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RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1917.

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FUEL CHIEF TO GIVE GOAL TO HOUSEHOLD USERS FIRST

Woollen Sees Early Relief

for Indiana Consumers-

Domestic Cases Are Up

Earliest.

OFFICE IS OPENED

French Minister

Justifies Slaying of Dancer Who Spied PARIS, Friday. Oct. 19. The Associated Press today asked Jules Cambon, general secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs, If he had seen the attempts of the German press to point

out similarities between the execu

tions of Mata-Harl and Edith Cavell M. Cambon replied:

"The German audacity in daring to compare Mata-Harl with Edith Vavell surpasses belief. Miss Cavell was a woman respectable and respected, and devoted to charitable work. She was shot for aiding Belgian soldiers to escape to Holland. This, in German eyes, may be a crime, but not one that endangered their army.

"Mata-Harl was a courtesan. It was i bled to the navy department yester

proved that she was a spy and the i day by Vice Admiral Sims. Names of center of a spying system. Her cor-j the great majority of the victims are respondence showed that she received lacking, yesterday's dispatches giv-

money from Berlin. She herself ad-! ing only those of four naval seamen

U-BOAT CLAIMS FIRST AMERICAN WAR VICTIMS WHEN TRANSPORT GOES DOWN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 The German U-boat has claimed its first victim from America's war forces. Within 24 hours after an American destroyer had been disabled in an undersea attack, a torpedo crashed Into the engine room bulkhead of the home-coming transport Antilles and sent her to the bottom with the loss of seventy lives. Sixteen soldiers and several enlisted men of the navy were included in the submersible's heavy toll. Administration officials are awaiting with profound interest today am

plification of the meagre details ca

INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 20 The

needs of the domestic consumers of coal will be given attention first by the fuel administration of Indiana, Evans Woollen, the coal administrator said today. He announced offices had been opened in the federal building and he and assistants are already engaged in trying to provide coal for the most urgent cases called to his attention. The approach of colder weather emphasizes the need of fuel for the domestic consumer, Mr. Woollen said, and for that reason: "Our first efforts will be directed to that part of the consuming public. We feel that our first duty will be to get more coal moving into domestic channels and this work will be done at once. There will be no announcement of the general policy to be fol

lowed in this state until after a conference with national fuel administrator Garfield in Washington next Friday." Sees Relief Soon. Discussing the situation in the state Mr. Woollen said the preliminary report he has received since he became fupl administrator indicates an Important amount of relief can be given the domestic consumer without disturbing the large industrial supplies and that by the end of next week he believed pood progress will be made along that llnp. Reports indicate enough coal for immediate needs if carefully distributed. Mr. Woollen said. The present plans are to send the domestic coal to the regular retail dealers since the coal prices are fixed, and the dealers are equipped to handle the fuel quickly at prices about the same as voluntary organization might be able to do.

mltted that she was one of Germany's chief spies in France, who used the relations she had been able to make by her mode of life. She merited no Indulgence. No comparison is possible between charity and 6pying."

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HURT WHEN CARS CRASH

and three engineer officers of the

transport. Must Compare Rolls.

It was impossible early today to ascertain the identity of the casualties among the crew and soldiers. The list cannot be completed until the muster roll made up at the French port of embarkation can be compared

with the roster of survivors.

vvmie me aeepest sympathy was

expressed today in official circles for those who gallantly gave up their lives, Telief was general over the fact

that the vessel had met her fate while homeward bound and not on the way

over with a large number of troops aboard. Had the successful attack been delivered while the Antilles was on her trip to France, the loss of

life probably would have been appalling. She was hit in a vital spot and plunged below so swiftly that but comparatively few could have survived. Interest is intense in the manner the submarine managed to elude the protecting convoy and discharge the torpedo that hurtled directly in to the bowels of the vessel. Naval officers

are of the opinion that the German commander lurked beneath the surface till the moving destroyers passed overhead, and then waited for the big troopship to come into easy range before releasing the deadly missies. Down In Few Minutes It Is inferred from the admiral's report that the ship went down in a few minutes. This fact, coupled with the necessity of rescuing the surviv-

$1 Conscience Money is Sent to Simmons

ors, made impossible, any attempt to locate the U-boat. The heaviest loss of life, it is thought, was among the engine room and fire room crew. Stunned or raaimed by the explosion, that virtually broke the ship in two, these men must have had but little

time to gain access to the deck with its chance for life. The absence of casualties among the army and navy officers aboard is attributed to the fact that their staterooms lay along the decks from which they could jump to the waters below In hope of being picked up. It is believed that the attack was made well out at sea, since it took

two days for news of the disaster to reach Washington. Survivors are thought to be safe ashore in France, England or Ireland. The loss of the Antilles marked the first impairment of a transport service that has operated successfully since America's active entrance into the war. Since the unsuccessful attack on the convoy of the first contingent, large numbers of troops and vast quantities of supplies had been forwarded overseas with complete immunity from the menace of undersea warfare.

GERMAN RAIDERS SINK 11 SHIPS

Five persons were injured Friday evening about 5 o'clock when a city street car and-an interurbon freight car collided at North Fifth and North D streets. None of those injured are in a serious condition. Those injured were Mrs. S. B. Gaines, 817 Main street, Mrs. Frank James, C. Oler, the rrbtorman on the

city car, and C. B. Carms. the conductor on the city car. A Miss Whitmore, who walked away before her address was taken, was also slightly bruised. The vestibules of both cars were crushed in. and Oler, the motorman, miraculously escaped what might have been fatal injuries. Carms, the conductor of the car, jumped before the crash occurred. The heavv traction car. which was

coming down the hill, was unable to j will pay to David Esteb

stop in time to avoid hitting the light- Mrs. India Smith Esteb,

er car.

Smithvale Passes Into Hands of Wayne County For Hospital

LONDON. Oct. 20. Two German raiders attacked a convoy in the North Spa on Wednesday and sank two of

trip escorting aesiruyeis, n nvpr th ritv nounced officially today by the British e.r "

Aviators May Have Met Enemy Winds on Way to Richmond

Richmond persons were "sorely" disappointed Saturday. ' - ':: After announcement had been made that two airplanes would encircle the city dropping "bombs," and thousands of persons strained their necks for several hours in an effort to catch sight of the bird men and also the "bombs," the city was not bombed after all and only one airplane flew

announced at the aviation

war office. The British boats sunk T,avfn satiirrtav mnmtiie.

were tne Aiaray xvoae auu iuc. onuu5 noV(.everf liiat two machines had start-

How

The official announcement says that

three merchant vessels escaped in the action, but that five Norwegian and .one Danish and three Swedish vessels were sunk without warning.

U. S. IS WELCOMED

PARIS, Oct. 20. American participation in the allied conference is welcomed by the Temps, which says: "It is most gratifying to know that the United States will be represented at this conference. The task of the allies is too great for them to discuss it without the United States. President Wilson is so much respected that we have need of listening to men who possess his confidence."

Now you have another chance to do your bit you can buy another Liberty Bond.

ed toward Indianapolis, via Richmond. Whether one of the flyers met with an accident is unknown. The flyers were to drop paper bombs containing literature boosting the sale of Liberty bonds.

POWER FAMINE HERE AVERTED

Smithvale, south of Richmond, on the Liberty pike, now belongs to Wayne county and a county hospital for the treatment of tubercular patients soon will be established. The deed for the 235 acre farm, which was formerly occupied by the late George L. Smith, was filed Saturday by Attorney John L. Rupe, who was one of the trustees of the estate. An appropriation of $1,000 was immediately made by the county council in session Saturday morning for preliminary work to be done on the farm before patients are taken. Valued at $40,000. The property was valued at $40,000

and acordlng to the deed the county

and wife, the only

daughter of Mrs. Clarissa L. Smith, four per cent annually on the $40,000. The county accepted this obligation. The hospital will be known as "The George H. and Clarissa L. Smith Hospital for Wtyne County, Indiana."

Mrs. Clarissa L. Smith, who is nearly 90 years old, first offered the prop

erty to the county several years ago.

She has had three children die from

tuberculosis.

The deed was filed in the name of India Smith Esteb and David Esteb, and John L. Rupe and David Esteb, as trustees of the property and estate of Clarissa L. Smith, to the board of county commissioners of Wayne county, for the nominal consideration of $1. As Life Estate

The full title of the real estate was devised by the will of George H. Smith to his widow as a life estate. Mrs. India Smith Esteb was given one-half, subject to Mrs. Clarissa Smith's life estate and his two grandsons Harold H. Smith and Lloyd E. Smith. David Esteb purchased the entire title and interest in the estate which was held by Harold H. Smith and Lloyd E. Smith and, according to the deed, for $20,000. The board of county commissioners will be required to pay all taxes on

the property, including the taxes for this year, which will be payable in 1918. Payments to David Esteb and

his wife of the four percent interest on $40,000, the valuation of the property, will be made twice annually, during their lives. To Survivors Also. . The board also accepts the obligation of paying to the survivors of

David Esteb and his wife the full amount of four percent interest on the valuation during the life of the survivors, and "one year thereafter to his or her personal representative." "And upon the death of both the said India Smith Esteb and David Esteb" the deed reads, "and the aforesaid payment made one year after the death of thesjv4or, all further payments shaircease and be determined, the purpose and intention of the parties hereto being that the said real estate shall be a gift to said Wayne county, after all payments shall be made specified as equalling four percent Interest on the agreed valuation shall have been fully made as specified and set forth." Mrs. Clarissa Smith is now living on the farm but will move to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Esteb, 62 South Fourteenth street.

George Simmons, 43 South Eighteenth street, Saturday received a letter containing a dollar bill, with the request that he "please forgive the i$ son who took It from you."

The letter was mailed in Richmond. Mr. Simmons, who is 80 years old, believes that the money was taken from

him about thirty years ago.

It 1b the first time in his life he

says that any "conscience money was

returned to him.

FARMERS ARE

URGED TO BUY

27 KILLED

IN LATEST ATTACK BY ZEPPELINS

Bags Used Again for First Time Since on September 24rh-Pass Over Eastern. Counties.

WEATHER FORECAST . For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Fair and warmer tonight. Sunday partly cloudy. Today's Temperature. Noon ...-. 45 Yesterday Maximum .50 Minimum 28

For Wayne County by W. E. Moore. Fair tonight. Sunday, probably Increasing cloudiness. Moderate temperature. General Conditions The cold wave has swept southward to the Gulf of Mexico, causing freezing temperatures as far south as central Texas. Hf-avy rain storms are raging on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida. Last nifrht was the coldest of the season in '.Vayne county, the temperature

being' 21 degrees above zero,

Factories in Richmond will not be required to shut down because of a

lack of power from the city light plant for some time at least, acordlng to Superintendent Kleinknecht who has just returned from Cincinnati and Louisville where he went in quest of coal. A total of 1500 tons of Kentucky coal was purchased at $1.80 a ton at the mine mouth, the price set by the government. Adding the freight rate of $1.65 the city will have to pay $3.45 per ton. Thirty cars In all will be shipped, two daily, which is a month's supply for the plant according to Kleinknecht. Superintendent Kleinknecht appealed to the' government to aid him in getting coal, as only a two weeks' supply remained at the plant. Richmond factories will have been compelled to close their doors within two weeks had the superintendent been unable to purchase the coal. The fact that many factories have government contracts aided the city in securing fuel.

WILSON RECEIVES JAPANESE MISSION

SEARCH IS FRUITLESS

LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct 20

' Burl Armstrong, brother of Miss Ruth

Armstrong, who mysteriously dlsap-

Low t peared several months ago in Havana,

pressure in western vanaaa is caus- is oac ioua um a innurss searuu ing a moderation east of the Rockies for his sister, which extended to the and north of the 35th parallel. Cuban city.

WASHINGTON Oct. 20. The Japanese parliamentary mission was formally received today by President Wilson at the White House. Headed by Dr. Masao, the mission, composed of five members from the Japanese diet, has no diplomatic status but is in the country to study American congressional methods and the state of public feeling in the United States on questions in which Japan is most deeply Interested.

Transport Sinking Brings Navy Recruit

The sinking of the United States transport ship. Antilles, by a German U-boat, brought one recruit for the navy at the Richmond recruiting station. Douglas Lawder, 20 years old, of New Paris, who was the assistant telegraph operator of the railroad station there, enlisted shortly after he heard that the transport had been sunk. Lawder said he wished he could go "at 'em" right away without having to take a course of training.

INDIANA MINERS BACK TO PLAGES

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 20 Reports coming into the district headquarters of the United Mine Workers of this field this morning indicated that the return to work by the strikers has been general and the idle mineB were those in remote points. These too, had been greatly reduced

today. Secretary Mitch at a patriotic celebration of the miners last night thanked the men of the Terre Haute district who had not participated in the strike and urged that whatever action is taken, that the rules of the organization be adhered to and that the regularly elected officers be obeyed. Mine officials express confidence In Dr. Garfield's attitude in the situation. President Stewart said this morning that such reports were being received indicated that nearly all of the miners of this section had returned to work, or had indicated their purpose of returning to work Monday.

Rowdyism Taboo on Hallowe'en, is Tip

The Richmond police force will stand for no "rough stuff" on Hal

loween day, Chief McNally raid Satur

day. Halloween will be celebrated

Wednesday, October 31. Men, women and children may have all the fun they want, provided it is wholesome fun, but when it comes to the destruction of property and disorderly conduct there will be none of it, if the entire police force can help it.

RADICALS DEFEATED.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 20 The Central Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' delegates has defeated the Bolshevik! resolution against sending delegates to the coming applied conference in Paris. The council decided to send two delegates to represent the peasants and soldiers.

FRIENDS SEND

GREETINGS TO NATIONS HEAD Telegram Expressing Sympathy Sent by Five Years Meeting Here. "Five Years Meeting of Friends now in session in this city, sends to our preeident, bowed as he now is under the weight of leadership in the world crisis, a message of appreciation and greeting. We have repeatedly been baptized into earnest prayer, that God's power and guidance may be granted to thee, to ourselves, to our

nation and to the world in travail, that the principles of justice, love and good will may triumph, and that a new day of righteousness, universal brotherhood and permanent peace may soon come to the world from the hands of Almighty God."

- The foregoing is a copy of a telegram sent to President Wilson today

by the Five Years Meeting of Friends. It was drafted by the business committee of the meeting and was approved after some discussion. One delegate advocated inserting a phrase setting forth that the meeting was out of sympathy with existing world conditions, but this suggestion received no consideration. A telegram reading almost the same as the one addressed to President Wilson was sent to the premier of the Dominion of Canada. Without discussion the Meeting also instructed the business committee to dispatch a telegram to Secretary of War Baker

reading as follows: Want 'Em Released "Five Years Meeting of Friends, now in session in this city, representing 80,000 American Friends, unanimously urges that drafted Friends who hold form 174 be turned over to the American Friends Service Committee for reconstruction work In France and for other self-sacrificing work." The meeting today approved the following nominations for members

of the finance board of the meeting

for the ensuing five, years: Miles White, Atwood L. Jenkins, E. G. Craw

ford (treasurer), John Newlin, Hollingsworth Wood and Albert F. N. Hamilton. Members of the Five Years Meeting on the American Friend's Service Committee were also appointed and the recommendation that each yearly meeting appoint representatives on this committee wa's adopted. The members of the Five Year Meeting to serve on the Service committee are: Walter C. Woodward, Allen D. Hole, L. Hollingsworth Wood, Rufus M. Jones, John R. Carey, Willard Swift, Homer Morris, Vincent D. Nicholson, Albert S. Rogers, L. Clarkson Hin-

shaw and J. Edwin Jay. At one o'clock Saturday afternoon a luncheon was served at the Y. M. C. A. in honor of the parents of young Friends who are now engaged in reconstruction work. No session of the meeting was held Saturday afternoon, but a number of the delegates attended a reception held in their honor at the E. G. Hill Floral company. It is probable that the meeting will close Tuesday.

Will Wade, of Indianapolis, chair

man of the Indiana Liberty Loan committee, in a telephone conversation to

day with a member of the Wayne

county committee, said reports re

ceived from Richmond Indicated that

the city's part of the county quota

would be subscribed and probably

over-subscribed, but he was not encouraged by reports from the farming districts. I He urged that the farmers of Wayne county immediately respond to the call of the nation by purchasing Liberty Bonds and said that a similar appeal has been made throughout the state. The Richmond booster committee will on Monday formally notify the business men of the city who are to go in the field on Liberty Loan day, next Wednesday, and solicit citizens to buy bonds. Plans have been made for the canvassers to meet at the Commercial club rooms at noon where a luncheon will be served, each committeeman paying the cost thereof. To Have "Trench Lunch. "It is to be called a 'trench lunch," said a member of the booster brigade today, "and will beb extremely simple and in keeping with the slogan of economy. When the luncheon is served

the field men will be Instructed in their duties and will then sally forth

for two or three hours of hard work. We are hopeful that it will bring the

results necessary for the success of Richmond Liberty Loan Campaign. "Every citizen, no matter his circumstances, should convince himself right now that he can take one bond in some denomination. We are expecting that the response will be general and that the committee will be able to turn over a big list of subscription blanks signed up."

ROBBER TAKES A. S.M. PAYROLL

SPRINGFIELD, O,. Oct 20. Placing a revolver against the head of K. Lynn Arthur, accountant of the American Seeding Machine company, a robber secured the Saturday payrolls of the company amounting to $10,582, and escaped.

Expect Total Jo be $2,000,000,000

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. The Lib

erty Loan campaign closed its third week today with excellent prospects,

treasury officials announced, of bring'

ing the total in subscriptions up to

$2,000,000,000 at the end of business today. At the same time it was announced that over a wide section of country extending from the middle west southward into Texas and eastward to the Atlantic sea board, general apathy prevailed and conditions were "causing the greatest concern."

LONDON IS SPARED

(By Associated Press) Just when It appeared that the Germans had virtually abandoned the use of the Zeppelin for air raids on England because of the effective defense that had been established against them another Zeppelin fleet has penetrated the eastern and northwestern counties and reached at least the edge of the London area. The bombs dropped by the raiders killed 27 persons and Injured 53 others, it Is officially announced. These casualties cover all the districts visited. Houses and bu&toess structures were damaged to some extent, says the British statement Issued. Air Planes Are Raiders. All the big raids In recent weeks have been conducted by means of air planes which proved extremely difficult to combat on the moonlit nights chosen for their operations. After the last series of raids during which heavy casualties occured tt was anncXced that reprisal policy had been decide! upon by the British government The last previous use of the ZeppeHn for raiding purposes was on Sept. 24 when an airplane raiding fleet also was In action. The airplanes reached London and worked considerable losses but the Zeppelins barely suc

ceeded in crossing the coast line.

THREE ZEPPELINS BROUGHT

DOWN BY FRENCHMEN PARIS, Oct. 20 A Zeppelin was brought down in flames late last

night at Rambervfflers near the Alsa

tian border and two others were forced to land. They belonged to a squadron composed of a large number of Zeppelins which flew over the Vosges. RUSSIANS DID WELL Apparently, the Russian fleet In the battle In and around Moon Bound, north of the Gulf of Riga, Wednesday, gave a good account. of Itself against the superior enemy. The Russian admiralty says the entire third and fourth squadrons of the German high seas fleet and probably the fifth squadron took part in the engagement. The three squadrons comprise two-thirds of the German fleet. The battleship Slava was the only unit of the Russian fleet lost, while the Russians accounted for two trawlers. Three German torpedo boats were sunk by striking Russian mines. The Russian fleet withdrew into Moon sound before the sinking of the Slava, which was tht only vessel to be damaged seriously. The Germans have landed troops on Dago island, which lies to the north of Oesel island and forms the northern boundary of Kassar bay.

SCHOONER SENT DOWN BY U-BOAT

LONDON, Oct. 20. The American schooner Jennie E. Righter, of 647 tons gross, was sunk by a Teuton submarine on Tuesday off Cape Villano, Spain. Nine men of the schooner were landed today at Mujia. The Jennie E. Righter sailed from New Haven, Conn.

DAY OF PRAYER FOR VICTORY SET

WASHINGTON, Oct 20. President Wilson by proclamation today declared Sunday. Oct 28, as a day of prayer for the success of the American anna In the war In accordance with the recent resolution of congress.

JUTE BAGS ASSURED.

WHITELY TO SPEAK.

Charles O. Whitely of Oskaloosa. Ia., a delegate to the Five Years Meeting, will address the congregation of the. North A Street Friends' church, Sunday morning at 10:30.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 20 Through co-operation of the British admiralty with the United States food administration, a plentiful supply of jute bags for handling the coming Cuban sugar crop is now assured, it was announced today.

TO ADDRESS REDSKINS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Ohiyesa, better 'known as Dr. Charles A. Eastman, the Sioux writer and lecturer, has enlisted as a speaker in the Lib-

Muffler Openers Warned by Chief

Automobilists who open the mufflers on their machine will be prosecuted by Chief of Police McNaily. Many complaints have been received because of this from Irate residents who say they are roused from d reams early in the morning or late at night by the loud noise of a humming automobile motor. Complaints have been especially re celved from residences on North A. street, where there are several churches. Services are frequently interrupted by the noise. Any automobilist caught Sunday with his muffler open will be arrested Chief McNalljr 8 aid.

OHIO ROADS GET INCREASE

COLUMBUS, O.. Oct 20. An Increase of 15 percent in all freight

rates, except on coal, coke and iron.

erty loan campaign and will make a was granted to Ohio railroads for one

hurried speaking tour among the j year effective Nov. 20 by the Ohio Indians. J Public Utilities Commission today.

Quakers in Army Camps Abused by Non-Corns, Nicholson's Report Shows

Sessions of the Five Years Meeting of Friends Friday afternoon were featured by a clash of opinion in regard to the attitude the Society of Friends should assume during the progress of the world war, Thomas Newlin urging full support of the world war, Thomas Newlin urging full support by Friends in the conflict to suppress "Prussianism," and this suggested policy being sharply criticized by Levi Pennington, assistant clerk of the meeting, his re- ) marks being received with manifest I approval by the delegates.

The feature of the evening session was a report read by Vincent D. Nicholson, executive secretary cf the American Friends Service committee, setting forth the condition of young Friends in army camps, the report charging browbeating and brutalities had been resorted to to compel certain Quaker conscripts to submit to military service. Attacked By Officers. It was charged in the report that Paul Furnas, of Indianapolis, had received a telegram in which it was al

leged that a Quaker recruit at Camp Taylor, Louisville, had been cursed by a first sergeant for refusing to drill, that a sergeant had attacked the same recruit striking him in the cheek, jaw and eye, and that another non-commissioned officer had threatened another Quaker with execution at the hands of a firing squad if he persisted in refusing to obey orders, and, the report further stated, another Quaker had been placed in the guard house because he would not submit to military training.

Chairman Nicholson also stated that he had been Informed that a Quaker at Camp Funston had received a severe beating. The report, which was not generally commented upon by the delegates, read, in part: Opposed to Military Service. "Many dfoyur young men have en listed in various branches: of military service," said Mr. NichQlson, ?with the same conviction of duty that impels others of us to seek service elsewhere, and we honor thehY for their

courage, sacrifice and ideals: . The fact

remains, however, that as a body, with practically an unbroken solidarity of thought and action, we are unalterably opposed to any form of military service. "We seek the same high ends of democracy and justice in the same spirit of sacrifice, but we must employ different means. To Friends war seems simply an agreement among men, whereby under certain condition things, which normally are crimes, be1. am nwn 1.1 a m A r trrrA &Ttvt

I The American Friends service commit

tee is a channel of sacrifice, which they can render conscientiously." Mr. Nicholson gave the history of the Service Committee, telling of its reconstruction work in Russia, Serbia, Belgium and France, a story of splendid organization and achievement He stated that the War Department .! had been requested to assign to the Service Committee complete charge of young Friends engaged in reconstruction work who had been exempted from combatant military service for conscientious objec

tions, and developed the fact that even non-combatants must be regarded as combatants so long as they re raained under the jurisdiction of th military authorities. No action -on the request referred to by Mr. Nicholson has been takes by the war department up to. the present time, the meeting was informed. The reconstruction work in the war zones was also explained to the meeting by Morris M. Leeds, of PhiladelContinued On Page Thirteen.