| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W labine dewey campaign gains steam with N Y wisconsin victories 45 third term grows less likely EDff ORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they arc those of the news analyst and not dot necessarily of this newspaper released 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 deweys deleys star a soar ing and left cactus jack garners supporters hanging on the ropes in the empire state whose delegates will be uninstructed G 0 P hope aaa dewey also beat roosevelt ful frank gannett was nevertheless pigeonholed pigeon holed in the public mind in americas dairyland tom dewey not only out pointed sen arthur for G 0 P delegates but also got more votes than branklin Pr anklin roosevelt got in the democratic primary if third termites thought the presidents 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 tra circumstances if eu ropes war was such a circumstance sumner welles had probably convinced the president that the white house can never bring the allies and germany to peace at monongah Mono ngah IV va meanwhile C 1 I 0 s john lewis threatened to start his own third party unless the democrats choose a platform and candidates suitable to him definitely not acceptable C 1 I 0 has already intimated is franklin roosevelt and sen burton 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 F raud fraud mad as hornets were new yorks rep ham fish and north carolinas sen bob reynolds by bundling ambassador bill bulatt back to france aboard the clipper secretary of state hull had cheated them out of an investigation subject the german white book charges intimating bullitt had promised jerzy polish ambassador bas to the U S that america would fight along wi with th france and britain against germany meanwhile the enterprising new TREND how the wind ivind is blowing blo iving J CHAIN STORIES STORES secretary of agriculture henry wallace raised opposition to the ruinous chain store tax bill introduced by texas rep wright patman said wallace the bill would discourage and prevent efficient methods of marketing by driving larger interstate chains out of business LABOR consenting to consider another phase of the question over whether U S anti antitrust trust laws apply to labor unions the supreme court agreed to review an A F of L protest against an anti picketing injunction which restrained chicago milk wagon drivers for alleged violation of anti antitrust trust statutes agriculture compared with december I 1 forecast of bushels winter wheat prospects are now placed at 0 bushels by unofficial acial statisticians WAGE HOUR at new orleans tb the fifth U S circuit court upheld constitutionality of the wage hour law refusing to set aside a minimum wage order for cotton mills TAXATION march income tax receipts of were 31 per cent above the same month in 1939 communications A T T re reported PO arted a gain of telephones in the U S during march I 1 york branded as frauds the papers which Cr germany ermany claimed to have taken from polish archives when warsaw was seized basis for the betes charge was the testimony of three translators w who ho indicated that the german propaganda ministry has slipped some new words into the polish language two translators commented that the report was written in such poor polish that no statesman could have been guilty guilt Y of its authorship two words they said were not even in the pol polish ish language a third was archaic also in congress C by limiting debate the senate expedited approval of a house resolution to extend for three years the administrations reciprocal trade program biggest stumbling block was the attempt to retain senate ratification power over such treaties C L economy already blasted by a boost in the farm bill went by the boards again when the senate appropriations subcommittee added for civil functions of the war department still ahead was the relief bill which spending forces hoped to boost above the presidents request fl L the farm credit administration got a going aver over in both houses in the senate national grange master L J taber appealed for a bill to make independent aga again i n removing it from the agriculture department part ment where it was placed by governmental reorganization last year in the house farm leaders opposed a bill to liberalize 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 loans WHITE HOUSE weeks work from grangeville Grange ville idaho 67 year old mrs elva canfield set out on horseback for a six week job counting noses among the hardy souls who live in a 1000 square mile area in the seven devils mountains throughout the rest of the nation other canvassers did like wise in washington sen charles tobey of new hampshire ushered in the sixteenth decennial census with a radio address urging amerino n A ino I 1 AND NO I 1 A 4 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 americas no 1 citizen franklin roosevelt see photo while photographers blazed away the president asked and was assured that his census form was confidential 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 Roosevel ts third government reorganization order to become effective in 60 days unless specifically rejected by either house or senate main aims 1 creation of a federal fiscal officer a permanent civil service employee with rank of assistant treasury secretary who would rule the public debt service commissioner of accounts a and nd deposits and U S treasurer 2 assumption by the treasury of jurisdiction over the quasi ent federal alcohol administration 3 creation of a surplus marketing administration composed of the division of marketing and the federal surplus commodities corporation po ration MEDICINE at cleveland death from coronary thrombosis is really caused by suffocation of the heart which tails fails to hecei receive ve oxygen at cleveland where the american college of physicians met a past president told how bay win dowed business men can avoid thrombosis dr william J kerr of san Franci isco pointed out that elastic belts which hold up raise the diaphragm thus drawing more oxygen into the heart EUROPE czar churchill in the world war a british landing 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 if he had been running both army and navy by early april adolf hillers Hit lers spring offensive was getting underway 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 the allies tightened their trade noose around germany calling home envoys to neutral nations for conferences designed to block nazi commerce channels the showdown was obviously near dramatically prime minister chamberlain suddenly satisfied both the british people and winston churchill by naming hi him ri head of a three man inner war cabinet others sir kingsley wood and sir john simon lord privy seal and exchequer respectively next day while czar churchill polished his brass knuckles premier mier chamberlain boasted he was 10 times as confident of victory now as when the war began because adolf hitler missed the bus by failing to use germanys germanas Germ anys arms superiority last autumn this confidence was contagious at paris premier paul reynaud left a conference of his inner cabinet and military leaders to speak via radio to america said he france will sign no phony peace UN AMERICANISM I 1 king pelley I 1 head of the pro fascist anti jewish silver legion is goateed william dudley pelley at washington when the dies un americanism committee opened its latest series of hearings fascist pelley found himself well smeared by a blonde named dorothy W waring aring A secret agent formerly with the mccormack committee miss waring told the D dies es investigators that pelley once came to her new york apartment dressed in uniform black boots shoulder strap and pistol what h he e wanted she said was financial support for the legion on one future 1 e day he 1 J promised to lead a march on washington which would make him U S DOROTHY WARING WARIN daca dictas 0 r king wrecker the coun co U n arys white king meanwhile dies agents were concentrating cent rating on communism at philadelphia they raided party headquarters and got away with a truckload of membership lists and financial statements miscellany submission e flat at rome gen giuseppe garibaldi eldest son of the italian patriot and voluntary political exile in the U S for 16 years returned d home to visit his a ailing mother so impressed was w as he that he wrote dictator mussolini making a public act of submission to fascism C lat at helsinki finnish men and a nd women voluntarily sur surrendered rende red their jewelry to 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