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Ste Payrolls Soar In Washington OLYMPIA, July Ington's industrial workers will pocket some $225,000,000 more this year than they did in 1941, Robert I. Ilarlln. state director of labor and industries, estimated today. In the first five months ot this year, the payroll total was $263,501,044. BII increase of $84,500.572 over the of last year, or 53 cent.

HarHn said the'l942 total, if Die present increase pace Is maintained, probably would be nbout $725.000.000, compared with about $500,000,000 last yoar. In the first five mo'ntlLS of this year, premium income was up 41 per cent lo $3.583,147, Harlin I'e- portcd. DAILY CHRONICLB Prepared for Launching; Grimm Oors Kasl- Friends ot William II. Grimm, Centrnlla attorney who has been undergoing treatment at the veurans' hospital in Portland for some time, will be interested to.hear he left there Wednesday for "the veterans' hospital at Hints, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where he will continue his convalescence. Mr, Grimm was in Centralia the past week-end visiting his father, E.

Grimm, and other relatives. Born--A baby girl was torn today at a local hospital to Mr. and Mrs, Lcroy Davidson, of Route 3, Chehalis. Trairunrn lo ricnlc--Members of the Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, trainmen and 1 their families will hold a picnic Sunday at Branson's resort on Offut lake, starting at 1 p. m.

Coffee, cream and ice cream will be furnished for the picnic dinner. remits Issued--Two more building permits for repairs had been issued at the city hall today. One was.obtained by Amanda Dauc. 1017 street, for repairs to her residence, SI5, and the other by Julia Wren, 1105 Crosby street, for re- roofing of a chicken house, S41. Flowers Stolen George Frascr had complained to police today vandals stole a number of geranium plants' from his yard at 1014 West Cherry street.

JVascr had just purchased and set out the plants. Takes Position Here--Tlie new assistant manager of the J. C. Penney slorc here is C. E.

Robinson, who arrived the past week from Walla Walla with his wife. He has bten associated with the Penney organization nine years, having been located in the Northwest during all of that time. FBI Meeting Slated--All auxiliary police in Centralia who are able to a'o so are requested by Police Chief Milton Jasliam lo attend a meeting at the Kalso city hall Friday at 1 1 p. sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, civilian defense and wartime law enforcement problems will be discussed, with emphasis on prostitution, and motion pictures of crime problems will be shown. Prell Betty Andrews prepares bottles of California champagne, decorated with red, white and blue streamers for smashing at future launch- Ings af (lie California Shipbuilding corporation yarrts near I.os Angeles, which set a June record of 11 launching; and 15 deliveries of completed liberty ships.

the former Josephine Noonan of Centralia, passed away Wednesday at a hospital in Weed, according to word received here. Her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Noonan, went to California several days ago after being notified of a turn for the worse in her daughter's illness. A sister of Mrs. Vannie's, Mrs.

John White, resides at Olym- pla. Shirts for Dress, Shirts for Sport. Shanedling's is the store for the right kind. 112-11 Opening lancc, Mecca, Friday night. New music that's really good.

Follow the crowd. July 24. 170-4tp Did You Say better than "Interwoven" socks that you get at Shamnlina's Clothing Store at 3 pr. for $1.25 and 2 pr. Allied planes were destroyed Wed- Eden Pictures Post-War Era NOTTINGHAM, England, July the outlines of the peace "at one of the gravest hours of the war," Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said today Britain Is ready tq meet and work with the United States' In shaping the post-war world.

In a speech which was generaly regarded as the most definite pronouncement of Britain's after-war policy that has yet been made by the crushed undersea boat rise to the surface, roll over and sink. (One paragraph censored at this point.) In time the PBY crews were haggard wrecks, and their planes were not much better. Some men flew 102 hours in two weeks and the planes were beached for repairs only when they would fly no longer. Whenever a plane cracked up in the surf, bleary-eyed repair crews stripped, off its usable parts to patch planes shot to tatters by the Japs. The Cat pilots, worn as they were, viewed wtih sarcastic humor the chores required of their elephantine craft.

They were flying patrols and searches, fighting zeros, carrying oes and using their clumsy torped crates as dive bombers. -A PBY is as big as a barn, and maneuvers a battleship. Wryly the pilots dubbed llieir outfit the interceptor command" and designated Dutch Harbor "PBY elimination base." At one time uile a few hulking a British statesman, Eden echoed ideas previously expressed by Vice- President Henry A. Wallace and Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, ajid appealed lo Britons to give a generous welcome to American soldiers and airmen in this country. The future of Anglo-Amcrlaan planes were basing on the little friendship Is "in the hands of the dcr.

Men took two-hour turns in her unmade bunks and were routed out lo fly their reloaded planes to Kiska--making room for Making no mention of a second other, even wearier crews to rest front, he ncverlMess praised Rus- The tender's cooks served meals 24 sia and asserted "we, together with i hours a day, aiid a crew that land- our Allies, are in this war to the ed judiciously could have its choice victorious end. of breakfast or lunch. Mealtimes "With the United states, the! ran'together, and sometimes over- Soviet Union, China and other i lapped, nations, we shall our part i working for thft development of a great world-wide civilization," Eden continued, naming three ur- people of this country," he said. Second Front Not Mentioned gent problems of peace: 1. complete disarmanmcnt of the aggressor powers.

2, Feeding of the starving populations. the Ol)e crew thrce round to Kiska with only three-hour rest periods between the long hops. One PBY found itself overshadowed by a faster Japanese four-motored seaplane. The Jap showed no disposition to attack, and seemed willing to tag along forever. The PBY captain refused to' go home 3.

Enabling the devastated, 1m- aml hus ted the enemy lo his povcrishcd and economically un- bajie- when thclr strange garac of hide-and-seek had gone on eight developed countries to restart their industry and agriculture. Two Principles Stressed Two principles which should govern the solution of these prob? lems he listed as follows: 1. Receipt of financial and economic aid "must not result in the loss of the Independence of any country." 2. Any assistance or guidance given a country "unpracticed in the art of self-government must be such as to help it achieve Its nesday over Egypt and Malta, a own development." a steamer was sunk by axis nlr attack out of a convoy off reported seven of Port Said. The British Choosing- an audience largely composed of factory workers, soldiers, sailors and airmen for his pronoun cements, Eden told them their planes downed over North winning the peace will be as" hard for $1.25.

172-H Good All-Wool Slacks that are tailored to fit. and hold press is kind you get at Shanedling's Clothing Store. 172-H Death Occurs--Mrs. James Van- STREAMLINED! Britain Makes Plans to Help Battered Aflyj (Continued from Page attacks on heavily protected voys on the Arctic route to Russia. Nazis 20 Miles from Rostov Not since the 13th century westward Invasion of Genghis Khan nnd liis grandson, Batu Khan, and their Mongol hordes, had Euro- lcan Russia been so menaced as Africa and Malta and thrce craft destroyed.

Alexandria Passes Crisis Tlie situation In Egypt, undoubtedly of prime importance in Allied consideration of a second front, was one of Incipient threat Alexandria, but the crisis, by outward appearances, had passed. London military experts said it was obvious General Auchinleck's army had been heavily reinforced and was moving forward in all sectors with the intention of forcing a decisive battle. While shying from predictions, those sources seemed quietly optimistic. The German high command said more than 1,000 prisoners had been captured and 131 British tanks destroyed, slightly larger claims than the Italians made. The weather spared Germany from RAF attack (luring the night, but the Germans struck at England in somewhat stronger fashion.

Merc Yanks in Ireland In London, U. B. army officials permitted the disclosure new contingents of American pilots, ground crews. Negro troops and other) forces whose presence in northern Ireland was announced two days axis a task as winning the war, but i Britain was "pledged to play our full part in the building of a peaceful active international society." Seaplane Tender Does Task Well Fight Bombs In New Way SEATTLE, July brget those Instructions to use a fine spray of waler in fighting Incendiary bombs. A solid stream of water finally las been approved as faster, easier and safer, the state defense council said today.

New Instructions, based on extensive tests by the army chemical warfare service and Ihe Office of Jlvilian Defense technicians, are be- ng to the 14S county and city councils over the state, the council said. Next the 01,000 air raid wardens will begin distributing leaflets on war gases and wartime water protection lo homes and business places. Every householder will gel personal instruction on the "jet of water" system of fighting fire bombs. hours the PBY skipper grew bored with waiting for attack and de- cidedcd to bring the matter to close. He turned to attack the Jap plane.

It ran away. Dive bombing, a PBY tinned oul lo be something the designer had never thought about. Over Kiska tlie pilots would force the HOSL down and go rumbling through the soup like a landslide. The heavy plane would plunge into the clear over the Japs. The bombs would fall clear and both pilots would have to heave back on the yoke to pull out i with their long panels flapping like a seagull's wings, and nobody knows how they hung together.

One plane shadowed a Japanese carrier 16 flours, ducking in and out of the soup. Finally a Zero closed with him and shot off his rudder. He gave up then and flew home, unable lo turn except with Calif Packing aileron control. His crippled plane Canadian New York Stocks By VICTOR EURANK NEW YORK, July generally turned thumbs down on the stock market todiv. nnd leaders dipped fractions to two or more points.

Steels tried for a rally at the start but failed to attract a sufficiently strong following and toon were in the forefront of the ro- treat, Transfers were around 350,000 shares. Among retarding factors were more depressing brand of war news, the administration's push for a much bigger tax bill and fears for dividends of many large corporations. The of mid-year reinvestment demand and a slight cooling of inflationary temperature also were viewed as restraints. Prominent stocks on the reversal included U. S.

Steel, Bethlehem, Chrysler, General Motors, American Can, Dow Chemical. DuPont and Allied Chemical. Bonds slipped at the last and major commodities backed water. Closing quotations: Alaska Juneau Al Cliem Dye American Can 64ft Am Car Am Tel Tel ney, Anaconda 25-y Atchison 40 Bendix Aviation- 305; Beth Steel Boeing Airplane Borden Gen Foods Gen Motors Goodyear Tire Gt Nor RR Pfd 21W III Central Int Harvester Int Pap Pfd Johns Manville 56-X Kennecott Lockheed Long Bell Montgmry Ward Nash Kelvinalor Nat Dairy Pr Central 9 No Am Aviation 11 North Amer Co Northern Pac Pac Amu Fish Pac Gas Elect Pac Tel Tel Packard Motor Penney Penn HR Phillips Pet 39 Radio Corp 61 Am Rayonier Iiic Rayonier Pfd Republican Steel Reynolds Metals t'l. Richfield Oil Safeway Stores Sears Roebuck Shell Union Oil Southern Pacific Standard Brands Standard Oil Cal 21 Stand Oil NJ 38 Studebakcr Corp Sunshine Mng TransAmerica 414 Union Carbide Union Oil Cal Union Pacific United Airlines ing United Aircraft Steel Warner Bros Pic west EI Mfe esy, Woolworth Closing curb prices: Alu Co Am 97 Am Cyan 34 Ark Nat Gas Assoc Gas EI Cities El Bond Sh i 'oi'd Con iecla'Mining Niag Hud Pow 'uget Sd 6s 39v, St Regis Paper United Gas Foil Investment bond closings: Bid Asked Amer For Invest 9.55 10.41 Incorp Investors 12.55 13.49 New Eng Fund 9.45 10.19 Bund Leader Denies Guilt NEW YORK, July liam Ottersbach, 50-year-old German-American bund leader Seattle, pleaded Innocent In federal court today to two Indictments alleging conspiracy to violate the selective service act and the alien registration act.

He was held in ball of $10,000 by Federal Judge Francis G. Caffey for trial July 28. Ottersbach, who was the unit leader in Seattle in 1940, was one of 29 persons named in Indictments filed In New York federal court several wecta ago. He was born in Germany and came here about 10 years ago. He was naturalized in 1038.

He attended the North Pacific Sangcr- bund, which included representatives from bund units in Spokane Portlaijd, and Seattle. At his arraignment today, Ottersbach he was unable lo cm- ploy counsel, and requested the court to assign an attorney to defend him. Forward Move Made by Japs In New Guinea (Conlhiucd from (Continued trom Page ago, arrived on a large convoy-one of a series which has been by linlf-dojcu speariieads with bringing forces for potential in- vvhlch the hosts of a modern Khan vasiou nf, Europe, were lacing eastward and south-j The exact composition of the ward against the strategic water-1 newl arrived forces and the date lines of the Don bend and the of the convoy's arrival were a Volga. military secret, but the new force One field of battle where the (was one of the largest brought to Khans once forced Russian princes Britain since the 'first arrival of to come in supplication and kiss the stirrups of their saddles, German invasion forces, by Rus. sian acknowledgment, menaced Ros- tov from positions only 20 miles to the northeast and from positions about 100 miles to the west.

United States forces northern Ireland was disclosed Jan. 26. Aboard the ships, which carried thousands of men as well as uanti- tics of equipment, was a large corps of nurses. The first announcement lhat the uric contingent of pilots from all Against a middle section of the sections of the United States had lower Don, roughly halfway twcen Rostov and Stalingrad, enemy strove to through the river JEAN A a a i i i NEW WAY TO HAVE SLIM FIGURE This lovely lady is only nnf of thousands of women throughout the nation who have discovered amazing Hollywood Brrar) Plan is the safe, pleasant way to a slender figure. You'll thoroughly enjoy your reducing menus when you i two slices of Hollywood Bread with every mpal.

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Tlie Germans declared their forces reached the outskirts of Rostov Wednesday, trying to repeat from another direction last November's swift but short-lived conquest of that city guarding the estuary of the Don. Berlin said the advance continued. The Vichy radio quoted Stockholm reports as saying tlie Germans had commenced a massive I attack" on Stalingrad, an indus- i tnal center at a lower elbow of the Volga just cast of the hi? bend in thr Don. Whether this meant thr Germans were striking i a Stalingrad's immediate defenses i was not clear, but Hint I unlikely. British Advance In arrived quoted their commander, a 40-year-old colonel, as saying: "You will hear from these fellows.

They are among the best o( the lot." they sent her out to nurse the Cats. 1 Not even her most charitable friend could call her a warship. She's no more a fighting ship than are the 15-ton flying boats she serves. But the war has produced no more valorous chapter than the stubborn fight the Cats and the tender are making against the first invasion of American soil since 1812. For Kiska, after all, is American soil.

Bleak, remote, dreary and useless as it is, Kiska is still America. The little tender lay in Dutch Harbor on June 3, when the first howled through the clouds mantling Ml- Ballyhoo's frosty crown. It was there she received her baptisim of fire, and when a zero caught a. Cat on the water and burned it up the tender's crew saw the 'first of her charges destroyed--a heart-breaking sight, to be repeated more than once in the savage days that followed. (One paragraph censored at this point.) When the Jap planes went away, they left two zeroes and a Mitsubishi shot full of the tcnder'stma- hinc gun fire and burning on Ml.

"iallyhoo's flanks. In the days that followed, the latalinas flew ceaselessly up and teriial miasmic fogs. And where he Cats went the tender followed, ugging gasoline, fresh bombs, hot meals and a few hours shelter from one foggy danger cove to another. Once in her iinchartercd waiuicr- Dgs I am toid caught a Jap on the surface. She isn't fighting ship, as was said before, hut she stopped long enough to drop four depth charges and saw 28 Accused of Sedition (Continued rrom At the Egyptian end of (he Middle East lifeline, the British commonwealth's army of i was unofficially reported' to have progressed somewhat along tlie civ tire 10-mile front west of El Alamcin.

Alexandria's outlying barricade, although the day's Carlo communique claimed an advance i In the center. I RAF bombers, dominating the continued tliclr smashing as- I faults on German Marshal Flom- i mel's armor and unflagging patrol 'of the battle area as the British troops consolidated inching of Wednesday. tor Chercp-Spiridovlch; Lieutenant General Clierep-Spiridovich; Colonel Bennett, and J. O. Francis of New York and Noblesville.

and William Dudley Pellcy. Koblcsville, Frees Dennett. Washington, D. Charles B. Hudson, alins Rev.

Frank Wood- Johnson (the same nscd by Mrs. Dilling). Omaha, El- nwr Garner and his son, James F. Garner, both of Wichita; David J. Baxter, alias the Chancellor: John Pepper, and John H.

Rand Collon and San Bernardino. Hudson de Priest. Wichita and New York; William Kullgrcn Atascadero, C. Leon dc Aryan, San Diego. Court Asher, BREAD Hl-n mre you gel Ihe roil Hollywood I no Hollywood Itrti-1 It tajto! for.you cxebiively ky Ulmof th bread Judgol "Ami rfu'di'eeil." The Italian command nn- Muncic.

Eugene Nelson Sane luary. New York; Robert Edward Erimonrison, New York and Santa Barbara, Ellis O. Jones, Ixw Angeles; Robert Noble. Los Angeles; James C. True, Washington Arlington, Edward Jamc Smyth.

New York; Oscar Brum- bnch, Washington and Luray, Va. Ralph Townscnd, San Francisco Lake Geneva, Wis, and Wasligainsjinglon: William Robcrl Lyman. Jr. nlia.s Robert Lanliam, Detroit; Don- nounccd. however, the British had aid Me Daniel, of and Otto Brcnnermann, known also as been repelled everywhere and otto Breiinemann, of Chicago counter-attacked, losing 800 prison-.

Tlie defendants have been taker ers, mostly New Zealanders and into custody in their own local! and 130 tanks destroyed ties and all will be brought on tl.e field. Rome said the fighting had assumed a character particular tenacity. Tlie Italian communique said 10 Washington for trial. Biddlc said Buy war bonus to brtns our boy gave up almost within sight of the base, and he landed at sea. A patrol boat rescued the crew.

Another plane was cruising along Cat Tractor Chrysler Coml Solvents Comwlth Southn just under the clouds when the pi- Consol Aircraft lot heard gunfire. He thought his Cont Can own gunners weapons, but were testing changed his when he looked around and saw tracers criss-crossing the two feet of space between himself and the navigator. An aerial cannon shot carried I away a wing strut, and other bill- lets slashed open the gas tanks. One man was hit in the leg. The 20 18 J.

61 ay. Curtiss Wright 6S Douglas Aircraft, 59 DuPont DC Nem lie Gen Electric their i Crown Zellerbach mind in addition to sinking two Japanese ships, as previously reported. War in C'lilrui Indecisive The land war In China had lapsed into another indecisive phase in C'hekiang and Kiangsi provinces, but a. Chungking spokesman said the enemy was massing around Kalfeug and other points on the Honan plains in north China, possibly for a westward drive against Chengclioiv. junction of cast-west and north-south railways.

Tlie RAF in India announced bombardment of Arakan coastal areas in Burma and three steamers on Burma's Kaladin and Mayo rivers Wednesday. Burma is under 1 Japanese occupation. Higby Passes PORTLAND, July cis H. Higby, business manager of the Vancouver, Columbian, died at his home here yesterday. He was born in Beloit, and came here about 30 years ago.

He had been with the Columbian about 17 years. Reinforce Garrison LISBON, July liner Carvalho Araujo sailed today with reinforcements for Portugal's garrison in the Azores. Pray Every Day--the War Bond Moth Pests A "asy, entirely cffectir? wny In protect your clothing, furs, from many destructive moth pests is lo siirinfclc your clotlin, i-los- diesis liberally i KUHACII IfUIIACH-- liuown for (U) years-- nr.U ns swift sure repellent nnj inscct- icirfc-- ocloiless-- best prelection against inotlis a you have evcrtricil la Handy Sifter fans 25c up at Druir Grocery, Swd Stores am) 1'ei Shops. PRONOUNCED If HACK pilot plunged for a cloud, eluded the three Japs on his tail and started home. Three hours later the last gas ran out through bullet holes, and they came down at sea.

Despite efforts lo plug the holes with bandages and cotton, the bullet-torn hull sank and the crew took to their rubber boats. They were rescued next day. Another plane dodged six hunting Zeroes for two hours and finally eluded them. Every time he came out of the soup he ssw Zeroes. But his gas outlasted theirs, and finally he wenl back to shadowing the Jap ships.

The time finally came when the tendf and her cats could no longer maintain their precarious location. They loaded the flying boats with the last of th egasoline, took aboard the villagers, two white men, one white woman and a dozen or so Aleuts, burned the village and pulled put. Now, reprovjsioned, refilled and ready for more, they're settled in another base, ready to. fight or move without notice. Back MacArthur's bonds again! buy WHY WORRY ABOUTTROUBLES? When most of them can be overcome quickly and permanently.

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Tower Ave. Apt. No. 8 Electric Ranges "UN-FROZEN" TO THE CIVILIAN PUBLIC FLASH By a recent Government Order, alV present slock of Electric Ranges on the dealers' floors may be sold, BUT when these are sold, there won be any more until the end of the war! It is to the advantage of the people to buy now while it is still possible! Here's the opportunity you've been wait- chance to get one of these to Ranges! G-E DON'T INVEST YOUR DOLLARS IN A RANGE JUST BECAUSE IT'S NEW! BE SURE ITS MODERN, TOO! Yes, it has all the latest conveniences you've always wanted. A General Electric Range offers modern cooking today and through the years, It's clean, fast, cool and MODELS TRICED AS LOW Oceans of Hot Water Plenty of hot water for every use always on tap with a G-K Water Heater! Dependable, low foil service.

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