The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-27
THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
CUB REPORTER

THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF A
CUB REPORTER
The Dies Congressional Committee
holding hearings on subversive ac-
tivities, summoned VIM. r. Lyman,
Jr., who once served IS days in
Jail Lyman Is the publicity
director of the National Workers
(workers?) League of Detroit, Mich.
His mail address Is Tampa,
Fla. He did the IS days in Jail
In Washington, d. c. Dies agents
confiscated his files recently. One OF
the letters (to a lieutenant in his
outfit) dated April LIST, 1941, stated:
"Winchelrs newspapers are begin
ming to feel our ,etter-writing pres
sure, but he can't be worried as he
is too damned arrogant, so the only
solution is persecution" :. Lyman,
according to the Dies agents, adj
mitted on the stand that he led IAN
active letter-writing campaign to
all papers carrying the Winchell
column" Also admitted dis
tributing 1000 pieces of anti-Ad-
ministration material from De-
troit, "the fountain-head for anti
literature"
From the January 18th, 1912, Mi
ami Herald which publishes this
dept: Editor, Herald: Henry Nc
Lemore has joined the pack. The
barking of Walter Winchell does
not surprise me; but Henry Nc
Lemore, and him with such sweet
face! Too bad. In spite of the
mud-slinging by experts like Win
chell and Pegler, etc.-Carly HUI
lander" +. Carl?????
Before the same Dies hearings
last week G. L. Alderman, Sec'y
of the National Workers League
(and an America Firster) admitted
he advocates Roosevelt, Churchill
and Winchell be tried for treason.
Give them fair trial." he is
quoted, land then execute them!"
Roosevelt, Churchill, WincheH /.
What! No MacArthur????
From a story in the N. Y. Daily
News Sunday: Many of the services
that come under the head of the
Navy's Public Relations The
officers and men CAS- on the Staff
under 1t. Comdr. J. T. Tuthill, Jr.,
Ca newspaper publisher on Long
Island) are all Naval Reservists re-
cruited from newspaper editorial
rooms and advertising agencies
throughout the country, each a
specialist in his assigned duties >. !.
The others Gin the Public Relations
dept) are all familiar to newspaper
readers. Men now doing in gold
braided uniforms the same work
they previously Gid in their Shirt
sleeves
Lucius Beebe scooped us on this
one, the lugg, but let us put 1t here
and make it public, tch, tch, tch
1.-THE unsuitable Maury Paul
(Cholly KnickerbockeD," reports
MY Melancholy Beebe, "has been
keeping society frauds in a fine stew
recently by threatening to print a
list Of the bogus nobility and foreign
criminals moving in the best circles.
Maury was seated next to one Of
them at sWanky dinner the other
evening.
I'm sure" she remarked (giving
Maury the lorgnette fish eye), that
you write about nothing but gar
bagel"
"You should know, madam" was
the devastating retort, II devoted
most of the afternoons column to
yooooooooo!"
Odd McIntyre's biographer,
Charles B. Driscoll Gin the book on
the colyumist's career, relates that
one of the journalists phobias was
the fear that someone might rush
up and pat him on the back.
Most colyumists we know are
afraid someone won't.
louisville, KY, Jan. Goth: Dear
Winchell: This is criticism OF your
column in the Louisville Times for
this date, to wit: :.
Beatrice Kay warns you that If
you don't pay for the purchase OF
Defense Bonds, etc. Almost 20
words, Winchell! Why not save
ink and paper like this:
mo eagles today. no bluebirds to-
morrow!-Jay James"
Cracks That Have Opened Me
Wide: When Jimmy Durante used
to slap the sides of his pants and
veil: "Dare I wuz standin' on Ga
Garner mindin' me own blznlzz,
when a guy walks up and ties a
horse to mel"
Time for Jan. 18th reports that
Jane Anderson, an American Lady
Haw-Haw (now peddling her Ameri-
can accent to the Nazzys), was IN a
Madrid prison during the Spanish
civil war and the U. S. secured
her release. She paid her country