R. B. Higgins Salary: $750.00 per month. Title: Assistant General Superintendent. Duties: Assistant to Mr. W. W. Lauer, supervising building construction in the production areas. Qualifications and Past Experience: January 1939 to March 1941, General Superintendent in charge of construction at Camp Robinson, Arkansas for Tarlton-McDonald, St. Louis, Missouri. Preceding experience in line with supervision of general building and construction, estimating, equipment installation, etc. Previous Salary: $750.00 per month. Reimbursement of Present Salary: Authorized because of the need for additional direct supervision in construction areas throughout the 33 sq. mile tract. R. H. Godwin Salary: $541.00 per month. Title: Superintendent of Sewer and Water Construction Duties: Supervision of pipe lines, pipe line installation, plumbing, sewerage disposal fields, etc. Qualifications and Past Experience: March 1934 to September 1940, Superintendent of const. for McEukin and McEackin, Little Rock, Ark. on Sewage Disposal Plants and general process of piping installation. September 1940 to November 1940, Superintendent of Construction of Sewerage Disposal Plants for Tarlton McDonald, St. Louis, Mo. at Camp Robinson, Ark. February 1940 to February 1941, Assistant General Superintendent in charge of sewerage construction for the W. Horace Williams Company, Camp Claiborne, Alexandria, La. Previous Salary: Sept. 1940 to Nov. 1940, $300.00 per month Dec. 1940 to Reimbursement of Present Salary: Authorized because of increased responsibility and long hours due to double shift operations. PART TIME EMPLOYEES REIMBURSED SALARY RATES IN EXCESS OF $6000.00 Harry Porter: Salary: $500 per month. Title: Chief Architect and Landscape Lay-Out consultant. Duties: In charge of basic design and lay-out of buildings in administration area. General architectural supervision as required from time to time by the needs of the Engineering Department. Qualifications and Past Experience: January 1928 to February 5, 1941, Chief Architect for the H. K. Ferguson Company. Previous experience involved operation of own Architectural firm, working on the design of Industrial and Public buildings. Previous Salary: $425.00 per month. Reimbursement of Present Salary: Authorized because of increased living conditions. Mr. Porter's work has terminated temporarily because the basic lay out and building design for the Administration Area has been completed. Services may be required at a later date. Further information can be provided by photostats of application blanks of all the above men. Most of these salaries were authorized prior to contractors notice to procede was received. For the FERGUSON-OMAN COMPANY: AKF:ewh A. K. FERGUSON, Liaison Officer. MEMORANDUM No. 120-A MEMORANDUM In connection with the foregoing affidavit of C. J. Sullivan, Jr. Mr. Thomas did not testify concerning salaries paid on the project in excess of $6,000. nor did Mr. Leo Helzel testify in this regard. The portion of the hearing which Mr. Sullivan's affidavit seeks to refute is contained in an excerpt from a report of Leo Helzel, June 20 which was read into the record (311) as follows: "Construction Division Letter No. 75 requests that Chief of Construction Division or his representative shall be informed by the Constructing Quartermaster of salaries being paid to chiefs of the Administrative Department such as Chief Accountant, etc. and their "sub-heads" no such record has ever gone in to the Chief of the Construction Division." See Exhibit No. 52. For this reason it is believed that the affidavit of C. J. Sullivan is not responsive to the testimony. AFFIDAVIT No. 121 [In connection with this affidavit see Affidavit No. 121-A on p. 3694] STATE OF TENNESSEE, County of Carroll. Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority, W. A. Walsh, who being duly sworn, deposed as follows: My name is W. A. Walsh, and I am employed by the Ferguson-Oman Company as Chief Accountant in the Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant and the Milan Ordnance Depot. When this project was started I came to the scene of the project at the beginning, that is, on January 25, 1941. I understand that Mr. Leo Helzel testified before the Senate Investigating Committee in Washington, D. C. on November 26, 1941 that when he arrived on the job he found that Section 35 of the Criminal Code had not been printed on the back of the daily time card, and that he took credit for having the same printed thereon. This statement is not true, as will be hereinafter shown. These cards were ordered early in February, 1941, with the requirement that Section 35 of the Criminal Code of the United States be printed on the back. This order was given to the International Business Machine Company, whose machines are used in the payroll department, after conference between their representatives and a representative of the Ferguson-Oman Company. The same card, bearing Section 35 of the Criminal Code, had been used on the Camp Forrest project and this was, of course, well known to the International Business Machine Company and representatives of the Ferguson-Oman Company, and Mr. Helzel had not even the most remote connection with this. As a matter of fact, these cards were received and were in use, bearing Section 35 of the Criminal Code on the back of same, before Mr. Helzel ever came to the Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant or the Milan Ordnance Depot. Mr. Helzel came to the project for the first time on March 14, 1941 to assume his duties in the constructing quartermaster's office, and I attach hereto a photostatic copy of a daily time card dated March 3, 1941 and signed by the employee's foreman, bearing Section 35 of the Criminal Code on the back of same. This card was dated and used eleven (11) days before Mr. Helzel arrived on the project, and is made Exhibit 1 to this affidavit. W. A. WALSH. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of November, 1941. [SEAL] WINFRED H. LANCASTER, Notary Public. Registered as a Notary Public in Henderson, Carroll, and Gibson Counties, Tenn., as provided by Chap. 193, Public Acts of Tennessee 1935. My Commission Expires July 10th, 1945. AFFIDAVIT No. 121-A I, Miss Gladys Seward, make the following voluntary statement to Mr. H. G. Robinson, Investigator of the Truman Committee of the United States Senate: I am at present employed by the Ordnance Department of the Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant at $1800.00 per annum. I was formerly employed under Mr. Leo B. Helzel's supervision as his Secretary, when he was Chief Time Inspector, during the period from approximately March through July, 1941. The incident of Mr. Helzel calling himself "Hitler Helzel" did not make any impression upon me, even though I was present at the meeting when he made it. I am told he was describing himself. Having been his Secretary I was quite used to his affable nature and his "kidding." I recall typing a memorandum on Ferguson-Oman stationery. Mr. Helzel dictated the substance of this memorandum, which was "Section 35 of the Criminal Code." I was told that the memorandum would be transmitted to Mr. Miller, who was then Personnel Director, who would see that Penal Code 35 would be properly advertised. It is my belief that Mr. Helzel was very conscientious and an able executive, and I would enjoy working for him sometime in the future. Witness: H. G. ROBINSON. STATE OF TENNESSEE, County of Madison. GLADYS SEWARD. Personally appeared before me, Ora MacMillin a Notary Public in and for State and County, Gladys Seward with whom I am personally acquianted, and who acknowledged that the foregoing statement was executed by her, and the facts contained therein are true and correct. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal at office, this the 10 day of December, 1941. [SEAL] My Commission expires Aug. 8, 1944. ORA MACMILLIN, Notary Public. AFFIDAVIT No. 122 [In connection with this affidavit see Affidavits Nos. 122-A, 122-B, 122-C, 122-D and 122-E on pp. 3695 to 3704] STATE OF TENNESSEE, County of Carroll. Personally appeared before me the undersigned authority, J. T. McCarren, who being first duly sworn deposed as follows: My name is J. T. McCarren and I am employed by the Ferguson-Oman Company as Chief Property Officer. At the present time I am living at 206 8th Street, Trenton, Tennessee. Before coming to work for the Ferguson-Oman Company I was employed for some six years by the U. S. Government. I worked on various construction projects. I came to the Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant as Chief Time Inspector in the Constructing Quartermaster's office and worked there until March 13, 1941, when I left the services of the Government and was employed by the Ferguson-Oman Company. I left the Constructing Quartermaster's office to go to work for the Ferguson-Oman Company with the full consent and approval of the Constructing Quartermaster, my superior. There was nothing irregular about my being employed by the Ferguson-Oman Company and any intimation to the contrary is an absolute untruth. At the time I left the services of the Government I was entitled under the law and the regulations of the War Department to approximately thirty days annual leave, which had accrued over a period of six years. This leave was granted me because the transfer to the Ferguson-Oman Company was made without prejudice. I was entitled to this 30 day leave under the law and of course was paid for same. I understand that Mr. Helzel, who testified before the Senate Investigating Committee on November 26, 1941, in Washington, testified that the employees under me in the Constructing Quartermaster's office when he arrived were only |