t 4UUa 4 ait -Weathier Occasional Showers mmmamouxuam VOL. LIV No. 19-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS REDS Truck, 01 E TO 20 77 FRO Tram Crash Hurts Three) Yanks Gain On Guam; A WARSAW Other Red Forces Close In On Riga Brest Litovsk, Przemysl, Jaroslaw Fall; Russians Threaten 300,000 Nazis v Passengers Escape as Two Cars Are Destroyed by Flames By JENNIE FITCH Flames and violent explosion, resulting from collision of an Ann Arbor Railway train and a gasoline truck at the South State Street crossing at 4:15 p. m. yesterday, injured three men, endangered the lives of nearly 50 passengers and completely destroyed two cars. Showers of burning gasoline swept into the engine cab inflicting second degree burns on fireman Clyde Brown and engineer John Cum- mings, both of Owosso. Ben Stillwell, driver of the Rex Transportation Co. truck, was thrown clear and crawled to safety, suffering burns about face rnd arms and lacerations of both knees. Doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital reported all three men to be in "good" condition late last night. Passengers Rush From Burning Cars Passengers rushed to safety as flames leaped over the steel engine and mail car, instantly firing the two wooden passenger cars. Conductor Ben Belcher of Toledo and a brakeman disconnected the passenger cars and helped occupants to safety. Wreckage of the gasoline truck was strewn 25 feet when the train engine, southeast bound for Toledo hit the back end of the truck trailer. Stillwell stated that high weeds on either side of the tracks prevented him from seeing the approaching train in time to avoid accident. Child Returns to Get Doll "It seems that the engineer slowed up suddenly; in 15 seconds flames were up to the window sills of the car," a passenger, John Schmidt of Cleveland, O. said. Another passenger, Miss Nancy Lee Fisher of Wash- ington, Pa., said that as she left the smoke-filled train she could feel the heat of the fire, and although there was no time to claim luggage one child insisted on returning for her doll. "The truck and train were completely enveloped in clouds of black smoke and flames 100 feet high almost instantly after the collision," Bill Mullendore, '46, a spectator said. "Fire jumped to adjoining telegraph poles and threatened the rapidly gathering throng of spectators. The driver of the truck was propped against the trunk of a nearby tree. He seemed dazed and not much in pain although his face and arms were badly burned. He was trying to talk, but wasn't able to make much of a statement." Bystanders Help To Fight Fire Sailors, marines and other bystanders volunteered to help fight the fire. Damage to poles and wires of the Detroit Edison Co. cut off electric power in the surrounding area. Spectators were warned that telegraph poles adjoining the tracks were charred and might topple. The collision was the second one in a week for the Ann Arbor Railway. In a previous accident Tuesday at the West Summit Street crossing, Isidor Sjostrum suffered minor injuries when he drove his car into the path of an approaching train. Neither crossing is equipped with a safety gate but both xely on warning blinkers and whistle signals. Fate of State Organized Labor Rests with Convention Leaders Fry, Gubernatorial Nominee, Reasserts Friendship of Democrats with Union Labor Kill 2, 000 --A. P. Wirephoto DEWEY AND BRICKER ANNOUNCE 15-POINT PROGRAM-Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio (left, facing camera), Republican vice presi- dential nominee, and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York (right, facing camera), presidential nominee, gather press about them on veranda' of Albany, N. Y., executive mansion. For story on Dewey see Page 4. AIDING WAR EFFORT: Admiral Hart Will Address Graduating Medical Students { ) 1 GRAND RAPIDS, July 28-(AP)- How much influence organized labor will exert in tomorrow's Democratic State Convention remained proble- matical tonight, as the convention leaders settled into hotel room hud- Experts Believe Hitler's Escape ? Will Extend War LONDON, July 28-(AP)-British military experts still studying the cloudy picture of internal Germany , voiced the belief today that Adolf Hitler's escape in last week's bomb plot probably will lengthen the war, but will make the Allied victory more decisive when it comes. This view is based on the convic- tion that the armies Hitler now re- fuses to withdraw can be smashed. Behind the flood of words from dles expected to last until dawn, to determine an "organization slate" from which the delegate body will make its selections. Leaders of the Congress of Indu- strial organizations (CIO), which ex- ertpd unusual influence at the last Democratic State Convention and had powerful voice among Michigan delegates to the Democrats' National Convention, told their followers they would be wise to refrain from efforts to dictate the slate. Richard T. Frankensteen, Interna- tional Vice President of the United Automobile Workers Union-CIO, told members in caucus that labor, both CIQ and Michigan Federation of Labor, might better get together and demand the right to veto the candi- dacy of any person whose record stamped him as unfriendly to labor. Some dissenters urged a more vigor- ous stand. Gubernatorial Nominee In a preconvention banquet speech, Edward J. Fry dwelt at length on the friendship of the Democratic Party and organized labor as being nothing new for Republicans to criticize. Republicans, he asserted, "used all their money, all their influence and their power to win labor to the Re- publican side. There is not a labor leader in this country who has not been threatened, flattered, who has not been taken to the top of the mountain and shown the richest pas- tures, which were his if he threw his influence and support behind the Re- publicans, betraying those who elect- ed him in the meantime." Adm. Thomas C. Hart, USN Ret., will deliver an address today at Rack- ham Amphitheatre at the commence- ment exercises of the first Medical School class to be graduated under the accelerated program. Eighty-five of the 114 graduating students will enter the armed forces, the largest proportion of graduates ever to join the armed services from the Medical School. 26 To Enter Navy The 26 students entering the Medi- cal Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve as lieutenants, junior grade, will be sworn in by Capt. Richard E. Cas- sidy, commandant of the Navy, unit here, while Lt.-Col. Reginald C. Mil- ler, Judge Advocate General's School, will administer the oath to the 57 students in the Army's training pro- gram, who will receive commissions as first lieutenants in the reserves. Ten graduates will see active duty as Navy internes, while 17 will be- come civilian internes. An academic procession will pro- ceed from the Medical Building at 9:30 a.m., to reach Rackham at 10 a.m., when commencement exercises will begin. President Alexander Ruth- ven, who will introduce Admiral Hart, will preside at the graduation. The Navy V-12 Choir will sing. Hart To Review Parade The entire Navy V-12 unit sta- tioned on campus will participate in a review parade on Ferry Field in honor of Admiral Hart following the exercises. Now directing government investi- gation of the Pearl Harbor attack, Admiral Hart was supreme comman- RAF Bombers Hit Oil Centers LONDON, Saturday, July 29-(AP) -Heavily loaded RAF bombers struck out toward the continent in a long procession last night after giant day- light raids by 1,500 American bomb- ers on two Nazi oil centers-Ploesti and Merseburg. The German Radio reported the RAF heavies were over the Reich for the fourth night this week. In addition to the blows of the American bombers against Germany's ebbing oil supply, Allied fighter bombers swept across the Normandy battlelines yesterday to support the fighting troops and improved weather permitted the greatest number of sorties in four days. der of the United Nations naval for- ces in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Admiral Hart received dec- orations from the Dutch government for his Pacific service. Admiral Hart served in the Navy in the Spanish-American War and World War I, after training at the U.S. Naval Academy. After World War I Admiral Hart served in several governmental ca- pacities and from 1937 to 1939 was chairman of the Navy general board, being given command of the Asiatic Fleet in 1939. Battle for Pisa Begins in Duel Across Arno ROME, July 28.-VP)- American and German artillery duelled across the Arno River tonight in the open- ing stage of the battle for Pisa, and the fate of the historic city and its cultural monuments hung in the balance. There had been no official reply from either side to a plea by the Vatican City newspaper Osservatore Ramono that the belligerents "re- flect seriously upon the moral conse- quences of deliberate destruction of Pisan monuments."' Nazi artillery observers were reported using Pisa's famout leaning tower, where Galileo conducted his experiments on the laws of gravity. Florence, great art center whose lights already were within sight of British forces fighting through the hills seven miles away, appeared safe from war's destruction, as the Ger- mans had declared it an open city and were expected to withdraw in orderly fashion once its defenses were breached. There was no immediate indication whether the open city declaration would prevent the Nazis from de- stroying the six famous old bridges which span the Arno River inside Florence in an attempt to impede the Allies' progress. New Zealand, South African and British troops closed in relentlessly on Florence, leaving hills south of the city strewn with German dead and burned-out and abandoned equip- ment. New Zealanders pushing up a main highway from Poggibonsi cap- tured the town of San Casciano with- out a fight, and from nearby heights could see the twinkling lights of Florence seven miles away. Invasion of Tinian Turnedi Into Route By The Associated Press U.S. PFC, PEARL HARBOR, July 28.-Yank invaders of Guam, after nearly doubling Jap losses by slaugh- tering 2,000 counterattack enemy, have advanced 800 yards to two miles along the entire beachhead and have turned the invasion of Tinian into a route, capturing eight more square miles. The victories were announced to- night by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in two communiques.* Japs Flee in Disorder Front line dispatches from Tinian said the Jap garrison on that island, nearest conquered Saipan, are fleeing in disorder and that Tinian is likely to prove the biggest American prize in the entire Marianas. On Guam, the Third Division Ma- rines drove Thursday within one- third of a mile of Agana, Guam's capital in the sector where Jap coun- terattack was broken up. The greatest gains were made in the central sector opposite Orote Peninsula where 77th Army Division troops and the First Provisional Ma- rine Brigade pushed as much as two miles inland. They captured Mt. Cha- chao, Alutam and Tenjo. In the southern sector, the same units pushed east for more than a mile. Capture Scond Airfield The fast-moving Tinian invaders added a nearly-completed airfield to a 4,500-foot 'drome previously seized on that island. Nimitz reported that 21,036 Japa- nese dead have been buried on Sai- pan, first Marianas island to be wrested from the enemy. These were added to 4,700 known to have been killed to date on Guam and more than 2,000 slain on Tinian-a total of more than 27,000 since June 14. More than 5,000 wounded Yanks have returned to action, many of them on Tinian. The occupied territory on the for- mer U.S. outpost of Guam now ex- tends from a point along the west coast 800 yards from Agana south for 800 yards, then southwestward fol- lowing a line approximately two miles from the coast to a point opposite Anae Island. Gain on Orote Peninsula On Orote Peninsula, the Yanks fought forward another 500 yards against an estimated 2,000 Japs trap- ped there while defending an airfield and naval base. Coeds Fill Half Of Blood Quota Union To Open Drive For 200 Men Monday University women filled half their quota for the forthcoming Red Cross Blood Bank on the first day of reg- istration, according to Pam Watts, '45, War Council secretary-treasurer, who said yesterday that the coeds have every hope of topping the quota of 75 set by the local Red Cross. The Union will begin its drive for registrants Monday, and civilian men may sign up for the Blood Bank be- tween 9 a. m. and noon and 1 and 2:30 p. m. on the Diagonal, accord- ing to Sandy Perlis, chairman of the Union campaign for 200 blood don- ors. The Blood Bank will be held by the local Red Cross between 1:30 and 3:30 p. m. Thursday and Friday, August 10 and 11, contrary to pre- vious announcement, in the Women's Athletic Building. Women may still register at the office of the League Social Director, Miss Watts said. However, all ap- pointments should be made by Tues- day, August 1. By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, July 29-Russian troops swept across flat grain- fields to within 20 miles of the Polish capital of Warsaw yesterday and also captured Brest Litovsk and trapped three German divisions of perhaps 30,000 men near that Bug River stronghold, Moscow announced early today. In the north other Soviet units of Gen.- Ivan C. Bagramian's first Baltic Army plunged to within 50 miles of Riga, closing steadily on an even richer prize-the German Baltic Army of possibly 300,000 men imperilled in Estonia and Latvia now that the main Axis rail route to German East Prussia has been snapped. Jaroslaw and Przemysl Fall Far to the south the German strongholds of Jaroslaw and Przemysl fell to Russian Ukraine forces striking westward toward Krakow on the main trunk highway to Germany, Red Army troops also began ascend- 80-mile stretch of the east bank of ing the Carpathian Mountain roads the Vistula southeast of Warsaw in toward nearby Czecho-Slovakia. the Kazimerz-Pulawy-Deblin sectors, With the battle of Warsaw likely and Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos- to begin in the next 24 hours, a mid- sovsky's troops are expected shortly night Moscow bulletin announced to cross the Vistula in a flanking that everywhere "a battered and movement on Warsaw. beaten enemy is rolling westward" with Red armies in hot pursuit. German units were being hurled U.S. Farces Hit back into Praga, eastern suburb of Warsaw which is across the Vistula f River on the west bank, Moscow dis- outances in patches said. The Russians were rac- ing toward the city along a broad Tank O f n tv highway,randduring yesterday's op- erations they seized Kolbiel, 20 miles southeast of Warsaw. Avranches Threatened Polish Partisans Fight in Warsaw By New Yank Drive Polish underground warriors al- ready are fighting the Germans in- By The Associated Press side Warsaw, dispatches said, and the SHEAF, Saturday, July 29-Two great city was almost within artil- covering U. S. Tank columns smashed lery range of Soviet guns. into the northern edge of Coutances Besides Kolbiel, the Russians also yesterday and a third launched seized Siennica, six miles east of southwestward to within 18 miles of Kolbiel; Ceglow, 13 miles northeast Avranches at the base of' Breton of Kolbiel and 30 miles east-south- Peninsula in a drive threatening to east of Warsaw on the railway to cave in all the enemy's western Nor- Siedlce. The latter town was being mandy defenses and open a route to mopped up by Russians who broke inland France. into the city Thursday. As suicide squads fought back The Russians now hold about an from doomed Coutance-once the 1 E F C Possible Fall of Hitler's Balkan, Front Foreseen WASHINGTON, July 28-(AP)- Adolf Hitler today faced the grow- ing possibility of a collaspe on his Balkan front. Heavily censored reports from An- kara indicate that Turkey may be about to break relations with the Nazis, a move which not only would cut off all Hitler's economic and spy activities in the near East, but which might quickly lead to war. At the same time, Ankara said that Bulgaria is negotiating with the Al- lies to get out of the war. Bulgaria has been sitting shakily on the Axis side of the fence with one foot tossed over the top, by virtue of maintaining peaceful relations with Russia. Nowthat the Red Army has pushed into Romania, a strong Turkish move towards the United Nations camp would leave Bulgaria virtually encir- cled. Reports that Turkey was consider- ing new steps against the Axis have been current for several, days, and disclosure that the Turkish Ambas- sador to Berlin has been recalled to Ankara made a break with the Nazis seem imminent. German Ambassador Fritz Von Pa- pen left his post in Ankara two weeks ago to report on the situation to Ber- lin. How soon Turkey would be likely to enter hostilities after a break with the Nazis is a matter of conjecture, depending on Berlin's reaction. How- ever, if Turkey clearly abandons strict neutrality, German forces in the whole Balkan Peninsula would be endangered. Greece could be turned into a gi- gantic trap for the Nazis, hemmed there between the Allies in Italy and tottering Bulgaria. western Normandy transport hub- of the enemy-squadron upon squadron of dive-bombers hammered columns of the fleeing enemy on the road south, littering it with the burning hulks of wrecked equipment. Rommel Attacks Field Marshal Erwin Rommel threw in a heavy attack, as one ar- mored force in a lightning five-mile lunge toward this escape route from Notre Dame-De Centilly, pulled up at St. Denis-LeGast, eight miles southeast of Coutances and about seven miles east of the road. The at- tack was quickly beaten off. A column apparently bound for the Breton Peninsula farther east over-ran Maupertuis-whose capture was confirmed by the midnight com- munique-and in an eight-mile gain drove to within a mile of Percy, 18 miles northeast of Avranches, a field dispatch said. Enemy Positions Buckle Enemy positions were buckling along an 18-mile front from Tessy- sur-Vire to Coutances. On the coastal route, the commu- niquedsaid, a tank column in a nine- mile drive down from Periers met the tanks which had spurted five miles down the road from Marigny, site of the breakthrough on, the first day of the offensive Tuesday. Atrthe other end of the line, a powerful tank force in another five- mile gain seized Tessy-sur-Vire, ten miles south of St. Lo and halfway to Vire, a good road center and the old capital of lower Normandy. Only a thin, 30-mile triangle form- ed by Coutances, Vire and Avranches remained in enemy hands on the Normandy Peninsula and Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's tanks were plung- ing unchecked into this territory. Hetenyi Elected' Club President All honorably discharged veterans on campus met yesterday to form a Veterans Society, electing as their chairman Laszlo J. Hetenyi, who had been serving as temporary chairman for a week. Al Dylonko was chosen associate chairman and Mike Stern, secretary. Bob Lynch has been named publicity director. The group will meet again next Friday at 7 p. m. in the Union to make further plans for recruiting membership from the 100 veterans nn in the TTniversitv The Road to Berlin By The Associated Press 1-Russian Front-337 miles (measured from Kolbiel). 2-Normandy Front-630 miles (measured from Troarn). 3-Italian Front-605 miles (meas- ured from Senigallia). Hitler, Propaganda Minister Goeb- bels, Labor Leader Ley and other Nazi functionaries lies a story not yet clearly detailed, but these probabili- ties emerge: 1. That there will be no change in Germany. 2. It Hitler had been killed there would have been a quick with- drawal from the Baltic States, from Northern Italy and from Southern Poland. 3. Probably there would have been a quick peace, because the Ger- man generals want to retire within Germany with the nu- Far East Civil Affairs Program Will Begin at 'U' Monday Army and Navy officers will arrive at the University Monday for a course in administration of civil af- fairs in occupied territory in the tinued in January, the new pro- gr'am will last longer and will in- clude naval officers as well as Army men. This and other civil affairs train- pleted an intensive indoctrinational course at the Army School of Mili- tary Government at Charlottes- ville, Va. Ooming from all branches of military and naval service. they dealing with area characteristics. Military instruction and physical ex- ercise will be in charge of three Army and two Navy officers. Prof. Willett F. Ramsdell of the .fn~.rnet,.r ol-rhna 1,0 am aona r-n+n , Reserves. He was returned to Ann Arbor under appointment as mili- tary government instructor for the Civil Affairs Training School, Eur- opean Area.