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Show I NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS j. Written for The Telegram By Ray Tucker ' Jackson at the department of 1 justice. Unless the outward bound attorney general acta quickly on several patronage problems, he may do serious damage dam-age to his successors' presidential boomlet There are two federal bench vacancies In the Second (New York) and the Third (Philadelphia) (Philadel-phia) districts, with many clamorous clam-orous candidates. In both districts dis-tricts the contest Involves two types of men the political and "Ivy leaguers." The dilemma is particularly acute In the Third district. The new dealers back Dean Herbert Goodrich of the Pennsylvania university 1 a w school, a Rooaevelt-Earle Democrat. Demo-crat. Joe Guffey supports one of his boys Common Pleaa Judge John McCann of Cambria County. Coun-ty. J. Warren Madden has also been advanced by those who want to remove him from the N L R B. In Connecticut the line-up Is similar. The candidates candi-dates Include Max Spelke,, a ' Cummlngs man; Representatives Smith and Shan ley, William Fitzgerald, Fitz-gerald, son of National Committeeman Commit-teeman Davey Fitzgerald, and a Yale law professor. Bob's great problem If Mr. Murphy does not act will be whether to favor the polltlcos or the profs. Will he play with the universities or with the district clubhouses with the Parleys, Guffeys and Cummlngses or with the academicians T For a man with political ants In his pants, It's a tough seat The smart stunt Is for Mr. Murphy, who Is forswearing for-swearing politics, to do the Job. Arthur H. Vsndenberg has abandoned his coy attitude toward to-ward the Republican presidential nomination almost overnight. Although Al-though seemingly inactive outside out-side his own state of Michigan he must run again next November Novem-ber the senator has become a fairly aggressive candidate. He will not enter primaries nor stump the soapbox circuit, like Messrs. Tsft, Dewey and Bridges, who are so hot for the nomination nomina-tion that their political breath scorches the flesh of a close listener lis-tener to their summary of their own qualifications. Mr. Van-denberg Van-denberg doesn't believe that the man with the most delegatea and song leaders at the start will cop the nomination. He figures that It will fall to the man who, in the convention's concentrated Judgment, can win under the circumstance prevailing during campaign time from June until November. So Mr. V. has set up a rather flexible organization headed by Howard Lawrence, former chairman chair-man of the Republican state central cen-tral committee of Michigan. He haa named key men in numerous numer-ous states as his representatives, especially In the south, where Senator Robert A. Tsft is supposed sup-posed to be making gains through - ths good offices of National Committeeman Perry Howard of Mississippi. The Michigan statesman, states-man, contrary to popular and political opinion. Is not sleeping or simply seeking reelection to the senste in 1940. He's only fooling. Copyright 1940, McClure Syndicate WASHINGTON The most serious threat to Thomas E. Dewey's Dew-ey's presidential candidacy will some from up-state New York Republicans headed by Representative Repre-sentative James W. Wadsworth and Frank Gannett, the Rochester Roch-ester publisher. Though nobody no-body concedes him a chance for the nomination; the latter has entered the campaign With the support of t h e conservative forces the congressman represents. repre-sents. The prospect that the Gannett boom may split the New York delegation is not nearly so troublesome trou-blesome to the district attorney as is the Wadsworth backing. Ths representative served many years In the senate, where he became chairman of the military affairs committee; haa a wide circle ot influential friends; Is highly respected by G. O. P.-ers throughout the nation. Many believe that he himself la the beat qualified man for the nomination. nomina-tion. His turning thumbs down on Mr. Dewey will cause a lifting lift-ing of Republican eyebrows throughout the country. The leaders know Jim and they don't know Mr. Dewey. On the other hand, the Dewey people may be able to capitalize the Wadsworth opposition It it grows virulent Though extremely extreme-ly able, the congressman haa been an avowed Tory ever since he bucked Teddy Roosevelt and Charles Evans Hughes back in Albany days, At Washington he headed the few Republicans who dared to battle the new deal in ths years when It waa most popular. pop-ular. So his attitude gives open confirmation to the suspicion that the old-time polltlcos and ths so-called "Interests" will sidetrack side-track the youthful New Yorker If they can. He is no more popular pop-ular with them than Franklin D. Roosevelt is or was. The Dies committee's most striking achievement though it Is not spread on the record haa been to dry up many sources of funds for the communist party in the United States. The "reds" can barely raise a red cent since his revelations and Attorney . General Murphy's prosecutorial follow-up. Former .contributors to their various "front" organizations, now that these have been disclosed dis-closed aa reddish,- have folded their wallets. Others have quit giving out ot disgust over the pact with Hitler and the Finnish invasion, which were approved by the American annex ot Moscow. Mos-cow. Hard pressed for money and unable to obtain American dollars due to the European wars, ths home office at Moscow can no longer advance the 12,-000.000 12,-000.000 a year It once contributed to the comrades over here. , The commies' organization its newspapers, magazines, "educational" "educa-tional" agencies and paid workershas work-ershas already begun to feel the pinch. There haa been a sharp slump in their noisy output out-put of vocal and written propaganda. prop-aganda. Frank Murphy may leave a politically po-litically distressing legacy to Bob |