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Pictures? Statesman readers see the cwi of the world as well as read about Jt. They see ft in pictures taken In Salem and In news mats supplied "by two. world wide services. Cloudy todav anil stn .day; little change In tem perature and humidity;' fog nd drixxle on coast. Max. temp. Thursday 90, min. S5. River -3.Q ft. West wind. City Hall Paid for In .47 '' Years: Costs Mar - . ! - iV .-TI 77TVT Tf f-S-v rTn TVQ zO TT "T I Hd i rv tt ttk Ov i -n m ore T ha 'n Do uble Contract Back in 1893 Was 54,675, ' - Interest Boosts Total Paid to $138,450, Disclosed . -' -" v. . Bonds Refunded Twice Without Much Reduction tutiriow" Gty Staff By PAUL H. HAUSER, jr. The city officials, to say nothing of the rats, who inhabit the city hall can feel that their home's their own now. The city hall is paid for. City Treasurer Paul H. Hauser has established, after a lot of checking through musty old bond records, that the fi nal payment on the big red brick building built in 1893 was made January 20 of this year. - . - It was made to redeem ;bond No. 80 held by Genevieve Thompson Smith' of Columbia, South Carolina. . That will be a load off the minds of numerous city jffi- vlth a knowing leer. "When'i the city hall going to be paid for?" toer edifice the city dads bought (on a generous time pay - ment plan) in 1893 has eost the citizens f 138, 450. The contract price, paid to the old contracting firm of Hutchins & Southwick, was lust $54,675. The remaining 183,775 was interest paid out on me original Dona issue ana iwo rebondings. The first bond issue of $65,000 -was authorized in 1899 to redeem outstanding warrants on the ren eral fund amounting to S51.561. 79, caused mostly by. paying bills for city hall construction, out of that fund, and $11,682.14 of city hail warrants with accrued inter est on all warrants totalling $15, 401.30. The bonds ran for a perl od of ten years and carried four per cent Interest. , Interest paid out was $26,000. When the ten years were up In 1909 an Issue of $63,050 at fire per cent was made to redeem the wepaid balance of the first issue: wOa thege bonds $3425 wai "paW in interest. ; ; ; On January 2 0r 1920, the 1919 Issue of $63,050 came due plus (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Petition Is Filed For Airliner Stop Up to CAA now, Chfamber Informed ; Woul A Add to Port Facilities United Air Lines has just filed with the ciTil aeronautics author ity a formal petition asking per mission to add Salem and Eugene as regular stops on Unlted's Van-courer-Seattle-Portland-San Francisco-Los A n g e 1 e s-San Diego route, F. D. Thlelsen, manager of the Salem chamber of commerce was adrlsed late yesterday. In its petition to the CAA, which, under the law, must act on alL applications for new I ser vices. It is set forth that Salem is directly on Unlted's coast-wise route, and United states it pro poses to use the Salem municipal airport which is now adequate for day operation of all types of air craft which the, line operates. fr. The petition states; that the Sa lem airport is already designated in ; its United'a certificate as an alternate airport,, and . the petl tioner belieTes : that the airport will be made adequate In the near future for night as well as day operation and. United Is prepared; if 'permitted to land at Salem, to Install its own two-way . radio phone station and radio loeallxer. United how operates four trips daily from -California to Portland (Turn to page 2, coL . 4 ; r No Advertising in Salem Centennial Program, Warning The " Salem . Centennial . official program will contain no adTertls ir.r. and no solicitation for adrer tising has been autliorised, Jer rold Owen, publicity chairman, de clared yesterday-; " " ; 5 Reports hate reached ' head quarters that unauthorised solic iting for . space In a "Centennial ', pi ogram Is being done in Salem. "There Is to be no soliciting of merchants or other persons for any endeaTor In connection with the ; Salem . Centennial celebration, j declared Owen, "and we want to protect the merchants as much as possible, therefore we would ap preciate baring information in re sard to any actlTltles of this type, 1n rwA m 9 maw afemn' I ii va a w jvu.es a t v MMuy a wuh quickly." , . Salem Centennial headquarters are located at 260 North High street.: - 'i " ! Our : ; Senators T7ca10-3 ssd 0-1 Aaf I ltArrrtn Tslr IICVt VflC!; Oil 1 TCK .. Tc Tntll FaMm 1 -"-O XUIcU X cIllUl C !r"... xr i. ah Vne yrOUp Vanishes, AH J ' DUrvurrnwl Kw nn.l U,,OWnCu bY Original I Sponsor in South LONG "BEACH, Califs July 11 -OPy-rCii 1940 Tersion of the "Oregod Trail" apparenUy has wound tap in failure. . j.i Wilson, president of the "Pioneers club" of Long Beach, which announced extensiTe plans for a fback to the land" move ment in southern Oregon, said today the organization had dis solTed nembership. He : made the - announcement when told that one faction of the club had pulled up stakes from Grants tpasa Ore. . And: (contrary to " previous Im. pressions a ir d T announcements made, at the' time the first cara- Yaa, off automobiles left Lonriwhether tie lattef oaft-TUjt f tatea Beach for Oregon; It went with out . Wilson's approTal or so he aid today. "The Pioneers club was dis banded. There is no more Pio neers ;i club. Tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock I am going to return rail the money to the people who contributed to the club," Wilson said. As for the "lost battalion" at Grants pass, he continued: I don't know anything about them. They went up there with out my approTal and I guess they lacked leadership. Why. thev couldn't dig a hole under a well and get water." GRANTS PASS. July 11-UPV- A group of Long Beach. Calif- residents who came here June 5. amid great fanfare, to wrest a tiring irom the land, ranished mysteriously during the night. Leland N. Fryer of Portland. farm i management specialist for (Turn to Page 3, CoL 5) Approval Is Given Hatch Bill WASHINGTON, July H-ipw The Hatch, bill, curbing political activity hy, an .array of state and local; government employes, was finally, passed by congress today. -i The measure was sent to the White House 1 after th senate agreed to xhanges the house ap proved -yesterday. ', ..." .. .... -The legislation is a companion piece- ioC the original .Hatch, act, applying to federal employes. The sew, measure applies to officials and employes working on pro grams financed -in whole-or la part by r the. federal government. xnese employes would oe for bidden ito use , their position to influence the result of elections, to coerce other employes or to engage j actively in political 'cam paigns, j various selective officials would be exempt from the last restriction. , .: ,- i ' I addition, the bill would lim it indlviiual campaign contribu tions ; to $5000 in any one year and woild restrict the expendi tures of any political committee to $2,000,009 a year. ' Baxter Leads, SAN! kit ANCISCO, Jaly ll-Oft -Ten ballots failed today to re sult ,lh I the election - of a . new bishop Shy delegates to the firt western Jurisdictional conference of the .Methodist , church The conference business meet ings 'recessed 'until tomorrow af ter an eleventh ballot was taken. It, was ordered sealed, and will not be counted until tomorrow. ? Dr. Bruce Baxter, president of Willamette unlrersity, led with 65 votes on the tenth ballot. Ssv onty votes are necessary for elec tion. Dr. G rover C. Emmons, Nashville, TennA nd Dr.1 Walter C. Backaer, Los Angeles, were close behind. The election, originally set for tomorrow, was ' moved ahead when delegates concluded ether husiuesst earlier than had been "vy-Keal, Richardson Insists at Trial I i j" m m, w m i iJiaractcr Witnesses to Continue Today; Case Proceeds Rapidly The : case of thn dpfeniTo-nf- the trial of - William York Rich ardson, one-time deputy of former County Treasurer David , Q. Dra per, on a charge of larceny of $23,620 of county funds; will probably be completed today,' De fense Counsel Edwin Keech said yesterday. The attorney made the state ment following almost a full day during which. Richardson himself occupied the witness stand to tes tify on his own behalf. Keech said that 11 or 1 2 char acter and corroborative witnesses remain to be ' heard before the case goes to the Jury, and ' indi cated that only brief time would' be required to examine them: Ten similar witnesses were presented within a half-hour before the ad journment' of court yesterday, Testimony of the" defendant yesterday erolred chiefly about the existence of the shortage on the treasurer's books, his knowl edge of it during his 23-year ten ure as Drager's deputy, and his inability to account for Its origin Never Knew Shortage Was -Actual, Claims ' 'I first found a shortage on the books about two years after I went into office, which was in 1915." he explained. "I don't remember the exact amount. I called It to the attention of Mr. Drager at that time. Every, year thereafter' the shortage in creased." Each month he determined the exact amount of the shortage by means of a trial balanee, the wit ness affirmed, but never became entirely positive 'that the shortage was actual and not a book error. ; The latter statement Special Prosecutor Francis . . E. Marsh challenged In cross examination. -reca.lled a grand Jury session in !Octoher;."1938; at--which Rich ardson ' testified, ' ana - inquired then that in his opinion the 123 620 shortage was actual and not owing to faulty bookkeepingj , "This was- correct, but there is an if," the defendant exclaimed. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) 64 Congressmen Urge FR to Run Exodus to Chicago Is: on bul" President5 Give no Sign of Aims - WASHINGTON, July ll-i9V-A declaration that President Roose velt "should accept renominatlon and continue his aggresslTe1 lea dership," was Issued today by 64 democratic members of the house, while the chief executive continued his. studied silence. - Rep. Smith (D-Wash) said that in signing the statement j the house members "expressed, their earnest desire" that Mr. Roose velt accept a third term nomina tion from the democratic nation al convention which opens Mon day at Chicago. Signatures of members from the, .midwest pre dominated on the statement. . . ' Third term talk - also came from other . quarters I Secretary '-Tnrn to Page 2, Col. 8) , , West Salem Will Power WEST SALEM, July ll r-West Salem residents, will rote on the Issue of the city acquiring its own power system on September Xt', it was decided at a special meeting of the city council, tonight. An ordinance , was passed s ad mitting" a charter, amendment to the people empowering the city to acquire and operate a power and light : system in and about the city, with bonds to be Issued not to exceed S80,Q0,t vS'-r:, ..; Election judges appointed ; are Mrs. Maud Miller and Mrs. Ella Gibson. Mrs. Myrtle Doffrier, Mrs. Irene Douglas and Mrs. Ida For ster were named elerks, :i j f ' 10th Ballot, 1 expected. The seat of the bishop ric will be in Portland, Ore.f S This' conference ft " the f first western : regl onal m e e I i n g " of Methodists after the union of the three main groups of Methodists.; Dr. Albert" E. i Day of LLos Angeleschairman of the confer ence committee a the state cf the church."" urged Methodists ' to consider migrant -farm laborers in tha.west as "potential assets" of the church, to be cultivated by "proper conservation. ; f Bishop Titus Lowe of Tndlan a p o 1 i a recommended . spiritual education of American youth as a field ,of Methodist activities.. Delegates adopted plans for a jurisdictional board lay ae tlrities and a geceral hoard f church education. 1 : ; ; DEATH PLUNGE OF BRITISH. T i0 ILiO o -Paul. Hauser4 g .'Cotumn Mayor -W. W. tWUd Biirt Chad wick hat eozne through wiUi hU proclamation .that all taalei mutt start wear- ryr""- ing I Centennial f clothes Monday i or else .-, , T.hi . h. caused us some thought.! WeH have been vlew-i ing:. more j than I casually some of the; shirts'! and; other regalia the v more enthusias- f tie citizens havel been wearing I under their1 beards and we u hm, ir. ha vis 5 come to the conclusion that there's hardly one of them : a ' self-respecting citizen would have been seen in in 1840. In those days f if you i were too good to wear, homespun or buck skin you wore ' nlain black '- and white and looked like an under taker. - - Well, you can't celebrate look ing like an undertaker and it pretty hard! to find a good buck skin topcoat in the haberdasheries these days, jeo we suppose it's all tignt for the boys to -wear bright colors, even if the -material la rayon and, j heaven forbid, even nylon. i ; -f . ' . - : . . - i --1 We suppose even wet food grey poet that we are, wUl have to shed our" prQlectire coloration and don la shirt teren' shades more glo rious than1 4 drunkard's nose; . '-; i Onr r 01119" regret is ' that we'-'' aren't In the same boat as our Mrj Bkr, Ithe refugee ' t o 'tar -show buslnesa in the advertis-i 7, ln i department.' He's aaf e1 by ' J a keeping on wearing 'the 9 same kind i ef shirts he's been wenrins for BO retira. t-y u - ; J ? 4.''i-i' --;: r'Zil ti: " Tffit&4 ehefit of- aurdry th letlc! coaches in this town we-wish to record that Mrs. Grover Jones of Peterstbwn, West Yiricinisw re cently gave birth . to ' her IS th consecutive i son. : Her h usband'i a school teacher "too." ' - - DEFENSE NOTK Sporting! goods stores; report . an i increased Interest among" women ln-rrather : higtJy-powv . ered rifles. One woman came in to One store the other day to " 'trade her in for something with i M little more ! aowle. SeriousIy,t she said, . Tm ' in terested only in shooting . bine-,. Jays and pacbute trocj. a VireMm Gang up, iy'iC&ESCEr CITT," Calif., July 1WJT)-Th8 town ef Salth River, Calif., first s'zeable settlement on the Redwood . Exapire. ; highway . south of the Oregon border, was, eared from threatened destruc-1 tlon by - fir today through the combined effort of firemen from Smith Riven Crescent City, and Brookings, Ore.- ; - ! -The blase,' til unaeterinlrsed or igin.; started in the house of Louis Braido. Wheb: Crescent City fire men arrived, the . Braido house was almost destroyed, an adjoin ing istore blilJding was aflame, and th blaze "was spreading to nearby roof ttsrs. ". Crescent C:lty . firemen saved Smith River from deetructioa. by 1 fire ia: 19 S U - . , - : - . ; v.' O These striking pictures, according lsh transport Omar being sunk by German naval forces in the Arc- f tie ocean, as it plunged stern first. In foreground is a. German de-i lifeboat whose passengers have already been taken aboard. A sect ond lifeboat (arrow) make its way. from the sinking! transport to the destroyer. According to tbe caption, tbe sinking vessel ..re- xnaXnecr in verUeal . position, as loan minute before making its Provincial Be Adopted by France Petain With' Triumvirate Unlimited Power Until . Assembly Forms ; President Lebrun to Resign Today BERN, Switzerland, July 11. (AP) Defeated France tipset the hourglass tonight and turned back to the old pro vincial system of a py-gone day, with an authoritarian base J i. i. - " X 1 'Ai 1 ' 1 ? uu scat, ujl jjvveramem ia uie guiuzrmg paiace ox Kings in German-occupied Versailles. i - . s 'Capitalism and socialism are things of the pastl" cried iiiiers:fcapture By Rumania Nitvy BUCHAREST; rjiif" Tne . pro-nazi . uumani&n navy threw its weight i n t o, the , oil scales' against Great" Britain ttf day. i',' ' Z,r Gunboats of King Carol's fleet mounted ; guard over..6tBriush tankers; lying Jdle in Rumanian ports, to prevent them Irom sail ing' to more hospitable Vat era, 7 It was another move in the se- rles 'of ' recent- actions .designed to 'forestall i any British " attempt to- keep .British-owned "oil and other;. British--property ?fr"om ; fall ing, into the, hands of Hitler. . Last "week .numerous "oil men were 'ordered to .teare Rumania. apparently as a precauUon against possible . attempt V to ' : wreck ,the British-o.wned ' wens. Later . a de cree "was "'issTied . forbidding; the unauthorized sale in foreign coun- tiles of shares In Rumanian en terprises, thus blocking a report ed .British" plan tQ keep., British wejls "out of Hitler's , hands "by transferring, .title to : Moscow. - . Rumania's " ownl' worries over Hungarian and Bulgarian territo rial demands meanwhile subsided, temporarily at least, as the re s uj t of " Hltier-a "keep-your-shirts-on j advice to , Impatient Budapest and Sofia. Sports HOLLYWOOD. July 11 - VPl - Pitcher ; Forrest Orrell held . Hol ryvrood to six scattered hits that producer a lone-tally and enabled the Portland . Beavers to trounce the Twinka.S to 1 In 1 Pacific Coast league baseball 'game . to night. , Rugger . Ardlzola. pitched eix-hit baji -also; for . Hollywood, then 'gave war. to Mil Blthorne. who kejt his performance hltlea. Portland t " 0 Hollywood . ..1 6 .. 0 Orrell and Annunzlo; Ardlzola, Bithorn (S) and Monzo. ' - Oakland 4 i: 1 Sacramento 3 8 1 - Pippen : and W, Ralui on dl; Klein ke and OgrodowskL Los Angeles ...7 San Diego .,... 4 9 1 Stine, Berry (7) and Hernan dez; Kewsome and Salkeld. Seattle . .5 1 0 San Francisco 3 9 5 Will Sprlnr Wilkle and Campbell; Stuts and RANSPORT, IN ARCTIC OCEAN to German sources,, show tbe Brito- shown in bottom picture,' foe more final planse..: AP Telemat." System to of Advisors Will Have -cold Marshal j Philippe Henri Pet- tain, 184-year-old head of state by decree, in a:. radio address from Vichy heard! "over France and. in neighboring countries. . "It is now necessary to fight against all In ternationalisms!" ' Then he outlined France's new system, a: strange medley of the political - past' and the' political present.' ' "! ' ' ' , . ' . ; - . .. After he ' had spoken, - the French radio 'announced that ef fective -.tomorrow Petain ' would succeed - President Albert - Lebrun as head of .the French state and would' become chief of the exec utive -department -of the govern ment, a president and prime min ister all in oneT ' - .-' ' ? - - "' v ;Too, he will have full- legisla tive power, until a new chamber Is formed and in ease 'of serious interaal-ir.. external' crisis he Is mjQwered' to. legislate -without conaultrnr the chamber at all. ' " , His iwyweTS win "resemble those exercised " by the dictator of na tionalist Spain, Francisco Franco. He will be backed, however, by a Politically ir wise triumvirate, -? Pi erre Laval, Adrien Marauet and General Maxima Weygand. ' With resignation tomorrow, old Albret Lebrun. last president of the' third republic, goes" into the Card. ' A-:-" -.:'-' ThIs, the marshal said, Ia what is to' supplant the dead French republic: " - - r- A government " of ' 1 z ' national ministers, " headquarters at Ver- (Turn to! page 2, coL J) Mexican Votes MEXICO CITT, July ll-CPV- Supporters of Gen. Manuel Arila Camacho, administration candi date,' declared tonight he had swept-into the presidency by sv 5 to 1 majority. in the counting of Sunday's election ballots. , , Gea. Juan Andreu Alrnaxan, however, issued a statement that he himself, vjpsld take the oath of ottice as' Mexico's next presir dent Dec.mber l when President Lazaro Cardenas leaves the post. : Alrnazan's supporters boycot ted the official counting centers and set up their own tallying hea25uarters since they. voted in their own election booths Sun day after charging Camacho's election officials barred them from the polls. . ' ' .The anti-government candidate declared more than 150 , Alma-i f - t - s Italians Admit esatoea But - Claim Damatre Also Inflicted ; Blockade '" Stressed by Nazi ROME, July ll-(flVIUIy; neck deep - now in war, listed heavy manpower losses in air and sea today and combined them with claims of damaging bomb hits on the world's - mightiest warship. Britain's 42,100-ton battle cruis er--1 Hood, ' and -" the - 22, 000-ton British aircraft carrier Ark Royal. ' . ' Military headquarters said 151 Italian, filers were lost and 103 wounded In the first 20 days of war against Britain. . - Moreover, Italy's air chief. General " Francisco Pricolo, dis closed that a great part of the Italian aerial force of 300 planes which fought the British-fleet in the Mediterranean e a r 1 y V this week had come home damaged, with, wounded aboard, and that three planes bad not come home at alL, . . . - ' . . In, another announcement, the burning and sinking of the Ital Ian motorshlp PaganinI; off Dur azzo, Albania.- June 28 was ac knowledged, with the loss of 220 Italian officers . and . men. The cause , was withheld. -.H ,, - The Italians said the Hood. was bombed . and .set afire and; the Ark Royal struck "twice with I (Turn to page z, cow i SaYmilTsOmer S Dies After Eight JROSJEBTJRO, July ll.-CPr-Au- tnonues sougnt . toaignt to ex plain ' the death of Robert' Keith, SO; , Sutherlla sawmill ' operator, after a fight with employes. ; Deputy -Sheriff Cliff Thornton said Keith' and - the employes brawled in front of a Sutherlin pool hall .last .night.? One of the employes, Thornton said, struck Keith, who fell, striking his head against the curbing. s: He died at his home near : Sutherlin .five hours later. ; : ' Action against . the man who struck him will await the outcome of an examination, Thornton' said; Counted but . ; sanistas .had been elected "abso lutely legally' to 'the congress which has - a normal membership of 172, 'and asserted his men would assume "their seats in this capital next September.; " 7 " " " Recently A I ra a a n declared that if he were elected and not acknowledged he would establish his : own -congress "la my own home if necessary. ' v Official electoral results' will not be known until ; September whea congress,.' according to law, proclaims the successor to; Presi dent Carden&s. ' - r . ' Alniazaa's followers - aecned Caraacho of importing . geverU thousand "gunmen" in an effort to intimidate the.AImazanistaa. - Truckloads of . peasants from neighboring towns last nisht ar-, (Turn to Taje I, Col. 5) . I JLitJSS Air Fight Over Britain Grows; : Cities BomBed 22 Nazi Planes Downed, ; Others Are Damaged , " by. Defense Ships ' . i . ,- , . k - f - . : . : .rT. British' Casualty Total- not Given; Heavier c Attack Foreseen i LONDON..' July 12-(Frlday)- -VPr-King George iof - England es caped death or Injury by only -a few minutes in a German bomb- -ing raid-at . an undisclosed time and place ' in southern England. ' it was disclosed .today after a day -nd night" of constant ; nasi air attacks 'which took a heavy Uncounted number of Uvea. Where the "king was Tisiting when the bombers roared over was not disclosed "for reasons of security" but it was indicated, that he left the scene of heavy bombing only a matter of minutes before the raiders struck. Also for "security" reasons the, government did not disclose the number of casualties across Eng land, but in after dusk renewal of the pounding of southern Eng- ' land alone 14 "were killed and 47, including two French sailors, 7 were wounded. , j , Altogether the British claimed 22 raiders shot down, 13 of them bombers, and "many more seri ously damaged. City Streets Are Mac hine-O united .But uncounted other big bomb- ers, and their speedy swarm of escort fighters sliced through, machine-gunning city streets and splintering homes with heavy ex- plosives. '. - "Whole towns shook with the force of the biggest blasts. Ia one southeast town eight heavy bombs smashed into a residential sec tion. ' n the northeast single com munities 'had as many as 30 to 40 dwellings wrecked. - .But the .late day and after- . dusk attacks - were concentrated largely on the southeast coast nearest defense line .to nasi cap tured take-off points for invasion of England. A British announcement said the day raids could be split into two main actions, both foaght over different parts of the south coast. The first lasted three hoars. ' "before lunch," in which time 1' German planes were brought down. The second, in the after noon, scattered into a succession of dogfights. One patrol of Hurri canes smashed . into a ' German fighter escort flight and downed (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) ... -"' Killed 1 Atop Laurel Peak ' SOMERSET. Pa.. July 11-UFi- A big army bomber, crippled br motor trouble, crashed in flames atop Laurel mountain in the A1-. legheniea "graveyard of aviators" late today after the pilot. Lieut. N. R. Dick, of Wright Field, Day ton, Q. leaped to his death., The ship, identified by ths army as a twin-motored B-lt mo-' del. en route from Mitchel Field, New York, to Wright Field, waa enveloped in flames for more than, two -hours after it skimmed tree tops and plowed into a small clearing; 7 ,:: - .'Dr. J. V; OTJonovan. Conn e 11s- ville. Pa., dentist, vr bo was. th first to reach the body of the. dead pilot; sal d the ripcord of the flier's parachute "had not beea touched." Although a flight bosk listed another man and witnesses of the - crash reported they be lieved three persona were in the ship, a .search of the-ruins dis closed no traces of others. Two Portlanders IedGar Crash OREGON CITY, Ore.; July 11- (JPy-Jin automobile overturned en the Carver-Estacada road south east of here tonight, killing tw Portland residents and injorlag two others. ' 1 The dead: t Clement Klppes. 31, owner ef a Portland afe, who was crusaei beneath the car. he was drlvisr. Phyllis Miller, 25, waitress, w se succumbed at; the Oregon City hospital.' :'-";" :-c";'" ' : Dale Calkins, 2 C, and El via CU- legly, 25, both of Portland, were cut and bruised, Their condSasa was not serous. Calkins aad Gallegly msAS tie accident occ irred as luppes t tetaptcd - to pass another :r. swerved onto a soft shoulder t tbe road and orertarned. Postmaster CctLfirr : 1 WASHINGTON, DC, .'u-y 11- N'elson J. Nelson, Jr., &s t . firmed by the senate toij' f l "' rosimaster ai uiiaf 9 urcTi-, . . . Army Flier