The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-04

E throw their weight behind Wilmington, Del.
 This action also attacks the constitutionality of the law, with out the government being a party to the suit. It was tnsti- tuted by the bankruptcy trustees of the Central West Public Service Company, Q Halsey-Stu- art concern.
 Reason for the reported deci- sion to smother the Baltimore suit is legal tactics.
 During the court hearings, gov- ernment attorneys brought out the amazing fact that John w. Davis, chief utility counsel, did not know personally the client on whose behalf he was supposed to be acting.
 Utility men have voiced the fear that this revelation might prejudice their case in the eyes of the court. The administra- ton has made no secret of its intention to exploit the matter to the utmost.
 Roosevelt vs. Roosevelt
 Now that the bitter Congress sional fight on the Holding Cor poration Bill is over, members of the presidents family are chuck ling over 8 letter he got while the battle was hottest.
 Roosevelt is 'remainderman" for trust fund held by the Bank of New York and Trust Company. In other words. Mrs. James Roosevelt, Senior, his mother, holds a trust in this bank, and upon her death the president inherits the remain der.
 During the fight on the Hold ing Corporation Bill. the Bank of New York and Trust Company sent letters to all benef1ciarieS of trusts in which 1t was request ed that they start 8 barrage against the president and his Holding Corporation Bill.
 The president received one of these letters asking that he op- pose himself.
 BOmbShell
 The reported gubernatorial ann bitions of William M. Jardine, secretary of agriculture in the Coolidge administration and now head of Wichita, Kan, Universi- ty, may be thwarted at the start.
 The American Association of University Professors is about to explode a bomb under him.
 Recently Jardine dismissed several members of his faculty on various charges. Friends of the educators claimed they were really fired because of their liberal views and that their custer was breach of academic freedom.
 As 8 result the Professors As- sociation sent a special commit tee to Wichita to investigate. The report of the committee -short- ly to be published in the month ly bulletin of the association will contain a blistering con- demnation of Jardine.
 NOTE - Under Kansas law, which bars a third consecutive term, Governor Ali Landon could not succeed himself if he wanted to. Tos friends Jardine has con- fided his intention of entering the gubernatorial race next year. Consumer Reports
 A mild-mannered Yale profess sor of law is creating a father of excitement in inner government circles.
 HE IS DIR. WALTON HALE HAMILTON, head of the recent ly rejuvenated consumed division. squawks is a series of reports he has made. to the president on the milk. ice, whiskey and gaso- line industries.
 What is particularly burning up government experts is that Professor Hamilton and his con- sumner division ignored similar studies made by them at great expense. Their reports are now gathering dust.
 ONE of them is the exhaustive survey of milk distribution in the Philadelphia and Connecticut milk-sheds made by the federal trade commission. It took nearly a year and cost the government about $120,000. Yet only 8 por- tion has been made public.
 Why the rest has not been re- leased has not been explained, but here may be one reason:
 1t contains sharp criticism of the AAA's marketing plan for the Philadelphia milk-shed. White House Trees
 All the world has it's flower garden, but tree gardens are few othy Hyson and Robert Douglas in the comedy, Most of the Game"