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IN THE
NEWS
March 29, 1942
Mr. W. R. Hearst,
Wjmtoon,
McCloud, Calif.
Mr. W. R. Hearst,
HERE la a Uttla thought for
Easter. Maybe we have
been attaching too much
Importance to earthly, material
things. A little of the faith that
can move mountains might put an
end forever to the wild ride of the
Four Horsemen.
Sincerely,
NICK KENNY.
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THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF
THE APOCALYPSE
(Death, Famine, War and
Pestilence)
f\VER th « world in their pkan -
V fom chant
The fforsemen ride in an endless
race,
Grinding the hearte and the hopee
of men f
Deep m the mire again and '
again! j
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Spawned hy the dti'fl, and hy
him hurled
To grimly trample a godless
world,
The Horsemen rage through each
human breast
Blind to the thing that could give
thtm rest ...
Ths pears that they and their
victims seek
Could be found in prayer, hut
aur faith is weak.
NICK KENNY.
Los Angeles, March 31, 1942.
My Dear Mr. Hearst*
IHAVE been impressed with
the wonderful work the Hearst
papers are doing through their
news and editorial pages and
through your own column, to
arouse public interest in the vital
necessity for America to wake up,
take off its coat, roll up its
sleeves, and go to work to win
the war.
Your campaign to buy bombers
la successful beyond expectations,
but unless everything Is done by
the public, in a full-out effort, to
build bombers and train the men
to fly them and other combat
planes, we will all find oursehes
in a deplorable situation.
America today Is engaged in a
mighty effort to raise money to
win the war.
That is all very well and good.
But money Is not enough.
Money is the cheapest thing we
have.
We have almost all the gold in
the world, but gold alone does not
win wars.
It takes manpower and woman
power, manpower hours of produc
tion capacity—to send the Ger
mans and the Japs to oblivion.
They have no gold but they have
manpower, and that manpower
kept going on a twenty-four hour
a day basis.
We peed not worry about thej
youth Of this nation.
It has the courage of the youth
of the generation preceding it and
the generations preceding us.
It will take a minimum of
900,009 pilots to do the Job we
have to do—loo,ooo in the xone of
the rear, and 200,000 combat men,
which means about 5,000,000 men
to support them.
You can make your column,
your newspapers, be of great serv
ice in telling America to make up
Ita mind that this war can last
and will last a long time.
Tell the public that twenty-four
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Court Aide
Shot; Dentist
Friend Held
Bullet Fired in Bar;
Wounded Reporter
Discovered in Home
Harry S. Cole. 55. court reporter
in Judge Harry B. Kcidan's court,
was in a serious condition today in
j Harper Hospital with a bullet
i wound in the abdomen. Police
a"e investigating to determine if
he was wounded by’ a shot fired in
a bar at 1021 Farmer street.
Police *vcre called to the bar
shortly before 1 a. m. today on a
report there was a man in the
place with a gun. On arrival they
were given a .38-caliber automatic
which witnesses said had been
dropped by one of three men after
a shot had been heard. They
were told no one was hit.
The officers arrested Dr. Forbes
Thomson, 44. a dentist, of 17600
Bentler avenue, and Mike Sackoe.
50 of 727 Bates street. Doctor
Thomson admitted he had been
in the place with the gun, but
denied firing it.
While they were being ques
tioned, a call came from Cole’s
home at 2514 West Chicago, and
police found him partly clad on
his bed. a gunshot wound in his
abdomen.
At the hospital it was found
the bullet had missed Cole's spine
by an inch.
Cole told Detective Lieutenant
George Branton he had been in
the company of Doctor Thomson
and that he didn't remember
where he had been last, but that
he had taken a cab home and
there discovered he had been shot.
Both Doctor Thomson and Sac
kos were held for investigation
and police began checking the
gun. which Thomson said be
longed to his partner, Dr. H. P.
Struik.
War Plant Afire
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4
(INS).—A two-alarm fire broke
out early today in the magnesium
plant of the National Metals Com
pany in San Francisco, which is
engaged in war work. Army
guards were immediately posted
at the premises.
Escapes Dutch Indies
Former Viola Hammond, Widow of Netherlands
Flier, Arrives in U. S. With Baby Son
Mr*. Ronny Steensma, the for
mer Viola Hammond, socially
prominent Detroiter, who married
a Netherlands East Indies flier,
has returned to the United States
with her infant son, it was re
vealed today, and Is expected to
arrive in Detroit Rhortly for a
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42ND YEAR, NO, 186 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1942 22 PAGES THREE CENTS
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He Whisks Away His Bride; She Calls for Help
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ROLAND WILL, 19. AND MISS EVELYN KRIEWALL, 20
, , , she wasn’t exactly kidnaped . . .
Like a knight of old. 19-year-old
Roland Will took away his lady
love in his 1940 model "charger.”
And like the maids of old. his
brunet fiance, Miss Evelyn Krie
wall, 20, was not too angry with
him.
But—King Arthur's knights
would shudder at the thought—
Detroit police stepped in and took
a htond.
HELP! KIDNAPED!
The romance of Miss Kriewall of
794 Loraine avenue, Grosse Pointe,
became a police matter when she
left a note in a Plymouth gas sta
tion restroom, written on a paper
towel, which gave her name and
address and said:
"Send help. Being kidnaped.”
She admitted later she wasn’t
“exactly kidnaped” but at the
moment couldn't think of a better
word when Roland insisted they
drive to Indiana to be married.
Miss KrieVall said:
"Roland insisted we get mar
ried right away, saying he
visit with her mother in Grosse
Pointe.
The heiress’ husband lost his
life in the action over Java. The
young matron and her son are be
lieved to have traveled from
Australia to San Francisco by
freighter. '
‘wanted to get It over with.’
But my father didn't want me
to get married in these troubled
times and, anyway, both my
sisters eloped and I wanted a
regular wedding. So I objected,
but Roland (a bit proudly) took
me anyway.
“When we got to Plymouth I
didn’t want to make a scene or
anything, but I had to get it
straightened out, and leaving a
note was the only thing I could
think of.
SI'CH A FVSS!
“We were past Ann Arbor be
fore I could persuade Roland to
change his mind, and by the time
we got hack to Roland's house
the police were watting and
brought us here to headquar
ters. I didn’t reallre there'd be
all this fuss about it.”
Cheek-to cheek with Will. Miss
Kriewall admitted she made no
attempt to escape at the Plymouth
gas station. She also admitted that
when Will was missing for a
moment she asked the station at
tendant, Fred Hadley:
“Where is he?”
It was Hadley, who found the
“kidnap” note, after the couple
had left, and phoned police.
DOESN’T BLAME HER
Will, a tool and die w'orker. of
2970 Maple street. Detroit, admit
ted he was “a little hasty and a
bit too stubborn, too.” and didn't
blame Evelyn for thinking she was
kidnaped.
He also admitted Miss Kriewall
made him change his mind.
Their “regular wedding” is now
set for May 9.
Police gave the couple tbeir
1 blessing—and a warning.
Flying Forts
In India,Bomb
Invasion Fleet
First Attack Proves
U. S. Warplanes'
Superiority in Air
By P. D. SHARMA
C*M«4 rrtM Staff Cinapoßtuit
NEW DELHI. India. April 4.
Defense of India and Burma was
steeled today by giant flying
fortresses of the t&ited States.
Army Air Corpa which Joined the;
Allied air forces in a stirring vic
tory in their first attack on the
Japanese.
The first communique of the
United States air forces in India
announced last night that the
fortresses, under their commander
in-chief, Maj. Gen. Lewis H.
Brereton, had made their first
attack from India.
HIT INVASION FLEET
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Their target w r as the Japanese
invasion fleet in the Andaman
Islands at the bottom of the Bay
of Bengal.
The fortresses concentrated on
Port Blair, 600 miles south of
Akyab, on the west coast of
Burma, and 800 miles south-south
east of Calcutta.
They set fire to a Japanese
cruiser, damaged a troop ship and
probably damaged two others with
near misses, the communique said.
The fortresses, proving their
defensive as well as offensive
power, fought off a challenge by
'Japanese pursuit planes, emerged
jundamaged from the heavy enemy
anti-aircraft fire and returned
safely to their bases.
(The British radio said Allied
planes had destroyed 44 Japa
nese planes in Thailand in the
I last two weeks.)
The Weather
HOrtLT TEMPER ITCHES
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2 a. m. 40 7 a. m. 36
3 a. m. 40 6 a. m. 36
4 a. m. 30 9 a. m. 30
The eun will net at 6 p m. today,
and rtee tomorrow at 7:hg a. m.
The moon will rise today at 11:55
p. m . and aet tomorrow at 10:12 a. ra.
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man with hit
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ground it in a
vulnerable po
sition.”
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FORECAST
For Detroit
and vicinity:
Warmer
today
through
early
tomorrow;
gentle to
moderate
winds.
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State News
Highlights
PONTlAC—Monday’s election of
the city commission and con
stables and the vote on the 2
mills tax is expected to attract
5,000 to the polls.
FLlNT—Worker transferred to
night side in his shop found by
his wife with his throat cut.
She blames transfer and his
inability to sleep,
SAGlNAW—Saginaw council de
lays meeting to probe charge
members told land owners to
hold out for higher prices in
airport land deals.
LANSING—Thirty - four high
schools to send 1,134 to an
nua] choral festival at Michi
gan State College here rtnet
Friday and Saturday.
Mandalay
Bombed
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By Japs
NEW DELHI. India, April 4
(UP).—Reinforced Japanese air
plane squadrons, opening a new
offensive on the Burma front, are
savagely attacking the British
Empire rear guards north of
Promt and have bombed Manda
lay and two central Burma towns,
a Burma command communique
revealed today.
The communique said, however,
that the Japanese advance shock
troops had been dealt with suc
cessfully.
Japanese planes bombed Manda
lay heavily yesterday morning, the
communique said, but without
causing military damage. A hos
pital was struck and set afire.
POWERFUL FORCE
The powerful Japanese ground
force, attacking frontally after in
filtrating units had emerged sud
denly from the jungle to main
highways, was pressing the British
covering troops relentlessly in the
Prome sector.
Apparently the empire troops
were still falling back on the main
force, somewhere between Prome
and Minbu at the southern end of
the oil field area.
To the east, across the rugged
Pegu Yoma Mountains, the Chi
nese fifth and sixth armies under
American Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
struck back fiercely at the Japa
nese and recaptured the Kyungon
airdrome, 10 miles north of
Toungoo.
Coogan,' Wife Part
Jackie, in Army, and Flower Parry Separate When
Baby Can't Keep Them Together
HOLLYWOOD, April 4 <INS>—
Jackie Coogan's second marriage
broke up today as "The Kid," now
an army private and a father,
announced his separation from his
bride of less than a year, the for
mer Flower Parry.
"I realize this Is a terrible
thing, but we had known each
other only about five months
wbea we were married and
Tanker, Destroyer
Also Lost in Pacific
Commanders Tell
Heroic Last Stand
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4
(INS).— The commanding officers
of the aircraft tender Langley and
Wrtravy tanker Pfcoa relatejTln
grim detail today how their ships
were “smothered by a rain of
Japanese bombs” in the Indian
Ocean off Java.
Both men, in a press confer
ence. said it was “rather a painful
thing to speak of a ship that was
lost and the men who went down
with it.’*
The officers are Commander R.
D. McConnell of the Langley and
Commander E. P. Abemethy of
the Pecos, a 5,400-ton tanker.
CARRIED SURVIVORS
The Langley was sunk February
27, and the Pecos was sent to the
bottom March 1 while trying to
reach an Australian port with the
Langley’s survivors.
Commander McConnell said the
Langley was sunk by a formation
of high-flying, land-based Jap
bombers. Here is his story:
“The Langley was engaged in
carrying supplies the morning of
February 27 when we were
picked up by a hostile observa
tion plane. W’e took step* to
prepare for subsequent action.
“About noon approaching
planes were reported and gen
eral quarters were sounded.
Then Are was opened on the air
craft.
AT HIGH ALTITUDE
“They were high altitude,
horizontal bombers, twin en
gined, seven In one formation
and nine In another so far as
we could determine as they
flew above and through clouds
at 15,000 to 18.000 feet. They
made a series of approaches to
the ship.
“The first salvo either was
evaded or the bombing was off
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had known for some time It was
a mistake,” Coogan said. “We
thought we would stick It out
on account of the baby. It didn’t
work, however, and I think It
better to make the break now.**
The baby, John Anthony Coogan.
was bom a month ago.
Coogan's first marriage, to Betty
Grable, ended In the divorce
courts.
700 Yanks Feared
Toll of Sea Bade
WASHINGTON, April 4 CUft
—Three American warshipfb. ton,
eluding the aircraft tender
west Pacific, but went down wtlfc
their gune blazing to the last, S
navy communique revealed today.
The 26-year-old Langley, tho '
destroyer Peary and - the naval
tanker Pecos fell prey, Japs
nese bombers between February
19 and March 1. AU three fought
back fiercely in a glowing demons -
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valor of America's fighting OMHi
and fighting ships.
FEAR 709 LOST
Unofficial estimates placed the
loss of life In the- three attacks
at more than 700 officers sad
men. Most of them died In tffed
sinking of the Pecoe, which was
carrying survivors of the aircraft
tender.
The Langley, the navy's first
aircraft carrier before its comet*
sion five years ago, went down fal
the Indian Ocean south of Javß
on February 27—not by enem?
action but under the guns of twd
escorting destroyers.
The Japanese bombers bn#
“virtually smothered’* she light*?
armored 11.050-ton vessel in a kst
of bombs. But they failed to sfedl
it Desperately wounded, it was
shelled to the bottom by American
ships.
ONCE FLEET COLLIES
The Langley, which begaa -tor
career in the proeaic role of a
fleet collier, had been reported
sunk by the Japanese on at least
three occasions. »
Fourteen of the ship's otr
were lost in the bombing attack*
The remainder abandoned ship to
permit two accompanying destray*
ers to move in and deliver the
coup de grace.
The survivors, picked up bf
other destroyers, later were trane*
ferred to the 5,400-ton Pecos. OR
March 1, Japanese dive-bombefg
choae the rescue ship for their
target and blasted it to the hot*
tom after a running fight that
lasted more than four hours.
The crew of the Pecos, aided
by men from the Langley, fought
the bombers at every ttffß
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