The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

tt Danville Va Saturday Afternoon June 23 1945 SHIPS OKINAWA RAIDED YANKS CAPTURE APARRI RAIDEDSurprise Thrust JAP AIRIELD Hit 20 Vessels Bottles Up Japs In North Luzon from the list of 29 targets company on a charge of hit and on the city (Please turn to page 5 story No 1 KILLED IN NAVAL CRASH the Air Medal with an Oak Leaf land Avenue Schoolfield By I) DY GILMORE rn mis iiioiuiuK on this score also are pending Two ri0lf1Cally came into the of today after the court her own recognizance became reunited with after noon involved in farmers order during permit July 1 Temperature Reading By The Bee's Radial Thermometer Marks Beginning Of End Of Organized Japanese Resistance On Large Island fuel oil users county ithat' in Japan's Greatest Arsenal Is No inal Appeal At Raleigh Next Week Moscow Sees Troublesome Removed rom Path Of Progress Toward Complete Harmony Late News Admiral Nimitz Has Announced Sinking Of Two Light Naval Units0n riday Effort Buy Bond Pleads Guilty Sent To Grand Jury Under Recognized Bond Three Traffic Accidents During Yesterday Afternoon List Local Boys As Soldier Patients fice of the police court carrying the little white ticket Some are Tempers lare As Traffic Cops Issue Tickets reely One Man Refuses To Give Name Jailed judge' with which that Jan Christian Smuts minister of the Union of Africa and head of the African delegation to San overnight The current campaign On the part of the traffic division of the police department to curb law vio lations was reflected in police court this morning A dozen cases of double parking were continued un til Tuesday One driver was fined $10 and costs for not having an op erator's license Two other cases Moses Thompson Is Held Insane By Psychiatrists court generally however is up holding the officers in their sum monses One man complained that he was unloading heavy goods as his rea son for double parking That would hate been all right except that of ficers had come across the machine still parked double twenty minutes after they first observed it and did not molest it Some of the protesting double packers are being asked if they also didn't become angered on occa sions when they arc forced to stop their cars and be delayed on ac count of congestion caused by double parking' President Optimistic Over Prospects or Overwhelming Ratification ATTACKED BYHUNDRED PLANES Assignments Expected MOSCOW June Assignment of cabinet posts in new Polish government of national unity is expected to be made in Warsaw early next week following the announce ment last night that a majortumbling block in Allied har mony had been removed by agreement of rival Polish fac tions on the structure of the new regime Accident Condition Remains Satisfactory MOSCOW TO CELEBRATE MOSCOW June Red bunting and flags of the Soviet Union 'decorated buildings on the capital's principal streets today as Moscow prepared for tomoriow's giant military parade in celebra tion of the victory over Germany Despite a cold rain spirits were high as civilians prepared for the demonstrations which will follow review bjf Premier Stalin and ether military leaders of thousands of men and machines moving through Red Square J)o not UniiiRbiirgei'R Annual Wonder Sale Justice Robert war criminal Tokyo radio asserted that about 75 Mustang fighter planes accom panied by three 29s attacked! airfields north of Tokyo in Ibaraki Prefecture for more than an hour and a half today after 28 Lightnings and Hellcats strafed and bombed airfields around ukuoka on Kyu shu Island The Mustangs presumably were Iwo based while the Lightnings and Hellcats struck from recently won Okinawa Superfortresses roaring in over Kure on the north shore of Inland Sea and five airplane plants were greeted by intense antiaircraft fire1 which burst in all the colors of the rainbow but for all that pi lots said they had "one of the most successful days of the our of the Superforts failed to return to bases on Guam Saipan and Tinian Tokyo claimed 18 were shot down At least three Japanese fighters among the hand ful of interceptors which resisted the strike were shot down Universally enthusiastic over the results the crews said they hit their assigned targets with high explosives in wonderfully clear weather One expressed belief it would be unnecessary to give the Kure Naval Arsenal another treatment while others said the aircraft factories were either "shoved aside" and de stroyed or tremendously damaged The targets included the Mitsubishi and Kawasaki plants 20 miles north of Nagoya: the Mitsubishi Mishima factory at Takashima 90 miles west of Kobe the Kawanishi plant at Hi meji and that of Kawasaki at Aka shi both near Kobe Support the War By Spencer Davis) MANILA June (AP) The precise spot where the Japanese first invaded the Philippines has become their death trap The Nipponese landed Dec 10 1941 at Aparri on the north tip of Luzon Today Gen Douglas MacArthur dis closed that Aparri has been recaptured in a surprise thrust which bottled up the last major enemy force on the island in a stretch of less than 90 miles of the Cagayan valley Wilson Jr in a naval crash off the coast of Lieutenant Wilson was a in law of Lieut Comdr Cunningham USN of this city and a son of Vice Admiral Russell Wil son of Chevy Chase Md who had visited Mr and Mrs Stanley Cun ningham here The 106 wounded patients in cluded 13 litter cases Lt Col Molengraft is in charge Doss of 509 Cabell Benefield Avenue The the truck allegedly left Investigating police of later arrested Nathaniel Payne driver for the Walton Coal liiiiiiiniiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiifiniiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir: JEERSON CITV Mo June Grtv Harry Kelly of Michlgian is due for a little lecture on Missouri develop ments when Gov Don nelly arrives at Hie arnica gov ernor's conference at Mackinac July 1 The Missouri governo invi tation for dinner and tea at Governor Kelly's residence was addressed to the capitol at St Charles Mo TKe legislature hasn't met there since 825 thpiJ pilots continuing attacks which sank two Ameiiwn nVinouio the same dav Americans Continued fal Montana Reaches Quotas WASHINGTON June (TP Montana today became the first state in the union to reach all quotas in the 7 th War Loan drive The Treasury Department announced Montana passed its bond quota of $16000000 by more than $200000 GUAM June (AP) More than 100 rocket spitting fighter planes worked over Japanese homeland airfields today radio Tokyo acknowl edged while returning Yank bombardiers of yesterday's 450 Superfortress raid declar ed greatest naval ar senal at Kure was rubbed during the Okinawa campagin I 1 heir last large scale air assault was on June 6 and 7 when Amer lean gunners and fighters snot down 1 1 1 of them Aground in isolated sectors some semblance of fighting con tinued amid the confusion that has become the normal attendant of every island conquest of this war his "temporary White they must obtain a their local board by though a tarmer may not to slaughter meat until fall Old Belt warehousemen were preparing tpday to descend heavily on Raleigh on Wednesday and Thursday to bring pressure to bear for greater consideration of the auction interests in this grow ing area The governorjof the Tobacco As Acting on the theory the restora tion of the traffic division would be a futile gesture unless the ordi nance is enforced officers are drawing no lines One double parker summonsed yesterday was a local attorney another the wife" of a city Even this morninc nersons u1 ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE OR ALL ISBADEN Germany June 23 Pi Officers of 12th Army Group Headquarters dis closed today that American troops will evacuate all of Thuringia a corner of Saxony Just north of the Czechoslovak border and the western half of Halle Merseburg To Buy Less Meat WASHINGTON June The Army will cut down sharply on its purchases of meats during the next 60 days in a government move "to in crease civilian supplies Disclosing this today inform ed sources said the armed forces had re examined their meat sup ply situation and found it pos sible to reduce military buying for a brief period in order to help relieve shortages in the civilian market soeiation of the United States will be meeting at Raleigh to take final action on the opening dates for the several flue cured belts The sales committee already has announced itsV recommendations and history shows that the board of governors usually stand by its committee The Old Belt warehousemen however have been conferring quietly ever since the September 18 date was set for the opening of this Belt and they are to make a final effort to bring about some readjustment of the dates They want greater leeway between the belt openings and they feel that the lorida Georgia belt should open at least two weeks ahead of the date tentatively set because of the advanced maturity of the crop If the present openings are adheredto the warehousemen say it means that the Old Belt will have to be deferred just as it was last year because the buyers will not finish absorbing the Soutli Carolina crop in time to cover the Old Belt mar kets by September 18 Three traffic accident' occurred in the city during the course of yesterday afternoon but no one was injured Yesterday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock a coal delivery truck struck a' passenger automobile owned by Ira Patterson and driven by Miss Katherine Street on driver of the scene I ficers The arrest of the young mother of a three months old baby yester day posed a problem to officers and again today to acting Police Justice Laurens Handy who tried her on a charge of larceny of a $120 from Speers She entered a plea arraigned and was for action of the view of the fact the woman had a oung baby the court placed her under a recognized bond for her appearncc in the corpora lion court A police detective made the ar rest yesterday a short lime after the jewelry firm had reported theft of a valuable ring The circum upi'o nnt riicrlnNpd When annimrlind hv ine detective the I woman was carrying me Da oy in her arms The detective found himself in ai dilemma at headquarters The woman could not give bond and of i ficers were reluctant to putting the baby in jail with her and didn't for that: matter inally a neigh bor was reached and agreed to care for the infant and the mother vas jailed However put her on the mother the child Officers quoted the girl as saying that she wanted a ring badly and that her husband could not afford to buy her one She gave this as her explanation of the alleged theft I She was listed as Mrs Virginia Ann Stanley Baby In Arms Girl Arrested In Ring Theft Truman To Submit Peace Charter To Senate July 2 Counts ew Votes Against Mrs Alyne lives at Police toda spiked a report cun ent yesterday that an escaped German prisoner of war had been captured here The junior started when officers arrested a man wearing dingy khaki clothing and nail shoes on a charge of pub lic intoxication The arresting of ficer did not know him and th man was booked for investigation However other officers who knew the man as a longtime lesident cleared up what other suspicions that might have been held toward tlie man and he was booked simply on a drunk charge Main Street was pulling out from another car driv Cassada pro By ERNEST VACCARO OLYMPIA Wash June President Truman was authori tatively reported today to have counted less than a dozen potential voles against the peace organiza tion charter he is expected to sub mit to the Senate July 2 Sources close to the chief execu tive said lie has talked personally with virtually every member of the Senate and that he is optimistic over prospects for overwhelming ratification He is even hopeful that ratifica tion tar above the necessary two thirds majority can be accomplish ed without undue delay He would like to see it done before his forth coming meeting vv ith Premier Sta lin and Prime Minister Churchill in nml July In House" here where he is enjoying a brief vacation as the guest ot Gov Mon Wallgren the Presi dent is reported to have gone over the list of senators repeatedly He is said to lie in the confidence of many senators whose votes sup porting the peace charter may prove surprising Affection for him on Hie part of senators among whom he served before ranklin 1) Roscvelt's death sent him to the White House is said to Im a big factor in he ultimate decision There was no official comment moving' a troublesome obstacle from the pathway of Allied prog ress toward complete harmony! The agreement to form a new government including representa tives of the Soviet sponsored War saw government Democratic lead ers from Poland and former mem bers of the rival Emigre govern ment In London was announced Hast night in a statement by Soviet Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerrap4 Ambassador Averell Harriman comprising the commission authorized by the i Crimea conference to settle the problem while Britain and the United avor Election BRUSSELS June Belgian Socialists opposed to the King and Royalist Catholics were reported today to be fa vorable to a national parliamen tary election to bicak the poli tical deadlock over King Leo pold's proposed return to the throne parliamentary lead ers gave the absent king the political background In talks in a castle in Salzburg The condition of Mrs Minnie of South Boston who was admitted to Memorial Hospital ear ly this morning following an au tomobile collision on the Yancey ville Highway remains satisfac tory Mrs Burnett received slight in juries when the car in which she was riding was involved in an ac cident driven by a soldier Wal ter Murphy of Schoolfield in vestigated the accident News was received here yester day of the death of Lieut Russell airplane lorida brother Thomas were raised formally over the island al 10 a riday the ene my threw in 20 separate raids small groups The two American vessels sunk and the one heavily damaged weie hit Thursday night In day light riday American fighters drove olf ail but a few of the raiders Nimitz announced The toll taken of enemy planes was not vet tabulated The Japanese previously had sunk 31 ships and damaged more Lt Kennedy Home After Liberation Hit And Run Driver Given Sixty Days Spike Rumor Man Arrested Is POW Cluster His wife Roseberri Kennedy Greensboro Crisis Cited SAN RANCISCO June 23 OP) Japan's "present crisis in unprecedented in scope in her national History rmperor Hirohito told his people today speculation aros thathe' might assume personal rule of his invasion threatened islands His message reported by Domei agency was issued in connection with the promulga tion of the Voluntary Military Service act and "graciously' expressed his satisfaction at the "valor and of his people Second Lieutenant Rozclle Ken nedy who was liberated from a German prison camp on May 1 has arrived to spend a 60 day leave with his parents Mr and Mrs Kennedy at 216 Girard Street Lt Kennedy was captured on July 20 1944 when the 8th Air orce bomber on which he was co pilot was shot down over Ger many Most of his internment was spent at Stalag Luft on theBaltic Coast Lt Kennedy arrived in New Yoik last Sunday and at his home here on Wednesday He wears from the President's vacation of fices here but it was generally understood that he will submit the charter to Senate a week from Monday following his return from Kansas City and his homo town of Independence Mo where he will be honored at homecoming cele brations Wednesday and Thursday of next week Meanwhile Chairman Connolly (D Texas of the Senate oreign Relations committee and Senator Vandenberg iR Mich) are expected to pave the vv ay for the submission witli speeches in the Senate next Thursday 'and ri day Press Secretary Charles Ross said prime Soutli south rancisco will be an guest of President Truman July 2 There was sixculation as to whether President Truman woul I make a personal appearance be fore the Senate tq submit the peace charter but there seemed no question but that lie would make a personal appeal for its approval While Gov Mon Wallgten his host planned to go to Everett Wash to ittend the funeral of a brother in law the President told reporters he would "stick pretty close to honic" today brother in law Clar ence Hickey state highway ditcc tor died here Wednesday To Accept Plan LONDON June A responsible British source said today that Britain would accept the United States plan to hold a collective trial of Germany's ni'ihuae AtlH 1 terror atrocity organizations be fore a high military tribunal The attitude of rance and Russia remained undetermined but it was generally believed here that they too would agree to the plan outlined yesterday in a press conference by Su preme Court Jackson chief United States prosecutor of cases Old Belt To Try Again On Opening Date Allied Agreement On Polish Government Reorganization Hailed As Rusian Victory 2 Reminders Are Issued By Ration Board armers Must Get Slaughter Permits Time To Get uel Oil 7 I mlcrday 2 A today 73 7 A today 2 today DANVILLE AND VICINITY) air tonight: Increasing eloudl ne (highest near 80 Sunday VIRGINIA: weather with moderate tempera ture tonight and Sunday NORTH CAOLINAs air and warmer today and tonight Sun day partly" cloudy and roiitinucd warm Moore executive clerk of the Danville War Price and Ra tioning Board today issued two im portant reminders one to farm ers with respect to slaughtering and the other to Pittsylvania were reminded to slaughter meat for sale 1945 rom Ev en wish or winter Moore pointed out he must register with the War Price and Rationing Board before July 1 and establish a base for slaughter ing Moore speaking for the board also urged users of fuel oil to fill out applications for their winter supply now He impressed the im portance of ordering the first tank full of oil on the day coupons are received from the board "Your tank is part of America's Moore pointed out "With bulk storage filled to capacity with fighting gasoline to delay your order now is to overburden trans portation and run a risk of cold homes this fall "Heavy storage will not be avail able to meet your instantaneous needs this fall becaus transpor tation facilities are still inadequate for heavy demands" he added "Every lank which is filled now I insures a warm home this fall and lessens me suam uu yiuemas he said ring valued at Jewelry store of guilty when hrhl r'' than 50 mostly by suicide tactics grand jury In CHATHAM Va June Mases Thompson arrested here recently on a charge of kill ing his daughter in law Mrs Goldie Spencer Thompson at Vance haa been declared insane alter being Id under observation by psychiatrists atjhe Marion in sane asylum This means that he will remain in the criminal insane asylum and the indictment against him will be deferred Thompson killed his daughter in law as she lav on a bed at the Toompson home He used a shei gun Later he surrendered to the! sheriff and an enquiry revealed that he had brooded oyer his daughter in law the recent mother of an infant Her husband Private Wallace Thompson has been overseas for a year and a half It marks the beginning of the end of organized Japanese resis tance cn Luzpn reinvaded by Mac Arthur last Jan 9 An enemy force estimated at I possibly 20000 effectives faced the I hard choice of standing and dying I in broken up groups in the valley or waiting out a slow death in mountain refuges Some are caught in a less than 60 mile stretch between guerrillas I and Sixth Army infantrymen advancing south below captured Aparri and other guerrillas who seized the Cagavan province capi 1 tai of Tuguegarao Others are pressed between the captors of Tuguegarao and 37th Infantry Division troops a i rnxiv 3 A tw 1 Ae mu Vi ta1 if i ha I OCCIilL UV Ulina OUUlll'VlIi CIV VX4W overrun town of San Juan me gueirnids vmiu neipeu win Aparri had pushed around the northwest tip of Luzon through un defended cliff sections 'where the road was a mere single lane shelf 1000 feet above the racing tides of Babuyan channel Then they negotiated swamp lands in the Bal lesteros area west of the Cagayan river The hapless Japanese were out maneuvered at every turn Hamil ton aron Associated Press correspondent in the Cagayan val ley reported the enemy hid camou flage i tanks in side roads in the hope of bringing them out to the rear of onrushing Yank columns Surmising such a move armor of the 37th went in after them In two days the Japanese lost 23 tanks On western Borneo the Austral ian Ninth Division has overrun th 4000 foot Mun Airfield a mil south of occupied pa trols ranged on toward Miri town without meeting strong opposition That point is more than 80 miles below the scene of the original sv landing beaches at Brunei bay (Without elaboration Tokyo ra dio said an Allied fleet "of mor than 50 large vessels and landing barges escorted by two cruisers and two destroyers approached aaw Al rl A tvi ZX 1 A rt and damaged three on UKinawa me Mine uay conquered the island crashed into at least 20 more vessels last night and today The unconfirmed enemy broadcasts asserted an uniden tified Allied warships was known to have been sunk in ri day night raids which scored "considerable successes Kamikaze (suicide) pilots returning after daylight hit 19 others Tokyo said' including two battleships three destroy ers and 14 unidentified vessels Latest confirmed enemy air nt tack' began Thursday night and continued until noon riday Dur ing these assaults Adm Chester Nimitz announced two light naval units were sunk an auxiliary heavily damaged and two other (craft lightly damaged 1 As American soldiers and Ma rines griiniy hunted out the of Japane AS WS LR ES HOME EDITION ric: IVE CENTS 1 States had officially recognized MOSCOW June Al ile London Polish government Included in the names of soldier patients who have arrived for hos pitalization at Woodrow Wilson Hospital Staunton are four local boys Pfc Louis Dodson Route 2 Danville: Pvt Dudley Rice Route 4 Danville: Private Robert Jones? of Schoolfield and Pfc Albert Chattin of 29 Stokes lied approval of the Polish agree ment to form a provisional Polish I government of national unity was they think might get them off The hailed today in Moscow as re I THE WEATHER I i i Strike Halts Rail Traffic VERA CRUZ Mexico June 23 All railway activity was paralyzed at 3 in yester day by an unheralded work stoppage by employes of the terminal company The stoppage due to an in 1 scattered remnants terunion conflict is holding up) (mops and the Stars and Stripes an incoming ano outgoing pas senger and freight trains ljUEcn oiuni (By Robbin Coons) GUAM June Tokyo radio claimed suicide were fined $10 and costs for speed ing and another drew a fine of $2 and costs for driving through a red submitting others ask to see the sivp ngin raiKiug hi a inunitu zone cost another $2 and costs The campaign begun only after several warnings to the motoring public that it was coming had strong reactions There have been several instances of drivers given tickets becoming angered and "bawling out" so to speak not only arresting officers but carrying pro lesis even to the police chief and safety director without avail One driver is said to have been stubborn and was placed in jail after refusing to identify himself or io give the arresting officer any in formation whatsoever He remain ed there overnight but was meek and pleasant when his case was called in court this morning He was listed as Weldon Hamlett Tokyo Claims Suicide Pilots run The charge was brought after three eye witnesses had been i questioned Payne was tried in police court this morning and sen tenced to sixty days farm Earlier or shortly two automobiles were a collision on North Union street A car driven by Mrs Blanch Dix on of 500 West in the act of the curb when en by Johnny ceeding along the street collided with the Dixon machine Both cars suffered' some damage No charges were filed Two trucks were involved in an accident in front of Ballou Park later in the afternoon or at about 5:30 o'clock One machine 1 operated by Homer Marshal! had slowed down for a right turn when another truel driven by Avery Barnes collided with it from the rear The rear of the Marshall vehicle was damaged to the exteqt of an estimated $200 Both drivers face charges of reck less driving The mishaps occurred following 1 several others in and around the city in the past week one result ing in the death of a North Dan ville woman who was struck after alighting from a city bus OUNDI) EBRUARY ASSOCIATED PRESS JL 47th Year so 7 leased wires (Clear) (clear) (flearl (rlaarl Annnt Worutac guing Prune Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed at Yal ta that when the Soviet sponsored government was reorganized as a national lity regime Britain and the United States would establish diplomatic relations with it The agreement reached by three groups of Poles in a scries of Mos cow conferences between June 17 and 21 will give Poland what was described as a "coalition gov with the Socialist Peas ant and Workers parties repre sentation of the Christian Labor and other democratic parties Complete personnel of the new provisional govermiieiit will be an nounced at Warsaw within a few days it was stated and then in accordance with the Crimea agree ment will follow recognition by the United States Great' Britain and the Soviet Union.