Show JAS caw ox Washington D C KEY ECONOMIST OUT Handsome platinum hatred haired Ed acting secretary of state telephoned Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes asked that he call calla calla a meeting of the War Mobilization ca cabinet to consider cancellation of war contracts where foreign coon coun countries tries are involved Already various war contracts are be ng cancelled and some of the cancellations espe especially those involving the purchase ot of metals mean breaking commit commit- commitments ments to fore governments Byrnes agreed called the meet meet- meetIng meeting Ing On the morning set phoned again We ye ve got to call oft off the War on cabinet meet ng he said Why asked the puzzled Byrnes Fels Feis has resigned replied Stet He s the expert on foreign war contracts He was referring to Herbert Fers Fels economic adviser to the secretary of state I Well can t you come to the meet tug ing and present your views to the II cabinet suggested Byrnes No replied Stettin us Fels Feis is the only man vho ho knows anything I about the subject The special cab net session was postponed Note Herbert Fels Feis related by marriage to the late President Gar Garfield Garfield field IS a distinguished liberal econ economist appointed by Secretary of I State St under Hoover H s sI resignation was handed to Hull I shortly after the resignatIOn of Sum SumI Sumner Sumner I ner Welles at whIch time Hull be began began gan to sweep out 1 When newspapers revealed thiS clean out Hull held up acceptance of Fels Feis resignation left word that It be an announced announced wh while e he was ill m Moscow 0 DIES COMMITTEE II DYING G The Dies committee soon will re release release lease an interim report listing the varIOus NaZI and Jap groups which operated more or less openly m in tb s country I Pearl Harbor under the names of tOurist bureaus trade ons etc It will be prosaic less sensatIOnal than pre reports with a back backhanded backhanded handed slap at the admin for ng such things to hap happen happen pen Employees of the committee are bemoaning the report s m mildness Committee funds are gett ng to the point there the house must be asked for more but maybe the dough will not be forthcoming unless D es can throw the house something far more onal The only thing sensational that forthright Martin Dies can drag out now concerns Communist influence among the Negroes and he hesi besl hesitates tates to do thIs fearing nation wide repetition of the Detroit race riots nots 00 WHEAT U CIRT Though no announcement has been made inside word in the agriculture ture department IS that wheat farm farmers farmers ers WIll get a loan price of 90 per percent percent cent of parity which IS a 5 per cent increase over this year Officials ze that something attractive must be done to increase wheat plantings As it looks now plantings are going to fall below the high goals set by the government government- an acreage increase of 14 minion million over this year yearTh yearTh Th s year farmers had the 85 per percent percent cent of parity panty loan which acted t td support the price plus both parity panty payments and conservation pay payments payments ments But congress has knocked out parity panty payments for next nett year I leaving a marg n of uncertainty as asto asto to whether wheat v u ll 11 bring as much muchas muchas as flax or gra n sorghums or some other crop Plant ng IS now well weIl along m the winter wheat belt but It IS reported to be a slack plant ng Never has there been so much demand by byI farmers to know what the price IS going to be And the official an answer answer I IS still withheld And when hen the announcement IS ISI made It will be a loan figure of 90 I per cent of parity panty whereas farmers would 1 Ike ke to have per cent to tomake tomake make up for the loss of parity panty pay payments payments ments All AIl this confusIOn comes at a tune time when there IS a greater demand for wheat than this country has ever known Ir add tio I to the tremendous tremendous dous demand for wheat heat for flour m ll 11 on bushels hae been used for animal feed m in the past 12 months and still more will be needed for forthe forthe the same purpose m the next year And beyond that the government has pledged another 50 m million hon bush bushels ens els for foreign reI of ef All thiS ns why the gates are being opened again agam to imports I of wheat and barley from Argen Argentina tina for the first t me m in quantIty the drouth years 0 CAPITOL CHArF Q I Wendell e a In his closed door session With GOP congressmen de described described scribed Stalin as a he man S he heman heman man who doesn t go m in for glamour but who v ho keeps his word and expects others to do the same samp Q I More and more railroad workers are saying that they v would be bet better better ter off if the railroads were rum nm by bythe bythe the government Q I Last spring del very of heavy bombers to the USE U S E air I airI force in Britain was Increased great greatly Ily ly The increase Is still cont numE |