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THOUGHTS WHILE sTRoLLING

/ LENORE PORTS IS getting
busy with her advertising FOR the
horse show al Spring Hills on
August -
x X X
Saw c. T COLLINS over
here .ast weekend we leased
han about his coming marriage
10 EVA NcBROOM SAID ne was
buying his trousscau He as
sured US that Cleveland affords
ADEQUATE shopping
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Vivian Talbert Wed In Pretty Home Ceremony Sunday
WINDY CITY-ITES

Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene B. Cheat
ham and daughter. Jean Marie, Of
Chicago. Ill. are guests OF their
mother and grandmother. Katie
Chestham Of Josephine avenue. Eu-
gene is songwriter and the son OF
the late 1t. Eugene B. Cheatham. at
torney in World War |. His pretty
wife. Florence MCGEE Cheatham.
IS one OF the Chicago. IL. teachers.
DR. James A. Catchings was the
houSegueSt OF Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
CatchingS OF 23rd Street for the
past two weeks. DR.. CatchingS was
graduated from he College OF
Dentistry al Howard University
this past March and IS thinking Sc
rlously of starting his practice
here
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MRS. BEATRICE FLEMING
ENIERTAINS

MRS FLEMING who needs
no Introductory remarks was
reSponSib bic for the bond sales at the
Festival the other night
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INSPECTOR LEDDY IN
SPECTOR HOY SGT. REX
SMITH and LIEUT.. Willy Will
LlAMS Of the Police Department
-. gave us excellent support :.
with very adequate motorcycle es-
cortS for the stars etc
Mr.. JACK TELLER a. the
Stadium now knows that there
are. cultural Negroes and gobs
others and tina, is Wha! the festivals
were designed for
ESpec ally do We want 70 COM
mend the choral directors =.
MARVIN DUPRE and HAROLD
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TALLMAN . Of Wayne univer-
S,ty .. A splendid JOB 10 or
ganize and coordinate 1900 voices
and in minimum Of rehearS-
ING . &c. etc. and so
So many thanks 10 all the lovely
people Who went 10 the trouble TO
write US about the affair We
love them all and so does Glenn
. who has lost Is pounds II.
working on the affair and is
leaving tomorrow FOR much need
ed rest
Ofchds 20 BEN AND THE
RESA HENDERSON for their
help with the ticket sales and
The biggest az all .. 10 Mr..
w LOUIS DAVIS Of Chicago
who IS the father OF all the
festivals
And here's TO bigger and be Ter
one next year.
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Carl Adams and James Allen of the Nu Sigma Chapter of
Psi Phi Fraternity coharmen of the social
chapter They the who formulated the of
elaborate cocktail which recently
honor of the Deas Due the of this affair
decided colaborate during
months Both young graduates of Miller high
school enrolled in the College of
Detroit Institute of Technoogy-Photo by Bradley.
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JAPAN DENIES U. S.
AlRMEN EXECUTED

-, LONDON, July % Up The
japanese .sl today formally denied
u.d' lhey had executed American
sImen from superfortresses which
.aiuea japan and said an ZERO
.,OuS interpretations had b n
siacea on a broadcast by their
=, vssDsapore propaganda station July
me Singapore broadcast h a d
s.a'eo that some Bog fliers "baiI-
w., W ouI 10 meet with the same fate
will. with was melted out to the raid
s VI Tokyo some two years ago"
, oolhe of the Tokyo raiders were
ssaesuted, and the U. S. State de-
s u'.. made inquiries through
h ,a after the Singapore
~ aOaocast to learn whether the B.
~ alfmen similarly had been put
ott IN reply, the japanese foreign
tba sent memorandum through
sst eWlss which fatty denied
tod ND. lhers had been executed said
1suas, ) broadcast, quoting Sadae
, ss'nl OF the japanese informa
ns si' BOARD. The statement contin.
,r ne added it seems that the
, +e! inquiry has arisen from
'"'S'eo Interpretation of an Eng
N'''inued On Page Two; Col. A
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DEWEY REJECTS
FISH'S SUPPORT

ALBANY, N. Y, July 28.-tR-
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Republi
can candidate for President, pub
licly rejected the support of Rep
Hamilton Fish R.-N.Y.), today ir
a statement terming injection of 8
racial or religious issue into a poll
teal camapign "a disgraceful, I'm
American act.'' - -,a4.
Dewey's statement, while
brought prompt retorts from Fish
and Republican leaders backing
his drive for reelection in N z "
York. 10Th district, was released
by James C. Hagerty, executive
assistant to the governor, W h {
said it was prompted by an inter.
view with Fish published yester
day in the New York Post.
In the interview, Hagerty said,
Fish was quoted as asserting 1.-THE
Jews are more or less for the New
Deal, unfortunately and that IS.
think it would be much better FOL
them if they split their vote be
tween the two major parties"
1.-TWO years ago I publicly op
posed the nomination and election
of Congressman Fish," Dewey;
statement said. The statements
attributed to him confirm my judg
ment expressed at that time" The
governor added:
I have always fought that kline
of thing all my life and always
will, regardless of partisan consid
GRAFTON. I have never accepted the
support of any such individual anc
I never SHALL
Fish, veteran of a ears in
Congress and seeking reelection in
district embracing Delaware,
Rochand, Orange and Sullivan
counties, is opposed in the Aug. ]
Republican primary by Augustus
w. Bennett, Newburgh lawyer.
Informed in New York City Of
Dewey's statement, Fish comment.
ed that evidently Mr.. Dewey mis-.
understood what said and must
have been badly misinformed."
Fish reiterated his support of the
Dewey Bricker ticket.
When I referred to the fact
that the people of Jewish origin
are largely in favor of the New
Deal I stated a fact that every.
body knows Fish said. I made
no attack whatsoever and never
have on the Jewish people. 1 have
been anti : Semitic. What I stated
was just the plain truth-that the
Jewish voters are largely for the
New Deal and President Roose-
welt"
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BATTLE FOR PISA
IN OPENING STAGE
BY holland NORGAARD

ROME, July 2S.- Up -Ameri-
can and German artillery duelled
across the Arno river tonight in
the opening stage OF the battle for
Pisa, and the fate of the historic
city and it's cultural monuments
hung in the balance.
There had been no official re-
lily from either side to plea by
the Vatican city newspaper .Osser-
vatore Romano that the belligereats
reflect seriously upon the moral
consequences of deliberate destruc-
ton of Pisan monuments. Nazi
artillery observers were reported
using Pisa's famous leaning tow
Ell. where Calico conducted his ex-
periments on the laws of gravity.
Florence, great art center whose
Lights already were within sight
Of British forces fighting through
the hills seven miles away, appear
Cd safe from wars destruction, as
the Germans had declared it an
open city and were expected to
withdraw in orderly fashion once
Its defenses were preached.
There was no immediate iadica-
ton whether the open city declara-
ton would prevent the Nazis from
destroying the six famous O d
bridges which span the Ar1o riv-
er inside Florence in an effort to
impede the Allies progress.
The Osservatore Romano said
that the moment seemed near
when Allied artillery will make
another Monte Casino of the great
renaissance city, of Pisa, adding
that sit is our DUTY to underline
the immense moral value of the
Pisan monuments for Christianity.
The Vatican City publication en-
ptasized, however, that it was not
attempting to give advice of a
military character.
An operational report S id U.
S. artillery was Smelling Nazi de-
lenses along the pisa line'' and
that enemy guns were lombard
ing American positions on the
south bank of the Arao. The Ger
mans have been observed .barri-
cading Pisa's streets north of the
stream and installing machinegun
rests in many Of its buildings.
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Hitler Faces Big Possibility
of Collapse Of Balkan Front
B0MBERS ATTACK
NAZI OIL SUPPLY

LONDON, July o. R More
than $500 American heavy bomb
ers made two giant raids against
Germany's ebbing oil supply to-
day and Allied fighter bombers
swept across the Normandy bat
tlelines in support Of the British
Canadian forces below Cean.
More than 1000 British based
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
blasted the Luena Synthetic oil fac.
tory at Merseburg in central Ger.
many and 500 bombers based in
the Mediterranean attacked tn
Romanian oil center of Ploesti for
the twelfth time and the third in
the last three days.
Couting fighter escorts, from g.
500 to 1900 craft made the two
assaults.
The Merseburg plant, damaged
in previous attacks July 20 and Ju-
ly %, was obscured by thick
cloud necessitating pathfinder
bombing, but the pilots reported
apparently good results despite
heavy anti-aircraft fire and scores
of enemy fighters. Seven bombers
and two fighters were lost, and
five enemy fighters were h o t
down.
Over Ploesti the Germans put
up a dense smoke screen, but the
American crewmen observed a
of explosions and fires in
the target area.
The Allied planes supporting the
ground forces on the Eastern Nor
mandy flank swept across the bat
tlelines at near tree top level,
blasting German tank concentra7
tons and at least one time block
ing counter attack at Verriers.
A number of t i m columns of
from Is to 30 tanks were driven
off the roads and into nearby
woods.
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BUYING PREDICTED
Georgia, Florida Markets
Expected To Open Early
Next Week
BY CLAIR JOHNSON

WASHINGTON, July % In
Southern flue cured tobaccomen
were reported tonight to have
agreed to abandon their threat of
an indefinite leaf market holiday
unless OPA price ceilings were in
creased.
AS a result. the Georgia and
Florida markets-which have been
closed for week beyond their
scheduled openings while ware
housemen and growers battled with
federal price officials over ceilings
are expected to open either Mon
day or Tuesday.
Tobaccomen here declined to
confirm the report, but in Atlanta
Remer Scruggs, Georgia tobacco
warehousemen's association presi-
dent, predicted outright that buy
ing would begin in that state Mon
day or Tesday at the latest.
Confer
This development come as flue
CoI Gu 4OP1 GU
throughout the day here with state
officials and congressman arriving
to join in the fight at a final
showdown" conference on their
demands for a two cent a pound
price increase.
Governor DIN D. Johnston of
South Carolina, the first of the
state executives to arrive, announc.
ed that he had conferred with War
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes on the matter and arrang-
ed a special meeting with Econom-
ic Stabilization Director Fred NJ
Vinson tomorrow at IL am.
Johnston asserted he had not
asked Byrnes to intervene in the
dispute, however.
The South Carolina governor said
a committee of congressman. to-
baccomen and governors would
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VETS PAYMENTS
TO BEGIN SEPT. J

Payments to veterans under the
C I. Bill are slated to begin here
September by Mrs. Felix A.
Scroggs, Unemployment Compen-
satioa commission claims inter
viewer at the u. S. Employment
service office, Manager Scroggs
said yesterday.
In connection with their prepar-
alton for administering the Federal
G. I. Bill in this state with respect
to its provisions for unemployed
veterans, officials of the USS are
considering how the provisions tie
in with those of the North Carolina
law. The state law contains a
freezing clause, under which a
vetern with previous work expert
e1ice in the state is entitled to file
claim with the commission within
six months of his discharge.
UCC officials said the state law
had the effect of bringing forward
the wage credits established in the
veterans account before he enter
eel the service, so. that he may
draw against them if he has &C.
casion to do so at any time within
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
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Leaf Growers Reported Agreed
OnMoue To End Ho liday Threat
HlTLER'S ESCAPE
T0PROL0NC WAR

LONDON, July 3D. tR Brit
ish military experts still studying
Tie cloudy picture of internal Ger
many voiced the belief today that
Adolf Hitler's escape in last weew' S
bomb plot probably will lengthen
the war, but will make the Allied
victory more decisive when it
comes.
This view is based on the con-
ylction that the armies Hitler now
1efuses to withdraw can be smash
&C.
Behind the flood of words from
Hitler, propaganda Minister Goeb-
tels, labor leader Ley and other
Nazi functionaries lies story not
yet clearly detailed, but these prob
abilities emerge:
|. That there will be no change
n Germany.
2. If Hitler had been killed there
would have been a quick with
tiaWal fir O m the Baltic states,
from Northern Italy and from
Southern Poland
8. Probably tn ere would have
been quick peace, because the
German generals want to retire
Within Germany with the Nucleus
Of an Army to be built up for
another war.
Actually there has been only one
change il the German high COM
Iland: Col. Ger. Heinz Guderian
as chief of the general staff, for
COL Gen. Kurt Zeitzler. with the
injured Gen. Alfred Jodl apparent
y hls deputy chief of staff. Gen.
leltzler was declared to be ill and
there has been nothing to indicate
nc was lined up with the generals
j. the plot.
Hitler still is in complete COM
Mand of the Army and Gestapo
chieI Heinrich Himmler has even
greater control than before over
all the forces stationed inside Ger
many.
mere is nothing yet but con-
!eI'ufe on how s gnificant it is that
VII. a handful of fighting gener-
az as nave pledged loyalty 10 Hitler
.OlloWlng the assassination at
tempt.
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MORE TANKS ALSO
NEAR AVRANCHES
Offensive Threatens Ia
Open Important Route
To Inland France
BY JAMES M. LONG

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Satur-
day, July 29-(P)-Two COW
ering U. S. tank columns
smashed into the northern
edge of Coutances yesterday
and a third launched south
westward to within Is miles
of Avranches at the base OF
Breton peninsula in a drive
threatening to cave in all the
enemy's western Normandy
defenses and open a route to
inland France.
las suicide squads fought back
from doomed Coutance-once the
Western Normandy transport hub
Of the enemy Squadron upon
squadron of dive bomberS ham,
mered columns of the fleeing enc
my on the road south, littering
il with the burning hulks of wreck
eo equipment.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
threw. in heavy attack as one
armo-ed force in lightning five
mile lunge toward this escape
route from Notre Dame-De Gently
pulled up at st. Denis LIE Cast.
eight miles southeast of Coutances
ard about seven miles east of the
road. The attack was quickly beat
en- off. -
Nearing Percy
A column apparently bound for
tire Breton Peninsula farther east
over ran Maupertuis-whose cap
ture was confirmed by the mid
right commu:lique and in an
eight : mile gam drove to within
less than 4 mile OF Percy, 10 miles
northeast of Avranches, a field dis
latch said.
Enemy positions were puckling
along an 10 mile front from Tes-
sy Sur Wire to Coutances.
On the coastal route, the COM
nlunique said, j tank column in a
inc mile drive down from Per-
iers met the tanks which had
spurted five mics down the road
from Marigny, site of the break
through on the first day of the
offensive Tuesday.
At the other end of the line, a
Continued on Page Two; Col. r.
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Ensign Blackwood Christens New AKA
Here AS Waves Note Second Birthday

North Carolina Waves sent the
U. S. S. Southampton, naval
armed cargo ship, down the ways
of the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company yesterday afternoon in a
birthday observance of their Sec
ond anniversary.
Dripping the traditional cham
payne, the big ship started grace
fully down to the Cape Fear river
after pert and pretty Ensign Rama
v. Rlackwood, USNR (WD, smash
ed the ribbon covered bottle
against the side of the vessels
bow to accompanying cheers OF
Waves assembled from Charlotte,
Raleigh and Wilmington for the
launching.
This was North Cardinals OBJ
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destination. We must keep ships
building and manned to keep sup
plies mounting in ever overwhelm-
ing proportions on all fronts
In introducing. 1t. Gg) Mary
Frances Ivey, USNR (W), of Dur
ham, first North Carolina woman
to join the Waves two years ago,
and now in charge Of Wave pro-
curement in North Carolina,
Commander Mills said:
''Our honor to the Waves today
comes at an opportune time. Only
last month, women of North Caro-
lima led the nation in joining the
Waves, and the women of Whining.
ton topped the state in enlisting.
Continued on Page Two; Col. II
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TURKS MAY BREAK
Bulgaria Reported Negoti-
ating With Allies 10
Get Out OF War

WASHINGTON, July % H.
Adolf Hitler today faced the grow
ing possibility of collapse on his
Balkan front.
Heavily censored reports from
Ankara indicate that Turkey may
be about to break relations with
the Nazis, a move which not only
would cut off all Hitler's economic
and spy activities in the near east.
but which might quickly lead to
war.
At the same time, Ankara said
that Bulgaria is negotiating with
the Allies to get out Of the war.
Not Surprised
Acting Secretary of State Set
tinius said he had no information
on such talks, but expert observ.
ers here were. not surprised at the
dispatch.
Bulgaria has been sitting shakily
on the Axis side of the fence with
one foot tossed over the top, by
virtue of maintainging peaceful re-
lations with Russia.
Now that the Red army has push
ed into Rumania, strong Turkish
move towards the United Nations
camp would leave Bulgaria vir-
tually encircled.
Reports that Turkey was con-
sidering new steps against the axis
have been current for several days,
and disclosure that the Turkish
ambassador to Berlin has been re-
called to Ankara made break
with the Nazis seem imminent.
German Ambassador Franz Won
Papen left his post in Ankara two
weeks ago to report on the situa-
ton to Berlin.
How soon Turkey would be likely
to enter hositlities after a break
with the nazis is a matter of con-
lecture, depending on Berlin's re-
action. However, if Turkey clearly
abandons strict neutrality, German
forces in the whole Balkan PENN
sula would be endangered.
Greece could be turned into a
gigantic trap for the nazis, hem
med there between the Allies in
Italy and tottering Bulgaria.
Recent reports of home front dis
Indignation have had significant eff
fects on the Satellites and nearby
Turkey, and Conversely, a Balkan
blow-up would be shattering blow
to nazi propagandists' efforts to
bolster their defeat-distressed pop
ulation.
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servance of the Waves birthday
which actually occures Sunday.
Then the Woman's Naval Reserve
becomes two years old.
Commander Ralph E. Mills,
USNR, commanding officer of the
Sixth Naval District commission
ing detail, stationed in Wilmington
as representatives of the district
commandment, spoke briefly on the
streamlined program paying tri-
butte both to the Waves and to
women who serve the Navy in
shipbuilding yards.
'The Waves and the women in
shipyards are fighting on the same
team" Commander Mills. said.
That team is On the road to Vic
tory. But we haven't reached our
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WASHINGTON. Julv % R

WASHINGTON. July 28.- Up -
Accompanied by list of 70 tele-
phone calls, including some from
CLIO political action committee Of
f. Gals to the White House, a re.
port labelling tine PAC as 'th e
political arm of the New Deal ad-
rninistration' was made public to-
cay by Rep. Martin Dies D.-Tex.)
Ii was prepared by Robert E..
Stripping, chief Investigator for the
special house committee on I'M
American activities headed by
Dies.
In releasing the report, Dies
made public letter he sent to
other committee members suggest
ing that the Information be turned
over to Attorney General Biddle
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<,SZAMS SEIZE LITOKSK AND TRAP
~, 900 GERMANS, MENACE WARSAW:
YANKEES SMASHING INTO COU7ANCES
Yanks Register Gains On Guam;
Tinian Invasion Becomes ROut

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Har-
Dor, July %. Up Yank invad-
ers Of Guam, after nearly dou-
bling Jap losses by slaughter
ing 1000 counter-attacking en-
envy, have advanced 800 yards
to two miles along the entire
beachhead and have turned the
invasion of Tinian into a rout
capturing eight more square
miles.
The victories were ANNOUNCE
ed tonight by Adm. Chester w.
Nimitz in two communiques.
Front line dispatches from
Tinian said the Jap garrison
on that island, nearest conquer
ed Saipan, are fleeing, in dis
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more than a mile.
The fast-moving Tinian in
vaders added a nearly-cOm-
pleted airfield to a 4,500-foot
'drome previously seized on
that island.
Nimitz reported that 21,036
Japanese dead have been bur-
led on Saipan, first Marianas
island to be wrested from the
enemy. These were added to
400 known to have been kill
ed to date OH Guam and more
than 1000 slain on Tinian-a
total of more than $1,000 since
June IA. More than 5000
wounded Yanks have return
ed to action, many Of them on
Tinian.
Continued on Page Two; Col.
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Dies Report Claims PAC
New Deal Political Arm

With the recommendation that he
institute an immediate investiga-
tion as to possible violations of
tire Hatch act This law forbids
political activity by certain Fed
eral officeholders.
What action tn e committee
would take, Stripping said, would
oepend on replies to Dies letter.
In New York, Hillman could not
lie reached Immediately for com.
rent. A PAC spokesman said Hill
rlan had not read the report and
would withhold comment until he
Rad studied it.
From examining the personnel
OF the PAC and considering the
Continued on Page Two; Col. a
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order and that Tinian is likely

order and that Tinian is likely
to prove the biggest American
prize in the entire Marianas.
On Guam, the third division
Marines drove Thursday with
in 0ne-third of a mile of Agana,
Guam's capital in the sector
where Jap counterattack was
broken up.
The greatest gains were made
in the central sector opposite
Orote peninsula where nth Ar
my division troops and the first
provisional Marine brigade
pushed as much as two miles
inland. They captured Mt. Cha
chao, Alutam and Tenjo.
In the southern sector, the
same units pushed east for
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Death Penalty Abolished
By New Italian Cabinet

ROME, July %. -P)- The Ital-
ian cabinet today abolished the
death penalty which the Fascists
re-established in 1926.
The abolition is limited to the
penal code. The death penalty is
retained in the military code and
in law for punishment of Fascist
criminals.
The cabinet also set up nigh
court for trial of Fascist crimes.
The court will consist of eight
members chosen from among high
court magistrates and prominent
LAWYERS.
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SUPPLIES POUR
INTO NORMANDY
Rp John A MoROsO Ill

ABOARD AN LIST IN THE ENG
LISH CH.ANNE1-lR,1The tricky
channel, once Britain's last line of
defense, is rapidly becoming safe
highway for thousands of Allied
troops and their equipment pour
ir.g into France
Before D-Day this swirling mass
Ct water tened with mines, u
toats, E-boats. and underwater OBJ
sta cles and was under the constant
threat of German planes and shore
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81