Hearst, Farley & Roosevelts

In Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round, the lively syndicated column of Washington tips and chitchat produced by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, there appeared one day last week the following item: ''Mrs. Farley, who is always complaining that Jim would rather make speeches than make enough money to buy her a car, grouses privately against the Roosevelts. She thinks the President has not properly recognized her husband's ability."

That curious observation obviously demanded explanation, and indignant Columnists Pearson & Allen were glad to give it. As written and dispatched by United Feature Syndicate (Scripps-Howard) to its 300 subscriber newspapers, including two Hearstpapers, the day's column had contained in addition to the above quotation a startling piece of news. Under Hearst pressure, United Feature had ordered this news killed.

The news which Columnists Pearson & Allen had confirmed at first-hand was that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, having hired the President's son Elliott to run his Southwestern radio stations and the President's son-in-law John Boettiger to run his Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had offered James A. Farley, the President's first lieutenant, $200,000 per year to become general manager of the Hearst-papers.

"Tell Mr. Hearst," Postmaster General Farley had said, "that I am not interested in any offer from him, even if he should bring it himself with his pockets full of $10,000 bills."

Added plump Mrs. Elizabeth ("Bess") Farley, whose desire for money is generally believed to be the prime reason for her husband's announced intention of leaving the Cabinet: "And tell him the Parleys aren't Roosevelts.''

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