The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-04-20

hoped to find good
VI w. ~ WITT 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-
Tor, all, like the hostess, connected with
the government, and Lawrence Todd,
chief of the lass, 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; DR.. Frederick Howe, consum-
ers' counsel for the agricultural ad-
justment administration, and Henry T.
Rainey, speaker of the house Of repre-
sentatives.
The most serious charges made by
the gentleman from Indiana were d.
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 Ameri-
cans who insist that there should be
a real investigation Of any govern
ment officials seeking to undermine
the present form Of government.
The committee, having heard Writ,
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.
7 OTIS Of pickering resulted from the
- 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, and this was indignant
~ denied by numerous persons who
were in position to know its truth or
falsity. Secretary Of the Interior
Ickes accused Doctor Writ of having
sought to obtain public works money
for "Fairyland' project in the In
diana dunes by which Doctor Writ
was to sell 1000 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 wi
sionary and impractical" Mr.. 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 1t for park purposes.
Representative McGugin of Kansas,
Republican member of the Investigate
ing committee, was gagged" when he
tried to make q. speech on the case
In the house, but managed to get it
inserted In the Congressional Record.
At the same time the Department Of
Justice was seeking to revive a five
year old matter In which McGugin
appeared as lawyer for Mrs. Bar
nett, wife Of the wealthy Indian Jack
son Barnett.
nESPITE the opposition of the
~ house leaders and the doubt Of
its approval by the President, Sena-
tor CUuzens persisted in his effort
to put through his amendment to the
tax bill calling for a fiat 10 per cent
increase In all income tax returns.
Chairman Pat Harrison Of the senate