Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-13
New Dealers
Fight Shift
In Defense
OPM Division Chief Plans
New Setup Anyway
BY PAUL MALLON

NASltING IO4Ni June To- nc
w movement 10 reorganlze the
national defense Setup by de-
grees through the establishment
of committees for each industry
"a sort OF Go for industry \
running into New Deal oppo-
Sition.
Plunging ahead, nevertheless,
the OPM materials division
chiof, 8. r. Fuller. is about 10
announce committees for SOW
eral more industries in addition
to- steel These probably Will
cover the Copper-braSS group for
one. aluminium for another. the
ferro-manganese metals for
third. and perhaps textiles.
Fuller. who is a Barney Baruch
man. has also acquired the scrv-
ices of the Lehman Brothers
vice president, Arthur Fl.
Bunker, as deputy TO accelerate
his endeavor.
There are reports that bill
proposing 10 extend tins kind of
gov ernment . industry CO.
operative control on a blanket
scale through OPM IS either on
its way 10 the White House or
has arrived
IF IT has, II may not 90 much
further. MIR. Roosevelt is not
likely TO submit II TO Congress
All his New-Dealing associates
are watching the progress of
Fuller'S experiment with n Crlti-
cal eye. They have noted that
Bunker was one of the leaders
in the fight of the investment
trust business against their re-
cent government reform plan
and this has not made them feel
any more kindly toward the
Fuller report
Their idea is that the commit
tees cut across the OPM Sctup
and therefore. tends toward
conflict rather than aCceleration.
Attorney General Jackson is
giving his approval 10 the
change. nevertheless. When the
industrial committees formulate
a pattern for pooling production
or prices, the pattern is sub
mitted TO Jackson and he gives
his approval. This absolves the
agreement from the antitrust
penalties. but if the pattern is
changed in any way. another APP
prevail must he sought.
In the main, however. YOU
may mark the matter down as
another symptom of the overall
conflict between the business
men in the defense .Setup and
the New Dealers there. 1t is
just another chapter in an APP
parently continuous controversy.
MR.. ROOSEVELT forgot 10
4'I tell Congress the most inn
portant point showing the prog
reSs of lending and leasing -the
amount of money actually dis
perSed in contracts. He told how
much had been allocated 10 buy
ing agencies, but not how many
contracts they have signed.
The figure does not look well.
II is actually around Sl.000000,-
900 of the 100000. 1000 appro-
priated more than months ago.
THE army is still spending mil
L lions for l. and 14-inCh
coastal defense guns under the
old Civil War theory that an
invader will come up within
their 20-mile range 10 get hit.
instead of landing his force I'M
the thousands of miles of coast
line where there are no guns d..
Through consular sources this
government has learned enor-
nous groups of German children
from the Rhineland are being
housed in Czccho-Slovakia, al
though Berlin has never let the
news out The British may be
doing more bomb damage in the
Rhneland than has been admit
ted &c.
The Germans have no Subma-
rine base at Dakar as gcner-
ally believed, but have one Just
north in the Spanish province of
Rio De ORC. NazlS are also Sc
cretly using sub bases on the
Northwestern Spanish coast go.
Three or four House military
affairs sub committees have
asked every army witness the
stock question IL they knew of
any incident Of the failure of
business TO cooperate. All an
SwerS were negative
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