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Washington, D. C. MISS PERKINS ON THE COAL Inner circle clamor for replace ment of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is an old story, but it's hot ter now than ever before. Actually, Roosevelt did move last year to get a new labor secretary, offering the post to Mayor LaGuar dia. But he declined, insisting on the war department or nothing. But with labor a key problem, White House advisers had been urg ing that the President renew the of fer to LaGuardia. Miss Perkins was criticized sharp ly for the delay in certifying the pro tracted Allis-Chalmers strike to the National Defense Mediation board until rioting broke out, also the coal negotiations before they deadlocked and John L. Lewis shut down the mines. Both the President and other cabinet members bluntly called Miss Perkins' attention to the fact that the purpose of the board was not only to settle strikes but to avert them. With some feeling it was demand ed of her why the board, set up ex pressly to handle "hot potatoes," was not used in these two major cases. • • * HITLER HOLDING OFF U. S. Those who are steering U. S. for eign policy on its present difficult course privately offer four impor tant reasons for not anticipating a break in diplomatic relations with Germany for some time. One is the memory of the German people regarding American entrance into the last war. For years Ger mans have contended that they won the last war—until the United States entered; so the psychological effect of American entrance now is the last tiling Hitler wants. Two is the effect upon American morale. At present, U. S. draftees can't get enthusiastic about their service while industry and labor could be much more patriotic about production. But once Hitler precipi tated a declaration of war, sentiment here would be far different—and he knows it. Three is the large amount of Ger man property in the United States which would be seized in case of war. Four is the fact that Germany is now about to receive a certain amount of goods from the U. S. A., sent via Russia and Japan, which she could not get in case of war. Therefore, U. S. diplomatic ex perts are convinced that Hitler will do nothing rash toward the United States until alter June or July, by which time he should pretty much know whether he is going to take England or not. Nazi policy after that will be guid ed by intervening events. • • • FARM BUREAU FEDERATION Moguls of the powerful American Farm Bureau federation are ready to say "uncle" and make peace with the administration. Up to a year ago the farm bureau was the fair-haired boy on farm policy, largely due to the suave as tuteness of Ed O'Neal, federation president, and his personal friend ship with Roosevelt. But at heart most of the federa tion's generalissimos never were very hot about the New Deal, and last year they began demanding greater local control aimed at run ning the program themselves. And in a showdown over domination of the Federal Land Banks, Wallace rapped them over the knuckles and the battle was on. Soon it spilled over into the polit ical arena when cornbelt Farm bu reau leaders, led by ambitious Earl Smith of Illinois, dumped the Roose velt-Wallace ticket and put in some heavy licks for Willkie. Willkie's defeat knocked the props from under the boys. So, reverting to the old realistic axiom, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em," the boys have propositioned Clifford Townsend, defense agricul tural advisor and former New Deal Governor of Indiana, on being their peacemaker. Townsend was one of the organ izers and first leaders of the farm bureau in the Midwest. Yet when he stumped that area for Roosevelt and Wallace lar.t fall he bumped up against the bitter opposition of many of his old associates. • • • Sl-A-YEAR PROBE Sen. Harry Truman is a friendly, mild-mannered Missourian, but to certain defense brasshats and One Dollar Men he's an ogre with horns. Truman is author and chairman of the special senate committee to probe defense contracts, and he is determined that what happened in France won't happen here. He al ready has some interesting data. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND When he was assistant secretary of labor, brainy Edward F. Mc- Grady used to work 15 hours a day and he is now doing the same thing as sl-a-year labor adviser to War Secretary Stimson. November 1 is a long way off, but the Affiliated Young Democrats of New York, leaders in the draft Roosevelt movement, already have booked Madison Square Garden for a giant "Draft LaGuardia" rally on that night, the last Saturday before the mavoralty election. The gigantic River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company at Dearborn, Mich., largest single industrial plant in the world, where from seven to eight thousand striking C.1.0. auto workers threw 85,000 employees out of work. Inset: One of the men involved in the battle between pickets and workers, shown as he tum bled into the gutter after being struck by one of the many flying missiles. Sabotage—and Then Uncle Sam Takes Over With dramatic suddenness the V. S. seized 69 Italian, Danish and German merchant ships in harbors throughout the country. At left is photographic proof of sabotage. The main air pump of the Italian ship, Al berta, is shown shattered and useless. Right: Chief Mechanic Alston of the Coast Guard at Port Newark, N. J., examines broken parts of the slide valve on the Alberta. Demonstrate 'Blackout Machine' at Capital ■ESH9 Sm *§§l£ «1 bhbb taw^ 1 J"§SSB9K I : E^BB^R Two New Jersey inventors demonstrating a "blackout machine" be fore Sen. Morris Sheppard, chairman of senate military affairs commit tee. The inventors said the device could shut off power in every Amer ican city. L. to R., Senator Sheppard, Col. D. Watt, E. C. Pomeroy and R. M. Franklin of the Radio Signal Products Corp., the inventors. And Now Frenchmen Give Nazi Salute! f . Vfr • . * 1 I A year ago Frenchmen used to mock the upraised arm salute of the Fascists and Nazis, but things have changed in France. Above is shown a great gathering of French war veterans saluting Marshal Petain, French chief of state, in a rally at Le Puy. The aged marshal Is on the | dak in the background. THE PANBtIRY APRIL 17, 1941 As Strike Closed Ford Plant Battles Jungle Maj. R. E. Randall of Swamp scott, Mass., Albrook field executive officer, who was forced to cot his way through 25 miles of Panama jungle after bailing out of his dis abled plane. He is shown here at Ancon, Canal Zone. Jugoslav Premier Pvf ,x > \ i m ;C : I - $ v ' ''-rihv^ • i Gen. Richard Dusan-Simovich, staunch friend of Great Britain and army commander, who has been named to the post of premier of Jugoslavia. Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: His name is Cmpt. lean Georges D'Ary of the French air force dur ing World War I and up to the time France quit ... He refused to surrender and left France before the Nazis came—escaping to Lisbon . . . There he felt sure the British consu late would help him return to Brit ain so he could fly again for Eng land . . . But something went wrong . . . The consulate was busy or something, and he managed to get to Martinique on a freighter . .. When Captain D'Ary was tipped that the Martinique regime was plan ning to ship him back to France as a fugitive, he escaped to a port in the U. S. . . . "I am in a sympa thetic country," he mused, "I will not live under shadows. I will tell everything to the authorities" . . . And he did, adding: "Please deport me, but deport me to Canada, so I can get to England and help fight again" . . . The man in charge said: "Why, this is against the law!" And he was jailed . . . Some of us read about it in the papers . . . Some of us appealed to Washington . . . "If he is deported to Marti nique he will be shot!" we explained . . . On the morning he was to be returned to Martinique came a telegram: "Deport D'Ary," it said, "to Canada." The Other Week-end The Second Bomb Wing from Langley Field, Va., flew 30 bombers to Miami un der command of Gen. A. Krogstad ... On the way, one of the bomb ers lost its elevator and started hav ing other trouble . . . The general ordered the men in the plane to bail out . . . "You never saw six men jump so quickly. In less than six seconds!" The two pilots, however, decided not to jump, and with expert han dling brought the bomber down without mishap to it or themselves . . . We found out why they refused to jump . . . That morning both had squandered $l2 each on two silk shirts which they were wearing . . . "We realized," said one of the boys, "that if we bailed out—those shirts were sure to get dirty." • Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Story Tellers: The Commy Charlie McCarthys over here keep bragging there's no unemployment in Stalin's kingdom. Freda Utley, who had six years of the Soviet, tells why in the Atlantic Monthly: "There is no unemployment pay or poor relief; unemployment in the So viet. Union has been liquidated by the simple device of liquidating the unemployed, who must starve to death" . . . Joseph Harrington's piece in Cosmopolitan begins: "I think newspaper people are crazy. I mean goofy. The screwiest peo ple I ever met" ... In American Magazine E. Lehman and D. Brown collab on "Hack Writer," which in dicates the authors are hardly . . . The new mag for men is dickering with three titles: "Sir," "Swank" and "Beau Brummel," when the last mentioned tells the story! . . . E. Hemingway, Look reports, is go ing to give some of his "For Whom the Bell Tolls" royalties to China. The dough came out of the fight for Democracy, he figures, and some of it is going back in. The Front Pages: Just what got Heywood Broun fired from the World is cleared up in a book of his col umns collected by the younger Hey wood. It wasn't his Sacco-Vanzetti pieces, as most of us thought. It was a piece done a year later for the Nation, which accused the World of lacking moxie . . . Ray Brock, a new by-line to these orbs, turned in exciting news from Belgrade to the Times—when the uprising started ... It wasn't so many weeks ago that Mussolini was quoted as boast ing: "I am not a man—l am an event!" . . . Tsk-tsk . . . Remem ber how the experts told us that March would be the month when Adolf went to town? Well, March has done come and gawn, as the saying goes down South . . . Boom erang Dep't: A 1 Williams, the mili tary "expert," recently wrote a book in which he predicted that the Fas cist air force would knock the Brit ish out of the Mediterranean. Typewriter Ribbons: The Thom aston, Ga., Times': Don't risk your eyesight by looking straight at the sun, or your illusions by looking straight at a friend . . . Olin Mil ler's: Uncle Sam is so busy watch ing the wolves in Europe he can't see the rats at home . . . Balzac's: A husband should always know what ia the matter with his wife, for she always knows what is not. The Wireless: Dorothy Thompson Included a memo to Hitler the Hun. A countryman of his, she warned, who also made a hobby of slaugh ter, lies buried in Jugoslavia. His name was Attila . . . Jose Morand (if that's the spelling) cornea at you with Latin • American musicking these midnights. It's soothing, which is the way it ought to be lata at night, when you're too tired to flght back at the brasses . . . 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