The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08

fun began when the Duke, attired in dashing Highland kits, greet ed the COP chairman by singing the Republican campaign song: T want to be a captain, too."
 He did not, however, mention the name of Elliott Roosevelt.
 Then the party moved into hte dining room, led by a Scotch bag piper in full regalia who marched three times around the table pip ing lustily until all were seated. Then, throughout. the meal, he remained standing stiffly at at Sention in a corner, within ear- shot.
 During dinner the Duke and his Duchess tested about their "exile" to the tiny colony. Martin, much intrigued by the bagpiper, kept eyeing him. Wally noticed this but said nothing until, after @ smiling remark by the Duke about being a "castaway", she suddenly turned to the piper.
 "And you can report that back to Downing Street, too," she said.
 The piper did not bat an eye, and the Duke also seemed un- perturbed.
 Don't mind him." he said to Martin, "he's only here to seren- ade me. It's an old Scottish custom"
 ZINC INDICTMENTS
 Little has appeared about 1t in the press, but special federal grand jury in New York is in- vestigating the zinc industry. Pri- vate Justice Department insiders expect Q flock of indictments as sensational as those recently hung on the Aluminium Corporation of America.
 Like aluminium, there Is a se- rious shortage in zinc and 1t is crucial to the manufacture of brass, which, in turn, is essential in the production of cartridge cases. So critical is the zinc shortage that the OPM wants the Army to use substitutes for gall vanized sheeting and pipes ir camp construction. Zinc is essen- tial in galvanizing. When this mysterious shortage of zinc de- veloped, the sleuths of the anti trust department uncovered an extraordinary situation. For many years worldwide zinc car- tel had held down production in the United States, Britain and France in order to keep prices high. Meanwhile the Nazis stead- fly increased their output of this key raw material.
 According to the Justice Depart ment, the cartel, in which, U. s. producers were leading members, operated through a system of commercial and patent licensing agreements. It allocated produc- tion quotas to the chief smelter countries - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Bel gium, and Poland.
 GERMAN PRODUCTION
 SCARED
 American output was limited to around 100000 tons a year, al- though U. s. zinc consumption in 1938-the year before the war amounted to 26.6 per cent of the total world production. Britain, in the same pre-war year, was held down to 6l,9S8 tons-a con- siderable reduction of its 1887 out- put.
 But while Germany was allotted per cent of the world output, it paid no attention to this quota and boosted its production to 12 per cent, or 212,000 tons, in 1888. And it has increased production every year since.
 Moreover, as a result of it's Polish and Belgium conquests, Germany now has all their zine smelters (they belonged to the cartel) and Is operating them full blast for the Naxi war ma chine. An interesting angle is the fact that the Polish smelt- CTS are owned by leading U. s. producer. q member of the cartel in both Poland and the U. S. A.
 As the Justice Department summarizes the situation. while Germany was thuinblng its nose at the cartel and stepping up zinc output to all-time highs for its