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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 45 MONDAY, MAY 3, 1943
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NAZI DEFENSES CRACK BEFORE
GRANT MINERS ALLIED ONRUSH ea
Legion national commander, to- : #
: ) ‘Observers Think 6 - Day day assailed the 15-day truce in i : the coal mine wage dispute, de- Week May Form Basis claring that the American people of New Agreement.
“have got a bellyful of armistices.” “Why postpone for two weeks Lewis
CAPTURE MATEUR
a HINT U.S. MAY
o o ° J Roane Waring Assails Coal ‘Armistice
Public Has "Bellyfull," Legion Commander Says Here
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Clapper in Sweden
Sweden Wary, but | Hopes Allies Win |
Realizes Axis Victory Will Mean End of Freedom But Clings to Neutrality, He Says.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER STOCKHOLM, May 3 (By Wireless).—Perhaps you can sense something about Sweden, as I do, from the fact
Yankees Wield Knives in Pushing to 20 Miles From Bizerte.
(Text of Roosevelt address;
that the most popular drama here is John Steinbeck’s
“The Moon Is Down.”
The play opened seven weeks ago. where it is still going strong, picturing each night to a Swedish audience the Nazi occupation of Norway. play is the impossibility of crushing the spirit of a free people, which makes significant its great popularity in neutral Sweden, surrounded as it is by the
axis.
I carried from Willkie’'s new book, “One World,” which is to be republished in a popular edition here—which also suggests something regarding the people here. extremely few books can be brought over for republication, owing to the difficulties of transportation, and the selections are accordingly with extreme care to hit the popular mood. 1t would be a mistake to judge the neutrality of Sweden by the so-called neutrality
Mr. Clapper
They are two different kinds of neutrals.
as merely a puppet of the axis.
whose future existence depends on axis victory. Nazi-Fascist axis will mean the downfall of the Fascist idea and of
Fascist regimes. Hence Franco's fate is wrapped up in axis victory. ” ” 4
Swedish Press Is Free
JUST THE opposite is true in | democratic |
Sweden. This country whose way of life would
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changed Sweden
be violently by axis victory. has door the horrible example of Norway, whose democratic institutions have been crushed the Nazi occupation. The Swedes
next
know from these unhappy neigh- |
bors what that means. The people of Sweden know that they can continue to Have their freedom only if the united nations win. Americans here whose judgment is sound agree on that
a final |
under |
BULLETIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 3 (U. P.).—American and French troops have captured Mateur, vital junction 20 miles southwest of Bizerte, in a swift surge eastward against yielding German positions, it was announced officially today.
It moved later to a larger theater, |
The dominant theme of the
America a copy of Wendell
For
made By VIRGIL PINKLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent
of Spain. We usually think of Spain Spain is run by a Fascist regime The downfall of the
| North Africa, May 3.—American |infantrymen fought eastward to the | Kef Rdjal Touila hills in a local ad- | vance on the North Tunisian front yesterday, but fog and mist curtailed action on most of the coffin {corner battlefield where both axis to have their freedom only if and allied troops have suffered i | heavy casualties. Wielding long knives in some attacks, the American 2d corps spearhead reoccupied two small hills, [killed a Nazi outpost on Bald hill | near Jeffna and pushed forward elements as far as Kef Rdjal Touila, 12 miles northwest of Mateur junc-
tion. : ! A delayed dispatch from United Press Correspondent C. R. Cun- | ningham on the northern front, | said that advance American pitrols’ | in the Sedjenane valley had reathed
|a point less than a mile from the
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"The people of Sweden
know that they can continue
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the united nations win. So says Raymond Clapper in the first dispatch received from him since his arrival in Stockholm by airplane. Sweden, de-
he says, is
termined to maintain her neutrality—but a far different kind of neutrality from
that of Fascist-Spain.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, |
CASE OF COUNTY CLERKS MAY END
and then compromise?” he asked. “A truce is a postponement of a vital decision—an armistice in other words. We had an armistice in 1918 and failed fo decide a definite issue with the Germans. The American people have got a bellyful of armistices. “The American people are not interested in a truce. They are interested only in the continuous operation of the coal mines by the owners, if possible, and, if not, by the government. »
‘Stab in the Back’
COMMANDER WARING said that the coal miners “may have the best complaints in the world, I don’t know. But a lot of soldiers have complaints, too, and they've got to fight.” He said that he had received 500 telegrams and letters commending him on his statement issued last week in Memphis in which he attacked John L. Lewis and termed the threatened walkout of the miners as a “stab in the back” comparable fo Italy's declaration of war on France. He said he received only three letters of criticism. “One jackass in Pennsylvania wrote that the coal miners were the most patriotic people in the world and that they had thousands of sons in the service,” he said. “My answer to that is that by striking, in my opinion, they show | damn little appreciation for their sons in the army.” He said he was not criticizing organized labor as a whole.
Legion Commander Waring .. “by striking, coal miners show damn little appreciation for sons in the army.”
Four Charged With $45,000 Embezzlement May Never Be Tried.
John L.
Lewis waves his hand to emphasize a point as he an-
nounces that the soft coal miners will return to work tomorrow for a 15-day period, pending further negotiations.
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Truce S
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een as Proof That Lewis Is Assured of Gains
By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 3.~John IL. Lewis has called off or deferred his war-crippling coal strike apparently on some official assurance that! sart of the time it takes them to he will win substantial concessions for his United Mine Workers. » The basis for these concessions, according to informed sources here| erations inside the mines.
statement, Page Eight)
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 3.— Sources close to Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes believed today that Ickes and John L. Lewis have reached a preliminary understanding looking toward guarantee of substantially higher weekly wages to coal miners under government
operation of the mines. Thousands of miners went back to work—for the government—a day in advance of the formal 15-day truce announced by Lewis. A majority, however, appeared to be waiting until tomorrow,
Ickes is currently operating the
| mines under terms of the old cone | tract between the United Mine { Workers and the operators,
| 6-Day Week Likely
While his aides’ would not come ment, informed sources predicted the solution of the miners’ $2-a-day wage increase demand would be worked out this way: 1. Operation of the mines six days a week, wherever physically possible, ‘with miners receiving time and a half pay for the sixth day. 2. A modified form of the portal-to-portal pay formula, with miners being remunerated for at least A
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reach and return from the scene of
| Bizerte-Mateur road on the westsizeup. They describe the Swed- | ern side of Lake Achkel. i
ish press as one of the freest in | 641 Prisoners Taken
the world. The right of criti- | GOP FUND DRIVE The allied advance on the northern sector has netted 641 prisoners,
cism is jealously guarded. The second point about Sweden Is that she is determined to re- | of which 66 were German. Most of main neutral. That is her tra- tl SISORErs W taken by the ditional policy. The experience Sg Hf ; } French on the coastal flank. of other small nations occupied Additions] prisoners were taken by Germany only strengthens the ov a Fin hh E v s determination of Sweden to re- ) € Lan: yO AE iD fain out of the war tured hundreds of axis soldiers in : bitter fighting in the last eight days. Local counter attacks were repulsed by allied forces, including the 2d scattered
A question was raised in criminal court today regarding the legal| status of a 2-year-old embezzlement case against four former deputy, county clerks. Because of the long delay in set-| ting the case for trial, defense at-| torneys contend that the former! clerks’ cases must be dismissed) without a hearing under a state law! that fixes a deadline for disposition of criminal cases. | Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said he would contest any dismissal] action,
Speaks Thursday
COMMANDER WARING, who has just returned from North Africa, will tell the public of his trip in an address at the Coliseum Thursday night. He is in Indianapolis to partici-
Republican Group Opposes Collections for Victory
Organization.
By NOBLE REED A movement designed to discour-
|and in New York, is likely to be a nation-wide installation of the siX-| [ewis called the 15-day truce in |day week in all coal mines, under which the miners would receive. strike of 530,000 soft and hard } a. oy scale-and-a-half for the sixth day.| ooal miners after a conference here |For the miner who has-been draw- | with Ickes yesterday. At that cone ing $35 a week for a five-day week ference, informed sources said, Ickes |at the basic rate, the sixth day| and Lewis reached a preliminary {would bring him an additional understanding. $10.59, : i Ickes, it was said, will insist that The important point is that the | the mines actually be operated six pate in meetings of 40 national Sine | Hiners, as they get back on have 4838 a week except where physical legion committee meetings today Jobs teuay Sid JomOrnow. will nent, | OPstacles intervene. There has been : : N , vernment.| . .. ’ : * =» through Wednesday in the meet- Seasonal Factors and Price a ee up i] ¥ Eo Sr ol ® six-day agreement in the past, but i jon national execu- ©0 Sweeping are Lhe terms of Tesi} ,,;,,apg charged that it has not been ing of the legion national execu “ER: ‘ . | dent Roosevelt's executive order | a Hye <committes THUrEGay Difficulties Cited as | under which the mines were taken fully carziedout.
Assail Nazi Transit
on sectors, but a
THAT IS where her difficulties begin. There has been considergble popular criticism of the government's policy of allowing the Germans to send troops through Sweden into and out of Norway—on leave, so-called. Undoubtedly the Germans use that privilege as a means of replacing troops. Also, trainloads of German war material move in as freight to Norway. Recent student demonstraticns at Upsala university had their roots in the popular disapproval of the use of Sweden as a traffic route for the Germans, Pro-ally newspapers criticize the continuation of this traffic. And recently Premier Hansson said this traffic was one of the burdens Sweden was forced to carry. Sweden lies close to the paths of both belligerents and is com-
| any move of the victory organization
corps spokesman at headquarters said operations were not important over the week-end. Sheer physical exhaustion of both sides and unfavorable weather contributed to the lull. The Germans made a small at-
{age the flow of cash from county employees’ pockets into the new city { hall-sponsored Republican victory | organization was under way at the { court house today. Several prominent Republicans, not heretofore identified with the G. O. P. factional struggle, said they
were prepared to oppose actively the coastal sector after the British
sitions. The attack was repulsed.
to make regular collections of any kind from court house employees even if payments were designated as | “voluntary.” “Although the announced purpose ! of the new organization is to accept ily mined although there did not only voluntary campaign contribu- 2ppear to be any strong enemy tions, it can become a very danger-| force in the village. ous system if allowed to grow into al “Lull After Storm” powerful money-raising machine” : declared one Republican leader who = At sea, three fast British torpedo boats were credited in a field dis-|
wields considerable power in county : sagt | patch with sinking a 3000-ton mer-|
on the southwestern sector, and re-|
chant ship and a German R-boat
tack against the Brith 8th army on| had heavily bombarded enemy po-|
French patrols penetrated very! close to the village of Pont Du Fahs,!
ported that the area was very heav-|
| Judge Bain said. | The four former deputy clerks in-|
and but it was generally believed that | the case may eventually have to be dismissed.
Friday. Asked in a press conference to comment on Gen. Henri Giraud's statement that Tunisia will be won this month, he said: “I hope he's right. He knows a lot more about it than I do.” He said that the highpoint of the North Africa visit to him was the perfect co-operation between the French, British and Americans.
Judge Orders Action |
Judge W. D. Bain of criminal! court ordered immediate action to clarify the legal status of the case] for the present term of court ends {in July. | He asked Paul Rochford, attorney | | | for the four former clerks, to file his dismissal motion under the trial} deadline law within the next two! days. “I will hear arguments on the! law immediately, rule on:it by May | : 15 and if the case can still be tried! from the last war,” he commentI will rush it to trial immediately,”| ed. “Then, we soldiers were : | wrangling all the time. Now, our boys only have words of highest praise for their allies.” He said that the U. S. armed forces were doing as good a job as could be done under the cir=
” n » Problem ‘Terrific’ “IT CERTAINLY is different
dicted on charges of embezzling (Continued on Page Five) |
Chief Reasons.
A critical potato shortage loomed
wives with money to spend found | grocery stores without the popular | Speculation as to when the | shortage would be relieved ran from! chine,
spuds.
a week to two months.
Commission merchants, the OPA |COStS. found a number of
and grocers
[over Saturday, | adopted under it by Interior Sec-
coal
and
retary Harold L. Ickes, that
the policies
Duration Control Possible
President Roosevelt's order to
the | Ickes instructing him to seize the
new employer has a wide latitude | mines said that they would be rein Indianapolis today as irate house- in operation and wage policies. {
Owners on Sidelines
{turned to the operators when it no ‘longer serves the war interest for | the government to retain control,
The new employer wants all the That would leave the way open for
| bystanders until their properties are; reasons to explain bare bins. Gerald |yeturned to them—and then they E. Warren of OPA pointed out that| myst accept the wage and any other |
the market is always short at this arrangements that the government
time of year due to the fact that old | has worked out meantime.
potatoes are being held back for planting purposes and new potatoes { have not yet flooded the market.
operators’
The effect, according to informed | observers here, may be that the] negotiating committees!
Commission houses place part of | which have been-in fruitless nego-
the blame on the government.
merchant cited the fact that the
10 will be eliminated as parties 1
it can get for the war ma-|
One| tiation with Mr. Lewis since March| y n| ence looking skeptical and emerged
Ickes to keep control for the dura«
and has provided a PUICe ion of the war if he believed it mechanism to absorb the increased
The companies that own the imines are left in the position of!
| necessary. | For as long as the government re- | tains control of the mines, it appeared, the war labor board will not be called on to settle the issue as {between the miners and the opera(tors. Thus Lewis will successfully have by-passed the agency whose severest critic he has been. Proponents of this view of the situation said that Lewis came fo Washington for yesterday’s confer-
| from it apparently satisfied. He is~
government. | army quartermaster corps took 7000|the dispute, and the government as carloads out of Maine, paying loj (Continued on Page Five) cents more on the peck than the ceiling prices allowed. The commis= |sion merchant is held to ceiling | prices, he explained. | , Another commission merchant | complained that farmers were hold- | ling out old potatoes for higher prices. Prices, he said, have gone! [so high that dealers are afraid to | touch them. In addition, the quality
LEGION CONSIDERS oirofsices, ther have to offer bs Pay-as-Go. Taxes. WAR Il VETERANS
prices would go down, the city would WASHINGTON, May 3 (U. P.).— be flooded with potatoes. | Chairman Robert L. Doughton New Committee Convenes To Outline Plans.
pletely surrounded by the axis. Therefore she is constantly under the necessity of protesting. as has happened since I arrived here, when a protest was made to Russia over bombs dropping near Karlskrona, and one to the British because of a plane flying over Swedish territory.
Miller Is Chairman land damaging two Italian mineFormation of the Republican vic- | SWeebers and shore installations in| tory organization at city hall April @ 60-mile sweep up the Tunisian] 15 was another chapter in the fight | coast. The action occurred Wednes- | for control of the G. O. P. that has been raging here for more than three months between the city ad-! ministration faction and the regular Republican county committee. Sidney S. Miller, city corporation counsel, was elected chairman of the new fund-raising group, formed ostensibly to finance election of a whole new set of precinct commit-
cumstances and that “there can’t be a word of complaint about our air forces.” He said that the supply prob-
|sued the truce order immediately |after a meeting with the U. M. W, {international policy committee in
| New York a few hours later.
————————a—— 'DOUGHTON DEMANDS | Deliveries to Resume | Meanwhile restrictions on coal { deliveries were lifted and regular
{deliveries to consignees may be re | sumed. There remained some evidence of irritation in the White House over relations between the administration and Lewis. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said official news of the 15 days truce still had not been received there. In the event the government ine sists on immediate resumption of attempts to negotiate a contract between miners and operators, deli rate questions of procedure would have to be worked out. A spokes man for Ickes, however, said he knew of no plans on Ickes’ part to conduct any new wage negotiations Early, asked for reaction to Lewis’ truce announcement, said there was “no word in the presi (Continued on Page Five)
KEEP A TOPCOAT HANDY! LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Gam. ...50 10am... 7am ...48 1llam... 5 8a.m.... 49 12 (noon) , 51 a.m ... 1 l1p.m, ... 5%
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day, but was revealed only vest INU ION, Nay a fv Fo : dav. aled only yester- american fliers atacked Japanese-| lem in North Africa was “terwe (held Kiska in the Aleutians 13 more| rific.” Two thousand tons of supgi the axis attacks, the | times last Saturday and succeeded] plies had to be moved each day : v reported from thej;, starting fires and setting off an| to the four U. 8. divisions at the | Tunisian land front was allied pa= | explosion, the navy announced to- front when he was in Africa. trol action, . ci day. (Continued on Page Five) The lull settled over the Tunisian On the same day, U. 8. airmen| a fronf Saturday following some of blasted two Japanese bases on Attu’ the fiercest fighting of the war, island, 200 miles to the west of touched off by an allied attempt to Kiska, a communique said. The teemen in the 1944 May primary to blast the enemy from gun-studded enemy base at Munda. in the cen-! replace those of the regular county hills barring the way to the Tunis tral Solomons, was bombed again | organization, ‘plain from both west and south. 'by American fliers. Only two months ago, the same! Mr. Miller was elected chairman of
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Stiff Note to Germany
BUT THE stiffest notes were gent to Berlin over the recent firing on a Swedish submarine. And the feeling is accentuated because of Germany's refusal to allow a resumption of the safe-conduct arrangement whereby five ships had been allowed to come in each month through the British and German blockades, and an equal number to go out. The Germans stopped allowing ships to come in the first of the year, and Swedish ships are now unable to get in with wheat, leather and foodstuffs from South America. There is much resentment about this. On the way here I saw four guch Swedish ships tied up at the Azores and at Lisbon. The result is beginning to be felt. The new shoe ration allows one pair for 18 months. Food is bound to be cut down. Yet Sweden remains determined to find a way to stay neutral.
House Reopens Debate on
a “Republican harmony committee,” | but nothing was heard from that
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(Continued on Page Five) TIMES FEATURES | There were 280,540 cigarets in the i Indianapolis Times Ernie Pyle ON INSIDE PAGES |Cigaret fund today as donations {jumped to $723.85 over the week- : { end. Millett -esseae 100 This is almost double the SaturMovies ....... 4 day total of cigaretes available for Obituaries ... 7 shipment overseas. . 15 Large donors included the em-=
(Doners’ List, Page Three)
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REPORTS BULGARIAN KILLED LONDON, May 3 (U. P.). — The’ &erman radio said that Col Athenas Panteff former Bulgarian police chief, was assassinated today by & man and woman who waited for him at his home and felled him with two shots before escaping.
Housewives bought almost every! . available potato in the city. Some| (D- N. C) of the house ways and chain stores had a few new potatoes,| means committee today opened the sent in from Texas, but the supply | new pay-as-you-go tax debate in (Continued on Page Five) the house with a demand that the Ruml skip-a-year plan “be killed With the development of a In The Times so dead that it will never again strong new two-war American Le- " be resurrected. gion as its objective, the legion’s Tod ay “There are a hundred valid recently-created National World | reasons why the Ruml-Carlson plan War II liaison committee met here 1. The old days of steaming | |should not be adopted, and not one today for the first time. | | down the Ohio river are com- single sound reason justifying its The 16-member committee was | ing back to life. Read the first | | adoption,” Doughton told the scheduled to formulate a program of a series of articles on the house. of service to the new veterans and| | Gordon C. Greene today on “Its adoption would be unbe sent to any theater of war oul~| ihe members of the armed forces| | Page 9. justifiable at any time, but at this side continental United States : | 2 a4 any vu In place of the federal stamp and their families, | | + 2. Yankee air raiders went | | time when our nation is fighting | ing of the World War II | y die. Th A Crossword ... 15 9 ployees of the Packard Manufac<|there will be a sticker on each The meeting of th | to Tokyo prepared to die © | |for its life and our government is tani 1 5 liaison group opened a series of na first of two articles by a pilot | |. <uch desperate d of revenue Editorials .... 10 15 turing Co., Homer Capehart, presi-| package reading, “The Indianapolis| tional committee meetings of the! | of one of the bombers appears su Spérate neea ol re ' | Financial .... 12 Ration Dates. 3 dent, and the Lukas-Harold train- Times’ Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund.” | American Legion here this week. on Page 16, it is unthinkable. Forum ....... 10/Mrs. Roosevelt % ing center, both of whom con-| If any firm, group, or group of Over 40 other national legion: 3. New point values of pro- Dotghton made a strong. plea. fof Don’t put that top coat in mot) Freckles . 14 Side Glances. 10 {rihuted $100 for 40,000 cigarets. | employees contributes $50 or more, commissions, committees and boards | cessed foods, Page 2. \adoption of his treasury-endorsed , yet. Gardens 3 Society Employees of the Charles Drex-| their name also will be placed on will convene here Wednesday and | proposal to forgive part of 1942)". FU. ore was 47 at : s ; | " Il your attention | taxes by returning the rates and| pe v Health Col. .. 3! Sports 6 ler Co. donated $62, or 24,800 ciga- the sticker. the national executive committee We also ca " " y 8 | o'clock this morning, and the weathy Hold Ev'thing 9 State Deaths. T iets, and employees of Omar Bak-| If you desire to contribute, any- will meet Thursday and Friday to to “Wartime Living, ue ios exemptions to their 1941 levels. He = predicts cooler today In Indpls 3| Simms .. 9 eries $51, or 20,400 cigarets. thing from a nickel on up, mail or receive the reports of these legion | ‘Ory Gardeners Wee yd 1th said this would increase payments | ion myidently spring is s Inside Indpls 9 Voice in Bal.. 4] The cigaret fund started after| bring your contribution to The groups. manac,” and She daily healt until the uncancelled part of 1942] ound the corner, In the Service 16 War Living a 3 Ernie Pyle wrote from North Africa Indianapolis Times Ernie Pyle Highlight of all the sessions will column, Page 3. {taxes are discharged, but he held Kidney ...i.. 10(Al Williams .. 10 of the need for cigarets at the fight-' Cigaret Fund, 214 W. Maryland st. (Continued on Page Five) : ¥ *
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