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- AS DARKNESS fell over the island, four canoes came dancing out from behind the reef, and soon there was a crowd of Polynesians on board, all wanting to shake hands and get cigarets, With these fellows on board, who had local knowledge, there was no danger. They would not let us go out to
sea again and out of sight, so we should be ‘ashore that evening!
We quickly had ropes made fast from the sterns of all the canoes to the bow of the Kon-
» Tiki, and the four sturdy out-
rigger canoes spread out in fan formation, like a dog team, ahead of the wooden raft. Knut jumped into the dinghy and found a place as draft dog in among the canoes, and we others, with paddles, posted ourselves on the two outside logs of the Kon-Tiki. And so began, for the first time, a struggle against the east wind
#which had been at our back
for so long.
It was now pitch dark until the moon rose, and there was a fresh wind. On land theeinhabitants of the village had collected brushwood and lighted a big fire to show us the direction of the passage through the reef. The thundering from the reef surrounded us in the darkness like a ceaselessly roaring waterfall, and at first the noise grew louder and louder.
We could not see the team that was pulling us in the canoes ahead, but we heard them singing exhilarating war songs in Polynesian at the top of their lungs. We could hear that Knut was with them, for every time the Polynesian music died away we heard Knut’s solitary voice singing Norwegian folk songs in the midst of the Polynesians’ chorus, To complete the chaos we on board the raft chimed in with “Tom Brown’s baby had a pimple on his nose,” and both white and brown men heaved at their paddles with laughter and song.
We were overflowing with high spirits. Ninety-seven days. "Arrived in Polynesia. There would be a feast in the village that evening. The natives cheered and bellowed and shouted. There was a landing on: Angatau only once a year, when the copra schooner, came from Tahiti to fetch coconut kernels. So there would indeed be a feast round the fire on land that evening. Ld »
BUT THE ANGRY wind blew stubbornly. We toiled till every limb ached. We held our ground, but the fire did not come any nearer and the thunder from the reef was just the same as before. . - Gradually the singing died away. All grew still. It was all and more the men could do to row. The fire did not move; it only danced up and down as we feli and rose with the seas.
Alumni Schedule
Banquet
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A banquet next Saturday! in the Hawthorn Room will]
mark the 25th anniversary of! the Arsenal Cannon Alumni
Association.
For Miss Dixie Allred it will
be the first lap of a newspaper) has
The association winner of its second
career, named her
$50 college scholarship to a senior
on the Cannon, Tech weekly student newspaper. Speaker at the 7 o'clock dinner will be Wiss Ella . Sengenberger, director of publications at Tech and permanent board member
and faculty adviser of the asso- ||
ciation. Arrangements Chairman
Miss Charlotte Derek is chairMerle,
man of arrangements. Miller will be toastmaster. Special invitations were sent to Dr. Herman Shibler, superintend-|
ent of schools, and Mrs. Shibler, |
_H. H. Anderson, Tech principal, “and Mrs. Anderson; Mrs. Fugene |
{ +" Miller; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Traylor;
David Ryker and Tech faculty members, The Dinnerette, official publica-
tion for the dinner, was edited by|
Miss Florence Henderson, Miss Marilyn Hotz, both students at Butler ,University,. and . Robert ‘White, association board member. Serving on the decorations committee are Mrs. Leverne Hanger Haverstick, Miss Pauline Ritter and Mrs. Marian Spears Rexroth.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry May will| take charge of receiving guests.
Honorary
Installs Theta Sigma Phi Has New Chapter
Times State Service
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Three hours passed, and it was
now 9 o'clock. Gradually we began to lose ground. We were
We made the natives under stand that we needed more help from land. They explained to us that there were plenty of people ashore, but they had only these four seagoing canoes in the whole island, Then Knut appeared out of the darkness with the dinghy. He had an idea; he could row in In the rubber dinghy and fetch more natives. Five or six men could sit crowded together in the dinghy at a pinch. This was too risky. Knut had no local knowledge; he would never be able to feel his way forward to the opening in the coral reef in that pitch-black darkness, He then proposed to take with him the leader of the natives, who coud show him the way. I did not think this plan a’ safe one, either, for the native had no experience in maneuvering a clumsy rubber dinghy thropgh the narrow and dangerous passage. But I asked Knut to, fetch the leader, who was sitting paddling in the darkness ahead of
us, so that we might hear what -
he thought of the situation. It was clear that we were no longer able to prevent ourselves from drifting astern. Knut disappeared into the darkness to. find the leader. When some time” had passed and Knut had not returned with the leader, we shouted for them but received no answer except from a cackling chorus of Polynesians ahead. Knut had vanished into the darkness. ” » * AT THAT MOMENT we understood what had happened. In all the bustle, noise, and turmoil Knut had misunderstood his instructions and rowed shoreward with the leader. All our shouting was useless, for where Knut now was all other sounds were drowned by the thundering all along the barrier. We quickly got hold of a Morse lamp, and a man climbed up to the masthead and signaled, “Come back. Come back.” But no one came back. With two men away and one continuosely signaling at the masthead our drift astern increased, and the rest of us had begun to grow really tired. We threw marks overboard and saw that we were moving slowly but surely the wrong way. The fire grew smaller and the noise from the breakers less.’ And the farther we emerged
from under the lee of the palm --
Kon-Tiki crew members sfudy the chart as they approach land. Erik Hesselberg took observations daily throughout the voy. age and marked the raft's drift on the chart. Not until after three months, when they reached the Tuamotu islands, did a serious navigation problem arise—how were they to land?
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The first natives come out to greet the Kon-Tiki.
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evening several canoes appeared with natives eager to help the raft ashore. But the Kon-Tiki drifted out to sea again, and finally
Angatau disappeared astern.
forest, the firmer hold. of us the eternal east wind took. We felt it again now; it was almost as it had been out at sea. We gradually realized that all hope had gone—we were drifting out 10 sea. But we must not slacken our paddling: We must put the brake on the drift astern with all our might till Knut was safe on board again. Five minutes went. Ten min--utes. Half an hour. The fire grew smaller; now and then it disappeared altogether when werourselves slid down into the
trough of the sea.. The breakers became a distant murmur, Now the moon rose; we could just see the glimmer of its disk behind the palm tops on land, but the sky seemed misty and half clouded over. We heard the natives beginning to murmur and exchange words. Suddenly we noticed that one of the canoes had cast off its rope into the sea and disappeared. The men in the other three canoes were tired and frightened and were no longer pulling their full weight. The Kon-Tiki
GARDEN TOUR PRIZE—Lawrence Folse veuelves the Park School scholarship, made possible by the Park School Garden Tour, from Mrs. Don E. Kelly of the school mothers association. The mothers’
group annually awards the honor
to an eighth grade’ pupil.
‘Lawrence is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel A. Folse, 1820 N. Warman Ave. Dr. Norman B. Johnsen, headmaster, looks on.
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Blackwood on Bridge—
Timely Hints Are Offered fo Players
THE BLACKWOOD convention|
where ‘all you need to know to decide about a slam is the num-
trumps.
But He figured that, clear to Mr. is useful only on those hands gfter gaining that Information, Champion had been very willing| {he still would be undecided as to to play the hand in diamonds all
Masters that Mr.
ber of aces and kings held by| whether a grand slam was a along.
{your partner. £
On many hands, however, that {Information is .not enough. |such cases the Blackwood con-
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FRANKLIN, June 2 — Theta vention will not solve your prob-|
Sigma Phi Sorority’s 50th stu-/lems,
Othér methods are needed
dent chapter. was Installed yes- and often they require complete terday at Kent State University, partnership understanding:
Kent, O. The organization is a |
In today's hand for example,
national honoragy for women in when his partner opened the bid-
Journalism,
Mrs. Margaret
Moore, national secretary of the started thinking about a grand sorority and journalism’ faculty slam. It wae almost certain that to paint. a cléar picture of his/and kings in the South hand.
member at Franklin College, had Mr. Masters held the ace of dia- hand and let his partner make)
charge. The group will be the monds.
Beta Zeta .Chapter.
Indiana student chapters are At Butler, Indiaha.and DePauw Franklin Col-|could have found out about that!finally rebid that suit.
very easily by bidding four no
.Universities and
Example Cited
worthwhile risk.
sibility of a diamond loser. Suppose, for example, Mr. Masters’ {hand ;
5-Q632 H-—-9
C-KQJ3
That hand is a sound opening pp
Faces a Puzzle?
There would still be the pos-| HOW COULD he have bid three
\other suits, then? It looked like lat least two of the other suits,
DA K 8 2 were for the purpose of indicating,
no losers in those suits. Masters had never indy]
and yet the cdds would be against ¢ated anything more than a bare! ‘ding, first hand, with one dia- Pringing in the diamond sult minimum opening and yet his
Stephenson mond, Mr. Champion immed{ately Without loss.
‘partner had taken him to six-odd|
Mf, Champion therefore decided —and without checking bn aces
the final decision.
Holding a diamond suit of]
He jumped the | pretty 00d proportions and a {bidding in hearts, then bid spades! partial fit |and clubs and finally jumped to| heart bid, Mr. Masters read the) 3 IN ANY CASE, Mr. Champion six diamonds when- Mr, Masters situation correctly’ and bid the , pl grand slam which was Seay i All Pass (Order of Ahepa in South Bend Garden, Mt. -Comfort, Marytha,
in “Mr. Champion's
The siz-diamond. bid made it/made.
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went on drifting out over the open sea. oa . SOON THE THREE remaining ropes slackened and the three canoes bumped against the side of the raft. One of the natives came pn board and said ‘quietly with a jerk of his head: ““Iuta (to land).” He looked anxiously at the fire, which now disappeared for long periods at a time and only
flashed out now and again like’
a spark. We were drifting fast. The breakers were silent; only the sea roared as it used to, and all the ropes on board the KonTiki creaked and groaned. We plied the natives with cigarets, a nd I hurriedly scrawled a note which they were to take with them and give to Knut if they found him. It ran: “Take two natives with you in a canoe with the dinghy in tow. Do NOT come back in the dinghy alone.” We counted on the helpful ‘{glanders being willing to take Knut with them in a canoe, as-
,suming they. thought it advis-
able to put to sea at all; if they did not think it advisable, it would: be madness for Knut to venture out on to the ocean in the dinghy in the hope of overtaking the runaway raft. The natives took the scrap of paper, jumped into the canoes, and disappeared into the night.
* The last we heard was the shrill
voice of our first friend out in the darkness calling politely: “Good night!” There was a murmur of appreciation from the less aecomplished linguists, and then all was as gilent, as free from sounds from without, as when we were sea miles from the nearest land
IT WAS USELESS for us four to do anything more with the paddles out here in the open sea, under the full pressure of the wind, but we continued the light signals from the masthead. We dared not send “Come back” any longer: we now sent out only regular flashes. It was pitch dark. The moon appeared only through occasional rifts in the bank of clouds. It must have been Angatau’s cumulo-nimbus | cloud which was hanging over us.
By Phil Berk
Packing Co. young, said farewell to
pany.
yards of his former office.
But he nasn't done much garing. » ® & »
She is assistant manager, with Grandfather Frank Packing Co. in 1875.
{| The second generation
plant. * & ¢
when he was 14.
missed less than
cigars a day-—those are the health,
cratic Club, was president of the
Hoosier Profile
when the firm was known as J, & T. Sinclair
Yesterday the second Frank Quinn, 66 years Vice Presidents. Thomas Taggart Sinclair and Thomas G. Sinclair, grandsons of the founders of the Sinclair Com-
Born on the auld sod” of Irish Hill Jan. 10, 1885, Frank W, Quinn's birthplace is within mere
From his swivel chair in Kingan's general offices, he could gaze out the window at the three-room brick house, 521 W, Maryland St.—
THE SPRY SON of Erin-—one generation J removed—is like the well-known war-horse, everywhere at once, maintaining contacts with Kingan suppliers and buyers around the world, ever placing the company's welfare above his own. During one of his trips across the United States, his daughter, Margaret L., with whom he lives at 2316 Coyner Ave, was graduated from business college and was placed in a job with Schwenger-Kiein, . Inc., a butcher supply house.
This ends the Quinn tradition which began in Ireland, The Sinclair company merged with the Kingan Meanwhile, had helped establish the first Kingan packing house in Brooklyn, U. B. A,, in 1845, was represented by Matthew Quinn who joined Kingan’s in 1872, rose to general superintendent of the Indianapolis
NATURALLY, Frank W. Quinn never thought of working for anyone but Kingan’s. |ing his formal education with the fourth grade, he began peddling newspapers around Kingan's
Since his first day on the Kingan payroll as a messenger boy in July, 1800, Frank Quinn has working week—five days. Three to-four. hours’ sieep a night,’ 10 to 15 “secrets”
He is a charter membes of the Indiana DemoBoard of Tax Adjustment, 1935-37, has been a
Democratic. precinct committeeman and i chairman, and has attended the last four na-
Frank Quinn
Frank W. Ouinn .. . Missed 8
thew Quinn, Frank’s father, for his first. public. office, sounty suanel
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FRANK QUINN also is a trustee of St.
Francis DeSales Catholic Church in Brightwood, and he is the oldest member in age of the Fra.
ternal Order of
Terminat- America.
As assistant
of his He handled
Marion County or agency—and
before Kingan's had an ad
pany periodicals or “house organs,” a newspaper, “Current Topics.” But while retirement may slow down Frank
Eagles and Modern Woodmen of
Head of Casing and Pharmaceutical Glands Departments at Kin, retirement, Frank variety of experience since the century's turn. ; to former Vice President Clarence Keene, he handled the export trade. Kingan's group insurance is his “baby,” and he looked after the sick and accident fund for 23 years.
n & Co. just prior to his. DD Ca a Ee ona
advertising and promotion long vertising department started, before the day of come Kingan
tional party conventions—“Democratic Party,” Quinn's business activities, he will “still be around he specifies. to give the boys a hand.” Thomas Taggart, late Indianapolis mayor and Tradition is strong for Frank Quinn. United States Senator, was nominated by Mat- “Kingan = Bragh,” he says.
kine, 71, died of a early. today at his Park Ave. ‘home. | “Mr, novel was
(high blood pressure since he col-
lapsed on the street while taking DOVelist he kept
At 10 o'clock we gave up the lan evening stroll almost two last faint hope of seeing Knut years ago. i again, We sat down in silence oa the side of the raft aad His second wife, Mrs. Helen munched a few biscuits, while we took turns flashing signals from the masthead, which seemed just a naked projection | without the broad Kon-Tiki sail.
TOMORROW-—Almost miraculously, Knut gets back to the raft and three days later the Kon-Tiki drifts straight toward
another datgerous coral reef. luniversity established a two-year, From the book
Pay ln Hon Til liners>"nand sequence of courses based on the) or
ried in 1945 was at his bedside {when he died.
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{some time,” she said ‘in announc{ing his death. “He died quietly.”
| Mr. Erskine, born In New York ‘City Oct. 5, 1879, first attained
at Amherst and then at Colum-
“Mr. Erskine had been sick for
‘Writer, Educator Erskine Dies of Heart Attack at 71
NEW YORK, June 2 (UP)—| Then in 1025, at the age of 48, Author and educator John Ers- ihe startled the literary world with! heart attack his novel of the life of Helen of|
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| Troy. Overnight he became a na-| tional sensation. He was hailed
Erskine, whose best known as an, example of the school of|
“The Private Life of thinking that “life begins at 40.” {Helen of Troy,” had been {ll with|
After his first success as a on writing, turning out more eh {nonfiction works.
the famed Juilliard School of ‘Music of Columbia Univepsity, a post he held for 10 years. | He held nine dgrees from various
{commission with the rank
university in France. He first was married to Pauline ‘Ives in 1910 while he was teaching
colleges and universities, both jearned and honorary. During {World War I Le served as chair- ‘hand. Loosely it came into the (success as an educator, teaching man of the Army's educational boat. Then came a limp sleeve. of Then 14 feet of fope, and a large
Ran MeNally & 3 Soprrieht’ 1 930 |50 great books of the Western!
and Tribune Syndies
Engaged To Mr. Booth
man, 18 W. 34th St, nounce the engagement of | their daughter, Ethel, George M. Booth.
Mr. Booth is the son of Dr. | {and Mrs. {Downey Ave. | Dr. Booth, retired
{tension of the Christian Church,
Ethel Seaman
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Son an-|
to!
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John H. Booth, 280,
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executive| |secretary, Board of Church Ex-|
{with national headquarters here, |
will officiate at the ceremony to
Ibe read at 2:30 p. m. June 30 in
{the North Methodist Church. Browning, will assist. | Miss Seaman has chosen as her, only attendant Mrs. Harold E. Williams. John H, Booth Jr. will! be his brother's best man.
Miss Seaman was a aduated]
from Indiana University and at-| {tended the National University of | Mexico, Mexico City. Mr. Booth, former Butler Uni-| | versity student, will be graduate) from IU June 18.
‘Home From Trip Mrs. Harry W. Dragoo Sr,
| The church pastor, Dr. Dallas:
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Reclster | world.
We, the Women—
{English at Columbia University.
Throwing Verbal Rocks
Shows on Housewife's Face
By RUTH MILLETT THE customer in the beauty shop was talking about
how she had solved the problem of the neighbors’ dogs “I keep a can full of rocks in the
coming into her yard.
kitchen to throw at them,” she said with pride. i Not many women, fortunately, keep a can of rocks at hand
to throw at their neighbors’ pets. But some who would be horrified at such a thing keep a handful of verbal rocks always at hand with which, if they only knew it, they drive human beings away from them. Some of these women always have a verbal rock to hurl at the person who for
the moment is sitting pretty.
look at another's good fortune without
reaching for a rock to throw.
» = ” OTHERS always seem to rocks for their neighbors. Or they have had children. put on airs,
“Yes, Dut . , . fee! will hit its mark,
The woman with the can of rocks for visiting dogs could have heen a pretty older woman. her face had a mean, hard look. And so it is with the faces of the women whose rocks are
all verbals
They are never pretty. For a woman looks grim when she | hurls a rock—even a verbal ‘one. enough of them, the grim look becomes permanent.
Mrs. Dolch
They're noisy. x Or they try to ; | Or they are forever borrowing. Others reserve their verbal rocks for anyone they hear praised. They can't bear to let a good word go unchallenged. ” they say as they select the verbal rock they
To Be Honored li
Mrs. Bruce Dolch will be honored. at the annual president's day luncheon of the Cheer Broadcasters at 12:30 p.m. Friday. She starts her second year | as head of the organization. The party wiil be held in the Indianapolis Country Club with Mrs. William Christena, ‘and Mrs. Edward
{Meadowbrook Apts., has returned {from a trip to Houston, Tex.,/ Mexico and Guatemala. She at-| ltended the General Federation lof Women's Clubs convention during the trip.
Today’ s Hand
|South ay Both sides vulnerable.
hostess,
| NORTH | Miles, chairman Mr. Champion | * The group will pla - Tig group plan to sup
| ply milk to under-privileged
H—-A K 10 7 6
children in co-operation with
the City Health Board and
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They can't
have verbal,
Ruth Millett
But she wasn't. Because
And after she has hurled
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WHILE shopping you see a newcomer to your town that you have met at a party but who does not give any sign of recognizing you. WRONG: Ignore the person. RIGHT: Speak to the person. If ‘you stop to chat for a moment, though be sure to introduce yourself so as not {0 embarrass the newcomer, who may not remember your
Methodist Hospital White Cross
Police Come Up. Empty-Handed In Rescue Attempt
Hundreds of bystanders crowded the W. Washington St.
{watch police emergency crews rescue a “dead man” murky river waters. From the bridge they could ses
7 tn ao Pin ot mys
watched while two patrolmen He next became an accom- (laboriously snaked a rescue boat
{Worden Erskine, whom he MAT-| ished pianist, serving as head of off their truck and into the water,
; " » 8 WITH powertul strokes ne trolmen rowed their craft
{across the current.
bia where at his insistence the colonel and established an AEF
Officers gingerly
hook used as an anchor. The “hand” was an inflated rubber glove, used by meat packers. The anchor was a meat packer’s hook,
from the:
| D-—-10 9 6 5 4 C—A Milk Foundation, name. WEST EAST Officers, with Mrs. Dolch, are | an Mr Abel Mrs. Keen | Mrs, William Leonard and Mrs. Units to Meet 8..Q 1054 S—J 987 | David Morrow, first and sec-H-5 4 H-J 8 8 2 | ond vice presidents; Mrs. Frank Do, os = 10:35 | Lory and Mrs, William Hoover, Cd / | recording apd correspondin SOUTH | secretaries; Mrs. Paul Dos oe | [St lie service center, Mr. Masters | and Mrs. Joseph . Kaercher, | 85-6382 { treasurers; and Mrs. Clarence HQ 9 | Dillenbeck, parliamentarian. D—-A K J 8 2 { att? Attend Convention | Avenue, Iso BE oT NORTH EAST Abepa Chapter 232, with West Michigan; Wednesday — 1 ea Pass. 2 H Pass (Daughters of Penelope and Sons Children's Cheer, West Washing-| 2 NT 3s Pass of Pericles auxiliaries from In- ton and Bt. Mark's; Thursday-—-NT Ban 4 C Pass dlanapolis will attend the 12th Music, Broad Ripple and Self-| Pass 6D Pass district convention of the Indiana Third, and Friday —
June 16 through 18, %
Blue and Gold; Tuesday-—Capitol
| Wesleyan and Beta Sigma Phi,
{Guild units will meet next week The schedule follows: Monday |=Central Avenue, Psychic’ Sei{ence, First Baptist, Donati and
University Park and
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Miss Mackey: To Be Feted Af Showers
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| Miss Patricia Mackey will
be feted at a series of parties (to begin June 10. On that date Mrs. Richard Rétterer, 5916 Birchwood Ave. will give a miscellaneous shower. June 12 Miss Patrica Ball will be hostess at a 1 p. m. luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Mrs. Harry C. Baxter, 4630 College Ave., and her daughter, Mrs. William M. Penney Jr. will
give a gadget shower the night of June 12, and June 13 Miss Blanche Cochran and Miss Joan Hoster are
to be hostesses at a dessert lunch=.
eon-crystal shower in the Merid« ian Hills Country Club. Assisting them will be their mothers, Mrs. Homer H. Cochran and Mrs. George M. Hoster.
Following the rehearsal. June . 15 Miss Mackey and her fiance,
{Irving F. Ball, will be feted at a {bridal dinner in Meridian Hills by Mr, and Mrs. Maurice C. Mackey, the bride-to-be's parents. The couple will be married June 16 in Tabernacle Presbyterian Churches
Reception Planned
Mrs. Roscoe Barnes Heads Arrangements = The girls with new white caps
will be entertained by the Method" (1st Hospital White Cross Guild [tomorrow night in the Methodist Church. wri |. The guests will be the 86 graduates of Methodist Hospital = ° School of Nursing, their parents Bw and brothers and sisters. ie Mrs. Roscoe Barnes is chairs °° man of the reception, assisted by = Mesdames James Crooks, pic Bartley, M. L. Sullivan, M. og ; Efroymson and Russell E. Pets erson, 0%! Also assisting will be members ;
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