The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-04

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 On August 17, Hurley made a public statement praiging the Massachusetts Guide, product of the writers on relief, and declared he would recommend the book to every school and library in the state. The very next day he issued a hot fusillade against 1t. Reason for the flip-flop was that between the two statements Hur- ley's attention had been called to . sentence on page 76 which made him see red. That sentence, speaking of the sacco-v -vanzetti trial said:
 Tt was widely believed that, although legal forms were ob- served, the determining factor in the case from start to finish was the utilization of the two men with m unpopular minor. fly political group"
 The Bay State governor lay about him with vlgor In his Outburst. "If these writers don't like the state of achusetts," he thundered, "let them 70 back where they came from"
 This was aimed at the assist ant director of the project in Massachusetts, Burt James Loew. enberg. Loewnberg recently ac. cepted Q post ct the University of South Dakota, and Hurley as. sumed he was Q foreigner" In Massachusetts. Actually, he was born and reared in the state.
 Hurleys angry attack on the volume gave 1t @ lot of free ad. vertising. The first edition of 10000 copies has been completely sold and another edition is being rushed. There is no indication that WPA officials will delete the passage denounced by Hurley. Agile Dodger
 As c dodger of embarrassing questions, tall, arniable Attorney General Homer Cummings is in a class by himself.
 A reporter, after unsuccessfully interrogating him about @ pend. ing oil prosecution, finally re- minded Cum" 'gs that at his last press conferei e he had promised to impart some news next time.
 Replied Cummings bIandly: "I'm afraid that was an indis. erect remark on my part"
 Camera Attack
 Tail, dignified Robert W. Bing- ham, D. 8. ambassador to Lon- don, is e favorite of cameramen. The minute they spot him they begin clamoring for shots.
 When he called on Secretary Hull the other day the ph0eogra- phers beseiged him in full force. 0ood-naturedly the ambassador submitted to their unsuitable de. r1ands. After snapping him re. peatedly with his hat and sane, they asked him to place his hand on the door knob of Hull's pri- Vate office. Bingham obliged and the photographers popped away.
 "Now, MT. Ambassador" one of them cried, please open the door just . little, as # you were entering. We want to get an action picture"
 Again Bingham obliged. As he opened the door e secret buzzer automatically sounded on the desk of Hulls negro messenger. But the messenger did not move.
 "Tenllie," Hull was heard Co say, "why don't you answer that buxxer and see who is out there?"
 "Yes, sir, Mir. Secretary" tha messenger replied, but I know who Is out there. It Is Ambas. sador Bingham belngt attacked by them cameramen.pf
 West Point Foreigners
 Not long ago the Ecuadorian minister, Colon Eloy Alfardo, went up to New York to meet his two boys, who, as West Point cadets, were returning from 0 South American cruise with Q group of other West Pointers.
 The Alfaro boys, whose grand- father was president of Ecuador, had arranged the trip for their fellow cadets, but strangely their father could not find them on the ship when 1t docked in New York. Finally he inquired of an immigration officer.
 Oh, those two," replied the officer sternly. "they were dropped off at Ellis Island. They're foreigners"
 It required a long distance tele- phone call to the State Depart nent before the minister could get his West Point sons back onto U. s. soil.
 Mrs. Roosevelt Relentless
 Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, does not often interest herself in her sons prob- lems of stae, but on those few occasions when she does, she is relentlessly persistent about 1t. as
 While the President was pos- ing for photographers, before she left for Europe, his mother came