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SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1943

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The Indianapolis Times

l SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

(Fourth of Five Articles on the WACs)

A i / "NORTH AFRICA (By Wireless.)—There are some gmazingly interesting individuals among the 283 WACs in North Africa. For instance, one girl used to be a bartender. One was a reporter on an English paper in China. One is an heiress to enney store millions. One was a poetess, ne was at Pearl Harbor. And two of them have sons in the ervice Five of the WACs met their brothers here North Africa. They are Lt. Sarah Bagby of New Haven, Mo.; Lt. Susan Hammon, Nahant, Mass; Capt. Ruth Briggs, Westerly, R. I; Evelyn Pagles, Tonawanda, N.Y. and Ethel Crow, Houston, Tex. Mrs. Mary McClurl of Baltimore has a son in the merchant marine, and Mrs. Florence Byrns, Cincinnati, has a gon in the army. Miriam Stehlik, Cedar Rapids. Iowa, was a model before joining the WACs. Virginia Stacy, Seattle, was at Pearl Harbor and now works for the navy here

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§! ce [8s the Poetess

ALICE HESSE of Boulder Creek, Cal, had a book of poetry published. Sgt. Nana Rae, New York, has become a poet since arriving here. She came out with one on the G. Is" most unfavorite pill. The title is “Atabrine.” and the poem follows “If I should die before I wake

’ At least I won't have pilis to take,

And after doses one to three The Lord can have the rest of me.” One of my favorite WACs is Betty Jane O'Leary, | Pittsburgh. She is a beaming blond with impish eyes. | She does secretarial work at WAC headquarters. The first time I appeared there, without my having iden- | tified myself or anything, she began commenting | favorably upon my dogs. my picket fence at home, my | good looks. and the general quality of genius apparent in these columns. Smart girl, that O'Leary.

Sot. Murray Is World Traveler

SGT. MARY MURRAY is 43, with a young face and graying hair. She has travelled all over the world | as a fur salesinan. She married into the navy and] lived for many years in China. She saw the Jabanese invasions of Manchukuo and Shanghai in 1931 and 1937. Now she is chief cook at one of the three | WAC messes, and she says she never enjoyed any-| thing more in her life. Every afternoon there is a string of G. Is at her | back kitchen door waiting for coffee and a chance to] talk to Mary. She hears more battle stories than any |

other WAC. For some reason the men want to tell| her everything.

Dogfaces just back from the front] unburden their horror stories to her, and what some | of them have been through almost makes her cry at} night when she relays the hair-raising experiences to the other girls. |

There isn’t a more popular WAC with the soldiers | cratic candidate for governor in| men- |

than Murray, and she thinks they are all wonderful. | Slightly tipsy soldiers weep on her shoulder and occasionally ask to kiss her because she reminds them of their mother. She kisses them back, but wishes their impulses were stirred by something less maternal, |

STATE A $6500 WNC DIRECTOR

Change Will Put Area Boards Under Single Head; Several Seek Job.

A new manpower setup involving the appointment of a $6500-a-year state director and a $5600-2a-year assistant is expected to be established in Indiana this month by War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt. The change would switch the state U. S. employment service under jurisdiction of the state WMC director as well as the directors of nine Indiana areas which have manpower committees. Eugene B. Crowe of Bedford, who is mentioned as a possible Demo-

1944, is being prominently tioned as “in line” for the job as state director.

Haight Mentioned

Associates of J. Bradley Haight,

| state director of the U., S, employ-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: John Jeremiah Liddy. No. 1 Irishman. He not only has “the map on his face, and a typical Irish wit. but ing his fourth two-year term as state presit of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. And what could be more Irish than that? Four years ago when the Hibernians elected him to his third term, Jerry told them they had established a bad precedent. “First thing you know,” he said, wagging a warning finger. “Mr. Roosevelt will be wanting a third term, too.” He was right as he usually is in his political prognostications. Jerry retired last year as superintendent of the Belt railroad after 54 veers of two-fisted railroading. Now he’s putting in his \g the city as a member of the board of works, and chatting with his friends. He has them by the hundreds.

mn" » Tough, Big-Heorted JERRY LIDDY has made more friends by calling yple “blanketv blank so-and-sos” than the average

Mr. Liddy

time working for

could by buying them drinks. one of the last of the old school of railroaders Ih but big-hearted, blunt and outspoken. He's tely jovial and blustering and has a voice that Ey be heard at any required distance. He can raise more hell than any four men, when he's aroused, but when it's over, it's over. While he was boss of the union station, he used to bawl out the ticket sellers at the top of his lungs when he thought they weren't waiting on patrons rapidly enough. ( Now Ti, he's bald and stout. He's about 5 feet 10, vweiohs around 225. His complexion is ruddy, his eyes and twinkling and he has an infectious chuckle. times he laughs until there are tears in his eyes. . a memory like an elephant—remembers the t details. Conveniently deaf, he hears only what he wishes. He has a caustic tongue and is rapid fire in repartee. He alwavs speaks the truth, no matter who it hurts,

In Africa

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 10 Wireless). —If goes well, visit of Gen, washington is likely to result in allied the French committee of national the defacto government of France. Some such action as that needed urgently to provide a focal point for reviving French patriotism and to give a stronger incentive to Gen. Giraud and Charles de Gaulle to hold together. The political difficulties during the eight months since the landings North Africa have been discouraging at times to those who wish to see a united France. Prior to the landings, the British had placed strong hopes in De Gaulle as the leader of the French people and just a year ago they gave him support by recognizing his movement as the Fighting French, Complications arose in connection with the North African landings because of the strong position of the anti-De Gaullist factions there. Regardless of the above political considerations it was necessary to insure as much order as possible through Frenchmen to whom the local populations would be loyal. Gen. Eisenhower proceeded on the policy of political expediency for military security.

Problem Has Dual Aspect

THAT HISTORY is now well known. But it may not he realized at home that the same considerations yeontinue to hold true. The importance of North Africa will continue throughout the war. It continues now as much as ever to be necessary that the lines of communications, the cities and all areas

My Day

TUMBLING DW RANCH, Nevada, Friday —Some davs ago I found out from the war production board t the situation was as regards wool production in this counury, and to my surprise I learned that whereas two years ago our problem was one of acquiring enough raw wool to meet our needs, today our bottleneck is machinery. In the intervening time we puilt up a government-owned stock pile to meet emergency needs. Two years ago we conserved raw wool by limiting the use of it and by bleaching it with other fibers. Today the trouble is that we have more demands from the military and for essential and foreign deliveries than our machinery can produce. Therefore, we are trying to increase production through extra « hours and extra shifts, but this, of course, is difficult }o do. We are now producing all the yardage possible and the effort is being made to preserve that yardage {bv making all economies possible in the manufacture of essential clothing. { think some of the criticisms which have come to me about the details of the way this conservation j« to be accomplished, Soule hate HE etimes the people actually in the ry x rm things which are not really good for

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director in charge of operations. Mr. Haight conferred with officials in

| Washington this week.

and he's always been able to back up his opinions with his fists when necessary. |

Friend of Jim Farley BORN AT BRADFORD, O.. the son of a railroader. |

he recalls helping fire a wood-burning engine at the | mentioned by them in private con-! The

age of 10. He began work for the Pennsylvania rail-| road in 1887, at the age of 15. He came to Indian-| apolis in 1902 as assistant general vardmaster, became trainmaster for the Indianapolis railway in 1909.

f dictri : sf ; i As superintendent, he renovated union station and! district, being defeated by Earl Wil-| versation,

designed the new marquee. He was very proud of the] latter. One of the most prominent persons he ever fired from the railroad was Mike Morrissey, the for-| mer police chief. That was back in the days when Mike was very young. Now, Jerry and Mike are close nds Jerry always has been active in politics—never as) a candidate—and he's proud of his close friendship] with Jim Farley. Jim never passes through the city] without wiring ahead for Jerry to meet him. Last] year Jerry went to New York and, with Farley, reviewed the St. Patrick's day parade. Always a Democrat, Mr. Liddy bolted the party last year and headed a “Democrats for Tyndall club.”

Food? He Loves It! |

EATING IS HIS favorite pastime. He consumes) large quantities of food and has no pronounced likes or dislikes—except for turnips. He won't eat them. A; couple of hours after a huge meal, he's looking for more food. He's never had much time for recreation—railroad- | ing has taken all his attention. He likes music, par- | ticularly old Irish songs. He enjoys an occasional baseball game. He's a chain smoker, And he drives doctors crazy. Several years ago, he; was quite ill and had to go to the hospital. He got to thinking about all the work at his office and an-| nounced he was going down to union station. } The doctor said it would kill him. That didn't prevent him from going, with the worried doctor tagging along. { After he had gotten some work out, he was satis- | fied, and returned to his hospital bed. |

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By Raymond Clapper Roland R. Schulz of Ft. Wayne; and |

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German Propagandists Attempt to Drive Wedges Between French Organizations Pledged to Resist

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around which allied military activities are carried on should be peaceably loyal to the allies. i So the French problem takes on a dual aspect. For purposes of military security it seems necessary to, continue to rely on the imaginative Giraud who has; support of the bulk of the French army in this area and the loyalty of most of the French officials here. Algiers is the metropolis and only one of the several large cities where local government, municipal services, utilities and police order must run smoothly, so that military activities will not suffer, That has| been the big function of the Giraud influence in! North Africa.

Making Best of Situation

BUT THERE is another important problem, namely, providing a rallying point for French patriotism in France. For that function everyone recognizes De Gaulle as best fitted. | But De Gaulle is temperamentally dificult. His sponsors, the British, are somewhat weary of his prima donna methods as I learned in London. | Some of these things are causing apprehension | although it has not advanced to the serious stage as| yet. The fact that De Gaulle is an indispensable figure in restoring a sense of nationality in France| and encouraging resistance to the Nazis made it necessary for the allies to recognize him and give him| a strong role in the French committee of national liberation. There you have the two main reasons for the hybrid character of the French arrangements. They are unsatisfactory. It has led to the ridiculous situation of virtually two general staffs. I have found much conflict of views among Americans here and in London, but it seems to me the prevailing judgment is that the best is being made | of exasperating difficulties.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt |

the average consumer as they are for the trade, or at least the consumer does not think so. Such] consumers’ organizations as exist and such individuals | as have ideas on what is the best way to conserve vardage and still give people the maximum number of garments, should make it a point to be heard. 1 think the officials in the war production board are doing a magnificent job and making every effort to meet essential needs, but I do not think the best intentioned people in the world really can know what the people as a whole think unless those people take the trouble to make themselves heard through their own organizations, or as individuals. I wonder if the privates in various camps throughout this country have been writing to each other saying: “Let's see if we write to Mrs. Roosevelt if she will send us some cookies.” First, three boys in the far northwest wrote me, saying they would like a box of cookies from the White House. I sent them. The other day another letter came in from the Middle West in which two boys said that various other boys in camp had wives to send them cookies, but they were single and got none. I suppose their mothers or sisters must have been too busy with other members of the famiiy, so they too thought it would be good to get cook.es from the White House! IT am very glad to send the cookies, but sad to say, my dear boys, if this is a campaign there comes a limit to what the White House can do, and I think my last box of cookies diers, sailors, or

Substantiating the report Mr. Crowe is being considered for the - directorship was the visit of this week. Mr. Crowe's name was versations. Mr. Crowe was a member of the

son in 1940. He headed the financial division of the Democratic state committee during the 1942 campaign. He is 65 and owns a large furniture store at Bedford. is vice president of the Stone City tional bank there and has extensive farm holdings

Practice in Past

In the nine Indiana manpower

(areas, Mr. McNutt hes followed the __gay or night!

practice of using “career” employment officials to set up the man-

| power organization and then turn-| tempt to talk with a mouth full of

ing the post over to others, usually those with political backgrounds. The most recent instance of this is the appointment of W. J. Foley of Evansville, Democratic county chairman, to replace Thomas Bennett, the Evansville manager of the U. S. employment service office. Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of Indianapolis replaced Mr. Haight and David Nye

of South Bend has been nominated |

to succeed George J. Smith, formerly of the employment service,

Now on Leave

The other WMC area directors in|

Indiana are George Vyverberg (on leave from the employment service) of the Bloomington-Columbus-Vin-cennes area; Charles J. O'Leary of Terre Haute; John R. Kelly of Muncie-Marion; D. Emmett Fergu-

Ben Kerr of Hammond-Gary. jobs pay from $3800 to $5600 a year Until the present, these area directors have been responsible to the regional office at Chicago headed

{by Dean William Spencer, on leave]

from the University of Chicago.

Under the new arrangement, would be under the state director.

WOMAN'S BENEFIT HAS HOME-COMING

Woman's Benefit association, 140,

{held a home-coming and rally last

week at Castle hall, 230 E. Ohio st. Officers who took part are Mrs. Nettie Lotz, president; Mrs. May Smith, vice president; Mrs. Ella

! Morgan, past president; Mrs, Tillie | Leihr, chaplain: Mrs. Grace Spur- | its

lin, lady of ceremonies; Mrs. Josephine Coibion, treasurer; Mrs. Mil-

{dred Parsons’ financial secretary;

Mrs. Grace Kirkpatrick, sergeant; Mrs. Helen Harrington, inner hostess, and Mrs. Pearl Newman and Mrs. Nora Moore, color bearers. Out-of-town guests were Mrs. Grace Meredith of Wabash and Mrs. Ella Butcher of Peru, both state officers. Mrs. Alice Wiltshire, recording secretary, was general chairman; Mrs. Ada Mann, pianist. and Mrs. Pearl Cavanaugh, captain.

COUNCIL TO MEET

Representing the B'nai Brith lodges of Indiana, Saul S. Munter of Indianapolis will attend the first meeting of the newly created district grand lodge 2 of the B'nai Brith war services council when it meets at Lake Wawasee next Saturday and Sunday. Plans will be made for co-ordinat-ing the lodges war service projects in the eight-state area of the district.

U. S. NAVY RESERVE SEEKS APPLICANTS

Applicants for commissions in the U. S. naval reserve will be interviewed at 120 W. North st, Indianapolis, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Lt. Cmdr. Neil C. Russell, officer in charge of the Cincinnati office of naval officer procurement, announced today. Walter I. Hess (Riley 5566) of the civilian advisory committee can give preliminary information on requirements.

OES CHAPTER TO MEET

Past presidents auxiliary of Queen

Esther chapter, O. E. S, will meet

Wednesday noon at the home of

Mrs. Anna Martin, 5250 Pleasant

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By HELEN RUEGAMER | { Sharon Kay Barrett arrived at St. Francis’ hospital at 6:07 a. m. on July 4. At that moment on Guadalcanal her father, Robert Paul Bar-|

rett, radioman second class,’ | USNR, became an official member 'of the South Seas branch of the Three Cornered club. i The Three | exclusive organization — ‘navy men on the faraway island | | who have known and survived the | mental torments of being expectant | fathers and who, some day, hope to | { worry around with safety pins and [their offsprings’ three - cornered | | pants. | Two months ago the other club | | members announced their accept- | ance of Radioman Barrett as a | fellow-member, “pending the appearance of his heir.”

Heir Was 7 Lbs.

Cornered club is an for those

His heir appeared—7 pounds and | 9 oz. of femininity—and Thursday | | Mrs. Barrett took Sharon Kay home| } to 270 N. Belle Vieu pl. : 3 On Mav 5 the prized certificate of membership in the club was sent to Mrs. Barrett, together with the price of a $100 war bond for the new arrival—less five dollars to be provided by Papa Barrett i Mrs. Barrett brought the letter to the editor of “What's Cookin'" | lat L.

Strauss & Co. thinking it] =

{ Chicago regional WMC officials here | would make an item for the column! Mrs. Robert P. Barrett and Sharon

{ which appears every Times announcing that Radioman] had fulfilled all require- | Leroy Weaver, yeoman 2-c: Sam | Albrecht, radioman 3-c; Ralph E | { DeWitt, radioman 2-c¢; Larry Can- | rational con- | neay, aviation radioman 3-c; C. E.| futile efforts to perform | Blackley, aviation radioman 2-c;| usual duties, observations by his Darrell Kratzer, radio technician

|shipmates while wandering aim- 2-¢, and Robert Ullery, lessly about Guadalcanal have been | radioman 2-c. ! duly considered. [ The 6-day-old girl has already] > i . received her first fan letter. Proud | | Father to Get ‘Benefits Papa Barrett wrote a letter on| | “The usual benefits of member- June 26 addressed to “Master | | ship will be accorded to Robert Paul [Stephen J. Barrett or Miss Sharon | | Barrett; and upon applying to a K. Barrett.” | brother member he will be fur-| Greeting the new baby with “Hi | | nished instructions for new fathers Skipper,” he wrote:

{ . iy Starts Bank Account | “Under penaity of dismissal or | : | he will in no case at-| Youll probably think it rather |

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| safety pins. : | “Our sincerest good wishes for Of your arrival as yet. ...1I was| | ‘smooth sailing’ in the lifetime of informed that your uncles and Baby Barrett. and the baby's aunts had the inside track on me parents, who are all held in highest | 2s you have already received pres-| esteem by: ents from them. Due to the fact | I am unable to send a present toj Letter Signed The letter was signed by the on them by being the first to write “Radio Gang” and the “Yeomen,” | you a letter. . .. and the following bluejackets wrote! “I'm inclosing a dollar to start their names in the margin: “Slip- | your bank account. Now, please, pery” Litchfield, chief yeoman; “Sy” don’t think I'm a piker for sending Hallett, yeoman second class; Lt. such a small amount. I don't want (jg) F. L. Amee; radioman 3-c; T. Baker, radioman |a capitalist. . . . 2-c; Bob Marks, aviation radioman | 1-c; Frank Dorsett, yeoman 3-¢; R.| ing and devoted old man.”

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Proud Papa Barrett . . South Pacific island he showed all the symptoms of an expectant father.

| 24-year-old radioman said that he {and his shipmates are now living tents.

| in comfort in screened-in

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| | By Ernie Pyle SHIFT MAY GIVE Three Cornered Club Enlists Guadalcanal Sailor When Sharon Kay Is Born In Indianapolis July 4th

she arrived on the fourth of July and thus sealed her father's membership in Guadalcanal's Three Cornered club,

: | parrot that he was able to teach

| the bird the scale, Mr. and Mrs. Barrett were mare ried three years ago in May, and { they have spent most of that time in Indianapolis. He is from Cyne thiana and her home is in St,

Married Three Years Ago | He was working at the unems- | ployment compensation department at 141 S. Meridian st. when he ene navy on June 8, 1942. | He finished his boot training at { Great Lakes as honor man of his | company, and went on to radio | school at Northwestern university | where he stood 12th in the class {of 150 graduates. | California was his next stop, and | from there he sailed to New Cale« | donia. On Guadalcanal March 1 On March 1 he landed on | Guadalcanal where he received his promotion to second class petty officer. Now in between shifts and during quiet evenings at the island's naval base, Radioman Barrett draws up house plans and landscaping diae |grams. He wrote his wife asking {for copies of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, telling her to

{them by the natives, and try to|mark the houses and floor plans

Mr. Barrett, a trumpet player, be-

The letter was signed, “Your lov- | tame the wild parrots on the island. she likes. Then one day when he

{returns he'll start building a home

{& Smith. aviation radioman 1-c;' In other letters to his wife, the | came such close friends with one | —for the three of them.

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‘Men Without Names

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(Fifth of a Series)

By NAT A. BARROWS | C 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, July 10.—Underground movements in | France are now facing an intensified counter-attack by the | Germans and the French collaborationists which is intend-

| ed to discredit both Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud and to drive wedges between the various resist-

ance groups. Pierre Laval’'s pro-German militiamen ave | showering all France with booklets villifying De Gaulle and making light of Giraud’'s military abilities. i The recently unified central underground committee has pledged faith to De Gaulle as its choice for France's political leadership and at the same time has agreed that Giraud would be acceptable as military leader providing De Gaulle were made political head. Reports from France say that these German booklets have been printed in vast numbers for distribution from house to house, while the underground, answering by means of its 25 clandestine papers, is warning the population

that the Germans are trying to create an atmosphere of defeatism. THIS PROBLEM of defeatism is receiving attention from all underground officials both in

By William Ferguson aad of . on

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CYPRESS TREES HAVE ROAMSES", *" AND THE FUNCTION OF THESE CURIOUS CONE-SHAPED GROWTHS ISTO GIVE AIR TO THE ROOT SYSTEM, WHIKH OTHERWISE LIES BELOW THE WATER SURFACE.

France and London in view of the difficulties of keeping the present sustained animation of the population from going sour. The Germans take full advantage of the air of suspense about invasion by spreading throughout France as throughout other occupied countries carefully planted rumors about the “exact day and hour” when the allies are coming. Such rumors are bound to be taken seriously by enough people to cause an inevitable letdown in spirits when the falsely indicated day comes and goes. The underground keeps repeating through its secret press and by word of mouth that ample warning will be given when the real time does come for people to go out on genera] strike, seize public buildings and begin their scheduled acts of violence behind the lines. Frenchmen, recently arrived from France, give your corre= spondent ample evidence that defeatism, far from gaining hold on the millions who avowedly, or spiritually, stand behind the undergrounds cry “En avant! Mort aux boches. Mort aux {traitres. Viva la: France, libre et indepeidante.”

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Patriots Arrive in England

BUT THESE MEN—and women too—who saw France only a few days ago and carry great secrets locked tightly within them, all are concerned with what another winter will do to their nation, al« ready sagging at the knees from hunger, imprisonment, deporta= tions and brutalities. They have seen what enforced labor roundups have done to the best manhood of France; they have seen what gaps have been left by German executions of an estimated 35,000 men and women; they have seen how untold thousands of men are willing to share the dangers and discomforts of hidden camps and to live from hand to mouth to escape Nazi factories. All this, they have seen at first hand-=and they wonder how long their nation can stand before such punishment, At the moment, spirits are keyed to the. hope that this is the darkest hour before the dawn. Travelers coming from France report that the people are taking

the Anglo-American bombings “of

Nazi bases and factories there in their stride and deaths of French workers in such bases and face tories as the inevitable price of their enslavement by the Germans.

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Appreciate Raid Alert

THE ALLIED policy of foree warning the populace in certain French areas about a forthconring air raid is reported deeply apres ciated by the French as evidence of good faith. The Germans, of course, propagandize heavily when allied bombs kill Frenche men, but the general reaction among the French themselves is “we've got to expect it under the circumstances.” The strength of France is slowly being drained away, like that of a man with severed veins, but the people still manage to have a laugh once in awhile amid their misery and suffering, For example, this story is being cure rently told in Paris: A man catches a fish and asks his wife if she will cook it for him. “I can’t cook it-=no fat, no butter, no seasoning, no gas, no coal,” she replies. “What'll I do?” He replies: “Throw it back.” The fish pokes its head out of the water before it starts to swim away and cries: “Vive Laval”

NEXT: Underground in Holland.

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HOLD EVERYTHING

“I know I'm supposed to say ‘Pass, friend’—but you're not my friend!” :