La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, May 16, 1945, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text-J I EDITORIAL PAGE La Grande Evening Observer Frank Schiro, Publisher VKI)NKSI)AY KVKMNC., MAY 10, 194 5 I'age Two Fisherma ns Luck irorrt and 2 EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. kcepsU, A GRANDE A city of 10,000 He sho E5ctend the city ,ilnit8- fines worl There's tAY'S TEXT und numboth riches and honour conic of thee yrtu wont thou rei),riiest ovqr nil; and in thine ond time d is power and miKht; and in thine hoist onc, it i.s t,J make jrreat, and to jfivo one mcnr.njrii, llni Chronicles .20:12. ing tetlr 9 Pcat 'lllOUGHT FOR TODAY rnna A" 1")W01' is n truist : that we are ac 'the Countable for its exercise; that from the "l,er people and for the people all springs, sir and all must exist. lienjaniin Disraeli. I'' The Columbia River Highway We note with pleasure the concur rence yesterday of the Portland Orojton ian with our recent editorial pointing out the importance of a progressive at titude on the modernization and relo cation of the Columbia River highway from Portland to The Dalles and on the Oregon Trail section to the Idaho bor der. . The Oregonian's editorial indicates that the importance of the highway to the entile state is as evident to the western portion of the state as it is to us here in eastern Oregon. l'elieving that Ihis matter should be emphasized as much as possible we re print, in portion, the editorial comment of the Portland newspaper: "On this project. $1.2(10,000 has al ready been spent and the new money, it i.s expected, will complete the section between Troutdale and Dotlson the latter a point about a mile east of Horse tail falls. Through and heavy traffic will thus be able to by-pass Crown Point, the Figure Fight and other es thetic features for which the present highway is noted, but which will be pre served for use of lovers of scenery and sudden vistas. . "Yet when this section has been com pleted only a relatively small part of construction on the new locution will have been finished. It will cost $11, 000,000 to complete the remaining forty-four miles of the new highway to The Dalles, and in that remaining part are many features of the present high way that delight the esthetic, but ag gravate the multitude of private and commercial vehicles that are going to and from eastern Oregon on business. "At the present rate of allotment of highway funds it will require about fifteen years to complete the whola pro ject. And that is far too long to wait for an improvement for which there is such strong commercial demand. "It is repetitious, but pertinent, to re call that the Columbia River highway was built in a day when motoring was mainly pleasure driving. The motorist was presumed to take delight, and prob ably did, in sinuous roads and expansive points of view. Some, who have the time for it, still do, but even their phns ure is now disturbed by competition for road space by ponderous busses and slow-moving trucks and private cars in a great hurry. The Columbia River highway has become a major artery of business traffic, for which it was not designed." Fun tin Jiu si ii ess -or r or iirf-'-s w,-.s J r I "7 , k-r- wife' i' Si 0 SO THEY SAY 1 have complete confidence in the stupidity of the Japanese. -'--Brie,, lien. Frederic Smith. rnminandcr, fifth air force, Pacific. 1 hope to lie able to accept the invitation of 1'iesidcnt Osmona to visit Manila at the inaugura tion of the Philippine republic. President TruVnnn. Wo must strip Germany of her army, navy, and nil of her heavy Industries. She must be close ly supervised. And let's leave her devastated cities unrepaired. They would be a fine momu ment to nil whom the Germans have numlerd in Hiich6l)cald and itteOvvhoro. -Hep. Marion T. Belmetl, Mis soui i. Washington Merry-Go-Round Side Glances By DREW PEARSON "I'm' gelling tired of towing by handl" The kind of effect . K, lil.c , is nn'.ethiiiK Kind of halll r.y.v',ut convincing. Houlvn Mamoulian, stage and movie director. WASHINGTON Jonathan Daniels, retir ing White House press chief, was offered by Truman the job of rural electrification ad ministrator. He turned it down to go with the MacMillan publishing company .... If General William O'Dwyer doesn't run for mayor of New York, Warner1 Brothers have offered him a top spot In their company. . . .Liberty Correspondent Burnet Hershey, returning from the wnr zone, reports that various allied groups already have begun & rabbing for the huge German gold cache '. S. troops, found in a salt mine. The gold bars are not stamped with the name of any country, ond Holland has pointed out that part of her gold reserve was snitched by the Nazis. A lot of people are not at all happy about having French Collaborationist Premier La yal brought to trial. He has a strongbox In a Madrid bank containing correspondence with various people, including the British, which won't look good if made public in court . . . Marshal Petain is in the same boat. He even has a signed treaty with Churchill. . . . Some day the real reason why Musoslinl was shot instead of being brought to trial will leak out. He also had some papers. ... If Hermann Goering really goes to trial, the true story of the mysterious Rudolph Hess flight to Scotland finally will be told. Some peope are not too anxious to have Goering stand trial publicly. Porney Baruch's Dream Barney. Baruch has laid bofro President Truman an up-in-the-clouds proposal to re duce the cabinet to the state, war, navy and treasury departments, plus three other posts not now of cabinet status office of war mo bilizer, foreign economic administrator and Barney Barueh, himself. Barney is a little vague about what his job should he but he is not vague about wanting a job in the cabinet , . . President Truman listened to Baruch with outward cordiality,- and pretended he would think it over. Democratic Chairman Henncgan has de cided not to go to the Philippines on the junket with Senator Tydings. (There aren't any votes in the Philippines.) . . .Filipino leaders complain that when they go to see Tydings, chairman of the insular affairs committee, he snaps at them: "Talk fast, talk fast." . . . Far-sighted General Fred Os born, chief of the army's special services di vision, is completing airangenients for open ing a university in Paris where American soldiers can study until they are shpped home. . . . Although Portugal broke off re lations with Germany just before V-E day, she refused to co-operate with the allies on the day following her break when the U. S. state department asked Portugal to "block all German and other enemy accounts and safe deposit boxes." The Portuguese re fused, declaring such action would mean war with Germany. Vandenberg' "Cht.nman" Senator Arthur Vandenberg Is working sincerely and energetically at being a states man, and bring good will to the allies. But he's not doing so well with the Chinese. The other day, Vandenberg was asked some questions by news men about proposed amendments to the United Nations charter. "They don't have a Chinaman's chance," was his reply. Four Chinese news men pres ent were furious, said nothing. The late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox get into the same kind of trouble right after Pearl Harbor when the Chinese am bassador called to express China's sorrow at Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. "We'll fix those yellow-bellied so and so's," exploded Knox in reply. Did You Know That The 30-caliber bullet used by the U. S. army will penetrate a 10-inch tree at 203 yards and kill a man behind It. , : More water-borne cargoes clear through the Port of Chicago each year than through the Panama Canal. Last year approximately half the canned vegetables and two-thirds of the canned fruit used by civilians was home canned. More than' 50,000,000 pest-destroying in sects are shipped annually from California insectaries by air express to widely scat tered destinations. The department of agri culture recently shipped 2,000 parasitized coddling moths to Lima, Peru. One airline delivers insects to 18 different countries. In the past five years the passenger reve nue mileage flown in the United States in creased over 200 per cent, totaling some 1, i 500,00,000 miles, or more than 10 miles per capita. Air express revenue mileage in creased more than BOO per cent, totaling some 30,000,000,000 miles. WE, THE WOMEN By RUTH MILLETT Even to those who sit at home and wait war is a terribly personal thing. You sensed that in the reactions of men and women on V-E day. The war was over in Europe, and for that the man next door, the woman down the street, the clerk in the drug'storo' we're 'thankful; But the personal weight of the war couldn't be lifted even momentarily by a half victory. The man next door doesn't dare hope his son in Germany will be through with fight ing because the European war is won. The woman down the street knows how little the end of the European war means to her husband, already two years in the Pacific. She can't forget that it won't make any sudden difference in the pattern of her lonely days. The man In the drugstore says, "But there is still so much fighting ahead, so many lives yet to be lost. And then there are all those boys who never are coming back boys for whose families V-E day came too late." So thugh it was a day of victory for the world to individuals it was not exactly .a happy day. For almost everyone there were sobering, quieting consider atins. It was V-E day but it didn't bring Joe home. And for those who sit and wait, lis well as for Joe, the day of real rejoicing Is still in the future. That day is the da that Joe comes home for good. And if he never oomcs home, for those who love him there will never be a real day of victory.. For those who sit and wait, as well as for those who fight, war is a terribly personal thing. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, Lb Grands Evening Observer Washington Correspondent Full import of the Soviet government's ac tion in holding under arrest 15 Polish politi cal leaders and one military leader can bo understood only after examining the person al records of these key men in the under ground movement. What this magnificent ly conceived and beautifully executed dou ble cross amounts to is the capture of four cabinet members and the leaders of five major political parties Peasant, Socialist, Christian Labor, Nationalist and Democratic which functioned as a coalution council of national unity, or underground parliament, all through the war. However else the pre-war Polish govern ment may be criticized, it cannot be said that it developed any Quislings. Credit for this belongs largely to the underground par liament which, though it could not itself function as ft government, at least saw to it that there was no Polish collaboration with the Germans. At the' head of this underground move ment in Poland was a chief delegate who also ranked as vice-premier of the London Polish government in ex'le. This was Jan Jankuwski who, next to the military leader and the only non-political leader, General Leopold Okulicki, was perhaps the biggest catch in the Russian 16-man bag. Jankowski was a labor leader, a lifelong member of the Christian Labor party. After the Pilsudski coup in 102(5. Jankowski withdrew- from politics and devoted all his ef forts to labor union organization. During the Warsaw uprising last fall Jankowski was awarded the highest Polish military decora tion for conspicuous gallantry, though he was not a soldier. To charge a man with such a record as being pro-German seems fantastic. This is equally true of Eazinierz Purak, perhaps the most important personality de tained by the Russians. Puznk's record shows that In 1W5 hi( )vas arrested and sentenced to death for leading u:rf)infis against the Tsar. His .sentence was conimuntel to im C isonment but he was hlvrated only by the 'ttolsheviki revolution in HU7. He returned to P(tfti!d. entered politics, became secre tary general of the Socialist party, was a founder of the underground and escaped detection all through the war. A third leading figure among the Russian captives is Wincenty Witwos, for the last 35 years head of the Peasant party and three times premier of the old Polish government. The other 12 political captives, as far as general American knowledge is concerned are unknown, largely unpronounceable and frequently unspcllable names, except to readers of the Polish-American press. Yet because they may become symbols of Polish persecution in a celebrated incident that may well spread dissentlon among the Big Three powers, they should be better known. Included are National party leaders Ta deuscz Kobylanski, publisher, and senator; Zbigniew Stypulkowski, lawyer, and stu dent leader; Stanislaw Jasiukowicz, cabinet member and doctor of economic science. Christian Labor party leaders Jozef Cha cinski, party chairman; and Franciszek Ur banski. secretary general of the farm labor ers' union. Peasant party leaders Kazimierz Baginski, imprisoned for radical left wing activities; Stanislaw Mierzwa, leader, of the radical Peasant Youth association, and Judge Adam Bien, a cabinet member. Democratic party members A. Czernik and Michalowski. Socialist 'Antoni Pajdag, former deputy mayor of Crakow. When on March 30, three days after their disappearance, a full report of the incident was sent to Washington and London, few people believed it. The treachery of forc ibly detaining plenipotentiaries for whom safe conduct to London had been arranged was so great that only the Poles gave it credence till it was confirmed by Foreign CotjimissaroM- V. Moltov in n Francisco a few days ago. Thritigh four years of war against Ger many thee underground political kadcrs had kept their guard up and had avoided de tection. It was only when the Germans had been driven out of the country and the Po lish patriots let their guard down to the Rus sians that they came to grief. : bow n fl - 0 yt(jLwOC7a iw. it4.tTiltYKl. wcT.it Ma .lr.( '.T-7 "I told our Cub Scout pack you marched all over France in 1918, Dad, so they elected you to take us on a 12-mile hike Sunday!" O McKENNEY ON BRIDGE - By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority CROS8-RUFF SET UP BY SUIT PIRECTING I had a most interesting letter from a chap in the Royal Nor wegian uir force. His regiment al number is 501. He asked me not to use his name as he is V64 AKQ87 KQJ74 "Ml" 1 r 1 AK109 W E VQ52 8 8 J 10 6 5 4 None Dealer '432 10 9 8 5 3' 1 None AKQJ 109 V J73 9 A62 Rubber Both vul. South West North 1 2V 3 3 Pass 4 S 4k Double Pass 5 4t Double Pass Opening V K. East Pass Pass Pass Pass 17 afraid of reprisals against his family, still in Norway, but he did send this hand. We will just call him "501." He and his partner certainly used the suit directing play to great advantage in this hand. He cashed the king and then the ace of hearts and his partner gave Questions & Answers Q What is ' the population of Vienna, Austrian capital now in Russian hands? A Nearly 2,000,000 before the war. him the deuce and five spot. So at this point he shifted to the three of clubs. Remember that North had bid clubs and it was supported by South so it was riot unreasonable to believe that East would be out of clubs. . i East trumped and, recbgnizing the fact that his partner1,1 by play ing the three of clubs, 'had asked for the return of the lowest suit not trump, returned a' diamond which "501" trumped, thus being able to give East another club ruff, setting the contratt three tricks. ' O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago ,n F. J. Holmes went to Elgin to attend the telephone stockholders meeting. ' . Misses Lucile Switzer and Ruth Ghormley entertained informally at cards in honor of C. G. DeVore. Mrs. George Waite entertained the Nineteen Fifteen embroidery club at her home on Washington avenue. " Q Of what is the housing of our newest armor-piercing shell made? A Tungsten carbide, the world's hardest metal. The shell's muzzle velocity is 3400 feet a second; its steel counterpart trav els only 2800 feet a second, muz zle velocity. " ;'! Years AW? ' Mrs. Parley Hutchinson went to Portland to be present for the graduation of her sister, Marga ret Ireton, from the Good Samar itan hospital school of nursing. Mrs. Hutchinson wds accompan ied by - her mother, Mrs. ' Ireton of Payette, Fred Ireton .of Jack son Hole, and Mrs. H. W. Moss man of Meridian. . E. E. Beatty drove to Baker to attend the Scottish Rite. reunion. Mrs. P. J. Lilly went to West Virginia for a month's '.visit wth her mother. Q What percentage of Ire land is Eire? A Twenty-six counties form Eire; remainder constitute North Ireland. : . , Q What percentage of chil dren attending school also hold jobs? A 20 per cent. In 1940, less than 2 per cent. -)T 10 Years Ago K. G. LaViolette, principal in the Cove school for four, years, resigned to become assistant principal at Pendleton high school. .' . Rev. and Mrs. H. I. Hansen and daughters, Ethel and Mrs. G. J. Mehl and daughter Margaret, went to Canyon City to visit relatives. , , Miss LIU Hofmann was re elected to teach at Moss Chapel during 1935-36. The 1935 activi ties closed with a picnic, at the Cove swimming pool. This Curious World L-?' ITV ii ' ( RAISERS SAY V lit a? jA ifl r) HENS cut-s I ' ' I T. M. NIC. VI. 1. PUT OFF. DOTHEYUSETHE SAWS CALENDAR SOUTH OF THE EflUATOR THAT WE 0O? O RUBBER PISH, CAST IN PLASTER-OF-PARiS Wit 0 FSESM SPECIMENS, ar EPlaSn& wounteo ones in sae museum exhibits. ;-i7 ANSWER: Yes, but down there it is autumn now; even though q u is way , ;i n , Q " . NEXT: He fell 2000 feel and lived. i