Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1935 — Page 19

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ICKES IS NOW STORM CENTER OF NEW DEAL

Capital Wonders Whether PWA Chief Is Due to Hit Skids. BY ROBERT BROWN Tlm Spinal Writer WASHINGTON. Jan. 25— Harold L. Ickes, the Chicago lawyer who quit the Republican party to beconr a Roosevelt Democrat and later the President's most powerful Cabinet member, today is the storm center of the New Deal. Some say he is riding for a fall. Others predict the Ickes luck and stamina will carry on. So important has he become that his name, more than the $4,000,000,000 involved, this week delayed acti o n on the

emergency reemployment appropriation. Only Speaker Joseph Byrns’ pledge that Mr. Ickes would not administer the wrole fund forestalled an open revoltAn aggressive and hard-boiled; administ r a t o r, Secretary Ick?s has made the* Department c f Interior a vital factor in th e New Deal. But

Harold L. Ickes

his real fame rises from other duties acquired by presidential preference or personal conquest, which were placed under his jurisdiction. In all he holds 29 official or semiofficial offices. Protests No Good A.i administrator of the original $3,700,000,000 public works program he collided early with congressional seekers of patronage and pork. He ; refused even to see Congressmen j when they asked a review of some rejected project. He ruled that! every plea for money must stand I on its own feet. Protests went to the White House but the policy stood. Senators and Representatives alike talked of ‘‘insults,” ‘‘lack of co-operation” and “un-Drmocratic procedure,” but to no avail. This weeks pledge that Mr. Ickes would not be czar of reemployment was their first taste of j revenge. In the face of this hostile attitude, Rep. Edward T. Taylor <D., Colo.) defended Mr. Ickes on the floor of the House with the statement that ‘‘every cent expended so far could be accounted for.” Early in the PWA, Mr. Ickes ran afoul of Postmaster-General James A Farley. Emil Hurja, the Farley patronage dispenser, had been placed in a key job at PWA. Mr. Ickes demanded that Mr. Hurja be transferred. He was. Takes Swing at Farley This week Mr. Ickes, innocently j enough, took another swing at Mr. j Farley when the Interior Department’s publicity office circulated among all correspondents fascimile copiesof a magazine article attacking the conduct of ex-Congressman | Webber Wilson as federal judge in the Virgin Islands. Mr. Wilson was said in the article to have gotten his judgeship ‘‘via Cummings via Jim Farley via Pat Harrison.” Later the department announced that the j copies had been prepared for official use only and went to the press : by accident. I Last night Mr. Ickes apologized formally to Mr. Cummings. Mr. Farley and Senator Pat Harrison (D.. Miss.) for the attack. To police his far-flung enterprises. Mr. Ickes established an investigation division which has 35 regional offices and *OO operatives- j Spy System Is Denounced This spy system has been de-1 nounced from all corners of the: government, but Mr. Ickes has in- j sisted that so long as he spends! public money he must prevent. • chiseling.” In one year, 2515 in-1 vestigations of PWA contracts- alone were made, and nearly 1000 of them j resulted in refusal of allocations. Again Mr. Ickes stuck his chin: out when he expressed the opinion j that the Federal Housing Adminis- j t rat ion could not meet the needs of low-cost housing, and was obliged i to compose his public feud with Adminstrator James A. Moffett in a hastily called session at the White House. Mr. Ickes conceded jokingly today that “if a man worked hard at j it. he couldn't work up a bigger list of enemies than I have made.” i In his list of enemies. he t included | “contractors, public utility’ interests j and oil men.” Sought Only Minor Job “I have been forced to turn down contractors looking for soft touches and public utility interests who were afraid of being hurt under the PWA program.” he said. ”1 know some Congressmen aren’t j my friends. I've had to tun: some down both on jobs they wanted lor their constituents and projects they wanted approved for their districts.” When, following the election of; 1932. Harold Ickes thought he might! be useful in Washington, he aspired j no higher than the Indian commissionership. He had the support of Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali-! fornia. 4 He has gone far since the day he 1 met the President-elect in New York j City and sold himself not as Indian commissioner but as Secretary of the Intenor. s73illnYack wages RECOVERED BY NRA 241 Share Sum Restored Through Compliance Board. Tire Indiana NRA compliance division has adjusted 20 cases in the last two weeks with a restitution of $7311.28 in back wages to 241 employes in the state, it was announced today by Francis Wells, executive assistant state compliance officer. Eight cases were adjusted in Indianapolis with a total of $5941 collected for 211 employes. In Seymour, three cases were adjusted with 16 workers receiving $966 in back pay. Shelbyville Youth Is Killed By l'nite4 Prat VANDALIA. 0.. Jan. 25.—Leo Cox. 19. of Shelbyville, Ind., was killed and Carl Creach. 18. of Seven Mile, O. was injured seriously near here late yesterday when two grotor trucks collided at a highway intersection.

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