The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-16

more information from the Navy, it was reported to Committee members that Secretary Knox had remarked: I'd just as soon give information to the Germans" Senator Byrd of Virginia is now ready to backstop Walsh in de- manding more cooperation.
 ERROL FLYNN'S
 DESPERATE JOURNEY"
 Whats the matter with the movies in wartime Actor Melvyn Douglas, now in Civilian Defense, has the answer, after seeing Er- rol Flynn in "Desperate Journey."
 "It's as unreal as the Rover Boys," says Douglas. Flynn and his buddies mow the Germans down by just blowing at them. They come out of the battle locking clean and fresh, with their hair nicely brushed, and not a scratch on their plane.
 Then for a closing line, they climb into their plane and cry, Nov let's fly over Tokyo and take a crack at those Japs.'
 "War was never like that. The people know it, but some directors don't. They had bet ter catch up with the people" RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
 The Interstate Commerce Com mission has been in the throeS of a backstage fight over the ques- tion of disclosing all railway &C., cidentS. The row started after 1t was discovered that certain rail- roads had been rSrc7-l dents and presenting false rec. ord to tne C.......--- -...
 This sensational fact has now been officially admitted. But at first the Safety Division of the ICC blocked full disclosure. On the other hand, the Statistics Bu- reau, whose w. R. Mclean searched railroad files for the real facts, urged complete and full publication.
 Finally, Dr. William H. S. Stew ems of the Bureau of Statistics, reached a compromise with the Safety Bureau, and short version of the report was published-with plenty of sting still in it.
 Two railroads were denounced for failure to report accidents truthfully-the Atlantic Coast Line, and the Chicago, Milwau- kee. St. Paul and Pacific. Both had low accidents rates, accord ing to the records, but these rates, according to the records, but these rates were established only by covering mp accidents.
 Referring to the Atlantic Coast Line. the ICC report speaks of ."the falsity of the figures report ed by this railroad" and declares that practically the entire Or- ganizatiOn was thoroughly impregnated with the idea of avoiding accident responsibility" HIDING THE FACTS
 Regarding the Milwaukee road, ICC declared that great emphasis was placed on ways and means Of avoiding the reporting of ac- cidents."
 The report is loaded with case histories of accidents, such as the Switchman Akey case o9 the Nn- waukee road. Akey fell back ward from a boxcar ladded and injured A lumbar Vertehfa This was disclosed by an x-ray, but the fact was not revealed to Akey. ICC found a letter in the com pany's files which said, This man. of course, does not know what the X-ray examination developed and do not believe that he should be t0ld."
 Akey was persuaded to return to work the day after the accident, though he was unable to perform all his duties. Purpose was to avoid reporting the case as an accident under IcC regulations.
 On the bright side, ICC uis- closed that the low accident rate of Union Pacific was not the re- suit of concealment of accidents, but of "a capable and efficient safety organization"
 ICC denoup ced the dodgers by declaring that if they had spent as much time in preventing acci- dents as they spent in covering