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Salients in the Day's News

DEMOCRATS WITH F. D. R.

A challenge to the new born American Liberty League to proceed with re-alignment of political parties came tonight from high administration quarters as a phalanx of Democratic senators hastened to disassociate themselves from any conservative, bi-party backfire against the New Deal.

First administrative re-action to the League sponsored by Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, and prominent Republicans came from Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickles, a progressive Republican New Dealer. He welcomed the League in the belief it would lead to realignment of parties in this country.

Gen. Hugh S. Johnson and Donald Richberg, head of the President's executive council, were in a hard hitting bout tonight over the future of NRA.

President Roosevelt will award the decision tomorrow. Odds are about even.

Sen. Huey P. Long announced through the telephone from Baton Rouge today that his only unfinished business in Louisiana was to get Mayor I. Semmes Walmsleyhof, New Orleasn out of office

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