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The Congressional co-unit toe investiagting the affairs of the 
TVA tried today to got at the bottom of charges that board 
minutes wore altered by TVA Director David Lilienthal. 
The Assistant Secretary of the Authority, Charles Hoffman, 
testified lato yesterday that Lilienthal asked him to re- 
move certain matters from the minutes before the opening of 
the Congressional investigation. Hoffman returned to the 
witness stand today. Committee Chairman Vic Donahey, of 
Ohio planned to call Lilienthal to the stand later to answer 
Hoffman’s charges. The ousted T.V.A. Director, Dr. Arthur 
Morgan, finished his testimony after the TVA employees had 
been instructed by committee counsel not to talk to him 
except on authorization. Hoffman also testified that he 
had been told not to discuss tho TVA with Dr. Morgan. The 
committee promptly ruled that any TVA emploj'-ee may talk freely. • 
with any person not involved in the investigation. Hoffman 
charged that board records he was asked to delete concerned 
transfer of some private properties to public ownership. 
Congress authorized the present investigation after P osident 
Roosevelt removed Dr. Morgan from' the TVA Board. Dr. Morgan 
had charged that his co-directors, Lilienthal and Harcourt 
Morgan, refused to cooperate with him, but refused to detail 
his complaints to the President. 
New York 
Labor Secretary Prances Perkins will return to the U.S. today 
aboard tho U.S. Liner Washington. Secretary Perkins is re- 
turning from the International Labor Organization Conference 
which opened its sessions at Geneva on Juno 2. 
■Washington 
Chairman John Hamilton of the Republican National Committee 
said today that recent statements by W.P.A. Administrator 
.Harry Hopkins were a definite indication that President 
Roosevelt was contemplating running for a third term. The 
Republican delegate referred specifically to a statement in 
which Hopkins said that ninety per cent of tho three million 
persons on relief rolls would vote for Mr. Roosevelt. 
Washington 
U.S. Treasure reports indicated this morning that the tide of 
gold is flowing Into the U.S. again. The Treasury announced 
that in the last three months one hundred twenty four million . 
dollars worth of gold was imported. During the previous 
three months the gold had been flowing out of the country. 
Financial quarters attributed the turn of the gold tide to 
war and rumors abroad. 
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