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BEE CAUSES WRE/ &
A bee stung Adolph Reiden, 19, 1 &.’zlyn, N. Y, and
csused him to lose eontrol of his aute. Result: Four of
the seven occupants wound up in the hospital. They are
David Nadelman, 53; his wife, Frieda, 51; Gisela Rei
den and Ralph Reiden, all are from Brooklyn. The vie
tims are awaiting arrival of help. The accident occur
red in Blanchester, Ohio.—(NEA Telephoto.)
A ms Bi“
Measure Given 50-50
Odds On Approval
Sans Major Changes
WASHINGTON, Aug 17—
(AP)—The administration’s sl,-
450,000,000 arms-aid bill starts
ibrough the House today. The
odds are better than even that it
will emerge without major
change about Friday.
Today’s entire session was set
seide for debate, with voting to
start tomorrow.
Critics are waiting with a bar
iege of amendments to fire at
ihe program. It is the Truman
sdministration wmethod of help
ing Western European nations,
plus Greece, Turkey, Iran, Korea
and the Philippines, arm against
possible Soviet aggression,
The men responsible for steer
ing the big measure through the
House aren’t disturbed about
amendments designed to kill the
program outright.
They ar. concerned about pro
posals to cut the amount of the
program, to limit its length, and
to hem it in with restrictions. ‘
Speaker Sam Rayburn (D.-
Texas) predicted there would bo‘
no substantial change. |
Democratic Leader McCormack
of Massachusetts wouldn’t make
& prediction but said it would be
“most unfortunate” if the bgl
were riddled with major amend
flifii .
Raal Fight
“U will be a real fight,” Rep.
Richards (D.-S.C.) told news
men.
Richards is spearheading @
sirong effort to put some restric
tions into the bill. In short, he
wanis gome of the money held
back until there is assurance that
the recipient nations are going to
pull together as a team.
Chairman Xee (D.-W.Va) of
ihe Foreign Affairs Carmmittee,
which sent the bill to the House
by a 14 to 3 vote, sai he felt
confident that the House would
follow the committee’'s recom
mendations.
Substantially, the bill approved
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CHEROKEE DISTRICT
2 Boy Scout
Troops On
C 5 ri
amping Trip
Two Boy Scout Troops of the
Cherokee District today are on
camping trips, another has re
turned home, and two troops have
trips planned.
Troop 49, sopnsored by Friend
ship Presbyterian Church, is camp
ing at Rabun Beach recreation area
near Clayton this week. Scout
master Charlie Lee and Assistant
Scoutmaster Melvin Gunter are in
charge.
Troop 22, sponsored by First
Baptist Church, is on a two-weeks
ctamp at Lake Nancy Town. Scout
master Ernest "Boland assisted by
Hillyer King, jr, and Baxton
Cook, jr. are leading the affair.
With Rev. H. R. gumley, chair
nan of the troop committee, taking
the leadership Troop 23, sponsored
by East Athens Baptist Church,
Was scheduled to return today
fsom a short esmning trip.
Planning camps are Troop 37,
Eponsored by Winterville Civitan
Club, and Troop 71 of Arnoidsville.
Iroop ¥7 is going to Lake Nancy
Town this week-end. toon
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY :
FULTON, Miss., Aug. 17—(AP)
—A heavy lumber carrier plowed
into the center of an open-bed
truck, loaded with a gay crowd of
revivalists near here last night,
spreading six dead and 20 injured
along 2 100-foot section of road
way.
Two of the injured, in a Tupelo,
Miss., hospitatl, were reported in
a “very critical” condition today.
Highway Patrol Inspector G. L.
Hobis said the lumber truck, driv
en by R. Y. Booth of Newburgh,
Ind., rammed the gther vehicle as
it tyrned into a side road leading
‘to the church. e
The scene of the accident was
about a mile and a half inside the
Mississippi State line. All of the
dead and injured were of or near
Hamilton, Ala.
The revivalists were members of
the Church of God. They were
being driven by the Rev. W. H.
Cox to & church meeting at Tre
mont, ten miles east of here.
Hobis said the force of the crash
drove both trucks into a 12-foot
deep ditch rimming the highway.
He listed the dead as S. E. Cox,
19; Mary Jane Coons, 17; her moth
er, Mrs. Oma Coons, about 45;
Geraldine Isom, 13; J. D. Clark, 15,
and Margie Cochran, about 20.
The two most critically injured
were Roy Hugh Cox, 6, and Mrs.
C. C. Clark.
A three-month old girl, identi
fied by hospitat] authorities as the
daughter of the Rev. Cox, ap
parently was the only person to
survive the wreck without in
jury. ‘
Death Takes
Mrs. W. J.
Culbertson
Mrs. Haitie Culbertson, well
known Winterville resident, died
in a loeal hospital Tuesday night at
10:40 o'clock. Mrs. Culbertson
was 71 years old and had been ill
for the past several weeks.
Services are to be conducted
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock
from Winterville Methodist
Church with Rev. H. A. McNeil,
pastor of the church, and Rev. W,
J. Culbertson, Baptist minister, of
ficiating.
Burial will follow in Winterville
cemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home
in charge of arrangements. Pall
bearers will be J. R. Dawson, Pope
Spratlin, James T. Hardeman,
Early Gilmer, G. C. Pittard, sr.,
and Ralph Chandler.
! Surviving Mrs. Culbertson is her
husband Wiiliam J. Culbertson;
three daughters, Mrs. F. B. Harde
'man, Winterville and Mrs. T. E.
Fleming and Mrs. Willie Lou Sim
‘mons, both of Athens and the fol
lowing grandchildren, Caroline and
‘Geneva Fleming, Constance and
'Hershal Edward Bacon Simmons,
Barbara Joe, Delores, Virginia and
Forrest Hardeman, jr.
A native of Jackson county, Mrs.
Culbertson had been a resident of
Winterville for forty-five years.
She lived in Athens during her
girthood and young womanhood
and had many friends throughout
this section. She was a member
of Winterville Methodist Church.
.
Talmadge Cites
Youth Progress
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Aug.
17 — (AP) — Gov. Herman Tal
madge said today his administra
tion is doing everything it can to
acvance the interests of the oys
and girls of Georgia.
“My administration is le. ing
no stone unturned, we ai€ nLot
over]ool\ingd any opport}\‘mity,”
said Talmadge in & speec -
par & iar-‘.h‘s aspus! 4-H &‘;bi
g-uncil meeting.
Perjury Charges Hurled
In Five Percenter Probe
Charges Stem
From Maragon
Sugar “Deal”
. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—(AP)
—Senator MeCarthy (R.-Wis.) to
day demanded that John Maragon,
a key figure in the Senate five per
center inquiry, be indicted for per
jury.
McCarthy made his demand
after Milton R. Polland, a Mil
waukee insurance man, swore that
he paid Maragon SI,OOO for trying
to get a sugar rationing suspension
order lifted in 1946.
Polland testified before a Sen-~
ate investigations subcommitiee.
He said he got in touch with Mara
gon after meeting him at a party
given by a Milwaukee brewery for
Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan,
President Truman’s army aide.
Maragon is former Kansas City
bootblack who once had a pass to
the White House.
Just before Polland took the wit
ness chair, testimony which Mara
gon gave under oath when he ap
peared before the Senate probers
July 28 was read into the record
by asisstant committee counsel,
Francis D. Flanagan.
Maragon Denial
Maragon flatly denied in the
testimony that he ever was paid
any money by anyone for nego
tiating business with the govern
ment.
After Polland, in reply so =
cross fire of questions, acknowl
edged that he did pay Maragon
SI,OOO, McCarthy said:
“I think we should ask the Jus
tice Department to take this mat
ter over and ask that an indictment
for perjury be returned against
Maragon.”
* Tax Returns |
In his sworn testimony last
month, Flanagan said, Maragon
did not list any income, on his tax
returns, from either Polland or the
Allied Molasses Company of Perth
Amboy, N. J.
Maragon, who calls top govern
ment officials by their first name
and has said he regards Vaughan
as a good friend, gave his testi
mony behind closed doors.
Polland testified today that he
got in touch with Maragon in be
halt of the New Jersey company.
He said his nephew, Harold W,
Ross, is the president of Allied Mo
lasses.
An agriculture department
spokesman said yesterday that
Vhughan and Maragon four years
ago sought aid at the agency for
the molasses firm. He said they
didn’t get it and the case went to
the Justice Department.
The Agriculture Department
statement was made by Wesley
McCune, assistant to Secretary of
Agriculture Grannan. McCune
declined to say to whom in the
department the two men talked.
Woman Injured
In Auto Crash
Mrs. G. B. Hammet was admit
ted to the Athens General Hospi
tal late yesterday for treatment of
lacerations, after an accident in
volving her car and a truck on the
Danielsville Road in front of the
Reynolds Tourist Home,
Mrs. Hammet was traveling from
her home in Greenville, South
Carolina when the accident oc
cured.
She was admitted to the hospi~
tal at about 8:30 last night. Xt
tendants report her condition as
good.
County police investigated the
accident.
109-Day-Old Hawaii Strike
New Effort Made
To End Dock Tie-up
HONOLULU, Aug. 17 —(AP)—
Longshoremen and waterfront
employers met across a peace ta
ble today in a new effbrt to en
lawaii's 109-day CIO dock strike.
The agreement to resume direct
negotiations developed with dra
matic suddeness during a confer
ence Gov. lingram M. Stainback
arranged in his offive yesterday.
Almost immediately officials. of
Hawsgii'e seven struck Stevedor
ing firms leaders of the Interna
ticnal Longshoremen’s and Ware-
Fousemen’s union began meeting.
The first session lasted two hour-.
Resumption of negotiations, made
<t the suggestion of Longshore
President Harry Bridges, was on
the basis of starting “from
seratch.” The Stevedores struck
May 1 for a 32 cents hike in their
$1.40 hourly pay.
The talks came on top of these
mauneuvers in court and on the
waterfronts of Hawaii and the
r~ainland. |
1. Ciccuit Judge, Edward A.
Tcwse ordered a contempt aciion
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Unbelievable World
Glimpsed Under Sea
Weird, Wondrous Creatures Seen
From Sphere At 4,500 Feet Down
SMUGGLER’S COVE, Calif., Aug. 17. — (AP) — An
“unbelievable world,” 4,600 feet under the sea and filled
with weird and wondrous creatures, has got its first
glimpse of man. f
The strange, luminous forms of marine life which in
habit the depths of the ocean yesterday saw a white
sphere suddenly lower itse_lf into their midst.
ot iy eel o S -
Inside the sphere was a creat
ure they had never seen before—
& man.
Armoies of spiraling shrimp
hurled themselves .in & barrage
against a window in the sphere
through whish the man was in
tently peering.
Their attack was «m vain. They
only splattered against the win
dow.
The man was © is Barton, Ma
rine explorer, who in his new
diving bell, the benthoscope, set
a new deep sea diving record yes
terday. He descended to 4,500
feet, bettering his own record of
3028 feet, achieved in 1934 off
Bermuda with Naturalist William
Beebe.
Barton telephoned his observa
tions to an assistant on the barge
from which the benthoscope was
being lowered by cable. -
At 460 feet he said: “There are
a lot of lontern fish passing by
now. They're big fellows and
they’re jumping all over. Now
the fireworks arc really starting.
There’s a creature that looks
like a long pipe with a row of
lighte along it. 1 don’t know what
it is.
Long Tail
“The tentacles of an octopus
dragged by the window, shower
ing sparks. I can’t see him but he
rust have been a big fellow, . , I
just saw an animal with a long
tail. I don’t know what it is.”
Only 17 miautes after he start
«d down, Barton said: “There was
flashing light going by.” At 2300
feet: “I see a barrage of lumines
cent, spiraling :hrim'Fh beating
against the window. ey seem
to splash when they hit. . . A Jong,
thin brilliantly lighted fish went
by. It looks like an eel.”
After passing 3022 feet— the old
record: “This is an unbelievable
worlc down here. I wish Dr. Bee
he were down here with me. He
might know what some of these
things are. I don’t recognize
them.”
At 4,000 feet he said, “there are
so many things going by tha’ it
kind of makes me dizzy.” At
“or other appropriate action”
against Bridges ior personally de
tying an anti-picketing injunct’on
obtained by the territory under its
new dock seizure law. Towse or
dered the territorial atforney gen- ‘
elal to start the action by noon to
day. '
: s gourt Order ]
1 1. Ine ILwU askhea ihe fadsral
gu urt for an injunction agains’ the l
Duck Seizure law which provides
for govenrment stevedoring oper
ations. The union seeks also $3,-
| €OO,OOO damages from the territo
‘ry and the seven truck firms. f
8. The goverument began its
| test to see whether it could un
|lcad ships with its own stevedores. ‘
|lt sent a 40-man gang aboard the |
Matson Line freighter Hawaiian |
| Merchant. CIO coo''s and stewards |
'and independen. Marine firemen ;
valked off ir support of the
{ WU. With the ship’s power off, ‘
N 0 cargo coula e worked.
Murder Indictment
Sought For Cabbi
Case May Go To Grand Jury Friday;
Mitchell Services Set For Tomorrow
ATLANTA, Aug. 17.-=- (AP) —Murder charges have
been placed against the taxi driver who fatally injured
Margaret Mitchell, world-famous author of “Gone With
the Wind.”
Miss Mitchell, whose novel of Civil War and Recon
struction Davs outsold everything in print except the
Bible, died yesterday in Grady Meznfifial Hq:q_pigl!_. :
Death came five days after she
was hit by a speeding automobile
on her beloved Peachtree street,
which her novel helped make
famous. She died in an operating
room even as physicians prepared
for emergency surgery to try to
save her life,
Private funeral services will be
held fomorrow at Spring Hill (At
lanta). Episcopalian Dean Raim
Doctor Says No
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More Imatations
For Nawncy Butts
ATLANTA, Aug. 17— (AP)—
Nancy Butts, young daughter of
Coach Wally Butts of the Uni
versity of Georgia, was under
orders today to quit doing vocal
imitations of grownups.
She underwent an operation at
the Ponce De Leon Infirmary
here for removal of a growth on
her vocal cords. The doctors said
the growth was caused by Nan
¢y’s .prolonged .mimicry of
2 deep maseuline voice in 2
series of monologues.
Doctors reported her in good
condition today.
4,100 feet the lighte illuminating
the area outside his window went
cut, but Barton dropped on down
10 4,500 feet.
T Big Jellyfish
Then he telephoned, “there goes
a big white jellyfish. 1 never saw
soyining iike ihat before, There’s
a little spot of light with a -circle
around it. . . I am anazed to see
to manyy luminous things at this
depth, The water is beautifully,
unexpectedly clear, as clear as it
was at Bermuda.”
Barton returned teo the surface
without incident, and announced
he would not sttemnt sny further
dwes for son e time. Originally he
had planned to descend to 6,000.
He twice sent the benthoscope
more than a mile deep unmanned
in preliminary dives.
He made the 4,500 foot drop in
56 minutes and hung there seven
minutes. He said he could see no
sense in goinfi cdeener because the
failure of the lights would prevent
b's taking pictures.
The ocean bottom was stil 2,-
000 feet beneath. him.
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Cloudy and not so warm wiih
rain today and tonight. Thurs-,
day mostly cloudy with scat
tered showers and a little war
mer. High today 84; low 72,
High tomorrow 88. Sun sets fo
day at 7:17: sunrise tomorrow
5:56.
GEORGIA — Consider
able cloudiness, continued
rather warm and humid this
afternoonr and fonight and
Thursday, except mild over
northeast portion this after
noon. Seattered thundershow
ers this afternoon and again
Thursday afternoon and vpum
erous showers in northeast por
tion this afternoon and fo
night. |
TEMPERATURE
PN s i
Lowa. . e S dl
Bl e
NaPl - . e
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .T4|
Total since August 1 .. .. 1.23'
Deficit since Auguet 1 ~ 125
Average August rainfall .. 4.62]
Total since January 1 ... 33.13!
Deficit ‘since January 1 .. Ll 4
|undo De Ovies will officiate. Only
the family and close friends will
attend. Admission will be by card.
Burial will be in Oakland Cem
etery. The family asked that flow~
ers be omitted. They said the
Pulitzer prize winning novelist
would have preferred that dona
tions be made to Grady, city
owned hospital, which was one of
her numerous charity projects.
Hugh D. Gravitt, 28, driver of
the car which hit Miss Mitchell, is
being held without bond on a
charge of murder. Atlanta Po
lice Chief Herbert Jenkins said the
case will go to a grand jury Fri
day if that body is ready to receive
it.
Btate Law
l Under Georgia law, a person can
be convicted of murder for taking
the life of another while in the
commission of an unlawful act.
The unlawful act can be a mis
demeanor or a felony.
Local sources ¢ould not reeall
immediately that anyone had ever
been executed in Georgia on such
a thurder conviction, There have
been frequent cases, though, and
usually juries have returned ver
dicts of manslaughter.
Gravitt, listed on police records
for 23 previous traffic violations
was off duty and driving his own
ecar when he struck Miss Mitchell.
Grady Superintendent Frank Wil
son said exact cause of death may
ngtlebdo known for several days but
a ¢
“According to my best informa
tion, Miss Mitchell died from mas
sive brain injuries.”
World Sympathy
Messafis of sympathy poured
into the Marsh apartment from ali
over the world.
‘ Flags in downtown Atlanta and
at the State Capitol were ordered
‘ at half staff until after the funeral.
“Gone With The Wind” sold
8,000,000 copies. It has been pub
lished in 40 countries and in 30
languages. Ironically, the first
copies of the Palestine edition in
Hebrew arrived on the eve of her
death.
Chief Jenkins said he glaced the
murder charge against Gravitt on
the advice ‘of City Attorney Jack
Savage.
He added that Lieut. M. M. Cop
penger of the homicide squad was
prepared to present the facts in
Miss Mitchell's death te the Fulton
(Atlanta) county solicitor’s office
and to go before the Fulton Grand
Jury Friday. 1
“The specifie charge on which
Gravitt is to be tried,” said Jen
kins, “will be left for the grand
jury to decide.”
.
Lions Club To
Hear Mauldin
J. ¥. Mauldin, manager of Geor
gia Eggs, Inc., will be guest speak
er at tomorrow’s meeting of Ath
ens Lions Club in the Georgian
Hotel at 1 o’'clock.
He will speak on the new egg
marketing organization and the
possibilities he has found in this
area, Program Chairman J. W.
Henry announced.
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MOTHER AND SON EVICTED, CAMP IN APARTMENT YARD
Mrs. Ruth Kennerty and her son,
Reggie, 12, are camping out in the yard
cf an apartment house at Charleston, S.
C., after eviction from the building. Mrs.
Kennerty says they will sit it out “until
Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
X Presstime Bulletinsg X
Firemen rushed to the downtown business section at }
p. m. today to extinguish a mattress which was afire on
the third floor of the Athens Hotel on Clayton street,
Fire Chief Thompson said little damage resulted from
the small blaze. :
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Aug. 17. — (AP) =~ Donald
Branyon, jr., of Clarke county and Ferreii Hagan of -
Brantley county were nominated today for president of
the Georgia 4-H Club Council. Election is Friday.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — (AP) +— Senator Mundi
(R.-S.D.) today denounced Major General. Marry M.
Vaughan as 2 “finagling bargainer” who applied “‘pree
sure, intimidation, bluff and bluster” in an attempt to
get a government worker to violate the Jaw. b
NEW YORK, Aug. 17. — (AP) — Moderately active
trading in the stock market ioday fiéésfiganicl rising
prices. y
Gains were fractions to around a point with most of
the groups participating in the advance.
8 CASES
HEARD IN
Activity % City Court centered
arouna sight cases with one case
toking most of the time yeésterday.
Jvdge Arthur Oldham is presicing
over the August term, and Solici
tor Preston Alman.l is prosecuting
so the state.
Otho David Power pleaded .il
ty to driving under the influence
of aleohol and was lined S2OO and
sentenced to serve six months on
prblic works, upon payment of
fine six months to be served on
probation. Also his driver's H
cense was suspended for six
months.
Curtis Fowler, who on Monday
was found giulty of possessing dis
tilling apparatus and sentenced
yesterday to pay S2OO or serve 12
months, opon payment of fine 12
n.onths to be served vr probation,
is out on S4OO bone today pending
motion for new trial
In yesterday’s session an old
case of where Curtis Fowler, the
name being listed then as C. W,
Fowler, pleaded guilty of aban
denment in 1945 was brough. up
and he was sentenced to pay
' $86.45 or serve six months on pub
liv: works.
‘ A judgment default was dgclfi
ed ir, the civil case of J. P. Phill
ips vs. O. M. Busbin et al.
The case against Walter Dillard,
colored, charged with being drunk
23 pubiic highweay, was nol-pros-
. Raymond Dsnie.. convicted of
bastardy at the February term,
was fined SSOO or to serve 12
months on public works. He \-as
let cut on bond pending motion
for new trial. On may 28 the mo
tion was dismissed, but he wasn’t
present tc¢ abide final judgment
of the court so the bond was for
feiled. A rule requiring the assuri
ties to produce him.at the next
term of court was issued and he
surrendered Saturday io serve ihe
time or psy the fine, thus keep
ing from having to pay the bond.
The case of the State vs. Will
iam A. Wall, charged with driving
ucder the influence of alsohol in
e nnected with a wreck on the
Atlanta Highway, took up most of
the time yesterday. He was fined
S2OO and put on six months proba
tion, and his driver’s license was
suspended for six months.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
JESSE MONROE DONALDSON, born August 17, g
1885, on & farm near Shelbyville, 111. The V. 8.2 L R
postmaster general who rose from letier carrier TH »%_ g
was one of & family of i 0 children. Afier aiiend~ SENSECL o
ing Shelbyville Normal school, he became a eoun-~ | s
iry school teacher at 18. His fsther was postmas~ S Wis T
ter at Hanson, 111, where he ran a genersl store, =% g
and Jesse helped as clerk in summer months at 7 :
sll a week. When 28, Jesse became a letter carvier 3 o
at SSO a month, In 1811 he wag made a supervisor 5
at Muskogee, Okla., and three years later inspec- i I
tor in Kansas City. While there in the 1920);’,I he . 3
had a “nodding acquaintance” with Judge Ty Ao
S. Truman. JM. MDSON
Moderate
Employment
Boost Seen
increases Forecast
For Future Activity
in Construction Field
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—(AP)
—A forecast of further moderate
increases in construction work in
‘the near future eame from the
Federal Reserve Board today.
~ Because construction is one es
the main bulwarks of business se
tivity and employment, this furn
ished some backing for a predic
‘tion by Secretary of Labor Tobin
‘that employment will go up by
11,000,000 the rest of this yesr. To
bin made the prediction st the
White House yesterday.
The Reserve Poard, in a publi
cation, noted contract econstruetien
;egaowidin: job;t!or more than
3 'y ’\m . ; M“"‘f
substantially st the nation’s fae.
tories and mines in the lprm::):
esrly summer, the board
showed, construction wes scoring
a more than seasonal rise s
low winter levels,
Théet was on tsotor }l‘ag
the Commerce mnmem w
cushioring the deecline in the to
ial output of goods and serviees—
the “gross national product”—dur~
ing the second guarter of 1949,
This outgut was at an annual
rate of $256,100,000,000 in the sec
ond quarier, down- 3.4 per wveni
from the preceding quarter and
down 5.3 per cent from the peak
reached in 1948’s final quartes.
The Commercer Department
blamed a cutback in business in
ventories for the decline sinee that
cutback narrowed the market for
goods and services. ‘
The Reserve Board bulletin
credited a pichup in priva¥® hx\;’l
ing recently to a variety of s,
including: b
1. “A small gcclinc in interest
rates generslly,” and — rhl”
more important"—-tho availability
of federal funds to buy norz:;c
from institutions which felt -
ed up,” thus providing them funde
for use in new lending.
justice is done.” She says she had paid
the rent in full up to the time o¢f eviction
August 12. Their dog, “Lassie,” ix campey
ing out with them.—{aTl Psatoo.)
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