The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-17

William knudSen, COlOnel now the Air Corps chief inyes- tigator) and Gen. c. R. Branshaw of Dayton, Ohio.
 What the Truman Committee found was certain alleged defects in airplane motors plus lack of careful inspection.
 Engines were tested in part by running a pink liquid through the cylinders and If any of this pink coloring came through, 1t indicat- cd there was leak some place and the cylinders were defective. However, even when defects were indicated, testimony taken by the Truman Committee states that the engines were okayed by inspectors.
 Gen. Knudsen, long the produc- tion wizard for General Motors, wrote a report following his trip to Cincinnati, tending to play down the seriousness of the T'ru- man Committee findings. He said that almost all engines had minor defects in them, and that the pink markings which indicated de- fleets were not serious.
 However, the Army appears worried over the entire situation and Is moving in tO clear it up. One factor difficult to explain is the Truman Committee teS- timOny that two inspectors Ob- jccted vigorously to Okaying en- zines which appeared defective.
 They were civil service employ cS of the Army, not the Wright company. Eventually the two pro- testing inspectors were transfer red, one of them being told not to set foot on Wright property again, according to the testimony.
 This is what looks bad The Truman Committee is waiting for the Army to clean up the Situa- ton completely.
 MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT
 Memo to the President: The anu-tank troops you saw at Dal- las, Tex on your recent trip to Mexico were not from the 8th service Command, ag was repre- gented to you. They were from Camp Hood at Temple, Tex.
 What happened was that the 8th Service Command at Dallas wanted to make the biggest and best possible showing for you, but had no big anti-tank guns, or ba- zookaS. So they sent to Camp Hood for a company Of bazooka men.
 When the latter arrived, very proud to appear before the Pres idcnt, and wearing their insignia of a leopard biting tank, they were made to remove these insig- mia before they paraded before you.
 CAPITOL CHAFF
 Many thanks 10 It. Philip c. Olin in command Of naval cadets at Cornell University for incrca8- ing reader interest in the WASH INGToN MERRY -GO-ROUND. He ordered cadets not to read it, didn't like M-G-R pointing to NaVy'B opposition to helicoptcrg, delay on escort vessels and Knox'g news suppression . Ambassador Joe Davies spent four weeks in the New England Baptist Hospi- tai, Boston, getting a careful check-up before he went on his new Mission to Moscow to ar- range A meeting between Stalin and FDR) -. Davies suffers from ulcers, took a doctor with him on this trip to Moscow The mos ton picture industry ig going to town with the Frank Capra army training films. Produced for the Army, they are of great interest to civilians also, will be shown in most theaters.
 THE HOUSE ON II STREET
 It was partly the fact that Ez- Gov. Bob Hurley Of Connecticut was involved in a company mak- Ing war goods that caused the hard-working House Military Ar- fairs Committee to prick Up itS ears and delye deeper into the now famous Big Red House on R Street"
 Ex-GoV. Hurley turned LID aA vice-prcsident of the Narragansett Machine Tool Co. of PaWtiicket, R l., firm whose Washington agent Shelled out $500 to Mrs. Eula Smith, hostess of the R Street house.