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| SAW GERMAN PLANES SINK 4 BRITISH SHIPS
‘Concentrated Hell,” Writer Reports as Convoy Battles Raiders. By EDWARD W. BEATTIE Jr.
United Press Staff Correspondent AT A SOUTHEAST ENGLAND PORT, July 27.—The Admiralty announced yesterday: “A convoy consisting of 21 small coastal vessels escorted by His Majesty's trawlers was) heavily attacked by succes-! sive waves each of about 30| German aircraft. “Five small vessels were sunk.! These had a total tonnage of 5104.1 A further five small vessels totaling| 5133 tons received damages and one}
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of these, a 354-ton coaster, had to be beached.” { That was a matter of fact trit-!
ule to the matter of fact spirit in which the British merchant fleet is NAZIS CLAIM nouncement cloaked an hour of as| {
doing its job. The Admiralty anconcentrated hell as I can imagine
any men standing up I saw four (Air Raids on Shipping and
of the five ships sink. Ships such | as these face such attacks on every | trip along the coast When the German Stuka dive| Isles Continue; Peace bombers attacked, the little convoy spread out for safety and .overed a Move Reported. long stretch of the Engiish channel. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
The first dive bomber, presumably the leader of the first squadron, | German airplanes continued to batter at British defenses today as
dived so low that it practically the Government called up another
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straddled the masts of one ship. The ship sank so fast that because I was
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CITY IS JILTED BY COOL WAVE;
OUTLOOK: WARM
Slight Relief Is Due | Tonight; Heavy Crop Loss Feared. {
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Can you take it, folks? | It's going to be a few degrees cooler today and tomore row than it was yesterday, but there won't be any “break” in the heat, according to J. H. Armington, U, 3, weatherman, The wave of cool alr that was coming from the Dakotas and was supposed to drop the mercury 10 degrees late yesterday changed ite | direction. It cooled northern Indiana, but is rolling eastward instead of coming south. It may get down to 70 tonight and the temperature probably won't
reach ©) next week, but will hover in the 80's.
Fears Danger to Crops
If the weather should continue at its sizzling pace over the week-end, corn, new clover, pastures and une irrigated vegetable crops throughe out the county will be in grave dane Times Special Writer ger, Horace E. Abbott, Marion Coune WASHINGTON, July 27.-—Presi-|ty Agricultural Agent, said today. |dent Roosevelt and his New Deal | Corn is beginning to tassel. If board of political strategy are hav-| the tassel is burned, and some of it ling an uncommonly difficult time in|is already beginning to show signs | selecting a new Democratic national of being affected, proper polliniza=[chairman and campaign manager to| tion will not occur and the corn succeed Postmaster General James will not ear out, he said.
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M'NUTT BOOM FINDS BACKING
Discussed for Chairmanship Because Only Farley Knows More People. By THOMAS L. STOKES
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skirting a low building for a better view I not even down. Plane plane dived from the clouds, mn crews on the tiny afterdecks of the ships worked their anti-aireraft one-pounders or anti-aireraft machine guns, like trip hammers. Guns joined in from the shore and helped to form a curtain of explosions against the clouds.
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In twos and threes the planes came, aiming at different ships. At] least half the ships were obscured all the time by the tons of water thrown up A second vessel turned bows up and remained for 10 minutes with|
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| RN L 3 a 2 ARN N SON During the night, bombs were] EE SEES
dropped in southern England, Wales and Scotland, causing sev-| |
eral casualties and some damage. One German bomber was shot down about midnight and (wo oats ton. Training Needed for Thei by aerial, torpedo boat and sub- Goes Through Daily Dozen, raining ee e : or er marine attacks. Many land ob- : | jectives and ports in the British! Then Smiles: ‘Am | Sick? |
more were brought down in the Isles, including Thames Haven,
Times Phoios,
1. William Yutz, 21 , , . “I'm for it.” 2. John Griffin, 26 .
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4. Frank Irwin, 21 . . . “I'm kind of looking forward to it.”
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a dog fight, In Berlin, the Nazi High Com. mand reported another 107.298 tons of British shipping and the British! destrover Whirlwind had been sunk
| They have discovered how hard it county showed that the corn leaves |is to replace Big Jim. were beginning to curl in an at= | Feelers have been put out in many | tempt to cut down evaporation, bus
directions but a decision has nol no burning was noticed. [heen reached,
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STIMSON ASKED IDEAS ON DRAFT
although the Presi-| [dent is to meet next Thursday with a special subcommittee of the na-{ Such unirrigated vegetable crops tional committee to pick a campaign as tomatoes, cabbage, heets and ture | manager. | nips, must have rain, and if the | Mr. Roosevelt canvassed the situa-| heat continues without relief during [tion with Jim Farley after yester-| next week, Mr. Abbott said the can[day's Cabinet meeting, at a confer-| ning tomato crop would be seriously
ence in which the coming campaign| affected. IHouse' Committee Extends| Ys discussed irom many angies| New clover is showing the effects earing; Senate Group
New Clover in Peril
Mr, Farley stands on his decision to| of the intense heat, although the old [retire from the national chairman-| clover is in “beautiful” bloom and ship within a month. needs nothing but continued pollie McNutt Talked Prominently nizing by bees {o be in good shape.
English Channel this morning in Cardiff and Hastings, were reported
Am | Tired?’
To Vote Tuesday.
Two heat prostration victims
To the list of candidates previous-| - *% ; ply mentioned and discussed, another Were reported to police. They were | w John Spillman of Columbus, who
Some Doubt Enlistments Could Fill Ranks; Others Think | WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. P..jlv mentioned and discusied, anotem
. The House Military Affairs Com-|"°" “ tbr , -|/ was overcome on S, Illinois St. and Jobless Should Get First Call. |eurity Administrator Paul V. Mc Edward Collier, 65, of 1326 Model By HARRY MORRISON
mittee decided today to invite War | Nutt. His selection has been urged If Congress passes the conscription bill, Indianapoli
bombed. The 107,000 tonnage figure includ- | ed action by DIY Pres, which | probably covered several days. | ROME, July 27.—Premier Benito Italians Bomb Malta Mussiolini who celebrates his vivors, many of whom had been! The Rome communique said that 57th birthday Monday, showed forwounded, crept over the oil-slick on | Italian airplanes had “violently | ejgn correspondents today how he!
its prow above water. A third filled slowly on an almost even keel, tilted slowly and vanished, its ensign still flying at its stern. Like little black bugs on the wa-| ter, the lifeboats, filled with sur-!
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent |
Secretary Henry L. Stimson 10 pecause of his political experience AVe., who collapsed today in a cafe |lestify on the BurkesWadsworth|a,q the many political contacts he at 455 E. Washington St. Both g [Compulsory Military Training Bill.| made throughout the country in his men were given first aid. § was expected to appear next Throughout the state four addie
the water toward tugs that went to| bombarded Malta twice yesterday. the rescue, engines straining to get! Italian airplanes which raided, the last yard of speed. | Gibraltar last night killed four per- \ {sons and injured 50. The planes Tribute to Bravery [dumped bombs on the fortress and There was a second attack and harbor. another ship vanished. A third at-{ The raid gave the air defenses of tack, to the south, and another went the Rock” their first real test and down. came as British authorities were How many killed and wounded tvacuating women and children to (Continued on Page Three)
2 HOOSIER YOUTHS | * DIE IN PLANE CRASH
Farm Boys Bought Craft Week Ago, Fell 100 Feet. |
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Colonia, Mussolini went through | d f i early morning exercises during | Nee S a strong army for de-|
which he rode his horse over 19 fense. They feel generally hurdles, including one five feet two that they need some kind of inches high. training to be able to protect On the highest hurdle, one of two themselves on a battlefield. cavalrymen who followed Mussolini, ! Most of them believe conscription
knocke OW ; | ocked down the top bar. But the best way of guaranteeing
is easily. Sol zonal ron After completing the jumps, Mus- | America's safety. Enlistment won't
solini, wearing cavalry boots, riding | do it—you won't get enough men, breeches and a sleeveless white (Ney sav. jersey which contrasted with his| One of the hardest jobs in conwith determining what in | those young men feel-—-the men beGerman said: tween 21 and 31 with no depend-' “Am I sick? Am I tired?” ents—is in finding them. It took Then he smiled and galloped off. four hours of driving up and down Before he took the jumps, Musso- | the city streets and walking in and lini, mounted on a German cavalry out of stores and office buildings to horse named Thiene from Hann-| find 10 young men who fit the over, greeted the correspondents description. About 200 men were one by one as Press Minister Ales- contacted. Most of them were marsandro Pavolini presented us. It|ried. Many had children. Three of the 10 were for conMussolini had received newspaper. scription and two were against it men. | Three others were for it, but with Col. Camillo Ridolfi, who as riding | reservations and two said they were master and fencing instructor al- against it but offered an alterna-
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exercises, told me afterward: “Il Duce, does this every morning. The boys who would have to go Instead of coffee he takes these viewed the conscription bill with early morning jumps. He likes deadly seriousness. Their questions plenty of exercise and very little | and observations were direct. To to eat or drink, Being a vegetarian| most of them, the chief question he eats only soup and vegetables,| was: Mostly greens, and never touches| “What will happen to our jobs?” meat.” | Here is how they feel about conI was told by a member of the scription:
entourage that Mussolini has al- y » tered his daily routine but ite] LN LLIAM YE i or He gd Je tht the in- it's a Swell isa Jor We good of the . rs . ig nation—and for the young fellows, formant said, rising at 7 a. m. and too. Of course, I'll have personal donning a cavalry uniform to take roblems I've bought a car and I his morning ride, including jumps, | BOO KNOW how I'd keep up the
Occasionally he fences instead of " a “% ? payments. I'm going to night school. riding, the informant said. I'd lose all that.
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off on its scheduied course nobody damaged. One ship made for shore I believe the five ships sunk could admitted. And if the wounded I seemed to) very high in plain ordinary guts. |(FP.)—Two Greens Fork farm boys | ‘monoplane, purchased last Sunday, They were Lowell Nicholson and A British fving boat which re-|,,""pychville last Sunday and he nD arrive » "3114 3 : Scheduled to arrive at La Guardia gion was piloting the plane at the Fifty extra policemen have been lot's licenses { the plane or the natur v : 0 e plane or the nature of itS peen in the air nearly 30 minutes youths were attempting to make a AIR RAID ON CANAL gies or» off, p19 lv conferred today to The motor landed hearly 150 the Panama Canal had been suctacked” both terminals of the Canal flares on all locks. raid came as a went into action with anti-aircraft LOS ANGELES. July 31 lu. Py subpena for him. suit of his attractive, middle-aged | torneys demanded a subpena for 11| thereupon issued one and told] 7/8. 8. Hahn, said he would try to Mrs. Boyce, testifying, said she Side Glances. . Society 4-5 great deal.” Sho-Sha was not her|
knows. The Admiralty admitted to land wounded. The remainder not have aggregated more than helped ashore were any critervion— | be that they had not brought down | ————— ——— | were Killed instantly last night when BRITAIN'S ‘MYSTERY’ crashed into a pasture near here oh {William Lintner, both 22. portedly took off from Foynes, brought it to a crudely-constructed Field tomorrow, sources at the air- time of the crash but it was un-| assigned to the marine terminal of Shortly after 6 p. m. the two trip was hot Known. before the crash. forced landing when the crash ocPANAMA CITY. © July 2 foie front end of the plane was determine feet from the wreckage of the fusecessful. simultaneously from an altitude of| The simulated | batteries and dectors while search —~Process servers looked for the Dr. William A. Boyce, a wealthy! wife, Lillian, says Sho-Sha is her] { him. 8 deputies to serve it. If they don't| 9 produce Sho-Sha in the courtroom | “vibrated to a higher plane” than Sports .... 10-11 soul mate, she said; he was her|
the remainder of the convoy carried that five other ships had been continued, the 5104 tons which the Admiralty men whose chief worry a German plane—they averaged | GREENS FORK, Ind, July 27 (U their privately-owned Taylor Cub PLANE DUE SUNDAY from 100 feet in the air. | NEW YORK, July 27 (U. P).- The youths had bought the plane | Ireland, today for Montreal is hangar on the Lintner farm. Nich-| port said today. |derstood that both had private pithe airport for the arrival. Identity went up for a short flight and had U S STAGES MOCK It was not known whether the : ¥ curred or whether they lost control WU. Pi--Atmy and Nave officials molished and the wings were torn whether last night's “air raid” on lage Eighteen Navy bombers ate) 15,000 feet, dropping “bombs,” Look for Shosurprise to the ground forces, which! lights picked out the raiders ghost, Sho-Sha, today. They had a eve specialist, contesting the divorce! “soul mate” and yesterday his at-| 14] Superior Judge Clement D. Nye| locate him, Mr. Boyce's attorney, | 7 by means of a seance, 8 her husband “because he drank a| § State Deaths, 11 teacher
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Deputies, Clutching Subpena,
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“But it's better to be prepared I don't want to be shoved out on a battlefield and not know how to use a gun, We've got to be ready.”
JOHN HILL, 26, of 1319 N. New Jersey St, a cashier: “I've spent eight years getting to where I am today. 1 think there should be some allowance made in any draft (Continued on Page Three)
MEETS PLANE, GREETS WIVES NOS. 1 AND 2
NEW YORK, July 27 (U, P).—
Sha, the Ghost
‘Do you plan to be united with Sho-Sha after death?” Mr. Boyce's attorney asked, “No,” she replied, “but I think it would be a beautiful idea, don't you?—especially for widows.” Mrs. Boyce said Sho-Sha was just a pet name. The ghost's name is Sheland Shaimond, but that is so hard to pronounce and spell. The . seances of which her husband had There were two Mrs. Clejas arriving spoken were actually concentra-| On the Dixie Clipper from Europe tions. The spirits, including Sho-| today and Simon Cleja met both of Sha, made their voices audidle|them. through trumpets placed on a table. Jud; > Nye's subpena instructed came here to meet the Clipper, ex-Sho-Sha to appear before the court plained to newspapermen that one of the women—Mrs. Jeanne IL, The subpena read: “For failure|Cleja, 4l—was his divorced wife. to attend, you will be deemed guilty| The other—Mrs. Odile Cleja, 25— of contempt of court and liable to|is his present wife. pay damages sustained by the] With the two women were Cleja's parties aggrieved and forfeit $100|/two children, Claudine, 19, and in addition,” # Anne, 3, one by each mariage,
Cleja, a French civil engineer, who |
| young men say they're in favor of going—but the Gov-| | Receiving 45 foreign correspond- ernment had better save their jobs for them! They say—when you can find them—that Americal
acted, 400,000 men would be draft-
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CYCLISTS KILLED IN COUNTY WRECKS
Marion 1940 Traffic Toll Now Stands at 68.
A bicycle rider and a motoreyelist lost their lives in Marion County traffic accidents last night and today. at 68. James Alpha, 25, a deaf mute living at 1728'2 College Ave, died at City Hospital this morning two hours after the bicvele he was riding was struck by an automobile at 25th St. and Broadway. Maxwell Butcher, 21, of Traders Point, died in Methodist Hospital today of injuries received last night when he lost control of his motorcycle at 62d St. and Road 52. Mr. Butcher is the son of Howard |A. Butcher and also is survived by a brother, Donald, and a sister, Miss Jennie Butcher. Funeral services ave to be held at 10:30 a. m. Monday at Zionsville with burial at Traders Point.
LORETTA YOUNG TO WED
HOLLYWOOD, July 27 (U. P.).— Loretta Young and Tom LWiS, young advertising executive, filed
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notice of intention to wed yester- Goethe Link at Methodist Hospital |
day. The actress, slipping quietly Into the license bureau dressed in
white summer gabardine, said the er and child were reported today to |
ceremony would be held next Wednesday at St. Paul's Church in Westwood Village.
The County toll now stands |
week. The measure would require the 000,000 men between 18 and 64, inclusive, for some form of military or home defense training. If en:|
ed for training by October, The committee's decision indicat-| ed delay in House action on the measure, since original plans had called for ending the hearings on| Tuesday. Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky.) said that with “scores and scores” of witnesses clamoring (to be heard, the committee had [postponed until Tuesday a decision on how long the hearings would be continued. Not All Jobs Covered The Senate Military Affairs Com- | mittee had completed consideration of its version of the measure, but delaved a final vote until Tuesday. A number of revisions were made [regarding job protection for trainees and exern.ptions, but no change (was made in the section providing a $10,000 fine and five years’ imprisonment for draft dodging. Text of an amendment to the bill to make an employer's refusal to (rehire trainees a violation of the | Wagner Labor Act, unless re-em-ployment was “impossible or unrea|scnable,” was approved. This applies only to those employers en|gaged in interstate commerce,
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A provision covering trainees not |
subject to the Wagner Act declares it to be the intent and wish of Con(Continued on Page Three)
LINKS HAVE 7-POUND BOY
A son was born to Dr. and Mrs.
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The baby weighed 7 ounces at birth and moth-
| yesterday. pounds 7 be doing well | per Miss Helen Kegerreis of Bristol, Ind.
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The heat wave's youngest victim— Charles Whiteman, 4, was sucking on a piece of ice. The ice slipped out of his fingers into a partly filled bucket of kerosene, Charles tried to fish the ice out of the bucket, but that didn't work. He tipped the bucket, drank the kerosene and then finished the ice. City Hospital finished Charles an hour later and sent him | back home.
Hide and Seek
And the heat wave's best hideout— Officers were called to 1143 E. Washington St. Two young men were leaving the | grocery there in a hurry, but they |stopped when the police shouted “Halt!”
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Kerosene and Ice Don't Mix---Police Turn Heat on Ice Box
| They said they had a companion and the officers looked around. | You guessed it—he was in the refrigerator. | Under pressure, he swapped the ice box for the “cooler.”
Breezy's the Word
HACKENSACK, N. J, July 27 (U, P.).—Apparently impelled by equal |parts of heat and patriotism, Mich-
with ael Dunway, 46-year-old American |
Legionnaire, climbed the Court House flagpole today and said he thought he'd spend the day there. Dunway, in a sort of boatswain's (chair, refused to come down saying: } “I'm going to stay on until the | Legion parade tonight.” | To orders from sweltering policemen that he descend, Dunway’s [reply was: “Why should I? I'm cool and comfortable up here."
Mrs, Link is the for-|
[own campaign for the Presidential nomination. | Next to Mr. Farley, Paul McNutt [links with the local party workers [than any other person available for the job, as was suggested dramatically in the tumultuous demonstration for him at Chicago when he went before the convention to [withdraw himself from the Vice | Presidential race and second the nomination of Secretary Wallace, It was the consensus that he ‘would have won the nomination had (Continued on Page Three)
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This Haymaker Was Worth $46
CINCINNATI, O, July 27 (U, P.).—Harold Boehl, a holdup vietim, attended a police “show up” today and said he received his money's worth for the $46 he lost to the bandit. Mr. Boehl identified Shelby Dezarn as the robber. When Dezarn was led back to his cell, Mr, Boehl stepped up and swung a “haymaker” that landed on Dezarn's chin and knocked him through a window,
ROOSEVELT ORDERS WAR RELIEF SETUP
Puts Wallace, Morgenthau And Red Cross in Charge.
WASHINGTON, July 27 (U, PJ). ~President Roosevelt signed an ex- | ecutive order today setting up machinery for spending $50,000,000 for the relief of European war refugees He appointed Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace and Treasury Secretary Henry
Cross in purchasing agricultural and other materials and supplies | “for the relief of refugee men, women and children who have been driven from their homes or otherwise rendered destitute by hostilities or invasion.” The $50,000,000 fund was contained in an amendment to the regular 1941 Emergency Relief Act. Mr. Roosevelt also met with Chairman Norman H. Davis of the Red Cross to discuss that organization's part in arranging for the
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| terials and supplies to the refugees. Mr. Davis said the Red Cross definitely would not operate any place where it did not have complete control of distribution. One proposal
| that relief for the unoccupied por- { tion of France be limited to children. It was reported that the question of sending relief to the occupied portion of France had not yet. been taken up with Germany, or with Britain, whose blockade would have to be penetrated by, he shipments,
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tional deaths due to heat prostration | were reported and two persons died
registration of approximately 42,- | hrobably has more valuable political of drowning.
Farmers Die From Heat
Peter Waznosis, 48, died while (working in a wheat field near Val- | paraiso. Cornelius Beverly, 50, a Cass County farmer, succumbed to the heat, and Ora Hauk, 60, of Shelbyville, died at North Vernon, where | he collapsed following a heart ate | tack while exhibiting cattle at the | Jennings County fair. Henry J, Schaefer, 73, died following a sune stroke at his farm near New Al= bany. Marcus Faulkenburg, 16, a patient at the State Village for Epileptics at New Castle, was drowned while swimming with other patients in the Little Blue River. Virgil Godby, 20, of near Sheridan, drowned yesterday while swimming in a gravel pit a mile east of Eliza ville, near Lebanon.
DUTCH MAY KEEP COLONIES, SAY NAZIS
THE HAGUE, July 27 (U. P.). = Germany has no intention of seizing Dutch colonies or abolishing Neth erlands independence, but rill look “with benevolence” on the formation of a political party along Nazi lines, Dr. Artaur Seyss-Inquart, Ad~ ministrator for the Netherlands, said in a speech today, Addressing a meeting of Dutch Nazis, he warned that Germany | would not tolerate demonstrators ‘n favor of Queen Wilhelmina or the House of Orange, who “dwell emong our enemies.” He warned parents |and teachers not to lead youth on | “false roads.” He added, however, that “we do not expect subjection or insincerity.”
STOCK ‘STANDSTILL’ EXTENDED TO MONTH
Morgenthau Jr. to act with the American Red |
NEW YORE, July 27 (U. P.).~ The “standstill” in the stock market extended to a full month today as stocks dawdled through the smallest short session on record |since Aug. 3, 1918. Only 80,000 | shares changed hands. Not a single leader in the main {list was able to break out of the fractional range and changes in excess of a point were limited to a few relatively inactive high-priced issues. There were few business items to influence the market.
M'NARY NOTIFICATION IN OREGON AUG. 28
WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. P.) .—= Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore= gon, Republican Vice Presidential nominee, announced today that he will make his acceptance speech Aug. 28 at the Oregon State Fair Greunds near Salem, Ore. Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota will make the notifica« tion address, :
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