The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-12

The British destroyer, however, was bombed twice. Six bombs first were aimed at it, then three bombs. To escape them 1t had to take zig-zag course. All this was no accident. The planes were marked with Spanish insurgent insignia, but strong suspicion is that they were Italian.
 JugOslav Pact
 Meanwhile the new pact be- tween Italy and JugoSlavia leaves Mussolini'S hand free of Jugoslav opposition in the Mediterranean The pact virtually surrenders the Adriatic to Jugoslavia. Once Italy aSpired to make this narrow strip of sea an Italian lake. Now Muls- solini is out for bigger things. He wants to make the Mediterranean an Italian lake.
 Considering the British and French stake in the Mediterran- can, this is a tremendous job. And it indicates why war looks more probable than before.
 You can write it down as cer- tain that Benito Mussolini is not going to withdraw from Spain without 8 fight.
 Get It?
 Representative Charles l.. Gif- ford, Massachusetts, republican, explaining to the ! house: i've republicans do sympathize with suffering democrats. Why, only the other day a democrat was having trouble getting into his shoes and republican looked at him very sympathetically and said, Feet swelled too, eh?'" Talnmany Plan
 Pope'S extravagant plans are under hot attack in Washington and in art circles throughout the country. Frank Lloyd Wright, world famous architect, character ized Pope's conception as a "travesty on beauty and a mis- carriage of grace"
 Pope, however, has the back ing of Representative John J. Boylan, Tammanyite chairman of the commission empowered to erect the memorial, This com mission is 8 creation of Boylan's, who has been claIn0ring for 8 Jefferson memorial for many years. At the 1886 session he slipped through law giving the commission complete authority to select the site and designs for the structure.
 ' The only hitch now holding up the Boylan-Pope program is get ting congress to vote the $3,000,- 900. This sum was authorized last year but the money has not yet been appropriated. Critics plan to fight the grant in order to force abandonment or drastic re- vision of Pope's plan.
 sDead Duck CaSe''
 Whisper it softly, but that game law. violation charge against Jus tice Willis Van Devanter will never TeaCA a COuTC.
 This is the case that arose from the justices failure to have $1 federal stamp on his duck hunt ing license as required by the law. When the story got into the papers, Van Devanter explained he had not known about the law.
 The Bureau of Biological Sur- vey, which has charge of enforc- ing game laws, was dubious about prosecuting the tice. But SportSmen in all parts of the coun- try bombarded 1t with demands that it make no exception under the law.
 Under this pressure the bu- reau sent the various documents
 i'm the case to the justice de- paftment-which was even. more
 embarrassed. With the admin
 istrati0n engaged in "a bitter
 struggle against the, Supreme
 Court, the last thing it wanted
 was to prosecute one of the
 anti-New Deal justices on q; MA1AUG MWAAeAAA& VAACAASEsf SS 1L5 4 2, For a time, protests from sportSmen were so vigorous that the department hesitated.g But now the Biological Bureau docti- merts have been carefully filed away-and that is where they will remain.
 NOTE-Inside the justice de- partment the Van Devanter affair is irreverently known as the dead duck case"
 Correction!
 w. @C: Bowling, general sales manager of the Ford Motor com- pary, has taken exception to an item appearing in The Washing ton Merry Go Round column of February 25, to the effect that OFF THE RECORD