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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

has been sailing circles around his
old friends in the Navy ever since.
Two years ago, he foresaw that
turbines would be one of the big
bottle-necks of building, and
pioneered for their construction
on mass production basis. Prior
to that turbines were tailor-made,
each patterned to the needs of a
particular ship, so that che plant
nigh be building turbine of 12,-
900 horsepower, with another of
only 1900 horsepower being built
along side it.
Vickery cut out these vari-
gated, tailor made sizes, set up
factories which are now making
a standardize dturbine on
mass production basis. So now
the Navy, which failed to plan
ahead for its turbines, wants to
take them away from Vickery
and the Maritime Commission.
APPEAL TO BRITISH
In order to get them the Navy
has reSorted to all sorts of ma
neuvering. Among other things,
the admiralS have called in the
British and Canadians to help
decide whether the Maritime Com
mission should built fast Victory
and c type ships or slow Libertys.
(The fast ships require turbines
while the slow Libertys don't.)
The British have now sided with
the Navy, ruling that the U. S. A.
does not need to build fast vessels.
This, of course, has caused some
people to suspect he British are
thinking about postwar shipping
rivalry, and the fact that speedy
II knot ships built now would
leave the United States in a pow
erful position to compete with
Britains rule-of- the-waves after
the war.
GERRY" Land and Vickery coun-
ter that it takes an 11-knot Lib
erty ship about five months to
make the round trip to Australia
and 10 days for the round trip to
England, allowing for loading and
unloading. This ties up Navy con-
voys, sailed manpower and slows
down the delivery of munitions.
Originally Liberty ships were the
most practical to build because al
most no turbines were available.
Now that turbine capacity has
been developed, however, the
Maritime Commission wants to use
the fruits of its toll.
NAVY PROMISES ESCORTS
To this, the Navy argues that it
will soon have enough escort YES
sells to convoy all Liberty ships
safely. Also the admirals contend
that the submarine menace is
largely licked and that it needs
all these coveted turbines to build
its fighting ships.
But the Maritime Commission
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Views Of The Press

the golf greens of Chevy Chase than
they do about the spinach and broc-
coli of Maryland gardens. Old say
ings, especially those dealing with
the sofia place where man has
dwelt so much longer than he has
in aboratories-should not be kicked
around too carelessly by scientists.
An active moon, which can look
around it when the heavens are bare
and affect tides and turn milk,
might reasonably enough have a
hand in the proceedings Of string
bean or turnip. Until there is a
Gallup poll or a record Of expert
mental paintings covering at least
fairly years, Victory gardeners are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

The battle has become so hot
that it has been referred to JUS
tice Byrnes ana Bernie Baruch
for arbitration. Delays caused
by the dispute probably will cost
the nation exactly half a million
tons of merchant shipping this
year.
The controversy has become so
bitter that the War Production
Board, which ades with the Navy
actually sent kilograms to man
ufacturers of ship turbines in
structing them not to allocate any
more materials for Maritime Com
mission turbines. Whereupon
peppery Admiral GERRY" Land,
Maritime Commission chairman,
telegraphed the turbine manufac-
lures to ignore the WPB order.
However, manufacture of turbines
was stopped, hence the delay in
ship construction.
Seeds Of the dispute go back to
the fact that slow-moving naval
admirals are jealous of quick, up
and-coming Maritime Commission
experts; plus possible British
worry about U. S. shipping COM
petition after the war.
SLOW OR FAST SHIPS
Chief issue involved is whether
the Maritime Commission shall
build only slow-poke Liberty ships
which are easier targets for sub
marines, or also build speedier
CT, CO, C-3 and Victory ships
which can operate without con-
voys.
Digging back even further be-
hind the dispute, the row is over
the question Of turbines. In brief,
far-sighted Admiral Howard L.
Vickery Of the Maritime Com
mission two years ago began
building turbines for morchait
ships. Now hind-sighted Navy
Admirals want those turbines
for fighting ships.
One thing that gripes naval
brass-hats Is that back in 1888
passed OVER Vickery for promo
ton and he was eased out of the
Navy. Since then Roosevelt has
picked him up and put him in the
Maritime Commission where he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

comes back with the answer that
its 17-knot turbine-powered Vic
tory ships don't need naval con-
voys, go too fast for submarines.
Also the Maritime experts point
to the repotred heavy shipping
losses from submarines in July,
and cited the report that subs
have been disaserously concen-
trated in a certain area which
the Navy so far will not talk
about.
Finally, Admirals Land and
Vickery tell their naval friends
that 1t is all very fine to talk
about building up 7-ocean
Navy by 1949 - and using Mari
time Commissions to do it. But
they are interested in winning
the war long before 1919, and
they think their turbines placed
in fast merchant ships will ma
terially help toward an early
victory.
These are the arguments now
placed before Assistant President
Jimmy Byrnes and Bernie Baruch
in one of the tougest and most
vital arguments of the war.
CAPITAL CHAFF
A certain amount of Wall Street
even money has been offered that
the war would be over this year.
Kenneth Galbraith, the for
mer Rhodes scholar, whose hard
hitting insistance on OPA price
control caused civil war with Lou
Maxon, is now with the Lend
Lease Administration. He will
handle South African purchases.
-. Rupert Emerson, who didn't
get along well with Ickes as Di-
rector of Territories, Is also with
Lend-Lease Broad-guaged Ed
Prichard, right hand man to
Economic Stabilizer Vinson, is the
latest member of the inner circle
to be drafted What the Ad-
ministration is really watching in
the Kentucky primaries today
Saturday is the race for lieuten-
ant governor. They figure ].
Lyter Donaldson is already in as
Democratic choice for governor,
but whoever gets the lieutenant
governorship will be the young
man of the future The 1t.
Gov. race Is between Bill May,
nephew of Congressman Jack May
and chip off his uncle's block,
and Henry Ward, Paducah's fighe-
ing legislative floor-leader. Adj
ministrationites fear, however, that
Clifford Smith will corral the poll
ticos behind middle-o f-the roader
John Whitaker, Boss Tom Rays
candidate.
Copyright, 1884, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Current Comment

We shall not forget that Fire, a
country which has fought many a
battle for what 1t conceived to be
the cause Of liberty, should have
stood aside neutral, indifferent to
this, one Of the most dramatic and
fateful struggles in the history OF
mankind.
British Home Secretary Herbert
Morrison.
Money is Just part Of practical
life-it saves time In exchanging
goods-and is no good for anything
else.
Henry Ford.
Our ancestors got along without
sugar until the 18th century, without
coal until the 18th Gentry, without
buttered bread until the 18th CEN
fury, without potatoes until the 18th
century, without coffee until the
18th century, without matches until
the 18th century and without gaso-
line until the 10th century.
Boston rationing board.
SO far in this war, we have taken
as many prisoners as there were
men in the regular Army at the
outset Of the war.
Services Of Supply Lieut.-Gen
] Brehon B. Somervell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
After Your Operation

have had the most gratifying
results In a number of postoperative
cases. These patients generally feel
pretty hopeless. If operation can't
help how can a comparatively sim
pie series of injections cure them?
When they are cured they become
the most ardent advocate of the
treatment-I have had three or four
new patients who were practically
dragged in by them.
Co., M. d.
Answer - Thank you, Doctor.
From experiences reported by many
ambulant tinjection) treatment is
medical colleagues I infer that the
boon for hernia sufferers who have
undergone the radical operation and
presently found it has failed.
Readers with hernia rupture,
breach) send three-cent stamped
self-addressed envelope and ask
for pamphlet on Hernia. No clip
ping will suffice.
The Doctor Gets Laugh
I have tWo-year-old boy raised
by the Brady Baby Book and he
has been perfect baby no trouble
no sickness at all. Our family ply
sician got great laugh out of my
relying on the words of IAN old
geezer you're never seen-maybe
just pen name. assumed by some
organization to propaganda the
public" Just the same. the baby
is healthy and happy, not walk
ing hospital" like his older brother
who was raised according to our
family physicians instructions.
MRS. M. K. r.
Answered. like to drop in, via
the kitchen door, some time when
you're expecting the doctor, and
the baby and I could sing a Haw-
Haw duet for the doctor when he
comes. After all, family physicians
get no more laughs than they need
nowadays. If you will give me
your doctors name and address I'll
send him, with my compliments,
complete set Of the works of OF
Doc Brady, autographed. Maybe he
will get some more laughs out Of
1t. Maybe he will tell me just where
I am wrong-whatever he may say
about any of my carryings-on will
be confidential, SO far as am COIL
cerned, and am always grateful
for any criticism from a medical
colleague, be 1t favorable or un-
favorable.
Copyright 1913 John F. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Your Health
By DR.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per-
sonal health and hygiene. not to
disease, diagnosis Of treatment,
will be answered by DR.. Bray IL
stamped self addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In ink. No reply can
be made to queries not conform
ing TO instructions. Address Or.
william Brady. National News
paper Service, 800 West Madison
Street. Chicago, III.
WHY WEAR A MASK AND WHEN?
Surgeons, their assistants, nurses
and onlookers in the operating
room wear masks, usually 6 by
inches of cheesec1oth (gauze) not
less than ten layers of it having
mesh of 80 threads to the inch.
The purpose of the mack is to catch
any spray droplets given off from
nose or mouth when the individual
! coughs, sneezes or speaks. Such
! moisture spray droplets, even If In
Visibly or impalpably fine, may car
ny bacteria, and it would be unfor-
1 tunate if such bacteria happened
70 land in the open wound.
n Physicians, attendants, nurses
lad well members of the family if
Any are admitted to the sickroom
should always wear some such mask
J when within spray range of the
patient who has any kind of re-
Spiratory infection, and that in
cludes, OF course, most of the so
called diseases of childhood
diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles,
mumps, whooping cough-as we'll
as the early or feverish stage Of in
fantile paralysis, and such diseases
! as cerebro-spinal meningitis, flu,
tonsillitis, quinsy, pulmonary tuber-
pneumonia, acute bronchitis, acute
culoSis, septic sore throat.
In the well regulated household
it should be the duty of any men,
Der Of the household who has any
slight indisposition that may be
respiratory infection, such as an
acute sore throat or acute coryza,
or anything that purports to be just
a "cold"-only, come to think of
it, no such deception is tolerated in
a well regulated household, is it?-
to don a mask and wear it con-
stantly while within range of other
members of the household.
| A more comfortable and less un-
| slightly mask which Is probably
more efficient than the crude gauze
mask is one made of transparent
! cellophane or non inflammable
washed X-ray film. This is the
mask devised by DR.. Lewis J. Sill
vers especially for physicians to
wear when treating nose and throat
patients, DR.. Silvers found the
gauze mask uncomfortable and an
noying to year so much of the time
1T is largely due to his skill that
diathermy extirpation of the ton
sils is now we'll established alter
native for the major operation
and he had snap fasteners fitted to
the upper edge of piece of washed
X-ray (non-inflammable finn cut
with rounded lower corners in an
oblong about the size and shape
of the face, and corresponding but
tons on the headband to which the
mask may be snapped. Besides be-
ing transparent the Silvers mask
stands away from the face enough
| to permit some ventilation snd g
therefore fairly comfortable. II
may be wiped with any sA44..~ a.
tiseptic solution or with Soapy
water. When the film becomes
scratched or clouded, 1t is simple to
cut q new one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

but didn't hear
Killers n a m e
mentioned once.
. . .
Pressure Is be-
ing br ug h t to
bear on WAC Di-
rector Oveta Culp
Hobby to approve
changes in the
d e s Ign on the
WAC mil linery,
for some A r m y
officers male -
are con v in c ed
that the reason
WAC rec ruiting
has fallen off 60
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Selected Poem
CONSIDERATION

(Carl John Bostlemann in the New York Times.)
Upon our highest hill, his cairn we heap
Where immemorial forever lies
The hero of all holocaust. War dies
With each aggressor laid to final sleep.
So mark each ridge where vanished armies trod
To vast catastrophe and grand defeat:
Our conquest must be finally complete
In CONSIDERATIONS Of ourselves to God.
When drums lie broken where the flags are furled
And bugles shatter silence then fall mute,
The people of the liberated world
Will pillow and plant and harvest earths best fruit
II peace and brotherhood-put not before
Our last salute beside the grave Of war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

The president of the Cape Cod Gran
berry Growers Association says that the
New England Cranberry growers have
pledged from so to 80 percent OF the l943
crop to the Armed Forces Looks like
the Army and the Navy and the Marines
are going to have what goes with tur-
key dinner next Thanksgiving and Christ
mas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

The flash floods in three West Virginia
counties seem sort of misplaced at this
time of the year. Usually calm streams
swept along carrying away whatever was
in their paths. Property damage was
high and loss of life also reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

show that he had
the ability.
True democracy
means that every
human being has
the opportunity
to do the best he
Is capable of do
ing. That govern
ment or social in
stitution Is an evil
one which lays a
restraining finger
o " O n 1JnNn thu
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
BY EARL L. DOUGLASS, d. d.
IT'S ALL UP TO US

IT'S ALL UP TO US
Napoleon used to declare that
every private carried in his KNAPP
sack a marshars baton. BY this
he meant that the soldier Of lowest
rank had the opportunity to rise
to a place OF command If he could
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Pulse Feeling,
Ace Correspondents
Reverberations
BY PETER EDISON

BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
An ace Washington correspond
ent, just back from a swing around
the country to feel the public pulse,
reports that he heard people giving
Roosevelt he'll every place he went
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

Gas rationing may end by July l, 1914,
says Secretary Ickes. That's something
to look forward to. A year from now will
see an orgy of automobile driving again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

entitled to maintain an open mind
and a we'll thumbed Farmers Al
manac."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY
DREW PEARSON

Commission Wronse Delays Shipbudns Program
Admo Want Take Precious Turbines for Fighting Vessels
Land and Vckey Insist Using Them in Fast Merchant Ships
Costly Dispute Referred Byrnes and Borueh for Arbitration
o.
shins
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07
A Thought for Today

Ask, and 1t shall be given you; seek, and ye
shan find; knock, and 1t shall be opened unto
you.-Matthew III.
God warns His hands at mans heart when
he prays.-Masefied
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-07

Copyright, 1884, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
1ree-PIanting Ceremony
Honors Men in Service

The first trees in Memory Lane
were planted yesterday in Sligo
Parkway, Silver Spring, by relatives
of servicemen in the area. officials
of the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission also
took part in the program.
The project is sponsored by
mothers and wives of men in the
Silver Spring Service Company of
the 29th Division in cooperation
with the Park and Planning Com
mission. The tree-bordered lane
winding through Sligo Park in the
section north of Colesville road is to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
Congress Will Get
New Chance 10 Act
On Food Subsidies
Administration to Ask
Legislation to Extend
Credit Agency's Life
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Congress will get another chance
to express itself on the use of Gov
eminent subsidies as a method of
holding down food costs when the
administration asks for legislation
extending the life of the Agriculture
Departments $265o,OO0 Com
modify Credit Corp.
The act authorizing the corpora
ton expires June 30, and the admin
istration is now preparing recon-
mendations that the agency. which
itself is engaged in number of
farm subsidy programs be extended
for at least two more years.
Although the bulk of its activities
have centered on Government
price-supporting loans to farmers
on such crops as cotton, wheat,
corn, tobacco, soybeans and other
crops, the corporation has taken on,
at the direction of President Roose-
welt, a number of programs involv-
ing subsidy payments either to
farmers or to food professors and
distributors.
These latter programs have been
criticized by members of the con-
gressional farm bloc. Suggestions
have been made in Congress that
the corporation be specifically pro-
hibited from engaging in subsidy
programs except as directed by Con-
gress.
Commodities involved in corpora
ton subsidy programs include corn,
dry beans and peas, cheese, fluid
milk in some city marketing areas,
canned vegetables, vegetable oils,
sugar, wheat for conversion into in
dustrial alcohol, and such imported
products as coffee, tea and vege-
table oil products.
In the case of most of these. the
corporation has guaranteed and paid
farmers prices out of line with Gov
eminent price ceilings, and solo the
products to professors at prices
which would enable them to operate
under the ceilings
In the case of corn, it is paying
a transportation subsidy on grain
moved from the MidWestern sur
plus-producing area to feeders and
users in Eastern deficit areas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10

be a tribute to men in the service.
Ten pink dogwood trees were
planted yesterday and it is hoped
to plant others of the same variety.
The first tree planted was in honor
OF all men serving this country and
the others will bear the names of
the individuals in whose honor they
are donated.
Tribute to the men in the service
was paid by DR.. Ralph D. Smith,
pastor of the Woodside Methodist
Church, IN a prayer and short talk.
Mrs. Frank L. Hewitt, chairman of
the committee OF women in charge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
Marshall 10 Direct
Rationing Of All
Farm Equipment
Deputy Food Director
Gets Sweeping Powers
In New WA Setup
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.


M. Lee Marshall, chairman of the
board of the Continental Baking
Corp, was sworn in today as deputy
food administrator and was immedi-
ately granted sweeping powers in
the ALLEGATION and rationing of all
supplies and equipment for Amer
lean farmers and food professors.
Mr.. Marshall, who has been serv-
ing as food consultant to WPB Chief
donald M. Nelson, will head the
newly-created Office Of Materials
and Facilities within the War Food
Administration. He also will serve
as VIA representative on the Re
quirements Committee of the WPB.
To Handle All Requests.
The 58-year-old deputy admins
traitor will have charge of all VIA
programs relating to supplies, ma
chinery, equipment, materials and
facilities used in producing and
processing foods, Mr.. Davis order
setting up the new Office disclosed,
and all requests from agriculture
and professors for strategic ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
Prisoners Exchanged
By Britain and Italy

BY tHe ASSoCldleu PTeSs.
ANKARA, Turkey, May ODE
layed) The third of a series of
four exchanges of British and Ital-
ian war prisoners took place to-
day at Izmir (Smyrna).
Some 700 British sick and
wounded and $40 medical personnel
were being exchanged for 2,O12 Ital-
ian medical personnel and 400 sick
and wounded The final exchange
IS scheduled for May %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10

and critical materials for use in food
production and processing, and with
making this material available to
farmers and professors" the order
said.
He becomes the fourth deputy
appointed by Mr.. Davis. Others are
William Byrd, in charge of fiscal
and personnel relations of VIA;
Col. Jay L. Taylor, in charge of
farm labor, and Morse Salisbury, in
charge of information. Jesse Tapp
is associate food administrator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
10000 Axis Casualties
Credited to YugosIoviu
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED PresA.
LONDON. May 10.-A Yugoslav
guerrilla leader told the third all
Slav meeting in Moscow yesterday
that 10000 Germans and Italians
had been killed, captured or wound
ed by Yugoslav patriots in the last
two months. Reuters reported from
the Russian capital.
The gathering sent congratula-
lions to President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Stain on victories in Tunisia and
Russia.
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terials will be channeled through
Mr.. Marshau's Office on it ways to
WPB.
The fact that the new deputy has
served with WPB and has been in
close touch with important officials
in that agency was seen as facili-
tating the granting of priorities for
manufacture of farm machinery and
the equally important equipment for
the Nations rapidly growing food
processing industry.
With the farm manpower situa-
ton clearing and farmers given as
surances of adequate supplies of
fertilizer, some observers see the
machinery problem as the only OBJ
stacle, besides the weather factor,
in the way of farmers achieving 1913
food goals.
Branches Consolidated.
Consolidated under the Office of
Materials and Facilities are material
control branch of the Office of Agri-
cultural War Relations, facilities
branch of Food Distribution Admin
istration, production supplies pro-
grams branch and farm service and
supply branch of Food Production
Administration and priority services
branch of Commodity Credit Corp.
Mr.. Marshall will organize and
supervise all work having to do with
obtaining ALLEGATIONS of strategic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10

terday was really Mothers Day for
Mrs. Cyrus w. Cunningham, 37-
year-old wife of war plant worker,
who gave birth to her 10Th child, a
5-pound Bounce boy. Eleven Of the
10 children are living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10
High School Players
Take Plot Literally:
Leave Boy in Coffin
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VANCOUVER, Wash, May
10.-Vancouver High Schools
senior play cast took the scrip
too literally.
One scene called for Lloyd
Boldly to be bound, gagged,
placed in a coffin and left there
all of which was done ex-
pertly in rehearsal.
Long after rehearsal was
over. the stage crew heard
muffled cries coming from the
coffin. Inside they found
Boldly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-05-10

Of the project, presided. Miss Ruth
Hartman, violinist, played Trees"
and Memory Lane"