Show news evicic It of current events DR MORGAN SUES TVA seeks reinstatement as its chairman and back salary proposed new deal party purge hits some snags 7 0 gild 0 o alit 4 i wo A here is the new peace memorial in the gettysburg national military park which was dedicated by president roosevelt during the celebration of 0 the anniversary of the battle of gettysburg in which veterans of the northern and southern armies participated on the top of the shaft burns the flame of eternal peace A W y M summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 4 western union wants to regain post TR R ARTHUR E MORGAN hs has started a court fight to regain the chairmanship of the tennessee valley authority from which he was ousted by president roosevelt for what wha t the latter termed 41 contumacy in chancery court at knoxville tenn he filed a mandamus suit asking that he be recognized as a member and chairman 4 of the board of directors of the aua dhority tho rity E morgan in the 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 presidents removal order and forcing the other two directors to recognize him as their chairman doctor morgan never has lecog nihed the presidents right to remove him after starting the court action he said he would carry his fight for reinstatement to the supreme court if necessary the justice department in washington withheld comment on the suit but it was a foregone conclusion that the government would contest it before the president removed doctor morgan he asked the justice department whether this was within his power robert H jackson now solicitor general but then acting attorney general advised there would appear to be no question that the power of demova removal is in in fact vested in the president tells cities to hurry C of the nation were urged by secretary ickes to make haste to projects for approval and thus play a dominating part in bringing about recovery at the same time he asked business to operate cooperate co with the government in the building program and warned contractors and private industry not to pay graft to corrupt officials in an attempt to curry political favors in in the form of benefits from construction st the success of this recovery program 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 and file their applications alacrity involved are jobs for workmen the creation of new business for industrial and commercial concerns the expansion of factory payrolls the rejuvenation of transportation systems the spread of purchasing power the ahe expansion of credit the stimulation of our securities and our banks purge Is hard hit T WO long distance messages x from manila came from paul V mcnutt governor general of the philippines and reputed boss of the democrats of indiana thereupon the new dealers of the hoosier state decided 1 they could not 1 win in november unless they renoma I 1 bated n a t e d fr frederick 41 van nuys for the senate that gentleman had been marked for elimination by tommy tj corcoran and his se senator ator fellow managers 0 of f van nuys the he proposed purge of those who had opposed any major new deal policies and governor townsend had publicly announced van nuys could not be 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 orans purge appears to have bogged down elsewhere too senator george of georgia and senator E D smith of south carolina seem likely to win in new york city tammany decided to support congressman john J oconnor who led the fight against the reorganization bill and several other new york members of the lower house whom corcoran had listed for defeat insists on reorganization IN HIS last press conference before starting on his transcontinental and pacific ocean trip president roosevelt revealed that he was still determined to have congress 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 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 11 trial fare raise 0 R a previous ruling rul ing the interstate commerce commission n in a ten to one decision authorized zed eastern railroads to increase basic passenger coach fares from 2 to aa cents a mile for a trial period of 18 months commissioner claude R porter cast the only dissenting vote railroads estimate that the increase will mean in added revenue a year action was taken on an appeal by the carriers for reconsideration of the commissions 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 assria A ARTHUR ROSENBERG representing the federation of austrian exiles told a conference of 32 nations at avian les bains france that four and a half million austrians Aust rians will flee twe nazi rule in 1 their country if a new homeland can be it found for them and they are allowed to 10 take a substantial part of their property with them the f conference officially t the h e B mental committee myron taylor on political refugees was instigated by president roosevelt the american delegation wa was s headed by myron C taylor former head of the united states steel co corporation po and he took the lead in in the preliminaries for settling the problem of german jews and other oabe r refugees from the reich the americans made it plain however that the united states attitude was one of helpfulness rather than direction officials said they were 1 trying to help shape plans but we do not intend to be the f nal final judges of whatever may be done mr taylor was unanimously elected president of the conference the zionist organization of america c a closed c lo 10 se d its forty first convention in de detroit t r i t with an attack on what it termed ter ed nazi violence and brutality toward jews in austria and ge germany r dr solomon goldman of if chicago was elected president radio must be fair EQUAL treatment of rival candi cand 1 SLI dates and political parties is demanded by the federal communications 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 can didat e 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 D E establishing a balanced Reco iv economic system in the southern states is considered by president 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 tor for the economic restoration of their section of the country lewis mellett director of the national emergency council presided p resided over the conference and read mr roose belts letter though he did not comment on the eff effect act 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 dus tries 1 I it t is my conviction the president wrote to mellett that the south presents right now the nations number one economic problem the nations problem not merely the mouths Sout hs for we have an economic unbalance in the nation as a whole due to this very condition 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 wasted or neglected resources of land and water abuses suffered by the soil need tor for cheap fertilizer and cheap power and problems presented by the population itself urge garner to run B he left washington for texas vice president garner told friends that he positively would not be a candidate tor for a third term this started immediate speculation on his probable attitude toward heading the democratic ticket in 1940 it was asserted by some of his associates that democrats in all parts of the country were writing him urging him to be a candi date for the T vi vice e president estial nomination garner senator logan of kentucky said if garner should seek the presidential nomination he wa would uld 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 mr roosevelt bill will seek a third term and that seems to be a general belief in washington yanks and johnny reas FIVE years after they u faced each other in deadly conflict some 2000 old soldiers gathered 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 of the northern and southern armies that fought there in one of history his torys IS biggest battles wa wandered together over the hills and meado meadows ws or sat in in their tented city exchange exchanging reminiscences and renewing old d friendships in the gettysburg national mili tery park comprising the battlefield 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 monuments shaft is a burner for natural gas that supplies the flame of eternal peace this was kindled by the president as the climax of the days celebration from a common platform com mander in chief overton H mennet of the grand army of the republic I 1 and commander in chief john M claypool of the united confederate veterans spoke to their comrades real drive on depression W W ITH the start of the new fiscal year the administration began what hat the president calls the real drive on an depression in the coming fiscal year relief agencies army and navy public works departments and federal lending corporations may pour out approximately some of this money is returnable to the treasury administration offic officials lais said this huge sum equal to more tha than n 66 lor for every person in the nation was needed because there are approximately unemployed in the country officials left little doubt they hope to get get business positively on the upgrade by labor day althou although oh economists estimated it would take a year from the upturn to recover the me ground lost since last summer |