The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-15

ee Is Ignored om Market BiIl. | columns of his organ, the Ameri-
 can Progress, he swings wicked punch.
 In the current issue, the King
 fish takes on Mayor Walnislcy of New OrIcans-untiI recently his political aIly-now his bite
 ter foe. Although Huey was ale
 leged to have c-olded Walmslcy
 when he cal: to Washington
 the. other day, he certainly pulls no punches i'm his paper. After q general vitrlolic castigation,
 Huey concludes by pulling a
 "scandal' on his. opponent. This is nothing less than a yelled accusation that Walmsley once sat at the same dinner
 table with a negro. According
 to The American Progress, Walmsley came to the capital some four years ago, and attend ed social affair where also was present Representative Oscar DePriest,. Illinois republican and the only negro in congress.
 The two men, Huey charges l with considerable indignation, not only sat opposite one an-
 other, but actually engaged in friendly conversation.
 Note: On Page 4, The, Ameri-
 can Progress flaunts pagc-wide quotation from Abraham Lin- coin, the Great Emancipator" de-
 crying racial prejudice.
 SPANKING
 A vigorous parliamentary spanking was tho motive of
 House leaders in placing tho his tory-making Stock Exchange control bill in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commit tee.
 Ordinarily the bill should have gone to the Banking Com mittee. But chairman of that committee is Alabamas big bodied, publicity seeking Henry B. Steagall, and he was the boy who was spanked.
 House leaders are fed up with Stcagalfs ceasclcss publicity
 seeking. When the Presidents
 gold rcyaIuation bill came to
 the chamber, they turned 1t oyer
 to another committee. Now they
 have rebuked him even more pOintcdly.
 The Stock Exchange control bill, likely to be the most i'm portant piece of legislation of the
 session mas been placed in the
 hands of Texas canny, silent Sam Rayburn. His name, and not that of Steagall, will be at tachcd to the measure.
 MERRY-GO.ROUND
 Winthrop W. Aldrich, presi-
 dent of the Chase National bank,
 Is one man who takes his recom
 mcndations to congressional
 committee seriously :. In
 his concluding appearance before
 tho senate bank investigation, Aldrich proposed a number of F banking reforms, among them q
 ban on bank directors specu-
 lating in their own stock That was several months ago.
 Since, then, A1drich has. made
 repeated visits to the capital to
 urge officials and congressional leaders to enact his reforms The first witness. to be sum- moned by the House Imn1igra-
 tion committee when 1t starts in- vestigating Nazi propaganda
 will be Carl Byoir, agile publi-
 cist, and reputed head of NaZi z publicity in the U. s. .. Byoir,
 one-time press agent for Cuba's 'ex-Dictator Machado, has been
 reported to the Committee as
 having fat contract with the
 Hitler government.
 MORE MERRY-GO-ROUND
 North Carollnas tiny Furni-
 fold NJ. Simmons, defeated for
 reelection in 1890 for bolting Al
 Smith, has declined an offer of
 scat in the House. He has
 behind him a quarter of cen-
 tury of continuous service in the
 senate Mississippi's Rep resentative John E. Rankin is 6
 hard-working and liberal legis- lator, but he does not believe in hiding his light under bushcl -. After making an extensive
 speech on the benefits of Muscle Shoals to the people of the Ten
 nessee Valley, Rankin distributed | press release which read as
 follows: His address was lis-
 tened to with intense interest, in
 view of the fact that he has
 been one of the leaders ih the fight for the Muscle Shoals pro- ject" A. E. Hutchinson.
 secretary and general manager
 of tho Federal Home Owners
 Loan Corporation, and known
 throughout tho organization as
 "Two-job Hutch," has been
 stripped of one of his positions
 William H. McEeai, for
 merly with the New York Title
 & Mortgage company, has been
 made General Manager of the
 Board Gardening fans
 should buy their lawn seed early this year The Bureau of Agricultural Economies reports that commercial supplies of
 many grass and clover seeds are the smallest in many years. while tho demand has apprcciably in- creased.