The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-27

honeymoon dlrpldLe Crlp U
 General Giles is commander of American operations in the Near East, with headquarters at Cairo, Egypt. His office there is run by beautiful, Joan Crawford-lsh WAC Warrant Officer Jean Lutz, who not long ago married an Army captain. For their honey moon they were planning to go to Palestine, the mecca of most American Army personnel when they want a rest from Cairo. You can get there on a desert ail- road which bellies his name, but gets there in the end.
 Gen. Giles, however, stepped in with cOunter-SuggestiOn. He proposed that his secretary and
 her new captain-husband fly
 to Rome and Paris. So he ar- ranged it. The happy couple
 first to Rome, then to Paris, then back to Cairo. Whether
 they had 8 special plane is not definitely known, but the same crew was with them through
 out. A good time was had by
 all, except that a lot of G. L JOes, who had to stick in Cairo,
 were plenty burned up-and
 not from the hot sands of the
 Sahara.
 Later, General Giles himself flew to Paris to spend Christmas. But, of course, that was on very official business.
 WALLACE IS TEMPTED
 In the middle of the Senate fight over ex-Vice President Wal lace for Secretary of Commerce, Henry was taken up on the noun tain. Democratic advisers told him that if he would appoint Ed Pauley, treasurer of the Demo- cratic National Committee, as his Federal Loan Administrator, he would be confirmed both as Sec retary of Commerce and in charge of the far-flung loan agencies, Pauley had raised large amounts of money during the recent cam paign, had helped large number of senators get elected. His in- fluence in the Senate is not to be sneeZed at.
 The proposition was put up to Henry, and Democratic Chair man Bob Hannegan waited to learn the outcome.
 But Henry looked down from the mountain and did not accept the deal. He decided that if he could not be confirmed on his own merits he would not buy con- firmation through Democratic pa tronage. Actually, he is more likely to appoint a leading Re- publican businessman as Federal Loan Administrator if he is con- firmed.
 JESSE JONES' POWER
 The manner ill which Jesse Jones has controlled banks, rail- roads and even newspapers by making loans and appointing di- rectors in key places long has been well-knoWn on Capitol Hill.
 However, one glaring example occurred few hours after Jesse was busted from his joint job as
 Secretary of Commerce and
 Federal Loan Administrator. Down in Tennessee, the Nash
 vile Tennessean appeared on the streets Sunday night with an editorial in it's bulldog edi-
 tiOn praising Henry Wallace as Jesse Jones' successor.
 Then suddenly the editorial was pulled out of the paper. Later editions of the TenneSSean car ried no praise for Henry Wal lace.
 Two days later, however, the TenneSSean suddenly came out with an editorial in exactly the opposite vein. Bitterly, 1t cri' ticized President Roosevelt for losing the excellent services of Jesse Jones and replacing him with Henry Wallace.
 What most people outside the publishing world did not realize was that Silliman Evans, pub fisher of the Tennessean. secured control of that paper through Jesse Jones.
 Evans had been a neWspaperman and ghost writer for Jesse, and when the REC made substantial loan to the shaky Maryland Casu- alty company, Jones rewarded Evans by making him head of that company though he knew nothing about insurance.
 Later, the REC bailed out a New Orleans Bank in which the Nash vile Tennessean had deposited certain assets as collateral on 8 loan. Thereupon, Jones took over these assets, despite the fact that James Hammond of the Memphis Commercial Appeal made bid for them. And with the cooperation of antoher Nash vile bank, Jesse proceeded to set his old friend Silliman Evans up in bushes as publisher of The Nashville TenneSsean.
 That Is the inside story on
 why the editorial favOring
 Henry Wallace suddenly was
 yanked out of the Nashville
 Tennessean.
 FBI BUDGET CUT
 Despite the fact that more than one thousand German war prison CTS have escaped at various times in this country, and despite the recent entry of two Nazi sabo- teurs, the Bureau of the Budget has just made a baSkstage demand that J. Edgar Hoover's efficient FBI cut it's appropriation Dy $10,00O,00.
 Hoover had already suggested
 voluntary cuts which would
 save the taxpayer considerable
 money. But the additional
 sIashes proposed by the Budget
 Bureau would mean the firing
 on June 30 of 400 G-Men and
 200 clerks who keep fingerprint
 and crime records.
 Meanwhile there iS considerable