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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-
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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
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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.
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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,
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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. '
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and proved by performance in thousands
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practical convenience features ever found
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advantages 50 years of electrical
achievement by Westinghouse.
No wonder it's the outstanding refrig
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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.
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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
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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. Johnson.
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