The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 7

The Bee: Danville Va Wednesday December 5 1945 1 Seven BORROWED TIME PORTLAND Ore Dec 5 (JP) John Seabrook slapped an extra heavy city jail sentence on a man hauled up before him for drunkenness The culprit had been a frenquent offender and a month ago the judge gave him a parole and lent him $10 for a pair of shoes so he could accept a "promising The man pro mised to repay the loan on his first pay day When he came up before Judge Seabrook again the judge remem bered the loan The offender got 120 days SatisfactoryService WrpnnUmfli rs I Bettejane Greer Changes Name LOS ANGELES Dec Bettejane Greer Vallee flounced into court in a satin can can cos tume fresh from a movie set and told the judge that for purposes of sophistication she wanted to change her name is a sissy said Bet tejane former wife of Crooner Rudy Vallee too boo peep ish ingenueish for the type of role been playing like Mary Lou or Mary The judge hearing her petition yesterday allowed her to drop the Bette and also the Vallee She left the courtroom as Jane Greer GOOD MIXERS THOSE KENTUCKIANS RANKORT Con trary to an an old adage and alcohol will mix at least for taxation purposes Alfred Port wood of the Kentucky Revenue De partment handles this peculiar sit uation as supervisor of the gasoline and alcohol production taxes Notice! RANK WYATT Is Now Connected With Holland Motor Co Inc Chrysler and Plymouth Sales and Service Main St Dial 6253 Martinsville Va COLONIAL BUS LINES GREYHOUND STATION PHONE 2792 Danville Va Oxford Louisburg Rocky Mount Leave Danville 7:15 a 3:10 Arrive 12:37 7:20 SERVICE TWICE DAILY EACH WAY Connectioni at Oxford for Raleigh Henderson Goldsboro Wilmington Myrtle Beach Connections at Rocky Mount for Eastern Carolina points AT AUCTION 9 BEAUTIUL LOTS IN BEVERSTONE PARK (Danville's Newest Development) Now is the time to buy a beautiful lot in Beverstone Park Attention Men from the Armed Services: BUY NOW build later and own a lot for Christmas CLARENDON CIRCLE CLARENDON CIRCLE CLARENDON CIRCLE CLARENDON CIRCLE CLARENDON CIRCLE Lot No Lot No Lot No ft on ft on ft on ft on ft on We will tell the following lots: Lot No Lot No Lot No Lot No Lot No Lot No ft on WESTMINSTER COURT ft on CANTERBURY ROAD ft on CANTERBURY ROAD ft on CANTERBURY ROAD Drive out and inspect these beautiful lots before auction Signs are up on all lots It pays to own your own home: LEY INC Auctioneers JUST EST MAIN ST THURSDAY DEC 6 1 945 3:00 Russians Bar Iranians rom Azerbaijan Second Note Sent Iran Government TEHRAN Dec The Rus sians have refused in a second note to the Iran government to permit entrance of additional Iran ian troops into the troubled north western province of Azerbaijan it was disclosed today The new Soviet note came during a tense political situation with Iranian Premier Hakimi threaten ing to resign unless the dispute over the province was settled by direct negotiation with Moscow Iranian troops ordered to the province which is the scene of a local autonomy movement still were bivouacked at Sharifabed where they were halted Nov 20 by the Russians Soviet troops have occupied the province since 1941 when they were sent to guard the Russian lend lease supply lane The new Russian note dated Dec 2 and delivered by the Soviet embassy in Tehran said: Soviet embassy in Iran pre sents its compliments to the Iran ministry of foreign affairs and in answer to its notes dated Nov 20 and Nov 22 declares that concern ing the request of the Iran foreign ministry for immediate Soviet au thorization for Iran troops to move northwards the Soviet embassy re iterates that it has given its def inite answer in the note of Nov In the Nov 26 note the Rus sians said their refusal was based upon the opinion that the arrival of Iran government troops in the province would provoke bloodshed Both the United States and Bri tain have dispatched notes to Mos cow on the situation the United States suggesting withdrawal of all Allied occupation troops from Iran the British urging that Iran troops be' given freedom of movement The Russians were reported to have rejected the suggestion for withdrawal of Allied occupation troops by Jan 1 The original Soviet note to the Iran government said that should bloodshed break out in Azerbaijan because of the arrival of govern ment troops Soviet govern ment wuold be forced to bring ad ditional troops to Irarf for their protectoin Since the So viet government does not wish to send more troops to Iran they do not deem it wise for further Iran troops to be sent the north prov Prerfiier cabinet had been called into emergency session yesterday probably to consider the new Soviet refusal and there had been reports that some Soviet pro posal had been made to the effect that certain Iranian wishes would be met if the Iran government treated the Azerbaijan question as a matter concerning only Iran and the Soviet union UNEMPLOYMENT ON UPGRADE WASHINGTON Dec Unemployment among World War II veterans still is on the upgrade In the week ending November 17 the veterans administration re ported today 225579 ex service men readjustment allowances ag gregating $5233209 This was an increase of 19237 individual pay ments over the preceding week when 207342 unemployed ex ser vicemen received $4799439 ITCH (Scabies)Needs Something Better Than Surface Relief When you are tormented by Itch (Seablesl cratch camp itch or 7 year Itch don't ba satufied with medicine that can do nothing more than relieve the surface discomfort Cse Davida Sanative Wash which actually destroya Itch parasites on contact do cents at any drue store or send direct to Owens tt Minor Richmond Va Use only as directed Money back If not satisfied No Unnecessary Waiting You Better PATTERSON DRUG COMPANY MASONIC TEMPLE PHONES 4 Registered Pharmacists To Serve Because we specialize in the compounding of prescrip tions we carry a large and va ried stock of drugs kept fresh and potent through rapid turnover Your physi cian knows that he can count on us for that most difficult and complicated formulas Bring your next prescription to ut Volume of Prescriptions filled as lures you of RESH DRUGS COM PLETE STOCK and Reasonable prices ASK YOUR PHYSICIAN Rrt IAB1 PRE SCRIPTIONS 5 ji i OUT OUR WAT By WILLIAMS 1 WHY THEY well THE I SEEM A I PEACE TO BE GLAD THEY EVER TO SEE ME I GIT I ME VER I A back rr I never heckle 1 I THEM 1 LET I I A I Xx Ik tJ i 'jWxnilUAMS WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY Christmas Gifts Wanted or Men Women In Service Again this year the Board of Di rectors of the Traveler Aid So ciety has elected to ask Danville residents to play Santa Claus to transient men and women of the armed forces who will come through the USO Lounge and Southern Railway this Christmas This was decided yesterday at the election and business meeting of the Aid Society held at Main Street Methodist Church About 3500 packages of food such as candy cake fruit and nuts will be distributed to the men and women beginning four days before Christmas and a spokesman said the gifts could in clude a card with the name of the donor church or civic organiza tion The gifts should be at the de posit 'stations at Sears Roebuck Herman or Belk Leggett Company by December 20 so that distribu tion may begin at the railway sta tion on that day At meeting the lounge reported service to 25123 white and 1926 colored service men and women during Novem ber The Traveler's Aid office re ported that case work is increas ing from month to month for ci vilians as well as military travel ers Officers named yesterday were: the Rev A Acey president Phillippe vice president and Patrick treasurer The new officers arid directors will be introduced at a social to be held in January taking the place of the annual meeting Wants Veterans To Get irst Chance At Renting Houses WASHINGTON Dec The fellows home from fighting ought to get first chance at buying or renting houses said Rep Ke fauver (D Tenn) today "Now that the war is over and there is a scarcity of several mil lion houses" said in a state ment "it is my belief that for a reasonable time at least after the war we should give priorities to veterans of this war on purchases and rentals of moderate homes veteran coming back from the war to join his wife and chil dren wants a home to live in the first thing of veterans are turn ed away from colleges every week because they cannot find housing accomqdatons Education has been of our greatest losses In this war outside of the loss of life and "We should do everything possi ble to recoup this great education al loss which will not only help de serving veterans but also will greatly add to the wealth and re sources of our LIVE PIGGY BANK MARION Nep the hog that was given a reprieve from a butcher shop and in three years has helped sell $18 000000 in war bonds has been invited to be guest of honor at the Marion annual homecoming riday Most of the hog's appearances at bond auctions in Illinois communi ties have been sponsored by Elks Clubs is a life mem ber of the chapters at Marion ree port and Harrisburg 111 Yamashita To Know ate Next riday Military Commission Hears Summations MANILA Dec A five general military commission recessed to ponder the fate of Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita today after hearing final summations in which the prosecution demanded the death penalty and the defense pleaded for "American justice ac It promised a verdict riday Maj Robert Kerr Portland Ore chief prosecutor declared that view of the aggravated na ture of the crimes and in view of the measures of the crimes we recommend that the sentence if death be carried out by Kerr charged that reason able doubt has been shattered by devastating against the Japanese army commander who is accused of condoning innumerable atrocities by his troops in the Phil ippines is no doubt of his respon sibility and Kerr said in asking a verdict of guilty and the death sentence Col Harry Clarke concluding Yamashita's defense arguments asked the commission to "exempli fy the concepts and standards of American justice the keystone of American democracy by returning a finding of not The commission which has heard more than 100 documents from both sides in the 32 day hearing recessed until riday when its de cision will be announced Defense attorneys closely follow ed this argument: 1 Yamashita" did not permit atrocities 2 He did not condone nor did he know of their commission Capt Milton Sandberg New York argued that civilians in Ma nila where many atrocities occur had been warned many times to evacuate He asserted that Japanese Navy troops in Manila were in the doomed city and went berserk arid unloosed their pentup emo tions Does rape in the Bayview Hotel by these now dead troops bear responsibility for Yamashita who was 100 miles away and had no control of their Yamashita had testified that he had no control over the Navy troops Prosecution witnesses tes tified that Japanese troops commit ted brutal day and night long mass rape of girls and young women at the Bayview After ield Marshal Count Te rauchi commander of the south ern regions left Manila Nov 17 1944 it was difficult to control civilians and Yamashita could only warn his troops to treat civilians kindly Sandberg argued He contended that the testimony of Col Nishiharu judge advocate was inaccurate and largely untrue methods of trial are foreign and repugnant to the American Sandberg said of the execution of ilipino guer rillas but added is no pro vision in international law for such trials" except for armed bands of war criminals Capt Adolph Reel Boston Mass touched on charges of ill treatment of prisoners of war and internees at Santo Tomas and Los Banos cmaps and of mass executions at Palawan He argued that there was no connection of these in stances and command: that in each instance other com mands were responsible Reel concluded: we judge him (Yamashita) we must put ourselves In his place and I say unless we are ready to plead guilty before the world to the charge of hypocracy to the charge that we sublimely succumb ed to mob desire for revenge then we must find Yamashita not guil ty" Yamashita visibly moved took Reel by the shoulders and said "Thank you! Thank you!" BURLEY SALES STRONG NASHVILLE Tenn Dec 5 Burley tobacco Mies on Ten nessee markets took a dip from Monday's opening totals but re mained strong as more than 3 000000 pounds of the weed was sold across warehouse floors Ten markets reporting last night showed total receipts of $3265342 Marketers said little decline in prices was evidenced jesterdsy in spite of Monday's good sales DIGESTIVE TRACT And Stop Dosing Your Stomach With Soda and Alkalisera Don't expect to ret real relief from headache sour stomach sat and had breath by taking soda and other alka lizera if he true cause of your trouble is conxtipation In nh case your real trouble not in the stomach at all But in the intestinal tract where 80 of your food is digested And when it geta blocked it fails to direst properly what you want for real relief is not soda or an but aomet hing to your intestinal tract Some thing to clean it out help Nature get back on her feet Get right now Taka 1 hem as directed They gently and effec tively your digestive trscL This permits your food to move along normally Nature's own digest ivejuicee can then reach it You get genuine relief that makes you feel rall rood again Get Tills at any 25 "Unblock" your intestinal tract for real relief from indigestion rance Gets Huge Loan rom Rehabilitation Program Bolstered WASHINGTON Dec rehabilitation program was bolstered today by a $550000 000 loan from the United States as Anglo American negotiators sought early agreement on a credit about seven times as large for Great Britain rench negotiations with the Ex port Import Bank ended success fully when Ambassador Henri Bon net signed a contract enabling his country to use the fund to pur chase goods requisitioned when lend lease was in effect Meanwhile British and Ameri can officials enterd the 13th week of their conversations optimistic that they were close together on the terms for a loan of $3500000 000 to $4000000000 A British official described the conversations as quite set tled but added that differ ences in outlook were being ily rance pledged to repay her loan within 30 years at 2 3 8 per cent interest Indications are that Britain will pay about two per cent over a 50 year period with special provisions cancelling in terest charges in depression years' The contract signed yesterday stipulates that loan must be spent entirely in the United States for American products Britain probably will be allowed to spend her money anywhere because of her heavy debt to members fthe empire and other nations in the sterling bloc area Most of the last minute talk be tween American and British offi cial centered around the question of what Britain should do about the estimated $16000000000 she owes to these countries British officials were reported to be seeking complete freedom of action in determining whether and how individual creditors would be willing to scale down the size of Britain's indebtedness American officials were inclin ed to regard Britain's sterling debt as strictly a British problem but insisted" they needed some indica tion of future British plans NAVY TO RELEASE 35000 WASHINGTON Dec The Navy has declared eligible for discharge all reserve enlisted men and women who are 38 years old and had at least one dependent before August 15 Wives will will count as dependents The conditions would effect about 35000 the department said but many of these already were eligible under the point system Previously men 42 'years or older qualified for discharge regardless of points or dependency status BOLLING RITES TOMORROW IS YI uneral services for Mrs Bolling of Roanoke sister of Mrs Chilton of Marshall Terrace who died in Roanoke Monday will be held there tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock Interment will be in Greenview Cemetery BACKACHE Here the clean modern waj? Ml relieve simple twheche Back Plaaurt Kaaea pain atiffnea strain oe1! reafr At all drug stores Instil Jahnaon JoJuiaon quality 7 MAKE IT A MERRY CHRISTMAS Do not let the lack of ready cash cloud your happiness th'i Christmas Come to us and let us make you one of our con venient Ioans that can be repaid next year All dealings with us are confidential DANVILLE SMALL LOANCORPORATION 109 Union St Hotel Burton Bldg 7 ATTENTION! VETERANS There will be a regular meeting of Ballard Pruitt Post 647 Veteransof oreign Wars at Veteran's Quarters City Ar mory Building Thursday December 6 8:00 All members are urged to attend and bring one or more returned veterans XyyTI them There will be a special program that wil1 interest t0 all men who have served overseas during World Wars I end II GEORGE DANIELS Commander GCW MEDAL I ll Bl Distilled Dry It i Il i ram GIM lioMAl 113 119 Wloabord labo I AA4 OSTniCO ffla SEiTCtEO Gi 4 lllli: rTff 5" Today conveyors like this are again carrying thousands of new telephones But it takes far more than just telephones to provide service It takes cable central office equipment and many other items that cannot be produced and fitted into a telephone system overnight Western Electric supply unit of the Bell Telephone Companies is now tackling the biggest peacetime job in its furnishing materials and equipment to make up for shortages caused by four years of war so that we can again supply telephone service to all who want it You can count on them and on us to get this done just as fast as humanly possible THE CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY Of Virginia (Bell SystcmE? 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