Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1941 — Page 21
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Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town Ih
PAUL SPARKS, the City Schools’ psychologist,
“came out second best in a recent encounter with the .
# Sehool Board office door. Having some work to do at office, he went to the board offices on Sunday and Spatied ¢ the door, hoping to attract the Janitor's attention,
Instead, his rattling ‘set off the A.D.T. burglar alarm. A minute . later, as he was peering through .'., the .door glass, a squad of police roared up and collared him, They took him to a phone and got in touch with Harry ‘Anderson, the Schools’ purchasing agent. At first, Mr. Anderson misunderstood the name over the phone and told police he didn’t Mr. Sparks. Things looked |bad until it suddenly dawned on | Mr. Anderson who it was the officers had in custody. “ The same door left. Bob Loon. anothér employee, in an embarrassing spot recently, didn't get through work until about 7:20 p. m. recalling’ he had guests at home for dinner, he
FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1941
reported, he is to join an American consuls} official for a Clipper flight to the Orient, As we get it, he's to confer with high Chinese officials before going on to Burma on special business,
Watch Those Dampers
A DELEGATION of union officials: called on he ote, a
Mayor the other day to talk over proposed working conditions of certain City employees, hadn't been in the Mayor's: private offices Jong until loud voices were heard in- what like an argument. Newspapermen, theif curiosity aroused, stepped up to the door and listened. What they spain was the Mayor giving union officials a curtain lecture on smoke control by means of proper firing—of furnaces.
Wednesday we told you about the Wiséonsin|
State Bureau of Personnel’s appeals for occupational therapists. We said they moaned about their employment register being devoid of a single: name. W, Leonard Johnson; Indiana.personnel diréctor phones us: “We're moaning, too. Our register, likewise, is ‘devoid of a single name,’ and it'\doesn’t do any good to announce an examination. If you find any such therapists, let us know. before Wiseghsin nabs them.”
Juvenile Priorities
WERE INDEBTED to 8-year-old Jackie Bulger of Allisonville Road fof a new juvenile excuse, Jackie
. overheard a relative talking about how work at her
forcement, officials, judges judges pro tem, clerks and safety committee waqrkers—all in the same rpom at the same time. Everything turned out beautifully rosy. Everyone: thought everyone else was doing fine. Said one of the questioned officials privately: “I wonder if the committee expected me to open up thosg other guys with them sitting right there me? After all, I'm not quite nuts!” ... John H. Hall, superintendent of the Zionsville terminal of the Shell Oil Co., left yesterday for the West Coast where, it’s
ide
"probably from Ft. Wayne. . .
office had been held up because priorities interfered with this or that. Later, while Jackie was playing with his toy truck and pretending to deliver groceries, the relative asked him to use his truck and take scmething over to a neighbor. “I can’t,” replied Jackie, “The Government won't let me.” , , . It’s a good guess ,that the new Highway Commission member to succeed James D. Adams, who resigned, will be from the northeastern part of the State, and . Cameras get a cool reception at our various defense plants, such as Al-
on: lison and Curtiss Wright. It’s not only against Gov-
ernment rules for visitors to take pictures, but company officials themselves can’t take a picture in the plant, we hear, without the (okay of the Army officer in charge.
‘Ernie Pyle is on leave-of absence because of the illness of his wife,
Washington
, WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—No more significant event is taking place in the United States today than Wendell Willkie's fight to rescue the Republican Party from its isolationist leadership. At the moment he is bearing down on Republicans in Congress. That was the purpose . of his latest appeal, in which he surged that the “ugly smudge of isolationism” be wiped from. the party’s face. The list of signers, which included six governors and more than a score of Republican National Committeemen as well as’ lesser party leaders, shows that in many sections the party organization leaders back home are far more sympathetic toward the Administration foreign policy than ; are the Republicans in Congress. ; nis list is something that ought to be, and toubtless will be, pondered by Rep. Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, the Republican leader of the House and chairman of the Republican National Committee. Rep, Martin voted against arming American ships in z he House last week and carried two-thirds of his 5 epublican members with him,
dt Put Martin on Spot
“MR. WILERIE'S CALL for repeal of the Neutrality Abt was ‘signed by the Republican governor of Massachusetts, the Republican lieutenant governor, the two Massachusetts members of the Republican National Committee, the Republican secretary of state, two former Republican governors, the Republican presiden; of the state senate and the Republican speaker of the state house of representatives, the vice chairman of the state Republican committee, the ‘chairman’ of the Republican state: ‘executive committee, the president of ‘the state: ‘Republican club, the president of the women's business and professional Republicans club, and “the Republican district “attorneys of two of the largest Massachusetts counties. , "Sinclair Weeks, the Massachusetts’ national committee man, also. is treasurer of the Republican National Committee. After looking over this list it is hard to see how Rep. Martin cotld consider that his position is supporied by his own Republican Stganization, unless
New Books
THERE HAVE BEEN SO many books about the war that one's perspective is apt to be distorted. We are too prone to classify important books as “another of these things” because they look like it. This war has produced a steady stream. of books by the war correspondents—all of them engaging, informative, and some. of them downright gripping. At the top.of the list, of course, is Bill Shirer’s “Berlin' Diary.” Personally, I was: more-struck-by Leland Stowe’s #No Other Road
to. Freedom” .because of its . tre-
mendous force. Today comes another war correspondent’s - book—“I Can’t - For-~ get” by the beloved Robert J. 3 ; ‘Casey. And 50 a word of Safning: ro : This isn't “another o ose Mr, Casey things.” Taken as a whole, it ig Jat a mere collection of dispatches which have appeared in this newspaper. It has no message. It's _ “just Bob's story of his life in France and England—-a story simply told by a really great writing man of “‘what he saw and what he experienced, you draw youe ‘own conclusions.
Where Was the Infantry? : Y,” BOB WRITES, “I have read comks "of some of my- colleagues on. that front (the French) - who hindsightedly recall that they saw ‘numerous signs of the wrath to come which they {feared to igtorpiet as. common sense indicated. I rqHiever, SAW any stich ‘signs. ‘What I saw was a fine, orderly machine. 'T thqught as nearly every“body else thought who saw these troops at work that they were going to win. I ate with them, slept with “them, froze with them, got shelled and machinegunned with them. I came to know them as well as had known my own battery in the other war and
My Day
3 WASHINGTON, Thursday.—I spent a good part fot ‘yésterday, af ‘a ‘meeting called by Dr. Floyd Reeves fof the National Resources Planning Board, which J4considered: thé: problem involving youth now and in the tutue. ‘Before taking the plane at 5 o'clock for 3 EN |), " "New York City, I returned to the ‘ White House in time to see two ~ 1 or three people. « My daughter and son-in-law are “leaving today for the West, so we devoted last evening to being with each other, We went to a little restaurant on 63d St., which we often frequented when they ‘were living in New York City. After a short, but very -dinner, we
By Raymond Clapper
he takes the position that the Republican organization of Massachusetts is misrepresenting the Republican voters of the state.
Where McNary Stands
ON THE SENATE SIDE, tke Republican leader, Senator McNary, also is opposing changes in the Neutrality Act. Mr, Willkie’s list of signers shows that from Oregon he has the signatures of the Republican governor, the Republican National -Committeeman and the Republican state chairman. Senator McNary ran for Vice President with ‘Mr. Willkie, although it must be said that this was not at Senator McNary’s own request. Indeed it was over his stubborn objection. In Oregon McNary has been something of a law unto himself and has always had a good deal of Democratic support. He is evidently in no danger of defeat out there next year, because he occupies a unique personal position. But he is taking an attitude in the Senate which is certainly opposed to that of a good many Democrats and evidently that of his governor and the two : heads of the Republican Party organization. There are other indications that sentiment in Oregon is behind the Administration policy rather than MeNaiys ‘leaning toward isolationism. uy)
»Parties Must Stand Together:
MR. WILLKIE'S EFFORT to break the isolationist hold on the Republican Party is something that goes far beyond the scope of an ordinary Political struggle for ‘control. Republican opposition has: repeatedly forced: Presi-, dent Roosevelt to delay actions which were considered necessary for. proper defense of this country. Last: year when he wanted to transfer. 50 destroyers fo England, Mr. Roosevelt was compelled to hesitate until he obtained. private assurances from Mr. Willkie that the matter would not be made a political issue. Anyone who reads the news can see that we are in‘ a dangerous position. Our skips are ‘being shot at and sunk even when they are far from the combat zones. War ‘is creeping up on us. It was never more important for the two major parties, to stand together in the face of national danger.
By Stephin Ellis
I thought that if they weren't the best troops in the world someone had been doctoring the statistics.” Why, then, did France fall so swiftly? * Bob Casey doesn’t tell you directly. He does tell you, though, about the battle at Longwy. There, the French tanks went out and battled the German tanks. The French won. They beat the Germans, ' But the Nazis took the town! : “We ran out of gas,” said.the French tank officer bitterly. “Don’t let anybody tell you anything different. We went in there. We fought. We cleaned up the Germans twice, We rambled around .that- town for hours and what did anybody else do? Are tanks supposed to hold objectives as well as take them— and without gasoline? 1I ‘ask you. And where was the infantry? Wheére are they now?” °
Yes, Quite a Difference
SO FRANCE FELL and Bob rushed to England. And he got to .thinking about the - difference in methods the moment he got his identification card.
“For one thing, I'd been here about half an hour. It seemed to me that while I was accredited to the French Army I had spent about a third of my time in anterooms at the Surete. . . . I had brought letters from important soldiers, politicians and sundry workers in the vineyard of the Continental. I had been investigated by policemen 'in uniform and plainclothes detectives and detached intelligence officers. I had filled out blanks and applications at the rate of one ‘every two weeks and I had supplied a dozen photographs purporting to be of myself—in profile and showing. the left ear. And come to think of it I never did get a carte d’identite. . . . Yes, Bob Casey has written himself a book. And the best advice is to go get it and read it.
“I CAN'T FORGET.” by Robert J. Casey, 309 pages. $3. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis.
~ By Eleanor Roosevelt]
his right to criticize. dnd to advise, and even to write] to the Prime Minister, In spite: of ‘all his disagree-| ment, however, when his:pedple were really in danger,|
and his country’ was under attack, Mr. yn el &
‘put up with ahy amount-of- discomfort and go forth
Despite Harsh “Treatment, They Defy Nazi Attempt To Break Spirits. Copyright, 1 1041, a The g, Indianapolis Ts Times
SOMEWHERE IN ‘EUROPE, Oct. 24.—The first birthday of the Montoire policy of collaboration with Germany was celebrated in Occupied France today with a reprieve for 100 hostages who had beea scheduled : for execution. ' Fifty - others were .executed on schedule, however, in reprisal for the death of a German major at Bordeaux. Another 50 at Bordeaux and 50 who were to have faced a firing squad at’ Nantes as a result of the killing of Lieut. Col. Friedrich Holtz were reprieved by Hitler on the appeal of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain.’ Fifty persons had already been shot af Nantes, bringing the total of such hostage executions in the Occupied Zgne of France to 123 in recent weeks. Vichy officials said the Germans had postponed the executions until Monday at Nantes and Wednesday at Bordeaux in the hope the actual killers of the two officers may be found. First to the Gestapo The hostages are in no way connected with the attacks but are simply chosen from that great
pied Zone, loosely labeled “Communists” or accused of activity in behalf of the “enemy.” It is estimated that the number now exceeds 3000 in Paris alone.
indefinitely in the absence of any formal proceedings. Some are shot. A few of the more fortunate are released. It is possible now, as the result of the experience of one such released prisoner, to describe a few details of the operation of the hostage system.
women alike, representing that growing section of the French public ‘determined to oppose the occupying forces at the risk of their own lives. After their arrest they are taken first to special Gestapo centers for several days of questioning and investigation. Later ‘they are turned over to .the regular prisons, which are crowded. No Clothing Issued Gestapo centers are established throughout the city. One was formerly a dancing school in the Rue de Ponthieu off the Champs Elysees, another on the banks of the Seine near Cite, apparently once the home of a cultured and wealthy family whose art cts now share quarters with more miodern if less esthetic‘ police: equipment. _ The , regular ; include], Sante, Cherche ‘and Fresnes, Cherche Midi is a typical landmark in the Montparnasse section lon the left bank, near the Hotel |Lutetia. It was: built in the 17th
cells of about four by eight feet, a bed ‘being the only furniture. They, are not provided with clothing except ‘what they have worn at the time of arrest. Their only utensils are a bowl and spoon. The German guards use immediate severe physical punishment in event of the slightest violation of the rigid prison routine. At night trained shepherd dogs, great, wolflike animals, are turned loose to prowl the corridors. As always, the prisoners find means of communicating by tapping on the walls or drains and through whispered conversations in the momentary absence of guards. The morale of most is described as high. Two Hero-Martyrs Already there have developed a number of heroes and martyrs. Outstanding among these was the 40-year-old Comte Destinenne d’Orves who some day probably will be: recognized as one of the great French patriots of the present period. D’Orves sustained the spirit of the entire prison section by his personal courage and powers of ors ganization. *T o'clock each morning the
prisoners stood at attention in their cells and watched, in memory ‘and imagination, the . hoisting of / the
singing of “La Marseillaise,” D'Orves sang it the last time on Aug. 29 before a firing squad. Women, likewise, are distinguishing themselves for bravery. Legends are growing rapidly about the girl known only as Zizi, a Paris streetwalker in the vicinity of the Madeleine (church) and the Opera. Zizi met a British officer, before the invasion and Hiendship led her
cape and that of others afterwards —in modern France a capital offense. Confined in Sante, she pro~ vided the same of courage as &Orves fn Che e Midi.
New Drugs. Cut Pneumonia Toll
tlo persons who nce oni hav of pneumonia. 1 sa gs os
Deriilly io aimbot certains death on the dogke. That| sity of Illinois College of is why some of us believe that Great Britain must| cine, declared here. .
come out victoriously in’ this ‘war My young people put me on the ‘night train, and this morning I arrived at tlie Labor little before 9.
the interests of youth and discussed participation in the civilian. defense: program, I wonder how many of my readers are familiar with a bill which is now in Congress, H. R. 5510, that
went to the theater to ses “The
by. Frederick Hazlitt
.Wookey,”: ~ Brennan. It is Suing, dmmatic,
Department a| 1 attended a comparatively small| meeting of adults and young people, who represented | -
group held in prisons in. the Occu-|
Most of these prisoners are held]
The prisoners include men and|
Century. The prisoners have single}
French . colors, while from thel. Comte’s tiny quarters came the soft{ : |
to hide him. and assist in his es-|.].
INSTALMENT-XI . LOW
_ COUNTRIES INVADED
Co inaay 138, 1940) BERLIN, May 7, 1940.— For three or four days. now the” ;German - ‘hewspapers
[ have. been. carrying on a. terrific campaign to con"
vince: somebody that the
Allies, ‘having: failed in Norway, are ‘about to become “aggressors”, i in some other part of Europe. Six weeks
ago. we had ‘a: similar cam-
paign. to convince somebody that the ‘Allies: were about
to become the: “aggressors”
in Scandinavia. ~~ Where is Germany going next? I'm suspicious of Holland, partly because. it’s the one place not specifically mentioned in this propagaiiia campaign. : » » td BERLIN, May 8.—Something is up, but Ralph Barnes, just in from Amsterdam, says the guards on his train pulled down the windowblinds for the 25 miles of the journey from the Dutch-Ger-man frontier towards Berlin. I hear the Dutch and Belgians are nervous. I hope they are. They ought to be. » s 8
Blow in West Falls
BERLIN, May 10.—The blow in the west has fallen. At dawn today the Germans marched into Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg. It . is Hitler's bid: for victory now or never. Apparenfly it was true that . Germany could not outlast the economic war. So he struck while his army still had supplies and his air force a lead over the Allies’. The German memorandum “justifying” this latest aggression of Hitler's was handed to the ministers of Holland and Belgium at 6 a..m., about an hour and a half after German troops had violated their neutral soil. It sets up a new record, I think, for cynicism and downright impudence—even for Hitler. It requests. the two governments to issue orders that no resistance be made to German
troops. The ‘memorahdum argues that -
Britain and : France were about to attack Germany through the two low countries and that the
Reich therefore deemed it.neces-
sary to send in its own troops to “safeguard the neutrality of Belgium and Holland.” It's evident that the German army: rmy- has it has." "The / bangbed “scopes of land, Belgium and France as far south as Lyon. And then this is news: a communique speaks of German troops having been landed by air at many airports in Belgium and the Netherlands. The Germans chim they seized the airfields and occupied surrounding: territory. Apparently, though the High Command censor would not ‘let me say it in my talks today, they've been dropping thousands of parachutists. A report that the German parachutists. have = already occupied part of Rotterdam is not confirmed. It sounds inconceivable, but after Norway, anything can happen. » ” 2
Steamrolleg ‘Sweeps On
BERLIN, May 11.~The German steamroller through Holland and Belgium. Tonight the Germans claim to have captured’ what the High Command claims is Liege’s most important fort, Eben-Emael, which commands the junction of
the Meuse (Maas) River, and the Com-'
Albert: Canal. . The mand makes it look by saying that the fort was taken
"by a “new methed of attack.”
A Dutch woman reporter "for “the Nazi Dutch paper has been
wn yesterday ' broadcasting : false -news ows to the Dich people of Lady. Haw-Haw, : ees BERLIN, May wo days of fighting pe £1 ig ‘all of northeastern east of the Zuider: Zee, the first. and
the have brothrough sece
mere High occupied land ken
HOLD EVERYTHING |
we. don’t know what.
Brussells, occupied by the Germans May 17, 140. . . . “Off fo the front tomorrow to see how this German army colossus has been walking through Belgium, Holland and now northern France so fast.”
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|troduced in an. effort to stop ‘lots who have been pouring
with Serving t Command i
-at dawn the Iftwade - airfields in Hol-' oJ
sweeps on.
Comte led a compelling ritual. The Sing ‘at. the Rundfunk since A sort
ah L—Atter a
ond defense lines in the heart of
~the Netherlands, and pierced the
eastern end of the Belgian line of defense along the Albert Canal. A year or so ago I had a look at that canal, which the Belgians had fortified with bunkers. It looked like a Very formidable
tank-trap with its deep and very
steep, paved sides. Can it be that the Belgians didn’t blow up the bridges? # ” »
New Form-of Warfare
BERLIN, May 13.—Astounding news. The headlines at 5 p. m “LIEGE FALLEN! GERMAN LAND FORCES BREAK
THROUGH AND ESTABLISH CONTACT WITH AIR-FORCE TROOPS NEAR ROTTERDAM!” No wonder a German officer told me ‘today that even the Oberkommando was a litfle taken aback by the pace. The air-force troops were the parachutists and those landed by plane on the beach near The Hague beginning with the first day of the campaign. It was these men who took part of Rotterdam (!) including the airport, though they had no artillery and the Dutch should hnsohag plenty, being a wealthy
d force Bs
a a to all of us here. The foreign: radio “stations continue to tell of German parachutists . dropping, all over Belgium' and Holland and seizing airports and towns. (Here we can
get .no information on the sub- |
ject whatsoever). It’s a new form of warfare and it will be interesting to see what effect it has, if any, on a long, hard campaign, if this is to be one and not another German
walkover. ” » ”
What About. Helland?
BERLIN, May 14—We're all a little dazed tonight by the news. The Dutch army has capitulated
—after only five days of fighting. What happened to its great water lines, which were
to be impassable? To its army of '
over 500,000 men? An hour before we learned this from a special unique, we were told of Rotterdam’s fall. . “Under the tremendous im-
pression of the attacks of Ger-
‘man dive-bombers and the im-
‘'minent attack of German tanks, -the city of Rotterdam has capitu-
lated and thus saved itself from destruction,” read the German announcement. It was the first news we had
; : especially airplanes, are doing the job for
Germans. How criminal of the British
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that Rotterdam was being’ bombed and was at the point of destroyed. :
/ { dud ‘trips since ash Se we shah’t” see
# NEW YORK, Oct. 24 : 3 Alda
"and French to have neglected
their air forces! 2 8 =
Italy May Get In
. BERLIN, May 15.—Very long, stunned faces among: the foreign correspondents and diplomats to. day. The High Command claims to have broken through the Maginot Line near ' Sedan and that German forces have crossed the Meuse River both at Sedan and between Namur and Givet, farther north. There was increasing talk from Rome today that Italy, now that the Germans appear to be winning, may jump into the war this week-end. It seems the reason the Dutch gave up yesterday was that the Germans bombed the hell out of Rotterdam, and threatened to do the same to Utrecht and :Amsterdam. Hitler's technique of helping his armies by threatening terror or meting it out it as-masterful as’ it is diabolical. ’ ’ J 2 ” Maginot Line Broken
BERLIN, May 17.-~What a day! What news! Today ‘the _ High | i; Command. claims: ts: forces have * broken through the Maginot Line: on a 100-kilometer front (1) °
, stretching from: Maubeuge to
Carignan, . southeast of Sedan. “This indeed looks bad for the
Alles; ‘unless the Germans are
immediately. ‘slowed ‘ down, ‘and en stopped. That they haven't,
Linen ;yet, the: BBC admitted this
evening. It spoke of fighting go~ ing on, at Rethel, which it halfway to’ Réims from Sedan.. We here had no: idea. the Ger-
far.- . At the Rundfunk tonight I.no~
| ticed the military people for the
first time spoke of ‘a “French rout.” Not a single air-raid alarm here since the new offensive started, though we hear that the Ruhr and the Rhine towns are catching it at night. # \ (Later)—The High Command late tonight announced that German troops entered Brussels at sundown, ” ” 8
Plans Trip to Front
BERLIN, May 18—Going to the front tomorrow. At last will get a chance—maybe—to see how this German army colossus has been doing ' it, - walking through’. Belgium, Holland and now northern Prance, so. fast.- . I hesitated about going for fear the decision might come in France while I was away and that the story in that casé would really be here and.I'd miss it. * Also they've pivh ns us’ so mal September that es. “Highly |
of real interest. I finally decided to take the chance. Wedeavs at’ 14 al mt morrow; and will first drive to: Aachen. Nine in the party; four - Americans, three Italians, a Span~ iard and a Jap.
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mans had broken through that |,
4 Nazis Issue Decree Aftes
Patriots Brave Sea to’ ‘Reach England. By. WILLIAM H. STONEMAN GSI Ra LONDON, Oct. 24. —Anyone tempting to escape from the: halla which the Nazis cave creat A in conquered Norway ject to the death penalty wit the decree issued on Monday the .signature of Josef Terb Nazi overlord. ‘ ; 5 This frantic measure has: hota: ;
endless stream of Norwegian’ pai BE i In parties's numbering : from two to 60, traveling in. rows boats, catboats, motorboats, small fishing smacks and seagoing ie: ers, between 3000 and 4000 of: indomitable Nazi haters have - aged to reach fhe British fi Ninety per cent of them: are young men who immediately join the Nore wegian army air ‘force, navy Ba merchant marine, ; a
Entire Village Moves On one occasion a whole load of girls came over a
ing the local, parson,
village doctor . schoolmaster, postmaster abd i:
wife. When conditions are ideal | the German authorities are’
style. On other occasions tire four hardies will embark in a: boat with ‘nothing but a ‘little. s and a couple of pairs of oars of locomotion. The better boats sometimes x the crossing in a day and a or two days; the little fellows - six or seven days and when: have bad luck may drift around two weeks before some British trawler or minesweeper picks ‘then up. A good many parties never roach their destination because of weathw
Just a ow days 480 sweeper picked up a nl taining two men, EE party of three, which had been attacked six times by .a :
_ |schmitt in the middle A the
Sea. For two days they had slaking their thirst with seawa and alcohol from the boat's
pass. One friend of your corresp came over with.12 of oy» Hiceh
urning- all thelr. blankets ‘and ‘res. lying u elderdownis to Sing upon heep, ‘rom
eral revolt.
YankinR. A F.. Taken by Nazi
NEW YORK, Oct. 2¢ (U, Pym A Berlin report, heard by ‘the United Press lis listening reported yesterday that foci. Daniel, an American who was shot down during his first operas: tional ‘flight for the 5 Royal § ane, bd, Tn e Fren tin a ber boat. Mr, ‘Daniel is now a. prisoner . War. The German broadcast Mr. Daniel, rompied. by the} premiums given by the . had volunteered for the R four months age.
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