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Show SOLON BREAKS WITH TOWNSEND WASHINGTON, April 1. CUP) Rep. John S. McCroarty, p., Calif., today called upon 'millions 'mil-lions of Townsend supporters" to decide whether they would support sup-port him to continue in the ranks of the founder of the $200-a-month pension plan, Dr. Francis E. Townsend. McGroarty emphasized that there would be no quarter in his feud with Townsend which has ended McGroarty's rule as chief spokesman in congress for the Townsend movement. McGroarty charged that Town-send Town-send had deserted the original plan to raise pension funds from a two per cent transaction tax estimated to yield $20,000,000,000 annually in favor of a new plan to issue tax-exempt securities offered of-fered by Sheridan Downey, the aged physician's attorney. "I no longer care what the doctor doc-tor does or what he thinks," McGroarty Mc-Groarty said. "I am going to stand pat on mv bill which embraces em-braces the original proposal and which I introduced at the last session of Congress and at the present one. . "The millions of Townsend supporters sup-porters who have gone into the movement on the original proposition propo-sition will have the say as to which of us is right." |