".-' jMHMHS MM ' Wo Favor Sways U; No Fear ShaU from First Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATES5IAN PUBLISHING COJIPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press 51 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all . news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Insurance "Interstate Commerce In two decisions "016" supreme court ruled first that , the insurance business is interstate commerce, and second, that, as such. is. subject to the Sherman anti-trust law. The first de cision was unanimous with Mr. Justice Roberts not participating. The second was four to three, with Justices Reed and Roberts not participat ing. The'former case was against a Polish fra ternal insurance organization and held it was subject to the Wagner labor relations act. The latter case was one which has held the attention of the insurance fraternity for months, coming up on charges in indictments against 196 stock fire insurance companies and 27 individuals forming the Southeastern j Underwriters' as sociation. The decision overruled one of T3 .years standing. f 1 '!"'. '1, ; That insurance is now interstate in character is hardly to be denied in view of the trend of decisions and the nature of the business. But to make it subject to federal regulation is to fnrrn-ir Vnlntn r.ir,itat- th business into disorder and ex- ""ncy volume treme complication. Chief Justice Stone had nies.it was largely the guilt of individual com : panies and not ! the general sin of the whole business.' And these evil have been pretty well j, cleaned up. it may De asserted that insurance premiums are too high, or hat company profits j are too large, but the field is still highly com-J petitive, and some companies are marginal, the same as in other types: of business. Moreover federal regulation is no assurance of cost re duction. That hasn't been? true of railroads. It is very doubtful if congress Will pass lawsH to establish federal regulation of insurance. I While it may not go so iaras to pass the pend-1 ing bill exempting insurance companies from the Sherman act, it will be slow to set up a new regulatory agency. For a long time to come the states will J continue Jto handle insurance regulation, though laws, o? customs calling forf rate uniformity will be banned under the de-1 cision of Monday. .."' 1 this in mind when he said in his dissent that the opinion "canot fail to be the occasion for loosing a ; flood of litigation and legislation. State and j national. In order to establish a new boundary between State .and national powers, raising : questions which cannot be answered for years to come, during which a great business and the regulatory officers of every State must be harnessed . by all the doubts and difficulties inseparable from a realignment of the distri- bution of power in our federal system. These considerations might well stay a ; 1 reversal of long-established doctrine which :: promises so little of advantage and so much ' 'of harm." ' ; ' j The insurance business has been under state regulation for many decades. It, along with banking, was the first business to have the hand of government laid on it for control in the pub-1 lie interest. The immediate occasion for regu- j lation was the frequent failure of insurance7 companies to meet their obligations. This was due to bad operating practices, to bad invest ments or to vicious rate-cutting. Under stats regulations companies are required to main tain proper reserves against, their liabilities, nd their investments are limited to conserva tive types. While insurance rates in the so-called ! board companies are uniform, there is stiff competition -from non-board companies and from mutual companies. If it be claimed that insurance rates are too high, it must also be admitted that . insurance companies have a i splendid record of , meeting their loss j claims, i State regulation, has- tended, tin the direction I of rate uniformity rather than diversity through i competition, on the theory thai -rate-cutting leads to impairment of company solvency. If , now the federal decision upsets the whole struc ( ture of insurance and provokes cutthroat cora- petition then in the end the policy-holders may suffer. . v. M v-V Syi .; .While the TNEC report of several years ago did disclose some wrong-doing among compa- Says The Dalles Chronicle: i An article in the current issue of the Read er's Digest reveals that the stupendous sum of five billion dollars fnl currency is now in circulation in the United; States. We haven't checked up on the Reader's Digest, - but it should multiply its nervous shock by just; 'four and vone-half times; for according to the! Federal Reserve bank fNew York the total! of currency outstanding is now about $22 bil-E hon fi -I The Federal Reserve! bank however agrees with the comment of the Reader's Digest that' one reason why the amount of currency in cir- dilation is so large is that cash Js used in tran- sactions instead of check! both in deals on the "black market" and inf deals -where the seller: wishes io evade tax tm prafita -which could be; traced -tinnugh bank enweks. f ' , ''-The jirewnt vniurrse fof currency in circula-' I i- jl-fe-A ------------------------- v: Ili vv....-A.v':.A sji. I ;1 . . - V - I: OAVtTO USB TO') ' v W 1 t a sw. iM r 'mm- ml i m mw mmmw mmk m m - mm i - m a - m : jt ; - . t - s i -." Poison 'G '- J .X'-v K'--'-'ri -flf - Germans Far from Defeated Declares Writer Larry Allen ; - --. - - 5 j - , . . i f By : LARRY ALLEN . j CAasoelattd Press war correspondent just repatriated aboard the Cripsholm) . -.. . , . ..- , s r-. . ; . NEW YORK, June 7-)-During eight-months as a Hitler . prisoner of war I have , been Germany from inside, and outside , her prison camps, have traveled through fortified areas and over her railways from Brenner; pass to the Polish corridor, and am . convinced "that she still expects to win the war. . ..' . She is counting upon 'stopping the allied invasion, forcing -a stalemate and an eventual riego-1 tiated peace "which to every; Ger man would mean victory.-1 f?1 Her warlords tell the German people- and those of nazi-satel-lite countries: that: 1 jl ' ' 1. Germany has at least ; 4,- ,000,000 crack troops in the ivest, backed by powerful fortifications. 2. She has saved a minimum of 5000 fighter aircraft alone to meet the invasion, deliberately !; letting the allies believe there is a short age. ..' 1 K 3. Her bombed - out war factor ies are being rebuilt in new loca- Germans Admit Allies Threaten Cherbourg City The Today's Gadio - IPirogirauHuS 1 1 tionJshnutiwixa that of World War I, though! jronrmodity iprices are inudi lower. Wages are; Jiigher and many of -the workers prefer the! leel of currency to that jdX a ibank deposit slip! It's a jpaper age, which: is all right unless the iiolders lose "faith in "the valuer of all paper. $ By 5PAUL HAIXDT? fBlrtrtbuttontby tana, twin asywtflcate. Inc. Repro ducUoa ite vwtmto or to pvt strictly vnatnbited ' - -. b -t WASHTNGTOir, .une T' The splendid success; of our :Jirst crack: into the naxi west -wall must be measuxed againrt tneniroapatct lhat the Gezmans ordinarily- -would, egiiirevtwo sjt: three days tar Dnterpreting The War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON V Cocynght IS44 by .Am Associate Prew . Guarded and laftmic official reports from al lied invasion headquarters brought cheering word from' the Normandy beachheads as the second day of the second front in Europe ended. All landing beaches had been cleared, it was stated, although seme still were under enemy ar tillery fire; and linkdng-up operations had' been carried out successfully at some points. The con solidation of a wide coastal breach in the. vaunted nazi west wall of fortress Europe evidently was proceeding unchecked by stiffening German re sistance aloft and on the ground. ' That is the essential first step toward whatever nay be the next allied objective. The Anglo American forces in Trance need elbow room to muster the men and equipment for their follow-up of the coastal breakthrough. By nazi ac count the breach already extends from the western coast of-the Cherbourg foreland of Normandly to the wide Seine mouth south of LeHavre, a good 100 miles airline. v . j - The reticence of allied heakuarters to give out much detail is significant It Indicates that General Eisenhower -and his staff believe the foe still confused and Uncertain 1 as to the strategic conception underlying the allied attack in Nor mandy, still doubtful that it is not in part, at least, a feint in force designed to pave the way for Paul Mall on beaches. annate ifaair scattered W for .a caunter aUack-and, in Ihat Counter - attack "the Teal fight:; will come. . f i ZEhe wall . itself is about 13 . milaS; deep rm.an average. Good fortiflad -works ram back ihat far, 'wJm'miiinx' wotks even far-f ther fbek. 'The ifcpth did not count much omder our strate gy because -me landed a great army by air to:squeeze it fronf the .inside as well as the KSXJf MBS THURS DAT 13N Ke. 0 It's the Truth. :45 Newm. T:00-Nws. 1 TOS Rise and Shine. 70 Shady Valley. 7:4S Today's Top Trades. 80 Good Skip Grace 8:30 Naws. 8:45 Orchestra. SSS-Boakc Carter. SAO Boaka Carter. :1S Pastor's Call. JO Midland USA. 9:45 Amazing Jennifer Logan. 10 0 Hardy , News. 10:15 Jack Berch. : 10 JO Let's B Charmlnff. 10:43 American Woman's Jury. 11:00 Cedric Fosterj 11:15 US Navy. 11 JO-Sky Una Serenade. 11:49 Around Town. 13:00 OrganaUues. ; 12:18 News. 1S730 HillhlDy Serenade. IS 33 Nashvilla Varieties. 1X:49 Spotlight on Rhythm. 10 News. 15 Spotlight on Rhythm. 1:15 Lum n Abner. -. 130 National Conference for Chris-, tians and Jews. 1:00 New. ,- -.' i- 3.-09 Broadway Band Wagon. 3:15 Don Le Newsreel. 3:45 Radio Tour. . 30-News. i 35 Concert Hour. ' 3:45 Johnson ' Family. 40 Fulton Lewis... 4:19 Care St Feeding of a Husband. 430 Lullaby In Rhythm. 4:45 Roundup Revelers. 80 News. 5:13 Superman. , - 330 Dinner Melodies. B 45 Gordon Burke. e0 Gabriel Heatter. 6:15 Nick Carter. , 30-Garden Talk.! :45 Sports. i 1 0 Commentary. ' . 7:15 Lowell Thomas. y 730 Cisco Kid. 79 Music - i SK)0 Pick t Pat. r S30 Orchestra. 8:45 Music. . . 30 News: ( 1 9:15 Rex Miner; i tflO Fulton Lewis. t 5 American Legion Auxiliary. 100 Wings Over West Coast. 1030 News. ; 10:45 Music. - ! 110 Sign Off. I But the Germans naturally would want to wait to see whether this Normandy landing developed into our real attack before pushing their reserves into the fray. Their armies, have been held far back! from the coast at strategic road junctures to mee the real battle in any direction presented. It was three days after our easy; landing: at Salerno that we ran into near annihilation- in an ambush." There can be no doubt ithat we achieved a cerl tain amount of tactical surprise. Their radio did not broadcast the news of the invasion until 12:40 a. Il, EWT. After our airborne troops actually had landed. If the Germans had not been deceived, they would have spread the alarm the moment our ships left England to journey three or more hours across tha channel. St I J - Furthermore, their radio had broadcast only two iSof OtV VCtlVO lawa m1ia Vt lMwaiAN .WM.1 " . - , . S:19 Valiant Lady. ; I :30 Stories America Lores. 8:45 Aunt Jenny. 80 KaU Smith Speak. I as Bis Sister - ? 1 30 Romance of Helen Treni S s45 Oar Gal Sunday. g 100 Lite Can Be Beautiful. 10:18 Ma Perkins. i f 1030 Bernadine Flyna. ' I 10:49 The Goldbergs. t I 110 Portia Faces Life. ,. i 1U5 Joyce Jordan. 1130 Young Dr. Malone. 11.-49 Perry Mason. 130 News. 13:15 Neighbors. 1330 Bricht Horizons. 13:45 Baeaalor s Children, j j -10 Broadway Matinea. ; 1 :25 Dorothy Fisher, 130 Mary Varn. f ! 15 Mid-afternoon Melodies.: 30 Open Door. : 3:15 Newspaper ef the Atr. ; 3:45 American Women. ' 30 Newa - ' : 319-6tate Traffic. ! 330 Stars of Today. ' 3:45 World Today, i 335 News. 40 Lady of the Preaa. : 4:15 Bob Andersen. 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' ?M 70 Abbott and CostaUoJ ! 730 March of Time, i H I 80 Fred Waring in Pleasure lima a:i Nignt eokut. 830 Cottee Time, r 80 Aldrich Family. 830 Eliery Queen. 100 News flashes, i 10:15 Your Home Tows News. 1125 Labor Newa- H 1030 Strings for Meditation. 110 Hotel BUtmora: Orchestra. 1130 News. i si i KOfN-CBS THVUSOAT 898 839 Breakfast Bulletin. 80 North ww rami Reporter. 830 XODf Kloek. 85 Texas Rangers. 7 J 5 New. . . , 730 News. 7 MS Nelson Prtngle. S0 Caavsumer Nwa i! Of another, deadlier - attack closer to the heart "Germany. ' " ' , ' There have been reports of furious fighting; on the Cherbourg; peninsula and that emphasizes one 'aspect of the. selection of Normandy as the scene ofithe invasion, whatever the real allied purpose In picking the Normandy, beaches, it cannot be doubted that Cherbourg and its docks and water side facilities are an important item. ' Despite probable nazi demolitionsCherbourg harbor in allied hands would serve to quicken the massing of powerful' forces fully equipped in France. Big ships could make fast turn-around trips from England to its docks. Allied air mastery would keep them relatively safe from nazi air attacks. The value of Cherbourg and Its rail and road system inshore as well as its docks and unloading equipment to major allied' operations against Paris ' Is obvious. That is jast as true of LeHavre and to a lesser extent of Caen. l--"r -v - '-ML- Nazi naval guns on the Calais shore of narrow . Dover straits roared into action and Berlin ex- - . .a . t A -" . J 1 . piainea iney rata ocaien vu an aiicxuvcu auueu landing operation somewhere in the natural bridge- head invasion area. The barrage may have been a bad case of'Jitters. . ' Coupled with continued' absence In force ot the I nazi luftwaffa on, the second day, it again Indi- ; cates German perplexity as to allied battle plans and apprehension that the mala attack is yet ' to'' come. Berlin Js still hoarding air power fort that. Allied estimates credit the foe with some 1750 fl-htin planes and some 503 German bombers in the ;west ' : '.-'. S"':--, "?':' - Tr -?! li fin accurate estimate) of enemy air stren-th In the west. It could be virtually wiped out In a sir "I mass air battle; and it will not be risked vr.Ll C s r.zzl hJ-h conunand is sure that the crisis In tr.a tlUc J Liv-Icr. i3 at Land. -' " . ; for a month. Up to. that time, they had been ex i MTnm mv t pecung me mow every ;qay. j s . : Their generals seem ftcf have decided that our daily threats were fakes designed to keep them from reinforcing their, troops "hi Italy. ;The false Asso j elated Press advance rePoH of invasion seems on I ly to have confused them although you would . think it would have served as a warning. That we were coming however was no surprise I to anyone. Indeed, thisitas the most highly ad-1 vertised and publicized nvasion of all military history, and achieved Its deception only in the confusion of over-advertising. Also it was the r most fully reported ot imilitaryj actions, though not by General Eisenhower, who communiques were wisely terse and uncommunicative. . . Also, we hit at the best spot geographically for continental invasion. Yoti may recall reading in this column April 12: f' y, ' - j "An ideal plan would call for simultaneous in vasions of northern Trance around LeHavre, aimed up the Seine at Paris,! and invasion of southern " France through the Gattjnne and Rhone valleysif By landing south of the Seine river, we choose , the shortest, least hilly route to Paris, and a posi- tion which would afford 'us the protection of the river on our left flank: as we moved toward the city. A i i -v:-.l The nature of the fighting and the form thediai-l tie will take, however, win depend largely on -the! Jlurr Kwmer1!,c" r uenem xaeaunw-i the United States to ask our aid ert future operations, which no one can surmiaein m inain, a xejniblic exactly advance. . J.i f I 1 lika mrrr avlthfih hnnxt, Vtnttly Evidences of, cracking German manpower ihavet SlSh. tf-ffrfur. ZZSSZ appeared lately in Italy and on the Russian jfront (where incidentally, the reds have been marking! I time the past few weeks only to synchronize their i efforts with ours, rather . than r reorganize their,, forces and supplies as advertised). - . s i Whether the -manpower defect will appear Wt France and enable us to break them swiftly wl5 not, be evident until the real battle develops fuHy.3 AH the surprises at the outset were in our favor, The luftwaf fe was strlngely1 missing, although it' should have been used at the first instant on our, ship cfossins the charmed : " The promised counter air attack on London, or even invasion ot Britain, failed to materialize, and.; ' of America! there were no immediate reports of vaunted secret;, weapons or "the use of gas., i ; . , i To the Editor. ; This is as good an opportun ity as any to explain to you, the people of the United States ot 'America, exactly; what is slowly creeping upon you. Your complete modern system of .New Deal administration is not American .In any manner or form. It is the same system, now used in Great Britain. The only difference Is that the American" people have not; yet been com pletely subdued.4 If our consti tutional ' law can be violated to the extent where your represen tatives in congress and the sen ate lose their power to enforce your wishes and to protect you, your mouth will be 'permanently shut and sealed Just as you will find upon investigation that it Is in Britain. It is entirely up . tO yOU., V : v;;-;;V:y'i China is the only other nation In the world that will repay us for lend-lease or other aid. When Madam Chiang visited triendshfp atnd future assistance to'us, Should -we need it, and: a -gdncerity that oro other nation ality hr usme possesses, she '-wes sgiven direct rebuff by. Hoosevfilt and his aids : and sent on her way..- ; The other countries of Europe will : soft soap , us into loaning our material to them until they, are on their feet again, then we can go chase ourselves. Wake up. you people of-the United States KEX BNi-THlntSDAY 110 Ke. 80 Musical Clock. 8 OS National Farm it Hornet 845 Western Agriculture. ;. 70 Home Harmonies. H 79 Top the Morning, n i. 7:15 News . 730 James Abbe Observes, r 7:45 The Listening Post. 1 80 Breakfast Club j 90 Christian Science Program. i 8:15 vatca ox Experience, u i 30 Breaaiast at Saxdl'a. ' 100 News. 10J5 Sweet River. ;) j 1030 My True Story. t! 10:55 Buddy Twias. i! 110 Baukhage TaDdng. ' 11 J5 The Mjrstcry Chat ! 11-30-adlea Be Seated, n 1 120 Songs. b Morton DoarDey.v i 18:15 HoUywood Star Time.; i 0X230 Nawa; i 18 Sam Haves. . a ' 1:19 Radio Parade. ; 130 Blue Newsroom Review, i a-oo-Whara Doing. Ladies.! i I S30 Baby Institute. i! i : f S:49 Labor 'News.: -()!''' . 1:50 Alex Clipper, Organist, !j i 3:00 Grac tlliott. - r! i i:JlS News ' 830 RolUe Trultt Time.' il ! , J.-49 Music. 40 KeUTs Courthouse. r 430 Hop Hairigan. i ana sea Hound ' !i! ; 80 Tarry and the Pirates i! ! 8:18 Dick Tracy. .. 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I 10.-49 Art Baxere Notcoooa. 110 The Guiding ught 11:15 Todays Children. j 1130 Lght ot the World, j ll:4S--Mekdies nf Heme. , t 110 Women of America. ? 13 U 9 Ma Perkins. j- ' 1230 Pepper -Younro Family 12:45 Right to Happiness. ; ; 1 10 Backataee -WUa. I las SteUa DaDaa- r-1 ' 130 -Lorenso Jones .- ' i. - 1:45 Young Wtdder Brown, f 20 When A Ctrl Marries i! . 2:15 We . Love and Learn, i J39-Just Plain BlU ; 1 ' 245 Front Page Faxren ? ( - S-OO Road of Utav ,V 8:18 Vic and Sad.' .:: f !, , S39 B. Bcynton. 3.49 Bamtlmg Reader, i ; . a Dr. Kate."' LONDON,. June 7 -(ff)- Germans reported tonight:, that a full allied air-borne divisionj fer ried by 300 planes had dropped to earth " on I the west side of f the Cherbourg peninsula and conceded the allies had made gains which threatened to Isolate the prize port of Cherbourg. R Nazi broadcasters declared that coastal guns had repulsed an al lied landing-attempt off LeHavre; that long range . batteries j fired upon smoke-screened ships during "a second daylight Invasion: at tempt1 at Pas de Calais, but re sults were not observed. - The Germans said new airborne landings were made at Coutances and Lessay, across the Cherbourg peninsula from the main j allied assault positions but only 25 miles from the nearest of these hold ings. Between two and five new allied divisions have been landed since Tuesday from air and sea and "very, strong paratroop; forces continue to drop," Berlin reports said. The German radio conceded that allied air-borne troops which were astride the main highway, leading from Cherbourg down the penin sula toward Paris : had linked up with forces from the coast J The radio reported allied tanks had plunged through the Atlantic wall in a drive southeast upon Bayuex from Abromanches on the coast caen was "burning use a blazing - torch, these accounts said. ..- ; DNB asserted the German air force had swung Into action and was directing uninterrupted ma chine gun fire .at British and American landing units lying off shore between Cherbourg and Le Havre. 'l ' In a potential preliminary to a full-scale counter-attack j Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd von Sundstedt reportedly.; was pitting his own air-borne ; troops against those of the allies, t Fourteen Oregon storage reser- J A heavy stream of ' comment voirs, as of May 31, contained irom the German radio, however, 968,134 acre-feet of water, which I reflected nazi speculation lover 1202 a. m. 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The high' command claims 800 divisions - roughly about 8,- 000,000 men are ready In both east. and. west? that eastern front losses are small because of or dered. Strategic withdrawals. . . 6. German internal food supply and civilian morale, despite! hea vy allied bombings, IS surprising ly good.;, ,:: ! 7. Lastly, but not leastly, Ger many says. the allies are morally weak She particularly singles out the American as an "I want to go home" soldier, , ' There was considerable sabo tage in Germany In 1941 and 1942.' Today, it is virtually non-exis tent, because of Himmler's gesta po and the wehrmacht police. - German officers smile at allied, reports of thousands of tons of bombs dropped, and at claims that communications to-: the eastern front have been disrupted, j They don't deny the bombings, but say the results are. some tiling else. ;i; : A few weeks ago I was trans ferred from a prison camp near Poznan, in Poland, to Stuttgart. Then taken to . Marseilles, liber-; a ted and boarded a repatriation ship. ' , ' V In the great railway termin als Poznan, biggest supply cen ter for the eastern front; Breslau, Gerlitz, Dresden, Augsburg, Mu nich, . Innsbruck, Salzburg, Re gensburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and In France, thousands of Ger man troops were on the move. fPassenger trains were jammed. But In hardly any of these had there been . any permanent dam age to stations or tracks, although bombs had left wide trails of de struction through nearby war plants. In Munich, where damage is widespread, the great east sta tion Is virtually intact, although the south station Is a shambles. . One answer to Germany's main tenance of transport is that she forces millions of manacled pri soners ' to work ' like brutes re pairing trackage. " une awes nave oropped mil lions of leaflets but from the re sults I have seen, they might as well save their paper. The only language a German understands is that of cold steeL i 14 Reservoirs Well Filled announ- is slightly less than reported at the same time a year ago, C E. Stricklin, state engineer, ced here Wednesday. J; The largest storage bf 580,670 acre-feet of, water is Owyhee reservoir with the Warm- springs reservoir second with 123,680 acre-feet h Other reservoirs, together with the amount-of their storage: Agency Valley 47,501, Crane Prarie 43,843, Cresent Lake 53,924, Emi- the possibility of landings else where. The allies were said to be waging "highly mobile and ag gressive' warfare. - :. rMllt Marshal Erwin Rommel; Ger man field commander," was re ported rushing up reserves of the Seventh and 15th armies and bat tles were declared rapidly increas ing to a grand scale. w f J, cresent Laie 53,924, mi Oil -71 grant Cap 7178,' Fish Lake 7434, JMUHie yrOUD Fourmile Lake 14,237, Hyatt Prar- . JT Flans Meeting ic 10,775, Ochoco 18,990, Unity 16,600, Waflowa 35,150,; Wkkup lH n3 and Wllllmsr r1r in Fianmng general proceaure zor ? 1 activities of the new Salem Shrine Tito's Troons! Cahture preparing for the first i I .. maatina tha lnh in liM Sli, 6; Towns Front Germans urday night, June 24, at the Ma ft,nr V , j I sonic temple, the general!! advis- LONDON, June 7 InU mmtM nf th H..h mat an accelerated offensive to I t ... i. I neuuewaj ws uv a-a comuae wiu tne amea 1; landings 1 v.-,., - m li 1 .IIWIW. ; . Tito captured six towns from the T.t Henwn M Germans; the free Yugoslav radio ,5hlwpOT!;nWer Ltn' reported today in a broadcast lngyrajah; 1 Gflbertson, see In western Bosnia, the broad- Clare P. Davis, treasurer; cast said. KUuc ; and. Arzino were Gov. ' Earl SnelV State Treasurer taken with narm than? son C5w Leslie Scott, Secretary Jof State mini lain In 4 Via T(rVffVi A a- Robert S. FarrelL ir frank G rano. In eastern Bosnia, ithe oar- Jewett, Walter Winslow , Milton tisans reported, four - towns were I Meyers, Dr. O. A, Olson, Gilbert taken southeast of Belgrade, i Madison and Harry Levy. . ; Steven .laJlIltl A LifetimeGijt j : The gift of flatwear in sterling silver, will grow more beautiful with use through the years. Buy one piece or a complete set Several patterns to choose from. .Credit if desired.. - y Tcnfcht ct 7:lS i-ti, laOlVEEL IViUl t!3 ; ccriy cvcnln; tJElVS! oorj LCZ-MUTUAL t . . . . rilhrtss KASTiUtaria . t Jtaaa KTS Kmsta FaSs tZZi KsnZXtii rU Ssiaai t-.-J Cass&erg (..ICaaf tZZl fjm cm Crsets ran