| Show I 1 4 1 1 11 11 NEWS av a I 1 mm 1 I I 1 THIS L 7 k Z WEEK by LEMUEL F PA PARTON EW YORK when james D I 1 N ross was wi is appointed by the president as chief of bonneville Bonne vUle the biggest dam inthe in the world in october 1937 it was bonneville in some soothes hostile quarters that hi his 8 election would power people harpen the h dis agreement between the administration and the power companies today it appears that mr matross tross has allayed rather than provoked hostilities tili till ties the utilities rate him as reasonable bonneville has been the bete noir of western power development this writer hears bears there Is now a better chance for two way appeasement than at any time in the past mr ross for or 20 years I 1 head 0 of the he municipal power development of seattle has human traits which perhaps account tor for his expedient rather than doctrinal trend no mere doctrinaire would amuse himself by keeping a copper ball la in the th e air with no visible means of support ort just because he loves kilowatts and likes to see them hem work he was a consulting engineer for 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 riffling piffling piff ling so he hit the long grind back to chatham but he kept on pedaling 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 0 YOUNG america is naturally envious of cant ca qt harold E gray who will be at the controls when the yankee clipper huge panf american air I 1 gray skipped shipped oi ways flying boat alvo affo step to fly takes off for its air ap leviathan Zevia tian flight across OSS uie the atlan t ae it IS now trying a few preliminary crow hops around new york harbor captain gray it seems had a system in qualifying for this stellar role in aviation first he became a licensed airplane mechanic then he fied as an aeronautical eg e ineer a master mariner and a radio technician after all he took diplomas in seamanship mans bip international law admiralty law and business administration that seems to be about par for the lad who would be a skipper on one of these new leviathans levi athans of the air all this and many years of hazardous flying 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 ot of 19 his home town is guttenberg iowa 0 W WARREN ARREN LEE PIERSON head 0 of f the export import bank appears to rate an assist in the nazi put out in brazil the big credit deal to clear the pierson ass Ait t trade ways be in nazi put tween the two c countries oun tries 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 the latin american countries last summer and fall fail and returned with a lot of sizzling new ideas about hopping up south american trade and resisting the totalitarian drive by deploying credit judiciously where it Is needed most to g grease rease the trade runaround run around when it came to brazil he be got eager attention from both the state department and the administration as brazil ls Is an important consideration of naval geography as well BB as trade shouldering fir far out oat into the atlantic with the new fascist threat to the canary islands it would it if hostile pinch us as in a narrowing seaway ay with argentina on the whole not so with the V S A away down under for both strategic and commercial reasons brazil Is our to south Amerl america if we keep on be being neighborly in harvard law school mr pierson son was obsessed with foreign trade and directed his studies to practice in this field practicing law in los angeles his ts opportunity came in 1934 when he be was appointed general counsel for the export import bank In 1938 1936 there was tor for him a timely new deal abw row which resulted in the resignation of george N peek as head of the bank upp upping liall of mr pierson Pic III consolidated news new feature if I 1 service pervice I 1 1 |
