The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-16

job of counsel in the tax-ev
 He is Dwight "Pete" Green, who in 1927, as a 31-year old Special U. S.. attorney, sent the notorious gunman and racketeer to the penitentiary on tax fraud charges, after Capone had repeatedly beaten numerous other "raps". Green was rewarded for his work with appointment as U. s. district attorney of northern Illinois.
 He is now practicing law in Chi- cago. Although a republican in politics, he is held in high pro- feSsional esteem by New Deal law yers., who have warmly recom- mended him for the investigation job.
 The place was first offered to Senior Assistant Attorney Gen. eral Robert Jackson. The bril- liant New Yorker has had con- siderable expereince in tax mat ters as general counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau. He prosecuted the $3,OOO,O00 tax evasion suit against former Secretary of Treasury Andrew w. Mellon.
 Jackson is unable to partici- pate in the tax probe, however. because the antitrust action he recently instituted against the Aluminium Corporation of America is requiring all his time and at- tention.
 WPA Axe Z,
 The army of unemployed on WPA rolls will not be the only ones to feel the axe under the new $1,5o0, 100000 appropriation.
 Be"ause this sum is S600,O00.- 600 less than the previous relief grant. .554,000 iObless are slated to be dropped. In addition. heavy cuts are scheduled in the WPA administrative staffs in Washington and the field offices.
 Among those due to be let out are number of high-placed and high -salsred officials.
 The sxings. in fact, have already begun. More than dozen en- gineers have received dismissal notices, and other higher salaricd employees have been quietv advised that they are next on the list.
 WPA inriders say there are two groups immune iron, head loDDing.
 They are on what is calls1 "Hsrry Hopl,ins' untcuchebles" list. One group conc'sts of as- sistants and enrloyes who will be retsired because of ti,"'r effici- ency and ccnne"el>ce. The ot'?-r comoriccs iob-hcl6lcrs whose po''- tical backing is SO potent thet 1t would be counting sure trouble. tu fire them. Utility Opposition
 The hot senate .wraneling over which committee shall hsnd'e Senator George Nori's' bill to create seven regional TWAS. is not mere parliamentarv suuabble. Behind it is the fierce utility op- position to the reaching sciieme. /
 Wher the measure was intro- duoed 1t vas ref"-rc'l 10 the Sc"ate Ayri"Ulturc Cc-nmjt'cr. Of w-'~', Nrrria is me~,b@r aud Wbi'h r~ssc9 oi his ori'iral TVA got. But ro s"c~er WIS Cla"k demanded trat t''" le~'s- 'ot'o1 be tur~ed oyer to th" Ccur,".."c Cor,~-;tt"e. Clerk is a mer,her of this committee.
 The Miesourian's argument was that the b'l contains floor ccn- trol Legislation. a Commerce Com mittee province. Norris cemn-e- hcnsive measure does deal with floor control. But 1t also covers reforestatoip. soil erosion and, above all water power-al Agri- cultural Comnaittee spheres.
 C,er'.-'s hullabaloo about floor control is only a sm"'-" rrrec,. Real resson for bis ortcrnie. and those of the other men,cl,"f of hte Commerce Comr,'ttee w'an are backing him. is the secret intent of utility intere~ts to keep the Norris b'll awcy frcro tn" sym pathetic conr' derat'on it is slrc to receive at the hsnds ct the fr- riculture Ccmmittec. Tn the Commerce Committee. 1t would bc up against some of the most ar- dent pro-uti'ity men in Congress.
 Among them is ChairInan Royal s. Ccpeland. violent snti-
 New DeaIcr from New York. and Josiah Bailey. fOr,ner forth Carolina corporation lawyer.
 NOTE-In his fight to keep his bill in the Agriculture Committee, Norris has received no help from Senator Cotton Ed" Smith, who as chairman should be in the forefront of the battle. The req son for the South Carolinian's silence is that heh too is secretly unfreirdly to the measure and would like to see the hostile Com- merce Committee get hold of it.
 Merry-GO-RO
 Attorney General Homer Cum mings is again meeting under cover opposition in Congress to law requiring the Identification z~ 1awa 1w.xwwa u~w4