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ESTABLISHED 1867.
fteW Mine Walkouts
Reported As Wage
Dispute Continues
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0ES JVES PLAN
Menu Secretary Tells
Miners They Can Es
cape Penalty Levy
PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE
AW 200 Workers At
Windber Pits Fail To
Show Up
WASHINGTON, June 11.
;#p, __ New walkouts ag
1'vated the soft coal dispute
fit even as Secretary
L? qualified his plan to
lew fines on soft coal miners
wh0 struck last week and the
War Labor Board prepared a
decision in the dispute.
A United Aline W orkers lo
J at Windbe, Pa., voted to
because, said Russell
Vnlt7 it? secretary, the boaid
refused to sanction the $1.30
uorfal-to-portal pay and be
apt of Secretary Ickes’ pro
to deduct $5 from the
men's pay.”
Nearly 1,600 Men Vote
Nearly 1.600 men at three pits
voted and approximately 200 work
er, failed to show up on the first
shift scheduled to report after the
voie.
Earlier in the evening. Ickes an
scunced that the miners who
struck last week will have a chance
tt escape the payments through
collective bargaining with govern
ment managers of the mines,
ickes had announced the plan
yesterday, drawing from John L.
lewis the declaration that it was
a unwarranted, illegal act which
ikes nearly S3.000.000 worth of
food from the fingers and mouths
cf children of mining camps.”
The secretary's announcement
tonight came after two Air bama
mines, employing 365 men. shut
down because of a walkout which
was described as a protest against
the Sl.-a-day strike levy. It came,
too, as War Labor Board sources
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
MlTOSPEAK
| AT FLAG RITES
^meron To Address Gath
ering At Wilson Hut
Monday Afternoon
Mayor Bruce B. Cameron will be
principal speaker at a ceremony
celebrating Flag Day at 5 o’clock
Monday. June 14, in the Wood
Wilson hut.
The Stamp Defiance chapter,
Daughters of American Bevolu
ton. sponsor of the celebration,
issued a special invitation to
at patriotic organizations and
f c clubs in Wilmington and the
Public to attend.
foe complete program will be
announced later, according to
Mrs- C. L. Bragg, chairman of the
CAR Correct Use of the Flag com
mittee.
i proclamation issued this
''eeK Mayor Cameron asked Wil
tmgtonians to rededicate them
aou.es on Flag Day "to the
achievement of permanent secur
■ fur ourselves and the nations
fl the world.”
(Directing that the American
;-s be displayed at city hall on
■-mdav. he urged homes and busi
,r's establishments to also fly
' aS and that, wherever pos
"O displays of the American
■ u ’0?other with the flags of the
nations be set up for the
ANTI-STRIKE LAW
PASSED BY HOUSE
Senate Receives Proposal
To Outlaw Walkouts
In War Time
WASHINGTON, June 11.— (Jl —
Sweeping anti - strike legislation
was passed by the House today
and sent to the Senate for expect-!
ed quick approval.
The House vote was 219 to 129
on the compromise measure, writ
ten by a Senate-House committee
after disagreement on earlier leg
islation. For passage were 101
Democrats and 118 Republicans;
against it, 77 Democrats, 48 Re
publicans and four minor party'
members.
The bill outlaws strikes in gov
ernment-operated plants and pro
hibits them in other war indus
tries without 30 days’ notice and
a workers’ vote. It also strength
ens the War Labor Board’s (WLB)
power to settle labor disputes and
the President’s authority to take
over plants, and prohibits unions
from contributing to political cam
paigns involving a federal office.
Just before House passage,
Chairman May (D.-Ky.), of the
Miliiary committee,, read a tele
gram from the American Farm
Bureau Federation endorsing the
compromise bill and declaring it
did not come “a moment too soon.”
Left in the bill was a provision
under which anyone agitating or
directing a strike in a government
operated plant or financing it with
union funds could be imprisoned
for one year and fined $5,000. Un
der this section, May said, John
L. Lewis could be jailed if he or
dered a resumption of the coal
strike June 20.
Opposing the measure, Rep.
Marcantonio (Amn. Lab. - N. Y.)
said labor was being “pilloried
and lynched” and challenged any
one to dispute his contention that
(Continued on Page Two; Col, 6)
westWntmen
TO VISIT DAVIS
Next Year’s Lieutenants
To Take Course In
Anti-Aircraft Work
A group of 240 cadets from the
First class at West Point will be
at Camp Davis for four days,
June 20 to June 23. to attend an
instruction course at the Anti-Air
crafi Artillery school. The cadets
are those who will receive their
commissions next year to enter
the Ground Forces of the U. S.
Army.
Arriving on Sunday, June 20, the
cadets will witness a glider dem
onstration that afternoon. That
night a reception in their honor
will be held at the Officers’ club.
On Monday and Tuesday, they
will receive a concentrated edu
cation in Anti-aircraft Artillery by
officers of the AAA. Their course
will cover all phases of AAA guns
and automatic weapons, anti
mechanized fire, RADAR, search
lights and latest developments in
Anti-aicraft Artillery. One of tha
interesting features of the short
course will be night firing at
Sears Landing on Monday and
Tuesday. The cadets will also wit
ness a balloon barrage demonstra
tion by a unit from Camp Tyson,
Tennessee, on Wednesday, the last
day of their stay.
It is expected that Brigadier
General Philip E. Gallagher, com
mandant of the United States Mil
itary academy, will make the vis
it with the cadets. In addition ten
officers of the academy may be
with the group.
Health Center Completed
Except For Wiring Work
-.
. ‘ P'v Hanover '■ounty’s new health
tv'fif’ a S30.000 building erected
t-Jr‘e Hallou Construction com
of Humberton, is ready for
ewlpancy’ as soon as wire for
0[[:'ric “fit-vice can be obtained,
s the Federal Works
•' announced Friday,
o! ,,delin:te date for the opening
but1 center has not been set,
PushT attembt 's underway to
be- i , 1 construction work in or
H . ,at the Board of Health office
- ransfer to the new building
Atsa"11 as possible,
cr '?-Same time they announced
the °t the health center,
,,, authorities said that
anneY..'i, her Memorial hospital
c- i,,,.;,'1'1 not be due for occupan
i r,u„h -fiPtember or October, al
■,"] ,‘tie structure will be com
c 1 the last of August. A
■' 'cccsjary equipment is
expected to postpone use of the
new quarters. The nurses’ home
will likely be ready for occupancy
around August 31.
The hospital construction work
represents a cost of $371,000. Bids
for equipment will be opened on
June 22.
Additions to community hospital
for Negroes were described Fri
day as being “nearly finished’’,
with only laying of asphalt tile
and the final painting job remain
ing. Work at the Negro institution
includes the addition, recondition
ing the old structure, and erection
of a nurses’ home. The new annex
will accommodate 63 beds, while
the reconditioned portion will con
tain 93 beds.
FWA announced that the water
line to Maffitt Village was virtu
(Contiuued on Page Two; Col. 7)
Argentina Recognized
By United States
British
BUENOS AIRES,
(«—The United
ain joined today
al recognition of
gentine
ring powers
tions as remote
Formal notice of
States* and Britain’s
tion came soon after the an
nouncement of a decree bar
ring the transmission of out
going coded messages which
had been permitted under the
overthrown Castillo regime.
The Japanese followed up
the formal recognition yester
day by Germany and Italy
when Ambassador Baron Shu
Tomii called at the foreign of
fice today.
Vice-Admiral Segundo Stor
n1’ foreign minister, told
newsmen of his “cordial” half
hour with United States Am
bassador Norman Armour
which followed shortly after
notification of United States
recognition. It was Storni’s
second successive daily press
conference attended by Amer
ican journalists.
FURTHERREVENUE
UP TO CONGRESS
Roosevelt Says S o 1 o n s
Must Decide On Addi
tional Taxation
WASHINGTON, June 11.—(.fl
it’s up to Congress to decide what
to do about more taxes, President
Roosevelt said today.
Mr. Roosevelt asserted he might
send Congress a message dealing
with inflation but it would not
contain much detail and decisions
are up to Congress.
He indicated opposition to the
sales tax, saying even this was
possible although Congress might
have to enact one over his veto.
Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means committee,
which drafts tax legislation, has
said he favors the sales tax only
as a last resort. Congressional
leaders generally have indicated
any rise in income tax rates
would not be effective on this
year’s income.
Mr. Roosevelt told his press
conference that confusion seems
to exist about his views on com
pulsory savings and more taxes.
He said he was sorry if he had
given any wrong impressions.
He told the press Tuesday he
probably would send Congress
some tax recommendations be
fore it takes a contemplated sum
mer vacation and that compul
sory savings and taxes were just
as necessary now to close an in
flationary gap as they were last
January.
Today, however. Mr. Roosevelt
said he had been discussing the
theory of taxation Tuesday. If he
does send the message to Con
gress, he said, it will deal, not
with closing the spread between
buying power and available goods,
but the whole inflation proposition
and its effect on everybody in the
country.
As for compulsory savings, he
said, he hoped they would not be
necessary, by reason of enthusias
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
frenchTarley
DELAYED AGAIN
Scheduled Meeting Can
celled After de Gaulle’s
Decision
ALGIERS, June 11.— W —The
French committee for national lib
eration cancelled i t s scheduled
meeting today after receiving word
from General Charles de Gaulle
that he would not attend.
There was an informal session
lasting a few hours but apparently
no progress was made in hurdling
the latest obstacles that have ap
peared in the path of complete un
derstanding.
The refusal of the Fighting
French leader to attend in his ca
pacity as co-president of the com
mittee left it without reaching the
unity which seemed just around
the corner a few days ago and
no— seems likely to be weeks
away.
It was understood on good au
thority that de Gaulle has threat
ened to withdraw from the con
ferences entirely unless he is
granted concessions. This, observ
ers said, would not necessarily
mean a complete collapse of the
unification movement because
whatever de Gaulle’s own action
might be his chief representatives,
General Georges Catroux and Rene
Massigli, would undoubtedly re
main as members of the commit
tee.
One sore spot in present nego
tiations seems to be the fate of
some 150 French generals whom
de Gaulle has tabbed as collabo
(Continued on Page Two; CoL 4)
PANTELLERIA CAPITULATES TO AIR
STRENGTH OF GENERAL EISENHOWER;
FDR URGES ITALIANS TO SURRENDER
CALLS FOR REVOLT
President Invites Country
To Overthrow Musso
lini’s Regime
OFFERS PEOPLE PEACE
Promise Of Freedom From
Oppressors Held Out By
American Leader
WASHINGTON, June 11.—
(ff>) — President Roosevelt in
vited the Italian people today
to revolt against Mussolini
and let the United Nations
help them restore their coun
try to a respected place in the
world community.
The invitation was deliver
ed in indirect fashion in com
ment on the surrender of
Pantelleria. Similarly, Prime
Minister Churchill said May
25 that the Italian people
would be well advised to dis
own their intriguing Nazi
and Fascist leaders and throw
themselves on the justice of
those they have so grievously
offended.
Gives Two Choices
Mr. Roosevelt held out to the
Italian people on the one hand
the opportunity to be free and to
choose any kind of non-Fascist,
non-Nazi government they desire,
once Fascism is put down and
the Germans are driven from
Italian territory.
On the other, he warned of an
intensification of the war against
Italy. The Allies have no choice,
he said, but to pursue it vigorous
ly until Mussolini is beaten into
surrender.
The president told his press con
ference he understood a lack of
water figured importantly in the
surrender of Pantelleria. But he
added that he thought it worth
while to point out that this island
which the Italians have called
their Gibraltar had been taken ap
parently without any loss of life.
It seemed a good time, he said,
to address some remarks to the
Italian people through the press
and rr#io. Then he discussed the
Italian situation in general, read
ing from notes which he said he
had jotted down earlier with the
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 5)
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Harriss Newman Named
To Head County Phase
Of War Fund Campaign
—
Harriss Newman, local at
torney, and president of the
Community Chest, was named
Friday by Governor J. M.
Broughton to head New Han
over county’s phase of the
National War Fund campaign,
expected to open next fall.
While North Carolina’s quo
ta was set at $1,880,581, the
county quota will not be estab
lished until June 25, when the
matter is discussed in a meet
ing of all chairmen In District
9, comprising New Hanover,
Bladen, Brunswick, Cumber
land, Duplin, Pender, and
Sampson counties. The confer
ence is to be held in Fayette
ville.
The National War Fund cam
paign will he held as a part of
the United Community and
War Chest drive in the county
in November.
WEATHER
PDPRirrA ct
North Carolina : Continued warm to
day.
(Eastern Standard Time
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m., yesterday.
Temperature
1:30 a. m„ 70; 7:30 a. m„ 71 1:30
p. m, 81; 7:30 p. m„ 72; maximum 82;
minimum, 68; mean 75 normal, 78
Humidity
1:30 a m., 96; 7:30 a. m., 87 1:30
p. m„ 66; 7:30 p. m., 96
PrecvdltsUon
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first
of the month, 1.77 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
IT S. Coast and Geodetic Survey)
High Low
Wilmington - 11:59a’
5:12p. p.
Masonboro Inlet - l :57a; 8:33a.
Moore’s Inlet - ^
New Topsail Inlet-2:07a. 3:43a.
(Elmore’s) - 2:58p. 9:19p.
(All Times Eastern Standard)
Sunrise, 5:00 a. m.; Sunset, 7:24 p. m.;
Moonrise, l:36p; Moonset, 1:17a
Cape Fear River stage at Fay
etteville on Friday, at 8 a. m., 16.46
feet.
Nazis Suffering Invasion Jitters
■
With the tables turned, Nazi Germany is now on the receiving end of the War of Nerves and like
her earlier small victims, is reported suffering from a bad case of invasion jitters. Completely sur
rounded, Germany must now watch all her frontiers and those of the Nazi-occupied nations for signs
of Allied attacks. These may come from any of the points indicated by arrows or from all at once.
(Internationa!)
First Breach In Walls Of Axis
Fortress Of Europe Is Opened
WORLD WITNESSES
1ST AIR VICTORY
.
Surrender Of Pantelleria
Shows Power Of Co
ordinated Attack
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, June 11.—W—
An event that no human eyes have
ever witnessed before took place
in the Mediterranean today.
When Pantelleria surrendered it
was the first time in the whole
history of warfare that airpower
and airpower alone had reduced
a tortress and bent its garrison
into surrender. The Mediterranean
has seen 5,000 years of war and
maybe more, but it has never seen
this. It never happened before.
Not a single Allied soldier, not
a tank nor a gun was on the island
when the last moment came. Not
a smgle inch of the citadel had
been physically occupied. But it
was forced to surrender because
so many airplanes had brought so
much destruction that even its
rock-sheltered defenses were shat
tered _ and more important the
limit of human resistance had
been reached.
This was the first complete aeri
al victory since the world began.
In strict technical accuracy you
will have to qualify that slightly
but not essentially. British war
ships had shelled the island and
British troops came under scat
tered fire when they landed. That
apparently was the result of the
failure to communicate the Italian
commander’s decision to surrender
to all sectors of the island imme
diately. All real resistance had
previousy enueu.
The ultimatum delivered from
Alied planes to the Italian com
mander had set 2 noon (6 a.m.
EWT1 as the deadline for its ex
piration. Twenty minutes before
that time Allied plane crews saw
the white flags.
With symbolic justice these em
blems of surrender had been plac
ed on the first two objectives of
the Allied offensive—the wrecked
harbor area and the obliterated
airfield.
It was at these two points that
the world’s greatest cascade bomb
ing began 20 days ago.
It was the world’s greatest—
from the standpoint of concentra
tion on a single target. During
the last day the tonnage striking
as many tons of steel on Pantel
leria as on all other American tar
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
By KIRKE I
WASHINGTON, June 11
breach in the walls of the Axi
made with surrender of Ita
“Gibraltar,” the island of Pi
may be disclosed a fatal wou
Pantelleria fell on the fi
Italy’s unhappy war partner
fell without frontal amphibious as-\
sault. succumbing to a fury of air
attack supplemented by relatively
lightweight naval bombardment.
That, itself is significant, a fore
taste of what is in store for the
Axis in Europe and in Asia, as
Allied air and sea power swiftly
swells to Gargantaun proportions.
The Allied casualty cost was
negligible. The cost to the Axis
is still to be computed—more in
terms of shaken Italian public war
morale than in losses of men or
equipment or even the tactical and
strategic military effects of this
new Italian disaster.
The island unquestionably will be
of far greater military use to the
Allies than it could have been to
Italy if it could have been long
held. It brings the Allied attack
from Africa almost half-way across
the Sicilian straits. As a refueling
stop for short r,ange planes and
as a base for submarines to con
solidate more completely the al
ready established Allied sea and
air control of the central Mediter
ranean narrows for free use in the
vigorous and aggressive prosecu
tion of the war on all global fronts
it has sound military values.
Pantelleria in Allied hands ren
ders Italian fleet us of the Sicilian
straits impossible. Enemy ship
ping cannot conceivably move ei
ther way, even by hugging the
Italian shore line, except at pro
hibitive risk of destruction by bomb
or torpedo or shell fire.
That mignt prove mgmy impor
tant strategically as the pattern
of the next Allied moves unfolds.
Mussolini is reported to have been
husbanding what is left of his once
imposing fleet to meet the inva
sion threats. He now has lost use
of the Sicilian passage to concen
trate naval power east or west
as developments of Allied attack
strategy dictated.
The Straits of Messina, between
Sicily and the toe of the Italian
mainland boot, afford an inside
passage between the eastern and
western Mediterranean. It is a
narrow, difficult passage for big
ships. But a greater peril than
the navigational terrors of Scylla
and Charybdis of classical legend
now hover over that Italian moat.
Allied bombers already have been
busy with jt to cut the main sup
ply line for Sicily and Sardinia.
There is little doubt that they will
(Continued on Page 2; Column 2)
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,. SIMPSON
. — (IP) — The first Allied j
s fortress of Europe has been
y’s tiny mid-Mediterranean
tntelleria. With its fall, too,
id to Italian war morale,
rst day of the fourth year of
ship with Nazi Germany. It
SOVIETS DESTROY
150 NAZI PLANES
More Than 700 Russian
War Craft Batter
German Airdromes
LONDON, Saturday, June 12.—
(ffl—An attack in tremendous
force by more than 700 Soviet
planes on German airdromes
along the Russian front, in which
150 Nazi craft were destroyed or
damaged, was reported early to
day by Moscow while action
aground was confined to isolated
but bloody skirmishes.
The Russian raid, said a Mos
cow broadcast recorded here by
the Soviet monitor, set off fires
and explosions in a series of en
emy air bases and 19 Russian
planes were lost in the operation.
Another German raid on the
Volga river industrial city of
Gorki was reported, but it was
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
ISLAND OCCUPIED
Allied Troops Move In 20
Minutes After Garri<
son Asks Peace
NAZI ATTACKS BROKEN
Swift Lightning Fighters
Frustrate Attempt To
Bomb Invaders
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
June 11. — (A5) — Pantelle
ria surrendered unconditional
ly to the Allies today in the
20th day of history’s greatest
concentrated air assault.
White flags were flown at
11:30 A. M. by the tortured
Italian island outpost.
British troops landed at
noon.
Occupation was complete
at 12:22 P. M. in an Allied
invasion rolling on southern
Europe.
From 50 to 60 German
bombers struck at British
troops and warships off shore
at 12=40 P. M.
They were scattered
promptly by American Light
ning fighters on the alert for
just such an attack.
Poised For Bigger Prize
Allied airmen now are poised
for bigger prizes—Sicily, Sardv
nia, and Italy itself.
The dazed garrison quit after
three Allied ultimatums—backed
by a overwhelming deluge of ex
plosives which smashed the Ital
ian “Gibraltar” guarding the ap
proaches to Italy.
“Beg to surrender through lack
of water,” said an Italian message
which thus made Pantelleria the
first metropolitan Axis territory
to yield to the Casablanca formu
la.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Al
lied commander in chief, already
had told the Italian commander
that further resistance “however
heroic is utterly hopeless.”
An American airman dipped
through a deathly pall of smoke
lying over the twisted little isle
20 minutes before noon, saw the
white cross of surrender, and no
tified his base.
British warships standing in the
rain of Pantelleria lowered in
vasion barges, shock troops clam
bered into them just before noon
and headed for the coast despite
the strong but futile German air
attack.
The Germans used from 50 to 60
dive-bombers, a force which sug
gested they had been awaiting
such a development.
But the ever-present American
Lightning fighters tore into the
German formations, forcing them
to jettison their bombs haphaz
ardly.
Dispatches from a U. S. fighter
base quoted airmen as saying they
didn’t see a single German bomb
hit either a barge or warship.
By 12:22 P. M., the British
troops had occupied all points.
First Axis mention of the sur
render occurred in a broadcast
from the German-controlled Paris
radio tonight. The broadcast mere
ly quoted London reports of Pan
telleria’s collapse.
Admiral Paresseni, senior Ital
ian officer on the island, sent a
message to an American air base
saying:
“Beg surrender through lack of
water.”
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 8)
Nazi Centers Bombarded
By U. S. Aerial Armadas
LONDON, Saturday, June 12.—
A formation of more than 200
American heavy bombers renewed
the Allied aerial offensive against
western Europe yesterday by
smashing at German shipyards,
and port installations at Wilhelms
haven and Cuxhaven.
The big four-engined bombers
flew a round trip of more than
600 miles without a fighter escort,
and an Eighth U. S. Air Force
communique said eight of them
failed to return.
One large section of the Amer
ican sky fleet smashed through
swarms of enemy fighters to blast
the submarine yards at Wilhelms
haven. The communique the
bombers shot down a “large num
ber’.of challenging enemy planes.
“The German ports and ship
yards of Wilheimshaven and Cux
x
haven were attacked in daylight
late yesterday by more than 200
bombers of the- Eighth Air Force,”
said the official communique is
sued early today.
‘‘Unescorted by fighters, a large
force penetrated to the U - boat
yards at Wilhelmshaven against
strong enemy opposition while a
second formation attacked harbor
installations and submarine yards
at Cuxhaven.
‘‘Bomb bursts were observed in
both target areas. The leading
groups in the Wilhelmshaven at
tack met fierce fighter opposition
and a large number of the enemy
were destroyed. Eight bombers
are missing.”
It was the first concentrated at
tack on Hitler's European fortress
by heavy bombers from British
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
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