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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06
HOLLYWOOD CHATTER

Damon Runyon. ace reporter, Is
lucky for his friends. Take Leo
Spitz, for instance. Spitz is a great
admirer of Runyon and wanted TO
produce Tight Shoes" and Butch
Minds the Baby" but he felt he
didn't have money enough to buy
both stories and produce them.
Damon told Spitz he could have
the stories. But il finally simmered
down to Runyon agreeing to a
percentage.
Well, TO make long story short,
Tight Shoes" is coming money
and so far Runyon's percentage is
$4,000 Through the grapevine
we hear Butch Minds the Baby"
is another honey of a movie and
that it will probably also bring in
plenty of dough for Runyon, Spitz
and Universal. ct al.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06
LOuella Parsons
GOSSIP FROM
HOLLYWOOD

inally was that he and Hal Wallis
could never see eye to eye. But
Hal is busy with his own produc-
tons. so probably Mark will have
carte blanche now to make pic
lures his own way. His first will
be "MiSSiSSippi Belle"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06
\ MODEST FELLOW

america. not being a par
ticularly miIitaristic country,
has the same impulses. the same
requirements i'm it, arme Il
forces that YOU find among
civilian members. so why not
give these armed forces the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

BETTER look out. FIRST
thing 7 know, I'll be starting a
campaign 60 build an elevated
In Detroit.
AZ that. why not:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06
Euarls Is
AH-out for
Classics
BY CHARLES GENTRY

SHAKESPEARE Is about &c
be drafted. according 10 Maurice
Evans, the distinguished English
actor, who opens here tonight al
the Cass ThcatCr in Macbeth. y
"NO definite plans have been
announced so far" Evans said
upon his arrival here, but army
officials have stated that there
have been numerous requests at
various camps 10 have us pre-
sent classic drama and. II pos
Sible, we should like 10 work
out some way In which we could
present the great plays for
SerNiCemen."
Evans has become the fore
most Shakespearean actor Of our
time and he believes that dramas
of another era constitute "escap-
list theater lust as much as high
comedy or lavish musicals do.
AS "A matter of theatrical
fact" Evans stated. "the classic
dramas of another period. no
matter how tragic, represent
entertainment of other times
and they are easier to offer. In
that they don't call for four box
cars of elaborate scenery.
THE SAME TASTE
What We have given 50 far
has met with such enthusiastic
reception that we want to pre-
sent plays like Richard IL and
Macbeth for the soldiers In
their entirety, not just single
scenes In impromptu sets"
/ Evans. who Is a scholar and a
gentleman 10 the nth degree. is
most sincere IN This idea Of giving
real thcaIcr 10 the army camps
especially those ont OF reach Of
large cities
This vital young man who has
done much 20 revive interest m
ANon'S famous bard feels that
the army has much the same i'm
fcrcSt That the civilian army ha,
when b comes 10 lining up az
the box office
\ MODEST FELLOW
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

Gen. Hugh ;. Johnson, Amer
ica's Fighting Thinker" writes
Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

PEOPLE ARE starting In
open up their summer cottages
ut the lakes. In one town, prae-
tically everything seemed TO he
closed up, even the drug store.
leading TO the belief that fishing
must be good somewhere around
Edwardsburg.
One farm still has maple
syrup buckets hanging on the
sugar naples, but quite num-
her OF farmers were doing their
blowing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

STAGE ATTRACTIONS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

WE DIDN'T have time 10 do
much getting around. From a
sense of duty. we went to the
Chez Paris; saw Jane Frohman
arrive 10 watch the show;
chatted briefly with Eddie Du-
chin at the Empire Room: went
TO bed reasonably early. got up
the next day and drove to Evan
ston before turning around and
coming home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

WE WERE again amazed at
the filling station attendants.
The number Of services they will
perform cheerfully and for no
fee always amazes me, and |
would nominate them, in gen
eral. as the most agreeable Of
any group of workers who serve
the public.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

SPEAKING FROM a purely
personal standpoint 1 rather
enjoy listening 70 the elevated
trains grind past the hotel, and
they don't keep me awake
Especially. like the way tho
wheels scream against the rails
when the train goes around a
curve.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

Ing down everything that has
happened, and you know darncd
we'll that if YOU had the whole
page instead Of one column, 1t
wouldn't be enough.
The only thing / can think Of
10 complain about is that l, per-
sonally, think that the present
picture Of yours truly is terrible.
And even that doesn't matter.
because we've just had a new
one taken (yes, again0 and II
looks pretty good 1t will appear
in a day or two. probably,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

DETROIT WOULD seem IN
be n bigger city " IL had an
elevated or n subway. II would
also be q noisier and more clut-
tered looking city N il had ar
I'll like Chicago's. Chicago, how
ever, always gives the impress
sion Of busting. Detroit doesn't
always.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

INDIANA POLICEMEN look
tougher than the ones you see
In either Michigan or Illinois.
Why this should he so is
mystery 10 me, but that's the
impression they give.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Oven Exp|odes,
; Men Injured

Three men were injured today.
two critically, when a gas oven at
the Parker-Wolverine Company.
1881 Scotch avenue. exploded,
scared them and started a fire in
the plant, which is engaged in
producing paint for war camou-
flage purposes. Hb
Injured were Joseph Chanady.
SO, OF 4548 Parshallville road.
Fenton; John Kregorski. "a, of
6456 Steadman avenue. Dearborn,
and Alfred Maccani. IS, of 1882
Mackenzie avenue. Chanady and
Kregorski were the most seriously
injured. while Macconi said he
was shielded from the full force
OF the blast by q door.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
M'Arfllur, Curtin Map
Plans TO kayO laps
BY BRYDON c. TANES
United Press stan Correspondent

GEN ERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
April 20. - Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur and Prime Minister John
Curtin have reached complete
agreement on plans for knocking
out Japan by a concentration of
Allied strength" it was announced
today after a three-hour confer
ence Of the two leaders.
General Macarthur and I are
in complete agreement on gen.
eral strategy for knocking out
Japan by n concentration of our
strength rather than dispersal"
said Curtin. "Our conceptions
Of the whole global strategy are
identical"
He said that Allied communiques
the course Of the war
in the southwest Pacific soon will
come from MacArthurs head
quarters as the result of Mac
Arthurs formal assumption Of SUI
preme command on the Pacific
battle front. H
Australian sources reported that
New Zealand, 1000 miles south
east of Australia had definitely
been excluded from MacArthur's
command.
Air Minister Arthur DrakeSford
announced that the Royal Austria
lian Air Force now is fighting the
with American Kitty
hawks tCurtiss P-40's) and other
new fighter planes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Spanked Boy Kills 2
I2-Yeer-Od Lad Tells Of Shooting Guardians
After Punishment for Playing Hockey

Yesterday Mrs. Krugjohann
was cleaning some rugs on the
back porch. 1 went In the par
lor and loaded the rife. Then I
crouched down and waited. She
came back carrying the rug, and
rs she leaned over 1 shot her In
the head. She screamed. i re-
loaded the rife.
SHOT HER THREE TIMES
"She was sort Of Keeling and
went TO the telephone and
started to call central. I fired
again and she fell. Then 1
walked up to her, placed the
gun near her head and fired
again.
Then I went to the barnyard
and waited In the barn. Mr..
Krugjohann pretty soon came
riding In on n tractor. waited
till he got of and then shot
him. He sort OF stumbled /.
I reloaded the gun and fired
again. This time he fell on his
back.
IL walked up TO him and kept
reloading and fring."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
B|d(kout May ;
Starts at 10 PM.

Detroit's first test blackout has
been scheduled for 10 p. m. Sun
day, May 3. it was announced to-
day by Glenn c. Richards, director
of civilian defense.
The blackout will be complete
except for street lights and plants
doing war work. Blackout orders
will be nforced against motorists,
who will be compelled to turn out
their auto lights.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Warning
Light Frost Tonight I,
Weather Bureau Says

There will he a light frost to-
night-a warning 10 DetroitS
Victory Gardeners-the weather
bureau predicted today.
Continued cool and gentle winds
are forecast. Yesterdays tenn
perature was eight degrees below
normal, the thermometer hitting
80 degrees at its lowest point. the
bureau reported.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
P|edgeslegal.
Fight Against
u. ). Mail Ban
Denies Ownership.
Says Publication
Will Be Continued

Full responsibility" for the edi-
|torial policies of the weekly. Social
Justice, was admitted by Father
Charles E. Coughlin today in q
prepared answer to the govern
|ment's edit banning the publica-
ton from the mails.
At the same time the Roysf
Oak priest announced a legal fight
to prevent the mail ban and con.
|tinuation of the magazine unless
lordered not to do so by legal COM
stituted authority"
Father Coughlin did not appear
when the statement was released
this morning at his offices in the
Shrine of the Little Flower. 6 4
REVIEWS CASE
A secretary in addition gave re-
Iporters a proof of an editorial
which is scheduled to appear IN
Social Justice, April 81. This ar
ticle reviews the case and promises
a legal battle.
The Coughlin statement follows
his previous denial Of ownership
or control over the magazine. To-
days statement again denied
ownership.
STATEMENT TEXT
The statement follows:
According to press reports,
Attorney General Biddle In an
investigation expected to take
several months will place before
the federal grand jury In tho
District of Columbia evidence,
the object of which will be I'M
dictment under what II known
as the sedition law Of all those
responsible for the magazine,
Social Justice
ct Is not necessary for tho,
federal grand jury TO take sew
eral months or even several days
for determining all those re-
sponsible for Social Justice
DENIES OWNERSHIP
"Time and time again I have
said, and l here repeat, that I
am neither the editor. publisher
nor owner Of Social Justice.
However, do here and now
publicly state that I, FIR. Charles
II. Coughlin, pastor Of tho
Shrine Of the Little Flower,
alone am responsible for and do
Continued on Page Fsur)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
A I ST. PAUL'S you were
n not supposed to do

L0dL.
In fact there was no vacant
lot i'm the entire schools
very obvious deficiency and
disadvantage to begin with.
Instead of a vacant lot the
SC h DOL had a carefully
groOmed English lawn, such
as one might see at Harrow
or Rugby or Eton or almost
anywhere along the good old
Thames, don't you know.
And on the spick and span
and much moved lawn one
was supposed to play cricket,
and one did with a ball as
hard as q cobble rock, and a
bat as flat as a Hollywood
tenor's high c.
One got to be fairly good
at the jolly game too, but one
never really liked it because
there was no adjacent win
dow to knock the ball through
and, consequently, no suffi-
GENTLY positive method OF
tallying the score.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
'hoto by International News Photos

Drakesford said the RAAF no
longer must go into action with
slower and more vulnerable air.
craft than the japanese.
Prime Minister Curtin announc-
ing last night that Macarthur had
assumed his command after a
Qualification of his status, said
Arthur had received his charter
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Continued on Page FOUR
The War Today

BURMA-C h n ese reinforce
mentS rescue British troops
trapped in Burma. page ID
TOKIO-Commander of military
affairs bureau removed. Japan
reports planes raiding Toxic.
Yokohama Kobe and Nagoya
were based on three United
States aircraft carriers page
IL
AUSTRALIA - General Mac
Arthur assumes command of
southwest Pacific; New Zea-
landlreported excluded. page
L. Allied planes heavily dam
aged Japanese ships and
planes in raids on Rabaul,
New Britain. page H.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Cor
regidor and other u. S. forts
continues. page p
Conaborationist meet
ing bombed in Paris as Laval
cabinet page b
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Junior Army
Ranks Open
ToCiity Youth
Enrolment Begins
for Boys and Girls
From 10 to 10 Years
BY r.. JEROME PETIT
Detroit Times Defense Editor

Enrollments were opened today
in Detroit's Junior Victory Army,
under the sponsorship Of The De-
troit Times.
Detroit's future citizens now are
given opportunity to participate
in the movement which will en-
able them:
ITO organize for vitality i'm
l. portant role in the service OF
their country in its greatest crisis,
and
C-To undergo training In the ma
- tional emergency which will
render them better citizens. bet
ter leaders, when they assume
their duties as adult citizens in
the years 10 come.
FILL IN BLANK
On page 5 is published the
blank 10 be filled in for applica-
ton for membership in the great
youth army of Detroit.
Enrolment is open TO any
American boy or girl between the
ages Of 10 and Is, inclusive, re-
CARELESS of race or creed.
There are no enrolment fees or
dues except the 10 cents which
must be sent in with the applica-
ton to apply toward the cost OF
pin and card.
All that is necessary Is TO fill
in the application blank and mail
il in with 10 cents. Then you will
be on record as a potential mem
Der OF the greatest patriotic youth
mobilization in the nations his
tory.
Junior Victory Army members
will find themselves prepared TO
take a full part in protecting and
preserving the country they love
the country OF Washington and
jefferson and Lincoln.
Instruction OF members will be
carried on through the columns OF
The Detroit Times. Orders and in
structions will be published in the
paper, the major job at present
being one of voluntary enrolment.
There is nothing in the Junior
Victory Army program that will
conflict in any way with the activi-
ties of any standard, well estab-
lished youth organization.
On the contrary, il is the pur.
pose of the Junior Victory Army
to encourage participation in the
programs of such organizations.
Announcement of the Junior
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Father Coughlin Admits
He Controls Social Justice
Chinese
Rescue
British
BY ROBERT p. MARTIN
Uabed Press stan Cerrespcsdeat

CHUNGKING, China, April 20.
Chinese forces, rushed to the
Western Burma front TO relieve
hard-pressed British imperials,
have recaptured Yenang- Yaung in
the Irrawaddy valley oil fields.
liberated several thousand" en-
circled British troops and killed
more than 500 japanese in two
days of bitter fighting, a Chinese
h d quarters communique dis
closed today.
The Chinese reinforcements were
believed TO have eased temporarily
a tense Allied situation in the
heart OF the destroyed oil fields.
FIRST REAL BLOW
The munique said the
Chinese forces had been moved
into the Yenangyaung area from
Kysukpadaung. 35 miles TO the
northeast and only 100 miles be-
low Msndalay.
Despite the ferocity of the fight
ing. the Chinese suffered only sp-
proximately 100 casualties. the
communique revealed.
1t was the first real counter
blow against the japanese on the
Irrawaddy front since the weary
British evacuated Prone. 100
miles below Yenangyaung. and
started their slow retreat toward
the oil fields.
A continued critical Sino- British
situation on the Sittang. Salween
and Irrawaddy River fronts was
bringing sharp demands for
unified Allied command and a
timely counter-offensive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
King George OK.
Dixon as Aussie Envoy

MELBOURNE, April 20 GNS)
Appointment of Sir Owen Dixon
as Australian minister at Wash
ington has been approved by King
George VI. Prime Minister John
Curtin announced today. ri Z
Sir Owen replaces Rich a d
Casey, who resigned to become
British minister of state in the
Middle East. He is regarded as
one of the British Empires out
standing constitutional lawyers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20

MOUNT CARROLL. Ill, April
20 tUP).-Billy Geiseman. II.
told Sheriff Ray Westfall that he
shot and killed farm couple, his
guardians for three years. because
they spanked him seven months
ago for playing hockey from
school.
Billy, a frail, flaxen-haired boy,
said he shot Charles Krugjohann,
as, a farmer. and his wife. Ada,
43. about eight times, reloading
his % caliber rifle each time.
TELLS OF SHOOTING
Last September 1 ran away
on my bicycle (which the Krug-
johanns' had bought for him)
and went to see my brother,
Allen (about 20 miles from the
Krugjohanns' farm near Shan
non)," Billy told Westfall later.
IL was supposed TO be going to
school.
"Mr. and Mrs. Krugjohann
came after me, and they bawled
me cut and spanked me. They
spoke awful mean and I couldn't
get over IL.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20

For the Inside News" Of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column In the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Japan Fires
DefenseC Chief
After Raids
Toxic Still Nervous,
Radio Con+radieting
Itself on Bombings

Radio Toxic said today that
about 10 United States medium
bombers from three aircraft car
riers had taken part in Saturdays
raid on four japanese cities and
that. Lieut.. Gen. Akira Muto had
been ousted as commander of the
military affairs bureau and sent
to the front.
This followed a series of air
raid alarms over the main Japa-
nese island which indicated that
new raiders might have been in
the vicinity.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
WRONGLY DESCRIBED

Toxic radio. for instance. de-
scribed the American planes as
BIS bombers-but these are too
large to take off from carriers.
1t also gave varying reports OF
the number OF planes involved and
the number shot down.
A Berlin broadcast said today
that temporary air raid precau-
tons were suspended in all parts
OF japan Monday morning and
Toxic will again pre-
sent it's normal aspect Monday
(Coutfuued IN Para Fourl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
The Weather
HOURLY TEMPERATCRYs

The sun viii set at sis D m. today.
ana rise tomorrow Al s:42 a. m
The moon will set ~ 1850 a. m. tornor-
row, and rises tomorrow at 1885 a m
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20

VXTHLIE and Thomas
wv became friends.
They had the same
ideas on baseball and Tommy
knew a vacant lot where the
game was played in scientific
and strictly regulation man.
ner.
Willie pitched a pretty good
incurve and down shoot and
Tommy caught acceptably so
hey made a satisfactory bat
berry.
But here again we are wan
dering far afield.
One Saturday Willie came
out of his room In the Bruins
wick with a dollar and a
CONTINUED on Next Page. Col. 2)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
IN THE
NEWS

VYTHEN Willie had got
wv ten along a bit In
years 1t was thought
desirable to unite him from
his mothers apron strings.
So he was taken east to be
placed In school at st. Paul's,
Concord, New Hampshire.
This was--and is--a very
nice schOoI-much nicer than
Willie.
So Willie was thoroughly
unhappy there.
He had been raised to play
baseball on a vacant lot where
IL was accounted q home run
when the ball was knocked
out OF the lot across the
street and through some tidy
housewives shining glass win
dow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
TTOWEvER, one is get
III ting ahead Of ones self
In ones narrative.

Before going to Concord to
deposit Willie for a new high
polish to his education,
Willie's mama stopped In Bos-
ton, partly to see friends
there and partly to give
Willie a glimpse of Harvard
and show him where he might
wind up IL he did not mend
his ways-and he did not
mend his ways.
Willie's mother and he lived
at the Brunswick Hotel, an
excellent caravansary of the
conservative Boston type.
Most of the help at the
hotels In those good old days
was colored, and the elevator
was run at times by a little
darby boy luxuriating in the
patriotic appellation Of
Thomas jefferson jackson.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
yIrTERs INDICATED

The propaganda broadcasts from
Toxic increased confusion and
seemed to indicate mounting Japs
nese nervousness as a result OF the
reported bombing attacks. since
many of the radio statements were
illogical or contradictory.
The removal of Muto, however,
was regarded as rejecting dis
with the central home
conn., lsnd. presumably because of
the ..Iectiveness Of the raids as
described in Axis dispatches.
American and Allied sources
we're still silent. but enemy propa-
ganda broadcasts kept up a steady
and unco-ordinated stream of COM
ment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20

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The Nome nugget., 1942-04-06
Vanguard Of Highway Workers On Ground

Vanguard of 5000 U s. Army Engineers went to work recently pushing thru Canadian wilder ness on the first leg of l.509- mile overland route to Alaska. Route finally approved slants northwest from Edmonton, Alta, (north of Montana) 10 White horse, Y. T., thence across the Canadian border to join Alaska's Richardson Highway.
 Actual construction of the $50,- O00,000 project began at Dawson Creek, B. C., frontier outpost, northwest of Edmonton at the furthernost extension of rail and road communications.
 Favored by the U s. Army be cause 1t parallels their military air line, the prairie route" will pass several recently developed airports in Canada which were constructed 10 service American army planes,
 Aboard the first two special trains were 94 officers and men of the Quartermaster Corps. fol- lowed shortly by 300 U. s. Army Engineers. Carrying tents, trucks and food, the trains stopped in Edmonton only long enough to take on water for the cook cars. The personnel was transported in passenger coaches and freight cars carried multiple-wheeled trucks, bulldozers and other road construction equipment. Job of the first unit was to prepare hous ing units and build a rail head' camp. The engineers will bust through on the present winter road, which extends several mil es north of Fort St. John.
 By weeks end, more than 100 ciVilian-oWned trucks were being employed to freight equipment son, working day and night in a from Dawson Creek to Fort Nel- race against an early breakup of the Peace River, over which the freight laden trucks have been crossing.
 Meanwhile reports that hun dreds of civilian laborers were being sought in Edmonton and Calgary to assist the army in con struction of the highway were branded false by officials of the Dominion employment office.