The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-16

CONSTRUCTING pOSC"Wdr peaC'
 It can no wbe revealed that Ford plans to use Willow Run as the largest agricultural imple- ment production center in the world. Principal product will be Q new self-propelling blow, com- plete with harrow and other at- taehments, to sell at about $400, This and similar farm equipment which Ford plans to produce 0t low prices may well revolutionize small farming, give the little farmer Q chance to enjoy more leisure and tho benefits of eiv- iliZation.
 Inside fact Is that Ford for years has tried t0 work out . way to produce the cheap Fer gus0n tractor at . low enough price to capture . market of millions.
 Ford first met Scotch tractor inventor Harry Ferguson about ls years ago. Ferguson told Ford about his low-priee tractor, showed him tho plans.
 "You'Fe ten years ahead of time," Ford told him, "Come back and see me ten years from now"
 As Ferguson left, Ford ordered his secretary to make calendar note of the event. Ten years la. ter to the day, Ferguson showed up at the Ford woroks, Ford has since worked long and hard with Ferguson, now thinks he can get the tractor price low enough,
 Actually, Ford is anxious to have the Army release him from plane production AS soon as possible, permit him to reconVert speedily to farm equipment, He pro- dueed his 9,000th Liberator bomb. CT this month, iS now being cut back, but not released. He has placed plenty of pressure on the War Department, still can't move the Brass Hats.
 NOTE; While most auto manu- faeturers are planning to start their auto assembly lines again with high-priced i042 models, Ford Is ready to build and sell Q new Streamlined 6-eylinder car, minus trimmings, for the price of 5000. The new car will get g to 3e miles per gallon, according to engineers,
 DECLINE OF MoUNTBATTEN
 one inside fact about the Que. bec conference k that Roosevelt went to 1t determined that Lord Louis Mountbatten should not TO. turn to Ceylon aS commander Of the Allies in the Indian theater,
 Cousin of King George, married to one of the most beautiful woe men in England, Nomination was Q great commando raider, but the command of Q huge operation such as the retaking of Burma and Singapore apparently has been beyond him. U. s. officers stationed at the ornate tropical city of Randy, the Ceylon head- quarters of Lord Mountbatten, have complaineA of endless inc excusablo delays.
 MOuntbatten's appointment tO the Indian theater at last years Quebec conference preclpitated . crisis among the Allied Chiefs of Staff. When the appointment was decided upon, lt was agreed that nothing should be said which would tip off Allied plans
 to the enemy. Accordingly General Marshall asked the Chinese military attaChe In Washington to come tO Quebec, where no was told about the Mountbatten appointment and was instructed that it was go secret he could not radio . mes. sage to Chiang Kal-shek, for fear the Japanese might decode tho message. Marshall told the Chinese attache tO sen dc special courier by alFplane tO Chunklng with the news.
 Imagine General Marshall's eur- prise, therefore, when . few days later he read in the newspapers that British Information Miniss ter Brendan BrAcken had aTls nounced Mountbatten'g appoiflt- ment to the world.
 At the next meeting Of the Chiefs of Stan, General Marshall said ii brief: "0entIomon, when you agree on military strategy you don't announce your plans to the enemy"
 General Sir Alan Brooke, Brit. ish Chief of Stan, bridled at this end Is reported to have said That, siE, lS . charge of bed foish and made it contribute to the heal