Show i Washington Round Merry-Go-Round By Pearson earson Drew WASHINGTON When the history of this war is written it will be found that the man who has had most to do with getting real quantities of supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies to Russia was unobtrusive harassed Henry Almost no one knows it outside outside outside out out- side the inner circle but it was who finally got a statement in writing from the president saying that with Hitler Hitler Hit Hit- ler about to launch the biggest attack in history supplies to Russia must come first This was around March 10 of this year Prior to that time supplies to Russia had gone in driblets Australia was pressing its de de- de- de mands Britain needed supplies for Egypt India the Dutch East Indies China needed bombers Russia had been solemnly promised promised promised prom prom- munitions but except for infinitesimal quantities they were not shipped Everyone agreed that if Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia was abl able to hold this summer summer summer sum sum- mer Hitler was well on the way to defeat But even so Russia did not get the munitions So finally put the matter flatly before the president president dent den and got a statement from him in writing Incidentally the president through some whim wrote his chit on an old piece of paper with the heading Assistant Assistant Assistant Assist ant Secretary of the Navy He had kept it for 22 years ever since the days of Woodrow Wil Wil- son then got the chit and sent it around to the war chiefs When Donald Nelson demurred over sending large supplies to Russia Mor Mor- simply said Well here hereit it is in writing So beginning at that time supplies really left for Russia Inside fact is that the president president president dent offered Chester Davis former former former for for- mer A AAA A A administrator the Job of being rubber czar before he offered it to Union Pac Pacific's ics ic's William M. M Jeffers But Davis now head of the federal reserve bank in St. St Louis has not been in good health and asked to be excused Faced with the necessity of getting a good man immediately the appointment had been promised for September H 14 Av Av- erell Harriman chairman and chief stockholder of the Union Pacific ordered Jeffers to Washington He arrived on September September September Sep Sep- 15 without any inkling of what was in store for him was given 30 minutes to consider the matter and accepted Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps with his boss ordering him to Washington he had to Cabinet members are chalking chalking chalking chalk chalk- ing up the Jeffers appointment as one more score for Harry Hopkins and point out that the theold theold theold old friendship between Harry and Averell Harriman is Is certainly certainly certainly bearing fruit The play playon on Jeffers was Harriman to Hopkins to Roosevelt Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr son of the famous Civil war commander is having havinga a private battle of his own in Alaska where he is commander of U. U S. S army forces The battle battle battle bat bat- tle doesn't involve the Japs It involves Alaskan moose Kodiak bears and more than anything else it involves Ira N. N Gabrielson Gabriel- Gabriel son chief of the fish and wildlife wild wild- life service Mr Gabrielson is very irate at General Simon Bolivar Buckner Buckner Buckner Buck Buck- ner because of the generals general's custom custom custom cus cus- tom of taking a small amphibian plane landing on one of Alaska's inland lakes inland lakes and shooting moose and bear In a few hours the general is able to fly to the heart of wildest Alaska where man is seldom seen and where the hunting is excellent Gabrielson claims however that the general general general gen gen- eral is overdoing it and also that other officers have been doing too much airplane hunt hunt- ing All this has helped bring to toa toa a a. head the question of hunting by the armed forces in Alaska There is not much to do in Alaska and all the boys being armed with rifles would like to hunt But if they did there are enough troops in Alaska to kill all the game in the immediate immediate immediate imme imme- diate vicinity of the camps in a short time And the troops dont don't have the airplane transportation to get far away from camp So the people of Alaska have been dead against hunting by the troops Finally the matter has been compromised by giving the troops the right to hunt after they have been residents for one year year which which is the rule which governs all citizens of Alaska A new formula for rent control to to plug loopholes in the current current cur cur- rent program will program will be announced soon by Price Administrator Leon Henderson Henderson has received reports reports reports re re- ports of widespread evasions of rent-freezing rent regulations from OP o 0 P A field officers chiefly in crowded industrial centers In addition to evicting tenants unlawfully unlawfully unlawfully un un- lawfully there have been many cases of false sales of houses houses houses-a a paper transaction whereby homes are sold without a down payment and the new occupants occupants occupants pants make monthly payments far in excess of maximum rentals To cope with this trick Henderson Henderson Henderson Hen Hen- derson is planning to issue an order providing that there be mandatory cash down payments of at least on all homes sold soldon soldon soldon on the installment plan and that monthly payments be lower than the frozen rent scales on the homes Henderson also is planning to todo todo todo do some swift cracking down on apartment house owners who evict tenants on up trumped-up charges of lease-breaking lease and then rent to others at higher rental charges Though an outright outright outright out out- right violation of the law this practice is prevalent in a a. number number number num num- ber of industrial centers Copyright 1942 by United Feature Syndicate Inc |