| Show UND Pau ey Fight Gains New Significance By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Many Many senators lena sena ena- ena tors that the confirmation continuation continua confirma tion row over charming Ed Pauley aa as undersecretary of ot the navy vy lies has taken on new significance significance sig- sig sig now that Secretary Harold Ickes Icke has offered Ralph DavIes the tho Job of ot underscore cre tary of ot the interior It happens happen that that- lell Da and Ed Pauley are bosom friends Both arc are oil men Both have followed the tho policy of ot scratch my back I Ill I'll cratch This Is important Recently Secretary Icke who line has a crusading record for guarding the nations nation's resources recommended to Pr President Truman Truman Tru Tru- man that naval oil reserves be transferred from the navy to the interior d department It was Just such a transfer by Albert K Fall In tho the Harding administration admin that r resulted in the Teapot Dome oil all scandal No motive is attributed to the tha Ickes proposal except that of at safeguarding oil all In fact tact some people consider it sig significant sig- sig Ig- Ig that his proposal happened happened happened hap hap- to coincide by luck or otherwise with the nomination of oil aU man n Pauley to be undersecretary undersecretary under under- s secretary of at the navy But what senators consider important is that with Pauley's friend DavIes offered the tho job of undersecretary of ot tho the in interior interior in- in tenor the tho navys navy's o oil oti l lands no matter where they are located located- In interior or navy wIll navy will be partially par par- under Pauley or a friend of at hi his Mexican Oil on Deal Relation Deal Relation Relationship ship between DavIes and Pauley has been extremely close Davies was executive vice president of Standard Oil of of California Pauley sold him his own independent independent inde inde- pendent oil company Later Pauley brought DaVies to WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington introduced him to Ickes following which Davies became Ickes' Ickes deputy oil all administrator He did a good Job However state department officials l say he continued to look out for tor Pauley When Pauley was trying to lobby his octane high Mexican ga gasoline plant through the government government gov gov- it had to pass pas the hurdle of at Ickes' Ickes petroleum ad ad- ministration Davies approved it not not only approved it but pushed it vigorously At first Ickes also gave it hi his blessing The state department however was WM vigorously opposed Showdown came caine in a 8 secret session between Ickes Davies a DavIes aid dd and Assistant Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- of ot State Dean Acheson The full story of ot th this session was WM never really told at the senate hearing Acheson opened by giving Ickes a very careful diagnosis of why the Mexican octane high-octane gasoline plant should not be built by Pauley He took up point after point his hi main argument argument ment being that the Mexican government would have to pay such a high price to Pauley that it would sour mur U. U Mexican S.-Mexican re relations ye- ye lations lation After Acheson had finished Ick Ickes turned to Pauley Pauley's friend Davies and 8 asked ked Why Thy didn't you tell me these things 7 didn't know them I either Davies replied Then turning to h his aid he Why didn't you tell me these thue things 1 Ickes immediately reversed revered himself threw his hIli weight against Pauley That is la the thereal thereal thereal real inside of ot how hov the Pauley octane plant for tor Mexico was WM stopped Capital Chaff When Chaff When white roses were passed out in the tho house honoring F D Rz Ra birthday birthday birth birth- day the only man who flatly refu refused ed to wear one was waa Representative tentative Dudley G. G Roe Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat of ot Sudlersville Maryland Latest congressional quip on President Truman Hes the second Missouri compromise Those who sit zit backstage with Truman say hes he's by no means the compromise John Snyder makes him appear to be Truman is Ia again listening listening listen listen- ing to his his' old friend Senator Harley Kilgore of ot Vest West Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia an nn outstanding legislator Copyright Copyright 1946 B Bell Syndicate |
