Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1946 — Page 1
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17, 1946 -
heeler Is Defeated, Opponent Declares
WITH HALF OF VOTES TALLIED
Georgians Flock to Polls; Three: Other States Counting Ballots.
By UNITED PRESS Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana congressional vet-| eran, was trailing in his bid for Democratic renomination | today and his opponent, Leif Erickson; claimed apparent] Victory on the basis of “rather complete returns.” Meanwhile, Georgians were flocking to the polls in large numbers and three other states were tabulating returns from primaries held yesterday. : Mr. Erickson, former associate justice of the Montana supreme eourt, told the United Press that *it appears I have been given the nomination on the Democratic ticket.” - Backed by Truman
Senator Wheeler carried the virtual indorsement of President Truman into the election. Mr, Erickson had the support of several C. 1. O. unions. Senator Wheeler, seeking a fifth term in the senate, was 3813 votes behind Mr. Erickson, with slightly more than half of the state's 1156 precincts accounted for, State Senator Sales N. Ecton of Gallatin county was an easy winner for the Republican nomination. In Georgia, a record number of votes, including possibly 150,000 Negroes, yoted for a governor after # heated campaign in which the isooh of» “white Supremacy” was, stressed. Four Men ™ Race
Former Governors Eugene Talmage and E. D. Rivers are opposed | by James V. (Jimmie) Carmichael, Marietta attorney-industrialist, and Army Capt. Hoke O’Kelley. Seven of Georgia's 10 Democratic congressmen seek re-election, including Rep. Helen Douglas Mankin, interim successor to resigned Robert Ramspeck, and Reps. Hugh Peterson, Eugene Cox, Carl Vinson, M. C. Tarver, John Gibson and John Woods. Thousands of new Georgia voters east their first ballots today, drawn into the faction by withdrawal of the poll tax, franchisement of 18-year-olds, and federal assurances, backed by a supreme court decision, that Negroes could vote unmolested, Today's registration list of 1,100,000 doubled that of for years ago. and it was estimated that of the total, 150,000 were Negroes. Desert One Poll Most political observers saw the race as a contest between 61-year-old “Gene” Talmadge, the red-sus-pendered Negro baiter, and Mr. Carmichael. At one Atlanta precinct with a heavy Negro registration, however, poll managers reported white voters
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BEER SHORTAGE MAY LAST THREE YEARS)
WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P) —An agriculture department official's Statement dimmed hopes today that more beer might be brewed soon. * Earl C. Farrington, chiéf ‘of the department's grain branch, told a delegation seeking relaxation of an order restricting beer production that food may continue short three years. He said the restrictions in beer manufaeture- must. continue until the global famine is relieved.
MAKES OVERSEAS CALL FROM AUTO
ST. LOUIS, Me., July 17 (U, P.) — Roger Pierce, a Chicago radio engineer, sat in a car in St. Louis yesterday—and talked to somebody in Honolulu on the telephone. It was the first overseas call ever made from a moving vehicle. From a Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s especially equipped car, Mr. Pierce talked with executives of the Mutual Telephone Co. in Hawaii, 4600 miles away.
TIMES INDEX
Amusements . 8|Meta Given., 17 Eddie Ash.... 10|Indiana Saga 14 Atom Test.... 13|In Indpls. .. 5 Aviation ..... 13|Inside Indpls, 13 Books .%..... 16/ Ruth Millett.. 13
Boots ........ 20 (Movies ...... Business .,... 20| Obituaries ,.. 9 Classified ,.20-22 [Radio ....... 23
Comics ....,. 33 |Reflections .. 14 @rossword .,. 4 [Eldon Roark . 13 Editorials .... 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Europe Today 14 | Serial Fashions ..17-18 | Side Glances. 14 Mrs. Xerguson 17|8ports ..... 10-11 ; Jive... 14| Washington , 14 Gardening ... 13 [George Weller 24
A FLASH OF PURPLE BRINGS TRAGEDY— . |
Ni M h Old RB b Di full battle equipment, with rifiles yg and machine guns cocked, Ine- ont - a Y es searched the countryside for , ambushers who last night killed an
After 'Hit-Run' Pedestrian American. soldier and wounded two Knocks Down His Mother
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Willis
Michael Farlow
By SHERLEY UHL pedestrian was blamed today for the |' death of 9-month-old Willis Michael Farlow,
The infant was hurtled from his mother's arms when she collided | on the sidewalk at Washington
“HIT-RUN”
with another woman Monday Meridian sts.
Michael had just gotten his first pair of white, hard-sole shoes. Gurgling and grinning, his three teeth peeping up over a chubby red lip, he was wide-eved over the hustling, bustling downtown crowds.
There was never anything like that lived with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. ” . »
WITH MICHAEL cuddled in her arms, Mrs. Farlow was walking
east on Washington st., near Meridia about 4 p. m.
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out in sleepy Mars Hill where he J. W. Farlow, of 2826 Taft st. .
n, at the southeast corner. It was
Suddenly, a- woman dashing west on Washington st. plunged head- |
on into the mother and their legs interlocked. Mrs. Farlow tripped, lost
balance, clutched frantically for her But it was too late.
fell to the pavement,
The other woman hurried on her way, half walking. half running,
heedless of He yngedy;
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8he’ll never forget that brilliant flash of purple looming up before
her, ending in a split second the h
was Mr. and Mrs. Farlow's only child. She's 43, he's 46.
A man, a stranger, mother to her feet. the Hume-Mansur building, where The doctor checked the child any physical injuries, attributed the . =»
gently pick
» MR. FARLOW drove downtown from Link Belt ployed, to take them home in the family automobile.
Michael regurgitated his milk, refus He cried all night until 4 a. arched stiffly and he was silent, his
ents rushed him downtown to their physician. After one look,
doctor ordered an operation at Me
Michael had a cerebral hemorrhage and a blood clot had paralyzed The operation was futile,
the upper part of his body. out of the operating room at 2:20 " » »
SERVICES will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m.
Lutheran church. Burial will be in Mrs. Farlow today recalled she stranger who had assisted her imn “I'd like-40..take this opportuni she said,
Michael, thrown from her arms by the jolt, also
ALLL CA zeman Ww is that she wore a purple dress,” Mra... Farlow sa ow oe
Her son was crying fretfully.
m. Then his little back and arms
baby and tumbled to the sidewalk.
appiest period of her life. Michael
ed up Michael, assisted the dazed He escorted them to they consulted a physician, thoroughly, was unable to locate crying to nervous excitement. » » ” , where he's emIn his crib, ed other feedings.
eves glazed. Frightened, his parthe thodist hospital.
He died coming yesterday, » » .
in the Mars Hill
p. m.
Floral Park. was too distraught to thank the wediately following the accident. ty to thank him, whoever he is,”
RUSS SPY SUSPECT
5 FOUND INNOCENT
\Federal Jury Clears Officer, On Five Counts.
SEATTLE, July 17 (U. P).—A [oer jury today returned a verict of innocent for Russian Lt.
i G. Redin, charged by the United States gover nment with five counts of ¢éspionage, Standing before the seven-man five-woman federal jury, the stocky Soviet officer was ealm as he heard the verdict delivered to Judge Lloyd L. Black. The jury deliberated for a total of 10 hours and 55 minutes, Redin was arrested by the FBI ‘Tust ~marchr—in—Portland:-He —wascharged with obtaining and trying to transmit to Russia plans of the new. 14,000-ton destroyer-tender U. 8. 8, Yellowstone. Judge Black had advised the jury that he would not invoke death, regardless of the verdict,
SEEKS GUARDIAN FOR $500,000 FORTUNE
1.0S ANGELES, July 17 (U. P). —Charles Bobst asked the superior court today to name a guardian for his 80-year-old sister's $500,000 fortune hefore she spends it on the man she eloped with two years ago. Bobst said the sister, Mrs, ‘Allie Walters Sacks, and her husband, Earl Sacks, 55, disappeared two weeks ago, shortly after she charged him with grand theft then gave him the $10,000 he needed for bail. The couple eloped to Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 1, 1944; after a whirls wind courtship during which, Bobst said, Sacks posed as a millionaire but spent only $100.
‘HUGHES CONDITION IMPROVES
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, July 17 (U, -P,). = Millionaire-sportsman Howard Hughes continued to show improvement today. Doctors said there had been no apparent change
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(GENERAL BLUEMEL COMMANDS HARRISON
Hero of Bataan Campaign’
Returns ‘Home.’ For the first time in six years, Ft. Harrison today was commanded by a general officer, Brig. Gen. Clifford Bluemel, who twice previously served at the fort, returned “home” yesterday after an interim of 10 years. During this period, Ft, Harrison grew to vast proportions as one of |the country’s leading cantonments, he observed. Meanwhile, the -1909 graduate of the U., 8. military academy at West Point, N. Y., himself was being kept busy. Gen. Bluemel commanded a special foree which held out three days after the fall of Bataan. During a three-year imprisonment by the Japanese the hero won promotion to his present rank. A 40-piece band composed of disciplinary barracks personnel played martial airs for the new post commander .at ceremonies yesterday, Fhe general was accompanied by his wife, Elsie, who with her husband was greeted by a group of Ft. Harrison officers and wives and by the retiring commandant; Col. Edward - Btrohbehn and Mrs. Strohbehn. A son, Edward, who was graduated from -Shortridge high school and Purdue university, and a
attended Butler = university, both
in his condition since he was given
Women's
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have helped Gen. Bluemel to con-
GUNS COCKED—
Armed Yanks
others. caliber machine guns and with lwo the G.1's searched Slovene homes
on highways in the Lago Del Ba
when |roadside.
! in. the head, killing him,
| soldier was hit by bullets, believedsjo be Jack Kleinman, also occurred on the spacious grounds
| council would make the house heat-
Hunt Trieste Killers of Gl
TRIESTE, July 17 (U, P)—8ix undred angry American soldiers in
More Congressm Named in War Qu
today the
Riding in jeeps mounting 30
ght tanks spearheading the drive,
nd stopped and searched all tra
rea today. The ambushers killed the driver f a jeep, wounded a second soldier, nd caused injuries to a lieutenant the jeep crashed into the |
» ~ ~ | THE ASSAILANT fired from be-| ind a bush and a cement wall on he left side of the Goriza- Prieste | iighway, |G Twenty empty
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The jeep was going from Trieste
{ to Gorizia when it ran into the hail of a military court which held them, of bullets from the hidden assailant ,
One of the bullets hit the driver He was bhe-
ieved to be Walter L. Kugawa of
| the 351st battalion of the 88th di- 't WAS | wearing
| form of his courtroom appearance. | AS THE driverless jeep careened Was led from his prison cell just] at dawn, |
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nto the side of the road, the second He was
ff the 351st infantry. ¢ The lieutenant,
The injured men are recovering. {
Other allied troops were alerted out the sentence, for possible trouble today as dem- | was picked from a crack regiment onstrations were organized protest-|of the Yugoslav army. | {ing the decisions of the big four at i THeste, _. +,
GAS USE CURB PROBE HINTED :
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Council Likely Yo Include Pa New Order in Quiz. |
By RICHARD LEWIS Curtailment of service by the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility opened a city council investigation today. | The municipally owned utility announced it would not accept any |
more house heating contracts until it expands production facilities. | This announcement followed -disclosure the utility had increased its space heating charges in a new) schedule of rates filed with the Indiana public service commission. | It was indicated at city hall the
house heating
new avenue for
ing curtailment a part of its gen-
MIKHAILOVITCH
Last Appeal Fails, Shot as
nine-millimeter | of his Yugoslay co-defendants died
| automatic weapon shellcases were at dawn foday before firing squads | | found at the site of the ambush. |
guilty of treason.
were not released immediately but|
who was believed: school In to be William T. Van Atten, of the suburb | 351st “battalion, was injured when |ducted | the jeep.struck the side of the road.
was Aa merely sald: |
| Yugoslav ‘guerrilla forces called the | military
| collaborating with the Nazi
Bringing Home Bacon
AND § OTHERS ARE EXECUTED
Fi Wartime Traitor to Ah Yugoslavia.
‘BELGRADE, July 17 (U., P).—/ sen. Draja Mikhallovitch and eight
summoned to execute the sentence |
Official details of the execution | |
understood Mikhailoviteb, | the same faded tan uni-!
The execution, it was understood, military training | the Belgrade WAS COn- |
f the Yugoslav Topeider, where his trial Crack Firing Squad i The firing squad which carried] it was reported,
The only immediate official word | curt communique which |
“The execution of Draja Mikhail | ovitch and the others sentenced | | to death has taken place. “Since the presidium of the na-| tional ‘assembly rejected the petitions for pardon of the traitors and ar criminals. the executions of Miko foy eh Meaty al, have Jpken y yd The executions were carried out privately with only official witnesses present. Newsmen were excluded. Two Others Doomed The bushy, bearded leader of the
died two days after a court of Marshal Tito's army found him guilty of treason, occur | pation forees and other war crimes Two of his 23 co- -defendants Were | laying of 68-year-old Susanne Degnan. tried and condemned in absentia,| It was understood an agreement
Chetniks,
CHICAGO, July 17 (U, PD). -- today to be ready to give a full and
{and the remainder were given prison | state's attorney's office and defense counsel _Whereby Heirens would | gq
terms ranging from 18 months to
|confess the three murders in return
= ay, | tor a recommendation by the state § y Mikhailovitch, id time war min- | go. a life sentence, Instead of the BUYE ister in the exiled Yugoslav ohb- iy ,0i iy slaty,
inet of King Peter, was an idol of {the United States and Britain as {leader of anti-Nazi resistance.
The understanding, details of {Which were mapped out at an ex- | traordinary conference last Sunday
ways.” . . Ro be brought home the bacon,
'Deal’ for Heirens Life Term Hinted to Gain Confessions
William Heirens, 17, was reported | parent firms of the combine which complete confession to three of handled $78,000,000 in war contracts.
the nation’s most shocking erimes— including the premeditated kidnap-
BY CIO SPREADS “=... ue
OTHERS FIGURE IN TESTIMONY
Secretary Tells of Calls to, From Offices of ‘Paper Empire.’
WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P). —A red-haired former secretary for one of the “paper empire” muni« | tions firms seid today that the of« fices of six members of congress, including Senate Democratic Leader + | Alben W. Barkley (Ky.) and House | | Democratic Leader John W. Me- | Cormack (Mass.), called the firm's | Washington office during the year | she worked there. 3 Mrs. Jean H. Bates, employed un~ | til a month: ago by the Erie Basin Metal Products Co, testified these = other members of congress called, lor were called: . 8 Senator Homer COapehart (R, Ind.) who, she said, was called by the Washington Erie office once. Rep. Andrew J. May (D. Ky) who, she sald, called “two or three times a week.” Ud Rep. Samuel Dickstein (D. N, ¥.) wha, she said, “called in several times.” ie Rep. Adolf J. Babhath (D. mm | 3 who, she said, was called “once” sa’ week whenever he was in town” and : who “also called in.” >
# Didn't Hear Talks oi x Mrs. Bates sald Mr, Barkley him- . | self did not call, but that a “Mrs. . J |Ohance” in his office called "$e eral times” Bhe said Mr. McCormack was Slled by she Erie offen and wigs
Mrs. Mates sald she did not Tear oo the nature o them, She testified before the senate’ committee which is inquiring into what it has described as “uncons scionable” profits made by the 16+ firm Midwest munitions combine og war contracts, Erie Basin and the | Batavia Metal Products Co. were '
Tells of Calls Mrs. Bates said that on occasion she also called offices of some of these members of congress looking for two of the Erie officials—Joseph | Preeman and Murray Garsson, who formed the Midwest munitions empire with his brother, Dr. Henry
had been reached between the
Free
daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Jakel, who
eral probe of the utility's operation. | Council already has dispatched a letter to Utility
escape the death sentence ended | . "| yesterday. The executive presidium Manager Thomas |r {1e yyugoslav supreme court | turned. down an- appeal for his life, and the lives of the eight others.
Wife Asked Pardon
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death sentences he executed within | 48 hours after they were imposed. Mikhailovitch and his wife signed th
SHORTAGE OF LABOR | SEEN BY YEARS END 5.50
Lack! When the sentences were imposed, spectators in the courtroom com-
General Manpower Forecast by Small. | plained openly because the con- | demned civilian defendants were to
WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P.).| be shot rather than hanged. —Civilian Production Administrator The three-man military court
: ; which heard the 35-day trial exb today that John D. Small predicted y plained that shooting was the only |
a general manpower shortage Will} coh tan0e that it could impose unhit all industries by the end of this | [er its military limitations. year, “It won't production,” Mr. Small said. “But
it will limit to some extent the BY MRS. VANDERBILT
amount of expansion that can take | NEW YORK, July 17. (U. P.).—
plage.” - lori i Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt folMr. Small said the shortage Will | joued the advice of her daughter,
strike first “and hardest” In the cq, io vanderbilt Stok K building industry. Plasterers, car-| okowski, today “Fpenters and plumbers already are Cosmetic 81GB. hard to find in some cities, he added. Noting that it is “perfectly amazing what hds happened to employment,” Mr. Small said current un- party for the press. employment is only approximately | nro vanderbilt planned the salon 2,500,000, with nearly 57000000 em-| rr her 23- year-old - daughter, ployed. The jobless total, he added, {neiress to be Vanderbilt millions, represents little more than the
|eut off her $21,000-a-year allowance number of persons shifting ns advised her to “go to work,” one job to another,
The salon, which she hopes will support her in a manner befitting a Vanderbilt, was christened yesterday with a traditional champagne
Mikhailoviteh's last slim hope to |
Yugoslav law provided that the |
and went to work—in a, handsome |
{between defense attorneys aIx | State's Attorney William J. Tuohy, | reportedly had been held up by Mr. Tuohy's insistence that the college youth be . imprisoned for the rest of his “natural” life, Under a sentence of life imprisonment, an Illinois prisoner is eli|gible for parole in 30 years. As| the agreement was finally worked out, it was understood that defense attorneys had agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment for the slayings and an additional sentence Gf 99 years for the burglaries with which Heirens is charged— thus, assuring that he will die in prisort, The confessions, originally sched-
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14-YEAR-OLD BOY |
be “enough to curtail ‘WORK ADVICE TAKEN ADMITS KILLING GIRL {Contintied on Page 4—Column 4)
CHICO, Cal, July 17 (U. P 14-year-old youth, seized In HY i near-fatal shooting of a vos whose house he intended rob admitted todav that i, i al Lteen-aged girl, and burned er) body. The youth ,Albert Jones, fold ] thorities he murdered Patricia Crandall, 15, last June 18, after going to her house with the intention of robbing it. were not home, “I bent Patricia's arm - behind her. Then I strangled her. I piled] up papers, sprinkled lighter fluid over them and started the fire,” police quoted him-as saying.
FROM 2-STORY LEAP
SANTA MONICA, Cal, July 1 (U. Po) .—Lorraine Tustin, 19, was
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sleeping pills in a fit of despondency oy over a musician's failure to returnj’ her love. The girl told police she came here two weeks ago from Columbus, O., and met Marvin Gellert, Brooklyn,
155,000 men into the armed forces.
band.
but that he told her he “didn't care the for her.”
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GIRL, 19, RECOVERING Draft Deferments Tightened
For Induction of 155,000 Men
recovering today from leg scralches| WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P). “Indispensable to the national and bruises received when shel o.,..\i0 carvice officials set. ma-| existence.” leaped two stories after taking He also authorized the re-
chinery in motion today to end the
“draft holiday" next Sept. 1 and| age group who served less than six pave the way for the induction of months in the United States and
In telegrams to all state directors,
N. Y., a trombonist in Louis Prima’s Selective Service Chief Lewis B. Hershey drastically tightened draft|giscontinue deferring undergraduate Gellert said they had had dates|geferment provisions and ordered college students of 25.000 men, 19/complete a quarter or semester. through 29 years of age, in Septem-| High school students, however, will ber. The remaining 130,000 men will| be deferred until their graduation, be inducted in the following six or until they reach 20.
Mr. Hershey ordered state direc- viously classed as unfit for military tors not to defer registrants for oc-| service will be recalled for a review cupational reasons unless they are of their cjassifications. } , I )
induction of veterans in the 10-20
did not serve overseas. Farmers however, will continue to enjoy deferment, Hershey directed state boards to
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long enough to
Men in the 26-29 age group pre-
‘Auto Workers Demonstrate
The girl's parents).
| and Murray Garsson in Mr, | May's office. “four or five times”; in Mr. Sabath’s office “three or four 3 times,” but never in Barkley's office; As Prices Soar. Murray Garsson once served as special ‘investigator for a Sabath By UNITED PRESS committee Investigating bondhold~ A buvers’ strike organized by ers. one of the natio's most powerful | Earlier, Mrs. Bates testified that labor unions spread today 85|the Erie Basin office also received wholesale food prices soared 10|calis from “a Mr, Burton—I think the highest level since the postwar| he's counsel for somebody.”
boom of 1920. Counsel Has Same Name
Dun & Bradstreet reported that - : : ita index of 31. food commodities for |. Senate Committee Chairman week ended July 16 reached $530; James M. Mead (D. N. Y.) said only 1.2 per cent below the all-time there's a counsel by that name in high of $5.30 reached in July, 1919. the military . affairs . committee in The agency reported that the in- the house—Ralph Burton.” crease represents a gain of . 195 Rep. May, chairman of the house {per cent for the weeks since the military affairs committee, has been |OPA expired.” acelised by other witnesses of bringMeanwhile, George A. Eastwood, ing “pressure” on the war depart« ment on behalf of the combine. Documents introduced as evidence also show that Mr, May acted as agent for ‘the Cumberland (Ky.) Lumber Co,, an Erie Basin subsidi+
DADDY JOINS ARMY, Sires Brianna SOLVES PRIGE HIKES 5 =
Mrs. Bates also testified that a Charles Chance, whom she identi
fied d tioni “th - $40-a-Week eke Track Driver wlio wo hg Won Gets $293 Monthly.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, July 17 J (U. P.).—Lawrence Bloom, 33-year- AVIATION CONVENTION . old truck driver and father of nine] OMAHA, Neb, July 17 (U. P.)— children, found he couldn't get along| The National Aeronautic associae on his $40 ‘a week salary, so he tion, oldest organized group for the. joined the army today. promotion of aviation in America, “With prices going up daily and|openéed its first post-war and 20th the OPA in a turmoil, I decided the annual convention today, one day in only solution was joing the army,” |Rdvance of the world’s fair of aviaMr. Bloom said. tion. As a buck private, Mr. Bloom will receive $293 a month, including base pay of $75 per month and family allowance of $218. In addition, he requested foreign service which would bring him $15 miore each month.
BOY MASHES THREE FINGERS IN WRINGER
Cool thinking saved 12-year-old Robert Max Bastion from serious| injury today. Assisting his mother, Mrs. Helen Bastion, 1336 Madison ave, with the family laundry, he caught his hand in the wringer, but instead of becoming panipky reached out his other hand and ‘switched the| ‘machine in reverse. i He was treated at City hospital
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Invigorating Clean Country i Air in Beautiful Homecroft
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