Evening star. [volume], November 11, 1934, Page A-9, Image 9

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"WASTE" INQUIRY
BEGUN BY HOPKINS
Relief Administrator Asks
Senator Borah for His
Evidence.
My the Associated Press.
Making good his promise of quick
action, Relief Administrator Harry L.
Hopkins yesterday ordered a "prompt
and searching inquiry" Into assertions
by Senator Borah that "shameful
waste" has attended distribution of
Federal cash to the needy.
Hopkins assigned his chief Investiga
tor. Dallas W Dort, to the Inquiry and
requested the Idaho Republican Inde
pendent Senator to turn over to Dort
any evidence of waste or wrong-doing
he might have.
Borah agreed to see Dort early this
week. He also wrote Hopkins it was
likely that "after talking with Mr.
Dort I should like to talk with you
personally."
Political Use Hinted.
Borah made his charges Friday
during a newspaper interview. He
hinted very strongly that some of the
money, in his opinion, had been used
for political purposes. Flat statements
to this effect have _been made openly
by other Republicans.
Hopkins Immediately accepted
Borah's challenge, asserting if the
Senator would be good enough to fur
nish him with a "bill of particulars"
he would promise "quick action."
Relief Administration officials have
figured that it is costing about II1/·
per cent of the hundreds of millions
of dollars spent for relief, to defray,
costs of administration.
Borah said reports had come to him
of instances in the West where the
cost reached 50 per cent or more.
He said four days before the elec
tion $30,000 was sent to a town in
Idaho of about 10.000 population and
that the administrator, a Democrat,
reported there was no need for such
an amount and that he had not re
quested it.
Expenditures "Appalling."
The Idahoan asserted every one
wanted to see those who need relief
get it. but "millions never reach those
who need It."
"The amount expended before it
gets to those in need is appalling," he
added.
Hopkins wrote Borah yesterday as
follows :
"Statements in the newspapers in
dicate that you stated that you had
evidence of a shameful waste of re
lief funds.
"I have asked Mr. Dallas W. Dort,
our chief Investigator, to make an in·
vestigation of these charges and
would appreciate it very much If
you will make available to him the
evidence upon which these charges
are based, so that we may make a
prompt and searching Inquiry at once.
"You can be sure that no conditions
which you state exist will be toler
ated for a moment."
Replying, Borah wrote:
"I shall be glad to talk with Mr.
Dort at any time during the coming
week. It may be that after talking
with Mr. Dort I should like to talk
with you personally.
"May I be permitted to say that I
io not question the concluding sen
tence of your letter."
BYRD UNITS FIGHT
NEW DISTURBANCE
Slow Progress of Reorgan
ized Southern Field Par
ties Reported.
By the Associated Press.
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, No
vember 10 (Via Mackay Radio).—Un
der direction of Admiral Richard
Byrd, the reorganized southern field
parties of this expedition today were
moving under gray sides toward their
various objective·.
Qui η Blackburn's geological party
—consisting of himself as leader.
Stuart Page and Richard Russell—
this morning reported It was at lati
tude 61.41.1 south, longitude 159.51
west.
With the party were two teams
driven by Finn Ronne and Albert
Eilefsen, detached from the former
plateau party. These two Norwegians
are to act in support of the geological
party and will lay down food bases
along 300 miles to cover its retreat
from the Queen Maude Range.
Interference of Fog.
The two tractor units under Demas,
having retreated from the belt of
crevasses and pressure ridges south of
the sixty-first parallel which had
blocked their southern advance, this
morning were hove to at a dead reck
ming position of latitude 60.59, longi
tude 158.42. Fog which reduced visl
blllty to zero made travel Impossible
it this position.
The tractors were 20 miles east of
150-mlle depot on the original trail.
They are striving to break through
the arc of crevasses to penetrate the
explored area to the southeast of Lit
tle America.
With the tractor unit are the two
scientists originally in command of the
former plateau party, Charles Gill
Morgan, geologist and geophyslclst,
and Dr. Erwln Bramhall, physicist.
With his seismic sounding appa
ratus, an Innovation in Antarctic re
search, Morgan hopes to be able to
run a profile across the barrier surface
along their track, and if it can be
gained, the high land thought to lie
beyond.
Walt on Blizzard.
For two days Paul A. Siple's Marie
Byrd land party has been camped at
Mount Orace McKinley, waiting for a
blizzard to blow itself out, so that
hey can undertake their pioneering
exploration along the Edeel Ford
Range. Slple reported all's well.
The organization of the southern
parties followed upon the discovery,
November 4, that the tractors had no
hope of getting through the crevasses
south of the sixty-first parallel. The
various details were swiftly adjusted
by radio November 6.
The geological party, instead of
wasting the time to swing west to
retrace the passage through the cre
vassed area they had earlier crossed,
decided to attempt a crossing at the
point where the tractors conceded de
feat. After an all-day\struggle, they
finally got through.
Blackburn said the belt of disturb
ance was six miles broad and much
worse than to the west. It took them
all day to make seven miles.
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