Weather No Change we it an 4)tv Editorial ,Sour Notes From 'Caesar' Petrillo .. VOL. LII. No. 21-8 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942 2:15 A.M. FINAL Rommel Hit Hard ByAllies Aussies Repulse Armored Counter-Attacks Aimed Against Strategic Ridge Bomber-Fighters Crush Axis Tanks By The Associated Press CAIRO, July 14.-Australian desert troops have repulsed Axis armored counterattacks aimed at regaining the dominant coastal ridge at Tel El Eisa-Hill of Jesus-and the Royal Air Force stepped up operations to- day against masses of tanks and motorized equipment the enemy is bringing up around El Daba. Sixteen large-scale RAF operations by British fighter-bombers supported the ground forces defending General Sir Claude Auchinleck's newly won positions at the northern end of the Egyptian battlefront. The aerial swarms were declared to have flattened the approaching Axis tanks and motor-borne infantry in mass operations beginning yes- terday. RAF Bombers Strike In the first phase of the day-long battle on the north, heavy RAF bombers struck at the enemy trans- port columns and concentrations, and this was followed up by a big fighter-bomber attack on Axis air- fields to keep as many planes land- locked as possible. As a result the enemy air activity was satisfactorily curtailed to an ex- tent that permitted the RAF to de- velop cooperating operations with ground forces later in the fighting against enemy attacks. Among five German tanks de- stroyed by direct bomb hits were four of the powerful "Mark 3" type. Tanks Battered Marshal Erwin Rommel's tanks and infantry battered throughout yesterday morning at the Allied sali- ent along the coastal railway west of El Alamein at intervals of approxi- mately a hour, but each attack wilted before the- three-ply defense put up by heavy artillery barrages, the Aussie ground troops and the RAF. (The Italian High Command claimed "good results," declaring Axis forces had taken numerous prisoners in the desert fighting, in- cluding a battalion commander, and spoke of intense aerial activity. Tie German High Command was less sanguine in its claims' which told of "only local fighting" in the Alamein sector. Laval Rejects FDR Plea To Move Vichy Ships WASHINGTON, July 14.--(P)- While Axis forces drove toward Alex- andria earlier this month, President Roosevelt twice proposed to Vichy that seven French warships there be removed, and twice the proposals were rejected, the State Department - disclosed today. The rejections were in the face of a warning from the President that unless the proposals were accepted the British would be justified in or- dering the warships out of the port through the nearby Suez Canal, and if the orders were disregarded, in de- stroying the vessels to prevent their falling into enemy hands.. Sumner Welles; Acting Secretary of State, disclosing the moves at a press conference today-the French Bastille Day holiday-emphasized that the proposals were made with the aim of safeguarding the ships for the remainder of the warand insuring their return to France af- terward. On July 3 Mr. Roosevelt suggested to Vichy that the warships, immo- bilized at Alexandria after the Franco-German armistice of 1940. be placed under the protective cus- tody of the United States and taken through the Suez Canal to a United States port or to some neutral West- ern Hemisphere port. The President pledged that after the war they would be returned to France. Petitions Are Due For Engine Posts 20 Ships Lost By Japs In Battle Of Midway 80-Ship Nipponese Armada Put To Flight; American Carrier, Destroyer Are Sunk Headlong Nazi Onslaught Perils 600 Miles Of Soviet Battlefront; Reds Fight In Voronezh Streets By RICHARD L. TURNER Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 14.-The in- cessant pounding of American fliers sank or damaged a score of Japanese ships in the Battle of Midway, the Navy announced tonight, and threw what had been a bristling 80-ship enemy armada into headlong flight. On our side the Aircraft Carrier Yorktown was put out of action and the Destroyer Hammann was sunk. Enemy Losses In all, the enemy loses were: Four aircraft carriers, two heavy crisers, three destroyers, and one transport sunk. Three battleships, two. heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and at least three transports damaged, many severely. An estimated 275 Japanese air- craft destroyed in the air or lost at sea because their carriers had been sunk. Approximately 4,800 Japanese killed or drowned. By comparison, American losses were extremely light. They were: The Aircraft Carrier Yorktown put out of action when a Japanese bombing attack left her listing. As a consequence planes could not use her flight deck. The Destroyer Hammann torpe- doed and sunk in the latter stages of the battle by a Japanese sub- marine. Most of her personnel was saved. Ninety-two officers and 215 en- listed men. The Japanese fleet, approaching in two divisions, turned tail early on the morning of June 4. At that time only 10 Japanese ships had been hit and American officers expected the enemy to continue forcefully press- ing the attack. Early in the morning of June 3,1 patrol planes spotted the enemy force 700 miles off Midway.. Nine Army bombers took off from Midway at once' and scored hits on a cruiser and a transport, leaving both burning and severely damaged. Less- er damage was done to other ships. That night, a force of the Navy's Catalina flying boats located the en- emy force by moonlight and scored two torpedo hits on large enemy ships, one of which was believed to have been sunk. * * * Dives In Smokestack A Marine Corps aviator, Major Lofton R. Henderson of Gary, Ind., dived his blazing plane down the smokestack of a Japanese aircraft carrief. Henderson and his group of scout bombers arrived over the Jap- anese fleet and launched the Ma- rines' first attack on the main body. "Japanese fighters swarmed iff their carrier decks and slashed into the Marine squadron," the an- nouncement said. Henderson's plane was the first one hit and it burst into flames. Corporal Eugene T. Card of Oak- land, Calif., a Marine gunner, saw what happened then. "The left wing of Major Hen- derson's plane burst into flames as he was beginning the final ap- proach," Card related. "Despite this, he continued the attack, and I saw him dive down the smokestack of the carrier. I am convinced it eas deliberate." * * * With daybreak June 4, several groups of Army and Marine Corps planes took off from Midway to seek out the enemy flotilla. Four Army torpedo bombers attacked two enemy carriers through a heavy screen of anti-aircraft fire, and one torpedo hit was believed to have been made. Two of the planes failed to return. Meanwhile, Midway was 'attacked by a large group of carrier-based Japanese planes."A badly outnum- bered" force of Marine Corps fight- ing planes engaged hem. With the help of ground fire, some 40 of the Japanese aircraft were destroyed, but only after serious though "not dis- abling" damage had been done to Midway's ground installations. With these developments, the Jap- anese fleet decided, apparently, that Midway was too strongly defended to continue the attack, much to the sur- prise of American officers. Between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m.,' on June 4, it changed course completely and un- noticed by the American planes, which at that time were returning to Midway. In this phase of the action, the Japanese aircraft carriers Kaga, Akagi and Soryu were severely dam- aged, two battleships were hit, and one was left "burning fiercely," one destroyer was hit and believed to have been sunk. Soon afterward, 36 enemy planes from the undamaged carrier Hiryu attacked the Yorktown and her es- corts. Eleven of 18 bombers were shot down, but seven got through. 15 Planes Lost While this was going on, the commander of a squadron of 15 torpedo planes located the enemy to the westward and went to the attack immediately, "without pro- tection or assistance of any kind." "Although some hits were re- ported by radio from these planes," the Navy said, "and although some enemy fighters were shot down, the total damage inflicted by this squadron in this attack may never be known. None of these 15 planes returned." * * * "The Yorktown was hit during this assault and put out of action," said the Navy. "The damage caused a list which rendered her flight deck useless for landings and take-offs. Her aircraft continued in the battle, As another of the numerous over- lapping phases of the battle, some of her own planes meanwhile located the Hiryu, under battleship, cruiser and destroyer escort. They attacked at once, hit the Hiryu repeatedly and left her "blazing from stem to stern." She sank the next morning. Two batleships were severely .pounded by bombs and a heavy cruiser was dam- aged severly. Sub Sinks Carrier That afternoon (June 4), an American submarine crept upon the smoking carrier Soryu and scored three torpedo hits. A fresh outbreak of flames followed. They engulfed the carrier and forced the crew to abandon ship. Se sank during the night. * * * Throughout the night of June 5-6 the Navy said, the American carrier force was "steaming westward in pursuit of the nemy." During the afternoon, the Ham- mann was sunk by a Japanese sub- marine but most of her crew was rescued. After June 6, repeated efforts were made to locate the dispersed and fleeing enemy ships but all failed. Ann Arbor Township, Campus To Hold First Trial Blackout Air Raid Wardens Mobili As 15-MinuteSilence I Ann Arbor township will undergo; its first real practice blackout of the1 war at 10:28 p.m. tomorrow when in- termittent squeals from five whis- tles will warn the people that all lights must be out in two minutes. The all-clear signal will sound at 10:45 p.m., allowing a full 15 min-l utes of dead silence, no traffic move- ment and complete darkness exceptf for the factories engaged in war pro- duction. For the short blackout test, Ann Arbor has mobilized a crew of 575I air raid wardens, the whole police and sheriff's departments, 170 vol-z unteer deputy sheriffs and 120 aux-I iliary policemen. 60 University Wardens The University of Michigan willt supply 60 building wardens and 251 observers of its own to see that the1 campus will be in ,total darkness byt 10:30 p.m. Timed to split-second efficiency, the blackout will cover a wide section including all of Ann Arbor, part of Scio, -Lodi, Pittsfield, Ypsilanti and Superior. Thirty-four highway in- tersections on the outskirts of Ann Arbor township will each be manned by volunteers operating with the sheriff's department. The police department and its aux- iliary force will be stationed inside the city limits at every street inter- section to intercept the traffic which might violate the blackout rules. Volunteer Policemen Acting as a buffer between the outskirts and the city district of Ann Arbor, a crew of volunteer policemen will be stationed at the city limits proper to catch the traffic which M*ch*anNinet Drops Shutout I To Inkster, 44) By AL STEINMAN1 A fast-moving Michigan nine fi-1 nally met its match last night when the spirited Inkster Cubs took the Wolverines' measure, 4-0. Ray Fish-1 er's boys had won three straight shutouts when the Cubs came to< town, and the defeat was the first of the current season for the Wol- verines. Jack Redinger, who pitched the first seven innings, and Bob Saxon, who finished, had plenty of stuff onf the ball, compiling a total of 10t strikeouts between them, but thej support give them was terrible. Six' Michigan errors were responsible for all of Inkster's runs. Inkster began its scoring in the second when they amassed two runs1 on two errors by third baseman Har- ry Anderson, a scratch hit and a fly ball They scored again in the sixth when Jack Redinger threw the ball into right field for a two-base error, and Milt Lenhardt Cubs' left fielder, rapped a two-bagger along the left field line. The Cubs scored theire last runon a single and an error by second baseman Tommy Higgins. There wasn't a real solid hit by either team, Lenhardt's double being the only extra base knock of the game. Most of the balls hit were of the scratchy type, and there werea very few blows out of the infield by either team. Don Crist and Bob Hill, who di-w vided the hurling for Inkster, seemed to blow the ball by the Wolverines, with ease as they struck out fourteen men between them. The Michigan nine just couldn't connect with that ball. All told, it was a sloppy game for the local boys, although the pitching was very good. The Wolverines looked especially weak at third base. Their hitting also nose dived. How- e For Tomorrow's Duties s Set For 10:30 P.M. might escape between the police and the sheriff's departments. Police and deputy sheriffs will all check their watches with Bell Tele- phone Time Service at 10 p.m. to in- sure perfect cooperation. Chief of Police Sherman Morten- son yesterday warned the Bomber plant employes who work the 11 p.m. shift to leave early and avoid the blackout test here. Otherwise, all employes will not be permitted to drive out of the city. Deputy sheriff Tom Fitzgerald said that out-going cars which are intercepted outside of the city limits will be allowed to pass since they will not cause any tie-up during the blackout. Two special emergency police cars carrying tlie big letter E painted on their bodies will do patrol duty. Their lights will be dimmed to a soft glow. Four sheriff patrolb cars will also roam the outskirts of the-city. FBI Discloses New Arrests In Spy Drive Former Coast Guardsman Caught With Ford Plane Drawings In Possession By The Associated Press While highly important evidence of a military nature was being pre- sented in Washington, D.C., yester- day to the military commission try- ing the eight Nazi saboteurs, arrests of other alleged foreign agents by the Government was announced. In New York the FBI disclosed the arrest on espionage charges of a Ber- lin-born former American . Coast Guardsman whom they identified as Washington Glendale Spiegelberg, 35. In his possession, .the FBI said, were 18 plans, diagrams, drawings or blue- prints of essential parts of the B-24 bomber manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. He was held in $25,000 bail. U.S. Attorney Mathias Correa an- nounced the arrest of John Leonard Musa, .55, Swiss-born naturalized American, on charges that he acted as a secret agent for the Vichy French Government without registering with the State Department. He was held under $5,000 bail for a hearing July 21. Correa said Musa was personally employed by French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye and paid out of funds of the French Government on deposit here in the "services of in- formation account." Major General Frank R. McCoy, president of the military commission hearing the Government case against the eight saboteurs who landed from submarines on the Long Island and Florida coasts, said the evidence pre- sented yesterday was such that its disclosure "would not be in the in- terest of the United States." Tag Day Drive Set For Friday The boys from the University of Michigan Fresh Air Camp will make their annual summer inVasion of Ann Arbor Friday to stage a tag day campaign that will enable other needy boys to spend a four-week vacation at the camp on the shores of Lake Patterson. Since the founding of the camp 21 years ago, more than 7,000 boys have been schooled in the principles of good citizenship and given a chance to get off city streets by the camp. Chief sources of funds for the camp are individual contributions Moscow Asks For Second Front Soon; Axis Suffers Enormous Casualties By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW, July 15 (Wednesday) .-A crushing German drive imperiled nearly 600 miles of Russia's front early today, but the Soviets said the Red Army still was fighting savagely in the Voronezh sector, where one forma- tion alone killed and wounded more than 35,000 Nazis in ten days. The Soviets acknowledged their troops were taking hammer blows both at Voronezh and Boguchar to the south in the Don valley. At the latter point the Russians again retreated to new positions after being almost trapped in a Nazi encirclement attempt. Besides the enormous casualties; House Group Finally Okays Revenue Bill' By The Associated Press, 1 WASHINGTON, July 14.- The House Ways and Means Committee1 formally approved a new $6,144,000,-1 000 wartime revenue bill today con- taining corporation rates which Rep.s Knutson (Rep.-Minn.) said in al minority report were "arrived ati through a series of trades and shameless log-rolling" and would in- jure corporations engaged in the war effort. In a formal report to the House,1 which will start debating the big bill, Thursday, the Committee majorityi said that it had tried to obtain "ev- ery dollar of additional revenue which, in its opinion, the national economy can bear." It added thatI "care has been exercised in every instance not to place aiq unbearable, burden upon any taxpayer." Knutson, son of the two members; reported to have voted against the, legislation, said in a minority report, speaking of proposed new cbrpora-, tion rates:, "It is no longer a .secret that the present formula was arrived at through a series of trades and shame-; less log-rolling. In all my years on; the Ways and Means Committee I have never seen anything like it."; He referred to ,the fact that the, committee at the last minute changed. corporation rates so that the excess profits levies would be less severe and the normal taxes would be high- er. The members changed the flat excess profits tax rate from 94 to 87%/2 percent and boosted the com- bined normal and surtax rate from 40 to 45 percent. The committee's report estimated that the present Federal tax structure would produce about $17,000,000,000 in this fiscal year while expenditures have been estimated at $73,000,000,- 000 for the sam.e period Horace Wite SpeaksToday Fifth Column Vs Negro Is Inter-Racial Topic "Fifth Column Activities Against the Negro" will be discussed by Rev. Horace White at the Inter-Racial Association meeting at 8 p.m. today in the Union. Rev. White is a member of the state housing commission and of the state legislature, and is pastor of the Plymnouth Congregational Church. In his position as leader of the Sojourner Truth Housing project and as an active member of labor move- ment he has gained wide experience in racial problems. The Inter-Racial Association has decided to circulate petitions favor- ing the anti-lynching bill and the proposed volunteer mixed regiment, and one against poll taxes' Ypsilanti Work-Camp Project In Full Sing Having started last Saturday, the work-camp for establishing a neigh- borhood social center for Willow Run workers in Ypsilanti is getting into full swing this week with the reno- suffered at Voronezh, the Germans were said to have lost 157 tanks, 341 anti-tank and field guns and ma.. chine guns, and hundreds of supply wagons. The midnight communique did not disclose any significant changes in the fighting which extended to the Rzhev area northwest of Moscow. But there also was no attempt to minimize the gravity of the situa- tion. Instead Soviet commentators emphasized the peril and called upon the Allies to open a second front In the west. "The battles on the Eastern Front are the battles for New York and London," one Moscow radio an- nouncer said. Multiple Threats Multiple threats were fast develop- ing to highly important industrial, strategical and psychological objec- tives from the rim of the north Cau- casian area to the Moscow front itself. Headlines flung atop the mast- heads of the newspapers told the Red Army that "serious danger threatens your country," and pleaded for ever-stronger blows to stop "the on-rushing enemy." Organs of both Communist Party and Army-Pravda and Red Star- urgently sounded the "second front"* note. Said Red Star: "The German want to defeat us before our Allies canland on the continent." Swift military developments in the Don valley, on the Don valley steppes and at Voronezh heightened the dan- ger to Stalingrad, the Volga commu- nications system and the East Cau- casus, from which Russia gets more than 80 percent of her oil. Claim Kazansk Overrun (Some Axis reports implied that the German columns which pierced the north Caucasian area south of Boguchar had crossed the Don to overrun Kazansk, on the east bank of the river 30 miles southeast of Bo- guchar, and also had reached Migu- linsk, on the west bank, ten more miles southeast. That would put the Germans 160 miles from Stalirgrad on the Volga.) The Germans were throwing in vast numbers of tanks, planes and motorized units of infantry over the broad southern sector, being partly held up only in the Voronezh district of the upper Don. Even there, a break-through made the situation very grave. With the double threat to Stalin- grad increasing both south of Bogu- char and east of Lisichansk, 140 miles southwest of Boguchar, it appeared possible that the Russians may be preferring retreat across the Don to making a stand before the river, as they did so valiantly at Voronezh. Fly Supports Music Camp In Radio Feud INTERLOCHEN, Mich., July 14.- (P)-A dispute between the National Music Camp and the American Fed- eration of Musicians over radio privi- leges tonight appeared to be fast moving toward a showdown. Protesting the musicians union ruling which has banned broadcasts of the camp's national high school symphony orchestra, Chairman J. L, Fly of the Board of War Communi- cations said: "A method-must be found to enable the public to receive these programs." Meanwhile, Joseph E. Maddy, Uni- versity of Michigan professor of ra- dio instruction and. camp director, appealed to William Green, Presi- .- k-4 L,. Aw..l . « 2~...L . 4... Repertory Players To Present Ardrey's 'Thunder Rock'- Today By BERYL SHOENFIELD "Thunder Rock," Robert Ardreys drama which drew record London crowds during England's greatest blitz, and acclaimed hit of the 1939 Broadway season, opens at 8:30 p.m. today at the Mendelssohn Theatre,' number-two offering of the summer Repertory Players. A desolate lighthouse in Lake Michigan is the setting for this two- act play, in which Frederick Nelson plays the lead in the role of a jour- nalist-turned-lighthouse keeper. The story evolves from the lonely beacon keeper's resurrection of the ghosts ceived of the plot before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe and "prog- nosticated things which actually have happened with brilliant insight," Meredith claims. "It is a bitter com- ment on isolationist policies." But the philosophy of "Thunder Rock" is a timeless prophecy," Meredith points out, as there will never be an "escape from human-being responsi- bilities in a civilized social order." Cast in this student production are Merle Webb as Chang; Richard Strain as Streeter; Yvonne Wother- spoon as Melanie; Donald Hargis as Captain Joshua.