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Monday, Junuary gt LA dlt.VNDK EVENING OHSKRVKR, LA GRANDE, OREGON Pnge Two Chinese Suspend Major Airlines Latest Crash Weather Secrets Arctic Sought Out by Big Bomber nay 'mm 7 ts i 4 Killina 42 is ALL OLij mil lin in 11 of Women's anI Chilclren's Cause of Move SHANGHAI, Jan. 6 (UP) China's two major airlines were ordered today to suspend opera- lions, grounded 77 planes, for one week following the fourth plane crash within 11 days in which ai total of 113 persons have beer killed. persons, including three Americans, were killed yesterday when a China National Aviation corporation plane crashed into a mountainside near Tsin-gtao. Seventy-one persons died in i three separate plane crashes on i Christmas day. Communications minister Yu la-Wei, who announced the sus-1 pension in Nanking, said the or-! der would allow time lor the CNAC and the China air trans-j port corporation to overhaul their facilities and equipment.

Source Unknown Yu said the communication? ministry took a "most serious" view of yesterday's crash. The cause of the accident was not determined. Airline officials identified the American victims as Charles Jo-; scph Sharkey, Lawrence, Die pilot; John T. Etehison, Craw-' fordville, and UNRRA em-! ploye and sister Elizabeth Cecil-! le, a Catholic missionary whose address was unknown. James J.

Ross, a British mer-, chant, and sister Mary Tariglio, i an Italian member of the Franciscan Order of Egpyt, also were killed in the Tsingtao crash, ac-j cording to the announcement. Among the other victims were1 three members of the Chinese national assembly. Chinese nress disnatches said These ice-Jadon, glacier-cui mountains of ihe Kenai Peninsula in Alaska were the first landfall for "Operation Stork" o.i its initial, fog-shrouded tun from Fairfield, to Anchorage, Alaska. Professor Gives Formula to Diagnose Whether a Person Really Is in Love Formerly Carried by Norton's AT y2 PRICE or Less possible circumstances you can imagine? C. Do you have the same interests, and friends? 7.

Are you going to be able to make conversation at the breakfast table every morning for the rest of your life? Ii. Do you like your prospective If the answers to all these questions are yes, you ore in love, Ralner said. If you are in doubt, you are not in love, he added. "And anyone who has to ask someone else's advice as to wheth- ei nc in love cieiiniieiy is on ine the place crashed after circling wrong track." he said. 'No one By CLAIRE COX United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Jan.

6 (UP) Love is as easy to diagnose us trie measles, Dr. A. Ralner said today. Halner, professor of preventive medicine at the Loyola uni-vcra'ty medical school, also works at preventing the wrong people from getting married. In a series of university lec-t Li res on pre-marital relations, lie outlined the case history of the lovelorn and said anyone (ouid diagnose bis own case of lic, to determine if it's the real thing or only a symptom, if he would ask himself the following "simple" questions: 1.

Are you willing to lace the 'worse" as well as the "better" i minister mentions in performing the ceremony? 2. Do you enjoy being with the object of your affections so much that you are lost without him oi her? Do you constantly want to do ce things for the person you think you love? 1. Will this person make a good paient? a. Would you be happy with him or her under the worst ihe Tsingtao airfield in a heavy ffU. SM.1 We have sincerely appreciated the friendly welcome extended to us by the people of La Grande and Union county since our arrival here on January 1, and look forward to many years of close association with the citizens of this area.

We must make room for. the large orders of new merchandise which are arriving dailv. This AIJSOLLTF. CI.OSK-OUT SALE of all merchandise on hand means that every item has heen drastically reduced in price to clear it out quickly. ion.

ine uiiintt: Li-iiiitii iifttsi Agency said Sharkey had been unable to locate the airport be- cause of low visibility. Reports from the scene of the crash said i there were no survivors. Central News said fire swept the plane immediately after the crash and that the 4'i passengers I and crew members were trapped I in the burning wreckage. EVERYTHING MUST GO! knows better than the person invoked whether he's really in love." In fact, it's as easy to lell if you are in love as it is to analyze a of the measles. "Both start out with running ees the first day.

Sometimes it's measles, sometimes it's love. Ratner said measles and love had something else in common. -First there's the three day kind of measles, which you can get my number of times," he explained. "Then there's the regular kind, which you can get only once. "That's the way it is with love, too." Weatherman on the snooping 29 is Lt.

J. R. Buchanan of Santa Paula, here inspecting a specially-mounted instrument far determining humidity. By KEN GUNN NEA Staff Correspondent ANCORAGK, Alaska. (NEA) The advance winl for an Alaskan battle this year between winter and the U.

S. 'army is a lone 13-20 that is spying on weather's weapons and struteyy every day over a front thousands of miles lung. The airborne snooper is listed in army orders as "Operation Stork," the first regularly scheduled InnH-ranRo weather reconnaissance flight into weather's big arsenal in the North Pacific between San Kranciyco and Alaska. What it finds on its daily 13-hour run from Stiisim army air field to this northern base will provide vital intelligence for the forthcoming ground force maneuvers in Alaska, and for much of the Uni'cd as well. The plan, worked out by tin army weather service headquarters at t.angley Field, and by energetic young Col.

Karl 'Rank, ro'mmnnding officer of the Squadron, is to fly the route, ninth on- dav and south the next. Obsei vat ions will be made at about the same points ami altitudes regardless of the direction of the Might. Weather data gathered at approximately lit stations along the route are to be radioed to stations in Alaska and along the Pacific coast. This information will be immediately made available to all military and civilian weather agencies. Colonel Rank believes th information will greatl aid meteorologists in a i weather for much of the Uniteu States and Canada as well as the air and shipping routes of Alaskan and North Pacific waters.

On the first day's run, on which I was a guest snooper, our specially equipped Supei fortress headed out to sea in a low -hanging fog with 1,1 Karl K. Dunphy of Crowley, l.a., at the controls. We cleared the Kaiallon Inlands, lit) miles west of San l-'win-cisco, by radar and down we went through Ihe tog. I.t. J.

R. Huch anan Santa Paula, at the weather obetver's station in the bombardier compartment, check- Women's Eetter Dresses y2 Price Women's REG. $19.80 Coats Now 8-oo Reg. $21.00 Coats $9.00 Not All Sizes in Kach Style but a Wide Variety in Stock. Bevin Moves to Curb Crisis in Palestine Affair LONDON.

Jan. fi (UP) For- eign secretary Ernest Bevin took a direct hand in the British gov-; ernment's efforts to settle the Palestine crisis today under growing public pressure for action. Bevin invited Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine high commissioner, to a foreign office con-fcicnce today. It was to be the commissioner's second major con-sulation since he arrived from the Holy Land late yesterday alter-' noon.

A major Saturday confer-) ence in the foreign office is a rather unusual event. Cunningham talked for an hour and a half last nigh; with Colonel Secretary Arthur C. Anes. "sis! Less mation he had been able to wring out of Ihe weather at that point. The criss-cross flying was to enable ihe weatherman to get drift-indicator readings on three lines of flight and determine the direction and velocity of the wind.

Probably one of the busiest members of the crew during the rntite flight was the radio operator, TSgt. E. P. Bishop of Mesa. Ariz.

Handicapped by low altitude and bad atmospheric conditions, he would sometimes have to try several contacts before An excellent selection of Wanted Styles and Materials ed the altitude at 500 feel on the radar altimeter and ordered the pilot to level off. Lt. J. C. Close of Turlock, the navigator, cheeked 'he plane's position by Loran and set the course northwest.

For almost 1. 100 miles. Operation Stork "flew on the deck," 500 feel above the water. Sometimes (hi choppy waves of the Pacif were visible. Sometimes the wing tips of the plane could barely be seen.

At designated points the weatherman would gel very busy with his instruments, the pilot would swing the plane 45 degrees off the hue of flight, fly that di trefoil for two minutes, swing getting the report through. After All $21 2-Piece Suits 00 Women's Sizes, (ileal Variety of Colors. NOW KEDI.TEU TO finally would getting his report off, he officials refused to relax, light up a cigarel. in(n-ate what course then con- lean back and the weatherman nee took. aiound to degrees, fly that for I would hand another report, two minutes, and then resume the At a point about 1,100 miles flight on the original course- i out, the pilot made a circling A tier tins maneuver, the wrath- climb to 10,000 feet, the weather-eiman would hand the radioman man made observations at each a note containing all the infor- 1,000 foot level, and the naviga- Field Marshal Viscount Mont-j ginnery also attended the meet-i ing.

This was taken to indicate I that emphasis was placed upon for halting the fresh out-Ibteak of underground attacks in Palestine. Montgomery recently visited Jerusalem in his capacity' lieautiful and Rich-Looking Plaid Skirls ReK. Values Now One Lot of Women's and Children's Sweaters Now Only Some All Wool Others I'art Wool and Rayon as chief of the imperial geneiai staff. Faced with renewed violence in Palestine and newspaper demands for action, the government was trying to fix a definite policy I1 1 1 All Better House Dresses Priced to Clear .00 $2'co Railways Seeking Transport Leeway AH Children's Drosses -J-Offf Women's Reg, $15.75 $6.50 CHICAGO. Jan li (CP--Th-railway business association asked congress to allow the tion's railroads to opei ate of All of Our I Polo Shirts and One Lot of Women's Two-Way Stretch Girdles $1.00 i ALL JI NTORS and HILDRKN'S HATS iorms of transportation nection with their rail The asskicialion savs i could offer better and faster se' ice to passengers and shippe.s jioniess would change laws which restrict one tpe learner froir, engaging in I'Dn tortus of transport.

The group contended that mstarccs co-ordinated r.u. motor ope; aliens have heen pt nutted, the public has (through impvoveJ uinl ser ice One Lot of Cliildi en's Spring and Summer Coals Our Kntire Stock of Stamps'! Goo is atri Threads i Price NO KKTl'RNS NO K( HANt.KS (Inriiiei I. Norton's) tor set rhe oinii' rr to Ar.choiago. Heavv cloud Kir.k that eb l.curcd KiKiiak Inland bewail t- tlnn as the Might eatr.e in over i the Cook Inlet and with the icy i mountains of the Keiuu Pemnsu lai to the east. Opera-1 Ht.irk drottpt'd into Aneho: out Ot eotUi iki'j ALL SALES FINAL.

1111 Adams A TIME TO DF FROST "B-r-r was iho password abourd the Cot guard cutter Kimball alter it rode out recent Luke Superior torm and made port at Dululh. weighted down with tons ol ice. In photo, nhnvc. Socman John Pickenddshon. Columbus.

Ohio, stands between a Ufw-raft. left, and a CI iruclf. tight. "for style and cvouomy".