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The Weather
Generally cloudy and
cooler today and Wednea
' day; rising humidity; north
rly wind off coast. Max.
Temp. 83, Mln. 40. River
-3.0 ft. North wind.
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EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, September 26, 1939
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Million -Dollar Property Loss Taken
- From Pounding Rain and Wind
in Stormy Southern State
Many Drowned as Ocean Craft Wrecked;
.. 14 Boats Are Unreported;
. Disaster Follows Heat
LOS ANGfcLES, Sept. 25 (AP) At least 43 persons
were believed tonight to have perished in a violent wind and
rain storm which struck southern California late yesterday
and caused damage that may exceed $1,000,000.
Dozens of other persons were aboard 14 pleasure boats
reported missing along the coast.
The storm wrecked, sank or beached more than a score
of boats, created flood conditions in many localities, includ
ing mountain resort-areas, put 35,900 telephones out of com
mission in Los Angeles and nearby towns, seriously disrupted
rail and highway traffic and cut off power service.
A 30-mile gale swept the Los Angeles harbor area to
night More rain for the next 36 hours was forecast.
Thirty homes were damaged and eight destroyed on
Alamltos peninsula near lxn go-
Beach, causing damage estimated
at 100,000.
Portions of Whittier, Artesia,
Downey, Montebello, Burbank,
Pasadena and San Fernando val
ley were without lights or tele
phones. Damage of $100,000 resulted
from pounding waves at the Los
Angeles Yacht club'B cove at Fish
Harbor. Five racing sloops sank
and others were battered.
Hundreds Saved
From Periled Boats
Some 200 persons were rescued
last night and today from wrecked
and disabled pleasure boats and
fishing craft. -.
The casualty list Includes:
Eight persons drowned over
board from boats and in rip tides
""and their bodies recovered.
; Twenty-three persons believed
drowned overboard the fishing
boat Spra, from which the body
of a 24th victim was recovered
and included In the known death
list of eight.
Ten "J other persons believed
drowned In the wrecked sloop
Conchlta and yacht Nino-O.
Wreckage of what apparently
had been an 80-foot yacht was
found in the surf today near Hunt
ington Beach, Orange county. No
craft of that size was listed among
those reported missing.
Two unidentified bodies were
washed ashore in the Los Angeles
Long Beach harbor area. One was
that- of a woman about i 3 0 and
the other of a man about 40.
No Definite Idea
Of Death Total
Swamped , with rescue work,
coast gnard officials said they had
no definite idea of how' many
boats might actually be missing.
: The storm created near-flood
conditions in some parts of Los
Angeles with 6.41 inches of rain
In less than 24 hours preceding
today noon. This is the . heaviest
September rain in Los Angeles'
weather - history.
; The rain broke up the worst
heat wave here in weather burean
records, as measured by its ln-
i tensity and eight-day duration.,
Most of the storm victims were
aboard the sport fishing boat
; Spray which sank off Point Mugu
i near Oznard, 70. miles northwest
of here. ' , - '
.23 Believed Dead'
On Capsized Boat
Twenty-three persons apparent
ly were drowned when the Spray
, eapslxed last 'night within 600
feet of the : pier. - Two persons
fought their way safely ashore.
A water taxi rescued 1 65 per
sons from the fishing . barge Vir
ginia, caught In the gale oft Malt-
bn beach.
i The coast guard rescued 40 oth
ers aboard the live-bait boat Indi
ana after: she had been reported
missing all night. V- '. c
ThA US destrover Cassin took in
tow the sport fishing cruiser Dia-
natch with 26 men . aboard. The
cruiser had been adrift for nearly
two days in the storm. j ', ,
More than 50 other persons were
rescued from seven other disabled
craft.
C. P. Holdren, assistant harbor
master at Santa Monica, issued a
warning that a new storm was ex
pected that might be as bad or
worse than yesterday's, t ,
Railways, Highways ..
Telephones Useless --"
High winds and rain put out of
commission more than 29.000 tele
phones in the city of Los Angeles.
- Heavy rajns In southeastern
California disrupted railroad and
highway traffic. ,; -'"-
- The Santa Fe main ' line was
washed out In several places be
tween Needles - and Kingman,
Ariz., and service was suspended
Indefinitely. Two trains were ma
rooned at Needles. Highway 66
was .closed both ways from here.
More than ISO feet of Southern
Pacific track was washed out in
Coachella valley. Trains; were de
layed from two to four and one-
half hours.
... J A 70 'ner cent loss of the date
crop resulted from storm dim age
. yesterday and heavy rains 10 days
ago, said S. H. Winters, manager
fit. the United Date Growers.
Embargo Plan
Gets Support
Substitute Is Offered
by FDR Forces to
Woo Opponents
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-(ff)-
Tbe Roosevelt effort to repeal the
arms embargo gained strength In
the Benate today after administra
tion forces had proposed formally
a substitute which was described
as a strict-and all-inclusive cash
and; carry system., -
i The introduction of the measure
brought private expressions of ap
proval from several senators who
have yet to commit themselves
publicly on the crucial issue. In
addition, the Influential Senator
George (D-Ga) announced his out
right support. He said the new bill
would mean "strict cash and car
ry, not only for arms but for every
artcle and all materials" exported
to belligerents.
Forty-four senators (only five
less than a majority) had previ
ously announced themselves in fa
vor of repeal of the embargo on
arms shipments to warring na
tions. However, the opposition of the
group led by Senators Borah (By
Ida), Vandenberg (R-Mlch).
Clark (D-Mo.), and LaFollette (P
Wls), remained undiminished.
Several of the bloc immediately
expressed a renewed determina
tion to hold out until the end
against repealing the embargo.
: In an harmonious atmosphere
of uncertain duration the senate
foreign relations committee met,
received the measure and readily
approved a request from Borah to
postpone further action until
Thursday.
Spokaiie Tot Dies
! As House Blazes
SPOKANE, SepL 25.-WVDa-
vid Lee Eastman, 30 months old
boy. Was burned to death shortly
before dinner time tonight when
the home A his aunt, Mrs. Charles
Eastman, was razed by fire.
Mrs. ' Eastman told Deputy
Sheriff Pat Griffin she had 'gone
to a well to draw water and when
she returned the flames were so
fierce she could not reenter the
house where the child was sleep
ing. Parents of the child. Mr. and
Mrs. David Eastman, were away
working In pear h arrest at White
Salmon, Wash.
The Eastmans came west this
fall from Hortonville, Wis. v
German Zeppel
Raided by
ROMANSHORN, S w 1 tzerland,
Sept. 26.-(JP)-0ne of Germany's
principal airplane motor plants In
the former seppelln .works at
Friedrlchshafen was reported to
day to have been raided by enemy
planes.
i Observers here .on the Swiss
shore of Lake Constance; five
(miles away, said they saw the
raids last night. , -,.
! The same observers said they
believed the plant had been put
out of commission by several di
rect hits from the planes, which
were not identified. But the Ger
man border was closed and the re
port could not be confirmed.
v (DNB, official German news ag
ency. Quoted the high command
was saying French airplanes had
been sighted and fired on over the
area but the raiders had failed to
bomb any object in Germany, The
agency said the planes had been
chased into 8wlss territory.) .
Thousand stood along the jfrlsa
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,GWWS "LITTLE MAGINOT' AWAITS ATTACK
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Should the rnmored German drive through Belgium toward northeast France occur, the Invaders will
not find the open country, dotted with isolated fortresses through which they swept in 1014. Span
ning the little country from north
concrete and steel forts which connect with the Maginot line on the
sea. Top view shows part of Belgium's "asparagus bed" and tank
how Belgium's little fort system
now fully manned, prepared for
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Another Theatre
Added for Salem
'Liberty' Showhouse, With
700 Capacity, to Open
After Remodeling
A new motion picture theatre
will be opened at 170-178 South
Commercial street as soon as the
building there can be remodeled
for the purpose, It was announced
Monday : by E. H. Randall and
B. R. Keller, newcomers to Salem
who had Just closed a long-term
lease with the owner of the prop
erty, Mrs. Mary Wenderoth. The
deal was handled by 'the W. II.
Grabenhorst company.
Mr. Randall who recently sold
a theatre in Condon which he had
operated for 17 years, will move
to Salem to make his home. Mr.
Keller, active in the film distribu
tion end of the motion picture in
dustry for 20 years, principally in
Portland, will also make his head
quarters here.
The hew show house will be
known as the Liberty theatre and
the policy, the proprietors said,
will be that of offering the high
est class of entertainment at a cost
which will appeal to persons of
moderate income.
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Med ford Packing Plant '
Fire Loss Is $40,000
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MEDFORD, Ore., Sept. 25.-p)
-Fire of undetermined origin de
stroyed the Huber packing plant
near here tonight at a loss of ap
proximately J 4 0,0 00, partially
covered by insurance.
in Plant Is
Allies9 Airmen
shore of Lake Constance to watch
the bursting bombs on the ground
and the exploding shells in the air.
Darkness screened the attackers.
Watchers said the bursting
bombs were visible clearly. The
detonations echoed through the
Lake Constance hills.
Reports of the raid were con
firmed by this communique of the
Swiss " general staff: "Sunday
night after 9 p. m. an air attack
took place, against, in all proba
bility, hangars of the Zeppelin fac
tory at Friedrlchshafen. The ex
plosions of bombs were heard and
very violent defensive tire with
the nse of tracer bullets observed,
r ; "In the late eveninr. between
10 p. m. and midnight, many fron
tier towns In Switzerland report
ed hearing the noise of airplane
motors.
. "An investigation was opened
In an effort to ascertain whether
our territory was really violated
,by the sassage pi loxeiga plane.
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to south Is Belgium's version of
connects with- the French fortifications. The "little Maginot" Is
any eventuality. (IIN photo.)
Nazis Explain Troops
Massing Near Belgium
BERLIN, Sept. 25 (AP)
ters explained tonight that the massing of troops near the
three-cornered border of Germany, The Netherlands and
Belgium was a precaution against any French or British de
signs to find a soft front for
into the Reich.
These sources said it would
ests to carry on military operations there because of its
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War Uriels
BUDAPEST, Sept. 25-JP-With
Warsaw's lone radio voice
mute for more than 24 hours,
European listeners learned from
German broadcasts tonight that
the Polish capital still was un
conquered. Using a wave length once be
longing to Warsaw, German an
nouncers at 11 p. m. (2 p. m.
PST) said that Warsaw again
was under heavy artillery fire
and that Modlin, SO miles
northwest, was surrounded.
They spoke Polish, but with
a strong German accent.
' Last night the Warsaw radio
staff ' still was at its micro
phones, telling the outside
world of the siege, describing
m new German bombardment
which the announcers said had
killed more than 1,000 civilians.
BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 25.
-p)-Frencn troops resumed their
drive against the Siegfried line
along a 40-mile front today in
what dispatches- said was the
heaviest action thus far on the
western front.
Troops in many sectors were
said to have moved up with the
advance of heavy batteries from
the Maginot forte, which sent
shells battering against the Ger
man barricades. - ! '
Swiss said the reports indicated
the Poilus were closing their lines
almost within the shadow of main
German fortifications., . t
BUCHAREST, Sept. S5.-(V
An unofficial sarvey today
showed Poland lost , between
800 and 70O planes Is 19 days
of aerial warfare with Germany,
j Poland was reported to have
had .approximately 1,000 serv
iceable planes of all types at the
beginning of the war Sept. 1. '
Aside from about 80 bomb
ers, combat, reconnaissance and
training planes Interned in Ru
. mania and Lithuania, the Polish
alrforce virtually was wiped out
by Sept. 20 as a result of Ger
manf'f whirlwind aerial attack;
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France's Maginot line string of
south and sweep up to the north
barricade. Map at bottom shows
Germans in informed quar
a drive through neutral soil
be against Germany's inter
Oproximity to the Ruhr coal fields
and lower Rhine Industrial region.
With German military leaders
devoting most of their attention
to the western front, the opinion
was expressed in circles close to
the high command that "if the
Reich is vnlnerabe anywhere, it is
along the frontier facing neu
trals."
Commenting on new reports in
Britain that Germany was mass
ing troops near The Netherlands
and Belgium with the object of
attacking from the north, DNB
official news agency, said:
"The constant revival of this
discussion must lead to the con
clusion here that there is basis
for suspicion that there Is the
intention on the part of Ger
many's opponents to violate Bel
gian and Holland neutrality for
wnicn they are now seeking
plausible excuse."
"Germany wants no extension
of the war cone in the west and
has emphasized she has no war
aims against England or France,"
x was said in authoritative quar
ters.
"Certainly Germany would least
want the battlefront along the
Netherlands and Belgian frontiers
because that is uncomfortably
close to the Ruhr coal fields and
to the highly developed lower
Rhine Industrial region," these
quarters said.
"It may he true that the neu
trality of Belgium and The Neth
erlands is endangered, but not
from the German said."
DNB quoted the high command
this evening that Freneh air
planes had been sighted and dred
upon-over Lake Constance, near
the Friedrichsafen seppelln base.
The German report said the
planes failed to drop bombs and
were chased off over Swiss terri
tory The high command earllCT
refused to comment on foreign re
ports of a,, raid in the Friedrich
safen area."
Tack lifted From Lung
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PORTLAND, Sept 25.-A)-A
carpet tack was removed from the
right lung-of William Gerow, 18-months-old
Portland child, by use
of a bronchoscope Friday, St.' Vin
cent hospital attendants disclosed
today. The child has' recovered
French Planes Defeat
Oerman Aerial Fleet
I -As Guns Pound Forts
Admit two Tricolor Ships
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Entire Front Leaps Into Life as Poilus
DriveOverland to Haardt Mts.
PARIS, Sept. 25 (AP) The French announced tonight
they had defeated a German air
over the western front.
The battles were fought
the pounding of Germany's main Siegfried forts from one
end of the western front to
which opened up today.
The French said "superior
were defeated in. two distinct
The French admitted they lost two planes, but said they
1 -Owere certain the Germans lost a
ISubs Add two
Allied Victims
French, British Vessels
Reached; Planes Get
One of Raiders
LONDON, Sept. 25.-(;P)-The
twin problems of munitions and
supply occupied Britain's govern
ment today as the Royal air force
continued to pepper Germany with
pamphlets, German submarines
claimed two more victims and the
nation continued its placid, al
most humdrum prosecution of
war.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
and his ministers of supply ana
labor, Leslie Burgln and Ernest
Brown, talked with MaJ. Clement
Atlee and Arthur Greenwood, la-
for party leaders at No. 10 Down
ing street. The interview was be
lieved to be in preparation for to
morrow's first meeting of tne
eouncil of ten, the roup that will
control munitions during wartime.
Subs Chalk up
Two More Ships
Germany's submarine warfare
yesterday accounted for two more
allied ships and 11 British lives.
In each case the submarine was
believed to have escaped.
A British freighter, the 4646-
ton Hazelside was attacked and
sunk off the Irish coast with a
loss of 11 seamen, according to
the government's report
The Information ministry said
Royal air force patrols hurried to
the rescue of the Hazelside while
the U-boat was trying to sub
merge. Without saying any hints were
made the communique said the
submarine "made a good target
for bombs." It added nothing fur
ther. Watchers on the shore got their
first sight of the war at sea when
the French Collier Phryne of 2660
tons was sunk Just off the Brittlsh
coast. Coast guard boats rescued
the crew of 24.
Hunting Partner's
Pellet Kills Man
BAKER, Sept. 25-(ff)-Charles
Austin Morgan of Pondosa was
fatally shot yesterday by his deer
hunting companion, Albert
Skaggs. also of Pondosa.
Skaggs fired at a deer and the
deer moved, resulting in the bul
let striking Morgan In the leftleg.
it was reported. Morgan died a
short time later from loss of blood
and shock.
Sherman Bennett of Baker suf
fered a sknlly fracture when his
automobile plunged over an em
bankment on Dixie Bntte near
Prairie City. He was on a deer
hunting trip with his son-in-law.
Jack Grove.
Coast of Norway Stirred
By Crashes of big Guns
. COPENHAGEN, Sept 25-(ff-Inhabltants
of communities and
small islands on the coast of Nor-1
way today reported day-long can
nonading far at sea which they in
terpreted to mean a naval battle
was raging.
it wa impossible to learn the
time the " firing started but it
stopped at least temporarily
between 7 and 8 p.m. (io ana u
a.m. PST).
Inhabitants of a small uiand
south of Bergen in southwestern
Norway said they saw several
ships of undetermined nationality
proceeding northward at full
speed last night amid a constant
exchange of gunfire.
Late In the afternoon residents
along the coast said the firing ap
peared to be moving northward
and westward away irom Nor
way.
Earlier the residents et Algroi
island, six miles west of Bergen,
had said the battle if It was a
battle seemed . to be moving
toward shore.
(The British admiralty - said
Monday night lhat it had received
Downed in Great Battle;
fleet in two major air battles
yesterday as a preliminary to
the other by big .trench guns
numbers of German planes
fights. 1
! prc,t,r nnmhpr liofirtttA thair
su
perior strength
The pilots and machtnegunners
of two German planes shot down
on French territory were cap
tured.. The French pilot of one plane
shot down by the Germans para
chuted safely to his squadron
headquarters.
French authorities said they
were certain more than two Ger
man planes were snot down but
they were able to report only
those which fell behind the
French lines.
German military advices reach
ing Paris said the French lost
eight planes.
Infantry Attacks
As Planes Dogfight
While the planes fought over
head, the French started the drive
which today carried them Into the
German Haardt mountains be
tween Wissembourg and Pir
masens. Waves of French infantry, aided
by artillery fire, were said to be
attacking toward the only main
road through the mountains in
one of the most difficult sectors
of the entire northern flank of
the front
As the French infantry attack
began on the northern flank, the
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Friendly Bombers
To Drop in Here
Flight of 15 big Planes
From Hamilton t Field
Will Land Friday
HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Sept
25-(P)-The railroad center five
miles north of Spokane, Wash.,
had better marshal sandbags and
dig air raid cellars, for the sev
enth bambardment group is going
to head up that way Friday morn
ing on an official "expedition of
destruction."
Lieut Col. Ralph Royce gave
gentlemanly warning today that
the 15 bombers would be dis
patched for the jrallway terminal
objective as part of the United
States army air corps war games.
It is to be a one-day raid, with
bombers scheduled to arrive over
the terminal at 3 p.m. Friday, and
to make stops at Boise, Ida., Pen
dleton and Salem, Ore., before re
turning to their hangars here Fri
day night
' The management of the Salem
airport had not been advised last
night of the bombardment group's
projected stop here, Mrs. Leo Ar
any, wife of the lesse of the field,
said. .
Aged Pedestrian Kilted
On South Santiam Road
SWEET HOME, Sept 25.-tf')-John
W. Cnlbekson, 77, was
struck. and killed by an automo
bile yesterday while walking on
the South Santiam highway near
Cascadla. . "
no report of a naval engagement
off the Norwegian Coast "as would
have been the ease had one taken
place-")
Reports came from Martenen, a
small island off Bergen, that six
or seven boats had been seen to
the northward constantly maneu
vering, but they could not be iden
tified, i .. .
The cannonading lulled a halt
hour early in the afternoon but
when it was resumed the sound of
lighter caliber guns could be
heard distinctly In the coastal
towns... - ' .
Reports of the firing began
reaching Copenhagen at !a boat
the time it was announced that
Swedish naval authorities; had in
structed Swedish ships bound for
England to stay within territorial
waters along the Swedish and Nor
wegian coasts- until contacted by
British convoy a waiting for them
somewhere oft Norway. ;
Since a point off Bergen con
sidered by naval observers as a
logical place to organize such a
convoy, some sources thought it
possible German warships .might
be attempting to disrupt it
Estonian Coup
Held Possible
In Slavs9 Act
Conversations Between
Russia and Estonia
Halted Suddenly
Turkish Delegation It
Welcomed by Soviet,
Pact Rumored
MOSCOW, Sept. 26-(Tuesday)
-(ffJ-The entire frontier between
Soviet Russia and Rumania and
Russia's big Black sea port of
Odessa were reported unofficial
ly today to have been closed to
travelers.
The frontier closing was re
garded as the result of precau
tionary mores by both govern
ments.
Russia's acquisition of Polish
territory considerably increased
her border with Rumania and for
the first time gave her a frontier
with Hungary. Rumania and Hun
gary were said to be uneasy.
Meanwhile, diplomatic circle
said Russia might be making de
mands upon Estonia, a little Bal
tic neighbor whose territory was-.
Russian-ruled before the World
war like Rumania's Bessarabia.
Foreign Minister
Leaves j Moscow
Estonia's foreign minister
rushed; home yesterday, abruptly
ending! his stay in Moscow after
less than 15 hours. It was re
ported' reliably his hurried trip
concerned urgent business.
Secrecy shrouded the sudden,
cessation of conversations be
tween Karl Selter, the Estonian
minister, and high soviet officials,
however.
At the same; time a number ot
Russian officials welcomed a dip
lomatic mission from Turkey,
amid a great display of soviet and
Turkish flags. :
The I Turkish delegation, head-
ed by Foreign Minister Sukrm
Saracoglu, came- from important
diplomatic and trade talks.
Po tern kin Greets
Turkish Visitors
The welcomers were headed by
Valdimir Potemkin, vice commis
sar for foreign affairs.
Envoys ot five Black sea and
Balkan states were at the atatiosl
to greet the visitors. They were,
the ministers of Rumania, Bul
garia, Greece, Persia and Afghan
is tan. :
(A Black sea pact has been re
ported numerous times In recent
months aa among Russia's object
ives.) i ,
It was said in diplomatic cir
cles that Russia has a tremendous
bargaining advantage over Tur
key now that Germany and Brit
ain, her chief rivals for Turkish .
trade, are at war.
Trade; With Turkey
Believed Aim
Foreign circles said "they ex
pected; Russia would seek a guar
antee (from Turkey to close the
Dardanelles to any ships opposed
to Russian Interests in return for '
possible soviet guarantees against
any German attack on Turkey.
Diplomats were keenly interest
ed in the sadden departure of the
Estonian foreign minister. It was
learned reliably that he had bees
called; from a ballet performance
to a midnight conference with,
Russian officials, last night.
It was understood that after
the conference he left Moscow's
leading hotel, the Metropole
where he was welcomed last .light
by a display of Estonian flags, aad
spent the remainder bf the night
at the! Estonian legation.
Poisoner of Pets
Declared at Work
Declaration that three dn?a ana
two cats hare been nolannAd vitv.
out provocation within the last
lour montns, all within a halfV
block In the vtclnltr of Division.
North Commercial and D streets
was maae Monday by Dr. w. C
Kantner, retired minister. One
dog in the next block east met m
similar fate, he added.-
The most aggravated case wa
the most recent involving a doy
belonging to Dr. Kantner's daugh
ter. This dor was poisoned la"
spite Of the fact that a fence had
been built around the home te
make f sure i that the . animal
bothered no one. '
Dr. Kantner said ha annealed tit
the police, but was told that noth
ing could ' be done abent appre
hending the poisoner.
Tuna Price War
; Raises to $120
ASTORIA. Ore., Sept
-The price war between Oregon
and J California alhacore tan
packers was intensified today as
the Tan Camp Sea Foods, Inc.,
of California boosted Its price
to fishermen to 1120 ton.
The Increase was the third in
?two days.? ;-'v r .''V"' -Oregon
packers ? raised '. the '
price to 9117.0O yesterday after 7
California packers upped the '
price from f 110 tollS,