The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-27

IS c 0y1lAIklIC 4klutN4OuHtS A4h' the British Cabinet.
 The nationwide hook-up which the Columbia Broadcasting sys- tenn gave Al Smiths Liberty League harangue cost the league not 0 cent. Without Columbia's generosity, the charge would have been 4iS,2S6.26. Pitts- burghs industrial Representative Henry Ellenbogen is an un. Quenchable optimist. fle has in- troduced e bill to create Q com. mission to negotiate payment of the defaulted war debts. The United Mine Workers, one of the most liberal atsiliates of the American Federation of Labor, will hold its annual convention this week in Constitution Hall. washington, owned by sWanls, conservative Daughters of tho American Revolution. Around D. 900 miner delegates will attend. and one of the important ques. tons to be acted upon ts Q reso- luton calling for 0 constitutional amendment curbing the power of the Supreme Court.
 Talnadge Press-Agent
 Washington publicity man for Governor Gene Talmadge, Qeor- gia's arch- Roosevelt foo. Is Sam Jones, formerly 0 press adviser of the republican national com. inittee. The committee denies emphatIcally that the republicans have any connection with Jones' current activities. The so- clal security board is making Q quiet investigation of reports that hotels and restaurants in many cities are requiring walters to report the amount of tips they collect. Such information is not required by the social security act, and the board wants to know the reason for the order. More than one-ilfth of the mem. bers of congress, icnluding Speak, or Joe Byrns, Vice President Jack Garner and other leaders, omit birth dates in their personal biographies in the Congressional Directory. Despite the bitter warning of utilities against the holding company act, Q large number of them have notified tho securities and exchange coTnElais. sion of plans to simplify their capital structures. Among those instituting such reforms arc tho giant Electric Bond & Share, New Jersey Public Service, Cities Service, the Bylesby group, Inter- national Paper and Power, and Niagara Hudson, Q Morgan con- pany.
 No Brown Derby
 Jim Farley has turned thumbs down on c suggestion made by pro-Roosevelt friends of Al Smith that the olive branch be extend- cd to tho Happy Warrior by in. cluding his name among the New York delegates to the demo. cratic national convention. Big Jim took the position that e man who would Do the chief speaker ct on anti.New Deal banquet of the American Liberty League had no business on Q delegation pledged to the re-nomination of the president. At the re- quest of the federal alcohol ad- Ininistration, the federal trade commission Is Investigating over 200 cases of alleged unfair trade practices by liquor distillers and rectifiers. ]. Owing to the lack of funds to enlarge it's stan, the TAA investigation division is swamped with unchecked com- plaints of liquor law violations. It has only six investigators, and recently received more than 200 complaints in one day.
 Absent Minded Professors
 Professor Rex Tugwell, the red terror of the administration to conservative foes, attended Q dinner recently where he met Frank Kent, Baltimore Sun col. uinnist and one of tho New Deals most persistent critics. Said Tug well innocently: And what gov- ernment bureau are you with, MT. Kent?" The first big loan made by the rural electrifcation administration to Q private util- ity went to the Florida Power corporation, @ subsidiary of the Associated Gas & Electric corn- pany. The latter is Q violent ad- ininistration foe and under in- vestigation by two congressional committees. The Consumer, the official publication of the consumers division of the NRA, declares in its latest issue that the clothes of American women would suffer little if all communi- cations with Paris were cut off."
 Unemployment Census
 A strongly-worded report urg- ing Q nationwide census of the unemployed was submitted to Secretary Dan Roper by his bus- ineSs. advisory council at its recent secret meeting in the Capitol. The business men declared that such 6 nose-counting was essen- tial in order to get a clear pic- ture of relief requirements. They also expressed the view that most