The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-28

Y h offlclM name of the Senate body chairman ned by Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island is "The Special Com. lnittee to Investigate Presidential, Vice Presidential and Senatorial Campaign Expenditures, loA4." Yat when Q reporter asked Senator Green what his investigation of the Navy.Teatnsters' brawl after the PreSidents speech ct Hotel statier tn Washington had to do with cam. paign expenditures. the Senator exc platned that his committees funo- uon was much broader-to investi. gate everything that had anything to do with the election and to make recommendations for legislation to correct campaign abuses, Are you," asked a reporter, going to reeoln- mend legislation to make the Navy stop fighting the Teamstersp" That broke up the press conference.
 WHERE THERE'S A THIRST
 THERE'S A WAY
 A repatriated prisoner of war re- turned recently from Germany tells how 0n ingenious group of Ameri. cans in one of tho camps was able to dlStill few shots of passable liquor from supplies in 6 relief car. ton Taking the figs and dates, they added water and made them Into Q mash which was allowed to ferment, When ready for dlStillation, they put the mash on the fire in 0 small- mouthed con, and over the can they held the big end of Q bugle. The vapors circulated the coll Of the bugle, cooled, and out of the spit trap came few drops of an ace eertahle fig-date brandy,
 Melvin Purvis, the former o.man who played such Q big part in the capture and shooting of John Dil. finger outside Q Chicago movie house, is now major in tho Provost Marshal Generals office, stationed In Washington, Much to Purvls's surprise, he picked up c paper one dc" to read Q Hollywood dispatch saying that his son, George, had been signed to play the role of his father in Q movie, on the life of Dll- finger, As the two Purvis sons aren't yet 10, that was going Q bit far. Fact Is that Hollywood has been trying Go get Major Purvis himself to play the role he played in real life, but he won't have any part Of It.
 BECK SAYS HE DIDN'T
 Dave Beck of Seattle, v!cO.presl. dent of the TeamsteFs' Union, de- nles the story printed in this column several days ago to the effect that he got top air travel priorlties for Q West Coast editor brought on to Washington to attend tho Presi- dents speech before the Teamsters' banquet, The story was written just aS told by the editor, but Beck says Mr. Editor was mistaken, it isn't 30 aud it hos lone him Q lot of harm. All Beck did, he says, was walk Into on airline office when his guest bought c ticket, Otherwise, he tFav- eled without priority on transpoEta. ten obtained Q week before.
 When Governor Dewey in his St. LeuiS speech referred to aEi alpha- betieal agency by the name of ACP- SAIaMWA, he wasn't just making it up, Tho full iiAmO is the American Commission for the Preservation and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, It used to Do called the ACPSAfiMIE-- meaning lin Eufope"-but its scope has been broadened.
 That isn't the only Little Dandy Alphabetical Agency the Governor might have mentioned among the more than 420 officially listed by the Bureau of the Budget. There ls, for instance, the ICCCSAPFE. The Interdepartmental Committee to Consider Gases of Subversive ActlVi- ties on the Part of Federal Em- ployeS. Dewey probably wouldn't uaT nj tA ahoiinh that nnA