Current Events November 2, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 2, 1943:

John L. Lewis-conferred with coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes today, presumably;, to; discuss conditions under which 530,000 United Mine Workers would resume full production of coal under Federal management

American and British  Fifth Army troops cracked. the southern end of the main German defense line below Rome today, driving forward into vital anchor points at a high cost .of Ivies to oust the Germans from strongly held mountain positions.

In a sudden stroke to speed final reconquest of the Solomons, American invasion forces stormed ashore on
Bougainville Island yesterday tose, seize Empress Augusta Bay and doom thousands of Japanese troops at outflanked bases, on the southeast approaches to Rabaul, a communique announced today.

A Russian armiored spearhead smashed" through the last. German defenses on the
Perekop isthmus and drove into the Crimea today. The official German news agency DNB said that Russian
forces in the Caucasus had swept across Kerchenski Strait and landed north and south of Kerch at the eastern tip of the Crimea in an apparent pincers offensive against the peninsula.. Although the agency claimed that the "major part" of the Soviet forces had been wiped out, it admitted by implication that the Russians had established a bridgehead.

                     THE DAILY NEWS
                              HUNTINGDON, PA TUESDAY, NOVEMBERS 2, 1943.

LEWIS, ICKES CONFER AFTER SEIZURE OF 3,000 MINES

FUEL CZAR NAMED
TO CONTACT UMW
ABOUT WAGE ISSUE
President Orders Miners To Return To
Pits Wednesday Under "Stars
And Stripes" Operation—
Union Group To Meet
By RAYOND LAKR,
United Press Correspondent Washington, Nov. 2. —
John L. Lewis-conferred with coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes today, presumably;, to; discuss conditions under which 530,000 United Mine Workers would resume full production of coal under Federal management.
.The UMW president called at Ickes' office, accompanied by. one aide. He refused to state the purpose of
his call. However, since Ickes has been given authority, by President 'Roosevelt to negotiate a wage-hour contract with the union, -it appeared certain that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss preliminaries to such negotiation.
Lewis is expected to order all striking miners back to- work as a result of the government's seizure of the mines yesterday. Lewis' talk with Ickes lasted about 30 minutes. In response to questions as he left the coal administrator's office, Lewis said, "I wouldn't have any statementat all "about anything."

Southern End Of Nazi
Line Below Rome Sliced
By Fifth Army Troops
Americans And British
Move Forward Into
Vital Anchor
Points
CASUALTIES HIGH
Town Of Casanova
Captured During
Advance
By HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, . Algiers, Nov. 2—
American and British  Fifth Army troops cracked. the southern end of the main German defense line below Rome today, driving forward into vital anchor points at a high cost .of Ivies to oust the Germans from strongly held mountain positions.
Lieut. Gen. Mark 'W. Clark's lorces, in twin drives, hacked two najor chunks from the Nazi 'Little Rommel", line by storming the slopes of Massico Ridge at several points and capturing most of. the Matese Mountains toward :he center of the line.
Official commentators emphas- .zed. that the German line some 90 miles below Rome was not yet crumbling but that they' had lost vital points which they had fought bitterly to hold.
Driving for a four-mile advance, British troops captured the town of Casanova to occupy hligh points on the Massico Ridge coastal anchor of the enemy line, installing itself en high ground dominating the plains of the
Garigliano River seven miles northward.

U.S. FORCES INVADE
CAPE TOROKINA IN
SURPRISE LANDING
Japanese Fleet Fails To
Come Out And Resist
Reconquest Move
Of Americans
* By DON CASWELL
United Press Correspondent
- Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, Nov. 2. —
In a sudden stroke to speed final reconquest of the Solomons, American invasion forces stormed ashore on
Bougainville Island yesterday tose, seize Empress Augusta Bay and doom thousands of Japanese troops at outflanked bases, on the southeast approaches to Rabaul, a communique announced today.
forces in the Caucasus had swept across Kerchenski Strait and landed north and south of Kerch at the eastern tip of the Crimea in an apparent pincers offensive against the peninsula.. Although the agency claimed that the "major part" of the Soviet forces had been wiped out, it admitted by implication that the Russians had established a bridgehead.
The surprise landing on the largest—and most powerfully held—island in the Solomons group was--carried out by troops under Admiral William F. • Halsey's South Pacific command against slight opposition.
A dispatch from South Pacific Headquarters revealed that the invasion was made at Cape Torokina
by American Marines. Cape Torokina is at the .north end of Empress Augusta Bay, about half
way up the west coast of Bougainville.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's expressed hope that the Japanese fleet would offer a fight apparently was not' realized as the convoy unloaded its men and supplie and the troops fanned outover dense jungle trails and rugged mountains in drives that soon may result in battles with possibly
40,000 enemy soldiers.
Capture of Bougainville, site of nine enemy airdromes, would set the stage for the final blows J.o smash the big Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain, only 250 miles—easy fighter range—northwest of the flat, sandy Empress Augusta Bay beaches on the west side of the island.
Jumping 200 rniles from the southern Solomons, paat^ the scenes of last week's landings on
Choiseul and the Treasury Islands, the invasion forces struck while Allied aircraft battered Buka and Kieta airdromes 30 miles away to keep down enemy aerial' interference.

Red Spearhead Cracks
Last German DefensesRussians Smash Nazis On
Perekop Isthmus And
Drive Into Area
Of Crimea
ENEMY CUT OFF
Speedy Conquest Of Black
Sea Peninsula
Seen
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Correspondent
Moscow,- Nov...2-—
A Russian armiored spearhead smashed" through the last. German defenses on the
Perekop isthmus and drove into the Crimea today. The official German news agency DNB said that Russian
forces in the Caucasus had swept across Kerchenski Strait and landed north and south of Kerch at the eastern tip of the Crimea in an apparent pincers offensive against the peninsula.. Although the agency claimed that the "major part" of the Soviet forces had been wiped out, it admitted by implication that the Russians had established a bridgehead.
All signs pointed to speedy Soviet-conquest; of the Black Sea peninsula, w'hich has been torn by wars since the year 250. The German garrison had been denuded to a maximum of 90,000 troops and has failed to halt the Russains even temporarily on the narrow Perekop peninsula.