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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 7

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The Beei
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Danville, Virginia
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The Bee Danville Va Wednesday May 26 1943 Seven DOUBT ALLIES WILL INVADE ITALY THIS SUMMER VIEWS LOOD DEVASTATION ROM PLANE the worse for never went right up end was Pa minutes Others are waiting' GLASSES on CREDIT VEN with a war like to to 5 minutes Most of them go through all crow tied right but some routes arc like the railroads want is When the circuit you will ask fellow may be you extra busy the operator THE CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY SUMPS 1 VIRGINIA BLACK WHITE btegest bargain you ever had AU liceined Doctor of your choice went into a quit to the rear be desolation ap banked steeply shaking up her pas adding to her speed she eased gently a flight front the Po lake shore metropolis a full thousand miles sun bomb to the It was there grown All real ember which is a min eralized resin from a certain ex tinct tree is said to be at least 600000 years old The South African government has been spending about $10000 000 annually to stop locust inva sion ROUTED DIXIE SOLONS LOOK TO SENATE TO BLOCK POLL TAX BILL Lawson Madison Patterson Patterson Reynolds Italy Is Declared Secondary actor In Invasion Plans Statement Indicates Some And Possibly All Were Sent Down EASIER ROADS LIE THROUGH OTHER LAHOS WASHINGTON May Routed southern congressmen look ed hopefully to the Senate today to kill legislation outlawing the imposition of poll taxes in nation al elections Passed late yesterday by the House on a roll call vote of 265 to 110 over almost solid southern opposition the legislation is sim ilar to previous bills approved by the House and talked to death in the Senate Opponents professed to see in the present Senate makeup an even better chance to halt the measure since the veteran George Norris of Nebraska who was influential in bringing the bill to the floor in past years no longer is a mem ber Affecting primary as well as gen eral elections the legislation was described by its author Re Mar canlonio (Amn Lab NY) as de signed to protect the voting rights of 10000000 citizens including 4 000000 negroes in seven south ern states having poll taxes Guatemala Hills Produce Drag or United Nations ully Equipped And Await Solely or Call To Rise on duty' in an in Australia Two Jeeps Truck Wreck As Drivers Watch Girls They were the first civilian Army along jeeps ditch look Millions Satisfied The principals of this firm have millions of satisfied customers all over America Schoolfield High School Exercises To Be At School Our special School Teachers' Loan Plan enables you to borrow funds as needed and repayments do not begin until OctoberThe cost is low and the monthly repayments are adjusted to your comfort and convenience CLCrORY BUY WAR minister to Australia a fully organized army with officers hidden armaments and uni controlled from a head Nurses Stop War Traffic In Australia ating higher producing hybrid strains of cinchona and will train expei ts in quinine pioduction El Porvenir lies about 4000 feet above the sea with the heights of the extinct volcano Tajmulco Guatemala's highest mountain toweling another 10000 feet above it The plantation is only six miles off the new Pan American highway With thousands of troops fight ing in tropical areas where malaria is a constant threat the needs for quinine arc extensive Japan Admits Damage To 19 Of Her Ships Easy Payments No extra charge of any kind for credit payments price Is same for cash New Source Of Quinine Is ound Underground Armies Set To Strike Kirk Simpson Thumbs Ride On ortress To See Havoc Wrought HT in i eacners special levee ramparts that lands Memphis was far fore the first real neared The plane around a river bend and a terri fying scene appeared ahead As far as the eye could see the flood had' the valley land in its grip Villages town homes rail roads highways all weie submerg ed in the seemingly placid brown sea Only the roofs showed or the upper windows Telephone poles with wiie laden cross trees march ed half their length deep to indi cate lot roads Spidery bridges that led no where at either end but into the water stood intact and lonely The gaunt steel towers of high power electric lines stretched across the water in meaningless rows Aboard were men familiar with vil lage and cross roads in the flooded terrain but they could identify nothing with any' certainty Here and there a smoke plume rose from a house on higher ground to tell of human presence But for mile after mile through the flooded fai inland all the way to St Louis on to Cairo and then up the Illinois to Chicago there was only loneliness and the quiet yet relent less waters Here and there cattle clustered On some tiny island still inches above the flood level Stall ed freight trains sometimes with only the lops of the box cars vis ible stood on their submerged tracks Above Peoria as the bomber swung away from the Mississippi to follow the Illinois to Chicago there was not muchyflood damage but endless fields sodden and gut ted with erosion days and nights of rain A brisk tail wind jostled and bounced the ortress on her way sengers but And at 9 a down to end tomac to the that covered of flooded terrain in a matter al most of minutes were listed as sunk by Japanese I TO DISCUSS ARM PROBLEM I stl hm a noc iiv lh 91 no I i oo I rind while Japanese aircraft were credited with four transports with a total tonnage of 9400 The broadcast claimed further that Japanese naval units sank 17 submarines in the period from April 1 to May 20 keep on giving yon quick service on Long Distance calls Graduation exercises of School field High School will be held Thursday night at the Baltimore Avenue School auditorium instead of the city auditorium due to the pleasure driving ban Other arrangements are to be the same stated Principal Ellis who issued the following statement: of restrictions on travel announced this week by the OPA the Schoolfield High School com mencement exercises scheduled for the Danville City Auditorium will be held in the au ditorium of the Baltimore Avenue School Thursday night preliminary band concert will start at 7:30 and the program proper at 8 change is being made for the convenience of the families and friends of the graduates who will want to attend the exercises It won't happen on all circuits all the time But when it does happen we know vouTI understand whv Masonic Temple Walnut Street Danville Martinsville MEMBER EDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MELBOURNE May Many great underground armies in Europe already are fully equipped and trained and now are waiting solely for the call to rise against i their oppressors Silvester Gruszka I of the Polish governmlnt in cxilc told a press conference today 1 I speak of an under ground army in Poland or any of the other occupied countries I mean merely a said Gruszka who is the exiled gov mean complete munitions forms and quarters which in our case is Lon don "Our underground army is in constant touch with its leaders by radio Some time ago emissaries of the exiled government arrived in Poland from London transacted business unknown to Nazi offi cials and returned to Lbndon after a fortnight in Poland Polish underground has 70 secret Before coming to Australia Gruszka represented his govern ment in New York City National optical PAY AS YOU WEAR THEM let shortage of ready cash keep you from getting glasses NOW Modern engraved "Gold mounting complete with "Pertect TORIC scientifically ground lenses for AR OR NEAR vision BUI DIRECT from our local factory branch and save many dollars Pay a little down a little each week WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE Without And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go Th liver should pour out about 2 pinta of btla juice into your howela every day If thia bile is not Bowing freely your food mar not digest may just decay in the howeU Then gas bloat up your stomach You got con atipaied You fed sour sunk and the world looks punk It lakes (hose good old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these 2 pinta of bile Haw ing freely fn make you feel and Gm a package today Take as directed JBffcrlive in making bile How freely Ask for Little Liver Kills 10 and 256 Open Sat to Stores In Prlnrlpnt cities MAIN HTRRKT lOUNhEI) J8DT supply oi quinine loi ine next veais' After that other Latin American areas may catch up The Guatemalan source is pai ticuLily handy because tha bark can be shipped overland to the Untied States for processing Contracts have been signed thiough the Board of Economic Wai fare with the Guatemalan gov ernment whereby the entire out put becomes available to the United Static In addition to furnishing quin ine this plantation will pi ovide sufficient seeds for the rest of this hcmispheie it is slated A labora loiv being established there will carry on expei imcntal work in ere gjnja Woznicki Wilkes Barre WITH A SMILE HAS A NEW MESSAGE scarcity of fresh vegetables 'But it bettered as the work slowed and food improved At the height of the campaign the girls treated about 500 patients al one lime I Surgery ran 24 hours a day I But their chief nurse pretty Idaik eyed irst Lieut Helen Giay 1 of Washington declares I of the girls want to go i back The best part about being i New Guinea was in being where (things were happening and 'know ling vvhat was going Lieut Gray has a twin sister Elizabeth who is an Army nurse inlcejand All these nurses have been inthe Army about two years They I volunteered for the first call All except irst Lieut Gray the chief i are second lieutenants i They include: Margaret Black jwood Guilford Betty Cran dall Bradford Pa Beatrice ac lleau Herkimer Irene Ga i bryolek Johnstown Pa: Lula Gen Iley lint Hill Va Jane Godwin Kingston Ont Canada lorence Green Philadelphia Juanita Hani lilton Hendersonville Ceila King Bradley Ark: Alma Koeh ler Mary Kravity Plymouth Pa Helen Athens Tenn Alina I Philadelphia Maude Weatherly Pa Sarah Baltimore Md Jeanne Savannah Ga Jane Roche Wash ington Mae Seagroves Carthage Jean Swartzvvel der Bedford Pa: Edith Yowell Palmetto la Jean Webster North Weymouth Mass Marie Woodward Nichols and Re Industrial Bank of Danville RIENDLY ECZEMA (externally caused) HEALING Eae if rhin with antiseptic Black and White Ointment Use onlv ns directed 'Cleanse with Black and White Skin Soap 15 DAY REE TRIAL Convince yourself by 15 days actual test at our risk that this ts the lenses ground on prescription of pease limit your cal Acid Indigestion Relieved in 5 minutes or double your money back stcftuph a Lt pinful rnffurtu inr tB amir tMnaeh iM hMrtburn dsetiii ntua'br pruenbo the mMtr lymptomiHc mecHrinw lit thm tn in Jiffy or otbl ytwr monoy btek on of bottle to 25c drufcHlt It will help to giYe the other fel low a chance Tomorrow that other The United States now produces RICHMOND Va May i 1 powdered skim milk at the rate Of Walker Jr state commis 1 pounds annually sionei? of agriculture said yester 1 day he would go to Washington riday in company with tural commissioners ot North Caro Ilina and Tennessee and possibly 1 nt hprx tn i ntfcl tr cvri 1 One sixth of New cultural with ood Ad 1 population is under arms ministrator Chester Davis By KIRKE SIMPSON CHICAGO May (ZP) A thousand miles of watery desola tion in the flood stricken Ameri can midlands unrolled under startled eyes of the crew and sengers of an Army lying ort ress which made a non stop flight up the Mississippi and Illinois riv ers from Memphis to Chicago be tween dawn and 9 a Hovering close above the sur face of the flood never more than 1000 feet aloft and often down to 50 the big four engined ship fol lowed every twist of the ram glut ted stream She covered twice the 500 odd mile crow flight distance between Memphis and Chicago in tankers totalling 30000 tons six freighters aggregating 57000 1 tons and a 15000 ton transport By JAMES WHITE WASHINGTON May 26 Cinchona trees at El Potvenit a The health of nearly all the 17000 acre plantation on the nurses lowered at first with lots slopes of an extinct volcano in Of hard work and bully beef and vvestcin Guatemala provide a fresh source of quinine for the United Nations It would be a dream come true for President Justo Rufino Banios if he were alive today He staited the plantation some 60 years back in an effort to develop and diver si fy his countryis economy But the Dutch in the East Indies giew cinchona mote cheaply than President Barrios could and Porvenir which means "the fu grew rank and untended The cinchona trees vveie being used for firewood and feneepusts Then Japan captuied the supply of quinine in the Dutch East indies Cinchona pioduction i 1 rv mi'IDlP nf ini HUI quiUHH uvvvmiv i A mOVNI again in where originated El Porvenir is the largest single concentrated source of quinine known in the western hemispheie Aerial surveys indicate that it has I enough cinchona trees to providean estimated 25 per cent of our I HiiiiilliA frit' (lias PV BY TOM YARBROUGH SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA iP) Twenty eight American Army nurses who went through some of the worst fighting in New Guinea have returned to Aus tralia' Probably no group of American women ever stayed so long so close to any fighting front They had been out five months and more through the worst of the Buna campaign And they want to go back They are American hospital now Most were none their experiences and rapidly are regaining the 10 to 15 pounds they lost on the torrid mosquito ridden island It was a big day last October when the first group landed in New Guinea white women since lhe evacuation in March 1942 men did so much gawking the winding road that two and a truck Their drivers ing back The nurses to the fighting but the front line came to them in the form of air raids One night eight incendiary bombs fell in the hospital area One started a fire near the op erating room The only casualty was a nurse who sprained an ankle jumping into a slit trench The health of nearly all the By RICHARD MASSOCK (ormer Chief of the Associated Press Bureau In Rome) WASHINGTON May Diplomatic observers expressed doubt today that Italy would be invaded by the Allies this summer although they said the threat of in vasion 'would hang constantly over that unhappy peninsula These observers who have con centrated on the Italian situation from day to day said the major drive in Europe would almost cer tainly be made against the Ger mans with Italy a secondary factor jn the invasion planning Since Berlin is the major objec tive in Europe it was believed here that easier roads lie through countries other than Italy rance and the Balkans for be cause of Italy's peculiar Veographi ca'l formation with the Alps block ing the upper end of the penin sula Pending the invasion of the con tinent probably at several prints the American British policy appar ently Is to bomb Italy out of the war If Italy collapses deserted by the Germans four major develop ments are expected The Italian Army would offer' only brief resistance to Allied oc cupation with the Italian people accepting it as a deliverance from ascism 2 Premier Mussolini would take hi government in exile to Ger many to escape retribution and to avoid the surrender of his last vestige of personal power 3 King Vittorio Emanuele would abdicate probably in favor of his 6 ear old grandson the Prince of Naples in the hope that he too young to be tarred with the brush of ascism could keep the mon archy alive 4 United States Army officers trained in the school of military government at Charlottesville Va would set up a purely military ad ministration in Italy until the of the war An insight into the United tions view of future' given by Prime 51 mister Church ill ycstciday at a White House press conference Mr Churchill who promised that the Italians will have a Dart1 in tin? new life of Europe said he pm lance recognized that a one parly totali tarian system applied over a num ber of years was capable of oblit erating the sense of personal lib erty The Italians for instance had allowed themselves to be led by the nose by intriguing leaders Churchill said he thought they would be very well advised now to dismiss their leaders and throw themselves muthe justice of those they have as he put it so grievous ly offended (By The Associated Press) Japan today officially acknowl edged damage to 19 vessels in the Southwest Pacific since April An Imperial headquarters an nouncement broadcast by Tokyo! and recorded by The Associated Press said merely that dam i ages since April comprise 19 ves but tlie communique gave aj strong indication that some and I possibly all were sunk At the same time Imperial head quarters claimed that Japanese forces sank 13 Allied vessels in the South Pacific between May 5 and May 24 five of them trans 1 i ports The claim was unsubstan i I tiated by Allied reports on ship ping losses her winding course soaring above a veritable inland sea dotted with flood bound cities towns and vil lages and hundreds of farm build ings standing second story or eave deep in the flood waters The ortress piloted by Capt Spencer Treharne was on a rou tine training flight from her home base at Hendricks ield la She carried half a dozen young air force pilots and a group of Wash ington newsmen who had thumbed their way aboard with Army sanc tion to survey the flood areas Taking off from Bolling ield at 1 a yesterday the big ship swung up above the overcast for a 10000 foot level dash to Memphis She got there ahead of time and until the light grew strong enough to see the flood scene Cap tain Treharne kept her soaiing over the sleepiifg city its ordered street lights showing sometimes like a drop curtain against the plane windows as she banked Before the first rays of broke through the haze the er leveled away close doww brown surface of the river trolling with majestic calm still well within its grass guard the low I Va Zt Loans hM jjjr 'to 'iri BLACK WHITE.

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