e r i s t . 1 e l t e t c o a 1 n • , · ,. r o a .i n ton. The min r ~ • 111: L h uy ~ i 11 t nore a y. Ju t ow . uch ,e can o t a y t pres nt. ut it will be more. Reports unoffici 1 but quite positive, brin - us ord 7",(...L. th t Le is ... s n n ., o L iatin • witl ..,ecret~ry Ickes A as Fuel A ministr tor. Earlier i the d ay, a poke man at Ickes' Office decl a red that he knew nothin of any a g reement by Ickes to neaotiate a new wa e contract. That, he said, was completely out of the Fuel Administrator's field. But the pleased expression on the faces of all leaders of the United ine Workers were conaidered a pretty sound indication that thins ate going their way. One spokesman intimated that Ickes must have taken part in the conference himself, but throu g h a rep»esentative. The unofficial reports about these ne otiations v ent so far as to recite the details of terms. These term would be that the m iners weuld et six days' work a we k wherever it is possible . For the sixtn d y t h ey ~ ou l r e ceive · CO . L - 2 ---- - tjme an d a h a l , mea nin g t n oll re a n ah lf . T h e m in r ou ld a l so be a i t o r • rt o f t e t i e it tak s t e m to reach t h e a t u ~ 1 o t in the m ine s w h ere they hav to di t he co 1. T a t woul settle tae m uc h moote u "tort a l to port a l• dis p u t e. I t mi ht add as muc h as a <l o l l a r and ei · t y cents a day to the average worker's p ay. A n a f inal ly , it is believ e d that tlie new con t ract woul d run f o1 · o ne year instead of two years. · e also h ear th t the Union leaders in i ashin g ton are strong for Ickes. They are going about eayin that now at last they have a sincere man and a fair man to deal with. Lewis, of course, is jubilant because he considers e has won a clear victory over the War Labor Board. T h e f irst reaction to President Roosevelt's appeal to the coal mi n rs was a li h t but steadytTickle of men oin bac · to work und r the A m erican fla g . For a w h ile it was re p orte d that on l J a m inority o f them i d t h i s . B ut by mid -a f t e rnoon ~e e a r ' th a t about c o - 3 a 1 f, : o r t h an t \I o u 1 , r e o a 1 , had don w ha t t h e n ati ' s r 1 en t a e . Ti ot e r waite d f or to o r r o~ , the ti e t by Jon L . L ,is , ' he ir U n ion's Pre c i den t. One i patch f ro m t e min e fiel d s re po rted that the m en were rejoicin over one thin g . They are glad that because of the f ifteen d ay truce they do not have to choose bet w en t h e President of the United States and the President of their Uniog. one typical county, every ni n er an d h is wi f e and his children li s tened to the President's plea on the radio. One good ~ife is repvrted as having exclaimed that she thou g ht the President•s speech was just wonderful and she certainly thou gh t that after that there should be no stri k es. Such m en as coul d be interviewed by r ep orter, are quoted as being h ap p y to be a le to r e turn to ~ or k , an d sayi n t ey ou h t to listen to t h e g o v ern m ent first. A Rewel ~,u,1\isa wae reiaeti i11 'ha!!ilii r ton toda y . l n t . . i ni n v. i th th assuming ice of Ickes to profits The first and only thought get ut. Jon L. Lewis, they say, believes that ly proclaiming the truce he has by-passed the War Labor Board .wllieh -))e=...Qaa e1u1ee aa so lefibi~r But a question at the White House brought out the reply that whatever new wage agreement is made for the miners, the War Labor Board will have to approve it. Beer eta•,- e is no wo' in true t ~ rom now, Even in N orth A~rica, there was keen interest in the President's broadcast. tnlisted men and officers alike came out with such wor d s as: •It is ab out time~ ,uul •uew we »aally ei-e eouking wil,h ge.s . .__ Tbc1·e 41 e illL~C4L Just a few minu es ago, John L. Lewis himself aade a statement. It does not bear out the Washington report of an a g reement with Secretary Ickes. In fact, it does not indicate any agreement at all. Lewis reputiated once again the pledge aade by all unions not to strike. The United Mine Workers Union, he , declared, is not bound. On the contrary, it will do e•erything possible to obtain a flat raise in pay of two dollars a day for all worker• in bitu■ inoua and anthracite minea. Be described Secretary lckea as the new e■ployer of the miners. And it ia up to this new employer, aaya Lewis, to make the first ■ ove in any negotiations. T A:i er·cars have t . Ken of our c ief obj ec tives in • u nisi a. T e .key to the w h ole syste m of azi fortifications e fend in g Biz erte an d 'l'unis. T h e dou gh boys brok t rou hon a fifteen-mile front. In so doing, they have cut the only . n zi rail line of 00 1 munication between Tunis and Bizerte. Yes, they have now pushed t h e Germans to theed e of ~heir inner line of fortifications. S m as hi g their whole mountain de f enses in nurthern Tunisia. - , ' Jr . ~ The Nazi d1visionsA■ ow 11t@rilll(have their b cka to the sea. ~ Between them and the Allied front there iaAonly that la s t inner line of fcatltl --·- --- · - . . -r:aJ4!, Radio Algiers"•emt 11 fa1 as~• broadcaat that the Germans are retreating lcsl under a beav7 fire fro ■ Allied air forces.aaa wi~h tba Aaaticaae ea •heir Before the capture of Mateur, French troop• shoved along the rocky northern coast of Tuniai8!, T•4• hf\ &all• A•ltlld •• He d i e ~ within fourtHD ailea naval ~ ot the 1•••• fo1t1ea1 uC Bi1erte itself. The ~ ,, harbort\1• now threatened by a two-pronged Allied menace, the French onl7 fourteen ■ ilea awa7, the Americans at Mateur twent7 miles. I I Our men are also only thirty-one ailea northwest of Tunis. Between them and Tunis i s ~ narrow range of hills. If th e ir luck holds th , ey can even outflank the mountain po itions of the Germans to the south. ~ British General Sir Harold Alexander••••••*•!• ~~w-.-..wf:... congratulated the Americana. ~ disclosed the news that they bad gone ahead fifteen ailes in one puab.~nother ' encouraging aspect of it is that Mateur ia 6n flat countr~ Mrhere II ~ I II I I ates Ar•1 can bring all ita A. - · · -·· · ----- • - - - .. - araore4 fire-power into action. t::> The French aray in ' the north is descr e4 •• the ■ oat motley and curious assortment that has taken the field since aedieYal tiaea. It includes those nati • Gou■ s, the fierce African ■ ilitia trained by the French of who ■ we have heard so ■ uch. There are also crack sho • of the French Africa Corps. In the Foreign Legion are · Senegalese, not only Spaniards and~auapi••~• but also Italians and Germans. Italians and Germans fighting Germans an Italians. lNVABlOl! ~ Gra p evine reports from Eu ro pe talk about a Sat " J,,daA plan to try an invasion of Britain to fo1·estall -;;r plan, WI~ -t-,.c A iC- the Alliesfor invading •••t Europe. lheee «repe•ia► , ~ . I\ a,._/ ••oriee •••• fro ■ Vichy by way of Madrid. They are I\ I( supposed to eaanate fro ■ diplo ■ atic and ailitar7 officials in close touch with the Axis high coaaand. - •• 1heelcl D U I W.l' t.llt:t M ii I tlw- r tastes tie• 11,',t; ,, i i ) Of ladt id II••· ~can fal11e, lu,t. ZIEi . , tJt1 ■ ti••• ,,,_ bu au. ~ ~-to:eJ Ike ■ agse ■ tien id Illa & la~ that Bitler plans to stabilize the Russian front, then concentrate all hi• ar■ed forces ur,?,1~big gaabl~-; • ~ • attempt to land on the shore• of Britain?xt would take between eighty and a hundred divisions, fro ■ a Fillion two hundred thousand ~ ~~. ■ en,l Also thousands to a million five hundred thousand of transport planes and gliders, innumerable submarines and lighter warshi p s, plus INVASION - 2 -- three-quarters of the remaini · , strength of the Nazi . 1ETh b . . f ~ air arm. e o Ject o the/41esperate resistance in "~~..t.,--;; ;z 'tf 'f,(_;..,_ v--~ ~ J ~ Tunisi~ia to g iv Hitler's generals time to prepare,_,-, ~ t h ' i n v a s i o n ~ ~ • ,<.. Military observers point out that Stalin and hie general•"'-; have so■ething to 1a7 about ■ tabilizing the Ru■ sian front. Moreover, the Royal Air force and the ~'i;c1 ;i;,:ii ... air forcee in ~•ii& ar n:•. •o large ~ • t an invasion by air wouldAli MW -~~ ~J12el, ~ . . . . . J;1C:.1i1:1;11.:111 ~ r an invasion by seal Bitler would need A. 4o..L.R.-e~-. thousands of ship~ 'IR sat UUJA;dJ:bcz ■Hsa \ta: •••••• •••• .. •rt •••••••z~-Ritl•• ••• alweya b••• z 1••~~••~ RUSSIA ---- Today's news from Russia is pretty much a ~ repetition of the l ast few days1\ The heaviest fighting ' ~ b on the Iuban fron~eif the Caucasus. Fro ■ the Russian side, we hear that tnere has been a heavy bombardment by the Red Army~ shelling the German defense line,t rottcoJ•rl# trh•i• h•tt •iar---,m the Iuban River. Berlin reports that Soviet generals have been sending wave• d l - - ~ - Q . . ~ , . upon wa••• t ~ trying to crash the £id 1'-.:'32~~ repulsed tbke Axia bridgehead • attacka)with he vy losses to the Russians. Lla•I ass£ 11155& za;a ljblilhl ••eat bk t, ,at Ulil ■ i bi kill l&fllctst al&UP 7jP ~ ,,..e.... e..e..~ -t.7 t1:J . . 111a•1•e•■1a::rz..a1" . ~~tlPlk~e.-lrtc11.1~&R&IIII~ .. The Raz1&~ 1 11 ■:J e 1 ◄ - to lla+e -tt..--t- ~ t,destroyed one-thousand-and-eighty-two Soviet plane• during the month of April. POT DARWIN ---~........_.~-..-...-- The Japs today were boa ting that in their raid on Port Darwin -- Australia -- yesterday theJ got no fewer than twenty-one Australian and U. S. planes. General MacArthur g ives us no figures. But the communique froa his headquarters does say: - that •our own losses were be~TJ, heavier than usual.• The Japs came over Darwin in the ■ iddle of the . q morning, boabing from an immense height. The &aaage the7 :.---- did was nothing much, no casualties on the ground. But it is reported that during the aft~rnoon, Allied pilot• were still trickling bait to their bases. So ■• rowing back in their collapsible boats. There were twenty-one Jap bombers and thirty fighters, three of which were shot down, and i i ten more daaag"d. The main reason for this Jap raid was that Allied planes have been flying out of Darwin a gre-t deal of late, attacking Jap bases on Timor, Celebes and elsewhere in that great arc of bases the Mikado men have built to the north of Australia. .. -- PORT DAR!,11 - 2 In Auatralia they belieYe this latest air battle portend• a atepping-up in the te ■po of the air war oyer the island• of the Southwest Pacific. !LEOTI ABS 4Gr high comaaud ie aetiai+,ely apeeiin1 •• it1, During April . on an aYer•1• of ■ ore than five time• a day. Laat Saturday, aoibe Bavy tells ua, Ara, bo■bers, eacorted b7 Lightnia1 aa4 larhawk fighters, delivered no fewer than thirt••• - - attack• on Iiata~thirteen in one day. Th•1 reporte4 that they cauaed one heavy exploaion, da ■aged the ruwar of the airdro ■e, and caused fir•• fro■ which a■ok• ••• pouring aa the7 left. ~a I~••••• ••11 eno•~•• •••• 4¥ el "lil:1 t11 lto■lsere att&\.LUi the wua-, al leJt l:s I A Ba) wa ChlU&gat lit'bbr JD ••••• ~ For aoae ti■e three i ■portant agencies ot the · w:tl goTernment have been co■petin~•8•i•~~ each othe}t, llli■ la-a• 'heea 9a i•~ oa quietl, -bat 1uteaslte1Jwtehin4 • ~ ~ ,C,,C=~'(r• • whUa, · 8HMi:eaal1,( echoea ot it f, reach'} t ~ b l i c 6 1lut no!, t.:/ ia peace. ' . - The three age •••• the Aray, the NaTy, and ,A. the lubber 14■ iniatration. The Ar■7 and the 1••1 wan\e4 bun4re4 octane gasoline tor tbei• planes. liillaa .-a.,W! Jeffers, the rubber boaa, wanted butadiene, a petrol•• ~ product, tor hi• •1nthetic rubber tactoria•.,• ■o•t ~ outspoken part 01\the •crapping haa been between Jetter• and Under-Secretary of War Patterson. Patterson held out the oliTe branch. Be did it in front of the Truman Coa■ ittee of the Senate, a coa■ ittee ~ investigating tli1ie. conduct ot the war. ~ 5-"'7,Patterson admitted tsi•r •h~ he had no personal -~~ quarrel with Mr. Jeffers,l\.holda hi ■ ,azxa■ 1• sensJJr r f - TRUMAN - 2 -------- in high es tee■; n■p■c Lr his character an~triotiaa. Patterson also regretted that recent reaarks of hie had ~ 7>,." been interpreted as reflecting on Jeffers. iw 11ti ~* ~~"""'" ......... 4.,41 ~ ~--=-J ~ Nt =itSI m it f.eu• 1..-, ••••••a~ Jeffers haa perforaed his dutz in pressing the synthetic rubber progra■• On the other hand, aaid Patterson, it l a ~ I Patteraon~s 1 duty to keep up supplies of h~dred octane ~ gasoline and, he said, J!ffers should not •••••t that. - ~ - i.ac . . ,...w.,, Patterson then went on to tell ~ ,.. - ~ there ii a real ehortage of aviation the Coaaittee ~ gaa. · Throughoat ~ lay there l• going to be a ehortage ot forty-tour thoaaaa4 ~~ barrel• a d a y . ~ ■ean• cutting down d the training progra~~bat er••• .of LIili l'iiiiGl,111t ! ~ ahortage of ~-e..._.-1...,_., gaa, he ••'/••A.,..., brought about by the priori ties given to the rubber prograa.~BoweYer, the far Under-Secretar7 and the rubber boss have met and are ironing out their difficulties. Together with James v.Forrestal, I!HlllAI - 3 . . . Under-Secretary ot the laYy, they are going to take a awing around the country, collaborating, """1w.L. • The Supreme Court of the United States haa reversed itself. And that ia~~-~~ , • - ~ J2I;. C . . , V < . & r - - ~ k~ ~ 1t.c It 1■ al aat::et:11"' tt•••\iea • ~ • ~ o r . , ~ k n o w n as Jehovah's Witneuu 7 ;Z::::;( '-* loVte. ·· ·- · · ---.,·· trd _ conYicted at Jeannette, PennaylYanla, char1•4 "- with diatributing literature without a licenae. Ia pr e Yioua deciaiona, the high court had alwa1• tie14 tba\ aunlcipalltie• or atate• or other local 1o••r••••t• coul4 exact tax•• fro ■ people 4iatrib•tin1 traot■• That ruling i• reYerae4 in the opinion tian4e4 4on - . .. - - ... . to4a1. It waa a cloae Tote, ti•• to four. Ii at •• ,:1.:1:'" • fgLICLQilllll w;~-" Once upon a ti■e a abudder A4bave gone through the ::kwl:i nation if anybody on the floor of the ~~~ ~e-e.1A. -4..c, ~ United Sta tea Senate,' - ) •• f••~•s to ■ention the ~ , •Police Gazette.• A Today, the Senators beard on . • ot their colle a gue■ ri•• to defend that ■agazin~i].d ■sQ ■I. ~ ~ - e 6 f -:( .... ~ . \.e •~•• -aa ■e ••• n,,011 eall 111 ••t, ••• •~hu1, wading Part of today I spen t ~•iii•~ through a lot of 4 aail aa4 telegraas that ca ■e in after I got through Friday evening -- when I laughed and couldn't stop. Soa• listeners-in tell ae they got a laugh out ot it, an4 aan1 deaand to know what was the joke? - What set ae off -- or ua, because it included tTer1bod7 here ia the atudio. All o! us nearly choke4. BoweYer, I still haYea•t 1one throuah all the aail, and I'd lite to q••'• froa 10•• of it. So I'll put off explaining until toaorro• night. leanwhile I hope I'll be able to 1•t tbrou1• thi1 laet bit of newa without any 1uch undi1nifi1i - -1-- ~ hilarit7.- ~ ~ lA-<1-oJ&_ . ' Here ii • i. it, et aewe fer Bit.ler aatl ,., ... ~ ~Second War Loan 1., •• lit l'·i no I I ■ d ···•·· baa been over-subscribed b7 more than four billion dollars, yea, ~~ four billion■: Secretary of the Treasur7 • 19satk ■% . ~ aaya that inatead of the thirteen billions for which h• a■ ted, the people of America ha•e bought ■ore thaa ■ eTenteen billion ■• The country'• thank ■, he add■, are due to aanJ people -- workers, advertiaer ■, retailer■, theaters. T.h• Secratar7 thante4 partioularlJ the lllie4 ••••paper Council ana new■paper• generally. Be called it unparalleled in the hiatory of proaotion. 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