The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-14

Officials of the State Depart ment and the Federal Communi- cations Commission are investigat- ing two agencies involved in this arrangement. One is the Trans Oceanic Press Service in New York, which receives messages by short wave from Berlin; the other is radio station MBNX, which takes these dot-and-dash messages and re-broadcasts them by voice, in the German language. WBNX is properly licenser, breaks no law. To suspend its license might create a diplomatic storm. An easier attack, State Department has found, is to pro ceed against Trans-Oceanic Press Service on the grounds that it has failed to register as agent of a foreign principal, as required by law. Penalty for such failure is 5000 fine.
 GARNER'S CHANGES
 vice-President Jack Garner may publicly be coy about running for the White House in 1940, but pri- vately he is all ears when the Sub- ject is mentioned.
 AS he ambled past a group of lounging reporters outside the Senate chamber, one of them called: We were just talking about your chances of being nom- mated and elected next year.
 Garner grinned and walked on, then sudednly stopped and came back.
 Well. boys" he asked seri- ously, what d'you think of my chanceS?"
 The newsmen assured him they were very good.
 CLIPPER CHRISTEING
 Mrs. Roosevelt's usual tact and patience were strained to the limit when she christened the 40-ton Yankee Clipper. which soon will begin Transatlantic air service.
 As she started to break the bot tie o fwaters from the seven seas, the news photographers, seeking plenty of time to snap still pie lures, yelled, Hold it, holdit!" while the newsreel cameramen, anxious fo raction shots, shouted. Let Ger go, Mrs. Roosevelt, let Ter go!"
 Under this crossfire the First Lady became confused and when she finally swung the bottle, hit the ship such a glancing blow that she splashed herself and Post master General Jim Farley. The 2 latter grinned and appeared to Y enjoy the immersion.
 ECONOMY WAR
 k There is very subtitle strategy behind the sudden drive of the economy bloc against further New Deal spending. The immedi- ate drive is to keep Roosevelt from raising the present national debt limit to $50,000, ,000, 900, and this, in turn, Is all mixed up with 1940 and presidential politics. The present national debt limit is $45.OO0.0 100000, which probably will be reached by July l, l940, if the present rate of spending continues. That date is just about the time the Democratic Convention will be nominating a presidential cam didate, and obviously the last thing Roosevelt wants Is an em- barrassing fight over raising the public debt few weeks be- f0rehand.
 Obviously, also, nothing would give the anti-Roosevelts, both Republican and Democratic, more joy than to wintness such a debt fight at that time. That's why they want to postpone the issue until next year; and that also is why Roosevelt wants to get the fight over with this year.
 Furthermore, failure to secure a debt increase this spring would force Roosevelt into defensive position in preparing the 1940- Al budget next fall. The budget now under consideration will exceed income by at least $4,000, ,00O, 900 which means that by July, 194O, the federal debt will be within a few hundred million of the 45-billion- dollar deadline.
 This will mean drastic curtail- ment by Roosevelt when he starts to make up the 1940-41 budget next fall m if |. that time the