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Houses and Buildings;
Yamashita Line halved
Tokyo Hit By
Shock Center,
Japan Admits
Production Unimpaired,
Claim Made; Shipping
Thought Heavily Struck
(By the Associated Press)
Radio Tokyo admitted today
that the earthquake yesterday
caused a tidal wave which
covered houses with water,
started a landslide and dam
aged buildings.
After almost a day of denials
of major damage, the Japanese
news agency Domei admitted
that Tokyo was shaken and that
a tidal wave inundated houses.
The Domei dispatch said:
"The seismic center of the
earthquake which hit the Tokyo
district yesterday afternoon was
in the-Sea ot Enshu.-
"The districts affected by the
earlhauake include Hamamatsu,
Shizuoka, Nagano and their vi
cinities, where some damage was
caused to dwellings.
"In Shizuoka prefecture (rough
ly 125 miles southwest of Tokyo)
tidal waves caused some houses
to be inundated, while in Na
goya damage was slight, with
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
PATTON'S 3rd army takes the
spotlight again, expanding Its
Baar river bridgehead and driv
ing through the town of Saar
lautern and DEEP INTO THE
SIEGFRIED LINE DEFENSES.
The Saar region is rich in steel
and coal. Every foot of ground
(he Germans yield there is given
op because they CAN'T HOLD
IT.
IN the Aachen-Cologne area
the
I war of attrition goes on.
Our supreme headquarters in
Paris says our big WINTER of
fensive started off on November
16 at a rate costing the Germans
4,000 men daily in dead and
"long-term casualties" and enemy
casualties are estimated now to
be running much heavier.
That's a serious drain on re
maining German manpower as
it is INTENDED to be.
THERE is again an intimation
that OUR losses are heavy
maybe heavier than the Ger
mans'. The military point is that
we can afford heavier losses than
the Germans as Grant before
Richmond could afford heavier
losses than Lee.1
NORTH of Aachen, the British
have cleared ALL the Ger
mans from the west bank of the
Maas. Still farther north, the
Germans break the Rhine dikes
south of Arnhem, flooding the
low, flat country and HOLDING
UP the Canadians. '
" The Germans still expect our
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Infantry Show Scheduled in Roseburg,
Featuring Mimic Assault on Nippon
Pillbox, Drawing Record Audiences
Glowing praise and commendation follows the showing of
"Here's Your Infantry", the army ground forces show, which is
to be presented in Roseburg Thursday, Dec. 14. Record crowds have
attended the display and demonstration at every point and comments
are that the show is a most convincing drama of the Infantrymen's
part in the war.
Corooral Dick Keplinger, Fort
Benning, Ga., advance agent for
the show, was in Roseburg Thurs
day conferring with Al Bashford.
local chairman, to check on de
tails connected with preparations
for the arrival of the army
troupe Dec. 13.
The army convoy will arrive
In Rosebure Wednesday evening
and will set up a display of in
fantry weapons at the Roseburg
armory. This display will Include
all of the weapons used by the
army ground forces. Visitors will
be permitted to view the arms
and equipment at close range.
The doors of the armory will
be opened at 1 D. m. and the dis
play will be maintained there un
til after 5 o'clock.
Demonstrations hv Infantry
souads In battle formation will
be held at the armory at 2 o'clock
and at 3:30.
A most colorful and excltlns
demonstration will be held at 8
o'clock at Finlay field. The out
door show, it was reported, will
Superfortresses Blast
Iwo Jima Base of Japs to v
Halt Their Raids on Saipdn
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (AP)
A sizable task force of B-29's
drooped a "record load of bombs"
on Iwo Jima, in the Japanese
Bonin-Volcano islands yesterday.
The strike was in coordination
with attacks by navy surface
ships and other aircraft in an
obvious effort to neutralize the
airfields in the Volcano islands
from which the Japanese have
launched raids on Saipon.
The Japanese base is 750 miles
north of the Superfortress base
at Saipan.
Bombing was done through
heavy clouds without interference
from either Japanese fighters or
anti-aircraft, it was announced. .
Iwo Jima is regarded as the
likely takeoff point for ten Japa
nese bombers which raided 21st
bomber command headquarters
on Saipan Wednesday, destroying
one Superfort and damaging two
others.
Mai. G- L. Griffith. Noted
Sports Executive, Dies
CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (AP) In
tercollegiate athletics in general
and the western conference in
particular today had lost by death
of one of their best known sports
figures and staunchest support
ers Mai. .Tnhn I.. Griffith.
Mai. Griffith. 67 years old and
for 22 years commissioner of the
western conference, died sudden
ly last night in his office, a few
hours after conference athletic
directors had re-elected him to a
five-year term.
A heart attack was given by
physicians as the cause of death.
Charge of Arson Faced
By Volunteer Firemen
NEW CITY. N. Y Dec. 8
(AP) Eight thrill seeking mem
bers of volunteer fire depart
ments in and around Clarkstown,
Manuet, and Spring Valley, some
of them -high school students,
have been arrested charged with
third degree arson. . They, and
others still Jo be questioned, are
accused of having set some sixty
woodland fires and twenty fires
in buildings, for the thrill of rid
ing fire apparatus and fighting
the flames. Prosecutor George V.
Dorsey said all those arrested had
admitted participation in one or
more tires.
Maj. Johnson of Eugene
Bags 22nd Nippon Plane
A LEYTE AIR BASE, Dec. 8
(AP) Maj. Gerald Johnson, Eu
gene, Ore., set the pace yesterday
as the U. S. 49th fighter plane
group shot down 15 Japanese
planes during a daylong battle
on the west coast of Leyte.
Johnson bagged three Nip fight
ers in 90 seconds to bring his per
sonal bag to 22. A fourth plane
attacked by Johnson was believ
ed to have crashed but was listed
as a probable pending confirma
tion.
Thief Twice Loots
Milk Bottles of Coin
CHICAGO. Dec. 8 (AP) Po
lice are hunting for a thief who
twice this week beat Mrs. Geral-
dine. Anderson's milkman to the
back porch of her home.
On his first visit, ine eany ris
ing robber took S16.23 which Mrs.
Anderson told Rogers park police
she had left in a bottle for her
milkman. Apparently not expect
ing a return visit. Mrs. Anderson
said the $23 she left in a similar
place was gone before her milk
man arrived.
take place, rain or shine.
Mimic Assault Billed
Advance preparations call 'for
construction of a Japanese type
pillbox, which will be built and
camouflaged in exact reproduc
tion similar to types of defensive
positions commonly faced by the
Infantry in actual jungle combat.
Members of the combat team will
take positions In the pillbox as
defenders, while an assault is
made upon it. Spectators will see
small arms, machine guns, mor
tars, bazookas and flame throw
ers In actual operation as the as
sault is conducted by trained in
fantrymen, most of whom are
overseas veterans.
Local civilian defense units will
aid in arrangements, and- the
Douglas County Mounted Police
will present and retire the coles
In a mounted spectacle.
The show is without admission
charge, being presented for the
dual purpose of acquainting the
public with the nature and use
of infantry equipment and pro
moting the tale of war bonds.
Yanvtfen
2nd T! ok
13-Ship Convoy
TWENTY FIRST BOMB
ER COMMAND, Saipan, Deo.
8. (AP) One American
Superfortress bomber on a
weather reconnaissance drop
ped Incendiary bombs on
Shizuoka, .Important Japan-
ese rail center 100 miles
southwest of Tokyo, early to
day. The crew returning to their
Saipan base reported their
incendiaries started four fires
visible for 45 minutes of
flight from the target-
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Philippines,
Dec. 8. (AP) Veteran 77th divi
sion Yanks from Guam, daringly
put ashore by the navy to the
rear of more than 25,000 trap
ped Japanese, rolled rapidly
north today toward the enemy's
west Leyte reinforcement port of
Ormoc, less than three miles
away.
The surprise landing Thursday
in Ormoc harbor, under the guns
of destroyers and swarms of
fighter planes, cut in half the
heavily defended Yamashita de
fense line.
Coming on the third anniver
sary of Pearl Harbor the Ormoc
attack was a bloody and grim
reminder to the Japanese that
American arms have grown pow
erful and lethal since that day
which plunged the United States
into war.
Another Convoy Erased
This bold penetration of the
Philippines inland seas to west
Leyte, made while Yanks on east
Leyte were hunting down and
killing the bulk of 200 Japanese
paratroopers bent on sabotage,
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McKay Sells Drug
Store in Roseburg, '
Buys at Sutherlin
R. L. Harris, proprietor of the
Roseburg Pharmacy, located im
mediately south of the Deer
Creek bridge, today announced
completion of negotiations for the
purcnase ot the Pioneer Drug
store, owned and operated for the
past 23 years by Harold D. Mc
Kay. McKay, in turn, reports pur
chasing the Robertson Drug store
in Sutehrlin from L. D. Robert
son. Mr. Harris will take possession
of the Pioneer Drug store Christ
mas day and close the business
temporarily for remodelling.
Soon after the first of the year,
he will move from his Deer
Creek location and consolidate
his present store with the stock
of the Pioneer Drug store in the
location at 241 N. Jackson St.
The. Pioneer Drug store was
started in 1854 by the late Dr.
S. Hamilton and has been in its
present location and an adjoin
ing building, since it was first
opened.
Mr. Harris plans complete re
modelling of the interior and will
reopen with a thoroughly modern-
styled business.
Mr. McKay reports he plans to
keep his residence in Roseburg
during the school year, but after
the close of school will move to
his ranch at Wilbur. He will take
possession of the Robertson Drug
store at Sutherlin Jan. 1.
3,000-Bed Navy Hospital
Planned at Camp Adair
ALBANY. Ore.. Dec. 8 (AP)
The new navy hosoital at Camp
Aaair win nave a.uuu oeas ana ac
commodate ill and wounded navy
personnel in both acute and con
valescent stages.
Lt. J. W. O'Donnell, 13th naval
district official who came here to
make preliminary arrangements,
said the staff of doctors, nurses,
and attendants will number near
ly 1000. Most patients will be men
whose homes are in the north
west. O'Connel did not disclose how
soon the hospital would be open
ed. Oregon Townsenders
Ask for Pension Boost '
SALEM, Ore.. Dec. 8 ( AP)
The state Townsend council an
nounced here yesterday it would
ask the legislature to increase the
celling on old age pensions from
$40 to $60 a month. The organiza
tion's bill to pay minimum $60
pensions by enacting a 3 per cent
pross income tax was defeated at
the general election.
Tabbies Taboo
NEW YORK. Dec. 8 (AP)
The United Seaman's service,
which plans to give cats as Christ
mas presents for ships' crews, has
notifed 125 USS centers that
mousers will be taboo as gifts for
tankers or ammunition vessels.
The reason: static electricity
generated by cat fur may cause
explosions.
Established 1873
Yanks
MISSING IN ACTION Sgt.
Millard Rietmann, 21, above,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Rietmann of Sutherlin, has been
reported missing in France
since Oct. 14. Millard has been
overseas with the 104 inf. of a
Yankee division for two months.
He was stationed in Georgia
before being sent acros;. His
twin, Cpl. Willard Rietmann, is
in central Pacific theatre, and
has been overseas for 10
months. Another brother is with
the merchant marine One sis
ter and two brothers reside
with the parents in Sutherlin.
Also a sister, Marlis Vang, re
sides at 810 Hoover St., Rose
burg. Millard is well known in
Sutherlin, having resided there
before entering the service.
Holt n Jap Settlers '
Asked by Idaho Grangers
BOISE, Ida., Dec. 8 (AP)
Resettlement of additional Japa
nese in the stale of Idaho was op
posed by delegates to the state
grange convention yesterday.
Passage of the resolution cli
maxed a lengthy discussion of the
evicted Japanese question which
also found the delegates approv
ing a recommendation that they
"discourage renting, leasing or
selling land or property" to them.
ite anirmation ot the grange s
"faith in our democracy by oppos
ing any attempt to discriminate
between Americans on the basis
of race, religion or color," also
was voted. The resolution noted
that some pf our grange leaders
as well as some subordinate
granges have expressed them
selves in favor of policies toward
Americans of Japanese racial ex
traction that is in direct conflict
with ... the doctrine of eaualitv
of races."
Markets Reopen Under
Revised Price Ceilings
JUNEAU. Alaska. Dee 8
(AP) Nine meat markets, closed
for the part two weeks in Drotcst
against OPA price ceilings on
beef, reopened today on a trial
basis under the new price sched
ule. Dealers have contended the
new price ceilings made their
sales unprofitable.
SUPPLIES THAT JAPS SAID WE
p'jVjf. Ii
mend, nose up to Leyte island beach to discharge their huge cargoes of ammunition and supplies
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, a mmoouim iiiuom at me viiu ui a won u-g ir ai I ng uppiy line inar Tne .laps ciaimea we never
could maintain. A look at this picture should prove disheartening to the tons of Nippon, should
picture' graphically to every U. S. citizen the vast amount of material necessary to keep our In
vasion armies going. Photo by Thomas L. Shafer, NEA-Acme photographer for war picturepool.
Unite Beeper Into Saan4
Coos Leading
In Contest on
E Bond Sales
. Although Coos county reports
given Thursday night from Radio
Station KOOS at Coos bay said
Douglas iicounty was- leading by
one-half of one -per cent In the
"Battle of Bonds," official figures
received by the Douglas County
War Finance staff today show
Coos county still in the lead as
of the date of December 5, Bruce
Elliott, 6th War Loan campaign
chairman announced. Sales to
and including December 5, as
cleared through the Federal Re
serve bank, gave Douglas county
26.60 per cent and Coos county
30.11 per cent on E bond sales to
Individuals. On corporation bonds,
Douglas county is well out In
front considerably above the
quota but only E . bond sales
count In the contest between the
two counties.
Douglas county sales, however,
have made much better progress
in the past few days, Elliott
states, and the next report is ex
pected to show . much improve
ment. Jamboree Yields Pledges.
The War Bond Jamboree, pre
sented last night from Station
KRNR, resulted in pledges of
more than $30,000.
Myrtle Creek was report
ed by Elliott today to be the
' first Douglas county commu
nity to reach Its 6th War
. Loan quota on E bond sales.
G. R. Bates, community chair
' man, reported sales totalling
$27,862, as compared with a
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Cqaret Gouge, Minus .
Tax, Halted by Police :
SPOKANE. Dec. 8 (AP)
Cigarets went up here yesterday
in price as well as smoKe.
Police reported they had ar
rested a 30-year-old waitress on
charge of selling smokes without
paving the slate tax.
Her price, said the officers,
was $3 per carton. Her source of
"ii" was allegedly a soldier
who bought at army post prices
ana wnoisaies at z a carton.
House Denies Funds to
Operate Mine Laboratory
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (AP)
The house of representatives
refused today to appropriate
$160,000 for operation of the re
cently built mining laboratory at
Albany, Ore.
Representative Ellsworth ask
ed for the appropriation as an
amendment to the supplemental
appropriation bill, but It was re
jected by a 50 to 31 standing vote.
Employee Found Dead
In Shaft of Elevator
OREGON CITY. Ore.. Dee. 8
(AP) Otto Medlln, 10, Portland,
Hawley Pulp Sz Paper Co. em
ployee, met accidental death in an
elevator shaft here last nignt.
A fellow worker found his body
wedged between the elevator and
the finishing room floor in Mill
D.
COULDN'T DELIVER LST's.
ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1 944.
Churchill Defends British
Infervention in Greek Mess
As Athens Strife Continues
Gangsters Trying to Grab
Rule, Prime Minister Says
In Address to Commons,
LONDON, Deo. 8. (AP)'
- The house of commons gave
the Churchill government a
vote of confidence today.
The vote was 27S to 30.
Simultaneously British Am
bassador Halifax announced
- in Washington that the-'
. American and British gov
ernments had achieved an
understanding on the -Greek -and
Italian Issue without de- -fining
the "understanding"
fusther. -
LONDON. Dec. 8 (API-
Prime Minister Churchill staked
the fate of his government today
on a defense of British Interven
tion in Greece and Italy, and de
clared all Britain wants in liber
ated countries "Is governments
which will guarantee us the nec
essary security for our lines-of
communication." .
Upholding the use of tanks and
troops against left-wing forces in
Greece, Churchill said Britain act
ed to insure that gangsters did
not "descend from the mountains
and Install themselves with all
their bloody terror and vigor in
power."
As for A m e r lean-supported
Count Carlo Sforza, Churchill
told commons Britain simply did
not trust him "nor would we put
the slightest confidence in any
government of which he is a dom-
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Shipyard Worker Hangs
For Murder of Girl
WALLA WALLA. Doc. 8-(AP)
Edward Hcberling, 31-year-Old
Seattle shipyard worKer, was
hanged this morning at the state
penitentiary for murder of Har
riet Louise Lindstrom, 14 in her
home last July 11. ......
One minute after entering the
execution chamber and whlsper
iner that he wished the Reverend
Arvid Ornell to give his love and
respectes to Mrs. Heoernng ana
their family, he steDDed to the
gallows. He was the 58th person
to be hanged In the penitentiary.
The slain girl's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Lindstrom, now are
residents of Salem, Ore.
Eugene, Junction Cannery
Workers Vote for Strike
EUGENE. Dec. 8 (AP) AFT
cannery workers at the Eugene
Fruit Glowers' association plant
in junction city apo ;ugene nave
voted 176-104 approval of a strike,
union officials said today. . .
Union spokesmen said, howev
er, that the strike would not be
called unless necessary, and e-
plained the ballot was taken to
forestall a "wildcat strike" by
dissatisfied employes.
The union charges that the
company failed to establish a
bracket classification of wages, to
adjust certain women s job pay,
and to respect seniority lists. All
three charges are denied by the
nrm.
under General MacArthur's com.
Fighting Reduced Under
Action of British Troops;
Nearly 1,000 ELAS Yield
ATHENS, Deo. 8. (AP)
British patrols In tanks and
armored oars pushed out
from Athens today to meet
700 Insurgent ELA3 militia
men advancing on the Greek
capital, where general firing
was resumed.
r Clearing skies broke the ...
overnight lull In the olvil
strife.
From heavy machlnegun posi
tions atop the royal palace and
captured communist headquar
ters, British parachute troops
covered patrols fanning out
through the wooded park oehlnd
and east of the palace.
The julas strategy appeared
to be to bring Up forces from
the southeast suburbs around
back of the royal palace to re
inforce insurgents engaging a
Greek mountain brigade barracks
to the northwest. Reserves also
were reported coming in from
the northwest to Join the engage
ment .
ATHENS. Dec. 8 (AP)
Fighting continues on a much re
duced scale in Athens today as
Greek leftist resistance faded be
fore British patrols spreading
out from the center of the city
in a steady rain.
Snipers - were reported giving
considerable trouble in some resl-
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Layton Executed
fn Gas Cell For
Murder of Girl
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 8. (API
Protesting his Innocence until
poison gas reached his nostrils,
Richard Harry Layton died in
the lethal gas chamber today for
the rape-slaying of 17-yoar-old
Ruth HUebrand In June, 1943.
Layton, former Monmouth
police officer, was the seventh
man to die in this chamber, and
the first to expire Insisting he
was innocent The execution was
witnessed by 75 persons.
The Rev. S. Raynor Smith,
prison chaplain entered the
chamber with the condemned
man. Likewise ho spent the
night with him. He said Layton
was not afraid had never been
afraid. He ate a fried chicken
dinner last night, and a few
minutes before entering the
death chamber was given soft
boiled eggs.
His mother and lather, resi
dents of Monmouth, spent more
than an hour with him yesterday,
and a sister saw him the day be
fore. Layton was convicted of raping
the Hlldebrand girl on a bank of
the Willamette river near Wells
landing in Polk county. The spot
Is known locally as "Lovers'
Lane." The state charged that he
gave her a ride from Rlckreal,
attacked her, and knocked her
into the river.
When police investigations led
to Layton, they found him In jail
at Hillsboro, accused of assault
ing a Washington county girl.
Dr. G. L. Nicholas Will
Relocate in Roseburg
Dr. George L. Nicholas, veteri
narian at Roseburg for many
years, who moved recently to
Lakeview. where ho purchased a
general mercnanuise store to oe
i iei-atpcl wnlie serving also as
veterinarian' for a large st-ock-ralsin?
concern. Is preparing to
return to Roseburg to reside, ac
cording to a letter received tnis
morning by Harold McKay of
the Pioneer Drug store.
Dr. Nicholas reports the higher
altitude ot Lakeview affects the
health of Mrs. Nicholas, forcing
their removal from that commun
ity. He plans, he states, to con
struct an animal hospital in or
near Roseburg.
Roosevelt Names 2 More
As State Dept. Aides
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (AP)
President Roosevelt today sign
ed legislation creating two new
assistant secretaries of state, then
nominated James C. Dunn and
Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes for
the nosts.
Dunn, of New York, has been
serving in the state department
as chief of the division of Euro
pean affairs.
Holmes, of Kansas, has been as
sistant to the army chief of staff
at supreme pilled headquarters
in charge of political affairs.
No. .44-201 .
Ration's 3rd
Now 8 Miles
Inside Reich
: Two Russian Armies
Closing Their Pincers
On Hungary's Capital
WITH U. S. THIRD AR
, MV, Dec. 8. (AP) Fort
Drlant, near Metz, which
successfully resisted attack
several weeks ago, fell to
the Americans today.
(By the Associated Press)' ,
American artillery hammered
Saarbrucken ceaselessly today as
U. S. Third army forces pushed a'
steel arc against the Saarland
capital, driving 11 miles into the
Siegfried line and biting into
Forbach, French town 3J miles
southwest of the city.
Northwest of Saarbrucken Lt.
Gen. Patton's troops weldedu
three bridgeheads across the
Saar river at Saarlautern. Three
miles above Saarlautern, Patton'a
crossing of the river reached the
Pachtener-Buchwald forest eight
miles inside Germany, his deepest
penetration of the relch thus far.
Infantry broke into Fursten.
hausen, 44 miles west and Grand
Roselie six miles northwest ot
Saarbrucken. Nine miles south
east of the Saar capital, the Ger
mans clung- to a third of the
French border city of Saargue
mines east of the river. But
American infantry was beating .
up from captured Etting, seven
miles to the southeast, and the
German position at Saargue
mines became increasingly pre.
carious.
, The Germans . on the allied
northern flank appeared to ba
gntpariru? to- fall b,ck- on th
ologne plain almost ' to the
Rhine for an all-out stand. :.
On the southern sector of the
western front U. S. Sovehth army
forces pushed north on a 35-mlle
front west of the Rhine, reaching
Enchebcrg, seven miles below the
Saar border and 41 miles west
of Ritche. Marlnot line town.
Other Seventh army units surg.
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King Given Vote
Of Confidence on
Draff Proposal
OTTAWA, Dec. 8 (AP) The
Canadian parliament gave Prime
Minister King a decisive vote of
confidence today In a move en
dorsing his decision to conscript
troops for replacements in Eu
rope and apparently burying the
nation-splitting conscription is
sue for the duration of the war.
The vote was 143 to 70, with
nationalistic French Canada, tra
ditionally opposed to conscrip
tion for fighting overseas, divid
ing to give the government a
measure of support regarded as a
personal triumph for the veter
an prime minister.
After an eloquent pleas for
unity by King, 21 members from
the French-speaking province of
Quebec and from other French
speaking constituencies abandon
ed the historic French-Canadian
position and voted for the gov
ernment, including the five Que
bec cabinet ministers. Thirty-six
Quebec and other French-peaking
members voted against the gov
ernment. The vote climaxed a 38-day cri
sis over the conscription issue
during which the ancient racial
cleavage between English and
French Canada had burst emo
tionally Into one of the most
threatening situations In the do
minion's modern history.
Gilliam County Exceeds
Quota on E War Bonds
PORTLAND, Dec. 8 (AP)
Gilliam county joined Sherman
today In the ranks of Oregon
counties which have exceeded
their E bond goal.
Meanwhile lagging E bond
sales were boosted In Portland by
a victory center sale of a carton
of cignrettes to every purchaser
of a S50 bond. The method, de
clared an Illegal tie-in sale bv tho
national OPA, sold some $250,000
worth of bonds.
Another Pearl Harbor anniver
sary scheme startled elevator and
streetcar riders. At intervals op
erators stopped still, turned to oc
cupants and demanded "buy that
bond tndnv!"
bitty Fi! nisi
The earthquake that scourg
ed Japan shows that avert th
favored San of Heaven can In
cur tht wrath of his Father. -
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