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BF A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Much warmer. 37TH YEAR, NO. I8~<^ PAGES ^ ILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1943 PRICE TEN CENTS ALL-OUT AIR WAR OPENED Ending Hope for 72 Men Trapped in Coal Mine Communicate with Rescue Workers but Deadly Mine Gas Threatens All drilled through the sliding mass ot rock, dust and coal. Communication : It was said, had been established between th. trspped men and their i reacuers. \ They apparently are in pretty gooi shape." th. report .aid. But as th. long hours dragged on and no further word cams from the rascu. sq .ads. led by ikilled I Milliard Reed, Alex Hawthorne and men flown here from Butte, the *'" Houtenen. The patient watch Only Three Alive As Five Are Found In Another Seam; Families Wait Bear Creek, Ment., Feb. 27. (UPi —Sklllsd rescue .quad, and n.arly 400 miner, worked frantically to ni debris .......u —..u.. .* men were | j^ ^ - gurvived In that s.am, then K>me trapped by an explosion In ssami" "¦"• mint, neia iiu e nope inai ^ , _ .„ ,_ • ,^ No. » of Montana's largest coal ' ">« trapped men still lived mla. "We don't know whether they, are alive or not," he said. He'0»"»« Inknewn Pays For This Salute I?Jhr to"^l^°r atav ".i^!:7a'„d vraltlnrcrowdagairbecar;;; silent: :"s at the mouth of the mine be-| SlbrL behind whtdh 72 Ten w.r^ W. A. Raneck.assistsnt manager Heved if three men of flve had! debris benina wnicn 7Z men were! . .. _,__ . ',. ,,..,_ , "_^ .„,ui«-h in th.f ...m «h>n xvm.i st least still were alive among thei trapped in seam No. 3. 1 Despite, optimistic reports, there ,j .,. , . .^ . .. , t, ¦. . ,. ^ j i waa doubt that life could be sus- •¦'"* ^*^' ''•¦ '" 'he mine was "very' Hospital beds and emergency tained in the gas-filled chsmbers i'***'" ""^ cpr^Md fears that the facilities were made ready at Red ef th. tunnel, which exUnds more ">'"••¦• might have been overcome Lodge, small mining village three! than a mile Into a hllleide and !.!'»>' «»•• n'"'" 'rom the Smith Mine and nearly SOO feet below ground level. Three Found AUve |«0 miles south of Billings. The sickening smell of mine gas I But the crowd still had hope.' Raneck said the cause oi the polMned the bleak hillside wh.re'Five men had been found in an- explosion had nol yet been de- nsarljr BOO persons—wives, children'other .earn of the Smith mine after termined and probably would not and .w.etheart.—prayed humbly the explosion this morning at 10:30. until the sealed-in portion of the that th.ir men would be rescued. Two of the men-Dewey Hardy and mine is reached. Commaalcale with Mea Ighace Marinchek—were dead, but The mine, which Is sbout SO Barller this afternoon, word waa three others lived, although they years old, is owned by the Montana sent back that a hole had be.n were overcome by gas. They were Coal and Iron Company of Billings. Flying Fortress Workers Call off Protest Meeting Baattle, Feb. 27. (UP>—Plans,against failure of the War L^bor local, iiutructed workers to attend have been cancelled for a 24-hour | Board to hand down a decision on ""'X during off-.'shift hours, mass meeting of Boeing Aircraft ,. .,,„,..„ i».i„«,„ „,-, i„ Promises WUI AcUon workers Monday lo protot against,^'" aircraft industry wag. in- D,^i,i„„ to cancel th. entlr. pro- delay in aettlement of their wage' e"^*"*^- I test meeting followed receipt of a demands, a spokesman for the Th. union spok.aman said "da-^ t.legram from Ralph Hewitt, a aeronoutical diMrict lodge u- v.lopiiient. from th. WLB war- '»''°'" representative on the WLB. nounced tonight. i .... ., , ,_ _i.„. » isUting thst the board will meet all Inatead of tlie maaa meeting, which union officials had predicted Rommel 2^000 Flights Makes Gain in Three Days; In North 1^''®^^ ^^^ Target Considered Part Of Jabbing Tactics; British-Americans Hold Him in South Cologne Cets.Heaviest Attatk Sinte Creat 1,000-Plane Raid; Out for LuHwaHe, U-Boats By VIRCiU. PINKLEV •»• velopiiients from the WLB war-'*''"'" representative on the WLB. ranted the change in plans." . .^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ Monday If neces- Plans for a 'round-the-clock | .m^ to consider the West Coast aircraft wage case. Hewitt's tsls- gram gave rise to speculation among union officials that the would have caiusd "thousands" of meeting wera made Thursday at a workers to leave their iobs despite, union sejulon which attracted more instructions to attond only during I than :!0,000 Boeing warkers and off-aliift hours, members ot the halted construction of Flying Fort-;WLB may have a decision on the union's district council will go Into: reasea at Seattle and Rcnton plants: Boeing case by Sunday niglit 24-bour i—ilVi ff» U:aO a. m. Maa-Ifor aatraral baura. At flrat plana I Before the meeting waa caneellad. diy fn vaa9aaUiif\laaa laaapl: Iwere mada tor tka worker, ta at- jqikNB lif lW>wl> i i eftorta of tiM CM Drop ta OMBkifl [tend the meeting inatead af work-1WLB to aetUi tin wage dispute as Boeing workers who are off ahift' ing. but thr.ata ef pouibl. govern-; "wcak-knead" and predicted that and want to "drop In" to check on ment action and announcement by i thou.<and» of Boeing empleyee. developments in th. aircraft wage the WLB that further work stop-'would attend. The Boeing em- case may do so, the spokesman said. J pages would only delay the deelalon ployees are aaking minimum u-a«e.< Plans slso were abandoned fer hir-1 cooled the walkout fever. FinaUy.'of SR cents In contrast to th. pre.- ing a huge auditorium to prote.t'Harold J. GibKin, pruld.nt of th.'.nt scale ef 02H cents. Cuatom at Brooks Field, Texas, makes n.wly commissioned ofllcers giv. new 25-eent piece to flrst cadet who sslutes them. Here, Laeut. Charle. J. Anderson digs to pay Cadet Richard Scott. Red Air Force Leads Russians Hearer Dfi/^er Big Battle on For Donets Basin Where Germans Have Initiative; A'eir Offensive on Further North I By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON .„ ,„ _, , ^. .^., , I^ondon. Feb. 27 (I'P)—.\inerican Flying Fortresses and Keb!'2'7'%prG;Vm'antarwe?e J:^^ '"'"^"''.^Yt't ILTo^ ''*"'*«''* '^*' ** •^*'"" reported to have made slight head- ""}*' « hufopean Citadel, bombed Brest today in a non-stop way in new thrusts against the j Allied air offensive that was mounting Kwlf tly toward grand Brillsh lines before Tunis tonight scale pi'Opoi'tiont^. Ibut Anglo-American forces still .. .. .. u •»• . ,¦¦ . . , .. . . were rolling back the chastened •^* '"• same time. Hritish fliers in American \entura light enemy in the Kasserlne area. bombers cohered by I nited States. Royal .Air Force. Dominion Unofficial reports said the town and Allied fightern, bla-sted Dunkerque, touching off giant of Kasserlne had fallen to the explosions along thc docks and amidttt (ierman shipping in o;'l;;rass'ro^Sr„Zhwe'srbeg7n ««« harboi. Here subs poise for da.she. in the Atlantic. removing the bulk of their batter- A few houi'.s earlier liiiudiTd.s of big British bombers ed forces to remote bases to the dropped a tieiiienduu.s weijflit of .supcr-blockbustei'a and coalt "'"* """¦ "" *""""'"'"''"" liundreds of thou.sand.s of incendiaries on Cologne in the ! (A BBC broadcast said Kasserlne ^'^f f^ "|? "" GeiTTiany's third cit> since 1.000 planes StfUCk had been occupied and that the ** " '"'^ *"*-^ • OermHii. also were evacuating- (The .\Ilies have left no doubt that the battle of the European skies ha.s entered a new pha.xe, after two days and three'night.s of Ihe most devastating bombing ever made against the (lermans on the continent. (The aim of this new air offensive, carried out mainly by .\merican planes by day and British planes hy night, appeared to be two fold—to clear the seas of (ierman submarines and to rid the skies of Nazi planes. The offensive started Wednesday night, when the Royal Air Force bombed the great German naval center at Wilhelshaven. (These attacks set an all-time record for continuous aerial warfare. Excluding today's activities, the RAF had sent out 2,000 operational flights in three days, representing 1,500,000 flying miles or the equivalent of M tines around the earth. It waa learned that several hundred planes had flwiKii an, jgopptaf these miasiou." All the FoKre.sse8 aAd Libarators returned safely from the bombing of Bre.st, key German naval and submarine Ferlana to the southwest. The Britisli broadcast added ihnt Sbelt- l«. lon, was expected to be aban¬ doned by the withdrawing enemy.) Six tirnnan Attacks At 7 a. m. Friday, the Ormana attacl;rd »i.\ scattered point.i on the north front with more than ,^.000 men and ISO tanks, front dispatches said, in an effort to penetrate or envelop the vital Pont Du Kaha srea polential jumping off place for the final drive on Tunis. By nightfall, they had broken through at three points for a slight distance but the .lituation was not regarded as alarming and military reports emphasized tb. enemy thrusts w.r. little .tronger than the )ab. which Mar.hal Erwin Rommel has been making along the Tunisian front for several weeks. Heavy losses. Including tsnks and many casualties, were In- ' I fllcted on the Axis in the e.rly j"***^ **^ t'^* t'P of the Brittany peninsula on the French coast. staacs of the fighting and the Seven were lost in Friday's raid on Wilhelmsl To Probe Clothes Panic FBI Looking for Sabotage in Buying Rush .American attack on German soil. Three Royal Air Foree and Allied shaven, the third stages of the fighting Allies seised 420 prisoners Part e( Original Plaa Military spokesmen said the at By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS London, (Sunday) Feb. 28 (UP)—Russian forces drove launched closer to Orel and the Dnieper yesterday capturing a number Jp^^7/^!^,t^*'lIJ''£!'.'."?!!!'.'p^,^ I r'?[!lL°l fll!'liifri"'. "'""'' ^' The pilot of a Halifax bomber the fighters which escortsd the Amer- th. Indiutrial renters In which tha ! tacks apparently had been planned; leans on the Brest sortie wer. Nasis had been engaged eince the originally as a hold action lo be .'missing. Tha Fortresses and Lib- earlier l.OOO-plsnp a)>.«isult. after Rommel broke | erators concentrated the main Plres Dim Searrhllghte of towns on both fronts and thwarted an attempt by ma-ssed ^iTen h" failed to*""'this, Pas.. I on harbor installations. reported that at the beginning of r.i-_i.. tank. *A ki-Mk tkiniieh tn > ki> nAn.t^ Raain *Ai.^^n i' '" "T— ""u ~~ "".'Jr^' "^'^ O*™*" nffht.ra W.r. de-the attack searchlights formed a (serman UnkS to break tni ough lo a ftlg UonetS ISasin town, northern sector push was started | .troyed in dogflghta over the Dun- huge cone over Colgne but at one Washington. Feb. 27. (UP) The umn activity: creation of confusion' promulgated two weeks ago. War probsUy Krasnoarmeiskoye. in hopes thai the British lines there; jerque area, the air ministry sn- stage the glare of the incendiaries Offlce of Price Administration haa among civilians. Production Board CSiairman Don- 4ks_„i* nlanaa of the Red Air Force ranrinir on sKmH of ii"'',''**" drained to reinforce the nounced, both by Canadian flghtera was so bright that the search- asked the Federsl Bureau of In- 8t«rtM by Nasi. aid M. Nelson and Price ^i'^^'^^- .^^^^i^.'*^^^^ l,\i„„ t„«-rrf tkl Kil 1^^/^./ «k ^^hsl. sres. I accompanying th. Venturas. One light, were dimmed. Anti-sircrsft vesUgation to investigate recent It was recalled that Francs wit- trator Prentiss M. Brown Issued a me .^OViei iroops pusning low ara tne Dig oeno OI me The new attacks were described i Csnadian plane was missing. fire from this har lest hit of Ger- heavy buying runs on clothing nessed heavy buying runs, spurred joint statement aimed at halting Dnieper, destroyed 18 German bombers in a Smashing raid ax a phase of Rnmm.l'. drivs for,Battle af Britain Re^eraed man cities never was very hot, and stores, it waslearned todsy. on the by the enemy within, before the the runs, after the buying rush had ^„ ^j,, ^r^,ome at Xaporoshe. the ——- theorj- thst fifth columnists msy Naiis Isunched their hlmkrieg on continued for about « houra. j midnight communique broadcast RoilOUet of Rttmn have had a hand in promoting ths West in Msy, W40. On Natiosial Scale ' Tcml Moscorreported ,„*,,; . ^Ivf them. Howsver. the Buresu of Intel- They said thst rationing of cloth-1 "^°™ .. "^"- . . „ la SoldtcrS Gift Alarmed by the feverish buying ligenc. of the Office of W.r In- ing had not been requested by WPB *"PP't'"f';i,"'-B i'"'^ ^^r iJ!' which deplet.d clothing stocks in formation, which has been conduct- and thst no plaiu for restricting ^*V*" ""*"• ,,'',**f;Jde' maay areas—particularly In San Ing a aeparate investigation, said sales of wearing apparel were under,*" '." •. ¦P"*',^,'*^ ."..... ., Francisco. Dallaa, Cleveland, New today it had uncovered no evidence considerstion by OPA Newark, N. J., Feb. 27. (UP) — fensivs battle on which the fate of xwo me., sergeants who took rrancisco. Dallaa, Cleveland, New today It had uncovered no evidence considerstion By UfA. 1 ,;.n™,.VrK«.V«wi.. conceded to -"-•"¦=--"•"—- """ '"«"' nlficsnlly, ssid tod^y that the "' ;!" Tork. Detroit and Washington- thus far that the clothing runs were The run. subsided temporarily on; *"• ?^ ..u .u i ¦. .i;.^ init tn canned food aad slab, ef bacon Eighth Army is probing for the best ">*"'"• positional atrength against the in-j j^ ^^ all-dsy parade across ths "" •*• bonibardment continued it I creasing Allied threat from all ^j,^^^j|_ g^m^j, ^yj,|^|^.,„j, „p„yj. slackened to spasmodic flurries. (Sides, particularly from the south. I,J hy gpn„r„ bombed German air One airman assigned to get a where th. British Eighth Army wss fl,ij, ,„ j^, Maupertuis area of »Peci«l report on the rsid srrived I believed about ready for a powerful p.„„j, ^,1 p,,n„ „(u„,j over Cologne about » p m. Just ^°"ji"'*^'' .. u "It is like th. Battle of Britain •••'ore the zero hour. Ho stayed The German radio, perhaps sig- — in reverse," one observer com- sround until he hsd seen "great elBcials pointed out that insplrs- encouraged by subversive elements. Uiis assurance, but have been rs- "•P*"*- *!'" . ,i!.v.it«i instead of candy and flow tion of such runs would be in line Hoarding of clothing began soon sumed on a national scale in the P.'»werful German forces in tne \u«i with a cardinal tenet of fifth col- after the ahoe rationing order was last few days The Paris radio went off the sir fires get target." a strong hold on th. K r a m a t or»k - Krasnosrmeiskoye when they called on their girl friends were heM tonight in What's the Dope on Rationing - - or - - Who's Looney How? POLICE PURSUE LEAD IN BITZER MURDER area. Germans Mass Tanks The lata communique said Soviet troop, fought fierce battles yeater- dsy with German tank.^ and molor- iaed infantry aouthwest of Krama- Camp Kilmer's stockade for di. ciplinary action, the Bureau of Investigation reporied. The FBI recovered 18 cans of pineapple, a can of fruit cock¬ tail, a jar of mayonnaise, nine Eighth Army is probing for the best spot to sttack the Mareth l-in^''"''¦•';/°r".""'';.";', ;¦¦',;¦: "After 1,S minutes there was a (Which now is believed much weak- Saturday night a possible sign ,pemed to cover the er thsn it was before the Italian 'K.t Allied planes again were »ver ^{^•^,/;';;^^^^";;;"^':? ^^"^^-jo;;! the armistice commission hauled down n-urope. great volume of nmnkr um rnmi,i> its guns. An Allied communique The Thunderbolt raid on Cologne. "^•".'^""."".'' "'""'""«" '"'""mg Slate, county and city police con- torsk. The Nazi command concen 'tinued to run down every posskble, trated large •'•"•"••^ '"J'^" '" "" pound's o7 bacon, 100 pounds of Mavbe the only thing to do for by the following morning. Or may- clue last nighl in hope of appro-'"ffort to smash through Soviet posi- J:^^^^^ ^„j 32 p^^, „f processed til those who sre inclined to panic ^ 'ven farther before that. hending the murderer of Klmer Bit-; tiona to a large town which mill- ^.^^^ ,^^^ ,j^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^.^^^ at the mere thought of having to At any rate, the Sunday Indt- zer, .M. Acme store manager, who tary observers believed to be Kras- ^^ ^.^„,^ ^^.^ daughters had 4. ^L V,v^t fVJLlZ^At „f P«"J«"t was swamped most of yes- wss ;,hot and killed last Saturday noarmeiskoye, vital railway junc- company with the «o Withoul their favorite brands of {^^j^y ^^ ,^^.,1 Americans who night on South Main atreet. tion in that area which was not ^^^ .ergeanls. •ft.r-dinner minU, toothpick. and;^.a„ted inside information on The chief piece of evidence on mentioned by name in the com- coat hangers Is to go out flrat thing whether it was true that a wide "h'h authorities are baaing much munlque. . j .u of goods were due to bc hope is a shabby and badly worn "Our artillery, tank-busters and from Moscow reported the occupa Federal iaid"that forward elements of tiie industrial capital of the Rhiiieland, "P """^ ' Kighth Army had set up positions; with two snd four-ton bombs, Jh« Brili-h bombers fought run- immediatelv south of the main caused widespread havoc and kin- "'"/ "mhai, sll •l"ng the way forts of the Msreth Line without died hundreds of fires with incen- 1"" '>'¦"' r"'?'"' "»•" ««»'nit meeting serious opposition snd over disrie'sraTl but wiping"out the Ger- '^'•"man night fighters. man defenses which were described The pulverizing bombardment of as only moderate. Cologne gave it uncontested right , ,, ., , ¦ . . The near-record bombardment of to the designction of the most ked Mareth Une strongpoin s f,„, j^ ^ ^,,^, ^^^ authori- heavily bombed target in Europe. well ;»,•_•»»«••,t»_the n«mh.^w1;l; tative British Pre*H Association The RAF has visited it 113 times ia called "the most devastating and this war. intensified bombing onslaught yel tomorrow morning and buy them- variety raticned tomorrow. The Inde- i". -int wiiiih is too small to fit anti-tank grenades destroyed , Allieid Bombers Active Light and medium l>ombers at lacked Mareth Line aa other Allied planes carried the Mediterrsnean aerial war almost to southern Europe. Flying Fortresnes from French agsinst the Germans on th. con- J'Ol.mrAI. PRISONKIM linent" The non-stop Allied of-'niEBD IN DAKAR 28 tion of several villages north of Afri( a m«de a hesvy sttsck on an f,nsive which begsn Wednesdav Dakar Feb ''7 tUPi All politi selve, enough to last the next 10 '^^^ ^.^ flattered thsl anvone thc average msns head. A fair tanks, killing more than 400 of the Kursli. where thc Soviet, were enem.v supply convoy headin| for ,,(^^1 contniued in full force. All csl prisoners'in D.iksr have „.„ years. It would be just too terrible ,ho„id think il might know,' hut description of its owner has been en.my." the bulletin continued, edging up along the outer ap- rhe Mes.sina Straits between .Mcuy j,y planes rgced scross the chan- released, it wss learned todsy. The the flattery can be given. If they had to make such an in- that's a.* fsr human aacrlfice-w.r or no war. sxtended. Police have picked up .everal their initial position Of course, there are some other At the ri*k of starting another P"'""' "" '"."P.';"'" *"«' "P*""* ..^, «'"">¦•"«» German things they csn stock up on too. rumor wa will reporl thst one of ""ey are ^lot holding anybody at bauahon If they utrve no other purpoae they the commodities some thought they Pt"*"""' will make il pretty certain that had better go buy a ca their more level-headed—and per- soap. With that, one c fcaps also more patriotic — neighbors ported that "enough sosp has bee.. «lll do without entirely. stolen from here in thc psst year to '<"'•'" They can make a full list of all aupply the whole valley for six things nol vet rationed -and there months. There should be no short- rnp nai AfD TDMIf^UT ^¦III be quite a long list. Then. l". sgr among some of our recent 1^"" "™ "'" IU«l«ni The remaining tsnits retreated to preaches of Orel, Ftronghoid link- ond Italy, badly damaging one IContinued on Page A-lOi 'Continued on Page A-lOi infantry wss reported routed . They have checked every southwest of Voroshilovgrad, with »rload of was ''" "' information provided by the msny Nazi dead left on the field. citv hotel re- P"'''''' »"d sre uaing every avail- Weat of Rostov the Russians broke ¦ |,j,j t>een "''''' """^ '" t''* search for the up German counter-altack.s aimed War KunimarT net to blast targsLa in France. meaaure caused great satisfaction Perfectly planned, perfectly timed among the French population, aad and hammered home in almost idesl it was hoped that similar measura* bombing weather, the raid on soon will be taken for FrenclUBaa Cologne was believed to have blown still detained In campe in equatarlal wide open all the repair work on Africa Following another huge - scale «ard Orel and the Dnieper River st reclaiming ^.»'"**'''j_ ["fj'',"";"' mid on Cologne. Allied air flghtera with tlie .-nme determination and hammered Brest yesterday, con- drive that has marked their flght- ts! en by the .Soviets a day earlier. ^ .. _ „ agr among jiome ke systematic and aure about thc guests, st least" whole thing, they can call up or otherwise contact all their fligh.y iiorCC lunUCU neighbors and tell them something OKA Unuto WUMtIV 1« in the wind. After thst. having ya Dfll IPC DDIPCC •cared the pants off a good number 'U TULH/C rnil»Cd who scare quile easily, they csn 'tage a ruah on all those things. Scranton District of the IN BEHALF OF RED CROSS Crushing German ''•¦'''''*""'.1" tinuing the heaviest aerial ksssults ing all winter, but on the southern 1 . ...u the mua . _^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ produced and end of the long front In the Donets French Sailors Desert Battleship Richelieu -•na thc slowed push across ,..¦ . ^^^^ plains west of Kharkov the army ^^^^,j„ j,^^.^^ ^„ scattered parts Baain - there were indication that of Col. Gen. Philip Golikov ^eizea ^^^ German-dominated Euro- thc Soviet attack had stalled. : a number of large towna, iinidenti- „„ntinpnt 1 ! Washington. Feb. 27. (UP)—A "ed but listed as more important !«¦» • '^ Moscow dispatches said that the New York. Feb. 27 (UP) Sailora Will Be Welcomed message from President Roosevelt 'han these in the category of mere j d • ¦ , , Ruasiana had lost the Initiative in nf the battleship Richelieu and By de (iaulltsts will be read over a n^itionwide inhabited localities. A similar sd- American and Briti.Mi troops con- ,|^p Kramatorsk-Krafnoarmeiskoye otiier French units which arrived WashinRton Feb 27 (UP)- radio hookup tomorrow lo inaugur- vance was reported north of Kursk, tnnicd to rout Axis forces in the ^^.^^ -p^^ Germana threw every- here re.ently to be reconditioned fighting French delegation declined -,„. ate the American Red Cross' 1943 where the Rusaisns were pii.-hing hasserine srea or i-rntra 1 unisia ,,^^^1^ ,j,^^. ^^j ^^^o ,j,p battle there are jumpins ship to join Gen. ..omment tonight on the reported 4,.„ ,. , . ,^., , -. . , °^^ war fund campaign to raise I12.V- "P against Orel as other forces beat and there were nnofflcial reports __^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^.p.^, ^^j^^ ^^^^j Charlea de Gaulle and thc Fighting desertion of French sailors frmn Also, they can rest assured that, urges housewives to police pncea j^^„ toward it from three direction-. "'» /he tow n nf kas.serme was ^^^^^ ^j ^^^^ j^^^,^ ,^^,^^ French, it was learned today. ,hs battleship Richelieu in New with so many of their kind makinu on fooda and assist federal acciits .^^^ menage will be read by Red The communique said Soviet war- itaelf back in Ailed hands after a U was reported that IN) to 300 York harbor but from other "P the country the fighling men sre i„ tracking down retailers who en- f-^o,, .-hairman Norman Davis «hips sank an enemy destroyer in v.eek of see-saw fighting. The Chinese, who have had their men had left the Richelieu in New sources it was learned that the "de- W.H ">, »»^'- the report will be dpavor to victimize shoppers dur- j„ri„p , l.^-minute program com- the Barents Sea. hands full with a nine-day-old re- York, the c ruiser Montcalm in Phil- serters' would be welcomed tate " •" "* *¦¦>¦ to S»n Francisco jng the war emergency. In par- ,„encing at 4:lli p. m., EWT over New Central Front Drive Farther north In Tunisia, the newed Japaneae campaign to knock adelphia and two super-destroyers the de Gaullist fold as •teat ticular they arc urged to keep in j(,p f^^,^ national radio networks German broadcasts, still lacking tiermans launched new tank at- China out of the war before Allied in Boston to make their way to brothera." mind the ceiling prieea on various ,^„ Dwight D. Eisenhower, who corroboration, told of powerful and tacks aimed at Ihe Pont Du Fahs sid becomes effective, reported Canada to join the merchant fleet Sources close to the rightiac commodities nnd report inatsnccs ^,.j|] ^^..^y^ f^oni North Africa, and widespread Russian attacks on the area and made slight headway but heavy fighting in Northern Kiangsi of the Fighting French. French pointed out that "obviously where a larger amount has y^rn Admiral Chester W. Nimltz, who central front, where it appeared Allied quarters considered them province where two Japanese units One of the principal reasona for they don't truat their ofBcers. asked for. ^vill .speak from the Pacific, will thst the Red Army had Isunched quick thrusts rather than a full- have croased the Chin River. BHsc- the ••desertions." it was said, wss -First they were ordered to flra Under OPA rules eny puchasrr participate in thc program. a genersi offensive after apring force offensive. The Axis suffered where, the Chinese were forcing the clesh of opinion between the on the Americsns; then they arora who is overcharged has the riglit ^',¦cndeII Willkie. 1940 Rei.ublican thaws and inlenaified Nszi resist- heavy losses in men and tsnks.the enemy back or at least hold- enlisted men. wno are atrongly anti- told to join them. The French ara to bring legal action and is rn- presidential candidate, will speak ancr had slowed down operations and gsve up 420 prisoners. ing their own. Britiah pisnes con- Vichy, and the officers of the ships. . very logicsl rsce and thia didn't titled to treble damages or $50,'o\er the Blue Network tomorrow in the aouth. tinued to blast Japanese-held terri- The Fighting French de>galion make sense to them So they da- whichever is greater. night from ist. Louia, Xhe Saturdsy noon communique, Th. Ruwian army pushed to- torj- in Burma. here refuaed to comment. eided to do things th.lr ewn waf.' lit Today'a riasainrd Editorial >lovle» Kadio Sartal ^peHs Story laaue . II—II . C—I . A—1» .. B—S .. A—14 ..Jk—ia ^
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Date | 1943-02-28 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 28 |
Year | 1943 |
Issue | 18 |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre |
Type | Sunday Newspaper |
Source | Microfilm |
Format | tiff |
Subject | Wilkes Barre PA Sunday Newspaper |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Rights | Public Domain |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Date | 1943-02-28 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 28 |
Year | 1943 |
Issue | 18 |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre |
Type | Sunday Newspaper |
Source | Microfilm |
Format | tiff |
Subject | Wilkes Barre PA Sunday Newspaper |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Rights | Public Domain |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 29108 kilobytes. |
FileName | 19430228_001.tif |
Date Digital | 2009-08-31 |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Much warmer.
37TH YEAR, NO. I8~<^ PAGES
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ILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1943
PRICE TEN CENTS
ALL-OUT AIR WAR OPENED
Ending Hope for 72 Men Trapped in Coal Mine
Communicate with Rescue Workers but Deadly Mine Gas Threatens All
drilled through the sliding mass ot rock, dust and coal. Communication : It was said, had been established between th. trspped men and their i reacuers. \
They apparently are in pretty gooi shape." th. report .aid.
But as th. long hours dragged on and no further word cams from
the rascu. sq .ads. led by ikilled I Milliard Reed, Alex Hawthorne and men flown here from Butte, the *'" Houtenen. The patient watch
Only Three Alive As Five Are Found In Another Seam; Families Wait
Bear Creek, Ment., Feb. 27. (UPi —Sklllsd rescue .quad, and n.arly 400 miner, worked frantically to ni debris .......u —..u.. .* men were | j^ ^ - gurvived In that s.am, then K>me
trapped by an explosion In ssami" "¦"• mint, neia iiu e nope inai ^ , _ .„ ,_ • ,^
No. » of Montana's largest coal ' ">« trapped men still lived
mla. "We don't know whether they,
are alive or not," he said. He'0»"»« Inknewn
Pays For This Salute
I?Jhr to"^l^°r atav ".i^!:7a'„d vraltlnrcrowdagairbecar;;; silent: :"s at the mouth of the mine be-| SlbrL behind whtdh 72 Ten w.r^ W. A. Raneck.assistsnt manager Heved if three men of flve had! debris benina wnicn 7Z men were! . .. _,__ . ',. ,,..,_ , "_^ .„,ui«-h in th.f ...m «h>n xvm.i
st least still were alive among thei trapped in seam No. 3. 1
Despite, optimistic reports, there ,j .,. , . .^ . .. , t, ¦. . ,. ^ j i
waa doubt that life could be sus- •¦'"* ^*^' ''•¦ '" 'he mine was "very' Hospital beds and emergency tained in the gas-filled chsmbers i'***'" ""^ cpr^Md fears that the facilities were made ready at Red ef th. tunnel, which exUnds more ">'"••¦• might have been overcome Lodge, small mining village three! than a mile Into a hllleide and !.!'»>' «»•• n'"'" 'rom the Smith Mine and
nearly SOO feet below ground level. Three Found AUve |«0 miles south of Billings.
The sickening smell of mine gas I But the crowd still had hope.' Raneck said the cause oi the polMned the bleak hillside wh.re'Five men had been found in an- explosion had nol yet been de- nsarljr BOO persons—wives, children'other .earn of the Smith mine after termined and probably would not and .w.etheart.—prayed humbly the explosion this morning at 10:30. until the sealed-in portion of the that th.ir men would be rescued. Two of the men-Dewey Hardy and mine is reached. Commaalcale with Mea Ighace Marinchek—were dead, but The mine, which Is sbout SO
Barller this afternoon, word waa three others lived, although they years old, is owned by the Montana sent back that a hole had be.n were overcome by gas. They were Coal and Iron Company of Billings.
Flying Fortress Workers Call off Protest Meeting
Baattle, Feb. 27. (UP>—Plans,against failure of the War L^bor local, iiutructed workers to attend have been cancelled for a 24-hour | Board to hand down a decision on ""'X during off-.'shift hours, mass meeting of Boeing Aircraft ,. .,,„,..„ i».i„«,„ „,-, i„ Promises WUI AcUon workers Monday lo protot against,^'" aircraft industry wag. in- D,^i,i„„ to cancel th. entlr. pro- delay in aettlement of their wage' e"^*"*^- I test meeting followed receipt of a demands, a spokesman for the Th. union spok.aman said "da-^ t.legram from Ralph Hewitt, a aeronoutical diMrict lodge u- v.lopiiient. from th. WLB war- '»''°'" representative on the WLB. nounced tonight. i .... ., , ,_ _i.„. » isUting thst the board will meet all
Inatead of tlie maaa meeting, which union officials had predicted
Rommel 2^000 Flights Makes Gain in Three Days; In North 1^''®^^ ^^^ Target
Considered Part Of Jabbing Tactics; British-Americans Hold Him in South
Cologne Cets.Heaviest Attatk Sinte Creat 1,000-Plane Raid; Out for LuHwaHe, U-Boats
By VIRCiU. PINKLEV
•»• velopiiients from the WLB war-'*''"'" representative on the WLB.
ranted the change in plans." . .^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ Monday If neces-
Plans for a 'round-the-clock | .m^ to consider the West Coast
aircraft wage case. Hewitt's tsls- gram gave rise to speculation among union officials that the
would have caiusd "thousands" of meeting wera made Thursday at a workers to leave their iobs despite, union sejulon which attracted more instructions to attond only during I than :!0,000 Boeing warkers and
off-aliift hours, members ot the halted construction of Flying Fort-;WLB may have a decision on the union's district council will go Into: reasea at Seattle and Rcnton plants: Boeing case by Sunday niglit 24-bour i—ilVi ff» U:aO a. m. Maa-Ifor aatraral baura. At flrat plana I Before the meeting waa caneellad. diy fn vaa9aaUiif\laaa laaapl: Iwere mada tor tka worker, ta at- jqikNB lif lW>wl> i i eftorta of tiM CM Drop ta OMBkifl [tend the meeting inatead af work-1WLB to aetUi tin wage dispute as
Boeing workers who are off ahift' ing. but thr.ata ef pouibl. govern-; "wcak-knead" and predicted that and want to "drop In" to check on ment action and announcement by i thou. |
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