Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - June 3, 1943, Hamilton, Ohio Wit will U fifth HAMILTON up jw mi It JOURNAL ti Ait at JUNE 141 PRICE 8 WEATHER AND s LABOR HEADS CALLED TO WHITE HOUSE JAPS VICTORY HOPES ON DECLINE SINCE BATTLE OF MIDWAY ALLIES SCATTER CONVOY OFF SINKING THREE SHIPS 4 4 3 4 S S 4 S 4 S 4 4 S fc 6 44t DESTROYER ALSO HIT IN ATTACK Americans Raid Pantelleria Almost At Will NAZIS BOAST Has No Chance Of Defeating Continental Armies Of Axis 1renB Allied Headquarters in North June de sank two axis merchant vessels and an escorting torpedo boat and drove an enemy de stroyer ashore burning Tuesday night in an attack on a convoy off Cape it was announced Our force suffered no casual ties or said a com issued from the head quarters of General Dwight Eisen allied commander in One of the sunken merchant vessels blew up after being set afire by the bulletin Among the attack ing force was one vessel of the royal Greek United States war planes swept Pantelleria almost at will blowing up one build ing in the port area and damaging and shot up radio installa tions and bivouacked troops in southern Lightnings and maintained the merci less air offensive against nis fortified rock 45 miles east of the tip of Cap Bon Without Loss The operations were carried out without loss of any of the allied the announcement From their desert fighters swept over the Aegean sea sinking two small sailing vessels at anchor in an island harbor and damaging a third by cannon a Middle East air communique A Berlin discussing two invasion articles in the Ger man army organ Die stressed the possibility of allied thrusts into Europe from several and declared An AngloAmerican expedition ary force might perhaps succeed in crossing the Mediterranean and landing somewhere in south ern but it would not have the slightest chance in battle against axis continental armies with their millions of and wellequipped Maybe In Norway Coupled with this boast of axis the broadcast con ceded the allies might perhaps in obtaining a foothold at gome points on the Norwegian coast for some It cannot be of that the AngloAmerican occupa tion of Tunisia created a new situ alien in the the broadcast It would be foolish to ignore the fact that the now are in a position to use bases in Tu nisia for offensive operations Berlin previously had named June 22 as der tag for the al lies grand assault on Key In War Effort June Newspapers occupy a key posi tion in the total war a special report of the American Association of Teachers of said News wore necessary than ever in time of the issued through the United Office of is necessary for the proper functioning of democracy and it is necessary for UNION LEADER KILLED l June 3i agent of the U En was shot to night and police were search ing for three men said to nave with bin ia Deputy Initiative Held By Americans For Last Year Special To June Henri has appointed Vice Ad miral Emile above his deputy as in French North Africa and charged him with maintaining order in Al giers and Edsel Ford Taxes About 12 Million June The will of Edsel Bryant Ford was filed for probate today because it bequeathed the greater part of his Ford Motor company stock to the Ford attorneys estimated estate inheri tance and transfer taxes might not amount to much more than Earlier based solely upon had placed the possible tax at as much as Attorneys said the estate itself probably would amount to Edsel only son of Henry Ford and late president of the Ford Motor died last week at the age of The Ford a non profit was organized in 1936 for educational and other Gifts to organizations of its type are not That portion of the Ford stock not bequeathed to the Foundation is left in equal shares to Eleanor Clay the and each of the four Henry Ford Benson Walter Buhl Ford II and William Clay is made The widow Nazis Gunning For Churchill June Belief prevailed in some ters here today that the Germans were gunning for Prime Minister Churchill when they shot down a air liner bringing Leslie Howard and 12 other pass engers from Lisbon Reports eaid there was a greater concentration of over the Bay of where the liner was last heard from under than at any one time in many and they were said to pouncing on every aircraft they It might be observers that the Germans were out to get believing he might be coming home from Wash ington via that German controlled radio tions had put out various stories about the prime ministers where abouts during past MILK DRIVERS STRIKE strike of U against sn order of the Office of Defense transportation deliveries every other Jay tually halted of wilk ill Pittsburgh The drivers they to having to deliver double on Many hundreds of gallons of milk were into sewers June The ultimate wreckage of Ja pans ambitious scheme to smash American power in the Pacific and dictate peace in the White House ie seen by authorities here in the history of 12 months of warfare following the de defeat in the battle of Mid way which was joined a year ago Not once since that boomerang ing thrust aimed at the conquest of the North American continent has Tokyo been able or will ing to launch a major new offen and now the initiative has passed so thoroughly into Amer ican hands that no other enemy drive of similar proportions seems possible in this The reconquest of Attu which also dooms the base on nearby already strips the Japanese of the minor gains they made from the grand stra that resulted in their defeat at Complete cleanup of enemy forces in the Western Aleutians seems probable some time this Killed On Attu more than of the foe have been accord ing to an actual count of and probably uncounted other hundreds perished in their sui cidal defense of the fogbound The few that remain alive and fighting have been broken into disorganized Japans uncompleted airfield on Attu and all the useful terrain and anchorages are under Amer ican control and it is believed that installation of American Continued On Pace 2 Allied Delegates End Food Confab Hot June The United Nations food con ference wound up its 16 days of deliberations today by approving resolutions calling on the 44 par countries to join in postwar planning for a world freed from It recommended the creation of an International A g r i c Authority to secure collaboration on programs to increase the pro distribution and con sumption of The parley opened May The work of the conference was hailed by chair man of the Soviet Russia delega with the words that it has laid a firm foundation for the future collaboration of nations in the field of food and and has brought nearer the vic termination of the Gibraltar Cleared Of Allied Shipping Germans Send 500 Planes Over Kursk 123 Downed June Dispatcher from La Linea said today that Gibraltar has been virtually cleared of allied Seventy including troop transports and passed through the Strait of Gi from the Atlantic en route to North Africa at these advices while other convoy of 60 six tankers and one hospital ship left Gibraltar harbor for the and North Africa No aircraft carriers or the dispatches now guard the The harbor more deserted than it any time during regent with scarcely a poore of of which four are under at OF PANAMA CANAL AT Qt the engi who directed tbe will be in He here yesterday at American Soldiers Held Prisoners Stimson June The enemy now holds at least American soldiers Secretary of War Stimson re ported and of them are in the hands of the These figures are lie including only those whose names have been reported through the International Red On this Germany prisoners and Italy has in a press conference at which he also mentioned that the conquest of Attu puts American forces in striking distance of Japanese ter said food packages were being sent regularly to the pris in Germany and Italy but the Japanese had not yet agreed to such an Asked for elaboration on his hint of future operations from the Western Aleutians against the Kurile islands of Japan less than 800 miles Stimson smiled and Its a pretty long The climax of the Attu fight he came on May 28 and On the first army troops seized several positions overlook ing but on the morning of the second day the Japanese counterattacked sav penetrating the forward American lines and getting as far as the advance regimental com mand reserves were thrown in and the last ef fort of enemy forces was re And Britain Way Try To Block Move June A force of about 500 German planes attacked the Russian base at Kursk yesterday afternoon and at least 123 were shot the Russians announced signal izing a and phase of the bitter aerial battle on the ern The nazi air fleet represented the largest single mass the Ger mans have concentrated in any sector for months and their re ported losses marked one of the biggest single days bags in any theater of aerial A Moscow broadcast said 93 of the raiders were brought down by soviet in air duels and that antiaircraft guns shot down 3C after some planes got through to the city and ardly dropped bombs which in material damage and cas The Russians said they lost 30 planes and declared the tally of nazi victims was Tax Awaits Only Presidents Signing Juno American income taxpayers to day awaited President decision whether they should pick themselves up by the financial boot straps and become current on their bills with Uncle Before the President is a com promise measure approved by overwhelming votes in both houses of congress which will put 000 persons on a basis if Roosevelt signs as congressional leaders are reported to have received new assurances he will The measure was sent to the White House by a 62 to 19 senate vote Both Ohio Robert Taf t and Har old voted for If it becomes the average taxpayer will pay 25 per cent of the lesser of his 1942 or 1943 addition to his current Gurrent Collections and other major provisions will make collections current in this manner A full years tax the lesser of 1942 or 1943 will be abated for all persons who owe or with a notch provision giv ing a abatement to all up to Only 75 per cent of the leaser of 1942 or 1943 taxes will be abated for who will be required to pay the remaining i two republican Sena j tors Robert Taft and Harold I split vote on 1 legislation extending for two 1 years executive authority to make reciprocal trade i Taft voted against and Burton for Both voted for the mise tax L 25 per cent in two annual install A 20 per cent withholding levy on wages and above basic will go into ef fect July 1 for current collection of income and victory Taxpayers with other sources of income will estimate their 194 liability and pay quarterly on it beginning September The first two installments paid this year on 1942 taxes wil be credited to 1943 Over Half Of Applications For Ration Books In Error June More than 50 per cent of the ap for War Ration Book 3 received at stale mailing center here are seph state mailing di disclosed That will Cannon those Ohioans who filled out postcard applications incorrectly may not receive their new ration books when The im proper are beng liid aside to be processed The gigantic tusk of checking applications from all over the state began Cannon first estimated the job could be accomplished in two ing two processing of ration and preparing them for That was before 1 inspected the we have received approximately Easily one million or more are in A this rate it is useless to speculate when we will finish and the peo pie will receive their Cannon listed failure to fill in all the blank spaces on the card duplication and illegible hand writing as the most common mis And weve received he that have a stamp attached to perfectly blank The director also received an indignant letter from a woman in the northeastern part of the stat who eaid ehe would go nun fry before would give hu Another torn into tiny came in an An accompanying letter apologetically the babj tt BULLETIN June The French executive com was formally brought into existence today and given the name of the national com of June Joint action to any attempt of General Charles De Gaulle to erect a vir ual fighting French dictatorship n Algiers was considered possible n diplomatic quarters here Comment was withheld pending the outcome of Gen eral De Gaulles negotiations with General Henri French commander in North in he hope that an executive com would be formed as a prac tical symbol of But if General Do Gaulle used the or the commit to set himself up as sole polit cal it was believed possible British would withdraw their financial a subsidy said exceed American aid General Giraud Pays Administrator Ed ward yesterday reported clothing and other civilian supplies valued at had been sent to French North For our only lend ease cash already has paid as well send ng a substantial amount of raw materials to Britain and the Some observers in the statement iere privately voiced concern at he reported political confusion in which they called a regrettable mess that might with military prepara tions in the European So far as could be he state department still is back ing General Special To New June following in the footsteps of her Jean Wallace above will go to Mexico this summer to continue her study of Spanish and She is shown before two of her paintings at Connecti cut college in New ler Vice President Henry a fluent speaker of will speak in New Lon don at the commencement exer cises during which she will be Planes Getting Help Chinese Troops Take Chungking June Chinese continuing to ad vance on the Yangtze front in Central yesterday recap tured the town of 12 miles south of the Japanese base at and also occupied the Yangtze port of 35 below an army spokesman announced Japanese troops are being driven back toward the south bank of the river on the whole upper Yangtze the spokesman Ho said the Japanese had used altogether about troops in the battle and suffered about A communique from the head quarters of Joseph Stilwell announced 10 counter offensive blows were struck by the Fourteenth United States air force May 30 and 31 in support of the Chinese army in the Lake Tungting Liberator bombers were credited with destruction of 20 Japanese fighter planes and prob able destruction of five others during bombardment of Ichang air fields and Chinese fighter pilots led by John Alison oi destroyed three and probably wrecked three STOPS MADAME CHIAm New June ame Chiang and the Puke and Duchess of Windsor were those stopped an questioned by inspectors in the Memorial day weeken drive against violators of the plea sure driving ban in the metro Mitchell district enforcement at disclosed He eaid all three had valid rea spue for driving and were ques Honed as a routine procedure in the enforcement parties he were Follows Father June Wings over the Himalayas soon vill equal in effectiveness the de ivery of military supplies by way f the Burma road but the allies till want the Burma road Sources that cannot be quoted today that on the basis of information direct from China jargo planes now are flying army from India in a gross ton nage amounting to about of that which was trucked over ho highway before it fell to the In a month or so they Avill be nearly twothirds of the Jurma road monthly And it was will mean virtual replacement of the old Burma road volume as far ae mil tary value is concerned because ts all army supplies whereas much of the old truck shipments were commercial Japs Befuddled By This Attack Juno First John McChes back from 14 months of aerial action in chuck les as he tells how a green somber in its first taste of dropped mosquito nets and fruit juice on a Japa nese He wears the Distinguished Flying Cross for that first a medium bomber mission to New We were 60 miles from when we located a Jap transport and decided to stay and drop our load on he told a Post Intelligencer reporter yesterday Own We were eo darned that we tried the rec procedure on the flying low and flashing It was silly the transport couldnt have been anything but it answered with rounds of tracer We made three On the the bombardier opened the wrong and threw COAL CRISIS AWAITS WORD OF PRESIDENT No Action Expected Until Late Today Or Friday DIRECTOR Believed Working Behind Scenes With Roosevelt To End Stoppage June President Roosevelt called the of War Labor board to the White House for a conference today amid increasing signs of somo presidential action designed to end the stoppage of coal production of John Lewis United Mine The possibility of any action be fore late or perhaps to appeared how There was evidence that the White House and James IV new War Mobilization di were working behind the scenes to bring the coal strike to a Presidential Secre tary Stephen Early said he as the Labor boards order that negotiations between the operators and miners be halted until men are back in the coal pits still Members of the combined Labor War board meet periodically with the President to consider all mat pertaining to labor in the war There was no specific in dication the Chief Executive would bring the coal dispute be fore although chances appeared to be good that he would go over the coal problems with the and The United Mine Workers have no represent ative on the Green And Murray Those coming to the White House included President William Green of the Phillip president Julius of the Electrical Workers union president of the Automotive Workers and George Early told the press he was neither foreclosing or antici pating any White House action on the coal situation on in the Ho asserted On the coal strike front there isnt us far as I can tell you any expectation of any announce ment that can be given to the press at the present soft coal operators and United Mine Workers repre resumed their joint wage conference this morning although both groups of operators have ad vised the War Labor board they will obey its order not to nego the coal contract while production is What the conferees discussed was not disclosed but persons miliar with the conference rules said that final adjournment could not be taken without the consent of both The miners quit work at night Monday upon expiration the contract between the United Mine Workers and the The is demanding a pay increase of a day for The War Labor resented and ignored by watched nearly two daye of futile between the union producers and yesterday ordered them The mosquito and pineapple On the second he was so excited by the tracers that he didnt drop On the third he unloaded ali the bombs and the bomb bay gasoline tank We rolled the ship a but didnt score a direct bargaining conduced during strike was gad his the board challenge toe Government of United States in of End The operators promised would abide by the boards order and call off declared the waj acting illegally in taking a Thereupon the whole mm shipped to the White want of any other to it waj viewed the the wage Jokes was V
