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ENTERTAIN FRIENDS

G. p. Kirkland and Mr.. and Mrs.
E. M. tWmn Goddard were the
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
lott Fletcher last Wednesday eve
ming at their home on Lincoln
Street.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-13
RAY PETERMAN RETURNS
FROM WHITTIER

Ray Peterman, local contractor
who has been working at Whittier
on the construction of the Column
bia Lumber Company mill there has
returned to his home here by plane.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-13

luncheon of the Sitka Rotary Club
last week we're the Mesdames
George Morgan. Clyde Hager and
Harold A. Veatch, and Mr.. McGinty
of the FEDERAL Works Administra-
ton of Juneau. Committee reports
were heard, following which the
guests were introduced and each
spoke briefly.
New officers for the ensuing year
were installed as follows: President,
Thomas Tilson; Vice President,
DR.. Louis Scnarpenberg; Secretary
Treasurer, Rev. Arthur N. Billy;
Director. Clyde Hager.
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ENTERTAIN FRIENDS AT
INFORMAL DINNER PARTY

MIR. and Mrs. Charles Workman
and Mrs William c. Charters en-
tertaincd a few friends Informally
at dinner on Sunday evening, June
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-13
THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-JUNEAU, ALASKA

4, at TIE Charters home. Guests
included MIR. and Mrs Ernie Car
ter, Mrs. Susan Erwin, Mrs. Jack
Ogan, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hagen,
and Mr.. AL Boyd.
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PARTY MAKES TRIP
TO SITKA BAY

1t. and Mrs. j. J. Conway and
their two SOILS, Charley and Johnny,
and Mrs. William c. Charters left
their homes here on Wednesday for
g stay of several days at Sitka
Bay, on a fishing trip.
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OPA STAFF HERE ON
BUSINESS TRIP

c. N. Workman, Walter E. Walsh
and Miss Evelyn Graham, of the
office of Price Administration, were
in Sitka last week on official bust
ness.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-13
ELVIN ROTTLUFFS
PURCHASE HOME

Mr.. and Mrs. Elvin Rottluff have
purchased the jamestown Bay
property of Earl Willitt. Mr.. Rott,
huff is o local fisherman.
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\ SITKA NEWS X

included Nancy Hagen, Barbara
McGraw, Jimmy Brightman, Patty
McGraw, and Dianne Tilson.
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TRANSFERRED WILL REPORT
FOR INDUCTION SOON

Allan Casperson, who was trans
ferred to the local Selective Ser
vice Board from Ketchikan, will
report to. the Sitka Board on June
16 for induction into the armed
forces.
LOCAL BOY HOME ON LEAVE
1t. q. g. Leonard Peterson, son
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THE HOPE TO BE
COMMISSIONED soon

The Hope, new 45-foot trolling
boat built for Henry Yrjana by An
drew Hope, has now been launched.
The necessary fishing gear is now
being installed and Mr. Yrjana
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-13

lection of historic documents of
Alaskan history.
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journment of the meeting, refresh
ments were served
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-13

ROTARY SPONSORING DRIVE
FOR c. l.. ANDREWS LIBRARY
The Rotary Club of Sitka has
undertaken the task of raising
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More sitka News on Page Two
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Hitler Slated
For Morale
Talk to People
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON, July 20. UP)-Stock-
holm dispatches said Saturday that
Adolf Hitler may make a major
speech on the anniversary of the
founding of his 'SA Brownshirt Or
ganization next Thursday, presum-
ably in an attempt to brace revolt
shaken Germany for a final stand
against ccnverging Allied armies.
The report came as Russian
armies were nearing East Prussia
and Warsaw in the east, American
forces were striking toward the in
terror of France in major break
through in the west, and Allied
troops were approaching Florence
in the south.
Hitler, if he does speak also prob
ably will try to whip up more
enthusiastic response to Paul Joseph
Goebbels' mobilization campaign
designed to drain off more of Ger
many's waning manpower for the
armed forces and war factories.
Reports reaching neutral coun-
tries said that the campaign so far
had failed to capture the magma
ton of the German people. who
largely we're apathetic after nearly
five years of war.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Migratory Camp
Makes Plea
To u. s. Agencies

BRAWLEY, July 29.-BraWley
migratory camp jewellers Friday ap-
pealed to the federal government
to pay a $685. water bill owed the
city of BraWley by the Farm Sc
curity Administration and thus pre-
vent them from being evicted from
the camp Monday.
The campers held mass meeting
Friday night to plan means of pre-
venting the eviction order from 60
ing into effect BraWley city coun-
cilmen informed the VIA, now in
charge of the camp. that if the old
FSA water bill was not paid the
water service would be cut off Au-
gust /. Without water, the VIA
said. the camp cannot be kept open
for the SO families living there. The
group called on Mayor Elmer Sears
to see what he could do.
II regret that you were not given
longer notice since the city notified
the VIA of its deadline on July l.
Sears tcld the group. THE govern
ment is your landlord regardless of
which agency, the FSA or the VIA,
Continued on Page 6, Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Yankees Advance
On Guam, Tiniun

the invasion flagship cffshore.
Some of the enemy troops pene-
trated 100 yards of the beach before
they were driven back by hard
fighting marines who smashed the
attack and scattered the remaining
japanese force, Finch said.
AS the Guam invaders fought flu
riously to annihilate an estimated
1000 japanese troops trapped on
Orote peninsula, Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz's latest communicate dis
closed that the American campaign
in the MarianaS already had cost
the defenders nearly 10000 enemy
dead on Guam, Tinian and already
conquered Saipan.
In the six-Weeks old offensive,
Nimitz revealed, 27,825 enemy SOL
diers have been killed, including
81 ,O36 who were buried on Saipan,
an estimated 47OO dead on Guam,
and 2089 on Tinian.
The last Sjln.1ary OF American
casualties listed 1851 dead, 1886
wounded and 606 missing-a total
of 24,1l3-and indicated that U. S.
forces were killing japanese at a
ratio of better than seven TIC one.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
War Writers Escape Robot
And Tell of Horrors

man stopped. then shouted;
"Aw, shut up,"
BIG BUILDING GONE
We came finally through the fog
of dust upon a crazy pile of smok-
ing rafters. rubble and mortar 1t
had been a good-sized building of
several stories. Now it was burn
ing tomb.
Servicemen formed Gordon
across the road against the gath
ering spectators, nurses in white
marched in, ambulanceS arrived,
rescuers scurried over the rubble
pile People began to emerge from
Continued on Page 6, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
y A A1Mt
NEpoR1ER
Monkey Business

Monkey Business
While Friday nights softball
game was at critical point, foul
ball tipped up and landed on the
roof of the grandotand. Pitcher
Romero had to have that ball and
no other. way Patrolman
George Shuck was at bat.
Shuck listened to the Wrangle "A
minute. dropped his bat and began
to Chamber up the wire netting on
the front of the grandstand, going
hand-over- and foot
like a monkey.
The cleats on his shoes helped
unless they Wedged between the
wires. His bare hands suffered. AS
he neared the top he began to blow
and puff. The spectators cheered
when they weren't holding their
breath for fear he would fall and
flatten himself out on the ground.
Almost at the top! Victory in
sight! He couldn't get over the edge
of the roof to the ball
The officer failed as monkey
climber but succeeded as a ball
player. whacking them around daz-
zlingly for the civilian team. He
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

and through alleged communica-
tons and White House visits by
Verca Barnes. head of the CLIO
Womens division who was charged
with influencing" the recent de-
feat of Senator d. Worth Clark.
Cd, Idaho.
The report also stated that the
PAC might have engineered the
d e f e al of Representative Joe
StarneS, Cd, Alabama, Dies COM
mittee vice chairman.
Among high-ranking government
officials accused in the report are
Secretary of Labor Frances Perk-
ins; David K Niles and jonathan
Daniels, administrative assistant to
President Roosevelt; Lowell Mellett.
former administrative assistant;
Chairman Maury Maverick of the
Smaller War Plants Corporation:
Samuel Rosenman, special counsel
to the president; Price Administra-
tor Chester Bowles and Director
Elmer Davis of the Office of War
Information.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Jops Hard Hit
On n eW Guinea

ALLIED Fl E A ID @ u ART E r S,
Southwest Pacific, July 30. up
Allied aircraft sank two enemy
ships and set a third afire in the
Dutch East Indies, General Douglas
Macarthur announced Saturday in
a communique which reported only
active patrolling in northern New
Guinea where the trapped Japanese
18th Army was continuing futile eff
forts to find an escape route
through American lines. - =
radio Tokyo in a broadcast re-
corded by FEC said that 400 U. S.
carrier based planes had partici-
pated in the raid Thursday on the
Palau Islands, some 500 miles cas-,
of the Philippines. Asserting that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
j. 5. Subs Send
II More Jap
Ships TO Bottom,

WASHINGTON, July 30. tUPD =
American submarines, continuing
their devastation of Japanese supply
lines, have sunk II more enemy YES
sells, including one combatant ship.
in the Pacific, the navy announc-
ed Saturday.
This brings to 48 the number of
japanese vessels announced sunk
by American undersea craft, during
July.
The japanese vessels announced
sunk Saturday included one es-
cort vessel, five transports, 10 cargo
vessels and one medium tanker. Sc
far in the war, American submar-
ines have sunk SO enemy Warships
probably sunk another II and DAM
aged IA for total of 70, and are
also credited with Glib nome combat
ant vessels sunk, 26 probably sunk
and l0l damaged, totaling 754 YES
sells.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Allies Slowed
On Italy Line

ROME, July 30. tUP)-The Brit
ish Eighth Army drove the Ger
mans back through the Tuscan hills
TO within five miles of Florence
Saturday and steadily frightened an
assault arc on the historic cultural
center while the American siege of
Pisa begged down to temporary
stalemate.
The entire German line on the
Florence front gagged under the
weight of converging British
drive which overran half a dozen
of the central Italian city's out
posts. All the ground south of the
Arno and Pesa rivers was being
cleared and the Allies were in posi-
ton for a frontal attack on the
main German positions in the
Gothic line
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Soviets
Peril
Warsaw
Tanks, Cavalry
Reach Edge
OF Pole Capital
By Henry Shapiro

MOSCOW, July 29.-(UP)
l-Sov.,t tanks and cavalry
reached the southeastern out
skirts of Warsaw and were
storming the defenSes CT the Polish
capital Saturday after 25-mile
dash up the east bank of the Wis
lula River.
"a London Daily Express dis
patch from Stockholm quoted a
German spokesman that the Ger
man Army will make no stand east
of Warsaw
Front reports said German re-
siStance southeast of Warsaw had
evaporated as never before on the
eastern front as Marshall Konstan-
tin Krokossovsky hurled his power
full LIST White Russian Army against
the capital on a 20-mile arc curv-
ing from the east bank of the Wis
lula to the northeast.
TWO UNITS SMASH AHEAD
While one column speared through
to the southeastern outskirts, an
ether drove to within a few miles
of the Minsk MAJ railway station,
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

and an American sergeant. SECONDS
later the hum crescendoed into a
roar that enveloped everything
about us.
The Britishers already were flat
on their Stomachs in nearby door
way. The American sergeant hit the
top of the pile, and we landed on
top of him. That pile of scared hui.
man beings emitted the whole range
of human terror sounds during the
awful seconds we could hear the
death whistle of the diving bomb.
ROARING CRASH
1t crashed. The pile bounced with
the great earthquake jar of the
whole street. The explosion roared
up between the buildings and pieces
of glass fell outside the doorway
as flakes of paint and clouds of dust
fell down on us.
1t was over for us. We were alive.
AS the pile untangled, a teen-age
girl kept Whimpering, Nov every
thing will be all right
With panes of glass still falling.
we started up the street toward a
black mountain of smoke that
rolled skyward less than block
away, but we were stopped by a
cloud of dust that prevented
breathing.
Defense workers wearing goggles
and holding handkerchiefs to their
faces parsed us and fire engines
stormed up the street. People came
out of that dust hell-scared people
with mouths opened and eyes STAR
ing out of dust-coated faces. A po-
liceman asked man behind us
where the bomb hit. The hurryins
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

officials estimated would take
full year
Thuncering out into brilliant
dawn after a thunderstorm, the
Superfortress fleet sent a diver
sionary formation to pound the
Chengsien railway yard, a bottle
neck on the Peiping- Hankow line
which the Japanese were rebuild
ing.
WEATHER AIDED RAID
The weather favored the maxi
mum success of the massed Super
fortreSSes which raced in over the
targets and loosed' their great
weight of bombs from high altitude
in the first air strike of the war
at Manchuria and the first daylight
attack by the BIOS.
Significantly, keystone in the
production arm of the japanese war
machine was selected as the pri-
mary target for the Superfortresses
in their third major raid from
China.
Anshan is the key gear in the in
SNAAAAAiAAh6 oee1oiiCoC lICdNy
tries. The mills there are the sec
ond largest empire producer of pig
iron and third largest producer of
rolled steel and steel ingots. It also
Is one of the most important CEN
tiers of chemical by-products vital
to the manufacture of munitions.
including sizable percentages of
the total empire output of benzine,
toluene. phenol. and synthetic
oils.
CITY OF 100000
The city of 100000 on the main
Darien-Port Arthur railway Is i'm
the heart of an area embracing
much of Japans heavy war indus
try. 1t was we'll beyond American
bomber range until the superfort-
resses began roaming over the Co
prosperity sphere" the whole of
which now is within their reach.
A red dawn was Towering over
this base when the parade of aerial
behemoths started. Hours later they
broke radio silence to flash the
code word revealing that the bombs
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

PEARL HARBOR, July 20. CUP)
U. S. marines on Tinian surged
southwark Saturday after winning
a second airstrip and control of half
the island in four-mile advance
while American forces on Guam
smashed inland two miles from the
western coastline to strengthen
their hold on the Apra harbor naval
anchorage.
Two thousand of several thou
sand Japanese troops who attempt
ed to break through the American
northern beachhead on Guam we're
killed in a bitter pre-daWn battle
Percy Finch, representing the COM
bined Allied press, reported from
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
RommeI Wounded,
Prisoners Say

FIRST u. S. ARMY HEADsUAR-
TIERS, France, July 9.-UP)-Ger-
man prisoners said Saturday that
Nazi Field Marshal Erwin ROM
mel, commander of German forces
in France, was Wounced July II and
was unconscious for six hours.
The prisoners said he was wound
ed by filters strafing roadway
near Lisieny
A captured German captain said
Rcmmel jumped into a ditch to
avoid the planes. He was later car
ried away on a stre0cner. The Ger
man officer saio he did not know
RommeFS present condition.
Berlin reported that Rommel at
tended a staff conference at Percy
a few days ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Ace Reported
As Missing

OIL CITY, Pa. July 20. tUP)-
Lieutenant Colonel Francis Gra-
beski, the nations leading fighter
pilot, is missing in action. his family
was notified Saturday by the War
Department.
Colonel Grabeski. whose e planes
destroyed in the air surpassed that
of any other American flier, had
been fighting in the European the
alter. He also has destroyed three
planes on the ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

enemy attacks are becoming ex-
tremely fierce" the broadcast re-
ported 20 ether carrier-based planes
had raided an unspecified japanese
target to the south of Palau, and
claimed that four of the raiders
were shot down.
Ranging out over the Dutch East
Indies on patrol, allied aircraft sank
a merchant vessel and a coastal
ship on Wednesday night off Vogel
keep peninsula, northwestern Dutch
New Guinea. where a 1000-ton
freighter was set afire Thursday,
MacArthur's communique reported
Other planes also attacked enemy
shipping off Sorong and Manikwari,
major enemy-held bases in Dutch
New Guinea, he added.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
yunks and Raj Batter Oil
Refineries in Two Raids

The Leuna plant at Merseblt c
is the largest synthetic oil factor es
still producing Several previous IT.
tacks cut its capacity. but IT. sill
is an important source of synthetic
petroleum. ammonia and other nj
trates used in explosives.
Sixty-tWo planes were reported
missing from last nights operations.
the air ministry announced. II was
the largest loss sustained by the
Raj since March 30. when %
planes went down over Nurnberg.
Germany. in the heaviest loss ever
suffered by an allied air force.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Sacramento Sees
Ban Removal

SACRAMENTO July 30. CUP)-
Removal of navy "out of bounds
order against personnel visiting Sac
ramento was forecast Saturday after
the army had lifted similar res
trictions following passage by the
city council of an emergency or
dnance imposing a 10 pm. curfew
for boys and girls II and under.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Hadn't Counted
On This One

HOLLYWOOD. July 29.-UP)-
Bus driver Roy Fox, %. who kept
trying to get officers to write him
tickets for faulty equipment SO the
company would fix it, was in Jail
Saturday and 1T was the equipment
that put him there-he said.
Il had told officers how poor my
brakes were and asked them when
they were going to write me a
ticket for bad headlights, and they
just laughed" he told municipal
Judge Eugene P. Day.
They pulled out their books. how
ever, when they saw him rolling
his bus along at IS miles an hour.
We'll, gee whiz," he said. MY
speedometer was busted, too
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30


were under scrutiny Saturday by
the house special committee on
unAmerican activities
Committee chairman Martin Dies,
Cd, Texas, late Frdiday made pub
aic a preliminary report charging
70 federal employees with being I'm
frequent communication" with CLIO
political action committee officials
during recent campaigns. The re-
port included a statement by the
committees CHI ief investigator,
Robert E. STRIPPING, who said:
From evidence gathered l am of
the opinion that the CLIO political
action committee is in reality not
SO much of a labor political COM
mittee as 1t is the political arm OF
the new deal administration.
while 1t is true the top officials
of the PAC are identified with Ia
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

Dor, yet the people who are actual
ly running the organization seem
ito have no background with labor,
but are fresh out of the govern
ment."
Among those listed in this cate
CORY are C. B. Baldwin, former
farm security administrator. now
assistant PAC chairman. and C. A..
McPeak, former employe of the War
Production Board: Raymond S. Nc
Keough, former Illinois congress-
man; Charlotte Carr. former War
Manpower Commission employe and
George S. Mitchell, former assist
ant FSA enthusiastically now
with the political action committee.
The report implicated Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt through alleged tele-
phone calls to her from Baldwin
and PAC chairman Sidney Hillman,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

Of the robot bomb had ex-
ploded a few feet closer, United
Press War Correspondents Collie
Small and j. Edward Murray
would be figuring in today's news
as subjects for headline reading,
1.-Two American Reporters Killed
by Robot" and not as authors OF
the following dispatch, the most
vivid account of a brush with
death to come out of the Nazi
random terror loose over London
and southern EnglandD
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

western Germany, Saturday, alter
a might raid by Raj bombers in
similar strength on the Port OF
Hamburg and the industrial city
OF Stuttgart.
1t was the second consecutive cay
of air assault for Merseburg and
the fourth raid in a week on Stutt-
CART.
In the daylight raid, Eighth Air
Force heavies also struck at Bre-
men, German seacoast town, 1t was
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
By COLLIE SMALL
and
7 EDWARD MURRAY

United Press War Correspondents
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHERN
ENGLAND, July 29-When we
first heard the dread hum of the
robot bomb we were waiting for a
bus with a half-dozen Britishers
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Japs' Biggest Steel
Center CrippIed
*Re+urnins FIiers Declare Damage
VIII Take Year for Repairs;
Railway Yards in China Hammered
BIZ WALTER RUMBLE

T. S. B-29 BASE WESTERN CHINA, July 29.-(UP)
"A big force of American Superfortresse smashed by day
light Saturday at the great Japanese steel of An
shan 55 miles southwest of Mukden in Manchura and left
blotched with blackened ruins the rebuilding of which
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Enemy
Faces
Pocket
N ais Turn TO
Sea in New
Escape Effort

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS, AEF, July 29.-(UP)
American armor defeated
the Germans in a big tank
battle in western Normandy
Saturday and resumed the power
ful drive which had captured Govt
ances and carried to the sea, trap
ping thousands of nazi troops in a
pocket to the north.
The first major German counter
action against the First Army Of
fensive tanning out through Nor
mandy was crushed decisively in an
hour-long battle of Z. S. Sher-
mans and German Tigers and Pan
theirs some IL miles south of st. 10
near the east bank of the Wire
River in the vicinity of Tessy-Sur-
Wire.
GATHER SPEED
Other American forces sped
down the highway below Cnutances,
rolling up gain of nearly eight
miles in the first few hours and
approaching the Brethal Road
junction.
United Press correspondent Henry
T. Gorrell reported from the front
that U. S. armor, in its first big
tank engagement since the Sicilian
campaign. broke up concentra-
Continued on Page 6, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Shadow Line
To Berlin
Moves Ahead
By UNITED PRESS

By UNITED PRESS
The shortest distance to Ber-
lin from advanced allied lines
Saturday:
RuSSia-34O miles.
Italy-600 miles.
France-623 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

announced. Mixed weather permit
ted some of the formations to bomb
usually Through cloud breaks,
while others bombed with the aid
OF instruments.
u. S. Second Tactical Air Force
Liberators also attacked German
airdromes at Juvincourt and Laon-
CouVon northeast of Paris, but
cloud conditions prevented observa-
tion of results.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
Dies Accuses High Officials
Of Collision With Go Unit

WASIINTON, July 29.-(UP)-Charges of collision
between high ranking government officials and the Con-
gress of Industrial organizations in promoting the cand
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

LONDON, July 29.-(UP)-A fleet of more than | 100
American heavy bombers attacked the big synthetic re-
finery at Merseburg 25 miles of Leipzig in south
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 1l2 minimum Saturday, IA;
am. Saturday 80, humidity 80 noon Saturday. los.
humidity Is; pm. Friday 103 humidity 20
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

l. A. HAY-U. S. No. 1 s3t- $780, u. S. No. 2 ieafy
l. v. S30.5O- 81 so; No. 5000 $780, Sept. flax
s2.96N.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-30

Total Cash. Checks and Drafts Sent
Through The Two n Centre Banksl