WC eather s Scattered Thundershowers Y t 4 it Editorial 'U' Pension Plan Is Good Mlove .. VOL. LII No. 35-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1942 2:15 A.M. FINAL RAF Strikes At Duesseldorf In Smashing Bombing Raid German Industrial Center Scourged By Two-Ton Explosives; 31 British Planes Lost In Attack Fires Still Burning On Following Day By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 1.-The RAF scourged the Rhineland munitions city of Duesseldorf last night with 150 two-ton block-buster bombs and a great weight of other explosives and incendiaries in, a concentrated 50-minute attack probably without destructive precedent in aerial war- fare. The usually reserved Air Ministry announced the raid was made in very strong force and added that the deluge of destruction was a "cease- less rain" of bombs and fire-setters. Fires Still Burn Smoke billowed up almost four- fifths of a mile from the industrial plants crushed under the weight of the two-tonners and daylight re- connaissance found fires still burn- ing in the city of 350,000 population in mid-day. The number of planes was not specified beyond the mention of a great number of 4-motored Lancas- ter bombers as well as a great force of all other types of heavy and medi- um bombers. But from the announced loss of 31 British planes it can be guessed that there were hundreds partici- pating, perhaps somewhere between 500 and 1,000. Defenders Confused Duesseldorf is heavily defended against air attack, being a Nazi arse- nal of prime importance, but the ground gunners and searchlight crews were confused by the unprece- dented momentum of the bombing, the Air Ministry said. ",Hundreds of searchlightscame on at once and the sky was filled with bursting shell," said the official ac- count. "To overcome such opposition it was necessary that bombs should fall in a ceaseless rain. They did. "Fires sprang up quickly as bombs were dropped and above them were columns of smoke up to4,000 feet." Pelley To Take Stand Monday In own defense 2,200 Students Needed To Fill Reserve Quotas Only 206 University Men Enrolled In Army Corps; DelayedJoining Threatens Congestion In Fall Russians Retreat Into Caucasus As Nazis Threaten To Cut Soviet 'Communications With Stalingrad By ROBERT MANTHO With 206 University men already enlisted in the newly-opened Army Enlisted Reserve Corps on campus, the University yesterday announced that approximately 2200 more must be enlisted to fill the quota set by the government and urged all to enlist at once to avoid trouble in the fall. Enlistments in the Reserve Corps enable students who mect the neces- sary requirements to remain in school until they finish their college training. The quota is made up of 960 first- tCommercial' Charge .denied BY l%-Interlochen year men, 740 second-year men, 450 third-year men and 250 fourth-year men. After this year, only freshmen will be allowed to enlist in the spe- cially-created corps. While announcing that the rate of present enlistments is seven men per day, the University wants to avoid any congestion which might develop when students return to campus for the fall term. Enlistments have no course re- quirements except that under the Board of Regents' ruling all enlisted men will be required to enroll in the University physical hardening pro- gram, compulsory for all male stu- dents attending the University in the fall. Men Are Eligible Applications to the program-head- ed jointly by the University War Board and the ROTC-can be made by all men except those enrolled in the advanced ROTC at Room 1009 Angell Hall. Applicants will be in- terviewed and if accepted will be given application papers. They will also be advised of legal, scholastic and citi- zenship requirements before they are interviewed at the ROTC office and given a physical examination. Freshmen and sophomores who en- list now will be asked to take a quali- fying examination during their sec- ond year, but juniors and seniors are exempt.I If any freshman fails the qualify- ing examination, he will be drafted into active duty in the Army. If any student who is enlisted drops out of school, he will also be drafted. Possible Deferments Students who are concentrating in some special field may not be called by the government. However, the University advised them to ask their local draft boards for an immediate deferment on the basis of vital train- ing for the war effort. If the draft deferment is granted, it would not be necessary to enroll in the special Enlisted Army Reserv a Corps. If the draft deferment is not granted, the University urges imme- diate enlistment in the new program. Although men enlisted in the pro- gram will not be officers after they graduate, they will be allowed to state their preference for a particu- lar branch of the service without Army obligation to place them ac- cording to their wish. However, students will be eligible for officer's training on the same ba- sis as a selectee after they graduate. Russian Film To Be Shown FDR Ma Be Granted Power To Assigvn Work men To jobs Bill Would Be Aimed At Providing Total Mobilization Of All Human Resources Behind War Effort German Onslaught Met By Strong Resistance In All Sectors By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 2 (Sunday).-German troops fanning out into the western Caucasus have reached the Salsk and Kushchevka areas, 75 and 50 miles below the Don River, in a move which threatens to cut Soviet com- munications with Stalingrad in the east, the Soviets acknowledged early today. Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov, apparently was reached by a German drive which crossed the Don in the Nikolaevsk sector. It is a junc- tion on the Stalingrad-Krasnodar railroad. "The enemy pressed our troops back slightly" in the Salsk area, the mid- .i yY 1 5 { JAMES C. PETRILLO * , * INTERLOCHEN, Mich., Aug. 1-W4P) -C. M. Tremaine of New York, treas- urer of theInterlochen National Mu- sic Camp, tonight described as erron- eous the contention of James C. Pet- rillo, president of the American Fed- eration of Musicians (AFL), that the camp "is a commercial proposition." Petrillo said Thursday that weekly concerts of. the National High School Band at Interlochen were banned from the National Broadcasting Company Network at his request be- cause they were "intended to com- mercialize the Interlochen camp." Tremaine said the National Music Camp is a non-profit educational or- ganization incorporated in 1927, that it has no stock and cannot pay divi- dends. He added, in a statement: "Are the state universities, and Harvard and Yale, and other similar institutions which charge fees, to be classed as 'commercial? Do the American people wish to discourage the growth and service of educational institutions outside of the wholly tax-supported high schools?" Tuition of $275 charged each high school student at the camp, Tre- maine said, covers board, room, uni- forms and musical instruction for the eight weeks' season, and does not al- ways cover expenditures, which thus far have been provided by gifts and borrowed money. Who Is To Pay Whom? SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 1. -{ )- An unnamed Adams County farmer wants to know if the government owes him money on his income tax. V. Y. Dallman, collector of inter- nal revenue, reported that the man reported a net income of $2,300-but he has 11 children, entitling him to a deduction of $5,900. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. --(P)-- A proposal soon may go to Congress, a government official said today, to give President Roosevelt authority to assign any one of the nation's 55,- 000,000 to 60,000,000 workers to the job where his skill is most needed. The official, who stipulated that his name not be published at this time, said this power would be aimed at total mobilization of human re- sources behind the war effort, and if approved by Congress would be ad- ministered through Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt. Such job assignments probably would bring about employment re- adjustments for only part of the total number of workers, it was said, because the majority simply would be told to remain at the jobs they now are doing. This power, no doubt, would put an end to "labor pirating"--the prac- tice whereby one plant entices the workers of another by offers of larger pay and opportunities of longer over- time. 'Moreover, the official said, it might give force of law to the gov- New 'Daylight Savtings' Tax PlanStudied Finance Experts Consider System Of Collections To Ease '42 Burden By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-A "day- light savings" plan for the painless advancement of individual income tax collections to a current basis was under serious consideration today by Treasury experts and members of the Senate Finance Committee. Chairman George (Dem.-Ga.) of the latter group said the plan had some "intriguing" aspects which were being analyzed by both Treasury and Congressional leaders. While George would not commit himself, he said the proposal held out some possibility of simplifying the problem of collecting taxes from in- dividuals who would be hard hit by the higher rates of the pending reve- nue bill. (The bill is designed to raise $6,271,000,000 in additional taxes, bringing total Federal reve- nues this year to between $22,000,- 000,000 and $24,000,000,000.) As outlined recently to the com- mittee by Beardsley Rum of R. H. Macy & Co., New York, the plan would involve moving the tax col- lection clock ahead a year so that payments being made in this calen- dar year would be considered as credits against 1942, instead of 1941 taxes. Rumlsaid this was like moving the clock ahead to get everyone to work an hour earlier. The individual would continue to pay his quarterly installments as usual, just as if he were paying on , the income he made in 1941. But legally he would be paying on his 1942 income. If at the end of the year, his 1942 income proved to be smaller than his 1941 revenue, then he would get a rebate. If it proved larger, he would have an additional tax to pay on the differ- ence. ernment's recently announced policy that no war production workers should labor more than 48 hours a week. It was understood that any war service legislation would give consid- eration to the collective bargaining rights of labor. Some manpower officers recently have expressed doubt, privately, that the labor mobilization program could; become fully effective without force of law behind its directives. Army Accepts FirstO Class I LB Draftees Men Deferred For Minor Defects Will Be Called To Non-Military Service By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 1e-The first of an estimated one million men holding a deferred 1-B classification in the draft because of minor physi- cal defects were accepted today for limited military service. Undisclosed quotas to be filled by men with faulty eyesight, teeth and other defects which disqualified them for many combat duties, went out July 3 to local boards, to become ef- fective today, Aug. 1. Those accepted under the relaxed standards will be assigned to duty with corps area service commands and the War Department overhead, it was announced. By calling each month a number of men who are physically capable of performing limited military service, it will be possible to release almost an equal number of fully qualified sol- diers for duty with task forces, the War Department said in announcing the new policy. A directive to local boards from National Selective Service headquar- ters indicated that a laige propor- tion of the August quota would be composed of men with faulty teeth. The relaxed regulations permit the induction of men whose weight and chest measurements are under or over regular standards but are other- wise fit. Those with poor eyes, or even with one eye, may be taken, provided the vision can be corrected with glasses.' night communique said. "In stubborn German officers and men were killed and several dozen tanks destroyed." Kushchevka, northwest of Salsk, is on the Rostov-Baku railway which connects with the Stalingrad-Kras- nodar line at Tikhoretsk. Only on the approaches to Stalin- grad itself did the Russians announce a major success in the desperate at- tempt to stop the Germans. There, in the Kletskaya area some 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, the communique said "Soviet troops withstood enemy pressure and in places counterattacked." Reinforcements Sent The Russians have been, sending huge reinforcements into the Don River elbow to plug the Nazi effort to reach Stalingrad on the Volga. Midway between the western Cau- casus and Stalingrad the Russians said their troops still were trying to erase Nazi bridgeheads on the Don at Tsimlyansk, 120 miles upstream from Rostov. "Heavy fighting continues," the communique said of that sector. "In one attack the enemy lost 800 killed and 11 tanks were destroyed." The drive from Bataisk to Kush- chevka represented a 35-mile Nazi advance. Another Nazi gain of equal distance would put the Germans into Tikhoretsk which also is the appar- ent goal of the Nazis now battering at Salsk. ifighting near a river crossing 1,500 r FICaptures 8'7 Dangerous Enemy AliUens Germans, Italians, Japs Seized In Metropolitan' Area; One Has Maps; By The Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug. 1.--The Federal Bureau of Investigation today an- nounced the seizure of 87 "danger- ous" enemy aliens, including a Japa- nese who had maps of Pacific air and sea distances and navigation charts of the Aleutian Islands. In contrast to previous arrests here, P E. Foxworth, assistant direc- tor of the FBI, used the word "dan- gerous" in describing the aliens. The group, composed of 66 Germans, 15 Italians and six Japanese, was nab- bed in raids yesterday in the metro- politan area.. Taken To Ellis Island All were taken to Ellis Island for internment hearings., FBI agents quoted the Jap who had the maps as saying : "I want to see Japan win the war. I would not fight against the Japa- ense under any circumstances. My emperor, Hirohito, is a good man. He is my ruler and I must obey him." SFoxworth said that this man was a leader of Hokoku-Dan, which the FBI officials described as a fascist- type Japanese imperial service group. 'Enter Country Illegally Three of the Japanese and seven of the Germans entered this country illegally and all 87 had filed formal declarations of refusal to service in the,,United States armed forces, the FBI reported. Fifteen of the Ger- mans had registered with the Ger- man consulate for military service in the Nazi army. Foxworth declared that one of the Germans was a caretaker at a Ger- man-American Bund camp. Join Red Army Cossacks and Soviet marines joined the Red Army in the effort to stop the German flow southward from the Don. But the Nazi advance' raised the imminent possibility of an addi-1 tional German broadside directed from the Crimean Peninsula just a few miles off the Caucasus mainland. Press dispatches said a heaving mass of men, tanks, dive-bombers, artillery and Russian cavalry was fighting on the fertile west Cauca- sian plains. There were frequent hand-to-hand tilts. The 550-mile curving Russian southern front now runs from the Kushchevka area through Salsk and other points on the north Caucasian rail system to the east, leaps the Don somewhere beyond Tsimlyansk, and then zig-zags along the upper Don. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1. -(A')- Counsel for William Dudley Pelley, dapper 52-year-old former Silver Shirt leader, said today he would tes- tify Monday in his own defense in his sedition trial before a federal court jury. Defense attorneys made the an-t nouncement after a conference withf Pelley, adding that he might be the first witness for himself. The gov- ernment completed its case yesterday and the trial was recessed until next week. Pelley's attorneys said also that they had acceded to a request of Maj.-Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, retired, that he be excused as a wit- ness. The defense agreed, too, not to in- sist on attendance of Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Re- serve board, and subpenaed, instead, Virgil Jordan, chairman of the Na- tional Industrial Board, a statistical organization, with the requestthat he bring with him data as to the fi- nancial condition of the United States government. 71 Tankers, Cargo, Ships Built In July WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-()- America's shipyards completed 71 cargo ships and tankers of 790,300 deadweight tons in July, setting a world record for steel ship construc- tion for the third consecutive month. In announcing this today, the Maritime Commission made no ref- erence as to how the output com- pared with shipping losses. In June, the previous record, United States. shipyards turned out 67 merchant- men of 748,154 deadweight tons. Maxim Gorky Is Of Art Cinema Subject Movie One of the most powerful Russian movies ever filmed, "The Childhood of Maxim Gorky," will be presented by the Art Cinema League at 7 and 9 p.m. today at the Rackham Lec- ture Hall. Gorky, who was a famous novelist. was one of the first great writers who wrote about the poor and down- trodden in the world. Because of his books in sympathy with the working classes, Gorky was at one time expelled by the Russian czarist government but was recalled after the revolution in 1919. Gorky's childhood and how it af- fected his later writings and life are carefully portrayed in this movie. Accompanying the film on the bill will be assorted short subjects in- cluding a color cartoon. i i i f t i -Clip Here And Mail To A U.-M. Man In The Armed Forces------ -------- SERVICE EDITION Ir iwArligttran Dad N VOL. 1, No. 6 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN AUGUST 2, 1942 Shaw's Comedy, 'Misalliance' Opens 4-Day Run Wednesday By BERYL SHOENFIELD The Shavian principles of love, marriage and duty of parents toward children are electrically set forth in George Bernard Shaw's comedy, "Misalliance," which will open at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on the Mendels- sohn stage, as sixth production of the Michigan Repertory Players. Shaw, author of the successful plays "Man and Superman," "Pyg- malion," "Candida," "Major Barb- ara," and "St. Joan," calls his "Mis- alliance" a "debate in one sitting," as it presents the parental attitude concerning up-bringing of "willful vuth." noc+ no flin nnrlarimpnr mnmilfsr.- cast as the unuaearim uiu turer is Richard Stewart, who made his first Repertory appearance in "The Rivals." Josephine Harrald plays Mrs. Tarleton, while Margaret Breed enacts the headstrong Patsy. Portraying the aviator is Frank Pic- ard, Tarleton's guests will include Wal- lace Rosenbaum as Bentley Sum- merhays; Margaret Muse as Mlle. Szczepanowska; Daniel Mullin as Lord Summerhays; Jacob Ulanoff as Julius Baker, and Thomas Buck- man as Johnny. Charles H. Meredith, guest direc- .t -.-.-. Hal McIntyre Coming ...' Hal McIntyre, recently voted by college editors as the nation's top-flight and up-and-coming band, has been signed to play for the U. of M. summer prom to be held in the Sports Building August 21 . .. a good share of the proceeds will go to war relief groups. Gloster Current, of the National Association for the Advancement of Col- ored People, told an Inter- Racial Association meeting Wednesday that only by doing away with racial in- equality in the United States can we convince our allies-many of whom are not members of the white race-that we really are fighting to establish the ideal of democracy. Professional Plunderer .. . Edmund Green, 1890 Up- land Drive, parked his car near the campus and re- turned a few minutes later to find it ransacked with ment and as a financial project. Dr. Townsley, who died last week directing a' physical hardening course, was a pationally-known expert in the field. He left a widow and three children and all proceeds from the program went to them. Two ball games were on Coach Ray Fisher's sched- ule this week and the boys came through in fine style on both occasions. They beat the State Street All- Stars under the tutelage of Russ O'Brien-who left Thursday for the Army- 10-2, as the All-Stars threw run after run to the varsity. Bob Ingalls in cen- terfield looked like Dick Wakefield having an off- day as he misjudged two very easy flies. The other was a return affair with Inkster and some fine pitching com- bined with timely hitting evened the series as Dick Bodycombe paced the Wol- verines to a 5-2 decision. medical aid this week through the sale of "The Russian Glory," a maga- zine portraying the Soviet war effort ... A WPB ap- proval for constr;uction of 4,500 family units in the Willow Run area will mean some new homes for Ann Arbor. Trailer Camp Trouble... University students liv- ing in a trailer camp just east of Ann Arbor com- plained this week when the camp's owner, J. H. Kraft, announced a 50- per cent rent increase . . and on Saturday Circuit Judge George W. Sample authorized a temporary in- junction against Kraft re- straining him from raising the rent without OPA ap- proval. Ray Hutzel, Walter W. Springer and Mrs. Ida May Waterman will receive the concerted support of the Ann Arbor Citizen's School Committee in the oncom- inr school board elections I School Of Musi c Sponsors Faculty Concert Tuesday Continuing their summer series of faculty concerts, the School of Music wil sponsor a program by Thelma Lewis, soprano, Frieda Op't Holt, or - ganist, John Kollen, pianist, and Mary Fishburne. accompanist, at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, in Hill nAuditorium. The presentation will include "Ich DR. E. R. TOWNSLEY * * * A slow week for Michi- gan sports fans produced one thrill seldom matched in bigtime athletics ... Be- fore 5,000 cheering fans an enthusiastic band of 4--. n. -more r. n +