The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 7

The Bee: Danville Va Thursday January 13 1944 1 Seven Rites Tomorrow or Mrs Jeffrey Services for Mrs Mamie Irene Jeffrey will be held from the Riv erside Mission on Henry Street to morrow afternoon at 2 by the Rev A Guinn Burial will follow in Highland Burial Park Mrs Jeffrey aged 36 died at' Danville Community Hospital yes terday following a brief illness She was born in North Carolina the daughter of and Cora Lee Kizer She had lived in Dan ville for the past seven years and resided at 110 Old ront Street She is survived by her husband' James Jeffrey and the follow ing children: James Jeffrey Jr of the Army Dorothy Lea Ellen Louise Donald and Philip Eugene of Danville her father Kiger of Oxford one brother Dawid Kiger and the fol lowing sisters Mrs Carter Nor wood Mrs Harvey Long of Ox ford Mrs Edgar Jeffrey of Roxboro and Mrs Dil lard of Spartanburg uneral arrangements will be announced later Opening Of Legislature Is 'Earthy' Because It's or The People They Come In Droves By VALARIE EDINGER RICHMOND Va Jan opening of the Virginia General Assembly 'was earthy as a cup of coffee because it came from: the people why the Virginians gath ering there did not walk on tip toe though through the corridors once strolled a vast parade of "the illustrious Jeffer son Madison Monroe Marshall Webster Clay Calhoun James Polk Laayette Davis Lee and Stonewall Jackson And why it was made up of unpoetic things cigar smoke home spun humor handshaking and the buzz of many talking at once against the pounding of unheard gavels There were many women in the galleries and the Senate and House The wife was there Mrs Colgate Darden Jr and their two sons Pierre du Pont Darden and Colgate Darden third Widows of two former Virginia governors weie present Mrs Westmoreland Davis the proceedings in the House with a practiced eye and Mrs John Gar land who said she had been attending assembly openings since 1918 these occasions were pretty much the same Mrs Pol lard remarked except she noticed there were more women present in recent years George nine Susan six and doll sat beside Mis Bird wife of the senator from the 34th senatorial district wanted to come and see history Mrs Bird explained Crenshaw who sells smokes soft drinks and sandwiches in the capitol did a rushing busi ness rom morning through mdi afternoon he estimated he had sold the regulars and visitors 800 ham sandwiches alone and 300 cups of coffee to say nothing of other items consumed The nine bachelors in the House' and Senate served as a reminder to the single women present that it's season" Leap Year Lee Liggan Jr page from Whitestone High Whitestone opined when he was interviewed on the run that from what he had been able to observe from his half experience with the legisla ture great Solemnly he remarked that would do any body good to have this kind of a job" Howexer he sure like to be a senator when he grows up Mis Minnie Gill vho has been a stenographer in the Gen eral Assembly pool since 1930 wishes the work lasted the year' and said she certainly hopes nothing to the talk of cur tailing the two period good to see the old timers" she remarked as she to speak to a delegate she recognized The stenographers mostly handle correspondence she said write all kinds of letters for them Once I wrote a love letter for a senator whose hand was sore he later married her and I tease him about it" Miss Gladys Landry of Galax secretary for Speaker Stan ley is the only stenographer who handles the work of just one man as the others are assigned by dis tricts to handle correspondence for several The first negroes were import ed to America 1618 A ft 4 CHALMERS gelatine Costly Raid Major Defeat or Germany Nazi Production Hit Hard Though Losses Heavy By DE WITT MACKENZIE (Associated Press War Analyst) air fleet administered a major defeat physical and mo ral to the Hitlerites in giant battle over Germany We have carried our attack to the very heart of Nazi defensive strength a grand achievement We have done great damage to three of the chief aircraft assem bly plants of the hard pressed Reich thereby inflicting a griev ous wound on enemy aircraft pro 1 duction at the crucial moment of the war when the Nazis arc gird ing themselves for invasion of western Europe Our airmen shot down some hundred fighter planes But only the Germans know how many hun dreds of aircraft were destroyed in the plants at Oschersleben Hal berstadt and Brunswick Only the Germans can say how much their warplane production has been cut down by this attack but it un doubtedly is large We did a good job I hear a lot of folk trying to estimate'Yhe value of that daring operation by the number of men' and aircraft wc lost Certainly a loss of 595 11IVH dim MAlV'lUUL including fifty nine huge bombers is a tough blow But you just can't figure the thing on that basis our air command consid ers such an attack the cardinal question to be asked is: Arc the objectives worth the risk? If can be answered with a then the project is justifiable It would remain justifiable even if the attack failed of its purpose through no fault of our forces What say you would it cost in1' i i mu iiniv uuu niuiiey io uaiiie our way across western Europe with a land Army to those three German cities and destroy the air craft plants? The answer is that every time we carry out a success ful air assault we arc doing the work of a great ground force We shall have a chance to check on that before long when we put our Army of invasion ashore in western Europe And it's well fnr us to get our minds adjusted to the idea that we are going to see some very heavy allied losses unprecedented air bat tle was a mild pieview of what we must expci at the time of in vasion and our caMialties in land ing troops will be hard to bear Two points stiikc me as calling for our special thought in con nection with this air battle The first is that while the Germans are on the down grade they still retain great defensive power They no longer are able to carry out the vat bombing attacks which they staged early in the war because they have been forced to cut their production of bombers down to a whisper and devote their energies to building the defensive fighter plane But their fighter force has gained in juopojtion as they dcmonstiated Tuesday The second point develops nat urally as a corollary to the first Because of this Nazi air strength and because of the increasingly heaxy losses we shall have as we prepare for and inaugurate the in vasion wc are In gieat need of moie and still more intensification of warplane piodnclion That's whcie the homo front gets into the fight Do you know that one of those heavy bombers has more than half million parts not including may be 700000 rivets? it used to take about 200000 man hours to build one of these big fellows though this time has been reduced Last but far fiom least the Al lied air assault on Get many fiom the west is playing its part in the continuing successes of the Red aimics The Anglo American air navies are destroying Germany's xvar industries and supplies and DEECTIVE WIRE CHARGED TO IRM ADJUDGED GUILTY PROVIDENCE Jan 13 A federal jury has convicted the Anaconda Wire and Cable com pany and four officials of conspir ing to manufacture and deliver de fective wire to the army signal corps Judge John Hartigan con tinued the cases for sentence until next Tuesday and refused the de fendants bail The four men were remanded to Providence county jail to await sentence The maxi mum penalty is a $10000 fine or two years in jail or both Those convicted with the cor poration were: William Moreley former' manager of the Pawtucket plant and now assistant general manager of the parent company in Providence Jacob Eagleson man ager and former superintendent at the Pawtucket plant Lowell Morrow chief inspector and chem ist at the plant and William Eagle son brother of Jacob and senior employe in the water test room at Pawtucket The blanket verdict was returned last night after a few hours Judge Harti gan directed that a sixth defendant Robert Wright former electri cal engineer at the Pawtucket plant who changed a plea of inno cent to guilty also should be brought into court for sentencing Tuesday He has been free on $2000 bail Entire Central Part Of Sofia Said Destroyed BERN Switzerland Jan 13 TP) The entire central part of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia was de stroyed by bombs Monday in at tacks comparable to the heavy blows at German cities the Buda pest correspondent of the Basler Nachrichten reported today All telephone and telegraph com munications were broken Diplo mats had only radio on which to send reports The Russian and former British legations were destroyed The parliament building opposite the American legation xxas damaged heavily A direct hit xxas made on the Alexander Nevski cathe dral the Buo'apest report said The death toll was high The newspaper said an official ordered evacuation of Sofia be came mass flight" Refuse To Sell Tobacco Until Ceiling Raised LANCASTER Pa Jan 13 (j buyers rctiied from the rich Conestoga Valley of Lancaster county today and told farmers to let them know when they are leady to sell their 37000000 pound tobacco crop The farmers have held out against the insistent demands of more than 700 buyers since the War ood Administration lifted the freeze on tobacco sales Tues day The growers refuse to sell their ci op until the' Office of Price Administration places higher price ceilings on tobacco they are forcing the Naris to de fend lhemsehes in the air with poxxer which they urgently need on me Russian trout ALSE TEETH Thai Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth have suffered real emtarrabsment because their ptate dropped slipped or wab bled at just the wrong time Do not Jive in fear of this happening to you Just sprinkle a little ASTEETH the alkaline (non acid) powder on your pla'es Holds false teeth more firmly so they feel more comfortable Does not sour Checks odor" (den ture breath) Get ASTEETH at any drug store Would You Like To Own A Home? kfruis You And easily too if you buy on our Modern Direct Reduction Loan Plan! 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