The daily independent., 1937-07-13
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S75,OO0-a- Year Job AS Gar Of
Distillers; President May Make
1t Good When Social Welfare Is
Added To Cabinet; Earhart
Rescue Cost Navy S250,OOO
Daily; Air Bureau Is Embarras-
sed; Ladies Shed Shoes, Trac-
tors Hauled Mired Cars At
Roosevelt Wedding.
Washington-That 75,0OO-a-
year Job which has been kicking
around the Capital for a couple
of months has been turned again,
this time by Harry Hopkins.
The $4,000 is the annual SAL
ary offered by the liquor distillerS
of America for a GEAR" for their
industry. Hopkins was almost
persuaded to leave his WPA job
and become head of the Distilled
Spirit Institute. This is the office
left vacant by the death OF w.
Forbes Morgan, uncle Of Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Har1y turned down the job, but
he did it a little reluctantly. He
consulted first with the President.
The latter told him flatly to re-
iect it, indicating that he would
make it up to Harry in the future.
This probably means that when
the new Cabinet post for Social
Welfare is created by the govern
Iment reorganization bill, Harry
Hopkins will get the job.
Most rueful person in Washing
ton recently has been Mrs. Hop
kins. She hated to see Harry lose
that $4,000.
Note:-A salary of $4,000 us
ually does not go begging, but the
whiskey distillerS certainly have
had a tough time getting some
one to take their cash. Those who
have turned it down include Jim
Farley, Charles Nicholson and
General Johnson.
Earhart Rescue
There has been little inside
grumbling in the Navy Depart
ment over the tremendous cost OF
the rescue efforts for Amelia
Earhart.
This IS chiefly because Navy
aviators had repeatedly warned
Miss Earhart regarding the risks
she was taking in her long over
sea hops, and asked her not to
take them.
Cost of the Navy'S rescue work
was $25O.000 a day. Moreover,
quite few naval avlatorS rlSk
their lives in their search flights.
The Earhart flight also has put
the Commerce Department IN
somewhat embarrassing hole, be-
cause Department officials had
forced the French Government to
call off it's transatlantic air race
for fear exactly the same thing
would happen to one of the con-
teStantS as did actually happen
to Miss Earhart.
The French Government at
first refused, following which the
Commerce Department threaten
ed to deny taking-off privileges to
the air race contestants. 1t was
explained that any crash at sea
would create a bad public i'm
preston and hurt the new trans
atlantic air service opened this
summer.
But the Department granted
license and all privileges to Miss
Earhart.
Roosevelt Wedding
Some of the inside highlightS
of the Roosevelt dupont wedding
have not leaked out yet, one of
them being that Anna Roosevelt
Boettiger was not the only lady
who took off her shoe. No less
than five young ladies took off
both their shoes and stockings.
This was because of the terri
fic rainStorm. The deluge was so
heavy and the entrance to Owls
Nest so wet, that the young ladies
simply took off their shoes and
stockings, left them in their cars,
wrapped their gowns about their
knees, put their escorts coats ov-
er their shoulders, and dashed for
the door.
Once inside, they dropped their
long gowns, hiding their feet, and
remained barefoot
A total of 1900 of those invited
had sent in acceptances, but g.
400 arrived. They all brought in
vitations-which LOO had not
accepted-and all were admitted
anyway.
The automobiles were so pack
ed along the narrow road that it
took Jim Farley three hours to
get to the DUPONT house Chief
difficulty was in parking. The du-
Points had ploWed up a 60-acre
field, rolled it, then surfaced it
with oil. But the rain soon pene-
trated this, making it a bog.
Automobiles were mired to the
hub. 1t was impossible to get some
OF them out. In the middle of the
reception, the brides father pick
ed up the telephone and ordered
two tractors to come out from