Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1951 — Page 15
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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Soveola !
EVER HEAR of Robert Taft League? He's-a bottle watcher at Polk Sanitary Milk Co. Of course, with a name like Robert Taft League, it must be said that Bottle Watcher Bob takes a great deal of ribbing. And he likes it. He admires Sen. Taft of Ohio and thinks he's a powerful speaker, “I'love to hear him speak,” said Bob. Bob's father gave him his middle nanfe for the 27th President of the United States, Howard Taft. Bob uses it proudly in full, No, he has never heard from the Ohio Senator and has never written. Some day if he ever gets
steamed up over a speech he might drop -a line or two of praise
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THIS SMALL milk consumer was almost floored at the size of the bottle-washing equipment. Polk has two washers with a capacity of 2800 quart bottles, Bob watches 120 bottles come out a minute. All he does is inspect bottles before they go by conveyor to the filling department. For six years he's been looking for spots. If a spot appears béfore his eyes, Bob yanks it and the bottle and 20 minutes later he sees the bottle again, -._ minus the spot. Bob is one of those men who takes his work
.". Robert Taft
MOO JUICE- BOTTLES. . . - League looks for spots before his eyes.
It Happened J st N
TREACY.
Hy wart Wilson I NEW YORK, Mar. %i—Tgnet Gaynor came gaily to lunch at 21 wearing among other things a straw sailor hat and- bravely turned back the years—23 of them. Back we went to the first days of Hoover and Lindbergh; and the last days of Arnold Rothstein
«+. and to a night in 1928 when she was just a
kid winning the first Oscar. One year before the Bust. out making money with Cash & Carry Pyle’ 5 Bunion Derby about that year. ' And Janet Gaynor, the ex-Wampas Baby Star (hadn't Dolores Costello been another one?), was winning the first Oscar. “Who presented it to you?’ I asked our heroine. “Douglas Fairbanks Sr. . . . no, wait, I'm not glire. I'm not sure whether he actually ‘handed it to me.
“I do know I later posed for some pictures with him. I was in shch a daze. It was an awful
lot to happen to me in such a short time.”
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2 BEEN an extra and Wampas gal whom nobody much thought could act, and now, suddenly, they were giving her a place in Hollywood history. They were handing her the very first Oscar for a picture called “Seventh Heaven.” “It was all so new to me then,” Miss Gaynor told me. Now as she spoke she seemed much smaller than I remembered her from a previous interview. She was in a black and white check suit, with a little green and white gingham scarf showing delicately and thinly at the neck. Her hair was in a
close, short bob, and she carried what seemed to be a giant-size leopard skin purse. Hardly necessary to add, of course, ensemble was by her husband, Adrian. The impression was of a charming little woman at the beginning of middle age, dressed at the height of fashion, being sweet to everybody, making lots of friends for herself and her husband, and never, never making anWnemy. “, . . and, of course, I was thrilled by it,” she was saying about that night in ‘28. “But there had been other. awards. And the Oscar didn't have the tradition that it has now. It didn’t mean so much.” Gloria Swanson, this year's favorite, was up for it, too, that first year, for ‘Sadie Thompson” or was it “Rain”? Glamorous Gloria hopes in '51 to make up for not getting it in "28.
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Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Mar, 21—It is easy to foresee a future of semisobriety for the American people since it seems likely now that the contemplated extra taxes on booze will remove the art of tippling from the domain of common folk, and even a short beer will eventually dwell beyond the pale of all but millionaires. We have seen this pattern start before, in England, where even a medicinal remedy of . is outside the ZS economy of a. working stiff, while scotch, if available at all is quarry mostly for fugitives from Hollywood using up their blocked pounds sterling. There is just so much tax that a commodity will bear, and then “the .people who made it popular will. quit using it. T h'e treasury’s current proposal fo push up the tax on spirits from $9 to $12 a gallon, not counting the state's take, puts grog inthe same category as uranium, and will undoubtedly make the WCTU and the crook sheriffs and the bootleggers very happy. This Is where the government is getting to be real dumb, indeed.
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. thé legislation against it, a great many people
drink. Some get drunk, and some don’t, but they drink. The President of the United States drinks, preachers drink. Vice President Barkley drinks. Athletes drink, diplomats drink. I never touch the stuff myself, but then I am a man of exceptionally noble character, immune to - most fleshly temptations. Well, when you have a great many people paying in taxes for the relaxation they find in whisky or: beer ox gin or whatever, it is kind, of foolish to slay the golden goose<and open up a new and remunerative way for the crooks to get rich. When vou put honest, labeled, tax-paid booze outside the pocketbook of old Joe Average, you beckon in the bootdegger, i" : ¥
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: Botdle Watcher Likes a Ribbing
seriously "and is proud of the part he plays in the dairy industry. He's aware of the fact that if there’s a human error some place along the line, one of his superiors comes to him. He also Is aware that the Board of. Health frowns on human errors. Best of all, I think, as he put it, “the little ones deserve the best we can give them and for all I know, I might get a spotty bottle myself. This is an important job.” He took a few minutes to show me the equipment. The entire unit is about the size of a boxcar. Bottles come in by the case on a conveyor. A worker takes them out and stands them upright, 12 in a line. Automatically they're moved into individual slots. ® ¢ % WHEN THEY disappear you aon't see them until they're ready for inspection. For 15 minutes they move slowly through a caustic soda solution at a temperature of 150 degrees. Then the bottles pass. through two sets of brushes and six sprays of rinse water, Bob showed me the condition of some of the bottles as they come back to the plant. There are bottles’ that make you turn your head. The biggest worry are bottles with cement deposits and paint marks. Try to remémber, friend, not all milk users are as careful as Your wife who scrubs the milk bottle along with her dishes, Milk cases go on another conveyor and are cleaned and scalded. Bob is not responsible for the cases. He's the bottle man.
ws Naturally, with so much emphasis on hotles. n
d- .bottling, I had to ask if somewhere in the plant another beverage wasn’t handled. . “We're not licensed to bottle beer,” answered Bob. “Besides; aur filling equipment, isn't ight.”
(How 44 he. know what I had in mind?)
we 5 lf wy ef E WHEN THE bottle washer ‘was turned on,
Bob turned his full attention to his work. Under |;
a bright light, illuminating the bottoms of several lines of bottles, Bob checked the most critical portion of the container. Twelve bottles at a time flip upright on two shiny conveyor belts. A separator directs six bottles to the outside line. They move to the filling department under cover in double file, As the bottles move away, they turn completely around twice. A 'Walt Disney cartoonist could have a field day watching the bottles perform like ballerinas, The bottle that doesn’t come up to Bob's standard of shine and sparkle is whipped out of line, No bottle gets the benefit of his doubt. If there is any question, out it comes.
Makes me feel § Jovu to watch someone work conscientiously. It's a tonic. Spring tonic, by
- golly. Too bad we don’t have an outfit bottling
bock in town. How long could a man stand and watch? If he was really interested, that h
Janet Ga ayn or Nhe 7, Role
: "MISS GAYNOR’S leading man then, of course, was Charles Farrell. The male winner that year was Emjl Jannings for ‘/The Way of All Flesh.” The winning picture was “Wings,” ‘starring the then very-boyish Buddy Rogers. - “ Beeause Miss Gaynor and ‘Charles Earrell will do “Seventh Heaven” on ‘the Lux Radia Theater, suspicion was aroused- in some journalistic minds that she might be thinking of. doing a- Swanson. A comeback. “Oh, no!” the lady stated. tion of doing that. 2 “I made up my mind when I quit that I'd had a lovely time in pictures but I wanted to know what another kind of life would be like.
“I have no inten-
“For 15 years I'd always ended up in the |
fadeout where they were married and lived happily ever after. “And I wanted to go on into the fadeout and live happily ever after. And that's what I've done.” Oldsters might recall that there was a furore when the late Winnie Sheehan, the Darryl Zanuck of the Fox lot in those days, cast Miss Gaynor in the picture. 3 “Seventh Heaven” had had a big Broadway run. Miss G. was unknown.
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“THE NIGHT of the premiere,” she said, “I went into the theater unknown and came out, well, a star.” The picture she's now pest known for—because it's seen frequently on television—is “A Siar Is Born.” And she didn't get an Oscar for tha
Janet Gaynor doesn’t want to do television. She evidently doesn’t care to work at all. : She doesn’t expect any difficulty doing the radio show. Although she recalls that once when Robert: Montgomery enticed her onto a show, she was extremely nervous.
“There's nothing to it,” he assured her. She Was convinced. During the show she looked at im ~ He was white and trembling—he who had told her there was nothing to it.
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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Donald Richard's cousin is in the delicatessen business now and claims his name is on every tongue.
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: Jackie Gleasan says the only fellow who can break all records and still be out of a job is a disc jockey. . That's Farl, brother.
Speaking of Killing The Golden Goose
Only the bootlegger - profits. Joe's stomach afflicts him, and maybe he goes slightly blind or drops medium dead. Uncle Sam ‘loses the revenue, and steps up his law enforcement agencies—which costs money, your money—to prevent illicit sales of alcoholic beverages. Even if some people refuse to guzzle the bootleg stock, the money loss to Uncle Sam is still apparent.
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THE OLDEST cliche I know is the one about not riding-a free horse to death. There has to be a point where taxation stops, or the negation of the product is so great that the thing that used to put money in the coffers ceases to be bought at all. We have increased taxes so heavily on nearly everything that the tendency is to quit buying all but necessities, at consequent loss in tax revenue. This does not seem smart. Certain and for sure, whisky is a luxury— and so, for that nmtter, are soap, automobiles and women's hats. But the commerce of the nation and the prosperity of the people and the strength of the country are erected on the sale of what we call “luxuries.” Luxuries make us a better people than Russians, who have few luxuries. You cannot penalize a luxufy so far that it abdicates in dismay,
“9 &-@ \ WHAT USED to be called “Merry England”
is 'a drab nation today, with not much laughter |
and little prosperity. England taxed itself loose from happiness. In its socialization it gave a great many people a lot of nothing, and took from the few the things they admired as a daily adjunct to pleasant living, It is dull, and grey, and quite miserable to live in and is also dependent on the loans of friends and neighbors to stay in business. I don't think they proved much on the positive side in Merrie England, a land I love, But so we had in this country, and the heavy bounce in whisky taxes is just an indication of
whither we run. You can inflate anything, even .|
a fifth of cooking rye, to a point where it lgses utility and eludes the. common user, which kills it as a facet of economy. It is not sensible to overpenalize pleasantness,
. just hecause it does not happen to taste bitter.
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The Indianapolis Tine ‘
LL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1951
Soldiers Crown Jesus With Wreath Of Thorns, Take Him to Palace
CHAPTER TEN
MATTHEW,
THE ORUCIFIXION By DR. EDGAR J. GOODSPEED WRITING after, the fall of Jerusalem, with all
its horrors and carnage, which he believed to be the Jews' punishment for crucifying Jesus, relates that Pilate was so shocked at the upshot of his slipshod effort to get somebody else to tak® the responsibility for letting Jesus go that he called for water and solemnly washed his hands before the crowd, saying:
“I am not responsible for this
man’s death; you must see to it
. yourselves!” To which the crowd actually replied with the cry: “His blood be on us and on thus as it were accepting the responsibility and calling down God’s vengeance upon the Next generation, ® 8’ AND LUKE reports that PiJate in his efforts to evade re-
-1_sponsibiity-for settling the ease - {| of Jesus found in his examina-' ; tion that He was from Galilee, and senf Him over to the house.
of Herod Antipas, who had come up to Jerusalem for the feast.
| . "Antipas. though glad to have . his curiosity about seeing Him
satisfied, settled nothing, and soon sent Him back. Antipas would have been quite willing to let things take their. course about Jesus, whom his minions had already menaced in Galilee and in Trans-Jordan. ‘He. must have been relieved to see that Jesus was not John the Baptist, risen from the dead, as he had feared, but another man altogether, But Mark's narrative proceeds with a stern restraint that is positively amazing. It is strangely ~ objective; ‘all. the more. poignant because no pity,
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The drama of Christ's last days on earth, climaxed by the Resurrection, is full of lessons for the world today. It was in that final period of his ministry that Jesus did His ‘most intensive work to lay the foundation of the Christian structure. A new interpretation of Christendom’s classic story has been ‘written by Dr. Goodspeed, who #59948 an outstanding New scholar. -
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“batXlion t fogether to see the man who was about to be exe-
"cuted. They dressed Jesus up in
a red or purplish cloak, such as soldiers wore, made a wreath of thorns and crowned Him with it, in mockery of His royalty, and shouted. “Long Live the "King of the Jews!” They struck Him over the head with the stick, spat at Him, and knelt down and pretended to do homage to Him. Of course in a time when one emperor, Augustus, in his shows, had set 10,000 men to fighting each other to death to entertain the Roman ‘public, life counted for very little. When the soldiers had finished making sport of: Jesus, they took off the purple cloak and put “Hise Tika ARR HIM far the “place o crucifixion.
THIS WAS probably north of
the city, not far outside the
Summer Prediction Due iter
Rushville Weather Prophet Taking
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“carry cross to the place of execution,
(Original woodcut owned by the John Herron Art Institute)
CRUCIFIXION—This woodcut by Duerer shows Jesus 1s ‘being
nailed to the cross.
wall, and they doubtless left the city by a gate near the present Damascus gate, though just
what itd name was Is bot cer-’
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fearful fogging or COUaIE. He had ‘undergone, and it was not + possible for Him to keep up and the crossbeam of Hig
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Chance for Training, Referee Points Out
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= Bows for Forecasts on Past Winter
.“Life hasn't been easy for you, By United Press
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Mar. 21-—~Weather Prophet Mark Purcell Put you must go to the Boys’ |studied three weather vanes in Rush County today as he prepared School for the training and help to forecast next summer's meteorological menu. they can give you.” ' Mr. Purcell began watching wind directions during the spring equinox yesterday while patting himself on the back for what he called “better than 95 per ce accuracy” in forecasting | the weather of the past winter. ————— meee
He said he'd watch the vanes for five days this time, three of- Veterans Group 'ficially and two extra ‘for good To Honor Haines Toy wat siseribed Dy eur
measure,” and come up with a {prediction Sunday. Spring “wreck” of Voiture 145, other juveniles. Two of his broth- | ‘On the Nose’ {40 and 8, will nono Harols J: ! ; aines oi Cedar School, one of them twice. Mr. Purcell hit the arrival of Lake, national probation officers pointed spring right on the nose. He said commander. last December that spring would The “wreck” children should be arrive in the “tail end of a win-! will be held Sat- early, before they become fixed in| ter cold spell.” | urday afternoon pehavior patterns. Referee Mance ha and night at the told the boy that guidance at the | He added it would stay cold Antlers Hotel. Boys’ School would help Yim. right up to the last day of March, |
Dr. D. C. 8chwin- shape his life. {the warm-up until about the third dler is chef de Two Others Committed |week of April. Spring as a whole
Be presents. Two other young teen-agers will be cooler than normal, the tives of voitures also were committed. Both had Widely ltnown prophet sald. from throughout intelligence quotients in the midMr. Purcell said last September! this would be the coldest winter!
Indiana are ex- ldle 60's, far below normal. in 15 years for Indiana and said
pected to attend. ! the temperature might drop as Winkler Addresses
low as 18 below zero. December was the third coldest December Builders’ Dinner \
in 77 years of weaether records.
| Side burglaries recently,
out
Mr.
Haines
glaries and purse snatchings. One 13-year-old is one of eight children who were deserted by
Herman Winkler of jLebanon iyi; father in 1943. Their mother predicted increased use/ of low- is on relief. : .
cost ductless heating for small The other bov. 15
homes at dinner meeting of ""Ar- chigren in a family where weekion County Residential Builders, ly income has heen $40. Juvenile
Slightly Warmer
But January and February and the first three weeks of March
Inc, last night in the Athenaeum. 3 au t were slightly warmer than nor- gxecutive engineering vice pres- oils sala Se jarents mal, ident of the U. 8. Machine Corp. pp boys will be’ it “Bova!
of Lebanon, Mr. Winkler demon- g.haal at least 10 months. Few rated his company’s furnaces ;,.e are released from the school made’ to burn gas or oil at low ; “jace than that time or high pressure. SR a Claude Potts, sales vice president of the U. 8. Machine Corp. showed Winkler low-pressure oil burners designed to burn any kind of fuel without clogging or smok- Thieves who broke into the Tifing. fany Laundry, 425 N. Senate Ave,, An all-time atendance record last night were unable to oven of 115 was set. Dinner was pre- the safe in the office. ceded by open house in the Build-| However, they took change ers’ new offices at 136 N. Dela- from vending machines and ranware St. sacked the laundry and office.
The coldest temperaturee in the history of the Indiana weather records was recorded in early {February when- the mercury dropped to 35 below zero near Greensburg. .
Mr. Purcell had forecast that the last four weeks of the winter {would be quite cold — the coldeest {weather of the season. At Indi-| |anapolis, records showed the avlerage temperature was about two: {degrees above normal for that | period.
Thieves Ransack Tiffany Laundry
Times Photo by John Spicklemire SPRING PLANTING—Ed Sovola, Times columnist, greets the first day of spring by "planting" flowers in the snow-covered lawn of the Statehouse. "Mr. Inside" looks happy, but, replly, he isn't.
The pair had been involved in| numerous near South Side bur-|
is one of 12,
as the prisoner w as expected to do. The soldiers accordingly seized upon a passer-by, cohiing into the city from the country, Around RO with Ihe carrying it on- his back. The man was from Cyrene in
Nort Africa &nd his name was . Simon. Mark says he was ‘the: father of Alexander and Rufus,
for days.
and forced him to turn - + akove His head. «pki
Pilate Attempts To Duck Blame
who apparently were wells known to his Roman readers.
» ov ” THE PLACE to which they went for the crucifixion was called Golgotha, an Aramale word meaning skull, either from its association with” executions or from the configuration of the ground. It has never been -positively identified. There they offered Jesus the drugged wine mercifully provided by women of Jerusalem, to to dull the senses of condemned criminals, but He would hot drink it. Even in our days of new and refined cruelties, cructfixion ia so brutal and cruel as hardly
- to bear description.
Jesus - was stripped of His
"clothes; His hands were hajled * to the crossbeanr. It was tien *
raised .and fastehed to the ups right” which was not as tall as Christian art has ‘represented it. A peg between His thighs
* partly supported His body. His
feet were thén fastened with nails to the upright, and He was left to die of exhaustion and hunger which might last
.
non» THE proceedings before Pi« late had been so hurried that it
was only 9 o'clock when He was _
put on the cross. The squad of” soldiers were entitled to His clothes, as their perquisites for their work, and after dividing them by lot they, with the ¢enturion in charge, sat down to keep watch, and see that no one tried to release Him, : They #1so hung the customary placard or piece of -board s-ndma and His erime chalked ons it, It read: “The Kifg of the Jews,
TOMORROW: The Six aa
Agony.
‘About People—
s small Town life
See
As “Aid to Success
IU Professor Says ‘Atmosphere’
Promotes Qualities of Leadership
Persons born in small towns have a better chance for success than those born in large cities, an Indiana University professor
of geography said today in Chicago.
Prof. Stephen 8. Visher, speaking before the Association of That's how Juvenile Court Ref- American Geographers, claimed a “small town atmosphere” brings eree Mercer Mance yesterday ad- Out qualities of leadership in children, giving them strong, Whole. vised the 13-year-old leader of a some and unselfish characters. teen-age gang which has been involved in a series of near South guess where —- Chicago, the na-'had buried
|tion’s second largest city.
Cancer Award Set
Dr. Chester A. Stayton, Indian- | ers have been committed to Boys' apolis, will receive the Award of | Merit of the American Cancer So-| semi-annual | {that Boys’ School officials declare meeting of the state cancer socommitted ciety. The ward is given for out-|
ciety today at a standing volunteer service,
Editor Named
The
respondent
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the
Mr. Reynolds
. Here She Goes
tion.
Thuman
Margaret has been scheduled to co-star with ‘Actor James Stewart in her first dramatic role, in “Jackpot,” a production of the Screen Directors Playhouse series over the NBC network Apr. 26. So What? Heinz Arentz, of Dusseldorf, Germany, claimed a new world record today. "He said he had
played a piano continuously for 193 hours in a downtown cafe in
Alsdorf. New Viewpoint
Herman Kunitz, claims investigator for the city of Minneapolis, was driving to investigate a claim yesterday when a city garbage truck collided with his automobile, Mr. Kunitz promptly filed a city for $54
claim against damages.
Protestants Protest
the
British Protestants protested to
King George today against Princess Klizabeth's plan to pay an informal courtesy call on Pope Pius XII when she visits Rome. Similar protests were raised when Princess {Margaret paid a courtesy call on the Pope during {her Italian holiday two years ago.
This Is Fun?
Earl Schafer,
Princess Elizabeth
lin Pittsburgh because he
day.
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$50. Box score: tered.
Minor Matter Ernest A. Minor, dent of Malden, Mass. there from his
appoint-| ment of Quentin! Reynolds, worldfamous war cor-| and . author, as editor Forgive and Forget of United Na-| World
internation-| al news publica-| “good though his re-entry into the U. 8, from a trip to Windsor, Ontario, was illegal because of a criminai convicted and fined $20 in 1930 for stealing
25, who: went on| |a, window-breaking spree Monday | ‘lik to hear the tinkle of falling glass panes,” had a different kind of]
J. Fiorucci {fined Schafer $5 and ordered him to make restitution amounting to 12 panes shat-
former resireturned Orlando, .Fla.,
Prof. “Visher himself iz from— home to dig up $500 in coihs he in 1942 when he
doubted the safety of banks. x French President Due
Minister
aboard De France
Mr. Schuman United States.
Gov. G. Mennen
Denmark,
Mr. Jensen,
citizenship” pardon al
record. He had been
a Piece, of scrap metal.
Hoosier Returns To Fighting Front
Pfe. Carl Clayton,
Ave, is back at front after being treated for frostbite. He wrote his mother that he is glad to be hack with his friends. It was lonely at the hospital, he said. Pfc. Clayton, who will be 18 on Mar. 24, is a member. of the 38th Regiment
Pfe. Clayton of the 2d Infantry Division.
Attlee in Hospital
LONDON, Mar. 21 (UP).
Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee Mary's Hospital today for a check-up and treatment of ‘stomach trouble which may stem three years ago. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison will preside over cabinet meetings in Mr. Attlee’s ab-
entered St.
from ulcers treated
sence.
Do You Know the ‘Sweetest Girl’?
National recognition and valuable prizes await that girl you always have boasted to be “the sweetest girl in the world.”
She could be your mother « + « your wife ... . your girl friend . . . the girF next door + + «» or any other girl,
How can yop win national recognition and a $500 RCA. Victor television console come bination for her?
Details of the search will be in The Times on Saturday,
President Vincent Auriol of France, his wife and Foreigr Rober! Schuman ‘sailed the Ile last night from - Le
Havre on an official visit to the
Williams Michigan, today forgave August Wasw, Jensen a 15-minute visit tc announced today canada that make him liable tc by publishers of! 'deportation to
native land.
his 62, was granted a
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