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Saturday, August 11, 1943 KING SPORT NEWS Trial Swings In Favor Oi Peiain Jap Surrender Offer Touches Off Jubilation Japanese Sue For Peace; Big Four Study Request From Pago One) Soviet Columns Push 106 Miles Into Manchuria (Continued From Page One) pushing far beyond the Outer Mongolian border, again reached the foothills Df great lihingan Range. Outer Mongolians Fight It appeared that this drive may havs overrun a Japanese airfield 23 miles east of the border of Outer Mongolia and 30 miles southeast 'of the captured airfield at Jinjim-Sume. The Moscow radio rcoorted (Continued From Page One) America watched and waited. Bursts of torn paper fluttered down from New York's skyscrapers and troops returning from Europe set up a jubilant din when they heard the report that' led them to believe they might be going home Instead or-toward Tokyo New York's 14,800 policeman the oiler. While decla Pure-Bred Guernsey Sale To Be Held In Bristol Sept.

1 Bristol's first pure-bred Guernsey sale will he held September 1 under a tent near, the Hotel Bristol, W. A. Hiddleson, president of the Chamber ot Commerce, has announced. The Purebred Livestock Association, which is being organized here for the purpose of bringing together farmers who are interested in im proving the quality stock in this section, and which is planning marnet suildmg, is instrumental in Bringing sale here, Mr, Hiddle son said. Forty-eight registered Guernsey females he offered for sale, he said.

Reconversion To Spurt Shortly After Nips Quit (Continued From Page One) conferred with War Production Board Chairman A. Krug and approved WPB's emergency program for an "orderly and simple" removal of as many industrial con- ua PDSS1D18 wnen rne war Paris iP A 17 -day parade of witnesses ended late Friday with an appeal in favor of Marsha! Philippe Pctain by a blind war veteran as the treason trial of the S3 -year -old former Vichy chief moved toward its close. The session, tho lust for talcing direct evidence, went decidedly in Petain's favor, with two former French resistance leaders saying they wotiid always remember Marshal Petain as a great soldier and Frenchman, and could not believe he ever "did anything illegal or anti-patriotic." Your refrigerator sliould be do-frosted once a week or when the frost is about one-fourth Inch thick. A SURPRISE LARGE SIZE CAR SPOTLIGHTS. Several thousand flu.shliglit batteries.

One hundred six-volt ear batteries. Get yours today. Western Auto Store A National Institution Official Flans For V-J Day Announced Here Plans for V-J Day observance in Kincsport have been outlined along lines similar to that which, marked V-E Day here, W. B. Greene, Kings-port Merchants Association president, reminded the city Friday.

According to a decision reached during the last meeting of the directors of tiie Association, the announcement from President Truman will be taken as the official lime for the beginning of V-J Day observance, Mr. Greene said. If the announcement should come during store hours, merchants will tio se immediately for the remainder of the day. If the news comes after store hours, they will remain closed the following day. Should the news come on Sunday before 6 p.m., stores will open on hut will remain closed Monday if the news comes after 5 p.m.

Sunday. A worship program at the Civic Auditorium is now being arranged by the Kingsport Ministerial Association, and details will be announced later. Jury Finds Woman Guilty Of Murder In Second Degree Wise, Va. (Spl.) After over; hour deliberation late! MAKE AUttTMEIT Witt: lum fral and lnireat Hritnr. Bepuk front vtwi btv.

lags. Check and add bnk fluid if needed. Adjaa brake sheas to wenn fan contact with dna. Otn. fully test brakes.

1533 Sullivan Street Phone Ilio (Continued anec of the unconditional surrender outlined at Potsdam should bt construed am permitting the em- Peror to be stripped of the preroga- tives of ioverelgnty. That wa the only arj parent stumbling block to Immediate ac rations or me Dig powers nave not specifically covered the case of Hirohito, they have stuck tight to unadulterated unconditional surrender. The formal preposition came through the Swlu government jn Bern and American Minister Le-land Harrison there. Ita arrival time was announced as p.m. Eastern War Time.

Staggered by bombings, surrounded by the mightiest array of pan announced by radio she would it i yield if he could keep her em- armed might ever assembled, Ja- peror and his powers. But with that condition at tached, Britain, China, Russia and the United States showed no. immediate, open inclination toward acceptance. Big Four In Contact The White House said In mid- afternoon: Our government through the regular diplomatic channels Is In communication with Great Britain, Soviet Russia and China regarding the Japanese surrender offer." That, said Presidential Hccretary Charles G. Ross, "is all that enn be uald at this time." Ihe first disclosure that the Snyder Attempts To Free Miners (Continued From Page One) In other work and who would return to the mines; 3.

Improve the food situation In mine communities; i. Provide top priority to the coal Industry for materials, equipment and men, and rail freight space for coal, and 5. Reduce absenteeism in the mines. The SFA said Fridav t-hst if begun to work on a plan for in-! creased rail shipment of in cooperation with the Office of De- itiiao iransportation, and that it was working with tha WMC to: reduce absenteeism. Snyder said In a statement an.

once disdainful enemy of the Pacific was ready to call it quits was In an early morning Tokyo broadcast by the official Japanese news agency Domci. The neutral capitals of Stockholm and Bern indicated the offer had gone into official channels. Secretary of State Byrnes reported that: "We an agreement by which the President will give out any news. An unscheduled caller at the White House was Senator Kilgore (D-WVa), who said ho Imd told President Truman lie was getting scores of telegrams, and 75 per cent of them urged that the Allies not retain Hirohlto. There were indications, too, that the White House also was receiving vouma of communications, icf i preponderantly against accepting 1 the Japanese condition.

Guns Still Firing But some authorities reasoned that if the other Allies wanted to let the man the Japanese regard as a god as well as an emperor stay on the throne, this country would not stand in the way of peaco at that price. The Allies, themselves, however, have decreed that surrender must bo "unconditional'' and thaL they will not deviate from those terms. When a "cense firing" order might silence the guns of war thus remained highly uncertain. Yet victory celebrations were under wny around the world. Child Shot With Rifle By Younger Brother Arva Clemintine Penley, 5, of 1220 Riverside Avenue, was treated at the Holston Valley Community Hospital Friday afternoon for a wound of the right leg Inflicted when she was accidentally shot with a .22 rifle, hospital attendants and police officers said.

Police Patrolman Max Lee, who investigated the accident, assisted by Patrolman L. T. Godsey, said the child was shot by a younger brother while the two were playing on the porch of their home. nouncing the program that unless coal output "is immediately increased" there must be a sham cut- i on the city area of Hiroshima Aug. proarfm would Jj11 by Unitcd in l6JJ" caused large entities Frldiiy afltrntmn a wise Lountyithat output of consumer during ths day that the independent republic Df Outer Mongolia, once part of China and now under Soviet protection, had declared war on Japan and cither had or was ready to throw at least 10 Red Army trained tank, infantry and cavalry divisions into tiie struggle in western Manchuria.

The Russians forded the mile-wide Amur River at Blagoveshchensk and captured the big Japanese army base of Aigun. Japan strong Kwantung Array was putting up bitter resistance in this area, as it was along Manchuria's eastern frontiers, but the Russians ripped nine miles south from Aigun. Brilish Go Wild Al Peace Report (Continued From Page One) "work us usual" until tho situation wan ciiulfleil. AIUcc had called his newly formed cabinet Into session at 3 p.m. (10 a.m., Eastern War Time), and crowds of Britons and Americans in uniform gathered before No.

10 Downing Street to cheer the prime minister and the cabinet members. Traffic was jammEd on almost every main street and highway, and showers of scrap paper floated from office buildings. No Relief For Fat, Oil Shortages Seen Washington ff The Agriculture Department envisaged an improved civilian butter supply but little increase in fats and oils. Declaring that a scheduled reduction in lend-lease shipments and increase output probably would ease the butter situation, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics said nowever tnat the oi zne war. That's our home loan plan.

If you thilik that buying a home involves years of sacrifice, stop in our office today and learn how home-owning can be simple and easy. iOsi FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION IEST NATIONAL BAH BVJ1DIBQ IHQK1 imi fUSl bth industr'Ua oils Is at the most critical stage supply of fats the earliest. nvi UL Tha end of the war soon will mean, a hlsjh WPB official said especially small products such as home appliances, can be speeded up consiaeraoiy. added, however, that the schedule for products requiring large amounts of steel probably will not be much affected. But the output of such items as vacuum cleaners, electric refrigerators, washing machines and toastersheretofore not expected in any volume before mid-196 will be ac celerated tremendously, officials predicted, Halsey Wreckers Blast 523 More Mippenese Planes (Continued From Page One) were shot down during a coordinated attack on units of the fleet, but on managed to get through and strike a light unit which steamed away under its own nnwpi- Admiral Nlraitz disclosed.

The previous day two suicide pilots were shot down. The air attacks were In lfne with Admiral promise to keep the Japanese airforce occupied and out of contact with the Russian Red Banner Army in Manchuria and Korea, Submarine Lost, Navy Announces (Continued From Page One) Genesee and Grebe, Oie minesweepers Hornbill, Crow, Bunting, and YMS-133, and the auxiliaries Rob 1 J3e.rnee and the Ronakl. The Navy did not disclose the fate of ojijr Individual vessel except the Lagarto. It said the fact they bad been strickon from the register had not been reported heretofore "for reasons ot national In addition to these ships, the Navy said 45 LCT's (landing craft tanks) had been stricken from the register. Tha Lagarto and the 10T other craft brought to 431 the total of commissioned ships and motor torpedo boats lost by the Navy since war began.

Of these, 1S3 were fighting ships of submarine or larger size. The Lagarto and the three type submarines brought to 50 the number of undersea craft lost during the war. CLOSE OUT SALE ordered to stand by for a demon a'stration far greater than the one on v-E Day, whenever the actual end of the war shouid come Washington was quiet but tension mounted hourly. Ticker tnpe was showered from Home building's in Detroit but moat large cities, like the small towns, awaited developments. There was no such calm at Pear! Harbor, where whistles shrilled.

Honolulu went wild with joy and its Chamber of Commerce planned a mammoth celebration. Soldiers and WACs the latter In bathrobes and wearing curlers paraded at nearby Hiekatn Field. Sons Of Heaven Protest Atombs (Continued From Paco One) nmnnnr i.i'.i I .1 4 .1 dc- stroyed a greater pnrt of tile city, xxx Use of such n. bomb Ignores infi-rnnl Innnl lim, In his statement in connection with the bombing of Hiroshima with the new type bomb. President Truman has stated 'we must destroy docks, factories and communications However, the new type bomb used on Hiroshima is dropped by means of parachute and explodes in the air with destructive power over an extremely wide area.

Accordingly, it is clear to confine such attacking power to special oojectives is absolutely im possible scientifically. "The United States, too, already is aware of the capacity of such bombing on Hiroshima. Investigation reveals the damage extended to a wide area and persons in this area, without distinction of combatants and noncombatants as well as young and aged of both sexes, were indiscriminately killed and wounded by the explosive air pressure and intense generated heat. "That use of this atrocious weapon against humanity cannot be permitted clearly is shown by international law on the conduct of warfare. "In the name Df entire humanity and civilization, the Japanese government demand immediate discontinuance of such missile with unprecedented atrocity." Chinese Forces Attack Wuckow (Continued From Paee One) ins 5 miles westward, neiiet Fen-shul farther nocttiwest and BE utiles southwest of Ifangchow.

A Chinese Army spokesman Inj: uhungBtng declared tho enemy waa preparing to rush back to Rusilan-Invaded Manchuria vo divisions of the Japanese Kwantung Army recently sent south from Manchuria to bolster invasion defenses In nerth China. Heating and Coding Equipment Several different tynes of fans. Guttering, new and used fur naces. See us about heating; and air conditioning. SOUTHERN SHEET METAL WORKS Jirnmie Heegan 831 B.

Sullivan, At Five Tnatm Telephone 135 SCALF SIRS. M. II. LYON Medicine ani! trM it 1 SATURDAY Smoke Damaged Of The and Water Grocery Stock 01 The Circuit CourL jury found Mrs. hello Thomas guilty of murder in the second degree in connection with the death of her husband, Burean Thomas.

Mrs. Thomas was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Defense Attorney Fred B. Greer made a mo tion to set the verdict aside and Circuit Court Judge George Morton set August 24 as the date on which causes for the motion will be heard. Bond for the defendant was raised from S2.0O3 to S5.M0.

Commonwealth Attorney John Roberts of Wise was assisted by 11. M. Long, attorney of St. Paul, Vs. Death Notice Jerry Cecil Davis Funeral services for Jerry Cecil seven-weeks-old son of Mr, and Mrs.

Grover Cecil Davis, who died at the Holston Valley Community Hospital Friday, will be held at the residence, in Bighland Park Sunday at 2 p.m. The Rev. Ralph Cook will be in charge. Burial will be in the Gunnings Cemetery. Survivorii besides the parents include the maternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. C. E. Brown, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

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