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C CHICAGO UPS LINE-UPS Speaker Din Bill Bankhead is In a direful predicament Its It's a White House secret but the courtly mannered and able Alabaman Alabaman Ala Ala- I baman is the Presidents President's personal choice for keynoter at the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic convention a a high honor much sought after by a number of big shot party leaders At least half halt a dozen are pulling every possible possible pos pos- sible wire to land it But Bankhead who can have It on ona ona ona a silver sliver platter doesn't know whether er en he wants it or not Reason for his dilemma is a virulent case of vice Bankhead feels he Is a strong sec place and possibility and that the keynote speech customarily is made by a dignitary who Is not a candi eandi date For him to accept the role therefore would be an admission that he was out of the running And Bankhead is anything but that He Ile HeIs Heis is very much in the vice presidential race Roosevelt picked Bankhead because be cause he liked the speakers speaker's witty speeches at the last two Jackson day banquets But while flattered the speaker is still undecided whether er en to accept the Presidents President's often offer Note Note Roosevelt's Roosevelt's choice for permanent permanent per per- manent chairman of the convention con is Senate Floor Leader Alben Barkley Barkley Bark Bark- ley 1938 1936 keynoter and also a vice presidential hopeful though not a avery avery avery very hot and one The Presidents President's choice for his floor manager manager man man- ager Is brainy little Senator Jimmy Byrnes assisted by Senators M Minton in ton tonof of Indiana Pepper of Florida Lister ListerHill ListerHill Hill of Alabama and Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago o 0 HOOVER VS LANnON LANDON Behind the scenes a bitter struggle struggle gle Is shaping up between Herbert Hoover and Alt AU Landon at the Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila delphia convention The ex President is bent on writing writing writ writ- ing into the platform an endorsement endorsement endorsement endorse ment of his bis administration along the lines of the one one in the Glenn Frank Program committee report Landon is not flatly opposed to this although he considers it unnecessary and likely to prove a campaign handicap But he be is prepared to wage a last last- ditch fight for a liberal platform He lie is determined to resist to the end Hoovers Hoover's plans for a platform to fit his conservative views Landon is against any blanket denunciation of the New Deal Landon London will be in a powerful position tion to wage his battle In addition to leading a midwestern bloc of at least votes he also will be the Kansas member on the resolutions committee Note Note Note-In In its original form the arrangement ar ar- arrangement r under which Hoover will t speak Tuesday night the first session ses ion sion of the convention also called for a speech by Landon But this was dropped when it was pointed out that as a delegate he can get the floor any time o 0 WILLKIE BOOSTER Remember the Liberty league which o crusaded against the New Deal In 1930 1936 And remember Jouett Shouse its dapper head who was a crony of Al Smith and the duPonts Well Wen Jouett is now the No 1 washington Wash Washington ington booster of Wendell Willkie Dewey Dewcy will lead on the first ballot bal bal- lot ot he says sayi says but that will be his high point From then on he will fade out of the picture On the second sec end and ballot Taft will jump to the front But he too wont won't have the staying power and on the third ballot bal bat lot will forge to the fore tore for for Ii a moment But that will shoot his bolt He lie wont won't have what it takes to make the grade and the leaders will then turn to the one man who has has Willkie On the fourth ballot Willkie Winkle will I. I lead and after that it will be a stam stem pede Shouse's Shouse explicit forecast should Interest the other candidates candidates par par particularly Senator Taft who has publicly pub 7 7 declared he will lead on the first ballot It also is Interesting in view of the fact that Willkie is the theone theone theone one dark horse who so far hasn't a single tingle delegate pledged to him 0 I POLITICAL CHAFF Thirty years ago a young man tamed named James Jsmes Mead came from Buffalo to Washington to take a job as a Capitol policeman He lie was befriended by another policeman James Reilly Today Mead a senator senator sen sen- ator is trying to get a raise for Reilly now dean of doorkeepers Airplanes have brought a mosquito mosquito mos mos- quito from Africa to Brazil which Is spreading malaria up and down the Amazon Public health directors Jirec directors tors agree that If it not checked it might decimate the population of South America hi Ambassador Joe Davies is filling tilling I a job which should have been done In the state department long ago I I He is contact man with congress For years the state department has depended upon natty young men to togo togo I go up and lobby with senators Result Re Re- suit sult Foreign policy lagged on Cap i itol lUlL HilL But Joe speaks the right t language Tourists are pouring in at the White House at the rate of a aday aday aday day of whom 1700 see lee the private parlors by congressional letter The others then see only the East room and ground floor t I |
