Weather L 5kF4b J, 4:Dattij Editorial Forced Savings- Not A Sales Tax .., Warmer VOL LI No. 46-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1942 2.15 A.M. FINAL Big Sea Battle Is Anticipated As Allies Wait Brazilian Ship Sin kings To Be Avenged--Vargas I. In S 010mons tnits Of Combined Fleet Reported Ready; Fight For Sea Lanes Northeast Of Australia Theatens Crucial Point Nears In PacificStruggle By C. YATES McDANIEL Associated Press Correspondent HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL MacARTHUR, Australia, Aug. 18.- Strong units of U.S. Vice Admiral; Robert Lee Ghormley's combined AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, Aug. 18 --(P)--Extremely bitter land fighting In the Solomon Is- lands (which may continue for weeks or months was reported to- night by a New Zealand correspon- dent in a dispatch under a "South Pacific port" date. fleet which so successfully shielded thle Marine occupation of the Solo- mon Islands' were reported deployed tonight in anticipation of a show down naval fight for all the sealanes northeast of Australia. Dispatches from Allied , Naval Heagquarters in the South Pacific area laid the greatest of stress on forthcoming operations at sea now that the U.S. ,landing forces are firmly established in the Guadal- canal-Tulagi area of the Solomons. May Be Turning Point These advices, necessarily unoffi. cial, suggested that big sea battles still brewing in the waters of the Solomon chain would prove the turn- in point in the fight for the barrier bases north of Australia-New Brit- ain, New Ireland, New Guinea and others even more distant. Tokyo's continued silence about the fate of the Japanese garrisons in the southeastern Solomons, mean- while, gave at least tacit confirma- tion. to Washington's assertion that United States Marines had well es- tablished footholds. Engineers In Action (The Berlin radio broadcast a Tokyo dispatch to DNB saying that bitter fighting was taking place on both Guadalcanal and Tulagi islands, and that the United States engineers were taking part in the operations ashore.) Twenty - four Japanese bombers struck at Port Moresby in a high- altitude attack-the first Japanese raid on the Australian defense area since the opening of, the battle for the Solomons. At the same time airmen from General MacArthur's command were' bombing the enemy, bases on the Island of Timor for the fifth time in a week. See Map on Page 4 Navy To Open New Program Students With Poor Vision Are EligibleFor Corps Designed for students unable to meet vision requirements in classes V-5 or V-7 is a Specialist Corps, a new feature of the Navy's specialist enlistment program, it was announc- ed yesterday by the University War Board and Captain R. E. Cassidy of the Naval R.O.T.C. Vision qualification in the new Corps is 12-20, correctable to 20-20. Specialization in physics, engineer- ing, or mathematics is required. , The joint announcement also stat- ed that University enlistments in the Navy V-1 program will be completed on campus starting August 24. This program, which formerly required a trip to Detroit, will now follow a new procedure. Those desiring to enlist should ap- ply at the University War Board, 1009 Angell Hall, bringing with them the blue print of their academic record issued by the Registrar's of- fice. Following a conference at the War Board, applicants will go to the Naval R.O.T.C. office in North Hall for a further interview and com- pletion of arrangements for a phy- sical examination. This examination may be taken in Detroit, but a Navy medical offi- c_ r will came ter Ann Arbor whenever By The Assoiated Press_ RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 18 - Brazilians demanding war against the Axis in vengeance for the sub- marine sinking of five Brazilian coas- tal ships in three days were told by President Getulio Vargas today that these "acts of piracy" would not go unpunished. A short time later Lieut. Col. Joao Pinto Pacca, speaking for War Min- ister Gen. Eurico Gaspar Dutra, told RIO DE JANEIRO, WEDNES- DAY, Aug. 19 -(R)- A U. S plane bombed a submarine 50 miles off Aracaju on the Brazilian provincial coast of Sergipe where Axis sub- marines have been attacking Bra- zilian ships, the government news agency announced today. a crowd at the War Ministry that the country was at the "gates of war" and that the Army was "ready to obey the order of the chiefs who direct the nation." Jose Alves Moraes, spkesman for the crowd, offered the war minister a bronze plaque torn down from Pra- ca (Plaza) Italia which he said could be made into bullets to respond to Brazil's attackers. "The Brazilian people are awaiting Labor Dispute r Slows Pl1ane Parts Concern CIO Charges 'Company Lockout', AFL Claims 'Cold Sabotage' By CIO By The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18.-A la- bor stoppage today at the eleven plants here of the Reynolds Metals Company, manufacturers of alumi- num airplane parts, was said by R. S. Reynolds, president of the com- pany, to be interfering with produc- tion vital "to our war effort." CIO leaders said the stoppage was a "company lockout," while AFL of- ficials termed the trouble "cold sabo- tage of the war effort by the CIO." Estimates as to the full extent of the stoppage varied but all agreed serious damage to the war effort was being caused. Joseph D. Cannon, CIO regional director, declared a total of 2,000 men working in the eleven plants were out. and "more joining them constantly." Reynolds said all of the plants were in operation but with reduced personnel. An AFL official merely said "many men are out. ' R. W. Pasnick, field representative of the International Union, CIO Al- uminum Workers of America, said the trouble started yesterday when Ray Stober, aCIO worker at one of the plants was fired "for no good reason." "Today the men refused to return to work until Stoer is takep .back," Pasnick stated. "This isn't a strike, it's a lockout. We haven't a contract there but when they discriminate against our men we are going to try to get their jobs back." New Type Of Program For Post-War Meeting Initiating a new type of program, this week's session of the Post-War. Council will consist of a public opin- ion forum on vital domestic issues. The meeting will be held in the Grand Rapids Room of the/Michigan League tomorrow at 7:55 p.m. With William Muehl presiding, te questions will be presented to the audience and individual members will discuss them by voluntary partici- pation. The speaking is to be ex- temporaneous and the length of dis- cussions limited. orders for the Army to be led wher- ever necessary," he said. It was learned, that the ships car- ried 836 persons, including 274 sol- diers, and that only 157 were known to have reached land, while 50 were definitely lost and the remainder missing. The government was reported tak- ing unspecified measures to eliminate the submarine menace evident in these first attacks against purely' coastal shipping. Addressing a crowd that paraded to his official residence, shouting and singing the national anthem until he appeared, the president in an im- promptu speech did not mention war, but said ships of aggressors would+ be seized and property of Axis nay- tionals in Brazil would be held re- sponsible for Brazilians' losses. Up to 30 percent of Axis property already has been seized to compen- sate for previous sinkings of 13 Bra- zilian ships by submarines. Brazil severed relations with the Axis last January, and since has arrested hundreds of Axis spies. The temper of Brazilians was indi- cated by a crowd of 500 that gather- ed before the United States Embassy, cheering President Roosevelt, Am- bassador Jefferson Caffrey and the United States and shouting for uni- ted action by the American nations against the Axis. Another crowd converging on the municipal theater was told by Po- lice Chief Alcides Goncalves Etche- goyen that the government was tak- sinkings. Yet another took Brazilian flags from in front of two pro-Axis news- eign ministry, where a spokesman shouted, "This demonstration is to show the Brazilian government that the people will follow the government anywhere." Attorney Cites Discriminaion In Trust Suits By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.-An at- torney of the Department of Justice told a Senate committee today that although the War and Navy Depat- ments had blocked a government anti-trust suit against the General Electric Company, they had done nothing to halt a General Electric suit against a competitor which sup- plies war factories with lamps. The attorney, John W. Walker, told the Patents Committee that both the government's suit charging General Electric with a monopoly in the manufacture of incandescent lamps and General Electric's suit to restrain the Hygrade §ylvania Cor- poration from making fluorescent lamps came to trial this summer. He said the former suit was stop- ped, presumably on the ground that it would hamper the war effort by requiring General Electric officials to devote time and attention to the case. However, he introduced a letter from Lawrence Burns, Hygrade's paten't attorney, to the effect that General Electric officials had spent several months in preparing the case against their competitor for alleged infringements of patents and C. G. Found, director of lamp research, had attended the trial, "In other words," Chairman Bone (Dem.-Wash.) said, "General Elec- tric could use the courts against -a competitor, but government officials suppressed the government's use of the courts against General Electric in a suit aimed at a monopoly that stifles production." Walker said the suit against Hy- grade was concluded last week, but no decision has yet been announced. If General Electric won the suit, he said, Hygrade would not be able to continue making lamps for defense plants unless it took General Elec- tric licenses "and if it takes out the licenses it will be restricted to a very small production." WPB Asked To Distribute MeatSupply Seasonal Shortage Creates' Need For Government Action, Says Committee Greater Demand Is Caused By War By The Associated Press WASIJINGTON, Aug. 18. - The War Production Board received a recommendation from its Foods Re- quirements Committee today that the government allocate supplies of meats among butcher shops, stores and other retail outlets in a move to assure equitable distribution of limited supplies. The recommendation grew out of a seasonal shortage of meats that has developed in several sections of Nazi Attacks Force Soviet Retreat Near Stalingrad; U. S. Airpower In Action Toughest Picked Forces _. h British General To Destroy Axis In North Africa v vi CHICAGO, Aug. 18.-(A')-A pro- posal that American hotels, restau- rants, clubs, institutions and homes be asked to observe voluntary "meatless Tuesdays" was made to- night by the Wr Efforts Commit- tee of the International Stewards' and Caterers' Association. the country, particularly in the East, as a result of an unprecedented war demand. . Such a plan, if put into effect by the WPB, would give each distri- buting agency a certain percentage of the meat it sold in a similar past period. It would follow the allocation plan used in distributing sugar be- fore consumer rationing was put into effect. The communique, headed by Secre- tary of Agriculture Wickard, directed, however, that the Office of Price Ad- ministration formulate a consumer rationing plan for use only in the event the allocations system and some readjustments in present price ceiling on meats mailed to accom- plish an equitable distribution. The Agriculture bepartment con- tinued to emphasize that there was no shortage 9f meat .when judged by past consumption. It says that supplies available during the 12- month- period ending next July 1 should equal the amount Americans consumed annually during the 1930- 40 period, or about 135 pounds per person per year. Local Workers CallOnWLB Precision Parts CIO Men Seek Wage Increase CIO workers in Precision Parts Co., Ann Arbor plant now engaged in war production, have appealed to the War Labor Board for a 20 per cent increase in wages and a closed shop G. W. Magnor, international repre- sentative of the UAW-CIO said yes- terday. Negotiations for a union contract had been carried on from 10 a. m. to midnight every day for the latter part of last week, according to Magnor, but the company refus- ed the closed shop and said that it could not afford to grant the wage increase. Magnor claimed that "98 per cent of the workers are members of the CIO and we (the CIO) believe that the union shop should be instituted. "We also believe that wages should be raised because the pay at Preci- sion Parts is less than that at sim- ilar factories. The minimum pay there is 65 cents per hour, the aver- age, 80.3 cents. At similar plants in Jackson, the average pay is about $1.05 per hour. "We have been unable to get in- formation showing the financial abil- ity of the plant to meet this increase, and we are asking the WLB to step in and study the case." Mr. B. H. Warner, part owner of the plant, did not wish to comment on the situation, but said thatthe company was reserving its decision on the closed shop clause. Churchill Conferred In Cairo Stopover By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 18 -(P)-The United States Airforce was rising to- day toward its full place in a titanic struggle for control of the skies over Europe and the Middle East. American two-motor bombers have entered the air war in Africa and four-motored flying fortresses stand ready to repeat and intensify raids like yesterday's on the Nazi-held Eu- ropean continent. The RAF, already deep into- the fight, paced the growing onslaught last night with a smashing new blow to Osnabrueck, key to German rail lines to the Rhineland. United States and RAF leaders agreed that the curtain-raising fly- ing fortress attack by daylight on Rouen, France, yesterday would be followed by a steadily-mounting and closely coordinated American Bri- tish aerial effort. Britain Is Vast Carrier This island already has been con- verted into a vast aircraft carrier with hundreds of planes in the air constantly, on patrol, sweeping the channel, and striking out on the attack. While the "center ring" in this deadly air circus is this island, the RAF and U. S. Army Air Force also are chopping away at the Axis in the Middle East. There American bombers joining the big four-mo- tored Liberators in attacking Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces while United States fighter pilots were serving with RAF desert squad- rons- American Units Arrive Dispatches from Cairo tonight re- ported new American Army contin- gents, including aviation ground staffs and other units, wearing the new deep-dish type U. S. steel hel- mpt, being debarked in the Middle East to join the growing aggregation of American power in that theater. e first large-scale flying for- tress day raid was directed at rail facilities at Rouen. It was an all- American effort directed by Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, who was in one of the leading planes. The dozen ma- chines flew at a great height, the crews much of the time being obliged to use oxygen tanks. Churchill Conferred In Cairo Stopover Speech Play To Be Given Here Today Geri ans Advance In South Caucasus DOROTHY N. WINEIAND * * * The three-act comedy, "Tinre for Romance," written by'Alice Gersten- berg and produced by the Secondary School Theatre of the Department of Speech, will be presented at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The performance will be open to. the public. Doors to the theatre will open at 8 P m. and will close when the theatre is filled. Featuring an all-woman cast, the play is one of the few available that does away completely with male characters. Action of the play centers around the interior decorating establishment of Cynthia Clyde, played by Peggy Richards, who is trying to decide whether to marry or "to continue with her career, Dorothy N. Wineland portrays her secretary, Betz, who tries to keep Cynthia free from marriage. Con- flict evolves when the head sales- lady,'Azalea, played by Lillian Moel- ler, encourages Cynthia to work less and play more. Other people who are influential in enabling Cynthia finally to reach a decision are Marina, the head de- signer, played by Elizabeth Lawrence; Mrs. Leonard Mclnness, the wife of a straying husband, played by Betty Bartlett; the army officer's wife, Mrs. Highby, played by Jane Beasley, and her daughter, Darlene, played by Miriam Schory. Also aiding Cynthia are Mrs. New- ton Topley, a dowager, played by Rita Lou Brennan; and Gabrielle Reed,. by' Marjorie Lowe. Jane Edmonds takes the part of Susie, the bewildered maid. All the members of the cast will be making their first public appear- ance of the summer, having been chosen from students who have not had a previous opportunity to ap- pear in the summer productions. Summer Choir To Sing Today Concert In Hill Auditorium To Be LedBy Klein Under the direction of Mr. May- nard Klein, guest instructor from Sophie-Newcomb College and Tulane University, the Summer Session Choir will present a concert at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium. The Choir will sing several compo- sitions being presented in Ann Arbor for the first time, including "Iris," Other Russian Resistance. Generally Strengthened; Axis Drives On Volga By The Associated Press MOSCOW, Aug. 19 (Wednesday). -Smashing German tank attacks forced the Red Army to withdraw in one sector of the vital defenses before the Volga industrial city of Stalingrad and drove a wedge into another sector, the Soviet midnight communique said today, but in other areas Russian resistance was reported generally strengthened. The new German gains were south- east of Kletskaya, 76 miles northwest of Stalingrad, where the Germans appeared to be concentrating their drive to cut the Volga. The communique also reported fighting in the region of Pyatigorsk, 15 miles south of Mineralnye Vody, indicating that the Germans had made new advances on the South Caucasus front. On the other hand, the Russians appeared to hold the initiative in the Krasnodar sector, farther to the west, and the communique said one Soviet unit in counterattacks routed a bat- talion of Germans who had forced a crossing of the Kuban River. Red Offensive Near Leningrad Earlier reports said Marshal Sem- eon Timoshenko's forces had occu- pied an important line In the defense of Stalingrad and that the Red Army had launched an offensive far to the north on the Leningrad front. A special Soviet communiue'said the Germans had lost 1,250,000 men in the three months up to Aug. 15- 480,000 of them killed-and had drained much of their reseve strength from Western Europe to strengthen their drive into Russia. The special communique said the Germans had withdrawn 22 divisions from France, Belgium and Holland and had mobilized 70 other divisions from Italy, Rumania, Hungary and, Slovakia for service on the gussian front. The casualties covered in the com- munique were for the period May 15 to Aug. 15. During the same time Russian losses were given as 606,000 dead, wounded and missing. Speaking of the fighting on the Stalingrad sector, Izvestia said Rus- sian infantry,' artillery and tanks -fulfilled their order to halt the en- emy by all means." Russian Pressure (The Berlin communique stressed "hard defensive battles" against great Russian pressure in the Vyazma and Rzhev salients on the Moscow front, and said 1,068 Russian arm- ored vehicles had been destroyed in this fighting since July 30.) The Russian communique covered the Red Army's offensiveunorthwest! and southwest of Moscow in a single paragi-aph which said: "On the northwestern front engagements of local importance took place. Soviet hroops launched several attacks and inflicted considerable losses on the Germans in manpower and material" However, Moscow radio broadcasts later in the day said the Russians had started heavy new attacks on the Leningrad front, advaning un- der an artillery barrage and pressing the Germans back near a railway line. Red Star, the army newspaper, re- ported Timoshenko's counter-thrust southwest of Stalingrad, where the Germans had driven beyond Kotel- nikovski, 95 miles from the Volga city named for Russia's premier. Prom Decorations, To Be At Minimum To Aid War Relief In order to give all the proceeds $f the Summer Prom to the Russian and Chinese war relief decorations will be kept at a minimum, depend- ing mainly on the effect of Russian, Chinese and American flags draping the band stand. Playing beneath the flag of the United States, Hal McIntyre's 22- piece orchestra will play in the Sports Building from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Friday. Coeds have 2 a.m. permis- cin .-nr a. +.h a rina, By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 18.-The British picked their toughest general tonight to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa-General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, "last man out of Dun- kerque" and master of the brilliant retreat from the Japanese through the jungles of Burma. The appointment of the slim, wiry, 50-year-old Ulsterman to succeed Gen. Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck to the Middle East Command, was con- nected in many minds here with Prime Minister Churchill's visit to Moscow last week and to a War Of- fice desire to inject new genius into an increasingly serious situation. Churchill stopped over in Cairo briefly and sources here said they believed his conferences with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin were con- cerned, in part, with the desert war- fare and the Axis menace to Suez. * * * Toughest General Picked To Destroy Axis Forces By The Associated Press CAIRO, Aug. 19r(Wednesday) Prime Minister Churchill, it was dis- closed officially today, spent a day with the Allied troops in the western desert when he stopped off at Cairo last week enroute to Moscow for his conference with Premier Joseph Stalin. The announcement said he held "important discussions with service chiefs and other British authorities in the Middle East." Among those with whom he talked were General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, who joined Local Theatres Will Cooperate In Bond Tribute To War Heroes ! ? Selected as the spearhead for the Treasury's September bond. and, stamp drive the motion picture in- dustry will mobilize its every branch according to Secretary of the Treas- ury Morgenthau. Every theatre in this city is in the drive and 15,000 national theatres every mother's son in service." It is the aim of the drive that a bond for every local enlisted man will be pur- chased. "We will do our share and I know the movie-goers of this city will do theirs," comments E. C. Beatty, Pres- ident of the W. S. Butterfield Thea- Monkeys Roaming City. After Hospital Break Monkeys were reported on the loose in the vicinity of the University Hospital where they are stationed for Y t l' f f f Program The National Anthem Stabat Mater Laudate Dominum in Tympanis.......... Palestrina My Bonnie Lass, She Smileth April Is in My Mistress' Face .... ..... Thomas Morley Liebeslieder, Op. 52 .. .....Johannes Braluns To.Be Sung of a Summer's Night on the Water .......Frederick Delius Iris............Blair McClosky Excerpts from Cantata "In