The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-12

OO0AV 4VoA6A4eAV4O4AO O SA4 @AA6 . were Western, from Wyomi Utah (Sutherland).
 Irony of fate is that had they not fought RooSevelt,s Supreme Court bill, either Senator Wheeler of Montana or Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming could have walked away with Sutherland's job. They would have fitted into the picture perfectly.
 Getting down to specific per- sons, the President would like to reward Stanley Reed, the solici- tor general, but it is more likely that he will wait to appoint him to McReynolds' place when the Tennessean resigns. Reed comes from Kentucky. Incidentally, he has established remarkable rec ord of winning Supreme Court de- cisions, having scored his fifteenth consecutive victory.fo the govern n1ent last week.
 Donald Richberg
 One man to keep an eye on par ticularly in Donald Richberg, one time partner of General Johnson in Tapping the Blue Eagles wings, later his successor.
 Don Richberg's greatest ambi- ton is to sit on the Supreme Court. Although he has alien ated his old Railway Brother hood friends, for whom he was once counsel, plus goOG many other people, he has not alienat- ed the President.
 In fact, Richberg had 8 hand in writing RooSevelt's last mes- sage to Congress (the other ghost writer having been Judge Sam Rosenman of New York)
 Enemy Money
 Richberg comes from Chicago and fits into the western scheme of appointments, but in New Deal circles there is one large black mark against his name. He has become 8 thriving legal lobbyist, having accepted fees from a experimentation of anti-New Deal agencies. One of these was the automobile group which attempted to settle the antitrust action against them in Milwaukee.
 But Richberg, most amazing NgSavHf ie WnT1k1nnnarn v1oxrnoH Trujillo, who is President of the Dominican Republic and the bloodiest dictator in the western hemisphere. Richberg inherited this client from Joseph E. Davies when Davies married the break fast food heiress, Mrs. Post Hut ton, and became ambassador to Russia.
 NOTE-Davies already had re- ceived a fee of $480, 900 from Tru- jillo for suspending amortization payments on the Dominican debt. Haitian Massacre
 At present Richberg Is repre- senting the Dominican president in his dispute with Haiti, resulting from the massacre of about 5000 Haitians in the most horrible manner. At a given signal, re- putedly given by Trujillo himself. these HaitianS were driven into the sea, chopped up with mach etes, some drenched with gasoline and ignited, still living.
 Fer some time Trujillo refused to cOnciliate the dispute. After much pressure by the United States, he finally issued a spec tacular announcement that he would do so. But when the of ficial acceptance arrived it showed that he merely accepted conciliation of whether or not he previously had refused to conciliate.
 Which meant that nothing minus nothing left nothing. Some people suspected Don Richberg's astute legal mind of trumping up this run-around.
 At any rate Trujillo appointed Richberg and the Dominican min- ister to Cuba as his representatives to conciliate the question of whether he had previously re- fused to conciliate. But the envoy in Cuba refuses to come to Wash ington because of cold, although seen nightly in Havana's night clubs.
 All this is getting on the nerves of the State Department and the entire Pan- American Union. Latest inner circle sug- gest;On is to make Don Rich- berg settle the whole blithering mess as a test of his judicial qualities for the Supreme Court. Lumber Lobby
 Big lumber and mineral inter ests have been going into under cover action against the confir- nation of E. K. Burlew as First