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Weaiher scattered show- and warmer In evening. cool in morn- aftei evening. KINGSPORT NEWS VOL. II. NO.

40 TAe Paper With The Pictures' KINGSPORT, AUG. 21. 1943 8PAGES. SCENTS Ration Calendar Sugar Stamp No. 14 iff good through October.

Gas Stamp No. 7 good through September 21. Shoe Stamp No. 18 is good until October 31. FOGGIA BLASTED; AEOLIAN ISLES SEIZED i I Japs Retreat (from Base mSalamaua To Move jfeorer Other flip Strongholds I lied Headquarters in the South- J'Tpac-fic Saturday--ff--Japa-.

lroor a in ful1 flight ridge defenses; New Guinea, and, back on the inner de-1 u'oHhe air base, Gen. Doug- announced Satur- "se enemy is in ful! retreat to 'j-ier citadel of defenses at iraae a new communi- mfu reporte. IV-hine guns ar.d artillery have sbar.doned along with more, Ite 330 buried dead. -OK troops are mopping up." troops, their sup- as the result of Allied air on coastal barges and their support virtually wiped out on I'fcses' above suddenly up positions from which they IJn teg beld off Americans and Senrday's communique disclosed their defenses cracked wide All at once, they gave up Jflsiabi, five miles southeast of litasua, the nearby strongpoint It Konlatum and the Goodvlew and Mount Tambu areas I Mr the coast. I Il day before General Mae- llghur'i communique had an- the capture on the Fran- Ijs River of Bobdubi Ridge, only Itwmile! from the Salamaua airline whose possession would put liAJliei within easy fighter plane Iqt of big Japanese holdings on Britain.

kfralians Election Australia, Saturday '-Nearly 4,600.000 Australians, at ni and on the war fronts, were i Saturday in a parliamentary ion which either will return to the Labor government head- Ill Minister John Curtin Itiriag back an anti-labor coali- Ifa ander Arthur Fadden which pi in October, 1941. I 16 seats in the Australian of Representatives and 19 tie 35 senatorships are being lasted in the first general elec- In nearly three years. House of Representatives is wed of 36 Laborites and an number of opposition mem- the United Australia and Parties. tw Senate, the opposition had a majority of two. BANKER HELPS IN PEANUT HARVEST-Evan Mathis (left) a banker of Americus, pauses a moment for a drink of water'in the midst of helping harvest the peanut crop on a farm near the city.

The girls serving him are Jean McCleskey, (center) and Sue Marshall, both of Americus. This group was among hundreds of Americus residents who closed up shop August 18 to help farmers of the county gather their peanuts due to a labor shortage. Red Forces Drive Deeper Into Ukraine Lebedin Seized; Soviets Almost Surround Kharkov i London, Saturday --IP-- Russia's new Steppe Army smashed deep I into the Ukraine almost 100 miles (northwest of Kharkov to capture Lebedin, highwater mark of last offensive. Moscow announced early Friday, while London reports indicated the Red jArmy had encircled all but 13 milss of Kharkov itself. Lebedin is 100 miles from the starting point of the Soviet Ukrainian offensive near Belgorod and mid-way between captured Akh- and threatened Sumy.

The 'Russian column that took it ap-'; parently was aiming for the vital; 1 rail junction of Konotop on 1 Kiev-Bryansk railway, 70 miles to the northwest. (The BBC quoted a Berlin broad- cast saying the Russians "are now attacking furiously at six I widely-separated points along a front between Leningrad and Murmansk in the far north. NBC heard the BBC broad Good Morning A Little Chuckle To Start the Day Soviet Magazine Urges Tri-Power Meeting Southport, X. W. E.

Bell was motoring along when suddenly he came upon a wreck. A car had turned over. A man's i legs were visible but the body i ma azln War and the Working was hidden inside. The Coroner hurried to the the partlj Soviet Labor cast, which, if true, means I Russians are opening a new GUCU- sive on the long-stalemated Finnish I A Moscow communique recorded by the Soviet Monitor said a total 6,100 Germans were killed yes- on all fronts. i On the Bryansk front the Soviets acknowledged fierce German oppo-.

jSition as they pounded on from! captured Karachev, 25 miles to the east. Farther north, in the Spas, Demsnek offensive, the Russians i were moving between the two' railroads leading to Smolensk roughly 75 miles northwestward. In the Ukraine offensive over 20 towns jr.i fell to Ajjnng columns northwest of Kharkov, said the communique. The Ger- Canadian Parliament To Hear FDR Address To Come Wednesday After Quebec Conference Roosevelt will address an informal meeting of the Canadian Parliament at Ottawa Wednesday, following conclusion of the high strategy conference here in which he and Prime Minister Churchill are working in "complete harmony" and making excellent progress. Plans for the speech were announced officially late Friday at 700 Planes Used In Heavy Raid On Rail Center Allied Headquarters In North Africa-- (AP)--Allied Air fleets slashing at Italy's railroad sinews of defense the communications center of Foggia in saturation blockbuster raids Thursday, while at sea American naval forces seized the Aeolian stepping-stone islands north of Sicily.

The raid on Foggia, 20 miles inland from the East Coast opposite Naples, was described ficially as the heaviest of the Mediterranean war, and although the total number of planes participating was not specified, it was greater even that the total hurled against Rome in the first attack on the Italian capital. Seven hundred planes--500 bomb- the same time that a Citadel spokesman gave the first picture how the Chief Executive and I Prime Minister are putting in their 20 fighters-were used by time. the Allies in the Rome raid. i Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill set 1 Big Base a pace Thursday night, by SURVIVED CRASH--H is Foggia is one of the master bastions in any Axis blueprint for the defense of Southern Italy.

The important industrial and communications center was left a seething mass of flame by three different types of bombers that attacked by daylight and darkness lns 11 8 111 conference routine at on a scal unparalleled in both i ton copper crashMat with Secretary of State Hull andi a in the Mediter- Finnishj i niSt er Anth0 raneSn War Eden. Hull joined the Quebec group during the afternoon, his presence here dramatizing half a dozen urgent political problems, directly grown out of the war. working until 2:30 a. that today I they were completely caught up on I current tasks. This enabled them go on a picnic and fishing trip, members of their immediate parties, to an unidentified lake about 50 miles north of here.

Yvettei and "night iTM 8 8 the club singer who survived the 2 nference routlne at a i TMer: bon Clipper crash last February 22, during an interview at a USD office in New York. The 20-year- old singer's real name is Elsa Harris of Birmingham, Ala. mans countered with fresh infan- 0 try and tanks. Class," called Friday for a three-! si ng tanks crashed over'lhe power conference of Britain, Russia rh eaving battl 0 I armor out the Germans rprpHprf "No," came a muffled answer from down in the car. "But, my God, boss, I'm losing all my gas." uiic receaea the United States with a 45 of their tanks were dis- a a ims shortening the war a a Victorious Russians captur- 'preparing for peace on the basis eA ammunition supplies as of friendlv collaboration amnmr Germans fled, the bulletin i of friendly collaboration among the a deded Allies.

Army Deserter, Mother, Friend Held In Slaying Big Problem "Driven Off New Berlin radio broadcast a wholly unconfirmed report Friday night that "six British warships at 4 p.m. i a afternoon approached Boulogne, France, and put up a Raids Make Italy Side erenf King Makes Pep Talk Following Allied Attacks defense smoke screen," but were Clinton, soldier, his mother and her TM ef "'Broadcast, were held without bail Friday night ILTM 11 be 5 a noon in Anderson County Jail following the slaying of Deputy Sheriff Reuben Fox and the subsequent flight Foremost among these problems, in the opinion of many here, is the i ense sen matter of closer coordination with! V' iven otf ter a shar ex change with German shore and naval batteries." NBC recorded the broadcast. This was the second similar broadcast by Berlin in. two days. The'ion'flon iflnistry Information Thursday recorded a broadcast Baying that a naval squadron of "small, one-funnelled vessels" had neared Boulogne at 4 p.m.

Thursday, and Ger- Russia in the campaigns--appar- 'ently soon to be undertaken for final victory in Europe. Stephen Early, one of President 'Roosevelt's secretaries, said (dent Roosevelt's speech at Ottawa, f-j i i be brief and will be broadcast. EWT, on Parliament Hill outdoors. Official-silence did not obscure; London--ff--Italy was plainly sick belligerent Friday night, withj her King issuing to the people oq Sicily a proclamation which silent about any intention to go righting the war. There was siderable feeling that Allied 1 might move next against freshepj and stronger objectives than cracked Axis southern wall.

Although it is far too early play the bugles of conquest over) the Italians, King Vittorio EmanW uele's curious and timorous to the pen-pie ar.d ofl seven more Italian islands to the" U. S. Navy--the i uj ii-ic 1 uiivei wiiu naa laKen tne soiuiers and the Soviet Union," the maga- Russians southeast of Kharkov. It! wounded grandmother to a hos- tween Prime Some A wiiui'tjiiiii uu a auigie railway, 'ine Hpm KV ISnC "serving the interests of the Anglo-J Germans were making every su- BV IF A i i i i i vi (. a 10 IfOme IlOme.

The editorial again presented the if week shock troops have "Dviets 1 demand for another eel battering reinforced Germans TTI in tnp ucii UA ailu Lne subsequent Illgnt uiu IJUL uuauure of the soldier in" a commandeered the main facts of the situation with which the cloistered conferees had to deal, for these are highlighted by the progress of the war itself. And to observers here they appeared to pose several problems of a political nature directly re ambulance. The soldier, listed as Addison A. (Junior) Jackson, 19, was captured late Friday in LaFollette, at the home of a relative after he had LUC Hume 01 a relative alter ne naa A number of fortified places released the captive ambulance "i luiLuiea piaces released the captive ambulance OI a political nature directly re- dlt onal entitled "Quebec were reported captured by the driver'who had taken the soldier's I la to the mapping of military id the Soviet Union." the maea- i Russians southeast nf KharUnv fi-- i The, a me i ujiiuij, Lne ivuo suuuieasc 01 it said that the conferences be-1 was in this general area that the President Roosevelt andi'ast German escape corridor nar- Minister Churchill were rowed to a single railway. The the interests of the Anglo-J Germans were making every su- American forces" but did not "ex- burban crossroads a resis'tance press the opinion of the entire center in their effort to delay the Anglo-Soviet-American coalition." encirclement of the city.

iFor a week shock troops have Be Warmer ealhermanSays et Saturday afternoon and was the weatherman's Kmpsport and vicin- Washington a-- Hundreds of American civilians interned by Japan may be home for Christmas --if Tokyo will give assurances of safety for an exchange ship. Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, announced at his press! conference Friday that safe con-' Soviets' demand for another fight ing front in Europe, saying "the pital. A warrant charged Jackson with murder. Others held were his mother, Mrs. heartening to the Allied world.

What the King told the people ofl rest of Italy and have for the pres-r nothing but tilings to lying Fortresses in double iabout, they should faith "in ai waves, followed by formations better future." Liberators, struck the first blows. In this future, he said, Italy-Their strings of bombs interlaced and he presented the country as mappmt; i inuuary th f. height yards, squarely hit a ration with more hope strategy. The conferees now a i bnd Se and future than reasoned confidence)' a i VJR rphiniTSPc: ilifa fnv tlin 1 Seek means to bring about a uu uu i i i i i i i i i a i connQf shops, warehouses, military for the present--would await iiu cow, and London in Cora Jackson, and her friend, Dal-'order to make the most effective las Flannigan of Blount use of all Allied resources in the charged with aiding and abetting final campaigns to smash Gerin the slaying of the Lhjnutv. who manv.

blow from the east and west. The in the northeastern suburbs. ui i i i i in SctvinE Lne jjiiinjr ucaeiLer time is ripe to inflict a decisive In the Bryansk fighting the Ger-1at Blythe, Calif in the slaying of the Lhjputy, who had gone to the Jackson home to take the soldier into custody as an I Army deserter from the Air Corps mans fell back to well-prepared 11 uiii i ctlHL clnu West 1 JIB I i i i a i time is ripe to change over def ense Positions and "offered stiff, i resistance." the communique said. 'One Soviet unit was said to have words to action." Possible This Year Victory over Germany is still Lnat saie con- uver oermany duct had been requested for the possible this year, it said. Swedish liner Gripsholm and thatj Commenting on British ar.d the government has "good reason American press articles on the a late hour Friday i a second exchange of'Roosevelt Churchill conferences, means that Japanese for American civilians! the article said many newspapers hnhlv fn can be carried out in PnrtiiBrifise' forget that the conference is a British-American affair.and discuss voyage the participation and non-partici- means I i a Urj Probably rise to about 90 during the day.

"ther was still cool 1 I 5C1I1 C001 of 51 recorded for the 4 day in Au Has 54, regarded by most summer weather." hW DIES MEDITATIONS By Alley 'BlMAfJ GfT tobo RiDiM' IM BITTY OTTZR- 5 IT. ii.ij.ivi JVULI 1110.110 O.L LIVIC oaiu nimiy lie W5PS.P can be carried out in Portuguese' forget that the conference is India by October 15. British-American affair.and disc Allowing time for the voyage participation and non-partici- from India to an American port'pation of the Soviet Union, al- should bring the internees though a Tass statement of Aug. 13 Gives Version Sheriff C. H.

Wells gave this home for the holidays. Most them have been in Japanese hands since December 7, 1941. The first exchange of Japanese for American civilians took place a year ago when the Gripsholm carried Japanese diplomats and civilians from the United States to Marques, Portuguese 3ast Africa, and brought home some 1,500 Americans carried to the African port in a Japanese ship and an Italian liner. Welles did not say when the list of Americans expected home on the explained the Soviets were not in- In the same vein, the magazine in another article said the Russian representative had been delayed for two months from entering into contact with the French Committee of National -Liberation at Algiers UJIIL ticiiu to nave fought through these lines to cap- verslon of the slaying and the cap. ture several hamlets after wiping ture of the soldler: out 800 Germans.

Strongpoints southwest of Spas Demensk fell to the Russians after two battalions of defending Ger mar.s were wiped out. Money Experts Hi! Post-War Monetary Plans New York-important monetary number experts Deputy Fox arrested Jackson near his home at Briceville just before noon, took him to his home to obtain his Army uniform, and handcuffed him. Jackson threw his handcuffed hands over the Deputy's head and scuffled on the floor. Mrs. Jackson many.

2. Explore the present situation in Italy with a view especially to questions of governing occupied territory. 3. Consider drawing up a statement on the Quebec conference which among other things could add the prestige of the meeting here to appeals for the conquered peoples of Nazi Europe to prepare for the hour of invasion. 4.

Evaluate the roles of the smaller, technically neutral powers when the battle for Europe finally gets going full blast. 5. Consider the question of establishing formal relations between plosion-hurled bits of wreckage and rubble filled the air as the last of the big bombers swept past. But even then the "triple strength" raid wasn't ended. As darkness fell, RAF Welling- tons, guided by fires visib'e 80 miles away, loosed a cascade of pound bombs that spread the old fires and started new ones, and toppled the walls of buildings already undermined by the day assaults.

Shops Blasted Sheets of flame shot upward from locomotive repair shops and the railway station itself, and ex- moment." the King told that plosion-hurled bits of wreckage snri Slclll ans- "I hoard your voice. bring a reward! for your sufferings." the King in the proclamation, which was broadcast by the Rome radio an3 recorded by the Associated Press. "I have lived with you this ter" have hoard your voice. I have understood your sufferings. "Italians of Sicily, your King is( inear you." He called insistently for Sicily's loyalty to the Crown and the Hoiisal of Savoy.

A later Rome broadcast that the proclamation was an attempt to forestall a separatists movement, rather than an implication that peace might be near at! hand. luiiiitu relations uetween grabbed the officer's pistol, handed the British-American powers and it to her son, who shot twice, Giraud-De Gaulle committee bullet striking his governing in French North Mrs. Sarah White, the thigh, the Africa 1 Italian and German fighters ap-i 5 dispatches also suggested I that the Kind's message was issued. New York's financial district said Friday they doubted the new second shot hitting the Deputy in the back. An ambulance was called from Lake City, four miles away.

Jack- of son forced the driver, Sam Martin, to drive him, his mother and 0,1. a i i me TieW because of "objections from Anglo- money-stabilization plan proposed 0 (,,.. by the U. S. Treasury yesterday American authorities for supposedly military reasons." In its editorial on the Quebec conference, the magazine stated that many persons, concerned about the task of directing Allied mili could be made to work under post-war conditions.

uvjjtit; LUC IUSK or airecting Allied mill- iw iai inuuey ana roreign trade Gripsholm would be made public, tary forces for mutual advantage 'em the war, followed Last year the passenger list was demand a conference of represen- similar Proposals by both British not issued until the Americans were Itnfivps nf fho cimT? and Canadian The plan, the Treasury's second Jackson in civilian clothing, was tentative blue-print for an inter- surrounded 15 officers near a I i LaFollGtte TTa era va grandmother to LaFollette, where he left the ambulance which had taken the two women to a hospital. Gives Up Jackson, in civilian clothing, was er- national money and foreign trade ti 01 represen- not issued until the Americans of the Soviet Union Great safely aboard the exchange ship. Britain and the United States. Tommy Manville, After No. 7, Switches Prospective Brides Tommy Manville, asbestos heir, switched prospective brides Friday just like that.

Connecticut'blood" test which'must, Arriving in town to obtain a mar- first be attended to and then there! gave his age as 40 wouldn't say when his seventh marriage would be but there is a little matter of a riage license which only last week he announced would be used to make Sunny Ainsworth, 19-year-old i Texas show girl, his seventh bride, Tommy Friday confounded reporters by announcing that Sunny had said "No" and "Miss "Yes." Manville called newsmen to a local hotel to break the news. There was only one hitch. "She won't marry me if she gets any publicity," moaned Tommy, who has- i never shown any reluctance that himself. 1 The white-haired millionaire who and authorities. Some of Wall Street's leading authorities on international monetary transactions have long been skeptical of the probable success of a comprehensive, over-all "super- bank" of the type called for in the first and current Treasury proposals and the Keynes plan advanced by Great Britain.

Many commercial bankers who would have to deal with an international money authority would rather see some less formal and more flexible approach to the problem nf creating an iriterna- money mechanism. cemetery. He gave up without a fight, his handcuffs having been sawed or cut in two during his brief liberty. The Sheriff's office said the ambulance driver, who returned with (Continued on Page 5) 6. Explore steps necessary to keep China in the war.

Navy Recruiters To Visit City from the Knoxville Naval Officer Procurement office will visit upper East I Tennessee cities next week to interview prospective members of the Naval Reserve and Waves. The officers. Lieut. W. H.

Irwin, Lieut. (JG) G. W. Jaeger, Lieut. eared in strength for the first time in several weeks to meet a i apprehcnions that? first wave of raiders, but 38 of the )aratls feelings may increase attackers were shot down a i would cause a break' svith the Italian Peninsula.

Allies Continue Raids Qst German In West Europe attackers were shot down. It was a shattering blow against one of Italy's four largest rail junctions. If the Germans plan to reinforce the Italian toe they must maintain Foggia's rail connections. Held By Allies Fall of volcanic Lipari and Stromboli Tuesday put all seven of the Aeolian Islands in Allied possession, headquarters announced Friday, winning-absolute control of the sea between Sicily and lower Italy and improving positions for any jump onto the mainland. Seizure of Lipari, largest of the i a i uj.

uijjai 10.1 gcot Ul LI1U JG) Margaret Jarvis and Navy' Aeolian Islands, and Stromboli ap- Ivurse Ensign Edna will parently was unopposed. be in Johnson Kingsport, Aug. Aug. 28. London--ff--A shuttle of Allied, 1 planes over Dover Strait and tho distant rumble of gunfire Friday- signaled the sixth day of virtually non-stop aerial attacks concentrated on enemy airfields Westefn Europe.

An Air communique an- i City Aug. 24-25, Stromboli is but 37 miles from lr Mln 'Stry communique 26-27 and Bristol Cape Vaticano, well up on the Ital-i" 0 TM 0 tonight that Mitchell (Continued on Page 5) medium bombers with Spitfire es- Five Mines, None UMW Members, Returned To Owners; Early Release Of Others Seen Washington--IP--Five coal mines were turned back to their owners Friday, amid indications that the i SSTJS naw period. When Manville went to the Bureau of Vital Statistics to obtain bis latest license a girl clerk wanted to know: "Ever married before?" "Are you kidding," a Tommy. The name of the prospective bride was not written into the license. She has, however, 40 days in which to appear and have it in- 1 serted in the document.

i Friday i- IT--! in 'Washington, several nevertheless talked freely on condition that they not be identified by name. SOLDIER KILLED Field Headquarters Second Array, Somewhere in Tennessee--JP--Pvt. Theodore Katz, 22, of New York City, was killed when accidentally struck by an Army truck while thereby test the willingness of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers to continue The five were Barnes Coal and Mining Company, Coshocton, Ohio; Elk River Coal and Lumber Company, Columbus, Ohio; Rail and Lake Coal Company, Cleveland; since May 1 in order to continue production free of strikes by the UMW. He' explained that federal operation of the five mines now released "is not necessary to in- isleep on the ground, Second Army Public Relations Office announced Company, Oneonta, Ala.

They were None of these five mines had sent these notices for posting: experienced strikes and none had "Notice- no LU m- bceoan Mining Company, North sure uninterrupted wartime coal Lima, Ohio, and the Shuff Coal I production'' a contract with the UMW. Thus their return did not involve the union's stated position that its members would continue to work until October 31 if government operation continued, but would "automatically terminate" this agreement should the mines be returned i to th'eir owners. "Government possession and control of the coal mines of this mining company have been ordered terminated by order of the Secretary of the Interior. (Signed) "HAROLD L. ICKES "Secretary of the Interior" Ickes, as federal mines boss, has ionerated some 3.100 coal mines He said applications for ending government possession and control of additional mines are under consideration.

Earlier this week Ickes reported that his staff was surveying the productive efficiency of mines in which strikes have occurred "preliminary to determining applicability of the provisions of the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act cort attacked enemy aircraft and a factory at Flushing in the Netherlands and that Boston mediums also escorted by Spitfires bombed railways and marshalling yards at Abbeville, France. "One bomber is missing but the. crew is safe," the communique added. The atte.ck on Flushing followed yesterday's Flying Fortress raid there. Squadrons of planes renewed the assault today after RAF Mosquito bombers struck at Berlin last night and Kghters pounced upon air fields and railway targets on the continent.

Markets at a Glance Stocks--Leaders generally were subjected to sufficient pressure to put majority down fractions to more than two points. Grains--Wheat retreats toward close of market and final prices went down almost a.