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Active Clubs, Their President Says
[[note]] Spokane Daily Chronicle, Sat. May 20, 1939 [[/note]]

SPOKANE SAFETY WORK IS LAUDED
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Norman Damon of New York, director of the Automotive Safety Federation, paid high compliments here today to Spokane and the western states for their automobile safety work, and particularly to Highway Director Lacey V. Murrow for "highways engineered safely."

Director Damon and Charles Andrews of San Francisco, whom Mr. Murrow has placed in charge of construction of the Lake Washington and Narrows bridges, were in the city today, and expressed satisfaction with the progress being made in traffic safety here. 

The Automotive Safety foundation is supported by $500,000 in donations by 150 automotive companies in the United Sates. The funds are allocated to 15 organizations in the country, including Northwestern university, Harvard and the American Legion.

"Washington should be proud of its record," said Mr. Damon, "because your highway director won the safety award for the last year. He is doing a job in highway engineering safety unparalleled in the country."

Pedestrian is Problem.
Mr. Damon complimented Spokane post of the American Legion for its safety school for automobile drivers, and also the Junior Chamber of Commerce for initiating the installation of loud-speakers on police cars.

"The pedestrian is the problem traffic today," said Mr. Damon. Drivers can be reached through drivers' license examinations, car checking stations and police officers. But the pedestrian can be reached only through community organizations, churches and clubs." Liquor regulations in several cities are having an important effect on traffic accident, he observed.

Where liquor is sold under state regulations, and where laws require roadhouses to stop selling liquor at midnight, we find traffic and accident conditions much better than in stats where liquor is sold almost without regulations," said Mr. Damon.
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CANADIANS MAY JOIN U.S. COUNCIL
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Talk of expanding the northwest jurisdiction of the United Commercial Travelers of America to include Alberta and Saskatchewan was had here today among delegates of the convention of the Oregon, Washington and British Columbia [[cut off]]d council.

A number of travelers from the
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Chinese Woman Aviator Visits Spokane
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Pretty Miss Yaching Lee (left) stepped from her plane Friday in Spokane and was welcomed to the friendly city by Chinese and American friends. Dr. Lee Yuen, president of the Chinese Benevolent society, welcomed Miss Lee on behalf of the Chinese people. Edith Eng (right) and Joyce Lee presented her with two bouquets of flowers. Howard Jones, chairman of the aviation committee of the Chamber of Commerce, extended the city's greetings. Miss Lee is flying a Stinson plane loaned to her by Roscoe Turner. She is making this air tour in behalf of the Chinese war relief fund.


STAMPEDE QUEEN CANDIDATES VIE
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Fourteen-carat cowboy hats, perched jauntily on feminine curls, are reminding Spokane the Junior Chamber of Commerce Stampede June 2-4 at Seven Mile is one of Washington's golden jubilee events. 

Five of 10 beautiful girls who will bid for the title of "Stampede Sweetheart" appeared today in glittering hats, and armed with the rodeo tickets they will sell in the contest.

All will be guests Monday at the noon meeting of the junior chamber in the Desert Round-up room.

Five Introduced
The first five entrants were introduced Friday evening at the meeting of the Stampede commit- [[rest of page is cut off]]


Burgunder Begins Court Fight Monday
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PHOENIX, Ariz., May 20. (AP)——
Robert M. Burgunder Jr., 22-year-old collegian, will take the first step in a gruelling legal fight for his life Monday when he appears before Justice of the Peace Harry A. Westfall for preliminary hearing on charges he murdered Jack Peterson and Ellis Koury, Phoenix automobile salesmen.

C. T. McKinney, defense attorney, said Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Burgunder Sr., the youth's divorced parents, here for an indefinite stay, may both be present at the hearing.

County jail attaches reported today the apparently nerveless Burgunder calmly awaited his hearing. He has conferred at various times during the week with his parents and McKinney.


SAYS JAPANESE HAVE LONG TASK
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"Until they kill the entire 450,000,000 Chinese people, Japan will not win the war. The spirit of China will not die before then!" said pretty Miss Yaching Lee, who landed her plane, Spirit of New China, in the floodlight at the Spokane airport last night. She addressed the Chamber of Commerce publicity-tourist bureau on behalf of the 30,000,000 suffering Chinese refugees.

Miss Lee is making an aerial tour of the important cities of the United States in behalf of China's civilian relief fund, with Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Fannie Hurst, Douglas Fairbanks and William A. White as some of her sponsors.
She saw the entire bombardment of Shanghai and organized a hospital for wounded soldiers and a camp for refugees during the conflict. After the fall of the city, she went to the south of China and continued organization work.

Growing Stronger.
"The condition of my people is pitiful. Peaceful villagers and farmers are starving and homeless. It is not safe for any one in the occupied area, for the Japanese use the Chinese as practice targets.

"But China will yet win the war. We are strong and infinitely better organized than when hostilities began 20 months ago. Women drive trucks and do all kinds of work that lifts the morale of the army. Two thousand schools with 300 pupils each are being organized by Chinese women."

Miss Lee remained in Spokane this evening. "I thought I would leave this afternoon, but the weather, it is not promising." Her accent was on the "mis" in promising.

The aviatrix attended schools in Europe. She first became interested in flying while in Switzerland and later took advanced work in the Boeing school of aeronautics, Oakland. She is the only woman instructor in the Shanghai municipal air school, and the only Chinese member of the American "Caterpillar club."
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GERMANY TO BUILD LITHUANIAN PORT
BERLIN, May 20. (AP)—— Germany agreed to build a new port for Lithuania about two miles south of Memel as part of a trade agreement signed today by the foreign ministers of the two nations, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Juozas Urbsys. Lithuania also will receive two free port zones in Memel harbor.
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