The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-15

about "Wrong-way" Corrie
 What they are particularly sore at is the fact that they licensed his "crate" when he put in super sized gas tanks. They should have known, they now admit, that no such tanks were needed for domestic flying.
 So in the future they are going to refuse licenses to all plans with super-gas tanks unless they are admittedly for flying across the ocean.
 Dick Merrill, only man to make two round trip flights across the Atlantic, was recent ly fined for getting lost in the woods of eastern Pennsylvania while en route to Newark. He had shipload of passengers, and there was nothing phoney about it. He was really "lost".
 The contrast is what makes Corrigan's clowning all the more amusing.
 lOanO Fr1mafy
 Two things licked Idaho's New Dean Senator Jim Pope:
 l. Utility money
 2. Borah votes
 Both factors operated complete ly sub rosa.
 THE UTILITY INTERESTS poured a barrel of money into Rep. D. Worth Clark's campaign. He has consistently supported their side throughout his House career, SO they opened their cof- fers and went to bat for him in big way. This was particu- larly true in the last few days of the contest, when utility money made It's appearance in big gobs.
 THE BORAH VOTE for Clark was more circuitous matter. The veteran Republican senator took no part in the campaign. In fact, he was seriously i'll in Washingt ton during part of 1t But he made no secret to friends of his anti pathy to Pope and approval of Clark.
 Whether Borah actually sug- gested the strategy that Repub- licans go into the Democratic primary and vote for Clark has not been definitely established. But that is exactly what Borah's friends did. In a state with less than 80,000 votes, the COP block was enough to turn the scales narrowly for Clark.
 NOTE-Borah's private dislike of Pope dates back to 1884 when the latter, still rookie senator, made a trip to Europe and voiced some prologue of Nations views. Borah, an irreconcilable isola- tionist, strongly resented Pope's action and never forgave him for it. Besides, Borah is not &C., customed to having another" senator from Idaho.
 Four Musketeers
 The death of Justice Cardozo reunited a potent New Deal legal team-Corcoran, Cohen, Rowe and Rauh.
 Joseph Rauh left the quartet several years ago to become sec- retary to the late justice, who employed Rauh on the recom- mendation of Ben Cohen, Car dozo's closet friend in Washing ton. Rauh is now back with Co., hen on the PWA legal staff.
 Tom COrcOran and Jim Rowe, the other two members of the four musketeers, both are one- time secretaries of the late Jus- tice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Un- til recently Rowe was an assist ant to White House Secretary Jimmy Roosevelt, but now Is working with Corcoran.
 So the crusading Brain Trust CTS form powerful, compact unit once again.
 Merry-GO-ROund
 Most omniscient business prog nosticator in the U. s. A. has turned out to be Willis Balling- CT, hard working economist for the Federal Trade Commission. Last February News Week" asked 20 leading economists throughout the country to predict when the general trend Of business would pick up and what the business indexes would be in May and June. Ballinger forecast that business would begin an upturn in June and that the index figures for May and June would be 78 and 77 respectively. This hits the bulls-eye Homecraft sug- gestion from the AAA's lively Consumers Guide: Boiling wa ter poured from height of three or four feet on a stained color fast or linen material is especial ly effective for removing fresh coffee. tea and fruit stains" To help it in setting up regula- tions for the truck and bus in- dustry, the Interstate Commerce Commission has asked the U. s.