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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 8

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The Beei
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Danville, Virginia
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8
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expected today Oom the execu tive board of the CIO United Auto Workeu The board wi'l close Its six day special meeting on the charges that Toledo labor leader was a and mishandled union funds It met in foleoo last Wednes day and Thur and moved to Detroit riday for weekend ses sion The group custed Randolph Gray financial secretary of Local 12 In Toledo nd one of chief foes An Investrating committee headed by UAW Secretary Treas urer Enil Mazey earlier had check on int the strike of 12 employes in the union's Tuleoo office They were ordered to return to workoday Gosser who nas denied the charges and ssued a counter claim of a campaign has been supported by Hrwzid Seren presi dent of Local 12 The local has 30000 members To Report On Revolt Against Union Official DETROIT June A re port the revolt against Union Vire Presldnt Rkbard Gosser AsthmaCoughers GiveThanks for LuckyDiscovery Taa thoos4 eoatbed and eocttbedBitbBroDchi Asthma and eoulda'S uh nra tbiaks tor their tatty dlsroTory et 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8mm movie film (also reduced In price) Has f27 Lumenised lens slow motion adjustment 1 NOW ONLY tf5 $995 1275 $Wo Prices Includs odsrcJ Tax Step and pick lit the ones you wantat new low prices BuiimBWPEEa 601 Main St Phone 1733 DOLLARS "THINK VIRGINIA IRST" ARE YOU INTERESTED in DOLLARS? indeed we mean real dollars extra the kind your savings will earn for you if deposited in the Virginia Bank and Trust Company where they will earn for you a LIBERAL RATE INTEREST on your en tire account Here you receive our top rate of interest on your entire account and all deposits up to $500000 are insured by the ederal De posit Insurance Corporation we have always paid a liberal rate of interest on savings (ask your friends and neighbors) and it is our plan to continue to do so I A I There peace of mind in maintaining a sav ings and there's a good profit too if your savings are deposited in this bank 4 Virginia Bank WILBER BOWLIN President TURNER Assistant Cashier A CROWELL Chairman of the Board TURBIVILLE Cashier Trust Company DANVILLE VIROINIA MEMBER federal deposit insurance corporation WASHINGTON COLUMN Continued rom Editorial Page George Washington Lopp the dean of the American settlement in Paris made one of his infre quent visits back to thi country recently to talk a little business with the Bureau of Internal Reve nue or years he has been work ing in Paris for the establishment of an American cemetery there It seems1 thst it is the custom in rance to dig up all graves and put the remains in a common burial plot after five years or so Mr Lopp is anxious for the Bureau to give some ruling which wil per mit an income tax deduction on any donations which will provide permanent burial in individual graves During the Nazi occupaion of rance Lopp was permitted to set up a canteen for all captured and interned Americans He also is re sponsible for the construction of the first American hospital in Paris Dedication date for the new ceme tery is the first of August All Americans who die in rance can be buried there free if their rela tives afford to pay A Day With the TC Recent actions of the ederal Trade Commission comple tion of required statutory proceed ings information that base balls are marketed primarily on the basis of performance rather than then respective textile con tent In answer to a complaint charg ing a company with seling thumb tacks imported from Germany with a in label the accused firm replies "at no time are any such tacks sold by re spondents directly in any form of the consuming Claims that certain synthetic ru by phnograph needles will give up to 25000 plays are chalenged and may be investigated All in a work May Check European Crime Roots The Senate committee investi gating organized crime i the is considering sending some of its agents to Europe this summer Many of the known underworld characters in the art foreign born In many cases they had crim inal records before they ever came to the which they covered up in order to get in This could lead to deportation proceedings It has been suggested that one way to break up the notorious Maifa gang which is the crime picture in the is to get at its roots in Italy Tour might Inelude With Luciano There is also serious considera tion of having one of the com investigators go to the no torious Lucky Luciano in Italy to find out if he will talk He prob ably knows as much about crime in the as anyone and it is said that he still has powerful close connection in the underworld here in spite of having been deported for hijL criminal activities TV ollowers Hear Suicide At Ball Game Man Shoots Himself Besides Telecaster HOUSTON Tex June (TP) television followers heard a 50 year old laundryman commit suicide last right at a Texas League baseball game Stanford Twente shot himself to death as he sat beside Tele caster Dick Gottlieb In a press box at Buffalo stadium The shot was heard over television and throughout the stadium Seconds later a TV camera fo ci sed on slumped body Justice of the Peace Tom Maes was among those watching the game on television He returned an inquest verdict of suicide with out leaving his home "I saw the man on television" Maes told Detective George Chap man Police had a report a half hour fore the shooting that Twente had told a waitress he was going to kill himself and watch me pt the end of the fifth" The shooting occurred as Pitch er Don Stephens of Houston stepped to the plate to start the last half of the sixth inning against Tulsa Twente died in a hospital about two hours after the shooting Twente appeared at the tele vision booth and told Gottlieb got something to tell you" Gottlieb waved the man away and continued narrating the game Twente was seated between the announcer and the TV engineer Lee Bennett Just as Bennett start ed to get Twente to leave the box Twente pulled a pistol shot himself and fell across the en gineer The TV camera was focused on the Houston dugout and listeners saw the Houston players suddenly turn and look toward the press box The camera then swung toward Gottlieb who told his audience: and gentlemen a tre mendous thing has just happened A gentleman has Just shot himself I return you now to the Two minutes later the telecast of the baseball game was resumed The station was KLEE TV A note addressed Whom It May and dated June 3 was found on Twente's body It read: leave all my possessions to rny boy Bailey Twente Anderson My wife has my insurance The Bee: Danville Va Monday June 12 1950 Man 128 Wants To Live ew Years Longer Interviewed By Census Taker BROWNSVILLE Tex June 12 (A1) Comacho who says he is 128 years old has a simple desire he would like to live a few more years age and his desire came to light when a census taker visited him at his hut on the big Champion Ranch near the mouth of the Rio Grande river my name is rancisco Comacho and I am 128 years he said jn Spanish Pancho told of crossing the Rio Grande into the United States with an older brother They were or phans and Pancho was only seven years old The brother got a job as a rdnch hand with a man named Valentin Gavito Pancho was too small for ranch work but the Gavitos let him help with chores about the house He was paid a silver dollar and a bar of soap every month He grew up on the Gavito ranch became a regular hand and mar ried a girl who lived on the ranch His wife and their first born died at the birth of the child Pancho never remarried He went to live with a sister Boni facia Comacho Vermudes The sis ter died about 10 years ago at the age of 125 Now Pancho lives in his hut near the home of Ramon Rodri quez a distant relative To Pancho who has held three press conferences since the census taker's £isit it was humorous that he has lived for more than a cen tury and a quarter yet this was the first time his name would be in print Pancho rode his own Palomino pony until a few years ago when he broke his hip in a fall Since then he has not been able co ride He still has a good appetite and likes to display his full set of nat ural teeth that have served him so long But most of all he likes to sit in the shade of his little hut and talk of the things he has seen and experienced Like the Civil War battle fought near his home after the Confederacy had surrendered He got to view the skirmish be tween the because poor communications bring word of the surrender in time to stop it Three Survive Boat Mishap NASHVILLE Tenn June 12 An inboaro cruiser its motor dead was swepi over a 12 foot the Cumberland river yes terday but the tb ee men aboard escaped with their lives Sam Silverman 40 said "I thought my number was up" whenast water dashed the 16 foot crui ser over the dam and threw them out Two young men in a boat res cued the three including 70 year nldlSol CorensAec who is partly paralyzed and wean leg braces son Morris 40 was cut on the ceg by 'ragments from the cruiser's nrlshield The oth er two were lust shaken up VACANCIES or Men Women Also ombulotory patients Night and day nurse care Very reasonable rates Southside Convalescent Home MRS GRAHAM Manager BLACKSTONE VA 1 Medl NB BG SPACE MAKER RERIGERATOR More than cu ft food storage De luxe features yet low priced Backed by dependability 2200000 In use 10 years or longerl ONLY S247 WHK IT'S URNITURE ROM Authorized Dealer ELECTRIC RERIGERATORS I A 1 Three Killed On State ighways 1 mi Hill HU I II I By The Associated Press A car ran off the highway seven miles north of Petersburg yester day and crashed Into an abutment of a railroad overpass killing a South Carolina bride of jess than nine hours and critically injuring her husband She was one of thr6e persons re ported killed in highway accidents In Virginia during the past week end as the Old traffic fatality toll for 1950 climbed to 356 State police listed the follow ing dead: Mrs Jeannie Summers Rush 21 of West Columbia Slemp Bascom Puckett 36 of Cedar Bluff William Edgar Atkinson 19 of Richmond Relatives said Rush had been married at 4 Saturday to red Rush Jr 22 of West Columbia and the couple were on their way to Niagara alls on their honeymoon when the accident oc curred at 12:50 a yesterday THE NATION TODAY Continued rom Editorial Page munism which makes its appeal to people in backward countries promising them a better and fuller life This country the great antagon ist of Communism and great preacher of the virtues of capital ism and democracy sit idly by doing nothing while the Com munists move into the backward tplaces At least the reasoning of Mr Truman and of Congress too since approved the plan Of course always the ques tion whose answer we know for some time: Will this help be enough to stop Communism? Are we startinatoo late? Is the plan as it stands big enough and broad enough to do the job? Truman Says He Prefers Peace To Being President ATLANTIC CITY June 12 (A5) President Truman says he would have lasting peace than be His statement was in a message last night to the Independent Or der of Abraham Grand Master Louis A Weissman of New York read it to 600 delegates the 63rd annual convention best way we can work to ward (lasting peace) is by support ing the United message said giving leader ship and support to the free peo ples of the world and by keeping our own country prosperous strong and united am working for it all the time and receiving help from all parts of the country for the American people are deeply de voted to the idea of world Hospital where attendants said his condition last night was critical He was crushed in the automobile while his bride was thrown clear when the vehicle struck the abutment The crash occurred on Route 1 Officers said Rush who was driving the car apparently lost control after he was blinded by lights of an approaching vehicle during a severe rainstorm Puckett died yesterday In a hos pital at Richlands of injuries re ceived Saturday night when he was struck by a car five miles west of the intersection of routes 19 and 460 in Tazewell county Atkinson a University of Vir ginia student was killed early Sat urday when a car In which he and a companion were riding crashed into a tree at the intersection of two avenues in Henrico county Three other persons died violent deaths during the weekend period two from drowning and one as a result of being struck by a train Jacob Houston Bess 37 of Pu laski county was killed instantly Saturday night Radford Police Officer Akers said when he stepped in frbnt of a Southern Railway passenger train in front of the Norfolk and Western Rail way depot in Radford where the Southern uses tracks Dr Dean city coroner said he would continue his investi gation of the tragedy today but he said yesterday that death was accidental and suited from a fractured skull A 34 year old negro Alexander Henry Penn drowned Saturday In the Appomattox river near his home in Pocahontas in Dinwiddle county Dallas Lee George 24 year old negro drowned Saturday near the Norfolk Portsmouth ferry terminal in Norfolk REE OER for Deofened Person or people who are troubled by hard of hearing this may be the means for starting a new full life all the enjoyment of ser mons music friendly companion ship and business success it is a fascinating brochure called So You Can Hear" and is now avail able without charge Deafened per sons acclaim it as a practical guide with advice and encouragement of great value a start on the road to happiness If you would like free copy simply send your name and address on a postcard today and ask You Can Write to Beltone Dept 8618 1450 19th St Chicago 8 111 Also show this important news to a friend or relative who may be hard of hearing 0 0 Revolutionary New Invention PHILCO 408 Roast and 'incised and bake at the sar fJoSrwke! 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