Y Ait3 4uaitl;4 weather Clear and Continued Cool VOL. LIV No. 13-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Democrats Nominate FDR for 4th Term * * * * * * * 'I * * * * * * * * * * Officers Attempt Assassination of Hitler f'. are guaranteed by our constitution. Congress should exert its full con- .. stitutional power to protect those- rights." To augment international associa- tions for world peace, the platform put the party on record for a "world free press," to facilitate free and un- trammeled interchange of news among nations. The free press plank said: Rights of Free Press Upheld "We believe in the world right of all men to write, send and publish news at uniform communication rates and without interference by gov- ernmental or private monopoly and that right should be protected by treaty. "To join with the other United Nations in the establishment of an international organization based on the principles of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the prevention of aggression and the maintenance of interna- tional peace and security. "To make all necessary and effective agreements and arrangements through which the nations would maintain adequate forces to meet the needs of preventing war and of making impo'ssible the preparation for war and which would have such forces available for joint action when necessary. Armed Force Termed Necessary "Such organization must be endowed with power to employ armed forces when necessary to prevent aggression and preserve peace. i "We favor the maintenance of an international court of justice of which the United States shall be a member and the employment of diplo- macy, conciliation, arbitration and other like methods where appropriate in the settlement of international disputes." See PLATFORM, Page 4 By The Associated Press WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT A PACIFIC COAST NAVAL BASE, July 20-President Roosevelt tonight accepted a precedent-smash- ing fourth-term nomination for president with the prediction that another four years will find the world at permanent peace and declared: "New hands will then have full opportunity to realize the ideals which we seek." No Mention of Dewey Mr. Roosevelt made no personal mention of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, his Republican opponent, but he said the voters this fall have the choice of turning the government over to "inexperienced and immature hands" or continuing in office those who already are planning a permanent world peace and security. The President said his fourth term decision "is based solely on a sense of obligation to serve if called upon to do so by the people of the United States." He said he was at the base "in the performance of my duties under the constitution" and declared: "The war waits for no elections, Decisions must be made-plans must be laid-strategy must be carried out. "They do not concern merely a party or group. They will affect the daily lives of Americans for generations to come." Mr. Roosevelt outlined the administration's post-war aims to join the United States in an international organization, empowered to use military might of participating nations to keen the future peace. Also being planned, he said, are the blueprints for a domestic economy to provide "employment and recent standards of living for all Ameri- cans., People To Decide "The people of the United States will decide this fall whether they wish to turn over this 1944 job-this world-wide job-to inexperienced and immature hands," the president said, "to those who opposed lend lease and international cooperation against the forces of aggression and tyranny until they could read the polls of popular sentiment; or whether they wish to leave it to those who saw the danger from abroad, who met it head on, and who now have seized the offensive and carried the war to its present stages of success, to those who by international conferences and united actions have begun to build that kind of common understanding and cooperative experience which will be so necessary in the world to come." Cites GOP Record "They will also decide this fall whether they will entrust' the task of post-war reconversion to those who offered the veterans of the last war breadlines and apple-selling and who finally led the American people down to the abyss of 1932; or whether they will leave it to those who rescued American business, agriculture, industry, finance and labor in 1933, and who have already planned and put through legislation to help our veterans resume their normal occupations in a well-ordered reconver- sion process. "They will not decide these questions by reading flowing words of platform pledges-the mouthings of those who are willing to promise anything and everything-contradictions, inconsistencies, impossibilities -anything which might snare a few votes here and a few votes there." And into the record on the side of the administration he put our military success,. war and food nroduction "unparalleled in all history," the Atlantic Charter and the Moscow declaration and "our accom- plishments in recovery and reform since March 4, 1933." Mr. Roosevelt reiterated his statement of last week, that he will not run for office in the usual political sense. Was Senator Byrd Win War, Form World Organization, Provide Employment Is FDR's Plan By The Associated Press CHICAGO STADIUM, July 20-From a Pacific Coast Naval base, President Roosevelt accepted afourth .term nomination tonight and told a wartime Democratic National Convention-arid America- to take a look at the record and then determine whether to entrust a worldwide job "to inexperienced and immature hands." His familiar voice came by radio into a vast stadium where delegates, embroiled in a stirring scrap over selection of his running mate, had given him 1,086 out of 1,176 votes for renomination. Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia chalked up 89. One went to Mr. Roosevelt's estranged, one- time political ally, James A. Farley of New York. <>Complete victory within the next Fresh Air Camp P Opens Drive onh Campuis Today P N Campers Solicit Funds For Summer Vacations a Boy campers from nine to 13 years f old will come to the campus and Ann Arbor today to collect nickels, dimes n and quarters for the University's r Fresh Air Camp.s The camp, which relies largely n upon gifts for its support, has a dual purpose. It gives underprivileg- d boys from Michigan cities a montho of vacation and sunshine, and it isA a training ground for students inp sociology, education and psychology. 200 Will Receive Benefitsf Ninety-six boys are attending the July session and approximately thata same number will receive benefitss of the camp in Augst.- Means for recreation are plentiful with swimming as the favorite sport,r Boys also learn to row boats.x Boys are encouraged to develops their own particular talents in cabin programs. Counselors do their partl in entertaining and a homespun drama is not unusual. Special tieat of the July session was a visitinge magician and weekly movies. L Handicraft, such as metal work1 and wood work and nature study oc- cupy part of the daytime hours. Sundays Catholic boys are taken toI Pinckney to church and Protestants have their services in the afternoon at the camp. Picked by welfare agencies, the7 campers come mainly from south- eastern Michigan and are, supervis- ed by 23 full and part-time counsel- ors. Boys Carefully Studied A careful study of each boy, hi personality traits, character, habits, reactions to other boys, is made by camp counselors. Often helpful sug- gestions can be made to parents or other interested persons. , In one case, a boy sent out to FAC was found to be maladjusted and unable to get along with the other campers. It was found, how- ever, that the boy had great mech- anical skill and arrangements were made to have him transferred from an unhappy home environment to a farm where he had many opportuni- ties to experiment with machinery and became normal and well adjust- ed. In numerous other instances FAC has helped boys to happier lives. It is for this purpose that contributions are needed. Yanks Hit Germany For Third Day LONDON, July 20--(AP)-Nearly 3,000 American warplanes smashed into Germany from Britain and Italy for the third straight day today and pounded at least ten important ob- jectives rounding out the greatest massed air assault ever mounted against the enemy. A great fleet of more than 1,200 Four years seems wholly likely, the President said. Then, in what ap- eared to be an. assurance that he "ould not seek a fifth term, said that te would "retire to a private life." Apparently epitomizing his own personal platform for the battle to keep Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York out of the White House, Ar. Roosevelt outlined a three-point world-wide job for 1944: Outlines 3-Point Program "First, to win the war-to win it fast, to win it overpoweringly. "Second, to form world-wide inter- national organizations, and to ar- range to use the armed forces of the sovereign nations of the world to make another war impossible within "Third, to build an economy for he foreseeable future our returning vetertns and for all Americans-which will provide em- ployment and decent standards of living." Every eye, in the stadium seemed focussed on the microphones which stood on the speaker's stand. High above them hung a batter of loud- speakers from which the President's voice came. Afterwards the organ struck up the national anthem, soon the words were pouring from every throat and a spotlight played on a tremendous flag in the lofty stadium girders. Delegates Wanted To Stay But when Chairman Samuel Jack- son banged his gavel, apparently to entertain a motion for adjournment until tomorrow, the delegates would have none of it. They acted as if they wanted to vote on a vice-presidential choice right then. Up in the balconies came a cry: "We want Wallace." It was picked up on the floor by dozens of delegates. Twenty minutes later Jackson ham- mered through a motion to hold off until tomorrow a decision on the hotly-contested race in which Tru- man was in a stretch drive to catch hard-running Wallace. Wallace was out in front with 316'/2 votes claimed and pledged to- ward the 589 needed to renominate him, But the 60-year-old Missouri chair- man of the Senate war investigating committee was picking up strength from the south. Bombers Raid Bonin Islands Naval Assault of Guam Causes Heavy Damage U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR; July 20-Land-based U. S. heavy bomb- ers, presumably from Saipan, made their first foray into the Bonin Islands Tuesday, within 630 miles of Tokyo, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. A 15-day blasting of Japanese-held Guam from the air and sea has wrought "widespread and heavy damage" on that American island, lost at the war's outset, Nimitz added. The campaign to'neutralize Guam's defenses reached a peak on Monday and Tuesday, when 801 tons of bombs were poured on it and nearby Rota Island. Nimitz revised the total upward today but failed to report Russian Forces Gain 32 Miles In Lublin Drive LONDON, July 20-(AP)-RussianI t'roops smashing 32 miles through tottering German lines in the eighth major offensive in 28 days reached the Central Bug River tonight only 50 miles from the big rail city of Lublin in the heart of Poland, and in other places Soviet forces were only a two-hour march from German East Prussia. Red Army troops for the first time in the war appeared ready to burst onto the soil of Germany proper in East Prussia, where a Moscow dis- patch said "A serious panic" had de- veloped. South of the new front, which ex- ploded west of Kowel, other flying Russian columns broke into the plains beyond by-passed Lwow and captured the rail junction of Rawa Ruska, only 200 miles from German Silesia Anericans Advance Across Arno Valley ROME, July 20-(AP)-American troops battered their way across the Arno River Valley on a 25-mile front between Pisa and Florence today as German forces, bewildered by the ayrrP A rP~ Ak-fhrrn~1i 'h_ rtrea~ted1 DESPITE PROTESTS: First Negro Worker Arrives At South Lyon Defense Factory By STAN WALLACE special to The Daily SOUTH LYON, July 20-In the face of war production needs, prece- dent was shattered here this week when a Negro worker began his du- ties at the Michigan Seamless Tube Co., where race prejudice has held up urgently needed war production for more than a month. William McHattie, president of this vital war plant, reported every- thing in "good shape" yesterday. The race prejudice deadlock with the local CIO union opposing the impor- tation of Nisei Japanese and the townspeople fearing Negro workers appears to have been broken.' Discontent Is Reported Although calm was reported from both the town and war plant, mur- murs of discontent were heard in the Federal Housing Project where the Negroworker and his family are be- ing housed, Elmer Swack, director, revealed yesterday. In a meeting immediately after the arrival of the new resident, the tenant council demanded; that the Negro family and any future fami- lies live in the "south end" of the project-away from everybody else; that separate laundry and washroom fan1ities be rnnred and that. all hibiting discrimination and segrega- tion, and the additional expense in- volved would be prohibitive at this time," he added. Swack made it clear that "we are going to try to integrate these people into the community on an equal basis with all other tenants. We want them See NEGRO WORKER, Page 4 1 I Outside Dances Will Be Held Dancing under the stars to the music of Billy Layton and his orchestra from 9 p.m. to midnight today and every Friday and Sat- urday at Palmer Field is the new entertainment novelty now offered to University students. "The Union and League are offering their services to make this series of dance features a suc- cess," Layton said. The dances will be open to everyone and ad- mission will be charged. The Bomber Scholarship Com- mittee will operate refreshment concession where soft drinks may be purchased. This student or- ganization was established to raise Helen Bower Will Address Campus Women Miss Helen Bower, well-known Mi- chigan newspaperwoman, will speak to campus women at a rally of all undergraduate and graduate coeds at 7:30 p. m. Monday in the Rack- ham auditorium, it was announced yesterday by Pat Coulter, '45, Women's War Council president. Every woman on campus is urged to attend the meeting, which is be- ing sponsored by the War Council with the theme centering around woman's place and potential posi- tion in the present social system. Miss Alice Lloyd, dean of women, will introduce the speaker, and the War Council will add a skit to the pro- ceedings. The program will be ap- proximately one-half hour in length. Miss Bower, who is best-known for her book-review column in the Detroit Free Press, left the Univer- sity in 1916 to join the staff of the Free Press and travel around the world for the newspaper. On Campus she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and is at present editor of the "Key," national magazine of the sorority. In great demand as a speaker be- cause of her humorous style and authoritative evaluation of what women are doing in the world today, Miss Bower is well-known throughout I I ii E