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Show Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Aden WASHINGTON President Roosevelt's inauguration in-auguration is today, but the formal Democratic celebration of the history making third term victory will not take place until March 29. That ia the date that has been fixed for the Jackson dsy dinner, the annual affair when all good Democrats come to the aid of the party with checks. In the past the dinner usually haa been held late in January, but this year, because be-cause of the Inaugural and a reorganization within the national committee, it has quietly been decided to hold it in March. National Chairman Ed Flynn and his lieutenants lieu-tenants hope to make the affair bigger and more profitable than ever before. One plan ia to stage dinners in a lot more cities. Another, suggested by Richard Reynolds, Reyn-olds, new national treasurer, is to combine the victory celebration with a reunion of all factions; fac-tions; that is, the return to the fold of the various va-rious leaders who have broken with the party or the president in the past hectic eight years. Among those Reynolds has in mind are men like Al Smith and one time Budget Director ' Iewis Douglas. They now see eye-to-eye with Roosevelt on foreign policy, and Reynolds believes be-lieves this opens the way for a big party rapprochement rap-prochement by expanding the Jackson day celebration cele-bration into a unity affair. Whether the bolters and diss enters can be won over to the idea remains to be seen. But whether they are or not. it haa been decided definitely to call the celebration the Jackson day unity dinner and open arms will be extended ex-tended to all the mavericks. , "Next Governor of Virginia" Representative Colgate W. Darden Jr. of Virginia was chatting with a trim, gray-haired man in the lobby of the house office building when Prentiss Faulkner, youthful house clerk, sauntered by with a cheery, "H'yah, congressman!" congress-man!" Darden smilingly acknowledged the greeting greet-ing and a moment later shook hands with his companion and went his way. The gray-haired man followed Faulkner into an elevator. "Do you know whom you hailed?" he asked pleasantly. pleas-antly. Without turning to look at the questioner, Faulkner (who comes from Amherst, Va.) talked on: "Sure, that's the next governor of Virginia. He recently announced his candidacy and is a cinch to be elected. What's more, he's going to make one of the best governors Virginia Vir-ginia ever had." "Hmmm," mused the gray-haired man. "And what's wrong with the present governor?" "Why, nothing, but" At this point young Faulkner turned to look at the inquisitive stranger. Then, hit face the hue of a rainbow, he hightailed out of the elevator aa though stuck with a bayonet. "Let me off at the fourth floor," chuckled Governor James H. Price of Virginia to the elevator ele-vator operator. Merry-Go-Round Major Takao Kato of the Japanese army has iust finished a tour of duty with the U. S. army, 'he fact that Tokyo ia now a partner of the axis has not prevented an exchange of "observers" "observ-ers" by the two armies . . . The reason you don't nee a picture of Secretary of War Stlm-aon Stlm-aon very often la that ha la camera shy. The flash bulbs hurt his eyes . . . Argentine Ambassador Am-bassador Espil rises early enough to read five newspapers before most of his diplomatic colleagues col-leagues are out of bed ... If General H. H. Arnold, chief of the air corps, doesn't get to bed by 10 in the evening he thinks he's dissipating. dis-sipating. Pew Yacht Changes Ilands ' The senate campaign fund Investigating committee disclosed that the Pew family of Philadelphia gave $90,000 to the election chest of Wendell L. Willkie. But they are getting most of this back from the government. The war department is putting $72,500 into the Pew coffers aa payment for a second hand yacht. J. Howard Pew, president of the Sun Oil company, received this sum for his 12-year-old stc-cl yacht. Fgoria. 1 While the war department is paying big money for the Fgeria, the navy haa acquired five yachts at a totul cost of $3. The following turned over their yachts at tl each: Major Edward Bowes, Alfred P. Loom is, W. P. Murphy, Mur-phy, Joseph Seaman and Robert S. Herrick. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate. |
