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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

ABOARD THE U. 8.8. ROCHESTER, Oct. T~ “Time to get up, Mac, if you want a turn in the a voice in the fark called “Well, T asked for it. At 3:30 a, m..there I was hitting the cold, quivering deck to help prepare breakfast for 1100 hungry seamen. When I reached. the galley men already were chasing pots and pans. With the sea still kicking up a fuss I wondered how many of the 1100 would be eating breakfast. Ship's cook 3C and Captain of the Watch Lawrence Epperson of Hugo, Okla. straightened me out. “Quit wondering,” he said, “drink your coffee and hit the four cases of tomatoes with the can opener.” Aye, aye, sir. Opening cans of stewed tomatoes at that hour puzzled me. What was on the menu? SC/3C Cecil Duck, Pennsacola, Fla, said fresh fruit, minced beef on toast, hashed brown spuds, bread, butter and coffee, Snap it up Mac. Cecil manned the six 90-gallon coppers (steam cooking vats), He had the spuds and meat on. SC/3C Richard Morway of Worchester, Mass, and S/1C Frank Wiswell ton, who was striking for a cook's rate, were slapping slices of bread on the grills. Every so often the galley seemed to try to shake, itself loose” of all kitchen utensils. Breakfast at home was never like this. The cans of tomatoes and catsup were emptied into a steam table insert. This was dumped into the beef and onions and celery added. That, one of the cooks told me, was minced beef. Our work moved rather smoothly in spite of the rough weather. Not so with the bakeshop across the way. It was too rough to bake just then, Someone handed me a spatula before I could chew the fat with the bakers and I took my place at the grill where mountains of toast were being made.

Cases of Oranges

A HANOVER, PA, reserve, 3C,2C Walter Toot, put his back to case after case of oranges. The two chow

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lines with their steam tables were ready to go. The hashed brown Jove) w were brought up by 8C/3C Ben When Chief Commissary Steward Robert Graham of Miami appeared we were shipshape. The chief just beamed. | The first batch of early eaters appeared at the windows. They were steward mates and mess ©00Ks. I handled the toast. Another man passed out the)

* spuds, another covered the toast with the minced

peef and still another handled the fruit and butter. Coffee was in the mess hall. In less than 10 minutes the first serving was! through and we had a chance to eat what we had wrought. Not bad. We didn't linger over breakfast The big run was due. That's when you become &| mechanical man. Men kept shoving trays at me and,

I kept handing out toast until I had hardly any sa

trol over my right arm.

Rough Weather Rough on Diet |

THE LINE I was in served 521 men ard the other 403. A couple hundred men missed chow. Rough weather has a tendency to shorten the lines. The

ship's cooks had a few minutes to themselves whilethe American Red Cross.

the mess cooks cleaned up the galley. I was glad had ship's cook status. It was a pleasure to get the next duty. some watched turnips in the coppers and others were putting sweet potatoes in the ovens, I dipped the most beautiful pork chops I had seen in a long time | in egg batter and then rolled them in flour. This was one time I really whistled while I worked. Man, at the present prices it would have been good duty Just! to touch the meat. The bosun could pipe down digher anytime now, After food like we were going to get for dinner we didn’t need the 40 MM-nachine guns to knock that | towed target out of the sky. We could probably fill it full of holes with orange seeds.

| Miss Grandpa

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Octy 7.1 miss my grandpa in this current crisis of short skirts versus long; of Vishinsky versus the world; of rocketing prices and feverish inJunctions to eat less. Grandpa could have told me where we ought to chop off aid abroad, and how to get the British back on their feet. Sound or not, grandpa was powerful firm in his thinking. It would take grandpa about three minutes to settle this long skirt-short skirt thing. If you've been showing your legs for the last five years, he would have said, then dodlimb it, you might as well keep on showing them. With the price of bourbon all out of kilter, it is a sin to waste money on new riggip’s just because some limp-wristed Frenchman has decided to tack another 12 inches on everybody's dress.

Grandpa had little feeling for modes. A woman

was a bundle of calico with a fluctuatirig talent for

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baking beans, and so long as she was decently covered ‘that was all grandpa asked. It was his opinion that a woman with good looking legs always contrived to show them, no matter what the styles. A woman

with bum gams couldn't hide them often enough to owned the storé couldnt pay his own bills:

make any difference, even if she was swathed to the

intended for Prolatiion

“CLOTHES,” grandpa once told te, “were Infvented to fend off the rain, and to keep you from getting scratched up with briars. It is the penalty we pay for not being hairy all over.” I shudder to think what the old man would have said if he had seen the hats I recently saw on Madison Avenue. One lady was wearing a sensible enough lid, except for one thing. Sprouting from the crown was a wire, and atop the wire was a facsimile of her hat. Sticking out of that was another wire, with a smaller facsimile of the facsimile. And believe it or not, there was an even tinier replica of ie preceding replica, growing out of that, Hat No. 2, would have been all right, except for one thing. On the crown was a tiny dog. And a tiny tree. And a tiny fireplug. Hat No. 3 took the complete cookie.

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beautiful flower, which appeared to be dew- oy On’ almost invisible wires were two hummingbirds. | The hummingbirds had their flaps down, and were, in process of dive-bombing the blossom. Grandpa would have said that this was going too far. Even! for women, this was going too far. Hats were originally invented to keep the sun and water off your head. { Grandpa would have been very succinct on limitless aid to Europe, and permanent subsidization of | Britain. He had a parable along those lines. He used it every time I hit him up for a dime, “There was a man once,” grandpa used to say. “Owned a store. Good store. Did, a nice business. But this man also had a do-less brother who couldn't keep a job. But the man figgered kinfolks was kinfolks, so he let his no-account brother run up a big --Every now and thén when his brother came around he'd slip him a $10 bill |

; f Both Become Penniless “IT WASN'T so very long before the man who . His brother got most of the money and the creditors got! the rest of the cash. withthe seats of their pants ragged: | “The man that owned the store was cold broke. And his brother wasn't no better off than before, “Credit,” grandpa said, “is a very tricky thing to play around with. I hd%e never yet heard of A body who didn't hate the man he borrowed from. never knew of a business that could hold out long if|

it had to lend money to the customers in order i

peddle the stock.” Concerning Mr. Vishinsky’s bellows, grandpa would have dusted off another favorite saw. “The loudest hound,” he used to say, “never trees the coon.” My grandpa would have nothing to say about the World Series. “Baseball,” "he once remarked, “is for boys. If it | isn't for boys, why else do they play it in short | pants?”

Courting |

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Oyez, oyez, oyez: The honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court. Having “said that in tones which might have sounded ringing had it, not been for a half-acre of red velvet drapery installed to deaden echoes, the crier spread the black tails of his frock coat (so he wouldn't wrinkle ’em) and sat down. The eight justices sat down, too, thereby hiding from public view eight widely assorted swivel chairs, which had given the chamber of the multi-million dollar, white marble court house some of the aspects of a second-hand furniture store.

Douglas Out; So’re His Tonsils

THE NINTH CHAIR of black leather with depressions especially selected to fit the frame of Justice William O. Douglas, was vacant. Mr. Justice Douglas was home, consuming soup. He'd just had his tonsils yanked and for the time being was able to utter croaking noises, only. His cohorts looked fit and suitably sun-tanned, as well as a little warm in their long black robes. These garments are made of fine wool, I was informed, and are good for years of hard wear, barring moths. The 1947 term of the court barely had started,

By Frederick C. Othman

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the bar of the supreme tribunal. Each had his sponsor along to inform the court that he was a smart fellow and well able to practice there. First up was Attorney General Tom Clark to introduce his new solicitor, Phil Perlman, They looked like the Smith Brothers, without the whiskers, in identical claw-hammer coats with white carnations in the lapels, and striped pants, like diplomats. No spats o The chief justice told Mr. Clark's man to go over by the clerk to be sworn in; then came the rest of the lawyers, one-every 15 seconds.. Mr, Chief Justice Fred Vinson waved ‘em all over toward the clerk. When all were packed tightly in the aisle, in-| cluding two lady lawyers in skirts with the long look, the clerk told them to raise their hands and be sworn in, Then he led ’em out the side door. The entire proceeding took 14 minutes.

They Have 40-Cent Lunch

THE JUSTICES walked out to lunch, which consisted of spaghetti creole, 40 cents. They had theirs in their private dining room: the new practioners before the supreme bar slupped theirs in the court's

cafeteria, Next weék the justices will begin handing down opinions. I must report one earlier decision which

indicates the court

while Since been solved. The sec-|prenticeship training program.

|Co. Auxiliary of American Legion Mrs.

The man lost his store, and | tithe, post.

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dreme”; “The Flying Islands of the with | Night.” re o the Riley family. : lassets. In 1907, after all known|fact that he was asking (and get- G, Shaffer commissioned Theodore At that time . Steele's second portrait Was methods of resuscitation had failed| ting) $3000 for a portrait at the C. Steele to paint in 1912 (four the Steele family ja a sketch, the whereabouts of to restore the Press Club, George. time. |years before Mr. Riley died), By lived above Mr which is unknown. Lost or mislaid,/c, Hitt talked the Star people into " {this time the poet was too. tired to Lyman S. Ayres’ too, are the Riley portraits by jetting ‘the Indianapolis Literary] IN THE SPRING of 1903, Mr. pose. Mr. Steele solved the emdry good store {John Lave, Fred Hetherington and! Club have the picture. And it is on Riley went East and sat for Mr. parrassing problem by making a (33 W, Washing- John Nicolai done sometime around the walls of that 70-year-old insti-| Sargent. Exhibited in Indianapolis faghful copy of his famous 1803 ton: St.—the 1880. After that Mr. Steele packed tution (824 N. Penn.) that the in the fall of the same year, the portrait. It is the one now hanging building recently up his whole family and moved 0 portrait now hangs. [portrait split the town in two—one in the James Whitcomb Riley Hos= vacated by the L furope, which accounts for the, » nn» faction, led by Morris Ross, who pital for Children. Strauss people) jact that he didn’t get around to! HE NEXT portrail—the seventh contended that “it is Riley to the] Newspaper ethics calls for a final Fi And it was in this painting Mr. Riley again until 1803. py (he way—was the one the Bobbs- life”; the other, led by Louis Gib- statement: Namely, the astounding 4 home that Mr. THE 1893 portrait is generally Merrill Co, commissioned Mr. Steele son, who pronounced it “a distin- fact that the Indianapolis Press ’) Steele also had Scherrer believed to be Mr, Steele's finest to paint. They still have it. In-|guished failure” Time has vindi- Club is a going concern again. From his studio. likeness of Riley. Like his other| deed, they're holding on to it mighty cated Mr. Ross. Today the Sargent the looks of things, however, thers

co-operating fully with the

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1947

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ross Helping Local Man To Bring Wife, Baby From Serbia

Red Tape Is Being Untangled

In Effort to Reunite Family By VICTOR PETERSON THE COMPLICATIONS in the life of James William Alexander have been enough to make most men give up hope. Bwice crises in the life of the native of Serbia have brought him in contact with the home service department of

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lis being made for him to qualify The first crisis has long {under the GI bill of rights ape ond is in the process of being un-/ Mr. Alexander, the only one in tangled. |the family who can speak English, A naturalized citizen, he returned {is working at the Fairmount Glass to his birthplace as a missionary. |Co. They are sending $50 a month While there he married and acto Mrs. Alexander for support, quired a family, To get back to the states, Mr. Last year Mr, Alexander returned|Alexander borrowed transportation to Indianapolis. His children, ex- money from the federal government, cept the youngest, were admitted to{He has saved $600 of it for his wife the country by virtue of being/and fifth child. {American Stine by birth, " 4 .

x . | HIS FIRST appeal to the Red THE BABY, who now is 3, was Cross was during World War I. At too young to leave her mother. that time he enlisted in the Amerie Mrs. Alexander could not come to... army and saw overseas duty. the U. S. as she is not an Ameris| po wag engaged to a Serbian girl can citizen. She must await the gng had a deduction made from his unraveling of red tape in this coun-| pay for her support. Later he try and in her homeland. llearned she married another man. Meanwhile, Mr. Alexander, who The Red Cross helped him get a was making little progress alone in/yefund on the ‘money. getting his wife here, appealed to| After the war he returned *o the the Red Cross. fold country as a missionary. At Negotiations now are under WAY one time he was accused of being for mother and child to join the an American spy. Another time he rest of the family which is living at was imprisoned a week for preach {the Yugoslavia Home, 3626 W, 18ih ing. St, v a [| NOW he is back in the land he

» » » WHILE awaiting his wife, Mr. loves, Alexander and his oldest son Dan| “I came back because my heart

are working to keep thg family sup- has always been here,” Mr. Alexported, |ander said. “Right now it is a Dan was with the allied heavy heart, but the Red Cross is armies In ‘Yugoslavia and am effort helping me bea” the load.”

Show Movies fc to IPL Auxiliary

The Indianapolis Power & Light Mrs. Emma Ledig, rehabilitation; Vaneta Shine, poppy; Mrs; |Elda McGill, service sales; Mrs Post 300 will meet Friday night in! Marie Spangler, child welfare; Mrs, Ipalco Hall, Entertainment will ‘in- Helen Pherigo, Americanism; Mrs, ; clude moving pictures presented by|Aera Connelly, membership; Mrs, ’ rin a Souert, music; Mrs”Ines & kk : TANGLED LIFE — James William A lexander, naturali ed native of Serbia, works ate ‘€ separ Centon Cord BOW il a will¥at his job at the Fairmount” Glass Co. With tha aid of the American Kea

\by the auxiliary president are Mts, Francis May, Knightstown Home; oss home service department, he is attempting to bring his wife to this country. - .

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OUR TOWN . ‘Indiana's “Favorite Arfisi Pinned Famed Poet Five Times

WE'RE IN A POSITION to know something about the the picture hanging on ils walls/trait painted by John Singer Sar- height of his career, but because it until 1902, the year the club dis-|gent. It's quite a story, too. Seems|is a typical example of Sargent's inumber- of times James Whitcomb Riley had his portrait {banded (diagnosis: financial diffi-|that sometime around 1900, Mr. bravura style of painting which, rs painted. Brandt Steele, who has kept count, recalls no less|culties). Riley gave a reading of his poems|apparently, still holds people speil- Hi ‘than 10 such pictures. And of these, five were done by hig| Probably because of a well-/at English's for the benefit of thehound. | (Steele’s) father. founded belief that the Press Club Art Association of Indianapolis.| That same year 41909), John Ceeil {couldn't possibly come to life again, After all expenses were paid, they) Clay turned out a crayon sketch of Theodore C. Steele painted his first portrait of Riley| the portrait was taken for safe- had $1500 left. This sum was Mr. Riley. Today it ornaments the in 1878 when the poet was 29 temps keeping to the office of the Jour- dangled in front of Mr. Sargent— fly-leaf of Vol. V of the Bobbs~ years old. It was the year his portait painted, and that his pal, Apparently, the picture was the world-acclaimed portrait paint- Merrill “Biographical Edition” of . y {father had to stop work every few considered part of the Journal's'er at “the time—in the hope that| Riley's works. Riley startled the world .with “a {minutes to participate in the property, for when that paper was he might bite. To the surprise of thynge of wytchencreft—an

idle laughter. The first portrait of the sold to the Star, the portrait went leverybody, that's exactly what Mr. /poet is now the property of a mem- it along with all its other Sargent did—notwithstanding the io be accounted for—the one John

. By Anton Schone.

» » . THAT LEAVES one more portrait

Brandt, then somewhere around LWo, it also'was a labor of love and, |tight—as a matter of fact, as ten- | portrait of Riley is one of the most {Isn't a Chinaman’s chance that the

{7 years old, remembers that Mr. as such, was presented to the In- aclously as the Literary Club Deo. poi pictures irr the John Herron Literary Club will ever lose its grip |Riley amused the Steele kids with! dianapolis Press Club, The Press ple are holding on to theirs. Art Institute, not only because ition the- picture that once belonged funny stories al all the time he had Club spent $40 for a 1 for a frame and had! After that came the famous por- | reveals the 54-year-old poet at the'to the Press Club. ie

Fun, Cash Still Await Photo Fan :

Fun and dollars continue to await

Hoosier War Dead ‘One-Cent Sale’

Originator Dies’

Due in State Soon vo mrvems we. ou +

((U, P.)~The originator of the Hoosier war dead “one-cent sale,” Charles Kirst, will

GOP Committee Meets Friday

The Republican State .-Commit- secretary of the GOP state committee will meet Priday to report on tee, announced U. 8. Sen. William progress in municipal election cam- E, Jenner had canceled all speakPuig, Clark Springer, state GOP ing engagements for October. Sen. airman, announced today, Jenner is recovering in a Bedford Ra the deadline for registra- hospital from virus poewmonta,

First bodies of are scheduled to

Indiana picture-snappers in The tion of voters past, Mr. Springer] ——— arrive in Indiana'pe pyried tomorrow. The 77-year-Times Amateur Photo contest said, emphasis on organization work | WITTE HE ADS © IVIC LEAGUE late this month, Col. C. A. Beau- od d 1 . ; ° ne will now shift for the remaining] R. O. Witte has been elected cond, executive of the Indiana ’ druggist, nationally recognized

before Justice Robert H. Jackson, was objecting fuel-saving campaign. Its retiring rooms de luxe con-| Each mail brings in new ideas jo weeks before the elections on president of the Keystone & 34th Military District, said at Ft. Har- as the first businessman to offer to a decision his cohorts made last session. Actually tain automatic wash basins, which used to fill them- and poses by those who make .a clection-day plans for getting voters |8treet Civic League. Other officers rison today. [two articles for 1' cent more than he just mumbled, kind of, and thereby managed to selves to the rim and then turn themselves off. No hobby of taking pictures, The con- |, +. polls. The meeting will start elected were E. E. Isaac, vice presi-| First point of contact for rela- je price of one, died Sunday. confuse even further the 35 nervous lawyers waiting more. test, which offers $5 for the best at 12:30 p. m dent: Mrs. R. A. Ruth, secretary, tives seeking information regarding] for one of the big moments of their lives. The supreme court this term gives a man a half- photo of the week, will continue = 4 10 came time George J. Edick, and Mervin Poole, treasurer the return of their war dead should] THis ‘city remembers him better They sat in freshly pressed pants and new cravats inch of hot water in which to wash his hands and weekly as long as suitable entries’ be local headquarters of either the 8 the man who built a $250,000 of dignified pattern, waiting to be sworn in before not one smidgen more, are received, Carnival—B Dick Turner American Legion or the Veterans business by giving free candy to There are no restrictions on who y nf Foreign Wars, Col. Beaucond children. — EE may enter, except that each entrant ald. These organizations have as-' Miilions were the jelly beans and . must be one whose chief source of ( / ume d responsibility for arranging candy kisses he handed to the kids Ske 2; \lton’ S Sc eme By Erskine Johnson ncome is not derived from photo- military funerals when they are who dragged their parents into graphic work. iE desired by next-of-Kin. Kirst's store. The parents stayed - - The contest is state-wide. Two of { Managers of several--local fac- Jong enough to buy by (he pictures which appear in the tories have announced they. will ale wm Sm ——— i

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 7.—Exclusively Yours: Red Skelton is telling friends he’s starring in a 16-mm. movie, which he’s filming himself, just for laughs. But the real reason is that he wants to show it to his M-G-M bosses and say, “This is what I've been telling you I can do.” Sometimes Hollywood executives have to be hit over the head. Radio comic Henry Morgan had to take off 10 pounds around his tummy before they'd let him make his film debut in “So This Is New York.” The last time a radio comic made his film debut they had to take 10 pounds off his head. Rudy Vallee, by the way, will go western, with an accent yet, in the same film,

The new baby daughter of Joanne Dru and Dick pest.of-the-week. group which will

Haymes will be christened Barbara Nugent Haymes. |

Now that the baby has arrived, Joanne can hardly row are from photographers out- pate in military rites, Army recruitJal. 30 JRun a the Chg She made her debut side, of Indianapolis. {ing Waljons and organized reserve By BACH no 2 3 Moi rish Rose,” which turned, Any size picture is allowed but! maion, ue Alo Will Juris infor-| i Wi : all must be in black and white. BOLD tr tres Va first real romance. - THe \ Gn the back of each photo must be [Pacific battetields wil be repatrias | Bol wa ; written photographer's name, ad- . Bo Crosey Iinauy save ¥p Ws ght 10 play Jim dress telephone number, type ed through the Chicago Army De- | heavies and returns to the bandstand in “Champagne ? Sop } pot and those who died in the Bu : for Everybody.” ] gne samera and flim used, shutter speed DE TT ya yn Be fa +’ 5 ish ; p ’ / SO e ADV. B Polish-the-apple, Hollywood style: Band leader diaphragm opening, type Hgtiting Fry ate arian wil ( e Feb J Sov Lionel Hampton, after working in “A Song Is Born,” The deadline for each weekly Columbus, O ® N A LETED. : if

gave Director Howard Hawks‘a four-foot gold loving contest

cup engraved: “To Hollywood's Best Director.”

Hunt for 3 Adrift 13 Days in Pacific Never Too Late— +

HONOLULU, Oct. 7 (U. P.) ~The,

air search for three men who have fuel off Palmyra been missing for 13 days. {south of Hawaii. They are believed to be adrift in

or water. The men are Radio Operator Wil- LOW. liam B. Hopkins of Washington, D. 24, when they w C., and Seamen Leonard Metts and Shore. Winston H. Crosby, both of Johns He said that Island, 8. C.

They were believed to be drifting jaa to use cooking oil to make iLepoganz in a talk on “The Gospel of refueled the tug and started Our Generation” at 2 p. m. Thurs- firm in 1946, Mr. Ferfey Wis news Business and luncheon will editor at radio station WHAB In| 'Loutsvill

on four powerless, surplus mineEe to look for Snir ow 2r9ia Wasiss \o Mania. They Sere gone.

The tug that was towing them, Army and Navy today intensified an) \the Edward M. Grimm, ran low on

Kenneth Ainslee, the Pacific—probably without food tug, said he could not have reached Palmyra with the minesweepers in He cut them loose on Sept.

RIDGEFIELD, Conn, OU, .PJ their

Oct.

Atoll, 1000 miles

Hull, a Democrat,

of the Smith, a Republican,

skipper

CWs TO MEET The Roberts Park Church Woman's Society of Chris

ere 300 miles off-

even witliout the

{tow, his tug ran out of fuel and he tian Service will present Mrs. Rudy York public relations firm.

the minesweepers. day. | precede the piSigtam,

" Farnsworth Firm Fills ~The Democrats boasted

first victory in the 238-year history of Ridgefield today. Harry defeated John for the office of selectman in yesterday's election.

Methodist

low time off without loss of pay for| veterans who are asked to particl-|

WORD-A-DAY

|be published in The Times tomor-

is midright Friday. Mail or bring pictures by that time to: Amateur Photo Contest, Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis 9.

Faces Murder Hearing

In Dice Game Row | Raymond Johnson, 32, of 548 N. Senate Ave, was held by police | today on’ a charge ef murder inf connection with the fatal shooting last Saturday of James T. Penner, 25, of 626 N. California St., during] an argument over a dice game. Penner was found dying on the floor of the Sunset Smoke Shop,’

TIGER, YOURE ALL WASHED

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Public Relations Post PT. WAYNE, Ind, Oct. T (U. P.).| | President E. A. Nicholas today announced the appointment of E. E- Perrey as director of public re-

lations for the Farnsworth Television and Radio "Corp. 800 block, Indiana Ave. Saturday Mr. Ferrey succeeds Paul J afternoon. 4 te Boxell, formerly of The Indianap- . smal Bed Catches Fire

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Before joining the FParnsworth Market Bt, was in General Hospital

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"Captain Quigley? You'll find him aft on the sun deck!’