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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1943 LouUvillian Cited for Heroism SECTION 1 for North Africa In Struggle 2 Kciituckians Get Silver Stars se WM gift wis ipiis tows ftmr tows enemy territory kept his battalion's losses to an absolute minimum, maintaining the fighting strength of the command at a high standard. To Sergt. Hewerl Cordell, Stearns, went the coveted Silver Star for outstanding bravery. When Sergeant Cordell's tank was knocked out by enemy artillery fire, he personally assisted in removing the wounded crew, and while under direct fire, placed them in a partially disabled tank and drove it to the rear. Recipient of the same award was Corp.

Vernon Hampton, Red Fox, Ky. Although severely injured when the driver's port of his tank was blown into his face by a heavy fusillade, Corporal Hampton retained his post and endeavored to manuever the vehicle into a better position, until it was set afire by a second hit and had to be abandoned. The Order of the Purple Heart was bestowed upon Staff Sergt. John A. Russell, Dayton, who was wounded in action on one of the Jap-held islands in the Pacific war zone.

A silver star also was awarded to Staff Sergt. Clarence A. Dubree, Sullivan, Ind. A citation to Sergt. Claude E.

Ramsey, Du Pont, Ind. Capt. Richard D. Hilliard, son cf Isaac Hilliard. Upper River Road, was one of five Kentuck-ians who have received citations fr heroism in the Southwest Pacific area and North Africa, it was announced yesterday.

Commended for gallantry in action in North Africa was Captain Hilliard who repeatedly re- connoitered positions for his battery during day and night enemy barrage. His battery laid down destructive artillery fire through-cui the operation and Captain Hilliard conducted himself throughout the engagement without regard to his personal safety, the citation said. Samaria Officer Cited. A graduate of Prinoeton University in 1934. Captain Hilliard received his early schooling at Ballard School and the Law-renceburg Preparatory School.

He was a member of the R.O.T.C. For a year he was with the 1st Division. 27th Field Artillery at CAPT. RICHARD HILLIARD. His boys really shoot.

Fort Knox. He was in Ireland a few months before being transferred, to North Africa. A similar commendation went to Warrant Officer John W. Col-ley, Samaria, whose continuous and untiring efforts in evacuating disabled vehicles from Greed, Apathy Big Bottleneck Heating By Oil To Stop Soon, Chemists Told In War Program, Truman Says Washington, April 11 The Moral Rearmament Movement was indorsed today by Senator Truman Mo.) as a "vital na U. S.

Resources Reported Small tional service." In addition to joining with other legislators and public, figures in a foreword to a Moral Rearmament pamphlet, "The cised, they have rolled up their sleeves and gone to work. They have already achieved remarkable results in bringing teamwork into industry, on the principle not of 'Who's right but of 'What's He estimated that 100 members of the House and Senate are sympathetic toward the movement "What we now need is a fighting faith which will last twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and fifty-two weeks a year. "We need to create a permanent incentive in the heart of very man in' office and workshop. This can only come by installing personal qualities of patriotism and self-sacrifice based on moral and spiritual principles. mines were hooked together, the distance from the pit mouth to the nearest "working place" is seven miles.

Approximately 800 coal miners are employed. Some of the miners have to travel from eight to eleven miles under ground before they reach their working place. The starting time at the face is 8:00 A.M. The miners leave the outside at 5:45 in order to reach their "working places" on time. They have identically the same journey in the evening coming out.

Thus, the men spend over four hours a day in this mine without pay getting to and from the "face" where their pay begins. Must this go on in America? Even in the newer mines in this field, the "working places" are approximately four miles from the pit mouth. The average time- spent in the mines in this field approximates 52 hours per week for which the mine workers receive only 35 hours' pay. A study of 60 mines in eastern Kentucky revealed that the miners spent an average of 8 hours and 48 minutes underground daily. Read these statements made by the men who mine the coal admittedly the most dangerous of any basic industry in the nation.

Let them tell you first hand how many hours they spend under ground. BEFORE you judge the right and wrong of this coal mining ivage controversy, we ask you to go through one day in the life of a coal miner with us. Here it is: Do you know that coal miners who are paid for a "seven hour day" actually spend an average of at least eight and a half hours below ground? Do you know that for the most arduous, often the most dangerous, part of their day's work, coal miners do not get one red cent? Only in the coal industry! In no other industry in the world does a man report for work, stand in line to get his tools and equipment, check in, take his turn on the cage to go down into the deep recesses of the mine, then walk long distances to his working place before his pay starts. It's the same thing coming out. The minute the man leaves the "face" where he actually digs his pay stops and he risks the dangers of underground travel on his own time.

With these facts in mind, it should not be difficult for you to judge who is right and ivho is wrong in the coal mining wage controversy. Time on a job without pay! Here is an example of portal to portal time for which a mine worker does not receive pay: At Monongah, W. where a group of Legs, Arms Fight to Serve," Truman called a press conference to urge support for the movement, which he explained stemmed from the Oxford group, initiated by Frank Buch-man. The 'Missouri Senator emphasized he was speaking for himself, not as chairman of the War Investigating Committee he heads. "But," he added, "I have noticed that the chief difficulty in our war industrial program is usually the human factor.

Suspicions, rivalries, apathy, greed lie behind most of the bottlenecks. Need Permanent Incentive. "These problems, to which the Moral Rearmament program is finding an effective solution, are the most urgent of any in our whole production picture. "This, is where the Moral Rearmament group comes in. Where others have stood back and criti Detroit, April 11 W) The possibility that oil soon will have to be abandoned for common heating was predicted in a report made public tonight by the American Chemical Society, which will begin a week's meeting here tomorrow.

Dwindling American petroleum resources, rather than present rationing difficulties, were given as the reason. The abandonment would be permanent. It would be part of a general petroleum curtailment which war threatens to hasten. The report was made by Dr. Benjamin T.

Brooks, consulting New York. He represents one side in a dispute whether a decline in American petroleum resources is at hand. Ke declared that the other side has raised a false feeling of security as to the nation's supplies of petroleum in the immediate future. Conserved for Essential Uses. "It is reasonable to assume," his report stated, "that petroleum will be conserved for essential uses.

The use for heating, where it can nearly always be replaced by coal, is a very "new luxury developed almost entirely since 1925, during the years of low oil prices and flush crude production. higher prices, independently of possible con Invented and Patented By EMMETT DLEVINS Artificial limbs of every type for all amputations made and fitted in our factory by expert mechanics guaranteed to provide more comfort, natural appearance and performance sal la-faction or no pay writ for literature describe amputation. The Emmett Blevens Co. America'! Outstanding Artificial Limb Manufactory MO S. Brook St.

JArkson Here's what the miners themselves say: trol or stringent rationing, will MUST STAY FREE soon eliminate it as a common fuel, except for very essential ing our lives more going in to work and coming from work than we are all the time during the day, and yet. there is no pay for it. We, the miners back home, are asking for that pay." uses such as for the Navy and It SVV A. merchant shipping. He said our entire national re WILLIAM DEMBOSKY, Ernest, says: "I start to work at 5 :00 o'clock in the morning.

I go down to the mine and get my powder, my drill, my pick, my lamp and all of my supplies before I get my 'man trip'. After I cct MELVIN BECKLER, Lynch, says: "I start from home in the morning about 5:45. The starting timt in the mine for the man trip is 7:00. After we receive our lamps we have to walk up three-quarters of a mile to catch the man if quirement of synthetic rubber was being made from petroleum. Few New Fields Discovered.

i "Yet," he added, "we could easily manufacture this entire JOHN HOWARD, Car-bondale, W. says: "Our man trip on the day shift leaves at 6:30 in the morning and we get back at 4:00 o'clock if we are on time, and it is usually 4:15. Starting time is 7:30, and the man trip amount of rubber fr6m the fuel Oil we now needlessly use for heating, and a score of other products as well, including the industrial ethyl alcohol (the same as grain alcohol) now made from molasses and corn. Barring in terference by the farm bloc, it is almost certain that all our in dustrial ethyl alcohol will be made from byproduct ethylene from petroleum, as it is now be ill this, the 'man trip' leaves about 6:00 o'clock in the morning, or 6:15. I do not get to my working place until 7:00 o'clock.

I quit at 2:30, and I am not home until about 4:00 o'clock. I actually put in about eleven hours work in that mine every day. Each and every day when we go in the mine to work, we are endangering our lives from the time we leave home until we get back home. We ride in a big steel car, sometimes 20 below zero, frozen, wet, and have to stand on the outside with no place to go in to get warm. We sit in these cars for an hour before we get to work, frozen.

In the evening coming out, after sweating all day and from the droppers from the roof, and standing in water up to our knees, soaking wet we sit for an hour before we come out, almost frozen. This doesn't mean anything to the operators. They are not trip. I work about nine and a half miles under the mountain. It takes about an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes to make that trip.

Then we get our explosives at the man station, walk about another half mile or three-quarters to the working face. The starting time is 8:00 o'clock; quitting time is 4:30, with a thirty minute dinner period. We ualk back out and catch the man trip. They claim you start out at ten minutes to five. Then you spend another hour and a half getting out.

In the wintertime it is dark we spend about twelve to twelve and a half hours underground, and from the time you leave home until you get back it is a good fourteen hours in order to work seven and a half hours at the working place, because there is a half hour period there for lunch." II 1 IlllllllltllllllllJIIIIIIllJllltlllltlllllllllllllllllllltilllllllllllllllJIIIlIlllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllltllll ing made in throe plants." He maintained there is now a shortage of crude petroleum in the United States. One reason, leaves at 6:30. We quit at 3:00 o'clock and the man trip gets on the outside anywhere from 4:00 to 4:15. "We have a shift that goes to work at 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon. The man trip for that shift leaves at 2:15.

It takes fifteen minutes longer to make the afternoon run than the morning run. They get back out at 12:00 to 12:15. That shift is a seven hour shift, just the same as the others are, but it takes longer to make it because of the transportation of coal. They don't stop the haulage of coal during that time and it takes fifteen minutes longer to get the trip in there." he said, is an alarmingly low rate 1 of discovery of new oil fields in the last three years. Another is loss of imports due to war.

A third which will affect the future is overproduction in some fields, a practice which he said reduces the total oil to be had by slower recovery methods. concerned over our health. We are endanger- A it's .7 On General Blames Public Talking For Many Deaths Washington, April 11 JP) The War Department's chief intelligence officer told the American people today they were failing to give soldiers an even break against the enemy "because you will not' keep your mouth shut." The assertion was made by I.Taj. Gen. George V.

Strong, assistant chief of staff, intelligence, who warned, in an address prepared for the Army hour broadcast over N.B.C., against discussing assignments of individual soldiers. He declared casualty lists were growing longer every day and "some of those names are on that casualty list because you talked." "VV7E, American coal miners, are doing our part in the war effort. We don't mind hard work. If we did, we wouldn't be in a coal mine. We know we could go to war plants and get a lot more money for much easier work.

We also know somebody has to mine coal the prime mover of American industry. Because of our years of experience in the coal industry, we know we are serving our country best by remaining there. We are proud of our war time production record. We are asking that an injustice be corrected. We are not asking to be paid for the time we spend getting our tools and necessary equipment.

We are not asking that the company give us the powder we now pay for, nor to stand the other charges which are rightfully theirs. We do ask that we be paid for the most dangerous part of our dafs work, the time we spend in travel into the mine in the morning and coming out at night. This is portal to portal pay as now paid to miners in the country's metal mines and other industries. A common sense analysis of this question will convince the most exacting that we are asking only for simple justice. THE LAW OF THE LAND A recent decision by the 5th U.

S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that iron ore workers were entitled to pay for the difference between thd time they spend in the mines and the time they spend actually mining. As a matter of justice, the coal miners now ask the coal operators to give them what is the law of the land for metal and ore miners porta to porta pay. Don't you think this is a fair request for us coal miners to make? T. -R.

YBA Author of the Current Best-Seller, "Young Man of Caracas Noted Berlin, London and South American Correspondent and Radio Commentator Speaks as the honor guest of Louisville civic organizations co-operating in the celebration of Pan-American Day and the furtherance of the good-neighbor policy. All seats are free. This is(an outstanding program you will not want to miss. Mr. Ybarra understands the viewpoint of both North and South America.

He is one of the great Latin-American speakers of our time. Admission Free! WEDNESDAY m. workers if mmim mmm Immigration Service To Quit Ellis Island New York, April 11 (U.R The Immigration and Naturalization Service soon will abandon Ellis Island in New York Harbor as an immigration center in favor of co-ordinating all its activities in one Manhattan" building, according to W. Frank Watkins, district director. The historic "gateway to America," through which millions of immigrants have passed during the last fifty-one years, will serve henceforth only as alien detention quarters, Watkins said.

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