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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 23, 1917. 2000 FLYERS TRAIN HEAR TO SAN DIEGO Sight of Dozens of Aeroplanes in Air at Once Is Said to Be v Most Thrilling One. ACCIDENTS ARE FREQUENT TAemtcnanii Fawcett, of Portland, - Is Ordered to Texas Aviation School, . Where Brother Is . " Captain of Infantry. BAN DIEGO, CaL, Dec 20. SpeciaL) The North Island Aviation School, In the harbor of San Diego, now has a total of 75 aeroplanes for use as training- craft for cadet aviators. Although the young sky pilots bang up on the average of one machine per day, the mechanics have them back In the run-: sing within a few hours, unless the emashup has been severe, and prac tlcally all the machines are in use every day. It is a wonderful and awe-inspiring sight that greets the eyes of the few fortunate civilians who are able to worm past the armed sentries at the docks with passes to the field itself. Dozens .of student aviators are whizz ing overhead or "taxicablng" around on the ground to get good starting position, most-of the" day, and the civilian marvels that there are not more accidents. Machines Have Dual Oomtrol. The training machines are identical with those in use in France except that they have an extra seat equipped with a duplicate control gear. The instruc tor sits in the front seat and the stu dent in the rear seat, and- en the first few trips In the air the Instructor does most of the work. The cadet who is able to take hold and do a "solo" after nine or 10 hours' instruction generally gets a blue ticket and bids his fellows a fond farewell. After the student Is able to "solo" about over the bay his real course of instruction begins. Then it Is he must learn to do the "banks" and the "figure eights" and master the other tests re Quired of the boys before they are passed out of school to await the award of commissions. Nearly 200 students are in training on the island and classes of from 10 to 20 are graduated every fortnight or two. Simultaneously new men enter from the Berkeley, ground school and from other sources, so that the stu dent personnel is kept at practically the limit capacity all the time. Two Portlanders Fly. Several Portland men who have graudated within the last month are still here awaiting the award of com missions. Among them are Jack El liott and Frank B, Dudley. Both com pleted the ground work at the Uni versity of California before entering the North Island Flying School. "I anj on a furlough just now," Bald Aviator Dudley today. "My commission ought to arrive almost any time,' and as soon as I receive it it is likely that I will go East or across the Atlantic for the finishing touches. Every one of us Is aching for an opportunity to try our hand at the Boche. Flying Is more strenuous than playing golf at Waverley or driving an automobile down Washington street, but It Isn't eo hard after you get used to being up a few thousand feet above terra firm a. Aviator Dudley has been spending most of his furlough In Los Angeles. Major Damm is the commanding of ficer at the North Island school and Major Hart we 11 Is camp adjutant. Practically all the flying Instructors are civilian aviators of long experience. Several French and British officers and non-coms also are here to assist In the training work. Many Records Made. According to the Frenchmen, so many flying records are being established and broken during the progress of the war In Europe that it is doubtful if the list' of best performances ever will be straightened out and set on paper. Miss KLatherlne Stinson, the 90-peajad girl flyer, created quite a stir down here last week by flying 600 miles from Ban Diego to San Francisco. This, for a girl, is a wonderful record, but the French' officers say that Miss Stin son's distance doesn't compare with what the foreign aviators are doing very day during the war. "Roland Garros startled the world a few years ago by . flying over the Alps," remarked one of the French men today. "Boys just out of aviation schools are doing it now every week. Some time ago General Cadorna, of the Italian Army, asked for air reinforce ments " from the British and French, and within a few hours young aviators were en route from many fields in Britain and France. Some of the British machines soared across the channel, over France and scaled the Alps, proceeding on to the Tagliamento line without ever touching ground. Al though scores of machines were on the move the number of accidents was just as low as the average for a day at the aviation schools." Roscoe Fawcett, of Portland. First Lieutenant of Aviation, has received orders to move from San Diego to the Kelly Aviation School at San Antonio, Tex. Lieutenant Fawcett has a brother. Captain of infantry, stationed at San Antonio. No city in America more closely re sembles a huge concentration camp than San Diego. This city knows there Is a war on for it is veritably smoth ered in khaki and blue. Approximately 25,000 National Guardsmen are en camped at Camp Kearney, 16 or 16 miles out of town; the 21st Infantry, regulars. Is stationed In the exposi tion grounds; several thousand Ma rines are here, in addition to sailors from the warships in the harbor; the ""Coast Artillerymen from Fort Rose crans, and the Signal Corps men from North Island. : It is conservatively estimated that nearly BO. 000 of Uncle Sam's fighting men are located In or near the city, which, before the war, had a civilian population of 75,000 or 80,000 souls. Although the soldiers and sailors aren't rich, by any means, business is good, and they manage to drop a lot of money Into the coffers of the hotel men, stores, barber shops, pool halls, dance emporiums, of which there are many, photograph studios, streetcars, etc Uncle Sam retains 115 of the en listed man's $30 salary, saving It until his enlistment is over. If he is married his wife of course gets the (15 together with an allowance of from $15 to $50 from the Government. Most of the men have taken out Government in surance and they pay for this out of tyie $15 actually received each month. Tnese men are left with very little spending money, but whatever it is and whatever else they get from home folks Is dropped into the waiting "mtvw" of the San Diego business men on their Saturday afternoon and Snnday holi day. R. C Buchanan, formerly a student at the University of Oregon. Is among the .Portland boys at Camp Kearney. Buchanan has worked up to a ser geantcy In Battery C, 114th Field Ar tillery, and he hopes to win a com mission before his regiment of Call, fornia guardsmen sails for France. Larry Cowing, another former Port land boy, last year state golf cham pion of California, Is a sergeant in the same organization. Cowing can lay claim to the distinction of being the only enlisted man In America to fra ternize socially with a Brigadier-General. Last week his brlgadiership in vited Sergeant Cowing out to the Coro nado links for a social game of golf, and, useless to say, the sergeant ac cepted. Sergeant Buchanan says he has ex actly $1.18 every month for spending money. "My pay as sergeant is $36 per eaonth." he explained-. "I have al lotted $30 of this to my wife, and after WOMAN WHO CROSSED PXAISS BY OX TEAM DIES HH. " . t ' J it' " t r - K t . - -i i - i r- t ' i. 'J t - IT ,- ' ' All Mrs. Lealae Stoat Tsnutid. Funeral services for Mrs. Louise Stout Townsend, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. N. Sutton, 3J Flanders street, were conducted by Rev. W. B. Hlnson, of. the East Side Baptist Church. Mrs. Townsend was born In 1842 In Iowa, and later moved to Kansas, where she was married to William Townsend in 1860. In 1865, with her husband and three children, she crossed the plains by ox team and settled near Lafayette, Or. Her husband was appointed United States Land Office Receiver by President Cleveland and during that time the Townsend family lived in Lakevlew, Or. She is survived by three daugh ters and a son. my Insurance is paid for I have $1.18 left for ray laundry, smokes, entertain ment and such. George Turnbull, formerly golf pro fessional at the Waverley Country Club, returned a few days ago for his Win ter's work as golf professional at the Coronado Country Club. During the Summers George is employed at the Midlothian Country Club, Chicago, and when business slackens there as a re sult of the cold Winter he packs his trunks and comes to Coronado for the Winter. Captain J. C. Johnson, Gold Beach, and Second Lieutenant Aaron Cohen, Portland, are among the Oregon of ficers stationed here with the 21st In fantry, regulars- - WAGE SCALE IS FIXED TELEPHONES COM PANT AND OPE RATIVES REACH AGREEMENT. Linemen aad Electrical Journeymen Get M-75 Dally aad Operator From l-50 to S 3.25. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 22. A new wage agreement entered into by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Com pany and its traffic employes in Cal ifornia, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Idaho was officially announced here today. It is as follows: "Linemen and other electrical Jour neymen $4.75 dally, apprentices $2.81 to $1.50, telephone operators $1.50 to $2.25. By the terms of the agreement the apprentices must receive the regular wage of $4.50 at the end of three years' service, the amount to be reached by a graduated scale. Telephone ope rators must be given the maximum of $2.25 at the end of three years la the same manner. iTho new scale is an approximate In crease of 124 per cent over the tem porary scale established by Secretary of Labor Wilson during a recent visit here of the President's mediation board, which he heads. The agreement was reached at a meeting between repre sntatives of the telephone company and the operatives, which lasted Into the early morning hours rfoday. In addition to the rise the journey men are given double time for all over trine, and the girl operators are given time and one-half. Two rest periods of 15 minutes each are provided for the girls. Eight hours Is declared a stand ard day for all workers. , Army Orders. SAN FRANCISCO. Deo. 22. The following- orders were issued by the Western De partment of the Army here today: Leave of absence for 20 days Is granted Major Frank u, Phipps. Jr., Coast Artillery Corps. Captains Walter B. Buchly and Thomas P. Llrabocker, Kiehty-third Field Artillery, are detailed to the board of officers at Fort D. A Russell, Wyo., vice Captains Eugene M. Owen and Reese M. Howell, First Cavalry, hereby relieved. , Captain Jaros a. Johnson, Infantry, Na tional Army; First Lieutenants Claude B. Mlekelwatt, Infantry Reserve Corps, and Harvey C. Dean, infantry. National Army, and Second Lieutenant Fabian McK. Smith, Infantry Reserve Corps, are detailed as ad ditional members of the general court martial at Camp Walter R. Taliaferro. San iJieeo. Cal., and Cfiptatns Harold W. James and Latham L. Brundred and First Lieu tenant Archie A. Farmer, Twenty-first In fantry, are hereby relieved. Leave f absence for five days Is granted Captain 8. H. Qoodenough, Engineer .Re serve Corps..- effective December 21. Captain Wiley B. 'Dawson. U. S. A., re tired; iUrhard D. Gile. both cavalry, and Dexter C. Rumsey, cavalry, detached offi cers' list, are appointed to meet at the Sitrnal Corps Aviation- School. Rockwell Field, San Diego, to examine a horse belonging- to Captain Henry Abbey, Jr., Tenth Cavalry, and determine its value and fitness for service. Second Lieutenant William ' G. Brey, Coast Artillery, Fort Winfield Scott. Cal., will proceed to MoGUl. Nevada, to relieve Seoond Lieutenant Joseph Sturm, Coast Ar tillery, California. i iSSIfiGGiUUi; ITALIAN CONFESSES Mike Bellino, Confronted With Guilt, Unravels Pwlystery of Flossie Coffman. WRONG-DOING IS DENIED In connection with experiments In the drying of sqnid as an article of food, the United States Bureau of Fish eries shows that squid meat digests more slowly than some other meats, i such as herring, mackerel and. boiled I egg white. I Slxteen-Xear-Olrl Attendant at Busi ness College Declares She Left Home ajid Went to WorkT After Family Disagreement, MHce Bellino, an Italian, aged about 80 years, confronted with positive proof that he was the man last seen with the girl before his disappearance and threatened with an investigation on a criminal charge, yesterday dis closed the whereabouts of Flossie Coff man, a 16-year-old girl, student at the BehnKe-Walker Business College, who mysteriously dropped from sight De cember 6. The girl was turned over to the Juvenile Court authorities, while Bellino occupies a cell in the County Jail, confronted -by a non-support charge, preferred by his wife, who is the mother of his two children, one aged 3 and the other a baby of 3 months. Flossie Coflman la one of a family of 12 children.. and. prior to December 6, lived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos J. Coffman, at 63 East Eighty sixth street. On Thursday, December 6, the girl disappeared from eight after leaving her classes at the business col lege In the afternoon. When last seen that day she was in the company of a young man whose description tallied with that of Bellino. t Woman's Department Investigates. . On thef ollowlng day her father in quired for her at the business college, as did also the manager of Manning's coffee stand, by whom P'lossle was em ployed during the noon hour, but she had DOS' returned to her studies, and no trace of her could be found. The case was turned over to Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, superintendent of . the wom en's protective division of the Police Bureau. It was not until yesterday morning that the case was called to the atten tlon of the Constable's office and, Dep uty Constables' Glos and Watkinds were Immediately assigned to the mys tery. From classmates of the missing girl, they learned that for several days prior to her disappearance she had been receiving' the attentions of Bellino, to whom, she had introduced them. They also said that Bellino had frequently come to the business college to meet Flossie and confided) in them, that he was married, and, was the father of two children. , College Head Identifies Man. With this information, the officers had no trouble finding Bellino, whom they remembered having arrested only the day before on a non-support charge filed by his wife. Accompanied by B. C. Beetham, principal of the business college, the officers went to the County Jail, where Bsjlino was being .held in default of bail. With 20 other pris oners Bellino was lined up and from that number Mr. Beetham. positively Identified him as the man he had seen with the missing girl several times previous to her disappearance as well as on the afternoon of the last day she attended her classes. Accompanied by his attorney. M. G. Montrezza, Ballino was immediately taken before Deputy District Attorney Dempsey. At first he positively denied ever having met the Coffman girl and declared that in his five months' resi dence in this city he had not had any girl acquaintances. He said he came to Portland from Huntington, where he was employed as a car repairer. He was equally positive that he had never been at the business college and did not know of Its location. Confession la Made. For a week before his arrest on the nc.n-suport charge, Bellino said he had been employed as pastry cook in a Washington-street restaurant. Before - being ordered back to jail Bellino held a short talk with his at torney and decided to capitulate. He then told Distrrct Attorney Evans he had falsified. He admitted that he knew the Coffman girl and, if allowed to leave the building, would produce her in half an hour. Accompanied by Deputy Constable Gloss, Bellino went to a box factory near First and Stark streets, where he pointed out the miss ing girl to the officer. Brought -before District Attorney Evans, the girl said ehe left home pur posely on the day of her disappearance because of a disagreement she had had with her parents. She admitted she had for some time been accepting the attentions of Bellino as her sweetheart. but disclaimed having had Improper re lations with him. Employment la Obtained. Upon leaving her home, she said, ehe went to a house on North Sixteenth street and rented a room, obtaining em ployment in the box factory the fol lowing day. Several days before the girl disap peared, Isaac M. Walker, president of the businesa college, who had observed frequent meetings between her and Belllnp in the vicinity of the school, called her into his office and severely rebuked her for the apparent flirtation. He plainly admonished her that If ehe expected to be successful in her studies she would have to give more of her time to her school work. The girl Is a super-sensitive type and the District Attorhey'axoff Ice is of the o pinion that the reprimand by the college president, together with the disagreement with her parents, supplied the Imaginary grievance which caused her to leave home and abandon her educational course. crew have been found to bear messages In Invisible ink or to contain code or cryptic phrases-euspected of holding hidden meaning. The discoveries were made by cus toms officials after promulgation, sev eral weeks ago. of regulations under the trading with the enemy act. for bidding transmission of communica tions to or from the United States except through the regular courses of the mails or under license of customs authorities and the War Trade Board. When the rules were established a strict system of inspection of ships, their crews and cargoes was begun, and the dangerous nature of many communications found on shipboard was immediately discovered. Before incoming ships were permit ted to dock, crews were mustered and their clothing and other personal ef fects examined carefully. Shore leave was given only by special license, and every precaution taken to Insure against secret passage of letters from the vessel to shore. This action, taken suddenly without notice to the crews, caused the discov ery of many letters which theretofore had been successfully concealed. These were subjected to examination by chemists and code experts, and one in five was found suspicious. Most messages in invisible ink ap parently were only personal communi cations from persons In the United States to friends or relatives In Ger many, and although superficially they bore no evidence of carrying valuable information to the. enemy, they were held up on the ground that they might be dangerous. "Government agents have gathered evidence that certain persons in this country, many of whom are fewedes or Norwegians, have conducted & money making scheme of transmitting letters to the Northern European neutral coun tries or to Germany at high prices. By this means the British . censorship in many cases was evaded. oraon CO mnoi iOCJOl monoi CO SOLDIERS BUY GIFTS AMERICANS ABROAD CROWD SHOFS OF FRENCH CITIES. ' Thousands ef Ckrlstnuui Gifts) Arriving In France Are 8 eg, res ted tn x Army Foatofflcea. PARIS, Dec. It. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) American sol-, diers and sailors in France did their Christmas shopping early. Thousands of packages containing Christmas gifts, many of them with the admoni tion, "Piease Do Not Open Before Christmas," have poured Into the army postoffices in Rrance for delivery in America. The sise and shape of the packages indicate that the gifts - in cluded everything from women's hats to children's toys. Besides handling this vast outgoing business, the United States Army Post office in France, with headquarters In Paris, made arrangements for the re ceipt and delivery of the great bulk of gifts and mail matter to be sent to the members of the American expedition ary foroes during the holiday season. An effort was made to deliver not later than Christmas morning all mail mat ter received in France before Christmas day. Attempts will even be made to send Christmas boxes to the boys In the -front line. The Army Postoffice overcame al most insurmountable obstacles in its efforts to provide a quick and efficient delivery of mail matter. When war was declared the Postoffice Department at Washington immediately formulated plans for -establishing American post- offices in France. Specially selected clerks from the railway mail service and the postoffice department were sent across with the first troops. There are at present II branches of the Army Postoffices in France and the number will be Increased as necessity requires. Mail cannot be delivered in France with the speed and accuracy to which the publio is accustomed tn the United States. Sailing dates are frequently postponed one, two or three days and the mail must wait. The average time for crossing the Atlantic is from 10 to 14 days and mail forwarded by transports takes even longer. Army mail from, the United States is sorted by regiments and companies in the New York and Chicago offices. rwhere the sacks are sealed and for warded " to France. Mall arriving in France, properly addressed, is in the hands of the addressees within three days after its arrival at port. When mail is Incorrectly or illegibly addressed, every effort is made to lo cate the person for whom it is intend ed. Itls sent first to the headquarters of the branch of the service to whivh the addressee belongs and if returned as "unknown"" it is incorporated in the st of "advertised letters." The Army is preparing a list showing the name and location of every soldier in France and this list will be placed at the dis posal, of the Postoffice Department as seon as it is completed. 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Stamps First Three Floor. oo Jl -3.0. tlon of money order business as are found In the United States. The use of stamps by soldiers on letters to the United States has treen discontinued by Congressional enactment granting them free postage on written communica tions. Packages, however, require postace of the domestic rate. International Livestock Show In Chi cago. "St. Patrick," also bred and fed at the university farm, won the reserve championship at Portland, andi the unl- verslty also won. the first prize for the best herd of steers at this show. Cleveland night schools charge a tuition fee of $5 a pupll MARVEL DECLARED WONDER Animal Exhibited at Recent Port land Livestock Show, v BERKELEY, CaL, Dee. 11. "Marvel." the steer bred and) fed by the Univer sity of California and which has Just won the grand, championship at the Pacifio Livestock Show at Portland, ha3 been declared by Eastern judges to be one of the best of its kind in the country. "Ma.rvel" is a brother of the steer which won last year's grand champlonstilp for the university at the HIGH QUALITY, QUICK SERVICE, CLEAN Best of everything at moderate prices. Cozy Dairy Lunch and Cafeteria 323 Washington SU, near 6th. Day and Night. Choice Roasts, Steaks, Chops, Fish, etc., 15c. Excellent Chicken Dinner Sunday and Christmas. SPY TRAFFIC IS BARED MESSAGES CARRIED TO GERMANY BY SCANDINAVIANS. I" visible Inlc and Code System 17aed In Conveying: Information to Ger mans and Their Allies. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. An exten sive traffic in written communications to Germany, Austria and the Northern European neutrals, involving use of in visible ink and code system, has been discovered and stopped by custom offi cials within the last few weeks. Treas ury officials disclosed today. The traffic. It was disclosed, was carried on largely by Swedish ship and marine men. Scores of persons are now under sur veillance, and a number of arrests probably will be made soon. Evidence that the channel of communications has been open since the United States entered. the war has-been uncovered. Twenty per cent of the letters writ ten In the United States or on shipboard and heretofore sent to Europe by mes senger or by a member of the ship's "'. E S a.cli New or Used Player OLD ON MONDAY WE WILL GIVE FREE A BEAUTIFUL PLAYER-ROLL CABINET AND TWO DOZEN ROLLS (YOUR OWN CHOICE) AND BENCH TO MATCH We Have Good Used Standard Players From $325.00 and Up. If Purchased Before 3 P. M. We Will Deliver Same Day. Terms Are Special Only for Xmas. Have You Bought Your Sonora for Christmas? The Victrola, The Columbia Phonographs ush & Lane Piano Co, Corner Twelfth and Washington Streets Home of the Famous Sonora Phonograph