Liberty's Daughter

Newshawks last week made the kind of minor political discovery which delights them: the daughter of vehemently anti-New Deal Jouett (Liberty League) Shouse working for WPA. Not on work relief, serious-looking Elizabeth Shouse, 26, was hired last month as an expert to supervise the work of 14 WPAsters repairing school books in the District of Columbia. Pay: $136 a month. Said Miss Shouse with obvious truth: "No political pull was involved."

> The contributions account of Representative David J. Lewis for his unsuccessful campaign to purge Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, last week revealed sums totaling $17,282 from Liberal Columnist Drew Pearson ("Washington Merry-Go-Round") and his two sisters, Mrs. Barbara Lange of Palo Alto, Calif, and Mrs. Ellen Fogg of Moylan, Pa. One possible explanation of Columnist Pearson's dislike for Senator Tydings: they once courted the same girl, Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough (now Mrs. Tydings).

> In Irvington, N.J., Police Judge Thomas J. Holleran let off with a lecture on "Americanism" two teen-age boys, one of German, the other of Italian descent, who vented their political passions by pen-knifing a swastika on the left forearm of Bernard Cohen, 9.

> The Memphis World (Negro daily) completed its poll to elect the "Mayor of Beale Street." Winner: Matthew Thornton, mail carrier, with 12,000 out of 33,000 votes cast. Runner-up: Eddie Hayes, undertaker, 9,000. Salary: none. Duties: greeting distinguished visitors to "the street where the blues began."

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