The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-19

The fact is, however, that the other day a friend of his sound- ed out the White House regarding the question of President Roose- welt running for a fourth term.
 Iowa Democrats have long been urging Gillette to run for re- election, yet he has steadfastly hung back. The Senator is by all odds the most popular Demo- crat in Iowa and the only one who has chance Of going back to the Senate.
 So when Iowa Democrats ap- peared recently in Washington for the Nationla Committee meeting, State Committee Chairman Jake More urged, cajoled and demanded that Gillette run. Finally, Gillette consented. But he attached one big condition-if President RooSe- . welt also ran for reelection.
 This brought smiles from some of his friends, who remembered how the President had opposed Gillette in the purge" primaries of 1888. However, Gillette ap- parently meant it and Jake More carried the message to the White House. There the matter stopped. :. The President, as usual, main- tained his sphinx-like silence.
 Jake More then went back to Iowa and, the other day, tele- graphed the White House that the Iowa Democratic leaders had voted unanimously for a fourth term When More's telegram was shown the President, his only comment was:
 "Oh yes, I remember meeting him here at the National Com. mittee meeteing, charming fel- low"
 NOTE: The Presidents close friends do not expect him to say anything one way or the othCc about a fourth term until afsr the Republican National Conven- tion.
 NAVY WASTE REMEDIED
 Recently, this column reported in detail regarding waste at the U. s. Naval Air Station at Lake hurst, N. J. Since then, we are happy to report, drastic steps have been taken to remedy some of the extravagance.
 Instead of giving away dozens of tins of canned milk and a hundred pounds of sugar each
 night after the return of blimps from cruise, the Navy now re- turn this food to the galley. Previously sugar and canned milk unused after each blimp's flight were given or thrown away.
 While checking this, Naval of ficials also found that the galley had been charging blimps for nearly two-third more food than they received. In other words, two-thirdS of the rood leaving the galley for the blimps got Host" before 1t reached the blimps.
 One healthy Lakehurst re- action to this columns expose came from the enlisetd men. They had all been sore about the waste of feCj, man-hours and other ma serials, but couldn't do much about it until their officers led the way. WIPES RAYON WOES
 A hot row has been Smouldering inside the War Production Board over high-tenacity rayor, which Rubber Director Bradley Dewey says is holding up production of synthetic tires.
 The ray0n being produced un- der the WIPE program is in-
 adequate both in quality and quantity. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. complains 1t is not even usable and is rejecting much of it for subsequent use in ladies' handbags.
 Leading a crusade against the WIPES faltering rayon program is g Czech-born U. s. citizen named Oscar Reborn, the man who first brought rayon to America. It was Reborn who taught the German I. G. Garben company to make rayon 20 years ago. and he has also set up rayon plants all over the world.
 As of iaSt week, Reborn has made the trip from New York to Washington 90 times, trIing to give WIPES high-tenacity rayon branch the benefit of his experi- ence. However, most of the $1- a-year men inside WIPES rayon di- vision come from the rayo minds try, and it is charged by some that they GO not want new pro- cesses or new companies to take the war-boom bussress which they have allocated to their own com paujes.
 Government rayon contracts cad fok the production at the rate oe