The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-14

campaigning this year. He special train, plans to be "ol Secretary Dan Roper's dismissal of two officials of the Steamboat Inspection Bureau, because they let news leak to correspondents, seems about to be repeated by the Labor Department. Several en1- ployes in the Consumers Division are being threatened with loss of theri jobs for giving certain inc formation to reporters. :. Twenty years ago Paul Oreever rode the rods" from his home in Missouri to Wyoming in search of fame and fortune. Today he has both. He is Wyoming's sole congressman and B the wealthy head of one of the states largest law firms Administration foes are critical of the bill intro- duced by Senator Cotton Ed" Smith. It would require the g0v- ernment to dispose of its cotton holds within specified time. They allege that traders have al. ready bought up thousand of cot- ton pool certificates at twenty five and fifty cents apiece, on the chance of being able to sell them at four times that value if the measure passes.
 General Hugh Johnson, rec turning to Washington after . three months nationwide lecture tour, told friends: II want t0 he for Roosevelt but I haven't made up my mind yet"
 
 Health Administrator
 Though no official announce ment has been made, Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., will come to Wash- ington early next month to be- come Surgeon General of the United States, heading the Public Health Service. Ever since the rec tirement of Hugh s. Cumming, the post has been f11ysteriously va- cant. Reason for delay in naming Parran is that he wanted to hold his present post--State Health Officer for New York--to which Roosevelt, as governor, appointed him The reason for Mrs. Huey Longs vote of faye" on the farm bill is perhaps very remote from agriculture. She was more docile than Huey would have been, because she does not want to bring Q club down on the head of Seymour Weiss. Weiss is the Long machine in Louisiana, and is now threatened with indictment for income tax evasion. For his sake, Mrs. Long treads lightly in Washintgon.
 The Signal Corps of the War Department gets part of It's training In Hollywood. It makes pictures of proJectlles leaving big guns fin the same manner Walt Disney pictures are made ---by pasting "stills' together. Now and Then
 The day Adolf Hitler marched troops into the Rhineland and thereby tore up the Locarno pact, German Ambassador Hans Luther held Q press conference and ac- claimed the move as Q "gfeat achievement" He voiced this view while standing under 8 pie ture of himself, as Chancellor of Germany, signing the Locarno Treaty Senator Lester J. Dickinson, "dark horse" republi- can presidential candidate. never rides backward in @ train or street car. Doing 50 makes him i'll .. February dividend declarations were the highest for the month since 1032. Fifty-four companies declared extra dividends and fifty- seven voted increases. This com parcs with forty-one and twenty two in February last year. Roosevelt has been checking up on all unspent government funds, in preparation for the submission to congress of his relief budget .. Bonus payment applications are now pouring into the Veterans Bureau at the rate of 50.000 day. A night shift has been es- tablished to keep up with the flood.
 Representative Keller, Illinois Democrat: MT. Chairman, I ask
 for five minutes more time."
 Representative Rich. PennsyI-
 vania republican: "Go ahead.
 give him some more time. May
 be he will say something. He
 hasn't done 70 yet