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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Miss R0ySter Here,

Miss Helen Register, who attends
Marjorie Webster school in WASH
ington, D. c., is speeding the week
end here with her mother, Mrs. T.
S. Register, It her home on Belle
street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Go to Mars Hill.

Mr.. and Mrs. +. G. Edwards plan
to go to Mars Hill College, near
Asheville, Sunday to spend the Eas-
ter holiday with their son, Clifton
Edwards, who is a member OF TINS
years graduating class.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
From W.. c.

Miss Grace Hoyle, Of Woman's
college, Greensboro, is expected to
arrive Saturday to spend the spring
holidays here with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. d. l.. HOyle.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03

Miss Carolyn Duke is at home
from Meredith College to spend tie
Easter holidays with her parents, MI
and Mrs. Il. Ii. Duke. Miss Duke was
recently elected president Of the Stu
dent Government at Meredith for
next year, when she will be a senior.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Here for HOLIDAYS,

Tommy Royster, from the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania, in Phila-
delphia, is here for the holidays, and
has as his guest Brooke Roberts, of
PHILADELPHIA.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Arrives for Holidays.

Miss Annie Lyman Bum, student
at Salem College, Winston-Salem, is
here for the Easter holidays with
her parents, MY. and Mrs. A. A
Bum, on Rowland street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
SOCIETY NEWS
Returns from Mars Hill.

Mrs. Fl. B. ParrOtt has returned
from Mars Hill College, where she
spent several days with her daugll-
ter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Parrot.
who is to graduate there next month.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
EXpected from w, c.,

Miss Minerva Falkner is expected
home tonight from Woman's Col
legc, Greensboro, to spend the Ea5-
ter holidays with her parents, Nil
and Mrs. l.. O. Falkner.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Cotton Mills
Halnpere1
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placement parts for their machinery.
The department said cotton con-
sumption was running It a record
ate of l2,0O0,o00 bales a yer. 1t
would be higher, the department
said, if the industry had the neces-
;arv machinery or labor.
Government orders for cotton ma
terial for military uniforms, fight
ing equipment, sandbagS and other
wa needs said by the depart
nent to be taking a large proportions
Of the current output Of the total
mills. Trade sources estimate that
SIS per cent of the total output is be-
ing absorbed in military and defense
Uses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Sans SOuci Club.

The Sans Soul Literary club vii
meet with Mrs. +. G.. Glenn OF Sat
urday, April II, at $3.50 o'clock.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Improving.

MIS-. Esther Harp was said to be
improving today al Maria Parh&m
hospital where she recently under
went an operation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
From Baltimore.

Miss Peggy Newman, from Balti-
more, Md, is visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. Louie Jones. on tlign-
land avenue.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
ALIENS FUTURE

San Francisco, April 3.-(AP)-
Japanese eVacuees from the military
zones along the Pacific coast were
given their first PEEK into the future
they viii farm and make Amy
Good
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Mrs. Majors Ill.

F. II. NJ lors, who underwent
an o. ation at Maria Parham hos
pitaI, continues quite i'll.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Leaves Hospital.

Friards of Ben Oakley VIII be glad
to learn that he has returned to his
home at West End after undergoing
treatment at Maria Parham hospital
for burns he received a week ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
WITH THE SICK

Mrs. II. l.. Mum is very i'll, after
.I.., ~ og an operation at Maria
Paluam hospital.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
CONGRATULATIONS
&%M&9
Birth of Son.

MIR. and Mrs, Ted Reaves an
our the birth of a 9pound son,
Thomas Clifton, on Thursday, April
2, at their home on William street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Library to Close,

Library 10 Close.
The II. Leslie Perry Memorial!
Iibrary VIII be clio ed Easter Mon
day, and books due that day will be
considered due Tuesday, it is an
nOlInced.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03

II is sufficient for success in poll
.ical life to be able to estimate Wha,
course vii produce the most votes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03

Liberals attach a special import
ance TO the liberty Of the individual,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
lIorgentau's Tax Proposals
Ic BE Rejected

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-03
Z Philippine oltuation
Hoa.tening
tar, Whsr.t NcUld have been an
cyIH greater setback.

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
New Post Sets
His Blood RACING

And when at last the President
called HIM back into the United
States army, absorbed the land
and sea forces of the common
wealth and made Macarthur COM
mander of the United States army
in the Far East. the blood of
Douglas Macarthur stirred as if at
the sound of buGle.
81 am glad To he able to
serve my country at this crucial
time" the general SAID.
1t was one OF the simplest state
ments he ever uttered.
America was beginning TO grow
alarmed. Men in public life who
had heckled MacA Arthur now
cheered the return of the great
est soldier since Grant"
QueZon was the first to con-
graduate him Sayre praised his
That was July, 1871
five months before the war. The
appointment was not exact y
hailed abroad. Especially did the
japanese sense that America now
meant business.
Ii was a few days later that
Macarthur indicted his Filipino
air force into the United States
Army And IT was during his adj
dress 10 the serious young brown
pilots that he summed up his own
clear outlook on life and death.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Both Sides DiQ In
On Bdtddn as
laps Miss Boat
By FRANK HEWLETT
United Press stan Correspondent

WITH GENERAL MAC AR
THURS ARMY N TIE Phillip
PINES. March :. -- There rs a
growing belief among American
troops or Bataan Peninsula that
the japanese missed the boat
when they failed TO reinforce the
crack shock troops they landed
behind General MacArthur'S lines
These troops were hunted down,
driven into fox holes and finally
annihilated. Since then there has
been decreasing japanese activity
until now the campaign seems 20
have reached the stalemate stage.
Both sides have dug in deeply
and the invaders apparently real
ize they cannot dislodge the
Americans without the aid OF
heavy reinforcementS.
The American forces. mean
while. are getting further season.
ing daily. and are yearnlng to take
the offensive and drive the Japa-
neSe soldiers from LuZon soil.
However, observers doubt there
can be any large scale attack so
long as the japanese hold superb
ority in the air.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Duty, Honor, Country
Foremost in Mind

AS it had been throughout his
first marriage, the army came
first. Duty, honor country-tc
which he had pledged his life as
a brilliant cadet-remained fore
most in his mind.
He worked hard. He was in the
Philippines again, when the di.
vorce came. He came back in 1890
10 command the 9th Corps Area
San Francisco, and on October
80 OF that same year Herbert
Hoover dipped far down the list
of major generals and chose this
handsomest of all soldiers as the
new chief of staff.
For Macarthur il means an
other first" He had been the
first officer of cadets while al
West Point, and graduated first
in his class. He achieved a flock
of firstS in World War ], then be-
came the youngest superintendent
at the Point and the youngest
major general in the service.
Tomorr Macarthur as
chief of staff
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Unsafe TO Figure
Way Of q Warrior

Or he may be occupying En-
peror Hirohito's lacquer apart
ment with its gold bathroom
plumbing. stalking around listen
ing TO his own Intoxicating rheto-
ric, brandishing the biggest and
most expensive cigars smoked by
mortal man.
There has been no safe way in
which TO predict about Macarthur
since the day, January 26, 1880,
that he was born. for the way Of
the warrior, especially this one,
can never be plotted in advance.
So much for an Introductory
glimpse of Macarthur, the fearless
warrior.
There is also a Macarthur, the
man. and family man.
And a Macarthur, the inspiring
phraSemakcr.
Before he becomes a myth, let
US not forget that he is most
human and humane man. He has a
digestive system. a longing for
starcheS and he combs his thinning
black gray hair in such way as
to cover up the bald spot on top
of his perfect head.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Happy in Making
A Genuine Home

They were married in New
York in 1897 and immediately re-
turned to the Philippines TO make
their home. The general was 81,
20 years older than his bride. But
the marriage has been the great
success the generals mother pre-
Idicted it would be.
When the general CALAMITY car
lried his smiling bride across the
threshold of the alabaStcr pent-
house, the Philippine common
wealth provided for him in Manila,
while his bowling servants grinned
and welcomed them. he was maxi
ing the first real home he had had
in many years.
And he was happy about it. For
not even the flight from that pent-
house home. where he shared with
Mrs. Macarthur his dream OF a
fully fortified Philippines. dis
tressed him as much as the stately
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Report Him Unhappy
In Times Of Peace

Douglas Is perfectly miser-
able in times of peace" was an
expression which became popu-
lar IN Washington before the
war.
The expression packed consider
able truth. but not for the reason
that. like the young George Wash
ington. Macarthur found the whiS-
tie of bullets rather charming.
If he was miserable, the con-
dition probably came from his
inability TO make his country
emerge from its fools paradise
That, plus the fact that he was
born a warrior and will die one
The conduct of war, to MacAr-
thur. is a sacred trust.
BY the time you read this he
may be dead in some rotten Phil
ippine jungle. He may still be
outsmarting and outfighting the
while he waits for the
and men he began ask
ing for in 1881.
Eventually. he may be champing
at the bit behind mahogany desk
in Washington, or wherever the
Allied command holds forth. He
may be en- route to the White
House, or being tortured in some
vile prison.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
SET FIRE TO TANKS
FIERCE FIGHTING

Unofficial reports said that in
all three invasion zones there was
fierce fighting in which the Dutch
troops gave no inch OF ground they
could hold against any odds and
that they were leaving nothing but
ruins for the enemy TO take.
I watched hundreds of trucks
filled with motorized troops, and
long conveys of tanks, horses. guns
and supplies moving toward one
sector as the Dutch command
coolly distributed its tough, COM
pact fighting men to key areas.
American, British and Australian
forces were aiding the sturdy
Dutch fighting against three
enemy invasion armies.
The beaches were thickly dotted
with the bodies of Japanese shock
troops who fell before the first
blast of Dutch artillery and gun.
fire. and thousands more were
killed as the invasion forces drove
inland from the Bantam province
at the northwest corner of Java
the Indramayu area north OF
Bandung. the Netherlands East
Indies army headquarters and the
Rembang area toward the east
end OF the island. between Ban.
dung and the great naval anc
air force base of Surabaya.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Things 60 Wrong
From Beginning

But things went wrong with the
Macarthur almost from the be-
ginning. In fact, they went wrong
from Is minutes before the begin
ming. Macarthur arrived quar-
ter of an hour ahead of the cere-
mony and found assorted Crom-
wells and Stotesburys hanging UP
wedding decorations. and he lee
tured 10 them briefly on their lack
of preparedness.
He was all soldier. He relished
his subsequent assignment in the
Philippines. Mrs. Macarthur did
not, especially after her daughter
by her first marriage contracted
malaria there.
BY 1929 Mrs. Macarthur was at
Reno. She told reporters:
I'VE are wholly incompatible,
but 1 have the greatest admira-
ton and respect for the general.
We part friends"
From that day on, until his un-
expected marriage TO the present
Mrs Macarthur, the general 5
name was not linked TO any one S.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Soviet Fight OH Japan
Expected i'm l8 Months
BY KINGsBURY SMITH
Init News service star Correspondent

WAsHINGTON, March ?. -
Responsible quarters in Washing
ton today believe Soviet Russia
will enter the Pacific conflict
against japan, probably within the
next 1S months.
This belief j. based on several
factors. some OF which cannot be
disclosed. Two Of the fundamental
factors which are considered no
secret, however, are;
The Soviet governments
conviction that Japan eventually
will attempt 10 gam control Of
VladivOstok. long regarded by
Toxic as a potential dagger
pointed al the heart Of the Jap
anese empire.
2-Soyict Premier Josef
Stains belief that japanese
militarHn constitutes the same
danger 20 world peace as Hit
lerism.
RELUCTANT Al PRESENT
Al present the Soviet remain,
reluctant 10 enter The Pacific con.
flict in the immediate future ioi
the following reasons:
-+-Beeausc the Soviet govern
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Likes a Cocktail,
And Good Apparel

He loves a cocktail or 50 before
dinner, and he likes good clothes.
The pride and Joy of his life is
his baby son. Arthur, by his second
wife. the retiring, 43-year-old
Southern beauty who refused 70
leave MacArthur's side when he
ordered the wives and daughters
and children OF service men 10
clear out OF the Philippines before
the war.
Mrs. Macarthur is the former
Jean Faircloth. daughter Of a
MurirecSboro. Tenn, grocer who
became the little towns leading
banker. The perfect army wife, she
calls her husband general"
He calls her "Ma'am. Not until
nearly a month after she fled 10
the Bataan peninsula from Manila
with their baby did her frantic
relatives hear that she was safe.
Pie MacArthurs were brought
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Frank MeKay's Trial
Will Open Tomorrow

The federal governments Sec
ond attempt in a year TO prove
Frank d. Mckay, Republican ma
tional committeeman and IL
others guilty of using the mails TO
defraud will open tomorrow before
Federal Judge Shackleiord Miller
Jr., OF Louisville, Ky
The first trial. heard by Judge
Arthur +. Lederle was dismissed
when the jury failed to reach Il
verdict after several days DELHI
Grafton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Distinguished Son
Still Baby TO Her

The elder Mrs. Macarthur. who
had been Mary Hardy, could never
look upon her distinguished son
as anything except her baby boy
the baby boy she had rescued
from Indians arrows by braVely
racing across the embattled COM
pound of her husbands besieged
New Mexican outpost and carry
ing the child to safety.
Fifty years later. she was still
looking out for her Douglas. The
general lived with his gray-haired
doting mother at Fort Myer, Va,
when he was chief of staff of the
army after he had been through
"a dozen bells and as many decora-
.tionS.
But invariably when the gen.
eral would step from the door OF
his home on rainy days, magnifi-
cent in his four-star trappingS, the
ItireleSs chatelaine of his home
would appear at a window to cry
out:
"DOug-gie! Did you remem-
Der to take your overshOes
He wept when she died in the
Philippines in her sos, in Decem-
Der of 1895. Her last gift 10 him
was Miss Faircloth The grand
old matriarch. in all her wisdom,
knew that her boy needed wife
as gentle and as wholehearted. as
honest and intelligent as the Gull
tured girl she had met and learned
to love on the boat that carried
her on her last voyage.
"My dear, you're going to meet
my son, the general" the old
lady promised the astonished
Miss Faircloth, who was travel
ing TO the Philippines because
that was one Of the few sections
Of the globe which she had not
visited.
"And he's going TO love YOU
very much" the old lady added
with twinkle in her eye.
She knew her Douglas. She
died quite happy. having made her
choice of daughter-in-laws. She
died happy in the thought that
she had arranged for her sons
future care-and it never &C.
Cured to the dear old thing. of
course, that General Macarthur S
chest full of medals indicated that
he could take care OF himself
DrpttV well
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02

suits" He was at that time on
loan 10 The Philippines
There was feeling OF so what
Throughout the country He was
not a popular figure. Man of ac-
ttiun thai he always was. he had
stepped on too many sensitive
icornS.
He had irritated a pleasantly
Slumbering nation by seemingly
ridiculous assertions TO the effect
that Japan and Germany were
arming TO fight us.
Army officers over whose heads
he had jumped with dizzy rapldity
through the years were jealous OF
his gold stars and his incredible
mind, and they were glad 10 hear
that he was retiring. A few news
papers wrote guarded halls and
farewells for him. No one seemed
to care.
But the civilians who had known
him well, and the army men who
had seen him in action. knew that
his decision TO retire was in truth
a national calamity
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Filipino Appeasers
Also Object TO Him

lie met opposition even in the
Philippines. BY 1910 his Old friend
President Manuel Quezon of the
Philippines, was limiting darkly
that defense of the islands was q
beautiful but unrealistic dream.
So was High Commissioner
Francis b. Sayre. There was NUT
tering, too, among certain Filipino
appeasers over the cost of de-
Tense and the cost of supporting
the colorful Macarthur in magnifi-
cent penthouse style.
But by this time he had come
TO regard such things as one of the
many packs soldier must bear.
He tried TO impart his own en-
thusiaSm for the task 10 others
and tried 1t with the spectacular
prose that flows naturally from
him.
He beSought their patience until
1943, by which time he promised
that the islands would be so well
fortified that even l would hesi-
tate6 to lead a strong attacking
force against them
He did not have time enough to
finish his job. He must have
known that he would not have
time. For piece by piece, as he
went along he estimated the toll
he could take on the invading
He waited for the inevitable
call from President Roosevelt. as
tension between Japan and the
United States increased.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Joins British Squad
For Trench Raid

To find that out he attached
himself 10 squad of B rltlS b
Tommies during a trenc h raid
And. typically. he came back
safely-leading a dour and indig-
nant German colonel.
There have been precious few
times in his life when he could
crawl away 10 lick his wounds and
to speculate on the philosophy he
has found comforting through the
years: that statesmen clare
wars; soldiers simply fight the
wars and must perpctually strive
to fight them with better equip
ment.
Thus his periods OF peace have
often been stormy. As superin-
fendent of the United States Mill
tary Academy, after World War I
he engaged in a pitched b TT {
with the durably entrenched pro-
fessors' bloc.
BY 1880. after his unhappy first
marriage had ended in divorce, he
began a five-year battle with Con
'gress over army appropriations
I'm the midst Of this tenure As chief
| OF staff he was ordered by Herbert
Hoover. his commander-in-chief
ito run the riotous bonus army out
|of Washington.
He took the rap for that bitter
chapter in our history and he took
il without alibis.
But through the middle 1880:
he refused 10 take without com
ment the jibes and taunts Of those
who rallied at him for speaking o.
the next war" His was lone
and often flamboyant voice crying
|for preparedness in the deaf ears
of a Congress that regarded hin
as a harmless warInonger with
penchant for fancy dress anc
medal-wearing.
For the first time In his life h'
grew tired of his soldiers role IT
1887 and announced through Tho
war department that he was re-
firing 10 engage in cultural pur
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Old Sergeant Calls
Him Real Soldier

One old sergeant expressed u
best. He was hammering a little
military knowledge through the
lunyielding skull Of dense private
when the word arrived. and the
word made him suddenly mellow
mellow with the memory OF
Macarthur fighting side by side
with non-coms and buck privates.
"SOn." the old sergeant said
10 the private before him, there
goes a real soldier"
But. Of course. Macarthur did
not retire. The United States army
lost its hold on him. true, but he
remained on duty as field marshal
of the Philippine army,
lie had gone back 10 the Philip
pines in 1925. after being relieved
as chief of staff. He had been APP
pointed military adviser TO the
commonwealth in 1886, and had
been handed the gold baton of
/ field marshal late that same year.
Ii was a weary, disguised Mac
Arthur who ended his long con-
tract with the United States army
in 1887. He. at long last. had had
enough of the SNUG complacency
the petty jealousies and the false
economies Of his country.
Once too often he had been
abused as a war-crazed militarlst,
once too often he had read that
Il he had fallen into soft racket
filled with handsome pay checks
and pretty uniforms in which tc
Str1lt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
MatchIess Summary
Of His Philosophy

His matchleSs summation OF
that outlook. only those are
III 10 live who are not afraid 10
die" carried into the hearts of
the men who stood stiffly before
him. And they Swore they'd be-
lieve in II as Macarthur had be-
heved IN 1t.
The men who know him best
viii tell YOU that when the bombs
al last fell on the Philippines Cen
eral Douglas MacArthur'S feeling
probably was one OF relief.
They Will tell YOU that those
bombs liberated him. by uniting
the islands and the nation soiIdly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02

knew in every bone of his soldierly
body, and had often said, that
wars are caused by undefendcd
wealth.
He had been in too many wars
moi 10 sense that another was
coming and coming this time
Through the door Of the rich
islands he loved.
Years before he had told a
yawninGly unimpreSSed House
military appropriations committee
that the Philippines some day
would take IT on the chin, and that
they should be protected with men,
planes, tanks and guns. And the
terVen ing years had only
strengthened that belief.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02

already paid, under this intrepid
policy, with two cruisers and a
destroyer sunk and an Allied
cruiser had been damaged.
The Dutch destroyer fought two
japanese heavy cruisers until, sink
ing il was beached.
American and other submarines
were lowering all around Java day
and night on the hunt for the
japanese warships and transports.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02
Korea Flag Flown
AT Japanese Embassy

WASHINGTON, March 2 (UP).
The Japanese embassy for
short time yesterday flew the red
white and black flag of Korea a
country the Japanese invaded and
subjugated in 1910.
Moon Lee. a Korean born
American citizen who came from
Indianapolis TO attend a Korean
liberty conference here. triumph
antly planted the flag upon the
iron gates guarding the deserted
building, and claimed" it for his
native land
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-02

behind him. Now, and only now.
could he fight for his country, in
stead of fighting against his coun-
try's torpor.
Ills flag and his nation, Moths
feelings, were now at stake. And
his whole life. had been spent
training himself how to fight for
that flag when he was not actually
fighting for il. Here at last was
the mechanical war he had pre-
dictpd