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Show miming KA I tf DREW PEARSON Jjfj nA&JOBERlALEN Washington D. C. SENATORS DEBATE TO EMPTY CHAMBER Big words, such as "momentous," "historic," "crucial," have been common in describing the senate debate de-bate on the lend-lease bill. Defending Defend-ing themselves against the charge of filibuster, the opposition maintained main-tained that the issues are so grave that national interest demands weeks of discussion. Daily throughout long weeks the front pages reverberated with the senate's embattled thunderings. The headlines and crackling statements have given the impression of fierce struggle. But the reality was far different. There was no blood shed. The senate never presented a more peaceful, more indolent appearance. appear-ance. If a great battle was raging, there were few signs of it on the floor of the "greatest deliberative body in the world." Most of the time it looked more like the lounges of a ritzy club than a council chamber where history was being made. At times there were no more than a half dozer members in the chamber. TURKS VS. BULGARS Inside reason why the Turks signed a non-aggression pact with the Bulgars has been given U. S. diplomats by the British foreign office. of-fice. It is this. Some months ago the British themselves suggested that the Turks and Bulgars sign a treaty of friendship friend-ship and non-aggression. But negotiations nego-tiations dragged. Then suddenly, just at the wrong moment from a psychological point of view, the pact was completed. Its announcement to the world was construed as meaning mean-ing Turkey would not penetrate Bulgarian Bul-garian soil to oppose Germany. The British say this interpretation is all wet. Tip-off to the situation is that the British have been rushing reinforcements reinforce-ments to Salonika to backstop the Greeks and the Turks if they cooperate. co-operate. And co-operation in the Balkans usually goes to the strongest strong-est side. DRAFTED INDIANS There are about 700 Seminoles in Florida, divided between north Florida Flor-ida farms and the southern Everglades. Ever-glades. In recent years many tribesmen tribes-men have left their swamp homes to set up lucrative tourist shows along the Tamiami Trail, featuring wrestling matches between Indians and crocodiles. Came the draft, and Seminoles of the swamps and farmlands all registered. reg-istered. But the tourist-show Indians Indi-ans were told by white friends that they weren't subject to the draft, since they never made peace with the U. S. government, owed it no allegiance. So they went on a draft-strike. draft-strike. And selective service officials, not anxious to disrupt Indian relations, have refused so far to turn their names over to the department of justice for prosecution. Upshot is that Everglades Seminoles are leaving leav-ing the swamps in droves, thinking they, too, will - be exempt if they live on the Trail. Word also is spreading to their brethren in the north on stock farms provided by the government, that if Seminoles want to escape military service the thing to do is to open a tourist show. On the hot spot is kindly John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs. af-fairs. But fearing cries of discrimination discrimi-nation from other tribes, he has served notice that slackers will be prosecuted if they don't fall in line. UN DEPORTABLE PRINCESS "Will anybody take a deported princess?" This, in effect, is the plea of Attorney General Jackson regarding Maria Waldenburg-Schill-ingsfurst, Princess Stefanie Hohen-lohe, Hohen-lohe, a German who came here from England on a Hungarian passport. The department of justice has ordered or-dered her deported, but has found, to its embarrassment, that it's impossible im-possible to deport somebody when nobody will have her. Jackson has deported her by act of law, but can't get her out of the country. England won't have her. So she will have to remain in San Francisco unless Germany decides to take her back, in which case she might get there by way of the Pacific and Vladivostok. As a result the justice department is drafting a bill for submission to congress, whereby an undesirable alien could be held in custody, or restricted freedom, or parole depending de-pending on the character of the person. per-son. MERRY-GO ROUND The war department isn't advertising adver-tising it, but it has assigned one of the army's brainiest officers, Maj. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, to make a detailed survey of its tlons and organization. "TVTT ( Most sensational sprvlU'j V lationist propaganda ' gress is a postal cr fastened to it, anr that a "o f"- |