Show - - - ) ' Step Up Bond Buying! l 1 1-- AI I I 3i Ii I '--- ' I1 ) ' I 1 ' k '' cr i 1 ito 11 1 ' i 4- :x dipor—4401 of aub i op 1 i :j::7 (L' I 1 1 ' : t i k 1 tI 11' I I ' 4 11" t iiy)')4 17 lake Salt City Utah Saturday Morning May ' i ' military authorities) - -- --------- - - 5 1 ' ' IL k 1 itt e 1 4 p 77 auks Line in 1 1 i i 1I ' t IL II 1 For Seizure of Martinique 1 1 111 s attle ' State Department Cancels Pact - 1 - t1Jie I i (The German transocean news g'ency said in a dispatch from La Linea Spanish vantage point near Gibraltar that 150 landing barges escorted by destroyers and an aircraft carrier passed through the straits Friday into the Mediterranean They followed a oonvby of 23 transports and tankers which 'left Gibraltar Thursday with the British battleships Rodney- Renown and Malaya the aircraft carriers Furious Illustrious and Argus four cruisers and eight de stroyers the dispatch said Many planes were takingoff and landing at Gibraltar the German report added) (German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeblóels in his Weekly publication Signal inferentially confirmed that FieldMarshal Er win Rommel had left Africa when he referred to General Juergen von Arnim as "the officer commanding axis forces in Tunisia") Axis Gets Supplies With the Tunisian battle resolved into a :grim siege against the axis mountain ring the Germans were reported still getting supplies to their cornered African armies despite the constant vigilance of allied planes whin sank least 10 enemy vesordamaged at in the Sicilian narsels Thursday rows The focal point of the American north front campaign was a 2000- hill four mlies foot called Djebel Nsir Sidi of at Tahent or On military maps hill 1 :1 1 I 1 1 ' i 1 mesa-toppe- d 609 On both ' the Americans had surged around it sending reconnaissanc-e units on the north to within three miles of Lake Achkel and within 20 miles of Bizerte on the while the hill was south by artillery companies Which drove within 1Q miles of Mateur and were shelling that important road junction But as long as hill No 609 held out no major operations could be ufidertaken on either side front reports said and the Americans were ordered to take it at all costs Only 1SCr Germans manned the hill They were so deeply emplaced that American guns could not reach them an their own mortars and Machine guns exacted a heavy toil each time the Americans attacked Debel Tahent is 30 miles from Bizerte and 35 from Tunis but from its lofty peak a Tunisian be seen stretching panorama can sea almost to the sectors the Ameri In near-b- y cans captured a smaller hill and but held it against counter-attacwere forced to Withdraw from another which they had taken Wednesday Hills Change Hands Latest dispatches said confused fighting was still' proceeding with hills changing hands several times in the course of a few hours The greatest weight of the German counter blows was "hurled the Med against the British jerda valley 'Rector 21 miles from Tunis Bitter fightalg caged there throughout Thursday with the Germans attacking down the slope sides by-pass- ' - I ' '' 1c' i: l't V e e ----4- s ' ee — - N e ' fa- - - N se "sea ' -- 7 ' ' ' t- - - e ' N- - i0-- - - - - 7 1 -- - f 444' - - - ' a i - ' t - '' '74 -- ele'' ' ''' --e k k i - --- a aee‘4"'"e--- ea' e al e--- - ie ' e ' ' ' ae ' - e e:-- '''':e- t e're'''eee e - ''' - - "' A '':- '''' 4'6- - 1 s s f I 1 - i i 1 i : : : - '0 4 11: - - ' ' i - : ' ' '- :-- de - - ' ? - i Output Halt Carries Out Lewis' Statement on Trespassing 'Anthracite Case Goes to Board '--- 1 ' 1' 4 f ':- - - 1 lIlialers irlStay Off ob as ork C ontracts FJ'piro: -- -i - I ''' : - J ' 1 - - 17) - e- : t 1-:-- :: - 1 e - 't- e ee'eree e - ' ai - ' :' ' i:- I s r ‘ - - - -- - 4 0--e- 1- -i ir I T - - - nazi-controll- Radio Reports An Attempt I On Laval's Life '' :' ! - - ' -4:---- - -- ! --- ki -- - - - - tt e- - -- ' ' '- ' r'- - : : ' ' ' e ' --- - N4me-15444-o Stalin Foresees 0 P A Director Promises Beginning of Curti on Living Costs ecolid Front - - - : ' ' - 1 - - other-bituminou- e" the con-Th- - hold-the-lin- ' ' 1 ' 1 ' - t - - ' lir t nt now-cancel- I oft-repeat- ed ed I §4 - Jap nitlis Hit Facille Lanes tU 11- ! I WIVOMIlicr Miners Stick t - 1 ' : I ' -- 1 ' e Pa-Th- i 1 1 ' 1 I - i Land - I Form dead-wate- rs Canada Great Britain Lend Aid to Convoy ProLTain OTTAWA April 30 (UP)—Can-!aada and Great Britain have as- surned full responsibility for con- voying merchant shipping to Brit- ish ports under a new antisubma- rine set-u- p that will throw an um- brella of air protection over every of the north Atlantic it was disclosed here Friday night The move apparently was In- tended to release American naval vessels for duty in other battle Djebel Bou AoukFrz from which they had driven the British 24 nh areas but it was emphasized that the United States will retain strategic control of western At- lantic operations including escort duties not related to British trade convoys and local Canadian traffic Under the arrangement which was announced in a joint state- ment by Angus MacDonald and C G Power Canadian national de- t l'ensie ministers for naval services to tie up the coal production of the nation The statement signed by Alfred Carey president of district 22 William McPhie vice president and Virgil Wright secretary-treas- urer read as follows: "The' mine workers of district 22 United Mine Workers of Am- e erica are working under an tension contract which is retro- active to April 1 1943 and which requires five days' notice for cancellation Up to the present time no notice of cancellation has been Friday opportunity and said served on the coal operators of minute participation mail orders postmarked by mid- Wyoming and Utah Therefore for present the mines will continue night of May 1 will be credited to the in operation" the drive This statement with its author- Bell made public Thursday figcoal min- ures showing that approximately ity to all to on ers of coal pro- the ' ' been job stay sub$15500000000 had was duction until notice further Since banking sources scribed to the various local unions have been limited to $5000000000 directed and was released for the nonbanking total then was Of the district around $10500000000 compared public information with the nonbanking goal of $8- 000000000 Treasury officials ex- I aundry 'Worker Faces pect nonbanking sources to submore scribe than $1000000000 Some consideration has been Extortion Charge given to making the third war ' WASHINGTON April 30 (INS) loan drive—which may come in -FBI Director J Edgar Hoover or October—an August entirely announced Friday that Mrs FranBell but nanbanking campaign a Columbus ces Macaratzes Mary desaid earlier this week that no Ohio laundry worker has been cision had been made arrested for writing an extortion note to Governor John W Bricker of Ohio' and for threatening his RAF Over Germany air big Canadian and American bombers will accompany con- voys to a point "somewhere in mid- Atlantic" where British bombers v'ill take over The shift in convoy commands MacDonald and Power said was maJe after a Washington confer-mil- e ence attended by British Canadian and American military air and naval chiefs and pregided over by Admiral Ernest J i command- er in chief of the U navy The announcement explained that American escort vessels and American army bombers will continue to pooperate in the north Atlantic convoy patrol and that United States naval and military aircraft stationed at Newfoundland on antisubmarine duty also will be under tho direct operational controt of the Canadian eastern air command d Kg 1 I ex-th- Utah-Wyomi- ea) - n ' 1 I life LONDON Saturday May 1 (ill) Mrs Macaratzes according to —Royal 'air force bombesrs were Hoover "had warned Governor over Germany last night it was Bricker that she was watching his stated authoritatively Saturday every move and had orders direct The last R A F attack on Germany from Hitler to kill him" She styled herself Fie "German wls the raid on Wilhelmshaven :II Spy No 7211" Wednesday night ) - 1 -— 1ft t - ' - OP A Revises Point 'Fables On the other hand both sides in the anthracite negotiations continued to express the opinion right up to Friday night's deadline that a contract could be ' through their own efforts 6 7 to nVienna sausage from WASHINGTON April 3(l (ICaviar reached of One the first reports on I' Round steak got a higher point Iand fish roe were dropped from failure of bituminous miners to 7 to 3 On Various Meat Cuts canned sea mussels value than porterhouse and sirloin from 7 toand 1 Friday in a revision of meat ration The changes were announced values marked also by lower point with the approaching expiration costs for spareribs brains andi' at midnight Friday of red A B C tongue D stamps in the No 2 ration and ones1 The changes first major book Blue D E and F coupons the office of price administration for has made since meat rationing alsoprocessed fruits and vegetables expired Friday night Some was instituted are effective Sun- in point values of canned changes are intended In general they day are to be an- goods to encourage purchase of items flounced overexpected end the week which are most plentiful and dis-- 1 are which of those courage buying short Only one change of importance was made in the values of fats which are rationed with meats This cut the point cost of salad and cooking oils from 8 to 5 points WASHINT 3N April 30 ' a pinCor pound mountainous wave in a'stormy sea Under the new values a pound washed Sailor John Andrew Urtof round steak will require nine choke into the jaws of death but Points while sirloin and pOrter- - another great wall of water washed house will continue to 'call for only him out again and started him eight- Loin pork roasts center safely home The seaman second class of posrk ghops and beef flank steaks were advanced from 8 to 9 New York City-waal washed and round 'tip beef roasts board from his own destroyer the And veal sirloin from 7 to 8 navy reported Friday k To encourage more buying otj Finally as darkness was apareribs they were reduced tling a seconerdestroyer made an from 4 to 3 points as were' beef fipproach The forecastle clashed Brains by and then the midships passed and lamb sweetbreads him up—but as the stern came up both Fleet' and lamb were 3 to 2 points and so was tripe a big wave lifted Urtehoke and e brains slammed him on the vesSel's Among canned meats reduced froM 3 to 2 points1 tail' Sailors grabbed him and and bulk sausage meat loaf and held on - From Lansford Pa came word that the Panther Valley miners' i te e representing 5000 commit miners rfaT M W district 7 voted to suspend work until ordered by Lewis to return Miners said the 6 a na shift Saturday would not report at the pits Earlier 1200 workers at the company Susquehanna Collieries No 6 mine at Wilkes-Barr- e Pa struck to protest a local grievance The Progressive Miners (A F L) at Springfield Ill announced there would be no strike in their group as they voted to continue contract negotiation for 30 days The union claims membership of 21000 miners Reports from a majority of soft coal mines in Fayette county Pennsylvania were that no miners were entering the pits for the late shift From Tennessee where approximately 150000 tons of soft coal are mined monthly by between 20 and 25 small mines came word that there would be no work without a contract It was said much of the coal went to (JP)--- A - i over-poin- ts ' : set-por- cut-fro- fan-wer- ' - 1 0 s ' ' - :: — i la l 1 I 1 i i I ' t e - 1 ' ' ' r r I 1: t s - i t I f i - I c - - $ i tContinnel An TrAhree) Pil teteunin 1 e lee 1 ' men 7 - a - Wavé Aids Rescue Of Seaman -- - report for work Friday came from Johnstown Pa where no 9:30 p m shift was on hand at the Revlog mine of the Monroe Coal company The mine employs 950 - 4 I ' - min30--- - I I 1 e ' - - I up until the information would not WASHINGTON April 30 UP— aid the enemy Leaders in the second war loan It was the heaviest attempt yet campaign hoped Friday night to made to sever the supply lines maintain through the final llinking Australia and the United which already ute momentum the States and between General Mac- - has pushed the total far beyond the Arthur's advanced bases in New goal Guinea and the Australian con- - $13000000000 The drive will end at midnight tirent of with a final Saturday Announcement that details of more than $16000000000figure expectattacks ''would be held up" ed when the official report is made was in conformity with united na- - about 10 ') tions' policy of withholding and' DanielMayW Bell—undersecretary nouncement of sinkings to prevent of the treasury called attention such information's helping the to the for last- enemy ' ' - Salt Lake Tribune ALLIED FORCE HEADQUAR- TERS IN NORTH AFRICA April -The moss serious hazard the American British and French troops are now facing are mines which the Germans since they have withdrawn into the hill circle around Tunis and Bizerte have numbers planted in increased Apparent1:- not counting upon another advance the Germans have planted mines as permanent rather than temporary installa- tions everywhere along the line ' ) ar Loan Ain's Billions Tunisia k -- t0 - e 40 t aapeeeee ' - eese I e '''') 4' c t - 1 - the strategic French Caribbean island of Martinique by canceling all existing agreements with Ad- miral Georges Robert because of his continued allegiance to the Vichy government of France In so many words this govern-da- y ment bluntly notified the uneooperative French high commissioner it can no longer' do business with a man who "remains sub- servient to or maintains contact" with a regime "under the direct control of 'Germany" It backed up these words not only by recalling American Consul General Marcel E Malinge from Martinique and leaving there only a vice consul (Ora Sitton) whqse activities "will be restricted to the protection of American interests and who will not be authorized to enter into or conduct any negotia- tions of a political character" The note made public by Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull ape peared to be a last warning to Robert to renOunce his allegiance to Vichy A few hours later Navy Secre- e tary Frank Knox told a press ference the navy was keeping a watch on Martinique He declined to say what the navy's next step will be The next move seemed to be up to Robert—and thus far he has not replied to the note The navy still has an observer on Marunique The implication seemed clear that unless Robert decides to Ii 0 N'EW YORK April '30 (JP)—Mining of coal In the United in the bituminous and the anthracite fields—virtuStates—both e -e e ' 7 1 ' at 7' 'le e midnight Friday night with the expiration of work ally Stopped ' ' Ce4 : ‘1 contracts between operators and the United Mine Workers of If f e e Th: " - ee '' e ''' America e e ' - ' ee ee - 'ee-- '''‘ee-- a ' eel S' - ''' It was a stoppage which if eventually 100 per cent effectiNe ' e — ' -- 1 '7e ee-- --' i ' ' l' ' ' ' ' 2 ) - -' '' would strike at the very vitals of the production of essential war ese et materials e e : e ve eeee e rry: 'e 4e4 i ' ' ercaitseeeeaseeeeeeeeeeeeae--ese114 ee ' It came after nearly two months' negotiations had failed to e produce an agreement in the bituminous field for a $2 daily in- creas'e in pay and portal to portal system of payment and after a month of unsuccessful conferences over 4 new anthracite agreement bearing much the'same demands by the miners It 'was estimated by miners and operators alike here that eel not more than 20000 workmen in both coal fields were immediInjured by Bomb lei ! ately affected because of the comparatively few night shifts Prentiss 31 Brown Urges Coal 31iners But those who did throw doWn their tools and walk out joined Returning From ' Declares Tunisian some100000 or soft coal workers who began r ih-Houto Return To Job's Appeal Parley With littler dails ago' There had been their leasVing several underground jobs Drive Helps in Nation ' Reiterates 611o1(I-the-LinPolicy no reports of anthracite miners 'quitting before the expiration of 4 By Associated Press the contract Speed Nazi' Doom Brazzaville radio of the - Expiration of the work agreement left approximately 85 AsSociated Press 'By fighting French in Equatorial Africa said last (Friday) night in LONDON Saturday May 1 UP) 0 WASHINGTON April 30—Price Administrator Prentiss- IQ per cent of the nation's bituminous coal mines without a uniona brpadcast to the office of war - Joseph Stalin in a May day order ' 15 per cent west of the Mississippi river sloill opere policy prom- - contractith Information by the United States of the day declared that devastat- - 'Brown reiterating the administration's work paper: a under ative separate government'sforeign broadcasting British and American air blows- ised Friday night to lower excessive prices in an extension of in Utah LaPierre' Ger(Miners Wyoming Colorado and northern New service that of centers on industrial intelligence the val French chief of government' and Italy foreshadowed 'the price control "across the board" and told the natioh's coal miners Mexico were not affected for the present at least by the stopmany was injured by a time bomb while of a second front in Eu- they "cannot better their position- ) In a race between wages and page) rfcoirpneestion returning to Paris from a confer- All of the anthracite mines situated in Pennsylvania were cost of living" with Adolf Hitler ' tiltPresident Roosevelt's included in the contract with the operators of those fields which i by ing The reported States will feel free to move spoke over the Mutual that he would act unless tempt was not confirmed immedi- - in and take over Martinique for army" he added "for the first radio network as a wave of walk- - matum at midnight the coal stoppage ceased by 10 expired ately by any source time since the outbreak of the war outs reasons of hemispheric security coal a vast bituminous same the the At time hit No The Brazzaville report said a Call Issued mSaturday For his part 'abrogation of the has merged with a blow from the fields east of the bomb exploded in the sleeping Mississippi and Brown devoted much of his ad- west by the forces of our allies leaves agreements apparentfy There was no official l'strike call issued by John L Lewis he declared: "Your government dress to the cost of living issue occuped by Laval ert free to reactivate French war-an- d ' into one common blow" in L undercritical this has which Jahn Lewis needs international support his finance secretary Pierre your in his order of the president of the mine workers' union The stoppages that were immobilized under' Theaspremier in his demands scored hour" Catahal and that Catahal has been ships repeatedly Moscow and out his statement that the workers broadcast carried by the accord day' His speech was evidence anew for a $2 a day wage increase for merely wounded seriously Laval it was terms of recorded here by the soviet moni- WOUtd not "trespass" on coal property without a contract (Continued on Pfize Four) the United Mine Workers Brown said was wounded only slightly tor said that the Germans in their that the administration was — Column Three) Revised figures fromWashington fixed the number of bitudeclared it is not true that living One of the first to collaborate in Kharkov the in- - minous miners at 409000 and the number of anthracite miners costs have with the axis Laval has been an wage transoutstripped sector had of Ukraine the rT ci 1 creases but to some observers his at 74000 assassin's target before In Au- ferred more than 36 divisions or 111A ' ' 7 1941 was he and shot speech was an eleventh hour ap- gust 540000 men from gravelyei approximately Lewis had until 10 o'clock Saturday morning toget the bitu- wounded at Versailles He recovpeal to the miners—an attempt by minous western Europe but had failed to ea fr o coal miners back to work before he had officially violated the administration to assure them ered after being near death for smash the red army more to to is be done several days that President Roosevelt's order that the men be on their jobs at that showed going "The winter campaign force' down the costs of foodstuffs time or the latter would "use all the The Berlin radio said Laval con- offensive power of the the that power vested in me as presL em– Tribune Intermountain Wire ferred with Hitler at the latter's where they are unwarrantedly red army has ak r o w n " he said Allies—(Official) in as dent'and chief of commander the army and navy to protect ROCK SPRINGS April 30— high headquarters Thursday and that G E N E R A L MACARTHUR'S In the Stalingrad operation he national the interest" "full understanding" was reached In and this connection Brown specifsaid the Russians "liquidated two —The coal miners of Utah on "questions pending between 111EADQUARTERS A u a t r a I i a The anthravite situation went before the war labor board Fri-an- d canned 14rmies" and captured more Wyoming 17On continue to operate ically mentioned meat enemy 1 fresh vegetables and coffee (UP)—Japan's than '361000 Prisoners' Germany and Italy on one side and Saturday May for the present time under the exThe board directed that work proceed despite-thFrance on the other" He said he had issued instruc- - day night e "next move" in the southwest "The 4:people of our country" extension agreement between the ID r of contract the continueation and The that repnegotiations broadcast recorded in New cific—a s u b m a r i n e said "are Meeting May day U M W A District 22 and the coal tions to his staff to act without campaign Stalin York by the Associated Press said a stern in operators of the two states offi- - delay to "roll back those prices resentatives of each side already had agreed to a negotiations patriotic war to German Foreign Minister Joachim against the allied shipping lanes " rose up in cials of the mine union said in a which have got out of hand The Soviet troops Saturday but each said it expected no miner to be at von Ribbentrop and Italian Under- - Australia –was announced Satur- defense of their native land and statement issued from the district prices of meats fresh and canned 70elek secretary of State Giuseppe Bas- - day for almost two years now have offices here Friday morning vegetables coffee among others situation in the bituminous fields reachedthe crisis after tianini attended the conference 1Coatinlied on Page Two) The statement had been phoned will be rolled back" General Douglas Ik1acArthur's COlurrtn Two) nearlylLevvis "This office is holding as challenged the war labor board and the president declar- from New York City where the -- headquarters reported that the coal miners as humanly possible to the prin- - ing that contracts only should be reached in negotiations with the between conference Mines s u b m a r i n e attack has been IV and the coal operators of the Ap- ciple of the stabilization act of last the operators themselves The operators some time 11 ago in both "in some force" in the launched fields was then still i (Continued oil Page Four)-palachian and northern southern however I LazardI -favored settlement Six regions (Column r contraeast of Australia but an- - Ad 16 locked in the wage-houflounced be would held ' details been which that has through agencyversy governmental threatening Evillisive New York Time- - - brrits previously The British still were dug in on the lower rise of Djebel Bou Aoukaz official quarters said but had lost Sidi Ahmed just north of Long Stop hill on the opposite bank of the Medjerda To the east of Medjez-el-Ba- b the Sidi Abballah hill was the srene ofannther inconclusive bat- tie The First army captured it said Thursday official dispatches Counter-but the Germans started a attack inthe afternoon and the was not reported outcole - In the Pont duFahssector and Pn the seaward flanks' Of- the Tunan line the allies stillof apthe peared firmly in possession upper hand 0 ' WASHINGTOS7 Apr 30 (UP) —The United States Friday cleared the way for possible occupation of w 1 1 ----- w (Official)—By United Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA April 30 —American troops were locked in a fierce see-sastruggle Fri- for key hill 609 almost within sight of both Bizerte and emendous power into counterTunis while the axis threw attacks all along the blazing Tunisian line and bent back the British in the center -- :1 With French Leader - Locked in Struggle for Key 'Hill Near Tunis and Bizerte Large British Convoy Passes 'Rock' See-Sa- These negotiators failed to find accord on coal wage dispute Left to right: Thomas Kennedy U 31W official R E Tag- gart operators' spokesman W W Inglis joint conference chairman John Boylan parley secretary John L Lewis :- t - Give Up Attempt To Reach Coal Accord - j Liu 0 Fro 1 z Act Opens Way1 1 -- 1 z i i - 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