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Itettitersan HatUj Htspafrfj __ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TWENTY-NINTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2, 1!M2 1* FIVE CENTS COPY • ••- • • • ••• ••• m « Red Army N ow Is In Sigh t OfStaraya Russa Japanese Invasion Barge Approaches Luzon Copied from a German publication, this picture shows helmeted Jan soldiers on the deck of the invasion barge carrying them to shore during the attack on I.uzon. A sln-11 from one of the guns of General MacArthur's defending force hits near the motorboat which seems to ue towing tm leu-go. (Ct at) at Press) Explosive Issue Of Pay For Armed Forces Rises Threatens To Become Live Question in Con gress; Would Cost Hundreds of Millions of Dollars; Basic Pay Would Be $42. Washington. March ;.\P)—A new and potentially explosiv. is.-no - increased pay for men in the arm ed forces—appeared on the legisla tive horizon today as C mgr-ss began ' third month deeply iminer.s d m v art line problems and controversies Di-eussed in elosad e, .. mittee se.— si ms for months, the pay question Ihiratenod to become a live legisla tive problem just at the time when Congress was trying to complet" repeal action on the troublesome s@3f p! ns ion law and to reach a settlc i iont on the controversy' over price regulations lor farm products. Introduced by Senator Johnson. Democrat. Colorado, the niih’-iry pay bill has been the subject >f inter :: ittent hearings since last Novem i r 17, but members of tiie Senate Military Committee said they were now manng a showdown on its terms. Johnson originally proposed com prehensive basic increases irom pri \ates and seamen to generals and admiral.-, but sew ml committee members predicted that if any bill I sally was laid before the Senate it would provide benefits only for those in the ranks, possibly includ (Continued or; Page Two) STORM WARNING BY WEATHER BUREAU Washington, March 2.— (AP)—The Weather Bureau issued an advisory •'-torni warning today saying winds would reach moderate gale torce on the Atlantic coast from North Caro lina to New Jersey this afternoon and tonight. Rationing Is Fulltime Job For Somebody Daily Dispatch Bureau, In tlie Sir Walter Hotel By BOB THOMPSON Kaleigh. March 2. — Governor Broughton and Lee Gravely, field consultant of the Office of Price Ad ministration who was here during the week-end, have agreed that the duties of the state rationing ad minister soon will require the iuh time of one man. That means that Teu Johnson, who (Continued on Page Three; I. S. Recoinizinj^ Free French Ruie i _ j London. March •’.— (AIM—The l nited States lias given partial recognition to Free French rule in the Pacific and is cooperating in operation of French islands there, if was said today. These islands are \ ital stepping stones : along the route to New Zealand. DeGautle's French national I committee in London was name;! officially for the first lime as the recognized authority ;overning the French Pacific possessions, al though the 1 nited Stales main tains diplomatic .'relations with Marshal Pctains government at Vichy. State Lags On Contracts In War Work Daily Dispatch Bureau. Ill the Sir Waller llutel. By BOB THOMPSON Raleigh. March 2. A t"' u " $231,971,11(10 has been <l.~t: hi' i ji N'orth Carolina in nia.ior • ,--iij>i>i> and facility contracts and .ill R ■ 1 ■ the W r Pr<iduetion Board am i ne ed today. The State'.' .- are -u w.o c\Ilenditures is far below avei the WPB added. F .n ' e \ ginia's to’al was $H.'i0.797.auo < >i the other hand, ho we > Carolina'.- was only $RA. 10. . The report covered only ; between June, 1940, th a I bei', 1941. It in no wry 1 •111 the activities of the WPB - S'. ' lice ol contract distribu! on. v. opened since then, but dicate how much th 1 office i:.. - t (Continued on Page Two) Ichas G. Rose Not To Contest Court Post With Denn\ Raleigh, Man ' 2 -( \P Cm Jo. G. Rose. Sr., of Fay lie, said today he delinitely \v<mid not be 1 , candidate for the State Supreme 'Court in the Democratic primaries this spring. Rose, who was mentioned as a successor for the late Justice H m 1 Clarkson, who died in January,- is sued a statement here today srnine that he would !"■' run ag linst Jus tice !•. B Denny who was appoint ed by Gmt rnor Broughton hi Clar.. sou’i seat. _ . _. . Sneed Guilty Of Revenue Office Theft Dismissed Deputy Pleads Guilty When Case Is Called in Wake Superior Court; Other Indictments Expected. Kaleigh, March 2.—(AP)—Clar ! etiee \Y. Sn eil. >>l Kaleigh, pleaded godly today t.. charges of embW . /hug approximately $(>.000 from the Norln Carolina Department <u Ker en .e. and additional indictments against wilier Stat>‘ employees wt "e expected to ho issned momentarily. In meilmti !y alter Sneed entered his pi a, he unit before the Wal-’e county grand j; y to testify in con i i .a on until other alleged regulari I tie hi the Her nine D a>anmenu. I Sne> d a lormer deputy collector >1 the tl partment. Solicitor Will.an Y. Pickett ask ed Superior Court Judge Deo fair, j of Burlington, to "re n", r i idgmem" | on Sneed became "I de irr* to me Mr. Sneed before the grand jury for i other matters.” l.ater, the oiuMo.i told reporter. that ite expected indictment to be la-Ued again-t otlier persons. Ninctc n other persons, niostlv employee . J the re\ enue depart ni’iit, u ns railed lo testily before the grand .hi y. u > ling in executive session. Senators \ot 1 o See Roosex elt On Farm Raritx Rowj Washington. March ?.—(API— Senator Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, said today that mem bers of the Senate farm bloc had abandoned efforts to obtain a conference w ith President Roose velt on parity price legislation. Thomas added that he would not offer a proposed amendment to the S3-J.76i.736.900 military appropriations hill to prohibit use of any of the measure's funds for the purchase of government held crop surpluses at less than parity. "It’s too late to see the President now ." Thomas told re porters, explaining that the com mittee had been unable to ob tain an appointment this morn ing. “We can't hold up this military bill.” WEATHER FOR NORTH ( \ROI IN V Moderate snow in mountains and moderate to heavy rain east and central portions this after noon and tonight, yyith som» snow mixed with rain over cen tral portion; continued rather cold tonight 90,000 Germans Are Trapped In Pocket; rood Running .ciiort Germans e>«. > .snip I ,oss 525,-4'.!0 i ons Berlin. March Ai’i —fGc. man broadcast)—A German army bulletin reported tod '• unit * 400 tons of enemy shipping had l et n sunk during l-e ruary wit.i ! submarines aceounting for MK.sOO tons. The tonnage destroyed repre- | sented 70 ships, the daily com- | m unique of the high command ! declared. Of these, Nazi planes ware credited with sinking 13 and submarines the remain ng 66. In addition, the t :>mminiiq ue said. 1! enemy i:«; ;c.. nit ships were ftartl.s or seriously damaged. Army Units Into Three Will Be Known as Army Ground Forces; Air Forces and Serv ices of Supply; Func tions and Duties Are Outlined. Washington, March 2. ;.\Pi Prosident Roosevelt today rewgaa i/.ed the army into three bare a ' to bo known as the army a. forces, army air forces and set \ of supply, each in charge of a c mandmg general. He issued an e\eeut!\e order p: viding lor streamlining existing - . - ganizatioiis, and authorized the sec retary of war to create iddit tonal departments to embrace ta k fore base commands, defense command . command." in theatre." of operation, and other commands he dooms nec essary. To the c< "■ manding general m army ground forces w.re transfer (Conti tried on Page Three) Australia’s Confidence In Bennett Given Melbourne, .V . !i a!:a, Ain. «-•. 2. - (A P) ’The Au • in • i ‘ loday expressed lull a nr. donee in Major Genera! Gordon Renner, who remain- d with the A stralum army in Malaya add after tin- >ui render of Singapore and ’d.'-n v. r ’ a thrilling new chapter in his mili tary career by a d. ring escape fro • the .Japanese. Bennett, at a A tie senior major (Continued on Page Three) Pus h i n g "i award bmcieniii i uriher io goad ; i wo infantry Bat.tai/ons of Germans ReposWJ "wiped. Out; Lit?' e w s from Ci :mca. Rprl < .'.it!1 .‘ 1 ' • ! i; i; * V. .• * . i ’ i 0 f S t..' ; . i . . , ( • , *1 .i ; " 1 Ru - ian- . • . i t - • t. . •; * ; !.iVV (.it : I. CS;St - j h . >c Mins. it w as cii- cl i in L- >i. 1 : I { -.'in. i i mg !■1 ug:.t i. an .\ivtic sec tea- -»: the trt.nl. i>,.t .is jr i.n.i; v task was disci '-cel to have ht eu t<> train H ian irrnen t > e Brit darn The fliers declared on their return to England that the ITm-im- ' certainly ieai n !a-1.“ ) Do patch S 1 t e St a rnya H it - a J-t gam sa.d the lh - .an many vva> drawing its steel mtig.iter around the Gem m oxTeuth army each day and quoted a German panm.-i (Continued on Page Three) Australian Paper Demands \P Arthur As New Commander Sidney Australia. March ..— (VP*—The Sidney Telegraph proposed todax that General Douglas MacArthur, hero of the Bataan peninsula, be named commander of the southwest Pacific force's. "General M ax (‘IPs ABC !) com mand !uii moved westward to Burma and a new Pacific com mandcr is needed." the Tele graph sai I in an editorial "Most oi hi (the new commander's) l'n res will he Americ an and lie should he an Am Tit an." ( I here has hcen no word from ether sources that M..vcll had moved his lie idqu.li ters from .lax a. Prc suin • Ids t!u lelcgraph mcanl that the greater part of the British c'fmt in that area had been -w nitrated on t lie defense ot Burma Wholesale Ship Losses With Convoy An 1 ast ( east ( a uadi in Port March i.— ( \1‘>—A tale of wholesale disaster striking sud d : l.\ >ii the night far at sea lias been brought here b\ sir* x i\oi's o) a convo\ which lost at least four of its merchant ships when it was caught bx a pack ot 1 -boats in mid-Atlantic. ((h.ntin ori «-n 1’ go Th: ee) Fountain’s Strength To Be Mere Than Expected Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By BOB THOMPSON Raleigh. Mure! 2.—Every tame the practical politicians, the con ceited office holders and the "smart” political writers get too big ior then breeches along comes Dick Moun tain and d- Hates their ego by he simple expedient of sticking a pin in their pants And here he is again. This week there will begin, it if already has not begun, a campaign which wi 1 bre 1 c cry rule of plus ililit ! ntain seeks the toga whii. ns the dignified tr; ” i < i! .t t W, I; iam Bailey it .set iiM a sluaie to id.! id such dig nily with n pm-iu-the-pants atlacK Imp tins fellow Id •! nd, i; i: is like that As one who still tee!~ , A\ ”ue to the south us he t iee> n ■ rth ar.d starts talking tit" Fount on's ehanees. the prepetr.ito, o| ACS isn t d ung a lot ot ptedit.it. 11’out Senator i ired Sen. Carl Hatch Sen. C arl Hatch, of Now M •• ICO, is rep i • ; “doing nicely’’ after suf fer 1 a .1 fracture of the sj r ■ and a bri • n rib in an automobile accident about ei thty miles southeast of Al buqtu rq le. Sen Hatch had to lay beside tin roadway half an hour before help came alone (Central Press) Additional Heavy Cruiser and Two Brit ish Destroyers Claim ed to Have Virtually Annihilated United Nations Navies. (AP i -I Fro:. Imperial t' n i:: V ailotie f t: it .Jap;me e landed mi J;r i ' 'i ‘:,i- - 1 ’ ■ ' *» d ; ■ ■ ■ y (•)•;;>c! ' • U‘ ’ ish d* - (C' »nt ii:.:ed . u im "" 1 reo) Partiality In Lear Grading Is Charged O’ \V. . ' | . ' . . : . Th A; .r : !)*:•• ' ' ' ''’h -V lit!- t.tk.i • •• .1*1: ’ll ma •• ' w Tin' « : .. ii« v le\ • h d v liepro sentat• • «■ !..." or. a i |.' ' ,‘a : • .. - monl'- !" .’P , a. ' made p- • 1 eleaM'ii • n ' -,r o was re port-d • "!«* H- i 1 Tame ted - :: ed to bacco m. Virj-ni.-t to Geiwei i ; 11 . ecu d 1 ■ ated against n "l !• e oy ' -baceo markets i: Kentucky and l'ennessee. During list e ia> of C W. Kitchen, chief of the department's marketin'.: ice, th* i ! i orgia eong •< - i 1 so ■ i '"at all 4d ot till' biirlev in a keis had been designated for th: goveruu en inspection m ’-vie.' while 4b '> Heavy Loss Is Suffered By Invaders British Still Holding in Burma, But Ran goon Has Been Lost as Port of Entry for Sup plies to China; Bunt ings on Bataan. 1 1C' '[’lit \s*,oci.iJed !‘r The I lilted Nation* < •, jjPm - offensive against the rap.mesr invasion of .fata ha- A b,pid satisfactorily.” it v. m «*t t H\ ! ut cautiously air ) an; «d .»( Bandoeng todaw and .on <>ni fial report suggested Miat the deepest oi [:\r Micro ■ thr**e spearheads had been Mum vd oft. Details of th er • b •• however, remained an official secret. ' H• Me- \'sm jated !'-‘--.s) I.’, • • . ■ . ,( , J , , L'nitt X; tion.- arrnii - > Ja*. a or-• ■. c mightily today t>. snu.-i* three -Japain .'U speriiL’aa - thi asi into that r. a and strategic isle, and om report stud that tin d< one ot these had been sheared otf irom its shore base. lilt immediate goal of the ileleiise was t i shatter *.lie ln vaders tit-lore they could he re inforced from the sea. The in vading forces were reported to have suliei'ed enormous losses already. A peeiul Dutch < ' lea .. .. - . J. light* near Remnang. easternmost of the three m u.-1 >n points. werv Mink in s\\T toping attacks by Du ter: fighting I plane.'. 1 < j louden and iell info the s»m. O t a -. landed. were >et afire. The sugge - '. 'i iieic ut- that the Dtitch u < : ii.'ing a ' . t incendiary • >mb, p I haps gasoline-filled missiles. A Kr t - ci 'patch lr; m Bandoenw reposting Br.t.>h t. ■ * -»j).- n act »n again.'t the in* . >a:d there w i> iva-<u to bo: e\ e Allied lb>rces had d 11;: A: tne s ;ppiv line ot lb rty a. ,.:,d to capl re S •. - bang. Si rebang ‘ :; . ty (Contin.ifd n Page Three) Gen. Marshall Wants Drive To Be Begun W'li.siunji C,ru lal t. im the tm ...i 1 i’xpcotcd ii A ".'ii i : V* < f -! 11 { (Contir ed .»n F'agC 'i : - o) House Group Defies FDR On Crop Sale \i .I■ 'll. March J— VP1—’. ’ * ... i‘lull'd lodav : :t '. ■:i";v - ■ at the C ; - r uii'y C edit C" - at in f i selling its stock at lc- thin parity, a provision. Pro- dent Roosevelt opposed unsi.e ce--tally in the Senate iu-t wee.. Si liding a $695,065,859 -apply bill fur tin Agriculture Department to the House, the committee nserted a provision which said that no part ol the Commodity Cred ; Corpora tion's appropriations iouki be used for idministr.it.it- cspcim.- in con nection with tin- sale of government ' ' ' i-'v’-v D • cto M’J-* rpo \
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