The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-30
By Drew Pearson

ernment seizure of Che meat plants
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 therefore, so prepare union leaders. he put In telephone call bo Chicago and explained that the telegram was merely for the record
 However, this didn't soften the sting. Coming on top of the broken promise previously given by SchwerenhAch that the Fact~Fin6fng Boards wage recommendation would be adopted, the telegram stampeaed union leaders into voting resolution not to eo back to work-even for the government
 It was at this point that Mayor Kelly telephone6 the whlse House ana urged some kind of promise on future wage increases His idea was adopted-0espite the previous veto of the Justice Department and the Budget Bureau. Next day, secretary Anderson gave this promise to CIO leaders, ana they imheol-
 NoTE-suspected of helping draft the stinsing telegram sent by Anderson to the meat workers IS Harry E. Reed, chief of AercultureS i've seock branch asked whether inc drafted the telegram Reed evasive,
 Biggest foreign purchase of horses since M,sso- ni drained the Southwest for his Ethiopian trans port divisions is taking place in the Middle west UNFEsA is buying l6O00 American mares TOT uls- posal in Greece Yugoslavia, Poland and Czecnoslo- vaka-countries from which the Nazis oroVe away most of the horse population,
 The mares are being purchased under the super vision of the Department of Agriculture which has passed the job on to the SparSs-Norris Horse and Mule Company in st. Louis, Owen Brothers in Mem phis and Dean Bowns and W. L. Elder in Des Moines Average price paid by UNFtsA to the dealer is $77 to S9750 per head.
 This has aroused criticism in the farm belt, be- cause dealers are paying only $50 to $50 per horse thus netting a profit of about $25 each. However. Agriculture Department officials defend prices on the ground that dealers take risk on sick horses, accidents during shipment etc.
 The Army paid an average of Sl65 per head for horses during the war but more particular, re- jecting horses for scars and bemishes Mares now being purchased must be three to eight years ola, broken for both work and riding. They are being shipped from Baltimore, New Orleans Jersey City, and Portland, Me.
 NOTE-T1p-off to the fact that MusSolm was planning to conquer Ethiopia came two years before his war started when In le33-34 the Italians suo- denly bought SS4279S worth of mules from Missouri, Arkansas and Texas.
 Assistant Secretary of the Navy John l.. sullivan has his eye on the soon-to-be-creaed joo of Assist ant Secretary of State for air. Jimmy Dunn long considered the State Departments chief defender of Franco will resign after the peace treaties are signed this spring or summer. Dave baSSlon ol Chicago will become Assistant Attorney General. Governor Colgate Darden of Virginia is angling Tor a big federal job. Buttons bearing the initials q c" have been appearing on the inner lapels Of some John Snyder employees They stand for, I'm all confused. John l. LewS mine WorKers office in the United Mine Workers building is one of the few in town with bullet-proof windows. Col Bernard Bernstein whose hardhittng attacks on Naz cartels and I. c. Farben were helping pre- vent World War III has left the government-fed up