The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-27

~ licans, who h ad
-. hoped to find good
O'' W. - WI" political material in
the affair, asserted that gag rule had
been enforced.
The revelation of the alleged scheme
of the radicals, said Writ, came to him
at a dinner given by Miss Alice Bar
rows at country house near Wash
ington. The other guests were Robert
Bruere, David G. Coyle, Miss Hide
garde Kneeland and Miss Mary Tay-
lor, all, like the hostess, connected with
the government, and Lawrence Todd,
chief of the Tass, official Soviet gov
eminent news agency in the United
States. From their conversation, Writ
said, he gathered that men high in the
councils of the administration were
plotting the overthrow of the Ameri-
can social order and that they con-
sidered President Roosevelt as an
other Kerensky to be followed by an
other Stain. The six men named by
Writ were Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace; Prof. Rexford Guy
Tugwell, assistant secretary Of agri-
culture and recognized head of the
brain trust; Prof. Milburn L. Wilson,
head of the subsistence homestead d.
vision of the Department of Interior;
DR.. Robert Kohn, head of the housing
division of the public works admins
tration; DIR. Frederick Howe, consum-
ers' counsel for the agricultural adj
justment administration, and Henry T.
Rainey, speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives.
The most serious charges made by
the gentleman from Indiana were di-
rected at Professor Tugwell; but his
basis for these, as for practically all
of his story, was hearsay, secondhand
information and vague statements by
some of his fellow guests at the din
ner. In that lay it's weakness, though
there are many serious-minded Amerf-
cans who insist that there should be
a real investigation of any govern
ment officials seeking to undermine
the present form of government.
adjourned for some days with the in
tention Of calling as witnesses those
who attended the country house din
ner. Some of them already had denied
fatty or belittled the statements made
by Writ. Chairman Bulwinkle of the
committee intimated that there was
no intention of summoning the "higher
ups named by Writ, or anyone else;
so it seemed likely the whole inquiry
would fizzle out.
T OTIS of pickering resulted from the
IL Writ case, and in this some of
the Democrats concerned did not make
a good showing. Chairman Bulwinkle
of the committee, for instance, as
serted that Writ was imprisoned at
Gary during war times for pro-Ger-
man activities. Later on Mr.. Bull
Wrinkle retracted this charge and made
an apology In speech before the
house. Secretary of the Interior Ickes
accused Doctor Writ of having sought
to obtain public works money
for a "Fairyland" project in the In
diana dunes by which Doctor Writ
was to sell 1900 front feet of dune
land along Lake Michigan at $50
foot, total sale price Of 100000.
The project was disapproved by the
Public Works administration as "vi-
sionary and impractical" Ickes said.
Doctor Writ issued a denial of Sec
rotary Ickes' tale, explaining that he
had no connection with the proposed
project and that the company with
which he was connected had held the
land in question for II years to pre-
serve it for park purposes.
CAMUEL INSULT, fallen utilities
- magnate, is on his way home to
be tried for his alleged misdoings in
connection with the bankruptcy of his
financial empire. Turned over to the
American authorities by the Turkish
government, he was taken from Istan-
bull by coastal steamer and train 20
Smyrna and there put aboard the
American export liner Exilona. He is
due to land in New York about May 20.
Burton Y Berry, third secretary of
the American embassy at Istanbul, was
designated to accompany insult on the
trip to the United States.
IF HENRY A. WALLACE has his
L way, Arthur w. Cutten, millionaire
member of the Chicago wheat pit, will
be barred from future trading on grain
exchanges. The secretary of agricul-
ture summoned Cutten to appear be-
fore the Grain Futures administration
In Chicago on May IA to answer
charges of failing to report his trades,
as required by the grain futures act,
with making false reports, and with
concearing his trades through false en-
tries, dummy accounts and other col
lusive practices. The alleged offenses
were committed in 1880 and 1881.
BECAUSE of reports that Colombia
II had hired "a American aviators
and was seeking to give contracts to
so more through its consul general in
New York, the Department of State
issued a notice saying:
1.-The United States disapproves of
American citizens taking service in
the armed forces of any foreign gov
eminent and, If Americans do so, it is
on their sole responsibility and risk
and they cannot look to their govern
ment for protection while in such
services"
g by Western Newspaper Union