Agriculture
Special articles of interest
to farmers appear regularly
la The Statesman, In addi
tion to complete market re-'
ports daily.
Weather
Cloudy with showers to
day, Monday rain; Max.
Trap. Saturday -66, .Min.
4S, rim 11.S feet, rain
1.23 Inch, S-SW wind.
POUNDOD 1651
KIGllTY SEVENTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, November 21, 1937
Price 3c; Newsstands 5e
No. 205
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Industries Are
To Be Rebuilt
Copeland Yard Open for
i Business on Saturday
I . Despite big Blaze
Cause of $130,000 Fire
Unknown; Friesen to :
Build new Factory
A newbox. factory and a new
lumber yard will rise 'from the
ashes of -the disastrous fire which
struck West Salem's . industrial
row early yesterday morning, pro
prietors of the J. W. Copeland
yards and, the Salem Box and
Manufacturing company announc
ed- ' v ;;.: i
I - Even as watch was still -being
kept oTer the blazing, ruins. Ma
nager R: A. "Dick" Meyer was
carrying on business In what re
mained of the Copeland yard end
Owner John S. Friesen was dis
cussing conversion of the Friesen
millwork and .cabinet factory,
which escaped the flames. Into a
temporary box plant. ; t i
: Re-estimates ot the fire loss
yesterday sent the figure up to
the $130,000 mark, aside from
damage to power lines, railway
ties and equipment,, and water
and heat damage to the front of
the Beutler-Quist&d lumber yard.
cross Wallace road from the
blaze.. '-.:....' . ''"
After consulting with his book
keeper, Mr.; Friesen announced
the latest valuation of bis plant
carried On his books. was $95,000.
of which $20,000 was covered by
insurance. Mr. Keye Bald the
loss i the Copeland yard, was
$15,000, fully insured. !
Investigations Into v j
Cans Are Started
I Source of the blaze remained
entirely conjectural as state po
lice, local officers and insurance
adjusters probed the ruins. Chief
of Police W. L. LaDue of West
Salem discounted reports that
three men were seen running
way from the box factory short
ly before the fire was discovered.
"From the Information we have
now .from our investigators' pre
liminary reports there is nothing
on which to base a belief the fire
may have been incendiary," Cap
tain Walter Lansing of the state
police' announced late in the af
ternoon. - !
J. W, Copeland of Portland in
spected what remained of his West
Salem lumber yard early yesterday
and agreed with Manager Meyer
on reconstruction as soon as the
debris can be cleared away. The
new plant will be equal to the old
in size but probably more modern.
The old yard office,- abandoned
last summer when a new ultra
modern ' office and materials dis
nlay building was constructed.
escaped the flames and was put
back in use yesterday, ; .
A survev of the Copeland yard
site disclosed that $4000 worth of
hardware, $1200 worth of paint
Just received and all of the firm's
finish materials, wall materials.
romnosltion rooflnr. a new . car
load of plaster, building! special
ties, one old and two new trucks
had been destroyed. Meyer was
able to open for business at 8 a.m.,
however, with dimension and
rough stock lumber intact and
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,1 .in the Pi etc
FINDLBY, O. Nev. 20 -iPf
Drunken drivers will chop wood
in public Instead ot sitting out
sentences in jail if county com
missioners approve a plan pro
posed by Justice Of the-Peace J.
C. Dunn.
Ptos. Robert E. Fuller was In
structed to Investigate legal as
pects of the plan, which would
place convicted motorists before
the public gaze while they
chopped fuel for the poor.
BCCliRUS, C Xot; 2HP)
A SCO-pound hog, missing
since the threshing season ear
ly in October at the J. C Corf
man farm near here, was found
by Its owner buried beneath a
straw stack. Still alive. It
weighed AO pounds.
' ST. PAUL. Nov. 2 0-(J)-A f ed
erl district court jury today held
a St Paul automobile
company
responsible for a traffic accident
because It had sold a defective
ear to the driver involved in the
Damasres totaling $lt,800 for
four Woodville. Wis., residents,
whose truck collided June S neaf
Baldwin, Wis., with lhe plain-
Rutman claimed that when "he
v purchased the truck the day be
fore the accident it had aeiecuve
Gains
UTILITIES CHALLENGE PROGRAM OF TV A
K
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Does the Tennessee Valley Authority, federal power development in the south, have the right to enter
into competition with privately financed utilities? That is the Question to be decided at a bearing? now
in progress at Chattanooga, Tenn., at which the protesting utilities
John p. Weadock, general counsel for the Commonwealth Southern
ewer counsel for the 18 utilities
monwealth Southern. In their petition, the power companies maintained that "navigation and flood
control are incidental" to the project, and Uiat Ue TV A itself was
George Dunsford
Called by Death
' 'r -
Superintendent of State
Capitol and Grounds
Over Long Period
George Dunsford, 69, died ear
ly Saturday night at a local hos
pital following an operation he un
derwent on Friday.
A, resident . of Salem , for 48
years, Mr. Dunsford had been for
2 2g years superintendent, of the
state ' capitol buildings and
grounds the man . who kept the
physical setting for Oregon's af
fairs of state neat, orderly and in
good working condition.
A native . of Montreal, Canada,
Mr. Dunsford came to Salem in
his youth and was associated for
a time in the plumbing and heat
ing business of Bernard! & Duns
ford, which' t had its shop where
the YMCA building now stands.
He was member of Masonic
lodge No. 4 iu Salem, of Alcadea
Shrine ; temple In Portland, and a
charter member of the local East
ern Star chapter and was also af
filiated with, the Elks lodge here.
Survivors- include his widow,
Adeline Dunsford; a sister, Mrs.
Matilda welsh of Portland; a
niece; Mrs. Robt, E. Burton"Sf
Portland, and a nephew, George
R. Welsh of Portland. His ; home
was at 1945 South High street
Funeral services will be held
Monday at 2 p. m. from the
Clough-Barrick chapel, Rer. Guy
L. Drill officiating. Interment will
be in ! City View cemetery with
Masonic lodge No. 4 participat
ing..
Rutz Returns to.
Aid Baker Unions
BAKER, .Nov. iQ -VFt- Dave
Rutz, Teamster's union organizer
who was escorted from town last
week,! declared yesterday at in
stallation of an AFL central lab
or council his union would er-
gadlze Baker "whether some
people like it or not."
Ruts was removed during aa
antiunion demonstration; .
Ben T. Osborne, Oregon feder
ationj of -labor execuuve ; secre
tary, i termed- Baker "the i 1 a s t
outpost of the American Federa
tion of Labor- iOregon,". and
said "every other - town large
enough to support a central lab
or council has one." J r
Monmouth Officers9 Bullets
En d Bickford V
MONMOUTH, Nov. 20.-Arti-cles
found In the automobile of !
Frank Russell Bickford, 25, of Sa-I
lera, shot fatally here early this;
morning . by . Marshal Verd
Schrunk and Fire Marshal Glen
Halllday, after he had pulled a
gnn on Schrunk who had arrest
ed him, were accepted as evidence
that the shots had brought to a
close ; an extensive career of petty
crime. ''---: . " : ..-''. - pi
Possibility that he may have
had a woman companion was also
deduced from the contents of a
suitcase found in the ' car, al
though this might also have been
stolen. :
The body was Identified this
morning by Officer George Ed
wards ot the Salem police as that
ot Bickford, who according to Sa
lem police records had twice been
an inmate of the state training
school. -
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carrying on the fight, and Wendell
Two Are Injured
In Road Atisliap;
Driver Arrested
Hugh Hanna of Independence
was in the Polk county jail last
night facing charges of being
drunk on the highway, preferred
by state police, after, his car was
involved in an accident on the
Salem-Dallas highway just a few
yards from 'the spot where three
persons wers killed In a crash
October 25. 1
The car Involved In the collision
with Hanna's was driven by Wal
ter. Ivan Harris : of JTalls City.
Two passengers, Ila Estelle of
Falls City and Florence Spady of
Portland, suffered . cuts and
bruises, but were not in need of
hospital treatment, state officers
said. ' Knowlton Reiber, another
passenger, was unhurt. -
ear iriKe
Appears Settled
Labor Board Regional Man
Says Work May Resume
on Monday Morning
AKRON, O., Nov. 21-(Sunday)
-;P)-James P. Miller, regional di
rector ot the national labor rela
tions board at Cleveland, said to
night following a conference with
officials of the Goodyear Tire &
Rubber company and Goodyear
local ot the United Rubbers Work
ers union, that "apparent agree
ments" were reached toward set
tlement of the sltdown strike
which has tied ud operations of
the company since Friday. Miller
added that agreements, would be
submitted to union members today
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Goin Is Indicted
; On Seven Counts
TILLAMOOK. Nov. 20-apW
B. Goin, former real estate and
insurance , dealer and one-time
county school superintendent, was
indicted by a grand JuTy on six
additional charges of larceny and
One of obtaining money under
false pretenses. "
; Goin, who left here about
year and a half ago to accept
California cemetery position, was
Originally charged with 'larceny
by baile last September.
Criin e Career
suiting in a verdict that, Bickford
"came to his death by shots fired
by City Marshal Verd Schrunk and
Fire Marshal G. Halllday. They
shot in self defense and as the
duty of an officer.
Three typewritten pages were
required to list all of the articles
found In the Ave suitcases. One
ot them contained golf, trousers.
coats, sweaters, dress shirts and
shoes. Most of the articles were
apparently pilfered from stores,
but a pen marked as the property
of the Capital Business -college in
Salem was Included. .
When apprehended by Marshal
Schrunk, Bickford was in the act
of loading a quantity of gasoline
motor oil, a drum of brake linings
and other articles into his car,
taken from the Halllday garage.
. Schrunk took him to the city
halL While Mrs. Schrunk was call
ing state police in Salem to come
booay
are represented by, left to rigTit,
corporation; Newton D. Baker,
Wilkie. president of the Com
unconstitutional.
Bergland Admits
Role in Shooting
Involved With two Others
in Error Which Caused
Car to Be Riddled
H. O. Bergland of Silverton
was the third man Involved in
the shooting up of a parked auto
mobile on the Elkhorn road Oc
tober 4, it waa .disclosed when
he was arraigned in Stayton jus
tice Aourt .yesterday morning , on
charge of injury to personal
property. He pleaded guilty as
had Ernest Neal and Clifford
Keljy earlier last week. "
Judge Walter H. Bell ordered
Bergland to pay a $100 fine.
$4.50 costs and one-third the
cost of repairing the automobile.
A 30-day jail sentence was to be
suspended if the three payments
were; made. .
Brought to -the county jail at
11 a.m., Bergland obtained his
release a short time later by pay
ing the fine and costs. Deputy
Sheriff Kenneth Randall said he
had no authority to hold a prls-or-r
for non-payment of civil
damages such as cost of repairs
to the car.
The men were understood to
have explained that they mistook
the gleam of their automobile
headlights on the lights of the
parked car for a deer
Prince of Hawaii
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A(lmits His Guilt
HONOLULU, No. 20-(JF)-
Pleasure-loving Prince David
Kalakaua Kawananakpa, 33, last
male descendant of .Hawaiian
kings, pleaded guilty today to
manslaughter in the death of his
half; white, half native mistress
and was sentenced to 10 years in
prison." j'
A stretch of somewhere between
two and 20 years in the Oahu pen
itentiary lay ahead of Kawanana-
koa because he recently was sen
fenced to 10 years oh an old man
slaughter charge resulting, from
the death of a girl in an automo
bile i accident five years ago.
; Judge H. E. Stafford specified
that the two sentences run con
secutively. However, the prison
board may modify the terms to as
little as one year each.
I The prince decided to plead
guilty after conferring with his
mother. Princess Abigail Kawan
anakoa, whom he was permitted
to visit undef guard!
Rogue River Fish
Hatchery Denied
! PORTLAND.- Not. 20-(R-In
stormy meeting today, the state
game commission : rejected plans
for a fish hatchery at Foster creeK
on the Rogue river, 40 miles from
Gold Beach.
- Fish .planted In tributaries. It
said, survive better than la lower
waters. - -
Lew Wallace's request for $12
500 to improve the Little Dandy
river channel precipitated a clash
with E. E. Wilson, Corvallls, who
declared he was ''tired of having
Multnomah and Clackamas eoun
ties, shoved down my neck. -
Wallace retored, I don't care
at all about your displeasure. He
had Intimated -board members
sought game fund expenditures
.for their own localities
But Is Scored
On: Wins 20-6
Over Whitman
23rd Conference Win J la
Acnieved ; Missionary
Puts up Good Fight
Abbott Sfiines; Big Dick
Scores Twice, Final
Conference Game
WHITMAN STADIUM. Walla
Walla, Wash., Nov. 20 (Special)
Willamette's victory bell sang a
three-touchdown melody tonight,
as Coach "Spec" Keene's big red
shirts started homeward, with a
20- win orer their traditional ri
val. Whitman college.
The win, 2rd straight tor the
Bearcats in conference competi
tion; brought the Salem collegians
their ' fourth consecutive Pacific
Northwest conference champion
ship. It was likewise the sixth win
in a row over Whitman. !
One Bearcat record went by the
boards, however, when the Mis
sionaries punched over, their lone
touchdown early in the third peri
od. It was the first time Willam
ette had been scored on in 12 con
ference games. i
Score Made Early,, .
In Second Quarter
It was a thrilling game tor the
fans, who saw the Bearcats sud
denly come to life with a 71-yard
sustained drive that culminated in
a touchdown on the fifth play of
the second canto.
Willamette's scoring thrust got
under way Immediately after
WhnfcSB attempted field goal
went astray as a result of a bad
pass from center. Taking the; ball
on the 24, Beard and Weisgerber
alternated in driving to the 31.
Beard then crossed up the i Mis
sionary secondary, with a pass to
weaver that was good for a first
down on the Whitman 26. I Two
more aerials, to Stone and Weis
gerber, carried the ball to the one-
yard line, and Weisgerber scored
on. the first plunge. His conver
sion made it 7-0. '
Kahle's Interception of a Whit
man pass ' ended a Missionary
threat with 20 seconds left in the
first half, as he carried it out of
danger from the goal line to the
Willamette 7. Bennett's fumble
on the Bearcat 25 had given Whit
man its opportunity. ,
Schneldmiller, who played i
fine game for Whitman all after
noon, featured a Whitman drive
early In the third quarter with a
35-yard gallop through center, but
Abbott blocked a Missionary punt
on Willamette's 29, to halt that
one.
Come Right Back
After One Reverse
Nig Borleske's men were not to
be denied,' hoWever, . and i came
right back downfleld to score, aft
er Schneldmiller returned Beard's
punt to the Bearcat 44. Traveling
on pure power plays, Morrell div
ed over the goal line from the
one-foot line. .- ; 1 J .
Sparked into action, by the spir
ited Whitman eleven, Willamette
took the resulting kickof f and
moved straight down the field, to
its second touchdown-, covering 74
yards, on ten plays. .
4 Beard returned the klckott
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Oregon Man Tries
.Colorado's Rapids
GRAND CANTON, - Ariz. (Via
short wave, radio from Diamond
Creek), Not. 20.-(J)-Buzs Hol-
strom, lone coquiue, ore.," boat
man, seeking to. add hlr name to
the intrepid handful of men wha
have successfully negotiated the
turbulent. Colorado river, f over
took: tne . Carnegie Institute-Call
fornia Institute of Technology ex
pedition- near Diamond Creek at
dusk today. - .
. Heavily bearded and his arms
and shoulders a leathery tan. Hoi-
strom was described by Dr. Ian
Campbell, who heads the geologi
cal party, as looking like "a man
out ot the past." - - ?
. Holstrom asked that a message
be conveyed to his mother, Mrs.
Frances Holstrom, Coqnllle," tell
ing her "everything .going fine.
- He came from Green : River,
Wyo., since October 4. The trip
he said, is being made "just for
the adventure." :.
Plummer Named Warden
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FOLSOM . PRISON. Calif., Nov
20.-(fli-CIyde L Plummer, retired
Los Angeles police captain, was
named warden, of Folsom prison
by a three-to-two Tote of the pris
on directors at a meeting here to
day. , . v
Fear of Flood
Is Reduced in
South Oregon
Applegate River Covers
! Roads ; Lane County' ?
' Has High Water -
River Here Near 12 Feet
After More Than Inch
of Rain Overnight '
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(By the Associated Press)
Rising rivers and blocked high
ways followed rain.' -ana , snow
storms which swept Oregon last
night
Flood danger In the Rogne
river "valley was minimized,-de-
Spite high waters,. when the sun
brokethrough today.
Torrential rains blocked sew
ers and inundated,, residential
streets at Medford. Irrigation
ditches overflowed Into fields and
pastures.
At Grants Pass, unequaled No
vember records, showed over nine
inches of rain. Trout and steel
head fishing was washed out
when waters rose five and a half
feet. .
Th Applegate river, tributary
to the Rogue, halted traffic at
Missouri flat and covered roads In
the Williams and Ferrydale dis
tricts. I
The Willamette river rose 7.S
feet at Eugene and: continued up
ward. The flood stage is 12 feet.
but observers feared lowlands
would be nnder water if rains
continued.
Road to Florence
la Partly Blocked
Klamath Falls
reported 4.1 C
inches of rain for
the month, al-
most, twice normal precipation,
and mild temperatures. .
At Portland. 1.32 Inches o
rain: fell yesterday, boosting the
month's; total t 1.47 : tncnea. De-
low previous records.
" The l: J unction City Florenee
highway was open only to one
way traffic J . . ,
In eastern Oregon, a loot 01
snow blanketed the Dooley moun
tain section of the Baker-Unity
highway. Crater J Lake recorded
rood akilnc . with 38 Inches of
snow. ;- ''
La Grande rainfall was below
normal, with .41 of an inch yes
terday, although mountain areas
reported snow flurries.
Warm rain feU at both Gov
ernment Camp and Timberline on
Mount Hood.
Rough waters at the Columbia
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ReDublican Heads
0 County Confer
Members of
the republican
county central
committee met
last night at the Marion hotel
Llovd Smith, treasurer of the
state committee,
outlined a plan
for raising funds for support of
the party organization by $10
cnntrihntlons from 'members all
over the state. The Marion coun
tv Broun endorsed the plan which
is designed to prdvlde funds from
widely distributed sources -Tha
' committee dfsenssed the
matter of selecting women mem
bers of the precinct committee
under the new law; but took no
action- Officers expect to con
sult with republican groups ' to
encourage active republican wom
en to fUe for this new onice.
j Hoppe Retains Title
NEW YORK,
Nov.' 20j-(ff)-
Challenger Jake
Schaefer. save
his best efforts of the match for
the last day but . they .: weren't
enough to win as Willie Hoppe
aneressfullv defended his 18.1
balkline billiard crown tonight
by outscoring the Chicago cue ar
tist 3000 to Zop in meir wuv
point, 12-block challenge matcn
Trucks
Says
Won't
"Union ' trucks are not going
through picket lines!"
That ultimatum ' was handed
down here yesterday by A. N. "Al
Banks, business
agent 4 for the
teamsters' union
in the Marion-
icuisjvva , ww ,
Polk-Linn county-district.
i Banks declare that any effort
to force truck operators to deliver
beyond picket Ilheg would result
in a sUtewide Ueup of trucking
and would extend to railway
freight ."; deliveries, too, ; If the
Southern Pacific company were to
attempt to - gite vt service past
pickets. 'I - ' "
;"W were going to tie up the
Southern Pacific If they didn't
come In. Banks; added, "but they
are making arrangements to come
under the nnionj" . . , . -
A- reporj current among busi
ness circles that the teamsters In
tended to "mak an example" ot
Salem and completely unionise
Japanese,
Insurgent Vessels
Seek to In tercept
MiUion DoUar Consimiraent in Grave
Peril; Was Previously on Wichita
but Stopped by Roosevelt Order -j -
Planes Able to Cruise Over Japan ;to
Drop Bombs; Nipponese Continue
Drive After Taking Sobchow
NEW YORK; Nov. 20
death, a $1,000,000 "mystery fleet" of 1? American-made
plants was aboard a ship steaming cautiously somewhere -across
the Atlantic tonight. 1 i '
Teir mtimate destination
sibly to bomb Japanese cities for the first time in retaliation
for the aerial havoc; wrought by Nipponese airmen on
Shanghai.
Aviation experts said the
range to hop the Yellow sea to Japan, each carrying half a
ton bomb loads, and return to Chinese bases. They are faster
than the swiftest Japanese war plane. .1
A spokesman for the Chinese consulate m New York
admitted that the planes all
Coquille Lumber
Is. Being ; Loaded
Sawmill Operators More
Hopeful at Portland;
Board Criticized ,
PORTLAND Ore., Not. 20
Despite criticism, of Mayor. Joseph
K. Carson and GOT. Charles H.
Martin, 'sawmill operators - and
CIO forces believed -today a na
tional labor relations board re
survey would end the 99-day AFL
CIO mill Ueup. . i
As Charles W. Hope, NLRB re
gional director.'prepared to leave
Seattle with E. J. Eagen, board
counsel. Governor Martin declar
ed: - ; ' f
-"If the national labor relations
board would stay out of Oregon,
we could regulate our own affairs
perfectly. But they won't do it.
The labor relations board left a
mess and we have to clean it up.
Now they have stirred "up another
mess . . . . -(. . 'm..-H..-;-..
' " The governor . refused to. com
ment on a meeting with labor
leaders yesterday. ; j ,
I , Carson, at New York; said he
Opposed NLRB bargainiag desig
nations "unless the board is con
vinced it can punish anyone em
ployer, employe or a third person
-who would interfere . . . .
He. urged the board to confer
with state and city officials "in
stead ot Ignoring both."
i A crisis at Coquille was averted
when CIO mill workers, anticipat
ing board action, decided not to
picket AFL lumber to be loaded on
the freighter West Ira.
f Meantime, E. P. Marsh, TJ. S.
department; of labor counciliator,
left Coos Bay for Seattle after at
tempting to reopen the port, clos
ed when longshoremen refused to
pass CIO mm workers . picket
lines. -
At Astoria,' warring labor fac
tions neared peace when the cen
tral labor council accepted a CIQ
labor unity league proposal for a
conference.' , - j - -i .
Both Duelist Die
HENDERSON, Ky, Not. 20-6W
-Byron Tinson, 5 0, . and Graham
Raymond, 30, were shot to death
tonight in what ! Police Sgt. Ed
ward Brown said was a pistol duel
In front of a pool hall operated by
Tinson a short distance from po
lice headquarters. .
Pass Pickets
Teamster- Agent Here
the community was dubbed "a
damned lie" by I Banks but the
teamsters will, he said,, continue
to give their moral support to the
retail clerks union"" and the culi
nary alliance In the latters ef
fort to unionise the retail store
and restaurant businesses.; ; "
The rumor arose, Banks assert
ed, from reports the Salem . Mer
chants association was contemplat
ing slapping - a boycott on the
teamsters. 4 -;;';;'; i ' 4 H'y ''?y. r
. . "Jf they i started a boycott on
teamsters and shipped everything
by rafl; we would get pickets and
picket all 28 restaurants and, 40
groceries -that have hot come in
with ns and we would also picket
the Southern Pacific so they
couldnt ; get anything," Banks
threatened.: We would use all
the local fellows we could get and
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Spahi
sh
(AP) Bound! on a mission of
presumably was China--pos-
Dlanes had a sufficient flvinir
superspeed ships, manufactured
by tne Beuanea Aircraft Cm., of
Newcastle, Del., with a cruising
range oi fouo mues wers par-
chased by the Chinese govern
ment. ' ' j ;
But. a double peril faced the
consignment.! i : '
Lying in wait, naval patrols -
from both! Japan and '' Spain
formed twin blockades against
their safe arrival. Spanish. Inaur- '
gents reportedly; feared that , the ,
high-powered fighting craft, apa V
ble of top speeds of 2S0 nu ka..
might be headejU foe, Barcelena,"
via France, there to be need by .
government pilots. Chinese denied
this. . -; I . j - Tr
Wbatever their goal, the nlanes
have had aj ' strange Odyssey ia
their quest ifor j a haven in one
or the other of the world's current 1
war zones. In all, they have trav
eled more j than. 12.000 . miles.
starting from New York on Au
gust 23 forj China on the U. 8.
maritime' commission freighter
Witchita. f I
While at sea, President Roose
velt's ban i ion the1 shipment of.
war materials was proclaimed,
and the Wichita put in at Saa
rearo, Calif., jfrhere the ptanes
were tnloaded. j ; ' ;
Amid the closest secrecy the
11,000.000 cargo was then trans
shipped by rail to Philadelphia,
Pa., where' the planes tii
stowed aboard the British
freighter MalanOra and set forth-
ostensibly for , England en -November
9.
SHANGHAI; Nov. 21-(SunJay )
-OPr-Japanese drove west to new
conquests (today , following the
sudden 'downfall of Soochow, key"
point of China's- "Hindeaburg
line." . , . j- - , . .- - . . 'f
Chinese strove to form a
strong, . new defense line to bar
the invaders progres to Nan
king, from iwhich the government'
yesterday formally announced re
moval of the capital to Chung-.
king, ia Siechwan province. .
Foreign j military observers,1
however, expressed doubt that,
the Chines woUldmake a deter
mined stand before Nanking aad
some predicted the city would be
given -up after feeble straggle.-
In th& levent, they said, Chi
nese" troops would , follow their
government Jnto the hinterland.
: The new Chinese line, along
which 13Q.000 troops were re
ported entrenched, stretched
from Wnsth, 25 miles north of
Soochow, to Kiangyin, a disUnce
ot nearly 25 miles. 1
Japanese drove toward the
line, northwest of Shanghai, from
three points, i h
Cochran on Commission ;
LA GRANDE, Nov. JO-fiTH
George T. Cochran, attorney, was
appointed by Interior Secretary
Harold L.( Ickes yesterday to a
commission to investigate finan
cial and economic condition ct
United States and Indian recla
mation projects. - . , .
Mine Board Member Dies
MEDFORD, Nor. 20-CP-Wl
Ham H. Lydiard, 64. southern Ore-,
gon state mining board member
and grocery store owner, died yes
terday following an operation two
weeks ago,
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The Bearcats beat Whltmiaa
six times ia a row, and won
their fourth! championship '
Spec, you're our pal, but when
conference 1 1 1 1 e s so common
place grow, let's find "something
tougher to whet our morale. -
. ateerin ansatatua !
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