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Show FARM BUREAU BARES BIS BRIBE FARMERS RECEIVE OFFER OF $2,E00,000 TO KEEP NITRATE PLANT FROM FORD Affidavits Concerning Deal Furnished House Military Committee by American Farm Bureau Federation Washington. A sensational charge that the Alabama farm bureau federation feder-ation has been offered a virtual bribe of $2,500,000 if it would seek to obtain ob-tain from the government the leasing of Muscle Shoals nitrate plant No. 2, and thus defeat the efforts of Henry-Ford Henry-Ford to lease the entire project, was made in documents made public Friday Fri-day by the American farm bureau federation. fed-eration. , In a letter Roy C. Bishop, secretary of the Alabama ilirm bureau federation, federa-tion, alleged that he had been approached ap-proached by General R. E. Steiner, who urged that the Alabama federation federa-tion seek to lease nitrate plant No. 2, to assure a supply of fertilizer for the farmers, and promised that the company purchasing the rest of the project would make "a contribution of $2,500,000 to the federation." Bishop then charged that Steiner was a representative of the Alabama. Power company. A connection with the Alabama Power company was denied by Steiner, Stein-er, Bishop said- Steiner also promised to guarantee 100,000 horsepower to operate the nitrate ni-trate plant, Bishop alleged. The whole proposal was promptly-rejected, promptly-rejected, a statement of Gray Silver, Washington representative of the American farm bureau federation, said. He presented the affidavits to the house military committee. An affidavit signed by Gaston Scott of Montgomery, Ala., also was presented, pre-sented, in which he states that Steln-er's Steln-er's law partner, Weil, told him that Steiner was "representing the power company in certain matters." ' |