Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                The vol. I no. 29 saturday june 26, 1943 stripes u. S. Army newspaper two francs wage problems remain muddled in Coal truce Lewis licks wounds As miners resume Coal production Lewis May Hare to Wear uniform should the presidents suggestion of taking All future strikers into the army As non combatants by raising the age limit from 45 to 65, it May mean that John i. Lewis misfit be put into a uniform. He is 63. Imagine putting Lewis on up Africa attacks on Sicily continue As bombers hit Naples area the Coughin coffin race end Washington the Coal strike is Over tile wrangling and nor a calling has died Down and John l. Lewis grumbling in his Beard has retired to lick his wounds. The latest walkout of the nation s Coal miners lasted Only two clays. All in All. The miners have gone out on strike three times s Nee May i for a total of Nill Days which fortunately never dislocated seriously any major War Industry. While the miners returned to the Coal pits for the government on the basis of the old contract plus Small allowances for vacation pay safety devices and tools the fight with the operators had accomplished one thing. The drawn out negotiations at least served to focus attention on the plight and conditions of the miners and the inescapable fact that prices had spiralled above the existing wage Scaler sympathy dispelled if there was Ever any sympathy for tile miners Lewis Adamant attitude had done much to dispel such feeling. On the other hand Fig isolators the ii Wuerful bloc of Southern Coal i Comfort operators were not entirely blameless in deadlocking the Welge negotiations which led the miners to resort to the strike weapon. Tile Coal crisis certainly stemmed partly from Lewis attempts to Embarrass the administration for hts own political gain Bot it was aided. Too by the operators determination to resist the demands for a wage increase based on Tho Portal to i it ortal Issue. Now for the time Beine. The problem is so Ely in the Harris of the government. President Roosevelt has firmly stated that the miners Are returning to work under the terms of the War labor Board ruling of june in and that there has let men no Promise or commitment by the government to change those terms and conditions in any Way. A statement by the ump policy committee and by Lewis has made the miners position Clear on this Point. Quot the men Are coing to work for  government and not for the  tile statement read to this. Solid fuels administrator Harold l. Ickes who has been continued on Page 8 disorders in Detroit klan influence seen causing trouble Detroit one of the sore spots of the american social scene cropped out above the surface this week when for 36 hours White and negro rioters fought in the streets of Detroit. Troops sent in by tile government at tile request of Michigan a governor Harry f. Kelly restored order after a toll of 23 deaths and the arrest of More than 1,300 rioters of both races. The disorders furnished read made ammunition for Axis radio commentators who pointed to them gleefully As expressions of american disunity and civil strife. This was recognized in the Halls of Congress when rep. Samuel Dickstein d., n. A told the Lethe not Quot must be great to the  Dickstein singled out the Kun flux klan As having a hand in the riots revealing tile klan was now operating under the name of Quot Union of sons of  fifth columnists also received their share of the blame. White and negro civic leaders charged the riots were instigated by an a a organized National fifth column conspiracy to break our National continued on Page 8 marauders Mitchells enter air Battles Over Sardinia ugly duckling wins favor in b-26 base by to sgt. Milton Lehman stars and stripes staff writer a Northwest a f r i c a of one evening in Algiers airbase a the b-26 bomber fell off a Balcony manufactured by Glenn l. Martin of All the marauders the and known As tilt marauder. A a Coughin coffin was the ugliest hardly could have been called a duckling. Three medium bomber when lie dec awarded posthumously Sultan gets new american Auto Cen. Clark makes . Presentation Headquarters american fifth army. June 25�?his majesty. Tile Sultan of Morocco Marie a Call today on it. Gen Mark w Clark commanding general of the american fifth army shortly after his arrival. Gen. Clark in the name of Gen. Dwight d Eisenhower commander in chief of Allied pities in North Africa precooked the Sultan with an american made passenger automobile Gen Clark later entertained the Sultan and moroccan French and american officials a a reception accompanying the Sultan was m Gabriel Paux the new French resident general of Morocco who returned an official visit Gen. Clark made yesterday. Robert  Murphy. American minister in North Africa flew Over from Algiers to be present at the ceremonies. The Sultan is scheduled to remain overnight and tomorrow he will witness a demonstration by French and american troops. Washington a posthumous award of the distinguished service Cross has been awarded on person a i recommendation of Gen. Dwight d Eisenhower. Commander in chief of Allied forces in North Africa to but. Sidney ram port of Cleveland for Quot magnificent outstanding gallantry during the North african Campaign which Quot Drew the attention of his entire  heavy machine gun fire was let found Imp his company on a steel Mountain slope when pvt. Rapport armed with a carbine led a i group of men upon one machine gun nest after another. He took the Lead in wiping out four of them. His ammunition gone. Rape fat Ort used his carbine As a club after it was broken on a German soldiers helmet. Quot with four machine gun nests  the citation read. Pvt. Rapeport continued the attack on the Crew of the fifth machine gun. In the midst of this last Gallant action which successfully silence the enemy gun he was  popular ship when she first appeared on tile runway. She sat on her Blimp like tires like an awkward Gigantic Duck and some of the first pilots to take her out never succeeded in bringing her Back among other things a Pilot had to learn to land her at 165 Miles an hour. If lie brought Lier in at a lower seed. He was inviting a somersault and death. Back in the states pilots guessed 1 you might get through ten missions with the b-26�?if you were Lucky. At first no one believed that the plane could stay in the air if one of its two engines were damaged. The m minder was not a pilots plane they said. You done to Fly her. You Rassle with her time has been a Good teacher. The b-26 built her reputation slowly in the hand of her expert j pilots. B it in the Early Days it was different. The prayer among these first marauders was number 117858 a private who saw her in those Davs got to thinking and he scrawled a prayer on her Side in Pencil. The prayer read Quot god bless the Crew of this plane. I will say a prayer for your Safe  tile Pencil scrawl was so weak that no one was Able to make out the name of the Pri vate. When she landed in Africa last november one of the firs marauders to reach this continent the prayer written on her Side was considered an evil sign she was named Quot the can Lim Cohin Quot by her first co Pilot. He was killed groups took one hard look at Lier and promptly turned her Down. She was unusually hard to handle. She was full of strange noises. Her engine sounded bad and so did everything else about her. But finally the Powers that be got impatient and ordered her to be accepted by the bomb group that Hies her now. The Flowers tired of superstitious Back talk. The Magnet with Jerry spread All Over Tunisia. There was plenty of work for the b-26�?Ts and the Coughin coffin got its share at first the Crew led by capt. William r Pritchard of Mobile. Ala., would climb aboard As it they were mounting a Crocodile the plane would take off with its belly full of bombs head with its formation for the target and do its Job. On these missions the coffin was referred to As the  Quot Jerry forgot about the rest of  says it. S. Liebman a b-26 Pilot from Brooklyn Quot but if there was any flak within Miles the coffin would manage to get dressed up in  the bomber has been messed up plenty. She has had both her engines knocked out her Tail Assembly and rudders splintered. Continued on Page 8> Allied Force Headquarters of Italy is one of Adolf hitlers last legs in the Mediterranean the toes of that leg were developing Many corns and blisters this week by Courtesy of the Northwest african air Force. The weeks air attacks stretched As tar up the leg As Naples which suffered Day and night raids attempting to cripple the line of communication running to tile South. Nearby military objectives were also attacked. Salerno 30 Miles Southeast of Naples which received sledgehammer blows Iii a Day attack monday by american Mitchells got another blasting that night by hap1 wellingtons. Can cello an air depot town which supplies much of the equipment for Italy a Southern air defences had its Railroad Yards blasted by More than too fortresses who silent their time Between Naples and cancello. Hitler moves troops effect of the bombing on Axis defences May have been accurately indicated in a report from Michael Ryerson routers correspondent in London who said that Hitler was Rushing reinforcements into tile Boot to Buck up defences although he would have preferred to save these troops for a close in defense of the fatherland. While Naples and her suburbs i were undergoing attack the defenders of Sicily were also suffering. And the attacks continued All week Long. Over caste Vetrano on tile Western Edge of the Island and Over Yorizzo there were Many enemy fighters to defend the airlifts. In two Days the Axis lost 55 planes to 13 for the allies and Mio airports were bombed effectively on every Mission. Titis weeks sicilian Blitz opened sunday night with Raf wellingtons raiding Messina the Island s Terry terminus to Italy located on tile Northeast tip of the Island. Four thousand Pound Block busters were drop Ted on the port town and incendiary bombs unloads by continued on Page 8 King returns to great Britain reviews French army before departure Raf makes flight across continent private Steps up and confesses paternity miss Barry denies All Hollywood claiming to be tile father of actress loin  unborn child. Pvt. Fred Steinhauser hitch hiked from Camp Hulen lex., to til film capital to a do rights by miss rim Wilna he Sam he had previously visited in Hollywood. Miss Barry claims Lier expected infants t Ither is comedian chiru1 Chaplin currently honeymooning with 18-year-old Dona of Neill daughter of Eugene of Neill tin playwright. Pvt. Steinhauser said the whole thing Carne about when he Fen under the influence of a red headed new York waitress presumably miss Barry but from the seclusion of a private sanitarium mis carry announced through her att ornies that she has never been a new York waitress and had never seen Steinhauser and what s More never wanted to. The soldiers claim was first revealed when hts Camp chaplain told of his Quot confessing tile paternity. London june 25 the Rak has demonstrated that bombers based on great Britain can Fly Over Germany and Italy to North Tanra and return. This was done on sunday night when several squadrons of Lancaster blasted factories at Friedrich shaven arid continued on to a base in North Africa. Wednesday night the same Lancaster came Back to Britain after dropping bomb loads on tile italian naval base at la spezia. Tile run was about 1,200 Miles each Way. Tile most obvious advantage is that the planes can avoid returning Over a course along which enemy defences i lad been alerted by their outbound flight. There is also some saving in distance. The flight of Lancaster did no to lose a plane. London King George pc arrived at a British Airport yesterday to end a s it act Acuilar visit to Ai i i Al military bases in North Africa. Just before he left North Africa til King inspected units of the French army and their american lend lease and British equipment in the company of  Henri Honore Giraud and diaries de Gaulle. Gen. Dwight  Eisenhower commander in chief of tile Allied forces in North Africa and Gen. Sir Harold v. Alexander hts Deputy. Saw his majesty off at an undisclosed air it Ort. Earlier in tile week King George reviewed ins fabulous 8th army As ins whirlwind tour of the Mediterranean theater readied captured Tripoli. It was tile Day of recognition for tile troops who first made Germany s african legions turn Tail. At tile docks of the once proud italian City the 8th army commander. Gen. Bernard l Montgomery greeted the King As lie Dei irked from the Cruiser which hid brought him from Malta. Along the Corso Italo Balbo no civilian showed his face As tile King reviewed the troops. Thin continued on Page 8p