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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
$50 More Added
To Censor Mail

Washington, June 16-(UP)
The ONCE Of Censorship ex-
perts In their dealings with
codes, cryptOgrams and mes
Sages in secret ink, have frus-
trated enemy plots and even
unearthed information which
led to the execution Of spies,
1t was revealed today.
This disclosure was made re-
Gently before a house appropri-
atoms subcommittee by Byron
Price, director Of the OOC.
Much Of what he told the COM
mittee was off the record.
Censorship has discovered
and enabled other agencies Of
the government to f0reStall en-
envy plots" Price testified.
People have been arrested and
in some cases executed as a re-
suit of the evidence we have
produced"
Price revealed that Allied
military successes are adding
greatly to his agency's duties.
OF the $29, 99S,4OO sought for
fiscal 1914, $SO2,4OO will be used
to hire $50 new employees to
censor mail sent and received
by the thousands of Italian
and German war prisoners now
being installed in camps in this
country.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
SPLIT SECOND FOR
PLANES IDENTITY
Officers, Private at Yale's
TIC School; System Is
Explained

New Haven, June Is. When a
man leaves the Army Air Forces
Technical Training Command School
at Yale in the future, regardless of
his rank, he will be able to identify
at a split-second glance any plane
that may hurtle at him at 400 miles
an hour, perhaps splitting death
and destruction from the air.
That's the sight-miracle soon to
be wrought here by the AAF's Tech
nical Training Command in a new
course in aircraft recognition start
ing this month. At the TICS school
in New Haven, where students in
photography, armament, communi-
cations and maintenance engineer
ing are being trained as future Off
GERS, the entire personnel - officers,
cadets and enlisted men-will soon
learn how to identify speeding
planes in 1-125 of a second.
Method used in making this mir
acle, to be taught by Lieutenant
Dan w. Platt and IL other instruc-
tors, Is the Renshaw or Flash sys-
tenn of aircraft identification -
named for the eye specialist at
Ohio State University who devel-
oped it. Advantage of the new Sys-
tenn over older methods is the speed
at which it teaches recognition. The
former type Of training familiarized
students with aircraft from still"
photographs and silhouettes; the
RenshaW system flashes the images
on a screen for only the length of
time most men will have to see a
plane as it Whizzes past.
Here's how the TIC Technical
School at Yale will teach it:
First, students will be required
to remember four numbers, flashed
on the screen for one-half a second.
Second, they'll be given eight
numbers - for the same length of
time - to remember.
Having mastered this, next they'll
study still" photos of airplanes -
both United Nations and Axis. This
will familiarize them with salient
characteristics of each type of air.
craft - the wings, engine, fuselage
and empennage.
Next, one by one, each plane will
be flashed on the screen for $50 OF
a secondhand students will have
to identify it. AS they learn. the
projection speed will be stepped up
eventually reaching the point
where the images snap by almost
faster than the eye can follow. But
TIC trained men at the Yale Tech
nical School viii learn to follow
them and what's more. TO know
what thAV ara.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
.PENCILLIN new
WONDER DRUG
Works Miracles Healing
Wounded u. S. Soldiers
Back From Pacific
BY JOSEPH L. RANFT
Inited Press STAFF Correspondent

Washington, June 6-CUP)-Pen-
cillin-the new wonder drug"
which is extracted from a green
mold-has effected almost miracu-
lous healings of wounded Amer
lean soldiers.
DIR. A. N. Richards of the Office
of Scientific research and develop
ment told a House Appropriations
subcommittee in testimony publish
ed today that the office recently in
vestigated the effect on Pencillin at
the Bushnell Veterans hospital n
Utah on severely wounded soldiers
back from the Pacific.
The men were weak and delirious,
and their wounds-compound frac-
lures and shattered bones-had
been treated with Sulfa drugs and
by other methods without success.
When Pencillin was injected, the
wounds began to improve almost
Immediately, Richards said. Within
a week, most of the mer had i'm
proved to such an extent that OPP
erations could be risked to remove
bone fragments, bits of uniform or,
DIS al OllC llloIdllCC, d SdAOoll DuCh1c
which had been forced into the
wound
The most severe case which had
resisted customary treatment for IA
months, was completely healed by
the revolutionary drug In 81 days,
DR.. Richards said
Pencillin also has been remark
ably successful in the treatment of
gonorrhea, DR.. Richards testified. He
said Pencillin clears up the infec-
ton in two days without danger of
complications.
Richards said the army was so
much impressed by the performance
Of Pencillin at the Utah hospital
that a similar trial is being made at
Halloran hospital, on Staten Island,
New York. Medical officers will be
trained to administer Pencillin at 10
hospitals throughout the country, he
added.
Pencillin is "frightfully expensive"
now but it is hoped that some 16
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

Such statements are discouraging,
and so is the failure Of the consumer
public to back up the OPA's fight to
hold the line" for them through ra-
tioning and price ceilings.
Even if our 1943 crops should hap
pen to be as large as the 1912 record,
which Chester G. Davis, War Food
Administrator, thinks they may be,
given average weather and other
breaks from now on, we still would
be unable to eat as usual. War-not
floods, storms, INSTRUMENTATION,
political quarrels, or indifference of
conSumers-is the first cause of our
present food situation. The number
of mouths to be fed adequately has
increased way beyond our increase
in food production. The Army and
Navy and Lend-Lease will need 25
per cent of our food this year. We
are now feeding North Africa. In
a few weeks we may be feeding the
demoralized populations Of Italy and
other liberated countries. Steadily
thousands Of war prisoners are being
shipped here. Also that one-third
of our population which formerly
did not get enough to eat Is now
eating enough, due to money earned
at War-creaetd jobs.
NATIONAL DIET
MUST CHANGE
Though none Of us Is enjoying
a pre-War menu, there is no famine
in sight. But a big change in our
national diet is definitely in sight.
That's where the oatmeal and pa
tience come in.
Oatmeal and other wholegrain
cereals are relatively abundant
They are rich sources of minerals
vitamins and protein. Together
with dried beans and peas, soybeans
and peanuts, they can be used to
take up some of the expected restric-
ton in civilian supplies of the COM
plete protein foodsd such as meat,
fowl cheese, milk and eggs.
SoybeanS are rich in fats and pro-
tein. They are new to most of us
but several companies are preparing
to put soybean fours, soups, muffin
mixes and other products on the
market. Soybean flour griddle cakes
may soon take the place of oul
breakfast bacon and eggs. It's not
a prospect to make the mouth wa
ter. But it is prospect to hush
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

the Whimper Of famine"
One State Emergency Food COM
mission has developed two import
ant cereal foods and formula for
a new type of bread with soybean
flour among the nutrients. The De-
partment of Agriculture's home
economists begin experiments on
soybeans and Whole-grain cereals
for family menus years before Pearl
Harbor
From the way things are shaping
Up, you can expect steadily higher
point prices for meat, with the pos
sible exception of pork for the time
being. Other sources Of protein
likely TO be added to the ration list
are eggs and milk, because a relative
shortage in each is expected.
The transition period in our
change to a war diet will require
patience and instruction. 1t cannot
be a hit-or miss affair. Our national
re-education in eating will be based
largely on work done by the Bureau
Of Human Nutrition and Home
Economics, Department of Agricul-
ture. This research and experiment
bureau is headed by DR. Henry G
Sherman and his assistant DR.. Hazel
K. Stiebeling. State and municipal
nutrition committees also must give
scientific advice on how to make the
new available foods do the work Of
the old restricted foods.
Housewives, food professors, STATS
Of restaurants and cafeterias, public
institutions and schools will be
helped across the line by these sci
entists. America Needs Us Strong
is one of our war slogans. Expert
guidance, plus patience and "oat-
meal can do the trick.
So cheer up. Well probably get
to like the darned stuff.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
INJURED FIREMEN
MAY Be RETIRED

The fire board is expected to
pass its approval on the retirement
no pension Of full pay for Privates
John j. Corcoran and Bartholomew
Buckley Of the fire department,
both permanently injured in a crash
OF two pieces of fire apparatus on
Baldwin street two years ago. Al
though they returned to work many
months after the accident, they are
only able to do light tasks.
The bills providing the fire board
TO retire the two firemen at full pay
were passed by the recent legisla-
ture and notice was receivd a short
tim ago to the effect that the gov
ernor had signed them.
1t was revealed that the fire
board, after retiring the two fire
men, will advance two members
from the auxiliary fire force to reg
ular status, with the provision that
they step out of that position
gracefully" when former firemen
now in the armed forces return.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
FLEET AWAITING
INVASION CALL
Figures on Crafts Massed
Along English Coast
Military Secret i
By JAMES McGLINCY
United Press Staff Correspondent

South Coast of England, June l6
-(UP)-An immense feet Of lands
ing craft-from tiny launches tS'
troop-carrying barges-was massed
along the English coast today await
ing the Allied invasion Of the Euro
pean continent.
Production figures on invasion
craft are closely guarded military
secret but it is possible to say that
hundreds are being turned out each
month.
A visit to training stations along
the south coast gave reporters ar
idea of the vast array of new-typG
landing craft and the crews which
will man them. The big troop
barges look like regular transports
Among innovations were small, swift
support vessels designed to provide
fire cover for landing operations.
The support craft are manned
by royal marine gun crews which
operate twin machine guns from
mounted turrets. They also CARR
mortars to shell beaches or lay down
smoke screens.
In a demonstration, several swift
launches spilled marine patrols onA
a pebbly beach which had beer
plastered by Typhoon fighter bomb
ers of the Royal Air Force. Tn,
British marines sat In the launche;
with rifles between their knees, some
singing Chattanooga Choo Choo.i
Half way toward the objective,
they opened little cans of cocot
grease and smeared each other:
faces to make them dark.
Nearing the beach, they crawlee
up the narrow decks and In q few
seconds were splashing In the waite
and dashing up the beaches in !,
running crouch.
1t was apparent that the crews o
these assault boats are well trained
They are the men who make 1t pos
sible for the commandoS to land ane
they are proud of their little-pub
licized role.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
Owl Propaganda
Plans Achieved

Washington, June 16-(UPD
American troops fired artil-
Iery shells crammed with prop
uganda leaflets over the Axis
lines in Tunisia as part Of a
carefully conceived plan to de-
str0y the morale of German
and Italian troops, il was re-
vealed today.
The disclosure was made by
Robert Sherwood, director of
the overseas branch of the Of
flee of War Information, in tes-
timony, now released, before
the house appropriations COM
mittee. He told the committee
that the Owl "unquestionably
achieved" its propaganda OBJ
jectives in North Africa.
Sherwood said propaganda
preparations for the North AZ
RIGA campaign were begun in
September last year, two
months before the landings.
Three propaganda teams ac-
cOmpanied the expeditionary
forces, landed with them, and
initiated operations in AIgiers,
Oran and Casablanca.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
new LONDON
AIMS Get RID OF
CITY SLICKERS'
By ROBERT RICHARDS
United Press staff Correspondent

tOnlteu FTesS StdH Correspondent
London, June Is - U.P) - 1t
may take $50 years to accomplish,
but British planners are projecting
big things for the greater postwar
London area, with the accent on
community life and eliminating the
IDEAS of a big city"
A model of the plan, exhibited
ut the National Afr Gallery, is
drawing hundreds OF spectators
daily to see what the Regional Re-
construction Committee advocates.
The main objective is to get rid OF
city slickers' and return the peo-
Die TO simple community life in
which man takes pride in the
place where he lives.
The planners think it is vital that
British people in the future be
identified with a community in
which stores, places of business,
schools and recreation facilities all
will be in the same unit.
Plan Space Near Railways
The committee realizes it can't
move railways so it is planning to
move the adjoining slum sections
and convert the railroads into green
strips which 'infiltrate" through
London giving breathing space to
city-bound folk and providing
place for new trees to grow to take
teh place of those sacrificed in the
war effort.
The committee also has hopes Of
a,Ytfiyoer hncYNito1c caf,it 10
the green strips or perhaps use the
space cavated by the slums for veg
etable gardens.
Under the plan, industry would
be divided into two types-factorieS
that necessarily are eyesores or
create bad odors will be moved into
special areas more suitable for
them, while the less unpleasant fac
tories will be included in the gen
eral scheme Of living.
The planners do not want
straight roads. They feel straight
ness Is "inhuman" and nerve
racking. They also think the wind
ing roads express the true char
acter of England and they wish to
retain them However, there will
be three rings Of high-speed freight
roads through the London area,
They will be for heavy and fast
transportation and no pedestrians
or cyclists will be permitted to use
them. They plan to put those roads
as near as possible to the railroads.
To Build New Airfield
A new airfleld will be built two
miles from the city's center and it
will handle all continental air traf-
f1c arriving in Britain from all
parts of Europe. Transcontinental
and trans oceanic planes will be
handled from fields northeast and
west of London. Passengers arriv-
ing from the United States and
other overseas lands will be placed
into taxi planes" and sped to the
center OF London.
The planners are not discussing
whether people will live in apart
ments or individual houses or
whether the buildings should ex-
ceeds the present 60 feet in height.
I'VE are laying the groundwork
and the people who follow must
decide these problems" a commit
tie spokesman said. He added that
II discussion Of tall buildings
problem came up the people most
probably would forget the main Is
sues in heated arguments. He also
emphasized the plan is not based
on bomb damaged sections.
In Londons $50 square miles
area you would be amazed at the
actual small amount of bomb dam
age" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
FUEL SHORTAGE
BECOMES ACUTE
Emergency Distribution
Office Opened at Hart
ford State ArmOry

Hartford, Conn, June 16-(UP)-
An emergency distribution office
was opened today at the state arm
DRY on orders of Gov. Baldwin to
assure essential war workers to suf-
ficient supplies Of gasoline in view
of an increasingly acute fuel short
age.
The OPA, meantime, announced
that hereafter c coupons would be
issued only to persons directly con-
nected with the war effort, or pub
lie welfare. To obtain supplemental
allotments, these motorists must
comply with ride-sharing regula-
lions and other mileage restrictions,
the OPA said.
Gov. Baldwin said the emergency
office would operate under the Con-
necticut war council, land will be
in direct contact with local war
councils, and the mayors and select
men of our cities and towns. All
emergency calls for gasoline other
than farm requirements will be
cleared from the local communities
to this office, which will direct en-
Urgency supplies of gasoline to the
areas where the need is acute"
The governor said this was "only
the first step in our plan for the
entire state. Should our difficulties
grow worse, We are prepared to set
up other offices in various parts of
the state.
Public transportation must be
kept going. Vital utility repair
trucks must be ready for emergen-
cies, war workers must be able to get
to their plants, farmers must main
tain their production, doctors must
get to their patients, wholesale food
deliveries must be maintained and
we can't afford to let any communi-
ty suffer if it is within our power
to prevent it."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
LEGION COMMANDER
ARRIVES IN BOSTON

Boston, June tional
Commander Roane Waring arrived
in Boston today to be guest of the
Massachusetts, department of the
American Legion.
Waring was met by State Com
mander John H. Hall of Middleboro
and Sergeant-at-arms Warren Fowl
er of Weymouth at the Back Bay
Station.
Waring was scheduled to give an
etxemporaneous speech before the
Advertising Club of Boston today.
Tomorrow, he will attend a din
ner in Worcester and speak at the
Little Auditorium there.
Waring will end his visit Friday
with an address sto the American
Legion auxiliary at its annual state
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
Oatmeal And Patience
Prescribed For u. S.
Qualms About F anime
BY GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Food and Markets Editor

Herbemann edtorin-che Of the Catholic
of the worlds Ills be
emotional misunderstanding the food crisis
little deal oatmeal improve the
national digestion
Department Agriculture pessmsical reported
promising the three
so million
in 1914 The International
that there food the
world to feed all Of adequately
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
YOUTHS SPEAK ON
VICTORY EFFORTS

Youths from 10 OF the United Ma
tons described contributions of
youths in their homelands toward
the war effort at a United Nations
youth rally, sponsored by the Wa
terbury Junior Hadassah, last night
at Waterbury Hebrew institute.
Three of the speakers were war
refugees.
Albert Blank, representing the
United States, discussed a plan for
the formation OF a world union for
n tie r national cooperation. He
warned that the mistakes of the
Versailles treaty must be avoided.
Miss Flroence Bannett was chair
man of the meeting. The committee
included Miss Freda Bardasch,
president of Waterbury chapter;
Miss Ethelea Leopold, Miss Ina
Cohen, Miss Frances Cohn, and Miss
Sonya Seymon.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16
ALMOST AMERICAN

In Warner Bros Saratoga
Trunk" Swedish Ingrid Bergman
comes the nearest she yet has to
portraying an American girl. She
plays a French Creole girl who was
born In New Orleans, but was
reared in Paris.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

Producer Mark Hellinger and
Director David Butler took orders
from themselves when they briefly
turned actors to portray themselves
in Warner Bros 48-star musical
THANK Your Lucky Stars
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

companies interested in the drug
will soon be able to turn out large
quantities at moderate cost, Rich
ards said
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

Automobiles kill one person an
nually in the United States for
each 80-mile stretch of highway.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

brass This brass can now be used In waf pro-
duction where no other substitute is possible.
A finished round of ammunition weighs
only few ounces. Little things often do
become really big end imporfons.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

of long sea voyage and to resist successfully
the humidity of the tropics and the sub-zero
temperatures of the Arctic? The u. S. Army
Ordnance Department - and our own engi-
neerS, metallurgists and technicians believed
it could. More engineering talent this time
chemists - were added to the laboratory staff
and the larger and more complete Chrysler
Corporations laboratories, in Detroit, were
also directed to the solution of this problem.
The first of the new steel castings were made
in the month of August, 1912. They were
pretty good. Then began severe testing, =
spraying with wet salt air, burying in salty
mud marshes washed by the tide,-storing in
hot damp rooms and open exposure to the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

It was well placed near additional unused
land and far enough from the city to allow
the storage of powder and the loading and
testing of ammunition.
The work of preparation was started imme-
diately. The automobile machinery in the
plant, which could not be used, was dismantled
and put elsewhere. 1t was replaced by new and
different equipment A specialized laboratory
was installed and stated with engineers, metal
lurgists, and technicians drawn from our
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-06-16

widely diversified staff. Production executives
and specialists were also selected from our own
personnel. While the factory was being pre-
pared for production, the Frankford arsenal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24

of the local squadron to the war
effort:
Plans for the opening. next month
of a seamanship course to instruct
men about to enter the Navy and
Coast Guard.
The holding of plotting. advanced
plotting and Junior navigator
courses for squadron members.
Glasses are now in operation in all
three.
Close cooperation with Coast
Guard officials in programs of the
Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve.
A great number of USPS yachts
are serving in the auxiliary or in
the Coast Guard Reserve, the report
said.
In some areas, at the request of
military authorities, local squad
rons are maintaining telephone
watches ever restricted waterways
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-24
MiIkmen Will Collect
Victory Books 10
Swell 5000 Total
To Pick Up Volumes
With Empty Bottles
Here This Week

With more than 5000 books al
ready contributed to the Victory
Book campaign here, thousands of
more volumes are expected to be
collected this week by milkmen.
Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, Dis
trict chairman of the nationwide
drive for current books for serv-
icemen, said the pickup of victory
books by milkmen had produced
excellent results in other large cities.
Diaries Are Thanked.
eve are grateful to the diaries
here" she said, 'for agreeing to
have their employees pick up books
when they collect empty milk
bottles" The diaries will deliver
the books to the classification CEN
ter of the drive at the Southwest
Branch of the Public Library,
Seventh and H streets SW.
The chairman said the books con-
tributed to the drive so far were
admirable in quality The ma
tional drive this year is emphaSiz-
ing only recent fiction and nom
fiction, because so many "attic"
books were contributed in last years
campaign. The volumes are sent
to soldiers, sailors, marines, coast