The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-30

asked friends not to push l
 Almost equally definite is the probability that the new justice will be from the Far West.
 High up on the list of western CTS under consideration is Jo- seph c. Hutcheson, Jr., of Texas, judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and one of the ablest jurists in the country. Only Judge William Denman of San Francisco equalled him in the number of opinions written last year. Hutcheson is the man who Professor F'rankfurter is pushing now that he has dropped out of the race. '
 Important on the list also is Senator Louis SchwelIenbach of Washington State, one of ROOse- veIt's most fortnight supporters in the senate. Chief factor against SchweIlenbach's ap- pointment is that Roosevelt can- not spare him from the Senate, and that reactionary Governor Martin of Washington would appoint conservative to fill his senatorial toga.
 Also to be considered in Judge Harold Stephens of the Court of Appeals of the District of Colum- bia, an extremely able jurist, who has the advantage of coming from Utah, plus the energetic support of Homer Cummings.
 NOTE-Judge Denman, who has made a unique record in Cali fornia, has been handicapped by his age, 66.
 Judge HutchesOn
 Judge Hutcheson of Houston, Texas, is one of the frankest jur- ists in the United States, with the best sense of humor.
 Discoursing on the sanctity of the law in the Cornell Law Re- view, Judge Hutcheson wrote:
 "I set down boldly that I, even as your other worships do invoke and employ lunches in decisions.
 'T, after canvassing all the available material at my com mand, and duly cogitating upon it, give my imagination play and, breeding over cause, wait for the feeling, the hunch that intuitive flash of under standing which makes the jump-spark connection between question and decision.
 ..And more, lest I be stoned in the street for this admission, let me hasten to say to my brothers of the Bench and of the Bar, My practice is the same as your other wOrships'." Capital Chaff
 So eager is Oliver A. Quayle, Jr., of the Democratic National Committee to get customers to the Jackson day dinner, that he is sending out invitations to dead men Wonder what Harry Hopkins. new secretary of com- merce, will do about Roper's as- sistant secretary, Colonel Row boat" Johnson? Real Ger man ambassador in Washington these days is Kurt Sell, German newspaperman, who has more friends and radiates more good- will, despite an awkward position, than all the staff of his em- bassy Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, who just experi- enced his 14th crash, has been talking of enlisting in the French air corps. During a recent trip to France, he told friends that he was fed up and disiIlusioned with politics, would become an aviator if war broke.
 Virgin Islands Trouble
 It has not broken above the yet, but more trouble is brewing in the Virgin Islands, political hot spot of the Caribbean. This time it is Governor Lawrence Cramer who is on the pan and has re- ceived a severe dressing down from Interior Secretary Ickes, his boss.
 Behind the trouble is friction between Cramer and Boyd Brown, president of the Virgin Islands company, a government corporation. Cramer has been jealous of Brown, who has been highly successful fin building up new industries for the islands. Cramer has been p0king a meddlesome finger into Browns work.
 Specifically what Governor Cramer has been trying to do is increase wages of sugar field and other labor in Virgin Islands company. These already have