Show 6 washington D C the furious battle over the bin bill U suspend the 40 hour week in war wai plants caused a personal rift between two house leaders that may ma take a long time to heal when rep john mccormack massachusetts liberal was electea democratic floor leader one of hit strongest supporters was a col league who had nothing in commar with mccormack except friendship friend shii shil anti new deal anti labor rep gene cox of georgia it was with hushed astonishment therefore that the house listened tc coxs bitter attack against mccormack during the stormy debate over avei the anti 40 hour proposal his voice strident in anger cox denounced mccormack on the ground that his appo opposition to abolishing the 40 houi week was not good sportsmanship and I 1 wonder if it is good leader ship 1 I have ave hoped the georgiaa Geor giar thundered that at some time the gentleman from massachusetts would come to a realization that he is S supposed to speak for the majority of this house rather than fox foi somebody else friends rushed to macks defense but he made no reply next day however under macks leadership the bill was defeated to 62 a tally which left no doubts about who spoke for the majority note two undercover factors were responsible for this vote which probably ably did not reflect the general sentiment of the country one was a tremendous pressure drive by the A F of L and CIO in the district of each congressman this was particularly ticul arly effective with republicans who with their ey eyes es on next falls fails congressional elections are very po linial minded second wa was s the failure of the farm bloc to support the tha bill because it feared labor cepris reprisals als against the parity and other boodle grabs which the farm bloc is after the bloc has been counted on to kill the 40 hour week but the laborites labovites lab orites served blunt notice that it if the bill was passed labor would ax the farmers result the farm bloc ran for cover and the bw bill went into the ashcan ashgan WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED the other day harry hopkins had a visitor in the person of aubrey williams head of the national youth administration who has been one of his closest friends for many years harry said williams looking around the room in the naval hospital how many bottles of medicine have you got there about 18 replied the lend lease administrator about 18 too many commented th the e national youth administrator and how many doctors have you got hopkins told him well harry the use ol 01 your fooling around with all these doctors and all this medicine said his friend you know that the more doctors you have the more this whole thing gets on your nerves now theres only one do doctor actor who really knew what ailed you and andy rivers out at mayos in rochester why dont you have dr rivers come east and get you fixed up harry hopkins acted on his old friends advice sent for dr rivers and now is out of the hospital he says he has forgotten about medicine and doctors and feels better than he has in months furthermore ther more D rivers has told hin him that without any question he can recover entirely NEW GOP CHAIRMAN its very shush shush but in certain inner republican circles there have been secret pow wows bows on replacing rep joe martin as national chairman the hardworking hard working little atle bay stater wanted to quit last fast year but party chiefs decided that the wisest course would be to persuade martin to stay for the sake of harmony now some of the strongest aavo cates of his retention are after his scalp the hostile fire is from tac sources one is from midwest mid west leaders sour on martin 1 for his failure to give them recognition in national headquarters 2 for his secret financial wooing of pennsylvania ol oe millionaire joseph pew and penn sy sylvania ivania steel millionaire ernes weir in the farm belt the two big mono contributors are political dynamist dyna mitt and the mid midwest west GOP chiefs cant understand why martin is pallini around with them so they feel th time has come for one of their grout grou to be named either national chairman or executive director FRENCH PROBLEM when you get them out of official earshot exiled members of the old french cabinet now in washington are very suspicious of what thi th vichy government is doing in martinique and guadeloupe guadeloupe is a less publicized french island near martinique and certain coded messages have beer intercepted indicating pro germar activities on both islands suspicion is strong that guadeloupe is being used as a submarine re refuel fuelling lint base for nazi submarines operating in t the he caribbean |