The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-11
them, but he was only reflecting Secretary Stimson's views. IN NEW ORLEANS, D0N'T ASK


 Secretary Stimson's views.
 IN NEW ORLEANS,
 DON'T ASK
 Col. Charles H. March, chair man of the Federal Trade Com mission, had occasion to visit New orleans recently and stopped at the Roosevelt hotel. This is the hostelry where Seymour Weiss once worked as manager of the bar- Der shop at $25 a week, then rose to be president of the hotel, not 10 mention Commissioner of Po- lice, a boss of the Huey Long political machine, and Democra- tic National Committeeman.
 Colonel March knew this, but he had forgotten the epilogue-that Seymour weiss had been sent to the Federal Penitentiary at At- ianta. where he is still serving his term.
 Meeting Weiss brother, Ber- nard, who is now operating the Roosevelt hotel, Colonel March engaged him in polite converse ton, finally frosted the cake with this ingenious faux pas: "TelI me, MT. Weiss, where Is your brother nOw?"
 SECRET VICHY AMBASSADOR.
 Dapper and loquacious, Gas ton Henry-Haye is the great friend of actress Elsie deWolte and millionaire Mrs. Harrison Wil- Hams, but no friend of Cordell Hull. Tn the ornate French eI1a- bassy on wyoming avenue or on the steps of the State Department he issues ponderous statements on behalf of the Vichy government and goes thruogh all the mos tions of being Ambassador EX- traordinary and Pleniptentiary".
 Actually, however, much more important agent of Vichy lives a few blocks away. His name does not appear in the headlines, but he pulls the wires and makes the reports which dictate most Of Vichy's policy in the USA.
 He is Camille Chautemps, who arrived in this country with @ young wife and new born baby last summer after the fall of France. Living in a swank Con- necticut avenue apartment at a rental of SAYS a month, Chau- temps has operated behind the scenes as a potent wire-puller for Vichy.
 Twice premier of France, Chau- temps also was vice-premier un- der Blum. the Socialist, under Da- ladier the conservative, also un der Reynaud, who assayed the role of Winston Churchill. Chau- temps also IS a good friends of Marshall Petatin, Admiral Darlan, Pierre Laval and General Wey- gand.
 For long time it was 3 mys- tery where ChauteTnps got the American currency with which to live. That mystery can now be solved. Chautemps re- ceives from the Vichy govern ment once a month 8 salary or pension of S2,000.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Newsmen were asked not to mention the hospital where the Presidents private secretary, Mar guerite ('alissey') LeHand is un- der treatment, because she would get more flowers than the hospi- tai could hold Louisiana's Congressman P. Edward Hebert leaves no doubt how his name should be pronounced. In the Congressional directory. he in- serts after ms name: pronounced A-Bear)" On hot days, a war of pennies eplivens Capital Hill. clerks toss pennies into the foun. tain near the Senate wing. and little colored boys scramble for them. crossing as much as c dol. lar a day 70. Honey Hattie Car away of Arkansas ig an adlnireE of glamorous Gall Patrick of Hollywood. and vice versa In Senator Vandenbera's office Is c Autograph portrait of himself aG big as . barn door LawTepce ", Neti. 6 southern poet, has written the Soviet eFnbasy slig- gesting that the Russians use against the Germans the same technique Of spraying poison from airplnnes that cotton garmes slgf against the boil weevn.
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