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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
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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.
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"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.
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take me a while to get used to hard work again like this ironingl"
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ber bridge that you should play
the queen over the jack; you will
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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.
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MOST INTELLIGENT ANIMAL,
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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.
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