Show Round Merry Mer Go R d r y 0 u n Mark Marie MarieBy By DREW PEARSON N end nd ROBERT ALLEN llEN ALLENs c s WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Confidential Confidential reports received by the state department from Italy indicate a much more desperate condition desperate 4 condition than has leaked out through censored press dispatches Not only omy have Italian troops in East Africa been heen defeated but there has been increasing restlessness restless restless- ness at home Strikes have taken place in several several several sev sev- eral Italian munitions plants There has been dis disaffection affection among the th Alpine troops pride of the Italian army with the result that some of them are being transferred to the Abyssinian front Finally an underground communist organization tion is reported to be gaining ground throughout Italy All of these situations have contributed to a secret Franco British plan to intervene with a anew anew anew new peace plan to save Italy While they dislike and distrust Mussolini the French and British cannot afford to have him crack up This especially is the view of the French Mussolini as a checkmate against Hitler's Austrian ambitions is worth far more to the French than any altruism in Abyssinia The new peace plan will not go go goas as as far as the Laval Hoare-Laval agreement Also the French and British this time will try first to get the official stamp of the league It will be put forward as a league plan What the British frankly fear is that Mussolini facing defeat in East Africa AfrIa will try to save face by persuading his people that they are being at attacked attacked attacked at- at tacked by Europe and become the mad dog of the Mediterranean This would general I war New A AAA AA Now NoWr that the p plan of revamping the A AAA A AA Ais is completed ted Henry Wallace is almost of ot the opinion that the overhauling may have done some good after all I Reason is that when Wallace Vallace first became secretary secretary secretary sec sec- sec sec- I of of- agriculture one thing he wanted to ac accomplish ac- ac was an embracing all-embracing system of soil conservation conserVation conservation con con- whereby the government could help rebuild the land on every mans man's farm However even in the days of the brain trust this was considered too idealistic and visionary It was marked down as something to aim at within the next few lew years But now under the revamped A A A this goal virtually has been attained Its provision whereby a farmer sets sets' aside a certain acreage each year also gives the government the right to tell him how it shall be planted in planted in legumes grass etc ac according to chemical analysis of the soil This is virtually what Wallace originally in in- in tended Prayerful Attitude Senate Democratic Floor Leader Joe Robinson was was' holding a press conference in his office and during the course of the discussion rested his hands before his face He might have been in an art attitude of prayer As he did so a photographer clicked his lila camera Joe bolted upright snapped Here you Destroy that plate I dont don't want my picture appearing in the papers of the country in a prayerful attitude Unafraid I Verner W. W Main hopes he wont won't die in office but he is ready for anything fate has in store for him He is the he new congre congressman man from Michigan's third district The last five congressmen representing representing representing that district have died in office Main but Im I'm Im not superstitious says something of a fatalist If fate has ordained that I must die die before before my time why worry about it There is isa a destiny that shapes our ends rough hew them though we may In fateful order the following five died before before their term ext expired ired William H. H Frankhauser who i committed suicide in 1921 John M. M C. C Smith who died in 1923 1023 after serving 21 months Arthur B. B Williams who died after an operation in 1925 Joseph L. L Hooper who died of a heart attack in 1934 Henry M. M Kimball who died last October after 11 months in office But Main is not disturbed He says it helps to be a fatalist He smiles from a round dimpled face and exudes the optimism of 3 a man who has been a a Presbyterian elder cIder a Kiwanis president and a leader of the Boy Scouts of America The fact is however that Main took out extra life insurance before stepping into the shoes of five de dead d men S S S When Jim Davis of Pennsylvania delivered a mining discourse in the senate recently l his s only listener was colleague Joe Gulf Gulley Guffey ey of Penn Penn- sylvania S 'S f S S The bonus is a bewhiskered issue to bewhiskered bewhiskered bewhiskered ered Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts Sixteen Sixteen Sixteen Six Six- teen times it has been presented during his term of office Sixteen times he ne has voted No S S S Abolition of new deal emergency agencies would not lighten the burden of McCarl's general accounting office which is three to five years be behind behind behind be- be hind in its ge general 1 routine This in spite of taking on 1700 1100 temporary to help in emergency accounting S S S Probing for valuable papers to be stored in the new nw Archives building examiners have found war trade board records stored in the White House g garage rage S S S The 1935 bill for congressional printing and bind binding g was more more than han 2 Biggest item of the bill is the capitols capitol's daily The Congressional Record CO ge IU U aC |