The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-02

going to pay an early call on gas and oil users.
 Those inside the oil admins tration say that price-fixing is due for another postponement. December was the date origin ally fixed for the boost in rates to become effective. But now this date is to be carried over to January l, perhaps even later.
 Reason for the postponement is the conviction by Secretary Ickes, and Nathan Margold, chairman of the Petroleum Ad- minisfrative board, that import ant changes in price schedules are in order.
 They want additional informa- tion on the cost of producing, re- leum. The National Associa- tion of Trackside Filling Stations has filed a formal protest with the Oil Administration charg- ing that it's proposed price sched- ules will cost consumers many millions of dollars. l<
 With Ickes, protection of the consuming-public is a definite passion.
 NIGHT SHIFT
 After Henry Morgenthau, Jr, had ordered his drastic press censorship in the Treasury De- pertinent, one poorly-paid Treas ury guard, once connected with a notorious blackmail gang, saw an opportunity to augment his pay.
 He passed out the word that hc was on the night shift and that for a consideration he would admit anyone Into the offices at night and let them search the records. They could make copies of anything they found, he said, provided they did not steal the papers.
 So far as Is known, there were no takers for his offer.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 The latest contribution to the treasury's collection of portraits of former secretaries is that of "Oggie" Mills The picture is a three-quarters length oil painting showing 'Oggie" stand ing by a chair with one of his specially made Corona Coronas prominently displayed in his for by Mills, hangs in the sce- his message to the Illinois legis- lature asking for unemployment relief funds, Governor Horner I n. 70 t,,. relief would be faS cheaper than the cost of calling out troops to quell food riots" Senate progressives have been quietly exchanging views on the amount of additional public works funds to be sought at the coming ses- sion of congress Their es- times range from two to five billion dollars, with most of them favoring the larger sum Washington hard hitting, liber- al Senator Homer T. Bone, dur ing recent visit to the capital, told administrator leaders that
 the west favored more and
 larger public work grants Unemployed needy will get well acquainted with the bean this Emergency Relief Administra- tion will buy 5,000,000 pounds of dry beans for distribution through state and local agencies .. Treasury agents are secretly Investigating Wall Street reports of short selling in government bonds The inside word is that banking interests hostile to the presidents dollar devaluation policy, are dumping" govern ment securities in a covert drive to depress their value and thus scare the administration into abandoning it's program Two days before President Roosevelt announced his Soviet recognition negotiations, Ernest c. Ropes. chief of the Russian division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and Earl Packer, of the Eastern Eu- ropean division of the State De- partment, assured a prominent industrialist that there was no likelihood of the president nov ing for a rapprochement with Russia for at least two years. Copyright, 1888, by United Fea-
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