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THE EVTPTOfO | BTAIL Washington. D. C
FBl's Dixon-Yates Role
Denounced by Kefauver
ay a» Auocuud rttu canceled, and were not making
The Dixon >Yates contract an investigation,
swirled into new controversy to-! Senator Kefauver. saying
day over the Eisenhower admin- jhe would a full
Istratioo’s use of FBI agents to {accounting, declared the FBI
check on plans by the city of was intended to enforce laws
Memphis to build Its own power and “not to investigate the good
P l * ol - faith of city administrations."
Senator Kefauver, Democrat. The Senator said he would
of Tennessee, called it a “shock- consult his colleagues on the
ing misuse of the FBI” and asked Senate Anti-monopoly subcom
in a statement: mittee "about the advisability of
'ls there no limit to which calling (Attorney General)
this politically-minded adminis- Bfrownell to explain.”
tration will go in order to carry Both sides in the controversy
water for the private power in- over the Dixon-Yates contract
terests?” claimed victory in the Senate’s
The Justice Department said approval yesterday—with strings
the FBI men were simply as- attached—of $6.5 million for a
signed to get tacts helpful to a power line to link the proposed
determination of whether the private plant with the Tennes-
Dixon-Yates contract should be see Valley Authority system.
Martial Law in Alert
Defended by President
Defending his action in issuing
a martial law order during the
recent “Operation Alert.” Presi
dent Eisenhower said today that
the study and experience will
prove immensely beneficial for
more effective civil defense.
He announced also that he ex
pects to make public a report
being prepared by Attorney Gen
eral Brownell on the historical
background and legal justifica
tion for the action he took in
the hypothetical emergency dur
ing the recent civil defense test
directly involving this city and
several other large communities.
Mr. Eisenhower disclosed that
when he left the White House
for the mountain shelter pro
vided for the President, he pur
posely did not ask to be in
formed in advance about the
conditions of the test.
Later he was told, he said,
that more than 50 cities were
theoretically destroyed in the
make-believe hydrogen bomb at
tacks. He declared he had no
recourse except to take charge
Immediately, particularly because
Congress itself was widely dis
persed and the situation called
for Immediate and forceful ac
tion. Before acting, however, he
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requested the Attorney Gneral
to determine from past history
and legal authorities whether
such an order would be proper
and necessary to protect the
Government in such an emerg
ency.
Apparently Mr. Eisenhower
meant that in the event of an
actual attack Congress would
have been dispersed. Congress
did not take part in “Operation
Alert.”
Transit Strike Set
In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, July 6 (JPfr-
The CIO Transport Workers
Union has called for a strike
'Friday against the Philadelphia
Transportation Co., this city’s
only major public carrier.
The 37-man executive board
of TWU Local 234 voted the
strike yesterday after a confer
ence with PTC officials on the
company proposal to layoff 158
maintenance employes Friday.
Paul W. O’Rourke, president
of the local, said the company
had declined to schedule further
talks on the proposed layoffs,
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DOROTHY KIRSTEN TO MARRY
LOS ANGELES.—Singer Dorothy Kirsten poses with her
husband-to-be, Dr. John D. French, a neuro-surgeon at the
Long Beach Veterans’ Hospital and member of the staff at
the University of California at Los Angeles. They met last
January and plan to be married July 18, they said last
night.—AP Wirephoto.
which are opposed by the union. 1 :
William J. Macßeynolds, a I
company vice president, termed n
the layoffs “logical and neces-i
sary changes in transit opera
tion” and said the “management;
of the company . . . has the:
responsibility of determining thej)
number of employes required to ji
operate the system.” L
The union has held that the,
layoffs would result In “inade-i 1
quately maintained equipment”!!
and would require its 8,900 mem
bers to work “under conditions
; which are hazardous and unsafe.”
Military Advisers Meet
; BANGKOK, Thailand, July 6
(fl*).—Thailand Premier P. Plbul
jSonggram opened a three-day
meeting of military advisers of
{the Southeast Asia treaty powers
there today.
Confidential Dixon-Yates
Data Barred by President
CntiasN From First Fage
the idea of Memphis building a
plant.
Recalls Advice
He recalled also that advocates
of the private power contract
with Dixon-Yates attempted to
show him many months ago that
such a municipal plant would be
impossible or inadvisable in the
TV A area.
Mr. Wenaell’s name came up
when a reporter called attention
to a “controversy” brewing over
the calling of five witnesses by
the Kefauver committee. The
President said he had heard only
that Mr. Wenzell was to testify
today. He said he had no doubt
that the former utility invest
ment company official will tell
the subcommittee exactly what
he did during his brief service
with the Budget Bureau. He
added he also had no doubt that
Mr. Wenzell will testify freely on
all matters of fact.
The President emphasized
that, in the case of Mr. Wenzell
or any other person officially as
sociated with the Government,
it is not a proper matter of con
gressional committee investiga
tion to ask about private con
versations or personal opinions.
He warned that the effectiveness
of governmental operations con
ceivably could be wrecked if
congressional committees at
tempted to break down this con
fidential relationship between
superiors and subordinates in
administrative agencies. He
likened this relationship to that
of a lawyer and client.
Hie Dixon-Yates arrangement
involves a contract between the
Mississippi Valley Generating
Co.—a subsidiary of Middle
South Utilities and Southern Co.
—and the Atomic Energy Com
mission to furnish power from
the West Memphis plant to the
TV A at Memphis as replacement
for TV A power going to atomic
installations.
Mi- Eisenhower requested
transmission line funds to make
the hook-up before the public
power foes in Memphis balked.
But despite the change in the
situation, the Senate went ahead
and voted fdr the House-ap
proved item.
Party Squabble
For four hours yesterday after
noon Senate Democrats had a
family battle over the issue, with
TVA supporters bucking the pro
posed appropriation and Dixon-
Yates backers defending it. It
was the same sort of a public
power vs. private-power lineup
that marked House debate over
the money several weeks ago.
Republicans sat quietly on the
sidelines. A voice vote approved
the appropriation.
The House must agree to the
conditions written into the bill,
or It will go to conference.
Senators Ellender, Louisiana;
McClellan, Arkansas, and Hol
land, Florida, directed their
critfelsm at the expansion of the
TVA’s stream power-generating
facilities, which the Eisenhower
administration 4a s checked.
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Senator Ellender. in charge ol
, the SIJ billion public works Ml!
. which contained the tranmis
. sion lines money, said he hoped
\ Memphis did go through with Its
' own building plan, and recalled
that he had consistently op-
P; posed the expansion of the TVA
3 steam-plant system except when
r such facilities were needed tc
l insure a steady flow of electric
* current from hydro-electric
' Plants when low water cut down
' the generating potential.
Interpretation Asked
} Senator Anderson asked foi
l an interpreation of “definite
e commitment”—wanting to know
“ if it meant that Memphis must
; sißn a construction contract in
order .to void the appropriation
Senator Ellender said no. He
added that the Appropriation*
1 Committee, in voting out the
' legislation, simply wanted tc
* make sure that the money would
■ not be obligated if Memphis got
' its building program under way,
Senator Holland, another
‘ member of the committee, said
* the money would not be avail
‘ able if developments showed that
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’Memphis ms "irrevocably con-
J mitted” to tu plan.
’ Senator Holland caOod atten
.itkio to another praviao that
[ would withhold the money until
the Dixon-Yatea Anaiw-<«f had
if been ananaed and oonstracOon
v at Weet Memphis started.
‘ Senator Hffl, Democrat, of
' Alabama challenged the state
ment that the flnarw-ing had
if been settled, pointing out that
U the Securities and Exchange
i- Commission had not yet passed
d on MVO’s $l2O million barrow
* ing plan, and that the commis
d sion’s approval of a $6.5 minion
>- stock issue was now being fought
A in the courts.
" e Senator Kefauver denounced
° the Dixon-Yates arrangement as
c “iniquitous,” and accused the
ic President of using “Incredibly
n bad judgment” in directing the
Atomic Energy Commission to
negotiate the contract after turn
ing down a proposal by the TVA
>r to build another steam plant to
* meet the growing needs of the
w area.
With seeming reference to the
° Wenzell case. Senator Hum
, • phrey said the administra
e tion had “falsified records
15 and deluded Congress.” It
e had been brought out earlier
® that in issuing a chronological
“ account of Dixon-Yates negotia
tions, the Budget Bureau had
T - not mentioned Mr. Wenzell,
r whose employment in a non
d salaried capacity has been stout
- ly defended by Budget Director
t Hughes.
Michigan Takes ~
: The Latest Cake
[ On Garden Hoses
t GRAND RAPIDS, Mfefc, July
6 (£■).— Reports of garden hooes
I burrowing like males in the earth
' cropped up In Western Michigan
' today.
Roecoe K. Wald of Grand
i Rapids said he stuck the noazle
• of a hose into his front yard
garden yesterday and when he
1 turned the water on the thing
’ began disappearing, inch by
l inch.
i He called a neighbor, William
! R. Tu thill, to witness the phe
[ nomenon.
, The two men shut off the
. water and tried to retrieve the
, hose. But they couldn't pull it
i out of the ground. They bad to
: dig down four feet to get tt.
And in Kalamazoo James
i Bridgman said he had a similar
experience last Saturday. He
and two neighbors snapped off
i the hose trying to pull it out of
: the ground.
Western Michigan College
geologists in Kalamazoo offered
an explanation. They theorized
the stream of water washes sand
and soil in recesses in the
ground creating a vacumm that
sucks the hose into the earth.
But they added they weren t
sure.