Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1941 — Page 15

“THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941 |

\ Hoosier Vagabond

ALBUQUERQUE, July 10.—On this recent vacation I didn’t make any special effort to avoid. thinking about. the affairs of the world, but somehow the world’s affairs seemed to fade into the background of their own accord. Truth is, I simply got more interested in my fence-building than in the war. But I would not recommend this attitude as a public policy. Imagine 130,000,000 Americans all building fence-while Rome burns. No, that wouldn't do. Besides, it would result in ¢too much fence. But it was certainly all right for a little while. radio, so I didn’t have to listen to the daily breathless newscasts. We did- have the paper delivered : every - evening, and I read the ~. headlines and the comics, but that is about all. In fact, I've discovered that you know practically as much about the war by thinking just a little about it, as you de by thinking about g + it all the time. I believe people out here are gefting kind of dis- # gusted with the war. It’s as though you had been * grabbing at a greased pig for months, and finally you give up in disgust. \

What I mean is that people have all had their

theories and convictions about what was happening and what we should do about it. But in this war you can’t harbor a good righteous conyiction more than a week until something happens to upset your applecart. '

They Can’t Figure the War : .

The German attack on Russia was the last straw. " People out here just threw up their hands and swore off trying to figure anything out. At the same time I think they said to themselves, “This war is too screwy for us. We better keep out a while longer, or we'll get ourselves in a pretty jam.” Those, incidentally, are not my own feelings. But I believe they are the feelings of most people out here. They've just got tired trying to keep up with the tricks. . Speaking of the war, visitors at our house have all been much interested in the souvenirs we have stacked on the mantel—the incendiary bomb, shell = fragments, broken tile, ear plugs and so on. And now we have a new one to add to the collection. It is a piece of German parachute; one in which a German pilot bailed out of his plane over England. It was sent by Lady Reading, head of the W. V. S,, who promised it to me before I left England. The

We have no’

section she cut off and sent is large; wadded up, it fills' a shoebox. A friend of mine, looking at it incredulously, said, “Why I don’t see how a man could come down in that!” He thought it was the whole parachute. id The thing is of green woven material, very heavy, and obviously made of rayon or some ersatz goods. It looks nothing at all like the silk of our ‘American parachutes. : : : Bui what pleased me more than the relic itself was the note I found inside the box when I unwrapped it. It was from the British customs officer who inspected it. ’ You know how straight-faced the customs officers are supposed to be: But this Britisher wasn't. He was so puzzled that he took himself a piece of paper, wrote on it, and left it in the package. It said: “Cheeriol Whazzit? Hoss blanket?—(Signed)— Customs Examiner”

The Building Fever

Possibly some of you saw, a few weeks ago, the kind remarks Mrs. Roosevelt made about this column. The ones in which she hoped I could drop in, while on vacation, and sit with her before the Hyde Park fireplace. x . Well, I wrote Mrs. Roosevelt and told her I was pretty contented out here on the desert, and since I couldn't get to Hyde Park, why didn’t she drop past Albuquesque some day and help me build fence. But she wrote back and said that her schedule wouldn't be ‘bringing her West during my allotted days of, laziness. So we’ll have to start all over again trying to get together. : 3 I can’t honestly say whether I'm. glad to be starting out again on the old trail or not. It’s very probable that I wouldn't be content in one place very long, but I could use a few more weeks of puftering around here before turning gypsy again. For right now, ypu see, I've got the building fever. I mean the personal building fever. I'm crazy. to make things with boards and nails and a hammer. If I could just sell our new house for twice what we paid for it, I believe I'd buckle right in and build a bigger house up on the hill ? I know it is not ethical for a columnist to use his daily space for advertising purposes, but just this once—I will seriously entertain any offer made, from any part of the Union, by a member of any race, creed, sex or profession, for the sale of our white house for exactly twice what we paid for it. I mean in cash. It’s a bargain, folks. In fact it would be a bargain at half the price.” And think how happy it would make me. Don’t delay. If I haven't had an offer by 4 o'clock, I'll have to start packing up and loading the car. :

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

A COURT HOUSE DEBATE which has been going on for severgl days has all the earmarks of developing into a major rumpus at any minute and we've, been listening minute by minute, hoping to give you a real story. It’s all about the price the Qounty proposes to pay for a strip of land needed for widening the Post Road south from Ft. Harrison as part of the national defense highway system. : : Some County officials are reported to have agreed on a certain compromise price for the land, but one County Commissioner is holding out. He says flatly that the land isn’t worth what the other County officials propose to pay and as a result, theyre going round and round over it. 7 The nice part is that one County official says that if it lasts much longer he’s going to “tell a few things about the negotiation.” + . Let’s go, pardner.

Nice Company, Eh?

CHARLEY DAWSON is telling this one on himself. He was scheduled to make a speech upstate Sunday and couldn’t find his destination. So he stopped at a little town and was directed to the doctor’s office. Charley went over and struck up a conversation with the doctor, in the course of which he identified himself as Lieutenant-Governor. “Gosh,” said the doctor, “I've certainly had some celebrities today. At 4 a. m. they brought in a couple of fellows who'd been hurt in an auto accident. They

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 10.—Congressional. leaders have advised the Administration that only by a long, hard fight, with strong White House pressure behind it, can price-control legislation be put through Congress. When the Administration was trying to put : prices up, beginning in 1933, it had plenty of help: from Congress. Willing hands pitched in to help, because in price-lifting efforts special interests ran parallel to national policy. What could make a - farm-bloc Senator or Congressman happier than to serve the Government, policy by fighting for higher farm ' prices? Even farm-state Republicans were willing to support Mr. Roosevelt’s interference : with ‘the law of supply and de- . mand in order to help their farmer 5 constituents. These willing hands have “often given the Administration more help than it wanted, as when Congress recently thrust upon the Administration the price-pegging law providing mandatory Government loans of 85 per cent of parity on basic farm- commodities. § Now, when the job is to ‘hold prices down, Congress is reluctant to help.

Opposition of. the Blocs

The trouble is that now the Administration runs counter to special blocs in Congress. Labor is fearful that if prices are controlled, wages will be controlled. Agriculture is suspicious of any price restriction. These two groups together can just about swing Congress. That is the trouble that Price Administrator Leon Henderson is up against now in seeking Congressional authority for administrative action to hold prices steady. : ? In general, there is plenty of recognition of the dangers of inflation, Labor representatives know that wage gains can be wiped out by a rise in the cost of living. Farm members know how the inflated prices

My Day

BOSTON, Mass., Wednesday.—The trip I took yesterday was over a road I had not traveled before. The first part of it was very familiar until we- reached Sharon, Conn, and took Route 4. Somehow, I have missed this road up to now, and I was completely - charmed with it. Much of the way one is either in sight of a swiftly running stony brook, or of small lakes. Frequently the woods" and +hills close in around one. I.enjoyed the drive and I have never seen’ roses growing in such profusion; over stone walls; up treflises on houses and even on trees. Pink and red rambler roses seem to swarm in lavish abundance, We had a shower or two on the way. When we stopped under a tree for lunch, it began to rain in barely finished. Suddenly I looked bread to see, a state police car and conversing with some members of

and when I asked him if we oa : wrong, he answered: “No, just don’t drive foo fast.” Since I had been driving with particular care, I felt quite sure that that could not be his Suef Sacer, I found Inter shat he had some e sure we were no any trouble :

earnest just as we up from buttering a state policeman the party. i. He turned around had done anything

~ son and I went out with Jimmie and

turned out to be bandits running from a Marion stickup. Then the Sheriff of Howard County came up to get them and now the Lieutenant-Governor’s in my office!”

Around the Town .

SENATOR VANNUYS says his farm life is putting him back in tip-top shape. He says he gets up early every morning and works in his garden and he’s showing off some blisters to friends to prove it. He says he’ll call on the Governor while here. “You know,” he grinned, “it’s the first time in four years I've felt free to call on an Indiana Governor.” . . . Camp ‘Dellwood, the Girl Scouts’ summer outdoor retreat, is having its troubles with cooks. They've had to hire four in four days. . . . A year ago, the Indiana Gear Works was going great guns on national defense. Today, the Gear Works is four times the size of a year ago. : Originally in part of the old Industrial Center (1400 E. 19th), the plant has now taken over the rest of the building, moved into another, and built three new ones. They're buildin parts for Allison and Ranger engines. :

About People . . .

MRS. LEO M. GARDNER has been appointed editor of the Indiana Women Voter, published by the League of Women Voters, and will take up her duties in the fall. . , . Neil McCallum, secretary of the Republican State Committee, is in the hospital, ill again. ... George Olendorf, past imperial potentate of the Shrine, who was taken to Methodist Hospital during the convention, remains in an oxygen tent at the hospital. His condition is still critical, although he has made progress. Pneumonia developed after a heart attack.

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| By Raymond Clapper

* of farm commodities in the last war caused in infla--tioh of land prices and left farmers all over the Middle West in trouble after the Armistice, creating a huge depgessed area which continued so even during the boom days of the late ’20s. Plenty of members know that it is not wise for us to climb up on a high price plateau and then have to drop down fyom it after the war in order to meet lowprice foreign competition. They know it will leave us at a serious disadvantage and will force a painful deflation here. Sure, in the classroom, in the lodge, ih the abstract they know that prices ought to be held within bounds. If Congress could legislate without. members having to go on record, it would not be dificult to get proper authority to hold this situation in control.

The Special Interests’ :

But so many members are beset by i, interests, by organized constituents who insist upon getting theirs without thinking of the rest of the country. When the question of the St. Lawrence waterway is raised, you will find some members who*dismiss it by saying it will not help their sections of the country. It does not matter whether it would be good for the country as a whole. The long-run advantages of holding prices in line are clear. But the’ tendency is to -look at the short run and to yield to. every group that wants a higher price now—without thinking of next year’s inevitable headache Coolidge couldn’t have stopped the “stock market boom if he had tried. Those who warned that what was going up must com& down were howled down as panic mongers who were trying to interfere with the prosperity of the sountry. In so much that President Roosevelt has done, he has been carried along by the tide, What he was advocatirig appealed to the ‘short-run interests of enough ‘special groups to comstitute a majority. dNow he has to buck the short-run interest and struggle against the current. It will be hard going.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

We reached the Hotel Statler in Boston about 4 o'clock, and Johrny met us at the door and took his grandmother upstairs. Anne joined us and very soon

Jimmy and Rommie and Mr. Sargent came, We all .'sat around chatting until Johnny had to go back to school at 5:45, or Ses, My mother-in-law had a light supper while we sat with her, and then she went to bed. Miss ThompRommie to eaf far more than was good for us, at a restaurant which Jimmy remembered from his college days. ‘ - I think we all slept weil last night. I tried to drive so carefully and was so afraid that something would happen which would give my mother-in-law a stare, that I found myself more tense than I ordinarily am. x Everyone that I have seen so far is relieved that the United States is taking over in Iceland, and thereby making sure that no enemy will gain a foot“hold at the northern end of this hemisphere. I am sure we. are going to know more about Iceland than we ever have known in the past. I didn’t know that . it was the oldest democracy in existence, nor did I realize that many of her sons and daughters have come to.settle in the United States. This morning we are stopping to see Anne young Haven Clark Roosevelt, and Ethel and young

By Ernie Pyle

WAR CONTRACT

War Department Calls for Motors and Parts Valued At 50 Millions.

By SAM TYNDALL A new $50,000,000 War Department contract for additional motors and parts has been awarded to the General Motors’ Allison Division. .. The announcement of the new contract was made late yesterday by F. C. Kroeger, G. M. vice president and Allison general manager. The new contract raises the total amount of orders placed with Allison, since it began producing its liquid-cooled motors in quantity in 1939, to more than $242,000,000.

Plant Capacity Expanded

.The latest contract is the first sizable order in more than four months. The last contract called for $60,000,000. 3 . Increases in plant facilities and

preparation for the new order were completed. several months ago, with the construction ‘of a fourth main Allison plant. The new plant, No. 4, was constructed south of the present main production unit, No. 3 on W. 10th St. in Speedway City. Mr. Kroeger said that production capacity, which is being stepped yp monthly with a goal of 1000 per month by December, is sufficient to take care of the new orders. The latest contract calls for additional 12-cylinder engines of several models. These do not include, however, the new 1325-horse power model, developed by engineers eventually to replace the 1150-horse power model. The more powerful motor, will be fitted into the same aircraft that now are powered by 1150-horse. power Allisons, . In addition to the Army Air

going to the British and the Chinese. These include the newer models of the Curtiss P-40 type, Bell Airacobra, Lockheed, twin-engined P-38, and North American -Apache, pursuit. !

‘Biggest in State

THe 24-cylinder Allison “X” motor is still in the experimental stage. The. Air Corps has ordered several experimental models of the muchdiscussed engine which is said to be capable of generating in excess of 2000 horsepower. Although no production figures are available, it is believed that more than 400 motors per month are now rolling off assembly lines in Speedway City. G. M. officials had hoped to.reach the 1000-per-month goal by September, but because of delays, that goal is not expécted to be reached until the end of the year or early in 1942, From the standpoint of both G. M.. investment in plant and machinery

land the backlog ‘of millions of dol-

lars of unfilled Government orders; the Allison Division is believed to be the biggest single defense plant in Indiana. - The Charlestown Pewder plant is probably the second biggest.

INCOME PAYMENTS SOAR DURING MAY

WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.). —The Commerce Department today reported that salaries, wages and other forms of income payments in the United States during May indicated an annual rate of $86,000,000,000, the highest in history. The May total, amounting to $6,868,000,000,, raised the aggregate payments for the first five months of 1941 to $33,889,000,000, compared to $29,911,000,000 for the corresponding period last year. The increase was attributed to a stimulation of industry by defense spending and recovery from a temporary drop in coal production caused by the shutdown of bitumin ous mines in April. An appreciable rise in employee income was noted in the figures. The department’s index of salarfes and wages reached 136.9 during May, as compared with the 121.1 average in November of 1940 and the 122.7 average for 1929, :

Finds | Stars Say Hitler Doomed

NEW YORK, July 10 (U. P.).— Gustave Meyer, Hoboken, N. J. astrologer,.today sent to the press. the following letter, which he. signed “Astrologically Yours:— Dear Mr. Editor: : As an American scientific astrologer, I therefore wish to state that .the stars say that Adolf Hitler will meet with a great and ‘crushing defeat between ‘the 15th ‘and 20th inst, and that from then

on ‘his star will begin to set. “After the middle of this month. . Eng and Russia will score at and signal victories on ' land, sea an® in the air, and Benito Mussolini will experience some great and crushing defeats, 8s his star is also setting.”

ARMY. ‘PURGE’ GETS

WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.) — Senate Military Affairs Com-

bill to auth

ful in the present défense effort. The bill, recommended Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patter- , provides for establishment of board of not less than five gento pass upon “purge”

whiz

D. Roosevelt III, because my mother-in-law cannot : family

bear to neglect the youngest members of the wy

ALLISON GIVEN ANOTHER HUGE

installation of new machinery in|

Corps, the 12-cylinder motors are

Investigators comb the debris at the explosion-wr ecked plant of the

United Railway Signal Co. at

Woodbridge, N. J. Sabotage rumors which immediately buzzed about were unfounded, says the FBI

¥ 8 =»

F lood of False

: aE ! Alarms Creates

Deadly Hysteria

(This is the fourth of =» series of articles on: the Activities of G-Men).

By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 10.—Sabotage and espionage today are not confined to specific and tangible crimes of destruction. Far more deadly, in fact, is the hysteria created by the

spreading of false rumor, com- .

bined with the damaging effects of carelessness. National defense, therefore, ' comprising“ a good measure of keeping carelessness under control and checking the spread of falsehoods that sap morale of the civilian population. = Take the cases of three powder mill explosions that have happened in the United States since the war began in Europe. There

was widespread whispering and

belief that all were the work of saboteurs. First was the. blast which destroyed the United Railway Signal Co. plant at Woodbridge, N.

J., on Nov. 12, 1940—an explosion

that took 14 lives. y The company, despite contrary reports, did not have a single government contract. And though the case is not considered closed, it is creditably believed that the blowup was entirely an accident caused by negligence of one or more of the workmen who lost their lives. - Explosions in the plants of the Trojan -Powder Co. at Allantown, Pa., were also called accidental blasts. = Only the Trojan plant had a Government order, but the explosion here happened in a section which was not. working on the Government order. Screaming about the foreign agents'who were at work in these plants did: no good, serving only to create hysteria. As an example of the wild rumors which might have serious consequences, there can ‘be mentioned now the famotis scare which received wide belief and

still wider distribution, to the ef-

fect that in one shipyard in Maine there were 91 fire extinguishers found to contain gasoline.

en A Good ‘Scare’ Job THERE WAS no truth whatever to this one, but foreign agents could not have done a better job of scare propaganda than was set in motion here by careless gossip. Fires which do break out create an extra hazard of hysteria when the reports about them are passed along by word of mouth, and magnified and exaggerated at every telling. Fires in manufacturing plants in the United States have been running about 25,000 a year, with a property damage of $50,000,000. Nearly 10,000 of these fires are caused by. explosions. That record is bad enough, and it ' needs no m fication. : But in periods of national emergency; fire reports tend to spread like veritable blazes on a prairie. In an east coast ship-yards fire recently, a big cloud of smoke “Yose, and a double fire alarm was sent in immediately. Rumor, of course, spread that the fire was the result of sabotage. What actually happened was that a rubber hose had caught fire near a ventilating shaft. The up-draft had caused 'the smoke

to rise in a deceptive cloud, but

that’s all there was to it. Actual

" sabotage _ buildup.

“Sabotage” gossip flares vo, like

there is an industrigl plant fire, warehouse in ‘Jersey City, NIL

wis no

TEXAS VOTING

Some Charges Say Defense Contract Seekers Were ‘Shaken Down.’

' By THOMAS L. STOKES. = Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, July 10.—Charges

of various irregularities in’ the ree cent Texas Senatorial election—ine, cluding the alleged “shakedown” ot contractors eager for defense proj ects, and violation of the Hatch “pure politics” law—have now: been brought formally before Congress, A request for a Senate tion has come from E. B. Germany, chairman of the State Democratio Executive Commitee. The Texas contest attracted wide interest because of the per ‘sonalities involved and because of the Roosevelt Administration’s Herculean and almost successful efforts to put over the young:New Deal Congressman, Rep. Lyndon Johnson. : He lost in the unofficial count by 1095 - votes to Governor W. Lee O’Daniel, the one-time flour sales< man who twice rode to the State House at Austin on a wave of pene

‘|sion promises to the aged and. the

seductive chant of hillbilly music, Among trailers in the race was Rep. . Martin Dies, the investigator of subversive activities.

Hatch Act Involved

Congressional interest . in the election is intensified because the charges and rumors circulating in

Texas and through lobbies and

‘| cloakrooms here include not only

Soaring Samos. Almont. every time

—" . .

the cause, wag: Acidént, not de-. liberate sabotage. a SE Previous ‘to that there was a fire in Boston Navy Yard that got What it amounted to. was that when fires had. been kindled in the destroyer’s boilers, a nearby scaffolding had been ignited. Stories of what actually happened not receiving

the prominence of the first re- .

ports of sabotage and arson, the ‘rumor spread. ” ” ”

Rumors Flood FBI

/ NOT ALL, these scare stories start with fires. Considerable

emphasis was placed on a west coast incident in which a loading “crane toppled over, killing two workmen. Immediately the cry of sabotage was raised, but the investigation proved that the operator had heen attempting to hoist plate, fevolve the crane cab and move the crane along its” track, all at the same time instead of making each operation separate, with .a full stop in between as safety regulations required. Let cne of these sabotage rumors get .started and a wave of calls is sure to flood in on the

FBI offices scattered throughout .

the country. : Even the normal load of defense reports coming into FBI headquarters every day runs into the hundreds. Many of the re= ports are unfounded, but all must be investigated, as some of the most fantastic have turned out to be true. Expérience in sifting the false from the true is what counts in effective sabotage prevention and counter-espionage work, One thing that the FBI em=

i oo BoE of aut LES Ke “should be handled By ‘experienced police -officers, and not by. local vigilante groups. : 2 ~ “In-one state,” says FBI Direc- . tor. J.. Edgar Hoover, “an indus-* trial ‘group went -so far as to offer * rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of saboteurs. The spy menace is not met by filling the jails with suspects or by standing ki®wn agents before a firing squad. An important part of the work lies in watching the suspect or actual spy. Premature action against ' one foreign agent may prevent the capture or disrupture of an entire ring.” : 8 88

There’s Comic Relief

SOMETIMES THESE false spy scares turn out with unexpected results. The most classic example of this was caused by newspaper photographer who wanted to get a picture of the throngs of defense workers pouring from the gates of a local factory at quitting time. “He requested that the gales be kept closed until all the force was ready to leave. a As the employees piled ‘up: in: front of the gate, the rumor started that there was to. be a, mass searching of everyone employed at the plant. When the gates were opened and the force had _ crowded through, guards found scattered on the ground where the crowd had stood waiting, enough tools to fill several barrels.

NEXT: THE FBI Crime Laboratory for sabotage cases. |

3 MARINE DESERTERS INDICTED IN SHOOTING

COMMITTEE'S: 0. K.|}

mittee has approved unanimously a| | ; ‘the War Depart-| 1 ment to “purge” the Army of of-| {- ficers whose records demonstrate] | that their services will not be use-|

damage was practically -nil and HOLD EVERYTHING |

phasizes is that all these reports

FINDLAY, O., July 10 (U. P.).—

“| Three 20-year-old deserters from the

U. 8. Marine Corps base at Quantfeo, Va., who engaged in a running gun battle with state’ highway patrolmen 10 days ago, were indicted yesterday by the Hancock County Grand Jury on charges of’ shooting with intetn to kill. The three, Joseph . Sacilletto, Cleveland; Mario Liberatore, Geneva, N, 'Y, and Joseph Campisi, Brooklyn, N. Y., were captured near here after, wrecking a stolen automobile in a running gun fight with

fotice, 1 Liberatore was. wounded in New Flag to Fly At Fire Station

FOR _ SEVERAL months the big flag pole in front of Fire Sta-

“tion No. 3 on Prospect St. has

been without a flag because the old one is too ragged to use. So a group of businessmen around Fountain Square chipped in and bought a new flag, 8 by 12 feet. ih Tomorrow at 10 a. m, there will be special flag raising ceremonies, dedicating the new flag. The

excessive expenditures but also vioe lation of the Hatch Act—that law which Congress passed, after much stewing and sweating, to stop such political exploitation of Federal agencies and workers as was discove ered in the 1288 elections. Alarming also were the charges of duress in connection with de« fense contracts, a fleld that was not available in the 1938 elections, Mr. Germany's telegram . asking an investigation was addressed to Senator Guy Gillette (D.. Iowa), chairman of the now defunct Special Committee to Investigate Came paign Expenditures. When advised that this committee’s authority has expired, the Texas State Chairman, who was manager of John N. Gar« ner’s Presidential campaign in 1040,

asked that his request be referred

to the “proper committee.” Texas Committee to Meet

Mr, Germany said that he had made a similar request of,a Texas

Senate committee, which will meet °

Monday at Austin to decide whether it will investigate.

San Antonio lawyer, Cab, thot. the ead in decking the _

lieve, and on s belief and ine formation I charge, that this elece tion was the most corrupt, disgrace= ful debauchery of an election ever undertaken in Texas, or probably elsewhere.” yo

METHODISTS DONATE

90 MILLION IN YEAR

CHICAGO, July 10 (U. P.).—Rev, W. Auman, * treasurer of the

0. Methodist General Commission on ‘| World Service and: Finance, tonight

announced: that American Method« ists contributed $90,323,961 to the church during the fiscal year ending May 31. Contributions were received from 43,000 congregations, he told the 29 members of the commission at their annual meeting, and used as fole lows: ‘ Support of ministers, $33,659, church operating expenses, - 088; paid on buildings and indebted« ness, $17,688,028, world service actie vities, $7,950,303; conference institie tions, $5,919,778, and general admine istration expenses, $141,688.

‘Wedding Cake To Sing for Eli]

NEW YORK, July 10 (U.P).—A wedding cake. is en route by’ air

* today for Honolulu where, when '

cut, it will ‘play Yale’s “Bools Boola” song

The cake, baked around a Swiss:

music box, was sent air express by |

Gladys Wickens of Boston, as ‘8 gift to the bridal couple, Martha Heywood and Robert Forest. ! Mr. Forest is a graduate of Yale . University. :

KNOWLEDGE

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