The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-18

lie said the leaders of France should stay and suffer with their people; also that the men who would lead France after the war would be those who suffered prI- vation in France during the war.
 A lot Of people are not at all happy about having French col laborationist French Laval brought to trial. He has strong box in a Madrid bank containing correspondence with various peo- pie including the British, which won't look good if made public in court Marshal Petaln is in the same boat. He even has a signed treaty with Churchill . Some day the real reason why Nussolini was shot instead of oe- ing brought to trial will leak out. He also had some papers. If Hermann Goering really goes to trial, the true story of the mysterious Rudolph Hess flight to Scotland finally will be told. Some people are not too anxious to have Goering stand trial pub licly.
 NEW JERSEY JUSTICE
 New Jerseys Attorney General Van Riper, though let off by one jury faces a charge of check kit ing, plus another on income tax invasion . When Chief Justice Stone of the Supreme Court was U. s. attorney general under Coolidge he fired Van Riper from the Justice Department, but San- ator Walter Edge did his best to have him reinstated. Today Edge, now governor of New Jersey, is still trying to protect Van Riper. .. The parole board is split tWo- to-one against letting Louisiana eX-Governor Dick Leche out of jail. The one member who wants to let him out is T. WeSOer VII son from the neighborlng state of Mississippi. But Edward Re:dy and Arthur Wood are opposed.
 Jonathan Daniels, retiring White House press chief, was offered by Truman he job of rural cleo trlfication administrator. He turned it down to go with the MacMillan Publishing company. If General William o. Dwyer doesn't run for mayor of New York. Warner Brothers have offered him a top spot in their company. Liberty Correspon- dent Burnet Hershey, returning from the war zone, reports tha various Allied groups already have begun grabbing for the huge Ger man gold cache U. s. troops found in a salt mine. The gold bars are not stamped with the name of any country, and Hol- land has pointed out that part of her gold reserve was sntiched by the NaZiS.
 BARNEY BARUCH'S DREAM
 Barney Baruch has laid before President Truman an up-in-the- clouds proposal to reduce the cab:- net to the State, War, Navy and Treasury Departments, plus three Otlltl IJOoIS lIOI lIOW Oi IaO4iiCO oVo- tus-Office of War Mobilizer, Foreign Economic Administrator and Barney Baruch, himself. Bar ney is a little vague about what his job should be, but he is not vague about the fact that he wants a job n the cabinet .. President Truman listened to Baruch with outward cordiality, pretended he would think it over,
 Democratic Chairman Hannegan has decided not to go to the Philippines on the junket with Senator Tydings. (There aren't any votes in the Philippines.) -. '. Filipino leaders complain that when they go to see Tydings, chairman of the Insular Affairs Committee, he snaps at them: Talk fast talk fast Far sighted General Fred Osborn, chief oi the Army's special services di- vision is completing arrangements for opening a university in Paris where American soldiers can study until they are shipped home
 Although Portugal broke off rela- tions with Germany just before V-E day, she refused to cooper ate with the Allies on the day following her break when the U. $. State Department asked PoTtu- gal to "block all German and other