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GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD-pARTERS, Australia, Mon-,y, May 3—(U.P.)—British id Australian-manned Spit-•es intercepted a large Jap-lese attacking force of >mbers and fighter planes Darwin and suffered *ir severest defeat yet re-Irted in the southwest Pa-
;, allied headquarters’ noon com-lique announced today.
allied force suffered its iviest losses in the proportion the number of planes engaged a naction. It was the first le Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s tmmsnique has ever admitted ivy allied losses, force of 51 Japanese planes— bombers escorted by 30 fighters ittacked Darwin and were in-*pted by the allied fighters, destroyed or damaged 13. image to ground installations negligible but “our own air were heavy,” the announce-lt said.
was the first heavy air at-by the Japanese on allied hi the area of Australia New Guinea since enemy sler” raids on Oro bay, Milne and Port Moresby three weeks >, when 2X0 enemy planes stag-the series of raids which mil-observers believed were de-to test allied defenses, planes shot down about 90 attacking planes during the >a of those attacks.
headquarters spokesman an-lced that the Darwin attack irred at midmoming, with the planes bombing the allied n the northern coast of Aus-from an altitude of 26,000
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attacking planes met heavy l-aircraft fire and a substan-force of Spitfires, a number which were shot down.
of the allied pilots were led, the spokesman said, mese losses includes three destroyed and one bomber nine fighters damaged.
Engineers called to duty
Thirty-five more army enlisted reservists have been ordered to report for active duty, effective June 28, Dean Albert Raubenheimer, armed forces representative at SC, announced Friday.
Approximately 300 ERC reservists from SC have been
called already. All of toe latest group
called are pursuing approved technical engineering courses. This order is in accord with the war department’s announcement of Jan. 27 that junior and senior reservists in approved technical engineering courses will continue in inactive status until graduation or until the completion of the first full term in 1943.
John H. Arian, Louis P. Besu-lieu, George E. Bundick, Thomas T. Caspary, William B. Chick, Donald Rex Clark, Mark B. Coxby, Roland G. Dahlstrom, Jay Warren De Dapper, William A. De Ridder, Rodger C. Dishington, Norman E. Drain, James R. Frey, Willard F. Ganther, Harold Glas-man, Gilbert F. Keierleber, Fres
A.	Lambert, Robert E. Malcho.
William B. Murray, Donald WT.
Newsqaner, W’illiam M. Niehart Jr., Lee Jarvis Phillips, Alexander
B.	Reynolds, Richard B. Roche Jr., Selby S. Sharp, John R. Sparling, Gordon M. Spivey, David Stern, William H. Stockly, Werner C. Thomas, Robert K. Von Der Lohe, Cyrus Conrad Wahlquist Jr., Jerome Woldref, William E. Wynne, Joseph R. Zazvorka.
Former students win promotions
Two Trojans now flying for Uncle Sam have received promotions, according to an announcement released by army and navy public relations officers.
Rudolph Halm is now taking a special course at Randolph field, Texas. Halm, a civilian pilot, is an SC graduate. He completed an instructor’s course at Mather field, Cal., and has also been trained at the Carlsbad army air field in New Mexico.
Lt. William M. Tweed has been promoted to captain at the Carlsbad army field. Lieutenant Tweed is serving in the dental corps and is attached to the base hospital there. He was commissioned last July at Phoenix. Tweed is a recent graduate of SC’s College of Dentistry.
Wings, anchors.
avy Relief dance ids on sa!e today
Bids will be placed on sale today for $2.20 for the first ibined Flight Prep, NROTC, and all-U dance scheduled Saturday night, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Town and jwn. All NROTC students and preparatory flight men must Irchase their bids at the bookstore, Ed Diener, dance chair-emphasized.
proceeds from the dance, )red by The Fighting Top, will the Navy Relief society, [ighlight of this gala affair will the awarding of two $25 U.S. bonds to holders of the tickets. All bids will be and the drawing will place at the dance. The holding the winning ducat each receive a war bond, ins far two chaperones have named by Henry Pose, NROTC ^t and dance committee mem-They are Commander R. E. , NROTC executive officer, Commander Philip R. Baker, fessor of naval science and tac-at SC. Announcement will be later of the officers from the
SC cadet tells of experiences on G uadalcanal
BY UNITED PRESS
Rear-gunning isn’t always a fighting post, says marine corps Staff Sgt. Kirk Wagner, now an SC Flight Prep who was “tail-end Charlie” on a big amphibious plane when the going was heavy or! Guadalcanal.
“We did everything from dropping mail, canned foods, fruits, cigarettes, and nuts and bolts, to rescuing pilots out of the drink,” he recalled here today.
“Our biggest haul was six inundated pilots we rescued from shark-infested waters of Guadalcanal,” he said. ‘They promised us each a Zero. If they got ’em, we earned our keep.”
After three years with the marines, Wagner was sent back from the Solomons and enrolled in the navy’s pilot training program at SC.
Wagner is also a Pearl Harbar veteran. He was stationed on the battleship USS Oklahoma as a marine gunner and was in the midst of a Christmas letter to his mother when the Japs struck.
“I was knocked flat when the first torpedo hit forward,” Wagner related. “Just as I got up another torpedo struck amidships. The ship was listing badly when I finally made it to another gun topside.H
Wagner went i5 feet over the side and swam under the burning oily water to the nearest ship
Intensive language study set
An innovation in the program of the university, occasioned by the impact of war needs, is represented by the intensive language courses which are to be offered by the major language departments during the five-week interim from May 24 to June 26. The program will be similar to that offered by army and navy schools which are training person nel for combat duty and for pro jected occupation forces.
Students registered for the intensive course in German, which is now scheduled, should have had at least one year of college German. Another German course without any prerequisite requirements may be made available if enough students desire it, Dr. Harold von Hofe, assistant professor of German, announced yesterday.
Although they will be assigned no homework, they will spend six hours a day, five days a week with instructors in charge and will be granted five units of university credit.
The program during each day will be a variegated one, with stress being placed on the real use of the German language. A conversation al text published by the Lingua-phone Institute is to be supplement ed by phonograph records played in daily laboratory periods.
Geography, history, and postwar problems in regard to Germany ^fill be discussed in various periods throughout the day. Customary stiff classroom atmosphere will yield to informality and the creation of a foreign language atmosphere difficult to achieve in the traditional two or three hours a week German classes.
Lewis coal miners back to work
WASHINGTON, May 2—(U.P.)—John L. Lewis tonight ended temporarily the strike of 530,000 coal miners pending a further 15-day period of contract negotiations.
His order was issued dramatically in New York 20 minutes before President Roosevelt broadcast an appeal for the miners to return to work and keep vital war production going.
The return-to-work announcement of the leader of the United Mine Workers of America was the result of a secret parley here earlier today between Lewis and Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes. The miners are to be back to work by Tuesday.
Mr. Roosevelt presumably was aware of the Ickes-Lewis meeting and its results, but made no allusion to it in his address in which he pitted the miners’ patriotism against their
demands for a $2-a-day wage in-
crease.
However shortly after 11:15 pan., through an assistant, press secretary Stephen T. Early said
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Americans blast Kiska
American airmen continued their around-the-clock raids on big Jap bases in the Aleutians and Solomons Thursday, blasting again at much-bombed Kiska at the northern end of the Pacific battleline and at Jap-held Munda, northwest of Guadalcanal, the navy reported today.
Damage in the latest attacks was not reported.
Twin-engined army Lockheed fighters fought through bad weather in the Aleutians to drop bombs on enemy installations at Kiska in two attacks. The communique reported “hits were scored” but that complete observation of results was prevented by bad weather.
Reds kill 7000 Nazis
Russia said today that its troops had broken a six-day German offensive in force in the Novorossisk area of the Kuban at a cost to the enemy of more than 7000 men killed and 25 tanks and armored cars knocked out.
The Germans used large forces in an attempt to capture Russian positions, the Russian Sunday midnight communique said as recorded from the Moscow radio, and for six days, with the support of their air force, attacked fiercely, trying to break the Red army’s resistance.
All attacks were repelled, the communique said, and, “having been bled white without achieving any success, the enemy was forced to discontinue his attacks.”
naval preparatory school on the campus who will attend the dance.
Details are currently being worked out on a plan to aid preparatory flight cadets to secure dates with SC women.
Supplying music for this nautical affair will be Paul Martin and his (Irchestra, currently featured thrice weekly over the networks of NBC. In the vocal limelight will be Jeanne Durrell, popular radio songstress.
A nautical flavor will be added to the goings on, according to Carl Sharpe, NROTC cadet in charge of decorations. This will be the final dance for NFOTC students before they are called to active dutv at the conclusion of this semester.
JAP WRECKAGE—The remains of this Jap ship beached at Guadalcanal is a reminder of the naval battle of November, 1942. The beaches are strewn with wrecks of hundreds of similar enemy craft.
FDR . . . appeals to workers.
“The president to this hour has heard nothing officially from John L. Lewis or the United Mine WTorkers.” There was no further comment.
In the absence of any official government statement, it appeared the United Mine Workers chieftain and Ickes had concluded an agreement whereby the miners and mine operators would re-open negotiations for both the bituminous and anthracite industries, with Ickes probably acting as chief mediator. This would presume that the operators had agreed to such procedure although Lewis told the miners that they have a new employer—the United States government, which seized the mines Saturday. Lewis asked the miners to “cooperate with the government and your policy committee and restore the mines to work.” Mr. Roosevelt mentioned the operators in his speech with this significant paragraph:
“If an adjustment in wages results from a decision of the war labor board or from any new agreement between the operators and the miners, which is approved by the war labor board, that adjustment will be made retroactive to April 1."
This deference seemed to suggest that he knew of the conference developments but it reflected also his insistence that the WLB
have a share in whatever decision is ultimately obtained.
Lewis said that new contracts would be retroactive to April 1 for the bituminous miners and to May 1 for th<&e in the hard coal fields. The old contract of tbe latter ended a month later than did that in the soft coal industry. WLB Chairman William H. Davis said he knew nothing of the Lewis-Ickes agreement, but assumed that the board would be asked to handle the negotiations. He added that the panel appointed to deal with the miners’ case still is in existence.
“We will go on with the attempt to reach a «settlement if that is the arrangement,” he said.
The apparent conflict in statements of the principals left th# future pattern of negotiations in doubt.
It was not immediately apparent whether the president or Lewis had won a victory but Mr. Roosevelt seemed to have achieved his desire that the mines remain open.
Lewis’ refusal originally to submit the controversy to the WLB produced the general work stoppage after which the government seized the mines and placed troops in readiness to move into mine regions in event of violence.
“It is. our desire to cooperate with the government,” he said tonight, “and to relieve the country from the confusion and stress of the existing situation. We are hopeful that this act will be accepted by our government and the citizens of the nation as an act of wholesale good faith and assure for the mnie workers at last that consideration for their wage proposals which they believe to be due.”
The president told the miners in his radio appeal that the government had no intention of weakening their nghts in the coal fields.
“Every improvement in the conditions of the coal miners of this country has had .my hearty support,” he added. “I do not mean to desert them now.
“But I also do not mean to desert my obligations and responsibilities as president and commander-in-chief.
“Tomorrow the stars and stripes will fly over the coal mines. I hope every miner will be at work under that flag.’*
■Victory, vegetables
AWS dinner favors
to go to dormitory
Even the decorations for Wednesday’s AWS recognition banquet will be put to use after the last speech has been said and the final award given out. The various vegetables that will set the victory garden theme will be carted next-door to Elisabeth von KleinSmid residence hall where they will be consumed by tne girls Who live there.
Rakes, hoes, and trowels, part of the award banquet setting are to be donated to an orphanage where they will aid children in planting their own victory gardens, Mary McClung, banquet chairman, disclosed today.
Replacing the ornate flowers of yesterday, war stamp corsages are the only “flowers" to be used.
Picturing a basket overflowing with fruit, banquet programs this
year will carry out the victory garden theme. Marta Ruth Elkin, AEPhi and recently initiated Amazon, designed the programs.
Miss McClung announced her committee chairmen. They are: Carroll Brinkerhoff, decorations, Joyce Hill, theme; Jeanne Cendow, programs; Verniee Haden, invitations: Jane Earl, posters; Virginia Miller, hostesses and seating; Jackie Ford, tickets; Barbara Cox, publicity; and Pat Ulery, awards.
Extra tickets may be obtained at the YWCA howse or the dean of women’s office/ They will be on sale until Wednesday afternoon. Miss McClung said that few remained.
Senior and junior hostesses for the banquet should report to the Foyer of Town and Gown at 5:30, Wednesday, said Virginia Miller,