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COLOR COMICS - The Statesman is the only Salem" newspaper affording yoa each week four full pages o( comics with two pages in color. Enjoy thera In the Sunday paper. THE WEATHEK Fair and somewhat warm er today, Sunday fair hot becoming unsettled; Max. Temp., Friday C5, Mln. 46, river 1.7 feet, rain .12 inch. , - - FOUNDED 1651 7 EIGHTY-FIFTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, May 18, 1935 No. 45 FRUIT GROWERS FEEL PINCH OF LUMBER ST Barrels for Cold Pack Are Lacking; Cooperage Plant is Down Effect to be Widespread; Situation Unfortunate ; As Holdover Small . Berry and froit grower here yesterday were beginning to Awaken to the fact that a . con tinuation of the existing lumber and woodworkers' strike would prevent them from selling to lo cal processors berries and cber Ties tor freezing and barrel pack ing. With the strawberry season only a fortnight away, and 50, 000 barrels of cold pack berries ordinarily put up in Oregon elone, local canners were without means of supplying barrels to handle the crop unless the strike Is dispersed. "The situation is extremely serious," Edgar Burns, secretary of the Northwest Canners' asso ciation and of the Northwest Fruit Barrelers' association, re ported yesterday. "The "Western Cooperage com pany in Portland closed Monday and since it is the source of al most all the barrels used in Ore gon, as long as St is down the packers cannot get barrels. The cooperage plant in Seattle is also closed. I don't think more than ten per cent of the barrels needed for the berry pack have been ship ped: a small additional number have been made in the Portland plant but due to the picset lines, the cooperage company cannot ship the barrels." Cherry Barrelling Also is Imperiled Burns came o Salem yesterday to confer with Solon T. fWMte, state director of agriculture, seek ing to arouse farmers to the dag ger before them if barrels can not be obtained within the next .. few days. Burns said the strike, it It con tinues, will affect the barrelling of cherries. It also is going to make it difficult, probably Im possible, to obtain berry crates. Burns said. "The situation is especially un fortunate this year," he com mented. "The strawberry barrel pack has been cleaned up better than it has been for years. In stead of there being 25,000 bar rels carried over as there were in 1934, this year finds only 3000 to 4000 barrels on ham". The crop prospect is good and 'he market outlook firm. .Cherries are also going to be in good demand." It was reported late yesterday that the majority of the 500 men employed by the Western Cooper age company in Portland were willing to go back to work if af (Turn to page 2, col. 1) TO HELP RAILROAD PALMER, Alaska, May 17.-P) -Colonization of the Matanuska valley will help put the Alaska railroad on a paying basis In two or three -years. Col. O. F. Ohlson, manager of the line said today. Some 20,000 tons of freight will be handled this summer from Se ward to Palmer for the new set tlers on the agricultural project there. The shipments are expect ed to be only the start of a steady stream ot supplies to be shipped from the states for about 900 members of the 200 families to be placed in the valley. Since the start of standard ser vice in June. 1923, the railroad, operated by the department of the interior, has lost money each year, the largest deficit being $1, S00,e00. However, -this was cut to 1140,000 in the last fiscal year. In addition to the freight busi ness an Increased number o f tourists is expected because of the attention centered on Alaska by the colonization. Convict Admits Stabbing Negro; Claims Defense - FOLSOM PRISON. Calif, May 1 7-(Pr-Jd8e Rosales, 2 6-year-old robbery convict from, Santa Bar bara, - tonight admitted, prison officials said, the fatal stabbing - of Jerome R. Perry, 24, Los Angeles negro. He claimed self defense. V,j-.::.."-. The attack 4xscnrred with such awiftness. atiearly 900 convicts were lining op " to "leave their work In the quarry, that guards at first were baffled. When they reached the scene they found assailant or the fatal weapon. - The officials said Rosales free ly - admitted stabbinc ' Perry U1IUUKU Mo i turn m wa knife, but claimed the negro had picked up a club and "swung" at him. The two men and several others had been playing a game cow in Sawdust For F uel is Becoming Scarce and Building Falling Off No Indication of Pi ogress Seen; Strikers Say It's Up to Employers to Negotiate, Individually or in Groups PORTLAND, Ore., May 17. (AP) In the face of an ap parent breakdown in negotiations for settlement of the lumber strike that has jolted 40,000 Pacific northwest work ers off the payrolls, Mr. and Mrs. J. Public were beginning to feel the pinch today. There was no indication whatever that any progress was O E Delegation From Farmersr Union Here; to Talk To Grange Today In a move to establish pleas ant relationships with farmers in the valley, Governor Charles H. Martin yesterday conferred at length with a group of Farmers union members headed by G. W. Potts of this county, executive of the state organization of the un ion. The governor reported after the conference that he told the group he could "milk a cow and pitch hay," having been the son of farmer's parents in Illinois. The governor today will ad dress the Eagle Creek grange in Clackamas county, near Estacada, outlining in detail his stand on farm problems. Most of the conference yester day was devoted to a discussion of farm problems and possibili ties under the Willamette Valley project program. "The visitors agreed,". Gov ernor Martin said, "that the day of rugged individualism was at an end and that organization among the farmers was necessary." Governor Martin was a member of the irrigation and reclamation committee of the house fn Wash ington, and has an intimate knowledge of the requirements and conditions of the farming class. The conference was devoid of personalities, Governor Martin concluded. WILL BE REVEALED WASHINGTON. May 17.-(;P)-Dr. Elwood Mead, commissioner of reclamation, will be asked by senators from 11 western states to make a detailed report on his pro posed reclamation and irrigation program under the new public works program. "We hope to get detailed Infor mation on the program contem plated by the bureau of reclama tion," said Senator Pope (D-Ida-ho), "so that we can aid in straightening out states programs accordingly." Some of the bureau's recom mendations already have become public, including the recommen dation of $70,000,000 for the Grand Coulee project In Wash ington state. Interpreted as mean ing the bureau favored a high dam there, 16,000,000 for the Roza project In southeastern Washing ton, the Owyhee, Burnt river, Des chutes river and Vale projects in Oregon, and the Black Canyon and upper Snake river develop ments in Idaho. FOMBO IS DELAYED MADRID, May 17.-tiP)-Radio reports tonight ' said Juan Igan clo Pombo, young Spaniard who is -flying to Mexico by stages. landed this afternoon at Port- Etienne, Mauritania, Africa, on a hop to Barthurst, Gambia, be cause of ad weather. CONFERS WITH FABM GROUPS LIT1 M Nationwide EPIC Campaign Is Threatened by Sinclair LOS ANGELES, May 17.-V Unless President Roosevelt puts forth a national program ot pro duction for use. the End Poverty League, Inc., will enter a presiden tial candidate against him In the 1936 democratic primaries In all states ot the nation, Upton Sin clair told a state convention ot his "end poverty in California" fol lowers today. Speaking before a vociferously cheering crowd reminiscent of his democratic race for governor, Sin clair also criticized tax policies of Governor Frank F. Merrlam and declared - "the recall " movement agilnst him will start In earnest on July 5 " . v i i "President Roosevejt told me last September that by' Oct. 25 he would . come out for production for use, but he did not for some reason," Sinclair said. "If he comes out for such a program be fore the 1936 primaries, he will be- our candidate. - "If he falls his promise, the being made to break the dead lock in which mill and camp own ers and union leaders have be come involved. One spokesman for labor said here today he could foresee no solution until employers, either Individually or Ji a group, en ter Into active negotiations with the union." As a result of the disagree ment between workers, and em ployers in the lumber industry, the public is beginning to feel the effect of the strike A shortage of sawdust fuel and slabwood in Portland became apparent. No one knew where the necessary sup (Turn to page 2, coL 5) !I MUSIC FESTIVAL 1000 Take Part; Prizes For Music Week Posters Are Given Out By JESSIE STEELE Salem turned out en masse last night and packed the armory for the third annual pul'ic schools music festival. And a festival it was with the huge stage banked with blossoms and the young peo ple in summery white and pastel colors. Silas Gaiser, superintendent of schools, welcomed the audience and at the intermission, Mayor "V:"a. Kuhn presented the follow ing students with awards for making the best posters advertis Ing Music week: from Parrish junior high. Glen Hochstetler Mary Anne Owen and Dorotny Cooke; from Leslie, ?I a r t i n a Jones, Carol Minard and Clo Balls; and from senior high school, Michiko Usui, Freddie Reynolds and Maxlne Ligon. T h participating students, from the tiny first graders in the rhythm orchestra to the more mature high school band and choruses, showed a well trained sense of rhythm, harmony and pitch. Managing 1000 young people who took up nearlr a third of the auditorium was no small task but the program went off smooth ly and In rapid succession. Among the teachers and supervisors who directed the festival were Gret chen Kreamer, Lena Belle Tartar, Carolyn Parker and Wesley Roe der. TO STAGE, SEATTLE SEATTLE, May .--Preparing to return Monday night to her first love, the full length drama, Mary Pickford, "Ameri ca's sweetheart," was due here with her company by train late this afternoon. She will open at the Metro politan theatre for a week's en gagement, to be 'followed by ap pearances at other coast cities, including San Francisco, Vancou ver, B. C, and Portland, under the management of Henry Duffy. "Our Mary" hasn't appeared on the legitimate stage except for brief sketches since she last appeared in David Belasco's "The Good Little Devil," when she was 16. End Poverty league will put forth a presidential candidate in the democratic primaries - ot every state, and we will go to the na tional convention prepared to force a strong production tor use plank Into the national plat form' Sinclair said, however, he did not feel Epic opposition would bar the president's renominatlon and that In the end. Epic forces prob ably would get behind the presi dent to defeat "the fascism of the republican party." v. ; The writer and former socialist expressed belief that Governor Merrlam has "a trump card up his sleeve" to head off the recall movement. It's my prediction," 4 Sinclair said, "that he'll free Tom Mooney (life termer - In , the 1916 San Francisco bombing case) just be fore the -recall petitions are put Into circulation In an effort, to m rani mm gala popular favor." BILLION IS WAGE ISSUE IIP Works Program Set to Go, But Congress Raises New Questions July 1 Set as Approximate Starting Date; Hopkins Works on Details WASHINGTON, May 17.-UPV- President Roosevelt prepared to day to pour a billion dollars into the tills of a dozen works agen cies where it will stay until ad ministration chieftains ca- decide what wages shall be paid workers and how long they shall labor. In the absence of these regu lations, the plight of these agen cies was described in some quar ters as much like that of a com pany of soldiers, lined ut fully equipped before their quarters, but minus orders for the day and uncertain whether, and in which direction, to march, or what pace to set. A full sized congressional storm had sprung up to trouble Harry L. Hopkins, the progress division head, in his work of drafting wage recommendations for the president. One of these called for a thirty per cent re duction under prevailing pay, but he had alternate proposals under1 consideration, too. Will Sign Orders Early Next Week While Hopkins was working on his recommendations. President Roosevelt said at his regular Dress conference that he would sign the orders early next week which will formally distribute to the works agencies the . billion dollars of allotments approved by the allotment board yesterday. Pending a decision on wages and hours, however, none of these agencies could actually put the money Into operation. In many cases contracts had to be drawn up and these specifications had to be included. July 1 had been fixed as the approximate work starting date, but the president said recently he did not expect the program to be in full swing before mid- November. Highway and rivers and har bors projects were said to be the first that will actually get under way. DEMOCDACV FAILS BERKELEY, Calif., May 17.- 6P)-Democracy was declared to have "everywhere failed to make good its promise" by Sir Josiah Stamp, scholar and executive di rector of the Bank of England in an address before the grad uating class of the University of California here today. The internationally known economist, scientist and financier asserted civilization itself was In peril unless "persistent education of mind and soul, which be also recommended as a safeguard against the "pitfalls of democra cy, comes to its support. "It might be saved by such edu cation but, if it is not, it will at least have died fighting," Sir Josiah asserted. Democracy was termed a ' vic tim: of demagogy" by the speak er, who declared that under it political office holders were sway ed by mass prejudice rather than by counsel of experts.' "Another fallacy," he added, is the idea that the ballot box will distill wisdom or common purpose." The pitfalls of demo cracy, from which he said sound education "can alone' rise super ior," were listed by the speaker as: "The spoon-fed, the safety- first, the 'for-tomorrow-we-die' cocktail of today; the flashy edu cation, the contempt of the re sponsibilities of citizenship, the false emphasis of nationalism, the crazy notions oi traae ana money. ..." NOT TO ARBITRATE SAN FRANCISCO. May 17.-OP) -Pacific coast oil tanker opera tions flatly declined tonight to -consent to arbitration ot the pro longed strike ot tank ship sailors by a new board appointed by Sec retary of Labor Perkins. '.'There la nothing no r to arbi trate, the operators declared In a statement to Mayor Angelo J. Rossi ot San Francisco, who had asked their reaction to tho secre tary's proposal for arbitration ot all issues. "It continues only fictitiously tn the constantly t iterated false assertion ot the anions fiat they were denied collective bargain ing when. In reality, they had collective bargaining and arbitra tion within the terms of last ram mer's agreements and themselves discarded both and resorted to the FUND READY 1 Tl n s strike." World News at a Glance (By The. Associated Press.) Domestic: Washington President Roose velt endorses Morgenthau's pro posal for government ownership of federal reserve bank stock. Washington Bonus bill reach es White House; president will de liver veto message to congress in person. Los Angeles Upton Sinclair says E.P.I.C. party may have 1936 presidential candidate; criticizes New Deal. Washington New work relief projects held up while Hopkins works out regulations governing wages and hours. , - St. Paul Barker and Berg, leaders in $200,000 Bremer kid nap plot, sentenced to life in pris on; three others convicted. Washington House democrat ic leaders say final decision on NRA powers up to president. Washington Senate finance committee approves Roosevelt so cial security bill. Washington Richberg says he wants to quit NRA by July 1 to return to private law practice. Treasury officials disclose U. S. has been secretly gathering monetary information in Europe. Foreign: Berlin Germany perfects new "vest pocket" torpedo boat; 450 already constructed, naval experts say. Kaunas, Lithuania Supreme court upholds sentences of four nazis condemned to be shot for Memel plot. London Great Britain and France will insist on right to ad vise Italy in Ethiopian contro versy, authoritative sources re veal. Berlin Catholic nun gets five year sentence for violating Ger many's foreign exchange restric tions; 50 more face trial. Vienna Reports say Austrian government on verge of vital changes. y AT Recognition of Main Route Through Valley Sought; -Salem- Men Attend Attending a Pacific highway boosters' meeting at Eugene early yesterday afternoon from Salem were J. N. Chambers, chairman of the chamber of commerce high way committee, T. M. Hicks and Harry Craln. About 60 persons representing the main Pacific highway towns were at the lunch eon session and at the discussion meeting which followed at the Eugene chamber of commerce. The cities along the highway are reorganizing to present a united front to appear before the state highway commission with facts and figures to gain im provements and straightening of the Pacific highway in Oregon south of Eugene. The best available figures in dicate that about 70 per cent of the road funds in the state come from the population massed along this main highway route which annually carries several times the traffic of any other route in the state. Because of the heavier travel along this route and the reopening of tourist travel on a larger scale than for several sea sons, Pacific highway boosters feel this is an auspicious time to get behind a move to urge at bet ter condition of the highway in the southern part of the state. IS SAN JOSE, Calif.. May 17.-P) -The state, twice thwarted In Its attempt to hang David A. Lam son as a wife-murderer, elected today to bring him to trial for a third time. At the same time, the former Stanford nniversity publishing house official accepted the pro secution's decision with . compla cency -and predicted he would be acquitted. Setting of the date for the trial was postponed to next Friday at a brief court session during which the 32-year-old -defendant spoke but one word. "Certainly, he said in re sponse to request by superior Judge R. K. Syer as to whether the postponement met with his approval. Lamson, who Is accused of killing Alene Thorpe Lamson with an Iron pipe In their Stanford university campus home on Mem orial day, 1933, later declared from his cell: "This time I will get complete vindication. There li a supposi tion about the third time being a charm but, aside from that, the. law of averages will not allow Jurors, to refuse' to face the facts and acquit me." . ' Th decision to ask for the re trial was announced br District Attorney Fred L. Thomas, who said: '.'Evidence In the case has been submitted to two different jaries and of the 24 - members composing those juries, 21. have found the defendant guilty. That tact alone warrants a retrlaL WILL THY Li 1 1 ill STILL TIGHTER BANK CONTROL NOW PROPOSED Government Ownership of Federal Reserve Stock Morganthau Scheme Has Roosevelt Support, is Announcement; Solution Of Problems Claimed WASHINGTON. May 17.-)-A proposal by Secretary Morgenthau for government ownership of the stock of the 12 Federal Reserve banks further centralizing bank ing control in Washington today drew a quick endorsement from President Roosevelt. The treasury secretary, testify ing before a senate committee on the omnibus banking bill, added to this proposal a suggestion that the federal reserve board be given full power to control the flow of currency and credit, free from po litical influence. His idea, said Morgenthau, was to have a reserve board patterned after the supreme court, indepen dent of the president except that the executive should retain the appointive power. Mr. Roosevelt, at his press con ference a few hours later, was asked about the treasury chief's proposal for government owner ship of reserve bank stock. Quick ly, he replied that the plan cer tainly would solve a great many questions. He did not amplify this statement, one of his first on any detail connected with the omni bus banking bill. This specific proposal, however, was not incorporated in the omni bus bill as passed by the house and sent to the senate. Represen tative Cross' (D-Tex) proposed in the house that the treasury be au thorized to buy the 6146.000,000 in Federal Reserve bank stock now held by reserve member banks, but the amendment was defeated. UP TO KEVELT WASHINGTON, May 17-UFV An intention to put directly up to President Roosevelt the final de cision on what powers should be given to an extended NRA was disclosed today by house democratic leaders. They made clear that they In tended no criticism of Donald R. Richberg, NRA chief, In de clining to accept as final the seven-point program which he, the president, and the NRA board agreed upon. Rut that nrnfram enmo mti tended, would continue many powers which now are the center of criticism. The general attitude of house ways and means com mitteemen was that the seven point program would have to be modified if NRA were extended at all. Therefore, they said that after modifications In that program were agreed to by the committee, the bill would be put before the president . for his approval. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the ways and means committee did not express it exactly that way, but be did say: "We are going to consider Mr. Richberg's suggestions along with those of other persons. As usual, there may be some chang es. And then if the president wants to talk with us about the bill, why we'll go down to see him." EARTHQUAKES VIOLENT ISTANBUL, May lT.--Fresh violent earth shocks occurred to day at Kars, in the Dingob area, terrifying the population. Many persons evacuated their- homes and camped out In the fields. M0DIF1G OF 11 Distinctive Residence to Be Erected Excavation is n earing comple tion at the northwest corner ot Rural avenue and East Nob Hill street for one of the most dis tinctive residence structures to be built here in several years. The" owner, L. V. Benson, pro prietor of the Benson Baking company, yesterday consented to reveal some of his plans for the new house, which his family will occupy. . The structure win cost approx imately $9000, he said. Of Eng lish design. It will be two stories highland have seven master rooms. In addition there will be a large basement "rumpus room with electric fireplace, laun dry room, kitchenette, separate bathrooms with showers lor two of the three bedrooms. and - a first floor ' bathroom. Extensive use of tllework will be made. -Among the Innovations In the interior will be in the room set aside tot Mr.' and Mrs. Benson's two eons, hunks set In the wall with closet space beneath; in the kitchen, a "breakfast bar." This R oosevelt to Appear eke Congress and Defend Veto Kellaher Sends Resignation as Parole Officer Dan Kellaher, state parole of ficer, officially was out of his po sition yesterday when his resigna tion was accepted by Governor Charles H. Martin although it had been known for a number of weeks that he would not be re tained by the new administration. Kellaher came to Salem in 1931 when Governor Meier took office. Succeeding Kellaher will prob- ably be Ed Duffy, who served as assistant chief clerk of the house during the last session. He is a 1 democrat. I Kellaher was prominent In Portland politics for many years I before coming to Salem. BLOCK WATER DEAL Claims Legal Grounds Good But Decides Suit Will Not Aid Situation Threat of injunction proceed ings to block the city of Salem's acquisition of the Oregon-Wash- ineton Water Service company's plant here was dissipated yester- day when Henry Vandevort, ald erman, announced he would not bring such proceedings. I am not an obstructionist and am not going to put any ob stacles in the way of acquisition of the plant by the city as soon as possible," Vandevort said. He added that he was certain he had a good case. "However, after thinking the matter over carefully, I have, come to the MnMii.tnn that hA ttiM mn through a condemnation trial the VAlHTiTTO city would not have obtained the l override a yresiuemm. uJCv watpr nlaiit for much less than I tion. it u w navinsr " Vandevort de- -lar-rt Vandevort said he still thought the purchase price was too high and averred that the city could n'htoln tVio Tilant o I so ago for $800,000 to $900,000. He objected to the manner in which the purchase was negotiat ed, saying "the boys (meaning the councilmen) could have saved considerable expense by bringing the deal right out Into the open." City Attorney Chris J. Kowitz yesterday received a certified copy of the resolutions adopted by the company's directors approving the sale of the local plant. En- I closed was a stipulation prepared j by counsel for the company, the stipulation to be signed by both parties to the litigation now pend ing in federal court. The stipula tion provides tor acceptance by both parties of the $1,000,000 price which will then be placed In the court records as the com promise settlements ot the case. Nun Sentenced To Five Years And Huge Fine BERLIN, May 17WJP)-NazI f r v . " , ' 4v today by sentencing the t rzl of more man o nuns on tr iai . ror violation of Germany's rigid for- . In addition, the defendant, Sis ter Wernera, secretary of the Vin centine order of Roman Catholic nuns at Cologne, was ordered to pay a fine of 140,000 marks (about $57,000) or spend an ad ditional 14 months In a cell. by L. V. Benson bar, not for the serving of li quors, but tor meals, will con sist ot a counter with two stools where members of the family who come down for breakfast-t -Baby Joe Gans, 162, Loa An odd times may eat in haste, thelele8t demonstrated here tonight owner jays. Instead of the conventional hardwood flooring, masonite rn a brown shade, waxed, will be 1.U 1 . v Rv. !";..":,7; entire house will be Insulated to make the air conditioning system by an oil-burner. The outer': finish will be face brick leading to a large gable at one ena, me Tesi oi . s iaine gelesr Spina scored a seven-count shakes. A atrlkinf feature of the knockdown the first round and gable section will be high, altbongh pressed throntboat, narrow window .extending from nejd ttt0 edge and won the nod. near the ground Jerel to the panI Stewart, 1C0, Los An peak. It diamond-shaped panes geiegr knocked out - Cannon Ball set in white metaL a : Connors, 168, VTwin Falls, Ida Charles Gilbert of Salem holds ho. in the second, round, of their the general contract. ; V scheduled six-rounder. Charley .. The owner came to Salem from Roper,' 147, J-os Angeles, cut Seattle In 1921 to operate the pointed Mickey Barker, 14 s, business . bearing his name. Portland. oiBomis Will Break Precedent Hoping to Prevent Inflation Move Opponents of Patman . Scheme Jubilant;. Sense Victory WASHINGTON, Way 17 President Roosevelt decided today to go in person before congress to urge that it sustain his veto 0f the bonus bill. His plan to make the unpre- cedented personal veto appeal vas outlined to reporters at his regular press conference a few minutes after the inflationary Patman bill to pay the bonus with $2,200,000,000 in new currency had reached the White House. Already Mr. Roosevelt had started writing his bonus veto i message. He promised to make i it strong. And, he added with ap parent feeling: "I hope with all my heart tne Kworl Ktt1iei.'. going to Capitol Hill to deliver the mes sage m person caugni congres sional leaders unaware. They set immediately about arranging for the joint session of the house and senate before which the President will appear, probably Mtraday. No Precedent Seen For Such Appeal A quick thumbing of Washing ton precedents by veteran attach-. es of the White House and capi tol could find no record of any: oiner rresiueu i mviug uuc uc fore congress to urge that it sus--tain him in a veto. ; - ! Word of the President's plans. immediately bolstered the hopes of antagonists of the bonus mees? ure that they would be able td ' hold fast the administration lines land sustain the veto. It-rewalres a two th'rds TOte th houses Bonus advocates appeared sur- prised at the move. They moved yesterday to let the measure come to the whIte House today, some i" llieV OBQ SUU1C1CUI SireUKlU HI override the veto, although con ceding the vote would be" close. T (CopTricM. 19S5. It Associated Pr BERLIN, May 17. Re-arming . Germany's newest naval weapon swift, deadly "vest pocket" tor pedo boats as revolutionary as her "vest pocket" battleships was revealed today. Foreign naval experts stationed here skid the reich, moving swift ly, already has constructed 45 tiny speed boats, capable of CO knots each, and manned by five men and carrying four torpedoes. A second, similar development. the experts said, is another apeed boat twice as large, carrying ten men and having an operatise range of almost 2,000 miles. th new baby men-of-war weuld iTe .o0J mm M ffiuch food fop A ht the relch.. ree.uy tn vllfM 1 W ,UO, UObCU lUtOQ Ul.jWi U' vantages of the craft: 1. Their cost is little and their operation economical. 1: "Their crew is small: at the worst, only five lives are lost. 3. They are so small and can change direction so fast they would be hard to hit. 4. Their four torpedoes, wfth, any kind ot luck, can do terrific damage to enemy ships. In any case, the "water bugs" could wor ry and nettle an enemy. Late Sports PORTLAND, Ore., May 17-UP) that the 10-round route is no worry to him as he gave Paul Karch, 153, Portland, a severe trouncing. - I lug liftui wbb m . o-um, u v U former slx-rounder Can. won. The dynamite of the program best fight ot his career in a tor rid bristling six-round maten I with f; Mickey BeaL 12S, Los An- T Hi SPEED BOATS of "catch with a baseball.