The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-01
By Dreze, Pearson

discussing the question of campaign aid to members of Congress. Sparkman mentioned several instances where he had turned down offers of money from constituents whom he had helped in Washington and who wanted to contribute to his campaign fund as return favor.
 On one occasion, sparkman said, he studied his bank statement and thought he discovered an error of $500 in his favor. Upon querying the bank, he learned that constituent had deposited the $500 to Sparkman's account The Congressman had intro- duced bill by which the constituent was paid $5O O0O damages when an Army truck killed 8 member of the constituents family.
 Sparkman wrote the bank that prosecution of the claim was his duty as member of Congress and explained that he could not accept the $500 for simply doing the job to which he had been elected He sent copy to his would-be benefactor, with a personal note of thanks.
 The bank transferred the $500 back to the ac- count of the constituent and sent Sparkman new statement. Scrawled across the new statement in bold letters this comment:
 "Diogenes put out your lamp!"
 The power and qualifications of the lobby working to kill OPA is great it would take Congressional investigation to track down all of It. And at present Congress is too busy biting at gnats to do any structive probing.
 However here is one significant straw in the wind The National Association of Purchasing Agents an important trade group has come out against OPA. Hitherto, it was for OPA. The man credited with lobbying to bring this change is Heinz Ludecke on the staff of the New York Journal of Commerce
 Here is the interesting record of MT, Ludecke The Naz Party list, captured by U. s. troops in Ger many shows that Ludecke was holder of Party Card Mo- 6990769, issued Oct l. 1888 His address is given as University Place, New York.
 The Justice Department files also show him as Commodities Editor of The Journal of Commerce in 1922; as picked up by the FBI as dangerous alien Dec 19, 1941 interned Feb G. 1922; paroled June 13 1922; discharged from parole in November 1945. On Sept 1944 he indicted for conspiracy to violate the Alien Registration Act, pleaded not guilty, case nol pressed Oct. 25 1914
 This is the man who has been pulling lobbying wires to kill price control and start the kinc of imitation which in Germany eventually paved the way for Hitler.
 NOTE-With mail from the public slackened, re- actionary Senators are sharpening their knives against price control again.
 When Democratic National Chairman Bob Han negan met with committee of aroused Southern Congressrnen, he told them that the C1O. woult never control the Democratic Party but 1t could bt very helpful factor in maintaining Democratic control of Congress. Why shouldn't we accept the help of the CIO. when the Republicans openly accept the help of John L. Lewis?" was the ln' Hannegan used to silence his critics. Although many of his colleagues thought Florida,s Senate Claude Pepper was pulling dirty trick by stallnl the vote labor legislation the galleries loved 1t Pepper is probably the best debater in the Senate the visitors got great kick out of his frequent ments with hostile Senators.