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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Brown Justifies
@puIse Venture

CHICAGO. March 81 UNS).-
Cecil Brown. CHS radio common
tator who was on the Britis n
cruiser Repulse when IL and the
Prince of Wales were sunk by
japanese torpedo planes near
Singapore. said in Chicago today
II was a desperate chance TO ven
tuse out without air support. but
thai the gamble had to be taken. -
Asked il the late British Ad-
mifsl Tom Phillips. who went
down with his ship. was aware Of
the danger when he took the
chance. Brown said:
THE admiral is the only one
who could answer that and he
issat the bottom Of the sea"
He said that obviously wRrShipS
in such narrow waters as the
China Sea must have AIR protec-
ton, but that this did not mean
the day OF the battleship was over.
But % DOES mean" Ne said,
"that naval units must co-op-
crate with air units"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
River Rouge Athlete
AT Fl. Custer Center

FORT CUSTER. March 81
Bernard MusSill. Il Elm street.
River Rouge. who pitched his way
TO scholastic fame several years
ago for Our Lady 81 Lourdcs High
School with four no-hit games. is
in the Recruit Reception Center
awaiting assignment MuSsil was
also a star basketball and football
player at the Rouge school. He
later attended Bowling Green Uni
versity and then entered profess
SIGNAL baseball with Trenton, ~
J.. in the Interstate League.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Sound Film Library
.Up-to-Date at Custer

FORT CUSTER, March 81
The army has movie for IL.
Nearly every phase of training is
listed in the sound film library
at Fort Custer while thousands
more feet of film is now being
turned out in Hollywood and the
battlefieldS of the world To keep
soldiers posted on what soldiers of
other nations are doing.
The films listed here for person
mel include everything from how
10 purify water through explosives
and demolitionS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
ToUNGoO BATTLE

The New Delhi radio. quoting
American military reports" said
an investigation Of COOS
battlefield showed 30 per cent of
the casualties had been inflicted
with baypnets. This battle, il said,
was one Of the fiercest OF the Pa.
cifc war.
1t was reported that japanese
achievements were arriving by
sea, probably at Rangoon. while
reserves were being rushed TO the
front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Copper Country Reunion

FLINT. March 31.-Third an.
nual reunion of Copper Country
folk will be staged al the CoSno.
politan Club in Flint on Sunday
April 26, Russell Sobey OF l35 East
Dartmouth street. chairman Of the
affair, said today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Battle Creek TO Start
First Aid Classes

BATTLE CREEK. March al
Starting tomorrow night. first aid
classes for air raid wardenS and
fire watchers will be held three
nights a week at four local schools
in schedule designed TO prevent
persons from missing some OF the
first aid work,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Burmese
Aid New
Jap Drive
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crossed the Irrawaddy River a,
Fonnbo Sunday and blocked roads
in the Shwedaung area despite
fierce imperial counter.attaCks.
"An Indian frontier force at
tackled and inflicted heavy casu-
alties I'm the course OF heavy
fighting, but the enemy managed
10 maintain his road blocks" 1t
said.
The British were reported tC
have launched another thrust
yesterday 10 clear the roads, but
the communique said the success!
OF the action was undetermined.
British operations In this
AREA are hindercd by q lack of
air reconnaissance, and also ny
the fact that the local popula-
ton a. q whole appears actively
supporting the enemy" the COM
munique added.
Today's communique was the
first official disclosure that enemy
forces have advanced TO within 10
miles Of PRONE. key defense point
on the Allied Irrawaddy front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31

ala MI say NJ WHICH qucs
toned by the correspondents
about modifying the British
proposals for India"
He laughingly disclosed
that he had changed the draft
of the text somewhat. @
And although he did not go
into very elaborate detail, II is
very reassuring to know that
he modified land had the
authority to modify the pro-
pOsals which had earlier been
pronounced so extremely I'M
satisfactory, both by NOLAN
das h. Gandhi and by Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru, leader OF
the National Congress Party.
@RRPS very diplomatic
cally lodged the ques-
- tons of the CORE
spOndents with regard to his
discussions of the British pro-
posals with Gandhi, and de-
clared that he and Gandhi
talked about the weather,
Wardha (Gandhi's honey a.,
food. health-and some other
matters"
No particulars are pre-
scented of the "Other mat
ters,"
But what more definite an
swer can one expect from a
diplomat who is supposed to
oOnfine his public statements
to vague generalities?
The encouraging part Of
Grips statement to the press
was that he found his inter-
view with Gandhi extremely
helpful" and that he Eek
pected to see Gandhi again, "
and that he was entirely
satisfied" with his talks to
date with Indian leaders over
the British governments pro-
p0sals for eventual indie
Deudence of India.
Doubtless, Sir Stafford's
proposals can be made en-
tirely satisfactory if the indie
pendence promised is not too
eventual"
WET England's special
envOy-nO matter what
the power and au-
thority given him-has con-
siderable difficulties to solve.
India Is divided into fac
tons.
IL will be hard to reconcile
all the factions.
There are the Moslems,
who represent about one
fourth of the population, and
who demand the partition of
India into separate autone-
nous Hindu and Moslem
states.
There are the Hindu ex-
tremists who insist that the
MoslemS constitute ONLY
one fourth of the population
and must be dealt with rs a
minority party.
There are the GOO Indian
princes who prefer to see the
English in control rather
than the radical elements of
their own peOnle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Jewish Soldier FurIouahs

Soldiers of Jewish faith will be
granted three-day passes from
Fort Wayne so they may observe
the Passover holidays. April !
through 8, il was announced today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Brazil Cuts Gas 10 Pet.

RIO DE JANEIRO. March 81
GNS) Brazilian motorists will
face a 10 per cent reduction in
their gasoline allotments Begin
ing tomorrow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
THE most powerful fac
ton of all is the Indian
National COpPreS

NauOnh Z or < e y y
Party which claims not to be
a faction at all, but the only
truly national political organ
izatiOn free from selfish parti-
san discrimination.
To reconcile these various
conflicting elements might be
impossible from London, but
is well within the powers and
capabilities of the British
special envoy on the ground.
There were as great Obsta-
cles to be met in the harmon
izing of antagOnistic races
and factions in Canada in its
inception.
There were as great diff
culties i'm South Africa in
pacifying and satisfying the
Beers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
IN THE NEWS
CONTINUED from Page One)

These princes, meeting re-
Gently as an Indian House
of Lords" at New Delhi, ap-
plauded the English propOs-
ais to give India 1.-The fullest
freedom and high status
provided their own rights are
protected.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
boy! Do ] love hamburgesw
U.S.Bombed Out
q Jap Ships
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Indies campaigns. we lost only
too Sembers through piioting
errors such as take-offs and
landings"
Air Minister Drakeford said yes
terday that American and Aus
tralian air forces had sunk or Grip
pied since March 10 morc than lC
per cent of the total cruisei
strength with which Japan entered
the war.
During the ~ days we oper-
ated from Dutch Indies bases
we carried out some mission
every day but one" Colonel Eu-
bank said. I'VE often operated
day and night, with "a many as
six missions or more q day.
s SUNK. & HIT
"The last day before the with
drawal from Java, we new on 10
mtsxioas, sank Ave japanese
ahips and htt four others.
Our bomber crews worked
magnl1iceatly under the greatest
hardships- They even serviced
and hooded their bcmbers them
selves after long, exhausting
raids.
~Our fertrc~ses withsteod
storms az anti-aircraft and ma
chine gun Gre each day and
never faltered.
They always aew without
aghter eecorts because they were
ranging far into enemy territory.
They operated at extreme
high attitudes, around 10000
feet, which greatly fatigued
them.
I'VE lost three men who came
hack dead IN the planes without
q scratch On them."
TYPICAL QUESTION
Eubank described what he called
4 typical operation. II happened
March l, the final day in Java:
"Pilot Capt. Clarence +. Nc
Fherson Of Mccall. Ida, and
Bombardier Master Sgt. David
Sompie of Salt Lake City. both
now decorated. took their for
tress over two japanese ships.
They used the cloud coverage
TO remain over their target for
a long time and made several
exploratory runs until they had
lined wp the two ships.
Then, with one perfect run,
they straddled both ships. They
dropped one stick of bombs on
each ship and sank them both"
Eubank announced that his men
had been awarded II Distinguished
Service Crosses. p Distinguished
Flying Crosses. 81 Silver Stars and
q Purple Hearts since tho start
at the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
List $50 Women
For Arms Jobs
In Battle Creek
Short Training Period
VIII Find Them Ready
to Replace Men
Times star Correspondent

BATTLE CREEK. March 81
While local defense schools have
not Signified their immediate in
tention 10 train women for defense
jobs. there will be a pool of suffi-
Gent size here to replace a con-
siderable number of men when the
shortage of msnpower develops. a
survey of United States Employ
ment Service rolls showed today.
Anticipating the tim when
selective service seriously reduces
available workers. officials said
they have compiled a list of $50
women who would be available
after only a short training period,
In reserve are another 200 pro-
esSional and clerical-trained
women who could be put into fac
tory jobs.
$500 MEN IDLE
No immediate need OF this pool
is seen since nearly $500 men,
skilled or semiskilled in trades
needed, are available. They have
been made jobless by the change
over in plants or through the cur
tailment OF business because OF
rationing.
Some now are in training and
the office here said that il has
been able in the past TO furnish
men required and believes II will
be able to maintain this program,
Chief objection to the hiring Oh
women has been laws prohibiting
them working more than nine
hours a day, or 81 hours a week.
Most OF the defense plants here
are operating "a hours a day and
others are going overtime to rush
out orders.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Battle in Arctic
Still Raging on
Sea and in Air
4 More Ships Sunk
Near Murmansk,
Berlin Radio Says
By SIDNEY j. WILLIAMS
Inited Press stan Correspondent

LONDON, March 31.-The sea
and air battle for control of the
Allies, supply route 10 Russia con-
tinued today with the Germans
claiming the sinking OF four more
ships carrying war materials tc
the Soviet port of Murmansk.
The Berlin radio, describing q
battle that began Saturday, told OF
heavy bombing of the ice-fret
port of MurmanSk and a further
successful attack on an Allied
convoy off the Russian coast by
Nazi submarines, planes and de-
StroycrS.
Ia the southern BarentS Sea
according TO the NaZi radio, fouI
transports totaling 27,000 tons
were sunk and four others dam
aged badly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
BY FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY
United Press stan Correspondent

By FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY
United Press stan Correspondent
CANBERRA, Australia, March
I3l-American and Australia n
planes, opening new offensive on
the battered Japanese invasion
bases in New Guinea, scored direct
hits on hangers and runways OF
the Lac airdrome yesterday and
left great fires raging, Prime Min
lister John Curtin announced today.
Allied planes, believed to include
flying fortreSSes, succeeded in raid
ing the chief Japanese base in the
Australian defense rome despite
rains which had driver the Japa-
nese back from the Markham
Valley and the challenge of Japa-
neSe fighter craft
BACK ON HUON GULF
In their march into the Mark
ham Valley, the Japanese had
sought new air bases 10 dispense
their planes and evade just such
raids as that today, which had
smashed dozens of their best
lighters and bombers aground.
Now they were back on the
Huon Gulf.
Port MoreSby dispatches said
that the enemy now faced a rainy
season, just commencing. which
would extend through July and
keep the valley. only practicable
land route to the vital south coast,
under feet Of water.
WAITED TOO LONG
Experts believed that, if the
japanese had sought 10 march
overland through the valley TO
! Port Moreshyr they had waited too
long.
In their anaemic aerial activities
yesterday the japanese made
their eighth raid on Darwin and
their twenty-second raid on Port
Moresby.
Neither damage nor casualties
were reported from Darwin and
AZ Port Moresby anu-aircraft fire
drove Oft the single two-motored
bomber and the 80 fighter planes
which sought to protect il. The
bomber never got a chance 10 drop
its bombs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
UNDOUBTEDLY Eng

land with a man like
Grips viii be able to
achieve similar results i'm In
dia-if the envoy is not ham,
pered by INDIGESTION at home
and by insistence upon adj
h creme to the habitual
Churchill "tOo late and too
little" policy.
Sir Stafford vigorously
AYERS that he is not going to
stay in India indefinitely.
Indeed, there will be no
time for Sir Stafford to stay
in India indefinitely-nO OPP
portunity for the English or
for the factions of India to
postpone their decision indefi-
nitely.
The japanese armies are on
the borders of India and
their promise is for Indian
independence - not eventu-
ally, but now.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Jap Base
Bombed at
kOepang

CANBERRA, March 81 (UP).-
Australian airplanes attacked the
japanese base at Koepang, on
Dutch Timor, again today, destroy
ing probably six enemy planes on
the ground. All Australian planes
returned, a communique said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
CLAIMS MORE SINKINGS

A communique from Adolf Hit
ler's headquarters. broadcast by
the Berlin radio and evidently ne
ferring TO the same action, saiC
that U-boats "reattacked' the big
Allied convoy off Murmansk and
sank two transports totaling IL 00C
tons.
At the entrance 10 Kola Bay
the approach to inland Murmansk.
another transport was torpedoed
and presumably sunk" the com.
muniQue said. while fourth large
merchant ship was damaged in ar
air attack.
Luftwsffe planes, attempting Ia
wreck MurmanSk'S port inStalla.
tions and disrupt the flow Of Allied
arms and war supplies southwark
to tho Rcd armies, raided the har,
Dor last night, the German com
lmunique said. Extent of the
damage was not described.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Grips Unable
To Sway India,
Ready TO Leave
Gives Final Offer,
Says He viii Go Il
II Is Not Accepted
By MD RI SSELL
rutted Press staff Correspondent

LONDON. March 81 Sir stat.
ford Grips said today ne is pre-
pAred 10 leave India Immediately
unless the Nationalist Congress
accepts Great BatalnS final
wartime otter Of postwar dcmin-
ION status for India. the Exchange
Telegraph Agency reported.
British dispatches from New
Delhi told Of a dramatic fight un-
derway within the All-lndia Con-
gross between Mohandas K.
Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
over the British plans.
The Exchange Telegraph said
me Congress attitude had def
niteiy stiffened with both Gandhi
and Nehru opposing Britain's
offer.
A newspaper man was said to
have told Grips that there APP
pesred to be scant chance Of the
Congress accepting the proposal
which he brought here, whereupon
The British enVoy said:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31

Grips told correspondents
earlier that the offer was q final
one on which there could be no
dickering.
The position Of Nehru. left.
wing CONFESS leader.g seemed 10
be uncertain. Although tire TX.
change Telegraph said he was
standing with Gandhi in opposing
acceptance. earlier dispatches had
described him as leading a fight
for acceptance al meeting OF the
Congress working committee.
These earlier reports said that
OF Nehru's views prevailed he
might Join the British war cab
inct IN Jonden as midas repre-
sentative.
REPORT NEHRU YIELDS
Nehru was reported 10 have
swung TO acceptance. though he
does not like the offer as Il stands.
Dispatches asserted that he had
five members of the party execu-
tive group with him and that
seven were opposed.
The opposition faction was said
10 demand dominion status now
instead OF after the wer, and con-
troll OF India's defense.
Indian quarters here believed
Gandhi was opposed TO the British
plan partly. because ii would take
India INTO active participation in
the war IN conflict with his strong
philosophy OF non-violence.
Evening star., 1942-05-24

His wife said oh for heavens sake
she never saw such a man. She got
up, and MIR. Frisbie said no-no-no.
don't turn on the light. but she did
anyway and said if he was going to
sit in an armchair she was gong to
get him blanket to wrap up in.
He said she was wasting her time.
he would never 60 to sleep now that
she had turned the light on and got
him all wide awake again. MIR.
Frisbie lay down ON the bed and said
for all the cooperation he got he
might as we'll count sheep. He said
one sheep two sheep three sheep four
sheep. and when his wife came back
with the blanket she just covered
him up. because he had gone sound
asleep with the light shining right
smack in his face.
Se0IT coRBEIT
Evening star., 1942-05-24

= RR FRIsBIE hit the hay and it
M hit him right back again. so
8V8 he got to thinking about an
article he had read telling how to
cure insomnia.
1t said don't just lie there and
count sheep. because counting sheep
was the worst thing you could do.
1t said get up and make the bed
fresh. take a warm bath, or have a
quiet smoke.
Mr.. Frisbie got up. Mrs. Frisbie
was sleeping soundly, as was her
habit during his spells of insomnia.
but after a moment she stirred
enough to ask what was he doing?
He said making his bed.
She said don't bother. Lulu would
do it in the morning. and drifted
back off to sleep.
MIR. Frisbie got the bed made fresh
and got back in it. pretending to
himself that the smoothed-out sheets
looked inviting. But nobody was
fooled. He didn't 60 to sleep.
He decided to shoot the works
with q warm bath. He began to
get drowsy in the tub, and he
thought oh boy. So he got out
and toweled himself, and by that
time he was wide awake again.
Muttering unprintables under his
breath, he went into the living room
and sat down to have a smoke.
He had a smoke and got drowsy.
Then he got up and tiptoed along
with his eyes shut and didn't turn
any lights on, so as not to wake
himself up.
He woke up anyway.
He decided the whole trouble was
that it was too far from the chaii
to the bed, and the only thing to do
was to reduce the distance.
So he went back upstairs deter
Evening star., 1942-05-24

mined to move the bedroom arm
chair over right beside his bed and
have another smoke. ready to jump
in bed the instant he got drowsy.
Mrs. Frisbie opened one eye as he
tiptoed across the room. and said
what was he doing - taking an arm
chair to bed with him?
Mr.. Frisbie snarled and said no
he wasn't taking an armchair to
bed with him. She said this was
q heck of an hour to he moving
furniture. She said If he didn't
like the arrangement of the room,
why didn't he say SO in broad
daylight? She said what was he
trying to do, spare her feelings?
He said listen, he was fighting
insomnia. and if she didn't like it
she could 60 back where she came
from. which was to sleep.
Evening star., 1942-05-24

Save precious clothes! Let
Oxydol get them slorioosly
white just by its rich, safe
washingactioninyourwash. sh.
ing machine. So white, you
don't need harsh bleaching!
Evening star., 1942-05-24
SAVE CLONES IN WARTIME TINS NEW oxyD0l v

No hard rubbing to make
things wear out sooner. Ex-
cept for stains OF unusual
pieces, your wash comes
sparkling white with no
hard rubbing, no bleaching!
Evening star., 1942-05-24

HARDER WORKING YET MllDER ON
HANDS! SAFE FOR COL ORS AND RAY0NS!
Can you get your wa sh still whittier than
you do now? Why not try the New
OXYDOL and see your clothes come
Wbite WitboSf bleaching - radiant - fairly
sparkling on the line.
IT'S the modern wash with the New
Oxydol. You see, Oxydols new kind of
Hustle Bubble" suds are much harder
working. Much longer lasting. Much
richer in washing power. Every ounce of
New Oxydol is packed d with more power
to get clothes wbite vitbaSt bleaching.
Yet II Is milder on hands than before!
Yes, and so safe for washable colors!
Safe even for lovely washable rayons!
Goes much farther Just notice how
much farther New OxYDOL goes. Every
cupful washes more clothes or dishes.
That means it saves real money, too-be-
sides giving you glorious wash sObife
uitboxf bIeacbfaR!
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-09
War Needs Money

The Ypsilanti Daily Press is glad
TO cooperate with the Treasury De
partment in keeping the following
message before our readers:
II will cost money to defeat
Japan. Your government calls
on you TO help now.
Buy defense bonds or stamps
today. Buy them every day. II
you can. But buy them on a
regular basis.
Bonds cost as little as s1s75
Stamps come as low as 10 cents.
Defense bonds and stamps can
be bought at all banks and
post office and stamps can
also be purchased at retail
stores and from your newspaper
carrier boy.
The Ypsilsnti Daily Press urges
ell Americans 70 support your gov
eminent with your dollars.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-09
Fifty Years Ago
HAS HOUSING PLAN

Lansing. Mich. Jan. 9-lNS-In
an effort TO relieve the defense
housing situation. Aud Gen Yer.
non J. Brown, chairman OF the
tate land board has placed be-
fore Gov. Murray d. Van Wagner
a plan whereby some 10000 tax de.
iinquent building lots could be
turned into a project to house de-
Tense workers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-09

eoucauon IN MS youth. and taught
drawing once in a school in Reval.
More recently he has been an editor
of the Volkischer Beobachter,
which he founded He's seen little
military service, but doesn't profess
soldierly experience to speak Of
Essentially he describes himself as
what we'd call brain truster"
here in the United States.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-09
REIMBURSEMENT UPHELD

Lansing Mich. Jan. g. ms -
Constitutionality Of the 1885 prison
reimbursement act. allowing the
state 10 recover the cost Of up
keep Of any prison inmate with
funds. Is upheld by the supreme
court.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-09

Hitter OTlSllidl-
~ was born IN
der in Austria.
And yet, though
OF C ours e {
sounds paradox
zeal, there are
observers Of the
itu alton in
Germany W n o
think that may
be the doc will
do the world a
ia v or in I h c
long run - by
influencing the
n q LII aicfafnr
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-09
Willis Methodist

Willis Methodist
Rev Caldwell Prout. pastor.
1890 a. NJ Sunday School
Ray Smalley, Sunday School sup.
erintendent.
IL Preaching.
Washtenaw County Brotherhood
will meet at Willis Church.
Woman's Society OF Christian
Service meets second Wednesday
of each month. Mrs. Hazel Garrod.
president. Study group meets on
fourth Wednesday. Mrs. Ruta
Smalley in charge.
Boy Scout troop 43 meets Satur.
day afternoons at p. m at church
annex. Rev. Hoffman scoutmaster.