The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-15

To make that force more potent, it is argued, the sovereigns should present themselves in person out side of "the tight little island"
 The success of the current tour has lent strength to the proposal, according to which the King and Queen, instead of retreating to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for the summer months, would crcss the Atlantic to residence in Canada.
 HOT STUFF
 As acting chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Sol Bloom of New York in- troduced his colleagues to the King and Queen. Sol had things well in hand from beginning to end, but Queen Elizabeth called him on one detail that was too much for him.
 Washington's ferocious heat appalled, Their Majesties, while a downpour early in the after noon of the first day boded i'll for the British Embassy's gar- den party a few hours later. However, when the party finally got underway, the sun was shin ing brightly again. Among the first to arrive was Sol. Pre- scented to the Queen he re- marked proudly, "Well, Your Majesty, you see I fixed the rain all right"
 "Yes," she replied, then add ed slyly, "but you forgot the heat"
 NOTE = After the King and Queens visit to Capitol Hill, Sen. Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina told>newsmen: "It's a good thing the Senate isn't meeting again to- day, because if someone offered a bill to cancel the British war debt, a lot of the boys would vote for 1t under the spell of the Queens bright eyes and fascinat- ing smile."
 INSURANCE WAR
 Behind the scenes in the U. S. Housing Authority is raging an insurance battle for business which makes Jimmy Rooseyelt's famous commissions look like canary bird feed.
 U. s. Housing plans to take out a half billion dollars worth of in- surance on all its slum clearance projects, and the issue is whether the business will go to the mu- tual companies or the stock com- panies.
 A juicy sum in agents com- missions is involved, and at one point in the discussion, Roosevelt called in Nathan Straus, U. s. Housing Administrator, and asked him point blank if Jimmy had been monkeying in this insurance deal. Straus replied in the nega- tive.
 The insurance firm of C0nk- lin, Price and Webb. of Chi- cagO, got the first USHA in- surance contract on the 52 hous- ing projects inherited from PWA, with no bids asked. Later
 it was learned that C0nkIin, Price and Webb had sold the
 USHA insurance to United Fire mems Indemnity, which also is controlled by the British.
 Other insurance companies, /. wanting the business, rubbed the British angle home on StrauS so consistently that eventually he took 80 per cent of the business away from Conklin, Price and Webb, placing it with the Stock Company Association, a group of old line companies.
 MUTUALS WINNING
 However, this was only on old PWA project, involving mere fraction of the business that is to come on Straus' new slum clear apartments. Here is where the struggle between the stock com- panies and the mutuals really comes to grips.
 Mutual companies operate on a higher premium basis, with profits returned to those who buy insurance. The New Eng land Factory Mutual Group, speaking for 2i mutual com panies, bid siSl.0o0 for fire inc surance on the 52 PWA projects
 for three years. But figuring on dividends of about ei3e.000. the actual cost fo the goycrn-
 ment would bc only sf9.ooo.