The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-26

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 Investigators for the Sheppard committee are now concentrated in Ohio more than In any other political spot in the Union, busy checking on reports that armloaus of cash are being dumped into the campaign fund of Robert A. Taft, son of the late President and now a candidate for the senate against Democratic Bob 'Bulkley.
 Investigators say privately that the Taft campaign chest IS going to rival that of Newberry, famous senator from Michigan, or smith, the Insull candidate from llli- nois, both of whom were barred from taking their seats.
 Biz reason for the interest in Taft is that if victorious, the Re" publicaris will have a real candi- date for 1040 - Q young senator from a state famous for giving birth to Presidents and, above all, Q man with Q presidential name. Senatorial Club
 It is significant that the shep- pard Investigating Committee ale ways humps itself in favor or Q sitting senator.
 Tn other words, the old Idea that the senate is chiefly club with the most exclusive membership in America still holds true. Senators who are Sin" will always work against candidates who are "oat".
 Thus both George of Georgia and Tydings of Maryland are rec ported to have spent well over the amounts ladied out by New- berry and Smith, but the shep- bard Committee did nothing. They are already "in". In Ohio, however, Senator Bulkley is one of the boys. He is tn". HIS rival, Taft is "Out".
 New Army School
 Nub of the secret plan to de. velop a reserve corps of trained mechanics and technicians is the establishment Of 0 new army school. Funds for this Will be included in the 1889 budget now being drafted. Under the plan as submitted to the President by Assistant War Secretary Louis Johnson, the National Youth Ad- ministration will act as the feeder" for the army school sup- plying 1t with the pick of stu. dents attending IVA vocational schools.
 British Prestige
 Confidential diplomatic reports indicate that the British loss Of prestige as @ result of the Munich barley is far more disastrous 70 the Empire than Is generally re- alized.
 It has not leaked out yet, but
 the British are having trouble even in distant Burma, where
 the natives are restless, some
 in revolt.
 Various Mohammedal areas iiii. der the Union Jack are chafing at British reprisals against the Arabs in Palestine, while in Southwest Africa the German population is demanding c plebis. cite for return to Germany.
 Most worrisome spot for the British is South China, where thc Japanese invasion is attFi. buted directly to the fact that
 Chamberlain revealed himself as weak-kneed st Munich. south
 China, guarded by the British stronghold at H0ngk0ng, is con- sldered Britain's most lucrative trade adee in the Far East, and in Q few weeks the Japanese figure that the British will do nothing except deliver innocuous notes of protest - and they are probably right
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 J. Edgar Hoovers latest book has caused Justice Department colleagues to give him . new title -"The Big l.Man".
 Although the Federal Bureau of Tnvegtigation Is Q subordinate de vision of the Justice Department, Hoover mentions the Department only once and Attorney General Homer Cummings, his boss, only once, The FBi, on the other hand, is referred to more than seventy times. f>
 Cabinet Row
 The inside story has never been toIid how Cordeli Hull was over- ruled on the question of subsidiz" ing wheat exports.
 His opponent in the controversy was Henry Wallace, who, with 2 orn-bursting surplus on his hands, had abandoned his tradi- tionai opposition and declared TOT subsidies, He saw Canad9 SUD. sidizing exports, and knew that the United States would lose Its