The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-19

ing the charges" The other day Mrs. Atwill got 8 telephone call herself.
 'This is the British Embassy" said . very British feminine voice over the phone. T am speaking for Lord and Lady Halifax. They would like to know If Mrs. Atwill would care to give a dinner for Prime Min- ister Churchill and President
 Roosevelt. The Duke of Kent would like to attend also."
 ''Td be delighted" replied Mrs. Atwill, recognizing the voice. "And tell Lord Halifax that I'll have a high-chair for the Duke of Kent"
 The voice was that of Julia Chetwynd, niece of Lord and Lady Halifax, who reported that the British Embassy had been con- vulsed over the fake Atwill calls to the. Roosevelt Cabinet. Secre- tary Ickes had refused to speak to ''Mr. ChurchilP' if the call was col- lect.
 BUBBLING BEAVERBROOK
 Lord Beaverbrook began a hec- tic day the minute his plane land- ed in Washington, and one thing which kept bothering him all day long was a phone call from Ben Smith in Laredo, Texas. The irl- defatigable MT. Smith kept call- ing from a pay station, telling British Embassy attaches that he must talk to Beaverhrook. But they wouldn't connect him Reposing in Lord Halifax's lap, daschund pup named Franklin" attracted almost as much atten- tion as Beayerbrook when he posed for the news-reels. The pup was a gift from Lord to Lady Halifax, and got his name because he came into their lives on Franklin Roose- velt's birthday. .,.. Lord Beav- brook describes himself as "the biggest borrower on the cuff you've ever met',, and as "the medium through which you shower your benefits upon the British .s. Captain Jimmy Roosevelt has been loaned by the Marine Corps to Colonel William Donovan, Co., ordinator of Military Intelligence, whose offices are in the shadow of the White House on Pennsyl- vania Avenue.
 STEET. SuOWN0VUNY
 The OPM and the steel indus try finally have taken drastic steps to regulate supplies and in- crease capacity, but 1t took all kinds of nagging by the Govern ment to get them to do it.
 One of the most spectacular of these nagging sessions took place in the OPM board room recently and was attended by Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel; Tom Girdler of Republic; Ernest Weir of Weirton: Irving Olds. new head of U. S. Steel, together with Ed Stettinius, the old head; Leon Henderson; ,Knudsen; and repre- Sentatives from the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission.
 The steel manufacturers ilnme- diately' put the government re- presentatlves on the defensive with the question: "WelI, what do you want us to do? Cut off all steel to the consumer"
 Price Administrator Henderson replied that such Q Curtailment would be disastrous, that steel to the consumer could not be cut off right away. Other government re- presentatives hemmed and hawed. So did the ship-builders. The meeting got nowhere.
 Finally Admiral Emory Land, relative of ex-Coionel Lindbergh, but no believer in hls views, got up. Land, chairman of the Mari- time Oomfliisalon. is c close friend Of Bethl6hem'e Eugene Grace. But looking at Grace and the other steel iiianufactufers, the Admiral gave them c dresslng down he might have given Co his own sall- ors.
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