The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-18


 insiders predict an early incl ments from 25 to 50 per cer will be made as a warnin market.
 The next big date on the Labor calendar is May 2, when the ex- ecutive council of the A. F. of L. convenes in Washington to decide whether to talk back to John L. Lewis and his militant industrial unionistS or wait for a showdown at the national convention in the fall Federal Housing Ad- ministrator Stewart Mcdonald was the possessor of a prized London made top hat. When he wore it to Washington reception for the first time in several years, some- one filched 1t out of the check room. The Securities-Ex- change Commission denied an avi- ation firm the right to sell stock. It had built but one plane in four years. The SEC reported: "On an attempt to fly the ship, 1t was brought safely to the ground after rising eight feet on a flight of about 150 feet"
 Common query coming to the Navy Department is from girls who want to know how they can become nurses on Q battIeShip.
 
 Big Problem
 Lieutenants of Gov. Ali Landon say their biggest problem is to restrain big business leaders from shouting their support from the house tops. The Landonites feel that exultant right-wing backing would be a serious campaign handicap. This explains their ill- disguised pleasure at reading re- cent news stories that Hoover was unified with the Kansas gov- ernor A significant indica- ton of strained relations among the nine members of the Supreme Court is the fifteen split decisions this term, nine of them by a 6 to 3 count. For one term, this is an unprecedented number of dissents. The National Resources Board, headed by Frederic A. De- lano, uncle of President Roose- welt, has drafted Clarence Dykstra, Cincinnati city manager, to direct it's survey of American municipali- ties The annual report of the Securities Exchange Commis- sion is proving the best seller among government publications. Already 1t has run through sev- eral editions, and sales are still mounting.
 Chief Justice Hughes spent his 74th birthday last Saturday working all day in his office. At night he took Mrs. Hughes to see the play, Tobacco Road".
 
 Campaign Aide
 Joseph P. Kennedy, ex-chair- man of the Securities-E Exchange Commission and financial re- organizer of Radio Corporation of America, will return to Washing ton to take leading role in the Roosevelt reelection drive Illinois bewhiskered Senator J. Ham" Lewis believes in taking credit where credit is due. Said Senator Long Tom" Connally of Texas: "The senator from Illinois is an eminent constitutional law yer ." Interjected Lewis: T could not deny that, sir" |. Professor John Dewey and Rep. Thomas Amlie, of Wisconsin, have evolved the American Common wealth Plan," under which every family would receive 8 $5,000-a- year income; believe it will push the Townsend plan into the back ground. Commonwealth Clubs are to be organized all over the coun- try. Tourists crowding the Capitol last Tuesday to see the Senate and the House in session found that both had adjourned to see the opening ball game.
 The pending alien deporta- ton act brings no fear to a man who wrote to U. s. Information Service from a county jail, say- ing: T am requesting deporta-
 tion due to the fact that I am of foreign birth, an ex-convict a number of times, and nOn- citizen. I have other reasons for deportatOin alsO."
 Going, Going ...
 Another departure is about to be added to the long list of execu- tives who have thrown up their jobs under Secretary Dan Roper. The latest to give exit notice is Chester H. Mccall, Roper's assist ant. Senator Bob Wagner, who recently introduced his own housing bill after months of futile counseling with government ex- perts, has refused to attend any further conferences with them. The Congress of Unem- ployed held in Washington last week was addressed within one by jobless teacher, an actor, an engineer, an electrician, coal miner and @ railroad man. Vir- tually every known occupation was represented among the severaI thousand delegates While the size of the huge army of un. employed continues practically unchanged, business marche. steadily to brighter and brighter OFF THE RECORD