The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-16

Reyes in air strength called up Q press association and said: Have you written your lead yet on the battle? If not, here 1t is: The Air Corps has done the pob. Both Jap anese and American fleets are in retreat" Inside dope is that neither American nor Japanese bat tie ships got close enough to each other to fire a shot Australian External Minister Evatt, busy flying between Sydney, London and WaSh- ington to beg planes for his govern ment, nevertheless found time to write a book on the Australian labor movement.
 GRAND TIME
 Little news is permitted to leak out of Denmark. But every now and then Q reliable report gets through that shows the spirit of the Danes, like that of their indomitable Nor- wegian cousins, remains unbroken.
 Recently during the showing of a German newsreel in a Copenhagen theater, Hitler was flashed on the screen boarding a military plane Immediately some one yelled, Give our greetings to Hess"
 A Gestapo agent present irnmedi- ately ordered the lights turned on and an effort was made to discover the offender. It was unsuccessful The Gestapo then announced that the performance was cancelled and that the audience could get back part of its money, with the rest to go tc the Naz relief fund.
 Whereupon another voice shouted we don't want any of the money We all had a grand time."
 IT. COL. JUSTICE MURPHY
 Only insiders at the War Depart ment know 1t, but Justice Frank Murphy offered to resign from ths Supreme Court altogether if thu Army would definitely give him combat service abroad.
 However, word came back, first that the Army could make no prom. ises as to where any officer woult serve; second that he was too valu' able on the Supreme Court.
 So Murphy will go back to the
 bench when the summer recess
 Is over. Most Supreme Court
 justices spend this four months
 on Cape Cod or in the m0uD-
 tains, but Murphy has chafed at
 these Idle summer months.
 The Army, which has handed out a lot of lush commissions to Holly wood moguls, offered him a higher rank than lieutenant colonel, but hs chose to be only one rank higher than when he left the last war as major. As a result Murphy will bs salutlng men who were on his staff as governor Of Michigan.
 U. s. SPECIALIST CORPS
 The Army Specialist Corps got of to 6 bad start with no money, ni equipment and no ciear-cut idea ol what it was expected to do, bu under the smooth direction o Dwight Y. Davis the Corps now ' ready to start going places. A fey days ago Roosevelt formally sen Dayiss name to the Senate for con fisSnatlon as directof-general.
 The Corps is recruiting thousand of "speeiaEists," that is, tecanicians scientists, professional men and cd minigtrato tors--Tnen too old to Sigh or with physical defects that das qualify them for Army Service, bu who are able to fill the shoes Q younger men needed on the flFsnl lines,
 Davis says the response of Amer lea,s older citizens hes been smaeNl eieemt.Y He estimates that l2Se0 men have offered to serve in allI capacity the Army can use theili: ~ ready the Corps has more tnal lOOO0 Jobs awaiting speeiallstsssj jeh nov filled by young officers oE en listed men. That means, Dayl pointed cut, i0o0e more men 2 carry the fight to Hitler and ta Japs.
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