The Weather
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Clear today and Saturday,
with slowly rising tempera
ture. Max Temp. Thumdiy
M. Min. ST. River -3.3 feet.
Wert wind.
Smiles in Style
: And you'll be in style If
you . glance-, every morning
at the puftch.Iiae of "Stylo ;
Smiles' on society pace.
poundoo 1651
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EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning:, July 29, 1938
Pries) Za Newsstands Sc
No. 106
einriUory
Ask Stricture
On Politics of
Federal Aides
Walsh . S a y s Legislation
Needed to Stop Evils
of Influence
Appropriation Provisos
and Federal Statute
Are, Suggested
WASHINGTON', July 2S-(JP)-Senator
Walsh (d-Mass) predict
ed today that the senate cam
paign . expenditures committee
would ask congress to Impose
new restrictions on political ac
tivities of federal employes.
. Walsh is a member of the com
mittee, which found yesterday
that "apparently every scheme
and questionable device that can
be used in a political contest to
raise funds to influence votes
and control the election , result"
was in "full swing" in the Ten
nessee democratic primary.
He suggested that congress
might attach to all appropriation
measures a proviso restricting
political activities by federal em
ployes and prohibiting- the use
of federal funds for political pur
poses. lVderal Statute
Alternative
As an alternative, he said, the
committee might propose a fed
eral statute making it a crimin
al offense for those handling
public funds "to intimidate or
bring . pressure on voters,"
"The facts ' disclose that leg
islation Is necessary," Walsh as
serted. "If something Isn't done
In this direction federal funds
"tb'fTftiblic works and relletewUl
continue to be- used Indirectly
for controlling primary and elec
tion results.'.
The Massachusetts senator ex
pressed the opinion the jurisdic
tion of congress could not ex
tend beyond the actions of per
sons handling federal funds.
Meanwhile, the senate com
mittee pressed Its investigation
of a circular reported to have
been distributed by the 'South
Dakota office of the farm securi
ty administration.
Ilequest Farley
.To Investigate .
In addition to requesting Post
master General Farley to inves
tigate use of the government
frank for a "political circular."
tbe committee asked W. W. Al
exander, FSA administrator, to
look into the matter and report
his findings.
Chan Gurney, republican can
didate for senator, brought the
article to the committer's atten
tion. Part of the article said that
former Gov. Tom Berry, now
democratic nominee for the sen
ate, helped resettle a South Da
kota farm family in 1936. The
article was distributed to news
papers tor publication on June
30 this year, Gurney said.
- The caption on the release
said: "Farm Family Battles Way
to Security. It was bard for fam
ily of IS to find suitable home
In town after losing farm, but
governor helped s now they're
' well fixed on another farm."
The "committee asked Alexan
der to report all of the facts in
connection with preparation and
distribution of the circular and
to say what action had been ta
ken or was contemplated against
the employes involved. -
18 Hurt in Clash
Tri Palestone Feud
JERUSALEM, J u ly 28.-V
Eighteen persons were injured to
day in sporadic explosions and
clashes between tbe Holy Land'
feuding Jews and Arabs. .
Arabushfy wounded a Jewish
won-an i six Arab policemen
near Bethlehem. A running gun
battle ensued In which-number
of the asjwfflanta were believed
wounded, i
In HaKa.ja bomb set off in a
courtyard in the mixed .quarter
injured V Arabs. Incendiary
fires desyed a few Jewish shop
and pol t discovered an nnex
ploded bovV in trt r
English girl CBOO,;-
County; Road Tax
Levying Is Asked
PORTLAND, July 28.-p)-Re-enactment
of a law which former
ly permitted formation on spe
" eial road taxing districts was ad
vocated In a resolution presented
at today's meeting of the associ
ation of Oregon counties.
The association pondered meth
ods of bringing greater benefits
to the counties from state gasoline
and anto license revenues.
Hi
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t
Kentucky Campaign Nears Climax
As I Chandler and Barkley Battle
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Kemlniscent of torchlight parades and political rallies of old is the
campaign being waged between Got. A. B. Happy Chandler and Sen.
Alben Barkley for tbe democratic nomination as senator from Ken
tucky. Chandler, until he was recently sent to bed with what he
claimed was a dose of "poisoned "water' bad been making fonr and
five speeches a day and covering an average of 50O miles dally. He
bas vowed to shake tbe band of every voter in Kentucky before elec
tion. " I . . ' I '
New Trial Sought
In Arson Action
Rosser'g Attorneys File
1
Mryions Based on Six
Points of Law
DALLAS.! Ore., July 28-(i5J)-Al
E. Rosser, former head of the
AFL-Teamsters union in the Port
land district who was convicted of
arson by a j Folk county jury re
cently, today filed motions for a
new trial and for an arrest of
judgment, j
Rosser was charged with com
plicity In ta,e burning of the West
Salem box factory last November.
Defense Attorneys Charles Rob
ison and George Vandermeer rep
resented. Rosser. The new trial
motion was based on ix points:
1. Irregularity ; In court pro
cedure and in the orders of the
court which prevented the defen
dant from getting a fair triaL
2. New evidence.
" .3. Insufficiency of evidence
presented to justify a verdict.
4. Errors in law in decisions
of the court.
5. Errors in law - in Instruc
tions to the Jury. ; . ,
6. Errors in law in the court's
failure, to gire Instructions asked
by the defendant. ;
Dealers Wallop Eagles 11-3;
20-30 Drops Pheasants 6 -1
Games Tonight
S:15 Square Deal rg. Grlm
shaw S''f
'vl5 -20-30 vs. Grimshaw R"
Square ' Deal took advantage
of a "tryout pitcher to salt
away its victory over tbe Eagles
in the first inning, eventually
wlnn'sg 11 to 3; and 20-30
2ftged out 17 hits to win I to 1
while Vernon Gilmore held Gol
den Pheasant to three hits. If
It hadn't -been for Bob' Morgan.
Gilmore would have had a no-hlt
game, for Morgan got all of
them. - : i .
, "Popeye Wilkinson started on
the mound for the Eagles but
his windmill toss wasn't under
control and he retired with only
one man out and four runs el
ready tallied. Eldon Cottew held
the radio men acceptably there
after unto the ninth when they
scored five more. Henry Singer
held the aerie to flTe hits, all in
separate Innings, but one was a
triple byiPillette, and Quessetn
went all the war around on a
single.' None of the Eagles' runs
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Fund "Shopping"
To Be Prevented
Relief and Works Heads
Form Committee to
Check Requests
WASHINGTON, July -28-()-Officiala
In charge of federal
funds for relief and public works
established a committee of three
today to prevent cities and towns
from "shopping around between
government agencies for money.
Secretary Ickes said three WPA
reprehentatives had been appoint
ed by WPA Administrator Harry
L. Hopkins to check applications
for public works administration
funds U prevent any duplication
of requests filed -with the two
agencies. :'
The new system, he explained
Was adopted after Mayor J.' Tobln
of Boston turned down a 31425,
000 PWA grant for a new city
hall.
Tobin announced he would
economize by obtaining ii WPA
funds for improvements to the
78-year-old building, which a for
mer Boston mayor characterised
as "dangerous, Inadequate and
antiquated" In appealing for PWA
funds. t 1 i
The PWA approved the Boston
project recently, Ickes said, as
suming the city still wanted It.
was earned. Singer . struck out
14 men. : '
Bob D'Arcy hit a home run
for Square Deal in the ninth In
ning rally, with Henry Singer on
ahead of him. Henry got three
hits, as did W. Gentxkow.
Bennett and Siegmund did the
heavy slugging for ; 20-30 with
three blows apiece. Including
triples, but everybody In the line
up got at least one hit. Hen
drie's crew scored two runs ia
tbe first, two in the fourth and
two in the seventh, -but other
wise made poor use of its bingles,
having 13 men left on bases.
Kellogg hit a homer in the sev
enth. Gilmore fanned 11 men.
Daniels relieved Mack SerdoU
on the mound for the Pheasants
In the fourth. . ,
Square Deal .... ..11 11 4
Eagles 3 5 5
H. Singer and L. Singer;-Wilkinson,
L. Cottew and J. Cot
tew."'., '
G. Pfceasant ....... 1 3 1
20-30 C 17 i 1
Serdotz, Daniels and Butler;
Gilmore and Kellogg.
uence
Ross Visions
National Net
Of Dam Power
Says Dream Made Feasible
5 by new Device for
Direct Current
Predicts Use of 10 Times
Today's Power in 17
Years From Now
SEATTLE. July 28-(")-J. D.
Ross, Bonneville power project
administrator and superintendent
of Seattle's city light department,
forecast here today the Ume Is
not far distant when great trans
continental power networks will
hook together the private and
public power projects of the na
tion. He said the dream is made
practically feasible by the devel
opment of a device for transmit
ting direct current; the present
system of transmitting alternat
ing current in large blocks hav
ing been inefficient over long
distances.
Ross made his forecast in an
exhaustively prepared paper de
livered before 300 men at the en
gineers club.
He said engineers In the east
apparently are solving the prob
lem that bas been the great ob
stacle t transmission of direct
current long distances the ne
cessity for an apparatus chang
ing alternating current to direct
current at the generator, end of
the line and back to alternating
current at the receiving terminal.
. Speaking on "electric power in
the future," Ross said the inter
connection' of , the major, steam
and hydroelectric plants, through
the use of the direct current
long distance transmission sys
tem, would form a national pow
er pool. He said present methods
of transmitting large amounts
of alternating current energy
were not practicable more than
300 miles.
There has been a ten-fold in
crease In 'power output through
out the nation in the past 18
years, despite a depression, Ross
said, and he took this to indicate
that "America will be using 10
times as much electricity In 17
years as today, or approximately
1,210,500,000,000 kilowatt
hours."
"Where will, all this power
come from?" Rosa asked. "Un
der a ten-fold strain, the diffi
culty of power supplies will- be
increased. Transportation of fuel
will become a great problem.
"Huge generators of higher
efficiency will make their ap
pearance. Longer transmission
lines of the order of a thousand
miles, will circle the nation, and
cross-cut it at intervals of 250
to 500 miles.
.Ross said "the great plants of
the federal government Bonne
ville, Coulee. Boulder and the
Tennessee Valley authority and
the , million-horsepower Skagit
project of the city of Seattle are
already the foundation stones In
the new superpower era," he
added. .
40 Die in Burma
In Religion Riot
RANGOONV Burma, July 28-7P)-Three
days of street fighting
between Burmese Buddhists and
Indian Moslems reached new se
verity today . when 40 persons;
including five Indian women,
were killed. - -
Armored cars have patrolled
the streets since Tuesday when
disorders broke out following
publication, of a. book by a Mo
hammedan allegedly offensive to
Buddhism.
More than 230 persons have
been wounded. ,
Late tonight fierce fighting
flared out .again In several In
dian and Burmese parts of Ran
goon. Many bodies were said to
be in houses smashed by the ri
oters and' an, accurate check on
tbe casualties, therefore, was
impossible.
OH US Merchant
Fleet on Way out
PORTLAND, July 28-SV-John
W. Slacks. Washington, DC, fi
nancial assistant, to the chairman
of the maritime commission, said
today that the present, American
carrier fleet was build as a unit
and apparently is going out that
wy. - ...
"We have very little left of our
old merchant fleet; he said, "but
we have enough money in sight to
build a new fleet and we are go
ing to build It."
The program calls for 500 mer
chant ships to be constructed in
the next 10 yetfc
One Life Lost
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As Fire Razes
"DamsiteTown
Wife of Acting Mayor of
Grand Coulee Dies in
$100,000 Blaze
Block of Mushroom City
Wiped Out by Rapidly
Spreading Flames
GRAND COULEE, Wash.,, July
2i-JP-Gn woman burned to
death and businessmen estimated
damage at 9100,000 in a fire
which razed a full block of the
business district in this original
"mushroom" town at the Grand
Coulee dam site this afternoon.
The victim was Identified as
Mrs. Mary Massart, wife of Act
ing Mayor Larry Massart. Her
cremated body was found on bed
springs In the smoking ruins of
the Massart plumbing and heat
ing shop, in which the fire start
ed from an unknown cause. .
Unconfirmed rumors circulated
through the excited throng of
thousands that a baby also , had
been in a, burned cabin while its
parents were away, but there was
no verification.
The flames, leaping" 100 feet
In the air and cracking windows
across the wide street with the
beat, "raced through the entire
block within a half hour after
the fire alarm was broadcast.
The fire reduced to ashes the
wooden frame' buildings housing
a half, dozen business establish
ments, a sub-postofflce, two cab
In groups and several individual
cabins.
Business men said little insur
ance was carried on the build
ings because of the high premium
rate in the townsite, which has
gained wide publicity for its re
semblance to the old frontier
settlements and Its red-tinted
night life.
Ironically, the fire struck
whllt one Of the town's two fire
trucks was' 90 miles away for
repairs at Wenatchee. It was the
third major fire since the town
mushroomed up with the start
of Grand Coulee dam construc
tion four years ago. Half a busi
ness block . only a block away
burned to the ground two years
ago.
Mattson ' Suspect
Held at Truekee
Transient Admits Kidnap
- but Later Denies He
Was Involved
TRUCKER, Calif., July 28-(5)
-A man who gave his name as
Herman DeVal, 28, of Omaha,
Nebr., was taken into custody
here today, and held for ques
tioning in connection with the
kldnap-slaying of Charles Matt
son, 10-year-old Tacoma boy.
Sheriff's Deputy N. F. Dolley
and State Patrolman F. E... Walk
er said DeVal admitted but later
denied he abducted the Mattson
boy. They said he told them he
had been in and around Tacoma
from .December, 1936, until
March. 1937.
DeVal was - In company of a
15-year-old Chicago .boy. when
arrested. They had met at Oma
ha, DeVal told officers, and had
ridden freight trains west.
President Hooks
Large Tuna Fish
ABOARD CRUISER HOUSTON,
in Galapagos Archipelago, July
28 -(a3)-The waters about Hood
island, present anchorage of the
cruiser ; Houston, today yielded
President Roosevelt and his party
bigger fish than they had found
elsewhere during: the past several
days. ; ' i ' ' :': r '
Tuna, averaging from 30 to 45
pounds, were hooked and brought
to boat by the president. Several
large golden groupers and other
fish some of unknown species
also were taken and tamed over
to Professor Waldo L. Schmitt f or
identification. - Professor Schmitt
ordered, that they be preserved
for addition to the Smithsonian
Institution's collection of marine
life specimens native to the Gala
pagos archipelago. .
Eugene Decision
Set in September
EUGENE, July JS--CIrcuIt
Judge C. F. Skipworth said today
a decision; In the case testing. Eu
gene's ordinance regulating pick
eting was not expected until some
Ume In September. He said he
was giving attorneys time to file
briefs.,' . ...... ., ... " ,;
. Labor unions are contesting the
validity Qf the ordinance. : The
case was; i argued Tuesday and
Wednesday before Judge Skip
$15,000
'
Mill at
Diesel
Eng
New Fire Burning Uncontrolled on'Nebalem River
but Other Fires in State and Northwest
' : Reported no Longer Dangerous
WALDPORT. Ore. July 28. (AP) A $15,000 fire,
caused by the explosion of a diesel engine, destroyed the
Waldport Lumber company and the home of its owner, E. E.
Mills, tonight. ' ; v . . .y
A beer parlor also was damaged. Fire departments from
Newport and Toledo aided in checking the blaze, preventing
-rOlt from sweeping this coast vil-
T?M-MU:MJ
Japanese riaiuuiig
Chinese Defenses
Marines in Van in , Drive
up Yangtze as Planes
Bombard Lines
SHANGHAI, July 29-(Friday)
-Oqp)-Two columns of Japanese
infantrymen, struggling to keep
pace with Japanese marines in
their drive up the Yangtze toward
Hankow, were engaged today In a
broad movement to flank the Chi
nese line at the Tienkiachen-Wu-sueh
boom.
, Meanwhile, Japanese , p 1 a n e s
continued terrific bombardments
of the new line of defense, cen
tered on the submerged Yangtze
barricade upriver from fallen KIu
Klang and about 110 miles from
Hankow.
The big bombers assaulted a
railroad running from Kiuklang,
90 miles south, to the principal
Chinese air base, Nanchang. Part
of the railway paraUels the Chi
nese line. The airmen also at
tacked the Canton-Hankow rail
way, a defense "lifeline" for the
cluster of Wuhan cities, Hankow,
Wuchang and Hanyang.
- . (The American consulate gen
eral at Hankow was Informed that
mission property of the Reformed
church in the United States was
slightly damaged Wednesday in
an aerial bombardment , of Yo
chow, Hunan province. ,
(The Hankow report, said
American missionaries at Yochow
escaped injury but many Chinese
were killed when a railway sta
tion and many .houses were
struck. Yochow Is about 100
miles southeast of Hankow.)
Judge Fee Orders
CIO to Pay Fine
PORTLAND, July 28-(i?3)-The
CIO yesterday was directed by
Federal Judge Alger Fee to pay a
special master's fee of $1300 in
the suit brought against the union
by the Waterfront Employers' as
sociation. The master recommend
ed an injunction against picketing
the Newport docks and held seven
lumber workers guilty of con
tempt for yiolaUng the order.
' Anniversary Ignored '
VIENNA, July 28-()-The 24th
anniversary of . the Austrian dec
laration of war against Serbia,
the first that divided Europe In
war in 1914, passed completely
ignored here ; today. j
ulletin
SAN i FRANCISCO, July 29
(Friday )-()-A Trans-Pacific
clipper ship was reported miss
ing here today after it failed
to land in Manila on scheduled
time, on flljfht from Guam.
The ship, which wan doe at
Manila at 1 a. m. (PST) today,
was last reported at 8 o'clock
Thursday night when it gave
its position as 565 miles out of
Manila. " j .
Fifteen passengers . were
aboard the ship1. -
Officials of the airline here
said tbe plane was flying south .
of its regular bonne bat they
did not' know why.
B
Ban Association Slides Over
Report "Defaming" Douglas
; CLEVELAND, July 28 -ff)-The
.house of delegates of the
American Bar association accept
ed today the report of 'its csjamit
tee . on - administrative law with
out a mention of the section
which, commissioner Jerome N.
Frank' of the securities and ex
change commissioner said "de
famed" Sec Chairman William O.
Douglas.
'.The assembly rejected today a
resolution asking the association
to petition the supreme court for
information concerning a law
yer's .right to question the eligi
bility of supreme . court Justice
Hugo L. Black. : ,
James R. Garfield, son of the
late president and former secre
tary of Interior, presented . the
Fire Destroys
Waldport When
ine
llae of Persons
TILLAMOOK, Ore.. July 28.-(iT")-An
uncontrolled 150-acre fire
swept through the Markam and
Callow logging operations on the
Nehalem river tonight, destroying
three donkey engines.
The fire was burning In dry
timber and duff, but was not
spreading rapidly. Fire fighters
feared an east 'wind, which they
said would sweep the conflagra
tion into valuable green timber.
Rains south of Eugene and In
the Cascade area last night aided
materially in reducing the forest
fire hazard in Oregon, State For
ester J. W. Ferguson reported
yesterday.
Ferguson said there were less
than 60 fires in Oregon at present
time and that all of these wera
under control. Men fighting the
Smith River fire in northern
Douglas county now number 955
as against 1900 a week ago. More
than 60 per cent of the men fight
ing the Valsetz blaze also have
been released.
"In event weather conditions
continue normal we do not expect
any immediate serious recurrence
of the fire conditions prevailing a
week ago," Ferguson declared.
Start Reclaiming
Of Burnt Timber
Interior Department to
Salvage 15,500 Acres
in Oregon Forests
WASHINGTON, July 28-(;p)-
The Interior department took-1
steps today to salvage charred
timber on 15,500 acres of burned
over forest land in western Ore
gon. . Simultaneously, the depart
ment will carry on a reforesta
tion program- to restore the tim
ber resource.
Fred Johnson, land commis
sioner, estimated tires on govern
ment lands destroyed approxi
mately 265,000,000 board feet of
timber valued at $400,000.
The salvage operations were
placed in charge of Walter II.
Horning, acting forester ot the
lands, which reverted to the gov
ernment from the old Oregon and
California Railroad company.
Johnson said Immediate sal
vage of the killed timber was ne
cessary if it was to be saved from
decay and insects.
Coincidental with Johnson's
announcement of the salvage and
reforestation program came word
ot the appointment of Ernest P.
Rands as technical adviser for
the O and C administration.
For nearly 18 years Rands was
district cadastral engineer at
Portland. Oregon, and was In
Immediate charge of the grant
lands. Under the new arrange
ment be will be relieved of his
engineering post to devote his
entire attention to the O and C
work.
$61,000 Chematca Project
Reinstated by PWA
WASHINGTON, July 28-P)-Senator
Charles McNary's office
today was Informed by the WPA
the 161,000 project for remod
eling and reconstructing build
ings at the Chemawa school near
Salem had been reinstated.
controversial report of -the com
mittee "on. administrative law in
tbe absence of Its chairman. Dean
Emeritus Roscoe . Pound of 'Har
vard law school.
; Garfield made no reference to
the statement of Commissioner
Frank that "this association owes
it to itself to see to It that those
remarks, which east a slur on tbe
character ot Chairman Douglas,
be stricken from the report." He
said, however, "there bare been
criticisms', ot tbe report. '
Garfield' criticized 'officers In
administrative agencies who de
velop "an autocratic habit of
mind" and said "that attitude de
velops the kind of bureaucratic
and. autocratic spirit that has
c.ome out of tbe tribunals of our
country ..; ; -; '.,,..'
Explodes
Loyalists Push
On Into Rebel
Lines in Drive
Insurgent Bombardment
of Valencia Kills 18
Non-Combatants
Government Troops Take
200 Square Miles in -Obro
Offensive
HENDAYE, France (At tbe
Spanish Frontier), July 28-jF)-Tbe
Spanish government's south
Catalonia army, led by a former
stonemason, was reported tonight
to have pushed around and be
yond Gandesa and well along the
road to Alcantz.
The day of war also brought an
insurgent aerial bombardment of
Valencia In which 18 persons. In
cluding a Danish nonintervention
observer and a Chinese rook
aboard the British freighter Kell
wyn, were killed.
- The Kellwyn, just arrived from
Marseille, France, .to discharge a
cargo of sugar and coffee, was
only slightly damaged. One hun
dred and fifteen bombs in all,
were said to have been unloaded
over the populous Mediterranean
port city, n
A similar attack on Tarragona
caused widespread damage but
the number of casualties was sot
known.
Gandcea not yet
Occupied
The government did not claim
actual occupation - of Gandesa,
Gen. Francisco Franco's former
regional headquarters and a link
between the insurgent Catalonlan
and Mediterranean fronts but It
lay within the 200 square miles
of territory regained from the In
surgents by the four-day Ebro
river offensive.
The government in its nightly
communique tacitly admitted its
troops lost e foothold in Gandesa
itself, although it reported its
main army advanced to Dot, 12
miles to the southwest.
"The enemy, reinforced by
troops from other fronts counter
attacked in the Gandesa zone,"
the communique said. "The at
tacks were completely repulsed,
and the enemy forced to with
draw to the first houses of tbe
town.
Government Admits
Rebel Advance
Government leaders acknowl
edged the Insurgents advanced
"slightly" in the Puente Del Arro
blspo sector of tbe Estremadura
front in southwestern Spain.
Reports from Barcelona said
the government's counter-conquest
had covered 240 square
miles but other, advices reaching
Hendaye added the gains up to
193 square miles.
-Estimates of the number ot
prisoners taken ranged between
5000 and 6000.
So much war materiel was said
to have been abandoned by tht
surprised insurgents that tb
rout was compared to defeat of
Franco's Italian forces on the Ma
drid-Guadalajara front in March.
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Portland Visitor
PORTLAND, "July 28 -(P) -Sir
Hubert Wilkins, tbe explorer,
stopped over briefly in Portland
today, and commented lugubri
ously that usually tbe only man
on an Antarctic expedition to get
sick Is tbe surgeon.
Wilkins was en route to Seattle
to Interview a medical candidate
for another expedition which be
said would leave fiew York for'
Capetown on August 10. Lincoln
Ellsworth, another famed explor
er, will be a member.
"We expect to set tip a base for
a permanent meteorological sta
tion, one ot three to be estab
lished In tbe Antarctic," he said.
Wilkins said that on tbe last
three trips tbe only surgeons In
the company became ill.
Columbia Lumber
Shipping Is Cut
PORTLAND. July 28-i-Co-lumbia
river lumber shipments .
for the first half of the year were
AO per cent ahead of Part
Sound's but 30 per cent un!r
British Columbia's, tbe Paci.'U
lumber Inspection bureau report
ed today. -
River shippers dispatched 44 6,.
117,134 board feet, compare!
with 316,950,270 for Puget Sound
and 582,624,044 for the Canadian
district.
.The entire northwest district
suffered a 20 per cent decline
from last year, although tbe Brit
ish Columbia figures were up 8
per cent. The decline centered
chiefly in the Puget Sound snd
Grays Harbor areas.
Tbe Oregon decrease was about
8 per cent against 42 per cent tor
Washington