Evening star., 1933-12-18
KINGS TESTIMONY
ON MILK REVERSED
National Dairy Director Tells
ProberS They Worked on
Marketing Pact.

DR. Henry N. Woolman, Philadelphia
dairy official, and director of the Ma
tional Dairy Products Corporation, this
afternoon told the Senate Milk Investi-
eating Committee how he aided DR..
Clyde L. King, dairy division chief of
the Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration. who resigned Saturday. in the
draughting of ilk-marketing agree
ments.
Woolman's testimony said that he
conferred two or three times a week"
and that they frequently used a stenog-
rapher in DR.. Kings Office conflicted
with previous testimony of DR.. King
that he had not been associated closely
with the Philadelphia dairy official in
the formulation of milk codes.
L came to Washington on June 26
when Secretary Wallace and Deputy
Agricultural Adjustment Administrator
Brand called meeting of the dairy in
dustry," Woolman testified. AT that
meeting Brand asked the dairy industry
to keep in touch with the department"
King Sat In on Conferences.
Woolman, who said he had known
LII. 1NlIle. dllOIAAOA AlA4ddIAPllIdAA, oAtIO
1916, told the committee most of the
work done on the milk marketing agree
ments was accomplished at conferences
in the Washington Hotel here. He said
DR.. King frequently sat in on those
meetings.
AS a result of the June IS meeting
in Washington Woolman said he was
asked by the International Association
Of Ice Cream Manufacturers and the
International Milk Dealers Association
to represent them in the drafting Of
codes for the milk industry.
You talked frequently with DR.
King, advised him and counseled him?"
Senator King. chairman of the commit
tee, interposed.
Il talked with him." Woolman re-
piled.
las the Senator says, you frequently
conferred with DR.. King?" asked Com
mittee Counsel Elwood H. Seal.
Il conferred with him two or three
times week"
How long did those conferences
last?"
Not very long"
How long, minutes or hours?"
Not hours; I should say minutes
Sometimes many minutes, sometimes
not so long"
Why were those meetings held at
the Washington Hotel?"
Because the California delegation
was staying there"
Who represented the Agriculture
Department at those hotel meetings?"
mo one at the preliminary confer
ences."
After the preliminary conferences
who represented them?"(
"A Mr.. Woodward and a Mr. Der
rick"
Discussed Marketing Pact.
Woolman also admitted that fire.
quently he met with DR.. King at the
hotel to discuss the milk marketing
agreements and in answer to questions
by Seal, said he had used a stenogra-
pher in DR.. Kings Office. He admitted
also having made a number of tele-
phone calls from the former dairy
chiefs office to Philadelphia and New
York, but emphasized that all long dis
tance calls were reversed.
DR.. King, whose resignation Satur-
day came unexpectedly, had told the
committee last month that he had not
been in frequent communication with
Woolman and that he had not, so far
as he knew. made any use of his Office.
The dairy expert left an impression
with the committee that he was unin-
huenced by any conversations or COM
munications with DR.. Woolman
Woolman, however, said he had dis
cussed the dairy situation, particularly
IN Philadelphia, with King before he
was appointed to the A. A. A. He tes-
titled he originally brought up the mat
ter of the Philadelphia situation in
conference in the Pennsylvania city
early In June with Secretary Wallace.
He said Wallace, who was in Philadel-
phia to make a speech, had told him
to come to Washington and breach the
subject to proper officials of the depart
ment. 1t was after he came here that
he took up the Philadelphia situation
with DR.. King and Brand. He then
became interested in the Chicago and
California situations.
Denies Firm Is "Milk Trust"
Dr. Woolman was preceded on the
stand by A. A. Stickler, treasurer of the
National Dairy Products Corporation,
who identified an exhibit for the record
showing the number Of subsidiaries ac-
quired by National Dairy and the pur-
chase prices. Thomas H. McInnerney,
president of National Dairy, earlier had
denied fatty his corporation was a milk
trust"
In a prepared statement introduced
in the record after he had been Ques-