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Show Merry-Go-Round By DRKW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN ' WASHINGTON The inner G. O. P. movement move-ment to ax National Chairman John Hamilton has subsided for the present, but when it revives re-vives keep your rye on Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, who is the secret personal choice of both Alf Landon and Colonel Frank Knox. They trotted out this 41 -year-old white hope during the undercover parleys last fall to oust Hamilton. But the drive lo exile Hamilton Rot tangled up in Hoover's demand for a mid-term convention, so Bridges was sidetracked. Hamilton Ham-ilton helped to put a crimp in the ouster plan by allying himself with Hoover against Landon and Knox. Party insiders predict the national chairman chair-man issue will remain dormant until spring. Then, if political prospects look bright and it appears that the Republicans can mop up on Democratic senators and congressmen, a new effort will be made to replace Hamilton with a man more acceptable to the party leaders on Capitol Hill. The latter never have been friendly to "Long John" a fact he is fully aware of. What a Job! An out-of-town visitor walking through the department of agriculture the other day suddenly sud-denly stripped short and sniffed the air. "Do you smell what I smell?" he asked an official accompanying him. "If that isn't roast turkey then I wasn't brought up on a farm." "It's roast turkey, all right," laughed the official. "Let me show you." He guided the visitor to a near-by office where five people sat around a table on which rested a beautiful, large, crispy-brown turkey. But instead of appearing to relish their food, the sitters were scratching notes on pieces of paper. It was the taste-testing board of the bureau of home economics. For several years the agriculture agri-culture department has been experimenting with cross-breeding and feeding of various types of turkeys. Each fall it sends specimens to the home economics bureau for "eating tests." The testers rate each type carefully on a prepared score card. The turkeys are brought piping hot from the bureau's experimental kitchen. The judges first note each bird's appearance, and record their impressions. These range from "perfect in coloring col-oring and form" to "pale and lopsided." Next they sniff the bird thoroughly; first, as a whole, then a piece of white meat and then a piece of dark. Scoring is on intensity and quality qual-ity "very pronounced." "slightly pronounced," and "desirable" or "undesirable." The same grades prevail on the flavor of fat and lean meat. In describing the juice, however, the Judges use their own terms. One report read, "rich and full-bodied"; another, "watery, no substance"; a third "fishy." '. After other details, such as skin, quality of gravy and stuffing are checked, each judge gives the turkey a general grade, such as excellent, ex-cellent, good, fair, poor, or very poor. The reports re-ports are then sent to the agriculture department's depart-ment's experimental farm at Beltsville, Md., where they are used as bases of further experiments. experi-ments. Diplomacy Dominican Minister Andres Pastoriza has been having a hectic time since his fellow countrymen coun-trymen killed nearly 3000 Haitians and threw them into the sea. He has been besieged by newspaper reporters and state department demands de-mands that the Dominican republic mediate. But the other day he was enjoying a moment's mo-ment's relaxation at an embassy reception when urbane, wise-cracking little Hirosi Sat to, Japanese ambassador, approached. "Well, Mr. Minister," he said, "what's all this trouble 1 hear is taking place in your country?" "Oh there's nothing much to that, Mr. Ambassador," Am-bassador," replied Pastoriza. 'That's just a lot of gossip and newspaper reports very much exaggerated." With a broad grin, the Japanese ambassador shot back: "That'a just exactly what's happening in my country." Bituminous G-Man The blast furnaces of the bituminous coal commission are belching flames again, this time over the discovery that the man who was police chief of Minneapolis during the 1934 teamsters' team-sters' strike has been mysteriously hired as special spe-cial detective, or G-Man. for the commission. The gentleman in question is Michael J. Johannes, Jo-hannes, who was forced out of the Minneapolis police job after seven men were killed during the teamsters' strike. Johannes is anathema to labor, and the coal commission was created largely through the effort of labor. -How Johannes got his commission job remains re-mains a mystery; also what his job is. The three minority members of the commission commis-sion did not even know he was on the payroll, though he has been there for months., (Copyright, 1937, for The Telegram) |