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Evening star., 1943-01-22

A former pilot who won his wings
abroad in 1911 is in Washington
trying to enlist in the air branch of
the armed services, and is unhappy
because his age is held against him.
James Lewis of Boston admits he
is "over" so and ineligible for combat
duty, but says he is willing to serve
in any capacity assigned him.
When Glenn Curtis and the Wright
brothers were the only flyers in this
country, Mr.. Lewis went to France
and qualified in 1911 as licensed
pilot.
He went up alone in a single
seated biplane of the Voisin type and
made the four flights necessary then
to win a license. Incidentally, he
was the only American in the Voisin
flight school.
when I think of those early
planes and compare them with to-
days aerial ships, feel as though
it were all a dream and that it
didn't happen" Mr.. Lewis said.
I'm the first place. the early planes
could stay in the air only 20 minutes.
They were helpless against a strong
wind and could be flown only in
calm weather. There was no COM
pass or direction finder, and para
chutes were unknown.
Fl had my crashes and bruises,
but fortunately escaped serious in
jury"
When America entered the World
War, Mr.. Lewis was in Paris, France.
He volunteered his services as
flying instructor, after having seen
war service with an ambulance corps.
II lived in the same hotel in Paris
with the late Brig. Gen. Billy
Mr.. Lewis remarked.
American aviation owes him a debt
Evening star., 1943-01-22

AUTO MECHANICS and
truck drivers with mechani-
cal experience. Essential
work. Can earn from $50 to
$40 wk. Do not apply if now
employed in war industries.
The White Motor Co., 708
East 25th ST., Baltimore, Md.
Evening star., 1943-01-22

of gratitude for his fight to win
recognition for the air arm"
Mr.. Lewis said he was sent back
to this country and was inducted
into service in Washington in 1917.
Later he was sent to Selfridge Field,
Mount Clemens. Mich, as aeronaut-
ical mechanical engineer. He says he
resigned when he found no planes
to fly there.
Mr.. Lewis says he has kept up with
aviation developments and frequent
flying.
"A year ago volunteered, but was
turned down on account of my age"
he stated. We'll, I'm over so. but
I'm willing to do anything the Gov
ernment asks me to do. I want to
get back in uniform"
Evening star., 1943-01-22
Bethesda Garden Club
To Meet Next Week

A discussion Of victory gardens will
high light meeting of the Bethesda
Community Garden Club at the
Battery Park Community House at
1890 am. next Wednesday.
Miss Sue Thomas has been re-
elected president of the club, Serv-
ing with her are Mrs. Arnold Burr,
vice president; Mrs. Frank Bennett,
recording secretary; Mrs. Robert
Thomas, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Alfred Gohe, treasurer, and
MRS. Louis GraVelle, publicity.
Members of the Board of Directors
are Mrs. Stuart l.. Bailey, Mrs
James Robinson, Mrs. Nelson K
Richtmyer, Mrs. william Lee and
Mrs. Anthony Gould.
Evening star., 1943-01-22
HELP MEN.

ACCOUNTANTS, tr. and sr., for c. P A. Of
nee Reply stating qualifications, salary ex-
pected and Qrstt status. Box 34c-I, Star.
ASSISTANT BAKER. colored, 500 mo.
Dodge Hotel. 20 St nv.
ATTENDANT, colored, for parking lot, sth
and Eye SIS. NV. southeast corner;
must have good references
AUTO MECHANIC, experienced: salary de-
pending on ability; can also use part-time
mechanic. prefer men living in Virginia
See Mr.. Brooks, 5S5 N. Glebe rd, Ar
llngton. Va.
AUTO MECHANIC with tools who can
estimate, act as top man, small modern
shop; willing worker; good future pay
according ability. Az llth st. s.w.
BAKER, frst-hand. on cakes and pastry.
Must know ornamenting Write F. S.
F1ske. l15S Park ave, Baltimore, Nd.
BARMAN. highest type, for fine restaurant
and bar catering to best clientele must be
sober and have TOP ref excellent working
p m. talk to Mr. Lewis only, and arrange
interview, FIR. 91S3
BOOKKEEPER, must be exceptionally
good, for Ist-class,. permanent POSITION
with old reliable firm Salary begias
around $40 weekly. See MI Nee, P J.
Nee Co, S45 ftn St, or phone EX. $500
for appointment
BOOKKEEPER- -TYPIST. draft exempt; good
position and good sslarv. Address in own
handwriting Box 409R. Star
BOY TO learn the optical trade Nine
Seyenty-hve Optical Co, 932 st. NV
or Box 266-V. Star.
BOY oolored, IS or older, with drivers
permit. TO work in hardware store; S2l per
week Apply 3ll7 l4th st. NV.
Evening star., 1943-01-22
Monkey Jungle Lacks
Tourists Since Gas Ban
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla.-The old woman who
lived in shoe had nothing on Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Dumond and the
140 mouths they have to feed daily
now that a monkey business is con-
sidered pleasure spot.
Feeding the inhabitants of their
monkey jungle % miles south of
Miami was easy when tourists drove
down for a look.
Came gasoline rationing and busi-
ness fell off so much that Mr.. Du-
mond took job in an airpIane fac
tory to help feed the couples pets.
Evening star., 1943-01-22

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Evening star., 1943-01-22
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Stewart, 1920 Connecticut ave. "a
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5EAUTIcIAN. day work good salary; excel
lent hnger-waver. Lee Studio, Washing
ton Bldg., MA 2399.
BEAUTICIANS (3), $50 week and COM
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Frances Dee. 623 Pa. ave. sc. TR. a496.
BEAUTY OPERATOR, excellent oppoftu-
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BEAUTY OPERATOR work or more ewes.
Phone ME. 1895 for details.
BEAUTY OPERATOR for part time eve
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Kay. dE: soos or s dE sos4. sSari'0n'' eau
BEAUTY OPERATOR. $3.50 per week
ana copnmisSion; opIn Mn,, 153s @ Rhode Island ave.
BEAUTY OPERATOR, good salary and
commission: Apply 3111 14th st. NV.
BEAUTY OPERATOR. alI-around expert
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1891 l4th st. NV. GE. era.
BEAUTY OPERATOR; GOOD salary ara
commission. Carmefs Beauty Salon. e23
BEAUTY OPERATOR: no license required
22l5 Gleoe rd.' Arlington, Va. oxford
BEAUTY OPERATORS. 8; salary S35. Can
make, as high as $50 If capable Box
BEAUTY OPERATORS. 2. at once Good
salary snd OOo commission. Call Miss Iris.
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Evening star., 1943-01-22

When eanceliing an advertisement
retain cancellation number which Is
invariably given at the time order
to discontinue advertisement is
received. This number Is necessary
In ease Of claim for adjustment.
Evening star., 1943-01-22
HELP MEN.
LAUNDRY HELP

Colored and white; good pay while learning
ali kinds needed. Independent Laundry.
S7th ana Eastern ave, Mt. Rainier, Nd.
See Mr.. Schnider
Evening star., 1943-01-22
ANNUAL, REPORT

Washington D C.. January 81, 1a43.
The undersigned, being the President
and majority Of the Board Of Trustees
of the Geo. NJ. Barker Company. 2 cor
porstion of the District Of Columbia, do
hereby certify that the capital stock Of the
fve thousands dollars, all of which is
fully paid and that there are no debts of
said company except current expenses,
tSeal) (Signed) J. SHULMAN, President.
tSiEned) c. J. JACOBSEN. Vice President.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, SIS:
J. shulmsn. President Of Geo; M.
ters and facts stated in the foregoing
annual report and certificate of the Geo.
M. Barker Co, @ corporation, are true.
(Signed) J, SHULMAN.
Subscribed and sworn 70 before me this
21st. day Of January. 1943.
Notary Public, D. c. My commission ex-
pires Sept ! &. 1913.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-09

According to our LendLease
administrator, approx m tely
$500 airplanes have been sent to
Russia by the United States,
more than has been sent to any
other military theater.
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Puerto Rico
May Elect
OWnGOvernOr

WASHINGTON, March up
- President Roosevelt asked
Congress today to consider "as
soon as possible" legislation to
permit the people of Puerto
Rico to elect their own COVER
nor.
The governor of Puerto Rico
now is appointed by the chief
executive, subject to Senate con-
firmation.
The incumbent is Rexford G..
Tugwell, whose administration
has been attacked by a coalition
of insular political parties. They
accused him of attempting to set
up a communistic state Tugwell
has been vigorously defended by
Interior Secretary Ickes and is
supported in the islands by the
Popular Democratic party which
has had control of the insular
legislature.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the pro-
posal that Puerto Ricans be al
lowed to choose their own gov
ernor originated with Tugwell
and was relayed by Ickes. He
said it long had been the policy
of the United States govern
ment progressively to REIN
force the machinery of self-gov-
eminent in its territories and
island possessions.
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Pacific
Continued from PAGE One

overwhelming aerial superiority
in the zone north of Australia.
The warnings were pointed by
an a tack by nine Japanese
bombers and Is Zero fighters in
the Buna sector in New Guinea
yesterday, when the ra ders
swept over Allied positions and
sank a small cargo vessel.
Allied interceptor planes shot
down a bomber and a fighter, il
was announced.
STRAFE BASES
Other United Nations filters
a t { a k ed Japanese bases in
Dutch New Guinea, in the Tan
imbari Islands, on Timor Island
and at Finschhafen in northeast
New Guinea.
On the Burma front, Field
Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wa
Wells headquarters reported that
Japanese jungle fighter had slip
ped through British lines and
occupied a forest ridge 20 miles
northeast of Rathedaung, Is
miles above the Japanese base
at Akyab on the Bay Of Bengal.
Marshal WavelPs d v an e
forces, slowly thrusting back in
to Burma from India. had previ-
ously reached the Rathedaung
area before meeting stiff Jap
anese resistance.
A communique said the Jap
anese, apparently attempting to
outflank the British, suffered
casualties under strafing by Raj
planes.
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Livestock

DETROIT, March 9 - tAP) - ~.
S. Dept. AgriD - Cattle saleable $50.
Beef steers and heifers scarce, scat
tered sales fully steady: cows active,
$3.50 higher for week to date. Gamers
show minimum average; bulls rather
slow about steady; no steers grading
average good or better offered, medium
TO low-good kinds -. SOLO 90; odd he ad
fat weighty heifers 1900. medium grade
heifers quoted around 400 downward:
medium and good beef cows IL .00-l3.o 90;
cutter and common beef type cows
Q. 90 1918; cannes 8.75 down 10 90 with
odd head very thin light Gamers below
100: odd head strictly good beef bulls
400, early top on good sausage bulls
1880, common and medium bulls 1000
1900.
Calves salable 500 Steady; top and
bulk good and choice Vealers ID so.
medium TO low-good IS 800, lower
grades 1900 down.
Hogs salable 200. Market not estab-
lished early. Mondays market fully
steady, practical top to small killers
1918.
Sheep salable 1000. Lambs active.
strong, top 1878 on good TO choice fed
native and western lambs scaling up
to l02 lbs. Just good lambs 49, so. mixed
medium TO good kinds eligible 1880
1925 with common light throwouts SAL
able l4.50 down good to choice shorn
fed lambs with No. / pelts 1900, med
ium TO good 80 10. fall shorn lambs
$500, common II ID. weights from
same shipment 1900: slaughter ewes
quoted steady at $50 down.
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Willow Run Plant Sets Production Record for Rumors
Africa
Continued from Pare One

Continued from rage One
said Rommel's forces had with
drawn deeper into the Mareth
Notifications after his abortive
sallies from the line.
An Italian communique noted
only "local activity" while front
line dispatches said Lieut.-G Gen.
X. A. N. Anderson's British LIST
Army continued active patrol
forays in the north and Amer
lean patrols captured 80 Italians
20 miles west of Gafsa in CEN
trail Tunisia.
Despite powerful reinforce
ments of armor and troops, ROM
mels fierce offensive thrusts
were declared to have com
pletely failed" against the fire
power of Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's artillery ranged
on the approaches to the CO.
mile-long Mareth defense works.
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trailer park project is being de-
veloped.)
The second great lack, says
this authority, is in experienced
workmen. Of all the workers at
Willow Run, there certainly ism t
one per cent with previous air.
craft experience. 1t may take a
man a year to learn his job"
A third factor slowing up pro-
duction has been the difference
between the most careful plan
ming and actual operation.
"A drawing of an airplane and
the finished product are never
the same it was explained.
THE B-24 was not designed for
Ford tooling. Every design has
to accommodate the tooling of
the plant in which it is TO be
made, so the designs all had to
be redrawn for Willow Run.
There were other little trou-
bles that all added up to losing
time. For one thing, Consolidat-
ed figures all Measurements in
fractions, while Ford uses deci-
mails. So all that had to be
changed. And we need q stand
ardized dictionary of aircraft
parts. There is one wing brace,
for example, that is called by
three different names by as
many manufacturers. All that
means that lot more time had
TO be spent on Consolidated
drawings than was originally
figured.
Another tn ing, material is
now being provided in standard
lied cuts that differ from those
produced when Willow Run was
first planned. So dies have had
to be designed to meet these
standards.
"One original concept that has
been adhered to was that Ford
was not to compete with Con-
Solidated subcontracts. B-24's
made elsewhere are to a large
extent an assembly job. But Ford
is manufacturing at least 80 per
cent of the parts that go into
their bombers."
A further cause of delay, 1t
was pointed out. was the difficult
ty of adapting auto production
line thinking to aircraft needs.
Ford has always thought of
assembly-line pro u C ton in
terms of millions. with one de-
sign change a year. The Army
thinks in thousands but with
many necessary changes In de-
sign. Ford may have been little
stubborn about taking aircraft
advice at first, but things are
really going now.
1.-THE great advantage that
Ford has is tooling facilities and
tooling know-how. With them
Ford is going to be able to beat
the aircraft rate of change"
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Lent
Continued from Page One

the 1870 pm. service. During
Lent, services will be held each
week at 1870 pm. on Wednes-
days and Fridays.
The Distribution of Ashes
will follow the am. Mass at
st. Louis Catholic church; also
at 2:30 pm. and 1880 pm. with
sermon and Benediction. During
the Lenten period there will be
Rosary Sermon and benedic-
ton every Sunday at 1880 p. m.
Services will be held every Fri
day at 2:30 p. m. and 1870 p. m.
Services will be held in Ger
man at 8 pm. at st. Pauls Luz
theran while Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran plans the first of a
series of Wednesday night serv-
ices at the same time.
Zion Evangelical will hold
services in English at 1880 pm.
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Sabotage

Continued from Page One
clamped down strict 8 p. m.
curfeW.
The agency said other recent
anti-Nazi activities in Belgium
included assassination of two
persons who had collaborated
with the Germans.
A Fighting French spokesman
here estimated that the number
of Germans killed in widespread
disorders in France in the past
three days might exceed 200.
The most serious clashes be-
tween occupying troops and the
civilian population were said to
have occurred in Paris, Lyon,
Marseille, Brest and the indus
trial centers of Normandy, Brit
amy and Alsace Lorraine.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-09
Cancelled War Stamps
Presented 10 Nation

WASHINGTON, March up
Cancelled war stamps to the
amount of 1892 were presented
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau
by Senator Homer Ferguson yes
terday on behalf of the Michi-
gan Federation Of Young Re-
publicans.
Ferguson said the stamps
were sold by young Republicans
at the state Republican conven-
ton in Detroit last month tor buy
q jeep or other war material
whose cost will not become a
part of the national debt
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Mrs. MtManus
Passes Away
Funevol Will be
Held in Boy City

Mrs. Matilda McManus, rs,
died at 1890 p. m. yesterday at
the home of her son, Clyde
Sines, at "a Madison avenue.
A native of Bay City, she had
lived at the Sines home since
last Nov. is. Also surviving are
four grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren.
The body was shipped to Bay
City today by Duncan B. Hub
bard. Services in Bay City will
be held Wednesday at 2 p. m.
from the A. E. Vallender Funer-
al Home at sos North Madison
street.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-09
Citizens Candidates
Win Out in New Haven

NEW HAVEN-Citizens Party
candidates were elected to viii
lage offices yesterday without
opposition.
They are: President, Walter
Willert, 38 votes; Clerk, A. j.
Bennett (37); Treasurer, Mrs.
Glenn Bates (35); Trustee q
years., Karlton Jones (3O, Ed
gar Plegue (37) and Carl Eisen-
hardt 1857; Assessor, James Gill
lett (37).
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Willow Run has regular fore
mems schools. But you've got to
train them by the trial-and-error
method. You pick a man and tell
him, You're foreman If he
fails, you have to try another"
Rumor: Ford is 5000 planes
behind in production.
Answer: Ford is on schedule
right now. Production is a few
planes behind the original con-
cept. But that concept was un-
sound and was abandoned"
The above does not answer the
most persistent rumor - that
Ford deliberately deceived the
public by promising production
at an impossible rate, and by
taking pictures of the bombers
that had not been built"
The answer this is unofficial,
but the consensus that contribut-
ed to it seems sound. The most
logical explanation is that the
whole thing was a bad piece Of
public relations. Both the War
Department and the Ford COM
pany seem to have been guilty of
allowing a lot of loose talk about
"a bomber an hour" This would
have meant 600 planes a month,
a figure considerably above the
original (and optimistic) concept
of production.
AS for the pictures of bomb
ers that hadn't been built" here
is the story told in Detroit:
Last spring a bomber was as
sembled at Willow Run by hand
as a practise job to determine
how many assembly stations
would be needed and other me-
chanical necessities. One overly
enthusiastic workman at Willow
Run called friend on one OF the
Detroit newspapers and told him
that they had just turned out the
first 3-24 at the factory. The
newspaperman asked him to get
some pictures. This was done
and the pictures were run with
out any objection or denial OF
the implications. Ford spokes-
men say that no deception was
intended.
In addition to answering the
rumors set down here, the source
of this information gave some
clarifying reasons as to why pro.
duction at Willow Run fell be.
low the hopeful level of blue.
print days.
NEED WORKERS
First of these was manpoWer
Given that and enoungh mate.
rial" he says, land Willow Rur
could turn out 1000 bombers g
month. Housing shortage ano
transportation difficulties &C.
count for this lack as we'll as fol
a great deal of absenteeism. The
plant, designed jointly by Fore
and the War Department, i,
built for great strength and flu
idity of operation"
(The housing shortage is an.
other controversial sub &c I
Some quarters blame Ford fol
stubbornness. or for seeking to
avoid foundation of a big
bomber city" whose politics
would be un on controlled
Others say that Ford had LAID
out a housing plan which, after
much governmental suggestion
and interference" was laid in
the governments lap. At any
rate, barrack-like dwellings are
now under construction and q
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-03-09
BY JAMES THRASHER
NEA Staff Correspondent

otdIl
DETROIT, Mich, Mar. 9-In
the midst of all the public con-
fusion, one positive statement
can be made about the govern
ment- bull. Ford-operated Will
low Run Bomber plant. This
great factory, covering nearly
1000 acres, has certainly set a
production record for wartime
rumors.
Some of them have been mali
cious, some sound; some of them
have been wild, some have con-
tanned a few grains of truth.
They've multiplied partly be-
cause authoritative sourc e S
haven't chosen to refute each
rumor as it came along, since in
many cases it would have meant
revealing secret production rec
ords to do SO.
But there are prevalent ru-
mors that can be answered. And
they are answered here by an
authority who cannot be identi-
fled, but who had an active role
in the development and manu-
facture of B-24 bombers, at Will
low Run and elsewhere, since
they were first put into produc-
ton.
Rumor: Willow Run is not
producing any bombers.
Answer: The first Willow
Run bomber was accepted in
September, and they have been
coming out since then in gradu-
ally increasing quantities"
Rumor: The bombers pro-
duced will not fly because Of
faulty construction.
QUALITY IMPROVED
Answer:"They are all flying
BY present comparison the first
ones turned out did look little
shabby. But now the workman
ship and rigging Of Willow Run
bombers are equal to and some
times superior to those of other
factories"
Rumor: There are less than
5000 workers at Willow Run,
but the management keeps talk
ing about 5000 to keep the pic
ture looking good.
Answer: There are more than
10000 workers. If it weren't for
the housing shortage there
would be more than our present
figure and the production sched-
ule would 60 up accordingly"
Rumor: No sub-assemblics
have been shipped to the assem-
bly, plants in Tulas, Fort Worth
and San Diego.
Answer: Shipment of sub-as-
semblies started last fall"
Rumor: Sub-assemblies that
have been shipped have not been
accepted because they cannot be
used.
Answer: There were two
lousy airplanes that could have
been flown, but which were sent
back here for school use. Our
inspectors were green compared
with those at the Douglas plant
in Tulas, but Douglas was in a
hurry and said they'd take the
parts anyway"
Rumor: The so-called Ford
system of mass production at
Willow Run has broken down
completely and workers are car
rying parts to stations in baskets
instead of utilizing the moving
conveyors.
Answer: THE Willow Run as
sembly line has no conveyors,
and is not going to have any.
The conveyors simply bring ma
terial to cribs adjacent to the
stations"
Rumor: Supervision at Willow
Run has been so poor that
men have not been given enough
to do and thousands have quit
because of enforced idleness.
FOREMEN SCARCE
Answer: There is some truth
In that rumor. There is no ex-
perienced supervision avail
able. Foremen aren't lying
around in niles like cOrdWoOd
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readily identifiable by pickup
trucks as they make their rounds
on Saturday morning.
Mcmillan explained that a
prepared can" has been wash
ed, both ends have been re-
moved and inserted in the bar
rel and the whole receptacle
flattened. Prepared cans are the
only ones useful to the war ef-
fort he pointed out.