Ic 43A I ait Weatheir contillued cool ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1943 PRICE FIVE CENTS . . . ......... Planes Batter Cologne, mburg fficias Quarrel over Economic Program DENSE SMOKE COVERS LEGHORN: Flying Fortresses Bomb Italian Port By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, June 29-In a red hot quarrel, Vice President Wal- lace accuse Secretary of Commerce Jones today of obstructing impor- tant phases of the economic warfare program. Jones snapped back that Wallace was guilty of "malice and misstatements" and called for a Con- gressional investigation. The head-on clash, climax to a long-smouldering feud, was virtually without precedent in view of the high places the two men occupy in the government and the sharpness of the language they used. Coming a day after War Food Ad- ministrator Chester C. Davis resigned :n disagreement w th Administration plicy, the incident confronted Presi- dent Roosevelt with the biggest row yet to occur within his official family. Row Takes FDRl by Surprise Mr. Roosevelt said it took him by surprise. He had only read the head- lines five minutes before, he told a press conference, and consequently could not comment on Wallace's charges. Asked if it did not violate his instructions of last August that agency heads should come to him with their differences, rather than. air them publicly, the President re- peated he had not read the Wallace statement, but. he thought his sug- gestiorf of last August was a good one. Jones Called Obstructionist irst,. Wallace, in a, statement to a Senate committee, accused Jones of "obstructionist tactics" of ham- stringing work of the Board of Eco- nomic Warfare (BEW) in importing strategic materials. Wallace, who heads the BEW, said Jones "failed dismally," in the period prior to and immediately after Pearl Harbor, to carry out instructions from Con- gress and the War Production Board to build up reserves of strategic ma- terials which this country must im- port. Since the job of arranging for such imports was turned over to BEW on April 13, 1942, he said, Jones has "done much to harass the adminis- trative employes of the board in their single-minded effort to help shorten this war by securing adequate stocks of strategic materials." Domestic Situation Is Good, FDR Says WASHINGTON, June 29.-AP)- President Roosevelt expressed belief today that things are going along pretty well on the domestic front, and asserted that newspaper writers had stirred up some of the contro- versies among officials and agencies' of his Administration. Asked to name specifically the "in- terneclie affairs" started by news- pernen, he told reporters at his papermn, h odrpresa i press conference that there were flocks of them. Read any columnists, pretty nearly, and go back to the files, he added. He went on with some blunt criti- cism of some newspapers, and con- tended at one point that reporters on occasion had to write under or- ders. In at least one instance, he said, the war effort was hurt. He said that was when several newspa- per owners had published reports about the morals of the WAACS. The President said that was a shameful thing which hurt the war effort and caused a great many heart burn- ings. He termed it a deliberate news- paper job, not necessarily accom- plished by reporters but on orders from the top. We all know that, he said, but it does not make it any less shameful. Navy Stages Daring Hit on Jap Vessels WASHINGTON, June 20.--P)-A daring night bombing attack on a small group of light Japanese naval By The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 29.-(P)- Reaching far into Northern Italy across the width of the Mediter- ranean, 100 flying fortresses have dumped hundreds of tons of bombs upon the mainland port of Leg- horn,spreading destruction in the harbor, railway yards and war plants and leaving the whole area covered by smoke so dense as to be impenetrable five hours after the attack. This great raid, thrown in yes- terday without the loss of a single fortress, hit an Italian light cruis- er and four cargo ships and left one of Italy's refineries ablaze. "Little opposition was encount- ered," it was officially stated to' day. While the Italian high command in its broadcast communique was admitting "very great damage" in Leghorn, reconnaissance- photo- graphs showed a hit and two dam- aging misses on the cruiser, many hits on the port's oil tanks, rail- road lines, bridges and storage depots. The Italians reported that 175 persons were killed and 300 in- jured in the city. Leghorn was attacked on May 28 by a fleet of fortresses only slightly smaller than yesterday's huge force. While the port was shuddering for the second time under great weights of allied bombs, allied medium bombers and fighters re- sumed the almost unending pun- ishment of Sardinian aidfields. In the whole of the day's operations 12 enemy planes were destroyed against two Allied craft lost. Sicily, too, was again under at- tack by fighter-bombers based on Malta. Factories and a railroad at Licata on the island were hit, as was the Comiso. airdrome. The Italian command told also of new attacks on Reggio, Calabria and Messina, in the area of the Messina Strait separating Sicily and Italy proper. In Sardinia, Axis air fields in the Olbia-Venafiorita and Alghero- Fertilia districts, respectively in the northeast and northwest, were hit by mediums, escorted by fight- ers, bombs falling on barracks and administrative buildings, hangars and dispersal areas. Other enemy airdromes at Milis and Decimomannu to the south were hit. June Record Sets New British High Allied Planes Roared Over Channel Carrying Sustained Bonmhardment By RICE YAHNER Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, June 29.- (- German fleets of British bombers battered the Rhineland industrial city of Cologne and the U-boat center of Hamburg last night to hit a new high in the devastation heaped upon Germany's war machine in a single month although June still has two nights to go. Observers said the raid on Cologne was comparable with the previous heaviest attack on the Ruhr in which more than 2,000 tons of bombs were dropped. Other waves of Allied planes roared over the channel late this after- noon, carrying the war's greatest sustained bombardment of fortified Eur- ope through its 11th consecutive day. Then, at 9 p.m. (3 p.m., Eastern War Time) tonight, coastal watchers reported a formation of heavy bombers which they identified as U.S. Flying nFortresses heading across the chan- Enrollhent for ivilians tops Milita ry Units' 300 More Register In Regular Classes; Teachers Split Sections The University of Michigan cam- pus has not gone completely mili- tary officials and professors discov- ered as figures compiled late yester- date revealed surprisingly that the civilian enrollment for the summer term and session exceeded the Army and Navy total by nearly 300. Surpassing last year's "third term" total by more than 2,000, the enrollment for the summer session and term includes civilians, emer- gency training nurses, specialized Army and Navy units and Marine Corps men. University professors who thought their civilian classes could be small are finding it necessary in many cases to split their sections into two divisions. Despite the war, all schools except pharmacy are repre- sented by at least 25 students. The largest enrollment of any single school is claimed by the college of Literature, Science and the Arts, with the Graduate School in second place. The Emergency Training units, which total more than 3,700 stu- dents, include not only the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, but also students in war training, nursing, engineering, science and manage- ment courses. Even the problem of dateless eve- nings-so often a reality to girls liv- ing in cities the size of Ann Arbor- should not prove too serious this summer since statistics reveal that the men outnumber University wo- men by more than four to one. Late registrations were turned in all day yesterd'Ay and will continue for the rest c. the week. It is ex- pected that the total enrollment will exceed 8,000 by the time final sta- tistics are compiled. Army and Navy units have been stationed in the men's dorms while the University has taken over ten fraternity houses to accommodate students who would have lived in the East and West Quadrangles. 'Pacific Women Have Largest Feet in World' ST. LOUIS, June 29.-(P)-Yeo- man Al Ostrow, a post-dispatch re- porter before he enlisted in the Navy, returned on leave with this report about South Pacific Islands native women: "The native women have the larg- est feet in the world. I give you my word they average about size 12. And the soles have callouses a couple of inches thick." FISCAL YEAR BEGINS: Senate Passes $71 Billion 'Decisive Budget' War Bill WASHINGTON, June 29.--(P)-4-- The Senate passed the $171,500,000,-1 000 "decisive budget" war bill today,1 practically clearing that item off the, Congressional books, but disagree- ments between the Houses lefa high hurdles still to be taken on the way to financing the government for the; fiscal year beginning tomorrow mid- night.+ Minor adjustments with the House version remained to be made in the Army appropriation which the Sen- ate passed on unanimous voice vote despite protests of "waste and ex- 16,000 Miners E Return, to jobs; Furnaces Close PITTSBURGH, June 29-(AP)-A; back-to-work movement gained mo- mentum in some sections of the na- tion's coal fields today, but an esti- mated +139,000 miners continued an unauthorized "no contract, no work" stoppage and another blast furnace -the nation's 18th-was shut down as coal supplies dwindled in war industries. A few new walkouts developed in some areas. Over the nation, how- ever, the number at work was 16,000 higher today than yesterday. Pull-scale operations were resumed today in both Kentucky and Ohio. The last 9,000 of Kentucky's 60,000 miners returned to the pits as did the last 2,300 of Ohio's 15,000. Six Ohio mines had been out of produc- tion yesterday. Meanwhile the Republic Steel Cor- poration closed its No. 1 blast fur- nace at Gadsden, Ala., after having banked two others in Birmingham last week. Fourteen furnaces oper- ated by the U.S. Steel Corp. in the Pittsburgh area and one operated by the Shenango Furnace Cq. at Sharpsville, Pa., also closed last week. As Republic announced the new closing, another 2,000 workers in Ala- bama captive mines joined the stop- page, leaving only 3,000 of the state's 24,000 United Mine Workers' mem- bers on the job. ROTC Rifles Arrive Too Late Pres. Alexander G. Ruthven in- formed the state administrative board today that the University fin- ally in possession of-500 mock rifles manufactured by the state. prison industries no longer needs them. The sudden change in demand for the rifles was explained by Pres. Ruthven as due to the fact that there aren't any students around to use them, at least not the ROTC students for whom they were pur- chased. It is believed that Governor Kelly will turn over the unused rifles to TLRny Pearsnn Commanrer of the travagance" that formed a prelude to announcement that the joint economy committee headed by Sena- tor Byrd (Dem.-Va.) will investigate Army and Nacy expenditures. Flat disagreement of the Senate to a conference report restricting Presi- dent Roosevelt's use of his emergency funds and calling for dismissal Nov. 15 of three government employees ac- cused of membership in subversive organizations, promised one of the heaviest engagements between the two houses in the next 24 hours. Conferees put the restrictions back in a $143,000,000 urgent, defici- ency bill late in the day, but the Sen- ate voted them out again, 35 to 32, shortly afterward. The three employes immediately affected were Dr. Robert Morss Lov- ett, secretary of the Vergin Islands government, and Goodwin Watson and W. E. Dodd, Jr., employes of the Federal Communications Commis- sion. A House committee had made the accusations against them. The House-approved restrictions would deny the President the right to use emergency funds for any agency for which Congress appropri- ates, except the War and Navy de- partments, and three other agencies. Russian Airmen Attack Junction* Bombers Blast Orel, Ammunition Dump LONDON, June 30 (Wednesday)- P - Russian airmen, continuing their steady pounding of German rail centers and supply depots in the pivotal sector around Orel, attacked that important junction Monday night for the third time in a week, Moscow announced early today. A special Soviet announcement, broadcast by the Moscow radio ahead of the regular midnight communique, said Red Army mombers caused at least 15 big fires and explosions in Orel and went on to blast enemy am- munition dumps at Karachev, 40 miles to the west. Other Russian planes were said to have attacked the Caucasion port of Taman on the southern shore of the sea of Azov for the second consecu- tive night. Soviet ground forces also joined in the offensive against enemy installa- tions in the Orel sector, where the Germans are believed to have amassed some of their heaviest con- centrations of troops and material of the entire Russian front. The midnight communique, re- corded here by the Soviet monitor, said Russian gunners shelled a train in the area of Sevsk, about 90 miles below'Orel, wrecking several cars. A' scouting party also penetrated Ger- man communication lines and killed a number of enemy troops, it was said. Jones Takes Over Role of r New Food Boss House, Senate Agree To Stop Funds for Rollback Compensationi WASHINGTON, June 29. -()-i Lawmakers striving to iron out dif- ferences in Senate and House anti-1 subsidy bills .agreed tonight on legis-t lation prohibiting further expendi-i ture of government funds to compen- sate for a rollback in retail food prices. The restriction, designed to, stop i the Administration's subsidy program in its tracks, was written into a bill1 extending the life of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) two more1 years and adding $750,000,0000 to its present lending authority of $2,650,- 000,000. This action came as Judge Marvin Jones, subsidy advocate, took over the job of managing the nation's food production and the War Labor Board spoke out strongly in support. of the subsidy program to keep down the cost of living. The CCC extension measure, which will be tested first in the House to- morrow, would permit government payments up to $150,000,000 to re- tain the present program of subsidiz- ing increased transportation costs and production of critical metals and stimulating necessary output of war essential food products. After nearly seven consecutive hours in welding the two measures together, the House and Senate con-' ference committee declared the bill would erase the subsidy rollback on retail prices of meats and butter, which the Office of Price Administra- tion already has inaugurated. It would permit payment, however, of commitments made by the Admin- istration up to June 15 and allow government agencies until Aug. 1 to liquidate the accrued payments. Blood Bank Needs 150 University Men One hundred fifty men are needed to register for the Red Cross blood bank which is open from noon till 4 p.m. daily, Roy D. Boucher, chair- man of the drive, said yesterday. All men who are willing to'donate their blood should sign up at the main desk in the Union before July 15, the date for the next blood bank. Only those students 18 years or more may register. . Women interested in donating their blood should see Miss Ethel Mc- Codmick at the League. Federal Reserve Asked The Question LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 29.-(P)- The War Information Center of the public library here recently got a telephone inquiry as to how much money one could take out of the Dean Puts BanT On Sportsweart Any Army or Navy trainee who may have come here expecting to find well-formed coeds ambling across the summer campus in flashy shorts, might as well know now he is going to get no cooperation in thatt matter from the University.j Dean of Women Alice C. Lloyd hast requested all women not to wearj shorts, or slacks, on the campus or{ in the classrooms, "in the interests of good taste."' Theer is one exception. The for- bidden garments may be worn by those enrolled "in a defense course in which such attire is required." The Dean also declared, "Neither slacks nor shorts may be worn in the dining roombfor dinner; and shorts may never be worn in the dining room nor in the living rooms norc lobbies." There was no mention in the Dean's request, however, of abstain- ing from~ shorts for tennis dates or slacks for picnics. Rioters Should Be I mprisoned, Thomas Says DETROIT, Pune 29-(M-There will be a recurrence of the recent De- troit race riots unless some of the ringleaders of the disorders get long prison terms, R. J, Thomas, president of the Automobile Workers-CIO, told the state CIO convention today. "The important question now is not what caused the riots, but what are we going to do about it," Thomas said. "This is exactly what happened in Germany, only there the Jews were used as the whipping boys to start Nazism. "If that rioting had continued much longed, it would have turned into an attack on the Jews, then on organized labor. I am sure of that." Thomas declared the Detrot police 'force was not effective, though "when we had picket lines they were very effective." He said Mayor Edward J. Jef fries should have seen to it that the police did a better job. Turning to other problems, Thom- as urged the delegates to remember at all times that winning the war must come first. "For the benefit of manufacturers who refuse to work out their collec- tive-bargaining problems," he said, "I'll tell them that if they don't change their tactics when this war is over, they are going to have more headaches than ever before." U.S. Leaflets Cause Riots NEW YORK, June 29.-()-Riots of serious proportions were reported tonight to have occurred in Athens and three other Greek cities as a result of week-end American bomb- ings during which leaflets were drop- ped signed by President Roosevelt and expressin the hope that the nel toward France. Fighters Renew Attacks RAF fighters also renewed their "train-busting" operations over nor- thern France by daylight and the air ministry said one Canadian pilot riddled six locomdtives. while two fliers shot up five more between them. Watchers on the southeastcoast of England, who reported the return of the daylight attackers after 45 minutes, said that they believed the force included heavy bombers but that accurate identification was im- possible because of the height at which they flew. Cologne Bears Brunt of Attack Cologne, target of the first 1,000- bomber raid that pulverized 600 ac- res in May, 1942, bore thetbrunt of the double-barreled night assault, which cost the RAF 25 four-engined planes. It was the RAF's 13th heavy bombing operation of the month and was believed to have boosted the June bomb load well over the record of 12,000 tons dumped on Europe during May. Ruhr Has Nine Heavy Assaults Each heavy assault is estimated to deliver around 1,500 tons. Nine such raids have been made on Ruhr tar- gets alone this month, for a total of 13,500 tons. The RAF has lost 269 bombers in the record attacks this month.2 Weather kept the heavy- weights on the ground until June 11. The RAF also laid mines in enemy waters last night in the delayed- action warfare that, according to an official announcement, already has sunk at least 400 Axis vessels. Huge fires were spread throughout Cologne and, although clouds pre- vented an accurate assessment of the damage, the tone of German complaints about a "terror" attack indicated that it was equally as de- structive as other RAF saturation raids. Cologne Harbors Chemical Works Cologne, third largest city in Ger many, harbors a large assortment of war plants including chemical and dye works. Their importance is in- dicated by the fact that the city now has been raided 117 times. Germany reported, without Allied confirmation, that the Cologne ca- thedral, which lifts its spires out of a cluster of railway, industrial and business targets, was hit by high ex- plosives. "Heavy bombs smashed through the roof of the cathedral and ex- ploded inside the church, causing heavy devastation," said a Berlin broadcast heard in London. Stephan Hopes For Clemency Traitor's Lawyer Offers Last Goodby * DETROIT, June 29.-(P)-Nichoas Salowich, counsel for Max Stephan, convicted traitor, disclosed today he has said his last goodbye to his client, who is scheduled to be hanged some- time before dawn Friday, but insisted he still believes his client's life will be spared. "I still think the President will commute the death sentence," SaLo- wich said. "I told Stephan that when I saw him last. But if the sentence is not