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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-09
Marriage Announced

Friends here have received an
nouncements OF the marriage al
East Jordan, Mich. OF Miss
Phoebe Van Allsburg and Harry
Watson. The bride Is graduate
OF the Normal College and has for
two years been teacher in the
Angel School, Ann Arbor. She has
many friends here. Mr.. Watson is
in training at the Great Lakes
Naval Station, where he returns
today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-09
Chanue Date

AZ special meeting OF the
Women's Union OF the Presbyter-
ian Church, Sunday, following the
church service. 1t was decided to
change the date OF the coming ba-
zaar and dinner to Nov. 2. 1t will
be from 2 TO 10 D. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-09
Pledged TO Sorority

Miss Susan Eckley, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Eckley, 53l
Fairview Circle. Ypsilanti, Mich.
has been pledged to Delta Zeta
Sorority at Northwestern Univer-
sity. where she is now enrolled as
a student.
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Continued from Page One)
Gratis alike, partisians finding Q
common ground in paying him
honor. e.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
POWER CUT OFF;
YARD FLOODED

A rain storm, which some obser-
vers termed a cloudburst, decom-
missioned one small electrical
transformer and left pools of wa
ter, some 18 inches deep, at the
North Carolina Shipbuilding COM
pany's yards yesterday afternoon.
The downpour from 2::45 to $3.50
pm. caused many shops to be
flooded, but they soon drained.
General Manager P. F. Halsey said
the lack of power and rain prev
ented many employees from work
ing the second shift.
The breakdown Of $4,000 volt
insulators at the Eagle Island sub
station of the Tide Water. Power
company caused many parts OF
the city to be without electric
lights last night. The Star-News
was without power from $50 to
9:07 pm. IT,
The weather bureau reported that
1.O8 inches of rain fell in Whining
ton during the 24-hour period end
ing at 17:30 o'clock last night. The
total rainfall thus far this month
is 5.29 inches.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
NEW YORK COP
SEEKS SENATOR
BY The Associated Press


A search by New York Republi-
can leaders for a candidate for U.
S. senator who will attract most
support to the ticket headed by
Presidential Candidate Thomas E.
Dewey highlights a new burst of
political activities in four states
today.
The New York Republican state
committee will pick up a candi-
date who most likely will be OPP
posed by the Democratic veteran,
Senator Robert F. Wagner. The
Democratic state committee, also
meeting today, is expected to re-
nominate Wagner, sponsor of the
social security and national labor
relations acts.
Likewise attracting national at
tention, Arkansas Democrats will
choose their nominee for U. S.
senator in a runoff primary be-
tween Gov. Homer M. Adkins and
Rep. ]. w. Fulbright. The winner
will seek the seat of defeated
Democratic Senator Hattie w
CaraWay.
Connecticut Republicans in state
convention expect 20 renominate
U. S. Senator John A. Danahe. In
Vermont nominating primaries are
being held without debate over
national issues.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
WASP HEAD ASKS "a. r..
MILITARY: STATUS

WASHINGTON. Aug: u, -(R>-:
The head Of the .Wasps, recommen-
ed to Gen. H. II. Arnold today that
the organization be given military
status or discontinued entirely.
Jacqueline Cochran, director Of
the Women Airforce Service Pilots,
said their, present status as. uni
formed civilian employees is e UNI
satisfactory to. the Wasps, depriv-
ed Of military benefits and to-. the
air forces, unable to use them to
the fullest extent because they are
not. subject to, military discipline.
A. bill to militarize the Wasps
was killed by. the House in. June,
after Rep. O'Hara-. Or Mimi de-
nounced it as society legislation"
and Rep. Morrison D-La) ques-
toned the need, for. women pilots
as long as instructors and trainees
Of the discontinued civilian pilot
training program were denied OPP
portunities to fly as officers in the
air forces. So q
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
CIVIL SERVICE
ACTS ON LAYOFFS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-tR-
The Civil Service" Commission
determined today the order in
which federal workers will be laid
OFT when personnel cuts become
neceshary. New regulations were
issued stresSing the rights OF Ca
feer' employees, and war veterans
a! we'll as efficiency and length
Of service.
This action does not mean, the
commission emphasized, that de-
mobilization of federal employees
is believed imminent because Of
encouraging war developments.
rather, it is because a uniform
a'ippllcation Of civil service rules
throughout the government is re-
qulred by the Starnes-Schrugham
veterans preference act of 1914.
The commission asked federal
workers to stick at their jobs as
.0ns as needed, and said they will
sel due notice when reductions
nave to be made.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
PREPARE
FOR ARN0 BATTLE
Small Groups OF Nazis
Hang On To Pockets
Near Florence

ROME, Aug. 7.-@-Sat-
tle-hardened Allied fighting
men moved into position to-
night for the next great as
sault on an Italian water bar
rier, the Arno river, barring
their path to the enemy's for
titled Gothic line.
British Eighth army troops and
men of the U. S. Fifth Army,
many of them veterans of the
bloody crossings of the Volturno,
Sangro and Rapido rivers, waited
only for the reduction of a few
pockets of Nazi resistance on the
south banks of the Arno, east and
west of Florence, and for the
completion by engineers of prep
arations for the new assault.
Small groups of Germans, grilN-
ly hanging On in the face of Al
lied pressure, were all th"t '-'cr7
left from point three miles east
of Florence to Montelupo, IL mics
west.
Allied reconnaissance patrols in
vaded the important river towns
of Montelup and Empoli but they
remained in no-man's land. An
important center of German, resis-
lance on the ridge southwest of
Pontassieve, in the bend of the
Arno, was being steadily reduced.
Once those German pockets
have been wiped out General Sir
Harold Alexander's American,
British and Dominion forces can
be massed on sixty-mile front
from the Amos mouth to Pom
tassieVs, .<sa5
South African troops made con-
tact with the Germans On the
north bank of the river in thrus1
which an Allied spokesman ex-
planned were only reconnaissance
patrols which had returned.
Alarm expressed by the Vatican
that the great Renaissance city
of Florence might be destroyed
was auayed by word from the Al
lied command that the city's main
area on the north side of the Ar.
no was apparently occupied only
by small parties of machine-gun.
ners, and by the declaration from
an official source that "there will
be no need for the city itself to
become a battlefield"
On both sides of Florence, how
ever, the Nazjs ere digging in
for a desperate stand.
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RALEIGH, Aug. 7.-tR-A
.'Boycott, and prescription of
the south by powerful north
ern Negro groups and t h e
CLOS Political action commit
tee caused the defeat of South
ern candidates for the Demo-
cratic vice presidential nom-
nation, Gov. j. Melville
Broughton said here tonight.
Broughton said that at the
Democratic convention in Chi
cago-''The widest and most
bewildering session OF recent
decades" - "These groups
seemed to have resolved that
the people of the south should
forever be but the hewers OF
wood nd drawers of water
within the Democratic party"
However, he predicted that
Despite the disturbing cir
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
JAPS RETREAT
ON GUAM ISLE

WASHINGTON, Aug. Up -
American forces on Guam have
taken third Of the territory into
which the Japanese retreated on
the northern end of the island, &C.
cupied village and captured a
quantity of munitions, Pacific
FLEET communique reported to-
night.
The ground attacking force was
Supported by aircraft carrier
launched planes.
Meanwhile, the air attacks on
other enemy positions in the south
west Pacific were continued by
both naval and army planes.
Besides Smelling Chichi island in
the Bonins for the first time in
the war, a powerful task force
sank II enemy ships and several
smaller craft, damaged 80 YES
sells and destroyed 10 planes.
American losses were announ.
ced as is planes and 10 flight per-
sonnet, the result of antiaircraft
fire.
Ships lost by Japan included
five destroyers or destroyer es.
corts, five cargo vessels and an
oiler. "A light cruiser and five
smaller vessels were left burning
Damaged ships included two es.
cort vessels and "a large freighter.
The ships made up convoy
that was Virtually wiped OUT
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
Hengyang Defenders,
Smash Jap Offensive

=
CHUNGKING, Aug. 7. = az =
In some OF the heaviest fighting
ever seen on a China battlefield,
Chinese defenders have smashed
yet another determined Japanese
offensive against Hengyang, rail :
junction fortress in northern Human
province. front dispatches said to-
night.
The Chinese high command itself
said Chinese troops had wiped out
part of one Japanese force which
infiltrated into their positions about
the: city. which the Japanese have
been trying to capture for more
than a month in their campaign to
control the HankoW-Canton rail
way. ;s:$~< 1 80 =. 80!
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
Board Seek
To Set b.
School
CnDpInC CATuEUt
FORBIDS GATHER. s
Health Group Places Ban
On All Assemblies
OF Children

The New Hanover board of
health will recommend at its meet
ing at 3 p. m. Thursday that the
opening of the county schools be
delayed Eat least two weeks" al
ter their scheduled opening on
September 4 in an effort to pre-
vent the spread of infantile paraly-
sis, which has claimed four VIC
TINS here, DR.. A. H. Elliot. CITY
county health officer, said last
night.
An immediate ban on all gath
erings of children under Is years
Of age was ordered yesterday by
DIR. Elliot, following an order ex-
ecuted by an emergency commit
tee of the health officer, DR.. Hous-
ton Moore and DIR. J. c. VESSEL.
The ban was the result OF an
additional case of polio and two
new suspected cases here.
DR.. Elliot said the health
boards recommendation to be
made Thursday would follow
closely the suggestions about the
delaying of school openings made
by the state board of health. 1t
will be presented to the New Han
over board of education for ap-
proval.
1--WE are asking for complete
cooperation of parents OF young
children in forbidding all gather
ings. Forbidden are picnics
street games, church gatherings.
swimming pSol parties, theater
going, operation of any day nur'
series, home and playground par
.ies," Elliot advised.
Day nurseries will be closed
Immediately as result of the
ban.
The child whose illness was dag
nosed yesterday as polio is little
Camille Thomas, daughter of DR.
and Mrs. c. A. Thomas, loca
|dentils, of 1872 Grace street. The
child is undergoing treatment al
James Walker Memorial hospital
DR.. Elliot did not announce
names of the suspected victim:
of the disease.
The ban will remain effective
until further notice, DR.. Elliot said
To date there have been rela
lively few cases of polio in the
eastern area, but DR.. Elliot has
predicted that this county will
likely get its share of the cases.
Recommendations for protection
of children against ravages of the
disease are available through the
Consolidated Board of Health. Blu
the primary preventative is to eli
inmate gathering of children, Ell
liot stressed.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
SENATE TAKES
~ -WARLIKE MOOD

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. -R-
The Senate took on an increasingly
Warike mood tonight on the eve
of tackling the intricate economic
problems Of an approaching peace.
Democratic proponents of bill
to create an office of war mobili-
cation and adjustment and set fed
eral standards for unemployment
compensation were asserted by
Senator Taft R-Ohio) to have dis
regarded the Recommendations Of
the postwar report by presidential
advisor Bernard M. Baruch in fav-
or Of "a CIO-sponsored measure. :"
Siding with Taft as bipartisan
coalition to fight the measure took
shape. Chairman George (D-GD OF
the Senate. finance committee de-
clared the bills sponsors promis-
ed war workers more than they
can; never GET and paved the way
for "a vast new federal bureau
cracy."
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
FINNISH CABINET
WILL BE FORMED

STOCKHOLM, Tuesday, Aug. 8.
-(P)-Announcement OF the new
Finnish cabinet is expected today
and it is reported to include Hant-
ii Hackzell, former minister to
Moscow, as premier. e.
Carol Inckell, member Of. the
Finnish peace mission to Moscow
in March, was reported to be for.
eign minister in the new cabinet.
The reported cabinet was seen az
an augury of Finnish reapproch-
ment with the U. S. S. R., as was
statement by DR.. JUNO Paasikivi
that I'VE Firms must always count
on strong Russia and once and
for all forget Russia's weakness 10
1917"
Paasikivi, former minister to
Moscow, negotiated the Finnish /.
Russian peace of March, 1910, and
made another mission to Moscow
last spring in an unsuccessful peace
maneuver
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
AMERICAN SOLDIERS DRIVE
FORWARD TOWARDS PARIS: !
COUN7ERATTACK REPULSED
Border Belt Leaf Marts
Open 1914 Sales Today

FLORENCE, S. c., Aug. 7.
-(R-A weeks "strike" to OBJ
tain higher OPA ceiling hav-
ing been of no avail, the bor-
der belt tobacco markets Of
North Carolina and South Car
DINA begin the 1914 auction
season tomorrow with the hope
that much of the crop, report
ed to be- better than last
years, would bring maxi
mum prices.
The War Food Administra-
ton said that this years crop
was far superior to the 1943
crop in both quantity and
quality. AT one time the, crop
seemed to be near failure but
late rains and favorbale wea-
Their changed the picture COM
pletely, and optimistic reports
came from all the markets.
The markets were originally
scheduled to open Aug. l, but
the governors of the flue-cured
tobacco states ordered a post
ponment of a week of the OPP
ening of all belts while they
sought to have the OPA revise
upward the AZ IL cents a
pound ceiling. The OPA con-
tended that to raise the ceiling
world bring an increase In the
retail price Of cigarettes.
The estimated production of
the belt this year is 174,225, 900
pounds. This is exceeded only
by the record production of
231 $40, 900 pounds in 1899.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
YARD ACCIDENTS
FATAL T02 men

The accidental death within II
hours. yesterday of two white men
at the North Carolina Shipbui1ding
company was announced last night
by Coroner Asa w. Allen.
No inquest was deemed neces-
sary by Coroner Allen in the deaths
of either of the two, one of whom
died by electrocution and the 9TH
err by being crushed to death.
The first casualty was identified
as Benjamin Franklin Butler of
Whiteville, 39-year-old electrician,
who was injured at $40 pm. Sun
day and died at 1903 am. Monday
at James Walker Memorial hos
pital. Coroner Allen said Butler
was "caught between a crane and
an upright steel plate" sustain
ing a compound fracture to his
left leg and broken right hip. The
injuries and shock caused h j S
death, Allen said.
During the downpour of rain
about 800 pm, Robert Cleveland
James of Waynesville, 55-year-old
shipfitter, was electrocuted when
he stumbled while walking along
the railroad tracks and hit the
third rail that was charged with
electricity, Coroner Allen said.
Two hours Of artificial respira
ton failed to revive him.
Coroner Allen said that an I'M
identified man was knocked some
distance when he attempted to as
sist James.
James is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Clara Lee James.
= Butler, son. of j. Y. Butler and
the late Sallie Smith Butler, was
lifelong citizen of Columbus
county. Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Lucille Nealy Butler; one
daughter, Carolyn; one son, Billie;
his, father; two brothers, w. R. But
Ter Of Freeman, and j. Walter But
Ter of Whiteville; three sisters,
Mrs. j. L. HARRISON, Mrs. Clarence
Thonnp SON., and Mrs. P. w. Hedge
|;peth,y all of Whiteville.
Funeral services will be held at
ii a m. today at McKenzies chapel
in Whiteville by the Rev. S. N:
Lamb, Baptist. minister, assisted
.by the Rev, ]. F. Gaddy, pastor
E|.of New Hope Baptist church. Bur-
ia1will follow in New Hope church
i cemetery ~
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investigate the strike.
The Army was running the Phil
adelphia Transportation Company,
which it seized Thursday night, but
no soldiers were required to oper-
ate any bus, trolley, elevated or
subway train. All except 10 of the
5000 operating employees returned
to work on schedule to meet t h e
Army's work or be fired ulti-
matum. This compared with an
average absenteeism of 9.5 during
the last three months.
Of the Is employees who failed
to report, an Army spokesman said
it is not yet known how many
of them will be able to present
medical certificates of illness to ex-
cuse their absence
There was almost unanimous
sickness reported among tn e
employees as they walked out in
protest against the upgrading of
eight Negroes to trolley motormen.
One of the eight Negroes appeared
today to rsume instruction, ap-
peariag at car barn suddenly
quiet. After an hour, he was sent
home to await a call. APPARENTLY
the other seven also were awaiting
calls.
An Army spokesman, questioned
as to the Negro 'trainees' status,
said:,
Our first duty is to. get these
roads back into normal operation
and make sure that operation
stays normal. Everything else will
be taken UP in ORDER
Asked whether the four dismiss
ed strike leaders would be denied
job refrraIs, tn spokesman said
that was a. matter for the War
ManpoWer Commission. The VINO
said the problem had not, arisen
yet. +f...*
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
Security Talks e.
Postponed Week
At Red Request

WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.-(R
with the explanatio-4 that the
Soviet government needs "a
little more time" to prepare,
the United States today delay
ed for week the beginning Of
postwar security talks here
with Russia and Britain.
This action moves thS dBte.
from August IA to FL, and, pos
sibly by coincidence, lergthens
the pre-conference period In
whichc present negotiations for
a solution of Russo-Polish
problems may be concluded.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
Tokyo Says Allied Planes
Appear Over Philippines.

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-(P)-- The
Tokyo radio said today two Allied
planes. had appeared over Davao,
on Mindanao at the. southern end
of the Philippines, in a ''half-heaEt-
ed attempt to invade" the south
ern Philippine city and that one
had dropped three bombs which
caused no damage.
One large plane was sighted over
the city yesterday at l am. and
was followed an hour later by an
other aircraft which filed before
reaching the skies over Davao,'
the Tokyo broadcast said.
There was no Allied report of
such a mission.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
Allies Press Deeper
Into Northern Burma

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
hEADQUARTERs, Handy, Ceylon,
aug I. -(P)- Allied forces swung
nilo the concluding phases of their
lisofous monsoon campaign which
ilaS wrecked the Japanese plan OF
invading northeast India, and press
" deeper into northern Burma to-
s'y beyond the captured frontier
vase of Tamu.
Inc Japanese offered no organic
" res stance in the rain-sodden
Jungle IN the Kabaw valley. 1t was
S'ateo officially that only sick and
wounded Japanese remain in the
area west Of the Chindwin river
Sno north Of an east-west line
through Tamu.
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BrouehtonH itsPAC Northern egroe:

cumstances in connection with
the convention, and notwith-
standing the fact that there
are serious divisions about do
mestic and o her matters,
President Roosevelt will be re-
elected in November and the
south would support the Dem
ocratic nominees.
In a radio address, which he
described as a ''fireside chat
for the benefit of Tar Heel lis
teners, the governor dashed out
at the PC, declaring that its
anti Southern. front at the
convention was unfair and I'M
democratic" and that its aim
was to gain control of the DEM
ocratic party.
The Negro groups Broughton
said, "were not representative
of the Negro race" The Po-
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litical action committee 'as-
sumed unwarreated" authority
and its anti Southern front
was "deplored as being out OF
harmony with tn philosophy
and purposes of organized Ia
Dor in America and ultimately
destructive of labor's b e st
hopes.
Il have no feud with the
Political Action Committe. And
I believe profoundly in the
cause of Labor and deeply re-
spect its rights" he said. But
l do deny to the PAC to any
other labor group or other
groups white 70 colordede, the
right to dictate the affairs OF
the American people,"
g. There is room enough
CONTINUED ON Page Three; Col.
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Warehousemen at Mullins,
the belts largest market, ex-
pected light sales the first
week because farmers, short of
labor, are busy curing the rest
of their crop. Some Of the 9TH
er markets reported that block
sales were in prospect the first
week due to heavy offerings
and the delayed market open
ing.
At Kingstree warehOuSemen
asserted the allotted three and
one half hours for the two
warehouses there would seri7
ously handicap the farmers
whose tobacco has piled up
due to the postponed opening.
Growers throughout the belt
protested against the reduced
selling time.
The South Carolina markets
are at Mullins, Lake City,
Pamlico, Timmonsville, Loris,
Darlington, Conway and Dill
Ion. i,
The North Carolina markets
are Whiteville, Chadbourn,
Clarkton, Fairm0nt, Lumber
ton, Fairbluff and Tabor City.
A report from the Lumber
ton market said warehousemen
were expecting no great rush
the first week because Of delay
in grading during recent rainy
weather. More than a half mill
lion pounds of tobacco were
on the -Lumberton market on
the eve of the opening.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-08
Major Turkish Cities
: Placed Under Blackout

ANKARA Aug. 7.-R-Ankara,
Istanbul, Izmir and other major
points in Turkey within bombing
range from German bases in Bull
garia, Greece and Romania went
under complete regular blackout
tonight, as throughout Turkey pre-
parations- were being made to put
the country on a semi.war footing.
Large groups of German nation
ais left Ankara in mid-afternoon
for Istanbul en- route to Germany.
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Report On Lend-Lease
Causes House Furry

WASHINGTON, Aug. Z. -(P-
A report by the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturer that British
officials are insisting On continual
ton of Lend-Lease aid after Ger
manys' defeat caused furry
among congressman today but act
ing Secretary of State Edward r..
Stettinius, Jr, declared:
The British government has not
raised with us the future of lend
lease