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Utettitersmt \ Tl I I liTIETH YEAR WSASEl) Willi! SKKVICR OK " 1 thb associatko i.HKS8°y HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY Allies Edge Ahead In Tunisia John L. Lewis Must Make Decision In Mine Crisis i Midnight Zero Hour Draws Near OMW Unionists Say They Will Not Work Without Orders Fiom Chief Washington. April CO—(AT) —.lulu; L. Lewis. Iowa-born de scendant of Welch coal miners, today must make t he biggest decision t.r a snowdown-studded launr-lcadiiig career. For i he question of whether Saturday will see the nations Milt coal industry still shoveling ti c! into liu; fires of war pro duct.m j'.'inis strictly up io vlie head «!i' the United Mine Work ers. I'risidrnt Uoiiscvclt yesterday ti !il l.cwis tli t 1 all strikes must slii;> hv 10 a. in. Saturday or lie will "usp all tlu1 power vested in nie as 1're idcnt and ah comman der-in-eliief of tlie Army anil Navy lo protect the rational in tercsl." nut the zero hour loomed ever neater. Climaxing a quarrel over, renewing a key wage contract, a I-....: iiv.ule shutdown impends at mid:, ••.hi—Lewis has .-aid his mine wi:tl;c!"s "will not trespass" on com pany p. opcrty thereafter. Unsar.c t ed walkouts already have taken marly one-eighth of the affected Hiio.tli o inirtrs o'ff the j >b and" the it -t reportedly arc ready to follow the leader's work stoppage call. Lewis silently sent the President's ?:•! graphed ultimatum on to the j •t:- . union locals—and the uiiof ' i c.'ho from tiie coal fields was Siini the miners are .-landing pat. k;.\ the decision up to their bushy hrov.ed union boss. ! New York. Lewis' office in the li tel Iloosevelt annourccd that Ihe '.mion international policy com mittee would convene at lo a. in. nV."I. Tie meetinR presumably will) discus., thy President's ultimatum j and formulate its next step. Pitt-hargh. April :!0—(AP)— 1*1 t'.ident Kimscvrlt's hark tn i work appeal In striking coal miner-, apparently went unlieed nl in western Pennsylvania t» loday. as traders of union locals rraffirmed their determination mil to work until John I.. Lewis, president of the I'nited Mine V'erlsers, gives the word. Alter hearing the President'.- ;ij» i'< ;iI lead t i them, uni->nists ;it two j ' ins ol the Rochester and Pitts burgh Coal Co. formally voted la-! weht to remain idle. A bit later I *»'• > iv c' tin- company's workers j «|uil. This left more thnrv 40.000— ii.. ii» i> e-third of the state's soft e 'nirws—<>n strike and approxi- ; niately 100 of its 1,601) bituminous nunc- closed. . I' A. \'oi man, president of a unionJ local near Vernon in the Fayette eountv coal and coke region, said: "If President Roosevelt came down ; ' • llii- patch himself and told these | im- to go hack to work without :* i , agreement. without a contract. j without something in the way of an ifieri they'd tell him: '■ 'You go back and get an order from ,1'ihn I. I.ewis. Then we'll g.> buck to work'." avvttl POTATOES ARE REALLY HIGH Unleigh. April 30—(AP>—If there's •t y doubt about sweet potatoes be ing high. consider this: When they sold ul $3.75 a bushel a few week.- ago, A. 13. llarless. mar ket newsman of the Aijiculture de partment. looked into his records. Yep. it was the highest ever re- j forded in his office. Yesterday, when the potatoes went '« SV a bushel on the wholesale ter- ! tninal market-, he wired Washington. I' wj.s the highest price since records have been kept. MARCH Bt'lt.niNO 11 'li'igh. April 30—(Al')—State Labor Commissioner Forrest II. Shu ford said today that 371 building pcMirts for <■<i'struction estimated ' ' COtl M8Aj093 were issued in Mar.b in the J(i North Carolina cities of i "lore than 10.000 population. ' SWORN IN Raleigh. April 30— (AP)—>"hn A P'lt's of Kavotteville. and Mrs. R"' 'and Mill Lalhnm of Asheville wen Mvorti in today as members of the State board of charities and public j welfare. 1 MARINES RELAX IN PAC3FIC ——.—— .. ... . L..A .. | .MEMBERS Of A MARINE TANK PATROL somewhere in the South Pacific take time out from a tour ot duty for a swim. It looks like the old swimming hole except that a tank instead of a hickory limb is used for the cioihes rack. Ilclmets. guns and apparel f c strewn over the vehiclc. OQieial U. S. Marine Corps photo. *» (/iileidcilional) Allied Warp lanes | I Blast Jap Bases l Former Dutch Soldiers Fold To Resist Loudon, April «u—(AI'j—The Nulla I l.illll.- I . ilinei't 111 I.OI) lli'ii tou.iy In In: tnci iiiLim.cis ui i.'iu Uiilili armed foict'i. I.: tin- Ni'ini'iiaiiib lo it i.-t i-tciiiiiiLiit .irai'icU -jy lic'imuii occupation authoiiin..-. "Lion : feyi.-icr,' tnu men were tola in a u. 11.1(11 ti.si over Kadio Oranyi. ' Keep unci. lJ.-rcjtaid all ouiei.i ami dccrccs. "This i.i Int.- iiti\ ice tiie Netli tl liilK!- yUVlTllllU'llt lil\ OS JOU. iJisicnarti .-ii.iiiirJiiMb. Iry lo Make yoiuches unfindablc." Some 4lM,IWU veterans of II<>I land'.s tirn.j are involved. (Mlin i. and mi ., alike, intern ed atti i Holland e:i|iiltilatcd in Ma.v. IIMO, in the iiii/.i war ma chine .inn la'..'i released on Adolf Hitler'.- ohic . have been com manded to report at mice for return to wai prisoner camps, the He: tin ladio announced iast night. Jap Hints Of Assault On Australia 11 ly The Associated Press) A Jaouie-e tinr.y spokesman hint ed broadly today that the mikado's Invasion armies were preparing f«» an a null on Au-tialia. declaring that the Hriiish Commonwealth was "now extreme l.v nervous" and that Japa1 had completed establishment of strategic bases in the southwest Pacific. With i land .'.tronjjholds linked in a vast chain above An tralia. the (spoke Itintl .-aid. .1 .■;>.iti h;ia "paved the y lor contemplated new opera tions." The Tokyo radio said the bases were situated on Timor i-land. on Xcu' Ouinea. and in the Solomon*. Australia, hp said, ic anticipating "new operations" by the Japanese. Strong Fighter Force Of Jap Zeros Broken i To Raid Amboina; Other Pacific News (By The Associated i'ress) Alied vvurplaiics, breaking through a strong scrcni of .tap cnes Zero lighters, violently at tacked Japanese barrack-, han gars and seaplanes at the former Dutch naval base at Ainboiim. (>00 miles north of Australia. General Douglas .Mac Arthur's headquarters said today. Three of If> Japanese interceptors u'ere .shot down dow.i or damaged, a communique said, and the entire I formation of L'. S. Liberators return ed safely. Coupled with this attack. Duteh | manned Mitchell bomber.-, set Ure al Koepang. capital of Dutch Timor. Other lalied planes struck at the Tanimbar islands and New Guinea. On the Burma front. British head ciuarters reported that sharp local lighting erupted along the Hay of Bengal coast, with alternate attack* wr.d counter attacks by Japanese and British troops, but the situation as a : whole remained uncha' yed. 1SAF war planes bombed and straf- I I ed Japanese Iroop-, attacked villages around the biy enemy base at Ak.vab. ' I and hit rail lines, river steamers and J | other targets. TURKEY TO RELEASE INTERNED AVIATORS | Ankara. Turkey. April 30—(AP)— All American airmen who were in terned alter foicul lan;!:m;s in Tur key will be set at liberty within the next few days, accord.ng to of licial information today. It was understood that all British. Russian and Axis flier presently interred in Turkey also u ill be freed | simultaneously under an arrange ment worked out by the Turkish Foreign Office with the belligerent tuitions. CLEVELAND TRANSIT STRIKE IS ENDED C'leveiand. April .10—(AP)—Si reel I ( us and I) i- -ervice returned to I normal today after a strike by AKI<| unionists paralyzed the city's mass trnr sporlation system 1R hours. More fhnn 1.200 members of the Transit Kmplovees Union met late Mast night and voted to erd the ! walkout which began at midnight 1 Wednesday. Miners Want Work--With Agreement Counter Proposal, Asking Collective Bargaining Renewal, Sent to President Now York,' April :»0—(AP) —Soft coal miners today told President Roost-volt, in reply io his hack-to-work order, that they "want an agreement," and want to work and ask a renewal of collective bargaining with the mine operators. Their counter proposal, made in a telegram to the President, reiterated ihe miners' charge thai the war labor board had prejudged the miners' case. A return to collective bargain ing at tliis late date, in the opin ion of union executives, would not prevent a work stoppage in the -oft coal mines at midnight tonight, the expiration date of the extended contract, uitless the contract is further extended. A i'i check in he afternoon showeJ 100.4IH. miners silrerriy on sliike in Alabama. We t Virginia, Kentucky. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, with Tennessee unreported. Penn sylvania tupped the list with 44.000. Approximately 450.000 miners have been employed in the soft coal mines. John L. Lewis, UMW president, made public the reply after a ses sion of the international policy com mittee of the nr. ion. Lewis handed newsmen the text of the committee's message to the Presidnt without com ment. and declined to answer ques tions. Several union di-trict president who are members of ihe policy com mittee and who were interviewed stfler the meeting ssiid that in the absence of an agreement there ould i «• a voluntary stoppage of work in the mine* at midnight tonight when Ihe present extended contract ex pires. Jap Patrol Wiped Out Washington. April 30—(AP^— American :»• •• -p.- wiped out ;i .lapa ih patrol "I 'iic officcr ;nul eight men en mal Wednesday. the \;ivy repo'tcil today, but the reason for t ie i-tit i: > "> being on that Amcri ran-occiipied S iomon inland wa> not given. A ciimn u i |ia> said the patrol was discovered tiic vicinity of Bcau lc.li Hr.v on 1 i western coast, about 'Jo mile.- i :,liwe-t of the American airfield. A Japanese resistance on fSuadiile.in teased 011 February !> though th< ping up of stragglers continued if' that. Whether tin* nine-man unit was simply one the final groups of straggler. \\ 'i had wandered down frum the ntains to attempt an is cap wi iiner it was a function ing military i>atrol put ashore was not disci' <ed by the Navy. Cone Warns j Of Draft Calls Atlanta. April 30—(AP)—Cotton mamitacti. e - were advised today to plan I i ' ithdrawal and replace ment of >:m.' v men and married men without children who are between th" ages ot If and 3R. "ilernMii ('"lie of Greorsboro. X. C.. president of t!ic American Cotton Manufacture Association, in a speech prep > <-<l for the annual meet ing of the group here today, said he was convinced from Information at hand that all members should nrepare replacement schedules and file them with their state selective j service officials. "This replacement schedule." he J paid, "is simply a list of draft-liable men i1 your employment, with their | draft status, and the month In which they can he released for military , duty." WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Warmer this afternoon. Scat tered shower* and thunderstorms tonight and possibly this aftir- j noon. I ALUES PUSH FORWARD IN TUNISIA FURIOUSLY FIGHTING ALLIED FORCES continued to make progress in Tunisia in their efTort to drive the Axis into the sea. In the north (1) French troops were within six miles of Lake Achkel, with U. S. forcca within ten miles of Mat cur. British troops moved closcr to Tebourba (2) while both French find British (3) coordinated in a drive that menaced Pro I du Fnhs. The British Eighth Army continued its push on the strategic Axis supply town of Bou Ficha. (International) American Consul General Recalled from Martinique Red Paper Forecasts Land Drive Moscow, April :tli iA!')—So viet Russia'.-' oliaal 4o\eminent newspaper Iz\ t ~11.• ■ id today that the comi n m ni'.h will -ce the beginning • an intensive Miintici' land campaign winch may well derate ' e uteoine of Ihe war. "Not many <l:«y.< separate u from big event-." t new paper we are at the ; ■ ti 'ld of a de asserted edit"! i.iJiy "This .May eisive stag(. of our .-acred war of liberation." The pronouncement came as a violent air war ununited all along the 11 I/vestia'- • i ial reciilied that tlx1 Klls tar- v 'i c utipaign ha. restured it;-> ■ •'*" tuare kilomet ers (IJia.' «| are miles) to Hessian <■<> :: I. The pres.- generally -minded a prophetic • :!iat tremendoii evellt- we;'« :i the making and a sign11 expect .tuy pervaded Moscow. International Cotton Pact Advocated Mcmphi-. April .'in—(AI')—An in Icrnational commodity agrcciwt -oncorn ng cfon such as now e\ist rt'ith regard to wheat, beef, sugar ind other i '"duets was suggested by P. K. Norris. principal marketing ipceialist m the office of foreign igriciiltnrai relation.-. Addressing the formn sponsored >y the New Vork Cotton Kxchavgc, Morris said no iigreemcnl has been legotiated of is being negotiated but idmitlcd "a good deal ot thought ha >ecn given to the possibilities of at larking a world's cotton problem through some form of cooperation.'' Vice Chairman Lynn I?. Kdmitvtci 5f the I'nitcd State- tariff com mis (Continued on rage Seven) All Agreements With Admiral Robert Abrogated Because Of Vichy Contact W'a>hi»Kton. April 30—(AT) — The tinted Slate* lias recalled its consul Kdirral irom Marti niciiic and abrogated all agree ments with Admiral (irnrtcs Kolierl. French high euiiiniision er in the Caribbean. Secretary of State (lull announced today J!i:.: in a note handed to JJob cit bef':»■ tin- dcpaituic of the eon -ill aner.il. the hi'in coinmissionci wa notified thai in view of his Jit titiulf tin- United State, would have i ' r iii.-ider li.ui a tool of the Hitlei regime which has enslaved his I i i'Mi h iionicland. "It is a matter of eommon knowl edge." the note said, "that the tor v metropolitan !•'ranee, con trary to the wish ol the French pen I'U*. heir ^ used in an ever mcrca. inu degree for aeit\ e military opera* t "f.s again.-t the United States am1 'hi.t the \'iehy regime i.- now an in i1 part ot the n.i/.i v.-leiv.. ' The government oj ih United States" doe- :iot recmii /e Viehy lint v- II J recognize i. u lu-got,ate with a v Kreneh repre-i n!nti\e in the An t ile., who remains sub>rcvienl to or maintains contact with the Vichy regime. "In the circumstance.-. the 0.nern i r the United Slates docs not i • icr effective or binding any in t : I mdei-landing with rcspcct to -hc Krnech Antilles based upon !»: discussions and conditions, nor d"cs t cotvidcr that those discus ' ■ins can serve as- a basis for either )»c..eiit or future relations with tin French Antilles." FIVE PERSONS HURT IN RAIL ACCIDENT Monroe. April HO—(AD—The .sec ond section of Seaboard passenger train No. it collided with a standing engine here a (3:10 a. in, today, injuring a dining car steward and four waiters. i it her engine nor equipment was | derailed. j A ^statement issued at Norfolk b> .1 (' Wroten. general manager ol 1 • «aid Ihdt speed of the pa* senger train was slight since it wai ma I. inn ' -top for the Monroe statior and rl miage was minor. Names o£ the injured were no released. Strong Axis Resistance Enccimfered Axis Counter Attacks Are Beaten Off, With Heavy Enemy Losses; Air Attacks Continue With llie 1". S. Army South west of Mateur, Tunisia, April 30 (9:13 a. m.—5:15 a. in. 1AVT) —(AIM—Mcavv lislilins eon Uliued aloiiK the Tiiiii-i.ni limit today with » . S. artiilerv active overnight ami stepping up the tempo willi a steady barrugr at mid-morning. Fifteen axis aircraft attacked front 1 ilit- positions in the liis gest eiu-iny air action in that area in several days. Allied Headquarters in North Africa, April —lAP)—Al lied troops edged forward on ooth wings of the Tunisian front yesterday, while Lieuten ant General Anderson's first army fought off powerful en >my counter attacks Tii iin* Med jex.-el Ral) area lu hold all but me small section of its positions before the Tunis plain, it was innounced today. The second U. S. Army corps, pushing through northern Tu nisian mountains toward Tu nis and Bizzerte, made further local advances, the allied com mmique said. /* Iiniiiui v s|ii>Kcsrn in sum lilt* American forces launched in at tack four miles east of Si.l: N'Sir against Oernian gun cmptace mcnts on hill HOI uliicli domi nates the valley extending 1G miles northeastward to the Ma teiir road junction. I>ut met strong resistance and failed to reach the summit. Nazi troops counter attacked repeatedly against I'. S. lines south of the hill, hut all the thrusts were repelled. General Moi.tgomiry's eigh'h army nounted <> local attack <»i the .-outh cm trojil and gained it.- objective, he conimunicpic announced. adding Mint "an i't)t'it:y c • inter attack :n this ■cctor achieved slight .-ucccs»." German tanks and infantry -truck iieavilv ajj.; n at l'ii-t nrn v lines i:i She Medjez-eM'ab . ector. but tne •i>mmunii|.ie ,-a.d t :.it. v ;:li the ex ception of one final! sain by she ncmy in the Mcdjcid.i river area, ill attacks "were repulsed with icavy loss !•> the eni my and n'.iv orward pn it ions v rie intamed." Apparently tile heavie-t light ing was in progress in the Med jc/.-el-Bab area, with the <«er mans seeking to wipe out gains made by the first army recently. The main enemy thrust yester day was against Itrili-h troops holding positions on a ritlgc and fighting continued there through out the day. it was announced. The extent ar.rt direct o ot the* Cains made hy the Lr. S. second army corps were not disclosed in the communique. Allied aivcrait. continuing their at tacks on enemy shipping, in ttie Clulf if Tunis .md the Sicilian straits, -sink t\\«> more v -els. 'iit coinmun •que said. H :> were .scored on ither ship< .1: J 14 enemy fighters encountered 011 the e attacks were •licit down, it u is a 11-in'meed. Light allied n ival forces engaged a flotilla of fa.-t enemy motor craft in the Sicilian channel Wednesday night and cut < ne of them in two by ramming and damaged two others by gunfire, it was announced. One of the taller probably was sunk, the ,'ommuni(|iic said. SUIT TO BE Flf ED IN ROONEY DIVORCE Los Angeles, April 30—(AP)— The dviorce complaint <>r Ava Gard ner Hooney agatiist Miekey Itooncy is expected to be filed tomorrow, her attorney. II. fi T* it lor. says. It alleges eruell.v. rci|iic-ts division of eommimitv property estiimiled at •S200.000 or 'nore. but does not ask tor alimony. Mickey and llie Wilson. N. girl were married in nallard. Cal., In January. 1012. separated eight iv.mllis later, were reconciled, and parted again. Army doctors rejected Konney for military service last month. " His mother said he was troubled with heart flutter and high Wood hrw^u,
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