The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-19
Washington
Merry:-Go-
Round
NOV. 10, 1885
By DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT 5. ALLEN.

II
XXTASHINGTON, Nov ia
w bombshsH is waiting behind
the scenes for hundreds OF business
concerns which sell goods and
services to the government.
The Guffey Coal Act requires gov
eminent agencies to buy coal only
from companies which are operating
under the code provided in the Cuff
fey Act Few know, however. that
there is section Cl4-a) in the Act
Slipped IN just before it passed
that bars the awarding of govern
ment contracts TO all industrial con-
Germs that do not use code coal.
Under the squirting of the BIZ
luminous Coal Board. the Procure
ment Division OF the Treasury Is
moving to put this sweeping clause
into effect. Several DAYS ago it held
a secret conference of government
purchasing agents to discuss the
framing of new contract form for
Federal buying.
The effect of this provision is far
reaching in the extreme.
II means that concerns selling
shoes, shirts, food to the Army and
Navy; utilities supplying electricity
to poStoficeS; building contractors,
steel makers, warship builders, rail-
roads carrying mail: in short. prac-
tlcally all industry must use code
coal or 90 without government
business.
The leverage this specification
gives the Coal Board in forcing coal
operators to sign the code is ter
rif1c-which is exactly why it was
eased into the law. The effect of
the clause is to cut off non COM
plying coal companies from a vast
volume Of business. something which
few will, or can, long resist.
A STRANGER walked into The
L n office of Senator Moore. Of New
Jersey, the other day and asked to
see him.
The Senator is not in the city,
said Jack OBrien, his secretary.
What did you want to see him
about? Perhaps I can help YOU
I'm trying to get job and Id
like a letter of recommendation to
the Bureau of Control"
THE Bureau of what?"
The Bureau of Control"
1t finally developed that the caller
wanted job in the Bureau of Space
Control, which assigns office space
In government buildings.
THE Home Owners Loan Corp,
j is undergoing a quiet meta
morphosis. Once a $4,000. 600 900
savior of distressed home owners. it
is now becoming a hard-boiled fore
closer of mortgages.
The change in character is not
due to sudden accession of hard
heartedness. The Hole is operat-
ing wholly in line with the law.
With the exhaustion of its lending
resources, the agency is now occu-
pied chiefly with administering the
100000 pieces of property on which
the government made loans.
In fulfilling this function, the
Hole is finding it necessary to
foreclose on homes at the rate of
$50 to 200 weekly, due to failure 10
meet payments, abandonment of
property and other causes.
To handle this growing liquida-
tlon problem the HOLC has set up
q new section, the property manage
ment division. In charge is Col.
Harold Lee. former New York law
yer and real estate operator. who
won his colonelcy overseas with the
Thirty sixth Division.
The rate Of foreclosures is now
running one to every 1000 homes
mortgaged. Total liquidations to
date are around 1000, of which the
Hole still has about 400 on its
hands.
Homes taken over by the govern
ment are disposed of either by rent
ing or by selling through real estate
agencies in the local communities.
The disposition of the properties is
so handled that real estate values
are not disturbed.
TT looks as if DR.. John r. Brinklev.
l. famous goat-gland specialist of
Kansas, has finally licked the State
Department and the Federal Com
munications Commission in his fight
to broadcast his medicinal cures
from Mexico
The Mexican Supreme Court has
given DR.. Brinkley the right to re-
open his radio station.
The State Department. which
lodged vigorous protests with the
Mexican government, has decided
that it can not go beyond the Mex
lean Supreme Court.
Note-Charley Curtis, when Vice
President. went to bat for DR.. Brink
ley in his fight with the State De-
partment.