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Evening star., 1943-05-26
Corsuir Described as Superior
To All Models of Famed Zero

Walsh caught the second of the
Zeros in a burst and followed him
down. watching him hit the water
1t. Walsh then took cover in a
cloudbank and when he came out
got on the tail of another Zero.
fired at 300 yards and sent the Jap
into the water.
Pulling back aloft, 1t Walsh saw
a Zero trailing white smoke smack
the ocean and another ship in
flames. but torn in so many pieces
he could not identify it. Higher
still, he tried to intercept two dive
bombers, but they hid in cloud.
1t. Walsh then rose to 10000 feet
and got on the tail of another Zero.
The Jap made a tight loop 1t.
Walsh followed him in a larger
circle, coming out above and behind
his adversary. The japanese then
made a short left turn, but 1t
Walsh beat him to the punch with
a 18O-degree turn At that point
the enemy came in his sights and
he fired burst, shredding the
Zero's left wing and sending it down
IN flames.
Tried DETECTION Shot.
1t. Raymond. meanwhile, had
gone after another Zero and found
one firing on the tail of a Corsair.
He tried long DETECTION shot which
caused the Zero to break off and
pull up. 1t. Raymond chased the
plane through an intricate series
of evasive meneuvers and closed in
on it even though it was climbing
rapidly. Finally he delivered
heavy burst of fire, but the japanese
got away by rolling on his back and
skidding to his side and down.
The Navy said the experience of
other pilots in the squadron was
similar to that of 1t Walsh and
1t. Raymond and that they had
confidence in their ability to follow,
in the Corsair. any evasive move
ments of the Zero.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
J.W. Monroe, Jr., Elected
BY Alexandria Board

John w. Monroe, jr has been
elected president of the Alexandria
Junior Chamber of Commerce. He
will succeed Richard H. Bussard and
will take Office at the annual BAN
quet to be held in June.
Mr.. Monroe, a charter member of
the organization, received the key
man" award for outstanding service
in 194l-42 An insurance man, Mr.
Monroe was formerly deputy clerk
of the District Court in Alexandria,
and served as United States COM
missioner.
Other officers are L. A. Gillian,
first vice president; Harry w. Har-
ris, second vice president: Thomas
w. Payne, secretary; Patrick Henry
Butler. jr, treasurer. and Edmund
A. Cole, State director.
Walter c. Densmore, j. Lindsay
Schwarzmann, and Robert E. L..
Moore were elected directors to
serve three-year terms.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
WPB 10 Issue Priorities
On Lumber for Farms

The War Production Board has
agreed to issue a high preference
rating for delivery of 100000, 600
board feet of lumber during the
next four months, to relieve farmers
needs for essential farm repair and
construction. the War Food Admin
istration announced today.
The lumber will be distributed in
areas where 1t is most urgently
needed to care for expanded pro-
duction and where lumber shortages
are most acute. The VIA will
establish state quotas and deter
mine the amount of lumber on the
basis of need for replacement or
repair of farm buildings and IA
cilities.
State quotas will be distributed
within few days, VIA officials
said. The program excludes con-
Struction of farm dwellings.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy's Corsair fighter plane
first such craft in the service to
have 2,000-horsepoWer engine, was
officially described today for the
first time as decidedly superior to
all models of the famed japanese
Zero, even in maneuverability.
Fighting in the South Pacific has
proved the superiority, the Navy
said it had been informed by Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz, command
er of the Pacific Fleet.
Our naval and marine pilots at
Guadalcanal are enthusiastic about
this plane. which so regularly turns
out hrst-rate job" Admiral NimitZ
said.
These pilots have reported that
the Corsair has the Zero licked in
every phase of combat perform
ance-interception, maneuverability
climb, speed, fire power and armor.
Earlier American fighter models
than the F4U were superior to the
Zero in armor and fire power, but
generally not in other respects.
This compelled American pilots to
rely on their skill in evolving new
tactics which quickly Offset the
tactical advantages in the Zero's
characteristics, but prevented our
fighter groups from using maxi
mum variety of combat methods.
The Corsair is equipped with a
Pratt & Whitney engine and Hamil-
ton standard propeller.
The Navy said that included in
the action on which the conclusions
Of Corsair superiority were based
were two engagements in which
masses of Japanese Zeros swept
over the advance American base
in the Russell Islands, northwest of
Guadalcanal.
16 of 25 Zeros Destroyed.
In the latest of these, as an
nounced in a communique May IA.
Is Zeros out of total of 25 were
destroyed. Corsairs got Is of them
Two more Jap planes were listed as
probables.
In the other engagement. which
had been generally reported in a
communique April l, Second 1t.
Kenneth A. Walsh. %. of San Diego.
Calf. led his Corsair squadron to
the aid of six P-38s which were
battling Is Zeros in doghght at
10000 feet.
1t. Walsh's own experience in
which he shot down three Zeros was
described as the highlight of the
squadron's action.
AS Walsh and his wingman. First
1t. Dean B. Raymond. %. Streator
H.. made contact with the enemy
two Zeros dived on them without
success. A third Zero. in circling
turn, was overshot by 1t. Walsh. 1t.
Raymond cut inside Walsh and shot
down the Jap plane. which rolled
on its back and fell burning.
Followed Zero Down.
A tWo-plane section of Zeros
struck at the two marine flyers from
above at an angle of As degrees. 1t
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Two Loborers Injured
When Hoist Cable Snaps

Two colored laborers we're injured,
onea seriously, today when hoist
cable snapped while they were work.
ing in Loomis Park. Nineteenth and
Bryant streets NE.
John Spriggs, SO. of 9 Pierce street
NV, was treated at Casualty Hos
pital for serious head injuries, and
Andrew J. Jenkins. AZ, of 432 v
street NV, was treated for a frac-
tured right arm.
Police said the two men were work.
ing with the hoist pulling posts out
of the ground when the cable snap
ped and knocked them to the ground
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Roosevelt Warns All u. 5.
Agencies 10 Limit Gas

President Roosevelt today ordered
Government agencies to restrict We
hicular operation to the bare mini
mum necessary to carry on essen
tial Government activities" in view
of the gasoline shortage.
Each agency is instructed to
make complete check and to put
into effect Immediately such
changes as are possible that will
effect savings in gasoline" the
President said.
individual use of Federal cars
should be further restricted. Such
use of cars should be limited to the
conduct of pressing and immediate
official business.
Il shall expect complete CO.
operation from all hands"
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Food Official Sees Chaos
Alternative of Rotioninq
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May 26.-Dr. Russell M.
Wilder of Washington, chief of the
Civilian Food Requirements Branch
of the Agriculture Department, told
the Massachusetts, Medical Society
convention today that without a
food-rationing program the only
people who would get enough to eat
would be the ones who had the time
to raid the stores when fresh sup
plies come in.
ANY other course than rationing
would lead to queues and chaos he
added.
He said that "if production goals
are not attained we shall soon be
scraping the bottom of many a bar
rel and we must brace ourselves
against possible sudden and unpre-
dictable demands for food"
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Raids
Continued From First Page '

and so miles southwest of Dortmund.
1t is Germany's third largest inland
port and has iron and steel works
comparable to the great Krupp Or
ganizatiOn.
Dusseldorf had been raided 81
times before-the last time on jan
uary q, when a strong force of
Halifaxes and Lancasters dropped
several hundred tons Of bombs on
the city in space OF 20 minutes.
A previous raid on Dusseldorf last
December 2 was SAID to have left
10000 homeless.
Tanks, guns, torpedoes and parts
of submarines and aircrafts are
among the products of Dusseldorf
factories The city, which had a
prewar popula ton of $4,000. also
is an important communications
center.
Last month Sir Archibald Sim
clair, British Air Minister. told the
House of Commons that $50 acres of
the city had been laid in ruins.
Half-Hour Procession.
The new attack on Reich objec-
tives came after one-night lull and
residents of English coastal areas
said the outbound bombers roared
over in strength in a steady process
sion for half an hour or more about
midnight.
Mitchell medium bombers were
out during daylight yesterday with
an escort of Spitf1res and again
battered the Oft bombed Nazi air
field at Abbeville behind the French
coast. Fighter squadrons, in sup
porting sweeps, strafed other objec-
tives in Northern France. Two
bombers and two fighters were re-
ported lost
Two stabs at the British coast
cost the enemy eight aircraft dur
ing the day.
-Four were brought down-three
by anti-aircraft fire and the fourth
by Raj fighter planes-as the Ger
mans struck at two southeast coast
towns in mid-afternoon with a
force of some Is planes, the largest
concentration of enemy daylight
raiders in some time.
The NaZi attackers dropped a
number of bombs and then turned
their guns on buildings in the
towns. In one town several homes
were f1attened, burying some per-
sons and killing at least H.
A flight of Focke-Wu 1905, head
ing toward a southeast coast town
at dusk last night, was ambushed
by Raj Spitfires. Four of the
enemy planes were sent spinning
into the sea and others were be-
lieved to have been damaged.
Eye witnesses said the Fock-
Wulfs scattered in all directions as
the Spitfires swooped from above.
Numerous doghghts ragged lust
above the water a short distance
from the coast and those who saw
the action called it an amazing
sight,
Some of the Nazi pilots jettisoned
their bombs. Only one caused any
damage.
Up to last night. the month of
May had brought four great satura-
tion raids against the heart of Ger
many's war production in the Ruhr
Valley. Two-at Dortmund and
Duisburg-were top-weight bomb
ings of the war. A summary yes
terday showed that the four at
tackS cost the RAF las planes
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Funds
Continued From First Page

any of the functions of any agency
of Government for which appro-
priations have been duly made by
Congress. or for functions for which
estimates have been submitted by
the Budget and for which Congress
has failed to make appropriations
Provided further. that this llmlta
ton shall not apply to allotments
or allocations made for the War and
Navy Departments
The full committee also sustained
these actions Of the subcommittee:
Striking from the deficiency bill
the House amendment that sought
to remove from the Government
payroll Goodwin B. Watson and Will
liam E. Dodd, j., of the Federal
Communications Commission and
Robert Morss Lovett. secretary Of
the Virgin Islands.
Want Full Information
Eliminate from the lease-lend
bill the House ban on use of any
Of the money to pay agricultural
subsidies.
The House move against the
three officials grew out of the in
vestigation by the Kerr subcommit-
tee Of the House Appropriate
Committee into a list of Govern
ment employees who had been ac-
cused of past or present association
with subversive organizations or
movements.
Acting Chairman McKellar said
there was no disagreement in the
Senate committee over striking out
the House provision in order to put
the issue into conference, but said
committee members held different
views as to whether these men
should work for the Government" ;"
The Senator explained that send
ing the question to conference would
enable the Senate members to get
more information from the House
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Marine and SuiIor Die
In Training Plane Crash
By the Associated presx

BY the Associated Press
VERO BEACH, Fla. May 26.-
Second 1t. Donal G. Demasi, U. S.
M. c. r., 81, and Seaman Frederick
Seaborne. U. S. N. r., ~, were killed
yesterday when their training plane
crashed during a routine flight from
the local naval air station.
1t. Demasi was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Demasi, 215 Park avenue,
Harrison. N. Y, and Mr.. Seaborne
was the son of Mrs. Matilda Sea-
borne of Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Dr.. Rowe to Speak

DR. Leo S. Rowe, director general
of the Pan American Union will
speak on Problems of the Western
Hemisphere" before the Institute of
International Law this evening
at the National University of Law
818 Thirteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
ID Canadian Soldiers Die
In Nozi Raid on Britoin

A SOUTHEAST COAST TOWN
IN ENGLAND, May 26 P.-At least
IA Canadian soldiers were killed in
German air raids on two English
coastal towns Sunday. 1t was dis
closed officially last night.
Seven of the servicemen were
killed when q bomb struck q build
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
In recess until tomorrow.
Agricultural Subcommittee con-
tinues hearings on roll-back OPA
order.
House:
Holds annual memorial service for
deceased members.
Agriculture Committee resumes
investigation Of Farm Security Ad-
ministration.
Evening star., 1943-05-26

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ing here, injuring several more and
leaving at least three others still
missing.
Seven others died in the explosion
of a bomb on a hotel at a south
coast town.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Gas. on Stomach
Relieved in S minutes or
double Your money hack

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symDtomaic reief-medicines like those In Bell ans
Tablets. No laxative. Bell ans brings comfort In .
tihy or double your money back return Of bottle
to u. Csc at all druggtstA
Evening star., 1943-05-26

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-Four mdshpmen and their ancees line obtain
licenses from Mrs Irene M Flanagan foreground deputy
county clerk They "a classmates plan
after receiving commissions
school University couples
Evening star., 1943-05-26
FOUND

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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07
BY ANN FRANCE WILSON


NEA Service Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-Meat
rationing may not start the day
you receive War Ration Book
No. 2, but it will follow close on
the heels of canned-goods ra-
tioning.
Your new ration book will
have two different sets of cou-
pons-one for canned goods, the
other for meat.
HOME WORK
II you really want to be pre-
pared for rationing, start boning
up now on the point system and
on the possibilities of offenders
and alternate foods. That's the
advice of an Agriculture Depart
ment official who sees trouble
ahead for the unprepared house
wife.
The start of rationing Is going
to be confusing to everybody.
You'll likely buy the wrong
things and-unless you've al
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07
Birth Benefits
Are Proposed
Expended Security
PIon Outlined

DETROIT, Jan. 7 - up "A
greatly expanded Federal Social
Security program providi n g
grants to families at the birth of
children, hospital and medical
care, and other added benefits
was proposed by the CLOS Unit
ed Automobile Workers today.
The union, contemplating a
program costing seven billion
dollars a year, advocated its
adoption as a wartime mea-
sure" to give the people of the
United States "a sense of future
security which in turn will give
content and meaning to the war
detectives"
Present State laws relating to
workmen's compensation, unem-
ployment benefits, old age and
other grants would be incorpor-
ated under the Federal setup.
All wage and salaried workers
would be covered, with partici-
patton optional to farmers and
self employers"
Secretary-Treasurer George
F. Adde's announced the Unions
proposal, which, in a listing of
Fundamental points," called
for:
Temporary and permanent
disability benefits from illness
or accident; "a lump sum paid
upon the birth of child" fun
eral benefits; old age benefits
beginning at minimum age of
60 years; death benefits to a
workers widow.
Also, unemployment benefits
for a minimum of 80 weeks in a
year; hospital benefits or hospi-
tai care for the worker, his wife
and dependents, and similar
medical benefits.
Most present State and Fed
eral laws touching on any Of
the above are inadequate" the
Union said.
Employers, employees and the
Government would share in
paying the added four billion
dollars to finance the program,
Adde's said. He pointed out that
Social Security as now operating
takes three billion dollars IN
taxes.
The seven billion total cost
would approximate IL per cent
of the present National payroll,
Adde's said. He said the cost of
the program would act as de
terrent to initiation" and that it's
practically was therefore the
more evident.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07
Rexford Tugwe| Loved Or Haired But Not Ignored

II may be that, before the war
is over, you'll be taking a milk
bottle TO the corner grocery for
a quart of the specialize de la
maison" when you want soup for
lunch.
This prospect comes in answer
10 the rumor that all canned
soups may be off the market
eventually, due to shortage of
manpower and tin. There is
s.hall chance of this happening
in the near future, and it may
not occur at all. But if il does
there is likelihood that your gro
Ger will turn chef, so that you
won't have 10 rely entirely on
your own soup recipes.
It's also quite possible that if
he goes in for cooking he won't
stop at soup, but will include
other reac|.to- serve foods, such
as potato salad.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07

buy the other things you want
ed.
1t isn't going TO be easy, this
shopping with two kinds of
currency dollars and cents
plus rationing's point system.
And although a degree in math-
ematicS won't be necessary 10
tske you safely 10 the grocery.
a little sound adding and good
judgment will help. So start
your home work now.
1t will also pay you TO learn
how to make appetizing dishes
from unrationed food, and how
to make your rationed meat sup
ply go farther with "extenders.
Start practising now before you
have to use them.
For instance. you can increase
the bulk of your hamburger
steak purchase one-third by adj
ding corn meal. And il might
pay you to investigate the pos
sibilities of soy beans as a meat
supplement.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07

tends to be unbiased about the
former brain-truster. He seems
to be one Of those men whom
some love, others hate, but none
ignores.
Tugwell and Luis Munoz Ma
rim, leader of the dominant Pop
ulares party, are economic and
political buddies. Their critics
are about evenly divided wheth-
er Tugwell is using Munoz Ma
rim, or the Puerto Rican is using
the Governor. At any rate, with
very minor divergences, they are
following the same path.
There is the land subdivision
program, described earlier,
which is a principal bone of con-
tention. 1t is not really their
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07
East Detroit
J-Hop is Set
for Jan. p

EAST DETROIT-The annual
J-Hop, presented by the Junior
Class of the East Detroit High
School, will be held Friday, Jan.
%, according to Ruby Humbert
general committee chairman.
The Juniors are now busily
engaged in planning the event,
with the following pupils on the
general committee: Ruby Hum
bert, chairman; Sid Blair, TIA
class president; Wayne Hall,
class representative; and Pete
Johansen, lib class president.
The teachers sponsoring the
affair include Mrs. Nina Moran,
lib; Miss Kathryn Rothenberg-
er, lib; Lewis Wetzel, lib;
Clinton Gordon, liza; and Vim
cent Apton, TIA.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-07
Fraser High School
Given PRINTING Press

FRASER-E. w. Berg of Fra
ser has presented a printing
press, complete with type, to the
Fraser High School. 1t is valued
at $3.50 and is great addition
to the school for it opens a new
field in vocational training to
man" students. Such gifts enable
the school to carry on much
needed activities. Hereafter, for
various school entertainments
the tickets, programs and many
printed forms can be done at the
school. If enough interest can be
developed a class in printing
may be offered.