Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1943 — Page 3

(High Federal Officials Study Coal Situation; Strike Seen as Doubtful,

By FRED W. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—8ome of

.{ and fourth runners-up will be dies-in-waiting, “i “Now at the dawning er Armistice day, we are about to enter into an American Legion in vasion war bond drive to commem orate that glorious day of 238 years

A petition bearing the signatures of about 500 persons favoring

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the highest federal officials, includ, (ing War _ Mobilization Director {James F. Byrnes and Stabilisation Director Fred M. Vinson, are conferring on the latest John L. Lewis situation, .

Ago," F, Dean Bechtol, state com. mander, sald in announcing the queen contest, In the Legion-spon-sored drive last May, the quota of $25,000,000 was owersubscyibed by |:

sororities, department stores and

other s The dentine for entering ecandi-

Market st. has been obtained by county commissioners.

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more than $5,000,000,

BURIAL PLOT BLOWN UP IN EXPLOSION

BASTICA, Corsica, Oct. 18 (Delayed) (U, P.) Volunteer workers from this war « shattered town struggled today to rebury hundreds of bodies blown from their burial] untangle streetcar and automobile Places by the explosion of an amtrallic. nen his house. munition dump. $225,000, The, teltphons. woke Peterson The mayor estimated that vita _ Tetons opposing. he purchase containing 8000 bodies were wreckid | ‘ i Objections yesterday. Then the. doorbell : { with the country commissioners.

started ringing. Hunters trampled {when German ammunition stores | anntimticdemips the Peterson lawns. {Just outside the cemetery Were

lu ouside we cometary were GREEK EXILE CABINET | Sevier: Sotsrh tenis war [ULI03, 9 BY sty fm Twn! oy pe, RESENTSATALY

no shells for sale. The crowd The blast smashed hundreds of | LONDON, Oct. 18 (U. P.) ~The dispersed. family sized crypts into a tangle of | entire Greek : o \ , » xile cabinet has ree Someone put that ad In the |... nied stone, splintered coffin, igned ; paper Just for a Joke, Peterson {and mangled cor s. Shells 1 signed in protest against Italy's ade explained, “I haven't a shell to yo" FE yes ro mission to “cobelligerency” with the » y y ’ my name, shattering monuments and plum- White nations, press advices from : Cr meting into tombs before exploding. | Calro said today, following reports SOVIET WRITER SEES VICTORY | 1h ammunition dump was|of a serious outbreak of fighting WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.) - | blown up Sept. 13 when German petween rival guerrilla factions ine The Soviet offensive against Ger. troops still held the city. Since |gide Greece. oF many is reaching such proportions then French and U, 8. forces have| The London Evening Standard, that “the situation is extremely driven the Germans completely | reporting the eabinet resignations, favorable for the NAnal defeat of from tha istand, — xT — said Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos Hitler Germany in the near future," | The Nazis made no effort to clear {refused to accept his ministers K. Velikanov sald today, in ani the. field, but used fragments of | withdrawal and was consulting King article in the Soviet embassry's in- | blastéd vaults to mark the graves | George II in an effort, to resolve the formation bulletin. {of thelr own dead. I'erinis ; i

be submitted to the county council at its next meeting for ‘ further action toward issuing $250,000 in bonds for the transaction. ! Three months ago the county council authorized the commissions ers to proceed with arrangements to purchase the building as a courte house annex to relieve congested conditions and provide new quars ters for juvenile court and the county welfare agency, Owners of the building have agreed to sell it to the county for

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Mr, Lewis is still driving for the $2-a<day pay increase for half a million miners which he announced as his objective nine months ago. Since then a series of coal-mine strikes have produced no certain results except that the war labor ii |board has placed its approval on it | concessions worth about 25 cents a ijday to the miners, and the United Mine Workers’ leader has changed his former deflant attitude to one of negotiation with WLB, Only two weeks away i§ Oct, 31, the expiration date of the latest of several “truces” proclaimed by Mr. Lewis with the government, Whether Mr. Lewis would sanction a general mine strike after that date is a question bothering some federal officlals—but informed opinion is that he would not risk doing so, because of possible punishment under the war labor disputes (Connally-Smith) act, and also because the miners’ leader has been|’

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Oh Shotgun Shell Where Is Sting?

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 18 (U. P), «The advertisement in the paper sald Alfred Peterson had 50 boxes of shotgun shells for sale, and when 4000 hunters turned out to buy them, police were called to

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Andrijevica. At the same time, a battle of In creasing ferocity was raging along| the Sava river between Zagreb and Ljubljana, where the Germans were trying to regain control of the vital rallroad line in order to send reinforcements down to their beleagu-| garrisons along the Adriatic

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The partisans, firmly entrenched along the south bank of the river, were reported to. have repulsed all German attempts to force a crossing and to have started a counteroffensive, Along the Adriatic coast, the partisans said their forces rallied after

WARTHUR BAGS spr ao 104 JAP PLANES =." ee

drove the enemy from the towns [opinion against any impediment to ot and Crikvenica. ne ONly Two Allied Machines “er production. A 17-mile strength of coastline Ne Authorization Seen from Bakar to Novi, south of Fiume, is now in partisan hands, along with Strikes, if they come, are exthe entire north Dalmatian shore, pected to be of the local and “wild- ¢ cat” kind, unauthorized by the

the communique said, ton Jentierahi i | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, UPion leadership, as now in progress Southwest Pacific. Oct. 18 (U.P). in-Alabama and Indiana. —Gen. Douglas MacArthur's filers] Mr. Lewis, in messages to the have destroyed 104, and probably striking miners, informed them he 147, enemy planes in a two-day had reason to expect an early and

aerial offensive that record Japa- favorable decision, “on the logic

nese airpower along the 750-mile(of the situation,” from the war Southwest Pacific battle line, a labor board. That agency is plan-

communique reported today. ning an examination into Mr. Lewis’

latest formula for an agreement. The triumph, won last Priday and Saturday at a cost of only a proposed contract with the coal

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VACANT STRUCTURE DESTROYED BY FIRE

ing at St. Paul st. and Pleasant Run Parkway, which was to have been sold today, was destroyed by fire of und last night. The loss was fixed at $10,000. Firemen who ed to two alarms said the 60 by 120-foot structure was a mass of flames when they arrived. They said they could see the blaze a mile distant while

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Lost in Repelling Enemy Raiders.

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Vichy Broadcast Somewhat Hasty LONDON, Oct. 18 (U, P).—A Vichy radio announcer last week inadvertently broadcast that the

war had ended, and excited Frenchmen ran into the street to

operators of Illinois. That proposal,

shortages, mal-distribution of raw materials, reorganization of plant layout, labor shortages. The manpower problem was said to be particularly difficult on the West const, !

"far in the production process before it was discovered that they did not “fill combat requirements. Defective arts of many types have been de-

Despite these mistakes, the OWT the evidence is con-

en route.

standing. Two nearby houses and two garages were threatened for a time, but firemen - prevented the spread of the flames.

Knickerbocker Sr. housed the Comet Electric Co., Inc.

now dissolved. The loss was partly covered by insurance.

shout the “news,” the Daily Mirror reported today. According to the Mirror, the Vichy announcer said: * “Ladies and gentlemen, today, Oct. 12, the war has ended.” Yesterday the Vichy radio explained that an announcer, waiting to make a news broadcast, asked a colleague how he would like to announce the end of the war, the Daily Mirror said: The colleague impulsively stépped to the microphone and, unaware" JIRA HET Was or thie ir Thtde his announcement, it was added. . The man who made the broadcast is under arrest, according to the Daily Mirror,

BRITISH PLANES RAID RHODES AIRDROME

CAIRO, «Oct, 18 (U. P.).—British heavy bombers scored hits on hangars and aircraft dispersal areas at Maritza airdrome, Rhodes, Saturday night, a communique announced today. Other aircraft bombed the harbor at Cos, 50 miles northwest of Rhodes, the same night and started a fire, Daylight bombers raided shipping at Skyros harbor, also in

Only the concrete walls were left,

The building was owned by E. B. It formerly

SIDNEY, Neb, Oct: 18 (U. P,). While Mrs. Lloyd Bowker was in the grocery store, her children amused themselves lighting matches on & stove and throwing them, One of the matches landed in

FEED STARVING IN INDIA NEW DELHI, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—

disclosed results. safely.

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Yank Airmen Down 4 Enemy Planes to One American Loss

. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—An OWI box score on the combat performance of American planes showed that army airmen have roiled up a score of better than 4 to 1 over the enemy. Although detailed figures on navy aerial performance were not available to the OWI, a ratio of at least 5 to 1 over the enemy is indicated.

Enemy U.S, Loss Loss 7312 1.867 5,389 1,239 1,333 316

When Dec. 7, '41-8ept. 1, '43 March 1-Sept. 1 '43 Jan. 1-June 30, '43 Jan, 1-June 30, '43 113 69 Jan. 1-June 30, '43 763 375

In addition, the box score showed that 108 Flying Fortresses of air force based in Britain were lost during July while

the Aegean, yesterday with un- of

two allied planes, raised Jap losses | ‘in this theater during the last week to about 300 aircraft, includ. ing 177 destroyed or damaged in| the raid ‘on Rabaul, New Britain Tuesday and Wednesday, i “We appear to have achieved definite air superiority on north coast of New Guinea,” a headquarters spokesman said in announcing the new victory,

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Ninety-two enemy planes were shot down. Hilf the Jap losses weré suffered PHigey ~ when they ats! "tacked “allied positions on north=} eastern New Guinea in an un-| successful attempt to counter the Rabaul raid, A A force of 64 enemy dive bombers and fighters struck at Oro Bay, New Guinea, American fighters battled them all the way down from 23,000 feet to water level. All 26 dive bombers and 20 to 31 fighters were destroyed. Only seven enemy fighters were known to have escaped. No allied shipp was lost. All the American fighters returned safely.) A force of 15 enemy dive bombers and 12 fighters raided Pinschhafen, losing six and probably nine,

Other Stinging Blows

Allied bombérs and fighters struck back at Wewak, 375 miles northwest Finschhafen, Saturday, and added 26 and probably 41 Jap planes In a simultaneous attack . Madang airdrome, 18 and bably

the bag over the near-by Vituiaz! straits. - American heavy bombers! destroyed six enemy fighters during | Bougainville island. They blasted ground installations and set great fires. The Jap airdrome at Buka

also was bombed. Other allied raiders battered the Cape Hoskins

barges and a power launch

stiffening Jap resistance.

CAMERAS ATTUNED TO BOMB FLASHES

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through a settlement of the portal. to-portal pay question, would give the average miner $1.75 a day additional to his present pay. That, plus the 25 cents already okayed by WLB, would meet the $2 demand put forth by Mr, Lewis last Jan.

Some war labor board members|

restated today the policy of “no hurried decision under pressure of strikes or threats of strikes.”

Illinois Contract Discussed

The coal case, sald Wayne L.|

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author “of = denunciations of ~My |e ——"_—

Lewis for previous attempts to use the union's power against the board, “must still be decided without re. gard to whether the miners are willing to risk a responsibility for prolonging the war through shutting down the mines and cutting off the

| flow of fuel necessary for the war-

production machine.”

Alabama Coal Mines Defy WLB and Lewis

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 18 (U, P.).~The majority of Alabama's 22,000 soft coal miners apparently defied today the back-to-work orders of the War Labor Board and union leaders. As their walkout In protest against the absence of a new con-

tract and return of the mines to}

private operation entered its fifth day, reports indicated that only a few of the miners would return to work in small commercial pits. The strike has curtailed sharply the output of steel and pig iron

a raid on the Karili airdrome on production in the war plants of

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