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Evening star., 1943-10-10
Bissen, Whitehead
Decorated for Air
Fight Against Japs

Maj Gems. Clayton S. Bissell and
Ennis c. Whitehead yesterday
were awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal and the Silver Star.
respectively. for their part in Ameri-
can air force operations against the
Japanese.
Gen. Bissell, A. d native Of Kane,
Pa, received his award for work
as commanding general of the Tenth
Air Force gased in India. His cita-
ton said he displayed brilliant
strategical and tactical concepts
and demonstrated outstanding abil-
lty to command" He also was cited
for his "unceasing devotion to duty,
his ingenuity, and long-range plan
ming in overcoming difficulties of
supply and distance"
Gen. Whitehead, 48, of Westpha-
liza, Kans., won the Silver Star for
gallantry in action against the en-
emy over Mubo, New Guinea, on
July 7. Asked to lombard key DO
sitions at Mubo, he conceived,
PidAAAANN oilN Jol ClCiDdltu Ill iIlP
heaviest bombardment attack which
had ever been made by the 5th Air
Force the citation said
As deputy air force commander
of the 5th Air Force in the South
west Pacific. Gen. Whitehead SUI
perviSed the dropping of 211.800
pounds of bombs on the targets
with precision the land forces de-
clared was "faultless,' the citation
added.
Gen. Bissell was stationed in
Washington as member of the
War Plans Division of the War De-
partment General Staff from July,
1889 until he went overseas. He
was awarded the DISC and the
Silver Star in the World War, win
ming the former for aiding a fell
low airman attacked by eight Ger
man Fokkers. He drew off three,
shooting down one and chasing the
others to their own lines.
Gen. Whitehead is the holder OF
the Distinguished Flying Cross.
awarded for his work during
Pan American fight from Decem-
Der 81, 1926, to May 2, 1927.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
House Banking Group
Leans 10 Subsidy Ban,
Member Poll Reveals

A poll of the House Banking Com
mittee yesterday disclosed powerful
backing for congressional ban on
consumer subsidies in a new chal-
lenge of the administration method
for combating initiation.
The outcome, however, may de-
pend on group of lawmakers who
describe themselves as still on the
fence" and hopeful Of drafting legis-
lation in a way which will prevent
repetition of this years earlier battle
between the farm bloc and President
Roosevelt.
The survey of the 25-member COM
mittee-l4 Democrats and IL Re-
publicans-currently engaged in
studying legislation to extend the
life of the Commodity Credit Corp
the agency used for part of the
Subsidyrollback program-produced
these results:
Five Still Undecided.
Ten members firmly for a pro-
hibition against consumer subsidies
with two more leaning in that direc-
ton. Four members stoutly in favor
of the program Five ION the fence. :"
Four members could not be reached
The Republicans stand almost
solidly against subsidies, with one
of the group. Representative Tale,
Republican, of Iowa still unwilling
to commit himself, though declaring
that those in favor of them have
not made out a case as yet"
Lined up with the Republican
bloc are some Democrats from farm
producing States. Chairman Stea-
gall bluntly asserted that no author
ity now exists for the Office of Price
Administration to fix price ceilings
below the cost of production under
the theory of making up the differ
ence through subsidies.
Arguments Vary.
The arguments of those in favor
of writing a subsidy ban into the
CCC extension bill range from the
assertions that this method Of fight
ing imitation passes on the debt to
the servicemen, to the claim that
consumers never were in, better
position to pay their grocery bills
than now.
Foes of the ban counter with the
Evening star., 1943-10-10
| Spiral Missile
Fired by Secret
Nozi Weapon
Y the Associated Press.


A UNITED STATES BOMBER
BASE IN ENGLAND, Oct. ga
spiral l0-pound piece of metal
4 inches thick and IA incnes long
came back in a Fortress piloted by
1t. Elmer Nardy of Healdsburg,
Calf, as the first known specimen
of the missiles the Nazls have been
tossing from their new rocket guns.
The f1ak-like chunk apparently
failed to fragmentate when it hit
the plane and lodged in a wing
Most fighters of swarm of be-
tween 100 and 200 encountered in
the attack on the airplane parts
factory at Anklam TO-DAY were
secret" weapon, which some re-
turning creWmen said seemed to
be more secret than effective.
Guns, mounted by tWos and pos
sibly more under each wing of the
planes, at distance appeared to be
additional engines, crewmen who
got a fairly close look At them said.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Grozioni Changes Name
Of Army to Lure Men

BY the Associated Press
AT THE ITALIAN SWISS FROM
TIER, Oct. 9.-Defense Minister
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani today
tried to make Benito MusSolinis S
puppet government more palatable
to Italians by changing the name
OF the regimes armed forces to the
National Republican Army"
The change was revealed ir
Graziani's decree on recruiting men.
The new party is emphasizing
democratic" principles, Milan dis
patch to the Bern newspaper Der
Bund said.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Steuart Case Arguments
Will Be Heard Oct. u

Oral arguments have been set for
October 81 in the case of l.. P.
Steuart & Bro, Inc, fuel oil dealers
accused by the OPA of rationing IL
regularities last winter, it was
learned yesterday.
The arguments will be before Cliff
ford Snyder of New York, OPA hear
ing commissioner who heard the
case during September. At the con-
clusiSon of the hearing, Mr.. Snyder
called for briefs from the opposing
attorneys, Renah F.. Camalier, rep
reSenting the Steuart company, and
Carl w, Berueffy, representing the
enforcement branch of the District
OPA.
Mr.. Camalier filed his brief yes
terdav, while MI. Berueffy filed his
a week earlier Mr.. Camaliers brief
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Yanks Applaud Idea
OF Leave at Home,
But Don't Expect II
BY EDWARD KENNEDY,
Associated Press War Correspondent.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Oct. "a recommendation
that American soldiers on foreign
duty be brought nome for rest
after given period was received by
troops in this theater as the hap
piest idea they had heard since
they came here-but there was
much skepticism that it ever would
be put into effect
The recommendation. made bv
Senators who recently toured this
and other battle fronts, was pub
llshed prominently by the troops
newspaper, the Stars and Stripes.
There is no question that the one
thing every American soldier wants
more than anything else in the
world is to go home.
Cause of Uneasiness.
Recent opinions that the war NAV
continue as long as l949 and that an
American occupation army might
be kept in Europe long after the
war is ended caused much uneas-
mess among the soldiers.
One sergeant said: Il was drafted
III 1910, and it was supposed to be
tor one year, Here it is now going
on to four years. If it wasn't for this,
l would be married by now. I'm 26
and beginning to get bald. If this
goes on, III be here the rest of nv
life
A soldier who had been here since
the landings, II months ago. said:
oh, its all right for the Senators
TO say we ought to 60 home after a
certain length of overseas service,
but l doubt that we'll ever get that,
II would be great thing if YOU
could look ahead and be sure of
getting home by certain date no
matter how long off it is. AS it is.
we don't know how long we'll be
here and have nothing definite to
look forward to-"
Air Forces Have Leave.
Asked for the WACS' attitude,
Sergt. Dorothea Patricia Maria CAL
lahan of Minneapolis. who has been
here nine months and assigned TO
duty in the Public Relations Office,
wrote this statement:
1T would definitely be conducive
to my physical welfare to know that
after a certain period of time l
would be returned to the United
States where l would be properly
fed"
The Air Force has system of
relief for flying personnel similar
to that suggested by the Senators.
While there is no fixed regulation
the policy has been to let pilots
and air crews go home after COM
pleting so missions.
Ground soldiers including those
attached to the Air Force have no
prospect like this
Think Leave Impractical.
While there was no official COM
ment here on the recommendation
most high officers believe it is i'm
practical under present circum-
stances. There is not enough ship
ping to move hundreds of thousands
of soldiers back home on leave and
bring others here to replace them,
they said
They add that the soldiers here
include seasoned veterans and re-
placing them with men never yet
under fire would not be advantage
Gus
The Senators recommendation
that pictures of the hardships and
sufferings of troops be given to the
public also was we'll received by
the soldiers who frequently consider
that their part in the war is CLOSED
over.
The battlefronts tour was made by
Senators Russell, Democrat of Geor-
gia, Mead, Democrat of New York,
Brewster, Republican of Maine,
Lodge, Republican of Massachusetts,
and Chandler Democratic of Ken
lucky.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Officers Installed

Installation of officers marked the
first fall meeting of the Teachers
and Mothers Club of the Hyatts-
vile Elementary Schools held re-
Gently at the Forty-third Avenue
School. Mrs. Caesar Aiello is presi-
dent of the club. Other officers are
Mrs John M. Byers, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Anna Bracken, CORE
spending secretary. and Mrs. A. M.
treasurer.
Evening star., 1943-10-10

contention that increased prices Of
food products would bring new de-
mands for increased wages for labor
and a break in the anti-inf1ation
program; that subsidies are neces-
sary to protect the white collar
worker, pensioners, others in the
fixed income group and dependents
of servicemen.
Mr.. Steagall said the committee
probably would continue hearings
on the CCC measure for another
week or 10 days. The agency is ask
ing for a new lease on life from
January !, l943, to July l, 1945, an
increase in its borrowing authority
from $4,000 10000 to $500, 900 900.
and permission to sell perishable
foods below parity prices.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Dr.. H. H. Long to Open
YMCA Forum Series

DR.. Howard H. Long, assistant
superintendent of schools, will open
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton forum series at 4 p M today
at the Twelfth Street YMCA
Branch.
DR.. Long will speak on What
Should the Negro Do to Ameliorate
Interracial Fellowship" Dr. Of
tawa j. Saunders is chairman of the
W Fellowship Forum.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
Movie Elephant Boy
Drives Auto in Army
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE. Nd,
Oct 9.-This is a mechanical age.
Yesterdays elephant boy today is
driving a station wagon.
Pvt. Sabu Dastagir better known
as Sabu, star of Elephant Boy
Drums and Arabian Nights" this
week was transferred from the 39th
Special Service Company to the
post headquarters detachment, and
assigned to duty with the Special
Service Branch. Plotting the Office
car is just one of the several chores
the former actor is performing.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
First Aid Class to Sturt

Under auspices of the Silver
Spring branch, Montgomery County
Chapter, American Red Cross,
first-aid class will start at 7:45 p.
m. Tuesday at the Silver Spring
firehouse. Glasses will be conduct
ed by Earle Culver, captain Of the
Rescue Squad. Interested persons
are urged to attend.
Evening star., 1943-10-10
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, Oct. 9.-This is a
story about Baltimorean who fell
out Of Flying Fortress over Eng
land, who hit the ground before his
parachute opened-yet lived to tell
about it.
Staff Sergt. James F. Jones, 81
year-old tail gunner, landed on soft
ground and, although the impact
knocked him unconscious, he suf-
fered only a slightly sprained ankle,
minor cuts and bruises.
The Baltimore Sun related today
that Sergt. Jones fell out of the
Fortress when the ship struck and
caromed off hilltop in England,
the impact throwing Sergt. Jones
against The escape door in the
planes tail section.
The accident occurred at night
while the plane was returning from
a raid on a French base for U-boats.
Sergt. Jones didn't know how far
he fell. 1t was far enough to pull
Evening star., 1943-10-10

supported his motion for dismissal
of the charges made at the open
ing OF the hearing and also an
SWered the 227 charges made by
the OPA
Evening star., 1943-04-14

Choice: Ready mixed paint,
interior gloss, semi-gloss or first
paint. For interior or exterior.
Regular colors.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-23
TODAY'S GUEST COLUMN

BY Ted (AP) Meier: Boxing Is
booming here Promoter
Herman Taylor terms Philadel-
phia the best fight town in the
country outside of New York =.
Jimmy Toppi, who has only 1900
seats to sell at his Olympia club,
has run 55 cons ,cutive shows at
profit. One show netted only
nickel, but still it was on the
right side Clair Hare, CO.
promoter with Ned Irish Of bask-
ctball doubleheaders at Conven-
ton Hall, has taken wartime
job on the ports desk of the
Philadelphia Record Clair
says he'll have court schedule
for next winter lined up in a
few weeks but he doesn't expect
to know before July what the
prospects really are Penn
opens its rowing season on the
Schuylkill against Rutgers and
Princeton tomorrow, looking
ahead TO next weeks Adams
Cup race which, surprisingly,
will be bigger than ever. Cor
nell is an added starter this
year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-23
The Monitor-Leader
FRIDAY APRIL %, l943 PAGE 10
Final Verdict DELAYED
Need Warm Weather
tn Test e43 Ball

The new pellet remains the
chief topic of conversation
among players. Not even
pitcher, who might be expected
to favor any development which
would reduce scoring and make
his trade a bit easier, had good
word for the ersatz onion.
Mel Harder, the Indians vet
eran finger, advanced his rea-
son:
I'D rather have about six
runs TO work with and take a
chance of getting the other guys
out. And where will l ever get
six runs with ball like this?"
Roger (Doc) Cramer, Detroit
center fielder. contributed his
opinion:
1t isn't only the hitting and
the pitching that are affected.
If we're going to use that ball all
season il will revolutionize out
field play. Did you happen to
notice where l was playing yes
terday? About 25 feet closer in
than / played last year
Rudy York, the Tigers slug
ging first baseman, supplied >
tWo-word summation: Its bru-
tall
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Michigan
Hullllbles
Normal

ANN ARBOR, Mich, April %
-(P)- The University of Mich
igan baseball team carried a
$50 record into Its two-game
Western Conference series with
Illinois today following an to
0 triumph over Michigan Nor
NAL.
Michigan pushed across three
runs in the first on Bob Nuss-
banners double and Dick Wal
terhouse's triple. That's all the
array of pitching talent needed
to win, but the Wolverines got
two more runs in the fourth and
eighth and one more in the sew
enth.
Mich. Nor. 600 600 O00-0 4 3
Michigan 800 200 12x-8 IL /
Gabriel, Greig and Harvey;
Cain, Macintosh, Savage, Drury,
Schmidtke and Swanson.
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Harry CraysOn 5
ScOrebOard
PLAYERS Assert New Ball Won't
Bounce Half as High
- ~ as Old One
NEA Sports Editor

NEW YORK April - Ball players complained about the
new baseball lively than the led
Williams hit for and SO home IN 1912
II" doesn't half high the old one testified Joe
I'VE tested them by dropping them
from the same height floor and last years ball
bounced twice high" $500
The new baaa and eprocessed cork and rubber
in its exactly old The sphere hard and
bat meeting is something III the way
of violence is sold substance.
Hitting nfield fielding practise Art Fetch
though he hitting croquet pail
the athletes won't be squawking ABOUT
the ball being lopsded they did last summer
the doctored ball deader than the old one
there was Yankees blasted Al avery ana
the Braves for 10 hits including NICK Etteh
first home n a York uniform and four doubles
The almost liberties with Charley Wens-
loft Jim Turner compiling II hits IN game
field seats .
You wouldn't recognize Mccarthy AS Brooklyn prospect
Bill Terry the player no.
body denied Mccarthy could Held he
including physical advantages gives
a first baseman. -.
Mccarthy had until he 20 before acquiring hit
ting knac however finally picking IN Indianapolis last
Playing he batted 29o and led the Amer
bases and runs battedn with ll3
Mccarthy weight and now steps INTO the
ball from the plate with authority He not only
pulls he used to altogether too nirequey Out pohes
the field line
Miller Higgins guided the Yankees to the heights con-
sidered competitive the greatest single asset ball player
could have Dodgers the same
opinion 49,, i.
important of but scouts stlll look al
arms legs and swing and for size and power
Johnny Mccarthy lacked the urge
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-23
FRIDAY
BY LARRY SMITH

CLEVELAND, April 23-(P)
1t appeared today that the fin
al verdict on the 1913 official
baseball with the Balata core
can't be rendered until after a
period of warm, dry weather.
Members of the Cleveland In
dams and the Detroit Tigers at
tended a clinical examination
of the new ball before yester-
days game. A manufacturer
representative officiated as sur
geon. He cut open ball and
found that the yarn which sur
rounds the cork and balata CEN
ter was loosely wound and SEEM
ingly damp.
The discovery may indicate
the new ball is more sensitive
to weather changes than the
old one, that IL has absorbed
dampness from the air and
that dry, warm weather may
make it livelier.
The reverberations continued
from the office Of Warren Giles,
general manager of the Cincin-
natl Reds and National League
representative on the committee
which adopted specifications for
the new ball. Giles remarks in
dictate he may not wait for any
change in the weather.
The Redleg official says the
manufacturer admitted the new
ball is 25 per cent deader than
last year, blamed it on the SUBJ
stitute for rubber cement be-
tween the cover and yarn, and
promised remedy.
IF they don't we'll use our
own make of baseball, Giles
threatened. II don't care if the
League throws out every game
we play. The present ball will
kill the interest in baseball. PEG.
pie want more action, they re
geared to excitement as result
Of the war and they won't come
out for pitchers battles.
pitchers should pay to play
with this ball. If they're 60
ing to use it, I'm going to hire
out as a pitcher myself, and
I'm over draft age. They can
get out one that meets the
specifications in 10 days or a
couple of weeks, SO we'll
string along with this one that
long"
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Frosh HurIer
Stops |IIini
Western Michigan
is 6 to z Victor

KALAMAZOO, Mich, April
April % - (Ao) Freshman
Warren Biddle of Eaton Rapids
gives promise that Western
Michigan is going to produce its
customary No. type of college
baseball again this season.
The Broncos trimmed previ-
ously undefeated Illinois yester-
DAY, 6 10 2, with Biddle allow
ing only three hits and holding
the Him at his mercy except for
the first inning wheo errors per-
mitted both the visitors scores.
1t was Westerns opener.
Two muffs in the infield, along
with a base on balls, sent ILL
nois off to d 2 to 0 lead, but
from then on the Big Ten team
got only row Of goose eggs.
John Bero. third baseman who
made one OF the errors, atoned
for it with triple in the third
which figured in a four-run
bronco rally. Three hits produc-
cd another in the fourth. A walk
Two hit batsmen and an infield
out brought in the last run in
the sixth.
The score:
Illinois 200 600 000-2 3
w. Mich. 004 l01 OOx--6 6
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LaCrOiX.
Irwin Hit
the Naples

Paced by Norm LaCroix's 687
and Clint Twins 6Sl, Alter La
ger rolled 1890 in Major League
competition last night to win the
odd game from Denmarsh.
LaCroix and Irwin opened
with 242 and 236, respectively,
To give Altes the game, 1851 to
1926. Denmarsh won the second,
$50 TO 942, but LaCroiX and IT.
win were back at il with 230
and 2l6 TO win the third. 1887 to
9l5.
Les Frederick aCded 229 in
600, but his brother Floyd was
far from accustomed form with
537 and Hank LaCl DIX finished
with SAC after 203 opener.
George Noteboom had 226 for
Denmarsh.
Other good Major League
scores included Sam Levine's
225-221 in els. George Cald-
wells coo and Eldon Valentine S
GA.
Peg Bridenbaughs 1873 in 532
paced the ladies IN the Kings
and Queens League while Lieut..
Odel Rude, as usual, was high
with 237 in 566.
Ann Fleischut had ITO in 467
in the Gutter Busters League.
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Eleventh of a series
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor

Eddie Collins, who played be-
hind him for seven seasons, calls
Edward S. Plank the greatest of
all pitchers.
mot the fastest says the
equally famous second baseman.
mot the trickiest, and not the
possessor of the most stuff, but
just the greatest"
Raised on a farm near Gettys-
burg, Pa, where he died follow
ing a stroke, Feb. "a, 1926, Ed
die Plank had never played
baseball when Frank Foreman,
an old pitcher coaching Gettys-
burg College, asked him TO try
out for the varsity.
Plank was nearly 26 when he
came into the American League
with Connie Mack and the Phila-
delphia Athletics in 1901. In III
different seasons he won from
10 to 26 engagements, in 10
years finished under 500 only
once. He won 800 games in II
years, lost 100 for percentage
of .627.
The Gettysburg Guide was in
five World Series, and although
he pitched brilliantly, had little
luck. He lost five while winning
two, yielding no more than III
runs in all. He gave up more
than two runs only once.-When
Christy Mathewson and the Or
ants shut out the Athletics, 80,
in 1911.
OFFERED CONTRACT,AT "A.
Plank jumped to the Federal
League, wound up with the
Browns. He quit in August, 1917,
Disguised with his support fol-
lowing two-hit, 10 loss to Wal
ter Johnson. Traded to the Yam
KEGS, he refused to report, and
was so effective in the Bethle-
hem Steel League in 1918 that
Miller Higgins offered him a fat
contract at the age of a..
No left-handed pit C r
matches Plank's record in length
OF service and general effective
ness. Southpaws aren't sup
posed to last as long as right
handlers, yet no pitcher retained
his effectiveness at Plank's age,
retrogressed so little over long
span of years. The fact that he
broke in so late undoubtedly &C
counts for this.
Plank stood S feet II u inches,
weighed ITS pounds. He had
sharp features, a jutting jaw and
there we're lines in his tanned
face. He suffered from a nasal
condition. experienced difficulty
in breathing. He always COM
planned of sore elbow, and the
sorer he said It was the better he
pitched.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-23

The 11-hit Detroit attack on
33-year-old Mel Harder, starting
his 10th season with the Tribe,
and rookie Pete Center was led
by Roger (Doc) Cramer, who
punched out five successive
singles and scored two runs.
Dick Wakefield, expensive for
mer University Of Michigan out
fielder, gathered two hits and
drove in two runs.
The Tigers had string of Ia
scOreless innings when Cramer
opened the sixth with a single.
Rip Radcliffe tapped perfect
sacrifice, and Wakefield whistled
liner into center field to send
Cramer home with the only run
Trucks needed.
Two innings later Wakefield
got life on first baseman Otto
Denning's error and scored when
Rudy York's drive got past out
fielder Hank Edwards for
triple. Pinky Higgins long fly
sent York home.
Harder was lifted for a run in
the ninth. With one out the
trouble some Cramer singled
and took third on Radcliff's
single. Cramer scored as Wake
field grounded out.
While he didn't figure in the
scoring. rookie shortstop Joe
Hoover also gathered two hits.
Trucks victory offset Cleve-
lands ! to O opening triumph
when young Jim Bagby outlasted
veteran Tommy Bridges. Again
it was triumph for youth over
age as Trucks won out. Virgil
will be "a years old next Mon
day.