Show TH THE E EThe EV V The Clean Clean Up U p WHITE RITE HOUSE advisers report V that while the President was at atKey atKey Key West he did not seem too anxious anxious ious ous to move boldly toward a corruption corruption corruption cor cor- clean When he got back to Washington however he got much more in a a mood to house- house clean Some of the young men around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him felt pretty strongly about the housecleaning and did their best to influence the President So did Sen Clinton Anderson of New Mexico a former fonner cabinet member while new Democratic Chairman Frank McKinney McKinney Mc- Mc Kinney also threw his weight behind a purge It was Senator Anderson who first phoned the President at It Key West Westmore Westmore Westmore more than three weeks ago urging drastic action At first Chief Justice Fred Vinson Vinson Vinson Vin- Vin son though anxious for a clean up seemed to think things could be patched up without firing Howard McGrath as attorney general Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Anderson however disagreed He told the chief justice that the President would lean on him heavily for advice and that he should recommend recommend recommend rec rec- drastic measures Without a drastic purge the senator from N New e w Mexico l a a. argued r g u e c d the administration would lose all control over con con- gress Vinson seemed to agree Broken Mink Market The other day a high official o othe of the munitions board wanted to buy a small fur piece as a wedding anniversary present for his wife Momentarily forgetting the current current cur cur- rent congressional investigations he be entered Washington's swank Erie Erie- bachers bacher's and asked to see some fair I neckpieces Here is a nice Russian sable sabIa at per skin said the clerk too high for me What Wha else do you have said the official Then the clerk produced a stone marten fur piece at a skin The official again shook his head claiming it was too steep a price and added Well dont don't you make these fur pieces in mink The startled clerk practically had hac haca hadn a n stroke Recovering his bis breath h he I finally stammered Mink Who would buy mink ir iq Washington The market has been broken broken broken-broken broken in little pieces There have been no mink sales in Washington for two months Abandoning Ship More and more top government officials are deserting the Truman administration Latest to plan th their ir exit are Stuart Symington Reconstruction Reconstruction Reconstruction Recon Recon- F Fin Finance i n a n nee c e administrator and Manly Fleischmann head o of Defense Mobilization Both are among amonI Truman's top trouble shooters but both are afraid of getting smeared by close association with an administration administration administration admin admin- that gets bogged down deeper daily dally In addition Symington when h he i started cleaning up the and firing certain friends got a deluge of ot unpleasant ribbing from certain White House guardsmen Who do you think you are little are Lord Fauntleroy asked one White Whit WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House secretary who had a finger inthe in inthe inthe the Coddling American Women A group of congressmen Investigating invest investigating gating US U.S. supply bases in Europe Europ recently got a lecture on how we coddle our womenfolk The congressmen were quizzing g a London businessman about delays in British arms production for the North Atlantic Pact program We in the United States are going going going go go- ing out all-out to defend the free fre world work against communism said GOP Congressman Charles Brownson o of Indiana But there seems to be a alag alag alag lag on this side of the Atlantic Maybe if it you fellows tried incentive pay for defense workers you'd ge get better production It wouldn't work over here disagreed the Londoner You Americans believe in extra drive and overtime but a a. lot of your Incentive on the job is to get more mone money to buy beauty treatments for your wives or saving labor gadgets to lighten their toil toU Over here we work a little less and work our wives r little harder Congressman Brownson suggested that the would get a different different dif dU- ferent lerent view of the working habits American mothers if he visited an ana a average v e era r a g e household particularly around spring cleaning time fr Round Go Go Round Mink coats and pound 12 hams should be scarce around Mike Di DiSalle's Sane's Salles stabilization offices at Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas time time time-it if his staff stall follows the dictum that they are to accept no Christmas presents which t. t they ey cant can't eat or drink inside 24 hours John Sherman Cooper sen ex ator from Kentucky now a delegate to the United Nations will run for tor forthe forthe the senate again this again this time against Sen Tom Underwood Democrat |