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Saw Ki<:lit Days Ahead
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Soane of the newspaper columnists who pride themselves on
feeing able to predict the turn of world and national events be- (
fore they happen had to take a back seat last month to the re
markable prediction of a fellow who doesn’t write a column, but
who is a superior type of newsman.
The prognosticator, in this case, was G!enn Babb, day cable
editor of the Associated Press bureau in New York.
On October 8, he predicted the fall of the Japanese cabinet
of Premier Konoye. On October 16, the Konoye cabinet folded
up and on October 17 the new military cabinet under Premier
Tojo was formed, a move which Babb had also anticipated in h;s
article on October 8.
■'How do they do it?” we always want to ask, when one of
these journalistic predcition proves true.
Babb, in this instance, said he was making his prediction on
“trustworthy advices” from the Eastern corner of the world,
here's a thumbnail sketch of his journalistic background:
Babb was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1913.
spent brief periods on the staffs of the St. Joseph, Missouri, Ga
zette, and the New Bedford, Massachusetts, Standard, then went
to Tokyo in 1915 as a reporter for the Japan Advertiser.
He took two years off to 6erve in the A.E.F., in 1917-19, in-;
eluding a year in France. Early in 1920 he returned to the Japan
Advertiser, where he served as news editor and managing editor
until 1922. .After a few months of free-lance writing in China, he
returned to Japan and in January, 1924. became acting chief of
the Asociated Press Tokyo bureau. In March, 1925, he joined the
Wew York AP staff and was transferred to San Francisco as cable
editor early in 1926.
In August, 1928, Babb returned to the Orient, as chief of the i
Tokyo bureau. During the Manchurian conquest, he went to the j
ibattlefields for the AP, then returned to head 'the Tokyo bureauj
in 1932, where he remaned until he was transferred to his pre
sent job in New York the end of 1936.
A’l the big men of the Orient have been personal acquaint-.
*nces of Babb's during the past 25 years. Many of them are i
close friends with whom he has kept up correspondence. Ls it ,
any wonder, then, that a newsman with that much background 1
would be eligible for Oriental tips?
Day of Dispute
Thursday of last week was Thanksgiving in Alaska, Ala
bama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New
(Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon,
Rhode I-land, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West
Virginia. Wisconsin, Wyoming and the District of Columbia.
But the turkeys lived till yesterday in Arkansas, Delaware,
(Florida. Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas and Vermont.
Thus America was split up once more on dts traditional feast
day, due to the presidential proclamation which started three
years ago. setting the Thanksgiving holiday a week ahead, in or
der to lengthen the shopping period between Thanksgving and
Christmas.
Because some of the die-hard states have steadfastly refus
ed to accept the earlier date, there has never been 100 percent
cooperation in the observance of the date. For this reason, Presi
dent Roosevelt has decided to bring us all together again next
year and has officially promised that beginning in 1942 the trad
tional fourth Thursday in November will once more be proclaim
ed Thanksgiving by him.
We’re for the return to the later day. After all, the only
one’s who have benefited from the conflicting holiday observ
ances have been some traveling salesmen in the States, wiith girl
friends in every town. By working their territories judicously,
we understand they have been able to stow away two Thanks
giving dinners each year since the New' Deal holiday w'ervt into
effect.
Should Have Stayed Here
A recent item in The Seattle Times relates how a Seattle
man returned there after a trip to Alaska and found eight park
ing tags awaiting him, all endorsed by Seatle policemen and col
lected by his wife while he was away.
To settle up, the Seattle motorist spent a night in jail and
paid a fine of $35.
“It was a fine trip,” he punned.
We’ll bet he’s a little sorry he returned.
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THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — Inner CIO
circles are buzzing excitedly over
a grapevine report that John L.
Lewis is seriously considering
ditching his isolationism and de
claring for the Roosevelt policy
of aid to Britain and Russia.
Hitch in the rumor is that it
was “allowed to leag” by close
Lewis henchmen, which may
mean that there is more to it
than meets the eve.
It might be a strategm by Lew
is to further his secret ambitions
to recapture the CIO presidency.
Or it might be a maneuver to
avert a drubbing on the foreign
issue at the CIO convention next
month. Lewis’s foes are quietly
organizing for a showdown. Fear
ing a licking, he may be trying
to lu’l them into dropping the
plan.
Two things are definitely
known:
1— That Lewis has issued or
ders to his satelhtes to pipe
down on the foreign question.
They are not to say anything or
make any moves one way or the
other. Previously they beat the
isolationist drums in line with
his lead.
2— Lewis had long talks with
two British labor leaders who
visited the United States.
PAL TO PAL
They were Will Lawther. presi
dent of the Mine Workers Fed
eration, which corresponds to
the United Mine orkers, Lewis’s |
union, and Jack Jones, Welsh
miner and novelist. These two
were the first visiting British La
borites to confer with Lewis—a
fact he pointedly called to their
attention.
He to'd them he considered it
a personal affront that Sir Walter
Citrine British Labor Party lead-'
cr, had not called on him when
he was in the U. S. last spring
Citrine conferred with other CIO
and AFL chiefs, but was advised
not to see Lewis because John
might interpret it as an effort to
“propagandise” him. I
(Insiders believe that one of
the chief reasons behind Lewis’s
venomous hatred of Roosevelt is
the fact that Lews and his wife
were never invited to dinner at
the White House.)
Lewis wa very cordial to both
Britishers. He recited at length
his grievances against the “Brit
ish Empire,” but vonorously de
clared that he was opposed to
Facism and did not favor a Nazi
victory. He assured his visitors
that he knew what that would
mean to labor.
Lewis, of Welsh descent, was
particularly friendly to Jones, to
whom he said, “You and I can
talk as one miner to another.”
Jones agreed with Lewis on the
wrongdoings of the British Em
pire, but said that labor Was
making great social and econ
omic changes in England and
that after the war, conditions
would be far different.
It was Jones that Lewis gave
the impression that he might de
clare for the “aid Britain and
Russia” policy.
NOTE:-Lewis was so pleased
with Jones that he took him to
lunch at the fashionable Carlton
Hotel, where many headline gov
ernment leaders dine at noon. As
Lewis and his guest were walk
ing through the lobby, Lewis
spotted Justice Felix Frankfurter
with whom he had once been on
cordial terms but about whom re
centy he had done a lot of crit
ical muttering. But this time,
Lewis boomed out heartily,
“Good morning, Mr. Justice. I
want you to meet a friend of
mine from England.”
OLD STUFF
Now that the Navy’s ban on
news about damaged British war
ships in American ports has been
lifted, M’s no longer a secret that
the H.M.S. WARSPITE, cripplad
in the Battle of Crete, is und#r- J
going repairs at the Puget Sound
Navy Yard. But the Warspite’si
gallant skipper, Capt. Douglas
Fisher, is still chuckling over an
experience he had with a Seattle j
newsman shortly after docking.
“What’s your ship, Captain?”
asked the reporter.
‘Number 126,” repfied Fisher
with a grin. (Ths is the repair
request number of the Warspite).
“I’m sorry, but under the cir
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that question for conversational
purposes. Everybody out here
knows you’re the Warspite. I
knew you were going to put in
here days before you arrived.
Tell me something about the Bat
tie of Crete.”
NOTE: While on a sight-seeing
ftour of the capital wth his host,
Representative Warren Magnu
son of Washington. Fisher evinc
ed a keen interest in the White
House. “I didn’t know the Presi
dent lived wThere he works,” he
remarked.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Informed that defense officials
want to use her famous legs to
publicize non-silk stockings as
soon as she has recovered from
her fractured ankle, movie queen
Marlene Detrich sent back word
that she stands ready, or will sit
if preferred, for any patriotic pur
pose. . . The trial of the Trotsky
ite leaders of the tough Minnea
polis Teamsters Local 554, grant
ed charter several months ago
by Denny Lewis, head of the CIO
Construction Workers, recently
offered. The leftists are tried on
charges of “conspiring to over
throw the form of the U. S. Gov
ernment.” One of the chief lead
ers, Grant Dunn, secretary of the
unon, suddently committeed sui
cide a few weeks ago. He is the
sixth of the union’s chiefs to
come to a violent end. . . One su(b
ject that Speaker Sam Rayburn
always is ready to talk about is
his Texas ranch. “I like to be
known as a rancher,” he grins,
“although I haven’t got much to
show for it.”
Arkansas’ bustling young Rep
resentative Clyde Ellis has chalk
ed up another for his proposed
great Arkansas Valley power pro
ject. After winning the Presi
dent’s backing for placing con
trol of the project under an in
dependent Authority, similar to
TVA Ellis got Foosevelt’s ap
proval for immediate action on a
bill. Senator Josh Lee, militant
Oklahoma New Dealer, has join
ed forces with Ellis and will spon
sor the legislation in the Senate.
Undersecretary of Agriculture
Paul Appleby is out of the run
ning for the vacancy on the Fed
eral Reserve Board he was so
anxious to get. Most likely ap
pointee is AAA. Administrator
Rudolph Evans, the first choice
of FRB head Marriner Eccles . . .
Real star of ten members of the
Argentine Chamber of Deputies
visiting the U. S. is Raul Da
monte Taborda, young crusader
who exposed Nazi operations in
his country in a sensational in
vestigation.
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LEWIS REJECTS ROOSEVELT PLEA
John L. Lewis, president of the C'nited Mine Workers, holds his
glasses to his eyes as he reads his letter to President Roosevelt
in which he rejected for the second time a request of the Presi
dent to order 53,000 miner back to work in captive coal mines.