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Show , PROVCr f(UTAHy:-EVE ' ' PAGE' FIVEh Mefry-Go-Round (Continuecl From Page One) two friends .can repay their government gov-ernment money. " ' AM of. which., would indicate a profit of abouti JIAOO.OQO. The two gentlemen who will receive most of thia areV Colonel Horatio ("Rash") Hackett, former head of the Public Works Administration Administra-tion under Ickes, and Angelo ("Mike") Glas, former director of the PWA Housing Division. ' HORATIO ALGER ? -r- - To get the full story, it is necessary to go back to the pre-Roosevelt pre-Roosevelt days when CI as was a salesman with the Holabird and Root architectural firm in Chicago, Chica-go, and when Hackett was an ar chitect with the same firm. Later Secretary Ickes, also of Chicago, brought the two men to Washing ton and they i became the Castor and Pollux of. PWA. Where one Went, so went the other. When Hackett' was promoted pro-moted from director of housing to be assistant administrator of PWA he got Clas the job of director of housing. And when Clas proved a dud as housing director, Hackett Hack-ett promoted him to be assistant administrator . of PWA. When "Hackett resigned from PWA, Clas followed a month later. Horatio Hackett then became president of Thompson-Starrett, New York contractors, and suddenly sud-denly put in an appearance in Washington last fall to camp on the RFC 4ooflrtep, of 3e3se Jones. Jones and Hackett arcToW friends, Jesse having once taken Hackett to the Kentucky Derby in his private pri-vate car. Mrs. Haoket also came to Washington and was seen with Mrs. Jones almost every day, playing play-ing bridge and visiting mutual friends. . ; , After all this . personal powwowing pow-wowing was over( the RFC put out an pfficial and' very innocent announcement an-nouncement that it had approved a loan of $5,600,000 to the "Lafayette "La-fayette Building Corporation" to construct a History office building build-ing on the site of the McLean mansion. . MYSTERIOUS DUMMY No explanation was given re garding the-incorporotors of the Lafayette -Building Corporation, and as far as possible it is kept a mystery to this day. George Rogers, listed as "assistant secre- tary?-of the corporation, says: "I OUR BOARDING;; HOUSE &U$StAIimELIS N. : X, , March , 7 tiiw-r-samuei.v. Kusamore, wean thy 65-year-old I inventor, - super intended -the ..wrecking of his (f hb's PrWiTieAAY starve Vrr 1 TOUR AAEAUe V DAV-UlJ:4lSHT l OPHHE ORBOJLAlSlS: w f H OWLV 6LEEPS 12 TO lH r :X ' rRE?AAAEO If? lUWOXTES HOURS OUT CF 2.4 HE .THAn AfllANT j MSUROTIC SPASM .- USUM-LV MAS HICCUPS P CHEF WAS I OP "THE ! AAAMOlBUliA TWO OR THREE TIME5 f - TUINIO PAM- A- -vX WOULD UKE ' 7 A WEEK, BUT SIWCE HBS I C ARE$ AS V TO SPBAK fTH , ( BEEN COMPJMED TO HIS k ; BK3 AS MAKI- V L, VOU PRtVATElJ V BED THEWE COMPLETELY HOLE COVERS J I MRS. HOOPLE ( PISAPPEAREP kJ I lMTO vV J -jp -v J&S ' 1 MOUTH, AKIO f?, KWs r V hr" TT - J WHEM X WOKE V K! J lli -. TTTrV. SEEAA KJORMAL .7 I CQPR. 139 BY Htk SERVICt. INC. T. M. REG. U. 3. PATf OFF 1 " 3 : $200,000 esUte today. He ? hates New . Jersey ' politicians and Is leaing the state because" of " them. "It wHl be razed, brick by brick until not a thing remains," he said. BAUM WINS RACE RED. LODGE, Mont, March 7 (HE) Celey Baum, Ashton, Idaho today held his second win in the annual dog derby held here yesterday yester-day before a crowd of approxi mately 5,000. Baum's time , was 15 minutes, 12 seconds. Other places went to Lloyd Van Sickle of Ashton, Ida., and Inula Gellan of McCall, Idaho. don't know who the directors are tJohn Holabird of Chicago, to do IF,Y0U FEEL SUNK Read this and cheer up Are yu ao blue that tif la no longer worth living? Do you cry easily? Do you feel tow, mean, depressed- just absolutely SUNK? Then here'a good newa (or you in ease yo need a good general ayatem tonic Just take famous LydU E. Pink ham's Vegetable Com pound. Let ita wholesome herba and roots help Nature build up more physical resistance resist-ance and tone up your system, so that it can more easily throw off the "blues" and give more energy to enjoy life. MILLIONS of women have depended upon up-on this Compound and have passed the word along to friends and neighbors, and to their children. Why not take Pinkharn's Compound and go "smiling thru "1 tilllv. .the real architectural work. Fin ally he rented the new building to Jesse Jones, from whom he had or anything else about the 3etif; All I know is that I'm assistant secretary. But I don't have any thing to do with the affairs of 'the ( borrowed the money, company. The whole thing is run ' Interesting fact is that the from New York." i transaction is perfectly legal. It Jesse Jones' henchmen at the merely bears a resemblance to the RFC are equally mysterious.4 AT- ! oltJ practices at which the New though information regarding ! eai so sanctimoniously noma up government loans is supposed to be a matter of public record, the RFC refuses to give any information informa-tion regarding the Lafayette corporation. cor-poration. " Any publicity, it says, .iight reveal secrets to competitors." Officials of the American Security Secur-ity and Trust company, however, trustees for the McLean estate which sold the property, state that the Lafayette Building Corporation Corpor-ation was formed by the Thompson-Starrett company, of which Col. Hortio Hackett is president. Furthermore, Thompson - Star-rett Star-rett are constructing the new building, while Angelo Clas is listed list-ed a3 architect. Clas, it is also revealed, is one of the incorporators incorpor-ators of the ' Lafayette Building Corporation. Tn other words--Col. Hackett, after getting out of the New Deal, set up the Lafayette corporation, borrowed $5,600,000 from the New Deal through his friendT Jesse Jones, then turned around and hired his own firm, Thompson-Starrett, Thompson-Starrett, to construct the building, build-ing, with his old friend Clas as architect. But inasnauch as Clas never has had any architectunal . experience on anything important, Hackett also hired his old boss. its hands Note While Jesse Jones was adancing $5,600,000 of RFC funds to his old friends, he was refusing thousands of applications from small businessmen, with the result that congress is considering special spec-ial legislation to obtain funds for small business. - JAPANESE GOODWILL Dr, Beck to Speak To Eugenic Group Dr. D. Elden Beck, assistant professor of zoology and entomology entom-ology at Brigham Young university, uni-versity, will speak to members of Provo high school's Eugenic society so-ciety Thursday at four o'clock in the Little theater in a regular bii weekly meeting. Dr. Beck will speak on "The Place of Education in Marriage." Charlotte Henroid, president of the board of directors of the society, so-ciety, will be in charge. Ivan Young, eugenics instructor, r is faculty adviser of the group. The public as well as interested students are invited to attend, si O New telephone directory is going to press! Your frijemls will look for rl your name in the neV directory. Don't miss out on social and business opportunities. Let us know about any changes in your present listings or if you want additional listings or advertising ad-vertising in the classified section. Call us today 600 No one is supposed to know it, but the state department officials at first turned down the idea of sending the remains of Japanese Ambassador Saito home on a U. S. cruiser. They were abruptly overruled over-ruled by the president himse'f. Mr. Hull's advisers, inclined to argue over protocol arid precedent, ap-gued that.Saito ,was an ex-ambassador. Therefore, to aend his body home in a cruiser, would set a precedent forall other ex-ambassadors who expired here. However. Japanese newspaper correspondent S. Ito, of the Tokyo Tok-yo Asahi, pointed out to close friends of Roosevelt's that the Japanese attach great signifi cance to the death tieremony, that respect paid to Saito would great-Iv great-Iv lmnrove Japenese - American goodwill. Roosevelt, advised of the situation situ-ation on his cruiser, acted immediately; I MERRY-GO-ROUND I Lloyd Garrison, brilliant young dean of Wisconsin University law chool. has declined a secret administration ad-ministration offer of appointment to Commissioner Donald Smith's place on the National Labor Relations Rela-tions board. Garrison was chairman chair-man of the original labor board, but said he had enough of Washington Wash-ington and preferred the peace and quiet of academic life. . . . Onlv $200,000,000. of the $2,000.-000,000 $2,000.-000,000 Stabilization Fund has been used to maintain the value of the dollar. . . . In a sizzling letter let-ter to Senator Rush Holt, Carl L. Curry. WPA timekeeper at Grafton, Graf-ton, W. Va., declared that one way the administration could reduce re-duce government expenses would be'to take his (Curry's) name "off your free, mailing list." (Copyright. 1939, by United Feature Syndicate, . Inc.) Arkansas Man To Speak at 'Y? Drv HvW. Kamp. professor o4 Greek and Latin at Hendrix ;Gs- lege, Conway, Ark., will lecture on "Attitudes Toward the Arts Then and Now" at Brigham Young university Friday morning, ac cording to Dean Gerrit de Jong of the College of Fine Arts. Snnnanrprt hv the Association of j t American colleges of which b:. Y. U. is a member. Dr. Kamp making a tour of colleges in Utah, Colorado and Texas. CBS NETWORK WORKER INJURED SPANISH FORK Charles W. Dart. 32, WPA worker, suffered a painful injury Friday while working on the sewer trench in Spanish Fork, when his pick slipped running the point into the fleshy part of his left foot. He was given first aid and rushed to the office of Dr. 3. Wi Hagan where an anti-tetanus serum was given and the wound dressed. 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