| Show THE TIlE DAILY DAIT WASHINGTON Round Merry Round Merry Merry-Go- raco r Marl Mark MarkBy By DREW DREV PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON Senate WASHINGTON Senate Republican leaders have a bristly burr all ready and waiting to be slipped under the new deal blanket at t the op opportune opportune opportune op- op moment The G. G O. O P. P boys secretly have agreed among themselves to throw their side of the chamber hamber behind the demand for lor immediate immediate immediate im im- im- im mediate payment of oC the bonus This means only slightly less than third one-third of the senate but in a close fight where every vote counts it may be just enough to give the the prize they so long have sought Real significance behind the G. G 0 O. P. P move is the line of tactics it the party leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers contemplate following in the coming session ses ses- sion Frontal opposition to the administration will be soft pedaled while a warfare of flank and rear attacks will win be waged As regards the stand U there ere is is t an ironic angle to the matter While favoring prompt payment to the veterans the Republicans cans are vehemently opposed to anything sa savouring savouring savouring sa- sa of inflation Capone Strategy The Huey Roosevelt Long-Roosevelt administration feud is getting gettin hot and personal The Kingfish has just been tipped off confidentially that treasury tax sleuths arc are using the same tactics tactics tactics tac tac- tac- tac tics on him that were used on Al Capone federal agents launched their attack on Capone Ca Ca- ponc pone by indirection They first picked of off his lieutenants When they were they got the necessary information to put the bee on the big boy Hueys Huey's friends friends and and he has a great many more in Washington than the inner White House circle suspects have suspects have been warned that similar methods are now being used against him A check of this information disclosed the highly significant fact that in the course of the thelast thelast thelast last few months a number of Hueys Huey's close henchmen two of them only last week have been indicted for income tax evasion When Hucy Huey was told of the alleged drive he expressed neither alarm nor concern I He as assured assured assured as- as his friends his skirts were clear and that he has known for months that government agents were on his trail Two liberal senators have sent the Kingfish word that if he hc needs them they stand steady to act as his counsel w without charge Labor Complaints Some of the newly-elected newly members of the A. 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L executive council are privately voicing voicing voicing ing bitter resentment at what they charge is President William Villiam Greens Green's lack of aggressive ac action action action ac- ac tion in pushing labor organization of the steel and automobile industries Greens Green's critics claim that despite marked seasonal upturns and in increased increased increased in- in creased production organizing measures so far have been negligible In the motor sphere the only accomplishment accomplish accomplish- ment was to change chief organizers in Detroit i and to attack the policies of Dr Leo Volman chairman of the auto labor board In steel ev even n less has been een accomplished Several weeks ago Green conferred with Mike Tighe 77 year old head of the Amalgamated Amalgamated Amalgamated Amalga Amalga- mated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Work Work- ers Beyond that nothing has been done Tighe veteran president of the union was re recently recently re- re reelected by a very close margin despite th the fact only members out of voted He has long been under fire for lacking A. 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L militants are demanding of Green that he disregard Tighe and go over his head with a determined I membership drive Heroes Times have changed for government ment agents During the prohibition era a few years ago the shooting of a government sleuth was greeted either with public apathy or ill-concealed ill con- con But today under the vigorous cr crime me suppression suppression- poli policy y of Homer Cummings the wounding or death in in action of these men men is a matter of headline interest and wide nation-wide sympathy From being generally despised en enforcers en- en forcers of an unpopular law government agents have become heroic destroyers of oC marauding thugs hugs and o outlaws s 1 Jouett Sh Shouse use mogul of the Liberty league argues that the Red Cross should take over federal federal fed fed- eral relief Apparently Jouett forgets the d days ys when the Red Cross claimed there was no drouth relief needed in the southwest and when under his leadership the Democrats accused the Red Cross of playing Hoover politics S The Chinese legation if in Washington seldom serves birds bird's nest soup S S i Official hostess of year old Rush Holt West West Virginias Virginia's senatorial prodigy will be his sister Jane Jale S S So Some e people may have hav forgotten it but Senators Senators Senators Sen Sen- Jim Couzens and Bill Borah now rowing over the leadership of the Republican national committee once were the best of friends In fact Couzens offered to finance Borah in a campaign campaign campaign cam cam- to get the Republican nomination away from Calvin Coolidge in 1924 They split wh when n Borah indorsed the McL McLeod od closed bank payoff bill which Couzens because of the Detroit banking deb debacle cle vigorously opposed Important to Secretary of Interior Harold I Ickes is the job of Pete Pele Lavezoli He elms clio all news and arid editorial items that have a personal slant on Ickes himself paste pastes them up in loose- loose leaf scrapbooks I 1934 IUt United Feature Syndicate In Inc 1 I f. f J t S i l to 1 l li i i t d. |
