The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 6

The Bee Danvfffe Va Tuesday August 26 1941 India Like Persia Imperiled by Nazi Menace Martinsville Daily New Kiev New Chief Tassel Bldg Martinsville Va Aug 26 1941 Telephone Number 5160 BULGARIA Black Istanbul china TURKEY Khyber AGHANISTAN IRAQ Abadan EGYPT KUWAI ARABIA 500 OMAN Personals at 36 NEW YORK Aug Il a Loews to be NUMBER 1 the the and with some of the problems Sarah Takes Command Back rom England Texas 4 cuvy Mrs Dwight Davis 1 ft) afi I cook bum local made authority members re a tour of Danville and for the SUEZ Canal be learned are given the No 1 In the forecasting involving use of and aerial trans of ground troops Marshall has returned and has as her guest Ralph Carol said to have bombed the towns of Kermanshah which Iles 85 miles In side the Iraq frontier near the center of it and Razaleh (Urmia) a railway town alongside Lake Urmia about "25 miles Inside the Iraq frontier and about 100 miles south of the Soviet border Trials Postponed Demo Delegates Presentation of tt official char 1 ter by Miss Eva Wall of Winston Salem second vice president of: the Altrusta International was the hlgn Hght of the first regular program meeting" of the newly organized local Altrusa chapter last evening at "Thsl Breezes" In presenting the charter! to Miss Bees Tuggle president of the local group Miss Wall spoke briefly concerning the objectives ofl Altrusa citing the motto of "Patriot ism Efficiency and Women are needed In public affairs In these times as never before Miss Wall said stating that In group action women may attain more intelligent action and fender greater service ollowing the dinner and preceding the charter presentation the program was In charge of Mrs Ruth Simmons program chairman Each member re sponded to the roll call with a few words about her professional work Mrs Mary Lou Rothrock president of the High Point Altrusa Club Miss Madeline Hoover vice president and Miss Lucille Johnson past president were out of town guests at the meet ing Mrs Rothrock who together with local Altrusa chapter extended an in 4 vltation to the Martinsville group to come to High Point on September 23rd to attend a lecture by Mrs Eliza beth Turner of London England who has been active In defense plan 4 nlng for her province and is now in the United States In defense organll zatlon work I th can! ap re low Archibald now hold the terminals of Entertains Garden Club Auxiliary Mrs MacBryde Jr will be hostess Wednesday at to the members of the Martinsville Garden Club Auxiliary Mrs Booth Jr is program leader with the subject New Kinds" The exhibit Is a green and white arrangement Whoa tba military training courts for pUoto hits ita stride next year th UnltM states will be turning out more tfeM 50000 aviators every 12 month Only ew Top Note hers Lost to Came Yet Altrusa Club ormed Here SOVIET RUSSIA PMrible Axis Drives Possible British BussUn Drives British Controlled Housing Project Visited By Local Authority Seventy five new airporta have been approved for the system of defense and civil landing fields since Jan 1 as compared with only 51 added during 1940 Cedars at by and ter noticeably than four pounds of po tatoes according to dietitians Plan to orm orce Imme diately After September 1 Had Exciting Trip Mrs from Suffolk Miss Bessie Applewhite of Suffolk Mrs James Crosby Jr and Mrs Kenneth Whitener are spending this week with Mrs Robert Pannin at Blowing Rock Mrs George Horner is the guest of Mr and Mrs ogarty Mr and Mrs Broaddus Jr and children have returned from Jacksonville la where they spent the week with relatives Mr and Mrs Kester have returned from lorida Bev and Mrs Reed and Miss Mary Beth Reed are spending this week at Montreat Mr and Mrs MacBryde Jr have reutrned from Virginia Beach where they spent several days with Dr and Mrs Jones John Redd and son John Redd Jr of Washington are the guests of relatives in this city Young Local Girl Struck By Auto Patricia Ann Wright is a patient at the Shackelford Hospital where she Is being treated for a broken leg that she sustained while riding on Star ling avenue John Kitchen of Georgia was bonded for his appear ance at a trial set In September as the driver of the car which struck the little girl Harman New Baptist Pastor Rev Charles Harman formes pastor of the iret Baptist churcn at Narrows Va has accepted a call to the Starling Avenue Baptls church as pastor of that church IHe succeeds Rev George SlmJ mons who resigned to take his place In the army I Rev Harman will assume charge of his ne pastorate on October 1 1 He Is a native of Gallatin Mo He was ordained In 1935 serving eJ a minister of the West LynchburJ Baptist church Prior to his career a a minister Mr Harman was a profes slonal teacher He taught at Lynch burg college where he also received his bachelor of science degree ant? taught also at Georgia School of Tech nogy Auxiliary Meeting Held on Monday Mrs Charles Keesee presided at the meeting of the Mis sionary Auxiliary of the irst Bap tist Church Monday evening The devottonals were led by Ute members of Circle No 8 with Mrs Thomas Tatum chairman' at was India enters the Near East war picture along with Iran as threatened Nazi drives across Turkey or the Ukraine emphasize proximity of German legions to biggest possession Nazis are re ported massing on Bulgarian Turkish border while British Russian armies are said ready to enter Iran from three directions Map possible German and British Russian thrusts Seales of Miles 0 County Supervisors Meet Held Monday The Board of Supervisors of Henry county at their meeting Monday en dorsed the Henry County Hunting and ishing club of Bassett Va and recommended that the club do all in Its power to interest the farmers of said county conserving the game and fish of Henry county The board passed a resolution that the State orester of Virginia be and is hereby requested to approve a change in the rate of pay to persons employed by the orest Wardens of the said county for the suppression of forest fires from the present rate of 20c per hour for registered fire fighters and 15c per hour for non 'reglstered fire fighters to the revised rate of 25c per hour for registered fire fighters and 20c an hour for non registered fire fighters and the clerk Is directed to transmit an attested copy of this resolution to the State orester University Station Char lottesville Va The American Legion was released from the tax carnival at Bassett the week of August 21 1941 A Stegall police officer of the county salary was fixed at 412500 Instead of $150 Johnson special officer at ieldale was allowed a salary of $100 per month The judges' salary was placed $66871 John Wray agreed to pay 60 tons of gravel to be used on road from ieldale on the south side of Smith river to a dead end A report of the Camp Marlon Va wsis given Stultz Bailey Henderson Thompson housing can be undertaken pound of white bread and but will affect the waistline more Southern Loop ootball Not Hit By Draft The trial of Garth Price charged with highway robbery was postponed from Tuesday in the Trial Justice Court until Tuesday Sept 2nd Junius Wilson charged with ma licious wounding of James Watkins was postponed for trial from today to September 23 due to the illness of Watkins The charges against Wes Brown and Marion Donahoe in the case ot Pink Sims were dropped Melvin Murphy faced charges ot the murder of Pink Sims this morn ing in the Trial Justice Court Daniel Meeks the first common wealth witness testified that he Donahoe Simms Murphy and Wright went In a car to the Virginia line and several engaged In a card game near the road Meeks quoted Murphy as saying that Sims had a nice roll and If he got drunk he would get it and If not he would kill him The morning after Meeks said Murphy came to his home and told him that he had to take a but he got what he wanted Wes Brown also stated that Mur phy came to his home that evening and told him he had hit Sims with a made no specific mention of sectors 4 1 a ava 4 rwn A aaa TUa Dsia slans took this as an Indication there had been no changes in the battle front In the Gomel area where Red army counter attacks were reported yesterday or in the Ukraine where Russian forces were reported holding out at Odessa and on the west bank of the Dnieper around Dnleperope trovsk (German military reports described the innish drive from the north as approaching close to the Karelian Isthmus town of Vilpurl and belief was expressed in Berlin that the town would fall within a few days (The Germans declared they had repulsed Red army counterattacks in the central section near Gomel They said the last Russian bridgeheads on the west bank of the Dnieper were being mopped up one by one A NOBLE GRAND NAME IS RAGSDALE Mrs Eugenia Rags dale' noble grand of the Warren Re bekah lodge Vicksburg Miss visited the Ruth Rebekah lodge here and was introduced to its noble grand Nothing strange In only the noble grand of the Ruth Rebekah lodge also Is named Mrs Eugenia Ragsdale The two women are not related tloo st Naft I Shah and took the town of Qasr I Shirln British General Sir Wavell's desert fighters western arffi southern Iran's only two modern highways A threat of Invasion of India seem ed to British observers to be removed bv the Ruaslan Brltisn action against Iran Since Afghanistan forms the longest barrier between India and Iran it 'was assumed that British operations would all be primarily di rected from Iraq Arid Baluchistan only has common frontiers with India Completing an inspection tour of the American gift distribution in England Mrs Dwight Davis na tional director of the American Red Cross volunteer service is pictured at LaGuardia airport liter flying back from England 7 A committee of the Danville Hous ing Authority is In Bristol today to examine at close view the housing project undertaken in that city many months ago and one wnich is claim ing the interest of other Virginia cities engaged on similar projects The purpose of the visit is to see the modus operandl of the project so that the local group may be fa miliar ahead The cently wer astonished as there are many primitive dwellings In the city which Is not actually colstltutlng a health risk are so primitive in their polntments that they should be moved In many of these areas a standard of living was detected A more comprehensive survey Is to be made in which detailed data will be accumulated and a priority scale arrived at showing which dwellings should be first razed and points where new NUMBER 3 REPORT IRAN RESISTANCE IS STUBBORN (Continued rom Page One) Mediterranean Sea forced to bring up reinforcements to fill gaps In their ranks caused by tremendous losses The militia called to the arms by Premier Stalin was described by Pravda as "taking the test In heroic battles for their fighting cou rageously side by side with the Red army (The British radio quoted a Mos cow broadcast last night that Nazi forces had reached the approaches to Leningrad and reporting that the big armed citizenry would fight on at every street corner) Twenty four hours of drenching rain was reported to have soaked the whole vast battlefront from Len ingrad to the Ukraine and Russians counted on increasingly bad weather to help bog down the German ad vance The early morning communique STRATEGIC POINTS ARE CAPTURED BY ALLIED INVADERS (Continued rom Page One) Radiophoto British Primo Minister Winston Churchill (second from left) and ranklin Roosevelt Jr (center with aiguillettes) are shown as they reviewed United States Marines in Iceland whero American forces are guarding the former Danish island against Nazi invasion The son accompanied Churchill to the Western Hemisphere outpost following the historic Roosevelt Churchill conference on the high km Thia photo was sent from London to New York by radio ADMrtTEDWITHIN 35 MILES MAIN MOSCOW RAILROAD ((V W0W4S (Continued rom Page One)' To Attend Meet The Democratic convention held In Roanoke on August 29 and 30 will draw a large number of representatives from the various dis trict throughout the state The local delegates to attend the convention at Hotel Roanoke are Clanton Kearfott A Baldock Emery Goode Carter Cary Randolph John Shumate James Carter Broaddus Jr and Jake Aaron RICHMOND Va Aug Unless Uncle Sam makes heavier de mands on the Southern Conference than now is Indicated the football program will be little Effect ed by the selective service act this season Only two or three really top notch players have been lost already by the 16 member schools Some two dozen or more have low draft numbers but only a few are likely to be wearing khaki by fall As far as can Blue Devils who pre season spot hereabouts have lost no key men to the armed forces Coach Wallace squad is large and so well fortified with grid talent that despite the draft uncertainty support ers are not passing up any even mon ey offers on the Tennessee game Oc tober 4 at Durham North Carolina which along with 1940 champions is regard ed as chief rival for confer ence supremacy received a stiff blow In the loss to the Army of Johnny Pecora He had been groomed to take over the tailback post of grad uated Jim Lalanne Clemson also lost one first teamer In George loyd 175 pound wing back and two reserve guards Joe Richardson and Chuck Reynolds leaving the line somewhat vulnerable as the Tigers begin practice Coaches Carl Voyles at William and Mary and (Peahead) Walker at Wake orest both of whom method ically have been building for several years for a crack at the title are keeping fingers crossed They hope that their promising but short on reserves squads will remain intact until November urman lost three men of a squad of 45 Indludlng James (Preacher) McQueen 205 pound tackle and Mer rill McDaniel 180 pound guard who might have earned regular berths a George Washington newcomer to the circuit has lost Henry Agusie wlcz guard and Adolph Blaslnl end Missing from Washington and Lee will be Tailback Johnny Ligon and Bert Nelson 175 pound end A survey of athletic departments found unanimous opposition to mak ing freshmen eligible to fill varsity gaps There was some talk however about the advisability of changing the regulation which forces an ath lete to play his one year of fresh man and three years of varsity foot fall within a five year period (SThis rule would cut short the collegiate careers of selectees under the draft extension act Advance ticket sales for major games are better than usual on most campuses Already it looks like at least two sellouts for 50000 capacity stadium for the North Car olina and Tennessee 'games Southeastern confer ence) MANY BVY LICENSES An increasing demand for hunting licenses is noted at the office of the clerk of the court with the approach of the squirrel season on September 1 Each applicant Is given a leaflet containing the ten commandments of hunting safety Air borne troops were flown lntJ Iran to protect the families of Brit ons employed by the Anglo Iranian OU Company Details of their opera i tions presumably both parachutists ports for landing were not disclosed fighting authoritatively acknowledged 1 i (The cities of Bandar Shahpur and Bandsr Shah are as similar in stra teglo military value as in their names means harbor in the Per slan tongue Bandar Shahpur held by the British is at the head of the Persian "Gulf the southern terminus of single 600 mile rail line Bandar Shah which would be the first logical objective of any Rus slah drive from the Soviet Turkmen frontier is the northern terminus of the railroad on the Caspian Sea Generally however resistance by Iranian forces on the second day of ths simultaneous British Russian drives Into modern Persia was very slight an authoritative sources de clared This source Indicated the British were using air borne troops Details of such operations were not disclosed but there were described as esting capitulation of Iran and establishment of an all weather route for transport of war supplies to Rus sia were forecast by British observers Borne quarters expressed belief however that British forces moving Iran from the west and south west might not meet the Soviet troops earning down from the north It Iranian opposition crumbled and Nasi Influences were wiped out of the Middle East Moslem monarchy these sources said no actual juncture of British and Russian forces would be necessary A neutral military source declar ed that unless little army of 190000 men was to upset all expecta tions the Allies probably would meet only Use of air borne troops to speed op erations was in a British communique reporb ng that the towns of Natt I fhah alH Qasr I Shlrln a short distance 1ns Me Iran from the Iraq border had bi en occupied "with out serious opposition" OH Instslla tion sre situated at both places was no Indication of hos tile feeling on tts pert of the In habitants" the coiamunique declared rapidity of fx operations aaa SO far rewited la minimum loti of Manis petsonel" Air troops were said to have "taken to protect British families em plceg fry the Anglo Irsn Oil Com DR Jr and Churchill in Iceland Mrs Sarah Palfrey Cooke makes a perfect backhand return as her partner Miss Margaret Osborne (in background) stands by ready to assist Photo was snapped as the couple worked their way to the finals of the national doubles championships at Brookline Mass Six ire Chief to Organize Unit 'To ight ires Gulf of Oman Arabian Sea Bugle Corps Getting Ready or estival The Danville "Junior Drum Bugle Corps which took second place honors at the recent state con vention of the Virginia American Le gion at Alexandria is preparing for their engagement next week at the National Tobacco estival at South Boston where they will participate In competition tn drills and In the gi gantic parade The corps has made two public ap pearances here this week having given a concert Sunday afternoon at a local swimming resort and staged a drill last night before an estimated 1500 persons at the city softball championship on the River Road There were ripples of laughter at the antics of little Wee" Easley smallest member of the outfit The boys and girls made a good impres sion as indicated by the generous ap plause Court Ready To Resume On uesday Criminal and Civil Dockets to Be Called After Month's Holiday Preparations are In full swing for the resumption of the corporation court next Tuesday morning after en joying the usual holiday in August The criminal docket has not yet been prepared but the civil docket which lists 27 cases has been drawn up Usually the September term sees both dockets called and this may be a monthly practice starting in October though judge Leigh who has been considering doubling up on the dockets for some time has made no final announcement on subject The September term will find courtroom compeltely done over since July The walls have been repainted and the ugly smears from the radia tors have been obliterated The sky light has been cleaned giving full illumination and the cork laid floor scoured and rewaxed The grand jury which will pass on the indictments prepared by George Bendall attorney summonsed and will con sist of Treadway Gravely Moore Jr A Perklnson Ira El liott Henry Bennett James Bus tard and Eugene Clutter Judge Leigh is spending a brief re spite from duty chambers' In New Jersey and many members of the bar have been away during this month but will be back In time for the reopening of court' Court usually begins on a Monday but as the September opening lay falls on Labor Day the grand jury la being called to appear on Tuesday Chief John Long of the Danville ire Department as chair man of the ire Protective Mobiliza tion Committee for Zone 10 plans to proceed Immediately with the organization of fire protective units I elter September 1 he said yesterday following his return from Boston whose he attended the annual con vention of the International Associa tion of ire Chiefs 'A company of 10 volunteers he said will be needed In Danville for ths defense of the city while smaller forces will be organized in South! Boston Chatham Halifax Gretna Charlotte Courthouse and Keysville the event of war" Chief Long said "these forces may be the first line of civilian defense and theirs will be a difficult and'dangerous task or such a job it will take good men i with good training and that will be our objective for each community ot the none" Chief Long was not troubled by boredom while on h'j trip to Boston even though he said the convention wm the most solemn he has ever attended In fact it got too exciting for oomfort Chief Long and Mrs Long who accompanied him in the trip arrived in New York last Mon day en route to Boston as the Cuma Mall Line cargo ship Panuco mysteriously burned and caught fire to the Brooklyn piers The fire 'caused the death of 30 persons and 'destroyed millions of dollars worth of property It was the biggest fire ever witnessed by the fire chief And then he was tn Boston Com mons last Thursday when a thermite bomb exploded unexpectedly during a demonstration was standing afrout 50 feet from the bomb at the Chief Long said was a blinding explosion of fire laming phosphorus sprayed in every direction and at alj levels Its tenacles reached over my head while those nearer were sprayed The few who surrounded the bomb were critically burned Those st a distance were spotted with blis ters while hundreds had their suits ruined by drops of the chemical Palfrey Cooke makes a perfect backhand return as her NUMBER 2 REPORT POPULACE CALM ANKARA Turkey Aug The populace of Teheran capital of Iran remained calm yesterday on the first day of the British Russian Inva sion a foreign source In direct con tact with Iran said today Pot of Burning Grease Calls Out 2 ire Stations I The Bridge Street and West End fire fighting apparatus was called at 12:25 this afternoon to the home of Mrs Lewls 869 Jefferson street to extinguish a pot of burning grease No serious damage resulted when the grease which had been placed in the oven by Mrs Lewis and which caught fire when the hired lighted the oven blazed up and ed furlpusly MOTOR CORPS WILL IN DISASTERS HOUSTON Many women eager to participate in na tional defense are joining the Red Cross motor corpe in whose service they will be trained for such rigorous duties as women abroad are perform ing Motor Corps members will learn to drive expertly and repair automobiles and ambulances evacuate families transport the ill and disabled ad minister first and deliver sup plies and materials The project Is Intended to function efficiently both In times of disaster and military emer gency Colored Girl Jailed in Lien urniture Sale Elizabeth Anne Scott 20 year old colored girl was fined $10 and costs and sentenced to 30 days In police court this morning for selling mort gaged property Elizabeth who gave her address as 613 ranklin street was arrested in Petersburg last week and brought back here She was alleged to have sold furniture on which a local fur niture company held a Hen of $1178 In her defense she said that the furniture had been given to her by a man and that she needed the money to buy mllk for' her baby 1 uneral Rites or Mrs Gordon 4 uneral services for Mrs elix Gordon who died at Memorial hos pital on Sunday afternoon after an Illness of six weeks were conducted at eleven o'clock this morning by Rev Shelburne at Townes uneral Home The remains were Im mediately conveyed to Milton where in the old cemetery the final rites were observed Lowest temperature ever recorded In the United States was 66 degrees below zero In Yellowstone Park on eb 9 1933 Downtown Cloth Store to Be Open Within Short I The Riverside and Dan River Cot 1 ton Mills is preparing to open a new! cloth store In offices! which have been emptied by reason! of the merging clerical division ail Schoolfield I This la being done for the purpose of giving the employes of the River side division an opportunity to buy remnants and other forms of cloth made by the company at reduced prices sparing them the necessity ofl going to Schoolfield to get It I It is understood that where other would be purchasers are unable to find the local made goods here that they will be permitted to buy at store in the same way that they at Schoolfield TOOTHPICKS HIS HOBBY John Burgess negro man of ail trades who earns a living by doing odd jobs and who lives in Opera House Alley la spending hla spare time in making things out of tooth picks He hag just completed a minia ture Japanese garden made com 1 pletely out of toothpicks and glue I His only tools are a pair of tweezers and his pocket knife He says he fol lows la own Imagination in making these scenes IRAN '(PERSIA)! Nazi Army Ivia Turke Ankara Kharkov Nasi Army Iria Uki ru 7 KN Controlled Aft WW Ilf a 'X for KB Jell A I mi lKrifth ApmvWMiWL AIT ft Vmiw TnAia TN rs A ma MKf BBB WMMBBB 5 I i NXX NO ft 5 ft i I 9 4 2 11 a A'Wwibib a a 8 tt? a 'jt cd! A A A A a vv A fa i Red Army from North Red Army ifrom jNrtii stocks Lorlllard 17 V4 Mont Ward 34 Alaska Jun 4 Nat Biscuit 16 Allied Chem 161 Nat Dairy 14 Am Can Cent 12 Am 1 155 Am Tob Ncr Am 17 Anaconda 28 Nor Pac 7 Atchlscn 28 Packard Motor 3 Auburn 3 Penn 23 4 Proct Gam 59 Bendlx 37 Pub Svc 22 Beth Steel 69 Radio 4 Cannon Mills Reynolds 31 Case (JI) Sears Roeb 72 38 Sccony Vac 9 Chrysler 57 Sou Pac 14 Coca Cola Sou Ry 18 Colum Gas 2Ji St Brands 5 Cons Edis 17 St Cal 23 Du Pont 157 St 43 reep Sul 39 Studebaker 5 Gen Elec 32 i Texas Corp 42 Gen oods Tex Gf Sul 37 Gen (39 Un Carbide 77 Gillette' Un 81 Int 2 Unit Alrc 43 Kennecott 38 Unit Corp 9 16 Kroger Steel 57 Llgg Myers West El 91 Llgg Sc Myers I 86 West Un 28.