The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-11

In one case there was delay be- cause the rods supporting hunks on cruiser were not made of chromium steel, which is hard to get. Probably Hitler would use plain iron with a covering of paint; but the Navy is building for 25 years hence, and still seeks praise worthy but time-consuming per lection in every detail.
 Much more important than this, however, is lack of coordination in placing contracts for small anti submarine boats. For instance, the Dodge company before the war was making Speed-boats at the rate of 35 a day. But now, despite the urgent need of conl- batting submarines, it is awarded contracts to build sub-chasers at fraction of that rate per year.
 On the other hand, if the Army and Navy pooled their orders they could have one boat com pany make all of one type ves- sel, while another company made another. For instance, the Elco company could make motor-tor- pedo boats and nothing else. The Higgins company in New Orleans could make sub-chasers and noth- ing else. And the Dodge com pany at Newport News co uld could make mine-laying tugs and nothing else.
 Instead, the Dodge company got an order for a certain type of vessel. This came from the
 Army. Then when they had machine tools all ready for mak- ing these boats, and making them fast, their next order came from the Navy for another
 type of craft. Then, just to give variety to life, their next order was not for more of the second type, but for third type
 of boat.
 Once the Navy gets these ships built, they are beautiful vessels, beautifully operated. But it takes priceless, agonizing, inefficient months to get results with this haphazard building program.
 HE'LL BOMB HITLER
 If anything ever fusses Major Gen. Carl Spaatz, chief of U. s. Air Forces in England, it will not be Nazi airmen, but the women of his family.
 "TOughy," as the General has been called ever since he was in West Poin, is one of the tough est. most taciturn, hard-hitting officers in the Air Corps. In the last war he was major, and his men were scared to death of him. To get even, they pointed to his German name and laugh ingly referred to him as a dis guised spy"
 And last year when Toughy went to London as an American observer, he had to register at the American Embassy, where he jokingly wrote: Major Gen. Carl Spaatz-German spy'.
 Tough a trooper as he is, how ever, Gen. Spaatz is putty in the hands of his three daughetrs. A couple of years ago he was nov ing from the West Coast to Washington, and like all regular army officers he had to make the shift as economically as pos sible. So Mrs. Spaatz, three daughters, two cats and a couple of canaries were loaded into the family car for the 3,O0c-mile trip east. The General now says that most hotels refused to take such collection of humans and ani- mals and he spent his nights in ourist camps. Being bossed by women, he chuckles, was worse worse than fighting Hitler.
 But regardless of his good- natured subservience to his de- lightful family, he's "Toughy" in the field. Gen. Spaatz is one of the men who has steadily built up the Air Corps. He has been fly ing all his life. His aides say he can fly in his sleep. And he has with him in England some of the crack aces of the U. s. army.
 Only thing that worries Wash