The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-05

III BraZlllan cOCCOQ.
 The two firms are Anderson, Clayton & Co.,, of Houston and McFadden & Co.,, of Philadelphia. They have played a leading role in the expansion of cotton in Brazil, where production has been stimulated by the importation of $2,750,00O of U. s. cotton ginning machinery in the past five years.
 In cotton selling these two firms not only stand high in the U. s. market, but Anderson, Clayton is the second largest and McFad- den the third largest exporter of Brazilian cotton.
 Application of export subsidies by the United States would ap- preciably reduce the price of U. s. cotton in the world market, and thus create fresh competition for other exporting countries-and for U. s. traders in those coun- tries.
 So operating quietly behind the scenes, Anderson Clayton and Me- Fadden are exerting powerful pressure to kill the export sub- sidy.
 RIBBER
 You have to be tough-hided if you are a presidential candidate in Congress.
 Though Rep. Bruce Barton, dapper New York Republican and Rep. Jack Cochran, veteran Mis- souri Democrat, are good friends, Cochran never passes up a chance to rib his younger colleague about his White House ambitions. Usually Barton takes the joshing good-naturedly, but the other day he blew up.
 He was striding through the Speakers Lobby outside the House chamber when Cochran, at the other end, spotted him and yelled in 8 loud voice, "Oh, MT. Presi- dent, just 8 moment!"
 Barton automatically turne6 around just as everyone in the place looked up and saw him stop.
 How are you, President Bar ton?" beloved Cochran again as the crowd Uttered. Barton flushed angrily, turned on his heel and snapped, "Oh, shut up!" ' UNDER THE DOME
 Jack Cable, secretary to Rep. Dirksen of Illinois, licks Wash ington's high rents by living in a trailer in a tourist camp. Total rent: 65 cents a day Sen- ator Arthur Vandenberg privately is convinced that his Democratic opponent next year will be Atty. General Frank Murphy. Vanden- berg was one of the few COP senators who voted against Mur- phys cabinet confirmation :. Rep. Gene Cox of Georgia is known in House cloakrooms as "the ham actor" because of his habit of posing like Hamlet about to go into a soliloquy AL though Californian and a mem- Der of the Appropriations Com mittee, Rep. Albert E. Carter neglected to support the Army Air Corps proposal to establish an aeronautical research laboratory at Sunnyvale, Cal. Carter was asleep at the switch and memebrs from other states with an eye on the project put one over on him. GHOST REPORTS
 Members of the IVA investigat- ing committee are secretly prob- ing an inside tip that the two minority reports banning the man. agement of the great power pro- ject are the work of 8 pair of utility ghost writers.
 They are Paul o. Peters, rec ported to have written the erie tical blast signed by Senator James Davis of Pennsylvania and Rep. Charles A. Wolvert0n of New Jersey, and Colonel James E. Cassidy, credited with authorship of the hostile report turned in by Rep. Tom Jenkins of Ohio.
 Throughout the extended in- quiry, Wolverton and Jenkins dis played open bias against IVA, fre- quently clashing with other corn- mittee members. Both Peters and Cassidy are known to have spent considerable time in the offices of Wolverton and Jenkins when the minority reports were being written.
 Peters, who worked for the Re- publican Congressional Commit tee during the 1898 campaign. has