| Show hI WHO'S NEWS S THIS THIS- WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW EW YORK When When James D D. D Ross was appointed by the thi President as chief of Bonneville th the biggest dam in the world in October October Octo Octo- ber 1937 it was wai believed In some somi Soothes Hostile quarters that his hii Power People selection would I sharpen the disagreement dIs- dIs dis- dis agreement between n the administration tion and the power companies Today Today Today To To- day it appears that Mr Ross ha has allayed rather than provoked hos hos- The utilities rate him a as reasonable Bonneville has been beer the bete noir of western power de de- de- de This writer hears thenis there then is now a better chance for two way appeasement ment than at any time u uthe in inthe inthe the past Mr 11 Ross for Cor 20 years head of the municipal power development development develop develop- ment meat of or Seattle has human traits which perhaps account for his expedient rather than doctrinal doc doe doctrinal trinal trend No mere doctrinaire doctrinaire doctrinaire would amuse himself by keeping a copper ball in the air with no visible means of support just just because he loves kilowatts and likes to 10 sec see them work He was a consulting engineer for foi forthe forthe the New York power authority and the St. St Lawrence seaway a consultant consultant consultant con con- for power development and later a member of the SEC before be fore the President made him the Bonneville boss As a 3 boy he rode his bike from Chatham Ont to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city to learn pharmacy He got a 3 job as an apprentice chemist chem chem- but seemed piffling so sc he hit the long grind back to Chatham Chat Chat- ham ham but but he kept on pedaling He I headed beaded up through Edmonton to the Alaska gold fields and when dry dryland dryland dryland land failed him he made his own o boat and pushed on In Seattle years later he helped design the first municipal power plant YOUNG America is naturally envious en- en 1 of Capt Harold E. E Gray who will be at the controls when the Yankee Clipper huge Pan- Pan American Air- Air of j Gray uray Skipped ways flying boat No Step to Fly takes off for its Air Leviathan flight t cross across the e Atlantic It is isnow ISnow now trying a few preliminary crow- crow hops bops around New York harbor Captain Gray it seems had a system In qualifying qualifying- for this stellar role in aviation First he became a licensed airplane mechanic then he qualified as asan asan asan an aeronautical engineer a master mariner and a radio technician after all he took diplomas in seamanship seamanship sea sea- manship International law admIralty admiralty admiralty ad ad- law administration admin admin- That seems to be about par for the lad who would be a skipper on one of these new leviathans of the air All this and many years of hazardous hazard hazard- ous flying over the mountain wilderness wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness of Mexico and Central America bring Captain Gray to the ripe old age of 33 He left college in his second second sec see ond year at the University of Iowa and was aloft for the Or first t time at atthe atthe the age of 19 His home town is Guttenberg Iowa Q WARREN A TARREN LEE PIERSON head V v of the Import Export bank appears appears ap ape ap- ap pears to rate an assist in the Nazi put-out put in Brazil The big credit deal to clear the Pierson Assists trade ways ways says beIn beIn beIn be- be In Nazi Out Put Out tween the two I- I c countries un tri tries 1 is In Brazil Game ame widely accepted as a goose egg for the Reich The young and energetic Mr Pierson Pierson Pierson Pier- Pier son who became head of the bank bankIn In 1936 toured the Latin-American Latin countries last summer and fall and returned with a lot of ot sizzling new Ideas about hopping up South American American American Amer Amer- ican trade and resisting the totalitarian totalitarian drive by deploying credit judiciously where it is needed most to grease the trade run around When it came to Brazil he got eager cager attention from both the state department and the adminIstration administration admin admin- as Brazil Is an Important important tant consideration of naval geography geography geography geog geog- raphy as ns well as trade ShoulderIng Shouldering dering far out Into the Atlantic with the new fascist threat to the Canary Islands It would if hostile pinch us in a narrowing seaway with Argentina on the whole not so clubby with the U. U S. S A. A away down under For both strategic and commercial reasons Brazil is our to South America if U we keep on being neighborly In Harvard law school Mr Pier- Pier Pierson Pierson son ion was obsessed with foreign trade and ind directed his studies to practice in n this field Practicing law in Los Angeles his opportunity came in hi 1934 when he was appointed general counsel for the Import Export bankIn bank In n 1936 there was for him a timey timely time time- ly y New Deal row which resulted in inthe inthe the he resignation of George N. N Peek as is head of the bank and the upping of if Mr Pierson Q 0 Consolidated News Service |
