Show U OR W C R washington 0 0 SENIORITY war and navy secretaries son eon and knox let tho the senate foreign relations committee in on a number of military secrets which cannot be disclosed when they testified behind closed doors on the loan to china in return the cabinet were vouchsafed a political secret by senator tom connally committee chairman which can bo be told old the courtly texan was confronted with a problem in protocol in trying g to decide whether or knox should bo be the first witness finally he turned to the 74 year old war secretary and said mr stimson wo we will hear bear you first I 1 believe you have seniority 1 I wont stand on my seniority it if you prefer hearing mr knox smiled stimson oh wo we insist said bald connally iwo wo are arc great believers in seniority hero here in the senate if that so BO some of us committee chairmen have our jobs notes though riot not na named amed by cc connally n senator reynolds of north carolina chairman of military affairs is definitely in this category able senator austin though a republican does the real work of the senate military affairs committee ARMY GOES TO SEA A hot backstage fight between the army navy and maritime commission has developed over brig gen charles P gross and his ambitious b plan tor for the army to take over all war shipping the row has even gono gone up to harry hopkins and to transportation czar joe eastman so far without settlement crux of the battlo battle Is that general gross on an infantry officer recently placed in charge of army transportation is eager to take over docks I 1 ships rails and inland transportation operate all ot the supply ships chips which now sail under the maritime commission and the navy the maritime commission and the navy however claim that the lob job of the army is to remain on the land and they will handle water transportation before tho the sea dogs realized what was waa happening however general gross had quietly written out an order and taken it to joe eastman who was on the verge of signing it gross Is under general somerville the quartermaster general who was nov new york administrator under harry hopkins and So mervine has pushed the ha plan with his old friend in tho the white house however ex budget director lowis lewis douglos newest addition to the maritime commission so BO far has blocked the army grab ile he caal claims ms the army has enough to do fighting without sailing ships t BRITISH RE ICED D TAPE therell always be an england tut bus V S fliers now trying to save india uro aro wondering tal on dering why british officials lit in in dla dia dont kvant them to enter india until 31 flays clays alter after they have taken yellow fever ever shots lly by that time the japanese who dont have to observe the 31 day rule may obviate the need ol of V S fliers going to india at all a 11 stopping stepping lunation inflation inside tact fact about the current quarrel over inflation and the farm bill is that sage old bernie baruch long ogo ago warned the president le acon on henderson and the inner circle that toy they could not stop inflation if they put tho the brake only on prices price fixing is like a four legged chair baruch warned them it 1 wont stand on two legs or even three there Is no use regulating consumer prices lio he said bald unless you also regulate profits also wages also farm prices if ono one of them gets acta out of hand the others will too baruch who was head of the war industries board in the last war has been harping on this point for months he urged congress more than a year ago to adopt a very high excess profits tax to take abray away all the war profits from indus industry try a and nd at the same time he urged the president to clamp down on wages as well wall as prices the president debt actually got a little irritated at barucho Da Ba pounding away on this theme today however chief resentment of the farm belt is iq not to so much against Roosevel ts urging that farm prices be kept down but over the fact that labors income has skyrocketed sky rocketed while the farmers furthermore the farmer complains that he has to pay a lot more for his labor when he can get gel it at all but he cant increase his farm prices proportionately MERRY GO ROUND C L army navy and civil defense authorities ties rate tall mayor ed kelly of chicago as the most operative cooperative co and efficient municipal executive on war problems in the country fl having taught himself hemsell good neighbor conscious vice president wallace has taken up the study of portuguese L among agriculture department jr ir rever the high handed bureaucrats of 0 the AAA are known as cluster heads buy defense bonds |