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Show Merry-Co-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN WASHINGTON Navy sleuths have been gum-shoeing around to find where the leaks nave been coming from regarding defect in the brand new U. S. destroyers.. Naval officers do not deny that the detects exist but are hot under the collar that the facta ' leaMed.nwhi.e. some of the civilians who work on naval design in the navy department think the Ann.pol.smen might well neck up the small amount of money spent by the navy on research. At present, the navy is spending a We amount on construction, but relatively littll o laboratories to test out and improve that construction. - . . In fact, civilian naval engineers are paid so little that there is constant temptation to accept higher pay from the private shipyards. The private yards spend all kinds of money on re-?earch re-?earch new design, while the navy spends all kinds of money on building ships on insufficiently insuf-ficiently proved design which, of course, may turn out to be a terrific waste. Inside fact U that most naval research today to-day is after mistakes are made, rather than before. Buw,nf Tni Crack-Down Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold U playing no favorites in his antitrust erack-down erack-down on labor leaders. Nothing is being said about it, but certain C I O chiefs are under grand Jury investigation and headed for lndict- meThe A F L has been yelling bloody murder since Arnold indicted some of their moguls m his clean-up of the building industry; while heavy undercover pressure has been brought on the1 president and Attorney General Murphy to call off Arnold. But these efforta have been unavailing. Arnold not only is proceeding against other A F Lers, but is moving in on the C I O. r Dies Doings Only un-American committee members knew it, but heroic Chairman Dies was sulking sulk-ing at his home while Mrs. Roosevelt attended the Youth Congress investigation . Dies staged this run-out just 24 hours after his Madison Mad-ison Square Garden speech, in which he demanded de-manded that the Roosevelt administration declare de-clare its stand on the committee. . . After Mrs Roosevelt had declared her stand, Dies slid off to Texas. . . . Other members of the committee had no idea of Dies' plan to examine Trotsky and Mexican Painter Diego Rivera until he broke into the headlines with it without committee com-mittee approval Jerry Voorhis is now holding hold-ing the bag regarding William Pelley, head of the Silver Shirts. Dies made him head of a special subcommittee charged with the job of apprehending Pelley, which so far the entire committee, with all its investigative force, has not been able to do. Aviation Instructors U. S. fliers are being quietly hired as instructors in-structors for the pilot-training camps Britain is setting up in Canada. . . Employment is strictly on a civilian basis. The men -wear no uniforms and engage only in instructional work. This is entirely within American laws. . Almost everything about these British avi ation camps is American. In addition to American Ameri-can instruction, all the primary training planes are either of American manufacture or made in Canada under American patent. Also, much of the work of organizing and equipping the camps is by Americans. Happy'-C I O Behind the scenes. Senator Happy Chandler has promised to go to bat for the five coal miners imprisoned for seven years in Harlan county, Kentucky. It is something new tor Happy to be on the side of the United Mine Workers. They have been bitter enemies for some time. However, Attorney General Murphy took the new Kentucky Ken-tucky senator aside, a short tune ago, and suggested sug-gested that there never could be peaceful employer-labor relations in Harlan county until these men were released. Senator Chandler concurred in this and promised that he would go back to Kentucky and talk to his gubernatorial successor. The five miners involved were given life sentences after rioting at Evarts, Ky, when the United Mine Workers attempted to organize that field. The miners always have claimed that they were framed by paid gunmen for the mine operators. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate |