The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-29

TQe k1arQlflR auILll1llSLTdClOA. sent to Cuba by the then Evans Hughes.
 It advised Cuba, in no uncer- tain terms, that the best remedy for its bulging sugar crop was to blow up a considerable portion of the cane sugar fields. The note was rather emphatic advice for 8 secretary of state to be sending, even to a country where the United States enjoyed special Platt Amendment privileges.
 Therefore, state department of- ficials heSitated about publishing it. MT. Hughes, they said among themselves, now occupies the ex- alted position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. It might be embarrassing to have his note made public.
 Word of this hesitatoin reached Charley Nicholson, astute strate- gist of the Democratic National Committee.
 What" said Nicholson. "A republican advised a foreign country to blow up it's sugar crop?
 "That is going to be our an- .swer to republican critics of the AAA. There is no dought about whether that note is going to be published evven if I have to take it up with the President" John Roosevelt
 John Roosevelt, Harvard sopho- more, is adopting his fathers de- vice of press conferences to straighten out his publicity diff ficulties.
 John got a couple of Raw Deals from the Boston newspapers recently. 1. The Boston Herald reported erroneously that he had turned down a bid to the Nasty Pudding Club. ?. The morning after his automobile accident in East Boston the Boston American called him up at 2 8. m. to ask him how he was sleeping.
 So lanky John called a con- ference of the Harvard corres- pondent of the Boston papers for 3 D. m., October IT, at his Dun- ster House room.
 Of the six correspondents in Cambridge, three appeared at the conference-American, Herald Traveller and Post. The others Globe, Advertiser-Record and Transcript-" forgot" or didn't care"
 No refreshments were served at the conference, and John was the only Roosevelt present. He opened with a remark about "al the papers here" beingm "anti-father" and asked the boys to be Good Fellows and Bo Easy on him in the future.
 Father COughlin
 November 3rd-the day Father Coughlin goes back on the air is the next important political date as far as Washington is con- cerned.
 The politicos from both par ties will have their ears almost glued to the micrOph0ne to hear whether the Radio Priest is g0- ing to be pro or anti-New Deal
 Present indications are that he has come back on the Roosevelt bandwagon. Joe Kennedy, for mer head of the Securities-Ex- change Commission, is credited with doing the converting when he took Father Coughlin to Hyde Park last summer. ,-
 During that conference, Father Coughlin complained about Roose- velt's failure to bring about dras- tic currency inflatoin, but other wise was friendly.
 Whatever. he. says Father Coughlin is going to tell it to 8 lot more people this winter. He has increased his radio network to include stations in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and San Fran cisco. Before, he only went as far west as the Mississippi river.
 This new network is going to cost the Detroit priset total of $300,OO0, much of it being spent for telephone transmission to ra-. dio statoins, rather than time on the air itself. To help meet the increased cost, Father Coughlin is cutting his time down from one hour to forty-five minutes, elim- mating the music.
 "In This Corner ."
 GEORGE PEEK MAY BE DOWN, BUT HE IS NOT. OUT.
 Twice thrown for a loss by Sec retary Cordell Hull in their feud over the administrators tariff policy, the burly head of the Ex- port-Import Bank is determined to have another go at it.
 Peek returned to Washington for a few days last week-after three months vacatiOn--and cOnfided to intimates that he has the ground work ready to renew his battle with the Sec- retary of State.
 The new Peek plan will unfold when Congress reconvenes in January. It revolves about Sem ate bill No. 3464, which was quiet- ly slipped into the hopper by Sen- now hear Vinton Freedley in- tends inScribing, over the turnstile at Anything Goes" - Through