Weather Little Change PP- (!I r Bk'r~ a 4:3att Editorial Prof. Goddard-Example For The Community,.. VOL. LII No. 45-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1942 2:15 A.M. FiNAL Nazis Launch Full Offensive On Stalingrad Fortifications Germans Begin Attacks On Fronts Before Volga City; Hurl Infantrymen, Tanks at Important Goal Heavy Losses Mark New Axis Assaults By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 16 (SUNDAY).- Apparently launching a full offensive against Stalingrad after securing strongholds in the north Caucasus, the Germans hurled masses of infan- trymen, tanks and planes today against Russian positions on the Kletskaya and Kotelnikovski fronts before the important Volga city. Russian reports early today said the Germans had opened up a series of attacks with no regard for losses, with German bodies littering the ground along a railroad east of Ko- telnikovski, where the Germans struck after regrouping their forces. Germans Stalled The Germans have been stalled on the Kletskaya and Kotelnikovski fronts for weeks while they won posi- tions in the Don bend and beat their way deep into the Caucasus. Now they appear to be putting on the pressure again, with most of the north Caucasus in their hands. Coincident with the threat to Sta- lingretd was a drive aimed at Astrak- han from the Kotelnikovski area. The Russian midnight communi- que said that the Germans lost heav- ily in attempts to recapture lost po- sitions northeast of Kotelnikovski, while the Moscow radio broadcast that the regrouped Nazis fighting east of the city were trying to drive to the northeast toward Stalingrad. Kotelnikovski is 95 miles southwest of Stalingrad. Pincer Movement On the northern arm of this huge pincer movement against the city named for Joseph Stalin, the Ger- mans apparently were trying to de- velop and enlarge their break through to the Don River southeast of Kletskaya, which is 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad. "Southeast of Kletskaya the Ger- mans launched several fierce attacks and sustained heavy losses," the mid- night communique reported. (The Russian accounts did not make clear how the battles in the two critical areas facing Stalingrad were going.) The Germans also attacked in the Voronezh area at the top of the long southern front and slightly pressed back the Soviets, the communique declared. However, the Russians beat the Axis forces back and killed 400 Germans. RAF Pilots Destroy Ten Nazi Planes By The Associated Press CAIRO, Aug. 15.-American fight- er pilots are flying as wing-mates of the RAF in a new outburst of aerial activity over the desert and overseas supply lines, it ,was disclosed today along with the conservative British report that the RAF had downed at least 10 of the Axis planes attacking the Malta convoy during the week. In operations other than the con- voy battle, long-range RAF fighter planes sent two big Junkers-52 trans- port planes flaming into the sea and fighters escorting ground-strafing bombers downed a Messerschmitt 109. The transports loaded with Axis specialists speeding to the African front were of the type caught flying low over the Mediterranean on pre- vious RAF forays over the contested Axis sea-air lanes. The American fighters got into the battle for the Middle East a month after the first announcement from the headquarters of Maj.-Gen. Lewis H. Brereton that U. S. bombers had been carrying out missions with the RAF for some time prior to that. Army Bomber Crash ~ A - i l li Nazis Shoot Prominent Dutchmen In Reprisal Five Killed For Countrymen's Failure To Saboteurs To German Occupation Fo Deliver rces P-- By NOLAND NORAGARD Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 15.-Five promin- ent Dutchmen were stood before a stone wall and shot dead today in Nazi reprisal for the failure or re- fusal of their countrymen to deliver to the occupation forces the sabo- teurs who wrecked a German troop train Aug. 7, and the lives of many more hostages were declared forfeit. The executions were reported here by the Netherlands government-in- Prof. Goddard Funeral Rites Will Be Held Services For Law School Faculty Member Set For 3 PM. Tomorrow Funeral services for Prof.-Emeri- tus Edwin C. Goddard, who died Fri- day night in University Hospital, will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the residence, 1212 Hill St. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Professor Goddard, who would have been 77 Aug. 20, was a full pro- fessor of law from 1903 until his retirement in 1935. He was secretary of the law faculty from 1901 to 1917, and in 1917-18 he served as chairman of the administrative committee of the Law School. He is also the au- thor of a number of books on law. Very Active Very active in community affairs as well as those of the Law School, Professor Goddard was one of the original founders of the Community Fund and president of the city park board, doing much to further the de- velopment of parks and playgrounds in Ann Arbor. He was also a member of the Congregational Church and was prominent in the formation of the Emeritus Club of the University Alumni Association. Professor Goddard was well-known for his active interest in the Univer- sity students, helping a numberof them through school by giving them free room and board. Born in 1865 in Wennebago, Ill., Professor Goddard attended the Winnebago public schools. He re- ceived his secondary education in Ann Arbor High School, and then en- tered the University here. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he graduated in 1889, receiving the degree of bache- lor of philosophy. After Graduation After graduation from the Univer- sity, Professor Goddard served as a mathematics teacher and then as principal of the Saginaw High School until 1895. In that year he returned to the University as mathe- matics instructor. While teaching mathematics, he pursued a law course, and received the bachelor of laws degree in 1899. In 1900 he was made associate professor of law, and in 1903 full professor. Professor Goddard is survived by a brother, Henry A. Goddard, of Kal- amazoo; a foster- daughter, Mrs. Tracy Cockrell, of Cleveland, O., and a sister-in-law, Katherine Rose- warne. His wife, the former Lillian Rosewarne, of Decatur, died in 1937. Pallbearers will be six of his Law School associates. They are Dean Edmond B. Stason, Dean-Emeritus Henry M. Bates ,Prof. Edson R. Sun- derland, Prof. Paul A. Leidy, Prof. Grover C. Grismore and Prof. K. L. James. exile on the basis of an announce- ment by Gen. Friedrich Christiansen of the occupation forces, who said: "The perpetrators of the high ex- plosive attempt in Rotterdam have been too cowardly to give themselves up." The Germans previously had said the lives of ,600 hostages would be forfeit if the saboteurs were not given up. List Of Executed Those executed were William Ruts, director general of Rotterdam; the Count of Limburg Stirum, of Arn- hem; a Mr. Waalde, an attorney of Rotterdam; Christopher Bennekers, former police inspector of Rotter- dam; and Alexander Baron Schim- melpenninck van der Roye, former president of the Netherlands Olym- pic Committee. One hour after the executions, Premier Pieter S. Gerbrandy of the Netherlands Government - In - Exile, made a broadcast to the Dutch peo- ple, telling them this Nazi act would remain "a stain on the honor of the German people." He said the time would come when the Netherlands Government would bring to justice those who committed these crimes against innocent hos- tages. 'Aim And Duty' Trial of those guilty of these exe-. cutions will be "an aim and duty of the Netherlands Government," he said. "This trial will be public, speedy and just." Headeclared pointedly, "Further explanation will reach you through the intermediary of the RAF, with which our men cooperate." Sabotage that is rampant in Ger- man-occupied countries, said Ger- brandy, is proof that the Germans are incapable of governing conquered territories. British Blast German-Held Rhodes Bases By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 15.-British war- ships bombarded a main springboard threat to Cyprus, Syria and the Middle East on the Italian islands of Rhodes with a surprise shelling last Thursday while the Axis was preoccupied with attacks on a great Malta-bound convoy, it was disclosed today. The British squadron, under the flag of Rear Admiral Philip L. Vian, a young naval hero who often has challenged the Axis and won against great odds, delivered a precise 12- minute attack on Axis preparations for enlarged operations in the Middle East. Then Vian's forces raced away un- scathed, leaving fires raging among the harbor and shore targets. The Italian defenders of the larg- est of the Dodecanese group were taken completely by surprise. It was several minutes before their shore batteries replied to the British salvos. Then, reports from the warships said, the Italian fire was faulty. All their shells missed their racing tar- gets and only two salvos gave the British a nearby splash in the sea. Informed British sources said the dawn attack had the dual purpose of diverting the Luftwaffe from at- tacks on Malta and the convoy and of breaking up any Axis preparations to use Rhodes as a base of attack. Committee Seeks New TaxingPlan Treasury Requests Likely To Be Rejected; Three Proposals Thrown Out George Advocates Post-War Rebates By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The Senate Finance Committee appeared likely today to reject certain Treas- ury recommendations and to turn to new fields of taxation in an effort to boost federal revenues beyond the $6,271,000,000 increase already voted by the House. Although Secretary of the Treas- ury Morgenthau has requested that the $6,271,000,000 figure be raised to $8,700,000,000, the committee already has voted not to consider three of the Secretary's recommendations which would have brought in an estimated $707,000,000 more money. Three Proposals The three proposals thrown out were for the establishment of man- datory joint returns for married cou- ples, revision of income return re- quirements in community property states, and taxation of the interest on outstanding state and municipal bonds. The Treasury itself has asked the committee to junk a five per cent tax voted by the House on freight and express shipments, contending that such a levy might puncture price ceilings. As experts laid the groundwork for the committee's detailed considera- tion of the measure next week, strong sentiment appeared to be developing among members against any increase over the House figures on individual and corporation income taxes. 'Stiff' Rates Chairman George (D-Ga.) told re- porters the combined rate of 45 per cent for normal and surtax levies on corporations, plus a 90 per cent levy on excess profits, was so stiff that it appeared necessary to provide for a post-war rebate of some portion of the amount paid in. While he said there had not been as many complaints about the indi- vidual rates, which range from 19 per cent for combined normal and surtax levies in the lowest brackets to 88 per cent in the highest, he re- marked that these were "pretty steep." In this connection he said the commttee would study the establish- ment of limited tax credits for debt payments of various kinds. A recommendation for a $1,100,- 000,000 additional yield from these taxes, over and above the'$5,513,000,- 000 increase already voted by the House, formed the backbone of the Treasury's proposals to the Senate committee. H ih-Ranhing Indiani Leader Will Intervene By The Associated Press BOMBAY, Aug. 15.-Evidence was developing tonight that the deadlock between the British government and Indian nationalists might soon be broken through the intervention of at least one and possibly another prominent Indian. As reports circulated that the Brit- ish might apply. severe penalties, in- cluding death andcollective fines, to halt rioting and destruction by fol- lowers of Mohandas K. Gandhi, word came from the city of Trichinopoly that Chakravati Rajagopalachari, one time prominent All-India Congress figure, was going to New Delhi next week probably on political business. At the same time it was reported from Allahabad that Sir Tej Bahadar Sapru, India's most prominent law- yer and sometime negotiator between the government and Gandhi, also was heading for New Delhi and would visit Lord Linlithgow, the Vi- ceroy. Moreover, the working committee of the Moslem League meets in Bom- bay tomorrow to formulate a new policy to meet the situation arising from Gandhi's sponsoring of a non- violent independent drive. Hail To Lecture Important Coastal Bases In Solomon Island Group Reported SeizedB U. S. -BULLETIN- MITCHELL FIELD. N. Y., Aug. 15.-(P)-A large Army plane, bound from Camp Pope, Ga., to Camp Edwards, Mass., crashed tonight at Peru, Mass., it was re- ported at Mitchell Field. It could not be determined immediately how many persons were aboard but state police reported at least four men in the crash were alive. B. H. Sa jet Will *11Lecture HereToday A first hand account of life in Holland since the German invasion will be given by Dr. B. H. Sajet, for- mer member of the Municipal Coun- cil of Amsterdam, at 4 p.m. today in the Rackham Lecture Hall. Forced to leave Holland after the capitulation because of his active in- terest in social affairs and his mem- bership in the Dutch Social Demo- cratic Party, Dr. Saet escaped to England in a small rowboat. Dr. Sajet, at the time of the Ger- man invasion of The Netherlands, had a well-established medical prac- tice in Amsterdam. He also took an active interestin problems of public administration and had become a prominent member of the Dutch So- cial Democratic party, serving on the Amsterdam municipal council. Dr. Sajet offered his services as ship's doctor to The Netherlands shipping committee in Londonmand came to New York on assignment aboard a Dutch ship. There he spoke a few times on the Dutch situation, leading to his transfer to The Neth- erlands Information Bureau as a lec- turer. For the last five months he has been speaking in Canada and the United States. Novel Play Has No Male Parts Secondary School Theatre Show To Be Wednesday Featuring an all-woman cast, "Time for Romance," produced by the Secondary School Theatre of the Department of Speech, will be pre- sented at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. This three-act comedy by Alice Gersten- berg is one of the few plays available that does away completely with male characters. The action of the play centers around the interior decorating estab- lishment of Cynthia Clyde, played by Peggy Richards, who is trying to decide whether to marry or to con- tinue with her career. Her secretary, Betz, is played by Dorothy N. Wine- land, and the head saleslady, Azalea, is played by Lillian Moeller. Marks Triumphant conclusion To First Phase Of Pacific Battle; Japs Thought Dislodged From Strongholds On Shore By C. YATES McDANIEL Associated Press Correspondent GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 15.-- Fighting Leathernecks of the United States Marines were believed tonight to have captured important coastal bases in the Solomon Islands in trium- phant conclusion of the first phase of that great battle still raging in the Southwest Pacific. The failure of Japanese quarters to make any but a negative reference to their land forces, coupled with a Washington announcement that the Marines are consolidating shore positions in the Tulagi area, led qualified observers here to the belief that the Nipponese had been dislodged from the bases. The Japanese-controlled radio stations failed to refer to ground forces on the southeastern Solomon Islands yesterday but an intercepted Domei report from Batavia, Occupied Java, admitted today that a "small enemy force was left on one Solomon Island." (Japanese in recent days have become curiously quiet on the Solomons battle but a report from Tokyo reaching London by a German broad- * 1ast ALulard dr fiarowaf i~ 1iner a+ 'U' Enrollment For Fall Term Set At_10,500 Estimates Of War Board Show 7 Per Cent Drop For Winter Semester Estimated at 10,500 students by the University War Board, University en- rollment for the fall term will show a decrease of seven per cent from the enrollment for the fall term, 1941. The contrast between this estimate and nation-wide predictions that 1942 college enrollments will show a large decrease is accounted for by the need of Army, Navy and Marine Corps services for professionally and technicallyttrained men and women, according to the War Board. President Alexander G. Ruthven has stated that government authori- ties charged with military and civil- ian enlistment in the war services have given definite approval of de- ferments for large numbers of stu- dents in order that they may receive college training. Quotas allotted to the University for special enlistment programs of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard would permit the en- listment of every male student who can pass physical requirements, thus assuring a stable enrollment in the University, the War Board states. Including Army officers and civil- ian employees of the Army and Sig- nal Corps who are to receive special training at the University in the En- gineering, Science and Management War Training program, the total en- rollment will nearly equal that of fall, 1941. The freshman class, including in- coming registrants and students who entered the University for the Sum- mer Term, will be larger than in 1941 and increases or maintenance of present enrollment are expected in all but six schools of the University, according to the War Board estimate. veasu ac nowleage nerce ifghting aL one point. ("Fierce fighting is reported to be taking place between Japanese forces and United States Marines who have landed on one of the Solomon Is- lands," the Tokyo dispatch to DNB, German news agency, said. (This' was the first acknowledge- ment from the Axis side that battle had taken an adverse trend and it HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL XacARTHUR, AUSTRALIA, Aug. 16 (Sunday).-(,P)- The Japa- nese have recently strengthened their forces in the interior of New Guinea, an Allied spokesman ac- knowledged today after a com- munique disclosed the invaders were still exerting pressure in their attempt to break through the Jun- gle-covered mountains for an at- tack on the Allied base at Port Moresby, only 350 miles across wa- ter from the Australian mainland. did not attempt to explain how the Marines had established beach heads in the face of the Japanese claim-- entirely unconfirmed-that the U.S. Naval forces were routed.) U. S. Ships, Planes Damage Jap Vessels WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. -(P)- Flaming guns of the U.S. warships and bombs of naval planes severely damaged a destroyer and two cargo vessels and sent a third cargo ship to the bottom in Kiska harbor in raids Aug. 8 and 9, the Navy dis- closed today. More than 3,000 shells were hurled from the big guns of warships of a task force of the Pacific Fleet which hit hard at the enemy occupied island off Alaska. Shells striking the enemy's main camp set huge fires which still were burning when reconnaisance planes flew over the harbor a day later. A short distance to the south a secondary camp also was hit hard by the heavy bombardment, and anti- aircraft and shore batteries through- out the island were silenced. University Chorus To Introduce Compositions At Vespers Today The University Chorus of the Sum- mer Session, 100 voices under the direction of Prof. Maynard Klein, will offer two compositions never be- fore played in Ann Arbor at the Choral Vespers to be held at 8:30 today at Hill Auditorium. They will combine "Rejoice Be- lovedChristians" by Dietrich Buxte- hude, a cantata for mixed voices, with "The Peaceable Kingdom" by Randall Thompson. "The Peaceable Kingdom" is a se- quence of sacred choruses and was suggested by the painting of the same title by Edward Hicks to illus- r r r Blackout... SIRENS WHINED, whis- tles blew, and nearby farm- house lights dotting the countryside went off one by one, as if controlled by some master switch; Ann Arbor was taking part in its first tri-stateblackout ...The blackout, which was held Wednesday night. was termed generally suc- cessful by Ann Arbor Po- lice Chief Sherman Mor- tenson, and covered 41 counties in Southern Mich- igan . . . Several isolated cases were found of lights production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pina- fore" . . . Performance was timed so as to continue right through the blackout and thus keep the good citizens off the streets. Smaller Enrollment -.-.-. THE DATE problem will be essentially the same here, it was indicated by the University Wqr Board yesterday, when it released figures estimating only a seven per cent decline in enrollment at the Univer- sity for the coming fall taries of Michigan days gone by have been joined by a display of photo- graphs of former Michi- gan men now in the armed forces, downstairs in Alum- ni Memorial Hall . . . The men represent nearly every branch of service, and some have high positions as officers . . . Many are boys who were still on cam- pus last semester. Summer Session Ends... CROWDED more than usual this summer because of the-maintenance of the .pg.fl s chno term Ann years, died in the Univer- sity Hospital Friday night ... Professor Goddard, who would have been 77 this week, was long an active civic leader in Ann Arbor even after his retirement from the University facul- ty in 1935 . . . He served as president of the city park board and was a memberrofthe Ann Arbor selective service board.,. Professor Goddard was highly popular with stu- dents, especially foreign students, for whom he and the late Mrs. Goddard al- ways had an open house., . - . ---.- ---Clip Here And Mail To A U.-M. Man In The Armed Forces - - - - - - - - - SERVICE EDITION VOL. I, No. 8 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN AUGUST 16, 1942 I