The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-04


 of the Housing Authority.
 It stated that $9OO,OOO had been earmarked for housing construc- tion at Gadsden, Alabama.
 What the Housing Authority did not say, however, was that this money was to build new work CTS dwellings so that the Good- year Tire & Rubber company could move factories from Akron, where labor is unionized, to the non-unionized South.
 Another thing which the Housing Authority announce. ment did not mention was that the National Association of Manufacturers, bitter opponents of the New Deal, was working behind the scenes with the Chamber of Commerce in Gads- den to help get the $9OO.00O and thus make use of the New Deal.
 The Goodyear company already has a small factory at Gadsden, and is reported ready to move other units from labor troubled Akron to Alabama, where CIO or- ganizers have a hard time stay ing out of jail, and where local judges are not averse to over- ruling the National Labor Rela- tions Board.
 The Manufa cturers AssOcia- ton lobbyists privately are boasting about their strategy in getting the government to pay for company houses. Some of the Southern Congressmen who helped block the wage-hour bill also point out that wages there can now be even lower, because of the New Deals sub sidy for housing.
 NOTE-Gadsden is city of 24,000 popula ton, compared with Akron's 255,OOO. Gadsden is earmarked for $eO0,0OO of U. s. Housing funds while Akron, ten times the size, is earmarked for only $1,800,OO0.
 In addition to Goodyear, the Dwight Textile Manufa curing company and Tom Girdler's Re- public Steel have plants at Gadsden and could use more U. s. company houses.
 Henry FOrd's Lincoln
 When Henry Ford drove to the White House last week he rode in the only Lincoln car owned by any branch of the federal gov ernment in Washington.
 Prior to the MIRA, LINCOLNS were popular with government ex- ecutives. but after the TOW be- tween the FORD COMPANY and the MIRA, they were banned.
 The one lone Lincoln in which Henry Ford drove to the White House is owned by the Justice Department for the use of ATTY. GEN. CUMMINGS and happens to be an armored car. Originally CUMMINGS rode in an armored Pierce Arrow, but in manufacturing it, the mistake was made of using BOILER PLATE for armor, which made the car so heavy that the BODY RESTED ON THE AXLES. To remedy this, the springs were lacked up. The ATTORNEY GENERAL took one trip to Atlantic City which nearly JOLTED HIM TO PIECES. He returned byNtrain.
 The armored' Lincoln which re- places it is made bullet proof by the use of much lighter metal, and rides very easily.
 The President also rides in an armored car, A CADILLAC. The give-away as to whether or not he is in an armored car is the thick bank type of glass used to withstand bullets. This makes driving difficult at night due to the number of laminations of the -shattering material in the glass.
 INo L-OllOll 1CCcllUly DIltIC WdS one other ARMORED LINCOLN in government service, car which had been confiscated from a Chi cago GANG LEADER and was so Skillfully altered that it had all most as much pep and getaway as a conventional model. This car was used by the FEDERAL BU- REAU OF INVESTIGATION for some time.
 Ambition Remakes Europe
 The inside story of how the arms embargo against Spain came to be imposed never has been told, and goes back largely to the per- sonal ambition of one man.
 Regarded by Secretary of State Hull as the greatest policy mistake of the Roosevelt Administration, the Spanish embargo was imposed while both he and his now Under