The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-15

CANC44OAAV JOO Va 0SAAAAAS WaA
even resents Justice Byrnes
When the final tax schedules
were prepared he refused to let
Economic Stabilizer Vinson see
them before they went to Con-
gress. Vinson knew in a general
way what they were, having sat
In on the preliminary discussions.
But Henry wouldn't let him have
peek at the final tax tables
the night before their transmits
sion to Congress.
The other day Rep. Bob Dough-
ton, of North Carolina, was lunch
ing with tired, nervous Morgen-
thau at the famous table covered
with silver plaques where the AL
lied governments signed their debt
funting agreements after the last
war. AS chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee, Doughton
Is the key Congressman on taxes.
He remarked to the Secretary OF
the Treasury:
I'm so glad that Fred Vim.
son Is going to help us out with
the tax bill, Mr.. Secretary. He
used to be chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee and
he speaks our language"
Morgenthau bristled.
"Vlns0n n not handling the
tax BILL" he cOuntered. "As long
as I'm Secretary of the Treas
ury, we're fully capable Of hand
ling that"
After luncheon, Morgenthau
courteously offered Representative
Doughton his car and chauffeur
to take him back to the Capitol
and Doughton asked the chauf-
feur to 90 around to the Federal
Reserve building, where he stopped
to call on his old colleague Judge
Vinson.
~ didn't lend you my car to
drive round there" complained
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Doughton, who will DO 30 years
years old In three weeks, listened.
After he hung up, he remarked:
II don't know whether can
get along with Henry, he's get
ting so childish In his old age"
ICKES' TIRE
Harold Ickes and the OPA were
never good friends until the
Ickes tractor blew tire.
At Headwaters Farm, Olney,
Maryland, harvesting had begun.
Just at the height OF operations,
the tractor blew o tire. Ickes
learned to his dtsmay that the
nearest source Of a new tire OF
that size was Akron, Ohio. He
filled out his application, and
wondered how many days OF good
harvesting weather he would lose,
and whether frost would come
before the tire.
Then his farm manager learned
that OPA no longer requires ra-
ton certificates for used tractor
tires. A used tire could be had
Immediately, from Washington, Is
miles away.
Mr.. Ickes scratched his head,
said to his manager, swell, the
OPA makes sense after ALI"
u. s. AND BRITISH OIL
It hasn't leaked out yet, but
there Is another significant side
to the story of British failure to
use Persian oil for Allied war
operations.
The flying senators reported
that with American oil reserves
being drained, the British were
not using tocapacity heir oil
around the Persian Gulf. This is
absolutely true. However, it also
is a fact that Judge Vinson and
Byrnes, the white House STABILIZE
ers, had been talking to the
British on this point and found
the British ready to cooperate.
The British, it is true, did
not take the initiative in offer
ing their oil, as they might well
have done. But much less en-
thusiastic were the American
oil companies.
This probably will be denied,
but it became suspiciously appar-
ent to the White House advisers
thaht the big U. S. oil companies
would Just as soon continue sup
plying the oil themselves instead
of having the British open up
more production around the Gulf
of Persia.
Reason for this, Il was sus.