The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-04

III a very SCeduy CdAA1pdlSAA U mid-Pacific.
 Every transport plying between the West Coast and Hawaii dur ing recent weeks has been loaded with Hive" ammunition (shells which are new and sure to eX- plode). As result Hawaii has become one of the most important ammunition dumps in or around the LISA.
 The flight of Army and Navy bombing planes to Hawaii ai- ready has been published. How ever, it has escaped general at- tention that these planes were sent to Hawaii permanently, not on stunt flights. All of the Navy's bombing planes and good part of the Army's are now concentrated at Pearl Harbor.
 Extra supplies, chiefly oil, also have been stored at Samoa.
 Exactly what this means the Navy does not explain. But inside word is that preparations are being pushed to put the Fleet in complete fighting trim within a period of three months. Anti-Jackson COnspiratOrs
 They haven't realized it yet, but the joke is on those Three Horsenen of the Anti-New Deal Democrats-SenatorS Burke of Nebraska, Esiley of North Caro- lima, and Peter Geolet Gerry, mil lionare-socialite from Rhode IS- land
 It started when Roosevelt sent Bob Jaclison'S name to the Senate to be Solicitor Gen1ra-. Immed- lately the Three Horsemen held a poW-Wow and decided to propo- sition tke Republicans to stir up a confirmation fight against the tru5t-buSter.
 But the COP leaders would have n0ne of i.. One retorted, "You Democrats do your own dirty work. Tge have no Objec- tion to your smearing each other, but we'll stay cn the side lines in this affair. All you are going to do is make hero of him"
 Senator BOrah was threaten ingiy hostile. T would welcome the opportunity he snapped, ito take the floor in Jackson's behalf and discuss just why he is being opposed"
 Their hopes dashed by this cold water, the three snipers aban- doned their scheme. And right here is where the joke comes in.
 Administration leaders had wanted @ row raised against Jack sons elevation, had hoped that Burke and his Old Guard pals would cut loose. Delind the New Dealers secret hope was the be- lief that a fight would dramatize Jackson's anti-monopoly crusad- ing and boomerang against the opposition.
 Two Bob JackSOnS
 
 Another would-be sharpshooter who came a cropper over Jack sons appointment was Senator Arthur Vandenberg. When the nomination was announced the Michigander rushed gleefully to several COP colleagues With "re- liable" information that Jackson had been lobbyist. But when they examined his data they dis gustedly handed it back.
 "YOu've got your Jacksons mixed they said. Your lobby ist was another Robert Jackson and not the one the President has just appointed"
 NOTE-The other Bob Jackson is from New Hampshire and was former Secretary of the Demo- cratic National Committee. He was forced to exit from that post when Roosevelt asked all commit tee members who were engaged in lobbying to resign.
 Wage-HOur Act
 Mary Norton, the buxom lady from New Jersey who is supposed . to be the mother of wage-hour legislation, has been treating it like a step-child of late, and this has stirred up rumblings of revolt among members of her House Labor Committee.
 Rightfuily or wrOngfully, they are accusing her of secret hos tility to the legislation and of acting on the orders of her pOli- tical boss, Mayor Hague of Jer- sey City. who loves labor as Roosevelt loves monOpOiies.
 Mrs. Norton is chairman of the Labor Committee but some of her colleagues have privately discussed taking the bill out of her hands and reporting it out of the com- mittee over head. This has been done in the past, but it is very rare procedure.
 Cause of the resentment against