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Seventy-fir- 4 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS Year— No 148 st OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING j NOVEMBER 18 A ' 1940 at period ending 24-ho- ur 14 PAGES : FINAL EDITION firms BLAST I'RECitS fascists Invasion In Retreat PLANT led e to Resign As Mnssolini Yow Silence Breaks to PITTSBURG!! fj As Co lo Oo Leaden1 Co plete Submission of Greek Foe r TkTTATTI mm m CHEIK1IC 1L I Within a Brings Mystery for Investigators ThircJ Explosion President Holds Good to Promise to Quit As Organization's Head n : Factory Owner Charges for-Hi- s 7 -- ATLANTIC CITY N J Nov 18 — (UP) — John L Lewis will leave his post as president of the Congress of ial Organizations within a few days he told delegates to the third annual C I O convention today disunity and he asserted its enemies were utilizing an ancient formula — "divide and conquer divide and conquer" He urged election of a "more unified leadership" in which the membership would have -- greater confidence ' f The C I O he said had failed to make the progress it should - inward rsii'sino' tVo " HtHnostandards of "52000000 hungry Viav m O political states - system" in — -j hi ilhi j imrri-- a I ' 'C ' - ' - ' FFflNCIvr' "Ilia Writing of his experience editor of a country paper Charles B Driscoll the columnist tells of the police boss in his town having hired a gangster from another town to kill him as-t- of - 'I'LL NEVER TURN BACK' DECLARES IL DUCE Fire Hellenic Army Reaches Gates of Koritza After d Action of Romans: Desperate Aerial War In England Continues he X TakWITH TEARS IN EYES ing up the gavel for the last time as C I O President John I Lewis (above) with tears in his eyes told C I O's convention delegates today that he was stepping down as their leader and urged them to unite their ranks and support whomever they name as his successor - TALKS RESUMED AT PLANE PLANT DOWNEY CalNov-1(UP)— of negotiations be8 Resumption tween striking C I O auto workers and the Vultee Aircraft comstrike was pany to end a four-da- y announced today following a conference of union - representatives and federal conciliators - Maj Sidney Simpson partment representative War de- at the conference announced the union committee and company officials had agreed to meet later today in an attempt to end the strike in the factory which has $80000000 worth of airplane orders for the United The gangster was to wear a police States British and South American uniform at the'moment of the kill governments This was down in Oklahoma Must have been a wild town and thoroughly corrupt police force Qa Can't imagine a place so vile or a people so blind to their wickedness as to tolerate conditions of that kind U S ENGLAND AGREE ON BASES Estimates place the dead and injured at 1000 But the remarkable thing is that the people" have not lost nerve They have dug themselves out of the debris and are going on with their tasks That is the spirit which should win the war for Britain lo under examination 1 It said it was likely that preliminary work on the bases would be started soon DIES CKEITTEE CONDUCTS RAIDS CHICAGO Nov 18 (AP)— ChairHere in America we kill more man: Martin Dies announced that people every ten days by automo- agents of his congressional combile traffic than were killed and mittee on activities wounded 4n Coventry on last Thurs- were making raids today in various parts of the country to seize docu day night ments of "Italian and German That is excellent work being carOne raid was made "successfully" ried on by the Utah Peace Officers' in New York he said Ten subassociation for the purpose of poenas for similar sorwarding off sabotage or any sub ties in were issued he added Chicago activities ersive an Now is the time to line up all f Continued on Page 2 Col 5) can n mm Just because your car has horse power it's no reason for the not using good horse 'driver 'Veense-- Maynard Bullough By The Associated Press Premier Mussolini swore today that "whatever happens I will never turn back" in the Greek campaign and even as he spoke his Fascist invasion army was reported falling back to a new defense line 25 miles inside the Albanian J" f iiK1- rrv m - 7 frontier - s'vv-mrr- J U corporation's nearby Bridgeville works yesterday injured two work men 4nd caused $250000 damage to one of the largest of 45 buildings on thf grounds Tw hours earlier fire swept the small j plant of the Pennsylvania chemical company at Johnstown 80 miles away Michael Bozich the owner declared it was "arson with the intention of sabotage" and set -' the loss at $13000 'WAR HAS JUST STARTED Italy's Benito M ussolini shown above reviewing Roman soldiers tsozicn said nia company was stationed near the Yugoslavian border today in his first speech since Italy entered the war said "Greece working on a government order for is a tricky and hateful nation Italy will defeat her however he added because "once I have started We will break the backbon e of Greece Whether it takes two weeks or two incendiary bombs He claimed tests no one can stop me — months is one bombs his in Note shining on the mountain side the word proved unimportant The war has just started pound "Dux" weight and 15 inches long—were moaning leader —1 :— — three times more effective than any others now in use Glass of the window nearest the originf of the fire was found in side the rums Bozich told state polices while that of other windows Victor Butler ?I03 Adamsvas was found outside j CHANCE under a doctor's care this afterBY The Bridgeville blast was heard noon overcome been after having a of more radius than throughout by carbon monoxide fumes while five miles An aged woman was working on his auto in a closed knocked off her feet in a house a garage this morning Mr Butler block away and scores of windows 'Big Lost was Opporfunity revived by the city fire de- Things Mussolini Didn't in thes neighborhood were scattered inhalator after one hour 15 partment's Declares one chimney toppled Sept 55 minutes of treatment and Say 'Important' Avers Plarit Manager Oscar Luft said U S Editor A P Observer he had "no idea" what caused the LONDON Nov 18 (UP) —The "exwas declared and it explosion admiralty reported tonight that tremely fortunate" that additiona NEW YORK Nov 18 (UP) — British light naval forces had carworkmen were not hurt by great Adolf Hitler lost his chance to ried out a bombardment of the BY FRED VANDERSCHMIDT beat of chunks falling steel and con Britain into submission on Port of Dante at the northern end Mussolini's speech is interesting Sept of Italian Somaliland crete! and important for two reasons: There were 100 to 150 workmen 15 "the last day' of the mass he made it at all (2) what (1) on dity but only 25 were in the aerial attack on London Ralph In- ATHENS Nov 18 (UP) —Greek he why 600 bjf lOOfoot building which Luft gersoll editor of PM who has just didn't J say reinforced Italian returned from two weeks in the troops battered described as was the first time il duce This southaround Koritza in positions Luft said the plant had no na British capitol wrote today Albania tonight despite mount- had chosen to break his sphinxOn that day Ingersoll said in east losses tional defense contracts In dead and wounded and like silence since he threw in his the first- - of a series of copyright ing Italian warplanes by strafing dispatches in his newspaper Britlot with the Germans last June 10 ain was virtually on her knees from and joined in the assault against nine "days of blitzkrieg from the UNION UPHELD IN France and Britain Why did he was London in flames and Brit airj ish pilots and home defense work find it necessary to speak out now ers were near exhaustion Britain to tell his people that his high IN was ready for the knockout blow command has been telling the truth he said but Hitler let his opportun about the damages which British ity slip by On Sept 15 he recalled aerial torpedoes did to Italy's batthe British brought down more at Taranto? Or to detleships 18 BITOLJ Nov Yugoslavia WASHINGTON Nov 18— CAP)— than 200 enemy planes and that clare "Whatever (AP)— Twelve Greek and British happens I will The supreme court ruled unani ended the attempted mass blitz never turn back" 15 in Greece? " On the last day of the bat fighter planes engaged about mously today that the 1932 near bombers The the answer Italian is that Itallogical today act limiting the power tle over London (Sept 15)" he said border where ians observers have been Yugoslav of federal courts to grant iniunc cupping a defeatHe (Hitler) lost the only chance tions n labor controversies must he will ever have to blitzkrieg the said two of the Italian planes were ist ear to the British radio and seen to fall after a battle of nearly then asking each other ' "What are be applied even though a labor British into submission" half an hour we getting out of this war but union jwas charged with violating Numerous violations of Yugoslav trouble? act the Sherman anti-truWhere are our victories? Justice Black delivered the opin territory by foreign warplanes have Why did we get into it anyway " been reported in the vicinity of ion which declined to enjoin an CIVIL Mussolini referred to the "EnLake Presba at the juncture of the American Federation-- of Labor afloud speaker" and he took glish Greek Albanian and "Yugoslav borfiliate! from picketing' Chicago to give his people these anpains der stores selling milk produced in to their unspoken questions: swers Three bombs exploded near the another state CHARTED That only a few of their fathers border guard station at Stenje Black said that a labor dispute sons and brothers are dying in towere There three air alarms existed and that the cruel the Bitol mountains of the Greek which at has j day act must be specifically previously been bombed twice frontier that but the Yugoonly one battleship with complied eveji though the INDIANAPOLIS Nov 18 (AP)— slav town was spared an attack was at Taranto union ivas alleged to have violated The war badly damaged department now is mak no that must be law by engaging the 1890 anti-trulightning triumph plans l for state to in a conspiracy which restrained ing rise from the mud and expected units whose main job In a national interstate commerce of and the Pindus crags Epfrus to over be would watch emergency The opinion gave a fresh inter- - vital that Britain started the whole industrial and transportation e Pc-cm 2 Cot 7) (Continued facilities an official said today thing by really "attacking" Italy (Continued on Page 2 Col S) Robert P Patterson assistant of war i outlined these secretary BANKRUPT TOWN plans in a speech prepared for de SKELETON FOUND - commanders and adjulivery 'KNOCKED DOWN' tants ofto the EAST LAKE 'Que Nov 18— American Legion's 58 OF ANCIENT MAN beginning their three-da- y (UP)— Widespread search by land TO HIGHEST BIDDER departments annual meeting at national and air was underway today for DOUBT ORIGIN of the World war vet five or six Royal Canadian air headquarters ALBERTON Md Nov 18 erans' force fliers who bailed out of an organization here (AP)-- f Everything Jn this mill Atlantic He was said the patrol bomber in the wild 18 ALBUQUERQUE N M Nov department town of 800 persons — excepting a Hibben (AP)— Dr Frank near for country up drawing regulations organi t The sixth here Officer U Roman Catholic church and a zation Mexico university curator New of J to "state similar Flying guards" — will be y railroad the "home guards" which in the Leblanc reached East Lake after expressed belief today that knocked down to the highest bidWorld war reached a total strength fighting this way through dense mains of a skeleton found in der inj an auction Saturday Lubbock Texas last week unwoods of 79000 in 27 states And j when the sun sets twice The plane completed a routine doubtedly were of! some ancient (no foolin') and parents gather Atlantic patrol flight late Satur- human but could not be proved the youngsters for supper they FCA HEAD NAMED day but was unable to land at its to have been those of a 10000-yeold Folsom man SPOKANE Wash Nov 18 (AP) own east coast port base because expect to be dealing with a new TnVin A Wilcnn landlord nt Rtonfftr1 "'"111 and the men bailed Dr Hibben returned from Lubof weather bad f"rt wv VA iwUhas been out when the fuel ran out Alberton about 15 miles west Judith Basin cattleman bock over the week-en- d and said of Baltimore lies in a sleepy r three-yeathe bones were found in a strata to a on term reelected wooded valley along the winding the district board of directors of containing elephant camel and hbrse bones "about 20000 years Patapsfco Tiver There's no good the farm credit administration R road entering it and only the bill E Brown F C A general agent old" He added however that collectors know the way there the earth above the site had been announced today Nindty-eigdisturbed and there was no eviyears ago mill dence tending to show that burTO operators bought up 550 acres of land built a cotton spinning mill ial of the human remains was N03IINATIONS OKEIIED n and started business A WASHINGTON Nov 18— (UP)— contemporary with the animal bones rose around the mill The senate commerce committee CHICAGO Nov 18 (AP)— Jimmy But hard times caught up with The curator is in charge of exoday unanimously approved the Wilson hero of the cavations at the Sandia the latest owners James S Gary nominations of Wayne Chatfield cave in & Son- Inc and last month C R the of 'com 1940 world series returned to the of A1- east mountains Taylor as just Daniel? Inc took over a lease merce and John J Dempsey as a major league managerial ranks toevidences where have buqaerque been found that man lived in the after the Gary's went into member of the U S maritime day when he agreed to a two-yecontract to pilot tht Chicago Cubs area some 25000 years ago commission oimmons Finishes "Northwest Trip County Commissioner George F Simmons executive director of the National Association of County Officials today had returned from Portland where he addressed a convention of - the Association of Oregon Counties The organization adopted a resolution in favor of its members joining the national association he said S DANGERS IN EUROPE WAR re Late Bulletins HITLER MISSES 'BLITZ SCRIBE PUZZLED DUCE'S TALK 1 "half-demolishe- d" i BRITISH JOIN TRUST CASE GREEK BATTLE Norris-LaGuard- ia st LONDON Nov 18— (UP)The Driscbll's story reads like a dime ministry of information announced novel and calls for further tonight agreement had been reached with the United States on sites to be leased for defense bases in Was it a feud or was the police Bermuda the Bahamas Jamaica boss just naturallvblood thirsty? Antigua St Lucia and British We all can be sorry for Coventry Guiana ministry said the location a city ot lb7ooo blasted to wreck of The the base at Trinidad jstill was age by tne xsazi raiders Id Rear-Guar- 65-ac- southern Asserting his complete support of American principles and the American flag Lewis drew applause when he declared C I O critics (Continued on Page 2 Col 21 — By Thej terrific blast at the chemical Lewis spoke after he had been given two ovations by delegates to the convention His promised resignation will fulfill the pledge he made in a radio speech during the presidential campaign that unless Renub- lican Presidential Nominee Wen-- ! dell L Willkie was elected he would quit his post Lewis warned that the very life of the C I O was threatened by i jRavaged fire He asked unified support from the delegates for his successor and added: "He'll need it I ought: to know" V'O — PITTSBURGH Nov 18— (APj— The third mysterious explosion within a week in a plan1 of the American Cyana-mi- d and Chemical corporation baffled investigators today whil a bomb factory owner charged sabotage in the destruction of his concern by - -- nrf li j - Industr 1° — Preparing to Resist Counter-Offensiv- e Athens After Three Weeks of Unsuccessful Campaign Against Ancient Enemy Sabotage As Concern He Asks Support Successor In Address- m jit alians TWO WORKMEN HURT s GETS HUGE OVATION f 'We Will Break Backbone of Greece1 Says II Dace DEFENSE UNITS Norris-La-Guard- -- ia st civil-defen- se SIX CANADIAN FLIERS SOUGHT IN a HELD IMMINENT War Sec r etary New Sacrifice for Defense Near NEW ORLEANS Nov 18 (AP) Secretary of War Henry L Stim-so- n warning that danger approaching America may now be imminent told labor: today it will be called upon for sacrifices for the defense program but it is assured the right of collective bargaining Urging Industrial peace as an absolute need for rearming the Unit ed States the secretary in an ad dress before the American Federation of Labor convention praised British workers producing under a rain of bombs and said: "We have hope that we may not reach this supreme test that we in America may not be called upon to suffer as these workers of England have suffered But the danger for months has been approaching and today it may even be imminent "Today our production hopeful as it has been thus far is as yet very far from adequate Sacrifices will undoubtedly be called for from labor a- they will be called for from the other citizens of the republic but such sacrifices I believe will be willingly contributed and not compelled" "There is an assurance which I think I can give you and that is the assurance that the practice and procedure of collective bargaining through chosen and independent unions will not be sacrificed" he said That policy is fundamental to a democratic defense of - j! ar JirilY WILSON ht 1 PILOT CUBS company-ownedjtow- Ii - under-secreta- ry j ar " ' After three weeks of warfare t appeared the Italians are now preparing tr resist a Greek counter-invasio- n Dispatches from" Athens said that Mussolini's legions were retreating from the key city of Koritza 10 miles inside Albania and that a motorized column of 130 Italian tanks was' cut off on a mountain road A Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Djevdjelija near the frontier said 600 Italian troops and 130 tanks crossed the border from Greece and surrendered to Yugoslav authorities last night Greek troops had reached the gates of Koritza it was said with the Italians fighting a desperate d action - to cover the withdrawal from the fortified city —which was to have been used as a springboard for a drive to the port of Salonika in eastern Greece Other Greek troops reported successes all along the front and declared that nearly all the fighting now was on Albanian Greek-Yugosl- av rear-guar- " 100-mi- le soil that he would "never turn back" was coupled with an assertion that the European war now could be concluded only "with the destruction of the modern Carthage— England" II duce denied British claims that half of Italy's battleships were smashed in a raid on Taranto naval base last weekasserting only one warship was so badly damaged it could not be repaired in a short time Indications of new axis plans came meanwhile from Berchtes-gade- n near Adolf Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat as the nazi fuehrers arranged to meet "with the Italian foreign minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the Spanish foreign minister Eamon Serrano Suner Diplomatic circles in Bern Switzerland often an accurate sounding-boar- d heard that the conferees would discuss axis plans for a gigantic "squeeze play" on the Mediterranean through Gibraltar and Greece NEW ORLEANS Nov 18 (UP) William Green head of the American Federation of- Labor revealed at the opening session of the organization's sixtieth annual convention today that President Roosevelt has made a new effort to end the five-yewar in organized labor He said in his keynote speech that the chief executive has asked that the peace committees set up by the federation and the rival Congress of Industrial Organizations meet again in an attempt to reach a truce Declaring the A F L is ready to meet the C L O group any time and any where Green brought forwards again the federation' plan of settling the controversy It would to A F L the unions which left the parent body five years ago to form the C L O and leave to representatives of the two groups the task of deciding the fate of unions formed since the break - ar re-ad- mit right-of-wa- - Warns " i U S Bombers Ready For Trip to England INGLEWOOD Calif Nov 18 (AP) — Eight $100000 Douglas at's tack bombers— known in England as "Boston's"— waited at the Los Angeles municipal airport here today for clouds to lift before taking off for New York en route to the British royal air force Two Douglas 8A-- 5 attackers order left yespart of a terday for Toronto to join the royal Norwegian air force units DB-7-A- 36-pla- ne training in Canada ROOSEVELT RETURNS WASHINGTON Nov 18 (AP)— President Roosevelt returned to Washington today after a resting-u- p cruise on the yacht Potomac These sources envisaged a dou assault through Spain against Gibraltar which guards the west end of the Mediterranean and through Bulgaria to outflank and crush the Greeks A five-cparty of German official photo and press experts — reputedly the same group which filmed and reported the nazi blitzkrieg through the low countries and France last spring — was reported to have arrived at La Linea near Gibraltar ready for developments Meanwhile the aerial war continued German bombers sank a- British merchant ship and a minelayer e while guns on the' French coast scattered a convoy which was attempting to slip (Continued On Page 2 Col i) ble-barrel- " ed ar k - long-rang- SECOND WORLD WAR MEMORIES By United Press War in Europe a year ago November 18 1939: artilGermans reported heavy lery fire had failed to dent forts in westwalL Netherlands liner Simon Bolivar 8309 tons struck mine off English port of Harwich and sank with loss of 100 passengers Executions in Czech "purge" mounted to 12 as three persons were pait to death for "acts of vio- lence against a German" By the Associated Press Twenty-fiv- e years ago today November 18 1915: duels along Violent artillery Artois and Chamwestern front at Monro commandGeneral pagne withadvises British troops ing drawal from GallipolL ! 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