Show weekly ekly news analysis I 1 I 1 I 1 farley garner gamer hull I 1 Alli alliance ahee I 1 arises to plague white house I 1 by joseph W la bine t I 1 EDITORS NOTE MOTE WAon opinions cpa oni r I 1 in im tin most columns ab ay 1 I 1 r a the ion of t he news aw intuit analyst and ni n not ayt I 1 necessarily plebe ef ibi newspaper white ue house is As chief odthe ct the works progress so administration hawy hairy hopkins has spent more money than any previous p U S citizen yet that was precisely what franklin roosevelt Boo sevelt hired him to 6 do it if this job as federal santa claus clam gave harry hopkins kinsa a bad name came among consert conservative a democrats and r republics republicans the bad name grew bigger d during Q electioneering electioneer ing but the campaign P expenditures committee of Tex texas asSen sen morris shepard found harry hopkins generally blameless of using funds for political purposes considered a scapegrace mr Me Hopkins is to V U S bust business what a public executioner is to a pious aplous churchman with this reputation itis it is therefore considered bad taste and bad political judgment for president roosevelt to name name mr hopkins secretary of commerce regardless of gen Iron pants parts hugh S johnsons opinion that mr hopkins will be the I 1 nw 1 NN gl A aja 4 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 t 1 I 1 11 V 61 w 4 y i V I 1 1 ls 11 i C W u I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 Z I 1 I 1 I 1 11 11 I 1 1 1 m I 1 1 1 i I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 6 1 01 1 1 11 i I 1 I 1 I 1 politician FARLEY he watched for a 0 weathervane weather vane best commerce secretary ever political observers think the appointment foreshadows fore shadows a serious permanent rift between 1 democrats hopkins solicitor general jackson interior secretary ickes brain truster corcoran and middle of the road democrats vice president garner postmaster general farley secretary of state hull A month mont ago when homer S cummings ieti retired redas as attorney gaii general I 1 chairman parley farley wa warned med that his potent political organization would be swung to one side or an other depending on who was named to succeed mr cummings B by y choosing solicitor general bob jackson ion president roosevelt would show left wing tendencies and thereby lose parley farley support As it hap bened pen edthe the commerce vacancy ap feared and was filled before M mr r roosevelt Boo sevelt got around to the attorney 1 generalship so this post became the weathervane weather vane mr carleys farleys Far leys current i i opinion that pr president eside nt reese roosevelt by namin naming mr M r hopkins is boosting him for the presidency in 1940 1910 that thit bob jackson the i alternative tor for 1940 1040 will be na named med attorney general that some new dealer like Michl gans I 1 ex gov frank murphy may get a supreme court post 1 it this happens and the wind is now blowing in that direction Farley Hull garner et it al will bolt from the new deal whether the president dares to thus this bite th the hand that feeds fedis him hi m is doubtful vice president ga gamer mer carries tremendous Pie prestige stige in the south jim Parley runs i th the 0 most tremendous powerhouse in U S history cordell hull is the new deals most popular cabinet member with democrats and republicans alike if th these ese men menholt bolt there Is a dosal I 1 billay that either 69 year old mr garner or 67 year old mr hull will bead a presidential ticket in 1940 with parley farley as running mate I 1 transportation last autumn president roose belts railroad fact finding committee ruled against a wage cut to help sorely pressed carriers on the ground that its benefits would be only temporary but this did not minimize the problem of high operating costs vs low income and the president agreed to ask asic congressional consideration for any readjustment program railway management age mint and labor might offer therefore just as congress prepared to open a a six man committee offered its plan indirectly laying part of the responsibility at the presidents deniVo tg own doorstep the committees mit tees explanation of rail troubles 1 governments favoritism to c competitors such as barge lin lines e 2 lack of centralized tra transportation regulation the he remedy ren iedy regulation of all forms form of transportation by 1 I 1 the interstate commerce commission which would fix rates regulate services valuation vilu atlon and accounting and 2 ait an independent dependent izi transportation board which would hindle handle all other I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 regulations also recommended is a federal transportation court to handle reorganization plans in addi addition the committee offered tour four other complaint complaints which could be remedied by br legislation it asked removal of restrictions on loans to cai carriers r biers repeat repeal of the long longani ind haul rate clauses which prevent prevents Is rails from ichard ing a a long lon ghaul baul than for a short haul over the same route in the sa me direction ellram nation of low rates for government freight and discontinuation I 1 of gov operated barge lines i briefly carriers carrIer swant want less red tape and more efficient government regulation aver over their industry against president Roosevel ts able api approval oval of thi the general program observers stack montana 9 sen Burton K X wheeler chairman of thi the interstate commerce committee chief i comments to date come from president john J pelley of the association of american railroads roads who caus calls the report the M most cat i i comprehensive and construe tive ever made and president alexander F whitney of the brotherhood of railway trainmen the whitney opinion its just another smoke screen screen to tickle the public thin chin defense I 1 the satisfaction of U S speech makers from denouncing nazi ger many is equalled equal led only by nazi ger banys satisfaction la in making reply yet Ye teach each outburst and retort invites wider rupture of the already strained german american diplomatic relations ioni started during november when each nation withdrew its its ambassador over the jewish persecution se listle issue returning from europe just as protests and replies were charging from berlin to wash ington and back illinois sen X J hamilton lewis commented that the U S must stop its ita hate wave against european dictatorship must instead substitute peace through ion conciliation i collation cil lation lind and conference what prompted mr lewis statement was the remark a week earlier by Secre secretary tiry of the interior harold S ickes to ao the effect that henry ford and col co charles A lindbergh should be ashamed to accept in B decoration at the hand ata 3 brutal dictator Hit hitler lei who with t the h e same hand is robbing and torturing thousands of human beings result was a german protest followed bythe by the state stati departments refusal to apologize gf ze this latter action was contrasted trashed with the hasty apology last spring when new yorks mayor florella laguardia ardla similarly cursed Naz idom its significance that the U S has deci decided ded to handle adolf hitler with boxing glo gloves vei not kid gloves I 1 such a revolutionary diplomatic stand requires military naval backi 1 1 larl I 1 1 I 1 3 1 1 I 1 I ifa I 1 I 1 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 m 1 I 1 0 I 1 1 I 1 11 4 f M 41 11 A 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I I 1 1 y 1 v TI 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 t I 1 I 1 e I 1 I 1 1 I 1 Z I 1 I 1 1 I 11 I 1 1 1 1 al 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 3 A I 1 I 1 ir 1 0 o e I 1 V an I 1 Z C 1 1 K 1 1 V 1 I 11 11 1 1 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1 I 1 ADMIRAL BLOCH purposes announced and other otherwise misi t lag ing last fall fail when the alie european threat first became imminent president a roosevelt hinted at the desirability of a two ocean navy to give our eastant Ea stent sea protect protection lon now enjoyed at our back door at the same time he suggested the U S might enlarge its defense program am to encompass the entire western hemi hemisphere alf As shenew the r new year started the state departments anva stiffened attitude andar and mr Roosevel ts Vs hints could be seen taking form in smoke over the Panama canal eastward from the Pacific came the entire fleet except asdall a submarine arid destroyer er squadron at honolulu leefrom led ted from the battles battleship hij new mexico mexica by admiral claude 0 bloch its intent to stage the first atlantic naval maneuvers since 1934 and thi the second largest in U S history from january to may combatant boats will play hide and seek frob brazil biazio to cuba the ann announced bounced purpose to at af ford the maximum amount of fleet beet training training of personnel and tests of material added unannounced purposes 1 To fo focus cus U S attention on naval ri requirements quire ments while congress is debating batin g aim armament ament appropriations ato 2 to stige stage a it ashow show tor for the benefit of any ambli ambitious fous european dictator who wha might bl be e watching 3 to co court urt latin american friendship by showing how uncle un cle sims sams battlewagons battle wagons would protect south america as bell as america I 1 I 1 I 1 11 balkans obviously italy has resented ger banys economic invasion ol of the balkan states for while the rome berlin axis Is her most important t alliance italy nevertheless has longstanding ambitions ambition in yugoslavia I 1 albania and hungary therefore correspondents have watched with tongue in cheek while italis count galeazzo clano ciano forel foreign gil minister and soh son in hi law of premier mua mu stresses i his diplomatic tel relations eions with hungary while apparently e attempting f t to draw H hungary into the rome berlin axis and the italo german antl anti comma dist pact at expense of the league of nations count clano is probably mare more lite interested rested in making his bal i kati kan neighbors dependencies of italy likewise rome has watched with interest yugo slayman premier milan victory in the december I 1 general election which probably paves the way for a yugoslavian fascist state while count clano ciano works on that gent gentleman liman has crawled into his shell to wilt wait the outcome of prime we minister neville chamberlains january conference with premier mussolini if Zus mussolini emerges victorious tor to yugoslavia yugo slavia will probably lead the balkans ina in a pro ro italian I 1 I 1 I 1 il 11 1 1 11 1 4 r 4 i 1 I 1 I 1 K 1 f e I 1 I 1 e I 1 10 I 1 I 1 COUNT CIANO fot for the cause or lo for idoly movement if he loses the anxious balkans will line up with western democracies for great britain and france who also covet balkan friendship a mes mea I 1 slab has appeared in grigore gafencu 47 year old world war flier filer named as rumanian foreign minister once an influential bucharest n newspaper man gafencu has long advocated closer operation cooperation co among amona yugoslavia yugo slavia hungary and bulgaria thereby averting dependency on either germany or italy germany since german policies began antagonizing world dem democracies i ocra cles the obvious prediction has maintained that german foreign trade would suffer it then follows that germany must increase her domestic production to become independent of foreign imports the difficulty of the task was first emphasized in late november when col von schell was I 1 named general plenipotentiary arlof of the automobile industry to speed pio production and standardization and institute necessary economic non de measures A few days later dr karl laxine lan ge was given similar powe powers r a over Gerini germanas germanys Germ anys nys machine industry austry next neit iame came dr Fritz as general plenipotentiary in charge of all road building auch such industrial czar ships smell amazingly like rus sias commissar com system and the idea was probably borrowed from that good neighbor to give the entire system added impetus dr walther funk salesman me like economics minister has been named czar of alt all german Girman industry with supervision over herren von schell lange and I 1 always closely supervised german industry will now feel official i domination even more mor e severely how an alpar apparently antly communistic method of industrial will work in a nation which still supports eup ports private enterprise remains to be s seen een I 1 germanys germanas Germ anys foreign trade has suffered in 1837 germany buildup built buil tup up a favorable balance of in 1938 this was wiped out and imports were more than exports great britain A solidified empire Is the united kingdoms goal since nazi fascist states began threatening her position among the empires weakest features Js is the string of miscellaneous possessions centering in thi the caribbean sea who individually and collectively have thus far received too little att attention entin from london one of them jamaica recently heard agitation for annexation by 17 the U S still more more recently it was sugg suggested ested that great britain might pay its war debt by ceding her caribbean islands to the U S belatedly recognizing some som evalu valuable property london now proposes to group aalthe all the west indies into a new dominion dorninton dorn inton its composite parts british honduras bahamas jamaica leeward islands windward islands Bar barbados bidos trinidad british guiana kingston centrally located capital of jamaica would be dominion headquarters I 1 the unit united ed kingdoms new empire would include people mostly descendants of onetime one time negro slaves who depend chiefly on agriculture main trouble point the past year has been Kin klingston ghori where a roya royal investigating commission commissio n was recently welcomed by a strike of gas workers throwing the entire city into darkness I 1 1 I 1 I 1 |