rT11 r 0010 Ait :43t4l WEATHER Continued Cool with Fresh Breezes VOL. LIV No. 34-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, AUG. 19, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Patton Breaks German Grip on France , __ Schedule Is Revised' The new revised University schedule for next year, released yesterday, is as follows: End summer term..............................Saturday, Oct. 21 Examination period .................. Monday-Saturday, Oct. 16-21 Graduation exercises.. .,......................Saturday, Oct. 21 Fall term begins.............................Wednesday, Oct. 25 Orientation week............Wednesday-Wednesday, Oct. 25-Nov. 1 Registration..................Monday-Wednesday, Oct. 30-Nov. 1 Dental classes begin............................Monday, Oct. 30 All other classes begin ................. . .... . Thursday, Nov. 2 Thanksgiving............................ Thursday, Nov. 23 or 30 Christmas recess... ..,Friday evening, Dec. 22 to Thursday, Dec. 28 Examinations ...................... Saturday-Saturday, Feb. 17-24 Commencement ................................. Saturday, Feb. 24 Spring term begins ............. ........... .. Wednesday, Feb. 28 Orientation week .......... Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 28-March 3 Registration ....................... Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3 Classes begin..............................Monday, March 5 Memorial Day ................................ Wednesday, May 30 Examinations.... .............. . Commencement ................. ....Saturday-Saturday, June 16-23 ................Saturday, June 23 i Hull Accepts Dewey Man GOP Advisor Will Aid in World Plans WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-()- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today pro- posed and Secretary of State Hull ac- cepted direct participation of Dew- ey's foreign relations adviser in Am- erican preparations for organizing postwar world security. This dramatic turn of political events in the background of Big Four security talks beginning here next week was immediately interpreted in diplomatic quarters as strengthening the United States' position. John Dulles Named Dewey had wired Hull earlier today suggesting that John Foster Dulles, who probably would be his secretary, of state if Dewey is elected president, confer with Hull on postwar foreign policy. The Republican nominee's move followed a Hull news conference statement yesterday that he would be glad to meet with Dewey or any- one else who came in a mood of co- operation rather than one of political partisanship. Hull Answers Dewey After' receiving Dewey's telegram today, Hull responded with this mes- sage: "I am immensely gratified to re- ceive your assurance of bi-partisan cooperation in the effort to establish lasting peace. "I shall be delighted to see Mr. Dulles and to confer with him on any date or dates convenient to him." Dulles is regarded as a recognized part of the new Republican leader- ship, and while there is no evident intention of making him a part of the delegation, Hull's and Dewey's decision to count him in on current developments evidently strengthened their mutual pledges of bi-partisan cooperation. FDR Approves Unified Forces WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.- (P)- President Roosevelt said today there is general agreement on the need for post-war merger of the Army and Navy into a single department under unified command. But nothing will be done about it, he said at a news conference, until after the war. The President did not elaborate, but his comment indicated that op- position to the idea, largely within the Navy, has been overruled at the top command level. Truman, in an article in Collier's magazine, said evidence obtained by the special Senate committee of which he was chairman showed a division of power and function in the field, competition in procurement of essential materials, rivalry in claim- ing credit for new developments and wastage and conflict inimical to effi- cient conduct of the war. Norman Thomas To Talk at Saline Reds Ga in 31 Miles Silesian Defense Lines Weakened LONDON, Aug. 18-(;P)--Russian troops have advanced 31 miles on a 75-mile front west of the Vistula River in a surge threatening to snap the Axis Warsaw-Krakow line guard- ing the approaches to German Sile- sia, Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin disclosed tonight in a order of the day. . Sandomierz, west bank stronghold 110 miles below besieged Warsaw, was captured by Marshal Ivan S. Ko- nev's First Ukraine Armies, the ot- der of the day said. The Russians previously had been reported within 35 miles of Krakow and within 75 miles of German Silesia. Nazis Burn Villages This smash through Poland toward highly industrialized German Silesia occurred as Soviet Naval fliers said that German troops retreating into East Prussia, far to the north, now were burning their own villages along the border in the path of Russian forces whose spearheads already might be fighting on Reich soil for the first time in the war. Three German divisions of 30,000 to 45,000 men were trapped north of Sandomierz, the Daily Russian communique said, and 21 additional villages were seized. Mop-up opera- tions against the pocketed Germans already have begun. Attacks Repulsed East of Praga, big Warsaw indu- strial suburb, the Russians were said to have repulsed enemy infantry and tank attacks and in a number of sectors went over to counterattacks. The Russians last were reported within 11 miles of Warsaw, where bitter street fighting continued be- tween Germans and Polish patriots. The possibility of another big So- viet army coming into action on the Romanian front was suggested by a Berlin high command communique. saying that Russian attempts to cross the lower Dnestr river were repulsed. This apparently occurred between Tiraspol and the black sea where the Dnestr flows within 225 miles of Bucharest, Romanian capital and the Ploesti oil fields. Soviet gains also were made north of Krustpils in Latvia, but Moscow acknowledged a slight German wedge being driven in Russian lines west of Siauliai in northern Lithuania. 7th Nears Toulon in Dual Drive One Column Within Six Miles of Base By The Associated Press ROME, Aug. 18.- American and French Seventh Army troops drove against Toulon both along the coast and 20 miles inland in a threatening flanking movement behind the great naval base today while a wave of American medium bombers hit and set fire to the French battleship Strasbourg which the Germans had been using as a coastal fortress in the harbor. Column Nears Sollies It was officially disclosed tonight that one of Maj.-Gen. Alexander M. Patch's swift-moving columns surged into the vicinity of Sollies Pont, only six miles northeast of Toulon, while far to the north another spearhead punched into the area of Brignoles 20 miles almost due north of Toulon in anoutflanking drive.. The 26,500-ton Strasbourg, partly submerged when the French scuttled their own fleet at Toulon in 1941, was sought out by B-25 Mitchells. Sev- eral direct hits were scored and fires and explosions were caused by the bombs, crewmen reported. Although partly dismantled, the Germans had used her guns to bom- bard the Allied troops. Casualties Only 300 Headquarters announced the known American assault casualties for the southern French invasion were only 300, an almost incredibly low figure, and said 7,000 German prisoners had been taken in a count still far from complete. Headquarters announced the drives inland had brought capture of a sec- ond Nazi general in two days, and said this general professed amaze- ment at the news of the Normandy and Brittany campaigns in the north and the German reverses near East Prussia. The 7,000 prisoners taken probably numbered fully half of the original enem force which faced the Allied invasion waves today. Defenses Crumbling German defenses crumbled in many sectors, and as yet the Nazis had mustered no big scale resistance. There was no indication of what .the hard-presseddNazi Command might be able to do to reinforce its fast fading units for a real stand. Operetta To Le Given Twice Two performances of "The Choco- late Soldier;" the final production of the Michigan Repertory Players of the Department of Speech, will be presented at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. to- day at the Lydia Mendelssohn Thea- tre. Prof. William Revelli of the School of Music is the director of the Uni- versity Orchestra for the operetta. Dorothy Feldman plays the leading role of Nadina Popoff, and Jack Secrist, the male lead, Lt. Bumerli. Others in the cast include Lucille Genuit, Worth Mallory, Charles Ben- jamin, Albert Richards, Mary Craig- miles, Eileen Blum, Byron Mitchell and a large chorus of men and women. Prof. Valentine Windt is the direc- tor of the production. 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Groups on Campus Asked To Fill Large Blood Bank Quota Allies Near Paris, Tjrap Nazi" Forces Enemy Diverts Bulk of 15th Army From Coast To Avert Normandy Disaster By The Associated Press SHAEF, Saturday, Aug. 19-The bulk of the German 15th Army guarding the north French rocket coast has been thrown into an eleventh hour attempt to avert a Normandy debacle and has gone down to a defeat that may spell an Allied victory in the battle for France, it was disclosed officially last night. Mighty Allied forces were driving the beaten 15th and Seventh Armies toward the all but bridgeless Seine, and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tanks smashing to the vicinity of Paris-only 12 miles away by German accounts -had blocked off their retreat toward the French capital. The surging lines were developing* Four hundred and fifty blood don- ors must be registered Monday through Saturday to fill the largest quota ever assigned to the Univer- sity, Sandy Perlis, USNR, chairman of the drive, said yesterday. Organizations To Be Contacted Campus organizations will be con- tacted by the central committee, Pa- mela Watts and Jim Platte, Perlis said, and arrangements made for do- nating blood as a group. Among the FDR Advocates Post-War Youth Pot a c r7Training Plan WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-(IP)- President Roosevelt said today public opinion should be gradually formed on the idea of offering a year's post- war training-both military and civil -to 1,000,000 or 1,250,000 youths be- tween 17 and 23. He told a news conference that ex- cellently built service camps in the United States, Alaska, the Aleutians and elsewhere-capable of housing 5,000,000 men-could be utilized for the purpose. He said it would not constitute compulsory military training, but some civilian training, including vo- cational and stenbgraphic courses to prepare young men for civilian jobs, some of them in the government ser- vice. Saying he personally has studied the matter and that it warrants pub- lic study, the Chief Executive said such training would teach youths the special art of living together in groups, and also teach them clean- liness and discipline. organizations to be contacted will be the Interfraternity Council, the foot- ball team, the Women's War Coun- cil, Sphinx, Inter-Racial Association, Post-War Council, Men's Glee Club, and Michigan Dames. Michigan Youth for Democratic Action was the first organization to volunteer. Bob Chapin, a veteran of World War II, who recently returned to the University, commenting on the drive said: "I know how much it means, and speaking for the thou- sands of men whose lives have been saved by blood plasma and for the thousands of men whose lives will be saved, I can only urge that the stu- dent body and the entire University back the drive with their complete cooperation." "This quota of 450 pints is only a minor fraction of the blood already given in the field of battle by Univer- REGISTRATION FOR BLOOD BANK Special Booth at Center of ( Diagonal Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon. Social Director's Office in League Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon. Student Offices in Union Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Servicemen will be registered in the East and West Quadrangles at a time which will be announced by their respective headquarters. sity students alone," he said, "but whether the blood is given here or on the fronts or in both places, it takes us that much closer to victory." Unit Will Be At WAB The Mobile unit will be stationed at the Women's Athletic Sept. 14 and 15 and donors will be excused from class the hour of their appointments by Assistant Dean E. A. Walters of the literary college and Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the engineering school. Red Cross requirements make it necessary for persons under 21 years of age to obtain the consent of their parents before registering as donors. Ten weeks must elapse between each donation; therefore individuals who gave blood in the August bank are not eligible this month. a great enveloping movement west of Paris, where a senior British officer disclosed the Germans had rashly committed roughly half their crack 15th army. This was the first intimation that Field Marshal Gen. Guenther Vo Kluge had brought across the Seine important elements of his army guarding the channel coast and the rocket roosts to try to extricate the already battered Seventh from the pitfalls of Normandy. Dutch, Belgians Included Americans, British, Canadians, Poles, Dutch and Belgians-the last two disclosed for the first time to be in action-were in hot pursuit of the estimated 40,000 to 100,000 enemy troops who had squeezed from the Normandy pocket with the bulk of their tanks and were heading toward Rouen. The staff officer declared their of- fensive power was spent, that from here on these German forces were capable only of rearguard action, and that in winning the batte of Nor- mandy the Allies will have won the battle of France. Two Armies Along Coast Both the Seventh and 15th-The only striking force the Germans had Nazis Prepare Population for Shock of Defeat Vichy Men May Be Sent to 'Safer Place' LONDON, Aug. 18-G(P)-Nazi pro- paganda -agencies began preparing the German people for the shock of wholesale flight-on the eastern front pattern-from large sections of France today and announced that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's armored spearheads had already reached with- in 12 miles of Paris. The early removal of the puppet French government to some place safer than Vichy was hinted at on the German foreign office. The German Agency Transocean said Patton's main thrust was along the "high road leading to Versailles," a western suburb of Paris. Hope For Miracle Weapons Hitler's personal newspaper Voel- kischer Boebachter frankly said the German Army would pull out wher- ever necessary to "maintain op- erational freedom" and to keep the forces in being until miracle weapons could "change the whole aspect of the war." The paper said, "this final goal is more important than holding on to French towns and departments." More Withdrawals Suggested The Transocean military commen- tator Ludwig Sertorius said that "the strategy of German defense will be changed or already has been chang- ed" as a result of rapid Allied ad- vances between the middle Seine and middle Loire rivers. This comparison with the collapse of the eastern front suggested that the Germans were preparing with- drawals on a much vaster scale than the retreats thus far. along the Atlantic wall--were esti- mated to have had up to 25 divisions at D-Day. Half of the 15th Army, it is esti- mated, was thrown into the lost bat- tle of Normandy in the last two weeks and has been badly mauled. Replacements brought in to guard the channel are believed to be low grade and spread all the way through the Low countries. (The/United Nations radio at Al- giers said 400,000 Germans had been AN ADVANCED COMMAND POST IN NORMANDY, Aug. 18.- (P)-- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and his field commanders conferred this af- ternoon as Allied patrols pushed to- ward the Seine, and momentous de- cisions are believed to have been made. The supreme commander emerged tight lipped from a lengthy session at the field headquarters of Lt.-Gen. Omar N. Bradley. With him were Map.-Gen. K. W. D. Strong and Maj.-Gen. R. R. Bull, ranking offi- cers on his staff in charge of intelli- gence and operations, respectively. put out of action in northern France and 60,000 more were surrounded in the ports of Brittany.) Versailles Reports 'Unconfirm' Supreme Headquarters, lapsing in- to silence to mask possible new light- ning blows, found occasion to an- nounce officially that it was "unable to confirm" earlier reports that Amer- ican forces were near Versailles, seven miles outside Paris. It did report, however, that Ameri- can forces had widened their bridge- head over the Eure River both north- east and southeast of Dreux, only 20 miles from the Seine, a drive which apparently prompted the Germans to check their rush toward Paris and veer north toward Rouen. FDR To Confer With Churchill WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-(R)- President Roosevelt told reporters to- day that he expected to have another conference with Prime Minister Churchill soon, but would not be- come more specific as to the date. At a news conference the presi- dent elaboratied somewhat on his re- cent remark that Germany and Ja- pan would be occupied regardless of whether they surrender before be- ing over-run by Allied troops. He said there was a rather gen- eral understanding with Russia and Britain on the question of occupy- ing Germany, although all of the de- tails cannot be planned in advance; and added in response to questions that it would be just as easy to reach an understanding with China for oc- cupation of Japan. Aircraft Plants Cut Produetion WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-(AP)-Am- erica's losses in heavy bombers have been so much less than anticipated that production is being cut back gradually and 294,000 workers will be laid off in the aircraft industry by next July, Major Gen. Oliver P. Echols said today. At the vast Ford Willow Run plant in Detroit a reduction of 50 per cent will be effective by December, said Echols who is assistant chief of air staff. SKY FIREWORKS: Fiery Object Seen in Midwest Believed To Have Been Meteor INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 18-(AP)-A fiav.hi -h .-pdfnhnv bpn agreed generally that the object's di- r~n --nswsar. and it noccr- s.