.., i , i A it I it Weather Occasional Showers VOL. LIV No. 17-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS American Tanks Smash Through St. Lo Lines; United States Denounces Argentina's Desertion fo7_ v Y Proposal of Negotiation, With Farrell Is Rejected Diplomatic Isolation Recommended To United Nations by State Department By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 26-The United States tonight denounced Argen- tina for "deserting the Allied Cause" and decisively rejected all suggestions that it negotiate with President Edelmiro Farrell's regime on re-opening diplomatic relations. Instead it recommended to all United and Associated Nations the diplomatic isolation of Argentina. Denunciation Uses Strong Language The denunciation apparently was without precedent for bluntness and strong language. It was issued by the State Department after Secretary of State Hull had consulted for several weeks with other American gov- ernments. Copies were sent to all the American governments except Argentina. A department official said there was "virtual unanimity" among those governments in supporting the principles laid down by Hull for continuing non-recognition of Argentina on the ground of desertion. One or two, it was said, have not given endorsement yet but are expected to do so. Injures Allied Cause The American declaration asserted that Argentina had taken "two steps which have resulted in tremendous injury to the Allied cause:" "1. It has deliberately violated the pledge taken (at Havana in July, 1940) jointly with its sister republics to cooperate in support of the war against the Axis powers, and in thus deserting the Allied cause has struck a powerful blow at the whole system of hemispheric coopera- tion; "2. It has openly and notoriously been giving affirmative assistance to the declared enemies of the United Nations." While the declaration emphasized that the present issue is over the Farrell regime, it said that for two and a half years, Argentina has persisted "in an open, notorious and contrary course of action which has given constant aid and comfort to the enemies" of the American republics. "Spasmodic token gestures of cooperation have been made," the state- ment continued. "In almost all instances, however, they have been designed to do no more than foster the false hope that Argentina might yet be prepared to honor her solemn pledge of hemisphere solidarity." Recognition Attempts Rebuffed On the basis of those "gestures," it is reported, suggestions have been made to negotiate the question of recognition. To these the United States says: "The principles for which the free nations of the world are today contributing the full measure of their human and material resources cannot be the subject of a bargain. The controlling issue (on recognition) is support in good faith of the Allied cause." ~a- - - ~ --- Americans Take Tinians's Finest Airfield Yanks Trap Japs In Battle for Guam By The Associated Press U. S. PFH, PEARL HARBOR, July 26-Raising the toll of slain Japa- nese to 4,758, American invasion for- ces in the Marianas have battled half way out on Guam's Orote peninsula against trapped Nipponese and have won the northern fourth of Tinian Island, which has a 4,500-foot air- field, one of the finest in the Mar- ianas. The successes were announced to- night by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in two communiques. 400 Japs Killed On Guam, where action is center- ed around Port Apra on the west coast, the Yanks killed 400 Japs and destroyed 12 tanks when the enemy tried to break out of Orote peninsula Monday night. That rais- ed announced totals of enemy dead on Guam to 2,800. At dawn Tuesday, the Americans moved out on the peninsula which has been pounded hard by battle- ship guns, carrier planes and artil- lery. Behind Port Apra, Yank forces have strengthened the sealing off of that fine harbor, previously accom- plished by patrols effecting a junc- ture from north and south beach- heads. Supported by a battleship, which blew up camouflaged blockhouses, and by strafing planes from nearby Saipan, the Yanks forced a solid line across the northern sector from Fai- bus San Hilo point on the west coast to Asiga point on the east. Ushi Airfield Scene of Jap Slaughter Many of the Jap deadhhurl- ed themselves in suicidal charges in defense of a 4,500-foot Ushi point airfield. Together with its bar- racks and repair facilities, Ushi is regarded as comparable to Hawaii's Hickam Field. For the first time, the comrpu- nique told of Saipan-based Thunder- bolts attacking the enemy with "fire bombs." Others raided Pagan in the Northern Marianas. Carrier plane attacks were report- ed on Guam and Rota. Task Force Hits Papau At the same time Radio Tokyo re- ported an American carrier task force struck at Palau, east of the Philippines,kand that an Allied fleet again bombarded Sabang Harbor on Sumatra. The attack on Palau, if confirmed, would be the second by such an American force on that enemy stronghold 500 miles from the Philip- pines. Cassino Veterans Storin Florence ROME, July 26-(AP)-Spearhead- ed by New Zealand veterans of Cas- sino, Eighth Army forces smashed today within eight miles of the open city of Florence, which was expected to fall without a struggle once its outer defenses were breached. (The Berlin Radio said July 1 that Adolf Hitler had declared Florence an open city to protect its "irreplaceable cultural values," and there has since been no report of Allied planes hav- ing attacked the city's rail yards.) Russian Troops Reach Vistula; Fight for West Bank Bridgeheads * * * * * * Narva Captured as' Nazi Defenses Sag By The Associated Press LONDON, Thursday, July 27-Rus- sian troops, having reached the Wisla (Vistula) River on a 30-mile front in Central Poland, fought today for bridgeheads on the western bank which would outflank Warsaw, 57 miles to the northwest, and place them across the last large natural defense line guarding Germany, 140 miles away. While these sagging Nazi defenses on the Wisla underwent the scourge of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov- sky's massed forces, the north Baltic front split open with Soviet capture of the Estonian city-fortress of Nar- va and neighboring towns on the south shores of the Gulf of Finland, and the Germans and their Hun- garian puppets in the south reeled back into the Carpathian Mountain passes below encircled Stanislawow and Kolomyja on the routes to Czecho-Slovakia. First Round in Battle of Warsaw Up and down the Wisla from Deb- lin the first great round of the battle of Warsaw was being fought, with the Poles eagerly anticipating that they might be the first liberating army to march into that enslaved capital. But the eight great Red Army groups were carrying the main weight of the tremendous offensives which, besides ground gained, had doomed the German garrisons of Stanis- lawow, Lwow, Brest Litovsk, Bialy- stok, Daugavpils and probably also Kaunas. From north to south, the main bat- tlefronts presented this picture, as described by Moscow accounts, the Soviet Communique and German ad- missions: Reds Capture Biala Podlaska Narva, a fighting fortress through- out its 600 years of existence, was taken by flanking movement and storm after having been partly en- circled since the Leningrad armies cleared the Germans from that big C ite.. LTHUANIA Danxi AS PRUSSIA NrdfO *Allenstein Grodno Korycin Bydgoszcz -'Toruniaystok 2 4. Kamenka .Kota Q ie ,--+-WARSAW Sietr1 POLAND .*k Brest Pinsk Lodz Q Lukow r,,, ,reslau Radom. ubln Kowel Beizhitse i r(.e Kielce. i Son R.Luck w165 Mi. 4 Rowne* Krakow Jaroslaw l aworow Przemysl Moseys Stanislawow. t4 a so H UJ N G A R Y - Ceranti RUSSIANS WITHIN 50 MILES OF WARSAW-Driving into the ap- proaches of Siedlce in the main frontal assault. In Southern Poland the capture of Lublin and the drive beyond Lwow threatened to out- flank the Warsaw region as Soviet armies moved to within 165 miles of the pre-war German border. In the north Russian army groups were within two hours forced march of East Prussia, 130 miles from Konigsberg. Tri-Cornered Air AttacksHit German Cities LONDON, July 27, Thursday - AP')-Allied bombers were sweeping over the Reich early today from vir- tually every direction, the German radio reported, in what appeared a continuation of the gigantic three- cornered blasting Nazi strategic tar- gets have been given on preceding nights. Various German broadcasts told of the approach of formations of bomb- ers over East Prussia, the Kiel Bay, western, northwestern and southern Germany as well as the lower Danube region. After giving the great naval base of Kiel a crushing blow Sunday night the RAF slashed at Stuttgart twice in succession, dropping more than 2,000 tons of explosives and fire bombs on the precision tool center Tuesday night. Russian bombers have hit the important railroad cen- ter of Tilsit in East Prussia twice in a row and Mediterranean bombers at the same time ranged into the Rhone Valley and the Munich area. Bad weather in daylight yesterday, kept American heavy bombers in Britain grounded and confined aerial activity. over the Normandy battle zone 'to a series of attacks on enemy transport and military installations by medium and fighter bombers. 'Three American planes were lost in this action. The Luftwaffe made only one appearance, sixteen FW190s pouncing on a group of Lightnings over the Vendome railway yards and then scurrying into the clouds after making a single pass. Commons Discuss Robots After Raid LONDON, July 26-(AP)-The House of Commons went into an im- promptu secret session today to dis- cuss flying bombs after a night in which the Nazi robots battered at London and southern England at Campus Sing Will Be Held Tomorrow The old familiar and favorite Mich- igan songs, "Yellow and Blue," "Var- sity" and many others, will be heard at the Campus Sing to be held from 7 to 8 p.m. tomorrow in front of the Main Library. The Varsity Glee Club with more than 30 members this semester will lead the singing with the audience joining in on the Michigan songs. Copies of the words will be distrib- uted so that everyone can partici- pate. Both civilian students and service- men are in the Glee Club this sum- mer. Their rehearsals and tomor- row's concert will be under the direc- tion of Prof. David Mattern of the School of Music. A well known baritone from De- troit, Oswald Lampkins, will also be heard on the program. His selections will be several spirituals and some concert numbers by Strauss and La- Forge. Mr. Lampkins was a former pupil of the late Karleton Hackett at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. During that time he also gave numerous concerts in Chicago and in Michigan. Later he joined the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers and was soloist with them for eight years before returning to Detroit. Prof. Percival Price will give a carillon recital of Michigan songs at the beginning and at the end of the Campus Sing. i l I 1 f t t 1 C 1 city's fringes last February. East of Warsaw the Germans were struggling to stabilize their line somewhere between Warsaw and the Siedlce area, 40 to 50 miles from the capital, while the Russians an- nounced the capture of Biala Pod- laska, 65 miles eastward, tightening the ring around Brest Litovsk. Warsaw's suburban rail junction town of Prage was heavily bombed by the Red Air Force Tuesday night, as was Tilsit, East Prussian town, World News at a Glance By The Associated Press University Students Killed in Mexico City ... MEXICO CITY, July 26-Two national university students were killed and many hurt today in a clash between opposing factions set off during a law students strike. Fighting started this morning after a group of striking students "cap- tured" a downtown law school building and the opposing group attacked. Ten members of the law faculty resigned while the rioting raged. * * * * * * Goebbels Urges Germans To 'Fight and Work' .. . LONDON, July 26-Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels tonight outlined a program for a stepped-up German war effort and urged the battered German nation to rally around Adolf Hitler and "Fight and Work" to overcome "the present difficult times when almost the entire world is storming against us." In an effort to reassure the German public, shaken by the historic events of the past week, Goebbels promised once more that a secret weapon soon would be used against the Allies, declared "Total war will now become a reality" and said "Next month" would begin to show results at the fronts, where Nazi armies have been suffering defeat after defeat. where four German troop trains were burned. The battle of extermination being waged in the streets of Lwow made progress, aided by American planes that flew from Russian bases. Of all the Russian successes, how- ever, the one of greatest early prom- ise appeared to be that on the Wisla River, replete with the threat to Ger- many itself and presenting another of the now-famous Russian by-pass- ing actions, Nazis Unable To Make Stand LONDON, July 26.-(iP)-The pow- er and scope of the current Russian offensive are so great that London military circles are discussing seri- ously the possibility that the Nazis will be unable to make a firm stand against the Red Army until they reach the Oder River line running well inside Germany. South of Warsaw the Russians already have reached the Wisla Riv- er, the last remaining line of natural defense in front of the German fron- tier. The swift Soviet advance has given the Germans little time to reorganize their armies fleeing through Poland. It is 142 miles from the Russian position on the Wisla to the border of German Silesia, 358 miles to Berlin. If the Wisla River line fails to hold, the next important river barrier is the Oder which, as it approaches the sea, runs only 35 miles northeast of Berlin.. Conference on China Planned Growth of Republic Will Be Discussed A panoramic view of China encom- passing the growth of the republic to post-war plans will be presented at the Conference on China in a five day session beginning Wednesday. Under the joint sponsorship of the Institute of Pacific Relations and the University Summer Session, the con- ference will consider the institutions of the Chinese Republic, the war per- iod of China, and her probably posi- tion in the nostwar world in a serien British Drive Stalls Before Nazi Defenses 14 Towns, Road Junctions Taken By The Associated Press SHAEF, July 27, Thursday- A great combined American tank and infantry assault smashed through the German first and second defense lines and into rear artillery positions west of St. Lo Wednesday, scoring gains up to five miles deep through a four-mile-wide breach in the Nazi positions. At least 14 towns, including two important road junctions, fell in the drive, which outflanked the stubborn Nazi line running northwestward to the coast. Setback in Orne-Odon Wedge On the eastern flank of the Allies' Normandy beachhead the British- Canadian offensive bumped to a standstill against the toughest de- fense belt yet encountered, and press dispatches reaching London early today reported a serious setback in the Orne-Odlon wedge where the British were said to have been hurled from the town of Esquay and Strate- gic Hill 112. This dispatch remained without headquarters confirmation. The new push in its second day was "marked by a precision and coopera- tion among armored infantry, artil- lery and air units not reached by any American Army thus far in the war," Associated Press Correspondent Wes Gallagher wrote from the front late last night. Yanks Cut Highway The Americans cut the highway from St. Lo to Countances near St. 1 and made their deepest inland pene- tration of the invasion, leaving in their wake uncounted dead and cap- tured of the badly-mauled Nazi 353rd infantry and Third Parachute Divi- sions. The assault, with doughboys riding tanks into battle like cowboys on steel ponies, breached the enemy line between St. Lo and Periers, badly mauling two enemy divisions in a hailstorm of tank fire, bullets, artil- lery shells, and bombs from the sky. The American First Army 'was at- tacking all along a 20-mile front from Lessay inland-in its biggest blow since Cherbourg and possibly since D-Day- Blood Donors Are Needed Red Cross Bank Wants 200 Male Registrants Two-hundred campus men are ask- ed to register as blood donors for the forthcoming Red Cross Blood Bank, it was announced yesterday by Sandy Perlis, USNR, chairman of the Union drive. The Blood Bank will be held Friday and Saturday, August 11 and 12, in the Women's Athletic Building. Hours will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p. M. Registration will be held for cam- pus civilian men from 9 a. m. to noon and from 1 to 2:30 p. M. Mon- day on the Diagonal, Perlis said yes- terday, and registrants may then make appointments. Persons who are under 21 years old must secure the written consent of their parents or guardians before serving as blood donors. Campus women are responding ad- mirably to the call for seventy-five ing to Pat Coulter, '45, president of the Women's War Council. The quota is, however, not yet filled, and spe- cial registration will be held between 1:30 and 3 p. m. today and from 1 to 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Social Director's Office of the League. Dental Students To Hold Ball in August The mid-summer Odonto Ball will be held Friday, Aug. 4, in the League Ballroom, featuring Bill Layton and * * * * * * Jap Patrols Attack on New Guinea Front.. . ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Thursday, July 27-Small Japanese patrols are trying to break through American lines across the Driniumor river on the Aitape front in British New Guinea, headquarters announced today. Far to the west in northwestern Dutch New Guinea, fighter planes and patrol torpedo boats raised havoc with the Japanese base of Manokwari, damaging barges, fuel dumps, trucks and bivouac areas. VOTE': GOP TICKET EXPECTED TO DRAW 'GOOD LABOR Bricker Predicts Republican Victory in Border States By WILLIAM W. TYLER Associated Press Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y., July 26-Gov. John W. Bricker, GOP candidate for vice-president, predicted today a Republican victory in November questions almost entirely to his running-mate. The two began their talk imme- diately after seeing reporters. Dewey said results of their discus- sions would not be disclosed until the GOP ticket would draw a "good labor vote." "If the election were held today, I think we would win," said Brick- er. "We are going to win in Novem- her. Thn nennl are rnadv for a Action Committee, headed by Sid- ney Hillman, "would have any effect." "I think Hillman's extreme ac- tivity on the other side may force many of labor's ranks into the