The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-23

sailfish on his line. A slashing battle ensued with the huge fish hurtling itself high into the air time after time.
 So strenuous were its efforts that the President was unable to keep taut line, with the result that one of the fish's leaps de- veioped a big loop in the line.
 At that moment another giant sailfish zoomed out of the water and was lassoed by the loop as the hooked fish crashed back into the water. The furious thrashing of the hooked fish frightened the loop, caught under the other fish's dorsal fin, and the President found himself with two raging giants on his line.
 Roosevelt had no chance to think what he should do, for almost simultaneously the two fish again hurled themselves high into the air. The strain on the line was too much and the hooked fish broke away, leaving the lassoed fish still firmly lassoed.
 For twenty minutes 1t struggled. Finally Roosevelt brought it close enough to be gaffed and dragged into the boat. It was over six feet long.
 Chief Boatswain's Mate William A Bartos, who was with the Presi- dent, swears the story is true and exhibits as proof the mounted beak of the big sailfish.
 NOTE-The President won the pool for the largest catch of the cruise with a 32o-pound shark. Runner-up was White House Secretary, Steve Early with 200- pound man eater.
 PWA Paradox
 While the President was preach ing higher wage level in George, his PWA people in the same area were chiseling down wages.
 These projects arc supposed to follow the prevailing wage scale in the localities where construct cd, but Howard T. Cole, PWA ad- ministrator for nine southern states, has been consistently cut ting under the prevailing wage rates.
 This has been opposed by PWA labor adviser George Heldman, who has supported the labor union demands. Result has been row between Cole and Heldman in which the labor champion may lose his job, all because he fav- ors the Roosevelt higher wage pol icy for the South.
 DOuble-Barreled Jolt
 Only those in the know caught its significance, but the two-line White House announcement of a new U. 8. marshal for Montana was the smoothest double -barreled load of brickbats ever heaved by Franklin Roosevelt.
 One was n sock square on the waggIing jaw of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, and the other was a lusty boot in the pants to Big Jim Farley.
 For in naming W. W. Crawford as U. s. Marshal, Roosevelt served notice on Wheeler for the second time this month that Senator Murray now is the White House spokesman in Montana. The first notice was the appointment of Miles Romney, militant young New Dealer, as state director of the National Emergency Council.
 Wheeler's irate letters about this move were still pouring into Washington when the President flattened him again by busting a Wheeler appointee as U. s. Mar shal and putting Murrays man in the post.
 Jim Farley came in on the lovc-tap because of his extra ordinary fratcrnizing with Wheeler while en route from Alaska. Prior to this, Burt and Jim were two of the bitterest foes in Washington. For years neither had made a secret of his
 intense dislike for the other. When the late Huey Long was shaking the rafters of the Sem ate with demands for an in- vestigation of Farley, Wheeler was the Kingfish's staunchest ally.
 Despite the public and private feuding, who should meet Jim when he detrained at Banff, Can ada? None other than Burt and Mrs. Wheeler-who on occasion has been even more acrid in her remarks about Farley than her husband.
 Wheeler Hospitality
 In the last few years Mrs. nEE HID DErnDn