Show VA 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 n 6 W R E I 1 washington D 0 UTILITY sensations the hard hitting truman committee got around to the matter yet but some hot sensations are in store when the committee digs into the dollar a aye man ar handling ot of the power phases of th the e war production program r for or years one of the hottest issues in washington has been the power lobby it hta ht a been repeatedly hinves and several years ago otter fierce legislative battles t the he fed ed oral eral power and holding company laws were enacted to curb the the truman committee has con information that today this lobby is more powerfully entrenched in the capital than ever before for months it has been operating directly inside the government for mu mutating lating and running the power pol toy icy of the which was until last week the key war production agency the power division Is not only manned with utility but they are still on the payrolls of private power companies in other words while presumably working for the government they are actu oily ally paid employees of tile the utilities after being deluged with complaints that the utility ruled power division was secretly aiding aldin g independent rural power coops co aps ops the house appropriations committee ques questioned tinned J A krug head of the division on these charges krug defended his stall staff but the committee unconvinced ordered him to submit a 4 detailed report on his dollar a year assistants include ing the amount of salaries they are arc drawing from utility companies while working for the government two months have elapsed since krug promised to produce this important information and so far fair ho he has not done so all the committee has received was a cagey letter from john lord obrian lan former fo lor corporation attorney who wh isope as general counsel giving a list of the power divisions personnel but has nothing about their private salaries however tho the little information obrian did disclose speaks volumes it shows that no less than 18 key officials in drugs division are dol lar abear and without compensation pensa tion men who are still on private utility payrolls note appropriation committee members estimate that the total pay these men draw from power companies panics is more than a year war production chief donald nelson has privately indicated he will houseclean house clean drugs unit BAD FILMS FOR GOOD NEIGHBORS young nelson rockefeller who on the whole has done a good job tor for pan Aine american rican cultural relations has bogged down badly on films for our pan american neighbors his museum ot of modern art which was supposed to do this has been labor ing for nine months at a cost of 15 per month to the govern I 1 me men tand finally hns rought brought forth a mouse rockefeller and jock whitney are getting a large dose of criticism about this because they personally are interested in the museum and have permitted an amateur group to run the show into the ground without benefit of competitive bidding dir s or any system of checks and balances amateur after amateur in the museum has tackled the job ot of deciding what kind of films sho should ul d be ent cent r to latin america here is a boss cross section of the results so far better dresses fifth floor A child went forth the city and power and the land all utterly unsuited and without objective for south america some reasonably good com commercial mer films have been donated such as U S steel greyhound bus general electric excursions in sc science and the american can companas Comp anys silver millions also hollywood has handed over a group of pictures such as eyes of the navy soldiers of the sky the battle which are the best pictures that have gone to south america meanwhile the amateurs continue contin ue to chatter and muddle over uplifting the urns films for our good neighbors all at the expense of uncle sam MERRY GO ROUND C L navy secretary knox has a bust of theodore roosevelt on his desk C LB bakers akers in the army quartermaster corps are experimenting with tomato bread made by adding tomato juice or canned tomatoes rich in vitamins to the baking dough 4 C new york air raid wardens are complaining that every order they receive Is countermanded ive five I 1 minutes after it Is given fl E B craney montana radio man who Is a close friend of senator wheeler recently promoted financed and successfully completed a R red ed cross relief drive netting over 60 in 24 hours C rep william S hill of col colorado orado tried to drum up trade for pinto bean growers during his recent visit to britain lie he took with him a large bag of the beans and distributed them among british officials 1 I hoped they might include pintos in lend lease orders hill grins grans I 1 but ut the british still prefer their white I 1 beans I 1 |