weather Not IMuch ,Change Y it 4;rn 4 aill Editorial Congress Not Weak. justTicomnetent VOL. L. No. 15-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN1 SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1942 Reds SurrenderSmoulderingSevas _____t 2:15 A.M. FINAL opol British Buffet Reeling Nazis In, Turn-About Egyptian Fight Knifing German Pincers. Is Snapped Off Short Of.Alexandria, Tanks Slash AtRommel Wing Dispatehes Report BayonetFighting By HARRY CROCCKETT Associated Press Correspondent CAIRO, July 3.--P)-British forces 'tonight slashed at Axis Field Mar- shal Erwin Ron mfel's rebuffed forces' on the northern end of the El Ala- mein line, 62 miles west of, Alexand- ria, capturing numerous prisoners and destroying a number of jguns which the Axis troops were trying to dig in on fixed positions. (The Birtish radio, quoting a Cairo dispatch, said tanks, artillery and British infantry moved against the BERN, Switzerland, July 3.-(P) -Axis reports tonight had de- clared that "several thousand ex- cellently equipped American troops took part in the fighting at El Ala- mein" in the battle of Egypt but there was no confirmation from any official or other sources. Axis late in- the day but the'enemy "withdrew rapidly from all engage- ments." The broadcast, heard in New York by CBS, did not elaborate on the action.) The rumble of heavy guns could be heard in Alexandria; but-'the fact. that the fighting kept more or less static indicated the' reinforced Im- perial forces had brought the Axis' advance to a halt, at least tempor- arily. Dispatches from the front said bayonet and hand-grenade fighting continued throughout Thursday night Reorganizing after their first re-, pulse since the British lost Tobruk1 June 21, the main body of Rommel's armored forces was still west of the. El Alamein defense. There was nol indication they had renewed their powerful drive against Alexandria 1 and the Nile Delta. , The concentration points for ,the Axis armies after the battering they received in their first all-out on- slaught yesterday against El Alameint were three or four milgs to the west1 of the British defenses at the mouth1 of the Qattara bottleneck. 'U' Army Reserve Plan Opens For Enlistments Deferment Program For Students Revealed; 2,400 Men Of -All Classes To Be Enrolled In Corps By LEON GORDENKER Opening of an Army Enlisted Reserve Corps to University men-2,400 of them-was announced yesterday by the University. Enlistments will be sought from men who meet the requirements for entrance into the Officers Training Corps. They must have a satisfactory record and evidence of qualities of leadership. The quota of 2,400 students will be made up from 960 first-year men, 740 second-year men, 450 third-year men and 250 fourth-year men. This 'quota will include approximately 200 men, mainly third and fourth year, from the ROTC advanced corps and the Army Air Force deferred enlist- ment plan. During the first year of the take an Army examination yet be devised. It may, be taken on r before dates which will be an- Dunced later. Those enrollees who fail to at- ain the prescribed Army leviel will e -inducted into the Army at the nd of the current semester. The wihe provisi6n ahppis 'to those who ave school for any reason, but it not required that the student at- nd all three terms. When enlisted men enter the rmy, whether before or after grad- ation, their status will be that of draftee. They will be allowed to tatek preference fOr a particular ranch, of the service without Army bligation to place them according 7 their wish. On Selectee Basis Although students will not enter he Army as officers they will be igible for an officer candidate hool on the same basis as a selec- e. Enrollment in ROTC in the Uni- ersity is not compulsory for re- rve corps men, but it is open to em. Those who fulfill advanced 'rps requirements will be commis- nned after a brief training period. Huge Saving OnWar Cost Held Possible Henderson Declares Gain Of 62 Billion Potential BarringPrice Inflation OPA Grants Small July Sugar 'Bonus' WASHINGTON, July 3.-(IP)-A potential savings of $621000,000,000 in the cost of the war effort in the next 20 months- out equal to a year's outlay for miitary production at maximum speed-is at stake,.Leon Henderson contend d today, in the Administration's fight to hold prices of raw materials and commodities to present levels. Warning that the, danger of infla- tion was becoming (more acute, the' Price Administrator gave the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee this WASHINGTON, July 3.-(IP)- A sugar "bonus" of two pounds for every ration card holder, purchas- able between July 10 and Aug. 22. was announced by the. Office of Price Administration tonight be- cause of "somewhat heavier ship- ments" of sugar into this country than anticipated. estimate in the course 'of testimony to support his request for an increase of $86,000,000 over the $75,000,000 voted by the House to finance OPA for the next 12 months. \In arriving at the $62,000,000,000 total-more than 404 times the $161,- 000,000 he seeks to run his agency- Henderson said he calculated the av- erage rise in prices during the last war and compared this with the low- er rtsthat.would zpsult t he. was suceessful in maintaining present' prices. OPA ceilings already had resulted in a saving of $5,000,000,000, he said, on that part of the arms production program thus far completed com- pared to what it would have cost if prices had been allowed to rise as they did in. 1917. Specifically, he pointed to what he contended was a saving of $260,000,- 000 in the cost of copper and- $200,- 000,000 in the cost of steel used to manufacture weapons of war. IFC Rushng RulesViolated Fauver Issues Warning To All Fraternities WASHINGTON, July 3. --(')- President Roosevelt bluntly warned the Congressional Farm Bloc today that the people would hold it strictly accouDtable if it prevented the pro- duction of an adequate supply of meat for the nation's soldiers, sailors and war workers. With an accompanying condem- nation of "pressure group tactics," the Chief Executive endeavored to break the long deadlocked issue of selling government holdings of sur- plus grain at less than parity prices for the purpose of feeding live stock. In Agriculture Bill The issue is bound up in the $680,- 000,000 appropriation bill for the Agriculture Department. The House wrote into that measure a prohibi- tion against such sales. The Sen-. ate, at the Administration's request, voted to permit the sale of 125,000,000 bushels of wheat below parity, for the purpose of booming live stock production. (Parity is a price which would give farm products the same purchasing power they had between 1909 and 1914.) The bill is stalled in conference, with both House and Senate conferees insisting upon the position taken by their respective branches of Con- gress. One result is that since the new fiscal year began on Wednes- day, the Agriculture Department has been technically without funds. Must Sell Grain "The authorization to sell some of the Government's holding of grain for feeding purposes a 85 per cent of the parity price for corn is essen- tial if the armed services and the civilian population are to be as- sured adequate supplies of pork, beef, milk, chicken . and eggs at prices which will neither break through the- ceiling nor require excessive subsi- dies," Mr. Roosevelt said. "Certainly, the Government or- First Concert of Summier- Torlie.Tuesday Two featured performers-Prof. Gilbert Ross, violinist, and Blair Mc- Coskey, baritone-will appear in the first summer Faculty Concert at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Hill Auditorium. Joseph Brinkman of the School of Music will accompany them. Professor of music at Smith Col.. lege, Prof. Ross will instruct in violin at the music school's Summer Ses- sion. He has appeared in concert work in many of the largest cities of America and in London and Ber- lin. Fresh from a New York Philhar- monic Stadium Concert, McCoskey will also serve as guest instructor in the music school. He has appeared with the Boston Symphony and the Minneapolis Symphony orchestras as well as with the New' York Phil- harmonic. Included in the program will be Beethoven's "Sonata for Violin and Piano in C Minor, Opus No. 2," Bach's "Cantata No. 158" in which all three artists will appear and sev- eral vocal pieces sung by McCoskey. President Bluntly Warns Farm Bloc Against Pressure Tactics Tells Group People Will Blame Them For Any Block Of Production Of Meat For Armed Forces ganized for total war must have the authority to deploy its resources promptly and in sufficient volume to speed victory. We have surpluses of grain; we have on-coming stringen- cies and shortages in certain meats, fats and oils. "The only real issue involved here is whether the Government should be free to use its feed resources to produce food for the wartime effort. When this fact becomes clear, I am certain that pressure group tactics will not prevail and that the action taken by the Congress will reflect the nation's needs. "Should resistance to these pro- posals persist, I am confident that the people will hold those responsible to strict account." 1-B Registrantsm Will Be Drafted For Active Duty Army To Assign Limited Service To Physically Defective Deferred Men WASHINGTON, July 3.-(P)-In the first draft of Selective Service registrants classed other than 1-A, the rapidly expanding Army on Au- gust 1 will begin calling men with minor physical defects who have been heretofore deferred and placed. in class 1-B. They will be assigned to,."limited duty" in which their physical defects will be no serious handicap; An Army announcement today sai inductions under the new policy would be limited for the time being to those "able to bring to the Army a useful vocation which was followed in civil life." Everygne Meant Asked to expand on that point, the War Department said this state- ment should be taken to mean any- one capable of doing almost any use- ful work and not just persons with some particular skills or training. The 1-B draftees will be ordered to Corps Area service, the War De- partment organization or other such posts. By taking over these jobs, they will free other physically fit soldiers for assignment to combat units. When called, the 1-B selectees will be re-examined and if found quali- fied for unlimited military service will be inducted as class 1-A regis- trants. The Army said it would ac- cept for limited service men: 1-B's Reexamined Whose weight and chest circum- ference do not meet 1-A standards but do not fall in class 4; who have minimum 20-400 sight in one or both eyes if correctible with glasses to 20- 40 in either eye; whose hearing in one or both ears is not less than 5-20, with complete deafness in one ear permitted if hearing in the other is 10-20 or better; who have insuffi- cient teeth if the defect is correctible by dentures. The Army said regular quotas.of 1-B men would be inducted, but did not disclose the total number of this class that might be called eventually. PROF. LOUIS A. HOPKINS Prof. Louis A. Hopkins, director of the Summer Session, will address the membership of the Session at Convo- cation Vespers at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Rackham Lecture Hall. "The University in War Time" will be the subject of Professor Hopkins' speech, stressing the effects of war on colleges and the new responsibili- ties forced on them, A special A Cappella choir and group singing by the entire assembly will be led by Prof. Maynard Klein of the School of Music. Prayers will be offered by Dr. Edward W. Blake- man; Counselor in Religious Educa- tion. Embattled Defenders Leave C ity Claim Repulse Of Nazis, Destruction Of Tanks In Vital Kursk Area Germans Triumph After Eight Months MOSCOW, Saturday, July 4.-(/P)- The heroic Russian garrison which fought amid the smoking ruins of Sevastopol finally has withdrawn from the city, the Soviets announced early today. In the Kursk area 280 miles south of Moscow, however, the Red Army "repulsed big and fierce tank at- 1 tacks," the communique said. "The enemy is suffering enormous losses," the bulletin said of the Kursk bttle. "In one day's fighting the - enemy lost over 250 tanks-and 15,000 officers and men killed." The last-ditch defenders of the big Black Sea fortress evacuated Sevas- topol after a heroic 8-month siege, the Russians acknowledged. Presum- ably the gallant but decimatedgarri- son still is fighting outside the city in a narrow corner of the peninsula. The greatest action however rolled along 'the Kursk sector over a wide front where the Germans threw waves of men against the Red peas- ant troops in ,an effort to break through toward the Caucasus and separate the southern, and central Soviet armies. of this action which extended as far south as Volchansk, the post- midnight communique said: "During July 3 in the Kursk direc- tion our troops repulsed big and ,fiere_,tankttacks of the Germa Fascist troops. The enemy is suft fering enormous losses, In one day's fighting the enemy lost -over 250 tanks and 15,000 officers and men killed. "In the Belgorod-Volchansk direc- tion our troops repelled enemy at- tacks." Volchansk is 100 miles south of Kursk, and a supplementary bulletin said the 200 German tanks crashed against Soviet positions there at the+ point nearest Voronezh Province, guardian of the Upper Caucasus. Dozens of Nazi tanks were left burning in no-man's-land when the Nazis retreated to their original post- tions, the communique sid. Nine To Play: Here Tuesday By MIKE DANN Michigan, possessing the only sum- mer baseball team in the Western Conference, 'will open its third semes- ter schedule against King-Seeley of the City Baseball League on the Ferry Field diamond this coming Tuesday night. The cottest will be a twilight af- fair and will start at 6:30 p.m. Coach Ray Fisher will send a green .eam against King-Seeley, which is considered the finest nine in the city. * The Wolverines have only held ufor drills so far this season, but Coach Fisher is already fairly sure of his starting team As far as pitching is concerned Michigan seems fairly well stocked with possibilities. Jack Redinger, who was a regular pitcher for George Washington several seasons ago, ap- pears to be the ablest of the Maize and Blue mound staff and conse- quently will get the nod against King-Seeley in the opener, Bob Chappius of Toledo will prob- ably do most of the catching for the Varsity. Bob Vernier, another Tole- do youth, will be at first base while. Tommy Higgins, a reserve infielder of the Michigan Varsity this spring, will be at second. On the other side of the infield Fisher will start two freshmen, shortstop Roland Bran- deau and third baseman Howard Wikel. Don Lund. the year's most versatile i. P Y4 1 Il lo I 1111( I I .. ------Clip ere And Mail To A U.-M. Man In The Armed Forces-.------------- SERVICE EDITION F ; tP t Mlt :43 atll j U i VOL. I. No. 2 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN JULY 4, 1942 t The cornrstone of Mi- chigan's blic Health Building was laid this week in a simple ceremony . the new building will be just about across the street from Mosher-Jor- dan on Observatory . . Dean Clarence S. Yoakum placed a copper box con- taiing papers and docu- ments pertinent to the news building in the cornerstone sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg and Rockefeller Foundations, it will be three storieshigh and will contain, besides class- rooms, special labs for the study of diseases, mental hygiene and nutrition. A National Defense map- ping course opens here to- morrow ...qualifica- tions: be a woman or a man over 45 or a 4F boy. Orin W. Kaye,! state NYA adminiStrator announces that more than 18,000 uni- versity, college and high school students were aided through school during the, past year with NYA funds. Don't Try This In An A-6 .a Spunky little Joan Tesch, a 19 year-old Ann Arbor student pilot, is the luckiest girl in town this week. She took an Aeronca up one evening and soon fainted dead away at the stick. For nearly an hour Joan's plane- circled lazily over the field, climbing just a little bit all the time. Finally she snapped out of her coma, twice tried to land the plane but found she didn't have enough energy. A third time she tried it, gunned the motor and-spuff-she was out of gas . . . but she made a "good" dead-stick landing in a cornfield. When she stepped out of the plane she fainted again, She still doesn't know why she fainted. A worker over at the Ford Willow Run bomber plant, Joan thought she was over the plant when she came out of the faint. "I thought," she said, "that anti-aircraft fire would come ripping through the fuselage any second . . . I was plenty scared.!" Anderson, of Ann fArbor and a '42 graduate, was killed Wednesday in a mo- tor accident near Howell. * * * U. M. Sports .®. Just about anybody en- rolled or connected with the U. of M. can play on Ray Fisher's summer base- ball team this year which opens its season Tuesday against the fast-moving King-Seeley nine on Ferry Field. King-Seeley took its tenth straight in the In- dustrial League last week. All eligibility rules have been dropped for the sum- mer and locker-room gos- sip is that even old Ray Fisher himself-the for- mer big leaguer-may toss a few. Freshmen are out too and the 'only returning Varsity man will be sec- ond sacker Tommy Hig- gins. Pitcher George Ren- inger and Catcher Bob Chappius are good looking frosh. Sports Notes: Varsity end JoeR ners and Bob Citing the fact that solne fraterni- ties have broken the summer rush- ing regulations by approaching first semester freshmen in the dormitories and elsewhere, John W. Fauver, '43E, president of the IFC, issued a final warning to all houses yesterday that fines will henceforth be imposed for all rushing carried on illegally. In an appeal to freshmen, asking for their cooperation in this matter, Fauver declared that no man will be allowed to pledge any fraternity hext fall if that house has had contact with him during the summer. This does not apply to contact by mail,; however. As the rulings are set up at the present time, rushing can be carried on in cases where the independent man has been on the campus{ at least one semester, providing that all con- tact work, and even pledging, is done outside of the fraternity houses. The fines for violations range from $25 to $50, the IFC being the final judge of all cases. Lieut.-Gen. Somervell Lands At Airport Here Threatening weather brought a huge Army DC-3 plane bearing Lieut. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the Army Services of Supply, to an unscheduled 20-minute stop at Ann Arbor Airport yesterday afternoon. Presumably on his way back from I.anna to Dntroit. Genera Smer- Baird Altman Cast As Leads In Repertory Play,'The Rivals' day . . . Michigan's July quota is $48,000,000m approximately 800 Univer- sity staff members have signed up for voluntary payroll deductions for bond purchasing . . . every- body from Dr. Ruthven to the janitor can, and is, signing up for it. Passnrt Photos . Lieut.-Gen. William S. Knudsen will tour Ann Ar- bor war plants Thursday Prof. A. H. Lovell, engine college secretary, warns that a shortage of engineers may cause a pro- duction bottle-neck . . The Union has started a "share your car" drive . . . The Stuinn Sena i war stampn The curtain rises at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre on Richard Brinsley Sheridan's witty period play, "The Rivals," initial offering of the 1942 Repertory Players. Cast in the role of Mrs. Malaprop, she of the multisyllabic words, is Claribel Baird, who is here for her sixth season with the Repertory Play- ers. Mrs. Baird played the feminine lead in last season's "George Wash- ington Slept Here." University students enrolled in the Department of Speech fill the other roles in this play of 18th century London. Bob Acres, wooer and loser in a romantic battle, known for his "The Bluebird" and Glee Club mas- ter of ceremonies, wins the fair lady's hand in the role of Captain Absolute. A booming-voiced newcomer to the Repertory stage, Richard Stewart, '44, allpears as the self-assured and meddling Sir Lucius, a role created by the author for himself. The part of Julia is taken by Eleanor Hughes, while Philip Swander, '44, who en- tered campus dramatics in "Under the Gaslight," portrays Faulkland. Others in the cast are Catherine Fletcher, '43, as Lucy; Merle Webb, '42, as Thomas; Richard Strain, '42, as Fag, and John Hathaway as the Boy.