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MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1943 2 Report 3 Attacks by Japs on West Coast; No Damage British Warships Heavily Shell Pantelleria; Sicily Report Actor Howard on AIR YA LISTENIN? "New Jack Carson Show" Makes Debut "The New Jack Carson Show," starring the spectacularly rising new radio comedian, Jack "Hot Lips" Carson, along with a vocalist-discovery, Anita Ellis, and Johnny Richards' 20-piece orchestra, makes its debut on KGLO-CBS Wednesday at 8 :30 p. m. and Sardinia Again Bombed Zfi 5 5p fi 3i START TO RATION CANNED MILK OPA Acts to Conserve Limited Supplies WASHINGTON. Rationing ground, and steel centers indicated their output would be affected seriously in a matter of days. A spokesman for U.

S. Steel at Pittsburgh said production would be "very much curtailed in three or four days." if ifi Other steel men reckoned that many mills would have to cut their output by 25 per cent in the first week of the coal shutdown, and drop 50 per cent more if the deadlock continues another week. if if The secretary promptly issued an order barring rail deliveries to consumers who have more than a 10 day supply of soft coal or five-day supply of anthracite on hand. The railroads were reported to have a 30-day supply. A nationwide dim-out was suggested by War Production Board officials as a means of conserving the 108 days supply of soft coal held by the utility companies but this idea was only In the conversation stage.

The office of defense transportation held out another stop-gap measure as a possibility a ban on nonessential rail travel and an arbitrary 25 per cent cut in train damaged in various attacks by allied naval and air attacks, Alexander reported. In the past two months, he asserted, the number of U-boats in Atlantic waters appears to have decreased. This, he said, no doubt was due to more than one cause, but the principal one was undoubtedly due to the rising rate of this destruction. Alexander described March as "a poor month" in the battle against the submarines, but said it still was not the worst month of the war in the campaign to free united nations supply lines of the underseas menace. Because of the high output of new shipping in the United States, he said, there was a substantial net gain of the overall tonnage in March.

His statement disclosed that in April and May merchant shipping losses were reduced below the three months from December to February after heavy losses in March. Declare Planes From Subs Dropped Bombs on Forests; Fire Put Out WASHINGTON. (P Reports on three isolated Japanese attacks on the west coast two reputedly by planes operating from submarines and one by submarine shelling of an Oregon forest were disclosed Tuesday to have been given to a senate appropriations subcommittee by forest service officials. I.vlp Watts, chief of the forest service, told the committee at a recent executive session that what was believed to have been a bomb dropped by a Japanese nlanp startpH a small fire in southern Oregon which was quickly extinguished. Earl W.

Loeridge, assistant chief, who testified with Watts, declared: "There were three Jap attacks rjn Ihp west roast, two of them over the national forests. Planes apparently took off from submar-inps nenrbv and came over and bombed the forests without being caught. "Our lookout man saw them in parh case: and in the mouth of the Columbia river, a submarine shelled the forest there. In parh case we have had these small crews nearby, which could have caught any fire which may nave started." SET RECORD IN SINKING SUBS Decrease in Atlantic U-Boats Is Apparent LONDON, Increasingly deadly allied convoy escort services sank more enemy submarines in May than in any other month of the war and in the past two months the number of operating U-boats in the Atlantic appears to have decreased, A. V.

Alexander, lirst lord of the admiralty, declared Wednesday. if i if He told the house of commons that in the last 12 months the total enemy1 submarines sent to the bottom exceeded the number sunk in all of the previous war period and that in the last six months the rate of destruction was 25 per cent above the previous half year. Paving tribute to the work of the U. S. air force and the RAF in bombing U-boat bases, Alexander predicted that "as time goes on bombing of the building yards and component factories should have an ever increasing on the battle of the Atlantic.

He said it appeared that the nurjhber of sea marauders sent to the bottom during the month just ended was greater than the Germans could produce in all the facilities available to them. Besides those sunk a large number of the sea prowlers were Brenda -Wi I You Step Out With Me Tonight? I know I've httn an aful Kronen not tak-Irx you any placa lately. Hut sf standing ail iy at mv nrw job. my fwt darn nrar krllei Willi callouses and burning, hiow I'e reformed or rather mv feet hav Ilimiks to the Ke-Mint you advised. Never tried anything that aeemed to dmw the pain anA richt out sti fast.

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The warships blasted Pantel leria Sunday night and then re turned Tuesday afternoon, an al lied headquarters communique announced, to carry out a heavy shelling without loss although there was some retaliatory fire from the shore. The communique announce ment of the bombardment said: 'The island of Pantellena was successfully bombarded by naval surface forces on the night of May 30-31. There was no effective opposition and our ships suffered no casualties or damage. 'Another successful bombard ment of the island took place dur ing the late afternoon of June 1 Hits were obtained on the bar racks and battery areas. There was some retaliation from tne shore, but our ships suffered no casualties." The Italian fleet dispersed along the Italian west and east coasts appeared powerless to intervene against the British navy and no enemy air attacks against the war ships were reported.

if ifm if The second bombardment almost coincided with a smashing assault by flying fortresses, augmented by bombing and strafing formations of lightnings, against the volcanic rock which has become the most-punished axis territory in the world. ifc The warplancs plastered small vessels in the island's shallow port and covered hideouts of the en- enmy garrison with bomb bursts. The Italian seaplane base on Stagnone island, off the western tip of Sicily between Trapani and Marsala, and shipping in the Sar dinian harbors of Terranova, Por to Ponte di Romano, and Porto Torres also were extensively damaged by the nonstop air offensive. One plane was lost in the wide spread operations by the American squadrons and there was only one air combat during the day, when ten enemy fighters attacked a formation of Mitchells over Terranova. Order Contract Include Union Dues Checkoff KANSAS CITY.

(JO The re gional war labor board announced it had ordered the Pfaff Bakin company of Fort Dodge to include in a contract with Baker and Confectionery Workers union, local 34 (CIO), a standard maintenance of membership clause union dues checkoff. Forty-three employes are covered. The board also approved a 15 per cent increase over wages paid Jan. 1, 1943, and two weeks' vacation after five years employment. DIED IN TUNISIA MILFORD, () Lt.

Richard Chapman, 22. died March 26 in a Tunisian hospital of injuries suffered in a plane crash, his wife has been informed. Missing Plane LONDON. (P) A spokesman for the British Overseas Airways said Wednesday that a British passenger airliner "disappeared'' Tuesday enroute to England from Lisbon, and reports from the Por tuguese capital said the actor, Les lie Howard, was among the 13 passengers. A Lisbon dispatch reported that the last word heard from the plane was "enemy plane attack ing us." The reports from Lisbon said the plane with its Dutch crew was shot clown in the stormy Bay cf Biscay about half way between Lisbon and England and that con cern was felt over weather re ports which indicated it would have been difficult for the pas sengers to take to their rubber boats.

A Berlin broadcast, reporting lrom LasDon tnat the plane was missing, said "it was feared it met with an t-anier, the uerman communique reported that nazi reconnais sance planes had shot down three allied bombers and "one tran port" over the Atlantic. The overseas airways spokes man saia tne plane was carrying 16 passengers and that one of them was named Howard. He add ea, nowevcr, tnat only tne surnames of the passengers were available in London at present. The Lisbon account said Alfred Chaenwall, a film director, and three women, each accompanied by a child, also were passengers. The spokesman said the fate of the plane was not known but that "enemy action" was suspected.

The plane left Lisbon Tuesday morning and was due in England Tuesday evening, he said. Howard had been in Spain re cently canvassing the possibility of producing films there. LESLIE HOWARD -Reported missing Davenport Considers Street Market for Victory Garden Sales DAVENPORT, (VP) Plans for the establishment of a street market where products from Victory gardens may be sold were discussed at a committee of the whole meeting in the office of Mayor Ed Frick, after S. W. San-ford, assistant director of the garden committee asked the council to consider such a market.

No objections were made to the plan and City Attorney Edward A. Doerr was instructed to outline an ordance governing the market and to present it to the city council for consideration. THAT EXTRA SOMETHING IN DAYTIME RADIO "Songs fay MORTON DOWNEY" Raymond Paige's Orchestra KGLO 2:00 P. M. MONDAY 1HBOUGH MIDAY Veienfed by MASON CITT COCA COLA BOTTLING CO.

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28. Engen later was found unconscious behind the house. Smerud and his wife were arrested after return of the verdist. His wife pleaded guilty to a morals charge. Buy War Savings Bonds and Stamps from your Globe-Gazette carrier boy.

Here's to Friendship love without wings "G-0' Trodswo'Vi fs STo. MINNEAPOLIS BREWING CO. Minneapolis. Minn. 1 Time out for I I aMendly Toast ifc.J,fr -fgnu 'in I nil frfi'iAMi iM liiliaViltttfiin 1 i' 1 I i i Guests of the first program are? "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, former boxer turned movie buffoon and radio language lacerator, and Hanley Stafford, irate "Mr.

Dithers'' of KGLO-CBS' popular "Blondie" program. Carson, who wins the former Milton Berle spot, already has created for radio, some of its wildest concepts as, the doorbell-ringing routine which is a parody on all doorbells for all time. Adroitly dodging the "typed" knock at the door, Carson has given a new device for bringing people on stage a scries of sounds which combine all the features of a carnival wheel, an alarm clock, a fire alarm and a factory whistle. if ift if F. P.

Kaye F. P. A. (Franklin newspaper columnist, P. Adams), is Sammy Kaye's guest on tne KUL.u-iib broadcast from Chicago Wcdnes- day at 7 p.

m. Adams, who is an expert on almost every subject except classical music and doesn't pretend to be upon the works of the great masters will have a chance to swing and sway to the tunes of Sammy's orchestra. Also heard on the program are sweet Nancy Norman and the Kaye choir. if if if II Darkness and Light" Jean Hersholt as "Dr. Chris tian is the central ligure in Darkness and script by the well-known author.

Major Laurie Y. Erskine, Wednesday on KGLO-CBS at 7:30 p. m. The story tells of little Jim Hendry and his father, and how Dr. Christian settles a family problem.

Helen Claire plays the part oi Judy Price. Dr. Christians secre tary, and the program originates in New York. if if if Jane Withers Jane Withers, who made her stae debut at 4 and is now a full-fledged movie star, joins another veteran of show business, Lionel Barrvmore, on "Mayor of the Town" Wednesday on KGLO-CBS at 8 p. m.

Both arc heard in a drama about the people of Springdale, mythical town of which Barry-more is cast as the mayor. Blond Claire Trevor continues to play the mayor's secretary. if if if Strauss Numbers Selections from the works of Jo hann Strauss are performed Wednesday on KGLO-CBS at 9 m. on the "Great Moments in Music" program featuring Jean Tennyson, Jan Tcerce and Robert Weede. Miss Tennyson sings a vocal ar rangement of the "Tales From the Vienna Woods'' Waltz, and an aria from "The Queen's Lace Hand kerchief." She is joined by Peerce in the duet arrangement of "Artist's Life" waltz.

rcerce's solo is "The Gondola Sons," and Weede's is an aria from "The Gypsy Baron." if if if Commandos Strike His mission in America com pleted, "Chips Davis, Commando' returns to England in his broad cast Wednesday on KGLO-CBS at 9:30 p. m. A plane sent from an English base to bring home a general wounded on the Tunisian front, makes emergency landing in the Alps. Chips is sent to the res cue. How Davis manages to com plctc his mission successfully shows the ingenuity of the "Com mandos." i if if "Good Listening" Ad-libbing quiz-master Fred Uttal cives awav cash prizes to contestants on KGLO-CBS' nov city quiz show.

"Good Listening," heard Wednesday at 10:30 p. m. Contestants and radio audience are tested on the basis of alert ness rather than general knowl edge. Musical interludes are pro viried by Paul Baron's orchestra with vocals by Audrey Marsh. if if ift Local Swim Program Discussed on Forum if Marlowe Evans, head of the local Y.

M. C. physical education department, will speak on the KGLO Forum Wednesday from 6:30 to 6:40 p. in. He will discuss the swim campaign to be held June 7-12.

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CBS :43 John B. Kennedy News, Chevrolet Dealers. BS 10:00 Fvening News Roundup, Vance Music Company Clark Gardner 10:30 Marjorie Lawrence, CBS 11:00 Press News. CBS 11:05 Bob Allen's Orchestra, I Its Boyd Kaeburn's Orchestra, CBS Press News, IBS 12:05 Sign Off liuu Kilocycles RLD NtTHORK WEDNESDAY EVENING 7:30 Tommy Doiey's tUnJ 8:0 Time to Smile 8:30 Mr. District Attorney 9:00 Kay Kyser's Kollege 10:00 Victory Tune Time 10:13 News :0:45 Memorable Music 11:00 War News; Music 11:13 Hamblin' in Khythm 11:30 News 11:43 Music: War News 12:00 Swine Shut Matinee Till RS DAY MORNING 5:30 Tips and Tunes 5:45 Melody Parade 6:00 Heaven and Home ts 1.5 Vox Service Program H.Ul) Kami News Jerry and Zclda 7:00 Alex Dreier.

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Police found the case a block away. The shirts were gone, but none of the shoes was missing. They were all for the foot. i GREAT MOMENTS IN MUSIC Tht Celanest Hour presents MUSIC BY JOHANN STRAUSS Joan Tonnyton tepromt Jan rrc fewer Robert Weed bar it on i Goorg Sebastian conductor TONIOHT KGLO 9 P. M.

teOMSOOCD ST Cttantst Ctrfi ralfn ,4 mrrna of canned milk began Wednesday on short notice. The purpose, according to of fice of price administration, is to reduce all non-essential consumption and to conserve limited supplies for infant feeding and for persons who require canned milk in special diets. Under the rationing, i started at 12:01 Wednesday, evaporated and condensed milk were Hdded to the meats and fats but no additional points were allowed. Sixteen points a person a week are allowed for the purchase of meats and fats, and canned milk now must be in-, eluded in this allowance. It will "cost" one red point a pound, and OPA estimated infant formulas will require about 7 points a week.

This, in effect, wipes out some of the meat "bonus" which parents of small children have enjoyed. OPA estimated this year's supply ot canned milk will appropriate 25 per cent less than last year's because of the diversion of raw milk to other purposes. Persons whose doctors certify they need extra amounts may apply to rationing boards for sup plemental rations, as already provided in the meats and fats program. Oil Heiress Jumps ii i zIlI or rails rrom i um Floor of N. Y.

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William S. Gill, who was divorced from the late motion picture act ress. Kence Auoree, in iyy, collapsed when he learned her body hud been found. Gill, before his marriage to Miss Adoree in 1 92 was the husband of Evelyn Fariss, another motion picture actress. He told detectives he and his wife came here May 26 from Washington where he had been stationed with the army.

Detectives said Gill, former New York broker, told them he awakened from a nap and dis covered his wife was gone. Mrs. Gill was divorced from Prince Disiriggnana Don ran- cesco caravita oi naiy, in ijo. ESTIMATE V. OUTPUT SAN FRANCISCO, (U.R census having revealed the presence in California oi nearly ,000,000 victory gardens, statisti-ians immediately got busy on the job.

They estimate the gardens will produce 1 25.000.000 pounds ot egeU'ibles worth at the present une PLAN SOYBEAN PLANT SPENCE uV) A soybean plant capable oi processing tons of beans a day will be con structed here, W. P. Woodcock, chairman of the Spencer Cham ber of Commerce, said Tuesday bombed and many planes were destroyed on the ground in addition to 23 shot down in combat. At least eight others wrre listed as probably shot out of action. )f, 3fc if.

Chinese fighters again carried out offensive patrols over the Yangtze Tuesday afternoon, but no enemy planes were sighted. All the Chinese operations were conducted without loss, the an nouncement said. (The Japanese, in an imperial headquarters announcement broadcast from Tokyo "and re corded by the Associated Press, reported Wednesday they had won a big victory in the sector opposite Ichang where the Chinese Tuesday reported five enemy divisions routed. (The Tokyo broadcast assorted "a crushing had been carried out in that area against crushing offensive" had been carried out in that area against 120.000 Chungking defense troops "and other encmv forces." if (In the period from May 19 up to June 1, the announcement declared. 18, GOO Chinese were left on the field in dead or wounded, 2,628 were taken prisoners, and quantities of war materials were captured while the Japanese "suffered 237 killed in action." if if if, (The Tokyo bulletin also claimed that southward in the area west of Tungting lake the Japanese had "successfully completed operations" and had killed or wounded 36,300 Chinese, taken 5.923 prisoners, and captured various war materials for Japanese loss of only 473 killed in action.) mileage.

While the strike hit both bituminous and anthracite fields, the current wage fight concerns only the soft coal miners. Hard coal negotiations were scheduled tentatively for Wednesday afternoon in New York but informed sources in Washington said they probably would be delayed. The anthracite pact usually follows the pattern of the bituminous coal agreement. if, 3fc if The futile negotiations Tuesday resembling a dueling match with first one side and then the other thrusting forward, then retiring to a previous stand. The operators first advised the war labor board that Lewis was "adamant" in his original demand for a $2 a day pay increase, which would be allowable despite the little steel formula if it were con sidered as underground travel pay.

Heretofore, the mines did not pay a man for the time he spent going from the mouth of the mine to the working face and back. if Lewis countered with a declaration that he was willing to compromise. He offered a plan he said was suggested by Secretary Ickes, allowing the men $1.50 a day for underground travel, for the next 30 days. Meanwhile a commission would study the problem at the mines as a basis for a permanent agreement. The producers objected to the amount of money involved and also contended any agreement should be permanent so the operators would know how much they owe and could allow for it.

The producers disclosed they had offered to pay for 48 minutes time in travel. This was turned down by Lewis who wanted 90 minutes they said. Reports from the field indicated that the mine walkouts were orderly. The only men working were the 15,000 members of the progressive miners union, an AFL affiliate, in Illinois, scattered non-union mines and a few pits where there are independent unions. Buy War Savings Bonds and Stamps from your Globe-Gazette carrier boy.

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