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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-28
Move 10 Bring About
Equality Of French Citizens


PARIS, Oct. 26 (ANP)-Details
of 20-year colonial plan, carry
ing with it sweeping new reforms
for Frances colonies, were reveal
ed here by M. Rene Plevan, French
minister of colonies. According to
Pleven, the novel plan is designat-
ed to elevate French colonials to
the status Of white Frenchmen of
metropolitan France SO as to pro-
vide France with resivoir of more
than a 1O0,OOO,00Q intelligent citi-
Zens.
Expressly pointing out that the
reforms will include Negroes of
Africa, the Arabs of North Africa
and the Chinese and Eurasians of
Indo-China, Pleven revealed that
France needs more intelligent cit
liens and said that while it will
take from 20 to 80 years to fulfill
it is aimed to achieve two political
goals.
First, it is designed to- associate
the native populations with the re-
sponsibilities of the development Of
their territories and secondly, to
strengthen the fraternal and spir-
itual link of these territories with
France.
In accordance with French ira
dition, there will be no racial dis
tinction of French citizens, the
minister emphasized.
French policy has never ceased
to reject racial distinctions" he de-
clared. "The detestable episode of
Vichy does not contradit this truth.
We can even say that it confirms
it. For it was during the only per-
iod in the history Of France, when
the government came under foreign
ideas and control, that our country
abandoned, in appearance, her ira
ditional philosophy.
"Gen. de Gaulle is most firm on
this point" Pleven stressed. "Any
French official guilty of racial dis
elimination or prejudice will i'm
mediately be discharged from the
service of the government"
The trend of French racial policy
was indicated by the reappoint-
ment of the late Felix Eboue as
governor-general of French Equa-
torial Africa by de Gaulle. French
Equatorial Africa comprises a fed
GRAFTON of territories five times
larger than metropolitan France.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-28
NEGRO SAILORS PARTICIPATE
in GREAT NAVAL BATTLES

WASHINGTON, Oct. % Especial
to the Daily Dulletin)-A large
number Of Negro sailors, serving
outside the category Of mess at
tendants, are participating in the
naval battles in the Philippines, it
became known here late yesterday.
The Navy department has an
nounced that the Navy on August 9
began assigning Negroes in general
service to partially man Is large
auxiliary warships. "Most of these
ships are now in combat areas as
part of the fleet train in the Paci-
fic," the announcement said, and
added that Approximately 500 Ne
groes are currently assigned to
these ships, both as petty officers
and non-rated men,"
This is the first indication that
Negro sailors had been integrated
into the crews of warships.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-28

Treasurer in his senior year. Be-
fore joining the army, Sergeant Ro-
zier was employed by the American
Rolling Mill Company, Middletown,
Ohio.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-10-28
L0(KLAND YOUTH IN
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
WEST PACIFIC, Oct. 28-Now in
the Admiralty Islands serving in
Negro amphibious truck company
as company clerk is Technician
Fourth Grade Louis Rozier, hus-
band of Mrs. Mettie Rozier, 400
Adams street, Lockland, Ohio.
Joining the Armed Forces in 1943
at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Ser
geant Rozier received basic train
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
PILOT IS KILLED
in OCEAN CRASH
Lieut.. Brelsford, OF Blue
thenthal, Killed North
OF Wrightsville

Second Lieutenant Walter Allen
Brelsford, 20-yea--old Army pilot
stationed at the Army Air base
at Bluethenthal field, was killed
during a combat training flight
north of Wrightsville Beach Fri
day morning at IL o'clock, off,
Gals of the air base announced
yesterday.
Lieut.. Brelsford was plotting a
Thunderbolt fighter plane when it
hit the water and exploded. He
was killed instantly.
Lieut.. Brelsford, who received
his commission at the Jackson
Army Air base, Jackson, Miss,
on March IL, had been training
at the local field for nearly two
months.
Born in Bristol, R. l., he was
graduated from Bristol H h
school in 1912. He was a member
of the Rhode Island Honor society
and had been employed by the
u. S. Rubber company at Bristol
from June, 1912, until January
1913. He was not married, and
before entering the Army lived al
the home of his mother, Mrs
Grace P. Brelsford, 1873 Wood ST..
Bristol.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
|L0WRIM0RE HEADS
N. E. ACCOUNTANTS
Wilmingtonian Is Elected
President At Annual
Meet In Asheville

CHARLOTTE, June a. R -
Charles S. Lowrimore, of Whining
ton, today was elected president OF
the North Carolina Association OF
public accountants.
D. E. Gatewood, Jr., of Winston
Salem was elected executive vice
president, E. E. Peacock of Chapel
Hill, vice president in charge OF
publications; Thomas P. z u m
Drummer of Salisbury, treasurer;
and L. B. Rogersoa of Chapel Hill,
secretary. Lowrimore succeeds
John F. Prescott of Raleigh.
The association at the closing
session of it's annual convention al
so elected the following board Of
directors: Albert H. Blake of Ashe.
vile, F. O. C. Fletcher, of Ashe-
will, John F. Prescott, and Elton
B. Taylor of Charlotte.
The association adopted a reso'
luton indorsing the efforts of the
American Institute of accountants
and the American Bar association
to foster closer professional rela
tionship and the understanding oil
the public practice Of the two pro.
fecSionS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
JAPANESE PUSHING
|T0WARDHENCYANC
Take Last Major Barrier
In Swift Advance On
Important City

CHUNGKING. June "a. - R -
The last major barrier in the swift
Japanese march on vital Hengyang
apparently has fallen, and three
were indications that the enemy in
this drive would employ encircle.
ment tactics against the Hengyang
rail junction similar to those which
brought about the fall Of Chang.
sha, the Chinese high command in.
timated tonight.
A communique placed the fight.
ing now four and one-half miles
below Hengshan, the last Human
province stronghold north of Heng.
yang, and. slightly more than &c
miles above that japanese objec'
tive whose fall, the Chinese have
admitted readily, would have grave
implications, and would go far to-
ward accomplishment of the en-
envy effort to split China in two
and prepare against the eventually
of American landings on the Chi
ma. coast. .-e.
The Japanese were driving
fiercely down both sides of thu
Canton-Hankow railway. Column
on the eastern bank of the Sian,
river, were engaged by the de
tenders at Leichishih, and farthe
at point on the north bank of tn,
Mi river about II miles southeas
Of Hengshan. Bloody fighting wa
proceeding in these areas.
To the west of the Slang river
heavy fighting ragged on a from
stretching from points south of 81
angtan to west Of Siangsiang. TIL!
line, with it's western anchor abou
so miles southeast Of Hengyang
extends about rs miles east to ;
point south of the Japanese-captur
ed city of Liling. The Chinese com.
munique said there were little posi-
tional changes in these sectors.
&. While the Japanese to the south
were advancing southwark from
Hengshan directly against Hengyar
the belief was prevalent here tina
they intended to bypass the city
on both sides and encircle it, jus
as they did in the case of Chang
Sha.. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
$3,51s,2S7 INVESTED
Meeting OF All Employers
Using Payroll Deduction
Slated Tuesday

Sixty per cent of New Hanover
war bond goal of S., 100000 and A
per cent of its series E quota Of
81, 10000 were achieved yesterday,
it was announced by bond leaders.
A total of So, 518, 287.25 had been
invested in the Fifth War Loan
drive, with 1924, 869.25 in Series E
type of cavings bonds.
At the same time, it was an
nounced that a meeting Of all wv
mington employers, who practice
the payroll deduction plan for pur'
chase of bonds by their EN-.
ployes, had been called for 4 pm.
Tuesday in the Tidewater assembly
hall by T. c. Abernethy of Greens
boro, deputy administrator of the
War savings staff; and Robert W.
Fowler, of Washington, of the Trea-
sury department.
E. "A. Laney, chairman of New
Hanover county War Finance CON-
mittee, will preside at the session,
to which are invited not only en-.
ployers who have instlled the pay
roll deduction plan but also those
interested in starting the plan in
their business firms.
The Wilmington Furniture com
pany, the first retail business con
Germ to reach War bond goal Of
the sale of $500 worth of bonds
per employe, yesterday was award
ed the Retail Merchants Banner
by the War Finance committee
More than $4,000 worth of bonds
were sold by the company's EN-.
ployes, with sales averaging $4,000
per employee. The firms quota was
Sc, 300. ',s
The bond committee also pre-.
scented the award to E. H. Souther
land in behalf Of the j. c. Penney
company employees, who had sole
more than $4,000 worth of bonds
The quota was $4,000.
It was urged that as rapidly a:
business houses reach their bone
goals that a report be made tt
John A. Sheehar at the chamber
ct commerce office, where a large
supply of the retail banners ar.
available. The banners will be dis
tributed by Mr.. Sheehan to thu
merchants. s.s ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
C0RMAN ESCAPES
NAILS IN FRANCE
Young Glider Pilot Returns
To Beachhead With
80 Prisoners

The story of how Wilmington S
first glider pilot hero, Flight Off
Ger John A. German. landed in
France on D-day. eiuded the Ger
mans only to be forced to surren-
der, later escaped and returned to
the beachhead with 80 Nazi 2ris-
oners was disclosed here yester-
day after his family received re-
cordi1gs Of his interview in Lon
don from the National Broadcast
ing company.
Today, Officer German, 22-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. P.
German. of 1900 Woolcott Ave. is
none the worst for his experience
and is awaiting another 60 against
the enemy.
The handsome young gliderman
was in the very spearhead of the
invasion, his craft being the eighth
to take off for Normandy early in
the morning of June 6. +,
He landed his glider in foot
of water in small Normandy
field at o'clock in the morning
the transcription received here
from the New York office of NBC
revealed.
According to Newsman George
Wheeler, who interviewed German.
they had made pass at two pre-
vious fields and it had to be this
one or else. Between o'clock and
daybreak they had time to figure
out that they had busted their land
ing gear, knocked the tip of q
wing and more than that had come
down some distance from the res
of the squadron"
with the first light the trans
cription continues, German ant
the lieutenant set out to look fol
the others. leaving the co-pilot ane
five men to watch over the glider
Eventually they found their squad
ron leader and got their order!
straight, and started back in wha
they thought was the direction il
which they had come. At this poin
the action begins to dance n
shimmy like an old fashioned
movie, so it is better to hear from
Flight Officer German himself"
.sWhat happened next, John7"
4 well. the Lieutenant and I were
walking along one of those sunkel
roads that run between the field
heading for our glider. Suddenly .
small dog came out Of the bushes
to one side. with his tail wagging
He started up to the lieutenant VIII
was few feet ahead of me. Th'
lieutenant reached down to pet hin
: and as he did crack! A. Germal
had apparently been hiding il
those bushes let him have it and
dove for the ditch"
.Do you think that dog had beel
..I n~ Do ro4 Tuo. sTtnI 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
Sixty Per Cent Of Fifth
Bond Quota Attained
Southeast Is Promised
Relief From Heat Wave

CHARLOTTE, June 24-@
Temperatures remained near
or above the 100 degree 6lark
throughout most Of the south
east today, but forecasters
said a cool air mass moving in
from the north and west might
bring slight temporary relief
tomorrow.
Temperatures in middle and
eastern parts of the Carolinas
ranged in the high nineties.
An ice shortage plagued
some sections, especially in
Florida, were several cities
reported ice rationed at about
so per cent of normal and to
old customers only.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
SCROGCS. EXPLAINS
new LABOR b! RULES
Male Workers Cannot Be
Hired. Except Through
Employment Office

After July. l, male labor cannot
be hired except through or by ar
rangement with the U. S. Employ
ment Service office, Manager Fe-
lix A. Scroggs announced yester-
day in explaining new War Man.
power Commission regulations in
reference to employment ceilings
and priority referrals.
More than 1850 applications have
been mailed from the local office
to employers for establishment Of
employment ceilings. A, total of 562
employers will receive their re-
quests in the near future, making
a total of .2,816 employers contact
ed in connection with the new rul-
ing. 80 = -
The Wilmington office covers
New Hanover, Brunswick, Fender
and Columbus counties. The en-
ployment ceiling will d ate froa1
April l.. 1914, and will be chag-
led every go days.
The form to be filled out by en-
ployers lists the name and address
of the establishment; type of bust
ness, number Of employees, men
and women, May l, 1914, April l,
1914, and May l., 1914, in addition
to- nearest. payroll ending date;
number of. workers hired during
April Of this. year and number Of
separations during the, same peri
cd.
The further Tightening of hiring
controls, at, this time is necessary
to assure the. ALLEGATION of increas-
ingly scarce labo1A to those activi-
ties in which mose can be contri-
buted to the furtherance of the
war effort.
Males will be referred for work
strictly according to the priority of
the job, Scroggs stated. The es-
Establishments will be classified un-
der one Of the following divisions:
Glass I - Establishment engaged
IN production Of essential products
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
Nearly Thousand
Reported Liberat
New Break-thro,
ASSAULT EXTENDED
Overwhehn Old German
Defenses And Make Two
Extensive Fighting
BY TOM YARBROUGH

LONDON, Sunday, June 25-lRl
-Overwhel Ginning long prepared
Nazi defenses around Hitler S
toughest remaining strongpoint in
Russia, Soviet troops made two
new break-throughs in White Rus
STA yesterday to widen their fronts
around the fortified town of vi
tebsk to approximately $50 miles,
Moscow said today. ~
Premier Stain announced in
special orders of the day that the
twc-day old offensives northwest
and southeast of Vitebsk had been
expanded to so miles on each side
of the town and in addition new
break-throughs farther south in
the direction of Orsha and Mogi-
lev were revealed.
Many Towns Freed
The momentous Soviet sue
cesses On all active fronts were
recounted in a series of three
special orders of the day by Stain
and the regular nightly commune
que, which said total of nearly
a thousand places had been lib
Grated in the widespread fight
ing.
Announcing gains of up to Is
miles northwest of Vitebsk and IS
IL miles southeast of that Nazi-
fortified town in the first two days
of the new offensive on the main
eastern front, the premier said that
another break-through had been
accomplished in the direction Of
Orsha, an important railway juno
ton approximately so miles south
Of Vitebsk.
This new puncture in the Ger
man lines in White Russia was
made to a depth up to 9 IL miles
on a front IL IL miles wide.
Stain devoted special order to
each of three battle zones - the
Finnish front, the wedge north
west of Vitebsk and the fighting to
the southeast of that place-and
Continued ON Page IL; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Fair to partly
cloudy and not quite SO warm Sunday.
Eastern Standard Time)
(aBy U. s. Weather Bureau
Meteorological lata for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1 80 am. 80; 1880 am, 81; 1880 pm, "a;
1870 pm, go.
Maximum e5; Minimum rs; Mean s6;
Normal 70.
t Humidity
1880 am, 80; 1880 am, n; 1880 pm, 40;
1880 pm, "a.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:3o pm
600 inches. ~.
Total since the first of the month
Est inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables punhsneo ny
U, S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
,.,;,,.,;a+ 12:46a 8:12s
lisp 8:21r
nn.,r rn,et 11:06a 4:56s
A'-a'o"o II :13p 5:03r
Sunrise. 500 am; Sunset, 7:T pm.
Moonrise' 9 80 am; Moonset, 11:07 pm
tContinued on Page Five; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
Allies Advance Against
Enlarged Army In Italy

Roccastrada. The French had to
fight through the heaviest enemy
artillery fire OF the week and
thread through heavy minefields
10 reach it.
This spectacular gain severed an
important lateral road leading east
from Roccastrada to highway 70,
adding to the problems of Field
Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring in
Withdrawing his army through the
mountains.
West of Roccastrada on the coast
another column of Allied infantry
and tanks was fighting at the out
skirts of Fallonica, which strad-
Continued on Page IL; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
HUNDREDS INJURED
Sweeps Through Parts OF
Pennsylvania, West Vir-
giinia And Maryland
SEARCH FOR VICTIMS
Some Families Wiped Out;
Hundreds OF Buildings
Are Demolished

PITTSBURGH, June "a Up -
Weary rescue forces searched for
more victims today in the ruin
left by a great storm which de-
vastated parts of southwest Penn
svlvania, West Virginia, and Mary
land taking toll of IA lives and
injuring hundreds.
Almost hourly reports from viii
lagos and towns hit by the tor
nado which Travelled narrow
twisting path from McKeesport,
Pa, near Pittsburgh, nearly 100
miles south to Shinnston. w. Va.
brought grim detail of more
deaths and destruction.
The huge job of relief was I'M
der way by federal and state agen-
cies while many injured victims
lay in hospitals and homeless
hundreds wandered through the
streets of wrecked commgnities.
many of them looking for friends
or relatives who might have been
killed
Death Toll
Latest reports showed 101 kill
ed in West Virginia, 40 in Penn
sylvania and three in Maryland
Just across the line from West
Virginia.
Some families were wiped out.
Many of the victims were Sleep
ing tots. Hospitals and improvised
receiving stations were swamped
with the injured, some of whom
died during the day. Other scores
were reported missing. Many dead
were unidentified. Wrecked COM
munications and clogged roads
kept communities from reporting
their casualties for. hours.
Dwellings,, farm buildings and
other structures by. the hundreds
were demolished, littering streets
and highways with wreckage. The
twister, Of only brief duration, lift
ed houses from their foundations
and smashed them to bits, uproot-
Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
new BURMA DRIVE
OPENED BY ALLIES
Fighting In India Sees
Japs Cleared From Ko-
hima-Imphal Road

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Randy, Ceylon'
June 24-tR-American and Chm
ese forces have launched new at
lacks in north Burma, while in the
fighting in India victorious Ailleo
forces which cleared the Kohlma-
1mphal road of japanese nave
made contact 10 miles to the north
east with enemy troops on the ok.
hrul road, headquarters announced
tonigt.
Americn troops, driving from
the north into the besieged norta
Burma Japanese stronghold @.
Myitkyina, advanced another 3oo
Yards and took two new positions.
communique said,. and heavy
fighting has broken out anew II
the Mogaung sector. -,
Chinese and British Chlnol'
troops on the outskirts of Mogauns
have inflicted heavy casualties OF.
the Japanese. Twelve miles west o.
MogauAg, the Chindits occupied
the village of Sawngching. In THESE
actions the Chindits reported they
Killed 200 Japanese, including Ter
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
Bv HENRY B, JAMESON

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
LIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, June "a R American
heavy bombers blasted nine Ger
man flying bomb nests on the
French coast at dusk tonight in
their third mission of a day of
widespread air assaults aimed at
wrecking Adolf Hitler's crumbling
transportation system. cutting his
dwindling oil supply, and crushing
the launchers of his winged rock
cts.
Shortly after midnight the Ger
man radio said nuisance raiders"
were approaching northwest Ger
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
BY GEORGE TUCKER

ROME, June "a -lREThe Ger
mans hurled fresh armor and their
air force into the battle of Italy
today, but French elements of the
Fifth army thrust on through the
mountains to the south bank of
the Ombrone river at point about
lis miles northwest of Rome.
In this advance, the Fifth army
overran Roccastrada, which is
about 70 miles southeast of Pisa,
near which the Germans are pre-
pairing a stand, and the strong
resistance apparently was bid
for more time.
The point reached on the On
bronze was six miles northeast of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
u. S. Bombers Blast Nine
!. .NaZi Rocket Plane Nests

many and two hours later the Ma.
zis broadcast enemy planes were
leaving the Rhine, Hanover and
the Brunswick areas.") s
The weather was unfavorabls
during most of the day, somewhat
hamperi7g operations, but the biz
planes damned the skyways at sun.
set for their tenth attack on the
mysterious, camouflaged rookie,
ramps around Calais. They also hill
number of railway switching
stations around Boulogne.
Raj Lancasters a n d Halifaxes
also struck the rocket ramps dur.
Continued on Pare Twelve; Col. Al
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
big FIRES RAGE
Troops Are Within 1000
Yards OF Vital City's
Southern Limits
NEW PENETRATION
Germans Destroying In
stallations; Heavy Smoke
Hangs Over Port
By GLADWIN HILL

By GLADWIN HILL
SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIE D EXPEDl-
TIONARY FORCE Sunday,
June Is -P)- American
shock troops closing in for
the kill last night drove to
within 1000 yards of Cher
bourg's southern city limits.
and were SO close that observ-
ers could see the Germans
destroying installations inside
the city, which also was torn
by the explosion Of ammunl-
ton dumps.
A dispatch direct from the field
by Don Whitehead, Associated
Press correspondent, said Cher
bourg was almost plotted from view
by a black smoke pail as the Am
orleans steadily expanded their
deep wedge in cracked German
lines despite fierce resistance.
The new American penetration
occurred early last, night. said
Whitehead dispatch which was
filed at 8 pm. e pm. Eastern
War Time. There also were some
signs Of enemy demon lization, he
had said in an earlier report.
Steady Progress
Headquarters communicate No.
80 issued at 1870 pm, told Of stea-
dy progress in a semi circular
front around the city and said
leach link in the chain of defenses
is being Systematically destroyed. "
The bulletin said the Americans
were less than two miles from the
heart of the city, but this version
was outdated by late reports di-
rect from the field.
A French civilian who reached
American lines said Cherbourg' S
remaining civilians had hidden
wine and champa gne with which to
celebrate the Americans expected
entry soon into the city.
Continued on Page IL; Col 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-25
Dewey, Warren Ticket
Ta1kedAtGOP Gathering

didate for president of the United
states-but amid speculation that
climactic developments might
come even before the convention
starts.
This speculation grew and spread
as plans were. laid for earcuses
of the big delegations of California.
Monday, with so votes, Pennsy-
lvania. Sunday night, with 70, and
Illinois late tonight with SO.
decisions by. these. states to
throw first-or second-ballot sup
mort to Dewey would, his head
quarters believed, clinch the nomi-
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. y