The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-20
By DregC Pearson

rtverscd by Truman.
 No President can afford 10 make many major unisiakcs-esen though hc N green % the game. Naturally every President has Co rely on othcfs Tor advice bot when an adviser gets him Into constant ho; vater-lo say nothing oi ihe naiio'-thai ad-
 mn l shat Hannogan and other Truman Ao- rlsefs have been tcliinR thk President % constantly that be h tired oi the subject Privately inc Prot- cent fcrls that SnyccT fraizcs be has been iAAuft and that In due tiinc ne Wlil bow out.
 Noie-u Nas reported that snydrr vas gotpg back io hss Fsra National Bank In st Lotus around Jan .. but nov word comes From B. Lotus tnat uc c.recioz may mol relish his return.
 Dsun In Lsul,lAaa. which likes is politics raw. rcd and juicy. poltlooos have been watching a T'rcasury-Jllsiios Department investigation Of the ircome-sax case against William Burton, big-shot oil man. who tgice tried for tex evasion and twice had a hung jury.
 Nov. Treasury agents think they have uncoy- cred evidences of luEy bTibing In following up their clues they discovered that one oi ihc Jurors beniy Coleman had a Safe-dcposit box in conjunction with Joe Astoria head steward oi the Roosevelt Hotel The box contained sisooo. some oi which vas put in the box at about the time oi ihc Burton trial
 Questioned as Co where he got 10 much monel, Joe Astoria said it came from kckbacks from New Orleans groccrs and fish-dealers who paic nm on the side for purchases he made from them for the Roosevelt Hotel
 Told about this. Seymour Weiss. owner Of the hotel remarked: -,
 That was foolish Of Joe to say that. They'll check up on him and find out it wasn't true.
 However agents did check and found that 1t was true And now. Seymour Weiss. owner Of the hotel has suspended" his chief steward
 Note-It is suspected that lot Of politics S mixed up in the Burton jury probe. Certain anti Roosevelt newspaper interests are reported anxious to put certain pro-Roosevelt radio interests out of business.
 One reason for the exit of Prof. Rexford Guy Tugwell as governor of Puerto Rico is good oiieT from the University of Chicago to become head oi its new planning department. In addition, TugweA was on the outs with Luis Munoz-Marin. the pig Puerto Rican boss Another Roosevelt braln- tr1lster who may join academic ranks IS Archibald MacLeish now being urged to become Presloent ol VaSsar College. Capitol reporters were oiscuss- ing the functions of young Representative CharIeS Haeck of Indiana chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Charlie does an excellent job of passing the hat in campaign years declared newsman Dan Kidney fellow Hooser He knows where all the furbearing aristocrats are located"
 The Senate has been holding rash of exciting nouiries in the last few days-Pear Harbor, Hurley and the atomic bomb
 One venerable Senator who enjoys the excite ment is Raode Islands spry Democratic Theodore Francis Green who conscientously tries to take in everything Green stopped in the hall recently and asked why he was hurryng.
 This is a three-ring circus" replied the Rhode Island Senator, and I'm trying to watch all the rings at the same time"