Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1950 — Page 13
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spear-shaped bars in the fenbe
full of d I be Trying to keep to the lawn,
dent's
A complete stop was made at the
. I was looking at the home of United States. A curious
—Counting the fron happen to meet hr on the street? Theres that] * Houss was tougher than 1. figured. It way task | e was tot - figur “was a task * I began clockwise on 8. Executive Pl more famous side of the White House, side, would come ‘into view quickly. your mind on the black iron bars was difficult. My eyes would dart from bar
to the many beautiful trees, shrubbery and the workmen putting new insides in the Presimansion
he President of the emotion swept oyer me... MOVE. al i “future, ir Te 4S
hing can happen, “brought a--tightness made me swallow several times, Hard. bat stool in some quiet joint without being pawed. fine points of history ’ t were consummated in the executive mansjon to what must have been close to digtraction. When
years the White House g, world of nations exerting
color rising in your cheeks, boy, go on With Y@uF msm job. You've forgotten, remember? It's all over.| an
You tell it: so convincingly to your friends, How = g or the balcony - After every 18th iron spear, wis a taller, His Touch Turns fo rogress ~~ _ - (oh
so the about telling it to yourself? + more. ornamental bar. That made the p i slower, Entrances with theip array of various sizes of bars also were a nuisance, Then the police | at each entrance were something to reckon with.» Boy, did I try to logk-€asual.’And the gendarmes have sharp eyes. 1 think they don't miss a pedes-| trian on the sideWalk: - bog You know, it must be awful not to.be able to fuch a hankering to be President or a celebrity. There are to my times when a man wants to hoist himself on a
1184th bar.
saw Clark Gabié¢ chased recently in Indianapolis. You stop to think about it, fame demands a price.
~ Sort of Ironical "SORT OF ironical that the President of the eest nation in the world himself is virtually a prisoner of the office he holds. And I don't think - the Secret Service agents and police would scat 5, J he told them to scat, Ill bet President. Truman
office.
throat that hat My meager knowledge of the . made the pulse quicken all the more because hi familiar only with the dignity of the Tam im Symbol of Hope to IN MORE RECENT tail represented survival in a all their force to destroy ore another. ugh Today, for-a guy with a family in Hammond, Ind, a brother in Los Angeles, a girl, pérha ia os here; AY HE 1 EVRTBOT oT 1 is hope he can muster that we neve : kick someone's teeth in. i hey I resuméd my counting of the iron bars but va my mind was off on another tangent. When 1 got
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te thinking of a girl someday, somewhere, information that Barbara was living in Washingtod
crowded my thoughts. «
She is the girl, you remember, who chose to walk up the aisle to the strains of “I Love
Truly” with another, Of course,
until we met the next day,
being boisterous? What should I
as far as I'm concerned she is gone. Unfortunately the memories which were so carefully gathered during the years when a goodnight kiss was the strength to £0 on dren't. Not completely, Should I make an attempt to see her? Just a courtesy, friendly call? How does she look? Does she still laugh all over, almost to the point of
Of “AIT the “gets fed up with people. tailing him ‘all the time, r again set out to Up W. Executive Ave, east along Pennsylvania | Ave. and south down Executive Ave, I went rats tling my pencil along the iron bars until I was ready to throw my notebook into the nearest —trash box. I've had easier counting jobs. Must be| the influence of Washington or the excitement of 80 many sights around. you. “ : I finished up. Couldn’t go back to Indianapolis
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Gold. . . No. 4
art As Semi-
You without knowing how many iron spikes were in the fence around the White House, It's something that had to be in my Washington notebook. Well, there were 7277 spear-shaped iron bars and..391 of -the-heavier—and-fancier type—which broke up the monotony of the fence. That's a total of 7668. Lot of iron. Lot of bars. Which reminds me, I'm going to rap my pencil on one
more bar, This one will be wood. I know just the | do if, if I should place. °
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Heat's On
NEW YORK, June 7—The heat is heavy horse gambling in these parts, which would a cynic to suspect that the transference of to the East Coast would lead the voters to forget climb tho
the unsolved gambler-killings-
* where the big bookie boys are
= Campaign. funds. tion, especially i
--prone. to worship.at-his-own-shrine and beggar “off political issues. An old Missourl adage says Soclation, his neighbor. This is regrettable but provable,
In the President's home town, political picture. y The heat is on, and the heat will abate after the correct noises are made long enough, but it 1s possible to resent the lip-service indignation from Washington. Any gambling expose is real
silly, for a variety of reasons.
Politics, Gambling Tie-in
JUST FOR A START the big gambling operators are all hooked up with politics, local, state and national. They bribe officials. They contribute to
or graft. ‘
You have the moral split of assaying gambling as illegal when a bookie takes the business as guys suffer and they opposed to applauded gambling when the state the vacated spot. You break a cop, or transfer an| ; . s gets its swipe at the legitimate horse parks, If inspector—means nothing, New guys take over thei -YOung Men's Society _semipro. betting a horse is fine and commendable at a graft. legal track, so long as you do it at the mutuels, “then it is equally as fine and commendable if you
gamble through a bookmaker, or: good, but cannot be both.
seme Phen “you have human natire to deal “with” So long as man lives he will gamble. He will steal and he will fight, He will ‘corrupt other men. The penalty, : [ y - history of government and- nations attests this and generally abolish “people, you will have gam-, branchéd out into his first busifrom pre-Biblical days.. You tannot sweepingly re- bling. a
form man.
By Robert C. Ruark
Y on hunted down his prey, commanding him to bet move or else. A veteran horseplayer has invisible heat antennae for bookmakers, He will swim rivers and se mountains and brave that snow. for! the privilege of losing his money. If they shoot! all the horses he will bet on dogs, and if they! —and_ under his —shont-aii-the dogs he will bet on which bird leaves the limb first. And find somebody to help him. So now we have a Senate committee which is going to protect the horse-player from himself by banning interstate transmission of racing in-| formation, and a couple of other private space-| grabbing investigations of the local scene, and 'it| “PLAY ball!” all means nothing. A ban on interstate transmis- - sion of daily dope would merely create a fresh and | The ery has n ey er lucrative blackmarket in gambling figures, mak-| failed. to bring a thrill to ing a new field for the hoodlums "and, crooked! Frank E. McKinney, one of politicos to get rich in. Anybody here remember i :
in Kansas City, slain in job lots.
Vast Holdings Worth Millions
By EDWIN C. HEINKE
~They..are cut. in.on-administra---prohibition? Then they told wi It was against the America’s No: 1 baseball n state and city politics. They law to drink. $ cannot possibly operate without the connivance of the cops, large and small, which means “ice”
sportsmen. Banking is ‘his business but - aseball is his love. Baseball has been in his ood ever since he managed Sacred Heart High School's
If you knock off a big bookie like Frank Erick-! son, and even send him to jail, which will be tough, b a stand-in merely takes his place. If you implicate a few pigeons in the political dodge, a handful of! Bl run some replacements into
team in the early 1920's.
era. > {| No, Frank never amounted World Laden With Sin . : | to much as a player. He played THE WORLD is laden with sin, some of which; Second base when he was a is more sinful than otherwise. Until you.tear upi-Kid. but he couldn't. make.the... every canasta deck, destroy all the horses, make | S8rade on the Y.M.S. He liked the possession of dice punishable by the death| managing better anyway. fire all the cops, shoot all the politicians,| . In 1938, Mr. McKinney -
It is either bad
2 . | ness venture outside the FidelOtherwise the proud statements from Olympus} ity Trust Co. He and Ownie
It has been shown over the centuries that man about reform and crackdown and investigation are, Bush purchased the Louisville
is treacherous, expedient, and
In the business of bookmaki known an instance in which
highly selfish meaningless mumbles, designed to take the heat, Colonels in the
that when it is hot in Kansas City, you can make| . a. it seem cooler by raising the-temperature out of, ‘LOUISVILLE was in last town. | place and that's why we bought | it. We thought we could im-
ng, I have never the bookmaker
A Rare Honor
WASHINGTON, June 7—For a split second I aluminum and radar taubes. He'll be an electric!
| prove the team and we got. it.. cheap. In fact, we made enough money the first year at Louisville to buy the Indianapolia Indians in 1941," said Mr. Me¢-.
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By Frederick C. Othman
Piftsburgh Pirate Owners McKinney
American. Ass...
“In
se
Bosten Red Sox “for a very substantial sum.”
“In fact,” said Mr. McKinney, December, 1041, realizing
hat Ownie was a well man,
we bought the Indians for just half what we made at
Louls-
Kinney _ville. The Louisviiiesaie thought that Hill Ferguson, member of the Board brain, with an electronic typewriter built in, and “We had a little luck down Drought us approximately a of Equalization of Jefferson County, Ala. had pald he won't need any copy boys to bring him ham-| ,. ... : We Bienes luck down ~Juarter of a million dollars.”
me the supreme compliment.
What he wanted me to do (and I nearly busted the buttons off my vest) was write a little some- > him with ‘& monkey wrenth and when he’s feeling
thing to go into the cornerstone new City Hall.
I never had been asked before to do any [CT nerstone writing. Not everybody has his scrib-
these repositories usually are small copper boxes placed in a hole hewn into a‘ block of granite. This certainly was an honor. said-I.
‘burgers, because he'll never get hungry.
and a t in the playoffs by When he gets sick the doctor will operate on 3 00 8 pa .
beating Kansas City in the last
yg f of Birmingham's all right again, a green light will wink. | fame
the season. We won ¥
The Tuck of the two Irish
boys held aut and In the first
ear at the helm of the In-
: | the playoffs and went on to. dianapolis Indians, they had set When readers phone to complain about the, beat Montreal: in the Little a new attendance record. In pleces he's written about "em, he'll buzz insultingly.! wold Series.” his. last year of owning the \ Those who prefer direct action will discover when And there's gold in thm Indians, Norman Perry drew blings preserved for future generations, because they kick him that they've smashed their toes thar playoffs. a gate of 60,000. Mr, Mcagainst- his metallic ribs. : "wm. Kinney and Ownie Bush sent it And ‘who knows? Maybe the readers them- MISFORTUNE. HIT. the, next up to more than 200,000 their selves will be electric brains in mahogany-finishe3 year. Ownie became ill,-He.was * first vear.
The cornerstone will be laid
Mr. Ferguson, with this dispatch inside it. what he thought I ought to do was write a letter to my successor at this desk in the year 2050, about ’em in the paper.
when the box will be opened. agreed, starting immediately to deathless prose I would produce.
Another ‘interesting thing, Mr. Ferguson added
i (cutting my ego down to size),
i
oh fo is
Birmingham's is thé biggest doggone cornerstone ever hoisted into place ifn all history. going to be a box almost big enough to hol one:car gar
three-room apartment, “attached.
Wide Representation
PRACTICALLY EVERYBODY who can write epresented in: this box. Birmingham businessmen will be there in script. Bales of local historical data will be there. in Birmingham's
is going to be
‘The 1400 Tlasses schools each will Write a
A bout People—
%
Farmer, 80,
Farmer, 80, and Wife, 71, Just Aren't
Interested in Selling
By OPAL CROCKET { Unless an: 80-year-old farmer changes his mind, the nation's! biggest shopping center will be built around his old red barn near! | Detroit. William Stricker and his wife, Bertha, 71, “Just aren’t inter-| | ested” in selling out to the. Detroit depa “milion development right 1H their Hack) : The J. L. Hudson Co,"made attractive offers for the oné-acre. have, re. But Mr. and pay.” Mr. Ferguson couldn't crack Mrs, Stricker shook, their heads the movies but now makes bras) politely @nd “allowed as how they'd stay right where they were, was a contractor and rug sales-| “Now we won't have to go down- man. : :
plot. where the Strickers lived for 50 years.
town.. Downtown i§ coming to! us,” they said.. a] = = EF
Making bras. and corsets is] | Hie XB : | dangerous work for a male, la- manufacturer. As a baby, it was| Concluding #ssions of the sales tion Dy the American Foundation ment M. K. De La Vallade; Peterjunconsciotis with me. When I got|training school for Marion County #0 3 ‘Rosenfeld, Sterling Ferguson, Jan|to be '16, it was definitely a con-|Co-op employees will be held June pliances to the blind last year was | Erteszek and Raymond Redares, scious thing. I got sidetracked|14 and 28 at the co-op warehouse Miss Grace Harper. of CaMfornia Apparel Creators.iawhile, surveying mountains.” Have to watch their reputation « = they insist on women witnesses] h at fittings, Have to keep on toesinamed executive secrétary of the
with a
letter. and these will bear the sighature of every school child in town. At the bottom wef the heap will be Othman, Whose rwelled-head suddenly retuined fo normal, The way 1 figure it, the Washington columnist of 2050 will be a. fellow consisting mostly. of
Aug. 3, went on consoles, too, who'll sit-down on comfortable steel He sald angle-irons of an evening to read through thir selenium eye cells what the new Othman has said
Maybe there won't be
taken to a hospital in 8t, Lbuis, accompanied by Mr. McKinney and his next best - friend,
Mike Morrissey, then Indianap-
Fair enough, I any people.
air enoulh, | olis police chief, now special nk about the . | agent for the Pullman Co. in Get Into Arguments Chicago.
BY THE NEXT century mere humans will be! The doctor, told Ownie he exceedingly. inefficient, anyhow, in comparison to, ‘had 10 months to live. electrified intelligences in boxes. The trouble with “If I operate there's a chance people is -they're always getting into arguments, I can save you. If the operad & putting on uniforms, and shooting each other.| tions are not successful, you will 88® This is wasteful practice which a modern electric] still have 10 months to live, It
is the fact that Inside is ¥
his Kinney then plunged into the first of his 40-odd other busi. ness ventures, ° .
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ALWAYS ARLE banking
to live on
salary, Mr. Me-
“In 1948 Frank McKinney's
fondest dream wag realized.
He bought the Pittsburgh
Pirates in the National League.
je had been looking for the
right opportunity for the past.
brain would not tolerate. won’t shorten the mdnths in ae or three ‘vears and had Theré’s only one thing I can report to the which you have to live’ the confided ‘his desires to Ford automatic” Coluniiist of 2050. 1 doubt if he'll, doctor told Ownie. Frick president of the National : understand, but people do have one advantage. “Nothing -to lose,” sald the League and A. B. (Happy) All the when they're nat fighting with each other, they| doughty Bush, .the scrappy Chandler, high commissioner
have what they call fun. This is hard to define, shortstop oi Detpoit Tiger days, for an electronic brain, but it is a great satis-| the guy who used to mix it up faction. I with - Ty Cobb. “Let's go." It’s like edting pork chops, for one thing; ves. Two years later, Ownie came _ 1
public
ever built,
i sold out the Colonels to the
of Kokomo, has joined the law Yo firm of Ross, Mc-| Cord, Ice and] Miller. He was admitted to the state bar in January after grad“Yiatihg Irom Co- § lumbia _ Unpiversity School of Taw, New. York.: He also holds an A. B—degree from DePauw. Mr. Elljott liv- Meridian St,
Tn Vi a] ing at 44 E. 54th She's ‘been vo Mr. De La Vallade worked in a . i: : dairy. Mr. Redares, a Frenchman St spent three years in the Pa- alist for The Times lce-O-Ram , “cific theater during the war &5"R {or the last two years.
Hleutenant in the Navy. Partly responsible for distribu
Out to Big Detroit Store
School. Miss Feezle, a8 dramatic so-l prano, the Conservatory
ent store planning a $154 d.
daughter of Mr. ahd Mrs. Stanley Feezle, 2820 N. a
"for girls who did. Mr. Rosenfeld!
Mr. Elliott
Miss Feezle
(who talks like Charles Boyer,
jsays, “I was born to be a hra
for the Blind of 30,000 special-ap-|
{Ed Roberts, of the Indiana Farm secretary of the New York State’ " ‘Bureau Co-op personmel depart- Commission for the Blind, Miss Lyle L. Cameron has been ment, has charge, Harper has. been. presented with!
regarding ladles’ fashions. Guess Indiana Council for Children, Mrs. Mrs, Byron Snider, 2717 8. East Foundation for outstanding serv-| wrong and they're out of business. Robert F. Shank, chairman. of the St, and graduate of Tech, won an ices for the blind. ;
=»
lion g year.
La : wR 9
oy
Guess right and they do $20 mil- council, has announced. He be- honor Key for participation in 8 - “a 2 I Viously to George Barnes, camerahr . came secretary of the Lafayette extra-curricular activities at Cali-| - The-chorus of Tndiana Heme man and Dick Powell, actor, Mr. Prteszek was a criminal YMCA after receiving a degree in fornia Institute of Technology, Economics Chibs ‘led by Albert: —— — : but “crime did mot! education Pasadena. = n
at Purdue, | Se
- | Stewart will sing on Indiana Day,! NP ata : A - os SE 2
‘physical
for the Patricia McKeon dance re- of , the founding of the nation vue to be. given capital in Washington. Three spe- b ou-nd Friday night in/cial trains sponsored by the Hoo- Europe and an Manual High sier Travel Service of the Indiana audience Farm Bureau Will-earry 1200 Hoo- he Pape. inthe
Executive | fy
Albert ‘Snider, son of Dr. and the Migel Medal: given by the W®
of baseball, % “In 1046, Ownie and IT real-
zed the Indians weren't doing
and building cornerstones; with brass bands and -homé, cured. too well. We were operating as red, white and blue bunting out-front: : sn an independent club and a “And I thank you, Birmingham, for giving me IN THE MEANTIME, fhe team had to have major leagye a small corner in the whoppingest cornerstone, MecKinney-Bush syndicate had connections otherwise all you
got were the castoffas and the
: ; alist | 4 5 {versary dral June graduates tomorrow, Donald F. Elliott Jr: formerly! - Miss Jane Feezle will be vocalist; July 12, at the 1 50th anniv Jara Jus or a on Macy, | borg Trae Tusiay: aid Iator|sistant natn Airector of publie
ers. to Washington. Hoosjer farmers‘ and
4-H Club
attended members on July 1 wiil participate Cincinnati in the Agricultural Day program
of at Music. She fs the celebration in Vincennes.
Indiana's 150th anniversary - ” ~ n Joan Blondell, actress, will get divorce tomorrow in Las Vegas > 3 from Mike Todd, Broadway p.ro“ducer. He was
“band. She will ‘Charge cruelty but not ask alimony. or property settlement, her attorney said. =. The film star, who has a daughter, 11,
‘ ir Miss Blondel was married pre-
ym >: ‘A young priest and two Cathe-
a come In.
"her third hus-|
_ 'M. Kos, 5329 Hill St. John for- National’
Pro
The old Y.M.S. semi-pro team that Frank McKinney managed. Manager Frank is fourth from left, first row.
‘Frank, if you ever see a good thing in baseball, let me know.’ “I told Bing I had one of the best deals svar to come down the baseball pike. 8o the four of us entered into & voting trust and block, pooled our respective. stock purchases on the basis of 40 per cent to myself, 30 per cent to Mr. Galbreath, and 15 per cent each to Mr. Johnson and Bing." i % :
culls. That is what we were getting.” said Mr. McKinney, “Frick and Chandler called me one day and told me the Pittsburgh Club was for sale and maybe I would be interested. 1 was, I went to New York immediately and met William Benswanger, son-in-law of Mrs, Barney Dreyfuss, ~ The -Dreyfuss estate owned the elub. >” “I found they could deliver 4 8 8 ; 75 per cent of the baseball MIDAS McKINNEY. ... property, which on a basis of SINCE THEN, the syndicate $2 million, meant a cost of has picked up another 15 per $1,600,000 dollars. I met With 50 "or the stock, making a George Troutman, then presi- total of 90 per cent. It was dent of the American Assocla- agreed that Mr. McKinney"
tion and he sald he had a o..14 yote all the stock for a friend by the name of John p54 of 15 years. The stock Gialbreath, a wealthy real
estate man from Columbus, O,
h ted to buv into a base of the syndicate is interested who wante fe
in dividends out of the baseball
ball ¢élub. (Several weeks -ago club Mr, Galbreath purchased the * ; Cleveland Terminals property - aa not that it hasn't made
at Cleveland, 0.) ” » » i “ON ONE MORNING Mr. Benswanger and 1 sat down and discussed the deal. The next morning I sat down with Mr. Galbreath who came in. He found the real estate alone was appraised at $1.8 million. w--“John and 1 agreed there should be some Pittsburgh representation in the sale and we. called Tom P. Johnson, a Pitts- - burgh attorney, whom I knew and who had done the same kind of work in the Navy during the war that I had done in the Army. He sald he wanted to
Before the McKinney syndicate took over, Pittsburgh's record attendance year was 760.000, In the past three years, the attendance figures have been 1,200,000, 1,500,000 and last year 1,460,000. The company has taken the profits and built up a first rate farm club system. They bought Indianapolis from McKinney and Bush, New Orleans in. Dbuble ‘A baseball, Charleston, 8, C.-in A basebdll, Waco, Texas in -B; Modesto, Cal. in" C, and Bartlesville, Okla., Greenville, Ala, Salisbury, N. C. and Tallahassee, Fla, And down to and including Charleston, the farm clubs are
“1 ealled Bing {(‘roshy. Three vears hefore, Bing had told me,
And Wife, 71, Won't Sell Out Theis Red Barn To New Shopping Center
The group will arrive in Cher-
for | visit ‘other French cities, Italy, {Austria, Germany, Switzerland, | Spain and Belgium, |
§ ot _» » he | Miss Rosann Borenstein of In-
with
-party ‘are the Rev, Fr. Charles Noll, 616 8. East 8t., pastor of Holy Rogary. Church: Robert Konstanzer, . son of Mr, and Mrs, Francis {Konstanzer, 33 W. 42nd St., and
{day from Endicott Junior College, Beverly, Mass. - ie % : CN. Comdr. James 'W. White, USN, associate professor of naval Iscience at Purdue University, has left for his new post as executive
{in the Atlantic. He's succeeded at {Purdue by Comdr. W. A. Smyth, USN, former chief staff officer of ithe Utility Wing, U. 8. Atlantic , |Fleet.
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‘Thomas Meyer, Indianapolis, Edward Mika, Whiting, and Ray
Harris; Clermont, received d at Washington : | Pullman. : | 4 I 4 . Arthur Stell, itzerland, | doh ¥ion Dr. Arthur Stell, Switzerlan
| Rev. Noll: |. .4 Dr. F. Berheim. and. Dr, [John Kos, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Ing, England, will speak at the Medicinal Chemistry 'merly was employed by The Sympositm at Notre Dame June "Times. dq i 115-17 Eee
SA tant
Manager Le
hast't paid a dividend; but none -
+dianapolis will be graduated Mon=|
" lofficer of the USS Albany on duty
State College at|Corps, based in Panama, the Solo
making money. The other are subsidized. ow = “HOW ARE WE DOING?" asked Mr. McKinney. ; 3 “Just well enough that in past six months we've had a feeler of $5 million for the Pir« ates from people in and around Pittsburgh. “We don't owe a dime, "We own our franchises, the ball parks in which our clubs _ play, with the exception of In~dianapolis, 600 baseball play~ ers and collectively we've got better than a million dollars cash reserve fi the banks. “We hope to build a pennant winning team soon at Pittsburgh and we will. Our farm system is bearing its first fruit, That's why Indianapolis had a good team last year and another one this year. “Everything is coming out of earnings from the farm system,” : Pre, : lr ere ted AS WE TALKED in the of fice, Mr. McKinney answered a call from Pittsburgh General Manager Roy Hamey with whom he talks several times a day on policy questions. Fidishing whatever. business Mr. Hamey had with him, Mr, McKinney said that one of the departments should take a ¢loser look at its budget, that it possibly was going to exceed it. “We're making money and we're drawing crowds, but this i£ no sign that we. should be extravagant,” said the baseball man turned banker and busineasman for the moment,
clubs.
(Tomorrow—=Going home.) °
H. J. Guinivan Jr. former as.
irelations for the American Legion { = here, has joined
{ 13 : York and: Wash- | 4 ington public re- < lations firm. He's = Washington rep- : ‘resentative on - Allied Syndlcates” Marine Corps League Mr. Guinivan 300OUEL in the Marine Corps and public relations man for the local Marine Reserve, he and his wife have ! established residence in Landover 8. - Audubon Rd. during World War IL Mr. Guinivan spent 33 months overseas in the - :
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mons; Okinawa and China,