The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03


 REPORTER
 .. Edgar Hoover and the G-Men received great acclaim from all scurces for rounding up those spies
 Some Congressmen, however, el1owed their appreciation by killing ahe wire-tapping bill = designed to make things easier for the G-Men in espionage cases Whats the matter with them? Afraid theyu hurt the civil liberties of 8 few spies. and kidnapers?
 Many of the papers now praiSing the G-Men for their efficiency in rounding up the spies are the same ones that found fault with the G. Men short time ago And you were G-Mans stooge if you de- fended the F. B. I.
 From page IS7 of William Shirer'S best seller, Berlin Diary: "Repre- sentative Ham Fish seems to have been completely taken in by Rib bentrop, who gave him an airplane to rush in to the Inter Parliamen- tary meeting in Scandinavia"
 Boy, that sure explains lot of things.
 By al means read the article on Wheeler and Roosevelt in the July 18th Look While Wheeler goes around the country wrapping himself in the Flag and rapping the President by using all kinds of tdeAliStic arguments this article proves the whole thing is strictly personal And get this: The reason Wheeler sneers at everything the President does-according to the article-is that Mrs. Wheeler doesn't like the President!!ll
 Everett ROeder, one of the alleged spies rounded up by the G-Men, had an important job at the Sperry GyroScope Co.-which manufactures some of our most vital defense ma terial When that company was first given defense contracts, we pointed out Gin the column and on the air) that Nazi agents worked there .. It has taken more than year to confirm these allega- tions. s..
 Lindbergh believes the Nazis want to be nice to us, he says I suppose those German spies were merely trying to help America .. |. Tt won't surprise me if Lindbergh & CO. blame the whole spy business agn the iYfarvenfi0niStS
 Congressman Coffee introduced a resolution in Congress to stop the sale of oil to Japan Just the other day we gave some oil to Vichy, hut. hut if we send any oil to Bri- tain, we are trying to get the coun- try into the war.
 On Tuesday p. m., WOR com mentator reported that the son ot an iSolationist senator = leader ot the ostrich outit on the West Coast has been working with registered Nazi agent The commenta- tor named names and said he could prove his facts |. The WOR commentator better be careful. Next thing he knows he will be barred in Montana.
 with typical stupidity, Virginia Gayda Is giving away Na1 plans.
 The other day he boasted that If Germany whips Russia, they will < have air bases near Alaska and will be able to bomb the Western hemisphere Of course, the appeasers refuse to believe that anything like that can happen.
 Or maybe they know they can stop bombs from hitting their homes by making certain kinds of speeches now.
 At Reuben's early this morning, Jack Waldron, the m. C., gave Damon Runyon, the c. m., his opinion of horse races That's just ike life," he explained, you have your ravorites. Some run true to form; others fool you. The only thing is it's not as important as life"
 T can see," Runyon retorted, ,"that you are g bettor."
 Fair Enough Dept: The Copaca- hama, Hollywood's new swank night spot of which George Raft is the ] sugar daddy, opens soon It ], will have real cocoanuts attached to palm trees If one of the Cocoanuts falls into a customers lap, every person at his table will re- ceive a bottle of champagne.
 know, I know. If it falls on his head, he will get lawyer.
 A bored gal buttonholed a stag at the Stork Club bar and begged him to crash the table where she sat with her kluck.
 Hes boring me with his mono logue," she wept. He's repeating himself like daytime radio com 1 mercial."
 The Naxis' wild-eyed claims fail 1 to stand up through the day |. Boasts of having seized this line or that one sift down to no dice by evening. As one a. m. editor put it, the Reds have repulsed the Nazis everywhere except in the noon edi- l tions.
 From F. F. As Column: "New names for this and new names for T