The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 1

The Day's tog WEATHER Cloudy, occasional light rain Tuesday and west and south tonight. Slightly warmer south tonight; somewhat colder extreme south Tuesday. Temperature today at 7 a. degrees. Price 15c Per Week The Jackson County Daily Dully Independent iiovr illntrlhnte pavers In Murphynboro every evening.

That nit-ims bctrrctu 7,000 and tn tllo city aloiic. The circulation In Mur- is less tbuu Imlf tile total cauiity circulation. That's wliy it It. a "JuckMNl County Daily:" DEATHS Ida Boucher, 415 North street. MARRIAGE LICENSE.

William Robert Hasenjaeger, Herrin, 'Ellouise Naumann, 111. LATE WIRE BULLETINS LONDON, April Ankara reported tonight that Jugo- slav troops have launched an attack against Italian forces in Albania. BUDAPEST, April Ten Jugoslav warplanes were reported to have been shot down to- as the government made a protest against Jugoslav air on key railroad lines and airports in Hungary. MURPHYSBORQ, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1941 HEAVY Established 1891 (Weekly Edition 1873) MILE PASS NAZIS ADVANCE 20 TO "25 MILES BERLIN CLAIMS; BRITISH CLASH WITH GERMANS IN THE DESERT CAIRO, April troops, who withdrew 170 miles across Libya in the face of a strong Italian and German mechanized force, clashed with the ene- in the Gebel Akhdar desert area northeast of Benghazi, a military spokesman reported tonight. The withdrawal of British troops in Libya, starting with occupation of El Agheila by the Italian and German force, was not tinder pressure, he explained.

They engaged in p. "well-planned orderly, withdrawal, he said. "Until the contact in the Gebel area, the British had heen retiring from point to point before Arrival of the enemy force. clash came as the spokesman reported that Free French. forces had engaged Italian troops outside Massawa, the last Italian stronghold in Eritrea.

It was not known whether the Italians would defend this important Red Sea port but British sources believed thafit soon would British control, virtually completing control of the Red Sea Belgrade, Open City, Bombed Four Times, Reported Burning Germans Head Down Valley; Opposition Growing Stronger TRUAX-TRAER DRIFT MINE JEADYTOGO Whistle to Blow When Soft Coal Strike Signs Off This Week Mrs. Ida Boucher Saturday; Funeral Rites Tuesday Mrs. Ida Boucher, aged 79 years, died at 7:55 Saturday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leo Busch, 415 North street, Mur physboro. Mrs.

Boucher, the daughter of Cryus S. and Mary A. Griffith, deceased, pioneer family of Murphys- had been ill the past 11 months. She was born in Somerset township in Jackson County, Jan. 16, 1S62, and was a resident of this vicinity her entire life.

Surviving children are Albert Boucher. 316 North 8th street, and Mrs. Leo Busch, North street. One brother, Ed Griffith, 31S North Sth street. Murphysboro, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive.

A son, George M-. preceded her in death. Mrs. Boucher was a member of the Zion Lutheran church and well known to both young and old members of this community. Funeral services helci Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Roberts Funeral chapel with the Rev.

E. C. Phillips officiating. Interment will follow at Tower Grove cemetery. Child Recovers After Having Peanut in Lung SPRINGFIELD, April 7 (UP) -Two-year-old Robert Lowder, son of Mr.

Mrs. R. O. Lowder, prepared to leave St. John's hospital today after a "rare" recovery from the effects of having a peanut lodged in a lung.

On March 28, Robert, seated ia a highchair, took a handful of salted peanuts from a nearby table and swallowed several before his mother could stop him. A few minutes later he started coughing and an examination disclosed one in the, lung. Using bronchoscope. doctors within 36 hours were able. to remove the nut which had broken into six pieces, but despaired of saving the child's life.

They said his condition became grave because oil from the peanut had caused membranes of his throat to tighten to such an extent that his breathing might be shut off. Robert, however, fought off the effects of the peanut and doctors described his recovery as "rare." They said, that having a nut ulged in the lung is more dan- serous than swallowing a needle pr pin because the oil and kernel frequently result iu pneumonia or abccsses. BERLIN, April troops on the Balkan war front have overcome enemy resistance at fortified positions after fierce battling, the official news agency said today, and the advance con- jtinued into Greece and Jugoslavia. Reporting stubborn fighting on the Greek-Jugoslav front, the official agency DNB said that the Nazi forces had smached through i unnamed forts and were "contin- ually Previously, in- I formed sources had reported German advances of 20 to 25 miles but did not give any positions. (One of the most strongly fortified positions attacked fay the Germans was the Reupel Pass on the Greek-Bulgarian frontier, where Greek ancf British forces, including R.

A. F. planes, have been in action.) BERLIN, April 7 armies have pushed between 20 and 25 and Greece, info'rhied. Nazi quarters reported' today: German troops, extensively supported by the Luftwaffe, were said to be advancing steadily, after pushing across the frontiers of Jugoslavia and; Greece, although they admittedly were encountering heavy resistance. Huge German bonjber formations were reported to be making widespread attacks in Jugoslavia.

Belgrade, where great fires were raging from three previous raids, was said to have been bombed a fourth time during the night. Advances by Germany's mechanized and motorized forces were reported on all fronts. -Informed quarters reporting advances between 20 and 25 miles, did not specify where the gains were made. The German spearhead army is driving down-the Struma rivev valley in Greece, dispatches said. The official new agency, emphasizing the role of the German air force, said German planes h.id bombed troop concentrations and barracks at Mostar, Jugoslavia, and anti-aircraft and heavy gun emplacements at Ljubljana.

Numerous air fields and other military objectives were, bombed throughout country, the ofiic- ial agency said, and buildings and the runway were damaged at Pod- goritza and barracks were hit near Kmnbur. The high command said that "fortress works" were bombed "with destructive effect" at Belgrade and that further raids during the night had -caused many large fires which lit up targets for succeeding waves of planes. ENGINEERS MOVE SHAWNEE WATER TOWEIUN WHEELS ''Didn't Think to if Water Was Taken Out of it The government is moving everything, out of old-Shawneetowii but the leather-necked "river rats" that to leave their homes on the beautiful Ohio. One of tiie very latest things to be moved was the town's water tower. They, just jacked it 75-foot- wheels under it and by something of a miracle in engineering trundled it, erect, to a hill at New Shawnbc- towii.

"Did they take the water out of it before they moved it?" a restaurant man at New Shawnectowu was tasked -Sunday by Murphysboro parties. "Well, 1 was the- reply. "I ididn't think to ask." Immediately a soft coal agreement is signed in Illinois, Truax- Traer will order operation of one of the finest drift mines in the United States, iu Jackson county, j' This is the word to Murphysboro and Elkville from D. Z. Anglin, Truax-Traer superintendent.

From an ideal plane in a coal cut conditioned for operations, the driving of the drift into. 100 acres of fine coal lying too deep to strip profitably, will begin. Planned with a minuteness of detail comparable to a European "blitz" operation on the -warfieWs. many months of work have prepared the way for this Truax- Traer development to mine market a particularly fine fuel. The "blitz" iwill be led by.

a modern Sullivan cutting machine. With this machine trained cutters will drive a drift one half mile into the vein and then cut other drifts north and south for a like distance. From these main entries a series of others will be driven for operation of feeder, lines. A Joy loading machine will follow the cutting machine. Shuttle cars 20 feet long, rubber-tired and with a capacity of seven tons, will 'op'er- the face of tlie "coal.

Cuttings will be taken to 4-foot belt conveyors. The haul ultimately will never exceed 500 feet. Conveyors will deliver coal to the stock pile from whence 20-ton trucks will convey it -to the modern washers, there to be graded and conditioned, from stoker size up, and loaded into railroad cars for destination. The drift is located one and one-half miles southwest Elkville Mine Superintendent Anglin said that under mining, and market conditions the drift should work out the first 160 acres deposit in four years time, then continue on an adjacent 1GO acre tract. The company long before the drift operation was ready to start had acquired hundreds of acres of fine coal, and only recently perfected titles on hundreds of acres more of coal lands in the same vicinity.

The operation will eventually have been chosen for the start- employ hundreds men. Expert workers have been cligsen for the start. Proven men will be added time to time as elbow room develops in the workings. Officials said it would be useless for men to apply at the mine for work as the force already had been completed. A of work was necessary in the construction of hard-surfaced haulage ways from the mouth of the drift to the stock pile and washers where the monster trucks must operate in all weather.

The drift was to have operated last Wednesday but the mine strike got. in its way. The big development means of course the perpetuation- of the Truax-Traer-payroll which reaches out to many miners' homes and indirectly to the doors of business houses in a wide southern Illinois area. It goes for granted that the new mine will be a showplacc and 'will attract the study of expert mine operators and engineers as the development is extended. Hog Prices Boom CHICAGO, April 7 prices rose 50 to .7.5 cents on the Chicago market today and scored rises of as much as S5 cents at other points under stimulation of a Federal program supporting loug term prices on a basis or $9 hogs.

Hogs weighing 2JO pounds and more staged the greatest advance iu a top $9 was paid freely. Salable receipts rose abruptly from 5,000 ou Friday to 9,000 today. Greece, Face German Blitz Drive GERMANY 'V ri U.S. S. R.

Austria oki VIEN vx Stri BUDAPWT I fl GREECE 4 TURKEY Tele-photo N'EA Tek-nlioto Unleashed Hitler, Germany's military moved on Greece and Juga-SJavia to drive British from contmental Europe. Arrows indicate direction German, moves as late reports told of bombing Belgrade and Salonika. British troops (No. 1) are reported-ready for action in Greece as world ponders attitude of Russia (No. 2) after conclusion oC Russ ian-Jugo-siav pact friendship and nonaggression.

EASTERN MINER GROUPS HEADED o.f Ohio and Pennsylvania and oth- iiig with the UMWA to put southern Holds out' of 1-Ic said the southerners could hot accept elminatioQ of the wage differential without signing their own death warrant." SPRINGFIELD, April 7 (UP 1 mice unions indicat- ed.today the expected the Appalachian soft coal agreement in New York between-operators and the United Mine Workers of America would result in rapid agreement for return to work of 30,000 Illinois miners. Work was stopped last Monday midnight when operators declined to extend the 1939-41 contract be- TOMITISH War Expert Questions His Strategy; May Bog Down (Reg. U. S. Pat.

By J. W. T. MASON (United Press War Hitler's war aggression against Jugoslavia and Gre ec6 is a conflict, in its present opening phase, of superior Jugoslav, Greek and British manpower against superior German equipment and. ma Southern Operators Flatly -Reject Wage Differential NEW YORK, April The Appalachian wage-hour conference, representing 338,000 union members and 21 operators' associations, was headed for a wide-open split today.as northern mine, owners prepared to sign a 1941-43 contract with the United Mine Workers of America.

The split will mean that only about 65 per cent of the nation's idle coal mines will resume operations when a contract now being drafted is formally approved by the union and representatives of the northern operators in the Appalachian group. Southern operators, representing 13 'operators' aiid about 43 per cent of the Appalachian area's annual production of 330,000,000 tons, flatly rejected union demands for elimimuation of a 40- cent daily wage differential between the north and south and charged that' tahe UMWA and the northern operators were in a to drive southern' coal, fields out of business. Meanwhile, a incorporating wage increases and other provisions on which the union and northern operators are agreed was being edited for presentation before the joint negotiating subcommittee late today. The contract was to nave beeu submitted at 10 a. delay was encountered 'in working out details oC individual disti-iqt tipn- tracts to be based on the general Appalachian agreement.

The cleavage between the north and south, apparent since March 31, when the 1939-41 contract expired and miners iu the Appalachian and several outlying areas walked out, reached a point, of extreme bitterness today. P. C. Thomas of the Koppers Coal Company, in the so-called southern low volatile group, charged in an interview that operators cr northern areas were "Iconspir-" tack on the. open city of Belgrade.

VETERAN WONT GET OFF LAND AT CRAB ORCHARD Tells Court He Will Give U. S. 75 Acres, But Won't Sell for Stands Pat Leonard J. Bedwell, 48, a veteran of the U. S.

Marines in the World War, told Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley before whom he appeared, that he would give the United States his 75-acre farm in the Crab Orchard lake area, but that he.would not accept the 52,500 (he government had offered him for the laud. Bedwell was hauled into court when he refused to get off of the laud after it had been condemned for government purposes. The court set aside a default erman equpmen an. ma- oct a atriai terial.

Each side thus has its own judgment against Bedwell' and or advantage and its own handicap, with the Germans being forced to use cautions tactics because of the specially difficult mountain The largest of the striking force of the Geriiiaus on all Jugoslav aud fronts is approximately 600,000 men. conservative estimate of the opposing armies should give Jugoslavs 600,000 men in immediate battle array; the Greeks, including those in Albania, 300,000 and the British possibly 100,000 either in Greece or en route, making a "total'of'1- 000,000. The Germans have large reserves but they are' fighting- on the offensive. Normally, that should require a superiority of two or three to one, but it is apparent that the Germans are counting on their large excess of instruments and munitions to-counteract their deficit in men. If their calculation fails, they may taste some of the.

bitterness that has fallen to the Italians in Albania. The German plan oE campaign, as indicated by initial movements, is to terrorize the population by bombing civilians, such as the at- Hitler apparently has ordered that the German army develop its heaviest opening offensive in areas where the British, presumably are assembled. The more natuj-al initial phase or the Ge.rman campaign might have been expected to open "in the plains of northeast Jugoslavia, where field operations less difficult than in the mountains. Such a movement would be aimed at the capture of Belgrade, and domination of the Danube river and the principal Jugoslav railway system. Instead, the heaviest German attack seems to be concentrated at the other end the battle front, in the Struma Valley, lead(Turn to pagu (Turn to page three, ED BY STROM COUNTER -ATTACK NAZIS AT SLIT IN MOUNTAINS ON WAY TO GREECE Hitler Armies Find No Push-Over; Resort to Bombing of Civilians to Spread Terror; Open City of Belgrade Bombed Four Times German Claims of Advances Not Clear or Specific and Communications Down; Censorship Tight; Britain Breaks With Hungary ATHENS, April dispatches tonight reported that defense lines in the Bulgarian frontier sector had held firm against heavy German attacks.

The military situation was described as "satisfactory" on the basis of reports received from the frontier. Gr.eek sources said also that Jugoslavia was understood to be resisting the Nazis with success and had captured a dozen German tanks. There were few details of the frontier fighting (presumably at the Rupel pass on the south Bulgarian border) but dispatches said that the strong Nazi thrusts had failed to brea the defense lines. The Royal Air Force said that hurricane fighter planes had shot down five German planes and severely damaged others as they launched a counter-thrust at the Germans in Bulgaria. The RAF attack appeared to, center on the Rupel ar.ea of Bulgaria, where attacks began Sunday in an effort to slow up the Nazi air force and break communication lines.

it (The Rupel sector is a key area at the head of tfie Struma six-mile pass through which the Germans must move in their main attack on Greece.) iandlofces, backed by British troops andLegiiip- were said to have inflicted severe losses on the Germans in the first phase of fighting, while the RAF planes the Germans in the air. "A small formation of hurricane fighters on patrol in the Rupel pass area of Bulgaria yesterday encountered a large formation of German Messerschmitt 109 fighters," the com- munique said. i "In the ensuing combat, five enemy aircraft were definitely shot down and a number of others damaged. "A formation of RAF bombers carried out a successful raid on objectives at Berat, in Albania. "A single enemy aircraft on reconnaissance in the Athens area was shot down in flames.

From all of these operations all of our aircraft returned safely'." LONDON, April British government today ordered its minister at Budapest to sever diplomatic relations with Hungary because that country has become a base of operations for Germany. By United Press Adoif Hitler's armias of the southeast collided today with nearly 2,000,000 staunch British, Greek and Jugoslav fighting men and reported only scant progress in the 24-hour-old Balkan Blitzkrieg. A blanket of censorship and broken communications obscured the story of fierce fighting in the rugged mountains of northern Greece and on the flat plains of northeast Jugoslavia. But the accounts of German propagandists, the report of the Nazi high command and skimpy dispatches from Athens, London and Istanbul made plain that the Wehrmacht was having no walk-over. Nazi sources entered a vague claim that their forces had penetrated the Jugoslav and Greek frontiers to a depth of 20 to 25 miles but did not say where the advances had occurred.

Belgrade, the Jugoslav capital, was known to have suffered four smashing air attacks by the Nazi despite evacuation of the city, by the Jugoslav government and a declaration that it is an open city. In the first of these attacks 73 persons were reported killed and it was feared the death toll in the successive bombardments may have been far higher. The Nazi accounts of the Luftwaffe raids indicated that the German air force was meting out to Belgrade such treatment as previously had been inflicted upon Warsaw and Rotterdam. There was some on German emphasis on air force activity and a paucity of accounts of land the German high command was depending upon the air arm to carry the brunt of the early attack upon Jugoslavia, possibly because the onslaught was launched before redisposition of land forces had been completed The Germans claimed that the Luftwaffe had put 98 enemy planes out of action in the first day's operations, 35 of them in air battles, in- eluding four British bombers, and the remainder on the ground. The air attack followed closely the pattern of the German attack upon Poland with the Germans striking'hard to smash opposition air forces on the ground and selecting concentration points, bridges, railroad communications, for special bombing in order to impede movement and concentration of Jugoslav defense forces.

The Germans were said to be employing two air fleets in the Balkan operations. A Nazi air fleet contains approximately ,,700 operating planes. One was said to be based on Sofia and may be the air fleet which originally was sent to Rumania. The other may be based in southern Austria, or the Banat region of Hungary. Against the German air armada the British have massed crack squadrons of the Royal Air Force in Greece.

Some of these squadrons now may be operating from Jugoslavia. ChristoSel doubted that "any lo- From Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria came reports-and protests- cal iu the country lias duplicated' of air action by British and Jugoslav planes on i. Rumania reported air attacks upon Timisoara (Temisvar), the German army headquarters about 75 miles from Belgrade, and upon Orsova and Arad. Sofia charged that it had been raided and that an air attack had also been made on Kustendel. Budapest had an air raid alarm and reported that six British bombers had been shot down in an attack upon Szeged while other attacks were made on Peci, Komand, Villany and Seklos.

These reports indicated that the RAF had gone into immediate action to blast the scanty communications lines behind the rapidly developing Struma front in Greece and the Nazi points attack in. eastern and northeastern Jugoslavia. (Turn to page six, pleasej tiered a new trial to determine a fair price for the laud. Counsel was appointed to represent Bedwell. The- hearing twill be at Cairo April 16..

ALLIS-CHALMERS STRIKE ENDED BULLETIN MILWAUKEE, April 7 (UP) The Cio United Automobile Workers today ratified settlement of a strike that has tied up work on national defense orders at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing company's West AHis plant since Jan. 22. The agreement was approved by a thundering voice vote 4,000 UAW workers assembled in the Coliseum at the Wisconsin state fair grounds. Only a few scattered "noes" were heard. President Harold Christoffel the UAW local flew from Washington, where company and union representatives reached the settlement under direction of President Roosevelt's new mediation board.

Christoffel called the settlement "one. of the greatest victories ever won by labor." After the union meeting, workers went home to get ready to return to. the plant at a. m. tomorrow.

our feat." He said the agreement would be "an instrument" to help the union promote future security. Ed Hall, international UAW told. members the agreement provided "freedom from interference by other unions" and prohibited anti-union activity. George Nordstrom, district UAW president, said the Allis-Chalmers management had been given a "sound thrashing.".