Incessant                                    Bombing Offensive                                                                            Passes 20th Day
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Today's                                                                                                                                                                        Attacked by
                                                              Dally Student Publication of Michigan State                                                                         Aerial Fleet
Campus                                           VOL. 33Z.ua                  EAST     LANSING, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 5,
                                                                                                                                                 College
                                                                                                                                                     1M4        No. 153        French             Supply Depots,
                                                                                                                                                                                       Military Objectives
          Nasi Thoughts                     100 Coeds to
                                                                                             Sing in                     Spring Concert
    .  .
,
                                                                                                                                                                                       Included in Sweep
    Worry over      Invasion plans has
everybody on          edge, but In one                                                                                                                                               LONDON, May 4 <AP)
case it really proved a success¬
ful way for waking up a lazy
                                                                                       Program to Star*                                                                        —American Flying Fort¬
                                                                                                                                                                               resses delivered a
                                                                                                                                                                                                              sharp at¬
cued. Hearing much commo¬
             tion around the        house,                                             Composition of                                                                          tack on a Nazi airdrome hi
                                                                                                                                                                               Holland today, highlighting tha
«r
p.Day
             she Jumped out of bed,
             thinking Allied forces
                                                                                        MSC Professor                                                                          20th      straight day of the Allied
             had landed     on  the conti¬                                                                                                                                     aerial offensive—a          day in which
                                                                                            MSC      Women's Glee club,                                                         1,750 bombers striking from Bri¬
nent. No such luck. The excit-                                                         under the direction of Prof. Wil¬                                                       tain and Italy by night and
ment resulted from a long-dis¬                                                                                                                                                                                          day
                                                                                       liam R. Sur of the department                                                           dropped 6.000 tops of explosives
tance      call for a sorority sister.
                                                                                       staff, will present its spring         con¬                                             on Hitler's
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Europe.
                                                                                       cert in      Fairchild     theater at 8                                                  Little Damage
...      Ride, Muter?                                                                  p. m.,      according to Prof. Roy                                                            American Marauders and Ha¬
                                                                                       Underwood,' head of the music                                                            voc light bombers and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                RAF Mit¬
    Oh. the pity      ef It all   ..  with                                             department.                                                                             chells struck a wide
                                                                                                                                                                                                               variety of
the bas situation as It has been,                                                           The Glee club Is now                                                                supply depots and military in¬
and with hitchhikers taking ad¬                                                                                           compos¬                                                 stallations in northern France
                                                                                       ed of 100 voices,                                                                                                                 by
vantage ef the stray motorists'                                                                                  making it one
                                                                                       of the largest            women's        en¬
                                                                                                                                                                                daylight and American Mus¬
offers for rides te the Mg city,                                                       sembles in the country.                                                                  tangs conducted an offensive
it would have te be a eop. One                                                                                                                                                 sweep over Brunswick,
                                                                                            A feature of the                                                                                                           Ger¬
of the thumbers yesterday get                                                                                      evening will                                                 many.
                                                                                       be      "Softly Away," composed
a ride, after waving frantically                                                                                                                                                     AH the Fortresses, about
                                                                                       and directed by Dr J.                                                                                                            25S
before all passing ears for sever¬                                                                                         Murray                                               in number, returned
                                                                                       Barbour,      assistant professor of                                                     did the medium and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                safely, as
al minutes. After bouncing into
                                                                                       music.                                                                                                                light bomb¬
the vehicle,          the driver didn't                                                                                                                                         ers.       Their fighter escort lost
start the motor—Instead he pull                                                             Sung by the ensemble will be                                                          three planes and downed nine
ed out a little book and started                                                       "To Thee be Praise"
                                                                                                                        by Bach;                                                  Nazis, while the fighters over
                          The would-be                                                 "Ave         Maria"
to write a ticket.                                                                                               by       Brahms;                                               Germany shot down the only
rider     paid $1.M for obstructing                                                    "Omnipotence"            by      Schubert;                                                 German plane sighted.
automobile passage,             and five           WILLIAM L SUK                       "Nightingale" by Brahms; and                                                                  The RAF sent out a fleet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          of
rents for bus fare.                                .  .  .   conductor
                                                                                       a
                                                                                            spiritual, "Mists" by Respighi.                                                      750 heavy bombers in a
                                                                        . . .
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      series
                                                                                                                                                                                 of
                                                                                   -
                                                                                     j iedA small ensemble,           accompan¬             MURRAY          BARBOUR                       early-morning         moonlight
                                                                                               by Dorothy Horn, senior                                                             raids   on   France and
                                                                                                                                                      composer                                                   Ludwigs-
Mordecai Johnson, Negro Educator,
                                                                                                                                            .  .   .            .  . .
                                                                                       piano major -from East Lan¬                                                                haven, Germany, losing 4i», and
                                                                                       sing, will present Gretchaninoff's                                                         the     Mediterranean air          forces
                                                                                       "Summer Night," and the Swed¬
  Will Address All-College Convo                                                        ish    folk sung, "Eliln Horn."             Pan Hel               Approves
                                                                                                                                                                                  staged their first night
                                                                                                                                                                                  on
                                                                                                                                                                                       Bucharest, Rumania.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     attack
                                                                                       Miss Horn will then conduct the                                                            Return to Italy
                                               Dr. Mordecai         Johnson, pres club in a spiritual, "Were
                                            idont of Howard university in There'.'" and the
                                                                                                                               You  New Rushing Plan                                 The Budapest radio went
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         off
                                                                                                                 Anglo-Ameri¬                                                     the air with           air raid warn¬
Prom Primaries                              Washington,        D.'C., will     cover           folk-song, "At
                                                                                                                                                                                                     an
                                                                                                                                                                                  ing late tonight, indicating that
                                                                                                                                    for Coming Year
                                                                                       can                          the Foot of
                                            'Some of        the Problems Facing         Yonder Mountain."                                                                         the    Allied air     forces based in
Continue                   Today;           America" at the all-college con¬
                                            vocation in College auditorium
                                                                                            Mary Marguret Murphy, junior               Final rushing plans for next               Italy were returning to the Bal¬
                                                                                                                                                                                  kans for the second
                                                                                        piano student from Mt. Clem¬ year were                                                                                     straight
                                            today at 1Q a. m.                                                                                        approved by PanHel-          night.
                                                                                       ens, will direct another spiritual, lenic council last
Voting in Union                                Representing Howard univer¬             "Joshua
                                                                                       cho,"    and
                                                                                                    Fit
                                                                                                      the
                                                                                                         De
                                                                                                           club
                                                                                                               Battle
                                                                                                                                                            night accord¬
                                                                                                                         Ob Jeri¬ ing to Pres. Jean McKerring,                       Alarms of Allied planes also
                                                                                                                                                                                  were sounded from the
     Voting in the primaries for sity, which is the most outstan¬ the program with                                                                                                                                Balkans
                                                                                                                  will conclude
                                                                                                                                    Flushing junior.                              northward to the Alps and In
                                            ding Negro university in the                                             the "Alma
queen of the Poinciana prom,                                                           Mater."                                         During the summer, freshmen                western
 semi-formal dance to be spon¬
                                            world. Dr. Johnson's topic will                                                                                                                     Germany.
                                                                                                                                    women will receive a letter from
                                            be one that "will make thought¬                 Special    soloist   not    scheduled PanHellenic council
 sored May 13 by Alpha Phi O-                                                                                                                                    explaining
                                            ful persons think", according to on the program is Helen Elaine
 •i ega, will eand at 5
                             p. m. today,
 ballots may be cast in the lower
                                            Pres. John A. Hannah.                      Baker,       Bay      City
                                                                                                                                    the new plan. Women Interested
                                                                                                                       freshman. will be asked to send their rush¬                Red Bombers Hit
deek of the Union untl that time.              Howard university, which is Phyllis Lighttleld, senior pianist
                                                                                        from                                        ing fee to PanHellenic council
Semi-finals will take place next            maintained        largely by federal Prof. Minneapolis, a pupil of before school is resumed. If she
                                                                                                  Frank     Manheimer,         will
                                                                                                                                                                                  German Garrison
  ■v.ek.                                    subsidies,     is the only Negro un¬
                                                                                       play "Etudes Symphoniques" by eventually pledges a sorority the
                                                                                                                                                                                  at
 "
    Jack Samuelson, Farmington
                                            iversity that is comparable to Schumann.
                                            regular state universities and its
    phomore, and general chair¬ stafT consists of highly compe¬
                                                                                                                                    fee will be applied to her first
                                                                                                                                    sorority dues.        In this way a                    Sevastopol
 man      of the dance, has announ¬
                                                                                                                                    list of women        seriously consid¬           LONDON, Friday, May 5 (AP)
                                            tent personnel, Hannah said.
                                                                                                                                    ering joining a sorority will be —A merciless night attack by
ced committee heads. In charge
 el ticket tales is Glenn Archer,              Johnson, who was formerly               Saturday Night Series                        available.                                    Russian bombers on the German-
while Les Shelden, Holt Junior, professor of English, history and
                                                                                       Switches          to    Movies                  The formal rushing plan Is to Romanian garrison jammed into
 is
      handling voting.                      economics. has degrees includ¬                                                          be divided into three stages. The surrounded Sevastopol was an¬
                                 Publicity                                                  "Little Old New York",
 chairman la Reiner Schneider, ing doctor of divinity and doc¬
                                                                                                                            a mov¬  first stage consists of the rush¬ nounced tonight by a Soviet com^
                                                                                         ie   starring    Alice Faye, Fred
 Lansing sophomore.
                                            tor of laws from the University
                                                                                                                                    ing teas which will begin the munique                        which said bombing
                                            of Chicago and Harvard.                     MacMurray and Richard Greene Sunday of freshmen week at                                   and      strafing     silenced
     Norm Aurand, Cranford, N. J.                                                                                                                                                                                     many
                                                                                         will be shown Saturday in Fair-                                                          enemy batteries, started at least
                                               All civilian and mixed clas¬
 junior, and Reid Pierce, are in ses will be excused at 10 a.m..
                                                                                                                                    3:45      p.      m.  and     continued ten
                                                                                        child theater at 7 and B p. m.
                                                                                                                                    throughout the day and Monday. explosions.          large   fires and caused many
 >harge of decorations, and Dick                                                        This is the first of a series of
                                            so that students may attend the                                                            Freshmen women will receive
 Mosher, East Lansing freshman, convocation. Instructors                                 four movies about travel and                                                               Soviet troops have ringed about
                                                                              should                                                Invitations to these teas from the
 ts coronation chairman.                                                                                                                                                          the Crimean
                                                                                                                                                                       receipt but have heldport for two weeks
                                                                                        adventure to be shown for the PanHellenic council on
                                            remind 8 and 9 o'clock classes
    Tickets for the dance are on of the event. The first few min¬ remainder of the term.                                                                                                              off from a frontal
                                                                                                                                    of their fees indicating their in¬
 <ale at the accounting office and                                                           Life Begins at Forty", with tention.
                                                                                                                                                                                 assault, apparently to conserve
                                            utes of the program will be de¬
 tiie Union                                                                                                                                                                       manpower.
                  desk, and may also voted to community singing led Will Rogers, will be shown Sat¬                                    A    PanHellenic        convocation           The blows by Soviet
 he
                                                                                                                                                                                  all of which were listed planes,
         obtained from          committee                                                urday,    May    13,   and    two    other Tuesday       morning   will  open    the
                                            by Prof. Fred Patton of the                                                                                                                                              as re¬
 members, Samuelson said.                   music department                             films are arranged for the fol¬ second part of the plan, when turning to
                                                                                                                                                                                                    base, might mean
                                               Johnson, who is in East Lan¬ lowing Saturday nights.                                 Miss   McKerring will introduce that the infantry was
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     nearly
                                            sing as the special guest of the                Admission for students is by Mrs. Joseph Gagnier, PanHel¬ ready to plunge in for the Mil
 Vffai      Propaganda Head                 college, was the main feature of treasurer's receipt. Servicemen lenic adviser. The regular rush- against the thousands of tha
                                                                                                                   ,
                                            last night's faculty meeting. He will be admitted free.                                         See PsnHel. Page 3                    garrison.
Says          Germans Hold                              yesterday      acquainting                                                                                                   No essential
                                            spent                                                                                                                                                       changes on tha
Many Trump Cards                            himself with the campus and                                                                                                           long land fronts were reported
                                            conferring with faculty mem¬
    LONDON, ' May 4 (API- bers. He will meet with Gov¬
                                                                                         British-A merica A irA                n              rm       Hammers                    by the communique, broedcast
                                                                                                                                                                                  from Moscow and recorded
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       here
Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul ernor                                                                                                                                               by the Soviet monitor,
                                                     Kelly, at the letter's re¬
Joseph Goebbels fad the Ger¬ quest, following today's convo¬                             Bucharest in First Night Assault                                                         ing that i
mans
                        syrup for their                                                                                                                                           was     in progress,
                                            cation.
                                                                                            ALLIED HDQ.. NAPLES,
                                                                                                                                                                                                            however, toe
nerves
of
            today wtth the proaoise                                                                                            Msy,torday, waa anddriven
                                                                                                                                                       • small-scale     Nazi
                                                                                                                                                             off Mr Indian
                                                                                                                                                                                  communique          said   47    fin awn
      -trump cards up our sleeves"                                                           (AP)—RAF heavy bombers                                                            jlanks wars destroyed            or  draftt¬
when tha invaaion strikes.                 Red Ctom Will Oiler                                                                      troopo of tho eighth army en the
    "There exist hmxmsnhlide-
fense mseeurae and weapons so              life Saving Comae
                                                                                       targets in the Romanian capital,
far
      unknown," Qoshfajle wrote in
an article
of the
                                               The Red Croee will conduct a while aground in Italy (|w Oer-
                to this week's edition course in life saving and water                                                              SSSLXtGFJZSS
            Canaan amputee "Das •nfety in the pool of the wom¬ ime srsls movements on the
Kerch," Irrnsitiisst aver the Ger¬ en's
                                                  gym daily from 7 until 10 Adriatic and central sectors.
                                                                                                                                           «§*?£§
man redto.
                                            p.        Miooday through Satur-                The sir blow was tha tot
    Reports tram ether sections of                                                     night      assault by the to                                                               TOteAY—
Europe showed the anxiety of
the    Germane new living in an¬            ^1       studeni                           American air am oo Buch
                                                                                                                                         '
                                                                                                                                                      wae"tovarieh actt-
                                                                                                                                           in    Italy for major       opora-
ticipation of sasfy Allied mul¬
tiple blows.        1                                          eii^teperiki-           Mid.      The Balkan city
    The Ankara, radio said - the                                                                                         haBftajJ
                                            £tetk»      of the own*         will he       2 asSi**
                                            granted       csrtlficatos a#      way                                                                                                      MM Beta I p. as.
                                           jning ft* coeds will to           *****                    •tSTTSSSK                                                                         «as Cteb ssnsart. » p.«
                                            f~i—« during the weak           ef Maar
                                            ft to 13.
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                                                          .5 iV7Vi       *
                                                                WdV, May 5,
         fMwVOfM.N.V,
                                                             Fii, S»fct Sun.
                                                          SUNDAY MATINEE
                      American public
                                                                   ORCHESTRA
                                                          Five AO-Star Acts
LETS GO BOWLING and PLAY BILLIARDi
       KAPWOWNHSEAHON                 V'   « SUNDAY •
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                                                                                                                                       (Continued from Page 1)               York Governor Smith
                                                                                                                                  ing parties will be held even
                                                                                                                                  evening through Sunday.
                                                                                                                                                                             Dim of      Pnnmoniq
                                                                                                                                     Stage three will include two              NEW YORK, May 4 (API-
                                                                                                                                  evening parties during the fol¬ Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, 65, who
                                                                                                                                  lowing week, the preference preferred to remain in the back¬
                                                                                                                                 dinner and final pledging, Each ground while her husband was
                                                                                                                                  sorority will send out its own in the political limelight as
                                                                                                                                  invitations for the parties dur¬ governor of New York and a
                                                                                                                                  ing stages two and three.                 presidential candidate in 1928,
                                                                                                                                     From 25 to 30 women will be died unexpectedly today of vjrue
                                                                                                                                 escorted to the teas by PanHel-            pneumonia.
                                                                                                                                  Icnic alumnae of the sororities,             The quiet, deeply religipus
                                                                                                                                 where there will be no entertain¬ Mrs. Smith, who had been ill
                                                                                                                                 ment. Each woman will be re¬ five days, was known _ior her
                                                                                                                                  quired to visit every sorority devotion to her home rind fam¬
                                                                                                                                  house. Failure to do this will ily.
                                                                                                                                 make her ineligible for further               She had made a
                                                                                                                                                                                                pilgrimage to
                                                                                                                                 rushing until informal rushing. Rome in 1925 and was received
                                                                                                                                    The date of the sorority sing           by Pope Pius XI.
                                                                                                                                 has not definitely been decided.
                                                                                                                                 The tentative dates are June 2
                                                                                                                                 or    June 5. In either case the
                                                                                                                                                                            AER Elects Officer*
                                                                                                                                  program will begin at 6:30 p.m.              Bob
                                                                                                                                  Care is being taken to keep the
                                                                                                                                                                                     Kamins, Lansing junior,
                                                                                                                                                                            was   elected president of Alpha
                                                                                                                                  £lng   from conflicting with oth¬          Epsilon Rho, radio honorary re¬
                                                                                                                                 er   senior activities.                    cently. Other officers are Nan
                                                                                                                                                                             Blue, Detroit junior, as vice-
                                                                                                                                    I.t. William Drake, '42, who             president; Jo Carter, Kalamazoo
                                                                                                                                 was    a civics major in
                                                                                                                                                              Applied       sophomore, secretary; and Mar¬
                                                                                                                                 Science, is now in the signal               garet Bradbury, Detroit junior.
                                                                                                                                   corps (radar) in North Africa, treasurer.
                                                                                                                                                                  Create        a
                                                                                                                                                                                   Memory at
    ipled. driving the three men                         era*                  contenders    on the list are Pukka Gin and Auto                             The Flower and Gift Shoppe of
„       MaCris and Prgshaw both                                                                                                                                          VEDA F08TER
  0t a life on base through error, Toutn                            Girls to Install Invest in Victory—Buy War                                          184 E. Kalamazoo                              2-6634
  jwtel drove them in with a
ungle and then preceded Reed Officers at Dessert;                                                          Bonds and 6tamps.
,cross the plate after his hopier
  Irrslin Plays Short
                                                    Dean         Will       Speak
    Surprise of the game was the                        News officers of Town Girls
flitting of Jack Breslip to short- club
                                                              will be installed
 top, after injuries prevepted                                                             Friday                             at the
   ojtin from making thf trip and                    night at an installation dessert
 llness kept Turk from reaching in the Town Girls'
 letroit.
                                                                                      lounge on                         Stvlc  Shop
                                                                                                                                                                                   ce
                                                     the fourth floor of
    Jack Ashley started the game                                                   the Union at
                                                     7    p. m., according to an an¬
_     the mound for State, but was
 eplaced in the third inning by nouncement by the retiring pres¬
 (restel.         Ashley Wps retired ident, Doris Bennett, Lansing
 Iter the Coast Guard got seven
                                                     senior.     ■
 uns in the second inning.                  The
.oast Guard runs came after                             Dean Elisabeth Conrad will
Kvtral men had walked and a speak briefly on the role of the
  ingle drove two in and several organization in
                                                                                                                                                                               of     Early
                                                                                 college activi¬
  partan errors accounted for the ties, and
                                                                    past presidents of the
(est.                                               club will be guests of honor, Dor
 let Early Lead
                                                     is   Renz, chairman, confirmed.
    State started out with a hang,
 ihng up a three run lead In the
 rat. A walk, a single and
 ral errors enabled Reed, Grunst,
                                           80V-
                                                         Officers to be installed are as
                                                     follows:         president,         Margaret
                                                                                                                                            Spring DRESSES
                                                     Rendall; vice-president, Doris
         Breslin to score.                           Englehardt; secretary, Dorothy
    Greatest
                                                                                                                                                    Two groups of silk and wpol dresses
                    fault    in      Spartan         Renz; treasurer, Nancy Wyn-
   lay was in baserunnipg. lfa.
   ru. Prashaw
                                                     garden; senior representative,                                                                •  -  -
                                                                                                                                                           all from       our   regular stock    —    at
                        and Reed wore               Rpth Peters; junior representa¬
 11 picked off baae.            Reed was
abbed                                               tive, Betty Rendall.                                                                            unusual      price        reductions    for    final
              by the hidden ball trlgk.
ncient in         the annals pf base-                    All women students are In-
si!.
                                                                                                                                                    clearance.       A good selection of
                                                                                                                                                                                                 styles
                                                  i vited to attend the dessert.
                                                                                                                                                   —but In broken lots only.
         Snooping                              in        the Shops                                                                                Group 1
     4 AY day has come and
                                       By KARRI*
                                        gone, on dresses range from 1.98 to
     (| and with OUT fin gen 398, extremely reasonable for
            crossed     w« pray            mat the new, and original clothes we
                                                                                                                                                   Reg. Values
                                                                                                                                                   I* $88.75
                                                                                                                                                  New              ......
                                                                                                                                                                                       $500
 Pnng is here |a stay, at least found there.
    r a season.
                       The usual onset                  In keeping with the trend to¬
       indolent inertia has caused
                                                    ward the crisp, fresh, and clean
                                                                                                                                                  Group 2
                                                                                                                                                                                 *10°°
    * painful
                  thoughts of midterms look, we liked the white purses
      dunge to lovely visions of
    oka, canoeing, baseball                         at Liebermann's. Pouch, enve¬
                                                                                                                                                   Reg. Values
   * flowers
                    that
                                         .   .  .
                                                    lope, shoulder-strap bgas, and
                          bloom in          the     small afternoon purses in white                                                                to 889 75
   nn«. tra la.
    And in                                                 ~;in and calfskin leathers,                                                            Now
                keeping with the mood               with crocheted cord, and other
   ittsual relaxation we've been
  «»n« lor light                                    fabrics beautiful and most ac¬
                            weight, oool ceptable substitutes, for the pre¬
   ^ons.
   r             The ideal
        classes when
                             combination            cious hide.                                                                                                      •         •      •
                           the      wmther
              the torrid                                At Penney's for 1.98 per yard,
                            stage is the 100
                                                            per cent wool flannel is
   jjwnial       broomstick skirt and available fqr those adored pleat¬                                                                               All Kales      Final     —    No Layawayu
    Often known as the                              ed akirts, but something special
                                peasant or
              this year's version is about this wool is that it's white.
                                                                                                                                                                     •         •      •
          Plated into the wide belt •Null
      r- than gathered.
                                                              said.
                                                        Also In the unready-to-wear
                                  Not only
     <*ver way of
                                            the        (pertinent are the spun ray¬
 *»«»
              shortage of cottons, but ons wnich are nobly standing in
 K a smooth fit for the gist fog cottons this season. Ar¬
                                                                                                           War Bends
 Sparge           hip,.                    W        ea ugh's have scads of lush ma¬
                                                                                                           Increase in
 J** skirts,          however, ant still terials on the bolt which could                                Valoe Every Day
Penough to give a awiahy feel be easily adapted to everything
            *'c>rn for
                          casual Mnvrt from summer formats to bath¬
           it, flowery prints of                   ing suits, starting pt 59 cents a
                                           red,                                                                                                                                                                y
              fsen.    and blue high-              yard.            ,   -                                                                                                                                           m
             the skirts   at Jane Lee's                To get back to          foe dressy side
[{,*
1"** you
          mere    Pittance      .  .     "         of    things, how abppt a hat? Still
                   been to the                                              J1* J***
             One whole shoo
                                      fa                                                      jg
          aolely to                                                                          lovs                                                                                                             L
             Brunch                                                                           the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 'i.J|
    ~r~»ts,       slacks, and no                                              of" small hats,                                                                                                                ■fglpi
   Jr1***        are it~H alone —                             ant     simply plastic band-
                                                                                                                                                                                                             iw Mi
      r            snail store, but the                       covered with felt to which
                      ** adkw it a                 a   duster of felt posiee            is added                                                                                                              Mm
                                                   oa    either side.
                                                                                                                                                                           y agfe            .
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111           -                    M*amm
                                         *>i ( oi>A.w'
                British Forces Near
     S.E. ASIA HDQ., KANDY,
♦aetriwy Jspanooc
casualties both in northern Bonne and near                                 the Allied
base of Kohima in India, it was                          announced today -in a
brief communique from Adkf"
miral Lord Louis Mountbat-
ten's headquarters.
                                                Neutral Countries
  The
been no
                bulletin said there had
                  important change in the
fighting around Imphal, 60 miles
                                                  Warned to Shun
                                                Trade with Axis
                                                                                                Despite                ...
south of Kohima, and for the
first time in several days did not                  WASHINGTON, May 4 (AP>
                                                 —The United States and Britain
                                                                                                             the Rain
mention the Palel sector, where
on Monday the Japanese were                      tightened their economic bloc-
reported massing for an all-out                  xade of Germany today           with a
attack on Imphal, 28 miles to                    warning of neutral European
the north.                                       business not to assist the enemy
Strength Estimated                               in its    final  struggle for exis¬
     (A Tokyo news broadcast said tence.
that Japanese troops were "clos-
on     Palel and steadily tightening
                                                    The   warning,    was   sounded In
their iron cordon around enemy                   advance      of  the   final  military
forces entrenched in Imphal." It                drive to victory. It was          based
estimated the strength of Bri¬                  on a    policy statement for 15,000
tish and Indian forces defend¬
                                                business concerns and individ¬
ing Imphal at nearly 10 divi¬
sions. A broadcast claim by the uals which have already been
Berlin radio on Wednesday that blacklisted because of their co¬
the Allies had evacuated Imphal operation or trade with the Axis.
was not repeated.)
                                                    Under this iron-handed policy
     In northern Burma, Lt. 6en.
                                                sanctions against those firms
Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese
troops and native Levies were will be maintained after the war
reported to have thrown back for an indefinite time, thus giv¬
two Japanese a tacks and inflict¬
                                                 ing concerns which have coop¬
 ed       severe        casualties   on   the    erated with the Allies       an initial
enemy.                                           advantage in competing for
Fight Nears Kamalng                              post-war markets.
   One of the engagements took                      Ten thousand of the black list
place at Man pin, only 10 miles                 firms are in Latin America and
north of Kamaing, where Stil¬                    it was indicated that sanctions
well's forces-have made their                    against those would          be  eased
 fartherest advance in their drive               first because Axis commercial
to link India and China by road.                 control in areas remote from the
     On the southern Burma front                 war   zones.
British            forces   captured high           The    remaining 5,000 are in
ground overlooking the Maung-                    European        neutral      countrii
daw-Buthedaung road, for which
the Japanaeee have been fight¬
                                                 They face the possibility of pro¬
                                                 longed sanctions which include
ing with great determination.                    restrictions to prevent their do¬
                                                 ing business with British or
                                                 Amercan concerns.         By  a  rough
                -
                       THE         -
                                                 estimate, officials said, they rep¬
                                                 resent a third less of the firms
                                                 still operating in that part of
                                                 the world.
   WOMAN'S WORLD
          By MAT ANN MAJOR                      Freshmen Home Ecs
YWCA                                             Plan 'Scrap Parties'
     YWCA members will meet in
 the student parlors of People's                    Freshmen Home Ec students
church it 7 p. m today for a                     will make scrapbooks for mili¬
theater party, according to Pro¬                 tary hospitals at "Scrap Parties"
                                                to be held May 20 and 27, at
 gram            Chairman     Margaret     De
Groot, Dundee sophomore. Cokes 2 p. m. In the Home Ec building,
 will be served at the home of according to Anna Shontz, Col¬
 Mrs. H. J. Wyngarden folowing umbia, Ohio, freshman.
 the movie. Members are asked                      The freshmen Home Ec board,
to bring any other refreshments sponsor of the party, has the
desired.                                         dilal purpose of bringing togeth
                                                 er the freshman class and help¬
OMICRON NU
                                                 ing to supply military conval-
   The following Juniors are the                       its with entertainment.
 new         officers of Omicron Nu,
Homo Economics honorary: Pres.                      The party is being held on
Marjorie Graff,              Detroit; Vlce-      the two days to provide time
pres.           Helen    Miller, Dearborn;      for      completing       the    books,
 Sec.           Carolyn Kalmbach, Chel¬          and each woman should attend
sea;       and Tress. Aileen Wilson,            both days. Refreshments will be            Bright     as  ■  silvery raindrop,   as
Detroit.                                         served.
                                                                                           waterproof     as a   duck's back; and
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