The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-09

Clty. countess RODeTtl was Mary Stevens Hammond, eldest daugh- ter of Ogden Hammond.
 Count Roberti had come from Mexico City to New Orleans to pick up the $2,000,000. J. Edgar Hoover's alert G-men got wind of the transaction and tipped off the Mexican officials. So when Count Roberti arrived on the other side of the border, Mexican inspectors demanded to see what was inside his suitcase. Count Roberti de- murred, claiming diplomatic im- munity.
 The Mexicans opened his bag
 anyway, disclosing two millions
 in American bills. The young
 Fascist claimed that the money
 was only to pay the expenses of
 the Italian Legation in Mexico.
 And although $2,0OO,OOO is Ob-
 viously enough to run Italian
 diplomatic establishments for
 five years, the Mexicans were
 forced by the laws of diplomatic
 immunity to hand the money
 back.
 It was while Ogden Hammond was serving as Ambassador to Spain during the Coolidge admin istration that his daughter met Count Roberti. Since his retire ment from diplomacy, Hammond has been president of the Broadway Improvement Company, vice-president of the First Nation al Bank of Jersey City, director of Public Service Corporation. of New Jersey and various other firms. He was also active on be- half of Fascist Spain at the time Italy was aiding Franco, and par ticipated in various fund-raising drives for the Fascists.
 NOTE-U. S. officials strongly suspect that part of the $2,OOO,- GOO carried by Count Roberti to Mexico was used to pay for the obviously inspired demonstration against Vice-President-elect Wall lace soon after he arrived.
 MERRY-GO-ROUND
 
 William Reuther, young, red- haired executive of the United Auto Workers, has submitted a plan to Defense authorities where by. by using the entire auto in- dustry as one plant, it would be possible within six months to pro- duce an all-me.al, single-motor pursuit plane at the rate of 800 a day. Under Reuther's sensational program the planes not on.y would incorporate all the latest devel- opnients of Britain's famous Spit fires but would cost only one-third their present price. The produc- tive capacity of the U. S. auto in- dustry is 10000 cars day. .s. In the new Congress South Caro- lina's brainy Senator Jimmy Byrnes is slated to play an even more important role as White House spokesman than ever. He has become one of the Presidents most trusted political and legisla- tive advisers. Leland w. Cut Ter, leading San Francisco busi- ness man, head of its worlds fair and a talented poet, is an inti- mate of Herbert Hoover, while George Creel, World War press chief, is a close friend of Presi- dent Roosevelt. But last week when Creel celebrated his sixty fourth birthday. his old friend Cutler wrote and published in his honor very touching "apprecia- tiOn".
 CAMPAIGN PROBE
 Attorney General Jackson'S se- lection of Maurice Milligan to run his nationwide probe of campaign is a tip-off to the po- litical TINT behind it. District Attorney Milligan, who sent Kan sas City's notorious Boss Fender gast to jail, is no glamor boy, but one of the toughest and most re- lentless bloodhounds in the prose- cutting business.
 When Milligan hits the war
 path, he always comes back with
 scalps. This time he is armed
 with . potent weapon which
 lot of the boys verlo0ked--that rom above. I am confident that vhen the Almighty wants me to do, )r not to do. a particular thing. He