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Evening star., 1943-08-04
New York Democrats
Firm on Election Of
Lieutenant Governor
By the Associated Press.

bS inc hSSoCinttu lcSs.
ALBANY, N Y, Aug. Anew
York Democrats. anxious to regain
a major State Office, still chung to-
day to their contention that a Lieu
tenant Governor should be chosen at
the next November election despite
the Republican State attorney gen.
erals opinion to the contrary.
The office was vacated July II by
the death of Thomas j. Wallace,
Schenectady Republican, less than
seven months after he took Office.
William j. O'Shea, counsel to the
Democratic State Committee, who
previously indicated he would seek
the courts to compel an election
this year, said:
The desire of the Democratic
party is to assure to the people the
right to elect a Lieutenant Gov
ernor when vacancy occurs in
that Office. In my opinion the State
constitution requires that right.
That only can be done If the va
cancy is filled at the election this
year."
Silent on Court Action.
Mr.. O'Shea did not Immediately
declare whether any court action
would be taken.
Attorney General Nathanial Gold
stein ruled late yesterday that the
1000 year Office may remain un-
filled until January /, 1947.
Any court action would have to be
completed by August "a, the last day
for filing designating petitions for
nominees to be put before the No
vember electorate.
Mr. Goldstein said he was ready
to defend the opinion in court, from
either Republicans or Democrats"
Argument Against Election.
He held:
1T is apparent that the constitu-
vision for the devolution of the
Lieutenant Governors duties, but
definitely omits provisions for any
election to fill the Office. In fact
such provision was contained in
the first constitution of 1777 and
eliminated thereafter.
Analysis of the statutes and
analogies from the Federal Consti-
tuition also demonstrate no election
is proper. Moreover, the nature of
the Lieutenant Governors functions
makes it inappropriate to attempt
to fill the Office otherwise than in
the regular gubernatorial election
years"
The effect of the ruling is this:
Joe r. Hanley, Perry Republican,
retains his position as president pro
tenn of the Senate and at the same
time, without additional compen-
sation, will preside over the Senate
as acting president-normally the
duty of the Lieutenant Governor.
He will become acting Governor in
absence of the Governor from the
State.
Should Gov. Dewey retire from
Office before expiration of his term
December 81. 1916, Mr.. Hanley would
become acting Governor until Gov
ernor is chosen at the next sue
ceeding election.
Evening star., 1943-08-04

So you want Toxic bombed again?
Well. bombs cost money, 50 help buy
some with War bonds and stamps,
Evening star., 1943-08-04
New Council Reported
Running Son Murino

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug 4.-The Rome radio
last night quoted reports from San
Marino, independent republic 125
miles north of Rome in Italy, as
saying San Marino's state council
which had Fascist tendencies" had
been superseded by a provisional
council.
San Marino, which claims to be
the Oldest state in Europe. and the
kingdom of Italy signed friendship
treaty in 1897 and renewed it in
March, 1899. The state covers 80
square miles. 1t population in 1893
was 1885.
The Associated Press recorded the
Rome broadcast.
Evening star., 1943-08-04
Rev. Willard Topping
Denies Mother, 80,
Broadcasts for Japs
BY the Associated Press.

~ tAt hH"oC.htcC FIeSA.
The Japanese have been broad :
casting talks by woman they saw
is the 80-year -old widow of former
American missionary to japan. the
Once of War Information has re-
ported. but the identity was imme-
diately denied by a relative.
owl said yesterday the propa.
ganda broadcasts were made unde,
the name of Mrs. Henry Topping
described by the japanese as con.
tributing, with her husband, so wears
to education and social service" ir
the Far East.
The Rev. Willard Topping said
however, at Boulder, Colo, that hi
had heard the broadcasts, and il
was not his mothers voice, but that
OF younger person. He addec
that his parents had remained ir
Japan despite an opportunity t.
leave because of illness. His father
died there last August at 86.
The Owl said the English-lan
guage broadcasts, called THE Wom.
ems Hour" had been coming from
Japan for several weeks in Mrs
Topping's name.
Nhe Toppings, owl said retired
from missionary work about 10 years
ago, and went to Japan to live out
their lives.
Owl said recent broadcast in
Mrs. Topping's name contained the
following:
Can you tell me why the women
OF America should send their sons,
their husbands, their brothers to
die miserably in the African desert
or In the swamps of the South Pa
cif1c islands, or in the shark -infest-
ed waters around these islands?"
Evening star., 1943-08-04
Mustang, Fastest Plane,
Shows Speed In Test
ny tht Associated pres,.

BY the Associated Press.
INGLEWOOD, Calf, Aug. A.
North America Aviation Co. has
taken the wraps of new fighter
airplane which its pilot said is the
fastest ship ever flown
The craft Is the P-5lB Mustang.
now in quantity production for the
Army as high-altitude fighter.
Aircraft officials, when asked by
reporters how fast the plane would
go. told newsmen they could guess
at 1t. But the reporters couldn't
guess that fast.
The streak of mechanical light
ming. with Engineering Test Pilot
Bob Chiffon at the controls, flashed
twice across the field at an altitude
of about Is feet. In Is seconds 1t
was out of sight.
North American officials said the
plane is powered by 1,500-h.p.
Rolls Royce engine. 1t has four
bladed propellers.
Evening star., 1943-08-08
ey Are Calling Him America's Ace Of Aces

"The significance of his action was
that he didn't run back to his carrier
and land aboard It gives real in
sight into the character of the man.
His next engagement was on October
26 (the Battle of Santa CRUZ when he
scored mis- seven victories and one prob
able: Five torpedo planes, two dive
bombers and one probable dive bomber
CThis has been called the most spec
tacular aerial feat of the -ar thus far)
"Swede and his three teammates took
out whole squadron of Jap torpedo
planes. The other members of the flight
got four between them. Swede got five.
The other three Japs jettisoned their
torpedoes and got away.
Il think that without doubt this
action saved our carrier. The most re-
markaole thing about this performance
was the fact that our planes only carried
limited rounds of ammunition per gun.
Swede actually got 10 bursts out of his
ammunition, which means that each
burst was of slightly less than two sec
onds' DURATION
"Swede had one other opportunity, a
four -engined patrol bomber shadowing
our force, he destroyed it with a single
burst.
His score of II shoot-downs is tops
for any fighter pilot working off a car
Evening star., 1943-08-08

aerial combat His first engagement
found him in Douglas dauntless dive
bomber
In company with five others he was
assigned a job as antitorpedo plane
patrol. This only meant that the SID
was being asked to do a fighter planes
job
Unfortunately, a flock of Zeroes
sWooped down on the SBDs and knocked
down four of them in short order. Nine
Zeroes then ganged up on SWede and
for "a minutes they tried to destroy him.
In this furious action, Swede never
lost his head. When it was over he had
shot down three Japs with his fixed
guns, notable feat when the difference
in performance between an SID and
Zero Is realized.
"SWede never said much about this
engagement. In fact, spent 18 days on
a transport with him Immediately after
this and he never mentioned it. MY first
knowledge of it came when I sat in on
an interview between Navy Department
officers and some of the Coral Sea battle
pilots.
They WOrmed the story out of Swede.
When he finished his description one of
the lntervieWers said, And what did YOU
do then, Vejtasa.' The answer was:
Sir, went back to my patrol station
near the bow of the Ship
Evening star., 1943-08-08

rier," Flatley continued. "It is too bad
he wasn't able to work from land base.
Maybe he'll get a chance before the
war is over. If he does there is no telling
what his accomplishments will be, be-
cause he can get more performance out
of an airplane than any pilot I've ever
known" :
Flatley, whose home is Green Bay,
Wis, himself is the holder of the Navy
Cross as commander of group of Navy
squadrons-a fact he did not mention in
his letter.
Flatley concentrated on Vejtasas
fighter accomplishments, but the Mon
tana ace also has bombardment record
of note. He bombed two Jap transports
in Lac raid in April, sank a cruiser
off Tulagi, hit carrier two days later
off New Guinea and got eight hits on
Jap ships in the Coral Sea battle.
The grim reapers," which Vejtasa
helped Flatley organize and train, also
has compiled remarkable record. In
three engagements they shot down 43
enemy planes and scored % probable
knock-downs while losing only seven
planes.
All our losses Flatley wrote, "oc-
Cured in our first engagement and only
three of those were shot down The
others were forced down on the water
and never picked up"
Evening star., 1943-08-08
BY Ken Davis,
Associated Press StafI Writer

ST. LOUIS.-Whos the outstanding
American aerial fighter of the war?
It's 1t. Stanley (Swede) Vejtasa of the
United States Navy, if you believe 1t,
Comdr James H. Flatley, his buddy in
the fighter squadron The Grim Reap
ers"
Vejtasa had had only three cracks at
aerial combat at the time Flatley made
his nomination but in those three, the
Circle, Mont, ace shot down II japanese
planes, and scored another probable.
He also sank a cruiser, hit a carrier,
bombed two Jap transports and scored
eight hits on Jap ships in the Coral
Sea battle.
Writing June % from somewhere in
the Pacific, Flatley asserted "Swedes
potential is too great even to estimate"
The letter was addressed to w. Ray
Loomis, a st. Louis newspaperman, who
makes a hobby of recording feats of
martial valor and had selected Vejtasa
as the outstanding aerial fighter. Loom
is had based the selection on newspaper
clippings.
An Associated Press story about Loom
is and his heroes prompted F1atiey's
letter, in which he detailed Vejtasa s
fighter record as follows:
"Swede has had only three cracks at
Evening star., 1943-08-08

The highway network came into being
last November with official opening of
the Alcan. Completion of that road was
almost simultaneous with the finishing
Of the Chickaloon cutoff linking Anchor
age-and nearby Fort Richardson-to
the rest Of the cities served.
Since that widely pubhcized opening,
little has been said about the highway
net. Actually, opening of the highway
did not mean that it was finished. 1t
Is not finished yet and will not be for
long time. So far, the total freight
moved has no measurable effect on the
Alaskan war effort, nor is there any
immediate likelihood that a major por-
ton of Alaskas supplies will move over
1t. Ships still supply the troops in the
Aleutians; the Alaska Railroad still Is
the principal supply line for the interior.
The two new branches of the road
the Alcan and the Chickaloon-were
opened as cold weather set in in earnest.
With practically the entire countryside
set in ice for months, the winter prob
lens were chiefly those of keeping snow
Evening star., 1943-08-08

the German fleet eventually will be sent
to sea.
He is in the minority
There is good reason for the opinion
held by some that the home fleet and
Allied aviation so dominate the north
ern seas that quick detection and ulti-
mate destruction Of such hostile force
is a mathematical certainty.
Most naval officers think those Nazi
surface units have been stripped of their
best personnel in favor of the U-boats,
and will just sit out the war, thereby do
ing with little risk q very effective job
for the Reich-tying down big portion
of the royal navy which is urgently
needed elsewhere.
But the point is, nobody knows. As
long as there is a Nazi keet in being, it
is a menace. So the home feet stands
watch.
Evening star., 1943-08-08
Serving Three Million Meals Month Under Rati0ninq

of Steves telephoned instructions
Douglas riveters are eating hashed-
browns with their steaks, despite tenn
porary local potato famine. The expe-
diter at Cleveland gets $50 bonus.
The steak? Douglas gets that the
same way. And you can add to the list
pork from Iowa, lamb from CALIFORNIA;
San Joaquin Valley and eggs from every
where.
Steve calls this meeting emergencies.
It's also food conservation. The tubers
lost in Michigan might have gone to
waste except for their unexpected, un-
conventional rapid transit. The trans
port plane flies high, eliminating the re-
frigeration problem.
More Stamps Than Supplies
This food finding and flying technique
IS exclusive with Douglas, insofar as Of
f1cials Of the company are aware. 1t Ats
in we'll with rationing, too; Steve AYERS
he always has more stamps than supplies.
Rationing stamps are allotted on the
basis of the number of meals served over
usually can dig up enough points for
anything he's short of, be it one beef or
three. In pinch he can spend stamps
rather lavishly and draw temporarily
on reserve stocks the OPA permits
Douglas to maintain (about two months
supply of rationed commodities).
The expediters are Douglas employees,
hired expressly to keep an eye out for
likely food sources, including lost freight
cars. Railroad cars frequently go astray,
Just as letters sometimes do-perhaps,
Steve conjectures, some one throws the
wrong switch or spots car in the wrong
train
Jobbers and railroad men can and do
find such cars by careful tracing Of ship
ping and train records, but with many
cases to handle this takes considerable
time, during which perishables may spoil.
The expediters, devoting full time to the
checking task for Douglas alone and
travelling by plane when necessary,
usually can locate in few days a missing
car that busy railroad clerks might need
several weeks to find, says Steve.
SteVes commissaries consistently lost
money. Not operated for profit, the
cafeterias at best are expected to break
even. But the extensive lengths to
which his expediters go to obtain food
and the departmental payroll $4,000 ,00O
annually on the same wage minimums as
factory PERSONNEL keeps costs up.
Evening star., 1943-08-08
Teaching Soldiers to Use
Their Most Vital Weapon

year Of college physics or mathematics
or three college courses in psychology or
must have some knowledge of at least
one modern foreign language
4. Soldiers % years of age or over
must have had at least one year of
college but not more than three years of
college, unless they have majored in one
OF the following: Mathematics, physics,
chemistry, psychology Or engineering or
unless they have some knowledge of at
least one modern foreign language.
After interviews, tests and a going
over generally at star units, the sue
cessful soldier then is designated to
specific course for which he is qualified.
Then he is sent to college giving this
course.
It's different college from the one
he knew or dreamed about The campus
is a camp now. The tweeds and fam
boyant collegiate clothes are replaced by
khaki uniforms. The college cheers by
bugle calls and military orders.
Even in the classroom the tempo has
changed :. short cuts, new ideas. The
science of teaching has gone on a war
time basis.
The course offers no soft berth.
A minimum of "a hours a week is
spent in the classroom, another "a hours
in supervised study. Five hours week
are given over to military training, six to
physical conditioning It's 5e-hour
work week
Where formerly the student attended
two 15-week terms year with long
summer vacations, now the boys in the
ASTP get quickie 12-week terms, the
number of terms varying for each course,
and allowing for only one week respite
between
Trainees are not permitted to engage
in intercollegiate sports. Says the
Army:
This is war. These soldiers are being
trained for specific Army duties at Army
expense. Successful completion of these
courses requires great concentration and
effort on the part of the soldier trainee
There is no time for participation
in varsity sports"
The trainee is subject to full military
discipline except in the classroom, where
he is under supervision of academic
authorities.
Evening star., 1943-08-08

repair in central Baltic port with her
turrets removed as a result of her long
plastering by the RAF at Brest and her
famous run for life through the English
Channel in 1912.
The 10000-ton eight-inch cruisers Eu-
gen and Hipper.
The light cruisers Baden and Leipzig,
probably in the Baltic, Koln at Kiel, and
the Nurnburg.
The 60-plane carrier Zeppelin, prob
ably in the Baltic.
Something less than two dozen de-
stroyers
Against this the home feet keeps ready
force easily able to intercept, outnum-
ber and outgun any German combina-
ton.
One of the worlds foremost naval men,
to whom I have talked, believes that un-
der Donitz, an apostle of the offensive,
Evening star., 1943-08-08
By William L. Worden,
Associated Press stan Writer.

Associated Press stan Writer.
GULKANA, Alaska, July IL Delayed i.
THE road" Is open, but no speed rec
ords are being made on It.
THE road" means the network Of
highways which at last is giving Alaska
communication between its major cities
as we'll as at least a technical oonnec-
ton with the outside world by highway.
Included in the net are the widely dis
cussed Alcan highway from Dawson
Greek to Fairbanks, the Richardson
highway which connects Fairbanks and
Valdez, the Steese highway from Fair
banks to Circle, and the so-called Chick
aloon highway from Gulkana to Anchor
age. On this network of roads, it is
possible now to visit more of Alaska
than by any other method except air
plane f1ight-but a good stout truck is
recommended for the tour.
Evening star., 1943-08-08
BY Alfred Wall,
q. s. Navy War Correspondent.

U. s. Navy War Correspondent.
WITH THE BRITISH HOME FLEET
One of the hardest naval jobs in the
world is being borne, day and night, year
in and year out by the home fleet, his
toric mainstay of Britain's sea power.
The job is the essentially boresome,
routine task of watching and guarding
those broad reaches of cold sea from
which any time may sally the still poten-
TALLY dangerous German fleet.
British naval policy dictates that there
always must be available enough surface
strength to intercept and dispatch in
short order any combination of Nazi
naval power which might break out into
the Atlantic.
Watching Nazi Fleet
If the Nazi feet broke out and got into
Just one big convoy it could cause dam
age approaching a major disaster and
prolong the war. 1t might go on to roam
the seas, hitting one convoy after an
other, hence the home fleets task of
containing the German feet must be an
endless one.
With the heavy units confined to the
Job of standing on guard, one of the
fleets greatest problems is to keep from
going to seed through lack of action. 1t
is a psychological problem.
1t is my observation, after living with
1t and sailing with it for five months,
that the home fleet is not stale now and
isn't likely to become so. 1t may be idle
SO far as fighting is concerned, but 1t GER
tainly is the busiest kind of idleness
I've ever seen.
The light units, cruisers, destroyers
Evening star., 1943-08-08
British Home Fleet Has Hardest Naval lob

and the like, are the busiest They seem
to roam the scans willy-nilly. They are
always coming and going in the endless
change of dispositions. The positions
Of the heavier units are somewhat more
stable, but they, too, have their share of
sea time.
Details Are Secret
Details of operations cannot be re-
vealed, naturally, because of that old
precept to which the royal navy holds
so staunchly-what the enemy doesn't
know surely will hurt him.
But recently found myself, after days
of steaming in one of the worlds biggest
warships, in strange part of the world
l never had expected to see.
We sailed there. We did our business.
We sailed back. All with absolute i'm
punity. A little chilly, but fine trip.
When l remarked to high officer that
all this was really something in my
book, he merely observed, "Pshaw, why
I've been up there myself no less than
six times in the Che named
one of Britain's newest, most powerful
battleships) and never got into fight,
never had a speck of trouble"
Tirpitz Bottled Up
The home fleet now is Containing"
Germany's one modern battleship, the
4o,000ton Tirpitz, the pocket battleship
Lutzow formerly the Deutschland) now
believed somewhere in the north of Nor
way
The rest of the German naval strength,
of which certainly part could be taken
into sea fight, comprises:
The pocket battleship Scheer.
The battle cruiser Gneisenau, under
Evening star., 1943-08-08
By Howard c.. Heyn,


SANTA MONICA, Calif.-J. L. Steven
son was trained to be welder, Douglas
Aircraft was organized to build airplanes;
necessity has thrown both into the food
business
Steve (the abbreviation is automatic)
is Douglas director of welfare and his
job is providing nearly 100000 meals
month in 81 big cafeterias serving COM
pany employees in six big plants.
1T was plenty tough in the beginning"
says Steve. I'VE had no experience to
guide us. Even if we had it would have
been bad enough, considering the tre-
mendous quantities of foodstuffs we must
have.
But We had to learn how. You can't
keep up production when your workers
are half-fed. You can't expect people to
work overtime and hunt for food, too.
They have no time. When their day is
done, the markets are usually sold out
of the things they need"
Order of Events
The things he's learned are typiied
best by what goes on almost every day
in the slightly cramped but cozy office
he shares with two other executives.
The order of events goes something like
this:
Steve is talking on telephone hookup
to 80 food expediters, spotted in every
section of the country. He has heard
from jobber about two wayward cars
of Western potatoes. The consignee, in
Boston, knows they're lost, and that
the potatoes probably will be withered
or spoiled If he ever gets them. So he
has turned the shipment loose to jobber
in Salt Lake City, who can't find them
either, but knows who can:
They work fast. They check car
numbers, call up freight depots and
traffic officials in every State the ship
ment could possibly have reached. They
hop into planes and fly to wayside
stations in Indiana, whistle stops in
Wyoming, skeletal water towers on the
sparse plains of the Texas Panhandle.
About noon the expediter from Cleve-
land spots the cars outside Detroit He
and his helpers leave their plane for a
drive-yoursef truck, rush the 10000
pounds of Idaho Russets to the nearest
airport Then the expediter calls Steve
Within minutes a Douglas transport
plane, kept in readiness night and day
heads eastward. And within three days
Evening star., 1943-08-08

But all this would be gone in few
weeks, Steve AYERS, If he didn't have his
find-and -fy-it arrangement and other
provisions for circumventing shortages.
In one week, he tells you, Douglas uses
155 beeves, 81 lambs, 216 hogs, 21,000
pounds of veal, 1883 pounds of ham,
ton of bacon, 3,465 pounds of butter,
10000 pounds of fish.
Evening star., 1943-08-08

Stevenson's refrigeration rooms and
warehouses might go unnoticed in normal
times. With Nationwide rationing,
they're dietetic dream. Steve escorts
a visitor through them with the placid
air Of one who feels he has his problem
licked
Look" he'll say, waving expansively
toward a mountainous tier of pasteboard
Evening star., 1943-08-08

cartons. Chickens from Arkansas.
Seventy-two thousand dollars worth.
Look: Five tons Of lamb uvers. Frozen.
Everything frozen. Keeps indefinitely"
Roasts, already cut, frozen. Chops,
Steaks, Hams, Stewing meat. All nicely
packed In boxes. And along every wall
of the long rooms more sides of beef,
lamb and pork than the eye can en-
COMPASS
Evening star., 1943-08-08

Editors Note: William L. Worden has
made several recent trips over stretches >of
the Alcan highway to ind out what is hap
pening since the oficial opening last No
vember Here is his story of his f1ndingsD