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Newspaper Page TextWINNIE The Weather torei-ast: Partly cloudy tonl(ht and Friday. No change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday 80 Lowest this morning 4 Twenty-ninth Year Martial piil Mallon. whose signature usually appears over this dla patch, Is on a brief vacation. Dur ing his absence the column will be composed of contributions from leading Washington corre spondents.) (Oopyrlght, 1B34. by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON, D. C, July 38. Debt discussions just begun between star.art.mpnt and Mr. TrOV- anovsky. the soviet ambassador, seem rather small potatoes ancr m defaults by other nations, which, as far as public excitement Is concerned, would appear to be regarded as final. The approximately half billion dol lars in dispute with soviet Russia Is chicken feed compared to the U. 000.000.000 owed by other European rations, and the almost ea.oOO.OOO.OOO ef private debts owed by Germany. t krH t.lmpi. one Roee after even-thing, and the United States to evidently out to salvsge whatever tt ean. Perhaps It l counting on the feathers It woum do in r -communist Russls, the object of capl tallstlc contempt. If It proved squarer tn business dealinga than the bour geois COUUHIVi. in thla connection a suggestion is made that. If this nation were on mischief bent and wished to have little fun with Ite defaulting It might tax. advantage of a aectlon of tne aeoi-"u'B - -j never ha. been enforced. This say. thst the debtor nation, on reqitM the secretary of the tressury will fur nish the United maw. jot " " of their bond., "definite engraved bond, suitable for sale to the public ...... -.m ham to have these AISO, tnHl, UKJ r. r- -- . bonds listed on stock exchangee, and all without expense " - - 8ti.te."-'' i. that these "m"- 1 no oniy jjivt-- " f stable obUgatlons-sh... t of- fered to tne guveiiu.. ln .11 public discussion of the debt question, this feature of the debt funding ITT-t!.:r.r.meni. mentlonea ana, .u were being debated In ",y slight reference was made to It. But. r 6 . rn,r interesting. if usea, ii. i t even amusing results. It means, of o state, could rourse. tnai " . dem.nd that the British. other debts be split up Into bonds of amall denomlnstlons and then. If tne governments would not buy them, the United States could throw them on the public markets. What would happen then? If the British government furnished us all or psrt of Its .4.600.000,000 funded debt in nicely engraved bonds of M00 to 10 000 denominations, would It buy them In when put on the market? Boasting a balanced budget and a sur plus of 23,000,000 pounds sterling, would It have to buy them to protect Its credit? Or, If It did not, and the bonds went begging, like Czarlst or Kcrcnsky bonds, what effect would thst have? Italy. Belgium and the other countries which have defaulted If the same thing were done? If simply nothing happened. If the governments did not buy and their publics did not think enough of their obligations to Invest In them at any price, there Is another method by which the United States could recover at lesst a small part of the money still due on these war debts. Undoubtedly, these bonds would be fine examples of the engTvr' skill In the countries from which they rame.. They would be all dolled up with scroll work, representations of the Hon and the unicorn, the Gallic cock and the Italian she-wolf. As such, they would have an artistic value, even If they had no Intrinsic commercial value. Whv. therefore, It Is asked, should not the United State, get what It can out of these beautifully executed promise, to pay by selling them for souvenir, and for decorative purposes It Is quite the mode to freme old msps to use the Illustration. In old fashioned magar.lnea in msklng lamp shades, and many persons proudly mount their college and school diplo mas. Certainly none of these things Is more decorative than a promise of the mighty kingdom of Great Britain, or the republic of Prance, or of Italy or Belgium, to pay bearer, say. .1000. all set out In the clearest and most .....fn) cnnnemlate. Persona who had a mind to go Into the thing wnoiesa.e ana naa inc mnnav tO ffT.tlfV their WhlRlST might psner room with examples of the srt of each defaulting funding na tion the French room, the English room, the Italian room, the Ccho s'.ovaklan room It would create. sy thre who have thought of th!s plan, an exotic atmcephere. so quaint and oldv.orldlsh. Besidea the artistic feature, there is advanced a jenttmentM reason Ti:s wou'd nutnlv 'f-t t io-e who Medford Mail Tribune Law Is Will Not Tolerate Interfer ence In Austria's Domestic Affairs Fighting Going On In Styria Province VIENNA, July 26. (Ar) The nazl putsch tonight developed Into a widespread revolt In the southern province, of Austria. Estimates of the dead ran to ap proximately 300, with hundreds of others wounded. In Styria alone 2fi0 were reported to have been killed. Artillery was brought Into ac tion for the first time since the beginning of the Austrian up heaval. Nam farmers are mobilis ing In southern Styria and serious trouble Is expected there. The city of Leoben was cap tured by government forces to night after heavy artillery fire had dislodged Its nazt defenders. Ioben Is a city of about 10.000 people and an extensive coal mining region. The executives of the provin cial security minister at Graz esti mated the nazls have already lost 180 dead In Styria, while up wards of 100 gendarmes had been slain. By ALBERT W. WILSON Associated Press Foreign Staff LONDON, Eng., July 38. (AP) An authoritative British source said to day that the government, of Great Britain, Prance and Italy were con vinced that no new action by the three powers to defend Austrian In dependence was necessary. This source .aid the government, named felt assured that a deatb blow had been dealt the Nail movement In Austria by the action of the Aus trian Nazis yesterday. By ANDBCE BERDINO Associated Press Foreign Staff ROME, Italy. July 26. (AP) A high official of the foreign office told the Associated Press a move ment today of Italian troops toward the Austrian frontier constitute, an affirmation, directed at Germany, that Italy will not tolerate foreign interference In Austrla'a domestic af faire. The troop movement Included transfer to frontier position, of four army divisions, numbering In all 48, 000 men. The spokesman said the govern ment did not believe, however, the troopa would need to cross the bor der, as the Austrian situation bad become more calm. He added significantly that If the situation became worse, particularly through further foreign interference, Italy would feel called upon to send her army Into Austria. By WAUB WERNER ' Associated Press Foreign Staff (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) VIENNA, July 36. (AP) A new Austrian government today smashed at the Nazle who yesterday aassssl nated Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, driving armed rebel forces out of the province of Styria Into Yugoslavia Government troopa marched loto Ratggcrsburg, Styria, without oppo sition In the later afternoon after the Nazla, who had held the town for 24 hours, decided their cause was lost. Hundred, of Nazla fled across the bridge Into Yugoslavia and surren dered to the authorities there. Fighting continues elsewhere In the province, however, and 15 men of th. ' government force, alone ar. known to be dead. (Continued on Page rive) PORTLAND. July 2. (AP) Mem ber, of the Oregon Building congress will meet here next Tuesday to per fect plan, for coordinated action In furthering the national Bousing act In Oregon. O. C. Weldemann, executive secre tary, .aid the act authorize, federal loans through established companies for remodeling work up to 12000 and for new home construction up to 120.000. Klamath Forger Receives Pardon SALEM, July 3. I API Oorernor Julius L. M!er yesterday Issued a pardon to Carl R. Houk, entnred to one jr in t pnltnt:srv on a bad rherk chare from Klamath county, June 0a I93i, ITALIAN SOLDIERS MOVE TO BORDER AS IT TO HITLER Declared in Minneapolis " Truck Austria's Economic Rot At Bottom of Political Strife Since World War Once Proud Country of Fifty Million Souls Sees Evil Days Since Loss of Main Natural Resources By THOMAS J. HAMILTON, JR. WASHINGTON, July 36. (AP) What alls Austria? Where once Frana Joseph's hussara danced to Strauss waltscs in the world', gayest civilisation, despair .talks. Men's hands are turned against each other. A chancellor Ilea dead, .hot In hie chancellory. The world watches, fearing war. What 1. the reason? Students, pondering that question, have found much of the answer in economics. Austria la a head without a body. War performed that operation and It 1. proving no more successful In the political-economic field than It ever did In the biological. - Once Brilliant Capital. Before the war Vienna was the world's most brilliant capital Insou ciant, sophisticated, savoring the tang of life with a amlle. From It through Budapest waa the capital of Austria's partner Hungary went the royal orders, bearing the Hapsburg double eagle. Viennese bankera held away over the Austro-Hungarlan financial realm. The economic life of the em pire revolved around Vienna. There were problem., of course. The dlveralty of race. In the empire taxed the ability of the Hapsburg. to "di vide and rule." There were some to say that even then the empire waa shaky. Twenty yeara ago yesterday Auatro Hungary broke off relatione with Serbia. The war came and then the peace that for Austria waa perhapa worse than war. Vast Territory Lost. The old empire Boasted more thsn 50,000,000 people and over 360,000 square miles of territory. When the surgery of the peace treaties waa finished, Austria, separated from a dismembered Hungary, had less than 1,000,000 Inhabltanta, and little more than 30,000 square miles. Much of the land left her waa mountainous, forested, poor for term ing. Natural resources were compara tively alender. Around this pitiful remnant, auspicious neighbors began erecting tariff walls. And IP the midst sat the once proud cap .tal. a head without a body. The old empire, despite defects, had provided free trade and a market for Vlenna'a manufacture. Now the hinterland waa Inadequate to absorb (Continued on Page Five.) baseball I American. Washington 0 S Chicago - 11 1 Weaver. McColl and Sewell, Phil lies; Jonea and Madjeekl. National (First game) St. Louis T 18 8 New York .51 p. Dean, J. Dean and Davis; Hub bell, Alverson and Moncuso, Danntng. (Ft rat game) Pittsburgh 5 6 Philadelphia French and Orace; Colllna and Todd. Chicago . Brooklyn 1 0 0 Weaver. Tinning. Root and Hart nett; Zachary and Ixpea. (Second game) Pittsburgh 1 U 1 Philadelphia - U 0 Smith, Hoyt and Padden; C. Davis and Todd. R. H. E. Cincinnati H l 0 Boston U Prey. Derringer and Lombardl; Frankhouse. Msngum, Barrett and Hogan, FISHERMEN DROWN WHEN BATTLESHIP RAMS BOAT SEATTLE, July 2fl.(AP) Ram ming of the purse seiner Umatilla of Seattle with the Ions of two fisher men, by the Battleship Arlrona in heavy fog off the oast of Washing ton early today was reported In wireless message to the 13th naval district. Capt. MacOlllivray Milne of the Art. rona reported he had been Informed hv rant Lucas Planlch of the KTerked purse seiner that the drowned mn were John Reursk and Lou Hi son of Besttle. Tall Prune Mrrt. 6ALEM, July 26. t AP) Max Ofhl har. state dlwtor of sgrlnjlture. to day announced a hearing on a peti tion and marketing agreement among srovers and processors of prunM tn Orron and Wnjhlnn. to r.e lirld i in the hill of representatives here I July. 30 it lp a. m, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934. El IT Rm T LEAPS TO DEATH TO AVOID GRILL CHICAGO, July 38. (AP) Brought o the office of the federal bureau of Investigation for questioning In connection with the John DUUnger case, James Probosco, 67, a west side resident, committed suicide today by Jumping from ft 19th floor window to the alley below. S. P. Cowley, In charge of the bu reau In the absence of Melvln H. Pur vis, said the government had been Informed that It was In Probasco's home at 2609 North Crawford avenue that Dili in per had his face lifting operation performed. No one could be found who wit nessed the leap, but the body landed in an alley near Adams street, It narrowly missed a pedestrian, and was badly mangled. Agents had gone to Probasco's home this momlng and he accompanied them without objec tions, Cowley said. He was left alone In a room facing the alley for a few minutes before the questioning was to begin. The next thing the agents knew was a report that a man had leaped to his death, the body striking the court of the Rookery, historic Chi cago office building. Cowley said Homer Van Meter, ace machine gunner for the DUUnger gang, also had a face lifting opera tion performed at the Probasco home. He said the physician who performed the operations had not yet been tak en, but that the government agents were after him. KENTON MEAT PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE PORTLAND. Ore., July 28. (AP) The Pacific Meat company plant In the auburban Kenton dl&trlct waa de stroyed by fire today with loss esti mated by fire investlgstors at (40.000. Nearly 1000 head of livestock In pens adjacent to the structure were saved. Part of the storage rooms, pen. and runwsys were saved, but the office, loading dock, cooking room, killing room and amokehouse were destroyed. LAVA BEDS HIGHWAY WASHINGTON, July 28. (AP) The national park service today allotted 1300,000 out of Its highway and trails fund to Improve the Big Oak Plat highway In Tosemlte valley. Representative Englebrlght, Cali fornia, said road programs to be un dertaken by the forest service Includ ed 176.000 for the Lava Beds highway between Alturas and the Oregon line. DROUGHT CHANGES VIEWS ON WHEAT CONTROL NEED By f HARI F, P. M' TTF.lt WASHINGTON, Jut, 28. f AP) A weeping change In the AAA's wheat control tactics was under considera tion today as the drought tightened Its dlssAtrous grip. Instead of plowing under to cut the crop, offtcisls studied a plan to return to virtually normal stresses next year but with an ace tn the hole. If restricted production were found necesssry, part of the crop would be harvested while still green to be nsd for forage. Uncertainties m tve world mhest .ulluntion. as wril as lessons Irsrrted txoffi Ut (Uoufiat, loll items, tbs piaos. CIRCUIT JUDGES TO 13 State Emergency Board Re fuses to Make Up Defic iency Caused by Failure to Accept Salary Cuts By CLAYTON V. BERSHAnD (Associated Press Staff Writer.) SALEM, July 26. JP) Circuit court judges will be without salaries for about three months, supreme court Justices and their etaff. will be with out salaries for about five weeks, while 15 people probably will be retired from the payroll of the public utili ties commissioner aa a result of the rejections of the state emergency board here yesterday. The board flatly refused to allow $38,000 for salsrles of 28 circuit Judges end (6.000 for aupreme court Justices, a. requested. The defici ency waa the result of the state legis- lature'a appropriation on the basis of salary reductions of about 20 per cent, but which the Judges generally re fused to take In its entirety, some tak ing but 16 per cent while other, did not take any. Staffs Took It. wr.!le the leglslsture could not compel these officials to take the re duction, the latter being protected by the constitution from accepting lower aalartea during their terms of office, many of them took reductions voluntarily, while their stsffa aid clerk, all took the .tatutory cuts. But as a result the salary fund will be depleted before the end of the year. The only recourse would be for an appropriation by the legislature In 183S to pay back salaries. The emerg ency board yeaterday declared It waa not the duty of the board to make up such deflclte from lta limited emerg ency fund. Thirteen of the 28 cir cuit Judges now are talcing full pay while two supreme court Justice, are likewise drawing the full amounta. Fifteen circuit Judges are taking par tial cuta while five Justices are re turning about 15 per cent of their sil arlea. Walt for Santa Claus. Asked what they would do for Christmas money this yesr, several supreme court Justices today declared (Continued on Page Five) KANE CREEK BLAZE No damage was reported to the local state fire patrol from the 300' acre brush fire put under control to day by a crew of fire flghtera from the Medford district, In the Kane Creek area southesst of Oold Hill. The fire patrol reported today that the blaze apparently started from a light ed cigarette thrown In the dry grass of the gulch about 1Q:45 yestcrdsy. JURY DEADLOCKED IN HOLLYWOOD ORGY CASE LOS ANGELES, July 38. (API There waa no sign of agreement on a verdict aa the mixed Jury resumed deliberations today on chargea of Im morality agalnat Dava Allen, head of the Central Casting corporation of Hollywood, and Olorla Marsh result ing from what waa described sa a Babylonian party In a Hollywood apartment three months ago. RUTHERFORD HAYES' SON DIES AFTER YEAR'S ILL MARION. O.. July 38. (AP) Col. Vebb. C. Hayes. 78, son of Ruther ford Hayes, 13th president of the United States, died here today after more than a year's illness. The new control Idea would enab. the nation's farmers to harvest the crop on normal acreages If that much wheat Is needed next season or If the world wheat export agreement collapses and the United flutes de sires more grain for export. Farmers could be held under con- trsct to harvest unmatured wheat for forage on government Instruc tions. It was explained thst this plan would serve both as a partial guar antee against a wheat shortage In cs" of snother hai drought, snd would furnish food for livestock If J ordinary Xorsga raa thotU Deaths Now Total 1212 North Central States and Other Scattered Sections Gain Welcome Respite WASHINGTON, July 26. (AP) The emergency relief administration emphasized today that no farmers in middle western drought regions would be forced to abandon their farms and take up othera in more productive areas. "There will be no condemnation of land." a spokesman aalrt. "The only movement of population to be con sidered will be where a group agrees to a resettlement. But there will be no condemnation against the will of the people." By the AsfvorlHtert Press. Heat deaths numbered 1312 today. A moderation of temperatures brought relief to some sections. Unofficial tabulations showed these death figures by states for the entire period of the present torrid blast: Missouri 330; lllnols 318; Ohio 137; Nebraska 60; Iowa 73; Minnesota S3; Indiana 54; Kansas 30; Kentucky 43; Michigan 33; Wisconsin 15; Pennsyl vania 18; Texas 13; Oklahoma 11; South Dakota 7; West Virginia 13; New York 4; Tennessee 7; Mansaohu setts 3; Connecticut 4; District of Columbia 3; Alabama 3; Maryland 3; Arkansas 8; Rhode Island 3: South Carolina 1; and Vlrlglnla 1. Of the Illinois dead, 08 perished yeaterday in Chicago alone, Including twelve aged wards of tha county at the Oak Forest Infirmary, where 31 have died since Sunday. Relief came yesterday to most of the north central states and to scat tered sections of the central, middle and southwestern areas, where the drought losses have been especially heavy. More relief In parts of the middle west and east was predicted for today. Extremely high temperature dot ted yesterday's weather msp. Kansas City had a high mark of 108; Indian apolis 104; Omaha 100; Chicago 03; Springfield, 111.. 103; Plttsburgti 06; Des Moines 100; Cincinnati 108, and Emporia, Kan., 113. AUSTRIAN CRISIS NEW YORK, July Jo. (p) Opti mistic as ever regarding world peace, Normsn Davis, Amertcsn ambasssdov st large, returned from Europe todiy with the prediction that the Auatrlsn crisis would not Involve other nations in war. Arriving on the liner Washington. Davis' pacific hopes remained un changed despite the Nael putsch In Austria and the asssaslnatlon of Doll fuss. With the prefsclng remerlt thst he "had nothing to say," Davie atlpu lated that none of his comment be corralled In quotation marks. He said the possibility of a Euro pean conflict was remote, that there waa less likelihood of war now, re gardless of the Austrlsn situation, than there haa been for several years Europeans are neither phyalcally nor emotionally prepared for war. Davla aald, adding that there might be further political upheavals. He saw no possibility of the United Ststes becoming entangled In the event of a European war. Tor two months Davla haa been participating In disarmament confer ence at Oenava, and in conversations on naval questions at london. NAVY PLANES LEAVE FOR ALASKA TODAY SEATTLE. July 3d. (API Head ing for Ketchikan, Alaska, 13 Untied States navy seaplanea took off from ! ke Washington, at the sand Point naval air station here, at 13:09 p. m.. today. RUMOR MUSSOLINI TO ATTEND FUNERAL VIENNA, July 2e AP Tt ws iinnttVlaily stated today thst Premier Mussolini of Itsly is expected to come here to attend the funeral for the MAsoMlnnted Chancellor Dollfuss Bat urdsy. R. B. Glut, farmer In Randall coun ty. Tfxss. reported a amail meteor et fire to wheat stubble on his fsrm la uvea place. DAVIS DOUBTS WAR ILL COME FROM HEBE i Driver's New Elks Ruler Michael F. Shannon, Los Angelei attorney, la the new exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk. He was chosen at the organization's Kansas City con mention. (Associated Preaa Photo) ROOSEVELT GIVEN I HONOLULU, July 30. (AP) Presl dent Roosevelt csme ashore here at 0:15 a. m. today and waa greeted at the docks by officials of the army and navy. The official Hawaiian band serenaded him. He departed few minutes lated upon a motor tour of the laland of Oahu. The strains of the familiar "Aloha," composed by the late Queen LUlou kalanl, formed a background for the gorgeously colorful scene at the pres ident's landing. Thirty thousand people lammed the pier. Across the harbor, a 31-gun.l presidential salute echoed from the guna at Fort Armstrong. Following her schedule to the min ute the navy cruiser Houston, Mr. Roosevelt's home for his summer va cation voyage, nosed through the nar row channel Into the sheltered har bor from which the city takes Its name (Honolulu means "Fair Haven" In Hawaiian) and swung about while humanity of many racea overflowed the atandlng room on the broad pier and Into 'the streets along the clr cultoua route laid out for the presi dent's tour toward the Nuuivu Pall (cliff) and on around the Island. DEATH TOLL 30 IN HOUSTON, Tel., July 21. (P A desth list thst may reach more thsn 30 waa Indicated today aa the Texsa coast country from Galveston to Cor pus Chrlstl dug out from the wreck age of yesterday's SO-mlle an hour hurricane. Property end crop damage waa counted at hundreds of thousands of dollars. The heaviest lose of life was re lieved to have been around Bay City. Carey Smith, edltjr of the Bay City Tribune, said about 17 persona were missing in the Bay City and Sargent area. They were believed to have been awept to death when a tidal wave rushed over the low lands for a dis tance of all miles Inland. Ten persona were missing In the Matagorda Bay area. Plve persona were killed and an other Injured, probably fatally, in a tornado which wrecked the farming community of Morelos, Jackson coun ty, late yesterday. AUTOIST IS INJURED IN FIRE AFTER COLLISION VANCOUVER. Wash., July 30. (API Iloy O. Burnett. 45, Portland automobile dealer, was reported by physician to be In a "very critical" condition In Clark general hospital today from burns he suffeied late yesterday when hla automobile caught fire after a collision. Burnett received extremely serious burns on his back, hla right arm. neck, face, and head. BUCK DEER KILLED ON ROSEBURG STREET noBEBUna. Ore. (tnM A buck deer "went to town" with bis doe girl friend today and was struck down In a traffic accident as a re sult. Homer 8 trick ling drove Into the bu-k on a street two blocks from the main business section. The buck was not Hurt aU.aata-. U TEXAS HURRICANE Pulitzer Award FOB 1934 No. 107. Strike GOVERNOR ACTS 4000 Guardsmen Called to Establish Military Rule Coast Dock Employers Concede Debated Point MINNEAPOLIS. July 28. (AP) Military rule was declared at 13:30 p. m. here today by Dot. Floyd B. Olson, acting, he asld, to "maintain law and order" In the Minneapolis truck drlvera strike. Pour thousand National Guardsmen established the military rule, after warring factions In the truck drivers strike failed to agree on final peace plana submitted by federal mediators. The martial rule decree followed by about an hour the acceptance of the peace plan by the drivers union. No. 574, and a reply from the employers advisory committee accepting some terms with reservations but rejecting the wage scale suggested by the Rev. Prsncls Haaa and E. H. Dunnlgan, mediators. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28. (AP) A member of President Roosevelt's mediation board aald today Paclflo coast waterfront emnlovera h.H agreed to discharge non-union long shoremen as a prerequisite to the re turn to work of striking union steve dores pending arbitration of the Is sues in tne walkout. The board member, asking that hi qfime not be used, aald also the fed eral mediator had suggested that pending final settlement by arbitra tion, the union longshoremen return to work through the old employer controlled hiring halls Wat that these should be under federal aupervlslon. A prediction was made that the Issues in the longshore strike Involv ing principally control of the hlrlnj halla. could be ftn.llv utti i about two weeks. CLAIM BARTENDER SOLD MINOR BEER At Stoops, 44. bartender at tha Meoca, 4.13 Eaat Main, owned by A. D. Collier, waa arrested late last nirht' by city police for selling intoxicating liquor to a minor, and Is cited to ap pear In city court Wednesday, August 1. at a p. m. stoops plead not guilty when arraigned in city court thla morning. City police have been Investigating local dispensaries for violations for some time, and the arrest waa made after an officer personally witnessed Stoops' act of selling beer to a minor at 10:45 last night. 100 at Pendleton PENDLETON, July 38 (AP) Th temperature reached 100 degrees at 1:30 p. m. here today. Yesterday's maximum was 04 degrees, and waa 101 degroes on Tuesday. WILL ROGER? says' A HOARD S. S. MALOLO, July 25. The big thing you hear nbout on the Faeific sida of the world is the great expo sition at Melbourne, Australia, in October. It's the tourists' next great roundup. It's where that crpatrst of all air races is to end. Fifty thousand dollar prize from London to Mel bourne, 12,000 miles. We have over a dozen of our crack fliers nnd over half the Rhins in it will be American-made. AVish the army and navy would put a boy apiece in there. Wiley Tost hopes to make it in 50 hours, keeping the championship in Oklahoma. I would rIio love to be with Wiley. I could be his navigator. I have flown that very same route ten thousand of the twelve from Singapore to Lon don on tho Dutch line. Hope to see lots of aviatbn on this trip.