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THE RACINE JOURNAL-TI MES VOL 87f NO. 99. (. United fr tu Associated Press RACINE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 1943. Tel.

Jackson 600 14 PAGES 5 CENTS UQDDO mm tu fifl 1 U. S. and Britain 2 'By Tex Reynolds 50 Coal Mines Strike Despite mr' Mj6' Gmm As Axis Cmmhks 'mm i a '''V'Sttfc3S teur and Pont Du Fahs were fern Wl rJ y- a. New Gas Saver A Goatmobile You've heard of horsepower, but Roy Demant, 15, of Route 1, Box 102, Sturtevant, goes one better in this day of shortage by using goat power. Roy, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Demant, converted an old buckboard with a seat from a cutter into his "goatmobile" and feeds his two year-old goats grain to encourage them to push the vehicle along. How do you stop the goatmobile? "That's easy," says Roy. "I run against the barn." IHleomy Bomb AnGadzs MUCH news space is being de- Russia and the Polish government-in-exile. That is, the leaders who were driven from their own country and are now operating by remote control" from London.

This friction amonr the Allied nations isn't rood. It is bound to provide some comfort for the common enemy of Russia, Poland, and all the other Allies. Hitler naturally likes to see such differences of opinion. But let's look at the matter frankly. The Russians say these Poles have an "anti-soviet attitude." Is this surprising, when you remember that about four years ago this sam snvipt onvcrnmpnt IiMtiaH the nazis in an attack on Poland? Can you blame the Poles for their at titude when you recall that Hitler and Stalin got together and divided Poland between them? How would YOU feel if you were those Polish leaders? Of course, Russia has since wiped oat that German-Russian treaty covering Polish territory.

But people don't forret those things easily or quickly. Besides, even now Russia, Is setting forth poct-war claims that include the eastern half of Poland. Knowing tHis, how can you expect patriotic Poles to be very friendly or trustful toward their large neighbor on the east? It all goes to show that the old European rivalries, jealousies, suspicions and ambitions are not dead. It proves what a knotty problem Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill will tackle when, in pursuit of their well-meant and humane, plans, they try to forge a peace based on freedom for all and respect for the other fellow's territory.

A NOTHER rising star of politics is enveloped by the clouds of war as 36-year-old Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota, often mentioned as a presidential possibility for the future, leaves for active service in the navy. His departure makes yon think of Carl Zeidler, Milwaukee's young mayor, who stepped off the ladder at the height of his climb to fame in public life, took the dangerous Job of captain of a gun crew on a merchant ship, and Is among those missing. "TEN times as many American lives have been lost in acci dents on the home front than have been lost in action on battlefronts since Pearl Harbor, the National Safety council points out. Don't ret hurt through carelessness.

It's not only painful, but it's unpatriotic in these days when the nation needs every ounce of manpower. THE government says that in 1943, one third of all those working in U. S. war industry will be women. a iic percentage oi wvmeu workers probably falls considerably below that in Racine right now.

But it will in-, crease. The current drive to register all men, women and children of working are, who are in a position to take a job in store, factory, or office. (By The Associated Tress) Allied armies drove within 23 miles of both Tunis and Bizerte in the climactic battle of Tunisia today, and the enemy's whole western mountain barrier appeared to be crumbling as the Germans abandoned vital, defensible high ground without a fight. For the first time since the late 1942 setbacks, the Allies once more were on the threshold of the Tunis plain. In the north, French troops reached a point six miles west of Lake Achkel, dispatches said, and hard-hitting American doughboys were also racing toward the lake on the road to Mateur, 18 miles southwest of the big axis-held Bizerte naval base.

Major Allied gains in at least four sectors were announced in a communique from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters. Three main gateways the Tunis-Bizerte zone Tebourba, Ma- Candle Blaze Fatal to Girl Sharon, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Clausen. 1309 Summit avenue, died Monday at 7 p. m. at St. Luke's hospital of burns received Monday morning when her clothing became ignited while she was lighting a candle on an Easter basket.

The child was severely burned about the face, chest, back and arms. She re-c i emergency treatment from members of the fire department rescue squad, and was then removed to the hospital. Mrs. Louis C. Larson, 1307 Summit avenue, and Mrs.

Donald Lange, 1313 Summit avenue, neighbor wom Sharon en who were attracted to the Clausen home by the cries of Mrs. Lange's son, Donald, aged 3, and Charles Clausen, aged 3, brother of the' dead girl, found Sharon at the kitchen sink trying to pour water over her burning clothing. The women smothered the flames and summoned aid. Absent Only a Few Minutes Mrs. Clausen, who was not feeling well, had gone to a neighbor's home to telephone a doctor when the tragedy occurred.

Sharon is survived by her parents, three brothers and one sister; her grandmother, Mrs. Bertha Clausen, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Krogh. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.

m. in Hanson's chapel. Rev. E. R.

Andersen will officiate. Burial will be in Grace-land cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday night and until the time of services at the funeral home. The accompanying photograph was taken of Sharon three years ago and is the most recent one of her. either under direct assault or im minently threatened, and field reports said the axis forces were in danger of being split into two pockets.

In the skies, Allied warplanes flew more than 1,000 sorties in an offensive of "increasing intensity," hammering axis troops, airdromes ana supply nnes in me enemy dwindling coastal corridor. The Americans were last re ported attacking on a line three miles east of Sidi N'Sir and about 10 miles southwest of Mateur. American infantry attacked Djebel (hill) El Azzog, .10 miles west of Mateur and in the area west of Lake Achkel, today, but pulled back under heavy counter- fire. The enemy's position is north of strongly fortified Jefna. South of Jefna, the Americans succeeded however in occupying Djebel El Ajred.

AtUck for 100 Hours. At the same time, Lieut. -Gen. A. N.

Anderson's British 1st army smashed beyond the Germans' outer line of mountain defenses and advanced four miles to Toum railway only 23 miles west of Tunis, climaxing 100 hours of ceaseless attack. Toum is more than halfway te- fu.UK VI TJoK bourba, 18 miles from the axis-held capital. Frontline reports said rearguards protecting the Germans withdrawal along the entire U. S. 2nd corps front were retreating so rapidly they left their own dead unburied.

Thickly-sown German minefields were said to be impeding the advance of an American column through a valley west of Lake Achkel, whose western shore is only 17 miles from Bizerte. Farther south, Allied troops gouging deep into the western bar- nex me luiiniutioic run oi mountains guarding the Tunis-Bizerte zone were officially described as having driven to within four miles of the Tunis-Pont Du -Fahs road and destroyed 80 German tanks in a two-day battle. "The battle continued yesterday with unabated ferocity," the Allied war bulletin said. "On the 1st army front, armored fighting continues in the sector southeast of Medjez-El-Bab and our troops here have again made some progress against desperate opposition from the enemy." Field dispatches said Jurgen Von Arnim's beleaguered armies were beginning to show signs of exhaustion, yielding key points they might have held had they possessed reserves. Clear Fortress Hill.

Allied headquarters said British 1st army troops had now cleared Long Stop hill, the Veiylun-like German fortress, and captured an important feature north of Medjez-El-Bab, 34 miles southwest of Tunis, the capital. "French forces on the 1st army front" made a rapid advance and occupied a hill overlooking Pont Du Fas," the communique said. Pont Du Fahs lies 34 miles be low Tunis. Further gains were also rolled up on the left sector of the British 8th army where Gen. Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery's desert veterans were slowly pushing the axis back toward the north. powder room generals," and said specifically: "We are not neglecting the southwest Pacific. "We are not neglecting the submarine. "We are not neglecting the civilian economy. "We are not neglecting the rights of labor.

"We are not neglecting industry's rights. "We are giving each of these, we think, consideration in its proper proportion and at the proper time. "But the one thing above all else we do not neglect is tha business of winning the war." In the southwest Pacific, Somervell said, "We are getting out to General MacArthur every; plane, every tank, every gun, every round of ammunition that it is humanly possible to send," but he added that the requirements of the troops in Africa also had to be and "we can not allow fireside strategists to stampede us into neglecting one theater for the sake of another." Seek to Soothe Poles and Reds LONDON. (U.R) The Polish government in exile was reported reliably today to be considering an appeal to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill to intervene in the crisis precipiated by Russia's suspension of diplomatic relations with the Poles. American and British authorities already had begun discussions on means of restoring the relations between the soviet and exiled Polish governments.

A Moscow dispatch said, however, that only a purge of Polish anti-soviet elements would satisfy Moscow. Gen. Wladislaw Sikorski, the Polish premier, conferred with Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden later in the day. A Polish spokesman said that no statement on the Polish government's attitude toward Russia's note would be issued today. American Ambassador John G.

Winant conferred with Eden a few hours before the foreign secretary's scheduled meeting with Sikorski. Door Left Open. A dispatch from M. S. Handler, correspondent in Moscow, said there appeared to be two essential conditions for any conciliation between the two governments: T'l All political elements which the soviet government considers hostile to Russia must be elimin ated from the Polish government.

2 The new Polish government must be composed of men ready to settle soviet-Polish problems on a basis of realities. Handler said the soviet note to Poland merely "suspended" relations between the two countries thus leaving the door open for an agreement with those Poles who are inclined to take a more realistic view of soviet-Polish ties. Soviet sources in London trans lated the note as completely "sev ering" or "breaking off relations, but they, too, agreed that an early reapproachment was possible. Viewed as Defeat. In Washington, the rupture of Polish-Russian diplomatic relations was realistically viewed as a major defeat for President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill's diplomacy if for no other reason than it will comfort the axis.

It came at a moment when Washington apparently was moving further to appease the soviet union with a major diplomatic rebuff to Finland a state with which Russia is at war and the United States is at peace. There are unconfirmed rumors that the United States is about to break off relations with the Finns. Germans Hurl Charges. The German radio, in its first comment on the break in soviet-Polish relations, charged today that Moscow has become the "executioner of Poland and the Poles while London stands idly by." The 10,000 to 12,000 Polish officers whose graves were found near Smolensk in occupied Russia, were "only a small part of the Poles murdered by the Soviets," the broadcast said. Russia's severance of relations with Poland was said to be designed to make an investigation of the murders impossible.

Crossing Crash Proves Fatal to F. W. Konnalc, 65 Fred W. Konnak, 65, of 1905 Prospect street, who was injured Monday morning when the automobile he was driving was struck by a southbound Chicago North Western railroad passenger train at the Yout street crossing, died at 11:30 a. m.

today in St Mary's hospital. The death was the third traffic fatality in Racine county since Jan. Coroner James W. Heib-ering is impaneling a jury and said he would hold an inquest later: this week. The train, according to a police report, struck the car in the rear, throwing it in a southeasterly direction.

It tore away a guy wire from a power line pole, crashed Into' the gateman's shanty, and came to a stop against the Racine Pattern Works building. An autopsy was performed on the body this afternoon, after which it was removed to the Krug funeral home. 5 Farmers Accused Of Price Violations VALDOSTA, Ga F) Five Pavo, farmers were tinder $1,000 bond each today charged with violating the federal price control act in the' sale of cabbage. U. S.

Commissioner W. E. Perry held the men for the grand jury after testimony by OPA investigators that they charged $105 a ton for cabbage, $12 over the ceiling price. i v. Journal-Times Photo Inland Port Hit By 1,000 Tons LONDON Britain's biggest bombers blasted the great German inland port of Duisburg last night in "one of the heaviest raids" ever carried out against the reich, an official British announce ment declared today.

Seventeen bombers were re ported missing from the attack. The language of the commu nique indicated that at least 1,000 tons of bombs were dropped on the city. The night raid followed blows by swift Mosquito Bombers late yesterday at railway centers in northwest Germany, in the Rhine land, and in France near the Loire river. All of the raiding planes returned safely to bases, it was announced. It was the 59th raid on Duisberg, which is situated 12 miles west of Essen at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers.

The city is the site of many heavy war industries and an important communications center. Meet Strong Defense. Last night's raid was the first time that British heavy bombers had been active since the sweeping assaults on Stettin, Rostock and Berlin last Tuesday night. The air ministry news service said British planes met "one of the strongest defenses our crews have encountered for some time" in the attack. ihe German communique, heard from the Berlin radio, said several places were raided in west ern Germany, including Ober- hausen apd Muelheim as well as Duisburg.

It said 16 planes were shot down. OPA May Allow Sale Of Home Canned Food WASHINGTON (JP) The of fice of price administrator is attempting to work out a plan under which housewives may be permit ted to sell excess home canned goods, Senator Gillette was advised by Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown today. Gillette said he had appealed to Brown to soften, if possible, an OPA ruling that housewives would have to be licensed and would have to collect rationing points before being allowed to sell home canned processed foods. Fast Army Fighter Planes-Like the P-38 "Lightnings" Cost $100 V00JD00 to Build 1334 War Bonds of $75 Each Appeal by LB WASHINGTON.

(JF More than 50 mines were shut down today in the spread of a strike which held the possibility of halt ing production of soft coal by Sat urday. More than 26,000 of an estimat ed total of 450,000 soft coal miners were reported to have left their work by mid-day. The war labor board appealed to the miners' patriotism not to walk out, saying in messages to President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and other UMW leaders that "a nation at war" needs uninterrupted production. However, in Pennsylvania 26 mines were shut down with 14,700 men idle.

The production loss there thus increased to more than 88,000 tons a day, on the basis of six tons a man. About 4,000 men were idle, in Kentucky and 7,500 in Alabama. In Ohio, a UMW district president said "if there is not a contract between operators and the union by Friday there won't be any coal miners go into coal mines Saturday." Lewis Stays Silent. UMW district leaders met in New York for a policy meeting but Lewis still was silent. He has flatly opposed the turning over of the wage dispute between miners and the operators to the WLB.

Although UMW spokesmen said no strikes had been authorized, they pointed out that Lewis had not forbidden them, and the number of idle miners was estimated at more than 13,000 in the Pittsburgh and Birmingham areas. In addition, a New York source close to the UMW officials said hundreds of telegrams were arriving at UMW headquarters, urging the union's negotiators to stand firm and informing them that miners were ready to strike at a moment's notice. Most of the Pittsburgh and Birmingham operations are captive mines whose total output is used by the steel companies that own them. At least two commercial mines in Pennsylvania, however, were hit by walkouts and several thousand southeastern Kentucky coal miners quit work. Others Serve Notice.

Bituminous operators in Alabama, Illinois and Indiana have received notice that the miners will not work after midnight Friday. These states do not come under the Appalachian agreement now in dispute before the WLB, but this dispute is the key to the situation generally. The board announced that a panel which is to begin consideration of the issues tomorrow will be headed by Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Philadelphia engineer who was the first administrator of the rural electrification program, as the public's representative. Cooke is the panel chairman. Representing labor is David B.

Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. The employer representative is Walter White, assistant to the chairman of the business advisory council of the commerce department-Fails to Give Names. The WLB invited Lewis to submit several names as nominees for the labor representative, but this the UMW president failed to do, leaving the choice entirely up to the board. The WLB's initial telegram to Lewis, Secretary Treasurer Thomas Kennedy, and presidents of the districts where stoppages have occurred, appealed to the workers' patriotism. It made no reference to the board's policy of suspending consideration of the merits of a dispute while a strike is in progress.

The board's order, on which Lewis has thus far made no comment, provides for extension of existing agreements until a final settlement, with any wage adjustments to be retroactive to March 31. Lewis' principal demands are for an increase of $2 a day, compensation for underground travel time, and contract terms covering themine supervisory forces. The Weather WISCONSIN Light rain or drizzle extreme north this afternoon. Cooler tonight, except near Lake Michigan with scattered light frost southwest and south central portions. RACINE TEMrZKATCKES Highest and lowest temperature recorded during the 34 hours (tartinf at I m.

Mndr, April IMS. Maximum llMlnlmum 40 Rainfall St of an Inch. Temperature at a. m. today 44 The tun rose today, at 131 a.

m. and will set at 7:47 p. m. AsrU 2. 1M2.

Miilmnw jlUnlmlim II EMPLOYES in an Indianapolis 9 Gibraltar Stirs (By The United Press) A Vichy broadcast was quoted by the British radio today as saying that a major movement of "Allied sea and air orcesw was "under way at Gibraltar. Sex Madman Terrorizes 11 CHICAGO. (U.R) Police intensified their search today for a small, emaciated man, described as a "dangerous sex maniac," who terrorized eight small girls, two men and a young boy, threatening them with a dime-store claw hammer and a knife. Authorities feared another wave of attacks from the maniac unless police are able to close in on him iirthe small residential area on the northwest side, where he continued fo bob out of the darkness last night, frighten women and then disappear. Police stations were floded with calls.

"We have a good description of him and expect to capture him soon," police saki. Two of the maniac's young victims, were hospitalized with scalp wounds inflicted by the claw hammer. They were Claudia D'Angelo, 15, and her sister, Mary, 13, who were home alone when he struck them with his hammer, pushed them into a closet and threatened to kill them if they came out. Took $210 From Home. The terrorist attempted, to rape his two women victims.

On at least two occasions he committed minor robberies, but did not harm a small boy who was alone in the house where he stole $210. Police said the man had been at large in the neighborhood for "a few weeks," using various ruses to win the confidence of his women victims, who described him as mild-mannered and pleasant. He lured two of his victims into a basement yesterday on pretense that he had lost his wallet, and offered to pay the girls if they could find it. All of the victims described him as about five feet four inches tall, dark complexioned, about 30 years old and wearing a tan zipper jacket and brown trousers. U.

S. Airmen Attack Kiska 13 More Times WASHINGTON (U.R) American airmen knifed through dirty weather in the Aleutians on Sunday to deliver 13 more attacks on Kiska and another on Attu island, where the Japanese are develp-ing an air base, the navy announced today. Gunman Kills Cashier But Fails to Rob Bank BIRNAMWOOD, Wis. (U.R) A nervoui gunman shot and killed Cashier John Perrar, about 40, of the Bank of imam wood in an unsuccessful attempt at robbery in this northeastern Wisconsin village today. Yanks Smash Two Airdromes CAIRO.

(IP) A heavy concentration of American Liberators dropped a quarter million pounds of high explosive yesterday on the Bari airdrome in southern Italy, a key assembly point for axis aircraft. "I would be surprised if a single plane was left intact- on the ground," a bombardier of one of the bombers said. Bari is 50 miles north of the Taranto naval base and is on the Adriatic sea. A communique today said hits were scored on hangars and grounded aircraft. Form Bifi-fest Fleet.

The Liberators made up the ninth air force formation to raid Italy. American fliers said they saw tremendous explosions and black smoke rose thousands of feet into the air. In all, Italy was brought under unprecedented aerial bombardment yesterday as Flying Fortresses made their longest flight from North Africa to bomb Gros-seto airfield 80 miles northwest of Rome in addition to the U. S. Liberators' raid on the Bari airdrome.

Other, planes from Malta and Tunisia were, reported to have rekindled fires on much bombed Sicily and Sardinia, the large Italian islands southwest and west of the Italian peninsula. Many Are Killed. Raiding Grosseto entailed a round trip flight of at least 950 miles. Direct hits were scored on airdrome 'buildings, an Allied communique from North Africa said. The Italian radio announced that 74 were killed and 277 were wounded, attesting to the severity of the Fortresses' attack.

Hundreds of fragmentation bombs were dropped. Malta bombers raided Augusta on Sicily yesterday and the Italians said 10 were killed and 11 injured. Although Allied sources did not confirm it, the Italians said that Trani, 25 miles up the Adriatic from Bari, and San An-tioco in Sardinia also were at-tacked. At Bari and San An-tioco, the Italians said 10 were killed 'and 16 injured. i May Quota of Cars Raised to 50,000 WASHINGTON.

UP) Anticipating a seasonal increase in demand, the office of price administration today set a quota of 50,000 new passenger automobiles for rationing in May compared with 38,000 for April. OPA also announced a quota of 88.200 new bicycles for rationing in May, the same as in April. Trade Pact Extended By 14 to 11 Vote WASHINGTON (U.F0 The house ways and means committee by a vote of 14 to 11 today approved a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade agreement law. Munition Surplus? Army Lacks Basic Needs, Rasps Somervell plant march to work to a bugle calL watch a flag raising cere mony, and then take up their jobs along production lines labelled "MacArthur avenue," "Wainright street," "Guadalcanal etc. The idea is to make the folks feel that they are really "soldiers of production," doing their part in co-operation with the men who use the weapons made in that factory.

Wonder what the attitude would be toward such a procedure in Racine? JAPANESE AMERICANS are having a hard time getting or holding Jobs in various parts of I the country. Public opinion has turned against them sharply since the news that the Japs had executed some Yank fliers who took part in the raid on Tokyo. And the American people are demand tag that there be no coddling of Japs interned in western camps, But on the local front, con-. aider the plight of a black cat in West Racine. Mrs.

Louis Chris tensen, 1303 Hayes ave-, nue, tells me that some of the folks in that neighborhood apparently are super-smper-stitioos, particularly about black cats. Every little while her very dark Tommy comes home all battered and bruised from beatings and stoning. She points out that it isn't the cat's fault that It's black, and she wonders if anyone has a cat of another hue to give her so she can give the black one to a farmer, or someone else in an area where folks axent so superstitious, NEW YORK. CP) The army, instead of accumulating a surplus of munitions, is so far from its needs that it will not be able to furnish all troops with basic equipment until late next year, Lt. Gen.

Brehon R. Somervell said today. In a speech prepared for delivery to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the commanding general of Gen.

Somervell the army service forces asserted categorically "there have been" no huge accumulations of stores which could not be moved overseas." "In point of fact," he added, "we are still not free from difficulties in providing essential cargo for- the shipping which is available to us." Branding reports of a munitions surplus and rumors that the automobile industry was shifting from military to civilian production as axis inspired propaganda de-designed to slow up the war effort, Somervell declared that "Victory is not just around the corner." He paid his caustic respects to "the drug tore admirals and the Lftt INDEX Editorial Page Society 8, 9 Radio Page 9 Sports Page 10 Theater Page.