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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTE3IBER 13, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ENEMY TERRITORY
HENDERSON'S VICTORY
UNION ORGANIZED BY
PORTLAND TEACHERS
BRITISH OPEN FIGHT
AGAINST SINN FEIN
TWO IXSURGEXT MEMBERS OF
PARLIAMENT ARRESTED.
E PROBE IN
HURTS LLOYD GEORGE
AGAINST TREATY
ELECTION OF LABOR LEADER
HIGH SCHOOL PEDAGOGUES AP
PLY FOR CHARTER.
HELD HARDEST BLOW.
LANSING QUOTED
BRITAIN
ABANDONS
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RUSSIAN
CAMPAIGN
"Cold" Spokane Cheers
Wildly for President.
Repudiation of Irish and Russian
Policies Indorsed; Fall of Coali
tion Government Predicted.
P01NDEXTER SEEMS REBUFFED
Senator's Home Town Indi
cates It Favors Treaty.
IRISH FOES ARE ACTIVE
President in 43-Minute Talk Sajs
'othfng Is to Be Gained by
Reservations Offered.
BT JOHN W. KELLY.
SPOKANE, Wash.. Sept. II. (Spe
cial.) If cheers and enthusiasm are a
yardstick for measuring indorsement
of policies. President Wilson's league
of nations meets with the commenda
tion of almost all of the thousands of
men and women who listened to him
in the armory at Spokane today. His
greeting in Spokane was significant,
for it is the home of Miles Poindexter,
United States senator, aspirant for the
Republican nomination for president
and objector to President Wilson's
league programme.
Wilson In Eirar'i Territory.
What may be designated a." h
enemy's country now is being invades
by the president. Toda he was in
Idaho and entered Washington states
represented by senators who are fight
ing him tooth and nail on the covenant.
Although he carried these states three
years ago, Mr. Wilson may now be con
sidered as In hostile territory, if the
action of Senator Borah and Senator
Poindexter indicate correctly the senti
ment of their constituents.'
Thus the president's reception as he
enters the Pacific coast may be taken
as a gauge of how near the antagonistic
Poindexter and Borah are supported at
home. Lined up against the president
are the senators of Idaho, Washington
and California. Senators Chamberlain
and McNary have not identified them
selves with this group.
-Cml d- Srtks'e Warata I' p.
Tou would have to pay men a dol
lar to stand and cheer for even Roose
velt in this town, so don't Judge the
sentiment of Spokane by the recep
tion Mr. Wilson receives, warned an
old-time resident. "Spokane is cold.
It scarcely applauded when our own
boys returned from the war."
Well. Mr. Wilson came here at 2
o'clock. Spokane was not cold. The
chief executive received an ovation.
So president could have been more
heartily or noisily welcomed.
For 41 minutes Mr. Wilson touched
some of the high spots of the league
of nations; dealt sarcasm to his oppo
nents; appealed to the republicans not
to "think of 120 when thinking about
the Redemption of the world." and de
clared that the reservations asked are
already in the document. In the brief
time permitted no extensive nor de
tailed address was possible, but the
president held his audience and was
freely applauded. There were no in
terruptions by questions; no effort to
heckle, and yet something seemed lack
ing. ' i
Explanations Are Asked Far.
"In Spokane you are among friends,'
Mr. Wilson was assured, "and we are
for the league of nations, but there are
a few tnings we do not clearly under
stand. We want to know if our ideas
are right or wrong. We wish you
would be so kind as to explain."
Thus was the matter put up to the
President in an open letter. There were
Persons in the audience today who felt
that be bad not explained sufficiently.
There was applause and enthusiasm,
yes. but Mr. Wilson did not have every
thing entirely his way in Spokane. In
the newspapers the anti-league of na
tions propaganda is spread over all
pages. Publicity by the friends of Irish
freedom and associated societies made
a direct attack on the covenant.
This propaganda asserts that "par
ticipation in such a league as proposed
would mean partnership between the
United States of America and the
tyrant empires of Europe and Asia with
the European and Asiatic partners the
sole beneficiaries." The plain purpose
of this broadside was to Implant in the
minds of the public several points
against the league in forceful fashion
before Mr. Wilson could present his
case. How much effect the attack had
1 not apparent.
View Reservations Wanted.
' Then, too, a questionnaire was ad
dressed to the president asking him to
answer in his public address whether
be will accept certain reservations
adopted by a majority of the committee
on foreign affairs. The answer was not
. directly forthcoming at the armory, al
though in the query Mr. Wilson was
informed that many thoughtful and pa
triotic men fear that his refusal to
assent to certain definitions and reser
vations may and probably will defeat
ratification of the covenant by the sen
ate. The nearest Mr. Wilson approached
to a reply was when he declared in his
speech that "since he has fought the
battle for congress and won it is not
necessary for them, the objectors, to
fight it over again, and. further, that
be has not heard a suggestion for giv
ing better than is in his programme
"in fact. I have never heard them sug
gest anything."
From what can be gathered. Spokane,
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lished by Arrangement.)
LONDON', Sept. 12. (Special Cable.)
The election of Arthur Henderson,
labor leader, to parliament in the tory
stronghold of Wldnes, Lancashire, an
nounced today, was the severest blow
yet dealt to the coalition government.
It was the fifth and most sensational
by-election.
Henderson, who was a member of
Lloyd George's war cabinet from De
cember. 1916, until the following Aug
ust, appealed to the voters to show
that they had withdrawn their confi
dence from "a government that had
obtained power by means which ought
never to be associated with public life
In this country."
He polled 11.404 votes against 10.417
by H. Fisher, the unionist candidate.
It meant the wiping out of the 3694
coalition majority in the general elec
tion last December. Wldnes has hith
erto been an unassailable tory strong
hold. Henderson stood for nationalisa
tion and for repudiation of the present
Russian and Irish policies. His victory
brings him once more to the forefront
as a political figure of the first mag
nitude. He will be an enormous asset
to the labor party, of which he had
been the secretary for seven years, as
well as to the entire opposition in the
house of commons.
Henderson's projected visit to Amer
ica next month may be postponed. He
confidently told the electors today that
their decision will help bring about
general election, and that it would
mean the resignation of the Lloyd
George government.
Americans Held Opposed
to Pact if Informed.
BULLITT TELLS OF INTERVIEW
League Is Bad, in Secretary's
Reported Opinion.
3 DELEGATES DISPLEASED
White and Bliss Object Vigorously,
ex-Member of Mission Says.
Lansing; How Silent.
G. A. R. OPPOSES TREATY
Vote Against Ratification Almost
Unanimous at Encampment.
COLUMBUS, O.. Sept. 11. Resolu
tions opposing ratification by the
United States of the peace treaty In
its present form were adopted almost
unanimously here today by delegates
attending the annual encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic
Colonel James D. Bell of Brooklyn
was unanimously elected commander
In-chief.
Harry D. Sisson of Boston was
chosen commander-in-chief of the Sons
of Veter.ns, also in reunion here.
CARRANZA T0STEP OUT
Mexican President Jfot to Seek Re
election, Is Announcement.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 11. Venustiano
Carranza under no circumstances will
seek re-election as president of Mexico
md without fail will turn the presi
dency over to his successor upon com
pleting his present term in December,
1920.
Luis Cabrera, secretary of the treas
ury, made this announcement today.
TEXAS IN HURRICANE PATH
Storm Warnings Ordered Up Along
Coast of Gulf of Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 13. The tropi
cal hurricane in this gulf, which has
caused storm damage on the Florida
coast since Tuesday night, is headed
westward for the Texas coast. Storm
warnings were ordered up today from
Port Arthur to Corpus Chrlsti.
Reports from Tampa. Fla., showed lit
tle damage there.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. The asser
tion that Secretary Lansing opposed
ratification of the peace treaty and
league of nations covenant, . although
he was a member of the American peace
commission that drafted it, was flung
today before the senate foreign rela
tions committee by William C. Bullitt
of Philadelphia, formerly employed by
the mission at Paris in a confidential
capacity.
The testimony, purporting to give
Mr. Lansing's private opinion expressed
in a conversation with the witness the
day the latter resigned from the mis
sion because he was not in sympathy
with the treaty or the league, popped
out suddenly and sensationally. Bul
litt had just expressed reluctance at
the idea of. revealing any part of a
private conversation with the peace
commissioners, and members of the
committee quite agreed with this view.
Members' Opinions "ViKorons."
Near the close of a three-hour hear
ing, however. Chairman Lodge asked
how the treaty, and its covenant was
regarded at Paris.
"Secretary Lansing, Henry White and
General Bliss, all members of the
American commission, expressed vig-
orous opinions," Bullitt said, adding in
reply to an inquiry by the chairman
that these opinions were not enthusi
astic. Then from a memorandum of
the conversation, dictated, be said
while it was fresh in his mind. Bullitt
quoted the secretary on many points,
saying that Mr. Lansing opposed the
award of Shantung to Japan, that he
had considered the league thoroughly,
that the large nations would pay little
attention to the small nations and that
the world had been arranged according
to the desires of the big nations at
the peace conference.
Defeat of Pact Snegested.
The most sensational statement at
tributed by the witness to the secretary
of state .was that "if the senate and
the American people knew what the
treaty meant it would be defeated."
Senator Knox really would under-
Temporary Officers Are Named
Meeting Which Is Held in Cen
tral Library Hal.
Organization of a high school teach
era union was perfected at a meetin
held yesterday In the central library
hall, following an address by Mrs
Mary Brennan Inkster of Washington
D. C, national organizer for the Amer
lean Federation of Teachers, on th
subject, "Why a Union?" Mrs. Inkster
previously had ' addressed the grade
teachers of the city, but no action look
Ing to the formation of a union was
taken.
The membership of the Portland
High School Teachers' association was
well represented at the meeting, and
reports Indicate that no opposition de
veloped to the plan for organization of
the union. The charter has been ap
plied for and is said to be on the way
to Portland.
Only temporary officers were named
at the meeting yesterday and those who
attended declined to give the names
of officers or of those who presided
Portland teachers last spring discussed
the proposal to unionize at a general
meeting, but decided at that time to
hold the matter in abeyance.
SEATTLE MAN WINS MEDAL
Clarence Siebert of Tono, Wash.
Also Gets Decoration.
washisuton, sept. lz. The war
department today announced a list of
officers and enlisted men of the ex
peditionary force to whom distin
guished service crosses had been
awarded, but to whom the crosses had
not been presented because of their
death or return to the United States.
The list included:
Pharmacist Mate Vincent A. Nolan,
742 Ninety-first avenue, Seattle, and
Private Clarence Siebert. Tono, Wash,
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CROP PAYS FOR RANCH
$38,000 in Fruit Expected From
$19,000 Property at Wapato.
TAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 12. (Special.)
J. Sofeoenburg, who some time ago pur
chased for $19,000 a fruit ranch near
Wapato, expects to sell from it this sea
son fruit the return from which will
amount to nearly twice the sum paid
for the ranch. A considerable propor
tion of the fruit already has been
marketed. '
The former owners were Minnesota
men.
FUSES DROPPED; 1 KILLED
Several Injured in Transfer of Cap
tured German Material.
BONHAM TOWN, N. J., Sept. 12.
One civilian employe at the Rarltan
arsenal was killed today and several
more injured, one perhaps fatally.
when one of their number dropped a
box of fuses captured frqm the Ger
mans, which were being transferred
from barges to freight cars.
Effort on North Front
Officially Given Up.
Is
GERMAN INFLUENCE FEARED
Huns' Advance on Baltic Is Re
ferred to All Allies.
ARCTIC EVACUATION HARD
General Rawlinson's Task to Get
Troops Away and Save Loyal
Slavs From Bolsheviki.
Pub-
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nshed by Arrangement.)
LONDON, Sept. 12. (Special cable.)
Winston Churchill, secretary of state
for war, has directed the secretary of
the war office to publish the follow
ing note:
"During the three weeks that have
passed since parliament rose, many
rumors and statements have appeared
in the newspapers about the military
position in north Russia. A full ac
count of the policy of the British gov
ernment was given to the house of
commons on July 29 by the secretary
of state for war on behalf of the cabi
net. This policy was accepted by the
house practically without challenge.
It is being steadily and punctually
executed, and the decisions on which
it was based are irrevocable.
General Lord Rawlinson has been
placed in supreme command of the
British forces in the Archangel and the
Murmansk regions, and he has been
supplied with everything he has asked
for and has been accorded the fullest
discretionary power as to the time and
method of exacuation. There is no rea
son to suppose he will not succeed in
his task and succeed at an early date,
At the same time the peculiar diffi
culty of the operation of withdrawal
must be realized.
British Heavily-Outnumbered.
"The Russian national forces both at
Archangel and Murmansk are much
more numerous than the British. The
forces of the enemy on those fronts
may well be equal to the British and
national Russians combined. The atti
tude of the national Russians ' as well
that of the civil population must
inevitably be effected by the impend
ing British withdrawal and by the
fact that after we have gone they will
be left to continue the struggle alone.
Thus the task of extracting the British
troops, while doing the lease possible
injury to the chances of the Russian
national forces, is one of great com
plexity.
'Further, his majesty s government
have considered it their duty to offer
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SHE 'APPRECIATES IT GERMANS HAIL FIGHT ON PEACE TREATY AS DAWN OF NEW
DAY (NEWS ITEM).
Raids Made Against Radicals Bring
Prisoners, Arms, Explosives in
Many Parts of Ireland.
DUBLIN, Ireland, Sept. 12. An ex
tensive police and military movement
against the Sinn Fein began this fore
noon. The scope and object of the
operations were not revealed, but raids
by government forces are reported
throughout the country. The Sinn Fein
parliament was suppressed.
There were many arrests and seizures
of arms and literature.
Two Sin Fein members of the house
or commons were arrested. They are
Ernest Blythe, member for Monaghan,
north, and Patrick O'Keefe, 'member
from the northern division of Cork
county.
Military lorries carrying prisoners
from the outskirts of Dublin are arrlv
ing in the city.
CORK, Sept. 12. Sinn Fein clubs in
this city were raided this morning by
armed police, who conducted searches
while soldiers stood on guard outside.
The unoccupied Sinn Fein headquarters
also was broken into, but it is under
stood that nothing of importance was
discovered there.
BELFAST, Sept. 12. Military afid po
lice activity was everywhere in evi
dence today against the Sinn Fein or
ganizations. Raids were carried out In
Belfast, at Lisburne, Derry, Dundalk
Louth and Enniskillen.
A quantity of high explosive, gelig
nite, was seized at the Derry Sinn Fein
headquarters.
PORTLAND CLOSES
Total Loss Is Estimated at
$35,796,322.
TIMBER DECLARED USELESS
French Say Stock Shipped
Worthless in France.
MANY RURAL SCHOOLS IDLE
Serious Shortage of Teachers Is
Faced in California.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12. (Spe
cial.) For the first time since the
early 50's California faces a serious
shortage of teachers. Several hundred
schools, paying from $75 to $100 a
month, are vacant and teachers to fill
the positions cannot be found. Most
of the schools are in rural districts.
Calls for help are pouring in on Will
C. Wood, superintendent of public in
struction. Kern county wants 24 teach
ers, Mendocino 20, Siskiyou 14. Calls
have also come from many other sec
tlons. Wood is now making an inves
tigation to determine the exact extent
of the shortage.
SLAV GRAIN JBURPLUS MYTH
Russia and Black Sea Lands to Need
Entire 1019 Crop.
PARIS. Sept. 11. Advices from Amer
ican Red Cross investigation at Pol
tava, southern Russia, received today
state reports of an enormous grain sur
plus in Ukraine and southern Russia
which have disturbed American wheat
growers with visions of a tumbling
market, may be dismissed as groundless.
Russia and the countries bordering on
the Black sea will need the entire 1919
crop, the reports said.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
FREE SPRUCE IS SPURNED
Russell Hawkins Tells of Offer to
Produce Airplane Lumber With
out Profit to Himself.
"After all these losses are figured
up, we are confronted with the fact
that we never had a single fighting or
bombing plane on the western front."
With this comment, uttered late yes
terday, Chairman James A. Frear, of
Wisconsin, closed the congressional
committee's Inquiry into spruce ex
penditures and production in the Pa
cific northwest.
For an entire month the committee
has conducted its investigation and
hearings in Seattle and Portland, ex
haustively covering the spruce pro
gramme from its inception, up to tha
armistice and the final salvage of the
vast amount of material.
Net Loss $35,700,322.
The most significant statement of the
entire hearing, made at the close of tha
last session in Portland yesterday, was
that the net loss to America and the
allied governments, under the spruce
production corporation, will be $35,
796.322, If computed on an estimated
salvage basis of 10 per cent, which was
the figure at which Great Britain set
tled her account.
This loss, explained Guy George Ga-
brielson. expert accountant wtlh law
congresonal committee, represented
FIRE LOSS IS $500,000
Several Injured In Blaze In Seattle
Business District.
SEATTLE. Sept. 12. Fire of unde
termined origin early today swept a
five-story building in the Seattle busi
ness district.
The occupants of two near-by hotels
were driven forth, several persons, in
cluding four firemen were injured and
a property loss estimated at about
$500,000 was caused.
LUMBER DEALERS INDICTED
Ice Cream Manufacturers Also Ac
cused of Violating: Trust Law.
DAYTON, O.. Sept. 12. Twenty-nine
lumber dealers and eight ice cream
dealers and manufacturers were
charged in indictments returned today
by the Montgomery county grand jury
with violation of the Valentine anti
trust act.
Operating in restraint of trade and
fixing prices are alleged.
FRENCH DEBT $263,000,000
United States Expects Final Settle
ment In October.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 12. A balance
of $263,000,000 is due the United States
from France as a result of co-operative
war activities. It includes railroad
equipment bought by the French since
the armistice.
A final settlement is expected early
in October.
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YAKIMA MILK IS HIGHER
Retail Price Is Jumped Approxi
mately Two Cents Quart.
TAKIMA. Wash.. Sept. 12. (Special.)
The retail price of milk in this city
rose two cents per quart, approxi
mately, today.
Dairies are now selling seven quart
tickets for $1.- Heretofore they have
sold eight.
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The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 70
degrees; minimum, 53 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; gentle south
erly winds.
Foreign.
British suppress Sinn Fein parliament.
rage 1.
Britain officially abandons North Russian
campaign. Page 1.
Election of Arthur Henderson hard blow to
Lloyd George regime. Page 1.
Omsk reported safe from bolshevik advance.
Puge 4.
National.
General Pershing welcomed to national cap
ital. Page 0.
Secretary Lansing opposed to treaty, witness
tells senators, rape J.
ltomestic
Senator Johnson says president's cry of bol-
snevism peril is bogey, page
Police of Boston want jobs back. Page 6.
Two schooners lost in Bahama hurricane
with all on board. v Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
President apparently wins home of Senator
Poindexter to treaty. Page 1.
Crisis said to have been passed in Seattle
gas situation. Page 15.
Correspondence courses not included In sol
diers education law. - page s.
Oregon and Washington county officials
hold joint meeting. Page 5.
United States sovereignty safe under league
of nations, president lells Spokane audi
ence. Page 2.
Oregon law waived to admit emergency sup
ply of gasoline. Page lu.
Colonel Hammond elected commander of
3d Oregon infantry. Page 4.
Sports.
Pacific Coast league results: Portland 3.
Vernon 7; Los Angeles 6. Oakland 3; Salt
Lake 9, San Francisco 8; Sacramento 3.
Seattle 2. Page 14.
Winged M athletes finish third in A. A. U.
national junior track and field meet at
Philadelphia. Page 14.
Tom Andrews. Milwaukee. Wis., promoter
leaves with boxers for tour of Australia, mourned.
Page 14.
Intam visitors attending Oreiron field trlal Lieutenant
praise Portland's hospitality. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Harvest in northwestern states is interrupt
ed. Page 23.
Liquidation carries down corn prices at
Chicago. Page 2J.
Pool operations characterize Wall street
trading. Page 23. 4
Four vessels assigned tn Portland steam
ship companies. Page 22.
Portland and Vicinity.
Spruce investigation in Portland closes.
Page 1.
Brooklyn Eagle tourists vote Columbia river
highway best motor drive; Portland best
city. Page 16.
Publicity campaign for state of Oregon Is
favored by county Judges and commis
sioners. Page 11.
Disque admits at realty board rottenness in
aircraft board and democratic party.
Page 11.
Flour mills running on half time as result
of strike. Page 22.
American Legion's membership campaign
wilt open Monday. Page 23.
Fast rail movement of fuel ordered. Page 12.
Mayor maintains refusal of use of auditorium
to agitators despite labor s threats.
Page 12.
Father O'Hara says shell-torn fields again
yield crops. Page 17.
Picketing case is taken under advisement.
Pace 8.
Wilson welcome to . be . at Crown PoinC
Page 8.
the loss in. spruce expenditures over
and above the figure at which the aams
au.ount of aircraft material could have
beenproduced by private operators at
the rate paid to them, or $110 for sprue
and cedar and $65 for fir.
Lou to Each Ally Figured.
Should the salvage rate prove higher
than 10 per cent, Mr. uaorieison pie-
scnted tables to meet the contingency,
computing the net loss to each allied
government, over ana aouve i
at which the aircraft material could
have been produced by independent
operators. The tables were as follows:
Losses at 40 per cent salvage basis .ug-
land, $8,014,070; France. i""jr.
$2,o75,iU0; United States. iu.uw,-'i .
Losses at 30 per cent salvage uasis mi-
and. JO.041.418; France. $.,4o4,324; Italy,
$3,110,132; United States. 10,SS0.472.
Leases at 20 per cent salvage basis Eng
land $i0.3t;S.S2; France, $S,027.4S1; Italy.
$3,344,783; United States, $11,7U6.742.
Losses at 10 per cent salvage basis, that
upon which Great Britain settled England,
11.090,839; France. s.uai,ii.
070,632; United States, i.,o-3,n-.
Spruce Exporter Talks.
These losses, explained the account-'
ant, were based upon the total produc
tion of 143,000,000 feet of aircraft ma
terial, representing the net loss shown
hv rnvrnment operations In contrast
with aircraft material produced by pri
vate operators, who were paid at the
rate of $110 for spruce and cedar and
$65 for fir.
Two witnesses preceded the statis
tical summary of the closing session,
Charles E. Dant of Dant & Russell,
wholesale lumber exporters, and Rus
sell Hawkins, president of the Whitney
company, formerly in charge of spruce
production in the northwest.
Prior to the entrance of the United
States in the war, testified Mr. uant.
his firm exported large amounts of
airplane stock direct to the allies, buy
ing from northwestern operators. The
margin of profit was $5 a thousand,
and the price for rough specification
stock was $65. When spruce production
passed under government control sales
and exports by private firms were pro--hibited.
Quality of Output Criticised.
The witness testified that In the
spring or summer of 191S, after gov
ernment spruce production was for
warding shipments to the allies, he had
conversations with two representatives
of the English and French high com
missions, wherein the quality of the
airplane product under Colonel Brlce
P. Dlsque's regime was criticised and
the ban upon private shipment
Jean Holland, of the
French high commission, during a visit
to Portland, testified Mr. Dant. com
plained bitterly of his disappointment
at the results of spruce production un
der government control, and declared
that but 15 per cent of the shipments
being received by France were fit for
airplane construction.
"Lieutenant Holland was very irruch
discouraged," said Mr. Dant, "at the
kind of lumber that was being shipped,
and was out here to get it changed.
He said that if he could not get It
changed, he would return to France
and take up the matter with General
Pershing. Ii this failed, he would re
sign from the service, for he could not
face his fellow officers while the fac
tory yards in France were piling up
with material unfit for use."
Spruce Not Properly Cut.
Under the new regime, said Mr. Dant,
the spruce production division turned
out stock that was cut too close to the
size of the ultimate piece, such as
wing-beams. Rough handling In trans
port, together with exposure to wealh-
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