i \\ i..\ w i,\ 111 \ lau 1 Ass.\,"rl'VKl-.Kl.i'V;ls,s<.>K henderson, n. c., i i esday \fternoon. march it, id 12 .i.\,7kun""n five cents copy
A - --—-- —
assuming Supreme (command Of United Nations Forces In Southwest Pacific;
MacArihur Is Now In Australia
Philippines
Hero Makes
Plane Trip
War Department in
Vv ashington An
nounces Arrival of
Mac Arthur in Aus
tralia; Transfer of
Heade$uarters Direct
ed February 22.
\V;i :! :V : !-l-h 17. --
‘ A I ’) i , •: rri \ al d General
1 ’‘iA- .Wcii-.krti;or in Aus
1 ra'ia :• a- ar.. , .;nvmr l nilet!
Aal iia t and in that r<
ai ■ il today by
A.' Wai i: jiartmeiit.
1 1 .i ,na lit was request
ed "/ t ’a- A list raii.ui jrovern
■ t partnient said, and
''in'ii. ilo< jM-velt directed
M.a-A rt liar mi IA or nary to
I raiisi’i-r hi- .headquarters from
tile Philippines he had been so
bi ".iafitly defending to Aus
tralia as so,.a as the necessary
irrangemenls could be made.
i, pie led a delay until
il' ■!11'! :" a ;,i angen outs with
1 ’lii !i ppine c hi manri. and this
dei-,.\ '.'.a. :i| sir,cd iv the Presi
MaeArthur was accompanied
on Ids plane trip to Australia
hv Airs. MacArthur and their
son: In his chid of staff, Major
General Kichard K. Sutherland:
Brigadier General Harold II.
George of the air force, and set"
cral other staff officers.
I i ■ ci.'i.: .sil ,!• the s.mthvvc.-t
' t mi v. ii! hici ide 1 lie*
is ...net-, the War depart
ment said.
Direct ai.'.n.i ,.f the forces in
'in- I’ll, ;.i in.-s pu-scs t■, Major Gen
era1. .7,.:..11i...n M. Wain wright, the
<•'. • : .'," lining n Bataan.
A. ' .1 ..il. W.i.nwr ght now aH,
.. P' ; opine- since
(Act• ii i . ! mn. v 1 • n he was assign
' '■ PI: 1 ppine div:
Bn: : W ' W i;:.'i. Wash ,
Wait.".: ’ ' '. .. adut-ted from
(Cun:.niied on Page Two)
U. S. Cheers
Appointment
Congressmen Agree
Assignment of Mac
Arthur as Supreme
CommanJtr is For
tunate.
U ash i ; ion. A! .1 reh IT. — lAI'l
V us (li.it (h tieral Douglas
M.o \t Uiin* i.itl arrived in \us
li ilu a-- supreme commander of
I oiled Viiioiis forces surprised
and cheered members of Con
gress lOfi.ll .
> -i■ ■ i 1 'em - vat, Ari
el ment "ought
• •••>• ■ it.ng l" the morale
is a very brine
.. 1 1 heir head, lie
' ! ' Yi; Hainan unless its
i y. Democrat,
• • S' t..,-.e t ireign rela
i i, i lii it ' CT ner.il
,i v • • : i .it leader
' e fi i N:i' .ns forces in
A - . r:a: ate for the
i oil \ ti .it In : there. The
i d i nd will re
generalship.”
AU . \: . sed the opinion
i.i to ns| re coo
. .n : yi i ng li.at has hap
pened i nee the \\ ar be gan.
■ I' 1 'i ' new - oi the \v ir,” was
!’•' .!o-o: i] •! loi, ppbed by Cliair
'• an Y ’ on. Dc 'ner. t. Georgia, of
the Heii.-e na\ d •.•tin ttee, who
add'd, -w e g. 'I t. ■ hold Aus
trai1 i and ■ a we'!! Hold it.”
"Al. \\rti; 1 now will be able to
do i me rig' toward liberating
lie Pi il pi- nos " sH rl Representative
Dingell 1nocr 1. M ehigan. He ox
oris e<l o iief ttiat the men left in
■o i m.md on Hrtaan will "dn :,r.
, right "
JU. Vi ■’
H o '.? 5 e b i yt::r'.. for
Dra iic L< g.slation
Af ■ ■' o’ ini? Co" Ik Labor
an:.‘ Jntlr^ir/ A?, curries
Major Prop*:rtsons.
U.;-.' I- foM. M.sr-* . 7.— ' MO
—A ruhli ( i \ i • i >:«t w n
j rMiu: .Cin ut .1 t, ; k reaction
> »• ■ ci . ic mi -
' . • i >•.
o ■ { •(•* j ' •
I i ; ;
• ’i't I ' ■ ■ - • 1 .7 • IIIK!«'. -
'' : it i • ■ -1 • IV ,i , ,•
!; ■ : n . . •' •* !I)-ii,i■ '
: . v, . .. ,,n any
I* i ionn ■ • i ill*' ad . 11n ir.n ai in
. I * . - i
t.. •( :. :.it m m.mm mg i npidl.v lor
ny Iol . Vi.* n |iat w- nld |*. •;! v.ai
nr .dnc! :l • In* noli lull to
m i ; V (In . 1 > lain- ptubabb
on • o . f*t '■ \ od . j • odily and
■ \ o i ai: < I: i; i n l; ; y.
•:
lord. \ by Repio ■ ii 1 ;i* i\ .n Snhih.
D( an•(•;;.*.. Virginia, which v.a»nld:
1 VV *ai the ou.vt id ba to in
la <m a • i .. \v "i k and pro\ b oil
ia\. and O'litracb ivquitbm; )• •>'
ni *1 111 t and « no-hall lor « . r
il! .O.
i (d . i in .*■ i • ,n } ’ a o !•' nil')
Neison Makes
Talk Tonight
\\.. Alan h IV. AIM
W.n i . ( ; .1 Don..Id Al.
Nt 1 imi \ m n.a.c ' .I .-ta lenient a'
'ii n ' i 1 i1 111 a a |iit: . I
in-.'in11-a. i Mi . ail'd In a am! r . a
J) a. '1, a oltil ial: a d da .
it. . .a,: :., ■ ai'aca i t-t a Hi s, .and1 i;i da i
a aa la . I la il/u” AllHTl
lain ndn.tiy.
\VI I! oil • a11. ..lino,me d la tin
i al v. Id elimax a bn 'I
d i a 11.;a 1 . ' ■ 1 111 e 11 r 11 d 111 ■ 11
11.,!. \ aid Aliilii.il I’a mica t; a.; nil
., 1 I " a. I'lii 11 ; a I and In p. m.
KU ’I. . -I that it "v. ill cover a I ■!
nl ri i .and.
The Idenl.V . I ht'i|| I led - pen'll. 1
il i.\; i midiTslo. nl was ai '.mm i
prme pally to block ele\ ei ly-h.mdl- ,
el i■ ■ j .i.::'' by axi paipaRimd. a- j
Ul■re and a: a o.al III till.-, rn'lll'y, "i I
w., t a id ii. ei ; Rents lae. ■ ,
i j vel\ up enumted 1 lerJin and
T, >y|. . . ,I, . i n ■ .ndca-1 ailin':I aR I 11
1, e a a aea "ii I - !a 11.1' committee
e ta . a n n; Ni I on as a i".elc .
ini' 'lie pii'dup in armament pi ■ -
duele n.
W omen *s Dress
Styles Frozen
Daily Dispatch Bur'au,
In tile Si: Waltri Hotel.
P.i HOI5 iil.M iii s<)\
Rad. a... A aii IV. Wll.it liai'.y
an o', e |o':.i d man Ioiir has ex
pi eted ''"ii: to happen Women
soon \\ ,1. : • "I: II.a n" in those short
dri ssi■> day . o .-.a iliR.
\,. I - , eadiny the .1.1 apex nr
report die xvar ]iroduet ion
I, r.l do d s. it se. ms that
the ,o\ . ■ than the Women
ore to i i. n. The "present sil
lume! p .'. omen'- sly lies is here
lor tin I i the WI’B decreed
Alanutae i - and whatnot wall be
t/Jontih.ut’ii s-i Page Four)
Sailors Snatched Fro/n Fiery Death at Sea
*.• & - .—niiirr rr^- w -a.,, 7****-^ iniit i ■■««
i , ; . 1 . m •.: I (1 r\ i v r ul ;. ■ : }>■ d md \
,. u . : ;m:tcs . Ur ! my uviv l;md d .i:< \v .-.• S nidi
,.( , i<hn 1» ;r.! 1 u *•»1 c-»'. Id-' sc i
y* y * F
Keds dose in
I —--—
Key Point
Is Captured
Position identified av
‘IN’ May be Novgorod,
Strong Center or Re
sistance.
(IV' l!it* Associated Press)
Kussiaii troops halllim; to
i ni'li remnants of the trapped
German lbUiarm\ in the Staraya
Ku -a si . tin . • until of I a uingrad,
weir , epurl*. d loda\ lo have ' e i / -
t-d a k. point cm heights over
look.:' the battlefield and fur
ther tightened the nouse around
Im In leaguered liazis.
S. . • .. nl line ill palelu . irion
t IV.1 1: a* |r lilt only ; "N ." - i i ci il
|m • • . Me m! the dinisr t e nler
i>! Gi : i..an re.-1: lance.
v .lit-.i i ■ N ■ ■ el. * n the m,H
. . i m I ,, i ■ 11:: e u , a i ■ ■ ■! 11 u ’ 111 a 11.
. a mi-; ■ , ■ l i iman delen.- e.
On the t kraine front. Kussiaii
dispatches said the Germans were
siirremleriuj; in moutuiiiR oum
liers .e, .Marshal 1 imoslienkn's
lied ' inies haltered at the gates
ol Kharkov, the Soviet “Pitts
luirgli".
In (he < riniea, a hulletin from
Adolf Miller's field headquarters
asserted lli.it Kussiaii attacks on
the Keren peninsula. Rateway t»
the ( .inasian oil fields. Iiad
collapsed against German-Ku
manain resistance.
The no/! e .'.lean quo . aid tin
(Gnritinued on i’sac I wo)
French intern
2,COO Britons
Lorn; nv March IT. (AIM An'.
n 11* pm/ed ;. ' ... 1 angler h si.i • tha
French ill ’lit iilu .' .11 Aio’occo ha\
<»i(it red Intel nn.cnl of all British sub
jt’t ts U'lv, . til lb and 5U residing
c >j • towns.
The number involved is belic\e»
ti • it abi • .I 2,000.
Ht In.hie > iiiirt's -a d the step \V‘ *
t..];en i-i -;,! tor the 1! AF bomb
ing aback n occupied France.
It was recalled thiil last sirnme
the Vichy go\ eminent ordered Brit
i.sli national" in unoivipied sndheri
-France to move inland trom al
points on the Riviera and ebe-'her'
along the Mediterranean tv. -
CIGARETTE PLANTS
TO RE CONVERTED
TO WAR INDUSTRY
I) ii 1 \ Dispatch Bureau
In tin* Sir Walt* r Hotel.
B\ BOB I HOMIN'; \
Kalcigh. March 17. — It is **•>
' i! !1 . even p: obab! i t? \ i1
( ai • I raN large tob.o < o t "m
panics a ill begin the ir. mu fa. Lire
ol guns, gun carria * ■ r iu*
other tools of war within Ih.
near I'miin*. S' 11 L; «h ttc com
panies have large ami well eijuip
ped machine simp-, and i1 i
maehin * tool* that the govern
me*lit most neals now. What i
more, the-c companies are big
enough to accent Hie resju.nsj
bilitx ot pi i.ii" contract in:
coiihl lei out the suh-confra-’is
to olfu r -mailer North (‘.unliua
t il ms
Vt he l one and peril o all
the II; cigarette munuf uchmin .
companies have agreed to sir h a
preceduie if the govcnnmmt so
desires. [Moreover, such ai lion
on tin part of the tobacco com
panies would make it much easi i
for the contract distribution of
fice* of the war production board
to accomplish one of its m : i r
tasks and bring war work to
the smaller industries in this
state.
Leaf Industry
Opposes Hike
In Wage Level
lew Yolk, March 17
■ o r enta* i\ e- jnl tin* leui l
du 11 e op» \ he du rk-l1 red . u\ •>
legrii ol Keimieky. Tenne-ee an«.i
\«u'!ii C.uelina todav argued dm i
j a proposed minimum wage
l.i.i ,■ 11 in»ur • ai the gr<'Und ti >' it. •
| ' • i i 1 d \ ' i ‘11 a I ly -1< ipped all o! • ■
j e\j i , • ' and i hat any increa *u
the |V: M'i'; .'id cent ininimum v. mud
■ > n ncre t'd unemi •
'1 b. i ;xpi - it mi arguments \\« : •
he:a e !w 1.. Metcale Walling. ■<> -
. . rnim.-ti ,d<a el thi v .in - and
. 1 dii"ii ot the 1' S. Dotiarte ent <
need h< d •
I ,ng- public alter tudying briei
j 1 -ub: utled i y I th >’dt '
i Hearing- "ii the wage pr"p'»-u|
\ gan -« me tape ag«» in Y a- h mgl < a;
I or department t
industry recommended tin* h» r< nt
minimum -1 igiit b> * l -> ■*. ec >
Workers Into: national I’nion.
1 ; j. ('. Lanier, executive -ecrelaiy
‘ ol lit’ Leal Tobacco KxpoiU is Assn..
i v. wdinued cn Page Two.
Most ot Airmen Who
Fom hi In Malaya and
indi.;' Fcc.dy to De
fer.'5 Australia.
i%\ I 1 .1:1 Press, t
\ jVji ! • nadr isi i mported
I;r f.i I'd “ir.O 't o! tilt* JO « .1!
A..F« ;.i >: .ti.** ' .ru* ini'll who
b: \ :■< «■•» • 1 \ ;o a:; linst Japan
• 1 \ a ..id \t‘lii«*i land .
1 .st ' i' i : - n *• : ’. hack in Aus
t. a*ia."
d he • ■ v * an \ i • airmen, it
v. .* • d. ' v. i’i • hi :;n a*^ to
* ;«»• oi l <a , i\ (* s'. ; • it a lid 11 lli ini’
;*!•.'.••*• «*i AuslsMian s«tU-»d
: • a - . via • tic l.;,':it to the
v."1::;" ■ ■.
1 i " r .f.'i.. 'I ■ ;
■ I: II " • I l ', I' ill! 1.<•iffl .. !
I ; ■' . • I .1 and ' IfllC IIUIIII- 1
1. 1 ■: ' ."! .Oh'i'ipl III (I: - !
tl - . (<
i": ■ .1.111.: 11* ’ i ■ in i ii ling, in
I , I,.I I'apu.i area. '
Cur’ in ant
\ \ 'i;'> in n.idr, . r
' a United
Stall l"i i e ii m! .11 i ", "(I in \u -'
In •,;■! \ |im' uniably i
■ " l! .i ■ \' i, ■ h y br.'ail
, . .,,i ii P n a ,iy ing 1 i ml
.j.iP,.ia ■'.■ 1 • > 'p !.,.d <-11 iai"i mi! a
,, t In: •: I:" :v. n u ndei " emn
On iaIii'r limp
laII '' .. ed I'I '' ' '• up'in Briti.- it !
C III' ' ill O' '.tie III It'll : I C"
., . \\ i'i: a i " .ii’.ln Hi:e:: ' 11'.
I • o : murine, had I .
el *vi n nil'l l': an; hip- tiitnlnr. ;' -
: nl tin liuii. and ii I
i a , tl:i. i n the
Jap i ' ■ undersea raiili
; 1 .iV r -:::::. . 1 ■;: r i an'1 ' i ■ i
i.: p. n I, v i : e rep","teil I" 1 ■
d, s : i ,.vi d eu'.iit \ i --el i" .. :!.e tip
nl' In.ii.i ."L:: "I i VIadi - ’ ■. l'ho
n. .n tliv Ci'i pi.11 nl c. i
I'wo im reliant en I . i ghter
lapanose-oeeupied . ■ ' I Mm ■ "■
.1 apane i .... thru."1 vest! day
’..;, ugh 1 ii e-riiai 'vd Mingle ■ ' >
about ion mil ■> 11"i til >•! Bang"".'
Old there \u- . a ' ' ,1 t "I
sUinu'.shing between ini ado - and
deleiidi" .' • an ml \y.. ami' '' ", .
sii.ibby, M'liii-di". 'ill t mil nil tin
railway line a e Burma I! '-id.
VlAiliiaix
FOR NORTH ( AROI l\ \
^mcli cooler tonight
Supreme ( a> mtnnmicr
%, . ■. &
Gen. Douglas N. MacArthur
Cj 1*1 :• ::.!!) 1. APu’Arlhur. A::; ir;.!i hr.' < ’ >■ {_•
t Pa< 1 Uk* War 1 . 1 : ■
ai An hni.a to assault ii..> iuv. p
N ext German Attack
May Be On Iceland
Reinforcement of Nor
wegian Garrison and
Closing of Ports Taken
to Indicate Threat;
Warship Tirpitz May
Be Loose.
i i*\ idle \ssMt ialed Press.)
London iiuurlers toda\ saw tin*
H:r< at ol a p.;-- ! !c German al
1 irk a:. i.Msl l ei. ud ol upon
Vith* ... upply lim s i •
Bn i. ,1 ol na/.i osders !
elo m:; ..1 \ . e. i tn ports from
With tap .o \ -.lu.d. ..ml at
l •• satm ii ■ it was oisciti-.ril
that (*ei m •. c st battle -
slop, the n. a o n l a pit -. I
*•; * ' lie l«i,>•■». ..«; . high seas.
ve, a! . ."Ill i n lilk •
t •• .v mm} i •., ,!,: I . i • t,ii\ J
• m ’. Vave"
I \ . t i . \ . ports that
the form . . -i i». 11 g rein
i or. < jit n: i ) i \orw egian
gui i isou.
5 » ; ' {. n high cam
in.;mi anno iu« eiiieut ol inten
sdied tigiilmg li i.upland W hos*
t a i north 11 out :er is >,. \ • .'>0
miles from the vital Ku-sian
(Cont.nued on I'agt i wo)
Rationing
r-r-^i rv °> ? ir
ig 1ake i one
he pah I. Bui eau.
In the Sn W.lltei Hotel.
1»\ OOP. lllOMPSOV
i‘the .« . -ge . \ o: •' • t ..'nan * j »
prnx;m ' \ 1 ' ' '« - to »-e«*ister
red w to.- : >v the otli r n embers of
t!ie family, add about three minutes
for each n ember.
one husband. thre ehildron and
sman! would spend half an hour
tea flu
It dot not tak«
,i* o Mood ..n Puse Ti'i-n
URUGUAYAN SHIP
SUNK OFF HAITI
‘ v : I'i • r.■ f.v. Mai n i i .
Mr - .ant :i r M- <mlu\ :di'ii, t,.7mr: ly
i fi |' aiua HM 1C* (1 today.
. , . .. pp*. ; oil by Cap
1:. 11; !■{; ■ ii: i M / v.-rria, .. Vi uguayan
i; :' ' . . :: > v. . r- •• ied and
who " * i tor a:; M • 11 n;. - • J. d m
not cl;, oh •' C . r ivur
weie landed.
Stomis Rip Over 600
Mile I Strip of
States in South and
Midwest.
if?1. Mir Associated Rres-i
Tornadoes s\u»i pinit through
seven southern and midwestern
states yesterda> killed 1 la per
sons. injured ahout 1 000 and
smashed millions of dollars worth
of properl\.
Tori'll.,' wmd
nort w esten et •!
whirr at I •■a.-! w rr« hi a
and abort hah nj irod. ] 1 r)i . inos
also left a trad of death and de
struction in \\r>te:n Kentucky and
Tennessee. stria-.* -• ;th-ccntral and
nurth-c ntra 1 Incii.ni i d k .cd ; ‘
least 20 in < t 1 111 ii
lethal winds cut aeio-> the nortii
wi’stc n tip of Alaban a. killing two
neai Fl> 'rcncc. and >e\ err storm> were
report d as oor west a- M ssouri.
Tin- toll ol dead and injured by
state
State IT ad In j : -*d
Mi-sisAppi 7k Oih
Illinois . 20 170
Tennessee 27 100
Kentucky 21 00
Indiana
\labam i
"’Injured undid* ! mined.
M . j p , hardest hit. rus 11
ywOG i wc.