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Show DEWEY IN THEJ.IGHT By RODNEY DUTCHER . Seat Crutediaaj Dittricr Attaeaay .oo1 at wovarsor WASHINGTON Far-aghted Republican politician, who could not keep thtir minds off 1W0 even if they triad, raat frequent significant sig-nificant glances at Thomas E. Dewey of New York. ... Dewey is famous in th east as the special prosecutor who has broken up vice and other rackets in New York City. He is now funmnf for district attorney of New York on the same ticket with Mayor F. H. LaCiuardia. A spectacular spec-tacular reform district attorney in the metropolis would be an obvious ob-vious good Republican bet for the governorship, timber being as scarce as it Is, and nearly any Republican governor of New York would be a strong; candidate for presidential nomination. All this would require some fast going, however, and Mr. Dewey ia a long shot In an obstacle race. Timmii.y still has many Jobs and privileges and th nightmare of Mr. Dewey making hay for himself him-self by busting up Tammany rackets In district after district is calculated to bring all the bickering bicker-ing groups in that once powerful machine together in an effort to smother him. Dewey runs only In the Tammany Tam-many stronghold of Manhattan and not in the adjacent boroughs. Thus he Is considered to have a poorer chance than LaGuardia. Furthermore, th Republicana figure. Postmaster General Jim Farley has his mind set on running run-ning for governor next year and can be depended upon to do all he can to keep Tammany from being discredited and Dewey from being built up. Klan Revival Flop Any extent to which the Ku Klux Klan has gathered recruits in its reported membership driv of the last few weeks will be disclosed dis-closed by the La Follett Civil Liberties committee, according to present plans. Meanwhile, reports on attempts to revive the klan here and there indicate results have been nothing to get excited about. The moat conspicuous attempt, at-tempt, growing out of the rubber atrlke at Akron, Ohio, was a complete com-plete flop. The committee is especially interested in-terested in effsVts to uso the klan as a weapon against organized la-, bor and its inquiry in that direction direc-tion ia part of a general study of "vigilante" organizations, their activities and financing. Preliminary Prelimi-nary check indicates that the klan only appears occasionally now as a local phenomenon. The first local investigation will be at Tampa. Fla., where one labor la-bor organizer waa killed by a tarring tar-ring and flogging which alao was inflicted on two others. Look for Third Term Race Subconsciously, at least, there's an obvious tendency among most Democrats and moat Republicana to assume the likelihood of a Roosevelt third term candidacy in 1940. But there is absolutely no "dope" on this subject, aside from the fact that Roosevelt deliberately de-liberately has avoided committing himself on it. Recent huddles of Republicans here and elsewhere have revealed the fact that most G. O. P. leaders lead-ers are thinking in terms which indicate assumption of a third term candidacy. Privately, nearly all of them say they think it's probable, and unanimously they say they hope Roosevelt will run again even admitting, in many cases, that the president is still far more popular than they want him to be. Black Wins a Friend Among passengers on the ship which brought back Justice and Mrs. Black was Mrs. T. R. Crumley, Crum-ley, wife of the president of the Jersey Central Power and Light company. She said she found tha Blacks "charming." Although previously she hsd supposed Black must be a terrible person because of what ht had done to the public utilities while a senator, she had changed her mind. She moaned: "When my husband finds out how I feel now about Mr. Black, he will cut my allowance In half.' Japanese 1 all' In Alaska At least passing interest has been stirred up hers by recent appearance ap-pearance of a Japanese trading vessel at St. Lawrence island, off a tip of Alaska. American Eskimos Es-kimos there were told the vessel carried plenty of liquor and tha Japanese would like to com ashore and trade. The commander was told a U S. coast guard cutter was due next day and that he had better keep going. The story was duly reported re-ported to Washington, where such incidents are carefully noted. (Copyright. 1937, for The Telegram |