The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-03

the red light district in Chester and swank reactionary SWarth- more voted for him.
 GEN. MacARTHUR'S BOX
 Gen. Douglas Macarthur soon willereceive unique gift from his friend Maury Maverick, two-fisted chief of the WIPES State and Lo- cal Requirements division. It's a solid silver pill box.
 Made by San Antonio silver smith, the lid of the pill box is an Australian crown featuring four gold stars designating the rank of general. Below is a silver peso, engraved with the title, Military Adviser to the President of the Phillipine Commonwealth"
 Inside the box is an engrav- ing of the famous Alamo, where 187 heroes lost theri lives in de- fense of Texas liberty, March 6, 1886, trying to head off an in vasion of Texas by Santa Ana and 5000 MexicanS. Directly below is the Alamo's immortal slogan, Victory or Death" and MacAr- thurs battlecry, We shall win or die" :. <. .. :.
 Despite popular conviction, no one can tell the blunt-talking Maverick that Macarthur is an Arkansan. 'T'll admit he was born in Arkansas" says Maverick, "but the connection ends rgiht there. MacArthur is a Texan and we Texans don't recognize the claims of any other State to him. Why, he spent his boyhood years playing i'm the shadow of the Alamo Shrine in San Antonio. ArkansaS-bah!"
 "What kind of pills will Gen. MacArthur carry in this elegant
 box, Maury?" he was aOsI1ed.
 "Why, vitamin pills, I guess" said the Texan, "Vitamins for
 Victory"
 ALASKAN REPORT
 The Truman Committees recent report on Alaska has some bright pages regarding the establishment of new air bases; but also, it has some dark pages regarding the effectiveness of planes being used against the Japs.
 Plain-talkin Senator Mon Wall gren of Washington, of the committee that madet he inspec- tion trip, hinted at this when he told the Senate recently that U. s. fighting planes were inferior to Jap Zero fighters.
 However, what Wallgren did not reveal was that certain types of U. s. bombers being used in. AL aska also leave much to be de- sired.
 Wallgren's subcommittee learned to its amazement that the Navy was depending almost entirely on PBY patrol-observation ships for bombing expeditions on Jap beach, heads in the Aleutians. These ships have such a slow speed that they are easy tadgets for anti- aircraft fire at low attitudes.
 As one pilot interviewed by Truman investigators put 1t, when a PBY encounters a Jap Zero fighter fits like goose being chased by a hawk" Result is that Navy bombers must soad to an altitude of 10000 feet in raids on the Japs at Kiska, too high for effective bombing.
 "The PBY Is perfectly all right for observation duty, and we have no complain If the Navy used them only for that pur- pose," Q member of the Truman subcommittee reported. "BuE it is totally unfit for combat eper- atlons."
 The Navy has bombers far sue perlor to those of the Japs, but for some reason they are not be- ing use in Alaska, the sub-com- mittee reported. O.. .. O.. .... c.
 On the other hand. the Tru- man investigators were enthusi- astic about the Army bombers they SOW in action, with one exception --the B-20. This plane has been lli q number Of crncktipg because of its high landing speed.
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