The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-01

-s casualties have been 50 heavy.
 From their vantage point above the water, airplanes can look down upon submarines lurking below the surface, and if the weather is clear, can spot them miles away. The Navy has some airplanes es- pecially equipped for this type of patrol work, carrying eight depth bombs each.
 Some planes also carry q new submarine detect0r which can pick up the sound waves from undcrsea motors. A few of these planes, sold to the British, were used in the Mediterranean and party explain why the British Navy suffered 90 little damage from submarines in that area.
 The Navy Coast Guard plan lo use this aerial technique in the western Atlantic, leaving the east ern Atlantic to British patrol. Pa. trolling the eastern Atlantic from the air is not difficult for the British, since they can baso their planes on land, in fact have been operating such patrols for some time.
 Big question of course is: How far out at sea will American planes and ships patrols?" Judg- Ing by the hints President Roose- welt dropped last week, the l,000- mile limit will be subject to con- siderable stretching.
 POWER FROM URANIUM
 The most closely guarded de- ferlse secret in the country today is the scientific work In progress on U 235, a uranium isotope which If successfully produced in sufficient quantity will revolution ize world sources of power.
 This famulous substance, dis covered two years ago, Is psO- duced by subjecting metal uranium to g process of atom smashing. One pound of 1t, combined with ordinary water, would release energy enough to take the place of millions of gal- Ions of oil or millions of tons of coal. So far, however, 1t has been isolated only in minute quantities. t.v,
 Laboratory research on the method of producing . 236 iil amounts large enough for prac- tical use is going on 24 hours a day behind locked doors at Go. lumbia University and the Uni- versity of California, which. are equipped with atom smashing cy- clotrols. In rushing their secret experiements, D. 8. scientists know they are in a race with the Nayis.
 German researchers also are working day and night to. pro- duce the same magic element. In fact, military experts are con- vinced that one motive for Hit- ler's seizure of Denmark last year was the experiments being car- ried on by pr. Neils Bohr, Nobel Prize winner of the University of Copenhagen. He did the original work on U 235.
 In this fateful race,, the United States and Canada for tunately have an abundance of raw niatreial. They possess al- most inexhausible quantities of uranium bearing ores, such as pitchbIende. The Great Lakes region of Alberta abounds i'm pitchblende, while large deposits are also found in Utah and Col- OradO.
 However, Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovalxia provided him with an abundant supply, too. It was pitchblende ore from Bohemia that was used by the Curies in their research leading to the dis covery of radiuna.
 PARADOxICAL BRITISH
 Paradox in the new North At lantic patrol belt is that the Bri- tish will benefit from something they once protested so vigorously stretching the three-uiile limit for Prohibition enforcement.
 It was just eleven short years ago that the Coast Guard--which now will hunt Maxi submarines 1000 miles at sea-shot down and sank the Canadian. rumrunner "I'm AI0ne" 250 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
 Immediately a terrific howl went up from the British. The