The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-03

Mahoney Rescues
Dinner For Hull
From Failure

A friend OF many high Washing
ton officials and former officials, in.
Guiding President Roosevelt and
former Secretary OF State Cordell
Hull, is Judge jeremiah T. Ma
honey Of New York. Judge Ma
honey is one Of the close friends
who occasionally calls on Hull. now
IN retirement.
A favorite story OF friends OF the
Two men is the way Mahoney
saved" a dinner which the Ten
nessee Society OF New York staged
for Hull some years ago.
on the eve OF the Inner, through
some slip-up or other, only rs tick
cts had been sold for the dinner.
Mahoney learned OF the predica-
ment. and promptly arranged 10
have tickets distributed in large
bundles to good New York Demo
Gratis. Speakers OF the occasion be-
held this remarkable turnout OF
"Tennesseans and commented
profIsely.
ALLIED NATIONS IN EUROPE
face the blacklist food situation OF
the war
Under the impact OF wartime
restrictions on machinery. the draft,
the lure Of higher pay in city war
plants and restrictive price ceilings
which make some farm activities
improbable. production OF food
stuffs in the nited States now APP
pears to be insufficient to. meet both
domestic and foreign demands.
So serious has the situation be-
come that lehd-lease shipments OF
foodstuffs have been curtailed with
no prospect for the future except
the infiction Of more cuts in for
eign shipments as well as smaller
allotments for American civilians.
Meat-pork as well as beef-is
The outstanding shortage item but
other staples will also be lacking
as substitute protein foods are
shipped abroad in larger volume
10 Offset reduced meat exports.
SOMETHING'S FISHY about the
phone calls received these days
al the headquarters Of Brig. Gen.
Don Z. Scott, commander OF the
Virginia district OF the Third Ser
vice Command at Richmond, Va.
Operators are constantly receiy-
ing calls like the following:
Send over right away a dozen
oysters, a pint OF shrimp, and.
But madam the operator will
interrupt.
and you'd better send over
some clans, too I'm having a big
sea food dinner tonight"
this is the Army the opera
tor will insist
The explanation is that General
Scott's phone number is similar TO
that OF a local FISH dealer.
A sergeant who has been at
tached to the post for several years
was recently standing around while
one OF those calls came in.
That's nothing" he told the
operator. you should have been
here a coupla years ago. that fish
store number belonged to beauty
parlor then"
THE NATIONS CAPITAL in
wartime is quite different from
what it was in peace-time days.
Traffic Jams are so common as to
be routine. But recently, on busy
Washington street, an odd kind
Of jam developed.
The people gathered on the spot
were craning their necks curiously.
Onlookers assumed that there had
been another accident, OF that the
police were making another ar
rest But no such thing.
The driver OF 1913 model Ford
had nonehanuy left the odd-look-
ing fiivver parked near fire plug.
A GUESSING CONTEST Is on
the way in Washington as to the
likely site OF the capital" Of the
United Nations, that is. the home
OF the world security tribunal.
San Francisco. scene Of the Unit
ed Nations conference, has been
mentioned. and likewise Mexico
City Copenhagen. Athens and Ant
werp. Genera is regarded as out OF
the running because OF Russian OPP
position.