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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
By DresO Ps0rsO

Probably the deciding factor which finally clos down the turbulent Ed Pauey hearing was sor gardng Pauley's California oil operations
 The sv,dence showed that Pauley had paid S66OOO to Standard oil of California for taking o out from under Standards oil lands. one Of Pauley wells drilled near stanoard pTSptrd n d nao a, "s underneath Standard property
 In the end. some of Panley's operators put stick of dynamite fin the bottom Of this well and blew 1t up This destroyed the evidence showing exactl where the bottom of the well was. When Brewster rrivatelv showed this evidence to other members the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, 1t clnched tne debate Pauley, they decided could not be connrmed'
 The, state Department Isn't saying anything about it. but one important factor in the spanish situation is the subsidzlng of new Fascist unoer- ground in Italy. This Is being done by money sent from Spain.
 what happened was that just before Mussoini was captured, many leading Italian fascsts fled to Spain and got protection from Franco. Along Wtn them went large amounts of night caPtaL stross ons the refugees was the family of Mussoinis mistress Claretta petacc which escaped to Barcelona by air plane lust about the time of Mussolinis execution.
 This unofacial "Mussolinl mission" fin spain has greater funds and more presgs g tsn ra Se tsresa Embassy. They are now working With FTanco hVeEes" to start new Fascist underground in ltay'
 Despite this. some State Department reaction aries probably behind Jimmy Byrnes back, have tolo certain Latin American diplomats that they oo no1 0
 The black markets in meat and nylOns have re. ceiyed SO many headlines that people haven't heard much about illegal liquor practices However, the V: s Alcohol Tax Unit is ready to crack down on apouO 500 liquor wholesalers.
 Federal Investigators claim they have the goods on'' these wholesalers for making "tle-in sales ol rum wine and cordals with whiskies In other woros, retailers are sometimes forced to buy as much as ye cases of rum or other slowmovng drinks Tor every one case of Scotch or Bourbon whisky allotted 70 them This means that liquor stores are stacked wtl beverages they cannot sell.
 'Tie-in" sales are 0 violation of the Federal Al- cohol Administration Act and the situation mas pe come worse in recent weeks because Of the lnlPsho ing whisky shortage certain to result from the Fres idents grain conservation order
 Alcohol Unit seuths have evidence showing that the 0tie-in" racket reaches to the top men Tn tne industry The wholesalers in many instances nave been forced by distllers and importers to buy rum and wine in order to get whisky. Some whoiesaieTs have informed Internal Revenue agents In turn that they have to do business with the dstillers and - porters or have their franchise revoked overnight
 The Justice Department probably will bring con- spracy charges against the guilty parties but mean while, Q large number of wholesalers VIII nave "le" permits revoked or suspended.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
New Field of Opportunity

We shall follow with interest the $25O,0oO libel suit brought by LtCol Frank Toscani of New York against John Hersey author of "A Bell for Adano Herseys pub fisher and those who converted the book into hit movie and play For Colonel Toscan wins, it may develop that he has opened up and highly lucrative field of en- deavor During the Toscan was situated in Licata Sicily senior civil affairs officer Mr. Hersey who wis ited him there for week. tells in his book of Major Jop polo" who senior civil affairs officer in the fictitious town of Adano Italy
 MT. Hersey's hero had, recall brief mild pla- tonc and highly honorable affair of the heart with an lta ian girl named Tina Colonel Toscani emphatcay implies that he had affair of the heart with girl named Tina anyone ee and states that his wife emotionay up set at the books reference to the majors friendship with Tina. Major Joppollo secured bell for Adanos city hall Colonel Toscan doesn't say anything about getting bell for Licata As matter of fact neither he Licata is mentioned referred to in the book
 You how it will be if the colonel wins Say author writes novel about bank teller in the fictitious of East Waop Ind who embezzles $80000 runs off with the assistant cashiers wife is deserted by her. spends the money takes drink and winds up remorsefu bum A bank teller in East St. Lous H., promptly sues for $100000O His books in perfect order He is church goer and family of spotess moral character who touches drop. He collects $25,S73.19.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23

then require members to stand by this policy Those who didn't, he suggested should be read out of the party.
 In the last, of course, Mir Wallace went a. little far though that is what Republicans did here several years back That's what made the Republican screams about the speech amusing to anyone who knows any thing about Republican and Democratic party hS. tory in Congress of the last quarter of a century.
 The Secretary served a useful purpose. He ap- parently succeeded in dramatSng the issue of party responsibility where Congress- own special joint com mttee on reorganization had failed This committee, composed of both Democrats and Republicans, in- cluded recommendations on ways to achieve more party responsibility in the report 1t submitted recent ly after years investigation of means to overhaul the antquated machinery of Congress,
 The joint committee, headed by Senator LaF'oI- ette, (Wis), recently turned Republican, and Rep Monroney O., Okla) suggested party policy com mittees in House and Senate, to formulate general
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
By ThomaS Stokes

party policy on legislative matters and announce " pub licy 90 that voters would know where each Earty stood and be able to fix blame for failure to perform
 The joint committee also recommended that the policy committee of the party in power establish laison with the President to coordinate policy ne tween the White House and the party In Congress This would apply with special force to the situation now in the Democratic party.
 The joint committee recognized the need of party responsibility as did Mir Wallace though ne went further If Congress would adopt the suggestions of It's own joint committee on this fin other matters 1t would help make 1t more efficient body and one more respected by the public ard more responsive to the public will.
 such caucus procedure as MT. Wallace recommendea though 1t has not been used In recent years lt Was resorted to quite often in the 20s particularly wnen John N Garner of Texas was party leaoer. OhueI party rules Democratic members Of the House can be bound in e caucus by three-fourths vote. eX- ceptionS are permitted where member has pre- vio,s commitment with his constituents on some par tcuar issue.
 And, as for actual discipline, Republicans have resorted to 1t. For instance in the 2Os group oi western Republican insurgents. mostly rom Wlscoh' sin poined Democrats in the House on some issues Later some of them followed the late senator LAFV lette of Wisconsin into his independent campaign TOT the presidency in 1924 Aterward these mempeIs were formally read out Of the party ana uePFNeu '" committee posts.
 MT Wallace was tossing in no new idea But ms remarks are timely especially for his party.
 For continued failure of the Democratic party in Congress to function eS responsible party can eao to only one thing-ItS defeat party that can't per form will lose the confidence of the people IhatS inevitable. History proves 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
OUT OF ORDER
(The Catholic Transcript

(The Catholic Transcript
 The legalization of divorce in Italy Is at present being contemplated, The leftist parties are for the intro duction of divorce in that country. There is strong general opposition to such 6 step. The extent and the strength of the opposition Is evident in the extreme caution which has marked the leftist parties public treatment of the question. They have said practically nothing, think ing 1t more advisable to work quiet ly, without the peoples knowledge, toward their objective. Not 80 dis erect has been a certain American Army colonel who recently in Turin, spoke in favor of divorce in de- bate with a well known Jesuit In the debate, the Jesuit opposed the introduction of divorce, the Ameri- can Army colonel urged 1t. We were not aware that our Army had any such function as this. To us 1t seems completely out of order that one of our officers should, in the uniform of the United States and as Q representative of the American people, publicly advocate the introduction of divorce in Italy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
Can Congress Create Competence

The proposals by the LaFoette Monroney Congresson al Committee reorganze the methods and operation of Congress include the cutting the Senate committees from B 6 the House from AS to 18 Each committees ris dction would be clearly defined The committees would small staffs of experts investigate subjects that late to legislation they would decide upon In addition to these experts each Senator and Representative would be furnished wepaid administrative assistant to look after affairs at the departments of Government.
 The idea of bringing Congress up to date would cut out over half the number of Congressional Committees and strengthen the committees in such way to make them quite independent of based departments and bureaus of the executive branch for actandgure information
 The idea also promised to strengthen Congress by scrappng its present obsolete and overlapping committee structure The plan has plenty of merit but trouble about putting through will be found in the evident fact that it would reduce the number of pulls of members of the two branches of Congress in the socaed based de- partnents and bureaus" of the Administration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23

Aliens pay won't start till he is sworn in however so by staying of the job he has already saved the government about $lOOO
 Most people believe that the cost of food has risen tremendously the last few years but Stabil- ization Administrator Chester Bowles says it isn't so The way to check he says is to compare prices listed in grocery store advertising in the newspapers of March, le43 with those today. Bowles says the ads show that the prices of some food items have actual iy gone down.
 New York Sen James N. Mead and members Of his Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program have put their staf to work on Q final rec port. This famous Truman" Committee is scheduled to pass Of existence ct the end of the present ses sion of Congress Dec. ai. Its final report will be an encyclopedia of mistakes made during the war. It should also be a valuable guide and textbook TOT shaping future preparedness policies on obilizng tn" dustry in time of war.
 When sBaby" congFesswoman Helen Deuglas Maxim of Georgia was elected to Congress recently she was asked by friend what she expecNS 70 en- counter ia the national capital Mrs. Maxim explained that the U. G. Congress was larger than the ueoIsia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
Views of the Press

wholesalers volume of sales regis tered gains of 30 to 40 percent. It is hard to see how the needs of this situation can be met except by re- turn to some sort of rationing of the foodstuffs in short supply, how ever unpopular that measure may at first seem.
 Former Governor Lehman, the re- tiring director general of U.N.R,R.A. must have had something like this in mind when he warned on Sun day that 1t Is now too late to pre- vent starvation in Europe, that we can only mitigate 1t, and that while voluntary effort will accomplish much" 1t will be necessary to take more official and formal steps to make food supplies available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
THE CHAMBERS POLL
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 A large sampling of business in- terests in Hartford made by the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, to ascertain views of a new City Charter reveals an overwhelming dissatisfaction with the present form of government and an almost equally strong desire for the city, manager plan. Among those rec spending to the poll the ratio favor Ing change was 2S to l, and those desiring the city.manager form of government out-numbered those favoring a strong-mayor or other type In a ratio of IS to 1.
 Nothing that has happened in the past three months in Hartford would lead anyone to believe that a change Is not now necessary. Even before the present Administration took over, two former Mayors, MesSrs. Mortensen and Spellacy, were equally vigorous in announcing the need for a new charter. If any thing, recent events have made that need more pronounced.
 However, 1t would be unduly op- timistic to believe that the ratio revealed bY the Chamber of Com merce poll obtains on a city-wide basis. Those who operate business in Hartford are more sensitive to the need for change because they can see how directly inefficient gov ernment affects their business, through high taxes and In other ways. Moreover, any attempt to change the status quo will meet with resistance from those who profit from the present setup, That can be counteracted only by an in- formed citizenry, who by now must surely have learned that In the game of local politics 1t is the tax payers, large and small, who foot the bills
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
By Peter EdSon

state legislature that it deberative that was composed of lawmakers who were more learned and Sagacious and that in Washington they acted with more dignity than in the state capital at At Ianta After two weeks in Congress Mrs Maxim wrote her friend that she had been mistaken in what con gress was like. Tt is bigger, period she wrote
 Ration books that never were issued because the war and ratonig ended before they were needed are not total loss UNRE1A has taken over part of the surplus stock and has given them to European gov- ernmentS receiving relief to assist Tn the dStrlDulon of food supplies Instead of having word for it. the Greeks now have book.
 The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration hopes to clean up the displaced per sons problem in Europe by the end of the slmmeI % Council meeting in Atlantic City with every prospect that existing administrative restrictions will be so modified that all refugees can be cared for.
 nD Ps now in UNRRA and Army camps VII be carefully screened. War criminals and conaD- orators will be turned over to military government authorities Every effort will be made to get peopie to go home.
 The thorniest problem will be the cases of perse- cuted. people without a country-Jews and pohtlcal refugees who cannot safely return to their iormeI homes. A i0-nation commission VIII meet In Lonoon in April to try to find havens for them.
 VEce-Aaml. ". IT. P. Blandy. who will be top com mander of the atom bomb tests on Bikni atol tnls summer hopes to have as little censorship as pOs sble for the isO or more news radio ad rroves of the Manhattan District Engineer project ,,s M,S produced the bomb thinks present security reguia' tons on the test are too loose.
 If Groves has his way. correspondents ynl os kept aboard the press ship and esIeanH s,'- th0Fities want them to and hear II you tsy any thing like that" one correspondent piurted out " hlm. you're going to have two explosons on 1'Aa'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
To SAVE FOOD
(New York Times) )

Tn it's program to save American food to relieve the famine abroad the Administration in some respects has followed policies exactly oppos- ite to those that would have ac- complished its aim. It has removed rationing and. held down many prices of foodstuffs. To hold down the price of food in itself encour- ages its consumption. When this is done with rationing removed, how ever, it encourages people to hoard or waste in proportion to their pur-
 chasing power. The American In- stitute of Food Distribution declar- ed last week that the Governments announcements regarding a wheat shortage had increased food &C., emulation to the point where some
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
Unfinished Portrait

The East Glendale (Caif) War Wives Association wants to shave off Uncle Sams odfashoned beard and remod him to their hearts desire Specifically, they Tarkngtons forehead Connie Macks nose General Eisen h0wer's smile and Bernard Baruchs chin.
 With the world in it's present state would make the supplementary suggestion that Uncle Sam also be given pair of sharp eyes where he's going and couple of keen to hear what's going on. We aren't particular about the models just the eyes are 202O and the gre able to hear diplomatic pin drop the other side of the world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23

CIub here About party uISCIpIIIIe and responsibility.
 He didn't even mention the Southern Democrats, but they yelled from a guilty conscience. For 1t Is by now q generally public natter the way some of them have been bolting President Tru- mans leadership and playing with the Republicans.
 MT. Wallace'S general idea was that political parties should caucus on major issues, come 10 a,sA.t sAAilA,f nRaA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
VALUES
(Roston Post }

A jeweler in West Virginia, seek ing to attract the attention of wom- en in a nylon line outside his store, put a $24.28 price tag on a diamond ring worth Sl27. The woman paid no attention but kept their places in line. Women have lost all sense of values" sighed the jeweler as he changed the price tag on the ring back to $127. Of course the women won't agree. They'll maintain that the jeweler overvalues his diamonds If he expects them to bust up n.y. lon line in these Stockingless days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23

ln bKlS phchBEVuIlu'
 However, real fact is that all was not harmony between the two when the ex-Prime Minister made the pilgrimage to the grave of his old friend of wartime days.
 At just about the time the photograph was being taken, 1t happened that Mrs. Roosevelt was telling Churchill exactly what she thought of his speech at Fulton, Mo. What she said was not friendly.
 Mrs. Roosevelt was definitely
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23

tion in Florida. Meanwhile, his White House office, a c oSS the street in the State Department. Is still being staffed. Allen is expect ed back in Washington the week of March IS, and will presumably take his oath of office as an REC director shortly thereafter.
 The four other members of the board were sworn in for their two-year terms of office several weeks ago. They didn't wait for Allen to return from the vacation xxy;ft xn,kafnIa ha haOoVa hie iOh
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23

Girls aren't the only gabblers. '- Elizabeth Woodward in The Boston Globe.
 ADD GAMBLERS The only gabblers are not girls; To that I will agree.
 And, say again. that many men Are one, on this, with me. It's plainly libed to imply
 That girls are prone to spout Exclusively. when all can see So many more about.
 So, girls, take heart, for men will You're not the total crew, And they'll aver, without demur, That women gabble, too.
 The Louisville, Kentucky, election precinct in which Churchill Downs lies in OMe of four in the city that have petltiOned for special lO- cal option elections on the liquor question early in May. It Is possible. if the precinct goes dry, that the Kentucky Derby actually will be looked at.
 Herbert Lehman urges return to rationing of food in order to meet world demands for that indis- pensable. To many a thankful housewife, 1t would be a revival of the good old days of l942-45.
 The FBI says that teen-agers are responsible for substantial por- ton of the increase in crime which it notes throughout the country Hah! Robbie-soXers!
 After twenty-two years, the Rus sianS and the Swiss have resumed diplomatic relations. Switzerland better count her Alps every once in while.
 The first cOast-tO- O-cOat sleeping car service without a change of trains will start Sunday, March Sl. It should breed a new type of travelling bOre-the individual who slept through Chicago.
 Navy Asks Congress for Per- manent WAVES"-headline. And what, Grandma, I've can imagine the eager tot of tomorrow asking, were some of your hair-curling eX- periences when you were in uni form?"
 Charles Boyer, the great lcver," of the films, received $207,5 300 as his pay from Warner Brothers last year. We wouldn't take his job for one ten-thousandth of that sal- ary.
 T think we can make it clear to the Soviet government that no country, however powerful in military or economic way, can dom mate by mere force even the small est countries for very long" Henry A. Wallace. The complete dem- onStration coming to about 250 billion dollars per lesson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23

critical of the way Churchill undermined the prin- cples of the United Nations in his speech Always of the late President said in effect that Churchill was "desecrating the ideals for which my husband gave his life
 Perhaps it's just as well" she said, 'that he IS not alive today to see how you have turned against his principles"
 NOTE-Mrs Roosevelt has frequently differed with Churchill She was vigorous in urging that Eng land do something about India during the war, be- leVing that If the Indian people were promised 1nde" pendence, 1t would save lives and shorten hosttttes At one time, in the summer of 1943, when Churchill visited the White House, she supposedly stayed in New York Once during his visit she phoned her daughter, Anna Boettiger, in Washington to ask:
 "1s that man still thereP"
 During the Ed PauIey hearings. lot of intma- tionS were made that Secretary Ickes had not given the Senate Committee the fui text of the diary in which he so caustcaly criticized Pauley for linking Democratic contributions with California oil lands
 Real fact is that this was true 1ckes did not give the Senate the full text of his diary He purpose ly held out one pungent line. Senator Tydings or Maryland, a Democrat, suspectng this to be the case, demanded that Ickes produce the ful text or his diary notation.
 Sensing they had Ickes in trap, Tydings and other Democratic Senators licked their chops With anticipation. They figured that at last they had the Old Curmudgeon right where they wanted him.
 They didn't know however, what 1t was that Ickes had left out of his dary-though another Sen- ator did He was Names Owen Brewster, Republican, who whispered to Chairman Dave Walsh of Massa- chusetts what 1t that Ickes had censored Alter that, the Democrats suddenly cooled OIL
 For what Ickes had written in his diary was a line which would have done Democratic leadership absolutely no good. The censored passage read;
 "Pauey said he considered Ed Flynn cheap Bronx politician
 To have this come out regarding the former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was too much even for Tydngs. Democratic senators decided that Ickes had been right In cenSorlng hiS own diary They asked him no more questions
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
|Merry-Go-Rou

WASHINGTON, March 2S-Photographs taken of winston Churchill placing wreath on the tomb of Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park showed him serene and poised. Mrs. Roosevelt stood equally calm
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
Party DissenSiOns

It takes Henry Wallace to stir up the animules
 He sent some Southern Democrats of into one oi their frequent rages when he dropped suggestions in an inprornptu speech before the Women'S Democratic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
Waterbury or the Past
25 Years Ago

25 Years Ago Two-y-ear old Lila Weever re- ceived hospital treatment for lacerated lip after she drank from a broken glass,
 A broken water main flooded Brook Street.
 I6 Years Ago Mir and Mrs. William R. Kody celebrated their 5Oth wedding an- niversary.
 Mrs. Elmer Phillips and daugh- ter of Welch Street were vacation ing in Arizona.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
Capital Notebook

WASHINGTON, March 33-(NEA)-Presidential playmate George E. Allen, confirmed by the Senate as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion on March S. anxious to have the job that he immediately left Washington for months vaca-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-23
6 Years Ago

Local police recovered eight stolen ears n one day.