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Final LOU Lessons The Allies Learned In Tunisia I Edition Page 15 26 Pages Price Three Cents Vol. 57 No. 214 St. Louis, Thursday Evening, June 10, 1943 GREATER T. LOUt STAR U.

S. Doubles Fined More Allied BomBers 50.000- For Destruction On Pantelleria; LandMg Five-Bay Strike Lewis Calls Ickes' Action Illegal And Unwarranted; Some Operators Agree To $1.30 On Portal Pay Issue WASHINGTON, June 10. (UP) John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Worfcers. this afternoon denounced as "unwarranted and illegal" the government's action in assessing fines on U.

M. W. workers lor last week's nation-wide work stoppage in the coal mines. Commenting on the announcement of Coal Administrator Ickes that fines totaling $5 per striker would be levied, Lewis said: "An unwarranted, illegal act. An act which takes nearly $3,000,000 worth of food from the fingers and mouths of children of the mining camps a brutal application of economic sanctions against free citizens.

"Another step toward political tyranny in America." Wreck 4Pt Bomber Thai Missed Airport Munway Other Islands Pounded; Axis Loses 36 Planes wr a' AAs A Ap i-- JLm -1 fr.v,v.v.wiliiliitiiiiui,iw,.Wf.MiwMiiiin.ii wiim Star-Times Photo. on the creek bank. Eight members of the bomber's crew were injured, two of them seriously. accident occurred yesterday." (Story on Page 3.) BACK BROKEN, the Flying Fortress that overshot the Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport runway and ran into Coldwater Creek at the east end of the field, sprawls Paternity Test EMter Chaplin Will Pay Bills For Joan Barry's Baby HOLLYWOOD, June 10.

(UP) Film Comedian Charlie Chaplin and red-headed Joan Barry today announced settlement of her paternity suit seeking to establish him aa the father of her unborn child. The settlement, approved by Superior Court Judge William S. Baird, provides for a blood test when the child becomes four months of age to determine If Chaplin could be the father. The TJ. M.

W. statement contain ing Lewis' comment said the union could "not understand how fines can be levied under the provisions of an expired contract." It was the union's position that the work contract, previously renewed three times, had expired at midnight May 31 when the U. M. W. failed to renew it.

Grounds for Imposing Fines. Ickes imposed the fines on grounds that the old contract had been extended indefinitely by the War Labor Board until a new one was completed. After Ickes announced the fines, totaling about $2,250,000, union officials here and in the coal fields warned that another walkout might follow a week from Monday. One U. M.

W. spokesman here accused Ickes of committing "a gigantic burglary' and from the coal fields came threats of another strike if the fines are collected. The 80,000 anthracite miners were exempt because their contract does not contain a penalty clause. The U. M.

450,000 soft coal miners, however, are affected. Says It Will Cause Dissension. A TJ. M. W.

spokesman here said, "If they had wanted to cause dissension. I cant think of anything that would do it better." William Hargest, secretary-treasurer of U. M. W. District No.

5 in Pennsylvania, angrily denounced Ickes action as "pretty rotten. He accused the government of being after Lewis" scalp and of "throwing a monkey-wrench into the picture every time we seem to be getting somewhere. The government wants confusion it doesn't want to help the miners." Similar sentiment was expressed by Michael Honus, secretary-treasurer of District 4, also in Pennsylvania. Two West Virginia union spokesmen said the fines "certainly would not help the situation." At Columbus. Ohio, Thomas J.

Price, secretary-treasurer of District 6, said, "A lot of miners are sure to be mad. Meanwhile, the WLB heard a report by representatives of the bulk of the coal operators that an agreement had not been reached, and learned details of a "separate peace" between the union and the Central Pennsylvania Coal Operators' Association. Increase of $1.30. Charles O'Neill, spokesman for the association and erstwhile representative of the northern Appalachian soft coal operators, said that under the agreement miners will receive about $1.30 additional daily pay to compensate them for time spent traveling underground to the scene of work. O'Neill estimated other benefits already approved by the board among them an increase in annual vacation pay from $20 to $50 and free-of-charge provision by operators of safety equipment, tools and blacksmithing at about 175 cents a day.

Thus under the agreement miners would average about $1.47 a day more than they now receive. O'Neill told the WLB he considered the agreement "a complete settlement" of the dispute so far as his association is concerned but agreed that it is subject to WLB approval. In announcing the imposition of fines against the strikers, Ickes said the sums would be deducted from each miner's pay envelope and the total thus collected distributed to charity. He said he proceeded on the Continued on Page 9, Column 1 Air Force In. British Isles Has Been Done Since March, Eaker Says, And Will Be Done Again This Summer TJ.

S. BASE, ENGLAND, June 10. (UP) Maj. Gen. Ira C.

Eaker, head of the American Air Forces in the European theater, said today the U. S. Air Force in Britain had been' doubled since March and would be doubled again by September to "carry its full share" of the aerial -onslaught against the Axis. The American Air Force is in creasing by 15 to 30 per cent month ly, Eaker said. "By the end of the summer the U.

S. A. A. F. will be carrying its full share of the bombing offensive with the R.

A. he said. The increase in American planes is in both bombers and he added, with a preponderance of bombers, both heavy and medium Eaker disclosed a new "super" bomber is in the process of develop ment bv the Allies. "The great factor, of course and it will be the determining factor in a way lies in the fact we can re place our losses and the enemy can not replace his," Eaker told a press conference. "Still On Build-Up.

"Our air force is on the build-up and his is on the wane. He has reached the peak if, indeed, he has not passed it. We still are growing and, at a very satisfactory rate. By the end of the summer, he said, the combined American and British bomber force should have enough strength "to draw our ex periment to a close." Eaker warned he did not mean the war would be over by then or that bombing alone could win the war. Instead, he said, he meant the Allied air force would be big enough by then to do the job it set out to do knocking out German industrial and military targets.

"In other words, it will be a tactician's dream come true," he added. Eaker stated the American Air Force policy in the European theater remained unchanged and "experience emphasizes the Tightness of our decision to adhere to daylight bombing." "Our accuracy has been even better than anticipated, our planes have proved their ability to defend themselves and our losses are running less than 4 per cent," he said. Raps "Arm-Chair Critics." He revealed great waves of American bombers would be sent out on new daylight raids. He castigated "arm-chair critics" who expect the air force to operate daily, pointing out land and naval forces do not fight daily. The air force has to rest and regroup for each offensive, he pointed out.

"We'll never operate at a rate which will bring about losses faster than we can replace them until some critical situation arises requiring all our efforts, such as a landing on the continent," he said. "Then well throw in all we have hour after hour and day after day, if necessary." He said any air force which fights 10 major battles in any month is doing an outstanding job. Eaker said the new Thunderbolt fighter plane was living up to expectations and was better than the German Focke Wulf-190 at any altitude at which they had met. Charges Oil Deal Is a 'Give -Away' Like Teapot Dome WASHINGTON, June 10. (UP) Senator William Langer, N.

recalling the Teapot Dome oil scandals of the Harding administration, today charged the Navy Department's "give away" of the Elk Hill, oil reserve to the Standard Oil of California already has yielded the company "20 excellent producing wells." He told the senate that Secretary of the Navy Knox, under the "guise" of acquiring 8,000 acres of Standard leases fringing the Elk Hill reserve, actually had "given away for five years 43,000 acres of the richest oil reserves in this country." fight up the precipitous ridge. The Japs fired round after round of machine-gun and 75-mm. gunfire. But the "Kid" and his comrades surged ahead. At the summit a major noticed McLeod.

He ordered the "Kid" to the rear. McLeod started to return but circled around the ridge and came back in time to help stand off a bayonet charge. Started Pitching. Then the youth seized a sack of grenades from a fallen buddy and started pitching. He wiped out a Jap machine-gun nest single-handed.

But he still hadn't reckoned with the major. Seven times within an hour the major ordered him to the rear. Seven times he came back. He fought until the ridge was taken, but as the Jap garrison fell, an enemy sniper caught McLeod. The "Kid" fell a bullet through his head.

By United Press. "Wave after wave of Allied bombers heaped new destruction on smoking, blockaded Pantelleria yesterday in an offensive to smash it into unconditional surrender, and British observers today said an Allied landing was imminent, if not actually under way. Allied air fleets also pounded the other Italian stepping-stone islands of Sicily and Lampe-dusa. Plowing through increased but still ineffective Axis opposition, our airmen destroyed 36 more enemy airplanes. Planes of all types battered Pan telleria after the Italian garrison there had ignored a demand for unconditional surrender.

Once again, the Italians attempted to in tercept the raiders, only to run into disaster. Twelve enemy planes were shot down ror a loss of only one Allied aircraft. Italian losses there Tuesday and vesterdav amounted to 19 against t- Allied planes. The London Evenin Standard quoted the Berlin radio as saying. 'It appears Allied forces have landed on Pantelleria." The broad cast was not recorded bv other monitors of the German radio, and some sources questioned its authenticity.

A dispatch from United Press Correspondent C. R. Cunningham, passed through therensor at Malta, said observers there were convinced Pantelleria must soon capitulate because of the intense bombardments. Airdromes Pounded. Fifty U.

S. Liberator bombers from the Middle East command dropped 250.000 Dounds of bombs on the Sicilian airdromes of Ger-bine and Catania, destroying an estimated 24 airplanes aground, damaging others and "churning" the target area with explosives. Allied naval forces tightened the blockade of Lamped usa and Pantelleria. A Rome broadcast acknowledged the Allies were "encircling" Lampedusa, second largest of the stepping-stone islands in the Sicilian narrows, where British naval forces landed a reconnaissance party Sunday night and all but two men returned safely. Dispatches from Bern, told of another Rome broadcast claiming two more landings were attempted on Lampedusa.

The second try, according to the Italians, was "repulsed" with heavy losses to the Allies. From the context of this broadcast it appeared Rome was saying a third attempt had just begun. Owing to poor reception, however, the result of the purported third attack was not known. Landing Expected Hourly. Virtually all London morning newspapers today said announcement of an Allied landing on 32- Continued on Page 2, Column 3 Clapper, 14 Comics, 25-26 Crossword, 23 Deaths, 23 Editorials, 1 Grafton, 14 Merry-Go- Round, 14 Markets, 25 Movies-Amusements.

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Signs Tax Bill For Pay-As-You-Go Reproduction of the Employes' Withholding Exemption Certificate to be used under provisions of the new tax law is on page 9. WASHINGTON. June 10. (INS) President Roosevelt this afternoon signed the pay-as-you-go tax bill to put 44.000,000 American taxpayers on a current payment system for the first time in history. The President made no statement as he signed the measure into law.

The first major effect of the pay-as-you-go bill will be the imposition of a 20 per cent withholding tax on every vage and salary earner in the country on July 1. Installment Doe As Usual. Tne bill does not change the requirement that the next installment of the 1942 income tax, due on June 15. be paid. This, with the amounts previously paid this year, will apply on the 1943 tax.

The general policy of the bill is to transfer taxpayers to a current bais by abatement of 100 per cent of one year's taxes if under $50, and 75 per cent abatement for taxes above $66.67. A "notch provision" affects taxes between $50 and $66.67. Enactment of the bill by congress was the outgrowth of a long fight which started when Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and treasurer of Ft. Macy Co, proposed that one year's taxes be skipped to put taxpayers on a current basis. A bitter congressional fight over this plan ended In the present compromise measure.

Plans For New Taxes. The measure was signed a short time after War Mobilization Director Byrnes had conferred at the White House with administration tax experts. The meeting, it was reported, not only discussed plans of putting pay-as-you-go tax collection into "effect but also covered the need for $16,000,000,000 in new revenue to help finance the war and check inflation. The new revenues, the President had said earlier, will not only pro vide additional taxes but forced savings. Some congresisonal tax leaders doubt the $16,000,000,000 additional revenue can be obtained.

If this amount is raised, it was generally believed in congress that a sales tax must be levied and corporation taxes sharply increased, as well as an adjustment of individual income tax rates which would result in increases in some wage brackets. In the transition to the current payment plan, congress provided for ending the present 5 per cent victory payroll tax deduction on July 1, when the new 20 per cent withholding rate becomes effective. This, however, does not cancel the victory tax liability, part of which, at least. Is absorbed in the new withholding tax. The Weather ror St- Louis: Little change In temperature tonight and tomorrow forenoon with showers and thunderstorms.

For Missouri: Showers and thunderstorms in north and east portions; scattered showers in southwest quarter with locally heavy rains in extreme north portions tonight and tomorrow forenoon; little change in temperature. For Illinois: Showers and scattered thunderstorms in south and central portions tonight and tomorrow forenoon; continued mild temperatures. TEMPERATURE READINGS. Midnight ..73 1 a. 72 2 a.

72 3 a. 71 4 a. 71 5 a. 70 6 a. 69 7 a.

70 8 a. 70 9 a. 71 Showers 10 a. 70 11 a. 12 1 p.

2 p. 76 3 p. 78 4 p. 79 Street Relative Humidity. 7 a.

1 p. 79 80 at St. Stage of the Mississippi Louts. 30.3 feet, a rise of 1.2 feet; of the Missouri at St. Charles, 28.5 feet, a rise of 1.7 feet.

Sun sets 8:26 p. m. today, rises 5:34 a. m. tomorrow.

Maximum temperature year ago today, 82; minimum. 70. Maximum temperature yesterday, 80 at 3:15 p. the minimum, 60 at 6 a. m.

There will be a first-quarter moon tonight. applied by V. S. Weather Boreas, lacated in the Federal Boilding. Pollen fount for 24 hours ending at 9 a.

Crass, dock, Under the agreement Chaplin agreed to give her $2,500 immediately and to pay $100 a week beginning June 10 until further order of the court. addition she will receive $4,600 to take care of all medical attention in connection with the birth of the child, expected within four months. Chaplin said in the agreement offered by his attorneys, Loyd Wright and Frank Doherty, that he is not the father of Miss Barry's child. Miss Barry said in the agreement that Chaplin is responsible for her pregnancy and that she will attempt to prove It. Three Doctors To Make Test.

Miss Barry agreed not to use the name of Chaplin in registering the birth of the baby but to wait, for final judgment of the court as to the paternity. When the blood test is made physicians representing both Chaplin and Miss Barry will choose a third doctor. If two of the physicians find Chaplin could have been the father, as shown by blood tests, then the case to establish paternity of the baby will go to trial, attorneys, said, or another settlement will be made. Earlier today Miss Barrett explained that when Chaplin called her "Hunchy he simply was using his. private variety of baby talk, meaning She discussed other details of life behind the.

walls of Tils estate, which she said she would use to establish the fact she lived at his mansion. Sunday Morning Breakfasts. Miss Barry said Chaplin regularly held Sunday morning breakfasts, attended by Hollywood's great and near-great. She said she particu- Continued on Page 11, Column 2 Zoot9 Girls Ickes Against Extending Ban On Joy Riding WASHINGTON, June 10. (UP) Oil Administrator Ickes told the eastern congressional gasoline bloc today that is not the time to extend the pleasure driving ban to the middle west as a means of re lieving the gasoline shortage on the Atlantic seabop.rd.

Other sources previously had re ported an extension of the oan to Ohio, and perhaps other parts of the middle west, was being considered. Paul OLeary, deputy OPA ad ministrator in charge of rationing, told the committee "considerable study is being given" to devise some system which will allow people to use their gc: as they want." "There is no question but what we must get gasoline rationing on that basis," he said. His statement followed questions by members con cerning enforcement of the pleasure driving ban and definitions of non essential motoring. Still Transportation Problem. Ickes said the gasoline shortage still is a transportation problem and that further restrictions on the middle west will not help the eastern seaboard situation.

He also told the congressmen: 1. He intends to renew his demand for an Increase in the ceiling price on crude oil today, to encourage more production. He will take an appeal, presumably to War Mo bilization Director Byrnes, if it is rejected. Ickes didn't state how much of a boost he would ask. His request Apri 9 was for a 35-cent increase.

2. His office is pressing the War Production Board to consolidate the rationing and price powers over oil in the hands of one administrator. No Reason For Optimism. 3. He sees no reason for optimism regarding the fuel-oil situation for next winter.

Ickes and his deputy, Ralph K. Davies, said "the day is coming" when extension of the pleasure-driving ban would be justified, but they would not say when that time would be except it is not now and probably would not be this summer. Rep. Samuel A. Weiss urged extension of -the ban as a means of improving the morale of the country, asserting: "We've been taught to believe there were 48 states in this war Would Increase Black Market.

"The pinch of the cast as compared with the middle west is difficult," Ickes replied, "but I'd like to point out the core of our policy always has been to take care of the east, at the expense of other sections if necessary. Our supplies to the armed forces must go through the east and, of course, that's a drain on your reserves." Ickes said the storage tanks of the middle west are being used to supplement the eastern supply when needed and when transportation facilities permit. But he argued it will do no good to accumulate further stocks in the middle west and place unnecessary restrictions on the public there. "When your storage reserves pile up, your black market operations increase. So if it won't help, why do it." F.D.R.

Predicts Early Freedom For Greece WASHINGTON, June 10. (UP) President Roosevelt today predicted the early dawn of a day of libera tion for the people of Greece as he presented to the Greek government an American-built patrol vessel which will be manned by a Greek crew and used to combat Axis submarines. Speaking at a ceremony in the Washington Navy Yard, the Presi dent said that although Greece to day "is a land of desolation, stripped bare of all the essentials of living," the Greeks are fighting on wihtin their own borders and upon foreign shores. "They never will be defeated," the President said in turning over the 173-foot patrol boat to Greek am bassador Cimon P. Diamantopoulos "And," the chief executive added, "the day will come when liberated Greeks again will maintain their own government within the shadow of the Acropolis and the Parthenon." Describing Greece today as "a gaunt and haggard example of what the Axis is so eager and willing to hand to all the world," Mr.

Roosevelt said the patrol vessel was a lend-lease token from the American people of "our hopes and prayers' that the day of Greek liberation "may be hastened." The small, gray craft, christened King George II for the present head of the Greek state, was moored at the dock where the presentation ceremony was held. After Diamantopoulos accepted the ship, the commanding officer of the American crew ordered the American' colors struck and the Greek crew took over. The Most Rev. Archbishop An thenagoras of the Greek Orthodox Church concluded the ceremony with his benediction and the an clent rite of "bathing" the new ves sel. The President waited in his au tomobile while the ambassador went aboard the King George II and inspected the pocket-size warship, On strengthened police patrols in the city, had moved into nearby towns.

In San Diego 400 sailors and marines searched the downtown area for zoot-suiters before they were dispersed by shore patrolmen. Seventy navy men were taken to Jail to ''cool off." A Pachuco gang tossed gasoline flares' into an Azusa theater, and Vincent Duarte, 15,. Azusa youth, was injured when a railroad guard fired on the fleeing band of youths after they disregarded his orders to halt. Two bullets entered the boy's leg. Probe Started.

The new outbreaks came as field representatives of Nelson co-ordinator of Inter-American Continued on Page 11, Column 4 Mrs. Dempsey Collapses At Divorce Trial WHITE PLAINS, N. June 10. Mrs. Hannah Williams Dempsey collapsed at her trial for divorce from Lieut.

Commander William H. (Jack) Dempsey today shortly after she had told a crowded courtroom that the former heavyweight cham pion once had threatened her with a gun. WHITE PLAINS, N. June 10. (UP) Mrs.

Hannah Williams Dempsey pictured Lieut. Commander Jack Dempsey this afternoon as a husband so jealous that he threw her into a clothes closet of her bedroom on Mother's Day in 1940. Mrs. Dempsey, taking the stand on the eighth day of the trial of their double-barreled suit for divorce, said she was thrown into the clothes closet by the former heavyweight champion Just before they agreed to Tossing her head frequently and smiling at her attorney, Gerald Donovan, she told how Dempsey, returning from a tour, had objected to paying for a telephone call to her sister in Florida and also to paying" for sandwiches she had had sent up to the apartment during a party. Walked Into Bedroom.

said' you can take it out of my allowance," Mrs. Dempsey testified. "He said 'You're not going to get any I said, don't care what you and walked into the bedroom and kept right on doing several things while he was raving. "I guess It made him mad. He came up to me and put his hand under my chin, lifted me up- and threw me in the clothes closet.

He said he was going away and when he came back he didn't want me around. I said, 'Don't worry, I won't be She testified that three months before her first child was born in 1934 they got into an argument over Estelle Taylor, screen actress, who was Dempseys previous wife. She said he took her to a party on the night of the Baer-Carnera fight and as he was leaving for the ringside, Mrs. Dempsey asked him how she was to get home. Dempsey replied, "Someone will drop you off," she said.

"Has he been kind and considerate?" Donovan asked. "I wouldn't say so. Mr. Dempsey always accused me of being with other "Has he ever struck you?" Never Punched Her. "He never punched me.

He slapped me and threw me around a bit." The Mother's Day incident was Continued on Page 3, Column 5 lighting Kid9 JJ. S. Troops Honor Sailor Who Deserted To Fight Japs They Slash, Kick And Beat Young Woman In Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, June 10. (UP) Pachuco girls, female counterparts of the zoot-suited hoodlums who have battled uniformed service men in street rioting for six nights, slashed and beat a young woman early today. Betty Morgan, 22-year-old waitress, told police that as she left her home for breakfast three girls wearing knee-length coats pounced upon her, knocked her down, kicked her in the chest and cut her face with a dulled razor.

3he was taken to a hospital. HOLTZ BAY. ATTU ISLAND, May 21. (Delayed) (UP) American doughboys bowed in silent homage tonight before a crude cross marking the cliffside grave of Claire McLeod, 17-year-old Los Angeles seaman, the "Fighting Kit! deserted his post because he insisted on killing Japs and did. Whether or not McLeod could have been listed as a deserter for leaving his assigned post is something for officialdom to decide.

But to his comrades he was a real hero. The saga of the "Fighting Kid" began and ended on May 17 when U. S. troops stormed the forbidding heights between the east and west arms of Holtz Bay. McLeod's job was to aid in unloading equipment on the landing beach, but it was too prosaic for him.

Wanted One Good Lick. He wanted to get in at least one good lick against the Japs, even if it meant deserting his post. He borrowed a navy helmet and an army rifle and joined in the Authorities already had in custody Mrs. Amelia Venegas. 22.

arrested after she cursed deputy sheriffs who were questioning a group of soot suit wearers near her home. The deputies reported they found a pair of brass knuckles, when they searched her. "Out-of -Bounds" Extended. The navy shore patrol meanwhile announced extension of the out-of-bounds area, previously limited to Los Angeles City, to the suburban communities of Huntington Park, Maywood, Lynwood, Montebello, Bell, Bell Gardens, South Gate and Compton. The order was an effort to halt violence involving hoodlums, largely Mexican, and soldiers, sailors and marines.

Fighting, held in check by.