THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 2, 1943:
The federal government Saturday
took over operation of the strikebound coal industry, but
reports from the pits Saturday night raised doubts whether
521,000 now-idle miners will respond to Pres. Roosevelt's plea
that they go back to work for a nation "in grave peril.
Solid Fuels Administrator Harold
L Ickes Saturday night called on Transportation Director
Joseph B. Eastman to eliminate immediately all non-essential
railroad travel for the duration of the coal emergency
It was understood that Ickes also plans to ask War Production
Board Chairman M. Nelson to declare a national
dimont to conserve coal during the mine strike.
The Japanese Domei news agency said
Saturday night in a broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications
commission that "appropriate punishment" had been imposed on.
25 United States army and navy officers and enlisted men and
seven British sailors who were asserted to have posed as civilians
when interned in the Philippines.
American troops setting the Allied pace in
the -showdown battle of Tunisia, clamped an assault arc against the
German defenses of shell-raked Mateur Saturday after capturing three-key German Positions southwest' of Bizerte in “bitter"' hand to hand fighting with bayonets.
The Wisconsin State Journal
MADISON, SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1943
Slash in Rail Service
Asked to Save Coal
U. S. Takes Over Mine Operations
Nationwide Dimout
for Strike Duration
Also Being Planned
WASHINGTON—(U.P)—Solid Fuels Administrator Harold
L Ickes Saturday night called on Transportation Director
Joseph B. Eastman to eliminate immediately all non-essential
railroad travel for the duration of the coal emergency
It was understood that Ickes also plans to ask War Production
Board Chairman M. Nelson to declare a national
dimont to conserve coal during the mine strike.
Ickes in a letter to Eastman, said that pending resumption
of normal coal production, limited supplies must be conserved
in every way possible, "lest we soon see the complete stopping
of work in many plants throughout the country now turning out
munitions and essential civilian products."
He noted that the Office of Defense Transportation already a
studying ways and means of curtailing 25 per cent of the passenger
train and locomotive mileage of the railroads during the emergency
period.
"The foregoing measure directed to conserve coal will be of great
help in a general program of coal conservation," Ickes wrote. "I count
upon your cooperation."
FDR Pledges .
to Protect Men
Willing to Work
But UMW~Officials
Back Lewis in Defying
Federal Ultimatum
WASHINGTON —(U,P)—The federal government Saturday
took over operation of the strikebound coal industry, but
reports from the pits Saturday night raised doubts whether
521,000 now-idle miners will respond to Pres. Roosevelt's plea
that they go back to work for a nation "in grave peril.
The president ordered Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L.
Ickes to take over the mines after the United Mine Workers .union
and its chief, John L. Lewis, defied his ultimatum that the strike
end Saturday morning.
Ickes immediately ordered 3,400 "soft coal and 450 anthracite companies
to operate their mines "in the name of the United States."
Behind the seizure order, was a guarantee of military protection
for all miners willing to "work for their government."
521,000 Men On .Strike
Japs 'Punish'
25 Captives
in Philippines
NEW YORK —(U.P)— The Japanese Domei news agencysaid
Saturday night in a broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications
commission that "appropriate punishment" had been imposed on.
25 United States army and navy officers and enlisted men and
seven British sailors who were asserted to have posed as civilians
when interned in the Philippines.
The Japanese broadcast, in an. English language transmission,
said that all 32 men now were under detention at a war prisoners?
camp after being transferred from the Santo Tomas interment camp,
inferring they still were alive despite the punishment.
As recorded by the FCC, the Domei agency quoted the Tokyo
newspaper Mainichi as saying the Americans and Britons secretly
discarded their military garb when the Philippines 'fell because they
"gave full credence to misleading Anglo-American propaganda that
the Japanese killed all war prisoners."
The Japanese broadcast asserted that the men confessed their
military identity.
Yanks Tighten Net
Around Mateur Line
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa—(U.P)— American troops setting the Allied pace in
the -showdown battle of Tunisia, clamped an assault arc against the
German defenses of shell-raked Mateur Saturday after capturing three-key German Positions southwest' of Bizerte in “bitter"' hand to hand fighting with bayonets.
Allied airmen, in the 'most sweeping and accurate attack of the,. American , campaign against Axis shipping, sank seven ships, including two destroyers and a
cruiser, while a sensational oneplane blow- destroyed an entire
fleet of five big 'Junkers aerial transports.
As the Americans sliced deeper into stiff German defenses on the
northern front, the . British First Army fought off furious counter-
attack, at the 'center; of; the constrict-mg battle line .and the Eighth
army and French /forces 'edged into both wings of the battered bridgehead.
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