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Show SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Wants to Regain Post PR. ARTHUR E. MORGAN has started a court fight to regain the chairmanship of the Tennessee Valley authority from which he was r 1 ousted by President I jf 1 Roosevelt for what f 1 the latter termed ' "contumacy." In mcX chancery court at X J KnoxviUe. Tenn., he f j filed a mandamus I W" ( suit asking that he . be recognized as a member and chair- , man of the board of iixv' J directors of the authority. au-thority. A. E. Morgan In bill which named the TVA and Directors H. A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal as defendants, the former chairman asked for payment of back salary since his dismissal. He also asked for a declaratory judgment voiding the President's removal order and forcing the other two directors to recognize him as their chairman. Doctor Morgan never has recognized recog-nized the President's right to remove re-move him. After starting the court action, he said he would carry his fight for reinstatement to the Supreme Su-preme court if necessary. The justice department in Washington Wash-ington withheld comment on the suit, but it was a foregone conclusion conclu-sion that the government would contest con-test it. Before the President removed re-moved Doctor Morgan he asked the justice department whether this was within his power. Robert H. Jackson, Jack-son, now solicitor general, but then acting attorney general, advised "there would appear to be no question ques-tion that the power of removal is in fact vested in the President." Tells Cities to Hurry """ITIES of the nation were urged by Secretary Ickes to make haste to submit projects for PWA approval and thus play "a dominating dominat-ing part in bringing about recovery." recov-ery." At the same time he asked business busi-ness to co-operate with the government govern-ment in the $1,600,000,000 building program, and warned contractors , and private industry not to pay "graft" to corrupt officials in an attempt at-tempt to curry political favors in the form of benefits from PWA construction. con-struction. "The success of this recovery program pro-gram will depend upon the speed with which our municipalities move," he said. "They will have to produce faster than before. They will have to draw their plans more rapidly, make decisions more quickly quick-ly and file their applications with alacrity. "Involved are jobs for workmen, the creation of new business for industrial and commercial concerns, con-cerns, the expansion of factory payrolls, pay-rolls, the rejuvenation of transportation transpor-tation systems, the spread of purchasing pur-chasing power, the expansion of credit, the stimulation of our securities securi-ties and our banks." 'Purge' Is Hard Hit npVO long distance messages came from Manila, from Paul V. McNutt, governor general of the Philippines and reputed boss of the Democrats of Indi p wc-csssr ana. Thereupon the v. x 8 New Dealers of the s 4 Hoosier state decid- g ed they could not I win in November t- unless they renomi- v.-.? v' ; nated Frederick fx Van Nuys for the v senate. That gentle v x man had been j marked for eUmi- j ' nation by Tommy A Corcoran and his Senator fellow managers of Van Nuys the proposed "purge" of those who had opposed any major New Deal policies and Governor Townsend had publicly announced Van Nuys could not be renominated. The senator was planning to run as an independent After hearing from McNutt, the governor Invited the senator to present his candidacy to the state convention, and Van Nuys accepted in the interests of party harmony. Corcoran's purge appears to have bogged down elsewhere, too. Senator Sena-tor George of Georgia and Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina seem likely to win renomination. In New York city Tammany decided to support sup-port Congressman John J. O'Connor, O'Con-nor, who led the fight against the reorganization re-organization bill, and several other New York members of the lower house whom Corcoran had listed for defeat. Insists on Reorganization TN HIS last press conference be-fore be-fore starting on his transcontinental transconti-nental and Pacific ocean trip, President Pres-ident Roosevelt revealed that he was still determined to have congress con-gress pass a reorganization bill. Seemingly not at all discouraged by the defeat of the measure in the last congress, he said he was confident the next session would realize that the country wants such a law and would enact it. The congressmen con-gressmen who voted to recommit the measure favored at least 90 per cent of the bill, he said, and opposed only 10 per cent of it. Trial Fare Raise T EVERSING a previous ruling, the interstate commerce commission com-mission in a ten-to-one decision authorized au-thorized eastern railroads to increase in-crease basic passenger coach fares from 2 to 2 cents a mile for a trial period of 18 months. Commissioner Commis-sioner Claude R. Porter cast the only dissenting vote. Railroads estimate esti-mate that the increase will mean $40,000,000 in added revenue a year. Action was taken on an appeal by the carriers for reconsideration ,of the commission's initial decision on March 6, 'when their original plea was turned down on a six to five vote. In seeking a review, the roads contended the commission had entered too greatly into the field of management. This view was concurred in by several of the commissioners, who dissented from the original majority opinion. Want to Quit Austria Arthur Rosenberg, repre- senting the Federation of Austrian Aus-trian Exiles, told a conference of 32 nations at Evian - les - Bains, France, that four w-v and a half million f .V J Austrians will flee , " Nazi rule in their " jf; country if a new f homeland can be jf 'ISbs ' found for them and if f they are allowed to s ,x f take a substantial part of their proper- J'C ty with them. The " t " J A conference, officially "V'"' t h e Intergovern-mental Intergovern-mental Committee Myron Taylor on Political Refugees, was instigator instigat-or Kw Proci'Jont PnnrmmH The American delegation was headed by Myron C. Taylor, former head of the United States Steel corporation, cor-poration, and he took the lead in the preliminaries for settling the problem of German Jews and other refugees from the Reich. The Americans made it plain, however, that the United States' attitude was one of helpfulness rather rath-er than direction. Officials said they were trying to help shape plans, but "we do not intend to be the final judges of whatever may be done." Mr. Taylor was unanimously elected elect-ed president of the conference. The Zionist Organization of America Amer-ica closed its forty-first convention in Detroit with an attack on what it termed Nazi violence and brutality brutal-ity toward Jews in Austria and Germany. Ger-many. Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago was elected president Radio Must Be Fair j TJQUAL treatment of rival candi- ' dates and political parties is demanded by the Federal Communications Commu-nications commission in new rules governing broadcasting of political speeches. Under these regulations a station may refuse time to all political candidates for an office, but if broadcasting privileges are granted to one candidate, equal time must be offered to his rivals. The rule applies to all national, state, county, and municipal office seekers. Rates shall be uniform for all candidates, the FCC rules. Problem of the South HE-ESTABLISHING a balanced economic system in the southern south-ern states is considered by President Presi-dent Roosevelt the No. 1 problem of the nation and he says it must and can be done. He appealed to 25 southern leaders, assembled in Washington at his request, to draft plans for the economic restoration of their section of the country. Lewis Lew-is Mellett, director of the Nation 1 Emergency council, presided over the conference and read Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's letter. Though he did not comment on the effect that the new wages and hours law may have on southern industry, he did say that one of the great problems in the South is that of labor and employment. He spoke also of problems "growing out of the new industrial era and, again, of absentee ownership of the new industries." in-dustries." "It is my conviction," the President Presi-dent wrote to Mellett, "that the South presents right now the nation's na-tion's number one economic problem prob-lem the nation's problem, not merely the South's. For we have an economic unbalance in the nation as a whole, due to this very condition condi-tion of the South. "The purpose of your conference is to produce a restatement of the economic conditions of the South and their relation to the rest of the country that we may do something about it" The task, Mr. Roosevelt said, embraces em-braces wasted or neglected resources re-sources of land and water; abuses suffered by the soil; need for cheap fertilizer and cheap power, and problems presented by the population popula-tion itself. .f Urge Garner to Run DEFORE he left Washington for Texas, Vice President Garner told friends that he positively would not be a candidate for a third term, gsf :,,mw iinm.i This started imme-t, imme-t, n- diate speculation on : his probable attitude P"-' - toward heading the K yv, Democratic ticket in 1940. It was asserted I .x ' ! by some of his asso-r asso-r v2f ciates that Demo-fe!, Demo-fe!, ' "ji ; crats in all parts of , q the country were p, V,, t writing him urging '1'm '3e a can" date for the presi-Vice presi-Vice President dential nomination. Garner Senator Logan of Kentucky said if Garner should seek the presidential nomination he would be hard to beat Senator Burke of Nebraska said he believed Garner would be in a receptive mood if he were offered the first place on the ticket. Neither of those statesmen believes be-lieves Mr. Roosevelt will seek a third term, and that seems to be a general belief in Washington. Yanks and Johnny Rebs CEVENTY-FIVE years after they faced each other in deadly conflict, con-flict, some 2,000 old soldiers gathered gath-ered in friendly concert to celebrate the great Battle of Gettysburg. The Stars and Stripes and the Stars and Bars flew side by side on the once bloody field, and the veterans of the Northern and Southern armies that fought there in one of history's biggest battles wandered together over the hills and meadows or sat in their tented city, exchanging reminiscences rem-iniscences and renewing old friendships. friend-ships. In the Gettysburg National Military Mili-tary park, comprising the battlefield, battle-field, had been erected a beautiful peace memorial, and President Roosevelt was there to dedicate it on the afternoon of July 3. At the top of the monument's shaft is a burner for natural gas that supplies sup-plies "The Flame of Eternal Peace." This was kindled by the President as the climax of the day's celebration. From a common platform Commander-in-Chief Overton H. Mennet of the Grand Army of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief John M. Claypool of the United Confederate Veterans spoke to their comrades. Real Drive on Depression "ll'ITH the start of the new fiscal year the administration began what the President calls "the real drive on depression." In the coming com-ing fiscal year relief agencies, army and navy, public works departments and federal lending corporations may pour out approximately $8,500,-000,000. $8,500,-000,000. Some of this money is returnable re-turnable to the treasury. Administration officials said this huge sum equal to more than $66 for every person in the nation was needed because there are approximately approxi-mately 10,500,000 unemployed in the country. Officials left little doubt they hope to get business positively on the upgrade up-grade by Labor day, although economists econ-omists estimated it would take a year from the upturn to recover the ground lost since last summer. |