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\EAR_t111': ass." lATKiiVki/sh0^ HENDERSON, N. THl.'RSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1942 11 V \r>r'-';N""N FIVE CENTS COPY Hitler Recalls His Generals ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ + + + ^ - 1 1 11 — ^ ^ ^ ^ * n. m Another Jap Cruiser Bombed Heavy Ship Damaged Quickening t n e m y Aerial Thins is indi cate imminent Attack on Australia or New Zealand; Darwin, Port Moresby Raided. Tli- Asset i ilc;i Press.) Allied bombers • ladin- In wreck .fiti. in .. sc.;-borne m va-simi fer-'s were olfiti.dlv credited t .da- wdh haltering an other Ja iiar.es- ! -jt■ cruiser, while .1 quickening tempo nl epenit aerial thrusts indicated that a direct assault on Australia or New /-aland mat lit- i in - incut. The cruiser «... >. i 1 on the stern and left billow in;; sinok-. it was announced. ■Japan' r w.. i | I, ■ i it- again raid' ■; I Port Darwin, on the An trillion northwe 1 eon t, and truck anew .,■ ■ I’nrt M iiv by. ,\h v, (lumen. di i ippm.L , 40 bun.I' '.ii hail-n nipping in .'in m mute 11 tael.. D pate!,. In lla- Ns j ia\\ Sun le piirted 1 ii.il ., e, m -1<it : able f.iree , g .lafiitiu-'t* tr. - mi v a -1 ann . , \ r. I.iiul toward Pi ' M. b.\ mo .11 > down tile Ai a 1 kb I ! \ al le\ I l'n< (inlirmcd reports previous ly broadcast by tin- \ n h\ radio said Unit a MO-ship .latianes. flotilla bad been s cn steaming southward Irom lata and that an invasion squadre;i bad been sighted ;»»0 miles off fbe west coast of Australia. There was no roufii illation elsewbeie. how ever. Port Mi e by. only 300 n !e from the .\u ' : ai 11.ainland, v add be ,i likely jumping oit point ioi Japa nese nit a.-a ai ioi os. Knen it plane .a o ■. ere .-.p. g te recomwitei mg i- bind.- nc.a Cape York, i - a-1 - - i i A a.-1 a i a, and la • attack ',.e ': ’el, ...inst V g.g... i m FI. i al i 11 11 ■ lilt- Solo; a i., arch ipeUi which ants down to ward New 1 all d.': . .aid New /. a land. St rate- i.II'.' a all i i ' 1 be * a g a east nia-i 1 .\ -1 re.■ /.c a uni it sell was gin ting to comb.a t any in va. ion alt, II pi I b'b II e Alma ti-i l Jone a a tmeed that trung r.1 ai ft been a i il v. . e being i m ibd i/.ei I lor the di • •!• ’ll. inelltding ['mil < State an I Dial: ii planes and equip ment. An.- C ab.,' nr m , me tor. J am Curl 1,1. . ■ I allied I del Ilia led the Japan, e hi ivy crui-' i in an altael i (Continued on Page Seven) Tom jimison Testifies Ex-Inmate of Morgan ton Hospital Tells In vestigators of Condi tions There. Morganton. March 19.— (AIM —Tom I*. Jimison. former law yer and newspaper writer, re peated to a State investigating committee today the criticisms he made of conditions at the State Hospital for the Insane here in a series of newspaper ar ticles which led (iovernor Itronghton to order the investi gation. Nattily dressed, tin -lm.-e\-inmab of the institution wa.- obviously I completely at ease as hr wired many questions In m members •! the li\> - man committee headed by IWandinil T. Spear.-. As a .starter, he described llov he was comm tted to tht hospital, where he remained lor several montl ~ !*w. doctors signed his eertilicale wine: was tiled with the clerk ot court o: Mecklenburg county, he said, after which he spent two weeks in the eou. ty jail. Tan -n to the institution bv a dr puty sIk •ill', he .-aid, he was given a |>erlmien v questioning by a eleik bathed by t\. attendants, fitted out ( with state clot, a much two I o’ge and assigned to v d A (now \\ .. B), where lie IS-C I' ."lditimi: (Continued on Pag k American Troops En Route to Australia Official U. S. Navy Photo This photo shows r S. troops of a convoy taking: their case on piles of life jackets during- their journey to An i ilia. S-.a, \ >1 War Henry L. Htimson recently announced that a large A.H I', had bet n sent to A •, m , i a a aiuk t|. a. Hn.glao Alac Arthur has h**en named the new supreme I'nilel Null •• • an :an<l--r in tin I’acdic area. (Ccnlmi /’>•’*» i U. S. A rmy Officer [Australian CommandsChtries e Given Pest Lieutenant General Stilweil Placed in Command of Fifth and Sixth Chinese Armies by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Washington, Much Hk—( W — '!‘hr War dc-iartmcnl announc ed li day that l.i'tih nunt < i »* n - oral Joseph \\ SlilucI! of tin* i'niti d si lt 's \r?n.\ had hern put in command of tin- fifth and sixth Chines:- armies operating with British forces defendin'; Burma i liiist the Japanese1. The action was taken by Gen eralissimo ( hiani> lx ?i Slick of China i i-iicf comiminiiiue said. (;• :It 1 S- • - li \v<-111 : a c\v w < • - • .iiitl o*. \ i d ini' i dU .' i I: ’ !: l: cl. .•! of staff. AT:!;’.:.. • *11 ieiaI: oxpn s< 1 "t,ii Jem ell . i i ent rep •escni'-d 'in1 1 u* 1 tun: that an \mc: ■ n a my ntfieer had !> cm jivc’M :. 11 and of a major body of .’him - c tr. > -p-. although An r; n-:m id\fent rs have c >mman<le 1 1 ■so. Stihwll i;i hull wide x|!• ■ i i• -nee n China, beginning witl - ( e y ;ir >eriod - a language' t I nt n 19i0 23. He scr\ ed with tile 151 it Tient.-in n I !)2fi-T'!l . ■ ■ i .■ x v n (’liina in 1M32- 'M!» lit 11.. a I ache. \l 111 \1 K \1I»S C a i' i' i, Al.iii'. in i . \ I’ i '.''lie RAF innuuneed Iml i,v I1:. ' I aped' ■ .ovy ng planes had l. .a d a -uci 'id tttack mi enen v hip) ng in the ccn ral Mediterranean "ii Tuesday light, sitting "ii" iin"v!t.;iit ship mi ire and scoring a ad. nil a larger esse I. Allies Destroy Jap Planes X;m. Delhi. India, .March IP. - Al’i An enean volunteer groups .ml British pilots po ■ :ily dostroyod la enemy plane- in attacks nil ,fapa n‘si-held airdromes in suuthern i irma yesterday, a communique rom British headquarters in Burma ■epurted today. Japanese plane- were said t" have r indu'd a town in north Burma yes erdav and today, causing some dam ige. In the land lighting, the cominuni Ino reported a fresh encounter be u'ecn Chinese lorccs holding the e\ reme left flank of the British-Chi i’si* line and Thai troop- under Ja ,.i esc officer-. The Chinese inflict ;U ■ e casualties. MacArthurs Left Bataan In Fast Boats —— X IV V : Mar.-h IT i W - 'knell lot in t m itnr [m- . n boats c. rnciI (I• 11■ ral I Ji > gia A];.i■.\'t i 111: . i: s v. i Ic anil . h Id and i i ■ .a II i .up of a ales on the peri h : leg ol their j. Si nr -v !. i I 1 : ien a.. in.. to Vi triil i.. .hug to ., ei pvr;g! Ie I .lei. ;■ ■ i ■ ie rli -ti.,le i p.ll' 1 ic'd loll IV liy ti e New V"l 11' ' i:il-Tr:.■me. i T!i 11 -! 1.!' 111. .Mien i mm : i li a rued i nto t lie Al. w Al'ti;i.r parly lei t La t aail I>\ jug , t oil Ain eh II m l tra . eled , i’.h a!< ug tin i" ' the t'ii.iio I iam 1 lor t . I m 1. . hiding a II a y d ' ■ - light ' Three a 'i: nee \\ i i pent n ■ . n ■ i'i r l!" pi mi-, it w ,1.1 At time.-. I'll I;' ! I< ■ : I! ■ " i ■ ]" .1111(1' (I b- In . Kay.- mi It arneiI He 'p ■ ■'' 1 a li i mb i iif tlie pa rly ■ ay ng ''Wet,..:, a t> rrit it- poimrim in -t- it v. a iike i i l l .; m ." ; m t " ■ null" aril ii-ot. a roe limit The point m to. .. - A i :ralia. I«a\ m m l w n'to. mi! nr,illy is soeVol. but the plan • \vhirh k ndeil thi MaeArtli■ i and their pin ty in A list. a1 ia Maroli 17 i. pt clear of Darwin, northern Australian port wnmii has been under repeated aii at tack. Burma Front Little Changed London. March 10— lAP) Reut ers new - agency reported today th .1 i unofficial advees recce, ed ru' Burma said tin ' I'.iatMt m or forces had withdrawn friim Th trra i waddv, 60 mile.- norduve t "t I,'an I goon on the road I" Pron-e. A military spok •• an -1• ■. 1. n d. however, that there was no actual I change in the general sitna'ion in Rtirmn although tin- Japanese con tinued to test British defense lines j One attack, he said, was launched 1 bv th Japanese around K inyutk ■ win. too miles north of Rangoon and 40 mil 's ..mph of Tmmgoo 'll the 1 road to Mandalay This on et wo- supported by re j eently bolste.yd Japanese air! i strength. i Precedent Smashed by Appointment of Casey to Middle East Diplomatic Post. London. .March i.9.—: \P) — Hrituin smashed all precedents toda> h> choosing II ir hard *». ( :Australian miirs’ i- to V* a hitwion. as minister ot sla'c to represent the war cahinet i a tie- PI idtll last. rnt that . ■ n trie < pin*'.- 1 t [!' mina n . i ,t» . -an is to 1 "; - "i 'ho Irani- gov crm i • i*t .'. i. ’ -ado by I 'ii! c Minister (*Ji. rc:i:h the h 'ii--' "i C"i non - ns ;ii:(i wni! 1 ■1 ' i , ' O 1 .' ! • I it I r t. * I ! ! I , t • 1 ( hurchill git v c no explanation lor t!o surpi isitig move, a ree o-.-.mit;on of Australia’s own cri D -D iej in • lie war. Hut scctiom 1 the Hrit.sh press have e\ • • ed alarm over .Australia's » ' • rot lend n; \ to carry her t* >u! Its t o \\ asking ton rather than to London. : ' • ’» - : t VVi rid War. D.ax id 1 • • ; . iuiii. !' i by an m}km ml war cabin-*’, hiit n • - d • ini- -n -c,»! <• -nt.itix e be en a a- .i ■ • mber <if the v vi nn rnt it oil'. ( ! lie: ,'! lid ( •• y w . 11 i *• -ncllld* at \Va ■!iingt• - n. including <•' i« - * * u a la i •< vi i 11\; n- or| : rare rnt itr c . th at • 1 I• i;• i• *■ i a* r. »ii. ul ia t ;< n be - I.a •• g ang in Ciiifn • i ; - ' lie 1 ■ i : of— 'ale lr .!•• actual unlit:.: y oration . Nelson Says Labor Laws Not Needed \\\. hmgtnn. Mill ch 19. ■ (AD '1. , a I) ---.aid M. Xi-I- on of tin* war producti"ii hoard took the stand toda\ th..'. ■ w ai laonr legislation \-. a n. ' needed, that we can get in cn -a. «-d pi mind a m without Use o. ft >1 cc.’’ \el- in's • « \p: Cssed hi’ioro a Si’ii.itc suha.r a it tec, contrasted with that n'l Repre entatixe Smith. Democrat, Virginia, who. in urging II(HIM- n.i\a! cnini -ittee approval o.' hi- bill 1 1 hu 1 profits and abolisii extra pay l *r oxertime, said mem bers ol ('"ligress xx'ere "feeling tin* lash of thi* X- hip” from constituent dai • Ming for such legislation. • I xx ant i" see labor and managi men! gixon a chance to cany on; (Continued on Page Seven) BA TTLE BREAKS INTO NEW FURY OFF AUSTRALIA Allied Planes Attack Japanese at Several Is land Pconi'; Japs Raid Australia and Solomon Islands; Jap Troops Led by Nazi Missionaries. "• : 1I \P) , 'I'i ''' ■ u: A n -; r.lui's inn ■ ■ n lip ■ ' nlo n : mrv torin;. ■ , ’ , 111; (I , i ir ;i M ,iel. ' "I! On1 -l.i. " ■ i■ .1 i I. pi. - .' ■ . . i CI'll \ , | < I ■ S XI' ' ' I , ; I .; i i:, t 'illl l‘('I) 11 I 1. ■' A' . ... I ; J . . I \ii 'i New Clinic.' "ii tnh'.rn X'"' C n n, ...,i■ | II 1 ■ (Irrmnn mi . i• in.i. ■ ■ m l I lie i n:i/; t ii cl ni. t r , i.i rill Ti J—v -■ n J'.'ii i 1 ; : i' .l.ijian in a drive In in the t, Ttli I. 1 he (;■•!•.' ;<■ II- v I IT d< . il I' h. i..11: il d rrel . ,ailia 'ran . .|.| a Ian iry f-n hi feint! tin; 1 a and ! lay It !' I 1 nr i ■. • ■ ■ ;r ■ mud | , . I , . , : I; i ■ n i .1 1 ■ I'i- i . I n - l.< -ii*,.. i: .a (1 ei! liar. : i'!. d e /ed * i ... a than 4t)U navi i \. ni; . I Nr-. < G.tlii .'V .rid VV, r !!(::• i*i n-n.. .. *. ■ i 1V.; (. . a: 'em*.) II. ALLEN WOOTEN QUITS WPB PGsl f i a 1 c1 g i:. Mai'cn ID (AP) WPP. ■ >11 inal - here announced l*xia.v that it. Allen Wi"-tm, Wn.dnngt* *n rejcr enfatA e Ml the \VJ ’i» ■. i > inter 11 i; i • i p. a. .e - and I'maiA v. a a.a; d ! • h a\ e a meet ing <0 j mi: d< ai eis m GrecnumiMarch 12. had re - igned. 1 Babsors Says Careful Planning of Finances Necessary to Every American Family. :sv iuk;; n v- . ( opvright -if) 12 I ah Mars Flr.an. * ul Bare .tin Pie Man . ti1.'-light ?.. t!a ir- person"! expend’- j tore : : tiie ; eann ■ the ;> e.. r. < ring ; .... r.g u; a budget. Pr -A, ay. 1 ho\ve\ ei . lew indi\ id lals hav - \ vr ; stayed wit end and v ■ dee !! ■, with in axi many charit I Pr nr res' ty < ! I u; > mg ■! ! bonds, more than . - ar III! o! pi uining ; 1 • -\v i u, u ! . "make end . < et.*’ Budgets Are Tough .nel* almg .i I• ■ n i a d ... L ike’ ■ •. the • ncimg mi fhr • .u* and as L howe\ ei . •: \ ad mu rn.v kl'ei bark < n : • l*nle, - lie m lam ! ar ' i ran program ran he outlined. Fnr :• (int » imp:. dieh.i-le that it . d<Milky hard 1< .il.e an\ hiaiee* n v • • me endat i< e- v. .t h a >uranct i eat i • • annual i n eo i ■ i S1.60() iys, i < no money m ih h ink to pa.\ • n• *vT tax installment will b* •: - s t. m friend.'.” A .junior exec; i \ e c . ing $2,Tito a-. ■ I'i 1 have to .... • every penny now on*' Hr'. starting a litt !c , te' An. ex. ■ l c\ w!i.1 earned *2.000 last y ar, <•. im “Iknh •• :. nately 1 didn’t sa . <• anything 1 had : ■ isr t!m ;mt., inent plat ” A go\ < nn n t eai n eg SI .1)00 s iy>. "1 paid my m eome tax on tin* 15th but now I am j (Continued on Page Seven) NAZI FOOD RATIONS FURTHER REDUCED London. Ms.reh 19 \V crs said the Berlin radiu v as h ’d onlay announcing that food ration-. | are lo be reduced in Genr.i oe . gmuam Apri 1 i One Thousand Ship builders Quti >n Pro test. Against Seven Day Week; Two Cali fornia Shipyards Are A f.' e C ted. I.’i m< mi at "'tail'll 1' — (Al’i — Approximately 1.000 shipyaid winkers “filtered off" the late afternoon to midnight shift last night at the Todd-Cali fornia Shipbuilding f orporation and tite ftiehmimd Siiiplniilding ( orporation, plant officials re pnried today. "We J (In tallied Mime id tie- imr ! wl " v . Iked nut a! ter an intonim! • 1 ' a at Ike T. Kill \ ai d. and tii,■ y a d the.r art a mi ugi in (in d< • t t in •• I ••lit i! i a I; :g •:! a t a , n , if the ,m-\ i r Evans, cuinpan I ke t i'a i 11 a " ■ • Mid > llipbtl i Idill g I'1 ,li! !;a- .■ been ..|u-ra..mi . ■ e! -;i :V •., , . v .la tllfl e ga' - ■ • I .i- da :y Min e last d tl >n ho walked 11 tin i pparentlj were not aet I . ■ the fia-eel a Ml . it any ol tllS • nt lint .. i the two l'l Ml .'! final . I! rdt | m life- - v am v. eii an', a\ ailal )le ter i ■ momem. AUSTRIAN INVENTOR RELEASED TO ARMY New 7' , 17. I AT - T. ■■ II- !.iId-Ti wm, arrc.-'iii Hi'., b enemy alien. I:aa fail e t' e Are vii am - i: ■ j nt ! , ■ • . • ed Slat Two Ships Sunk Bv Subs •* \\ ,i hmctiip.. IP i A I'D — Tin* a..'. y nn •■'..«.i * >. \ • • . 1 .1 vli,::iI;i\ 1.1 I tiC'u'. the Tivpcu.' h;m i i t b ,, ; ■ . •: > . i i inr Al l.ml \ c ■ ■ ; • 1 ' U IN i; • \ ’ • i \ . \ v’ u-si’.a! nt ilivv • A .v-}!■.!-’ i -inp. tin- Tivpv i wt- | |)U, it ;, hit : : in! iDh) Dinl owned 1 by the \ L1<»vd St ship a R'tpany and its i;o l kn >\vn ' home [ El was Dubi t>\ i:iik, Yugu shvki WlltliSI FOH NORTH CAROLINA. Continued ml her mol toniuhl. Lone Wolf Leadership Abandoned Nazi Military Lead ers, Including Von Brauchitsch, Help Plan Spring Offen sive ; Russian Ad vances Continue. IV' I he \ssf»ei.i<etl Press.) i limaxing Hirer months of ldoml\ V‘-\n .1 i \doIf Hiller has abandoned In- hm< wolf role in guiding Hi deoinv oi German ainiN t vv.is reported today, and *l;ls called Iiack his generals to help L Li n the na/i spring of fensive. ' aient (11 the 1 N. ' .ai Zt itung !M*d nearly .ill including Field •’• L auchitsch, > u *»i i *■ igned after * *;'1 11 • ! a i led last a;u: ,need that •Cl';: to take tin* Ger llir I"HTcspiiiulenl said the na/.i spring offensive might he expected soon, with the fuehrer and his generals now mapping strategy at a series of staff eon i (“fences. The question of throwing Rus sia s w inter steam roller into re verse still remained to he solved, however, and today’s German high command communique ac knowledged that the Red armies were ittaeking relentlessly and that “heavy defensive fighting” is in progress. \ bulletin fnci. Hitler’s field headquarters n<»tod continuing Rus •lim pr« urc on the Kerch penin • l*f *. ■ He a. a- well a fierce K (1 t!.i" —' - in the Donets l iver He* l’kr one. where the R ' -on- or I»attcring at the gate* of Khark- »\\ Ip ’uc n<-r:!). Sov iet dispatches re ! • 'ted that Russian guerilla forces ■ •••: *■ r•:i.n«■ • i <•• >m11*.»] oi (>.oof) squaie • of territnry behind the Ger - ■ ■ • a: * und Leningrad i* -a :c. i that they were so strong Had H e Go u.ans .■ ■ ilei not enter the rogi. n. Russian appeals for opening of i second front against Germany were renewed today by the Mos cow News. now published in Kuibyshev with a declaration that anti Hiller forces “can and must d: tevminc the future pro gress of Hie war.” F • ' • ' - nt nental base, the Get :• n ' • ■ i • ■ I'.iH'o -aid German 111 •• >p ■ i c v ( * u l engthen* u \’et: • 1 •' di-tense .md “these 1 F H<• i actually e.\ »'(•• ’ - a I . i ii H: ii and Amer ican troi »| >:-.” Gas Cards Tc Be Issued Ickcs Announces Ra tionin'; System to be I n.O ituted as Soon As Cards Are Printed. V M,irch 1!t.-\P) — I’i ti ilcuni (eoidinator Ickcs ■"mii: I- « d today rigid gasoline ctran'in rationing >\stem would 1>“ instituted in the east and r.uitit northwest as soon as I he cards can he printed—which hi estimated would he within m\ weeks. !' • c; u .* 11ii.,l‘ v ■ Id supplant mt program nstituted ■< i c-i.iv through " •• • c the* up o do :\ered u> filling • ,• . id • . • ,sav ni»\\r ■ * ■ cd .“/stem ! ” ’nr present ■ "Dt ion, but » ■ 1 ■ 1 . .■ • l'at the card ' ’ ivd uuicklv " .< i ing urgency if > • - o - ;n the two c< : t i 11 i • d by the sinking and " .a* rib c ’*sinn of tank' rs. •\ ill ; ■ • m a card rat inning ■n a' Mr Henderson, the ■ g< • r md to ’• an r -ordinator said. d" the ’aboning.” pprox imately 1 Q0,~ ^n<> : ing -tati«>n< in the area won limited to a twelve-hour dav si\ dav week
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