Show THE nIE DAILY WASHINGTON Merry Go Go Round Trade Mark MarkBy MarkBy MarkBy t By DREW PEARSON lEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON Despite General Hugh Johnsons Johnson's objections the house labor committee commit commit- tee plans reporting out a hour 30 work week bill bilI Ii Massachusetts Massachusetts' wiry little chairman of the committee William P. P Connery Jr time one-time vaudeville hoofer has set his heart on forcing a record vote in the house Last year the senate senate sen sen- ate passed the Black hour 30 bill and Connery was all set to put it through the house when the National Industrial Recovery act was substituted substituted sub sub- in its place i Connery supported the N NIRA I R A but he has I never abandoned his first love the flat hour 30 work week proposal A strong trade unionist i he is convinced that legislation of this nature I with supplementary safeguards for wage protection protection pro pro- I will do more to reduce leduce unemployment rolls than all the codes that can be devised Secretary Perkins Reli Relief f Administrator Harry Hopkins arid the A. A F. F of L. L are for the shorter work week Johnson is not opposed to the principle but does not believe it can be achieved by legislation Diplomatic Reporting The state department watched the riots in Vienna with genuine worry and conc concern n. n If Italian troops troops massed massed in the Tyrol Tyrol crossed crossed the border war war in E Europe ope was almost able ble Secretary Hull Hun scanned the headlines in the newspapers awaited reports from A. A W. W Kliefoth Kliefoth Kliefoth Klie- Klie foth his charge in Vienna It is the duty of every diplomatic officer without awaiting awaiting await await- ing lug instructions to report on unusual events in his country But from no reports came Finally the state department sent a gentle reminder Will be glad to have report on situation its cable read More time elapsed Still no report from Kliefoth Impatient the state department finally finally final final- ly sent a peremptory demand Send report on rioting immediately it cabled Finally Kliefoth's report came It minimized minimized mini mini- the disturbance said only people were killed whereas every pape paper in the coun country coun try placed the deaths deaths' at a mini minimum mm of 1000 George Earle American minister to Austria on leave in the U. U S. S A. A was rushed back to 0 his post Jones 1 oneS vs J Jones ones onesIn In banking circles a a good laugh is going the he rounds on Jesse Jones hulking voiced soft chairman of the R B F C. C Some Som weeks ago Jesse spoke very sharply to the banking community He warned that if It the bankers didn't open up and begin lending money to industry the government would I go go into the business itself It was was was' all very solemn and serious erious until an ingenious banker recalled having seen serin the st statement state stat t o ment of a certain bank This report showed that while the bank had gained in dep deposits sits from June 30 to December r 31 1933 only a little over of this money went into loans and discounts The rest went into the banks bank's vaults in the form of cash and government gov bonds The bank is the National Bank Balik of Commerce Com merce of Houston Texas Founder and chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of its board of ot directors is Jesse Jones the same hulking voiced soft-voiced chairman of ot the B F C. C Selfish 47 41 Ever since the convening of congress congre s Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Hiram Johnson has been besieged by California California Cali Call fornia delegations seeking public works funds His long and close friendship with Secretary Ickes the high regard in which the president holds h him hin rn has las made a e him the object of oL every appropriation seeker From early morning until late at night they have crowded his office office- dogged his footsteps Last week he finally assembled them all aU at one onetime onetime one onetime I time in a room had each one list his project tabulated them on a large sheet of paper When they had finished the total of the funds they sought was Gentlemen he asked them where do you expect this money to come from Why interjected one of the crowd the tho president asked for for fora additional public works funds in his budget message So he did replied Johnson bitingly A And AndI d dI I suppose those damn hogs in the other 47 states will want the remaining also Round Go Mayor LaGuardia h has uncovered a scandal in the New York hospitals as bad as that re re- re unearthed on Governors Governor's island Tam Tam- many-appointed many doctors doctors' and nurses are accused of graft criminal neglIgence and of beating patients A mass of evidence has been taken in the hospitals The s andal may break any time tune a aWilliam William S. S C Culbertson lb ambassador ex-ambassador to Chile is Washington's latest legal lobbyist He Heis Heis Heis is re representing resenting Gug Guggenheim enheim and J. J P. P Morg Morgan n with large i interests in m Chile also various sugar companies es with interests in C Cuba ba and Peru b br United Feature Syndicate Inc IDe |