The daily independent., 1937-07-01
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leaders for a Speed-up OF ADJOURN
ment evokes no enthusiasm IN
OklahOmaS rookie Senator Josh
Lee. Asked by one of the party
bosses to join the clamor, Lee re-
torted:
I'm in no hurry to go home. l
fought to get here; why should l
rush away? I don't get you fel-
lows. First you worry about re-
election and then you worry about
quitting"
Beware
Members of the Senate and
House Labor Committees, which
are handling the Presidents wage
hour regulation bill, are being
bombarded with some eXtraordin-
ary letters
Mailed from various points in
Virginia and Indiana, unsigned
and all Identical, the letters
threaten to wreak violence on
every man who votes for the leg
islatiOn. One of the letters, ad-
dressed to the late Chairman Will
liam Connery of the House COM
mittae, declared:
I'VE have agents all over the
country. When we strike it will be
suddenly. We will not knock on
the door when We enter. You can
not tell who our members are.
One of them may be the waiter
who serves you tonight"
Copies of the letters have been
turned over to the Post Office
Department for investigation. Re-
preventative Matthew Dunn of
Pittsburgh, member of the
House committee, has also asked
postal agents to investigate
whether the Senders of the letters
might have had any connection
with the sudden death of Connery
from food poisoning.
Gold Adviser
Winfield Riefler, the new ad-
wiser appointed by Secretary Nor
genthau to counsel him on the
Treasury's fabulous gold buying
operations, is an eX-brain truSter
who staged a comeback.
Riefler was an Administration
economist from 1888 to 1885, SER
wing first as chairman Of the
Central Statistical Board and
later as research chief of the Nat
icnal Emergency Council. He left
Washington on his own volition
to accept a professorship on the
faculty of the Rockefeller-fi -financ-
ed Institute of Advanced Study at
Princeton.
One of his colleagues at the
school was Albert Einstein. world
famed mathematician. One of
Riefler's students was the head of
the research division of the Bank
Of England.
Riefler's return as New Deal
brain truSter was accidental.
He was comforting with Treas
,,,.,- offic:a1c fo11Oy,i,,o on ayto,,I
ed stay in Geneva as the U. S.
member on the League of Nations
Finance Committee, when Nor
genthau heard of his presence
and invited him to call In the en-
suing discussion Morgenthau was
so impressed with Riefler's know
ledge of international finance that
he forthwith offered him the job
of special assistant to handle the
complex gold buying operations.
While friendly to the Admins
tration, Riefler is no left-Winger.
He favored the devaluation of the
dollar, but disapproved of the pol
icy to buy the glod offered for
sale. Likewise, he was a sharp
critic of the NRA.
Even before the New Deal, Rief-
ler had seen government service.
He served number of years as a
money expert on the old Federal
Reserve Board. Among his aSso-
ciateS he is know for his unusual
capacity for intense concentra-
ton and ability to cut through
complicated problems.
Merry Go Round
The Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation is making a secret probe of
charges of mismanagement and
fraud in bankruptcy cases in the
federal court in Little Rock, Ark.
The inside word is that several
prominent lawyers of the State
are involved in the accusations.
The publicity staff of the Boy
Scout Jamboree now in progress
in Washington is putting even
government press agents to
shame. On one day Washington
correspondents received II diff
ferent press releases about the
Jamboree. Laborites have COM
planned to the White House about
an article approving company un-
ions written by IVA Chairman
Arthur E. Morgan. 1t appeared in
the Antioch Notes, publication of
Antioch College, of which he was
formerly president. Morgan DIES
cribes company unions, as "a
golden opportunity for those in
control of industry to discover an
approach to industrial demo-
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