The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-25

naWa are stretched out in swelter- ing tents on unpaved ground. Nearby, public relations officers, logistics officers. Signal Corps men, and other junior brass hats live in barracks on neatly paved streets, complete with curbs and gardens. Several hundred Sea- bees manicure the gardens and keep the officers lawns spic and span.
 NOTE: Meanwhile one head ache of Maj Gen. Curtis Le May, commander of the B-29s, was to get enough Seabees assigned to cutting down the jungle and leng- thening landing strips to the Mari anas to send more superforti over Japan.
 OSS AND I. G.
 FARBEN MYSTERY
 A series of secret cables sent by Gen. William Donovan of the Office of Strategic Services Cnlck- named "Oh-So -Secret") to Rus sell Forgan, former Chicago bank CT. now in Paris. is intriguing other U. s. officials. Donovan wired Forean to interrogate direc- tors of the gian Nazi cartel l. G. Farben, now seized by the United States Army.
 This is the company which col laborated with Standard Oil Of New Jersey and the Aluminium Corporation of America to keep vitally important patents for syn thetic rubber, magnesium, and high octane gasoline from the American public at t time when it was essential to use those patents for war.
 One cable from Donovan to Forgan in Paris reads:
 T have already asked you to
 send names of directors of one
 I. c. Farben now in custody.
 From now on these men should
 bc kept from one another,
 particularly when the interrO-
 gatiOn begins. Files of I. G.
 Farben should be seized and
 sent to Paris at once in our
 custody. This is most import
 ant. Essential that we keep con-
 trOl of these men,
 What intrigueS other U. s. Officials is that Donovan's OSS is dominated by scions of the Melons, the J. P. Morgans and big banking and industrial hous- es. some of them interested in German patents. Forgan himself hsa been a partner of Globe, For gan & Co.,, and director of the Borg-Warner Corp.
 Other Government officials are also puzzled as to why the OSS, rather than the Justice Depart ment, should bounce upon I. G. Farben executives. There might be quiet probing of this.
 NOTE-AttOrney General Riddle recently told Senators: Many cartel arrangements necessarily disrupted during the European phase of the war are now being resumed. Meetings have been held, plans have been laid, and in some cases agreements already en- tered into. As to some of these agreements, my department will have something to say before long," Reaction of Senators is that big business never learns CAPITAL CHAFF
 Members of the Federal Com munications Commission this weekend will leave on a train trip for on-the-spot observation Of train radio Several Sena- tors are pushing former trust buster Judge Thurman Arnold to become head of the Surplus Prop erty Board. President Truman who told intimates he is worried about possible scandals in the disposal of about TO billions in surplus property-is listening with interest Present Surplus Chairman, ex-Senator Guy Gill lette of Iowa, has declared him. self surplus. Gillette's ambition has been to die a Senator. If he can become Rural Identification Administrator. he feels he can do such a job for farmers that Iowa voters-who rejected him by close vote last year-might re- elect him in 1948 Russians