The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-09


 gust; but Morrison and Earth man returned to the conference. They were followed by Mrs. Gil- bert, who announced that so long as the Congressmen insisted up- on staying, there would be nO official action at the meeting, even though the growers had trav- eled hundreds of miles at their own expense. Finally the two congressman left.
 When the strawberry growers met last year at OPA, Morrison and Senator Tom Stewart of Ten nessee were on hand-and were permitted to stay throughout tho meeting.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 Rep. wilson of Indiana. com plaining about the waste of man. power in war work recently, read on the floor of the House this let ter from Navy Yard worker: One girl found she was losing her skill as a stenographer and so decided to take down the con- versations of those about her. A supervisor came by and said she was working so hard that she needed assistance (at her caves droppingD and immediately dele gated two girls to help her" -. Henry Stratton, former secretary to Ham Fish. is now employed as Assistant Clerk of the powerful House Rules Committee, of which Fish was once ranking Republi- can member Spike Movius, who was secretary to another famous isolationist, ex-Scnator Gerald Nye, is now working for the isolationist Washington Times-Herald. first cousin of the Chicago Tribune Ham Fish is writing a book to be published after the war; is also planning to stump the State against Cover nor Tom Dewey before the next New York State election .. Fish has been playing with the idea of moving to New Mexico to try for the COP nomination against Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez in 1946 While South- ern Democrats continue to show strong anti-Roosevelt tendencies, Representative Herman Kopple- mann of Connecticut points out thet predominantly Republican New England is becoming land of liberalism. Although eight of the twelve New England Senators are Republicans, five of them vot- ed to confirm Henry Wallace in his Commerce post and only two opposed. Austin of Vermont was not present, but Aiken of Ver- mont, Brewster of Maine, Hart of Connecticut, Saltonstall of Massachusetts and Tobey of New Hampshire all voted Aye K. D. Blackwell, head of the American Home Guard, Inc. when questioned by the Senate Cam paign Expenditures Committee regarding political expenses dur ing the last election, wrote this terse reply: Dear Senator Green, This organization has never play ed politics, the procedure being too slow. Respectfully"
 U. S. FRENCH FILM FIGHT
 The usually meek State De- partment actually got tough last month when members of the French Cabinet complained that the quality of U. s. films being shown in France was inferior
 Real fact Is that U. s. films
 going into France are selected
 by the Office of War Informa-
 tlOp, are the cream of the
 Hollywood production.
 Francis DeWolf, head Of the State Departments Telccomumi- cations Section - which includes motion pictures was not tm- pressed by the French complaint. He sent back word that com plaints about the quality of U. s. films might be better received If the French were willing to grant visas to representatives of U. s. film industry so they might get in and study the reaction of the French to the pictures and carry on normal business relations.
 Although General Eisenhower has not stood in the way of movie people who wished to 90 Into France for their companies. the French Government has not been