Show 0 0 4 I 1 1 1 1 6 4 4 U 0 D 1 7 YM 21 washington D C WIRE TAPPING few people even inside the government ern ment realize tile the extent to which chic 1 telephone wires are arc topped tapped today the good old days when wiretap wire tap ping was done only by big time gangsters are gone and almost no telephone line around washington Is safe today E even ven tile the private wire from secretory secretary of state hull to the president of the united states was found to have been tapped some time ago by an unfriendly newspaper the tha FBI which has been doing tho the job of chasing down criminals for years Is scrupulously careful about wire tapping but with outfits like naval intelligence or military intelligence which suddenly have come into lush funds and have inexperienced men spending them it Is a dif different lerent matter latest wire tapping development is the system of tappi nithe wires of army and navy officers by the army and navy itself for instance here is the transcription of a dictaphone recording in the navy department of a conversation on may 20 1942 between capt john D crecca of tho the boston navy yard and comar E E roth of the bureau of ships in washington regarding tank landing boats higgins landing boats the conversation shows that the navy finally yielded to andrew J higgins of new orleans who had a long controversy with the tha bureau of ships over the design of tank landing boats the bureau of ships had designed its own boat called the bu reau tank lighter which higgins claimed was not practicable and the two designs were tried out at norfolk va on may 25 here is an excerpt from their conversation captain crecca in boston we just got some disconcerting information regarding a possible blei change in the design of the tank lighters commander roth in washing Washl ngi ton possible its a sure thing yes that a blow captain ap tain crecca its terrible commander roth we cant afford it we had a test down in norfolk yesterday captain cochrane went down commander daggett comar R B daggett of the bureau of ships went down the army went down telephone connection interrupted commander roth well they had a showdown at norfolk but a little breeze blow blew up they got up to about 13 knots the bureau tank lighter almost capsized they steer it they just drifted around they had to pack with the thing almost lost everybody on board almost lost the tank higgins tank lighter came through ahr ugh fine upside in and made the beach and the poor old bureau tank lighter was out there wallowing around captain cochrane came back this morning and he saw the chief and everybody else concerned and they sent out did you get a copy of the dispatch commander roth commander daggett is coming in late tonight and I 1 guess hes pretty well tired out its a pretty hard blow for him you know iles hes sponsored this all along 0 0 WOUNDED IN washington two crippled soldiers drove up to the shoreham Shore ham harn hotel in a taxi A friend was taking them to dinner to bring a little cheer into their lives one soldier carried his arm in a brace the other had lost a toot foot both were officers of the air corps As they were getting out of the taxi a limousine drove up behind them and out stepped jesse jessa jones tile the big D ig texan watched thi th i crippled soldiers for a moment then took oft off his hat and stepped forward to OP open the addor of the hotel otel ile he held the door open as the fliers filers passed and when they had gon gone e he said to a passerby gee that hits you below the belt it 0 0 0 GLASS STOVES next time you try to buy a kitchen stove the salesman will probably ask what kind do you wish madam a terra cotta stove a cement stove stoke or a glass stove steve stoves made of iron and steel are disappearing from the market and manufacturers are trying to make stoves out of substitute materials many manufacturers manufacturer 4 have gone out of the stove business some b because they cant get the iron and steel others because they have converted to production of war materials a I 1 N of the count rys stove plan plants is half have b been een closed or converted 4 0 0 CAPITAL CHAFF C L jim parley farley has nt lost his interest in politics ile he called friends in atlanta long distance about 20 times during the recent georgia primary which finally defeated gov gene talmadge tt super G man J edgar hoover has been trying to discover who the mysterious ari Is in hartford conn who sends send him small wooden n dogs symbolic of the fact that he is a servant tl fl harry clarry hopkins has a gr great eat yen for the new york gossip column columnists I 1 ats 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 |