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Show Washington, I). C. GETTING TOIGH WITH SWEDE? After too many months of Allic super-patience, the Swedes are t for a tough crackdown. At long last the State department, the Foreig Economic administration and, per haps more important, the British have determined to pull together i) telling the Swedes they will have b fish or cut bait in sending vital wa materials to Germany especiall; ballbearings. The question of ballbearings In volves the world-famous SKF ball bearing company in Sweden, whic! operates a subsidiary company ii Philadelphia. The president of th.' American company, William Baft, 1 vice-chairman of the War Produa tion board. Not many people realize it, bu despite the loss of 600 U. S. aviator in bombing the Nazi ballbearini plant at Schweinfurt last fall, to sa; nothing of the loss of countless othe lives, the Swedes have been nullify Ing these American 'sacrifices b; Shipping great quantities of ball bearings to Germany, " Hitherto secret, has been the fac that the Swedes have supplied Ger many with 70 per cent of certaii vital airplane ballbearings.. Ant when you consider that one bombe alone requires up to 3,000 ballbear Ings, you realize that this is thi most important single commodit; Germany is now getting from tht outside world. In fact, ballbearing are so essential that, without them, the Nazi airplane industry would bt paralyzed almost overnight. N plane can be constructed withou several hundred to several thousani ballbearings. U.S. 'officials recently have unearthed Information lndicat- Ing that the . Nazis deliberately planned, well before the war, to use Sweden as their source for' , ballbearings. A conversation reported re-ported to have taken place with Air Minister Goering has recently re-cently come to light, .In which Goering explained that he was not anxious to build tip .the German Ger-man ballbearing Industry too much, since it might be advantageous advan-tageous to have the industry In a neutral country where it could not be bombed. a SEDITION TRIAL MONKEYSHINES The most patient man in the worlt is presiding over the "mass sedi tion" trial in the Federal Distric court here. He is painstaking square-shooting Chief Justice Ed ward C. Eicher, who is recognize by the legal profession as absolutely fair and who has been leaning ove: backward to give the 30 indictee defendants their full day in court. However, the defendants are de manding more than that. So brazei are some of them in their tactics t delay the trial, that they boastfull; refer to themselves as "monke; wrenches from heaven," because they say, there is always one amonj them capable of "pulling some thing" to cause another delay. Here is an example of what tht patient Justice Eicher has had t put up with. Whenever a defenst motion has been denied, Charles B Hudson of Omaha, Neb., publishei of a pro-Fascist news 'letter "America in Danger," has turhec and chanted to reporters: "Railroadr Railroad! Toot-toot toot!" Eicher has overlooked much of this by-play In order to expedite ex-pedite the trial. However, he has almost worn out his gavel trying try-ing to keep Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Lafay-ette Washburn the nose-thumbing, Fascist-saluting Chicagoan who boasts descendency from the Revolutionary hero and some of her more demonstrative demonstra-tive cronies in line. At one point, Mrs. Washburn leaped up and screamed: "Lafayette, we' are' ' here to defend ourselves!" Ellis O. Jones, tall, lanky defend ant from Los Angeles, also had t be gavelled down when he com plained about the rood in tne ais. trict jail. "I've already lost tei pounds," protested Jones. "If thi keeps up, you'll have to get me ai undertaker." NOTE Eicher finally decided that these antics had continued long enough. Since he cited two defense lawyers for contempt, others are beginning to realize that Hitlerian horseplay of the type used by the Brown Shirts when they were tried after - Hitler's unsuccessful Munich putsch will not get by forever in an American court. On the other hand, many of the defense attorneys, at-torneys, of excellent standing at the bar, are doing their best to preserve court decorum. CAPITAL CHAFF C. Friends have started a quiet boomlet for OPA Administrato; Chester Bowles for vice-president. I began by pushing him for the Gov ernorship of Connecticut, which hi declined. Bowles, incidentally, hai made one of the . most unpopulai Jobs in Wasti'ncton, , the OHA reasonably popular. C. Mexican ' v..i;ers have nov earned $12,000,000 in the Unitei States under the emergency gov en,"" U program which brdiiti them to U. S. farms anil railroiiu A . ' ' "' |