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Show Washington, D. C. BIBLICAL DESTROTIRS There were two reasons for that grin on the face of North Dakota'! Gov. John Moses when ha left the White House the other day. One was an assurance that -the President would personally investigate investi-gate why North Dakota has not received re-ceived any of the new lefense plants. Moses argued that hs state was so far inland that it was ideal for defense industries. Roosevelt promised to look into the mater immediately. im-mediately. .The other reason was an anecdote the President told Moses "about a famous namesake of yours." It happened hap-pened when Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy in the Vilson administration. He was asked to select from i list of American naval heroes, the name of a new destroyer. He picked "Is-, rael," in honor of a U. S. captain1 who distinguished himself in the war against the Barbary Coast pirates in 1815. Some time later, Roosevelt was asked to approve the personnel of this destroyer. And while looking over the list of personnel, another' aide entered with another personnel list for a destroyer named "Moses." "This coincidence struck me as very funny," Roosevelt related, "and I leaned back and laughed. The young naval officer looked perturbed and Inquired, 'Aren't those the right crews for those ships Moses and Israel?' And then I laughed some more, because heading the lists of officers were the names of Murphy and O'Reilly." Note Moses, a Democrat from a rock-ribbed G. O. P. state, is the tallest governor in the country 6 feet 4 inches. ALBANIAN MOUNTAINEERS HELP GREEKS (Editor's Note The Washington Merry -Go-Round's famous Brass Ring this week is awarded to the unsung allies of the Greek army, the peasants and mountaineers of Albania.) Al-bania.) Much tribute has been paid to the gallant Greek army and royal air force for winning one of this war's most crucial battles, in that wildest and most remote corner of Europe Albania. But little has been written about the Albanian peasants and mountaineers moun-taineers who have provided the Greeks with the most amazing Intelligence In-telligence service of this war, so accurate ac-curate that the Greeks have known down to the last detail just how many Italians were located behind each hill, where their guns were placed, and the exact nature of their fortifications. An army without eyes is helpless. And the Albanians, who have never forgotten the manner in which Mussolini Mus-solini drove their queen and her day-old day-old son out of the country two years ago, have contributed materially to the surprising succession of Greek victories. STATE DEPARTMENT WIDOWS There was not much Christmas joy this year in the homes of 124 "blitzkrieg widows" of the American Ameri-can diplomatic service. Their husband hus-band diplomats are still on the job, but the wives are prevented by offl cial regulations from joining them. From Warsaw, from Berlin from Copenhagen, from Oslo, from Brussels, Brus-sels, from the Hague, following the spread of the war, these "blitzkrieg widows" came trekking home on government order with children by the hand. A few capitals, such as Moscow and Helsinki, have now permitted wives to rejoin their husbands, but meanwhile, a new warning has gone out affecting citizens in the Far East, and the ranks of the widows are swelling still further. This separation Is much more than a sentimental problem. It creates a strain on the budget of each family, fam-ily, for they are obliged to maintain two establishments, and the salaries of the foreign service are not gauged to meet living costs in this country. 1 The state department has had so much grief from the "widows" that a move is being considered to lift the ban and allow them to return to their husbands' posts, CAPITAL CHAFF The state department is getting a heavy volume of mail from all parts of the country urging strong U. S. assistance to Greece. Josephus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, is the only ambassador appointed ap-pointed by Roosevelt in 1933 who still remains at the same post. Experts of the house migrant investigating in-vestigating committee estimate that at least 4,O0Q,0O0 jub-hunters are constantly con-stantly on the move in the country. Some American women have switched to cotton stockings as a protest against Japan, yet in the first nine months of this year, the United States imported $66,000,000 worth of silk from Japan. MERRY-GO-ROUND Two former editors of the "Ame-roc "Ame-roc News," daily paper of the 191J U. S. army of occupation at Coblenz, Ger-many, are now on active duty at the war department They are Col. Fred J. Mueller and Lieut. -CoL B. B. McMahon, both assigned tc the public relations staff. |