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Tne strieoi tne B-25 army
.bomber against the Empire State
building in New . York Saturday
morning brought at once to mind
the impact of the Jap kamikaze
planet against our ships, although
the B-25 was far larger; and ; of
coursa, was driven with no evil
intent Also it reminds one of the
V-2 rockets showered on Britain,
I pDasoDiig "(? 0" (0 D1TQ
h7' r-- ; ' By Mnriirt Spencer I 1 1 )
j I GUAM, Tuesday, July 31w(AP) American destroyers
boldly plunged into the confines of Sumga gulf, 80 miles
southwest of Tokyo, this morning, and shelled the town of
Shimizu while a 400-mile strip of Japan's coasts blazed from
a fiery storm unleased by 1500 or more American and Brit
ish carrier planes; t V'. ' t ;
Admiral Nimitz said the carrier planes in their Monday
strike against Tokyo and the area extending southwestward
to Kyushu, destroyed 65 enemy planes, damaged 73, sank
er.fhe B-25 carried no explo- seven vessels and damaged 53.
gives, its damage being caused by
the force of its hit and the flam
ing. gasoline poured into the
building. Had it been loaded with
six tons of ( high explosive the
damage would have been far
greater. j . I i '
The" accident fives Americans
a sudden realization of their "ex
posure in the event of anothe;
war, particularly if the . enemy
has floating carriers or long range
rockets or bombers. New York
City, Detroit, I San Francisco would
be rich hunting grounds for self-
propelled missies. Their street
canyons would quickly be filled
with the rubble of their multi
storied buildings and with the
carnage such wrecking would
cause. ! 1
In our plans for national de
fense in the future it would be
well to include provision . for
public safety. Of course we hope
war does, not- break tout, again,
. and we hope that if it does our
own : airf orce and navy can keep
Its destruction far from our
; shores. Even; so, it would be well
. to study the ' protection of our
cities through careful planning in
such matters i
(Continued on Editorial (Page)
at Forest
Blaze Is Held
Within Bounds
Ths was based on preliminary reports, subject to later
enlargement, but it was notable that none of the ships hit
was a heavy naval vessel.
I Most of the ships were caught
at Maizuru naval base1 on the west
coast of Honshu 245 miles west of
Tokyo. ,
The Japanese navy already had
been given its death blow by three
successive raids on the Kure na
val base and earlier blows at the
Yokosuka naval base. Eighteen
action-packed days cost the en
emy 68 warships, JnclUding three
battleships, six aircraft carriers
and six cruisers.
Nimitz also Issued a terse pre
liminary report on the Monday
morning shelling of Hamamatsu
by American and British battle
ships,, cruisers and destroyers.
Shelling Unopposed
: That industrial city, 120 miles
southwest of .Tokyo and 40 .miles
southwest of . Shimizu, suffered
damage to its important railroad
Military
Duty
Will End for
Gen. Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, July S0.r(flV
Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt's mil
itary service; will end August IS.
The war department, which only
last night disclosed that General
Roosevelt had asked to be releas
ed! from the service, gave out a
formal announcement tonight
GUAM, July 31-(A-Ameri-can
carrier planes saak 24 Japa
nese vessels and damaged 75
then in last Saturday's strike
at the Kure naval base and
along the inland sea. Admiral
Nimitz announced today in re
vising the damage upward.
Two new aircraft carriers,
whose fllrht decks , were par
tially xipped np, were added to
the warships damaged In the
strike which TlrtaaQy finished
the job ef kaeckiac et the im
perial fleet Both wen still
afloat ; '
" The heavy cruiser, Tone was"
beached.'' - .
shops, several of which were fire-
gutted, and to its textile works
and other, buildings . from 1000
tons of American and British ex-
saying WP "unopposed, .'W,'---
There was no-witas yet on
would . terminate next month;
- irk. ultawt ' maA . that Ctmn
Roosevelt had originally asked on JV 7ld,ta!I
May 11 to be relieved, and that Its
decision to ielieve him had been
taken "before the appearance oi
recent publicity with respect to
certain financial transactions." j
The 34 year old officers' finan
cial affairs have been under of
ficial government inquiry for sev
eral weeks, jas a result of reports
that he received a $200,000 loan
from John " Hartford, president of
the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea
company, which was settled for
$4000.
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Two Gunmen
PORTLAND, Ore., July 30.-)
-A' civilian and military army of
3000 fighters aided by favorable
weather held northwestern Ore
gon great forest i lire within
bounds today. -f
The blaze has covered an esti-
mated 100,000 acres, although its
perimeter encircled some 200,000
acres. It was a series of burns
started by wind-borne - embers
hurled by the original Wilson riv
er and Salmon river; fires. 1
Fighting crews were taking ad
vantage of the lull to build new
and rebuild old trails around the
area. .A patchwork of small spot
fires, any of which could be whip
ped into a major conflagration
with proper weather condition.
was giving the most trouble.
Belated reports told of 4,500.
000 feet of felled and bucked tim
ber lost alone between the Tuala
tin and Trask rivers last week by
the Hoodenpyle Lumber company.
One donkey engine was buried to
save it and the other dragged to
safety. No equipment was lost,
and the company's bulldozers
were put to work on fire trails.
EricAUento
Be Secretary
For Gov. Snell
action at Shimizu shortly after
midnight The town, once a famed
Japanese tea-exporting point but
lately an aluminum producing
center, was subjected to a B-29
fire raid on July 7. It sits pic-
turesauely in a tiny bay with
Japan's sacred Mount Fuji as
backdrop. "
Nimitz named the Schroeder
and Harrison as among the undis-
losed number of American de
stroyers that shelled the town's
military objectives.
Airfields, Shipping Hit
The carrier-borne American
and British planes meanwhile
were striking hard at enemy air
fields and lesser shipping. More
than 60 airfields were among the
targets. The Americans edstroyed
BURBANK, Calif, July 30.-) 58 enemy planes on the ground
Two Hollywood, bank messengers and damaged 68 while the British
told police j they were robbed of fliers shot two out of the air, de-
$11,300 today by two gunmen, one stroyed five on the ground and
of! them wearing an army uniform damaged five.
with an M.F. band on his sleeve Cme of the enemy a i r b or n e
and .the other clad in ; civilian Dlaneg was destroyed near the
Clothes- I fwt. . th nnlv mention of rv-
The messengers. Victory Lohn jhu onnosition to the strike that
ana Thurston Patterson, saia xne beean at dawn yesterday.
$11,000
robbers stopped the victims car,
gat it forced the messengers to
drive into the hills, bound; and
gagged them and drove away.
The American planes, on the
basis of the preliminary report
alone, sank one enemy cargo ves
wtj4tfA4 eiiVkfnatfiAfl 0ij4
Lohn, 26, of North Hollywood,, - ' ft. an(! damaeed
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one escort aircraft carrier, one
and Patterson, 43, South Pasadena,1
told police j the gunmen stopped
them as they were enrouteifrbm
the bank to deliver a weekly pay-;
roll to a Lockheed aircraft plant
1200 Soldiers Return j
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.-(ff)
large transport, four destroyer es
corts, one submarine tender, one
large submarine, seven midget
submarines, one gunboat seven
cargo vessels and 11 assorted
small craft. '
The British planes sank one
Twelve Hundred ' soldiers, two I lugger and damaged 12 cargo ves
thirds of them high pointers ready
toe discharge, were aboard a Pa
cific transport which docked to
day. 1 - : !
The ship also carried 196 ci
vilians being repatriated from the
sels. three destroyers and - four
destroyer escorts.
NURSES ARRIVE AT LEWIS
FORT LEWIS, July 30. HfPh
PhilioninesJ It was the" first such Ready for more work and adven-
large group returning to several ture a iter service in Europe, 23
months.
Animal Crcctscrs
; By WARREN GOODRICH '
army nurses arrived at the medi
cal training center here today for
reassignment and redeployment to
the Pacific
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POUNDOO
NINETY-FIFTH YEAR
10 PAGES
Scdem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning,
1S45
Prlco 5c
No. 1C3.
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New B-32 Dominator : Superbombers
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Two . new st-32 Dominator Superbembers are . shown In flight in this first photo of them just released.
The craft are being produced at Consolidated Yultee Aircraft Corporation's Ft Worth, Tex, plant
AP Wirephoto) " .
Metals Chief
Thinlis WPB
Will Not Act
SEATTLE, July SO-PHrfe8
F. Clise, chairman of the board of
Columbia Metals, said tonight he
did not believe the war produc
tion board, would carry through
Its recommendation that the
Salem. Ore- alumina reduction
plant cease production.
Columbia Metals operates the
Salem plant -
The plant is valuable for ex
perimental purposes and should
be kept open," he said.
"In the interest of national
safety it would .be wise to keep
the plant in operation and I'm
sure the WPB will see it that way.
If they do close it it will be I
like our Synthetic rubber situation I
at the beginning of the war. When
the national emergency arose' we
were caught short! . "
Said No
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Lon
Essential
WASHINGTON, July SO -IT)
The war production board has)
recommended that' work at m
Salem, Ore, alumina plant be
stopped, WPB spokesman
said tenlrht
He said that it no, longer la
essential to the war' effort .
The decision of what Is te be
dene With the plant will be up
te the defense plant corporation,
he added. DFC, he. pointed out
owns the plant and is the final
authority , 'en ,1 whether werk
ahenld be halted. . i
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Big 3 Has Not; Allied Control Council ior
irermany maps ruins; iivs
Held Meeting
Since Saturday
WASHI NGTON, July 30 -18)
Aluminum division of WPB has)
determined the Salem, Ore., alum
Bunt at a cost of approximately reduction plant Is not essen-
$5,000,000, the Salem alumina w .w" ProTHDi na r.
plant will be ready to commence r u saia way urn
its pilot (or experimental) opera- TTrTthl!
tions In late September if con- C?Srmf ,
struction , and InstallaUon work fni Pwduon plans be cancel-
lieu.
1 are allowed to continue, officials
Bell said If Krug and the war
said Monday night Its payroll of """"""
M.. MPutment concur in the
T 1 ri Tl 1 $100,000 monthly would continue " indation a
Berlin Sector for French gtSS?;S?S SSfSSS
the chemical processes by which
alumina may be segregated.
By DANIEL DE LUCE ;
BERLIN, July SO.-CTV-The allied council, holding Us first
POTSDAM, July 30. ifThe meeting today with General Eisenhower presidmg, bolstered cj 1 ! -a?
big three has not held a business I hopes that a uniform pattern of-allied rule would be imposed lOtlvvllUIl ill
was learned tonight Cnntml marhirrv la vet to be set un. but all four cowers I o-v Hocirl ' I lllsta
were Deiievea conmncea inai uermany musi oe regaraea 9
a single entity instead of territo-r
4 - a.- - By Isabel ChOdsUv'.
f -;'ptjr Editor m Statesman',
f Eric W. Allen, jr youhg Saleni
newspaperman, will succeed Douir
las Mullarky as private secretary
to Giv. Earl Snell when Mullarky
returns to the editor's chair of his
Burns newspaper, The Statesman
learnea zrom unomcial but ap
parently authentic sources Mon
day. I .. ; If
lAllen, United Press 'representa
Uve at the state capitol for more
than a year, came to Salem
shortly after his honorable dis
charge from the army air corps
He is a son of the late dean of the
school of journalism at the TJnl
versfty of Oregon. His inother was
widely known in the west as an
author and playwright. He is
married and has a small daughter.
Mullarky, a co-publisher of the
Burns Times-Herald, has held the
secretarial post since Snell went
into the governor's Office. He is
particularly active in veterans'
and newspaper circles of the state,
and with! his wife and daughter
has made his home in Salem the
past 30 months. Here he has been
affiliated with the Cherrians.
I Both men profess ignorance of
any impending change, and, after
all, it isn't up to either to make
the announcement,! Mullarky is
known to be anxious f to get back
to his eastern Oregon; paper, and
the governor could not be reached
Monday night j JJ
Asphalt, Fuel Oil Can't
Be Shipped From 'Coast
f WASHINGTON, July : SO - (ff) -
The office of defense transporta
tion today banned 'deliveries of
asphalt from the west coast to
other sections W the Country.
The same order also prohibits
deliveries of industrial fuel oil
from the west coast area to other
parts of the country. 1
I The action, affecting petroleum
operators in .California, Oregon,
Washington, Nevada "and Arizona.
is designed to help build up Pa
cific coast petroleum stocks for
military use. j Q
come
tax
Censorship would not permit
speculation on the reason fori. the
failure of the big three to get to
gether today, but it was said to
night that the lack .or a tneetin,
would occasion no -serious delay
in bringing the conference to a
conclusion. Optimism was said to
De unaiminisnea. j Itvt - . Te
The conference has proceeded i0t jTOSSlX)IC
since oaturaay on ine loreign .sec
retary level, and a session was
held today, but it was: not a top
flight meeting of the big three,
Form
veness
Oregon state income taxpayers
may expect no forgiveness rebate
w, , ,, 7 rZl on their payments next year, state
The belief prevailed tonight, " l,Lm LruimaA
however, that President Truman, Monda Wartime increases in the
Premier Stalin and Pnme Minister monfegJr flowing m from income
Attlee would meet again Tuesday UxM more than
to continue work toward
final, agreements.
s
Trip
their
1
!
matched by drains upon
funds, it was declared.
Not enough will be left this
year to cover all items for which
funds were appropriated or Ini
tiated, tax officials said. Too far
down the list to be liquidated this
year Is , the $10-per-pupil state
and county school fund. The
rial fragments to be governed in
dependency according to the
hinu at aach oemnvinff armT. I
isennowerf Bnusn riem Mar-
Soviet Marshal Georgi K. Zhukoy
and France's hero soldier Lt. Gen.
Pierre Koenig passed - along to
their deputies for study and re
port at the next meeting, August
If, . proposals for "establishment
and bringing Into operation the
organs of control provided for in
the agreement on control machin
ery in Germany. j
The council said it "took note
those I with approval of the arrangements
reached for allocation of a sector
of Berlin to the forces of occupa
tion of the French republic."
Boundaries of the sector that will
be taken over by the French were
not stipulated. I
In addition the council agreed
to hold meetings on the 10th, 20th
recom-
directive will be sent
Metals Co., operator
newly constructed plant te
cease activities. )
He said the plant was schedul
ed to begin production August
but failure to procure aluminum)
sulphate delayed the schedule. The
chemical Is needed for fertilizer.
This: plant Is not needed tA
meet war requirements. Bell
said. "And under the circum
stances I; do not see that the WPB,
has any justification for contimi-
With the elimination of Uma
tilla County Judge Carl Cham
bers, who asked Monday that his ing to sponsor? thet costs of th
name be removed from the list of f project , " " r r - ; . '
possible -appointees, selection of a Bell said If WPB cancels its
state tax commissioner to succeed sponsorship it will then rest with
Earl B. Day may come out of to- RFC, owner of the .plant, to make
day's meeting of the state board plans for its disposal or operation.
Of control. i '
Other names before the board
are those . of ' Sen. Coe McKenna,
Multnomah county, and R. L.
Gile, Roseburg. McKenna, a real
tor, has served three, sessions
tne senate, wnue uue, a prime IT T' "1
broker. Is a member of .the house 17 FISOll JP lFGCl
Day, appointed to the tax com
mission in May, 1941, is return
ing to Jackson county, where he
Warden, I Aides
Of Michigan
erty interests.
The position of tax commission
er carries a salary of $4200 a year.
From Spain (
Fllrl A rtniw $8,000,000 general fund, veterans'
UCl&yCQ ffailX loan; and educational funds and
I " w.t t I higher educauon support totaung any member. It agreed also that
BARCELONA, July: SO. ' -JPy $3,000,000, together with the state the chairmanship should "rotate
Pierre Laval said a "regretful'! building fund of $5,000,000, ele- every calendar month in the folj.
. . a c a.j i x In.. mMitarv arhnnl fund of S2.000.000 1 . iv-v,i-i j .
his plane had taxied twice around and district school fund 08,000,- 3 gUrtiag toe month Ja, dmv!nM In e hearin Augnsi 10 !and
to noia meetings on tne lutn, zutn 1 " Oil
and 30th of each month" and at AdlT SOlCllCr
any other time upon request of I
River Victim
LANSING, Mich, July 30.-Jpy
The state corrections commission
twlnlit j nr. i
owns a farm and has other prop- K""! , n , narry . ,
rtT-interests Jackson and six other suspended
oificials 01 the state prison of,
southern Michigan who have been
accused by Attorney General John
R. Dethmers of responsibility tor
alleged malaclministration in the
penitentiary.
At the instance of Dethmers, the
commission rescinded its decision
of Monday afternoon to grant th
seven accused officials a publie
CORVALLIS, July 30 -(Special)
the field it had to return because 000 precede ,the state and county 0f-August: Eisenhower, Montgom-
of engine trouble and the former scnl ,.
Vichy premier-i party was! left "WJJer ff ."SS?
.-i- ts . of $5,000,000, set aside in 1944,
pairs to be made. Attaches said - y
itwls unlikely the flight could be Uevf PrPerty .texc4 whenever id- j
a?i 1 come 1 tax surpluses are not suffi-
Spain had ordered Laval to aL 7 general expenses
1 - 4U 1;! tV. V.
same swastika-decorated Junkers
ery, Koenig and Zhukov."
Hitler Death
Not Certain
Xr it nrth of conunission yielded to Deth
river , Just north oIrn.c..
gos.
n i,4 w Jv kn. ,mers assertion that a correction
Uvt v Hiai ssw M0t ves ffuuv mv 1 f. uiiji T T 1 .
tempting to rescue a Camp Adair " 7L ,
buddy, has been shipped to St necessary and that the right of the
Louis, Mo. Brief funeral services officials would be protected by the
were held at the DeMoss-BrUt '
MavQower chanel -here for the constitutional hearing before
young ' technical sergeant whose I"18' agency.
father, Sam Stergos, resides in the
plane which brought him here Hni ljicf 'All
from Bolzano, Italy, 89 days! ago. f A Jaa' f
The order called for the plane nrv Tbl
to" return to its point of ' depar- OrCC XlaiieS
ture, but officials agreed that -once
in the air Laval and his two 'Ger
man! pilots were masters of their
own 'destination and might go! any
where. - .1'-
RERTJN. Jnlv SO -ViPV-"Thr
no rifinit ronf that WitWi Missouri city,
rt: nn AiaiwiP ft. Stergos, with Vito M. Ziccardi
batov. Russian chairman of the RoberTA. Nappe,' all recent
allied Mmmandatnr i fnr TUrlU fc wmi Auair, oaa gone
m -m r- fishing from logs in the river
3 Portlanders
Lost in Plane
Blast Carrier KfiK
uxl M .v- , ! drowned attempting to rescue him.
MitcheU bombers of the far east- rJ?l RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL
ernrair forces attacked a Urge he de nowhere in -Rus- j.Tw - i . 1
Japanese aircraft carrier- at the 1 . . ! . . l& 'ANGELES, July ZHJPh
WTfirvTS JnW an-m-TMlonv- itum. nvi ha Simdav. ift it torDaiov saia ne naa neara re- james a j. walker, 64. former sister. Mr, xima v. Pmtf
ery of a marine f ossU bed fnear listing and down at the stern nd 1081 tiiueri aenust n a a mayor or Hew Yorfc City, was re-1 They left San Francisco at II
themouthof the Rogue river con- other planes, sank or damaged! 20 ,;u r ' " ' nospuai , today . m. Saturday In a chartered
taming remains of ! prehistoric or more Japanese ships. General fnd Identified lt as that of mUer, where he had been undergoing plane and checked out of the Red!
oysters was revealed by Dr. War- MacArthur's headquarter report-10"1 4ua nw; nowmg oeyonn treatment ror a nunor stomach Bluft Calif, airport for Eugene
MARINE FOSSILS FOUND
i
ate plane from San Francisco t
Eugene, Ore, were reported to be
overdue, here tonight
They 'were Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan
L. Gosliner and Mrs. Gosliner'a
ren D. Smith, University of Ore- led today.
that.
gon geologist, today.
mmm
j ailment
(UiredLead
Down Morally, physically as They Wait Tria
"Sh Wre ehping."
. By George Tucker i
MONDORD, Luxembourg, July
30 -(iT)- The captured leaders 01
Adolf Hitler's Germany are break
ing morally and physically as they
await trial as war criminals.
American army records kept
since "the interrogauon center
here was opened May 13 reveal
the stern effects of fear and con
finement on . nazidom'! supposed
"iron men. '";' "
The records show: '
Herman Goering remains In ab-
Hrt fear of death.
Dr. Hans iranK. nazi cxueiuun
I in Poland, shirts .. Detweeu
teria and scorn, constantly crying
out in his anguish that "I am an
criminal!. i U I ,
I Robert Ley, overloard of nazi
workmen, disintegrating physic
ally and morally, : has only one
friend among the dozens of top
na2is here Julius Streicher,
Hitler's No. 1 Jew baiter.
i iis,;1--
I Streicher himself now professes
to have decided that there are
ood 'Jews.;: and 1 1 that Jews
chould be allowed to live unmo
lested. :r.. ; ' . j " .
I Of these top-ranking nazls and
the 'nazi . , military: : leaders who
planned and fought history's most
ruthless war, Sgt Robert Bock
A direct hit on the carrier was
not I claimed as clouds obscured
vision, and it may nave been hit
earlier by navy planes. It was a
different one, however, from the
light carrier Katsuragi, which was
identified as the one damaged! in
the previous sweep Saturday.
The headquarters spokesman
Construction of Steiwer Hill-
Albany
Road Broje
ct Starts
Construction of the 9.87-mile
section of the Pacific highway
liaison office here, says simply:
"They are scared to deathj
itoraphs showed the battleship
llaruna, hit by both army and
of Milwaukee, assistant in the SJSSrSSt,: "!
OKiwrr. nui - Aioany realignment
project har started, R. H. Baldock,
state .highway engineer, ; an
nounced Monday. : C- I
Largest construction job under-
-They distrust each; other. Tbe'y bombfrs; afloat but bid
try to pass the buck and they go
into! hysterics at the slightest
thing.-; . - - :
The prospect of standing a war
ly damaged at Kure.
American Press Convoy e Mghw commission
- -i J I smce the beemninf of the . war.
crimes trial has melted some of EInters Ruins of Vienna he project will cost-$1,523,000.
the ley calm of even the ciave t , ; , j Of Uusum,-JS83,000 will be fed-
nazij ex-foreign mirdster, Joachih VIENNA, July 30-tiP)-An eralfunds. ,
The realignment will shorten by
2.3 miles the existing highway. A
24-foot strip of uavin will. e
ened ruins and, its people, tradl-1 bordered by 10-foot rock shoul-
uonaiiy careDree, still smiling but ders, where eventually additional
ex-foreign minister, Joachih vlENNA, July 30-(F)-An
Ribbentrop. When told he J American press convoy entered
been I listed a war criminal, I Vienna today and found the his
Ribbentrop appeared out-1 toric city scarred by smoke-black-
f A cximinall" he exclaimed.
a criminal?
von
had
rvon
raged.
begging, "Win you feed us?
' traffic lanes may be -added. -
at 1:10 p. m. There had been no
report since that lime. Visibility
was reportedly bad because of for
est fires. U 1 ; J -
Seagulls Save Crops , T '
included In the project is a Thouenrw f om,Ti- Kir
$600,000steel triple-arch bridge -put the run" on the Pierre area,
across j the Santiam river four grasshopper population in a throw
miles downstream from the pres- back to the storied assault by their
ent Jefferson bridge and a $70,000 ancestors upon the locust infest.
wrrps aoove me soutnern fll- on of earlv-daT Mormon fields
in Utah.
Weather
cific rails south of Jefferson.
All of the bridge work is to-be
completed before the next high
water- in the Santiam and all
rradintf shnuM h fmir v.
t,Mv,v u . . ..... Saa rrancisco
. Eugene
The entire new hienwav l tn ho I saiem
completed by September 30, W46. tUud.
.- varren is or ui west company wmamett river -4.J a 1
holds the paving contract ontte iJS'&?SA
Work now in progress. While C. J. early this rooming. Win clear before
Montag & Son are in charge of poon-. yitta TT TJ "
bridge construction. ' -" ; ; ,"
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