The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-02
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT s. ALLEN.

| trade agreement Will be with
France. Announcement Of the pact
is slated for around the middle OF
the month. Gen. Johnson's ex-
cited outcries about the influence
of Prof. Felix Frankfurter in the
New Deal are giving the inner
circle big laugh. with great relish
they recall his equally excited ef-
forts to persuade the Harvard law
professor 10 accept the post of gen.
eral counsel of the NRA. Both
Secretary Ickes and Harry Hopkins
admit being Seasick during their re-
cent cruise with the President. SAYS
Hopkins painfully; Boy. I'll say
we were Sick!' Secretary Nor
! genthau now knows what it means
TO be on the receiving end of a
| governmental controlled press. Land
4 ing in DICTATOR ruled Portugal. he
remarked casually to reporters that
he understood their country was
enjoying real prosperity. Next
mornings papers quoted hum at
great length to the effect that
/ a
most prosperous country in the
world
r LEGISLATION prohibiting the
IL manufacture of motor vehicles
with speed above so or so miles
an hour may be offered at the COM
/ SnccinNN
Wheeler and Rep. Sam Rayburn,
chalrmen of the Senate and House
interstate Commerce committees,
have discussed such a bill. De-
spite the fact that no President of
the United States ever has made
a flight the Navy keeps a special
amphibian plane in constant readi-
ness for his use. Washington
winter convention season will get
unoer way Nov. 1920 with one of
the most important gatherings of
the year, the annual meeting of the
Conference of Mayors. All cities of
$4,000 and over will be represented.
General topic of this years conven-
ton will be Federal and Munich
pal Relationships" The city Of
ficials will be received by the Pres
ident, addressed by WPA Chief
Hopkins. -. A quiet purge of anti
public power elements within the
FWA has just been completed by
Secretary Ickes. A number of of
ficfals, charged with holding up
municipal power projects, have been
eased out. F'ERA chiefs gradu-
| ally are succumbing to Washing
ton atmosphere. The rule that when
Boss Harry Hopkins boards an ele-
vator in the FERA building it pro-
ceeds Immediately to his destina-
! ton has been extended to include
his lleutenantS, Corrington Gill,
Mrs. Ellen Woodward and Aubrey
Williams. Jake Baker, another as
sistant, refuses to permit any pref
erence for himself, but Williams.
much to the quiet amusement of his
associates, takes the rule seriously.
CIGNS of the times: Steel has
~ jumped II per cent ahead of
last years output. d. More wash
Ing machines were manufactured in
the last nine months than in all of
1884. They were twice the number
produced in 1888 and 1882. Con-
struction has pulled up from Is per
cent behind 1884 to a bare l per
cent. Silk and rayon output are
soaring, the former Is per cent
above last year, despite a marked
increase in price. . Machine tools
continue their skyward climb, zoom-
ing 80 per cent above 1884.
Cotton consumption jumped to 3
| per cent above last years total, and
wool to SO per cent more than 1884.
-. Secretary Morgenthau, just re-
turned from a months visit to Eu-
rope, is very bullish in private. The
Treasury boss is telling intimates
that one reason for the stock mar
ket boom is the large quantity of
Jittery foreign money being poured
into United States securities.
Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of
the Finance Committee, has asked
w. Jet LauCk, liberal economist, to
write a report for his committee on
the MIRA. Lauck plans to recon-
mend new industrial legislation call
ing for short Work-week, minimum
pay scales and stringent control of
profits.
MORRIS, model IVA town, hay
' all the refnements of mod.
ern society-a newspaper, q library,
beauty parlor and nursemaid
who volunteers to care for the chill
dren during the evening at 25 cents