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Six The Bee: Danville Va Tuesday September 7 1943 GERMANS WITHDRAWING BOATS TO BE REITTED 44 Uh' NUMBER 5 number 7 Martinsville Daily News 4 ARMY PUSHES Chief Tassel Bide Martinsville Va Sept 7 194S To Entertain A Police Court (Continued rom Pace One) (Continued rom Pace One) reported that ad destroyed Birth Announcement An additional seven enemy air British and American air units Wesley Guild Meets an tan Mrs Lester Draper president ii Wc To Meet Legion Installs Officers on A To Meet NUMBER NUMBER 8 fail will Personals Underw riters To Meet As? (Continued rom Pare One) NUMBER 2 One) (Continued rom Pari NUMBER 1 the NUMBER 6 (Continued rom Pare One) NUMBER 9 (Continued rom Pare One) NUMBER 3 He Asks Divorce iiiiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiminiiiii DEATHS LAST NIGHT LIMITED heard some OTHERS MAY BE BENEATH TEXAS RUINS CHICAGO LIER WRECKS THREE KILLED ORTS MARAUDERS SPEARHEAD HEAVY DAYLIGHT ATTACKS SHEEP MORE BODIES IN CRUMPLED COACH AT PHILADELPHIA 20000 NIPS CUT IN NEW GUINEA LARGE ORMATIONS ATTACK AIRIELDS IN NAPLES SECTOR were shot down last night a raid was attempted on the JUDGE LEIGH OPENS COURT SETS DOCKET 8TH ARMY PIISHCS AHEAD LARGE JAP ORCE IS TRAPPED REDS PRACTICALLY COMPLETE CAPTURE DONETS BASIN and the The the uneral Services or Legwin engaged in with the en Aircraft de Nemours Electric Looney was in charge of the installation of officers of the Pannill Post No' 42 American Legion Monday evening when the members met in the Service Club rooms Dan Cheshire was installed as commander to lead the activities of the organization during the ensu ing year Tuggle was hostess refreshment course meeting Many Mongols never bathe from birth until death WAC PROMOTED Private Mary Medley WAC daughter of Mrs Nannie Medley of Danville Route 4 has been pro moted to technician 5th grade at Camp Atterbury Indiana where she is stationed' 'with a medical unit The luncheon meeting of Martinsville Life Underwriters sociatien will be held Wednesda at one at the Henry hotel Roll Mills TAT Smelt A Ref Tobac Copper (By The Associated Press) REGINALD McKENNA LONDON Reginald 80 chancellor of the exchequer in 1915 16 and chairman of the Mid land Bank since 1919 Philadelphia and on other rail road lines Army guards with fixed bayonets and sub machine guns headed a crowd away from the wreckage Stretcher bearers had difficulty getting the dead and injured through the thousands who earlier had gathered at the scene which is in a crowded business and indus trial section three miles east of the North Philadelphia station All available ambulances went to the scene and hundreds of air raid wardens were mobilized to help police firemen soldiers and sailors in rescue work Hospitals pleaded for registered nurses and blood donors escaped injury Traffic on the mainline was still blocked early today but freight and through passenger trains were re routed around the city on a cutoff extending from Trenton to New Enemy Sub Tactics Outmode Blimp Attackers Personals Mrs Broun is spending this week at Natural Bridge Mr and Mrs A Womack and son Zan have returned to Danville after spending the week end with Dr and Mrs Womack Mrs Winn has returned from New York where she spent the past week on a business trip the educa irst Bap 4 on the Japanese air by three smoke outlined the field KNOX WARNS THEY WILL BE BACK ing home after the Labor Day holiday were asleep when the ac cident occurred The main line was blocked com pletely were re routed at Syracuse The Century is the fastest train on the Central New York Chicago run Thewrecked train was re ported to have comprised about 18 cars filled with returning holi day vacationists The wreck was the second in New York state in eight days On Aug 30 the Lackawanna Limited passenger train of the Delaware Lackawanna A Western collided with a switch engine at Wayland 50 miles south of Rochester kill ing 28 and injuring 150 Danville voters who are with the armed forces aYid who are in camps in this country have started vot ing in the liquor beer wine referendum on October 5 Booth city registrar has received 67 mailed votes so far and each mail now brings in a batch The sealed votes are de posited in small wooden boxes one for each of the nine wards and after sundown on the night of the election they will be counted These are votes made possible by the Young Club which has made contact with many sol diers urging them to have a voice in the home election by applying for a mailed ballot Electric Train Wrecks 4 Hurt BIG HAT LUBBOCK A glider pilot student at South Plains Army Air field lost his wallet containing $50 Aware of his plight fellow stu dents passed the hat Contributions totaled $7847 Soldier Vote Is Coming In On Referendum Telephone t7 Shorthand of various types has been used for 20 centuries Less Serious Wreck Occurs In New York Philco Official Victim Of Crash atal To Logan KANSAS CITY Mo Sept Julio Acosta newly acquired pitcher from Richmond hurled Milwaukee to a 3 to 2 victory over Kansas City in the first game of a doublchcader yesterday He also got a double and drove in a runner with a fly ball The Cuban southpaw as in trouble only in the seventh inning whan three singles back of a walk allowed tie Blues their only tallies HEMPSTEAD Sept our women were injured none seriously when the first four cars of a ten car electric train on the Long Island Railroad left the rails at the station here last night Railroad officials said the rear wheels of the leading car jumped a switch The next three cars fol lowed the lead car off the tracks before the train was brought to a stop water Shortly afterward Chappell de clared flames were discovered shooting out from a luggage room across the hall Police said the fire apparently ate quickly through the framework interior of the old brick building trapping most of the persons the second floor Wesley Guild of the irst Meth odist Church Monday afternoon when the members met in the church The committee reports were heard The devotionals were given by Mrs Olson who read a poem by Van Dyke followed with the Twenty seventh Psalm Mrs Charles Bullington was named flower chairman for the month A motion was passed that a letter be writen the district su perintendent asking for the re turn of the pastor the Rev Ros ser Reeves Mrs I and served a following the The Christian Tern perance Union will meet this eve nlng at 7:30 clock in tional building of the tist Church roads bridges and tunnels the extreme ruggedness of terrain made progress slow Allied communique described advance as satisfactory The Allied command tnnk vantage of the situation to move reinforcements and a huge amount of material across the Strait of Messina to the mainland under the protection of the British Naw and TEAM WORK CHICAGO (ZP) Since thefirst time out proves unprofitable to so many novice fishermen they might try Anthony method swimming While swimming in Lake Michi gan Grosso spotted a big carp He made a seine of his shirt trapped the' fish and lugged it ashore The 12 pounder had been stun ned when boys on the escarpment showered It with NEW DELHI Sept dium bombers of the 10th Air orce blasted Japanese barracks at Maymyo 40 mllea northwest of Mandalay yesterday causing heavy damage and leaving fires from which smoke rose to 1500 feet a headquarters communique said to day On Sunday another formation of Mitchell bombers wrecked installa tions at the Namtu mines near Lashio lnnorthern Burma A Die sel power plant was destroyed and engine sheds and other buildings were demolished A flotation and separation plant was flattened by direct hits jn the heavy attack and one heavy explosion was seen in the midst of the mining plant Sev eral fires were observed after the bombers made their run All planes and crews returned safely from the two operations Brig Gen Howard Davidson new commander of the 10th Air orce has revealed that American planes were active against the Jap anese in Bigma 25 out of 31 days last month During this period he disclosed at a press conference the Ameri can planes dropped 691 tons of bombs on enemy installations communications and shipping They shot down three Japanese Zeros1 destroyed 200 railway freight cars sank 20 river boats and sank or seriously damaged six ocean going ships American losses were two medium bombers crews of which bailed out over the Chin hills and made their way through enemy lines to their base Heavy Damage Done By Bombers Near Mandalay (burnished By ourtesy Proctor and Paine) American Can Amer Mach A oundry American American American American Anaconda Atchison Top A Santa Atlantic Refining Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane Mrs Moore will be hostess Wednesday afternoon at her home I on Starling avenue to the members I of the Joseph Martin Chapter Daughters of the American Revo lution Mrs Hooker will be pro gram chairman The newly elected officers will assume charge of their i at Pomigliano and Capodichino as I well as at the Literno and Min turno railway yards the harbor at Gaeta and the railroad between Caserta and Maddaloni Simultaneously a strong force of United States Army Air orce 25 Mitchells escorted by 38 Light nings raided the Capua Airfield devastating hangars and packed aircraft American 26 Maraud ers turned their power against two landing fields at Grazzanise The ortresses met no enemy opposition But the Lightnings shot down seven of a force of 20 to 40 planes which attacked during the Caputa raid Three out of a force of approximately 30 which at tempted to intercept the Maraud ers and their Lightning escort also were There were scarcely any enemy attacks on the supply lipe (A Berlin broadcast recorded in London by the ministry of inform ation said that view of the slow progress of the British tejjding op erations in Calabria it is probable that another landing enterprise still (The Allies are rushing huge stores of materials into the Med iterranean theater the broadcast said reporting "new lively move ments of Allied shipping in the western Berlin asserted that 72 Allied ships es corted by five destroyers and four patrol vessels left Gibraltar yes terday) Npw YORK Sept (ZP) Stan Musial of the St Louis Cardi nals and Luke Appling of the Chicago White Sox still are set ting the batting pace in the major leagues with little change in the competition during the last week Musial's average remained ex actly what it was last Tuesday353 and Billy Herman of Brook lyn holding persistently to second place slipped just two points to332 In the American League Ap pling's average skidded sijf points to 331 but his only dangerous challenger Dick Wakefield of De troit also subsided five points to321 to preserve their same relative positions ly telling rescuers "Take your time I can stand it" Robert Calvert of Birmingham Ala a veteran of the fighting in North Africa who vas walking in the aisle of the third car said something hit him in the stomach and seemed a million people weie on top of me couldn't get mv bre th I thought is it 1 will die Twelve hours after the crash the railroad placed the death toll at 54 may of whom still were un identified most of the dead were in the city morgue Earlier Chief Deputy Coroner Matthew Ross has the dead would total 150 Roy Howard president of the New York World Telegram and hiswife and Lin Yutang the Chinese author' were on train but At Capua a very large fire roar ed through the hangars and many small fires apparently from burn i ing aircraft were seen on ground Attorney George Bendall said that he has not yet received a report on the autopsy performed after ret well's death in a Martinsville hos pital Gilleland is alleged to have caused the injury The date of September 13 has been tentativey fixed for the trial of Lipscombe Oliver and Annie Rader Price colored charged with selling a fluid held responsible for the death of six colored people The date was in that neither has yet been indicted Judge Leigh will make disposi tion at this term of court of five taxicabs alleged to have been us ed for the transportation of liquor Under the ABC act these vehicles may be confiscated by the state and ordered sold at public auc tion All of the owners have filed an swers saying that they were in nocent of any knowledge that the cars were used for an illegal pur pose and that they had endeavor ed to secure reliable drivers They are praying for a dismissal of the confiscation proceedings LONDON Sept 7 Eighth Air orce headquarters an nounced toduy that James Grimes vice president in charge of engi neers of the Philco Radio Corpor atjon and Army Air orce Pilot Loren Myles 44 of Loe Angeles Caljf were killed in tha plane crash near Belfast last week end in which Commodore James A Logan lost his life The death of Logan commandant of the naval operating base at Londonderry northern Ireland was announced yesterday Myles was formerly a police man Grimes arrived in Britain re cently from the United States Ixigan a native of Charleston was en route to London for one of his period conferences withnaval authorities No details of the crash were an nounced Musial Appling Still Hold Leads Angle charged witW automobile while uni was craft when Bizerte area of the Tunisian coast A few bombs were dropped by the raiders there and the official re port said damage was slight Against a total enemy loss of 17 planes only four Allied craft were missing While the strategic air force was busy in the Naples area North African Air orce tactical bombers were engaged farther to the south supporting the Eighth Army in the invasion area American A 36 Invader dive bombers droned down on Sibari on the arch of the boot on the southern Italian coast and tore up the railroad junction and adjoin ing buildings One dive bomber veteran Lieut William Sefton of ort Wayne Ind declared "It was the best job I have seen on the 46 missions I have RA and Canadian night bomb ers again teamed with American i daylight raiders to give a wide por i tion of Italy a round the clock pummelling RA Bostons made two raids Sunday night first on the airfield at Capua north of Naples and second against the freight yards at Aversa also north of Naples Last night the Battipaglia rail way yards were left enveloped in smoke after RA and Canadian Wellingtons employed light flares to place big bombs on the tracks of this junction where the line south from Naples connects with the west coast and the central routes to the toe of Italy Gaeta Harbor 45 miles north west of Naples was the first target of the American ortresses from (Continued rom Page One) "Then I and three other men nil ina Mrs A jj cecl! 1 iivumc me uiim oi a aaugnter Tuesday September 7 at the ShackJ elford Hospital There was a large docket of cases tn the police court this morning with the majority of the convic tions for charges of being drunk Earl Taylor charged with hav ing in his possession a small quant ity of illegal liquor was fined $5(1 and costs Starling Clark charged with operating a car without an op? erator's license and with improper brakes was fined $20 and costs Ben Whitlow charged with as saulting Rankin was fined $10 and costs Rankin charged with as? saulting Ben Whitlow was fined $10 and costs Benjamin Angle charged witd operating an i der the influence of liquor fined $100 and costs DIVORCI proceedings against heiress Doris Duke Crom well (top) have been instituted le: Trenton by her husband Jimmy Cromwell former Minister to Canada He asks forj a decree on the ground of Uon A International)' 4 A I Lil lull IICJIIVJI IV draval of the undersea craft he Coatesville Pa 30 miles west of assenea one assumption is mail they probably are being taken in to augment their batteries of anti aircraft guns Several weeks ago the Navy re ported that a submarine had suc ceeded in shooting down a blimp It was the first reported loss of that kind in the American anti submarine service Knox declined to diseuss the probalility of ever developing a helicopter for ue against subma rines in this war on the ground that he did not wish to "engage in controversy" He said that the Navy has orders for some experi mental types but agreed with questioners that escort aircraft carriers have largely met the need for aircraft protection for mer chant shipping in areas of the At lantic where land based aircraft do not go Of the submarine fight gener ally Knox reiterated his frequent statement that is no reason to believe we have disposed of the submarine menace" No further information has come through on the Navy raid on Mar cus Island in the central Pacific September 1 Knox stated explain ing that the force which carried out the raid has not yet broken radio silence NEW YORK Sept' Traffic on the Erie main linwastblocked for two hours to day after a combination express passenger and milk train was de railed eight miles east of Port Jer vis at 4 a the general offices here said The engineer William Pope 55 and the fireman A Massaro 33 both of Jersey City were taken to a Port Jervis hospital suf fering second degree burns the railroad said but none of the pas sengers was reported hurt The 12 car train known as No 10 was en route from Buffalo A to Jersey City Only one pas senger car a pullman sleeper on the rear was included in the train The locomotive and a milk car immediately behind it were derail ed but did not turn over the rail road reported 1 RAID JAP BARRACKS IN BURMA eiEhth coaches i Passengers were buried under the debris from which many of (he liv 1 me were Tint rotoocaH i i I 13 Uli Ai a i i a ouHic were inrown through crallasr xvsavs ill inc i diner were scalded One woman Jay rnnrguc 10r identification as rap in the wreckage for six hours calm 1 firemen pulled them from uneral services for William Legwin who died Saturday fol lowing a long decline in health were held Monday afternoon at 5 from the McKee uneral Home Rev Nelson ox pas tor of the Broad Street Christian Church and Rev Wales Christian minister conducted the rites Interment followed in Oak wood cemetery The pallbearers were: Thomasson Mcarland Les ter Draper Claude Wells James Lovelace Stultz Hurt and Mack Draper The floral tributes were carried by the many friends of the de ceased Miss Gay Barnes who has been a patient at the Henry County Me morial Hospital has recovered suf ficiently to return to her home on Mulberry road A The Merino sheep once a of Spain is the most widely spread breed in the world It thrives in) countries which have low rainfall' A the crane resumed lifting the decapitated body of a woman tum bled from the raised coach Two 'more bodies were found when res cue workers crawled under Workers immediately began dis secting the tangled metal of No 7 coach The railroad company said it was possible that its ruins would give up still more bodies Eight cars of the Washington to New York Express wrenched loose and piled up last night in one of the nation worst rail disasters The electric powered train which makes the 226 mile run in 210 minutes with Newark the first stop and carried 541 pas to the third floor trying for sengers many of them service men tbe (other) fire escape We ran was heading into a cunt at stumbling over bodies rankfort Junction in northeast I the fire escape men were Philadelphia when the accident oc jammed together fighting to start curred at 6:12 iEWT) down We begged them to let A waste packed journal box I each man take his time and they railroad officials said on the did Men started pouring down front of the seventh car of the 16 the escape I saw one man run car train burning the wheel loose to the window and jump head from the axle I first He dropped straight down The coach hurtled into a steel to the sidewalk As we went we pole supporting overhead power saw men jumping off the fire es lines was cut in two vertically as cape at everv SS bt 3 glSHt aX' The I Police and' firemen said it was gainst itJ x1Cnfhe iPf)bahle that other bodies would ogamst it Six other ears behind be found ln he wreckase them were thrown from the rails I ThPV aH that nniv nr but all the dead and most of the) 5 injured were in the seventh and Thir ben ldentlfled eighth coaches The names were given as: Passengers were buriprfunrfrtho S1de 45 iron worker Hebert shipyard worker Charles nivnn nnminsfinn unknown windows galley workers in the Hodlef "'ere taken to the city OWN I OPICS I llllllMmillllllllllNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHKiliil Building in Danville during the month of August was more active than during July but still far be low the peacetime normal The number of permits issued in Au gust was 31 these representing a building value of $6195 In July I 21 permits were issued represent ing $2848 landed near the field An Australian force flowm Into an Allied advanced base marched overland five days to rendezvous near the occupied airfield with the American paratroopers who had landed Sunday morning while Gen eral Douglas McArthur looked on from a lying ortress A headquarters statement dis closed that the enemy airfield had not been used by the Japanese for months and w'as overgrown with kunai grass four to six feet high The field flat and level easily can be placed into operating condi tion Capture of the airfield effective ly helped close (he trap on the defenders of Lae and Salamaua The paratroopers landed three sides of drome guided screens which perfectly As soon as the paratroops land ed the Australian ground force started to cross the nearby Mark ham river by means of a pontoon bridge Other Aussies floated down the river in assault boats to the site of the field 1st Lt Monte Kleban San An tonio Tex who jumped with the paratroopers said the Australian ground force which had scoured swamps for enemy detachments during its five day march joined the airborne troops several hours after they had landed "We saw one another at the same said Klebans an assistant public relations officer in command "With gleeful shouts the Australians and Americans ran toward one another These strangers hugged and em braced like long lost brothers" The Allied meeting closed the ring about the imperiled Japanese ACOSTA WINS OR BREWERS As a prelude to the launching of the War Bond drive for the month in an effort to sell $1800000 in bonds and stamps in Henry county and Martinsville a dinner meeting of the chairman and officials was held Monday evening at the Henry hotel William Gaines was the guest speaker and stressed the import 1 ance or reaching the goal through out the nation The local chairman are Greer William Bassett and Groves Jr These men have ap presided at the meeting of the pointed workers throughout the city and county to asist in putting over the top the Third War Loan drive The members of the Patrick Henry Chapter Daughters of American Revolution will mee Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 at the home of Mrs Pannill? in their first meeting of the season Mrs Penn regent preside (Continued rom Page One) The Russian newspaper Izvestia said today that Germun artillery support behind the Nazi minefields was considerably weakened mak ing the job of clearing the way much easier for the Russian en gineers Red Star reported that the re treating Germans were not only demolishing and plundering the mining towns of the Donets basin but were also driving away the local populations under threat of execution if they refused to evac uate A Red Star dispatch said the Red Army after a night battle which cleared the enemy out of Ar temovsk had moved upon Kon stantinokva 1 rom southeast of the city the Germans launched in fantry in a counterattack assisted by 20 tanks Soviet anti tank cannon rifles and mortars which were moving along with the advance forces opened fire and repulsed the counterattack and forced the en emy back to the outskirts of the city Red Star said The night battle which followed lighted by blazing buildings clear ed the Germans from the city and opened a path for the Red Army to Kramatorskayn At Kramatorskaya the Germans again put up a struggle but again under the illumination of blazing structures in a twilight battle the Red Army cleared the city and moved on by the Associated Press said: "On the Calabrian peninsula our pro tective formations minor encounters ront dispatches scant opposition was encountered 1 new dutjeg by the British and Canadian troops but that extensive demolitions of War Bond Rally Held WASHINGTON Sept Navy Secretary Knox said today the Germans had apparently chrler Corp withdrawing boats from the At 1 Consolidated Edson lantic recently in order to 1 consolidated Oil them with additional anti aircraft continental Can weapons I Curtiss Wright It as sure as sunrise that tney 1 Dougla will be back in there again" he du pOnt told his press conference I General Knox said that new tactics etn General Motors ployed by German submarine Goodyr Tire A Rub patrol in the Atlantic had reduced Greyhound Corp the usefulness of blimps and any Johns Manville potential usefulness nf helicopters Kennecott Copper in anti submarine warfare 1 Kresge 'Until they took to firing at Loews Inc them the blimps were an excep Marshall ield tionally good weapon against sub marines" Knox said adding that now "any means of hovering over a submarine either by helicopteror by blimp has been circumscrib ed in its Noting an apparent recent with the still smoldering structure one of the oldest in Houston Police said that a check of the hotel register showed 133 guests of whom an undetermined num ber made (heir way to the street by means of fire escapes By the time firemen arrived the building was an inferno and it was impos sible police said for ladders to be hoisted The fire started shortly after midnight on the second floor of the three story structure The hotel occupied the upper two floors Police quoted Chappell the night clerk as saying that about 32:15 a he heard some one on the second floor call "fire" Chappt 11 said he found mattress ablaze in one of the but he extinguished the flames with a bucketful oi (Continued rom Page One) ed the daylight assaults which were launched only a few hours after the RA night raiders return ed to their bases The target of the British over night assault was identified first by the Berlin radio a preliminary London announcement saying merely that Germany had again been bombed In addition to being the site of important industries Munich is a vital communications center thru which flows lines leading into Italy via the Brenner Pass The British njr ministry said 16 bombers were lost in the night operations A communique said attack on which they went on to other tar Munich was concentrated and gets fective although clouds prevented full observation of results Other aerial activities last night by the air ministry said included intruder patrols by the fighter command over airfields in rance Naval aircraft also blasted light Nazi naval craft near the rench channel coast It was the first attack on Mun ich since the night of July 16 when swift Mosquito bombers stubbed at the city while the RA's heavy bombers were blasting northern Italy The last heavy raid on Munich as carried out March 9 when great areas of the city were report ed laid waste by the four engined bombers The raid maintained the tempo of a greut Allied aerial offensive which reached new heights yester day when lying ortresses ham mered Stuttgart and British and American medium bombers pound ed targets in rance Hardly had the night raiders re turned when squadrons of daylight bombers set out across the Eng lish Channel to strike new blows at Europetin fortress Last night's attack was the fourth succesive night assault on Germany beginning with a heavy raid on Berlin last riday night Saturday night British bombers pounded objectives in the Ruhr and Rhineland and Sunday night they attacked the twin industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigs hafen at the junction of the Rhine and Neckar rivers In retaliation for these assaults the German air force struck buck at Britain last night in compara tively small force scattering bombs over the Thames estuary and touching off a brief alert in some districts of London about 3:30 A No bombs fell in the capital however r' I I 1 I 1 11 EV 1 I A VWe HC i Ki I B'i! 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