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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Dewey Campaign Gains Steam With N. Y., Wisconsin Victories Third Term Grows Less Likely (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) '.ii.-is by Western Newspaper Union. . . POLITICS: In the Spring From coast to coast in early April the grass roots were turning green. For politicians more than anyone else, the fresh spring air was filled with anticipation. Congress grew restless, prompting Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley to forecast adjournment in June just before the national conventions. More pointed harbingers of an election year were primaries in New York and Wisconsin, which sent youthful Tom Dewey's star a-soar-ing and left Cactus Jack Garner's supporters hanging on the ropes. In the Empire state, whose delegates will be uninstructed, G. O. P. Hope- .krf i X ' ' ! ' ... 1 . MICHIGAN'S VANDENBEKG Dewey also beat Roosevelt. ful Frank Gannett was nevertheless' pigeon-holed in the public mind. In America's Dairyland, Tom Dewey not only outpointed Michigan's Sen. Arthur Vandenberg for G. O. P. delegates del-egates but also got more votes than Franklin Roosevelt got in the Democratic Dem-ocratic primary. If third termites thought the President's Pres-ident's Wisconsin victory over Jack Garner was a favorable sign, they also saw signs to the contrary. In Los Angeles Eleanor Roosevelt spoke her personal opinion; she was against a third term "except in extraordinary ex-traordinary circumstances." If Europe's Eu-rope's war was such a circumstance, circum-stance, Sumner Welles had probably proba-bly convinced the President that the White House can never bring the Allies and Germany to peace. At Monongah, W. Va., meanwhile, C. I. O.'s John Lewis threatened to start his own third party unless the Democrats choose a platform and candidates suitable to him. Definitely Defi-nitely not acceptable, C. I. O. has already intimated, is Franklin Roosevelt. And Montana's Sen. Burton Bur-ton K. Wheeler, whom John Lewis would like to see President, made it plain at San Francisco that he does not expect the President to run, that he himself is not a third party candidate, but that he would become Democratic candidate should the party invite him. CONGRESS: Fraud? Mad as hornets were New York's Rep. Ham Fish and North Carolina's Caro-lina's Sen. Bob Reynolds. By bundling Ambassador Bill Bullitt back to France aboard the clipper, Secretary of State Hull had cheated them out of an investigation. Subject: Sub-ject: The German "white book" charges, intimating Bullitt had promised Jerzy Potocki, Polish ambassador am-bassador to the U. S., that America would fight along with France and Britain against Germany. Meanwhile the enterprising New i York Wj branded as frauds the papers which Germany claimed to have taken from Polish archives when Warsaw was seized. Basis for the News' charge was the testimony testi-mony of three translators who indicated indi-cated that "the German propaganda propa-ganda ministry has slipped some new words into the Polish language." lan-guage." Two translators "commented "com-mented that the report was written in such poor Polish that no statesman states-man could have been guilty of its authorship." Two words, they said, were not even in the Polish language; lan-guage; a third was archaic. Also in congress: C. By limiting debate, the senate expedited approval of a house resolution reso-lution to extend for three years the administration's reciprocal trade program. Biggest stumbling block was the attempt to retain senate ratification power over such treaties. trea-ties. C. Economy, already blasted by a $300,000,000 boost in the farm bill, went by the boards again when the senate appropriations subcommittee added $44,000,000 for civil functions of the war department. Still ahead was the relief bill, which spending forces hoped to boost $500,000,000 above the President's $1,000,000,000 request. C The farm credit administration got a going-over in both houses. In the senate, National Grange Master L. J. Taber appealed for a bill to make FCA independent again, removing re-moving it from the agriculture department de-partment where it was placed by governmental reorganization last year. In the house, farm leaders opposed a bill to liberalize FCA loans to farmers. Reason: It might stand in the way of parity prices. The treasury, which saw interest rates going up, opposed a flat 3 per cent rate on FCA loans. WHITE HOUSE: Week's Work From Grangeville, Idaho, 67-year-old Mrs. Elva Canfield set out on horseback for a six-week job, counting count-ing noses among the hardy souls who live in a 1,000-square-mile area in the Seven Devils mountains. Throughout the rest of the nation 120,000 other canvassers did likewise. like-wise. In Washington, Sen. Charles Tobey of New Hampshire ushered in the sixteenth decennial census with a radio address urging Ameri- r rf:k.--:-.:v:..-.:.o..:iv...:...-.:.-.::::-J NO. 1 AND NO. 1 A mortgage on the White House? cans not to answer questions which "violate the constitutional right of privacy." The day it started, No. 1 Census Taker William L. Austin counted the nose of America's No. 1 Citizen, Franklin Roosevelt (see photo). While photographers blazed away, the President asked and was assured as-sured that his census form was confidential. con-fidential. Skipped over lightly was the question on whether he held a mortgage on his residence, the White House. Pet project of the week, however, was Franklin Roosevelt's third government gov-ernment reorganization order, to become be-come effective in 60 days unless specifically spe-cifically rejected by either house or senate. Main aims: (1) Creation of a federal fiscal officer, offi-cer, a permanent civil service employee em-ployee with rank of assistant treasury treas-ury secretary, who would rule the public debt service, commissioner of accounts and deposits, and U. S. treasurer. (2) Assumption by the treasury of jurisdiction over the quasi-independent federal alcohol administration. (3) Creation of a "surplus marketing mar-keting administration," composed of the AAA's division of marketing and the federal surplus commodities corporation. cor-poration. MEDICINE: At Cleveland Death from coronary thrombosis is really caused by suffocation of the heart, which fails to receive oxygen. At Cleveland, where the American College of Physicians met, a past president told how bay-windowed business men can avoid thrombosis. Dr. William J. Kerr of San Francisco pointed out that elastic elas-tic belts which hold up "adiposities" raise the diaphragm, thus drawing more oxygen into the heart. EUROPE: Czar Churchill In the World war a British landing land-ing at Gallipoli was turned into bloody defeat. Whipping boy for this catastrophe was Winston Churchill, then as now first lord of the admiralty. In defense, Minister Churchill has always maintained the Gallipoli attack would have succeeded suc-ceeded if he had been running both army and navy. By early April Adolf Hitler's spring offensive was getting underway. under-way. Hermann Goering boasted his air force was ready for a decisive blow "in the west" while at sea his planes bombed Scapa Flow and British convoys. To offset these attacks at-tacks the allies tightened their trade noose around Germany, calling home envoys to neutral nations for conferences designed to block Nazi commerce channels. The showdown show-down was obviously near. Dramatically, Prime Minister Chamberlain suddenly satisfied both the British people and Winston Churchill by naming him head of a three-man inner "war cabinet." Others: Sir Kingsley Wood and Sir John Simon, lord privy seal and exchequer, ex-chequer, respectively. Next day, while Czar Churchill polished his brass knuckles. Premier Pre-mier Chamberlain boasted he was "10 times as confident" of victory now as when the war began because be-cause Adolf Hitler "missed the bus" by failing to use Germany's arms superiority last autumn. This confidence was contagious. At Paris, Premier Paul Reynaud left a conference of his inner cabinet cab-inet and military leaders to speak via radio to America. Said he: "France will sign no 'phony' peace." UN AMERICANISM: King Pelley I Head of the pro-Fascist, anti-Jewish anti-Jewish Silver Legion is goateed William Wil-liam Dudley Pelley. At Washington, Washing-ton, when the Dies un-Americanism committee opened its latest series of hearings, Fascist Pelley found himself well smeared by a blonde named Dorothy Waring. A secret agent, formerly with the McCor-mack McCor-mack committee, Miss Waring told the Dies investigators that Pelley once came to her New York apartment apart-ment dressed in uniform, black boots, shoulder strap and pistol. What he - I i -? ' V ' i " 1 wanted, she said, was financial support for the Legion. On one future fu-ture day he promised to lead a march on Washington Washing-ton which would make him U. S. DOROTHY WARING dictator, King-wrecker. "the country's coun-try's white king." Meanwhile Dies agents were concentrating con-centrating on Communism. At Philadelphia they raided party headquarters and got away with a truckload of membership lists and financial statements. MISCELLANY: Submission ft At Rome, Gen. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Gari-baldi, eldest son of the Italian patriot pa-triot and voluntary political exile in the U. S. for 16 years, returned home to visit his ailing mother. So impressed was he that he wrote Dictator Dic-tator Mussolini, making a public act of submission to Fascism, ft At Helsinki, Finnish men and women voluntarily surrendered their jewelry to raise S(. 000. 000 for pursuit planes. |
