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9i : ' ' i . J . S lM ' ' -J r " Thursday rs3?.:..--n t: 'yerature 81; nlI-ur-i ZZ. , Partly clacf y I'rllay r. I SatordaT; B&t t cLar;a la temperature. PCUND2D I - x TiTiTl jf TiT 1 -v - The board of directors of the .'Associated Press took the correct course in' appealing the decision of the lower court in the case in ' stituted against it by the depart- : xnent of Justice, accusing n 01 "violating the anti-trust laws. The final judgement of the lower - court held that the AP was no monopoly that : there were other ' . comDetitive news services in the Afield, and admitted the hiah aual ;ity of AP news service. But it for Ibade AP members from excluding - an - applicant for membership on .the ground of competition with '-"resent member. ,'--'v r -This has seemed to AP members . and to others . an unwarranted .stretching of the anti-trust laws. ;If,a newspaper were to be denied ;all press services then the cry of .combination in restraint might be ; made. Such is not alleged. A news- paper can obtain at least one of the three great news services. The .fact that on may not be available .to it does - not prove monopoly .The record- showed that some - newsnarjers i thrive with the ; AP - service: ethers : with the. UP . ser . vice; others have combinations of . cress reports. No proof was offered , that a paper failed for lack of the . AP r of one of the other press services. .: Thi Associated: Press is a co- operative whose prestige has been - built up by performance over : a lona term of years. It operates on the nrinciDle of exchange of news i among members and an equitable assessment of the cost of col lecting and transmitting news. .To y make admission to the AP free without the right of protest by a . t competing member would mean , that the contribution (continued ':.- the editorial page). I Nan Defenders FromMinturna l : Br WES GALLAGHER I ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Jan. 20.-i5VBritish troops i fighting ; doggedly up 500 - loot f alooes rising from the historic Ap- pian Way have driven nazi de- fenders from tha important town f Minturao,, iaotiC'w- r Garigliano river, the German high 5 command ' announced today, as a bitter "give and take" battle raged - along: a' seven-mile front on the t Italian west coast. ' ' The nazis said that Minturno, a key communications center, was lost to Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark's I advancing forces after having : been "completely destroyed.' The ancient town, whose pre-- war population was over 5009,. ' - was a primary objective of the ' sew allied offensive launched Monday night at three point , across the lower Garigliano. While the nazis conceded Min ' turno's fall, the allied command ; announced capture of the villages i of Argento, at the mouth of the I Garigliano; Tufo, a mile north I east of Minturno, and Suio, seven . miles up the Garigliano from the coast. - ( ' ".,"!.' Some of the , most desperate fighting was expected to develop around , Castel Porto, a village about two miles from the Gar ; gilianos western bank and six i miles inland,, where the Germans - have' installed extensive fortifies t tiona on high ground. British re k inforcements were' pouring across the : river to join in the' conflict, '- which , was progressing in clear, ! cold " water. r.-- y - -- ... ." - - - - , -German prisoners taken. at the outset of the offensive belonged . to the 94th nazi division, and r many, said they never had been in action before. They showed strain from the incessant aerial attacks and artillery bombardments they . had- undergone in - recent weeks. (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Zeros Fly Lower . Because of .Weather - MUNDA, New Georgia, Solo ; noons, Jan. 17.P)-(Delayed)-In- clement weatherexcept over the target caused allied fighter 1 planes to battle superior numbers of Zeros at much lower than us ual altitudes In today's devastat ing blow an enemy shipping at lUbauL . r i: &:;;s s " v ' Marine divebomber pilots in the action and credited with hits on cargo ships included. Harry Det wiler; Canby, Ore. :, v: "v'r - - - " . -v Service lien Exempt ' - ... . -,v , :... ',: - ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-(i?V Kep. Sauthoff (R-Wis) Introduced today bill (H. R. 4025) to waive all income tax liability of mem bers of the- armed forces incurred prior to their entry into the serv ices. - ' VCD Million Xaiil Aside LONDON, "Jan. 20.-(P)-The Taily Express said toniiht that Tritain is , setting aside, at once r:-rly lC3,CCa,CC0 pounds (ap-j-:xxiir.'ai!y $400,COO,CCO)- for re ; ;t in countries liberated from British IIUirTY-THIHD YEAIl Lf 3.3 3: Heaviest Raid Launched ; Against Wewak and Boram; 133 Tons Explosives iDro jpped ' ' " I " ' t ; By Robert Eunsoni " ? V ADVANCED ALLIED Guinea, Friday-,' Jan. 21 ! down 33 Japanese planes ship totaling 10,000 tons in blows ranging from We wak, New Guinea, to Rabaul, New Britain, Gen. Doug las MacArthur's headquarters reported ' today. The heaviest raid was dumps and antiaircraft positions at Wewak and neigh boring Boram. Fifty Liberator; heavy bombers hit Bo ram with 133 tons of explosives, without interception Wednesdays the day before fighters shot down 12 planes, for sure and probably two more from the 50. to 60 rose to challengethe attackers over Wewak. The allies lost three planes. Hitting again at the enemy plane and shipping center at Ra baul, where allied planes from the south Pacific ' command sank or damaged eight - ships Monday,. Mitchell medium : bombers with fighter escort bombed and strafed Tobera airdrome, one " of three fields guarding the center, down ing 21 enemy interceptors against a loss of two of the raiding planes. - '. i.- A 1 5000-ton - Japanese ' ammuni tion ship received direct hit and blew up and a ?000rton freighter also -was sunk -when -navy Cata- linsC patrol planes caught a small convoy off ; Lorengau, on ' the northeast ' coast f . of Admiralty island, Tuesday : night. Night patrol planes operating off Naman Island, near Hansa bay on j the - northeast . coast of New Guinea, sank a 3000-ton Japanese sWp.;? Pilots returning from the raid on Wewak and Boram reported they found "some of the enemy pilots highly ' skilled and aggres sive," a headquarters spokesman said. He emphasized that the na ture of enemy air action - against allied planes indicated that the enemy air force still has much of its first team in combat.- New Burma Front Opened , NEW DELHI, Jant 20.-P)-Al-lied ground forces, moving up be hind i heavy assaults ; by strong forces "of American heavy and medium bombers, have opened a new north Burma land front in attack on J apanese positions in the Chiixhfein area. - . la announcing the attacks, launched Tuesday, today's .allied East Asia headquarters commun ique said only that "Some pro gress was made." ;v : The Japanese positions, in the Kyankchaw area 18 miles south east of Tamy on the western bor der, lie more than 200 miles be low the Hukawng valley area where American-trained Chinese troops are driving eastward along the route of the new Ledo road to China. - Carl A.Porter Prompted To Warners Norilnvest Chief Promotion of Carl A Porter, to northwest district managership for Warner Brothers theatres was announced : here Thursday night simultaneously with the arrival of V. P. Byrne from Los Angeles to succeed Porter as resident mana ger; of - the Elsinore and Capitol theatres of Salem. Porter, who came here. 10 years ago' from Los Angeles to manage Warner ; Brothers interests, will retain his headquarters in Salem where he owns his home. His new responsibilities include theatres at Hoquiam and Aberdeen, Wash. In " Salt Lake City,' prior to his Los Angeles association with Warner Brothers, he had been city mana-; ger-; for iniblix, Paramount cor-; po ration, which , bought out' the 10-theatre company of which he had been a member. ' -: f. ; Byrne until recently has been manager for Fox in Las Cruces, NM, but has been learning the Warner Brothers system in Los Angeles. Before that he was for 10 years with Fox theatres in rev- 15 PAGES - ..n r HEADQUARTERS, New (AP) Allied airmen shot and sank three enemy supply on the fiirdromes, supply more than 100 escorting Japanese interceptors that O Sparks Points .'-? i" - To Alamo9 in Letter Probe : .1 ! WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-W)-C. Nelson Sparks, whose, writings about Wendell Willkie brought the "Hopkins ' letter, mystery to na tional attention, suggested tonight thai an investigating grand jury rememiw-lhe "AhimoTand it win getjtnat rnucn closer to a solution tie sam the word !Aiamo'was the answer to a riddle which grew around these circumstances: Sparks' wrote a book in which he quoted an alleged letter from Harry Hopkins, principal adviser to Presidetn Roosevelt, to Dr. Um phrey Lee? of Texas. The letter, on t White House stationery, " said Willkie ' would win the republican nomination! again. Critics of Will kie land 'the administration have said, the : letter . ii.dicated ' Hopkins desired WUlkie to be the repub lican nominee. : . i.nm icixer sxanea witn a ques tion about what had been done in the f Alamo" matter. Hopkins said the letter Was a forgery; Dr. Lee said he never received it Hopkins asjcea to a grand Jury probe. Sen, linger (R-ND) then named George Briggs, 55-year-old assist ant to Interior Secretary' Ickes, as the man who turned tip the letter for Sparks; Briggs was suspended wimout pay. . - i oen. uinger says the word Aiamo" Was code to mean an A ministration move to back Dr. Lee for j the JUS senate against Sen. uonnaiiyi tD-Tex.) L Sparks said Hopkins,; Lee and icaes, "sbould all be auestioned closely as to the meaning of the word 'Alamo' appearing in the Hopkins letter." i w I U He said he deleted it from the letter, as published in his book "at the Urgent request of Ickes. conveyed to me by a letter from Briggs at the moment before pub lication, This word," said r Sparks, -in itself may furnish the key to the frantic attempt on ' the - part of these men to disown any connec tion with the letter and any knowledge of it. I CAr.L A. ror.Ti era! Colore do towns and ia Chey enne, V.'yo. With J.lrsl. Eyrne and tLelr sniall .daughter La will make his horse Li Eakrv ' . Calosxr Or9ozu coy, Giin Reward G6es in Stamps BETHEL, Jan. 2S . Scene: the little red schoolheuse Actors: twe snenymoas state pellcemea sad lour very excited students. Jean Porter . and Donna . Kir acber, second i grade; ' Lorraine Langeland, third grade; sad Marvin Kirscher, seventh grade. Action; the twe state pollcemea presenting small rewards to the four, youngsters who discovered the gun and . slicker discarded by three AWOL sailors last Fri day i nixht following a service station holdup and shooting of . Officer Karl Murphy.. The money will go Into war stamps to be applied toward the purchase of parachute, second being paid for by pledges of the Bethel students in the fourth war i loan drive. !- ? v ." The three little girls, stroll- lng home from school, had no ticed a black slicker in the grass ear; the pavement. Marvin, cut ting through his father's fields, discovered the gun. Sirs. John Kirscher e a 1 1 e d police, who picked up the articles, made the presentation, and have instlxat ed!j pupils la . a search for the second weapon. ' RimseyAmes, Starlet. Listed For Bond Show Lest some of Salem's bond-buy ing admirers of movie stars die from pent-up curiosity, it is here and now announced that the vi vacious, personable blond charm er (picture on page 2) coming to this: city for Saturday night's war bond show at the armory is Jt&te Ramsey Ames, t-acclaimej ooe rf the most promising of the current crop of new screen - personalities. She is currently appearing in the Olsen and Johnson comedy -"Crazy Horsed- ? ' '; - r;.. , There is one other item so im portant ; that it ' deserves . mention ahead of the day's score on the fourth war loan: The only way to get into this show, which starts at 7:45 p. m. Saturday, is to buy war bond; and the tickets issued on that basis are going like hot- cakes; and it's "first come, first served." " . Total war bond sales up to Thursday night In Marion conn -ty since the opening of the fourth war loan campaign amounted to IS341.600, Chairman Jesse J. Gard ; snaouneed. - - ' x:.: Getting back to Saturday night's showj the wounded war , heroes scheduled to be introduced - by Capt r Douglas McKay 1 include Capt 1 John S. Young -' and Sgt Lloyd B. ? Sweeney of the army, Staff SgL Edward J. Burmab of the marines and Boatswain's Mate 1c J. J. Roy bol of the navy. There's- also a male movie star coming; his identity will be dis closed today..-:l-.V::i; - ?:f:t The cavalry band directed by Warrant Officer i Marion Walter will give a 15-minute concert, with vocal solos by Cpl. Mackey Swan, (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Aluminum Labor Joins Drive . . Against Wages PITTSBURGH," Jan. 20 The Aluminum Workers of Amer ica 'today joined ! other units of the CIO in a drive to break up the t government's "little steel" wage i formula by formally de manding a minimum pay boost of 15 cents an hour for approximate ly 60,000 aluminum workers. In addition the union, headed by Nick ; A. i; Zonarich of New Kensington, Pa told the . Alumi num Company of America it wants a flat minimum hiring rate of ,90 cents an hour at all the 28 plants over the country where It repre sents employes, j Lbs Anceles Leads War Contracts i ; - SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2$-(JF) Los Angeles county, with .war contracts totaling $3,502,473,003, ranks as the leading war produc tion center on the Pacific coast, a report issued today, by the state chamber of 'commerce" research department disclosed,. San Francisco, with & total, ef $3,813,SC3,CD0 ranks second. In the nation Los Angeles county is exceeded only by. the Detroit, in dustrial area where contracts ' for supplies and facilities tctl 511,- O.CCD.CCD, revert, t'.ctsd. . mm Fridar Morning, January 21 1S44 Soviets ture ; Trap Germans J In Strelna ; Corridor .. ' . -.."? ; ;: ; By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Friday, Jan. 21(JF) The red army toppled the an cient bastion of Novgorod yes terday, on the eutn day, of a northern offensive which has cost the Germans 44,000 men, and : also trapped an" undeter mined" number bt nazi , troops I in the Strelne corridor south west of ien ingrad, a Moscow bul letin announced today.' ! . ' Gen. K. A.' Meretskov's armies : of the Volkhov front : captured ' Novgorod,': 100 miles southeast of Leningrad on the road to southern Estonia, by ,an ' action officially described as a "skillful outflank- ing maneuver." Premier .j Marshal Stalin saluted the important vie- tory with an order of the day last night .". , i' ':- ; '':--. . On the Leningrad front other armies under Gen. Leonid A. Gov- orov, attacking southwest of Len ingrad and southeast of Cranien- bum on the gulf of Finland, were I declared to have joined forces to seal off for annihilation the Ger mans - caught ' in the 50-square-mile Strelna corridor, 'which ran north : from the Krasnoye . Selo sector vo me guu oi x nuano. ; xne vwo reu armies tegeiner were shaping a massive trap for ?53,eC5 ther Germans flghtiar 'id svaaUoMi southeast of Lefa - grsd. ." ' The latest ; soviet ' communique disclosed that the Russians under Govorov were . only nine miles from Krasnogvardeisk, a rail junc tion through which most of the threatened ; enemy troops must withdraw - toward Estonia: if they are - to escape : the soviet . steam roller. - :;.L.:1i'x' Striking : southwest of newly captured Krasnoye Schv. 15 miles southwest of Leningrad,' Jhe Rus sians during the day moved on to take Nizhnaya,; four miles .below Krasnoye Selo and only nine miles (Turn to Page 2 Story F) AFL Council Sets Monday ToStudyUMW I By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS MIAMI, Flav Jan. 2HJPy- The AFL executive council today "set next Monday to consider the pro posed-reinstatement of the United Mine ' Workers as news was dis closed of a secret meeting on the issue between the estranged, pre sidents of the two organizations, William Green and John L. Lew is. The council chose the same day to discuss an invitation to a world labor- conference in London, next June. AFL- participation - would mean, contrary to its policy, set- ting down, with Soviet trade union representatives and sharing Am-1 erican representation with the CIO and some independent unions. Another I council action today was a declaration calling . upon congress to enact a "simplified and uniform soldier -vote law.' The Lewis - Green meeting took place in Washington recently and is believed to have been arranged by a third person interested in ex pediting the UMFi return to the federation. They talked about two problems relating to such reaf-1 filiation: . the i progressive mine j workers of America, which holds the exclusive AFL charter rights in the coal industry, and the dis- j position to.be made of coke and chemical workers, some of whom belong to Lewis' district -50. It is believed, to have been their (Turn to Pase 2 Story D) iavy M.vzz.mr ,- Crash laib 13 SAN ; DIEGO. Calif, Jan. 20.- (-Thirteen persons were killed today when a navy B-24 Liberator crashed on a takeoff at the Camp Kearny air field, the. 11th naval district report J tcnisht The navy i ld four officers and nine enlist: i men were aboard. The plane cre-hed in "Carries and an aboard vre trappei La t!.s wreckage. ether wcra avallstle. -; Cai ji : . , First Citis! Nazag : ! . ' RALPH W. JOHNSON Ralph Johnson Wins Honor For 1943 i Ralph W. Johnson, S3, assistant I manager of the Salem division of the Portland - General : Electric company and active civic worker. is Salem's first junior dozen for 1943. The honor was accorded him Thursday night at the annual jun ior chamber of commerce citizen award banquet held at the Marion hoteL ' Ex-Governor I Charles A. Sprague announced the recipient and presented the junior chamber f plaque to him. I Mr. JAhnmm. KinM hi. arrival jiniem in 1941, haa been "active m community enterprises, during J the east vear DarticinatiM in the f Red CroM- eamoaisn and -in the I third war loan drive. He has been J active in the Salem Retail .Trade 1 bureau, engaged in Salvation Ar my work, and served' oh program and war bond committees as well as being a leader in the Lions club. Johnson is the first non-junior chamber member to be so hon ored. He is a .native of Washburn, SD, and is a graduate of Concor dia college in Minnesota. He is married and has two children. Main speaker was Dr. A. L. Strand, president of Oregon State college, who discussed objectives in postwar, planning how plan nlng should be not purely of ma terialistic things such as bridges and scnool buildings, but also con cern developing the human mind, Dr. Strand stressed .that the post war era must be -one j of coopera tion rather than exploitation, and cautioned that the northwest must hang onto the better brains among its -young i men, must encourage tnem to suy on home soil, in nlace of migration to eastern centers of industry. Leith Abbott, Southern Pacific public: relations man 'from Port land, was master of t ceremonies and made the . introductions. Pst Crossland, junior ' chamber presi dent, introduced iPaul Lee of Klamath Falls, state president of the junior chambers; Floyd Camp- oeu, junior first citizen of Port land for the year 1943: and Trent Jones, president of the Portland junior chamber. Jaycee key-man awards - were given by the local organization i ta: Jim Beard. Jud j Davis L and Dick Tatro . for lout- standing work inside the chamber. -Junior citizen for 1942 was Roy IHarland,, local .attorney. Donald j Black was named in 1941. Foundry Workers9 VotetoCome Late Friddy Pardd Reveals SEATTLE, Jan. ; 20 ; -ff- The results of tomorrow's vote . by striking: Oregon and Washington foundry workers on .the back-to- work issue probably will not be known until eveniing; Neil V. Pardo, the Pacific northwest sec- retary of the molders and foundry worker's union,. (AFL said today. A negotiating committee agreed yesterday at a . conference : with government and military officials to call for a vote ona war de partment offer to ask the national war labor board to hold a public hearing cn the union's: protest against a regional board wag e de cision. Most of the locals will vote at meetings set for 10 airu but the vote of the area will not be com plcUi until a 3:"3 pJn. xneetics at XcAinhm. .. . i Arproximately' CCCO foundry wcrkers waited out , Tuesaay mcmir., end an estimated 4 CC3 It3chin5s3 and ether shop workers . . : 3 rcportf i iils becau3 cf ths (rlhct LnC3 i: r.l tbe r!ar.l3. , Prlc So MJied Plaim es Mse Shot Bowii Canadians Participate; : j Half , City Razed Despite ; I German Claim of Terror' By Ernest Agnew ; .. W)NDON, Friday, Jan. 21 (AP) Royal air force night bombers hammered Berlin last night, it was I officially announced early attack on the greatest of German targets since the ex termination 'campaign against the reich capital began November 18, 1943. .The German radio said that 21 bombers were shot down a statement which was not confirmed from al lied quarters, j " ,! The attack, in which a heavy; force of Canadian bombers participated, added to approximately 14,000 (long) tons of bombs previously dropped on the Ger man capital in 1 0 major assaults which have laid waste more than half the city, i . - A continental radio blackout last night suggested that a strong force of night bombers was out, probably hitting more than one target First announcement of the Berlin raid came from the Ger man ' radio. --' - ;; ; ? This; was the : 105th raid of the war against Berlin, and the Ger man radio indicated that the at tacking force had an ideal night to carry out the assault. v: x Describing the blow as a ter ror raid, the German broadcast declared; "In-view "of the weather, German authorities had expected major i bomber formations would make an attack and as a result the ackack defenses were effective to the fullest extent from the start" f ; Broadcasting 1 its claims early, the German radio said 10 four-' engined bombers were' shot down in the; "first nine minutes of the raid oyer two districts of Berlin alone."! .! t-''Tfl's-: 1 The German long - wave " trans mitter and me Luxembourg radio station; shut down for the second time. last night before midnight ' The Rome radio announced an allied air attack on the outskirts of the Italian capital at 2:30 p. m. yesterday the second day in two days and said the assault caused (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ' Demos to Take Troubles to FR ' M - - ' I . WASHINGTON. Jan.' 20 --(P) The midwest democratic confer ence, composed of national com mitteemen, and h state chairmen from 13 states who are complain ing principally about ; administra tion of the farm program, may car ry their troubles - direct to Pre sident Roosevelt , as well as to the party's; national jeommitteev . This 1 was disclosed 4 today -' by James C Quigley, Nebraska na tional j committee member and chairman of the conference which was formed at Omaha in Decem ber, 1942, with- ten states repre sented. The group will meet here tomorrow with Montana, Indiana and Wisconsin as new members. - Several bundred machinists were reported to have returned te work in Portland shops. " Throwing new light on that de velopment, I. A. Sandvigen, busi ness agent of the Seattle machin ists (AFL), reported that an inter national "union official had or dered the Portland machinists to cross the molders! picket lines.- v Machinists, continued in their refusalr to paS ;the pkket lines here. . Sandvigen said no interna tional; crder had been received hers and the rr.. chinists observed the picket lines by .voluntary' o ticn. -Tcrf . - i 'End : Eeattla crtj are under different international representatives. ;-''''' Cindyisen" -.iJjt!.e C:att!s ma chinists would vote next Llonday on v. hether to continue' to resect the fcundrymen's picket lines, should they continue, tnd how to act in rcrrd to possible future At rort'.: .i, i..-cr.' 1,'rs. (Turn to Tcz? 2 C'rry A) Ho. 227. I ( r f i Claim r . " today, in the 11th massive O- Billion : Foreign Aid Is Proposed - By ALEX H. SINGLETON WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - -Amid - cries that America muV guard its wnjinteresU, a xt.o e -was launched in the house today to curtail a proposed $l,350,00a; 000 contribution to a United Na tions' "kitty" for aiding the peo ples of war-devastated lands. 4 A group of legislators critical of administration policy served early notice of that Intention and of a plan to; spell out in exact terms the score of a pending measure ratifying participation by -this na tion in the United Nations relief and rehabilitation admistration. . Earlier,! the house heard an ap peal by white-thatched represen tative Eaton of New Jersey, rank ing , republican ; member of the Foreign Affairs moccittee, for the house to 1 demonstrate anew its belief in ; -international . collabor ation. . :;. - . . ; -Saying that the United Nations shares with the world the common responsibility of siding victims of Axis aggression, he declared that ft would be impossible for us to be sn island of prosperity in tlie middle of; an ocean of adversity. - Promptly, representative Je?-is Sumner R-I11) and representa tive Gearhart (R-Calif) took th floor to challenge the measure's constitutionality, arguing that the agreement for US participation in Turn to Page 2 Story G) ; Stimson Says ; FigHting Going WeU for Allies WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - JT) Secretaryj of. War Stimson, "in a summary ! of the war on many fronts, reported today that the fighting is going well for the Allies. t. s He rolled off in rapid-fire order at a press conference reports that Japanese resistance may be col lapsing in northern New.Giunea, that the. great Russian offensive seems to include a serious effort to lift the long siese cf Leningre J, and that substantial progress Is be ing made, against Cassino a't the head of a valley route to Rome. - The secretary , stopped short cf any discussion of what may ta the greatest . battlefront of .ell, " noting merely that he, Presid: t Roosevelt and other officials I. I talked wifh Gen. Dwight D. Err., hower There .. shortly before il. ? General showed up in the Unite! fCirigdom to lead the Allied in vasion of Europe fvom the wert. Of the Pacific situation he sc. Allied forces are makinj stes-.'. prorr 3 throughout the Eou'hwt Faci Li northern New Giiinc , A . Ii;n veterans have err'-: Sio tnd are "steadily rchi." : Jap-jiese ;trocp3 between V selves and the American. f c Said or, and have c'-hr; ' amounts cf stores rr.Jt..-' As procf cf ei " " (Turn tor--? 2 L... :
