fr, 4t WEATHER Partly Cloudy and Slightly' Cooler VOL. LIV No. 32-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 1944 anadian Detachments Blast into Fal PRICE FIVE CENTS Laise f aN Ossow Is Taken by Germans Russians Stopped Outside Warsaw WAR AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press FRANCE-Allies in south sector reported closing in on Toulon. Western front reports Germans fleeing trap. Underground waging widespread warfare against Ger- mans. AIR-Allied planes hit aircraft and oil plants in Reich. Heavy opposition from rocket planes. Ro- bot bombs over London again. RUSSIA-Reds give up town near Warsaw but drive on in other sectors. PACIFICL-Allied planes strike new blows in Philippines. Also hit islands between Formosa and China. By The Associated Press LONDON Aug. 16.-The Germans went all out today to hold Warsaw, throwing gigantic tank and infantry forces into counterattacks northeast of the old Polish capital and forcing the Russians out of the town of Ossow, seven miles from Warsaw's contiguous suburb of Praga. Loss of Ossow Acknowledged Loss of Ossow was acknowledged in the midnight Soviet communique, the first announced loss of any im- portance since the vast victory pa- rade of the Russian summer offen- sive began June 23. The Russians never had announced capture of Ossow, marking their closest approach to Warsaw since they began the suburban siege of the capital July 31 after seizing Wolo- mmn, ten miles northeast. This was the second day that the ,ussians had reportd German coun- terattacks before Warsaw, but they made clear that the price the Nazis paid for this fractional success was exorbitant. Nazis Lose 118 Tanks The communique reported that on all fronts Tuesday the Germans lost. 118 tanks, raising the two day total of German armor losses to 232 and implying that a great percentage of these were in front of Warsaw. The German high command's communique omitted mention of Warsaw. Elsewhere on the 1,000-mile active front the Russians reported continu- co t n-ing successes. Reds Sweep Up 70 Towns On the Estonian front they an- nounced advances that swept up 70 more towns, and in Lithuania, where the Russians have been bearing down toward Memelland, they announced repulse of German counterattacks. On the southern Polish front, Sov- iet troops broke into the city of Sandomierz and engaged the. Ger- mans in street fighting. The city had been by-passed closely for two weeks by the extended Russian bridgehead across the Vistula. Fall of Sandomierz, however, would greatly strengthen the Russian ad- vanced spearhead position and pos- sibly permit Soviet forces there to strike sharply northward in an out- flanking movement against Warsaw. Warsaw Focal Point Warsaw was the focal point of the whole front, however, and Moscow dispatches said the Red Army ap- peared to be starting its real all-out bid for the city against the bitterest sort of German resistance. The Germans apparently were do- ing everything in their power to meet theyWarsaw challenge, but how long they could continue to endure the necessary losses was problematical. Operetta To Be Given Today The second performance of "The Chocolate Soldier" will be presented jointly by the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech and the University Orchestra at 8:30 p.m. today in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Because of the exceptional demand for tickets, extra performances will be given at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Neu Offensive Drives Eight Miles By The Associated Press ROME, Aug. 16.--French and American invasion troops, now identified as the Seventh Army, under the veteran U.S. Maj.-Gen. Alexander M. Patch, were fighting as much as eight miles into south- ern France tonight after smashing German coastal defenses and es- tablishing themselves firmly on a 70-mile stretch of the Mediter- ranean coast between Toulon and Cannes. Disclosing that the land, sea and air forces making this latest breach in Hitler's continental wall were under an all-American com- .. . mand, Allied headquarters an- nounced tonight that "all initial objectives have been taken" and that casualties of all services had been "exceptionally light." At 10:45 o'clock tonight (4:45 p.m., E. W. T.) headquarters an- nounced that the landing of rein- forcements was continuing with- out interruption and that the bulk of the leading infantry divisions was already ashore. Nearly 700 prisoners had been counted up to last midnight, the announcement said. The Allies tonight were pouring ashore by sea and air a steady stream of new fighters and equip- .. .. ment. British and American air- borne troops, landed on a big scale behind the lines, were effectively blocking German attempts to rush reinforcements to the invasion scene. The Americans used flame- throwers to burn Germans out of stone emplacements. The highly-trained and expert airborne forces were landed from towed gliders which formed a train fully 50 miles long and several miles wide, and by parachute from transports which kept more than 1,000 men swinging in the air at a time. Although serious opposition was encountered at one undisclosed point, preventing the Allies from debarking, most of the opening as- sault "overran intricate beach ob- stacles strongly protected by Ger- man coastal guns," headquarters disclosed tonight. No powerful or general German opposition had yet developed, per- sons arriving from the beachhead reported. The headquarters of Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Briton who is Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Mediterranean forces, dis- closed tonight that the invasion was under American command on land and sea and in the air. :,. ., ., Encounter Heavy German Resistance Nazi Rear Guard Tries To Hold Open Narrow Corridor As Escape Route By The Associated Press SHAEF, Thursday, Aug. 17-Canadian troops stormed into Falaise from two sides Wednesday night, battling desperate German resistance in the center of the town as enemy rear guards attempted to hold open the ever-narrowing corridor for the flight of remnants of the German Seventh Army. An official announcement said 11 under-strength divisions were in the Normandy trap, and the Germans themselves reported that those managing to struggle out through the eight-mile wide corridor probably were heading for another snare shaping up between Paris and the mouth French Revolt Sweeps Swiss Frontier Area Bitter Uprising Spreads Through Haute Savoie By The Associated Press ON THE FRENCH-SWISS FRON- TIER, Thursday, Aug. 17-French- men throughout Haute Savoie, sup- plied with guns and ammunition dropped by Allied planes during the past week, fought on bitterly this morning in a major revolt against the Nazis they had learned so well to hate during four years of occupa- tion now drawing to an end. Just after midnight big fires could be seen on Mount Saleve just outside Geneva. Germans were smoked out of the school buildings at Ville La Grande where they had held out all day Wednesday. Complete Partisan Control The region was completely under Partisan control. Just before mid- night Allied planes dropped new sup- plies to feed the battle. It was re- ported reliably that a series of supply gliders landed in the French Juras just after dusk Wednesday. There was no doubt that a general uprising, a real revolt, was in pro- gress. Village after village was lib- erated during the afternoon. Fight- ing French appeared at custom posts. Fighting between German soldiers and SS units helped to spread chaos in the Nazi garrisons. Against Their Own Gestapo German Army troops at Thonon- Les-Bains fought a bitter, day-long battle with machine guns, rifles and hand to hand against their own Ges- tapo and SS units, while outside the town between Avian and Thonon Partisans carried out a heavy offen- sive against occupation troops. Big fires were started in the village of Amphion and Nazi troops there fled in disorder. Four officers surrendered to Par- tisans at Bellevaux. Czech and Aus- trian troops laid down their arms. Regular German soldiers surrendered in the Douvaing region. For more news on French Parti- san activity see page 4. Misunderstanding About Union Cards Corrected In view of an erroneous impres- sion held by servicemen on this campus, the Michigan Union re- leased the following statement to- day to clarify the situation. "Servicemen will require Union cards as well as paying the regular fees in order to participate in Upion activities." A1MIERICAN TROOPS LAND IN SOUTHERN FRANCE-American soldiers wade through the water from an LCI to the beach at a point east of Toulon as the new invasion of France along the Mediterranean coast opened. Another LCI is at the left. This is the first ground view of the new thrust against the Germans in southern France. Allied Bombers Strike Davao PETITION ACCEPTED: Bursley Tenders Temporary Approval to New Veterans Club l1 Planes Downed in Raid on Halmahera 1 GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 17, Thursday-(AP)- Allied bombers in new blows at the Philippines and the Spice Islands raided Davao, on Min- danao, and destroyed 11 airplanes at Halmahera, headquarters announced today. A patrol plane, probably from a Dutch New Guinea base, attacked the wharf area of Davao, principal city in the southern Philippines, Sun- day night. The damage to this im- portant port, from which the Jap- anese formerly sent a flow of troops and supplies to Halmahera and New Guinea, was not disclosed. Patrol planes have attacked Min- danao half a dozen times this month. Prior to the end of July, the Philip- pines had been beyond effective Al- lied bomber range since April, 1942. Heavy and medium bombers join- ed in attacks upon Lolobata air- drome on Halmahera Tuesday, in which 11 Japanese planes on the ground were destroyed or seriously damaged. Hailmahera, stepping-stone from New Guinea to the Philippines and once one of the mightiest Japanese bases in the southwest Pacific, was characterized by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur this week as "practically neu- tralized" by bombing attacks. Southwest of Halmahera, patrol- ling Liberators scored two direct hits on a 3,000-ton freighter-transport which was left dead in the water. In mopping-up operations on Biak, 248 additional enemy dead have been counted and 52 more prisoners tak- en. Known Japanese casualties onj Dean of Students Joseph A. Burs- ley, chairman of the Student Affairs Committee, yesterday tendered tem- porary University approval to the new Veterans Organization and in- dicated that the entire comrnittee would formally pass upon the recog- nition petition in a week or ten days. This move coupled with the antici- pation of a large veteran turnout for this week's meeting of the organiza- tion prompted the executive commit- tee to shift the scene of the meeting to the Rackham Amphitheatre, Lasz- lo Hetenyi, Grad., president, stated. Three Ann Arbor men, long leaders in American Legion work, will dis- cuss "How the Veteran Can Be Helped" at this meeting to be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow. The various programs of the fed- eral and state governments and the American Legion to aid the dis- charged veteran in readjusting to civilian life will be discussed by Henry Barnes, Carl Johnson and Walter Kindschy. An open question period will follow. The Veterans Organization is at- tempting to enlist the active mem- bership of the more than 100 dis- charged servicemen on the campus, Hetenyi said, and he added that "it is extremely important that all vet- erans attend this meeting." War Bond Redemptions Are Surprisingly Large WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.- (P)- War bond redemptions in the first 14 days of August totaled $129,622, 063, compared with sales of $147,- 292,098. This was disclosed in the Treas- ury's daily statement today. Allies Advance Toward Pinbaw Troops Are 22 Miles Southwest of Mogaung SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, Aug. 16.-(P)-Allied troops in nort;h Burma, driving south along the Man- dalay railway, now are about 22 miles southwest of Mogaung, having reached a point two miles north of Pinbaw, headquarters announced to- night. (The Japanese themselves ac- knowledged withdrawal into Burma from India where, the Tokyo radio admitted, "they are prepared for battles." The broadcast was record- ed by the Associated Press). British troops continued their ad- vance down the Tiddim Road and in the Kabaw valley in western Burma. In the valley, operations were in progress against enemy rear guard elements 18 miles from the captured border stronghold of Tamu. of the Seine River. Canadians Storm Town The Canadians,. storming into the center of the town where William the Conqueror was born, were supported by tanks of an armored regiment as they slugged their way across the tiny Ante River running through the northwestern part of Falaise. But they met stiff resistance from Ger- mans entrenched in the town's main buildings. On the other claw of the huge trap, American forces from the south have captured Putanges, front dispatches said. The town is ten miles west of Argentan and its capture seals off the only road through the bottleneck wide enough for two trucks to pass. Allied planes showered explosives on the trapped Germans and at the same time dropped 2,000,000 "surren- der" leaflets, showing pictures of German defeats at Cherbourg and in Russia. It appeared that except for the struggle at Falaise and Argentan, upper and lower jaws of the pincers, resistance was crumbling fast. Retreat Likened to Dunkerque One Allied officer likened it to a "land Dunkerque," as American and British forces, breaking inside the Road to Berlin By The Associated Press RUSSIAN FRONT: 322 miles (measured from eastern suburbs of Warsaw). ITALIAN FRONT: 603 miles (measured from Florence). NORMANDY FRONT: 626 mles (measured from Soignolles). SOUTHERN FRANCE: 680 miles (measured from Cannes). pocket, found a chaos of-flight. The pocket now is shrunk to eight miles wide at the gap and 15 miles wide at the base and little over 20 miles long. It was a defeat of an army, one officer said, but not an annihilation, and it remained to be seen, in view of the new threat to the Germans in the Paris direction, how many actu- ally would escape. L.t. Gen.,Omar N. Bradley's forces have hemmed in enemy troops suffi- cient in number, along with those al- ready dead or captured, to make an- other Stalingrad in Normandy, As- sociated Press correspondent William Smith White wrote from the front. A few hours after American tanks captured Putanges in a sharp thrust, cutting down the escape corridor, an official announcement said the trap- ped divisions-all probably far below normal strength-included the 271st, 977th, 326th, 276th, 277th, 89th, 85th and 272nd infantry, the 21st Panzer - and the 9th and 12th SS divisions. At full strength, these di- visions would aggregate 165,000 men, but their number probably does not approach that now. How far they have been reduced cannot be esti- mated. Many Nazis Escape it seemed clear by now that the Germans had managed to get much of the crippled Seventh Army out of its trap-to what fate remained to be seen. Associated Press Correspondent Hal Boyle reported from Third . S. Army headquarters in France that the remaining Germans were break- ing up into roving Guerrilla bands and seemed to have been so decimat- ed that the Seventh Army could not reassemble its remnants for a break- through to join other disorganized units beyond Paris. Class Representatives of Engine Council Chosen GI JOE WANTS TO FORGET WAR'S HORRORS: Campus Veteran Tells of Four Years in Pacific Behind the discharge button of one of the returned veterans on cam- pus lies a story of four years of fighting in this war which have car- ried him through the Battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, the fighting on Guadalcanal, and in the Aleutians. As a pilot, bombardier, and navi- gator, in the Army Air Forces at- tached to the famed 19th Bombard- ment Group in the South Pacific he snw and narticinated in what he calls Midway, but that was what we were supposed to do." It was something like that which We'll call him GI Joe and take up his story, "We saw those Marines on Guadalcanal take a hell of a lot but they sure did give out plenty more. Those first few days on the island when we were their air um- brella, the stream of Japs seemed endless but our boys kept piling up the dead and the island was se- cured." "When I talked to those boys on GI Joe enlisted in the Air Forces when he was still a kid. He was sixteen in 1940 when he felt the urge to put his weight behind the forces "fighting for democracy." He fought, and saw men dying in a good part of the battle area, Pearl Harbor streng- thened his resolve, and after four years of meeting and conquering danger, he crashed in a Curtis War- hawk on a routine flight in the States.