Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1942 — Page 3
~ TO GET HIS FUNDS
‘Makes Favorable impression on Se on Senators After Table-
Thumping Session Over
Inflation Problems; FDR
Takes Hand in Agriculture Dept. Money Tangle.
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.).—Members of the senate appropriations committee predicted privately today that|} Price Administrator Leon Henderson will be granted additional funds to carry out the administration’ s anti-inflation
program.
They said the price chieftain, who estimates that $62,000,000,000 in war costs can be saved if prices are held: at present levels, made a “favorable impression” during two days of secret hearings in which he appealed for more
money to enforce curbs on living costs.
Seeking restoration df $86,000,000 which the house cut from $161,000,000 recommended by the budget bureau, he contended that . the entire price and rent control program would be in jeopardy unless the full amount is provided. He also reportedly argued that widespread stabilization of wages must be invoked immediately to bolster the entire’ program and indicated he was prepared to “go to bat” at once with the war labor board on the issue.
Yesterday's session was quiet—almost to the point of routine—in comparison with Thursday's stormy meeting when there was much loud talking and table pounding by Henderson and the legislators alike.
F. D. R. Enters the Battle
On another front in the antiinflation battle—that ° relating to parity prices for farm products— senate conferees on.the $680,000,000 agriculture supply bill gave up their Independence day holiday in an attempt to solve the deadlock which has kept the department technically “broke” since start of the fiscal year on Wednesday. President Roosevelt took a hand fn the fight yesterday when he made public a letter blaming “pressure tactics” by, “selfish and powerhungry” groups for the dispute over disposition of government-held surpluses. He said the maneuver en-~-dangered the vital wartime farm and food effort. : The 1943 supply bill, carrying soil benefit funds and money to run the agriculture department, has
been held up chiefly because of|’
house insistence on a ‘section prohibiting the Commodity Credit Corp. from selling government grain surpluses, except deteriorated stocks, at prices less than 100 per cent of parity. “Pressure Tactics Will Not Prevail”
The senate is insisting on permitting sales of corn and 125,000,000 bushels of wheat at 85 per cent of the parity price of corn, the commaodities to be used for feed and for making alcohol for explosives and synthetic rubber.
CHANGE SHIFTS
Industry Will With Wartime Program Of Transportation.
today.
in order to avoid the rush-hour jams on the local transit system which are from 7:30 to 8 a. m. and 5 to 5:30 p. m. Others are preparing io make changes.
Change Shifts
RCA Manufacturing Co. several months ago changed its shifts to relieve congestion on the E. Michigan st. car line which many of its employees use. Morning shifts now begin at 6 a. m. with a majority of employees reporting by 7:30 a. m., thus spreading the use of transit service. When the Bridgepsrt Brass Co. plant, served by the Mars Hill motor coach line, began operations,
are from 7 a. m. to 3 p. m, 3 p. m. to 11 p. m. and 11 p. m. to 7 a. m.
Peaks Are Avoided
In this way peaks are avoided and the shifts arriving and leaving at 11 p. m. are able to use the more frequent service ‘than is in effect after midnight. Curtiss-Wright - recently adjusted one of its major day shifts so that employees report at 7 a. m. and leave at 3 p. m. Likewise, LukasHarold Corp. has a day shift from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Mr. Zink pointed out that other changes are being studied to be put in effect, when and if they become
“The only real issue involved here,” the president wrote to a group of farm, labor and religious organizations, “is whether the government should be free to use its feed resources to produce food for the wartime effort. “When this fact becomes clear, I am certain that pressure group tactics will not prevail and that the action taken by the congress will reflect the nation’s needs.”
LOCAL NAVY PILOT ‘MISSING IN ACTION’
An Indianapolis combat pilot attached to an airplane carrier, Ensign: William Robinson Evans Jr., today was reported missing in action, according to a navy telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Evans of 3019 N. Meridian st. Ensign Evans was born in Indianapolis, graduated from Shortridge high school in 1936 with honors from Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., in 1940. Immediately after graduating from Wesleyan he enlisted in the naval aviation reserve and received training - at Bennett field, New York, Jacksonville, Fla., and advanced training at Miami, Fla. He was assigned to carrier duty when commissioned and was stationed at Norfolk, Va. when the U. 8S. entered the war. The last word his parents have received from him was on May 28 when he informed them he was well. Ensign Evans has a brother, John Hathaway Evans, now in training as one of the “Indianapolis own” naval air cadets at Corpus Christi, Tex. His mother is president of the V-5 Mothers’ club of Indianapolis. A sister, Miss Barbara Evans, and another brother, Thomas Frederick Evans, are at home.
SPONSOR CARD PARTY .
The Kitchen band of the Women of the Moose will sponsor a card party at the Moose Temple, 135 N.
necessary.
ON NEW OFFICERS
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.).— Enlisted army men may be appointed to officer candidate schools by their commanding general in recognition of demonstrated fitness or meritorious - service, Secretary of
yesterday.
Mr. Stimson said the move was designed “as a further guarantee
lost in the shuffle of war department machinery.” Soldiers receiving these appointbefore a board of officers for exschool.
Also, the soldier
tend, if its quote is not filled.
small, low-powered
forces.
CHINA'S PRESIDENT LAUDS U. S.
President Lin Sen of China cabled
an Independence day greeting to President Roosevelt in which he expressed confidence in the future of
the united nations.
Sino-American
arms,” the message said.
Delaware st., tomorrow at 8 p. m.
our cause shall be triumphant.”
. IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY
“Cavalcade of Thrills,’ army emerge relief show, Fair Grounds, 1:30 an
Dio, patriotie, downtown, 10 a. m.
Civilian defense, address by James M. national director, Murat, 2:30 p. m
American Legion Stlehration, park, 9 x nt fireworks, 9:30
Green| oars, council Bono Severin unhye 10 a.
Civilian buy ty and State offi= cials, Heeting, CO me Spy a.m. Junior ras ding, © horse
Columbia
Horsemen’s show, Thomas stables; 1:30 and
Phar ++i ira breakfast and swim, Rivie-|§
MEETINGS TOMORROW
} “Cavalcade of Thrills,” ans Smergency relief show, Fair Grounds, 1 p. m. and
The Nanior Horsemen's association, horse show, Thomas a 4 1:30 p. m. » om. Go 13 midnight, Raps
. Mildred Stevenson, 39, Noblesvill D. Devi i,
MARRIAGE LICENSES
the Seunty. © therefore, names
Walter Ammerman, 47, Noblesvill ville, I Ind.;
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5
phipe L. *L. Bes BB
Ty C.; Bayhe I. Archer; 1% or) 14 3 ‘Erwin_F. Giddens, 47, of 113%
John son, 21, of 1317 Sturm; Geraldine Bo Ol ow: 18,’ of 7800 E. ‘Wash.
K. Goll, 21, of 1802 S. Vinewo Mary E. Wallace, 19, of 1405 Oi ol; Ca rie Ar. Tait. ot 3011 Lay Soun: I 0 an nope 2.4 Judd, 3 Box dos a
J Bidney BR I Bon ar Jens 00 X. 34th; Mthel 18. of Car : i Taft, 21, otk 1331 W. Rai: 1268 Stendard,
" _S@ladys M, Larkin, 20, of
TO EASE TRAVEL
Co-operate
Indianapolis industries have pledged their co-operation with the city’s eight-point wartime transportation program, Edward Zink, Indianapolis administrator for the office of defénse transportation, said
He said several industries already have changed their working hours
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1400 JOIN NAVY
HERE IN JUNE,
Campaign to Push Monthly 1 Enlistment to 2000 To Continue.
The navy’s drive for 2000 1 recrut. from Inidana during June fell 60! ==
Southport Boasts 47
|CONSUMERS GET A SUGAR BONU
short of its goal but enlistment officials said that the 1400-mark repre-
| shifts were arranged to make best ‘use of bus service. Bridgeport shifts
GUT ARMY RED TAPE
War Henry L. Stimson announced
that outstanding men may not be|jege ave.;
ments will not be required to go
amination, but they must meet all the other requirements necessary for acceptance to the officer candidate may choose the school he wishes to at-
Mr. Stimson also revealed that personnel for the field artillery “grasshopper” airforce, made up of observation planes which have replaced observation balloons, will be chosen from personnel of the army ground
IDEALS
CHUNGKING, July 4 (U. P).—
sented twice the enlistment of May. Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, navy recruiting officer for Indiana, said “We are continuing a campaign to get 2000 recruits a month from Indiana.” He expressed his appreciation of “some fine work on the part of civilians who aren’t eligible for enlistment . . . but who talked navy to their more eligible friends.” Approximately 125 men recruited since Wedyesday were to march in today’s parade and then take the navy ‘oath at 11:45 a. m. on the steps of the world war memorial. Indianapolis youth taking part in this ceremony include Francis Raymond Pribble, 1055 High st.; Carl Elmer Duncan, 2825 Standard ave.; Frank Elwood Downing, 1246 Holmes ave.; Thomas William Price, 537 South Central court; George Washington Hinkle Jr. 4239 Graceland ave.; Robert James Schaedel, 2325 Miller ave.; Walter Edward Hanna, 1029 St. Peter st.; Nicholas Joseph Hunter, 2310 N. Dearborn st.; Eugene Robert Bell, 548% E. Washington st.; Joseph William Flannagan, 830 Udell st.; Theodore Frederick Jensen, 118 W. 18th st.;’ Donald Andrew Barker, 1022 High st., and Marvin Leslie Despain, 1430 &. Harding st. Also Gerald ‘Arthur Reese, 1336 W. 34th st.; Albert John Eshelman, 830 W. 31st st.; Donald Francis Cavanaugh, 1527 S. Talbot st.; Arthur Gray Palmer, 433 N. Beville ave.; Robert R. Alexander, 3544 ColMerle Milton Eaton, 1401 Churchman ave.; Eddie Joe Schorn, 643 Congress ave.; Wesley Robert Russell, R. R. 13, Box 157; Claude Reed, 1140'% S. West st.; Russell Wilbur Schull, 1133 Villa Grove ave.; Robert Carl Schatz, R. R. 12, Box 37; Paul Neil Weaver, 1519 Central ave.; Charles Frederick Gates, 1918 N. Harding st.; Charles Robert Hay, 1723 Hall place, and James Francis Webb, 139 W. McCarty st.
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U, P)— The capital's 48,750 government office cuspidors, often shot at and sometimes hit, will be ' given a
chance to get in a few licks of their own—against the axis—if the pub-
Cuspidors Being Spirited Off In Capital in Dead of Night!
“It isa source of pride and inspiration that the long-standing friendship = based upon a community of ideals has flowered into a comradeship in
“I am convinced with all freedom-
loving peoples fighting on our side .| that the day is not distant when
These lists *'o from official records in nse, es, s Jo sot resp responsible for orrors in
Jose-
Jpond; "Rosabelle Mccoy, 39, of iis Rar
lic buildings administration has its way. It should be made clear at the outset, however, that what the PBA has in mind is not primarily the diversion of cuspidor brass into arms. Lo “This is a modernizing ‘project first and foremost,” a spokesman said. “Cuspidors are. sa hangover from the era when everybody chewed tobacco. They shouldn't be necessary in this day and age when practically nobody chews. ' In addition to being obsolete, they are nasty and expensive.” But when cuspidors began to disappear mysteriously from offices overnight, the story got around that the rubber situation was somehow responsible. One bereaved executive offered this explanation: ' “They were already taking up +i |cuspidor mats and tossing them in the scrap rubber pile. Then some.|one discovered that the people who cleaned the cuspidors wore rubber gloves. So they called in the gloves. “lof the cuspidors.” But that wasn't exactly what happened. ' R. O. Jennings, assistant to .|the PBA’s building manager, told x "| the true story. Some weeks ago, he "|said, it was decided to remove cuspidors from the 325 government
That made it necessary to get rid].
HARLAN FIRES PROBED BY FBI
Blazing Tanks Threaten to. Collapse, Spreading Sea of Flame.
HARLAN, Ky., July 4 (U, P.).— Federal Bureau of Investigation agents today investigated an explosion at the Gulf Distributing and, Refinery Co. where one of four flaming gasoline storage tanks threatened to collapse and spread the blaze to nine other huge drums. Firemen from Harlan, Loyal and Cumberland played hoses on the buckling sides of -the big tank, but it was feared they could not prevent an ultimate cave-in that would hurl blazing gasoline causing additional explosions.
Suspect Explosives
Authorities believed the refinery was set off by high explosives. Witnesses said the first tank .exploded with a . sharp detonation while the other three tanks caught fire with a “swishing” sound. The first blast occurred while gasoline was being pumped from a tank car into the drum. Mrs. Harry Cox, whose home was demolished by the explosion, died late yesterday of burns. Before her
death, she told police that she had]
seen a man lurking near the tank. She said he had gone under the drum, then emerged running toward a creek bank away from the refinery. The explosion which rocked Harlan followed. Company officials said the tanks contained from 25,000 to 50,000 gallons of gasoline each and firemen estimated the damage at $500,000.
dead of night—in order to elimirate the expense of cleaning them.” “It takes two workers with mop tanks all night to clean the cuspidors in just one building,” he explained. “There are about 325 government buildings and they will average 150 cuspidors to a building. ” Almost surreptitiously, the campaign was tried out first in one of the navy departments ‘buildings. Then it was extended to the federal trade commission’s quarters. ' This week the PBA started in on the justice department's marble edifice where Attorney General MPrancis Biddle’s cuspidor was removed along with others. “In 75 per cent of the cases so far nobody objected to losing his cuspidor,” a spokesman said. “In one building only two executives demanded theirs back. The first real complaint came when we-start-ed taking them out of the justice building.” ‘If the cuspidor-removal campeign -is: carried ‘through to a successful conclusion, even though salvage is not the primary object the brass will go into munitions ‘and the cleaners’ gloves, as well as the mats, will be carted to the scrap heap. But the: PBA ‘isn’t too: certain its project will succeed. ° “We may not ‘get to. first base,” Jennings said. “It depends on how many tobacco-chewers there are in the buildings we haven’t got to yet. If any old-time chewers complain,|]
{buildings — gradually. and in. the
to side like the tentacle gry octupus.
We were two journalistic
the plan. {half weeks, Andy has a r
the size of a big mans
evening.
we'll just: have: to She: tate cuspi-
His Toe 1B
1. Smilin’ Andy M"Ouat, the Southpert tomato champion.
2. Though not pla; plant, grown by Edward “vans of
ed The Times’ way, this plant is doing fair, at that.
Winchester, Ky.
It’s a climbing tomate
3. Fred H. Kissling | Southport town board president, keeping an eye on what goes on in Southport,
measures Andy’s big plan i (set out like The Times said), ‘and finds it measures 47 inches. the regular way. the tomatoes on Andy’s |£7-ineh special super-duper. 8 n —
one is one Andy plante¢
TOMATO EDI RECEIVES Shock
Great Branches | Waved From Side to Side. Like Angry Octupus. By FREMONT POY ER Times Tomato BdittF Andy was gone ,so we | went on
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around to the back yard.)
Well, it was a sho¢k. There,
reaching up toward the bi: ning sun, was Andy’s colossus, i plant.
tomato
Great branches —— rom, side nf an an-
Huge, green tomatoes i ung from
the swaying branches—rcund balls of gardener’s gold.
I stood ads tilted 1azement. babes in 's famous
The photographer ane with our mouths agape, }i¢ backward, gazing with &h
the jungle world of And’ tomato. th Wonderful Wor} d
And it was a strange land wonderful world. Il Andy McOuat, 58 [Union st, Southport, planted the ‘omato on three-foot-hole-anti-corn-cobs And now, after [five and a lant that is 47 inches high. I There are 12 tomatoes on it, one fist—and not even ripening yet. | The fact is, Andy has practically raised himself a tomato Frankenstein. Andy puts two sprink'- r cans of water down the nearby pipe each When the tinge was ripe, he suckered it. ! There is no mystery |! [to No mystery, but thet appalling things going on: Andy has moles buzzing around underground in his ygrd, apparently like flies over &pilt honey. “I want you to get oli here and see this plant before th mole gets it,” Andy urged. (So ve did.) This particular mole || the back yard is too cagey for fhe © common type trap. He skirts fhe
Supernatura 1
And so Andy soaked ‘ome grains of corn in arsenic, Bu ried them in “the mole’s favorit; burrowing ground and now he’s wziting. Some day—old mole 2nd arsenic —and that’s the end. | Andy's plant amazed me. But what I got through thc mail this week is beyond the staic of amazement. It borders on he agricultural supernatural. | Came a letter from [I up Montezuma way: | “Are you on speaking terms with your pipe (dream) tor:ato? If so, I have inclosed a ph: o of a. tomato which you cal show The Times tomato so it wil 1 know exactly what is expected of it. “Everything—even tomato— must have a goal as| zn incentive and we out here in (these small towns are just as inte: ‘ested as Indianapolis citizens in |i1ie future of this prodigy of yours.” | Down Kentuck ¥ The . inclosed piety Burgess climbing Trio mato, down on Edwairt! in Winchester, Ky. | When the picture Ww: Evans already had bushel of tomatoes, i: 2%-pounders, and thi: bushels on the way. | If a tomato ever top of that plant cow body’s head, the end. This week I sucker The Times’ tomato and cut off : lower. branches. Ii
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PROPOSE BIG FLEET + OF SUB (HASERS
WASHINGTON, Ju!
The newly organiz¢: small boat
year to establish.a ‘against attacks off
oller at, each
was of a Evans’ place picked one me of them ‘e were two «ll from ,the
that tio would be
wcveral of the
It looks sort of bt a right now,
LY 4 (U. P) -— builders association [as . presented
‘be so close]
Height: 19 inches.
Beside the big
And then on the right are just two of
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BY EARL RI CHERT
coming from two tents. The Tyndall forces, headed by Charles Jewett, former mayor, are going ahead with their own plans for the fall campaign and are planning on opening new head-
-quarters soon for the G. O. P.
mayoral candidate. They are now organizing veterans’ and women’s groups. And County Chairman Bradford is preparing to call the county finance committee together this month to discuss the raising. of funds for the fall campaign. He also is preparing to make a poll of the voters in all precincts in the county early next month to determine if the Republican voters are registered, and, if not, to gei them to do so. On none of his plans is Mr. Bradford consulting the party's mayoral candidate.
The Tyndall forces still feel that Mr. Bradford, who supported the unsuccessful Henry Ostrom in the mayoral race, should step out as county chairman.
But supporters of Mr. Bradford point to the fact that he was overwhelmingly re-elected county chairman” following the primary and say that by the same token Mr. Tyndall should step out. And so it goes. Daily McCoy and Jim Ingles have been suggested by some Republicans as compromise candidates’ for county chairman, but these suggestions have been given no reception whatsoever, There is no doubt but that it would be impossible now for the ‘Tyndall forces to unseat Mr. Bradford. An overwhelming majority of the precinct committee"men are for him. The picture might be changed this winter, however, if Mr. Tyndall should be elected mayor and thus get the city hall patronage to hand out. But there are many
who doubt that this would have
any effect in these times because many of the precinct officials are not now interested in political jobs. They can make more money outside of politics. Naturally, the Democrats are the only ones really happy about all this.
8 » 2
G.0.P. Loses to Navy
County Republicans will have a vacancy to fill on their legislative ticket for the November election. Frank E. Downing, 1246 N. Holmes ave., who was one of the 11 Republicans nominated to the state house of representatives in the May primary, is leaving today to join the navy as a firstclass electrician. Mr. Downing, 41, served five years in the navy in his youth. For the past 15 years he has been working as an electrician for the Link-Belt Co. He is married and has three children. County G. O. P. leaders are * planning to name his wife to replace him on the ticket.
50 COMPETING IN CHECKER CONTEST
Five local players were among the
valley checker. tournament opened at the Y. M. C. A.
Ky., are competing. The tournament will continue: to
.| Monday back at the. central *
Local entrants are J. R. Stevenson, Indiana’ checker association dent and winner of ‘last “minor” tourney; Carroll O. Mike Dillon, Carl Brady
FOR OVER A MONTH now a number of prominent Marion county Republicans have been trying unsuccessfully to get the Gen. Robert Tyndall-Jimmy Bradford forces together. But neither camp is budging an inch from its original position. And, unless some new master conciliator comes upon the scene, it appears likely that the county Republicans will go into an admittedly tough tussle with the Democrats this fall with campaign orders
WAR PLANT ‘PIRAGY’ TARGET OF M'NUTT
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.).— Pirating of skilled laborers in’ industry prejudices the war program and threatens the nation with an inflation that will have “tragic consequences,” Paul V. McNutt of the war manpower commission declared in a radio address last night. He cited a number of instances where war plants have taken laborers from vital jobs in other concerns by offering’ them higher wages. One west coast plane manufac‘turer, he said, sent labor scouts to Michigan hiring workers away from a plant which made parts for his own planes—“‘and then found his
production line stalled for lack of these parts.” “The employer who tries to solve his plant's problems by stealing workers from another is a pirate— a liability to total production,” he said.
Each to Get Get Two Pour In Addition to ‘Dole,” Beginning July 10.
WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P A permanent bonus of a pound sugar per person every three was predicted today by [ion officials who disclosed that supplies
at normal levels. The bonus already has been de~ clared for the initial six weeks per= iod beginning July 10—giving each person two pounds of sugar in addition to the regular dole of a half pound a week, The sugar rationing program had been under fire from many quarters on charges that warehouses were
‘Ibulging with excess stocks.
Supply Is Normal
Although the office of price ade ministration denied that the na« tion’s supply was as high as normal, due to decreases in holdings by wholesalers and retailers, one ofi<
despite the shipping situation. The bonus, he said, might even be increased to a pound a week if deliveries keep up at the rate. of the past few months.
officials, the war production board
person during the coming six months. This would be shout the normal peacetime consumption,
normal sugar sales, OPA spokes~ men were certain there would be no abandonment of rationing. The hazards of the shipping situstion make it. imperative, they said, te
keep the rationing machinery Jn operation.
Starts With Stamp ¥
The bonus already decided on will be distributed between July 10 and
No. 7. It will mean distribution of some 200,000 tons of sugar. wi Besides giving an additional supply to housewives it will also allow
stitutional customers to get ome-. third more than at present. ‘dustrial users may step up their consumption from 50 per cent of
12 Dead Japs For a Quarter.
WILMINGTON, Del., July 4 . P.).—Twelve dead Japs for a quar-
by Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybeld, - chief of U. 8. army engineers, in an Independence day appeal for war stamp and bond subscriptions. “Bullets -for the Garand rifle . cost about 25 cents a dozen,” he said. “I noticed in a Washingten * paper the other day a remark that here indeed is a bargain: 12° dead Japs for a quarter. . “I do not promise you 12 dead Japs for each 25-cent stamp you buy. But I do promise you that the sum total of your purchases, - and those of other Americans, will give our new and mighty: American army the bullets, and guns, and tanks, and planes with
Strauss
AY
the last
hasn't been And why?
back one dead Japan.”
WE be permitted
to take as our Fourth of July text—the remarks of the Clergyman in
scene of the
movie “Mrs. Miniver.”
“There is scarcely a household thst
struck to the heart. Surely you must have
asked yourselves this question.
cial said imports from Hawaii and the Caribbean were about normal
Aug. 22, in return for ration stamp
restaurants, hospitals and other in-
m-
their 1941 purchases to 80 per oent,
8
ter was the lure held out today
field today as the 13th annual Ohio}
Approximately | 50 men, including last year's win-| ner, Raymond Fields, of Loulsville,
letic club and, if » third day. of Hi
Why, in all conscience, should tess be the ones te suffer? Children, old people, a young girl at the height of her loveliness. Why these? Are these our ~oldiers? Are these our fighters? Why should they be sacrificed? I shail tell.you why. Because this is not only a war of soldiers in uniform, it is a war of the people—of all the people— ° and it must be fought, not only on the battlefield, but in the cities
. and in the villages, in the factories
and on the farms, in the home and
in the heart of every man, woman
and child who loves freedom! ‘Well, we have buried our dead but: we shall not: forget them.
After conferring with shipping .
\estimated that about 50 pounds of . sugar would be available for each ir
Despite this possibility of near-
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for the next six months should be wr
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