The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-08
By Dre1C Pearson

nassins Trlmans reorganization bill because Smaller War Plants might be transferred but he is going to wake up and find 1t transferred even before the reorganization bill is passed Maury Maverick, fighting head of Smaller War Plants, has given up in disgust and is leaving for Chna-the Siberia of exiled American statesmen. Donald Nelson went there before being busted from WIPE; Wallace also went there before being eased out of the Vce-Pres idency) Prediction: Treasury Watchdog Lind say Warren will not okay expenditure of funds Tor the gutted Smaller War Plants He VIII rue i tnat ~ when Congress approprates money for one thing. IL has to be spent as Congress decrees not some otner way
 After beating about the bush for some time' President Truman has finally decided that Senators are not to appoint all his judges Sen Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania, a stalwart Democrat, long has ob- jected to the appointment of another Democratic stalwart Jim McGranery of Philadelphia to De new U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge Guffey admits he had nothing against McGranery, but wanted an- other man to fill the job. However, Truman haS decided to appoint McGranery anyway. A former Congressman, McGranery Is one of the out- standing men in the Justice Department, will make an Al judge Taking McGranerys place as No. man in the Justice Department will be Cong. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma, an able citizen Some Republicans baking at Monroneys going to the Justice Department because he isn't a lawyer. But the job of assistant to the attorney general is ad- mnistrative, not legal, and Monroney will do fine job.
 Orchids to Cong Eddie Herbert of Louisiana for pounding home Surplus war PrOperCy OIIlclalS the importance of selling goods to discharged veterans The veterans having tough job buy ing government surpluses, despite the fact that mil lions of dollars in eeps trucks tires, etc. are lying idle in government warehouses. West Coast dealer recently bought 100 from the govern ment at flat price of $250 each is now selling them for around $1000 each. Meanwhile veterans can't buy surplus government automobiles. /. Best Congressional plugger for the capital of the United Nations to be in the United States is Cong. Karl Mundt of South Dakota. He claims-and rightly that if you put the world capital in the old world, it will the dead hand of old-world politics clutch ing the United Nations. Mundt charges that the British Dutch, and French delegates are trying to upset the earlier vote of the United Nations Com mittee to establish the United Nations capital in the U.SA.
 The island of Oknawa is rapidly getting the reputation of being the hel-hole of the armed forces. Men living in mouldy tents. Fresh meat and vegetables few and far between. supply of dynamite recently went off right in the middle of tent area killing six Meanwhile, ships have been standing off Okinawa waiting for orders from Wash ington. . Elder statesman Josephus Daniels who has come out editorially against President Truman and peacetime conscription Daniels says in brief: Remove the caste system from the Army and pro mote the who deserve promotion; then you will get a big enough Army without conscripton. President Truman has decided that the Office of Strategic Services ("OhS -SecretO belongs in the War Department during peace, rather than in the State Department.