PROBE INTO PWA FUNDING DEMANDS

Page 4 Mullen Fee Demand May Bring Probe of His Role. With PWA Quiz Looms of Amount Being Paid for Expensive Legal Counsel on Job Projects Arthur Mullens attempt to collect from two public recipients of PWA funds a fee seven times his annual retainer from the Cities Service Co may bring demands for a general investigation of the extent to which work relief funds are bring paid to expensive legal counsel and in par ticular an investigation of the part Mullen is playing in molding project policies in Nebraska Mullen has asked two water au thorities organized in Nebraska to develop projects on the Loup and North Platte Rivers to pay him 175000 for his services the nature of which is somewhat obscure OPPOSES THIRD PROJECT The North Platte project billed for SIOOOOO of the fee has for months been fighting PWA grants to a third undertaking in Nebraska the Tri County irrigation and power project TriCounty sponsored by Sen George W Norris includes development of public electric power Mullens ac tivities in opposing an allocation of funds to TriCounty in the name of another PWA project presumably do not conflict with the interests of his other client Cities.