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C SPIES IN CONSULATES Vichy Ambassador Henry-Haye Henry recently let out a loud wail about I newspaper reports charging him and his staff with undercover pro pro- Axis activities It is possible that Haye Henry knows nothing about it it but government government government govern govern- ment authorities are in possession of evidence that Nazi agents are on Vichy consular staffs in this country coun coun- try Also that such agents have been installed in Hungarian consular offices It has been ascertained that several several sev sev- severa era eral weeks before Axis consulates were ordered expelled Berlin either cither tipped off or anticipating the move quietly began shifting some of its agents to Vichy and Hungarian consula con con- sula tes The Vichy consulate in Chicago headed by Raymond Imbault Huart Imbault-Huart Huart was one of those that suddenly had hada a mysterious staff expansion Another Another An An- other was in the Hungarian consulate consulate late in Cleveland directed by Louis Alexy Two investigators were added to Imbault-Huart's Imbault staff early in June These men were in constant contact with the Nazi consulate in Chicago in fact they called there almost every day until the Nazi consul consul consul con con- sul departed in July This was definitely established by Dies committee committee committee com com- agents and from a former member of the Vichy consular staff staffin in Chicago who resigned in disgust after many years of service THE TilE PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S MOTHER IOTHER Sara Delano Roosevelt thought the man to whom she proudly referred referred re re- to as My son the President President President dent was capable of doing anything anything any any- thing he set his mind to and the President would have done anything anything anything any any- thing he could to satisfy her her wishes But one favor he could not grant despite his high office Because of its Intimate character the story was kept a secret by the few who knew it but now that the gracious mistress mistress mistress mis mis- tress of Hyde Park has passed on it can be told During the Czechoslovak crisis in 1939 the President was conferring conferring conferring confer confer- ring with advisers when a secretary interrupted with word that his mother moth moth- er was calling from New York The President picked up the phone inquired in inquired inquired in- in Yes mother Mrs Roosevelt was in a state of ot I high excitement There was some I difficulty over a friend who had come to this country from Europe He wanted to remain until he was certain it would be safe for him to return but the state department was I refusing to grant an extension of his I visa Couldn't the President do something Im sorry mother he replied but Im I'm afraid I cant can't help you jOU on this I IAn An excited buzz of conversation I came through the phone It might be dangerous for the friend to re re- re- re II turn Wasn't the President the highest official of the government and couldn't he do something Roosevelt glanced helplessly at those about him Then with a patient patient patient pa pa- tient smile he again addressed the phone Mother he explained its against the law This was one door even the President President President dent of the United States could not open for his mother or anybody S NO SUGAR SHORTAGE Dont Don't get alarmed about those rumors rumors rumors ru ru- ru- ru mors of an impending sugar short short- age The department of agriculture ture which should know Official statistics show that there is plenty of refined sugar for civilian needs Production in the next few months plus the reserve stocks of beet and refiners refiners- c cane ne sugar amounting to over tons tons tons- will be more than enough to meet consumer demands until the next crop Only problem is what government experts term mal location Due to consumer hoarding stocks in hi the East are below normal though rapidly rapidly rap rap- idly being replenished from the top top- hea heavy vy reserves of refineries in other sections chiefly the Gulf Gull states As a double precaution the agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture department has approved sharp increases in 1941 marketing quotas which were stepped up to tons This is tons more than the quotas announced at atthe atthe atthe the beginning of the year and a million million mil mil- lion tons greater than those approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved July 30 Some sugar-producing sugar areas Including in including including in- in Cuba arc are not expected to supply their enlarged quotas due to heavy drains on their raw stocks but Puerto Rico and U. U S S. S beet areas have plenty of supplies on hand to meet the new marketing allotments ROUND MERRY Sen Bob Reynolds' Reynolds hopes to be bethe bethe bethe the bridegroom of year a heirless Evalyn McLean did not keep the Raleigh N N. N C. C post of the American Legion from scorching him for his isolationism Friends of Jim Farley can always tell when he is traveling abroad The genial ex Democratic chairman keeps them posted with a trail of personally penned picture post post- cards He mails them by the hun hun- drew Farley visited Honolulu with two of his children |