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Battle Looms Over Minority Leadership in House Republican By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington 4U.fi) A bone shaking Republican battle in the House of Representatives over the ' minority leadership in 84th Congress was touted to day on the ba sis of ; reports that speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr.; does not want the job. Some of Mar- LjieC. Wilson tin's friends were organizing a campaign to keep Martin as party ltyder and to prevent . that responsibility from going to Rep. Charles A. 1 Halleck (R-Ind.) who they fear and suspect might be President Eisenhower's choice. They were confident Martin would con tinue, even if reluctantly. . Martin's retirement from the leadership, to become a less har ried elder statesman in the House, could not fail to boost . Halleck toward the 84th Con gress minority leadership. Hal leck is majority leader - under Martin's speakership in the ex piring 83rd Congress. . ;: . Halleck succeeded Martin as floor leader when Republicans controlled the 80th Congress, in which Martin served as speaker. When the Democrats took over , in the 81st Congress, Martin re verted to the leadership, displac ing Halleck. Opposition To Halleck' One of the organizers of the Martin-for-leader movement told the United Press today that sub stantial opposition to Halleck has been developing. ( "If Joe steps down now and Charley reaches for it, there will be a hell of a fight," a Congress- man told the United Press. "A group of old' timers in the House will insist that Joe take on the leadership in the next Congress. And when the chips are down, the 84th Congress leader will be Joe Martin." - Martin told this correspondent and - others long before this month's congressional election that he was of a mind to shuck next House if his party failed to obtain - a majority. He would have been pleased to continue as speaker. Martin was 70 years old Nov. 3. He ; isn't talking much, if any, for publication now. , His associates were confident today, however, that Martin would accept another two-year hitch as minority leader rather, as one of them said, than run out on his friends. ? There was some House anxi ety that Mr. Eisenhower might intervene in the dispute through some of his White House aides. Washington remarked during the first two years of the Eisen hower administration that Hal leck appeared to be considerably deeper within White House councils than Martin. The presi dent never disguised his admir ation for . and confidence in Halleck. ' White House intervention in the leadership matter would blow up as fine a row as this town has seen since 1937 when FDR beat Mississippi's conserva tive Pat Harrison for the Senate Democratic leadership with a timely letter addressed to "Dear Alben" then Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky. Barkley beat Harrison but by only a sin gle vote, and the wounds of that contest along with resentment at Mr. Roosevelt's intervention long remained to plague the party. Reclamation Speaker Sharply Criticizes Budget Reduction Portland (U.R) C. Petrus Peterson, : president of the Na tional association, yesterday sharply criticized the - 85 ' per cent federal ; budget reduction for reclamation projects and asked for a "reappraisal" of our foreign aid program. Peterson, speaking at the op ening general session of the 23rd annual NR A convention here, said he "did not question our foreign aid program as such." But he said that the Un ited States, between July, 1948, and June, 1953, spent $1,729,- 123,000 on reclamation projects abroad. He compared this fig ure with some . $2,400,000,000 spent on reclamation in the U.S. the past 50 years, and demanded a "reappraisal" of . the foreign aid program. ' , Peterson, of : Lincoln, Neb who is serving his third terms as NRA president, said he could not "with i equanimity," accept the thesis that the reclamation budget reduction was justified. He urged the present adminis tration to accept a "consistent" L reclamation program, and said the Republican leadership of the he had conferred with Presi- L SHOP TOMORROW 'TIL 9 P.M. ws- I'M 'fZ 0 fl A i : h iff! i WEDNESDAY NIGHT ONLY! O . -DON'T MISS THESE " V I GENERAL, ELECTRIC MIXER Demonstrator Model 1 Only - $o 00 i FULL" WARRANTY! AUTOMATIC ROASTER Reg: $85.00 Value $S00 l ? ONE ONLY! TREMENDOUS VALUES IN USED APPLIANCES O 2 WASHERS .ea.' $30.00 0 1 REFRIGERATOR, Excellent Condition ... $50.00 ' 1 WESTINGHOUSE AUTOMATIC $ 0 WASHER, Good Condition -jLL-S DD TWO "BURNER , HOT PLATE Complete with Fry Pan,--Broiler and Oven with Temperature Guage 'A Real Buy for $15 ; BRAND NEW RANGE Completely Automatic Three full storage drawers, florescent lighted panels. ,Yau must saa this to believe it. " $ 180 00 JV 317 EAST MAIN PHONE 2-5487 dent Eisenhower toward that end. '- McKay Speaks Secretary, of Interior, Douglas McKay also addressed the 700 delegates from 17 Western states in the afternoon session. He re affirmed his continued support of the Eisenhower "partnership" policy of developing water re: sources, with the emphasis on local financing. - : , : ; "We cannot carry the trem endous defense expenditures of the moment and also at the same time sponsor all of the projects for water use and control which may be desirable," he said. " McKay v said President Eisen hower had set up a cabinet com mittee on water resources policy headed by McKay and including 'the secretaries of defense . and agriculture, and directed to lay out a national policy. Peterson paid tribute to Rob ert W. Sawyer of Bend, Ore., as father of the National Reclama tion congress, and praised Ore gon for leaders it has contribut ed to reclamation. . McKay also said "some coast al cities" may be using desalted ocean brine to augment their domestic water supplies within the next few years. McKay, revealing that the In terior Department has a project underway to convert salt water into usable . fresh water,' . said: "While we are as yet a long way from any mass production process which could provide de salted water, for industrial or agricultural use on an economically-feasible basis, it is not in conceivable that production of drinking water from sea water may become feasible." Mitchell To Quit New. Orleans U.R) Demo cratic National Chairman Ste phen A. Mitchell said yesterday he would resign in time for the election of a new chairman at a "victory dinner" here Dec! 3-4 of party leaders. . - Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, James Finnegan of Philadelphia and Paul Butler of Indiana have been mentioned prominently as successors to Mitchell. : Mitchell said he felt the, Dem ocrats "are better than half-way back to the White House as a result of recent elections. ."The people in many con gressional districts allowed Pres ident Eisenhower only to borrow some time. They're mad at the Republican party and they're dis appointed.". : . The two-day meeting here will be climaxed with a banquet. Principal speaker will be Adlai Stevenson, defeated Democratic presidential candidate in 1952. or Portland (U.R) The Pac ific Northwest Power company today $led an application for a preliminary permit from the Federal Power commission to study the Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley power sites on the Snake river in Oregon and Washington.- If investigation of the 850,000 kilowatt development proves sound, the firm and its four sponsoring utilities would spend more than $200,000,000 at the two sites, all of it private invest ment capital. - ' The "four" firms combined in the Northwest Power company are Pacific Power and Light and Portland General Electric com pany, Washington Water Power and Montana Power. ,- To Propose Tax Exemption Boost Washington - U.R) Rep" John D.i Dingell (D-Mich.) said last night he will .introduce a bill when the new Congress opens, to increase personal in: come tax exemptions by at least $100 per taxpayer. -"Dingell, second ranking Demo crat on the 'tax-framing House Ways and Means committee, said he also will iirge repeal of the Mw approved by the last Con-1 Tuesday, Kovtmbar 9.' 1954 scss pruviquig tax reiiei ipr persons who receive income from stock dividends. ' He said he is confident that Chairman Jere Cooper (D-Tenn.) of the committee will approve his proposal, v : t . 0 "This move- will be of immed iate benefit tp all the 70,000,000 income taxpayers and. the 50, 000,000 families inthe country; Dingell said. Salem (U.R)-rDr. K.'j. Peter son, state veterinarian, said '286 cases of animal diseases were re ported to him in October. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE -FIVE Case's Opponent Won't Concede , Newark, N.J. U.PJ Demo crat Charles R. Howell "refused to concede defeat today despite official ;. figures confirming the election of Republican Clifford P. Case as U. S. senator. ; Democrats continued efforts to get the ballots impounded in all 21 counties' and two trouble shooters from the Democratic National, Committee were ex pected, to arrive from Washing ton to look over the. situation with a view toward a possible re- count. Howell has ' said the na-. tional committee will help pay the price of a recount if one is sought. 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