The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 1

ri: ive Cent HOME EDITION Danville Va Wednesday Afternoon January 31 1945 REDS ONLY 55 MILES ROM BERLIN Russians Reach SIEGRIED LINE PENETRATED Zielenzig Nazi Ten Or More AMERICANS ESTABLISH Radio Declares Divisions Massed NEW LUZON BEACHHEAD On 30 Mile ront LANDINGS CUT JAPANESE broadcasts said Marshal Gregory troops ROM BATAAN or burned to death to to es a A ROBINS for (Turn to Page 5 Story No 4) Dies At Penhook (Turn to Page 5 Story No 3) Page 5 Story No 1) (Turn to (Turn to Page 5 Story No 2) the light It of the victims ranged from three months to a nation Girinan ASSOCIATED PRE LEASED WISE and seizing an airfield air base won on Luzon ASSOCIATED PRES NEWS PICTURES 7 1 Midwest a renew reported 'SOUTH BOSTON Va Jan P) A one day meeting of bacco farmers to discuss the Berlin and fierce armored battles were reported the snow drifted front within 20 miles of the Oder Late News of medicine of his condition dismay him and inevitable with a be of 1 13 More Police Court Coses Thon During December Over 100000 American Troops Driving Into Thinned Out Siegfried Defenses East Gets More Snow As Expected To Discuss Growth Of More Better Tobacco Per Acre Unable Now To Make Large Scale Withdrawal Increasing Amount Of Capital Reported lowing Out Of Germany Argentina did the Bretton and officials Indications Mount That Germans Preparing To ight Street By Street In Capital City fR) children after an flames wooden and fac The business of taxicab opera tors denied 1945 licenses which for the past month has been gradually ia dying will end completely after today with expiration of temporary ODT gasoline allotments The group of operators who have been doing business in Schoolfield and the county since their ouster from the city will put up their car tomorrow for lack of gasoline They had been doing business out side the city 'ui temporary allot ments for a month pending out come of the confused cab situation in Danville irst denied city li censes and now unable to obtaii gasoline the operators face other alternative than to stop their service but some are hopeful that their appeal of the City Council's action and of Judge Henry opinion upholding the Council to the Virginia Supreme Court ot Appeals will bring a reversal However it was said by a spokes man for the group that' he at least had little hope of favorable action that would restore' their business Counsel for the old operator have progressed a step in their proposed appeal by officially filing their intentions in the clerk's of fice of the Corporation Court It was learned today that busi ness with the operators In the county i after they had been ex cluded from the city had not been very renumerative 7 Mandalay Threatened CALCUTTA Jan (Pl Three Allied spearheads today threatened Mandalay Burma's second largest city One column was jlrivin to ward the city from Monywa while a second was pushing east from Mylnmu Monywa is 35 miles due west of Mandalay and Myinmu is about 25 miles southwest of the city A third threat was develop ing at Singu 40 miles north of Mandalay where British troops have opened an attack in strength from a bridgehead across the Irrawaddy River Exhorts His People To Accept "Boundless Misery" As Price Of Continued Resistance Old Taxi leet Gasless ades Out Of Business nowhere been broken) The 100000 or 'more identified troops of the irst and Third armies were driving into the thin ned out Siegfried line and they advanced to within three miles of two headwater dams controlling the flood levels of the Roer river5 a major barrier before Cologne Lt Gen George Patton's Third Army widened its bridgehead across the Our river into Germany to five miles and thrust it a mile and a half into' the Reich within 12 of the Siegfried hne bastion of Prum The initiative was back in Gen Eisenhower hands and as fast a the infantrymen and armor could tpove through the slushy deep drifted snowfields he was slam ming a new challenge from west against the shaken Reich Battlefront reports said the Americans who lashed east of Monschau found Siegfried line pillboxes abandoned and unde fended In that area the irst Tomorrow Eventful Day Bragg Takes Office Government Rent Control Effective (By James Long) PARIS Jan 31 Ten or more American divisions edged steadily forward today into a 30 mile fortified zone' at the center of the western front increasing pressure on the Germans who had robbed their Siegfried line defenses to bolster the swaying Russian front (Berlin radio said the Americans had launched a new attack with strong forces including tanks on both of Monschau along a broad front Gen Eisenhower was said to have massed 60 divisions nearly half of them armored" for a full scale offensive along the whole front: The Germans admitted some villages were lost but said their front had the ap Dr William Alfred Robins 35 years well known in Danville and surrounding counties as a vet erinarian died early this morning at his home at 141 Sutherlin Ave nue He passed away shortly after two o'clock surrounded by members of his immediate family who had rec ognized during the preceding days that a long and gallant fight against disease was nearing its close Dr Robins had been seriously ill for the past nine months but for years prior to last May he had suffered from an infection of the neck which had been progressive and which was found beyond the remedy of surgeons who had been consulted in the greatest medical centers of this country and beyond the curative skiII The knowledge however did not he had faced the stoic fortitude and resignation On Tuesday his condition had become critical Dr Robins was a son of the late 31 re pro duction of more and better tobacco per acre will be held at the riend High School here tomor row Approximately 2000 farmers to Southside Virginia are expected to attend the session which will be sponsored by the South Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce and the 16 social clubs of Hali fax County Dr John Hutcheson acting president of Virginia Tech will address the group on the subject "Postwar Policies Affecting Vir ginia tobacco growers" Mat thews superintendent of the Chat ham Experiment Station will speak on "How to Produce More Pounds of Quality Tobacco Per Dr Hutcheson of Vir ginia Tech "The Other Side of the Tobacco and loyd di rector of the Plant ood Institute for Virginia and North Carolina will discuss means of maintaining fair prices for tobacco A Hubbard director of the tobacco division Virginia State Department of Agriculture will preside Veterinarian Passes Away At Home DANVILLE AND VICINITY! lair continued cold tonight anti Thursday: lowest itoul 13 NORTH CAROLINA: air and colder today and tonihl lowest temperature tonight 11 2(1 west and central portion 30 extreme east portion Thura da partlv cloudy and warmer VIRGINIA: air and colder tonight Thursday fair and iinued cold world dramas will have ebbed and peace bells will Hitler de ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE OR ALL Japs Take Kukong CHUNGKING Jan (P) Kukong provisional capital of Kwangtung province fell to the Japanese Sunday after two days of fierce fighting in which virtually all the defenders were slain the Chinese high com mand announced tonight The city is an important com munications hub 125 miles north of Canton and was assen tial to the Japanese plan to control the entire 685 mile long Canton Kankow railway and established rail communica tions from Canton and Hong Kong Manchuria and Korea Nearing Moravian By The Associated Press) Russian armies today were nearing the Moravian Gap into Czechoslovakia a strategic pas sage through the mountains I which once caused Otto Von i Bismarck first chancellor of Germany to remark that "who ever controls Bohemia controls Thr statement se maiip In 189 on the occasion of the formulation of the Austro Gcr man treaty End Strike CAMP RUNOI DS pa (4 Two hundred appeared in the latest issue of offfeial gazette and that this peared indicafe of an organized flight of German capital to Sweden The information was accorded considerable credibility here by authorities who have watched Na zi efforts to export capital not only to Sweden but to many other neutral countries including prin cipally Spain and Argentina and at one time Turkey The Allies have had a campaign underway among the neutrals since about midway in the war As early as July 1943 President Roosevelt laid the basic policy that the Unit ed States regard the action by a neutral government in afford ing asylum to Axis leaders or then tools as Inconsistent with the prln ciples for which the United Na tions were fighting Last fall most of the neutrals responded to diplomatic insistence on the part of the leading Allied governments with the policy dec larations against harboring Nazi war criminals It is now understood the Swedish government also has enacted va rious measures designed specifical ly to control Nazi capital and im ports of Nazi wealth which might be used for the benefit of criminals and might reflect hidden Announce Recognition LONDON Jan i The Czechoslovak government in exile tonight announced form al recognition of the provision al Polish government at Lub lin and said diplomatic rela tions would be started Czechoslovakia is the first of the Allies except Russia to re cognize the Lublin government Arrests Here In Past Month Show Increase Washington Jan ala's honeymoon the Post said today sent the presidential Scut JCANSAS CITY Jan Joe Trahon sent opt tn investigate a report that a dog had bitten a woman is pretty sure that It did The dog bit him loo Continued Cold Hangs Over Nation LONDON Jan The German nation beset by powerful invading armies embarked todayn me 13th year of the Nazi re gime exhorted by Adolf Hitler to accept "boundless as the price of continued resistance Germany Hitler proclaimed to the world last night will to the death "fight on no matter where and no matter under what circumstances until final victory crowns our efforts" His speech marking the 12th an niversary of his ascendancy to the chancellorship on Jan 30 1933 was broadcast from his headquarters amidst news of continuing Russian advances from the east victorious strides that now have carried to within 73 miles of Berlin "The cruel fate which is over taking us in the cast in village and market places in the country and in towns Is exterminating (Ger man) people by the tens of thou Hitler declared will be mastered in the Hitler twice asserted that God had given him a mission Almighty" saved him from assassi nation he declared ami he saw In this of my assigned task" The man who sent his aimed legions into virtually every coun try of Europe gave the German 17 Children Perish AUBURN Me Jan young and a woman trapped exploding stove sent raging through a boarding home for war tory workers' babies were suf focated day Most In age three years They died in their cribs their heads thrust thru the spaces between the slats in their futile struggle cape TODAY'S QUEER STORY Tomorrow will be somewhat of an eventful day in Danville with a brown out' of show windows and electric signs the beginning of federal rent control and a change in the administration of the police and fire departments through the establishment of the office of safe ty director Effective at midnight tonight electric lights in all show windows of business concerns and out door electric signs must be darkened at night along with the rest of the ra tion under a War Production Board order to conserve coal Effective tomorrow also will be federal rent control which under an order front the Office of Price Administration rent rates must established at prevailing levels July 1 1943 Tomorrow also Edward Bragg will take office as director of public safety whose principal duties will be administration of the city police and fire departments Bragg today was in the peculiar position of not having office space He is supposed to move out of his present office as city constable in the municipal building which will be occupied tomorrow by Reynolds his successor Office space ir the municipal building is at a premium as a re sult of wartime measures vvhch resulted in creation of various agencies such as the draft board headquarter all housed in the city hall building along with other municipal offices Bragg today reiterated a previ ous announcement that he lud no statement to make relative to his plans as safety director preferring to first become acclimated to his new duties and to consider his plans as current conditions and situations pommand No drastic TEMPERATURE yesterday 37 A today A today 24 today 31 Against Amendments WASHINGTON Jan (T) Rayburn called on the House today to reject all amendments to pending man power legislation affecting men between 18 and 45 He declared at his daily news conference that amendments dealing with the closed shop and with the fair employment practices committee would alienate a larze hloc nf vnt for the measure and might result in its defeat Mrs Daniel Robertson well known resident of the Penhook community passed away at her home this morning about 4 o'clock according to word received here The funeral will be held from Hitler Tells World Germany Will ight On Until 'inal Victory Crowns Our Efforts' 5 Jap Generals Killed (By The Associated Press) The death of five more Japa nese Army generals was an nounced by the Tokyo Dome) news agency today in a broad cast reported by the ederal Communications Commission The deaths brought to 111 the number of Japanese generals and admirals who have died of natural causes or been killed In action during the past eight months Renews Efforts To Get Neutrals To Lock Borders Against Nazi War Criminals Jan and eighty German prisoners today ended a two week sitdown strike and returned to assigned duties about the camp the Public Re lations Office announced They had been on a bread and water ration since striking to protest removal of their spokesman from the camp An army offi cer said another spokesman had been named Our Boys Are mPW Not Quitting ISvnda The ight WWWCiemr OUNDED EBRUARY 19torn i ear no i67 IRST IN BLITZ CHARTHAM England i TW This town near the cathedral city of Canterbury has gained official recognition of its claim to being the first English town to be bomb ed by the Germans Incendiaries fell at 4:15 a in May 10 1940 Arrests in Danville during Jan uary increased sharply over De cember the monthly police report compiled by Mrs Constance Hat cher police justice clerk discloses During the past month 408 per sons were arrested compared with 295 in December Of the total 263 were white and 145 colored Con victions were returned in 324 cases five were sent to the grand jury and 79 offenders were ac quitted ines and costs imposed in Jan suary amounted to S3 16020 of which S2700 as turned overdo the city treasurer compared with $203485 turned over to the treas urer for December Duing January drunkenness in causes of arrest with 140 and traffic violations came next with 58 No murder cases are listed but there were two felonious assaults land twelve simple assaults two grand larceny cases There were and EDEN ABSENT LONDON Jan or eign Secretary Anthony Eden was I absent from the House of Com mons today and speculation im mediately arose that either a pre liminary parley or the big three meeting itself was imminent or actually under way' (By The Associate Press) Continued cold weather greeted large portion of the nation todav while the east still struggling with a severe winter's accumulation ex pected and got more snow New England generally had a re spite from Monday's storm which piled drifts as high as 15 feet in some sections of western Massa chusetts and southern Vermont The little village of Acton Me (Pop 400) was isolated by the same storm I Snow' fell in western and south 22 eases of disorderly conduct Dr Robins Dies After Long ight (By James King) LONDON Jan 31 German broadcasts today de clared Red Army columns had speared within 55 and 62 miles of churning River Nazi had reached Soldin 58 miles northeast of city lim its and Zielenzig 35 miles to the south and 62 miles due east of queen city Zielenzig is but 55 miles from the suburbs included in greater Berlin i At Soldin Zhukov's forces were within 36 miles of Stettin on the Baltic as his flank drives north and south increased the peril to Berlin If Stettin is reached all of north eastern Germany will be lopped off Moscow dispatches said the Red Army was but 60 miles from Koslin Baltic port midway be tween Stettin and Danzig columns hitting south westward reached the Oder at a point about 38 miles southeast of Zielenzig and near Grunberg Ger man broadcasts reported fighting northeast of Grunberg but gave no indication that Zhukov actually had forced the Oder to reach Gran berg Zhukov's troops were close to a linkup with the irst Ukrainian Army of Marshal Ivan "Konev which has stormed over the Oder farther south in Silesia however and were in position for a possible drive westward to outflank rank furt and the main Oder line before Berlin Zielensig is only 20 miles from the Oder and Soldin is 24 Indications mounted meanwhile ern New York and one person was jlwelve AWOL arrests that the Germans were preparing killed in a collision in a near bliz 1 Leaf Growers Meet Thursday At So Boston Hankow Bombed CHUNGKING Jan 31j (4') bombers of the 14th Air Torce struck the Hankow dock and warehouse areas yesterday with incendiary hombs starting fires along the waterfront a STommuniqtie announced today Anti aircraft fire was moderate but ineffec tive and no enemy fighter op position was met I THE WEATHER Temperature Reading By The Bee's Radial Thermometer orders are expected from the new director Relative to the rent control pro gram it was learned that two rep resentatives of the Office of Price Administration are already in the city studying the situation pre paratory to carrying out the con trol program which will be han dled as a separate unit from the present War Price and Rationing Board Beginning today rents for all forms of dwellings are to be no higher than they were on July 1 1943 with certain exceptions in instances of extensive dwelling improvement or enlargement since that time Business and commer cial enterprises are not effected The ceiling will not be felt until payments for ebruary rent are made customarily the first of the succeeding month or in March With respect to the "brown out" which affects Danville because of its tie in with the Appalachian Power Company and maintenance of a steam plant for emergency uses all out door advertising signs theatre fronts and store windows must be darkened in con formity with the WLB order The city utilities department under Brantly manager has given extensive publicity to the restrictions the enforcement of which is said to come under the same set up used during black out regulations early in the war While Brantly stated that enforce ment would be incumbent upon tlie police department Chief of Police Ural Watson said today that lie has leeched no instructions along that line mid indicated that whatever enforcement orders are given would probably properly people nebulous promise of vic come from the safety director tory despite his growing reverses who assumes his duties tomorrow When most gigantic of all on the same day the out becomes effective th dared still at the head of Europe will be "that nation (Germany) which has led Europe for one and one half thousands of years as the leading power against the As Hitler spoke there were growing indications that Presi dent Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill ind Premier Marshal Stalin already may have met in a momentous session Seemingly taking into considera tion a possible "surrender now" demand by the big three Hitler declared: promise these states men are making to their people is of no importance because they cannot fulfill their assurance" In the ringing tones of all his 1 old time eloquence he flung de fiance at the Allied leaders: a ruthless national socialist and a warrior of my nation I want to assure these statesmen once and forever that anv attempt to in fluence national it any by WiLonian phrases shows a naivete which is unknown in the Germany of toda He pictured Germany as the bul wark against Bolshevism a iam ilinr cry from many previous ad dresses and declared that "by form ing a sworn community (to fight to the finish) we have to go before almighty and ask nis grace and blessing "There is nothing more can do" he told his that everyone who is fit to fight fights everyone lit to work HIV I I Ois It Hit I SWVl I UIU1 411 tie to Walter Reed Hospital for northwest Nebraska touched four treatment of a bile infliced by "his blue blooded Lady A spokesman at the Army medi cal center acknowledged that ala with 15 below had been a patient at the veteri 1 down to naiian scnooi joi a lew uas on i was sent none uie inner nay He declined further comment Mrs Roosevelt recently told a group of wounded war veterans louring the White House that the pet was in the country "and we hope he's having a wed ding" In its account today the Post i said ind his blue blooded Lady Love were incompatible Ac tually the Lady bit him" WASHINGTON Jan The United States is intensifying its efforts to have neutral govern ments lock their borders against Nazi war criminals and their banks against the ill gotten gains of Ger man loaders and their collabora tors There are increasing evidences that as the fate of the Nazi state becomes more and more apparent under the pressure of the Allied offensive there is an Increasing amount of capital Peeing out nf Germany Most neutral countries have given assurances that they would act to prevent the Germans mak ing effective use of this wealth re gardless of the form it takes The foot of these assurances was planted in Brotton "Woods fi nancial agreement not participate in Woods conference most often express concern about the buildup of Axis funds in that Soutli American country The Buo nos Aires government has sought indirectly however to give assui anccs that It will not harbor Ger man war criminals A hint of what may be going on as the Germans seek desperately to build up resources abroad came from Stockholm A dispatch front there reported that a large number of German patent applications had sources of Nazi postwar power (By Yates McDaniel) GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HDQRS Luzon Jan 31 (AP) Landing unopposed from 150 ships 60 miles north west of Manila strong Eighth Army forces blasted any hopes the Japanese may have held for a large scale withdrawal to Bataan by! driving swiftly east today to ward a juncture with the Sixth Army which would seal off the historic peninsula This second invasion of Luzon timed with a Sixth Army push now within 30 miles of Manila was dis closed in today's communique of Gen Douglas MacArthur The 38th Division and a combat team of the 24th which fought so he roically on Leyte in the central Philippines were put ashore Mon day on Zambales Province in the 10 miles between the Santo Tomas river mouth and San Antonio with out loss of a man plane or ship Three American survivors of the fom Bataan Capt George Crane Topeka Kas Capt Richard Kadel ort Knox Ky and Capt Winston Jones an Okla homan mingled with ilipino guerrillas wildly greeting the in vaders The Yanks of Lt Gen Robert Eichelberger posed an immediate menace to prized Olongapo Naval Base in Subic Bay by racing II miles inland the first day past flag waving ilipinos occupying such towns as San elipe San Narciso San Antonio San Marcelino and Caetillejos 23rd ala Is Bitten By His Lady Love zard at Buffalo Snow there dur ing January touched the 467 inch Mrs Robertson mark topping bv one tenth of an inch the record of 1892 A large section of the and South felt the chill ofed cold wave: St Louis ill above with the mercury expect ed to slide to 5 or 6 above the sec ond coldest mark of the winter Columbus Ohio reported 6 1 aboxe while temperatures out in hup home tomorrow afternoon at 2 1 n'rlnrlr xm 1 4 ft 4 I iuui uiu KviiiuM tyjjvi irpuiiru iu 1 the united States Weather Bureau in Chicago was Bismarck Chicago marked 2 below The South reported sub freezing temperatures throughout most of I the area but cloudy and warm was the forecast for the Gulf States (clear) (rlrr (eteart Uttar) it KJ £5 Sa.