The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-19

& %a begin all nego-
 RAsnn tiatiorlS h a V e
 been these two:
 From management--Those lousy
 so-and- -sO's shouldn't be permitted
 to strike when the cOuntry's get
 ting ready for war. It's unpa-
 triOtic.
 From IabOr-All those lousy sO-
 and -so's think about is their
 profits and dividends. They
 shouldn't be allowed to make all
 that dough when the cOuntry's
 getting ready for war. It's un-
 patriotic.
 NOME job has been to let the boys speak their pieces, then cool off and settle their argument on a more rational basis.
 PLANES FOR DEsTRoYERS?
 U. s. navy has been experiment. ing for a year or more with Q tiny scout observation plane that can be carried by destroyer on recon- naisSance or patre. duty. First de- Stroyer to be so equipped was the Noa, one of the old "tin-can" de- stroyers, to distinguish them from the new super -destroyers, known as "gold platers." It was only natural, therefore, that this first destroyer plane should be dubbed the flying tin-can,' and It's emblem, painted on the side of the fuSelage, is & tin can with wings. There being tn- sufficient deck space for 6 catapult, the little plane must take of from water and land on water and 1t Is raised and lowered by a deck crane.
 Approximately 675 planes will make mock war in the second and third army l1ianeuvers in the Louis- lana area during the latter half the month, and while this is the larg- est concentration of planes ever 10 take part in U. S. r1aneuvers-just as these maneuvers of 472,000 men are the largest troop concentrations ---Still, an airforce of less than $50 planes for each 236 900 men on the ground would not begin to equal the concentration of air power in actual combat. No rule can be made, obviously, of one plane for every 1000 or 2000 or even 5000 men. But In actual combat at least double the 676 planes would be used, and possibly three times that number.
 One interesting stdelight Of these air irlafieuvers Is that the ground crews to service these planes num- Der 12,300 enlisted men--niachinics, grease monkeys, and so on. This figures approximately l6 men on the ground for each plane. Air corps officers assigned to the nnaneuvers numbered l844, or two per plane.
 
 PUERTO RIGA PRIoRITIEs
 To give some inkling of how bad ly the defense prioritieS organiza- ton in OPM was balled up before the reorganization which put Don- ald M, Nelson in charge, there is told the story of the gentlemen from Puerto Rico, who came to Washington 6 short time ago and filed some 25 applications for allo- cations of strategic materials to keep the civilian economy of their little island territory going In de- fenge times.
 Hearing no word as to the fate of their applications after e reason- able time had elapsed, the Puerto Ricans began to make inquiries. No one knew anything about them. The boys began digging, however, and finally found 10 of the applications over in the Export Control office. It seems that one of the priorities officials had figured Puerto Rico must be one of those foreign coun- tries he had read about, so the buck had been passed over to the organi- zation handling South America. The other IS applications never were found, so the Puerto Ricans made out new ones.
 Latest expansion plan for the For eign Broadcast Monitoring service of the Federal Communications Commission, cooperating with Col. William J. Donovan's staff of infor- nation co-ordinators, calls for set ting up a listening post in England, in addition to the four already set up in the United States.
 If the station is established in the plan is to have the Eu- ropean propaganda broadcastS tram Scribed in England, where reception would naturally be somewhat better. Then, all the British Broadcasting Company transmisSionS would be and once every 24 hours, a complete outline would be tele- phoned back to Washington. Phon- ing the report at noon, London time, would put it in Washington at 6:30 a. m, eastern standard time.
 Colonel Donovan's experts viii then analyze thiS propaganda rec ord in the morning and prepare any counterpropaganda, or counternews as they prefer to call 1t. that might be necessary to give the lie or thumb the nose at whatever the axis had said the night before.
 These counter-news-a answers would then be broadcast by short wave to Europe and would be on the air by 6:30 ?. m., European time.