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JAMES P. POPE TO BE APPOINTED WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 27. President Roosevelt has definitely assured friends on Capitol Hill that Senator James P. Pope, Democrat, Idaho, defeated for renomination, will be appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, it was learned today. A stanch New Dealer, Pope will succeed Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, whom the President discharged early in the year for "contumacy." Dr. Morgan created the controversy within TVA which led to the present congressional investigation. He charged his co-directors, David Lilienthal and Harcourt A. Morgan, Avith waste and misdirection, and split with them over the extension of power projects. Pope, who believes in increasing TVA public power sales, was defeated for renomination by D. Worth Clark, who styles himself an independent Democrat.
