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HHH i E1 I 1 2 The Associated Press Danville Va Monday Afternoon May 29 1944 Americans acing 8O00 PLANES HIT EUROPE 1 SI 8 1 the part of consumers as regards No change was noted in the de Hi 1 (Please turn to page 7 story No 5) iff spread Is 8 THE WEATHER HUH luC 14' 1 1 1 1 cl 1 1 i 3 Uncase turn to page 7 story No 6) taking a iring toll a headquarters Juft 8 8 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRES 88 QUEER STORY THIRTY HOUR WEEK ATER WAR GETS OK Auto Stamps Go On Sale June 10 3 Of 18 Enemy Divisions Have Been Destroyed Plot 10 Minute JobSixWeeks Consolidate Positions Against Increasing Opposition Driving To Take Airfield His oot Severed In Wreck ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE OR ALL WASHINGTON May The $500 automobile use tax stamps for the coming year will go on sale June 10 in postofficcs and internal revenue of fices These will cover the tax for the fiscal car beginning July 1 and must be displayed on windshield's after that date NEWPORT S'EWS Va Printers Elect Charlotte Man At Meeting MIAMI la May 29 Pvt annie Allred age 20 of 253 Main St Danville Va a member of the Army Corps has strived here at Army Air orces Redistribution Station No 2 and is assigned to the sta tion's permanent party personnel Private Allred entered the Army March 14 1944 and received her basic training at ort Ogle thorpe Ga She is the daughter of Pattie A Purdum 258 Main Street Danville At the Redistribution Station where Pnvate Allred now serves AA returnees from overseas are examined by specially medical and classification officers whose joint findings are used in determining new assignments Pvt annie Allred Is Stationed At lorida Air Base Testifies Miller Sane WASHINGTON May A government psychiatrist testified at the murder trial of Robert I Miller today that in his opinion the 67 ear old law yer Mas sane when he shot Dr John Lind last ebruary of production after the war It was his opinion that when industry turns from war to civil ian production there will not be a flood of sensational and stream lined products and gadgets on the market are going to have to get along for awhile at' least on the same model automobile which was available just before the war he said have been promised too many things when the war is over It will be some time before many new things are Incumbent conference officers were re elected at the business session yesterday morning and a Strike Shows Amei jcans Soan Signs Now Americans opan Of Breaking I Germany Blast But Many Are I ftl stimdie Polish Plants Move To Kill EPC Measure Wins Support ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS New Guinea May 29 Lt Gen Walter Sixth Army troops pressed for ward on Biak Island off the Dutch New Guinea north coast today against increasing Japanese efforts to trip up the Americans in their latest 200 mile strike toward the Philippines Gen Douglas MacArthur said the Americans have" consolidated their positions around Bosner cap tured shortly after the naval and air supported landings Saturday three miles east of the town The Yanks were reaching for Mokmer airfield two and one half 'miles away 1 Mokmer airfield four miles west of Rosner is one of three airstrips on Bink largest island In the Schoutcr group Capture of the fields will put Allied bombers only 880 miles from the southern tip of the Philippines and 600 miles south of Palau the South Seas headquarters in the western Carolines The Japanese were bitterly de fending the mire their snipers Delegates to the Virginia Caro linas Typographical Conference which met here over the week end called upon industry and labor to adopt1 the 30 hour workweek in the post war period as the only means of maintaining full employ ment and avoiding a serious eco nomic setback They also' went on record as favoring the early con solidation of the American edera tion of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization The union printers also asked Congress to increase wages of em ployes in the Government Print ing Office at Washington so as to biing their pay in line with em ployes of private industry In a resolution directed to OPA Administrator Chester Bowles he was requested to see that more representatives of organized labor are named to rationing boards and price panels The resolution concerning a shorter woikwcek stated that em ployment would be needed for 55 million people after the war and that the only way to prevent un unemplojment and consequent chaos is to create 60 million jobs so there will be a surplus of em ployment at all times At the banquet session Sunday afternoon at Hotel Danville Rhame sales manager for the Mer genthaler Linotype Company warned against over optimim on BELAST May The Irish Press Eamon De newspaper today attacked Amon Carter of ort Worth Tex for an article it said appeared in his newspaper The Irish Press quoted the American publication as saving the people of Southern Ireland still are fighting Cromwell and that they also are fighting America and Americans De Valera'spaper said it is a shocking thing that a man in Carter's responsible position should expose himself to what the Press described as choapjack lie spoken about this 1 TEMPERATURES 7 A May 71) ct 2 today LYNCHBURG May A total of 221 seniors received de grees today al Randolph Macon College Sweet' Briar College and Lynchburg College The Randolph Macon class of 123 heard Dr Walter Kirkland Greene president of Wofford College Spartanburg At Sweet Briar where Bernard Mayo professor of American History at the Univer sity of Virginia was the speaker it was announced that 14 honor graduates wcie among the 78 sen iors Lynchburg College with a class of 20 heard Dr Guy Snavely executive director of the Associa tion of American Colleges New York honorary degrees of LI and respectively were con feted upon Viiginius Dabney edi tor of the Richmond Timcs Dis patch and the Rev Carroll Cut tis Roberts of Ninth Street Christian Church Washington Accidents Scattered Over Old Dominion mand of the that the mill manaccment stop hiring col ored people to run the frames Union hall was jam packed yes terday when an election of a new contract committee took place' the occasion being seized by union of ficials to address the strikers and to urge upon them the necessity of complying with the present work ing contract with the mills But it was evident that there was a stubborn reluctance on the part of some to go back to work and when the question was posed about half manifested a desire to resume their posts while the remaining half would not hear to it Paul Robinson union director argued with them and so did red Beck the federal conciliator They applied all of their powers of per suasion When Lieutenant Wightman representing the Army and sent here from the Philadelphia Quar termaster Depot to fmd out what is stopping the execution of con tracts for needed Navy and Army cloth attempted to speak he was (Please turn to page 7 story No 4) Irish Press lays Article OUNDED EBRUARY 1890 4oth Year no is 665 SEVEN AUTO ATALITIES IN VIRGINIA More Aid or Disabled Vets WASHINGTON Mav measures increasing com pensation of disabled veterans of both world were sign ed today by Piesidcnt Roose velt Ike Hubbard Is Badly Hurt In Accident HOME EDITION Price: ive Cents spokesman said With the capture of Bosner the Americans also took two enemy six inch guns four five mch and two three inch pieces lilac Arthur reported These pins part icipated in the exchange of shells with American and Australian naval vessels which covered Saturday's landing The ships suffered some damage The Americans also liberated 200 Javanese held 'as laborers by the Japanese Allied bombers splashed 283 tons of explosives on Japanese po sitions Nine enemy planes five of them bombers were downed by Allied fighters and surface ves antiaircraft guns One of the four Nipponese bombers accounted for by the ack ack crashed on an escort vessel damaging the ship and causing casualties among the crew MacArthur described the Biak landings as virtually concluding the Allied campaign for New Guinea The thrust was 200 miles vest of Wakde Island which had fallen under the Yankee invasion wave May IB May 29 Newport News Ship building plant engi office worked for six weeks on plan? and construction for mov ing a ponderous yard crane 65 feet to a new foundation and then moved it in ten minutes The center of gravity of the crane which has a capacity of 120 tons was 100 feet above the base on which It was moved so the mas sive steel unit had to be kept on dead center during the process Engineers figured from study of instruments that the total move ment off center at the top of the crane during the moving was less than one Inch i Late News (Bv Sid eder) ALLIED HDQRS Naples May ifth Army troops stormed toward four Rome line strongholds against fierce resistance today thrust ing one wedge within 17 miles of the Eternal City Headquarters declared three of 18 German divisions engaged battle had been virtually destroy ed in the broad offensive launched May 11 with more than 15000 prisoners taken Overwhelming Aprilia once bit terly contested beachhead fortress the ifth punched north within a mile of Compoleone the closest penetration toward Rome To the east the ifth Army advanced within 2000 yards of Valmontone on the shell torn Via Casilina de spite flame throwing German counterassaults 1 Steady ai tillcry fire was pumped onto the Via Casilina main escape route for eight German divisions being forced back on the front to the southeast In between on the Campolcone Valmontone line other forces fought in the outskirts of Vclletri on the Appian Way and closed upon Lanuvia four miles south west where the Alban hills begin to rise from the Pontine Plain several sharp German counterattacks the Americans are advancing slowly in the direction of a battlcfront dispatch from Associated Press Correspon dent Edward Kennedy declared Meanwhile the Eighth Army in the Liri and Sacco valleys to the southeast pushed ahead breaking down German rear guard stands As the sound of the great battle rolled into Rome the enemy in (Please turn to page 7 story No 1) 88811 News And Pictures Two Greot Services In This By 8 '8 1 11 ALLIES STORM STRONGHOLDS rozen ood Lockers or Local People Of Behind New Industry RICHMOND Va May (P) police and other sources reported seven automobile acci dent fatalities in Virginia from riday night through Sunday Inez Coward Sutherland 39 and John Young Sutherland 50 both of lorence C' were killed in a non eollision accident on 21 three miles south of Speedwell in Wythe county riday night state police leported George Dunbar two years old of Aide: son Va was killed Satur day morning on Route 250 two miles west of Richmond when a truck in which he was riding with his parents and brother and sis ter collided with an automobile Mrs Minnie Hall 39 of Roanoke was killed when an automobile in which she was riding struck a pole in Roanoke Her husband also was injured State police said James Gallion 18 negro of Brunswick county was found dead Saturday about a mile cast of Smoky Ordinary in Brunswick county Police said he had been struck ny a nit run driver Linwood Stanfield 14 negro of Warfield died early in a Petersburg hospital of injuries re ceived Saturday afternoon when he was struck by an automobile in the road in front of his home at Warfield Ulysses Brown 11 of Route 14 Richmond died Sunday night in St Philip Hospital here of injuries received when an auto mobile stiuck a group of spectators at a ball paik on the Varina road near Richmond Most of the Riverside Division mills were shut down today be cause of the strike of spinners but this afternoon a more optimistic view was being taken and it was believed that the situation would gradually improve' The idleness of the spinning frames was causing a lack of fill ing and yarn in the later stages and the earlier processes also had to stop to prevent a complete dis organization of the dovetailing processes of cloth making Mill management representa tives and union representatives met with the Army authority and the the federal conciliator this morning it was said that just about went over the same ground as on Nobody could be found who would undertake to say What would happen if the present stalemate continued or whether the govern ment would fmd it necessary to intervene as it has in other struck plants engaced on war production While more spinning frames wore running todav than Saturday between 2500 and 3000 remained idle in the Riverside di vision today A mill spokesman said this morning situation looks per haps a bit better than it did More frames are running but the strike is not A union representative said was at the gates this and it looked to me that about half of the strikers have gone back I bblieve it will wear itself out some time this flazi Tension Grows 1 LONDON May German broadcasts reflected in creased tension in Marshal Von entire invasion front facing this troop packed island today as temperatures over the glassy Strait of Dover reached an unofficial 100 de grees shortly before noon' The Swiss newspaper Ga zette De Lausanne gave a new clue to the defense problem of Von Rundstedt complicated by railroads tangled and snarled hy profusions of Allied bombs The newspaper said there was increasing fear of a general Day 'strike of rench railroad workers and that the Nazis were sending in more key trans portation officials and workers for key posts Nab 6 In Draft Plot CHICAGO May ive men who the BI said had criminal records were held today on charge of evading'military service by paying bribes to military personnel at the Chicago induction station A sixth man was arrested on a charge of aiding and abet ting the five others in evading military service and a seventh wanted on the same charge is at large Revolt In Ecuador QUITO Ecuador May (i A revolution broke out to day among military forces and civilians The movement was led by supporters of Velasco Ibarra former president who is in exile and has been living near the Ecuadorean border in Colombia Ask Reimbursement und WASHINGTON May President Roosevelt today asked congress for action on a $90130 appropriation to reim burse government foreign serv ice rmploves for property lost because of war conditions Ends Life Avoids Torture ATGIERS May CT) Jacques Mederic underground leader and member of the rench Consultative Assembly killed himself tn avoid torture and nnsslhlv forced disrlnsures when he was arrested by the Germans in Paris last April friends disclosed today Stiff Resistance 1 In Drive On Rome 3 Vote Extension WASHINGTON May T) Legislation extending for one year the time in which the Pearl Harbor commanders eventualy could be tried on charges of dereliction of duty was approved today by the House rules committee Under the statute of limita tions prosecution normally would be barred after June 1944 Use Rockets On Japs WASHINGTON May (P) Rocket equipped fighter 1 planes have been used success fully In rombat against the Japanese the Army Air orces reported today Temperature Reading By The Bee's Radial Thermometer 1 V1 Coal production durin! the week ended May 20 declined by 21000 tons ot antnracite and 2buuuu tons of bituminous below that of the preceding week Interior Secretai Ickes reported todhy Ickes added however that pro auction ot coin types showed a gain over the comparable week a year ago wm the six day work week was net yet in effect and when work stoppages had cut into production 4 Bituminous output in the week ended Mav 20 was estimated at 12300000 tons and anthracite pro duction at 1305000 ton Baccalaureate Service Yesterday This evening at 7:30 o'clock the Senior Hall Class of Stratford College will present its Class Day exercises on the campus of the school The program for the evening is as follows: Miss rances Par ker History Miss Helen Weaver Last Will and Testament Miss Caroline Harrison Prophesy MLs Barabara Carey Gift to College Presentation Miss Mildred Helm Rosa Gray Simp son 'At the conclusion of the pro gram a feature of particular in terest will be presented when the class will sing a farewell song in Latin Students of the Latin cia's who wrote the lyrics for the song were Misses Betsy Coleman Carolyn Goldsmith and Rosa Gray Simpson Music was composed by Mrs Virginia Pace Cook of the Music Department of Stratford College Among the acivities bringing the school year to a final close was the baccalaureate service which was conducted yesterday morning at Mount Vernon Methodist Church with the Reverend 11 Pearson pastor delivering the ad dress to the graduating classes Dr Pearson based his sermon on the words of Jesus: "I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more believe you will agree with me that the supreme question ot our lives is what is the purpose of my 8 4 believe it is possible for every one of us to live abundantly Strange to say our age knows everything about life except how to live It is not enough to know about life We must know how to live We have acted as though life were made up of a lot of separate entities Life to be abun dant must be a unified things a supreme being must be back our lives Unless He comes in to lives to show them how to live their lives can not bo abundant Appeals Against Dismemberment of Poland Are Heard BUALO May Pleas that the United States re sist any efforts toward dismember ment of Poland were sounded at the opening session of a Polish American congress In his keynote address yester day Charles Rozmarek of Chicago chairman of the Execu tive Committee and president of the Polish National Alliance told the 3000 delegates representing more than 5000000 Americans of Polish extraction that "certain American radio and newspaper columnists whom he did not identify: have been "waging a campaign of vilification not only against Pol in but against native Americans of Polishdescent" "These he added to forget that flushing mil lions of people into the Russian oi hit means forcing them to live under an anti democratic govern Danville is to have a frozen food locker plant similar to that to be established in Charlottesville It would be a local enterprise backed by local capital and it would be established somewhere in the business section The frozen locker plant would enable Danville people to lay in supplies of meat poultry fruit and vegetables wmen would be quickly frozen and maintained fit for service as needed The system would work like a safety deposit box system in a bank and each individual would have his own compartment and would draw on his surplus frozen foods as needed It has been tried elsewhere and is considered a good means of preserving surplus peri shable foods The government approves of these plants and manufactur ing concerns are given priorities in producing them The Danville Chamber of Cnm merce is heading up this enter prise after having examined jts possibilities and approving them After checking the experiences elsewhere 4 1 1 Another OPA Check Up Is' Promised Here A two wepk drive to step up Danville's price control program opens this week when each one of the members of the local war price and rationing board will be asked to recruit one price panel assistant Moore Jr board executive announced today He said that the local campaign would be a part of the OPA's nationwide drive to increase the number of priqe panel assistants throughout the country "Our Danville price panel as sistants who have been working with the price panel have done a remarkable Moore declared He pointed out that volunteers checked ten popular bas foods in local groceries and helped storekeeper' understand regulations during national food price check survey in March have given every evi dence that they are anxious for these surveys to continue because they are sincere in their efforts to cooperate with us and price control Moore said urgently need volunteers who will give them the compliance in formation necessary for them to keep their stores in he said He stated that the board's price panel intends to use volunteers to conduct surveys of local restau rants services and clothing mer chandise stores as well as for the continuance of retailer checks 221 Seniors Win Degrees At Three Colleges In State DANVH AND ViriNITYs Clear cool tonight: Tuesday fair slightly warmer In after noon VIRGINIA Clear and cool tonight Tuesday fair slightly warmer in the Interior NORTH CAROLINA? air to partly cloudy and mild tonight Widely scattered (humforhow or ihl afirnnnn and eveHlrtt mostly In south and east por tlenv Tuesday partly cloudy and mild DR Submits Report WASHINGTON Mav LPi Roosevelt today sent congress for its Informa tion a report on the activities of the recent conference of the International Labor Organiza tion in Philadelphia Isaac Hubbard of Claiborne street for many years a dealer in mules and horses was in serious condition at Danville Community Hospital today here he wras taken yesterday shortly before noon in what was an unusual traffic acci dent at Stokesland He was suffer ing from the effect of the amputa tion of a foot and part of the leg mutilated in the accident Hubbard was coming towards Danville driving a truck containing a horse and a mule Near the entrance to the golf club police said a truck belonging police said to the Slater urniture Company of Slater sought to over take Hubbard In so doing the truck fouled that bearing the mule and the horse and Hubbard no longer able to control his truck left the road The truck turned over at a point where two large poles used for electric wires and known as "foryt five foot black were lying on the shoulders One of these acted as a spear the end of the pole penetrating the radiator cleaving the motor passing through the driver's scat and embedding itself in the chas sis As the pole came through Hubbards leg was caught by it and he was badly crushed Neith er the horse nor the mule was hurt Police said that the driver of the Slater truck did not pause and kept on towards Danville but a following automobile before which the accident had been enacted did not stop but started the pursuit of the truck which descended to the River level and proceeded down the River Road The people in the automobile pulled ahead of the truck and by signs and ges (Please turn to page 7 story No 3) Workers Vote To May Close 2 Big Plants LONGVIEW Wash May 29 The two largest sawmills in the world the Longbell and Wev erhauescr mills here were faced with closure as a result of action by a mass meeting of CIO em ployes last night to today Howell president of Inter national Woodworkers of America (CIO local 5 36 which he said rep resents a large majority of the workers in both mills said "it is the mills will close An affiliated union local 107 boommcn and rafters also voted "to go fishing for a few days" approximately 80 men are in volved Approximately 2500 men are employed by the two mills which would make it the largest in dividual closures in the series of walkouts which have throughout Oregon and Washing ton in protest against the War Labor Boards refusal to giant wage increases asked the IWA and the AL Lumber and Saw mill Workers union Class Day Rites Tonight viy a I al orrauura I I I 4 included among Areas Hammered By Gladwin Hill)' LONDON May A thousand heavy American oomoers ana izuu ugnters spanned the length of Ger many today bombing two air craft fnetnrfos in Poland a nrt four in central and eastern uvxuxauy wnuc uuiui necLO struck up from the south at the Vienna and Wiener Neus tadt areas As the stunning day of bo: bardment drew to dusk it appear ed that the Allies might have sent oo me record number of 8000 warplanes which flew Sunday from Britis and Italian bases The predominantly America fleets of warplanes scourged the face of lirnno hnmhni tho in vasion coasts of rance and Bel gium strafed the front lines in Italy and reached deep inside Ger many Poland and Austria to tea up hideaway plants of the German aircraft industry mt jAv uuint iini" neei equall ed that Of hir the largest ever dispatched by the rorces The Polish factories were Poznan and Kreisling Those i tprmanv urara at i eirvii Cottbus and Sorau The flight to roznan entailed a roundtrip of al I ft 4 1 4 St A 1 TMI Simultaneously hundreds of American combers struclc Knnsilx a z) a 1 1 at utaun auu xvutdiecuv ar ini rench invasion coast ul icaiHuaGs arm 'airdromes The attacking ortresses and Liberators split into several spear in enoris to confound th enemy defenses The German ra dio reported the fleets engaged in a number of skv battles Enemy broadcasts said another nineu iieet was striKing in the lower uanuoe basin from Italv The operations on this hot sum mer day were in force comparable to great' outpouring when 6000 bombers and fighters flew from British bases and 2000 mnrp cfmrb rnm Tfnlv nhrnHw hn TL'itinft kAWlft LUV liunuil WSILVAC fllva Kreisling is five miles southeast ot Poznan wnere the heavy bomb eis have battered aircraft Kp fnrc Tntniv nlan kne Koon ViArnk Please turn to page 7 story No 2) 1 Coal Production Ctt TX snows ueciine CMERnKRR Tnwa Mnv Louis Collins knows that GA amateur lumberjacks can end up on a limb He climbed up a tree to trim it became so Interested he cut off the limb against which his ladder was leaning and had to atay in the tree an hour before his wife got help to get him 'I down A 'L iW Americans Pressing orward On Newly Invaded Biak Isle WASHINGTON May Strong southern support developed today for a move to kill before it can get to the Senate floor the bitterly disputed $500000 appro priation which the House voted last week for the fair employ ment pi act ices commit tee Senators Russell (D Ga) May bank (D C) ami Bankhead (D all members of the appropriations committee to which the matter will be referred de clared they would join in "exert ing every to strike out the item While the EPC has the task of preventing race discrimination in war industry Bankhead told a re porter that "it stirs up race strife rather than cases it" nni icc cit vr BOMBAY India May (Mohandas Gandhi spoke to his entourage today breaking a sclf hjiposcd silence of two weeks dur ing which he rested It was con sidered unlikely that he would make a political pronouncement in the immediate future He recently was released from Internment a 8 'd 'i 1 rf i i st 4) i 8'4 8 8 "ell RS at EXi.