U.3.J. HOUSTON 
EVENING PRESS NEWS 
29 JULY 1938 
NAT I ON/ JL KEYS 
Knoxville 
Joint Congressional Committee temporarily lifted restrictions 
today to permit the TV,'. Chairman 4ar court Morgan to inject 
an oral reference to "Personalities" into the record. The 
committeemen are inquiring into charges of the former board 
chairman, Dr. Arthur Morgan, that the authority was mismanaged. 
The congressional investigators recently banned oral personal 
attacks. Harcourt Morgan was granted permission to answer 
Dr. Arthur Morgan’s charges orally. Said Harcourt Morgan, 
"Dr. .Morgan’s charges resulted from unreasoning distrust, and 
suspicion and were not supported by facts. rJ e tried to create 
a false picture of dissension within the TVA Board." 
P hiladelphia 
n. bandit pleaded for a long sentence and got a short one. 
Melvin spencer appeared before Judge Crumlish on a charge of 
robbing a home. The bandit said he wanted the longest sen- 
tence. the Judge could give him. He explained that he had 
been in trouble with the lav/ ever since he was a j^oung boy 
and wanted to go to prison to rehabilitate himself and learn • 
enough to got a, good job on his release • Said Judge Crumlish, 
” 1 oungman , I was going to give you ton years, but I am going 
to sentence you to throe years. I suspect there’s something 
worthy in you." 
Boston 
Flood waters menaced several communities today in the Boston 
metropolitan area. The bursting of a mill dam sent tons of 
water pouring into the already badly flooded sections of 
Needham, Dedham, and Dover. Officials in Dedham and Needham 
described conditions as serious, but hold out hope for im- 
provement on the basis of a fair weather forecast. 
'i\T, 
ihington 
a irec for all fight was squelched today during the LaFollette 
Civil Liberties Committee hearings on the "Little Steel" 
strike; of .1937 . The row broke out when three men were pointed 
out by onion or go. izer John Steuben as labor spies. The 
organizer said that the three men had been leaders of a group 
which hud. tried to keep union officials from speaking over an 
-Heron. radio station. Steuben said that the men had threatened 
him. with a gun when he escorted a union speaker into the station. 
Chairman LaFollette had difficulty in preventing the fight. 
Then the men finally calmed down , LaFollette said, "The' Commit too 
wishes testimony on those events, not to see them reenacted." 
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