The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-10
Merry -Go-Round

WASHINGTON. July 10-Admiral Nimitz is try ing to hush it up but hot row has broken out in / the Navys chaplain division over alleged dscrmina- tion against chaplans with combat records, some ot whom have been denied admission into the regular Navy and others transferred to minor posts.
 Four well-known chapains already have resigned as result of the dispute. They are:
 Capt. William A. McGuire, Catholic chaplain of the 11th Naval District at San Diego-a 29-year naval veteran who served fleet chaplain at Pearl Harbor at the outbreak of the war
 Capt. Maurice Witherspoon, Presbyterian, for mer l-America football star at Washington Jeffer son College and one of the most popular chapains i'll the Navy.
 Capt William w. Edel Methodist, who also chalked up fine record as a combat chaplain
 Capt. Raymond Drinan, Catholic, former chap lain of the bate-scarred arpane carrier Enterprise
 In addition to the claim of combat chapains that they being relegated to minor roles while thelr non-combat colleagues get the top commands, many are also sore over the Navys failure to crack down on prostitution in Japan A number of Protestant and Catholic chaplains who served 1n the Pacific contend that the Navy is abetting the growth of prostitution in Tokyo by indifferent policy ln re- gard to the yoshiWaraS.
 These chaplains further charge that those who have fought prostitution in Tokyo have been dlscl plined for their efforts-among them, comdr O. B. Cook, who transferred from Tokyo to Guam after speaking out about the Gesha houses
 Commander Cook soon will resign and his resig- nation probably will be followed by that of another well-known combat chaplain, Capt Maurice sheeny
  battle stars, who served on the Saratoga
 Inside reason why Speaker Sam Rayburn took the unusual step of warning members agalnSt nSer- ing articles offensive colleagues in the Congression al Record Jim Farley. The former Democratic Chairman, who doesn't want Senator Jim Mead to be governor Of New York, mas ms 1r1endS WorHlLg overtime for him.
 Farley has been sending newspaper articles to Congressional friends for insertion in the Congress sional Record, some in praise of himself Once in the Record they could be reprinted and mailed in franked envelopes to New York voters
 Last month, Fareys material for the record be- came stronger. Insertions critical of and even insult ing to Senator Mead were made by Representatives DoGghton and Weaver of North Carolina, and Frank Boykin of Alabama. Boykin, seeking the nomna- tion for Governor FoXx of that state would doubt less resent outside interference in Alabama politics. but he didn't to mind interfering in New York
 The Boykin piece, written by Geactionary George Sokosky of the New York Sun, declares that Jim Mead is just pliant2 politician who wants more that and nothing more
 It's a nasty campaign Farley is carrying Oh and although they don't know it, the nations tax payers are helping to pay for it. NOTE-There will be no mailing of the article put in the Record by lame-duck Representative Zebu lon Weaver of North Carolina. Weaver has told | friends he did not want to make the insertion and did only after two letters from Farley. He said l also that he would have refused even then had he read the article carefully He say he definitely will l not permit the making of reprints Alex Efthim 2e-year-od St. Louis veteran,