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Thursday, October 11, 1945 THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Page Fiv Diamond Mart Flourishes Amid Down - and - Outers on Bowery By JEAN GEORGE NEW YORK, (NEA) Down on the Bowery, just across the street fromtTJoe's 10-eent flop house, the most fabulous business in the world' goes on the busi ness of buying and selling dia monds. In the windows of the diamond markets, gaudy stones as big as walnuts glister temptingly. Be side themon black velvet, lie rubies, blood ted and glistening; amethysts, .opals, sapphires, to- Ipazcs, and'the jewels of kings. " Beneath Jhe windows ragged men sleep on the sidewalk. Dirty street urchins run up and down the steps qf the rumbling Third avenue El.V playing "Al Capone and cops.") Old women pick in trash barrels' ' for tin foil and string. ."IT- Here, amid abject pqverty, is the greatest diamond market iu the world. Merchants from Fiance, China, India, Mexico and all 48 states journey across sea and land )o buy and sell the diamonds that eventually funnel through this inconspicuous cor ner. Each merchant rents a stall in the large room at the amazingly low rental of $1 a day. To him come refugees with their family Jewelry crafts-1 men work in the shadow of the old "el" on the Bowery where the most fabulous diamonds in the world are bought and . sold. ... jewels, pawn brokers with dia W monds and topazes that were never claimed, buyers from swank Fifth avenue jewelers, from California and Iowa, old men with beards, young men starting in the" business. All of thfm are bursting with jewels and rolls of bills. A rough, scarred hands holds a $25,000 bracelet. It throws off a million sharp lights from carefully cut j facets of many diamonds. En- graved on1 the back are the ! words "To Paula with love, Charles." At one time it's exis tence was a' token of love. Now it is rapidly tossed from hand to hand. The bracelet is now somo j one's bread and butter. Surrounded- by an armload of precious jewels, Felix Ecker eats . ham sandwich and drinks a cup ol coffee. A' sign over his booth reads: "The eleventh commandment - Thou shalt not chisel." The rich and the poor come in, i some to buy, some to sell. Before a bargain is struck, the merchants run out into the daylight with a jeweler's loop and the diamond. There on the street, bumping el bows with truck drivers and rough looking Bowery drunks, they look for imperfections in the jewel. i In the 70 years that the dia mond market has been on the Bowery there has never been a robbery. The sparklers are like . apples in an orchard. They are taken for granted. This is busi ness. A transaction means a few dollars here, $100 there. Each merchant makes a living at it not a fabulous living, but a se cure income because diamonds aie currency. The men ore in the business for many reasons. Some because their fathers were, some because they love beautiful things, some because they happened to come up in the . business and never changed. .. 4 ' reflRSsiBR: iM jj At Canal, street and the Bowery, the "el" casts its shadows over the most fabulous diamond center of the world. The continent of Asia has great uninhabited areas, y-3t it contains about oneihalf of the earth's people. COMMUNITY FLOUR SALE lATIN A VICTORY BOND In Scarry' $5,500.00 NamanVra-Folder Contest V suotm . oisplay or DRIFTED SNOW HwiwPrfKted" ihm FLOUR SO !bs. GOLD MfeDAL - lbs S2.4.-, Kitchen ..Tested , Enriched-Flour - "s- KRUIT TAKES in Tins'for Over seas Mailing Century Brand No. 1 Tins SARDINES it "1 fi-' Tomat6Sauc M.99 Kelly's' Variety Oldjlc I'ack CSIEAI-S ... m9 No. 2 Cat Hunt's 11 RASI'HKtilfS ...feM Junior Women's Club of Union Opens Meeting UNION, Oct. 11 (Special) Among the prominent clubs in Union, which arc again starting on a busy season is the Junior Woman's club which started the year 1945-46 with a meeting at the home of Mrs. Carl Posey. Mrs. Guy Goble, president, pre sided. High light of the evening was installation of officers, by Mrs. Odin Miller. Officers for this year are Mrs. Guy Goble, president, serving her second term; Mrs. Wayne Reavis, vice president; Mrs. Oimond Weaver, secretary; Mrs. Frances Sloat, tieasurer; and Mrs. Carl Posey and Mrs. Merlyn Longford, direc tors. The president was present ed a bouquet of gladioli and the other officers received corsages. An invitation from Mrs. W. E. King of Pendleton to the filth district convention to be held at Baker, Oct. 19 was read, and plans made for the attendance of some of the members. Mrs. William Tartar and Mrs. Merlyn Langford were co-hostesses with Mrs. Carl Posey and served dainty refreshments after the meeting adjourned. The n e x t meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Wayne Reavis with Mrs. Ormond Weavir and Mrs. Guy Goble as co-hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Busick, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Busick and little daughter Karry Ann who have been visiting at the home of Mrs'. 'Belle Busick 'r-Qturn'ed to their respective homes Mon day, the Claude Busicks to Stock ton and Gerald Busick family to Oakland, Calif. the home of her nephew Dean Bidwell at North Powder. With Mr. and Mrs. Dean Bidwell, Mrs. Fannie Bidwell was a Union vis itor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis of Venico, Calif., passed through Union Tuesday enrbute home from their annual vacation. They weie overnight guests at the home of Mi-; and Mis. Earl Lamb Tupsdiny night. Mr and Mrs. Davis were former residents of this city. Mrs. Davis, formerly Miss Faye Lovelace, has many fiiends here as has her husband, he is a brother of Earl Davis. 26 Oregon Jails Are 'Disapproved' WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UP) Federal bureau of prisons said today 26 county jails in Oregon have been found "unfit" for the housing of federal prisoners. Oregon county jails "disap proved" are in Baker, Benton, Catsop, Clackamas, Columbia, St, Helen's Crook, Curry, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jef ierson, Josephine, Lake, Lane, Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Polk, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wal lowa, Wheeler and Yamhill coun ties. Oregon county jails "ap proved" are in Deschutes, Doug las, Jackson, Linn, Multnomah and Wasco counties. Deputy Sheriff H. A. Kling hammer said today the Union county jail may not meet all fed eral specifications for federal pri soners "but it's the cleanest jail in the state of Oregon." Mrs. Charles Strode returned Tuesday from a month's visit at Aberdeen, Wash., where she had been called by the serious ill ness of her sister, Mrs. Ralph Look. Mrs. Look and her daugh-' fortitueje, i:r returned name, witn Mrs. Strode and they will remain here for several weeks. Mr. and Mis. Arnelt White and son Larry of Toledo are in Union visiting wilh his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. White. 'Roughly Speaking' Is American Story A rousing portrait of the Amer ican scene turned to the heart be at of a courageous woman, Warner Bros.' "Roughly Speak ing" opened last night at the Lib erty theater with a superlative c a s t, starring Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson and featuring Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan, Alan Hale, John Qualen, Donald Woods, Craig Stevens and An drea King. "Roughly Speaking" is dedicat ed to a woman's courage, but the woman builds no bridges, spans no oceans. Not that she is lack ing in that particular brand of She is just too busy marrying and raising a family. There lies the clue to the warm th, the humanness, the tender ness of "Roughly Speaking." For Ihe film is not an epic, not an extravaganza. It is the simple, laughing story of just one of ItU million American families. Mrs. Fanny Bidwell who !ias been confined to the hospital in Baker for seviy-al days, is now at Schilling Paprika makes food look and taste belter & Since engine parts ' don't grow on trees, Protect with anil yours now JpM' r -freeze AVnR-JSa McKenna Looks Into Laws for Plane Control SALEM; Oct. 11 (UP) The preconception everybody and his brother is likely to be galavan tm' around in flying machines in the near future has prompted state tax commissioner Coe Mc Kenna to investigate existing government practices and regula-1 lions in connection with aero nautics. In the latest issue of State Gov ernment, magazine of state af fairs, McKenna points out com plications. "Importance of air transporta tion has been realized so sudden ly, said McKenna, "that few legislatures have been prepared to give it intelligent considera tion.' He lists several problems to be faced during the coming "air age" including; Conflict between state and national controls, federal finance, taxation, military rights and the relation of government to aircraft manufacture and pri vate enterprise. After studying the Oneeon low McKenna believes the present statutes, "primarily fur strategic reasons," should be amended rather than replaced by new code. He suggests an enabling act to permit the state to accept and disburse federal funds, meas ures providing for the licensing and more competent regulation of airports, registiation of pilots umier scpcraie classification fur police and patrol duties, taxation by flat fees or some more equit able basis than the personal prop erty tax and licensing and quali- ucation of schools of msliuction for pilots and mechanics. 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