N I I Y tr tgun 4atg WReather Showers and Warmer VOL. LIII, No. 27-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS Allies track Etna Line, Encircle Cat. ania Army 800 Militar y mill Invade' Ann Arbor for War Exhibition Opening Net6 Offensive v Nazis Begin Italian King with New Military H ad tit.:.... . . .'* Allies Blast in Police To Be Here Aug. 23 Miniature Camp Will Be Made at West Park; Sham Battle Planned The invasion of Ann Arbor will bcur Monday, Aug. 23, when a spe- cial military police battalion, 800 Strong and fully equipped to effect a blitz, arrives to give civilians a full-day exhibition of how the Army Works. A miniature Army camp will be set up at West Park when the bat- talion arrives at approximately 10 ,aim. A sham battle between two onbat groups, a parade and retreat age scheduled as part of the all-day program saluting Ann Arbor agri- culture, industry and labor. Civilians will have a chance to 4observe all the pleasantries and un- easantries involved in soldier's mess apd, KP, for as soon as the tents are n place at West Park and the equip- mient unpacked, the noon-day meal, prepared enroute, will be served.- Following the meal the soldiers will sit up exhibits of arms and equip- ' nient at West Park and detachments will be on hand during the after- noon to demonstrate items exhibited. Meanwhile, the remainder of the men will tour war plants throughout the city. At 6 p.m., the parade to the sham battle field will begin. Accompanied b: its 45-piece band, a detachment of WACS and various local organi- zationq, the battalion will proceed to t#*e Ann Arbor Municipal Golf course, #te of the battle. Units stationed at the Unriversity, may also participate in the parade. Supplemental heavy armament units from the 20th Ar- inored Division at Camp Campbell, Cy., will also be in the visiting task force. : Approximately 500 men will clash in the sham battle, using blank am- nunition and light, medium and heavy weapons. Besides two of the 33-ton, so-called "medium" General Sherman tanks, the battalion will have two 14-ton light "Honey" tanks of the latest design, four 25-ton tank varriers, three amphibious jeeps and an as- sortment of regular jeeps, scout cars Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 Prof. Decker To Speak Today American interests in the Pacific area which have brought us in con- flict with the Japanese will be dis- cussed by Dr. John Decker, of the history department and an expert on Far Eastern Affairs at 4:15 p.m. to- day in Rackham Amphitheatre. Dr. Decker taught in a Chinese school in Shantung province and was a, professor on the Floating University which toured the world in 1928 and 1929. The University made a de- tailed study of the Far East and spent one full semester at anchor in Asiatic ports. Retreat on Oret Front Soviet Trip-Hammer Blows Inflict Heavy Losses on Germans LONDON, Aug. 4, Wednesday--P) -General German retreat appeared to be underway today at Orel where trip-hammer blows of Soviet forces carried the Russian offensive within five miles of the besieged city and sent the Germans reeling back with tremendous losses in men and arms. South of Orel the Russians drove into Stish and Pilatovka and from the east they occupied the railway station of Domnino, seven miles from the city, Moscow announced in a special communique. Heavy Fighting North of Orel The heaviest fighting came in the muddy wheatfields northwest of Orel where the Germans fought insanely to stave off complete encirclement. German tanks and infantry were hurled out again and again in inces- sant counterattacks against the ad- vancing Red Army units, the mid- night . communique said later. But the Russians repelledrall the Nazi blows, killing more than 2,000 Germans and destroying 13 tanks, 12 big guns and many trucks, said the bulletin recorded by The Soviet Monitor. About 1,500 Germans fell before the Russian columns moving in from the southwest where a. number of populated places were retaken from the Germans. More than eight tanks, four self-propelled and 18 field guns, ten mortars and eight machineguns were destroyed and 19 guns, six radio transmitters and an ammunition dump were captured. Russians Capture Supplies In other sectors of the blazing Orel front the Russians captured great quantities of ammunition and food. Fifteen guns and several 60-ton Tiger Tanks also fell to the victorious Rus- sians, indicating the Germans were retiring in haste. The Russian air force brought down 76 German planes in yester- day's battles, the communique said. At the same time the Russians gained a notable victory to the south where the desperate German offens- ive in the Donets basin ceased com- pletely without gains on the fifth day. Prom Dress To Be Determined by Poll An all campus poll to determine whethe the Summer Prom will be formal or informal will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Engine Arch and in the center of the diag- onal, Dean Munson, publicity co- chairman for the dance, announced yesterday. # Ticket sales for the Prom will open at noon tomorrow at the Union, the League, and at Wahr's and Follett's book stores, according to Rupert Straub, ticket chairman. ....:..:...... . . . ,STTUT MIESEOL E STRO BOLI ISLANDS . ITA LY f TyrrhenianPalm "*Sea Miazzor -~San --. -'Giovanni San - BarcellonaM*ES9A Reggio -Stefano \±"Calabria San Fratello Castel di..... Mistretta Lecio - MT. ETNA = TroinaT - Taormina - 1 Zj.--Ag a-- -- - egaIbuto Acireale - Ian an LEnGrbCATANIA Sea Pont ~~ Augusta" Oivo~+- -Gela +BiscaI - ~ SYRACUSE' -.Com so -, -_ Vittoria N- Allied Armies have launched a strong offensive to crush the Axis remnants in Sicily. The Americans are smashing hard at the Nazi right wing while the British Eighth Army was making a big push against Catania. Flags indicate disposition of U.S., Canadian and British forces. Nazis Facing Tra asU.S. T a aTakes Troina, Fresh Divisions Poured Into Drive; Canadians "Cut Western Defenses By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 3.-American and British troops have cracked the enemy's Mount Etna line at two points and tonight surged forward to draw a ring of steel around Sicily's volcanic bastion where many Ger- This picture, sent by radio to New York from Bern, was described as having appeared on the cover of the Italian picture magazine Novella of Milan, showing King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy (second from right) and Marshal Pietro Badoglio (right) reviewing troops following Badog- lio's appointment as "head of a military government with full powers." Yanks Reach East End of .Munda Base Hard Fighting Forces Make General Advance On Jap Air Stronghold By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 4, Wednesday- The east end of the Japanese air base of Munda on New Georgia Island has been reached by hard fighting United States invasion forces in their yard-by-yard battle against cave-entrenched enemy jun- gle e defenders, Gen. MacArthur an- nounced today. The slow progress against this key objective of the central Solomons campaign was a part of a general advance, the second such reported in as many days. Yesterday's com- munique had told of advances of from 500 to 1,200 yards which placed the Americans in some instances within 700 yards of the bitterly de- fended air strip. Planes Destroy Barges At the other end of the 700-mile battlefront in the Pacific, Allied planes in the New Guinea-New Brit- ain sector destroyed or damaged 29 barges, bringing to nearly 200 the number of such supply boats of the enemy wrecked in the past 10 days, and one bomber scored a bomb hit at night on an enemy ship, believed to have been a destroyer, in Dampier Strait. The barges hit were foundconcen- trated In Borgen Bay. Heavy explo- sions set off on some of them indi- cated they carried ammunition. Bor- gen Bay is the Cape Gloucester area of New Britain. Twenty barges were attacked there and the other nine near Fischhafen. Enemy Suffers Losses The commu~nique, in announcing the 10-day toll of barges, said "many were undoubtedly used as troop car- riers, some being 145 feet in length." "The total destroyed was estimat- ed as capable of transporting a divi- sion of troops if used solely for that purpose," the communique added. "The enemy's losses both in per- sonnel and material cannot fail to have been heavy." Molly Pitcher Bond Drive Is Scheduled To honor the Revolutionary War heroine, a nation-wide Molly Pitcher tag day will be held on Friday and Allies Will Bargain with Police Hunt - Eden IEscaped Nazi, Italy AnthonyEma Lt. Peter Krug By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 3.-- Foreign Secretary Anthony,'Eden told.the-House of German Airman May Commons in a surprise debate tonight that the Allies would be "only too ready" to adopt a "reasonable attitude" toward Italy if the Allies got what Have Swum Detroit they wanted for fighting Germany. River from Canada Eden, replying to a question, said that with the departure of Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Regime, Italy took on a different status. WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. 3.-()- "We are, as a War Cabinet, anxious to see Italy accept the uncondi- Police on both sides of the Canadian- tional surrender she was offered and anxious to see facilities given to her so United States border today were in- that we can turn the war even more U vestigating the possibility that Lt. vigorously onto Germany," he said. , Peter Krug, who has again escaped "We are anxious to see a peace in from a Candaian prison camp, had which Italy can play her part as a , swum across the Detroit River this respectable nation once again." morning. Answering questions which ndi- Submfitsto W ar Krug, German airman whose pre- cated fears that the Allies might deal vious escape led to the conviction of with Italian Quislings Eden said: Labor oard treason of Max Stephen, Detroit "If we accepted unconditional sur- restauranteur, escaped yesterday render from anyone I would not re- from an officer's prison camp at gard myself as thereby recognizing WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. - (R) -- Gravenhurst, Ont. - them in the least. I would be ex- Quiet and self-effacing, in contrast The search at Detroit began after tremely pleased to accept uncondi- to months of roaring defiance, John special Constable T. Cody of the tional surrender from Hitler tomor- L. Lewis submitted to War Labor Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a row. Board (WLB) authority today and guard at thefAmbassador Bridge here The German radio, joined by sougd to c ethe od it reported he had fired a warning Rome, publicized a seven-point arm- should approve a new contract be- shot into the air when a tall man in istice proposal which it said had been tween his United Mine Workers swimming trunks and a white shirt submitted to Italy by President (UMW) and Illinois soft coal opera- failed to halt at his command. He Roosevelt, but this was without con- tors. said the man dived into the water firmation from any Allied quarter. He argued that portal-to-portal and swam hurriedly toward Detroit. pay would only bring the compen- The escaped prisoner is 5 feet 8%/ Maj. Vollrath Will Leave sation basis of American miners up inches tall. Ann Arbor for Field Duty to the standard universal in civilized- An ro o il uycountries. U LE I Maj. Bernard H. Vollrath, Post Ex- Soft spoken and so retiring that BULLETIN - ecutive Officer, will leave Ann Arbor he did not even enter personally into BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 3.-(")- today for field duty elsewhere after the discussion until direct questions Argentina announced tonight that serving as a member of the ROTC were addressed to him, Lewis made she had decided to disregard the staff since January 1941. his first appearance before the Board sranefn b sregor h Head of the Signal Corps unit here, an anti-climax to the months in German-defined blockade of the Major Vollrath was also the Public which he has ignored WLB orders North American Atlantic coast Relations Official. No one has been and criticized the panel as "packed which she has been recognizing named to take his position. against labor. since its application two years ago. man troops now face entrapment. The crushing American attack threw back the whole German north- ern flank. Lieut. Gen. George S. Pat- ton, Jr.'s, Seventh Army occupied Troina yesterday, it was disclosed, and rolled on to witihin 40 miles of the east coast behind Catania. Fresh American and British di- visions were poured into the driv.e late tonight bringing fresh energy for the final push. One American outfit which had 23 days' hard fighting, much of it at night, waswithdrawn Sunday and replaced by another group, veteran of the Tunisian cam- paign. The British 78th division also entered the fray. Americans Threaten Nazi Positions By breaking through along the Troina-Taormina road on the north side of Mount Etna, the Americans threatened the German positions on the western slopes of the volcano, including those at Bronte. Canadians from Regalbuto and the men of the British 78th division -the heroes of Tunisia's long stop hill-from Centuripe shattered the Germans' westernedefenses in the Catania plain in one of the best "left hook" blows of Gen. Sir Bernard L Montgomery's career. Severed by the Americans to the north and the Eighth Army to the south, a big chunk of the Nazis' Mount Etna line was left dangling. The Allied offensive which got un- derway Sunday in accordance with plans, achieved all its inital major objectives on time and continued to sweep on. Germans Withdraw The shortest American route to the eastern Sicilian shore runs inland through Cesaro-virtually at the Seventh Army's fingertips-often bombed Randazzo, and Castiglione. The Americans also swept tri- umphantly onward along the steep bluffs of the north coast, and the Germans were expected to withdraw toward San Fratello. Senior Engineers To Vote Tomorrow Senior class elections in the en- gineering school will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, and at 8 a.m. to noon on Friday on the second floor of the West Engineering Building above the Arch. Eight seniors in engineering school will run for positions of president, secretary and treasurer. Only Octo- ber graduates will be eligible to vote, and they are asked to bring identifi- cation cards. Navy men who do not have their cards yet are requested to bring some other means of identi- fication. NEW REPERTORY PLAY: Claribel Baird To Open Today In Broadway HitRPapa Is All', 02-____ Claribel 'Baird, the Ellen Creed of ,Ladies in Retirment" will take the leading role of Mama when the Michigan Repertory Players of the ,Department of Speech present "Papa Is All" at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A recent Broadway hit, "Papa Is All" tells about the problems of a Pennsylvania Dutch family that fi- nally rebels against a tyrannical father. The scene of the drama is north of Lancaster, Pa., the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch country. Papa and Mama Aukamp are strict adherents to the Mennonite faith, but Papa, unfortunately misuses the religious tradition for his own selfish purposes. :.Although Mama accepts his word Tickets for the production which willy run four days, today through Saturday, may be obtained at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre boxoffice from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. British Bomb Hamburg for Ninth Time AVENGING A RMADA REKINDLES FIR ES: v2__ By The Associated Press LONDON, Aug. 4, Wednesday- A force of British bombers so great it took hours to pass the coast droned out toward the continent last night apparently in the direc- tion of northwest Germany where flaming and desolate Hamburg still shuddered from a new attack Monday. ' The air ministry said "a great weight of high explosives and in- cendiary bombs were dropped" in the last raid by the vast avenging armada striking through smoke- laden clouds which partly obscured ing that 200,000 were killed in Hamburg before last night' in the most concentrated air raids in history, frankly aimed at blot- ting Europe's greatest port off the map. The estimate was re- garded with skepticism in Lon- don, although the air ministry has said that virtually every part of Hamburg's 50 square miles has been pocked with sprawling ruins. The air ministry said that before the latest crushing assault, seven square miles of the city were dev- astated. Much of the city's area is cast on the city of 1,600,000 con- verting it into a fantastic heap of rubble. Stockholm reports said the Nazis had ordered sur- viving Germans to evacuate Hamburg after the Thursday raid. Stockholm dispatches from Co- penhagen quoted the Danish con- sulate secretary just arrived from Hamburg as saying: "All obliga- tions to work are suspended." This indicated that major war produc- tion, including a third of Ger- many's submarine output, had ceased. lin, half an hour as the bombers fly. The raiders last night flew through a violent thunderstorm and encountered strong ground fire. The attack broke a two- night lull in the intensified Allied experiment to at least soften Ger- many for invasion, or knock her completely from the war as Prime Minister Churchill suggested. The RAP also pounded unspeci- fied targets in the pummeled Ruhr industrial valley. They attacked other targets deep in northwest Germany, only Cuxhaven and the