t
Undue Influence
In Contracts For
Bombers Denied
WASHINGTON, Aup. 10. (JPi
Robert A. Lovett, s former as
sistant tecretary of war lor air,
told the House armed service
committee Tuesday xosolutely no
outside influence was exerted to
fret the B36 bomber on its way
n 1941. '
Lovett was the first witness
as the committee opened its in
vestigation of the Bo6 and stra
tcglc air power policies.
The B36 was born in August.
19-11, he said, after air corps
planners decided the U. S. had to
have a bomber capable of lugging
a 10.000-pound bom load 10,000
miles.
A contract for designing th
plane was awarded the Consoli
dated Vullee Aircraft Co. after
it and two other pUne manufac
turers had submitted preliminary
plans, Lovett related.
Joseph B. Keenan, the commit
tee s special counsel for the In
vesication, asked Lovett wheth-
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Legion Dues' Increase
GRANTS PASS. Aug. 10.-tJP)
Grants Pass post of the A men
can Legion, which furnished the
incoming Oregon department
commander, Attorney Samuel M.
Bowe, apparently did not take
well the action of tne depart
ment convention In tabling a re
solution supporting a 25-cent an
nual raise in iegion aues io pro
vide additional rehabilitation
funds for the legion national or
ganization. The post Monday night passed
unanimously a resolution sup
porting the proposed assessment
and asked all other posts In the
state to take like action prior
to the national convention.
In his first address to his own
post as department commander,
Bowe pledged appointment of
World War II veterans to key
department posts.
er he knew of "any evidence of
Influence" from "bankers, indus
trialists, Floyd Odium, Mr. Em
manuel, or any otnsr well known
persons.
"Absolutely no evidence." Lov
ett replied. "I had never heard
of Mr. Odium or Mr. Emmanuel
al that time."
Odium is head of the Atlas
Corp., which now controls Con
solldated. Victor Emmanuel heads
the Aviation corporation, which
controlled Consolidated before
Atlas. Both are due to testify be
fore the committee later.
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AP wire says the battle of fashions it on again In New York.
Over the weekend, the big stores broke out with a few million dol
lars worth of female finery for fall, with the French New New
Look battling it out with the American "Back to the Twenties"
look. The New New Look differs from the 'Twenties" look in that
hems hang higher . . . 13) Inches from the floor. Also, the New New
Look has something called a floating panel, which is kind of a mis
placed bib, hanging from the waist like an apron. On the other
hand, in another store, there's the "Back-to-the-Twenties" look, with
memories of President Coolidge, prohibition and flappers. The tight
skirt is back it's the bold hobble skirt, and it's way, way up from
the floor ... as a matter of fact, the bottom nearly hits the waistline,
which is halfway down the hip. And, of course, the baggy coat is
back, so we might as well face it
be making a comeback. But new look or old, the plunging neckline
remains, and It's still plunging.
Farmar President Hoover asks us to "Think of the Ntxt
Generation" In a government-spending tond speech tonight
at 10. He'll speak from the amphitheater on the oampus of
Stanford university In Palo Alto, Calif. The occasion his
75th birthday.
Following tonight's speech by Herbert Hoover, KRNR will
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the broadcast will originate directly from the Elks ballroom. Gar
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Private Phone Companies Attack
Poage Bill As "Socialist" Gesture
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Backers of the PoageHill bill to authorize
Rural Electrification Administration financing lor farm telephone
lines have been showing off what they claim is a typical letter.
It is from a country store operator In San Bemadlno county, Calif.
We have tried to get telephone
service here, but have not had any
luck," says one paragraph of the
letter. 'The Bell people will put
a pay station at the store II we
make them a gift of $10,700. We
can get a 10-party line from Vie
torville If we advance $15,000, re
funded 10 per cent of the bills tor
10 years, then nothing thereafter.
Both a Joke. We have made a sur
vey and can get 100 subscribers
here and nearby."
Farm organization representa
tives are now putting the heat on
the Senate Agriculture committee
to do something this session about
the rural phone bill, so as to take
care of situations like the above.
A sub-committee under Sen.
Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma has
held two days of hearings on such
a hill Introduced by Sen. Lister
Hill of Alabama and nine other
senators. It is a companion meas
ure to Texas Congressman W. R.
Poaee's bill which recently pass
ed the House by a vote of nearly
tnree to one.
The Poaee bill would authorize
REAthe Rural Electrification
administration to make two per
cent, 35-year loans to private com
panies, public agencies and co
operatives for extending phone
service to farmers.
Bell System Opposes
There is plenty of opposition try
ing to keep the Poage Hill meas
ure hung up in the Senate.
Bell telephone system companies,
which tie in over 80 per cent of
the Class A telephones in the U. S.
don't like the Poage bill. The
6000 Independent telephone com
panies don't like it. Yet the
Independent Telephone institute
spokesmen have told Congress
that one of the chief obstacles to
expansion of rural phone service
is lack of capital.
A number of congressmen and
free-enterprise trade associations
of businessmen oppose the Poage
Hill bill because tney say u is
"socialistic." They maintain that
outline the government in the
phone business will simply add to
tne competition h now gives pn-
vate enterprise.
Of course the government Is
already In the electric power busl
iness, through REA. And now that
the REA coops have their lines
strung, they maintain that the
same poles can easily be used for
telephone wires.
REA has for some years had a
plan whereby private telephone
companies might share use of
REA Doles to provide rural serv
ice. But REA administrator
Claude Wickard recently told
Contrress that only 206 such agree'
ments have been made, bringing
phones to only 120,000 more cus
tomers. TeleDhone company officials In
testifying before Congress have
stressed the arguments that they
have been installing rural teie-
nhones at record-breaking rates.
They claim 1,200.000 new rural
phones installed since the end of
the war. Since tne l4 u. s. cen
sus of Agriculture reported l,8fi6,
000 farms with telephones, this
would mean 3,000.000 rural phones
now in service for the 6.288.000
U. S. farms. But many of the new
Installations are belleveu to be In
villages and rural non-farm areas
where the customers run up to
16 to the mile, Instead of from one
to four to the mile, as In the farm
areas.
C. F. Craig, vice-president of the
American Telephone and Tele
graph Co., says that In six of the
nine u. s. census Bureau geo
graphic areas, about 70 per cent
of the farmers now have phone
service. The three areas where
the percentage is below this fig
I're are southeast, southcentral
or mi coca-cou coruff It
Company of Roseburg
O !. n t-t c
and southwest. The average for
the first two is 25 per cent and
under, for the last 50 per cent
and under.
Ecuador Bravely
Facing Realities
Of Quake Horror
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Aug. 10
UP This brave little nation
went gamely about the task today
of doing what she could for her
earthquake ravaged areas, which
include some of the richest agri
cultural land In the country.
Citizens have caught up the
phrase of youthful President
Lasso, who said: "The situation is
horrible, but this is no time for
lamentations. Let us shed the
money of Ecuador, not the tears.
That seemed to size up the sit
uation and the need of a nation
for help in a tragedy wherein
several thousand lost their lives
and tens of thousands their
homes.
Meanwhile heart-rending tales
of suffering are being brought
back by rescue workers who have
visited the stricken areas.
One member of the medical
brigade said many living persons
still are trapped beneath the ruins
of their homes.
"The most heart-tearing experi
ence I had," he said, "was hearing
the cries of men, women and
children still imprisoned while
relatives, helpless to aid them,
stood by."
That happened in Pellleo, a
town which formerly had some
3,500 residents and where not a
house stands today.
President Plaza said only 300
persons In Pellleo survived the
quake.
One of the bieeest buildings in
Amoaio, a cathedral, was
torn
asunder by the nuake. At least 'jnn
' persons are believed to have died
in mat Incident alone.
One reason for the heavy dam
age Is that most houses are con
slructe: from a mixture of lime
and earth, which the quake crack
ed easily.
3 N. Y. City Parties Join
To Oust Negro Councilman
NEW YORK. Aug. 10.-)
The Democratic, Republican and
Liberal parties are Joining forces
to try to oust Benjamin J. Davis
Jr., Negro Communist party lead
er, from his city council seat.
Davis, one of the 11 top com
munists now on trial in federal
court on conspiracy charges, wort
his seat under a rlty wide pro
portional representation ballot
ing system.
This system now has been end
ed and election by districls has
been substituted.
Davis is seeking a new term
In Harlem district.
Hawaii Dock Strike
Branded Red-Inspired
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. t-Pl
Rep. Anderson (R.-Calif.) called,
Tuesday for government inter-!
vention In the Honolulu long-!
shoremen's strike which he said
was "the first step In commu-1
nist domination" of all Ameri- i
can shipping. !
He said the United States
should institute an airlift to take
supplies to Honolulu. .
The strike, he said In a state
ment, is "the direct result of a
communist-inspired and Sovlet dl-1
reeled niocKade of the Hawalla
llsand-s."
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Excitement and
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Moments of
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Woo',, Aug. 10, 1949 The
Washington Polio Casts
Increased By 24 In Week
SEATTLE, Aug. 10. (Jtl
Twenty-four new cases of in-
iantile paralysis were reported
In the state last week, the state
health department said. romm-.
ed to 16 the previous week.
The department listed eight
new cases In King county, in
cluding four in Seattle. Seven
reported in Snohomish county
one in Everett ap-J the others
in rural areas.
Other cases reported last week
were: Asotin, one; Clark, two;
Lewis, one; Yakima, one; Stev-
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FESTIVAL THRONGS UPPED
ASHLAND, Aug. 9 4JP The
Oregon Shakespearean festival
has drawn attendance 15 percent
above last year during its first
week's run.
Tourists from 15 states have
attended the Shakespearean
plays, which opened Aug. 2 and
will continue through Aug. 24.
ens, one; Pend O'Reille, one; and
Pierce, two.
The new cases brought Wash
ington's total for this year to 144.
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