Summer Schedule

The White House made known last week Franklin Roosevelt's summer plans, a tentative schedule providing a mixture of politics and ceremony, family and fun. Next week he will attend the wedding of his son John at Nahant, Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first landing of Swedes in America, at Wilmington, Del.; lay the cornerstone of the Federal building at the New York World's Fair; visit Gettysburg for the Battle's 75th anniversary; go to Marietta, Ohio for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory; go calling in seven other States where his presence may help political friends up for election this autumn.

Paducah, Ky. is the home town not only of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb but of ("Dear") Alben Barkley. leader of the New Deal majority in the Senate. Since Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler is hot after Mr. Barkley's seat,*Paducah will be Franklin Roosevelt's most Important political stop, on July 9. Next on his visiting list will come Oklahoma, where faithful Senator Elmer Thomas is up for reelection, next, his son Elliott in Fort Worth, Texas.

In Colorado and Nevada are Senate primary contests in which rebellious Democratic incumbents are being opposed by 100% Rooseveltists (see p. 12). The President will swing through these two States on his way to California, where faithful Senator McAdoo will undoubtedly see him off on a Pacific fishing trip. A plan to combine with fishing a goodwill visit to the west coast of South America was not, last week, finally worked out. C. To the White House Franklin Roosevelt called his Congressional wheelhorses to ask them whether there was any chance of reviving and ramming through the Reorganization Bill this session. They laughed.

P: At Annapolis, Franklin Roosevelt addressed the Naval Academy's graduating class, told another slumber story: How as Assistant Secretary of the Navy at a graduation during the War, he fell asleep on the platform.

P: The President approved $57.577.000 of U. S. Housing Authority loan contracts for slum clearance projects in Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus (Ohio), Allentown (Pa.), Birmingham (Ala.), Detroit. Beneficiaries: 44,000 slum dwellers. Rentals: $3.75 to $4.25 per room per month. This batch brought USHA slum clearance loans up to a total of $111,070,000 to provide for 20,833 families. Meanwhile, into its Lend-Spend bill the Senate wrote a new appropriation of $300.000,000 for Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (see below).

*On the eve of battle Senator Barkley last week solemnly became a Moose (Governor Chandler is a Shriner).

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