The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-03-25
Michigan in
Washington
BY Esther Van w goner Tufty


Washington. Mar. 25-Secretary
OF Interior Harold Ickes' aides, in
his absence. answered today the
three charges made by Congress
man George A. Dondero. who is
opposing an amendment to the riv.
era and harbors bill because all
the federal power projects OF the
nation would be placed under the
control and operation of the Score.
tary of the Interior.
Charged Dondero: I'm my opln.
ion the President, busy with his
duties intimately connected with
the war merely signed a letter that
was handed to him by the Secre-
tary of the Interior and that he
did not have the time or the OPP
po;tunity to digest the import OF
these recommendations"
The Interior spokesman retorts,
THE President not only signed
the letter after seing it, but sign
ed similar letters two years ago.
For ten years he has reiterated the
same policy at dedications OF var
ious dams"
Said Dondero in the House on
Monday.-"Mr. Ickes could blanket
whole areas with the blight OF
high rates and shower with NUM-
ficence another area with low
low rates. He could trade rates
for votes. He could reward and
he could punish with. an economic
power beyond the grasp CO any po-
litical officer in this republic"
From the Interior Department
comes the rebuttal,-"The fixing OF
rates, up or down. as everyone
knows is set by the Federal Power
Commission. Anyway. the rate
schedule is included in the bill
itself subject to approval by FPC."
But it was the Communist and
draft.dodging charge made by the
Royal Oak Republican against
certain employee in the Power Di-
vision of the Department of In
terror. Stephen Raushenbush. that
the department especially injoyed
answering.
Dondero has said in Parton
March 25, 1912. the House adopted
an amendment to the pending In
terror Appropriation bill specifcal-
ly removing Mr.. Raushenbush from
the federal payroll. When the bill
reached the other body . he ex-
planned that he had not meant what
he said in his previous writings
and he was an honest-to-goodness
capitalist. He was restored TO the
payroll.
AT that time, however. the draft
board was, in street language,
breathing down his neck" mas
much as his ' life was also on the
federal payroll at salary Of $500
a year in the Bureau OF Economic
Warfare. Rather than be drafted,
Mr.. Raushenbush accepted a COM
mission in the Navy. Perhaps
that Is stating the cause unfairly
for Mr.. Rausenbusk. Perhaps he
did have a patriotic desire to serve
his country. But the fact remains
that after the IS year old limita-
ton was promulgated, Mr.. Raush-
enbush was therefore exempt from
the draft and the Navy graciously
retired him and he returned 10
the Department OF the Interior
Retorts the Interior spokesman.
stephen Raushenbush is no
draft dodger He is AZ years and
10 months eld-He was As years
old when he went TO the Navy on
loan by the Secretary OF the In
terror. The Navy didn't think him
a dangerous character and sent
him 10 London. He did not re
ceive a commission He Is a World
War | veteran. A sergeant with
the AEF he was one of the first
10000 to land in France and fought
in four major engagements. Secre-
tary Ickes testified that without
qualification. he is a splendid pub
lie servant. He is the seventh
generation OF American preachers
in Baptist and Lutheran churches.