The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-31

Raymond Moley. The former N, White House list. It would be much easier for Al Smith to get Roosevelt invitation to lunch. s. Others crossed off the White House calling list are tall, gangling Clifford Pinchot and his Titian-haired wife, Cor nelia. As governor of Penn sylvania he was a bosom friend of Franklin Roosevelt, spent frequent week ends at Albany, later dined often at the White House. But ever since Clifford opposed Democratic Guffey as senator from Pennsylvania, he has been "off the lisv'.
 GridirOn Bound
 If democratic members of the Senate Lobby Investigating com mittee have their way, the Amer ican Liberty league will get a public probing. The senators want to bring out the source of funds enabling the league to maintain large suite of expen- sive rooms in the National Press building, employ numerous "ex- perts', and pay Jouett Shouse, dapper executive director, a sal- ary of $36,000 year As a result of New Deal conser- vation work, forest fires this year have been kept to a record low. Only 3S,000 acres of for est have been destroyed as com pared with over 100000 acres in 1884 .. California's Repre- sentative John Hoeppel, indicat- ed last spring on charge of selling an appointment to Ann- apolis, sponsored a bill in the closing days of the session 'to establish the civil service merit principle more firmly in the fed- eral government"
 Last Days of Congress
 Philadelphia's Representative Daly tapping the bald dome of Massachusetts Bill Connery with an unlighted cigar to emphasize points in a private argument. Kingfish Huey telling a group of reporters: q expect to be very busy next month get ting my football team and uni- versity band ready for the sea- son. The House passing bills in 45 seconds by the watch. Arizona's grandiloquent Senator Ashurst deftly side-step- ping a tenacious young interro- gator: "It is good thing I am not 8 woman, young man, be- cause I couldn't resist you'' -. New York's plain-talking Rep. Fred Sisson unconcernedly smak- ing cigar on the floor of the House A voice from the republican side shouting at Texas W. D. McFarlane as he rose to speak: "Half-man, half mouth," and his fellow demo- crats letting out hoots of deri- sion when in the course of his remarks he boastfully said, T just made two telephone calls to the White House." .. Vice President Jack Garner ex- citedly pulling at his bushy eye brows Carnation-wearing Sen. Royal s. Copeland mocking Senator John Bankhead by re- ferring to him as the Senator from Allah bahm -ah".
 National Theater
 Without quite meaning to Harry Hopkins has played direct ly into the hands of Eva LeGal- lienne. For years, Actress Eva cried out for national theater, a la France and a la Germany. Now Hopkins, by giving jobs to actors on Relief, is creating a federally subsidized theater. To an even greater degree, the same thing is happening in music, where relief orchestras are fid- ding to audiences which prob- ably will never let them go. ... After Congress adjourned, En. rique Bordenave, Paraguayan minister, settled down to studi- ous perusal of the Congressional Record and Huey Long. T must learn how to do this fili- buster" he said. Perhaps shall import filibuster to Para Guay." =. Restless unem- ployed in Washington's Transient Camp blow off steam through a newspaper they print themselves, called "Fighting Transient" Their motto is: Give us the facts and see if we don't dare to print them." EZRA directors effect no censorship.
 Air Revelations
 Among the facts that will be revealed in the coming senate investigatoin of the crash that killed Senator Bronson Cutting, based on Department of Com merce findings are that the pilot was not authorized to fly the route, tha the co-pilot had no scheduled air transport rating, and that the two-way communi- cation apparatus of the ship was not working when it started on its trip. Senator Duncan P. Fletcher will be paid a high honor next month by his home town, Jacksonville, Fla. A por- trait of him, purchased by popu- lar subscription, will be hung in the city hall. Fletcher, second