Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1940 — Page 11
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MONDAY, JULY 1, 1940
3 oosier Vagabond
; ABOARD TRANSCONTINENTAL BUS (In Indiana), July 1—An express bus stops for you to get t and stretch about every three hours. They call 1 “comfort stops.” Meal stops. come .at queer hours. The first afternoon we ate dinner at 4:15. The next morning we" stopped for breafast at. 6. And then we had our lunch at 10. Two things that seem to me unsatisfactory on a transcontinental bus trip are sleeping and eating. I'd like to see the man
who can: actually get rest and:
relaxation sleeping in a chair. You doze all right, for hours at a time, but your legs wake up. You've just got to straighten them out, and there's no: piace to put thent. The
‘the aisle. They are dark blue plush, with high
backs and clean towels snapped over the head-rests,
. ¥ou can adjust them way back. 2 And I must say that a bus rides easily. ‘hardly aware of any.motion. The bumps in the road are all exhausted before the shock gets to you. The weariness of bus riding comes simply from the process of sitting too long in one place. I'll bet you'd be exhausted from sitting in your favorite chair
at home for 48 hours. Pa
Lives on. Orange ‘Juice
= As for eating—they don’t give me enough. time. I'm temperamentally unfitted to eat on the run. Our ‘Jongest meal stop so far has been 25 minutes. Sup- } pose we analyze that: It takes at least five minutes to get unloaded,
ting left behind. That leaves only 10 minutes for “eating. In 10 minutes I can eat about three bites. ‘result is that on this bus trip I am underfed, harassed ‘at meal times, and thoroughly expect to be taken “down with violent cramps along about Council Bluffs. © But maybe my orange juice will keep me going. Since I haven't time to eat a meal, I just drink
Our Town
SOMETIMES. I LIB awake of nights wondering, ‘whether I am giving my readers honest measure for their money. ; For one thing, I've just about made up my mind
that I can't possibly keep up with the columnists who are reshaping the world and making it fit their own ends. Certainly, I can’t analyze everything to a pulp, like Dorothy Thompson, because, first of all, .I haven't the ability and, even if I had, my pulp would look mighty messy compared with hers. And I can’t write entertainingly of My Day, like Mrs. Roosevelt, because I do such unprintable things in the course: of every "24 hours; and I can’t use other people’s poems because nobody ever thinks of addressing me in verse; and I ~ haven't the push and prescience of Walter Winchell who continues to direct the foreign policies of the ~ United States of America—and, by heck, gets away with it, too. ; - »
: Letter From Overseas
~ Today, however; I-have something that even Mr. Winchell would give his right eye to have. It’s a letter from the Old Country which arrived in Indianapolis recently. I'm going to give you the benefit of it, from start to finish, if for no other reason than to prove that the best reporting done today doesn’t appear in the papers at all. Listen: : “Queenstown, Ireland. T “December 21st, 1939. “Dear Cousin— : “You welcome letter was received and me and
Washington «
‘WASHINGTON, July 1.—The main direction of the Democratic attack upon Wendell Willkie has ~ been set already in several statements from re- ~ . sponsible spokesmen of the Rgosevelt Administration. They will picture Willkie “as the tool of a big business conspiracy with Fascist inclinations. Apparently effort will be made to play upon the bad name which the utility industry received in the Insull affair and other scandals. first and immediate objective \ to discredit Willkie in the public mind. Later he will be hammered in more specific ways.
father. of TVA, branded | as “Insull the Second.” Norris said “the power trust was be-
Nomination. » A footnote on that is Willkie’s story na he had a run-in with Insull some years A a young utility lawyer, Willkie questioned to Insull’s face some of the things that were being done, saying i he were injurious to the utility business and would bring public disapproval. Insull rebuked him and ‘said there was no place in the utility business for a young man holding such views, Regarding the charge that® the power trust gave Willkie the nomination, the facts are that many utility executives favored his nomination and so did a wast number of persons with no utility connections * whatever. Convention delegates at Philadelphia were ready to scuttle Willkie so long as they thought only big business was behind him. ' They caved in only after it was obvious that popular pressure was too
strong . to resist. 0 % 2 2 =n It Takes a Lot of Brass”
~ President Roosevelt at his press conference slyly ted to the power issue. He said he hoped that the cutting off of the power that runs the White House elevator had no connection with the mination at Philadelphia. But the: really significant bite taken in two euriotisly similar statements oy James A Farley,
y Day
HYDE PARK, Sunday.—And so Mr. Wendell Willkie nominated for President on the Republican ticket, has as his running mate, Senator McNary. I ‘always liked the Senator. He is an attractive Therefore, from ‘all accounts, we have two people with charm running for office in this Presidential -elec-
tion. I do not know Mr. Willkie, | but the headline in one of the
metropolitan papers yesterday said: “Willkie aims at unity, defense and recovery.” I'm discouraged. In Heaven's name, will anyone aim at anything else?. Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using gener10 which everyone can subscribe, and which ‘very little. What is important, is how: we
that matters to the people of the country
rently, we are going to be very vague about ° hods, Miss Thompson and .I motored down to Fishkill Me can, however, judge parties and people by records, and Mr. Willkie’s record is something ’ should st
To Lhe next few weeks.
: seats themselves are : well. They are big individual seats, two on each side
You are :
passengers at all, fo} we were full.
orange juice at every stop. In one day I drank $1.25 worth .of orange juice! Experienced bus travelers tell you hot to eat or drink much on a bus trip, anyway. © So far our load of passengers has not evolved into “one big happy family,” as bus tradition says we should. : + For 10 hours after we left New York, nobody spoke to anyone else, except his own seat companion. A little fun did get started in mid-Pennsylvania about 10 at night in the back of the bus, but it didn’t last
long.
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Running Ahead of Time
There was one good-natured girl back there wearing a funny hat. ‘The men got to ribbing her about
it. She. enjoyed the play, and she ‘was quick on the : answer. : “Where'd ‘you get that thing?” ohe man asked |
her. “In Chicago,” she. said, “and I paid $8 for it, too.” “Eight dollars?” said one man. “For how many?” “You sure got stung,” said another. 9'd like to have that hat,” said a third. “I'd/like to step on it.” ° The passengers kept turning around and ‘grinning as if they'd like to get in on it, too. But pretty soon it got quiet back there, and that was all for the night. SEY the time we got to Indiana, the forenoon after leaving New York, we were running 15 minutes ahead of time. The driver announced that we were doing it by “special®gyder,” because there was a second section following us. He cranked the destination nameplate off the front of our bus, and we were highball, picking up no At Ft. Wayne we got another. “special order” to go into Chicago half an hour early. .
This iss often done, Driver Paul Bryan told me, |
when there is more than one section. He said he had seen this New York-Chicago express run in as many as 17 sections. I kept my watch on him to see how we were doing. When we got cut for a rest stop at Valparaiso, Ind.
we were 25 minutes ahead of time. They call it “run.ning hot” when theyre ahead of time.
But the restaurant help at Valparaiso:was “running cold,” and seemed considerably bored by the wants of the customers, and we left Valparaiso only *20 minutes hot.”
'By-Anton Scherrer
Aunt Bridget thank’you very kindly for the “money you sent. We had seven Masses said for your grandfather and grandmother. God rest their souls. “You have gone high places in " America. God bless you. land. Your Cousin Hughie Doherty was hung in Londonderry last Friday for kiliing a policeman. May God rest his soul, and may God's curse be on Jimmie Rodgers, the informer. May his soul burn in Hell. God forgive me. ‘ “Times are not as bad as they might be. "The herring is back, and everyone, or nearly everyone, has a boat or an. interest in one, and the price of fish is good, thanks be to God. The Orangemen are terrible. They go through the country in their lorries and shoot the poor people down in the fields where they are working, God's curse on them.
Things Are Improving
“Your Uncle Danny took a shot at one of them yesterday from the hedge, but he had too much to drink and missed them. God’s curse on the drink. “Well, I hope this letter finds you and your family well and happy, and we all join in sending you our best wishes. May God bless you all. . Am. sorry you are not with us. “The Doherty's are a hundred strong now since the best of them stopped goihg to America. . They will soon cover the whole country-side. “Father O'Flaherty who baptized your distant cousin, and who is now feeble minded, sends his blessing. May God rest you and yours and keep you from sickness and sudden death. “Yours, “Cousin Honora.”
“P. S.—Things might be worse than they are. Every police barrack in the country has been’ Durned down. Thanks be to God.”
By Raymond Clapper
Democrati¢ National Chairman, and Speaker Bankhead, who is to be keynoter at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago July 15. These hint at the Fascist issue.
Farley said the issue was whether the Government was to be conducted by “the historic American processes, or some new and somewhat foreign methods of concentrated control.” Bankhead referred to the attempt to place the executive “in control of forces which are somewhat foreign to our usual American way of life.”
The Communist line is that American big business {§ Fascist. That is the idea apparently that Farley d Bankhead were trying to plant. It looks as if an attempt is to be made to raise a ‘Fascist scare in this country. That kind of attack is on the same tevel-which Is very low indeed—with that of Republican reactionaries like Ernest Weir who shout that the New Deal is out.of the same box as Communism, Naziism and Fascism. Both are misleading attempts to stir false prejudice. If Roosevelt runs for a third term, the Democrats will have to have a good deal of brass to talk about Willkie's candidacy being “somewhat foreign to our usual American way. of life.” There isn’t anything more unusual to the American way of life than an attempt to seize a third term. u u ”
Unity vs. the Fires of Hale
Willkie has not indicated how he will meet this attack. However, in his brief remarks to the Philadelphia convention he said he would conduct a crusading campaign “to bring unity to America, to bring the unity of labor and capital, agriculture and manufacturer, farmer and worker, and all classes to this great cause of the preservation of freedom.” Apparently Willkie’s line will be to preach nat{onal unity in a time of crisis, while the Democrats will try to rekindle the fires of popular hate against business with the trick that worked so successfully in the two previous. Roosevelt campaigns. Whether there is still a third victory in them, or whether the country is moving into a new mood favoring less strife and more team-work, remains to be seen.
By Eleanor Rocsevels
King Carol is reported to have called upon Mr. Hitler to protect him, but it seems to me that we read not so long ago about a pact between Germany and Russia. That would seems to preclude any action which would be of real help to Rumania. What a strange world that anyone, even in dire trouble, should seize on such a straw and hope for assistance! We had a very pleasant party here on Friday night in honor of a combination of birthdays. A program :of singing, music and dancing was provided for us by some young people who have been studying on an NYA program in New York City. Three of them have jobs in summer hotels to provide entertainment this summer, one of them is playing with the NYA Symphony Orchestra in New York City. They came up here on their own time and they gave us such a pleasant evening, that I only hope they enjoyed themselves also. Yesterday our son Jimmy was here for a few
; heurs and. we:sat in the sun and chatted before he ‘ had-to leave to go to work. My niece and nephew, who were staying here, have gone back to Maine, ‘to achieve the above objectives. That is the *
gra. ‘the “house seems Very quiet robbed of so much e, : Mrs. George Huntington, who is staying with me,
Saturday Avening to dine with Mrs. Henry Morgen-
I hope ‘you have not forsaken your native]
Hull Retains 2nd Place i in
Gallup Poll
By Dr. George Gallup PRINCETON, N. J., July 1.—President Roosevelt is the overwhelming first ‘choice of rank-and-file Dem-
ocrats for the party’s 1940
nomination, the latest na-tion-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion indicates today. As the Democrats prepare for their national convention in Chicago July 15, the Institute survey shows that more than nine Democrats in every 10, with definite choices at this time, favor the renomination of Mr. Roosevelt. After Mr. Roosevelt in the Institute survey come a handful
of leaders who have been closely
associated with the President in
the public mind—Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Vice President Garner, Postmaster General Jim Farley and Security Administrator Paul V. -McNutt—but together they account for less than 10 per cent of all rank-and-file mentions. The Institute put the follow"ing question to a nation-wide cross-section of Democratic voters: “Whom would you like to see elected President this year?” The results of latest pre-convention poiling are:
President Roosevelt ........92% Cordell Hull ........... cess 3 Vice President Garner..... 2 James A. Farley ........... 1 Paul V. McNutt ....c.c000. 1 All Others «1 Approximately one person in every six (17%) said he was undecided or without a definite choice at the present time. This figure contrasts with 34 pet cent among rank-and-file Republicans who were undecided. before the G. O. P. convention, which nominated Wendell Willkie,
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F President Roosevelt does receive the Democratic nomination at the Chicago convention two weeks hence, all signs indicate that the war in Europe will have been the principal cause. . Ten months ago, before the beginning of the ‘war, Institute surveys showed a substantial number of Democrats favoring some other candidate. But step-by-step with the intensification of the fighting abroad, there has been an un_precedented rise , in Roosevelt sentiment, uniting most of the sections of the Democratic Party previously cool to a third term. ~The trend of sentiment is shown
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~GARNER
- FARLEY BER
in the following figures from successive Insfitute surveys: Favoring All Other Roosevelt Candidates
July, 1939 (before war began) . November, 1939 (after outbreak of war) January, 1940 (war in quiet phase ........ 78 May, 1940 (after conquest of Norway and Denmark) TODAY ......
-Paralleling the rising’ Democratic sentiment President Roosevelt, Institute surveys have pointed to an increasing chance that the President could be re-elected as well. As reported in The Times June 28, a majority of all voters with opinions on a third term at this time—57 per cent—say they would vote for Roosevelt if he “runs.
51% 43%
16 8
. 84 ee 2
eo BVIOUSLY, of course, the country has not yet had the
publican candidate and his campaign.'It may be that opinion will shift substantially on the thirdterm issue as the Republicans put their case to the nation, Nationwide surveys by the American In-
stitute of Public Opinion in the
next few weeks will report the country’s reaction.
Unexpected developments in Europe may also have an effect on the race. Just as events in
. Europe thus far have been fol-
lowed by a rise in third-term sentiment, so a conceivable combination of events in Europe might alter the situation drasticaily.
At the present time, however,
the President has impressive suppori for renomination Democrats in every section of the country. Heaviest Roosevzalt support comes from Democrats along. the Eastern seaboard, where the Democratic vote is almost unanimously for the President. The largest remaining blocs favoring some other candidate are in the South (where Garner and Hull have the greatest strength) and in the West.
+ question: among
The sectional vote of Democrats is: : Favoring All Roosevelt Others New England 4 Mid.-Atlantic ..... 3 East Central 9 7 14 10
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has not yet announced whether he intends to run, and periodic flurries have been caused from time to time by the report that he will step aside at the last moment, in favor of some other candidate. To find out how rank-and-file Democrats regard other Presidential possibilities, the Institute asked the same voters the “If President Roosevelt is not a candidate, whom would you like to see elected?” “The replies show that sentiment has changed hardly at all on this question since a previous survey in May. Cordell Hull, Vice President Garner, Postmaster General Farley, Pay). V. McNutt and Senator Burion K. Wheeler are the leading choices, the survey shows. The following * figures show the dpift in sentiment since May:
(If FDR Doesn’t Run) % Favoring TODAY ' MAY
Jackson La Guardia ... Others
Interestingly enough, few if any members of the New Deal's “Inner Circle” have made strong impressions on the rank-and-file of the party, although ‘at various times in the past four years the Institute’s tests -have shown boomlets for Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins, Justice Frank Murphy, and Attorney General Jackson. Most of the backers of ardent New Deal candidates have, of course, thrown their support to Roosevelt himself, Minor candi=dates who receive scattered men--tions in the.present survey are, in order of mention, Justice William O. Douglas, Secretary Wallace, Secretary Ickes, Justice
. ; k ol Murphy, Senator Pepper of Flot
da, Mrs. Roosevelt, Aires E. Smith, Senator Barkley of (Ken= tucky, Speaker Bankhead, John L. Lewis, Jesse Jones; former Gov= ernor Earle, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Governor Lehman and Ambassador Kennedy.
ZONING BOARD GETS 27 PLEAS
Permits to Erect Buildings Valued at $74,000 to Be Reviewed.
Petitions for new construction totaling $74,000 will be reviewed by the Zoning Board a City Hall today. Board members will consider 27 petitions, 13 of which were not heard when the Board failed to have a quorum for its regular meeting two weeks ago. The largess’ filed by John wants to build eight two-family duplex dwellings costing $50,000 at 3445 Central Ave. Robert Sullivan asked a permit
single petition was
‘|to build a $9000 three-way double
at the southeast corner of Palmer and Leonard Sts. The Sinclair Refining Co. petitioned to reconstruct a filling station at a cost of $3000 at the southwest corner of Gapliet Ave. and 21st St. The Sonny Service Oil Co., In=. requested permission to erect i $3000 filling station at the southwest corner of 25th St. and Northwestern Ave. Other petitions were filed Ly M. N. Thayer, to expand an apartment building at 1847 W. Washington St., and Mrs. Erma Teegarden to renovate a residence for a beauty parlor at 1744 N. Pennsylvania St.
STATE WPA BEGINS “13-MONTH YEAR’
The Indiana WPA began operating on a “13-month year” basis today to simplify bookkeeping. Hours for relief” workers will be
lowered from 130 per month 3 at present to 120 for the 28-day period. As an example, John K. Jennings, state administrator, said that the annual wage will be the same. Such
items as telephone charges, rentals
and others carried on a monthly basis will be continued as at present.
LAD’S ARM CUT AS
HE TAKES A DARE|
Cambridge City,
Times Special
BLUFFTON, Ind, July 1—A playmate dared 4-year-old Michael
O’Brien, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry |
O'Brien to break a window pane with his fist.” :
"The lad took the
R. Moynahan, who"
opportunity - of judging the Re-
Schricker, Hillis Onl.U.Campus
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 1.— Political fireworks may be in order when school starts at Indiana University next fall. The son of Henry F. Schricker - and the daughter of Glenn R. Hillis, opposing candidates for Governor of Indiana, will enter school. Henry F. Schricker Jr. will be a sophomore and Miss Margaret - Eleanor Hillis, a Tudor Hall graduate, will be a freshman.
NEW V. F. W, LEADER PLANS OFFICE HERE
Charles L. Hopkins, Indianapolis] ®
printer who was elected Indiana department commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Lafayette yesterday, will establish department offices in the Pythian Building here. W. H. Chadwick, also of Indian-
‘apolis, who: was eletted adjutant at
the close of the 19th annual encampment, will be in charge of the office. Mr. Hopkins has been commander »|of the Sergt. Ralph Barker Post of the V. F, W., commander of the Eighth District and national’ chief deputy of staff. Earl Passwaiter, Indianapolis, was elected Eighth District commander. Col. Louis L. Roberts, Evansville, session speaker, urged national unity in a preparedness program.
SAFETY UNIT TO ELECT
Officers will be elected by the Indianapolis Accident Prevention Council at 7 p. m. today in the Hotel Washington. Pire prevention principles will be demonstrated by local and state fire department officials. E. C. Forsythe is Presiden of the Council.
JOBLESS RELIEF BOARD CHANGED
Business and Labor Now Represented on State Review Body.
A businessman and a representative of labor have been appointed on the reorganized State Unemployment Compensation Division review board, Wilfred Jessup, director, announced today. The reorganization was made SO that employers, employees and the public could be represented on the
(Board, he said. The Board now consists of Everett L. Gardner, who remains as chairman; Macy Nicholson, Hagerstown businessman, and Paul A. Givens, of Indianapolis, general president of the Journeymen Stone Cutters of America. Fred R. Bechdolt and George L. Brubaker, member of the present board, will remain on the division's appellate tribunal staff. Mr. Brubaker will act as co-ordinator between the Board and the Division's legal staff. Meanwhile J. Bradley Haight was chosen Division assistant director in charge of emloyment service.
CITY ON ROUTE OF 20 TRAINING PLANES
A mass @€light of training airplanes, said to be the largest ever made to one city, was to pass over Indianapolis today en route from Taylorville Aviation Corps, Alliance, O., to Los Angeles, Cal. The 20 planes are to be delivered to civilian pilots and flying schools
for use in the CAA pilot training program.
Young Mother After Race
Mrs. ‘Harold Seng, - 22-year-old Allentown, Pa. mother of two children, is recovering in the City Hospital today aftér a 52-mile race
against death early yesterday.
emorrhage near| Ind, while en route to San Pedro, Cal, the young
Suffering a
mother probably owes her life to a quick-thinking bus driver and two deputy serigs,, Gus Mieth and Roy Barrett. vr
Home.
Recovering Against Death
two deputies went to the hospital where they submitted to blood tests.
For nearly two hours, doctors battled to save the young woman’s life after she had received blood from - each deputy sheriff. . And while the fight was going on, the woman's two children, Betty, 1, and Starr ‘Delite, 2, rested in the arms of Deputy Coroner Dr. Norman R. Booher and his wife. | took the children to the Guardian's
~ Sist
Mrs. gene. sed. that: she Was on
They later|’
Dog Bites Hand That FreesHim
Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind, July 1—
merchant here, is having “dog” trouble. When a stray dog awakened him by yelping he found the animal trapped with one leg in a woven wire fence. While freeing the dog, Mr. Bernfield's dog be.came entangled in the fence. The stray dog was freed and then bit Mr. Bernfield as he started to release his own pet.
INDEPENDENTS DROP
PRICE OF HAIRGUT
Reduced prices and longer hours were in effect in about 180 independent barber shops in the Indianapolis area today as a result of the Indiana Supreme Court's in-
fixing sections of the barber law. The price of a haircut, fixed at a mimimum of 50 cents by the law, was reduced to 35 cents at some places and 25 cents at others. Shaves were priced at a standard of 20 cents against 25 cents as fixed by the law. Hours which were fixed by the law at from 8 a. m. to 8», m, week days were extended to 7 p. m. in some Shops. Meanwhile, officials of the State Association of Journeymen Barbers and the international union, studied possibilities of filing a motion for a rehearing or an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court. Henry A. Hollingsworth, representing the Independent Barbers Association, said’ the independents were “ready to fight the case through if there is an appeal.”
LOCAL METHODISTS NAMED TO NEW POSTS
Dr. John G. Benson, superintend‘ent of Methodist Hospital, was named to the board of hospitals and homes af the north central jurisdictional conference of the Methodist Church in Chicago yesterday. The board has supervision of 250 institutions ‘throughout the world. Dr. William C. Hartinger, superintendent of the Indianapolis district, was elected to the board of missions. Dr. Henry L. Davis, Indianapolis, secretary of the Preachers’
board of pensions.
SWASTIKA PROBED FT. WAYNE, Ind, July. 1—-Ft
Herman Bernfield, a leather goods
validation ‘of the price®and hour |
Aid Society, was appointed“to the
Wayne police Joday were investigal-
LEASE WITH TURNER IS UP FOR APPROVAL
" A lease between the Works Board and Col. Roscoe Turner's Central Aeronautical Corp. will be presented to the City Council tonight for approval. Negotiated between the Board an Col. Turner last week, the lease grants two acres of airport ground for 20 years and grants exclusive gasoline, oil and repair rights for 10 years. . Col. Turner is expected. to begin’ construction of a $100,000 hangar within the next two weeks. The Council is expec to approve the Park Board's hewh10-year contract with the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. The agreement maintains the same rate# for boulevard lights, but enables the City to save $1000 annually through revised metered service rates.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Who wrote Bosom?” 2—By which U. S. Government Department aré standard time sig=nals sent out? : 3—Is Pluto, Neptune, or Uranus, the last discovered planet? ) : 4—Fill in the missing letters of the word sp—f, that means to per= petrate a deception or humbug, 5—The U. S. Immigration and Nat= * uralization” Service was recently transferred from the Department ‘of Labor to which othet Government Department? 6—What type of dog is a Kerry Blue? 7—Of what people was Goliath the champion? 8—Ulysses S. Grant, Calvin Cool= idge, Warren G. Harding or Franklin D. Roosevelt, was the . only President ever arrested for « Speeding? Answers
1—Caroline Miller: 2—Navy. 3—Pluto. 4—Spoof. 5—Department of Justice. 6—A tarrier. 1—Philistines. ; 8— 8. Grant.
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