100,000 MINERS
ARE STILL IDLE
Figure Is Expected To Be
Cut Sharply As Result
Of New Votes
PITTSBURGH, July 3.——A
-picture of continuing improvement
was reflected today throughout the
coal fields although in western
Pennsylvania two new outbreaks
left 1.100 more diggers idle and
shut down a big captive pit of the
Republic Steel corporation.
Reports disclosed that about
300,000 miners still were idle in
•Pennsylvania, Alabama, Virginia,
and Tennessee but on the strength
of back-to-work votes by a num
ber of local union units today—
and a strong return sentiment in
Pennsylvania’s anthracite fields—
United Mine Workers officials ex
pressed belief this figure would
be cut sharply Monday.
Earlier the UMW leadership
had admonisned all members to
return to work because "there is
nothing to be gained’’ by contin
ued striking and “the war cannot
be won without an adequate supply
of coal.”
The biggest back-to-work devel
opments came in the big produc
ing state of Pennsylvania, al
■ though considerable improvement
:rwas noted in Alabama, where 9,
.000 of the 24,000 miners worked
today, including 40 per cent in
captive shafts which supply coal
for industrial plants.
In Tennessee, there were no
idle mines in the Knoxville area,
where 7,500 men are employed.
In the Chattanooga area, only 175
\«ere idle,, while 1,725 were work
ing.
Seven locals comprising 5,075
workers voted today to return
Monday in the troublesome UMW
district 2 of central Pennsylva
nia. where yesterday only 10,000
of 45,000 worked.
In district 5 of western Penn
sylvania, UMW President John P.
Busarello said 1,400 men at the
Vesta No. 5 mine of the Jines and
Laughlin Steel corporation also
voted, by secret ballot, to return.
Another J. & L. pitt, Vesta No. 4,
employing 1,600 men. took simi
lar action yesterday.
ALLIEc CONTINUE
TO BLAST SICILY
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weie destroyed, paying the pen
alty for getting within range of
the Liberators’ machine-guns.
Dispersel areas at all three air
dromes were blanketed with frag
mentation bombs, direct hits were
scored on hangars and runways
and bursts were seen through
out the target areas, a commu
nique said. At Lecce bursts of
smoke covered the field, indicat
ing hits on grounded aircraft, and
at least two were destroyed at
Grottaglie, the announcement said.
It was American precision bomb
ing at its best.
Grottaglie is 10 miles northeast
of Taranto; San Pancrazio is 28
miles east of the naval base and
Lecce 42 miles to the east. Axis
fighters trying to protect the ba
ses resorted to attempts at bomb
ing the American raiders from
above, but there was no indica
tion they were any more success
ful than in previous attempts.
Admit Damage
A broadcast Italian communique
acknowledged casualties and da
mage were caused in the Lecce
and Grottaglie attacks and as
serted 24 Allied planes were shot
down, 12 of them four-engined
bombers, in yesterday’s raids on
The mainland and in Sardinia and
'Sicily.
Mitchell medium bombers of the
North African air force also ran
into furious resistance in their
2-daylight attack on the Castelvet
"rano field in Sicily, the results of
. which were obscured by a ground
-haze. More than 20 German fight
ers tore into the attacking forma
tion, and in the course of the en
suing battle Lieut. Charles B. Hall
of Brazil, Ind., gained the distinc
tion of being the first American
negro pilot to destroy an enemy
plane in combat.
Hall, flying a P-40 Warhawk in
the squadron escorting the Mit
chells, got a German Focke-Wulf
190 between his sights and sent
him crashing. Upon returning to
his base he was personally con
gratulated by Gen. Dwight D.
NOTICE!
’ OUR STORE WILL BE
OPEN
MONDAY. JULY 5th
FROM 9 A. M. UNTIL 1 P. M.
Eisenhower, the Allied command
er-in-chief, who made a 1,500-mile
tour of Allied air fields during the
day.
In addition to Hall’s victory, the
Warhawks probably destroyed a
Messerschmitt-190 and damaged
another. All Allied planes return
ed safely, both from this opera
tion and from the raid by British
Wellington bombers on Palermo
and Cagliari the preceding night.
The attack on Castelvetrano was
the first mission by medium bomb
ers of the northwest African tac
tical air force since the fall of
Pantelleria Island June 11. Crew
men said they had difficulty lo
cating their targets through the
haze, but one pilot said “I think
we tore up the objectives.”
The RAF’s slow but dependable
Wellingtons achieved spectacular
results in their night blow at Pal
ermo, one of Sicily’s most vital
ports.
“High explosions, including seve
ral 4,000-pounders and incendi
aries, were dropped on the mar
shalling yards,” a report said.
“When one stick of bombs burst
on the sidings there was a series
of brilliant blue flashes. Other
bombs fell near oil tanks north
of the harbor. Cagliari in Sardinia
also was attacked, and all bombs
were reported to have landed in
the target area.”
Heavy RAF bombers from the
middle east carried out Thursday
night's attack on Catania in Sici
ly, pounding the city’s railway
yards and industrial areas, includ
ing a section where sulphur re
fineries are located. Four small
fires were left burning.
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CONGRESS AGREES
TO ABOLISH NYA
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ance on wheat and cotton crops.
“It isn’t legislative procedure,
it is legislative lynching,” Rped
declared, “and I’m not going to
be a party to it.”
Reed voiced his protest when
Senator Russell (D-Ga) in charge
of the bill moved reluctantly a
second time to recede from a
senate amendment continuing the
life of the Federal Crop Insur
ance Corporation another year.
Russell said he made the motion
only because he felt that the a -
mendment was “losing ground
steadily” in the house and that
further insistence might imperil
final passage of the big farm mea
sure
Will Vole Monday
On a motion by majority leader
Barkley (Ky) the senate agreed to
vote formally on Russell’s motion
on Monday. Ad.n nitration lead
ers said it would be accepted in
all prooaoiluy, semung me mea- i
sure to the White House.
Congressional action was com
pleted by the senate on a $143,000,
000 deficiency appropriation bill
containing a provision cutting
from the government payroll on
next Nov. 15 three officials ac
cused by House committees of
membership in subversive organi
zations.
Involved are Dr. Robert M.
Lovett, secretary to the Virgin Is
lands government; William E.
Dodd, Jr., and Goodwin Watson,
Federal Communications Commis
sion employes. .
The measure, in which funds
are included for past-due salaries
of hundreds of government em
ployes, also prohibits the Presi
dent from usiny the funds allotted
io his office to finance agencies
for which Congress has denied
appropriations. It now goes to
the White House.
Acting in another senate-house
dispute, the house agreed to a
compromise which gives the Of
fice of Price Administration
(OPA) $155,000,000 and the Of
fice of War Information (OWI)
domestic branch $2,750,000.
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Gasoline Rationing
Talked At Conference
ASHEVILLE, July <A>X—Gaso
line rationing and wartime gaso
line tax problems were discussed
at the regional meeting of the
southeastern district of the North
American gasoline tax conference
today at the Battery Park hotel.
E. W. Ayers, regional governor,
presided.
Approximately BO delegates from
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee and
West Virginia attended the confer
ence. The meeting closed with a
dinner tonight.
RITES FOR LORD
SCHEDULED TODAY
Native Of Wilmington Was
Killed In Plane Crash
At Helena, Ark.
Funeral service* for Aviation
Cadet Eric W. T. Lord, a native
of Wilmington, who was killed in
an airplane crash at Helena Aero
Tech Army Primary Flight Train
ing field, Helena, Ark., Thursday,
will be held at the Mount’ Horeb
church cemetery, 18 miles east of
Elizabethtown, Sunday afternoon
at 5 o’clock.
Full military honors will be ac
corded the young man, who was
the son of Mr. and Mrs. N. W.
Lord, of Charlotte.
He is survived by his parents,
and a sister, Evra Blanche Lord,
of the Federal Reserve bank staff
in Charlotte.
Cadet Lord was born in Wilming
ton December 18, 1922, and attend
ed grammar school there and
Hugh Morson High school in Ra
leigh. He graduated from Clark
ton High school two years ago
and came to Charlotte where he
was employed at the Federal Re
serve bank. He enlisted in the
Army Air corps about six months
ago, and did his preliminary train
ing at Maxwell Field, Ala. He had
been undergoing more advanced
training at the Helena, Ark., field
for two months before the fatal ac
cident.
Cadet Lord spent much of his
boyhood in Bladen county. His
father is connected with the Sea
board Air Line railway freight de
partment, and served for more than
two years in France .in World
War I.
AIRPLANES PROVIDE
COMPLETE COVER
FOR ALLIED CONVOY
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beaten off ‘‘one of the fiercest and
most sustained offensives ever
mounted by U-boats,” sinking from
two to five submarines and dam
aging others in a five-day running
battle.
In this newest success, the joint
communique said, the convoy also
was protected by surface escorts
under Commander M. J. Evans in
the destroyer H. M. S. Keppel. The
Keppel is a veteran of escorts on
the north Russia and Malta con
voys, and was part of the escort
for the first U. S. troops to Brit
ain. It also engaged in the death
chase of the German battleship
Bismarck.
“Close air cover was provided
during the initial stage of the pas
sage by Hudson, Ventura, Libera
tor and Catalina aircraft of the
Royal Canadian Air Force East
ern Air Command and during the
final stage by Liberator, Sunder
land and Halifax aircraft of the
Royal Air Force Coastal Com
mand,” the comunique said.
“The mid-Atlantic air gap be
tween the extreme escorting ranges
of these shore-based aircraft was
bridged by Swordfish and Martlet
aircraft from the escort carrier
H. M. S. Archer.”
Aircraft from the Archer scored
the one confirmed kill, diving out
of a cloud cover on a submarine
15 miles from the convoy.
“The submarine made repeated
and unsuccessful attempts to dive.
It then endeavored to get under
way on the surface, turning in slow
circles with oil pouring from its
tanks.” Later it was abandoned
and sank, and a number of sur
vivors were picked up.
Depth charges from an airplane
of the Fleet Air Arm probably
sank another U-boat, a Liberator
of the Coastal Command attacked
a third, and naval aircraft forced
two others to dive. The conning
tower of one submarine was pep
pered by gunfire from a plane.
ALLIES CONTINUE
RAIDS ON EUROPE
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hanger, and that one group shot
up a bus loaded with German sol
diers.
Two Mustang pilots patrolling in
the Abbeville-Amiens area attack
ed three locomotives, then turned
their guns on four trucks which
were set afire.
Soon afterward, the pilots at
tacked the bus and saw Germans
jumping out and falling as the can
non shells burst among them. The
Mustang pilots went ont to shoot
up a hanger, causing casualties
among a group of men standing
nearby.
A Typhoon pilot who attacked a
barge on a canal near Courtrai,
Belgium, reported:
“After I had fired nothing hap
pened for a second — then there
was a brilliant burst of flame.
Smoke and debris flew up to a
great height as the barge blew up,
narrowly missing my number two.”
Accompanying pilots set another
barge on fire. Many pilots said
on their return that they had been
fired on by anti-aircraft guns
mounted on freight trains which
they attacked.
CHENNAULT SEES
BRIGHTER FUTURE
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long years without full support.
You have also earned the grati
tude of millions of Chinese who
now live in their towns for the
first time in five of these six
years without the daily fear of
Japanese bombings. We haven’t
completely stopped the Japanese
raids of Chinese towns. That is
for tfie future.”
Killed In Crash
ERIC W. T. LORD
Obituaries
MRS. MARGARET F. GRAHAM
Funeral services for Mrs. Mar
garet F. Graham, 44, who died
suddenly at her home in Winter
Park Friday afternoon, will be
conducted Monday afternoon at 4
o’clock from the Wesley Memorial
Methodist church, in Winter Park,
with the Rev. E. W. Downum of
ficiating.
Interment will follow in Bellevue
cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be O.
Dyke, E. L. Chadwick, E. M. Al
len, Sr., G. T. Newton, Sr., Her
mot Lewis and A. P. Russ. Hon
orary pallbearers will be D. C.
Lewis, C. E. Stephen, A. C. Haith
cock, O. L. Rhodes, W. F. King
and J. F. Tyre.
She is survived by her husband,
J. B. Graham, Sr.; four daugh
ters, Mrs. G. T. Newton, Jr., Mrs.
E. M. Allen, Jr., Lottie Mae Grah
am and Virginia Francis Graham,
all of Wilmington; four sons, Lieut.
J. B. Graham, Camp Livingston,
La.; Tracy Graham, Aruba; J. W.
Graham, and Carl Graham, Wil
mington, and three brothers, L. B.
Freeman, of High Point; T. F.
Freeman, of Alcolu, S. C., W. B.
Freeman, Benettsville, S. C.
DR. RICHARD J. TANNER
NORFOLK, Neb., July 3.—-(Ah—
Dr. Richard J. Tanner, 74, the
original “Diamond Dick’ of the
wild west circus days, died at a
hospital last ' '.t. He had suf
fered a broker: leg in a fall at
his home aboit two weeks ago.
Dr. Tanner’s fame as a marks
man ranked with that of Buffalo
Bill, Wild ill Hickok, and other
legendary figures of the wild west.
He was a circus performer for
20 years, and his spectacular feats
made him the idol of thousands
of youngsters before the turn of
the century.
V. A. BULLOCK
LUMBERTON, July 3.—V. A.
Bullock, 84, farmer of the Center
community, died of a heart at
tack at 6 p. m. Friday in Thomp
son hospital here. He has been
seriously ill for a week.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday at 5 p. m. at Center Bap
tist church with the pastor, the
Rev. Wilbur Edwards, officiating.
Burial will be in the P'revatte
cemetery nearby.
Mr. Bullock was an active mem
ber and a deacon of Center
church.
Surviving are his second wife,
Mrs. Maggie Pittman Bullock, of
Center; a daughter, Mrs. W. H.
Prevatte. of Lumberton: a son,
Dr. C. T. Bullock, of Mullins, S.
C., and a sister, Mrs. J. C. Carlyle
of St. Pauls.
LUMBER WORKERS’
SUBSIDY STUDIED
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resents authentic sources who will
not be quoted by name, declared
today that, if adopted, the propos
al will be a wartime innovation.
He added:
“The proposal was laid before
the war production board and the
war labor board by War Manpow
er Commissioner Paul V. McNutt
about two weeks ago, and that
joint consideration is now being
given it by the three agencies.”
In another manpower develop
ment, Speaker said, the growing
need of civilian industry for spe
cialists, especially engineers, has
brought a concession from the
Army.
Responding to an appeal by the
manpower commission, the Army
has agreed to release to civilian
industry ten per cent of the ap
proximately 13.000 students in the
Army specialized training pro
gram. The men to be released,
all of them engineers, will not be
selected until they have completed
their courses.
The lumber pay plan was urged
by McNutt, Speaker reported, on
the ground ihat men in the logging
camps, lost considerable time due
to bad weather, decreasing the pay
attractions of the work and height
ening an already difficult task of
getting workers to turn out lum
ber vital to the war effort.
His suggestion. Speaker said,
was that payment for time when
the loggers are unable to work be
cause of weather conditions come
partly from the employer and
partly from the government, with
the worker himself absorbing part
of the lost-time cost.
McNutt, he added, was then ask
ed to submit a more concrete
plan and go over it with the other
two agencies. At present, the
proposal was described as “still in
the study stage.”
City Briefs
meeting
A special meeting of all air
raid wardens and fire watch
ers of zone 10 will be held
Tuesday night, July 6. All
members are urged to meet at
Southside Baptist church at
7:30 o’clock. A fish supper will
be served.
GIRL SCOUT MEETING
Girl Scouts of this district
are urged to meet at the Win
ter Park school at 10 o’clock
Tuesday morning for the third
week of their camp. It is an
nounced that girls who could
attend but two days of the
second week are invited to at
tend this gathering.
REVIVAL
The Rev. G. L. Akers, pas
tor of The Holy Church of
Jesus Christ, Third and Mar
steller streets, will be in charge
of a revival commencing Sun
day night at 8 o’clock, with
services being planned each
night this week. The public is
cordially invited.
WILL OPEN RIDES
The R. and S. Amusement
company announced yesterday
that beginning Monday noon,
July 5, it will open a series of
rides and amusement features
at Legion stadium. Jimmy
Raferty, owner, said that the
company has one of the fast
est ferris wheels ever operat
ed, together with many other
new attractions.
SPENDS FURLOUGH
Corporal J. W. Billy Pitman,
who is stationed at Ft. Sheri
dan, 111., arrived yesterday to
spend a ten-day furlough at
his home, 10 1-2 So. 7th street.
He entered the armed forces
in December, 1942.
PONY KILLED
An automobile driven by
Roy Chandler Muse, 403 Ham
let avenue, traveling east on
State Highway 74-76, at Sea
gate, struck a pony owned by
A. C. Giddins, of Seagate, Fri
day afternoon, killing the pony
and incurring damages to the
car amounting to approxi
mately 550, according to State
Highway Patrolmen. The pony
was loose and ran into the
side of the car, the door handle
on the car catching the ani
mal in the neck and cutting
his throat.
V. F. W. GATHERING
All members of the James
A. Manley post of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars ate urged to
be present and participate in
the Fourth of July program
at the Second and Orange
streets USO club this afternoon
at 2:45 o’clock. All members
are urged to wear their V. F.
W'. caps.
LIQUOR RAID
Raiding a house at 914
Orange street last night, ABC
officers confiscated one and
one-half gallons of illicit liquor
and arrested Elvie Campbell,
Negress, on charges of posses
sion of non tax-paid whiskey.
The raid was conducted by E.
S. Bland, B. W. White and
Forest Cook.
VISITING HERE
PFC. Charles K. Maxwell, of
Buckley Field, Colorado; Ser
geant James R. Maxwell, of
Fort Bragg; Mrs. E. L. Smith,
of Tampa, Fla., and small
daughter, Sally Ann Smith, are
now visiting in the city, hav
ing been called here because
of the death of their nephew,
Billy Pate, son of Mrs. W. B.
Pate.
COL. POTTS DENIES
BEER CAUSES ‘BLACK
MONDAYS’ AT CAMP
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tended to further investigate the
statement.
In his reply to Mayor Cameron,
Colonel Potts said “When this was
reported in, the press I immedi
ately investigated the alleged
charge and find it to be with
out any foundation in fact.
It is a reflection on thousands of
young men who train here and
whose fine deportment has merit
ed the highest praise both in camp
and while on pass. Our good disci
plinary record here bears out this
fact.
“When interviewed by a mem
ber of the Camp Staff and request
ed to name the ‘commissioned offi
cer’ whom he quoted so liberally,-’
! Colonel Potts continued, “the min
I ister refused, claiming it a privil
! eged communication covered by his
I clerical immunity from being forc
ed to divulge the name of his in
formant.
“I am morally certain that no
one acquainted with Camp Davis
would ever make such a state
ment,’ Colonel Potts said.
“This is an unfortunate inci
dent, but I believe that the fine
record of good conduct of our sol
ders is already so well established
that these allegations will do little
harm and I suggest that the mat
ter be dropped in order to pre
serve the splendid relations which
have always existed between camp
and civil authorities,” he said.
Colonel Potts concluded his
message to Mayor Cameron with
the following remarks- “Your
letter reflects the chivalrous atti
tude of many other Wilmington
ians who rose to refute these ac
cusations which impugn the good
name of Camp Davis and is great
ly appreciated.”
WAR WORKERS WILL
NOT NOTE HOLIDAY
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that Mr. Roosevelt planned no spe
cial observance of the day and
would be doing business as usual
on Monday.
The senate and house, busy
throughout Saturday with appro
priation bills, arranged to get back
on the same jobs Monday.
Those who have time to cele
brate will have little chance to
do so in the traditional manner.
War restrictions «5n production
have left few fireworks available
anywhere.
Gasoline restrictions will mean
no long trips for most motorists,
with all pleasure driving forbidden
in the east.
And the Office of Defense Trans
portation has asked for no unneces
sary travel on buses and trains.
Another contribution to making
it an unusual Fourth — a British
warship plans to fire a 48-gun salute
to a July 4 reception by Ameri
can officers at Allied headquar
ters in North Africa.
TRAVEL SPLURGE
NE?W YORK, July 3—U)—It won’t
be a holiday without worry for
many Fourth of July week-enders,
who jammed eastern trains and
buses today in one great travel
splurge.
They can begin worrying now,
the regional Office of Defense
Transportation said on how they
are going to get home.
In this area alone, thousands
faced the prqspect of being strand
ed in upstate New York, News Jer
sey and Connecticut when the re
turn rush starts, the ODT said.
The crush was so great in the
city rail terminals that travelers
virtually had to elbow their way
to and from trains. The Long Is
land railroad said that traffic was
by far the “biggest” in the com
pany’s history and doubled that
of the Memorial day week-end,
which was something, too.
The New York Central and the
Pennsylvania railroads also esti
mated the ru3h would exceed any
previous holiday period. The New
York division of the Pennsylvania
said that 185,201 persons were
cleared yesterday, compared to
151,694 on May 28, the peak of
the Memorial day exodus.
CATHOLIC WOMEN
WILL MEET TODAY
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Courts of the order to be re
presented at the conference will
be Asheville, CSharldtte, Greens
boro, Raleigh, and Wilmington.
The Catholic Daughters of Ame
rica is an organization composed
of more than 200,000 Catholic wo
men, organized in 45 states, Cuba,
Canada, Puerto Rico, and Alaska.
Its principal aim is the spiritual,
moral and intellectual develop,
ment of Catholic womanhood: the
protection and well-being of Cath
olic girls; the intensification of
patriotism and the dispensation of
charity, and furtherance of ehari.
table projects.
The conference program is al
follows:
11:30 a. m.—Solemn Mass, St,
Mary’s church. Most Rev. Eugene
,T. McGuinness, celebrant. Sermon
by the Rev. Eugene Livelsberger.
l:U0 p. m.—Registration — Tht
Tavern.
1:30 p. m.—Luncheon — Tin
Tavern.
2:30 p. m.— Business Session:
Address of Welcome, the Rev. j,
H. Tevlin. Reports. Address: Rev,
Eugene Livelsberger, State Chap,
lain, Catholic Daughters of Ame.
rica.
HELP WANTED
Eight or Ten Middle aged colored
Women for Flat Work Department.
Experience not necessary.
Apply Monday morning eight P. M.
City Laundry & Dry Cleaners
26 North Second Street
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...and Greyhound is part
of its fighting power
Wilmington is America in cross-section — fighting mad and
fighting hard, doing its level best to back up our troops across
the seas with the home-front cooperation they must have.
All of us in Wilmington are putting
the drive that counts behind the
particular jobs that are ours to do
—whether it’s sending our men to
the colors—building their guns and
ships and planes — raising their
food and clothes and smokes—buy
ing bonds—or moving manpower.
Wilmington men and women, loyal
Greyhound employees, are busy
keeping our buses rolling to help
keep our war effort in high gear.
They’re driving the buses — keep
ing them mechanically fit — con
serving vital materials — giving
wartime travel information _
handling baggage.
As our share in this town’s joint
war progi’am, Greyhound is taking
our local boys to induction centers
and bringing them back home
from training camps on well-earned
leaves. We are transporting our
Wilmington neighbors to their vital
jobs in war plants and on farms.
We are keeping essential travel
on the move — linking up this
city with the other busy towns of
the South Atlantic states, where so
much of the Nation’s war activity is
centered.
Wilmington is in this fight to win
— we didn't start the fight but we're
going to finish it!
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