The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-19

j., is being operated by the gov ernment, but that doesn't end the matter. Jesse Jones has been negotiating with the U. s. Steel company, which owns the plant, for q temporary lease for the emergency. But this has failed, and Uncle Sam will now take over the plant permanently, oper- ating 1t as Q regular navy yard. Brain Truster Ben Cohen turned down Q chance to 90 to Moscow and advise the American embassy there Hitler Is de- termined to take Leningrad and rage 1t to the ground. But his tactics toward Odessa are differ ent. That city is too valuable as Q Black Sea port and the Nazis don't want to destroy 1t. But they are forced to shell it just the same Senators Ht- ram Johnson of California and Clark of Missouri are hoping to hamstrnig the Presidents rec quest for five billions more of lend-lease funds by offering reso- lutions defining "waters essential to the defense of the Americas" The strategy Is to narrow Ameri- can waters from their present sweep to Iceland, thus keep American warships at home. 7,5OO,OOO CHEvRONS
 Yes, 1t is true that the Army has ordered 7,500,0o0 chevrons for the sleeves of soldiers. There are two explanations of the treineTl- dous size of this order. One comes from a golf club locker room, the other from the War Depart nlent.
 Tn the locker room, after a golf match, the head of General Coal company was kidding his friend, the head of Middlesex Lace and Embroidery company, Of South River, N.J.
 ''TOo bad you make lace ar- ticles," said the coal king. "This defense business means nothing to you"
 Responded the lace man, "Be- Iieve 1t or not, I'm working on an order for 100000 seryeant's chevrOns, and I've just returned from Washington, where I got an order for 100000 more.
 "When I said there must be some mistake, unless they In. tended to make every soldier a sergeant, they explained that everything is ordered ten times in excess of actual requirements and stored away in warehouses, in case of emergency, such as bombing"
 The official explanation Is dif- ferent. War Department explains the need for millions of chevrons this way:
 Each soldier who rates chev- rons needs not one set but sixteen, for use on 1 cotton work shirts, 3 cotton tea shirts, wool shirts, l cotton field jacket, 1 wool coat, 1 mcakinaw-plus four extras for replacement.
 VANDENBERG SAYS
 Ebullient Senator Vandenberg of Michigan strode brisky into the Senate cloakroom shortly af- ter the details of the Churchill Roosevelt conference were made public.
 'yVeII, the country is safe at last" announced the Republican senator, Absolutely safe. Elliott Roosevelt and Franklin, Junior, both took part in the conference with Churchill. So the country can now breathe easy.
 "Amd I,ll bet Eleanog is hop ping mad because she wasn't there tee."
 NOTE - The President gave as the explanation for having his two sons present the fact that they happened" to be in the the New England area.
 HARRIhgAN AND sTALEN
 When AyeFill Hartman sits. down at the conference table with Josef Gtaiin this week, two men wlll come face to face who repre- sent the complete antltheses Of the economic world.
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