Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W labine administration anti congress hangs up paradoxical record with unprecedented spending spendin M NOTE when opinions are expressed jn in these columns they are those of the news analyst arid and not necessarily of this newspaper released ni ont by western newspaper union CONGRESS res ipso loquitur Loqui tur it speaks for itself said frank alln in roosevelt in latin after the house refused on roll call to pass pas his bill expanding lending power to both house and senate ho he forwarded my good wishes for a pleasant vacation then he bundled up some last minute bills and left for hyde par park k while his loyal friend from florida sen claude pepper was holding up u p adjournment by denouncing the I 1 lun unrighteous partnership democratic G 0 P doali coalition tion of those who have been willing to scuttle the american government and jeopardize the peace of the world because they hate roosevelt and what roosevelt stands for but when the first arst session of the seventy sixth congress was safely N 74 PEPPER parit billing to scuttle jeopardize ise packed away observers meditated meditated on its record A rebellious antl anti white house gang had nevertheless appropriated the record shattering peacetime total of see chart including a last ini minute nute farm loan fund tor for the sake of quick adjournment appropriations tabulated relief relict supplemental nellcy 1040 i first deficiency independent offices legislative establishments treasury post office oskco military establishment war department 11 i supplemental war department part ment N on military 11 navy department degart department ment 11 i i second do deficiency clency 11 A agriculture and farm credit t interior department district dish let ot of columbia 4 department ot of labor commercio departments monts degart urgent ell cleAcy 3 third deficiency I 1 permanents Perma and india total observes also examined the piece by piece record of legislation and found franklin Roosevel ts early session victories almost offset his late session defeats though they knew no switch back to tho the sentiment of last january is in prospect when a permanently antl anti adain admin congress meets again next winter the record white IIo fisci a victories congress was not all bad to the president the senate all but 10 rif of his appointees including new supreme court justices frankfurter and douglas equally new Com commerce morce secretary hopkins and ana attorney general murphy passed were his unprecedented peach birne defense program intact except for guam fortification modified governmental reorganization alo which will save about a year find and his bis 1940 relief program laden with restrictions continued were his ls gold content devala EILL OF DC LU RS 31 3 appropriation RECORD vp in an and neto den beat year eor atlon power and his currency stabilization fund white te house defeats vivid in retrospect they include 1 his 3 spend lend plan emasculated by the senate killed by the house 2 his housing expansion bill 3 neutrality revision on which much of the nation agreed with him 4 a 1939 relief deficiency appropriation of 00 oo 5 rejection by the senate of two appointees virginias floyd roberts Il as federal judge judae j and nevadas william boyle osset S at torney for nevada and withdrawal of two more whose rejection was imminent ins thomas amlie amile appointee and donald wakefield Wake Held smith NLRB appointee 0 refusal to hike debt limit above but long term bond ceiling was raised other legislative moves some minor new deal victories other minor defeats but only one 11 hatch t h bill carrying important political implications fl house approval over white house objection jec tion of to probe NLRB L abolition with apparent white approval ot of undistributed profits tax in business siness bV appeasement tax revision bill dill bill also algo provided MiT reciprocal ocal taxation of 0 federal and state employees fl L postponement to next term of badly needed railroad aid legislation one or of the sessions greatest failures only move in this direction approval of voluntary rait rail debt adjustment without necessitating bankruptcy fl i postponement of much debated revision of 1 farm program 2 wagner labor relations act and 3 wage hour bour act C L defeat of townsend a month penion aon bill and passage ot of far reaching social security amendments which freeze old age annuity pay roll taxes at I 1 per cent for next three years extend coverage cove raga to more moie people and liberalize benefit payments fl L passage ot of hatch c clean n politics bul bill received coldly by white house because it eliminates much of the administration machine from campaign which proscribes political activities of all except top bracket federal jobholders ak refusal to revive florida sh ship lp canal a white house proposal L continuation over white house 0 objection of dies committee on un amerl which was called a forum of disgruntled politicians POLITICS w truths open for public inspection this month are two great pertinent political truths 1 that the right kind of publicity can turn a third rater into a birst rato presidential candidate date almost overnight 2 that today as always public sentiment is sufficiently pliable to make room for any new face that may pop up the con 1 c elusion I 1 u s I 1 0 n s first that presidential campaigns are largely a matter maiter ot 0 I 1 smart public rolo r e 1 a ti I 1 lo 10 ons n s work second that pat t I 1 i election Is not in the bag for raul PAUL mcnutt any man going up it 1 cause of this excitement Is paul Y V mcnutt who popped back from the philippines two months ago got his hand some gome picture in the papers was called a charming yo young 1 ung haaby man by president roosevelt then ended up by getting himself named federal security administrator from here ho he may deve develop lopinto into the presidents crown prince in june candidate mcnutt ranked fifth among democratic hopefuls as tabulated by highly accurate ap curate gallup polls in order garner 47 parley farley 16 hull 12 hopkins 5 mcnutt 3 six weeks after his federal appointment paul mcnutt had jumped to second place jack garnor still well in the load lead suffered a mite the standings garner 48 46 per cent mcnutt 13 hull 12 far ley icy 12 hopkins 1 3 other political news ohlas sen robert alphonso toft taft bad trailer in 0 0 P gallup polls became the first to toss his hat in the ring while finding his senatorial office interesting candidate taft magnanimously nani agreed not to run away from a harder job RACES otte ono way out I 1 since last march thousands of czechoslovakian czecho slovakian jews have fled to the U S on visitors permits their property conil confiscated seated their only hope lying in refuge on an some distant land sometimes even this hope Is fut futile le within two wo days the U S had this Is problem brought shockingly to m mind d twice C 4 tn in chicago 43 year old mrs adele langer wife ot of a czech jew whose textile mills had been con took quarters in a loop hotel with he her r two sons six and four late that night she threw her sons from the thirteenth floor window slashed her wrists and jumped fl in now york german refugee albert aaron whose wife died two weeks earlier from an overdose of sleeping table tablets tg hung himself from his apartment door LOUISIANA hot oil heaped atop several score other indictments facing prominent louls lanans labans was a federal charge against form former er gov richard chard leche whose feet had heretofore been kept clear of the muck surrounding state officialdom ci cla the indictment charging leche politician seymour and freeman Bur burford foro texas oil man with stepping up production of rodessa oil wells and running the contraband or hot oil over into texas violating the connally act international chess game for two months jittery france and britain have forecast another 11 crisis in august or september As 8 august was born it indeed looked like a crisis in which japan had become come e of great nuisance value to adolf hitler and benito mussolini what bothered americans was that their own nation seemed being drawn into this chess game as a result of justified U S retaliation against insults in the far east at italis lake como was played the key move in this s game there met toshio ShIra torl japanese ambassador bas to rome home and gen matahiko ambassador to berlin their purpose to berf perfect e ct a military alliance binding japan r 1 I i N h J ro 31 0 ambassador lie ile hwa uri kiri with italy and germany if it failed I 1 said their friends the ambassadors had vowed to commit hara kirl kiri S suicide ul by disembowelment Si neou sly at tokyo youngish army leaders began a drive to purge foes of the military alliance meanwhile there was every indication these three powers were doing their best to confuse and frighten not only france britain and russia who opened joint military conferences feren ces in moscow but also the U S sharp on the heels of 11 S abrogation of the jap trade treaty had come anti american and anti british demonstrations in china jap airships destroyed two yangtze river steamers at a mob de strayed offices of the british international export corporation with democracies attention shifted away from europe for the moment the axis exerted pressure on spain and the balkan states dro dragging ging them into line should europe become embroiled in war while washington Washing tori tried despe desperately rate lyt to 0 remain aloof prime minister chamberlain camberlain amb erlain told the house of commons he might have to ser send tda pow POV erful fleet to asti asia more interesting to americans however was the proposal of laborite john morgan that british and american asiatic fleets be combined combine under dunder a U S admiral to keep ordering order in the orient said he 1 I would regard it as a first class move agriculture bat barter ter forgotten by surplus eldden ridden U S lard producers is the humorous situation several years ago when they bartered lard for german machinery finding themselves holding several thousand musical but useless harmonicas harmo nicas today germany still needs lard laid tov for which she will pay 60 per cent above the present domestic me price ol of 5 to 5 cents a pound contrary to the state departments reciprocal trade program Is the barter plan producers would now institute rebuffed by secretary of state cordell hull producers and german barter emissaries turned to the treasury department where undersecretary john W W hanes agreed to a hearing the plan which obviously seeks legal circumvention of very definite foreign trade regulations is somei something hing like this U V S packers having arranged a transaction in germany would sell lard to an american importing firm which would trade it to private german buyers lor aski marks usable only in that country the importer would then thed purchase german products now on the U S tree free list paying in germany money about one fourth what he would pay elsewhere NY ere products turned over to lard producers here would be largely of farm nature machinery cream separators and fertilizer |