| Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON For For some time the mayor of New York City didn't know it but the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York police had plainclothes men tailing him Reason was that LaGuardia had received some threats against his life and the police department department department depart depart- ment wanted to take every precaution When LaGuardia discovered this however he was furious He called in the two detectives and gave them a severe grilling to see whether they actually had been following him To his astonishment they told him almost everything he had done that day Finally he said And where did I go at 8 o'clock last ni night ht This time the detectives said they didn't know I was in the front row of the orchestra stormed LaGuardia and I suppose you were those two guys under the chair LaGuardia immediately ordered the police department to cease shadowing him He probably probably probably ably wont won't know it until he reads this but the meticulous police have rented an apartment opposite the mayors mayor's house and have men posted there in relays to watch everyone who goes in inor inor inor or out of his door Fuehrer Is Showman Adolf Hitler may have the enmity of Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's old-line old military leaders but he is still Europe's premier showman As proof look over the way he builds up his climaxes First he selects as head of his army General Wilhelm Keitel who in military parlance was commander of pots and pans In other words he headed the quartermaster corps is a good yes man and unlike his junker predecessors can easily be dominated Second Hitler mobilizes part of the army under its new commander along the Austrian border This did not leak out to the world at large until Hitler was ready to make his demands demands demands de de- de- de mands on Austria but war department circles here had confidential reports of it nearly ten days in advance Third Hitler begins without bloodshed the of Austria by putting his own followers followers followers fol fol- fol- fol lowers in the two key spots in the Austrian cabinet cab cab- inet the met the interior which has charge of police and justice which has charge of criminal prosecution prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution and the judiciary Hitler's followers in Austria can now do what they want without fear of arrest and if they should be arrested they run little danger of prosecution or conviction Simultaneously to keep France and Britain worried about other areas Hitler's ally in Italy revived the bombing campaign against shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping in the Mediterranean All this was a up build-up for Hitler's speech and anda a part of his drive toward the east This is isnow isnow isnow now well under way and Rumania are under Germanys Germany's economic thumb Austria is under the nazi political thumb Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia and the Russian Ukraine remain remain remain re re- re- re main the next pieces to be fitted into Hitler's saw jig-saw puzzle Price Tickling Tried Behind the move to take of gold out of government strong boxes was not so much the idea of increasing money in circulation there is already ample but to tickle prices with the threat of inflation Unlike some of of the advisers around him Roosevelt doesn't want inflation n considers its course unpredictable and potentially dangerous But after a good many inner circle powwows it was considered good psychology to tomake make just enough of an inflation threat to start prices up That was why the gold old sterilization move was coupled with Roosevelt's statement at press conference conference conference con con- ference the next day that he thought most commodity commodity com corn prices still were too low For months business has been holding off buy buying in I because it feared prices might go even lower Southern textile mills for instance have been able to sell spot goods but get no orders in advance Buyers fear further price drops During periods of inflation on the other hand buyers rush in before prices move higher That was the reason for the inflation threat Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt still has of sterilized gold which he can take out of the vaults in Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky but the plan is to hold this back in the hooe haDe that th the milder threat will do dothe dothe dothe the trick In the Mail B. B E. E Wheeling W. W Va Behind Behind the court order halting the fixing of bituminous coal prices by the national coal commission was the fact that it had failed to hold public hearings and behind this in turn is the fact that the coal commission has been ridden with internal strife and has appeared more interested in political patronage than in aiding the coal industry Members of the commission spent more time over who would get the most ornate office fixtures fixtures fixtures fix fix- tures than they did over coal price hearings C. C B. B Chicago There Chicago There are still two dependents dependents dependents dents of the War of 1812 drawing federal pensions pensions pensions pen pen- and dependents of the Mexican war of 1849 A total of veterans of the Indian wars are still living and drawing pensions while pensions also go to dependents of deceased deceased deceased de de- de- de ceased veterans Livin Living veterans of the Civil war number and dependents of deceased Civil war veterans also draw pensions Copyright 19 1938 8 for The e Telegram J I |
