Show Merry Merry Round G 0 R U n nd d Mark MarkBy By Iy DREW PEARSON and nd RO ROBERT ERT ALLEN WASHINGTON The The latest attempt on the part of ol Rex Tugwell to resign disclosed an important frame ram of ot mind on the part of the president He insists on keeping a quota of liberals liberal in the new deal The incident of itself was insignificant Tugwell Tug Tug- Tugwell Tugwell well Has hu suggested many times that he resign as u resettlement administrator and return to his hi chair of economics at Columbia Last weeks week's renewed proposal of ot resignation came after publication of a story that Miss Grace Falke assistant to Tugwell had assumed a role similar to that of Miss Frances Little Robbie Robinson when General Johnson was dictator of th the blue eagle Miss Falke 27 years old and ef efficIent efficient ef- ef had been jumped to a salary of Tugwell told the president that the newspaper reports were being misinterpreted that he was the object of bitter attack by enemies of the administration administration administration adminis adminis- and that he had become a liability rather than an asset to the new deal He pleaded that Roosevelt would be better off without him and asked to resign He made this point more moreem emphatically emphatically em em em- ally than he ever eyer has before But Roosevelt also alio came back more emphatically emphatic emphatic- ally aUy than ver before Under no circumstances he said would he permit his hi No 1 brain truster to leave What would all of my liberal friends say he pe argued if it you should get out They would say that I had haC deserted them completely Roosevelt pointed out put further that Tugwell had become a symbol of liberalism in the administration admin admin- that the administration n needed eded that symbol symbol sym sym- bol and whether Tugwell liked it or not he would have tc to stay Tu Tugwell well acquiesced although although clo close e f friends ien ex expect expect expect ex- ex him to make another attempt to resign in the spring Townsend PJ Pun Plan n ne The e Townsend plan promises to be one of the most delicate problems which politicians politicians politicians-espe- ns-espe- ns espe especially dally daily aspirants to the presidency will presidency will have to face V The publication of Senator Borah article The Supreme Court in the current nt issue of Magazine was made the occasion for a special l pr press s scon con conference in hi Borah's office A large number of reporters asked him numerous numerous numerous numerous' nu nu- nu- nu questions regarding the court and its pow pow- ers Finally as the correspondents were ing to leave one of them spoke up Senator can you tell us what is your position on the Townsend plan Everyone stopped dead in his tracks tracks including including Borah V Why ii well I dont don't think we want to mix up these subjects today I intend to make my po position position po- po perfectly clear on the Townsend plan plan at at th the proper time V Munitions Probe Sensational disclosures certain to cause international inter in national reverberations and have a powerful effect on the battle over o neutrality are due as the senate mun munitions committee resumes its inv investigation J. J P. P Morgan and Thomas W. W Lamont Lament are the star wi witnesses neSs under nd r fire ire By ay cr questioning cross them the committee seeks to establish V VV V V 1 That German submarine warfare W was s not the sole cause of U. U S. S entry into the war as as' as claimed by the Wilson administration tion V V 2 2 That there was a startling coincidence be between be I V tween foreign policy and the attitude of big New York bankers 3 That loans made by J J. J P. P Morgan and other bankers to the allies were a controlling factor in dragging this country into war To support these contentions cOI the committee will put into the record scores score of ot secret messages ca cables cables ca ca- bles memoranda and documents its investigators have dug from th the files of ot the state department Morgan Co National City bank and Kuhn Loeb eb Co V Committee members predict that the revelations lions they are re sch scheduling duling will overshadow those produced by Ferdinand Pecora in his fam famous us senate senate senate sen sen- ate banking investigation several years ago Reluctant ta t V Morgan Behind the appearance of Morgan Moran and Lament Lamont is an an untold story of bitter fighting between between between be be- tween the tle munitions committee and the Morgan firm over its records The Morgans refus refused d flatly to throw to-throw throw V open their files Senate agents agent had to prove the of ot every document before they were allowed to tomake tomake tomake make a copy of it V For example the investigators investigator asked for records records rec rec- bearing on c certain loans They were givena given a handful of papers papers In these documents the agents found references to other messages When Wh these were requested John W. W Davis Morgan at attorney attorney at i torney replied that soine some were were missing and challenged chal chal- the he of others Committee members say that hat as the hearings hearings' proceed it will become clearly arly- arly apparent th that t much hot hoi data is still missing Five special investigators ors spent six six months ransacking the Morgan Mo records and clashed re repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly re- re with the company over their right to the documents On several occasions the the- committee ommittee had to threaten legal action in order to get et the documents it wanted V 1111 tor y Watt Balta ft sMI i K Ja |