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OOT.trMRIA VALLEY AUTHORITY
We mentioned here the other day the introduction of a bill
in the national house to establish nine river basin authorities.
Now comes a bill for a separate Columbia valley authority and
a national fiver development board. This bill has been intro
duced jh the sienate by one of Washington's new senators
Hugh D Mitchell. '
This Mitchell bill has so far been given only a meagre
description in the news. It is noted, however, that in it an
effort is made to give the management of the authority some
thing of a regional character by providing for an advisory
board of seven residents, one to be named by the governor of
each of the four states Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana named in the bill and the other by the president. Basic
authority, however, would rest in Washington, D. C.
The CVA, as proposed by the Mitchell .bill, Would either
supplant or come in conflict with all public and private power
management, with the parks service, with the corps of engi
neers, with the grazing service and with the bureau qf rec
lamation, with the fish and wild life service and state game
commissions and with the forest service to name but a few.
Is 'Oregon, we wonder, to remain as one of the 48 states
, of the union or become merely one of four Btates in a "region" ?
Which one is right?
The other day the Oregonian carried stories on the Port
land labor supply. One Was from Washington ana" the other
originated in Portland itself. In view of the current con
troversy over work or fight legislation we think you may be
interested in them. That from Washington is reprinted in full
below. We make extracts from the other. Read and marvel.
From Portland
With little hope being given
by the army, navy or maritime
commission of future war .con
tracts in the Portland area, and
the prospect that labor require
ment here will bo "definitely
cased" withlri the next 30 days
and "drastically reduced" by
June, there seems "no excuse
for anyone talking at this time
about work or fight legislation
So far as Oregon is concerned,"
state war manpower commis
sion director Lee C. Stoll de
clared before the Rotary club
Tuesday noon.
Even after stopping all re
cruitment of workers from
other states as of January 15,
the WMC can "meet any sched
ule the high command in Wash
ington asks," he declared. "We
are not asking deferment for
hy rrieh under 80 lh the ship
yards." ;
At present he e are 'two or
; three Jobs available for every
lay-off, riot always lii the same
classification, but with general
ly the same Wages, Stoll said,
and the need for workers in
transportation, warehousing,
teamster Jobs, lumber and food
processing will continue
From Washington
Washington, Feb. 6 (Special)
Paul V .McNutt, chairman of
the war manpower commis- '
slon, said Friday that 4522
workers are "urgently needed"
In t he Portland - Vancouver
area, and 1050 in the Seattle
Bremerton area.
The national shipbuilding
and ship repair program re
quites 38,284 additional work
ers, McNutt said. He listed
aluminum sheet production as
another program with a "criti
cal" labor shortage.
"Aluminum sheet inventor
ies have dropped one - third,
necessitating a 33 per cent in
creased production," he stated.
"Plant facilities are available,
but recruitment of workers IS
difficult because plants arc lo
cated In labor shortage areas,
if the aluminum sheet plants
are ndt manned so thai incy
may operate at capacity during
the next several months trie
production of critically needed
aircraft may have to be curtailed."
throughout the year.
The boys ought to get together on their stories,
Even if the big three were not meeting on the Black sea
things Would look dark for Hitler and Hiro.
A leakage in mail is being investigated in London. Over
here you can't ship the stuff by mail.
Ledo Road, Route Into China,
Conquered Wilds of Burma
Washington, D. C. American
trucks are making martial mlialc
on the Lcdo road.
Movement of the first China
bound truck convoy from Mylt
kyna, Burma, had a double mean
ing for embattled China. It meant
that the .western section of the
so-called Ledo road was open for
essential traffic, and that sizable
additions to China's war supplies
could be regularly expected when
the new road made Junction with
the old Burma road. No truck
fleet had rolled Into China since
Invading Japs closed the Burma
road, more than 2'4 years ago.
Built in two sections under the
guidance of united States arm
. engineers, the road takes Its name
from a town in India, says the
National Geographic society. The
western section of the road runs
from Ledo to Myltklna, and Is
about 260 miles long. It Is known
as Pick's Ptke In recognition of
its construction boss, Brigadier
General Pick, and was recently
completed, a little more than two
yours after Work began. The east
ern section links up with the
Burma road In China's Yunnan
province near the Burma-China
border.
Beglrinlng of the road at Ledo
Washington
Column
By Peter Edson
(NEA Staff Correspondent)
Washington Vice-President
Harry S. Truman told the 1000
club that when Bob Hannegan
first came to him with the news
that he, Hannegan, had been of
fered the post of chairman of the
democratic party's national com
mittee, Truman advised him not
to take It. Hannegan was then
collector of Internal revenue, and
Truman told him that was a bet
ter Job. If Hannegan had listened
to Truman's advice, Truman him
self might not today be vice-president.
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Sam O'Neal, Hannegan's new
director of publicity for the dem
ocratic party, is being Joshed a
little about the unique service
wmcn ne performed to win him
this coveted position as successor
to Charlie Mlchaelson and Paul
Porter. During the presidential
campaign, O'Neal was assigned
to cover Dewey for the Chicago
Sun, which was all-out for Roose
velt. Dewey got snowed under, so
what could be more logical than
that one of the men publicizing
his activities should be made
press agent for the opposition.
e
Office of defense transporta
tion's chief of public relations,
Charles V. Prins, thinks that his
boss's nickname should be
changed. ODT Director J. Monroe
Johnson first had the moniker
Rowboat" hung on him some
years ago when he was up for
confirmation as a director of the
government-owned inland water
ways corporation. Colonel John
son was asked what he knew
about shipping and he said he
once had a ride in a rowboat. The
name stuck but in spite of it
Johnson went on to become an
assistant secretary of commerce,
and later a member of the inter
state commerce commission. As
ODT director, however, Johnson
has been operating in such high,
wide and handsome manner that
Prins thinks he ought to be called
speedDoat.
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"Any lessons learned from the
last election?" Democratic Boss
Bob Hannegan was asked as he
announced plans for organizing
the 1946 congressional campaigns.
Nol said Hannegan, "except
that it helps to have a good can
didate." -
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Drexel Knight, one of the can
didates who ran against Silent
John Rankin In the primary race
for congressman from the first
Mississippi district last year,
writes in to protest a recent state
ment In this column that outside
money was sent Into the district
to help defeat Rankin. Knight
says he dldn t get any of that ,
money, although Rankin later i
quoted this statement In a speech !
delivered on tne lloor ot the
house. Knight's statement must
be accepted, however, and correc
tion is nereny made, in tne elec
tion, Knight received 678 votes.
Rankin got 10,872.
Others Say . . .
COLONELS AND DOGS !
(N. Y. Herald Tribune) '
The current crisis could be met j
for the momefit, although not 1
solved permanently, by the crea
tion of a Roosevelt Sons Hold the
Train Board, which might well
consist of three cabinet members I
and be known as the R. S. H. T. B. .
This would dispose, of the major
problem. Minor matters, not
worth the attention of men of
cabinet rank, could be handled by
a lesser group. This might be
known as the Roosevelt Sons'
Dogs Airplane Priority Board (R.
S. D. A. P. B.) and should have
five members, one representing
the employers, one labor, one the
public, one the Air Transport
Command and one the dogs. In
the future, of course, there might
arise some conflict of Interest
among members of the two
boards and their executive direc
tors division heads, experts, etc.,
especially In connection with ap
propriations and matters of pres
tige. Such conflicts could be pro
vided for by the creation of a Co
ordinating Sorts and Dogs Travel
Commission (C. S. D. T. C), to
which all questions In dispute
could be referred.
There might eventually be com
plaints of contusion among the
original boards, the commission,
the various cultural relations divi
sions of the three bodies, the civil
service employees involved and
the foreign services of each
group (which might be claimed
by the department of state). The
time might come when it would
be necessary to superimpose on
all the various authorities an over
all chairman with semi-dictatorial
powers. Even this might not end
the difficulty, especially if a cabal
was formed among the chair
man's assistants to work against
his program. But by that time the
final step should be obvious. The
Job would have grown to such
proportions that the services of
an expert on both business admin
istration and the good life would
be required.
Who said anything about Henry
A. Wallace?
Bend's Yesterdays
entery, and leaches took a high
toll of workers.
The road mudc the best terms
with nature the engineers could
get. It zigzags to make easy
grades on mile-high mountains,
takes advantage of old trails.
shrinks from two-lane width to a
one way track where It spirals
around precipices and ravines.
Building Is credited to an Inter
national army of workers. Amer
ican and Chinese engineering
units were aided by gangs of na
tive laborers subjects of the
Maharajah of Nepal, "Darjee
lings" from upper Bengal, Warlike
Kachlns, and tribesmen from the
Naga hills. Modern machinery
multiplied the manpower on the
Job. Rock crushers, and trucks
and Jeeps by the hundred were
brought thousands of miles by
sea, rail and road.
Chinese units cleared the way,
felled trees, opened up the jungle.
Americans blasted out rock and j
earth, hullt temporary bridges,
and got traffic rolling before final
grading, surfacing, and drainage'
was completed. To build one mile
of road the engineers moved, on
the average, three quartMs of a ;
million tons ot rock and earth, laid i
a thousand feet of culvert. Men
Telephone Firm
Aids Red Cross
Portland, Feb. 8 A contribution
of $130,000 to the 1915 Red Cross
war fund by the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company and Its
subsidiaries, the Southern Cali
fornia Telephone company and the
Bell Telephone company of Ne
vada, was announced Thursday by
N. R. Powley, president, follow
ing approval of the board of di
rectors. President Powley siild the tolal
contribution will be allocated, con
sistent with American Red Cross
quotas, to the various Red Cross
chapters In counties served by the
Company. These allocations will
be announced later.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
(Feb. 8, 1930)
(Prom The bulletin Flloa)
Carl Garvic, 13, appears at the
Skyllners' headquarters in the
Pilot Butte Inn and challenges
anyone to a dograce.
At a confiscation sale, the sher
iff gets a "new" automobile for
$115.
The Hudson-Duncan warehouse
is burglarized and $116 Is re
moved from the cash box. - "
The 20th anniversary of, the
Boy Scouts Is observed here with
a father and sons banquet in the
Epworth hall, with George Childs,
president of the mid-Columbia-
Deschutes area, council, presiding.
Ticket sales begin for the Reld
school operetta, "Molly Be Jolly."
A. T. Niebergall re in Portland
on business.
Bend high school students se
lected to attend the educational
exposition at the Oregon State
college are Joe Slate, Barbara
Adams, Ford Hunnell, Bruce Gil
bert and Dcolamae Rose.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter (J. Coombs
return from a vacation trip to
California.
R. C. Burgess, Deschutes na
tional forest ranger, is in Bend
from Lupine.
Boy Scouts of Troop No. 21, led
by Scoutmaster Howard R. Hyde,
make a scout display in the win
dow of the J. C. Penney company.
UNDER OBSERVATION
Newark, N. J., Feb. 8 till
Frank Sinatra, the $1,000,000
swoon-crooner, was taken from
the Newark Induction center to
second service command head
quarters on Governor's island to
day for a three-day period of ob
servation to determine his draft
classification.
The per capita consumption of
wine in France is normally about
30 times as great as in the United
States.
lies north of the Naga hills in i were on the job dav and night,
Assam province, India. Climbing, ) worke't In the darkness by the
dipping, and twisting, the road , light of oil flares,
runs eastward through the Pat- While the road was taking
kal range of northern Burma, shape men and supplies were
weaves Into the region of the up-j flown to China by planes of the
per Chlndwln river, and angles
southeastward through Burma's
Hukawng valley to Myitkylna.
Trouble In building the road
has been out ot all proportion to
its length. Rainy weather was a
severe trial. In the monsoon sea
son 50 Inches of rain may fall In
a single month, as much as 7
Inches In one day. Washouts were
frequent, sometimes destroying a t - -
quarter mile or surface. Mud whs 1 Nearly S3 IW 000 000 of new In
a seasonal torment. Hirdwood .vestments have been r-ntlo in
Jungles traversed were thick and , chemical Industries in the I'nited
tangled, wore bouquets of pink States durln? the present war
and yellow orchids, and resisted years to enable them to meet war
axe and bulldozer. Malaria, dyslneeds.
American air transport rommand.
United States army fliers have
regularly wlnred from Assam sta
tions to Kunming In eastern Yuiv,
nan over the haardnis "hump'
formed by spurs of the Hima
layas. The monthly total or ton
nage flown has mounted until the
round figure has reached atxiut
23,000.
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Red Rosos Violets
Carnations Gardenias
Potted Daffodils Tulips
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anywhere.
Work of Scouts
Lauded by FDR
Washington, Feb. 8 mi Presi
dent ttoosevelt said today that the
uoy Jscouts could aid greatly in
maintaining the peace by contin
uing their past efforts to promote
international understanding and
goodwill.
In a message honoring the
scouts' 35th anniversary, Roose
velt, who is honorary scout pres
ident, declared that "it is the
youth of the world who must
share and maintain the peace now
Being purchased so dearly on tho
tiattietronts. '
"I am convinced," the chief ex
ecutive said, "that Boy Scouts and
Cubs, as well as senior groups,
through their mutual understand
ing, mutual appreciation and mu
tual respect will be among the
leaders in the promoting ot com
radeship among the democratic
peoples of. the earth.
Hessian flies cause an annual
loss of some $S,000,000 to Amer
ican wheat crops.
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Soldier Sentenced
(Continued from Page One)
bet s of the socialist labor party do
not believe in killing, "that has not
prevented many of them from
serving ovei'seas as non-combatants."
She has stated she is in
complete sympathy with her hus
band's actions.
Arnold Petersen, national secre
tary of the socialist labor party in
New York, praised Weber's stand
but added he had been "ill-ad
vised" by his draft board to post
pone his objections to fighting
after he was inducted.
Four Men Cited
On City Charges
Charges of speeding, intoxica
tion and disorderly conduct today
were face.1 by four men as a re
sult of their arrests lust night jy
Bend police.
Accused of being Intoxicated In
a hotel, Con Ureen, 55, a sheep
man of Rt. 1, Bend, was arrested
early today, and Dennis Holloran,
another sheepman, was taken into
custody on a similar charge at
the corner of Bond street and
Oregon avenue. William H. Craig,
of the Fly Creek stock ranch.
Crandvlew, was jailed on the dis
orderly charge after he Is alleged
to have created a disturbance in
the lobby of a Bond street hotel.
Iick It. Leonard, 25, of Ronton,
Wash., was arrested for speeding
after officers said they had fol
lowed him more than -10 miles an
hour on Minnesota avenue.
"I'm Collecting on that Bauble foti Bought!''
Underground conveyor belts
used for carrying coal In ohe coal
mine are now being replaced af
ter 21 years of service during
which they have brought out mil
lions of tons of soft coal at a rate
of 150 tons an hour.
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