MacArthur Plans Rapid Offensive Force To Smash Japan
General Douglas MacArthur stated his aim as supreme commander in the Southwest Pacific to build an offensive force quickly to crush Japan while relieving beleaguered Philippine troops. Brig. Gen. Patrick Hurley described MacArthur as confident of returning to the Philippines and praised his health. The HQ was moved to Australia by presidential order with allied approval. Plans remain secret but are being put into operation with the same calm, aggressive leadership noted in his career.
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Associated Press
Melbourne
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Philippines
MacArthur
War Department
Patrick Jay Hurley
New Zealand
Hurley
United States
Philippine Islands
Workers On Night Shift Quit Work At Richmond Shipyards
Richmond Calif March 19 About 1000 shipyard workers left the late afternoon to midnight shift at Todd California Shipbuilding and Richmond Shipbuilding plants after an informal meeting. Company officials said the action was in protest of the recent inauguration of the seven day week. Tom Evans publicity director said the yards had been operating on a seven day week basis with three shifts.
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Richmond
Calif
Todd-California Shipbuilding Corporation
Richmond Shipbuilding Corporation
Todd Yard
Tom Evans
Wo Richmond Shipbuilding Fants
Midnight Passage At Cherry Street
Parris confronts Cassie and the toll of their secret relation as dawn nears. Anna warns of an approaching event while the night’s tension burrows into their fragile world. Madame lies in bed as a rasping sound marks an imminent crisis.
Cassie Confesses Feelings As Parris Faces Change
In the aftermath of Madame von Eln's funeral Parris arranges funds and a sale with Burton County Bank. Drake shelters him as Cass Sandra Tower rushes in seeking to marry, then departs in distress, leaving questions about Cassie's crisis and the Towers' strict stance unresolved.
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Madame von Eln
Parris
Colonel Skeffington
Patterson Lawes
Burton County Bank
Anna
Drake ,McHugh
Cassie
Drake
Dr. Mitchell
Dr. Tower
Winthrop Girls Protest Cold Food at Dining Hall
In Rock Hill South Carolina 500 Winthrop College students protested a policy changes that left food served cold after the blessing. They demanded the old piping hot serving method and spoke to President Shelton Phelps. A committee was formed to meet officials. no reprisals were promised. The article also notes North Carolina farmers were urged to grow at least 42 000 bales of long staple cotton in 1942.
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Rock Hill
S. C
Winthrop College
Winthrop
North Carolina
J. A. Shanklin
N.C. State College
Workers Strike Over Eight Hour Shifts At Plants
Evans says workers walked off the job after shifts changed to eight hours daily beginning last Sunday. Plants had run 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Union officials and workers offered no comment on the action.
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Evans
Four Rickman brothers enlist in Navy at Greensboro
NORFOLK Va March 19 Four Rickman brothers John 21 Carl 17 Kenneth 17 twin Richard 19 enlist after one joined. They insist all four join if one does and plan to go to sea together. Eldest John led the way with their father contemplating enlistment as machinist's mate. They were born in Stuart Va moved to Greensboro and relish shared duties from barber shop to mail hour. Larger crimson clover seed may fetch good prices for farmers this fall.
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Norfolk
John Rickman
Richard Rickman
Carl
Kenneth Rickman
Rickman
Tokyo
Navy
John
Greensboro
N. C
Kenneth
Richard
Stuart
Austrian Inventor Is In Custody Of War Department
Austrian inventor Antoine Gazda 47 was arrested as an enemy alien last December and released into War Department custody. The Army deemed his talent for gun making and his inventions essential to the war effort. Gazda was detained on Ellis Island after FBI seizure at the Waldorf Astoria, then paroled by a local aliens board at the Army’s request. He came to the United States last year with exclusive rights to the Oerlikon gun developed by Oerlikon Machine Tool Works of Zurich.
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New York
The
Herald Tribune
Antoine Gazcia
War Department
Army
Gazda
Ellis Island
FBI
Waldorf-Astoria
Citizens’ Alien Board
United States
Oerlikon
Oerlikon Machine Tool Works
Zurich
Switzerland
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