SURPLUS PROPERTY: Not Guilty

For a full day last week the Senate Military Affairs Committee skillfully frisked the records of Franklin Roosevelt's two appointees to the Surplus Property Board, only to come up emptyhanded. There was no skulduggery, the Senators agreed, in the business dealings of thin, sharp-nosed Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, or of Connecticut's moon-faced ex-Governor. Robert A. Hurley. From this standpoint, both were qualified for the big job of disposing of an estimated total of $75,000,000,000 in surplus U.S. war property.

This scrutiny of Hurley and Heller centered around their connection with the Narragansett...

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