The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-19

anderson was smart enough 10 recall that Carl Ma.
gee after a visit 10 the Fail ranch some months
earlier, had noted that Fel appeared 70 ee N moder.
Il he knew any reason why Fall should spend S2oOoO
for a stallion Just few months after becoming sec.
rotary Of the Interior, and then sent wire 20 TN
Chicago Tribune which put seuthS 10 work IN Wash
ington The Tribune reported that the stallion was q
eift to Faii from publisher Edward B. Mclean
..as Us s ,,,o s,rthsr cheokinv A re,orter who
cultivated the freight agent at Three Rivers, N M.
got a chance to look over recent freight receipts
which showed that Falls new $4,000 stallion hat
come Sl6SS prepaid, from the Rancocas RACINE
stables In New Jersey. These stables are owned by
Harry r. Sinclair.
Carl MAGE placed TINS niormat,on before I'M
late Senator Thomas j. Walsh, of Montana, who ther
started the famous Senate investigation OF the entir
Teapot Dome oil scandal
Harry Hopkins didn't know It. but just before his
death there was move to inject him into the Pear
Harbor probe.
Certain influential Republicans approached Rep
resentative Bertrand Gearhart Of California, COP
member of the Congressional Pearl Harbor Commit
tee alleging that Hopkins had diverted 200 planes
slated to be shipped to Pearl Harbor to Great Britain
Just before the Jap attack.
IN view Of our weakened defenses in the Pacific
this Hopkins deal should get thorough investiga-
tion," Gearhart's colleagues told him. Those plane
might have turned the tide at Pearl Harbor."
However, the Californian fatty rejected the pro-
posal
declared. Maybe you get someone else to carry
the ball on this but I'm not going to make any &C
eusations against Harry Hopkins"
MOTEL 1t is true that Hopkins did divert the
planes to England at least they we're not destroyed on
the ground were all other planes at Hickam Field
which were caught, lined up in neat rows, when the
JapS attacked.
Butter Black Market: The Office of international
Trade now under the Commerce Department, is
planning to ask u s. Customs officials to nveStigat6
some strange shenanigans in the resale Of butter th
country has been exporting to Mexico.
Despite the serious butter shortage, which Ia
caused the American housewife to turn to substitute
md jam for her table we sent $500 pounds OF butte
@ Mexico in the last quarter of 1915.
Some Of this is now winding up at T1aJuana, tn
Mexican resort town across the border from So.
Diego, where the butter is being sold to America
5urists for the fabulous price of $l25 pound.
Under export price ceilings enforced by the OPP
nd the Department of Commerce, this same butt
AS sold to Mexican dealers at from AZ to 40 cen
pound The price varies couple Of cents poun.
spending on the type of packaging.
In other words we are buying back Amer
an-made butter from Mexico for triple the prie
texican dairy dealers paying us for it. Commere
apartment officials only guess how much SNUG
led butter may be involved in this crossborder bac
market, but the Customs Office will be asked
make thorough probe
NOTE-Mexico is also one OF our biggest purchas
ers Of exported nylon stockings. Out Of total
9ll0 dozen pairs of nylons exported in November
he last monthly figures available-Mexco bougf
0lO dozen pairs Cuba received 2603 dozen pair