Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-06 | Page 4 | Merry-Go-Round

Round Merry Mart By DREW PEARSON end and ROBERT ALLEN AlIEN V WASHINGTON The The ASHINGTON-The The opening of air ro routes tes across the Pacific has put the United States into a secret race to solidify claims to certain strategic atolls There was a da day when no nation would lift a finger to claim these pinpoints on the bosom of the Pacific Except for deposits of guano accumulated ed through centuries of bird habitation they were considered useless Now however they form vital stones stepping-stones for air transport to China and Vanous Various Various Vari Van ous agencies of the government have begun a series of quiet maneuvers to annex them definitely for the United States Three of ot the most strategic islands are Baker Howland and Jarvis Jaryis which can be reached if you turn left at Hawaii and proceed due south toward New Zealand They will be vital to any airmail service between San Francisco and Australia There is some quest question on about their sovereignty The United States carried on guano operations there between 1857 and 1879 But since then they have been included in the British group So not long ago a U. U S. S coast guard vessel anchored offshore On it was W W. T. T Miller of the bureau of air commerce He had first gone to Honolulu where he p picked 12 native boys from one of the best schools four to live on each of the coveted islands for four months Officially they are to take daily weather r ob oh- oh Actually they are there to fulfill the international principle that poss possession is nine ninepoints ninepoints ninepoints points of the law Note Note Dr Dana Coman of the Johns Hopkins faculty is also on the islands with a party engaged in studying guano deposits In the Same Boat Herbert Hoover and William E. E Borah are Borah-are are miles apart on economic philosophy social issues and by personal antipathy But they have one onel thing in common As Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican presidential possibilities both are an anathema anathema anathema an- an to the inner coterie of party rulers Reason for this varies with the two men The G. G O 0 0 P. P leaders are against Hoover because they consider him a liability fear that if he should snatch the nomination Republican chances of de defeating defeating defeating de- de Roosevelt in 1936 would go glimmering Borah is disliked because of his liberal views Privately the party chieftains conce concede e that he would offer the stron strongest est threat to Roosevelt But they cant can't swallow his ideas So behind the scenes they are exerting every effort to ax both him and Hoover Both men are fully aware of this and each in his own way is fighting back Borah will head the Idaho dele delegation to the national convention This will give him the privilege priVilege ileSe of the floor and a chance to attempt a stampede stampede stampede stam stam- pede of the delegates to his banner Hoover is trying to boom public support over the heads of the hostile leaders This is the explanation explanation ex ex- behind his Oakland Cal speech last month and his forthcoming address in New York City His strategy is to build himself up as the leading leading leading lead lead- ing conservative champion a against the New Deal His theory is that big contributors hostile to the administration will force the G. G O. O P. P to give Jive him the nomination The winter and spring months will tell the story of this plans plan's success or failure S Stacked high in in the corridors of Tugwell's re resettlement resettlement resettlement re- re settlement administration hundreds of loose-leaf loose note books have lain for weeks without any notes in in them They have fine new binders with these words stamped on the outside Manual of dure As yet the there e has been no procedure S S The most recent order issued by Secretary Ickes informs his staff that they arc are allowed to open their windows In other seasons window- window raising in in the conditioned air-conditioned offices is banned S S S The W V P A drama plan for or putting unemployed actors to work is bucking buckin a against Broadway op op- op- op i position Two managers John Golden and Eva Le Lc have denounced it Copyright 1033 1035 by United K Syndicate Inc