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Air Counter-Attacks Launched; Defense Lines Hold
STEEL STRIKE Where Nazis Attacked Jugoslavia, Greece
OFF; EXTEND
PAY CONTRACT
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ADVANCES MADE
Scheduled Walk Out of 250,000
Workers Averted; Miss Perkins Says
Anti-Strike Machinery Sufficient
By UNITED PRESS
United States Steel Corp. and the Steel Workers Organizing
Committee (CIO) agreed today to a second extension of wage
contract negotiations until April 15, averting a threatened walkout
among the company’s 250,000 employes set for tomorrow night.
The conferees agreed that any terms reached on the union’s
demand for a ten cents an hour wage boost and other concessions
will be retroactive to last April 1, when the union’s four-year-old
-------------------------------------------------contract was scheduled to expire.
Girl Follows
Chum In Death
After Accident
Agreement on the contract ex-
tension came after the Govern- 1
ment apparently had intervened 1
to prevent a shutdown in the far-
flung steel empire, the nation’s €
largest producer of national de-
fense materials.
National Steel Hikes Pay ,
| A short time previously, na- 1
| tional Steel Corporation announe- 2
| ed it was granting a ten-cents-
an-hour wage increase to its 21,-
000 employes effective April 1.
• Fort Worth Traffic
Claims 22nd Victim
As Pedestrian Dies
Two school girl chums, victims
of an auto crash yesterday near
Grandview, were prepared today
for a double funeral service after
a week-end which left three per-
sons dead of traffic injuries in and
near Fort Worth.
The two girls are 17-year-old
Helen Basham, daughter of a
Grandview farmer, and Lumida
Blisset, 13-year-old daughter of an
army camp employe, both killed
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At Washington Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins contended
that present conciliation and medi-
ation machinery can be effective
in preventing disruption—of—the
defense program by labor disputes.
Appearing as the first witness
at a hearing of the House Mili-
tary Affairs Committee on pro-
posed labor legislation. Miss Per-
kins inferentially opposed anti-
strike bills.
when the car in
which they were
riding crashed yes-
terday into a
bridge abutment
injuring. five oth-
ers.
The third traffic
• death was that of
Willis C. Kelley,
61-year-old cattle
buyer of 3407 N.
Crump. Mr. Kelley
was killed when he
was hit by a car in
the 2900 block N.
Main early yester-
day. He was the
22nd traffic vic-
tim
in Tarrant
She said that with responsible
labor groups and employers co-
operating through present govern-
ment agencies in carrying out the
defense program, it will be possi-
ble to “increase production and
efficiency and at the same time
preserve and promote human wel-
fare and good labor standards."
John D. Biggers, director of the
OPM production division, told the
committee that the United States
is within 100 days of "real mass
production of some of its most
vital war materials," and that the
nation’s future “may depend on
what we all do in those 100 days.”
Allis-Chalmers Strike Settled
There were prospects of partial
settlement of the coal miners’ dis-
pute, but Southern operators, who
produce half the output ofthe
Appalachian Ranges, refused to
consider a proposed wage - hour
contract that would end the week-
old work stoppage.
United Au t o mobile Workers
(CIO) met at Milwaukee, Wis.,
Tyrrhenian Sea.
TURKEY
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Sicil
Mediterranean Sea Crete
—NEA Telephoto.
Arrows show directions in which German armies smashed in to Jugoslavia and Greece yesterday, opening the Balkan War.
From Austria, the Nazis attacked the Slavs from the north. Tro ops based in Rumania drove across the eastern boundary and
other Nazis penetrated southern Jugoslavia from Bulgaria. The lower arrows show how Germans from occupied Bulgaria
struck against east Macedonia and Greek Thrace. The figure 2 indicates Russia’s presence near the theater of war. The Soviet,
which has just signed a non-aggression pact with Jugoslavia, still is the big question mark of the European War.
New Army Units Gen. Wavell Takes Charge
pace In Poviow Of Tommies In Balkans
14s III Works Out Strategy With Greeks; Early
Setbacks Are Anticipated by the Allies
7 County this year.
Injured in the crash near Grand-
view were Frank Shiflet, 16, of
Alvarado, who is in a critical con-
dition today at Methodist Hospital.
He has a skull injury.
Less seriously hurt were Billy
York, 17, Alvarado, driver of the
car; Billie Fannon, 15-year-old Al-
varado girl who is in a Cleburne
Hospital; Billy Gandy, 15, Alvara-
do, and Jesse Lee Smith, 16,
Grandview.
Mr. Kelley died en route to a
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and ratified the settlement
of their 75-day old strike at the
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
plant which has delayed the pro-
duction of guns and propelling ma-
chinery for warships, equipment
for a powder plant and other de-
fense materials worth $45,000,000.
The Allis-Chalmers agreement
was reached through President
Roosevelt’s new Defense Media-
tion Board on the basis of a one-
Public Sees Parade On
Army Day Program;
For the first time since con-
Campaign Quiet
On Election Eve
Polls Open at 7 A. M.
Tomorrow For Vote
On City Councilmen
The quietest city political cam-
scription and the national defense
program gave new blood to the
. U. S. Army, Uncle Sam today dis-
played the country’s military
might at the annual Army Day
dress parades.
Thousands of soldiers who have
year contract.
The agreement was approved by
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__AN EDITORIAL_______________
We’ve Promised; Can We Deliver?
QURELY in the face of the news from Europe the respon-
D sible leaders of American industry, labor and govern-
ment will redouble their efforts to get all our production
facilities going again—and keep them going.
Our Government, through Secretary Hull, has denounced
Germany’s latest move as "barbaric," and renewed the pledge
to send material aid to the invaded countries “as speedily as
possible."
The Germans are not likely to be awed by denunciations, nor
the British, Greeks and Yugoslavs greatly elated by high prom-
ises, until we work out some means of operating our mines,
foundries and factories continuously and at top speed. Nor can
there be much of a feeling of security in this country until we
achieve volume delivery of modern weapons to our own expanding
but inadequately equipped Army and Navy.
We can understand the tendency of labor to suspect manage-
ment of trying to take advantage of it under cover of the emerg-
ency; we can also understand management being suspicious of
similar designs on the part of labor. In some cases the sus-
picions probably have good grounds. And insofar as this is so,
management of labor—as the case may be—is being not only
craft but unpatriotic.
There are agencies and formulas/ for determining what is
fair; at least for striking a compromise, such as that under which
the soft-coal mines are to be reopened. It would be preposterous
to suggest that there are not enough brains and patriotism on
both sides in the United States Steel labor dispute to produce an
agreement with equal or greater speed and without interrupting
production.
Or can it be that while men die for freedom in the Balkans,
other men in America will turn their backs to each other, and
shrug their shoulders, and let the furnaces cool, the smoke
wreaths wither, and the defense of democracy languish for want
of the stuff of war?
been drafted into the ranks the
past six months took their places
in line with seasoned veterans.
At Camp Bowie, Brownwood,
the largest military review in
Texas since World War days, was
scheduled at 3 p. m. today, with
20,000 troops of the 36th Division
and the 113th Cavalry, passing be-
fore Maj. Gen. Walter Krueger,
commander of the Eighth Army
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By United Press.
LONDON, April 7.—Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, hero of the British
Empire drive against the African Empire, has assumed supreme com-
mand of British forces on the Balkan Front, its was reported today.
It was indicated that Wavell and his staff has made full disposi-
tions of the British Army in Greece and had worked out strategic and paign in years drew: toward a
tactical plans with the Greek •
High Command. Since a German
attack on both Greece and Jugo-
slavia had been foreseen for a
Italians Boast
Albanian Victory
By United Press.
ROME, April 7.—Italian forces
in Albania smashed a Greek at-
tempt to make contact with the
Jugoslav army, the official news
agency reported today, and in-
flicted severe losses on Greek and
British forces.
week, it was assumed that the
Jugoslav general staff had at
least been advised of plans.
One of the most decisive mno-
ments of the war has arrived.
Britain challenged Germany in
force in Southeastern Europe, and
Hitler expressed his determination 1
to drive the British into the sea
from any vantage point they might
seize on the European continent.
The issue is clear.
Estimates of the British army
landed in Greece ran from 100,000
to 200,000. But it was indicated
strongly that the total strength
might soon be, if it was not now,
300,000 men, fully equipped with
the latest types of automatic arms
and mechanized and armored
transport.
Well informed British sources
supplemented this announcement
by saying:
“The extent of the initial force
was agreed upon by the Greek and
British general staffs and does not
represent the full extent of Brit-
ish assistance contemplated."
British commentators warned
Three Greek regiments were
‘‘annihilated,” the agency’s dis-
patch from the “zone of opera-the public that the Balkan allies
tions” reported, and a Greek di- must expect initial setbacks, espe-
vision was forced to withdraw to cially in Jugoslavia,
the rear.
They ex-
pressed confidence, however, that
(The place of battle was not the dispatch of a British army to
given in the Italian dispatch and Southeastern Europe would not re-
it was not indicated how the suit in a debacle like that of Nor-
Greek forces might have attempt-way just a year ago.
ed to contact the Jugoslavs in Axis Troops Outnumbered
view of the fact that any contact It was believed that Prime Min-
would normally be made along the ister Winston Churchill would
Greek-Jugoslav frontier, far be- make an early statement in the
hind the Greek lines.) House of Commons and that he
House of Commons and that he
The agency said that Greek at- might give some additional idea
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Summary
Of the War
BERLIN—Nazi sources report
advances of 20 to 25 miles on
Greek and Jugoslav fronts;
Belgrade raided four times by
Luftwarte; High Command ad-
mits “heavy resistance;" 98 en-
emy planes destroyed on Bal-
kan Front, nine German ma-
chines lost; British East Coast
ports raided; nine more British
vessels sunk or damaged bring-
ing British losses to 13 (52,-
000 tons) since April 4.
ATHENS—Greek lines hold
firm; five or six Nazi planes
shot down and 10 German tanks
destroyed; one Greek fortifica-
tion lost and minor withdrawals
reported on border for strategic
regions.
ZURICH—British and Jugo-
slav planes raid key points in
Rumania, Bulgaria and Hun-
gary; Hungary decrees state of
alarm; all direct communica-
tions with Jugoslavia cut off;
Sofia protests air raid.
BUDAPEST—Air raid alarm
in capital; six British bombers
reported shot down in attack on
Szeged; widespread Jugoslav-
British air raids in other sec-
tions of the country.
LONDON — Authoritative
sources say Gen. Sir Archibald
Wavell commands British in
Balkans; British estimate more
than 100,000 troops already
landed, force may increase to
300,000; RAF attacks French in-
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Berlin Reports
Destruction Of
98 Warplanes
By JOSEPH w. GRIGG JR.
United Press Correspondent.
BERLIN, April 7. — German
armies have pushed between 20
and 25 miles into Jugoslavia and
Greece, informed Nazi quarters re-
ported today.
German troops, extensively sup-
ported by the Luftwaffe, were said
to be advancing steadily, after
pushing across the frontiers of
Jugoslavia and Greece, although
they admittedly were encounter-
ing heavy resistance.
Belgrade In Flames
Huge German bomber forma-
tions were reported to be making
widespread attacks in Jugoslavia.
Belgrade, where great fires were
raging from three prvious raids,
was said to have been bombed a
fourth time during the night.
Advances by Germany’s mech-
anized and motorized forces were
reported on all fronts.
The official news agency assert-
ed that Germany had destroyed a
total of 98 enemy planes in the
Balkans yesterday, including 49
in air battles. Four of the planes
shot down were British bombers,
it was asserted. Loss of nine
German planes was admitted.
Stuka Bombers Used
The German spearhead army is
driving down the Struma River
Valley in Greece, dispatches said.
Dispatches indicated that the
impact of the German armored di-
visions was terrific.
The advance in the Struma
Valley, it was asserted, moved
forward behind a pulverizing at-
tack by Stuka dive bombing
plane formations on strong Greek
fortifications along the flanking
mountain sides.
Northwest of Zagreb, capital of
Croatia, pilots reported direct
hits on railroad junctions and rail-
road tracks.
No “Blitz” Expected
The High Command and in-
formed spokesmen showed unusual
reticence about details of the Ger-
man advance in Jugoslavia and
Greece, emphasizing difficulties of
the Balkan terrain and likelihood
that the push of the Nazi forces
would not be at the “blitz" tempo
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Tanks Wrecked,
Prisoners Taken
By Defenders
By BEN AMES
United Press Correspondent. 1 e
ATHENS, April 7.—Greek
troops, aided by strong British
air formations, were reported
officially to be fighting back 1
strongly today against German
armed forces invading Mace- -
donia.
A Royal Air Force commun-
ique said that Hurricane fight-
ters had shot down five Ger-
man planes and damaged"
others as they launched a
counter-thrust at the Germans
in Bulgaria.
The RAF offensive appeared 1
to center on the Rupel area of
Bulgaria, where attacks began ,
yesterday in an effort to slow
up the Nazi air force and break 1
communication lines.
(The Rupel sector is a key
area at the head of the Struma i
Valley—a six-mile pass through
which the Germans must move i
in their main attack on Greece). |
The Greek land forces,
backed by British troops and
equipment, were said to have
inflicted severe losses on the
Germans in the first phase of
fighting. ---------—
"A formation of RAF bomb ,
ers carried out a successful raid 1
on military objectives at Berat.
in Albania," a communique said.
"A single enemy aircraft on
reconnaissance in the Athens 1
area was shot down in flames.
From all the operations all of
our aircraft returned safely.". !
The Germans swarmed out, -
of occupied Bulgaria across,
the border of Greek Thrace,
and East Macedonia at dawn
yesterday, coincident with an
assault on Jugoslavia. Since:
then, the Greeks have destroy-
ed five or six German planes;
and 10 tanks and have cap-t
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close today as supporters of candi-
dates in the solitary Council con-
test made a final bid for votes in
tomorrow’s biennial election.
Since election of eight unop-
posed incumbents will be a formal-
ity, barring unforseen success of
a write-in candidate, all that re-
mains for voters to decide is
whether they want Councilman
A. B. Smith returned to his Place
9 seat or prefer H. Malvern Marks
SIMMS SAYS:
Balkan Attack Is Hitler’s i
Biggest Blunder of War ,
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Win, lose or draw, the mere fact
that Adolf Hitler has had to resort to armed intervention in
Yugoslavia and Greece constitutes the fuehrer’s biggest defeat
thus far in the war.
That seems to be the first of three outstanding impressions
Jr. in mis place. here. The second and perhaps equally important reaction—ie
City Secretary Birdsong sent that this new development may lead the United States into the
election supplies today to the 69 -
voting precincts where tomorrow
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Outlines Banker’s
Work In Defense
Sound defense financing is the
biggest job that banking can do
as its part in the national defense
program, P. P. Butler, president
of the American National Bank in
Beaumont, told the Texas Group,
Investment Bankers Assn. of
America, at its seventh annual
conference today in Hotel Texas.
/ In reviewing the gigantic costs
of the rearmament program and
the war, the speaker urged the im-
portance of following a policy of
conservatism, and acquiring only
the highest grade obligations
available.
“Banks can prepare themselves
for the inevitable day of reckon-
ing which is bound to come once
the war and the rearmament pro-
gram are over,” Mr. Butler said.
“At that time,” he pointed out,
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convoy business, hence nearer than
ever to involvement in the conflict.
The third impression is that
the new treaty of friendship and
non-aggression hurriedly signed
by Yugoslavia and the Soviet
Union is another major setback
for the Nazi Napoleon.
Together, these blows rained on
Hitler over the week-end may
change the course of the war.
Despite his most careful calcu-
lations and diplomatic prepara-
tions, Hitler is now obliged to
fight on two fronts at the same
time. Right on top of announcing
to enter its final and—for Britain
—fatal stage, he now finds he has
a new war on his hands, this time
in the unpredictable Balkans.
In addition to Britain, he must
fight Yugoslavia and Greece.
Nor is that all. He may yet
have to fight Turkey, and may-
be Egypt and the Arab world.
There is no telling where the
thing will end. Even if he wins,
it will take a lot of men, ma-
terial and time, none of which
the Fuehrer has to spare just
now and in this corner of the
world. The citadel he must bat-
ter to pieces, and occupy, is
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THE WEATHER
BY v. s. WEATHER BUREAU.
FORT WORTH AND VICINITY
Fair tonight and Tuesday. Cooler
night with minimum temperature
degrees. Maximum Tuesday 75 degt
Fresh to strong northerly winds ex
subsiding at night. 7
EAST TEXAS (east of 100th me
lan).—Fair tonight and Tuesday: €
er east and north portions tonight
WEST TEXAS (west of 100th me
ian), — Fair tonight and Tuest
warmer Tuesday afternoon: silg
colder in north portion tonight.
CAMP BOWIE & CAMP WOLT
Fair tonight and Tuesday, Cooler
night minimum temperature 40 deg
maximum Tuesday 75 degrees. F
northerly winds cihsiding at night
Barometric Press. Sen Level) J.1
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATI
Time—
12 Midnight .... 49
2 a. m. ........
4 a .m. ........45
6 a. m.........43
7 a. m.........
8 a. m.........47
9 a. m..........51
10 a. m.........54
11 a. m.........55
12 Noon ....... 57
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