Show U 0 W washington D C MARSHALLS MEMORY for a long time jim farley and mrs henry wallace were supposed to have the best memoria memories s around washington but they have a real rival in the chief of staff general marshall returning from a warfront war front town marshall held a press conference twenty one newsmen were present marshall said he would answer one question from each newsman ile he turned to the man nearest him on the right and said AU all right yours the question proved to be rather elaborate 1 I will answer that in a minute said marshall but lets go ahead yours and before answering any questions he went the rounds of 21 men and got their 21 questions then he proceeded to answer the questions one by one not only did he remember the question which each of the twenty one line had asked but he remembered who asked it pointing to each man he said now your question was and then he named it and proceeded to answer it this was more than a feat of memory it gave order and body to the answers and eliminated the confusion of most press conferences note other competitors for the memory club are nat howard of the cleveland news formerly U S press censor and erwin A holt of burlington bur li agton N C who can tell you the day of the week you were born on if you give him the date CAPITAL CHAFF 41 john D M hamilton is getting around a year and expenses from joe pew in part for his work against willkie how things change four years ago pew was the man who helped select willkie fl 1 adm adolphus andrews andres recently retired from the eastern defense command has been offered a year by an unnamed commercial outfit C ann corio the strip tease artist was turned down by the red cross when she applied for overseas duty with the distress corps because she was not a college graduate 41 L the war department has sent instructions to all motorized units to get along with their present tires just one indication of how tight tires are going to be C the poles are burned up by what happened at moscow CONGRESS DO DOWN N ON DOCTORS despite the dangerous shortage of doctors and dentists the house appropriations committee slashed a request by the U S public health service from the supplemental defense bill however what most observers missed was the fact that this same comal committee less than SL six C months ago disapproved a request for medical relief on the he ground that the request should have been bigger the fund was to enable the relocation of doctors and dentists in areas where they are desperately needed and was vetoed despite warnings by war mandow ers dr frank H lahey the american medical association the american dental association and the war and navy departments that in some oe s areas there was only one phy physician S ician to every civilians but the committee but butchered cherel the just the same in contrast here is how the same committee ruled last may on a request for relocating 70 physicians the committee is well aware that the shortage of physicians in many sections of the country is acute but considers that any program which would provide for the services of only 70 physicians is so ineffective ne eff active as to be unjustifiable the committee is willing to give consideration to any type of program which the public health service may suggest to meet the need in a more adequate manner UNCLE SHYLOCK hottest question at the atlantic city relief conference who pays the relief biu bill there is no dispute about the quality of mercy but some think it blesses him that takes more than him that gives in short most of the foreign delegates are willing to pledge products df ct all kinds from their countries for relief of the oppressed peoples of europe provided those products may be sold not given away I 1 but the united states thinks there should be some bountiful giving as a pump priming operation to get the war torn countries cou retries back into production 0 0 0 MERRY GO ROUND CL L in 1935 before mussolini invaded ethiopia he practically denuded missouri arkansas and texas of mules the italian government bought about C inside reason for withdrawal of dominican ambassador J M troncoso from washington is that dominican dictator trujillo is displeased at not being invited to visit the white house most other latin presidents have been invited but sticks to sumner welles ban against trujillo |