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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, March 21, 1946 SEIQflCE BUREAU R & p & it& i, in WASHINGTON By W olter Shead I * W N U Corrmpoedma WNU \ W t lh ie t lo a B u r ,tu . Iti» E r , St N W I Powerful Lobby Fighting Missouri Valley Project XTtGOROUS freshman Congress- ’ man Charles Raymon Savage of the state of Washington's third dis* trict, former official of both CIO and AFL unions, former grange master and 4-H club leader, and himself a construction engineer, touched the match which may set off a congressional investigation into the lobbying activities of power and other interests seeking to defeat the regional authority measures for public control of the Missouri, Columbia and other river basins. The young Washington congress man minced no words when he called upon the congress to insti tute an investigation "of the ex penditures and of the corrupt prac tices’* of the organizations lobbying against passage of these measures seeking to harness the rivers under congressional grants of regional au thorities. Last fall this writer told you of the formation of one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington’s legislative history to defeat the Mur ray Missouri Valley authority bill and companion bills, which include the Columbia River Valley authority measure. New the lobby has been dragged onto the floor of congress and un cloaked for all to see as “ the largest lobby of its kind in all pow er history . . . spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year In fluencing legislation. . . . ” Congressman Savage declares the lobby consists of a "small group of men, led by a former Insull com pany official, spearheading the or ganization, financing the operation of these three high-sounding organ izations: the Reclamation associa tion, the National Association of Electric companies, and the natural resources committee of the U. S. chamber of commerce. w1 NEW NAVY COACH . . . Capt. Thomas James Hamilton, USN, Columbus, Ohio, who had been ap pointed head football coach at the U. S. navy aeademy. He will be aided by Edgar E. “ Rip” M iller, who will serve as assistant coach. B ED CROSS POSTER COMES TO L IF E . . . Pfc. Campbell Gordon Pyle, Lancaster, Calif., the wheel chair patient in the Red Cross 1946 poster, and Peggy Neel, Red Cross hospital worker, examine the winning poster, a photograph made of them at New Caledonia during the war. Peggy Neel is resting at her home in Searcy, Ark., and Private Pyle has re-enlisted in the army. MAY SUCCEED M A N N E R H E IM . . . Premier Dr. Julio K. Paasl- kiwi, who is slated to succeed Field Marshal Carl Gustav Man nerheim as president of Finland, who recently resigned due to fall ing health. Mannerheim is 78 and served as wartime commander of all Finnish armed forces. He has been expected to resign for some time. O u t to R o o k P eo p le “They are tied together as tight ly as peas in a pod in their plan to rook the American people,” Con gressman Savage said. He charged these organizations are seeking to prevent the construc tion of power dams by government in' the nation’s rivers. Failing in that, they are seeking to buy the power at the bus bar “to repeat their Muscle Shoals steal by pay ing the government a fifth of a cent a kilowatt and force the peo ple to pay 10 cents . . . 50 times as much as it cost them.” The gentleman from Washington state charged that the lobbies have entered into "a definite conspiracy to break the Holding Company act"; that they are seeking to cripple the Rural Electric administration, to discredit TV A, to block the Colum bia River Valley authority bill and to thwart other public power pro grams. He declared that the lobby was headed by Purcell L. Smith and Kinsey W. Robinson. Smith, ne said, is former treasurer of Illinois Power & Light, jointly owned by the late Sam Insull and North American company. Also he was a former president of the Insull hold ing company, the Mid-West corpora tion, and then an officer of the Commonwealth Edison company of Chicago. “ He (Smith) is now receiving $65,- 000 a year for his lobbying efforts,” M r. Savage said. M r. Robinson, the congressman charged, is leader of the resource committee of the U. S. chamber of commerce and presi dent of Washington Water Power company and “ has been lobbying against Columbia river legislation since 1937.” He charged that the lobby through referendum 81 of the U. S. C. of C., attempted to get support for legis lation placing Columbia river pow er into their hands at the bus bar in the recent Rivers and Harbors bill, but failed. G if t to S lic k P ro m o ter» " It that provision had gone Into the bill, we would have deeded over all of our great streams, lock, stock and barrel, to a group of slick east- en and midwestern promoters,” Savage said. He charged that 95 power com panies were supporting the Wash ington office of the Reclamation as sociation, “a lobby much larger than the lobby which was created to defeat the Walsh resolution cov ering an investigation Into power trust financing and propaganda In 1926.” He cited evidence intending to show that the efforts of the lobby had postponed indefinitely further hearings on the Missouri valley authority bill and the same attempt was being made before the house rivers and harbors committee on the Columbia river authority bill. Referring to the activities of Pur cell Smith, Savage said: “This for m er Insull associate recently stated that 95 power companies are sup porting his office here in Washing ton. We will find their handiwork in every bureau and department and in much of our legislation,” C HURCHILL TALKS W H ILE TRUM AN LISTENS . . . Former British prime minister, Winston Churchill, told the .audience at Westminster college, Fulton, Mo., that the United States and the British empire should form a m ilitary alliance to police the world and to provide a bulwark against encroachments of Communist ideals and ambitions from the East. He recommended that the atomic bomb be kept secret. K EEPS C A ND ID A TE IN ARMY . . . Lt. Col. Harold G. Hoffman, former governor of New Jersey, and again a candidate, received set-back when army ordered him into hospital for observation. He wants to run as a Republican. RIOTS D U R IN G STRIKES C O N TIN UE . . . Representative of other strikes, two pickets and a policeman strike the pavement in the action- packed scene as they clashed in front of the Western Electric com pany’s Kearney, N. J„ plant. The police seem to have the situation well in hand. While some strikes have been settled, others have been announced to start during April. Violence has been reported in various parts of the country. AGAIN AND AGAIN . . . This gentleman since 1894 appears in Washington on every occasion to voice his opposition to one and all measures before congress. Now he Is against loan to Britain. He is "General” Jacob 8. Coxcy, leader of Coxey’s army in 1R94. He now wants to protest against the United States loaning any money to anyone in Burope. SPR IN G ‘Q U EEN OF BOVINES’ . . . As a feature of the unique apring celebration held In the canton of Valais, Switzerland, cow fights are held to determine which one will be supreme and be crowned the “ queen of bovine queens." Properly organised battle takes place yearly to mark the beginning of spring in Switzerland. SHARPSHOOTING CO-ED . . . A modern Annie Oakley is Eugenia Griffith, Yeadon, Philadelphia suburb, who as a member of the girls undefeated rifle team at Drexel Institute of technology, Is out to retain an undefeated record. I'.IHKHVS NOI'K: Thii nau»pui>er, ihronah »¡racial m l h ib e II ii,fimuh>« llorcuo ul II c l e m An««- paper I nion ul Ihlfi l.ya Slreel, N. It , Ihnhinxton. I t C„ U able In bring read a n this weekly column an problem» «»/ the lelerarl'und »erviceman mid hi« /«un ify. Q uetlioiu ma» be uddre»»ed Io the oboce llnreau mnl they will be am uared in a «iihueqiienl column. No rephet can be maile direct by mail, bill only in the column which will appear in l/iu ncu » ¡mper reaulurly. F a c to r» T h a t D e te rm in e V e te ra n '» Pen»:on R ate Closest to the heart of every vet eran who wears a wound stripe is adequate medical core. Gen. Omar Bradley, administrator of veterans' affairs, shortly after his ai (»oint ment, picked as his assistant to have charge of the medicul and sur gical division of VA, a man who is no stranger to wounded vets. He is MnJ. Gen. Paul R. Hawley, who was chief surgeon of the Euro pean theater of war, and ns such had under his direction 2.M.UO0 medical department men, Including 16,(MX) doctors, 4,500 dentists and 16.- 000 nurses. Under his admlnistra tion more than 1,500.000 patients were admitted to army hospitals in the European theater and of this number 340,000 were battle casual ties. So General Hawley has had broad experience in caring for our fighting men in time of wur and has been chosen to head up the medical branch of VA because of this experience and great success. Under the expanding hospital pro gram of VA General Hawley is call ing upon the best medical and sur glcal brains of the nation to take a hand in the great rehabilitation program of disabled veterans. The idea to take veterans' hospitals close to the medical centers of the na tion reflects one of General Haw ley’s plans to decentralize and bring treatment as close to the home towns of the country as possible. H ER B ER T HOOVER HESITATED WASHINGTON - Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson hod a hard time at first persuading Her bert Hoo"*r to come to Washing ton for the food conference. Ander son caught the ex-President nt Key West, Flu., where he wus fishing. "I've promised my family for sev en years to take them fishing,” Hoover told the secretary of agri culture, “ and now at lust here I am." Anderson, however, emphasized the urgency of the food crisis. “ We need your experience and ad vice. Mr. President.” he said. “ You cun go buck to your fishing imme diately afterwurd. But this Is a time when your country needs you." Hoover finally consented to come. BRICKBATS WIN ELECTIONS Two of the bitterest opponents on the house floor and in the Inter state commerce committee are Rep resentatives Clnrence Brown, con servative Republican of Blunches- ter, Ohio, and Vito Marcantonlo, American Luborite of New York City Off the floor, however, the two respect each other's ability and get along well. Sitting in the house lobby the other day they smilingly concluded an agreement which will probably never be carried out. They were talking about campaign expenses, when Brown proposed: "Vito, I ’ve got a suggestion. Why don't we both cut our campaign ex penses to the bone? Here’s how to do it: “ You go Into my district and make three apeeehes against me. Call me a reactionary llooverltr. an Isolationist, an economic royalist — and any thing rise you can think of. That’ll elect me. “ Then I'll go Into your district and make three speeches. I'll call you a Red, a Dago, a new dealer and an anti-Rankinite. “ With the proper literature about you In my district and the proper literature about me in your district, both of us ure a cinch for re-elec tion when we do that.” Marcantonlo agreed that the Idea had merit, and they shook hands on IL Q u e ttio n » a n d A n t u ie r t Q. Our boy was takrn Into the army. We are farming 520 acres of land, milking 12 to 20 rows by hand the year round, raising over 350 head of hogs a year. I am physically unfit to do any farm work. This work is all up to two boys 19 and 20, one a 4-F. We must hire a man to replace the bov that la gone. He has set aside $30 NAZIS REM AIN IN GERM ANY A secret report on failure to de- of his wages to help pay for thia help. Will the government match Nazify Germany has been made to this, and If no how do we go about the war department, but is consid getting It? This boy was really ered so shocking that it probably will be destroyed It is now in the needed.—L. U., Gladbrook, Iowa. A. Your local selective service office of Brig. Gen. Frank A. board had the responsibility of de Meade. The report shows complete ciding whether or not your boy was failure Io clean out high-rank needed more on the farm than in ing Nazis. It also shows a sur the army. If they had decided he prising number of so-called Ger was needed there, he would have man “ laborers” who have sec been given an agricultural defer retaries and stenographers as ment under the selective service signed to them. law. No, there is no provision for This is one of the latest dodges to the government to match the $30 per month. If you can prove a hard get around the employment of Nazis ship case, which is unlikely, the boy by the American army According could ask for a discharge on that to army rules, no former Nazi can ground. He would have to initiate be employed in any Jo'« more Im the case through his commanding portant than that of a "laborer." officer. Result is that many Nazis are used Q. Ia the widow of a World War In important jobs, but listed on the I ’ eteran entitled to a pension If books as “laborers." That is why the .?sband*a death la not eonnect- they are assigned secretaries and I I with ‘•»e war? Do World War I stenographers. vet«.-ant -~elve pensions? If a These ’’common laborers” are disability allowance was discontin then put In charge of important ued and ti.9 ease reviewed and r manufacturing plants. The report fused again wna* can one do? now in the hands of the war depart the wife of a World tv«. Z rz'.___ ment was made by the public safety entitled to medical care?—Mrs. J and Inspection division of military H., Tower, Minn. government. It may never sec the A. Yes, the widow of a World War ’ight of day. I veteran is entitled to a pension although death is not service con HOW WYATT DID IT nected. Only disabled veterans re If there were more men like Hous ceive pensions. In case a disability ing Expediter Wilson Wyatt around. allowance is discontinued and re President Truman would have eas v iew *. am. refus 4 'gain, the vet ier sailing. The other day in Chi eran has the right k, appaal to cago, Wyatt was guest speaker at board of the VA. Wives of World a banquet of the National Associ War I veterans are not entitled to ation of home builders, 3,200 strong, medical care. all hostile, all prepared to boo at Q. I have a lot on a main high the man who proposed revolutionary way. I ’d like to put up a business building reforms in order to com but in order to do this I need around plete 3.000,000 homes in two years. $2,000. Could you send me full In As Wyatt arose, the atmosphere structions on how to go about this was charged with hostility. How matter and just what I must do?— ever. he told stories, explained his M r. H. F. S„ Selma. Ala. program, made no antagonistic A. Go to your bank and ask if statements. they will make you a G.I. loan on the “ If you gentlemen are against this proposition. If they consider it a program, then you don't understand good risk, they will take care of all it,” Wyatt said "It's my fault for the details. not making it clear.” Q. When and how Is transporta After 45 minutes, having won over tion for servicemen’s kin available a considerable part of the audience, and what are the chances for the he stopped. Then for 45 minutes wife of a PFC whose husband is more he answered questions. Every stationed In Regensberg, Germany? Inch of the way he fought for his —Mrs. C. O. B., Chamberlain, 8. D. program of low-cost housing for vet A. The serviceman must initiate erans. the request with his commanding Finally, when he finished, ev officer. It the request is granted ery builder In the huge dining you will be notified of all details. room rose to his feet and Only wives are eligible. cheered. Q. I was discharged from the army in January, 1944, because NOW W HITE SPAGHETTI of wounds received when I stepped Some of the strongest opposition on a land mine. I had temporary io the President's “dark bread” or amnesia and head injuries. Have der is coming from an unexpected only a 45-degree extension of my left quarter — spaghetti manufacturers. arm. Otherwise am in perfect Spaghetti, macaroni and noodles shape. How do I go about getting back Into the army?—M. N., Eu are made from semolina, a gritty flour made, in turn , from durum gene, Ore. wheat. A. The army has lowered its regu Semolina millers, as well as lations somewhat upon physical re quirements and would suggest you spaghetti makers, are up in arms discuss the question with your local about the "dark bread” order, de recruiting office, or you may con claring it will drive them out of business. A number of semolina tact your draft board. mills have filed an exception.
