Charleston Gazette (Newspaper) - June 29, 1943, Charleston, West Virginia Largest Circulation in West The Charleston Gazette Member of The Associated Press Established 1887. Five Middle East Command Bombers Score Hits On Athens Airdromes West War on New Attacks Hassani Leaflets Bearing Salute From FDR Dropped June a new and powerful smash at the Balkan to the continent of can Liberator bombers of the Middle East command have cast down uncounted tons of ing steel on the Athens dromes of and breaking through a heavy screen of enemy fighters and home without This carried out followed by three days a Liberator blow at the Greek port of and It left the two airdromes vastly The treat bombers carried more I than dropped thousands ot Allied leaflets In which President Roosevelt saluted the lone and heroic struggle of the Greeks and expressed to them the hope that their liberation was now not far off. Fired said a U. S. air force hits were scored on three large one of which caught fire while smoke was seen Issuing from an- Other bombs burst on an of runways and near the administrative and the whole surface of the airdrome appeared to be covered with Hassani both hangars re- direct hits and were left in Thc entire airdrome face and the western dispersal area were well covered by bursts and five aircraft were seen burning on the ground south ot the fires broke out northeast of the in the northern half of the western dispersal It was a raid of spectacular Of the snarling enemy squadrons that went up in vain efforts to protect the airdromes at least enemy planes were destroyed In combat by U. S. bomber and eight others were- listed as ably Every enemy Including at- tempts to bomb the Liberators from Axis was attack on the center ot the enemy's air power in the Athens area was accompanied by an announcement by Gen. headquarters that Brit- ish Wellington driving In with red glow as a had hit the main Italian port of Naples Saturday nicht in concentrated 15-minutc buster Two Planes Lost these and other operations of the northwest Africa air force included the destruction of enemy planes by Allied Allied planes were lost Malta command while announced in its que today that British bombers had again attacked thc Italian airdrome at The Liberators In thc Athens raid made their runs over the two out- lying airfields in the face of very heavy numbers enemy Alcohol In New Distilling NEW June G. president of Park Se ed today the development of a new distilling method that he said would cut costs in half and would make grain alcohol as cheap to produce ai molasses and synthetic Handren said thc process would save the government an- in and at the same time yield 1.000.000.000 pounds of practically pure protein a the protein by-product can be sold very he offers limitless nutritive It can be used to enrich white flour for bread and cereals thus up for the protein loss resulting from the milling process. It can be used also as a supplement to livestock now critically thus enriching thc feed of hogs and cattle In will result In more and richer meats for human The new process was put into Turn to Page 3 Col. 2.) Nazis Claim Saturday Is Invasion Deadline June ters today that German re- ports reaching Stockholm that a Invasion would start not later than this coming There were no details on how this date was arrived at nor at what point or points the blow was The Axis In the has Issued on dates when they expected Allied tion In the hope at eliciting In- Fortresses Hit of C. and Chosen By Ickes As Director Of Operations For Coal Mines Early Restoration Tells Senate Committee Allies Are Rapidly Victory June that the W Vn Nations arc rapidly Put at 90 Percent n aml Submarine rens mat war win be earned to pan a most violent and came from 1 t i. i 11.1 n Lt. Gen. Joseph T. Into Day of June American Fortresses blasted thc U-boat j at St. on thc Bay iof Biscay coast Ian enemy airdrome yesterday and bombers roared across Some Sections Report Week The movement con- Disclosure of bis statements tn sam momentum through the senate appropriations southern West Virginia's coal which recommended j belt although a for the War outbreak shutdowns northern Nazis Sending Divisions West 50 Said Being Drawn From Front June incl early this morning to Gen. optimistic fore- fnr the first time since the the aerial on- cart was accompanied by j halted in j of the war into its I of bituminous industry eight i will be the powerful ever and The daylight attacks on two by any and will were that gets described iis by i have superiority in the air in every b diminishing as a thc U. S. army's European theater i theater of meetings held 1 headquarters followed a forenoon Supremacy i vere not blow at Axis shipping by i plans construction available from official I bombers nf the which planes during Unofficial estimates were that by I two German forced a third beginning next between Ro and 90 to be beached and inflicted serums bombers and nf the miners had Marvin Jones damage on three Arnold emphasized lighted their lamps and were Davis Jones Named War Food Administrator June C. the man dent Roosevelt drafted three months aBo to solve the food trip the tattoo of Allied bombs thump icm telling the President flatly that the pro Soviets Trap German Unit 190 on Runian Front Prime i intense flak and some fighter j position and destroyed a number of enemy planes the Japanese ins conceded the counties where to consumers won't be effective thc in this southern front s accompanied .as in j action allowed the Germans to ncr no and IB The planned for the 50 divi said to 10 for the serve to be held for use wh 15 for western four for southern and nine for northern Twelve were Turn to Pase 12 Col. 4.) Giraud Is Invited To Visit Roosevelt June President Roosevelt set the stamp of his personal approval today on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's handling of the problems stemming out of French wrangling In North Africa by permitting an ment that he had invited Gen. Henri Giraud to visit Washington when by anti-aircraft 'The daylight Turn to Pace 13 S nent by RAF This the ed at and squadrons of ripped into en- on oe 1. he the ford production program in in to end the and a broad food educational Tnc others fled back to thc river in an to inc. h he estimated would be but thc Russians cut off their thc thc 5.1K1 were i meet with the miners and would be unfair to you to insist 5aid bombers raided the position I front rail junction of cert with other United a hp estimated won d be the Russians was the Dutch rather large produce approximately 6.450 tons under way the middle of and ras rn IT thai UMW leaders were mg the subsidy said cast of Jap Hit 3 Hirm tn His office said that that you remain in your Ihe All but m MX mines had resumed operations i support a program hold down troop prompted when you feel nil things con- I about 130 miles south of but the you cannot wholeheartedly Sunday hitting Operations closed the cost of He also said i supply included the did not think Davis should trains and Of Property Is Aim Many Workers Still Out in Pennsylvania June of Interior announced tonight he had pointed Carl 45-year-old president of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad as director of mine tions for the federal as of the which the government took over on May 1 designated Newton to head organization charged with coal production going until labor crisis endangering It is a Cleveland resident and onetime assistant U. S. district at- torney in New York and special sistant state general for New supervised the largest coal hauling carrier In the world president of the Chesapeake and Ickes Statement The secretary added in a Newton's appointment as di- rector of mine operations represents thc selection of an individual with a vital public interest In and knowledge of free of any tisan connection with either tors or mine will be a full-time ment whose services art loaned by his railroad as a bution to thc war effort I am de- lighted to have been able to draft him for this unprecedented and ex- tremely Secretary Ickes told the house ways and means committee the has desire and no plans for thc of the coat industry and hopes to return the mines to private ownership the earliest possible He said this would be when there is the miners would work for private or when thc workers and thc operators sign a Many Miners Still Idle the big coal strike to be waning very slowly tonight with more workers trooping back to the pits during the day but other thousands of no adherents still holding particularly in the vast vania mining Thc number of estimated Idle fluctuated around and bulk of some 110.000 were employes of Pennsylvania Last week about half of tha nation's 521.000 miners Ignoring votes to return had been taken by many United Mine Workers locals in the without loSing a about 58, his military responsibilities Blackout Tonight two nn to be tugs attempting to aid the I npw of the o Service Allowance Raise Advocated In also the President's tion tended promptly tn confirm the authoritative summarization of American and Allied policy toward French factions in Africa outlined in Associated Press dispatches from Washington yesterday The invitation to Gen. Giraud pears a definite American rebuff for Gen. Charles dc aggressive rival for French tary supremacy in the African op- The invitation was transmitted and Giraud's acceptance received through not diplomatic a month No date for the Giraud visit to Washington has been It was that the French leader will not leave his post while Allied invasion Turn to Page 12 Col. 3.1 yards with guns An plosion of one ship was followed by yellow ently from and was A 6nfl-ton ship 1he i lor dependent was seen to sink in in minutes their energetic i mrn jn thr ranks by the time the second wave ol against Turn In Pace S Col. 3-1 Greek Guerrilla Rout Of Italians Reported June Brit- ish Broadcasting reported AAA Head a St. Louis was I formerly director of the The rst tural Adjustment statewide OCD drill of thc His resignation as congress j will be held Executive Di- a final derision on rector Carl G. said today lion killing the Office of Price hearing that an Ohio radio June I food price rollback In his letter to President i throughout the was today by thc announced by the as fl A onp one the as i and A one 68 in- one three of with sn a medium-sized cargo one month fnr rach additional small one of wife without children would which large day that Greek guerrillas had routed two medium-sized carlo the railroad and that it tec and Sen. Lodge would probably be for at least 23 of which are Blanket Raise Proposed time Spy FBI Points Plea For Less Loose Talk Willie By Bobert wish U didn't worry Mama for me to go The guys no- body worries about always get to be the best YORK June as Using invisible In o pen his Only six American submarines been lost in thc Pacific in the course of these Lodge previously had proposed a blanket 15 percent raise in contributions for all de- pendency classifications but a joint Turn to rage 3 Col. 1.) Auto License Validity Extended to July 15 An extension of automobile licenses until midnight July 15 will be allowed because of delay In ment of the 1M3-44 Road Commissioner Ernot L. Bailey said yesterday .is long lines formed at capitol offices of the commission for the annual He added that this 15-day sion will be thc only one granted urged all vehicle owners to their applications on file be- fore July in. About was termed a for Jhc American Agent E. E. today before a U. to FBI charges he had gathered im information Nail Intelligence system messages between the lines and on committee of marine t rn 1 I coart guard experts 1 mended varying increases and the by the government nf all III rr est tnc serving as an air raid H naturalized U. S. i of national and who O trained as ed guilty before Martin C. Epstein In Brooklyn and j intelligence Seen After War June West nf the trans- port difficulties it had lo contend with in the become one i. the highest users His reports dealt with D. Lewis declared Conroy said had eluded brief comments on n spy in i can public opinion which Conroy before U. S. Commissioner i said was of paramount interest to allowance immediately following Induction of a man into thc armed Chairman of a military subcommittee said this alone would cost the government an additional He Turn to Page 3 5.1 analyst in the department of economic planning of American raid in an interview that are few states for which was bail for grand In rnc message he described transport ran do so of bomb sights by the Yorker was in Hunting jury He cannot be ed by a U. S. commissioner and will be prosecuted under the wartime espionage act which provides a sentence of death or 30 years in prison for In disclosing details of Conroy said that thc man native who had served as an air raid warden in Staten known to have frequented bars and restaurants where members of the armed forces and defense workers Conroy described to j American He also the Rotary sent details of thc construction and that circuitous pun ho Norfolk and Newport thc and number of tanKs and guns being carried In a con- number of Another message included the repair of Brooklyn navy which murt now be loading of pd by and transportation Iks in West Virginia will no be for the airplane can I reduce transportation time not only by Its greater speed hut also their destinat and a Lewis added that West Virginia's I difficulties of gen graphic barriers raid precautions be eliminated and you will reckon dis Turn lo Page 3 Col. in not in Arabs With Gifts to Children June soldiers In North Africa have proved ambassadors of In winning the Aratu tn the Allied Administrator E. R. has save gum and candy lo Arab children nut and made with Ihe anil won the of Ihe had the cat out of he Before last the word lad gone around that the originally billed as be- tween June 23 and 30" would be thc night of the 29th. No explanation of the leak was given other than that regional office of civilian defense inadvertently made known the exact date in an Ohio radio Bachmann did not make public thc exact hour for the alert and it still could be considerable of a SUP prise by coming in after He estimates that more than 75.- West Virginians will don their armbands and sally out to take part in maneuvers coping with hypo County tors will conduct their own tests lions already have come in by immediately after the Drive Begun Here To Free Home Building Materials Nearly Thc committee is to draft a representing at a session next utilities and materials day and report back to interests eager to get small home i a meeting of the entire group the construction under way again in j following this war industry launched On this committee Charles preliminary organization yesterday j. representing thc general afternoon towards breaking WPB on j A. V. of the j to Mobilization building is Building maximum pro. ly several of them de- Charleston Lumber I at the meeting called by lumber Joe of Del. L. J. in the central building trades council miners part of Almost as many continued their in thc soft coal of central and western where some miners wera represented as having decided not to work Monday after voting to do so Thc ranks of Pennsylvania ing miners swelled however around with slight gains re- ported in captive mines of the H. C Frick Coke U. S. Steel sub- but none at all four Jones t Steel Corp. 90 Percent Back In W. More men went back to work In the big producing states of Ohio and in addition to western but iv fewer were on the Job in West Virginia and Operations were reported at 90 percent in West Alabama production was off with operators reporting that looked than when only 3.000 of the state's 24.- 000 UMW miners UMW leaders had predicted a return of the Alabama miners A week has passed since the eral walkout On June 23 Turn to Pate 3 Col. 3.) Newton Hopes For Cooperation te The June lowing his appointment by Sec. Ickes as director of mine tions for the federal Carl E. president of the Chesapeake i Ohio Railway made the following statement In and of what have j construction T. E. been critical materials might thc real estate John well he diverted into meeting shortage of living space in the im- portant Kanawha Crediting inspiration for the move to a Gazette Callinan got representatives of Morgan of Charleston Electric ply the electrical S. plumbing and H. W. duction of coal from the of to the limits ot my Sec. Ickes nor I have jurisdiction over nor any power to make a contract with the mine know thc difficulties of this Between mine owners West Virginia Brick Co. brick and j and these are H. G. Pfaff Se and and architects and Crt G. Appalachian he public and invited them to trie Power the it After a round robin dis- led by the Croup agreed to a committee 11 representing all construction m- with Callinan .is an ex ot- j ficio They arc charged with getting together on a plan all In- and can join in pushing now that Turn to Page 12 Col. 4.) died I shall deal with both sides as fairly as I know production of coal is vital to winning the less of differences and existing I have confidence that in the national interest the mine workers and the mine owners will give me their
