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p I EDITORIAL PAfiE Washington Merry-Go-Round Side Glances Br PHEW PEARSON La Grande Evening Observer , Frank Schiro, Publisher . a FKIIMY KVKJMINU, JULY l.'l, 1915 Puge Two Got the Tree Almost Smothered to Death , 1 EVENING OBSERVER'S PROGRESS PROGRAM IRRIGATION Complele the Grande Ronde Valley irrigation project. LA GRANDE A city of 10,000 Extend the city limit Air Needs. For La Grande and Area A primary consideration for the peo plu (if this area, purliiips more import ant than it may seem at Ihu niomimt, in tu duvulupmunl of its airport facili ties and services. 'I'll is is vital, not only to provide the area with nicely balanced service from the air channel point of view, but also to keep on equal footing with similar communities throughout Hie area so that its businesses and residents will be under no competitive disadvantages those here located at the present time and those which we hope to attract in the future. The chamber of commerce, Ihrmijrh its various committees, has kept in close contact with feeder line develop ments in the west, having made appli cation for stops on several major lines. During the hearings in San Francisco, a representative of our local chamber sat in, presenting, insofar as possible the needs of this section of Oregon. Since those proceedings closed, most communities have been marking time in completing their airport expansion pro gram's, but several developments are underway which need the attention of civic bodies and individuals. The civil aeronautics administration after requesting the assistance of the Oregon slate board of aeronautics, held a series of meetings throughout the slate to find out at first hand, the needs of c o m m u n i I i e s, large and small, throughout Oregon. At that time, it was made clear fed eral and state programs were decidedly indefinite. Legislation was not yet formulated and the amount and kind of assistance which could be expected from the federal government had not been decided. The state's program, uejcessarly dependent on the federal program, was also indefinite. -' At this time; the same indefiniteness and incomplction remains. The differ ence is this: the federal government is now considering legislation for the purpose of enlarging commercial and private aviation. It is our task to be sure that our federal representatives are made fam iliar with the character and kind of our airport and aviation needs so that ours and similar communities will not be held hack in the next few years. Northeast Oregon has enough resi dents and businesses to demand regular air stops and airmail service. We need these immediately and should be sure that no obstacles are set in the way of our acquisition of them. Civic bodies and organizations should be urged to continue their work on this mutter by every individual interested in our air development and it would not be amiss to contact our federal repre sentatives personally. While we are on the subject, we should point out that in the jast few months there has been developing at the local airport a fairly complete ser vice through a concern which has a lease arrangement with the city. Area citizens now have available to them competent flying instruction, can charter airplanes for necessary trips; farmers are now able to obtain many air services formerly unavailable, such as crop dusting, range salting, etc. Shortly the concern expects to put underway a daily flight to Portland and leturn. These services are valuable. Kvur.v effort should be made to en courage their expansion. Fnnnii Utisincs 1 iMl I J I IT F i .im-y - .- l u: ,yt tj tv nu ittytf iti'Ht-. X . t ui t,T ,w. "2 . issj 8 :f7T c SO THEY SAY "We want and ask the United States (if America to be out' guar dian and protector." Petition e( Majura Atoll in the Pacific. I'm tired of hoodlums coming in from neighboring areas and Hiving Chicago a bad name. -Mayor Edward J. Kelly, of Chi cago. .Japan's big business is not in .my way interested in anything short of total victory. Aiichiro Fujiyama, Japanese industrialist. WASHINGTON -t. There is more .than meets the eye behind the appointment of Carl Moran, ex-congressman from Maine, as .' new assistant secretary of labor. It prob ably means a gradual movement away from left-wing labor groups and no more "clear ing it with Sidney." ' Moran is one of the early New Dealers, a forthright, hard-hitting liberal; one of the few democrats ever elected to congress from the rock-ribbed republican state of Maine. He joined with GOP Senator Owen Brew ster, when the latter was governor, to fight the Insull power interests, and lie, himself, came within u close margin of being elect ed a democratic governor of Maine. After two terms in congress, Moran was appointed to the maritime commission, got fed up with the dictatorial methods of Ad miral Land, and went back to Maine to run his father's insurance company. Moran is pro-labor, will fight for labor when it is right, but will also fight against labor when it is wrong. No one could have had a more pro-Roosevelt record when in congress; but, on the other hand, Moran is one of the closest friends of labor-enemy Ed Burke, counsel for the coal operators. The two got to know each other when Burke was in the house and later in the senate from Nebraska. And John L. Lewis " would have had fits the other night if ha had looked in on a private party where the new secretary of labor, Lew Schwellenbach, and his new assistant secretary, Carl Moran, were entertaining Ed Burke, representative of the bituminous coal operators and bitter enemy of the United Mine Workers. What is bound to rile the CIO regarding the Moran appointment is that the first as sistant secretary of labor is an AFL man, Dan Tracy, and the job of second assistant secretary was to have been given to a CIO man, John Gibson of Detroit. Gibson was named just before Roosevelt died, but his name never went to the senate. Now Mo ran gets his place. Moran will be a fair and impartial sup porter of labor. But his appointment un doubtedly means an increasing rift in the already widening gap between Hannegan and Hillman. ' Wrangling Over Berlin Insiders who have watched the current American-Russian wrangling over areas in Berlin say there is : one important lesson to be gained in the future we must decide these questions while our allies' tears are hot. - That was the advice which Wendell Will- . kie once gave the late president. Referring to the way Russia and Britain were calling on us for aid in the early part of the war, Willkie advised Roosevelt: "As lawyers, you and I know that it pays to collect your fee while your client's tears are hot. Once their case is won, they forget. So now is the time to get commitments from our allies regarding what we want after the war." Inside fact is that it was because of bick ering between U. S. agencies that arrange ments for governing Berlin were not worked out exactly one year ago. The Russians, during the summer of 1944, were ready to arrange the details regarding post-war Ger many. The matter had come before the European advisory committee on which Am bassador Winant sat as U, S. representative, and at that time "while the tears were hot" we could have written pretty much our own terms. However, the war department wanted sole authority to handle post-war Germany. They didn't want Ambassador Winant in the pic ture, nor other U. S. civilian agencies. Things drifted all during the summer, until finally Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau brought the situation to a climax by point ing out to the president that almost nothing had been done. The army then called for a showdown and stuck to its demand that it have sole au thority to handle Germany after the armis stice. Roosevelt concurred. WE, THE WOMEN" By RUTH MUXETT Things that by now wo could get along without: The salesperson's reminder that "You're lucky to get this" after you've walked all over town looking for a scarce article and are paying a handsome price for it. Public figures who exhort us not to travel, when members of their own families are making trips we read about in the papers. Movie stars who are with their husbands or in the process of divorcing them telling war wives how their men should be treated ' when they get horn. ' Smart alecks who brag about how they managed to get a pound of butter, extra gas, or a nice thick steak without giving up any ration tickets. Pictures of actresses and movie stars tell ing housewives who wouldn't think of wast ing a tablespoon of fat (because they have to cook with it) not to throw away waste fat. Hotels that let you set your heart on ham or sleak because they keep listing a la carte menus, when they haven't had any of the food in months just so, as one waiter put it, "the menu won't look so empty." Magazine advertisements that show beau tiful pictures of food, the ingredients of which haven't been available in months. Home decoration magazines telling how charming are curtains and bedspreads made of enough gingham for a three-year-old's play suit. Articles on post-war living that practically promise everybody a stream-lined dwelling place where the work is miraculously done by pushing buttons. Government statements that civilians ac tually have more meat per person than they were consuming in the "good old days" when after waiting in a long line before the butcher counter often your only choice is cold cuts or tripe. Behind Scenes in Washington By PETER EDSON, Ls Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent Olivor insists on the stcuk being cut into oxactly even portions!" We have already run into some puses wheic veterans have been taken advantage of by unscrup ulous piMmmcis of rrin-oprraled machines who give the impres sion that owners have nothing much to do but sit hack and wiitch the money roll-in. Nathaniel l.cvorone, president, National Automatic Merchan dising association. WASHINGTON, July 13 Don't be in loo much of a hurry about trying to buy a ticket for an airplane ride to Europe. Best dope seems to be that it may be three months, possibly six months or a year before the three U. S. airlines can get going on the new trans-Atlantic air routes just authorized by President Truman and the civil aeronau tics board. Pan American Airways, Ameri can Export Airlines and Transcontinental Western Airlines are all anxious to begin, but three things are holding them up. 1. Lack of planes. Pan-American has five Boeing Clippers, Export two Sikorskys, all under contract to the military. TWA has five Stratoliners in domestic service, but if it can get replacement for them in two engined planes, it may gef the jump with service to Paris via Newfoundland ANF Foynes, Ireland. 2. Need to arrange for air bases, com munications systems, weather reporting ser vice and ground crews in European coun tries. U. S. army air force installations in Europe can't be turned over to commercial airline operators without a lot of dickering. 3. U. S. department of state must com plete agreements with some 24 countries to which routes have been authorizd. This is the most important requirement of all. Agreements for landing rights have not been completed with Canada, Iceland, Ire land, Sweden, Denmark and Spain. In addi tion, the state department made agreements with France and Great Britain before the war and Pan-Anuican has landing rights in Portugal and Marseilles, France. Briefly, the new routes approvad are these: American Export to operate over a northern route to British Isles, Scandinavian countries, Berlin and Moscow. Pan-American to operate via British Isles and the middle-Europe to Turkey, the Near Eat and Calcutta. TWA to Paris. Spain, the Meditetranean countries and Bombay. In negotiating for transit and landing rights in countries along the routes, the international civil aviation sjneements worked out at Chicogo lust fall now appear ing to he a considerable advantage. For in stance, British aviation inierests may have natuial desii to block American competi tion in Europe. The pre-war British-American agreements permit airlines of the two countrdics to operate on an even basis. That is, British Overseas Airways corporation can now operate onlyfour schedules a week to the United States, so U. S. airlines may oper ate only four schedules a week to the British Isles. But, the British government signed the so-called "Two Freedoms" agreement at Chi cago and this gives any U. S. airline the right to operate through the British Isles to points beyond, just so the U. S. airline does not pick up or discharge passengers and cargo at British airports. Under this deal, Pan-American and Export Airlines might run 50 flights a week through London to refuel for points beyond. The hope is that when the British see all this traffic going through without their getting any benefits from it, they'll want a piece of the business and let down the bars. Now that the three U. S. airlines have been officially designated for service to Europe, it is expected that many of the smaller countries will be ready to sign agree ments permitting unlimited service by American planes to and from their terri tory. When these agreements are made, the only thing holding up the service will be securing the necessary equipment. All three of the airlines given post-war commercial rights to Europe are now oper ating services for army and navy. There is terrific pressure on the army to release some of its four-engined transport planes for com mercial service. So far, this pressure has been resisted because the Air Transport Command has been given the job of flying back some 50,000 troops a month. After that, many of these planes may be assigned to the Pacific. But, it would take only a dozen planes to put the airlines in interna tional business. U. S. airlines now have 400 four-engined aircraft on order, from Douglas, Boeing, Lockheed and Consolidated. Military trans port models are now in production and when army and navy requirements are met, pro duction lines could be easily converted to commercial orders. - Even when the airlines have the planes and even when all the necessary treaties ;ir signd, thre will be other obstacles, for eign commercial airports must be designed, radio communication and weather reporting services established, crews trained to oper ate theni. Finally, all these planes, crews and services will have to be inspected and licensed to operate in the United Slates and foreign countries to insure the safety of the traveling public. That will take more time. ooptt. tmv MtA aotvtcr. uc T. m. beo. u. t. pat, on. IN "Alter two years with a job of inspector in a bomber plant, if 11 take me a while to get used to hard work again like this ironingl" 6 McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority TO LOCATE MISSING QUEEN. LEAD JACK There is an old saying in rub ber bridge that you should play the queen over the jack; you will find tournament players doing AKT t3 4 J 10 6 3 A J 10 9 7 AQ64 I N I 0 3 742 w FQJ98 5 9754? c A K 8 84 iDeflerlfQ3 AJ9852 VAK106 , Q ! K 5 2 ;,i Duplicate N.-S. vul. South West North East 1 Pass 2 2 V Double Pass 2 jk Pass 4 Pass Pass . Pass Opening V 7. 14 just that. Such practice makes it easy for a declarer to locate a missing queen, since by leading a ack, he generally pulls the card he is looking for. I saw one of the players at the Park Central Questions & Answers Q What is the total public debt of the United States? A Approximately 265 billion dollars. duplicate club the other night win top score on this hand fol lowing that theory. The opening lead was won with the king of hearts and the declarer now led the jack of spades. West covered with the queen, and the trick was won in dummy with the king. The ace was cashed, dropping the ten spot. Again maneuvering to get a queen over a jack, the jack of clubs was led from dummy and East made it easy by covering with the queen. Thus, the de clarer was able to make five spades, five clubs and the ace and king of hearts for six odd. O IN FORMER YEARS 30 Years Ago Dr. George O'Connor was a visitor in Boise last week. He re ported business conditions were not the best. Many improvements are being made about the grounds of the S.' E. Miller place in north Union, adding much to the beauty of the place, recognized as among the most beautiful -grounds in tbs . city. Prof. Aubrey Smith and fam ily came over from Union yester day to attend the Liberty Bell celebration. Q What are the three largest states east of the Mississippi riv er, and how do they rank in area among states of the union? A Georgia, 58,876 square miles; Florida, 58,560, and Michi gan, 58,216. They rank 20th, 21st and 22nd, respectively, among states in the union. Q What is the appropriate gift for a ninth wedding anniver sary? A Pottery. 15 Years Ago Between 400 and 500 members of the Knights o Pythias lodges and their families of Union and Wallowa counties met today at Elgin for the annual picnic. Af ter the potluck dinner early in the day, there was a baseball game and a horseshoe pitching contest. The La Grande municipal band was announced second winner in the Northwest band contest held at Jantzen beach. 1 Cuba has assured the United States that the bulk of its sugar production will be available for the United States' needs. Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture. Q What actor and actress won the first "Oscar" for best per formances in motion pictures? A Emil Jannings, in "Way of All Flesh"' and Janet Gaynor, in "Seventh Heaven," in 1927-28. 10 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Maxwell, Mrs. Lester Bramwell and daugh ter, Virginia, and Frances Wauge returned from Wallowa lake where- they spent a week camp ing at the Stringham cabin. Miss Bramwell continued to Hood Riv er where she will finish her vaca tion. A marriage license was issued recently at Walla Walla to Elvin King and Millicent Hanson, both of La Grande. This Curious World ici iu man, is THE WOkLD j MOST INTELLIGENT ANIMAL, YET HIS HOME IS ONLY A CRUDE PLATFORM OF TWIiSS r-ii.su HieM IN ATlcEE TOP. COPB IMS BV NCA SERVICE. IC T. M. RCG. U. t. PAT. Of F. ALL. ; OSl(JII4lLY CAME FROM TH6CKEAM j NEW RACeS DEVELOPED WHEN 30PS BECAME LANDLOCKED OR OTHBRW1SE ISOLATED. WHAT A RE THE t4A PtHtTltlA ANSWER: A region of heavy gale3 in the North Atlantic, be tween the 40th and 50th parallels of latitude. . NEXT: How candy used to get thai pink look.
