Evening star., 1934-08-25
Formation of Board Expect
ed-FinaI Decision Due
in Fortnight.
RUM0R OF SHARP BREAK
WITH RICHBERG DENIED
President to Hold Conferences at
Hyde Park-Seen Siding
Against General.
BY the Associated Press.

Ry LLlC ASSOCldbS0
One-man rule of N. r. A. appar-
emily is drawing to close, as>ough
Hugh S. johnson is slated to continue
as administrator.
A new temporary set-up to be put
into operation in two weeks is ex-
pected to relieve the colorful Blue
Eagle chief of some of the burden.
Ignoring reports of a sharp dis
agreement over fundamental policy
between johnson and Donald r.
Richburg, President Roosevelt said
yesterday that final conferences on
this set-up will be held at the Sum-
mer White House at Hyde Park within
fortnight.
After that, the administration will
draft a request to the next Congress
to make some features of N. r. A.
permanent, including child labor pro-
hibition, maximum work hours and
fair trade practices.
Both Deny Break.
Both Johnson and Richberg, the
administrations chief co-ordinator,
denied yesterday there was any break
between them. There were signs,
though. of some divergence Of opinion
about the future of the Blue Eagle,
possibly striking deep into the realm
Of fundamental economic theory. The
impression Of some persons close to
the scene is that the President has
sided with Richberg's views.
The belief that some sort of board
would tighten Johnson's task was
strengthened by q remark of the ad-
ministrator himself. He said:
I've got to have more time to my
self. I can't go along working on
policy forming in connection with my
other work"
The President said Johnson GER
tainly would continue as admins
traitor, possibly devoting less time to
details
Some observers thought that a plan
for reorganizing the N. r. AS ma
chinery had already been completed,
but that johnson had frowned upon
some of its features This, they be-
| lieved, was the reason for the two
week delay in reaching a final deci-
sion.
1t was in talking with reporters at
his press conference yesterday that
Mr.. Roosevelt ignored reports of
sharp differences of opinion between
johnson and Richberg over funda-
mentalS of reorganization.
Instead he pointed out that the re-
covery act lapSes June 16, 1885, and
added that obviously" there would
have to be legislation before that time
If any portion of the act is to be
made permanent. Obviously, he add
ed, some of it will be.
Confer Separately.
Johnson and Richberg conferred
separately with the President. Both
men were emphatic in their remarks
to reporters that there had been no
break between them.
OF the reported disagreement,
johnson said:
so far as am concerned, I have
never had any disagreement with
Richberg"
Richberg said:
There are no fundamental differ
ences Of opinion between the general
and myself"
Nevertheless, there we're definite in
dications Of some deep undersurface
conr1lct OF economic ideas involved IN
the reorganization of N. r. A.
johnson emphasized the reorgani-
cation program was one originally
proposed by him before the President
left on his recent Hawaiian cruise.
On the other hand, Richberg said
the two weeks interim before the Hyde
Park meetings was fixed so as to give
"the General time to work out his
own ideas"
In view of this, many were quick
to infer that virtually complete pro-
gram, at least so far as administra-
tive machinery is concerned, had been
evolved containing features not to
the recovery administrator liking,
apd that he had been given two weeks
i'll which to decide whether he could
accept them.