PAGE SIX H~E MICHIGAN RAIL" FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1944 Five Nip Ships, Nine Planes Destroyed Near Bonin I slands Japs Face Annihilation In Last Stand on Saipan Total Enemy Ships Sent Down Reaches 41; Air Losses Raised to 835 Since June 10 By CHARLES H. McMURTRY I Associated Press Correspondent Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced yesterday the sinking of five more Japanese ships and destruction of nine more planes in the Bonin Islands while in the northern tip of Saipan Island thousands of Nipponese soldiers are reported facing liquidation by American weapons. U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 6-The sinking of five more Papanese ships and destruction of nine more planes in the Bonin Islands during a Fourth of July foray by an American carrier task force was disclosed today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. This brought to 41 the total enemy ships sent down by carrier planes and raised Nipponese air losses to 835 since June 10 when the Fifth U. S. Fleet moved into the Marianas to pave the way for invasion of Saipan. 130000 LEAVE FIELD: Overcrowding in Schools Due To Serious Teacher Shortage Highlights On Cainpus.. Prof. T itiev Leaves.,.. On the request of the government, Prof. Mischa Titiev of the anthro- pology department, left yesterday for Washington, D.C. He will be sent from there abroad on a special mis- sion. In addition to his work in the anthropology department Prof. Titiev has been in charge of the Aryan langlage program in the Fast East. He is an authority on the anthro- pology of Asia and has recently com- pleted a study on the Indians of the southwest. This work has been pub- lished under the title of "The Old Oraibi, the Hopi Indians of the Third Mesa." Reservations Accepted.. .. Reservations will be accepted until noon today for the picnic supper of the Congregational-Dis- ciples Guild on Sunday by calling the Guild House at 5838. New students and servicemen as well as past members are invited to attend. The group will leave the Guild House on Maynard at 4 p.m. Sunday for Riverside Park for games, supper and evening service. * * * Clark To Lecture.. .. Harry Clark of CBS will be brought here by the radio school of the sum- mer session for a week's lectures starting July 17, and will address classes, both in the radio section and the speech department. Clark, newscaster and announcer at the New York office of CBS, is replacing Harry Marble on theradio school program. Clark handled the Ned Kalmer news period on Sunday nights. * * * New Officers Chosen... New officers of the Men's Edu- cation Club, an organization com- posed of graduate students and faculty members, were elected yes- terday. Ray E. Deardorff, Toledo, O., was elected president, John Wiley, Mt. Pleasant, and E. D. Wagner, Charlevoix, were chosen first and second vice-presidents respectively, and Roland Faunce, Lansing, was elected secretary. After the executive meeting, Dr. James K. Pollock of the Depart- ment of Political Science reported on the Republican convention. The next meeting of the organization will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Rm. 316 in the Union. * * * B'nai B'rith To Meet... The B'nai B'rith Hillel student council will meet at 10:30 a. m., Sun- day, in the Foundation lounge. All present members, now on campus, are urged to attend. NO HONEYMOON: Fast Work in Army Romance By FRED HAMPSON Associated Press Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 22, (Delayed)- Pfc. Madge Lamping, of San Gabriel, Calif., was the bride in the first marriage of a WAC in the Southwest Pacific, and thereby hangs a story. Back in mid-June Corp. John Whitlock, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was assigned to help handle the lug- gage of a newly arrived detail of WACs. He picked up a bag and on delivering it in person found it was the property of Pfc. Lamping, his high school sweetheart. There were surprised gasps- a clinch. Pfc. Lamping can never for- get the day of the accidental reunion. It was her twenty-second birthday an.a o she tells it. "T receii the Face Liquidation Today's communique made the Volcano operation on Independence Day (east longitude; July 3, U. S. enemy's total losses in the Bonin- Time) 10 ships definitely sunk, six probably sunk and at least 21 dam- aged. Thousands of Japanese soldiers to- day faced liquidation by American weapons as they huddled for the final stand in the northern tip of Saipan island. Few were expected to sur- render though every cave, every ridge, sheltered Nipponese troops. Civilians Included With them were many thousands of civilians, all compressed into a tiny area by the American conquer- ors of the island that soon may base bomber raids on Japan itself. The cornered Japanese know they can't stop the Yanks, reported How- ard Handleman in a frontline dis- patch. He represents the combined Allied Press. The final cleanup is expected to be followed by swift American moves into other enemy islands. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz himself forecast such action last night. He promised "constant, unremitting pressure" on the enemy. ** * Yanks Invade Man in Island ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUAR- TERS, NEW GUINEA, July 7, Fri- day-(IP)-United States troops have occupied Manin Island off American- invaded Noemfoor Island, Headquar- ters announced today. Manin was seized by July 5 without opposition. Its occupation provides a flank position for the one remaining Japanese-held airdrome on Noem- foor. That airdrome, Namber, is the present objective of U.S. forces driv- ing across Noemfoor, off North Dutch New Guinea. The two other Noemfoor airdromes -Kamiri and Kornasoran-alreadc are in American hands. A Japanese counterattack on No- emfoor was repulsed, Headquarters reported. Allied air raiders sank three small Japanese vessels and damaged one, continuing their widespread attacks tgainst Nipponese shipping in waters near New Guinea. Sixteen barges also have been sunk or damaged. The Noemfoor invasion began Sun- day when American forces landed after crossing the encircling reef. Kamiri airdrome was captured in less than two hours. Airborne troops augmented the original invading force and Kornasoren airstrip was taken July 4. Huge Air Fleets Blast Nazis in 9,000 Mile Area LONDON, July 6.-()-More than 3,000 Allied heavy bombers- the greatest number ever hurled at Eur- ope in a single day-struck enemy installations in Germany, France and Italy from two directions today while thousands of tactical warplanes mauled German transport and sup- plies in a 9,000 square mile triangle below the Normandy battlefield. Thirty-two enemy planes were shot down; 14 Allied planes were lost as the Allies filled the skies with 6,000 sortie, including five separate at- tacks which unloaded more than 6,000 tons of explosives on the robot bomb roosts around Pas-de-Calais. About 1,000 U.S. Fortresses and Liberators attacked the launching, ramps for flying bombs and other objectives at Pas-de-Calais with 3,000 tons of bombs in the most savage assault of the day-a day in which Prime Minister Churchill told the world of the thousands of casualties these robot raiders were causing in London. The weather was clear over Pas- de-Calais for the first time since .Tne 4. and the Amerion hpoauip GERMAN. NURSES AWAIT RETURN TO OWN LINES-These German nurses, captured during the Allied occupation of Cherbourg, France, sit on a be nch as they await transportation by two ambulances to German lines under a flag of truce. INVASION INTERLUDE: Doughboys Occupy DismalBollevilie "Due primarily to an acute short- age of teachers, the schools are now more seriously crowded than ever before in American history", War- ren R. Good, instructor in educa- tional psychology, said yesterday. Last year a total of 130,000 teach- ers left the profession, while only about 25,000 new teachers were grad- uated, he added. Today about 10,000,000 children have to be taught in overcrowded classrooms, he con- tinued. Problem Will Last Till 1950 "The shortage of teachers is not likely to be completely overcome un- til about 1950," Mr. Good stated. "Until then, teachers will have ex- ceptional opportunities to obtain places in the profession and to ad- vance to better positions more rapid- ly than usual". He said that salaries are still too low, but can be expected to increase through the years as education re- gains its place in relation to other kinds of work after the war. "Enrollments in elementary schools have been at a standstill for several years, but will not go lower", Mr. Good stressed. "There is good reason to believe that the birth rate has already increased considerably, and we can look for a sharp rise when the soldiers return from the war and establish their families," he added. High School Enrollment is Stable Mr. Good believes that the high- school enrollment can be expected to remain the same until about 1960,_ although the total population of high school age will decline by ap- proximately one million young people within the next ten years. "In spite of this smaller number of young people, the enrollment will be main- tained because the proportion of boys and girls in high school continues to increase", he stated. "College enrollments have been hardest hit by the war", he con- tinued, "and even with the help that has been given through the Army and Navy educational programs in colleges, enrollments in higher in- stitutions are 500,000 below the .peak which occurred in 1940. College Figures Should Increase He said that with 10,000,000 Young men returning from the services after the war and with the resumption of normal college enrollments from high school graduation, the increase in college enrollments "will pass all belief". "The increased number of stud- ents means that the institutions will find both their building capacities and their faculty personnel strained to the utmost," he stated. "In fact, the colleges will need so many more teachers that the most fertile oppor- tunity for the ambitious young man or woman in the field of education will lie, for the next twenty years, in college teaching", he continued. After the war, Mr. Good said that the local junior colleges will also be the scene of much expansion and that there will be a great demand for teachers in these colleges. Associated Press Correspondent By DON WHITEHEAD BOLLEVILLE, FRANCE, July 5- Nobody ever heard of Bolleville ex- cept a few Frenchmen, until the doughboys moved in today op their way to La Haye Du Puits which the Germans don't want us to have. It's just a gray cluster of houses on the roadside with the spire of a square church jutting into the sky above gray slate roofs-A lonely sad hamlet of vacant houses look- ing tired and somber. Occasionally a jeep dashes up the road before the enemy can get the range for a shell. At a road inter- section a soldier lounges against an embankment, taking shelter from oc- casional shells which crash nearby. He looks curiously at our jeep as it stops. "Where's regimental headquart- ers?" we ask. He shrugged. "Don't know," he says. "Back there somewhere." He waved vaguely down the road over which we'd driven without seeing markers. "What's up ahead?" "Germans," he said. More shells fell near and we jumped from the jeep into a ditch beside him. "Sort of hot, isn't it?" we said. . "It's hotter up the road a little way." Then he grinned and said "our command post is in a house just around the corner." We walked down a lane and through a barnyard into the court- yard of a small house. Doughboys were resting from battle. They'd just come out of the line after leading an attack toward La Haye, a mile away, and they were tired. One youth lay sleeping just inside the door of the house on a bare floor. Another had a broken mirror prop- ped up on a stone and was shaving in a bucket of cold water. Lt. N. E. Otto, Arcadia Place, Chevy Chase, Md., talked to two French civilians. "These guys say there are about two dozen Germans still hiding in a barn over there," Otto said. "Well, check on it," somebody said. A Lieutenant Colonel rose wearly from in front of a map on which he had marked the positions of our troops. "These babies are tough," he said. "They are all Germans and are fighting in every hedge. Know Yanks Halted Near Leghorn Nazis Prepare Line Ten Miles South of Port ROME, July 6.-(P)-Counterat- tacking German troops, backed by heavy concentrations of artillery, have temporarily halted the progress of American forces up the Italian west coast at a point some ten miles from the port of Livorno (Leghorn), but the British Eighth Army con- tinued today to hammer out gains near the center of the line on the approaches to Florence. Doughboys, clinging to approxi- mately half the smoking town of Rosignano, a few miles inland from the coast below Livorno, were report- ed to have thrown back four furious assaults by the Nazis within four hours, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. It was plain now that the last miles into Livorno would be extremely hard going for Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark's men, who were meeting their first sustained resistance since the fall of what they do? They get an em- bankment under the hedges and set up machineguns covering ev- ery field. Soon as our boys move into the field they open up on all sides." He rubbed his hand through his hair. "They are pretty good, but we are learning how to take care of them. We learned a lot in these last two days. Our casualties today are less than a fourth of what they were yesterday. That means we are learn- ing." We walked back into the sunshine of the courtyard and he turned to PFC George Decrocker, Route two, Kalamazoo, Mich., and said: "De. crocker, tell him about those Ger- mans you captured." The tall, strong-jawed youth with a three days' growth of beard on his chin hitched the carbine on his shoulder and smiled. "We were working through the hedges yesterday and I saw two Germans walking along a hedge row. I went over and jumped across the hedge and landed right in the middle of a bunch of Ger- mans. They threw up their hands and I counted seventeen. There were a few too many for me, so I Eyewitness ... (Continued from Pag 1) the animal cages in back to the exhi- bition cages, were two steel runways three feet high. These were still in place as the crowd surged forward they had to climb over this steel bar- rier. I saw one woman fail to make it, slide back and slump to the ground. A man tried to fend the crowd back from her, but the pres- sure was too great. I was slammed against the steel barrier and my knee caught momen- tarily between the bars. Then tak- ing my five year old son in my hands I tossed him over the barrier to the ground beyond. The flames at this point were nearly overhead and the heat was becoming unbearable. I looked back over my shoulder as I left the tent and saw people still struggling madly to get over the barrier. Outside children were running around crying. Men and women had the vacant look of shock. Some were just sitting on the grass staring into space. I saw one woman standing moan- ing and saying, "My four children. My four children. Where are they?" Then she spied a six year old com- ing to her, crying and she ran and threw her arms around him. Then another, then another. Finally she had all four, ages 6, 7, 8 and 9. They were all crying and embracing each other. The woman was shouting "Thank God, thank God." There were others who were not so fortunate. Patterson To Talk Tuesday Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson will address the Sixth Of- ficer Candidate Class and the 17th Officer Class of the Judge Advocate General's School at their graduation exercises Tuesday in the Rackham Auditorium. Approximately 170 men will re- ceive certificates Tuesday forming the largest group ever to be graduat- ed at one time from the school. Maj. Gen. Myron C. Gramer the Judge called for the boys to come over and help march 'em back." By this time -a small crowd had gathered around. "I'll tell you who did a great job," said Maj. R. E. Jess, Raleight, N. C. "It was the medics." He pointed to Capt. J. G. Moore, Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, Calif., and Chaplain Jerome Healy of Canon City, Colo. "My boys did fine work," Moore said. "They go right into the front to bring back wounded. Some of them have been wounded, tog. They have to carry litters from two to three hundred yards to jeeps and then bring the wounded to the cas- ualty clearing station." The Major interrupted. "Yeah, and this guy goes out himself and gets the wounded just like his men. "He wouldn't tell you that. And so does the chaplain." Healy, who taught at Holy Cross Abbey in Canon City smiler. "Well, when they are short of litter bear- ers and need help I go out and give 'em a hand," he said. "You know, I even learned how to give plasma." r Ill' 3 38 South State Street THE PARROT RESTAURANT appreciates being able to serve you fine food with good service. We open at 8 a.m.. Max Jiect The little farm house trembled with the crash of shells. Bolleville looked ever sadder and more dismal in the late afternoon sun.