Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - June 30, 1942, Zanesville, Ohio THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL VOL No 49 TUESDAY JUNE 1942 TWO YANKS RUSH AID TO EGYPT WLB Studies Steel Wage Boost Demand Panel Acts Favorably On Union Proposal war labor board holds a public hearing tomorrow on a three-man panel report that supports union de- mands for a wage increase and a maintenance of membership for- mula for ers If adopted by the full the report may influence the wage and security demands of war workers in the bile and aviation industries One of the little steel companies In- land indicated it would make a court test of any form of union security imposed Any wage increase granted in the case almost certainly would be extended soon to other steel workers under the industry's policy of maintaining comparable wage standards The panel report made no recommendation as to the amount of the wage ing the size of if to the full board But it said the four companies inv fiem Republic Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and afford to meet the United Steel Workers demand for a a day wage boost The asked for a union shop The panel recommended maintenance of union plus the check contending that substitution of that for the open shop policy of the steel industry would make shop conditions more peaceful and re- sult in increased The maintenance of membership formula suggested by the panel provides that any employe who is a member of the union on a set two weeks after agreement on a who later becomes a member must maintain his membership in good standing as a condition of em- ployment The companies would check off the dues not to exceed a Philip CIO and USW told a panel hearing that the union would forego its demands for a union shop and cept the maintenance of ship formula if approved by the full board The panel held that the formula would protect the 30 per cent of employes who have to join the union withstanding the arguments of the union's representatives and the pressure which has certainly been brought to City Swelters in Heat This city sheltered again today as temperatures zoomed upward and threatened to pass yesterday's high mark of 93 set in noon The heat now in Us third found numerous children and grownups at the municipal ming pools Attendance at the No 1 pool taled about 400 yesterday This is slightly above average Some relief was in sight as the forecast today for showers and somewhat cooler night Registration May Be Under Estimate Registration of county youths between 18 and 20 years of ago under the selective service program resumed dav The task will be completed o'clock this line for enrolling The registration this morning was slow and indications uere that the original estimate of would not be reached Figures show that 345 registered Saturday Fifty from CCC Camp roistered this at the office of the commissioners in the court house They were brought down town in two camp May Strip Off Duty Of Guns to the mrnt of nil factories deputies ate appointed to guards to sti ip r badge nnd before the po of The request follow en J Ine of U S Deputy Icy former last special wm hold in connexion n shooting which police saul occur red when Main to pi vent him from driving while in ickes Scraps FDR's Mat President Roosevelt was given a lesson in rubber saKage when Secretary Harold Ickes rolled up the big mat at the House door and sent it to a gasoline station to be added to the nation's scrap rubber pile WASHINGTON President Roosevelt today ed upon every government de- and agency in ington and throughout the United States to turn in every possible ounce of rubber in their buildings from now on Disappointed over results of the rubber collection which he forced to extend for an additional ten the president called upon Director of the Budget Harold Smith ta into and see to it that rubber floor mats such as the one Secretary of Interior Ickes from the executive entrance and every other type of rubber made are turned in immediately Army May Shoot Six Saboteurs WASHINGTON A Lengthy conference between ney General Biddle and Secretary of War created belief day that at least six of the eight German sabotage agents captured by the may be turned over to the army for court martial and most certain execution It could not be learned whether of the saboteurs who are American citizens can be tried by the army Members of congress and legal experts say that they can be prosecuted for ever Biddle consulted throughout the day with Maj Gen ron C aimy judge cate and other officials of the justice and war departments departments are in substantial agreement upon the steps to be taken in the tion of the eight German teurs who apprehended by the FBI shortly after landing on our coasts from Nazi Biddle said further and more detailed announcement concerning this matter may be expected within the next 48 Biddle earlier promised that the government act and in its prosecution of the Nazi who were trapped by the FBI in New York and cago after they landed on can shores from German rines The tuo saboteurs who are erican citizens are Ernest Peter Burger and Herbert Haupt Justice department officials said thai any trace of the entire party of has been rounded up and their and sponsors cither in our custody or about to ing the sensational arrest of the eight it was announced that said to be contact men for the apprehended Cooler tonight Deadline Tonight For Auto Stamps Hundreds of motorists were chasing the new federal auto use tax stamps at the postoffice here today in an effort to beat deadline Although the stamps may be purchased after motorists not be permitted to drive their automobiles unless they have purchased a it was said In an effort to accommodate late one window at the postoffice will remain open until S o'clock this it was an- by Postmaster Howard McCracken McCracken recalled that over motorists purchased the tax stamps when they went on sale here last He predicted that the present sales of the stamps would come near that ure Many German Tanks Caught In Red Trap Soviets Launch Near Sevastopol MOSCOW Russian de- fenders and axis troops battled furiously at close quarters in the northeast sector of the Sevastopol defenses today and although the Soviet troops gave some they were counter front line dispatches said While the Germans threw tional reserves into the all out fort to break through the Russian defenses in the day of furious fighting also was going forward on the Kursk sector where the army newspaper Red Star said hundreds of German tanks had been cut off from the infantry that followed them The Sevastopol fighting reached a new high in tempo as the ers threw every weapon they had into the effort to break the sian resistance Several times the defenders beat off attacks but ally the Germans succeeded in pushing them back and in some places gaining small yardage The luftwaffe was cooperating the ground with both bombers and fighters attacking On the Kursk front the Russians presumably were now engaged in picking off the isolated tanks and destroying them Red Star said motorized and panzer apparently upwards of men increasing their pressure on the Kursk 275 miles southwest of in an that began Sunday After initial defeats and mous the hundreds of man tanks attacked again The Russians let them then drove a wedge between the tanks and infantry Unless they can retreat or Germans can through and supply the tanks are ed CCC Finds House WASHINGTON The standing firm in its tion to the administration on the issue of continuing the Civilian Conservation refused again today to vote funds to keep the in existence for the 1943 cal year beginning at 12 01 a m tomorrow By a roll call announced as 229 to the chamber rejected a senate amendment to the federal security supply to grant the CCC approximately 576 The house previously had voted to abolish the agency but the by a margin of one sought to continue the agency Malcolm C D who led the hopeless fight for continuance of the con- ceded that the house's insistence on abolishing the agency edly meant its end In rejecting the senate the house for liquidation of the It had voted for that purpose Bond and Stamp Blitz Set for Noon Tomorrow Tomorrow's the dav take a back seat fiom noon until p m while clerks in the local stores put on a sale of bonds and Tho termed a ll inaugurate the drive which will continue July under the tion of the Retail Mei chants association whistles church bells nnd sirens sound off at the noon hour to herald the opening of the campaign As an added the association is offering a bond to the clerk who sells the most defend stamps during the week of the campaign Close tabulation be kept on the progress of the sale nnd final will be judged by a com- composed of Major Tom V Thomas man of the bond and stamp sale m Muskingum nnd City Service Director A S Activities of the clerks pating in stamp contest will not be limited to store but may be carried on during their free time A model fighter ed by women in local defense class and is on display on the court house esplanade in tion with tho merchants bond and is attracting wide at- tention Turns Talents to Apparently a man of varied Herman one of eight men arrested by FBI as Nazi spies after being landed in U S from pictured as he sculptured Model Betty Roberts in butter when working as chef in a Chicago hotel in 1938 American Planes And Tanks Bolster British On London Reports Gen Auchinleck Takes Place Of Ritchie as Allies Prepare For Stand Against Rommel's Panzers By UNITED The Axis offensive into Egypt surged 45 miles eastward across the Egyptian desert to the Fuka sector today but met stiffening resistance by the British eighth army and allied reinforcements which London dispatches said American airplanes and enormous equipment The enemy threat to now only 120 miles and to Cairo and Suez was increasingly grave but fierce fighting was in progress over hundreds of square miles of desert battlefield and hopes mounted that fresh forces could start an effective against tired and extended armies of Nazi Field Marshal Rommel Deputy Arrests Fugitives Here Three one of them a Zanesville who escaped from the Grafton honor prison farm three weeks were in the tody of police today William of 863 ner and Paul of were captured day afternoon on the East a short distance from this while of Indian by patrolmen from Power Strike Is Called Off A threatened strike of CIO union employes of the Ohio Power any plant at scheduled for last was shortly before the deadline lowing intervention by the Labor Board at Washington Strikes at three other power plants in West Virginia and sylvania were also postponed the action of the federal board Members of the Philo unit of the Utility a CIO voted unanimously to call off the strike at the Philo during a meeting early last night Word that the War Board in Washington consider the dispute between the union and the power company was received a short time before the meeting be- gan Between 500 and 600 employes in power plants at W and and would e been affected if the walkout had occurred Under the strike the CIO employes sought a per day increase and a union shop Officials at the Philo plant had made plans to maintain power in the event of a strike Additional men had been brought it was and army cots and a supply of groceries had been stored at the plant Had the strike it as production of the plant would have been cut from to about kilowatts Dale was arrested at state highway Patrolman Joe who was off duty saw Ralph and Yerian riding east on Market in an automobile owned by Donald of Route 1 Cor- bin's car was stolen here on June Powell immediately telephoned police and the sage was broadcast the police radio Deputy Sheriff Bernard who was taking Ellis a prisoner at the county to Good Samaritan hospital for medical heard the broadcast at Market and Fourth streets Burner then headed east on Market street and set out after the fugitives With his own oner still m the Burrier caught Turn to Page Three Torso Killer Claims Woman Robbed Him CLEVELAND Police listened today to the testations of Willie that he killed Frances in self bered her body and left it m a trunk in Kingsbury run because she robbed him of At first believed one of the many Torso murders of Kingsbury police later discovered that son had boen seen dragging the trunk from a taxicab into the ravine here it was found 12 hours a car who worked all in a parking lot after committing his gruesome told police he first beat the dismembered her body with a pocket knife after pulled n knife on me and said I owed her When she made this Johnson he looked in his pockets and dis- covered the missing JAW MARTINS John a died day of lockjaw contracted on June 2 when finger was crushed House Votes Funds For Army swiftly the fiscal year-end the senate today approved the 067 army tion for 1943 by a voice vote and returned the to the house for concurrence in minor amendments The senate considered the record measure for only about 35 minutes Sen Elmer chairman of the senate military appropriations subcommittee ex- its provisions and revealed that it includes money for tanks The measure is the largest gle appropriation in history and house concurrence is expected day The largest item for the domestic establishment in the is to build airplanes for the army air corps But the measure also includes for lend-lease The would grant the war department for pay and subsistence of an army which is expected to top mark before the end of fiscal 1943 Rabies Spreading In Washington Co O Foui Washington county under strict quarantine today in an effort to halt the spread of to be caused gray and skunks The County Gamp association has offered hunters 50 a head for every gray fox killed Many of gray foxes and skunks shot so far have been reported as ing rabies Farmer Questioned In Youth's Slaying Will mm died early today of rifle bullet in the head and neck and police questioned n Two Injured In Mine Accidents Two miners were one m separate accidents which occurred last night and thi morning at Jones Coal company mine No near of neck injury Emmett sustained a severe while working at a coal cutting machine this while ren of near Roseville sustained an injured right leg when struck by swinging boom a coal loading machine at the mine yesterday afternoon whose neck was torn was said to be suffering from shock and loss of blood Both men were taken to Samaritan hospital m the ambulance Good Keck Crowd Sees Boy Try Getaway Probation Officer Jim Ardrey's struggle with a tive from the detention home at- a large crowd of ers to South Fifth street late this morning Tne Thomas and screamed while the officer lee and dragged with difficulty to the detention home m the vation Army building The who escaped was returned to city jail last night by a sister police took the youth to probate court for arraignment in connection with a series of thefts The judge was out of the however whereupon Ardrey undertook to take Wise to the detention home Near Fifth and Mam the boy attempted to break away in the presence of crowds at the busy A large throng followed the struggle between of- ficer and boy for more than A police cruiser was summoned when it appeared that the would get managed to but take him to the de tention home by the time it ar- rived Wake Bombing Called Dividend from Midway HEADQUARTERS HAWAIIAN AIR FORCE An army bombing raid which put the Japanese air base on Wake island out of commission is but the first dividend on the Midway islanc naval well informed ters said today It uas forecast as the re- sult of the shattering blow dealt to the Japanese the Wake raid would be followed by others against oven more important enemy bases n the vast Pacific area of LONDON Prime Minister Winston Churhill re- in commons today that Gen Sir Claude commander in chief In the middle had relieved Lieut Gen Neil M Ritchie of the Army command and himself assumed the job of stopping the German drive through Egypt to defend himself in a two-day full-dress war de- bate Iix the Churchill entered the house for the first time since return from his visit to President and was greeted by cheers from all sides of the house to be bracing for the main battle west of El where the narrows the coastal front to about 50 miles newspapers reported that thousands of American additional American airplanes and enormous amounts of equipment had been rushed to the Egyptian but these reports were not confirmed elsewhere Axis com- said that the Rommel forces had advanced 45 miles from Matruh to a point east of after taking 01 more Brit- ish prisoners at Matruh A middle eastern command com- said that fierce fighting continued throughout yesterday over a wide area covering several hundreds of square miles between Matruh and 120 miles from on the and the depression inland British tank driving against superior attacked the German and Italian armored forces of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel west of Fuka and forced an enemy withdrawal mobile supported by powerful RAF and American bomber fought a delaying action against Axis armies in the tian desert today while the reinforced eighth army regrouped for defense of El only 80 miles west off Alexandria naval base Fresh Allied stretching out across the were ing the and fresh New land troops already have gone into repulsing the Germans west of Fuka in a local engagement Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck Bremen For Third Time LONDON A strong force of Royal Air Force estimated at 300 or Germany's second heavily during the air ministry announced 4 It was the third raid on since Thursday when than heavy bombers ed explosives and incendiaries Its docks and war industries Other objectives in enemy airdromes in railway targets in France and German shipping the French coast air but bore the brunt of the raids Nine British bombers were ing 7 The RAF obviously was mined to make Bremen useless to the Germans for months that be crucial to the Nazi war The raid believed have been the greatest in aviations history wrought widespread struction Saturday night and before British bombers to drop bombs upon objectives they had missed Radio Berlin reported damage done by fires in the areas of in night's raids It claimed that British planes were shot down West Atlantic Sub Toll Rises to 335 The United The navy announced the sinking of two more men today with the arrival survivors at east coast ing to 335 the number of United Nations Vessels lost to submarine and again engaged by the British forces No information was available here on dispatches from Cairo in that thousands of American American air corps personnel and planes and large amounts of equipment had arrived in Egypt ready for But the communique said that new forces of New Zealand troops had been thrown into action and in their first engagement with en- emy armored forces and infantry won a local victory They destroyed numerous enemy the communique and Turn to Three OHIO BOND QUOTA COLUMBUS Oh Joans uill be asked to buy worth of war bonds in July as part of the national quota of Secretary of the ury Morgenthau has disclosed County Fair Likely State Leaders Give county fair board officials indicated today that the annual exposition would be held 18 to as though definite decision is not until next week At a meeting of the Ohio Fair Managers association in Columbus delegates 47 to and later m favor of a motion to continue fairs year-old farmer suspect about the where they will not handicap the shooting Authorities said that craft's charged that there had been between the men They lived on adjoining properties north of Ravencraft found lying in the road near the home last war effort Director Joseph B Eastman of the office of defense tion had asked for abandonment of the fairs ns a rubber conservation measure but gave fair managers an with the communities where fairs coincide with the regular marketing ties and do not In any way place an extra burden on vehicular the request can be disregarded Members of the Muskingum county fair board reasoned today that the local exposition would draw crowds from only a 15 to mile radius which would rause very little wear on truck and tires Orville president of the local said officials would action for a days or until the reaction of the public was determined A board meeting would then DC called to decide what action to take He that plans for this year's fair were m their final stage and that the local board undoubtedly would take tion similar to that of a majority of other Ohio fair ind the Gulf of Mexico The sinking of four United tions vessels was announced The story of one sinking an- a United Nations merchantman of medium size on the night of June wa stold by two American men who pleaded that they might return immediately to the sea so that their 32 shipmates who lost might be avenged They and three of the six survivors arrived from a West Indian sixth remained there The Robert 2nd of Los James of N had tried to enlist with the armed forces but were told their merchant marine services more important Another Slash Seen In Funds for OPA WASHINGTON Coin battle with Price Leon Henderson grew as Rep Taber N ed that he will move to further slash OPA's 1943 appropriation probably of its amount 5 With debate on the 615 national war eluded in a four-hour night sion the house prepared to begin reading the when ments will be in order Taber said that he will offer an amendment to cut the OPA tion of the supplemental 1943 sharply below its present 000 to about Henderson's original quest was for HEAT STROKE COSHOCTON J dropped dead of an ailment induced by heat tion while working the farm of Robert near West fayette last S M r pr
