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12 NAVAL PLANE STUNTS DISPLEASE AOMWAL Fliers Who Go Sky-Hooting "Called on Carpet." CRAFT DASHES UNDER DRAW JFcst ival Throngs Hold Breath as Daring Aviators Go Through Hair-Raising Stunts. Skipper, may we go out to fly? Why. yes. go off a-wooping. Point her nast to the bright blue sky. But, mind you, my lads, no looping. "To, heave ho! my hearties! "But, you should have heard the 'old man' wig them two young devils. " 'Te'll go sky-shooting and be deviling wi' navy planes, will ye? sez he. "Why, demmit, I've a good mind to c lap ye in the brig.' " 'Just because you see them army lads doing stunts in the air and risking their good army planes, gives you no never-mind to be for doing the same.' "That's what the old man sez, sezze." And that little extract from the con versation of two hard-boiled navy tars will explain why Ensigns T. Lee Burke and "Johnnie" McMurray of Portland were in a chastened mood yesterday. Hydro Stunts Are Pleasing. They had seen Colonel Watson and his boys in O. r. circumnavigate the ambient ether, so to speak. They had heard the girls applauding and saying: "Oh. aren't those army boys wonder ful T' And it was gall and wormwood to their sensitive navy souls. So and this was Wednesday after- FLOWERS SHOUID SOT BE THROWN OS PARADE ROUTE. All parade spectators are urged not to throw flowers on the pa rade line of march today. Flow ers on the street will be danger ous to the horses and accidents are likely to result if flowers are strewn along the ronte. An appeal has been made to the authorities in charge of the air planes and assurance has been received that the pilots will not throw flowers prior to the parade today. RICHARD W. CHTLDS. Director Rose Festival Associa tion. noon Ensign McMurray and Ensign, Lee showed that even with the heavy navy "hydros" they could do stunts. They did. I'll say they did! They scraped the paint off the root f the Wells-Fargo building; they rolled their "boats" up aloft like a brig in a snorter. They frolicked on their sides and they nose-dived and thingum jlgged. Then- they reversed the whole process. Everyone enjoyed the whole proceed ing. That is, everyone but Admiral "I don't care about their ruddy young lives, but they have no right to jeopar dize those planes," he muttered. Plane Daaics Cnder Draw. "Send them to me when they come aboard." he roared in true navy style. "Come aboard, sir," the seaplane en signs reported. Then there were a few gently-voiced comments that is, gently voiced so far as the navy is concerned. Of course, in common or garden usage they were wigged, reduced to a pulp, so to speak. It was very warm while it lasted. And they were chastened lads that flew aloft yesterday. Very chastened. But, however, intoxicated with his eagle flight. Ensign Burke may have forgotten the "old man's" warning. Or he may have thought that he was keep ing well within Admiral Kullam's lim its, for this was what a crowd on Haw thorne bridge saw: A navy plane hurled itself to earth. The great ceaplane dashed riverward at SO miles per hour. It came earthward or riverward almost perpendicularly. Those on the bridge shivered. Driver Mourned for Dead. "Another brave lad gone to death," they muttered. And then they saw that seaplane straighten itself before it touched the river, dash under the bridge draw, while the surface of the river was rip pled as if a breeze had struck it, then the big plane dashed heavenward again. Ensign Burke has not yet reported on board. And he doesn t know whether the Admiral will have anything to say. But the army men are chuckling. "There's a rod in pickle for somebody," they eay. PRESS TELEGRAPHER DIES "'Sandy" McAllister, Well Known on Coast, Passes Away. Over the lines of the Federal Tele graph company came the announcement lst night of the death of A. J. Mc Allister, widely known as one of the star keymen of the old days before typewriting- machines were in common use. He became a telegrapher when a youth, and was for years with the -Canadian Pacific at Vancouver. B. C. later he worked as relief man in vari ous offices of the Associated Press. It was as "Sandy" McAllister that be was .best known to the telegraphers of the country, and as one of a coterie of tLara employed by the Postal Tele graph company at San Francisco whose rapid work with the stylus kept up with the sending of any operator in service. He was associated there with Arthur W. Copp. later superintendent of the western division of the Asso ciated Press, and who recently passed away. Charles E. Branin, veteran As sociated Press operator in the Portland office, heard the report last night of "30" having been placed after the name of "Sandy" with sorrow, and paid a tribute to his memory as "one of the best operators who ever touched a key." SEATTLE MAY BUY RAILS Addition to City Lines of ' Road to Kenton Is Considered. SEATTLE, "Wash., June 12. Seattle is considering adding to its municipal street railway system the lines of the Seattle & Rainier Valley Railway com pany, the last privately owned line in the city. The road extends from Se attle to Renton. The Rainier Valley line is at present charging a 7-cent fare. Thomas F. Murphine. superintendent of public utilities, believes the city can make the road pay on a S-cent fare. Recently the owners of the line of fered It to the ctty for $1,800,000. Mur phine estimates its present value based on present cost at J 1,347.498.79. Adding an ounce of camphor to each five gallons of gasoline he uses, an Knglish automobilist claims to effect a iutl saviue of 20 per cent. NATION'S HEROES HONORED IN VICTORY ROSE FESTIVAL MILITARY AND NAVAL PARADE :K- 6:W''fK:4WM!W, .-r.-vv. ..-'v.'''' 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A Returned Canadian soldiers, who went through some of the hardest fighting, march with American allien In victory parade. r float decorated by .National League for 'Women Service, the organisation that did so much to keep the home fires burning. e Memories of the days of '6t nre brought to the minds of these white-haired veterans who fought for freedom in the civil war. 7 Men who answered the call to the eolors In the war with Spain occupy places off honor in great pageant. S Fottlre defenders of the nation. Portland Boy Scouts, mareh with the same determined ttrlfle that curried their elders into the enemy's trenches. PUNE INDUSTRY TO MAKE RAPID STRIDES Oregon Urged to Lay Flans for Tourist Air Travel. CALIFORNIA SEES BENEFITS i.ieii(cnnnt-Coloncl Henry G. Watson Says Craft Opens "Wide Field for Young Americans. "The development of the aeroplane will be far more rapid, than was that of the automobile." Thus spoke Lieutenant-Colonel Henry L. Watson, commanding the army flier in Portland. Hocsn't sound credible, does it? Yet. listen to Colonel Watson: "When the automobile was at the present stage of the aeroplane it was a noisy, foul-smelling- thinr. It was juat as apt to stop as to go. The gas engine now has been developed almost to the point of perfection. The aeroplane has the advantage of all this past experi ence. "There is only one thing lacking personnel to care for the motors, and preparations to receive fliers in every city. "The greatest possible channel of de velopment lies now in the aeroplane induetry. The aeroplane factories want trained men. There are 3 distinct trades in the aeroplane industry. There is just one place in which a man can obtain that training. That one place i the air service of the United States army. Aerial Travel o Grow. "Men can now enlist in the air serv- ' ice for a period of three years. They do not have to fly, but they can learn to fly if they desire. Knlisted men earn from $30 to 1120 a month. If they have had previous military experience they can enlist for one year only. "Recruiting stations will send men who enlist for the air service direct to the flying fields." Colonel Watson said that the north west had itself to blame if It was the last part of the United State- to obtain the benefit of aerial travel. He told how the crowds in southern Oregon towns had poked hols in the wings of the planes, had puliec. this and smashed that. "That kind of thing is bound to hin der the coming of aviators," he said. "In Portland we were wonderfully treiiJ!d in that respect, but in the lo of southern Oregon all kinds of damage was done to the planes unless we had them watched everv moment. The cities should have policed our planes." The greatest difficulty in establishing aerial travel to the northwest lay in the wild country vt southern Oregon, said the Colonel. Tree tuxt Be Removed. "Unless they cut down some of the trees along the aerial route and make places along the air lane where a forced landing can be made, there won't be much travel to Oregon via the air route from California." he declared. "Now in California, they have estab- ished fields at almost everv town. One only has to circie over a town for a gas wagon to dash out to the flying field. Many towns have established -repair shops for airplane motors. "I venture to say that within a very few months such a shop in Portland would be a very paying venture, for the first shop will get all the busi ness. A motor has to be overhauled after 100 hours of flying: and once you get the equipment here to handle airplanes there are plenty of people in Portland who will buy them. "There are airplanes to be bought now. There are people anxious to buy them, but unless you have facilities to handle them, they won't buy. "The army taught 10.000 men how to fly. Many of those men will either want to buy their own planes or to get into the game. Why, down at Mather field we have any number of privates who had commissions, were discharged and later have re-enlisted because of the wonderful fascination of the air. California Seea Benefits. "California is getting ready for aerial mail. All over the east they are get ting ready. If the counties cut out landing places along the aerial route where forced landings can be made, the man-made eagles will begin to il here. "Personally, I think the development of the airplane will be many times faster than that of the automobile. It is a matter of months, not years. See how the Curtiss company bought back from the government all the planes it could for re-sale. The planes wilt come as soon as you have the trained men to handle them and there will be big salaries paid to those men who can handle them. "And that is why I would advise a young man to enlist in the air serv ice. When he gets out he will be sure of a highly-paid job." ROAD WORK GOING WELL HIGHWAY COMMISSION FIXIS ACTIVITY DURING TOUR. Construction. Xortli of Logcne Is Reported Satisfactory Counties Eager to Assist. EUGENE, Or.. June 12. (Special.) The members of the state highway commission, accompanied by Portland newspaper men and others, left Eugene for southern Oregon today after a con ference with the members of the Lane county court regarding highway con struction in thi3 county. The members of the commission are on a tour of inspection of the construc tion work being done on the highway all the way from Portland to the Cali fornia state line. , Members of the commission said today that satisfactory progress is being made on the jobs under way north of Eugene. Members of the Clackamas county court told them that Clackamas is ready to ex pend $500,000 on road work aside from that on the Pacific highway, and mem bers of other courts visited are plan ning extensive construction this sum mer. Between Salem and Aurora the com missioners found a large number of men' at work on the hard-surfacing of the highway and construction crew were found scattered ail along the, line. In Eugene this morning the. com missioners found a crew of men and several large motor trucks on the way from Portland to Ashland to begin work on Oskar Huber's big job on the, high way between Ashland and the stats line. Pershin to Star T-'ntil July. PARIS. June 12. General Pershing, the American commander in chief, will remain in France until the middle of July.