Evening star., 1937-09-17

the praises of "Gone With the Wind y
He's been urging Englishmen and women
to read it in order to know the Civil War
South. Col. Bingham, North Carclinian
by birth and Kentuckian by adoption
imparts to friends, during his present
leave visit to the United States, that he S
enjoying Margaret MitcheI's monu-
mental masterpiece for the third time
Perhaps Bingham hasn't heard the latest
description of Americas best seller
THE answer to Uncle Toms Cabin"
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American globe e-trotters generally aren't
aware that salespeople in Paris, London
and other tourist centers supply the low
down about all important purchases by
Yankee customers to the special agents
of the United States Treasury in those
cities. Disclosures to this effect were
made in New York this week after
seizure by the customs authorities of 81
pieces of more or less contraband bag
gage landed from Europe by the wife of
New York State Supreme Court justice
The same statements allege that Euro
pean informers receive so per cent of the
fines or duties eventually levied by Sec
retary Morgenthau's lynx-eyed minions
against duty-dodging patriots.
After the Black-Klan emergency ses-
sion of the cabinet Tuesday, a certain
unquCtable member was buttonholed by
White House reporters for slant on the
burning question. They'll never trip me
on bed-sheet,' he wisecracked.
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Because of the Black eye just given to
certain White House plans and hopes,
the impression is crystallizing that, un-
less the newest Supreme Court snarl is
promptly unraveled, President Roosevelt
will abandon his western trip and all
idea of an extra session of Congress. He
will not want at suclF an hour, It's said,
to invade the preserves of his principal
court foes in States like Nebraska Mis-
souri,, Montana, Wyoming Idaho and
Nevada. As to Congress, the administra-
tion would find it equally undesirable to
permit the Senate to let off steam just
now on any subject even remotely re-
lated to the Federal judiciary.
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One of the Army's scholars, as we'll as
one of its respected officers and lawyers,
will become Judge advocate general on
December /. with appointment of Col.
Allen w. Gullion by presidential procla-
nation this week. Kentuckian and West
Pointer, LII. B. of the University of Ken
lucky, and IL. d. of the University of
Hawaii. Gen. Gullion is also graduate
OF the General Staff School at Fort
Leavenworth and of both the Army and
Naval War Colleges. In 1925 he was
drafted to conduct the celebrated court
martial of Gen. Billy Mitchell. His
closing argument on that embattled oc-
casion was widely acclaimed for its punch
and rhythmic English In 1929 Gullion
was American technical adviser at the
Geneva conference to formulate code
for prisoners of war and revise the Red
Cross convention. During the World
War Gullion served under Hugh johnson
and Gen. Crowder in administering the
selective service draft, for which tour
OF duty he received the D. S. NJ The
new u. A. G." thinks his direction of
N. r. A. activities in Hawaii is perhaps
the job Of which he's proudest. A chip
of the old block is Gen. Gullions eldest
son, Edmund, who won the national ora
toricai contest in 1880 and later the
international contest, with an address on
John Marshall and Federal Supremacy"
Princeton '35, Gullion has just been COM
missioned as an officer of the Foreign
Service and assigned as vice consul at
Marseille
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