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Show 000,000 foot, would have kept the mill in operation for (iOO days. It woulil have sawed enough lumber to produce from thirty to thirtv-live airplanes a dav. he estimated. Owing to the nnpv pei'ted end of the war, the mill was not used. DISQUE TELLS OF TIMBER PURCHASE POETLAXD, Ore., Sept. 6. Under cross-examination by Congressman W. W. Magee of New York, Brice P. Disque, formerly in charge, of airplane spruce production, testified here today at the congressional subcommittee 's hearing on airplane spruce operations that the Blodgett tract of timber in Lincoln county, Ore., was acquired after the armistice had been signed in order to give value to a twenty-three-mile railroad built by the Warren Spruce company to the tract. Ho stated that the government had threatened to commandeer com-mandeer the tract. With reference to the mill built at Toledo, Ore., Disque testified that it was built to manufacture into airplane lumber spruce to be obtained from the Blodgett tract, and estimated that the whole amount of spruce available, 330,- |