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The Washington
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By Jack Stinnett
ODDS ARE ALREADY ON
DEMOCRATS TO REMAIN
RIGHT IN POWER IN V. S.
WASHINGTON, July 27—Leav
es from a Chicago diary:
Be sure to notify Wall Street
and the bookies that the odds al-|
ready are on the Democrats to
remain in power. They are not I
wonderful odds, but they are an
edge. They're 5 to 4.
Here's how. Of the 18 men who
have been nominated in Windy
City conventions 10 have been
blown right into the White House
by November balloting. The first j
was Abe Lincoln, in 1860. when
manager for Dark Horse Abe
packed the galleries of the old
Wigwam (which looked like an
oversized pit for cockfights) and
swept their candidate into power
with as wild a hullaballoo as the
city ever has seen.
Cleveland (twice), Grant. Gar
field, Blaine, Roosevelt I, Harri
son, Harding, Taft, and Roosevelt
II all got ‘'mandates” here—and
residences in Washington.
Old-timers around here like
Pat Nash, the white-haired vet
eran of Illinois politics, tell me
that the “hottest” convention
ever held here wasn’t Democrat
ic, but Republican. It was 1912.
when Roosevelt I, trying to
rough-ride over Taft got his ears
pinned back in a scrap over seat
ing of delegates and “took a
walk” with his Bull Moose party.
f
The politicians who figure Chic
ago is the luckiest convention
city in the land add the Bull
Moose convention nomination of
Teddy, too, because although he
didn’t win the election, he did
give William Howard a licking
at the polls.
WHERE’S CACTUS JACK?
Keep working to uncover that
convention mystery: Why “Cac
tus Jack-’ Garner did a fadeout
during the early part of the con
vention and for days coudn’t be
reached by telephone or personal j
appeal. Even close friends could-1
n't find out where he was. May-:
be it's a new political technique
but it sure was applied with a i
vengeance. If the “Cactus Coo
lidge” as Heywod Broun once1
dubbed him had been week-end-1
ing in Uuvalde, he couldn't have J
been any more scarce around1
Chicago. It had his backers bit-'
ing their nails and using the kind
of language that would have
shocked the Texas rangers.
Add to the most utterly ridic
uous of all political sappery. that
business of spotting state dele
gation votes into halves quarters!
sixteenths and on. What kind of
a vote is a forty-eighth of a vote
anyway? Maybe it's all for a laff
because you can get plenty of
'em anytime you want watching
convention kibitzers trying to
keep scorecards on that kind of i
balloting. Eleven and three-six
teenths vote for Farley, two and
one-forty-eighths votes for Gar
ner, three and seven-thirty-sec
onds votes for McNutt and so
on. You add, I’U just groan.
OUT VOTED HIS BOSS
Funniest fillip that came out
I
! of the split-vote business, thougl
concerned Edward Higgins, seen
tary to Senator Theodore F
Green, of Rhode Island. The Ser
ator was delegate-at-large but h<
only had half a vote while hi<
employee elected delegate frorr
the Panama Canal Zone coulc
j stand right up and say “one
(vote” every time the Senator pul
I in his half-penny’s worth.
Habit lay heavily on House
Speaker William B. Bankhead tc
day and thew him into confusion
When he walked into his big
press conference, he seemed losl
looked helplessly around and
said: “Who’s in charge here? I
can't be, I haven’t any gavel.’’
I can’t find “One-Eved’’ Con
nolly but if he gets into this con
vention without a ticket, he de
serves the gate-crashers’ Pulitzer
It takes a blitzkreig of five Magi
not lines of gatekeepers and some
times the storming of a whole
rear-guard of sergeants-at-arms
to get a seat.
Just to give you a hint of what
women’s suffrage has done to
ward dressing up political con
ventions, make a note that Helen
Gahagen, actress and wife of
Actor Melvyn Douglas, is nation
al committeewoman from Calif
ornia, ah.
NFW ALASKAN BILLS
GIVEN TO SENATORS
WASHINGTON, July 29 —The
House has passed and sent to the
Senate a bill to restore to the
Post Office Department author
ity to approve of transportation
of mail in Alaska by air.
The Civil Aeronautics Author
ity Act repealed this authority
two years ago.
The Hou>3e also sent to the
Senate a bill to authorize Sitka
to improve its electric and wa
ter plants and issue $200,000 in
bonds above the statutory limit
set for that purpose.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
That unique and humorous
md typical Alaskan stationery—
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heads and Envelopes’’, have beei
Drought -trictly uptodate. and are
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NEW NOTE IN 01 L—Spheroid tanks have appeared In Galveston where Republic Oil has
begun a $1,500,000 expansion program that includes 10 tanks with capacity of 230,000 barrels.
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THAT WAR INFLUENC E—A target representing a parachute-soldier, Europe’s 1940 contri
bution to the science of war, replaced the bulls-eye when New York state prison guards attended their
training school. Inspecting ’chutist at Albany are John A. Lyons (left), state correction commissioner,
and Earl R. Miller, director of correction department personnel.
Severe Penalties For Fn
warranted Tax Additions
The Bureau of Internal Rev
enue has had its attention called
to the fact that in certain instanc
es dealers in articles subject to
the internal revenue taxes have
raised the prices of these pro
ducts to consumers in amounts
! considerably in excess of the de
fense taxes imposed by the Re
venue Act of 1940. The Bureau
has received reports that a num
ber of such dealers have repre
sented to their customers that
' such increases in prices are due
solely to the imposition of the
defense taxes.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue issued a warning that
under section 3325 of the Inter
nal Revenue Code, whoever in
connection with the sale or lease,
or offer for sale or lease, of any
article, or for the purpose of mak
ing such sale or lease, makes any
statement, written or oral, intend
ed or calculated to lead any per
son to believe that any part of
the price at which such article is
sold or leased, or offered for sale
or lease, consists of a tax impos
ed under the authority of the
United States, or ascribing a part
icular part of such price to a
tax imposed under the authority
of the United States, knowing
that such statement is false or
that the tax is not so great as the
portion of such price ascribed to
such tax, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon convic
tion thereof shall be punished
by a fine of not more than $1000
or by imprisonment not exceed
ing one year, or both.
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JAPAN SETS HER POLICY
TOKYO, July 29 — Japan’s
new Pi'emier, Prince Fuminaro
Konoye, and his key Cabinet Min
isters are in complete agreement
with the plans and objective of
the Japanese Imperial Army
headquarters.
.All day last Sunday a series of
important conferences dealing
with international and domestic;
policies were held. Rumors per
sist that Japan is planning to
take definite steps of expansion
in the direction of the European '
mandated colonies in the South
Pacific.
OIL EMBARGO TO BE
EFFECTIVE AT MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT, JULY 31ST
SAN FRANCISCO — Califor
nia port authorities are taking
steps for the enforcement of the
embargo on high grade fuel and
scrap iron which goes into ef
fect tonight at midnight.
San Francisco Customs Collec
tor Paul Leake is authorized by
Secretary of State Hull to allow
export of petroleum, iron and'
steel scrap without export licensj
es provided the materials arej
loaded aboard outbound vessels
before midnight July 31.
A number of vessels are load
ing furiously to get out of coast
ports before the deadline.
S. O. TO LOSE HEAVILY
SAN FRANCISCO — The new
ly named President of the Stand
jard Oil Company of California,
H. D. Collier predicts his com
pany alone will lose $50,000,000 a
year under the United States oil
embargo against Japan.
Collier returned from Tokyo
on board the Japanese motorship
Kamakura Maru.
Said the new Standard Oil
head: “If the United States
stops selling oil to Japan, the
Japanese will get all they want
anyway.”
IRON LUNG FRED SNITE
CELEBRATES 30th BIRTHDAY
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CHICAGO, July 29—Frederick
Snite Jr. celebrated his 30th
birthday as usual — in the iron
i lung. Snite was placed in the
mechanical breather shortly af
ter he was stricken with infantile
paralysis March 21, 1936 while
; touring the Orient.
His condition has improved to
1 the point where he can now ex
ercise daily in a portable breath
ing device and take short walks.
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