Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1937 — Page 1

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19—NUMBER 14

mings Tops Unt for

Sitver Anniversary i of Classic. :

W RECORDS & EXPECTED

Meyer Ready; Six Cars Listed hy Joe Thorne, 'N. Y. Sportsman.

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ith the | deadline only hours away,

a 32 cars to-|

“had been entered in the

er Anniversary 500-mile

epstakes to be aun at, In-

apolis Motor Rpeedw ay:

onday, May 31. Bins the field were Wild Bill | mines, Home-town favorite and | winner; Lou Mever, three-time ner and ‘Cummines’ tea mmate 1037 Classic; Rex Mavs. twice ifving’ ace-selter. and Wilbur aw. dapper Indiangpolis vetaran. rerace interest is“at its hiZhes since rar days. Speedway ofwith prospects of -ancrowd, :

re Hntri ies Likely

“ent: ‘ies are BR | by | mailing ir letters | berore the deadhne. drivers have been nominated. ome of the cars. but several exenced pilot ditkerinzg mmirzas’

foe ¢ontracis. Teécord- shattering lap | week, in which he was clocked = ficially ‘at: 125.348 miles. or one whirl around the oval, started talk of another new K for the’ long grind. Eddie Rickenbacker. Speed- | president. - has predicted that

Meyer's 1936 mark of 109.069 tw ‘ere on hand'when Paul W an hour «will: go by the board jrade

year - by several miles an hour. | tile Kelly Petillo, the colorful | who won in 1935, has named § Roberts, husky Californian, to: his championship car, reports |

sist that the former truck driver { Nazis assembled at the Lustgarten |

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expe cted |

‘to Mat Day demonsirations

an;

$ In New York sponsors of JFPnstration fleftwing

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| return to gompetition in a SAE 1

role-. oo DeVore Name. Returns |

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Billy DeVore, son of the late rac- |

star, -Earl DeVore, stris sank, is one of the new- |

ners to 500-mile race competition | the Red De- ‘the

ttracting attention. drive one of the-two cars ered by Billy Winn, dirt track

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Meyer, Cummings and Chet Miller nprise the strong team of Mike ¥le, Chicago sportsman. « Ted’ n. young Pacific Coast star “who second: to Meyer last year,

special job. oY

foe Thotne, Fouthll New tsman, has one of the largest ries. lis string Aists no less than cars, inciuding the radically de-

ned rear-motored creation engi-

red by. Lee Oldfield. ex- racing - Thorne expects to drive ond” his cars himself. = Bob Swanson. the! midget } scheduled to try

lost when | j ace world peace,

Be en pilot Harry Hartz's | day.

York £18 sc cheduled

cham- | his hand know

Dipl oma, Mill | Charged to 5 In Missouri

ii 1 tf hited Préiss i ST. LOUIS. Mav 1. Mostimony by a-bank clerk that he practiced obstretics with a fraudulent Arkansas medical license. was before a Federal Court Jury in the mail fraud * {rial of George M. Lindsay of Kansas City and four codefendants.

| ‘The clerk. William F. Dews { Woodriver, Ill, who said he bia now a chiropractor. told the Court that he paid Lindsay $00 for-a diploma and went to Arkansas where he opened an office. ; He admitted that he delivered a dozen babies and performed several surgical operations under the guise of a fully * accredited physician. on lcross-examination he added thdt 'T was scared to’death all - the time I was practicing” The jury has heard testimony to trafficking in diplonas and licenses in a 16- state ‘area.

[To ‘Big Names

CELEBRATION OF

‘MAY DAY QUIET

Left Wing Workers’ Pia In N.Y. Attracts Than Expected.

mass nweetines hizh officials

Par dresses

the world todav. The celefrations were orderly. Althoiigh officials had taken every precaution against any eventualitios,

ots already are at the | 10 disorders had been reported. : ts of the

‘Bv early afternoon repoy Tdemonstrations in the Unite lacked the tension which : previous instances has ma rday,

cd ‘States in rked the

had . predictedworkers would p [in a parade through’ midtg hattan. Far less than tha

200.000

t number | Vhite, pa- | Following American |

-harshal. led off. fthim were thiee girls with flags in their left hands. . Adolf Hitler sounded again his | ery of “colonies for Germany” in al May Day address to thousands of |

in Berlin. He took the occasion to | i make remarks interpreted as an attack on the Catholic Church. » Fascist states standing ready to | start “a new world slaughter” menWar Commissar Voroshilov told units of Army of Soviet Russia, at | demonstiation in the Red | Square of Moscow. The: May Day bus strike in Lon¢don was 100 per cent effective by midafternoon and threatened -to

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spread to the provinces and involve!

145.000 workers.

dn Chie: ago, tMree squad cars will cruise through the loop during the.

Three hundred police were detailed for a parade of 5000 workthis afternoon.

BOB BURNS Says:

Mav - of actors that

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a. lot

‘a big car for the first time at half their lives lcokin’ through the

dianapelis. | Wilbur Shaw: is : ined car which bse the field unti

to drive the ig

to it en-

ntered trouble in the last face. | some real criti-

vers. 46 and the oldest ver inActive competition, has reed to drive one of the Thorne ~Tonv Gulotta. veteran’ De- ~ < (Turn to Tage 7)

R oor UGH SEAS. FOR F.D. R. 'S SHIP

: (Editorial. Page 10) wu Larited icss ! ‘GALVESTON. . Tex: dent Roosevelt, on a tarpon hing vacation in the’ Gulf of: xXico in the vicinity of Galveston | d Aransas Pass, Tex. -was in for | “little ‘rough seas,” the U. S| ther Bureau warned today. Northeast storm warnings+ for pall craft and “slightly larger ps.” were hoisted by the Weather | reati from Houston le, Pa’

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‘big. city have to say about have the big city hut when I want,

papers to see what Bm. ILE papers

nice to for you,

cism and want'ta | git the real lowdown ton my work, Ii go for ifthe country

newspapers.

I'll never forget the! time a biz. New York show played in

| Van Buren in' a

| a wn and he cornered the writer m|

to Cart a-

(Con right. 1937)

ts in. the Park School Mothers’ Association garden tour: : orrow will walk down stone steps leading to an artificial

| e at the osizly K. Lilly Sr. apts, Jove Nest, Sunset Lane,

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throughout | |

some |

the dem- !

articipate | wn Mdn- |

their posts

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1STRIKE FAI

TOKEEPST FROM STU

On roy to Work.

‘BING CROSBY REPORTS <Q Long Island Plier Sind

9000 Idle in Troubles At Philadelphia.

(Photos, Page 2)

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May 1.—The movie's big name stars went to work today despite the stiike of 2500 members of three . craft unions at the studios. The Actors’ Guild left it to the individual to decide if he or she would pass the picket lines and most of them apparently decided to continue work. . Bing Crosby was an carly arrival. at Paramount. He passed the 20 } pickets, without | trouble.

By United Press Truckloads of employees were rushed past thin lines of pickets today as a strike of three unions of | motion picture technicians in Hollywood threatened to cripple the movie industry. The pickets made no attempt to molest’ those entering the heavily guarded studios. 7 In New York the Long DAily Press suspended #S a result of a of the Newspaper Guild. | Nearly 8000 persons were thrown it of work in -Philadelphia strikes at six radio plants: and an reraft factory. -— | [Negotiations at Detroit between the Packard Motor Csr Co. and | nited Automobile = Workers of America were delayed because of (Turn to Page ? wel.

LARGE CROWD WAITS TOPAY COUNTY TAXES

Monday 1s. Deke Deddiine Spring Rayments.

for

{ A crowd which county officials said was the largest in history today formed in line to pay taxes at the Marion County Court House: Shortly before moon, it was esti- ' mated that between 600 and 700 per- | sons were waiting "in two lines to | pay personal, real estate and llinquent taxes. The deadline for | payment, to escape the 8 per cent | penalty, is Monday. Tax officials estimated last Thursday that spring installment payments have totaled more than] 1 $3,000.000, as compared with about | $2.500,000 for the corresponding pericd a year ago. - Tax collectors were until. 4

to remain at o'clock this afternoon. ORDER STREET REP PAIRS The Works Board has ordered the | improvement. of Fast St. South St. Henry B. Steeg. city eni gireer, said he would inspect the street, to determine how far south | the improvement is necessary.

in Moviedom Pass Through Picket Lines =

Island | publication | strike of members |

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SATURDAY, MAY

1, 1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter Ind.

at Postoffice, Indianapolis,

PRICE THREE CENTS

Special Jurist Will Hear Baker and Cancilla Case; 4 Named to Welfare > Body

‘Al Reeniy: v8 S. S. Miller

and Two Women to Fill Vacancies.

(Photos, Page Three)

A new Marion County Board. appointed vesterday by Cir- | cuit Judge Earl R. Cox, is scheduled Ito hold its first meeting at 2 p. m. | Tuesday, members announced to-

day. The ! Feeney. | tor; Sidney "Mrs. late Elliott Hooton, former Marion | county Prosecutor, and Mrs. Ma- | riah Bradley Ferger, 5151: N. Penn- | sylvania St. Mr. Feeney, a former Notre Dame football star, also served as administrator- of the Indianapolis milk ' marketing area and has been active lin Democratic politics many years. Mr. Miller formerly was Superior "Court Judge and is active in Republican politics. He served over{Turn 10 Page Three)

new members are Al former State Safety DirecS.. Miller, attorney;

DUKE. WALLIS MAP HONEYMOON

Couple.to Spend Summer in

Castle Near Italian Frontier.

bLuE wilted Press & ST. WOLFGANG. Austria, --The Duke of. Windsor pleted honevmoon | with Mrs.

has com- |

Wallis Simpson, 1 was | J rnen today. | A spokesman said. thal after their marriage in France the Duke and i his American-born Duchess would | 120 to Wasserleonburg. near the | Italian and Jugoslavian frontiers, to | (spend the summer at a castle &hicih ! the Duke visited during his stay at Enzesfeld. The Duke plans to take the first train for Paris after he is advised on Monday that the London divorce court has granted a final déevee to Mrs. Simpson. From Paris he “will go to the .Chateau de Cande, at Monts, where Mrs. Simpson is staying. The Duke intends to remain at Monts until the. marriage. 1t was understood the date had not been decided. It was accepted as certain that the wedding would be held late in May or early in June, most likely during the week beginning May 24. From the castle the Duka and Mrs. Simpson—who will then be the Duchess of Windsor—intend to do some touring, and particularly “to isit the Dalmatian coast along the adriage

5 FOOTBALL PLAYERS INIURED IN CRASH

Lu wilted Piese | BLAIRSVILLE. Pa.. May 1.—Five | members of the Carnegie Tech foot- ; ball squad, eu route to State Col- | lege for a spring exhibition. were linjured today in an automobile col!lision on the William Penn Highway two miles west of here. Four occupants of the other auto- | mobile were injiired slightly, Three | Tech plavers were taken to a | Greensburg hospital in serious conI dition,

Welfare |

Amelia Hooton, widow of the |

Mav 1. |

arrangements |

1 State High C Court Grants

| Spencer Two P Writs,

Legal steps to have a

judge named for I A. Baker and his associate, Peter A. Gancilla, were started today by | Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer Procedure for naming a’ | judge was made possible by two | permanent writs of prohibition granted unanimously late yesterday by the Indiana Supreme Court against Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox and Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker. The Supremz Court decisions up- | held the new change of. judge law, enacted March 6. It gives the | prosecutor authority to certify an affidavit to the Skpreme Court Clerk for appointment of special judges in criminal cases. Prosecutor Spencer asked the! High Court for the writs soon after” | Joel - Baker and Cancilla were indicted on charges of malicious! mayhem and assault and battery with intent to murder Wayne Coy, | former state welfare director.

new

Bars Judge's Action

. One’ writ prevents Judge Baker frony taking any action in the cases pending’ in his- court against Joel | Baker apd Cancilla. The other writ. also asked by Mr. Spencer, prevents Judge Cox from | broceeding on an injunction suit | brought by Cancilla against County | | Clerk Glenn B. Ralston. | cCancilla, in his suit. sovght te Te- | Strain Mr. | Mr. Spencer's affidavit for a change of judge to the Supreme Court under the new law. He charged the act | was unconstitutional. Judge Baker, in his return to the | 'writ a month ago, challenged the: | constitutionality of the change of | (judge law and asked that the, writ re dismissed. | | Commenting on Judge {contention that the law ‘tain and therefore void, the Suipreme Court's decision stated that | (Turn to Page Three)

INVALID DIES AFTER ‘CLOTHING IGNITES

Robert Tomlinson, Retired Lumberman, Is Victim.

Eaters

Robert Tomlinson, 611 E. 34th St, died in City Hospital today from burns received when his clothing ignited in his home last night. He was 56. He was found by his wife, with | his clothing burned off when she | | returned home about 8 p. m, Po- | lice who investigated said ‘they learned he had been suffering from asthma and was a partial invalid. He is believed to have ‘ignited a cidentally a napkin! tied arou Ais | neck as he attempted to light his

pipe. Mr.

Tomlinson had retired many

He had lived in Indianapolis for 20 | years. For two terms he was state representative from Shelby County.

versity. He is survived by his wife, Hazel, and a brother. Ralph Tomlinson. Fairland, his former home. Funeral services have not been arranged.

15 Youths, One Girl of 1 4, Plan Mass Parachute Leaps for ‘Graduation’.

By United Press SMITHFIELD. O.. May 1.—Paul | Glinzak. president, chief instructor | | and main leaper of the Smithfield | | Parachute Club, said today ‘“everyi thing's all set” for 13 youthful club

members to make a mass chute jump | tomorrow at Cincinnati. ~Glinzak said C. L. Noelcke. manager of the Triangle Parachute Co. | at Cincinndti, had assured him to- | day by long distance telephone that | { “all arrangements have been made.” { Told that Mr. Noelcke had said in

mass jump. Mre Glinzak said, | guess he's just a little scared somebody might get hurt. “We have decided,

SUNSET LANE JONQUILS

though,

: toward the house, situated high

to!

jump in two ‘bunches’ instead of all | at once.” Aviation authorities believed it | wold be .the first nonexhibition | mass parachute jump in this pa by civilians. The club's vice president, William

| Whittaker, of Rayland, O., will be | 1ead off man, said Glinzak, who is 120 and a coal rainer. Behind Whit- | taker will jump his 14-year-old | brother, Kenneth. B One of two other 14-year-old members is a school girl, Dorothy

“No, I| Cincinnati that there would be FoI Machu of Bergholtz, O.. Glinzak,

I|like any good captain, will leave the ‘ship last, in the second wave. Glinzak said he was not perturbed by ‘bans from managers of both

A Sonquil-} bordered walk on the Nicholas M. Noyes’ estate leads

on Sunset Lane. The hillside Is

- landscaped with a 8 flowering rock garden laid out on the gronnd,

{

Lunken Field and Mount Healthy | airport at Cincinnati. - “We weren't | going to jump over their ground anyhow. We're going to use the Triangle Company's. field.” he said. A dictum by Sheriff's deputies held no fear either for Glinzak.

ByuU nited I'ress CINCINNATL 0O.. May 1.—The 15 youthful members of the parachute club who are planning a mass jump

may find it difficult to choose a place to land. The managements of Lunken and | Mt. Healthy airports said they | would allow no mass jumping—particularly by over their premises.

FORMAL ENGLISH PLOT

Mrs. G. H. Alexander Clowes, Gelden Hill, tions to her gardener in the formal. hs and Hloomiing par

living room

special the trials of Joel .

Ralston from certifying |

is uncer- |

vears ago from the: lumber business. |

He was a graduate of Butler Uni- |

from an airplane hére tomorrow |

PUSHPLAN FOR EVACUATION OF LOYAL B

‘Britain and To Remove 30,000 in First Contingent.

Doubt Is Felt That All of 300,000 in Danger Can Be Saved. {By United Press

PARIS, May 1,—Great Britain ard France speeded preparations |

BILBAO

Franc Prepare

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DON'T

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With Service to Muncie.

| today for the immediate evacuation |

"of 30,000. refugees from Bilbao. An estimated 300,000 noncom‘batants are in Bilbao, in' imminent | danger of death .from artillery or

ers wanted to remove as many of them as possible. Thirty thousand was set as the figure for contingent, though it

quickly enough to remove all. Both ignored Spanish threats that removal of batants from the besieged Basque | captial would be considered ° ‘an un- ! friendly act.’

French Shiny While plans ara/not complete,

appeared that the first contingent would be removed in French mer-

Rebel

Be Used

the first | was doubted | that enough ships could ‘be ohtained |

noncom-

Indiana Railroad Union Leader Warned That:

IGNORE REBEL THREATS pyosecution Will Follow Interference

ELDER TO ASK "WRIT OF, EVICTION R

eceiver to Request Judge Wilson to order "Men From Ander SOR Plant; "Says Muncie Cars Wil ] Start Monday.

Shihan on the Indianapolis: Muncie division of the In. _areial bombardment, and the pow- diana Railroad today were threatened. with prosecution by | United States postal authorities if they “interfere with mail «

service’ on the line. Subsequently,

Bowrnan Elder, ‘announced that traction service on the division, since March 19 because of the strike,

receiver of the railroad, suspended would be resumed

‘Monday. Mr. Elder said he would ask Superior Judge Herbert Wilson for permission to file a petition in Circuit Court at

| Anderson to evict strikers from the railroad's i

there.

power house

A foymal warning was served on Robert Armstrong, -vice

‘chant ships under the protection of remand of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electrie’

British warships. The ships will be loaded with women. children and old men, was decided. Much concern was expressed in | British quarters over reports that Gen. Francisco Franco, the Sonn: | ish Rebel commander-in-chief, had | {ordered that Bilbao be -“razed,” if | l.pecessary to. break the stubborn | ‘Basque defense. No Discrimination

the same time, French .and

At,

British authorities decided that no i} in :| refugees who will be i

| discriminati n could be selecting th | taken out of the danger area. This cauged speculation as J hether oy'not the French and Brit--| ish Governments did not intend to | | remove the 2400 Rebel hostages held in prisons and ships in Bilbao. Gen. ‘Franco refused, in a communication to the British Government, to promise that his air force and Navy would respect foreign ships in Spanish waters for the express purpose of evacuating the refugees. 2 It was after.receipt of this communication that commanders of British warships were instructed to give “full protection” to any for-

shown

{ine three-mile limit.

LORD HAS SPOKEN,’ 3 LEALOT WILL EAT

b3-Day ost 15. Is Bolen 1)

| Mountaineer.

May 1.

| fused food “on: the Lord's orders.”

| sent 10 miles down ifito the valley |

| for beef to make the beef tea.

‘WEATHER 1 TO REMAIN AST IS, PREDICTION,

LOCAL "TEMPERATURES | 66 3 67 8 66 9 67

yn... 60 10 a.m, Wm... 61 Alam Mm... 6 312 {Noany . a... 62 1 p.m.

The weather this week-end will | remdin approximately like it is, with

parachute | unsettled and pouty skies, and not | Grin, Bear It .14 minors— | much change in temperature, the! In Indpls

| Weather Bureau predicted today.:

gives final instrucEnglish plot adjoining the outdoor nts outline the flagstone walks,

eign ship on the high seas-—outside |

squirrel

dark-haired | | ins wife of the man who re- |

INTERSTATE TAX POWER UPHELD

| |

¢# Railway and Motor Bus Employees, by J. A. Moran, chief Te clerk of Rgilw ay Mail

1ere.

aw union official denied that the strikers were “interfering with the j deiety of mail.” “Mail has been delivered between on and Muncie by trucks

|'St tate Supreme Cou Rules | aiid we are not interfering with it,” he

Against Exemptions;

Sonar) Suen

All. Indiana Cc ei must

pay I derived from .fhe sale of \go0ds in| intersta d foreign

ruled today. The decision was returned in- a! suit by the J. D. ‘Adarhs Manufacturing Co.» Indianapolis,| against State officials. The Court ruled that manufacturers must. make payments on business back to 1933, .when the law was passed: at the rate of one-fourth of 1 per cent. Tax officials indicated that the State Treasury will profit by several million dollars. Henry M. Cochrane, Indiana Manufacturers Association secretary, which sponsored the case,- said association {directors would study. the ruling next week | and decide whether to appeal to the United States Supreme: Court. Judge Treanor Dissents The ruling also called for payment | of 1 per cent tax on thd interest from tax-exempt municipal securi- | | ties.. The prevailing | written by Judge Michael, Fansler. | Judge Walter E. Treanor dissented In part. i The manufatturers, by weronimant with the State Gross Income Tax | ! Department, have made. no pay-,

| | | i

1e caid. "Our attorney in hr

{ ington contacted postal authorities

| there and was informed that no

gross incopde tax on Tevenus

opinion was | !

| ments on interstate business pend- |

{ing outcome of the case. but they | have kept records of such business. |

order had’ been issued for restorai tion of mail service on the Indiag na Railroad.”

Hearing i Held

Robert Cowdrill, Indianapolis di- | rector of tlie Labor Relations Board,

COMMEICE, | said‘ restoration of service op the the Indiana Supreme Court has] railroad

would not affect the Regional Board's plan to hold a hear1 ing Monday on the Amalgamated Association’s complaint against the railroad. | Hearing on the complaint is to be held at 10 a. m. Monday. Because of constrfiction work at the Federal Building, Mr. Cowdrill said the hearing probably would be held in the State House or in the Court House. Deputy Sheriffs or State Police may be called ‘to handle crowds. ’ The union's complaint charged that the railroad receiver violated

the collective bargaining section of

the Labgr Relations Act. Letter Is Quoted 4

Mr. Moran's lefter to Mr. Arm- , strong read: “You are hereby notified that interfere with the movement (Turn to Page Three)

CLEAR CORONATION BROADCAST F( FORECAST.

Li Science Scrrice

WASHINGTON.

to of .

May 1. — Geod

The Supreme Court held that the | (f21S- Atlantic radio tydnsmission for

aross income tax law is a tax on all | | the revenue Indiana citizens © and | corporaticns receive regardless of (Turn to Page Three)

TIMES FEATURES ON. INSIDE PAGES

JO ANSON ee ¢ Merry -Go- Rd 10! fovies | y Mrs. Ferguson 9 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Music: J. .i,... 15 Obituaries Pegler | Pyle of Radibl-....... 15 Scherrer Serial ‘Story . 1 Short Story

Aulos | Books " .

State Deaths . Wiggam

! Jane Jordan...

| Institution expert on

{the coronation on May 12 is foreseen by Dr. A. G..McNish, Carnegie the earth's magnetism. But he predicts mag[netic storms and consequently bad | radio transmission between Europes land the United States zbout May

124, when the Duke of Windscr and : Mrs. | married.

Simpson are expected to bs

DRUG EXECUTIVE INDICTED

«10 By United Press

ST. JOSEPH. Mo. May l.—A special grand jury today returned 42 indictments against William F. Walpole, a drug’ company- executive, and charged that he “gutted” the

| Morris Plan Bank here by selling ‘it 3500 fraudulent notes for

“hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

KANSAS GOES WET By United Press TOPEKA, Kas, .May 1—The longest drought—56 years to the day—ended in Kansas at 6 a. m. when beer of 3.2 per cent alcoholic content became legal merchandise.

AND FLOWER LINED TERRACE

—Times Photos.

In contrast lo the natural woodlands on ‘the Frederic M. Ayres (estate, Sunset Lane is th€ terrace in view from the picture window of the home. Bright patch s of color bloom against a rock edge

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