Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1948 — Page 15

%. 1, 1948 t. | V. Stute, on, Mr Bi 1 THIS 18 ONE a aT ai’ oO! s I'm glad I dant Bat, Marine I become a pearl diver, railroad engineer or on, A captain. of 4 tour masted. schooner on the Chins ew rines, Mrs. George If I had; it would have been my lick never Lf Ri ' to have been curious about window showecards, % never have seen -how they're painted or met 'IATE ~+a_guy who turns out beautiful-signs but whose penmanship would make a chicken blush. e held at the po You have probably wondered many times of Lawrence about the fancy window signs that beckon with. atS pm to- the eye-catcl words such a¥ “Fashion is rence Masonic” feminine;” “Furs with’ a future; “Drama after 2 dark” and an endless concoction of words that ——— «make a size do 8 amy at the sight o of a dynaIn Search of ok

OF COURSE, the difference between you and me is the possession of one press pass when it comes to doing. something about a question. And the time. Let's not forget the time. Yeu see, where another man might be accused of loafing, I'm working. WORKING, I said. It took a great deal of walking and questioning and following directions before arriving at

JL. USH responsible for the “Beauty under the mistletoe” ’ signs in the -front windows. © “You don’t look like a sign painter to me,” opened the interview. and no doubt, won me another friend. Don Trusty, the fellow said his-name was, and in truth he wasn't a sign painter, He was imanager of the interior advertising department of Wm, H. Block Co. In that capacity he not only.

Price!

ls, Fawnimonkeys,

A twirl of the brush, a lid feeling and you* have a little more than just-a- plain showcard. Don Trusty declares "Shirt Sale’ leaves him cold while ‘Beauty Under the Mistletoe’ does something fo him. Hmmmm :

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Knock, Knock

NEW YORK, Dec. 1—If I may knock my own racket a little bit, “I think we are a touch oldfashioned in our persistent servile reverence before royalty. I think we overplay the importance of foreign blue blood in the life of the man who buys the newspaper. ? Certainly we overstress the news value of some bucktoothed noble merely because he has lord or duke or just plain sir giued on the front end of his handle. He couldn't rate space in the Russ ae on his own hook. Kings and dukes and sich don't Gut a great: deal of ice any more, even the few who. still function. Speaking as an ordinary man, they sure don’t richen my life any. They are a little bit “patie in their playacting, even the best of ihe le. watched the good George of England at up the other day, with a socidlist gun in Lis back, and cheerfully recommend the socialization of steel. That would approximate to the greatest cartel in the history of cartelization, and 1 seem fo have fead that we just fought a war to bust ‘em up. The lower-case grandees don't figure in the book at all. They get drunk and have divorces and fight in the kitchen, about like you or me.

Vestigial Chins and Horse Faces

H | MOST of thém seem to have vestigial chins or SE 4 horse profiles, and I doubt very much that they ; sell many. unless they do SAmathing. draAYONS matic, like getting shot. - Even their own trusting lower-classes are beo ginning to holler for an audit on the books, as : witness the recent business with the Gaekwar of ~assorted ~ Baroda. Taxpayers yelped that he blew 10 milA\Tge Sizes. lion on a pleasure jaunt, and ‘told him to come ten peur) oof oomhome and explain: himself... robes at - Along. time ago. when we still classified our-._

selves. 2s tolonists—back in the days when the Prince of Wales was sending delicious shivers up American female spines—I suppose the titled

Super De Luxe WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—The 1948 Chevrolet sedan of James J. Patterson was a super de luxe

job for suré. No motor car ever had more Knobs and buttons on the dash, including one that he

couldn't identify. it,~but-nothing happened;

: Gingerly he ied ; ~not p - ——ir atleast ‘that he could notice. So he phoned Ourisman Chevrolet, Inc, which advertises

—asked what was that widget on his new car. “They told me,” he said, “that it ‘was the Bendix. I didn’t know abbut Bendjxes.” “Well, what is this Bendix?" asked Rep. W. Kingsland Macy of New York, who is making ayto dealers squirm in anguish and/or anger with his inquiry into what happens to a customer » ‘when he gets on their waiting lists.

For Polishing New Car: $25

“IT TURNED OUT to be an eleotric gas cap,” said Mr. Patterson, a deep-voiced .employee of the War Assets Administration. “A what?” cried the dumbfounded Congressman. “Yes, sir” insisted Mr. Patterson. “An electric a cap. Say you drive into a A Bling ste station

oi ‘pops open on is tank. Price, Phy To nd That was the at accessory that Mr. Patterson didn’t want on his Chevvy, which had a list price delivered in Washington of $1334. White sidewall tires for $116.50, a polishing job for $25 on a car which already looked shiny to him, and numerous other items brought his total bill to $1817.90, but he did get $250 knocked off this as an allowance for his old 1840 Chevrolet coach. “And to make the record straight,” said John T. M. Reddan, the committee counsel, “this .old car was resold to another dealer in Monroe,

‘The Quiz Master

When was the Iroquols Theater burned? The fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago aseurred during the matinee perto » on Deeamber 30, 1803. The loss of life was =e a k

Poes any plant have black flowers? No species of wild plant produces fs absolutely black und as yet-nune veloped: prtifepaly..

cin

od flower that as been de-

_the threshold of the man who was supposed to be

“was allowéd to change the subject,

‘. over most of the arywing | boatd and pselt; we

he © tomer,”

also the window Sards, ‘some adv bit of safety wor lhe “You must oii a lot of in IE Peo I mused while settling myself in one of two ¢ in an office the sizé of a telephone A comfortable, though: Mighty handy little place. Mr. Trusty verified the fact that he was the man who painted the fancy ‘cards in the front windows. about the whole thing.) precise, was the man who Jettered the main theme. The body, or sales talk on the card was printed: by one of the five people in. the department.

There is nd name for the type of script he) It's something] |.

uses to make most of the signs. he developed during the war when help was scarce,

deal of the same kind of ' dry-brush lettering in

Vogue, Harper's; Bazaar and other fashion ~maga- 1

zines,

suit gave a quick demonstration of his painting “Christmas is gay.” He used guide lines only. He thinks it is easier to make a mis-

{The store manager wie sure puzzled. Mr. Trusty, to be mote.

“1 suppose you could call it’ flash seript.” Mr. Trusty said. He doesn’t deny that there's a great{,” .

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take in spelling by blocking out the letters with| :

a pencil. That's what he says dnd he should I

know. Who figures out those catchy, flimsy combina~

tions?—"Gala delight undér- the Christmas tree| light” Promotion programs are made up a long ps

time in advance, he , a lot: of different people in the store have 1 like to have my name painted in gold ‘color

in fancy script? With my full knowledge, he!’

No Lift in Shirt Sale

EVENTUALLY AND after I Yhd gold paint!

ab Te “Beaut NS the Mistletoe” than he does,

when he paints “Shirt Sale!” _ The backing and the gingerbread (decoras| tions) on a sign depend on the display. Mr. Trusty explained that naturally with fur coats he

~wouldn’t put in any of sign. Naturally. He would

spark it up a bit. Naturally.

By the same token a window full of sale . shirts would take less gingerbread. The sign

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hand in. them and how would! | ;

gives the shopper information in both cases, but| ;

in one there's appeal about merchandise the store The merchandise will go. That's the theory as Mr. Trusty explained. it. = His job involves a few extras. For example, while I was in the office, there were six guys with “rush” orders—“gotta have these Don, old poy” —and two people with requests for. a clever

card because someone is in the hospital -

someone else had a baby. «Sometimes I wonder how I stand it,” Trusty sighed. He gave me a blank stare when 1 ‘asked him now he would like to be captain of a four-masted schooner on the China Beas. I wouldn't mind.

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is worrying about and the other it's not worry-i ; “=-ing about.

- AtN. W. Corner of O

PRELIMINARY plans of a

director.

“By Robert C. Ruark

moners. -But when. the prince flew the coop, he took ‘most of the romance with him. Today, my heart fails to leap up when 1 see the Marquess of Milford Haven cooing in a ginmill with the ambassador's daughter. ~The marquess is a pleasant, snaggle-toothed young man, but I don’t eare who grabs him, and would feel more impact from a snapshot involving Betty Grable’s legs. 1 only buy the Aly Khan when he is wearing Rita Hayworth.

Only a Visiting Sponger

SO FAR as 1 am concerned, the Lady Iris Mountbatten is merely a visiting sponger who indorses things for money and occasionally bounces checks. I even think we overplayed the royal romance and its recent royal result: Lilibet’s hand, A and Lilibet’s baby, may of the greatest bolic “importance to Engfand, which ast go got much left except the royal family. . It seems to me that any* baby is a supreme miracle, which screams and wets its pants and ‘gets the colic=and everybody. has ’em.. Elizabeth’s baby is a very special baby, but not a bit

more special than any other little wrinile-faced |

yowler to its particular parents. Certainly the new prince is newsworthy here, but not shatteringly so. If you go for public matings, 1 thing that Lana Turner and the Topping boys lift the blood-pressure nigher than a nuptial involving a Hapsburg lip. And if you are looking for the sweet Cinderella stuff, as antidote to taxes and the Kremlin, you will walk a long mile to beat the romance of Winthrop Rockefeller and his Bobo, the coal-/ miner's ‘dotter. As news grist, T° will ‘buy’ our} ..domestic-aristocrats-aver-the-imports, every. Aime,

especially .-when they have a flair for acting, pe-|

_culiar in pub “THe AmpdAicans ite so” MtCH THOYe thorough in that respect.

By Frederick C. Othman

N. C., for $600.” Mr. Patterson, in any event, got delivery on his car with the Bendix in a hurry. Bo did "a long list of other witnesses; whoi~ traded in: ‘their. old cars at. low prices and took

needed... Those who _ had no cars to trade got on the waiting list by putting up their $100 deposits.

that it is one of the biggest in.America, and Mostly they waited 18 months. Some of them

got tired of it, demanded their money back and “bought automobiTes of another brand.

Chevvies for Congressmen

THROUGH THEIR RECITATION of buying new cars dear and-trdding in old ones cheap sat Benjamin “Ourisman, president of the fism, who testified that not through luck, but by hon-| arable dealings, did his firm become one of the leading Chevrolet retailers. He sald he was proud of the way he treated his customers and that, in /tact, he sold ‘em cars on a first come, first served Only exceptions; he said; are those for Con-

basis. whom he has affection and, of course, gressmen. Any lawmaker can give Benjamin a buzz and get a Chevrolet in a jiffy. Few have, however, _And let us consider one more cusably in his leather coat and Tato himself as fender pounder-outer in. Ourisman’s own shop. He bought a new Chevvy from the boss and traded | in his 1947 model for $1277.40.” Counsel Reddan said he’d probably be interested to learn that Ourisman resold it for $1800. “That's $200 more than your new car cost you," added. ei Mr. Mullican looked bewiidered, opened his mouth, thought better of it, 'and returned to fixing smashed fenders for one of the biggest Chevrolet dealers in America,

22? Test Your Skill ???

. What major league baseball team was the first to win four consecutive World Series ganies? “Fhe Boston Braves in 1914 who defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in four straight games. gocher oe .* What did Benjamin Franklinj prove by his famous kite experiments? . | He proved the identit, of lightning and seetriony, . / ’

Deaconess. Hospital and its | nurses’ home. The buildings were razed recently on the state-owned

and. Britisher did patk a vicarious thrill-for- the com- |.

Nin: comttact for, preparing the plans was awarded to Beine, Hall and Curran of Gary and to Walter Scholer and Associates of Lafayette several onthe ago.

NO STATE funds ‘have been appropriated yet for the contemplated new building. The Con-| servation Department, however, was allotted $88,000 by the Federal Works Administration for gig d

‘jdrawing up the designs: an

specifications. . According to the architect's drawings which have been submitted to-the Indiana Conservation Commission, the main entrance would face Senate Ave. A long, four-story wing would “house the State Museum, while the eight-floor section would become the Conservation Department headquarters. . The building would house a modernistic exhibit hall, spacious lounges, aquarium and an auditorium.

— = DIRECTOR NIGH pointed out that the ¢xpanding Conservation Department has outgrown its present quarters in the State Li-| Bldg., where it was moved | iy 33 from the statehouse base-' ment. |Z. Because

Child, 4, Dies i

of space shortdge'

Boy Slips From Man’

FIREBAUGH, Cal,

Hollywood Model Injured in Crash

—Actor Cary Grant's former,

|Gancee "and several Eastern and Hollywood socialites |

Juries regeived in a head-on autoeg | in "exclusive BelLAr, :

fiancee and now model, received a lacerated forehead and leg in the crash early Sunday. Officer. F. 'T. Torres said’ . Arthur Little Jr, driver of the] car, was making a left turn when he collided with a speed“ling car driven by Alfred Hesky. Officers recommended that both drivers be cited for traffic violations.

165 Godfathers Go All Out for ‘Baby’

BATAVIA, N: Y., Dec. 1 (UP)

|education and future needs, The club's 165 me they “would meet ne

{Darfen 10 days ago. offer to adopt the refused under a N ~iregulation which pi tion of Soundings tions,

Auditorium of proposed limestone structure,

. Site of New Stafe Structure Would Be

building to house the Indiana Department of Conservation and the “IState Museum were revealed. today by John H. Nigh, department

Site of the Indiana limestone structure would be the northwest corner of Ohio St. and Senate Ave.

| derwriter Bldg. on N. Pennsyl-Pittman-Robert-

As Rescue Attempt Fails:

Falls to Death in 1000-Foot Shaft Dec. 1 (UP)~Sheriff's deputies the natural curiosity of a 4-year-old child probably prompted Charles | Caesar to pry the cover off a 1000-foot deep irrigation well. ~ The tot. tumbled to his deatfi in 240 feet of water. A rescuer| = ALL re in reaching him but the child slipped from" his’ grasp be“whatever widgets Ourisman, Inc. “thought they [tare he could te rad ed t the Surface.

: cotts [picker, said the child had been out of her sight only a few Amin-

prominent,

were recdvering today from in-|

Betty Hensel, once Mr. Gran(’s|

—‘Baby X,” whose mother left him in a gasoline station restroom, had 165 godfathers today. Mrs. Pearl M. Bucholtz, Genesee county child welfare case supervisor, .sald an offer had been accepted from fhe Variety Club of Buffalo to pay for the infant's

bers said Monday | to choose a name for the boy who, | 10st him.” was found newborn in' a wastes!’

The club's around. in. fld has been béfore giving up the search. / York state! that its adop-| organiza-!

_WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1948

= For $2.5 Million

ation, Museum Building

Architect's drawing of propased new Coriaation ond State Museum building.

hio St. and Senate Ave.

‘proposed $2.5 million new state

location of the former

Hi Eh & | partment’s Division of Water Re-|

| is established in the Un-|

sources

rvania St. The san research officles are located in the statehouse annex. The, Division of Geology is at Indiana University. : Remaining departmental - divi-| sions—parks, forestry, fish and game, entomology, engineering. public reiations, oil and gas and legal—are housed in the crowded state library’ building. ® } r

ROBERT D. Starrett, state museum curator, also explained that Indiana's valuable museum exhibts are almost inaccessible now. ‘Although - the museum proper is scattered through the corridors of the statehouse base:

ment, ‘additional displays al lodged in other A building.

In line with an adequate museum “to develop the state's history, natural history and culture,” Mr. Starrett said, a school {service section would be installed. [This would Include a circulation lof exhibits to schools over the 'state as well as films and lectures

the -dest=

Kathleen Frische, plan terview

Exhibit.

hall ,

Rush to Resume Driver Saved From

Hospital Operation

Prison by Plea of Bereaved Woman EE —

Seek New Employees crown POINT, Dec. 1 (UP)—

"After Walkout

" Times State Service

{gan County Memorial Hospital's

A woman's belief that “to for-

man she forgave had caused the of today spared ‘a recktess!,

Tr, new acting superintendent. } Mrs. igriver from a prison sentence.

Pp ve maintenance employees today In an effort to resume ithe hospital. : The hospital has only had a skeleton staff to keep Its doors Spe: since 3 p. m. Monday, following a walkout of 23 nurses and employees in protest of the resignation of former superintens-| dent "Irs. B. Royer, Indianapolis. Mrs. Frische was appointed last night at a hurried reorganization of the hospital's four-man board of trustees. John Coffey, Martinsville, and James A. Hubbard, Monrovia, were sworn in as board members, succeeding John Van Den Bosch and Harry Wilson, who resigned earlier in the week. Interviews Planned “It was understood Mrs, Frische| would interview nine to. 12 prospective staff candidates today. Only one veteran employee, Lucille. Goss, a technician, agreed to return to the staff. < J. W. Hussey, one of two board members who refused to resign during the ruckus which has had this small town buzzing, told

{available to school children at! the museum. ! “We would emphasize that it| [1s a state, rather than a local, museum,” Mr. Starrett said.

in Deep Well

3 s Scissors-Grip,

Asbo | Mes, Mary Caesar. a.

utes when his brother Bobby jcame and told her “Charlie fell

1.08 ANGELES, Dec. 1 UP) fiole™

The mother ran to a nearby cotton pickers’ camp for aid. Kescuers ‘lowered Nate Escoto, 24, into the 15-inch hole, “f could hear the boy crying and calling ‘Mama’,” Mr. Escoto said. Starts Struggling The well was so narcow that only the 115-pound KEscoto was {slim enough to-fit the opening. “I was down 60 feet when 1 reached him,” Mr. Escoto ‘sald. “But the well Was, so small I couldn’t stoop to grab him. He wus still Syms when 1 ran my legs around: his “I don't know it he had hold of my legs or not. I think he had a weak grip because he was

i struggling’ to keep his head above

the water for quite awhile before

. {I reached him.

Body Recovered “When I-got a good grip on him with my legs I signaled them to pull me up.” Mr. Escoto said the child started struggling after they had been lifted up-about 10 feet. “He stopped crying and seemed| to go limp and dropped back down the casing,” Mr. Escoto said. “There was a dull splash when he hit the water. I never felt-so bad! in all my life when I knew I had/

Mr. Escoto

int the well was only 10; in diameter. Shetif's officers , recovered the body wih grappling hooks.

said today)

The Times yesterday: “We want to wipe the slate clean. We want the hospital to start operation again. All nurses

will... be. taken back without

prejudice.” Yesterday; the small brick hos-, {pital was nearly deserted. A skeleton staff—Dennis Hartley, the other board member, and the jan {itor and two cooks--kept: the {doors open. Mr. Hartley, who refused to comment on the sitgation, re[mained in the hospi k Sohawmng {the walkout Monday, tak meals there, to keep open hing od [pital which serves three Sounties.

| The walkout prin ote i in pro-

test of Mrs. Royer’s resignation after Mr. Hartley and Hf. Hussey

They also* charged Mrs. Royer purchased t00- many sup-

{plies for the. hospital.

In Indianapolis, Mrs. Royer de-

nied the accusations, terming thém “unfair.” Ambulances of “two funeral

homes here—Cure & Hensley and Wilhite—has shuttled patients from the hospital to their homes; to the five sanitariums here, and to Indianapolis hospitals since Saturday. °F One woman, Mrs. Burns, gave birth to a baby only | 10 minutes before the’ walkout.

delivery table to her home.

night, Mr. Hartley was elected’ president and Mr, Hussey secretary of the board.

Truman's ‘Continued’ Support of Israel Seen NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (UP) — Oscar R. Ewing, federal security administrator, said last. night Israel can count on President Truman's “continued warm friendship and support.” . Mr. Ewing told the American Jewish Congress “speaking as an

Iwill. not back down his determination to SUPpORL| he Togs mate alms of Israel.”

Stubborn . . .

OSHKOSH, Wis, Dec, 1 (UP)—

sligh y when his-car went out of control near here, pimbed a tres, | ea finally stop th ita front , [bumper hanging from a mb.

charged she permitted employees! to-drink.

official who has Tollowed, eclose- n Hospital said X-rays inly” the sident's actions a pute a slight basal Fitirptll was confident that “Mr, Truman ary The girl alsé was ted

Samuel Bird, 31, Ft. Wayne,

Min 2alesman. had been_foun ound guilty of reckless driving in a collision

operation of |

which killed Bernard Stecht, 55, and his daughter, Kathryn, 15, ~» - - BIRD HAD been given a one-to-five year prison sentence. Then Mrs. Stecht wrote to Judge William J. Murray. y “As a Christian woman I believe that to forgive is divine” she sald, "and for that reason I your honor

sentence.” The judge complied.

By Coffee, Grease

A 2:year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl today were recovering! trom burns sustained - In separate accidents. The boy, Thomas W. Cotton, son of Mrs. Virginia White Cotton, 554 Leeds Ave. was scalded last night when he overturned a hot cup of coffee over his body. Police Sgt. Thomas Flannery rendered first aid and sent the

his SHR ‘was’ Violet hip as

eastern Ave, was yesterday when she attempted to lift a container of grease off a piove. his; She was treated at General Hospital and released.

Mystery of Missing

BENNINGTON, Vt, Dec. 1! Mrs. | (UP)—Rewards of $5000 were still posted today for clues to the! mystery of Paula Welden's dis: lappearance two years after the 18-year-old Bennington College student went Tora hike on Glastonbury Mountain —and never Tes turned. The Stamford, Conn.. art student left the campus on Dee, 1, 1046, and last was seen heading, for the trail to the snow covered

ls lopes of the mountain. Private Kenneth (detectives, state detectives, woods-

!men, Boy Scouts, reporters, and curiosity seekers all have made!

She was taken from the hospital Intensive searches for clues. to] [Miss Welden’s fate, but none were;

At the closed board session last ever uncovered.

Child Actress Injured When Mom Sees Spider

"HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1+ (UP) A spider was blamed today for| an automobile accident in which child actress Mary Jane Saunders, 6, was injured seriously. Mrs. Mary Saunders, the child's mother, sald she “forgot all about driving” when she saw a spider land on the child's cheek. Thelt car crashed into a parked vehicle. Attendants at Hollywood Pres-

for a four-inch laceration on“her left cheek.

‘BIG BILL’ GETS OUT {

CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UP)—Wil-| liam (Big Bill) Johnson, former

said he signaled Melvin Thompson, 25, Fond Du! chieftain of Chicago's rich gar. basket in a gasoline station near to be lowered again and groped Lac, Wis. said today his car act- bling. syndicate,’ came home from . Vice Adm. Edward L. Cochras e water with his foe ed “Just like it had a mind of its | prison’ on parole today and. set- USN i(ret.), chief of & Mr. Thompson was injured tled down on his luxuridus-sub-| Ships \. 7 ihe 1 y hy

urban farm. He had serve 32 months, or about half of year term for evading taxes on more than $1.8 million,

to house Indiana's valuable historical fuseum,

_|gtve is divine,” even when the|.

respectfully request to give this man. a suspended,

) Children Burned

boy to General Hospital whereld “yeported

|inent Russian biologists have

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Wealthy Salesman ‘Stain in Home

“Probe Background Of Californian

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FLINTRIDGE, Cal,

Dakesewas explored today for a clue to the assdssin who shot ‘him to death at his isolated Hill. ’ [top at estate. oF A’ heavy-caliber bullet ripped

on a sofa. He s the kitchen and dropped dead a the Teet of his wife, Rae.

Bin din

Mrs, Rachael Wallace, 1110 oun burned

in Russian sclentfic circles have “disturbed our. peace of mind.”

“I refer to a report that em constrained to subscribe to n-

lof nces forgot that important “principle party principle’.” Detroit Attorney Shot Down - in DETROIT, Dec. 1 (UP)—An. | thony Malullo, 62-year-old crim+ inal lawyer, was reported in. . is fous condition at Henry Ford Hospital today from a wound inflicted last night by an unknown assailant who shot him as he stood in the doorway of his home, Physicians said Mr. Matfullo, {who defended many of the ei most no! ‘hoodlums. hi the prohibition era, ey "ee fous wound in the upper

SPRINGFIELD, (UP)—A little. giel's t traffic policemen be Santa Claus a. for the " Christmas holiday season was. considered today by Mayor Dan- | le 3, B. Brunton iE yor Brunton showed ‘the girs a Yer to Police Chief mon Gallagher, who the the

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“We might tollow out by hitching reindeer to wagon.”

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