The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-20
Congressional
'SUTTLETIES'
The inside on the Washington scene of
interest to the Carolinas.
By HOWARD SUBTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau
BARDEN KEEPS AIR FIGHT ALIVE


WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Graham Barden,
the two listed representative from New Bern.
is keeping an eagle eye these days upon the
White House with the idea that Jonathan Dan
lels, his fellow North Carolinian and admins
trative assistant to President Roosevelt, shall
not forget an administration pledge that COM
pllcations delaying interconnected commercial
air service between Atlantic coastal cities will
be removed by January l.
Barden is one of some Is or 20 southern
members of Congress who met at a dinner
here last Thursday night 10 discuss ways and
means OF removing red tape SURF ounding GER
tain projects affecting the South, including
the coastal air line, which have been pendin @
for long time.
The New Bern representative has already
advised Daniels tina: under existing condi-
tons, he can't see now anything except some
sort OF shenannigans'' can delay inauguration
OF service by Colonial Airlines on an extension
from New York to Nassau, with stops at Nor
folk Elizabeth City, New Bern, Wilmington
Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, Charleston, Savan-
nah, Jacksonville West Palm Beach and Mi
ami.
He feels that Congress created the Civil Ae-
ronautics Board to pass upon the applications
OF commercial air lines for route extensions.
Since the CAB last July issued an opinion in
favor of Colonial, after considering the case
y i
tics has not been injected into the case by
powerful influences seeking to short circuit
Colonial
If the White House pledge that the way
will be cleared around the fist of the year.
for the decision to be announced is carried
out, Barden has indicated he will be ready to
go along with the administration, at time
when the administration needs help on Capitol
Hill, on some of the measures now pending be-
fore Congress-
Barden and severa! of his colleagues, in
Guiding Rep. J. Bayard Clark and Herbert c.
Bonner of North Carolina; L. Mendel Rivers
and John Mcmillan OF South Carolina, and
Winder R. Harris of Virginia, don't intend
that a recent application OF Pan-Amercan Air
ways for an extension from Charleston,
through Nassau, to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
shall complicate the situation any further.
Delay Rivers, Harbors Works
The House Rivers and Harhors committee
mas again accorded favorable action to pro-
posed North Carolina rivers and harbors i'm
provements totalling approxirls tely s., 200, 0O0
plus increased annual maintenance of about
100000, but it's not likely that any of the Is
projects listed will be attempted until after the
war.
Outstanding among proposed improvements
is S675,0o0 Wilmington harbor and Cape Fear
river project, which would also provide for an
additional maintenance cost of $50,000.
Other proposed projects listed include:
Northeast Cape Fear river, 5000; inland
waterway, Beaufort to Cape Fear river, in
Guiding waterway 10 Jacksonville, $4,000;
Beaufort harbor, $54, 900; Channel from Back
sound to Lookout Right, $5o,o00 waterway
connecting Panlico sound with Beaufort har-
Dor, $42, 900; channel connecting Thoroughfare
bay with Ceban bay, $4,000; Neuse and Trent
rivers, $l1 900; waterway connecting Swan
Quarter bay with Deep bay $2z,500 Rollison
channel $4,000; channel from Pamlico sound
to Rodenthe, $4,000; channel from Pamlico
sound to Avon $4,000; Pembroke creek, &c.
500; waterway from Norfolk to Beaufort Inlet
$39, 600; Chowan river and Blackwater river
$135,0O0