Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1941 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 194]

SECOND SECTION

i Hoosier Vagabond

LOS ANGELES, May 14 —Six weeks ago the West. ern Trailer Co. signed a contract with the Government to build 423 trailers at top speed. They had to create a new factory, get it tooled up and have all the trailers delivered within four months, How's that for fighting the old § war to a standstill? So Charles O'Hanlon dashed out and bought an old building and five acres of ground. He started remodeling the building and making trailers in it at the same time. Today I stood and watched two rows of trailers on the assembly lines. Scores Jf men were hamie mering and pounding and fitting R and painting them. RN And as they pounded, other workmen hammered and pounded at the building around them. For these trailers were being produced in a factory whose roof was only partly on—in a huge room which so far had walls on but two sides. They were being built half-outdoors. The Western Trailer Co. is now operating in two sections. At the home plant, out at the edge of Glendale, they are still making two trailers a day for the commercial market. At the new plant they are rolling out seven a day, and soon it will be eight. Give them six more weeks on the new factory and it will be big enough to hold everything. Then the old plant will be abandoned, and ten trailers a day will roll rom the new one

Dozen a Day Hired Two months ago the Western Trailer Co. employed 120 people. Today its payroll is above 300. Thev've had to take on a personnel manager. He hires a dozen people a day. So specialized is trailer work that only about one in 20 is able to hold a job after geting 1it Most of the trailer makers are Californians. You see little representation here from the flood of migrants pouring into California. Mostly the workmen are young fellows just out of schools in this state. They have a union, and the chief engineer, an enthusiastic young man named Raymond Knight, gets out a monthly company paper Workmen's pay runs from 50 to 75 cents an hour, the average being 58 cents. They work 48 hours a week, and get overtime for the last eight hours. The company works two 82-hour shifts, ending at 1 o'clock in the morning. It may soon go on a 24hour basis. Each empioyee has to wear a badge with his number on it. just as though they were in an airplane factory. They have time-cards, and foremen, and a buzzer call-system. Everything except the actual fitting is more or

about

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town")

THE MOST WORRIED people in town: The 80 Democratic workers in the Alcoholic Beverages ComThey know that, despite their party loyalty, approximately half of them will lose their jobs on June Ist because of the new Stout Law which says that the employees have to be evenly divided between the two . parties. Each is looking suspiciously at his neighbor. . . . William A. Evans, the schools’ publicity director, came to at his desk with a start the other afternoon. He was reading the paper and came across an article saying he was to address School 37 on “National Defense.” He said he didn't know anything about it ‘til then. He made the speech. . . . Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Wiseman of local bowling fame are on their way to Los Angeles, where Mrs. W. is entered in the Women's National Bowling Tournament. Jack Fenstermaker is back in circulation after a tonsillectomy. William Fortune, who for several years has held the honor of having the longest biography in “Who's Who,” is no longer the top man in that field. He's been passed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Dr. Butfer has 119 lines to Mr. Fortune's mere 112,

The Pursuit of Happiness—

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Washington

WASHINGTON, May 14 —One of the hot personal undercover fights in Washington is raging around

Senator Robert R. Reynolds, the anti-war, antiBritish, ultra Isolationist Senator from North Carolina who is in line to be chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The question is whether one of his leanings, and one who has made so many speeches which are totally out of line with Administration policy toward the war, shouid be made chairman of the key committee which handles legislation concerning the Army. Some Senators have indicated strong opposition to elevating Senator Reynolds. Yet to deny him the chairmanship would require casting aside the seniority rule. That the Senate always is reluctant to do since each member figures that some day he may need the seniority rule to get on up the ladder, The Democratic steering committee, which will make the recommendation to the Senate regarding whether Senator Reynolds is to have the chairmanship, is divided now. Isolationists are laying for a fight on this issue if the steering committee rejects Senator Reynolds and an ugly floor controversy would result. The best guess here is that the steering com-

seniority rule.

Voted for the Draft

The question about Senator Reynolds arises from his position on foreign policy. Senator Reynolds has voted for national defense appropriations and for conscription. He has stated on the floor of the Senate that he would vote against a declaration of war. He voted against the Lend-Lease Bill In debate on the Lend-Lease Bill, Senator Reynolds said he was an Isolationist,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday—Yesterday evening, in New York City, Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach called for Mrs. Morgenthau and me to go to the Women's City Club dinner. It was the 25th anniversary of the founding of the club. I was sorry that my old friend, Mrs, Norman de R. Whitehouse, in whose house the idea of a Woman's City Club was first discussed, could not be present. But Dr. Josephine Baker, who was among the founders, presided with grace and efficiency. I did not join the club until my husband returned to New York City in 1920 from Washa ington, but I have had the good { fortune to know many of the ® original founders. I remember with affection and admiration, Miss Mary Garrett Hay's leadership in the first days when I became active on the board. I was sorry too that Mrs. Edward Dreier who was president during most of the years when I worked there, was away and could not be present. I think the women can be proud of fhe record of their accomplishments. But, above everything else, it seems to me that they should be encouraged by the fact that they have been able induce a number of women to take an active on com-

By Ernie Pyle

less mass production. Each piece in the trailer is cut to a plan in the milling room, then carted out and stacked in hundreds of shelves, ready for the workmen. All they have to do is reach up, get a certain numbered piece and put it in its place. They have already cut 45000 bows of a certain curve for this new batch of Government trailers. The old plant is so crowded they've even put small workrooms up under the sheet.iron roof in the gables, much as children make playrooms in barn lofts. Everything is jammed together. There's hardly room to turn around. Trailers cverflow out into the street. In the small main offce the bench for waiting interviewees is stacked so full of boxes there is room for only one person to sit down. At 10 trailers a day, the assembly line will have to have about 40 trailers on it, or it will be four days from the time a naked chassis rolls in one end until it rolls out the other, a completed trailer ready for towing away. The company sublets the work of making the steel chassis for the trailers. That's one offshoot of the modern boom—the example of how one thriving business filters itself out into other thrivings.

Expects to Lose $50,000

Also, it buys its upholstered day-bed seats from another small company nearby. It takes everything this company produces. The little upholstery company has a staff of ten, and is sncwed under and will soon have to expand. Western Trailers vehicles for private sale averages about $1500 in price. Now and then they do a custom job that runs into big money. They've just

FRENCH PORTS

USED BY NAZIS IN LIBYAN DASH

Vichy Connivance Bared in Creating Threat to Britain at Suez.

By JOHN T. WHITAKER Copyright 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LISBON, May 14.—The arrival of German panzer divisions in Libya with the resultant threat to Suez and Great Britain's whole Mediterranean position was made possible, reliable quarters reveal today, by the connivance of the Vichy Government—connivance which assumes considerable significance at a moment when the Germans are negotiating with the French in preparation for new moves. German ships sailed from French ports, German soldiers flew from a French airport and both violated French territorial waters to elude

finished one for a retired Towan that cost $3100. But the Government trailers were bid in at $895! apiece, due to mass-production on the huge order and to standardization. | The regular trailers are finished in Philippine mahogany. But the Government contract requires that only materials produced in the States shall be used, so its trailers are finished in Douglas fir and California redwood. The company figures to lose about $30,000 on the, contract. To compensate for that, it will have aj whole new modern plant when the job is over. There! may be further Government contracts. If not—the| company needed the new plant anyhow. The whole company is owned by Charles O'Hanlon and two partners who have been in business with him for years. O'Hanlon and his family live in a little old house stuck back behind the old trailer plant. O'Hanlon himself is so busy running around vou hardly ever see him. In fact I never did see him, so I dont know what he thinks. I wonder it he thinks the same as I think—what a shame all this nice, new. bustling prosperity has to be crecited to a guy named Adolf!

the British fleet along the African coast, according to reliable observers

both from France and French Tu-| nisia, which lies on the frontier of |

Libya.

These revelations throw light on] Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan’s | threat to convoy French ships and | Vichy delegate to occupied France, Fernand de Brinon's warning that the French fleet may fight from]

French Have Capacity for Escaping

Dakar. Aegean Islands Occupied

Moreover, they give meaning to the negotiations in Paris just as the Germans need passage through Syria, French protectorate lying between Turkey and Palestine, if they are to aid anti-British Arabs in Iraq and attack Suez not merely from Libya but by a pincers effort. The Germans have already occupied several Aegean islands which lead like stepping stones toward Syria; they can assemble perhaps 300 German-Italian-Russian ships, now in the Black Sea, and they can fly troops and supplies by air trans port if the French give them the

stock no snap. While one play is being presented, another is in rehearsal. The players rehearse daily at the I.A.C, play matinees Wednesdays and Saturdays and get to the | theater early enough each evening to put on their | makeup (and this week Colonial costumes) to be all| set for the curtain. As one of ‘em put it: “I think I'd like this city if| I ever got a chance to see it.” |

In Three Easy Lessons— THE OTHER DAY, we found out a couple of rea-

sons why parking stickers can be canceled at City Hall |

and they ought to be good reasons because the Safety | Board okayed them. | If you happen to drive a police car and park in| a taxicab zone while looking for a suspect, as one | officer did not long ago, you can get your sticker |

was issued to Patrol Car 18. | Again, if you receive a sticker issued on a date | when you and your car were down in Mobile, Ala. | and can prove it, the Safety Board will take care of that, too. as in the case of Sticker No. 89447. | And, if you park your car overtime on Saturday | afternoon in the 500 Block, Capitol Ave. it ought to be a cinch. Just say there wasn't much traffic at the time and that police in other cities don’t issue stickers on Saturday afternoons. The Safety Board wili cancel the sticker, as in the case of No. 91631.

By Raymond Clapper

“Some call us continentalists, some appeasers, some fifth columnists, some traitors, some pro-Nazis,” Senator Reynolds said, “but whatever they call us, because we are interested in America first, our view upon the issue of saving America for Americans still prevails in our hearts and minds.” Frequently Senator Reynolds has advocated complete exclusion of immigration. He was involved in an organization called the Vindicators, which displayed anti-Semitic leanings.

A Milder Huey Long | If Senator Reynolds should become chairman of | this important committee and should continue to} make the kind of speeches which he has often made in the Senate, the effect abroad would be unfortunate so far as this Government's policies are concerned. His position would give his words an importance abroad which would Oe out of all proportion to reality. This has been the consideration that has caused some members to oppose his selection for the chairmanship. However Senator Reynolds is understood to have given assurances to some of his fellow Senators that he is fully aware of the responsibility that the chairmanship would impose on him and that he would conduct himself accordingly. If Senators could be sure of that, there would be little opposition to him, but some of them are not. Senator Reynolds is a milder kind of Huey Long, with the same love for lengthy omnibus harangues in the Senate, with something of the same salty humor and the same fondness of his own voice. When you get a fellow like that in the Senate, where no restriction on debate exists, he may have the best intentions in the world, but he can’t stop himself. There's no liquor as intoxicating or as irresistible as the privilege of standing in the United States Senate and telling the world. An optimist is a person who believes that the chairmanship of a Senate committee would make a silent man out of Bob Reynolds.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

mittees, which are really informing themselves on municipal government. I Opa tirlarly pleased last night to note the youth of many of the chairmen of the committees, who stood up to take their bows. I have always felt that when young people come into an organization, that organization is on a firm foundation and will continue to grow. The platform for next year was read by the club's new president, Miss Bartlett. Then Mr. Newbold Morris, who frequently pinch-hit very successfully for the busy and overburdened Mayor of New York City, discussed this platform and gave the point of view of a city official on some of the things which the women suggested. His talk was excellent and the audience listened attentively. It was a tribute to him and also to the educational work done by the Women's City Club in the past few years. Mrs. Morgenthau and I flew to Washington this morning. It was certainly grand to return and be met by so many smiling faces, to find the President feeling much better and our son, Elliott, and his wife, Ruth, still here. In these times, when our children scatter to parts unknown, under orders, even a day or two, nr a few hours here and there, make a difference in life. The President started in soon after my arrival with a stream of visitors and I went directly to my press conference. In a few minutes I shall go to lunch with the

ladies of the Senate. So you the routine begins again with Sw

Washington

all-clear signal for Syria. In this connection, it is reliably

‘reported that French North African

Commander - in -« Chief General

Maxime Weygand declined recently |

to go to Syria to organize defense there on Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's formula that the whole of the French Empire’s integrity must be defended against any aggressor.

Used French Seaports ~ The present Mediterranean crisis is due entirely to the successful passage of German divisions to Libya at a moment when British Middle Eastern Commander General Sir Archibald Wavell was ordered to halt his advance toward Tunisia, go on the defensive and send troops from Libya to Greece.

\ This was | canceled, as in the case of Sticker No. 92323 which |gganization a Germn

Using Marseilles and Toulon as well as Italian ports from Genoa through Naples, the Germans assembled 124 ships with men and supplies in a vast movement which began the first week of February and within a month had landed nearly three panzer divisions in Africa, according to reliable observers. In preparation the Germans had straddled the Straits of Sicily with 1600 Stukas. Thanks to these planes and the co-operation or blindness of the French authorities, these ships gem along the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia on the one hand and along the northern coast of Sicily oh the other hand, then made night-time dashes to the coasts of Algeria and Tunisia. Simultaneously with passage of these ships the Germans flew 36,000 officers and men from the Marignane airport of Marseilles, using old-fashioned transport planes of which they have thousands.

AUSSIES REFUSE

T0 FIGURE 0DDS

Two at Tobruk Choose to.

Battle 30 Germans When Surrounded.

By J. H. YINDRICH United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH GARRISON AT TOBRUK, May 9 (Delayed) —As the Axis siege of Tobruk enters its fifth week today, strange things are happening to some of the men, For example, two Australian infantrymen left manning an observation post one night were heard by their colleagues in the rear arguing whether a bunch of about 30 soldiers approaching in the semidarkness were Germans or a returning Australian patrol, They had reached no decision until the soldiers were almost upon them. Then one of the Australians called out, “Who goes there?” Accent Gives Them Away “Soldiers; Aussies,” came the prompt reply, but the accent was distinctly gutteral German. The two Austrailians realized, too late, that the soldiers were enemies. They were surrounded. “Kamerad,” one of the Germans shouted. Believing this was a demand for surrender, one of the Australians retorted, “Surrender my . . .; yourself.” A German rifle cracked and the Australian was shot through the buttocks as he flung himself to the 2

German Hooked on Chin The shot attracted the attention of nearby Australian troops, however, and they opened fire, killing several of the Germans, routing the rest and rescuing the two outpost men. The wounded one was found hiding in a shell hole. There also was the case of the young Australian dozing in a trench, who awoke to find a German standing over him with a Tommy gun. The German told him to surrender but the youth, still groggy from sleep, sprang up and caught the German on the chin his fist, knocking him out.

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The following is the second of two articles written by an American

newspaperman, who recently passed

through France, for whose integ-

rity the editor can vouch, but whose identity for obvious reasons can-

not be disclosed.

SOMEWHERE ON

THE DEMARCATION LINE

BETWEEN UNOCCUPIED AND OCCUPIED FRANCE. —One morning I saw three escaped French prisoners passing the demarcation line and reaching freed.

They were youths of 20 with lor by 20 days on the roads. They had

1g beards and pale faces, worn out tried to pass at midnight, but the

night was so clear that the Germans had seen them and fired at them. They decided to wait for daybreak to try their luck again.

Creeping along hedges, crossing fields at a run, much too near to liberty to risk meeting a German patrol, they met a farmer with his plow going to his daily work on the other side of the line. They winked at one another and followed him as assistant plowmen. By good luck the patrol happened to be looking the other way. I met them on the road just this side of the line. It was the first time they had dared walk on the open road since their escape. Tired as they obviously were, their joy was something to see, and as they recounted their adventure. These boys were in a camp in Alsace. They were loaned out to work on various farms. Over a period of time they had managed to “collect” from the farms a small wardrobe of ragged clothing. The farmers shut their eyes. They left, three of them, having made an oath they would arrive three, or not at all.

Walk for 20 Nights

TWENTY NIGHTS they had walked, sleeping during the day--tapping at farm doors where they thought, or knew, the farmer was well disposed. How did they find their way toward free France? Well, we had a drink together in a little country inn where I was staying, and I learned a little of what men do when put to it. They showed me their compass. It was a magnetic needle placed over a champagne cork, floating in a saucer full of water, With this they had managed to cross Alsace and the whole of Eastern France, and to get to Vernizy, a good little spot for escaped prisoners. By some mysterious means, very much like the way Arabs in the desert get news in record time, ali prisoners making for France seem to have heard of Vernizy. In their camp the treatment wasn't so bad; but food was scarce. They couldn't complain in their letters, as form letters were written on a blackboard in the camp, which they were supposed to copy. naturally highly laudatory of the German treatment. If they didn’t conform, food became even scarcer, and a rifie butt in the back might tend to improve their appreciation of their treatment. Apart from that, the treatment was good, so good, that if France should ever win a war, they said they would volunteer as prison guards “just to let

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Know Tricks of Escape

THE LITTLE INN where prisoners await cars to take them to neighboring big centers is the hub of Vernizy life. The number of prisoners passing through Vernizy had decreased noticeably during the winter months, but with spring things are looking up again. Sometimes as many as 60 a day pass, in groups of twos and threes. The French are displaying an extraordinary capacity for escaping, equal to that of the Poles. Some of them have great difficulty in finding their way. One lad came all the way from the Palatinate on the information which his mother had given him that moss on the foot of oak trees grows toward the north. He managed to reach unoccupied France on this Sioux-like knowledge. Peasants all aiong the route risk shooting if they are caught helping an escaping man, but this does not deter them. All of Vernizy's clients are not escaped soldiers. Lads in the occupied zone try to escape from the Germans’ clutches. They are easily distinguishable from soldiers because of their less varied and less ragged clothes. They es-

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cape because they do not want to go to Germany to work. Recently the Germans commandeered 400 workers from the Peugeot factories near Belfort, and some days ago summoned all the youth from one district near Besancon. Most of them turned up and they were sent off to the Ruhr where the Germans prefer to have French workmen get the R. A, F. bombings. Hence, the reason for so many youngsters in Vernizy. ou

Killed by Patrol

ALL THE STORIES one hears are not happy ones. But this is the saddest I nave heard: Ten days ago a lone prisoner reached the river which marks the demarcation line on some points of Vernizy territory. He undressed to swim more easily. A German patrol saw him and let nim cross the river, and then, just when he was putting his foot onto free France, they fired. The poor fellow was killed. There was nothing to indicate who he was or whence he came, He will never be identified. The whole village accompanied his body to the little churchyard and the villagers wept and prayed for their “unknown” comrade and covered his grave with spring flowers. I went to see his tomb—the tomb of the “Unknown Soldier of Vernizy”’ a simple grave with a white stone. No name. No date. I have seen tombs of “Unknown Soldiers” all over the world. None impressed me as much as that of the little “Unknown Soldier of Vernizy.” Another “Unknown Soldier” may be placed one day alongside his victorious brother under the Arc de Triomphe, but for the people of Vernizy the “Unknown Soldier” of this war will remain their little one, who was struck down just when he was stepping forth onto unoccupied France.

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Trial Balloons to Test War Sentiment Now Big Business

By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 14—The job of selling the country on the

idea of this detense effort is une of the more amazing sidelights of preparedness for war. Since it's the newspaper reader who has tb be sold, you may be interested in knowing a little about the inner workings of the sales technique. It isn’t organized into anything like a Ministry of Propaganda yet, for the main acts are run as separate, independent shows — the Army, Navy and the Office for Emergency: Management. Also, every army camp, naval station and air base has its own publicity officer. The seliing job, the idea of getting everybody all hipped up on

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this program, begins at the top and goes right through every defense agency. There is a constant demand for speakers. Cabinet members in cutaways, assorted admirals and generals in or out of gold braid, and dollar-a-year brass hats in business suits or dinner jackets can always expect a call to say something before national conventions, trade associations or regular sessions of the 75-cent blue plate special luncheon clubs. Among the starred and striped officers of the armed services, these speeches take the line of telling the citizenry what a great Navy we got and what a great Army we will have, Speeches Carefully Prepared The job of cabineteers of late has been to preside at the launching of trial balloons, as witness the recent speeches of Secretaries Knox and Stimson. The real burden of gumshoe salesmanship on the defense effort has therefore fallen to the dollar-a-year men in OPM. All these speeches have to be carefully prepared and approved so there won't be any apologies and explanations to make later, As a result, there has grown up a sizeable force of Washington speech writers. Spread Information Taking care of the press, the radio and the newsreels, the special magazine writers, columnists and commentators is, however, so far the biggest part of the selling campaign. Perhaps it's incorrect to call this aspect of the work selling. Information spreading is more exact, for the public does want to know what's going on and how and why. In Washington alone, Navy's press office has more than a dozen officers and Army more than a score, Army Air Corps has its own press section, so specialized has its work become. Office for Emergency Management, including OPM and 16 different defense agencies, has its division of information with a staff of 20 ex-newspapermen turned press agents to ballyhoo the show. Covering the defense activities in the whole country, with factories shooting up here, sub-contracts all over the place and civilian co-op-eration being sought everywhere, has become such a job that OPM publicitymen are now being placed in the 12 Federal Reserve Disiricts.

Cadet Seeds met the hospitable crew as he landed at Austin recently on his first cross-

HITLER HOPES T0 SCARE U. S.

‘Franco-German and Stalin

Talks Are Intended to Prove United Europe.

By PAUL GHALI Copyright. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. VICHY, May 14.—Adolf Hitler is using the current Franco-German negotiations and reports of a forthe coming meeting with Josef Stalin as a sort of scarecrow to restrain American bellicoism, it is believed

here. If the United States gets into the war Hitler wants her to understand that she will face what he terms a united Europe. For this reason the Fuehrer is believed to have carefully timed his present talks with Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan and reports of an im= minent meeting with Stalin to coincide with President Roosevelt's speech, which ' was scheduled for tonight, but canceled.

Darlan Is Secretive

The growing conviction here that America is ready to help Britain by all the means in her power undoubtedly precipiated the French German negotiations and will also speed their conclusion. France's acceptance of the European new order today has its value for Hitler, and the Fuehrer will agree to pay a price. For France it means that by giving now what she is not in a position to refuse, she may relieve French shoulders of some of the terrible burden of her defeat. What Hitler told Darlan; what will be the results of the talks, will probably remain unknown for seve eral days. Darlan is not like fore mer Vice Premier Pierre Laval, whose secrets were shared by practically everybody in Vichy.

Payment Easy to Guess

However, some reports have leaked out concerning the preparatory talks under way in Paris. Ac cording to trustworthy sources Darlan is discussing in Paris two main points: 1. The moving up of the demarcation line so as to include Paris in the unoccupied zone. 2. Some sort of acknowledgment by Germany of the integrity of the French Empire. These are big advantages and France has to pay for them. The payment is an easy guess. Short of declaring war France can grant many advantages to the German victors. Germany is interested in the fate of French North Africa and the strategic West African port of Dakar. When General Sir Archibald Wavell, British Middle Eastern coms= mander, through politicians’ meds= dling, did not advance to the bore ders of Tunisia, he may have sete tled the future of French Africa,

"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Are Pullman berths made up with the head toward the engine or the other way round? 2—What was the pen-name of Wil lard Huntington Wright? 3—What character in a well-known nursery rhyme lost her sheep? 4—Who commanded the British forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill? 5—Is Mercury, Venus or Mars the smallest planet? 6—The adective that means ‘ree lating to law and judicial proe ceedings” is j-r-d-c-1? T—Was' Jefferson Davis ever a member of the U. S. Congress? 8—Japanese are, or are not, eligible for naturalization in the United States? Answers

1—Toward the engine. 2—8. 8S. Van Dine. 3—Little Bo Peep. 4—Sir William Howe. 5—Mercury. §—Juridical. T—Yes.

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