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C KEY ECONOMIST OUT Handsome platinum haired Ed acting secretary of state telephoned Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes asked that he call calla a D. meeting of the War Mobilizations Mobilization cabinet to consider cancellation of ot I war contracts where foreign countries countries countries coun coun- tries are involved Already various war contracts are arc being cancelled and some of the cancellations especially espe those Involving the purchase of metals mean breaking commitments commit ments to foreign governments Byrnes agreed called the meet meet- Ing log On the morning set phoned again Weve got ot to call of oft off the War Mobilization cabinet meeting he said I Why asked the puzzled Byrnes I Fels has resigned replied Stet Stet- tinius Hes the expert on foreign war contracts He was referring I Ito to Herbert Feis Fels economic adviser I to the secretary of state Well cant can't you come to the meetIng meetIng meeting meet- meet Ing and present your views to the cabinet suggested Byrnes I No replied Feis Fels is the only man who knows anything about the subject I IThe The special cabinet session was postponed Note Herbert Fels Feis related by marriage to the late President Garfield Garfield Gar Gar- field Is a distinguished liberal economist econ econ- economist appointed by Secretary of 01 State Stimson under Hoover His resignation was handed to Hull shortly after the resi resignation nation of ot Sumner Sumner Sumner Sum- Sum ner Welles at which time Hull began be be- began gan to sweep out liberals When newspapers revealed this out clean Hull held up acceptance o of Feis' Feis resignation left word that It be announced announced an an- while he was in Moscow DIES COMMITTEE DYING The Dies committee soon will release re reo lease an interim report listing the various Nazi and Jap groups which operated more or less openly in this country until Pearl Harbor under the names of tourist bureaus trade associations etc It will be prosaic less sensational than previous reports with a backhanded backhanded back back- handed slap at the administration for permitting such things to hap hap- pen I Employees of ot the committee are bemoaning the reports report's mildness I Committee funds are getting to the point where the house must be asked for more but maybe the dough will not be forthcoming unless Dies can throw the house something far more sensational I The only thing sensational that forthright Martin Dies can drag out now concerns Communist influence among the Negroes and he hesitates hesitates hesi hesi- tates to do this fearing wide nation repetition of the Detroit race riots WHEAT UNCERTAINTIES Though no announcement has been made Inside word In the agriculture agriculture ture department is that wheat farm farmers farm I ers will get a loan price of 90 per percent percent percent cent of parity which is a 5 per cent Increase over this year I Officials recognize that something attractive must be done to increase wheat plantings As it looks now plantings are going to fall below the high goals set by the government government- an acreage Increase of 14 million over this year j This year farmers had the 85 per i parity cent loan which acted it to support the price plus both parity payments and conservation pay pay- ments But congress has knocked I out parity payments for next year leaving a margin o of uncertainty as asto asto asto to whether wheat will bring as much muchas as flax or grain sorghums or some other crop I Planting Is now well along in the i winter wheat belt but it Is reported 1 t to be a slack planting Never has there been so much demand by farmers to know what the price is going to be And the official answer answer an an- Ewer Is still withheld I And when the announcement Is made It will be a loan figure o of 90 per cent of parity whereas farmers would like to have per cent to tomake tomake tomake make up for th the loss of parity pay pay- ments All this confusion comes at a n time I when there is a greater demand for forI I wheat than this country has ever known In addition to the tremendous tremendous dous demand for wheat for flour million bushels hay hate ha e been used for animal feed In the past 12 months and still more will be needed for forthe forthe forthe the same purpose In the next year And beyond that the government has pledged another 50 million bushels bushels bush bush- els for foreign relief All AU this explains why the gates are being opened again to Imports of wheat and barley from Argentina Argentina Argentina Argen Argen- tina for the first time In quantity since ince the drouth years CAPITAL CHAFF C C. Wendell Willkie In his closed door session with GOP congressmen described described described de de- de- de scribed Stalin as a mans man's heman heman he he- man wh who doesn't go tor ln glamour but who keeps his word and expects others to do the same C. C More and more more railroad workers are saying that thai they would be better better bet bet- ter oft off if it the railroads were run by bythe bythe bythe the government C. C Last spring delivery of heavy bombers to the U. U S. S Eighth air force In Britain was increased great ly lYe The Increase Is still continuing |