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lii OVERS hhE
FIGHTING FORD
Alignment Of Mellon Brings Up
His Aluminium Interests.
DIRECTOR IN THE TRUST"
That Organization Has Power Inter
ests on the St. Lawrence-Huge Hy-
dro-EIectric Project Planned.


Washington, March eff all tho
moves on the checkerbOard al Wash
ington in the Muscle Shoals fight could
be accurately described: if all the i'll
tereStS that have had Il hand in Great
ing opposition to Henry FOrd'> Offer
could be forced into the open, and il
all the persons serving as catspaWS f0I
the big fellows in this interesting gAtn'
could be ferreted out and labeled, il
would be an extremely interesting
story.
Unfortunately. il is impossible to GET
all the facts in the absence of Il con-
@reSSiOnal investigation that would re-
Suit in SuhpOenaS for person and p1
pprS and cross-eXamining some OF
those concerned under oath.
Enough has been shown by the hear
iE~> on FOrd'S proposition, however,
ami other moves here, to prove to the
SIT Sfaction of unbiased observers that
wat has he>l suspected from the out
Sci is true, namely, that opposition OF
the NEST powerful character, especially
powerful because it is working from
the inside and under cover has beset
TIE Ford enterprise from the time of
lis public announcement.
The alignment Of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon against the Ford plan
I:.I been indicated from the begin
mig.
Mellon and his brother, r. B. Mellon
Cf Pittsburgh, are directors in the
Aluminium company of America. com
munly known as the aluminium
Try St" The treasury head is said TO
be the largest individual St0ckhOlder.
T., : corporation, which would be the
h ef beneficiary under the power
..e' el0pment plan on the st. Lawrence
II, el, now being pushed by the admin
~1.lti0n under the guiSe Of canaliZa-
n Ii. owns 3T00 acres of land on the
Al"er;can side of the st. Lawrence
nd las about 200 acres on the Cana
li"n side. at the point where the first
a. er development will be undertaken
the st. Lawrence canal is authorized
= vCTgre, $.
Colonel Hugh l.. Cooper, who so We
iatnTly denounced the Ford offer for
Gle Shoals before the house mill
affairs. committee, is the Alumni,
Trusts" hydraulic engineer, 1t de-
rs.
few days after Cooper was on the
I'd before the house committee he
ed all the Washington correspon-
n -
n roundup of the newspaper men
.;,$ done by a man who proved TO be
/ representative of the water power
interests. the correspondents, scent
l:r Il story, i'll many instances respon-
e.l. Colonel Cooper merely launched
no TRADE against the Ford offer
Il : Il good engineer and can discuss
i engineering problem Skillfully. He
compared Ford to 2. 7. Barnum. He
aid Ford's proposal 10 dam the Mis-
SIS ppi Rive" was sufficient in itself
" prove him crazy or IL faker
Finally, Cooper was asked whom
- represented in his expression of
e.ES. & Cooper explained that he be-
n@gd to the pro homo group" which
al5DrS in the public vineyard without
."pe of reward
The truth of the matter is that
copper is identified with the Mellon
ll,:Hiinum interests, which are launch
~ Il great waterpOwer project of
Ar.r own on the st. Lawrence, while
hey urged to keep Ford out of the hy-
lrU-clcctric field
President Harding has come out
trcEgly for the st. Lawrence project
slough it is bitterly ol 'osed by Gov
r}lor Miller, of New York, and many
pyher Influential Republicans in that
state. 1t is understood the president
will shortly send special message to
ong;tSs urging his approval of the
recommendations of the international
o'nt commission for this. undertaking
l. as declared that the feasibility
f the project is unQuestioned, and its
CS., ccEpared with some other great
Gg.necTing works, would be small"