The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-04
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT S. ALLEN.

w Aof1iN61ON' NOV San m
W side tip has reached the ears
OF the New Deals legal shock
troopers that utility interests have
decided secretly to abandon the
Baltimore test of the Holding Cor
poration Act. Instead, they will
throw their weight behind the new
suit just filed in Wilmington, Del.
This action also attacks the con-
stitutionality of the law, without
the government being a party to the
suit. 1t was instituted by the bank
ruptcy trustees of the Central West
Public Service Co., a Halsey Stuart
concern.
Reason for the reported decision
to smother the Baltimore suit is
legal tactics.
During the court hearings, gov
eminent attorneys brought out the
amazing fact that John w. Davis,
chief utility counsel. did not know
personally the client on whose be-
half he was supposed to be acting.
Utility men have voiced the fear
that this revelation might prejudice
their case in the eyes of the court.
The Administration has made no
secret Of its intention to exploit the
matter TO the utmost.
NOW that the bitter congress
~ sional fight on the holding
corporation bill is over, members
of the Presidents family are chuck
ling over letter he got while the
battle was hottest.
Roosevelt is ''remainderman" for
trust fund held by the Bank Of
New York and Trust Co. In other
words, Mrs. James Roosevelt Sr.,
his mother, holds a trust in this
bank, and upon her death the Presi-
dent inherits the remainder.
During the fight on the holding
corporation bill, the Bank Of New
York and Trust Co. sent letters to
all beneficiaries of trusts in which
it was requested that they start a
barrage against the President and
mis- holding corporation bill.
The President received one Of
these letters asking that he oppose
himself.
THE reported gubernatorial am
l. billions of William M. Jardine,
Secretary Of Agriculture in the
Coolidge Administration and now
head Of Wichita (Kas) University,
may be thwarted at the start.
The American Association of Uni
versity Professors is about to ex-
plode a bomb under him.
Recently Mr.. Jardine dismissed
several members of his facility on
various charges. Friends Of the
educators claimed they were really
fired because of their liberal views
and that their custer was a breach
of academic freedom.
AS a result the Professors Asso-
citation sent special committee to
Wichita to investigate. The report
of the committee-shortly to be
published in the monthly bulletin
of the association-will contain
blistering condemnation of Mr..
Jardine.
Note-Under Kansas law. which
bars third consecutive term, Gov.
Aft Landon could not succeed him.
self If he wanted to. To friends.
Mr.. Jardine has confided his inten-
ton of entering the gubernatorial
race next year.
A MILD Yale pro-
IA fessor of law is creating
lather of excitement in inner gov
eminent circles.
He is DR.. Walton Hale Hamilton.
head of the recently rejuvenated
Consumer Division. Cause Of the be-
hind the-scene squawks is a series
of reports ne has made to the Pres
ident on the milk, ice, whisky and
gasoline industries.
What is particularly burning up
government experts is that Pro-
lessor Hamilton and his consumer
Division ignored similar studies
made by them at great expense.
Their reports now are gathering
dust.
One of them is the exhaustive sur
vey of milk distribution in the Phil
adelphia and Connecticut milk-sheds
made by the Federal Trade Com
mission. It took nearly year and
cost the government about $4,000.
Yet only a portion has been made
public.
Why the rest has not been released
has not been explained, but here
may be one reason:
It contains sharp criticism of the
AAA's marketing plan for the Phil
adelphia milk-Shed.
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