Show 6 ONO A jv SRO A r 1 WHO GETS THE PLANES washington backstage an all the stew over whether the allies are getting planes ahead of the U S army and navy boils down to a personal vendetta between the secretary of war and the secretary of the treasury plus some needling by younger army air corps officers it happens that treasury boss henry asked for and got the job of coordinating co ordination g airplane ne purchases and his bouncing little cabinet colleague henry woodring like it if you note the congressmen who are stirring up the investigation on capitol hill they are chiefly friends of secretary woodring real fact is that although has made some minor mistakes his chief error has been in offending people army and navy plane purchases have not suffered both secretary of the navy edison and assistant war secretary johnson who has charge of purchases testify to this U S planes have been delivered on time and no secret planes are getting to the allies Morgen thaus chief boner was in asking the quartermaster general of the army maj gen henry gibbins and the paymaster general of the navy rear adm ray spear to sit in on his allied purchasing co committee neither one knows anything about airplanes younger officers in the air corps resent this and have been squawking though the able chief of air corps corp S general arnold worried got into the airplane picture because this is the one big commodity the allies are purchasing and he told the president he want their financing operations to upset the U S money marset market to pay for the planes the allies are dumping american securities plus 11 S government bonds and want them to 0 o depress his own government offerings fe er ings rings he has to issue new ones constantly siding with are several big shot army navy men including johnson and edison who say that the more planes the allies buy uy here the more it helps the U S army and navy to develop better planes for instance the glenn martin company is building a brand new somber bomber for the french but as a partial result of experimenting for the he french martin also has developed a new bomber for the U S which will almost fly circles around the french planes also lockheed is selling several hundred tiptop tip top planes to the british and french this has helped it develop a new pursuit plane which will make about miles per hour it t is is the first twin motored pursuit plane has a liquid cooled engine and is expected to astound the worlds fighting forces CAPITAL CHAFF at the annual stunt party of the kat national ional press club every one of the women present rose when mrs roosevelt was presented except her cousin and bitter administration hater mrs alice roosevelt L longworth 0 n g w 0 r t h among those who did rise were mrs thomas dewey 1 mrs bob taft and mrs arthur mrs long alice longworth worth not only ostentatiously remained seated but talked to others near her during mrs Roosevel ts little speech 0 0 MERRY GO ROUND whether his membership on the dies committee has anything to do with it is conjectural but it is a fact that rep noah mason has no opposition in either the G 0 P or democratic primary in his illinois district handsome rep jennings randolph who through his chairmanship of the district of columbia committee is known as mayor of washington is being strongly urged to run for governor of west virginia but is holding off because of the bitter factional split among local democrats only 37 a former newsman and professor randolph has his eye on an the U S s senate e nate speaking of horse and buggy days henry wallace points out that his father secretary of agriculture under harding was the last member of the cabinet to give up a team of horses this was late in 1921 |