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EDITORIAL PAGE J Side Glance Watshihgton MeFry-Go-Rou Br DHEW PtAIttON La Grande Evening: Observer ' Frank Schlro, Publisher MONDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1945 Page Two Changin g Berths ' ' I ' " I WASHINGTON The ' "secret document" situation 1b causing a lot of mirth inside the office of strategic services. OSS is the outfit, sometimes called "oh so-secret," organized by Gen. "Wild Bill" Donovan, assistant at torney general under Coolidge and who has done some fine work in 'both wars, but who also has succeeded in collecting one of the fanciest group of dilettante diplomats, Wall Street bankers, and amateur detectives ever seen in Washington. While the youngsters' in uniform recruited by Donovan have done some of the most he roic work of the war, such as parachuting behind enemy lines, his "cloak and dagger" boys in' Washington' have had a marvelous timi playing detective."":. Not long ago this column illustrated the ultra-secret social operations of the OSS by publishing' a "secret" telegram which merely reported on the social doings of a Donovan representative at the San Francisco confer encewith whom' he dined, his efforts to rent an apartment, and his plans for visiting other cities on the west coast.' Since' then,1 there' has been a large-scale hunt In the' OSS for leaks. An extra person has been detailed to stand beside the mimeograph machine and tear1 up all extra, spoild copies of messages. Copies of messages have been reduced to three, and are sent around With armed guards. Any ex tra copies above this are chopped up' in a shredding machine. Meanwhile, security of ficers swarm all over the place like hawks, and mysterious holes have appeared in the celling.- : Finally,' the Paris" office of OSS was thrown into consternation when a man sud denly appeared to inspect their operations. They couldn't stop him, . however, because he had a permit to poke around the office from none other than the assistant secretary of war John J. McCloy. A Colonel Rodriquoz of the U. S. arrriy was especially sent by President Truman' to de liver to Emperor Halle Selassie' of Ethiopia some of the emperor's jewels and documents recovered in Italy; Mussolini's boys carted them off to Italy when they looted the em peror's palace in Addis Ababa and so Presi dent Truman wanted" to send them back by a-personal messenger. But the OSS sent Col. Rodriquez only part way. They said privately they didn't want him down in Ethiopia. So the jewels were relayed to the emperor by another man . . . Thirty cases of OSS documents were captured by the-Japs in Burma and China, which the Japs have turned over1 to the Russians. From a Russian viewpoint, the documents are most interest ing because they' show a consistent anti-Rus- , sian policy being followed by OSS operators, plus plans for future work against the Rus- sians . . . OSS top men are nearly , all picked from the Red-baiters . Marshal Tito has : ordered all OSS men ' out of ' Yugoslavia. . However, seven OSS men stayed on at the American embassy anyway . . . The Russians ' have now barred all OSS men from Ru mania; Ond OSS agent has been left inside the American legation; however, and , 'the OSS has been scrambling, round to find pla ces for others in Bucharest. . -,.' The Fight Over FUet Senator Harley Kilgore of West Virginia, recently returned from Europe, is recom 'mending to President Truman that the files of the famous nazl cartel, I.- G.' Farben, which developed synthetic gasoline and rub ber patents and cooperated with U. S! busi ness; be microfilmed. . ' : .,;; ''- These files, which may hold among the most, precious of nazi war secrets, have been kicked around Germany, and were even stored for a while in a warehouse with dis placed persons Who tore some of them up for bedding and toilet uses.' Also the files have been- the subject of a 'tug-of-war between jalous U. S. agencies, including the army, the OSS, the ustice department and the FEA. Some of the files were found buried in the basements and back gardens of high I. G. FarbCn officials, whd took them home as the war neared its end. Some were carted off by the Germans to escape bombing. Two boxcars filled with files were shipped off to Weimar. Most of the files are under the army ' at Frankfurt, but some' are under the OSS at Heidelberg. Top-notch I. G. Farben officials are also considered important for establishing war built and ascertaining' war. 'secrets. They have been kept in prison ever ' since the armistice, . - , evening observer's Progress program IRRIGATION Complete the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE - A city of 10,000 TGxtend the city limits. ' The Pacific Northwest A Place to Stay and Live A mora" recital, n factual inventory without any romantic buildup, of the resources of the northwest resulted in lvcepinjr thousands of Kaiser shipyard f niployes on their Jobs, where many of . I hem had decided, last Auprust, the' war was nearly over and it was time for' litem to return to the midwest or south or east, says the American Legion maga zine in an article by Robert Ormond Case, popular novelist and adventure .tory writer. This inventory, says Case, made no direct promises of post-war employ ment. This was made plain in the Henry Kaiser shipyard house organ; lint the recital was so convincing to many workers they decided'they had a better chance in the northwest after the . war work was over than anywhere else. Here are some of the reasons which Case listed : There is plenty of room in Oregon mid Washington as I lie area is greater I han New York, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire and Ohio; and the popula tion is less than in Chicago. It could support five limes its present popula tion uilli ease. This vast area is the most health fill on the continent, the most economically 'stable and near the top in per capita wealth. It is, says Case, at the top in poten tial wealth. Residents here have attained the highest living standard, have the. most . national paiiks. and playgrounds, high est per capita fa'rnl incomes, and high est per capita college enrollment. North westerners dp more hunting, fishing' and golf playing. There are more elec tric ranges in Portland than in New York City and more automobiles there ,thnn in the whole of Soviet Russia. Half the nation's standing timber is in the northwest 800 billions of board feet; the 10 billion feet harvested every year is a third of the nation's cut. It is a permanent resource because timber reproduces faster here than anywhere else on the globe and the sustained tree program is constantly reducing the spread between growth and' depletion.: New uses for timber are expanding daily. Agriculture is a second great re source: Within tho two states are be ing raised every vegetable, field and fruit crop native to tho temperature zone. It is a fine dairy region. All world's records for milk and butterfat production in tho Jersey breed have Ijcon held by dairymen in the two states. Further underwriting the future of (lie northwest is the fact almost half the potential hydro-electric power is here. The cost is the cheapest in the nation from the Grand Coulee alone. What this vast reservoir of power will mean in tho post-war picture can only be surmised, declares Case. Sec EDITORIAL . . . Page 4 WE, THE WOMEN .JPj RUTH MILLETT - After taking food tests the husband brought home to his wife a list of all the foods that didn't agree with him; Now he never gets the forbidden foods and he feels fine. ,'., ''.JdtSStti.tot his'wTfp to cootewiUimfe eye ot) tjuj.bannod food list. But she does it , and not grudgingly lther,' because" she knows 'her'' husband can't help the fact that he is alljsisic. Besides, she'd rather take' a little mdi trouble With; her meal planning than to i jjfut up with a man suffering from food allergy. . But she isn't near that tolerant about oth er things that don't agree with him. For instance, an evening of bridge with the Joneses has almost as bad an affect on him as eating eggs but she goes right on serving up the Joneses, week after week. He hates to bp nagged about the chores to be done about the house, but it never occurs to his wife to accept the fact she has mar ried a man who' is allergic to leaky water faucets and grass that needs to meet a lawn- His day gets off to a wrong start if he is asked to clutter up his mihd with' household errands but he'is'asked td'do them all the same, and made to feel like a heel if he for . geis. '-. ' -5-His- disposition' proveA-jgiaJhigg plans matSeJ for him without hisoriseht ("John will be glad to' do so-and-so") "doesn't agree with him but he often finds himself in that maddening predicament. A : ' : If his-wife and all Wives could be as tolerant of a man's personality allergies as of food allergies and treat; them with the same respect, marriage would be so' much simpler. But the woman who would recognize a man's allergy for potatoes or eggs won't accept his lack of tolerance for the Joneses in the same spirit. She'll hunt around for a substitute for po tatoes' to do away wltH his headaches but she won't hunt around for a substitute for the Joneses to do away with his complain ing, "Do wo have to spend another evening with THEM?" ' . ' . " Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, La Orand Evening Obtcrvtr Washington Correspondent Fimnu liusines? o SO THEY SAY Philiinthrnphy is the responsi bility of the man and must nev er be the burden of the few. Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Now York City. We may be sure, I think, that when a commission is established, the United States government will urge that it should promptly study the means of promoting freedom of tho press. Edward R. Stettinius, jr. "Wt had liodbW keeping litr until w motoilted ih lea wa-jon',' As a result of the war. women haw taken an increasingly im portant place in t lie whole eco nomic structure. M. P. t'alhmvood, New York it, lie coimuis'.ioiicr ; of com merce. ( Letlinf every boy and girl feel he is doing his part for the military campaign abroad will help to keep waste paper collec tions at high levels dining tiie slimmer. Salvage division, war produc tion boiird. WASHINGTON, July 9 Anyone wanting pennifnent work in Washington these days is smart if he signs up as a baby-sitter. It used to be that a career in a government agency was a good thing with a future in it, but no more. ' " All these firings and resignations of gov ernment people: from cabinet members on down has given the capital one of the worst cases of reorganization jitters it ever had. Consequently, hiring out by the hour to watch tho neighbors' kids on parents' nights off offers a lot better chance for advance ment thap passing a civil service examina tion. And, if, in addition to minding the baby you can develop a little talent as a cook or a butler and yardman, old age and possible unemployment need offer no terrors. Why, even working as a Western Union messenger or as a cub reporter in a newspaper office, which used to be the most transitory jobs in the world, offer steadier employment than the government these days. When even Harry Hopkins resigns, then you know nothing is sure. -. The man who gets the treasury berth, will no doubt want to move in and reorganize completely. That's what they all do, from President Truman on down. Truman has asked "cdngress for authority to reorganize the whole government set-up, and though congress has shown no hurry about granting his request, there just couldn't be more re organization than is going on nil over town right now. The plane is like a circus grounds after the big show has struck its tents a; midnight to move on to the next town. Ymi don't see how they'll ever get it together acain. ' Advent e( Justice James F. Byrnes as sre retdry of ste has started a fie of rumors of forthcoming wholesale reorganization and mdernization and many job holders are jum py about their future. Generally forgotten in the fact the department of state has already been reorganized twice in the last 18 months, once In January 1H44 and agaih in Decem ber when Secretary Edward Stettinius took over withrhis "team Part of the big scrjvnble i'n state dip.irtment now is to try to get along to London,' when Stettinius goes there to work on the interim united 'nations organization. Any of the Stettinius team that get set out may try to tag along to UNO un less such action is Vetoed by the president and Byrnes. ' ... Secretary of Commerce': Henry . Wallace, who has been toying with reorganization' of his department since he took officolast Jan uary; still isn't ready to announce his plans and won't be for a month or two. Shortly after Wallace took over', he'asked every di vision chief for an outline of projects then being worked- on. These are being-' sHudied as the basis for the Wallace reshuffle, but the job is so big it can't be done in a hurry. Department of agriculture's absorption of war food administration under the new sec retary Clinton B. Anderson is having no im mediate effects. People who had been work ing for WFA will in general go on doing the same things they did before, only as employ ees of the department of agriculture. Not to be overlooked, however, is the fact that Sec rtary Anderson has brought back to Wash ington Milton Eisenhower, E. W. Gaumitz and Jerry ThornCj all former employees of the department, to work out a complete re organization of that far flung bureaucracy. Secretary of Labor Lewis' B. Schwellen bach hfts a similar group planning reorgani zation of the department of labor. Schwell enbach's passes at bringing other labor agen cies under his wing has of course crpatcd a certain amount of uncertainty in national labor relations board, war labor board, war manpower commission and social security board. Incidentally. NLRB, itself has a new chairman in Paul M. Herzeg. All the war agencies are demobihtmg. Army is .discharging as fast as it can and navy will follow as soon as it gets J.ipan finWied off.T V Only Hariild Ickes and his department of interior" proceed in unrhffled peace and quiat, the last vestige of the new deal, tho only thing to cling to in a pity of shifting sands yhere t! one constant is eternal change. 7 rwmwk i mM 41 &Wftrr .(-. COW. IHIWNM SIHVICt. INC. T. M. MO. U. PAT. OFF.- 7-ID "Some of ih women in the club like to boast if they starl' comparing-how many war bonds they have', juii say we've: flot them u - ?.-. stacked all over the housel" ;-lc D McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority - ERROR IN COVERING HEART ALLOWS BID There is no question about' the' overbidding . on today's ' hand. South has a doubtful opening bid, let alone a bid of three clubs, so I could not criticize Harry Fishbein for jumping to four spades. However, right after the opening lead, I was called to the Fishbein AKQ10 9S V 109 87 10 7 3 ' 3 532 Q J 9 6 5 KJ2 N W E S Dealer 472 VKQJ64 AK A865 A A J 8 4 A 842 Q 10 9 7 4 i Duplicate E.-W. vul. South West' North East 1 A Pass Pass 2 V 3 Pass 4 A Pass Pass Pass Opening V 5. ' 10 telephdne, so I asked Harry to play the hand. Now," of course. East could have defeated the con tract right at the beginning had he simply played low on West's heart lead and let South's single ton ace win. But he was afraid South might have' a small heart. Harry led back a small club,. Questions & Answers Q What is the capacity of the largest Clipper plane? A The Coniolidated-Vultee, a six-engined Clipper, will capry a payload of almost 50,000 pounds made -up of 204 passenger and 14,000 pounds of baggage, mail and express. which East woni and he then cashed the ace and; king of dia monds and played the king- of hearts, which was truniped. Two rounds of trumps were taken a club was ruffed in dummy and the ten of hearts was led. East made a serious mistake when he did not cover the heart, so the eight of diamonds was dis carded. Had East covered the heart, f.he optimistic contract coul have been defeated. IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Miss Etha Thomas returned this morning from two weeks in Spokane with her father's rela tives. ., ,. .-, Ralph Reynolds, ' connected with the extension department of OAC, is a guest in the city with his father, J. E. Reynolds, and his brothers. 1 ;.,... J.' Si Chandler left this .morn.-,, ing for California to visit the fairs. IS Years Ago i With a thousand or more in the 'audience, La Grande munic ipal band presented an outdoor concert last night at. Riverside park, the final one to be given here before the organization leaves to participate in the north west contest in Portland.' Lt. Col. Ralph . Huron of the 186th infantry, and the officers of company E, La Grande, Capt. W. A. Bean; First Lt. Jesse. V. Andrews, and Second Lt. Porter V. Webb, were guests at the Ro tary club luncheon. Q What effective range do the blowguns used by natives of Bbrneo have? A They are accurate up to 50 yards. They are coated with poi sonous sap of the upas tree. Q Who was the originator of the federal reserve banking sys tem - A Former Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma claimed the distinction. ' It's a matter of rec ord that he presented a reserve plan to ' the democratic conven tion' in1 1896, but it failed to ob tain adoption. 10 Years Ago Eva Jane Irwin, charter mem ber of Sock and Buskin at the lo cal normal school, was chosen president of the newly organized Little Theater group. Elnora Hansen, also active in the college group, will assist as secretary treasurer. According to a check of mar riage licenses issued the first six months of this year as compared to the same periop last year, Dan Cupid didn't quite hold his own. Tho licenses issued this yeiir numbered 53 while.! 54 was the number for the- corresponding period. This Curious World GOT ITS NAME PROM "KUPFERNICKet,; A GERMAN TERM EXPRESSING THE. Di4j;r miuppc WHO, ON SfSASCHING' ' (KUPfSaJ AND FINDIN6 ORE THAT SEEMED TO CONTAIN IT, BUT DIDN'T", SAID IT WAS THE WORK OF OLD NICK.' LATER. THE DEVON METAL CAME TO BE KNOWN AS NICKEL.. COPR. 1f5 8V TCA MRVKE. INC -v I . JIMl. . ITT" ' MUvVAN VOICH IS LIAMTED TO A RANG4B C&ABOUT 3L OCTAVOS... BUT ?E.AVP?ASE INDIVIDUAL. CAM COVEH LESS THAU CNB-HALF OP THE RAN&E.. -r. . in u. & mt. Of r, , , HEREjS ELMER ? ANSWER: In the Black Hills of South Dakota. r NEXT: How land animals got that way.
