OPPOSES FORD LEASE.

Topics:  Ford Motor Company

The New York Times
December 6, 1922

Couzens Against Private Control of Muscle Shoals.

Special to The New York Times.

DETROIT, Dec. 5.—Despite the fact that he was a former business parter of Henry Ford and has commended some of Ford's acts since severing relations with him, Mayor James Couzens, who becomes a United States Senator Wednesday, does not look with approval upon Ford's efforts to acquire control of Muscle Shoals.

"So far as I know, it would naturally be my disposition to oppose Muscle Shoals being turned over to any private interests," said Mayor Couzens this afternoon. "This has been a definite conviction for many years. Consequently, there would have to be something very unusual in Mr. Ford's proposition to warrant my approval."