The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-05

side, one officer remarked:
 "I'll bet this is the first time in history that a Justice of the United States Supreme Court ever swam a river at night with pack on his back"
 He was referring to It. Col. Frank Murphy, now on temporary vacation from the Supreme Court who turned up in Washington for the spy trial last week looking very bronzed, and singing the praises of the U. s army. Justice Murphy has been living in the field for seven weeks, going on long march es, once spending three days and two nights without sleep, and com- ing to know intimately the Ameri- can soldier.
 As result, he reported to high Washington officials that in his opinion the American soldier was the best-looking in the world, the best fed, and with the best hy- giene. He also paid tribute to the type of young officers the army has been putting in high positions.
 "In this war;" Murphy said, -four tough young generals will be giving orders from the field, not the background. They are out leading their troops with knives at their sides and tommy guns strapped on their shoulders. We are developing some great young officers"
 Murphy also praised Secretary of War Stimson and Chief of Staff Marshall for the vastness of the war program and the way it had been energized.
 NOTE: Justice Murphy goes tt Fort Knox August 10 for five weeks of tank training. He is paying for his own transportation and food.
 QUEEN WILHELMINA'S PANCAKES
 Queen Wilhelmina of the Meth erlands has learned the joys of American pancakes.
 Coming south through New Eng land on her special car, she went into the diner for breakfast, scanned the menu. A State De- partment official accompanying her ordered hot cakes and maple syrup.
 "What is that?" inquired the Queen.
 Your Majesty should try them," suggested the official, and he placed two orders.
 When the hot cakes were brought, he gave the Queen care full instructions in the art of placing a pat of butter between two hot cakes. Then he suggested she try a few bites first without syrup, then with syrup.
 The Queen was delighted, and like any housewife tasting new dish, she asked if she might have the recipe.
 WAGE FERTILIZATION
 Inside reason for holding up the vital question of stabilizing wages is a hot backstage row over who will do the stabilizing, although all presidential advisers agree that wages must eb stabilized if the cost of living is to be kept
 The row has almost reached the proportions of the one which threatened on Capitol Hill if the President had followed his first plan and asked Congress to pass wage legislation.
 When the President changed his mind regarding legislation and decided to act by Executive Order instead, OPA's General Counsel David Ginsberg, pre- pared the necessary papers for establishing Wage Policy Com mission. This was to have been headed by Gov. Lehman of New York, with power to issue direc- tives on wages to all government departments.
 But immediately half dozen other agencies bobbed up with tfe idea that the wage stabilization issue should be turned over to them. And the legal staffs of the Treasury and War Man. power Commission got together and worked out substitute ex- ecutiYe order by which they Wage