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Show Merry-Co-Round Bv DREW PEARSON aad KOBEKT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON If soma senator will reach Into a certain filing cabinet of lha senate agriculture agri-culture committee ha will find a time bomb which will convulse the farm belt. It it a public pub-lic document which coat the taxpayer of tha country 1300.000, but for three months It hat been carefully hidden. The report deals with farm Income and waa compiled by the federal fed-eral trade commission under a aenata resolution. resolu-tion. Soma of tha dynamite-loaded fact revealed In Ihe report are: The first complete and detailed figure ever compiled on Ihe sales, profit" and fancy salaries of parking companies, miller and other big firms dealing In farm commodities. Tha extraordinary profits made bv dealer In farm produce who were among Ihe moat violent foe of Ihe supreme court-invalidsled AAA. How grain and cotton speculator manipulated manipu-lated price on commodity exchange lo the enrichment of themselves and the loaa of ten of millions to grower and consumer. These operator also were vehement enemies of tha AAA. t'ndereover Struggle The behlnd-lhe-ecene lory of the trade commission's struggle to unearth these closely guarded secret is as remarkable as the facta uncovered. In some case investigators were mel with open defiance and the commission had to go to lha court to compel tha recalcitrant to open their book. In other Instance firm produced their account only when threatened with citation for contempt of the senate. Virtually the entire economic stsff nf the commission worked on the report and expert who have seen it rata it a one of the most comprehensive and searching ever compiled by the agency. Yet when it was sent In Ihe senate committee. com-mittee. It wa ordered impounded and merely a brief summary waa released, giving no Inkling of tha sensational content. Big Liquor Beggar The big liquor distiller seem to he having hav-ing a hard time getting a man lo fill the shoe of the lata Forbes Morgan (uncle of Mrs. Roosevelt) Roose-velt) aa rrar of tha liquor Industry. Jim Farley already had turned the Job down. General Hugh Johnson wasn't keen about it. and the other day they offered it with the accompanying accom-panying honorarium of 17J 000 to Charley Mirhelson, publicity brains of the Democratic national committee. To which Michelaon, without a moment's hesitation, replied: "What in hell would I do with seventy-five thousand dollars" Economic Acorn Not much has been said about It publicly, but state department officials, particularly Cornell Cor-nell Hull, are highly pleased at the victory nf Norman Davis at the recently concluded International Inter-national sugar conference. This Is the first economic conference in veart, regarding sugar or anything also, which ha succeeded. Many previous attempt have been made to confer on sugar, all of whirh failed. This success. Mr. Hull believes, was due partly to the adroit diplomacy of his old Tennes-ee friend, Norman Davis, partly to tha fact that the world Is serine the light of day regarding econom ic-cooper t ion. Mr. Hull is a man who believe that big tree from little acorn grow, and it won't be long now before he movea out Into wider economic eco-nomic field. Power Deal Henry Wallace's agricultural department believe be-lieve heart and soul in Roosevelt's policy of combating the big power companies, but so bitter bit-ter has become Ihe feud between agriculture and tha interior department that Henry now is plsvlng into tha hand of the power moguls. This particular row it over the distribution nf power from the newly completed Bonneville dam on the Columbia river. It wa originally proposed that the interior department whose PWA built tha dam, should distribute tha power. Now tha army engineer hava stepped In and claimed the job. And tha agriculture department de-partment Hs eye fixed upon the goal of keeping keep-ing everything away from interior, has mada a deal to boost the cause of the army, in return, tha army la to boost the causa f Henry Wallace Wal-lace in taking over various conservation agencies from Ickea. What Wallace and hit boys hava forgotten, however, ia that the army hat been notorious in the past for its lubrosa deals, with the big power interest. Army engineer helped Hoover and Coolidge sabotage the Tennessee valley. Army engineers, in many cases, hava resigned to take Important executive job with the power ' companies, . And it was tha army which was recommended, recom-mended, under cover, by the power companies to take over tha accounts of the federal power commission in order to okeh tha padded cap-italuatton cap-italuatton thay ware trying to put acroaa on the public (Oop-nght, 1)T. by Vailed Ptaiure yaaicaM, tea) I |