The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-12

He Qld not mention Gamers name, but he didn't have to. It was more than obvious that he was 100 per cent against Garner.
 Roosevelt's friend then came out point blank and asked him how he felt about third term. ''Is there any physical, mental, or spiritual reason" he asked, which might prevent you from running again?"
 The President replied that he was mentally and physically ab- solutely fit, then added: But I'm like a ball player who's been pitching a long time. I ought to have a rest"
 He did not, however, close the door to renomination.
 CIO PLANS
 Three far-reaching proposals will be considered by the CIO ex- ecutive council when it meets in Washington this week:
 (l) The question of whether
 it should launch a 60-60 pen-
 sion drive = that is, $60 a
 month for all persons over 60.
 (2) A new organizing campaign
 to set up CIO unions in AFL
 strongholds, particularly the
 building trades.
 (3) A legal offensive against
 the AFL, in the form of dam-
 age suits against AFL unions
 which have been found by
 the National Labor Relations
 Board to have entered into
 agreements with employers
 against CIO unions.
 Under the law, the Board has no power beyond dissolving these secret agreements. But the plan to be voted on by the CIO execu- tive council would be to strike at the AFL in civil suits claiming heavy damages, on the ground that CIO members suffered pecuniary losses from the AFL's alleged il- legal activities.
 Chief significance of organization and damage suit proposals is to dim the prospects of peace be- tween the rival labor camps. BRITISH NAVY
 The private opinion of U. s. na- val officers coucurs with British indignation over the failure to res- cue 99 men from the submarine Thetis.
 Since the Thetis disaster followed less than two weeks after the Squalus sinking, American officers followed the British tragedy with intense interest, and came to the very definite conclusion that the British Navy was woefully un- prepared and completely botched the rescue job.
 What may be more, U. s. naval experts have seen increasing evi- dence that the British Navy has slumped to greater depths of in- efficiency, and is by no means the vaunted queen of the seas it once was.
 SECRET TIE-UP
 One thing the un-Americanism committee did not disclose during its recent hearings was its pos- session of information linking Senator Bob Reynolds with George Deatherage, head of the violently anti-Semitic Knights of the White Camellia.
 The evidence was given the committee by Edwin M. Curry, graduate instructor in political science at the University of West Virginia, who personally uncov- cred it while collecting data for . thesis on Fascism in America.
 Young Curry wrote Deatherage indicating interest in his organi- zation. later visited Deatherage at his headquarters in St, Albans, w. Va. There he saw @ U. S. mail- bag filled with hundreds of copies of a speech made by Reynolds in the Senate on February a. In response to discreet questions, Deatherage revealed that he was distributing the speeches under Reynolds congressional mailing frank.
 Tn other words. Deatherage was using Reynolds free mailing privilege to distribute Reynolds speech to CameIIia followers.
 Curry immediately wrote to Reynolds asking him about his connection with Deatherage. From Wesley E. Mcdonald. Reynolds secretary, who is also secretary of The Vindicator. Reynolds weekly. he received an answer saying: