The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-10
by Dreze, Pearson

business, and farm organizations series of weekly forum programs to present their viewpoints on the most important issues of the day Eight of the organ izations accepted The American Federation of Labor hatly refused explaining it would not appear any program with the CIO. This is known cutting off your nose to spite your facel
 The Honorable Patrick J. Hurley, who, when Sec- retary of War under Hoover, did so much talking about his cowboy in the great state of Okla homa, has forgotten Oklahoma and is talking about the great state of New Mexico.
 Reason of course, is that he is trying to persuade the people of New Mexico to send him to the U. s. Senate New Mexico hitherto has been considered the happy hunting ground of Fasteners who moved West with yen for getting into politics The late Bronson Cutting went out there from New York, was elected to the Senate and other people-notably Hurley-have had the idea they could do the same thing.
 However, the people of New Mexico are getting little sensitive about newcomers who eagerly vol unteer to be their Senator, and Hurleys job is not quite so easy. That may be the reason why he has been claiming he has been resident of New Mexico ever since 1885.
 Anyway officials who had heard about the big $1OO 0OO which Hurley collected from the Sinclair Oil Company thought they had better make rou- tine check of Pats tax returns only to discover that he paid no taxes in New Mexico ir 1885, Nor did he pay for several years thereafter. This would to put Pat very much the spot. Either he was the loyal resident of New Mexico in 1885 that he says he was, else he seriously delinquent taxpayer. One or the other must be the case.
 
 COP. boss Carroll Reece put his foot in it while speaking for Republican Congressional candi- dates at Boise, Idaho Reece claimed George Donner, Democratic candidate for the Senate, following Communist-Socialist line in supporting the Colum- ha Valley Authority. What Reece forgot that he himself voted for the Tennessee Valley Authority than a dozen years ago, and IVA is the father of C.VA
 Reece was defeated for reelection in 1880 because of his opposition to IVA, so reversed himself in 1882 He decided that whereas IVA might be Con- muniStic elsewhere, it sound policy in his own district.
 Secretary of Labor Schwelenbach was furious at the Maritime Commission for backing and filling the maritime strike If the Commission had adopted Schwelenbach's proposal-mantenance of membership and preferential hiring Government owned vessels the West Coast-he contends the strike would have been settled easily. The Maritime Commission however, reneged on its agreement
 Real, inside reason for the Maritime Commis- sion's reversal was threat by the Matson Line and aors-to turn back the ships they are operating for the Government if the Commission stuck to its agreement with Schwelenbach.
 About 40 percent of the ships operated by the Watson and American Hawaiian Lines belong to the Government, and the threat threw such scare into the Maritime Commission that it ran up the white flag.
 Bernard Baruch is steamed up his fight with Henry Wallace that he has been telephoning Wallaces good friend Seanor Claude Pepper of Flor ida, urging him support Wallace on atomic en- ergy General Omar Bradley cleared his cour- ageous speech to the American Legion Convention With the President in advance. Truman promised to back Bradley up to the hit.