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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15

American planes are heavily
armed and heavily a1norcd. Able
TO protect themselves, they operate
In the daylight, with precision
bombing, whereas the British
planes, flying at night, must lay
down O patternt Of bombs over n
whole area, hoping that the prin-
cipal target will be hit.
British planes can carry
heavier load Of bombs, but the
fewer bombs carried by the
American planes are more effec-
tive because they 90 straight to
the target.
Further American planes have
suffered fewer losses proportion
ately than the British, both OPP
irrational and combat losses.
In fact the American cOntri-
button IN 10 Important hat the
about bombing Of Germany
must await the availability Of
more u. q. planes.
Most people think there Is q
heavy concentration Of Ameri-
can planes In England now, and
that the current round-the.clock
bombingS are the big show. Neither
Is correct.
There was O concentration Of
y. 8. planes In England last sum-
mer and fall, made with intended
publicity. This had the effect OF
sending the NaZiS scurrying oil
over western Europe 10 mend their
dcfenses. Then u. 8. air strength
was pulled out Of England for the
mission II had been intended for
the invasion OF North Africa.
u, 3, air strength In England
n now being built up again, ana
when the time comes, the two
air forces win stage the show
Intended TO knock Germany out
Of the war.
LADIES OF THE ARMY
When ladies were first brought
into the Army, all aide Jokingly
warned Secretary OF War Stimson
that II he weren't careful the
WAACS eventually would want
TO run the War Department.
That prediction has not yet
come 10 pass, but the WAACS
to-day are getting rebelliOus at
old line army officers and the
cuspidor atmosphere Of recruit
Ing stations.
Trouble Is that when recruiting
was stopped IN the Army. tho
Arlny'g regular recruiting officers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
TOY FAIR, 1913
christian Science Monltor)

NSAh ASVSHAA ASSAVA1OC 4S4ObIAOOAI
So far as the toy industry Is con.
cerned. Christmas comes In March,
and Santa arrives only at the Meal
pin Hotel in New York. That Is the
time, and that Is the place for the
American Toy Fair, at which the
new models are unfurbsd for, the
buyers who do their Christmas
shopping 280 days early.
With only VOID, paper, and tex
tiles to take the place of many more
strategic materials the toymakers
have found a new ingredient in in
genuity and have met the 1913
problem on the whole very well. In
addition to striving fnanfully to
meet all the demands OF Young
America. some 200 OF he 3ll0.00O,-
600 industry's chief producers are
now kusy on 100000 worth OF
war contracts. So 1t appears today
that toys will not be rationed,
though the cartons going out 70 fill
store shelves will be only about 90
to rs per cent as numerous as last
year. The youngsters viii have Ia
make sacrifices. too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15

peat what he did ut Philadel-
phla In l940-take the convention
by storm.
Now, however, the sub.rosa ae-
tlvity Of Willkie's friends indl-
Gates that the die Is cast,
They have been quietly sound
Ing out Republican leaders In
various states on the idea Of
pledged delega lions for Willkle
ut the 1914 COP convention.
Considerable progress has been
made In Indiana, where Ralph
Gates, Republican State Chair
man, who plans TO run for gov
ernOr next year, IL lending IN
attentive ear 10 proposals for q
lineup with Wlllkle.
The 1910 COP standard. bearer
also can count Oh, tho potent sup
port OF Grace Reynolds, Republi.
can national commltteewomRn
from India, who arranged for his
address TO q cheering, overflow
audience OF Republican women's
club members In indianapolis last
month.
In New Hampshire, however,
Willkie has struck n Snag. Sena-
Styles Bridges, certain TO DO n
"RavOrlte son" candidate at the
1914 convention, Is opposed to
pledged delegations.
nmRRNk,Re I'm -. SUpo
Though friendly with Willkie In
the past, Bridges wants New
Hampshire Republicans 10. follow
their traditional policy OF sending
unpledged delegates TO the con-
yention.
In Indiana, q resolution inVlt-
Ing him TO address the dOP-eon-
trolled legislature ut first was vlo-
!ently opposed by leaders Of the
legislature. The old-line chiefs,
typical OF COP leaders In the party
generally, were against him. How
ever popular pressure forced them
TO back down and consent to
adoption OF the resolution,
In q followup speech to the
Republican Women's club that
night, Willkie took the place by
storm. Actually Willkie made two
speeches to the COP ladies. In
the first, which was broadcast,
he eXtolled the virtues OF Abra-
ham Lincoln and pleaded for ma
tional unity behind the war ef-
fort. The second -, 3ch was de-
livered after he went off the air
and was political with q capi-
tai "P". Amid roars Of approval
from his listeners, Willkie Scath-
lngly denounced the Roosevelt Adj
ministration, declared the only
hope for democracy rested with
the Republican Party.
Copyright, 1943, by United
Feature Syndicate, 1nc)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
War Time

Assistant Secretaries Patterson OF War
and Forrestal Of Navy say that nation
wide war time, advancing the clock an
hour, has saved more than 1900, 000, 900
kilowatt hours OF electricity for industrial
uss. II this Is true, then surely nobody
would want to change back now.
Il 1t true? Never yet has anybody
given q logical explanation how cleo
tricity Is saved by turning on the current
"A hour earlier so as to turn 1t off an
hour earlier. In summer, with early
sunrise, unquestionably there is a big
saving. How is that economy carried
s~to wtnter'g short davs2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
Current Comment

Shall we do the most we can. or
the least we have to, to won the
war?
Col. Lewis Sanders. Selective
Service Office.
1t Is our fortune that our troops
must be put into fighting against
battle.h arneded veterans, and we
may expect little uncertainty at
first. However. there are no sol
diers In any army who learn as
quickly or have the same resource
fulness as the American soldiers.
Secretary OF War Henry l., Slim.
son.
The enemy has suffered defeat,
but he Is not yet conquered.
Josef Stain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
Views Of The Press

what different shape from that OF
the last few days.
The recent attacks upon ports
might be useful In helping to free
the Channel from small enemy craft
Of all kinds, but many harbors have
been left untouched; the big at
tacks have been upon submarine
bases. These attacks also might pro-
tect an invasion, but are almost as
necessary now for one in July as
for one In March. And some of the
other bombing, as Of Nuremberg, is
difficult to understand as a help to
immediate invasion. Unless the
British had notice of some particu-
lar bottleneck, or stage Of espe-
cially valuable supplies there, bombs
dropped ON rail lines leading to an
invasion port or on defensive air.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15

fields would appear more useful.
OF course, there may be diver.
sions. to mislead the enemy. The
landing points will hardly be dis
closed by the pattern Of bombing
more than two days ahead OF land
ing. But one Of the main tasks IN
establishing a beachhead will be
to destroy all communications and
supplies which could be uesd IN
quick counterattacks. A semi-cir-
cular bombing barrage 80 to 100
miles inland would be the natural
pattern. And there may be q luu
while the air forces are resting and
munitioning for the big job OF pro-
viding an air umbrella and air
transport for the invasion.
Prelude? Yes, an indispensable
one, a prelude that It may be wise
to continue and which may rise IN
new crescendoes before the main
show begins. i.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15

were transferred to the WAACS.
And under their old-fashioned
methC ds, the WAACS now must
boost their present strength OF
$4,000 to their authorized strength
OF 100000; later to 375,000, the
new strength to be authorized by
Congress. This will DO three times
the size Of the pre.war regular
Army.
Meanwhile, under male domlnn-
ton, recruiting goes down not up.
In Springfield, Mass, two WAC
officers IN charge OF recruiting
chafe under O Colonel who lays
down the rule that they may not
appear Singly, but only together,
on the streets OF the city. This
cuts their effectiveness In half.
in cities such ~ Hartford
and 81. Louis, WAAC officers
would like 10 be free TO do o
selling Job, but they are him
dered by old-Ilne officers who
still labor under the impregs'or
that this Ii MAJ Army.
WAACS complain that they
have TO Mt under the nose Of
their male superior, who even
listens In on their telephone
conversations.
CIGAR SMOKE
AND CUSPID0RS
WAACS says they don't fear
going into battle, but that even
the brnVcSt girls are frightened
off by the cIgar.Smoke-an and
cuspidoie atmosphere Of the typi-
cal Army recruiting station In
the basement OF the post office
building.
In Washington, d. c., WAAC Of
ficers asked for clerical recruiting
assistance and got four men who
had just Joined the Army and
had no training whatever. 80
the women took the men In hand
and taught them military Gus
toms, including how 10 salute.
Weak spots In WAAC recruit
ing are New England, New York,
W. Louis, Omaha, and the South
generally. Chivalrous southern
fathers hesitate 10 let their
daughters 20 off TO war.
NOTE: Many WAAC officers
are women who have been sue
ccssful In business, and have
Garner more than the regular
army Colonies and Majors they
serve under.
WILKES HAT IN RING
For o long time friends Of Wen
dell Willkie have been urging him
to begin organizing now II he
wanted the Republican nominal
ton In 1914. But he has stalled
them off, either not decided
whether he wanted to run again
or else figuring that he could re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
Selected Poem
BLUEBTRD BEND

BLUEBIRD BEND
(Margery Mansfield in the Christian Science
Monitor)
II Is hard 10 say why the heart should bound
When the foot Is set on unknown ground
Or anyway not ones own
titled acres, or
Well.oVed, well-tended wood.
And also, not 10 easily understood
Just why ut winters end, the bluebiIds come ---
Flock, low.warbling sweets, not near my home
But fill the brushy lowland past the bend.
All winter feed the birds about my door;
And, In the SPRINT not needing aims.
They come 10 sing. But not the blueblrds not
An ounce Of sky In the lot! They are sober OF SIDE
and wing.
I shall always have / trust my bFown.coated sing
ers and
Shall always wonder why
I must walk down the road for bluebird but ]
must
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15

Things seem 10 be In bad way out IN
Ohio. II seems the state legislature de-
cided TO change their clocks back to
Eastern standard time. There was no ac-
companying checkup with railroads or
mayors In the different cities. The result
some cities were on Eastern Standard
others still on war time; trains were rum
ming on one schedule, airplanes on an
other, with general confusion the result
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
BOMBING FOR INvAsION9
tChristian science AGonltorl

Is the day-and-night hammerine
Of Europe by British-Amerlcan
hombeFs the prelude 10 INVASION
Surely II Is. but q prelude may last
for seine time. Actual landings mas
not come until the softenlng nv
process has gone considerably far
thar. Moreover, the pattern Of the
bombing Immediately before inva.
sion probably would take On q some
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15

TO leap AZ once W
conclusions and to
prophesy future
events with con-
siderable asSur-
ance.
Someone ha S
said that prophecy
Is the most gratit-
Gus form Of mis-
take. There is not
a man living who
knows what Is go
ing To happen six
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15

as q good Army
engineer should,
he noted that
there was con-
era BILE con-
Struction wor X
and repair going
on about the
place. At Jerusa-
lie m, he wen I
through the Holy
Sepulcher In less
time than ny
other visitor had
ever done II In,
but II was there
he got the sur
prise Of his life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
Nv EARL l.. DOUGLASS d. d

Let us be careful in these exciting
DAYS not to indulge too much IN
prophecy. Almost anyone can telI
YOU how the war ought TO be fought,
or the government managed or the
basis OF q few facts we arc prone
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
A Thought for Today

What Is man. that thou art mindful Of him?
and the son Of man, that thou VlSlteSt hlm?-
Psalms e;A
How poor, how rich how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful Is mani
How passing wonder He who made him suchl
Young
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
Higher Standard Now

UVKUVF HVWTIWWIW 4NUW
Our baby weighed rs pounds at
birth, and at six months weighs
nearly IS pounds. We fed him.
(Mrs. r, 3. 81
Answer-That was considered fair
a generation ago. To-day we expect
a baby to double the birth weight
In the first three months, triple 1t
by the age of six months Reasons
for the higher standard are % bet
ter nutrition, (0 less doping Of In
fants, 90 more knowledge possessed
by parents. Send ten cents and
three cent stamped envelope bear
Ing your address, for copy OF 1.-THE
Brady Baby Book"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Lieut.. General
Somervell Finds
It's a Small World
ny PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat washington
Corresnondent

Lieutenant General Brehon SON.
ervell. Just returned TO Washington
from q six-weeks' flying tour Of In
Spectlon OF U. s. Army service OF
supply lines In Africa. the Middle
East and India, took time out to DO
only two bits Of sightseeing, the
Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and
the Tai Mahal In India.
He was duly impressed by the
beauty Of the Tai Mahal, though
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
Washington Merry-G o-Round
BY
DREW PEARSON

Raids Europe Demonstrate Effectiveness Of American Bobe
big Awaits Accumulation Of u S. Air Strength Brdn;
odFoshoned Army Officers Are Hamperns Recruiting for WAAC
Friends Working Behind the Scenes for Wkie 1914 Nominee
WASHINGTON may
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac
Moon sets 3:I0 a. m. (war time).
Sun rises TOO @. m, sets 6:57 y, m. war
time).
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-15
How Docs A Know?

Have been taking $4,000 units OF
vitamin A daily for my eyes--hy-
persensitivity to glare, Now you say
vitamin A Is used TO lower blood
pressure. My blood pressure Is ratll-
or on the low side How does Vita
min A know which to do2 81. T. ES
Answer--So far rs ! know Vita
min A has no effect on normal or
low blood pressure.
Copyright i943, John =. Ollie co..
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Alexandra Provides
New Plan for Doctors

In an effort to relieve the strain
on doctors, the Alexandra Board
of Health has adopted q plan for
giving medical care to the INDECENT,
which involves the investigation Of
night and weekend calls by the
police before the physician is SOM
moned
In addition, the plan which was
proposed by the Medical Society,
provides that the city shall pay
doctors on a call basis rather than
q yearly retainer.
One white and one colored doctor.
each with an alternate, will be
chosen to receive all calls and will
be paid 81 for each day and So for
each night call.
The Health and Welfare Depart
ments will take care OF relaying calls
during the day, and calls received at
night or over week ends will come
to the police.
DR.. w. A. Browne, health officer,
said abuses OF night calls have been
great, and that some method had
to be devised to curb them.
Under the former system the city
paid retainer fee of $3.50 a year to
the doctor caring for the white indi-
gent patients, and the colored pa
tients were cared for by three men
who received $3.50 a year each.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Plane Workers Press
Pay Scale Protests;
'WLB May Act Today
Boord's Delay Attacked
At 'Round-the-CIock'
Demonstrations
By The Associated Press.


SAN DIEGO, Calf, March s.
AFL union workers at the Console
dated Aircraft plant ended "a
hour wage demonstration today and
delayed further plans pending &C
ton by the War Labor Board
There were indications at Wash
ington this might be forthcoming
today.
| Meanwhile of1-duty representa-
tives of the union employed at the
Lockheed-Vega plant at Burbank
opened a similar 24-hour meeting.
Production was not delayed by the
demonstrations, the workers attend
ing during off shift hours. Boeing
plant workers in Seattle completed
similar round -the-clock" protest
session yesterday.
Harvey c. Brown, local union pres
ident, at San Diego predicted the
board would grant wage increases of
approximately 21s cents an hour,
The aircraft employees, who get 621s
cents an hour to start, want a pay
scale comparable to that of West
Coast shipyards, where 95 cents an
hour is the minimum.
Strike Right Defended.
Mr.. Brown told the workers last
night:
x have said we will not strike, but
we certainly have a right to strike.
Well have to await the War Labor
Boards decision to know where to
MT next. II We aren't strong enough
to bring enough pressure to get
fair wage increase, we will be so dis
integrated that we will be forced
into slave labor, and will be no bet
ter of by winning the war than by
losing it."
Hitting at imitation arguments
against pay raises, Mr.. Brown told
the workers that the same persons
who use the contentious do not OBJ
ject to those getting 5000 year
making as much more as they can
get"
Later opening the meeting to in
dividual discussion by members, Mr..
Brown warned against personalities.
More than dozen workers said
their salary checks barely met the
high cost of living in San Diego, that
they no longer could purchase War
bonds and that many employees had
quit Consolidated for higher paying
jobs elsewhere.
Byrnes Is Criticized.
Criticizing the War Labor Board,
Mr.. Brown told the meeting the
original purpose of the board to
make and carry out wage decisions
had been nullif1ed by Economis
Sterilization Director Byrnes. He
Director Byrnes. He charged that
In one case Mr.. Byrnes had enjoined
operation of a wage increase ap-
proved by the board.
This means" Mr.. Brown said,
that the War Labor Board Is going
to base its decision on what it knows
beforehand Byrnes will approve.
This smacks of dictatorship.
I'VE do not want to 60 on record
favoring shift to other work anG
let airplane production go short.
But you retain the right as Ameri-
cans to do anything you think is
pest, remembering that personal de-
sires should not overshadow your
duties rs Americans"
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Coast Guard Uses New PIow
To Rip Mississippi's Ice Jam

the cutter Fern for the first time to
keep that stream open to winter
traffic this winter.
Sporting one of the new ploWs, the
Del Commune, powerful United
States engineers vessel led the as
sault.- A leased tug, the Sawyer, with
another of the plows, laid over in
Alton, 1llD. harbor where huge
convoy of barges formed.
The Del Commune, expecting 18-
inch ice from Dubuque onward and
24-inch south OF st. Paul, probably
will be several weeks smashing
northWard. particularly if the river
rises or falls during the trip. Each
rise or fall could lead to jams ahead
or behind the boat.
Meantime, the barge convoy, bear
ing vitally needed materials, will
start toward st. Paul March IS.
The Sawyer will follow the Del
Commune within few days. patroll-
Ing areas where ice may form again
and escorting the barges through the
most thickly frozen areas.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Overseas Forces Disregard
Law, Demand Tax Forms Now

overseas only on request-and some
OF the requests are becoming in
sistent. An impatient Navy COM
mander, irked at the delay in receiv-
ing his blanks, radioed for a batch
to be sent by plane. They were. And
couple of Army commanders in
foreign war zones requested and re-
ceived authority to use their own re-
sources to reproduce the tax forms
for their men.
The general idea seems to be that
the boys figure they'll have to pay
sooner or later, anyhow, or maybe
they want to torture the enemy with
them-sort of new secret weapon. "
But it must be causing some funny
conversation between foxholes:
Hey, sarge, do you reckon I'll
have to pay extra-just because I'm
not living with my wife nowadays?
I'd send for her, but I don't think
she'd like the neighbors here
Il dunno. But I'm gonna list all
you guys as dependents if you keep
asking me questions"
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Battle Lines Drawn
As Repeal Of Salary
Ceiling Nears Vote
Bills Sponsors to Face
House Rules Group To-day
And Seek Clearance
By the Associated Press.

B, he Associated Press.
Democratic leaders appeared
ready today to throw their weight
against a measure, approved by
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, that would repeal Presi-
dent Roosevelt's wartime salary
ceiling of $4,000 latter taxes
and permit salaries to stand at
Pearl Harbor day levels.
The opposition apparently was
aimed principally not at the voiding
of the Presidents salary ceiling. but
rather against the proposed Pearl
Harbor day limits. There was con-
siderable objection among some
members also to making the salary
issue y rider to the measure raising
the Nations debt limit.
Battle lines were drawn as spon-
sors of the bill went before the Rules
Committee to obtain clearance for
Its consideration on the House floor.
The Ways and Means Committee
accused Mr.. Roosevelt OF acting
contrary to the intent of Congress
by setting the salary ceiling by
executive order.
Would Allow Raises.
1t recommended that Congress
void the Presidents directive and
itself set individual salary limita-
tions as OF December 7. 1941, for
persons making over 5000, after
taxes; and also that Congress pro-
vide that persons making less than
$25,000 be permitted to receive "rea-
sonable" increases.
Some Democratic leaders said
privately they believed such legis-
1ation would result in widespread
demands from labor for wage in
creases, and thus menace the anti
imitation program.
One veteran legislator said that
many House members, while opposed
to the Presidents action placing the
ceiling by Executive order, would not
support the repeater in its present
form.
It was understood that when the
bill reaches the House floor, prob
ably within the next two weeks, 4
fight will be made to separate the
salary issue from the rest OF the
measure, which authorizes an in
crease in the debt limit from $125.-
600 100000 to $210,0O0, ,0O0,O 600. A
group of prominent Democrats was
expected to present soon bill max
ing different approach to the SAL
ary question.
Meanwhile, Majority Leader Nc
Cormack asserted that Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau talked
out OF turn" recently in discussing
lack of congressional action on the
debt-limite measure.
Il like Morgenthau," said Mr.. Nc
Cormack when the Secretary's re-
marks were brought up at Speaker
Rayburn's press conference. But
he knows the situation. And you
can quote me on this.
Il say that Henry Morgenthau
talked out OF turn when he under
took criticism of Congress for not
acting yet on the debt-limit bill.
We're going to take it up next week.
just as soon as we get the lease-lend
measure out Of the way"
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Five More Jop Ships
Sunk by u. S. Subs

BY the Associated Press.
The sinking of five more japanese
supply ships and damaging of two
others set the Pacific and Western
Pacific score of American subma-
rines today at 19l enemy vessels sue
cessfully attacked.
The new tolls of the undersea
slashes at japanese supply lines were
listed late yesterday in Navy COM
munique which said three medium
sized cargo ships. one medium sized
tanker and small schooner had
been sunk. In addition, medium
sized transport and medium sized
tanker were damaged, the COM
munique said.
Up to now Navy communicates
have. credited American submarines
with sinking 1873 japanese vessels,
including warships, while % more
have been reported probably sunk
and an additional IS damaged.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
New Godget Keeps Air Gunner
From Shooting His Own Plane

ically shuts off the stream Of bullets
whenever the line of fire comes close
to the wing, tail, rudder, stabilizer
or other exposed parts of his craft
Engineers said the device almost
entirely eliminates "blind spots" in
the gunner's firing zone. The in
terruptor works individually on each
gun in a multiple gun turret, shut
ting them off one at a time. Before
its installation, reports of gunners
shooting tails and rudders of their
ships, puncturing wing tips and
shooting away pilot tubes and radio
masts were not uncommon.