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a PAGE SIX MTOrOKP MAIL TRIBUNE. MED70RD. OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941. F E T Giant Seaplane Badly Crip pled Halfway Across Pulls Out 17,000-ft. Dive, mm San Diego, Cal., Sept. 28. W) The Consolidated Aircraft corporation today released details of what it termed an unbelievable delivery flight of a Catalina bomber to England, made with both ailerons and one wing tip missing. The company said the story was so amazing its release was delayed until information could be obtained from the British ministry of information. Half way across the Atlantic while the seaplane bomber was cruising at 18,000 feet, the auto matic pilot suddenly Jammed with the starboard aileron, onej of the flaps on the wings that give lateral control of the ship, full down. la Spiral Dire The 30,000-pound craft went Into a spiral dive. The strain as the giant ship whirled to ward the ocean was too great and the starboard aileron broke completely away. With it went the entire wing tip. Consolidated said the pilot and, his five companions re ceived a quick glimpse of the tossing waves rushing up to meet them as the plane hurtled on its 17,000-foot dive. Then the other aileron broke loose and fluttered away. Loss of the second aileron saved the plane, the pilot re ported. It served to balance the bomber. Just 800 feet above the water the Catblina, with both pilots straining at the manual controls, swooped into level flight. During the dizzy spin, the radio operator sent an SOS, but later learned the condition of the radio aerial prevented proper transmission and the message was never received. As thd ship leveled off the pilot decided to fly on instead of sending another SOS. The ship was six hours from its des tination, .and a message stating "both ailerons gone" was trans mitted and received. Believed Lost Officers receiving the message later told the crew they had been given up as lost because they believed it Impossible to navigate a plane having a 100 foot wing span, weighing IS tons, across half the Atlantic without ailerons and one wing tip. When observations were taken the pilot said he learned the plane was flying in the opposite direction from that necessary to take him "home." The Job of turning the giant plane around, without either of the lateral control surfaces, was a feat, the British informed Consolidated, which deserves space in the avi ation record books. To add to the difficulties, the bomber encountered a heavy storm off the British coast and the crew was forced to maneu ver the plane down into a har bor three miles from the sched uled landing place. The British reported the plane had been repaired and had Joined a fleet of Catalinas on tatrol duty in the Atlantic, searching for German U-boats and surface raiders. A Catalina clayed a major role In the de struction of the German battle ship Bismarck. Salem, Sept. 28. (JP Sec retary of State Earl Snell turn' ed over to the state treasury todav a check for $1,536,794, the check being for August gas oline tax receipts, the largest monthly receipts in history. August gasoline consumption In Oregon totaled 30,735.84 gallons, a 12 percent increase over August, 1940, and an aver- age of 73 gallons for every mo tor vehicle recistered in the state. Total August consumption was 433.000 gallons more than the July total, the previous record Consumption during the first elcht months of 1940 totaled 195.5fi2.3fi5 gallons, an in crease cf 22,709.875 gallons over the same period of 1940. Casoline tax receipts for the f.rst eight months this year to taled S9.778.118, a gain of $1. 135.493 over the corresponding period last year. ft) m V-l ? TO LAY CABLE New York U.PJ A burled transcontinental cable, designed to speed the requirements of both national defense and busi ness, has been one-fourth com pleted, with three cable trains working under forced draft to finish the big task by next year. Laboring under floodlights at tached to the tractor trains en gaged in plowing a 30-inch deep bed for the steel-encased cable, the work is carried on 24 hours a day when necessary. The cable system eventually will provide more than 800 tele phone channels, almost triple the present number of transcontin ental circuits. Also, several channels will be used tor tele graph and radio network cir cuits. Cable laying crews of the American Telephone and Tele- It U C C I DOt If It's the out door type for yon, here's Marlon Johnson with her first mallard al Duck Bay In eastern Quebec. She wears an airplane cloth bunting Jacket, cotton shorts. FACES TURN RED WITH FAST TWIST IN WAR EVENTS Br Jack Stinnett Washington. The capital in wartime: The number of people this war has thrust between the horns of a dilemma couldn't be estimated, but the situation of For Finland, Inc., 522 Fifth avenue. New York, N. Y., cer tainly is a case in hand. No nation that has fallen un der the heel of aggression has had more sympathy from the United States than Finland. The phrase "poor little Finland," with all the implications of 'courageous little Finland," had become stock with Americans. Finland had paid its war debt in stallments to the United States. Its government was democratic. Its sociological pattern was one that people in the United States admired. Its courage in taking up arms against an aggressor far superior in size and arms practi cally made the old Liberty Bell ring all over again. Then what happens? Germany goes to war with Russia. Finland Joins hands with the nazis. America's friend. Great Britain officially and actively Joins the soviet, tying the United States hand and foot into at least ; technical opposition to Finland The Finns, through their min ister here, Hjalmar Procope, and through their New York pub licity corporation, in Its publica tion called "Called from Fin land." try desperately to prove that Finland is fighting only "for Finland" and Finnish freedom and charge again that Russia was the aggressor and the nazi declaration of war against the soviet had practically nothing to do with the new outbreak of hos tilities between Finland and her big eastern neighbor. Perhaps those persons whose faces are the reddest in all this are the officers and national com mittee members of "For Finland, Inc. Closing tlm for Classified Ad $ a. m Too Lot to Claniry 13J0 p m graph company, working in three groups over the prairies and mountains between Omaha and Sacramento. Cal., have aver aged more than 40 miles a month and are ahead of schedule. One croup, plowing through soft Nebraska farm land, traveled 17 miles in a week The. cables are buried mainly 30 inches below the surface, al though variations in the soil sometimes require a 36-inch cov erage. After the line has been laid and covered, gas pressure, maintained Inside the sheath, is tested to determine possible breaks in the covering. DEFENSE TREASURE Savannah. Ga.. Sept. 28. MP) J. H. Googe went into his back yard, dug up $600 in small coins from beneath a pecan tree, hauled it to a bank and bought eight defense bonds. He and his family began sr.v'ng the money in a dime bank 20 years ago. POSTMASTER EXAM Washington, Sept. 26. W! The civil service commission will receive applications until the close of business October 10 for the Cave Junction, Ore., posimastershlp, annual salary SI 500. EARTH GIVES UP SECRETS OF PAST TO R1PPLEREADER AP Feature. Service Norman, Okla Some men of science, standing in need of ,e laxation, may read book, but not Dr. O. F. Evans. He reads ripples. Now ripple reading is not a laughing matter. For this Uni versity of Oklahoma geoglist it Is serious business, and he is considered the nation's foremost ripple reader. By reading the ripples left in sedimentary rocks. Dr. Evans can piece together another geological page from the unprinted past. Because ttwe wasn't enough material around this itJand town. Dr. Evans felt he wasn't getting in enough ripple reading. He rigged up apparatus on his back porch. With an old sewing machine, a pump and a tank, he can simulate the ripple marks which be finds in ancient rocks, and thus obtain a clue to the conditions that caused them. "Old shorelines," says Dr. Evans, "can be kcated by ripple marks. This is important be cause oil fields are believed to he generally located seaward from old shorelines at distances up to 100 miles." The study also furnlsr.es a clue, he says, to the character and origin of sedimentary rocks, the home of oil. The American Philosophical society thought enough of Dr. Evans odd specialty to give him a grant so he cou'd make further investigations this summer along the Great Lakes. 76 Per Cent of Auto Fatalities Occur In Stale's Rural Areas ported In Oregon In the first seven months of this year oc curred in rural areas, according to figures compiled by the traf fic safely division of the state department. Most of these acci dents occurred on straight stretches of highway in open area, indicating that speed too great for conditions was a major contributing factor, it was said. Patricia McClure, member of Skyline grange, Portland was declared state winner of the Grange safety essay contest for young Grangers. The title of her winning essay was "The Grange Defense Against Rural Accidents. Pointing to the problem of preventing rural accidents. Miss MeClure't essay declared the grange was In an advantageous position to obtain facts on tha rural safety problem and 14 wage a campaign against acci dents in these areas. Essays were Judged by repre sentatives of the State Grange and the state traffic safety di vision. Closlni tun tor CUined Ada ( a m. Too Let to cuoitfy u JO 9. Salem (Spl.) Seventy-six per cent of the fatal accidents re- Dr. D. G. Chambers DENTIST AuoeUted with Dr. L. L. Sanders, SIS Medford Building. Phono 726 NOW DRIVE-IN SERVICE 11 A. M. to 1 A, M. MURRAY'S MAID-RITE South Central at Ninth VACATION AT CHETC0 INN run Smith Blver. the Wlnehocn In Chetro and th Bogu. Inim In th raclfle. Belai. rest, spe cial week-end rat of only M per day for room. S-rourM dinner, a la carte breakfait. complete luncheon. Family rate, aeekl) and monthly rales. Menu Include aea fond, chicken, steak, home mad butter, rolls. Jam. Light housekeeping room In hotel and r pa rate cabin, accommoda tion for 4 S2-SO per day. Alas; monthly rates to permaneni Hotel SJO. tu and $40 per month S meal per day. good room, good bed, mhlng I good now trout and salmon striking. GLASSES Dr. R. M. Hood. Optometrist parts Bids. Wat and RlmM Merifnrd. Or aklllful rrH stnaonsbh) Prlrea G ft W 5 Star J nil nT1.5 trMT02llll r flsWtt (rfatassMy ef rtstysaat awfsrleal lll.UM'II,.,ljiliJS CALL IT A SECOND HONEYMOON IF YOU LIKE Give your wife a short vacation spend a week end like this in a hotel in the city and see how little it costs. 3reakfast in Bed Take )our wife from her every-day hum-drum world some week end soon. Bring her to your favorite hotel in the city. Let her enjoy breakfast :n bed and all the other frienJij cour teous services only a hotel aui offer. Real Hotel Dinners 85 Take her window shopping In the afternoon. Then go back to the hotel for one of those "Hotel Dinners" she's always wanted among the people who know good living, in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a hotel in the city. The "Symphony" of the City Theatre, Dancing, Action il' ;; tv i m,r- j Dance while you dine the whole evening if you like. Or taxi to the theatre. Then return to your hotel for more dancing and a snack before bed. You'll find life at your city hotel fascinating the kind of adventure that sends you home refreshed. All the city is fascinating at night Perhaps you'll prefer to spend your evening wandering past the brightly lighted shops, anticipating the little adventures around each corner learning the city as others you pass on the street already know it We dare you to turn to your wife right now and ask her this ques tion: "How would you like to spend a week end at a hotel in the city." Of course you know what the answer will be. So, why not make it next week end? A reason why? Call it a second honey moon if you like. ASSOCIATED HOTELS OF THE WEST A HOTEL IS THE PLACE TO GO It costs a lot less than you think fek i a-T'W an
