The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-10

Secretary of State Cordell Hull was taking 8 vacation which, in a way, was the most sensible activity of all.
 Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. was getting ready to launch his Fifth War Loan Drive to buy more than you did before.
 Secretary of the Navy James For restal had a regular Tuesday press conference but emphasized that this was the Army's day and the Navy had no desire to steal the show.
 Secretary of War Henry L. Stim- son exercised commendable restraint by staying home in bed and not dashing out to the Pentagon build ing at 2 a. m. General Marshall had the situation in hand.
 MIR. SECRETARY ICKES
 SPEAKS AND CONFERS
 Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes had been in New York the night before, making a speech in which he said among other things that sending armies to Rome, Ber- lin and Tokyo would do no good and that this country would make cer- tain its own defeat-unless religious and race hatred were wiped out. Arriving in Washington around noon, MT. Ickes came to his own office, then went to Capitol Hill to confer.
 Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard was out of town. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones made few extemporaneous remarks and then crawled back into his usual seclusion.
 Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones was doing business at the us- ual two stands, with a calendar full of appointments, seeing lot of peo- pie on routine affairs.
 Secretary of Labor Frances Per kins worked on her budget in the morning and had some Tnternation- al Labor Office people in for lunch.
 War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson hurried back to Washington from Detroit by plane, canceling what he had intended to be some important conference there. But the War Production Boards regular Tuesday meeting had been called off, too, and there wasn't much for MT. Nelson to do. He has been planning to go to Mexico to give the Mexican government a postwar plan, although nobody in Washington has been able to find out very definitely what the U. s. postwar plan is, If any.
 WLB GRINDS ON AS USUAL
 War Labor Board Chairman Will liam H. Davis is in Hawaii to ad- wise the Army on what to do about the labor situation there. In his ab- sence, the Board was in session, grinding away as usual.
 War Manpower Commission Chair. man Paul V. McNutt put out a carl- ned statement in the morning, tell. ing everybody else to keep on work ing to deliver the goods to the boys over there. Then he went on work. ing himself, at whatever 1t is that a war manpower commissioner does.
 OP Otl SdJIVO1 1aAAAt 0SWSA ANSAJ drew a poor house and had to walk out on his own feet. Missouri Sen- ator Bennetet Champ Clark intro- duced a couple of amendments on flood control, and somebody else wanted to amend something called the Price Control Act, which 1t seems will expire on June 30. Both houses of Congress, in addition to praying, seemed to want to settle a controversy of some kind about a couple of fellows named Kimmel and Short, who had something to do with a place called Pearl Harbor.
 At the Presidents White House conference, Fala the Scottie wan. dered about among the strange legs of 200 or more rerorters, wondering, no doubt, what t'@y were all doing there, but he didn't bite any of them and they didn't bite him. That would have been news.