The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-18

One whisper is that Roosev $3,600 monthly out of gove1 her Hyde Park estate.
 Another is that the republicans are grooming a charming voiced double for Landon to substitute for him on the radio. since Lane don's voice is too high. Both of these, of course, are the bunk. Donald Richberg stands as high in the good graces of the President these days as he did be- fore becoming the much-maligned dictator of c very wabbly Blue Eagle. Talk is that he is very much . candidate for . supreme court job, when and if such q va. canCy occurs Speaking of supreme court vacancies. the most likely is not in the reactionaty ranks, where Roosevelt would ap- preciate 1t, but among the Liber- Als. Justice Cardoea has bad heart, and because of this takes no exercise. It was doubtful last summer whether he could come back for the fall term.
 
 The Justice Department flnal-
 ly has succeeded l1 obtaining .
 portrait of Harry M. Daugh-
 erty, famous attorney general
 of Hardlng's day. Daugherty
 refused to supply one and the
 department had Co 90 out and
 buy one to complete It's gallery. Likes His Job
 Ono ambassador who wants to keep his job is Alexander Weddell, envoy to Argentina. His wife, wealthy St. Louis widow, has just contributed S5,000 to tho. democra- tic campaign fund Here's ono to cheer up Frank Knox, written by James M. Langley, editor of the Concord (N. H. Monitor, who used to work for Knox. He says: "Knox Is too much like Roose- velt." So much material was collected by Harry Hopkins boys for the American Guide" that several collateral volumes will be published, one on Na- tional Folk Lore, another on American Geology and another on can Guide itself will consist of six volumes, covering six different areas of the country. It will cost SIPS per volume.
 Going Up x
 The temperature isn't the only thing that has been going up late. ly. Industrial production and sales are zooming to new high levels. June sales of new auto- plies topped aeS,ooo, the third time in the history of the industry that June sales have exceeded 100000. Lumber production for the first six mQnths this year ran 42 per cent ahead of 193b, while the pur- chase of new equipment by rail- roads exceeds in volume any period since 1880. So far this year only six months along. the car- riers have bought i22 locomo- tives against el for all of i0S6; 20,S00 freight cars against l0,- 600 last year; l40 passenger cars against 0S in 1885; and 470,4eO tons of rails against 400,048 an the previous full year Banks are rapidly bailing then- selves out of the REC. The agency's holdings in 6,06S banks have been reduced from a peak of sl,O06, ,oleoo3 to S7e4,ei2,ScS.
 The 1886 session of congress enacted 8SO new laws. Out of this number, S6 were vetoed by
 the President while one veto
 (sOldicr's bOnus) was Overrlddcn.
 
 Not Eye to Eye
 President Roosevelt and Sec. retary Dan Roper don't see eye to eye on national income estimates for l9S0. Tn his address before the National Democratic club in New York, the President put this years national income ct slxty.flve billions. Now Roper Issues fig- ures saying the figure may" go Co flety.eight billions Louis Ward, short, barrel-waisted ex- lobbyist for Father Coughlin, has entered the Michigan lists against Senator Jim Couzens. Ward IS running for the democratic sena- torial nomination but with little chance of winning.
 Race Issue
 Georgia's rabble-rousing Cover nor Gene Talmadge is up to his old tricks. As c candidate against Senator Richard B. Russell. seek ing reelection on his record as a loyal Roosevelt supporter, Tal- madge has injected the race issue into the campaign by charging the Washington regime with fay. bring the negro. Georgia" he bel- lowed in @ recent address, don't want any dictation from any fed- eral bureaus and d~boards of mixed race, and by the eternal God we won't have it." . The republi- can brain-trust has asked a num- Der of government agencies, inc cluding the Treasury to supply 1t with their daily press releases.