wUsax, AUI. s, 144 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Cota Sings as x~ 9 Army Wins When General Is Happy, All Is Well By The Associated Press WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE, (Delayed)-When Brig. Gen. Norman Daniel Cota sings to himself then the boys of the 29th division know everything is moving along smoothly. But when the General doesn't sing, there is something wrong. Right now, the general is singing. He is assistant commander of the 29th Infantry Division which bat- tered its way through the Germans' ;breached defenses and drove on to capture St. Lo and to receive a com- mendation of the corps commander for a job well done. Rugged Character This tall, 51-year old soldier from Chelsea, Mass., is one of the rugged est characters in the United States Army. Tie led the task force which drove into St. Lo on July 18, and he was right at the front of his column, directing operations. He usually is found around the front lines where the fighting is roughest, and he moves with com- plete disregard for his own safety, finding out for himself what is go- ing on and cheering up his men with his good humor. When he led his task force into St. Lo he was wounded slightly in the 'arm by shrapnel. But he re- fused to leave for the rear until his troops had accomplished the mis- sion of occupying the city. Receives DSC Recently, Gen. Eisenhower pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on Cota for heroic leadership of his troops on D-Day. He landed on the beach where heavy fighting was in- derway, and skillfully directed opera- tions against the enemy's strong gun emplacements and machine gun nests which were holding up the doughboy advance. Cota came to the 29th from the IstDivision with which he served in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns. Fire and Movem0enz From these campaigns he broght back a firm belief in the value of fire and movement in infantry tac- tics. Even his jeep is named "Fire and Movement." And he drills these tactics into company commanders day after day.' Balkan Air Corps Aid& Yugoslav Allies BALKAN AIR FORCE HEAD- QUARTERS, (Delayed)-()-A new Balkan air force-whose roster of pilots reads like that of the, United Nations-has planted bases on Yugo- slav soil for the express purpose of providing an air arm. for Marshal Tito and other resistance forces. Although the bulk of the forces are British and American, there are Ital- ian, Polish and Greek squadrons. and soon Yugoslav airmen will be fiyrng back to their homeland to take up the struggle. Wounded Hero Is Nicknamed Screendoor' By The Associated Press WITH THE AEF IN ITALY, (De- layed)-Neither military nor medical men can quite figure out why Lt. Jack Degman of Piedmont, Wyo., is still alive and still in combat after going through the Tunisian and Ital- ian campaigns. Platoon leader in a tank destroyerI outfit, the ex-cowboy has beenI wounded five times, considerably I above par for any combat corps, and it has earned him the battalion nick- name, "Screendoor," indicating he is full of holes. And the five wounds don't count a couple of extra ones which he didn't even bother to take to the hospital. Has 70-Year-Old Heart All this fighting was done with what is known as a 70-year-old- heart in his 23-year-old body. It's a strange story. Jack's mother died when he was born in Bakers- field, Calif. His father died when he was in his early teens. So he headed east, got as far as Wyoming. There his grandparents persuaded him to stop his wandering, work for them on vacations and continue his school- ing in the winter. HITLER VISITS OFFICER INJURED IN BOMB BLAST-The caption accompanying this German photo, supplied by Pressens Bild, Swedish picture agency, describes it as Adolf Hitler visiting Maj. Gen. Walter Scherff, a German officer injured in the bomb blast attempt on Hitler's life July 20. NERVES HEAL IN ACTION: Cured inRear AreaHospital U.S. Educated Jap Meets Yank. In Sai pan Battle Bullets Instead of Boos End College Rivalry By The Associated Press SAIPAN, Marianas Islands - (De- layed) -Maybe it happened this way; maybe not. In war you're not sure what happens. This much we know: an American marine tried to reason it out with one of the rising sons of Nippon. The buddies of the marine saw the beginning of this drama. The end was told without words, when they found their com- rade with a bullet through his head and the Jap dead behind his ma- chine gun. The place was the rocky slopes of Hill 721. The Jap was an English- speaking, American educated soldier. The Yank was--well, sentimental. A Marine patrol found the Jap, alone, behind a machine gun in a well protected spot under an over- hanging ledge. The Jap didn't open fire,and they crawled closer. The sentimental marine said, "Maybe he wants to surrender," and crawled a little closer than the rest. You can imagine his surprise when the Jap said, "I wouldn't come too close, Mac. You might get hurt." "Listen, Tojo," the marine came back, "there are eight of us. Why don't you give up?" "I should surrender to some drug store cowboys?" ,the Jap retorted. "You speak pretty good English for a Jap," the Yank said. "Why not?" Tojo replied. "I spent fifteen years in your country. I even went to Columbia University for two years." "I'm a Princeton man myself," the marine declared. "You ought to be ashamed to admit it," the Jap shouted back. "Princeton hasn't beaten Columbia in four years." "Listen, Tojo, cut the dirty remarks before I let you have a burst," the American snapped. At that moment the Jap opened up with his machine gun and the Yank flattened himself behind a boulder. He watched the bullets ricochet off the top of it. His bud- dies backed around the nearest cliff to get out of range. Pretty soon the Jap stopped firing. The American raised his head. "Pal, that did it," he said, and cut loose with a burst from his Bar. The Jap ducked and turned on his Nam- bu machine gun. For a few minutes that quiet ra- vine, which had been given over to the repartee of two men. at war, echoed with the angry chattering of automatic weapons. By The Associated Press WITH THE AEF IN ITALY (De- layed)--"We're finally learning that you can't cure psychoneurotics in a rear area hospital," said the short, heavy-set doctor. "At least it's a lot harder. Keep 'em up front and you've got a fighting chance of help- ing them get their balahce back. But bring them back here where they're completely safe and their memories and imaginations go to work. Then then almost never go back." He leaned forward in his chair, talking earnestly above the babble of voic :s in the officers' day-room where several of the station hospital doctors and nurses were resting. It was night. The hospital was more than 100 miles from the front. "It's like when a pilot cracks up but isn't hurt," he said. Nerves Heal in Action "First thing he should do is go right back up again as quick as pos-' sible. Then the experience is coun- terattacked before it has time to work on his nerves. The longer he goes without flying again the harder it is for him to go back." A younger doctor cut into the con- versation. "Remember how we used to try tof get the men clear away from even the' sound of the front as quickly as possible, and in Tunisia we wondered why we had such a high percentage of incurables among them?" he said. "Now we're -getting as many psycho- neurotic specialists as possible right up with the hospitals in the field-at collecting companies and clearing stations-and right with the troops. They can accomplish twice as much up there as they could back here." Use Revolutionary Trend For a moment they talked about how the revolutionary trend in hand- ling the nerve cases had cut the per- centage by near miraculous figures. Churces.. (continued from Page 2) be "The Book of Common Prayer in America." Wesleyan Guild at the First Me- thodist Church will continue with its discussions on the general theme of "What Should thenChurch Be Do- ing?" They will meet at 5 p. m. in the lounge and will hold their supper and fellowship hour after the talks. The Sunday class for University stu- dents wil again be conducted by Dr. Edward W. Blakeman, counselor in religious education, on aspects of marriage and family life from 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. Prefers Motorized Outfit Four years ago, after two years in a pre-med course in the University of Wyoming, Jack joined the army. It was natural that this lean, brown- ed, sunburned youth of medium sta- ture would get in some motorized. outfit. Cowboys don't like to walk. How he got in with his heart! amazes the medics over here but he did, and he, landed with the invasion in North Africa. He started accumu- lating his wounds in the Tunisian campaign, but the boys were Ll.sy and nobody happened to check his heart while patching hi n up. Allies Smash Nazi 'Fortress Europe' LONDON, Aug. 5.-(1P)--A vaunted German inner defense line guarding the approaches to Paris and inland France has vanished into the air from which it was conjured by the Nazi propaganda mills. The breakthrough from Normandy has confirmed what Allied aerial re- connaissance had already indicated- that there are no fixed enemy defens- es short of the Maginot and Siegfried lines. WA R NEWS Spotlighting Late News and Interpretation PILE OF RUBBLE: It's a Good Man Who Can Find Front Line Somewhere on Guam By WILLIAM L. WORDEN fallen and the troops are fighting Associated Press War Correspondent on the other side. He ought to AGAT TOWN, ON GUAM, (De- know. But how can he explain those layed)-The front line is up here nine Marines a half mile ahead on somewhere but it takes a better man the outskirts, running bent over and than I am to find it. weaving like swivel-hipped football This town is a pile of rubble. It halfbacks? supposedly fell to our troops late The second fellow I asked, a young yesterday. I think it did--but I'm corporal, said: not sure. Nothing Is Safe. A colonel told me that all Agat has "Oh, no. Nothing is safe up there. ----.-The Japs are just over that rise." He was talking about a point a en .E kes ® . s mile back of Agat. A Marine lieutenant told me it (Continued from Page 6) was all right up to the bridge 100 mense symbols of the forces of so- yards ahead. I went ahead and there ciety and of Dali's "secret" philoso- wasn't any bridge. phy. A 37 MM. battery has added to the The roles of these characters definiteness. One gun went forward verge on the allegorical, and this to back up battalion headquarters, allegory, this bogus medievalism which a lieutenant said he knew was which permeates the book, adds 200 yards to the right and ahead. to its unreality and makes it Other guns went off toward the rear seem no nearer to us than its because a lieutenant there was sure counterparts of the late nine- he'd already come too far east toward teenth-century. Only superficially the line and might be past it. does it identify itself with our The communications man in the time and the issues important to foxhole with me-the Japanese con- us. And, although Dali ack- siderately dug an especially good one nowledges himself a man of here-said he knew the line was be- superhuman penetration, this yond the town. His partne .just came bookdoesnotrevel tat peu_ feet first into a hole from across the book does not reveal that pecu- road. He explained he was sick of vlaein sit ofwhichmght.mhaving machine gun bullets popping valuable outside of time. .. Running Men Indicate Front This is not to say that Dali in- Runi esIndie heost tends to dazzle us with a brilliant around his legs while he stood up. sham. He may indeed be "painful- Some experts claim the way to ly" sincere, and he can also be tell where the front line is located ly sncee, ad h canals beis to keep going until you~ see men brilliant: there are passages in 1stnn gngb n nti Y0 u.e Ten the first half of the book which running bent over behind you. Then resemble the delirium of his paint- you're on it. ingsandwhih ae efecive enugh That is very interesting right now ings and which are effective enough because there's 'a whole platoon of to make us wonder whether there man running bent over 50 yards be- is not something here too profoundhin us. Tobterrhto e and mysterious for us to under- hod us. To the right, two men are stand. shooting rapidy down mto a pile of Perhaps a 'better writer than rocks with a hole under it. Some- Dali could make the whole en- thing is shooting back. grossing and worthwhile. But But up ahead those nine Marines toward the end' of the book the have stopped running now, are tialogue i sboth quaint and fat, standing straight up and giving each dhe pasteboard glamor of scenes other lights for cigarettes. They've and titles is much like that of the even putsdown their rifles. pulp, an th couts'grimre- I guess I never will learn about pueps, and the counts' grim re- this front line business., One thing searches resemble those of the I do know, those things going "whee demon scientist in detective maga- whee" over my head now are not es. And all of this rococco ma-birds terial is embellished further by br Dali's deliberate attempts at art: TYPEWRITERS the cliche of the "hidden faces,"uTPEW TE R the rejuvenation of the cork oaks Repaired which, as Chevalier has told us, repaed fill a role almost like that of a STUDENT and Greek chorus. We know that Dali OICE SUPPLIES is anxious to avoid the exquisite 0. D. MORRILL refinements of good taste. 314 S. State St. Phone 6615 9 -p isix8 COAT a ; 1'TiS I.... .e .' COATS with button-in linings that can be removed for early fall wear and inserted for the winter. You'll marvel at their wearability and usefuilness. 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"Fresh Fields," comedy by Novello,' will be presented by the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech, Wednesday through Sat- urday evenings, Aug. 9-12, in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Tickets on sale in the theatre box office. Box office hours: Monday and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., for the balance of the week, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. French Club: The sixth meeting of the Club will take place Thursday, Aug. 10, at 8 p.m. in the Michigan League. Mme. Sarah Maycock, Grad., will talk on "Souvenirs pittoresques de'une etudiante a m e r i c a in e en France." Group singing and social hour. All students of the Summer Session and the Summer Term as well as all servicemen are cordially invited to the weekly meetings of the French Club which are free of charge. Russian Film: "Childhood of Max-' irh Gorky." Aug. 11 and 12, 8:15 p.m., Rackham Lecture Hall. Churches First Presbyterian Church: Wash- tenaw. Sunday, Aug. 6, 10:45 a.m.. Morning worship, sermon by Dr. D. Elton Trueblood "The Fellowship of the Unashamed." 4:30 p.m., Special lecture on "The Future of Religion," Dr. D. Elton Trueblood. Cost supper and social following. First Church of Christ, Scientist, 409 S. Division St. Wednesday eve- ning service at 8p.m. Sunday morning service at 10:30 a.m. Subject "Spirit." Sunday school at 11:45 a.m. A con- venient reading room is maintained by this church at 106 E. Washington St. where the Bible, also the Christian Science Textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy may be read, borrowed or pur- chased. Open daily except Sundays and holidays from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays until 9 p.m. University Lutheran Chapel, 1511 Washtenaw, will have its regular ser- vice Sunday at 11, with the sermon by the Rev. Alfred Scheips, "The Constancy of True Friendship." Gamma Delta, Lutheran Student Club, will meet at the Lutheran Stu- dent Center Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock for an outing at Portage Lake. The Lutheran Student Association will leave the Zion Lutheran Parish Hall, 309 E. Washington St., for a picnic supper at Island Park Fire- place this Sunday afternoon at 4:30. Servicemen and students are wel- come. Zion Lutheran Church: Worship service at 10:30 a.m. and sermon by Rev. E. C. Stellhorn. Trinity Lutheran Church: Worship service at 10:30 a.m. and sermon by Rev. Rimmer in the absence of Rev. Henry Yoder. Memorial Christian Church (Disci- ples): Hill and Tappan Streets. 11 a.m., Sunday morning worship. The Rev. Parker Rossman will speak on the subject, "Nature's Blunder?" At 4 p.m. students 'and servicemen will meet at the Guild House, 438 May- nard St., for a trip to Riverside Park for games, a picnic supper, and ves- per service. In case of unfavorable weather the program will be held inside. The group will return to cam- pus by 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, State and William Streets. Sunday: at the morning service, 10:45, Professor Preston W. Slosson will speak on the subject, "The War and the Church." At 4 p.m. students and servicemen will leave the Guild House, 438 May- nard St., for a picnic and vespers at Riverside Park. In case of unfavor- able weather the program will be held inside. The group will return to campus by 7 p.m. First Methodist Church and Wes- For Saving or for Keeping- 1111 LOVEL.Y WORACO) [LTHS that you camn sclect romnn