Show F A G W R Washl neton D 1 0 I 40 FIGHT the furious battle over the bill tc suspend the 40 hour week in war wai plants caused a personal rift between two house leaders that may take a long time to heal when rep john mccormack massachusetts liberal was elected I 1 democratic floor Is leader one of hla strongest supporters was a colleague who had nothing in common with mccormack except friendship anti new deal anti onti labor rep hep gene cox of georgia it was with hushed astonishment therefore that the house listened to coxs bitter attack against mack during the stormy debate over the antl anti 40 hour proposal ills voice strident in anger cox denounced mccormack on the ground that his opposition to abolishing t the he 40 hour week was not good sportsmanship and I 1 wonder it if it Is good leadership 1 I have hoped tho the georgian thundered that at some time the gentleman from massachusetts would come to a realization that he to Is supposed to speak for the majority of this house rather than for somebody else friends rushed to macks defense but he mado made no reply next day however under macks leadership the bill was defeated to tally which left no doubts about who spoke for the majority note two undercover factors were responsible for this vote which probably did not reflect the general genera sentiment of the country one was a tremendous press pressure ure drive by y the A F of L and CIO in the district ot of each don congressman gressman this was par ticul arly effective with republicans who with their eyes on next falls congressional elections are very po lotical minded second was the failure of the farm bloc to support the bill because it feared labor reprisals against the parity and other boodle grabs which the farm bloc Is after the bloc has been counted on to kill the 40 hour week but the served blunt notice that it if the bill was passed labor would ax tho the f farmers result the farm bloc ran for cover and the bill went into the ashcan ashgan WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED the other day harry hopkins had a visitor in the person of aubrey williams head of the national youth administration who has been one of his closest friends tor for many years harry said williams looking around the room in the naval hospital how many bottles of medicine have you got there about 18 11 replied the lend lease administrator I 1 about 18 too many commented the national youth administrator and how many docis have you got hopkins told him well harry the use of your tooling fooling around with all these doctors and ill all this medicine said his friend you know that the more doctors you have the more this whole thing gets on your nerves now theres only one doctor who really knew what ailed you and andy rivers out at mayos lj li rochester why dont you have dr rivers come east and get you fixed up harry hopkins acted on his old friends advice sent for dr rivers and now Is out of the hospital he says he has forgotten about medicine and doctors and fe feels elsbet better than he be has in months furthermore ther more dr rivers has told him that without any question he can recover entirely NEW GOP CHAIRMAN its very shush shush but in certain inner republican circles there have been secret pow wows bows on replacing rep joe martin a so national chairman the hardworking hard working little bay stater wanted to quit last year but party chiefs decided that the wisest course would be to persuade martin to stay tor for the sake of harmony now some of the strongest advocates of his retention are after his scalp ecale ube the ho tile fire is from two sources one li Is from midwest mid west leaders adera le sour on martin 1 2 for his failure to give them lecog recognition in national headquarters 2 tor for his secret financial wooing of pennsylvania 01 oil millionaire joseph pew and pennsylvania syl vanla steel millionaire ernest in the farm belt the two big money c contributors are political dynamite and the midwest mid west GOP chiefs c cant nt understand why martin is palling around with them so they feel the time has come for one of their group to be named either national chairman or executive director FRENCH PROBLEM when you get them out of official earshot exiled members of tle old french cabinet now in washington are ve very ry of what the vichy government is doing in martinique and guadeloupe guadeloupe is a less publicized french island near martinique and certain coded messages have been intercepted indicating pr pro 0 ger german n activities on both islands suspicion Is strang that guadeloupe Is being used as R V submarine tub marine re fuelling base for nr nazi A submarines operating in the labean |