The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-28

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 No one knows this better than the New Dealers. So they have figured out the following strategy to block the bill and at the same time outsmart the opposition:
 The president to ask the Att tprnery General for an opinion on the legality of the measure. As there is an open question as to its constitutionality and certain portions of the bill are a hodge, podge of hastily drawn house amendments there Is plenty of room to challenge the measures validity.
 Backed by such an opinion the president then to toss the bill back into the lap of congress with a message declaring that he favors its objectives but that 1t is ill., conceived and unconstitutional and should be revised.
 That would write finis for the measure-for this year, anyway as revision would necessitate it's being sent back to the c0mmit- tee to start through the whole legislative process all over again. As there is no chance of that being done before adjournment the measure would have to go over until next session.
 Whether the president will take this advice remains to be seen. But he is weighing 1t very serious- ly and 1t was one of the things he talked over with Jim Farley dur- ing their Hyded Park pow-wow. SPY HUNT
 Nobody is saying anything about 1t, but the spy investigation con- ducted by J. Edgar Hoover's Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation has followed a trail to some rather big business names, and the G. Men are about ready to crack down on them.
 . The number of spy cases has in- creased tremendously during the past year. In 1887 there were only 30 cases, but in 1888 1t jumped up to around 600. All of which indi- cates the important part this country Is playing in the inter- national picture.
 MACHINE MOVES
 How tough a job the federal government is up against in prose- cutting the Louisiana politicians is indicated by the fact that the list of jurymen to be called for the trial in September already has been given to the Maestri-Long machine in New Orleans.
 In fact the machine got the names of prospective jurymen even before the U. s. District Attorney had . look at 1t. The list has now been passed out very quietly to ward heelers, who have the job of contacting the prospective jurors and ascer- taining whether they are safe. OLD FASHIONED HULL
 Things are hot, in more ways than one, around the office of the Secretary of State, but Cor dell Hull scorns air-conditioning. Equipment was installed three years ago to keep his office cool, and Hull tried 1t for while. Now he's ordered it turned off.
 Instead, he keeps his windows open, looking out over the Monu- ment and the Mall, and sits be- tween two electric fans.
 His distaste for modern inno- vatiOn is also expressed In his living quarters. The Hotel Carl ton, where Secretary and Mrs. Hull live, Is completely air-c0n-
 ditioned, but the Hull apart ment makes only partial use of the cooling. He turns 1t off in many of the rooms. Probably Mrs. Hull won't let him turn 1t off entirely.
 NOTE-There are only two of- fices in the entire State Depart ment which have air-conditioning, but neither is used. In addition to Huli's quarters, the office of Un- der Secretary of State Welles has air-conditioning equipment-also Idle.
 UNDER THE DOME
 Senator Borah, who has never been obroad, once turned down a newspaper offer to pay him $i5,- GOO plus expenses to go to Europe and write 6 series on his observa- tions Real authors of anti. Paul McNutt resolution introduced