The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-15

Under her auspices the Ohio Sen- ator quietly spent a week in Man. haitian while his colleagues were drearily debating army air corps expansion. Here he got acquainted with leading business men, bank CTS and publishers-all potential campaign contributors and sup- porters.
 The high point of Taft's sortie was dinner Mrs. Davie gave for him in her elaborate apartment on Sand Street overlooking the East River. Guests were a care- fully selected group of wealthy and influential Republicans, among them MT. and Mrs. Ogden Herald Tribune, and Lewis L. Reid, owners of The New York Strauss, wartime secretary to Herbert Hoover and partner in the international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Go.
 Political talk did not entirely monopolize the conversation Mrs. Davie regaled the company with an account of visit she made to the ancestral estate of Count Po- tocki, Polish Ambassador to the U. S., and how she had got along "cOzily with the peasants" 4
 "Such interesting people" she related, land very we'll aken care of by the Count, too" DEWEY COMMUNISTS
 Mrs. Davie is telling intimates she is very thrilled with Senator Taft and his White House pros- poets.
 "He did extremely we'll during his visit here," she says, made a most excellent impression on the right people with his sound views and delicious sense of humor. He is very witty"
 Mrs. Davie is not seriously wor- ried by the boom for District At torney Tom Dewey.
 "If he becomes too trouble s0me,' she explains, "then we'll just take him into camp and give him the vice presidency. You know, Dewey mightn't be so bad if it weren't for that ter rible Communist Kenneth . Simpson { anti-Hoover New York Republican State Chair man). He is a bad influence on Dewey and keeping a lot of the right people from supporting him."
 NOTE-Mrs. Davie and Simpson tangled bitterly last year when she demanded that the COP sup port purged Democratic Congress man John O'Connor, and Simp- son opposed. She is going ahead with her movement to nominate Taft, although she holds no party office now.
 ARTHURDALE JUNK
 There is still a jinx at Arthur dale, the subsistence homestead project in the West Virginia hills where, with the blessing of Mrs. Roosevelt, the New Deal has at tempted to reSettle stranded miners.
 The project encountered rough weather in the Rex Tugwell days when critics exposed inordinate expenses, delays, and faulty con- Struction. Mrs. Roosevelt remained a faithful friend, contributing substantial sums from her own earnings to keep things going. Now the project has grief of an- other color-industrial disorders.
 Two years ago, General Elec- tric was persuaded to establish a small assembly plant at Ar thurdaIe, in line with the theory that the ideal pattern of life is a combination of agriculture and industry. The hOmesteaders already had garden plots and farm lands; and the new plant, in which they would assemble parts for vacuum cleaners, was to provide them with cash in- come.
 But after about year of 0p- erati0n, the plant shut down. The country was not buying enough vacuum cleaners.
 Before this misadventure, how ever, Pennsylvania shirt factory opened a small plant at Arthur dale to make parth of shirts. But a strike in the main plant in Pennsylvania forced the Ar thurdale homesteaders to stop making collars and cuffs.
 ArthUrdaIe is making one