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La Grande Evening Observer
:", Frank Schiro, Publisher
FRIDAY KVi;MN;, Al'ltll, 27,
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KVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete (lie (Jriimle
Rondo Valley irrigation project.
LA GRANDE A city of 10,(100
Extend the city limits.
"TnorGir'Tf'OR today
I'nrty honesty i'h party expediency
Glover Cleveland.
Lumber and Housing
, For Europe
.ljjverynnt! in America today Uiiowh
'Unit luiiiber i.s the most critical of all
war materials, and thai, haulier has
played and will continue to play a liiK
part in the winning of the war; lint
when it comes to lend-lease lumber for
the rehabilitation of foreign countries,
then that i.s another story. Ilrilain
needs a minimum of five hundred thou
sand temporary dwellings now and im
mediately after the end of hostilities in
Kuropc.
To help tide Ihem over the emer
gency the war production hoard recent
ly announced that thirty thousand such
units have been authorized to he pre
fabricated in this country during the
next seven months, requirine; Hil.tNIO,
(KKI board feet of lumber. Kiujitv mil
lion board feel of lumber is to lie sent
to KiiKlnnd for repair of bomb-damav.eil
existing structures. A total of l,7o(l.
(100 board feet of lumber has been
authorized for previously occupied coun
tries for the repair of damav.c wreaked
by the evacuating uazi armies. W'l'l!
has authorized ."i.CiOO.oiio board feel of
lumber for the construction of barracks
(to be prefabricated in this country) to
house workers at I'Vench ports.
While this is only a small part of
America's lumber production, it is still
lend-lease lumber beinn used to help
rehabilitate foreign countries, and what
Fining Hitsincss
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"He's not to lure ho'i going to got contributions in coin
1'uge Two
Meeting You Here!"
commitments have been made by those
in chnrjre of lend-lease, no one knows,
but it i.s time some of us are finding
out before we wake up to find that bil
lions if feet of America's forest pro
ducts have been Kiven away to foreign
countries under lend-lease, and our
natural resources dissipated.
America's farm buildings and homes
should be preserved and kept in good,,
icpair. Homes for the returned soldiers
must be provided. Homes and new
rami buildings for after the war must
be provided. Will lend-lease lumber for
the rehabilitation of foreign countries
deprive Americans of the homes and
farm buildings we will need? Ask your
congressmen about this problem.
Kamerad!
Nazi thought is mystifying at best,
ami when expressed in a .smattering
of English it becomes even more so.
Thus we can't be sure what was going
through the mind of the German soldier
we read about who gave himself up to
the Americans with these words:
"Surrender New York Detroit
Iiihn I,, lcwis Surrender."
We can scarcely hope that nn.i edu
cation taught and identified those
names in a very flattering light. ISut
still there's an outside chance that what
lie was really trying to say was this:. '
"I surrender to the people who piled
on a nai "ow island the world's most
imposing mass of masonry to house u
great, rich .'city which stands today,
unhoiiihcd and unharmed.
"I surrender to the people of another
."real city, one of many arsenals, whos"
planes ami bombs and guns have blast
ed our own great arsenal of the Kuhr
to rubble, and all but leveled our once
proud capital of liciiin.
"I surrender to a, country where a
strong man can defy the orders and i
wishes of his government, wrongly and '
in time of ;ir, and still live.
"In short, I jjive up."
& SO THEY SAY
It's a ti'iuMi thing to hoc how
tin m' I'tvh.s ;uv aCriiul to be sv'i'n
talking tn us in front of kraut
prisoners.
- 1'fc. FriMi'hc Schmidt of Now
York Cit., with Third army hi
LVerhofcluvakiu,
K v v i y thing (in G rewe ) now
i-o.sts n linn's nure than normal
ly. Tlu- p.ty of a workman i.
v.'ty hiiih. whili the pay of a
nvil .via ant is i jitivmtty low. A
own men l.ttorvr ivw gets more
than the tUivotor of a govnn
monml do;ai tincnt.
A 1 1' x t . ; las. O wok a i r force ,
iiion officer to Givck foicign
minister.
1 believe in democracy but I
aj .i fctliece in wary watchful
ness of the en.Mnv. If l-V1 :i t-fori.
;',tei1 to c:ei,v' boukVi our owoj
(j'-'i'V' promising civth.'.vDon will
ne at .T n,l.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
' By -MEW PEARSON'
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SAN FRANCISCO When the American
army swept into Germany it was fortunate
enough to capture on interesting figure in
Dr. H. J. Caesar, the counterpart of our alien
property custodian, who had charge of all
American banks and alien properly seized
in France. '!
Dr. Caesar was cross-examined at length.
From him came highly enlightening and
hitherto secret information about the man
ner in which certain British and American
branch banks in Paris collaborated with the
Germans after the full of France. His testi
mony highlights the main issue underlying
the problem of future peace namely wheth
er, despite all the plans worked out at San
Francisco, certain allied business firms to
gether ' with their friends in the state de
partment, the army and the British foreign
office are going to maneuver behind the
scenes to strengthen Germany once again as
a bulwark against Russia.
This largely lies at the root of the ticklish
Polish question. Russia wants a Poland
which will cooperate with her and be a buff
er against another German invasion. If
there were no .fear of future Germany, there
might be less insistence on a puppet Poland.
Ex-Justice Jimmy Byrnes descrbide this
'graphically to senators upon his return from
Yalta. Telling how Stalin got excited on
the question of Poland, Byrnes quoted Stalin
as saying: "You speak of English honor, Mr.
Prime Minister, and your desire to protect
the safety of Russia. But twice in 25 yean:
German armies have marched across Poland
to tuack Russ'la. If that happens again will
the English armies come to our defense?"
yefore Poljind was invaded last time it
will be remembered that British business
interests wevvl quite willing, even apparently
anxious, to,. have the Sudelenland taken
away from Czechoslovakia. President Boned
complained- bitterly regarding Lord Runci
man's atlitudo on this but the British ap
peasers' policy was to strengthen Germany
at the expense' of Russia's friend and buffer
ally, Czechoslovakia.
Finally, . it .was American and British
banks which) poured money into Germany
for years before the war and then maneu
vered to have reparations and war debt can
celled in order to protect their own loans.
The Chase National bunk was one of the
worst offenders. That is why a lot of peo
ple in Washington, Moscow and the world
at large ai:o'"watching to see whether his
tory will repeat. That is why the evidence
unearthed from the secret files of German
alien properly custodian Caesar is so signif
icant. It indicates that even during the
present war, the Paris branches of Chase
and J. P. Morgan were quite willing and
anxious to do business with, the Germans
though. British banks were more so.
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
A major in the United States army hun
unto the key to the front door of his home
through three years of buttle. He figured
sonic day he'd come home unannounced, un
lock the front door and surprise his family.
He finally made it home, walked up to his
' own front door and found it standing wide
open.
Perhaps that story is symbolic of the wel
come waiting for most returning servicemen.
Fur from home they may sometimes won
der and worry for fear their families have
learned to get along without them. They
muy wonder whether or not they ure still
important members of the family circb
when Ihcy read cheerful letters from home
saying, "Don't worry about us, we are get-
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent .
Looking under the bed to .sec who might
hi' hiding there to disturb the sweet dreams
of peace being envfsaged for Sun Francisco,
the first thing thut greets the eye is a scary
spectacle so frightening it makes you want
to dive for the pillows and pull the covers
up over your head tight. It is the prospect
of representatives from 42 U. S. clubs, socie
ties and pressure ('roups who have been in
vited by the stale department to send to San
Francisco spokesmen who will serve as con
sultants to the eight-member officiul U. S.
delegation. t
The 411 United Natiuns may have their dif
ficulties in agreeing how they will lie in the
same lied of security, hut their peaceful
slumbers will not be disturbed nearly so
much by a Soviet Russian with a secret vot-?
plan, n temperamental Do Gaulle French
man Willi a collection of trick amendments,
two quarreling Polish factions, nor a half
dii.cn British dominions scheming quietly
to rule the world, as they may be bothered
by this fringe of 42 lobbyists.
Included in the 42 ure four big business
groups, two associations of lawyers, threo
labor organizations, four veterans' organiza
tions, four farm groups, five women's socie
ties, tow Catholic, two Jewish and two Pro
teslunt uuxiharies, six peace societies, four
businessmen's luncheon clubs, three educa
tional societies and the national association
for tile advancement of colored people.
If the object of Sun Francisco is to estab
lish peace and keep the peace, why don't a
liM of these people stay home? The fact thai'J
more thn one of each of the pressure
groups, are invited to San Francisco is in
itself evidence th.Q in no:W.il times t,hyy
('"' if(y with t(M)H other on the saty
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On the nvtf riee:,rfure for SaivKvancisco.
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. Dr. Caesar testified that "the protection
afforded to Chase was justified on the .
ground that it had been active on behalf
of Germany before the war in such matters
as the German 'stand-still' credit negotia
tions. "The British banks," lie said, "wore even
more preferred by the Germans than the
branches of Chase and the Morgans. The.
German occupying autliorities decreed that
British and Canadian banks in the occupied .
zone of France 'shall no longer be considered
as enemy banks.' These branches provided
long-term credits to assist the German war
machine. They supplied the Germans with
general economic information obtained,
through their offices in unoccupied France,
and they were particularly useful as deposi
tories to the German authorities."
But especially significant were some of
the letters found in Dr. Caesar's files. Ows
indicated that the J. P. Morgan company had
gone out of its way to curry favor with the
Nazis by showing that the Morgans had
nothing to do with Jews. One memo sent
to Gel man-banking-czar Caesar by Mr. Le
cestre, a high official of the Morgan firm,
read: "On the attached sheet there is rep
resented some information relative to the
predecessors of Mr. J. P. Morgan, actual
head of J. P. Morgan and Co., Inc., New.
York. Following the tradition ot his father, .
Mr. Morgan never admitted Jews as associ
ates or fellow workers. ; '
"The Morgan house has been frequently
found in its business, in opposition to the
great Jewish banking houses in the United
States, such as Kuhn, Loeb and Co. As to
Morgan and Co., Paris, the personnel, since
the foundution of the bank in 1868, has nev
er included a Jew."
The memo is dated Jan. 15, 1943, more
than a year after Germany declared war on
the United States. Another memo ound in
the files of the German alien property cus
todian, dated May 6, 1941, is signed by Ber-enberg-Gosler,
Paris reprsentative of the
reichskredit-gesselschaft. It reads in part:
"Subject: Morgan & Cie. ' '
"During a dinner to which 1 was invited
by the French partner of this firm, Mr. Pes- ,
son-Didion, Mr. P. D. again spoke indignant
ly about the clique in America which con
tiually attempts to draw the United States
into an unjustifiable as well as ridiculous
war. He told me that I would know from
my stay in New York and Boston, the views
of the partners of his firm and also how they
hate Roosevelt that Roosevelt is driving
America toward a catastrophe by his eco
nomic and foreign policies.
"With respect to England, Mr. P. D. hopes
that the conservavtive party under Sir Sam
uel Hoare and Lord Londonderry will get
that the conservative party under Sir Sam
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ling along fine."
They may even search their minds for
"keys" to unlock the closely-knit family uits
they have had no real part in for so long.
They often worry about how to get a wife,
who has gone home for the duration, to
break away from the inflence of her family;
how to re-establish a marriage tha; was
barely started before the war intciefered;
how to become a real father to the child to
whom "Daddy" is only a picture on tac man
tle. And yet for all their searching for keys to
open these doors to the lives they once led,
most servicemen will probably come home
to find the doors standing wide open, and
the keys not even needed.
& Bailey and Hollywood touches thrown in,
may so scare the delegates from the other
45 United Nations that they will revolt.
They may rise in unison and say: "If this
be the price of peace, give us war; if this
be the higher standard of living to which
you Americans wish to raise the rest ot the
world, led us back into slavery; if this be
democracy in action, give us dictatorship.
If this is what we have been fighting for,
goodby."
Loving this country and not wishing any
other, it is possible to enjoy the corn relish
at high noon knife-and-fork deliberations
of Lions, Rotarians and Kiwanis; to view
with detachment the bickerings of A. F. ot
1... C. I. O. and N. A. M.; to argue religious
differences with tolerance; and to get some
genuinely hearty laughs every now and then
out of the women, God bless 'em, who will
join clubs. All these things are as American
us apple pie and ice cream and we under
stand them.
Why Secretary of State Stettinius invited
them to San Francisco is understandable.
Why they want to be there is understand
able. They're all tremendously interested
and they want to contribute their two cents'
worth. Who doesn't?
As a demonstration of American public,
pinion expressing itself by insisting that
the statesmen get together and for an or
ganization that w ill stop war, this 42-act
greater combined lobby; of counsellors ctfR
exert a wholesome influence. But if the
boys and girls get the in'ea that they are go
ing to San Francisco to put over ft projects,
to insist on patented panaceas of their, own
preparation, to stage demonstrations and
raise holy Jv'Acf if their private, picayurrti-h
Kejiee'floiishi is not follov(cji to(t)ie,I.it d,
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Ice, sweet pwite, they
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"My contract comet up for renewal next week and do I wish I
hadn't won all that money from the boss, taking his beli on when
the war would end!" ''' ' '" .
McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
' By WM. E. McKENNEY, 'America's Card Authority
HOW "RULE OF U"
CAN HELP DECLARER
No series of articles on great
bridga leaders of tha past would
be complete without mentioning
Robert F. Foster, a peppery little
Scotsman now in his nineties. Ha
was card editor of the New York
Sun for many years and wrot.;
scores of books on whist, bridge-
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whist, auction, contract and al
most every card game.
His most notable contribution
to the modern day game was his
invention of the "rule of eleven."
As you probably know, this
rule requires a player making a
lead not from a sequence to lead
the fourth best of his longest and
strongest suit. While this rule is
supposed to work to the advan
tage of the defenders, quite often
it works to the advantage of the
declarer. You can see that the
declarer's problems is to keep
East from getting into the lead.
A small diamond was played
by the declarer, intending to ito
Questions & Answers
Q Have the Russians and Jap
cnese had many clashes along the
Manchurian border?
A More than 2000. In 1939
the Japs lost 18,000 troops in an
undeclared war that raged
through the summer.
Q What are gold seal dollars?
A Dollars used in the north
Africa campaign, with yellow ink
Instead of blue for the U. S. seal.
Q What are the general di
mensions of Okinawa?
A 70 miles long, 2 to 18 wide.
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up with the king, but of course
when West's queen drops, now
you con read the whole hand.
You know that East has a single
ton club and it should be the
king. Thus the declarer makes
five odd.
If a heart had been opened,
Foster by the same reasoning
could have made 12 tricks.
O IN FORMER
YEARS
30 Years Ago
The junior class of the high
school entertained the seniors at
the annual banquet in the gym
nasium of the high school. The
reception room was decorated
with pink and green crepe paper
pennants and evergreens. Mat
tie Schofield was toastmlstress
and called upon the following: To
the seniors Stella Bodmer; sen
ior response Blanche Black; To
the faculty Helen Pierce; facul
ty response Mr. Girdler; To the
senior mascot Alvin Jacobson:
response Earl Reynolds. Nearly
100 persons were present; -
La Grande, Pendleton and
Baker commercial clubs joined in
a plan to provide uniform sign
posts to mak the Old Oregon
Trail from Huntington to the Co
lumbia highway junction.
IS Years Ago
W. C. Perkins was elected pres
ident of the La Grande Rotary
club for the year 1930-31 to suc
ceed Dr. Ray Murphy. Fred
Lanzer was elected vice-president,
and Francis Greulich, sec
retary treasurer.
Ernest Burnett and family, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Burnett, drove to Baker to spend
the day visiting at the J. E. Bur
nett heme and to witness the
Baker-Boise baseball game.
Carl Baum left for Portland on
a business trip. ,. t
10 Years Ago
The Odd Fellows and Rebek
ahs met to celebrate the 116th
anniversary of the order. About
125 members were present. '
Teachers from schools in Bak
er, Milton-Freewater, Cove, Un
ion, Flora, Weston and La
Grande, met at the high school to
, discuss vocational and education-,
al guidance in the schools.
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