The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-27
by DresO Pearson

,sie,oOOO tons were dug making Che fatal accident rate per million tons isl' aA
 Mavh. aupreme Court Justice Robert saehssn Aha Waernhefu trlais Anyway Jackson threw out iisened too much to the radio In his spare tune as hlni during argument Of radio case last week tnst he doesn't agree win cisnass ss sVS o oSaa so mpfove N Jett that radio stations haVe ho "ooe " ''.P'~ ma rederal Communications Commission was seakinr to have the Supreme Court uphold iss order revokne the license of Radio station wVAO' niOAns' NY.
 Attorney BIn Dempsey, son of the governor of New Mexico was arguing for WOKO He pomteu out that "if every broadcaster who had eyer maoe e Misrepresentation to the Fcc and whose license had shseduently been renewed were now to be taken of th aif 1t would mean 6 great gap in the ar wavesY
 "rsnt that an argument for some drastic actionS" Jackson shot back
 Dempsey hastily chansed tne suDlecs s,,.,.. ,, {. no business of the FOG what kind of fipe radio station serves up to the public;
 n. s..Rrltlsh military officials in Rome, learning of plan to scuttle the Italian feet have tried 70 decommlssion twthout success. intelligence repor1 are that the Italian officers are awaiting tne ssn % and French attempt to take over the fleetthen VII sink it. The Portuguese government nas vetoed a new American proposal for permanent military bases in the Azores The Q. 8. oogernment considers the Azores even more important than Iceland. The Norwegian government Is now secretly negot- ating an important new biateral trade agreement with Russia Already the NofWegians Wno now snug gle very close to Moscow, are reported to nave leased spitzbergen. The French Communist Party h trying to make secret deal with the French Social ists by which the Socialists would name the next premier of France. Tn return the Communists would name the next foreign mlnlsterwhich they consider more important This would mean another pro-Esus- sian vote in meetings of the Big 4 Successiui settlement of the nationwide Colombian oil strike caused postponement of the recently plotted revou. ton. The plot is still warm, however. General Franco ordered new wholesale arrest of 5000 oppo- sitioniss last week. Meanwhile in New York British American and Argentine diplomats are resisting any crackdown on their old friend
 Behind the closed doors of Che KllgOre Committee, ex-Senator Wall Doxey of Mississippi testified that money Bilbo claimed he gave Doxey for his Senate campaign never went to Doxey at all. President Tr1iInan's best White House diplomat with the new COP. Congress s reconversion boss John R. Steel- man, who has more friends among the Republicans than the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Steelman has enjoyed frstname familiarity with Senator Bob Taft Speaker-Elect Joe Martin, Senator Vandenberg and other COP. bigwigs meeting of liberal Dem. ocratc members of Congress-l2 Senators and 42 members of the House-has been called for December 9 The Roosevelt Dmocrats will attempt to work out some way of preserving the gains made in l3 years under Roosevelt. Tn the middle of the coal strike and other labor troubles workers at the Elgn Watch Company took full-page ad in the ElgtD Courier-News to tell the world that they like their bosses and are happy in their jobs. Postmaster General Bob Hannegan will hide out in Key West for the next two months trying to regain his health His doctors have informed him that if he recovers com pletely he can continue as chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee