The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-08
CAROLINA
FROM THE
CAPITAL
Bv DAVID BRINKLEY
Star-News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, April 7. - Senator Josiah
Rai1ev's selection of nominee to succeed
Federal Judge l. M. Meekins, retired, Will
be announced early next week and ne oe-
clned today to Off any idea OF Whom II
might be- Instead, he said every name Oil
the list of possibilities is still under consldera
ton and none had been eliminated or selected
as yet.
NO DECISION MADE
AS for the re-appointment of John Bright
Hill as collector of customs the appoint
ment of successor Senator Clyde Hoey will
have a decision some time next month. Here,
too. the word is that no decision has been
made Among those being considered, as list
ed by Hoey, are Col John Bright HILL r. S.
McKeithan, Fred Poisson, Nathan Haskell,
W. B. Cooper, Oscar Abernethy, and John
R. Morris.
AGREEMENT
Under a gentlemen's agreement on the dl-
vision of state patronage, Bailey Will have a
more or less free hand in naming judge
while the job of customs collector falls into
Hoeys patronage province as sort OF hand
me-doWn from his predecessor, Robert r.
Reynolds. The actual nominations, of course,
are made by the President and final confir-
nation is by the u S. Senate. But tradition
gives a senator an unofficial stewardship ov
err state appointments and seldom is there
any interference either at the White House
or the Capitol.
FAVORITE PROJECTS \
Hoey, still wearing his frock coat, flowing
white hair and buttonhole flower, is dividing
his time between the Agriculture and Inter-
state Commerce committees, both of which
WELD vast power and are considered two of
the choicest committee assignments in the
Senate. Being from North Carolina, the rea-
sons for his interest in agriculture are OBJ
vious. But another of his favorite projects
in Interstate Commerce is those much-dis-
cussed southern freight rates. AS a member
of the Southrn Governors conference he was
leader in the fight for equitable rates in
the south and he plans to continue the fight
from now on. He is Optimistic - he says,
concerning the suits against the railroads now
pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, and
he believes it will not be as long as it has
been before the south will pay freight charges
comparable to those in other sections.
| TEACHES SUNDAY SCHOOL
Aside from his legislative work, Hoey has
accepted four or five invitations to teach
Sunday school classes at Washington church
es. He's been offered permanent teacherships,
but he feels he won't have that much time ..
he beat Washington's much-touted housing
shortage by moving into a downtown hotel
just ten blocks from the Capitol al
though his fame as an orator came to Wash.
speech on the Senate floor. He's observing ar
old Congressional custom that newcomers
should be seen often but heard seldom.
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CIVILIAN GOODS SCHEDULES
WPB Director J. A. Krug announced this
week that most consumer goods will be avl
able within a year after We day, but he
didn't make it clear that many will be il
the stores much sooner than that Several O.
the biggest manufacturers say their schedule
from the time WPB gives their assembly
lines the green light will be something like
this: radios two to three months; ranges
three to four months; washing machines, 81,
months; and refrigerators, nine to IL months
CAPITAL CHATTER
Some enterprising but unsung bureaucra
: has figured out that 100000 Americans new
er have seen a movie men under O.
are expected to meet virtually all draft need
after We day the Washington Mount
ment, once the number one tourist attraction
but now losing ground to the Lincoln Me
mortal, expects its 20 millionth visitor early
this summer il. 1daho's guitar-strumminl
Glenn H. Taylor, cowboy singer turned U. S
Senator is one of the few members of thu
Senate whose voice can be heard all ovl
the chamber without benefit of public address!
system . 1000 press and radio correspon
dents have asked the State Department fol
credentials to the San Francisco conference
and all travel to the west coast will be frozer
( on April II to make room for them on train!
and planes Washington's permanent resi-
dents, or those who were here before thu
war, are agitating for a subway system Il
: replace surface transportation l.. freon ga
for air conditioning has become available ant
, 300, 900 government employees have been as
sured they won't have to sweat out another
summer in the Potomac Flatlands In
) diana's new Senator Homer Capehart, a pre-
, war manufacturer of radios and monographs
has hired high priced public relations ex
pert to try to stop the press and the public
from referring to him as 1.-The juke box king.
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