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Medford Mail Tribune The Weather safher 1 ght and TatmOatp, I ratal) clondineswf I Tuesday. I 1 Forecast: Fair tonight and Tveedags, but with considerable cloildlneesw slightly warmer Tuesday, Highest yesterday Lowest this morning.. Thirtieth Year BEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE. 10, 1935 No. 68. rn I Good Business It U good business to um the j classified page of this newspaper. These little Ads bring surprising rer j suits and In roost cases prove to be I a good Investment. Try them. MM El Mgws I; By Pnul Mnllon (Copyright. 1935, by Paul Mnllon) WASHINGTON. June 10. The best -guide as to what effect the dismantling of the NRA will have on business Is a confidential study prepared by new deal economists for the guidance ol officials. It In dicates that a lot of people are Jumping to hasty conclusions, that many prevailing notions are ex asperations. The economists did not concern themselves with lAl I MAI. I. ON Imagining luture business nsvcholostv or calculating labor sentiment. They set out to find what could be reasonably ex pected in each major industry from crapping the code of that industry, particularly as to prices, hours, wages, earnings. Their conclusion was that about seven Industries may be adversely affected, four or five benefited, and the great hulk presumably unmoved for the present. The overlooked fact discovered by the economists was that the dis mantling of NRA will probably af fect each industry In a mild and different way because the NRA it self had a mild and different po tency In each industry. For Instance, the price-fixing feat ures were not Included In most codes, have been dropped recently or have not been enforced. This ia broadly true of auto man ufacturing, lumber, food products, household products, machinery, and paper. A few industries had generally higher standards of wages than the NRA standard, notably aircraft, chemicals. Some were monopolistic and already had fairly good trade understandings, such aa steel, alum inum, chemicals. Some have strongly organized labor groups and their labor standards are based primarily on this fact rather than NRA. build ing trades for one. The drug trades were never fully codified. The complicated code for motion pictures and theaters was not well enforced. The utilities have never operated under NRA. None ot (Continued on Page Four.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Brenton Pinch and Darwin Burgh er on an island of dry land en circled with snow, directing tourist? at Crater Lake. Fred Scheffel peering out from behind a huge stack of mall which accumulated while he was on a week's trip to Idaho. Gene Orr looking at the model train at the Chamber of Com merce, departing, returning 10 min utes later with an unexpected sale of $700 to his credit, made during the 10 minute absence. Ed Pease limbering up his shoot ing finger with a pen. In antici pation of the big state shoot. Dick Culbertson deciding to aban don his grease-monkey activities at the airport for a term in the navy. 4 PER HFNT RATE WASHINGTON. June 10 ,T Res toration of the old 4 per cent interest rate on PWA loans to state and com munities under the 4.000 000 000 work proeram was announced today by Secretary Ickes, who said the change was designed to attract pri vate capital to finance the expendi tures not donated by the federal gov. emment. The rate was lowered to 3 per cent on May 24 at the fame time the fed eral donation on non -fri-al PWA projects was raised frvn 30 to 45 per cent. Ickes said the chince made tody was recommended to President Roose velt by the advisory committee on allotments. This committee assembled today for an Important swton at the White Houf. H la Mud vine ways of spnd iru? ttv MOO0 0O0(KK marks fund. HOP OF CLIPPER WAITS MORE FAVORABLE SKIES ALAMTDA, Calif.. June 10. fAP) Bet'suw rf nl-'Tf wh''': c :;'! it ion . (-CP., the fl!.-tli of the Pnn Arrserlrars ClppT piene to Hawaii a post poned today. I i Man, Wife Confess; Old Spokane House Was Prison for Boy BUTTE. Mont., June 10. (AP) Escape to Canada waa blocked and department ot Justice agents swarmed Into Butte today close on the trail ot William Mahan. who abandoned his car and 15.155 ot the $200,000 Weyerhaeuser ransom and apparently resorted to hltch-hlklng after he was "flushed" by a detective. The department of Justice agents arrived by airplane to Join In the hunt after Butte police scattered network of 100 officers and dep utized men on roads out of here seeking the ex-convict whom Detec tive J. E. Mconey. 39-ycar old former A. E. F. boxer, recognized on the street early, yesterday. By John L. Wheeler (Associated Press Staff Writer) SALT LAKE CITY, June 10. AP) from all fronts today the federal manhuntcrs pressed ther search for other members of the Weyerhaeuser kidnap gang, two of which were under arrest here. Thi kldnanlne broke wide open hero last night when the federal bureau of Investigation, department of Justice, announced from Wash ttnn n. c. that Harmon W. Walcy, 24, tall, good-looking blond son of a Weyerhaeuser mmw company foreman, and his wile. Margaret, the retiring, diminutive daughter of an old Salt Lake City family, had been arrested here ana had confessed. Suspect Kx'jtpes In Butte. William Mfihnn, a. re puted bank robber from Washing ton state, fled before the Justice agenls, after yesterday deserting hU ofrinn automobile on a downtown street and fleeing cross lots when recognized by a city detective. J. E. Mooney. Only a vicious dog saved Mahan from capture, but at that he left 915,155 In ransom bills behind In a cache In the automobile. Mooney was halted abruptly In his pursuit of Mahan when the dog came be tween him and the fleeing man. as the latter leaped a fence and made his escape. Two Salt Lake City policemen get the credit for the first break in the kidnaper hunt since the release of the 9-year old lumber heir near Tacoma a week ngo Saturday morn ing. They were W. M. Rogers, a Continued on Page Eight) M'KENZIE PASS I EUGENE. June 10 7Pt The big rotary snow plow, boring through 'he snow choking the McKenzie pass, was exacted to burst through the Inst drifts sometime Tuesday, according to word received by the state high way maintenance office here today. The plow, working from the east side, was 73 miles east of the high way Junction at Springfield this morning. It waa said. This would leave approximately six miles more to go, and barring accidents It was believed the crew could be through by Tuesday noon at least. Lwt year, with little snow In the high country, the pass was opened March 9. BAKER. June 9. AP) A masked burglar blew the safe In the office of the Pacific Fruit and Produce com- jpany in Baker and locked Fred Cavin, company employe, in the refrigerator I room early this morning and escaped with $75 In cash. I Cavin apparently entered the plant Just after the burzlar had blown the I safe and was locked in the rcfrigera j tor room, where he was working when the thief pointed a gun at him and told him to "stay in there." Much in West la being shown in the outcome of the R-unry-Kiwant. ondse tournament which tikes pla- at the Hotel Medford tonight. Each team has one victory to Its credit and ome keen competition Is anticipated when tonigh.' contest gets under way at 7:30 p. m. There will be seven tables In play, each club tying repre sented by a team of fourteen mem bers. Vr.e eveninz will be concluded with a Dutch lunch. j CRATER ERUPTION IS j PLANNED BY LEADER Judee -Johnny" Reed of Gold Hill was a local business. viMtor today. : While her Judc Red made plan?; for a big "eruption" of the Craters club " take plaoe at Vir Hct-1 Md-fc-'t :n t.c very r.'M.- rr,i:' Ali :ne:mers are urged to plan now to a: tend. I I SPOKANE, Wash., June 10. (AP) Pictures of Harmon M. Wulcy. arrested as a supert In Mm Weterhueiiser kidnaping, and William .Mahan, sought iienr Butte. Mont., In the same cae. were positively identified here to day ns bring those of two men mmii near the house til which the kidnaped C.enrge was held pris oner. SPOKANE. June 10. (AP) Kid naped George Weyerhaueser'e prison for about one week has two gables. Just as he aald it did. But "G-men" had possession of It and refused to allow reporters to see whether George's description of the closet In which he said he slept was accurate. The house, at 1509 West Eleventh avenue, on Spokane's South Hill, la an ill-kept, story and a halt bungalow, trimmed in white. One of the gables looks out toward the north and the other to the west. It has a porch running the full length across the front. Shrubbery has run wild arouna the place, and the grass, where it hasn't died out from lack of water. Is rank. Blinds cover all windows, and neighbors said they didn't know when they had been raised last. The blinds that covered the gables out of which George said he looked also are covered with shades. Reporters who attempted to in spect the place this morning were told by a man who was Inside that "this house was rented thU morn- i Continued on Page Bight) E EUGENE. June 10. iVPr Two men were under arrest and John Doe war rants for seven more were Issued Sun day, following an encounter between strikers and strikebreakers at 'he Western Lumber company mill at Westftr late Saturday night. State and county officers were lh the erea today seeking the seven men listed in the John Doe warrants. Those under arrest were James Mi chaels and Dayton Htleman. charged with assault and battery and under ball of 9250 each. Sheriff C. A. S warts aald a gang of nine men had participated in an. attack upon four strikebreakers, bent Ing them up so that one was brought to a hospital here for treatment. Marion Kllbreath and W. H. Bryler were two of those beaten, namea of the other two not being known here today. JURY SELECTED OKLAHOMA CITY. June 10 fAP) ! A Jury to hear the trial of Ben B. j La.ka and James C. Mathers on j charts of conspiracy in the 1200.000 ! kidnaping or Charier F, Urschel was; I completed at 2:20 p. m.. today. j j Immediately after the Jury waa se- j : lfcted La ska requested that Mrs.' Clara Belle FeMman, wife of Albert: Bates, Edward Feldman. her son and , i Alvln Hrott a relative, be kpt in e- t elusion during the trial, asking that ' ' the rule barring witnews from th1 1 j courtroom be put into effect. i i Judze F.dcar 8. Vaught complied with the request. ' SALEM. June 10 ( AP ) Pledg.n? hlmwlf wholly toward the tak of J building a greater and stronger insll ; tution. Dr. Bruce R. Baxter was for ; mall" inaurii-avd president of Wi! lanif".; .:u..(rMl tKiay duru.g th 9Ut "n;:n,ruement exercltei of the (Methodist school. URCHSEL KIDNAP Arrested Hunted f T . m HAItMON M. Whalcy (above), who was arrested In Salt Lake rity, late Saturday and who .1. Kilgar Hoover, of the department of Justice, declared had confessed to participation In the kidnaping of fieorge Weyerhaeuser at j Taenma. William Malum (below) i who department of Jutlre of fir I a Is xii id had been named by Wulcy as in votved In the crime and who Hoover said wan the man who fled the car at ! Hutte, Mont.. In which SI 5. inn In j ransom money was found. (A. 1' I photo.) CHIEF OF GRANGE PORTLAND. Ore., June 10. (AP Louis J. Taber, national master of the Grange, believes agriculture in general Is on Its way to a more satisfactory financial basis. Tabcr, during a visit here yes terday while en route to McMinn vllle for the state Grange conven tion opening Tuesday, expressed the cplnlon that farm prices will move a little higher and some farm Costs will be lower, with poultry and poultry products to bring a higher a vera hc price than in the past 12 months. Concerning reduced agriculture costs, the Grange master cited lower 1 n terest cha rges as a rcsu It of the legal reduction of I per cent ef fected by federal land banks. SAN FRANCISCO, June 10. fAP Ann Harding, motion picture star, re vealed today that efforts had recently been made to kidnap her six-year-old daughter. Jane. The disclosure was made In an ap plication to the state supreme court for a writ of prohibition to restrain a Los Angele strperlor court from proceeding with a custody action filed recently by her divorced hus band. Harry Bannister. VOCATIONAL CLASSES The meeting scheduled for Group C of the Young Men's Vocational dub. at the Groceteria Tuesday, has been postponed, it was announced today. Other group meetings as scheduled for tonight wl!l be as follows: Group A: At Snlders Dnlry. Mr. Fredericks; Oroup B: at Mcdfotd Do meptlf Laun'iry, Mr. Fabrlck: Group C: at The Toggery, Mr. Isaacs. CREW ABANDONS SHIP ON CALIFORNIA ROCKS SAN FRANCISCO. June 10 I AP I -Tnf. 2B crew members aboard the grounded lumber schooner Novo took to lifeboats and abandoned the craft nhortly after 0 a. m Pacific standard time. wlrr1r-. report, fved here i:d. Tnr-.c u:c no details on how the rescue was ejected. am G.O.P. GRASS GIVE FIRE ON Preserve The Constitution' Is Rallying Cry As Prairie State Republicans Meet In Springfield, Illinois. SPRINGFIELD, III.. June 10. ( AP) A shouting, singing crowd ot prairie state Republicans launched the Middle West's vest pocket nat ional convention the "grass roota" conference today to the battle cry of "Preserve the constitution." Gathered in the Illinois State Fair auditorium. Republicans from 10 states heard Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, and un successful candidate for the Repub lican presidential nomination in 1920 and 1928, and Harrison K. Spangler, Iowa national committee man, level opening shots at the Roosevelt administration. Officials of the conference aald there were 6.000 In the auditorium when the gavel fell. Both Lowden and Spangler tola the assemblage the issue for 1936 1b "the preservation of the consti tution" and "liberty against auto cracy." Spangler, speaking at a rostrum above an Illuminated portrait of Abraham Lincoln, drew a noisy dem onstration which stopped his ad dress when he said: "The Issue today Is the philoso phies of I.lncotn against those ot Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Lowden declared the "essential forms of our government are chal lenged In high places." For agriculture, he proposed out-and-out government benefits to cor respond with Industry's advantages from the protective tariff. The form er governor departed from his man uscript to take this stand. Jeers and cries of "hit him again" punctuated Spangler's address when he arraigned President Roosevelt for "broken campaign pledges forgot ten." EX-CONVICT CASE PASSED TO LANDIS ALBANY. N. Y., June 10. (API Ed win C. Pitts, the Alabama lad who made Sing Sing famous on the a'h lectic fields, was ruled Ineligible to day to play baseball In the minor leagues because he Is an ex-convict The decision was made by the ex ecutive committee of the National Association of Minor Leagues. It means that Ktnesaw Mountain Lan dls probably will have to make a fi nal decision on the legality of Pitts' contract with the Albany club of the International League. LUMBER STRIKE IN SIXTH WEEK SEATTLE. June 10. (AP) The paralyzing Pacific northwest lumber strike entered Its sixth week today with the newly organized Joint strike committee scheduled to meet ,ln Olympla to outline plans for enforce ment of demands for higher wages and shorter hours. The only encouragement in the sit uation came from A. W. Mulr. vice president of the International Car penters and Joiners union who aald conditions wore "slowly but surely improving every day." Although hepea for a settlement last week were shattered by a split within the ranks of the sawmill and timber workers' union, one break In the tense situation occurred yester day at Aberdeen, Wash., when pulp wood cutters, affiliated with the tim ber and sawmill workers union, voted to accept a 50 cent Increase for cut ting and proportionate Increases for yarding and day labor, ClESlMl MP IN PEIPINO, June 10. fF The office of the Japanese military attache Issu ed an oflclal statement tonight that It had received from Oen. Ho Ylnj Chln. chairman of the Pelplng mili tary council, and the Chinese nation al government "the acceptance of all Japanese demands concerning nor.h China." NANKING. June 10. 1P, The Chinese national government tonight issued a mandate "forbidding provo catlve npeches and actions detrl- i mental to the maintenance of 1 friendly relations between China and neighboring countries." T WAR DRILL MOVE ! 7000 Men And 600 Officers To Be Encamped At Fort Lewis Tomorrow Night For 15-Day Maneuvers. A upecial train bearing 82 nat lonal guardsmen and officers of Co. A and Headquarters Co. of this city was scheduled to depart from Medford about 6:30 this evening, j bound for the 41st division's nat- lonal guard encampment at Fort Lewis, Wash. I The train waa scheduled to bring guardsmen from Ashland, and will also pick up men at Grants Pass i and Oregon City. Under Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald. Co. A commander, and James W . Grlgsby, commander of Headquarters company, the Medford guardsmen hope to continue their record lor high ranking during the two weeks of divisional maneuvers. SALEM. June 10. (AP) AH Ore gon National Guard troops, wltn the exception of the 360 members of the coast artillery, were preparing today to move to Fort Lewis where they will participate In the largest military movement in the went since the World war. Oregon will send more than 2.500 officers and men to the 16-day training where It was reported 7.000 men and 600 offlcera would, be encamped by tomorrow night. Troops from Washington, Idaho and Montana were also converging on the American lake site, all units comprising the 41st division In com mand of Major General Oeorge a. White. The general left for the camp yesterday, and hla headquarters here were deserted today with tne de parture of Brigadier General Thomas E. Rilea for the camp. From eastern Oregon and the south, troop movements towara Portland started today. The corn pa nleB in the Portland area were to move northward early Tuesday morning. The coast artillery will camp at Fort Stevens for Its 16-day Inten sive training period. Camp Clat stop, adjoining Fort Stevens, in Clatsop county will not be used for training purposes this year. The 1100 Portland guards will be taken to Fort Lewis in three con voys of 90 army trucks. All other Oregon units will go by railroad The entire 116th engineer regiment from Idaho will pass through Ore gon in a truck column. National Guardsmen will not use the regular army barracks at the fort, but will go Into tent camp and live under field conditions. Dog killers are again on the loose In Medford. According to a report on file at the city police station the dog of Mrs. Mark Smith, 303 Ed wards, was poisoned and died yes terday. This Is the Becond time in six months that her flogs have been poisoned. The killer la apparently- partic ularly anxious to harm the doge in that neighborhood for the dog of Mr. Hal. at 328 was poisoned Friday night, arid died on Hall's back porch. Several other dogs have been poisoned 'n that locality in the past year. City po Ice ere looking for the poisoner soday. According to Chiei McCredle. It Is difficult to convict a dog poisoner, unless he be caught in the act. TON FAM1 Pro Jack Hues ton of Rogue Valley Golf club is one up on Old Man Par today, and despite a lack of sleep he la all smiles, for early this morn ing at the Community hospital Mrs. Hueston gave birth to a beautiful seven months' baby boy weighing three pounds, seven and one-half ounces. Mother and son were reported do ing nicely today, and already It Is said the little lad Is taking after his father with lusty cries of "Fore!" Vote Tuesday On Holding Co. Bill WASHINGTON. June 10. (AP The senate agreed today to vote by 4 p. m, tomorrow on the Wheeler Rayburn bill to abolish utility hold ing companies. It then took up the measure ex tending the office of railroad coordi nator for one year. Parents Killed When Neighbors Engage In Fight NEW YORK, June 10. (P) Anthony Fontano, nine years old, and his two sisters are orphans today because Anthony threw water on a playmate's new dress. The dress was being worn yes terday by six-year-old Josephine Cosentlno. When Anthony threw the water, the girl rnn to her niother, and soon the parents of the children were fighting. The light ended abruptly whsn Josephine's father. Domlnlck Co sentlno, ran out of his house with a gun and shot Gulseppe and Rose Fontana, parents of Anthony and hla slaters. Johanna, 16, and Con nie. 11. Both fell dead as the children looked on. Copentlno surrendered to police. TICKETS FOR ELKS Committees are completing plana for the biggest Elks picnic on record, scheduled June 14 at the picnic grounds on Rogue river, and with tickets selling rapidly and Inquiries coming from Ashland, Grant Pass and other neighboring lodges a large crowd Is expected. Besides the headline CCC fights there will be many side attractions for entertatnment of the brothers. Jerry Jerome la chairman of the fight committee and P. O. Blgham will have charge of the feed. One thou sand are anticipated. At the regular lodge meeting Thurs day night E. W. Wlnkit was Installed as exalted ruler; Otto Frohmayer aa esteemed leading knight. W, A. Grim as esteemed loyal knight. Arthur Hess aa esteemed lecturing knight, George T. Frey as treasurer and N. S. Young as tiler. Due to the fact that Ernest L, Scott was out of the city, he will be Installed as secretary June 13. Exalted Ruler Winkle made the fol lowing appointments for the ensuing year: Esquire, Ransom Webster. Chaplain, B. L. Sanderson. Inner guard, Lee Watson. Organist, Chaa. Spencer. Finance: Burt. Lageson, John Cupp, W. A. Gates. Relief committee: Otto Frohmayer, Arthur Hess, W. A. Orlm and E. W. Winkle. Blckness and visiting: Nick Young, L. O. Northlmd, E. J. Feldman. House: Dr. R. E. Green, Larry Schade. E. W. Winkle. Social and community welfare: Leon Hasklns, Geo. Eads, Russell Semon. Membership and lapsatlon: B. O. McKcnna. Paul Jennings, Ray Wright, Cole Holmes, Herb. Guenther. Lodge activities and attendance: Tom Robinson, Walt, Olntscheld, Clarence Pankey and Capt. Martin. Publicity and Medford Elk: E. C. Ferguson and E. L. Scott. Banquet: P. C. Blgham, Elmer Guil ders. Bob Ebel, Ed Leach and Harry Barneburg. Picnic grounds: Everett Brayton, Louis Jennings, Fred Scheffel, Wm. Hammett and Diamond Flyno. Dance: Wm. Frohmayer, Dow Stone, Sam Cary. Ransom Webster. Entertainment: Diamond Flynn. Howard Leclerc, Walter Abbey and Howard Oautt. Bowling: Frank Hussong, Ron De vore, Geo. Oates. Roy Prultt, Jas. Murray and Dr. Paske. BiUards: J. V. Watson, 5yd. Brown, Harry Armstrong, Everett Carkln. Cards: Dr R. D. Coe, Bob Ham mond, Jr., Capt. Overmeyer. Ladles visiting sick: Mrs. L. O. Northland, Mrs. Ella Pennington and Mrs. Ernest Scott. By-laws: Frank Farrell, Harry Skyr man. Dr. C. W. Lorn cry. EXTENSION PLAN WASHINGTON. June 10. (AP Administration leaders decided late today on a plan for extending NRA under which exemptions from the anti-trust law would be permitted only If labor requirements of the old law were met. The plan was worked out at an informal meeting of the senate fi nance committee with Donald R. Rlchberg, retiring chairman of the recovery board, and leading NRA foes Including Senator Borah R.. Idaho). Not all agreed on the plan, how ever, Borah Indicated Immediately he was not satisfied. - Income Shares Quarterly Income shares bid 131 asked 1 45. STATE POLICE TO Attempt To Keep Men From Opening Sawmill At Tilla mook Brings Decisive Action By Executive. TILLAMOOK, Ore.. June 10 (AP) Governor Martin today promised all the resources of his office would be utilized to assure employee ot the Coates mill here a safe pursuit of their Jobs after a mob of 250 pickets had prevented the 40 work ers from entering the plant. The governor told Sheriff J. C. Holden and F. A. Belz, manager of the mill, that he was ordering a detail of state police to Tillamook at once. A shower of rocks greeted the employes who reported for work to day. Three automobile windshields were broken and the drivers cut by flying glass. The mill did not open and Indications were that no furth er attempt to place workers In the plant would be undertaken until tomorrow. The pickets were Identi fied as residents of Garibaldi, Sea side and Astoria. SALEM, June 10. (Pi tat police were ordered Into Tillamook today by Governor Martin, to maintain or der in the reported lumber strike at the Coates lumber mill, where 260 outside men were preventing the opening of the sawmill., The governor earlier had informed the Tillamook county sheriff to order the men out and permit all who wish ed to work to perform their duties unmolested. He then dispatched Cap tain H. W. McClaln and a dozen state troopers to the coast city. In the meantime the governor de clared he would enforce the laws of the state, and always had In readi ness the National Guard, most mem bers of the guard In Oregon were en route today to the 18-day encamp ment at Fort Lewis, but the execu tive said they could be brought back readily If needed. The Coast Artillery of the Oregon Guard, however, will be In camp at Fort Stevens In Clatsop county, near the scene of the latest strike reports. There will be 350 men and officers In the Fort Stevens camp. AH other National Guardsmen will be at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma The governor said he had reports of threatened strike ,ln Columbia county, which situation was being watched. The Tillamook local labor organiza tion stated it did not know the men who were there to prevent the Coates mill from operating, and stated its membership was not represented. "We will suppress any move to pre vent men willing to work from doing so." the governor aald. "Those men will receive protection. That Is the basis of civilization and law and or der. GOLD HILL VICTIM OF AUTO WILL RECOVER William Fllppln. 65. of Oold Hill, truck by a car while crasalng the highway In tront of the dance hall at Oold Hill Saturday night, wu re ported recovering satlefactorlly to day at the Sacred Heart hospital from erloue head Injuries. A .police re port stated the car that struck Flip ping, traveling toward Medford. was driven by Perry Ashcraft of Ashland. HOLLYWOOD, Ca!., Juno 8. To rend whnt all these critics of our country write you would naturally think that everybody else was just sittinp pretty, but France has offered their pre miership to everybody over there but Chevalier and they know he is too smart to take it. England j"t today traded horses right in the middle of the Thames river. Half of Italy has gone to Africa with a gun on their shoulder. Japan is just looking over Chinese maps to see where to send their urmy. Russia must be in some devil ment; we never hear of 'cm any more. So you see there's none of 'em that we can point with pride to. It's just a bad time to he in the government running business anywhere. I e I'M. McNavaht shadiest, fu