Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1940 — Page 11
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1940
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
BROWN COUNTY, Ind. Aug. 28.—I'll bet nobody has ever won a dollar the way I did last night. If I could find enough takers it would be a good way to make a living. We were having dinner at the Nashville House. About six of us were eating in a private back room. There were Johnny Wallace and John Horton, the bird boys 1 wrote about the other day, and Helen Andrews, who makes arty things of leather, and Susie Lindsay, who manages the Nashville House. We were Susie's guests. It was terribly hot. The party being very informal, John Wallace was wearing a loose sport shirt, unbuttoned, just hanging loose around him, showing his : chest. John is very tall, and thinks he’s very thin, and was sort of apologetic about the skeleton-like appearance of his chest. So, to keep up the conversation, I remarked that his chest was Atlas-like compared to mine. “I'll bet you,” said John. “I'll bet you a dollar we can count more ribs on me than on vou.” “Taken,” I said, and started taking off my shirt. Susie was appointed the official rib-counter. I knew all the time how it would turn out—it really was an unfair bet. » Susie didn’t even bother to count. She just took oe look at me, sort of snickered, and handed me the ollar. I'm going to buy a hox of Vitamin B-1 pills with it.
n Naming of Pike's Peak
There are some fascinating village names in Brown County, such as Gnaw Bone, Stone Head and Pike's Peak. There are various legends about how each one got its name, but I like the Pike's Peak one best. It seems that a long time ago a fellow from these parts got the Western fever. So he sold his patch of ground and all his furniture, stocked up his wagon with several months’ supplies, and started West. On the side of his wagon he painted (as so many later-day pioneers painted on their autos) the words: “Pike's Peak or Bust.” Well, roads weren't so good in those days.
Inside Indianap
JOHN W. ROBERTS of the W. A. Brennan company doesn’t think we went anywhere near telling the full story about real estate assessments and taxes, As a matter of fact, Mr. Roberts says we didn't tell half the story. The half he has in mind concerns the over-assessment of many buildings, particularly those in the heart of the business district, He told us about a three-story, 100-foot frontage downtown building which recently sold for $23,000, although assessed for $86,000. The trouble, he says, is that speculation in the roaring twenties (remember?) sent real estate values sky-high and that the 1928 re-assessment was on the basis of their speculative values and not their actual worth. In 1932, he adds, they were still talking about the depression being “temporary” and although there was a 20 per cent horizontal cut in Center Township, property in the downtown high rent district still was ’way, ‘way up in the clouds. That's the reason, he contends, that so many old downtown buildings are being razed. They won't even earn their taxes.
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The “Clincher” Case
To him, the clincher case is a 35-year-old building, assessed at $71,000. It earns $3000 a year in rental. Taxes are $2450, insurance $250, maintenance more than $200 a year, management fee $90, gross income tax $30, and so on. The whole business is holding up sales and improvements of downtown buildings, concludes Mr. Roberts forcefully, and driving business to the outlying community centers. The whole story, that's us.
Washington
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28.—Some have said that the Willkie-McNary campaign is bound to be a weak one because the two Republican candidates support many New Deal measures. If their campaign proves to be weak, it will not be for that reason but because, among other things, of a public suspicion that the Republican Party organization and many of its representatives in Congress are not as fully abreast of the times as the two top candidates who were thrust upon the Philadelphia convention. The trouble with the Republican Party has been that it has been out of step with the desires and needs of the American people during the last decade. Republican reactionaries have been unintending contributors to President Roosevelt's popularity. He has been loved because of the enemies he has made. Blind. head-long opposition to Roosevelt has plaved into his hands. A large majority of voters have recorded their conviction that on balance, as between Roosevelt and his opposition, he was doing or trying to do the things that needed doing, he has been allowed to exercise something of a monopoly in that field.
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Private Enterprise In that situation the Roosevelt Administration has been able to get hy with sloppy administration. It has been able to get by with reckless and poorly developed experiments. Tt has heen able to get by with bare-faced demagogery and with practices that amounted to disguised vote-buying out of the Federal Treasury. Because of Republican indifference or lack of understanding, Roosevelt has heen able almost to monopolize the leadership of the country in shaping policies growing out of the war in Europe Regular Republican candidates for the Presidential nomination were so far away from the realities that the public took matters out of the hands of the Phila-
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—The meeting with Aubrey Williams and the group of people who came together to discuss the National Youth Administra-
tion program as it now stands and how it can be improved, was most interesting. We discussed the change in the position of young people where defense is concerned, what it will mean to the program as a whole and what the whol2 problem of idle young people means to national defense. I have yet to see anywhere a program or a statement which fully satisfies my own sense of what national defense really means. I have probably missed it, for some= body must have put into words what IT am thinking about, namely the fact that national defense is a matter of spirit as weil as of material things. I think, perhaps, spirit is the most important part of it. We can follow Senator Byrd's suggestion and appoint Congressional committees to speed defense materials, but they will be no more successful than any other group has been until we realize that defense is not a matter of what you get, but of what you give. Anv government would be foolish not to take into consideration the fact that it wants to learn from the
| By Ernie Pyle
the fellow a week to get from here to the Ohio River. By that time he was so homesick he couldn't go on, so he turned around and came back, Here he was home again. with no house, no land, nothing but a wagon full of supplies. So he set up a tent for a home, and started peddling his supplies to the people around. It got so people would say, if you | needed something, “Why don’t you go down and get it from that Pike's Peak feller?” And that's how the place got its name. TIi's jusl a tiny settlement. And the funny thing is, it's down in a valley, and there isn't a respectable hill within | half a mile.
u Riley's Sceretary Probably the No. 1 sage of Brown County is a man named Marcus Dickey. And I didn't get to see him, for he was down in bed with a bad cold. He was secretary to James Whitcomb Riley. Dickey has lived here at least a quarter of a century. His home is on a high Wallow.” Across from the house is a wooden observa-
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ridge called “Bear De
tion platform, where people can stand for a superb ®
view of the hills in all directions.
And so many tourists have knocked on Dickey'’s|
door to ask about Bear Wallow that he has put a sign in the front yard saying: “Bears Not Wallow- |
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Since food to me is bad enough without having to 3 cook it myself, T do not get any meals in my cabin, | "4
but eat down at the Nashville House. Usually I eat with Susie Lindsay, the manager, and Helen Andrews, who stays there. Helen runs a little shop in a rustic building across the street. She sells such things as wooden sculp-| tures, pottery, hand-woven rugs and various souvenir | trinkets. And above all, her own leather work. She is a young widow, making her own way. She fashions beautiful purses and book-covers and what not out of leather. { I was especially interested in this leather work because That Girl also has got to be a whiz with | leather, vou know. The main difference is that Helen | sells hers, while That Girl gives everything away. Which is certainly no way to make a living for | me. and I intend to speak harshly to her about it the] next time I see her.
olis (And “Our Town’)
MAXWELL DROKE, our publishing friend, is in| a challenging frame of mind about the “alleged” British sense of humor. It seems that Mr. Droke has received a cabled offer for condensation rights | to one of his little quiz books, “How to Test Your | Sense of Rumor.” We suppose the best way would | be to dodge a falling bomb with great aplomb. watch | it blow the smithereens out of the sidewalk ana then chortly briskly: “Ripping! Jolly close, eh what?” |
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New Bertita Harding Book
AND WHILE WE'RE ON the book subject, we] ought to mention that Bertita Harding has writ- | ten another historical novel. Bohbs-Merrill is | issuing it Sept. 16th under the title “Hungarian Rhapsody.”. . . Don Wright of the Rivoli Theater] is telling the story of the girl who went down to Union Station to meet her boy friend, only to] find another girl-friend of his there, too. It's | bad enough explaining to one, how do vou do it with two? The new Democratic offices across | from the Court House now sport a giant sign: “Roosevelt—The Humanitarian.”. . . Only odd thing about it is that the quarters are exactly the same place where only a couple of months ago was the sign on the window saying the owner was fed up with the New Deal and was quitting husiness. | George H. Denny (Young George) is telling the story | about his young son Christopher and a playmate. | : They dialed the drugstore the other evening, | asked: “Have you got Prince Albert in a tin?” , . The drugstore said yes. they had “Well, why don’t vou let him out,” shouted the T-year-olds, “Ha! Ha! Ha! .. . George savs he doesn't see where the younger generation is any improvement at all. | All we can say is that we know 37-year-olds who do | no better, |
By Raymond Clapper
convention and forced Willkie, a former | Democrat, upon the party. He, in turn, chose as his Vice Presidential candidate, Senator McNary who even though he was Republican Leader of the Senate, voted for numerous New Deal measures Thus the country is offered an alternative to the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket which does not represent a retreat to the days of Harding. This ticket also recognizes one thing which has heen lost sight of in the battle to establish the New Deal reforms. It recognizes that in a private capitalist system, the private enterpriser is part of the team.
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n Our System in Peril
Unrelenting opposition to the New Deal hy many businessmen plus the impatient and hard-riding tactics of some in the Roosevelt Administration have created a deep mutual mistrust between the Administration and business that does not seem to heal. Mutual suspicions are too fixed now. More aggressive persons in the Administration have sought to! break the stalemate by strong-arm methods. If this stalemate should continue, national interest might require strong measures over business. The impasse | could very well bring about drastic alterations in our system, In the Willkie-McNary ticket the country is offered two men who do not menace the social reforms and the regulatory fundamentals that have been inaugurated in recent years but who do promise to end the internal warfare and bring the enormous resources of private enterprise fully and enthusiastical- | ly into play. That is the great need now—to end the stagnating resistance of business forces and knit aggressive enterprise back into our system on the new plateau of | social progress that has heen reached. If the Republican organization is alert enough to seize this historic role in our national progress and to embrace the leadership of Willkie to that end. it { can put on a campaign worthy of the times. Wailing |t to throw itself into this campaign on the stand taken | hy Willkie, the party will nullify his effectiveness and | leave him stranded on election day with only the j
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pression” are directing the registering of In- | dianapolis’ 4000 non-citizens found [vesterday on the first day of regis- | tration under the Alien Registration | | Act,
[ instructed hy Seidensticker
Meet “Hollywood” Robinson, fireman at No, 1.
For the price of a
couple of baseball tickets, you have “Hollywood” and all the bovs standing by 24 hours a day, just in case. . . .
By Richard Lewis NAKE the price of a suit of clothes. Multiply it by the population of the world’s greatest inland city. You have the amount officials figure it will take to run Indianapolis next year. For each resident of Indianapolis, the proposed 1941 City budget proposes to spend $22.62. It doesn't sound like much. But it adds up to $8,000.000. The price of this hypothetical suit of clothes is the per capita cost for municipal services for 386.000 people, It's the amount each person would spend to keep Indianapolis running if taxes were levied by the head, instead of against real and personal property. It mcludes, for instance, the cost of executive direction of Indiana’s biggest municipal corporation (valuation $511,000,000, assets unlimited). For each one, this amounts «o the evening price of a downstairs seat in a down-
town movie ” I’ includes police protection, for which each resident pays the equivalent of two good seats at Perry Stadium. Make it four seats, and you can throw in the cost of fire protection. Each time you change the oil in your car and fill the tank with gas, vou pay the equivalent of your share of street maintenance. A can of tennis balls would pay your share of public parks and playgrounds, When you have that tooth filled next time, it might comfort you to know vou are probably paying more than the per capita cost of municipal health service — including City Hospital.
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HE price of a chicken for a family of four equals the cost of garbage and rubbish collection for each person, The price of a child's pair of shoes, multi= plied 360,000 times, is hig enough
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Majority of Aliens Register-
ing Have or Plan to Get Them.
The large majority of the 140
non-citizens registered yesterday at
he Postoffice either have taken out heir first citizenship papers or plan 0 do so as soon as the legal time
limit expires.
This was “the most common exthe Postoffice clerks who
All of them were more than
The registration clerks have been Postmaster Adolph use the “utmost in dealing with
to act and courtesy” he non-citizens,
“We must make them realize that his is for our national defense and n no way is an mdictment on our
willing to volunteer information and | aided the clerks as much as possible. |
FIRST PAPERS' | Arar of Pants | ran OW
ARE NUMEROUS
DEATH TG BE ASKED
satisfaction of having conducted a noble experiment. | {housands of loyal non-citizens,” he
| said. {of aliens who seek to
By Eleanor Roosevelt of life that will be hurt by this |
‘egistration.”
destroy o
Due to “the extremely smooth
manner’ in which the registration
results of the last war. It does not want to place mdividual industrialists or business people in a position where the aftermath of expansion is ruin. There are many ways, however, of meeting this problem without haggling for weeks over the period of amortization, or the amount of interest which shall be earned by money invested. Why should people say that this bill has been retarded by tying the two things together? They logically go together, You cannot divide the boy whom you draft into two pieces. He gives all he has to give and takes a complete risk. Somehow the two things are tied up in my mind, and I think should be in the minds of all the people of the country. Yes, the] spirit for defense must come first before the material | things ever materialize, In addition, it seems to me that defense is a question of national mobilization. A mobilization of all of us which gives all of us something to do, trains us|
place. conceivably make our communities better places in|
which to live, if we tie our training program up with | tion in fare of 3 cents on the line. [ment yesterday Railway officials said the frequency Ebeling after a robbery,
the needs of every community,
began does not anticipate any trouble and | Richard Klowetter, expects to have all aliens registered before the Dec. 26 deadline. The registration office, 215 Federal | Palmyra, Ill, held Building, will be open from 10 a. m. | with the robbery-slaying of Walter until 9 p. m. each day except Sunday.
yesterday, the
FOR E. SIDE BUS LINE | Ebeling, 31-year-old New
[theater manager, disappeared July Piepenbrok of St. John's Evangelical Substitution of trackless trolley 9 while driving to Michigan after and Reformed Church, will officiate.
| UNION ©ITY, Ind, Aug. ,28 victim as he was reported to be an (U. P).—Paul Adkins, 14, Union or was City, and Lester Thomas, 14, a playYork's mate, were killed when they were [struck by Klowetter signed a formal state- train while cycling here late yesterkilling | day.
(busses for the motorbusses now operating on the E, 10th St.-Arlington |
The change would bring a reduc-
“It is ohly the small minority | ur|
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PROPOSES TROLLEYS |
Ave. line today was proposed to the anti-Nazi although his theat so we fit, according to our capacity, into a special Works Board by the Indianapolis located in Yorkville, New It will make us better citizens and it might Railways.
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to meet next vear's municipal debt payments,
Where does all $8,000,000 go? Most of it (54.2 per cent) flows back into the community as salaries and wages. The rest goes for utilities and contractual services, supplies, materials, properties, fire and police pensions and payments on the city debt, How is all this money spent? Police and fire protection pius the pensions take the biggest slice, almost 1wo-fifths Street maimmtenance, lighting water
this money—
and
FIREMAN DOLPHA KING going to get a brand new trousers just because the Noblesville City Council appreciates the trouble he experienced in helping fight a furniture factory fire there recently
Mr. King, 10th St. and
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Engine House 7, crew sent from here to help fight the $125,000 blaze. He fought so hard he lost seat of his trousers. To make matters worse, his billfold contaming almost $5 disappeared, 100. The fireman wrote the Mavor of Noblesville asking him to file a claim for him. Before Council could act, Mr. King wrote the Mayor again, asking to withdraw his claim because he had found the hillfold in his hip boots But the Mavor didn't withdraw the claim, and Council voted Mr. King a new pair of trousers His embarrassment over having no seat in his trousers sucht to be worth that much, thev reasoned,
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FOR EBELING MURDER
SOUTH BEND. Ind, Aug. 28 (U
[P.).—<St. Joseph County Prosecutor | he |
Arthur FF. Scheer said today
Postmaster Would ask the death penalty for Niles,
24, of
Mich, and Mervin Cagle, 21,
Ebeling near here last month
Bend officials sought as witnesses walt are to be at 3 p. m. tomorrow two other youths whose names they in Chapel, with York Park Cemetery.
refused to reveal.
visiting friends here. Police for a time feared that he was a voiitical
German section.
admitting police said
Our son Jimmy joined us in Washington yesterday of service with the trackless trolley He also allegedly admitted several and came up to New York City with me last evening. | would be about the same as on the Today is a fine day, and 1 am seeing a number of peo- present motorbus line.
ple and doing a variety of errands, dining tonight |
with a friend and returning to the country tomorrow eliminated on LaSalle St {York to 10th St. according to plans, ment implicated him,
evening.
service would be from New
Transportation
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burglaries and robberies near Indianapolis.
good as gold, maturities on time,
main filth, about yarks and playgrounds, debt pay=
It's one thousand dollars that Eileen Kelly holds in her hand, a bond of the City of Indianapolis The reason the City's financial standing This costs vou the equivalent of a good
rentals take almost ones Health and sanitation take a fifth The rest goes for
ments and general administration,
will $100 City of Board
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HE actual cost to finance the . proposed budget next year be $1.26, levied against each taxable property. The the County Board the State Tax have their turn
of Council, Review and will each
at trying to cut this rate, the low-
at
st since
Double Funeral Tomorrow;
Double held Albert Sunday night
1938
SUNDAY CRASH
Westfield Accident Is Fatal to Woman.
funeral services will be lomorrow for Mr. and Mis M. Stierwalt, injured fatally in a wraffic accident tributed to slippery streetcar rails.y Mr. Suierwalt, 61, died last night
in Methodist Hospital, His wife was Killed almost, instantly in the acci-
aent,
Mr. and Mrs
at
Stierv alt, who lived
2402 N. Capitol Ave, were on |
their way home from Martinsville |
where when their car
had visited relatives | skidded in the 1100 |
they
block, Kentucky Ave, and collided [with a tractor-trailer,
Of
Dies at Tipton
sanwhile, Mrs. Fern Murphy, 43, died at Beechwood Hos- |
M Walton
pital, near Tipton, last night of m= |
juries
received mn a head-on auto
collision vesterday north of West- |
field on U
8. 31
Benjamin F. lawrence, general
manager of the Indianapolis Star, | and Mrs. collision, condition Hospital ported to have an ankle bone broKen,
Lawrence, injured inthe were reported in good today at St. Vincent's) Mr, Lawrence was TYe-
while Mrs. Lawrence's left |
ankle and wrist were broken and she
was cut and bruised.
Heard ‘Three Clicks’ George Murphy, husband of the
victim, told State police he heard |
of “three clicks” in the front of his car, in connection and then it went out of control, |
striking the car driven by Mr, Law- | rence, who was approaching from | {the opposite direction. Meanwhile State Police and South |
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Services for Mr. and Mrs, Stier=| | Harry W. Moore Peace burial in Memorial The Rev. Ernest
the
a Pennsvivania freight
DROWNS AT BURT LAKE
PETOSKEY, Mich, Aug. 28 (U, ) —-Miss Nellie Morrissey, Ander-
Cagle had refused to make any son, Ind, was drowned in Burt Lake
statement, but
{a
Klowetter's state- vesterday when she was swept from
launch by rough waters,
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12 DIES AFTER
is considered A-1 umbrella.
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is its habit of meeting
The price of a medium-priced suit of clothes is the per capita cost
of Indianapolis’ $8,000,000 annual budget, it were vou'd pay $22.62,
financed that way, but il
Of course, a budget fsn't The shoes reps
resent the equivalent of the per capita cost of police protection or
debt payments,
What can be cut? Salaries are more or less lixed by tradition, and marked reluctance -- among review bodies but among taxpayers’ organizations themselves—to cut wages, That makes 54 per cent of the budget that may nol be altered at all, Utilities and contractual seryfces—13.4 per cent. This includes lighting for streels and public buildings, telephone service, heat, It, too, is rarely cut, That makes 67 per cent of the budget that may escape trimming. » 4 = about current the payments on the This he
there is
only
not
HAT obliga« tions
municipal debt? cannof
Hoosier Goings On
ALL WET
premiums
dizing the enviable financial
standing of the City, That makes, roughly, 84 per cent of the budget that isn't likely to be cut Take current 2) per This insurance indemnities and rentals, likely er, since these charges or less fixed by the of municipal operation And that makes 89 per almost 90 per cent of the budget, that won't be subject to much cutting. What is left? Properties—1.5 per cent, Supplies—69 per cent Materials—2.5 per cent These the item roughly 10 per whole can
charges (5 cent includes to be cut, « are moive extent
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Police Were After Saving Dummy; Robbers Ransack Car In Mid-Stream
By JOE COLLIER
A SERIES OF BALMY sult 1s this dippy column At Bloomington, police were stream. Two patrolmen out the form of the vietim
beach. There was a crowd of spec tators, Finally the hero patrolman managed to get to shore and was helped up by his brother officer He carried the lower half a clothing dummy-—the victim,
of
> % # A RICHMOND family was, for some obscure reason, driving in a river bottoms in their car when it got stuck in the mud, Failing to themselves, they locked Police Sta-
get it out it and walked to the tion,
to help and the In the one
Police agreed party returned to the cai absence of the family some had broken the glass on the car, entered it, and stolen purses and tools
Police made a cast of the muddy
footprint on the cushion of the rear seat and xet out after the robbers. That's the last report on the matter at press time, CE A 13-year-old Goshen boy, fed up with things as they were af home due to a recent punishment sel oul to run away, He proceeded
| down a country road a few miles
from the town and came across the Charles Yoder farm. A particularly voracious dog, owned by the Yoders, started for the runaway and the boy climbed a tree. The dog continued to bark and Mr. Yoder was attracted to the scene, He got the boy down, learned he was a runaway, notified his parents, The boy is, according to last-minute reports, at home,
A WATERFORD man rode his bicvele to a store and bought two cases of beer, He put them on the handle bars of the wheel and started pedaling home, It was too much to manage, He and the beer fell to the pavement, scrambled pretty thoroughly vith the bicycle, All the beer bottles broke. The man was temporarily knocked unconscious, A passing
a
incidents has hit
called appeared and mid=-stream One plunged in and swam toward he
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motorist picked him up and took him to a doctor He was injured onl rode home despondently wheel
slightly and on his
" # ® TWO GARY girls were boat ride ing in Lake Michigan when their
They climbed one there
boat overturned to the boat bottom and sat waiting to be rescued A lifeguard crew into action and sped to the Ax crew maneuvered its nea the stranded girls slipped quietly into the water swam toward shore. They ar+i before the lifeguard boat
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Name (he three of the human recognized today «Do Japanese quince edible fruit? Which country capital? «What is the name of the instrus ment used to measure his midity? ~What is a dace?
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is Khartoum the
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Vice Presidential candidate, a native of Iowa, Idaho or Kansas?
Answers
«White, yellow-brown and black. Yes, ~Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Hygrometer, A fish,
6=Iowa,
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