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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
Chamber Membership Drive
Will Be Planned WEDNESDAYS

Final plans for the Tacoma
Chamber OF Commerce member
ship campaign. April 24-2s. will
be made at meeting of $50
workers Wednesday night at Hotel
Winthrop's roof garden. Last in
structions will be given by Ralph
Shaffer, general chairman, and APP
proximately 1000 prospect cards
will be given.
Harry Andrews. chairman of the
large givers division. will dis
tribute 225 prospect cards. each
rated. Members of Andrews Is
teams of two men each will handle
proposed increases and member
ships of more than $50.
Eugene A. White. chairman.
Tuesday announced the members
of his Is teams, each with five or
more workers. They are to sign
single memberships.
Whites Organization
Whites team organization is as
follows: Howard Braman. cap
tain. w. c. Hewitt, David Peterson,
Lock c. Riehl. Henry Shaw. Gilbert
Waite: George Fisher. captain.
J. f. Burkey, W. C. Raleigh. Henry
Mandles, Frank Taylor. Irving w.
Thomas, Frank Wilhelm; C. II.
Freeth, captain, Harold Dahl.
Charles Fancher, James II. March,
V. c. Monahan. Perry d. Moore.
Fred Walker. Henry Wegner; J. F.
Hickey captain, Leo Conlin, J. A.
Flynn, l.. r. Ghilarducci, f. l..
Griffin, Frank Power. Jack Quill.
Leonard Schwartz. c. w. Van Rooy
and Morey Weisfield.
Other teams include: Nels
Johanson. captain, Gus B Appel
man. George B. Guyles. A. H.
Heath, M. J. mickey. Bert Sweet
ing. Ernest y. Thomson; G.. II.
Judges. captain. David Carpenter,
J. T. Lesher. J. ]. Mcdonald. w. ].
Parker, Harry Tuell. Doc Weathers:
Palmer Kennedy. captain, Emmett
Anderson. r. w. Coblentz. Gerald
Longstreth. Lock Mclean, Paul
Sceva and II. A. u. Smith.
klopfenstein's Team
On Fred klopfenstein's team are
Ted Brown. o. T. Craig, II. f
Forbes. Charles Hufford. ST.
Walter Mierow. r. A. Mueller
r. w. Cakes, Y. d. Patterson, w
NJ. Spellmsn and John Swan. NJ
X. Lakin, captain, has W, c. Carey
]. c. Haley. A. L. Puddicombe
Sam Stocking. F. l.. Worden; Mur.
ray McCarty. captain. DR.. C. F
Engels. Lorne Mckendry. Fred
Schwab. Paul NJ. Smith. Albert
Worely; James Peterson. captain
G. S. Cortelyou. NJ II. Chapman
John Dover. Herbert Ford. W. d
Lyness. S. 6. Mccoy. Glenn Reeves
and Percy Rollins.
f. p. Richards team includes
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
five ARRESTED
IN RAIDS HERE
Rotary C|ub's Hobby Show April % Fin

Five men we're booked at the
city Jail Monday night following
a series Of three liquor raids BY
Officers { o Robson and Dave
Peterson IN cooperation with state
liquor board agents The arrests
were made between Z and s p. m
Jack Barley. 80. and Gerald
Sibley. IS. were taken at the Night
Hawk cafe. 1927 Broadway, for
alleged violation Of the ordinance
forbidding sale and possession OF
liquor. George Morgan. Al. was
arrested at the same address and
charged with being IN a place
where liquor was sold.
Others arrested were Frank
Pain. 81. at the Bohemian cafe,
1882 Broadway. and George Pagni,
81. at PAIL c ST.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
EXPECT PROSECUTOR
TO FACE GRAND JURY

OLYMPIA - Prosecuting Attor-
torney Smith Troy and his two as
sistants were scheduled TO appear
today before Thurston county
grand jury investigating the Bak-
er-Berry kidnapping case
They were believed to be the
first negative" witnesses called,
the others who have been heard
thus far having been summoned
TO give positive testimony about
acts assertedly committed during
the case
Troy and his assistants. +. A.
Philbrick and Jack Lynch. We're
expected to deny charges by DR..
Kent W. Berry that they advised
him 10 beat up Irving Baker. in
stead OF swearing out criminal
assault warrant against him.
The jury heard DR. Berrys three
co-conspirators in the kidnapping
vesterday-James Reddick, Will
lam Mac Aloon and Robert Smith.
Other witnesses seen going into
the Jury room were Sheriff L. c.
Huntamer. William Breuer. assist
ant custodian Of state capitol
buildings; County Commissioner
Ray Cruikshsnk County School
Superintendent W. f. MCGUIRE
Police Lieutenant Besl Messenger.
and Deputy Sheriff Ed Stesrns.
The jury summoned more
witnesses yesterday than II
had In all three of the pre-
ceding DAYS in which IL had
heard testimony. IL was ea-
pected To finish the case later
this week and proceed 10 other
matters before IL.
Before II is finished. the jury
is expected 10 summon former
State Patrol Chief William Cole.
whom Berry also charged with
giving him advice on beating up
Baker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
TWO SOLDIERS
SUFFER HURTS
18th Infantry Band
Members Injured
Near Summit

Two Fort Lewis soldiers. both
members Of the 18th infantry band.
were recovering Tuesday from in
Jur1cs received early this morning
when a motorcycle they were rid
ing skidded in gravel on the Puy-
Allup road. half-milc east of
Summit.
The injured men, according to
Sheriff BJorklund, were Ralph
Blow ard Kenneth Anderson.
The pair was returning to the
fort from Puyallup when the acct
Gent occurred at 1925 a. m.
County Prowl Car Officers Nc
Lean and FRANKIE took the injured
men to Fort Lewis hospital. where
Blow was treated for decorations
about the head and face and An
derson WAS given medical aid for
minor cuts and bruises.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
Boy On Bicycle
Runs Into Auto

Fifteen-year-old Edward Doug
las Armstrong, 216 No. Yakima
ave. was recovering Tuesday from
injuries received when his bicycle
ran into the side of an automobile
Monday at the entrance to an alley
near No 26th and Adams ST.
Cliff Walker. is. of s25 Ea. 5sth
st, the automobile driver took
young Anderson TO Tacoma Gen
eral hospital, where attendants
treated him for bruises and cut
on his forehead
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
ITS CHAIRMAN
Defends NlRb

WASHINGTON - Chairman ].
Warren Madden. of National La Dor
Relations board. declared today
that restrictive amendment of the
Wagner act would start the United
States on the course followed by
dictator nations in depriving work.
ing people of their former liberties.
Testifyine against proposed
amendment before the senate labor
committee. Madden denounced pro-
posals which would materially re-
wise the NLRB's administrative
eet-up ~ designed to make of
working people and their unions
caste Of legal pariahs and un-
touchables.'
Madden specifically oppose
amendments proposed by Sen. Ed
ward r. Burke. D.. Neb.. and pro-
posals offered for the American
Federation Of Labor by Sen. David
]. Walsh. D.. Mass. He asserted:
THAT Burke's amendments are
class legislation of the most
tntolerable kind obviously in
tended to emasculate the act and
take away the liberties the act
confers."
4-Thst the ALL amendments
4 are destructive" proposals
for which no explanation can be
found except in the irritations
which have arisen from the un-
happy division in the labor move
nent."
Madden said the NLRB Ia dis
pensing justice with as much fair
ness and impartiality a. are the
most traditional courts.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
RICHARD WARDS
FATHER PASSES

Funeral services will be held
Thursday at Centralia for George
Sidney Ward, u, steam and cleo
trical engineer of the city, who
died Monday night. He was the
father of Richard Ward, Union Pa
cific traffic agent in Tacoma.
Ward was born Feb 90 1867. at
Baker, Ore He moved to Cen
tralia in 1855. He is survived by
his wife. Anne E.; two daughters,
Estele and Ebay of CentraIia;
three sons. Donald of Centralia,
Maurice of Yakima and Richard
of Tacoma, and three grand
children.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
II ERE'S MORE BOU T
TO EXTRADITE SEXTET

Delore, IS, and Cleone Alyea, L,
all of San Francisco. All were
dishevelled. lacking makeup and
giggling self-consciously.
The Alyea girl acted as their
spokesman. She tilted her chin at
officers and said:
I'VE went with the boys because
we love them She added all three
couples planned to be married las
soon as possible.
Told the men faced charges of
violating the Mann act for taking
them across state lines, she
countered:
"Hah, that's what you think,
At each line the cars were stopped
and we girls walked across"
Asks Medical Aid
The girls indicated they had
paired off. the Alyea girl with
Klaus the Delore girl with Jensen
and the Smith girl with Bailey.
All were taken to the county
Jail. where Bailey Immediately de-
manded medical aid for a bullet
wound just above the left elbow.
suffered last Thursday in a gun
duel with a Portland policeman.
Various claims against the gang
We're filed Immediately. All were
booked on charges of assault and
robbery with dangerous weapons.
with bail set at $4,000 each.
In addition to the possibility of
prosecution for the Lewiston rob,
berry, authorities in Portland and
San Francisco moved to prose-
cute.
Burned Auto
The Portland charges involve
the gun duel and the holding of
five persons hostage in a suburban
home for five hours while the
bandit gang attempted TO treat
Baileys bullet wound. They also
stole two or more cars in Oregon
and burned one in San Francisco.
In San Francisco. police claims
were superseded by the federal
bureau of investigation bid to
prosecute the men for violation of
the Mann act by transporting the
three girls across a state line for
immoral purposes violation of
the Dyer act for taking a stolen
car across state line, and assault
with a deadly weapon in connection
with "petting party" robberies on
federal land in the preside.
Under indictment on the "pettine
party charge. the three soldiers
deserted. stole a car April S. picked
up the three girls and Went north
TO Portland From Portland they
fled into the state OF Washington
back into Oregon and then into
Idaho.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
REMAINS in HOSPITAL

John NJ Eagle. 50. remained in
81. Joseph's hospital Tuesday for
treatment after being stricken
with an internal hemorrhage Mon
day afternoon at 11th and Pacific
ave Hospital attendants said his
condition is only fair" Eagle. a
railroad bsggsgemsn and federal
court bsiliff. is We'll known in Ia
coma. He lives al 62O6 So. Law
renee ST.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
new ICE FLOOR
FOR COLISEUM

A downtown ice arena for Taeo-
ma vas forecast Tuesday in issu-
snce Of q building permit for an
ice floor To be constructed IN the
Coliseum. 18th and Market SITS.
The floor viii be 100 by 65 feet.
according TO the plans submitted
BY the Refrigeration Engineering
Co. Of Seattle. for the Coliseum
Corp.
The permit vas issued for a
s.. 900 expenditure The plans show
provision for a 3 Inch coating OF
ice over the floor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19

Lyman V. Hall. J. w. Jones, il,
J j. Mellinger, A. A. Smell and J.
Arthur Thompson; II. d. Smith.
captain. Fred Alleman, c. 3. Bax-
ter, Paul Billings. H. d. Cowles,
o. J. Metzler, r. G. Murphy, Samuel
Wilson and w. j. Witherspoon !;
A. w. Taylor. captain, Harold S.
Davies, Dug Dyckman, A. G.
Nickelsen. Carl f. knecht, Roger
Stewart and (. L. Warner. Morris
Kleiner's team organization is not
yet announced.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
ACTIONS IN DIVORCE

Suit for divorce has been started
in superior court by Muriel Ann
against George Neumeyer. An in
terlocutory decree has been
granted 10 Frances II. from Ralph
a. Noerenoerg. Final DEGREES
have been granted to Ralph r.
from Eva W. Charlton and to
Helen L. from Paul G. Morgan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
HERE'S MORE ADO Ut
BRUSH FIRES
ARTS On PAGE ONB

which burst forth about s ?. m.
Monday. I
Source Of the fire was undeter-
mined. Bsckfire operations we're
responsible for bringing the blaze
under control.
New Fires
Newest fires reported in South
west Washington were on the
Coweeman river. near kelso. and
on Aber. creek. Two details Of
CCC youths from Csthlsmet camp
were routed from bed at 800
a. m to go out on the fire lines,
the United Press disclosed.
In King county. serious blazes
caused county commissioner to
make an emergency appropriation
Of $4,000 10 fight fires.
A brush fire covering four
square miles IN central King
county raced toward the town Of
Fall City today. The town. about
50 miles due east of Seattle. was
not believed in immediate danger.
During the night, fires threat
ened homes and business houses in
Issaqush. east of Seattle.
Several thousand acres blazed
between Beaver and Pine lakes and
destroyed four summer homes and
deserted ranch.
Mai c. s. CoWan of the Wash
ington Forest Fire association re-
ported major blazes at Mount 81
and around North Bend.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-19
THIEVES TAKE ARSENIC

PITTSBURG. Calf. - Thieves
who robbed two freight cars in the
Santa Fe yards here apparently
had the surprise Of their lives
afterwards. II not something
worse Their booty consisted Of
four boxes Of arsenic and several
boxes Of 7. n. 7.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
Files of Police
InL. A. Subpenaed
In Bridges Case
Correspondence Searched
In Attempt to Prove
A Conspiracy

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.
10. (UP)-Files of the Los
Angeles police department
relating to Investigations of
Harry Bridges, alien CIO
leader, was subpenaed today by
Bridges in an attempt to prove a
conspiracy by police, federal officials
and anti-labor groups to deport him.
Attorneys for Bridges obtained
the subpoena from Dean James Lam
dis, presiding at Bridges deporta-
ton hearing at the Angel Islano
immigration station.
The subpoena applied only to let
ters which might have been writ
ten by Capt. John Keegan of the
Portland police to James Davis,
former chief of police of Los An
geles, and to william Hines, for
mer captain of the Los Angeles po-
lice red squad in 1887, 1888, or
1889. 1t applied to police depart
ment files and to those of the chief
of police and of Hines.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

Shepherds retirement came AS al
surprise to the Ell Centro high school
board members, who recently una
nimously selected the dean to re-
turn for at least one more year as
head of the junior college. At
special meeting Wednesday the
board appointed Edwin A. Swan
son, former use instructor. as
Shepherds successor, according to
Guy A. Weakley school superinten-
dent
Deep Regret
Board members expressed deep
regret in losing Shepherd because
the Dean has long been referred to
as "The Junior College" He took
over the position as Dean in 1928
the year the college was organized.
Previously he had served as pro-
fessor of chemistry and head of the
high school science department
since 1915 when he came to El
Centre from Lompoc high school
Shepherd started teaching at
Denver University in 1897. In 1899
he went to University of Cincinnati
and in 1901 he was appointed
chemistry instructor at the Univer-
sity of Southern California From
use he went to Whittier, Santa
Maria high school, Santa Ana and
Lompoc.
He received an ALB degree in
pharmacy at the University OF
Michigan in 1889, his ALB in chem
istry at Stanford in 1895. He took
master degree in chemistry at
Cincinnati U. in 1897.
Continued on Page 8; Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

years old, taught at Holdrege high
school in Nebraska before accept
ing a fellowship at use. He was
head of the commercial depart
ment at Holdrege. He also taught
in elementary schools in Nebraska,
The new junior college dean re-
ceived B. S. degree at Nebraska
State, attended George Washington
university and summer sessions at
use.
Other new teachers at the Ell
Centre high school and Junior COL
iege are:
Eva Womer, home economics,
taught at Wilson school last year;
Jane Field, dramatics. taught at
Wilson last year; Robert Sprague,
history, taught at Mckinley last
year; Eva Wilson, english, Wilson,
Florence Temple, commercial de-
partment, use; Virginia Scaris-
brick english, UCLA; Helen Soeh-
ren, dean of girls, english depart
ment; Ed Edmondson, english de-
partment, UCLA; Wiley Garner,
commercial department, UCLA.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
Gambling Chief
.Marooned on
Ship Surrenders

SANTA MONICA, Cal. Aug. 10,
CUP)-Tony Cornero, big time gam
bier who was marooned 10 days
aboard his palatial gambling ship
Rex by deputy Sheriffs who at
tempted to serve warrant, sur
rendered today to shore authorities
and was booked on warrant
charging him with gambling.
Cornero and his crew of 200 had
refused to surrender when $50 dep
uty sheriffs under direction of State
Attorney General Earl Warren raid
ed three other gambling ships in
southern California waters but fail
ed to get aboard the Rex.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
Judge MercifuI
In Case Of
Girl Kidnaper

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 10 (UP)
Mercy tempered Justice today as
Superior Judge Lyle Jacks sem
fenced Margaret peggy WE'LL, lS-
year-old kidnapper, to spend four
years in the state home for girls
at Ventura instead of life in the
women's prison at Tehachapi.
Il want you to know I could send
you to Tehachapi," Jacks said as
the girl pleaded guilty to kidnap-
ing five-year-old Krehe Osborn,
whose mother had employed her
as governesS.
But I want you to rehabilitate
yourself so you can return to your
mother and sister with a new in
sight on the proper thing to do, 4"
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

10 QelenQ DdllZlS against fOldllu'
Poland must understand clearly
that Danzig will not stand alone
and deserted in the world but that
the Greater German Reich, our
motherland, and our fuehrer,
Adolph Hitler, are at all times de-
termined to support and defend US
in case of an attack from Poland
Forster said.
THE Danzig population today is
absolutely clearly and firmly con-
vinced that the hour of liberation
is coming, and Danzig again will
return to the Reich" Forster said.
Forster charged Poland with war
threats and war agitation against
Danzig, speaking at an open air
mass meeting in the public square.
In ending his speech, Forster
said:
I'm this hour, we can do nothing
better than to swear that we will
hold together, come what may, and
resist every attack on this holy
German soil with all means at our
disposal, and will carry out every
order that our fuehrer gives US.
May the day not be distant on
which we will come together here
again, not in a protest meeting
but to celebrate the reunion oi
Danzig with the Greater Reich
Denouncing Great Britain, France
and Poland for allegedly meddling
in Danzig's affairs, Forster con-
tinued:
"Danzig, since its foundation
about eight centuries ago, always
has been a pure German city. In
Danzig, throughout its whole his
tory up to the year 1919, only Ger
mans had control
Forster then recalled that Dam
tigers had defeated the Poles in
1876 and added
"In the present day Danzigers
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

brought home from China.
Miss Larkin, an attractive bru-
nette, stood beaming beside him
while their parish priest, the
Rev. John w. Morrison of st.
Luke's Catholic church, intOned
the marriage service. Although
Fred is still a prisoner of the
cumbersome device that aids his
paralyzed respiratory muscles. he
and his bride faced their honey
moon with ecstatic glee, friends
said. They had been sweethearts
since before the paraiyzing illness
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
NAz| FILINGS CHALLENGE AT POLAND
Boiler Kid Says 4 Do!

CHICAGO, A1lg. 10 tUP5e
Fred B. Snite, Jr., 20, "The Boiler
Kid who has lived in an iron
lung since he was stricken with
infantilc paralysis in China three
years ago, was married today to
Miss Teresa Larkin, rs, Dayton,
Ohio.
"FOr our honeymoon we are
going to Niagra Falls and see
If the water still is running"
Fred beamed after the ceremony.
Fred said 81 do" lying on his
back in the 900-pound tank which
has been his home since he was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

Struck Fred on a world tour at
Peiping in 1886.
Teresa had been at his side
almose constantly during his
courageous fight to live, to
breathe, to walk erect again. She
had been there to comfort him
in his disappointments and to
hold his hand while he struggled
for periods increasingly long
but still measured off in painful
minutes-when he was able to
lie outside the lung without me-
chanical respiration.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
taIyCIoses UP
Bureauin Rome

ROME, Aug. 10 (UP)-H. r. Ek1ns,
Rome manager of the United Press,
today was ordered by police to
leave Italy by p. m. tomorrow.
The Rome bureau of the United
Press was locked by police and no
members of the staff were allowed
to enter Police gave no reason
for their action.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

Both were released from Los
Angeles Jail under $4,000 bond with
instructions to return for a pre-
liminary hearing August 81. The
hearing will determine if they must
go before a federal court, with five
other defendants. to answer charges
that they abducted H. Yamatoda
from in front of the Ell Centre po-
lice station one night in December
Yamatoda. asserted Japanese gam
bling czar, had been brought here
to answer a gambling charge in
Ell Centro police court, and hao
been released when, the FBl
charges, he was kidnapped.
Il never saw this Yamatoda IN
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

sidewalk here this morning, told
detectives he knocked down Frances
Ruth Dunn, IT, because of her pro-
testations and then stabbed her to
death.
Detective Lieut.. E. w. Melchen OF
Miami, In charge of the investiga-
ton. identified the confessed muir
derer as Herbert Willard Goddard,
jr.
Jean Bolton, II, prominent Miami
blues singer, was released alive by
Goddard in an attempt to obtain
another car and to escape from the
state, detectives related,
Goddard, posing as a talent scout
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

engines, including over 81 ,OOO,UUO
worth of four -motored bombing
planes some of which are of the
same type which recently flew across
the continent at an average speed
of 264 miles per hour.
Contracts for this type of plane
went to Consolidated Aircraft cor
poration. San Diego, for S8,485 900;
and Boeing Aircraft company, Sc
attic, for $8,090,0OO, with further
options to the company amounting
to $5,400 900.
The department announced that
the awards made today represent
"the major portion" of the aircraft
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
L.v.Leadingin
Liquor Licenses

A doubtful honor was added to
Imperial Valleys famous first"
Thursday when w. c. Bonelli Of
the state Board of Equalization
announced that only one county
in the state had more on-sale
liquor establishments in relation
to population.
Imperial county has 40 on-sale
establishments, one for each 1884
persons, he said. Only county with
higher rating is Orange, with one
for every l249 persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
Beer Bet on
Kidnap Case!

If Raul Mateus is convicted OF
kidnapping II. Yamat0da, he will
owe Oman Red" Wright
bottle of beer.
If Mateus is acquitted, Wright
will owe him a case of beer.
The bet was made, Mateus re-
vealed Thursday, when he was
en- route to Los Angeles i'm Gus
tody of the FBI agent.
after the trial." the suspect
said. I'm sure going to collect
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

w. H. Rhodes. J. Sterling Oswalt.
Mark MCGEE. Harvey Kenyon, and
C. H. II. Small. Many other Legion
naires from Ell Centre. as well as
from other valley towns, will at
tend the confab.
Except for the election, highlight
of the convention was expected to
be discussion of Harry Bridges,
CIO maritime labor leader, who has
attacked the Legion fiercely in his
current deportation hearing, and
who this week ordered labor unions
under his jurisdiction to purge"
American Legion members out of
official jobs in the union.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

purchases the army intends to make
under the expansion program ex-
pected to bring the air corps
strength to $500 planes in the next
two years.
The huge bombers ordered today
are capable of speeds greatly In
excess" of $50 miles per hour. the
army said.
The army refused to disclose the
number of planes which the awards
will purchase but II was umofficialiy
estimated they will add between
l,500 and 1000 craft TO the air
force strength.