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Minn, (delude same, address. YOU GO GREAT WHEN YOU GO GREAT NORTHERN EmfMR EpRN r^TAR1 (Continued from Pag* 148) of dollara'' to the water user* end the United States Government. Straus had testified that the workstoppage charge was "pure nonsense." In a defense summation which be re fers to as bis " Voltaire speech," Straus said to the subcommittee: "We have been accused of not being engineers, which is true. I have been accused of being a diUy-wbacker, which may be true, and aU manner of other accusa tions. However, I want to report to you that it k my firm belief that we have acted properly and within the law." As for the many charges that the bureau puffed itself up too much at the taxpayers' expense, Straus said the Reclamation Law required him to in form the public to the fullest extent about what the bureau was doing. "Information is not disseminated by mumblings in a dark closethe cracked, contending that hts publicity network amounted to a "courageous educa tional program" and a policy of keep ing the bureau's operations in a "gold fish bowl." Meanwhile, Senator Downey, an emo tional man with a full-blown oratorical style, was regularly thundering against Straus on the Senate floor. "It was corn, but good com," Straus now says patronizingly. Downey waa trying to get a modifi cation or repeal of the Reclamation La w 's excess-lands provision as it af fects the Central Valley. Thisprovision prevents water from the project from being sold to a farmer who holds more than 160 acres--or 320 acres between himself and his wife in a communityproperty state--end Downey argued that the unusual amount of under ground water in California would make it impossible to enforce the provision there. He charged that Straus was lobbying against repeal of the limita tion and also knifing him with anti- Downey propaganda. Straus insisted that be was simply carrying out the tense of the 1902 Caw, which, be said, was designed to aid "family-sized farms" only. California's Gov. Earl Warren had expressed doubts about the workability of tbe 160-acre limitation in 1947, and last year Judge Arthur C. Shepard, of the Superior Court, Madera County, California, ruled that tbe excess-lands Sirovision is unconstitutional aa it el ects certain property in private owner ship. The Hoover Commission on Or ganization of the Executive Branch of the Government has urged that the whole 803 pages of "contradictory" reclamation laws be brought up to date.. At tbe height of tbe hullabaloo over Straus and then Interior Secretary J. A. Krug, who got dragged into the investigation as a reward for giving Straus a free hand, Downey received one of those letters from Truman, "I think you ought to know that I need both of these gentlemen," the Presi dent wrote the senator on January 7, 1948, "and while 1 know you are on a tear and raising hell with both of them, that still doesn't keep me from being (or them. Some time when you feel like it, if you will come down here, you and I can discuss the situation, I think, in a manner that will be to our mutual advantage." Downey did not take Truman up on his invitation and in June, 1948, vongresa attached a rider to the Interior Department appropriation bill provid ing that none of the money could be used to pay the salary of the Reclama tion Commissioner or a regional direc tor of the bureau who did not have five years' experience as an engineer. Tbk was an undisguised maneuver to Cut loose both Straus and Richard Boke, the director el the Centra) Val ley project, who had been a target of Downey's along with Straus. The rider stopped their salaries as of February, 1949. In July, 1949, Downey agreed to drop the rider, in return for a complete investigation of Straus and Boke by a Senate Interior subcommittee under Sen. Joseph O'Mahortcy, Democrat, of Wyoming.The subcommittee heldhear ings that put Straus through what by now be was complaining of asa "chrome performance." But O'Mahoney, who became friendly to Straus, never filed a report on the investigation end never had the hearings printed for public release. Straus loves to recount how, during the five months in which Congress dammed bis pay checks, the people of the West shipped him preserves, salmon, slices of buffalo meat, potatoes and other edibles to keep him from starvingto death. Actually,Straus was able to eat regularly without such manna; be is a trustee of the estate of his wife's family, from which she draws an income, and he subsequently got his ****** * Career girls have created a new type of woman, half amorous and half Amazon. --SH ANNON FIFE. ****** * back pay. Straue is married to tbe former Nancy Porter, of Winnetka, Illinois, daughter of the late James F. Porter, a wealthy Chicago real-estate \ operator. Tbe Strauaes have three chil dren: Margaret, a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College; Michael, a junior at Syracuse University; and James, a sophomore at Hobart College. Straus is one up on other bureau crats, in that for twelve yean he has lived in a Government house on Gov ernment property. He and Mrs. Straus occupy a quaint seven-room stone bouse, complete with New Orleans porticoes and stone stave quarters, on . wooded Linnean Hill, overlooking part \ of Rock Creek Park in Northwest \ Washington. Three times Straus has been investigated for occupying this structure, which was built in 1800 as a private residence and sold to the Fed eral Government during tbe Grant Administration. The house later came under the jurisdiction of tbe National Park Service, and finally Ickes had it restored by the WPA, and is 1939 advertised tt for rental bids in Washing ton newspapers. To hie embarrassment, X Straus, his right-hand roan, was tbe \ only bidder. He awarded the place to Straus, after raising tbe latter's bid by 60 per cent to $183 a month. Straus' rent has not been raised since, but the Strauaes are now building their own borne a abort distance away, on their own property. As one of tbe very few original New Dealers left in a top Government post, Straus is widely admired by other bureaucrats in Washington for being able to survive nineteen years. His enemies have given up on getting rid of him under Truman. However, if there is a G.O.P. victory at the polls next November, they vow that one o( the first orders of business will be separat ing the Interior Department from its loudest and least represaible mouth. GLD33536 J