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.EW ALL DAY and we flew all night. We our ears stuck out and our eyes wouldn’t en. We flew Jroten, the sunset and among the ars. We flew AE y uld have shut off the ona thousand miles
ut of abi, to Tampico and we tlanta.” We flew to and we flew to New 'e flew out of Aurora hushan. We flew three | three sets of pilots,
fongues hi nging out.
| We flew past volcanoes, and over fish in the sea. We topped Mexico City and wiped off the
ouston, and we were . or 1 point over Biloxi at + midnight. We cracked the dawn with our silver wings, and at Daytona Beach they never even saw us. | We flew all day and |we flew all night. Time stopped meaning anything, and countries didn’t either. ‘We flew in, and we flew out again. Distance got all and is Brownsville to be yesterday? around us, and we flew |shadow| chased us In ‘its when we couldn’t see our muscles hurt and we flew
is afternoon, or was that We flew with| blankets th our coats off. Our inbow, and we roared on ngtips. We flew till our
you never saw a prett ier ity We went outside ine of volcanoes, because the air was smoother
: M VIN HUNTER is absolutely sure that the prt Museum, 1150 N. Meridian St., owns the
-. first automobile made in Indianapolis, the one Charles
Black turned out in 1894.
If ‘you didn't muff the big idea back of yesterday's piece, you’ll recall that in the fall of 1893—at .any rate, after Mr. Hunter] returned from the Chicago Worlds Fair—a Ger-man-made Benz automobile appeared on the streets of Indianapolis. It belonged to Sam Pierson, a cigar man; but Mr. Black was the first’ one to drive it. Mr. Hunter went along on that trip and lives to tell the tale. Well, after that| first drive, Mr. Black sort of sensed the end orse and buggy, says Mr. Hunter.. It struck y as kind of strange because body could re out how a man who had spent his whole life aking ‘buggies should all of a sudden want to ake buggies without horses. Most ople didn't ' pay any attention to him at the time. | I know we s didn’t. The tiing was too absurd to get excited ht For one thing, it didn’t seem possible that rmal person would want “ figure out sometter than horses. :
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own. Mr. Hunter, you'll recall, was an employee Mr, Black's carriage factory at| the time. t Mr. Black's first car was more or less along the linge of the Benz automobile,’ says Mr. Hunter. It | weighed ‘somewhere ‘around 800 pounds and had a To e sure, some old-timers still insist that Mr. Black's could do 18 miles, but that’s a little too optimistic, s Mr. Hunter. | ) | ik the Benz, the Black car was also a one cylind-
ashingto = NEW YORK, April 4.—Organized labor has had | ‘no stronger friend in public life than Mayor La-! . Guardia of New York. When he|was in| Congress ‘he sponsored the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which pro-. * hibits (use of court injunctions in labor disputes. . : : Now his position as Mayor re-! quires him to consider the in-. terests of the public which: properly take precedence overs those of any one group. Thus Mayor LaGuardia found himself in a strange role when,: he was pitted against union of-: ficials who were threatening to tie up two of New York's subway systems. A strike vote was taken and union officials | were empowered to call the strike in; their discretion. LaGuardia warned the unions that no labor grievance was involved and they would be violating" their agreement if they struck. » Recently the City of New York arranged to take! over from private management the Interborough and the rooklyn-Manhattan Trahsit Systems—the J. R. T. and the B. M. T. The 27,000 employees are | unionized in the C. I. Os Transport Workers Union. They have a contract with the I. R. T. which runs: for more than a year. It provides for a closed shop. But it |also binds the union not to cause any disruption of service. { :
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‘Mayor LaGuardia has taken the city next. !month, the closed-shop provision o] the union con-' ‘tract should cease to operate.|: He holds that city: employees, under civil service, | cannot be compelled ‘to join a union or to pay dues.| There 'is the crux of / The unions were fighting for con- |
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:Y HILLS, Cal, Wednesday. —How can 1 Sait or you the picture of yesterday? I [told you
‘then that Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn Douglas called for ‘me at : the ai
:15 a. m. at my son’s apartment, we drove to rt and, with Mr. Paul Mantz as pilot, climbed -into a little four-seater plane and were off over the California -mduntains on our way to the San Joaquin Valley. We could see the snow on the tops of the mountains merged in the green hills, which are very green just now because of the abundance of rain. Then the rich land of the valley lay beneath us, and our half hour in the air landed us in Bakersfield with its hundreds of oil wells. What a rich country! The most | marvelous land where alfalfa can ‘be ut six or seven times a year and almost anything grow when you have water. In addition to all
th Ptere is oil from which many people have made
e were met at Bakersfield by M. L. E. Hewes Jr., the Regional Direcior of the Farm’ Security Admin- . and several of his staff. I was anxious to i te olplete a picture a as possinle of the conditions
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Somehow, | though, the old bus ran.
insured, they may lose interest in the union and
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4. evising the labor act is growing in Congress.
By Ernie Pyle
plane got. in our way. It made the pilot good and mad. We lunched for an hour at Mexico City, and got eggs when we ordered chicken, because we thought hey knew English. | We set down in a territic cross-wind at Tampico, and the pilot bought That Girl and me a Coca Cola. Friends met us at Brownsville, and it feit hectic and panicky and not right to be back in the United States again. |The immigration man took up our pretty passports, and said they had to go to Washington to be stamped “No Good in Europe.” And I bought some Bull Durham. We flew out of Brownsville on Eastern Air. I personaily know every pilot on that division except one, nd that one was flying our ship. They didn’t let us ut of the plane at Corpus; and it was deep dark when we flew right over the home of our editor friend and set her down at Houston. He never knew we wert there. o n 2
uprising an Old Friend
This side. of Beaumont a gas well was burning its blowoft| gas, and it so lighted up the clouds that for a minute I thought the plane was afire. The lights of New| Orleans were vast, and so was the black darkness of the wide Mississippi, and I never did get New Orleans right in my mind locking down on it. The | moon came out cold and hazy over Pass Christian, and we soared terrifically high over Biloxi. Over Mobile 1 picked out the big bridge and then when I woke up we were coming into Atlanta. og } make conversation, I said to the man at the desk, “Is: Larry Pabst in town or out on a trip?” And a porter spoke up and said, “He’s right here at the field, over in his office, and I'll get him.” He is division manager. | Imagine our surprise finding him there working at 2 o'clock in. the morning.- And imagine his surprise, too; he [thought we were in Honduras. Yes, we flew all day and flew all night. We came down, and we went up, as you open and shut a door. The mators—you could just barely hear them now. That must have been the coast of Florida down there, but how |could it be? I couldn't have found the Miami Xirport if my life depended on it.
| By Anton Scherrer
er. The machine was steered by a small handle on the wheel. The rear wheels had ordinary wagon brakes picked up in the carriage shop. The brakes were operated by hand. There was no reverse. You couldn’t back up. Nor was there any sign of a crank.
The transmission of power to the wheels was not unlike that of a belt-driven lathe and the shift was made by switching from a large to a small pulley by means of a belt finger. The ignition system was kept going with a Kerosene torch and it worked fine as long as the wind behaved. The radiator looked like a rolled- -up blanket and lay back of the driver’s seat— right out in the open. The car had two big carriage lamps and, believe it or not,’ a horn. Mr. Black thought of everything. : ” ” 2
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You could tell the two cars apart, however] says Mr. Hunter. The Benz car had wire wheels whereas those of Mr. Black's car were wooden. To equip the Indianapolis car with wire wheels would have cost
a fortune; Mr. Black's car cost a plenty to ‘build as it was, says Mr. Hunter. Gosh, I. haven't: told you the most important thing: The front wheels of both cars| were just about half the diameter of the rear wheels. | Most a azing, however, was the fact that practically everything connected with Mr. Black's car was ade right here in Indianapolis. All the patterns and castings, for instance. They had to be because Mr. Black was one of the first in America, if not the very first, to get an automobile to run successfully. Mr. unter, for instance, is absolutely certain that Charley lack, his old boss, was the pioneer builder of: autoobiles this side of Europe. Tune in tomorrow if you want more of Mr, Hunter’s story., Chances are that tomorrow I'll get around to telling you about the time in 1894 when the Chicago. police got after Mr. Black for running his autoobile on Wabash Ave. Melvin Hunter was in on at, too. | |
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tinuation |of the closed shop. When: subway -emioyees go| under civil service, with permanent tenure top paying dues. Hence union officials insist on a closed shap. The city was compelled tions. While union officials prepared to set up district strike headquarters in halls and meeting places around the city, and made arrangements with and cafeterias to feed strikers and pickets, defense fri vere were ‘made on the other side.
Extra guards were placed around the powerhouses. Police orders were issued to put into effect, the moent the] strike should -occur, Emergency Plan No. 2 which provides for the guarding of public buildings and | other structures vital to the city’s needs. Employers would have had to make special arrangements to transport their workers, or curtail perations. The city’s” life would have been hit in ountless ways immediately the subways shut down. | u 7 ”
Strike Finally Averted
All that ‘because the city and the union couldn't agree over a closed-shop provision. No questions of vages or’ hours were involved. In fact the employees ill receive additional benefits by coming under the ity’s management because they will ‘acquire peranent civil-service status. This | is the worst time organized labor could ossibly have selected. for a showdown at the expense f public | convenience and necessity. Sentiment for In everal states, legislation unpalatable to labor has ecently been enacted. A subway strike paralyzing e City of New York would not ‘have advanced Iabor’s case in the public. mind. The strike has finally been averted, by agreeent between Mayor LaGuardia and John L. Lewis, but in the meantime much public support has likely Reen alienated from labor's side.
By Eleanor Roosevelt | |
nae which “migratory workers are living and so visited first some squatter camps and some privately owned camps. Squatters pay no rent.and may be moved at any time. Private camps are large pieces of land leased by an individual, who then re-leases it into lots about big enough to hold a tent and a car. Some members of three families with whom I talked in |the- first private camp, had been driven out of a squatters camp. They ali came from Oklahoma and before chat might have come from a New England village. ere were young women with their children and women who looked old before their time. But it seemed to me that there was a universal effort to make life as decent as possible under Aappallingly difficult circumstances. I think the best example I can give you is that in a narrow strip beside one of the tents, I spied a small flower garden which was|evidently tended with
By Raymond Clapper *™
STATE MAKING | 'tL00D MAPS’
Charts, River Counties to Get
to take elaborate precau-
A Painter, But
(First of a Series)
By Douglas Gilbert
Times Special Writer
time.
room antic—is a tale that hangs on him like fruit, and will until the tales fall,
overripe, from a motheaten fur collar. His stage career is astonishing, because it was unwanted. For two centuries Drews and Barrymores, here and in England, hate stood and delivered. “. . . a multitude of lines That, unreeled from hearts apart with glorious Deeds, gave tongue to reddened words.” They in turn accepted sword and buskin from Elizabethan strollers, They were well bestowed. Jack, the scion, has maintained ‘this tradition. It must have been his destiny, for it was thrust upon him. He had no liking for the theater, is an actor by necessity. Today he would rather romp than rant. . “I' was never stagestruck,” he says. “I wanted io be an artist. I am in the theater first because it is a family tradition, and because I failed at everything else. T'here is hope, and at least some money, for a bad actor. An indifferent painter can only starve.” The frankness is characteristic. Throughout his 37 vears on stage and screen Jack Barrymore has
Data for Future Protection.
When the next flood of large proportions comes. if it doesn’t come too soon, Indiana officials may be able to look on a topographical map of river border counties .and say how’ far up in Farmer Brown's lane the water will rise.
information for Farmer Brown but i¢ will help a good deal in flood refugee work. In several river border counties now, parties are making such maps, described by Gordon Fix, assistant state geologist, as the most accurate that can be made. All the elevations, roads, houses and other man-built objects are mapped. Thus, if a. crest of 52 feet is predicted on the Ohio River, it can be figured easily what area the water will cover. The work is being done with State and Federal funds. Indiana is far
‘behind neighboring states in the
matter of topographical mapping, since Ohio is nearly completely mapped, and Illinois and Kentucky are much more nearly so than this state. The information also will be of
Highway Commission. All the data that now is collected by costly surveying parties in laying out a new road can be learned from the maps. Also, all preliminary information necessary for laying out a new railroad can ‘be taken from the maps. The maps are now used by the R. O. T. C. in military studies, and can be bought from the State. However, at the present rate of progress, it may be 25 or even 30 years before the state is completely mapped.
INTENSITY IN DRAMA PORTERVILLE, Cal, April = (U. P.).—Frank Toothaker, ‘male lead in the Junior College dramatic com-
loving care. Even the children playing about it had committed no vandalism on this one little effort to! bring beauty into drab surroundings. | You pay $5 a menth for your lot in this camp! ecause You get an electric light in your tent. With- | ut it you pay only $3. There are two outside toilets | for the use of the 50 cr more families. There are some hydrants from which youl may draw water. | Space will not permit me to tell you more, today, 4 50 I shall leave the rest until thmontow,
pany; has demonstrated that dra{matic emotion can be elevated to high intensity. While “emoting” in a play, he was called upon to beat his knees with his handcuffed hands, which he did. It was only
{when blood was found coursing
down his leg some time afterward that he discovered he had gashed himself,
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He Wanted to Be
He Was an Adios
EW men become a legend in their lifeIt may be John Barrymore's chief distinction. Everything Ire has done —heroic histrionics, beau geste or bed-
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unpacked his heart to press and public. : John was born Feb. 15, 1882, in Philadelphia. His name is Blythe. His father, born in Agra, India, of English parents, was Herbert Blythe, who, entering the. theater, changed his name to Maurice Barrymore for its euphony. John’s mother was Georgie Drew, sister of John Drew. His grandmother was Louisa Lane, who, God wot, played the name part
. in King John when 11,
» » 2 OHN, as a youth, renounced this heritage, deeming it more
“fun to scribble cartoons of his
teachers, and for reason upon reason getting tossed out of school after school. Georgetown would have none of him. “One night a bunch of us went to Harvey's old oyster house,” he relates, “and we imbibed. We imbibed quite a lot. When I got back to the dormitory I was giving a swell imitation of a man who had imbibed too much. “Next day, Father Richard, who
was then head of the school, sent
for me. ‘My boy,” he said, 1 suppose you know you are going straight to perdition?’ ‘No, I answered, ‘but I think I am go-
ing straight to New York." I did, I was a little ‘too vintage’ for Georgetown.”
Young Jack’s scholastic aberra-
tions were natural sequences of an unruly youth. In memoranda for his memoirs he tells, virtually as a clinical confession, of how as a boy he filched money from the purses of his family to buy (somehow | it seems in character), a rosary for a woman who had sugared his adolescence. Afler the Rittenhouse expulsion Jack came on to New York to pursue art. He never quite caught up, but there were sone mteresting mile posts. His father sent him to London to study. But Jack only modeled the barmaids and his father cabled him, 6 to come home or starve in England. Jack chose to starve in New York. Back, he entered as pupil in the Art Students League—ifor one day. But he did study with George Bridgman, a good draftsman and teacher, for some time. It was while he was with Bridgman that he dréw the now famous poster of E. H| Sothern in “If I Were King” and | used as a three-sheet to ballyhoo the play. “I have no embarrassment, ” says
Jack, “in saying how good this poster was. * Bridgman did most’ of it,”
But Jack got the $5. Dan Froh-
~ produced
Copyright Bobbs-Merrill.
Georgie Drew Barrymore and her children, Eth-" el, Lionel and John, are shown at the left in a photograph refrom the Joh Henry James Collection, New York Public Library. >
‘As an- artist; NG John ‘Barrymore got $5 for the picture at the right, reproduced by courtesy of Daniel Frohman; below, one of Barrymore’s early macabre drawings.
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man, who produced the show, paid for it. 2 = »
TN New York’s cigaret-card art
circles of the late 90s Jack fit= ted perfectly. He met up with an impecunious artist named Rip ‘Anthony and modeled for him.’
ce he was Custer’s Last Stand,
but he is proudest of his conception of a Roman matron at the tomb of her son. It emerged from Anthony’s eased a gorgeous pastel of broken yolk, The Anthonian influence abetted Jack's clowning, added bells to his cap. An interlude in their association “survives. With Rip nd a newspaperman beosting,
| Jack climbed the Dewey arch and wrested from the figure of Vic-
tory its sword, while the swing doors from Madison Square to Kid McCoys at 39th St. and Broadway flapped in wild anticipation. i Through his newspaper connections Jack, who at least could 'sketch features with reasonable conformity, got a job with the Morning Telegraph. It lasted 20 minute€s, or long enough for him to complete one sketch. He had better luck with the New York Jour-
_ nal.
‘Having an imagination that ran toward. gorillas, Jack illustrated
.. Brisbane’s editorials for a while °
! and was then
“the murder of
promoted. to deco= rate the metered, sentimental cliches of Ella {Wheeler Wilcox. As a sideline, Jack painted; horrendcus things which, he sa were inspired by an early exams. ination of Dore’s illustrations to JDante’s “Inferno.” His canvases were labeled Tree: and “Jealousy,” and “Despair.” Mrs. Andrew Carnegie (has an early Barrymore—or should have. Jack called it “The Hangman,” and it portrays the executioner, gallows, and vultures |hovering over a strung-up corpse. Andy bought it for $10. ‘ * | 2 =» T was as an illustrating reudirier that Jack slipped. The tasty scandal of 1902 ‘was he society-scented writer, Paul Leicester Ford, author of “Janice Meredith,” by his brother, Malcolm, who thereafter turned his pistol against his own heart Jack was assigned to do the illustrations and turned out something that looked about as much likg, the Fords as his own profile resembles Boris “Karloff’s. He submitted it [to risbane who promptly advised tha e spear, not the crayon, was his forte. And Jack went - -aw y from the Jour-' na With an ass t from his distin: guished family, the errant Bar« rymore joined] McKee Rankin’'s Chicago company where, at Cleve land's theater, he first trod ths. boards. in an | ill fitting costume as Max in Sufderman’s “Magda,” with Nance O'Neil. After the opening Jack waited up all night in|a warm saloon for the verdict. [It was dreadful. Critic Amy Leslie wrote: “The part of Max was essayed by a young actor who calls himself arrymore. He walked ‘about the stage as if he'd been all dressed up and forgotten.” Worse was [to come—‘Leah, the Forsaken.” His friends out front guffawed at his one line and Jack fled to New York with $50 he had borrowed from Ethel.
Next: The dntic in other days.
THE STORY OF DEMOCRACY
By Hendrik Willem van Loon
(ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR)
This will not only be interesting |.
great dollar value to the State
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO DEAS shape the destiny of man. Circumstances of a geographic or economic nature play’ a very important part in making the average citizen what he is. Ideas also present him with the ideal of what he wants to be. This ideal of “what he wants to
be” is the dominating factor. Hence the only really worthwhile histories which deal with the underlying social ideals which have actually made our world what it is.
The curious part of this arrangement and the one which makes the history of the human race so tremendously fascinating—is this: One never. can foretell “where the ‘lightning may strike . and that these ideals which shape the destiny of man may originate in' the most unexpected places.
An Indian palace will give us a prince who for thousands of years will persuade his followers to devote themselves exclusively to silent meditations. A. povertystricken village in the Arabian desert will contribute a ‘camel-, driver whose fiery dreams. of world domination will create a spiritual and _ worldly empire’ reaching from the Pyrenees to the frontiers of China. The son of an obscure carpenter in the barren land of Galilee wili be able to make the Roman conquerors listen to His message of peace and good will, ” ” ” N distant China, a flute-playing sage is able, thousands of years after his death, to shape the mentality of millions of humble peasants. In nearby Switzerland, a Genevan watchmaker will have a son who between acting as a flunky and composing comic operas will find time to write a bock which makes a dozen thrones topple over as if they were so many houses of cards.
Jean Jacques Rousseau is hardly a name to most people of the
year 1940. Yet all of us are what we are and live in the sort of world in which we happen to live because this strange Swiss genius —a hopeless mixture of personal
. dishonesty and literary integrity
—wrote these curious words:
“Man by nature is good.”
-Since few people ever knew less about their fellow-citizens than old Rousseau (with the possible exceptjon of that other disastrous prophet, the late Karl Marx) one would hardly have expected that a statement coming from 3 such a
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The men and women who began the battle for human enfranchisement under this slogan were as wisaltish a group as the world has ever seen.
est
source would have been taken very seriously.
His book appeared at a moment when the whole world was saturated with material comforts ant a, when (as will always happen under such circumstances) the pdople who ruled the world. were looking for an opportunity to escape from their own boredom and sense of futility. ” ” 2
N Prance, the best brains set to work to try and evolve a poli-
tical scheme which would allow
the average citizen to preserve his original goodness. They did not want his natural virtues tc be cofrupted into vices by that artificial civilization which in the eyes of
Jean Jacques Rousseau had been
the cause of man’s lamentable fall from grace. In order to hasten this process of a return to nature the bright= renchmen now set to work to carry the sum total of accumulated knowledge unto all of the people. They tried to do this
by providing the masses with an’
encyclopedia — a handbook of learning which should be based upon reason plone; It should do away with all the absurd and illogical fairy stories which had been handed down from generation to generation so people might remain contented to bear the yoke of their political, social and | intellectual enslavement. : - 2 ” HE men, and women who durling ‘the | latter half of the 18th
_ century began the batgle for hu- ¢
fan enfranchisement under the slogan of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” were as unselfish a group of truly inspired leaders as ‘the world has ever seen. Only
jerror they committed—and a fatal
one it proved to be—was their ‘absolute belief in’ their own doc-
itrine: that man, by nature, was predestined to be good. - i i They had not learned what every ward-boss knows today i (the knowledge which gives him ‘his power) that a nation—or a istreet—is composed of all sorts ‘and manner of people: some good, some bad, and others indifferent. {All are apt to be swayed by their ‘émotions rather than their intel‘lect. | | No sooner had the first blow for ‘human liberty been struck by
|{those who meant well by their fellow-men than a dreadful coun-
!ter-blow was landed by those who jmeant well by their own pocketbooks. ~~
Aided and abetted by the crackpots, dolts, morons and phantastic ‘fanatics who are invariably pres‘ent upon occasions of great public ‘commotion, ‘these reformers destroyed the absolutism of a king ‘to establish the infinitely more {cruel and less humane. tyranny of
;that demos which ever since the
!days of Pericles had been. sated |as the worst enemy ¢
| NEXT—The Unit t Ur
WINNERS NAMED IN BOYS" KITE CONTEST
More ‘than 10 kites were entered in the English Avenue Boys’ Club kite contest last night, with Leon Poynter, 15; Billy Hitey, 11, and Jackie Chastine, 8, taking first honors in the AAR Junior and Pewee divi ions respectively. George Brock ver, ‘11, was second in the Junior division and John Fox and Donald Jett, both 15, gained second and third honors in the Intermediate division. This was the 14th year of the con= test, held under the direction of Bill Stewart. Judges were Harry Garman, club exegutive. director; Leo Emmelmann and Henry E. Ostrom, Prizes were | baseball mitts and gloves, jackets, | flashlights and bi= cycle lights. The kites were judged on the basis of neatness and originality. 3 A kite-flying |contest will be held today with first prize a two weeks’ drip to the club's summer camp for
TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
1—Name mall ship In the world. 9—What kind of a dog is & Borzei? 3—Who said: “I have just begun to “fight”? 4—1In which river are the Thousand © Islands? | |! 5—Name the oldest university in the United States? 6—The laws of the pendulum were - discovered by Archimedes, Gali< leo, or Newton? T—What was Theodore Roosevelt's military title when he entered the SpanishrAmerican War? 8—What is a “Poilu?” |
Answers
1—Queen Elizabeth. 2—Russian wolfhound. 3—John Paul Jpnes. 4—St. Lawrence.
5—Harvard. a} 6—Galileo. rl. T—Lieutenant Colonel. 8—A French soldier. 5 a f
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