The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-16

All this has U. s, officials very definitely worried.
 One important question Aranha has put to Roosevelt Is the diffi- culty of keeping Germans out of Brazil is virtually empty and when Americans do nothing to fill 1t up. Only 2,ooo Americans live in Brazil, chiefly representa- tiyes of Standard oil, General Electric Bond and Share, etc. Pub- any country, especially when they are foreign, Also these 2,ooO Americans add to their unpopu- larity by sitting in their own clubs, melting only other Ameri- cans.
 So Aranha proposes that the United States send c0ionists to Brazil. This would combat Ger man influence, help reduce U. s. unemployment, create . east market in Brfaxil for U. 5. tn- dustry. Every American colonist in Brazil, he points out, would keep one American back home employed In making machinery and supplies for use In Brazil.
 Those who have talked with Aranha think this might be one solution to U. s. employment, that 1t would be far better to finance U, s. colonists in building per- manent homes rather than con- stantly to dump money into the bottomless hole of WPA relief. GARNER's HACKERS
 Probably 1t is pure accident. but one of the packers Of John Nance Garner for the presidency in i940 is about to be investigated by the Monopoly Committee.
 It is the TEXAS GULF sUL. PHUR COMPANY, whose front man, Roy Miller Of Corpus Christi formed the first Garner-for-P -Presi- dent club last December, and IS the Vice Presidents most consist ent and vociferous rooter. Gar- ner he describes as "a liberal with out tinge or taint of radicallsm' and the ideal man to be Pesi- dent of the United States.
 Reason the Monopoly Commit tee is Investigating MT. Miller's company is the charge that It operates one of the tightest mon- opolies in American industry. So perfect IS the monopoly that 1t has been able to keep the price of natural sulphur at SIS a ton since 1926. Considering the price jumps of other industrial com modities, this is no meai, achieve ment.
 Chief job of Roy Miller on
 behalf of Texas Gulf is to sell Texans the idea that the c0m- pany Is a local enterprise. Ac- tuaIIy, however, 1t Is clutched tight in the arms of Wall Street.
 On its board of directors are
 George Whitney (brother of
 Richard "Sing Sing" Whitney,
 and Thomas $. Lamont of the
 J. F. Morgan firm.
 Chief owners of the Texas Gulf is the Gulf Oil Corporation, which in turn, is owned by the Melons, despite Roy Miller's protests to the contrary.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 Commissioner Donald W. Smith continues to work l2 to IA hours a day. He is frequently at his desk until midnight an has had only one vacation of less than two weeks since his appointment in l936 Washington news men are wondering if there was anything personal in a notice they received announcing the opening of an Institute for Alcoholics" near the city The Interna- tional Ladies Carmen Workers Union. which bolted the CIO last fall after its plan for peace with the AFL was rejected. has pub- lished a book on its unsuccessful harmony effort When Ed- mund Randolf of Virginia was appointed the first attorney gen. eral of the United States. he had to pay his own office rent. buy his own law books and also the logs for his office fireplace. With no funds for clerk hire. he left no written records of his term. Today, Justice Department clerks type more than 5000 letters monthly Representative Sol .2 a..