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Show Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Any day now you can look for a congressional attack on the Home Owners Lean corporation. Leader of the attack is expected to be Rep-reoentatlve Rep-reoentatlve Ralph Church, Illinois Republican, who has been crlticsl of H O L C since he forced the resignation of a top-flight HOLC attorney i0,"?!". Lrm on charge of using HOLC facilities to solicit law private business for a former H O L.C attorney. Working hand in glove with Church and supplying sup-plying him with information is the son and also the brother of the lste Joe Byrns, speaker of , the house of representatives. "Little Joe" Byrns, son of the lste spesker. now holds his father's seat In the house. He got there largely by making hot campaign speeches against HOLC. and in Washington he has continued his criticism. The row started when the late speaker persuaded per-suaded HOLC to appoint "Little Joe" general counsel of its Tennessee regional office. "Lit. tie Joe,'' however, wanted to be state manager and put the political htat on the Washington headquarters in an effort to land the Job. When the manager's post was vacated, "Little Joe" was turned down cold. The late Speaker Byrns also got his brother, John, a Job with H O L C in its Washington office. of-fice. But on January 1 H O L C and John Byrns parted company. ' Now Uncle John Byrns is not averse to making HOLC officials rue the day he left the organization. Labor Probe Antics The house labor board investigating committee commit-tee can't match the slapstick antics of the Dies committee, but it has iu moments. Here are two of them: Representative Routzohn: "You say you were born in Cincinnati. Were your parents living there a that time?" Mr. Phillips, NLRB regionsl director: "Yes, they were, sir, especially my mother." Representative Healey: "Miss Boyls, we can't hear you over here at all." Miss Boyls, another NLRB lawyer: "Do you went me to repest whst I said?" Healey: "No, but speak a little louder. If you will look toward the Jury instead of the counsel all the time, I think we can hear you." Counsel Toland: "Not all the time, Miss Boyls. Give me a look once in a while." - Dewey's Farm Speech Tom Dewey has picked Lincoln, Neb., as the state for his farm speech on March 6, Dewey's speech, now in the process of careful care-ful preparation by his brain trust will follow closely the farm section of the report of the Glenn Frank program committee, which blasted blast-ed new deal bureaucracy but inferentially in-dorsed in-dorsed AAA crop benefit payments. In addition, addi-tion, Dewey will also confer with Representative Representa-tive Clifford Hope of Kansas, chairman of the house G. O. P. agricultural committee, which conducted a number of public bearings on a farm plank last fall. The Hope committee also favors continuance of benefit payments, but advocates putting the emphasis on soil conservation rather than on acreage control as does the new desL Note Friends of Dewey complain that his high-geared machine is missing fire on the human hu-man details. Recently Dan Turner,-former Iowa governor and prominent farm leader for a quarter quar-ter of a century, wrote Dewey a friendly letter. There was no reply. Finally a friend of Turner who heard about the matter wrote Dewey a sharp letter. A rush of apologies followed. Merry -Go-Round Senator Charles McNsry, Oregon's brainy Republican floor leader, is being urged as keynoter key-noter at the national convention. . . .Otto Frankfurter, Frank-furter, older brother of the supreme court Justice, Jus-tice, works in the advertising department of a Philadelphia newspaper. . . .Average age of the 29 young men who have Just passed exams for the u. S. diplomatic service is ii years. A Curtiss-Wright "75" plane is being built in Argentina, Ar-gentina, through a licensing arrangement The finished plane will be exhibited at an aviation exhibition in Buenos Aires next summer. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate. |