Show Korell 38 Called Baby Congressman t tI I Back Home but Combs Is Only 26 RODNEY DUTCHER DUTCH ER By NEA EA Service Writer Writt WASHINGTON Some WASHINGTON Some of ot the folks back home seem to have some som qu queer r notions about their r representatives representatives presen In congress A For Por Instance out in Multnomah Bounty Oregon they call Franklin F. F o Korell who Is 38 18 years old and almost a veteran of ot congressional campaigns the baby congress man Wh Why send a 11 schoolboy to Washington Washington Wash Wash- ash ashIngton ington instead of ot a a. grownup two two- fisted man 7 demanded the political cal opponents of ot Korell although he be had been a member of ot the Oregon Ore Ore- Fon gon legislature in ht 1921 and had ran for Tor congress as Jar far ar back ack as 1922 1322 When Korell Koren got to Washington he became very ery sure that he was wasI I no baby congressman for he met Congressman George Hamilton Combs of ot Kansas City Mo 10 who is only 26 26 and thus thu by all an odds oeMs the congressional nal baby bab He hopes the Portland newspapers will carry numerous stories about Combs Ii S S In 1922 Korell Koren experienced an un- un distinction similar to that of i ICharles Charles E. E Hughes who went to tobed tobed tobed bed one ono night in November 1916 as the next president of ot the United States and woke up just Charles E. E Hughes Running in a primary for tor congress orell w went nt to bed bd nominated nomi nomi- t l d and woke oke to find that his opponent had unexpectedly nosed ahead with a a. plurality Despite all tx experience crammed rammed Into twenty-four twenty hours the Iho Democrats virtually made mado their election slogan last Jast October against him Never Ne send a a. boy on a mans man's errand S Koroll Korell attracted d attention early this thU session by his appointment to the tho he important t foreign affairs com corn Ne New congressmen seldom win In any honors honorS' like Ilka that in their early years ears here her At the tho same time Korell got bus busy shouting hoUting against what he be instated insisted was we an inadequate appropriation of ot U. U for the new federal buildIng buildIng building build build- Ing in Portland Lour cheers from fromback back ack home i Now Korell proposes legislation to establish national policies for tor toll bridges tI which would for forbid ld congressional congressional franchises affecting tf state I land Jand Korell claims that the state the bed and all the tho sho aho shore e Und land qt cit a 1 river alth although ugh congress hM hu control of ot navigable streams for tor purposes Urpo e. e of ot navigation and com corn merce S S SS i S Two To Honal h hoppers hopper's have ve b been n loaded with bridge bills bill II and andrt rt 4 mo more e oV J less u similar principle 1 U Is Involved In connection with the Boulder Doulder dam project and the Muscle Mus Ole ale Shoals development so Keren's Kerens ideas are making some impression Especially art are they an impression back In Portland it appears ap- ap Spears pears for tor congress conter has baa permitted a private concern to build a bridge torn nom Washington to 10 Oregon over or Ute the Columbia river below betow Portland The Portland say NY this bridge when built will prevent growth ot of navigation for tor Portland The Washington cong congressional dotage p delegation and tn the Oreon Ore- Ore tion favored d the bridge bride on Gb del delegation atlon aPPO opposed I Ie Now row Korell Korn h. h has baa reopened the l issue ue with the claim that H U cant can't be built be- be UN aut It the the us of ot tome some e of ot the bed or Of shore of tho the river be beL be- be L nging to the state D By tho the time he com coms up for re reelection re- re election next yean Koren probably wont won't be babied any more One of or the new fleW senators Elmer Elm I Thomas Thom of ot Oklahoma is ii pushing pushier a aMil abill bill Mil to which no one seems sum to here have paid 14 much attention despite dup Its Itt In years Mr of ot Ju large e una uaral disasters Thorns Thomas proposes I a federal 11 easier mer- relief fe fond d to be by the tb president for 91 r the pur par We pee of furnishing relief to r- r ers from floods famines plague gue p pestilence and other oth disasters die dis eat asters In an any ally part put of ot the United States mates ta t. t S S When Wb n a calamity comes omes now no we wen have n e no f funds fa mis available to meet de department de de- I TJi Th war rt can tad stud tents teats and blanket bids blan ket but bat other ether aM aU must matt t corn com from tile the Rat Bed Crow Cross sad and private prine Meanwhile sufferers sufferer are an hungry bUD S S. S Franklin F. F Korell Congressman and cold and need hospital attention attention atten atten- tion right awn away The fund could couJIl be allocated by bythe bythe bythe the president to the lied fled Cross or any other agency he ho might d designate deals deals- lg- lg nate to spend It It is meant to supplement the Red lied Cross and notto not notto to supplant it IL It Jt would fill tm an Important important im Im- Im gap in the national relief method Thomas promises to for the bill and aa says he cant can't conceive of being opposed to tot It anyone |