The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-28
BiIbo Calls
 Book Rotten
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN


 Washington, June 28-(UP)- Sen. Theodore G. (The Man) Bilbo of Mississippi continues his mara thon of words today on such sub jects as literature (feelthy) and love (brotherIy) and nobody'd bet ter try to stop him.
 He's not tired.
 After four hours of oratory yes- terday the man announced that he was not filibustering against con- tinuance of the Fair Employment Practices committee. That will come later, he said. when, as and if the senate actually gets close to vote.
 His preliminary few words, he said, were sample. The man paced behind three senatorial desks which he had laden with his texts, loos- ened his red necktie, and denounced Lillian Smiths novel, Strange Fruit" He called it Bitter Fruit"
 It was p. m. when he said: If you have never read it, I hope you never will. It is so rotten that even the city of Boston had to ban it."
 The man gestured with his unit cigar, added that Miss Smith came | rom Georgia, and said it was ob- vious that she supported the FEPC because she attended Columbia uni- versity in New York. But I'll save my future remarks on her for my fllibuster," he said.
 The man then considered Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelts approval of the FEPC which has endeavored to compel war plants to hire workers without regard to their religion or the color of their skin. If Mrs. Roosevelt had given as much thought to raising her own family as she has to affairs of state" he cried, "she would not today be embarrassed by the head llnes concerning some of her off, spring."
 The gentleman from Mississippi brushed back his scant hair, men tloned such things as "this damn able proposal" this rotten and CommInistic legislation" and 'chean Red Communists Then he took up another book, Black Boy" the autobiography of the Negro nove- list, Richard Wright.
 That book is damnable lie from cover to cover" he shouted. Read it if you don't believe it is the dirtiest, lousiest writing I've even seen in print" The man wiped his neck with his handkerchief and went on from there in a voice that was beginning to crack at 4 p. na., when Sen. Ken meth McKellar of Tennessee inter- rupted to beg that Bilbo make A deal with the pro-FEPC faction, so that the Senate could adopt the appropriations for all the war agencies.
 More than a billion dollars of government work will be stopped" Sen. McKellar said. T beg, I plead that the gentlemen reach a com promise. I'm just stumped. I'm up against brick wall It is a shame. It Is a disgrace to the Senate"
 Sen. Dennis Chavez of New Mex leo said he was agreeable to a con- promise; Sen. Bilbo said he was, too, SO long as the FEPC was out lawed. The Republicans chortled, Sen. McKellar said he believed Bilbo was good Baptist, and the man reported: "Yes am and I want the lord to show men how to kill the FEPC."
 He added that he considered Sen. McKeller a delightful character and said he loved him.
 "What?" demanded the gentle from Tennessee.
 T love you," the man replied.
 By now 1t was p. m. Bilbo said he wasn't even beginning to get weary. The other senators were: they prevailed upon the man to take recess overnight. "Thatll give us } chance to pray" he said, lighting that long-cold cigar.