Show ThE DAlLY DAILY Merry Go Round Trade Mark Marie MarieDy MarkBy Dy By DREW rEARS PEARSON ON and ROBERT ALLEN The WASHINGTON V ocean mail contract relations soon to be aired by the senate investigators investigators gators promise more authentic excitement than those uncovered during the airmail The committees committee's agents have dug up a huge mass of page front gasps Here are a few of the charges due for public airing Comfortable Income That a certain official of a snipping shipping line heavily subsidized by the government drew over o a year in salary and expenses the latter consisting of such items as 75 a day for meals for waiters waiters' tips 75 for taxi fare Nice Commission That another subsidized company had an executive who conceived the brilliant rich get Quick scheme of charging his own company in commissions for lor buying government vessels at bar counter bargain counter ain rates But this is not all The official will be accused of oC extracting extracting extract extract- I ing this money from the company's tilt at a time when it was in default to the thc government on its payment for the ships Healthy Profit That a third concern which started in the shipping business with the modest sum of in eight years thanks to government subsidies and lavish loans by the shipping board made madea a profit of more than Fat Fee Fcc That an attorney was paid a feeby lee fee leeby by one line to obtain a single contract from the government But even this was relatively small change to the swag the committee agents say that was grabbed off by the head of a holding company owning several subsidized ship lines In one year they report he netted in salary and bonuses Momentous Bm Bill The recently enacted Bankhead cotton control con con- bill is likely to be the most momentous legislation passed this session The insiders realize this Particularly Secretary Wallace Vallace and his A AAA A A staff It will wiIl be up to them to administer administer ad- ad minister the act They would have preferred a afar alar far lar more extensive public discussion of the rev rev- ol step before it was written on the statute books In blunt language langua e what the act does is to end definitely traditional American laissez laissez- as far as the production of cotton is concerned Henceforth the farmer big and small will grow only that amount of cotton the government tells him he may The grower who exceeds his government fixed allotment can be penalized by a heavy tax on every pound of excess production What is particularly interesting and significant significant cant is that its originators and sponsors are among the most conservative Democratic members mern- mern bers of con ress The two Bankhead brothers RepresentatIve William B. B and Senator John H H. both from Alabama are wealthy men the latter latter lat lat- ter for years an attorney for lor the potent Alabama Power Light company The liberal Wallace and his radical brain on the other I hand were cool and reluctant regarding the proposal World orld Court Despite the operations of a vigorous lobby plus a wIde nation propaganda campaign there will be no vote on the world court this session Democratic and Republican senate floor leaders have quietly gotten to together to see t to that The issue will be stalled In commIttee commIt commIt- tee until toward the end of the session and then deftly shoved back into its dusty p pigeonhole a Despite hostility to the new deal Cotton Colton CottonEd Ed Smith takes care that he is dealt with right He has two dau daughters on the con congressional pa payroll although neither visibly works in his office One spends a lot of time on his plantation plantation planta- planta tion in South Carolina the other is a popular deb in the capital S S 0 Oklahoma's year old rookie Representative Win Will Rogers known among his colleagues as sill has emulated his gum gum- chewing wisecracking namesake Ro Rogers ers writes a weekly column on Washington affairs which appears in Oklahoma weeklies and dailIes He distributes it free under government frank Rogers Rogers' secret ambition is to run runor for or the senate 0 0 Josephine Roach Colorados Colorado's famous coal operator operator op- op who once bucked Rockefeller in the famous fa- fa Colorado coal war var Is being ur urged ed to run for governor of that state Her friends think she could be elected hands down but they cant can't get her to desert coal for politics Raul de dc Mcdina son of the former Bolivian minister has written a book on the Monroe doctrine which is attracting considerable diplomatic diplomatic diplo- diplo matic attentions He contends that P Pan America should be mutually responsible for upholding the doctrine Dick Jervis head of the White House secret service sta staff f is the ace chess player around the executive offices b. b Futuro Syndicate Inc |