Show i 1 Round Merry Kind Words for Baruch Byrnes By Drew Pearson V WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jimmie Byrnes spry year old e secretary ex-secretary of state ex Su j preme Court justice senator ex-senator and pre present pres- pres prevent 11 ent of oC South governor z s Carolina h has ls a nickname nick nick- r i f 4 name for his fellow South Carolinian an Bernard Bernard Bernard Ber Ber- nard M. M Baruch Byrnes Jai II f I calls the year old Baruch Baruck Baruch Ba Ba- ruch ruck Old Man Diem 41 1 The other day Old 1 Man Diem telephoned J Byrnes from New York to tell him about a surprise sur sur- surprise r prise meeting he had r r rhad 4 had with President Tru- Tru Drew Pearson 1 J Jome man at the h home ome of General George Marshall Marshall Mar Mar- shall at Leesburg Va Despite the fact that Truman once had written Baruch a bitter letter he was quite cordial at the meeting Governor and Baruch so reported to Governor Governor Gov Gov- Byrnes The President he said was very cordial and I greeted him the same way I knew you'd get in his camp at the first opportunity wisecracked Byrnes who Iho has lias not noticeably warmed up to Truman following his own quarrel Our conversation said Baruch continuing continuing continuing con con- his telephone conversation to Byrnes been going goin long when your name came up And the President remarked You know in all my public life I have never met a man more capable capable capable capa capa- ble than Jim Byrnes Will you say that again asked Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Byrnes joking half-joking pretending half-pretending not to hear Baruch repeated the Presidents President's complimentary complimentary complimentary com com- remark I haven't been reading the papers papers papers' carefully replied the governor of South Carolina but it seems to me that Ive I've heard somewhere that there was going to tobe tobe tobe be a presidential election next year year Note Complimentary remarks or uncomplimentary uncomplimentary uncomplimentary un un- un- un complimentary remarks Jimmie Timmie Byrnes will not be for Truman Hes He's for Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- hower on hower-on on either the Republican or Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic critic ticket Democratic Pipeline Pipeline Ousted Ousted as baseball baseball baseball base base- ball commissioner unhappy Happy Chandler has been making the rounds of ot othis his Democratic friends seeking the new job of Democratic national chairman 1 Senator Kerr of Oklahoma is lining up 1 the powerful oil and gas interests behind 1 Governor ex-Governor Roy Turner of Oklahoma t tobe to tobe be national chairman Ed Flynn Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic boss of the Bronx slipped sUpped his candidate candidate candi candi- date Paul Fitzpatrick in the White House side door for a secret talk with the President President dent about becoming Democratic chair chair- man However insiders say the President privately favors Robert Butler the St. St Paul shipbuilder Outgoing Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic Chairman Bill Boyle is taking no chances on having the Democratic national committee electing a dark horse to succeed succeed succeed suc suc- him He has sent out invitations to all national committeemen to attend the election meeting or send their proxies on Oct Oct- 31 At the bottom of oC the however Boyle has typed the following postscript Unless you wish to make the proxy out to any particular person it would simplify our handling of the meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing if you omit an any name and permit meto mt me to fill it in Tennessee Feudist The feudist The incident was hushed up but shortly before Congress adjourned adjourned ad ad- year old Senator McKellar of ol Tennessee added round six to his record as the Senates Senate's most belicose member In past encounters McKellar l has tried to bean one victim with a gavel boot another another another an an- other in the pants flail another with a rollof rollof roll rollof of newspapers newspapers and and once he landed a surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise left hook This time however McKellar l attacked with his walking stick sUck The incident took place behind closed doors of the Senate j Appropriations Committee The victim was as Displaced Persons Commissioner Harry who made the mistake of oC interrupting a McKellar l harangue The old man had been hounding Displaced Displaced Displaced Dis Dis- placed Persons Chairman John Gibson who had difficulty understanding I beg your pardon sir he kept repeating Finally McKellar snapped there anyone myone around here who understands anything anything any any- thing about this jumped up to his colleagues colleague's defense If II the Chairman of the Displayed PerSons Persons Persons Per Per- sons Commission doesn't know anything about displaced persons began But McKellar cut him off You cant can't talk to me like that he shrieked You sit down I dont don't want to hear another word from you at this meeting Shaking with anger and shouting incoherently incoherently in in- coherently McKellar picked up his cane and lunged at The commissioner commissioner commissioner commis commis- ducked and the blow narrowly missed his head Washington Pipeline The Pipeline The freshman congressmen's dinner for Senator Taft was switched the last minute from the Congressional Hotel to the Hotel 2400 2400 because Murray Olf the Washington lobbyist lobbyist lob lob- for racketeer Frankic Frankie Costello lives at the Congressional Congressional investigators checking on scandals inside the Internal Revenue Bureau are using I assumed names They think they are being be bee being ing watched by treasury agents Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Tafts Taft's forces have lost one of the key backstage G GO GOP 0 P advisers John G G. Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett of Rochester Though unknown to r t voters he knows the inside of the Republican Republican lican party better than anyone in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Russia isn't waiting for the United Nations to decide who owns the 1 Islands extending out into the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- J cHic between Japan and Alaska Large groups of immigrants have already been sent to the to colonize them I The Army has picked up information tion th that t in public Russia Russ a has been calling for ar a r Uie Korean truce while privately urging Chinese to continue the war j |