The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-29

know what a committee is, don't you?
 MT. Jones: Yes. We had a com mittee.
 Senator Brewster: You had 8 committee. And how was that composed? What was it composed of?
 MT. Jones: l say we had com- mittee. We had a great many people working on it.
 Senator Brewster: I am seek ing to find out whether or not you undertook to constitute any kind of committee to advise you on this program.
 MT. Jones: We got all the ad- vice we could get from every source.
 Senator Brewster: Well, think then, we will conclude that you did not constitute q committee. Is that correC: conclusion?
 Mir. Jones: That is your an- sWer. It isn't mine.
 NOTE: Last week, Sen. Brew ster leaned back and smiled be- highly as Jesse Jones appeared before the Commerce Committee. No embarrassing questions were asked about the subject which still has the American public unable to get tires.
 WILLKIE WINS
 AT INDIANAPOLIS
 Sometimes a man who has fought all his life for certain goals and been defeated finally wins them in death. Many of the Republi- cans who attended the COP Na- tional Committee meeting in h. dianapoliS felt this about Wen dell Willkie. What went on there in the closed-door sessions, they considered a,victory for him.
 Two years ago, Willkie Lost out at the 1942 National Com mittee meeting when the Chi cagO Tribune isOlatiOnists elect ed Harrison Spangler of Iowa. But this time, Willkie's old friends were stronger in death, and won out in some signifi- cant backstage maneuvering.
 Leader of the anti-iSolationtst group was Willkie's eX-campaign manager, shrewd Ralp Cake of Oregon. Cake and Fred Baker of Washington discovered that the isolatinoists planned to put Ill their own secretary of the Ma tional Committee. So they moved in with their own candidate, Mrs: Dudley F. Hay. Thereupon E. F. Colladay, national committeeman from the District of Columbia went to Oregon's Baker, asked him to withdraw Mrs. Hays nomination in the interests of party harmony" He tried to pro- pose Mrs. Cooper B. Rhodes of Washington, D. C., instead.
 "I seem to remember a simi- lar proposition two years ago." replied Baker, smilingly, "1 won't go for 1t again." Result was Baker, Cake and the Will kie forces won iIandS down. BROWNELL UNDER FIRE
 Although Chairman Herbert Brownell was finally reelected unanimously, there was more op- position than expected. However, the anti-Brownell forces couldn't unite on a substitute, so decided to stick with the man they al- ready had.
 Former U. s. Senator Arthur E. Nelson of Minnesota, a strong StaSsen packer, was the first to blast Brownell.
 We can't function under a man with Wall Street cOnnec- tons who Is really In there to promote his own candidate for the Presidency" Nelson said. "BrOwnell represents defeated candidate. All his actions will be i'm behalf of Dewey"
 Nelson then went on to sug- gest the selection Of a Mid- westerner as national chairman a Minwesterner from state with no favorite son to promote.
 At this, c. Mason Owlette oi Pennsylvania jumped to his feet, quipped:
 "The only man who would fit that description k Charlie Me- Carthy's dummy, Mortimer Snerd."
 One bit of strategy planned at the last minute by COP blgwigs failed to come off. Brownell de- cided to have Congressman Char lie Halleck of Indiana, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, sound oif during an afternoon session. with newspapermen present. against President Roosevelt's nomination of Henry Wallace as Secretary Of Commerce. This plan inadver- tently was knocked out by author politician Clarence Buddlngton Kelland of Arizona wbo threat