The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11
Washington Merry-Go-Round
WASHINGTON April conferences held between high State War and awakened to seriousness

Particularly worrisome is the ex- pansion of German and Italian air lines, some of them flying not far from the Panama Canal. To offset this, a revolutionary plan has been proposed by the Civil Aeronautics Authority.
 Briefly, the plan calls for the establishment of United States government airlines in South America. It also calls for a mon- opoly of all air transport under one company in all the 20 repub- lies of Latin America.
 During the first five years, the company would be owned and op- erated by the U. s. government. Every German or Italian line in the southern continent would be bought up, or appropriated by the governments affected. Then after five years, 50 per cent of the com panys stock would be turned over to the interested Latin American countries at cost price, and from that point on, the lines would be operated jointly, with profits di- vided.
 This plan was proposed by the Civil Aeronautics Authority to the State, War and Navy Departments, but already has met with such opposition that it probably will be vetoed.
 SECOND AVIATION PLAN
 A more moderate plan now is being discussed, intended to en- courage Latin American govern ments to operate their own air. lines rather than use German and Italian. Fascist-Nazi pilots would be eliminated entirely by lending U. s. pilots and by train- ing Latin American pilots exten- sively in the United States.
 Also, Latin American countries would be encouraged to nationalize their airlines by buying U. s. planes through Export-Import Bank subsidies. At present Ger many sells planes in Latin America at about 50 per cent below the U. s. price, largely because the Nazis operate on a policy of sub- sidizing sales in order to keep their factories busy in prepara- tion for war.
 Nothing definite has been de- cided yet, except that something must be done about Nazi aviation in South America.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 The black silk robe to be worn by Justice William Douglas when he takes his seat on the Supreme Court is a gift of the group of young attorneys and economists who worked under him three years ago on his first job for the SEC. Garnerites assert that one Garner delegate to the 1940 con- vention will be Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President and a strong Garner booster Jim Farley spends three orm four hours every week autographing copies of his book, Behind the Ballots" mailed by admirers for his sigma ture. One day last week he signed SIS copies It costs the monopoly Investigating com mittee an average of $50,000 to make a study of major industry, more than forty such studies are under way Chairman Hat ton Summers of the House Ju- dietary Committee is secretly in- vestigating the leak on it's report rejecting the demand that Secre- tary Perkins be impeached. Re- porters published the committees findings while they were still sup posed to be committee secret. HOOVER VS SIMPSON
 Most significant struggle in the present political arena is the un- dercover fight in New York to oust Republican County Chairman Kenneth Simpson.
 The battle is a clear-cut test
 between COP old Guarders and
 COP young liberals. On it's
 outcome depends in part the
 fate of District Attorney Tom
 Dewey. On the outcome also de-
 pends the immediate future of
 the Republican party-whether
 it will be reasonably progressive,
 or slip back into the rut of
 Herbert Hoover.
 To understand the fight you have to understand Simpson. He is liberal, dynamic, one-tirne boss of braintruster Tommy Corcorail. and is largely responsible for the high state of COP morale in New York today. It was Simpson who forced the COP to play ball with the American Labor Party, and thus made possible the election of Mayor Y.afsrror<Jia T,nxy, sYYavuav