Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1942, Page 17

A—16 F. C. C. Plans Appeal From Rider Barring Watson From Pay Roll Monitor Service Analyst’s Case May Be Heard Before Apropriations Unit The Federal Communications Commission is expected to appeal to the Senate Appropriations Commit- tee for elimination of a rider in the independent offices appropriation bill, which passed the Eouse Thurs- day, prohibiting the yment of the salary of Dr. Goodwin Watson, chief analyst of the Foreign Broad- cast Monitoring Service. Robert G. Seaks, special coun- sel to Chairman Fly of the F. C. C., sald yesterday that the commission at its Priday meeting considered | an appeal to Chairman Glass of | the Senate committee, for a hearing. ‘The commission did not take action, but Mr. Seaks said he believed rep- resentations would be made on Dr. Watson's behalf. Dr. Watson appeared before the commission at the meeting and was said to have been questioned closely. Added by Subcommittee. ‘The rider to bar Dr. Watson from the pay roll was added to the bill by the House sub-committee on ap- propriations for the F. C. C. In| debate on the measure Represent- ative Wigglesworth, Republican, of Massachusetts, said he wished all House members could read the record of the sub-committee’s hear- ing on Dr. Watson. Representative Wigglesworth re- ferred to matter introduced by Rep- Iesentative Starnes, Democrat, of Alabama, a member of the Dies Committee, which he said “leaves absolutely no doubt that Dr. Watson is totally unfitted for the position.” The controversy over Dr. Watson began on November 19, when Rep- resentative Dies attacked the for- mer Columbia University psychology professor in a speech on the House floor. Mr. Dies said that the appointee was “a propagandist for Commun- ism and the Soviet Union for many years.” He listed 13 alleged Com- munist organizations with which he said Dr. Watson had been asso- ciated. Denies Watson Is Radical. Mr. Fly, replying in a letter to Representative Dies. denied that Dr. Watson was a redical. He pointed | out that he had been carefully in- vestigated by trained civil service | operatives before his appointment. | Mr. Fly said that he had studied | the evidence citeq by Representative Dies against the appointee and had satisfled himself that it was not wvalid. Of the 13 organizations which Representative Dies charged Dr.| Watson was associated with, Mr.| Fly said he learned that the ap- pointee belonged to only one—the Consumers’ Union, which he de-| clared was not a “Communist front” organization, Mr. Fly said that Dr. ‘Watson was “one of the outstand- | ing social psychologists of the coun- The Foreign Broadcast Monitor- ing Service is a branch of the P, C. C. which intercepts and vecords|is several hundred thousand words of foreign propaganda every day. 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Calling his executives and branch and sections chiefs together for the first time since he was handed “blank check” authority by Presi- dent Roosevelt, Mr. Nelson declared that “what we do in 1042 is all- important.” “There’s no use for us to talk about the great production we are going to have in 1943, 1944 and 1945 | if we don't first meet the goal set for 1942 he said. “Those goals| can be met. They will be met. If any of you have felt that they are impossible, I can only say that from | now on we must do the impossible.” | More than 200 staff members heard their director warn them against making any alibis or ex- cuses. Need for Speed Stressed. “I don't want them,” he sald.| | “The President doesn't want them; the people of the United States cer- tainly are not interested in them. We are all members of a new organ- ization and neither past achieve- ments nor personal relationships count. Nothing counts but getting the job done and performance is the only test.” Mr. Nelson emphuslzed that ipeed is vitally important. “Remengper,” he sald, “each ‘week is 2 per of the year. If we waste a week, American soldiers are going ta.. killed needlessly. When you stop’ would be to our men out in the acific to have more planes, more | ships and more guns, you can see the urgency of the job we have undertaken.” This feature of Mr. Nelson's re- organization of the war production program was evident when he an- nounced his new organization last week. For 18 months, production of war materials has been impeded by over- lepping of responsibility, insufficient authority where authority was vital- 1y needed, bureaucracy and red tape. Mr. Nelson diagnosed one of the principal troubles up to now as an 1nab111ty to reach decisions quickly. DR. CARLETON VAUGHAN DR. JACQUES L. SHERMAN DENTISTS 404 Seventh Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Telephone ME. 8748 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Each division head under his re- organized sgency, he said, has a definite job to do and the authority to make his own decisions and the power to put them into effect, if necessary, without consulting any- one. Two Get Key Positions. ‘Two key appointments in the new organization were announced yes- terday by J. S. Knowlson, director of the Division of Industry Opera- tions. Philip D. Reed, chnmnn of the Board of Directors of the General Electric Co., was named to head the industrial branches in Mr. Knowlson's division, and C. H. Mat- thiessen, jr., was appointed to take charge of the priorities program, now under the production division. Mr. Reed had been connected with the old Office of Production Man- agement since last February and had served as special assistant to the directors-general in charge of industrial branches. Mr. Matthies- sen likewise had been with O. P. M. and had served recently as assistant deputy director of the division, The War Production Board also announced the formation of an in- dustrial building utilization section of the Plant Site Board, to be headed by PFrederick A. Kimmich, Detroit industrial engineer. William H. Labrot of Holly Beach Farm, Md., former member of the Maryland House of Delegates, was named deputy co-ordinator on raw materials conservation. Nearly two-thi?; of the motion pictures shown in the Netherlands Indies are American. materials | service D. C, Joint Inquiry Planned On Hofel Phone Charges A joint investigation of telephone charges made by Washington hotels, apartment houses and clubs will be made by the Federal Com- munications Commision and the District Public Utilities Commis- sion, under plans announced yester-, day by Gregory Hankin, chairman of the District Commission. This followed adoption by , the Utilities Commission of the investi- gation order issued January § by the [Federal agency including authorization for Chairman Hankin to hold joint hearings with members of P. C. C. and make recommed- ations for action by the District. Mr. Hankin said it had come to | Distric: JANUARY 25, 1942, his attention that some Washington hotels, apariments and clubs make a 10-cent charge for calls handled through their switchboards and that on long-distance calls on which the toll is $3 or more they add an 85-cent service charge. Under the order adopted by the Utilitles Commission, the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. is required to flle with the District agency four coples of its answer to the recent . C. C. order to show | cause why it should not show in its tariff reports any and all charges in connection with tele- phone service. 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