Show THE DAILY V WASHINGTON Merry Merry-Go- Round Merry Round Trace M MarkBy Mart Mark 8 By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT AL ALLEN EN V WASHINGTON The The ASHINGTON-The The crack sleuthing force built up by the bureau of investigation is in sub-rosa sub revolt against its chief J. J Edgar Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver and ups higher of the justice department The basis of the revolt is that the bureaus bureau's op operatives op- op have been turned into a bunch of gun gun- men This they claim is not what they were hired for br The bureau of investigation is charged with exactly what its name implies implies gation This requires skill intelligence long training not necessarily brawn As a result and because the depression made jobs scarce the bureau enlisted some of the highest types of college men Take the recent casualties in the bureau Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Cowley killed by Baby Face Nelson V. W. Carter Baum killed in the Dillinger hunt and Francis J. J Lackey wounded in the Brook Hart hunt all were not only college graduates but in addition had law degrees It is among these university-trained university operatives operatives opera opera- tives that the result is most intense There also is t resentment on the part of these operatives operatives opera opera- tives that the work of the bureau usually clothed in secrecy is attracting so much pub pub- The effectiveness of the bureau has brought about the full glare of ot publicity on m some of its members notably the chief Hoover and Melvin H. H Purvis his Chicago aide Unless conditions conditions con con- change a gradual exodus of justice de department department de- de operatives is not unlikely Crack Down It has been done ne so quietly that few know anything about it H t but the president has just heaved a large sized brickbat at the motor moguls mo mo- mo- mo Basis for it was laid on November 2 when he announced a day 90 extension of the auto code At that time he also promulgated a study of the possibility of changing automobile employment em em- plo m nt from a seasonal to an year round basis This survey has now been launched and therein lies the cup o of gall for the motor mag snag nates The latter had moved heaven and earth to persuade Roosevelt to have the study made by aboard a aboard board consisting of representatives of the commerce commerce com corn merce interior and labor with Dr Leo Volman as chairman The president turned thumbs on this proposal He put the investigation in the of Leon Henderson ex officio member of the N R Aboard Aboard A board and Dr Isidor sidor Lubin head of bureau of labor statistics two of the most competent and liberal economists in the administration More than that he gave these two young men full power to pick their own assistants and to hold open hearings This last authority is something that the auto manufacturers have vigorously opposed throughout the history of their code Henderson and Lubin lost no time in making the most of their opportunity As their chief aideth aide the th the man who will actually direct the study study- they appointed Richard H. H Lansburgh another liberal economist secretary of labor in the first Pinchot cabinet in Pennsylvania and a former orm r industrial engineer in Detroit The choice of Henderson and Lubin was a bitter blow but the enlistment of Lansburgh is for lor the motor barons adding insult to injury Copyright mi m palled n eradicate In Inc a |