The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02


 Reason is that he won't come back and run for the Senate seat of retiring Senator Homer Bone, soon to become circuit judge. Republicans think that the live wire president of the U. s. Cham Der might help to lift up the entire COP ticket and give them a chance to win. But he won't come.
 They attribute this to the al- most-forgotten fact that John ston did run for the Senate in the Republican primaries in l940 and was showed under. He was beaten by Republican Steve Chad wick, former American Legion commander, who got l37,000 votes against Fries 10000. Then, in the final election, Chadwick was beat en by Democrat Mon Wallgren, now in the Senate.
 Democratic candidate for
 Bones place will be go getting
 young Rep. Warren MagnusOn
 of Seattle, who will be hard to
 beat. If Johnston should run
 against him and lose, his na- tiOnal prestige might go down
 the drain. Also, friends urge
 that he is doing an Al job for
 the U. S. Chamber.
 Senator Mon Wallgren, who now will run for governor, wants to leave the Senate for the same reason many others have-name- ly, the difficulty of living on a Senator's $10,000 when you have to keep a home in two places, and when everything else has gone up.
 Wallgren, one of the best-liked men in the Senate, runs a jew elry store in Everett, Wash, but seldom gets home to take care of it. He first jumped into prom thence when he won the three cushioned billiard championship in Washington.
 HUEY P. LONG BRIDGE
 American doughboys were com ing up to the front in Italy. It was tough going. An artillery bar rage was hitting all around them and no one was too happy.
 Suddenly, according to Sergeant A. A. Edgecombe of New Orleans, the company came to a bridge constructed a few hours before by U. s. engineers. On it was a freshly painted sign. It read:
 ''Huey P. Long Bridge"
 There were a lot of Louisiana boys in the company who knew of bridges Huey built all over Louisiana during his reign as Kingfish. They got a big laugh and felt better after that
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 The Democratic National Con- mittee is considering a reply to the COP campaign circular which features picture of Sewell Avery being carried out of Montgomery Ward by soldiers, and alongside it picture of a Berlin push-cart peddler being carried off by Storm Troopers .. The Democratic re- ply will be a picture of Sewell Avery being carried off by sol- diers. and alongside it a picture of the defenseless Bonus Army being run out of Washington at the point of bayonets by Hoover and MacArthur Every day the State Department condenses foreign news developments for its officials both at home and abroad. It is one of the fairest and most dispassionate news summaries in Washington The Navy is starting a school of government, similar to the Army's at Char lottesville, Va, to train men to govern occupied territories. Some Navy men are wisecracking that they don't need to train gover- nors of occupation because the British take over all Pacific pos- sessions as soon as We capture them. (The Solomons and New Guinea were largely British be- lo1c tIlS war Ou MATCH 10, Senator McKellar told the Sem ate that George Norris of Me- braska. father of IVA, had fay- ored A. E. Morgan as head of IVA, instead Of David Lilienthal. Sen. ator Lister Hill of Alabama cor- rected him and. later, March 22, McKellar corrected himself, strengthening the matetr out in the Congressional Record. But on May 20. apparently forgetting his own correction. McKellar repeated once again that Senator Norris had opposed Lilienthal.
 At the Governors conference, at Hershey. Pa. Ralph c. Hutch inson. director of Pennsylvanias