Quoting Clark
"Every American citizen it honor
bound to assure that the 7th war
loan goes over the top."
Sen. Mark Clark
Volume UH
Slays toleave
Trieste Area
1 Strongly Worded Note
IX Is Delivered to Tito; ;
Stalin Also Informed
London, May 15 U Diplomatic
sources said today that the United
States and Britain formally, have
asked Yugoslavia to withdraw
all her forces from Trieste and
the rest of Italy's pre-war prov
ince of Istria without delay.
Identical, strongly-worded notes
were delivered to Marshal Tito
government in Belgrade by the
American and British and am
bassadors, informants said.
Though the notes set no time
limits for the withdrawal, they
were tantamount in every other
respect to an ultimatum and
could not leave any doubt in Tito'i
mind about the unity and de
termination of the two govern
ments, tnese sources said.
Stalin Notified
) Premier Stalin had been in
formed of the action taken, it
was understood. .
Both Yugoslavia and Italy have
laid claim to Istria. Yugoslav
partisan lorces liberated the prov
ince from the Germans. . Ousted
most Italian civil and even church
omciais ana set up their own
military government.
The United States and Britain
have taken the position that pos
session of Istria should be left
to the peace conference. Yugo
slavia, as an interested party,
should not occupy.the area in the
meantime, they contend.
Part Of Empire
The Istrian peninsula, also
known as the Slovene Littoral,
totals only 3,000 square miles and
originally was part of the old
1 Austro-Hungarian empire. It was
ceded to Italy in the 1919 peace
treaty. The population now is
mostly Italian.
-Dispatches from Bejgrade aaid
toward Karaerj, vice-premier tn
mo s government, expressed will
ingness to wait on the peace con
ference for settlement of the
Yugoslava-Itallan border, but in
sisted on the right of Yugoslav
forces to occupy Istria in the
meantime.
Co. I Sergeant
Fatally Injured
One of the outstanding heroes
of the South Pacific war, SSgt,
LcRoy Norton, formerly of Bend,
has died, of wounds received on
Iwo Jima, it was learned here to
day. Memorial services, sponsored
oy me veterans of Foreign Wars,
ere nem lor the soldier last Sun-
py in biiverton, the home of his
iiarents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nor
ton, according to a Portland news
paper account.
Sgt. Norton, who was 31, was
a member of Bend's Company I,
and had been in the service since
1S40.
Gets DSC Award
Already the possessor of the dis
tinguished service cross for an
act of outstanding heroism, Sgt.
"unon on inov. z9, 1943 was pre
sented With tho naif Inaf rtuetnr in
t ieu of another distinguished serv
ice cross for exceptional valor at
Munda airfield. According to the
citation at that time, Sgt.- Norton
effectively blocked the sweep of
op.- mwara tne Munaa alrtield,
then, alone, advanced through the
Jap defenses, spreading death
with his accurate fire. In this
foray, the daring Bend fighter
accounted for three pillboxes, two
machine guns and seven of the
Allies Request
IHtemy.
iFf Besides his parents, Sgt. Norton
survived by seven brothers and
? sister. They are Harvey of
"end: Zane, Silverton; Weldon, in
Je Philippines; Lawrence, with
'ne army in Texas; Warren, in
J.rance; Willard, Portland; Ray,
silverton, and Mrs. Florence Os
ier of Scotts Mills.
Hannegan Voices
Postwar Policy
Washington, May 15 IP Na
"nal Democratic Chairman Rob
e" E. Hannegan told an audience
" businessmen today that the
Postwar relationship of govern
ment to business would be keyed
, cooperation Instead of con
trol. .'Once the threat of war Infla-
MTl !S lifted ,n.,nt.nnt tfwt-ltwilc
i'V lift, too," he said, "and I
Pe that in (hose years, under
president Truma.i, old uncertain
!'s that plagued our nation's bus
"less and those who managed it
disappear."
Hannegan spoke to the Adver
tising club of Washington at a
'"ncheon meeting. ,
THE
Congress Given Eirst Hand
Story of German Atrocities
Tale of Filth, Disease, Starvation, Death
Is Presented By Mott of Oregon and Others
By Allen Drury -
fUnitd Prta, Stiff Cormpondtnt) .
WashintrtOn.' MaV 15 WP)f:rinoTesa haunt of firot honrl
today a part of the terrible story of nazi rule by extermination.
A 12-man committee of both houses, fresh from a tour of
German Concentration and slave- lillinr ramns verifipd mnnv
of the worst atrocity stories. '
iney told. a tragic tale of
murder. -
ueciarjng the concentration
School Budgets
For Fiscal Year
GivenApproval
school budgets In Bend for the
tiscal year of 1945-46. adopted by
the budget committee of district
No. 1 and union high district No.
2 total $328,988.69 requiring levies
which total $173,392.01. In addi
tion "there will be the continuing
levies for post-war construction
wnicn nave yielded this year $16,
171.77 for district No. 1 and $37.
629.64 for the high school district,
The grade district's Jevy, it was
computed, will be $4.56 under the
6 per cent limitation, that of the
high school district will be $16,
018.40 in excess of the statutory
limit and will require an endors
ing vote by the people. The two
are respectively $4,287.67 and
$4,589.76 higher than levies for
the current year. The Introduc
tion of a new exDense item in
i- i . ., . i . t -
eai-u uuugei, However, more man
accounted for these advances. The
new item was called "warrant
emergency" and was $10,000 for
tne grade district and $5,000 for
the- high school district. It had
been intended to deduct the $10,
000 from "cash on hand" as a
working capital reserve under the
new local budget law, but news
of the filing of a. suit to restrain
theiisecre'tary of state front in
cluding the measure In the 1945
laws influenced the committee in
using a complete cash showing
and an item of possible expendi
ture. Then the $5,000 for the high
school district was handled in the
same way.
Cash Estimated
The two districts will have an
estimated $62,916.82 cash on hand
at the close of the present fiscal
year, $45,169.82 of this amount
showing for the grade district
and $17,747 for the high school
aistnct.
- The budget commitee meeting
was conducted by Carl A. John
son, chairman and member of the
advisory group. Others of the ad
visory members present at the
meeting in the board rooms in
the high school building were
Vance T. Coyner, Carl Erickson,
C. J. Lindh and Marion Cady.
Hal Waterman attended as an
alternate. All school directors
A. O. Schilling, Mrs. P. N. Arm
strong, Dr. G. W. Wlnslow, Al
Eriksen and Glenn H. Gregg
and Superintendent Howard W.
George and Mrs. Irene Cothrell,
clerk, were present.
Deadline Is Mere
For Tax Payments.
Today is the deadline for paying
the fourth quarter of property
taxes without incurring the pen
alty for late payment, and the tax
collection department in the sher
iff's office, county courthouse,
will be open this afternoon until
p. m., tne regular closing time.
According to Sheriff Claude L.
McCauley, taxpayers have been
prompt with their payments, and
it is believed most of the collec
tions have been made. Yesterday
was the peak day, it was reported,
Body of Goebbels, Wife and Children Found
n Vast Subterranean City Underneath Berlin
By Henry Shapiro i
(Uniurf PrM surf Corapondent) The underground city stretch
Moscow, May 15 IP The body ed beneath all the streets, boule-
of Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul j
Joseph Goebbels has been found ,
in a vast underground city be- In a house at No. 63 Charlotten
neath Berlin, the red army news- strasse, a soviet correspondent
paper Red Star reported today. j rummaging in the debris found a
A Berlin dispatch said that narrow passageway below .the
Goebbels' corpse and those of his surface of the ruins. It led to an
wife and children were found
where they had committed sui-
clde, before a microphone.
The story said the underground
city, 20 meters below Berlin's sur-1
face and safe from the reach of
allied bombs, contained factories,
offices, and arsenals linked by
electric railroads. .
Goebbels. Hermann G o e r 1 n g, ;
and other prominent rfazis had
luxurious apartments In the sub-:
terranean Berlin. Entrances and i
exits to the rooms matched any !
fortress. The huge walls were I
made from special reinforced con-!
crete armor plate. Berlin resi -
dents said Goebbels and Goering
had built their shelters there
THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, DESCHUTES
.
filthdisease, starvation and
camp practices to be "no less
than organized, crime against
civilization," they demanded
"swift, certain and adequate
punishment" for those respon
sible. But despite the cruelty and
horror they, saw they held forth
hope of future justice.
Senate Democratic Leader Al-
ben W. Barkley of ' Kentucky
spokesman for the committee,
voiced it this way:
Group Hopeful
"Through the sickening spec
tacle which we have witnessed
will come ultimately a firmer re
alization that men of all nations
and tongues must resist encroach
ments of every theory and ideol
ogy that debases mankind . . .
"A just and more enduring
peace may arise upon the ruins
and from the sacrifices which the
human race has endured through
one of the most crucial periods of
its history."
The 12-man committee, Invited
by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to
see the results' of nazi treatment
of political prisoners and slave
laborers, visited camps at Buchen-
waid, Nordnausen and Dacnau.
Members were Barkley, Sens,
Walter F. George, D., Ga., El
bert D. Thomas, D Utah. C.
Wayland Brooks, R., 111., Kenneth
S. Wherry, R., Neb., and Leverett
Saltonstall, R., Mass., and Reps.
R. Ewlng Thomason, D., Tex.,
James P. Richards, D., S. C, Ed
V. Izac, D., Calif., John M. Vorys,
(Continued on Page 3)
Bend Is Assigned
Veterans' Office
The veterans administration
will soon establish a contact unit
in Bend, according to a telegram
received today by The Bulletin
from U. S. Senator Guy Cordon,
at Washington, D. C. Offices with
a contact representative and clerk-
stenographer will be opened as
soon as desirable space can be ob
tallied, and the personnel pro
cured and trained, the senator
wired. -
The contact unit facilities will
be expanded with assignment of
additional personnel as the need
develops, according to the tele
gram.
Coincidental with the receipt of
the message from Sen. Cordon,
it was learned here that the vet
erans administration had recent
ly set up a similar contact unit
at Klamath Falls.
Purpose of the contact unit is
to assist returned veterans in all
manners as provided by the vet
erans' administration, under the
GI Bill of Rights, rehabilitation
programs, etc., it was explained.
In recent months such service
has been rendered Deschutes
county veterans by Louis H. Hel
phrey, county veterans' service of
ficer. ' ROSS TAKES OFFICE
Washington, May 15 (IP)
Charles G. Ross, who used to be
a newspaperman himself, took the
oath today as president Truman's
press secretary.
Ross until recently was Wash
ington correspondent for the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch and had re
ported White House doings fori
many years.
He succeeds Jona-
than Daniels.
many years before the war.
vards, and alleys converging on
the Wilhelmstrasse.
enormous underground structure
with massive doors and electric In-
tstallations. The luxurious furnj-
j ture. clothes and linen littering
the floors of the rooms indicated
! an Influential family had lived
! there.
j In other subterranean dwellings
j the correspondent found large
families huddled in corners be.
neath dim kerosene lamps. They
had lived there like moles since
From one such dwelling a nar-
row corridor led to a steel door,
and behind that was a hand gren-
jade factory, where women and
: children worked, the dispatch said,
I Another miniature city lay un
CENTRA!- OREGON'S) DAILY NEWSPAPER
Regional Issue
Worry Source
At Conference
Latin American Policy .
Toward United Nation j
Believed Now at Stake' ,
By B. H. Shackford - -
(United Prw Staff Corn vondtnt)
San Francisco, May 15 ftB-L
High officials admitted today that
the biggest stakes of the United
Nations conference are at issue in
the current crisis over the future
relationship of the inter-American
regional system to the new world
organization.
The stakes Include the future
attitude of the Latin American
nations toward the new organi
zation; the relationship of the
Latin American nations to both
Soviet Russia and the United
States; whether the American
bloc of nations will be suspected
of hemispheric isolationism; and
whether the new organlaztion will
start life under the handicap of
intra-organization quarrels over
its jurisdiction and authority.
Officials Hopeful
American officials are corifl
dent of working out a satisfactory
solution. They drafted what they
hope will be their final formula
last night, will present it to the
full U. S. delegation today, and
then If approved to the Latin
Americans before nightfall.
This regional issue so over
shadows everything else at this
conference that even the contro
versial trusteeship issue is for
gotten. The only committee action
noted with any great Interest was
the decision late last night to give
France a permanent seat on the
security council.
The Dumbarton Oaks propos
als said France should have a per
manent seat "In due course"; the
committee deleted "In due
course." .
Problem Explosive
American officials are proceed
ing cautiously on the explosive re
gional problem. They concede the'
possibility ox. leading into three
dangerous situations any one of
which could virtually wreck the
new league before it begins to
breathe. Those-situations are:
1. Existence of regional organi
zations that would cut into the
functioning of the world security
council. If the lnter-Amerlcan
system is given. comDlete auton
omy, it would open the way to a
series of similar regional organi
zations which would, in effect,
nullify the authority of the secur
ity council.
Moves Guarded
2. Any move that would make
the Latin Americans feel that the
United States, now moving in
more powerful global circles, has
ZtatarWih7,H!Wh.tte U. E. senate and house,
fleet in any way on the sincerity
of U. S. action at the recent Mex
ico City conference.
3. Any step that would make
the United States suspect of only
playing Hp service to the Ideal of
a world organlaztion and prepar
ing to retire to hemispheric isola
tionism. Such a feeling among
the western European nations, it
is felt, would lead to further re
gional pacts which in continental
Europe would be dominated by
the Soviet Union.
Country Gives Support
To Seventh War Loan
Washington, May 15 itliThe
mighty Seventh war loan today
surged forward with evcrv indlca.
tion that the country is backing
the war financing program as
never before.
Treasury officials were await
ing the first sales figures with
confidence that yesterday's open
ing of the $14,000,000,000 ram.
paign was a record-setting suc
cess. der the ruins of the main gestapo
building. Innocent-looking sewer
covers concealed the entrance to
an elaborate transportation sys
tem connecting more munitions
factories and residential Quarters.
oieei columns supported a con
crete ceiling In a huRe depot fill
ed with shells. Incendiary explo
sives, and smoke 'bombs all neat
ly stacked and properlv labelled
Other shelves were, filled with
cases containing machine gun bul
lets, pistols, and tommy guns.
The miniature electric railroad
serving these arsenals was found
intact. Conveyor belts carried the
ammunition close to the surface
where the heavy guns were pm
piarpd. The largest number of suhter
ranpaji passages were found be
neath the Wilhelmstrasse and tin
ter den Linden. Manv secret
nlaces there still wer nnvni.j
Red Star said it was possible Hit-
iers body yet might be found in
one of them.
C6UNTY, OREGON,, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1945
Three Lava Bears Join U. S. Naw
vVf v i-f A
V s? W
f Three Bend high school boys, all outstanding players on the 1944
Lava Bear football team, have joined the United States navy and
wjre placed on Inactive duly pending the end of the school year.
Pictured here, from left, are Jim Lammers, George Murphy and
Donald Ferguson. One of Oregon's outstanding players this past
season, Ferguson captained the Bears In their 1944 campaign.
Occupation Forces Move Into
Flensburg, Doenitz ' Capital
'' ' ' ;''''' ' '
Yanks Capture Kaltenbrunner, Described as
Himmler's Atrocity Expert, Newsmen Reveal
, London, May 15 (UJ?) A British military commentator
revealed today that British occupation troops have entered
Flensburg, seat of the German government under Grand Ad
miral Karl Doenitz. ' -.
: But the commentator said the, fat or atntna nt TWnif?
self-proclaimed, successor, to
unKnown nere. :j,.t ... -,-
Neither had he any definite knowledge whether the or.
cupation troops had seized Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler,
Forest Pay Change
Proposed in Bill
Portland, Ore., May 15 (Special)
A bill providing for annual pay
ment by the United States at a
fixed rate, rather than the present
payment of 25 percent to coun
tries of receipts from national for
est lands has been introduced in
and is now in the hands of both
public land committees, it was re
ported here today by Frank S.
Sever, attorney for the Asociatlon
of Oregon Counties. Sever is for
mer city attorney of Portland and
ex-partner of Sen. Guy Cordon.
The measure has been referred
hv the Duhlic lands committees to
the denartment of agriculture fori
study and report, after which
healings on the measure will be
held, according to Sever. The at
torney said that he is now prepar
ing necessary data for presenta
tion at the hearings, and is invit
ing persons interested In national
forest income and private forest
owners to attend.
The measure provides for a re
Inventory and valuation of nation
al forest lands on an acreage basis,
and asks the government for the
flat payment of two per cent over;Hlmmier and Itelchsmarshal Her-
a period of 10 years. At the end
of this period, the bill would re
quire another inventory, and the
fixing of another rate to run for
10 years, followed by similar pro
cedure each 10 years.
At present counties embracing
portions of national forests are
paid at the rate of 25 per cent of
the receipts from timber sales In
that particular county..
'Even the Gods Weep,'
And So Do the Nippons
Tokyo, May 15 mi In an un
precedented admission of difficul
ty and weakness, a Japanese poll- j
tiral chief said today that Japan's'
war effort lar from being all-out
'cannot even be considered fair."
Gen. Jlro Minami, president of
the political association of great
Japan, said the war was "still
turning unfavorably" for Japan.
Tokyo radio, heard by the FCC,
quoted Minami as saying that all
ways and means had been tried to
win the war and that "the daring
fiMi nt .v, ,.ffi.. oh "
, fi,D . iu .. i.
The attacks of the special attack
corps are truly m heroic that thpy j
will make even the gods weep."
MEN WANT NEWS
Ann Arbor, Mich., May 15 UP)
Servicemen in the Panama Canal
zone "want more news of athletics
curtailed," athletic director Fritz
Crlsler of Michigan said today.
. -
Adolf. Hitler as fuehrer, was
now Wo. 1 nazi war criminal.
He last was reported in Flens
burg or its vicinity.
Qt.her allied sources re
ported that American Third
army troops had captured Himm
ler's ace atrocity expert, Lt. Gen.
or police Ernst W. Kaltenbrun
ner, accused ol responsibility for
the ghastly German gas exter
mination program.
Found In Chalet
A dispatch to the London News-
cnronlcle said Kaltenbrunner was
seized by a special agent of the
30th division In a fortified chalet
In the Austrian tyrol.
Doenitz set up his provisional
capital at Flensburg, German nav
al base just south of the Danish
border, after fleeing Hamburg in
the last days of the war.
The British military commen
tator, In admitting that Docnitz's
status still was not clear, pointed
out that it was necessary In mass
surrenders "to deal with someone
who has authority over surrender
ing troops.
Up To SIIAEF
At the same time, however, he
said that It would not necessarily
have to be Doenitz In the present
case. ,
The final explanation, he said
would have to come from su
preme headquarters.
The allied war crimes commis
sion, currently studying means of
trying war criminals such as
mann Goering, first received word
of Kaltenbrunner's capture yes
terday. Officials Attend
State Conference
County Judge C. L. Allen and
County Commissioner A. E. Stev
ens returned last night from Port
land, where Monday they attended
a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the association of Ore-
gon counties, of which Judge
Allen is a member, and a meeting
er ine State Highway commission
...
,hA .f ; , a t ,
, Allocation of funds to counties
t!!r a PO"-war road program was
""l by h ghway of flclals,
who .P0'"'' 'V,at PTJ""?
county had been allocated funds
for 24.14 miles of primary Mate
h'Rhwav' 53, "l""8 ' "ndary
hlfihway. and 43.8 miles of county
Work will be started as goon
as the president declares the em
ergency at an end, or both houses
of congress, by resolution, de
clare this to be the case, it was
said. The program is a long
range project, and will probably
be extended over several years.
Trooj)ersonOkinawal)nhinge
Nippon
Key Hill Close to East Coast
Yanks Score Best Advance in Two Weeks in
Bloody Island Battle; Two Anchor Points
To Be Outflanked; Navy Guns Shell Target
- Guam, May 15 (U.E) Tenth army troops began to outflank
the Japanese anchor strongholds of Nana and Shun in
southern Okinawa today af,ter unhinging the enemy line with
the capture or a key mil near tne east coast. ,
The Americana bounded forward a mile and a quarter,
their best advance in two weeks, following the capture of
Conical hill. They were only a half mile from the east coast
port of Yonabaru.
Overrun in the advance was Yonabaru airfield, the fourth
of Okinawa's five airfields to
be captured by the 10th army.
The thrust puts troops due
east of both the inland town
of Shuri and the west coast
port of Nairn, ruined capital of
Okinawa, and exposed the cities
to attack from the rear. Both
were holding out against savage
American frontal attacks.
Marines Must 1um
Marines of the sixth division
were reported blasting deeper
into the northern outskirts of Na
ha with grenades, flume-throwers
and machine-guns, but a security
blackout cloaked details of their
progress. -
The rubble or Nana was alive
with snipers and machine-gun
nests, front mspatciies sum.
There were indications that the
city had a system Of defenses con
nected oy unoegrouna tunneis.
House-to-house fighting was' un
der way in some sectors. , v
Equally bloody fighting was
underway for Shurl, under as
sault by the first marine and
77th, army infantry divisions. ,
uains KBcnraeu
The first marines gained up to
150 yards yesterday northwest of
Shurl, while units of the 77th
reached the foot of Chocolate
Drop1 hill Immediately hefore
Shuri but were forced to with
draw bv heavv Jaoatiese firt.
The Japanese Were drenching1!
the Shurl front witr) sum neavy
mortar and maclilne-gun tire mat
Supolles, ammunition and food
had to be dropped to the troops
by parachute.
53 oarachute drc-bs overthe f rst
m-ffi.? iin in ' 48 hou Vs One
UUD oDservaiion pianes mtuie
JSSf K
Cubs were unable to get close
enough to 77th division troops in
the center of the line, tanks car
ried suddIIps forward
A battleship supporting t h e
drive scored 25 direct hits on a
gray stone barracks building In
the heart of Shuri yesterday, but
all 25 shells bounced off the thick
walls like ro many rubber bans
without apparent damage. .
Hard Luck Hounds
Ex-Nip Prisoner
Seattle, May 15 till Don't talk
to Walter Johnson of Seattle
about hard luck.
During 43 months spent in San
to Tomas'and Los Bunos Jap
prison camps Johnson dreamed
of once more seeing the Pacific
northwest.
Returned home recently, John
son last night packed his clothes,
personal belongings into his car,
readying for a trip for which he'd
been granted extra gasoline.
During the night, Johnson told
police, someone stole his car, its
contents and the gas.
MOLOTOV IN MOSCOW
London, May 15 nil-Foreign
commissar V. M. Molotov arrived
back in Moscow yesterday ufter
flying from the San Francisco
world security conference, a Sov-!131
let broadcast said today.
Nation's Mighty Battlefleet
To Be Reduced for Peace Era
Washington, May 15 "It Con-, ing navy" as well as a regular
gress had before It today the navy.
framework of the navy's post- 4. The navy wants to retain
war plans, enlline for two thirds bases In the Atlantic and the Pa-
of its present fleet and a standing ,
force of 500,000 bluejackets.
Here are the details of that:
framework, as outlined by navy
secretary James V. Forrestal be-
fore a congressional committee. I in a volominous report or near
1. The nation's mighty battle-Ungs before the senate appropria-
fleet will be cut by "at least 30tions committee. Witnesses In
per cent" when the war with Jap- eluded Forrestal, Adm. Ernest J.
an ends. Only those vessels that King, chief of naval operations
have "real combat value" will lie and Vice Adm, F. J. Home, vice
retained but there will be no! chief of naval operations.
"spectacle of sinking the navy'
after this war.
2. Peacetime nava personnel
will be about 500.000 men and
50,000 officers. The navy now
numbers around 4,000,000 men
and 300,000 officers.
3. The navy feels "very strong
ly" that universal military service
will be necessary to "maintain the
size of the navy we are going to
need." If congress enacts univers
al service, there may be a "train-
Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy today, tonight and
Wednesday with scattered allow
era. I.lltle temperature change.
NO. 137
Line With Capture of
-
7th War Loan
Drive Meeting
Employes of the Ninth Service
command ordnance shop In Bend
today reported they have sub
scribed 100 per cent to the Sev
enth war bond drive, greatly ex
ceeding their quota, as workers
at the bond headquarters In the
Penney store launched into, tne
sale of bonds under the slogan of
"provide a bed for a wounded sol
dier."
Lt. Jack Pike, In charge of per
sonnel at the ordnance shop, In
formed Lome Carter, retull chair
man, that employes there hud
purchased up to lust night a total
of $32,748.50 In bonds. Their quota
wns'$20,G00. The shop employes
206 persons.
. The ordnance shop was the fifth
organization to exceed Its quota
thus far in the campaign, as it of
ficially swung into its second day.
. Fitt.t to. subscribe t(v Its. .quota...
was the U. S. employment service
staff In the courthouse. Next was
the NIebergall jewelry store; the
Bend Gai-age company, and fourth
was the Simpson Cigar and Tobac
co company.
yint Persons t0 Purchnso
nd headquarters for a wound-
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Coast States Get
Now York, May 15 (IB The best
postwar sales prospects will be
the Pacific coast and New Eng
land areas, the 16th annual Sales
Management magazine survey of
buying power revealed today.
The three Pacific states aver
ORCd $4,845 per family and New
England $4,841 according to the
magazine's sectional break-down
of effective buying Income and
rptail sales by stutes, counties and
cities for 1914.
The Pacific coast states in 1944
earned a total of $17,808,335,000
or more than $1,000,000,000 above
the aggregate for the nine south
Atlantic states. The coast group
ranged third In total Income
topped only by the middle Atlan
tic states of New York, New Jer
sey and Pennsylvania and the
five east north central states of
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
and Wisconsin.
A quallty-of-market Index of
was scored by the coast
New
England was second with 116.
cific and has already put in a bid
wnn tne stale aeparimenc lor
"firm options" on Philippine
bases.
The "framework" was contained
Other disclosures:
1. The navy will spend a billion
dollars on advance bases in the
Pacific this year. Forrestal finds
it "a comforting thought" that a
substantial amount of this money
"is being spent where, we hope,
installations will permanently
remain."
2. The Japanese navy has been
slashed to "a medium-sized task
force" and her airforce number
only about 4,000 planes.
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