The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT :. ALLEN.

NTASHINGTON, Nov. 30-Ital-
w ian women. both native and
foreign born, are receiving pleas
from relatives in the homeland TO
send their gold wedding rings to II
Duce to help finance his African
war. Postal authorities admit
privately that their efforts TO eX-
clude Irish SweepStake tickets from
the United States are not proving
successful. Although the inflow of
tickets through the mails has been
checked, they are pouring into the
country through other channels in
larger volume than before. A
spirit of whimsy seems to have de-
scended on the press section of the
Department of Agriculture. A re-
cent release telling about an Iowa
manufacturer, fined 5000 for vio-
latiOn of the Food and Drug Act,
bore the following caption: Poets
Protection Powder Didn't Protect
Peet." Busiest office in the gov
eminent at present is the Solicitor
Generals division, which handles
preparation for all the cases testing
New Deal measures before the SUI
preme Court. So overwhelmed with
work is Solicitor General Stanley
Reed and his assistants that lunch
is served at their desks =. The Sc
curitieS- Exchange Commission, now
girding its loinS for the epochal
battle over the Holding Company
Act, is having trouble finding top
| notch lawyers for its legal staff. q. .
Senate liberals plan to make the
most of the recent refusal of ship
builders to construct a merchant
vessel On the ground they were over
loaded with Navy contracts. The
incident probably will result in a
drive to expand government ship
yard facilities.
DRESIDENT BILL GREENS
l. threat of expulsion from the
A. F. of L. has had no effect on
the militancy of the industrial union
group. At a secret meeting in WASH
ington this week. readers of the
eight unions constituting the bloc
miners, printers. Smelters, textile,
millinery, gas field, and garment
Workers-raised an initial war chest
Of $4,000 to finance an aggressive
drive to organize industrial unions
in the auto, rubber and steel in
dustries. They also decided to pool
their stats of organizers, number
ing around 1000. for the campaign.
Because of his fleetneSS of foot,
College Boy ALT LandOn was known
as Fox" Asked what had beS
come of the crime reports written
by Prof. Raymond Moley, Atty. Gen.
Homer Cummings replied cryptic
ally: You know there is such
thing as statute of limitations"
A study by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics revealed that there
are 175,OO0 units of government in
the United States. These units.
comprising Federal, state, county
and local governments, collected a
! total of $4,000 100000 in taxes last
year, an increase of TIA per cent
ovo~ 1913. The total absence of
any mention of the AAA in the
resolutions adopted by the New York
State Farm Bureau Federation at its
recent convention, has caused a lot
of private eyebrow raising among
ADMINISTRATORS.
T Attest bulletin from the De-
- partment of Agriculture is
far cry from pigs and processing
taxes. 1t advises mothers to dress
their children in bright colors to
prevent accidents on the highways.
. Latest bulletin from the De-
partment of Justice hangs three
medals on the Middle Atlantic
states. For the first nine monthS
of the year, these states had loWests
scores in burglary. larceny and auto
theft. Both New York and Phil
adelphia fall in this area. . Earle
j. Christenberry, secretary to the
late Huey Long, will be seen in the
corridors of the Capitol again next
session. Reports have it that he
will serve Old-Age Townsend as
head of the Washington office. :.
Bitter Nazi foe is Secretary Roper's
son-in-laW, Frank Bohn Son Of
German parents, Bohn isNational
chairman of the Emergency Com
mittee to aid Nazi refugees. Ne
gro leaders are elated that Wash
ington's Federation of Churches at
last has admitted Negro churches to
membership. A prominent cot
ton expert from Argentina, return
ing to Washington from a tour
through nine United States cotton
states, privately expresses the opin-
ion that machine picking of cotton
is inevitable. 1T will throw 100000
Negroes out of work, but it will
come inevitably" he says. He is
Jose CaStells, Governor of the Ar
gentine Chaco.
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