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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-24

ping into their Tomahawks they
roared back on the dangerous err
rand of the second pass.
FLAMES SPREAD
Flames were already leaping
from the Jap ships and spreading
TO others.
The second strafing fired a few
more and, as the Tigers wheeled
for the third pass, the radio
spoke:
"McGarry 60 Neale! We're
coming down. skipper. 1 want
TO try a couple of those monkeys
for size!"
There was no use trying to keep
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-24
Links Draft TO Absentee

WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.-Elirri.
nation of absenteeism in war
plants would go far toward max.
ing unnecessary the immediate
drafting of fathers into the armed
services. Rep. Paul J. Kilday Of
Texas charged today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-24
Chenneult's Experiment
Spells Disaster for
Enemy's Parked Ships
By RUSSELL WHELAN
Chopfer XXI

Al dawn on March 10. Bill Reed
Of Marion. Ia. and Ken Jernstedt
OF Yamhill. Ore. went travelling 10
observe Jap troop concentrations
and movements 10 the southwark
In the fare chutes Of their
Tomahawks they carried A num-
her OF 3o-pound incendiary and
augmentation bombs, a most un-
usual. If not an entirely unprece-
dented experiment which Chen
naUlt had decided 10 try.
Bill and Ken Sneaked along
through the clouds over the air
base az Mouln1ein and sighted 25
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-24
SEES sTRAFER's DREAM

It was arranged that they would
make q rendezvous with Newkirk
and three others from the Second
Squadron near Chiengmai shortly
after daybreak on March "a.
But for once the famous team
work of the AVG slipped cog.
When the adams and Ewes
reached the designated point
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-24

tiers buildings and among the
parked airplanes, and bombs tore
huge holes in the field a British
Hurricane came racing down for a
landing.
The wheels hit. ran along for a
few yards, struck a shallow hole,
and the plane careened and nosed
over
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-24

Jap planes being prepared for the
days work
They dove AZ once and raked the
line with machlne-gun FIRE, then
came back and dropped their
little eggs
The results were startling Sew
eral of the Jap ships disintegrated
into SpllnterS. a dozen others burst
into flames,
The Tigers, getting away.
counted Is utterly destroyed out
OF Is. This figure was confirmed
BY British observation planes later
IN the morning.
EQUIPMENT DEPLoRED
The governor Of Jernstedts
home state Of Oregon radioed a
message 10 Ken Jernstedt. eX-
pressing pride in his achievements.
He depioTed the Tigers scanty
equipment and asked him 10 name
the kind Of airplane the home
folks should buy and send over to
him in Burma.
At Magwe the British and
American army engineers were
striving 10 construct an Allied air
base that might command the SKY
over upper and central Burma and
m time help turn the tide of war
against the JapS
Work was going forward AT a
fast pace and n was understood
that British and American air
forces in India would be moved IN
as soon as accommodations were
lready.
But the Japs moved in first
With only a minutes warning &c
Jap bomberS and 20 fighters came
over the field on March II and, as
the first bombs dropped, three OF
the Tigers and two Raj boys
managed 10 get their cold planes
into the air.
Before they could engage the
Japs, another wave of 20 bombers
with fighter cover came over
and let loose their loads.
BLASTS ROCK BUILDINGS
AS great explosions rocked the
airfield and buildings. Bill Reed
and Parker Dupouy headed for a
convoy of seven Zeros. Parker
Idived on the most laggard of these
and IL blew up scarcely so yards
in front of him.
Reed. wounded by shrapnel In
his first attack and almost blinded
had 10 dive out of the fight.
The other six Japs turned on
Parker, who caught. slugs in the
legs and arms and had TO follow
Reed down 10 what safety there
was amid the inferno on the field
Jernstedt, attacking 10 bombers
in close formation. was also
wounded and forced TO withdraw.
A third wave of the assault
numbering some 20 bombers next
appeared over the field.
Covering in staggered trenches
along the edge of Magwe air
drome, the grounded AVG and
Raj could only wait, and hope,
and take the fearful assault.
AS fires broke out in headquar'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-25
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
Production Lag

Many days after Under Secretary of
War Patterson first announced that arms
output had fallen off in May, WPB chair
man Donald Nelson tempered the bad
news with an explanation. Production of
aircraft was held up by design modifca-
tons in fighter planes which resulted
in completely new ships" Also, changes
in priority accounted in part for the
apparent recession. So it may be, though
probably we never shall know for sure,
that the May drop was more apparent
than real. The same considerations are
said to apply to June production.
This explanation is gratifying. The
present would be very poor time for
the output of armament and munitions
to slow down. And up to now acceleration
has been SO rapid that the pace cannot
be maintained forever. From now on
we must be prepared for fluctuations
arising out of consideration which Mr.
Nelson explained briefly Production is
measured in dollar value, which at best is
a very unsatisfactory yardstick but for
which there seems to be no disable sub
sttute.
AS the tides OF war change and new
plans call for new emphasis on differing
types of equipment, the dollar measure
of output may fluctuate considerably
though actual production is proceeding
smoothly and satisfactorily "For in
stance" Mr. Nelson said, "a tank is
very expensive piece of apparatus. When
the tank program is cut back, as it has
been, it makes a considerable difference
in the dollar value of output"
Presumably when tanks were "cut
back" emphasis was placed upon other
items, more needed for the moment,
which represent smaller payment and
therefore tend to drag down the apparent
deliveries of war goods. We have now
come SO close to our potential maximum
that overall production can be forced in
to actual decline by temporary delays
and shifting of emphasis
This emphasizes the necessity for util-
izing every pound of material, every
man-hour of labor, to the fullest. We
may have thought that the pressure was
on before, but it wasn't. It's just about
to 60 on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
A Thought for Today
Italian Future Still in Doubt

AS yet beyond the fact that Mussolini's
unsung and unheralded exit has posi-
lively demonstrated the end of Fascism
IN Italy, nothing definite has yet devel-
Oped either for or against further con-
tinuance of the war in that country
Without doubt as far as the Allied nations
are concerned the war will go on until
the original terms of unconditional sur
render" are met.
This situation as far as the new
Badoglio cabinet is concerned may be
the fly in the ointment that stands in the
way OF Italy's getting out of the war i'm
medlasely. That there are those in Italy,
not previously directly tied up with
Fascism, that would gladly like to see
the end of fighting and continuous defeat,
yet they shy off on the terms of "uncon-
dltional surrender and would much
more prefer those terms be changed to
honorable peace.
However, here once more again may
be hidden little trap for which Musso-
lini's erst-while friend and co-advisor,
has long been waiting, a so-called "hon-
Orable peace" or armistice as it were This
would be just repetition of World War
rs unfortunate ending. No one would
be hurt and the same cliques could start
in dreaming about World War III No,
when President Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill laid down the terms of "un-
conditional surrender" at Casablanca they
had the only solution possible to effect
what can be in this world permanent
peace. No other solution is possible and
if Italy really wants peace she should and
must accept it as such. If not, let the
war go on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
What's In a Word

Among interesting points in the CORE
spondence with which President Roose-
welt and Chester Davis parted company is
a single work in one sentence of the
Presidents letter accepting the food adj
mnistrator's resignation. 1t should be
read in realization that Mr.. Roosevelt is
very clever with words and well aware
of all their connotations.
cit would be unfair to you to insist
that you remain :. when you feel that
you cannot Fundamentally support
program to hold down the cost of
living"
Who cannot support a program? Mr..
Davis cannot support the Presidents
program but why the inference that he
cannot support program-which is to
say, any program? A sly dig, venom
Gus dig, an egotistical dig that exclusive
use of "a as though opposition to the
Presidents formula were synonymous
with unwillingness to do anything at all
to prevent initiation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
Rubber From Grain

Rubber Director William LETTERS believes
that synthetic rubber can compete against
the natural gum without babying or sub
Sidization, after the war. He thinks that
the price can be brought down to some
where between and Is cents a pound.
Experts say that before the war the eco
nomic price level for raw rubber was
about Is cents pound that is, that this
was the lowest average price for which
crude gum could be laid down in New
York with some margin of profit.
After this war they doubt that crude
rubber can be sold here, consistently, as
cheaply as Is cents pound That price
rested on coolie wages There is much
doubt that the coolies will consent to 60
ing back to 25-cent-a-day wage scale.
In that case Mr.. LETTERS prediction be-
comes reasonable. 1t is costing between
rs and 80 cents now to produce pound
OF synthetic. But we are just one year
old as commercial manufacturers of
synthetic We hardly have begun We
aren't working with cost in mind. We
need rubber. We need it badly and we
need it fast.
Even now, however, promising studies
are in the pilot plant stage. One, demon
strated to neWsmen the other day at Law
renceburg, Ind, is the Schenley Distil-
leries' new method of making butadene
direct from grain without going through
alcohol Butadiene is the key constituent
Of the most useful type of synthetic rub
Der. BY eliminating several chemical in
termediary stages, this process is supposed
to save grain, labor and equipment, all
of which together control almost COM
pletely the manufacturing cost level.
The original discovery which makes
this shortcut possible was made at
Iowa State College before this war was
really in sight. Experiments in the eff
fects of various bacteria on grain found
one which transformed it to butanediol,
which is much closer chemically to bu
tadiene than alcohol is. The U. S. re-
gional research laboratory at Peoria
carried on from there, until the method
was far enough advanced so that Schen-
leys research director, DR.. A. j. Lehman,
was able to build pilot plant and demon
strate that it works.
In other university and governmental
and industrial laboratories attempts are
under way to improve the technology OF
making synthetic rubber. Some of them
are promising already. Others may come
through. These Improvements, plus the
economies that inevitably will flow from
mass production should justify Director
LETTERS confidence and make this coun-
try self-sufficient so far as rubber is con-
cerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
Current Comment

You've got what it takes. The
path won't be easy. but CUTS will
carry you on. Godspeed and GOD
bless you.
Commanding general to U. S.
troops attacking Rendova.
The people of France are neither
Giraudist nor de Gaulist - they
are against the Boche.
Georges Giraud (brother OF
Henri, recently escaped from
France.
You never can waste money IN
giving people education.
Senator Claude Pepper, Flor
ida.
Our boys think they can lick any
Germans that ever lived.
". F. w. Commander Robert
T. Merrill. returning from
battlefront tour In North
Africa.
If we take a bold economic in
itiative and get the cooperation OF
other United Nations, it should be
possible to make postwar rehabil-
itation serve a double purpose
helping other people to help them
selves and helping to stabilize en-
ployment in America and other ma
lions.
DIR. Eugene Staley, Office OF
Foreign Relief and Rehabili-
| tation Operations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27

dence for he knows that everything,
from the highway ahead of him to
the azure blue of the sky above him,
is his.
And yet liberty is not just the op-
portunity to do what we want to
do. Liberty is a spiritual factor. It
is something that belongs to man
only because he is a free agent. The
lower animals are not free in the
sense that man is free. Man is
free because he has a soul, and the
better and richer his soul is, the
more genuine is his freedom, or lib
erty.
From all of which we derive the
conclusion that if humanity wants
to keep liberty and establish 1t
everywhere among men, then indiv-
iduals and nations had better give
pretty thoughtful attention to the
thinigis of the soul. True religion
and true liberty always go together:
false religion and bondage go to-
gether.
Necessary as military victory is,
1t will not establish freedom. 1t
will simply arrest and apprehend
the enemies of freedom. We shall
have true freedom when we rec
ognize God as our Maker and the
nations of the world as His realm.
All Rights Reserved-Babson News
paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
VIBRATIONS TO JERSEY
New York Sun


The Portuguese that form an i'm
portant part of the population of
Provincetown on Cape Cod have been
there for generations, many since
the days of the whaling fleets of the
mid-nineteenth century. The coal
mines of Pennsylvania likewise have
provided livelihood for people from
various Central European countries
for more than two generations. Now
the shortage of labor on farms OF
the Eastern seaboard may be the
primary cause of subtle changes in
the population of parts of New York
and New Jersey.
Recently some 300 British sailors
spent a week of their furloughs in
harvesting crops of the Garden
State; number of families from the
Southern States have lately been
moved to New Jersey farms, and
labor from the island of Jamaica has
been brought in to help relieve the
shortage of native farm workers.
Who can fortell the ultimate con-
sequences of these migrations? Some
of the British sailors may marry
American girls and, remembering
their wartime farm jobs, take to the
land at various points west of AS
bury Park or Perth Amboy. The
families from the deep South may
raise many true Yankee son and
daughter, and numerous Jamaicans
may find a new homeland in rural
New Jersey. Some prisoners of war
may also come, in time, to establish
families on our farms, and so help
shape the history of America in the
last half of the twentieth century.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27

The Axis feeble stand on the beaches
of southeastern Sicily would seem to con-
firm our hopes that Nazi resources are
a. low ebb. There can be no other ex-
PLANTATION for Hitler's failure to give our
invasion spearheads more of battle.
True, we had bombed Sicilian airfields
into bad shape and otherwise damaged
defense installations. But the invasion
points all are within easy flying range of
mainland Italy and were far from I'M
attainable from other Axis points. 1t
looks as if the little corporal had tried
to stretch himself a bit too far
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27

If I were Mayor LaGuardia,
Mayor RoSsi of San Francisco,
Judge Pecora of New York or
Congressman D'Alesandro of Bal
timore I would make an appeal
to Prime Minister Churchill along
the following lines:
To the Prime Minister of Eng
land:
We Americans of Italian descent
respectfully submit a proposal
which we believe will save the
lives of British and American boys
now fighting in Italy. We also
believe it will take Italy more
quickly out of war which she
never should have entered and
which the bulk of the Italian peo-
pie hate and deplore.
Our proposal is meant as no
reflection upon your great leader
ship, without which the British
empire and its allies would not be
where they are today. To anyone
less broad-guaged in mind and
vision we should hesitate to make
this suggestion.
However, we believe that If
the British government with
drew from all direction of poll
tical policy toward Italy, leav-
ing all political phases of the
war entirely in the hands of
President Roosevelt, then our
former countrymen would much
more quickly surrender to the
President of the United States.
ITALIAN-AMERICAN TIES
We respectfully submit this, first,
because the United States has
great ties with Italy. Many of
her former sons live here. New
York city alone has a greater
italian population than Rome.
Millions of our italian relatives
in Italy have confidence, trust
and love for the United States.
They look to this country as their
second home.
Unfortunately this is not true of
relations between Italy and Eng
land.
Unfortunately Italy and Eng
land have shared a certain de-
gree of rivalry in the Mediter-
ranean. This rivalry is no basic
obstacle to future friendship
and never worried us until
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27

A foxy chap named Fox, who is Phil
adelphia automobile mechanic, has found
a secret, non-rationed fuel on which he
can drive his car as far as he chooses
without offending OPA regulations. He
will not divulge the formula. In that he
is wise If he did, and we all began mix
ing our own with paint store liquids,
those would be rationed and everybody
would be worse off than ever. Such
discovery as Mr.. Fox has made loses It's
virtue the moment he becomes generous
with his information.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
Selected Poem
TELL THEM

BY Daniel B. Straley
Oh winds that sweep the tropic deep
And stir the island palms,
Cooling the fevered brow of man
And breaking torrid Gains,
Whisper, softly whisper,
To the fallen in their graves
Upon the blossomed islands
And beneath the spangled waves
That America Is grateful
For the sacrifice they made,
And that brutal Nippon treachery
Will with martial wrath be flayed.
Whisper, to them whisper,
OF the tears that love has shed.
And of free-born nation
Grieving for her valiant dead.
Tell them, winds, Oh tell them,
That they have not died in vain.
And that myriad souls in bondage
Shall unshackled breathe again,
Breathe again the air of freedom
And upon the ruins build
Barbicans of peace and friendship
When the throbs Of war are stilled
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27
Views OF The Press

directly through the Mediterranean.
The vessels were laden mostly with
lease-lend goods. The trip across the
inland sea, until so recently dead
ly gantlet presided over by italian
and German surface, undersea and
aerial might, was repeatedly without
incident.
While perhaps relatively trivial
in themselves, the three vessels
dramatic the opening at last of
a channel straight to the Near and
Middle East. Right away icthanges
the picture of supplying Russian
forces from the south, as we'll as of
servicing the Allied strength which
has been concentrated for a possible
thrust at the enemy through its
backdoor of the Balkans. Incident
ally, too, it opens the prospect of
food for what are left of the Greeks
if we have food to ship.
Over the longer range, it puts
a different complexion on the task
of servicing the campaign against
Japan, eliminating the long way
round Africa. 1t was so short time
ago that fears were acute of the
Japanese and European ends of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-27

famed into flame by an insati-
able dictator. But his poison,
dropped year after year into the
veins of the Italian people for
two decades, cannot be ex-
tracted overnight. Thus it re-
mains an unfortunate fact that
many Italians wrongly suspect
England of territorial ambitions
and fear that not merely the
Italian islands but even the
mainland of Italy will continue
under British ruiz.
President Roosevelt, they know,
has no territorial ambitions. They
know that every American boy
wants only to win the war quick
ly and get home. They know
that with America alone guiding
immediate political destinies,
Italy would be nursed back to
sound democratic government,
with no fear of a conquerer's heel
indefinitely on her neck.
TAUGHT TO HATE BRITAIN
We in the United States who
know you, Mr.. Prime Minister,
do not for one minute believe that
England has any territorial ambi-
lions at the expense of Italy. But
the italian people do not know
you. They have been taught to
fear and hate you. And it is they
whom We must persuade to sur
render.
Furthermore, your eloquence
is more effective than you re-
alize. Your speech addressed
to Italy before Mussolini dragged
his helpless people into the war,
is well remembered. You warned
that there was no reason why
Italy and England could not
live in peace despite Hitler, but
that if Italy did enter the war,
Britain would tear the Italian
Empire to pieces.
You were absolutely right in
issuing that warning. But today
Mussolini's skillful propaganda ar
lists are recalling your speech,
waving it before the frightened
eyes of Italians, warning them
of the terrible fate awaiting them
If they surrender.
Another of your speeches used
by Mussolini's glib-tongued propa-
gandists is the one you made
about holding the carrot before
the donkey and prodding the
donkey with the stick. This was
a graphic figure of speech, but it