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Show POWER TANGLE j ! IDEA ADVANCED Congressman Would Shift Muscle Shoals Puzzle Onto Commission WASHINGTON. March 4. (By the Associated Press) Proposal that congress create a "Muscle Shoals commission" to adjust legal differ J ences involved in disposition of the government's war built properties In ; Alabama and to direct sale or lease j of the projects to pilrale Interest? ' made today by Chairman Kahn of the house, military affairs commit I tee, but failed to receive the support ! of the minority members of the com-; mlttee which baa pending before It thp three offers for the properties n Cpived bj the government ENTERS OB1ECTION Representative Field?. Kentucky ranking mlnorlt committeeman, de clared with respect to the Kahn pro posnl that congress itseli would have to decide upon plan to develop Muscle Shoals, and it was not a ques- tion lo be solved by am group of 1 ab ! Inet officers as representath es of tbe ; executive branch of the Kovcrnraent. In announcing his proposal for the 1 commission in the form of a state , ment, Chairman Kahn took pains to have it understood that he spoke onh I for himself acting as an indhidual : rather than as committee chairman. 1 He said he believed alter a three weeks' careful Investigation of the of era made by Henry Ford, the Ala bama Power company and Frederick E Kngstnim. of Wilmington, N C, for the completion, operation, lease and purchase of the shoals projects, that the suggested commission offered the 1okIi.iI and probably only practical wav of reaching a proper decision on the question. ONLY PERSONAL IDEAS Field? explained also that he had expressed his attitude on the commission commis-sion suggestion in a personal way 1 and not as a member of the military j body. The commission would be composed of representatives of the war. treas ury and agricultural departments, under un-der Mr Kahn's scheme, and be em I powered to straighten out government ; tangles as to existing contracts and enter into either a sale or a lease or construction arrangement for the future fu-ture development of Muscle Shoals. |