Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - October 17, 1943, Kingsport, Tennessee WEATHER FORECAST Continued cold Saturday's 45; 44; 42. inch Vol. No. 247 October 17, 1943 28 Pages Five Cents KITCHEN tablespoon of fats and greases each Strain into Clean keep in When you have a sell at meat Needed for America's or ward In Italy Crash 9 Others Lose Lives In Accident Including six passengers and four crow lost their lives Friday night in tho crash of an American Airlines plane into a thickly wooded about 47 miles southwest of Among tho all ently Instantly killed when the ship nosed straight down into the wore Blan of W. H. Texas at- torney and brother of Tom C. attorney general in of the Justice criminal and vin resident agent of tho Bureau of Investigation at The piano did not burn and early Saturday afternoon all bodies were removed to American officials said that tho cause of tho accident could not be stated ponding completion of a thorough Nazis Blan Maxwell crash victim John L Lewis Asks Miners Return To Jobs The L. Evidence lnB striking coal miners to go back to told them Saturday A watch found In the wreckage ho thought tho War Labor Board which had stopped at p.m gave muto evidence that the crash occurred at almost tho same In- stant tho Captain Dale F Dryor made n vain effort to report some difficulty to tho Airline con- trol Tho left on route to at 10M8 p.m. nnd was scheduled to give n routine check report Tennessee at ing at tho airport hoard saying something which could not be un- wag heard tho piano and when tho time during which It could havo stayed in the air on Its gasoline supply had passed a search was started which Its climax Saturday ing when Army and other planes bogan to comb tho County officials ported tho location of tho wreckage after George W. Dotson Investigated a gasoline odor noticed In the woods by his son and found tho tangled heap which was all that remained of tho Oil sprayed over part of tho wreckage led to a first erroneous report that It had Saw Accident Percy a tho only ono Immediately located by lines officials who claimed to have Been tho said that he heard tho motors sometime after 11 o'clock Friday night and saw the ship flying very low over tho hillocks near his homo with land Ing lights Ho said It passed over a small pulled up sharply and then tho motors A moment later he said ho hoard the sound of the The night was cold and rainy but Airlines officials said there was nothing to Indicate that weather conditions caused the ship's although flights cast from Nashville wore being cancelled last and this The terrain in which the ship hit so rugged that county officers had to hack a path through tho brush and those bringing out tho bodies had to pull themselves ip tho by grasping bushes and small Others Killed killed In addition to Clark and Risen were Aviation Cadet G. A. stationed In Nashville but a dent of V. E. of and a Captain Stuart H. of tho Fourth Ferrying Grow members were Captain the based In Captain Robert based at a pilot who was merely waking a route check on this First Officer W. J. based In Cleveland and Stewardess garet based In In Melitopol dor South Russian j Germans from block after block of gateway to the killing Nazis as one of the bitterest struggles of tho war today entered its fifth Fifty miles to the north a Soviet relief slugging its way ward captured several hamlets In an advance of three to six There was new fighting at the Soviet bridgehead southeast of Kremenchug on the middle per where Soviet units were de- clared to have cracked the lines and captured several ments and over 250 Nazis Die North and south of Kiev where the Russians were fighting toward the Ukrainian over Germans were wiped said a Moscow communique recorded by the Soviet In one week's there the Russians said they beat over 200 German wiped out over would approve next week an Germans in a step-by-step ad- contract and destroyed 176 1ST tho working day and boosting guns and over 400 earnings about a In telegrams sent to local was another objective of In Alabama and fighting as the Russians United Mine president on the White Russian town clared that this was his the north and Eight ed personal as to tho I hundred Germans fell probable He the bulletin and big the miners idle in. the throughout tho day and states to go back to work on Melitopol which Other principal labor Stalingrad for intensity and saw tho Germans of and machines into maelstrom to reconsider wage demands Forty German tanks railroad workers in the southwestern part the city Tho Germans and other so-called reported fighting under a order from Adolf Officials of the N. yard of the Federal and Drydock Company said 85 Reserves handlers who have been out since Monday had been notified of their Only six of 3 steel handlers on Saturday reported but others of the day shift were on hand after a series of wildcat walkouts earlier in Germans rushed up divisions from the reaching the battlefront before Gen. forces reached the The Soviet airforce aiding the southward bombing German troop trains and army stores at Many workers still were idle at the Cramp Shipbuilding Company where walked out WLB called on Lewis Friday night to ask the striking coal miners to return to and followed up today by sending orders to tho miners to to work 50 miles southwest of Four trains were declared smashed by these At neither side claimed advances as they fought hand-to-hand in the war-torn Red Soviet army describing Melitopol as the last strong point before 90 miles of mud flats that of- About were out in six in the closing of seven slons chlg blast and five open hearth Stand and about 3.SOO in In his Lewis said said the Germans had had definite assurance that to make a supreme stand board would rule on the the vital southern and re- next f This is that reinforcements for the tentative agreement with the battle were arriving from Inola Coal Operators rushing into attack which calls for revision of the and over again despite heavy method of figuring Twenty-six violent German time on the basis of were launched in actually spent at the coal day and German planes made It would make the work sorties over a ten-mile underground men hours Red Star all time required in newspaper recalled that the eling from the portal of the had termed Melitopol at tho beginning of the shift until their and added miners emerge at the end of gates have been JOHN Page 12) Page Welles Says Now Is Time To M M ROME CROWD INTENT AS POPE TOURS CITY AFTER ABB Pius touring Rome after the American air raid on August 13, stands before an intent cluster of residents of the Italian This picture was made available by Archbishop Francis J. of New With the city of Rome now in German the status of the Pope and Vatican City is one of Australians Smash To New Gains in Steady Advance Upon Jap Bases Allied Headquarters in the Sun? west jlian troops moving toward the Japanese Base of New have scored advances in 1 the Uria and Faria to dropping 35 tons of Writing from advanced New Guinea Associated Press War Correspondent Robert Eunson said the Mitchells skimmed the coast above Finschhafen at no higher than 150 feet to deal death on Japanese retreating northward from that strike hammered village's to the Eunson Places Japanese might be hiding including a on In the most advanced of the newly won central Vella positions of the Americans were raided by Japanese the communique One enemy bomber was destroyed and a second In the sector northwest of Liberators bombed the Aroe Islands and de- an intercepting Two Navy Blimps -Air Page southeast lee Reports Snowfall State News St. ginia got its first hint of winter Saturday when thin sheets of snow followed close on the heels of strong winds and a drizzling rain to coat the mountains of this section with scattered caps of Weather reports reveal this to be the here in many LONDON SIREN WAILS air raid warning was sounded in London early today a few hours after man planes struck a town on the Philadelphia JP Two S. Navy blimps collided in mid-air Nazis Lose Even Dozen Important Points To Britons Allied troops ing forward all across the Italian front have wrested two vital road junctions and ten other towns from the who were reported officially Saturday to be ing savagely and renewing their aerial support in a desperate effort to break away from The battlo north of the Volturno River reached a now high point of. fury as the Germans lashed out re- with terrific saults designed to disrupt the lies long enough to permit nn Reds Insist Second Front Is Top Subject is willing to discuss postwar political and eco- nomic problems as well as military issues at the power conference in holds that the matter of ond should come the official government newspaper Izvestia indicated In a front-page article reflecting assurance that an accord can be reached on both political and tary Izvestia declared Allies are cooperating fully and expressed confidence that they would continue to do so. The article appeared amid ing indications of a generally warm atmosphere for the conference of foreign for whom living and working facilities are already although the delegates nave not yet Date Not Set exact date of the conference las not been as did the Communist party organ Nazis Hurl 21 Divisions At Yugoslav Guerrillas Germans mounted a major front with i haps 21 divisions against guerrillas who are threatening to Governor Prentice cretary of State Joe C. and II 12) Speaker Tribute er the Shelby County political high tribute to Senate Speaker Blan Maxwell who was killed in an American Airlines statement vvc will miss Blan Maxwell No one ever served better speaker of the Tennessee State Ho WHS held in the esteem throughout the ot tho controversies knew him to an Tell People Of Postwar Plans New calling for a four-power agreement for a stable postwar de clared Sunday that the time had arrived for the United States to tell its people its ob- for social ress anil in that for one cannot subscribe to the philosophy which some tain that a policy cannot be ated until after the people selves have brought pressure to bear for its he said in an address to the 25th anniversary meeting of the Foreign Policy sociation said resigned as Undersecretary of Suite last seem the very negation of the best tradition in our tive form of Welles pictured President of which he is so supremely He urged that the United Russia and China agree soon on basic principles for the postwar to constitute very on an international whose two moral principles would be inalienable right of all peoples to enjoy the freedoms of of speech and of and tho conviction that nation has the and unlimited right to govern subject Points in the he should include the joint task of keeping the the machinery progressive armament a common policy of realistic justice for conquered enemy powers to render them incapable of future willingness not to un- as fitted to under- independent action sovereign rights of other take his constitutional all and declared that without concurrence of pie this country look to and perfection of R. more for that inspired and lower with the heaviest battles being fought for a railway bridge over the Sava River at 40.miles east of It declared Nazis have been killed or wounded so far in that The railway was reported cut at one of the most im- portant junctions in where the line from Austria meets the An armored car and freight train were wrecked on this rail line near Yugoslavia's main east-west com- and have placed two top generals in command of the it was reported Field Marshal Gen. Baron milian von Weichs arrived in grade to establish headquarters under the overall command of Field Marshal Erwin and there was evidence of a determined drive by the Liberation Army of Tito to or seize control of the Sava River Valley and its vital The along which runs the railway ing with Western Europe's rail bisects Yugoslavia from east to To combat Tito's effort to carve out an invasion bridgehead for the mans were reported from Istanbul to have put 12 German divisions into plus nine Saturday that the government The Istanbul dispatch was j must have more revenue to fight cast from Cairo and recorded he doesn't think a the Associated These federal sales tax is the way to get if would mean that the jit or that economies can meet the Germans were exerting nearly great an effort against the real struggle for the A as against juEt declared Rep. Cannon the Army and coast Saturday and eight officers and men are the hurst Naval Air Station an- the Fourth Naval District Public Relations Office One of the ships crashed into the ocean and the other returned to Lakehurst damage and no loss of life or injury to the announcement Only one member of the crew of the second ship was The Navy identified him as Harley Charles 23, aviation mate second of Wash. Names of the ing were withheld pending tion of the next of The Navy said it was the second instance in naval history in which airships have the other occurring June 8, 1942, two small training blimps were engaged in a secret experimental mission at sea at i The collision occurred at 10 a.m. 1 off Barnegat Both ships were of the patrol 250 feet long. The ship which crashed was on a military the Navy while the was on a training for the missing officers and men was instituted at the announcement board official Pravda earlier this insisted that military questions come be- fore said the 'the question of a decisive in the length of the war and of victory in the shortest possible time is tied up inseparably with the problem of opening a second front in Western Although Pravda had said that Soviet frontiers or the status of the Baltic states could not be dis- Izvestia did not mention these and the tone of day's article was generally tic and Izvestia emphasized the Soviet point of view that tho most tant immediate issue is cut down the length of the This has become the most popular rent slogan of the Soviet Important tions of postwar organization are very important to the Allied and it is necessary even now in a period of war to prepare and settle many economic and political events follow their own Tlie peaceful period is pre- ceded by more or less coordinated conduct and the conclusion of the Solution of postwar problems can be successful provided thing is done in war time political hastening of this postwar there is agreement upon first hand problems in the course of the the easier it is to de- cide the rest of the necessary At another point Izvestia has been appointed to problem of the defeat of Germany will be decided through the common efforts of the the The Navy said the accident curred during of zero Scene of the accident was in the The conference should approach a solution of this The coming conference of general vicinity of the spot where of the three Allied powers is the giant Navy called to play an important part in fell into the ocean on April 4, 1933. The huge craft sank 15 miles off Barnegat Island during a this decision as well as in the de- cision of other ripe Izvestia cited a long list of REDS Page 12) House Chairman Thinks Sales Tax Plan Wrong Way To Raise Money House chairman told the uuu 111 i nto plus and Means in all the in divisions about 25 The main aim of Cautious Group undoubtedly will be to clear the guerrillas from strongholds on the Dalmatian where an Allied invasion might be and cue the Sava line from Tito's Saturday's Yugoslav communique said large-scale operations were successfully underway in Slovenia He cautioned the committee against counting on any sharp re- duction in military and said spending ready has been cut to the reply to Republican demands that the government can cut billions of dollars from its present Cannon agreed with the assertion that more tax in- come is He did put his own approval on the ury's program to bring in in new revenue largely is not a tax in proportion to the ability to Difficult Another member of the and excise it difficult to No Comfort myself to a sales Explaining why more tax money Neither did his testimony provide will be Cannon any comfort for sales tax advocates war isn't The lives of who have asked the Ways and Americans and the early con- Means Committee to vote a ten of the war depend on the at least five per provision of funds to on all spending as a means of I can't say how much tirig in some of the money is possible because not even forces know what derly Nazi but tho American Fifth Army struck with such speed and power as to upset the enemy's Retreat France at Algiers sold In a broadcast recorded in London that the Germans north of the turno were in full Both tho Fifth Army in the west and the British Eighth Army in east threatened to outflank the German's Volturno River lino after hurling the stubbornly resisting en- emy forces back with lightning ad- vances ranging up to seven In a northward thrust which ried them five miles beyond the Galore Fifth Army forces captured nine miles east of the point tho Galore meets the to increase their threat to enemy's no Gain Six Crashing swiftly through stiff op- Eighth Army troops miles to the northeast pushed ahead six miles to capture the important road junctions of virtually In the center of the Allied line across tho and six miles With the fall of these two points the Allies gained control of vital inland rail and highway cations and a position to menace the flank of the man defenders on the Volturno line by a penetration deep behind that fighting Several of the enemy's fiercest counterattacks were launched in the region of mile north of the but the Fifth Army finally routed the Germans In grim fighting there and now has the town firmly in Its five miles cast of zo on the east bank ol the also fell to the Fifth which jained control of the high ground ein that important Ths .ng of Amorosi enabled the Allies to straddle the Volturno along two miles of its northward bend ts confluence with tho At several other points tho mans lunged out toward the river attempts to reduce tho leads through which Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army Is bringing more guns and tanks up to the fighting Other towns and villages which before the combined assaults of the Fifth and Eighth wero a mile south of three miles cast of San three and a miles southeast of four miles southeast of four and n miles northeast of four miles southwest of and eight miles northeast of Official reports from Clark's headquarters Indicated that the Germans were attempting o disengage themselves from close quarter particularly near the mouth of the British troops are now strongly en- trenched after their amphibious In spite of tho sharp tacks and renewed aerial ance Germans so far have been unable to succeed in breaking loose because of tho continuous at- tacks by American and British More The Fifth Army continued to pour tanks and equipment over several bridges thrown across the swollen Volturno by American The dwindling Nazi air force came out of. hiding Friday to make a desperate effort to halt tho Allied surge across the Be- cause American and British ers and lighters hold overwhelming superiority In the the enemy NAZIS Page 12) Nazis Strengthen Frontier Forces Stockholm Tho newspaper Social Demokraten reported from Switzerland Saturday that German in France had been forced along the Spanish caravans of German war Treasury says it fighting are your views on a in eral sales asked Rep. Chairman Doughton of material were reported moving 1..... Ward Nazi garrisons on Iho ertson an advocate of Ways and Means discussing spending by the the mass of the said letters and telegrams people are replied from taxpayers are pouring in with is unscientific and complaints money wasting in under any It I which previously had been held with a light Small naval boats intensified the patrol of ish approaches to Ihe Bay of Bis I cay off western
