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Show Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN WASHINGTON Jim Farley will resign in March that's definite. The postmaster general gen-eral has formally notified the White House of his decision, and the president has concurred. Jim will retain the chairmanship of the Democratic national committee and of the New York state committee. He also has several tempting business offers, but is still undecided which to accept One offer he Is considering would make him czar of professional football, Job similar to that held by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis In baseball, at a reputed salary of $75,000 a year. Another bid is from the Willys-Overland auto company. Prominently mentioned in inner circles as Jim's successor In the cabinet la Frank Walker, former chairman of the national emergency council and a close friend of both Roosevelt and Farley. The president will appoint Walker if he can get him. But so fsr Wslker has shied away from the Job. Ostensibly Farley Is quitting to rebuild his personal fortune. Actually the main reason behind be-hind Jim's departure is to have a freer hand in pursuing his presidential aspirations. When questioned about this recently, the postmaster general replied: "I'm not in the market for either the presidency presi-dency or vice presidency. I don't have the background back-ground or qualifications for the No. 1 job, and I don't want the other." But Jim didn't mean It. He has been carefully care-fully corralling delegates for the 1940 convention conven-tion ever since last spring. He wants the top berth, but will be satisfied with the vice presidency, presi-dency, especially on a Hull-Farley ticket. Jim believes his key position in the Democratic organization or-ganization makes him a cinch for one of the two, but he doesn't want to show his hand until . the "chief has spoken his mind on a third term. Ware Csar Jailed Not many know it, but It took Tommy Corcoran, Cor-coran, Steve Early and the prestige of the White House to get Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews out of the "jug" the other night. He and Mrs. Andrews both spent about five, hours In prison, one in a cell and the other in the women's bureau, before White House aid came to their rescue. It all happened when the Andrews' were coming home one Saturday night. Passing a tavern near, their Georgetown house, they were attracted by brawl inside. A lady and husband were having some vigorous domestic differences. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews stopped to see the fight This proved to be their undoing. A minute or two later, the participants in the brawl ran up the street. Simultaneously a patrol wagon arrived on the scene. Two policemen police-men jumped off. . "There they are," one of them said, pointing to the gentleman who administers the wagea and hours of the nation. This rubbed Mrs. Andrews the wrong way, and she gave the cop the dressing-down of his Ue. This In turn wss too much for the cop, and he took them both to the station. There Andrews An-drews waa searched for weapons, told to empty his pockets. All he had were a couple of identification cards and $9.47 In cash. The police wanted $10 collateral each for Mr. and Mrs. Andrews and jailed them until help arrived in the person of Paul Sifton, wage-hour wage-hour deputy administrator, who had been summoned sum-moned by Steve Early. Sifton posted the $20, and the couple were released. By the time Mrs. Andrews got out of the women's bureau it was 5 o'clock of a Sunday morning. Dark Horse Governor Governor Price of Virginia has begun to have certain earmarks of a Democratic dark horse for 1940. He is a friend of Roosevelt, has not alienated the Garner Democrata, and has been an excellent governor. Recently Price has been in considerable demand de-mand to address public gatherings, and this prestige pres-tige has become a matter of concern to the Byrd machine in Virginia. They are out to block Price. An instance of this occurred in Arlington, where a local committee planned to Invite the governor to apeak. But they were approached by a Byrd cohort with the pointed suggestion that this would not be a "suitable" thing to do. Judicial Clean-Up Forthright Frank Murphy is going at his new Job as attorney general in dead earnest. He is determined to clesn up the federal district attorney's at-torney's offices throughout the country, also the federal judiciary. The district attorneys in many states he regards re-gards as mere adjuncts to the local political machines, while some federal judgea he believes hsve been getting away with murder. He had already started to move in on Judge Edwin 8. Thomas of Connecticut, when the Judge suddenly departed for South America. He was wanted in connection with the McKesson end Robbins case. There is another bad spot in the federal judiciary ju-diciary in New York, which is going to be cleaned up. To do this. Murphy is selecting special assistant who will have nothing else to do but keep an eye on the judiciary. Murphy is being extremely careful in his selection se-lection and is discussing the matter first with Justice Stone of the supreme court Judge Learned Hand of the circuit court in New York, and Judgea Pecora and Rosenman of the New York supreme court ' Copyright, 1939, for The Telegram |