The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08

for Herbert Gaston, able assist ant to Secretary Morgenthau. Gaston will receive the job, it is hinted, as another move on the part of the Administration to strengthen its grip on the Re- serve system.
 FREE PICTURES
 Through the initiative of J. W. .Studebaker, new commission CT of education; any school class room wanting photograph of the president may now have 1t merely by writing a letter to the White House. When Stude- baker took office he found hun dreds of letters from schools asking for pictures of the presi- dent. He put the matter up to Roosevelt and ne contributed a photograph bearing the message, ITO the pupils and teachers of the United States--Franklin D. Roosevelt" The government printing office. has reproduced the picture in large quantities. =. The EZRA is making a secret investigation of how a large quantity ofbspoiled canned beef found its way into supplies for the unemployed. The condi- ton of the meat was discovered before it was distributed ... Representative Joe. Byrnes' cam paign for the speakership has encountered such hard sledding that he sent out an sos call for Tennessee's willy democratic boss, ex-Representatiye Ed Crunp. It was Crump who maneuvered the alliance that put over the late Henry Rainey as speaker and Byrnes as floor leader .. :. Senator Jerry" Nye, is laugh ingly asking friends what the fol- lowing campaign alignment makes him. He made five speeches in Michigan for the Republican Senator Arthur Van denberg. spent five days in Wis consin campaigning for Senator Bob La Toilette and his brother Phil, three days in Minnesota talking for the Farmer-Laborite ticket and then returned to North Dakota; his home state, to help Thomas Noodle become democratic governor.
 LITERARY PORK
 Certain itchy-fingered house democratic patronage-grabbers again are casting covetous eyes at the so far untouched lush payroll of the. Library of Con- gress. There was considerable talk last session of rafding that institution, but it failed to ma terialize. Jim Farley refused to have anything to. do with 1t. He said the library was under the Jurisdiction. of congress. This year, with patronage scarce and appetites more voracious, the spoilsmen already have sharp ened their knives Admin istration insiders say that. Dr Thomas Parran, Jr, dynamic New York state health commissioner, is soon to replace his one-time chief, Dr Hugh s. Cumming, as surgeon general of the United States, Parran recently had a sharp encounter with the Co., lumbia Broadcasting System when 1t refused to permit him to make an address on venerenl diseases, on which he is an authority. The stormy strife among union chiefs for control of the powerful Building Trades Council of the A.. F. of l.. now has reached the slugging stage. In prominent Washington ho- tel lobby, the other night, Marty Wallace, short. 150-pound of ficial of the painters. hit six foot-two, 25O-pound Bill Hutche- son, president of the carpenters in the eye. flooring him. Hutche- son retaliated. knocking Wallace down. At this point friends of each intervened, separating the batlers, and hustling them away before police were summoned N. Minnesota s muscular Far mer-Laborite Governor Floyd Olson calls Emil Hurja, "the fpmbling Finn%. During the late elections Hurja visited Minne- sota bitetrly attacked Olson and Senator Shipstead, prophesied their defeat. Both were elected (Copyright, 1sS4, by United Fea.
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