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PAGE 4 HE RMINELANDER (WIS.) DAILY NEWS FEBRUARY 1038 THE RHINELANDER NEWS Published every evening except Sunday by THE RHINELANDER PUBLISHING COMPANY Rhinelander, Wisconsin. CLIFFORD G. FERRIS, Editor and Manager Entered as second-class mail matter in the postoffice at Rhinelander, Wis. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. MEMBER OF THE WISCONSIN PAIL? NEWSPAPER LEAGUE WEDNESDAY, FEB.

9, 1938 JUDGE REID RETIRES. I politics to the boiling point. It is The news that Judge A. H. Reid accompanied by a reorganization of is retiring occasions no great sur- the government that has among nt-isc althouch the fudge's friends otller things brought von Ribben- prisc, annougn tne judges iricnas iQ lhe foreign on cei suc of For Love of Polly By RACHEL MACK Copyright, 1938, NEA Service, Inc.

ports that his was improving. Some months ago secret cabinet council ith von Neurath as chalrman and changes it was held to be unlikely that he jn thfi government ambassadorial would return to active duty. There will be widespread regret Tokjo that it, has become necessary for i establishments in Rome, Vienna and the judge to terminate his long and honorable judicial career. He enjoyed the respect and the confidence of all who came into contact with his court. He exemplified the highest ideals of justice.

More than one The occasion, but hardly the cause, of these far-reaching changes was the wedding of General Blomberg, minister of war. The Fuehrer himself and General Goering, witnesses to the ceremony, were ap- young attorney was helped over the parently uninformed as to the back' ground of the bride and unaware of the repercussions in the reichs- wehr the wedding would cause. But such sweeping changes would rough spots in the early stages of his career by the considerate and kindly judge, interested alike in seeing that the attorney be given a right start and that his client be not penalized for the inexperience of the lawyer. To many it was a disappointment that Judge Reid did not have an opportunity to conclude his judicial career as a member of the state's supreme court. There were several occasions in the last decade in hardly follow on such small cause "Hush.

CAST OF CHARACTERS POLLY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded in London when war breaks out. JERRY WHITFIELD, hero; the Yankee who sees her through. CABELL BANKS, privateer captain. Yesterday: Jerry and Polly have dinner together in the inn on the eve of their departure across the Channel. CHAPTER Polly and Jerry they watched the of the guard at Buckingham Palace.

They stood with shoulders touching while they leaned on the timbers of London Bridge, gazing down into the Thames. They looked into each other's eyes as they fed the pigeons before St. Paul's Cathedral. Yet they talked of everything but love. "London takes my breath away," Polly said as they neared the inn at day's end.

"I'm right proud my mother's people were Londoners." Jerry nodded. "England's a wonder, all over. I'm proud of having English blood myself. But England's too arrogant. America will have to lick her again." unless they were already in the making.

Plans for strengthening the hold of the government on the army, and the further integration of the Nazi regime, had, it is reasonable to heard Jerry! You'll be over- Who's that woman waving to vou?" "Where, Polly?" "Across the street Look! In the blue bonnet. She's just gotten out of a hackney coach." which an appointment might have postponed the session of the reich- been tendered him. but he was stag set for January 30 because of passed by. It was the feeling that suppose, long been under consider- doubt if she waving to me Jerry said, puzzled. She was a pretty thing, becomingly dressed and having a gay air.

Jerry lifted his hat and bowed while his tanned face ation. Chancellor Hitler, it is now clear, his health was failing and that his tenure on the supreme court would be limited. There may have been justification for the assumption of that position. At any rate, Judge absorption in the task of reorganization. The date now set for it, February 20, will, it is expected, be the occasion of an address illuminating as to his purposes.

With none more active in confer- Reid was never heard to criticize i ence of the government heads than the judgment of those having the London, the European capitals are appointive power. again in a ferment. Not only does But even had Judge Reid been the new orientation of the German elevated to the higher court, he government raise the question could not have gained a higher I whether it will undertake new dis- place in the esteem and affection of Quieting adventures, but the situa- those who know him. tlon in the Mediterranean has again It is sincerely to be hoped that come to a crisis Two British mer "i the judge will regain his strength chant steamers have, within a few and vigor and that he may soon re-' da been sunk by acts of piracy. new the friendly, neighborly con- There ls apprehension that the re' tacts which, on and off the bench, organization of the German gov- turned crimson.

"She mistakes me for somebody else, I reckon." thought her dress was right gaudy for the street. Maybe she's gone in to buy something more suitable." Jerry whirled about and seized Polly's hands. He drew her near to him, so that their faces were close. "You're a jealous little cat, Polly Chelsey. You're nobody's angel.

You'd be hard to "Yes," Jerry," she said tenderly, meltingly. "I reckon that's so Oh, Jerry, don't you see how it is? I've never taken a sweetheart before. I seem to want all of even the past that happened before you'd ever heard of me. I reckon this is being in love. It was feeling like this, I guess, that made my mother go to America in Trepid Chelsey's ship and marry him." Her arms crept around Jerry's neck and she was answering his kiss.

After a moment they drew apart and Jerry said, confused and shaken, "We're talking of love again, and I said I'd not till I got you home to your father! How has this happened?" "Because we quarreled," Polly answered simply. They resumed their New England reserve then, PS they might have put on topcoats in a storm. But it was not the same. Beneath the reserve there throbbed the intimacy of the emotion they had shared. "Tell me what o'clock we're to start in the morning," Polly said, "so I'll not keep the coach waiting." "I'll knock on your door soon after daylight.

You must get up at once and dress and pack your clothes. Then we'll have breakfast and wait in the courtyard for the Dover coach. I've spoken for two Why So BaHy? A New York state farmer engaged the services of a wanderer who one night applied to him for a night's lodging and something to eat. All went satisfactorily for a week or so then the farmer routed out the newly hired man about 3:30 one morning. "What's up, boss?" queried the hobo, drowsily rubbing his eyes.

"Time to get up and go to work." "What's the big idea?" "We're goin' to reap." "Reap what?" "Oats." "Are they wild oats?" "Wild oats, of course not. Why?" "Well, if they ain't wild oats, why you to sneak up on 'em in the dark?" Excellent Reason. Viscount Leverhulme told the American Chamber of Commerce the story of a British worker whoi baffled scientific management experts. At a factory they visited, all the workmen pushed their wheelbarrows but one. He pulled his.

After much conjecture the experts asked the man why. "Well, guv'nor," the man replied, "Hi ates the sight of the bloomin' Press dispatch from London. seats Take your money now, Polly. It'll be best for you to carry it. Can you hide it about your person?" The young woman gave him a I Yes I've a doeskin bag for that warm intimate smile and went into purpose.

Will there be any trouble a shop. "She thinks she knows you ab the dog in the coach, Jerry? very well," Polly "said, piqued. "Jerry, I believe she does know you! Why are you being so innocent about it?" "If I knew her," Jerry replied brusquely, "I'd say so. I've got no taste for mysteries." endeared him to those who have occasion to know and admire him. DUFFY ENDORSED.

While Sen. Duffy did not make the formal announcement of his candidacy for re-election, he made it plain Saturday that he intends to make that in the very near future. Announcements or no, endorsements and testimonials given him by the administration are ernment may mean increased Italo- German intervention in the Spanish war. The renewal of Mediterranean piracy gives rise to fear that General Franco will be aided by his totalitarian allies with more men and additional supplies and airplanes. The situation would be even more oppressive were it not for the fact that 'similar crises-- -with' equally ominous implications, the- past two years have yielded to treatment.

An' sufficiently conclusive that it is underlying condition making for plain senator will have un- eace is the inability of the aggres- divided support. The finality with which President Roosevelt, Jim Farley, Leo Crowley sor nations to go to war with any 'certainty of success. There may still, also, be hope that the reorganiza- and other administration big-wigs tion of th German government will endorsed Duffy suggests that, inso-! be shown not to have ominous bear- far as the senatorial campaign is in on European politics. It is true, concerned, at least, the administra- that it has'freed the Nazi tion is, for the present, sticking to regime of all brakes. Until its sig- organization tactics.

It has not, in nificance is fully revealed there will several notable instances, played be a period of heightened strain, ball with the state organization. It has, as a matter of fact, given many eviderices of inclination to disregard 11 the organization entirely and to put 11 its Wisconsin eggs into the Progressive basket. ONE OF THE CHOSEN. Conflicting conclusions may be (Marshfield News-Herald.) drawn, with respect to the endorse- i President Roosevelt's accolade of I State Press They both looked at the rather shabby public vehicle out of which the young woman had just stepped. The driver was a large man in a "I don't think so.

If there is, I can take him on top. I'll go down now and have a look at him before I turn in." "You're so kind, Jerry. How could I have been so cross to you? How could I have been so hateful?" "I know more about typhoons," Jerry said with a grin, "than about lovers' quarrels. And I believe it's easier to handle a ship than a woman. Good night, Polly." cabby's uniform.

Had they been I' He bent and kissed the palm of closer, they would have seen that he had a torn ear and a nose that had been several times broken and carelessly mended. "Well, Jerry," Polly argued, "you don't look like anybody else I've seen in London. I'd not confuse you with other men. No woman would. Of course that girl knows you! You've met her somewhere.

I reckon you've paid her compliments, or she wouldn't be speaking to you each of her hands, thinking of what some future night must bring in English Channel and the dark uncertainty of a smuggler's crossing. Could he bring her safely through it? These were his thoughts. "Good night, Jerry!" She thought only of how his dark It was an irritated that the adminis- tration feels sufficiently indebted to Duffy for his record of record marred only by his votes to override vetoes of veterans' legisla- tion and his straddling on the posal to reconstruct the supreme it can conceive of no other candidate, Democratic or Pro' gressive, as acceptable. The second is that there is an understanding approval was placed upon the can didacy for re-election of United States Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Fond du Lac.

The presidential blessing was bestowed in two ways last Saturday. First he wrote one of his "Dear Alben" letters only it was addressed to "Dear Leo" T. Crowley, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation. The letter, made public at the Duffy testimonial, dinner at Fond du Lac Saturday night, said "you know "So challenge. "So like she had some claim on She looked square at you! What's more, you bowed to her, Jerry Whitfield!" "Of course I did.

Just to be polite." "But you smiled at her!" ''I didn't!" "You did!" "Bah!" "Now you're being rude. You save your good manners for London ladies, and you shout at me because I'm just a Connecticut village girl." "For a little'bit," Jerry said hotly, "I'd turn you over my knee and whale you. Where and when would I meet any London girls like that?" "After the theater," Polly replied with unaccountable feminine shrewdness. "After they're through acting in the play. You told me you'd been to Drury Lane, time and again." "So I have." "And I suppose you'll try to tell me you didn't notice one girl from another!" "No, I won't," Jerry retorted an- I Hollywood By PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Correspondent.

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. generally, movie people have a lot of money, spacious estates and ranches, and an infinite capacity for honest affection honestly bestowed. These are reasons why so many of them have so many pets. I don't know a picture star without a dog, except Clark Gable, who lives in a hotel. Most of 'em have two or three, and an assortment of cats.

Charles Ruggles acquired so many dogs, mostly Scotties, that he finally established a kennel as a commercial venture and breaks better than even on it. Harold Lloyd and Edward Everett Horton, though, became involved with the fecund and voracious breed of St. Bernards, and each actor found himself buying approximately 15 tons of meat per year. Horton now is tapering off with a couple of sheep dogs, a few Scotties and a German shepherd. He hasn't even attempted a census of the cats around his place.

der way by putting up the money and being the first guest editor. In his article he said, "I always start these shows With that and his financial backing, he ended his participation in the venture. His wife, Venita Varden, really works at it. Reads proofs, edits and collects material. After three months the publication has a circulation of several thousand, including six subscribers in England, two in France and one In India.

She also attends dog shows and is a qualified judge. Each week she has a guest editor, and these have included Bob Burns, Lily Pons, Horton, Ruggles, Glenda Farrell, Frieda Inescourt, Stuart Erwin, Anita Louise, Jimmy Gleason and Je'anette MacDonald. Rent Out Their Horses. Several'players own horses which are in demand for screen work. Best known is Leo Garrillo's Sui Sun (West Wind), which earns his hay bill with frequent jobs at' $100 a week.

He works in "Girl of the Golden West." Practically all the western stars own their own mounts and receive extra checks for their services. Guinn (Big Boy) Williams often rents polo ponies to studios, and one of Spencer Tracy's horses worked in "Saratoga." George O'Brien has a couple of camera- trained horses that are in demand at $100 a week, and Allen Jones' mount in "The Firefly" was his own, rented for $25 a day. That one, named Smoky, behaved so intelligently that he may have a movie career. Most of the dogs you've seen in pictures, especially those which appeared incidentally, without any special acting to do, belong to actors and actresses. Directors have found that animals are easier to manage if they are the personal pets of the people with whom they appear.

There is not yet an Animal Division of the Screen Actors' Guild, so pampered pooches that don't need the money are still cutting a lot of professional dog'actors out of jobs. fairness to those same prosperous pups, it should be said that many of them work for nothing. The of Carole Lombard, Claud- atte Colbert and Madge Evans.have acted for the fun of it. Edith Fellows demanded a salary for her little mongrel, and got 50 cents a day. Prize to the Oakies.

But the ever there was a prize, instead of a go to the Jack Oakies. The sturdy Oakie himself acknowledges ownership of only one beast, a dachshund. But an inventory of his wife's menagerie reveals the following: 12 Afghan hounds (her specialty); 1 hair curled as his head bent over! cocker spaniel; 1 Bedlington terrier, her hands. (To Be Continued.) He's On His Way. A broker; who wanted to ket away from it all decided to take a vacation.

"Where are you going?" a friend asked. "Well," replied broker, "I'm going to get into my car, paste a picture of the New York Stock Exchange on the radiator and drive until somebody says 'what's A. Straley in Investment Dealers' Digest. s. 2 Sealyhams; 3 Cairn terriers; 2 bantam chickens; 6 rabbits; 200 pigeons.

The pigeons are not thoroughbreds. Mrs. Oakie (affectionately known to Mr. Oakie as his is just practicing on them and really will go in for bird culture when she buys pedigreed varieties. She knows so much about pets that she now is conducting a weekly Illustrated Animal News." Mrs.

Oakie thought of it, but the Golden Oakie got it un- Side Glances 'Oh, set again! I just love to voti?" New York By GEORGE ROSS NEW YORK, Feb. unabated popularity of Walt Disney's masterpiece, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," continues to jam the waiting line at the Music Hall in Radio City. They say, at the executives' entrance, that there is no danger of "Snow White's" moving away from the Music Hall for some time, though no film ever has remained there more than three weeks. In the public whimsicality, the dwarf, incidentally, playing in the pit band of a Broadway show has served as the stepping stone to fame for such maestri as Benny Goodman and Red Nichols, Tommy Dorsey, Rubinoff and Bunny Berrigan, among others. Man, the Egg.

Newest dido: The Bachelor's Cooking School-, conducted by Peggy Simpson, an attractive young lady from a current show who DOES know how to cook. Miss Simpson is concerned about man's helplessness in the and especially solicitous the male not 'con- Stuart Erwin's prize Scotty Crag I y. as replaced Mickey Mouse, Haven Blinker, has worked in pic-1 Har Marx, Donald Duck and tures, but not' for nothing. Lon Chaney, also rents his Dober- pinschers. with Sen.

Bob, has been Ran I a his home folks know it And friendly with the president, has no then the president came right out immediate senatorial aspirations and, return for Democratic support for a fourth gubernatorial with this paragraph: "By his loyalty, his unswerving devotion to what he thinks right. In the Nation's Capital By RODNEY DUTCHER The News Washington Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Feb. in the Department of Interior are even more preposterous than usual and it looks as if Secretary "Honest Harold" Ickes, in liquidating the office a ff of Undersecretary Charles has managed to liquidate his pet proposed Department of Conservation. iiw, j.

rvvyii lUlUiLUU Oil" grily. "I didn't meet any of them, I. Th a rather complicated and but there were at least three I used I involved story, but it loses none of Louis ormer cnief to clap for. And one night I sent interest keep the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service out of the "Department of Conservation" recommended in the President's organization plan and provided in the Byrnes bill. The lobby includes lumber interests.

But it also was obvious that certain Interior officials and ex-officials were secretly in the anti-Burlew fight, although others stayed clear, admittedly in fear of their jobs. them bouquets, all three of "em!" "Well, then, there you are!" cried Polly triumphantly, but not enjoying the triumph. "Did you put a card in, or a note?" "No, I didn't, but I wish I had. Just to give you something to carry on about!" term, is wiling that the Progressive an his liberal viewpoint on all the apposition to Duffy shall be nominal in character. The third is that there is, as between the La Follettes and the administration, a definite break over the senatorial campaign.

The assumption that Gov. La Follette has no desire to go to the i 1 is an assumption that appears to be widely in effect, that Phil has no senatorial ambitions at all. If he doesn't make it in '38, his next opportunity will not come until it for granted that h.e would not oppose his brother, Bob, in '42. It is difficult to believe that he will be that patient. Much, of course, may jreat problems confronting us, he is rendering a great public service." Mr.

Duffy was uncommitted on the presidential grab for the supreme court; one wonders what the president's attitude would have been had Mr. Duffy been forced into While this argument was in progress they had entered the tavern, passed through the public room and ascended the stairs. At her door Polly took out a large brass key from her pocket and inserted it in the lock. "Won't you come she asked tartly. "I'd like to hear somo more of your adventures.

They must be wonderful." She threw open the door, and Also, it involves the future of Ickes, with which an increasing number of New Dealers are concerned. The clean-out of West's office staff was about as conspicuous a slap in the face as a cabinet member could give a subordinate. It was one of the most astonishing incidents in the history of the New Deal and is commonly referred to with adjectives more stinging. Charlie West was Roosevelt's chief liaison man with Congress. He was undersecretary of the Interior, with nominal duties, in order to give him an office and salary with which to operate.

The arrangement appeared to be satisfactory to Ickes, who with the help of his assistant and administrative officer Ebert K. Burlew a vote and the vote was against the i Jerry followed her in. for the quar- grab His viewpoint probably rel was in that exhilarating state of seemed to have no trouble running would not have been as liberal, in fermentation when neither wished tne department. the president's opinion: he would to abandon it. He walked to the not be guilty, then, of -rendering window and looked down on the great public One wonders, street while she closed the door too, what would have beer, the i "Hasn't she come out of the shop President's attitude, were Ph-1 La vet?" Polly inquired, removing her 6 before a looking glafs.

"I hearty approval prer.v clearly that Phil be a candidate. happen in the way of political alignments before 1940, and there is the remote possibility that presidential opportunity may come to Phi! -f- in that that possibility is a shadowy one and one upor. which, it may be agreed, the gover- nor is not counting too heavily. If there is substance in this rea- soiling, and Phil wants to go to the senate, '38 appears to be his best bet. If he is of like mind, either he and the administration will to repudiate their relationship or iht administration will have the best shakes of d.g£.r.g a grave for Duffy almost The president's Duffy's favor the board Leader gesture prtser.ee -rday night Aiben Ker.v.ckv West Became Vocal.

But West began to think that he was the victim of Ickes-Burlew espionage and wiretapping and he became very vocal about it. He was no more bitter in his criticisms 'of Ickes and Burlew than many other does not expect a senator in of Ickes 1 under-officials have been, his first years to rank as a states- i but West didn't care who knew it. man. He is too busy becoming It appears he even started a little climated and thinking about his re- investigation of alleged wiretapping election. It takes many years to on his own.

make statesmen, and Mr. Duffy may Ickes has his story about that and staature if given West has his, but in the upshot i Ickes summoned West, bawled him ordered him was shortly Housing Administrator Nathan Whether he goes back to tho Straus had protested' at a staff sleuth for Ickes, was called by a Senate committee and testified mildly, to the astonishment of friends with whom he had talked not long before. The whole department had been at high tension; Ickes telephoned four times from Chicago to learn what Glavis had said. Among several widely circulated reports as to the Glavis testimony, the kindest was that his old friend Justice Brandeis had persuaded him that he should not attack Burlew. Said What He Thought.

Once in a while a diplomat says just what he thinks. In Geneva the other day at a League of Nations session, one statesman after another expressed hope that the' league would fulfill its original purpose to keep the world out of war. At last up rose Dr. V. K.

Wellington Koo, whose country, China, is not really at war, but is defending itself as best it can from a neighbor's intrusion. Dr. Koo said in effect that his League of Nations associates were talking nonsense and that the league had become "merely a platform for empty platitudes." Of course, the Chinese statesman, who has a keen mind well.trained in occidental schools and in -world statesmanship, knew the weakness of the league lay in the fact that if it did anything except talk. platitudes it probably would precipitate a world war rather than prevent one. The basic principle of the League of Nations demands that it be LEAGUE of Nations.

As now constituted it 'is but a League of Great Britain, France and Russia, while facing it is ano'ther league of Germany, Italy and Japan. While both talk platitudes, war is staved off, but if either begins to talk business war is pretty certain. Detroit News. Pluto, as an object of affection. In fact, "popey" has taken No.

1 ranking among Hollywood stars now appearing, either in the flesh or in celluloid, on Orchestra Avocations. After playing in the orchestra pit on the toand So the other day Miss Simpson was urged to give a one-day course at a model kitchen and demonstrate to the bachelor class how they could be equally at home on the range. There was one hitch, though. The pupils kept a more vigilant eye upon the pretty teacher than the frying pan. tently, a musician's respite is sacred unto him and he takes his leisure seriously.

And if you've wondered where he disappears, pr what he does, ask Don Voorhees, an old hand with the baton. Don ventures that' selecting parlays for the following afternoon at the face track' is the most popular' diversion with his men. Musicians are notoriously avid customers of tradesmen who ply the s.tage doors. Thus, a great deal of commercial traffic goes on in the musicians' quarters while you are in the lobby having a smoke, or finishing your scotch and soda. Music makers buy socks, ties, shirts, diamond stickpins, from these salesmen.

Since musicians are, in the main, a poor business lot and buy things on the installment plan, a good deal of activity in their dressing rooms is devoted to warding off' the collection men who want a payment or the article returned. Also, recent installment of those fcinball machines around town is the source of worry to musical comedy' and cabaret managers. Musicians are great addicts of this indoor diversion and often must be herded back to their stands, after over-staying their intermission. And, Sceneless, The Mercury troupe's production of "Julius Caesar," without benefit of scenery, has acted as a challenge to Broadway producers, who 'are now in' search of unique ideas 'to create talk and help put their 4 plays over. In Jed Harris' "Our Town," the first scene will disclose no scenery and' Frank "Craven, alone stage as the curtain rises, will walk around at will, survey the audience casually and then start off the show with -his first line, when and as ho pleases.

And, although Al Woods may change his mind later on, his play, "Censored," have policemen down the aisle, yanking the players off the stage, presumably into patrol wagons. is expected to dashing madly A Tightwad. Mrs, Shorty was discussing the latest fashions with a caller. "Did you say your husband was fond of those clinging gowns, Mary?" "Yes. He likes one to cling to me for about three Variation in table manners is a frequent cause of A.

A. Brill, psychoanalyst. PROSPECTS OF A LARGE CROP THIS YEAR up tne opportunity. With A'ltn tne White house behind him, lout unmercifully and doubtful if Dufly can be from his presence. This for the Democratic nomina-i after Housing Administi depends hat "hat rs- upon how strong meeting Ickes' assertion that he had continues to be for the a right to tap departmental tele- Deal.

Jn our opinion, the eco-j phone wires. omic situation existing next No- From then on it was understood rnuch influence on 'that West eventually would be step- to take one of presidential assistant jobs result of all congressional con-, ping out, probably Peculiarly enough, the ruling the six echoes of iu endorsement have faded away. pi- ty: party is credited with bringing pros- 3 perity or adversity to these United of o.d States and voters have no compunc- r. asked lion about "turning the rascals out" Congress was expected to create. The Fifbt on Burlew.

First Assistant Secretary Thco- HJTIEB HEADS ARMY Assumption of direct command the piUitary establishment by Co Hitler has, after some A hard times come. Mr. Duffy dore Walters died and Ickes got 5 i is now one of the chosen; he has Roosevelt to nominate Burlew to ds of ec eived the blessings of his party succeed him. Certain senatorial op- mefar leaders He must expect to stand I position to Burlew's confirmation "U.tQ .0 tne i or fall as a New Dealer ihp nartv hpr-amc annarpnt. Some was in- New Dealer, the party apparent.

Some was in- the strong lobby fighting to Ickes Blamed West. Ickes got the idea, rightly Or wrongly, that West was behind the Burlew attack. With spleen and relish, in West's absence, he fired or transferred four of the five persons on West's staff. Some of his closest associates threw up their hands in dismay at his poor judgment. Original resentment against Burlew in the department long since had expanded to include the case of many this gave the secretary's enemies a chance to press their claim that he was a mean, selfish, unpleasant bureaucrat.

Men who had been lobbying loyally for a Department of Conservation threw up the sponge. The question of how Roosevelt felt as between West and Ickes was left up in the air. Those who defend Ickes he has been an able, fearless, oratorical hatchet man for Roosevelt and that his public record is honest. They say that he must be preserved as a valuable, hard-hitting New Deal progressive and that aside from his liberal critics he also has accumulated a more disreputable collection of enemies than any other high New Deal official. Others insist that Ickes, a fighting foe of fascism, has instilled fascism into government by creating a department where men speak frankly only in never over the telephone.

Meanwhile, Burlew has not yet been confirmed by the Senate and work at the Department of Interior proceeds at a relatively slow pace. SIROVICH WHO Apvocxrep TORPEDOES, AMP BOMBE3S TO RIO OF FISHERMEN ALASKAM AGAIMST.