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i i. i i. i 7 mmj i TV. I i' 3 -f Ait -fcss i fa I) i Stokes Soys: Side Glances Pearson Says: He Has, However, iCome a Long Way Eisenhower Is Hopping Mad At Majority Leader Knowland New England's Sky-High Electric Power Rate Ca uses Steady Movement of Industries to Dixie Having Won the Congress, He Might Win the People to Flexible Supports instead of 75 to 90 per cent. Also the victory was by a very slim margin.

Hut the principle now is established-and that is a gain not expected a few months hick and not expected chiefly because of the approaching elections. It seemed certain at least to most politicians that, because of possible adverse political reaction, congress would just extend the rigid principle for another year. Great credit for the victory must go to thope in congress who bucked the farm-bloc leaders in both parties. The rebel were inspired and encouraged in a seemingly uphill battle by tiie determined backing of the Secretary and the President. With Aiken This reporter is carried back rvcral months to an interview hp had Scn' George D.

Aiken chairman of the Rc ft- it Off, By DREW PEARSON On the W5hiniton Me WASHINGTON ident Eienshower, who makes it a practice not to lose his temper in public but doesn't hesitate to boil over privately, is hopping mad at his senate majority leader. For weeks he has been irked at the way Senator Knowland has been sounding off on foreign policy, if he, not John Foster Dulles, were Secretary of State. Finally, he as much as told Knowland this to his face. At a White House meeting Ike told the California senator to stop denouncing the Indochina settlement as if another Munich. At Munich, Eisenhower said, something was given away to the other side.

In Indochina we didn't give away a single thing that the Communists hadn't already won on the battlefield. Since then, Knowland has not particularly soft-pedaled his criticism of the Indochina settlement, and, as a result, it looks as if the President might have a new majority leader at the next session of congress. For some time, of coursp, Vice President Nixon, who is the nat-U'al California rival of Senator Knowland, has been hoping that Knowland would eventually cut his own throat. Nixon at one time leaned toward Senator Dirk-sen of Illinois to be majority leader. But now it's reported that Ike might take Senator Ferguson of Michigan to replace Knowland, if Ferguson wins by a wide enough margin in Michigan in November.

Why Industry Moves South Traveling up the Connecticut river through western New England a few weeks ago, the big complaint I heard from businessmen was that industry was moving South. The hat industry was. leaving Norwalk, for Dixie; the textile industry had left for Alabama and Mississippi; chimneys were smokeless, factory walls looked glum and foreboding, indicative of the gradual change in the face of the onetime industrial heart of America. It's the biggest change since free land was opened up in the West. While this change is being Othman Says; "We want a gift for our mother, but we don't want her to think we're poor, to it has to be real nice!" Pegler Says: Nellie Revell Was A Denver 'Graduate As Was Capable Margaret Mason, Who Later Became Mrs.

Roy Howard By THOMAS STOKES WASHINGTON Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's personal triumph in winning flexible, instead of rigid, price supports from congress recalls the. Biblical saying about the stone which the builders rejected now becoming the head of the corner. For if anyone ever was In the dnghouse politically, and reject- Secretiry Benson Don't underrtte him ti by a goodly portion of his ewn Republican family that was Secretary Benson not so many months ago. Demands for his resignation were pouring into the White House, some from Republican National committeemen in farm mates who thought liia rejection of rigid, 90-per cent-of-parity supports for basic crops was suicidal politically. Yet here he is today, still with tisand, in fact, just about the headstone of the corner.

Whatever is the effect politically, in the coming congres.sional elections, of a shift to a flexible program and it could be bad for his party the solemn and earnest gentleman from Utah emerges with a solid reputation a man of principle who is willing to fight for it. It Might Pay Off Our people like that sort and it might pay off politically, Adherence to principle has paid off before. The Secretary refused to bend before such a political storm as has driven others in previous administrations out of office. The President backed him up and let that be known. Now the Secretary has been backed up by congress.

He has been his own best advocate and the best advocate of the agricultural policy espoused by the administration. Not content to hide away in his offica here and try to ride out the political storm when it broke months ago, he took to the atump himself and argued his rase in speech after speech. Slowly the tide began to turn his way, as was demonstrated finally for all to see in the votes in house and senate establishing the flexible-price-support principle. He got a compromise a range 'ef 82'a to 90 per cent of panty '4. i tt (0 o'i aJ "J- i mourned in New England, a de-hate has been taking place in Washington wbich reaches to the bottom of one cause for the Southward trek of New England factories the fact that New-England has the highest electric power rate in the U.

S. The debate is over the control of the industrial power of the future. And it will affect Senator Knowland He's in the soup your part of the U. as well as New England. Senator Sparkman of Alabama, whose state has attracted New England factories because of the cheap electric power of the Tennessee Valley, was telling the senate how the power intersts had scrapped flood control on the Merrimack river back in 1938 and that this was why New England power rates were so expensive.

Up jumped new Senator Robert Upton of New Hampshire, the likable gentleman whom the governor of New Hampshire appointed to replace the late Senator Tobey. Power Lobbyist Senator "I was one of the commissioners who drew up the interstate flood control compact in 1936," he said. "It failed because we looked to Washington for ratification, but the advocates of public power in Washington prevented ratification." What the likeable senator from New Hampshire failed to point out, however, was that he has lished for her at the Corn Exchange bank branch, in their neighborhood. This bank account, as explained to the Senate Banking committee by the ex-Mrs. Woodner, didn't amount to much.

She seldom had a balance of more than $200. "I'd use up all the money Mr. Woodner gave me," this handsome housewife said, "and then I'd tell him it was all gone and he'd give me some more." Little Did She Know Little did she know, In the spring of 1949, that her husband had deposited to her account five checks totaling $36,000. She was amazed when the senators showed her the checks. She'd never seen them before.

Her husband kept asking her to sign documents, she said, and this she did without reading the print, fine or otherwise. Once he took her downtown to an office, where she signed something or other, which turned out to be a stock brokerage account. Not until later did she discover that for a while she was the proprietor of assorted oil, gas, steel and motor stocks, plus $13,000 worth of U. S. Government bonds.

"Did you know that you owned these bonds?" inquired Sen. Capehart committee chairman. "I wish I had," she sighed. A Weil-Heeled Sponsor The senator said she'd been made prosperous without ever knowing it so that she could be listed as one of the well-heeled sponsors of such edifices as the $10,000,000 Woodner apartments in Washington. This is the building that was sliced in two and divided by a 1-inch wall of putty fkA Lahd so ou leading citizens FORM MY COMMITTEE TO PROMOTE on Woodner's Wfe Was a Wonder; She Never Asked a Question, No Matter What 0 By Goibrolth journalism at that time but got little recognition for a combination or reasons.

First her husband, Roy, was a good writer, himself, and a bouncy little guy with enormous get-a round. Many of those who knew that Margaret Mason wa3 his wife suspected that Roy did Peg's stuff, which was not so at all. The girl had talent and she used to lead off her weekly fashion piece with a nip of verse in the Orantland Ric format which Roy hardly could have done if only because he was a hurrier with no time to pet and purr over words to make them rhyme and fit and perk. We had hundreds of poetasters then, none better than Jimmy Montague. Another reason why Peg got little credit was that the UP got hardly any play in the big cities and a third was that she lived off to one side of the newspaper business as wife of a big shot and had almost nothing to say of her own work.

You would never hear it from her to this day. Ha Got It on a Loan They celebrated their 45th anniversary in France a few months ago and I recall an earlier one, maybe No. 25, when they showed a picture of Roy wearing an actor's coat with a fur collar, taken about the time they became as one. He got in on a loan from a telegraph operator. Roy got $37.50 a week as general manager and, I believe, president of the UP at that time, and one day he invited Peg, whom Nellie recalls as Maggie in the Denver days, to lunch at Mouquin's on Sixth avenue, an old world restaurant with marble top tables in one of the big rooms.

Margaret was working in a musical comedy and she had to get back for a matinee but Mr. Howard, a leering city fellow, plied her with a devil's broth called champagne wine and she was, as the word went then, a little tipsy in the seaside number where the girls upended little buckets and stood upon them, gaily twirling frilly parasols. Need it be spelled out that Margaret Rohe lost her balsnce and fell off her tub that afternoon and that her mortification melted into matrimony soon after? Not a Trace Nostalgic Alice Rohe became the UP's correspondent in Rome and served well and faithfully in that barbaric outpost for a long time. They came out of Kansas and are frankly not a trace nostalgic for the scenes of their childhood. Margaret was in London with Roy when he got his historic war-to-a-knockout interview with Lloyd George.

This was a propaganda plant arranged for ulterior motives by Lord North-cliffe but a "first" in journalism nevertheless, for no prime minister or President had ever chosen an individual correspondent of a single agency before to proclaim a decision of such importance to the world. We all took a hand at "writing" that piece in the grimy old office in Temple Chambers, but this is not to say that Roy needed a ghost. It was just that we all felt some pride in the outfits and the little guy and were flattered to be invited to offer a comma. The Portent Was Bad As to mankind, the portent was bad, for if those pretentious fools Lloyd George, Clem-enccau and Wilhelm had had the sense to compromise, a good deal of Western civilization might have been saved which ha3 never been more than hearsay to most of those to whom these presents may come. Nellie Revell Is fighting it out at thfc Flanders on West 47th street.

The girl has her feelings but things are rugged at 81. the worse if you are lame and blind, and if she should reject price of a fight ticket or a round of drinks I will guarantee the return postage. If you want to quit drinking permanently, jut stay sober until you get completely out of debt Kilgqiien Says: M7on Bere Is Shopping For Home The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN NEW YORK-Miss Midnight's Notebook: Tip to eager beaver real estate agents: Milton Berla has been shopping for a horn in Fairlawn, N. among other non-urban places Dean Mar tin and Jerry Lewis have a long-range plan: They expect to do three fast movies in the next seven months, then devote themselves to the task of starring in a Broadway musical extravaganza for a whole year. Marlene Dietrich told London chums that she decided to play the night clubs at this stage in i ti VH Janis Paige Resumes a xomanca her career because she wanted to leave as much money as possible to her grandchildren, whom she adores.

Janis Paige and John Hodiak have resumed their romance, as any jazz fan at the Hickory House (one of their favorite hideouts) can plainly see. Reports to the contrary, Rocky Graziano won't appear in a Broadway show next season. Instead MCA is teaming him with TV actress Dodie Bauer for a 10-minute stint on the Garroway show Chums say Liberace is grumbling because he wants to do more singing and dancing on his television programs, but his string-pullers insist he keep Tlucking away at the keys. They think his current formula made him what he is today, and they want to keep him in that groove. Roy Cohn and his attractive girl companion were almost hit by a fast-moving cab at the corner of 5th ave.

and "9th st. the other evening Gregory Peck has replaced Danny Kaye as tha show biz personality Princess Margaret Digs The Most. Exotic sigf in a Lexington ave. shoe repair shop: "Toes RemovedAny Style" To date, I 1 Gregory Joni J. Jonl James has handed out 20.000 roses to promote her record of "In a Garden of Rases." And as if the florist weren't at her feet already, she intends to distribute another 50,000 before she's through.

The publishing firms are scrambling over rights to tha biography of "Charlotte" Mc-Leod, penned by a Washington newsman. The big fascination lies in the fact that the tale attempts to trace the psychological reasons for wanting to change sexes and follows through with the details, Paul Pfeffer, jailed for a murder another man later confessed committing, has been bombarded by book and magazine publishing companies 15 of them for exclusive stories on his case. Don't think Wally Cox is wasting his time between performances of "The Vegetable" on tha Summer stock circuit. He has finished a poem (about an unwanted rose bush), is giving lectures on botany, and is halfway through the writing of his first play, a comedy. Babs Gonzales, the cat who claims to have discovered bop when Dizzy Gillespie was playing with marbles, is in New York after a long stay in Sweden, His ambition is to earn "enough bread" to go back to Scandinavia and open a musie emporium patterned after Bird-land.

The new photographer at the Stork club Ruth Dalby is so beautiful Sherman Billingsky hau had to ix lectures to the staff, all on the same subject: Stop flirting with her New way of smuggling dope into this country was unjjinsu-d in South America. They ew it Inside sides of beef. The Atlantic Beach cabanas are the New York bookmakers' summer headquarters The asking price for the film rights to "Pa jama Game" Is over a million dollars The Marlon Brando hit. "Waterfront" will have a long line of lawyers queuing up. as well as customers.

At least 12 are in the process of filing suit against producer Sam Spiegel lor one reason or Pi IJ lev 0 long represented the power companies of New England. At the time he was negotiating for flood control after the disastrous $50,000,000 flood had swept New England in 1936, Upton was the registered lobbyist for New Hampshire Gas and Electric, Alton Electric Light and Power, Meredith Electric, Pemigewassett Electric, and Goodrich Falls Electric. He also has served as attorney for the Derry Electric company and the Lamprey company, subsidiaries of the famous-Howard C. Hop-son interests; also for the White Mountain Power co. What Upton also failed to state was that the reason why New England has the highest electric power rates in the nation and one reason, in addition to labor costs, that factories are moving South is because Upton helped insert an extremely important provision in the 1936 flood control compact, favoring the private utilities.

It provided that each of the New England states reserved the right "at its option, at any time hereafter, by itself" to develop the water power to be stored up by the federal flood control project. This, of course, was why Washington never ratified the flood control project which would have given New England cheap power rates and would have helped save industry from moving below the Mason-Dixon line. For this clause was in violation of the Federal Power Act of 1920 whereby the federal government, not the individual states, confc-ols water power sites. Southern states accepted federal control of TVA. New England vetoed federal control of the Merrimack river project.

In fact a registered lobbyist for the power companies, Mr. Upton was on the commission that knocked out the Merrimack federal flood agreement; and that same lobbyist, now Senator Upton, voted to give control of the atomic power of the next generation largely to private firms rather than the federal government. This complicated but basic question is partly what the current debate on atomic energy is all about. It will affect the future industrial power of the nation far more than the public realizes, and for years to come. so it could qualify as two structures with maximum government mortgages of $5,000,000 each.

The one-time Mrs. Woodner didn't know that. She said she didn't believe she knew what a sponsor was. In the autumn of 1949 she left Woodner. In 1950, for reasons the senators didn't learn, she divorced him.

Later she married Sidney R. Jackson, a television executive, and moved to Fairfield, Conn. The senators called in Woodner's red-haired sister, Beverly, who also had for a while a thumping big bank account. She didn't know why. Came Woodner's brother, Max, who briefly seemed to have been worth He also didn't know why.

"Were you just a dummy?" demanded Sen. Capehart. He Just Signed Max said he certainly was not a dummy. He said he was a smart fellow when it came to practical building, but maybe the senator could call him a dummy at paper work. He just signed what his brother told him to sign.

More than $200,000 appeared In various bank accounts of Woodner's various relatives at various times, to back up claims of financial responsibility with the Federal Housing Administration. The senators couldn't discover exactly what happened to it all. And of course, wish the ex-Mrs. Woodner every happiness with her new husband. I also congratulate him.

He's got a wife in a million. Should he ever have an unsuccessful session at poker, she'll never know. She won't even ask. By Jimmy Hatlo IbS (l NOllU That Senate Agriculture committee. That was before Aiken had even started public hcarlnx on farm legislation.

A champion of flexible supports, the senator expressed complete confidence then that the flexible program would win out in the end which this reporter duly reported, but with complete skepticism. The Vermont senator was himself a rebel in the farm family in congress. He based his confidence of ultimate victory on the belief that our people, including farmers, would come around to favor abandonment of the high, rigid-price-iupport principle if they got the complete story. Aiken adopted strategy toward this end, about which he was very frank. This was for full exploration of the it'sue in detailed public hearings before his committee as a means of provoking a public debate Rll over the country, and to hold up action in congress until farmers, as well as the public, had time to consider the question.

Even at that time, he said, he was receiving letters from responsible and influential farmers rallying to tha support of a flexible program. A Prophecy Borne Out His diagnosis was borm out gradually as farm and public reaction came into congress, even though the agriculture committees, his own as well as that of the house, went on record for 90 per cent rigid supports. Now, after the fact, an inquiry among politically astute members as to what was responsible for the apparent change in sentiment in congress brought the answer generally that it was the reaction from farmers and the public that Senator Alkcn had forecast months ago. In the course of this Inquiry it was discovered that no issue in a long time has elicited so many attempted deals for votes. The Democratic leadership brought heavy pressure upon its rank and file to back rigid, 90 per cent supports, while the Republican leadership did the same in behalf of a flexible formula.

Only the November election will tell whether Secretary Benson will be vindicated politically, and only time will tell whether the flexible program will give the farmers enough prosperity to keep the whole economy in balance. The change is frankly experimental in nature. But, for the time being at least, the Secretary can find satisfaction in the vote of confidence by congress. best I can, with what I have, where I am, for Jesus sake today." There are some broken things which can be mended. Broken faith and broken character can be made over by the Lord.

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (I John 1:9) Remember that the heart of Jesus was broken for you, that he might become our Saviour. Dennis the Menace "These are the Parker kids, Mom. By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN WASHINGTON As an old adviser to the lovelorn, I do believe Ian Woodner made a serious mistake in letting his wife, Ruth, get away from him. Now there's a girl with charms.

It goes without saying that she's beautiful (and blonde to boot). Her figure is neat and her voice is soft and low. But these items are minor. The im- Ruth Ian She asked on questions portant thing is that she asks no questions. An ideal wife, you'd think, for a building promoter.

So there was the handsome Woodner back in 1919 in a razzle-dazzle of 30-odd corporations, building $40,000,000 worth of deluxe apartment houses with a minimum of cash, Most of the money he got from federal mortgages. She Paid the Bills There, also, in New York was his lovely helpmate paying the household bills from a checking account that her husband estab i Religion in Life The Broken Things of Life Con Be Mode to Minister By WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK Nellie Revell, 81. blind in one eye and dim in the other end paralyzed a good deal of the time since the first World War. is another of those journalistic GARs of the gallus days in Denver of whom I have maintained sporadic reminiscence in loose collusion with Charley Porter, now of Chicago, and Hamish McLaurin, now of Los Angeles, both colleagues in that day of Damon Runyon. It is a remarkable fact, unexplained to me, that Denver journalism produced more quaintness and ability per capita than that of any other city of which I have knowledge.

Eugene Field was there before Runyon and I have heard that Mark Twain put in a hitch about the time of his Virginia City phase. Omaha, Des Moines and St. Louis produced competent but colorless journeymen who were, on the whole, just husbands with rarely any ambition beyond th post of secretary to the mayor or the Chamber of Commerce. I Met Her in 1915 Nellie Revell, at her age and In her beat-up condition, is still "trying to get a job," insisting: that "I know I can do something" wherein she reveals ths spirit of that harum scarum cult. She did not remember me but I had met her In Denver in 1915 when she was a supervising press-agent for a big vaudeville chain and occasionally with the circus.

I next met her at her bedside In St. Vincent's hospital In New York about 1919 when she was hopeless w-ith some spinal trouble. A small, prrtty woman was let in as we talked and I was presented to Fritzi Scheff who, on leaving, shoved a check, under Nellie's pillow. When Fritzi had gone, Nellie asked me to put it in a dresser drawer where there were, I should say, at least half a dozen other checks from actors. Calling the roll of the Denver Post when the incorrigible Tam-men and Bonfils, the most gorgeous rogues unhung, were stridently defending civic virtue against formless foes, Nellie mentioned Margaret and Alice Rohe and said, "Margaret maried a man named Howard who had something to do with Scripps-Howard." Yes, that must be Margaret Mason, the fashion writer of the o(d United Press Red Letter, a weekly mail feature service which came gratis as a supplement to the wire report when the UP was fighting for $2.50 clipnts all over the country.

Margaret Mason was one of the cleverest writer in our By Hank Kekharn Their bathtub isn't working." They'll Do It Every Time rrrvrv will 'VZ By JAMES M. GREGG Pastor Lockeland Baptist Church, Nashville "Then took Mary a pound of eniment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus." John 12:3. The breaking of the albaster box of ointment or perfume was an act of gratitude on the part of Mary-Jesus said it should be a memorial unto her. Among other things this Verse teaches us that we must take the broken things of life and make them minister. We must make the right use of our Gregg broken time.

Time is so often broken and wasted. Franklin said, "Time is the stuff life is made of, so do not squander it." Why not carry a copy of the Bible or a portion of it with you and spend your spare or broken time reading it. Busy folk are those who always accomplish most. Then we are to make the best use of broken health. Many of earth's great have been those who were greatly handicapped.

John Calvin, Elizabeth Brown ing, Robert Louis Stevenson, Helen Keller, and Fannie J. Crosby were among those who were greatly limited by their health or physical handicap, yet they made their contribution to society and to the world. They made their broken health minister to the glory of God. Then, one can serve the Lord and mankind in spite of the fact of broken education. Many re fuse to take places of responsibilities in our churches often because they think they do not have enough formal education.

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