| Show I Between You Y an an and l Me ij L JI i Reporters at Hyde Park Miss Coughlin Visit Vif Kentucky May Elect G O 0 0 P P P. Governor By Raymond Clapper t It Its It's a Jolly life lito for tor a newspaper er erI I rep reporter assigned to President Roosevelt All the rest of ot u us us chained to o the galleys here in Washington read a little envious enviously ly Jy of ot the gay picnic which the president and arid Mrs Roosevelt gave the White House Houe reporters at Hyde Park A phonograph played the old melodies including no doubt Happy Days Are Arc Here Again I sizzled over the red coals and the president and Mrs Roosevelt with their own hands passed them around to tho the hungry reporters The Tho picnic was put- put doors and very informal After th the eating there were old fash games with the tho president as director of ot festivities There Therewa was vas apple ducking they played musical bumps and had the most fun tun you ever saw sa and the picnic closed with community singing g. g I Only for tor a few tew moments were troublesome duties allowed to obtrude obtrude ob ob- ob trude themselves into the merry merry afternoon Reporters felt as as a matter of ot respect to their home offices where the expense account accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts count are checked over that they to be allowed to have their midweek press conference usually usually al ally y held on that day It was too bad that tho the matter had to come up but the boys had been through a harrowing 24 hours were were in bad with their home offices and so 0 it was decided to Interrupt the thep p pIcnic pic picnic pIc- pIc c- c ni nic festivities for tor a few tew moments while Mr r. r Roosevelt held an al nl alfresco alfresco fresco press conference under the thede Hyde de Park trees The Tho matter that was troubling tho the reporters was this The day before President Roosevelt had entertained ined Father Coughlin at luncheon and th the reporters reporters' had been scooped cooped After luncheon Father Coughlin had gone on to New York and it leaked out that ho had taken luncheon with the president not president not a bad story so tho the editors In New York thought They asked their Hyde Hydo Park re reporters reporters reporters re- re porters to confirm it The White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House reporters asked Secretary McIntyre about It and nd he denied it flatly Father Coughlin must have been dreaming And the editors in Now New York soon heard from their reporters who arc on such intimate terms with President President President dent Roosevelt that there was nothing to the rumor rumor that Father Coughlin had slipped in and had luncheon with the president But you know how editors arc are They are a skeptical lot and they asked the reporters to dig around som some more The reporters worked that but got nothing except denials Ov Overnight t the o editors had assured themselves themselves- that Father Coughlin must have havo been telling the truth about lunching with President Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt velt and they again prodded their reporters who prodded Secretary McIntyre who in turn asked Mr Roosevelt what he should tell teU them Mac tac returned and admitted admitted admitted admit admit- ted to the reporters that Father Coughlin had been at lunch with the president the day before and that JosephP Joseph P. P Kennedy chairman of ot S E p C had made the date and brought the radio adio priest to Hyde P Park rk The reporters reporter's just had time to get getoff off ff this revision of t th the official i 1 Hyde Park intelligence before going go goIng going go go- ing o out outto t to to o the Roosevelt estate for their picnic And when n the ga games es and sing- sing Ing were suspended for tor tho the press conference o on th the lawn the re- re re reporters reporters porters asked Mr Roosevelt about the alleged Coughlin visit Oh Father visit you Su can hear the president echo with a laugh It was a Ii very nico nice social visit And furthermore furthermore furthermore further further- more those were vere just newspaper stories about tho the row between Ickes and Hopkins ins Nothing to toiL it And so everyone went back to to picnicking and the reporters and their genial host made merry Until until until un un- til dusk Then the newspaper correspondents went back to their headquarters at Poughkeepsie to write their pieces for the toe mornIng mornIng morning morn morn- ing papers Two vo Republican candidates for president are close personal and political pals pals Senator Senator Arthur of Michigan and Colonel Frank Knox of Chicago They were young Michigan newspapermen newspapermen newspapermen news news- together years ears ago ngo worked on the tho same paper Last year Colonel Knox nox made the speech that opened Senator Van Van- denberg's senatorial campaign reelection turned him into a rank first presidential possibility But the Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- say they gained 20 per cent I in sections where Knox spoke Upton Sinclair's former campaign campaign campaign cam cam- manager State Chairman Culbert Olson wants to b bo be the Democratic candidate for governor governor governor gover gover- nor in California National Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- r man Farley Farey saw him out there recently and likes his looks Republicans have to walk a tight rope in attacking the new potato control law Representative tive tivo Brewster Republican of Maine has now joined the ranks o of Republican senators like Austin Austin Aus Aus- tin and Gibson of ot Vermont and Borah and new anti-new deal Democrats Democrats Dem Dem- like Byrd of Virginia and Bailey of ot North Carolina all aU of ot whom supported this drastic legislation Chester Davis head of A A A AI didn't want it It and for good reason It carried a recoil like an old fashioned musket Kentucky Democrats split so 80 badly in their recent primary that Republicans hope to elect eject a goVernor governor gov goy this fall faU King Swope the Republican candidate came to congress ss as the baby house member just after tho the war His victory at a special election signalled sig naIled the turn of ot the tide on tho border which swept Harding in a year later Republicans are arc preparing to help him repeat Election Ejection of a Republican governor governor governor gov gov- in Kentucky this fall faU would cast a long Jong shadow over oyer Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic hopes for 1936 Huey Long is the first senator to be e assassinated while whit in office otice according to senate library rec rec- rec- rec Charles Sumner Senator from Massachusetts was was assaulted assault assault- ed in the senate chamber in 1856 by Republican Preston Brooks of South Car Carolina lina and although he lived for tor many years was so severely injured that he never fully recovered Senator David C. C Broderick of California was killed in a duel near San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco in 1859 Senator Edward D. D Baker of Oregon was killed in itt the tho battle batUe of Balls Ball's Bluff in 1861 Carmack of Tennessee after leaving leav leaving leaving ing the senate was assassinated as a result of a political And Senator Frank L. L Greene of ot Ver Vermont while walking on Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania sylvanin avenue was hit by a wild bullet in lii a fight between police pollee and a bootlegger in 1927 1921 He died a afew few years later from in in in- juries On the whole however sitting lin jin in the senate nate still is safer sater than the streets the streets the way automobile automobile automobile au au- au- au drivers drive now A A A figures it has haM had a break in iC ri the decision of ot the circuit clr- clr court of appeals at New Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans refusing an injunction to prevent collection of processing taxes The favorable opinion was delivered by Judge Rufus E. E Foster Foster Fos Fos- ter a Republican indorsed by Associate Associate As As- Justice Harlan Stone then attorney general The other two judges are Democrats one appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed by Coolidge and one by Hoover There arc are 1550 A A. A AA A A cases on oncourt court dockets pr probably bably the argest largest number umber ever filed over one one law 4 i Bacon prices are up 94 9 per cent the labor department says Even at that price you still have to bring home your own bacon |
