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PHONE NUMBERS News Room, 170 Subscription, Class Ads, and Display Ads, 205 VOL. XXXIV, NO. 264 The CoshoctonTribune Brat of NewniKtier FMturM, Pictorial COSHOCTON, OHIO MONDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1943 Full taMed Wlrt uitpoi. of United Press THREE CENTS Lewis Alone Bars Mine Peace, WLB Says Union Chief Again Defies Government Fails to Appear At Parley; Strike Slated Wednesday A I The War Labor Board today denounced President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and said his defiance was "the only thing that stands in the way of working out a new contract for the mine workers." The board issued a statement after a one-hour meeting with bituminous coal min eoperators.

Lewis, still contending that the board has no jurisdiction over the dispute, refused to attend. The was called to arrange lor resumption of direct negotiations between Lewis and the operators. "The issue now confronting the nation in this dispute is whether Mr. Lewis is above and beyond the laws which apply to all other citizens of the United States," the board said." The statement said that the coal controversy, like all other wage disputes, came under the jurisdiction of the WLB by order of the president. "This law applies to the coal miners and coal operators as well as to every other citizen of tl United States," the bo said.

"In demanding a wage increase and at the same time refusing to seek the approval of the National War Labor Board, Mr. Lewis is defying lawfully established procedures of the government of the Uniti States. "This is not only a defiance of' our laws, but it is also the only thing that stands in the way of the working out of a new contract for the mine workers by orderly, peaceful procedure in accordance with the order of the National War Labor Board of May 14, 1943, and the national stabilization policy under the act of congress of Oct. 2, 1942. "This defiance challenges the sovereignty of the United States (Continued on Page Eight) Mrs.

D. C. Leininger Dies at Her Home In West Lafayette Mrs. Daniel C. Leininger, 65.

died at her home on Main West Lafayette, at 5:15 a. m. today following four weeks' illness. Lavina Margaret Walters was born Oct. 25.

1877. at West Lafayette the daughter of John and Rebecca Walters. She was married Sept. 12. 1900.

to Daniel C. Leininger who survives. Also surviving are one son. Pvt. AValter Leininger.

Los Angeles. four sisters. Mrs. J. E.

Raber. Mrs. E. O. Steinmetz and Mrs.

H. L. Brunker. all of Canton, and Mrs. Irvm Evans.

West Lafayette, two brothers, Charles E. Walters. West Lafayette, and J. Floyd Walters. Canton.

She was a member of the Mam st. Methodist church and the Sit- terhood class. Services will be Wednesday at 2 "30 p. m. at the Main st.

Methodist church Rev. F. B. housen. Barnesville.

in charge, assisted by Rev. C. Lloyd Yoder. Burial will be at Fairfield ccme- Jerv. Bombers Break Two Huge German Dams, Loose Flood Water LONDON Two of the greatest dams In Germany were breached by the RAF in raids, which loosed waters on the Ruhr and Eder valleys in huge waves, Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair disclosed today.

"The walls of the Mohne river (in Westphalia) and the Eder river (in west Prussia) were broken and the waters descended on the valleys of the Ruhr and Eder in huge waves, Sinclair said. The RAF raids that broke the dams were made last night, Sinclair said in a speech to a Norwegian national day celebration. "One dam contained 134.000,000 gallons of water and the other 202,000,000 gallons," he said. "The operation was one of extraordinary difficulty and hazard. Eight big: Lancasters with precious crews were lost." The German communique today acknowledged that two dams were damaged and that "floods are causing serious losses among the civilian population." Seek to Call Off Primary Voting Here Political Leaders Seek Uncontested Slates in August Joint efforts to eliminate the August" primaries, thus saving Coshocton county $1,200 in election expenses being made by both the Republican and Democratic party leaders, it was learned today.

C. O. Hershman. chairman of the county Republican executive committee, said his party is attempting to line up only one candidate for each office. A similar movement is being made by the Democrats, according to W.

R. Hanlon of the county Democratic executive committee. Election laws provide that a primary election is unnecessary if there is no competition for nominations on either ticket. Both party leaders pointed out that they would be unable to avoid a primary if a second candidate for any office decides to file. They stated that influence is being exerted to line up tickets with only one candidate for each office.

A jmember of the board of elections said the cost of staging an election, including printing of ballots and election workers wages, totals about 51.200. Navy Denies Gas Used on Attu Island Japs' Claim Seen As Preparing to Admit Defeat WASHINGTON--The navy today emphatically denied Japanese broadcast claims that American forces have used poison gas in their attacks on Attu island. A'navy spokesman, commenting on the Japanese claims, said: "Enemy claims that the U. S. force in the Aleutians have used gas are absolutely untrue." Altho army troops are making the attacks on Attu, the navy is responsible for the operation and the spokesman's comment on the pension gas charges was presumed to represent the views of both services.

There still was no word here of progress of the battle on the westernmost of the Aleutian string of islands. But radio Tokyo, apparently preparing the Japanese people for news that the Americans have captured Attu, said American reinforcements are landing there steadily, supported by naval guns and airplanes. The poison gas charge was made in the same broadcast, which quoted Maj. Gen. Nakao Yahagi, chief of the Japanese army press section, as stating that "a pitched battle is now in progress" on Attu.

U. S. forces were expected to attack Kiska after or perhaps even before--Attu is taken. An official spokesman for the war department made that plain in his weekly radio review of the war in which he said that the battle on the island of Attu was another step in "the process of sweeping into the sea the Nips on both Attu and He also confirmed that the long- range plans behind the Attu offensive envisage striking at Tokyo over the northern island route. "Here (at Attu)," the spokesman said, "some 600 miles from Japan's northern springboard of Paramushiro in the Kuriles, American bayonets today not only dis- on Page SUt) U.

S. Subs Sink Six More Jap Ships WASHINGTON--American submarines, thrusting deep into Japan's Pacific supply arteries, have sunk six more enemy ships and damaged another, the navy announced today. The navy also reported con- tinuation for the third consecutive day of the U. S. aerial assault on Japanese shipping concentrations in the northwestern Solomons.

i Henry Degen Dies Early Sunday In Baltic Vicinity Mrs. Catherine Degen. 69. died at her home in Bucks township, six miles east of Baltic, at 5 30 a. m.

Sunday. She was the widow of Henry Degen. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. George Limbacker, Fresno. a step-daughter, Mrs.

William Regula. Newcomerstown route, a step-son. Clarence Degen. Stone- creek route, two sisters. Mrs.

Charles Arnold, Cleveland, and Mrs. Charles Stethan. Gary, three brothers. Adam Boltz. Tuscarawas, Michael Boltz, Stone- creek, and Gust Boltz.

Stone- creek. Services will be Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. at the home and 2 p. m.

at the Evangelical Reformed church at Fiat. Rev. Wynn and Rev. Poeder will officiate. Burial will be at the church cemetery.

BERLIN BOMBED THREE TIMES FOUR NIGHTS Americans Battle Japs on Mountainous Attu Here is rugged, mountainous Attu, scene of American forces' first offensive in the North Pacific. This airview looking eastward from Cape rang ell shows the island's many inlets and the snowcapped volcanic hills that slant right down to the sea, leaving little fighting terrain. CRASH KILLS FOUR PYOTE. automobile- bus collision on the Pyote-Wjnk highway yesterday proved fatal four enlisted men from the Pyote bomber base. New Corsair Fighter Planes Down 17 Jap Zeros in Debut AMERICAN BASE.

Guadalca- r.rf]--The navy's new Vousht- Cwwr altitude fighter planes made 9 spectacu- lar debut the southwest Pa-1 cif)c today, destroying s'l but one i of 17 Japanese Zeros that were dr-wTird in a running battle. They arc better than anything v. or the every "Mrij Robert Fraser, of ihr Marjne corp, pn Y. a 1 1 raVjy after 1 from 'IT- 1 isjar.os to Ssvo. Pilois the came J-i'jV to predictions t-cy (v.sl'i outfight any r-'Jr- Kftrc the The American were four Corsairs, seme of tne pj'ots being and one Locsheed Light- The battle lasted 20 and the Zeros ne-.

er had a chance because of the speed and power of the heavy, high-ajta- lude. long Corsa.rs which are credited generally with a speed of around 400 miles per hoiJT. The ramc oo-'-n in Hospital Notes Robert Dunlap. 538 Locust major. R.

A. Scott. 115 East Chestnut i medical. Janice Lawrence. hocton Route -5.

major. Carol Roycr. Coshocton Route 2. x-ray. Patients dismissed were MIT.

Harold Lyons. Newcomerstown Route 2. Jsmcs Humpnrey. Ro-jte 3: Simon Reni cr. Mam and Joanna Van- 'Ct Route 1.

FOUND! D. HO9 Cambridge who lost his purse, placed the following ad Saturday for three times: Legion Launches Service Center Drive Tonight Public Campaign to Finance New Civic Institution Begins To piovide a center that will be of benefit to all residents of Coshocton city and county, a drive will be launched this evening to raise funds to remodel and equip the building at 652 Main st. which has been purchased by Ralph Courtright post of the American Legion. A dinner at the Legion hall on South Sixth st. at 7.30 this ning will mark the start of the campaign.

Rev. Geoige ShurU and Rev. Milton S. Kanaga will speak. Postmaster J.

W. Johnston v. ill be toastmaster. E. A.

Crawford will give instructions to the tcam.s which wi) Isolicit In sponsoring the project the Legion post is recognizing a need, long felt in Coshocton. for a suitable meeting place for men and boys, just as the YWCA home is serving as a meeting place for and The rmnement is de.Mgned to proiide a memorial for veterans of all uars. It i' particularly meant to headquarter. 1 for men ir. service this war.

and plans are being made to help tr.ese men get ed civilian life when the war is Iii addition. a of mak- the ccn'er to all of the commun ty. a large auditorium and a din.r.g room to group? iccommodatc on ground would oe opti to pis 1 on Pasc Hitler Suspicious Italians Will "Sell Out" to Allies By UNITED PRESS Underground reports from Europe said today that Adolf Hitler, plagued by suspicion of Italy's trustworthiness, had warned Benito Mussolini that "the most severe measures" would be taken if any Fascist group tried to sell out to the Allies. Mounting reports indicated Hitler was perturbed over the pos- More Crack U. S.

Arrive in Geat Britain Mrs. Worley Dies Sunday at Home In Newcomerstown Mrs. Mary Belle Worley died at 11 p. m. Sunday at her home on Mulvane Newcomerstown, from the effects of a broken hip suffered three months ago.

She was 86. Mrs. Worley was born near Kimbolton. Oct. 1856.

a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Virtue. Her husband, the late John Worley. was an early educator in Guernsey county. Mrs. Worley first joined the Flat Ridge United Presbyterian church and later transferred her membership to the rstown Presbyterian church ivmg are two daughters, Mrs.

Mary Gunn of Newcomerstown and Mis. John Hughes of Port Washington Route 2: two sons. id Worley of Girard. and Wiliiam Worley of the home; and a great-grandchild. Brief vill be held at 3'30 Wednesday at the home on Muh.ine st.

Newcomerstown, followed by at 2 at the Pres- bvf-rian i Harold Lee will oU.tiate and burial wil! Ire in the Flat Rjdgc ccmetry. south of New. romerstov. Tb" body t'j the resjd'-nte at a sibility that Italy might surrender or seek some sort of peace with the Allies, giving the United Nations a continental base for the attack on the main fortress of Europe. Responsible sources in London believed, on the basis of available information, that Italy realized to the fullest extent the gravity of the Fascist position.

Italian radio commentators made no attempt to disguise their trepidation, pointing out that the Allies undoubtedly would attack the weak end of the European Axis soon. The Nazis shipped 4,000 Dutch students to Germany to work in war industries after 90 per cent of all students in the occupied Netherlands refused to sign pledges bowing to Nazi regulations, the Ancta (Dutch) news agency said today. Aneta said the mass depoila- tion was reported by the Esscner National Zeitung, the newspaper owned by German Reichmarshal Hermann Goering was the latest reprisal in a long series by the Nazis trying to slop Dutch resistance. reports said the Germans may be planning a mass i reprisal to break Norwegian re-j fusal to cooperate reports came as Norway rea bed anothor national independence day still under Nazi rule. Raids Also Hit Closer to Rome Italy Faces Internal Crisis, King Said to Have Abdicated By UNITED PRESS Allied bombers raided Berlin for the third time in four nights last night and carried the greatest aerial offensive of the war to the port of Rome, only 15 miles from the Italian capital.

Another three-ply attack by the Royal Air Force battered Nazi targets in the Ruhr and Rhineland as well as the German capita! in the pre-invasion air campaign against the European citadel now moving thru its fifth straight day. A bomber force from conquered Africa hit Lidodi Roma in the closest swipe of at Rome "Holy City," So far unscathed in more 'than three years of war. British Wellingtons attacked the Italian seaplane base 15 miles southwest of the Italian capital. An Italian communique admitted the bombing of Ostia, the port of Rome, and said Allied planes were over the capital city itself. Police Probe Clues In Murder Mystery PORTSMOUTH.

Sh'-nff K.ir! of joto county said today he ii.id Mneial promising t'jses might t') the 4 of the Oiver of Charloc The bombing of the environs of Rome coincided with a persistently rumored crisis in Premier Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. Italy was reported tense and quaking under the fear of an Allied invasion from the newly won bases across the Mediterranean narrows. Unconfirmed reports that King Victor Emmanuel had abdicated in favor of his son, Crown Prince Humbert, went the rounds. A clandestine radio station calling itself "Free Milan" appealed to the Italian people to switch their allegiance to the Allies as the only way out of a critical situation. Already the Mediterranean, the sea that Mussolini proudly called "Mare Nostrum," was open to Allied shipping, while the Axis defeat in Africa had released the full might of the American and British air forces against Italy herself and the island stepping stones to the underside of Europe.

While home-based RAF planes, American heavy and medium bombers and new Thunderbolt fighters were smashing at Europe from the west, the African fleets drove in from the south and the rejmcmted Russian air force pounding heavily at the Nazi eastern line. British bombers attacked the Sicilian port of Trapani Saturday night 24 hours after Allied planes had hit Palermo on the same island, and from the middle east raiders struck at AMS shipping off Greece. The RAF lost nine bombers in the Sunday night raids on Berlin, the Ruhr and Rhincland. First reports indicated the thrust at the German capital was on a relatively small scale, and gave no accounting of the targets or results in the attacks on the packed v. ith and industrial objectives daylight, RAF destroyed five German pianos in the first planes had been over Europe almost all the time since the RAF launched the record-breaking offensive last Wednesday night.

American Thunderbolts, fast high altitude fighters, swarmed over occupied territory yesterday and tangled with German Focke- Wulfs and Messerschmitts in furious dogfights. Two German planes were downed and one Thunderbolt was lost. The German air force gave London three alarms during the night and the heaviest attack the British capital has had in' some time. But London dispatches described it as a "pea-shooter" effort in comparison with the erstwhile "big" raids on London in 1940-41 when the Germans hit a peak of 450 tons of bombs dropped, as against the 2,000 now crashing on Germany in a single night. Moscow said the Germans had massed big forces of 60-ton tanks in the Orel and Belgorod areas for an apparent effort to drive an armored wedge between the central and southern fronts, which would lay open the flanks of the Soviet capital and the Ukraine for a swing in either direction.

Soviet dispatches speculated on the signs that the Nazis were planning a lightning offensive in hope of crippling the Red army before the western allies open the second front in Europe. They added, however, that the Russian command had laid its plans for dealing with any such development. THE WEATHER OHIO Some thundershowcrs tonight Fa.r tomorrow. Hourly 3 a 3 m. 4 a a 7 62 63 8 a a a 32 Nr 67 69 hiznly trained American includ- rec 8r.it.

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