The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-22

uIl p'pOocu hlIuty proposal. Bul kildays stuck :o his guns.
 Tn the delegation from my state" he said. lis Major John Lyle. Major Lyle went into the Army as buck private three years ago. He fought his way thorugh every major engagement in Italy until he came home to take his seat in Congress. He was on the Salcrno beachhead, and he bears stripe for a seri- ou8 wound in action.
 "I'Ve come back only recently
 from lengthy trip thorugh
 France and Italy. I've seen how
 those men live over there, the
 bardships they have to go
 thrOHgh--and indefinitely. If any of my colleagues want Co give these thre emen who went
 into the Service for very linn
 ited periods there old seniority
 ratings when they return, they
 have got to be willing to go to
 John Lyle and say, John Lyle,
 you're veteran of the Army.
 Move over for veteran"
 With n large part of the Demo- crats present unwilling to vote, Kildays motion was defeated v to 50.
 LABORITE MARCANTONIO
 Another closed-door fight cen tered on seating Vito MarcanLonio of the American Labor Party on the Interstate Commerce Commit tee. The fiery Congressman from New York Is neither flesh nor fowl. neither Democrat nor Republican, though he usually supports Roosevelt.
 Two years ago. he was rccom- mendcd for the Judiciary commit tee, but his name was withdrawn because Of the hot fight put up gressman of Oklahoma, whose by reactionary, Lyle Boren, Con- brother is on the House payroll despite the fact he runs a book shop in Oklahoma.
 BOren recalled his fight of two years ago, and threatened to go to the House floor to bluOck the MarcantOniO appoint ment again. He argued that MarcantODiO had been against our War Program prior to the entry of Russia into the war.
 Sam Rayburn, however, came to Marcantonio's defense. He point ed out that for 20 years t has out that for 20 years 1t has been customary for the Majority Party (nOw the DemOcrats) to assign members Of Minority Par ties, such AS the American Labor Party, 10 committee seats.
 Defending MarcantOnIo per- sOnalIy, Rayburn said, q can not question the patriotism of any elected member Of this House. believe every member of this Congress Is patriotic"
 Looking directly at BOren, Rayburn challenged, "Jf any member feels otherwise, let him rise from hls seat in the well of the House and demand that the member against whom he brings chagTes be expelled"
 The gentleman from oklahoma was silent. Rayburn called for the tabling of Borcn's objection and won his point. Marcantonio, who was not present, will now be seated on the Interstate Com mcrcc Committee.
 INDOMITABLE JOHN DILL
 When Field Marshal Sir John Dill, British representative on the joint Chiefs of Staff, died last fall, chapter was closed on a case that had medical men mar yelling for months. Every time the doctors at Walter Reed hos- pital would pick up nesspa- per and read of Marshal Dilrs being in Quebec. New York, or various other distant points they could scarcely believe it.
 For Marshal Dill had been suffering for nearly year with a form of anemia for which nO remedy has yet been dIsccOv- cred. He had an aplaStic anemia, which meant there was no regeneration of hla blood cells. The blood cells of all of us are constantly dying. with new ones being formed to take thelr place. DIll's body, how ever. was unable Co form new blood cells.
 The only thing which kept him going was transfusions. And for a period over six months he had three or four transfusions--Or mOre-each week, In the mean time. doctors were never able to find the cause of Dlll's anemla and he knew it was Just a ques- ton of time before he would die.
 Dlll refused, however. t0 beg off from any Of his duties here.