt would translate his vision of a fleet of giant cargo planes into a construction pro- gram such as only American ingenu- ity could initiate. ' Given ' the green light" and a steady flow of materials, the Oak- land, Calif., shipbuilder told a Mili- tary Affairs subcommittee he could turn out the first of such ships "within ten months after receiving plans." Not only could his shipyards be converted in part to the production of planes to speed up war deliveries, NEW YORK, July 30. -(/P)- Glenn L. Martin, airplafe manu- facturei-, declared tonight that giant air transports, each capable of carrying 150 fully-equipped sol- diers anywhere on earth within five days, could be turned out at any rate required if materials were made available. Speaking On a March of Time broadcast over NBC network from his Middleriver, Md., plant, Martin described his newly-completed 70- ton flying boat Mars as capable of carrying 20 tons of war cargo and flying non-stop to Europe and back, or from Newfoundland to H1awaii. "This is a 300-mile-an-hour. war," Martin declared. "A fleet of 300 flying vessels could put 45,- 000 men in Europe in three days. And we can build those 300 flying vessels - with only one-tenth the structural materials required for 25 Liberty ships." Huge RAFAir Offensive Rips Entire French Coast 13 British Fighting Planes Are Dropped As Heavy Attacks Blast Wide Area By DREW MIDDLETON Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, July 30.-British fighter offensives, timed to keep up an al- most cfntinual racket of bomb blasts and guhfire, swept the French coast, from near the Belgian border on the east to near the tip of Brittany on the west early tonight following an- other RAF heavy bomber blow, this timeagainst Saarbruecken in the Reich. Thirteen British pla'nes were lost in the series of dusk offensives in which Spitfires scored direct hits on hangars and dispersal huts on an' airdrome in the St. Omer area, set fire to a tanker off the coast and damaged a motor vessel. Seven of Germany's speedy, high- climbing new Focke-Wulf 190 fighter planes were shot down. A waning "bombers' moon" lighted the way to strong bomber forces which swept over the thickly built coal and steel center of Saarbruecken Wednesday night when great fires and blasts visible 75 miles away were set off. This continued hammering by strong forces of bombers against the centers of German industry of which the attack against Saarbruecken was the seventh in 10 nights, it was dis- closed meanwhile by informed air sources, is only one of the ways in I urhit hLLth 04~iVY 0.4 .r, hUin.&16V,~rrL~ to Kaiser declared, but the conversion would not interfere with his ship-+ building contracts, and Bethlehem and United States Steel Corporation and other shipbuilders would do like- wise if President Roosevelt asked. In an appearance before the Sen- ate Defense Investigating Committee he agreed with Chairman Truman (Dem.-Mo.): "The job can be done if there's a will to do it." He insisted the two bottlenecks of engines and steel could be broken. "If the automotive industry of America, which supplied 85 per cent of the world's motor cars, can't pro- duce enough engines," he said, "it is indeed sad." Kaiser wanted to answer particu- larly the suggestion he said Ricken- backer made yesterday °"that (1) perhaps I could not build the cargo planes and (2) "that perhaps they could not be built in shipyards." Rickenbackerhad said that a much finer precision was required in plane construction than in shipbuilding. Kaiser asked if Rickenbacker knew that several shipyards were manu- facturing destroyers, which he de- scribed as "an intricate bit of equip- ment, in which every piece 'of metal has to be weighed." US. Calls Silver I Shirts To Testify Against W. Pelle y INDIANAPOLIS, July 30. -(P)- The government called a procession of former members of the Silver Shirts of America to the * witness chair today and offered voluminous documentary evidence in building its case against William Dudley Pelley, founder of the organization, who is on trial on sedition charges. The Pelley defense meanwhile ob- tained Judge Robert C. Balzell's ap- Hopkins Weds Mrs. L. Macy In Washington By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 30. - Harry Hopkins, Presidential aide, and Mrs. Louise Gill Macy, New York fashion writer, stood before the marble fire- place in President Roosevelt's oval study in the White House and took their marriage vows today. It was probably the first wedding in this historic room and it was the first White House marriage since 1918. It started out. to be a quiet wed- ding with just members of the bride and groom's immediate families pres- ent, together with the President and Myrs. Roosevelt, but the list grew as Hopkins remembered friends with whom he has been associated. As a result there were 13 members of the two families and Judge Sam- uel I. Rosenman of the New York Supreme Court; Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander of the U.S. Fleet; Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, Robert Sherwood, play- wright, and 23 members of the White House staff. Second Front 'Is In Offing' Britain Gives New Hint Of Coast Invasion r .-..r~rw~r -1- n ,Idl MkY* l rnv Germany. Sweeps by British four- and two- motored bombers into the Bay of Biscay where they look for Nazi U-boat packs traveling to their North Atlantic hunting grounds have be- come so strong, these sources said, that the Germans have been com- pelled to convoy their submarines with Condor flying boats. Privately Built Housing Units Are Approved Permission Is-Withheld For Government Project In Willow Run Sector WASHlINGTON, July 30-(OP)-A WPB committee has approved con- struction of 4,500 privately con- structed family units in the Detroit area but has withheld approval of Federal housing units at the Willow Run Bomber Plant, letters made pub- lic by the Senate National Defense Investigating Committee disclosed today. The privately constructed units will be on improved Lots at Wayne, Inkster, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. The committee recommended con- struction of a water main from Dear- born to Wayne, construction of 500 public family dwelling units for Ne- groes in the southeastern corner of Inkster and construction of two pub- lic housing developments of 500- and 900-family dwelling units in Wayne at sites north of the River Rouge. Senator Harry S. Truman (Dem.- Mo.) made public letters from Maury Maverick, chairman of the WPB's Willow Run committee, and John B. Blandford, Jr., National Housing Administrator, showing that the lat- ter had submitted plans for public housing construction consisting of 4,500 family dwelling units and for 4,500 family dwelling units to be constructed privately. Women's Navy Corps Formed WASHINGTON, July 30. --R)- The Navy laid plans to enlist saildr- ettes tonight after President Roose- velt signed into law a measure creat- ing a feminine Naval Auxiliary of about 11,000 members. . Formation of the corps-a coun- terpart of the Women's Army Auxil- iary Corps already in training-is de- signed ultimately to release for sea duty thousands of officers andt en- listed men now holding desk jobs. The Navy said the corps would be made up of 1,000 commissioned of- ficers and about 10,000 enlisted wo- men. Congress stipulated in the leg- islation that the sailorettes could not serve outside the continental United States. Moscow RUSSIA STATUTE MLES OREL KURSK VORONEZH [BELGOROD POVORINO BOGUCHAR [K-ARKOV Do MILLEROVO tf RSTALINGRAD VORO SH I LOVGRAD TAGANROG To Caucasus ROSTOV And Oil Fields .. The heavy German drive for the entire Don-Caucasus area is cen- tered now on Stalingrad in the direction of the swastika-labeled arrow. The main point of action is the sharp elbow of the Don River, only 70 miles from Stalingrad. To the south, the industrial city of Rostov-on- the-Don is in Nazi hands. At Voronezh the Red Army is holding the enemy on the west side of the Don. Royall Still Talking: Supre-me Court -Weighs Nazi Saboteurs 'Appeal' By RICHARD IL. TURNER Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 30.-The Supreme Court pondered the appeal of the alleged Nazi saboteurs for the protection of the civil courts to- night, with indications that it would announce its decision to issue or withhold a writ of habeas corpus at noon tomorrow. Late today, it completed the hearing of oral arguments, with Attor- ney General Biddle telling the court, in terms of utmost emphasis, that it was without power to interfere with or review any wartime action taken by the President in his capacity as Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces. The President, he argued, had full authority to order that the Ger- man prisoners be tried by a military commission. As enemies, he said, they were without right to the safeguards established for the civil liber- ties of loyal citizens. This view was flatly denied by Colonel Kenneth Royall, one of sev- eral Army lawyers appointed to serve as counsel for the defense. Citi- zens, aliens and enemies alike, he argued, have the privilege of recourse to the courts. Most of the court's day was spent in hearing Biddle complete the case for the government and receiving rebuttal arguments from Royall. The latter, in easy-going but positive fashion, complained that an insuf- ficient portion of the evidence taken by the military commission had been placed before the court. Actually, he said, the evidence tended to substantiate the conten- tion of the men that they were not saboteurs, but agreed to come to this country in that role, purely as a method of escaping from Nazi oppres- sion. One of them, he added, had received "terrible" mistreatment in Germany. , After adjourning today until noon tomorrow, the members of the high bench went immediately into conference, and the presumption about the court building was that they entered at pnce into the process of reaching their 'decisions.- They had two questions to decide: First, whether constitutionally they have jurisdiction over the President's wartime actions and the activities of a military court. Second, if they have jurisdiction, are they iustified in issuing the writ of habeas corpus requested by the prisoners? Backs To Soviets Fight On By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW, July 31 (Friday).-Inspired by the call of Joseph Stalin to obey the examples of some of the great heroes of the most desperate hours of Russia's history, the Red Army hurled the Germans back in their thrust at Stalingrad Thursday and waged a battle to annihilate those of the enemy who crossed the lSon south of Tsimlyansk, the Russians announced today. At Voronezh, on the German North Don flank, too, the Germans gave up new positions in the course of bitter fighting, but south of Rostov it was admitted that the weight of German arms again had been too much and that a further retirement had been forced to southeast of Bataisk. Bataisk, 15 miles below Rostov, had been given as the scene of previ- -- ous fighting in that sector. Many German tanks and infantry Hal i Cr ntyre 'regiments, driving with all their power acrosS the barren steppes of To Pla Here the Don bend in an effort' to reach the river and drive upon the Volga city of Stalingrad, were beaten back For i Da ce near Kletskaya, 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, it was said. "Southwest of Kltskaya our troops Summer Prom Is Slated repelled enemy attacks and in some sectors pressed the enemy back," thie For Friday, Aug. , communique declared. In Intramural Building Several hundred Germans were annihilated, nine tanks destroyed Summer, Prom, the campus' only and 14 planes shot down, it added. big dance of the summer session, Radio Description will bring to Ann Arbor Hal McIn- Frofit-line dispatches broadcast on tyre and his orchestra for . dancing the Moscow Radio gave a more in the Sports Building from 9 p.m. graphic description of a seething to midnight, Friday, August 21. two-day battle. Voted the nation's top-flight up- "Day and night the shelling never and-coming band, Hal McIntyre will dies down," it said. In the past two bring his band here from a week's days the fighting has been the heav- engagement at Eastwood Symphony iest where the Don makes its great Gardens in Detroit. bend. In this key sector the enemy The McIntyre band played five is going all out to smash through to months at the Glen Island Casino the, river. The enemy is making a at New Rochelle, N. Y., starting in furious drive for full mastery of the December of last year and broadcast right bank of the Don at any cost. frequently over a nation-wide net- "The'battle is raging over an area work. Under contract to Victor extending everal dozen miles along Records, McIntyre has recbrded such etefront and in depth and with hits as "We'll Meet Again," "Story thernt and Inotro dephadw of a Starry Night" and "I Threw a every the sky the ight g never Kiss In the Ocean."" McIntyre is an alumnus of Glenn ceases. Miller's old band, in which he played Tsimlyansk Area Active alto sax for several years. He formed In the Tsimlyansk area, mid-way his own crew about eight months between Rostov and Stalingrad, ago and, after a bare three weeks of where for days the Germans have breaking in around New England, been expanding their bridgeheads landed the engagement at Glen Is- across the Don, the Red Army too land reacted as if in response to new offi- McIntyre's band, according to the cial pronouncements that the time billboard, can play the most right- has come to end the withdrawals be- Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 fore the overpowering invaders. The Communist Party newspaper Pravda in an unusual editorial said Fordstoday: "One'must understand that retreat is impossible." In the Tsimlyansk area, the Soviet 79th Birthday Information Bureau said simply, "our troops continue to fight with the ob- ject of annihilating the enemy group Planes Will Carry Freight which had crossed the river." But it added that the Germans After War, He Says were attempting to break through to the south and were throwing in new By The Associated Press tank and infantry forces. UI "r'k (UrM , oIy 03. -rhtuL-.r- . Wall, LONDON, July 30.-(A)-ie gov- ernment gave out a new hint today that a continental invasion is in the offing, boosting Allied hopes of es- tablishing a second front, but stead- fastly declined to disclose any de- tails of what is planned beyond stat- ing that it has certain military "in- tentions." For the second time in a week, Sir Stafford Cripps, the government spokesman in the House of Com- mons, parried pointed questions from members of Parliament with the sug- gestion that action would be forth- coming. He gave no intimation as to when it might be expected. "Whatever the military intentions of the government may be," he said, "we would be unable to state them in secret session, but I can tell you now we have intentions.",# He affirmed that Prime Minister Winston Churchill would make no further war statement before the House recesses and said that Com- mons will have no secret session. ; 'Spirit Of Old Time West' Will Bring Victory, Declares Prof. E. H. Hale DTT , ul .-rreight-car- rying airplanes will go far toward solying the world's distribution sys- tem after the war, but the "family airplane" to replace the family car still is somewhat remote, Henry Ford said today. It was Ford's 79th birthday anni- versary and, viewing the first car he built half a centurydago, along with the somewhat crude equipment he had at that time, he remarked that he guessed he "must be getting on in years." "Perhaps out of this war we may learn to think," he went on; "and if, you cause people to think ultimately they will think right-after they have made a lot of mistakes. That's education and it is only through edu- cation that we can have happiness and prosperity." Ford called women in industry "just as good as men and in many instances possessing a little better brain capacity." He said he had, no apprehension that the war 'indus- tries and their high wages for women would have an upsetting ef- fect upon normal domestic concepts in the post-war era.. Hitchcock; Film To Be Shown Two classic cinema productions will be presented by the Art Cinema By ROBERT PREISKEL "It is the flaming spirit of the old- time West, yielding hope, confidence and courage, which will see us through the next dark years and which will carry us through to vic- tory," Prof. E. H. Hale of the Uni- versity of Oklahoma told a Univer- sity lecture audience yesterday. "The old-time West is 'gone, and gone forever, but in its spirit, its optimism and its energy lies our hope in the present emergency. "To me this frontier spirit consti- tutes at once a danger and a hope. A danger that we may seek to apply out-grown principles to modern Axis Bombers Shatter Cairo 'In Dawn Raid channels or it will find channels for itself that are often far from proper. "One impdrtant feature of this spirit of the West is a lack of respect for law merely because it is the law, manifesting itself in crime, broken speed limits and game laws. Children should be taught a more wholesome respect for law and for those who enforce the law. Prof. Hale pointed out that the West lacks taste in music, art and literature. If this is doubted, tune in the radio, visit the newsstands to see what magazines are sold, and observe the lack of interest in art galleries, he said. "Certainlyathe school should seek to create a, more discriminating taste in the arts among its pupils. I even venture to raise the question as to whether our schools may not have gone too far in stressing the purely material or utilitarian aspects of education to the neglect of its cultural aspects which make for a fuller and more abundant life. Prof. Hale said an effort should be made to show that in an age of By The Associated Press CAIRO, July 30,- Axis air raiders dropped bombs on Cairo proper in. the pre-dawn moonlight today' in defiance of a long-standing threat by Prime Minister Churchill that the RAF would reply to any such attack with raids on Rome. Churchill made his threat to re- taliate with bombs on the Italian capital in 1941, before the fall of reece, declaring Rome would be a prime target if either Athens or Cairo was bombed. Although Athens could have been attacked easily from the air before the German ground troops reached there, the ancient -Greek capital never felt the thud of a bomb. The moonlit attacks on Cairo and widespread Allied airdromes in the Nile Delta area were made by small flights of Axis bombers apparently seeking to cripple the sources of Al- lied bombings on Marshal Erwin Rommel's sea and land communica- tions. Sirens screamed the alarm in Cai- ro, the Suez Canal Zone and in other scattered areas far behind the stale- Ten Burned In Cargo To Death Plane Crash - - 1 1-1- 13-1-% IiO-Nfl 'n.