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. i Ubur •***> <rwr>F»»9QX **■ t- """*1 )»\»»C\-J'V — — * HjmJtersott Bmltf BtapatrJj 4f ■» L.KA8KU YV1KB HKKVM'k dip ZTZ. . ———————— •v Til IS AHSOCIATKU I'likNl. UPMnVDCmi XT i". r, A rnw rr»T-v » ir ''"" HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1, 1943 pum.,s,„:„ EVB„, ^a»NOON ^ ' KVrf DT UMMTt* 0 kxce^sunimt, five cents copy FDR Orders Seizure Of Mines • W | I* ★★ ★ ★ ★ * + + + + ^ -A- -A rresiaent to lalk Coal Mine Strike In Radio Address I Brief But 'Vevy important Statement' Will Be Broadcast At 10 p.m. Sunday Washington. May 1—(AI') — IVi. ulna Koosevclt will go on l!:.' ratlin at 10 p. in. K\VT t«> in i row to make a brief but; •'Vvi'.v important statement" on the work stoppage in the coal j mines. White House Secretary Ste-i jihi :i i-.arly made this statement i l! Jay an:l refused to predict: v. 11r any governmental ac tiin was comtemplated before] tr..1 .-ptich. whcli will be carried i on a!l radio networks. \s the to a. m. I'rcsiiletitial re tiirti to wmk drailllir passed t-» i!.:;. with marc than 1115.(100 min er:. oat in a wapre dispute, some arli»!i from th« President \va> lm kni lor ill Mime quarters Ins mediately. But the White House | let the hour en by only with i'.ail.v's statement that: "At lo p. in. tomorrow night Hum Pn-idcit will make a brief but very | important .-tatcment on the rad'o j It will bo carried by all networks. I "It w« old be .sale to surmise tr.at !: w ll tie;.' bluntly with the question ><: the n-ed of coal to win the war. "1 have nothing more." Asked whether it could bo assumed th;t tiiote would be no government al action until tomorrow evening. Early replied: "It may be safe for you hot it might not be -a^c for me." Another que-1 ion along ihe same line drew from Early thN reply* ' lull me what's going to happen be tween now and tomorrow night and I'll a rawer your question." t'lic secretary had no comment on ;■ .oiished report that an order had . ri prepared directing the Army to n. ve into the coal field.-. lie did say that nd formal stateme t v., .n preparation :it the Wliit; li u e at the time he talked to re-1 pora,* (Uy The Associated Press) Tlir 10 o'clock (leadline set by President Roosevelt for full scale i miiplioii of coal mining eunic | and passed today with the I nit i .1 .Mine Winkers follow iiiK in stead flic advice of their union pie ident. John I.. Lewis, "not to J trespass" 011 their places of work, j i -tc;.d 11I digging coal without re 1 i n;; 1 1 a general strike which the President ha.-. raid might bo as crlp l'lin>; a a military act cat 111 the field. 1: v imply stayed away from work \ by ;!-t. tens of thousand.-, and the i in xt move was up to the While1 IlllilSO. What that step might be went tin-' di. e!i>M'd tor the moment, and Lewi . who says ;t i.s unfair to the miners 1" have their wage dispute left up I" the war labor board, was likewise : il lit. At 10 a. in.. Lewi- was closeted with several mine union representa • !v>' i.i tl.e United Mine Workers 1'n the eleventh floor of tlu ■ '•til ISoosevelt, New York e.ty. When he entered the offices a hall n earlier, he had refused nil com ment. but his oflicc said he intended !' i.ttem, negotiations between hard ei>al miners and operators scheduled ! day in another New York hotel. I5"Hi bituminous and anthracite miners refused to enter the pits iri li e absence of a wage contract be tvvem the operators and the United Mine Workers of America. Wholesale walkouts began last h'gl>t. .-hutting down an estimated !.:> per cent of the soft coal mine. aiid practically all of Pennsylvania's hard coal fields. UMW Leader Hits Order DclUiirc. Ohio, May 1—(AIM —-Adolph Pacifico. vice president of District 0. United Mine Work ers. asserted today President Hoosevelt's order taking over closed coal mines would "in my opinion do more to antagonize the miners of America than any other one thing." Pacifico. who heads the UMW ir. the big eastern Ohio coal belt, faid in an interview several min ers either called or came to him shortly jifter announcement of Mr Hoosevelt's order. "These boys are getting mad." Pacifico said. "They're not go ing to let anybody kick them around, but they're not going to cause any trouble." Mszi -Zl'XT.'GLY GLAO to bo out of the ! 1 'htinj*. t.'.is Na/i pattrooper smiles nft;r Ids capture in the ' Soussc area in Tunisia. This is a U. S. A'nry Signal Cc rps radio telcphoto. (.International) I Japs Open Sub Warfare M.acArthur Reports Underseas Threat Now Developing East of Australia Allied Headquarters in Aus tralian May 1 — (AIM—With al lied air action limited for the moment to relatively Unlit blows at the familiar targets northwest of Australia. General Douglas Mac Arthur's southwest I'aeifie command centered attention lo today on an underseas threat de veloping suddenly in the waters below these Japanese bases. "The enemy has launched a sub marine attack in some force in 'he watrrs east of Australia," an allied communique disclo cti. Details ol the nature, effect and exact location ol tins new Japanese jictivity were withheld temporarily.; lest the knowledge a.-si-t the enemy J in his operations. But there was general conjecture i tiiat Japan, intent on reducing the Mow of war supplies into MncAr-l thur's theatre ol war. had enlarged its hit and 111 >s .-uhniarine tactics of the past to the scope of a coordl-j iiated campaign by a fleet of under-: •eas cralt. Japs Open Sub Warfare M.acArthur Reports Underseas Threat Now Developing East of Australia Allied Headquarters in Aus tralia* May 1—(AIM—With al lied air action limited for the moment to relatively light blows at the familiar targets northwest of Australia. General Douglas MacArthur's southwest 1'acifie command centered attention to today on an underseas threat de veloping suddenly in the waters below these Japanese bases. "The enctvy has launched a sub marine attack in some force in the v.;it:rs ea.st of Australia," an allied c<>m:mini(|iie diselocd. Details ol the nature, effect and i exact location ol this new Japanese activity were withheld temporarily, i lest the knowledge assi-t the enemy j in his operations. But there wa- general conjecture i tiiat Japan, intent <>n reducing the flow of war supplies into MacAr-! thur's theatre «>i war. had enlarged its hit and nii-s .-ubinarine tactics of the past to the scope of a coordl-1 nated campaign by a fleet of under-, •ens era It. British Subs Sink Ten Ships London. Mav I. (AP)- Ten more enemy ships hsive been sunk in the Mediterranean by P.ritish siibmar- i rines. the admiralty announced to i day. Among the ships sunk, said (lie communique, was a large tanker tor pedoed near Marittini island "while westbound <>n a course for Tunis. She was escorted by an unusually large number ol surface craft and air craft." Another tanker was -link by gun fire off Italy's west coast and a large ammunition ship was blown up off the island "f Monte Cristo, between Italy and Corsica. Other sinkings were off the east coast of Corsica, northwest of Sicily and off the lip of northern Tunisia. The vessel apparently has been pre viously damaged by air attacks, the admiralty said. STEEL MILLS FEEL EFFECTS OF STRIKE Washington. May I—(AP)—Steel men whose war plants depend on coal for fuel said that they had on , hand only enough lo run their war ! plants fi»r three week-, or even less.) Three or four days after a coal shutdown, a representative of Car-j ncgie Illinois fit Pittsburgh said, steel ! production in its plant- there and! at Youngstown. Ohio, would ?ho\v a' drop of as much as 10 per cent I YANKS TAKE STRATEGIC HILL Guns Turned Upon Mateur Heaviest Artillery Dueling of Campaign Results from Gain; Other War News With tin* U. S. Army South west ol" Mateur. May 1—(AV) —L'nited States troops capturcd Hill No. 605) in bitter fij?hliii«t 16 miles southwest of Mateur ami turned their lonjr rani.rc ar tillery upon Mateur for the first time in this campaign today. The bombardment of Mateur, an important road junction 18! miles from Hiz*Tte, brcujrht an ! immediate counter battery fire and the heaviest artillery duel ing since the American attack bewail April 2:». The Germans dispatched 15 or 20 Foeke-Wuif l!)0s in a vain attempt to locate anil silemv i'ne U. »'S. jruns. Allied headquarters in North J Africa. May 1—(Al'l—The sec ond I'. S. Army corps cupturcd three more important localitii-* and took 200 prisoners in north- I crn Tunisia yesterday, but the British first army was forccd to make a slight withdrawal ir. the MedJez-el-Bab sector during "cv ceptionally heavy fighting," a communique from General Dwight D. Eisenhower's head quarters announced today. "The day \vas nia.ked by a tinnation of exceptionally he.ivy fighting on the first army front. es pecially in the sector cast and ivvth east of Medjez-cl-Bab, where the enemy launched repeated cormtr attacks ngainM our recently sai'iert "In one area our forward troosx were forced to make a slight with drawal. but elsewhere all our p >si tions were firmly held. All these counter attacks resulted in heivy losses to the enemy, both in men . ml tanks." The Americans' advances were matched by the eighth army of General Montgomery on the southern front where "slight lo cal gains were made." the com muniques said. In continued furiou-' air activty. allied medium bombers sa •!< ;> de stroyer and csorcd several dircct hit ■* on a second destroyer and a mer chantman. the communique said. Th • j second destroyer was left aflame a j the allied airmen swarin?H • ver '•enemy shipping of all types." the j announcement added. Desert air force squadrons a's'i "put out their full effort against enemy shipping a-d its heavy air cover." the communique continu •:!. Eight enemy planes were destroy ed in the desert air force's battles, it was stated, and a merchant ship was hit. and another merchant ship, a motor torpedo boat, a motor ferrv and a number of other small vessels were attacked. ... on inc enemy * I sca-nir communications. an RAF plane encountered five more Junkers transports and shot down all of them. Allied aircraft were very active over the battle front, the official report said, hut only .-even allied planes were lost. ACL LINE CLEARED OF TRAIN WRECKAGE Rocky Mount, May i ~(AP)—At lantic Const Line officials here er- i ported todnv that the northbound track out of Knfield was reopened • Ibis morning after 17 cars of a j southbound freight were derailed there yesterday afternoon. The cars, which included two cars of feed, three cars of meat and sev eral coal cars, were piled up across the track for several hundred feet after one car jumped the track and dragged the rest of the train with (t. Two wreckers were at work this morning removing the debris. TRAIN RIIIK Durham. May I—(Al'>—A young boy climbed into the cab of a rail road engine, pulled the throttle and [ caused it to crash i"to two other en- ] gines «tnnding in the yards yesterday. ' The Ind jumped frnrn the engine! just before the smashup. and police , arc still looking for him. 11ROHN IIONORKD Wilmington. M;iy 1—(AP)—The Norih Carolina Shipbuilding Co. hon- j orcd the late Joseph A. Brown, leg i* la tor. agriculturist and founder of i the Chadbourn strawberry market. j by christening their J)l>t liberty shipj for him. The vessel was launched. yesterday. I NEW R.A.F. FIGHTER REVEALED BY FIRST PHOTO CONSIDERED THE FASTEST and most powerfully armed of all singlc-engined fighter planes, this new It. A. F. Typhoon, now pictured (above) for the first time, is said to be capable of blasting any enei v lighter from the air. its speed is surmised to be faster than 400 miles an hour and its cannon larger than 20 mm. Great diving power and maneuverability add to the fighting qualities of the new plane. (International) Stalin Hails Aerial Blows Russian Front Air Battles Continue Moscow. May 1—(AIM—Major air battles continued up and down the Inns Russian t'ronl to day with (lie sharpest fights ahove the narrow Kuban bridge head the Germans hold in the western Caucasus, while on the Donets river front a company of nazi automatic riflemen who crossed the river were cxtermi )• natcd or forced to swim back to safety through the icy waters. The Donets action was .south of Izyi'm in the .-cctor 7ft miles south east of Kharkov. The noon com munique said the greater part of the Germans who crossed were wiped out and "orly a few managed to .swim back t > the right bank." A (i-uupany nominally numbers 250 men. Tiie latest communique and di patclies told • <> renewed land ac tivity in the Kubsin. but there was no reason to believe the Hed army was not still driving against the foe deployed between Novorossisk a id the Taman peninsula leading to the Crimea. ALL PENNSYLVANIA MINES ARE CLOSED New York. May 1—(AP)—Every anthracite mine in the Pennsylvania fields was i!"setl today..in n walkout of the mdu-try's 74.000 workers while operator- and United Mine Workers representatives continued to negotiate tin v- wage dispute despite its certification to the war labor board. rill Ml. MINISTER Bclr.-i.-t. N'ortlicrn Ireland. May 1 —(AP)—Sir Itn-il Brooke, deputy prime minis'ci and minister of com merce. was named prime inini.-ter of Northern Ireland today to succeed John Miller Andrews, who resigned yesterday, it was announced offici ally today. Brooke, .1 nephew of Britain's army chief. General Sir Alan Brooke, was expected to a'v:ou;:cc the composi tion of hi., c ii'ot before the North cm lielad pa liamcnt meets Tues day. TAX IIATTLE. Washing! 'ii. Mav 1.—(AP) In formal rc|«>r! . the House ways and means cm >" iiteo's Democratic mn jority called upon Congress today to support its compromise pay-as-you go- tax plan while the Republican minority pi cssed anew for passage of the Rom! sUip-a-year alternative. NINTH MONTlI~ I! 1 leitih. May 1—(AP)—One hun dred and .»7 of the 107 administra tive school units in North Carolina have alrdeav requested the ninth month. Comptroller Nathan Yclton ot the State school board said today. .Ml* BASES RAIDED Washington. May 1—(AP)—The Navy announced today that Ameri can bombers and fighters had at tacked five Japanese bases in the Solomon islands Thursday and Fri day, Martina large fires amorg in stallation; at Kieta and Kahili. RAF Makes Heavy Attack London, May 1—(AIM—The RAP made ;i "heavy attack" liist night on Essen and other Ruhr valley targets in western Gi many, and today several <c|i ror.s of heavy bombers, believed t.> be American Liberators or Fortre-ses or both, flew across the channel to continue the as sault on tlu> na/i continent. The air ministry announced that 13 bombers were lost List night during the fourth attack on the Ruhr valley, concentra tion point of heavy German coal and steel indu>try. The German communique, re corded from Merlin broadcasts, said considerable damage was carded at Essen a' tl other places in western Germany. Stark Says U-Boats Fight Losing Battle -aid today that vlv but Mirt'«> we are winning ti i of tne At- i "Par be it fr<n < belittle what the U-boat ha . '.< .ml is clc.iiu.," U-boat i^ fightmu .. . ■ mg battle." Stark spoke ' <• t -ninny (ham,-:| which lie acei '• .1 • behalf of tnr | London. Mav Harold I!. S: . • .M1 (-—Admiral Miidcr oi U. iuropean wnteu, lant ie Admiral St ark : too well bill I • I know it onl> • know thai -iic Joy Ride Ends | In Tragedy M.disoit, May I — (AI')—A joy J ride ciirird in tragedy yc- terday loi nine It-oil aged >eh" >1 children ol ' nearl>y M;iy<ri,,n when their cur ov erturned (Hi the highway nenr here, I I killi u one and injuring the others. j Ramonn Waikuis. H. died en route i ti> a hospital. The injured were list ed «is Christine Toggle. 13. said by , State llighvay Patrolman .1. II. .Itick 1 son t" he the driver oi the enr:' Tommy Verno". 15: Mildred Atkins, i 13; Helen Murray. 15: Jane Carter, 15: Charles fSrlflin. 13: Hoy Atkln<, 15: and Margaret Mitchell, if!. None of the injured was regarded as se riously hurt. Seven ol the youngsters. including the Wilkins girl. were to have par ticipated in eighth grade graduation exercises at \iavoiian school la«l nighl. hut the program was pos: poned as a result of (he accident. Patrolman .fackson said the accident | occurred at 1 30 p. m. on an open i stretch of highway. Second Front F oreshadowed, He Declares Moscow. .May 1.—(AIM—Pre mier Josef Stalin hailed the ISrilish-.Americaii aerial blows at i uropc today as foreshadowing j second front when all the al lied armies "will break the back hone of the fascist beast" with joint smashes from east and west and called for the "utter rout-, ins" and "unconditional surren di" of Hitler's Germany." In a May Day order of thi- day to ii.it ion and its anny. Stalin < cli'i L-d tin- "unconditional surrender"' keynote ,-tnick by Prime Minister1 .'linrchill and President Roosevelt at ! Iheir C'as-ablanca conterence. The Russian leader signed the or- ! Jer both as supreme commander unci is marshal. He praised the allied cam paign on the north Africa front which. together with the air war, the Russian successes and ttie failure of the German countrr offensive in the Kharkov region, , Stalin said, had caused a ureal axis crisis which resulted in a j German "babble about peace." I Very i nj< German propoganda as- | empt.- to .split the Russian-Rritisi.- ! \inei i an coalition, he tluew off kiin.in piace talk with the state nctit: "Hut of what kind of peace ' .111 i Hi talk with the imperialist >aii(1:ts from the German fascist -.m>j> who have drowned Kurope m ilood md studded it with gallows? ' I: i- now clear that only the tit er ! iiitmg of the Hilerite armies and lie unconditional surrender of llif ilc Germany can bring pcare tr» uii'i'i'. The German-Italian fascist -an.p is e\|>ei iencinc, a great crisis mil lacing catastrophe. Thi • dors not . .. . hi i in -i-. th..t the i-alastrowhe 11111t riI«.• Genii;iiiy ha* already in Another f\\<• i>i Hirer powcrtui ] il"V - from the v.t- t and oa-t arc l ceded. itch as tli;i( dealt to tin- Hit i ril>- .n:iiv in tlu- l.i.l fi\'«» or six ii 'ii'li . I«>r the cat.e tioi>hc of llit Crite Get in;itiy In bccniiH' oil nrcim;- ; >lished fact. For this reason the pco >Ie 11I tin- Soviet t'ni"H ;iik1 their t«'i' nrmy well our allies and In i arn.ie- ,-1ill fare ;i stem and | 'iiird >tniKulc lor complete victory i ivcr llu Midline lieruK." Stock Market Holds Balance i Now York. May l.-(AP)— The! iuiliiin.il coal labor crisis failed to! unsettle the stork market today. | Trri.ds were uneven alter n good • ta:t. $'»nrr in the new hi' i ''"v ision included American ToU t.1. r"\ In ternal mial Telephone. Dongia.- Alt-! riiift. .Standard Oil of N. J., Radio j :'o 1.0,an in Paramount Pictures and | United Aircraft. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROMNA. Cooler this afternoon and to night. I Ickes Takes Fui! Charge Under Order Interior Secretary Directed to Take Possession of Mines Closed by Strike Washington. May 1—(AIM— Solid Fuels Administrator ickes today sent telegrams to S.IOO coal mining companies instructing them to operate their mines in the name of the I niicd States government and to apply for troop protection if they need it. The companies were urged to continue operations with exist ing personnel so far as possible and "to encourage miners to re turn to work under present wages and working conditions with the understanding that any eventual wage adjustment will be retroactive." Washington, .May 1 — (A I*) — President Roosevelt today di rected Secretary of the Interior Ickes to take immediate posses sion of all coal mines in which a strike or work stoppage has occurred, or is threatened. At the same time he directed War Secretary Stimson to take such action, if any, as he may deanV necessary or desirable, "to provide protection to all such persons and mines." till ■ ■riuurnl Mcrcil IOC or ders soon after (In- White House announced lie would take the eoal strike issue—'250.000 al ready are idle—to the people in a radio address at 10 p. m. to morrow nisht in which he will deal "bluntly" with the need for continuing coal production for the war effort. Shortly after the President's or der was issued. an Associated Prc-f dispatch telling of it was handed to Lewis at the elosod anthracite conference at New York, lie crum pled it up and declared, shortly: "I won't say anything." The anthracite conference th c»a i> • adjourned abruptly until '2 p. m I'„ ' nd started at 10:;1T> a. m. Ai' >r declaring he had ordered KO\ernment seizure and opc.ition of !lie mines, tlie President snid: "I now call upon all nines who nav have aha ^dnned their work ' •etlirii immed'at-.'ly ti> the , iocs .m i ivork for their jjovernihcnt. Tut r nuitiy needs their orvito a inuc'i is those of the mi fibers of the arni i'd forces. 1 am <• -n! do t that tlicy do not wi»h t > retard tho war effort; !hat tlie> are ;>s t . - .ny other American-: and that they will promptly answi t'n: - c ill t > perform Ihis essential war service" "If any adjustment «>i wages is: made it will be made retroactive." !ie added. The order to lci»e-". vh > is fuel coordinator, said lie -hall take im mediate possess;i n >f tile mines "o lar as may 1\> nece.-sary >r dc.-ir ible." together with any and iill real and personal property, fran chises. Wrights. laeilitics. funds and .it,...- ...i the operation >t icti mines. lekes ivus dirertid 1.• civile the mines i>r manse for t!u; >perati>n :ti such iia:-ner as tie deems neee-sary "fo' the -ucci.-.-lul prcv.-culi'ii of the tvar." lie also was authorized !.• d<> all I he thing- ncrc.» ary for. it incidcn al to. the ( .. sale and dis rilnition of coal. In carrying out the . rdor. the !n erior .-ccrelary v..»- duvited to art honfih or >.v tii the aid of -uch pri vate or public instrumentalities or jcrsons as he may designate. TTe was directed also to provide >rotcction to all employees resuming voi k and to all por-on- seeking em ployment -■> far as it may he needed. The seen tarv ol War would en •• • ihe picture with prov ision for pro leetien only upon the rcquc-t of the ■ccrctary of the Interior. t!ie order provided. Loan Drive Goes Over Washington. May 1.— fATM— The $13,000,000,000 war loan drive, biggest ill history, i- <.ffi ciallv ev peeled to top $16,000, CDO.oOfi hut its sponsors don't want t to stop there. I'ndcrsecretaiy Daniel W. Hell nf (he Treasury, reporting ap proximately $15,500,000.0(10 re c»'Cd up until last ngiht, -aid that intensive bond buying its urged right up until the closing minutes of the campaign at mid night tonight.