The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-18

and used.
 The device was invented by It. Comdr. Carl Herluf Holm, an American naval officer born in Denmark, who has been working for years on method of protect ing merchant vessels, and who gave the Navy the benefit of his invention.
 Naval bureaucracy, however, held up the device for approxi- mately two years. And it was to help blast the anti-submarine weapon out of this red tape that the Duke of Windsor intervened. Having known Holm and being convinced that his invention had merit, the Duke wrote several let ters to high-up friends in Wash ington urging that Holm's plan get a thorough test.
 Chief stumbling blocks were: first, that the Navy is always perfectionist, wants to have a new weapon absolutely perfect before it is adopted and Holm's invention required considerably experiment tation; second, the device became the victim of rivalry between three different Navy bureaus.
 They were: CD the Navy's Ord nance Laboratory, which is under the Navy Yard; (2) the Bureau of Ordnance; and (3) the Bureau of Ships. Among these three, it got begged down. For two whole years the invention moved with snail-like speed, at times didn't move at all.
 During at least one of these years, allied shipping was being sunk at the sickening rate of one million tons month. The pub lie did not know this at the time, but the Navy knew it. Never theless, the Holm device was not lifted out of the red tape snarl.
 It was to help push the device that the Duke of Windsor put in a friendly hand. Not being an American official, however, he he could not be too fortnight. So in the end, it was an executive of the War Shipping Administra- ton, Fred SearleS, who finally blasted the Holm device loose.
 Searles threatened that if the Navy did not get busy and use the anti-submarine weapon, the Maritime Commission would take the invention and place it on all their merchant ships.
 This finally got action.
 NOTE: Other reasons for the improved submarine situation are: better detection devices, U. s. Air Corps raids on Nazi submarine pens and especially the fact that with long days and better sum- mer weather, airplane patrols are much more effective.
 WALLACE IN WONDERLAND"
 Henry Wallaces global thinking is food for at least one Wisecrack, usually from Republicans, at all most every social affair the Vice President attends.
 Latest to razz Wallace about it was Alice Roosevelt LongWorth.
 How do you do, MT. Vice President" said acid-tOngued
 Alice when the two met at cocktail party. How is every thing in never-never land?"
 Wonderland, Alice," Wallace shot back. Ss WAVES TRAIN MEN
 Strange as it may seem WAVES are now teaching their masculine brothers of the Navy an import ant step in how to fly Whats more, WAVES are training men in the use of firearms, and are also doing repair work on dam aged airplanes.
 The pilot instructors are called Link trainer operators" Their job is to teach men the technique of blind flying in device which remains on the ground, but which stimulates all the conditions of flying.
 The naval aviator climbs into the cockpit of this instruction device, pulls on the earphones, and oper- ates the instruments just as if he were flying. The WAVE, acting