The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07

patents, and cited the need for revising the whole patent system. Following this, Wallace appoint ed two old-line patent defenders, Charles F. Ketterirg of General Motors and Dr. Vannevar Bush, to sit on the Patent Committee.
 This was interesting enough.
 But, on top of it all, Houston
 Kenyon, defender of the Stand
 ard Oil-I. G. Farben cartel
 patents, is actually writing the
 first draft of the report for the
 Wallace Committee and doing
 the main spade-work for its
 members.
 It was originally expected that Attorney General Riddle, the other Cabinet member delegates to act with Wallace, would serve as a break on the big business patent boys. But present dope is that the patent report will be held up until after July l, when MT. Riddle will be out of the Cabl- net.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 After Ambassador Pat Hurley had a sWank Cadillac car dis mantled and flown in two planes from India to Chungking, he isn't using it. At first an Army ser geant drove it. That was all right. But later, when Chinese chauf- feur took over, something went wrong and Hurley recently wired the State Department that he has no transportation Previous Ambassadors have used Ford or a ricksha Directors of the Associated Press were invited to dine with the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie Mccormick in honor of AP Chief Kent Cooper. When they arrived at the dinner they were startled to find that the iso- lationist publisher had also invit- ed a prize array of fellow isola- ton guests, including: Charles A. Lindbergh, ex-Congressman Ham, nton Fish, Eddie Rickenbacker and Frank Gannett.
 CONTINUED CENSORSHIP
 With the European war over, everyone expected press censor ship to ease up. In some re- spectS, however, especially in the Pacific, it is getting tougher
 Not only are newspapers bar red from even Speculating re- garding certain international phases of the Pacific war, but the Navy for some weird reason hushed up the bombing of the airplane carried Franklin from April 26, when she got to New York, to May IT, when the disaster finally was announced. There were obvious reasons for keep ing the news quiet while the ship was en route through the Panama Canal. But once it pass ed the Canal and was safely tied up in New York, all danger was past. However, the Navy invoked censorship.
 Again, if Senator Langer of
 North Dakota had had his way.
 the lives of five children and
 one woman who climbed a tree
 to examine Jap balloon in
 Oregon would have been saved.
 Last January, Langer urged the
 Secretary of War to let the
 public know these balloons were
 coming over and quietly warn
 people to keep away from them.
 But the Army refused until
 finally rumOr became so rife
 that it reluctantly yielded.
 SUGAR REGULATIONS
 The War Food Administration is preparing new allocation of sugar which will pare down Army requirements. Also it will reduce the Foreign Economic Adminis- tration'S shipments to Europe. Europe was originally supposed to get about 100000 tons this year; but the rate has been cut to 946,000 tons and War Food is now preparing to trim it further to little more than 100000 tons.
 OverdraWlng by the Army will also be ruled out. First and sec- ond quarter allotments for the Army were 106,500 tons, but the Army actually took 120,000 tons the first quarter and 134,000 tons in the second. Officials say this is typical Army practice . failing to stockpile when food l. plentiful, and demanding more,