Detroit evening times., December 19, 1941, NIGHT EDITION, Page PAGE 9, Image 9

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F Friday, December IS, 1941
Army Air Liner,
General, 7 Aides,
JLost for Week
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (INS).
•—An extensive search was being
conducted by army planes today
for a military transport plane
feared lost somewhere near San
Francisco with high ranking air
corps officers aboard.
The war department announced
that the plane carrying Maj. Gen.
Herbert A. Rargue, commander of
the first air force, five other
officers and two enlisted men has
been missing since last Friday.
The plane, on a transcontinental
flight, was last reported near
Palmdale, Cal. It was feared It
had crashed or had been forced
down in that vicinity, Secretary
of war Stimson said.
LISTED AS MISSING
COL. CHARLES W. BUNDY,
war department general staff,
Washington.
LIEUT COL. GEORGE W.
RICKER, war department gen
eral staff. Washington.
MAJ. HUGH F. McCAFFERY,
Mitchel Field. N. Y.
CAPT. J. L. LEAVITT,
March Field. Cal.; home, Los
Angeles.
FIRST LIEUT. HOMER C.
BURNS, March Field, Cal.;
home, Spokane, Wash.
STAFF SGT. STEPHEN
HOFFMAN. March Field; home,
Charleroi. Pa
PVT. SAM UEL J. VAN
HAMM JR., March Field; home, ■
Twin Falls Ida.
Secretary Stimson said the
officers were on “an inspection
mission” at the time of their dis
appearance.
VETERAN FLIER
m General Dargue, who is sta-1
Tloned at Mitchel Field, is a
veteran flying officer and often
pilots his own plane. He has
been affiliated with army aviation
virtually Hince its inception.
The officers and men took off
from Phoenix, Ariz., late Friday
for Hamilton Field. Cal., on a
flight plan by way of Blythe, Cal.
The plane arrived at Blythe an
hour later, and at that time Gen
eral Dargue asked permission to
fly by way of Palmdale
They took off from Blythe and
have not l>een heard from since, j
CRASH KILLS SIX
The navy meahwhilp announced
six enlisted men were killed when
an Atlantic patrol plane crashed
m taking off for a routine patrol;
flight. Place of the crash was not
disclosed.
Victims were Ernest Arnold
Simpson, pilot of Seattle; Samuel
Lawrence Lindemann, co-pilot.
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GEN. HERBERT A. DARGUE
Major General Dargue, one
of eight high army officers
missing since last Friday on
an airplane flight in the south
west while en route, it is be
lieved to reinforce the de
fenses of Hawaiian Islands.
Ballinger, Tex ; Robert Dixon Ax
quith, machinist mate, Bowling
Green, Mo.; Goulden Warren
'Johnston, radioman. Gray, Okla.;
Leon Lester Leistner, machinist
mate. Kalispell, Mont., and Francis
Jerome Anthony Suttel, seaman,
I Baden, Pa.
U. 5.-Canada Labor
Unity Move Planned
OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 19 (INS).
—A move to Intensify the Joint
war effort of Canada and the
United States hy closer co-opera*j
ition between the four major labor
bodies in the two countries was
announced today by A. R Mosher,
president of the Canadian Con
gress of Labor
Mosher said he had invited
Philip Murray, president of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions, to come to Ottawa early in
January' to di-niv< this matter
He stated he had been advised)
;Tom Moore, president of the
j trades and lal*>r council of Can
ada. to this effect, in the hope
that a similar imitation may be
extended to William Green, presi- 1
dent of the American Federation,
of Labor.
MILK CHOCOLATES
Delicious creams
and other favorites.
Buy enough for the f •
holidays. Other .
Schraff 5 Candies to A H A HLb.
kIJ.M a hoe. “..H “ “
Whitman—at
Famous Sampler ■SO
chocolates. It s the I
finest quality. H Lb.
5 l bs. randy
Assorted Jftftftf
and light chm o
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Betty Baker choco- "■ QQ
lates and bon bona. $
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Barbara Jane 5 l.hn.
with candied
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FIRST FLOORS
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MISSING
A Letter to Treasure
Widow of Heroic Flier is ’So Proud and Thrilled'
Over Roosevelt Message to 1956 President
MADISON, Fla. r Dec. 19 (INS).
—A proud mother, widowed by the
war, today treasured a copy of a
letter written hy the President of
the United States to a future
president, requesting that her in
fant son be appointed to the
United States Military Academy
at West Point “in 1956."
She is Mrs. Colin P. Kelly Jr.,
whose aviator husband heroically 1
died the second day of the war
when he dive-bombed and sunk;
the 29,000-ton Japanese battle
ship Haruna off the island of,
Luzon in the Philippines.
NO BARRIER TO CAREER
— When she li.'i tried several
ago of her husband's death Mrs.
Kelly said that ho had gohe as
he wanted to go and that their/
18 months old son would follow
in his footsteps to West Point, j
Today at the home of her hus
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DETROIT EVENING TIMES (PIIOSE CHERRY, SSOOJ
band's parents, she learned of the
action President Roosevelt had
taken so that the boy will find
no harrier to following his father’s
career.
“I think that Is the most
wonderful thing I ha\e ever
heard of—l am so proud and
thrilled that I just can’t think
of anything el** to say,” she
deelartxi.
This is the letter President
Roosevelt wrote:
“To the President of the
United States in l&.Sfl:
‘‘l am writing this letter as
an aet of faith in the den tiny
of our country. I desire to
make a request which I make In
lull confidence that we shnit
achieve a glorious victory In the
war we are now waging to pre
serve our democratic wav of
life.
“My request is that you con
sider the merits of a young
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SEARS SECOND FIOORS
American youth of goodly heri
tage—Tolln P. Kelly lll—for
appointment as a cadet in the
United States Military Academy
at West Point. I make this ap
peal In behalf of this youth aa
a token of the nation's apprecia
tion of the heroic serxlces of his
father who met death In the line
of duty at the very outset of the
struggle which was fort'ed upon
us hy the |**rfldy of a professed
friend.
“In the conviction that the
service and example of ('apt.
( olin P. Kelly Jr., will long be
rememhered, f ask for this con
sideration in behalf of Colin P.
Kelly 111.
“Franklin I). Roosevelt.**
MEDAL OF HONOR
A hill to award the congres
sional medal of honor posthu
mously to Captain Kelly for his
valiant act has already been intro
■ducml-in h/i! h Ifon-o and Senate
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of
Jhe army air forces, today sent a
letter to every man under his
command to live up to the example
the 26-year-old combat pilot had
set.
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