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Evening star., 1943-05-17
Speed Maniac
Again E|udes
Police Trap
Escapes in Darkness
After Appearing
In Downtown Area

Sklllfully manipulating one of his
cache of stolen automobiles, the
detective story-reading phantom
driver again sped out of police
trap last night. thus forcing author
tiles of the District, Maryland and
Virginia to map new plans for cap
turing the 22-year-old speed maniac.
Appearing this time at New
Hampshire avenue and M street
NV, the phantom driver eluded a
conVerglng force of five police scout
cars and roared into the darkness
at an 80-mile-an-hour speed.
Acting on information that the
suspect was speeding up New Hamp-
shire avenue, police closed in on
the area and first spotted the car
at M street NV After allowing
police to get close enough to iden-
tify him Gall police have been shown
pictures of the YOUTH, the phantom
driver turned into TWenty-first
street and then west on N street
NV, where the police lost him.
The speed -crazed youth, known
to police as Lorton Reformatory
parolee, has been the object of
wide police search for the past two
weeks. He is wanted for question:
ing in connection with several
forays, including the hit-run death
of a 68-yaer-old woman last week.
Believed Skilled Mechanic.
The suspect successfully out
maneuvered District and Montgom-
cry County police late Saturday
night in four-hour chase through
a wide area in Washington and
Maryland.
Police believe the youth to be a
skilled mechanic who steals nothing
but hlgh-powered automobiles. He
makes these powerful cars even
faster by "jazzing up the motors
and keeps them hidden in an un-
known place
He changes cars-sometimes as
many as three in one highland
speeds through the city as soon as
darkness falls.
Wears Dark Glasses.
Park Police got close enough to
him one time to see that he had
a pile of detective story magazines
on the car seat. He caters to his
mystery man. complex by wearing
smoked glasses at times.
Meanwhile District police last
night captured a l6-year- r-old youth
in stolen car after a 7O-mile- an
hour chase into Maryland.
Police at first thought they had
the phantom driver" but said after
the capture that the youth was we'll
known to them as car thief and
had no connection with the "phan-
TOM
Car Wrecked.
Policemen A. R. Wilson and L. J.
Land, seventh precinct, chased the
16-year-old boy from Georgetown
to a point miles into Maryland
on Conduit drive, where the car
turned over three times.
Police were reported as concerned
with the growing list of youthful
"joyriders youths who steal cars
with no desire for profit, but only
to drive the cars at dizzy speeds.
Most Of the youths, however, do
not present the problem of the
phantom driver Police believe this
youth to be really dangerous. They
described the phantom as % years
of age, S feet 9 inches, 141 pounds,
slender build, gray eyes, dark thrown
hair worn very long, pimply face.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
X X
MAo1Ho~4wWM
WAR BONDS
BOBBY Trop Defeefor

In the snow, in the sand, on the
beaches, on the roads, in the woods,
everywhere the Axis soldiers hide
"booby traps to slow the move
ment of oncoming fighting men of
the United Nations. The detector
does the same work on land as the
mine sweeper does at sea.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Arlington.
8 am. to $3.50 pm. daily.

Gam. to $3.50 pm. daily.
7 to 10 Wednesdays.
/, Gasoline, tires, miscellaneous COM
modities, Monday, Wednesday and
Friday.
Fuel oil, ration books l and 2,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Price e-control division always open.
Alexandria.
Gam, to 4 pm. daily except We'd
nesdays and Saturdays.
8 am. to / pm. Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
7:30 to $50 pm. Wednesdays.
Ration books / and issued Mon
days and Fridays only.
Fairfax.
$50 am. to pm. daily except
Thursdays and Saturdays.
$50 am. to l pm. Thursdays and
Saturdays.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Curtin Sees Tunisiu
As Step to Victory
BY the Associated Press.

CANBERRA, May IT, Prime
Minister John M. Curtin yesterday
said final victory definitely is ir
sight, but much more remains to be
done"
In a thanksgiving broadcast, he
said the Tunisian victory fitted as
a vital element into development oi
total victory"
The earlier Hitler and Musso-
lini are defeated, the earlier Japan
will experience the concentrated
fighting power Of the forces of free
DOM" Mr.. Curtin said.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Waldorf Woman Dies
Of Burns in House Fire

Mrs. William Nesbitt, about 38,
died late yesterday at La Plata Hos
pital from burns received when her
bed caught fire earlier in the day at
her home in Waldorf, Md, police
reported today, Mrs. Nesbitt was
alone in the house.
Evening star., 1943-05-17

Like buying War bonds, the SOL
dier operating the detectors will
never know just how much they
have aided in the success of their
campaign, but he knows his work is
necessary and must be accomplished.
If more Americans on the home
front will come to realize this, the
success of our War bond campaigns
will be assured.
United States Treasury Department
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Two TruiIers Burned

Two truck trailers, owned by a
Raleigh IN. c. trucking firm,
burned last night on the Rockville
pike, near Bethesda, after the gaso-
line tank on truck exploded.
Flremen said one of the trailers was
being carried. No one was injured
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Attuck -ond Vengeance! The Story of Torpedo

! by warships the night before and
killed the transport the warships
had been supposed to guard.
Navy, Marines and Army fought
the battle for us and their team
play was as flawless as that which
goes on in watch-one part taking
over from the other, one part moved
into action by the other and all
parts together tolling off the last
minutes for untold thousands of
Japs.
The Japs chung relentlessly to
their tactic of trying to knock out
our air power by commandments
from the sea before moving in
with their troop-laden transports.
They came to do it with battleships
on the night of November 1918 and
again on the night of November 49,
IA and a third time on the night of
November 1415. Each time our
Navy met them and smashed them
In a disaster which is as vet I'M
precedented in the history of great
navies. The Japs lost % ships-16
Warships among them two battle
ships, eight transports and four
cargo vessels It three ships more
than the combined loss of the Brit
lsh and Germans at Jutland.
(To be continuedD
copyright, 1943, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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hand" she said, and shifting her
pint bottle of Niagara River water
with its IS yards of red, white and
blue jacketing to her right hand
she sent the third vessel in the
line down the ways into Lake Su-
perior
"J'ai cass la bouteille" Il have
broken the bottle), Annette ex-
claimed in French as she christened
the first vessel. The others followed
in alphabetical order: Cecile, Emile
Marie and Yvonne.
Each turned to Papa and Mama
Dlonne for assurance that she had
done right. And each was assured
The quintuplets were acclaimed by
a crowd estimated officially at 10000
when they stepped onto the plat
form. Other thousands were massed
outside the shipyard fences and in a
field on the far side of the slip.
Eugene Casey, executive assistant
to President Roosevelt. said Mr..
Roosevelt had asked him to en-
phasize that teamwork such as
exhibited by the launching would
win the war. Such teamwork, Mr..
Casey said, is the basis for the re-
lationship between the United Ma
tons.
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Quints' Aim Is Good
In launching Of
Five Cargo Vessels
Admiral Lond Hopes
To See Ships Supply
Allied Troops in Jopon
By the Associated Press.


SUPERIOR, Wis, May 10-Five
s-year-old sisters in gray suits and
red coats stepped up to the bows
OF five cargo vessels yesterday. and
a few minutes later the "quint fleet
had shattered world sidewise launch
ing records and was on its way to
change bright rust paint for cam
outage and combat gray.
The five little girls, famous daugh-
tiers of Olivia and Elzire Dionne
swung hard and straight.
I'VE didn't want to miss. they
say that is bad luck" Emile de-
clared,
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land
chairman of the Maritime Commits
sion. gave the formal benediction.
These ships, built by Americans.
christened by Canadians, to be
manned by British-we wish them
we'll" Admiral Land said. Where
ever they go in their work I hope
there is one special trip they will
make. be it soon or later-I hope
they will sail into seaports of Japan
with supplies for our garrison in
Toxic"
The vessels. each more than $50
feet long and of about 5000 tens,
were lined bow to stern along one
slip of the Walter Butler Ship
builders, Inc, so that right handed
person would swing naturally.
Emile, who is left handed. brushed
queries aside. Il can use the other
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Angus Macarthur, 81,
koppers Official, Dies

By the Associated Press.
OLD GREENWICH, Conn, May
10.-Angus Macarthur, 81, vice pres
ident and director of the Koppers
Co. of Pittsburgh, died here sud-
denly yesterday after a heart attack.
He had been associated with Kop-
pers since 1920 and also was general
manager of the companys gas and
coke division. with headquarters in
New York City.
He was native of Duluth, Mimi,
and was formerly president and a
director of the Connecticut Coke
Co., New Haven, Conn, and the
Philadelphia Coke Co., Philadel-
phia.: vice president and trustee of
Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, Bos-
ton. and director of the Montreal
Coke e. Manufacturing Co., Mon
treal, Canada, and the Brooklyn
Gas Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Before joining Koppers he did
engineering work for firms in Supe-
rior, Wis, and Chicago and was
associated with the Minneapolis Gas
& Light Co. and the Laclede Gas
Light Co. of st. Louis.
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run OF almost two minutes to their
targets and. in addition, had to run
a gantlet of fire from the beach.
This was not yet an inevitably
fatal mistake. 1t was a mistake, but
it could have been redeemed. Tor
pedo had made runs that were
longer than that and had submitted
themselves to even more concen-
trated gantlets of fire when neces-
sary.
The thing about this was, it
wasn't necessary. There were clouds
near the ships that could have pro-
vided the Japs cover until the last
seconds before the assault. And
when the Japs came out of their
cloud and saw that their leader had
led them into a serious mistake to
which they all might succumb, they
all, in one way or another, gave way
to despair. One actually circled so
that his plane looked like man
Wrlnging his hands and kept cir
cling until Grammar fighter blew
him up. Others scattered out of
formation and became easy prev.
Still others just gave up linking and
flew to their deaths as if frozen in
fear.
Killed Their Officer.
1t took less than 10 minutes for
the sound Of all firing to stop and
a great unnatural quiet to settle
upon the gray-colored arena. At
the end Of that time all the Japs
were dead except three-one in the
Zero on his way home with such
thoughts as are inevitable in a man
who lives alone where all his friends
have died. and two others who had
survived the crash of their plane
and had allowed themselves to be
taken prisoner. after killing their
officer when he tried to prevent
them.
Going back to the airfield, HAM
mond shook his head. Gosh" he
said, "is that the way your guys make
your living?"
Hello, no. replied Swede. IF
that's what we did for living. we
wouldn't live any longer than they
did"
transports is hitting sitting
ducks for U.s." said Everts. Those
fellows just threw themselves away"
They lost their nerve, that's ALL"
said Swede. IF they had just kept
on doing what they had to do. they'd
have had six or eight seconds start
on those fighter planes. All those
| fighter planes were sucked out Of
the play at the beginning by the
Zeroes."
They came back into it fast"
pointed out Hammond.
Yes, but in good torpedo attack
fast is never fast enough. If you're
a fighter trying to break up an at
tack, you got to be there when you
have to be. Any time you spend
getting there is too much time"
That is, when you fellows are
doing the job"
Yes, us, not those dead Japs out
| there"
FlawlesS Team-play.
The torpedo action was one phase
a minor phase, as it turned out
Of the fifth in the battles for the
Solomons, an engagement now
known officially to the Navy as the
Battle for Guadalcanal.
This battle was fought out pri-
marily by warships in two major
night encounters and one minor
one. In the daytime, airplanes took
over and killed OF the ships crippled
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3 Worships, 6 Merchantmen
Are Sent Down Ways

By the Associated Press
Three war vessels and six mer-
chant ships, including the five chris
tened by the Dionne quintuplets.
were launched yesterday at four
United States ports.
Two destroyer escorts-Baron and
Acree-were sent down the ways of
United States Steel's Federal Ship
yards at Newark, N. J. They were
named for 1t. Comdr. Richard Swan
Baron and 1t. John White AGREE.
Navy officers killed by the Japs last
year in the Pacific area.
A submarine. the Corvina, was
sent into the Thames River at Gro
ton, Conn. It was the sixth U-boat
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CHAPTER xxx.


At the end the Japs have Torpedo
8 visual demonstration of a tor
pedo bombing attack that made the
fellows very thoughtful.
Some of the men were down on
the beach November IL to see if
any Of their friends had come in on
the four transports there when the
Japs threw a force of 33 planes at
the vessels. most of them torpedo
bombers. From 20 to Is of the
planes were two-motored Mitsu-
blshis of the torpedo-carrying va
riety, This made a force as large
as the Japs had thrown at the bulk
Of our Pacific Fleet at Pearl Har-
Dor December and force at least
three times bigger than any Torpedo
8 had used in any single attack
since Midway.
It was a gray day. There was an
overcast and nothing it were huge
accumulations of mouse-gray clouds
that made perfect ambush territory
for pilots. But only one of the Jap
planes lived through the attack and
that one was Zero, not a tor
pedo bomber The 20 to Is Jap
torpedo planes managed to live
long enough to launch four tor
pedoes. But these torpedoes hit
only the water. They did not hit
any ships. The only damage done
was when Jap torpedo plane eX-
ploded so close to the cruiser San
Francisco that its debris killed ID
men and burned several others.
The attack was complete
catastrophe for the attackers. The
Zeros came over above $4,000 feet
trying to pull our fighters up there
and keep them off the torpedo
planes. They succeeded. but not for
long enough. They got themselves
shot down too fast. And then our
fighters dived for the torpedo
planes. Our fighters we're intent
and eager They plumeted for their
prey at terminal velocity.
Raises Kill to FL.
The case of Capt. Joe Foss. ma
rine ace from South Dakota, who
raised his kill" to 81 planes in the
course Of the day, was typical. He
shot down a Zero at $4,000 feet
dove down to less than 5000 feet
and ended the careers of two tor
pedo bombers. He dove so rapidly as
to defy the laws of physics. The
wind stirred by his dive stripped the
glass from his shelter hatch and
tore off all the rubber pads on the
outside of his plane, but he was
working on his third victim before
his first had completed its fall
into the sea.
AS soon as the alert came, the
four transports and their escort
pulled away from the beach. The,
were travelling in column abreast
about six or seven miles from the
beach when the Jap bombers came
out Of cloud about four miles dowr
the beach from where the ships hao
been. They had used a cloud, bu,
they had used the wrong one, and
from where they were they had q
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Don't lose hope, til you've tried a
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launched at the Electric Boat Co.
yards in II weeks.
Sixth merchantmen launched was
the Liberty freighter Josiah Nelson
Cushing. 1t was sent away by
Singer Kate Smith at the California
Shipbuilding Corp. yards, Whining
ton, Calf.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-24
Aiding Mother.in.Law
Stirs Husbands Ire
War Problem Clinic:

War Problem Clinic:
My mother, who is an invalid
lives I'm our home. ! have always
made enough money TO support my
mother as We'll as a child by a
previous marriage but have recent
~ had 10 give up my job because
of my health.
Now. my husband says he viii
not support my mother. | am her
only child He threatens 10 put
her out. She has been with uS
three years and he was never
liked for her 10 I've with US. ]
tried 10 keep working TO keep him
quietbut now he fuses and fights
all the time.
He says a lot Of mean things 70
me about mother. She Is nearly
deaf so does not hear him. ] never
tell her about II but. If my boy
hears il, he tells her. She helps
around the house and does the
cooking when | am not well but
my husband says She IS trying 10
run the house. This IS wrong she
doesn't Interfere with Us at all.
When | mention 10 him that ]
have read IN the papers about
work or fight and that he be-
longs In the army my husband
says he doesn't have 10 worry My
son hates hun. He vas glad enough
10 list VS. on his draft question
naire and forinCome tax but, when
n comes 20 really doing anything
for us. he won help.
Please advise me what 10 RIO
about my mother. Where can she
90 10 get help She is 81 years
old and a large woman
MRS. NJ w.
Dear NrS. VI. W:
can realize how difficult il
must he for YOUR mother To de-
pend on her living from her SON
in-lau who makes her feel 80
unwclcome in his home.
She can apply 10 the Depart
ment OF Public Welfare. Lemay
District. $3.50 81. Jean ttele-
phone LEnoN $4,000 to see II she
/ II eligible for an allowance Of
! her own.
If she il granted assistance.
she can choose whether 10 live
i'm your home. by paying for her
care there, or elsewhere. Your
husband il not obligated by law
To support her. II she has no
other means of support, she Is
entitled To ask the department
Of public welfare for assistance
i'm her own name. She will end
understanding people there who