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PHONE NUMBERS and Display Ads, 205 News Room, 170 Subscription, Class Ada, VOL. XXXIV, NO. 143 The CoshoctonTribune et COSHOCTON, OHIO SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1943 Pull LcmaM Wire tuoort of THREE CFNTS AIR BATTLES MARK AFRICAN CAMPAIGN Two Women on Flynn Jury Accused of Perjury Judge Adjourns Court to Investigate Charges; May Have to Start Anew HOLLYWOOD--Three housewives who found themselves rejected as jurors in the statutory rape trial of Errol Flynn left him biting his fingernails today, wondering how much longer he'd have to sit in court listening to two teen-age girls tell unprintable tales about him. The women charged' two others, who were selected as jurors, with deceit and perjury in their anxiety to hear the case. The judge will consider their accusations Monday and decide whether a new jury will have to be chosen and the testimony repeated.

While 17-year-old Betty Hansen was telling of a night she spent Miners Vote On Ending Walkout Lewis Denounces Strike; Government May Seize Mines A I Pennsylvania's 15,000 striking anthracite miners--ordered by their leaders to "cut out their voting today on a proposal to end their 18-day walkout and return to the mines on Monday. There was a distinct possibility that failure to do so will result in government seizure of the mines to get them back into production of vitally needed coal. Spokesmen for the miners voted unanimously last night to recommend the back-to-work move at meetings in the field tomorrow and Sunday. The break came after President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers had denounced the walkout cs "mad enterprise" and, as one official put it, "raised hell with the boys." The vote was taken at a special meeting between Lewis and 36 local UMW officials after the War Labor Board had ordered the strikers back to work with a warning that the case would be referred to President Roosevelt if they failed to obey.

president presumably would issue a formal appeal to the miners before taking direct action in the dispute. If they reject these overtures, the government may take control of the mines--a possibility raised by Solid Tuels Coordinator Harold L. Ickes when he assailed the strike as "a threat to the public welfare." with Flynn the Mesdames Emily Blue, Gussie Rowe and Harriet Ponder were sitting in a nearby office talking over the trial and the reasons for the opposing attorneys excusing them from service. What they couldn't understand was why two other women were accepted. They put on their bonnets, trooped to the district attorney's office and filed affidavits charging perjury against Miss Elaine Forbes and Mrs.

Lorene Boehm. The only trouble seemed to be that the housewifely trio couldn't get its stories to agree about Miss Foibes, the smartly dressed secretary to a radio executive. Mrs. Rowe said Miss Forbes wanted to acquit Flynn and. said so before she was made a juror; Mrs.

Ponder said she wanted to convict him. "I just must get on that jury." Mrs. Rowe quoted Miss Forbes, adding that she'd reported illness to keep from being a juror in other cases and that she'd said she could not stand it if Flynn were sent to prison. Mrs. Blue's statement agreed in every detail with that of Mrs.

Rowe, but Mrs. Ponder heard something entirely different. "Miss Forbes said to me several times," she said, 'If we get on the Flynn jury, we will fix him good, won't we, Mrs. Mrs. Ponder added that young Mrs.

Boehm appeared excited about the prospect of seeing Flynn face-to-face and had invited her to go downstairs for a look. "I went along to the floor below," Mrs. Ponder continued, "but I didn't go all the way. Mrs. Boehm joined the crowd around Mr.

Flynn and when she came back, she said: 'I am for Errol Flynn in a big way'." Having filed these charges the three housewives went on home. Flynn's trial was droning along when Prosecutor Thomas Cochran received the affidavits. He glanced thru them and asked for a mistrial. Judge Leslie E. Still adjourned court at once and Flynn asked: "What does this mean?" His attorneys explained and he cracked: "I don't mind rooters in the jury box, but they ought to keep their mouths shut." Jerry Giesler.

his lawyer, called the development a. blow and an injustice to Flynn. "Of course we do not want to proceed if there arc any prejudiced jurors on the panel," he said, "but it is very unfair to have forced him to go half way thru the trial and then make him go thru it all over again." Cleveland Baby Gets Milk Ration WILKES-BARRE, against pay provisions for a six- day work week at least seven more anthracite colleries in the Wilkes-Barre and Panther Creek Valley areas today, bringing the number of hard coal strikers to more than 21,000. Wheeler Deplores Shipment of Tires To South America WASHINGTON Sen. Burton K.

Wheeler, asked today who the "master strategists" were who shipped rubber tires to South America while the United States was experiencing an acute rubber shortage. "Who were the master strategists." he demanded, "who shipped a number of tires--we don't know how many--to five South American countries in advance payment for rubber intended to go to the United States later on? "I can't understand such action when rubber is so badly needed here, in England, and by our allies. South America isn't in thc angrily asked the question at a meeting of the senate agricultural committee investigating the synthetic rubber program. He had previously inquired why so many refineries used in the synthetic rubber program were located in Texas, the home state of Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones. "I wis.h a crumbs of the rubber program would fall to Montana," he said.

Assistant deputy petroleum administrator Bruce Brown, witness before the committee, disclaimed any knowledge of thc South American transaction. He said also his office did not determine what re- tteries would be used. The Rubber Reserve in Jones' department, decides that, he added. KWSPAPLRl America's babies may an be getting their evaporated milk this way if ration system adopted in Cleveland spreads around the nation. Here 11-months-old Dale Walters gives his canned milk ration card to grocer as his mother buys her weekly allotment of eight cans.

Draft Working More Smoothly, Complaints Decrease, Claim COLUMBUS, O. Ohio's Se- lectiv Service machinery, lubricated by favorable public opinion, is functioning at its smoothest tempo since the first registration two and half years ago. State Selective Service spokesmen said today that there's a new spirit abroad in the state, a spirit which augurs well for the future workings of the draft. Most encouraging sign, they said, is the decrease in the number of cousclcntious objectors. Many registrants already enrolled in objectors' camps have requested active military duty.

And they affirm this story's true: Two young men of a religious sect opposed to war went to their local draft board in the company of an elder of the community armed with the Bible. As he quoted passage after members of the draft board firmly but politely proved him in error. He finally departed that the two should be inducted. Three days later, he again appeared at the board--this time to volunteer for service himself. Draft officials said industry, too, is cooperative, and in isolated cases where firms have not cooperated, the employes themselves sometimes have taken thc problem in hand.

Draft officials cited a recent example. Six" men deferred for some time because they were in vital industry received orders to report for induction. Almot immediately I the firm called the draft board. I to grant the three another deferment. Next morning, however, all six men appeared for induction.

The trio explained that the company hadn't been patriotic since it had not trained new employes during their previous deferment. When they insisted they wouldn't return to work for the firm under any circumstances, they were inducted. There also has been a steady decrease in the number of complaint letters missives wanting to know "why Mrs. Brown's boy isn't in the army when mine is?" "Apparently, they're becoming convinced that Selective Service knows what it's doing." one official said. "They realize there's a reason Mrs.

Brown's boy isn't in the army or he'd be there, and they're making the jobs of local draft boards a lot easier." Pay-as-You-Go Tax Plan Favored, But Not Before Mar. 15 WASHINGTON Congressional sources said today some form of ''pay-as-you-go' 1 income tax plan probably will be enacted this year--but not before regular 1942 tax returns are due March 15. Six days after President Roosevelt a-kcd for $16,000.000.000 in new revenue and endorsed the pay-af-you go principle in his budget congress and the treasury appeared far from agree- Chief stumbling block seemed be thc plan for "forgivin; Rail Labor Dispute Unsettled Employes Insist On Wage Increase, Mediator Reports CHICAGO Chairman George A. Cook of the national railway mediation board announced today that he had failed to settle the dispute between all first class railroads and 900,000 of their non-operating employes demanding a $450,000,000 wage boost and the closed Cook said that nine days of separate mediation conferences, during--which he shuttled between representatives of 15 co-operating railroad brotherhoods dhd management, had failed and that arbitration of the issues had been proposed but refused. Cook reminded the brotherhoods that organized railway labor had pledged President Roosevelt "no strike" for the duration of the war and added that there need be no strike vote nor threatened interruption of war vital rail transportation if the brotherhoods will use yet untried conciliation machinery.

"The board assumes even tho this dispute has not been settled thru mediation or thru agreement to arbitrate, that the raihva labor organizations will apply for appointment of an emergency board panel in accordance with the provisions of the executive order (setting up conciliation machinery)." Cook said. "This would mean that there will be no necessity for taking a strike vote or fixing a date to strike, and there need 'e no concern of any threats to interrupt interstate commerce. "The railway labor organizations have pledged themselves to use it and conform to it," he said. Financial Report For 1942 Given By City Auditor Coshocton's treasury a balance on hand of $48.935.33 Jan. 1.

according to the annual financial report of City Auditor W. J. Beall. An overdraft of $4,105.07 and outstanding checks totaling $1,976.13 left the actual balance at $32.935.63. Of the balance $32.935.63 was in a checking account, $8,000 in thc general fund and $3.000 in thc water fund, Mr.

Bcall reports. Receipts for thc year totaled expenditure. 1 $307,356.44. Mr. books showed, balance of S38.926.2C at the a of 1942.

Balances thc city funds Jan. 1 were: general. 158.85: water. stwrt i Beavers Work Like Beavers; Some Work Bad and Some Good OLIVER, B. C.

A wood fire burned merrily in farmer Wallace J. Smith's fireplace today, and pointing to it, he said he had at last won a point in his two-year battle with the beavers. Smith and the beavers have been fighting over a waterwheel. He used their dam to install the waterwheel, and for the last two summers they have been tearing off the buckets, shoving poles between the spokes, and smashing paddles. It was against the law for Smith to kill them.

He hired the best trapper in the country to catch them and take them off. They ignored the traps. As long as the summers lasted, Smith was near despair. But apart from their labors on his waterwheel, the beavers have been cutting down hundreds of trees, removing the limbs and cutting up in sections, so they could eat the bark during thc winter. There is a wood shortage in British Columbia this winter.

But it doesn't bother Smith. He hauls home the beavers' wood, which the beavers cut just right for his fireplace. Ohio Must Find 300,000 New Workers by April COLUMBUS, war industries must recruit nearly 300,000 new workers by next April, most of them from the ranks of women and untrained male labor, Wade Hammond, Ohio Employment Service 'director, estimated today. Hammond said it represented an increase of 22 per cent over estimated labor needs two months ago. Moie than a i of the total needed will be trained for skilled or semi-skilled jobs.

the rub," Hammond admitted. "On the basis of present war-production training reports, the trainee output will be only about half of thc number needed." He said the balance must be recruited from thc ranks of women and men not previously employed industry, including those who now are employed in work not essential to thc war effort. LOCAL MAN'S FATHER DIES Funeral were held Friday for John W. Talbott, father of Paul Talbott, 1250 E. Main who died at his home Tuesday at Ba-scom.

Death resulted from a four weeks' illness of heart disease. He was 63. He was a member of thc First Baptist church of Fredericktown and of Fostona local 1766, carpenters' union. Palm Coconut palms in New Guinea make convenient telephone poles for Army signal corps troops. Sergt Nelson Waterbury of is the lineman hooking up communications wires near Buna.

(Passed by censor.) Liquor Rationing Plan Announced New System Will Start Next Week COLUMBUS; O. Rationing of, wholesale liquor supplies thruout Ohio a basis to approximately 17,000 permit holders, similar to a test plan worked out in Columbus, will go into effect next week, State Liquor Director Don Fisher announced today. The plan has no connection with a proposal by former liquor Director Jacob B. Taylor, now in the army, to ration liquor by card to all consumers who buy at state stores. Under the plan tested at Columbus, liquor was withheld by the state until it became known how much would be available in a specified week.

Then permit holders were notified they could buy a percentage of the amount they purchased in the comparable week a year aRO. The percentage was fixed, Fisher said, by comparing current stock with thc supply available during the previous year. Under the plan. Fisher said, permit holders know they "will get their proportionate share regardless of when they call at the warehouse." Civilian Defense Schools Planned COLUMBUS--The state civilian defense council announced today that intensive training in civilian protection will be given persons enrolling in two-day extension schools to be held shoitly in six Ohio counties. The schedules arr: Canton.

Jan. 23-24; Dayton. Feb. 6-7; Lima, Fob. 13-14; Athens, Feb.

20-21; Stcnbcniille. Feb. "728, and Chillicothc. March 13-14. Students will be taught thc treatment of gas casualties, fire defense, air raid shelter work, control of incendiary bombs and public safety during air raids.

pan arguing that its would 1942 taxcs a be curtailed if three of the men Hr.r, were taken. After pointing out that the firm ample time to train new employes, the draft board agreed Marriage Licenses burden. Treasury officials reportedly are willing to support a modified plan which would "forgive" 1942 payments for those in the lowest brackets--up to $2,000 a year above personal exemptions and I dependency credits but nothing Russell Earl McPherson. 23. much further Three 'bills thus i S.

army. Coshocton Route 4, a far have been introduced two Thelrna Mane Moody, 18. Coshoc- in senate and one in thc ton Route 4. consent of Joe Moody. (Application.) Marion Clarence Dunfee.

19. music instructor, Coshocton Route 5. and Edith Pauline Loos. 18. Co- house--but none hurdle the treas- maintenance and repair gas excise tax.

i i iJ? ft I city relief. interest in reserve fund. $1.344.27. Hospital Notes Mrs. Jame.

1 Lafayette, major. Joe Fisher, Co-nocton Route 5. minor. Di.vmK.'cd A. W.

Bcller. 'UCrl. Police Force Plans Party For School Patrol Boys Allies Lose Nine Planes, Axis 30 Increased Desert Patrols Indicate Early Start of General Offensive By UNITED PRESS The mounting battle for air superiority in North Africa has cost the Axis 30 planes destroyed or damaged in the last 24 hours, it was announced today, as both Allied and enemy sources hinted that a big push would start soon to drive Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps out of Libya. The Allies lost nine planes in yesterday's operations. There was a sharp increase in patrol activity in the desert east of Tripoli and all signs indicated an early attempt on the part of the British Eighth army to deliver a knockout punch against the Afrika Korps.

Radio Rome said the British attack already had started and claimed a victory in the early stages of the fighting. The British were repulsed and 35 of their tanks were destroyed, the Italians claimed, but there was no confirmation from Allied sources that a full-scale assault was uncVer way. A middle eastern command communique issued at Cairo said casualties had been inflicted on the Afrika Korps in several sectors as a result of the increased patrol activity. Allied air attacks on Axis bases in Trip- olitania and Tunisia continued on a scale that indicated the usual softening up process preliminary to an attack. The Cairo communique said Allied planes made a heavy daylight attack on Tripoli yesterday.

Railroad tracks between Gabes and Sfax also were attacked, it was said, and north of Gabes long range fighters destroyed Axis fuel trucks. Planes attached to the Allied forces in Tunisia also were busy yesterday. Allied headquarters said 23 Axis planes were shot down yesterday against a loss of eight American attacked "a fleet of'GermaltT transport planes and destroyed seven of them along with two escorting enemy fighters. Russia's winter offensive rolled on. Col.

Gen. N. F. Vatutin, commander on the southwestern front, made a break-thru after a bloody battle on the Donets river sector and reached 'a point less than 90 miles north of Rostov. Vatutin's men hit the German line on the Likhaya river, which empties into the Donets, and, led by tanks, advanced 30 miles and captured the Glubovkaya railroad station on the Rostov-Moscoxv line.

fiorodinov and Potscluyev fell to the Russians in the sweep. Germany admitted Russian gains on the Leningrad front in the midst of what Swedish dispatches called the fourth day of an offensive tinder Marshal Semyon Timo- shenko, designed to lift the siege of the northern city. The Berlin reports said Russian attacks were particularly heavy against the fortress of Schlusselburg, 25 miles cast of Leningrad. There still was no confirmation from the Russians that they were on the offensive in that region. Britain's big bombers went to work on the German submarine base of Lorient in France for the second straight night.

British moonlight and parachute flares lighted up the scene and the RAF showered tons of bombs on the target. The attack was especially heavy against the dock area, where large fires were seen. The American-Australian army in New Guinea cracked the Japanese defense line at Sanananda and captured large quantities of equipment, a communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said. The British reported they had broken a Japanese counter-attack around Rathcdaung.

25 miles above Akyab on the Burma coast. i'Curly" Endlich Held Prisoner in Morocco Poles Waging Guerilla War in exile, re- virtual open Burn Villages; Many Arrested LONDON Stamslaw Mikolajczyk, deputy premier of the Polish government ported today that warfare has broken cut in Poland between Polish guerillas and German troops, with the guerrillas burning 14 German-inhabited villages and the Nazi Gestapo striking back by arresting "several thousand" Poles. SS elite guard troops and Gestapo agents at 8 a. m. yesterday began to arrest several thousand' Poles in the Warsaw district in an effort to eliminate members of underground organizations, according to information received here by the Polish government.

In the Lublin district, Mikolajczyk said, the Germans "started to clear out the whole population. Village after village has been cleared of Poles." He said the Germans had brot in Dutch, Belgians and Norwegians as well as Germans to settle these villages. The able bodied Polish inhabitants were deported to Germany for forced labor the aged and sick were sent to concentration camps, he asserted. CONDITION FAIR Thc condition of Edwin C. Sibley, who was injured Friday afternoon by a truck driven by Noah i Sturlz, was reported fair at the shocton Route 5.

consent of i roc tor of the Fox Hunt- city hopital today. The accident occurred back of the Fountain 'tore, where Mr. Siblcy i em- ployed. ury's objection. SPORTSMAN DIES WASHINGTON C.

How- aid 65. and di- George and Sylvia Loov, Beit and Mildrcd Dunfcc. Dr. Don Mueller. Ax'onalion, died P-1 after a hr.ut attack.

He pio- 1 prietor of thc Cerry hotel. F.ft;.-tv.o :r.cn-.lciv of tl.e school boy patrol will be of the city police force at a feed and theater party soon. Chief of Police Ray Dtiling today. "We to show those kids how much we appreciate their accident-free caiecr in this town," saici the chief. This is thc fifth year the patrol boys a had no reported accidents on school patrolcd corners; in fact, no accidents since thc day of then- When Mr.

Duling was questioned as to thc value of his young he replied: can't say enough for them. They are on thc job. ram or shine, just thc same as any man on thc regular force. Tho-e little tykes are plenty serious about their work. It takes a lot of stuff to stay on that corner when all their classmates are playing ball on the playground." Mr.

Duling then made the fact clear that their duty is not only to guard thc youngsters safely across the street but also to take the license number and report any traffic violation occurring on their corner. These report arc followed up by the regular police. "They really a a certain amount of authority," he said. "Just to let those kids know we do appreciate them, we have appointed officers Glen Parrish and Joseph Swalley on a committee to plan a party and show for them and sec that they have a good Child Dies After Mastoid Operation James Frederick Shuck, six- month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Sylvester Shuck. 311 N. Second died at city at 12:10 this morning. He underwent an operation Wednesday for mastoid. James was born July 7, 1942, in Coshocton.

He is survived by his parents, one brother, Anthony Wayne; thc patcinal grandmother. Mrs. Nora Shuck; the maternal grandmother. Mrs. Sidney Turner, and maternal grandfather.

Emmett all of Coshocton. Services i be conducted Tuesday at 9 a. m. at Sacred Heart church with Rev. Father A.

Pvt. Walter G. Endlich, known'J. Domm officiating. Burial will in Coshocton as "Curly" when he! be in South Lawn, boxed on Lake Park programs, hasi Friends may call at thc Dawj-on been reported by thc war depart- funeral home after 5 p.

m. Sunday. ment as interned in Tauima. near! Mclilla, Spanish Morocco. TUP WFATHFR Pvt.

Endlich. who is the son of Mrs. Minnie Endhch. Stone Creek! OHIO-Occasional rain, changes Route 1. was interned after the air! to snow AIu t0night transport in which he was riding! was forced down.

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.44 .45 .48 48 (Continued on Page Two) He will be remembered here 35 .36 much to a successful boxing sca-i4 n. m. son in thc summer of 1940 thc direction of Harold Henr'cr- son. He weighed in at I5C and was paired with i i town fighters. His brother.

Paul, was outi.tar.d- daughter last evening at ntv ing as a fighter during the same hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Pat season. i White, Roscoe. Notes.