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BEHIN1—
THE-'N e ,'
AMERICA'S OIL TWINS
WASHINGTON. — Many senators
believe that the confirmation row
aul allon
over charming Ed Pauley as under
secretary of the navy has taken on
Kelvnaed by W r . t . r n N vw a p .iiw r Union.
new significance now that Sec.
•IK
E ’8” BROTHER MAY HEAD
Harold Ickes has offered Ralph Da
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTM ENT
vies the job of under secretary of
W A S H IN G T O N -A ll signs frufn
the interior.
within
point to the food shortage
It happens that Davies and Ed
continuing another
Pauley are bosom friends Both are
year—or more.
| oil men. Both have followed the
G u a r d A g a in s t R a c k e ts
T h e m a n who
policy of "scratch - my - back - I'll -
came Into the Tru-
scratch-yours."
This
is
important.
Veterans' administration officials
m an
cublnet so
Recently. Secretary Ickes. who
are urging discharged veterans to
clear - mlndcdly to
has
a
crusading
record
for
guarding
stop, look and listen" before they
c u re s h o rta g e s .
engage in business. There are . the nation's resources, recommend
Agriculture Secre
scores of rackets being worked ed to President Truman that naval
tary Anderson, has
against veterans who get out of the oil reserves be transferred from the
run Into the usual
army or navy with cash in their navy to the interior department. It
W a s h in g to n dead
pockets and with the privilege of was just such a transfer by Al
end for the ambi
borrowing money under the G I. bert K. Fall in the Harding admin
tious.
Sec. Anderson
bill for purchase of a farm, a home istration that resulted in the teapot
And, then, when
or a business.
dome oil scandal.
he came out for a new program to
"We won’t tell the veteran what i
No motive Is attributed to the
ubundon the parity price concept and
to do,” says N. D. Hathaway, di- J Ickes proposal except that of
to ucccpt the world price theory in
rector of contact service for VA. j safeguarding oil. In fact, some
some respects, the
"but we will advise him to the best
people consider It significant
fa rm fo lk s and
of our ability.
that his proposal happened to
their lobbies hero
"The best advice we can give him | coincide, by luck or otherwise,
started letting him
with the nomination of Oil Man
down.
is,‘Use your head. Don't rush into
Pauley to be under secretary of
an investment. Seek good advice.
,
*" what is
the navy.
W INTER IN FLORIDA OR NEW H i m i n i i i h f
■>
/¡V
Jfl
b eh in d th e ru m o rs
Investigate until you are satisfied
But what senators consider impor- P»‘W
amusement and bodybuilding activities. ' At ‘ North V onw a^ N T
‘ f . Z « ‘ SlJp ‘.‘" k ! “’"
'
yourself. It is better to be sure
o c c a sio n a lly
p rin t-
than sorry.' ”
tant is that, with Pauley s friend «»** more than 21.000 ski lessons annually to youngsters who contribute $2 annually and write a school c o n m i
ed
in some
of th e
...»
,
In the meantime the veterans' con Ralph Davies offered the Job of sUluo on »MUn<. At a cabana club pool in Miami. Mary Jane Couccl New York »
I«;.
he h a s lost M r T ru -
’ *** * K'
tact service refers veterans to under secretary of the interior, the Merkle. Washington, and Mary Jane's sister Shirley watch in their "doughnuts ” * ° *
nmn’j c o n fid e n c e
banks, or to the Better Business bu navy's oil lands, no matter where
51. Elsenhower and m ay r e tir e .
reau in the city or town where ne they are located — in interior or j
Indeed some who
plans to invest his noney. They navy—will be partially under Pauley I
huve their noses to the White House
give him the address of the legal or a friend of his.
pane, suspect the old gang is groom
aid bureau where legal assistance M EXICAN OIL DEAL
PARIS . . . Look out
ing a successor. Milton Eisenhower,
is free to veterans, if they cannot
your
window
in
a
mod-
Relationship between Davies and
brother of the chief of staff. Eisen
afford to hire a lawyer. Contact ad
Pauley
has been extremely close. ern Paris hotel and
hower is more of a New Deal politico
vice always urges veterans to con
this
is
what
you
will
than the general. Certainly it Is dif
vert their national service life in Davies was executive vice president see. Houses of craxy
ficult to see how Anderson can sur
surance. The VA does not tell the of Standard Oil of California. Pauley architecture and mul
vive His novel price theory is con
veteran where to invest or in what sold him his own independent oil titu d in o u s c h im n e y
trary to what he does in his own
to invest his money. There are company. Later Pauley brought pots. George Alexan
milk producing business In Albu
too many variable factors, so their Davies to Washington, introduced der, Los Angeles, was
him to Ickes. following which
querque.
only counsel is extreme caution.
.
i Davies became Ickes' deputy oil so much in love with
M INOR OFFICIALS SAID
Paris that he repro
Q u e s tio n s a n d A n s w e rs
administrator. He did a good job.
TO
NOW RUN D EPARTM ENT
Q. My brother is 21 and has been
However, state department offi- duced it and brought
There he sells what milk the mar
it
home
in
miniature.
in the merchant marine since lie- cials say he continued to look out
ket will take nt the highest possible
E n t ir e s tre e ts and
cember 4. 1944. When can he ai.it for Ed Pauley.
price, and lets his surplus go for
b
lo
ck
s
of
the
p
ic
the merchant marines and not be When Pauley was trying to lobby
whatever It will bring. The idea of
drafted in the arm y"—Reader. Elk- his high-octane Mexican gasoline turesque quarters of
abandoning the parity notion made
the French capital are
moot, Ala
plant through the government, it
the farm bureau federation right
A. Your brother, has been de had to pass the hurdle of Secretary included in his collec
mad And the opposing crowd In the
ferred from the draft by reason of Ickes’ petroleum administration. tion. He fled Paris in
farmers union turned against him
his service in the merchant marine Davies okayed it — not only okayed 1936 without his "baby"
when he named Lassiter Instead of
and he will be eligible to be drafted it, but pushed it vigorously. At which, by underground
Hudgins to farm security.
until he is 26 unless he <1> has been first Ickes also gave it his blessing. routes, finally caught
in the merchant marines for not less The state department, however, was up with him in Los An
Sic transit clear-minded new
geles.
than 32 months on or after Mav 1 vigorously opposed.
officials. When he was In con
1940; <2) at least 75 per cent of his
gress. Mr. Anderson knew Just
Showdown came in a secret ses
time has been in active service
what to do. The objectivity of
sion between Ickes, Davies, a Da
and (3» he has applied for and re vies aid, and the Assistant Secre
his post then permitted him clar
ceived from the War Shipping ad tary of State Dean Acheson. The
ity or vision. Hut when he took
ministration a certificate certifying full story of this session was never
the cabinet seal, Io face the
he has completed his wartirrie serv really told at the senate hearing.
clique which ran his department
ice and is eligible to be relieved Acheson opened by giving Ickes a
• as cliques of subordinates dom
from further consideration as a very careful diagnosis of why the
inate the top men of all these
draftee under the selective service
government departments), he
Mexican high-octane gasoline plant
system.
Immediately became Involved,
should not be built by Pauley. He
and each week plungrd him Into
Q. I am the widow of a World took up point after point, his main
deeper Involvement.
War I veteran and haven't been re argument being that the Mexican
ceiving a dime of pension since his government would have to pay such
Remember how Mr. Truman came
death, seven years ago. I've tried a high price to Pauley that it
In announcing how closely he would
getting a pension at that tii-.e, but would sour U. S.-Mexican relations.
work with congress. Now before his
was told that we, in Wisconsin, did
After Acheson had finished, Ickes
first year is out, he is Involved In
not get any. Is this true? If I am turned to Pauley’s friend. Ralph
such a desperate struggle with Con
entitled to a pension what must Davies, and asked:
gress, he is asking people to propa
I do to get it?—S. W„ Ellsworth.
gandize ngainst them. The loudest
“ Why didn't you tell me these
Wis.
cheer for his recent message came
things?”
A. If you are the legal widow of
not from the chnstised legislators,
“ I didn't know them either,”
a veteran of World War I, you are
but from Sidney Hiilmnn of CIO. The
replied the red-faced Davies.
entitled to a pension wherever you
confidence of business which he en
Then, turning to his aid. he
live. Take your husband's record,
joyed at the outset slipped percepti
alibied: “ Why didn’t you tell me
his discharge papers and all avail
bly also with the rejection of his
these things?”
able information you have and file
wage compromise by both steel and
a claim with the nearest office of
Ickes immediately, reversed him
motors.
the Veterans' administration. Your self, threw his weight against Paul
I have rarely seen this proc
local Red Cross chapter could help ey. That is the real inside of how
ess to fail. The human per
you file this claim.
the Pauley octane plant for Mexico
sonality rarely Is able to sur
Q. I would like to know if a boy was stopped. Davies, of course, is
mount it. Outside of bureau
Is eligible for draft deferment who an able, intelligent operator, too in
cracy, men may see clearly and
is the main tractor and truck man telligent not to have known the
devise clear cut programs. As
on a hundred-acre farm?—J. N.. main points of the Pauley plan.
soon
as they get In the seats of
Fairhope, Pa.
Pauley is equally able. He would be
power, they fall under the spells
A. That would be a question to be a good executive almost anywhere.
of bureaucracy, adulation, and
determined by the local selective But some senators want to think
the politics of the self-perpetuat
service board. If the board deter twice before putting these oil twins
ing old gangs — or resisting, be
mined that the boy was essential in near the head of two departments
come Involved in self-thwarting
raising food for the community or controlling the oil reserves of the
struggles.
for the armed services, he could nation.
HANDY WRENCH
Weighing 265
ABUNDANCE
THEORY MEETS
be given an agricultural deferment,
pounds, this wrench has been de- j MORE POWER TO THE iiirar-nx:
dared surplus by the U. S. army at „1,1
i.J V i rH E ,>IV 'GON • • • China is to pump new life into the STRONG FARM OPPOSITION
as being of greater use on the farm PRESID EN TIA L HUMOR
President Truman has been tak the Lordstown (Ohio) ordnance power nlant ever
than in the armed services.
The secret of Mr. Anderson’s
concrc‘e <lam’ ‘"Igatlon project and
tj. My husband enlisted in the ing recent criticism in excellent hu plant. Ed Dolan of Warren, stand- t h e I 8 bureau n f
t
PrOi* Ct’ with
of troubles, however, I suspect, are the
u ? ,«
rcdamatlon, builder of Boulder and Grand Coulee same os the reasons why the food
Seabces and our son was born two mor. The other day he was talk ing by the wrench, is six f « t U ll
and said: Civilians may purchase such gadgets
b7vP
T
h
ev
are
elnah
” r"h'. h ” ® mech>n,c* 1 ,o( k facilities are shown shortages will continue beyond an
months after he went overseas. I ing with a group of friends
«
" ---------w
- their watches.
, y are Capab,e of hoisting a loaded vessel of several thousand other crop. Hs conflicts with the
“Apparently, no matter what I do as these—to fix
did not receive any allotment on
tons displacement capacity. John Lucian Savage Is consulting engineer
clique and lobbies are superficial re-
our son until he was six months I ’m always in the middle. I say
" “ctions of a deeper cause, name-
old. My husband is home and has something about Palestine, and the
his discharge now. Is there any Jews and the Arabs holler. Labot
farmers are afraid of abun-
way I could get the allotment now? and capital get in a fight, and I am
nce. The farm leaders think they
— Wife, Glenwood Springs, Colo.
in the middle. The Russians and the
n easily produce too much for this
A. The navy says the most com British have an argument, and I am
jntry, know they cannot sell much
mon reason for failure to receive in the middle.”
road, and hence by nature resist
allotments is that the serviceman
y abundance theory.
Suddenly the President paused,
uw *<n
failed to apply for an allotment walked over to the door of his office,
llHMHltO
Winter wheat was hurt by
î A4SKJ44
when he became eligible for one. which connects with that of his sec
rcather and much of the secd-
Yes, allotments are retroactive and retary,
ng did not come up. Poultry
Matthew Connelly, and
may be obtained after discharge. called out:
upplles are being drained by
$ *' m ss»«
Suggest you write to the Bureau of
he meat shortage. Eggs may
“ Hey, Matt, where can I buy
Supplies and Accounts, Allotment
e plentiful for a little while In
a copy of Dale Carnegie’s ‘How
Division, Navy Department, Cleve
he spring, hut not for long,
to
Win
Friends
and
Influence
land, Ohio.
egetables fluctuate, but there
People’?”
Q. M it true that a serviceman
hould be enough If the weather
CAPITAL CHAFF
can take a trip around the world
i favorable.
Assistant Sec. of State Spruille
or across the ocean free and only
ur loan negotiator, Will Clayton,
Braden
is
being
muzzled
by
the
cau
pay half-fare for his family?—M. B.,
a cotton minded man. The old
tious pink-tea diplomats regarding
Superior, Wis.
on theory was the basic Inspira-
A. The war department has no some sensational documents seized
of the Democratic tariff policy
in Germany showing how certain
knowledge of any such plan.
I Britain our cotton and provide
Latin-American
diplomats
aided
the
Q. My brother was discharged
( importations to enable her to
from the army November 9, 1943. Nazis during the war. . . . Forty-
for it), although our cotton price
five
small
steel
companies
have
now
Will he be eligible for pensions or
long since gone too high to en-
anything under the G.I. Bill of increased steel wages, thus sending
— j the low-economied British to
more
than
50,000
steel
workers
back
COURT
.
Rights?—Worried sister, Gunters
use it as their base raw material.
to work. . . . Southern senators seem Green H. Hackworth, 63, Chevy
ville, Ala.
But Clayton is reported to have gone
,
to
like
the
filibuster
method.
Last
Chase,
Md.,
has
been
elected
one
of
A. Yes, if he received an honor
even beyond this basic theory In
week
Senator
Bilbo
served
notice
he
14
world
judges
by
UNO.
A
native
able discharge he is eligible for all
his visions of tariff destruction In
intends to use it against the British of Prestonburg, Ky., Hackworth
benefits under the G.I. bill.
the coming conference, and they
loan.
served at the Hague.
say, he has taken State Secretary
Byrnes along with him.
Dy P
M