Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Pate 8the stars and stripes sunday Jane 6, 1943 Duckworth sent to his master by Gen. Ike continued from Page i varsity new York City. Tho doctor and mrs. East had been notified that their son was missing. They knew he had a dog he loved and they wondered whether the dog could t be sent Home to them. A if it is not inconsistent with general policy and does not interfere with the War Effort Dicks Mother would particularly appreciate it if it were possible that this dog be returned to us a wrote he. East. A a if the dog could be placed on a plane or on a freighter coming to new York Harbor i could meet the dog and Toke him to our  Well if you received such a letter and did no to know Duckworth had a co owner what would you do right you a do exactly As Gen. Quot Ike did and order that the request be granted. Long voyage Home so Duckworth was picked up and started on the Long trip Back Tafta youngster at the University of Indiana when he joined the service was hit plenty hard. It was Tough enough to lose your Best Friend but to have your dog taken away soon after really was a knockout Wallop. And Duck Worth did no to feel any better. To be parted from his other master just about finished him. When it. Gen. Carl Spaatz commanding officer of the Naaf Learned of the state of affairs he realized that a mistake had been made and dispatched an explanatory note to Gen. Eisenhower. Gen. A Ike promptly called the affair affair off and Duckworth and Taft were again United in a rousing reunion. Gen. Spaatz invited the kid lieutenant to dinner. Duck Worth came along and wagged his Tail in his accustomed fashion. Gen. A Ike explains meanwhile Gen. Eisenhower sat Down and wrote a letter to or. East. It Wras a swell letter which read a a when i received your letter asking for the return of the dog owned by your son i was deeply touched. I immediately directed that every Effort be made to comply with your request. A today i have received from it. Gen. Carl Spaatz commanding the Northwest african air forces a report in which appears the following statement a a it was Learned that the dog Duckworth belonged jointly to it. Richard j. East and to Liis Best Friend. Harold f. Taff. It. East was killed in action on april 4. His plane and grave were located after our forces had moved into Hie Tunis area. The loss of his Best Friend it. East has deeply affected it. Taff. The commanding officer of a fighter group brought it. Taff with the dog to the air plane. It. Taff was heartbroken at the thought of losing his dog and wanted to spend every possible minute with him until the plane took off. He placed him in the plane carefully tied him and left tile plane just before the Takeoff. Col. West had been waiting in his car to take it. Taff Back to his quarters but it. Taff was seen to thank him and walk away from the car to an adjoining  a dogs Friendship a a under the circumstances and particularly in View of the statement the dog was jointly owned by your son and his Best Friend and especially As it. Taff has shown Strong affection for the dog i believe you will agree with me that it would be unwise to return the dog to you As requested. A the Friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even More so when one is so far removed from Home As we Are in Africa. I have a Scottie. In him i find Consolation and diversion. For me he is one a person to whom i can talk without the conversation turning Back to the War. Duckworth is performing a patriotic service. I re sign act the Quality of warm Friendship shown by it. Taff for the dog. I am confident you and mrs. East will View the situation similarly. Despite your natural and understandable desire to have with you this close companion of your Gallant son who died for his country on the Field of  Well that a about All. At last reports Taff and Duckworth were giving the Axis hell in the daytime and Cumming around together at night. Tile Young lieutenant has been on More than 20 missions and comes Home regularly. Duckworth who believes in punctuality is pretty pleased Abou that. Subscription taken if Yon want to Send stars and stripes Home you can take your subscription to any stars and stripes office listed in the Masthead on Page 4 or you can Send too francs for a years subscription to stars and stripes Rue Georges Mercie Casablanca address All inquiries concerning subscriptions to the above office. Coal strike continued from Page i length of time consumed by the miners travelling to their pits. The final settlement would be retroactive to april i. To this the Coal operators objected. While Secretary Ickes called upon Lewis to Stop the strike which he termed a a intolerable a he also charged that a a there Are a few powerful operators who from the beginning have deliberately opposed any Compromise which might have led to a reasonable settlement a the miners originally demanded a two Dollar a Day wage increase based in the Portal to Portal system which Means the miners wanted their pay to begin when they reached the mine property and to end when they left the mines for the Day. Under the present system the Miner does not get paid for the time consumed in descending or ascending from the pits. Declare prices up the miners based their wage demands on the fact that prices had gone up and were out of line with the War labor boards a a Little steel formula of restricting wage increases to 15 percent Over the Price Levels of january 1941. Substantiating this premise was a statistical report released last week by Secretary of labor Frances l. Perkins which revealed that prices had risen 23 percent since the base period and smother 1.1 percent since april. The miners alleged that the company operated stores charged higher prices than in comparable communities. A Survey instituted by Secretary Ickes disclosed that prices in these stores were All out of line and  there was one reassuring Factor. The president had already acted there was Little doubt that if necessary he would use stronger measures. As a result of the Long drawn out negotiations it seemed that All the wrinkles had been ironed out and a settlement satisfactory to both sides could be reached. The Ickes plan which was the last submitted in an Effort to stave off the walkout was rejected by the operators because they Felt the increases and retroactive clause would involve too great an amount of Money. Tile people at Home were More concerned with maintaining War production than the issues. They knew that the steel output was liable to be curtailed this week and that a Little More than a month s Supply of Coal remained above the ground. Soldiers a burned up Over Coal strikes continued from Page i Quot you re darn right i want to talk about strikes Back Home. It Burns me up that while we re Over Here doing our jobs the men Back Home even dare think of going on strike when we re at War. The government should really outlaw strikes in time of War even if it has to induct the strikers and put them Back to work at army wages. Strikes wont help me and my buddies to get Back to our wives and f it Milles pfc. Henry Persike of Brooklyn said he did no to know what the reasons for the strikes were but a a they can to be bad enough to go through with them now. We can easily lose this War As a result of  these men who have known the value of Modem equipment in face to face combat with enemy troops sounded a common worry on the hold up of needed supplies. A a Batties Are not fought with Bare fists but with modern instruments. We Guys need those weapons More than those people Back Home realize if we Are to win the War a one Soldier said earnestly. T-5 Perry e. Hadder described the strikers As a a parasitic draft dodgers sabotaging our efforts by keeping the Supply of equipment from the places where it is so desperately  a a its hard to believe a said another Soldier a a that workmen would strike and politicians would Bicker when so Many of our own boys Are being killed or wounded defending the rights of these very people Safe Back  arbitration stressed More than half the men believed that labor differences could be settled by the Good old american Way of getting people together and talking things Over. A sgt. Robert Guy of Wichita. Kansas who has been on 14 missions Over enemy territory As Crew chief on a bomber said a there a no reason Why they can to Settle their differences by arbitration. In my outfit the boys really Burn up when they read about the wrangling going on. Back in California i remember when men from my old outfit had to finish up 26 planes of a struck Plant so we could get them on their Way to England. Believe me Iti never forget those Rotten  to sgt. P. W. Stevenson of Salt Lake City is a photo gunner on a bomber. He has 34 missions in Over Europe. He too believes the strikers could Settle their claims without stopping production. A a Good god. We have Little enough in Reserve now without crippling strikes. Id like to see some of those Guys with a .50 Caliper gun in their hands instead of picket  strikers Lack guts another air corps Man. A Mechanic termed striking plane workers  declaring they could at least work steady for their High wages. A they Haven to even got the guts to stay at their jobs let alone face a Bullet a he said. Typical afterthought of most men was the propaganda bait the strikes afforded the Axis. Men from the front Are particularly conscious of propaganda broadcasts. To sgt. Harvie j. Bolser said that a a German a Lillie told us each night that americans John l. Lewis and his crowd want to pro Long the War and fill their  said pfc. John Paulson of St. Paul minn., in a Sample remark til bet its just the kind of news Hitler and Mussolini like to  probably the Best opinion of the to percent who More or less favored the use of strikes even in wartime was expressed by sgt. Joseph Harmon of Brooklyn who is with a medical outfit. �?�1 Haven to read too much about it but i think the men in the Coal pits deserve every break they can get and if strikes Are their Only Means of getting that break then let them exercise that american right. Inducting them into the army wont solve the trouble unless they re sent Back to their jobs. But that would set unionism Back 50 years. It just  be True  but for the 90 percent who disagreed with sgt. Harmon perhaps the words of pfc. John Adkins of los Angeles a Union Man had the Best answer. Quot while these american boys Are Over Here sweating bleeding and dying to protect America and even the right to strike those people Back there have the Gall to quit their jobs. I say put them in the army and in the front lines if that would cure them. This is War. Those people Back Home must Back up the men Here with guns. For gods Sakes America Wake up a tax legislation Waits president s signature Washington the much Dis cussed and heatedly debated Compromise a a pay As you go tax legislation which passed the House a week ago was approved by the Senate thursday and sent to president Roosevelt for his signature. The president notified House speaker Rayburn that he would sign the Bill As soon As both houses have passed it. The Bill which the Senate passed by a vote of 62 to 19, provides for cancellation of a full years taxes for persons owing 50 dollars in taxes or less. It further provides for All other taxpayers a forgiveness of 75 percent of 1942 or 1943 taxes whichever is less. The remaining 25 percent is available Over 1944-45. Beginning july i 20 percent will be deducted from every person s salary after a few Basic exemptions Are allowed. Ii Duce changes chief of staff in party shuffle London the signs multiplied this week of increasing nervousness in Italy. Benito Mussolini for about the sixth time during this War changed chiefs of staff appointing Gen. Mario Roatta a Stalwart fascist to the Job. Roatta an old fascist die hard of the famous fascist Quot club and Castor Oil Days succeeds Gen. Ezio ro6si, who has been relegated to an army group. The new commander was the Leader of a group of fascist Blac shirts who fought for Franco during the Spanish civil War. They did no to distinguish themselves there and in fact were noted for their Many a a advances to the  apparently la Duce is More interested these Days in getting politically trustworthy than talented generals. Roatta a appointment discredits the Rumor which was Rife several weeks ago that marshal Sadoglio who was ousted from his command of the italian army during the albanian Campaign was summoned from retirement and placed in charge of Italy a defences. Another move made recently was to appoint Carlo Scorza Secretary of the fascist party. Scorza who knows Only the Strong Arm ruthless methods of Force and intimidation is one of the most notorious criminals of the whole fascist regime. He was always ready to do any Little Job of assassination that was needed. Mussolini also made a few other minor Cabinet changes All of which further indicated increasing nervousness in the fascist state. Forts continue continued from Page i thanks from arc so numerous were the american soldiers in North Africa who gave Money to the american red Cross in its recent fund raising Campaign that the organization has found it impossible personally to thank the thousands of donors it has therefore asked this newspaper to print this acknowledgement of contribution and to thank those who so generously responded to the War fund Campaign. Plied but without inflicting any damage. Although attacks on Sardinia and Sicily were not As heavy As last week the islands guarding Mussolini a Boot were not forgotten. Sixteen targets in Sardinia were raided including the Harbor of Porto Ponte Romano and the much bombed twin airfields of Decimo Mannu and Villacidro. The capital City of Cagliari was reported being evacuated because of the devastating attacks. Sicily one of the most concentrated air bases in the world was on the receiving end of six attacks. Caste Vetrano Airfield was hit twice n one Day. The italians Are known have constructed fighter and i Imber bases on the Island which has an area of 9,294 Square Miles about the size of Maryland. The germans Are believed to have added new ones. The Middle East air command was also in on the a a pattern bombing a continuing to harrass shipping off the coast of Greece. Small islands in the Aegean sea were sprayed with Cannon fire. The big questions a a where is the i a Ift Affe a a a remained unanswered but much of it was believed to have been moved to Europe in desperate attempts to fend off the British based air Armada which is blasting German War industries. Channels Seri Cro--1