The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-13

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 MEMos TO TIIE EDITOR
 Inc War Dept phoncd our uin FgacAy rrFnrcHe some unhappy lci- trrx From uts n EgroNt UNn klMnitoNFf personally was couiati+ E6. Easd thc caiigIa, and "c1uidn believe anyone Hcali sag uf HIlie u3 ... The lctiefe a appeal zrt ccaf with e rumo that tls column nncFrdly publshed -aut BC never Faid N cr hruatcaH g. oE Huuic t ci anyihlnei HHc Frluance Ha1 cvey a report hial uls n fhc Ei- @opean gane "N8a 70 point oT mon" colidnH cme home to ihe C E. becausc thry had criminal rce- uTcN Uf Kd ... Drew ptaEHn Iu- Ely revealed tHat t originated n London recently uFff iHC British Broadcagins system -r We have since been told that Cen, EauhoR- Er iS so informing ah concerned among our troops abroad
 A news weekly recently reported &AtMk hNN NA #tst FANAAt HatHFtt tsa fwho were landed by Nal sub at Long Island and Florida had tippcc the FBi of ihe landings and ihat lsnd.nas and that these two men were promised "a break and dldnf get it These tWo are named Dasch and Burger The m.li- tary tribunal decided all elaint be put to death. but J. Edgar Hoover told FDR that Daseh and Burger had helped cons acrably. and ii was FDR whu committed their death sentences to 90 years for one and iile for the other ... Dasch, it ap- pears. is almost Q mental case md Burger still Is helpful Co our govt as a witness aga nSt former enemies" When the war Is ot- ficially declared ended by Congress they'll probly be deported to Ger many.
 \ correspondent for q nationally circulated magazine sent me thiS data on X-AmbaSSador to China Patrick J. Hurley That U. s. reporters there called him Little Paper Tiger" . When Hurley was at Yenan he went around periodically shouting. which he ap- paIently thought would make good impression on Chinese commy leaders When the Mexican Charge d'Affaires was guest at dance in the U. s. Embassy ill Chungking Hurley embarrassed all present by requesting the orchestra to play Rum and Co-caS Coh-la' in honor of the Mexican diplomat That he once had a big Cadil- lac limousine flown to him over the Hump into China That when he arrived at Chungking (where hous- ing facilities were hopelessly ln- adequate) he gave members of the U. s. diplomatic staff tstaying at the large Ambassador house) "A hours to get out.
 Gilbert Miller, the producer. phoned to say that reports about a rift at his home were not true. The report originated in Hollywood John Garfield assures US that our item was ditto-that they eX- pect an heir in four months We hear that because of the acute shortage of newsprint" one New York paper will suspend publica- tion for three days during the next four weeks While the placK market lads are getting good fees for Scotch, many of the swank cafes, etc., will have practically Ecotchless week end" Hotels and restaurants in town may not sell any of it Sat. or Sun. EX-Cong Maury Maverik, now in Japan, says: Mot enough news or broadcasts about the Pacific. Gen. Macarthur is the right man for holding down the Japs, and we are demobilizing in the U. s. A. too fastl'
 President Truman stepped in and prevented the budget director from Shaving FBI appropriations. Tru- man is giving the G-Men the same support they got from Roosevelt Our recent fact that J. Edgar Hooy- CT (after 24 years service to the U S.) is broke, brought him several offers from big firms to take eX- ecutiye posts at fancy wages, but he is staying in Washington in- definitely His former special agent in charge of the Detroit of- flee (John Bugas), who resigned to become Henry Ford's public re- iations chief. is said to be getting e65 900 per annum. Another report is $50,000 MT. Hoover gets $l0,- QUO At one time he got $9,- too while the Dept. of Justice press agent got 10 Gs Incidentally, the various reports on LaGuardia'S salary as a commentator arc said to be exaggerated The report that $1O0,000 is low does not jell with what insiders claim - that 1t is $50,000.
 The late Blaze, owned by the Elliott Roosevelts, continues to wield influence on air travel. Gen. Hap Arnold and his wife are flying so the Coast about New Years when the General steps into top lob in non-military aviation. They hoped to take along (by plane) their cocker spaniel, but Mrs. Ar- hold was worried there'd be another newspaper controversy. She didn't worry long-every company on the West Coast offered to send plane
 A Canadian Army nurse, jus. returned, is the source of this one; don't recall seeing it printed before; That many civilians were killed during a Nah air raid over Belfast, Ireland, in 1943. Among the dead were Mrs M. Parks and her mother. They were first cousins in New Todd. The nurse is available in New York if you want more on 1t Has anyone recognized the girl {nude) in the center of the double truck of the Newspaper Guilds pro- gram? One of her model photos. That's Bonnie Gedeon, of that triple anurderl
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