Detroit evening times., 1945-07-18

which they had collaborated
with the Latin-Americans.
THE campaign was not a
spectacular success, how
ever, and, when IL was over, the
Latin-Americans and the Ma
tional Coffee Association, COM
posed OF North American cof-
fee merchants. resumed their
old straight cooperation with
out unusual political involve
ments.
Mrs. Betty Lindley repre-
sented Mrs Roosevelt in nego-
tlatlng the radio job. 4
The Dies committee obtained
some records from a bank in aN
small New Jersey town and the
office Of this long inquiry into
subverslve activities reported
that these documents showed
that Mrs. Lindiey received 10
per cent Of Mrs. Roosevelt's
radio checks as her fee and
made disbursement from the
account 10 those purposes which
have been loose y described
as Mrs. Roosevelts charities.
The office force Of the Dies
committee believed that some
OF these charities were Of the
type which Earl BroWder. had
scri bed as Transmission
belts and fronts" Cor COM
munlsm.
The Dies committee further
discovered the name Of Mrs.
Betty Llndley on public Nay
rolls of the National Youth Id
pHnlstratlon and the Social Se-
curity Administration. in which
Mrs Roosevelt was strongly in
fluentisl, for varying periods,
part OF the time at 81, 500 a year
nnd at other times on per
diem ranging up 10 SD.
- BERT STRIPPING. the
~ chief investigator for the
Dies committee. and J. B.
Mathews. backSlid Commu-
mist who became It's chief In
formant on Communist organi-
zatlons and personalities. in
qulred further and declared this
Mrs. Betty Llndley TO be the
wife of Ernest Il. Lindley. a
Washington reporter. columnist
and author Of occasional books,
generally with A strong SYM
pathy for the Roosevelts and
their political objectives.
WHILE Mrs. Roosevelt oas on
the radio al 81 600 a week,
Mr. Lindley wrote a column
entitled The Mob Spirit" be-
rating Congress for its revolt
against the attempt OF Mrs.
Roosevelt and others 10 pack
the Office of Civil Defense with
their personal friends.
These included Mayris Cha
ney, a dancer and protege OF
Mrs. Roosevelt, and Melvyn
Douglas, Hollywood actor.
4 LSO during the time that
"A Mrs. Roosevelt was. or was
not as you prefer, commercial-
izing the White House. the Mo-
tioh Picture Herald published
an item of further interest.
II said that Miss Cherry
Prcisser, the wife of Harry
Hopkins son. David had been
engaged 10 play in the movies
for Paramount Pictures. Inc.
As has been said. David was
employed by the Buchanan
agency whose plan 10 hire Mrs.
Roosevelt had been jammed
through the state department
over the objections Of Sumner
Welles. by orders from the
White House, where Harry Hop
kins resided.
The Latin-Amerlcan coffee
combine vas very much like
those cartels. organized 10 rig
prices 20 American consumers,
which the Roosevelt govern
ment. in other cases. condemned
as vicious conspiracies.
In actual results the coffee
countries were disappointed.
Not all the coffee countries
joined the cartel and not all
Latin-American nations grow
coffee
Thus delicate situation
arose. l
II Mrs. Roosevelt said coffee
was very nice and that Brazil
raisef coffee. a non-member cof-
fee country might sulk or q
non-coffee nation might be Of
Tended unless she should also
say that tin. iallow and fertil-
izer were, very nice, TOO, and
name the producer countries
with equal warmth.
Therefore, coffee and the
member nations received less
propaganda than the Buchanan
aCency had given them to ev.