Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-12
Au+o Prices
Jump as
Pegging Lays
Price Control Bill Lies
in Roosevelt Desk
BY PAUL MALL0N

" Leon Henderson, the price
restrictor, called in his govern
mcnt men on the price policy
committee a week ago and in
formed them something should
be done to keep automobile
prices from going up.
a flood of objections descended
upon him from his advisers. The
technical work involved would
require weeks or months TO as
certain costs. IL would be the
old sad story of coal price con-
trolls all over again.
After A long hard meeting the
decision was delayed until a
session scheduled for today. But
while this thrcShing Of the gov
eminent mind was in progress,
automobile price increases came.
The second meeting Of the price
policy makers found they had
the horse behind the cart. about
a mile behind.
a sharp price control hill--as
keenly edged as Mr.. RooSevelt'S
all-power property seizure meas
ure--has been resting back in
corner of the presidential desk.
The President and Henderson
are supposed TO have decided 10
delay its presentation 10 Con-
gress until the current trends
Of prices become sufficiently
clear to demand such strong
action, which may not be long.
INTEREST in Charles Lind
berghS personal political in
tentions has been running high
among politicos of all varieties.
not excluding those around the
White House.
A good Minnesota authority
expects the flying ex-colonel TO
establish a residence in his ma
tive state and run for the Sem
ate for next year
The authority claims no fresh
information direct from Lind
bergh, but points out that Senator
Joseph II. Balls term expires
next year, and Lindbergh could
establish residence in the Fall.
SIX months before the Spring
primaries.
THE main serious CrumbIinC
in Congress against Mr..
RooSevelt's seizure of the North
American plant is based on the
obvious legal unfairneSS of taxi
ing the property Of the stock
holders because of the sins of
employees.
He did not seize the union: he
seized the plant. This is Just
as If the government seized your
home because your cook would
not work. furthermore it clears
Go of responsibility.
All the directors have been
able TO get out of administra-
ton officials is a shrug that this
is the only legal way to accom-
pllsh their purpose The OBJ
iections might he pressc
strongly if the plant were not
now in the personal hands of
War Secretary StimSon and
Assistant Secretary Patterson,
neither of whom IS a social re-
former.
4 NEW move 10 rcorCani2e
"A the government sctup is
definitely still in the making.
Interior Secretary IckcS' nomi-
mated assistant, John Dempsey,
has been devoting his time TO
developing a plan and a bill
Central point Of It apparently
would be consolidation of all
transportation and communlca-
ton bureaus tradio. railways,
aviation, waterways into one
department.
But the main effect so far has
been to keep the old number
one brain trustcf, ReXford Tug
well. from coming back as chief
forester.
The .Ickes d empSey plan
would presumably recapture for
1ckeS the forestry service of the
agriculture department, which
he has avidly sought without
success for years. TugwclfS &C.
ceptance Of the forestry vacancy
viii be DELAYED until his fears
IN this respect have been al
laycd
pistuh9',d by King Fea'a,es s,ud Iu,
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