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Show Merry-Go-Round By DREW f EAESON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON A secret A. F. I. attempt to have th reappointment of Donald W. Smith a labor board commissioner withdrawn ran into a chilly reception at the White House last week. Withdrawal of Smith' name haa been urged on Roosevelt by both liberal and conservative advisers, Including Vice President Garner, who argued thet a defeat on Smith's confirmation would be harmful to tha administration at tha beginning of a new congress. The A. F, L. made it overture through a friendly new deder, who went directly to the president with the federation' message that he nam another appointee "acceptable to both the A. F. L. and tha C. I. O." Roosevelt' answer waa a flat turn-down. He told the emiaaary that when he reappointed Smith last summer he wss fully aware that there would be a hot confirmation fight that ha waa determined to stsnd by his guns. Th J resident also intimated that ha was consider-ng consider-ng making a radio speech defending the work of the labor board and Smith' part in it Alice Longworth ' For many year Alice Roosevelt Longworth ha cast covetous eye upon th gold piano in th East room of the White House, told friends that th piano waa given her by the Steinway company when her father waa preaident and that it wa not the property of the White House. Recently, a new piano wa given to the White House, but Alice Longworth did not get the old one. Her presidential cousin had other plans. They gave it to the Smithsonian Institution. In-stitution. New dealer were myitified last week when the White House announced the appointment of George Proudfit as U. S. marshal in Nebraska. Proudfit was Senator Burkes campaign manager, man-ager, and about as strong an anti-new dealer a Burke. Later in the day, however, came the solution solu-tion of th mystery. Commenting on the reported re-ported appointment of Frank Murphy of Michigan Michi-gan as attorney general, Senator Burke, who was expected to oppose his confirmation, announced: an-nounced: "A good organizer Is needed to obtain an efficient department of Justice, and Murphy appear ap-pear to be qualified on that score." MORAL: Two and two make four in politic poli-tic as well a in arithmetic. Life Job Scramble The' undercover scramble for the 24 district and circuit court vacancies that have been awaiting action on the president's desk i approaching ap-proaching the proportion of a stampede. Some of the most prominent Democratic committee chairmen -ia congres ar trying to wangle one of these life jobs, among them Representative Rep-resentative Marvin Jones of Texas, head of the house agricultural committee. Hi backers are RFChairman Jesse Jones and Jack Garner. What Marvin want i the vacancy on tha court of appeal of the District of Columbia. Another angler for thi one i Congressman Goldsborough of Maryland. In fact, this is the choicest plum of all, for it mean a life job right in the capital, and the anguish of ex-congressmen who have to leave the gay whirl of Washington for tha prairie states is heartrending. heart-rending. The job, however, h been promised to Jerome Frank, dyspeptic commissioner of the SEC. Harry Hopkins Aaked by a friend how he liked hi new job a secretary of commerce, Harry Hopkins replied: "I've been laughing to myself ever" since I took ofice. In the W P A I could hire or fire 3.000,000 people and now I can hire only one person, my secretary . NOTE All personnel In th commerce He-, partment is under civil service, a large portion being holdovers from Republican regimes. Senate Aspirant Inside reason why Representative Carl E. Mapes, 13-term Michigan veteran, withdrew in favor of Representative Joe Martin as G. O. P. floor leader, Is that Mapes is planning to go after the seat of Senator Arthur Vandenberg in 1940. With Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, Mapes is senior Republican in length of service in the house. With this seniority (tending behind him, Mape could have made it tough for Martin. But Mapes decided de-cided to keep hi hands free to reach for Vandenberg' Van-denberg' toga next year. BEFORE: During last summer's election campaign, Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine 'hotly attacked government spending. Declared he: "States would be a lot better oft if, they never had a dollar of federal money." AFTER: Sine November 8, Barrows has made several visits to Washington to get funds for a C C C camp, a new dormitory for the state university, an addition to the state prison, and a lobster breeding pooL |