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Show SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK ) Western Newspaper Union. Political Scandal SENATOR SHEPPARD'S campaign cam-paign expenditures committee, after hearing a report from an investigator, in-vestigator, announced that the con- ,-.,r(, duct of the Demo-J&tt Demo-J&tt cratic senatorial pri-f pri-f 1 mary campaign in Tennessee was scan- ( dalous and warned W-'t- that the successful v candidate was likely to face an election ! V contest in the sen- , ate. V i" Tne shaking down 4 f C i of both federal and bfe. S state employees the Senator Berry buying of votes on a huge scale, the raising of funds by intimidation all were being indulged in-dulged in by the two rival candidates, candi-dates, according to the committee. Those who are seeking the nomination nom-ination are Sen. George L. Berry, Tom Stewart, J. Ridley Mitchell, Dr. John R. Neal and C. I,. Powell. Stewart is . supported by E. H. Crump, political boss of Memphis. Berry is backed by the state machine ma-chine and Gov. Gordon Browning. "The committee is of the opinion," opin-ion," its statement said, "that the evidence already before it with respect re-spect to assessments of federal employees em-ployees by one group participating in the Democratic primary contest for United States senator and of state employees by the other group, points sharply toward an election contest in the United States senate regardless of which group's candidate candi-date triumphs. "Regardless of action that may be taken in the courts fo punish those practicing illegal election methods and those exercising political po-litical pressure, there are indications indica-tions that the senate may be called upon to consider the probability of excessive money being used in behalf be-half of the victorious candidates." Besides its pronouncement on Tennessee, the committee asked Postmaster General Farley to investigate in-vestigate the distribution of a "political "po-litical circular" by the Farm Security Se-curity administration in South Dakota. Da-kota. The circular, it was said, was sent out under government frank to "aid the senatorial candidacy candi-dacy of former Gov. Tom Berry of South Dakota." The committee also dispatched investigators in-vestigators to Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, In-diana, North Dakota and California. It heard reports from its investigators investiga-tors already at work in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Kentucky and sent them back for additional information. It dismissed from consideration a charge that a recent statement by WPA Administrator Hopkins that 90 per cent of WPA workers would vote for the Roosevelt administration administra-tion was coercive. The committee said the statement was in answer to a press question and was "in no way a dictation to workers." Bar Hits Labor Act COMMITTEE reports received by the house of delegates of the American Bar association in session ses-sion in Cleveland denounced the national na-tional labor relations act as "intensifying "inten-sifying class antagonisms"; and condemned "despotic tendencies" of governmental administrative tribunals. tribu-nals. The committee on labor, employment employ-ment and social security in its report re-port said the labor act is "the deliberate delib-erate embodiment of a new social policy" in which the government "has departed from the traditional role of mediator and arbiter." The assault on governmental administrative ad-ministrative agencies, such as the securities and exchange commission, commis-sion, interstate commerce commission, commis-sion, N. L. R. B., and others, was contained in a report of the committee com-mittee on administrative law, headed head-ed by former Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard university law school. ! This attack, listing 10 "absolutism tendencies" of the bureaus, was assailed as-sailed bitterly by Jerome N. Frank, SEC commissioner, who charged that it was defamatory." Utilities to Bs Heard PRIVATE utilities are to be given a chance to present to the TVA investigation committee their case against the "yardstick" for electric power of the authority. The committee said it had invited the Edison Electric institute, representing repre-senting the power industry in matters mat-ters of policy and publicity, and the Electric Bond and Share company and Commonwealth and Southern corporation. The latter two are holding companies which have extensive ex-tensive holdings in the Southeast where the TVA is offering cheap power to municipalities and rural co-operatives. Debt Payment Rumors ITROM a London correspondent comes the report that preliminary prelim-inary negotiations have begun for final settlement by Great Britain and France of their defaulted debts to the United States. It is asserted the discussions, started some weeks ' ago by Ambassador Kennedy and British Prime Minister Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, were carried forward in secret talks in Paris among Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Ambassador Ambas-sador Bullitt, French Foreign Min-' ister Bonnet and Finance Minister Marchandeau. Both Britain and France, says the correspondent, have expressed willingness will-ingness to conclude a final settlement settle-ment on the basis of the principal prin-cipal and not the interest of the original debts, which aggregated $9,286,950,943 $5,185,730,763 contracted con-tracted by Britain and $4,101,220,180 by France. But in the contemplated settlement Britain and France are asking for a reduction of the principal prin-cipal of the original debts, which, if granted, would serve as the foundation foun-dation for arranging the payment. Texas Picks a Yankee '""pzXAS Democrats in their pri-mary pri-mary selected a Yankee to be the next governor of the state. W. Lee O'Daniel, born in Ohio and , raised on a Kansas jfK arm- received a clear majority over J ," I 11 other candidates L f i or nomnation 8.1 4 s which is equivalent fc 1 to election. L v J J O'Daniel is a flour i jobber. He cam- r paigned with a hill- j J s billy band and a d I platform that in- .,m L,.,,.,.,, ciuded the Ten Com- W. Lee mandments and the O'Daniel Golden Rule, ridicule of professional politicians, promise prom-ise of a business administration and more liberal pensions for the aged. More important nationally was the fact that Rep. Maury Maverick, leader of a considerable bloc in congress, con-gress, was defeated for renomina-tion renomina-tion By Paul Kilday, a San Antonio attorney. Maverick is an enthusiastic enthusi-astic New Dealer. Kilday says he will not be a rubber stamp. Two other administration backers were defeated for renomination. They were Representatives W. D. MacFarlane and Morgan Sander3. Disaster in Bogota HpHIRTY-SEVEN persons were killed and 150 injured when a Colombian army plana crashed into a grandstand at Bogota and burst into flames. The stand was packed with spectators gathered to witness an aviation review and in the throng were the president and presidentelect president-elect of Colombia and many foreign diplomats. These narrowly escaped death. The plane was heading an acrobatic parade, and after its wings struck the sides of the grandstand grand-stand it nose-dived into the shrieking mass of men, women and children. Hoffman Dares N.L.R.B. CLARE E. HOFFMAN, Reoubli-can Reoubli-can congressman from Michigan, Michi-gan, has challenged the National Labor La-bor Relations board in the matter of constitutional guaranties of freedom free-dom of speech and of the press. He sent to the board a letter recalling that the body recently declared the circulation of a house speech by Hoffman constituted an unfair labor practice under the Wagner act. In the speech Hoffman declared that known communists were active in the Committee for Industrial Organization Organ-ization and denounced C. I. O sit-down sit-down strikes as communistic methods. meth-ods. "This speech," Hoffman's letter said, "was republished, with illustrations, illus-trations, by the Constitutional Educational Edu-cational league of New Haven, Conn. "I am now offering, and intend to continue to offer, to furnish to any and all interested persons, including in-cluding employees, employers, or others, copies of this address for circulation at the actual cost of printing, and to recommend that employees might well read this address ad-dress before joining the C. I. O." Commenting on the letter, Representative Repre-sentative Hoffman said that the board's ruling would preclude the distribution of newspapers containing contain-ing news items or editorials critical criti-cal of any organization or of activities activi-ties of the labor board. The American Federation of Labor La-bor charged in its official organ, the American Federationist, that maladministration mal-administration of the Wagner act is threatening American democracy. The publication printed an editorial bluntly accusing the National Labor La-bor Relations board of promoting the rival Committee for Industrial Organization "which seeks to set up a dual labor movement despite all the social and economic waste which dualism involves. "Every agency of the government that gives status to the C. I. O gives the same recognition," it continued. "Surely this is not freedom for workers to choose their own unions and representatives for collective bargaining, but union development under government patronage." To Expand Business Loans CHAIRMAN JESSE JONES of the Reconstruction Finance corporation corpo-ration announced a new policy for forcing the expansion of business RaTOww! mi lans by which -j'.s- competitor banks fjii1 will be pitted against xf ff ' each other. When a . ' loan applicant ap- Proved by the RFC 1 's turned down by - 4 ll I his local bank an 4L RFC agent will con-s con-s "'11' ;1 tact the bank and , ' 1 try to persuade it to SsSMiiiutisJ Participate in the loan. If it refuses Jesse Jones the RFC agent then will contact a competitor bank. In its most optimistic monthly business survey of the year, the federal fed-eral reserve board said industrial production is on the increase and available data indicate that in July the index will show a considerable rise. Chairman Jones put huge resources re-sources of the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation behind the pulp lie works program. He and At ministrator Ickes agreed that whe ever possible RFC would make loans for public construction an PWA would conserve its money exclusively ex-clusively for outright grants. Hitherto, Hither-to, PWA has been making both loans and grants. Under the new system it will be possible, officials said, to undertake more big projects, such as roads and bridges, than if PWA had to furnish all the money itself. Blames G.O.P. for Debt SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE blames the Republican Republi-can policies of the twenties for "the unusual increase in the federal debt in the last nine years." Addressing the Iowa Democratic convention, he said: "In the Democratic thirties we have been like sailors sobering up the morning after, with the federal fed-eral government playing the part of nurse." The secretary said the federal debt of the "Democratic thirties ia being carried with ease by a country restored to health." He took his audience through a set of figures which he said showed "total debts in the United States today" to be S6,uuu,uuu,uuu less man in iaju. private pri-vate debts, for instance, he said, are $12,000,000,000 under the 1932 total to-tal and $28,000,000,000 less than in 1930. Hull Prods Cardenas SECRETARY OF STATE HULL, out of patience with Mexico, sent to President Cardenas a sharp note protesting Mexico's failure to pay for American owned farm lands that the Mexican government has seized. Mr. Hull asked that the matter be submitted to arbitration. The secretary sec-retary has in this the full approval of President Roosevelt, for the administration ad-ministration feels that Cardenas is endangering the "Good Neighbor" relations between the two countries. Sen. Key Pittman of the senate foreign relations committee also backs up Mr. Hull, asserting that if Mexico refuses to arbitrate she will be subject to economic penalties. penal-ties. "Mexico," he said, "then would forfeit all the financial and other voluntary aid we have iven her through our spirit of friendship and desire for peace, prosperity, and up building of that country." |