# a t t* tg 'kiln i1. Weatlier Fair and Warmer VOL. LIV No. 20-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS German D Americans Smash "Counterattacks Tiger Tank Duels U. S. Offensive Thrusts 11 Miles Below Captured Coutaneces, 13 Beyond St. Lo By The Associated Press SHAEF, Sunday, July 30-The greatest U. S. army offensive since the World War smashed determined German counterattacks in at least 100 Duels withhuge Tiger tanks and thrust 11 miles below captured Coutances and 13 beyond St. Lo yesterday in drives which threatened to envelop the enemy's Normandy defenses in a major defeat. The American assault had progressed 21 miles since it began Tuesday, and was continuing against stiffening but unsuccessful Nazi resistance. Brehal Junction Under Fire Twin thrustsbelow Coutances toward Brehal threatened to snare at least some of the Nazis who so narrowly escaped from the Coutances saster Imminent In Normandy * .* * * .* *. * * * * Russian Army Fights in Sight of Warsaw * * * * * * * * Eig hth Army. Is Five Miles From Florence Germans Countering With Stiff Resistance By The Associated Press ROME, July 29.-The final phase of the battle for Florence opened violently in the rolling hills to the south today as veteran New Zealand- ers of the Eighth Army drove to a point just five miles below the his- toric city and the Germans quickly countered every Allied thrust with. strong forces of tiger tanks. The German army south of the Arno river was compressed into a front only 30 miles long which -threatened to give way along its en- tire Western end and pave the way for the fall of ,Florence. Eighth Army Near Empoli Eighth Army units crowding in on this western segment were able to maintain only minor contact with the enemy, who was forced to flee as the New Zealanders, hammering northeastward fromsCerbaia to the point five miles below Florence, threatened to isolate Nazi troops re- maining in an eight-mile-wide wedge between the mouth of the Elsa river and Montelupo to the east. Other Eighth Army troops drove to within two miles of Empoli, 15 miles west of Florence on the south bank of the Arno, and still other units closed in on Florence from the southeast. Greve River Crossed South Africans crossed the Greve river seven miles south of Florence' below Impruneta and still other Eighth Army forces won mountain positions nine miles southeast of the city. Crash Victims Recovering Condition of John Cummings, Clyde Brown and Ben Stillwell, in- jured Friday in the collision of an Ann Arbor railway train and a truck- trailer, was reported "good" yester- day by physicians at St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital. The three men, suffering from burns and shock, were said to be "resting quietly" by the doctors. Some 40 to 45 people miraculously escaped death when two wooden passenger coaches burst into flame7 after being ignited by gasoline spilled from the truck.1 The train, traveling southeast ens route to Toledo, collided with the gasoline truck-trailer driven by Still- well at the State Street crossing., Cummings, the engineer, and Brown, t the firemen, were burned when the locomotive burst into flame. Pass-1 engers rushed to safety before the blaze, which completely gutted the wooden coaches, enveloped the cars.c _pocket Thursday and Friday. The Brehal road junction already was under American artillery fire. One Allied armored column reached the coast west of Coutances and cap- tured the town of Pont De La Doque, thus sealing off all possible land es- cape routes of any Nazis who might still be in the Coutances pocket. The German radio began to talk of the necessity of a wholesale with- drawal along the entire 40-mile west- ern wing of the invasion front even while the enemy was making desper- ate counterattacks on the American east flank near Tessy-Sur-Vire with tank forces pulled out of the static front facing the British east of Caen. Gen. Bradley's Offensive Succeeds "From all appearances, Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley's carefully-planned 'precision offensive' has broken clear through the German Seventh Army," said Wes Gallagher, Associated Press front-line reporter with the Ameri- can forces. "It may well be that the Americans are fighting and winning one of the great decisive battles of the war," he wrote. "If Hitler is unable to stop the American offensive soon, it may have done irreparable damage to the morale and strength of the Wehr- macht in France." Orote Peninsula On Guam Seized ByAmericans PEARL HARBOR, July 29. - UP) - "Orote peninsula is ours," Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced tonight, reporting the outstanding triumph of the invasion of Guam. Organized resistance ceased Fri- day, giving the Marine invaders a 4,700 foot airfield, the Sumay naval base and the shell-shattered barracks where a tiny garrison of Marines was overwhelmed by Nipponese invaders at the outset of the war. Remnants of an American flag which the Japanese had used for a cushion was found in the barracks' ruins. The large quantity of booty seized included 30 tanks, 72 field pieces and; coastal guns up, to eight-inchers. fee GUAM, Page 2 Fry Gets Doyle, Adams, Schwinger on State Ticket GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., July 29.l -UP)-The Democratic State Con- vention gave Edward J. Fry, the par- ty's gubernatorial nominee, his way tonight in the nomination of a ticket of candidates for the November Gen- eral Election.] Candidates nominated were: Thur- man B.' Doyle, of Menominee, for at- torney general. Mrs. Minnie Schwin-l ger, Saginaw, for state treasurer.1 Rep. Clark J. Adams, Pontiac, fork auditor general. Arthur A. Koscin-k ski, Detroit attorney, for secretaryi of state. 41 B-29's Blast Yank Planes.. ..... Ht InduS triale gf City.Anshan i iP~ egv Heart of Japan's Arsenal Is Target LTUN A SUPERFORTRESS BASE IN K NIGS8ERG WESTERN CHINA, July 29.-A pow- erful force of B-29 bombers today blasted Anshan, key industrial city in the Mukden area of eastern Man- EAST" churia and the heart of Japan's "ar- PRUSSA p rodo senal of greater East Asia," in the first Superfortress assault by day- 6aysta light and from high altitudes.'-a (A 20th bomber command com-WPOLAN munique issued by the war depart- ment also listed Tangku, the port of siede Tientsin in occupied China, as a target, and said losses in the raid Gato w were "extremely light." Bombing Results Good ("Observed bombing results were ° tm good against moderate enemy fighter ; 'k and anti-aircraft opposition," theR communique said. "The weather +io w was clear with good visibility.")P i WM (Japanese bradcasts said the area * of Dairen, near Port Arthur, and Penhsihu, important coal field site,s also were hit. Tokyo declared thatQ one of the raiders was shot down.) * Anshan is the site of the Showar steel works, whose importance in the K1orn Japanese empire is second only to HUNGARYc the great steel plants of Yawata in- Japan itself, target of the two pre- u ROMANA ceding B-29 attacks. Estimate Extensive Damage SCENE OF 10 RUSSIAN VIC Taking off in perfect weather, the WARD-Black areas indicate t planes of the world-ranging U. S. during last week, with shading i 20th air force loosed a torrent of ex- 22 in this map locating 10 maj plosive on the city, also important as the greatest 24-hour gain of the a producer of many munitions com- ponents. Hugh columns of smoke S B A A SDP billowed from the bombed installa- SUBS HARASS JAPS tions, and it was estimated the dam- age would require 12 months to re- pair. Graduates o .As the great planes roared towardm their objectives in this first Ameri- -A can air blow at Manchuria and the H earA dur third major B-29 assault on Japanese installations, a diversionary force of Superfortresses headed for Chengh- Submarines kept the warc sien, bottleneck junction of the Peip- Japan's doorstep all through t ing-Hankow railway in northern dark days after Pearl Harbor, A Honan province, and bombed the miral Thomas C. Hart said yeste railyards which the Japanese are day speaking in Rackham audito attempting to rebuild. ium at commencement exercises f 114 graduates of the University m Y dical school, 27 of whom were me bers of the Navy. Telling the part the underse z craft played in the Pacific theat Nazi Refinery Hart said American submarines i ~ exorably cut down Jap sea pow LONDON, July 29.-(JP)-In a new Today, he asserted, Jap mercha: assault on Germany's dwindling oil shipping is half what it was at t] resources, more than 1,100 American outbreak of the war. heavies smashed at the Leuna syn- Jap Navy Was 'Hot' thetic refinery at Merseburg today When the Japs seized the initi for the second consecutive day in a tive with their attack on Pearl Ha follow-up to .a 1,000-plane RAF raid bor, Hart said, the Nipponese na on Stuttgart and Hamburg last night was '"hot", and made few mistake in which the British lost 62 planes to The battle of Midway, howeve heavy Nazi opposition. turned the tide in favor of the Unit German oil targets have been a top States, according to the admiral. priority in daylight strategic bomb- "We shall obliterate Jap power c ing the past three months and in a or under the sea," Adm. Ha grinding, methodical attack the Am- stressed, but we can only in the w erican heavies based in Britain and if the "life and soul of the milita Italy have plastered more than 64 cult that rules Japan" iseexti different Nazi oil plants. guish " ue Japan" is exti British Mosquitos last night blasted guished."We must end the war Frankfurt with 4,000 - pounders, going to Tokyo," he said. Meanwhile the Russians heavily 85 Men Receive Commissions bombed suburbs of Warsaw, Inster- Of the 114 medical school grad burg in East Prussia and Krustpils ates addressed by the admiral, 27 a in Latvia in advance of storming Red I members of V-12 unit on campus an armies. were commissioned lieutenants, jur Legislature To Discuss, Peace A ims By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 29. - The challenge of an approaching peace- carrying with it the possibility of widespread unemployment and stag- nated' industry-confronts congress- men returning to Washington for the. opening Tuesday of another potenti- ally historic session. With legislation governing the termination of war contracts already on the statute books, the lawmakers hear plans on all sides for quick de- cisions on other major pieces of the legislative framework for orderly transition from war to peace. Jobs To Be Problem Jobs for upwards of 10,000,000 men in the armed forces and 20,000,000 others in war industry, together with legislative machinery for the dis- posal of $75,000,000,000 worth of government plants, equipment and supplies pose problems of unprece- dented magnitude. While optimism over the chance of an early collapse of Germany is tempered by caution, agreement is general that the government can't afford to take chances. Rayburn Announces Plans Speaker Sam Rayburn announced' in Bonham, Tex., that all members' of the House post-war planning and legislative committees were being called back to Washington immedi- ately. Rayburn planned to leave for Washington tomorrow. In the Senate, differences of opin- ion over the extent of the authority Congress should grant a projected over-all demobilization agency, the amount and procedure for paying unempldyment compensation and other details are slowing efforts of its military committee to agree on the final form of a bill. Reds Surge over Border Into Latvia, Soviet Offensive Approaches Berlin By The Associated Press LONpON, July 30, Sunday-Rus- sian troops yesterday fought within sight of Warsaw, bombarded half- way mark in the offensive rolling along the road to Berlin, while in the north other Soviet units surged across the southern Latvian border in their swift drive against the almost-en- circled Nazi armies of the Baltic. Warsaw's east bank suburbs were under Soviet artillery attack. Berlin said the Russians in the north were only 20 miles from the Gulf of Riga, fighting fiercely in. the Jelgava area in their effort to com- plete a trap on 200,000 to '300,000 Germans under Col.-Gel. Georg Lin demann. Jelgav4i, Riga B1ombed Jelgava, a strategic' rail junction, and Riga, Latvian capital-port on the Baltic, both were hammered heavily by Soviet bombers Friday night "Several . enemy troop trains were smashed or burned out," the comi- munique said, indicating that the Germans already were trying to flee Estonia and Latvia. The Latvian town of Eleja, 15 miles south of Jelgava, was captured, the Moscow bulletin said, and a mid- night supplement said more than 3,500 Germans were killed and 2,500 captured in Saturday's operations. 200 Villages Captured Gev. Ivan Bagramian's first Baltic armies captured more than 200 vil- lages in this push toward the Baltic doast, including Zagare, on the Lith- uanian-Latvian border 42 miles south of the Gulf, Moscow said. Farther south other units closing in on Kau- nas, former Lithuanian capital, cap- tured Karmelava, less than six miles northeast of Kaunas, which is a Ger- man bastion protecting the road to German East Prussia. The ,all of Kaunas was regarded as near. The Moscow communique an- nounced the capture of a total of 1,320 towns and villages during the day, and said the Russians attacking below Warsaw had completely cleared the enemy from a 60-mile section of the east bank of the Vistula River- last Axis defense line before Germany itself. Frankel CBS Editor To Talk Top Artists Included y In Speech Program Manc hurian own TORIES AS REDS SURGE WEST- territory captured by Russian armies ndicating other areas taken since June or -cities captured by the Russians in campaign. f Medical School ess by Admiral on she Ld- er- ar- "or le- m- ms ,re, tn- er. ant he [a- es. er, ,ed on rt gar pry n- by u- Lre nd n- ior grade, in the medical corps by Capt. Richard E. Cassidy, command- ant of the Naval units. Of the re- maining graduates, 58 under the Army training, program were com- missioned first lieutenants by Lt. Col. Reginald Miller of the Judge Advocate General's school. Members of the naval and marine units on campus were reviewed by the admiral after the graduating ex- ercises. Union Seeks Blood Donors The Union will hold registration for the forthcoming Red Cross Blood Bank from 9 a. m. to noon and be- tween 1 and 2:30 p. m. tomorrow on the Diagonal, according to Sandy Perlis, Union head of the project. The quota for University men is 200, and to fill this all men whose health permits them to become blood donors are asked to register tomor- row. The Blood Bank will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p. m. Thursday and Friday, August 10 and 11, in the Women's Athletic Building. Uni- versity women have not yet filled their quota of 75 blood donors. World News at a Glance Dies To Probe PAC... WASHINGTON, July 29. - (P) - Chairman Dies (D-Tex.) announced tcnightthat his House committee, on un-American affairs will investigate the CIO Political Action Committee, which the Dies group has declared as "the political arm" of the New Deal. Dies said that if the majority of the committee wants an immediate meeting,. it should summon 75 gov- ernment officials to "find out how they can evade theHatchactrwith impunity." Dies said the record shows these officials "to have worked closely with the CIO Political Ac- tion Committee." Top Ace Missing*.. * OIL CITY, Pa., July 29.--(iP)- While his home town was plan- ning a joyous homecoming celebra- tion for him and his finance, Lt.- Col. Francis S. Gabreski, America's top-scoring war pilot credited with shooting down 28 enemy planes, was reported missing in action over Germany today. Willkie Offers Aid . . NEW YORK, July 29-(AP)- Wendell L. Willkie offered today to represent Maxwell Anderson, the playwright, if U. S. Rep. Hamilton Fish s(R-NY) brought any libel ac- tion against him growing out of the representative's battle for renomina- tion in New York State's 29th con- Mortimer 'Frankel, Associate Script Editor of the Columbia Broadcasting Company, will answer questions con- cerning radio, particularly comedy broadcasts, in a conference at 4 p. m., Tuesday, in Rackham West Confer- ence Room. Mr. Frankel is being sent here by CBS as part of a general program in cooperation with the Department of Speech, through which CBS is send- ing some of its top ranking artists in various fields of radio to give prac- tical instruction in the classroom. Classes in writing, production and acting will receive instruction from lVjr. Frankel, who will also visit other- classes. Mr. Frankel has had varied experi- ence in almost all forms of magazine, radio, and film publicity and has ed- ited comedy broadcasts, morale pro- grams, and a quiz program. He was wi1,th ,,44-,.A A4...-ie.. Al..... ~ n f PANELS, LECTURES, DINNER PLANNED FOR MEETING: China Conference Set To Acquaint Campus with Eastern Ally Designed to awaken an interest in China nn the nart of the teachers Saturday will be on sale at the reg- Designed to awaken an interest in International Center, will be master of ceremonies at the Chinese dinner A program of entertainment will be given by the Chinese Student Summer Session; Mischa Titiev, as- sociate professor of anthropology and