The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-08

about protecting Corregidor from the air. It can hold out for some time, but sooner or later we face the prospect of seeing the Stars and Stripes hauled down from the main islands of the Philippines.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Secretary of War Stimson has been shaking Up some of his gen. erals, and has put General Ray mond Lee temporarily ill charge of military intelligence. Lee was former U. s. military attache in London and an Al officer. Army people hope he stays in charge of the intelligence service To make more office space in Washington, the Farm Credit Administration is being moved to Chicago. EX-Ambassador Joe Davies has written a book on his experiences in Russia which should be must reading for every member of Congress. It is a mag nificent job EX-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy is now in Florida writing a book on his experiences at the Court of St. James. If Joe is frank-and he usually is--the book ought to be a best seller |. FiIly per cent of our vitamin A is being sent to England. This, together with the shortage of fish flyers and oils from Norway and Japan, is caus- ing a shortage of vitamins in the U. s. A.
 WLW ICELAND
 The largest standard-W wave broadcasting apparatus in the U. s. A.-owned by WLW Cincin- nati - may be set up in Iceland to drown out Hitler's rasping broadcastS to the German peo- pie.
 For many years WLW operated a 500,000 watt station in Cincin- natl, but was forced by the Fed eral Communications Commission to reduce to 50000 watts, which is the maximum for ordinary con- mercial stations in the U. s. A. Therefore. WLW has now offered its big 500,000 watt set to the government to be established in Iceland. Since Hitler's stations are nowhere near as strong as 500,000 watts, WLW's beams from Iceland could drown out his voice every time he went on the air.
 Furthermore, WLW Iceland would not operate on short wave, which the German people are not permitted to hear. It would
 operate on standard broad casting beam and would come in over the ordinary German radio.
 By turning a button in the sta-
 tiOn in Iceland, the wave
 length could be changed to cut
 in on any German program.
 There is one catch in the proposal, however. WLW Cincin- nati wants to make a deal with the Government whereby it would be permitted to set up another 500000 watt station in the United States in return for sending it's equipment to Iceland.
 NOTE - The 100000 watt radio station which the Donovan Con- mittee is transferring from Schen- ectady, N. Y, to San Francisco for propaganda broadcasts to Ja- pan is for short wave broadcasts only.
 SCRAP IRON WENT TO JAPAN
 It may be that those who let millions of tons of scrap iron go to Japan are not too anxious to advertise our present dearth of scrap, but the real fact is that it is so serious as to cause the shut down of nine blast furnaces in Youngstown, Ohio, alone.
 To meet the shortage, the OPM has been conducting an experi- mental campaign to collect scrap iron in Erie, Penn, and is launch ing other campaigns in Boston, Pittsburgh, Bridgeport and Akron. However, the campaign is going very slowly. Chief trouble is that collections are made through the normal scrap iron trade.
 Therefore, it looks as If the
 American public might have to
 take things in hand. A survey
 of Butler County, Ohio, shows