Current Events June 23, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 23, 1943:

Formations of R.A.F. h e a v y

bombers thundered over the southeast coast toward the

continent early Wednesday after American Flying Fortresses,

completing round-the-clock smashes on the German-Ruhr

for the first time, kindled a square mile of blazes that

raced through the German synthetic rubber town of Huls Tuesday.

John L. Lewis Tuesday ordered his mine workers back

into 'the pits until Oct.-31, with a broad indication that

during that time they would resort to the courts to obtain

the portal-to-portal pay they failed to get from the War-

Labor Board.

John L. Lewis Tuesday ordered his mine workers back

into 'the pits until Oct.-31, with a broad indication that

during that time they would resort to the courts to obtain

the portal-to-portal pay they failed to get from the War-

Labor Board.

For 45 minutes this morning, American P-38

fighter pilots made pass after pass into a flight of 36 enemy Zeros,

scoring 14 kills and nine probables without loss to their own unit.

U. S. Bombers Smash Nazi and Italian War Plants

                                        San Antonio Express

                  SAN ANTONIO, LXXVIIi—NO. 174—78TH YEAR TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1943

LEWIS ORDERS MINERS BACK TO WORK

Americans Set Huge Fire

In German Rubber Factory;

Batter Naples Industries

By Associated Press. . LONDON, June 23.—Formations of R.A.F. h e a v y

bombers thundered over the southeast coast toward the

continent early Wednesday after American Flying Fortresses,

completing round-the-clock smashes on the German-Ruhr

for the first time, kindled a square mile of blazes that

raced through the German synthetic rubber town of Huls

Tuesday.

The American raid, which plunged directly int. the heart of

Nazi war production, came shortly after the R.A.F, had blaster

the important Ruhr steel town of Krefeld with upwards of 2,000

tons of bombs.

Wednesday's R.A.F. Operation indicated the Allies were keeping

up the bombings, which a German war reporter in a Berlin

broadcast described as "conveyor-belt actions.

Union Travel

Pay Lawsuit

Indicated

By Associated Press----

WASHINGTON, June 22.

John L. Lewis Tuesday ordered his mine workers back

into 'the pits until Oct.-31, with a broad indication that

during that time they would resort to the courts to obtain

the portal-to-portal pay they failed to get from the War-

Labor Board.

The action came just a few hours alter the W.L.B. had referred

the coal strike to President Roosevelt with a call for the use

of "all the power of Government." to force Lewis into a working

contract in line with W.L.B. directions.

Allied Flyers Whipsaw Italy,

Start Huge Fires in Naples

ALLIED'-HEADQUARTERS-IN-- NORTH AFRICA

.American' Flying Fortresses and British Wellingtons intensified

the. announced campaign to bomb Italian industry out of the

war with day-long attacks which left the vital factory area of

Naples smoking from 25 great fires, one covering an area a mile

wide.

U.S. P-38 Fighters Score 14 Kills, 9 Probables

IN 45-Minute Battle with 36 Japanese Zeros

By Associated Press

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA,

June 22,—For 45 minutes this morning, American P-38

fighter pilots made pass after pass into a flight of 36 enemy Zeros,

scoring 14 kills and nine probables without loss to their own unit.

Allied headquarters' noon communique

announced our interceptors in the Lae area of New Guinea

attacked and decisively defeated an enemy formation o£ 3G

Zeros, destroying or damaging 23 enemy planes.