The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-26


 Florida's hard-working senior Senator Duncan U. Fletcher re- ceived the following letter from a worried constituent: "This is to let you know I am against the Townsend old-age pension scheme. have too many other things to worry about without being cor11- pelled by the government to spend $2O0 a month" Any doubt as to whether Representative Fred M. Vinson would again sponsor the American Legion's bonus bill at the coming session was diS- pelled last Sunday. Led by Na- tional Commander Ray Murphy, 8 delegation of state and national veteran leaders journeyed to Ash- land, Ky, to participate in a hometown rally staged for Vim son, at which he was acclaimed as the Legion's ball-carrier on the bonus Thirty-one year old Blackwell Smith, retired MIRA legal chief, has been succeeded by an- other youth. He is Burr Tracy Ansell, 29-year old Harvard law graduate who broke into the news last spring when he took sock at the late Huey Long in 8 crowded Washington dining room. ". Federal Trade Commis- sion insiders predict that Colonel Charles H. March will be the next chairman of the agency. Judge Ewin L. Davis, present chairman, will step down January ], in ac- cordance with, ETC procedure of rotating the chairmanship.
 Doctor Wallace
 Two of the nine elaborate suites of offices in the new supreme court building are vacant. Justices McReynolds and Brandeis prefer to do their work at home. It is struggle for Henry Wal lace to avoid the practice of medi- cine. Last spring he sent to his Iowa friend, Congressman Fred Herman, a bottle of allantoin as a possible cure for the foot ulcers that had kept Biernlan on crutches. It acted like a miracle. Since then Wallace and his De- partment's Dr. William Robinson, have been flooded with requests for the medicine. (NOTE: Rob- inson discovered the healing eff feet of allantoin from experiments with .maggots. Knowing that mag gots are used by physicians to heal wounds, he tried to find what gave them that power. It proved to be the substance al- lantoin, which maggots discharge as they work their way through a wound Robert Fechner doesn't get excited when he hears that mutiny has broken out in one of his eco camps, as 1t frequently does. Tt must be the cook" he says, knowing that he is spending 50 cents 8 day on each member, as compared with 27 cents a day spent on transients in EZRA camps.
 Radio Probe
 The investigation of the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph company by the Federal Com- munications commission may be expanded at the coming session to include radio networks and in- dependent stations. Several sen- ators who put over the A. T. & T. probe, are much aroused over numerous complaints of discrimin- ation and censorship by radio operators, and are talking of opening fire on them with a sweeping investigation In @ telegram sent to a number of coal companies asking for urgent ly needed statistical information, the officially hardup Bituminous Coal Commission concluded: :: Please do not reply collect, as we have no funds to pay for your answer" Bureau of Labor Statistics employment figures for September showed such a marked gain that Commissioner Isador Lubin would not believe them. He telegraphed for re-check by the 135,0C0 manufacturers throughout the country who supply tile data on which the monthly report is based. This delayed the state- me,,t several days, but Lubin re- fused to issue 1t until he had satisfied himself that the original booming figures were correct. Candidates
 Comptroller General McCarl is
 reported to be quietly grooming his counsel, o. R. Mcclure, as his