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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-13
British Study
New Bid 10 India

NEW DELHI, India. April IL
-QlP4-GPcat Britain may make a
new declaration of Indian policy
soon in the hope OF getting India
fully aroused to the Japanese in
vasion menace despite the failure
of dominion status negotiations
political quarters reported today.
Indian nationalist leaders, led by
Jawaharlal Nehru, have already
pledged themselves TO fight any
Japanese attack despite the rup-
ture of negotiations which sent
Sir Stafford Grips, British war
cabinet envoy, back toward Lon.
don Yesterday.
(INS quoted reports in Wash
ington that President Roosevelt
may issue an appeal 10 the
people of India to support the
United Nations war effort1
british d spa c h es from
Chungking declared that "enor-
nous" quantities of first class
United Nations planes are pour
ing into India. ms also re-
ported
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-13
I Crashes Kill
a Navy Filters

SAN FRANCISCO, April Is
GNS). - Fourteen navy aHmen
were killed and q fifteenth was
seriously injured when Two navy
PBYt5-A patrol bOmberS crashed
in flames IN the LVermorc Hin,
east of the Alameda naval ar
station on San Francisco Bay. "a
navy statement announced TO-DAY.
Seven men died Iu each plane
the navy said The eighth oCcu.
pant OF one bomber a macniniSr e
mate, first class, was ihc only Sui-
yivoF- lie -was-foand brv1ur TIT
burning wreckage.
Although the bonberS we're bc-
iieved 10 have collided in mld5r
before they crashed. the navy said
this report could not bc confirmed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-13
BigCOnvOy
Reaches
MuFIllaIlSk

STOCKHOLM. April IL (INS).
Another large convoy OF Ameri-
can. British and Dutch ships has
arrived safely AT Murmansk. the
Moscow radio reported today. ac-
cording 10 the newspaper Dagens
Nyhetcr.
LONDON. April IL (lNS).-A
huge convoy bearing American.
British and Canadian tanks and
combat planes TO Russia is fight
ing its way toward the Arctic sea-
port OF Murmansk. il was re-
ported today in advices TO London
from Stockholm.
The convoy. according 10 one dis
patch, lis being escorted by a
stronger naval force than ever be-
fore"
No German surface raiders
were reported taking part in the
action, but a squadron of long
range German bombcrs from Nor
wegian bases made at least one
air attack on the convoy. il was
rcpoEted--The-BeE radio in a
broadcast heard in London, said
two frcighterS had been set afire
and a third damaged.
A big Russia-bound convoy
fought its way through German
warShip and bomber opposition to
Mtrmansk fortnight ago, with
Soviet and British naval forces
taking combined action for the
first time.
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IS FIGHTERS LOST

Germany apparently sent w
every fighter plane within range
10 stop the attack in force
As the bombers dropped their
bombs squarely on their targets.
the fighter planes claShed in
scores of individual fights The
British fighters. seeking 10 pro-
tect their bombers. were at a
disadvantage and it was admitted
that l3 British fighters were lost.
Only one bomber was downed de-
spite the ferocity OF the German
attack.
The Germans lost four planes
destroyed and many damaged A
Polish pilot shot down a German
Focke-Wulff-l90, Czech pilot
aided in shooting down a Messer-
Schmitt-l09 and two German
planes collidcd Two OF the 13
downed British fighter pilots were
known 10 be safe.
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NEAR OIL FIELDS

Tungdwingyi, almost midway be.
tween the Irrawaddy and Sitting
rivers. is the northwest point OF
Japanese advance officially &C.
knowledged by the British COM
mand.
The threatened town is 40 miles
east and slightly south OF Wagwe
gateway 10 the Western Burma
oilfelds, and SO miles west and
slightly north of Pyinmana, inn
portant rail center on the Sittang
River front 60 miles above Toun-
goo.
Another japanese column. the
communique said. was reported
advancing up the main road 10
the ell fields from Sinbaungwe, on
the east bank of the Irrawaddy,
35 miles below Magwe. 1t re-
ported that British troops were
attacking two other enemy con-
centrations were of Taungdwingi.
Chinese military quarters mean
while predicted that drastic meas
ures TO reinforce the Allied de-
Tense forces would result from
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek's
week-long inspection tour of the
Burma front.
A Chinese communicate revealed
that AVG pilots shot down 18 of
"a japanese navy Zero planes
which attacked a Northern Burma
airport Thursday and Friday. The
Americans suffered no losses.
Despite local Allied aerial sue
ccsses. the Japanese retained COM
mand OF the Burma sky as a
whole.
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laps Cut Wedge
Between British
Forces in Burma
AVG and RAE
Ready for Aerial
Battle, Chinese Say
BY ROBERT r. MARTIN
United Press staff Correspondent

CIUNGKING, China, April IA.
Powerful Japanese land forces
are driving new wedge into Brit
ish positions between the IRA
waddy and Sittang rivers in a
move designed 10 crack the center
OF Allied defense lines in Central
Burma. il was revealed today.
Countering reports of the new
Japanese advance on the western
flank was declaration by Chinese
military leaders that American
volunteer pilots and the Royal Ali
Free now are ready for an all
out" battle to regain aerial com
mand of the Burma front despite
their numerical inferiority.
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Endless Waves
Of Jap Bo[,nnbers
B|dstCorregidor
Reided II Times in Day,
Forts AntirAireraft
Guns Keep Planes High
BY JOSEPH A. BORIS
Intr News service STAFF Corresponds

INT news SffNfre STAN Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 10
Corregidors anti aircraft guns
numbered defiantly today at high
flying Japanese bombers sweeping
in almost endless waves over the
last major American island of re-
sistance in the Philippine area as
the Pacific conflict moved into the
ninteenth week.
The war departments latest
communique disclosed that the
powerful fortress off the tip of
fallen Bataan had been raided u
times within "a hours, bringing TO
nearly $50 the number OF -air-a$-
'saults on the stronghold since the
outbreak OF war.
PLANES KEPT HIGH
"The attacks were concen-
trated on the center of the
island, -eommuniquc- said
"Our anti-aircraft Are kept the
bombers at a high altitude. As
n result. the damage inflicted ny
tnt NnttuN NdH Ahu WHY
few casualties were sustained
by our troops"
Supplementing the aerial at
tacks. enemy batteries on Bataan
and the Cavite shore subjected
Corrcgidor and the three other
Manila Bay forts TO heavy Cross
fire in an effort 10 knock out de-
Tending guns that have kept the
invaders from moving in or out of
the harbor.
No mention was made In the
lcommuniquc about progress OF
tJapan's large-scale invasion OF
Cebu Island. $50 miles southeast
of Manila. but the 'outnumbered
American-Filipino forces there still
were believed TO be resisting the
enemy force Of 10000 which landed
several days ago.
FATE OF $4,000
There has been no official word
from the $500 American-Fi Filipino
troops on Bataan since Lieut. Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwright reported
that fighting had ceased following
collapse Of the peninsula's defcnSes
last Thursday.
Except for a five-day hull during
the final phase of the battle of
Bataan. Corregidor has been
bombed daily since March "a,
when 81 enemy bombers OF a new
type swept over the fortress.
During this period, Corregidor's
anti-aircraft batteries have made
the japanese pay dearly for their
raids, shooting down at least Is
huge bombers. This number is in
addition to II enemy planes shot
down previously.
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DEVASTATING RAID

II was one of the most deva-
stating raids of the Pacific war.
The enemy had no time 10 get
their fighters into the air. Their
aircraft were knocked out like
ducks on a pond.
/ got the story from John Lewis
of Mount Vernon, Wash, who was
navigator of Lieutenant Jolly's
fortress. Frank CortS of Albany,
N,-Yr-was-ee-piiet7- and Robert
Miller of Salt Lake City was the
bombardier.
Lewis is a small wiry chap who
had fine scholastic record at the
University of Washington. Here s
his story:
IT was Jap airport we were
sent out to get. II was near
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HINTS DRIVE STARTED

lThcrc were increasing indi-
cations that Germany had
started the first phases OF its
anticipated spring drive for
Caucasian oil
The German high command
announced in Berlin that Ger.
man planes had bombed harbor
installations on the Caucasian
Black Sea coast. scoring direct
hits on a 7.0O0-ton Russian
naval troopShip and setting two
merchantmen afireD
MkhaiI 7. kalinin. Soviet presi-
dent, writing IN the newspaper
lzvestla, asserted that Gcrmanyx
air superiority had been over
come and that its tank supremacy
was gradually being reduced.
Germany was said TO be bring
ing up more and more reserves
from all parts Of the occupied
territories Russian forces which
captured and destroyed more than
100 bunkcrS or the central front
said they encountered Rumanian,
Hungarian and Finnish forces.
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TOUNGOO RAIDED

American volunteers came
TO the support of hard-pressed Chi
nose defenders of the eastern flank
yesterday and destroyed thre g
large Japanese bomberS in noon
attack on an enemy airdrome in
the Toungoo area.
While the Chinese battled re-
ncwed enemy assaults above Toun-
zoo, the British faced perilous
situation farther west.
An India-Burma command com
munique issued AT New Delhi dis
closed that an enemy force was
pressing hard" against the out
numbered British defending the
Pegu Yoma foothills southwest Of
Tungdwingyi, 40 miles southwest
of Mandalay temporary Burmese
capital.
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BY VI. =. HANDLER
nlted Press STAFF Correspondent

kUIBYSHEV, Russia April II.
German tank units seeking to
thrust toward RuSSia's rich eau
casuS oil fields have been thrown
back by the Red army in u con-
secutive attacks on the southwest
front II was announced today.
Dozens of tanks, charging. wave
after wave. against the Russian
lines, were wrecked by Soviet
artillery IN the sector between
Orel and kursk. 200 miles south
west of Moscow. Unable TO pene-
tratc the Russian barrage. the
Germans retreatcd. leaving more
than 900 dead
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Million u Second
U. S. Flying Forresses Destroy S., 900, 900 Worth
OF Jap Bombers. Pursuit Planes in Seconds
BY PAT ROBINSON
Init News Service stan Correspondent

AN ADVANCED UNITED MA
TONS BASE SOMEWHERE IN
THE SOUTH PACIFIC, April 10;
Within five seconds squadron
OF American flying fortresses
blasted TO bits S5,0O0,0O0 worth of
Japanese bembers and pursuit
planes.
Four big United States long
range bombers. under command Of
Lieut.. Hoyt jolly Of Auburn, Ala,
came in over the Japanese airport
at 500 feet and each dropped 20
bombs on the surprised Nips.
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BASES ON CEBU

BERLIN, April Is (by Official
German wireless) (INS).-Thc
German radio today quoted Toxic
reports announcing that japanese
marines had occupied the town
OF Argao and the naval base at
Barili. both on the Philippine is
land OF Cebu.
1.-THE Americans carried out
widespread destruction and set
fire to oil tanks and port mill
tary Installations ut Cebu.'
Toxic was quoted AS saying.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-13
HOMNA ALINF-TOKIO

SAN FRANCISCO. April r.
1NS) Toxic radio. in a broad.
cast recorded here today by CHS
listening station. insisted that
Lieut.. Cen Masaharu Homma is
still in command OF japanese
forces in the Philippines. Homma
had been reported suicide in his
chagrin al being unable TO over
come Gen. Douglas Macarthur
trOOns
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TO REALIZE the scri-
BUSINESS of the situation

ITO REALIZE the scrl-
BUSINESS of the situation
we must note under
standingly what has occurred
I'm the Pacific areas in the
short space of about four
months.
England and America and
Holland have lost Hong Hong,
Penang, Singapore, Wake,
Guam, Manila, Sumatra, Java,
Celebes, Borneo and the bet
ter part OF Burma.
They have lost three Inn.
pOrtant sea battles and had
one inactive fleet largely de-
strOyed.
The Japanese have so far
demonstrated control of the
land and the sea and the air
In the Pacific area.
They are advancing toward
India and Australia md
threatening TO separate those
two immensely important
possessions from the British
Empire.
III this progress should con-
tinue the Japanese, in another
four months, would be setting
their detested feet upon the
shores of the United States
and Canada.
rs NOT the situation suffi-
GENTLY serious TO warrant
concentration of attention
and major activity on the Pa
cific theater of war?
Does anything in the Euro
pean thcater reveal such pos
sibilities of immediate disas-
ter?
During the summer season
i'm Europe the enemy and the
Allies in Libya will probably
continue To 60 forward and
back like the participants in
CHASTITY Virginia reel.
Germany will make its
spring push in Russia and will
either push the Russians back
a few hundred miles or will be
pushed back themselves a
somewhat similar distance.
England will he air raided
without essential damage.
Germany and Italy will be
air raided without serious de-
Struction, and France will be
air raided with the result of
driving her more and more
into the arms of the AXIS.
A I THE end Of the sum
~ mcr everything in Flu
rope will be very much
"a II II now, except that
everybody will he Saddcr and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-13
House Returns
To Profit, Price
'BattIefieIds'
Administration Program
OF Freezing Ready Tor
r Conere" in z Weeks
By RICHARD 4. BLACKBURN
Vuned Pre-, stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 13-Tho
House returned from an Informal
fRo-week recess today in the midst
Of final administration planning 70
combat initiation by controls over
wages. war profits and prices
The administration program IL
expected 10 be ready for Congress
within two weeks. Ii was believed
the plan might retard prccIp'ate
House action on labor and profits
legislation.
Labor and profits legislation is
the most pressing problem facing
congressman after their two-week
opportunity 10 sound out conStlt-
tteffts hey ~tii-rcccfve Tins wrrio
a new controversial version Of the
proposed wartime profit control
and labor policy revision forrnu-
lated by Chairman Carl NinSon
CDt Of Georgia Of the House naval
Affairs committee.
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No Dice
Crap Shooting in Army
Is Discouraged

WASHINGTON. April Is t1NSl
-Crap-shooting Is going 10 receive
no support from the war depart
n1entI
Military authoI1iics are provId.
ing soldiers with plenty of sports
equipment. and ovorscas troops
are being furnished etei1thing
from baseball 10 dominocs-but no
dee.
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NlnSon VIII Oifcr the compromise
as substitute for the pending
Vinson-Smith bill which would
suspend the 40-hour work week
limitations, outlaw the closed shop
in war industries and limit profits
10 s per cent OF the cost OF war
contracts.
- The compromise would extend
the basic work week from 40 10
IS hours. with time and one-hall
for all hours over As: maintain
the closed shop in status quo. fix
maximum union initiation fees on
war jobs at S. and dues and as
sess,nents at 81 a month. grant
incentive" bonuses payable by
the government 10 war workers
and impose an s per cent profit
limitation on contracts of more
than 100000 plus a SIS 900 "cuSh-
ion" profit allowance on all con-
tracts.
The s per cent limitation would
not apply 10 contracts Of less than
100000
The Einson compromise will be
offered after the naval affairs
committee ends hearings on the
Smith-Vinson bill. Rear Admiral
Emory Land of the United
States Maritime Commission teSti-
fies today and Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox tomorrow.
SENATE DELAYS ACTION
Senate action on labor and
profits legislation will be post
poned another week. II started
It's recess a week later than the
House. Next Monday 1t is COM
mitted 10 decide whether TO con-
slider the Connally bill which
wosild authorize seizure of strike
bound plants and freeze all en-
rloyer-en1ploye relationships eX-
cept. wages.
Senate sentiment on that bill
may be influenced by the forth
coming administration anti-infla-
ton. program, for which wide
Support has been indicated.
s-s.CoMBATs INITIATION
President Roosevelt revealed
Friday that the administration
was preparing broad program to
combat initiation.
That plan is reported TO include
the freezing of all commodity
prices; licensing of wholesalers and
retailers: billions in new taxes be-
You'd those sought in the pending
$500 100000 revenue bill; the
tying OF wages TO fluctuating cost
az hving. and virtual elimination Of
instalment purchases.
sConpulsory savings would re-
ct1ire the allotment by taxpayers
e.. some fixed percentage Of in
come for the purchase OF govern
rsesf bonds. which would be re-
dfSpaed in instruments after the
war. George said he would prefer
TO see a voluntary plan tried first
In the tax bill.
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Reds En(iif(|e
Ndzis al Brydnsk

LONDON. April Is CUP).-The
Red army has smashed across the
river DeSna on the central front
and practically eneircled the KEY
city OF BryanSk, one OF the strong
points of the German defense line.
Exchange Telegraph said today in
a dispatch from Stockholm
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-13
Raj Hits Italy,
Ruhr, France
Continued from Page one)

lighted and encountered neither
opposition nor anti-aircraft fire.
The air. ministry revealed the
extent of the raids by acknowl-
edging that 10 bombers and one
fighter were missing from the
nights operations. 1t was under
stood that all of the force which
flew so far TO attack Northern
Italy returned.
The air ministry said British
daylight raids over France yester-
day resulted in the ficrcest dog
fights since the battle of Britain.
A small force Of bombing planes,
protected by swarms Of fighters,
concentrated on the great freight
marshalling yards of Hazebrouck
35 miles inland from Calais.
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SAY MARIvELEs FELL

TOXIC, April - (by official
Japanese wirelesS (GNS) The
Japanese news agency Domei
claimed today that Japanese forces
have captured MarivcleS, on the
southern Tip Of Bataan Peninsula
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IN 1.-THE NEWS
Continued from Page one)

sicker and hungrier and
wretcheder.
Nothing that America can
do, nothing that the United
Nations can do in that time,
will alter that situation mate
rally.
But by the end of this sum
mer the whole battle Of the
Pacific might have been de-
cided-will have been decided
unless we take vigorous and
immediate and concerted and
concentrated action.
with the battle of the
Pacific will be decided the
fate Of the British Empire,
and perhaps the fate of the
Occidental races.
TIME strategy Of America
in this war appears to
be the strategy of Eng
land.
And the strategy of Eng
land is, in this crisis, what it
has been i'm former crises, to
protect and extend her en-
pire by preventing the rise of
any European nation to an
eminence Of power and posi-
ton competitive to her own.
That is doubtless a good
strategy under the usual cir
cumstances, but is il a prac-
ticable strategy under present
conditions
IL has neglected 10 cOntem-
plate. and consequently has
failed, to meet the problem of
an Oriental nation arising,
which might not only disrupt
the British Empire but endan-
ger the liberty and authority
of all the English speaking
il not all the Occi-
dental races.
THIS immediate danger
demands immediate at
tentiOn and action.
Britain must arouse itself
to this threat TO herself and
her empire.
America must arouse itself
to the imminence OF this dan
ger to its own people and to
her fellow Americans.
All Occidental nations
must promptly come to real
ize the immensely of this men
ace TO them.
Everything else can wait.
The onslaught of the Japa-
nesc upon Occidental ciNiliza-
ton will not wait.
II must he met and stopped
in the Pacific.
II must he met and stopped
now.
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regulated and restricted by
the twelve hundred millions Of
the Orient.
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FAIsI wHARvEs BOMBED

Wharves and sheds were bombed
at Faisi. which marked new
southwark extension Of the Japa-
neSe invasion zone 10 the southern
tip of Bougainville, chief island in
the Solomon group.
Dispatches said heavy clouds
protected the American planes
until they were right over their
targets, when they roarod down
to bomb and machine gun from
500 feet Japanese gun fire was
heavy but ragged and inaccurate
and all the planes returned and
without casualties.
A dispatch from an advanced
air base said the young Americans
who took part in the attacks were
red-eyed and heavily bearded after
days of intensive bombing opera
tons. but sought few hours Of
sleep only so they could return
frcshened 10 the attack.
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L. =. Raids
Ruin 4
Jap Bases

continued from Page One)
Bougainville Island Of the Solo
mons.
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8 BIG PLANES SMASHED

The raid on Lac was made early
Saturday. Three giant Japanese
bombing planes were smashed by
direct hits and four more were
damaged by the blast from near
misses Several probable hits were
on anti-aircraft bat
terieS.
Crack Japanese navy-O fighters
we're driven off and two were
damaged.
At Rabaul shipping and the big
japanese airdrome were heavily
bombed, Buildings were set afire
and the flames were visible 80
miles away. Moored nying boats
were machine gunned and three
were damaged. Bombs were
dropped on ships and airdromc
personnel were machine gunned.
Eight Japanese planes had been
destroyed at Rabaul Friday.
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mons.
A communicate said that in the
raid on Timor, northwest of the
the Allied planes at
tackled an airdrome and barracks.
Dispatches described Saturdays
raids on Rabaul, Lac and Faisi,
made simultaneously, as one OF
the most widespread, most eff
fciently planned and most skill
fully carried out of the Pacific
war.
A communique said the Allied
planes attacked Japanes e
grounded planes and anti-alrcraft
set fire 10 buildings and
gunned ground personnel.
Only two planes failed to return.
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A / TIL end Of the sum
~ mcr everything in Eu-
rope will be very much
a II - now, except that
everybody will he Saddcr and
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,4ls 9noo&w&

Branch store. Open Monday. Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday Evenings
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-13
vINSoN COMPROMISE

Vinson will offer the compromise
as a substitute for the pending
Vinson-Smith bill which would
suspend the 40-hour work week
limitations, outlaw the closed shop
in war industries and limit profits
10 6 per cent Of the cost OF war
La gaceta., 1942-02-04
Fue I'm Erito

I'm verdadero exito Sc anot6
anoche ell teatro "Casino" cor
su primera presentation de "La
Corte Suprema del Arte er
Tampa.
Actuando de Maestro de &C.
remonias ell joven Ramon Ber-
m1dez, di6 comienzo al progra-
ma.
Moves y Morales bailaron
una Conga; Tony Acosta imit6
a Carmen Miranda; Silvia Del
gado cant6 "Acercate Mas"
Eddy Morales, "Tap Dance
Joaquin Barcenas, jr., acompa-
nandose a guitarra, cant6 ma
ria Elena, en- ingles y en- espa-
mol; Y la nina ENangelina L6-
PEI, acompanada por su MAMA
cant6 LA Cirila", la que tam
bien bail6, acompanandose con
las castanuelas.
Seg1n los aplausos tributa-
dos a estos jovenes aficionados'