Show Round Merry I J I r Briton Backfires On Foes of Public Housing i By y Drew Pearson s l' l WASHINGTON Hottest backfire real estate lobby has suffered in its b ba bat t against public housing didn't get Into newspapers It occurred at a private dinin din dim dimin in Washington in honor of Sir Harold B 13 man British housing tycoon I 11 The dinner was given by Mrs Fran Fra Freed widow of the Ule late Allie S S. S Fla Fr Fl Fi Fia a big construction tycoon who Buckingham apartments across the Poto in Virginia At the dinner were Edi Edwi EdW Carr head ex-head of the National Association Home Builders Oscar Kruetz president preside the National Savings and Loan league Morton Bodfish of the U. U S S. S Savings Loan league the latter indicted indicted for vI vie tion lion of the lobbying act Sir Harold is chairman of the Abbey Building Bunding society society British British equiv of the Savings and Loan league league sort sok American friends were all sot for anning an anning i ining ning or oratorical fireworks against p pul housing on both sides of or the Atlantic a i M The British financier got a big h ha when he blasted at stringent govern controls on private housing construe in his country Suddenly however applause died like a busted light bulb bulb- Figuring Figuring- he would also blast public h hint he h int ing in England and thus provide amts amm ammU U tion n they could use against the Taft Taft-I Wagner Vagner housing program the di df guests g began beg asking about the danger socialized housing in America I cant can't agree to that that replied Harold Of course I would rathe rather comment on your American programs program program public housing because I do not f fe proper to do so But I can tell you the that British program has worked out sa sai In fact as I see Bee it its it's the way to provide adequate housing for income groups G GO GOP 0 P Yale Mole In Instead tead o of or Elephant Elephant Mi Mi his sota's sofas the Jack-in-the-box Senator H HUB Hu Humphrey has come up with a new for the G 0 O P in place of or the traditional At a Democratic banquet in burgh Humphrey suggested that the symbol for the Republican party be mole J p The mole Humphrey explained sees in th the darkness and is blinded by sunlight ht t That is typical of the Republic explained the senator from Minne Minnei They arc are just discovering the yeste yester today and are unwilling to recognize there will be any tomorrows S round Merry round Out Out in Seattle R R. R are scheming to run a woman a ag bachelor Senator Warren Washington next year They figure figur only candidate who can beat the some senator is Mrs l Pearl state superintendent of education but butis butis butis is some worry that Mrs Wanamake heart i is a Democrat The Democrat The Wardman Vardman hotel in Washington refused to le let Ie Ralph Bunche the Negro diplomat diploma t. t mediated the Palestine dispute sp one of its hotel rooms Th The middle ea e esti sti tute had reserved a private room in inDr Dr Bunche was to hold a round with a small group of e c But when the hotel discovered that B Bi was a Negro it cancelled the rese and returned the money The Nationalist government has moved billion dollars in gold reserves to a hideaway in m Formosa The gold was WM in the dead of night President man will name George P P. Shaw n now to Nicaragua as El EI Salvador The Russians are i m exhaustive preparations for the foreign meeting The American emb Moscow reports that lights in the R Ri foreign office have hae been burning until i ifor for the past we week k Foreign Minister insky reports on the job about 2 doesn't leave until about 8 am a.m. f Lou LOll Gehri Gehrig's s 's Widow Widow Mrs Lou Lau C made a a. big hit with the senate su sill on health when sh she testified f to combat multiple dread disease that felled her ing husband at the peak of his caree career However one sidelight of the h j didn't get in the newspapers It oc DC oca when committee clerk Reidy passed note that caused Mrs Irs Gehrig to re rca j her handkerchief The note read Dear Mrs Gehrig You Gehrig-You You dont don't kno but I used to play ball on the san sand New York with Lou When he was ball for Columbia University and late latea lat a great star with the Yankees he fr came down to street in Hag Harf teach me and other kids the fine po the game g That was a mighty tough neIgh but the gang fights always sto stopp PP Lou showed up He did a lot Jot to s at and many of those tough ki Id kf went on to amount to something will willbe willbe iU iUbe be grateful to him t The note was signed Bill Reidy |