Washington, Sept. 3.
(CHARGES of political election irregularities accumulated at the headquarters of the Congressional Committee investigating current election practices today from fourteen states as political observers predicted one of the most sensational investigations of the American political system in years. A Committee member revealed tonight that new charges of irregularities in California had been added to the Committee's vast amount of information, but the nature of the charges were not disclosed, Meanwhile, President Roosevelt pushed his campaign to purge Congress of conservative Democrats and Republicans, Political strategists believed the President's battle against conservative Democrats was an effort: to enable the liberal Democrats to name the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1940. They refused to speculate, however, whether the President himself hoped to be the liberal nominee.
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