The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-12

He also issued an order that no relief goods were to be bought from Spain So now the Bri- tish Army is buying the 100000 blankets from Franco and giving them to UNRRA as it's contribu- ton. Furthermore, the U. s. Army is purchasing an addition al million blankets for its own use .. Final payoff is that the State Department has OK'd the deal The diplomatic grape vine for weeks has warned that one of Moscow's chief gripes about the State Department was not so much Poland, but close U. s. col- Liberation with Franco. The So- viets can't seem to forget that Franco enlisted the Blue Legion to fighting againstt hem, even if the State Department can.
 SMALL OIL
 COMPANIES SUFFER
 Like a breath of fresh air was the way Government officials de- scribed Judge Vinson's brief tour of duty as Federal Loan Admin. istrator. However, some of them are wondering why he per- mitted his Defense Supplies Cor poration to get away with a squeeze play against small, inde- pendent oil companies All oil shipped East gets the benefit of a U. s. Governemnt subsidy called "C0mpensatory Rate. This amounts to 1.52 cents ($0.0l5c, per gallon and compensates for the rail haul, which is more ex- pensive than the water route .. But Vinson's Defense Supplies Corporation removed the compen- satory rate from small oil com panies shipping natural gasoline to the East Coast. These companies had shipped it East, where deal CTS blended the natural gasoline with naptha and made Al gaso- line Removal of the c0mpen- satOry subsidy automat tically puts these small companies out of business when it comes to natural gasoline. Only thing they can do is sell it to the big companies in Oklahoma and Texas, who mix it themselves with naptha and then ship it to the East Coast. But the big companies are paid the shipping subsidy - provided they mix it before they ship. It's all matter of having the mixing facilities in the Southwest, not the East. Looks like a put-up game for the big boys who have those facilities.
 TORCH SINGER" STETTlNIUS
 Handsome Secretary of State Ed Stettinius spent several days in New York rehearsing for the State Department movie on Dum- barton Oaks. But despite re- hearsals. movie-goers get chuckle out of the way Ed rolls his eyes. Reason is he didn't learn all his lines, had to look at a blackboard just over the movie camera in order to read them. This makes his eyes roll away from the lens as if he were a torch-singer. Otherwise it's an Al picture Philippine President Osmena un- derwent successful operation in Jacksonville, Fla, recently, is now resting at Ponte Vedra <. The State and Interior Departments both have their eyes on the Philippines. States budget car- ries a salary for a High Com missioner. If there is immediate independence, there will be an Ambassador; if not there will be a Commissioner Sir Gerald Campbell, British under Lord Halifax. is leaving the British em- basSy soon e. Walter Lippman, storming out of the movie "To- morrow the World" remarked "It's an outrage to make saps of the American people as this pie ture does" Best speaker at the Hugo Black testimonial din- ner was Mrs. Roosevelt. Newt best was toastmaster Alben Bark ley. Bemoaning the fact that fighting liberal senators were eleyater to the Courts, Major ity Leader Barkley said: "I have lost se many SenatorB e the courts that you can see by any recent roll call that I myself feel l lOst"~ Among the New Deal