GOO EV NI G EV BODY: Five hours and fourteen minutes from now will brin an important moment for wartime America_ midni g h and zero hour in the coal mine labor controversy. This applies not only to the soft coal mines, which have held the headlines, bu also to the black pits of nthracite. The contract between the soft coal operators and the United Mine lorkers expired a month ago. It was ex ended tent ati vely for a month, and now the extension expires at mi · ni g h t . The an\~~,,!, contract ends at midni h t, nd there is no sign of an extension. Today , in the So ft co a l strike threat, John L. Lewis ave answe r to the st ern ecla ration made by Jtimx President Roos . velt. The Presi ent told L ewis of the • Un it e d .1 in e . " o r :· r s th t n O 6 u ch wartime menace a a c o a l stri e ould be tolerated - a n d the government would take a ction~ewis was sil e nt for a day, but now his minew w ork_,_committee has answered. mb ~ s •1 i••uw4r1c, ~ f i nee to the President;tfiJ.I thFiRJt :aput l1, outright threat of a strike. ~ewis's 1ep±r to 4a1 Preeidea••~ ulti■e•u• ~demand that negotiations be resumed between the coal operators and the union - collective b rgaining. Meaning - Lewis wants the dispute taken out of the hands of the War Labor Board. hthat'-s the pojnt at issue - whether the President's War Labor Board shall make the decision. ewis is a a . t ·t A the Un1·on statement today s a ys: "We have . ins 1 • n g ood rea s on to feel that the War Labor Board has Of the A m eric a n coal miners." pre-ju ed the case -<(/ that the Bo dis stic in to 1 1 The Union complaint is ha t is c lled "the Litt e Steel Formula~ co n cerning LEA - 3 ... ----- wa ; e i creases a n d th·- f ' lo ormula p recludes the granting of t h e ~ boost that th r-J e mjners demand - an increase of two dollars a day. The Lewis reply to the President simply restates the Union ciec1·s1·o · n al l alon , d th an ere fore c ha n g es nothin. Se ta, iaplicatien i1 tneb tve-t,aa kl e&-4>tl- J i ; . h f t ~ ~ re■aie1111 •he u■s 1'h• iltehra;l;MMI ~ unless the contract between the operators and the - mine workers is renewed, the miner ~ will not g o to work when it expires. ,o,the imp li cation ~tho~~ 7 soft coal It does expire at midnight tonight.- is clear, a general strike of/:::;;; miners. In the case of hard coal, Pennsylvania anthracite, the mine operators and the Union were in h They recessed their conference today; but got now ere. . . ro· when these wi 11 be negoti at ions until to3or ' d · tt em p t to renew the contract between resume - 1n an a - . ......... _ - - ---------------- L - 4 -- the Com ny an i , hty t h o u s a n ~ ~ ~ n e r s . M■ aAwk The contr~ct meanwhile expires at midni ht, and a shut-do · n of the mines is taken for granted. Today, inf ct, the o p er a tors nd the Union si ned an a reement whereby mointen nee rnrkers will stay in the mines and look af t r th P, m durin the period of the shut-down.-- ~ a move usually ta k en just before a strike is over the mines _ the Army prepared to move in. The word from wa hin ton points out of course that soldier!. cannot mine co upon th It is believed that the Army will simply call and work f or the Govern : ent. miners to return This sor t of thin has been done in the cas of p r e vious LEAD - 5 -------- wal. out s , when strike -bound industrial plants were taken over. In the ca s e of coal, ~14~~~ ~ G o v e r n m e n t ~ ~ ~ e and thei1 anion a& an e41pl:.,-e.-. TUNISIA ____ ...,__ In n or th e rn Tunisia where the A . S mer1can are, the f ocus of battle is a mountain th a t towers high above the surround in hills. The summits are not lofty in Tunisia, not comparei to the great mountains of the world or even with our own A · Ad' d k mer1can iron ac s; - but.I they are steep an d rugged enough tough for mechanized warfare.(he to make the going mountain in question has two names. Locally it is called Djebel Tahent. On military maps it is marked down as Hill Humber Six- Hundred-and-Nine, and that . gives the clue to its height - six~hundred-and-n~ne-meters tell, about two thousand feet~he summit, with a flat top, overlooks the whole Tunisian panorama. From the topmost point you can see &¼en~ Bizerte and its great naval base - ...... -~ &s.-.r-b. . only t. ent;-;iles ;;ay/\ The manner in which Djebel Tahent or Hill Number Six Bu nd red 8nd ine dominates Country is shown by the fact that the s urroun d ing T I IA - ------ Americ n f o rces h a v~ l an k ed t he mount a in on both sides, p u b in t o the north an d to the so · l of it_ reconnais s ance p arties by-pa ss in it t o the north and Q,_' ~ a rtill e ry com p ani-e ~ -:•').a:;.1:LL.~ it to tie south. But the German garri s on on top of the hill is able to rake the t w o si d es ith so much g unfir e that a real advance around the north or the south cannot be made. And the order is - capture Djebel Tahent. Stora Hill Six Hundred and Nine. Americ a n troops have been try in~ to do that \ () all d a y, a n d i t ' ~ their major task for tomo~row. Today's dispatch from Allied hea d quarters in North .. Africa states th a t the key , summit is held by only a hundred a n d ei g hty terman soldiers, but they are so th at American g uns cannot reach po we rfully fortified . up a bitt e r fight. Yest e r d ay them, a n d they are putting a United St a tes combat team c a tured three small hi l ls T UN ISIA - ------ . ro r c h'n c D j b l Th ent, a n d the,t w e nt on to st orm half a y u . th e m a i _ n slope of Hill Number and Nine. if'At Six Hundred idday it looked as if they might capture the dominating mountain, but the Germans opened such a blasting fir~mach · 1·ne d t ~ guns an mor ars, that the Americans had to withdra - not only from w111 half-a-mile-up flf Djebel Tahent but also fro■ the three small hills in front of it • . They were under a hail, not only of machine gun bullets and mortar shells, but also fra ments of rock chipped off by explosions. And that's a cue to the tough kind of warfare our soldiers are facing in the sto,. hills, . where shattered rock ts hurled by the burstin shells to form iae kind of camc,icand s p l i n t e r s ~ ~ • ' Today's account from Allied headquarters_.. an exam p le of the way we are iven plain facts - facts about a repulse that our troops have sustained at that • TUNISIA - 4 ----- domin a tin p ak called Djebel Tahent. A nd the dispatch a dds the com nt th t the fightin g at Hill Six Hundred and Nine is an in ication th tour final victory at the ti p of Tuni s ia will not be a ush-over. A spokesman for the United States Second Corps put it in these words: "It's a slu g fest, and it's g oing to be a knockdown and az ■ ak• ■ drag-out business from now on.• At the center of the line, the Germans are still counter-attacking the British. Today they ias&•••• launched assaults down the slopes of an important hill from which they rove troops of the British iirst Army yesterday. The latest tells of a push spearheaded by tan k s _ . i nt Mark Sixes, land battleships virt\lally. At one p oint the monsters ot through a nd the British ~ withdre sli gh t ly . But, the main en e my thrust tod y was be ten back in h·t the dispatch c a l ls -"extre mely "-if.The . g ener al pic ture al on g the whole viol e nt fi~htin • batt : fr o t is one of - s1·ege. k · t e ne 1 ,ould be that, from the moment the Nazi forces pulled back into their mountain stronghold. The conflict is like a prolonged ' and violent dea d oc~ic~"':1'11 keep the pressure on until the defense exhausts and gives way - siege operations. ,, Meanwhile, in the nearby Mediterranean, Allied air forces are still scoring victories against Axis transport. Today's dispatch tells of the sinking of two enemy ships and the damaging of eight others. The Germans have changed their transportation tactics. and are now dispersing their cargo vessels - : stead of concentrating them in convoys. The ships proceed singly, and are scattered - as they try to make the to Tunl'sia. The fact that the enemy run from Sicily t d equipment is an Sen d reinforcemen s an continues to Only too clear th t indic tion be intends to continue the battle as lone as pos~ible at the Tunisian tip. The S ateDep a rtm e nt to d y took action in th e c a e o f !nrtini ue, with Secret a ry Hull sendin a stiff note to Admir a l Robert - Governor of t .. at French owned island. The Admiral down there insists on maint a inin his allegiance to the Vichy regime in France 1 this is stated b7 today's stern diplomatic note, which points out th . t the Vichy crowd is completely subservien to Nazi Germany. Therefore, Secretary Hull c6lls off all ~grecments made with the Martini ue outfit headed by •• Admiral Robert. le~••• ~,ea +.F1ia~ ~e •aal With bhe.., '& i:i: d • r .. e tdmi1 al ll1e1r+. J p ri • a J ; z 4 Ila v e d i SC o a t 12 CL 1; 11& aicae ezs M • •• M11tlnlq~e &a r· ,a 8 awa1 fre ■ ,1e J<a and tbs Dzsrica• aacal]td Qr ?1r • · aad he ••-'h• • 'Hee Ceee»J rema1aa, ' 1 ■ I of t ■ SJ .._ IIA TI1 I UE - 2 ----- ---- , , a ½:.,.,. P O • " . • s a 1 ch a I a • 8 » _ • I bl ~ \~U I i I ; W @ W I B I l I; !'j l i • i .. - " - ,. h Among the a reementa cancelled today, there was one th t immobilized French warships at Martinique and adjacent islands, a g uarantee by Admiral Robert that \'<•~·Q, = $ th9r.i1,.wou l d be kept idle in port. »! tzt!.f~ include the twenty-five thousand ton aircraft carrier BERN and a six thousand ton cruiser - not counting some lesser craft. Admiral Robert may now feel entitled to do what he likes with his vessels of war - which, however, are said to be in no condition for any kind of action. They h ve been laid up for a long time, and are not in trim for anythin g waisk much in the way of duty at sea. t Surml·s e is that the severence of One immedia e re la tions tod a y may be a prelude to something more import an t - the se izure of Martinique by the U ni t ed States. fe c a nnot very well afford anyone to have a VichfHitler tie so close to us as isl a nds in the West Indu&s. Her e is somethino that ,.. sounds like ancient . history - fi g htin g on Guadalcanal, a party of Jape wiped out on that island. te thou g ht that hostilities on G ua alcanal were a thin g of the past_ the Jap enemy • extf«'pated. Which is all true nough - with a minor exception of the fact tha1,t,un g le war, atrag&ling parties may stay out for a lon g time in the thickness of the equatorial forest. So it"1s not surprising that a few Jape may have been left wandering a bout, in the green tro p ic 1 depths on Guadalcanal. It is possible, of course, that the Japs may have landed a few men since their final defeat on the island, but the best guess is that a sa,11 numb e r of fu g itives were l eft•- •••1t 15 1NNPt!" Ir, R@ ~ Navy b ulletin merely st a tes: Tod y's "On April T w enty- E i g hth, ina a Ja p anese patrol urin r the morn ~ • , of on e officer an d ei ht men, at tP m tin to esc a pe from Guadalcanal - was intercepted and wi p ed out by American troo p s." They were trying to get away across the water~ Jap controlled islands, and were cau ht - and went, what should be• the way of all Jape. SOLDIERS -------- Here's a bit of information that should be told and repeated to four soldiers at Santa onica, California information that should make them g~ow ' ■ighty red in the face and a ~ in their beer. Thesefour soldiers today beat up two civilians, a couple of husky young men who were not in the armed forces of the nation. The four soldiers shouted slackers. And, before anything more could be said, they proceeded to give the two civilians a beating -- punching and kicking them. No•, -- here's telling the four soldiers who their battered victims were~- One -- Joseph Lellis, a sailor of the Merchant arine~has been serving in the South Pacific on a ship evacuating wounded soldiers through dangerous waters. And on one trip ht back f ive thousand wounded alone his ship b roug from battle areas. The other civilian beaten b the soldiers is Edward · 0 stran ei hteen years old)11'{,. fou ton SOLDIERS - 2 --------- Guadalcanal -- a Marin e so badly done up in the bitter fighting against the Japs that be was in the aval hospital a t . . , , . Island for six months, under treatment. Two weeks ago he was honorably discharged from the Marines -- as a disabled war hero. All of · •hich shoul~a/!i::-i•-~.a :.:~" to tl.-cP ,r-our soldiers.••• eaN~ •ae ■ \o 11p•••• ••••• l ■ NN OTH ER ----- Today at Flint, · ichigan ~n honor was conferred on a forty-sixyear old woman -- and here's how well she deserves that honor. , rs. John A. Deavers who used to be a bare-back rider in the circus, was made an honorary life member of the Blue Star others of America. Mrs. Deavers has twenty-two children -- two sets of triplets and eight sets of twins. She has nine sons in the armed forces and eight of them are in service overseas. This Blue Star Mother ran away from home at when she was twelve and joined the Ringling Brothers ~- A-a A Circus/\. She was married when she was fifteen and had her first set of twins when she was sixteen. She certainly does deserve the maternal honor, __ wi· th twins and triplets.- 2. 2 - doubly, triply ,. ~ o..0/2.- . , , ~ ~ -... ~ , ALICE FAYE --------- And now we may reflect -- what could be more wonderful th an a devoted wife and a loving mother? There's Alice Faye -- ' Alice, the film star, so smart and sophisticated in the movies Alice today reveals herself as thinking only of hubby and the baby. She is quitting the screen, and is retiring to happy hoae and domestic blias. Alice, for one thing, doean•t like t)ae kind of pictures they compel her to . play in. She ii tired of the hoopla musicals -- because they have no plot, saye she. •1 know I am no great actress,• she explain•, •but at least I could play in a movie with a plot.• All of which coaes under the heading of art, but it is followed by the strains of •Home Sweet Home.• Alice has a little girl, a year old, and says her baby is the cutest thing. •she deserves to kno• her mother,• says Alice, •and I think her mother deserves to know her. Yes, they ~ight get acquainted, andnot be perfect . . d • strangers who haven't met before. •what I have in min' ALICE FY E _ 2 ------ - --- ~~, sa ~ •is just staying at home and mil&hng the baby.• Alice also thinks of her husband -- Phil Barris, the band leader. She txplaina that, working so hard all day in the film studio, she i1 so ■ eti■ea not in such perfectly good humor when she gets up in the morning, not lo co ■pletely aweet and smiling. And she snaps at hubby. Which is all wrong, aa71 she. 1/¥ To which I say: •Hurray for Alice.• lhen a fellow i1 grumpy and 1eowling in the morning, he doean•t want his wife to snap at him. Alice Faye puts it all in tbese affecting words: •then a ought to spend woman loves her husband and child, ahe .... ,J. 4t,_. -.JJA., some time with the; ~•1 think I'll enjoy being a housewife.• Y as I•ve always said, there is nothing es, , like a good woman, is there Hugh? LTP.429.091.009.pdf LTP.429.091.010.pdf LTP.429.091.011.pdf LTP.429.091.012.pdf LTP.429.091.013.pdf LTP.429.091.014.pdf LTP.429.091.015.pdf LTP.429.091.016.pdf LTP.429.091.017.pdf LTP.429.091.018.pdf LTP.429.091.019.pdf LTP.429.091.020.pdf LTP.429.091.021.pdf LTP.429.091.022.pdf LTP.429.091.023.pdf LTP.429.091.024.pdf LTP.429.091.025.pdf LTP.429.091.026.pdf LTP.429.091.027.pdf LTP.429.091.028.pdf