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,- Cal, March 2.—While we're driv-

PASO ROBL ard the land of sunshine and con-

ing southward

the scrap heap. ‘Such as the

ct that I Bappened to be in’ Cal., on the week-end of registration for the draft, so that’s where 1 gave myself to my count:

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the place when I went in, and

nasty, like a judge sentencing you weren’t.

middle name is Taylor) the man said, “Why, that’s my last name!”

just come around.” y will just be as pleasant with me ion people . . .

Rationing

The nation isn’t on sugar e government will tell us—and how Then we’ll all do it.

| . THE MOST EMBARRASSING moment of ar = New York |st. bus operator occurred one .rainy g recently, according to a story making the i at Indianapolis Railways offices. The bus vigil Bftoysa and as it approached the Belt Railroad elevation, the operator, through the gloom, saw what he mistook for a prospective passenger stand ing there. He brought his bus to a stop before he noticed that his “passenger” was merely the statup of a soldier that’s stood there for many a year. . .. Even the match companies have joined the movement to conserve defense materials, Walter Newburger of the Universal Match Corp.| tells us the companies are cutting down { the striking surface on the penny esiand match books because the materials used

, Thanks!

T ONE north side youngster is heeding ldmonition against accepting rides with certain utility employee left home in town a few minutes after his smell started for school. He overtook her ith a couple of Second Grade boys.

“Hop in | ‘and I'll take you to school,” he told the oungsters. His daughter and one of the boys did. e other boy ran away as fast as his legs would Be him. ter in the morning, the man received . oe call from the school principal - who i | | WASHIN TON, March 2—In his radio address,

ident. Rdosevelt said discretion must be used by srnment and its critics. ; His cabinet officers, Secrgtary Knox and on, immediately demonstrated the wisdom of his remark by reverse example. Both promptly uttered glaring and conflicting indiscretions concerning the air-raid alarm at Los Angeles the other day. Knox said there were no enemy planes around and that it was a fglse alarm, Stimson said it was 15 commercial planes which fifthcolumnists had taken up. That ‘brought a groan from the Civil Aeronautics Authority, which said

such a stunt was impossible.

Some in the government say sting utterances by the two cabinet offinuch damage to public confidence as if we ttle. There was no need for them, Stim10x could have withheld comment until e facts. Or if they were Sore to take a

say. If Knox and Soild couldn’; do that about a matter of fact concernng a military situation, the next time they talk how Are people to know it is not some more gessing; and it is Which guess to tie to?

and Private Utterances

RETE, INACCURATE and sometimes mais harmful enough when it comes from the zen. It is more so when it, comes {from

E, Washington, Sunday—I was happy to son, Franklin Jr, and his wife lunch with friday in New York city, He is still rather ht his appendectomy, and the doctors tell

be a little. while before he can return to his destroyer. Destroyer duty in winter re-

since he has not been home since some time in October, we aye rejoicing in having a chance fo see him, even though one never likes to go through operations. On Friday afternoon, I jaw a number of people in New | York city, and in the evening 1 started by air for Seattle, ‘Wash. We seem to have an “epidemic ¢f appendix operations ‘in the family, 3 that our .daughter, Ann, was to be on ‘Monday morning. e every mother feels a particularly close ‘her daughters. Fortunately for me, my n-law, and the children in his family have grown 1 to me and we want to be togethers both noe anxiety and happiness. : help being tremendolsly

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There wasn’t anybody else in said to him:

the two men and one woman in charge were very pleasant and chatty. For some reason I had figured they'd be grave and even

to the penitentiary. But they, Word From Back Home

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By Ernie Pyle

How It’s Done

There is a cute story in San. Franeiseo about giv‘ing away information. An elderly lady ‘was strolling in one of the city’s hilltop parks and stopped to look down into the bay, where a battleship rode at anchor. A sailor walked past, stopped nearby, and the lady

“Young man, what is the name of that ship out there?” “I don’t know, ma'am,” the sailor said politely. “And what ship are you from?” the lady asked. “That one,” the sailor said.

THE WAR IS beginning to hit close, now, to many

| of us. Aunt Mary writes that all is chaos around our|.

farm community at Dana, Ind. Construction of the great new munitions plant has started. Farmers are moving from lifelong residences on two-weeks notices; engineers and army

| officers are moving into the better-type farmhouses;

others are being torn down.

Little old Dana is throbbing. A stranger can

nardly get a meal, or a place to sleep. A hotel is | going up on the corner where Ben Lang’s grocery | used to be. Doc Meyers has staked off his pasture, | put in gravel streets and lights, and made a trailer

city out of it. The town loafers have never had such a threering circus to watch. They gather every afternoon into a new railbird regiment, to watch the materials of war being unloaded. Even my father, who never before could qualify

as a town loafer, now drives three miles to town every

day after lunch, and sits there all afternoon watching them unload the freight cars. The last time my Aunt Mary wrote she said it was a rainy, foggy day, and that Dad was fretting for fear it was too bad for him to get to town that afternoon to watch.

‘the boy not only told his teacher about the stranger

trying to get him into a car, but had given the teacher the license number of the car.

Reason Enough

FRANK SAMUEL, national adjutant of the Legion, received a letter the other day from William Patrick Simons, a former employee at the national Legion headquarters here and now living in Leavenworth, Kas. Mr, Simons asked Mr. Samuel for a letter of recommendation to help him get in the navy. Wrote Mr. Simons: ‘You may think I am nuts to be willing to go into the navy at my age. But it happens that my only son is in the navy. My wife, who is an airplane pilot, has enlisted in the civilian air patrol. So I'll be damned if am going to stay at home and listen to them brag after this war is over."

Sounds Like Gambling

WE ARE INFORMED that employees of the State Highway Commission have formed -a ‘pool” as an Each of those participating, ‘it’s reported, pays a dime into the pool and the one having the best poker hand in the serial number of his pay check gets the pot. The best hand the last time, we hear, was four deuces. of calls lately asking if it’s too late to give books for the Victory Book campaign. The campaign will continue several weeks. One reason. it will continue is that every time an American ship goes to the bottom, that boat’s library goes to Davy Jones’ bookcase. The American Merchant Marine Association estimates that it has lost 30,000 volumes since Dec. 8. About 25,000 volumes have been contributed

in Indianapolis thus far.

By Raymond Clapper

reporting “off the record,” exaggerated versions of Pearl Harbor. He mentioned that in these ofi-the-record discussions it is slyly suggested that the government has withheld the truth about casualties and that instead of 2340 killed, the real number was 11 or 12 thousand men. Reports have come to government officials of exactly that type of off-the-record talk by various people, some of them public men. The government received one such report of an off-the-record discussion by Senator Wheeler in Milwaukee recently. That report, whether an accurate account or not, was at hand during’ the preparation of the President's radio broadcast. It is that kind of business that the President had in mind when he lashed out against what he called “damnable mis-statements” that are picked up and quoted in Axis propaganda and used to help Germany and Japan with their conquests, and to break down faith at home and abroad in the United States.

Is This Just a Sample?

AN EXAMPLE OF a third kind of irresponsible talk was a speech in the house by Rep. Pheiffer, a New York Republican, who on Thursday denounced

the granting of a month’s shore leave to Lieut. Frank-

lin Roosevelt Jr. after an operation for appendicitis. The congressman cited that as an example of favoritism. He said nobody but the President's son would be allowed 2 menth in which to recover from an operation. Rep. Woodrum of Virginia replied that he thought it was sinking a “little bit” down the ladder to make such a criticism on the floor of the house. Just a few days ago Rep. Rieh, a Pennsylvania Republican, said in house debate that Roosevelt had maneuvered us into the war. You can’t have a political campaign without some ‘occasional heated remarks that overstep the line of normal restraint. But the campaign has until November to go and if these are samples of the loose talking that is coming, God help us when the counor try gets heated up toward election time.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

fact that I am able to go to my children when they need me. I know so many mothers who go through great anxiety when, for financial reasons very often, they can not bridge the space which lies between them and their children. The only day on which I shall regret not being able to be home this week is March 4, for the President always feels that there is a spiritual significance attached to that day. - Nevertheless, I think that out here, and in every home in' the country, we can think back to the inauguration day of 1933, and the difficulties which faced us then, and say a prayer in our hearts. We have come through many difficulties and made some dent on the solution of the problems which faced us then. We will, I am sure, continue to have steadfastness and courage to go through this even greater crisis and meet the unknown future with undaunted determination to carry through to a happier ers for mankind. I never cross the continent by air without being grateful for this method of transportation, which makes space so insignificant. . Travelling is always an opportunity for me, not only to read, which is a refreshing stimulant, but also to look at the vastness of our nation and reflect upon our tremendous Shpattunities, Which we are not yeu

Hoosiers in Washington

WILLIS VIEWS BANKHEAD BILL AS FARM HELP

Would Have Voted for It, Hoosier Says; Wilson's Popularity Grows.

"By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 2—Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) wasn’t on hand when the senate passed the Bankhead bill to raise farm prices further. But when he got back from Indiana he had Senator Charles L. McNary (R. Ore.) minority leader, explain that he would have voted for the measure. 1 Senator Fréderick VanNuys (D. Ind.), who owns a farm in Virginia, voted against it. because he feels thav if feed prices are boosted any higher livestock production will be curtailed and a meat shortage will result, President: Roosevelt, who likely will veto the bill # the house passes it, predicted that it will add a billion dollars to family food budgets. - The: bankhead bill would prevent using any :- Commodity Credit corporation surpluses unless sold at the so-called “parity price.” Would Curtail Use Under this plan Uncle Sam would be prevented from using any of the 5,000,000: bales of cotton to make cloth for: uniforms or in any other way. But the cotton senators were joined in passing the bill by wheat men like McNary and corn men like Willis. “I think the bill is a sound approach to the farm problem for it will give the farmers sufficient money to hire much needed labor,” Senator Willis maintained. He said his visit to the state convinced him that there is a serious labor shortage on Indiana farms. “I do not favor any pay raises for industrial labor in the cities, however,” he said. He added that he does not believe the workers’ food bill will be boosted a billion. Report on Incomes The bureau of agricultural economics reported that cash income for - Hoosier farmers in 1941 was $393,989,000 and 1942 is expected to top it. The 1940 total in the state was -$294,569,000; 1939, $278,889,000, and 1938, $268,221,000. Indiana crops accounted for $99,624,000 of the 1941 total; livestock, $279,840,000, and government payments, $14,-

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Applause. for" Wilson

When Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr., Republican national chairman and house minority floor leader, returned from Indianapolis he reported that the biggest hand at the meeting he addressed there went to Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.). “It was spontaneous, too,” Rep. Martin declared. “I guess it just shows what the Hoosiers think about the ways things are being handled here ia Washington.” Rep. Wilson stepped into the national spotlight by attacking the efficiency of the corps of government workers here and suggesting a 10 p. m. curfew for the girls. He hopes to get on a committee to investigate the entire matter. When Rep. Clyde T. ENS (D. Ark.) took the house floor to urge that a government dam in Arkansas be named in honor of General Douglas MacArthur, who was born at Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 26, 1880, Rep. Wilson followed him and said: “Mr. Speaker, of late we have heard a lot about naming dams, camps, streets, and cities after General MacArthur. I am thinking of how General MacArthur feels about this. He is not a cheap seeker of publicity and honor. He wants tanks, guns, planes, munitions, and men in the Philippines in order to prosecute this war, "Let us honor him by getting them to him.” At this point, Rep. John Rankin (D. Miss.) interjected: “Whatever else we do, let us not name a curfew after him.” To this Rep. Wilson replied: “I am sure Gen. MacArthur would concur on any plan that would restore efficiency and deliver arms to his brave and gallant men fighting against tremendous odds in the hell holes of Luzon island.”

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Hoosiers have been heavy contributors to the appendix of the Congressional Record, that catchall which appears in the back of the book containing the regular de‘bates on the floor. . Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind) inserted a long letter from James H. Peeling, L. Gray Burdin, A. B. Carlile and Merwyn G. Bridenstine, all Butler university professors, urging great efficiency with the war effort in Washington. Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind) put in a quite a piece from the Greenwood News telling about two Johnson county sailors who were aboard the Normandie and their efforts to fight the fire. Rep. Raymond 8S. Springer (R. Ind.) put in a poem entitled “Our America” from the pen of Mrs, Constance 8. Conrad, Connersville. There are four verses. The first one reads: . “Where God's Love still in our hearts remains, : Where our days are full of joy, "not fear; Where peaceful happiness supremely reigns, - y America—my home and yours —s0 dear,”

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CRASH SENDS

Three Other Passengers Bruised by Impact on ~ W. Washington St.

Passengers of a bus that burned after it was struck in the rear by another vehicle escaped before flames enveloped the bus in the 6000 block on W, Washington st. at dawn today. A tractor drawing a trailer struck the bus, and the truck also caught fire. A bucket brigade of Wayne township volunteer firemen saved the tractor and trailer. Even the

tires of the bus were consumed by the flames.

Two Taken To Hospital

Asher Elliott, 51, of Rural Route 3, Box 138, who was seated in the rear of the bus, suffered a back injury. He and Richard Long, 24, of Effingham, Ill, driver of the tractor, were taken to a hospital, Mr. Long was burned on the face. | The crash occurred as William Arnold Sellers, 6338 Dunway st. stopped the bus to pick up another passenger. The new passenger was Garth Curbeaux, 19, of 6104 W. Washington st; who was knocked down by the impact before he had a chance to find a seat. He was bruised. Both Vehicles in Ditch

The two other bus passengers also were bruised. They were Hershel Barrett, 1445 Fruitdale ave, and Carl Budenbaum, 23, of 1309 S. High School road. Both the bus and the tractortrailer went into a ditch before they caught fire. The bus was owned by the Indianapolis Transit Co.

HEARSAY, TWO SAY OF LANGER CHARGES

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U, P.). —The charges of moral turpitude made by the senate elections committee against Senator William Langer (R. N. D) are a “barrage of Billingsgate,” two members said today in a minority report. “The. Senators—Ellison D. Smith (D. S. C.) and Abe Murdock (D. Utah)—disputed the contention of the committee majority that the charges are sufficient to justify Langer’s expulsion from the senate. “If a small fraction of the charges

leveled, most of them based upon hearsay, none of them sustained by convincing proof, were true, it is

would not be at large,” the minority report said. Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex), who joined the minority when the committee voted, 13 to 3, for the expulsion of Langer, wrote a separate report. He said he did nof agree with Mr. Murdock and Mr. Smith in all details but did conform to their main conclusions,

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Bus Burns After Being Hit by Tractor

The bus that burnéd after a crash on W, Washington St. .

Poem Becomes War Plant Motto

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.).—Fred Hettinger, an ordnance inspector in a large plant in the Pittsburgh district, took time during a recent lunch hour to write a bit of verse on shell inspection,

Today, the war department dis~

closed, this form is now printed on posters on the walls in that plant as a ‘reminder for painstaking work. These are Hettinger's ments: “The shell that you reject and scrap, Might be the one to end a Jap; But on the other hand it’s true, A faulty shell is dangerous too; So use your head, inspect them well— Be sure the axis gets the hell.”

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NAVAL TRAINING:

12,000 Officers a Year to Be Goal; First Class To Total 1000.

Times Special NOTRE DAME, Ind., March 2.— Notre Dame university, which for over 100 years has trained lawyers, engineers and scientists, is being readied to turn out 12,000 naval officers a year, according to the Rev. Fr. J. Hugh O'Donnell, university president. Arrangements for the training of cadets are completed with the appointment of Capt. H. P. Burnett, U. S. N., as head of the Notre Dame unit of the naval R. O, T. C. The first contingent of 1000 midshipmen will report on the campus next month. Three residence halls—Morrissey, Howard and Lyons—will house the cadets, who will attend regular Notre Dame classes. The trainees will use the athletic facilities, including the $600,000 Rockne memorial gymnasium. They will be fed in the university’s dining hall, which accommodates 3600. The cadets will take a threemonths’ preparatory course. Those selected for further training will continue - their studies at advanced stations. The others will serve as midshipmen.

FARM OUTPUT MOVES TOWARD NEW HIGHS

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U. P.). —The agriculture department reported today that farmers are off to “fairly good start” in the all-out drive for record production of livestock and crops this year. Production of milk, eggs, meats, vegetables and oil crops has been stepped up to record levels and will continue to increase as farmers meet the government plea for “maximum production on every acre” of the 1,000,000,000 acres of farm land.

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AUTOS CLAIM 3;

COUNTY TOLL 29

2 Killed in: Same Accident On West Side; 8 Die On State Roads.

‘The motor death toll in Marion county for this year stood at 29 today following three week-end fatalities in Indianapolis. Two men were killed by the same auto in the 4400 block on W, Washington" st. Saturday night. They were Jesse Shipley, 62; of 43256 W. Washington st., and Michael Bedrick, 40, of 1028 S. Fleming st. The third traffic death was that of John Calvin Handy, 42, of 1409 Williams st. He died in City hospital of injuries received when an auto that hit another car ricocheted and struck his.

Companion Injured

Miss Maxine Martin, 2120 E. Michigan st., who was a passenger Mr. Handy’s auto, was critically injured. She received a severe throat laceration. The auto that hit Mr. Handy’s after colliding with a third vehicle was driven by Robert L. Hartley, 21, of 35 :N. Colorado st. :. Hartley was charged with driving while under the influence of liquor and with leaving the scene of an accident. The crash occurred at Hamilton ave. and Michigan st. The auto that struck the two men on W, Washington st, Saturday night. was -driven by Farrow Bowman, 20, of R, R. 7, Box 313. He was not held. :

Eight Killed in State

Traffic fatalities in Indiana over the week-end included:

MRS. D. EDWARD CURLEY, 29, Mt. Vernon, killed. when her husband's auto crashed with another near Evansville,

SAM ROBERTS, 173, Attica, killed when his auto overturned near Williamsport. MACE O. ROHER, 55, South Bend, killed as his car struck an abutment.

JOHN EARLYWINE, 69, Anderson, killed in a collision near Albany. DAVID MICHEL, 47, Earl Park, killed when his auto crashed into the rear of a Greyhound bus near Lake Village. CHARLES T. RYAN, 67, Rich= mond, fatally injured when hit by an auto near his home. GEORGE C. PARKER, 65, Logansport, injured fatally as auto in which he was riding plunged into a ditch. VICTOR LAWLIS, 55, Trafalgar, killed today when struck by a skidding car near Franklin.

PLEDGES TO TELL U. S. ‘TOUGH TRUTH’

CHICAGO, March 2 (U.- PY Archibald MacLeish, director of the office of facts and figures, believes the “tough truth” about the war can be told the nation because the “people will understand and accept it.” Mr. MacLeish, speaking from Washington on the University of Chicago round table broadcast yesterday, said the government will pursue a strategy of truth and that propaganda, activities of the United States are designed to provide a sound factual basis for the formation of judgments and criticisms by the public.

FIRE DAMAGES GRADE SCHOOL AT GARFIELD

PORTLAND, March 2 (U. P)~— Fire almost destroyed the Garfield grade school yesterday. Damage was not estimated. On Jan. 27 the senjor high school was damaged by a $25,000 fire.

ASKS ALASKAN AIR FLEET WASHINGTON, March 2 (U, P)). —Asking for a vast air armada based in laska to “strike directly” at Japan, Maj, Alexander P. Seversky last night warned that the United States. must not stake.everything on an “obsolete strategy of mile-by-mile and island-by-island warfare.” He urged adoption of “an air power program geared for direct attack on the axis citad

GETS FRATERNITY OFFICE

Marott Sinex, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Sinex, 3327 Broadway, is the newly: elected of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Mr.

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Sinex, a sophomore, 8:8] graduate

MRS. PAYNE'S OWN STORY OF LOVE WAITED

Defendant May Begin Her Testimony Tomorrow;

2 Doctors Called..

By JOHN L. BOWEN Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March A —Caroline Gladys Payne, whe -waved her coarse black hair and laundered a few articles in her jail cell over the week-end, steeled herself today for an early full-dress appearance on the witness stand in her trial on charges of murdering Charles O. Mattingly. Circumstances make the hour ine definite, but there is a strong prospect that the Bloomington business woman-politician may take the stand tomorrow. She will tell, as no one else can tell, the story of her strange, 18year romance with: Mr, Mattingly which terminated in July, 1939, following an auto accident in January of the same year which left her with a disfiguring vertical scar over her right eye.

Claim Mind Became Unsound Mr. Mattingly, dccording to De-

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|fense Attorneys Q. Austin East and

J. Frank Regester, jilted Mrs. Payne following the accident, So severely did Mrs, Payne suffer in her romantic isolation, defense counsel contends, that she ultimate ly became of unsound mind, She was in such a mental state on the night of July 5, 1941, accord« ing to the defense, that she was in no way responsible for “the transaction” that occurred in the kitchen of the Gus Nickas home at 702 S. Walnut st. here. “The transaction” concerns five bullets fired into Mr. Mattingly’s back as he sat by a kitchen wine dow, He died withim an hour and Mrs. Payne was arrested immediately. Fight State Claims

Today, the 10th in Mrs, Payne's trial, finds the defense fighting de perately to overcome the - tion’s tightly ‘knit case built on two pinions: (1) Exhibits purporting to Mrs. Payne directly to the je (2) Testimony tending to Show that -she was a stubborn, de

a woman of unsound mind. In respect to the defendant’s men tality, prosecution and defense are about evenly divided in the box score. All prosecution witnesses ques= tioned on direct examination about Mrs. Payne’s sanity have expressed a belief in her soundness of mind. All defense witnesses have maintained that she was of unsound mind.

Call Medical Experts

The defense was expected today to introduce two medical experts qualified to explain the nature of Mrs. Payne's injuries in the 1939 auto accident and their relationship to her mental condition. They sre Dr. C. H. Marchani and Dr. J. W. Wiltshire, Dr. Mai~ chant stitched the wound in Mrs, Payne's head the night of the accident and treated her subsequently. Dr. Wiltshire attended Mrs. Payne for several weeks after the crash. Dr. Marchant was to take the stand as soon as Judge Charles B. Staff handed down a ruling on the defense counsel’s 11th hour demand Saturday for custody of Mr, Mate tingly’s love letters taken from Mrs, Payne shortly after her arrest.

Letters Not Introduced

These letters, which had been exe pected to play an important role in the state's case, were not even introduced in evidence by Prosecutor Sylvan Tackitt. In a petition demanding their surrender to the defense, Attorney Regester argued that their seizure from Mrs. Payne had been illegal. The defense petition asked pare ticularly for the return of Mr, Mattingly’s letter which accompanied a check for $2250 which he sent to

parently in “full settlement” for the “many kind favors you have done me. » The defense gave no clue as to the use they intend to make of the letters, '

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—On which of the Philippine islands is Manila? 2—The Adriatic sea is an arm of the Mediterranean; true or false? 3—A barometer measures humidity, temperature, or pressure of the

atmosphere? 4-—-What is a pastel? 5~Which state is nicknamed the “Palmetto State” ? ‘ 6—~The Virgin islands of the U. 8, were from Denmark, Norway, or Sweden? Answers 1—Luzon, : ) 2—True. 3-—Pressure. 4—A drawing with colored crayons. 5—South Carelina. 6—Denmaxk, ss 8 = ASK THE TIMES Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question

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