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Show WEEKLY XEtrS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBLE i , Dewey Campaign Gains Steam ' WithN. Y., Wisconsin Victories; I Third Term Grows Less Likely I (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they I are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) j I Released by Western Newspaper Union. , j 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- York News 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 propa-j 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 iunnn A . - -1 1 f 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. CThe 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, re- moving it from the agriculture department de-partment where it was placed by governmental reorganization last MICHIGAN'S VANDENBEEG 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 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: 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 nnrt rior-m-tno w eek s W ork 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 like- wise. In Washington, Sen. Charles Tobey of New Hampshire ushered in the sixteenth decennial census with a radio address urging Ameri- Tt-T' i is V x "b -V, JV t I 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 NO. 1 AND NO. 1 A mortgage on the While House? cans not to answer questions which "violate the constitutional right oi 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 Klrinnol - , .... uvci iigiuiy was the question on whether he held s 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. MEDICINE : At Cleveland Death from coronary thrombosis is really caused by suffocation ol the heart, which fails to receive oxygen. At Cleveland, where the American College of Physicians met a past president told how bay-win' dowed business men can avoid Uirombosis. 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. |
