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Evening star., 1943-01-10
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IyqVNEMY submarine sunk. Latitude -.
longitude -"
- Within an hour from this secret
code report, naval tender was stcaming out
from an Atlantic coastal port. The ship
arrived at the position - marked with buoy
dropped by the victorious destroyer - and
was quickly moored. A helmeted diver went
over the side, leaving trail of bubbles as he
descended into the cold dark sea-
Two hours later line was hauled up, on
signal. Eager hands opened the tight-wrapped
packet secured at the end. Inside were the
U-boat's log and secret documents. Some
entries were blurred from brief immersion,
but enough was left to reveal valuable infor-
nation. Long before the divers ascent was
completed, seaplane was rushing the docu-
ments ashore for analysis and swift action.
Possession of code book can mean
chance to intercept enemy orders. Analysis
Of submarines log book will show any new
methods Of attack, enemy cooperation plans,
the location of secret refueling bases, or per-
haps a rendezvous with tanker masquerad-
ing under another flag.
Recovered letters and diaries will often
rive evidence of lowered morale ON the
encmy's home and fighting fronts. They
can be used In short-wave broadcasts to
Germany - broadcasts loaded with the
deadly ammunition Of names and spe-
cific incidents.
In the African campaign, Navy divers have
been Of inestimable value. Several cargo ships
and transports were sunk at the outset,
carrying vital war equipment to the bottom.
The Navy rushed all available divers to the
scene. some Of them by plane from America.
Under protection Of warships and planes, the
divers worked day and night, recovering
drums of fuel, sealed containers of food, even
tanks and guns. Some of the equipment was
quickly reconditioned. the rest will serve as
repair parts. Some of the vessels themselves
may be floated later. By this tremendous
salvage operation, carried cut under constant
threat of attack, Navy divers have offset our
African shipping losses to large degree.
Navy divers also have recovered war sup
plies worth millions of dollars from sunken
Allied freighters. Location Of the ships cannot
be divulged, but partial list Of recovered
cargoes indicates the scope of these opera
tions. In one case, almost an entire cargo Of
manganese was retrieved. Tanks. trucks, ar
tillery, airplane engines = many tons OF other
war equipment = have been brought up from
torpedOed merchantmen.
Up She cesnss!
6EyRRM. vessels sunk in shallow water have
been refoated. The raising of the Lafayette
formerly the Normandie) is the biggest oper-
alton Of this kind the Navy has attempted.
More than 100 divers are at work on the over
turned transport.
In this global war. expert divers are needed
on practically every sea front. In courage.
these heroes in brass helmets are surpassed
BY no other fighting men. They battle alone,
with their lives in other mems hands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

Judge Metzger woul dnot attempt to have the commanding general imprisoned, so TO interference with military activities need have resulted while lnjunctions, mandamuses, appeals, briefs and counter briefs worked their weary way upward through the judicial hierarchy.
 It might be wei flor somebody re- sembling the Chief to notify General Richardson, quietly, that the American people will not tolerate a military dictatorship by anybody, at any time, in any place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
Most Loyal Blue Geese

It is with pleasure that we pass on some of War Information, by way of the .s,Se offlce Ss not been distributed generally to the nations press.
 The Most Loyal Gander of the Honor able Order of Blue Goose, International, has sent word that his organization will hold no more annual conventions for the duration. This decision has been con- cured in by the officers of the Grand Nest - the Grand Supervisor of the Flock, the Grand Custodian of the Cos lings, the Grand Guardian of the Nest, the Grand Keeper of the Golden Goose Egg, and the Grand Wielder of the Goose Quill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
Whose OK Is Cored

A Vice-President of the CIO automo- bile workers union, Richard T. Franken- steen, wanted to criticize Senator Taft and Congressman VoryS of Oh I a radio speech over Columbus S; His talk was censored for one T. or another - he and the station l. as to that.
 MT. Frankensteen feels aggrieved, we think juStifiably. It is one of the things for which we are fighting, one typical of all, that every citizen should have the right freely to criticize any action of any public official
 In such criticism one obviously is bound by the requirements of decency and of good taste and is liable for islander or libel. In war time there is the further indiS- penSable proviSo that information which would be harmful to the national security must not be divulged.
 But there is no claim that Mr. Franken- steen's proposed talk offended in any of these ways By the stations own eXpla- nation, it was censored on the ground that it was controversial = and that, we Sug- gest, is just about as silly ground as could be offered for censoring or banning radio speech.
 So we sympathize with MT. Franken- steen; we believe he has been made the victim of an un-American repression. The Columbus radio stations action was as indefenSible as is the picketing of the New York World Telegram by the CIO Ma tional Maritime Union, in an attempt to force that newspaper to discontinue pub fishing Westbrook Pegler's criticism of that CommuniSt-domin union.
 It would not be fair to infer, from any information in our possession, that MT. Frankensteen so much as approves, spe- officially, the NMU's attitude. Nor, since two wrongs do not ever make a right, does the CIO desire to throttle it's critic justify anybody else in throttling the C1O.
 But taking that organization as whole, and many of its theological playmates, one can say fairly that it does make differ ence whose OK is gored. What is totalitar- ianism when used against the CIO is legiti- mate warfare when used by it. The end juStifies the means.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
New Style Labor Day

Labor Day used to be an occasion when those who work for living stopped work ing in order to pay tribute to the fact that they were workers. It isn't any more. Since Pearl Harbor there hasn't been time for that sort of egoistic class self-expres- sion. There is work to be done - more work still, notwithstanding the favorable progress of the war, than we have plant and manpower to do. So this is another rew-Style Labor Day, on which Labor means work as usual It might well be stretches to mean work more than usual. Since the man at the lathe cannot, patri- otically, take the day off to celebrate, any more than the farmer can leave his pota- toes undug and his pigs unfed and his cows unmilked, would it not be fine gesture for turning out just little more work than he ever has done in any previ- ous day?
 The future of the world still rests upon American labor. We cannot do it all. We are not expected to do it all. But because of the vast industrial resources of the United States - our plant, our skill, our ingenuity, our now-how, our enormous supplies of most raw materials and man. power, our distance from the scenes of actual belligerency - it is we alone who can SuPpAy CA1c dIuldLucuIS, HluAAACIOASD foodstuffs and other supplies with which this war can be won.
 Mussolini has fallen; Badoglio is quak- ing; Hitler is on the skids; the tide has begun to turn, however slowly, against Japan. No longer need we fear that the Allies might be driven to complete defeat. But defeat is relative. We shall have lost the war if we do not win it absolutely, Internationally, overwhelmingly. And even today, if we were to slow down too much, we might lose the complete victory that we need. So for Labor Day, l043, let each individual do his little part toward a productivity that will surpass anything this nation, or the world, ever before has witnessed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

The mayor does not approve of elim- ination or toning down or lessening the dimout procedure here. The State Motor Vehicle Department recommends a change in the dimout in some of our principals cities. The recommendation has been filed. Opinions differ on this question and there are many who con- sider dimouts and blackouts unnecessary. Others regard them as necessary. It is thought that inland cities do not need to be as cautious as cities on the coast. The dimouts do cause considerable discomfort if not fear by those who must be on the streets after dark. Dark streets which are darker since dimouts went into ef- feet offer mental hazards to many walk ing home from buSSeS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

This young man had written home saying that he was a failure. The first things to be said to such a statement is that no one at his age has lived long erough either to be 6 failure or to be much of a suc- cess. We spend the first thirty or forty years of life getting ready for the harvest. Occasionally a young man damages his life almost be- yond repair by some act of violence or dishonesty, but even under such circumstances life aas much to of- fer. even though he may always have to limp along its pathways.
 But to say because some one thing upon which we have set our heart ls denied us. that therefore we have failed and that life hes lost ali iis relish is to speak out of the depth of tfiexperience and folly. We make e mistake when we set Jlir hearts too much on anything. Kt may not be the Lords W1al that events turn out that way. Bu if He denies tln ln one way, ] is that He may work Fits sill through ts more peFfectly ln another.
 Newspaper Syndicate
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

see the important people who come to town.
 They have trouble with the dry cleaner, eat poor food, and get dates only with the file clerk across the hall. And worst of all, the salary that looked so hand- some from a distance melts away into the withholding hands of MT. Morgenthau.
 If . stenOgrapher's salary is $162O, plus 21 per cent for Over- time, the total would be nearly 5000 a year, which looks pretty handsome. But she loses Q five per cent reduction for the re. tirement fund, plus 20 per cent in withholding tax, or Q total of 25 per cent.
 Many Q girl has decided she would rather go back home, work in Q defense plant, ard live with the family.
 But the Government hopes that girls will go in for patriotism in- stead of romance and come to Washington even if 1t isn't what it's cracked up to be.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 In spite of the fact that en- ployes of the Office of Economic Warfare are frozen, to prevent raids by other agencies, Senator George of Georgia had no hesita- ton in asking for the release of an DEW stenographer whom he want ed for his office in the Senate. The Congressman from the 25th district of Illinois lists his name in the official director as Cecil Will liam (Runt) Bishop, and mentions among his former occupations: tailor, coal miner, telephone line man, professional football and baseball player and manager {. The office which Gen. DeGaulle has long maintained in Washing ton, known as the Fighting French Delegation, will now become the Delegation of the Committee of National Liberation.
 COTTON ED SMITH
 A significant situation is brewing around the figure of South Caro- lina's venerable Cotton Ed Smith,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
HAbeas Corpus

One reads with mixed feelings that Lieutenant General Richardson, com handing general of the Hawaiian depart mant, has defled the authority of the United States District Court in habeas corpus case, and has forbidden the court l0 take further action in the case. In times like these the military must not ht unduly hampered in its task Of de- lending the nation. But there is big question whether General Rlchardsons course was defensible.
 Instead Of the hlgh-handed course he DuEnued, he might have obtained equlya' lent results through demooDatic proccsSes 1Y resisting ln the courts. Obviously
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
A Thought for Today
Every Hand Counts

The Committee on Manpower of the Petroleum Industry War Council has out tined constructive plan for every oil company to inform employees as to the part each individual company and the Industry is taking in the war program. Employees Should be made aware of the fact that oil is an essential war industry and is so classified by the Selective Serv- ice Bureau of the War Manpower Con- mission and by the Petroleum Admins trator for War.
 Petroleum is the lifeblood of mechan- ized war. AirplaneS, tanks jeeps, trucks, submarines and battleshipS are fueled and fabricated with petroleum. Add buta- diene for rubber, toluene for explosives, asphalt for runwayS, and the importance Of petroleum is self evident.
 But these facts must be brought home to the gauger in an isolated oil field, to an oiler at some faraway pump station, and to the geologist pondering data which may lead to new sources of supply. They must be told that what they do and what thousands of others like them do in many jobs, is an indispensable con- tribution to his essential war industry. The gauger running the crude oil will pelore impressed With his job II he learns from the management of his company that he is starting stream that may end in an engine in tank in Africa or plane over Guadalcanal. Such morale build ing information can be brought to en- ployeS through employe meetings, through stories simply told, and through questions and answers at such meetings.
 It is of the utmost importance to any industry that men and women who keep that industry going realize the import ance of the positions they occupy, and take pride in their work, engage in civil ian defense, watch their health, buy war bonds, refrain from talking business out side business, write ex-employes in service, and conserve cars and tires. The petrol cum industry is doing a great job in pre- senting pattern to help workers realize the importance of their efforts in carry ing the war to successful conclusion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

caustic Roosevelt-hater.
 In 1888, during the famous purge" campaign, the President was definitely opposed to Smith, but never made a public speech against him.
 Tn the end, Smith was nomin- ated over Gov. Olin Johnston, partly through the tacit aid of Senator Jimmy Byrnes. Jimmy naturally did not want Johnston elected, since he came from Byrnes' section of the state, so Jimmy used his influence with the President to block any speech against Smith.
 However, the South Carolina situation has now shifted. Jus. tlce Byrnes Is no longer in the Senate, Olln Johnston, reelected governor . second time, is now . candidate once again for the Senate.
 PAN AMERICAN MISSING
 Members of the Civil Aeronau- tics Board are beginning to won- der if Pan American Airways is ready to abandon its stranglehold on overseas air service.
 The Board was holding hear ings on the application of United Air Lines to operate to Guatemala City.
 This was in Pan Americas area. Normally, when any other Ameri- can line tries to venture into the Latin American field, Pan Ameri- can raises a storm of protest. They appear at CAB hearings as "in- tervenOrS," arguing against the new service.
 But when the hearing on United's application opened, Board Member Harlee Branch looked about the room and failed to find anyone representing PAA.
 Surprised, MT. Branch directed a question at the counsel for United Air Lines:
 DO you know why Pan Amer ican Airways Is not represented this morning?"
 "NO, sir," was the cOntented answer.
 And there the matter ended.
 Copyright, 1943, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
A REAL NEW ORDER lNeR Britain HeraIdl

What His Holiness, Pope Plus XII, meant when he expressed the hope for a real new order after the present war, is one based on the golden rule for nations as well as individuals. That's the only kind of new order which, once established, would prove lasting. For if nations did by other nations as they would be done by, aggression would be unknown.
 The Pope's plea should not go un- needed by the men in charge of the worlds hostilities.
 A genuine new order would re- quire the elimination of war-mak- CTS. present and potential from power to do evil.
 Righteousness should exalt the world of the future. It should be the chief war aim.
 Mexicos agricultural workers nov total %, ,OOO 900.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
THE HORACE BUSHNELL"
(Hartford Courant)

It will be gratifying to all who take pride in the history of Hartford to learn that the Maritime Com mission has decided to bestow the name of Horace Bushnell on one of the new Liberty ships nearing com pletion in the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards of Baltimore. Last May, a gallant craft bearing the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe slid down the ways of port in Maine, accom- panied by messages of good sail ing" from Governor Baldwin and other leading Connecticut citizens. At the forthcoming launching, Hart ford will, no doubt, be represented as will the distinguished Bushnell family.
 One hundred and ten years ago, Dr. Horace Bushnell was ordained pastor of the old North Congrega- tional church of Hartford. Twenty six years later, in 1859, ill-health obliged him to resign his pastorage. His physical well-being restored by a sojourn on the west coast, where he was actively interested in found- ing Q college. later to be merged with the University of California. he returned to Hartford. where he died in 1878 after a long career as au. thor and preacher. As one noted Congregational divine has recently said, Horace Bushnell was to Amer lean theologicai thought in the Nineteenth Century what Jonathan Edwards was in the Eighteenth His published works, notably, "Chrlsl ln Nature" "0od in Christ" anf The VisaFious Atonement.' won thell first widespread recognition ir Eng land and Scotland, and later strong ly influenced all American pEogres- slve and liberal Protestant thought
 Besides being an eminent clergy man known throughout the English. speaking world. pr. Bushnell was 2 publle~GplFlled Hnrif0Fdlan mhe loved his city. It ls meet and just that, lli addition so the great cen, iFal paTk and tlla Memorial Hal that bear hla name. nc mesnoFl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

There, the OPA, which Leon created, turned him down.
 "There are just too many tire certificates already outstanding" OPA explained, "...ld not enough tires. You7l have to wait until there are some new tires"
 This means that what lot of officials long have worried about, has now happened. The hiatus has arrived between exhaustion of our carefully conserved rubber stockpile and the beginning of the synthetic rubber production.
 Last year, Henderson tells friends, the OPA warned Rubber Czar Jeffers not to be too gen. erous with new tires, that we would reach @ vacuum at the end og 1o43 beforet he new synthetic tires began to roll. Henderson also urged Jeffers to manufacture more tires from reclaimed rubber, thus saving new rubber.
 But Jeffers listened to pOIitl- cally- minded Jesse Jones who was devOutedly anxious to prove that he was not so wrong on rubber. So now the man who advised caution can get no tire for his jallOpy.
 NOTE: There is also on rubber for the heels which Leon Hender- son now advertiSes on the air. HELP WANTED: FEMALE
 The Government wan; more stenographers-thousands of them for work in Washington. The Civil Service Commission has sent agents into the field, beating the bushes for new recruits. Any ore of the major war agencies, could use several hundred more girls to- day. But they just aren't to be had.
 Trouble is that girls have come to Washington for the thrill of working in the Capitol, and have found that there is less thrill than hard work, and no place to hang up their stockings to dry.
 They live in what they call "the m0re- e-the-merrier apartments" work 48 hours a week, and can't even find time to go shopping They had expected washington to be romantic, but there are too many girls in proportion to men, and they never get chance to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04
Current Comment

The length of the war will depend upon the uninterrupted continuance of all-out effert on the fighting fronts and here at home. The effort is all one.
 President Roosevelt.
 American is facing dangerous emergency on the home front. The entire stabilization program is threatened. Once the flood waters of imitation are let loose, our dom. estic economy will be wrecked. A. r. of L. President William
 Green.
 There Is no comparison between the Americans in Sicily and the Americans of three months ago. They are at least 100 per cent better. British Gen. Sir Harold R. L. O.
 Alexander.
 As long as war output is short ofrequlrements. we have every cause for worry. 4 man in Q bombing plane has . better chance to come back alive # there are 100 planes than ig there are SO.
 -WPD Vice Chairman Charles V,
 Wilson.
 We edl en awful lot of praying and we both had an idea we'd be rescued.
 -Enalgn Eugene P. Farley. adFlfl
 70 days with eomrnde on scout
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

PRO is going in stronger for com edles on its new program. kIVe laugh-provokers are already set icl production in the next few months three of them already titled are: .'Danger-Women at Work" with Patsy Kelly and Cobina Wright, Sr.: "Oh, Baby. starring Eff D'OTsay, and a hillbilly comedy, I'm From Arkansas". Stories of two other comedies are being developed u1' der the supervision of Leon From kess, PRO production chief.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-04

Seasons vary. You never know from one wear to another what the weather or the temperature will be at given time. That is, is New England. For 1n- stance if it was very hot year ago Labor Day weekend, that does not mean it will be so this year Last winter we had lots of sub-zero weather We may not next winter And fifty years ago according to the almanacS there were frostS Septem- Der 2. There will not be frost here to- night, at least we don't think there will. But you never know in New England.
 There's lots of butter in storage for the butter spreaders this fall and winter if you can scrape up the points Things are getting butter and butter.