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War: News i Everybody Beads I a I In Trading Area i a Price: Three Cents Home Edition Danville Va Monday Afternoon January 22 1940 91 Lost Seven Bomb Soviet Air Bases UP) labor organizations Transport Plane alls 1 effects of illness of a 40 mild nature This was reflected in the (Turn to page 10 Story No?) (Turn to page 40 THE WEATHER men for Oil tank I 1 I A I I that the theffwas committed prowler who halt entered the door of the residence possibly Mr and Mrs Magee and their Danville (healers the ahead' sign all being a three carat two other The fire was the result of an explo sion from an undetermined cause The Orazio still afloat and burning at noon today (6 a "3 Til 'authorities The liner' radio sent out her first at 5 13 a yesterday while the ship was 38 on th coati and interior Jan this days fa pro showed powder burns hand 4 note unaddressed: kidnapers are probably UP) director of found dead ambulance was caused Police Detectives Lewis and Talley were engaged today in attempting to i solve one of the most serious robberiescommitted in Danville for several (riw A EHwin Carewe Dead HOItYWUUD Jan tdwln Carene noted the silent film era was In his bed today An surgeon al(l his death by a heart attack ive ires Busy Crippled orce Temperature Reading by The Bee'i Radial Thermometer HUNDREDS REDS KILLED Al KARELIAN I' LIERS DIE IN CRASH its initial Sunday The Orazio sighted the at 4:30 a little after its signal over morning Miss McElroy's maid found her body on a divan on the sun porch of her home a 33 caliber pistol on the floor A police examination on her right She left a 1 "My four the only people on earth who don't consider me an utter fool "You have your death penalty please give them a chance" our men kidnaped Miss McElroy from her bath May 37 1933 Theji chained her in the basement of a house near Shawnee Ka for nearly30 hours They asked 360000 ransom but her father settled for 330 000 Three of the men were apprehend ed and convicted Walter McGee was sentenced to the gallows but Mias McElroy herself appealed to Guy Park then governor and arit com muted Ms sentence to life imprison ment the same as imposed on hi brother George Clarence Click who lived tn the farmhouse was sentenced to eight I (Turn to page iO Story No 1) QUEER STORY The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs itzhugh Lancaster of loyd street was accidentally killed Satur day by a fall from the baby's crib Police Lieutenant Dameron who was called to the home when It was found that the eleven months' old child was dead said that Mr Lan caster was dozing in the room with the child the mother being at the moment away from home When the child fell Lancaster lifted the baby back to the crib not realiz ing that she had been hurt A short while later however he was shocked to find that the little baby breathed no more' Dr Sager was imme diately called to the home and found that the child had died The funeral will be conducted this afternoon at 4 from Sledd Memorial church fi templuatirea today LONDON Jan our British ships one of them sleek destroyer were sent to the bottom in a wave of week Schoolfield Theater Postpones Its Initial Sabbath Day Opening DIES IN NEW YORK News has been received here of the death in New York City on Saturday of Mrs Alves formerly of this city She lived here during the period in which her husband vho died about two years ago was Identified with local overall company She is survived by one son Redford Alves who resides in New York City our fires yesterday and another this morning has kept the Danville department crippled by influenza on the alert Six men are 111 ire Chief John Long announced today The first of the five fires was the largest The department was called to Alamagro at 12:28 a yesterday when flames demolished a house oc cupied by Nathaniel Arey and owned by John Harris both colored No water was' available and the loss was placed at 3730 with no insur ance It was the second time in a year that Arey has been burned out Little damage was done in a small fire at Dooley' Sod Shop yesterday morning at 8:04 1 An attempt to thaw' a water pip set fire to the home of Tucker Har rison 147 Virginia avenue yesterday afternoon at 1:19 o'clock Damage here was also slight Some 325 dam age to the car of Walter Plckrel re sulted from a fire at the Bus depot or South Main street this morning WEATHER AT A GLANCE: air Tonight and Continued Cold Tuesday Browder Argues Case NEW YORK Browder Communist leader ar gued before a federal court jury to day that tt must acquit him of passport fraud charge unless it wished to set a precedent that "a citizen may be exiled from his own country" Our Readers Are Cautioned sTkat All War News rom Europe Now Subjected to Rigid Censorship Police Probe Not Yet Half Way inished Baby Dies in all rom Crib On loyd Street favors Wheeler CLEVELAND Jan i Robertson head of the Brother hood of Locomotive iremen and Enginemen declared today he fav 1 ora Senator Burton Wheeler (D Mont) for president Van Zeeland Safe BARCELONA Jan Paul T3ji Zeeland former premier of Belgium who had had been reported aa among the passenger of the burned Italian motorship Orazio was located here today Van Zeeland had planned to board the vessel for South and Central America at Barcelona to day city departments where six were ill on the fire fighting force and three police were inactive because of nines "Community Hospital was filled to capacity and only a few beds were vacant at Memorial today although hospital attaches said that there are tactually fewer flu cases than were noted a few days ago A large number of cases were reported at each how The Initial Sunday opening of the Schoolfield Theater at one time scheduled for yesterday has been indefinitely postponed Man ager IV Lea announced today A number of people who had observed a preview last riday announcing that the theater would open Sunday arrived at the theater to find the doors closed yesterday Mr Lea stated today that" he was uncertain when the theater would have presentation While the have received tor Sunday shows the Schoolfield theater located in Pittsylvania county has yet to open its doors on the Sabbath day REHOROTH REACH Del been so cold east coast town the last felt that many geee wer caught In Ice on Silver Uke game tector reported today They said the lake In a game refuge froie quickly day and night Police hare pulled main geese from the Ice and placed them on the shore to recover years Jewels to the value of 33700 were stolen last night from the West Main street residence of Mr and Mrs Em met Magee these belonging to Mrs Noel and being contained in a hand bag which had been left on a hall table while she and Miss Kate Wilkin son were visiting at the Magee home Miss Wilkinson nag also was stolen this containing a small amount of money and some personal effects Police Detective Lewis expressed a belief by a front while guests were at supper Discovery was made not long after supper time when it was found that the bags were no loncer on the hall table' A key was seen lying on the ground The loot consisted of a platinum bar pin containing 24 small diamonds and valued at 3800 A diamond ring set with 24 dia monds and containing one large stone was taken this being valued at 3900 the most valuable gem of blue white solitaire with a diamond and containing diamonds valued at 32000 The bag Is described as being of black leather and bearing the mono gram The robbery brought from the po lice the renewed urge that front doors remain locked: Police said also that they have had reports of suspicious persons lurking about the residential sectton one as late as Saturday night being seen in the orest Hills section distributed "statement of prop ganda which disparage or crltt as "very regrettable" because th and arrests took place neir our shore" Passenger aboard the ship said the liner was stopped about 35 miles oft the Japanese shore and within sight of land off Yokohama The Asama Maru left San rancisco Jan 6 Passengers said the Nazi prisoners were among a group of 40 merlv seamen on Standard era who were being sent home at the company' expense because of the war They were en route from San rancisco to Germany by way of Ja pan I They said the warship apparently' a light cruiser with her name blocked out came alongside the Asinu Maru Saturday and ordered her to halt A shot was fired across the liner's bow to make the order effective it was said Three British officers and nine sea men boarded the liner It was said and "with the utmost ex'" amlned the passports of the German passenger Seventeen of the group of 40 went I MARSEILLE rance Jan 22 'l survivors of 643 persons aboard the burned Italian I'ner Ora zio reached here today with harrow ing stories of a sudden explosion which enveloped the 11669 ton ship in flame and destroyed all but two of her lifeboats The 47 survivors brought to safety by a rench auxiliary cruiser said most of the Orazio's passengers and threw themselves into the stormy Mediterranean where iheyj were picked up by lifeboats launched By RELMAN MORIN TOKYO Jan (£7 Japan con sidered counter measures today against British action in halting the Japanese liner Asama Maru and re moving 21 German merchant eeamen A shot was reported tired across the bow of the Japanese ship While officials studied the incident with view to a possible formal pro test tomorrow Yaktchiro Sums foreign office spokesman reported that Japanese embassy offic'al Washington would approach the State' Department on "technical mat ters" regarding Japanese American trade relations The commercial treaty between Japan and the United States expires riday trade situation not only is uneasy for the Japanese but also for the Americans and we deem the State Department should consider this thoroughly" Sums declared Sums declared the government we watching with concern" th next move in the negotiations which he eaid would be decided in Wash ington The spokesman termed removal I ef Nil! teamen by a wtnhip Dr Garnett city health of ficer stated this morning that few severe influenza cases have been call ed to he attention of his office He admitted that bad colds were wide spread in the pity Other doctors continued work at a hurried pace today and reported that occasionally an entire family is bed ridden The prevalence of influenza which usually makes its onset towards the middle of any winter is due largely to a reduction in physical resistance values which are lower in winter than in summer when people remain for the most part: out of doors and when the fortifying vitamins are more generally present There is no set rule which can be given medically for the avoidance of influenza because It is still a medteal mvstery But there are certain things which the individual may do Dr Garnett said Upon the first feeling of the development of a cold it is more prudent to give up and to go to bed at once Two or three days in bed permit the regeneration of the re sistances of the human body which are expended in dally activity and when the body is well fortified the malicious influenza germs stand smaller chance of setting up the se rious Infections which lead to bron chial and pulmonary troubles Waste elimination Is important and the old rule still holds good plenty of liquids and plenty of fruit juices with light nourishing foods VIRGINIA: air tonight rue da fair in north and 1nereiinf eloudiiir fn tith portion toilow ed by nnv in Mtiiih purlloii iue ria nlgm and ii: ntrein portion luesnt irteriionn un tlnued ivld tonight jnmnay nesrfay and Ihiireday NGHII tROLlNA: arit rloudly not quit so cold tnt and centra) portion tonthtl day increasing elnudlii tnloe4y':) now In Three British and Three Neutral Vessels Added to Heavy Toll as Germans Strike Anew in Sea ar 118 Officers and Men Saved rom Des troyed Warship Disastrous Week End is Sad Sequel to Statement Going! MOI NTAINAIR Jan Rewipaper advertisement Mgned fcy three physician of thl moun tain village "If you ar expecting the stork Ka rlriit jour home this year and It te come by the way of Mniin telnalr he will have to bring lh A anah to py his bill beforneifciliery Geese Caught ast In reezing Lake Main Home Bar Pin and Two Rings Taken rom Visitor at Magee Residence Biz Suit Settled BOSTON Jan Settle ment announced today ot MOOOOO sult court agalnt th Yeast Corporation of BelhlUe by Cornelius Sheridan who claimed the money du for securing the err'lce of Jame Roosevelt the son a president of th yeast company inns Shoot Down 1 1 Raid ers Russians May Cross rozen Lake to Strike Anew 0 HELSINKI Jan (AP) Hundreds of Russians had bepir killed the high command reported today in each of a number of futile attempts crack innish resistance on th? Karelian Isthmus and the east ern front On the Karelian Isthmus where the inns have reported almost daily attacks the army said the invaders sought to give effect to their drives by loudspeaker exhortations that the inns surrender under the threat that the Germans were coming to help their foe Reviewing developments in the con flict yesterday the high command reported its regular evening com munique: In the Taipsle sector of the Kare lian front 120 enemy dead were counted in our foremost posi tions and on the ground in front of our lines were the bodies of several hundred others" after Russian attacks were driven off On the eastern front northeast of Lake Ladoga the repulsed the Russians who left officers and about 120 men urther north but still on the low er eastern' front the Loimola sec tor the Russians were driven back with 450 men and five tanks destroyed In Its announcement of the loud speaker campaign the army said: "The enemy tried to give effect to his attacks by loudspeakers mounted in his positions which exhorted our men to surrender aecrarmg that Vli purL would be taken within 48 hours and threatening that Germans were coming to help him and would kill all inns In the far north above the Arctic circle where Russians earlier had been renorted bracing after withdraw ing to Markajarvi the army said there was "nothing In slight air activity yesterday it was announced only four persons were known to have been wounded reezing of the Gulf of inland from the Estonian to the innish shore has confronted inland with the possibility of an over ice attack from Soviet Russian bases tn Estonia oreign military observers specu Jap Claim Advance SHANGHAI Jan 11 Japanese said today their troop aided bv naval unit and airplane had captured Hlaoshan and in their flrrt drive south of Hns ehw wee pushing 3000 Chinese trwop before them Would Continue Probe WASHINGTON Jn Th HuM Rule Commute after a brief but rtormy hearing and debat unanimously approved andant to th House today legisla tion continue th Dis om mitt on rnamerican Activities for another year Administration leader previous ly had agreed that the measure would be called up for passage tomorrow Must Not Interfere traHIXGTON Jan The National Labor Board con tended today that freedom of speech wa a and not an absolute in ordering the ord Motor Company of Som erville Mass to stop Interfering with the right of employe to organize The board said the company hail nrona distrlbuted (Turn to page 13 Story i niTGli Netherlands Eat ln di Ln 22 ive passenger and the crew of three were killed today when a transport plane ohe Batavia Autrallan Senice crashed into the after taking off from the Wand of Bali Mary McElroy Ends Her Life Brooding Over Punishment of Kidnapers and Dad's Death 0 Daughter of Ousted City Manager of Kansas City ires Bullet in Had Devoted Herself to Remaking Imprisoned Abductors Into Good Men and ather Inseparable Companions It KANSAS CITY Jan 22 UH Crushed by the death of her father and brooding over the punishment of the men who kidnaped her Miss Mary McElroy daughter of Kansas City's ousted city manager shot herself in the head Her maid found the body a small pistol nearby McElroy stormy autocrat of the City Hall had been both father and mother to his daughter and son Their mother died when they were babies and McElroy brought them up dressed them bathed them su pervised their education Mary and "The Old Boy" as she called her father had been Inseparable com panion for year Mary McElroy slender 32 year old brunette had seen the will to live ebbing from him after former Mayor Bryce Smith moved him and other Pendergast organization men out of office last spring Mc Elroy died in the summer Seven year ago during th kid trial a defense attorney asked McElroy: "But your daughter was not harmed?" 1 answered "my daughter has been Injured to th extent that I fear ah never will at i founded ebruary 1899 Associated Press Leased Wires JL "fl I CUI ao ova 1 4 NAZIS STRIKE HARD AT SHIPPING Destroyer Sunk EEW I OCT ON BURNED LINER (tail A Investigator recenea a end shipping losses Three neutral victims also added to the heavy toll of men and ships especially in icy waters around the British Isles which some sources blamed on a sharp increase in mines Sinking of the destroyer Grenville 1485 ton flotilla leader "by a mine or was announced by the Admiralty yes terday She was the fourth British destroyer sunk in nearly five months of war and 21st acknowledged loss to her fleet When she sank was not disclosed The admiralty said 118 officers ahd men had been saved but eight are known to have been killed and 73 are missing and must be presumed to have lost their It listed the commander Capt Creasy among the 81 dead Among survivors landed at an east coast pert were some gravely wounded To Britons the disastrous week end was a sad sequel to words of Winston Churchill first lord of the admiralty who declared Saturday "things nave never gone ao well in anT naval war But they found consolation for their losses by citing the fact that hundreds of warships and merchant men were moving in and out of Brit ish ports with a steady flow of sup plies and food In Churchills as surance that the chances against a convoyed ship being sunk are 500 to on Britain's own sea offensive particu larly her far flung patrols to block ade Germany also brought her a dip lomatic headache While United States officials in Washington were watching antxousiy the apparent shrinking of American export markets as a result of British shipping restrictions the possibility arose In Tokyo that Japan might mak a formal protest against (Turn to page 19 Story No 5) In Calling Board to Act On Closing ewer absentees from the city schools reflected a probable Improve rnent in the mild jnfluerja and colds epidemic today and Superintendent i Johnson deferred action in calling the board to act on the prob jlem of closing the institutions Approximately 1 200 pupils were ab sent from their classes today yet this figure was nearly 200 below th absentees of last riday If this num her shrink Superintendent Johnson said he would likely call the board tomorrow for a conference i How ever as a piecaution against DftSLy KUvlb own schools were ordered this afternoon to i I check or the number of children fl I IJ I A J6H1S i tn It i a a a is understood that many are out oe I BELAST Northern Ireland Jan 22 v) northern Ireland filer wer killed and on wa in Jured today in an Dish Se airplane trash 1 0 Italian Steamer Bursts Into lames ollowing Ex plosion Off Coast Of Rescues Effected By Other Those Reaching Port Tell Of Harrowing Scenes As lames All But Two of Life Boats Destroyed MARSEILLE rance Jan Italian officials announced late this afternoon that all of the 412 aboard the burned Italian motorship Orazio had been despite heavy seas and speed with which fire ravaged the vessel yesterday off the south coast cf rance Local agents of the Italian Line owners of the vessel sr4 that "only a members of the crew of 231 still were missing after a new check up of survivors taken aboard half a dozen rescue ships i i GENOA Italy Jan Italian officials announced today that 104 persons including 40 passengers were missing in the burning of the 11669 ton Italian motorship Orazio in the Mediterranean off the rench coast yesterday Of the 643 passengers and crew members aboard when the liner left Genoa Saturday a total of 539 were known to have been rescued by noon tedy officials stated Those rescued were picked up by half a dozen vessels and said that norsiblv some olhers also had been saved but not reported by their rescue vessels Seaplanes flew Qver stormy seas all day today looking for survivors The Italian minister' to Panama Renato irenze and several lesser members of the Italians diplomatic service were aboard when the vessel sailed front iGenq and Vaa Zeeland former premier of Belgium alerx was I a in i uur i (Van Zeeland was known to have miles south of Toulon been planning to sail on the Orazio a seaplane a minesweeper for Venezuela but Belgians tn Madrid rench tugboat and later a rench said he had planned to board her at destroyer headed for the Orazio Barcelona today) along with four Italian ships Italian line officials who had at first reported all of the passengers and crew' members saved said 318 had been picked up by the 23350 ten liner Conte Biarcamano 173 by the smaller Italian steamer Colombo and 48 by small rench vessels irst reports had said that approximately 900 passengers apd crewmen were aboard The Orazio had sanea iur aipa ralso Chile and was to have made A el etrxi Liri LU av i Second Week of Enquiry Is Begun By Com missioners: 4 11 The olic Commission th)s after noon resumed its inquest into depart mental aftatrs which was started last Monday The five commissioners came to 1 cause of sickness tn the family or 2 o'clock and there was I measure of precaution some talk of another night session In OJder people were also feeling the The enquiry is considered now to be about one third completed with I many more policemen to be examin ed and with other witnesses not as sociated with the police force to be called before the hearing Is oxer In the meantime reports were cur rent today of proposed changes in the method of handling the police force One of these petitions resurrected the director of public safety issue an of ficial whose powers would not only ffararn the nnllre forre but the ceneral realm of municipal safety Such an official would be named by the Coun cil Another petition of a different sort was reported circulating but Its precise nature was untold rom what could be learned it would vir tually place control of the police force in the City Council ive witnesses were examined by th commissioners on Saturday They were State Senator John Carter and Officers Claude Brown Wade Mays Hall and Daj is Senator Carter who remained tn the enqulrj room not over five minutes appeared before the board under circumstance which were not ac curately set forth in an earlier pub lication It had been stated that Senator Carter had expressed a de sire to be heard Mayor Meade said" this morning "That was not exactly the way tn which it was put Senator Carter wrote to the commission saying if the commission wishca hlm to testify that he would be glad to appear but would be available only on the week end since his present legislative duties would prevent his appearing at any other time Japan Aroused By British Seizure Of 21 Nazis rom Jap Ship May ile Protest Tokvo Government Considers Counter Measures "Against England in Halting of Charge Shot ired Across Renews Negotiations With Trade Relations Intimate Extravagance WASHINGTON Jan () Hnusp iiHestlgaxors rnmeu dence today that the National Ln or Board employed nephew ot Benjamin Cohen an admlni tratlor adxlsor at $2609 a although a board official expressed doubt that he much more than $50 a month at the time other Sinkingsinns Repulse Attacks 412 AA C'T Of Crew Saved Japan Protests TOKYO Jan Japan today protested formally tn Britain against halting of th Japanese liner Aama Maru and seizure ot 21 German who were passenger on (heir way home by way of Ja pan and Siberia BUTTER AND EGGS CHICAGO Jan Butter S519 19 unsettled 93 score 92 91 30'4 90 30' 89 294: 88 28: 90 centralized car lot or 31 Eggs 7122 firm: fresh gradrd extra firsts local 22 crs 22' firsts local 21)4 cars current re ceipts 21: refrigerator (extras not quoted) standards 19 first 18' 4 Conte Biancamano the Colombo the Cellini and the Edera The seaplane circling over th burning vessel reported that th pcop deck was afire and that 'flams spreading toward the bow 'A storm whipping 'up heavy sea forced the tuzboat to turn back Toulon but the other rescue ship steamed on first rescuers less than 24 Barcelona today of distress 0 Survivors Reaching rance Relate Harrowing Stories 4 from three Italian merchantsnips ana two rench warships standing byX More survivors were due this morn ing aboard two rench destroyer Special hospitals were ready to car for those who had suffered burn and exposure Refugees from th" Sibandontd South America bound liner said tits explosion occurredab out 5 a es terday 'n her engine room while th was fighting her way through 3 1 tempest 60 miles oft Barcelona While two rench warships th 23350 ton Italian liner Conte Btan cam ano the 11760 ton Italian nnt Colombo and the 5441 ton Italin freighter Recca put out their boat the two remaining Orazio were launched Survivors said one believed to hav carried an Italian diplomat wa lost He had been en rout to hi South American post 'J The Italian minister to Panama nato irenze was aboard th burned motorship ormer Belgian rem'bz Paul Van Zeeland wa reported to have been a Another lifeboat was said to htv EWER LU ABSENTEES IN SCHOOLS Superintendent Defers Action Bee Registe St a 3 I I dl I i.