67,000 Idle, Coal
Strike Spreads;
WLB Gives Up
- ' The war labor board, turned
'the soft coal wage dispute over
.to the White House yesterday
; i w eanesaay j , mus neaaing ii
for a final showdown between
President Roosevelt and John
L. Lewis, the United Mine
.Workers' chieftain.
- With 67,000 miners already
"Idle due to unauthorized-walkouts,
the labor board said it could
only turn to the White House
"since its own orders and appeals
for continued production had been
Ignored. It added that, In its opin
ion the mine case must be handled
like any other, under established
JENKINS, K j, April ZS-(JP)
' An estimated S0OO United Mine
- Workers failed te. report for the
' second work shift Wednesday
night and operations ceased. ai
the Jenkins and nearby Mc
; Roberts, Ky pits of the Con
Jaelldation Coal company.
It was the first reported work
' stoppage in the big sandy f ield
i or UMW district 19 in north-,
f eastern Kentneky. "
"procedures, and that if any ex
ception is made the whole system
'of handling wartime industrial
Quarrels would break down.
The dispute confronted the
president with challenges on two
major points:
l. The UMW'i refusal to sub
mit its -case - to the ' war labor
'board, the agency Mr. Roosevelt
established as a court of final re
j sort for .all . wartime labor dis
putes. . -
(In a letter to 5ecretary or La
bor Perkins, the UMW Tuesday
demanded withdrawal of the case
'from the WLB saying members of
the government agency J had a
"malignant prejudice" against the
UMW.
Mrs. Perkins, replying last
night, said she found no evi
dence of prejudice and declared
the war effort :"reqBiresw that.
- UMW work stoppages "cease at
- 2. The UMW's demands for
wage - increases without regard
lor the "little steer formula
which has become basic govern'
ment policy by incorporation m
the- president's hold-the-line or
der against inflation.
Overshadowing- these issues,
hewever, "was ..the immediate
question of whether f Mr. Roose-4
velt could avert a crippling halt
In the, production of fuel neces
sary to keep the wheels of war
production turning. V
I , ; Scarcely yelling the threat of
'a general work stoppage i by.
09,000 miners, Lewis declared
that In the absence of a new ;
agreement by Friday midnight
; when ;. a temporary under
standing with the operators ex
piresthe miners "will not tres
- pass" on company property. .
. In sending the case to the White
House, the war labor board said
In a statement: r - - -
"The WLB unanimously - be
lieves that the peop'e on the home
front in the United States are
filled .with a calm but grim' de
termination to exert their very -utmost
efforts for maximum produc
tion of those war materials which
re necessary."
i Lewis, who was -. in New .York
when the board's action was an
nounced, told reporters: ,
' I have no comment to make
at this time at aU. Twill see the
press tomorrow morning." "
On the question of wages, Lew
Is is asking for the miners a $2
daily increase, a basic wage of $3
day, and payment ; for under
ground travel time. He also asks
unionization of minor bosses.
' The operators contended in long
negotiations in New ; York - that
they were not free under govern
ment regulations to grant such in
creases and pointed to the WLB's
little steel formula.
This formula allows an increase
of .15 per cent above the level f
Jan. 1, 1941. The miners received
two years ago-an increase -exceeding
that percentage.
No one knew what President
Roosevelt might do to keep the
mines operating should Lewis ap
prove a general work stoppage, ..
Salem Girl :
(Given Award
CORVALLIS," April 28-)-T.l-Jeen
Ilolden, Salem, was awarded
the Lipman Wolfe award at Ore
gon State college Wednesday. The
honor is given annually to the se
nior class student adjudged out
standing in scholarship, leader
ship, contributions to campus wel
fare and unselfishness and kind
ness. --.,-;:r-"';v.-';-
( Marie A. Hunt, Lebanon, and
Verl O. Parrish, Newberg, were
jrlcded. to Phi Kappa Phi, na
tional rcholastis soeiety.
All
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Red Cross
Pole DeatlPProbe
: . . , .. ....... :f
As Breach
Russians Hint at Move to Organize New
Polish Government Inside Soviet;
Roosevelt, Churchill Confer
BENR, Switzerland, April
Cross will not investigate the
Poles near Smolensk unless it
as well as the Poles and Germans, it was stressed Wednesday at
headquarters here. -f
Under Red Cross rules, it was
explained, all interested parties
must' ask for the . action, and to
send j a commission Co German
occupied territory in Russia with
out unanimous consent of all part
ies would set a precedent whereby
all types of investigations in en
emy lands- could be asked by any
belligerent. .. ,
By the Associated Press'
LONDON. April 28 The
bitter Russian-Polish ' diploma
tie breach precipitated by Ger
many's "Smolensk . graveyard
, story" was as wide as ever
Wednesday night after a day
which brought these develop
ments: 1. Soviet publication of articles
which led ' observers to believe
Russia would demand a purge of
the Polish government-in-exile in
London or the creation of a rival
regime on soviet soil.
2. A London Polish government
appeal 1 "for j the . release" of all
fighting -Poles now in Russia, and
a declaration that the Poles "have
no - need to defend themselves
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Kaisci-Tiff-
Is Recessed
Until Monday
PORTLAND, April 28-yp)-The
46-day-old Kaiser shipyard la
bor hearing was recessed Wednes
day until Monday pending a rul
ing of the national labor relations
board in ashington as to the ad-
missibility of certain evidence of
fered! by the defense. .
'- NLRB trial examiner Robert N.
Denham ordered the recess after
he learned the. board expected to
rule on the matter by Monday.
He announced earlier that he had
submitted the dispute to ' the
board. ; 5 ' . I
The issue became so heated
Tuesday that a recess was called
until this morning. Attorneys for
three j Henry , J. Kaiser shipyards
in the area and for the American
Federation of Labor have sought
to get into the record evidence
purporting to show that the AFL
had a 90 per cent monopoly of
skilled shipyard labor on the Pa
cific coast when a master ship
yard .agreement was signed in
1941.1
- Denham contended this evidence
was immaterial to CIO charges
that the yards entered Into il
legal closed shop contracts with
AFL shipyard unions.
Soiith Pacific A ction
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA; Thursday, April 29
CAV Two: small Japanese ships
were bombed and machinegunned
Wednesday in the Arafura area,
the high command announced.
The i larger ship, of about 2000
tons, took a direct hit and both
were left in a stationary position.
It was the second attack in as
as many days on shipping in the
Arafura sea. Two ships of .4000
tons each were bombed Tuesday
and 'one of them war hit on the
bow. ! -: i M.
i ; "Our medium bombers execut
ed mast-height attacks on two
enemy cargo ships 90 miles north
ef Dobo, scoring a direct bit and
close miss with 500-pound
bombs- o th stern, of 2CS ton
vessel and two neaf misses on one
of 1200" tons," the noon commun
ique reported concerning - yester
day's attack. '
, "Both ships were machinegun
ned and left stationary in the
water. . -.1., V"-''" " '-V":a.
Tire broke out en the deck of
the smaller." -
Tuesday's raid occurred in the
same general area, only closer to
Dobo, "which Is on Wamar 4sland
in the Aroe group. - - ; .
- Wednesday's attack was made
by Dutch-manned Billy Mitchell
bombers. . .
Over New Britain's wide bay
Air
FM fuses
V , . . ;
Widens
28--The International Red
German charges of massacres of
is requested to do so by Russia
Labor Freeze
Is Modified
Workers Allowed to
Shift for Higher
Payv Rule Says ;
WASHINGTON, AprU 28
The entire nation will be put un
der an : employment stabilization
program within 48 hours to en
able workers, under certain cir
cumstances, to shift from one es
sential employer to another for
higher pay, officials said Wednes
day. f ' ;
At present such shifts can take
place only in 70 areas or regions
covered by stabilization programs
set up s through field offices of
the war manpower commission.
Elsewhere i in the nation the
transfers are blocked under a
job-control order which Manpow
er Commission Chairman Paul V.
McNutt recently issued in pursu
ance of President Roosevelt's di
rective to "hold the line" against
mflation.-'S:;r:;ri-:i':::a';-'
McNutt's recent : order forbade
the job changing for higher pay
unless workers were released from
their former jobs in accordance
with local stabilization program
terms, which allow the WMC to
block releases "not in the interest
of war effort."
By making the stabilization pro
gram nation-wide in scope, WMC
will permit workers to change
jobs for higher pay, providing the
change is considered to be "in the
interest of the war effort."
Officials, who asked not to be
named, said WMC Chairman Paul
McNutt pirobably would issue an
order putting the program into
effect after detailing its provisions
to his 12 regional directors at a
conference here.
Petrillo Suit
Is Dismissed
CHICAGO, April 28-fl5)-Feder-
al Judge John P.' Barnes, acting on
a motion filed by the department
of justice anti-trust division, Wed
nesday dismissed without preju
dice the government's second suit
against James C.t Petrillo, presi
dent of the AFL American Feder
ation of Musicians, based on the
union's ban on musical recordings.
big allied bomber on reconnais
sance was set upon by seven Jap
anese fighter ; planes ; but fought
them off. ; 1 ' ' : I :;. ;
Fires were started by a heavy
bomber In a raid on the airdrome
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9
A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur. has warned of Japanese
: , forces sea, land and air concentrated at bases within striking
distance of Darwin, port city on Australia' ."invasion coast," In
i addition to war fleet concentrations at Truk, 259.0S9 tons of mer
: chant shipping are at RabauL New. Britain, he said.. Other key
bases at Palau, Manila and Soerabaja are within easy striking
distance of the 2509-mll battle line enveloping the upper , half
f Australia,
Land
9
Air Force
Ger
esis
Concentrated Plane
Barage Said Doom
Of African Foe
- By KIRKE L: SIMPSON, -
WASHINGTON, April 28-P)
Axis armies in Tunisia are reel
ing to their doom under a con
centrated allied air barrage that
in the judgment of air experts
is only a foretaste of .what is in
store for Germany itself once
the' round - the - clock attack
from -Britain reaches its full
scope. "
Official I ' figures from allied
headquarters in -Africa credit the
northwest African air force with
having dropped nearly 2,000,000
pounds of bombs on enemy tar
gets on - both sides ' of the Medi
terranean and on his sea supply
lines within a single week. The
results in axis planes, shipping,
and, base facilities knocked out
represent an absolute barrier to
the escape of any substantial por
tion of the axis forces defending
the dwindling Tunisian hump, in
the . opinion of - informed allied
military judgment men who can
not be further identified.. ..
The air onslaught also lends
point to the argument advanced by
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Pioneer Clubs
To Aid Fete
Champoeg Festival
May 2 Will Hark to
Oregon's Beginning
WOODBURN, April Z7 Par
ticipants in the observance of
the centennial "Champoeg day"
on Sunday, May t, at Champoer,
will include the Sons and
Daughters of Oregon Pioneers,
the Daughters of the American
Revolution, the Oregon war
PORTLAND, April 28
Sunday's observance of the
100th anniversary of the found
ing of Oregon's first provisional
government will begin at 1 p.
m. with launching of the lib
erty vessel Robert Newell at
Oregon Shipbuilding corpora
tion. '
bond staff and other patriotic
organizations.
Responsibility for arousing in
terest In the centennial has
heretofore been assumed by the
Oregon Trail Centennial com
mission and : has assisted in
planning the observance, one
feature of which will be an ad
dress by ' Dr. Howard - Drlggs,
national president of the Pio
neer Trails association." t. ; ; -The
Daughters of the Ameri
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Increases
at Finschhafen, on New Guinea's
Huon peninsula. Above there In
the Saidor area, a four-engined
allied raider bombed the village
of Wilwilan and strafed the coast
al area. .
MOLUCCAS .
AUSTRALIA
man
m - ..w . : .j. . . i
J
m
:Dawe
Open Formation Toward
4
V
4b '
American reinforcements keep to
mmi.tliini .. t,4 .m i
. approach the active front. Troops such as these Tuesday stormed
commanding the road to Mateur and Blserte. Associated Press
Generalissimo Says Japs
Chinese Who A ided A merican Fliers
Morgenlhau Reads Cablegram From China
! Leader at San Francisco Bond Rally,
Warns of Nipponese Danger Here
SAN. FRANCISCO, April
slaughtered every, man, woman
China where American fliers
retary Henry Morgenthau said
Morgenthau said his ' informa
tion was contained in a cablegram
received from ; Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek, He read -the
message at a gathering of war
loan workers here.
The secretary of the treasury
spoke of .the horror with which
the nation a few days ago learned
that some of the American fliers
raptured, by the Japanese had
been executed.
"Now,- with a deep sense of
shock and anger," he said, "I must
bring you further news. I have
here a cablegram which : reached
me -this morning. It comes , from
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
Let me read it to you:
"After they had been caught
unawares . by the , falling of
American bombs on Tokyo,
Japanese troops attacked the
coastal areas f China where
many of , ; the American . fliers
had landed. These Japanese
troops slaughtered every man,
woman and child in those areas
let me repeat these Japan
nese troops slaughtered every
man, woman and child in those
areas, reproducing on a whole
sale scale the horros which the
world had : seen at Lidice, but
about which people have been
uninformed In these instances.
" The dastardly execution , of
these . American fliers, who were
taken prisoners of war, has made
clear to all Americans that we
lace , an enemy who knows no
codes ; of law or Recency. The
only language which such an en
emy understands 1 is that of the
weapons of war, and in the bond
campaign which you are pushing
for the war effort our people wish
you all success'." w -
'We have work ahead of us,"
Morgenthau continued. "We have
much to do. ': " - --
"Certainly we now have a clear
er idea of the nature of the' en
emy with: whom we are dealing.
If the Japanese will take special
pains to march into a Chinese vil
lage, whose only crime Is that of
offering sanctuary to a handful
of American fliers, and wipe out
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Brown Expects t
Small Homes9
Fuel Oil Boost
WASHINGTON, April 28-F-
Price -Administrator Prentiss
Brown announced Wednesday that
next winter's, fuel oil rations in
the 33 states, where oil use is re
stricted will not be cut and that
some rations ."notably for smaller
homes," will be increased. -
Registration for next season's
coupons will be . handled almost
exclusively by mail, he said. -'
Brown said rationing will apply
to the same 30 east coast and mid
dle western states and to Wash
ington, Oregon and western Idaho,
where fuel oil was rationed dur
ing the past winter."
"There is no intention, he add
ed, "to extend oil rationing to
additional areas,"
the sides of this Tunisian road and
: 28-PW&panese troops have
and child in the coastal areas of
landed after bombing 'Tokyo, Sec
Wednesday night.
Death Takes
Walter Jenks
Pioneer Businessman
Started Much Fruit
Industry Here
Walter T. Jenks, pioneer fruit
exporter of Salem to whom is
credited much of the responsibil
Uy for the development 'of .fruit
growing and drying and related
industries here, died Wednesday
night at his home approximately
two months after he was stricken
with a heart disease. He had ral
lied this week and been able to
receive guests before the return
of the illness Wednesday.
' Born in Birmingham. England,
71 years ago this month, he came
to Salem in 1890 at the age of 18
to stay with Mr. and Mrs. James
Winstanley, friends of his fam
ily. In . 1906 - he : married their
daughter, Miss Edith Winstanley,
who died in 1923. To this union
were born two children, now En
sign Walter Winstanley Jenks of
Ottumwa, la, and Mrs. Ralph
Stuller of Lafayette, Ore. In 1923
he married Mrs. - Melissa H. Wall
of Fresno, Calif-' who with : the
son and daughter' survives. - f ;
In 1900 Mr. Jenks became as
sociated with H. S. Gile in the
dried fruit - exporting ' business
here, a partnership which re
mained intact until Mr. Gfle's
death a few weeks ago. The1 of
fice, of secretary-manager of the
Willamette Valley : Prune associa
tion was - actively held by Mr.
Jenks to the time of his illness.'
. Four trips to his home in Eng
land took him also onto the Eu
ropean continent, where he helped
develop a market for Oregon's
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Wage Boost.
Is Extended .
PORTLAND, Aprfl 28-CT)-The
west coast lumber commission an
nounced : Wednesdays, extension of
its wage, stabilization program to
the pine industry in four western
states and continuance of previous
pay equalization orders for the
Douglas fir industry and Los An
geles, lumber trade area. " "
With war labor board approval,
the commission' issued a general
order permitting pine operators In
Oregon Washington, Idaho and
western Montana ' who were not
involved In pay disputes to grant
the - same wage increases prev
iously ordered in dispute cases.
Bus Strike Called V
CLEVELAND. ADril 28 -HUP
AFL T unionists ! on Cleveland's
street car and bus lines struck-at
midnight Wednesday night as un
ion officials conferred with May
or Frank J. Lausche in an eleven
th-hour conciliation effort.
the Front
f
'A
walk la open formation as they
and captured three strategic heights
Telemat.
Slaughtered
aign
Marion County Tops
Goal by $267,000;
$3,000,000 Is Aim
. ;tThe ftop'J proved no. stopping
point for Marion county Wednes
day in winding up its participa
tion In the national Second war
loan drive which closes Friday
night ' -t.
Non-bank subscriptions for war
The 118.75 'with which yea
bay a 123 war bond will pay
fori
11 arm Splints. Or
S tent stoves. Or
220 army tooth brushes. '
bonds for the three-weeks cam
paign Jumped to $2,767,000 Wed
nesday, $267,000 over the goal set
by the county's Victory committee.
Purchases reported Wednesday
totaled $165,000. '
Today's report gives s In
creased confidence that Marion
county citizens will make their
current contribution to the financing-
of the war effort a
$3,009,009 blow at the axis." de
clared Victory Chairman Jess
J. Gard. That's ear goal and I
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Convicts to
Donate Blood
To Red Cross
Prison bars, may prohibit them
from spilling their blood on bat
tlefields but 125 inmates of the
Oregon state penitentiary here will
donate some of the life stream to
tneir nation today when they con
tribute to the 'Red Cross blood
plasma bank. ; ,
Through special arrangements,
made for the men after they had
petitioned Warden ' George Alex
ander for the privilege of donat
ing their blood, the Red Cross mo
bile unit which operated in Sa
lem on Tuesday returns again to
day from Portland to receive the
contributions of he men in the
hickory shirts..- . - . -
Donors -at the Methodist church.
blood collection center, numbered
11 on Tuesday, Ordinarily 130
may be accomodated, and regis
trations for next Tuesday here
have already been filled, E. J.
Scellars, Red Cross ' blood bank
chairman said Wednesday, How
ever, at least one day a week for
the duration of the war the unit
will operate in Salem if there are
sufficient donors. One person may
contribute - blood only five times
.year..". . , " ;-. . -
Far East Leaders' -
Confer at Capital
WASHINGTON. April 28-UTV-
Lleut Gen Joseph W. S til well.
commander of the United States
army forces in the China-Burma-India
theater, and Ma. Gen. Clare
Chennault, commanding general
of the 14th air force in China, ar
rived Wednesday for a conference
with chiefs cf staff.
tiamp
Drives
Upward
CM
Brinish. ;
Assault :
Axis Hill ;
US Troojs Capture ;
3 Strategic Nazi
Mountain Sites
By WILLIAM B. KINO ?
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, AprU t?
(ff)-The British First army
threw in ; i i powerful assault
Wednesday against an axis
mountain position only 21 miles
from Tunis - the .Djebel Bou
Aoukaz commanding opea
stretches of the Medjerda vaji
ley leading down to the Tuni
sian . capital while American
troops completed the storming and
capture - of three important hiH
defenses in the route to Mateur
and Bizerte. - - .! . i
To the south the French, who
are hammering at the gates. of
Pont Du Fahs, have driven a col
umn southeast of . that town T to
reach the western slopes of Dje
bel Zaghouan despite heavy axis
artillery . fire, the , French com
munique,' reported. This column
cut the main road from Pont Du
Fahs to Djebibina. f
Other French forced; which had
swept forward 15 miles in three
days of what official reports term
ed "magnificent fighting, were
beating at the outskirts of Pont da
Fahs, in cooperation with British
armored columns striking from
the northwest. 1
The Germans and Italians
fought wit h' savage tenacity
against the $teady, continued al
lied advancedelayed 'front dis
patches told, for example, of the
enemy's unavailing use of flame-
throwing tanks in one sector and
military spokesman again de
clared that the axis policy to hold
every position to the last still ob
viously was unshaken. . t
"He (the enemy) will go back
only as the result of overwhelm
ing pressure," the spokesman said,'
Along the southern end ef the .
front General Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's Eighth army was
reported also continuing to- ad
vance, making the greater prog- .
ress along his left, along a harsh
and twisted line of march form-"
ed by the hard terrain itself,
heavy axis demolitions ansT
many axis mines. 4
. The Eighth army is facing the '
enemy's main fortified line, and
the Germans are rushing perhaps
the greatest concentration of ar- -tillery
they have employed any
where outside .Russia in their de
termination tnUhalt MnntcnmpiT.
, o "
said Associated Press Correspond
ent Noland Norgaard in a front "
line dispatch. British artillery la
pounding back at the strongly for
tified German hill positions. -
(The German radio comment r
tator, CapL Lndwig Sterterios, .
in a broadcast recorded by the:
Associated Press, said "exten- ;
sive regronping" of allied forc
es begun r Monday was appar
ently net yet completed, bat
that it was evident that on the
southern front the main weight
of the British Eighth army was
now shifted te the left wing.")
The allied air forces, although
limited somewhat by unfavorable)
weather, kept the enemy's front
line; areas and his communita
tions and air fields under strong
attack. 1 , ;
! The, v-irst army's attack on the
Djebel Bou Aoukaz, which lies
12 miles northeast of Medjez-el-Bab
as a barrier before the Med
jerda plain, carried to about: 400
yards short of the crest in the in
itial operations. : ,
Daniel : De Luce, Associated
Pr e s " correspondent, reported
from the front that . the British
shock troopr went In at 4 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon in an urgent
effort to smash this last important
obstruction between them and the
Tunisian plain, charging behind
heavy allied artillery and bomb
er barrage, ;,.;x-vr V
In related fighting to the .east
of Medjez-el-Bab," British infan
try, supported by Churchill tanks ,
that beat back enemy flame
throwing tanks, seiaed the small
aettlemenU of Sidl Abdallah and
Sidl Salem. ; ; V
Te the north, the Amerlean
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