| Show i THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY MERRY- ROUND MERRY ROUND GO-ROUND I Trade Mark rk By Drew w Pearson land anti Robert S. S Allen Authors a of Go and More Mon Go Go W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Professor Professor or Reggie Tugwell assistant secretary of agriculture and the brainiest brainiest brain brain- iest lest member of the brain trust has come back from his tour through the he midwest pretty well discouraged There are two reasons for his discourage discourage- ment One ne is hay fever to which he is ad ad- ad The other is the fact that his pet ex exp experiment ex- ex p of boosting g agricultural prices by limitation of acrea acreage has lagged behind industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial price increases Tugwell however will hardly go to the ex extent extent extent ex- ex tent of of resigning first because the hay fever season is almost over second because he hates giving up during the thick of a fight WATERWAY VAY AND RAILWAY A lot of secret wire-pulling wire has gone one on in inside inside inside in- in side the public works board The most skilful wire-pullers wire are the railroads And for a very good reason they reason they have one of their b best st friends sitting on the board For weeks the Mississippi valley has been howling about the delay dclay in allotting funds forthe forthe for forthe the nine-foot nine channel on the Mississippi This channel had been voted by congress but was field held up by the public works board Secretary Secre Secre- tary Ickes got the blame Actually he ic was anything but to b blame ame Sitting on the public works board are nine members many of them One cab- cab is Attorney General Cummings who however is seldom present He sends a sub sub- While AWhile the board looked favorably upon loans for purchase of steel rails and other projects projects projects benefiting the railroads ds Cummings' Cummings substitute substitute substitute sub sub- consistently argued against the Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi sippi nine-foot nine channel which would compete with the railroads The substitute was J. J Crawford Biggs of North Carolina time long-time attorney for many southern railroads Only recently did the board get the Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi sippi channel passed over o his opposition SEA SCOUTS The report of the government that a Japanese ship was seen taking soundings soundings sound sound- ings logs in the Gulf of Fonseca was scouted officially officially emily as a wild yarn but unofficially it surprised surprised surprised sur sur- no one on the inside Some reports received by the war and navy departments from their trained observers around the Pacific sound incredible Not long ago for instance a Japanese naval captain was arrested taking soundings soundings' in San Di Diego go har bar bor The story never leaked out probably will willbe willbe willbe be denied But it H was true The ludicrous was that the gentleman arrested could have gotten the soundings by consulting various marine maps They are not secret Some months before near before near the height of the Manchurian crisis crisis crisis-a a Japanese warship was found in distress in Magdelena Magdelen bay near Lower California When an American vessel offered to come to its assistance the offer was refused The Gulf Gull of Fonseca bordering Honduras Salvador nd Nicaragua where Nicaragua where the last Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese vessel allegedly was Vas sighted sighted sighted-is is leased to the United States as a naval base ALUMINUM 1 LAUGHS The N R As A's aluminum code hearing was one of the most acrimonious yet held Arrayed against one another was wa Andrew W. W Mellons Mellon's mighty Aluminum Company of of- America America- author author au thor of the code and a small smaIl group of independent inde inde- pendent producers Pompous Winthrop C. C Neilson vice president president president dent of the Aluminum Trust strove desperately desperate desperate- ly to defend the code He spoke lovingly of the paternal interest taken by the company inthe in inthe inthe the welfare of its We Ve furnish our workers ice water absolutely absolutely absolutely free of charge and all day long he r re The crowded hearing room b broke roke into laughter Mr Neilson looked pained He continued continued continued con con- The living houses we furnish our em em- are not excelled by any company houses m n the country The sanitation in them is particularly particularly particularly par par- good Have these houses got plumbing in inquired inquired inquired in- in Deputy Administrator Philip Kemp presiding presiding presiding pre pre- siding at the hearing No uNo they haven't admitted Neilson George D. D Haskell HaskeU militant young spokesman spokes spokes- man of the independent producers accused the corporation of monopolizing world aluminum supplies Once when he attempted to b buy y aluminum aluminum alum alum- mum the foreign producers said they would not sell to Americans except at Mellons Mellon's price Haskell Haskeil lashed the code mercilessly Referring Referring Referring Re Re- ferring to a proposed labor section he said There seems to be considerable doubt about the parentage of this provision Well its it's exactly that kind of a provision too Even Mellons Mellon's men joined in the laughter MERRY ROUND MERRY ROUND GO Two Cuban exiles are stopping unostentatiously unostentatiously unostentatiously at the Ritz in New York One is Orestes Ferrara former secretary of state and once one of f the Ithe most popular ambassadors Washington has known The other is Oscar Cintas his successor in Washington and as unpopular as Ferrara was popular e a a aThe The recent visit tp Washington of several prominent Republican congressional leaders uncovered uncovered uncovered un un- un- un covered the fact that there is a secret plan on foot for an investigation of the agricultural ad adjustment ad- ad administration when congress recon recon- venes The probe is expected to air the operations of Federal Milk Administrator Clyde King under heavy fire by milk farmers all allover allover allover over the country a a little less than half hill of what the government must pay cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton growers for slashing acreage already acreage already has been distributed a a a aThe The old senate finance committee hearing room the scene for many years of major batties battles battles bat bat- ties over tax and tariff measures has been completely completely com corn remodeled A half circle rostrum has been built at the rear and henceforth committee commit commit- tee members will sit there in state tate while listening listening listening listen listen- ing to witnesses Copyright 1933 by United Feature Syndicate Inc |
