The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-28

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 The Justice Department worked late into the night looking up the background of each man in order that the President might take the report with him. He is now studying it. Atty. General Mur- phy, who is in Florida, also has a copy. Naturally no action will be taken until both get back.
 Meanwhile, however, consider able action has been taking place in Washington particularly on the part of two enemies of Schwel- lenbach. They are his senatorial colleague Homer Bone and his for- mer campaign manager and bosom friend, Saul Haas, collector of customs at Seattle.
 Senator Bone has been drop ping hints to colleagues that he might take the Senate floor against Schwellenbach. He is lit- orally wringing his hands at the idea of Lew being nominated for the Brandeis vacancy. Even more rabid is Saul Haas, who is ped- ding stories around the Capital about "Louey the Laundryman" referring to Lew Schwellenbachs venture into the laundry business which went bankrupt during the depression.
 BITTER ENEMIES
 The row between Haas and Schwellenbach is deadly but lu- dicrous. Once they shared the same room together in a Wash- ington hotel; now they hardly speak. Once Haas lent Schwellen- bach $1,000 toward his campaign expenses; now Haas goes round showing friends Lew,s $1 ,000 note which he claims is still unpaid. Actually Schwellenbach paid it up except for one-half the cost of the hotel room Haas shared with him, which was deducted from the note.
 Haas claims Schwellenbach
 high -hatted him, told him to
 talk to his secretary. Actually
 Haas will talk anyones' arm off
 if given half a chance. Real rea-
 son for the quarrel is that
 SchweiIenbach refused to be a
 messenger boy for Haas.
 Chief importance of the quar- rel lies in whether Haas and Bone will be able to throw up enough dust to block Schwellen- bach's appointment to the Su- preme Court.
 With Roosevelt, probably the
 quarrel won't matter. Much
 more important in his mind will
 be the loss of a shock troop leader in the senate. /
 NOTE-Senator Schwellenbach and SEChairman Douglas are talk ing no part in the mud-slinging. Each has high regard for the other.
 UNMARTYRED HAAS
 Before the speculation over the Supreme Court vacancy started, Senator Schwellenbach was called down to the Treasury to confer regarding Saul Haas and his po- litical activities. As collector of customs in Seattle he is supposed to keep out of politics, and the Treasury intimated that he might be fired.
 "No, I don't want to make a martyr of him." replied Schwel- ienbach. "As far as I am con- cerned, let him stay right where BRITISH ROYALTY
 Already it looks as if press and publicity headaches are in store for the King and Queen of Eng land on their forthcoming visit to the White House.
 London papers have taken viz orous exception to the idea that His Majesty should hold a press conference in Washington. The idea was put forward by Josef Israels in the last issue of Scrib- ner's, in which he suggested a publicity program for their Royal Majesties. His advice was in senlt-humorous vein, but London took it in deadly seriousness. The Sunday Dispatch called 1t "An Amazing Attack on the King and Queen," while the Sunday Pic torial described it as insulting" for anyone to suggest that news paper reporters "hob-nob with the. King as freely as they do with Mir. Roosevelt"
 Undoubtedly King George never has held a press conference in his life, but he is sure to face a vig- arnlIG renfIegf for nraa xulaan he