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i m lfl v n ui (m in iiitN Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS AS u thriller, 111 "ghost rockets" over Sweden mirpuu gur Jup balloons. Wo cuuld never quite convince ourselves lluil puper bullouna. drilling lite air currents, could mount Co much. Ilnckols. Ill these days. I0 an other mutter. eyewitness Mccuunl. punni.in.-u In a Stockholm iii'wspuper yes trrduy. The eyewitness l de scribed a "trained observer of meteorological "d astronomical pl.omii" who waa gu.lnij I l clouds through fd K us when suddenly a "nlKhtinuHKh, torn edo-llko object, with i til; red lull thi.t spewed glowing blue uiid green smoke mid a ,,'rlca of "fireballs" streaked rroM hla vWon und exploded In n blinding flh. He suya In hl published - count: "I wu completely diiw-d mid hurt vlslona of d nsdiiy. lllu thlukii the things are ;l up to exploit mid destroy them selves un they can't bo found and checked upon. The Jap bal loons were supposed to havo been efiulpi-d with some such device, but apparently It eldoin worked.) WE suapt-ct Riwslu, of course partly hcenuae of her ex treme arcrecy about everylh tut. Hut If you were a Hussion, with all of Siberia to pructlco In, would you tip off your experi ment by ahooling 'jour flame .pitting gadgets OVKIl SWEU EN? It sounds a trifle screwy. ITS barely powlble thul the trained Swedish observer might have Keen a metor In the fK and the cloud. Still, the fact remain that the Jap balloon, whose first closely-censored re port sounded ocrewbull cnouill). were real. , . , IN many way, lf screwball world we're living In right now. StudanU nt Georgia Tech. dis satisfied with the seals allotted to them In the football Ktadlum ... ia f..n tiiih.-ati.-v tnfinv Ihnt unless the situation la remedied to their satisfaction thev'll Hit on the plavlng field on November n (Lit- f.trt-f. Ihn rlillinu off of the Tech-Navy gumo scheduled lor thai ciny. , , , vui.t. i i.i. ui-lti-r went to col lego (much too long ago) threat lika thni would have resulted promptly In maw suspensions I.. ...... r..liltnrle ilnva. till naive idea still prevailed that DlSl.irL.lwt. I eMieoiini i" training for cllizenaiup 11 : democratic way of life li to be made to worn. DON'T blame these embryo ..... nl i".-.i.rdin Tech TOO much. They're merely following the principle wnicn we nm-iiui- s "monkey nee. moiiKcy an. uri.ni I hnttnfnlnif. throuCIl out our country and throughout the world, la una: u..'. In. .Inn Die TECH Mir.iiL-u riv rnUTIinvEnsY to a point of super-efficiency, but are noma time, u uuyuuoK. develop inn teenmqucs oi i-j OPKHATION. BUT thl column (u happein too often) la (dipping off Into tho qiiiigmlrca of phllosopliy and moralizing which most people loathe. So lel'i get buck to tho new. HERBERT HOOVER, who In these day ee much and any Utile, break hi accustomed II-..M l....it f.iw.utrh IhU morn ing to tell a Salt Lake City re porter inai we inim-rii-ana 1. Conerve our economic re- lource. Improve our equipment and REDUCE OUR SPENDING. "We MUST end our (recklcsji) pending, ne nans. 9 It. nnllnnnl rlr.ff.i.sn vum hould hold (for ourselves) the atomic bomb until there 1 real co-operation for Instlng peuco, which must Include general dis armament In the world allies a well m enemy countries. "Wo (Continued n ri . Col. 1) Labor Front Stirred Again As New Strikes Rear Heads By The Associated Preat The nation's lubor front, com paratively quiet since settlement of a series of countrywide post war strikes, begun stirring with new activity today. Tho CIO Imposed embargo dis rupted the flow of news lo and from the United States, strlko by AKL workers curtuiled ureuti supplies in Chicago and Phila delphia, a strike which both union and company spokesmen culled a "surprise" closed n hut miiniifiicturlnK plant In Phila delphia, and whlto collar work rra threatened to quit work In Jnternulloiiiil Harvester com pany plants. At tho same lime, however, a threatened strike ugnlnst tho Campbell Soup company wns averted by federal conciliators, n "strike which closed the Pock urd Motor Cur company, was set tled, pressmen ended n weekend strike against the Springfield (Mo.) Newspapers, Inc., and a strike settlement restored normal waler service to Enst Liverpool, O., Industries. The foreign news embargo, Ex-Official Tells About VAAPolitics WASHINGTON. Aug. 13 (At Willlum Cillrein, dinchurged war aiuiet adinlnlatratlon official, tcttlflcd today he once wui In tiucled to get rid of a ubordi nulo and replace him with man lavorcd by Scnutor Myer (U.- ). Cillrein formorly wa WAA sale munugvr In Philadelphia. He told the houiut aurplua prop erty committeo thul hla Immedi ate auperior iiihi loin nun inai "II 1 wa amnrt, I would fire the man acting a my analstant and move In the one who 1 now my mrce(ir. llo Identified the for mer a Paul Wlngutn and hi ucccMor a Joxepli Muldowney und then added: "! wui told Inxt full that Sen utor Kranci E. Myer win Inter- tted l(i huvlng Muldowney put on tin pay roll. Earlier Cillrein said he hud been fired bccaimo be had failed to rcapund to wlahc of the demo cratic purly organlzutlon in Plilliidlphla and the lute "If 1 wa 'in' politically I would atlll have job," he de clared. Cillrein said that hi Immedi ate auperior, whom he identified a C. K. DuMara, told him force fully to ouat Wlngnto and make way for Muldowney. "He told me to throw 'him (Wiugute), tho hell out of there," Cillrein mild. He told the committee that the reported Interest of Scnulor Myer In Muldowney wo re luted to him by Jnaeph Dillert, a regional director of the aur plua property dlpol agency. Cillrein iu 1(1 lliera probably wa negligence" on hi part in handling a aurplua property or der of Benjamin F. r'icUl. Duces Corpse Found In Trunk MILAN, Italy. Aug. 13 W Po lice announced laal night thai the body of Benito Muaaolini, which wa atolcn April 22 from an unmarked grave In a pot ter field hero by aclf-atyled "democratic faaclala," hud been found In a trunk at Pavia mnnaatery. The police said that two monk had been taken Into custody In the Inveatigatlun In addition to three laymen already held. The body waa being gunrded at a local police headquarter pend ing tho receipt of further In alructiona from Rome. The Milan newapaper Corrlere Delle Sera aaid the civil police chief hud received instruction from the national capital to bury the body "in aacrcd ground and in a place unknown to the pub lic." However, till report was not confirmed by official aources here. The body won found in a Car thuaian monaatery at Pavia, where, police anid, It had been taken Sunday morning from the monaatery of St. Angelo, Ita first hiding pluce after being exhumed at the potter' field. One Sour Note ARDMORE. Okla., Aug. 13 (A') There was gospel singing in the Carter county jail and all the boya were there and Inking part. Jailer J. L. Sloan, himself music lover, settled back to enjoy the old time hymn. Above the strains of two guitars, mandolin, an ac cordion and the voices of the aingera, Sloan heard someone apparently keeping time with the music with an extra heavy foot. "The guy'i off beat," Sloan mused during several num bers, then roused himself to investigate. Search disclosed one of the boys had removed a section of a window frame, extracted a heavy iron sash weight and was methodically hammering out bricks in ragged four four time. which disrupted press messages handled by the Associated Press, United Press, International News Service and Reuters, was im posed against cable and wireless companies by the CIO American Communications association New York. The move was taken in sympathy with 300 ACA strikers at Press Wireless, Inc., who walked out seven days ago in protest aguinst wngo and staff reductions. A strike of AFL bakery and confectionery workers for higher wnges cut orr iwo-tliirds or Phila delphia's dally bread output and trimmed Chicago's bread supply by an estimated 20 per cent. Some 2300 emnloves reluscd to work In tho John B. Stetson company plant In Philadelphia but the company and spokesmen for tho AFL United Hat, Cap end Millinery workers said they did not know the reason. CIO white collar workers threatened to go out "witnin ih hours in Inter national Harvester comuunv plants In Chicago, East Moline and Canton, ill., and Auburn. N. Y., unless wage, boosts are grained. . rtfW-V.V-.n' PBkMi . VE CENTS City Council Pushes Plan For Manager Laat-ininute action aimed at placing city managerial ques tion before tile public on tne No vember ballot waa taken by the c.ty council at Ita regulur meet ing Monday ulglit. Tho group moved for an ad- journed meeting luewlay at 7:JU p. m. when the council will meet with Kliimulh citi.eiia to con- aider putting city managerial iiicuaure in the full election. After aomc discussion between Mayor Ed Ostendorf and council members present, a committee of eleven men win named, at the mayor a request, to meet with tl.e council to study the plan. One more man was to be ap pointed lo the committee by the mayor before the Tuesday night meeting. In the meantime, the council inatruetcd the city ottorney to prcpurc resolution and ballot title for tile measure so that tl-cy can be adopted at the ad J turned meeting if the plan meets with approval. Any ac tion to bring the matter to a vote will have to be taken by S p. in., Wednesday, deadline for ti c placing of Issues on the bal lot. Charter Amendment The proposed resolution would be charter amendment grant ing authority to the mayor and council to hire a city manager who would act as general co ordinator for the city. His duties would be designated by the mayor and council. The committee appointed to meet with the council along with any other interested citi zens arc Merle West, Mitchell Tillotson, Frank Jenkins, L. L. Lombard. Charles Thomas, Roy Premo, Jack Kentlng, John Houston, Tom Wutters, Mrs. Nelson Heed und Ed Dunham. Prior to Uhl action Moyor Ostendorf indicated that iu was in favor of appointing a com mittee to study managerial sys tems in other towns. This would mean waiting until a special voto in the spring to put it be fore the public. Councllmen present at the meeting were Horvey Martin, Charles Van Dorcn and Rollin Cantrall. Six Soldiers Die In Berlin Blaze . BERLIN, Aug. 13 (I') Six American soldiers were burned fatally and three others injured last night In a fire that broke out in a military police motor pool, the U. S. army provost marshal's office, announced today. Names of the identified vic tims were being withheld pend ing notification of next of kin, A preliminary report said the fire occurred while the soldiers were cleaning a garage building in tho motor pbol, located in the oorougn of Ncukocln. MocArthur To Retire In Year, Says Officer MEDFORD. Mass., Aug. 13 W) Lluct. Col. Joseph A. O'Hearn, former member of General Mac Arthur's staff, predicted today in an interview that MacArthur would retire "within a year." O'Hearn, who is home on sick leave, said the Japanese now "think more of MiicArthur than they do of their own emperor." L .j . L r." tKT7Z!iJ ! liCP.fVW Tho et for tho Centennial pagtant 1 taking snap out at tho county fairgrounds, as this picture shows. Nolo tho mountain background for tho stage, partially completed. Boyond that, in tho above picture, lies a roal mountain tho louth slope of Hogback, and closer at hand tho troo-studdod suburban area. KLAMATH TALLS. Eyewitness Tells Of 'Ghost Rocket' STOCKHOLM, Aug. 13 Wf An eyewitness account publish ed In the Stockholm Aftonbladct yesUrduy told how 100-foot "ghost rocket" exploded In blinding flush over Sweden lending support to prcviou reports thut tho mystery mis siles urc equipped wilh destruc tion devices which muke it im possible to find trace of them. The published account was given by a trained observer of meteorological and astronomical phenomena who was gazing at clouds through field glasses when a nightmarish, torpedo-like object, with a tapered tall that spewed glowing blue and green moke and a series of fire balls, streaked across his line of vi sion. "1 was completely dazzled and had visions of doomsday," he said. LaFollette In GOP Contest By Tha Aasociatad Pratt A three way gubcrnutorial contest and Senator Robert M. LaFollette's bid for republican nomination after 12 years as a progressive lent sparkle today to Wisconsin's primary. With the LaFollette senator ial scrap spilling over into the arena of national politics, the Wisconsin balloting outshone the selection of GOP candidates for governor and senator in Vermont and a free-for-all for the democratic nomination for governor in South Carolina. LaFollette carried into his battle nearly 21 years' experi ence in the senate and name lustrous in Wisconsin politics for two generations. But his attempt to force his way back into the republican fold, which he deserted to or ganize the progressive party, got no welcome from the state machine. Thi'i a LaFollette victory would -weaken Chalrftion Tom Coleman's clutch on the state republican organization. And it would shunt the senator into a position wherein he could help pick Wisconsin's 24 delegates to the republican national conven tion in 1948. Howard Hughes Leaves Hospital LOS ANGELES. Aug. 13 (P) Howard Hughes, plane designer and movie producer, wno suf fered multiple injuries last July 7 when an experimental plane crashed in nearby Beverly Hills, Is recuperating at "the home of a friend." Good Samaritan hospital at tendants said Hughes left last Saturday, taking with him his nurses and other attendants. Huphes' physician. Dr. Verne Mason, declined to say where Hughes is staying. Volunteers Wanted Klamath Falls 20-30 club today put out a call for old timers to ride the club's float In the Centennial parade Au gust 22. Pioneers were asked to call Centennial headquarters, 8204, and volunteer to ride in the 20-30 float. Tho parade committee to day was lining up an old pump and fire engine of the vintage of 1849 which is at Jacksonville and may be brought here for the parade. Mountains Rise On Fairgrounds " '"g"iii ii a - OREGON, TUESDAY. AUGUST 13. H. G. Wells Dies At 79 In London LONDON, Aug. 13 (IP) H. G. Wells, the world famous author, died today at his home in Lon don. He was 79. His secretary said Wells died "peacefully at 4 p. m." The statement, on which the secretary would not elaborate, added: "He had been in failing health for a considerable time. The funeral will be private. Herbert George Wells had used science as a vehicle in turn ing out stories and fantasies which were best sellers on both sides of the Atlantic. One of his most monumental writings, how ever, was an outline of history. Attacked Monarchy His last newsworthy action was on July 9 when he loosed an attack on the British mon archy, in a question over whether llie royal house was involved in large sums of money which Be nito Mussolini paid to Sir Oswald Mosely, the British fascist. Wells died t his home in Han over terrace in Regents park. He was reported seriously ill as long ago as May of 1944. He had suf fered from diabetes for years. He wrote well over 90 books which dealt with science, sociol ogy, political economy, romance and fancy. His outline of history perhaps was his most lucrative work, being translated into near ly every language. Over 900,000 copies were sold In the United States in one year alone. Meat Packer Against Curbs WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 tfP) Wesley, Hardcnbergh, president of the American Meat Institute (packers), argued today against revival of meat, price ceilings on the grounds that the indus try is rapidly meeting public needs. This return to "order" in the business, he told the OPA price decontrol board, contrasts with "the chaos created by four years of price control." Hardcnbergh said a query of meat advertisements in cities throughout the country recent ly showed consumers are buy ing meet at "prices generally in line with OPA's ceiling," plus the subsidies OPA formerly paid to help keep retail prices down. 'Today the consumer increas ingly has opportunity to go in to stores and come out with meat without drawing a num ber, without standing in line, and without being robbed by the black market," Harden bergh said. Youth Breaks Leg In Fall From Car Mike Colbert, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Colbert, 303 S.-8th, slipped off of the running board of a car at Dia mond lake Sunday and fractured his right leg. He was climbing out of the rumble seat of the car when he slipped. State Dolice brought the boy to Klamath Valley hospital where he will remain for several days. Young Colbert was with a group of six boys who had driven to the lake to spend the day. M -. iwssM. 4 I 2 b. v ( airrw 1B4S (Talophona 1111) FDR Memorial Survey Afoot ' A survey of the California red wood region for a possible Frank lin D. Roosevelt memorial forest is being made under the direc tion of Hamilton K. Pyles, until recently acting supervisor of the Modoc national forest with of fices at Alturas. Pyles was assigned to the sur vey Job after Rep. Helen Ga hagan Douglas of Los Angeles introduced a bill in congress pro viding for the creation of a for est honoring the late U. S. presi dent. The bill has been referred to the committee on agriculture. Forest service experts will sbidy the economic and social effects of the proposed forest on local industries and popula tion in uei none, HumDoint, Mendocino and Sonoma counties. The bill contemplates eventual acquisition of about 2,000,000 acres of non-aericultural red wood land to be dedicated as memorial units. , Red Scientist Hints At Atom SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 lP) Prof. Scmyeon Alexandrov, Rus sian observer at Bikini, had a look today at the University of California cyclotron where the atom bomb was conceived. - Its significance, however, he left unanswered in view of his observation that Russia expected to have an atom bomb of her own. At a reception yesterday for the 21 United Nations observers returning from Bikini on the USS Panamint, the professor told newsmen that Russia expected to have atomic tests, too "in the measurable future. Asked point blank If Russia has as atom bomb, Alexandrov replied in cngiisn: "I have been out of touch with my country, but we are much closer to the end of this project as (than) many people think, we are. . And where would Russia hold its tests? "Somewhere in Russia. Far enough away so it won't be dan gerous to the populace or to wild life." 'Vagabond' Plane Awaiting Owner Police are holding for an un known owner a yellow and black-trimmed cabin monoplane, slightly damaged in a crack-up on Crescent Sunday, which the aviator can have by calling at the city hall booking desk. The plane is a model one lunger named Vagabond. The wing was knocked off a n d broken in three pieces when it careened out of the blue and slammed into a tree at 1138 Crescent. The only other dam age is a broken tip of jone pro pellor blade. The ship has a wingspread of about five feet ana snows ex. pert craftsmanship by some vounEster. Its one-cylinder en. Bine still works despite the crash police had it tuned up. Ambulatory Victim Baffles Patrolmen PORTLAND. Aug. 13 (P State police had a long search but finally found the victim of an accident. A witness reported seeing the man hit and he thought probably killed. After an all-night hunt, po lice learned that the victim was only bruised, was picked up by a bus driver and relayed to his home by another driver. Month's Free Spending On West Coast Reveals Pattern Of Inflation Spirals SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13 (IP) The far west spent $10, 000,000,000 last month, on a conservative estimate. The estimate was based on the cashing of checks totaling $8,265,150,000 in 31 cities in the Salt Lake-Seattle-San Diego triangle. That figure was re ported today by the federal re serve bank. The rest of the 10 billion es timate for July was spending by check in hundreds of smaller communities, and total cash spending for all purposes. The latter is figured at 10 per cent of the check total, but probably runs higher in view of the large supply of currency. Total spending ran more than three times that of the 1939 month, just before the war storm broke in Europe. There is the. basis for one's own esti mate of inflation, for whoever cares to make it: triple the spending on a smaller quantity of goods (not to mention quali ty). The smaller quantity was emphasized by the dearth of automobiles, a business that r WEATHER NEWS Afit II, 111 h, (An. in II Hla. . ....... 1 Prwlllllii lot 14 Inn ...... Iron 7w u aala II.H ai - ii.u Lan rf - t'-'t rraitl RUIng UmacralarM Number 10898 Reparations Share Asked By Romania PARIS, Aug. 13 (IP) Romania, first of the Soviet-conquered German satellites to address the peace conference, proposed today that she receive reparations from her former allies, Germany and Hungary. George Tatarescu, Romanian vice premier, also lauded Rus sia's claims of $300,000,000 repar ations against Romania as mod erate, and opposed proposals of the western allies on economic phases of the draft treaty of Deace for Romania. Soviet Foreign Minister Molo tov told the conference that "fascist Italy bears a tremendous responsibility" but that "does not mean that Italy should lose ner importance as a power in the Mediterranean." Speaking in response to pleas for leniency expressed Saturday by Premier Alcide de Gasperi of Italy, Molotov paid triDuie to the "historic services rendered by Italy." The head Ethiopian delegate, Ato Akilou Habte Wold, follow ing Molotov, answered the ap plause which greeted him with the remark: "At this touching moment I can not help remembering an other scene in which Italian fascists hissed the monarch be fore the League of Nations." In his five-minute address the Ethiopian delegate recalled that Italy used i-ntrea ana soman land as bases for ber attack against Ethiopia." He said allied troops during the war told natives of those countries that "these territories will never go back under Italy." To return them to Italy would be "an act of international im morality," he said. Russians Ask Strait Rights MOSCOW. Aug. 13 (IP Soviet Russia announced today she had proposed to Turkey that the Black sea powers take full au thority in drawing up a new treaty governing the Dardanelles and that the USSR and Turkey should organize defenses of the. straits jointly. The Russian note said the 10- year-old Montreaux convention, whereby Turkey was granted the right to militarize the straits aoes not correspond to tne in terests of security of the Black sea states and docs not guarantee conditions preventing the use of these straits with aims inimical to the Black sea powers." The note was made public by the Soviet foreign office. The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said it had been pre sented to the Turkish govern ment in Ankara last Thursday and that its contents were dis closed simultaneously to Britain and the United States. Indian Awarded Jail After Auto Accident Grover Cleveland Edecker, 28, who was arrested after an acci dent at Sixth and Pine Satur day afternoon, was sentenced to sDend 142 davs in the county jail by Justice of the Peace J A. Mahoney in justice court yester day. Edecker was given 125 days for reckless driving, 12 days for running a stop ' sign and five days for having no operator's li cense. He pleaded guilty to all three counts. normally absorbs a large amount of money, and in 1939 took around $211,000,000 for new passenger cars in Califor nia alone. Per capita spending was about $714 last month, com pared with around $292 in July, 1939. The increase in popula tion since 1939 went with an increase in spending of better than $2,000,000,000 a month, at last month's average for rough ly 3,000,000 new westerners. Bank reports indicated that checking deposits hit a July high mark of around $8,885, 000,000. That was well over three times the estimated $2,493,000,000 for July, 1939. The roughly equal rate of ex pansion of funds and spending indicated price inflation was more closely connected with the amount of funds than with the rate of spending the aver age dollar, the latter having slowed slightly. The slowing In at tho rate of turnover of the average dollar suggested buy ers, by their own restraint, may have exerted strong force to Briton Says U.S. Sources Assist Jews HAIFA. Palestine. A u l (P British troops flr.d torn myguns nd riflos today Into l,"T ,' ,iotln Jw who wore trying to storm through tanks, truck. .d soldi.,, " protoat against tho deportation Uh&grti000 ""i"1 J- 1.T1",,,?,'"' Including a Several policemen and soldiers wore injurad by stones, bottles and other mlaailos hurled by tho J.wa. who had boon exhort' j. 7. 4 5 outlawod Hagana radio to "storm tho itr..t. Jews in tho major cities of Paloatine callod strlko .t s p. m. to continue until tomar. row morning, and conronod mass msotings. LONDON. Aug. 13 IJP a spokesman for the British co lonial office specifically named American financial sources" today as responsible for "en couraging and directing" illegal immigration of Jews into Pales tine. The spokesman mari ik. statement when asked by a re- lasucr uj aescrme the "very large financial contributions" which, a British government statement said last night, were financing a mass exodus of Eu ropean Jews to the Holy Land. The government's statements announced Britain's decision to end illegal immigration and to convey to "Cyprus or else where" any Immigrants arriv ing illegally. Palestine Soalod Off Britain ' sealed off Palestine ; t,i : . in , . . , - j ag..u,k u.ci;ai acwiau im migration, clamped a rigid cur few on the tense port of Haifa and began transporting uncerti fied Jewish refugees waiting to enter the Holy Land to intern ment camps in Cyprus. Coupled with the govern ment's announced intention to shift to Cyprus the terminus of "the underground railway to Palestine." was an accusation that a highly-organized, Zionist financed organization planned and assisted in the movement of Refugees, thereby attempting "to force the hand of the Brit ish government" in future Pal estine policy. Jewish reaction was prompt -nd bitter. One Jewish leader predicted the step would cause "much more suffering but it won't stop tho stream of immi grants." The British press soberly ex pressed unqualified approval of the move, and appealed again for American aid in solving the explosive problems of the Holy Land. Arab leaders hailed the announcement as "good news," First Potato Shipment Out The first carload of Klamath potatoes from the 1948 crop left for California markets last night. It was the second time In the history of the basin potato indus try that a carload of potatoes has been shipped prior to Au gust 20. In 1941, a shipment went out on August 7. Last night's carload was shipped on the Great Northern from Klamath Falls by the Cal Ore Packing company and the potatoes were grown on the Co' well brothers farms on the Keno read. The shipment was made up of Bliss Triumphs and Pon tiacs. Harvest of potatoes it now in full swing on the Col well place and more shipments are expected before August 20. Ross Aubrey, state-federal In spector, said he expected ship-' ment of Netted Gems to begin before September 1. temper price advances, despite the great total amount spent. July spending showed centers of war industry recovering quickly from the postwar down swing in money turnover. Only two of the 31 cities failed to match the 1945 month's war time check-cashing pace. In June, 10 had lagged behind last year. Seattle and Tacoma were still a shade behind the 1943 figures, but narrowing the mar gin fast. Fresno chalked up the big gest gain reported among the 31 cities, its $120,000,000 put ting July checks up to $1.72 for every 1945 dollar. Others running $1.50 or bet ter for every dollar of July last year Included Berkeley, Sacra mento, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Reno, Eu gene and Salem. Metropolitan areas were less free with their dollars. Los An geles checks ran $1.15 for the 1945 dollar, Oakland $1.04, San Diego $1.06, San Francisco $1.13, Portland $1.25, Salt Lake City $1.34 and Spokane $1.27.
