SIB THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, r. ... Army May Summon 18-, 19-Year-Olds To Service (&. Brazil .. (Continued from Page 1) which 169 officers and men were lost at sea and 88 soldiers were saved. The total loss of military and civilian personnel in the five sinkings was more than 600. All Brazilian ships still at sea hastily put into the nearest ports un- der government orders -to clear the submarine - infested south Atlantic sealanes until drastic action could be taken to counter the menace. Survivors of the five ships strag- gled onto remote beaches and dozens of shark-mangled bodies of the vic- tims washed ashore. Then in the past mid-week another small coast- ing vessel was sunk after its person- nel was ordered overboard in life- boats. President Getulio Vargas' next move told plainly that Brazil could not avoid entry into open warfare as an ally of the United Nations, the 29th country lined up against the Axis. In that move, coming with the announcement of the sixth recent ship sinking, Vargas ordered the seiz- ure as hostages of German nationals -diplomats excepted -who already were aboard two repatriation ships on which they had hoped to get home via Lisbon. Selective Service Rolls Need MoreSingle Men Possible Drafting Of New Age Group Will Get Consideration Of Congress By FRANCIS M. LEMAY Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Maj.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's warning that the Selective Service rolls soon would be exhausted of single men led Con- gressional circles to speculate today that the armed forces might renew their request for the drafting of youths 18 and 19 years old. Congress now is in informal recess and any such request might well be deferred until after the November elections lest the question .be made a political issue but one well-informed House member who asked that his " name not be used remarked that "in my judgment, the Army and Navy League Dances will insist upon lowering the draft age." "And, if our generals and admirals tell us this is essential to insure vic- tory," he added, "I believe Congress U n til Septe 19 will amend the Selective Service Act. -_hI believe this will be done before Christmas." Regular Friday and Saturday night Ages Now 20-44 dances in the League ballroom will The draft ages now are 20 to 44 be continued throughout the Sum- inclusive. Army men have estimated mer Term, Charlotte Thompson, there are 2,500,000 to 3,250,000 youths League president, said yesterday. The in the 18 and 19 classification. All last dance will be held Sept. 19, the men between 18 and 65 already have been registered, those 18 and 19 and week-end before final examinations. above 45 being included for pur- Although the Summer Session so- poses of cataloguing the nation's cial committee has disbanded, there manpower. will be a new committee formed of Secretary of War Stimson wrote members in the Summer Term to the House Military Committee last December that "the traditional age plan and carry out the dances in for liability for military service in co-operation with the League man-this country is 18 to 45." His co- agement. Dena Stover will be chair- munication was in connection with man an Army request that the draft ages On the bandstand for the rest of be broadened from 21-35 to include the summer will be the Hardy band all men between 19 and 45. Congress, fronted and directed by Doc Sprack- instead, put the bottom age at 20. lin with the vocal harmony of the ised u h otmaea 0 new swing quartet. Admission will Victory With Youth? remain the same and students and A Congressman discussing today townspeople are invited to come, with the prospects of draft revisions men- or without dates. On the calendar tioned that many military men con- for the rest of the summer are dances tend that "victory lies between the ordinary and unusual, carefree and recklessness of youth and the cau- sedate and some'. with special floor tion of a man." entertainment. A style show of cam- Another observed that "these 18 pus clothes for both the college boy and 19-year-old youths are crying to and girl will highlight one dance get in." Forecasts that youth of the "dar- AVUKAH SUPPER CANCELLED ing" age, 18 and 19, might be drafted came shortly after Hershey, the Se- There will be no Avukah supper to- lective Service chief, advised men day, contrary to the report in yes- with no other dependents than wives terday's Daily. The supper was can- to "begin making arrangements now" celled because the Hillel Foundation to enter the Army. He said in Chi- is in the process of moving to its cago yesterday that the available new quarters. mnnly of single men. 20-44 had bhPn Yankee Sharpshooter Russia ... (Continued from Page 1) attacks were reported repelled but in one sector "after heavy fighting our troops withdrew to new posi- tions," the communique said. The defense of Stalingrad and the Volga continued ii a critical stage tonight as the Germans massed huge new forces in the Don bend despite Russian counterattacks and ham- mered endlessly with tanks and dive- bombers in the Kotelnikovski sector southwest of the great industrial city. Deep in the Caucasus, the Ger- mans continued to pour large num- bers of tanks and infantry into the battles on the high plains southeast of Pyatigorsk, threatening the Groz- ny oil fields less than 100 miles away, and southwest of Krasnodar, where the Nazis were driving toward the foothills to the Black Sea and the naval base of Novorossisk. Mountain defenses in the Krasnodar sector were reported stiffening. The Germans were reported using increasing numbers of cavalrymen south of Krasnodar, presumably to meet the Cossacks. Sgt. KnnrainvI LCn1J °Ior mnne- apolis, participating with Ameri- can Ranger forces in the Dieppe raid, , became possibly the first American infantryman to shoot down a German in this war when he brought down a sniper. Proud but "a little scared," his mother, Mrs. Clara Kenyon, said she always taught him never to be afraid. War Hero®... (Continued from Page 1) half conscious, the bombardier continued. "Blood was streaming all over but he kept directing and helping me," he said. "We were nearing England and. saw a flying field and I started to set her down. Somehow between us I got her down without even a bounce. All this time the pilot did not cry out or say one word except to ask for w-ter." When the rest of the crew reached the ground they heard for the first time that the co-pilot had been killed and the pilot gravely wounded. Guns Nearly Blew Apart Simmons got one of the three confirmed Nazi planes. He .fired a 150-round burst from his .50 caliber machine gun which he sup- posed would be good for only a 75- round burst. Great chunks came out of the barrel but the gun held together. Technical men at the field called the showing "a tribute to Amer- ican workmanship." "I let fly with everything I had from about 300 yards and the wings started falling off the Focke- Wulf 190," Simmons said. "I caujht a glimpse of her going down but I was so busy right then firing at other ships that I didn't see her end." One Man From Michigan Other members of the "Johnny Reb" crew were Second Lieut. Har- old Spire, of Los Angeles, the navi- gator; and Sergeants Roy N. Al- len, of Owensboro, Ky., John M. Hughes, of Whitestone, N. Y., Wil- liam Adams, of Easley, S. C., and William Schimke, of Manistee, Mich. The flight of four flying for- tresses which engaged in all the fighting was led by Captain Ru dolf Flack, 25, of Los Angeles. Fortress Needs No Escort "This fight proves beyond all question the ability of the for- tresses to fly escorted or unescorted anywhere," Flack said: "Some Germans pressed home the attack from close to 300 yards but we beat them off." Col. Frank A. Armstrong, of Nashville, N. C., who took part in the Rouen raid, echoed Flack's sentiments: "The Germans must have been amazed they could not knock the fortresses down," he added. ~Tank Arsenal Construction IS Halted By AFL Unauthorized W a lk- O ut Stops; Kaiser Strike Threat Is Removed By The Associated Press Construction work on a DetroitE tank arsenal remained at a standstill yesterday after a walkout of 475 AFL workers in protest to the employment of CIO sheet metal men bt produc- tion moved back toward normal at the Vernon plant of the Aluminum Corporation of America and threats of work stoppages at two other plants were removed. Three thousand workers had walked out of the Vernon Aluminum plant in Los Angeles Friday in what leaders of the CIO United Automo- bile Workers of America termed an unauthorized work stoppage but re- turned at the urging of union leaders. William B. Taylor, west coast di- rector of the union's aviation divi- sion, said the cause of the walkout was the alleged dismis;.1 of30 skilled craftsmen but M. M. Anderson, Alcoa personnel director, said no one had been discharged and that the dispute involved one worker who quit and then changed his mind. Kaiser Tie-Up Ended A threatened tieup at the Henry J. Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, Calif., was removed when members of the AFL boilermakers' local voted to askw government aid in settling a jurisdictional dispute with another AFL union.. And a CIO strike called for Mon- day at General Motors Corporation's Harrison Radiator Division in Lock- port, N.Y., was indefinitely postponed upon notification that the case would be certified to the War Labor Board. The union seeks a 10-cent hourly wage increase above the present 75 cent minimum and the company offered a five-cent raise. Production of tanks in the main plant of the Chrysler Corporation tank arsenal at Detroit proceeded as usual but E. J. Hunt, operating man- ager, said that the walkout of con- struction workers "definitely holds up our future production schedule." The dispute was before an agency of the War Production Board. Ask Truckers To Return The War Labor Board meanwhile appealed to striking midwestern truckers to return to work. The WLB said that the dispute, which involves some 96 companies and approxi- mately 10,000 workers, was contrary to the national agreement of labor unions not to strike during the war. The strike is in connection with the JUNIORS...EARLY FAL No.CAMUSFAVORITE! date when certain wage rates are to be made retroactive. Delegates to a CIO Aluminum Workers of America conference at Pittsburgh returned to their jobs in seven big Alcoa plants primed to urge the locals to reject the War Labor' Board's decision denying them a gen- eral wage increase. President Nick A. Zonerich said he would be em- :, *w..._.,,. . \\ \ .. e powered to call a strike in the event the rejection is approved by the locals. Apart from the labor disputes, Sec- retary of Labor Perkins annotnced that work injuries during 1941, par- ticularly in manufacturing indus- tries, increased more sharply than did either employment or total nurn- ber of man-hours worked. R - i _ + . A two-piece junior favorite by DOR SA that'll be your "steady". . . for now and for fall dates ahead. Smartly tai. lored, indeed; of Mellow. Faille with appliqued white venise medallions on the lapels and pockets. Colors: Black, Brown. Junior siase 9 to 15. e r ,,,A r +'"'"" $j695 2 "''' -a Illustrated is one of many Dorsa Originals, extfusivo with us il II Bathroom Ensem bles Bathroom Rugs, Bath Mats, and Seat Covers to match. They come in chenille and heavy string. Pretty and full of life, these sets are extremely useful, too. And if you need towels, be sure to see our fine selection of fluffy MARTEN towels in white and colors. GAGE LINEN SHOP .,VJL 1a111 111, 4 -41, U Ml virtually exhausted. Youths Are Top Material Almost all the warring powers now require military service of all men above 18. Youths 18 and 19 gener- ally are regarded as top material for the air corps and navy services. The War Manpower Commission now is working on a war service bill, principally for effective mobiliza- tion of the nation's labor resources, for war production. It was under- stood this would embrace a training program for youths of college. Meanwhile the Army announced a program to use the facilities of schools and colleges throughout the country to give voluntary pre-induc- tion training to high school and col- lege students, to older men whose in- duction has been deferred because of educational deficiencies, and to occu- pational specialists. The activities -will be inaugurated this fall under the administration of the United States Office of Educa- tion, with which the Army collabo- rated in drafting the program. The plan is designed to reduce the amount of training needed by sol- diers after their induction and per- mit the Army instructors to concen- trate to a greater extent on combat and technical training. J1O0L h 4 NOW- Willi i i I - - 10 NICKELS ARCADE "Always Reasonably Priced" I,'' At Your Service .. . for the rest of the Summer * CAFETERIA * SODA FOUNTAIN * SWIMMING POOL * BARBER SHOP * DINING ROOM * LiBRARY Summer Term Students BOOK SALE Continuing through the Summer New Titles Added Daily 9c to 99c Reference and Textbooks - Fiction and Non-Fiction. * LOUNGES * BILLIARDS I. i