w® Y t 4f 4 aiti Weather Warmer mmoolow VOL. LI, No. 10-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1943 FDR Says No Authority. To Take Over Unions Bill Provides No Machinery For Executive Enforcement By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 9.- President Roosevelt said today he did not know how he could enforce the War Labor Board's (WLB) order directing John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers to sign a contract with the coal mine owners. He said he thought he did not have authority to take over the union as corporations have been taken over, or threatened with government seizure, when they defied the WLB. But when asked at a press conference whether he desired "additional sanctions" which might be applied to recalcitrant unions, he suggested * * * * * * * Allied Forces Invade Sicily from Africa D S00 STAT UTEMILES. LENINGRAD RUSSIA ..ESTONIA ...ITI...H.. DENARKLATVIA P. "LRZHEV It.II DUBLIN BERLIN NDOR ~PO LAN D CZECHOSLOVAKIA STLNRD Atlantic AUNSTRV5KA Ocean RUMANIA ~,OBILNAYA% TURIN GENOA KRASNODAR#5 YGOSLAVIA RTUGAL MADRID - Oa LISN S PA IN URE GIBALAR IZRT MOROCCO -R RO NEIHU ALEXANDRiA E.- ULSSAAI EGYPI DUBLIA EERLI Sportsman Arrested in Oakes Case Yacht Racer Denies Charges in Slaying Of Multi-Millionaire NASSAU, Bahamas, July 9.-U)- Alfred De Marigny was booked at the police station here tonight on a charge of killing his father-in-law, the multi-millionaire British Bar- onet Sir Harry Oakes. A formal charge of murder was placed against the bearded De Mar- igny, who denied any connection with the slaying. He was arrested at 6 p.m. by Lieut.- Col. R. A. Lindop and Maj. Embert Pemberton of the Nassau constabu- lary. Police Chief Comes by Air Capt. E. W. Melchen of the Miami police department, summoned by air- plane to aid in the investigation after Sir Harry's body was found on a bed which had been set afire Thurs- day morning, said -the arrest and charge were based on "hair analysis, fingerprints and interrogation." Attorney General Eric Hallinan re- ported that Sir Harry had been bludgeoned to < death. There were four severe head wounds, he said, as well as burnson the body. Flames Fanned Officers "believed an electric fan had blown out the flames before they had destroyed the bed. The charge against De Marigny came as a sensational climax to the death of Sir Harry, one of the world's richest -men with a fortune unoffi- cially estimated to be as great as $200,000,000. Until the announcement came, de- tails of the slaying had been with- held, and the case had become a mystery which puzzled outsiders. James 0. Barker, Miami police captain summoned along with Mel- chen, reported that De Marigny ve- hemently denied any implication in the crime. Arrested at Oakes Home The yacht racer and sportsman, who wears a Van Dyke beard, was ar- rested at the Oakes home. Barker said he had been under constant surveilance since Oakes' body was found. The Duke of Windsor, Governor of the Bahamas, called in Melchen and Barker to help solve the case. He took a personal interest in the in- vestigation. BULLETIN LONDON, July 10. (Saturday) -(P-The German overseas radio announced this morning's Allied invasion of Sicily at 7:30 a.m. (1:30 without elaboration that reporters look at the first eight sections of the new anti-strike law which Congress enacted over his veto. This law establishes no machinery for enforcement of WLB's order, but does provide criminal penalties for persons aiding or promoting a strike in a government-operated war facil- ity. These penalties could not be invoked if the mines, now operated for the government by Secretary of Interior Ickes, the fuel administra- tor, were returned to the private operators and there was a new strike. FDR Acknowledges Lack of Power The President's acknowledgement of lack of power to compel the UMW to accept the WLB's order pointed up a compliance problem which has disturbed board members. On June 5, the board went to the White House with a firm request for enforcement of its order in the coal case. At that time, the mem- bers talked with War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes and were reported to have asked that some punishment be visited on the UMW if it did not comply with the order. Lewis Refuses Contract Lewis, UMW President, not only has refused to sign the contract or- dered by the WLB but has de- nounced it as a "yellow dog" one. The board ruled against any general wage increase for the miners al- though allowing some minor con- cessions. In addition, Lewis and the UMW policy committee, when ordering the June coal strike ended, instructed the miners that they were not to continue work if the mines were re- turned to private operation. Russian Armies Beat Off Savage German A ttacks LONDON, July 10, Saturday- UP)- The Russian armies of the cen- ter bloodily beat off savage German attacks all along the Orel and Kursk fronts yesterday, held their own in the Belgorod sector to the south, and destroyed 193 Nazi tanks and 94 planes in the great battle of attri- tion, the Soviet command announced early today. The German dead, in two battle areas specifically mentioned, were. nearly 5,000 for the day, Moscow de- clared in the regular midnight com- munique recorded heremby the Soviet Monitor, thus bringing to about 40,- 000 the total German casualties for five days of violent action. German losses in material also were rising to tremendous propor- tions: yesterday's destruction raised to 2,036 the number of enemy tanks thus far listed as knocked out, and to 904 the number of Nazi planes smashed since the beginning of the offensive. In the Orel-Kursk sector, said the bulletin, the Nazis after four days of heavy losses had "gained no suc- Allied forces stormed the rocky shores of Sicily, at the boot of the Italian Peninsula, in their first large push of the second front. Arrows from Africa show general directions of the drive. Circle shows the Ital- ian area to which concentrated attacks will later move. Arrows on the European fronts show the directions Prof. Ramsdell U.S. 1 Receives Army Arm Commission Giraud_ Will Supervise Military To Prov Governient School Starting Hlere Aug. 1 WASHINGTON, Gen. Henri Giraud Prof. Willett F. Ramsdell of the that the United St forestry department has been com- missioned a Major in the Army and French North Africa has gone to the School of Military 000 men-and he pi Government at Charlottesville, Va., that France will figh for three months' training. as well as German Upon completion of his training, Maj. Ramsdell will return to the beaten, University on inactive duty to super- FrenahsFr L vise the military government school French Forces of L for officers here. press conference Maj. Ramsdell spent 22 months Roosevelt had promir so that the number overseas during the first World War, could be increased rising from the ranks to the position 300,000, including of first lieutenant in the Corps of Gen Charles De Engineering. After the war he held the rank of captain in the Engineer- Mr. Rooseveit, ar ing Officers Reserve Corps. conference a bit ea A program for civil affairs special- ed that long as t ists in military government will be United States cann established at the University about French Committee Aug. 1. eration nor any oth the government pow RAF Bombers Before he appe BlastCologne; SUMMER TA( Nazis Retaliate 80 Fr -BULLETIN- Be at LONDON, July 10, Saturday- (P)- For the second successive With the hope of night, Royal Air Force bombers from students, Ann roared out over Germany last ple and service m night, it was announced today. from the University will be on hand at c LONDON, July 9.- (P)- The RAF town posts selling cascaded more than 1,000 tons of day. s bombs on battered Cologne last A twenty-three y night, ending the temporary relief tradition, Tag Day which storms had given Germany ously supported in of a coordinated drive. Arrow from England shows the direction of an attack promised in a broadcast early today. Arrow from Russia shows how the Soviet armies may close into finish battle for Italy and en- circle Germany from the south. o Equip French in North Africa Discloses Presidential Promise vide Modern Arms for 300,000 c-> Operations Start ByMoonlight. U.S., British, Canadian Men Comprise Invasion Forces - mn BULLETIN- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AF- RICA, July 10. (Saturday)-AP-Allied forces stormed the rocky shores of Sicily today to open the second European front. The lightning-quick invasion was launched in good weather by a light moon as troop ships es- corted by warships defied minefields and strongly placed enemy guns to reach the objective. Italians, bulwarked by elite German troops, were expected to offer bitter resistance despite widespread discontent among the Italian popu- lation on the island with the course of the war. 4 ITALIANS BEGIN SCORCHING EARTH The Italians already had engaged in a scorched earth program, destroying harbor installations at Trapani, which is the closest impor- tant Sicilian prt to Africa. The official announcement of the landings said American, Can- adian and British forces were engaged in the attack but did not disclose who were the field commanders. There was no immediate official report of the scale of the Allied success. Allied warplanes bombarded Sicily's coastal defenses preceding the landing of General Eisenhower's Allied troops and warships pounded the enemy from off-shore as the first landing craft sped up to the island's beaches. A special communique from advance Allied headquarters announced in terse terms that forces under General Eisenhower's seasoned com- mand began a landing operation on Sicily early this morning, adding: "The landings were preceded by an air attack. Naval forces escorted the assault forces and bombarded the coast defenses during the assault." PLANES HIT FOR 6 DAYS The action came on the heels of six days of almost constant, slam- ming by Allied air might over the island which rocked under the power- ful blows by djay and by night. (The Algiers radio in a broadcast to North America, recorded by U. S. government monitors, said the Allied forces had landed on the rock-studded western tip of Sicily, 260 miles from Rome.) The invasion, launched across the 90-mile wide Sicilian Strait, came just eight months after the Allied forces first landed in North Africa and two months after they had crushed resistance by a quarter of a million Axis troops in Tunisia. By published enemy accounts observers estimated that possibly two German divisions with tanks and at least that many Italian divisions were garrisoned on Sicily, with its 500-mile coastline. The triangular-shaped island offered few accessible beaches, to the invaders, except along the 180-mile southwest side. The approaches were grounded by minefields, lurking submarines and strong coastal batteries, and the nearness of enemy bomber bases on the mainland are among the greatest hazards confronting Eisenhower's smashing amphibious offensive. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the American commander-in-chief of this first major land blow to crush enemy Europe, informed the peoples of the occupied and enemy countries of the attack in a statement read from the Algiers Radio. The announcer followed up the statement with these dramatic words: "The Battle of Africa is over; the Battle of Europe has begun." July 9. -(/)- disclosed today ates will equip a an Army of 300,- romised solemnly it on until Japan, y and Italy, are ommander of the Liberation told a that President ised modern arms of French troops from 75,000 to the followers of Gaulle. t his press-radio lier, had indicat- he French people domination, the ot recognize the of National Lib- er organization as rer of France. pared at noon, the 200 correspondents who filled Sec- retary Stimson's conference room at the War Department were advised that only questions of military mat- ters would be permitted. But Giraud did declare that Frenchmen "away from the enemy's yoke must show their unity to their fellow countrymen." He also added that he and DeGaulle "have estab- lished as our sole aim the defeat of the Axis forces, the liberation of France, the return to a political structure in conformity with the na- tural aspirations of our country." President Roosevelt was asked at his conference to comment on press criticism that the United States is "unduly interfering with French po- litical affairs" in its attitude toward the two generals. He replied that he supposed 95 per cent of France was under the heel of the Germans, that there was no France except for the five per cent outside the European continent. G DAY: esh Air Campers Will Their Posts Thursday * * * * f collecting $1,200 Arbor townspeo- en, eighty "kids" y Fresh Air Camp ampus and down- tags next Thurs- ear old University has been gener- the past by stu- to come to camp, said, "I want to laugh." Besides being given a real month's vacation with all the "trimmings" of swimming, boating, fishing, camp craft, overnight hikes, and some real work, the boys are also studied by trained psychiatrists and sociolo- gists. This year thirty-five counselors and professors of universities from WASHINGTON, July 10. (Saturday)-AP- Allied forces leaped across the Mediterranean from African bases today and climaxed weeks of aerial pounding with a major invasion of Italian soil, the island of Sicily off the Italian boot. Powerful air forces, aided by naval bombard- ments, preceded the landing of soldiers on the big island which had been softened up by precision and area bombings mounting in intensity over weeks.