Show r RACKET MOVE IN N R RA A BARED High High Official Tells of Bein Being g I Offered Bribes to Engage Engage En- En gage in Schemes W WASHINGTON May 1 UP-A UP high of the n lonal recovery n administration said sal today that upon three occasions he ha been offered bribes it if he would in industrial indus trial or organization rackets The official Dr Wilson Compton chief of trade associations told ot of the racketeers racketeers' attempted approach analyzed ana ana- the thc character of Administrator Hugh Huch S S. S Johnson md and told business it must be good to escape a real battle baUle with the thc N R RA A. A Compton spoke before the spring meeting of the American Trade lO asso- l- l O clation executives preparatory to the thc opening tomorrow of the annual convention con of the United states chamber of commerce I 1 have been on three separate occasions approached by men evidently evi dently connected with some and obviously ambitious for more who promised to make me rich if H I 1 would engage with them in some industry organization racket which would clearly have have involved a betrayal betrayal be be- of faith and trusteeship with with- out which no man has a right to accept accept ac- ac a public office he said Compton did not name the men who approached him nor did he give details Dr Compton said that despite Gen erOll cral Johnsons Johnson's faults he thanked God for such a man man I say this not because I concur In all that he has done he continued I 1 think he has made some nearly disastrous mistakes that he has acted often oUen impulsively and without knowl arbitrarily and inconsiderate 1 l rr |