Evening star., 1949-08-21
'Ex.Aide at WAA
Quiizzed on Hunt
DDT Transaction
MoIIison Recalls No
Extru Consideration;
FeIdmon to Testify
By Miriom Ottenberq

Brig. Gen. James A. MOlllSOn,
former associate administrator of
the War Assets Administration.
has been questioned about the
DDT bomb deal in which James
v. Hunt saved his clients $400,000
by getting the Army to take back
850,000 surplus insecticide bombs,
it was learned last night.
The speedy relief granted the
firm Mr.. Hunt represented will
be one of the matters the Senate
five -percenter" inquiry will deal
with when Maj Gen. Herman
Feldman, suspended quarter
master general. is called to the
witness stand Tuesday, according
to a Senate committee source.
Senator Mundt. Republican, Of
South Dakota, said Gen. Feldman
will be questioned about a series
of contacts with and calls to
Hunt" Mr.. Hunt, a management
counsellor who has been key fig
ure in the "five-percenter" in
quiry, has described Gen. Field
man as a close friend.
Mollison Doubts Special Action.
Gen. Mollison. now retired. said
he had been questioned by WAA
compliance division investigators
about the DDT transaction but he
could not recall that Mr.. Hunt
succeeded in getting expeditions
treatment for his clients or any
special consideration.
Although the "five-percenter"
hearing has been in recess since
Wednesday, there were these de-
velopments:
/. A committee source said the
investigators have evidence con-
corning letters allegedly written
by Maj Gen. Harry H. Vaughan,
the Presidents military aide, seek
ing special consideration or priori-
ties for his friends. The letters,
according to this source, were car
ried by these friends as form
of pass to gain special attention.
2. After conferring yesterday
with Assistant Chief Counsel
Francis D. Flanagan of the Senate
investigating group, Senator
Mundt said the committee is in
vestigating reports that Gen.
Vaughan became abusive" with
an Agriculture Department Of
fetal over the tightening Of grain
rationing for aIcholic beverages.
Koenig to Be Questioned.
Two Senate sources, who de-
clined to be quoted by name. said
Gen. Vaughan gave particular
hell" about the order to Nathan
Koenig, then executive assistant
to Secretary of Agriculture Ander-
son and now assistant to Secre-
tary of Agriculture Brannan.
Senator Mundt said Mr.. Koenig
will be questioned by staff investi-
gators as soon as he returns next
week from trip to Puerto Rico.
The committee member said he
had told Mr.. Flanagan to seek any
notes of telephone conversations
or other memorandum tending to
confirm or refute reports reach
ing us in this case"
The story reaching the COM
mittee was to the effect that in
1946 Gen. Vaughan asked the
then Secretary Anderson-now a
Senator from New Mexico-if any
changes in grain rationing were
contemplated. Mr.. Anderson said
that depended on the grain situa-
ton and later he did tighten the
order applying to use OF grain in
alcoholic beverages.
Vaughan To Take Stand.
According to the Senator's ac-
count, Gen. Vaughan got a COM
plant from a representative OF
Milwaukee brewers and, failing to
reach Mr.. Anderson, called Mr..
Koenig to protest that the White
House had not had advance in.
formation about the change in the
grain regulations.
Senator Mccarthy. Republican.
See FIVE-PERCENTERS, Pg. A.