The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-01

Washington. June i.--Jesting allusions about spring house. cleaning are NOT appreciated around the treasury department these days.
 The expression has too omin- ous q connotation.
 A tow weeks ago the Internal Revenue service came under fire. Disclosures of campaign contri- button. seeking activities ln the Detroit collectors office brought into the open charges 0f similar operations in Philadelphia, whis. persd suspicious againet still others,
 As q result the entire service Ia being subjected to . fine toothcomb.
 Now the Customs Service has fallen under the frlgt0 eye of Secretary M0rgenthau.
 Extremely serious evidence i'm. pllcatlng q number of employees In the New York headQuarters has been uncovered. Secret Service agents put on the trial found their moves circumvented.
 Someone In Washington appar- ontly was in eaNoots with tho conspirAtors, gave them advance tips on the government agents.
 A searching probe of the trcas- ury followed. 1t resulted in the amazing discovery that the sus- poctad Now York employees had tapped tho Washington telephone line, were listening in on secret instructions from the treasury to the Secret Service.
 Whether the impending gull iotlning will Do a public affair, or tho heads will bo axed off quietly, atill is undecided. It will dopend on whether tho avl- denco obtained warrants criminal prosecution.
 In either event tho Customs Service is in for q thorough Oyerhauling. Young Henry MOr. genthau ls determiiied tO clean house.
 HONEST EDDIE
 Morton Downey, radios croon. CT, ia a great friend of his fel- low Irish. American, Eddie Dowl. Ing, now running for tho senate in Rhode Island. In fact, they grew up together. Says Morton of Eddie;
 For i2 years ha was an altar hoy and never stole a candle" BOOMERANG
 Tha stock Market Mill's chick ems already are coming homo 10 roost. Several congressman who opposed tho blll are hearing about it from their constituents,
 Tho amazing thing is that democratic leaders who tried to crack tho whip whom tho Bill was threatened arc now rush. ing tO tho rescue of their once wayward colleagues,
 Speaker Rainoy, always graoi- oua, always imbued with tho milk o' human kindncas, has gone to tho support of Congress- man Bulwinklo whoso North Carolina district has rovoltod partly because he stood with Wall street,
 Even George Huddloston, of Alabama, who sa botaged osson- tlAl portions of the bill in the secrecy of committee but fav- ored it publicly, got a letetr from Ralney giving him n clean biii Of health,
 ARCH.ENIsNiY
 Thls perhaps was not surpris- Ing, Tho silver.erested apeak- CT will always help . friend. But what is surprising is that hard. boiled Sam Rayburn. chairman of the house committee which handled tho Stock Market bill, wrote Huddleston n campaign letter, Sam was discreetly sil- ent on Huddlestons' committee activities, but the average road CT got the impression that the Alabaman was the arch-enemy Of Wall Street,
 Perhaps hardest.h hit by his ops positlon to the Stock Market biil ia E, ". Marland, now tell-
 !, perhaps, had n.,re to do with putting lons,. sharp effectiv' teeth in the hill tO regulate stock market gamblers .. Do nOt bc deceived by the malicious prop. agantia inspired by tho Wall Street wolf pack. stand by your presldcnti"
 NOTlc--Speaker Rainey was not the man who appointed Rep preventative Hoover, dead since February, as q Stock Market confereo. In fact nobody ap- pointed him. His name was con. fused with that os Representa- tive Cooper, of Ohio, and car- ricd throughout tho country by one press association.
 JAPANESE PARITY
 With tho fleet foremost in the public eye. the state department Is Jockeying with Britain and Japan for early pavai treaty ne- gotiniionA. But there Is one