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PAGE SIX The OHEGOII STATESMAN, Scdaxo. Oregon, Wednesday Morning. Dcnbef 23. 134 ' ; ! . MliWW UM - "Ho Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awt" From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 , - ; - THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC C03IPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. fTake-ovcr of Railroads It is truly deplorable that the president de cided to take over the railroads. Perhaps the emergency demanded it, but alter all 17 out of 20 railway unions agreed to his proposal for a settlement of the wage controversy with out a strike, as the railroad managers already bad done. In the days remaining it surely would have been possible to bring the three recal citrants into line. Government operation of the roads in the first world war was attributed to difficulties of operation. That has not been true in this war. On all sides there has been expression of high approval of the performance of the railroads. But government operation in the first world war proved tremendously expen sive to the country- Settlements with the roads ran into the millions. Meantime, before the roads were turned back operating efficiency became terrible. Part of the blame was as signed to the railway managers who remained, as in this case, the same men with few ex ceptions. But the incentive to performance was lacking under government control. At time goes on the same situation will develop in the present instance, just as soon as the actual war pressures relax. The government too will ex pose itself to heavy claims which will require time and money to settle. One cause of the wage trouble has been the conflict of Roosevelt's own agencies. The rail way labor board is the lawful authority to settle wage disputes. It functioned and ren dered its decision. With one group, the office of stabilization cut the award, and with an other group it modified the award to provide graduated increases. Then the president him self messed in with remarks definitely friend ly to the workers' claims. And in his award Monday he by-passed the decision of his sta bilization office by adding five cents an hour to the four cents previously approved. How can wages be stabilized with the president himself springing the awards? The effect on the nation's morale of this type of meddling will be serious. The public knows what is going on. The people know how the coal mine strike was "settled". Now they see the pattern repeated in the railway case. Next up is the steel workers' demands for wage increases. And the president has inter vened to assure workers that increases will be retroactive apparently assuming that the workers are entitled to get and will get further increases. What then will become of the "little steel" formula? And what we wonder, will be come of the war labor board and the office of stabilization? On every side we see economic groups main taining the old competition and trying to use the war to extend their "gains". This evidence of greed, is by no means confined to workers, but through their organizations they have been aggressive and persistent. Every group will defend its pressures; but the facts are that with scarcely an exception all organized groups are faring better than they ever did before. It's really the unorganized groups that are caught in the bight of the line on price in creases without accompanying wage increases. Everyone is a patriot, to be sure, especially if the profit is added. The seizure of the railroads is in itself a confession that orderly processes have failed, and as in the case of the coal strike, a fair por tion of the blame rests on the administration for its mis-handling of the situation as it de veloped. As a nation, engaged in fighting a .war for its very existense, we ought to hang our heads in shame over this evidence of our own disloyalty. British Seamanship British seamanship, acknowledged by the Germans as a "surprise move," accounted for the loss of the battleship Scharnhorst on Sun day, according to details of the action released Tuesday. The fog which the Scharnhorst had used as a screen of safety for its expected rip ping up of the allied convoy, proved its own undoing. Smaller . units of the British fleet, though outgunned by the German ship, closed in to engage the Scharnhorst and trailed her long the sea lanes. This permitted the heav ier Duke of York battleship-with accompany ing cruisers to get between the Scharnhorst and its possible havens in Norwegian fjords, and then to sink it. At that the German vessel should have giv en a better account of itself in ; the fighting. Its nine-11-mclT guns had longer range than the eight-inch guns of the British cruisers and the lighter guns of -destroyers, yet it scored only . one hit on the Norfolk. In the closing stage of the battle a British . destroyer was slightly damaged. It is possible the German pocket battleship Luetzow 'was damaged in the fray; ,1 This victory over the Scharnhorst on top of the sinking of the huge battleship Bismarck, will cause . great rejoicing in Britain whose chief pride is its navy. That navy has taken .heavy pounding in this war, losing the Hood to the Bismarck, the Prince of Wales and Re pulse to Jap" torpedo planes, several aircraft carriers and cruisers to aerial attacks in ac tions off Norway and in the Mediterranean. But in the engagement of surface units British sea manship has proven superior. The sinking of the Graf Spee off Uruguay by the lighter Ex eter and accompanying warships was a bril-. liant : achievement. The r. destruction of th Bismarck was a combined air and ship opera tion, but the battle tactics were .excellent. Now in the : Scharnhorst engagement daring and skill combined to deprive the Germans of their. last seaworthy capital ship. Mayor Riley Abroad Just what is it that makes a congressman sound sour so many times? He thinks he is striking a note clear as a bell when really he is making only a dull grunt. That is the best description of the comment of Rep. Dworshak of Idaho on the visit of Mayor Earl Riley of Portland to Great Britain. He called the Riley assignment by OWI as "indiscreet", and criti cized particularly Riley'a facetious observation in England that Churchill is the "best prim minister we ever had" and that "he could be president of the United States any day. What was that but obvious humor with the praise worthy purpose of kindly flattery? For that matter the remark of Riley's was current gag in this country for some months. The fact is that Mayor Riley did rather a thorough job of seeing the British isles. In the common- phrase "he got around". He tried to see the things and people of all classes, to ask questions and to answer questions. Sure, his contacts were homey, for the mayor is that kind of person; and besides he was not com missioned to do heavy negotiation while abroad. Since his return Mayor Riley has been very generous in relating to many, many groups his experiences, his observations and his conclu sions. He brings back a good, factual picture of Britain in wartime; and evidently made a very good impression abroad, even if he did boost Portland's roses and lose his rubbers ac cidentally in Portland's "mudflats.' 1 ' : ' -i wmsf Paul MaHoa Chinese have driven the Japs out of their ktti txn-iot will holn n i whm wimconi lite WJ W A. viua ' drives the Japs out of the rubber bowl. ; , June used to be the date for college gradu ations. With the war upsetting college calen dars commencements come along just any time. The colleges now produce on an assembly line basis. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON (Distributed by Kin Features Syndicate. Inc. Reproduction In whole or in part strictly pro hibited.) WASHINGTON, December 28 A young lawyer friend of mine in the southwest decided to enter politics as a career. He started the right way, at the bottom, getting himself elected to a county board of supervisors. At once, however, he raised the tax levy on all real estate in the county, causing an increase in the valuations and just about dou bled the tax bill on all the peo ple. I thought that would nip his political career practically in embryo. But, immediately he ran for the state legislature, and was elected almost unan imously. Both he and I found that not a single taxpayer resented or remembered his permanent doubling of their cost of liv ing in his community, but a small group of individuals whose lands were benefitted by building a sewer through their pro perty, thereby increasing its value, and certain farmers who obtained county roads through their property, clearly remembered hjs work in their interests "development of the county," I suppose they would call it and they whooped up almost unanimous sentiment for him. It was somewhat startling for me to realize that this peculiar condition of American politics applies to the federal government as a whole. I have never known a congressman to be defeated for voting a tax upon his people. Hundreds have been elected because they succeeded in getting federal expenditures for several people of their district, a war contract for one, roads, schools, appropriations for others. That means a wise man, or a prudent one, can hardly succeed except by accident under our political system as now practiced. Success ob viously requires the levying of ever increasing tribute upon all the people for the benefit of the few. Is this not the defect of this political era? In deed, is it not the main cause of our fundamental political trouble? This current practice of government started only 20 years or so ago when political leaders dis covered that the use of the automobile and the building of good roads contained a sure-fire politi cal formula. People would pay high taxes, they dis covered, would be saddled with great debts in their cities, states, and federal governments, in return for the convenience and pleasure of driv ing over the country on hard roads. Not until then did any government dare levy taxes of more than a minor inconsequential nature upon its people; indeed, the revolution is sup posed to have been fought in resistance of a minor stamp tax. - The formula expanded like a balloon, until the government furnished more and ' more funds for more and more conveniences for people, increasing taxes and debts apace. These expenditures were found to furnish good business to contractors, road building concerns, brick manufacturers, -and even to labor, and thus has been justified the theory that the government has a primary right to a part of a man's income even before he gets' it (withholding tax.) To'gef elected to the presidency, or even to' congress, It has been customary for 'ambitious men to contrive new proposals of expenditures never mentioning taxes, rarely suggesting prudent man agement, and even when they do, agreeing to vote for private, personal expenditures to other groups, thus nullifying their primary intentions. Can a nation survive as such an ever expanding balloon? Obviously the expansion cannot continue much further in the face of the $200,000,000,000 or more federal debt we are accumulating. What should be done about it? The answer must . lie in the field of making the politician strive to be prudent, by creating conditions which will make it to his personal advantage. First necessary step is an awakening of the tax payers to the facts of government life. When they see and know these, they may find avenues for expressing themselves. Leagues of taxpayers have gained little headway against the invisible and impregnable political stone walL ; ; ? -A league of an the taxpayers of the country might be able to exert a power commensurate with that of class groups seeking expenditures, but it would have to be wisely organized and led by sin cere, efficient, experienced, well-known people. Flag Stop Today's Cadoo Ptrogiramnis KSLM WEDNESDAY 1388 K. 1 AO News. 7:03 Marion County Farm and Home Program. T:15 Rise 'n' Shin. T JO News 1:43 Morning Moods. 8. -00 Cherry City Newt. 8:10 Music S JO Tango Time. AO Pastors CalL 9:19 It'a the Truth, t JO Popular Music. 100 News. 10 .-OS A Song and a Dane. 1020 Music. H AO News. 11:03 Music. 10 JO Wohl Sophistications. 12 .-00 Organ all ties. 12:15 News. 12:35 Matinee. 1 0 Orchestra. 1:20 Mai HaUett's Orchestra 1 :30 Milady's Melodies. 1:45 Spotlight on Rhythm. 2:00 Isle of Paradise. 2-15 US Marines. 2 JO Music. ' J 2:45 Broadway .Band Wagon 3 AO KSLM Concert Hour. 4 AO The Aristocrats. 4:15 News. 4 :30 Boys' Town. SAO Natl Industrial Information 5:15 Let's Reminisce. 5 JO Melodies. SAO Tonight's Headlines. 6:15 War News Commentary. 6:20 Evening Serenade. Ten -Two-Four . 6 :45 Music 7 AO News. 7A5 Charlie H amp's Ballads. 7:15 This la Your Business. 7 JO Keystone. 7:4S This Is Your Business. AO War Fronts in Review. S:10 Interlude. . 8:15 Hollywood 8 JO Mustangs. 8:45 Treasury Star Parade. AO News :1S Old Timers. 93 Between the Lines. 10 AO Serenade). 10 JO News. KGW NBC WEDNESDAY C20 Ke. 4-80 Dawn PatroL Off 8ffl3300 mDCDQES 8 :55 Labor News. AO Mirth and Madness. JO News Parade. 6:55 Labor News. 7 AO Journal of Living. 7:15 News. 7 JO Reveille Roundup. 7:45 Sam Hayes. SAO Stars of Today. 8:15 James Abbe Covers the News. 8 JO Robert St. John. -.45 David Harura. AO The Open Door. 9:15 Glenn Shelley. 9 JO Across Threshold. 9 :45 Confessions. 10 AO Sketches in Melody. 10 as Ruth Forbes. 10 JO News. 10:45 Art Baker's Notebook. 11 AO The Guiding Light. 11:15 Today's Children. 11 JO Light of the World. 11:45 Hymns of All Churches 12 AO Women of America. 12:15 Ma Perkins. 12:30 Pepper Young's Family. 12:45 Right to Happiness. 1A0 Backstage Wife. .1 :13 Stella . DaUas. . , . : I JO Lorenzo Jones. s. 1:45 Young Widder Brown. 2 AO When A Girl Marries. 2:15 Portia Faces Life. 2:30 Just Plain Bill. 2:45 Front Page Farrell. SAO Road ot Life. 3:15 Vic and Sade. 3:30 The Personality Hour. 4 AO Dr. Kate 4-15 News of the World. 4:30 Caribbean Nights. 4:40 Golden Gate Quartet. 4:45 H. V. Kaitenborn. 5 AO OK for Release. 5:15 Rhythm and Romance. S JO Day Foster. Commentator. 5:45 Louis P. Locnner. 6:00 Eddie Cantor. :30 Mr. District Attorney. 7 AO Kay Kysers Kollege. SAO Fred Waring In Pleasure Tim 8 :1 5 Commentator. JO Beat the Band. AO Mr and Mrs. North. :30 Scramby Ambj. 10 AO News Flashes. 18:19 Your Horn Town News. -10-25 Labor News. 1 JO Gardening for Food. 10:45 Voice of A Nation. 11 AO Music 11 JO News. 11:45 News. 12:00-2 AM. Swing Shift 9 JO North west Neighbors. 10 AO Five Star FmaL 10:15 Wartime Women. 1030 William Winter. 10 JO Music. 11 AO Music. 11 :30 Manny Strand Orchestra. 11:45 Air-Flo of the Air. 11:53 News. 12 AO Serenade. 12JO-6A0 a.m. Music and News. (Continued trom Page 1) Commodity Produced Value Asparagus. lbs. 3.9M 4600 Beans, green lbs. 111 .900 7,729.76 Beans, dried, lbs. 23,000 1.380.00 Beet, table. lbs. 14.77S 44325' Brussels sprouts, lbs. 4.609 460.00 Cabbage, lbs. 135.750 3.393.75 Carrots, table, lbs. 29.700 897.00 Cherries. R.A.. lbs. 10.400 1.312.00 Cherries, sour, lbs. 6.550 54S.2S 13 675.00 9.744 - 1.948 M 1.894 454.56 3.600 216.00 128i 'a 2,891.25 . 1.300 52.00 . 9,600 672.00 23 5625 XI 23 00 11.062 11.062.00 ,306.900 6,178.00 . 17.658 617.75 7.500 . 112.50 700 168.00 Corn, field, ton Corn, sweet, doz. Filberts, lbs. Greens, lbs. Hay. 'alfalfa, tons Onions, dry. lbs. Parsnips, lbs. . Peaches, bu. , , Pears, bu. Potatoes, bu. Tomatoes, IbsV Tumips, table Tomatoes, green, lbs. Walnuts, lbs. . - , Total value ot produce S4L752J2 Having this very considerable quantity of fresh vegetables and ' fruits gives to Inmates of the "hospital a varied and substan tial diet, at the lowest cost to the state. Cottage farm supplies milk, eggs and meat In addition operation of the farms provides "occupational therapy for the mentally in. It is far better for those in fair health to get out doors and engage in the labors " of farm work than to remain confined to quarters with only an hour or two of exercise in the ; open air.- jf-r- ;r- - '-"V; :;: The penitentiary operates a large farming enterprise, as does Fairview home for the feeble minded. Hillcrest school for girls ; runs a small farm, and the train ing school for boys at ..Wood burn has a real farm and dairy where the boys work." Running these farms is no small part of the responsibility of the heads of the various institutions, but they feel It pays both in pro duction and in occupational ben efits for inmates. KOIN CBS WEDNESDAY 9S8 K. 8 AO Northwest Farm Reporter. as Breakfast Bulletia 20 Texas Rangers. 6:45 KOIN Klock. 7 US News. 7 JO News. 7:45 Nelson Prtngle. News. SAO Consumer News. 8 as Valiant Lady. 8 JO Stories America Loves. 8:45 Aunt Jenny. 9 AO Kate Smith Speaks. :1S Big Sister. 9 JO Romance of Helea Trent. 9:45 Our Cai Sunday. 10 AO Life- Can Be Beautiful 19:15 Ma Perkins. 10 JO BernadineFlynn. 10:45 The Goldbergs. 11 AO Young Dr Malone. lias Joyce Jordan. 11 JO We Love and Learn. 11:45 News 12 AO Neighbors 12:15 Bob Anderson. News. 12 JO William Winter. News. . " 12:45 Bachelor's Children. 1 AO Broadway Matinee. 1 .-23 AccorOing to Record. 1 JO New Horizons. 2 AO Mary Martin. 2:13 Newspaper of the Air. . 2:45 American Women. ' SAO News. 3:15 Lynn Murray Show. 3 JO Jerl Sullivan. S:45 The Wortd Today. , 3:55 Chet Huntley. .... ' 4 AO Stars of Today. I 4:15 Bob Anderson, News. 4 JO Easy Aces. ' SAO Galea Drake. SOS Red's Gang. : 8 JO Harry riannerjr. 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" 7 JO Lone Ranger. SAO Main Line. 8:30 Bulldog Drummond, SAO News. 9:15 Today s Top Tunes. 9 JO General Malone. 9:45 Fulton Lewis, jr. 1000 Bien Venidos Amigos. 10:15 Dell Courtney Orchestra. 10 JO News. 10:45 Music 11 AO Halls of Montezuma. 11 JO Orchestra. 11:45 Songs of the Service. ' KEXBN WEDNESDAY 11M Ks. AO Musical Clock. 6:15 NaUonal Farm and Home. 6:45 Western Agriculture. 7 AO Music. 7:15 News. 7 JO News. 7:45 The Humbard Family. AO Breakfast Club. 9 AO My True Story. 9 JO Breakfast at Sardi's. 10 AO News. 10:15 Commentator. 10 JO Andy and Virginia. 10:45 Baby Institute. 11 AO Baukhage Talking. 11:15 The Mystery Chef. 11 JO Ladies. Be Seated. 12 AO Songs. 12:15 Mews 12 JO Livestock Reporter. 12 JS Organ Reveries. 12:45 News. 1A0 Blue Newsroom Review. SAO What's Doing. Ladles 2 JO Voices, Harmony. 2:40 labor News. 2:43 Gospel Singer. SAO Hollywood News Flashes 3:15 Glenn Howard. 3 JO Blue Frolics. . 4 AO News. 4 A5 Adventures of Falcon. 4:15 Letters to Santa da us. 4 JO Hop Harrlgan. 4:45 The See Hound. 8 AO Terry and the Pirates, as Dick Tracy. JO Jack Armstrong. 5:43 Captain Midnight. AO Dunntnger. JO Band. . . si Spoils 7 AO Raymond Cram Swing. 7:13 This Is Your Business. 7 JO Down the Ways. -M-SA0 Newe. ' 1 m; j ft '" . : ' J J----MARTHAI d!ck-A ,,fLI!dL- " I EYery Man. - Wed.-- Fri. y At6;3QP.M. y ' ' in H i. immmZirTmnm7-' ' ' mi r n . - Scout Program To Be Sunday Commissioners of Cascade area council. Boy Scouts of America, will "go. to school Sunday: after noon, January V council officers here revealed Tuesday. - . From 1 to p. tn. at the Marion hotel a program planned to in struct and to aid In the expansion of the scouting program here will be presented under direction of Carl Aschenbrenner, Salem, and Carl Connet, Albany. . Don Black, Wesley Goodrich and Lou Amort, Salem; Ed Hyfles, Dallas; Lee Withers, Woodburn; R. G. Wood, Stayton; Floyd Van Horn, Albany, and Lawrence Mor ley, Lebanon, are to participate. Wives of commissioners will be entertained by the: council and both commissioners and their wives will be guests of the coun cil at a dinner following the con centrated training course. Road Bill Hearings Set Hearings on federal road bills under which the state of Oregon would receive $45,000,000 for highway construction during' the three years following the close of the war, have been scheduled to open in Washington, DC, on Feb ruary 15. The hearings will be conducted by the joint senate and house road committees. Against the $45,000,000 to be al located to Oregon under the bills the state would match $15,000,000 or $5,000,000 a year. "As soon as these bills become law we will speed up the formu lation of our postwar highway construction program," R. H. Bal dock, state highway engineer, said. Service Center Welcomes 1000 The Salem service men's center, supported by 27 churches of the community, entertained the big gest crowds in the history of its operation here over the holidays with the aU time high of over 1000 being welcomed last Satur day. - A carefully planned program to make the service man feel ' at home started with dozens of let ters being sent to 'individuals' in viting them to various home for Christmas dinner. On Saturday night a party for 100 was given at the center where gifts were brought for the Christmas tree. The center raised $118 for gifts, both personal and general, for the men. Fifty women from various churches of the city donated 150 pounds of home made candy. Af ter the tree ceremony, festivities ended with carol singing and a Christmas message by the direc tor, Herbert Anderson. Liquor Perniits to Be Sold Monday Sale of liquor permits for 1944 wfll start next Monday, the state liquor control commission an nounced here Tuesday. It wUl be necessary for persons desiring to purchase a permit to present the new- No. 4 food ration books, fully signed. The price re mains at $1. Soldiers wfll receive a permit and a special stub upon present ing their identification discs. Smuts Wins Award NEW YORK, Dec 2SHTV Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa was an nounced by the Woodrow Wilson foundation Monday as the winner of the Woodrow Wilson award for distinguished service. flnierpreting The War Neivs By KIRKE L SIMPSON Copyright 1U by the Associated Press Events in Russia go far to support Gen. Dwight .D. Eisen houwer's sober confidence that 1944 can be made the victory year in Europe under the allied Russian three-way attack pro gram mapped at Teheran. Eisenhower made his declara tion in his farewell to his west ern Mediterranean command to take over the job of Anglo-American supreme commander in the west. It wiU now be his duty to set in motion at the appoint ed time the western jaw of the vast pincer attack agreed upon at Teheran! As the ' general spoke his mind, powerful Russian forces in the Kiev bulge again were driving forward, battering then way toward severance to the on ly two rail lines still connecting German armies in southwestern Russia with Germany. Unde terred by the prolonged and bloody nazi counter offensive that had held open that vital communications gateway for weeks the Russians were on the move toward the Rumanian bor der. . Berlin estimated the Russian forces in this resumed red army offensive at 500,000 men, which quickly rolled the nazis back at points even beyond Russia's pre vious greatest advance west of Kiev. Both Zhitomir and Ber dichev appeared certain of ear- :1S Lum and Abner. 8:30 Battle of the Sexes. AO Inspector Hawks and Son, 8:15 Dangerous Quest. 90 News. 5 Art Baker. IS AO Down Memory's Lane. 10 JO Broadway Bandwagon 10:43 Music 11 AO Concert Hour. KOAC WEDNESDAY 456 Sc. 1 AO News. 1:1S The Hommnakers Hour. 11 AO Listen to Leibert. v 11:15 Southland Singing. . 1140 Concert raU. 12 AO News. 12:15 Noon Farm Hour. 1 AO Ridin" the Range. 1U5 U P. Chronicle. 1 JO Variety Tin. . SAO Problems ot Youth. 230 Memory Book of Music. SAO News. , 3:13 Music v 4 AO A te Z Novelty. 4:15 Red Cross. 4:45 Book of the Week. SAO On the Upbeat. JO Story Time. - S .-45 It's Oregon s Wax. :1S News. -30 Evening Farm Hour. 70 Master Singers. 7:43 America Marches. - AO Music. S -JO Music. - - :4S Evento Meditations. MAS Sign Off. ly Russian capture. This would rip a 3 0-mile-wide gap open in German lines at the southwest angle of the bulge, the most critical segment for the nazi high command. It seems clear that red forces have not yet reached the spring- board point, however, for their share of the pincer on Europe. Resumption of the Kiev bulge offensive indicates that at Te heran, Russian leaders were su premely confident that they could split German armies in half to the Rumanian border as a pre liminary to the planned final as saults. They are close enough to success in this venture to force anxious comment from Berlin. The astounding aspect of the reopened Russian master attack in the center is that, it was pre pared in the face bf the now broken German counter offen sive which fell far short of reaching Kiev although' it wrest ed Zhitomir and Korosten from Russian hands and bentback the Russian lines 40 miles, eastward. That front never broke, how ever. Russian commanders mus- - tered heavy reinforcements in readiness to take up the march of Zhmerinka again when the desperate nazi effort wore it self out, as it did. The speed with which red elements have crashed forward again on an. indicated front 20 to 30 miles wide suggests wide spread exhaustion and confu- sion in German forces. Should that be borne out by later front line advances, it makes it at least possible that the German front wUl have been sliced apart in the center in Russia early in the new year. " The result must be to add tre mendously to the danger in which all German troops south of the Kiev - Zhmerinka rail road stand of being cut off from any adequate communication with Germany proper. The Kiev-Zhrnerinka railroad down which the Russians t are moving crosses the upper arm of the Russian Bug river just west of Zbinerinka. Should the pres ent Russian attack reach that indicated prime objective of the renewed southwestward drive in the Kiev bulge, it would turn the flank of the Bug line from the north and probably force a Ger man retirement from all south western Russia including Odes- oenina tne Dniester river. Crcdii As Usual ALL JETVELST WORK DONE ON THE PREMISES Bring in that old-fashioned Jewelry you have discarded, we will make it like new, for a very reasonable cost. rrr-t