The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

Late News JWillkie Off or China MOSCOW Sept Wendell Willkie was en routew to China today after a whirl wind visit to the Soviet union climaxed by a Kremlin party given in his honor Saturday night by Premier Joseph Stalin i ID Raids Bengasi I CAIRO Sept in Heavy bombers of the Ameri 1 can air forces raided shipping in Bengasi Harbor last night I dropping bombs which damag i ed converted wrecks being used by the Axis as landing stages It was announced today Need No Prodding OTTAWA Sept Clement Attlee British Do minions secretary said today that all Allied leaders are en gaged in plans for an offensive i and do not have to be to open a second front Haiders Hit Japs CHUNGKING Sept 28 and fighters of the United States Army Air orces blasted Japanese bases and lines of communication west of the Salween river in southwest Yunnan province yesterday in flicting considerable damage without the loss of a single plane Ligut Gen Joseph headquarters announ ced today Jen More Executed LONDON Sept The executions by German au thorities of ten more persons six of them accused of treason able activities and sabotage were reported by Allied gov ernment sources today To Offer 10 Bills RICHMOND Va Sept (ZP) Governor Darden said to day that at least ten bills would be plaeed before the special session of the Virginia Legisla ture when it convenes here at noon Tuesday Two of these measures will concern the liquidation of the state's debt for which the spe cial session was called pffer Compromise WASHINGTON Sept (ZPt arm state senators offer ed a compromise today of their demands for higher farm prices in the anti inflation bill but administration leaders flatly rejected it fitler Confident BERLIN (rom German Broadcasts) Sept 28 P) Aoolf Hitler his absolute confidence in victory" in an address today to 12000 young officers and cadets of the German armed forces in the Berlin Sports Palace DNB re ported in a dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio Waps Hard Hit CHUNGKING Sept (ZP) Chinese forces have inflicted considerable casualties upon Japanese forces striking west southwest and southeast from Kinhwa capital of coastal Che kiang province the high com mand announced today inns Look To NEW YORK Sept inland's semi official press looked to the United States to day for further light on Wash ington's innish policy insisted that the little republic en tered no political contracts with any other stales' and laid stress on her passive role in the cur rent phase of the war ortifying Coast MOSCOW Sept A Tass dispatch from Istanbul said today the Italians were con structing coastal and inland fortified lines south of the port of Split in Dalmatia the narrow coastal area of conquered Yugo slavia bordering the Adriatic 5 Lost In Plane Crash LAKELAND la Sept (ZP) Drane ield authorities announced today that a lieu tenant had been killed and two officers and two enlisted men were missing after the crash of a medium Army bomber in the Gulf of Mexico near Clearwater yesterday QUEER STORY 'W 1 PHOENIX Ariz Sept Advertisement in the Ari zona Morning Republic: for the duration Not for need of business or ma terials but to assist in winning the war "At our weekly meeting decided to the last man to move into war production work not singly but as a unit and from the helpers to the owners we leave today Buster Smith and Clarence Store say thanks a mil lion to our many friends and customers see you after the Axis quits" Smith and Store operated a successful radiator and automo bile repair shop ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE OR ALL TiUtniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiii'r? 44th Year 1899 i iW 5 SLEASEDEwtREsS9 Danville Va Monday Afternoon September 28 1 942 gmiiHiniHiimiiiniHitinminriinnttmiiniimTiiiiiuniiiittmiuminnKuiuiiittn I mrjl TWO GREAT rrr I I SERVICES I I jfl IN THIS PAPER LLl wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM HOME EDITION Price: IVE CENTS 300 AMERICANS SEIZED BY NAZIS Radio Towers Seven Tons Of Them Are Given To Scrap Cause: Drive Is On In Danville To Win Merit lag Tbe flow of scrap to Danville's stockpile set in this morning Householders were calling in to say that they have collected vari ous amounts of useful metal to give to the national cause and the zone collection system was swing ing into action Any householder who has anything in the way of useless metal should call telephone No 21 and it will be sent for Danville is working for state recognition in the scrap campaign if this city can produce 100 pounds of scrap for every person in the community Danville will be en titled to a pennant which could be flown from the city hall as a badge of honor The Kiwanis Club came through this morning with the makings of several deadly weapons thc two steel lowers on top of the Hotel Danville which formerly provided the transmitting antenna lor WBTM These towers contain about sev en tons of useful steel and will be taken down as soon as an exper ienced rigger can bo secured They were being kept for possi ble emergencies in the event of the new vertical transmitter off the River Road getting out of order Sandy Guyer local radio station manager however said this morn ing that he that the national steel emergency fa far more com manding than a possible radio emergency and so he gave the tow ers to the cause i The Kiwanis sell the steel at the fixed government price to the junk man and the revenue will be de voted to the children's fund Rising interest is being shown in the campaign Some more fences are due to be given during the campaign and the Danville stock pile is destined to grow by leaps and bounds during coming days Taken In rance REDS HOLD NAZI RESERVES German Shock SECOND RONT LOOMS A Dad Gives His Son Weapons or Knockout (Turn to page Story No 3) LONDON Sept An assertion by General Sir Archibald Wavell that British and Ameri can troops would fight their way onto the European continent as soon as possible shared attention today with labor demands for an immediate government an Willkie's Call Stirs Argument To A New Pitch Roundup Aggravates Relations Between America And The Vichy Government Dispatches from the front esti mated that 36000 Germans were battling from positions inside the city and said they were being re inforced steadily in an attempt to overwhelm the defenders who were relying on bomb harassed communications of the Volga The fighting for the city is even fiercer and blood a correspondent for Pravda reported whole'city is in convulsion from the incessant explosions of bombs and shells" he said The fierce fighting of the past 24 hours with the Germans lung ing into the city from several dif ferent points has resulted in a Zig Zag front with the Germans slightly advanced in some sectors Colored Youth Injured By Car On Caswell Road ly two hours early Sunday morn ing Mr and Mrs Ramsey arrived here en route to Asheville They had stopped in their car at the Greyhound filling station to get gasoline and Mr Ramsey had for some reason stepped to the curb having with him a small in fant in his arms It had been pour ing with rain and the curb was flush with a gush of water sweep ing down the Main Street hill In some way unexplained Ram billfold with $215 fell into the gutter and by the time he had put the infant in the car it had been swept away down the street Ramsey tried to overtake the vanishing pocketbook and follow Soviets Blunt Enemy Drive By Striking Counter Blows Kill Thousands Of Nazis $215 Swept Down Gutter $72 Is Saved BY EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW Sept 28 (AP) resh German shock troops rushed to the front by transport plane poured into the debris chocked streets of Stalingrad in an effort to clinch victory dispatches said today but the Red Army fighting from win dow and rooftop and in the streets held the city in the 35th day of bloody assault Northwest of the city the Russians were blunting the German drive and unloosing an offensive of their own in an effort to slow the more direct Nazi attack on the city it was reported In one sector a large Soviet unit killed 2000 Ger mans in two days the mid day communique said Bustard And Tate Leave Today or Special Session State Senator Maitland Bus tard and Delegate Bryan Tate left this morning for the brief special session of the Virginia General Assembly which opens in Rich mond tomorrow Delegate Tate received a spe cial furlough from Camp Gordon Ga where he is in training and' where he has the rank of sergeant to attend the session Senator Bustard believes that the extra session will last only The argosy of $215 belonging to Ramsey of rederick Md i gave police and some others a live swer to Wendell Willkie's call for a I second front to aid Russia Wavell commander in chief of India spoke in New Delhi in a review of the global aspects of the war and voiced his firm convic tion that the United States Bri tain Russia and China would fight on together to ultimate victory is quite certain that as soon as ever possible both American troops and ourselves will start a second front but I can't tell you when or Davell declared "It's a biggish problem starting on the continent We ll have some casualties very considerable both American and ours before we get back into the continent But we'll get back" While Wavell was giving this as AN INVASION IS PLEDGED BY WAVELL BERN Switzerland Sept 28 AP) The Germans have seized some 300 Americans in Occupied rance as potential hostages diplomatic quarters here learned today in a move which added to the tension in Pierre government In Vichy News of the seizures came from private sources in Paris American diplomatic sources were without official word but it caused no surprise since Americans in the occupied zone are liable to Internment by the Nazis as enemy aliens Those held were Americans who' for one reason or another remain ed in Occupied rance pending negotiations for their repatriation It was assumed that if repatriation were permitted the Germans would ask for the return of an equal number of Germans in the United States The roundup and other incidents especially the United en dorsement of the British occupa tion of Madagascar have served to create the most critical situation thus far in American rench rela tions rench observers of the Vichy scene said Laval is faced with the greatest difficulties in the negotiations with Germany for 120000 rench work ers which private sources said had been demanded within three weeks Mindful of the sentiment of the Samuel Goldstein of Richmond and his soldier son Corporal Herman Goldstein look at a piece of historic iron grillwork on an old porch which will be donated by Mr Goldstein to the Virginia Scrap Campaign The fancy iron work is 120 years old and will be sent to the mills to be recast as weapons for our armed forces' Held Hostages Relations Tense Troops Trying IBM (W 3 3 I A James Smith colored of South Main street was removed to Wins low Hospital last night shortly be fore nine o'clock suffering from injuries Sustained when he was struck by a car which police charge was driven by John New of Mounment street The condition of the injured youth was said to be satisfactory today New wa arrested by the police charged with operating a car with out a permit after State Police Sergeant armer had investi gated the matter Police Still Hunt Two Soldiers Who Attacked Taxi Man Local police have been unable to determine the identity of the two soldiers wanted for the attack on Robert lce Jones taxicab driver of Colquhoun street it was report ed today Jones was carried to Memorial Hospital late Saturday night suf fering from a gash in his head and bruises He was dismissed after receiving medical attention The taxi driver told police the two soldiers hailed him on Main street and asked to be carried to Cabell street As he stopped the cab at the designated spot he add ed he was hit oer the head Still conscious he struggled with his two assailants After receiving sev eral other blows he was left there The two soldiers fled Police found a 10 inch pipe on the scene It had torn the uphols tery of the car as it was swung According to Jones both of the soldiers were comparatively small and one had wide spaces between his teeth ed the course of the water for some distance but never saw it again He notified the police and a hunt began for the missing money At 822 A Aber nethy who operates the hydro tur bine on Canal Street found a dul lar bill caught against the intake tacks Notified of what had taken place he began raking through the' debris and with Police Officer Bos well and Detective Adams more than thirty dollars in sodden bills of high denomination were retriev ed The pocketbook was not found Then search was instituted at the culvert under Union Street in to surface water drains Here by luck i clump of weeds had caught another thirty dollars of Mr Ramsey's money In all Siz was recovered I he balance of the money it is feared either pass ed through the mill racks before any alarm regarding the loss of money had been given or lies scat tered in the storm sewer The pur suit of the missing money resulted in three $20 bills one $10 and two $1 bills being recovered It is believed that the pocket book came to pieces in the water and was lost with certain other papers including his gasoline ra tion books BOXER OUND SHOT LONDON Sept 6P) Reuters dispatch from Capetown Union of South Africa reported today that Ben oord former Brit ish and empire boxing champion who lost a fight to Max Baer in YA 1 3 1 a a nau uri ii uhhiu suoi to acau It gave no details SOTBALL GAME TONIGHT two softball teams comprised of the Dan River and Riverside super visors and overseers will play to night at Guy ield Beale will pitch for Dan River and he will be op posed on the mound by Jones surance Lord Straboligi labor peer was demanding in a speech at Wimbledon that the Churchill war cabinet reply "without delay (Turn to page 7 Story No 2) Gas Book Owners Urged To Apply Without Delay The War Board today urged per sons whose supplemental gasoline lation books will expire in Octo ber to lose no time in filling in and presenting their applications for new books This is being done Moore Jr executive of the board said in order to obviate standing in line and other loss of time which might occur if all ait until the last min ute Special forms are now pro vided which the applicant fills out showing that there has been no change in his motoring habits since the first supplemental books were issued This enables the board to check back quickly on the original application and by so doing hun dreds of gas books will be ready for distribution on the day the present books expire Prices Seen As Better On Medium Leaf Capacity Sale Opens Second Week The Danville tobacco market re opened today after a damp week end which favored stripping and putting leaf in good order with a capacity sale Prices paid for medium to com moner grades were if anything higher than they were last week with the fancier types remaining at the forty six and forty seven cents a pound level The buyer appetite was unusually sharp as the sales got under way with the domestic companies continuing their eagerness for everything in sight Purchasing agents for the Commodities Credit Corporation were not heavy buyers since it will (Turn to page Story No 1) Berlin Claims Greater Part Of American rpop Transport Convoy Destroyed In Atlantic Report 2 Transport Vessels And Destroyer Sunk Others Damaged BERLIN (rom German Broad casts) Sept (ZP) High Command said today that German submarines had sunk three trans port vessels and a destroyer in an attack in the North Atlantic on a troop and supply convoy en route from the United States to England (There was no confirmation of the attack from other sources Ger man claims of large scale victories over Allied convoys in the pajt have proved repeatedly to be greatly exaggerated) A "In the North Atlantic" a spe cial communique said "German submarines destroyed the gnvter part of an American troop trans port destined for England "They attacked a fast enemy convoy consisting of only a few large passenger steamers aqd which was strongly protected aid carrying troops munitions and war material the course of difficult at tacks and heavy pursuit fighting lasting several days they sank one two funnelled steamer of the 19 000 ton Viceroy of India type which capsized after three torpedo hits one two funnelled steamer of the 17 000 ton Reina Del Pacifico type which up following two torpedo hits one transport of the 11 000 ton Derbyshire type and one destroyer of the escort NO COMMENT LONDON Sept (ZD United States Navy headquart ers here declined to comment today on the German high com mand claim that German sub marines had "destroyed the greater part of an American troop transport" convoy in the north Atlantic othei transport ships were damaged by torpedo hits 1 these successes our sub marines have dealt a heavy blow at the enemy The enemy transport fleet has lost three particularly valuable fast units totaling 47000 tons such as are employed mainly for specially important and urgent transports of troops "In other regions of the Atlantic fro mthc African to the American coast submarines sank 11 more ships totaling 57000 tons so that the total losses of enemy shipping in the last four days amount to 14 ships totaling 104000 tons" i Danville Biiy In Weather Bureau Is Promoted Raleigh Marshall Jr son of Mr and Mrs Marshall of Wash ington street who' entered the Navy a year ago and who has been assigned to Dalgren has been pro moted Marshall is in the technical service and has been at the weather station at Dahlgren where weather maps charted I for the Navy and naval fliers He has been made mate third class and is now working at the central weather' bureau in Washington three days and that tomorrow a and the Russians established in resolution probably will be intro duced the character1 of new business to be introduced The principal matter to be act ed on is what to do with eighteen million dollars of dormant state new positions to the west in oth ers one dispatch said The Russians were reported to have taken two more streets from the Germans at one point The mid day communique said two en funds with the prospect of this money being invested in war bonds the interest derived to meet the interest on state bonds It is expected that before end of the week the state speed limit will have been reduced from 40 miles an hour to 35 miles an hour as a tire saving expedient VADEN PROMOTED i Claude Vaden of 1018 Noble Avenue has been promoted from technician 4th grade to the rank of sergeant in Headquarters Dem onstration Regiment ort Knox Kentucky Three Auto atalities: Two Men Die In Crash On anceyville Road Another Near Schoolfield Bridge emy companies had been wiped out in one smoking and shell marked neighborhood Writing from the agony filled city the Pravda reporter said that the bursting of shells and bombs was so constant that the dust of the city never had a chance to settle Gone from the Volga he wrote are the former pleasure boats and steamers In their places are ar mured ships and fast cutters dart ing from bank to bank taking in supplies ammunition and fresh troops and carrying out the wound ed The dispatch mentioned the whine of Soviet fighter planes over (Turn to page 7 Story No 4 Hyler Conference Two automobile accidents in the vieinity of Danville claimed the lix es of three men yesterday' Rowland Laurence MhitHeld 33 year old textile wotker of the Mart insville Road was killed at 2:15 yesterday afternoon on Al ternate Route 29 between the Schoolfield bridge and Lovetown when the 1942 ord Coupe which he was driving left the road and crashed into a small bridge According to State Police Ser geant armer who investi gated the accident witnesses said the car was traveling at a high rate of speed and on the left side of the road They added armer said that after crossing the School field bridge the driver had been unable to straighten the car out and that it was across the road at the time it struck the bridge Whitfield was thrown through the right window pane of the car He died instantly of a crushed skull uneral arrangements have not been announced The second accident occurred on the Yanccj ville road at 4:45 yes terday when a light delivery truck driven by Thomas Robert Going 18 of Reidsville collided with a Plymouth driven by Robert "Taz" Carroll 29 of 1206 Wayles Street Jesse Lee Jones 17 of Reidsville a passenger in the truck and Carroll were killed Just previous to the accident Police Officer Jean Carney made two ineffectual efforts to intercept the driver of the truck when he first saw it on Montague street He watched it pull from the curb and noted its speed as it went up Watson sheet towards Schoolfield He tried to stop the driver who failed to heed him Soon after the truck returned and Carney follow ed it Again the officer tried to stop the driver hut the truck turned out South Mam street and with a burst of speed soon passed beyond the city limits Carney was able to check only the first three numbers of the license The truck headed back towards North Carolina and collided with the car driven by Carroll who was headed towards Danville when Going according to witnesses at tempted to pass a car on the long straight stretch The truck was registered under the name of Mrs Lula Harrison Route 1 Reidsville but own ed by Henry Harrison of Reids ville who is under age Reports at Memorial Hospital today gave condition as fair It is understood that he is suffering from a deep gash in his head and shock Carroll was born at the Mead ows of the Dan the son of Mr and Mrs Joe Carroll He had resided in Danville for the past three years uneral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 5:00 from Wrenn Veattes funeral home Interment will be in Highland Burial Park He is survived by his wife Mrs Mollie Woodall Cat roll and one daughter Nancy ern Carroll of Danville his mother Mrs Martha Jane Vippernian his stepfather Sam Vippernian of the Meadows of the Dan and one half brother Ralph Cochran of the Air Corps uneral services for Jones will be held in Reidsville tomorrow HAUGLAND IMPROVED GEN HDQS Australia Sept my physicians repotted a general im provement today in the condition of Vern Haugland Associated Press war correspondent who is recovering in a military hospital at Port Moresby after being lost for 47 days In the New Guinea jungles Oscar Hyler secretary of the division of the'Y A attended the annual conference of the Virginia Association of Workers held at Richmond and Petersburg this weekend The conference opened Saturday morning in Petersburg Guy Weeks secretary of the there opened the discussions with a talk on bilizing the Boys Life of the Com munity fur War Emergency" ollowing luncheon in Peters burg the conference adjourned to Richmond and was resumed in the new thgre The afternoon session was de voted to discussions of the vari ous needs of Virginia Associations in their program planning Ingram state executive sec retary addressed the group at the night session His topic was "Im peratives in Work" The conference adjourned at noon Sunday after a second ad dress by Mr Ingram and a business session in which officers of the Work Association for the coming year were elected THE WEATHER Temperature Reading By The Bee's Radial Thermometer 'WW WWW WEATHER DIN VILLE AND VICINITY Continued cold (his afternoon colder tonight with light frostVIRGINIA Continued cold to with Uzht frost excent in extreme east portion NORTH Slightly 1 colder tonight frost In northwest portion and the mountains TEMPERATURES 1 a today 50 (elesrt i tn today 63 (clear).