Show W Cutback Ruling I Limits Aid to Big Companies By P Drew Pearson WASHINGTON Few business business busi busi- ness leaders know it but many Inside the war production board were flabbergasted ted at the r ruling rifling that no company getting less than a 8 cutback should receive government aid aidor aidor aidor or consideration This was wall the recent decision of or Charley Chanley Wilsons Wilson's Wil- Wil sons aon's special committee on P postwar pot post t- t war conversion n. n What it means is that the big companies which got most of ot ott t the to c war orders orden will now get government government government gov gov- help while the little companies wont won't For instance if Ie a plant is notified by the army or navy to cut back a war order of ot OOOO worth of ot Jeeps it g gets ts no no consideration from the government But 1 if 1 it it gets get socked a cancellation cancellation cancellation cancella cancella- tion it can get help A lot of small companies doing a million dollars worth of ot business or less are going to be among th the hardest hardest hardest hard hard- est hit It n still remains a fact tact that seven U. U S. S companies s got 50 per cent of ot all war orders They are General Motors Du Pont Bethlehem Steel Newport rt News Ship New York Ship Curtiss- Curtiss and Standard Oil on of New Jersey When Whim Jesse Jones went in to see his boss in the White House last week ostensibly It was not ot over the Texas political revolt Instead ad F FD D R wanted to see him about abou the subsidy for stripper oil wells which the rest of the administration agreed on but for which Jesse refused to write a R F C check J Jesse smilingly reversed himself on the oil subsidy sub sub- sidy aMy following the White House talk But his his' position n regarding the Texas Roosevelt anti-Roosevelt revolt re remains remains remains re- re mains the same same I 1 never knew anything about it until I read it itIn itin itin in the papers This in effect was what he took occasion to tell the president during their oil conference Friends gathered afterwards that DR R didn't exactly exactly exactly ex ex- ex- ex believe him i Dear Alben Bar Barkley ley would give his eye teeth to know wh whether or not the president has completely forgiven him for tor his sudden revolt on the tax veto message last winter The answer answer answer an an- according to White House insiders is that the president has has almost almost forgiven him but not quite If and when there ere is a fourth term Jesse Jones they say may be i in a different category The general whose name was suddenly ly withdrawn b by the White House f for o r promotion cracked up on on the beach in France His name had been sent to the senate senat for tor prom promotion tion to tomajor tomajor tomajor major general and was about to be approved by the senate military affairs committee But General Marshall happened to see him completely gone to pieces on the thel beach and sent a quick radio message to the I White House to withdraw his name from the promotion list These things happen In wartime wartime wartime war war- time but some senators are now questioning the wisdom of quick promotions for generals during wartime Senators Hill Kilgore Thomas of f Utah and Johnson of Colorado favor more more promotions for the boys rangIng ranging rang rang- ing from corporal to major less for generals until generals until after the war One boy who deserves p promotion promotion pro pro- o- o motion wherever he is is young Lieutenant T Ted d Binder who went down over Berlin last week while week while a squadron of ot 60 Flying Fortresses If IC he made madea a mistake in direction then the 60 planes with him did too But Buthe Buthe Buthe he It t was wa's his twenty twenty- sixth mission over Europe Last winter a newspaper cor cor- respondent asked Lieutenant Binder how tow he liked London I 1 dont don't know he said This is the f first time Ive I've been in ln Lon Lon- don But Ive I've seen Berlin three times s. s Merry Go One reason for or the U. U US U.S. S S. attack on the Marianna Marianna Mari Mari- anna islands was was' was was' to dare the Jap fleet to come out and fight Real reason why Jim Farley Farley Farley Far Far- ley resigned tr from m the N New York York state Democratic committee when be he did was the impending selection of a a- a aNew New York campaign campaign campaign cam cam- man manager ger When Jim was reelected state chairman it was with the understanding that that- he would permit the selection of ot a campaign manager acceptable to the thC White House Bob Hannegan Hannegan Hannegan Han- Han who made the arrangement arrange arrange- menlo ment said no percentage percentage percent percent- age in having Jim pick a a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York manager who might go goIn goin goin in the thc opposite direction from Roosevelt So when the time I came for tor a N N. Y manager to tobe tobe tobe be selected Jim realized that the appointment would make him a mere figurehead He re resign resigned resigned re- re sign signed d The angle of the cosmetics business laido said laid o 0 OPA's OPAs p A As A's Martha Wood recently has occasioned a good deal of ot amusement to the dignitaries of the 0 OP P A. A It has been a a. little startling to lawyers lawyers' and economists mists mist to be asked to approve an order pricing a a. new perfume which is described by the manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- as Savage avage Love Love Love-dis- dis distilled tilled by cabalistic incantations at the quarter of ot the moon when the sap is running full as a 11 case for tor establishment of maximum prices under Section 6 Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Para Para- graph B TF Maximum Price Regulation Copyright 1944 by United Feature Syndicate |