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The Chaperon
42ND YEAR, NO. 188
IN THE
NEWS
FIGHTKKS FOR FREEDOM
By llarry 11. Schlaoht
Editor, East Side New*
TODAY is Army Day.
America salutes our
f heroct*.
It Ih an occasion of the ded
ication of our spirit, our re
sources and our might to na
tional patriotism.
It throbs with the spirit of
the ringing declaration that
circled the globe and was
heard round the world.
Stirring are the stories of
y our achievements.
You nursed no dream of
conquest or aggression.
In the folds of our flag, you
have written the history of a
great liberty-loving people;
in its rustling may lie heard
the footsteps of your heroic
comrades from Irvington to
Chateau Thierrv.
You are the strength of our
nation's greatness and the
emblem of our destiny.
On this Army Day we hail
Gen. Douglas MacArthur and
his soldiers.
Their names will lie enrolled
as noblemen on the |»ages of
world history.
With gallantry, be is stand
ing with sword in hand upon
the ramparts of freedom to
hold back the tidal waves of
conquest.
Gen. MacArthur, in the
Philippines, was a more in
spiring figure than the mas
ter's band has ever placed
upon a painter’s can\as.
lie has given to Bataan the
immortality that C’apt. Pres
cott gave to Bunker Hill and
I>a\\ Crockett bestowed on
the Alamo.
This sublime picture of
ro n see rated de\otion to the*
cause of human freedom will
former hang in the gallery of
our memories.
(ten. MacArthur has truly
“kept the soldier’s faith.”
America is at the cross
roads of c’ixili/ation.
We are standing at the*
most momentous period in
the fate* of the* human race.
All the episodes of man’s
struggle* for liberty come
ringing down to us through
the corridors of time with a
commanding challenge.
The* world has never xxit
nessed such bestiality since
(■enghis Khan and fits Mon
gol hosts swept out of the
Gobi Desert in the thirteenth
century, and by conquest and
pillage, by fire and sword,
ravished and destroyed civi
lized lands.
We know that in the un
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BAG 212 AXIS PLANES
Vets, Troops, OCD in Army Day Fete
2-Mile Line j
Reviewed by
Gen. Ben Lear
City Commemorates
U. S. Entrance Into
First World War
Soldiers of this war. veteran*, of
others, home defender* and all of
IVtroit's «it/enry except mm on
the* war assembly lines united to
day in the city'* greatest Army
Gay display of military might -a
roar of defiance against Axis ag
grr^«ion.
To commemorate America's en
tranee into the first World Wat
25 years ,<go today, and to denion
stra’e America * pledge of solid
nr :t> to the* All;e* on the fighting
front I H-ttoil staged a two-mile
!ong parade down Woodward
avenue N
Assigned to lead the victory
march were the reviewing army
officials preceded In a mounted
police escort.
IN REVIEWING STAND
The officers are Lieut Gen. Ren
nr. commander of the second
army; Maj. Gon. B B. Powers ci
vilian defense liaison officer; ('apt.
R. .Thornton Brodhead; Col. E. L.
Clayton: Col. Arlo Emery; Col.
William B. Howe of the Michigan
State Troops, and Commanders D.
Dwight Douglas and Elmer Stoker
of Ford Naval Training School.
A reviewing stand was erected
at the city hall lor Gov. Murray D
Van Wagoner. Mayor Edward J
Jeffries and the officers.
The parade roster also includes
a hand and 500 soldiers fri»m Fort
('lister. 50 war - vehicles from Fort
Wayne, 500 men and a band from
the navy training school and 1,500
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Treasury to Offer
51,500,000,000 Issue
WASHINGTON. April 6 (INS).
Score lory of the Treasury Mor
genthau announced today that
$1,500,000,000 worth of one-half
per cent treasury certificates of in
debtedness will he ofTrred through
federal reserve banks for rash sub
scriptions.
The certificates will he dated
April 15, payable November 1. and
will boar interest of one“-half of
one ]>oi rent per year. They will
he issued in hearer form only, with
one interest coupon attached, in
demon mat tons of SIOOO, $5.000
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YOU CAN
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' DETROIT, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1942
Pontiac Flier
In Bataan Battle
By KAV HARRINGTON
TlmM Malt l'orr»spo«4ei»l
PONTIAC, April 6 -"Everyone,
here is in the best of spirits and
we are convinced that w«* can lick
«*ur weight in wildcats, let alone
Japs ”
This is from the dramatic letter 1
of a 25-year-old army flier and,
former Pontiac Isoy who is now
fighting with the small American,
force still holding Bataan Penin
sula.
LETTER BI NS BLOCKADE
By some unknown method, ihei
letter was sneaked out of the
Philippines through the Japanesej
blockade and was received by.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parsons of Lake
Angelti*. the mother of LieutJ
James Dcy.
it was written by Lieutenant-
I>-y during an air raid on a bomb
wrecked typewriter that could
only print rapnal letters. Thera- is
no ink for letter-writing left
among Die soldiers.
Although the letter was written
several weeks ago Lieutenant Dey
is still well, for Saturday his
mother received a cablegram in
which he Mated '“All OK. Jim
Dey.”
In hi* letter Dey refers to a
flight over Formosa, a Japanese
island hase more than 500 nfiles
north of Bataan.
I.ITTI.E >1 AIL GETS OPT
“I’leav* forgive me, mother,"
writes Lieutenant Dey, “lor be
ing ho lax in my correspondence.
Mail just isn't getting out of
here.
“I'm all OK. now. from my
trip to the hospital after the
raid on Clark Field, the only
Woman Stolen’
From Escort
A mssienous midnight ab
duction of a 25-> ear-old woman.'
who wa< wrested from her com
panion and forced into an auto
mobile. was being investigat'd hv
jtolice today.
Mrs. Margaret sfaxey. of IH7
Selden avenue, was the reputed
victim. She had not returned
home this morning.
According to witnesses, Mrs.
Maxes was standing in front of
her H|>artment building with Pat
Gianpieprio, 50. of 15*1 West
Alexandrine asonue. and Mrs
Tessie Hudoch, 2b, of 258
street, when an automobile con
taining a woman and two men
.stopped.
Mrs Maxes - called one of the
men Moe" btit struggled as he
endeavored to force her into the
car. Gianpieprio was threatened
with a knife when he interceded.
|K*lue were told.
Ban Camelbaclc for Tires
LANSING, April 6. Onlv re
claimed rubber can for
tire recapping because of the
shortage of camelhack. Arlhur II
Sarvis, state rationing administra
tor, said today.
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LIEUT. JAMES DEV
... a Bataan airman . . .
evidence of any harm being my
left ankle. If* a little larger
than the other and the doctor
says it probably will stay that
w ay.
“I am grounded now and in
charge of a platoon of men. I
had a sunstroke after a trip
over Formosa and they have
grounded me. I went on the
range to test guns after we got
hack from Xipland (Formosa)
and after spending a few hours
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The War Today
PHILIPPINES Jafts throw in
tanks in attempt to press
gains in Bataan. < Page 2. >
C'KYLON- Search progresses for
survivors of 57 Japanese
planes dost rov ed out fit a raid
ing fleet of 75 in one of the
great Allied air victories of
the war. <Page 1 i
AUSTRALIA United States
and Australian planes raid
Koepang, Dutch Timor, to
climax a week-end in which 51
Japanese planes w orr de
stroyed or damaged in the
island area. (Page 1.)
RUSSI A Russian guerrillas
have the key town of Bryansk
under viriu.il siege, t Page 2 >
BUR M A Retreating British
fight at the gateway 1o
Burma’s oil field*.. • Page 2 )
American flv ing fort losses raid
Rangoon. (Page 1.)
I.ON DO N Reporters persist
that British commandos raided
Nazi-held Narvik, Norway.
• Pago 1.) Some 500 British
bombers laid industrial areas
in Germany and occupied
France. ( Page 1 >
Mass Wedding for Soldiers
EL PASO. Tex.. A mil 6 tINSV
Five United States Army
chaplains of three religious deno
minations took |>art in a mass
wedding ceremony tod as at El
Paso, uniting 10 Fort Bliss soldiers
with the girls, ol their choif.
i 75 Jap Planes
Raid Ceylon,
57 Shot Down
RAF Foils Surprise
Attack on Colombo,
Hospital Bombed
1
COLOMBO, Ceylon. April 6
i(UPL— Troops, police and natives,
spurred by promise of rewards,
searched the jungles and rugged
hills of Ceylon today for survivors
of 57 Japanese planes, destroyed
or damaged out of the carrier
based fleet of 75 warcraft which
attempted an Easter Sunday raid
and met disaster.
It was asserted officially that of
the 75, 25 were shot dotvn for
certain, five more were probably
down and 25 were damaged by
British fighter planes. Two more
jwere shot down by anti-aircraft
.guns a* they came in at low level
over the city.
HOSPITAL HIT
For their disastrous debacle, the
enemy got little. The attacking
fleet was broken up and shattered
by Royal Air Force fighters.
Little material damage was done
and, of the relatively few casual
ties, half occurred *in a plainly
marked hospital which. Vice Ad
:miral Sir Geoffrey Layton, com
-1 mander-in-chief. asserted, the
Japanese bombed deliberately.
Ceylon vens jubilant over one of
the great Allied aerial victories of
the war.
Although only 27 planes were
claimed officially as certainly de
stroyed. it was believed that all 57
hit by British plane or ground gun
fire were certainly downed.
RASED ON CARRIERS
They were nil either based on
enemy aircraft carriers in the Bay
of Bengal or had to fly to their
nearest base at Port Blair, in the
Andaman Islands. 950 miles across
the bay. There was believed to be
no chance that any damaged
plane got home.
Layton ordered every effort to
capture the Japanese crews which
managed to parachute fiom their
broken planes.
It was evident the Japanese did
not know that for months the
British had been strengthening
their defenses in expectation of
just such an attack.
Only a limited area of the cit>
art joining the harbor, a railway
works and an airdrome came
under attack.
Commando Assault
On Xarvik lloportod
IjONDON*. April fi (I P>.-Re
ports persisted today that British
commando troops, in a combiner!
navy, army and air force opera
tion. had made a raid in force on
the Naruk zone of the Norwegian
coast Saturday.
Japs Lose 02,
Germans 120 ,
The United Nations dealt the Axis a crushing
week-end aerial blow with incomplete tabulations
today showing at least 212 enemy planes destroyed
or damaged in four war theaters.
The Japanese lost at least 57 planes destroyed
or damaged over the island of Ceylon and 35 in the
Australian invasion zone.
Russia reported the destruction of 107 German
planes and Britain’s Mediterranean island of Malta
reported at least 13 Axis raiders shot down or
damaged.
A correspondent of the British Press Association,
analyzing aerial warfare since January 1, estimated the Axis
had lost planes at the rate of 200 a week on all fronts.
300 Planes Raid
I
Rhine, France
LONDON, April 6 <INS).—A
force of 300 British bombers raided
military objectives last night in
wide swpeps over Germany and
France, the air ministry said
lodav.
Five of the British planes are
missing.
The Rhineland was the main
objective of the bombing at lack.
Other targets included docks at
Le Havre and the Gnome-Rhone
Work* at Gennevilliei s. near Paris,
an important center for production
of airplane engine parts and other
war material.
Cologne was among the main
targets.
Yanks Escape
Belfast Bombs
BELFAST. April G (INSL-
Military authorities took a hand
today in the search for the plotter
who planted a half dozen delayed
action incendiarv bombs in the
Belfa-t Hippodrome, where 2.f)00
United States and British soldiers
were to attend a variety fror
formance.
Police investigator- are being
aided in the search for sunroofs
by squads of soldiers They be
liovp the bombs were planted by
members of the outlawed Irish
Republican Army, or sjmpathi/ers.
in protest again-t an official ban
on demonstrations commemorating
the 191fi Faster rebellion
Stockholm was authority for the
reports, which were unconfirmed.
According to these reports Brit
ish commandos, supported by naval
and air forces, attacked Narvik, a
big Orman base, for the second
time and effected 9 landing south
of the port. .
24 PAGES
T. S. Fliers
Balter
Rangoon
NEW DELHI, India. April 6
<UP>. Giant flying fortresses of
Die I’nited States Army Air Corps,
in their second big attack from
India bases, have heavily attacked
Die Japanese base at Rangoon
and, fighting through a swarm of
Japanese tighter planes, have all
returned to base, it was announced
today.
“In a heavy bombardment,
American air force planes at
tacked dorks in the Rangoon
area on the night of April 3,"
a communique of the United
States Air Forces in India said.
“Three large fires were started.
“Pursuit artinu was enenun
tered.
“ \II personnel returned safe.”
Thus for the second time in two
days, the flying fortresses struck
at Japanese bases menacing Burma
and India.
In their first attack Thursday
they attacked Pprt Blair, the big
:inva.-ion base in the Andaman Is
land- boo miles south of Akyab on
| the Burma roast and 800 miles
across the Bay of Bengal from
Calcutta.
Norse Ships Reach Britain
LONDON, April b (INSi.—Some
of the 11 Norwegian merchant
-hips that dashed from Gotehorg.
Sweden, last week have reached
Britain, it was authoritatively re
vealed todav.
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The Weather
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“Htru’i look -
in g at you,
Armyl"
1 FORECAST
A* For Detroit
Z l' and vicinity:
Showers tonight
zSy v |. and tomorrow
IJ-, morning with
temperatures.
<sgfcr Moderate wind*.
THREE CENTS
35 Jap Planes
Beaten Down
Off Australia
U. S. Fliers Help
Ring Up Big Toll
in Week-Encl Drive
By BRVDON C. TAVES
l lilird Prfw staff 1 *rrr»pmi4Mt
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR’S
HEADQUARTERS, Austral!*
.April 6. Allied warplanes wert
le ported today to have destroyed
or damaged 35 to 40 Japanese
plane* in week-end attacks at the
northern approaches to Australia.
It was difficult to obtain an
accurate count of the Japanese'
week-end aerial losses, although
an Australian communique listed
•"*5 enemy planes destroyed or
damaged. Other dispatches from
Port Moresby. New Guinea, and
other sectors of the northern "in-
Turning Points
PORT DARWIN. Australia,
April 6 llNSL—Declaring that
although he did not want to seem
"over-optimistic/’ Maj. Gen. G. M,
Morris, the Australian genetral
officer commanding in New Guinea,
was quoted today as saying:
, *'l shouldn't be surprised If
we had seen the turning point
In the Paclflr.”
vasion flank" indicated that tba
total was somewhat higher.
On Java, springboard for a
threatened Japanese invaison of
Australia. Dutch troops of "con
siderable size ’ were revealed.of
ficially to be fighting the Japanese
in the interior jungles and moun
tains. The Dutch were reported
wol* supplied with food and mu
nitions.
1 • *-AI’BBIES RAID K OK. PA VO
American and Australian planes
raided the Japanese invasion base
ot Koepang on the Dutch island of
Timor northwest of Port Darwin
for the second time in 24 hour*
yesterday to climax the week-end
of Allied aerial successes. Primo
Minister John Curtin announced.
British planes were credited
with destroying or damaging 15
or 18 enemy planes in a "dramatic
and brilliant hit-and-run" attack
late Saturday on the Japanese
held Lae airdrome on the New
Guinea coast.
Other Japanese fighters were
damaged or destroyed when RAF
fighter patrol planes swept down
land machine-gunned the airdrome
at oft-bombed Salamahua, neer
! Lae. / 7,
An enemy attack on Prod
Darwin Satuiday cost the Japa
nese seven planes, five of them
bombers, Curtin announced.
At Koepang iix Japanese planet
were reported destroyed or dam
aged
17 JAP PLANES LOUT
Prime Minister Curtin said in 0
communique that the
had lost at least 17 planes for cer
tain and 10 damaged SatufAay
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