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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11
India Deal Off
Cripps Admits
Farley S Failure
Pledges British Defense
OF Nation as Jap
Army Near, Border

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every field of activity in defending
their soil"
Grips said that now the posi-
ton reverted approximately tc
that which obtained before hi
came to India. but he added. in ar
implied hope for cooperation
Though perhaps not quite the
Same position"
although we may for the
moment agree 10 differ, there In
no bitterness or rancOur In our
disagreement" he said
He said that Indians could still
help in the general war effort and
added:
I'VE have failed. Never mind
whose fault II Is. Let me take
all the blame II that will help
In arousing India to her own
defense.
Sometimes In the heat and
excitement Of argument we are
agreement. There Is n large and
important area of agreement a.
10 the future freedom Of India.
do not propose To go into
the many arguments that have
been made for or against the
scheme (the British offer). 1
shall he leaving New Delhi on
my return Journey tomorrow
morning. The discussions are
over. They will slip back into
history and will leave their In
Observation-Disclosures for Freedom.
'Tpdia Is threatened and all
who love India as I do must
bend their energies TO the i'm
mediate task"
Britons chung 10 the hope that
despite the rupture. Nationalist
leaders, spurred by the japanese
menace, would do all they could TO
intensity midas war effort and
await a new opportunity to nego-
tate the details of the dominion
status that Britain is prepared to
grant.
On London British informants
asserted that the Nationalist
were unwilling to accept Brit
aims original offer of dominion
status, and used the defense
problem merely as an obstacle
over which TO trip negotiationsD
Indian leaders said negotiations
failed just when it seemed certain
an agreement had been reached or
basic principles.
Last night President Maulana
Azad of the All-India Congress
handed Grips a statement. agreed
on unanimously by the working
The statement rejected
the British formula. intended to
divide defense authority between
Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell. COM
nander in chief, and an Indian TO
be named defense minister in the
council
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IN THE NEWS
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pied, but that our brave little army
and their gallant allies continue to
resist the japanese In various Sec
tors OF the y. r. l., principally in
Java and Sumatrs, very much In
the same manner a. American and
Filipino troops are doing in the
Philippine Islands.
DR.. II. van Nook, lieutenant gov
ernor general OF the Netherlands
East Indies, now or lately in Aus.
tralia, TO direct further Dutch re-
sistance against the Jsps, has very
recently been In touch with COM
manders of Dutch troops In SUI
matra and Java and was informed
that active guerilla warfare con-
tinues In the mountainous regions
of these islands.
When the powerful radio station
Bandoeng (Java) went off the air,
Java and the y. r. l. practically
disappeared from the news and the
Japs had IL all their own way.
Nearly three weeks ago Toxic
broadcast that all resistance In the
y. r. I. had ceased, yet the next
day the same station claimed the
occupation OF q Dutch sirdrome In
sumatra and the capture Of It's
garrison, while casually mention
ing their continued fighting against
United Nations troops In Java.
Like most habituaI liars Toxic
forgot their previous stories.
Since December eth, 194I de
cember 9Th in the ORIENT II Is esti-
mated that Dutch forces, navy, air
and army, have accounted for nj
least $4,000 Japs. most Of them
drowned. OF which 1000 the first
day after Pearl Harbor,
This number Of Jap casualties Il
only exceeded by those inflicted
on them by the Chinese In five
years Of fighting.
Indeed the Netherlands has n
large share in the eventual inevi.
table defeat Of the Japs and has
earned its right 10 sit at the coun.
icil tables 81 the United Nation,
with an unblemished record OF
achievements.
Not only IL the army still fight.
ing in the y. 4. L.. but I would not
be at all surprised II we would
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11
Raj Renews
Daylight Raids

NDON, April II (UP).-
Waves of British planes pounded
the French invasion coast again
today following a major night raid
in which the Royal Air Force
dropped hundreds OF tons of bombs
on industrial detectives in the Ger
man Ruhr, attacked docks AT IL
Havre and laid mines in German
waters.
The air ministry admitted that
ID planes were missing.
The mines we're laid of German
North Sea naval bases in an a.
tempt 70 prevent break Of
enemy feet units for the Nor
wegian coast. on the supply line
for war materials 10 Russian
Arctic ports.
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Jap Airdrome
In Timor Blasted

MELBOURNE. Australia. April
IL INS).-Airdrome buildings at
the Japanese base of Kupang,
Dutch Timor, were blasted and
set afire in a raid yesterday by
United Nations aircraft. a Roya.
Australian Air Force communicate
reported today.
Braving intense anti-aircraft
fire, the filters dropped down 10
l,500 feet 10 release their bombs
on the airdrome, the communique
said. All the raiding planes re-
turned safely 10 their base.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11
Wage Boosts End
Miner Hotel Strike

Settlement Of the Miner Ho.
tel chain strike, that tied ND the
service Of IL small hostelries here.
was announced today by Thomas
l.. Donahue, state labor board
mediator.
Involving three ALL locals, the
walkout started Wednesday In a
dispute over wages and working
conditions. Increases of S3.15 a
week for maids and $3.50 a week
for all other employees were part
of the one-year contract.
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STORES DESTROYED

Last night and all day today I
watched the arrivals from Bataan,
and listened to the stories they
brought with them.
They told me Of the tragic
grandeur of the destruction of the
Ipitifuily small last stores of Ba-
taan's ammunition and other sup
lplies during the night, while the
men up front fought ceaselessly to
hold back the ferocious charges Of
the enemy.
American army men on Bataan
carried out the scorched earth pol
icy TO the ultimate, bitter end.
NURSES BROUGHT OUT
The one bright spot on this
tragic day Is that most of the
lWomen nurses were brought here,
along with the doctors and male
hospital attendants.
To, the last, until they were
ordered out, the men and the
women had remained under fire at
the field hospitals. caring for the
wounded and the seriously ill, ex-
pecting that at any moment the
enemy would break through to
them.
Most Of the nurses, led by chief
nurse First Lieut.. Josephine Mes
git Of Kansas City, Mo-. crossed
the bay to Corregidor late this
morning, aboard a small craft
which survived savage dive-bomb-
ing attacks.
On the way. the boat picked up
three civilian nurses whom a
young artillery captain was row.
ing to Corregidor.
Bataan yielded to superior force
and numbers. Not even now is
all the story known of heroism
and endurance of the men, Fill
pinos and Americans, who fought
so stoutly in jungle Businesses and
along the rugged coast.
They stood up without complaint
under constant furious fire for
more than three months.
They had faith that was un.
conquerable and they were con-
quered physically only when they
could not stand up to fight any
more.
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'JdpsRdin Bombs
On Burma Cities
AndA||iedB
J Enemy Planes Downed
by Yenks and Raj in
Battle Over AirfeId

NEW DELHI. India. April II
(UP).-Japanese planes, heavily
reinforced, are bombing almost .,
Will over Burma and have met
their only reverse in a fierce dos
fight in which American and
British pilots shet down seven
enemy fighters at least, a Burma
command conlnunique revealed
today.
The seven planes were shot
down by American and Royal Ar
Force planes, the communique
said, when the japanese attacked
a northern Burma air field and
were -ifterceptpi--
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AVG DOWNS SEVEN

a United Press dispatch from
q base of the American Volun-
teer Group said that the AVG
shot down seven Japanese planes
for certain and four more
probably
japanese planes we're bombing
front lines, near bases and Burma
cities.
British forces were believed
forming their new lines between
Prone and the oil fields TO the
north. The connmunique said that
there had been no contact, on
that western part OF the front
along the Irrawaddy River, since
three japanese motor vehicles
were engaged by Light empire
reconnsiSN--N-> t1onps Wednesday
north or rroTne.
On the eastern side Of the front
japanese artillery bornbarded the
Chinese lines yesterday.
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down on them in droves and the
heavy bombers pulverizing their
rear.
Second. the Japanese brought
In an abundance of long-range
artillery which laid down end
lessly long and unbelievably
heavy barrages.
Third. fresh troops. only re-
Gently brought to the Philip
pines, were thrown against the
Americans and Filipinos at key
points, with the attack concen-
trated on the center of the line.
Fourth, tanks were used in
mass TO dislodge our dug-in
forces from their foxholes.
Fifth malaria and malnutri-
ton put more soldiers out OF
action than Japanese bullets
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TIP OF PENINSULA

4
TIP OF PENINSULA
! 1t is the last town on the PENN
sula, at its very tip.
Navy boats throughout the day
have been picking up from the bay
the dauntless men. who, 10 con-
tinue the fight, came swimming
out to this fortress.
The armys radio, THE Voice of
Freedom" announced the end in
these words:
"Bataan has fallen. The Fill
pinO and American troops on
this war-ravaged, bloOd-stained-
peninsula have laid down their
arms. With their heads bloody
but unbowed."
The foe -ip-this- final attack
made sure that it would receive
no more of the humiliating defeats
such as had seen overwhelmingly
superior numbers thrown back and
had caused the suicide of one COM
|manding general.
ATTACK WITHOUT MERCY
The attack was without mercy.
Only two days ago, in pulveriz-
ing raids. the japanese dumped
three sticks of bombs in a Bataan
field hospital area. II was esti-
mated that in all AZ persons we're
killed and 81 seriously wounded in
the hospital. Many more patients
were slightly wounded.
Army men said the hospital was
in clearing in a densely wooded
area and it was plainly marked
by large cross a few hundred
feet from where the bombs landed.
BLOWN TO BITS
It was difficult TO fix casualties
because many patients hobbled
into the hills during the panic
which the bombing caused, and
others were blown to bits.
Doctors pushed two injured
nurses into foxholes, where they
remained for hours without medi-
cal attendance. The other nurses
were taking care of more seriously
wounded patients.
The bombing was described to
me by witnesses.
Human bodies, mattresses and
Ipillows in the wards, along with
the three-decked beds, were blown
high into the air.
It seems incredible to me, as
write now, that five miles away
from me American army officers
are advancing with a white flag
to discuss surrender terms with
the Japanese generals.
WHY ARMY CRUMBLED
But I know why. The Bataan
army crumbled like the one-horse
shay.
First, the Americans and Fill
pinos had fought for Is long
days and nights without a pause,
with the dive bombers shrieking
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Raj OVER FRANCE

LONDON. April II 1NS).-A
large force of Raj fighters swept
over northern France yesterday
evening, raking several detectives
and shooting down six German
fighters in combats. The British
lost five fighters.
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Pacific In which Dutch subma rines
and destroyers are participating.
You know, Mr.. Hearst, the
Dutch are a stubborn lot.
They have always been ready to
fight for their freedom and for
democratic principles; they are
now and ever will be.
Sincerely yours,
DIR. ADRIAN HARToG
Consul OF the Netherlands
for Southern California and
Arizona.
Carlsbad, Calf, March 81, 1912.
William Randolph Hearst,
San Simeon,
California.
MY Dear Mr.. Hearst:
"HE ruckus raised In our ma
tons capital this week over
the discovery that Vice.
President Wallace had employed
big time nudist colony advocates
In the set-up which Is TO rescue MS
all In the sfter-war depression, Is
filling many a breast with a secret
joy, N the truth were really known.
II Is at least reassuring TO learn
that the administration Is showing
such foresight In regard TO our fu-
ture welfare. When we are through
giving everything on earth we have
to save foreign countries, there
will he any number Of us stripped
to the bone With no place 10 20
but To a nudist colony.
Yours In anticipation.
LUCY l.. GROW
r. q. Box q
Carlsbad. Calf
2436 Durant Ave.
Berkeley. Calf
April 8, 1912
William Randolph Hearst
McCloud, California.
Dear Sir;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11

but IL has now broken through
and nothing can stop It.
1t Is up to the rest of the world
to see that this great economic.
political and social revolution takes
place without disrupting the
world.
The maintenance Of interna tional
law and order II the most impor-
tant task In the world today.
To man who has seen much Of
the world and IL acquainted with
Its troubles, your editorials are OF
the greatest interest.
Sincerely.
w. F. FARRELL
5548 Lakewood Ave-,
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, March 80, 1912.
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst
San Simeon. California.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
TN 1918 Mr.. Stoddard, an Eng
lishman. wrote a hook entitled,
THE Rising Tide Of Color"
In this book he brought forth
what Japan was doing. and has
continued to do all these many
years.
In other words the results of
their work Is showing Itself now In
the islands OF the Pacific.
Thirty years ago I moved from
Chicago to southern Oregon.
I was there about two months
when 1 learned that there was q
japanese question.
I was there six months when a
brother-in-law just returning from
Hawaii after q three year term at
Scofield Barracks stayed with us
for two weeks.
During his stay we discussed the
japanese question In Hawaii.
He was Of the opinion that In
case Of war all Of the Japs In
Hawaii could be rounded up In
about two hours time.
He however stated that he be-
lieved this country was very lax in
permitting the Jap to COLOMBO in
Hawaii, that Is to say, the inter.
of the Japanese men and
women with the Hawaiian race.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11
Chicago Cerfare Boosted

CHICAGO. April II QNS).-
Street car riders in Chicago will
start paying s cents fare-a penny
more-effective April 20.
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Ends 1st National
Re(eivership
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receive tn cents. This would be
final settlement.
The depositors. however do not
have to accept the payoff. Instead,
they may elect 10 continue in fur
Their liquidation OF the banks as
sets by the private group in the
hope OF getting a higher rate OF
interest
The announcement Of the agree
ment, which leads 10 the closing
of the largest bank recelvership in
the history Of the country, was
made in a joint statement by Sen.
ator Prentiss Brown and Preston
Delano, controller OF the currency.
The agreement must still be APP
proved by the federal court here.
ASSETS TO BE BOUGHT
The Detroit group. which pre-
sumably will pay approximately
$50, 100000 for the assets, in
headed by J. b. Schlotman of the
+. l.. Ford Company. It's members
include Clifford B. Longley, attor-
ney. and Thomas Zurschmiede.
liquidator for the Guardian DEPOSIT
tors Corporation.
1t is understood that the money
to purchase the assets will be bor-
rowed from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
The assets to be purchased in
clude 1000 parcels of improved
real estate, 5000 rent contracts OF
sale and many hundred notes and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-11

Sub Toll
~ Dead,
Missing
ny United Press

Forty-seven men were dead or
today in the newest sub
marine attacks off the American
Atlantic coast 10 be announced
by the navy. but only one Of the
three vessels shelled or torpedosd
was sunk -
Thirty survivors arrived at IN
eastern Canadian port and re-
vealed the torpedoing and sinking
OF a fourth Allied vessel yester-
day. A boatload of seamen was
THREE NEW ATTACKS
The three attacks revealed by
the navy last night and yesterday
were:
sThe Smelling OF medium
sized United Nations merchant
man. Two were known dead:
seven we're missing; 25, includ-
ing four wounded, were saved.
The Fifth Naval District an
nounced in Norfolk, Va, that the
crew, after abandoning the ship.
returned when the Smelling stop
ped and brought the vessel into
an east coast port. The attack
occurred April 2.
v-Aa tA,val4,H- ~HI g,,,L;~~ ~
small American freighter off
the Atlantic coast early April 3.
Thirty-seven of the 53 crew
members and passengers aboard
were missing. Sixteen survivors
were rescued by naval patrol
boat after they had been in life
boats five days, and brought TO
Cape May. N. J.
LIMPS To PORT
The torpedoing Of a medium
sized American merchant ship
early Monday. Matthew Hehnen,
29, seaman OF Philadelphia,
was missing, but the arrival of
two American warships put the
submarine 10 flight, and the
tanker, gaping hole in her
side, was limping toward an
American port.
Including the sinking revealed
al the eastern Canadian port, a.
east 12l Allied vessels have been
sent 10 the bottom from Canada
10 the Caribbean since mid-Janu-
ary and the dead and missing
total some 1924.
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.Yanks on Cebu
Battle 1900
Jap Invaders
Philippine Isle Blasted
by Ships and Planes;
Report 3 Cities Bombed

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the small American and Philip
pine force, the enemy was able
TO effect . landing on the island
of Cebu on April TO-" the COM
munique stated.
"The japanese force now de-
barking on that island II esti-
mated ut 1900. The landing
II being supported by dive bomb
ers and a heavy Are from hostile
naval vessels. Tank units have
been landed by the Japanese"
THE Domei-official Japa-
nese-news agency reported by
wireless that landings on Cebu
Island had been carried out at
three points, identified as the
towns Of Cebu, Barili and Argao.
The Domei report asserted that
fighting ragged in the streets and
that the defenders. carrying out
a scorched earth policy. had set
fire to ships. oil tankers and
other installations)
1t was evident that the landing
force was the invasion armada of
five warships and 10 transports
which Wainwright reported of
Cebu yesterday.
SANK JAP CRUISER
At that time, he advised the war
department that one of the feet
Of American torpedo beats de-
Tending the island had sunk q
Japanese cruiser.
Later the navy stated that one
Of its submarines had sunk a large,
heavily armed enemy ship in The
Celebes Sea in the southwest Pa
cific. The ship was believed 10
have been an auxiliary cruiser or
a large tender.
Meanwhile, the garrisons on
Corregidor and Fort Hughes. boil
stored by nearly $500 marines and
bluejackets who escaped from Ba-
taan, fiercely resisted the renewed
enemy onslaughts.
"Corregidor and Fort Hughes
In Manila Bay were sub jected to
intensive air attacks during the
past "a hours" the communique
said.
FEW CASUALTIES
However, our casualties were
few and the damage inflicted
was slight"
The artillery cross fire came
from Nipponese batteries on Ba-
taan, north of Corregtdor. and
rom the south shore of Manila
Bay.
Wainwright also reported that
lie still has been unable to COM
nunicate with any Of the $500
American-Filipino troops who
we're trapped on Bataan when the
oeninsula's defenses we're over
whelmed by the superior enemy
orces.
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T IKE many others, I have al
II ways been = Hearst fan"
and an admirer of your poll
cies. Since was born In San
Francisco In 1915 and have lived
In this state most Of my life, I was
practically "nursed" on the edi-
torials In the Hearst papers. Al
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DSR 10 Recommend
Staggered Work Plan

The DSR Commission will soon
recommend the adoption here OF
the Pontiac Plan" Of staggered
factory shifts and store hours 10
/ conserve tires. autos and xssoline,
Fred A. Nolan. DSR general man
ager, said today.
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Today after thirty years W,
wonder what to do with $4,000 Of
more Japs.
Yours sincerely.
FRED l.. WENDT
National Federal ton Post OF.
flee Clerks, Affiliated with
the American Federation OF
Labor. Local sixty-four-
Los Angeles, Calf.
Box 1888 Terminal Annex
March 10, 1912
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
San Simeon, California.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
HUNDRED FIFTY
years ago Shakespeare
wrote: The evil that men
do lives after them, the good Is
oft inferred with their bones" Thi,
may have been true $50 years ago,
but not In this day and age.
The Corcorsn Art Gallery, the
Huntington Library. the Smith
sonian Institution. etc, are mute
testimony of the good that men
leave behind them that IL remem-
bered by posterity. And so II Is
with the good deeds Of all men.
For instance, your editorial in
the Los Angeles Examiner Of Feb.
18th urging the passage Of HR
1886, that thousands OF postal en-
ployees throughout the nation are
hoping and praying for.
Yes, Mr.. Hearst, that good deed
has indeed cheered the hearts and
souls Of over 1000 employees In
the Los Angeles office alone. At
last we have found q champion to
sponsor our cause. We hope to gain
this support from you In all your
publications throughout the coun-
try.
Today my committee called on
your managing editor. Mr.. Van
Ettisch and formally thanked him
Tor this splendid editorial.
The 1000 employees in the Los
Angeles office are indeed grateful
md wish to sincerely thank you
Tor this support
Sincerely,
4 NOE PERELMAN
- A
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Botoon's Last Stand
Told by Eyewitness
Food Bullets Gone as Disease
Ravaoed Ranks of Defenders
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sonnet and equipment from Mari
veles, where the last bitter stand
of the broken army was made.
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WHY ARMY CRUMBLED

But I know why. The Bataan
army crumbled like the one-horse
shay.
First, the Americans and Fill
pinos had fought for Is long
days and nights without pause,
with the dive hnn1hers shriekinp
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FEW CASUALTIES

However, our casualties were
few and the damage inflicted
was sIipht.o
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Today after thirty years we
wonder what to do with $4,000 or
more Jsps.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Form Vacations

without a doubt there will be
considerable number of city people
who follow the advice of L. NJ. Walker,
jr.. Virginia commissioner Of agri-
culture, and spend all or part Of their
vacations this year helping their
farmer friends. Vacations will be
quite a problem to many this sum-
mer because Of tire and gasoline
shortages Certainly the scarcity Of
labor is a continuing and vexing
problem to the Nations farmers. For
the city dwellers to give the farmers
a lift would prove beneficial to both
in many cases,
Mr.. walker says that city workers
could be Of great service at some
peak season on the farms-digging
potatoes on the Eastern Shore in
June, making hay in Southwest Vir-
ginia in August or picking apples in
the Winchester area later in the
season. The idea was quickly in
dorsed by Dr.. I. c. Riggin, Virginia
health commissioner, who declared
such a vacation would be particularly
beneficial for ofice workers. The
mental change Of pace" result