Show Round Merry I Powerful Alaska n Leads Fight Against i iBy By nr Drew Pearson WASHINGTON 8 th rot confidential list of lobbyists j In congress the other day I noti noticed ce d t th a o f r CaP c ap L LathroP a th rop with the foil foU r. r to 0 tion Lion Richest man in Alaska a tl Alaskan statehood to save taxes tax ate stooge is Hugh Butler BUller of The date of oC that Net entry in m my Y m fly June 5 1918 t Today April 1919 Cap Lath Lahr the man who pulls the wires ires that rop r L Lator ator Butler talk also the man wh Rho maln n but dominating Alaskan matters matte rs beo before ate interior affairs committee tb k nine months mon months up th up s-up up until unlit this this' this rZ w- w a Viii I blocked locked confirmation of Dr Er Ering Ernes r best in G. G mg ing governor Alaska's Alaska s histo hW- hW in a recent local election got 80 ry t i of Alaskan support Pr r c Testifying against him before or tie tb ate committee was Charlie e t t tex J o ex- ex U. ex-U. U. U S. S marshal who read react I a a. statement as follows Pr lr e r The governor entices people i fai luxurious mansion mansion and b beguiles lay lh tW food and drink oh hell C L 1 interrupted himself that dont don't soy me I take it you didn't Write It t K queried Chairman O Mahoney of W ri VV l JC I Who Vho did Cap Lathrop's secretary replied I Senator Anderson of New Mem Memmer mer secret secretary ry of agriculture took r tt cross You say in this statement Witt you Anderson asked that the g go beguiled people with food and arid dr drink how would you say it in your own ritt Id say replied Charlie Jones TV gave them a drink Lathrop who owns five th and two newspapers LS is L gri griped d k t.- Gruening induced the Alaskan k legs to Impose a local income tax for t 1 te time in history Another witness wetness against ert Hoops asked the senate COKE permission to prepare a statement But replied O Mahoney ss-e ss re i a i have a statement from you It aai by Mr r. Lathrop Lathrop hadn't even given Roc fix chance to read his statement Meanwhile 41 Alaskans vigor of Gruening chartered th the tha special plane and flew to Washington ashington they arrived gave only ithem i them five minutes each to testify testify-i of 30 minutes However much fewer in number t U tz practically all day Note Finally Lathrop's tactic tactics and the senate e committee unanimously for Governor Cold War ar ar of or Cocktails Cocktails Fellow Fellow In of Bevin and Gromyko are arc telling b lr the liner Queen Mary ary the two d indulged in a cold war war war-of of cocktails Foreign Secretary Bevins Bevin's rig zif man Hector McNeil whipped up a i tail party about halfway ay between amp ampton ton and New York inviting in i iother iother t i other foreign ministers ab aboard ard pI pta phi Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko Gromyko accepted but accepted but did not note si Two days later Bevin him himself lf sJ cocktail party This time Gromyko show either But the reason was df He wasn't invited Round Merry Bill Boyle T ft r former secretary now with ith the Den Dec national committee became dim Colonial Airlines in 1915 collected I a legal fee in 1947 i. i In 1918 1915 Ct fc got approval of C CAB A B routes and i I pay increase in a mail contract Tuesday a caller at the White Hour Hous big business mogul Floyd Odium chi cs of Consolidated Aircraft on Tue Tuesday day the air force canceled c. c for 43 Boeing B 54 bombers and o. o more B from Odium's Conso Louis Johnson new nea st MS of national defense was director ci cf Betty F. F of an ex V exA WAC ex-WAC A C with good war record reaO fired the thc other day from a small small del She had refused to contribute 1 la t to i I Jackson ferson-Jackson dinner So the I D c a fired her Credit the Columbus Ledger and the citizens of Column unmasking the Ku Klux Klan lOan They Ther Theran Theyan an ordinance banning masks exert ex characters Christmas and Halloween Benzedrine Dope The Dope The m manufacture benzedrine recently tried to gressman George Grant of Alabama J bill to require a doctors doctor's benzedrine i U b Grants Grant's bill followed a story u column on how hO prison inmates water rater t school kids S were n bums and high benzedrine inhalers for dope The manufacturers manufacturers Smith Smith 1 w French laboratories of P d g officials ls to promptly sent two J They premised to stop selling berz berze f l i balers in Alabama also showed hO w were treating the benzedrine e eit it couldn't be used for dope Stopping the sale of 1 I in Alabama Grant replied n rest of the country any good He I Ito to see what the labor laboratories torie c cdo chew Grant is S still suu P r do but meanwhile his bill ti j Copyright 1949 Bell S syndiCS Syndic 1 I |