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MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTTNTR. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCTT 20. mifi PAOE FTVHi E FOR EXPERIMENT 40-Passenger Ship to Be Built by Douglas Com- pany for Tests in 1937 Top Speed 230 Miles Hr. Executives of five major air lines today announced that a contract has been signed with the Douglas Air craft company for .the Joint develop ment of an experimental super-air-liner to accommodate 40 passengers which Is to be ready for tests ' In 1937 and for service. If accepted by the air lines, on the airways In 1038. The lines Joining In the financing and development of this experimental plane are: American Airlines, Eastern Air Lines, Pan American Airways, Transcontinental A Western Air and United Air Lines. - Notice of the signing of the con tract was received here last night by L- O. Devaney, United Air Lines' sta tion manager at the Medford airport. This marks the first time major air lines have consolidated the exper ience of their engineers, pilots, tech nical and traffic advisers to develop an experimental plane to meet the needs of the future and obtain an air liner with sufficient carryinc capacity to Insure profitable opera tions, " Top Speed 230 M. P. H. Specifications call for a plane weighing 25 tons fully loaded, with a top speed of 330 miles an hour and a cruising speed of 193 mites an hour. using 60 per cent available power. The plane will have a wing span of 140 feet and an overall length of 96 feet and height of 20 feet. There will be four 1000-horse power engines. The landing speed Is not to exceed 05 miles an hour and the plane Is to Incorporate latest features of design, construction and navigation aids. The passenger cabin will be 40 feet long and 10 feet wide and fitted with 30 upper and lower berths with separate dressing rooms for men and women. The plane is to be capable of carrying 20 passenger and two tons of express and mall on long distance flights and on shorter trips 40 pas- PUFF FOR PRESIDENT'S SON If f r " (J M A J John Roosevelt (left), candidate for a role In Harvard's exclusive Hasty Pudding Club show, got some professional makeup pointer from Wallace Beery of the films In Beery 's stage dressing room at Boston. (Associated Press Photo) ' sengers and cargo can be accommo dated. Significant Step "This contract marks a highly sig nificant step for ' advancement of commercial aviation," said Col. E.-8. Oorrell, president of the Air Trans port Association of America. "Unlike every other country, where heavy government subsidies are demoted to the development and advancement of alr transport aircraft, private enter prise In the. United States, the in dividual operator, must carry this entire burden. . v "Air passenger traffic has Increased at a more rapid rate In the United States, more than anywhere else In the world. ' largely due to superior aircraft and operations methods.' In the past five years passengers carried on domestic and foreign air Unas un der the American flag have increased from 365,000 In 1930 to nearly 1,000, 000 In 1035. "Study of traffic charts of these l I HD LP!m On Eveky. Gnui KEZZHEZ air line networks Indicate that the increased volume of traffic to be available In the next two years nec essitates development of larger trans port units. Too Much For One Firm "Faced with the problem of keeping air transport of v this country In the lead. It is necessary to develop an airplane which will carry Increased volume of passengers without a pro portionate Increase In operating cost over present equipment. This sub ject has received serious considera tion of all operators In the field. The tremendous cost Involved In the de velopment of such an advanced air craft, however, .would be too great a financial burden for any one indi vidual operator! . "Approximately half a million dol lars will be required for the one com plete experimental airplane. If escb of the five air lines had separately undertaken development of such an airplane It would have meant an ad ditional expense to the air line of approximately $2,000,000, the cost of four additional experimental air planes. It Is apparent that even If five experimental airplanes had been started simultaneously, the perform ance, as shown by the plans of dif ferent manufacturers, would have been substantially the same." -Air line officials Indicated the present ten and fourteen -passenger transports, while more than adequate for today's traffic, will not economi cally care for the business In pros pect for 1938 when the four-engincd type plane will be In service, If It meets specifications. HAZLETT SEEKS POST OF ATTORNEY-GENERAL HOOD RIVER, March 20. (API Reports here today said James H. Kazlett, state' senator from Hood River and Wasco counties and form er state representative, probably will become a candidate fof the Demo cratic nomination for attorney-general. Hazlett has practiced law here for 20 years. JL 6 Midget Pftotos 16c. PEAS LEYS MADRIGAL CLUB OF TO GIVE CONCERT The Madrigal club Is to give Ha first recital Tuesday evening. March 24, at the Baldwin Piano Shoppe on West Main street. All interested are ex tended a cordial invitation to be pres ent. There is to be no charge or col ectlons. The concert begins at 2 o'cock. The Madrigal club was organised by Medford unit No. 15 of the Ameri can Legion auxiliary, November, 1034. Each year each unit of the American Legion auxiliary endeavors to do some community service work. Medford unit in November, 1934, when Its new auxiliary year began, decided to sponsor a chorus as It seemed as though the great need of some such organization made It a community betterment project. Any woman able to read music Is eligible for the or ganization. During 1934 and up to the summer of 1935, the American Legion auxil iary of Medford bought the music for the Madrigal club. Since that time the club has been self support ing snd a steady Increase in Interest has made it a project to be proud of. Mrs, Elsie Carlton Strang Is director and Miss Genevieve Brown accompa nist. The aim of the club is to provide the women of southern Oregon with a choral club open to any woman Interested In music and wishing to Join a group that has music at heart. IN BABY DOLL CASE DORCHESTER, N B., Mar. 20. (AP) New Brunswick's celebrated "doll baby" case brought Mrs. May Bannis ter, convicted of harboring a kidnap ed child, face to face today with a possible maximum sentence of three and one-half yeara imprisonment. A Jury of twelve men found the woman guilty last night of this charge, but decided her Innocent oi two more serious charge the actual kidnaping of Betty Ann Lake and taking the child unlawfully with In tent to deprive the parents. She will be sentenced later. The blue-eyed doll which figured In the case was tucked away and the baby It resembled rested In the care of welfare workers as a 12-day lapse began In the series of ' three trials arising from the backwoods kidnap ing and slaylngs. Mrs. Bannister's 19-year-old son, Arthur, awaits a mandatory death sentence upon conviction of murder ing the kidnaped baby's father, Philip Lake. HAWLEY PAPER FIRM . CUTS LOSS IN 1935 . SAN FRANCISCO, March 20. fAP) Hawley Pulp & Paper company's net loss declined to $227,493 In 1935 from $233,068 In 1934, the Indepen dently audited annual report showed today. " ' Funding debt was reduced to 1.6 9 4, 500 from $1,937,500. Increasing costs, Watson Eastman, president, said, dim hopes of Improvement this year, Use Mail Tritium, want ads. Swallows Appear On Schedule At Ancient Mission BAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., March 20. ( AP) The swallows winged wanderers of Mission Sin Juan Caplstrano, 'came home on Thursday to. the adobe walls that have received them on March 19, St. Joseph's day, for 70 years. As long as the oldest Inhabitant of this little mission town can re member, the swallows have flown away on San Juan day, October 23, and flown back to the eaves of the old thurch on March 19. Slightly ahead of "schedule" several hundred of the graceful birds came In from the western sky Wednesday night, nesting in a walnut grove before starting to dispossess a flock of yellow-tailed sparrows from the nests they left last fall. Observers said that about 1.500 swallows moved from the grove to the mission at dawn. KIMS BALLET T Truck horses cavorting in a sprint race. football tackle dancing daint ily when he should be hiking straight forward, a crooner trying to sing e complicated aria from grand opera would be ridiculous, and laughable. The square-dance number In the forthcoming production of the "Gay 90's," community play being sponsor ed by the Klwanle club. Is expected to be laughable, with such light footed "chorines" doing the do-ce-do as "Miss" Jim Hoey, "Miss" Bill Bower msn, "Miss" Ward Beney and "Miss" BUI Bolger. These blushing damsels will demonstrate the square dance as ahe should be danced. Sturdy volunteers who will steer these truck horses through the Ins and out of the terpslchorian Roman holiday will be Moore Hamilton, Mar mle Olson, Bill Jarmln and Bill Hoi loway. . . Since none of the eight ever aaw a square dance, let alone danced one, the number la expected to be a high light of the production. WEST IS LEADER 8 AN FRANCISCO (UP) California farm co-operatives are serving aj nuvl.li -fnf the rent of tha United StatM, aooordlng to President B. A. Stokdyk. or the Farm ureais Mrnin- latratlon's bank lor tne utn ais trlct. In this dlatrlct, comprising Cali fornia, Nevada, Utah" and Arlsona, nearly S5.000.000 worth of loans have been made to 101 purchasing and marketing oo-operatlvea. MA.riv nil of the farmer co-ODer stives In the west, Stokdyk declares. have established such commence in their grower-members that they now dominate the production field In which they operate. At a conference of the presidents of the 1J farm credit banks In the United States, it developed that the California system of farmer co-oper-atlves is belrg copied in msny other sections of the country. ' Use Mall Tribune want ads. ONLY 9 MORE DAYS TO SECURE LOW F.H. A TERMS BUY NOW! FEDERAL HOUSING ACT EXPIRES MARCH 31st ACT AT ONCE IM1I mm S1& Something has happened in refrigeration. Recent standards of refrigerator value have been discarded and surpassed. An utterly new and higher standard is em bodied in the new 1936 Westinghouse Golden Jubilee Refrigerator. Truly, it has everything you ever hoped for in refrigerator and more. Streamline beauty styled for today and for the years to come. Tested by time and proved by performance in thousands of homes, its Hermetically-sealed Mech anism carries 5 years' protection against any service expense for pnly $5, which is 1 included in the purchase price. Economi cal operation. The grandest array of practical convenience features ever found in a refrigerator. And back of all these advantages 50 years of electrical achievement by Westinghouse. No wonder it's the outstanding refrig erator value of 1936. There's a wide range of sizes and models. Come in today and see these great refrigerators. 25 YEARS OF SERVICE For this firm In southern Oreton TEME TESTED reputation for OQI ARF DEALING tnd MAXIMO! VALVE to our patrons U VOI R ASSIRANCE of COMPLETE SATISFACTION! I"""1. " rtlGEO FROM L . I T g iia.- . -i s m tern J J.. Sw. PE OPLES am Etm mm GTRIC STORE 212 West Main St. Phone 12 I.S. SEEN CONTINUING FOR THREE YEARS SAN MAIUN'O. (UP) The i dlaafitroua drouths of the past few yearn may be exited to continue until about 1939, If the ','weatherl cycle" theory hold true. After that, for a period of 10 or) 30 yeara .they will become leas fre quent and leas severe. Finally, with the return of a nor mal cycle of moisture. American farmers can hope to have complete relief from drouth for s period of ISO yeara or more. These are the conclusions of H al bert P. Otlette, who after years of scientific study of the "weather cycle" has presented his findings to the American Meteorological soc iety. , Gillette's final conclusions of the existence of weather cycles were based upon Intensive studies of the tree-ring thickness of the giant Se quoias In California and the Arizona pine. Other contributing elements re found In the study of the an nual silt layers, or v.rves, of anolent glacial lakes, and the time Intervals between recessional moraines depos ited in the last Ice age. In his ten-year study of weather cycles, otllette Iwa become convinced that all great wars and migrations are caused by climatic conditions. Italy's present war In Ethiopia, for example, he believes Is the direct re sult of the fact that Italy has suf fered the past few years from drouths the same as the United States. In his further research of the question of weather cycles, OUleWe believes he has established the crest of the last great Ice age which he places at 16,300 years, B. 0. This, he says, was followed by a warm dry crest about 3.300 B. C, and there will be another Ice age crest about 10,300 A. D., according to his com putations. Gillette, who was born in Weverly. Iowa, was graduated from Columbia university, and followed the profes sion of mining engineers until he retired 10 years ago. 4 ' Be correctly corseted In , an Artist Model by Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann. FOUND IN MILKY WW CAMBRIDGE , Mass.. March 50 (AP) -Harvard col legs observatory announced today discovery of thM gigantlo clouds of star dtwt In the LAWNMOWERS aharpened. Ws call for and deliver. 33 N. Fir St. SIMS BROS. Phone 361 milky way. several hundred llghb years from earth and hundreds ot times larger then the solar system. They are called Planetary Nebula and, viewed through a telescope, each appears as a luminous ring surround ing a brilliant nucleus star. They were found by Mrs. Muriel M. Seyfert, research ssslatant, on photographs made at Bloemfonteln, South Africa. Every watch repaired hers Is given the micrometer test. Jno. W. 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