| Show 6 0 0 ifal R W REA EN washington D C SENIORITY war and navy secretaries stimson and knox let the senate foreign relations committee in 0 on n a number of military secrets which cannot bit b disclosed when they testified be hind closed doors on the loan to china in return the cabinet officers were vouchsafed a political secret by senator tom connally committee chairman which ich can be told the courtly texan was confronted with a problem in protocol in trying to decide whether stimson or knox should be the first witness finally he t turned u d to th the e 74 year old war secre secretary ta r y anan and d sa said id mr stimson we will hear you first I 1 believe you have seniority 1 I wont stand on my seniority it if you prefer hearing mr knox smiled stimson oh we insist said connally we are great believers in seniority here in the senate it if that so some of us committee chairmen have our jobs note though not named by connally senator reynolds of north carolina chairman of military affairs is definitely in this category able senator austin though a republican does docs the real work of the senate military affairs committee I 1 ARMY GOES TO SEA A hot backstage fight between the ahe army navy and maritime commission has developed over brig gen charles P gross and his ambitious plan for the army to take over all war shipping the row has even gone up to harry hopkins and to transportation czar joe eastman so far without settlement crux of the battle is that general gross an infantry officer recently placed in charge of army transportation is eager to taki take over docks ships rails and inland transportation operate all of the supply ships which now sail under the maritime commission and the navy the maritime commission and the navy however claim that the job of the army is to remain on the land and they will handle water transportation before the sea dogs realized what wh at was happening however general gross had quietly written out an order and taken it to joe eastman who was on the verge of signing it gross is under general somerville the quartermaster general who was new york administrator under harry hopkins and somerville has pushed the plan with his old friend in the white house however ex budget director lewis douglas newest addition to the maritime commission so far has blocked the army grab he claims the army has enough to do fighting without sailing ships T a a a BRITISH RED TAPE therell always be an england but V U S fliers now trying to save india are wondering why british officials in india don t want them to go enter india until 31 days after they have taken yellow lever fever shots by that time the japanese who dont have to observe the 31 day rule may obviate the need of a U S fliers ers going to india all at I 1 I 1 0 0 stopping slopping inflation inside fact about the current quarrel over inflation and the farm bill is that sage old bernie baruch long ago warned the pre president S ident leon Henderso irand the i inner circle that they could not stop inflation if they put the brake only on prices price fixing is like a four legged chair I 1 baruch warned them it wont stand on two legs or even three there is is no use regulating consumer prices he said unless you a also so re regulate profits also wages a also I 1 so farm prices if one of them gets out of hand the others will too baruch who was head of the war industries board in the last war has been harping on this point for montisse mon tilse he urged congress more than a year ago to adopt a very high excess profits tax to take away all the tiar ar profits from industry and at the same time he urged the president to clamp down on wages as well as prices the president actually got a little irritated at baru barucho Ba achs pounding away on this theme today however chief resentment of the farm beu belt is not so much against Roosevel ts urging that farm prices be kept down but over the fact that labors income has skyrocketed sky rocketed while the farmers furthermore the farmer complains that he has to pay a lot more for his labor when he can get it at all but he cant increase his farm prices proportionately 0 a 0 MERRY GO ROUND C L army navy and civil d defense authorities ties rate tau tall mayor ed kelly of chicago as the most operative cooperative co and efficient municipal executive on war problems in the country having ta taught himself spanish good neighbor conscious vice president wallace has taken up the study studa of portuguese C L among agriculture depart department departie me nt ir reverends reve rents the high handed bureaucrats of the AAA are kno known wl as 11 cluster heads buy defense bonds |
