Show I Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN You WASHINGTON You may think that women dont don't count in politics but take a look behind scenes at what the wives of important statesmen are doing today P 11 Great Britain it is now disclosed that Mrs Chamberlain wife of the prime minister was a avital avital avital vital factor behind the split in the British cabinet Mrs Chamberlain is a great personal friend of Mussolini calls him Benito was in Rome all during the cabinet crisis and unofficially is carrying carrying carry carry- in ing on negotiations for a new Italian Anglo-Italian agreement for her husband Official reports arriving here show that the British foreign office has no idea what conversations conversations conversations conver conver- have been taking place between Mrs Chamberlain and Benito and that the Earl of Perth British ambassador to Italy is now re returning returning returning re- re turning to London in order to find out what all the shooting is about No wonder Anthony Eden resigned as foreign foreign foreign for for- eign minister McNutt's Wife Inside story now going the rounds regarding the presidential boom of Paul V. V McNutt is that his wife the former Kathleen of San Antonio is one of the chief backstage dynamos While The Man From Manila as he is now V called in Washington has a long list of boosters Mrs McNutt is given credit by his close friends for being the most potent and important To Mrs McNutt is attributed the remark When Paul gets in the White House he will be bethe bethe bethe the handsomest man ever to be bs president of the United States Note Note Ladies Ladies who attended last weeks week's hectic Hoosier reception were inclined to agree with Mrs McNutt In fact Evelyn Peyton Gordon sprightly social columnist came out with the advice If Mr McNutt would kiss the ladies instead of the babies hed he'd be as good as elected Ladies' Ladies Fingers Other ladies now pushing the world around according to their fancy include Mrs Herbert Lehman whose ambition that Governor Lehman some day may sit in the White House is one of the biggest reasons why her husband probably will run for a third term as governor of New York Then there is Mrs Joe Davies the former Marjorie Post Hutton who didn't like high so society society society so- so among the communists so her husband quit as ambassador to Russia and has now pushed Hugh Gibson out of his job as ambassador to Belgium V And it was Mrs Gibson in turn who didn't like Hughs Hugh's job as ambassador to Brazil and helped push him into the embassy in Belgium Another feminine hand was mixed up in the yarn about the demotion of Lieutenant Colonel Davenport Johnson for having piloted High Commissioner Commissioner Com Corn missioner McNutt from San Francisco to Denver Newspapers reported that Johnson was transferred transferred transferred trans trans- from the choice job of commandant of Hamilton field San Francisco to the Chanute flying school at Rantoul Ill because he had flown McNutt without permission and because the political powers in Washington did not like McNutt Inside story however is that Johnsons Johnson's transfer transfer transfer trans trans- fer to Rantoul Ill had been ordered two weeks before McNutt arrived in the U. U S. S A. A Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- McNutt had absolutely nothing to do with it Real fact was that the temporary war buildings buildings build build- ings at Rantoul have leaky roofs and are otherwise otherwise other- other wise unattractive So Mrs Davenport Johnson didn't want to leave San Francisco A A A vs Supreme Court There is a little noticed sentence in the new farm bill which reads as if the new deal has dipped its pen in in blood to write finis after its fight with the supreme court The Te new farm bill is probably even more restrictive restrictive restrictive re- re than the original A A AA A. A But this single sentence will go far to prevent the new bill from being tossed on the horns of the supreme court as the A A A was tossed in the Hoosac Mills de de- de In that famous decision the court said that the power to regulate interstate commerce did not give congress the power to regulate farming Here i is the defiant sentence If any provision provision provi provi- sion zion of this act should be held not to be within the power of the congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce such provision shall not be held invalid if it is within the power of the congress to provide for the general welfare or any other power of the congress It is an invitation to the supreme court to approve without loss of face a farm bill no less rigid in its regulatory power than the late lamented la lamented la- la A A A. A In Forma Forina Pauperis Few outsiders are aware of it it but Tom Mooney Mooney's Mooney's Moo- Moo ney's ney s writ of certiorari asking the supreme court to take jurisdiction of his case contained an unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual legal plea Under the rules of the court every writ must be accompanied by 30 copies of the complete testimony in the case On the Mooney case that would mean 30 copies of testimony pages long plus exhibits The cost of such a monumental monumental monumental mental record would come to more than far far beyond the resources of the Mooney defense defense de de- de- de organization V So his lawyers are asking the court to waive this requirement and accept an inexpensive ab abstract abstract abstract ab- ab of the case Otherwise they will have to proc proceed in forma pauperis that is is declare their inability to b bear ar the cost and throw it on the court V Copyright 1938 for The Telegram |