The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-04
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
 CUB REPORTER

1lA& EHMVAEE PAYERS OF ~ CUB REPORTER
 Yen probably read, in the stories about John Barrymore, how sad- dened he was over the loss of his intcrned Jap valet and the Jap's family .. On the other hand, some of Charlie Chaplin's Jap servants turned out to be spies The most ironic situation of all, we think, concerns Eugenia Clair F1atto, who will be Grand Hostess of the Ameri- can Gold Star Mothers annual convention here next week !. Be- fore the war, Mrs. Flatto had loyal Jap gardener He had been here for many years-had even fought for this nation in the last big war But, because he is Japanese he had to be interned Mrs. Flatto now has a new gardener, who is acceptable to the authorities German, who can't even speak Eng llshl
 Ono of President ROOsevelt's clos- est advisers, a New Yorker, was feasting in a delicatessen. As he started to leave, the owner handed him 6 small package "This," he explained, "is for the President. It contains some of my best corned beef and pastrami. Please take 1t to him with my compliments" . The next day when the President opened the package, right on top of the spicy cold cuts were two dozen of the delicatessen mans cards .. FDR sent for Steve Early and, hand Ing the cards to him, dryly in- structed:
 "Here-pass these around to the various Embassies"
 When FDR was Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, they say, he was visited by some ladies of the Tenn perance Union. They wanted him to christen the ships with soda pop Instead of champagne.
 The trouble with you ladies" ," said Mir. Roosevelt, lis that in- stead of opposing the christening of vessel with champagne, you should encourage it. And get 8 great tenn perance lesson"
 "Why, how can weP" queried one of them.
 Well" he replied, "after the first taste of wine, the ship takes to water and sticks to 1t ever after"
 George Tmmernlan, show stager at the Queen Mary, was associated with his brother Connie in the oper- etion of Comics Inn" located in Harlem during the lush days. The brothers coined mintful until one day George was visited by bandit and Kidnapped Vincent Coll was no gun-guy to trifle with, and he wanted $25, ,O00 in @ hurry |. George asked for 8 two day re- prieve, promising to get the money .. Coll agreed and right on the button George returned with the $25,00O, which he got by pooling his Savings with dough he borrowed here and there Two hours after paying Coll, the headlines blazed with the death of the kidnapper- shot dead by machine-gunners while in 8 phone booth One para graph read: 'The modern Jesse James was bundled in a heap in a telephone booth, and for 8 bandit who was known to handle large sums of money, Coll had only $1.20 In his pockets"
 What happened to Inlnerman's 25 GS?
 Admirers of Herbert Bayard Swope were disappointed not to find an anecdote about him in our recent pillar called "Newspaperman Stuff." M. Throckmorton Cohn, who says Swope is guy you always find in a photo finish when newspapermen are discussed, relays this one about him.
 While exec editor down on The World, Swope formed habit of de- pending great deal for the exact time on the clock in the tower of The Tribune-whicll was directly across the way ]. Every now and then the Trib clock would stop. This riled Swope no end So one day he got 1t off his chest by running this on the Worlds edi- torial page: "The Tribune tries to tell the administration how to run the government, yet cannot keep its own clock going"
 Then there's the one about the Mussolini troops, who will go down in history as men who'd rather eat and make love than fight One Italian Captain decided to do some- thing about it, and after pep talk he charged: "Avanti!" C'For- ward!') and so shouting-he led them into battle.
 When he turned, the captain found himself fifty yards ahead alonel With all his men still seated on the ground-applauding and yelling: Bravo! Bravo!"
 For almost year she has been trying to crash the Broadway heav- ems To attract attention she circulated the fable that she is an heiress to millions and that her family pays her large sum weekly to keep out of the theater |. Naturally, that kind of story got her a lot of publicity, and play wrights and producers catered to her as a potential packer The thing exploded right in her pretty face when she was threatened with eviction over a. S20 hotel bill.