thirtieth year Itenitersott HatUj IltspatttjT > LJSASEl) W1KE SKItVu-i.- «»»> L»I£ASKI> W1KR SKKVICIO Oir TUB ASSOOIATKD PlUCSS. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 29, 1943 i'UliUSliEl) KVEItV AFTEKNOON JiXOEI'T SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY NAZIS SCORE SLIGHT GAIN IN TUNISIA -fr ★ ★ ★ * ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★ I ~I I 1 I FOR Orders Miners Back to Jobs At 10 a. m. Saturday President Roosevelt Says He Will Use All His Powers i c Open Mines Washington. April 29—(AP) —! -t -! interest and to prevent i !ii.'ti:.i' interference with thej >Uivi f«;l prosecution of the! war." A'li-Mi eainc also from tli? ] I -: i.! litvo branch of the govern- j nit ii(. ili<* Sciulr voting to con- | >;c:*e -triick mines or iidu^irbl II 111 IV t'onnaly called Lewis a •\Url;it,:r." V -i-r i tioi.ps might bo called out ■ i' i!i< : ' dispute was only a iivt *. ■ i [ peculation at tlii- stage. See " -..:ry »: War Stinison .-aid "I havo !i i (•■>.. enl" when asked at hi? press i'e whether the Army had any pi ■ fur moving soldier* into u - - tVJtcEriS PLAY CARDS AFTER WORK STOPPAGE i in ———MMBWW. * A GROUP OF MINERS in California, Pa., play carcis after stopping work until they hear from the head ot their union. John L. Lewis, President of United Mine Workers. They said they wouldn't return to work until he had ordered them to do so. Appeals by the War Labor Board to Lewis to halt the walkouts went unanswered, it was Reported that about 16,000 bituminous coal miners were out. (International) me mine ueicts 'I i Kxecutive stopped in'.ti 'i.r v.vir.e dispute bctww n ir.in •"> ■ i . , . aSors after it had been turn i .l o\c: 1 i him by the war l.sbi.r !'i ard which lias been ignored by 1 : it.i hi- associates in the Ur.it < ;t Mine Workers. Mr. Koosevrlt sent toll's rams t» l.rwis anil Thomas Kennedy. mm ri l ir-. -treasurer nf the union, ill which he a'ked the men in 'he mint's to "resume work innue ili.idh and submit their ease 'o the national war labor board for I:.Mi tli'lcrmination." •urinu impiirtaviv of the] eti n w as the fall <•! St c 1.. bur iVi kins for ttie w<«:-.» !> to "cease* at uncc." ami ' o| Colonel Itoalle W . in:;, Ave1' n Legion national eni;v . n !h.i! the threatened fill! sc.li' i|i|MUe "is a stab in the back of the Atno.'ica fighting at war." . Trie 1 1 said its orders" an.! ij»- I lieals for continued production dm - i ntu i "li;.'.ions for a new con! act 1 tin kc y to the spreading crisi — | l-..d been ignored, leaving it n*» re- i • nr-. l»ut to refer the case to the! Prevalent. *-t 'Pi'iiiK the steady flow of the it i al which fires war production »' • 'i< mi -teel. power, Iranspor'a l ":i I'lid other front-, soon wcnld < ' I't'le coiinlte-s phases of the na ! ■>'" war effort, and Mr. T'.oo>e x «*M' fii -1 action was expected t-> be '•> Iiii a tn the miners on thai basis. 11' I tlr;.t fail, sonic observers look 1 ■ ■" ti 'ops tn be moved into the «' .'I lields t i as-nre protecion ol 1 -• >ii«'i tv and of employees wishing to work. '•>' late last night. nearly 150 ii 1 i were c'o-ed by spread oT mi an 'rmri/cd sirikes with some Td.Otin Miners al endy idle. Ihe contract, subject of the clis Jitiic. covers most soft coal oj-era J "is in si>; -tates. lint is n;'H as a has 11 wane agreements in sceral "lb": rtates. See& Gcideft Era Economist Optimistic I Over Opportunities To be presented In Post-War Period BV KOCiKi: \V. BXBSON. (°o|>.vri?l>f I'tililislwrs Financial Bureau. Int. li.ilis'in I'iiik, jMiisj... April We 1 i!I ha\ e ii lonu way in kii l>« - I hit 1J11 - rlni.il > in- |. ended, in.I I Jim »|itiini"lir. Tho knifiur the war Ihe niarci i> ii- i :>}.*. "1 t!!i- (iiiililit III aim ill other ways we already have sectmrl Irmil. "llu- livi ■ nl many men ill"*.' hoinfi siivcd l>y cautious — i.-li |M'n|ile will have at their di.-po al more money per capita tli .n ever lie lore in lit- rati ii" la l>»i . lake wise in the t il led Stall- lie.- aver age person v II have considerably more money mi h-.nd md lar j:rcat er purchasing |xnvcr tlitin ever be-I (Cor:t:PiiwI I'll Pa.4c Three) Early Lineup Precipitated By Hoey's Announcement In llic Sir Waller Hotel. I>»ll» dispatch Itureau. iiy i,vnn Nisnin. Ifcleigh. Aprii 29 General align ""•ii• > i Mipixirtcrs nl Gregg Cherry l"r governor and Clyde I!<•«•>• I"1' '•■iiiiior into one group, and support 11 "I H:ilpt) McDonald for governor ani Hubert It. Ke.vnolds for senator another, is expected by ;■ ma j'»nty .,f tin- political leaders around ( apitol Square and visitors from ov er the .-late attending the supreme enurt and utility commission hear ings here. I h« it will he enough eros- mi r'*'»t< iinil overlapping of vnitinu s'iciiglh. however, to make it by no means unanimous, according to ear ly reactions to rapid fire develop mints Tuesday. Early Tuesday morn ing Wai lick was a candidate for gov ernor, and opposition to Reynold was still looking for someone who could lead the fight to unseat hini. 11 Won* m« i n W. i! el li.m t ,(l,en liini Ijcplf out i""i i.ii'c. iiImI by Min down II ' v lux I en' hiiiwcll c(|Uiirt' ly into the v*;' *i■ 11«• Iifll'l. There i-" n ittinil ifliliilv bclivccii the politif.'il -tipporl "f Clirn v and • hill "I 11"• • \ hi t a.- there is be tween iM> I >•• »i■ iltl and Reynolds porl. H i* affinitv. and not identity. For instiinee: A prominent attorni v from illgham. forinei -i tiator I mm Itien mend (oiinty iv.hirh vent for Me- | IVmild i'i I't'W!) -.iid Wednesday In* • IioiikIiI Aiel'oii. Id mid fill lenft in tnal co'inlv < >n ih«' other Iwind. ; the folk who have heretofore voted j for lit \ t 'id- ire fml plea.M d Willi I ! i iM>i.iti• »11• stand, rod they will forget how they voted agam.-t lloey for governor and tfive him genet otis support l»f tne Senate. On the other hnnd. h Raleigh Jaw (Cor-tinucd on Page Thicc) President Returns From 2'our of U. S. Ohio Mines Now Struck Cleveland, April —(AIM — Five eastern Ohio mi e- -iMclui iny the .state's laruc t —were cSo - <-(I today l»y a w> .1 •..»:t went the resign.ilion of !iis entire cabinet. The. move cndi d four innniii ol recurient dispute- within the I i ster L'nioni i paitv in wnich -nine critics charged Hint the 72-year old Andrews wn< too old to conliniic ins job effectively. I'AtiOl.l (.It *N1 i n Italeigh. April 29 (AP)—C«ol Bilker, co"\ ield in liolte-on cnuniy in September. t!MI. of second de cree mo ili r and sentenced to Hire. tn live yeas. v i paroied today by Covernor Urmi^ li.ti. SUKDIMII MASK ItOMItl tl Stockholm. April 20 (AP) The in wspapcr Aftonhladel said today three bombs had been dropped by "a foreign plane" at I a m:, on an island outside the Swedish naval base ol Karlskionc. Mr. Roosevelt Voices Idea of Year's Work i or the Government Youth After War r or Vi .i-liinKioti. April :0—(AP>— I'l •rll cnilrd a "iO w.ii in |i<<1 ion tour toda\ witli an idea i'iut the youth of .Anietira. making use of indus trial plants an.l military camps, niiylit well uiv•• a year's scrvice to tlu-ir :;uvi-t miii-nt in the post war i*ra. He had tr.iwlrd 7.G32 milt's in 17 days, rtn . .1111; up 011 widely M-.illcrt-tl v.ar . tivities and drop Mezieo to confer Manuel Avila t'a Iiiiifj dou 1 1 \\il!i l'rcMlit-i luai-ho. AJr. It..., : impiifty : 1:. vinced and tin- i . their .strirt . ik'i m;j wli: ' is wnii. \\ i t! 1 " i• 11-iTI : III- had • ({ram Id ul 10. benefits ti i1 i nli l alei"' I'll in M'rviiv r«irms li .ii ■ IIHI'lf lis. V'li thought tin ir • tended to ill «UI!€• 1 111 t)i>ji cli military . . 1 live prof • I'd I'ontrihiiti-ii enimcnl. \ 1»;• ops. lit' .I. parllv \. The I" ,• .i. April 1:1. V.I lli.s 111 • r I no.si of I'., t<. Mo . mill':. hl'|.>\ ill: 1 IT rilid 1 I till' Cl>Ullt: v. t .id reporters ac tual the lri|> eon the arnit'll force 1 factories arc in • that he was won i, inc. alter victory :;'ps and plants 111 !• been invested, cil'ic plan or pro lie emphasized the 1 >.il condition anil iat men anil wom I war worker unt il in tlif last few < indicated that lie ning should ho ex 1; men and women rr we win the war i- term "compulsory the Chief Kxeeti speak of a year's crvices to the gov program that devel i.l»ly would be only loll W'a-liinjjtor he returned late id swung through astern states, down lex ico—nearly 15f norder—out to Den ■ ;gii the middle ol .I.M» » \srs ItOMBFI) \V. '1:i»•;I;. \pril '29—(AP)—Tin N'av.v re|> today thai an Annj 'i struck heavily ,r 1 •••>• of Japan's m.iii 11 I he south Pacific v liili •• ■ • Tih Pacific an Amcri c:." na\ ■ ce bombarded Japanese ricci r < il Attn island. WEATHEP lot; N'OKTII CAROLINA 1 "nullum il cool this , iternoon anil lonichl ivlth illjjhlly lower temperature in cast portion. Tokyo Raid Forecasts New Raids Japanese Are Warned! To Expect Attack; Morgenthau Reveals Japanese Atrocity (Hit Tin Axxociatctl I'nss) Tokyo sounded a new alarm today with the assertion that the United States was "making all kinds of preparations" to bomb Japan atrain, while in I Washington Chairman Rey i nolils, North Carolina Demo-i crat, oi the Somite military com-1 ; mil tee e arned vhat vlie I'acific' conflict may continue for many years. "It is MiiriJr, in my opinion, to permit the .laps time to dig in the smith I'aeilic." Keyimlds declared. Cohicidcli tally. Senator (hand ler ot Kentucky binadca-t an ap peal to citizens to prod Congress into reali/alion or "the danger which the country faces from the I'acific." Tokyo's lorccast of a new Amer ican bombing as-aillt on Japan came in a domestic broadcast, int Tcepted by U. S. government monitors, put ting Japanese air raid wardens on the alert. "A raid similar to that of April 1)1 last year will be earned out." the broadcast said. While rmphays fell on Ihc I'acific struggle. Secretary of the Treasury Morgciitliau disclosed in San I'rancisco flial the Japanese had commit ted another horror of bloodletting. | Morgenthuu .-aid iie had received a cablegram from China's General issimo Chiang Kai-Shek declaring that revenge-mad Japanese troops butchered every man. woman and child on the China coast region where American airmen tound haven after the 1!U2 raid "ii Tokyo. Go era I Chiang -aid the Japanese "reproduced on a wholesale .-cale the horrors which the world had seen at Lidice"—referri; n to tier many'.- mass executi n ot every male adult in a little Czechosb >\ akian vil lage last June in repri-al l<>r the assassination ot Kcitihard Ilevdrich. na/i overlord of ISoliemia and Mo I ravia. Other developn cut.-, in Ihc far Pa cific Will" Australia—General 1) >uulas Mnc , Arthur's headqua :ei announce;! that Dutch-manned I'. S. planes bombed and machine gunned two Ja panc-e ships in the Ai'afura sea. Othci allied planes attacked the en emy in New Gui <... New Ireland and New Britain, and 'nylc l". S. Flying Fori res.- lou.irit <•(! seven j Japane.se fighti-:* and returned I" , their bases undamiued. Burma—Briti Ii hoacl<|unrtcin said | Field Marshal Sil Ar< Ii bald P. Wa i veil's force* beat oft ■ ■ si rics "f Japa nese infiltration tlu.i.-ts "ii the Ara I kan front, along Ihe Bay of Bengal. Kusso-rolish Agreement Is Sought I.ondon. April 29—(AP)—Prime Minister Churchill anfl President Roosevelt were rcpmlid in diplo mntie circles here today to have reached an agreement "n the course to be followed in attempti; U to patch up the differences between Soviet Russia iind the l.ondoi. Polish gov renmenl in exile. Some .sources deduced ;i personal •ippe.'il would lie made to Premier Stalin of Russia I" cooperate in the move. It was tinder.oliHKl on good aillhoi ity here that eitliei -or perhaps both. — the P>i it:-.h .iiid I'nited States iim ba-sadoiwere scheduled to confer with Stalin and no lnrther confer ences w re pl.mned here currently. However. Mrit h Foreign Secre tary Anthony Kdeli and Ivan Mai« ky. the Russian ambassador to Lon I don. talked about the situation this I morning The London l>aily Mail said Churchill and Roo-evclt had been in direct contact, presumably by trans Atlantic (elephone. The Russian government severed relations with the Polish leaders over (Continued on Page Thice) i-erry Plane Pilot m ^ _ A.TTRACTIVE VCGA JOHNSON of •New ^ ork City, a member of the first graduating clas; of the U. S. Army Air Force ferry pilot school at Ellington Field, Tex., is ready to ^carry out an assignment. She will .ferry planes from factories '<> ,bases around the country. U. S. i,Air Force photo. (Jntcrnalional) Red Fliers Renew Raids German Transport And Airdromes Hit In Heavy Attacks; I 50 Planes Destroyed Miisniw, April 29—(AP)—The Kcd air forae Is • continuing its ln-ivy attacks day and nifiht upon German communications and airdromes, the Russians re ported today, declaring they hart destroyed more than 50 planes within :il hours, had raided two cr-cinv airdromes and had smashed German truck supply columns. A military reviewer of the Mos cow News reported the Germans were experiencing great difficulty in protecting their supply lines across !!ie Kerch Straitfrom aerial blows. Tne military expert .said Soviet plane «•! ;.li tvpes were taking part in raids in lia>se sections on the Irinni nl the Kuban valley in the Cam i . a*. \v«.-lI as in the northern Doliels basin. li v\ a. indicated these attacks In creasing daily, rather than slacker ing. There wa< some increased activi ty 1 lie lar.d lighting. W ilhelmshaver Raided Heavily L'lifliin. APnl 2!» -(AP)—l(AF I: ..Hacked the (Ionium naval Im-. <>' Willie! i hr.ven l.i t night and lairicd • .lit uii|>i ecendciitel mining o|ie:-.iti.iii in i;.iltie waii'i'5, jt was an nounced today. Twenty-three hnniliers were re ported niis.-ing Ii'om the ini-sion*. which marked the resumption ot large -e.ile raid on the continents after a one night lull. * A fli.-pati li I mm Koike lnne said that I»iu formation'; «d Inu'i living bonilier.-. which in.iv have been 1 lilted si,itf— crall, m coined acre s tin channel tin. iimiutii! in the di rcd' i "I Aliliov> I li- 'ti Italeigh April !?:» (.'J')- {iovcr p. nighton cop anted today I" 1 e • 'v • nl the 'lo.dli sentence ol llan.y \Vil• • •n.«. V ;i >. convicted in Catawba county on an arson vital JO. First Army Forced Back United States Troops And French Unit Gain On Germans' Flanks; Other War News Allied lit adquarters in Xorth Africa. April :i'.>—(AP)—Tank supported German shock troops counter attacked twice yester day northeast of Medjez-cl-Hah, and althoujrh first repulsed with heavy losses, finally compelled British first army vanguards to withdraw slightly even while United iStatrs and French troops' gained anew on the flanks. The second I'. S. Army corps was announced by tin* com munique to have "made further progress and gained some im portant ground" in it- push through tire hills of north Tu nisia toward Matenr aiul Ilt zerte. The litth French corps in the south, operating at the hinge between the British first and eighth armies, was credited villi additional local gains. The fir.it of the r.azi counter at tacks against the Iiriti-h penetration was launched by infantrymen slip ported by U<) tanks at 4:40 p. 111. in the area twelve m'lcs >rth ol' ?4cdjcz-el-lial>. The Brit h defend ers hurled it back in one ol the bloodie-t battles of tin m :th Alricun earn paign. The Germans, however. teformcd and put 011 a second attack which dislodged the British adv.ir-.ee unit; and sent them a short distance back to new position-. Fighting continued throughout the moonlight night. Tanks and artillery boosted the stand of the British infantrv. | The Americans were reported i to have made their sains in the niirtli in a bitter strugirle over difficult terrain. There was heavy fighting in the area we*t of Jcfna. and Bald IIsll. US miles southwest of Bizertc. remained the scene of fierce comhat. Other encounters took place in the im mediate vicinity of Itaid Hill. Knontv troops fating the Ameri cans and the British first army -uo now contpoed entirely if German units. On the eighth army front win-re even more difficult terrain re stricted opera tio to patrol activities with lit! 1c British gains. the a\i forces wire reported to lie 31) per cent Italian and TO per ci-nt German. General Sir 11. L. Montgomery's army h;\s advanced about seven miles along tlie coast toward Boii Ficlia >iiiee the -tart of his pres ent oflcivive, three miles in tlic center and two on the lelt. Low clouds hampered air opera tion*. i n! allied plane destroyed 17 axis aircraft i:-. the fighting over Tunisia and rel: ted . • .mil neiin l Mediterranean traife while two ,i| leid planes were rej»orted ii issn l.ight bomber^ and lighters bombers tarled fire-. in axis-held areas and destroyed vehicles, the communique ::aid. (»nr enemy ve-sel. idcntiiied by western desert air ierce observers as ;i landing craft, was sunk in an aerial sweep over the Gulf of Tuniit and three other-, two of which vwro believed to !><_. :.-olnie carriers, we* • left aflame. Another shin was set afire in the Sicilian straits". Sev eral others were daevged. I'. S. l.iberalor bombers of the ninth V. S \viiiv air force -truck imiiltaneo'i-iy in da.vlirht ye-terday at the axis 'apply parts el Naples mil Me-sin >. (.'aim c tmniuniques an ii' iinu'd. laul shot down five of the ax s tighter- w'-ieli challenged them. TKAWI.liK SI NK London. Apr I ?ll—(AI')—An aim ed enemy Irirwlet wns sunk off tho Dutch coast by liuht British naval forces before dawn thi> morning during a brisl. fighl. it was an nounced officially today. Definite Air Superiority Held By Allies In Tunisia iiisiir Miperioritv in north Africa i. liie outstanding ;id\int'-,y pos sessed l».V tin? allies in lli< ' ''tie for Tunisia. Secretary of War "'In son . s.i (I today. reporting thai t. < rind March 2!f to April 24 al i 'ied liters destroyed I,ufi4 enemy I |>li lies while losing 270. I (it the enemy aircraft destroyed, the secretary told his prcse conter ence. Hf>f) were combat planes and 205 were transports. Ficrtu life:iti»fe nisian !ro: t. lit1 s.t;d. with slow but satisfactory prn;:>-e-s lteinn made. The .xiliiiilion in Hie southwest Pa cific h;i< improved somewhat. the secretiny ic|«irtr(l. with indications th:it the number "I Japanese plane and surface vtv-seU ha.; reclined in Ihc last two week'. There is si ill a strong possibility of ji .(jipanesu offensive, however, and for that re . • "ii the Army is ending General T)oii({liis MaeArthtn* all p«>- .ifolp re'u forccinail.. jiurti' ■ !»•»•» lima",