Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS SHAKEDOWN SHAKE DOWNAN IN TENNESSEE senate campaign Com committee miffed uncovers Poli political fical scandal in berry stewart primary fi fight J david E lilienthal TVA director at left trying to explain to the congressional investigating committee the methods by which TVA yardstick rates for power were established next to him Is J A kurg chief power planning engineer and at extreme right Is or dr A E morgan the deposed head bead of the authority duj W 1 v summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union political scandal SHEPPARDS cam SENATOR laign expenditures committee after hearing a report from an investigator vesti gator announced that the con duct ot of the democratic i senatorial primary campaign in tennessee was scandalous and warned that the successful candidate was likely to face an election contest in the senate the shaking down of both federal and state employees the senator berr berry buying of votes on a huge scale the raising of funds by intimidation all were being indulged in by the two rival candidates according to the committee those who are seeking the nomination are sen george L berry tom stewart J ridley bidley mitchell dr john R neal and C L powell stewart Is supported by E H crump political boss of memphis berry is backed by the state machine and gov gordon browning the committee is of the opinion its statement said that the evidence already before it with respect to assessments of federal employees 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 groups candidate triumphs regardless of action that may be taken in the courts to punish those practicing illegal election methods and those exercising political pressure there are indications that the senate may be called upon to consider the probability of excessive money being used in behalf of the victorious candidates besides its pronouncement on tenne tennessee S se e the committee asked postmaster general parley farley to in vesti gate the distribution of a political circular by the farm security administration in south dakota the circular it was said was sent out under government frank fra wal to aid the senatorial candidacy of former gov tom berry of south dakota the committee also dispatched investigators vesti gators to to georgia illinois indiana north dakota and california it heard reports from its investigators already at work in pennsylvania and kentucky and sent them back for additional information n bonso conso it dismissed from consideration aln a c harge charge that a recent statement by administrator hopkins that 90 percent per cent of workers would vote for the roosevelt administration was coercive the committee said th the e statement was in answer to a pre press s q question fuestion and was in no way a dictation to workers bar hits labor ad act COMMITTEE reports received by J the house of delegates of the american americ s n bar association in session in cleveland denounced the national labor relations act as intensifying class clas s antagonisms and condemned despotic tendencies of governmental administrative tribunals the committee on labor employment me nt and social security in its re port said the labor act is the deliberate embodiment of a new social policy in which the government has departed from the traditional role of bf mediator and arbiter the assault on governmental administrative agencies such as the securities and exchange commission interstate commerce commission ion N L R B and others was contained in a report of the committee on administrative law head ed by former derin roscoe pound of harvard university law school this attack custins 10 absolutism tendencies of the bureaus was assailed bitterly by jerome N frank SEC commissioner who charged that it was defamatory utilities io fo be heard pa 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 the power industry in matters 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 bol holdings dings in the southeast where the TVA is offering cheap power to municipalities and rural operatives cooperatives co debt payment rumors FROM ROM a london correspondent comes the report that preliminary 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 a ago go by ambassador kennedy and british prime minister chamberlain were carried forward in secret talks in paris among secretary of the treasury ambassador bullitt french foreign minister bonnet and finance minister Marchan deau both britain and france says the correspondent have expressed willingness to conclude a final settlement on the basis of the principal and not the interest of the original debts which aggregated contracted by britain and by france but in the contemplated settlement britain and france are asking for a reduction of the principal of the original debts which if granted would serve as the foundation for arranging the payment texas picks a yankee T democrats in their mary selected a yankee to be the next governor of the state W lee adamel OD ODa amel alel born in ohio and raised on a kansas E farm received a clear majority over 11 other candidates for the nomi nomination natio n which is equi equivalent valen t to election odaniel Is a nour flour jobber he cam w with ith a hill jfe t v billy band and a platform that in m f eluded the ten corn com W lee mand ments and the odaniel golden rule ridicule of professional politicians promise of a business administration and more liberal pensions for the aged more important nationally was the fact that rep bep maury maverick leader of 0 a considerable bloc in congress wis was defeated for by paul kilday asan a san antonio attorney maverick Is an enthusiastic new dealer kilday says he be will not be a rubber stamp two other administration backers were defeated tor for they were representatives W 1 D macfarlane and morgan sanders disaster in bogota THIRTY SEVEN persons were L killed and injured when a colombian army plane 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 pr president resident and president elect of Colom colombia bla and many foreign diplomats these narrowly escaped death the pla plane was heading an acrobatic parade and after its wings struck the sides of the grandstand it nose dived into the shrieking mass of men women and children hoffman dares NLRB C blare LARE E HOFFMAN can congressman from MICH gan has challenged the national la bor relations board in the matter of 61 constitutional gua guarantees guaranties guaran canties ties of freedom of speech and ol 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 hodman declared that known know n communists were active in the C ommittee committee for industrial organization and denounced C 1 I 0 sit down strikes as communistic methods this speech hoffmans Hod mans letter said was republished with illustrations trat ions by the constitutional educational cat ional league of new haven conn 1 I am now offering and intend to continue to offer to furnish to any and all interested persons including employees employers or others copies of this address tor for circulation at the actual cost of printing and to recommend that employees might well read this address before joining the C 1 I 0 commenting on the letter representative senta tive hoffman said that the boards ruling would preclude the distribution of newspapers containing news Items or editorials critical of any organization or of activities of the labor board the american federation of labor charged in its official organ the american that of the wagner act Is threatening american democracy the publication printed an editorial bluntly accusing the national labor relations board of promoting the rival committee tor 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 ia I 1 0 O gives the same recognition it continued surely this Is not freedom tor for workers to choose their own unions and representatives tor for collective bargaining but union development under government patronage W to expand business loans JESSE JONES C CHAIRMAN reconstruction finance corporation announced a new policy tor for forcing the expansion of business loans by which competitor banks will be pitted against each other when a loan applicant approved by the is turned down by his local bank an agent will contact the bank and try to persuade it to participate in the loan if it refuses jesse jones ones the he agent then will contact a competitor bank in its most optimistic monthly business survey of the year the federal reserve board said industrial production is on the increase and available data indicate that I 1 in n july the index will show a considerable rise chairman jones put huge re r sources of the reconstruction F n nance corporation behind the puk pub lie he works program he and AA ickes agreed that ever possible would maki mak loans for public construction ani and would conserve its mo money ney exclusively c clu lu for outright grants hitherto 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 had to furnish oil all the money itself R blames GOP for debt or OF agriculture S SECRETARY WALLACE blames the republican 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 government playing the part of nurse the secretary said the federal debt of the democratic thirties I 1 ii being carried with ease by a country restored to health he took his audience through a set of figurea which he said showed total debts in the united states today to be less than in 1930 private debts for instance he said are under the 1932 total and less than in 1930 hull prods cardenas S SECRETARY OV OF STATE HULL out of patience with mexico sent to president cardenas a sharp note protesting medicos cos 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 th secretary has in this th the e full approval of president roosevelt tor for the administration feels that cardenas is endangering the good neighbor relations between the two countr countries Jeo sen key pittman of the senate foreign relations committee also backs up mr hull asserting that it if mexico refuses to arbitrate she will be subject to economic penalties mexico he said then would forfeit all the financial a and nd other voluntary aid we have g riven iven her br through our spirit of friend friendship nhip and desire for peace prosperity 04 vy tv building of that coun country tty |