The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-15

Wage-Hour Act, was King members of his family a tot Cox is not the King but the Emperor of nepotists.
 Although he has excoriated the New Deal, he and his relatives have made thriving business of 1t. New information discloses that the $27,600 previously reported is only about half of what Cox & Co., are pocketing this year. Their governmen income exceeds by sev- eral times the salary of any other federal official, with the exception of the President of the United States.
 It is nearly four times greater than the salary of Vice President Garner, nearly three times that of Chief Justice Hughes, and more than five times the pay of the commanding officers of the Army and Navy.
 The Cox gravy list as uncov- covered to date is as follows:
 Lamar Cox, son, counsel of
 the Electric Home and Farm
 Authority-$4,800.
 Ode E. Cox, brother, assistant
 assistant disbursing clerk of
 the House--$3,900.
 Charles M. Cox, nephew, ad-
 ministrative officer, north -cen- trial division of the AAA-$3,800.
 Mrs. Jim Lou Cox Hoggard, sister, postmistress of Camilla,
 Ga, Cox's home town-$2, 400.
 Mrs. J. Chaney Robinson, sis-
 ter, Cox's secretary-$3,380.
 Robin Cox, nephew. clerk in the docket section of the Securi-
 ties and Exchange Commission --$1,740.
 Robert E. Cox, nephew, clerk
 in Library of Congress,-$1,6 ,620.
 J. Chaney Robinson, brother-irl-
 in-law, assistant in House docu-
 ment room-$1 ,860.
 w. Elliott Dunwody, IT,, son-in-
 in-law, chief architect on two
 U. s. Housing Authority pro-
 jects in Macon, Ga, which will
 net him and two assiciates fees
 amounting to .69,000. If split
 three ways Dunwody,s share
 will be not less than $23 3,000.
 Cox's own congressional pay,
 aside from mileage and other
 perquisites-$10,O00. Total-$56,500. NOTE-Martha Hoggard, niece, was dropped by Cox from his con- gressional payroll as an 1900 clerk on July 1.
 OLD TIMER
 The phone tangled on the desk of genial Joe Mulcahy, new press chief of the Justice Department. "New York calling" said the op- orator.
 The call was from a New York newspaper inquiring about tip on dWe've got to get the informa- tion right away" insisted the editor, "our deadline Is 3 o'clock this afternoon" "Okay, IIy do my best," prom ised MuIcahy. "But-say--isnt your paper . morning sheet? Don't ten me you have 2 3 ?. m. deadline."
 "Sure we do-for our first edition"
 "T get it." chuckled Mulcahy, . veteran newsman, "that's the mail edition for Alaska" BUYING FRANCO
 Real lowdown on the State De- partment $l3,750,000 loan to Franco Is that it was slush fund to buy off the Spanish dictator on behalf of the International Telephone and Telegraph corpor- ation and the National City bank.
 In other words. the 'New DeaI'' State Department. like the Hard- 1 ing-Coolidge-Ho State Depart ment. was playing the game of big big business.
 The story goes back to the sua- den recognition of Franco last spring. 6 fast one pulled by the State Department while Roosevelt was in warm Springs. The excuse given by them at the time was tht Franco had promised to return the property of the I. T. and T., which supplies Spain with its enc tire telephone system. The prop erty has been in the hands of Germans.
 Although the state Depart ment boys boasted os this con- eession from Franco, weeks passed and France didn't pro- duce Colonel Sesthenss Behn, head ef !. '. and IT,, cooled his heels on Che Spanish border. ] Franco wcuid not let him ins