The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16


 Now, six months late, his ideas are carried out. Grandson of Vice President Adlai Stevenson of the second Grover Cleveland Adminis- tration, Adlai was FDR,s choice to be the new Undersecretary of the Navy, but Forrestal said no.
 UNION JACK-British limies deserve good share of the credit for the blasting of Hitler's Allan tic Wall before the Allies waded ashore. The British Navy has the chief command in Channel waters, steamed in close and demolished Nazi pillboxes, forts and every thing else within 12 miles of the shore. It was the job which Navy guns should have done on the bloody island of Tarawa. We learned our lesson there-namely, that air bombing can't do every thing. U. s. warships also did good job alon gthe Channel, ex- cept that Admiral Alan Kirk, either because he got his signals mixed or because the weather was bad, failed to blast one Nazi beach. That was where U. s. troops got caught in murderous croSs-fire and were slaughtered.
 HOLLYWOOD AMBASSADOR
 Eric Johnston, who has been telling it to the Soviets as U. s. Chamber of Commerce ambassa- dor, has new job virtually cinched when he comes home: HollyWoods ambassador to Wash ington. The movie industry long has wanted an outstanding figure to represent 1t in the capital, and the IAoguls have decided on John ston except for Warner Brothers. They don't seem so sure that fortnight Eric is the man.
 GOOD NEWS - The Pacific fighting is ahead of schedule. That is why lights have been burning late in the TEAS Office of Economic Warfare recently. The war chiefs suddenly decided they needed certain information regard ing the location of buildings in side Japan and called on Economic Warfare to produce it in a hurry. This means that attacks on Tokyo, Osaki, Yokohama and Kobe prob- ably means that the win-quick school of strategists in the Army and Navy have won out. They have favored by-passing lot of Pacific islands, aIso the jungles of Burma, instead of wasting men and munitions in a seven-year war.
 BARUCH SINNERS - Bernie Baruch, the charming sage of postwar conversion, talked about going on the radio last week to an- swer critics who said his post war plans had left out labor. But big news broke across the Chan nel, and Bernie decided there was no use competing with the invasion. Bernie is representative about any criticism of his post war plans and may explode soon. Among his friendly critics, how ever, in his recent guest of Hob- cav Barony, S. c. That friendly critic, now moved back to the White House, leans toward Sena- tor Kilgore's bill on postwar con- version as providing more than crate of apples for the veterans.
 UNHAPPY CHANDLER - Sen- ator Happy" Chandler, Ken tucky's gift to outdoor swimming pools, has been growing in his beard lately "Alben Barkley", moans Happy, "is the weakest floor leader in years The trouble is that we don't have more leaders in the Senate like me .. Personally, I don't care whether Roosevelt wins or not If Mark Ethridge Louisville Courier Journal publisher) should be Democratic keynoter, I'd walk out" .. The unhappy Senator recently asked Smith Hays, county attor- ney for Clark county, to start Chandler-for- vice-preSident move. Replied Hays: 'It'l be all I can do to keep lem from passing a resolution denOuncing you.
 REPUBLICAN GOSSIP: COP keynoter Warren hasn't consulted