Show NEWT W aj Q THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK when james D NEW N tho the ross was appointed by president as chief of bonneville tho the biggest dam in tho the world in october 1037 it was bonneville in some soothes hostile quarters that his pr power people asi selection sharpen the would dis agreement between tho the administration and the power companies today it appears that mr rosa floss has alloyed allayed rather than provoked hostilities tili ties the utilities rate him as reasonable bonneville has been the bete noir of western power development this writer hears there Is now a better chance for two way appeasement than at any time in the past mr ross for 20 years head of tile the municipal power development of seattle has haa human traits trails which perhaps account for his expedient rather than doc trinal trend no mere doctrinaire would amuso amuse himself by keeping a copper ball in the air with no visible means of support just because lie he loves kilowatts and likes to see them work lie he was a consulting engineer for tho the new york power authority and the st lawrence seaway a consultant for power development and later a member of the SEC before the president made him the bonneville boss As a boy he rode his bike from chatham ont to new york city to learn pharmacy he got a job as an apprentice chemist but seemed piffling riffling piff ling so ho he hit tho the long grind back to chatham but he kept on pedaling lie he headed up through edmonton to the alaska gold fields and when dry land failed him he made his own boat and pushed on in seattle years later he helped design the first municipal power plant y YOUNG OUNG america is naturally envious of capt harold E gray who will be at the controls when the yankee clipper huge pan american air gray skipped r i ways hying flying boat no step to fly takes off for its flight across the air air leviathan atlantic it Is now trying a few preliminary crow hops around new york harbor captain gray it seems had a system la in qualifying for this stellar rolo role in aviation first he became a licensed airplane mec mechanic hanle then he as an aeronautical engineer neer a master mariner and a radio technician after all he bo took diplomas in meter cology seamanship international law admiralty law and business administration that seems to be about par for the lad who would bo be a skipper on one of these new leviathans levi athans of the air all this and many years of hazardous fly flying ing over the mountain wilderness of mexico and central america bring captain gray to the ripe old age of 33 he left college in his second year at the university of iowa and was aloft for the first time at the age of 19 his home town is guttenberg iowa WARREN W aldren LE LEE E PIE PIERSON head of the export import batik bank appears to rate an assist in the nazi put out in brazil the big credit deal to clear the pierson A assists trade ways be in ivazis it auteen out tween the two in brazil game S countries is widely accepted as a goose egg for the reich the young and energetic mr pierson who became head of the bank in 1936 toured tho the latin american countries last summer and fall and returned with a lot of sizzling new ideas about hopping up south amerlean american trade and resisting the totalitarian drive by deploying credit judiciously where it is needed most to grease the trade runaround run around when it came to brazil he got g ot eager attention from both tile tho state department and the adyln as brazil Is an important consideration of naval geography a as ik well as trade shouldering 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 clubb clubby v with the V U S A away down under for both strategic and commercial reasons brazil Is our to south america if wo we keep on an being neighborly in harvard law school mr pierson was obsessed with foreign trade and directed his studies to practice in this field practicing law in los log angeles his opportunity came in 1034 1934 when he was appointed general counsel tor for the export import bank in 1930 there was tor for him a timely new deal row which resulted in the resignation of george N peek as head of the bank and the upping of mr pierson 0 consolidated news features feature service |