The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-20

But in the meantime the big question is how to divide those now being produced between U. s. and British requirements. Beav- erbrook hopes to return with the answer in favor of Britain. HOW WE DO IT ;?)
 Blair Bolles, Washington Star ace reporter, was approached the other day by Yelverton Garnett, an ex-reporter for The Star who said he had been commission by the Navy Department to find out where Pearson and Allen got their news about the Navy and what naval officers were respon- sible for leaks to the Merry -Go- Round column.
 Bolles, without flicker of an eye-lash, replied: Don't you know how it's done? It's done by network of bribery. They bribe messenged boys and stenOgraphers and elevator operators. They bribe everybody. That's how they ct their news"
 'sRealIy!" gasped Barnett, his eyes wide with astonishment. and he rushed off to tell the Navy. KNOX'S CENSORSHIP
 Ex-publisher; now sailorman Frank Knox has been grabbing about newspaper publication of navy news and issuing denials about the use of American planes and vessels in patrolling with Cor accompanying British ships.
 Last week, however, large ad- vertisement appeared in metropoli- tan newspapers stating that the Secretary of the Navy would tell in Golfers Weekly about how an U. S.-built navy patrol bomber which first sighted the Bismarck and contributed to her sinking.
 And in Golfers, sure enough
 Secretary Knox neatly spills news which American newspa- pers, prior to Knox regime, had
 considered public information, but which he had asked them to suppress.
 NOTE - Though the Ameri- can public has remained ignor- ant of the movements of U. s. vessels, foreign agents have a relatively easy way of checking their location. Shipping clerks in offices which send cigarettes and other supplies to warships always know their approximate whereabouts.
 LESSONS FROM CRETE
 There is an air-power vs sea- power lesson for the United States in hitherto secret details of the battle of Crete which have now leaked out. British warships damaged by the Nazi airplane barrage over Crete are still being repaired in shipyards in Singa- pore and elsewhere in the Pa- cific.
 The Warspite, a 32,OOO-ton Bfi- tish battleship, was struck by a torpedo in the bow, causing the gasoline stored there to catch fire. Result was that the entire front of the vessel was melted or blown away. Thanks to its sealed wa ter-tight compartments, the big battle-wagon stayed afloat. And with engines running in reverse, she managed to back to Alexan- dria, Egypt. 800 miles away.
 Then the stern of @ merchant ship was riveted on the bow of the Warspite and 1t lilnped through the suez Canal to Sing apore, however, was SO busy re- pairing other British ships dam- aged at Crete that the Warspite went elsewhere.
 IsOLATTONIsT TERROR"
 Senate isolationists, skilled in breast-heating about the sanc- tlty of free speech, appear to be staging an organized drive to dry lip the press. radio and the movies.
 First sign Of this was the bar- ring Walter WinchelI and other anti-is0latienist commentators by three Montana radio stations owned by friends of Senator Burt Wheeler. ,s+.5
 Second was the resolution in- trodueed by in0latloniat 9onatofs Mye and D. Worth clark te tn- yestlgafe 'waf pgenMgkH6ag ny the movies and radio. t44nea4efot