The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

him if he had discussed horse-rac- ing with the President. The Governor said he had not. hung up the telephone and turned to a friend. Lord, what a story the reporters could have made out of that the Governors of Maryland and Rhode Island, two of the hottest horse-racing states, closeted with the President as VIE Day gets close. You know, didn't even think of horse racing, and I'll bet O'COnor didn't either.' ODWYER'S FOOD
 War Refugee Board Director General William O'Dwyer won't admit it, but he plans to resign soon and devote his full time to getting elected Mayor of New York.
 ODwyer has done bang-up job as head of the War Refugee Board, has even achieved what some people consider "the im- possible" in getting the stufty State Departments to rush aid to starving refugees.
 Early last February, ODwy-
 CT found the Government had
 more than 1000 tons of food
 in Sweden lying idle, while
 refugees died. O'Dwyer figured
 as a result of his studies of Maxi
 psychology that in the last days
 of Hitlerism, the Germans would
 not go in for externiination by
 shooting, would accomplish the
 same end by mass starvation.
 To help head this off, ODwyer went to Secretary Morgenthau, Acting Secretary of State Grew and Secretary of War Stimsou. who advised him to go to Swift zeriand, talk to the International Red Cross there. O'Dwyer did not tell them so, but he turned thumbs down on this idea, realizing that once he left Washington he would be at the mercy of the State Department. Instead he went to see Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace. Wallace took ODwyer to see his brother-in-law, the Swiss Minister in Washington, who in turn arranged by cable with Switzerland to furnish the trucks to carry food relief into Germany.
 Next ODwyer put the heat on General Eisenhower's headquar- ters to give him an allotment Of 2,000 gallons of gas a week, to- gether with the necessary tires. All this he turned over to the International Red Cross which began a shuttle trucking service to take care of refugees. O'Dwyer gave orderst hat all reufgees re- gardless of race or creed were to be fed.
 And though many starved in Nazi prison camps. the death toI would have been higher without fortnight Bill O'Dwyer.
 CONGRESSMEN'S FRANKS
 A lot of people are watching to see whether the Justice Depart ment will crack down on an un. usual case involving misuse Of the franking privilege. In this case, however, the Congressmen and Senator whose franks were used are not to blame. The culprit,, Post Office inspectors clai.n, s Mrs. Agnes Waters, Washington representative of the National Blue Star Mothers of Pennsyl- vania.
 Mrs. Waters has mailed official Army casualty lists to members .. her organization, asking that they write to bereaved mothers and wives thanking them for Contri. outing their sons and husbands 10 THE JEWISH WAR"
 The postal violation came in the use of government franks to nal these lists. Mrs. Waters obtaine! the franked envelopes from thc offices of Representatives Percy Priest of Tennessee, Joseph Mails field of Texas and Charles Gif- ford of Massachusetts, and Sena- tor Richard Russel of Georgia. The Congressmen did not know the envelopes were incircuiat;on but their secretaries o1v:ousiy were careless in letting some of them out. For each violation, Mrs. Waters is liable to a $500 fine How many other franks she iAs used is not definitely known, but postal inspectors are believed to