The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-12

Agriculture. Wallace could veto anything Peek did.
 So George Peek unburdened himself.
 "Either I resign or the brain trust resigns" he stormed, re- ferring to Professor Tugwell, Jerome Frank, Fred Howe, and other intimates of Wallace.
 ''Do you consider Secretary Wallace a member of the brain trust?" Peek was asked.
 "On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays" he parked in re- ply.
 This Erit the president in a place where he had no alterna- tive. He was not going to ditch his secretary Of agriculture. He had planned to salve Peek's feelings some way or other. But when Wallace went to the White House and laid the whole matter before the president, he found him than ever.
 DESERT-MINDED
 One of the long standing dis putes between the army ard navy has been over which should have the honor of protecting the coasts of the United States.
 This has been rife ever since Major General Arthur Murray, chief of coast artillery, saw the honor being taken away from his long range guns by the development of the submarine. So he made a formal proposal that the army build submarines.
 With the development of the airplane, the rivalry has center ed upon whether the army or navy air force should be respon- sible for coast defense. This came to a head recently when both services wanted to acquire the airplanes of the Coast Guard.
 All of which was news to good old George Dern, secretary of war. Dern comes from the des- erts of Utah. Before he came to the war department he had probably given coast defense about as much attention as Jer- scy fishermen give to irrigation. So when asked by newspaper men:
 "Who is going to get the Coast Guard planes?"
 He replied: Docs the Coast Guard have planes
 And after pause added: I suppose they want to get rid of them now that prohibition is over"
 NOte-That is the last thing the Coast Guard wants to do. They are resisting army and navy claims.
 NAZI PROBE
 Nazi agents and organizations who have been enjoying a good laugh over the flop of the so- called investigation" initiated by Tammany's blatant Represen- tative Dickstein are premature.
 There is a real probe coming with more funds, counsel, ipves- tigators.
 Dickstein will not run that show. Its sponsors are a group of anti-Nazis including Samuel Untermeyer and John Haynes Holmes who are not interested in mere political grandstanding. They have had secret confer- ences with house and senate leaders, are preparing resOlu- tion authorizing a sweeping NaZi investigation by a special cOm- .n1ittee, have assurances Of prompt action.
 Dickstein's. inquiry is largely an empty gesture. He has no authority, no power of subpoena, no money. He was strongly urged not to proceed until con- gressional authorization was Ob- tained. But, a jealous headline snatcher, he refused to wait, staged his own act for whatever 'topheads" he could gather.
 RRY-GO-ROUND
 The man who got the Haitians together with Secretary Hull on the question of withdrawing the American financial mission was Ernest Gruening. They all went to the Pan-American con- ference together on the same boat. . Dolly Gann's book and Alice Longworth's recent opus are being sold side by side in several capital bookshops. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is being called "The Greatest Act ing Secretary of the Treasury since Willie Woodin." .. Re ports that Barney Baruch has lined up sixty congressmep and eight senators to oppose the ad- ministration on its agricultural and monetary policies is worry ing some of the New Dealers. But only the ones green to Washington. Barney Baruch is swell guy but the stamp of his name on any congressional pro- posal is enough to kill it before birth.
 (CODyriglt. 1883, by United