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Housing Problem Here, Too
WE LIVE where we please, and that is a, problem. It's hard to find a place to live in crowded London. Some correspondents are lucky enough to find apartments or to share apartments with army officers they know. ~ Others manage to get into hotels. Through a friend I got into one of tondon's finest hotels. Ordinarily you are allowed to stay there only a few days. But, again through the influence of this very influential friend, T' think the hotel is going to shit ts” eves and let me stay, githough nothing has
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huge four-story others. They have set up a “correspondents’ room” as for .us. We get our
weeks and a half to‘come from the States, and most of it much longer. Up here half of my mail is coming through in a week. I have even had one letter in five days, and the longest has been only two weeks on the way. 7
|| statement issued today by Victory
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GOP Committee Will Not Merge Funds With County Organization's.
By SHERLEY UHL The hazy post-primary status of city hall's ill-named Republican! Victory committee and the ultimate disposal of .thousands of dollars in campaign funds it collected from city employees were subjects of a
Committee Chairman Charles A. Huff, Mr. Huff, defeated congressional candidate on the city hall slate, asserted strongly that, the committee certainly will not merge its funds with those of the G. O. P. county
Obviously no correspondent knows when the invasion will be or where. I you could count on your fingers all the army officers in England who know. All we correspondents can do is be ready. Only a few will go in on the initial invasion or in the early stages. Some of the eager ones have tried to pull strings to get front seats in the invasion armada. Others with better judgment have just kept quiet and let matters take their: course. Personally,
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actually been, said about it—and I'm afraid to bring
up the subject. «1.am trying to get accredited to the British home
For the first two days in my luxurious hotel room 1 had an odd feeling of guilt. I'm really sincere about
MRS. MADGE HARRISON, secretary to G. 0. P. State Chairman John Lauer, still is glowing over an unintentional compliment paid her the other day. She and several others stepped into the Claypool bar the other day and a bartender, questioning whether she was of legal age, asked to see her driver's license, And here she’s the mother of two children, the eldest 4 years old! . . . Attention victory gardeners! If you've been holding off setting out tomato and other plants until after all danger of frost is past, you might be interested in the information we dug up at the weather bureali. The average date for the last ing frost is April 18. This year has been an exception, with a heavy frost last Saturday night The latest date on record for a killing
~May 8. frost was May 25. That was in 1925. You can draw
your own conclusions. We set out our own tomato plants last week-end and covered them with those waxed paper “hot kaps"—just as an added precaution. . . They're doing fine, thank you. . .. The city desk at The Times received a flood ‘of calls yesterday morning from alert observers who reported the Columbia club was flying its flag upside down. That's the distress signal. A short time later someone called back to say the flag was right side up again. And everyone breathed easier once more.
Now You See It, and—
OUR TACOMA AVE. agent reports a bit of drama aboard a Brookside trolley: A 19 or 20-year-old girl passenger was admiring & diamond ring on her engagement finger as young girls sometimes do, holding her hands in such a position that fellow passengers couldn't help notice it, The car stopped and a good
ATLANTA, Ga. May 11.—A hopeful sign in the eurrent controversy in the South over Negro voting in primaries in accord with the supreme court decision is that responsible Negro leaders in this sec-
tion are alert to the obligations which will be in curred by their race when, and
if, they get the franchise. This was revealed in discussions with such Negro leaders as Dr. Ira Dea, Reid, professor and writer of Atlanta university, associate executive director of the Southern Regional Council, and C. A. Scott, editor of the Atlanta World, Negro daily, as well as by comments of other leaders as reported in Negro newspapers in the South. £0) They emphasized the need of education for the ballot among Negroes, both as to requirements for qualifying—the mechanics of voting—and as to enlightenment on basic issues, so that the Negro does not lend himself: to the corruptive tnfluence in politics and become subject to exploitation by designing and unscrupulous politicians as happened after tHe civil war. That exploitation led to the “white primary” exclusion in the first instance, beginning in’ the late 90s.
"Race. Faces a Test
THE NEGRO RACE faces a test, as these leaders see it, and, if itr does not measure up to its responsibilities, the race will suffer -another setback at the
time when it appears it is finally in the way of win-
ning the right to the: ballot,
| Alert Leadership By Thomas L. Stokes
guard to help defend the mid-England ‘town of Burford from German attack.
i Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
looking boy, about the same age, got on the car. The girl took a look and quickly covered her left hand with her right. As the young man spoke and sat beside her, the girl slipped the ring from her finger and slipped it in her purse. At 10th st., she said “goodby” and got off the car. Right away she reached in her purse and slipped the g back on her finger. . Add signs of the times: The tendency of various organizations to avoid holding “conventions.” No sir, no conventions: not in wartime. Instead, some of them hold “wartime conferences.” Same people and same programs, but they're just conferences. . . . Dr. ‘Larry 8. Fall, the dentist, got into an argument with a friend the other day over the capacity of the water company’s big overhead water tanks—one at E. 10th and Arlington, the other in the Butler area. The argument was over which had the greater capacity. Doc phoned the water company and talked to an engineer, who didn't know. A little later the engineer reported back. The answer: Same capacity.
He Who Hath—Keeps It
IN THE Hotel Washington snack bar the other) noon, a couple of male patrons sat talking. One, a rather important looking individual, pulled a $100 bill from his pocket, asked the other fellow if he'd like to hold it. He did. After they'd eaten, the man with the $100 bill went over to the counter and bought some cigarets and a magazine. He was busy reading the magazine when the waitress came around with the check and apparently didn't see her. Outfumbled, his companion paid the check. T'was ever thus. ... A feminine reader phones to report a cocker spaniel owned by Allen Beecher, 6943 River Front drive, is mothering a baby kitten. “Cutest thing you ever saw.” she says. . . . Bernard Lynch Jr. was driving on 16th st. west of Senate when he saw a “sign of the times.” He saw two women bricklayers putting up a pew building on the old tile works property.
ters that Negroes will vote en bloc, all one way or another, and say that they probably will divide in their support of one party or another, on one economic issue or another, pretty much as white voters do.
.imean simply that all our resources
what dubious protestations of harmony, is certain at city hall it is that now, as before, want no part of Mr. Bradford, G. O. P. boss recently named 11th district chairman.
critical tone.
Mr. Bradford is concerned. He says
boys are “out to get him” in the 1946
cepting “contributions,” but there
organization, which succeeded in
tion. “We can best function as a ‘city | administration advisory group,” said {Mr. Huff. “It’s clear that we're not {now strong politically, but would
PFC. FREDERICK J. WIL-
LIAMS (right), infantryman, of Indianapolis, receives congratulations from Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing #after receipt of the soldier’s medal for diving into sharkinfested waters in the South Pacific to rescue survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Bender,
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nominating all its selections in the Adams st. Pvt. Williams is a face of Victory committee oppoOSi- member of a rifle platoon of the 172d infantry regiment which
played a leading role in the 43d division's capture of Munda airstrip Solomons.
on New Georgia, the
‘THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1944
TN.
Ceremonies to Be Conducted at War Memorial
Sunday Afternoon.
Mother's Day ceremonies will be| conducted at the War Memotial, building Sunday afternoon with
st., as the guest of honor. Selection of Mrs. Ward, mother of seven sons in the armed services, as Indiana's No. 1 war mother, was announced yesterday by Mrs. E. May Hahn, Marott hotel, national president of American War Moth-
ers. A state-wide search was made for the Hoosier mother who has the greatest number of children in service and Mrs. Ward topped them all, Mrs. Hahn said. Ceremonies Starf at 2 P. M. | Mrs. Ward will be given a cita{tion signed by Governor Schricker Speakers at the
land Mrs. Hahn.
ip. m. Sunday following a concert
'a Shipwrecked ‘crew give own life raft?”
From $25,000 to $50,000
The life raft, it is presumed, is a | metaphor for the Victory committee | treasury, estimated at anywhere | trom $25,000 to $50,000. An exact | financial statement must be made {bv the committee to the county clerk by May 20 under the corrupt practices act. “Suppose we capitulated unconditionally to the “regular organization?” asked Mr. Huff. “It wouid
away its
would eventually reach the hands of James L. Bradford and his gang.” If anything, including the some-
the Victory committeemen
Al of them refer to him in the most
Feeling Is Mutual The feeling: is mutual as far as he knows full well that the city hall
mayoralty primary. The Victory committee is still ac-
have been practically none since the city hall crowd took its severe trouncing in the primary.
Mrs. William Ward, 22 N. Ooleradol
| ceremonies, which will start at 2|
&
= A Si ER The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, world famous lecturer, philosopher and author, will appear on Bernadette Forum's final program of the season Saturday | night in Howe high school auditorium. He will speak on “Postwar Problems.”
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DRIVER OF TRUCK DIES OF INJURIES
| Five Persons Escape Death As Locomotive Hits Stalled Car.
| Robert Arnold. 19, oP 1409 Cor-
Ferguson Stresses Danger
t, Abner H. Perguson, commissioner the federal hous{ing administraition, Washington, D. { id
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{he Ft. Harriso Memorial plaza, w
n. band on (the |nell "ave;~who was. injured Tuesill be Lt. Gov. day when the truck he was driv-
SET BOND RALLY: AT SHORTRIDGE
Drive; $169,000 Now In School Fund.
The Shortridge high school “Buy-a-Plane” drive will feature an all-
Charles M. Dawson, Col. Henry E. Tisdale, commandant at Ft. Har-
delphia. of Mrs. Jane Johnson Burroughs
Motorists: Read This and Weep
RICHMOND, Ind, May 11 (U. P.).—This is a sad story about a
rison, and Dom Dignon of Phila-|died at City hospital today. The musical program, in charge 2449 N. Oxford ave. driver of the
. Indianapolis, will include choir sing- | truck, was slightly injured. Parade to Aid ‘Buy-a-Plane’ ing and vocal solos.
{ing collided with an automobile {and crashed into a power line pole,
Max Harrison Turentien, 17, of
automobile that collided with the
Pive persons escaped possible death yesterday when they jumped out of their automobile, which was {stalled on railroad tracks, a mo- | ment before a locomotive struck it. { Leland Hartley, 17, of 1266 Law|rence ave. driver of the car, {yelled at four other passengers to
Of Inflation at Loan League Parley.
Unless a concerted effort is made
to hold the line, runaway real estate prices and possible later collapse may result from inflated prices and excessive appraisals in the existing hous-
meee ete bo
g marke of
C., warned to-, ay. Speaking at the losing session of 3 the conference of Abner Ferguson Indiana Savings and Lean league at the Hotel Severin, Mr. Ferguson stated that evidences of inflated prices on existing houses are already present. Indicative of the danger of inflatioh in real estate prices after the war, Mr. Ferguson said, are (1) an estimated national income for 1943 of 147 billion dollars, the highest on record; (2) an estimated home huying potential of more than three billion dollars that may result from present proposals to lend $1000 to war veterans as a down payment on a home; (3) a tremendous pent-up demand for new housing, and (4) a limited production capacity in the building indus try for the first year after the war.
Urges Resistance He urged mortgages lenders and
{Jump when his motor stalled as
builders to adopt a joint policy of
school parade beginning at 7:30
full gasoline tank—proving there
the car stopped on the tracks of
p. m. today in the school neighborhood. The Shortridge band, under the direction of Robert J. Schultz, will head the processional which will inclue R. O. T. C., lettermen, Latin club, Fiction club, drama league, Math club and other departmental units. A number of social clubs in the parade are sponsors for 10 victory queen candidates to be selected on the amount of bonds she can account for before the campaign closes May 19.
Will Match Total
The group presenting the most original appearance will be award-
terday pulled up hose to the tank
it—flowing down
to begin with.
Everybody's for a Republican vic-|
tory this fall and everybody's going to support the G. O. P. slate, even city hall, declare city hall spokesmen. “We differ fundamentally on local issues only,” Assistant City Attorney Henry Krug explained. Those are the only issues they've ever differed on,
SEEK EXTRADITION
OF DEATH SUSPECT
CHICAGO, May 11 (U, P.).—The
{state's attorneys office moved today to extradite Soylo Villegas, 26, from The South has had its quota of Negro Republican \Crystal City, Tex. where he was
ed a prize by the Shortridge Daily Echo. The judges wil lbe Edwin Heinke, city editor, The Indianapolis Times; Donavan A. Turk, staff writer, The Indianapolis Star; Her-
North Side Topics.
Shortridge bond drive, a business-| man who wishes to remain unknown until the final day, has announced
by the students.
ing the victory queen race Monday Robert Uhl is the
can be too much of a good thing. | A driver for a tank truck yes- |
tion storage tank,
tap. Then he walked away. A few minutes later a police car saw gasoline—5000 gallons of
The sorage tank had been full
EDWARD R. HEADS CO-OPERATIVE
The Indianapolis 'club installed Edward R. Grisell as president at a dinner meeting last {night in the Columbia club. Other new officers installed inbert Hill, assistant managing editor, | clude David T. Campbell, Archie W_| The Indianapolis News, and Mrs. yoorhis and Philip C. Neidlinger, Phoebe Hudler, publisher of the 5st through third vice presidents; | William H. Polk, treasurer; Edward As an added incentive to the Vv. Mitchell, secretary, and Paul D. Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Bert |Cordle was chosen sovereign prince Leonard T. Evans, John P. Irvine, last night in the Scottish Rite that he will duplicate each purchase | Day DRG oad Draries 3, | Cathedral,
Roy Ziegenfuss of St. Louis, Co-op- 'A. Sommer were appointed as massi- | ters of cermeonies and entrances to
Goeke, sergeant-at-arms.
A total of $169,090 has been erative club's international pre reached up to date. The five lead- dent, conducted the ceremonies.
the Pennsylvania railroad at the Lawrence ave. Crossing.
‘Badly Injured
and turned the | All five leaped clear of the car {a moment before the locomotive | demolished the machine. No one was injured. Mrs. Inez Arbuckle, 44, of Sey- | mour, Ind, was badly injured last | night when she was struck by a { car driven by Henry Abrams, 51, of |2313 Shelby st. at East and Wash- | ington sts. She was taken to City { hospital. Robert J. Heugel, 50, of 120 N.
to a filling stacoupled his
the gutters.
GRISELL
was seriously injured yesterday Co-operative when he was caught between a freight car and a loading platform at the Virginia ave. railroad yards.
BERT CORDLE NAME
H. fill vacancies in the officers’ list retiring president. | John A. Kendall, Danville,
Belmont ave, B. & O. brakeman,
‘SOVEREIGN PRINCE
At the election of the Saraiah!crying need for the rank and file
Ernest H. Niebrand and Francis
resigned
| resistance to excessive appraisals, |high - prices and high pressure salesmanship to help restrain the market. “The best existing means of |exerting influence against spiraling {home prices is the FHA appraisal 'system, which is based on long {term values rather than short term |price increases,” he said. | Clarence A. Jackson, executive {vice president of the state Cham-' per of Commerce, urged the busi|nessmen to help develop a co|operative mental attitude among {all people concerning post-war planning. Warns of False Leaders “Many false leaders are build{ing up in the minds of their groups a fallacy that the high |levels of income and easy pros|perity some now are enjoying can go on forever,” he said. “Those who would try to convince their group that there is nothing ahead but more and more . . . are doing a disservice to all. There is a
to have a better understanding of simple economics.” Other speakers today were George T. Whelden, president, National Society of Residential Appraisers, Indianapolis; Eugene C. Pulliam, chairman, Indiana War .| Finance committee, and Fred T. Greene, president, Federal Home
were Jane Weber, Dolma Overley, Dorothy Friedland, Lillian Bluestein and Phyllis Jay.
H. Ame Babcock of Chicago, in- 8S senior warden.
{ternational vice president, presented | |a life membership to Fae W. Pat-
{rick, first vice president of the In- »
Winfield Hunt, high priest;
Loan bank, Indianapolis.
Other officers elected include C. Keneth E. Yates, senior warden; Lt.
leaders, some who fit better in the category of bosses, 'na1q after confessing that he killed
|John D. Hughes, U. 8. N. R, re-
ALEXANDER IS CHIEF
who have been familiar figures at the party's national convention, such as Perry Howard of Mississippi, Bob Church of Memphis who now is in Chicago, Ben Davis of Georgia, among others well known in recent years. They worked with white southern Republican leaders in maintaining the “kept” delegations at national conventions which go on the bargain counter for this or that candidate, one of the mere obnoxious phases of Republican politics comparable to the operations of corrupt Democratic bosses in big eastern and middle western cities.
Whites Invited to Join
ORGANIZATION THUS FAR has been in that direction, The Progressive Democratic party of South Carolina has been organized, with John H. McCray, editor of the Lighthouse and Informer, a Negro weekly, as temporary state chairman. Recently it dropped the designation “colored” and is inviting whites to join with it. It has put on a campaign in South Carolina, where the “white primary” has been abolished in favor of a convention system in order to bar Negroes, to register Negroes to vote in the regular election in November. A National Progressive Voters’ league recently was
Courses in education for the ballot are being
organized throughout the South; particularly in
schools and colleges.
Negro leaders decry the assumption in some quar-
My Day
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Wednesday —Last evening I went to Freedom House to speak at the opening of an © exhibit which shows, in photographs and documents, information collected by the underground information center, functioning under the American Labor rt Archives and Research Institute,
A
Inc.
Here we see what labor and i social conditions are like in Eu-
organized at a conference at Hot Springs, Ark, of 36 delegates representing every southern state and four northern states, headed by Maynard H. Jackson, of Dallas. The organization will be non-partisan, Mr. Jackson said. Another meeting of the league has been called in New Orleans May 24-25.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
better understanding of questions which arise between labor ‘and management. If the institute uses impartial, scientific research methods and people who can be trusted to make objective and comprehensive studies on any question presented to them, I think this may prove a great factor in bringing about better understanding between capital and labor, and a better informed public opinion on controversial
ons. Here is one activity in which the American Fed-
{his 23-year-old bride of 11 days during a drunken brawl in a Chicago ‘apartment and shipped the body to Los Angeles in a battered trunk. At the same time, Coroner A. L. {Brodie announced that the body of |the victim, the former Louise Chiestine Wright, also known as Louise {Alexander, would be returned here as soon as Dr. Samue] A. Levinson, | Chicago pathologist, could journey! to Los Angeles to confer with physicians over their findings. The grand jury returned a mur- | der indictment yesterday charging! Villegas with the slaying. The body, packed in salt, was found Friday when a railway express clerk discovered a bloody brine seeping from the cheap trunk and called police. The 13-day-old mystery was cleared up Tuesday when Villegas, identified as the “John Lopez” who shipped the trunk, was arrested in Crystal City.
TEXAS FIRM CLUB SETS ANNUAL DINNER
The 19 employees of the local Texas company who have completed 25 years of continuous servwill hold their annual dinner tomorrow right at the Hotel Severin. . L. L. Hoynes, Indianapolis, and
RETIRES FROM STAR
Announcement was made today
of the retirement of Benjamin F.
Lawrence as editor and publisher of the Indianapolis Star, a position he held since the death of John C. Shaffer last October. Mr. Lawrence first joined the Star staff in 1904 as managing editor. In 1911 he became business manager and in 1923 he was advanced to general manager of the Star League of Indiana, which includes the Muncie Star and the local paper. The Indianapolis and Muncie papers were purchased by Eugene C. Pulliam on April 25.
BENJAMIN LAWRENCE
dianapolis club.
POST-WAR GROUP LISTS COMMITTEE
Members of committees we
committee.
man; W. I. Lo
ing. Grade sepa 8. Hoke. Public W. C. Bevington Airports and avi
Pauvre, Harvey Lynch. Flood co!
v The committees are: Thoroughfares—Samuel
Kinney, Todd Stoops and Roger C. Flem-
non, chairman; Reginald Sullivan, Harry Hanna, Prank J. McCarthy and Pred
chairman, Wilbur Shook, John Frenzel,
chairman; William L. Schloss, Capt. Irving
man; Perry W. Lesh, Joseph L. Quinn Jr., Walter Zervas and John Siegesmund.
tained as junior warden; Carl A. {Ploch, treasurer; James C. Gipe, | secretary. and Frank Borns, tyler. A native of Virginia and a re‘tired army captain, Mr. Cordle befive post-war sub- came a master mason in 1919 and affiliated with Mystic Tie lodge in He joined the Scottish Rite Arthur R. Baxter, chairman of the i, 1936, is a member of the York public improvements group of the bodies and served as eminent comIndianapolis Post-War Planning mander of Rapar Commandery, He is the manager of the Overhead Door Sales Co. Eugene D. Wilcox is the
re named today bY 1041.
Knights Templar, in 1936.
Walker, ngsworth, E. Kir
chair-
c- {retiring sovereign prince.
rations—Fermor 8. Can-
Awards Prizes
buildings—Leroy Keach,
and Herbert R. Fletcher. ation—Henry E. Ostrom,
B. Hartscock and R. ntrol—A. R. Moss, chair-
S-11 Copr. 1944 by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.
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rope today. is an attempt in _ to show the folge of passive and eration of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Or-|38eT in charge of sales, is general aggressive to the in- ganization are joining together, and on the executive PAlrman. vader by underground committee and advisory board apear the names of ! _ organizations, by the repre- people Who haven't often been in the same room| WAR FUND MEETING sentatives of free who are during the past few years, pa rabies now In exile in other countries. Any. division in the ranks of labor is regrewtablel 10 HEAR SCHRICKER| This exhibition should be of because just as we need unity as a country to winj. CE i H great interest to us in this the war, must be united , Commanding officers of army and |
|navy units and installations opera-
Up Front With Mauldin
$158,736.35.
“Lawrence Township Schools.”
HONOR GRADUATES
missioner staff were
‘sioners’ course.
[August B. vincent. SERBS PRESS OFFENSIVE
: in Bosnia,
For Bond Sales
TROPHIES FOR classes selling the greatest amount of war bonds in the Lawrence township schools’ bond and stamp campaign were awarded recently by Guy M.
Peters, co-chairman of the bond sales committee. Sales totaled
The schools have won the right to display the schools-at-war pennant and banner and have purchased a Douglas C-47 ambulance | plane which will bear the name,
OF SCOUT COURSES
Fifteen members of the Central {Indiana council of the Scout compresented teertificates this week after compleJ tion of a six-weeks’ Scout commis-
Receiving the certificates from Wallace O. Lee, Scout commissioner,
| |Irick, Henry M. Jacks, J. Lyle Johnson, John W. Johnson, Clyde Keel- | ler, Frank Kirkpatrick, Mr. Lee,|{Clarence E. Miller, W. D. Prather, | |J. D. Siegfried, W. L. Spencer and
LONDON, May 11 (U. P). — A}
OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Alvin Alexander of Evansville, is the new grand commander of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar of Indiana, succeeding Hugh E. Mauzy of Rushville. He was elected yesterday at the 90th annual conclave in the Masonic Temple. Also elected were William H. Harrison, Indianapolis; deputy grand commander; Edmund Ball, Muncie, eminent grand captain-general; Perry C. Traver, South Bend, grand generalissimo; Floyd Kresge, Indianapolis, eminent grand senior warden; George S. Parker, Anderson, eminent grand treasurer; William H. Swintz, Indianapolis, eminent grand recorder; Philip F. Kestner, Madison, grand junior warden; Howard F. Christner, Elkhart, grand ‘standard-bearer; G. Andrew Golden, Connersville, grand sword bearer: Don P. Carpenter, Brazil, eminent grand warder, and Max Fowler, Frankfort, eminent grand captain of the guard. ; The speaker at the conclave Dr. C. D. Emerson, Cleveland, eminent grand prelate of the grand encampment, :
RAPS ISOLATIONISM LONDON, May 11 (U. P.).—Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada, advocated co-operation’ as opposed to isolationism today in an address before a joint session of parliament.
HOLD EVERYTHING
du