Hettltersmt Batly Htspafrir ____ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OE NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TWENTY NINT.H YEAR tiik ASSiHMATKnRrKESs?F HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 21, ID 12 ,'l'l-,-1"lS;-,^T,si’-.,.AvrKKN,','N FIVE CENTS COPY - Action on the Pacific Front ?.h . f.hows ,th<* ‘ftest developments in the Hattie ot Australia United Nations pilots bombed land installations and runways at Jap held bases in New Guinea (1), and made a direct hit on a heavy Jap C1 uiser. Ibis is in addition to the twenty-three Japanese ships listed as hit or sunk by the combined U. S. and Australian air forces The Nipponese air base at Koepang, on the west cast of Timor (2) has been raided by United Nations bombers. Australia Cl) prepared to halt an expected invasion attempt by the Japs advancing on Tort Moresby, only 350 miles from tiie mainland. (Central [’rest) Public To Register May 4-7 For Sugar Industrial Consumers to Register April 28 and 29; Weekly indivi dual Ration Not Yet Finally Determined. Chicago, March 21.-—(API — National sugar rationing regis tration dates were fixed today by the office of price adminis tration for April '2X and '29. and May t, 5, (> and 7. The announcement was made here at a me ting of the 48 state rat.op ing administrators and r< gional supervisors by Frank Bane, field ' chief for OPA Director Leon Hen derson. Industrial c•iisiinier-. -noli c m feetioners and > indy makeis. w.'d register tor their rations on the two April dates, using their nearc •; It ;Ii school. Individual consumers will register May 4-7 at the public schools. Bane emphasized that it had not been finally determined whether the weekly individual ration would he a half-pound or three-quarters of a pound. Huwey or. the • tamp !>• <>!; - ■.. h .'ll will be issued at the time of regis tration will contain 128 one-))' md stamps. Banc said, sufficient to la ' more than a year if the one-ha.! pound ration was decide.1 upon. BRITISH SUBS SINK TWO AXIS VESSELS London, March 21 -(API -Two large axis supply ships have been sunk in tlv4 Mediterranean, the ad miralty announced today. The admiralty >aid the hip. were “successfully attacked" by Briti>h submarines in the central M diter ranean, and also said tie larger of the two ships wa.s esemted by lw> destroyers. Statewide GOP Race Primary Assured by Filing of Second Sena torial Candidate ; County Boards Named. Raleigh. March 21—(AIM—A statewide Republican primary was assured today when Sam J. Morris. Raleigh lawyer. filed with the Stale board of elections as a Republican candidate for the I'. S. Senate. Another Republican, Stoner W. Klutz of Salisbury, filed for the post several days ago. In the race for the Democratic senatorial nomination, the incumbent, .Install " Bailey, is opposed by R. T. Fountain of Rocky Mount. The State board of elections met here today and appointed election boards for the 100 counties of the state and .supervised the closing of the filing period for state oft ices. W. A Lucas of Wilson was re-elected chairman and Raymond C. Maxweil of Raleigh was re-elected executive secretary. County boards of elections includ ed: Beaufort, John G. Bragaw and Jesse R. Butt of Washington, Uem (Continued on Page Eight, t STORM CENTER Maj. Richard G. Casey 51 ■ Richard Li. Ca-iy. f.inner Au 1! .han mmis'er : t'r.e United S'.;■ t . was uppo. tiled .1 1 nember J 111 ' t" Mr;tnil war e.i .met to be- J e a ■■ nun: -ter : t.v.e in the Mai- , dli- K:i-I. the ;.p| . ntment causing ,. clash betw - a Prune Minister Win.-t .ii L'i n • . . nrl I 'rime Min 1 ter Juhn (' 1 ' m which will be a.red in w mb' paper expected to tie j> urn next Wednesday. j Lightning Aids Sub Flashes Credited With Enabling U-Boat to Sink American Ship In Atlantic. Niiifn'U, March 21.—(AD — I.ightning flashes that illuminat ed the sea for miles helped an axis underseas raider to torpedo and sink a large American mer chant ship off the Atlantic coast early Wednesday, members of the crew related on their arrival at Norfolk. The Navy announced the sink ing today. Twenty-six survivors of the li man crow wor: picked up by a res cue ship after five hours in a life boat and were landed at Norfolk. Fifteen others were rescued by an other vessel and taken aslio. at Morchcad City. Two crewmen were listed as missing. Their identity was not in mediately established. Expres.-ing belie! that an ■ leetri cal storm aided the submarine in finding tin -hip. .lanes Miller told newsmen, "there were great bright flashes of lightning and you could see for miles. I think tin soli would have missed us ii it hadn't had this light to aim by." There were four lifeboats on the ship, but one was blown to bits by the blast of one of two torpedoes tha* bored into the port side. Another could not be launched becaus-. .t was on the windward side of the ship. Ablebodied Seaman James Staf ford said the ship went down about 40 minutes after the second torpedo struck. The survivors from the American (Continued on Page Eight! MacArihur Confident ★ ★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★★★★★ ★★★★ Soviet Troops in Staraya Russa Four German Key Bases Assaulted Russia’s Aimies Crowd Gcimans Off Balance Before Hitler Can Launch Spring Offensive; Nazis Ad mit Increased Pres sure. (B.v The Associated Prcssi Russia's armies, crowding the Hermans ol I oalance het'ore Hitler can launch his spring of fensive, were reported storming against four key nazi bases on the 1,200-mile front today, and a Vichy radio broadcast de clared Soviet troops had al ready fought their way into Staraya Russa. Other Russian assaults were aimed tit Bryansk, Kharkov and Taganrog. Staraya Iliissa. 150 miles be low Leningrad, is the base head quarters of the trapped German 16th army which has been cut off for weeks in the frozen marshlands around Lake Ilmen. A bulletin from Hitler’s field headquarters acknowledged the increasing violence of Russian assaults. declaring that nazi troops had beaten off six fierce attacks yesterday southeast of Lake Ilmen, in the Staraya Rus sa sector, hut crave no details on the fate of Staraya Kussa itself. The high command also conceded that the Russians were pressing the olTensiv in the Crimea, in the 'Janets river basin of the Ukraine, and on the centra] (Moscow) and north ern (Leningrad) fronts. From Vichy, Leningrad and Mos cow came details- -reports that Red army troops had penetrated Kharkov fortifications but were forced back: that then was hard fighting north of Taganrog, Azov ~ca anchor ot the German lines: that 455 Germans were killed and ten blockhouses wore demolished on the Leningrad front. Russian guerillas were officially d:dared to have killed 1,000 Ger mans netir Bryansk, a railway citv 220 miles southwe 1 ot Moscow, and audaciously entered ,ts heart to bum German supplies and post Ru-sian pamphlets on German bulletin boards. FREE FRENCH. I a mdon. Man'll 21. ( AI') Free French columns in the south Libyan desert have raided new Italian out posts in the Zmia-Temessa district, northeast of Kurzuek, to a point 300 miles of the Gulf ol Side, General Charles do Gualle's headquarters an nounced today. Teachers Elect Sisk Fayetteville School Superintendent Named Vice Presi dent; Lockhart Presi dent. Raleigh, March 21.—(AP) The election of Horace Sisk, superinten dent of Fayetteville schools, as vice president of the North Carolina Edu cation Association was announced to day at the closing session of the as sociation's 58th annual convention. John C. Lockhart, of Charlotte, superintendent ot Mecklenburg county schools who was elected vice president at the convention last year, was unopposed in the presidential election. He was installed today to succeed K. G. Phillips, superinten dent of Gastonia schools. In winning a three-cornered race for the vice presidency. Sisk took a clear lead in next year’s presi dential races The association cus tomarily advances its vice president .to the presidency. U. S. On Verge Of Seizing Martinique Wa huigton. Man is '2 1 ( AD — Tin l lul'fi St a !r.- a ; s nil 11 ie ■ vii'Ri’ nf - izing Martinique last innnth and liar \\ a rue i vbeliy that any harboring nt nuzi i aid ers tin re would mean American action. 'I'llI was deeln-ed y si a day I by an authm native . ''ire 1 who I gave the following outline of the situation; A German .submarine cut red tile harbor of Fort de France, capital of fin- French i land, on February 1? 1 and sent ashore a wounded member ot its crew. American ■ servers immediate- ; ly notifi d Washington. It was promptly established that the - nun ,ne on n i supplies and tiifl not t' mpt to open cnmiuunieation with any one on land. The .-a ilor was .-ut tering l'r an a ga:":reno'.i: wound in the ! pos-ib'y trim D li firo during a surface p.eli n against American coastal snip ping. His command'r anpamotly put him aslv re with instructi in to seek the surgical attention he could not he given on board ship. The State department immed iately sent to the French g .vorn mont a warning the'. tv< Unit'd States would not permit 'he u-e ol French western hemisphere ports by axis warships nr planes for any purpose. The Vichy government subse quently gave cat gmuea! assur ances that no axi vessels ni planes would be allowed to enter French ports or ter: itm i d waters in the western hemisphere under any pr 'ext. This <•: > od the .n- j cidenl o! the submarine. I U-Boats Claim Seven Vessels Berlin (From German Broadc.i is). March 21. - iAP) L’-b .ats i; \e ' sunk six mure ship.- totaling 11111 tons and a l S. coastal pai: . in operation- oil the American i.1 west Alriean coasts, th. high i s - mand said today. A German s ibinarme, attack ip . convoy in the Atlantic, .scored 1 .. torpedo hits but was t liable to ,0 serve the re alt- lit cause 01 • "sti ong dolem-e put ip, ' the < ffiumquc continued. Cl rn an pianos sank a -l.biHI-lon Ireighter ill IJriti.-.h waters air! an other mei'chant .-hip, deserihod , . "fairly large" wa. damaged, i* was elaimed. CURTIN ANNOUNCES CRUISER DAMAGED ( anherra. March 21.— (API — Truin' Minister Curtin announc ed in a second communique to day that one enemy cruiser was damaged in addition In the one believed sunk in ye .terday s raiil on tlit' harbor at Kahaul. New Britain. Thomas Says New Work Law Not Justified Washington, March 21.— (AP;— A week ol testimony by government production olfieiais and organiz’d] labor l.aders toda\ convinced Chau- I man Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, 1 oi a special Senate appropriations subcommittee that "Congress a. mid not be justified in passing wartime labor legislation now." At the ,-ame time. Th mu s -aid h • j would request anothei Senate group. | the special committee investigating national defense, to look into com plaints L’-y Presidents William Green of the AFL and Philip Murray of the CIO that pressure on Congress I r wartime labor legislation resulted from organized interests that .mould be investigated. "1 will make a formal complaint for an investigation by the Truman committee," Thomas said after listen ing to protests by the labor leaders. WEATHER” FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Rain anti • older tonight. Agree on Alaskan Highway Pierrepont Moffat, United States Mini ‘- r to Canada Cleft), is shown handing to Canadian Premier MaeKenU K: g a note eontair :ng term.; of agreement hetwv n the U. S. and < naia. under whieti the United States will build a highway to Alaska from Fort St. dohr, British Columbia (Ct ntrul Press) 573" Dies in Air Crash FIVE DIE IN CRASH AT MEM; HIS AIRPOR I Mem pi - is. March 11.— ( AIM — At I. :i>t live persons were kill ed when i two-motored \rm> bomber clashed and hurned near the municipal airport today. The d. ..d were not immediate* Is identified. is Seized President Orders I ak ing Over of Hoad With Failure to Arbitrate Strike. . ci/.u rc ." direct.*, : o' d i< ■ ■. 1 ' .an cm ., P" i* • 1 1 tin MO HI MIIPS ec. n> let) ‘ < ami F'J ce in gent y cargo toua'y k De sir over Is Launched New York, March l’1.— ^ ,\ 1' The I.(530-ton destroyer Buchanan/ nam d for the I ii \P — Four \rim fliers were killed near here last night in the tri'i and explosion of a two* motor homher apparentl> crip ph <1 by engine trouble. The vit tints, the onl> occupants of the airplane, were Lieutenant i Hawkins. Ponca City, <)Kla., pilot Lieutenant James P. Van stun . ! ineolnton. N ( .. co-pilot: Lieutenant Lawrence J. flux. Henderson. V ( navigator; and Sei nt Hubert \\ Morgan. I niontow n. Pa.. mechanic. • ii a niuLno op . t , • • A ::!) p. . { AWT '• ' i a or Andes a • • 11 ( 1 • d ipparently ii cere • l . ' ■ -•.! int - llu ATT - . * : >! So r • 1 W. At .n * •! Un-ion , K ii '< ' ■ l’.U- Fuur) TALIANS ADMIT SUBM \RINE SUN? h- >• U ■ AiT1 FLi*• Hal an h gl (l.r«-ot L;t •*?: .. ! i i •. -> .-cii on on:: Labor Unions Denounced \\. rhu. ,n .\ 1 : . id, . -. 'tan! ..,tt-•. mg ;onoi ,at od • A-g.-ni 'od lab*a t«>• la\ . : ’lira a in, ■ de.-u r> *y.ng' in iept ' id said t a •. • ■ 1 business non \\ i c "at its mercy." Ho •... i> t, Id the I louse judioiar: 'anmittoi• 'hat . measure to rotium DU'rnnm! ; ogjst . ata n nt union ind trade a>-t >r:at a ais "dne-m't g nr enough" n prntoc* mg the publi )"a. practice- .-i organized labor. W hen you look at the entire pic .' A no ,1 a ci ted, "the situa er\ substanti; handicap on the distribution nt a Immediate Offensive Impossible United Nations Su preme Commander Says Careful Prepara tion Must be Made for Drive; Airmen Credit ed With Sinking Cruiser. 'I»\ The Vv-iiriatcri Press.) ! icrcc head hunting savages were reported on the verge of returning to cannibalism and in ter-tribal warfare in New Guinea today complicating the defense of that Japanese-invaded island while a Yich\ radio broadcast asserted that sea-borne Japa nese forces were approaching Australia near the important harbor of Perth. The Vichy station, which has been reporting Japanese Meets near Australia for several days, made this announcement: “A Japanese squadron is ap proaching (ape Lee win. the southern corner of the Austral ian continent." There was no confirmation elsewhere, official or unofficial, that a direct attack on Aus tralia was so imminent. (By The Associated Press) General Dmijrlas MacArthur, greeted by wildly cheering thousands, declared in Mel bourne today he had every con i iiu mi imunau' >ulllnss* in the battle In crush Japan's far flung invasion armies, but warned against too eager hopes Ini' an immediate allied grand offensive. While great crowds accorded Genera! MacArthur a hero’s welcome, i'nited Nations airmen were officially credited with sinking another Japanese heavy cruiser in a daring raid on Ra baul. New Britain. Australia's Prime Minister .?olin < urtin said the cruiser— the (>4th eneim warship sunk or damaged in tin* far Pacific theatre—was sent to the bottom b\ bombers which attacked through violent anti-aircraft fire in davlight. heat off enemy pursuit planes and returned to their base intact. It was the iP-h nr the list of .T.ipsno'f’ w,ii’ • r! wor«: hant ves sunk • • ..-*cd m than (Con:,: • } on Page Six) Japs Raided In Mindanao Heavv Casualties In licted in Surprise Raid by Americans and Filipinos. Washington. March 21.— (AI’t I lie \\ ir ill ii.irtini'nl reported today a surpris" raid hy \ineri i.iM and Philippine troops on Japanese fonts neat Zamboanga on the Philip; me island of Min il.tno in which hea\\ easnalties Mere inflicted on the enemy. \meriean and I ilipino tosses Mire described in a eommuniiiue as negligible. Meanwhile the arbot defenses id Manila Bay were reported under ‘'I'xtn n.i-ly hi uvy ' shelling In in ’ dapane • artillery, which included 24ii mi i about eight-inch) guns, but the \\ i depiv tment said little dam luge of military consequence was , done. Fighting on the Bataan peninsula , ! continued in a lujl. In A istraha. the War departnv. nt announced. Prime Minister John Cur _ tin has appointed Lieutenant General _ George II Brett, U S. Army, to eom maud ot Australian as well as United [1 States air forces operating on the viuthcrr. continsni ■