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I WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) EW YORK.—During his 16 years in the house, Representative Lindsay Warren of North Carolina used to lie back in his chair with his eyes closed, s e e mingly asleep. But he never was. When he snapped into action, his mates noted that he had missed nothing of even the most complicated goings on. To them he was known as “The Fox.” Deceptively Sleepy Eyed, Warren /< Alert as Watchdog Similarly, not much has been heard of him since he became comp troller general two years ago, but here he is suddenly in action with a brief against the National Youth administration, accusing it of play ing politics to keep up its member ship rolls and get appropriations. Characteristically, he goes into de tails. Bulky, bull-necked, pompa doured and of a general leathery makeup, Mr. Warren liked to go fishing in old clothes at Hatteras or Kitty Hawk. He didn’t want to be bothered with this comp troller general job, although it pays $10,000 a year for 15 years. His predecessor, the penny-pinch ing John Raymond McCarl, who once nicked a pullman berth item on General Pershing’s ex pense account, was known as “the watch dog of the treasury.” Mr. Warren didn't want to be a watch dog, and after Mr. Mc Carl quit, in 1936, President Roosevelt offered Mr. Warren the job three times before he took it. One of his three children, Lindsay Jr., aged 16, is ailing. The impor tance of getting the best medical care for the boy, and his desire for a permanent home is said to have induced him to accept. He had been one of the most popular men in congress, and watch dogs aren’t al together popular. His post carries more power than almost any in the federal job portfolio, although no quiz entrant would be apt to list it. He passes on government ap propriations, audits governmen tal accounts, settles claims and in numerous other ways polices hidden or furtive charges in fed eral expenditures. He had valu able training for this in his long experience as chairman of the house committee of accounts. He is 51 years old, a native of Washington, N. C., up “through channels’’ in politics, as county at torney and state senator. He has been regarded as one of the ablest political strategists of the Democrat ic party. Furthermore, there is a legend that he once trimmed the President handsomely in a week end poker game. Eeing deoeptively sleepy-eyed, and at the same time ! alert makes him a formidable poker player. T> EINHARDT HEYDRICH, setting up drumhead justice in the for mer Czech provinces, with more than 100 executions to date, has improved Heydrich Possibly f^e'cmpa" Has Cost-Finding System on Killings of the Germans after Prussian war. In the latter instance the French Francs Trireur gave the Germans a lot of real trouble. The reprisals were ruthless and widespread, but unsystematic, and quite amateurish compared to Heydrich’s highly pro fessional exploits, for the fatherland and the iron heel. atively loose and casual techniques the Franco Old Baron Constantin von Neerath, whom Heydrich suc ceeds as ‘‘protector” in the Czech region, liked to shoot wild boars, but held back on shooting too many people. So they give a younger man a chance. The new “protector” was Hitler’s finger man in the 1934 blood-purge, one of his principal victims being his friend Ernst Roehm, with whom he had risen to Nazi party emi nence in the SS organization. They immediately afterward made him director of the Berlin office of the Gestapo. As he rose in the Gestapo, Hey drich established precise and up-to date methods for killings and may hem. It was in 1938, when the Gestapo took on the activities of the “Inter national Criminal Police commis sion,” that he foreshadowed the wid er outreach of his espionage system. He said: “We are aware that the criminal activities of the world can only be fought internationally.” It was reported at the time that in his office there was built up a dos sier on “criminals” all over the world, who had spoken disrespect fully of Nasi Germany. One exploit which won him increased power was filching Schuschnigg’s private letters and papers. Press Conference a la Berlin, 7T1 Berlin has its press conferences, too, but how free they are is another matter. This radiophoto sent to New York via radio and to Chicago via soundphoto shows Dr. Otto Dietrich announcing military achievements claimed by the Germans on the eastern front, to foreign correspondents in Berlin. Note large-sized war map. Congressional Leaders Confer With F.D.R. A delegation from Capitol Hill confers with President Roosevelt on changes in the neutrality law. L. to R., back row: Sen. Tom Connally (Texas); Sen. Charles L. McNary (Oregon); and Rep. Luther A. Johnson (Texas). Front row: Rep. Sol Bloom (N. Y.); chairman, foreign affairs committee, and Rep. Charles Eaton (N. J.). Fledglings for Britain’s R.A.F. Some of the 589 fledgling fliers from Australia and New Zealand, shown upon arrival at San Francisco on the Matson liner, Monterey, bound for R.A.F. flying schools in Canada. Immediately after the group disembarked, they took a boat for Oakland, Calif., where they boarded a special train for Canada. Just Good ‘Clean’ Fun Heavy rains, which have paralyzed auto and parts of Chicago, served to put the athletic field for the annual sophomore-freshman pushball game Everybody had a lot of good “clean” fun until 'ift tomatoes into the battle. The frosh won out. street car traffic in in excellent condition at Loyola university, the frosh introduced Trouble in Panama Dr. Arnulfo Arias, who was oust ed from the presidency of Panama, in a coup which placed a regime more favorable to the U. S. in power. He fled to Cuba to save his life, he claimed. Dr. Ernesto De La Guardia assumed the presidency. Chiefs Meet First meeting of the U. S. and British commanders-in-chief in the Far East. British Air Marshal Rob ert Brooke-Popham (left) flew to Manila, P. I., to discuss Far East ern questions with Lieut. Gen. Doug las McArthur (right), U. S. chief in the Far East. Warm October October has furnished some of the hottest days on record in the na tional capital. Cooling their tootsies in Capitol plaza on one of these record-breaking October days, with the dome of the Capitol as a back drop, are these girls from Balti more, Md. War and Religion General Nogues, French resident commander of Morocco, shown dur ing a religious conference with na tive tribesmen, including Moussen de Zaers, facing the general. U. S. Farm Aid to Britain Likely to Pay Dividends Better Home-Consumption Market for American Farmer Is Cited as Post-War Period Goal; British Expected to Co-operate. By BAUKHAGE National Farm and Home Hour Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 H Street N. W.f Washington, D. C. After sitting down for an hour with the undersecretary of agricul ture, Paul H. Appleby, on a quiet Saturday afternoon whqn only de fense workers and newsmen have to labor, I walked back through the park with a feeling that perhaps some of the lease-lend bread which America is casting across the water might come back buttered, and even with jam on it. Undersecretary Appleby was fresh off the Clipper from Europe where he and AAA Administrator Rudolph M. Evans had been talking food with the British. Three things came out of my queries of the undersecretary as to j his experiences. First: Thanks to the United States, the British have passed what looked like a crisis in their food supply. Second: The American farmer is going to get a little extra gravy for 1 the extra sweating he is going to do to produce more “food for free dom.” Third: (and this is what I meant by the butter and jam on the lease lend bread) Appleby believes, and he told the British so, that the Unit ed States has a post-war goal in its extra-production efforts. That goal is to build up a better home-con sumption market for the American farmer—and all farmers—and the British are expected to co-operate. t\s io me nrsi point, ivir. rtppieoy was chary about giving out facts and figures. He did assure me, however, that quantitatively the United States is now delivering at British ports an amount of food suf ficient to take care of the basic needs of the population, civil and military. That means there are enough ships to handle and deliver, taking sinkings into consideration, this minimum tonnage. So if the present amount of tonnage is limit ed and the type of food required for a balanced diet is raised in the United States, ths islands will not starve. Although the British will be getting on with a lot less than they are used to, they will have enough of the right kind of food to do the job they are expected to do. Complaining ‘Wasn’t Done* According to Appleby, even when the pinch was at its worst early last spring, popular opinion in England was such that morale was not af fected seriously. Complaining sim ply “wasn’t done,” as the English say. In other words, if somebody sounded off about what he was not getting to eat in a public place, he would be reproved in short order by his listeners. The British food ministry and the department of agriculture officials now understand each other, accord ing to Appleby, and each is satis fied as to the other’s efforts, and those efforts have been co-ordinat ed. ~ Specifically, Undersecretary Ap pleby and Administrator Evans re ceived suggestions as to improved packaging — for instance, minor changes in the content of a canned product, the kind of cartons that best protected a certain commod ity. You see many of these prod ucts, in fact most of them, the United States had never exported at all before and American officials did not have experience in the best packaging methods. For instance, there were lessons in packaging and labeling to be learned about cheese. The Americans suggested to the British that it would be easier to arouse the sympathy and co-opera tion of people in this country if they knew just what this food was being used for—say, one thing for school children, another for babies, some thing else for workers. The British showed a break-down in the statistics was impossible be cause of exceedingly abnormal con ditions of transportation. There is, for instance, uncertainty as to where a given ship is going to land, what railroad will be available for shipments. Then, too, there are ! many difficulties of administration which make it impossible to chan nel special shipments to special points or assign them to special groups. Distribution Control Another thing the Americans ex amined thoroughly was the control by the government of distribution of the products. All food belongs to the British government which turns meat over directly to the re tailer and the other material to the wholesaler. The Americans say they were convinced that no prof iteering exists in this procedure. Although we have been able to bring lease-lend shipments up to 8 per cent of British food consump tion in tonnage, and 20 per cent in value, that does not mean that our problem as far as production goes is solved. It is easy to provide a lot of things the British do not need, and hard to get some of the things they need most. For example: The British wanted 30 per cent of our whole navy bean crop. Navy beans were encouraged and American farmers produced 35 per cent more navy beans than normal. But a cow can’t act that quickly when you ask for more calves, and when you get the calves it takes them longer to produce a quart of milk than it does for a garden to sprout a bean. Cheese is another product that does not leap out of the ground. In some places you have to plant, not only the cow to produce the milk but you have to produce a factory to process the milk into cheese. Now, as to point No. 2: What the American farmer is going to get out of all this. Mr. Appleby— expressing, I take it, the opinion of the department of agriculture and the government—feels very definite ly that the American farmer must have a profit motive to bring about this extra production and likewise a profit when he has produced it. What About 6 Per Cent? “Mr. Morgenthau,” I said, “be lieves that business ought to be al lowed to make only 6 per cent on its investment in the emergency.” “Well,” said Mr. Appleby, “if the farmer got 6 per cent and wages for his own labor and management, I think he’d be satisfied. Anybody ought to be satisfied with that in time of crisis.” And this factor—giving the farm er some assurance that his plant expansion, as they call it in indus try, necessary to produce the things Britain needs, will not be a white elephant when the war is over, I mentioned—namely, the attempt to assure some universal benefit out of the whole lease-lend food effort— a benefit deriving from increased consumption in peace-time which the farmer as well as the rest of the nation would share. The farmer does not want to have a new lot of surpluses on his hands when the war is over. He and the department of agriculture want to understand that the new production they are now building can be do mestically consumed after the war is ever. Such consumption seems a long way off but it is a star worth < following—once there were three wise men who had the faith to fol low a star. *Deep Satisfaction* The other day a friend of mine went into a famous Washington res taurant. When he was seated a tall man strode in and took his seat alone in a corner. He is a well known figure in Washington and my friend watched him. He took out the evening paper, opened it with a flourish and began to leaf through it. Suddenly his face lit up with a smile of deep satisfaction. He folded the paper carefully, set it up against the water carafe and began to read. His smile spread. My friend wondered what he was reading and since he had a copy of the same paper and could see the lower half of the page the tall one was reading with such gratification my friend turned to that page in his own paper. It bore a large picture of John Llewellyn Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America and former head of the C. I. O. The tall man looking at it was John Llewellyn Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America and former head of the C. I. O. • * * <L De gustibus non est disputandum. The brilliant editor of the Farm Journal, Wheeler McMillen, says he doesn’t like parsley. I enjoy the rabbit food myself. But I liked the corn-covered cover of his October issue so well that I pasted it right up next to my map of Europe to take my mind off the war. BRIEFS • • • by Baukhage C. Before June 30, 1942, the United States must supply Great Britain with the output of 50 million hens, or 500 million eggs, according to the department of agriculture. * * • C. A good cook could use a barrel ful of apples and never repeat her self once, says the Bureau of Home Economics. C. The bituminous coal division of the department of the interior is con sidering a proposal for the estab lishment of a ceiling over coal prices as a means of protecting consum ers from increasing prices. • • * C. In the “shoot on sight” system of warfare, it is more important who sights than who shoots.
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