The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-26
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
OCT. 26, 1895
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT =. ALLEN.


xxTASHINGTON, oct. 26.-Presi-
w dent Roosevelt is a fairly reg
ular correspondent with King
George Of England. The letter writ
ing began after the Presidents
was a guest OF King George
and Queen Mary, and Roosevelt
wrote personally to thank them.
Since then he has continued to pen
IN his own hand an occasional letter
to the British monarch. War
and Navy Department chiefs are
planning to take advantage Of the
Notwithstanding situation IN Europe
to launch preparedness drives at the
coming session of Congress. Bills
providing for an expanded Army ,
and Navy are being quietly whipped
into shape Florida hard
working senior Senator, Duncan u.
Fletcher. received the following let
ter from worried constituent:
This is to let you know I am
against the Townsend Old-age pen
sion scheme. I have too many
other things to worry about without
being compelled by the government
TO spend 5000 a month Any
doubt as to whether Rep. Fred NJ.
VinSOn would again sponsor the
American Legion's bonus bill at the
coming session was dispelled last
Sunday. Led by National Comman-
der Ray Murphy, a delegation Of
state and national veteran leaders
journeyed to Ashland, Ky, to par
ticipate in a hometown rally Tor
VinSon, at which he was acclaimed
as the Legion's ball-carrier on the
bonus Thirty year old
Blackwell Smith, retired NRA legal
chief, has been succeeded by an
other youth. He is Burr Tracy An
sell. 29-year-old Harvard law grad
uate who broke into the news last
spring when he took sock at the
late Huey Long in crowded Wash
ingtOn dining room. Federal
Trade Commission insiders predict
that Colonel Charles H. March is to
be the next chairman of the agency.
Judge Ewin L. Davis, present chair
man, is to step down Jan. l, IN &C
cordance with ETC procedure Of rO-
tating the Craftsmanship.
1.-TWO of the nine elaborate suites
Il Of Offices in the new Supreme
Court Building are vacant. Jus
tees McReynoldS and Brandeis pre-
fer to do their work at home. e. .
1t is a struggle for Henry Wallace
TO avoid the practice Of medicine.
Last spring he sent to his Iowa
friend, Congressman Fred Bierman,
a bottle of allantoin as a possible
cure for the foot ulcers that had
kept Bierman on crutches. II acted
like a miracle. Since then Wallace
and his departments DR.. William
Robinson have been flooded with
requests for the medicine. Mote
Robinson discovered the healing eI-
feet of allantoin from experiments
with maggOts. knowing that mag
gotS are used by physicians TO heal
wounds, he tried to find what gave
them that power It proved to be
the substance allantOin, which mag
gotS discharge as they work their
way through a wound :. Robert
Fechner doesn't get excited when
he hears that mutiny has broken
out in one OF his CCC camps, as
it frequently does. 1t must be the
cook" he says, knowing that he IS
spending so cents a day on each
member, as compared with q cents
day spent on transients IN FERA
camps.
TINE investigation of the Ameri-
L can Telephone and Telegraph
Co. by the Federal Communications
Commission may be expanded at
the coming session to include radio
networks and independent stations.
Several Senators, who put over the
A. T. g. T. probe. are aroused over
numerous complaints of discrimina-
ton and censorship by radio oper-
ators, and are talking of opening
fire on them with a sweeping IN
VeStigatiOn. In a telegram sent
TO number of coal companies ask
ing for urgently needed statistical
information, the officially hard-up
Bituminous Coal Commission con-
GUIDED: please do not reply col
lect, as we have no funds to pay
for your answer" Bureau Of
Labora Statistics employment figures
for September showed such a
marked gain that Commissioner Is
ador Lubin would not believe them.
He telegraphed for a re-chech by
the $4,000 manufacturers through
out the country who supply the
data on which the monthly report
is based. This delayed the state
ment several days, but Lubin re-
fused to issue it until he had salts
fed himself that the original BOOM
ing figures were correct.
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