The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-03

sitka for mosquito bombers. Charges have bene made that this played into the hands of one big company-W -Weyerhaeuser.
 Weyerhaeuser is the biggest lumber company on the west coast and dominates the supply of sitka spruce. Strangely enough, a for mer employe of Weyerhaeuser, J. Philip Boyd, is now head of Don- aid Nelson's WIPE Lumber Divi- sion. ....
 When the question came up of making mosquito bombers out of Sitka spruce, several lumber advis- CTS inside the WIPE, knowing it was not plentiful, recommended that southern yellow poplar was as good or better. The Scheduling Unit at Dayton, Ohio, classified yellow poplar as equal to sitka spruce for "aero specifications" while W. D. Connor, former acting chief of WIPES Lumber Division, also recommended yellow pop lar.
 This brought an immediate pro- test from Boyd, whose former company, Weyerhaeuser, controls most of the rival lumber to yel- low poplar. Boyd, then chair man of the Lumber Advisory Com mittee, promptly wrote an opinion to the Arny-Navy Munitions Board protesting the use of any wood except sitka spruce. His opinion was labeled by one WIPE lumber expert, Nathaniel Dyke, as misleading, biased and unfair.
 It also brought forth a denial from Arthur Upson, then chief of the Lumber Division, who termed Boyd's letter "iIl-timed" and "ill-advised".
 Despite this, Boyd was later
 appointed by Nelson in Upson's'
 place. Duke, who opposed
 Boyd, was fired. COnnOr, who
 also opposed Boyd on sitka
 spruce, resigned and Is now in
 charge of the Navy's lumber
 purchases.
 And Boyd, who demanded that mosquito bombers be made of the wood which his old company large ly controls, is now advising D. Nelson in his demands on Sec- retary 1ckes that the Olympic Na- tional Park be opened to Weyer- haeuser and others for more sitka spruce.
 IT ALL DEPENDS
 Chief indoor sport of Colorado,s rotund Republican Rep. J. Edgar Chenowet his denouncing federal extravaganza. When President Roosevelt presented Crown Prin- cess Martha of Norway with a sub-chaser, ChenoWeth exclaimed: Tt is time to stop giving away valuable American property like a bridge prize."
 However, the Coloradan sees nothing wrong in accepting "bridge prizes" for self and family. For more than two years, the govern ment has been paying his son, Bill Chenoweth, for one working in his fathers ofIice.
 Young ChenOweth is listed on
 the Congressional payroll at Sl,-
 200 6 year. Yet he hasn't set
 f0ot in Washington for Q year
 and a half and hasn't worked
 ln his fathers office for more
 than two years, though he has
 been receiving a salary from the
 government ever since Congress.
 man Chenoweth came to Wash
 ington in January, l0lI.
 During most of this time he was q student at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. where his gov- eFnment paychecks helped him to buy an education.
 ASERRY.d0.R0UND
 Naval men. always suspicious, say Lord Louis Mountbatten, new commander Of the Burma Expedl. ton. ls tlnxed. He had two ships. the Javelin and the Kelly, shot from under him and suffered ter. Fllle casualties sn the Dieppe Fald. Others say Q le bravery .... Both schools agree. however, that vic. toFy iH tthts WaF depends on about co per cent genius and 70 per. cent luck. Ig you lack the % peF- cent luck, you'Fe tlnNed Keep an eye oH Judge Edgar 0. Bennett, Of MaFYaVllle, Kana,. aa the next U. @. district plldge ig Mnnaas i. MEa. Vanderbilt haa been showing of EdIl pamlia, eN~wlfe 0f MTs fel ElFnn. so the hlneubloods o Newport Heelelv MNsGnNnrnor Mas 0aEanaf of North paffllna zN34I FEFEeNE eH4|'t H8I1 q 24I4. ~ szE|1 INN 14 I1'|.