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margarine factories. and fish cam
neries. Other plants manufacture
electric bulbs, superphosphate
fertilizers, shoes, galoshes, and, au-
tomobile tires, artificial silk and
other textiles, cash registers,
eathernware and porcelain. The
entrance of K. F. into various
manufacturing fields has often
led to considerable general price
reductions. Electric bulb prices,
for example. which had previously
been fixed by an international
monopoly, We're brought down by
over one-third Some time ago
X. F. requested the Swedish Gov
eminent to try to reach agree
ments with countries producing
electric lamp bulbs on large
scale to abolish import duties on
bulbs. Monopolistic price fixing
would be practically impossible, it
was pointed out. if free markets
could thus be established.
K. F. also owns and operates
certain retail trade enterprises of
it's own. including one of Stock
holms leading department stores,
P U. B. 1.-THE initials of it's found
err, Paul U. Bergstrom). The an
nual turnover in the retail trade
controlled directly by x. F. is at
present about 6O,OOO,OOO kroncr,
(S15 ,OOO,OOO)
For 1914, K. F. has reported
net surplus of 100000 kronor
(about 50 2S0.0OO), compared with
6.225,0O kronor (S1. 5560OO) the
year before. About 10000 people
are at present employed at X. F.,
i n c lud ding it's manufacturing
plants. The total number of en-
ployees of the Swedish consumer
cooperatives is thus about $4,000.
Extensive Educational Activities
Many Channels of Information
X F. is not only a business or
ganization. but also an instrument
for education, information. and
promotion. 1t represents the Swe-
dish cooperative movement in its
relations with, for example, other
big organizations and the Gov
eminent, and it handles the move
ment's international relations. The
so-called Organization Section is
in charge of the secretariat, the
record department, the publish
ing house, the correspondence
school and study circles, the in
struction center Var Gard" at |
Saltsjobaden, and finally the CO.
operative publications.
Cooperative publicity, directed
by the secretariat. is carried on, |
in particular, by means of exhibit
tions, lectures. pamphlets. and
pictures. In number of
cooperatives there exist what
m g h be called cooperative
groups. an intermediate grade be-
tween the study circles and the
publicity committees T ne c /
groups play an important role.
their studies by the aid
of documents and manuals placed I
at their disposal by X. F.
The publishing house brings out
not only cooperative books or bro
chures. but also other works de-
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The Swedish consumer cooper
alive movement is based on some
700 local societies generally call
ed "konsum"D, which own and op-
crate about $500 stores. More
than 500 lew stores were opened
during 1914, the largest increase
during the war Approximately
some 100000 households are MEM
bers. which means that the COOP
erative movement is now support.
ed by 100000 people, or at least
35 per cent of the whole popu,a-
ton. The size of the local socie-
ties varies considerably The larg-
est is the stockholm Konsum,
with more than 400 stores and a
membership of 100000 while the
smallest, that of Greningen in the
northern province of farmland,
has only 80 members.
In 1914 the total turnover OF
the cooperative societies was not
far from 9OO.OOO,OOO kronor
1925 ,OOO,OOO), compared with
786,!OO,0O0 kronor (about $780,
OOP .OO) the year before; the 1889
n ure was 5s7,7O,0OO kronor
about 7OOO.OOO). The pres
ent turnover represents about Is
per cent of the total of the Swc-
dish retail trade. The cooperative
stores sell for cash only
The more important local socie-
ties are also engaged in produc-
ton, in the first place of bread
and meat. Foremost in this re-
spect is, naturally, the stock
holm konsum,' which operates
not only It's own bakery and pack
ing house, but also meat and fish
canneries and soft drinks plant
The value of the total output at
these establishments last year was
100000 kronor (S11 ,25O,OOO)
In many districts the local socie-
ties have combined in starting
production enterprises The total
number of employees of the local
cooperatives exceeds $4,000.
X. r. - Wholesale Society ana
Production Center of the Co.
operatives
All the local societies belong TO
a central organization, known as
Kooperativa Forbundet or X. r.
THE Cooperative Union), which
is owned and controlled by them,
X. F. is the wholesale society OF
the cooperative movement with a
turnover of 312,000.00O kronor
ISIS. 200. 000) in 1914. 1t has sew
eral production plants of its own,
so that many of the goods which |
X. F. delivers to the local socie-
ties are manufactured in its own
factories. Their total production
galue in 1914 was 100000 kro- !
nor 1859. 900, O0O), an increase of
some 25,OOO,OOO kronor (S6.250,-
000) during the year. Not all of
this went to the local coopera-
tives: part of it was sold to the /
Government as well as to private /
firms. The local societies are not /
obliged to buy from the X. F.
Some of X. F's most important
industrial establishments are in
the food-processing field, such as
flour mills, crispbread bakeries. /
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10 in Ballard, both doing splendid
work
At the last Grand Lodge con-
vention in Spokane a year ago,
Mrs. Kaspara Gorud tValkyrien)
was elected President, and Mrs.
Gunvor Bjerkeseth, tBreidablikD
Secretary The vice president,
Mrs Ingrid Carson. is located in
San Francisco; Judge, Mrs. Clyde
Christoferson, Everett, Wash:
Treasurer, Mrs Georgena John
son, Tacoma, Wash; Ceremonies,
Mrs Bertha Trudeau. Butte. Mon
tana; Trustees: Mrs Signe Gag
net Astoria, Ore. Mrs. Clara
Johnson. Oakland, Calf. and Mrs.
Bergie Drivstuen. Silvana. Wash.
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THE DAUGHTERS OF NORWAY
ON THE PACIFIC COAST

The Grand Lodge of Daughters
of Norway on the Pacific Coast
was founded Feb. 10, 1908, but
the real beginning of Daughters
of Norway lodge work goes back
to Oct. 10, 1905, when Valkyrien
Lodge in Seattle was founded. At
ter that came Embla in Tacoma
in 1907. These two lodges con-
stituted the foundation for the
Grand Lodge in 1908.
The object of this organization
is to unite into a sisterhood, Wom-
en- of Norwegian birth or descent;
to strive to preserve or maintain
interest in the perpetuation of the
Norwegian language here, though
only in such manner as may be in
accordance with the loyalty we
owe the United States; to work
for the social, moral and spiritual
development of it's membership
and render pecuniary aid and 9th
err assistance during illness.
The present membership of The
Daughters of Norway, P. c., is
close to two thousand, distributed
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uc piCoSllL IItiliUclolil VI liz
Daughters of Norway, P. c., is
close to two thousand, distributed
dent; George Jacobsen, vice presi
dent; John Schau, secretary, and
Eilert Moe, treasurer.
The Seattle Ski Club held their
yearly meeting in Norway Hall
May 18th and elected DR. E. Smith,
president; Hedge Dahl, vice presi-
dent; trustees, Kolbein Koltvet,
DIR. F. w. Bannich. H. H. Jacob
sen, Richard Abrams, Henry Lar
sen and Howard Dalsbo. The club
now has 272 members.
1t Com. Isak Lystad died in the
Naval Hospital, Seattle. recently
He will be remembered as captain
of the North Star which served
as supply ship for Admiral Rich
ard Byrd on his expedition to the
South Pole
Lieut. Per Hoest of the Nor
Wegian Army visited Seattle last
week He's we'll known zoologist
and has made several trips to the
polar regions Recently he has
worked for the Office of War In
formation on 1end-lease" from
the Norwegian Information Blu
reau. At present he's busy filming
Life Amongst NorwegianA meri-
cans and has obtained some very
interesting shots from the work of
in the halibut fleet.
Private Olav Ulland, well-knoWn
skier and one-time holder of the
worlds record in jumping 1915
feet arrived in Seattle May 18th
on 3O-day furlough. Inland has
been stationed in western Alaska
for 16 months and admitted that
the sunshine in Seattle was a well
come change from the snow, rain
and fog in westernmost Alaska.
INLAND was in excellent form"
Lots of skiing in the winter and
some fishing in the summer have
helped keep his body and mind in
the best possible condition.
Miss Thelma Olsen, Spar in the
Coast Guard, visited her parents, |
Mr.. and Mrs A. Olsen, sos w |
59th Seattle, on furlough from
Washington, d, c. She is now on
Ter way to duty in Alaska.
The trawler Summit" of Sc
ittle. Capt. Louis A Larsen. was
,ound wrecked and sunk in Russell |
Channel, west of Vancouver Is
and, in the morning of May 23rd,
also the body of one of the crew
Capt. Larsen and two other men,
,ers of the crew have not yet been |
'ound. Indians near Tofino report |
hat they heard a loud explosion |
Turing the night, but otherwise
is known as to what hap
,ened to the Summit. Capt I
larsen has been fishing with his
'wn boat out of Seattle for the i
asst 35 years. The survivors are
lis widow, a son, Carl NJ. in the
J. S. N, and a daughter. Mrs
Christine Frodesen of Seattle.
Norway Day at Victory Square
n Seattle will be celebrated June i
'3rd. The plans call for a suitable I
program at the Square at noon,
md also a program and dance at
Norway Hall in the evening.
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|
in the parade this year that the
stage did not have room for them
all. Some of the kids had to line
up in front of the stage All in
all great success.
The Seattle City Committee of
American Relief for Norway have
elected Mrs. S. Krogstad as presi-
signed to spread knowledge of &C.
onomics in general.
The courses arranged by the
correspondence school, which COW
err various economic subjects. for
eign languages, legislation, ac-
counting, and technical matters.
can be taken by individuals or by
study groups in all parts of the
country. They have had many
hundred thousand participants.
The study circles are organized
chiefly by associations for adult
education, by junior clubs, and by
temperance organizations. Each
year nearly $500 of these circles
pursue their work on the basis of
material furnished by the cooper
alive correspondence courses.
The study of commercial tech
nique and economics of coopera-
ton is centralized at K. F's in
struction school, Var Gard" (Our
House,, at Saltsjobaden, near
Stockholm. This school conducts,
during the entire year, courses
for members of cooperative coun-
ellis and boards, managers. super
intendents of merchandise, etc.
The teachers at the instruction
center travel from time to time to
the interior of the country and
organize several types of courses
and of store meetings" for the
purpose of improving the profess
sional training and stimulating
the interest of the personnel.
The cooperative publications
are "Kooperatoren," a high-class
magazine in which the cooperative
ideas and principles are discussed,
and the more popular wi which
is intended for members of CO.
operative societies and their fam
lilies. xvi" has a circulation of
100000 copies, the largest of any
publication in Sweden. In proper
ton to the population, it is the
most widely distributed coopera-
tive organ in the world.
Swedish Cooperatives Oppose Re-
straints in Foreign Trade
In his address before the 1914
annual convention of the Swedish
cooperative societies, Albin Jo-
hanson, head of the Cooperative
Union OK. F., said he regretted
that in order to secure political
power various governments sup
port 'monopolistic capitalism,
which he called IAN extremely
dangerous tendency" He strong
ly urged the cooperative organic
atoms throughout the world 20
try to inform public opinion about
this and to try to change the
spirit of international economic
relations. In an address on the
same occasion Anders Orne, Swe-
denis Postmaster General. who
has been a cooperative leader for
MANY years. said that members of
the cooperative societies believe
that only unrestricted trade and
a direct influence exercised by the
themselves on interna-
tional economy can further free
dom and peace At the unveiling
of a granite monument at Salts
iobaden later in the year, COM
the centennial of the
Rochdale pioneers. ii was empha-
sized that the Swedish cooperative
is ready to participate
in the gigantic task of interna
tional reconstruction after the
war and particularly to extend
and strengthen the collaboration
of the cooperative organizations
IL, tho Scandinavian, countries
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n orwegians in
Seattle and
4 seW|1ere

Seattle's 18th of May celebra-
ton at the Masonic Temple was
attended by more than 1000 Nor
wegians, and hundreds more could
not get into the hall. The highlight
of the evening was Prof. August
Werner's brilliant speech in Nor
wegian. The audience was so
thrilled by the speech that Mr..
Werner had to take a curtain call
So many children took part
in the parade this year that the
stage did not have room for them
all. Some of the kids had to line
up in front of the stage All in
all a great success.
Il \
The Seattle City Committee of
American Relief for Norway have
elected Mrs. S. Krogstad as presi-
Evening star., 1945-12-04
By DORIS FLEESON.

President and Mrs. Truman, who
have put their own White House
entertaining at close to the irreduc-
ible minimum, are being seen at So
cial affairs in Washington more
often than any other presidential
pair Of recent memory. They have
attended a variety of functions in
the homes of friends or members Of
the oficial family. They have dined
In private suites at the Raleigh, the
Mayflower and the Statler Hotels,
and the President, at least. has lent
his genial presence to that blue rib
bon haunt of Washington business
and political notables, the Burning
Tree Golf Club.
These parties are not described
in the social columns and are sup
posed to be very, very quiet, indeed
echoless. But this Is Washington,
where If you don't want people to
know what you are doing, the only
alternative is not to do it. When
the President gets around, the word
gets around also, maybe soon, may
be late, but always.
For one thing, the presidential
family cannot escape the guardian
ship Of the Secret Service. Great
pains are taken to keep the serv-
ice anonymous, reporters very often
being pulled into pictures so that
the faces of the guards will not be-
come too obvious and well known.
But Washingtonians get q sixth
sense about these matters and there
is always some bystander to notice
that something has been added to
this or that soiree.
Dinner for the Boss.
For example, the more noticing at
one hotel Sunday evening could
have seen President and Mrs. Tru-
man 60 to and from the suite
engaged by Comdr. Clark Clifford,
the Presidents assistant naval aide.
The Clifiords were dining in honor
Of the boss. There have been other
similar affairs. This hotel report
sdly has set aside one suite for the
entertainment of the President.
Then there is that expert and ex-
perienced corps Of Winchells-the
buffers, chefs and maids who man
the service of supply for Washing
ton parties, great and small. They
enjoy glimpse Of the President
and Mrs. Truman, too-and they
have had many.
The late President Roosevelt
naturally could not get around free
ly and entertaining was done at
1900 Pennsylvania avenue or Hyde
Park. The Hoovers, who, like Mr..
Roosevelt, had . large private in
come, preferred to center their social
life in the White House.
Watch the Budget.
The Trumans, who have no private
income to fall back on, admit can
didly they will have to watch the
budget or they will leave the White
House in debt. They do not feel the
times call for elaborate of1icial en-
tertaining and they certainly don't
intend to 60 in hook to deliver it.
But President and Mrs. Truman
Evening star., 1945-12-04

home, and urged the District Com
missioners to ask for bids to cor
rect "deplorable conditions" In the
present receiving home. Mrs. Leslie
B. Wright. former president, intro
duced the resolution.
E. L. Springer, president, an
nounced that the associations Com.
mittee on Fire and Police Protec-
ton, headed by Joseph A. Kauff-
man, is to investigate conditions al
Engine Company No. 81, at Con-
necticut avenue and Fessender
Evening star., 1945-12-04
Trumons frequently Are Guests
At Dinner to the Boss Parties

like to get away from the formal
atmosphere of the White House into
more folksy cline. The politicos
have taken away his carefree jour-
neys, but nobody has yet offered him
a good reason why he can't dine
out with friends in small companies
OF personal acquaintances.
Deprived of travel, he is also SOL
acing himself with a new plaything
the presidential yacht Williams
burg, a converted gunboat. Not
too fancy, it is comfortable and
pleasant for the small parties Mr..
Truman likes best. The sea has the
same lure for the inland President
that draws Iowa farm boys into the
Navy. The yachting, the fishing
the salt air-these are proving es-
cape and glamour for the desk tied
President Truman.
Evening star., 1945-12-04
ADVERTISENIENT.
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Constituted Folks!

For years DR.. Edwards relieved
patients bothered by constipation
With his famous Dr.. Edwards Olive
Tablets-now sold by all drugstores.
Olive Tablets are mid, gentle but oh
80 thorough Olive Tablets act on
BOTH upper and lower bowels to pro-
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No gripping. Just complete sdtisfdo.on.
Caution: use - directed. III, 3Of. CO..
Evening star., 1945-12-04
Receiving Home Plans
Endorsed by Association

The Forest Hills Citizens Asso-
citation last night reaffirmed sup
port of the Board of Public Welfare
and its plans for. a new receiving
Evening star., 1945-12-04

lstreet NV, to determine the serv-
iceability OF equipment.
The committee Endorsed the pro-
posed publication by the Fedora
ton of Citizens.
Evening star., 1945-01-10
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ton is 100000. s5oo.oos 10 SAY Of p0rpSis pSicn
mas been actually paid in, and that there
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presiden.: Corcoran Thom, H. L. Rust,
l. Paul Alvey, secretary of the Security
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stated in the above certificate are true
to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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and sworn to before me, notary public,
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Evening star., 1945-01-10
ALLIES TIGHTEN 81

from a few yards to IL miles
Berle, 3 miles west of Wiltz and
u southeast of Bastogne, was cap
tured.
The Canadian 1st Army in Hol-
land enlivened a dormant sector by
advancing a mile near Wyler,
miles southeast of Nijmegen. Vio-
lent barrages blasted Germans from
their icy trenches between the Meuse
and Waal Rivers. Wyler is 7 miles
west of Kleve, northern terminal of
the Siegfried Line, and 31a miles be-
low the Rhine. The Canadians used
fame Throwing tanks.
Snow Still Failing.
Snow still was falling intermit-
tently in the bulge. This again de-
MED tactical air support and in
creased chances of a successful
withdrawal if that was Field Mar
shall Won Runstedt's aim. The cold
was so severe that wounded men
froze unless they were picked up
Immediately. Where tanks could
move, they slithered through ice
fields. 1t was the infantry which
did most of the work. A haze hung
over the battlefield, cutting visibil-
ity.
German counterattacks against
Gen. Patton decreased, substanti-
ating reports yesterday that Won
Runstedt had shifted armor to the
north to parry the threat to the
Houffalize-St. With road. Two Nazi
counterattackS before dawn at Long.
champs, miles northeast of Bas.
togne, were pulverized with heavy
losses. Gen. Patton resumed his
advance after reversals yesterday in
which the villages of Flamierge. Or
Evening star., 1945-01-10

the staging poiht for the German
drive on Strasbourg from the south
The Germans screened their with
drawal from the western tip of the
Belgian bulge with extensive mine
fields, covered by snowfall.
A British staff officer said Won
Rundstedt had moved an armored
division from near Bastogne to the
La Roche sector, adding:
"The Germans are shifting from
sector to sector as Field Marshal Won
Kluge did in the days of Normandy
when the Allies were hitting him a
series of body blows at point after
point"
Evening star., 1945-01-10

reux and Tillet were lost. Ameri-
cans surrounded in Flamierge fought
their way back to main forces west
of Bastogne.
1t. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
United States 7th Army was holding
the Germans to a standstill on both
sides of Bitche. The strongest of
these was north of the Haguenau
Forest, where the Nazis were stopped
dead with II tanks destroyed.
French Repulse Nazis.
The Germans with artillery sup
pert attempted to raid Lutterback,
a northwestern suburb of Mulhouse.
The French repulsed them with
serious losses.
Texas troops fighting with the
French Army advanced to within
3 miles west oi Colmar, capturing
Hill GIG south of Kaysersberg
Colmar, capital of Upper Alsace, is
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Push Button Plones
Used by Nuzi FLYERS
BY the Associated Press.

by Tue ASSOclated Press.
Los ANGELES, Jan. 10.-German
pilots now are flying veritable
sh-button' planes against the
Allies.
CD. j. NJ Hayward said in an in
terview yesterday the Nazis have
developed the Focke-Wulf fighter SO
that touch on the right button
may raise or lower landing gear, ad-
just wing flap or switch electrical
equipment.
Some buttons control explosive
bolts said the chief of the Air
Technical Service Commands tech
meal data laboratory at Wright
Field, Dayton, Ohio.
Press button and a bolt ex-
plodes, jettisoning pilot canopy
on one plane or throwing off bomb
racks from another"
Evening star., 1945-01-10

While the War Department in
Washington declined to comment on
Col. Silverster's present status, it
was learned that he hao been un-
dergoing thorough physical check
Evening star., 1945-01-10
Western Front
Continued From First Page.

lock on the Rhine-Rhone Canal
The French, however, were pushed
from Gerstheim, 13 miles below
Strasbourg ana were also fighting
near Sand, IA miles southwest OF
the city.
The British I'd Army captured
Forrleres, Hodister and reWon Bure
at the western end of the bulge
where a staff officer of Field Mar
shal Bernard L. Montgomery de-
clared:
THE Germans are pulling back
quite a bit from the tip of the sa-
lient in what appears to be the
start of measured, step-by step
withdrawal. 1t is too early, how
ever, to say that the enemy is pull
ing out of the whole salient"
1t was notable that the Berlin
radio had started preparing its home
front for such a retreat. British
advances ranged up to mile in
snow drifts or feet deep.
SD Division Gains.
The American 62d Airborne Di-
vision fought into Vielsalm, miles
west of ST. With, major German
base in the bulge. Other infantry
fought down the last 1900 yards
toward La Roche.
On the tough south side of the
salient the 101st Airborne Divi-
sion reaching point only 4 miles
south of Houffalize. That road
junction is almost in the center of
the bulge.
Gen. Patton's advances ranged