Show CA ar ac 4 washington D C WARY GRAVY TRAINER you can write it down that secretary of agriculture claude Is going to be very chary about using that gravy train veto power the farm lobby voted him in the pr price ice control bill ile he knows that the white house is still sputtering over his unauthorized e d endorsement of this lobby scheme at a crucial moment in the senate fight over the legislation also that if f he attempts to exercise the power he e is liable le to be slapped down even larder harder than when he fronted for the lobby actually under cover has promised in effect to be a good boy it leak out at the time but ca during the secret deliberations of the joint senate house conference committee on the bill he wrote the committee a letter repudiating his prep pre endor endorsement semen and saying ne want tho the veto pow power er over farm prices 4 ickard W wrote this letter under white house pressure he knew he was in bad and he tried to square himself dut but for the administration the was too late tho the damage had been done for the amendment yas was in the bill and the lobbes pals on the joint committee were vere in I 1 a powerful position to stand pat in this final bitter fight two ala bama bama democrats and a michigan republican were responsible for the retention of the gravy train provision they were vere sen john H bank lead head and rep henry B of alabama and rep hep jesse jcsse P wolcott of michigan As the amendment originated in the senate under the rules it was necessary for the house conferees to propose deletion ch chairman air of the house group publicly makes a great show of being a red hot Administration ite but behind closed doors of the committee room he adamantly refused to heed roose belts pleas for elimination of the lobby amendment dy by ano ine vital war bill from the start and with bankhead running interference in the senate group forced the retention of the provision note the administrations adminis tr aaion s fight was made by sen prentiss brown michigan democrat and sen john danaher connecticut republican another roy itow Wick ards fronting orthe farm lobby in price control bill the only row arow ag hes lil had ad on this score with inner administration leaders the papers are full of stories about a big crop expansion program this chis year to meet meat the food needs of U S war allies frequent press releases issue from the busy publicity staff of the agriculture department about grandiose plans the real inside isthan is that get busy on these plans until hewak he was practically ordered to do d so by vice president henry as head of the economic warfare board wallace sent two sharp barp letters demanding prompt act action fontO to expand crop production and only then did bestir himself certain farm elements are against crop expansion on the ground that scarcity makes tor for better prices working through politically minded triple A officials who have a lot of influence with W ickard the anti ex panders kept him on the fence until wallace jarred him os off notes note secretly the AAA politicos also had a lot toldo todo with Wick ards endorsement of the gravy train amendment in the price bill the alaers are jealous of pi ice administrator leon hendersons authority want to elbow their way into the var ar setup set up as shots a 0 AXES LEWIS the inside reason why john L lewis was not named a member of the three than man CIO peace committee was because president roosevelt personally blocked it when he and CIO prest president dent phil murray discussed the counter plan that scuttled lewis blitz scheme roosevelt advised that the new and CIO peace committees be limited to three members each that would avoid turning the joint committee into a mass meeting he explained and also make it easier to keep hostile lewis out of the picture if you have too large a cammi committee t phil 1 I 1 the president added with as a smile 11 e you ME may ky appoint lewis 1 I guess youre right mr president laughed murray note lewis intimates say he be would not have hav accepted appointment to the committee if it had been offered him a GENERAL MARSHALL you seeing things f you saw the news picture of gen george C marshall i army chief of staff attired in the uniform of on an air corps officer it was him all right and he had on an air corps uniform marshall is riot not a flier he Is in an infantryman but outside of the corps he is the fly ingest officer in the army whenever possible marshall always travels by air and is an authority 0 oh n planes and aerial tactics |