The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-14

The additional money will pro- vide for 800 new G-men, bringing the staff up to around 2050.
 While the Civil Aeronautics stu dent pilot training program was slashed, because of dissatisfaction with results, $33, ,500,00 is allotted for finishing the airport develop ment launched last year by far sighted Assistant Commerce Sec- retary Robert Hinckley. Under his plan 25O public airports will be constructed or enlarged.
 Assist tant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, whose bare knuckled trust-busting has made him a terror to price fixers and monopolies, also was one of the few lucky ones in non-defense fields to be put down for more money. His budget was upped from $1,323, ,OOO to $1 SIS. 900. This $250,- 900 increase was only part of what Arnold asked for, but it will en- able him to increase his staff and start several new big trust clean ups that he has up his sleeve. VICTIMS OF ECONOMY
 Biggest axe victim was WPA, which had $400, ,00O, 900 Topped off, or about one-third of what it is spending currently. The $970, ,000,- 900 allotted will permit a monthly work-relief roll of around 1900, 900, as compared to 1900, 900 this year.
 Two other congressional pets to feel the axe were the Public Works Administration, which lost $125,- 100000; and farm parity payments, which took a $45 ,0O0, 900 cut. How ever, last year the President also riddled parity payments in his budget, but the boys on Capitol Hill put the cut right back again.
 The budget, incidentally, is not the greatest in history. There were two larger--$18,8 ,881, 0,243 in 1918 and $27, ,066, 48,93S in
 1919.
 NOTE--The budget disclosed that in 1940 the sales of baby bonds, even though limited to in dividuals, almost doubled, reached a total of $2,904 ,699 ,343.
 WHO?
 One portion of the testimony at the secret hearings of the House Appropriations subcommittee on the Tennessee Valley Authority's new budget will not be published in the report ot' the proceedings. This is what will be deleted:
 A IVA engineer was explaining why funds were sought to repair leaky hydro electric dam near Chattanooga which was losing $100,O00 year in power.
 "This dam was part Of the property bought from the Com monweaIth & Southern Corpora tiOn," the engineer said. "1 strongly recommend that the dam be fixed up without delay in order to stop this power loss. The defense program needs all the power we can get"
 "You say we got this leaky dam from Commonwealth & Southern" :" broke in 8 Democratic member. "There must be some mistake. Wendell Willkie used to be boss of that company and he said many times that the only fault with IVA and other New Deal projects was that they weren't run efficiently"
 ''Willkie WillIkie !. :" ban- tered Representative Jack Hous- ton, Kansas Democrat. "That name doesn't register. Who'd you say he was?"
 Strike all that wise cracking from the record" ordered Chair man Woodrum, anti-New Deal Virginia Democrat, in reproving voice.
 NOTE--Army engineers and not Commonwealth & Southern are responsible for the leaky dam. Be- cause it is on navigable stream, the dam site was selected by the engineers, who picked a location underlaid with cavernous lime stone. Sulphuric acid in the water corroded the stone, causing found- ation leaks.
 HEMISPHERE DEFENSE
 It hasn't been announced, but the Government is developing still those nresent at the battle of Kettl