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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LallllSE Boost in Relief Fund Forecast As House Joins Spending Spree; Leave Tax Bogy for Next Year (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union CONGRESS: Coup de Grace "You have just done the most tragic thing in the history of the country. You have shown a reversal of the spirit congress adopted from the beginning in trying to live within the budget ... I feel this afternoon very much like the poet who said: 7 was at the funeral of all my hopei And tombed them one by one. A'ot a word was said, not a tear mat shed When the mournful task was done." Thus did Virginia's Rep. Clifton Woodrum scold and eulogize his fellow fel-low congressmen who had just administered ad-ministered the coup de grace to a great and Idealistic crusade: The 1940 congressional economy campaign. cam-paign. Until the senate added almost al-most $300,000,000 to the farm appro- JftmmiU.::- if' i VIRGINIA'S WOODRUM He felt poetic. priation bill, house skinflints had slashed more than that from early budgetary requests. They had saved almost enough to avoid the $450,000,000 new tax levy which Franklin Roosevelt wanted in order to avert a boost in the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. But senate spendthriftiness now found its way to the house. Upped $55,651,'058 above the President's budget request were CCC and NYA funds, and it was this particular increase in-crease that made Virginia's Wood-rum Wood-rum wax poetic. Next item would be relief, for which the President asked $1,000,000,000; but everyone knew that this figure would be increased. in-creased. Sole remaining bulwark of economy was the house appropriations appropria-tions committee, which was rumored ru-mored about to slash $GO,000,000 from the navy bill Meanwhile it was a safe guess that congress would shun new taxes this session. Reasons: (1) It's an election year; (2) the debt limit won't be exceeded until next year, and a new congress will then be in session. Also in congress: . Flayed by customarily ardent New Dealers like Key Pittman, Joe O'Mahoney and Pat McCarran, a resolution for three-year extension of the administration's reciprocal trade act neared its showdown in the senate. Chief quibble: Whether the senate should retain ratification power. Franklin Roosevelt promised prom-ised to veto the bill if the senate did. C. The perennial and controversial anti-lynching bill, already passed by the house, went to the senate floor after an okay by the judiciary committee. com-mittee. C Inserted in the Hatch anti-politics bill by a house committee was a clause forbidding expenditures of more than $3,000,000 by any national political party in any campaign. C, Hearings opened on the chain store tax bill, flaming torch and cause celebre of Texas Rep. Wright Patman. First blow: Weaver Myers, My-ers, legal staffman for the congressional congres-sional committee on internal revenue, rev-enue, opined that the measure was "clearly unconstitutional." Rea- TREND Hoio the wind is blowing . . . POLITICS At Dallas. ex-Gov. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson announced an-nounced she was willing to run for a third term. JAPAN At Tokyo, Rear Adm. Shozaburo Kanazawa viewed with "grave concern" a report that the U. S. is strengthening its Philippine naval forces. INCOME Salaries and other money paid U. S. individuals in February totaled $5,554,000,000, a 6 per cent Increase over February, 1939. AGRICULTURE Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace asked congress to make it easier for farmers farm-ers to get credit. Reason: One-fourth One-fourth of all farm mortgages are in arrears. Meanwhile the department depart-ment vipwed with alarm Britain' dei'iion to decrease imports of American cotton. Probable upshot: A revival of export subsidies. AVIATION Army and navy spokesmen revealed 1,600 warplanes have been sent to French and British Brit-ish forces in the past 14 months; that production is being rushed on 2,700 more. son: It proposes a graduated tax, based on the number of stores. Myers My-ers pointed out that the Constitution Constitu-tion requires that taxes be levied uniformly, geographically speaking. WHITE HOUSE: Whiles' Return Down the bay at New York went some 25 reporters to meet the incoming in-coming Conte di Savoia. A few minutes later, in her card room, they faced a tall, dark-suited and handsome diplomat Behind him was a 90-minute talk with Adolf Hitler; Hit-ler; two meetings with Benito Mussolini; Mus-solini; long and private discussions with Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier. Had he wished, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles might have pulled big news from his bulging portfolio. Instead he said: "I am mighty glad to see you, and I'm glad to be home." With that he caught a train for Washington where rumors were already al-ready mounting fast. Revived was the favorite chestnut that Sumner Welles' report held the key to Franklin Roosevelt's third term ambitions. am-bitions. Said the wiseacres: If Mr. Welles felt a European peace was In the air, the President would retire; re-tire; otherwise, no. Judging by European Eu-ropean news Mr. Welles read the American papers, it looked like a third term. EUROPE: Telegram "Thanks to the wisdom of the Soviet government and to our lulianl Red Army, the plans of the British-French warmongers who attempted to fun the flames of war in northeastern Europe again failed ..." Such was the telegram sent to Dictator Josef Stalin the day Russia made peace with Finland. It came not from friendly Germany but from hostile France from Soviet Ambassador Jakob Souritz. Two weeks later Envoy Souritz's recall at request of the French government govern-ment created a mild diplomatic flurry that echoed across the English Eng-lish channel. There, Britain and Russia were at swords points over British seizure of a Soviet freighter in the Pacific. After several days the excitement had apparently died down, but not a big question mark: ENVOY SOURITZ Cot his wires crossed? Did Envoy Souritz, a seasoned dip lomat, send this uncoded wire as a deliberate attempt to shatter Franco-Soviet relations? Chancellories In Paris, Premier Paul Reynaud's new cabinet made an auspicious start in its aggressive campaign against Germany. Summoned home one by one were all of France's diplomats, chief among them Ambassador Am-bassador to Italy Andre Francois-Ponet Francois-Ponet Reason: Premier Reynaud will lo his best to keep Italy away from Berlin and Russia. Meanwhile Great Britain was also starting trade negotiations with Rome, but more important for the moment was creation of a five-man "inner cabinet" cab-inet" The War For two days the British blockade block-ade worked Its way into the Skager-rak Skager-rak and Kattegat and threatened to cut off Germany's merchant trade with Scandinavia. There was still a chance it might succeed, but the Nazis began fierce warfare In the North sea with the apparent purpose pur-pose of diverting British attention from the blockade. Meanwhile spring flowers began blossoming on the western front PAN-AMERICA: Stiong Arm Stuff At .lawn 2,000 of Bolivia's 12.000 soldipr marched against the presi-dentT.il presi-dentT.il palace at La Pas, resolved to assassinate the provisional president presi-dent and seize the government Out to meet them went Chief of Staff Gen. Antcnor Ichazo with two machine ma-chine guns and a handful of loyal officers. Into the enemy ranks went an army captain, recapturing tanks which the plotters had stolen. In a few minutes the war was nded. , .am l 'r , A j it j i y ! - r ! Ily ' ! i r -V ' f V,xt v i . vOy . ; . w : NEWS QUIZ Know your news? One hundred is perfect score on the following quiz. Deduct 20 points from each question you miss. Score of 60 or more is acceptable to excellent. . 9 r 4 4 rW" 1. Above is the cannon-firing P-40 P-40 Curtiss pursuit ship, one of three new army models which France and Britain asked permission per-mission to buy. Did the army grant or refuse such permission? 2. (Each part of the following counts 10 points). Why were the following movie stars in the news: (a) Dorothy "Penny" Singleton; Sin-gleton; (b) Bob Burns? 3. True or False: Reprimanded Reprimand-ed by the state department after delivering an anti-German speech, U. S. Minister to Canada James II. R.Cromwell resigned in a huff, 4. What record-shattering event made residents of Syracuse, Uti-ca, Uti-ca, Rochester, and other upper New York cities stay home against their will? 5. Choice: The new explosive of Lester P. Barlow, demonstrated demonstrat-ed before congressmen, is made of (a) liquid oxygen and carbon; (b) T. N. T., dynamite and carbon; car-bon; (c) glycerin and rosewatcr. Neivs Quiz Answers 1. Permission was granted. 2. (A) "Penny" Singleton was hospitalized hos-pitalized after an auto accident; (B) Bob Burna and others were sued by man who said he was kidnaped and forced to sign a denial that Burns had stolen his wife's affections. 3. False. He refused to resign. 4. The biggest blizzard since 1888 blocked all roads and piled drifts up to 30 feet In depth. 5. (A) is correct. AVIATION: Achievement Skies were overcast but radio reception re-ception was good. Pilot A. F. Olson nosed his Northwest airliner into the night toward Billings, Mont Just west of Helena a bolt of lightning "appeared from nowhere," ripped the fabric from the right aileron and gave Pilot Olson, his two fellow crewmen crew-men and 21 passengers a good scare. When Pilot Olson landed at Billings Bill-ings he also brought home the bacon. That night the nation's 21 commercial airlines completed a full year's operation, flying almost 88,000,000 miles with not a single crew or passenger fatality. While operators slapped themselves them-selves on the back, actuaries figured fig-ured this record made it safer to fly than to walk. UN AMERICANISM: 'Amazing' Back into the headlines after his vacation in Florida went Texas' Rep. Martin Dies and his un-Americanism un-Americanism Investigating committee. commit-tee. Current enemy: Russia and Communism. While Chairman Dies announced plans to "summon witnesses wit-nesses as fast as we can locate them," his operatives swooped down on Pittsburgh Communist headquarters in search of a Red who used the name "Franklin D. Roosevelt" on his party membership member-ship card. Also hard at work was New Jersey's Rep. J. Parnell Thom as, a Dies aid, who told reporters that "any number" of school textbooks text-books used in the U. S. contain "one subversive passage right after another . . . Taken with the surrounding sur-rounding material, they may mean little, but when they are put with other selected passages they fit together to-gether perfectly, and the result is amazing." COURTS: Sherman Vengeance At Washington last year an A. F. of L. teamsters' union allegedly "conspired" to make concrete mix ing companies hire union teamstersl to drive mixer trucks. About this time the anti-trust division of the department of justice began casting cast-ing a suspicious eye at the sorry plight of America's building construction con-struction field. Taking a long shot Trust Buster Thurman Arnold slapped a charge of Sherman act violation against Washington's teamsters. The allegation: That this squabble interrupted building operations, therefore the union had restrained trade. Protesting loudly that unions do not fall under the Sherman act A, F. of L. cooked up a demurrer and a motion to dismiss the indictment in-dictment In late March Federal District Judge Peyton Gordon surprised sur-prised everybody by upholding the indictment maintaining the Sherman Sher-man act applies to unions where their objectives are not "legitimate." "legiti-mate." Day before it struck at labor, the Sherman act floored a capitalist A unanimous Supreme court rulinp held that patent owners may no-extend no-extend their legal monopoly to control con-trol their product after it reaches the dealers, and specifically may not impose price-fixing restrictions Case on which the ruling was maae i was that of the Ethyl corporation, which has licensed 123 refiners io manufacture anti-knock gasoline with its patented tetraethyl leac fluid, and in turn has made the refiners re-finers license dealers who sell it to tie consumer. Bruckart's Washington Digest Third Term Backers Dismayed By Roosevelt's Failure to Speak Candidates Farley and Garner Confuse Issue for President's Presi-dent's Followers; Hull-Jackson Combination Further Complicates Political Scene. By WILLIAM BRUCKART 1VNU Service, National Press Bid?., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. The political situation sit-uation that fails to provide a good laugh somewhere along the line Is rare, indeed. There Is, of course, that time-worn expression about politics pol-itics making strange bedfellows, which frequently happens. There is just as much of a laugh for me, however, when these same strangers stran-gers have got into the same bed-mentioned bed-mentioned in the preceding sentence and the slats fall out from under one of them. Actually, collapse of the slats gives anyone quite a sinking sink-ing feeling, sort of an all-gone sen sation. .And, so, I am writing this week about how fallen slats have forced some of the boys on the Democratic team to prepare a pallet on the floor. In some quarters, I have heard expressions within the last few days Indicating that there is no particular shortage of pallets, but the would-be wheelhorses are having difficulty at discovering the proper floor. It all came about in a series of events, some of which I have discussed dis-cussed in these columns before but of necessity, must be repeated. Everyone Ev-eryone knows, for instance, how the payroll boys, anxious to keep their jowls inside the trough, have been carrying on a great drive that they hope will eventuate in a third-term nomination for President Roosevelt. They have been doing right well by themselves, what with federal millions mil-lions to spend; a patronage army mustered by Secretary Wallace who also pays farmers to let him show them how to farm; the vast relief legions and the other government agents of one kind or another, aggregating ag-gregating nearly a million persons, not to mention postmasters, United States attorneys and marshals and the others. They are, or they were, cocky and pretty happy about the whole thing. There were such things as Vice President Garner's -candidacy, which was announced without strings attached and without with-out any reference to whether Mr. Roosevelt should decide the country needs him, again. That candidacy was not welcome; nor was it taken seriously, seri-ously, at first But someone among the amateur strategists within the corps of Presidential advisers advis-ers suddenly awak V John Garner ened to the fact that the Garner candidacy might be regarded as serious. Well, there were deep discussions of what to do. Whatever else you can say about the true New Dealer, the hell-and-high-water New Dealer, it must be said that he is a serious person, and he plans his reform of the population popu-lation with grave determination that what is about to be done for you is, of course, always for your best interests. in-terests. Whispering Campaign Sees Garner as Stooge Out of these discussions has come a whispering campaign. It is exactly ex-actly the same type of whispering campaign as was used against Herbert Her-bert Hoover, when he was President. Presi-dent. Only, these whispers are by Democrats about a Democrat. It has a technique that is well worked out and it gets results. That Is, it gets results if it goes on long enough without anyone seeing what the game is. In the current whispering campaignand cam-paignand its source can be traced to an expert Mr. Garner was pictured pic-tured as just a stooge, just someone striving to break down the New DeaL He was pointed out as disloyal, dis-loyal, a personally disloyal man de spite 40 years as a Democratic bat tler, and his campaign was said to have "flattened out" to such an extent ex-tent that everyone interested in the Democratic party could go home and go to bed you know, the way that is done after an election victory vic-tory is safely in the bag and the worry is over. I am not prepared to argue that Mr. Garner's candidacy is, cr is not washed up. Just as a one-mrm guess, I have thought he was rather popular in the parts of the country where I have traveled in recent months. But that Is not the story about which I am writing. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Strange political bedfellows result re-sult in interesting politics, according ac-cording to William Bruckart who today discusses the third term issue in relationship to the Roosevelt Roose-velt "coattail riders." The President's Pres-ident's failure to clarify his stand has left third term advocates in an embarrassing position, according ac-cording to this veteran Washington Washing-ton commentator. The story at this time Is what has happened in another direction. In the efforts of the strategists to make the fences safe J against the Garner bulls, they forgot about the man who built the Democratic Democrat-ic machine of which these strategists are a part In other words, they forgot about "Big Jim" Farley, postmaster general and chairman chair-man of the Democratic Demo-cratic national com Jim Farley mittee. They apparently overlooked Mr. Farley, except that they did a lot of things contrary to his idea of smart politics and fairness to those who had been riding herd in the pastures where votes grow. Mr. Farley has not been happy about the whole thing, and he has been reported on several occasions as being be-ing prepared to resign. Farley's Candidacy Surprise to Leaders And, now, what confronts the boys? Just an announcement by Mr. Farley that he is an out-and-out candidate for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party, an announcement that ended with "that's that!" When Mr. Farley made that statement to the party leaders in Massachusetts recently, he pulled out more bed slats than you can imagine. He did not say "if the Chief does not run." He said he was running "and that's that!" There are not many folks in the country who do not realize that as a machine politician, Mr. Farley has few equals. He has a personal fol lowing that he has built up throughout through-out the nation, men whom he calls by their first names and who write to him as "Dear Jim." The ranks of those who jumped too soon include a lot of senators and representatives who had arrived ar-rived at their places on the payroll by virtue of a happy ride on the Roosevelt coattails. But the Roosevelt Roose-velt coattails might not have borne up under the strain, except for the Farley direction. That is what the early bandwagon crowd is now trying try-ing to measure. They are looking around to see whether their pallet should be on the Farley floor, the Garner floor or the Roosevelt floor, and they are casting squints through partially open doors to see whether there might be comparative peace and political quiet in the next room where the second-choice delegates may have to go at convention time. Hull-Jackson Team May Enter 1940 Race This whole stage scene is further complicated by continued stories that Mr. Roosevelt looks upon Secretary Sec-retary Hull of the state department as a "good man," but with sort of a side glance that "some good liberal lib-eral like Bob Jackson (the attorney general) should be nominated with him." Of course, there is no way to substantiate the story that Mr. Roosevelt wants Hull and Jackson as the team. He has said nothing. I have said before, and there is no reason to change the belief, that Mr. Roosevelt is not going to say anything until un-til about convention con-vention time. In the mean-t mean-t i m e, the folks who owe their political po-litical places to Mr. Farley and who have X Anna nff 4Vin F deep end for f Mr. Roose- I - V' v e 1 1 as a third - term Cordell Bull candidate are spending sleepless nights. They are afraid to make up their pallets on the floor anywhere in fear of the boogey-man. As I said at the beginning, nearly every political situation contains a good laugh. It is always the more amusing when you see the amateurs trying to play the game of professionals. profes-sionals. The final scene on the stage may not have Garner or Farley Far-ley or Roosevelt in the center to take the acclaim of the audience, but Mr. Garner is going ahead and Mr. Farley is going ahead, and the third-term leaders are practically helpless since Mr. Roosevelt steadfastly stead-fastly declines to make a public statement on his intentions. He just lets the slats stay on the floor. It is simple, of course, to understand under-stand their distress. What for instance, in-stance, would be the position of those fellows, and their relation to the jobs they now hold, If Mr. Farley Far-ley would be the nominee? They thought they could kick the Garner candidacy out of the window, safely. But that question is secondary now" for the Farley candidacy adds up to names on the payroll and what is a local party leader without h's patronage list? Some of the wails have taken the shape of a demand that Mr. Farley resign as part? chairman to ease their pain. WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK f, - s WW if imfti Hfc. Me , i By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Feature WNU Service.) NEW YORK. When young "Red" PhilliDS Dlayed guard on the University of Oklahoma footbaU team, in 1915, he was scaled down to a mere 260 Game of Politics pounds, but Is Another Story In spite of For Football Star '"JS through the line like a high-pow ered snowshovel. Sometimes he wouldn't stop when the whistle blew and thev had a hard time to keep him inside the state lines. Today, as Gov. Leon C. Phillips of Oklahoma, Okla-homa, he weighs In at 290 and is even more abandoned In his rootin tootin' guard play. He orders out the National Guard to repulse the invasion of the federals, trying to build a $20,000,000 dam on the Grand river in his state. This, one of his many scrimmages, scrim-mages, is part of his waxing battle for state rights against what he considers con-siders the illegal encroachment of the federal government He Is an apostate New Dealer, having defeated de-feated the similarly belligerent "Alfalfa "Al-falfa Bill" Murray on the Issue of New Deal adherence In the 1938 Democratic primary. Now he has switched teams. With a big cigar protruding from his lips at a cocky angle, biting it to shreds when he gets steamed up, he says the New Deal Is a social service serv-ice outfit, and social workers are "sorority sisters." Like the "Fiery and Snuffy" of the Oklahoma cowboy cow-boy song, he's "rarin' to go and he, sends word to the war department that he won't let any Invader set foot on Oklahoma soil." He started to be a preacher, but switched to the law. Born 50 years ago in Grant county, Missouri, along the covered wagon trail, he was taken to Oklahoma at the age of two and grew up in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian country. He attended Epworth univerity one year, studying, presumably militant, mili-tant, Christianity, and then entered the law school of the University of Oklahoma. His fame as "Red" Phillips, the bone-crushing, man-eating man-eating football player, gave him a fast running start in politics, and he soon landed in the state legislature. He made his campaign for the governorship gov-ernorship on an economy platform, sweeping the state. The citizens still know him as "Red," and the "Yea Red!" yell of his college days serves for his political campaigns. WHEN I knew Death Valley Scotty and his dog "Goldbug," around Goldfield, Rhyolite and Windy Gap, there was a story that ... . the dog had Alt Scotty s Cash made a great ' 'Loaned' to Him fuss over a By Chicago Man stnger at Casey's hotel, and a theory that this stranger must have been Scotty's mysterious backer. back-er. The visitor, however, was just passing through and was neve? identified, and Scotty, even In moments mo-ments Of abandon In Tex Rickard'n place, continued to Insist that he had a "chimney," or "blow-out" of gold nuggets, samples of which he carried in his overalls pocket. It was not until years later that the man who financed the Death Valley Scotty saga, just for his own amusement amuse-ment it would seem, was A. M. Johnson, the head of a big insurance insur-ance firm in Chicago. As Scotty and his backer round out 40 years of a beautiful friend ship, Scotty informs the federal tax collectors that he has $100,000 in gold certificates buried in the Panamint mountains, and that the source of his mysterious wealth has unfailingly been Mr. jonnson. trom the same source came the $3,000,000 Spanish casUe which Scotty built In the heart of Oeath valley several years ago, according ac-cording to his previous admissions. The unique partnership opened with a $2,500 erubstako it ., only wrote a check, but followed acoity to Death valley. The first mine didn't pan out but Mr. Johnson John-son was having fun. They fought bandits, got clubby with the Piute Indians and rooted around in old prospect holes. Thereafter came Scotty's famous train ride and the deepening mystery of his treasure cache. They kept their secret until along about 1930. The pooch. "Gold-bug" "Gold-bug" and Scotty's extraordinarily intelligent white mule both died of old age. But the original partnership partner-ship still goes on. Mr. Johnson, now 68 years old is cut somewhat on the same lines as Henry Ford, but with an Achilles-Heel Achilles-Heel of Romance. He was born and grew up in a small town in Oh o went to Cornell university, did a jolt of railroading in Arkansas and engaged in mining fcad and iinc near Joplin, Mo. In Chicago augmented an inheritea fortune n the insurance business. He be-ongs be-ongs to a string of good clubs in Chicago, is a sagacious and conservative con-servative citizen, and. from all ac-. ac-. has bankrolled Scotty just or the fun of it UICK A I U0TES a Semind Fnnim AIR PROGKA.M tint nnnl .. ' ll UH in,;..j Air.'"-I S .Tla Rule, Z . uiauia niiiiiiHtti mint Carran, j Mother's Hon,. I t Youth fades? A. ert i secret "wffi ! Hnim ,ts "Km all INDIGESTION SensaUonal Relief from Indig1' and One Dose Prom It If the fjrrt dose of thli nipannnt . Muck Ublet doen't bring oa ui f. 8l complete relief h."ee?43 back to M end fet DOUBLE MuNt'V fcipo-Bell-ui. tablet help, the "X JS..I joa ut toe nourishing food. yonlS"". "J burn, tick badfhe ind upaeu so S eiceu itonuch fluid, making "M tick mU over-jTlST ONE From Want to Want That man is never happy is the present so true that all Z relief from unhappiness is 2 forgetting himself for a iittu while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Johnson. I LIKE FAST HORSES AND A SLOW-BURNING CIGARETTE! THAT MEANS CAMELS.' THEY'RE WILDER,, COOLER, ANP MORE FRAGRAMTJ NEVER WEAR OUT THEIR WELCOME ? H .vlJS'. 1. Peggy McManus, Expert Horsewoman PEGGY uses plenty of hone sense in picking her horses... plenty of common sense in picking pick-ing her cigarette. Like millions of others, she finds that a slower-burning slower-burning cigarette gives more mildness mild-ness and. coolness, and smokes with a full, rich flavor and fragrance. fra-grance. So Peggy smokes Camels, for Camels burn slower, give more pleasure per puff and more puffs per pack. In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS bunted 25 slower slow-er than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested -slower than any of them. That means, on the average, a smoking plus equal to SMOKES FOR EXTRA MILDNESS EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR- Q TSRPICX SLOW-BURNING SLOW-BURNING COSTLIER TOBACCOS |