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THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Fair an colder Thur.day
nlcht With freezing temperatures Frl-
j..... (air and continued cold Friday.
Temperatures Thursday (taken at A. K.
Hawkes Company':
10 a. m,
: store): 8 a, m„
•19; is noon, 50; 2 p. m.. 62.
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AND NEWS
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN"
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VOL. X. NO. 78.
HOME(4TH) EDITION
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1911.
HOME (4th) EDITION price:
COLD WAVE COMING!.™.™
FREEZING WEATHER “
BILLED FOR FRIDAY
Former Raleigh Man Says
Many Republicans of the
East Will Vote for Him.
The Raleigh .News
prints the following:
* v TT (hntlnr f\t WC
and Observer
j H. Cutler, of Washington, Is In the
rltv visiting old friends. He has re
cently returned from New England and
the middle West, where he spent the
'hsked as to what the people of New
England and the North were talking
about concerning the presidential elec
tion next year. Mr. Cutler said:
■You know I am not In politics. While
I like to keep posted as to what Is going
on. It Is not my mission to look at
matters from a standpoint of the poli
tician. and I gather my views from In
tercourses with friends and business
men with whom I travel. If I were
asked as to what I thought was the
true policy of the Democratic party, If
it wishes to win in the next election, It
would be tp nominate Woodrow Wilson
as candidate for the presidency. I do
not wish in any way to state what I
would like the Democratic party to do.
but that seems to be, the true course
which would lead to success. I have
heard a great many Republicans who
have never voted a Democratic ticket
state that If Taft Is nominated on the
Republican ticket and the Democrats
nominate Wilson, they will without a
doubt vote for Wilson. In other words,
it is the • Republican Insurgent votes
which the-' Democrats stand a good
show of securing with Wilson as their
nominee, provided Mr. Taft should be
nominated by the Republicans." :
Temperature Will Drop to 30
Degrees and Smash Records,
Says Forecaster.
+ TWENTY INCHES OF SNOW %
+ FALLS IN INDIANA *
•j* Laporte, Ind., Nov. Z—More 4*
4* than twenty inches of snow fell 4*
f throughout the territory 28 to 30 4*
4* miles east of here. Snow plows 4*
4* and large gangs of section hands 4*
4* were needed to clear railroad 4«
4* tracks. The storm is 'considered a 4*
4* remarkable phenomenon, and 4*
4* seems to have been largely local. 4*
v The snowfall here was very light. 4*
Oscar Barnes & Co. Heaviest
Losers; in Big B|aze Which .
Threatened Block.
Fire which spread rapidly and threat
ened to devastate the entire block m
rounded by East Hunter, South Pry
Whitehall and Mltchell-sts„ caused
loss of approximately 2100,000 to the
group of buildings In East Hunter and
South Pryor-ets. Wednesday night.
The Arc was flrst noticed In the fur
niture store occupied by Oscar Barnes
& Co. It Is supposed to have originated
from a small heater In the rear of the
building. By the time the Are depart
ment could reach the scene the butldlni
was a mass of Aames and the Are hat
spread across an areaway Into build
ings facing on Pryor-sL The stock of
Oscar Barnes & Co. was completely de
stroyed and the building burned from
the basement to the second story. The
rear of the buildings owned by Judge
IV. D. Ellis and J, J. Spalding and Reu
ben Arnold, facing on Pryor-at., wero
badly burned bIbo.
Other Firms Have Losses.
The Walter R. Brown building at tho
corner of Pryor and Hunter-sts. es
caped with only slight damage from
w ater and the burning oot of the wood
en frames of the back windows. In this
building were several offices. Including
those of Walter R. Brown himself. On
the Arst Aoor the Eagle Ice Cream Par
lor. the New Tork Shoe Repairing Com
pany, A. J. Mayfield & Co., real estate
men- the Maddox Realty Company and
Henry & Co. sustained only slight dam
age from the streams of water which
the firemen played on top of the build
ings from across the street.
Next to the Barnes store In Hunter-
st. were the stores of Loftls & Boatcn-
roiter, plumbers' supplies, and the Rob
ison Furplture Company. Loftls &
itostenrelter escaped with only a nom
inal loss from water.
The Robison Furniture Company had
their stock considerably damaged from
w'ater and in the upper story the furni
ture was partly burned before the
flames were checked. Their greatest
damage waa done by the Aremen carry
ing lines of hose thru their store to
Continued on Pago Two.
WANT ADS
Published by all the Atlanta
papers for the week ending
October 28,1911, six days
to the week:
Georgian ads
Journal ✓ ..
Constitution
2,891
.. .2,220
.. .1,178
On yesterday the Atlanta
papers carried Want Ads
as follows:
Georgian 563
Journal 367
Constitution 243
GEORGIAN prints no beer,
wstiky or unclean advertising.
he p those who art out of a
Twr"ho desire a better one,
"f. GEORGIAN prints want ads
w\_. J. 1 !*. classification “Situations
anted free, other classifications
ONE CENT A WORD
With every part of the United States
shivering from the exceedingly cold
wave that Is sweeping over the coun
try, the oAlciais of the local United
States weather bureau predict that by
Friday morning In Atlanta the record
for low temperature for early Novem
ber will be broken. Should the cold
wave continue, as every indication
points, the weather man promises that
Atlantans will awake Friday morning
to And the mercury below 30 degrees.
The temperature record for early No
vember in these parts Is 30 degrees, at
Atlanta, November I, 1890.
But If Atlantans are cold Thursday,
when the temperature fell to 42 de
grees at 7 o’clock, they have consola
tion tn the knowledge that the tem-
Contlnusd on Page, Two.
lAFniiis
Editorially in The Outlook, the
Colonel Laughs at the Presi
dent’s Ideas.
Yacht Mayflower Passed Be
fore Frowning Muzzles of
Guns of Great Fleet.
100 WARSHIPS IN HUDSON
Tons of Powder Used in 5,000
Salutes Fired in Honor of
Chief Executive.
In the Wake of the Flames Jj
■isT-fV 5 **. H'.v
Now York, Nov. 2.—President Taft’s
proposed arbitration treaties are again
used as n target by ox-PrcsIdent Hm.sc-
velt.ln an editorial In today’s Issue of
The Outlook.
■ “It would be not merely foolish, but
wicked, for us as a nation to agree to
arbitrate any dispute that affects our
vital Interests or our Independence or
our honor,’’ be says, “because such an
agreement would amount,on,our part
to a covenant to abandon our duty, to
on agreement to surrender the rights
of the American people about unknown
matters at unknown times In the fu
ture. Such an agreement would be
wicked If kept, and yet to break it
as It undoubtedly would be broken If
the occasion arose—would be only less
shameful than keeping it A seif-exe
cuting arbitration treaty of such a kind
can not be devised, simply because no
such treaty that can be devised will
execute Itself, or ought to be executed
by the nation In time of stress."
The ex-presldent cites the Turko-
Itallan war as an Instance of where
treaties have failed, calling attention
to the agreements that guarantee the
Ottoman empire against dismember
ment. and declaring that "on the mere
technical legalities of the case no court
of arbitration In the world. could pos
sibly declare In any other way than ns
against Italy and for Turkey If the
case at Issue were brought to arbitra
tion. The minute the test came the
treaties proved not only utterly insuffi
cient as a substitute for a navy, but
not worth the paper on which they were
written.”
The ex-presldent concludes with hts
idea of how all questions of national
honor and Independence might be pro
vided for by treaty thus:
“If, as a people, we wish to make
a genuine advance, to promise what can
and will and ought to be done—Instead
of merely making a pretense by prom
ising something which will not and
ought not to be performed should the
occasion to keep the promise ever arise
—we should agree deAnltely to submit
to arbitration all disputes that do not
Involve the vital Interests, the Inde
pendence or honor of the nation, and
we should at the same time make pro
visions which will tend to bring about
a paciAc solution of all disputes not
covered by the treaty. To this end a
provision should be Inserted In such
treaty that if either party to It claims
that a dispute Involves Its vital Inter
ests, Its Independence or Its honor, then
(always provided that neither party
takes a position that necessitates Im
mediate action by the other) upon the
request of either party, ail questions
New York, Nov. 2.—America’s great
est naval demonstration came to a cli
max here today with the review of
the majestic armada of 100 ships by
President Taft on board tho private
presidential yacht MayAower. \
Inspection of the line of warships
stretching for seven miles along tho
Hudson .was a Atting close foe. the
record-breaking continental Jotimey of
President Taft, and It was a striking
coincidence that the presidential tour,
on which the nation’s executive plead
ed so eloquently for International
peace, should reach, In Its Anal stages,
In the scene of the mightiest fleet ever
gathered at one time In United States,
waters.
The thunder of tons of powder flred I
In the salutes of 6,000 gun charges In
honor of the presence of the president |
set a new record for New York, and
the magnlflcent pageant was so staged L
as to give It all the impressiveness of !
actual war—together with all the noise I
of an actual cannonade.
President Taft was met by Secretary j
of the Navy Moyer,,aryl together they;
went on board the' Mayflower, whero;
they breakfasted together. President
Taft's plan for the day did not pro
vide for'his setting foot on New York
soli, tho he was tn sight of the city all
day.
It was a proud day for Admiral Os-
terhaus. In command of the Atlantic
fleet, but he was saved from a delicate
situation by the kind-heartedness of.
Admiral Dewey (retired), who refused;
an invitation to be present today be- j
cause he outranks Admiral Osterhaus 1
and his presence would have caused an
embarrassing situation. The dispatch
boat Dolphin was placed at the disposal
of the naval attaches of foreign' pow- j
ers who were Invited to witness the
splendid pageant.
The warships and their tenders, thoi
minor war craft afid tho private yachts J
were decked In their bravest dress for I
the occasion. The Hudson was a streak
of rainbows from Flfty-seventh-sL, I
Continued on Pago Seventeen. I
LOUISE VERMILYA
Woman Believed to Have Killed
Eight Persons. With Poison
To Be Closely Examined.
WAVE OF RELIGION
SWEEPSOVER U. S.
Protestant Churches Show a
Great Interest in Movement
Started in New York.
SHE REVELED IN DEATH REVIVALS ARE BEING HELD
Undertaker Says Prisdner Fre
quently Came to Shop Just
to See the Dead.
Photos by Mathewson.
AFTER THE HUNTER.8T. FIRE WAS OUT.
At the top is view of Hunter-st. looking toward Whitehall, a glimpse
of the Barnes store, which waa the greatest loser. Below it what wfa left
of the fine atairway in tha -fijtrntq^tore. ~
MINISTER’S WANT AD WOOING
CUT OFF IN FIRST CHAPTER
Rev. Mr. Ferrell Did Not Need a Bookkeeper, But Wanted a
Wife, or Thought He Did—Miss Baker, Who Advertise^ for
Position, Caught Him in Trap.
Rev. W. A. Ferrell, a young Metho-, The clergyman read and then reread
diet minister of Gaffney, S. C., at pres- ' the ad. Hit pleasant face lighted with
ent visiting in Atlanta, Is of a romantic a smile and his eyes twinkled. Here
temperament—romance nourishes and was his chance. Here was a young
Invigorates the very depths of, his big, lady seeking the wearisome work of a
affectionate heart. He adores things bookkeeper. If she had a husband to
romanttc. He says so himself. • provide for her, how | much better she
But, like many other romancers, his might enjoy life—maybe she might
E KILLED
Anti-Manchus Are Victims of
Massacre by imperialist Sol
diers at Hankow, China.
? GENERAL YUAN CONDUCTS
* PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
+
fond dreams were destined to collide want a husband, too. It was a glitter*I*? Shanghai, Nov. 2.—Wireless re- $
with an Iceberg and fall to pieces with Ing opportunity for a romance and the 17* ports from Hankow state that 4*
Chicago, Nov. 2^In the jealousy of
pretty Lydia Rivard, daughter of F. A.
Rivard, of Marshall, Minn., fiancee of
Arthur Bissonette. the policeman who
died under mysterious circumstances at
the home of Mrs. Louise Vermllya, the
police believe they have a motive for
Blssonette's death.
But the police have discovered an*
other kind of evidence, which they be
lieve may lead to on explanation not
only of Blssonette's death, but also of
the details of the deaths of eight other
persons, which have occurred under
peculiar circumstances In Mrs. Ver-
mllya's home.
This evidence may be used in the
strangest third degreo to which a per-
son suspected of a crime was ever sub
jected In Chicago.
From the little village of Bnrrlngton,
J., where Mrs. Vermllya's first hus
band and two children died, comes the
strange evidence upon which the police
build so much hope of solution of the
mystery. E. M. Blocks, the village un
dertaker. furnished the evidence.
Mrs. Vermllya appeared to revel In
death," said the undertaker. "I burled
three members of her family within
two years. For years before the death
of her husband It was noticed here that
Louise seemed to delight in the pres
ence of death. Even when she didn't
w tho people who were dead she
Id force herself upon the relatives
and Insist upon helping dress and pre
pare the bodies. After her husband
died she used to spend hours In my
shop, particularly so If there was a
corpse there."
Upon this peculiar story Police Cap
tain Harding Is said to be building up
the unique third degree tests to which
Mrs. Vermllya may be subjected.
Here Is what Is said to be the Har
ding plan. She will be taken to the
county morgue. All her actions while
there will be watched carefully. The
body of Bissonette may be again ex
humed and the woman forced to pre
pare tt for reburial. Captain Harding,
Continued on -Last Page.
Encouraging Reports Are Re
ceived at Headquarters From
Ail Parts of the Country.
New York, Nov. 2*—Reports received
at the national headquarters in this city
indicate that tho Men and Religion For
ward Movement Is sweeping thru the
Interior of the country In a way which
surprises even those in charge of this
continent-wide effort .to interest men
and boys In all kinds of religious en
deavor.
From Hamilton, Ontario, to Dallas,
Texas; from Jacksonville, Fla., to Jop
lin, Mo.; from tho Mesaba Range re
gion to Atlanta and Mobile, hundreds of
thousands of laymen, In all the Protest-
I ant churches, are working together, to
"take Christianity out of cold storage,"
and set it at work In the community.
One of the extraordinary Incidents of
the campaign in Grand Rapids which
has Just closed, occurred at a mass
meeting where Rev. Charles Stelzle, of
the New York Labor temple, and Dr.
If J. -Lansing, discussed “The Church
and Labor."
Both Dr. Lansing and Mr. Stelzle
pointed out the weakness of the church
In respect to Its treatment of tho work
ingman, and also told of the strength "f
tho church wlun awakened to its great
er usefulness.
"Millions of men outside of the
church," said Mr. Stelzle, "do not un
derstand the church. On the other
hand, more millions are out of tho
church because the church does not un
derstand them."
The movement Is to be brought before
the negroes of Jacksonville. Fla., Just
as It Is being presenter! to the white
people. At a recent conference of lead
ers In the movement, some of the mojt
prominent colored ministers had the
meaning of tho work explained to them.
They will consult with tho leaders it
their churches and arrange a date for a
meeting at which the extension com
mittee will lay out the movement for
them.
Gideons in the Work.
Announcement Is made from Boston
that the Gideons, a national organiza
tion of Christian commercial travelers,
Continued on Last Page.
VICIOUS BULLDOG A TTACKS
miss Woolf and mother
Girl’s Lip Fearfully Torn by Maddened Animal in Capitol-ave.
Mrs. Woolf Goes to Daughter’s Rescue and Is Badly Bit
ten—Policeman Finally Kills the Dog.
. . j ■— "Tin
tho chllla. This collision took place In
Atlanta Wednesday when a little ro
mance etarted by the young minister
came to Its climax, freezing the tender
affections of the clergyman and send
ing him before the bar of Justice—an
Innocent vlctlm x of his heart.
The flrst act of tho romance opened
when the visiting minister early In the
week, seated In a room In the Greer
house. In Walton-et., picked up an aft
ernoon newspaper and noticed an ad.
It was a simple little ad, running like
this:
“Situation Wanted—An experienced
young lady bookkeeper desires position;
good references. Address Anxious."
minister grasped It. He could see ro- j + General Yuan Shi Kal, "paclflca- +
mance sticking out all over the little ad.! + tor of China," today visited the +
In his mind was a vivid picture of
“miss Anxious.”
He Answers the Ad.
80 much for speculation and decision
—then to action. Without wasting time
Mr. Ferrell answered the ad. He didn’t
need a bookkeeper, but he did want a
wife, and he wrote accordingly.
Miss May Baker, of 110 Plum-st„ had
Inserted the ad In tho paper, and she
was much surprised when she received
*1* rebel hendquarters In Wu Chang *c
-I- and personally conducted peace +
+ negotiations with the revolution- +
*1* ary leaders. +
Shanghai, Nov. 2.—A massacre by
Imperialist soldiers Is In progress at
Hankow, according to fragmentary
wireless messages received here. Yuan
the answer from the clergyman. It was! Shi Kal's soldiers are reported to have
framed In this manner:
“I noticed your ad In the paper.
Continued on Last Psge.
No
of fact and all questions of law Involved
In the dispute shall be referred to ar
bitrators, who shall have no power to
decide the dispute, but shall be author
ized to pass upon the controversy as
to questions of fact and of law, and
to recommend such adjustments of the
dispute as they may deem Just and
honorable to both contracting nations.
The recommendation of the arbitrators
should then be given publicity, and un
less rejected wjthin a speclfled time
by one or the other of the contracting
parties (In the case of the United
States this would mean the president
and the senate, or perhaps the presi
dent and congress), should become
binding upon both. . - ,
"This would secure In the flrst place,
delay for adequate consideration of the
questions at Issue, and In the next place
a calm and dispassionate discussion of
the controversy before the civilized
world: further, the elimination of
questions of fact and of law from the
controversy, and, Anally, It would make
It easier for a government to accept a
fair solution of a given controversy. If
there had been popular prejudice
Continued on PagsVTwo. .
BIG BUSINESS BUZZED ARMY AVIATION SCHOOL'
IN FIRST FALL MONTH MAY COME TO ATLANTA
October Smashed Records in
Clearings and Cotton and
Gave November a Start.
October was a record-breaking and
record-making month. The bank clear
ings, the postoffice and cotton receipts
smashed all previous records and made
new marks. These three great flnanclal
features form the business barometer,
and Indicate how Atlanta Is leading
every city In the 8outh in commercial
progress.
That the postoffice receipts will go
beyond 11,200,000 in 1911, leading Louis
ville and New Orleans, is an assured
fact. It Is flgured that the November
postoffice receipts will be about $100,-
000, for with Sundays and holidays
there are only about 25 business days.
The December receipts at the lowest
estimate, with the heavy -Christmas
rush, will easily go to 2116,000.
A postoffice official, speaking of Its
enormous business, said: "There are
Arms In Atlanta that do business with
the ends of the earth. Medicine Is
shipped from here to Australia and
Asia. Heed houses of Atlanta Import
specialties from the Canary Islands,
Spain and other countries.
“If Georgia licensed the sole of liquor,
the postoffice receipt*, would be enor
mous. There was a time when whisky
was shipped from here that one Arm
alone bought $9,000 of atamped enve
lopes In a month." ,
Officers Coming South to Se
lect Site—Chamber to Make
Strong Bid for It.
Atlanta will make a strong bid for
the winter aviation school which the
Federal government will establish In
the South as ah adjunct of the army
signal corps. Colonel Frederic J.
Paxon, president of the Chamber <$f
Commerce, will present the matter at
the meeting of the directors Friday,
and work to secure the school to be lo
cated at Fort McPherson will be Im
mediately begun.
The following dispatch from Wash
ington tells of the Inspection tour to
locate the school that army o(Accra
will begin Saturday, and members of
the chamber will take pains to see that
Atlanta’s claims are forcefully Pre
sented to them:
Washington, Nov. 2.—FlrsJ steps to
ward establishing a winter aviation
school In the South will be taken by
the army signal corps Saturday when
Captain Charles Deforest Chandler and
Captain I’Jul Peck, both experienced
army aviators, will leave for Georgia
and South Carolina points on a tour of
inspection. The two army flier* Will In- \
spect propoeod aviation Acids at r,re
vllle and Columbia S. C., on.l Savant
and Augusta, Ga., and possibly ot
Southern towns.
recaptured Hankow with heavy casual
ties to the rebels. Thousands of antl-
Continued on Last Pags,
■Pi _
and her slxteen-ycar-old daughter. Miss
Helen Woolf, wore both badly bitten
and lacerated by a vicious bulldog
Thursday before noon, which afterward
fought Officer W. H. Dodd and forced
him to barricade himself behind lat
ticework on the back porch. .The dog,
after vainly trying to get to tho officer
and chewing the barrel of his gun as
It protruded thru the lattice, was Anally
shot to death.
The dog flrst attacked Miss Helen
Woolf, seizing and swinging on to her
lower lip, tearing It terribly. Aa Mrs.
Woolf, the mother, tried to knock the
dog away, It turned and bit her on the
left hand.
The ferocious animal was chained In
tho back yard, near the back porch, at
the time, else the consequences might
have been more serious. Mrs. Woolf
had noticed that the dog’s collar was
too large, and, (caring he might g.-t
loose, went out Into the yard, accom
panied by her daughter, to adjust It
About this time the bulldog saw an-
The dog would not allow officer Dodd
to go anywhere near It and fought so
viciously that the officer retreated to
tho porch to get a better shot,' fearing
that If he shot In tin* yard In' might
hit some one. As he poked his gun
thru the latticework, the dog seized tho
barrel and attempted to chow It off.
A bullet thru tho brain put an end to
the trouble.
Fearing that the dog might be mad.
Miss Helen Woolf was Immediately
sent to the state capitol for examina
tion by the slate hoard of health. It
Is the general opinion that the dog was
not mad.
8HIPS SENT TO FOO CHOW
TO PROTECT AMERICANS
Shanghai, Nov. 2.—Tho torpedo boat
jatroyer Balnbridge and supply ship
Pompery wero dispatched under rush
orders today to Foo Chow In response
to pleas for protection from Americans
menaced by serious riots there.
FRIDAY IS CLEANING-UP UAY
Friday is Cleaning Up Day,
Cleaning Up Day is a sort of symbol of the work the
Women’s Civic Clubs of Atlanta are doing in their campaign
for a cleaner and more healthy Atlanta.
There are ten of these clubs in Atlanta—one in each ward
—and they all are doing a fine and helpful work.
For example: The Third Ward club was organized Inst
April. The first work done was to divide the ward into five
sections: a chairman was appointed for each section and with
her assistants she made a thorough examination of the sanitnry
conditions of the part of the ward placed under her supervision
and a house to house canvass to obtain promises of .co-operation
in the cleaning up campaign.
This plan was carried out with thoroughness, and the re
sult was that the Third Ward club made the best showing
among the ten elubs in the city, and won the first prize on the
Spring Cleaning Up Day.
Two prizes are offered to the clubs for the best results ob
tained in their wards Friday.
The first prize is a handsome loving cup offered thru The
Georgian by SInier & Berkele, the jewelers, who feel no more
important civic work is being done, by the women of Atlanta
than in this genera) campaign for ward improvement.
The second prize is ten dollars in gold offered by The
Georgian.
The Third Ward club won a loving enp last April and will
he considered disqualified for the Maier & Berkele cup Friday.
Help your ward club by putting your premises in perfect
order Friday and by displaying in your front yard the white
ting that indicates your co-operation with a work for the good
Of Atlanta.
:■ < ^ r - v *' *-
MRS. DAVID H. KEEFER
IVORCE
Alleges Her Husband Likes the
Lights of Broadway Better
Than Atlanta Business.
New York, Nov. Z—David Holcomb
Keefer, lawyer and stock broker, with
an Income of more than $8,000 a year
and a fortune of $580,000 and some
more money left him by his grandfa
ther, Oliver Holcomb, Is being sued for
divorce by his wife, Grace M. Keefer,
who charges he would rather be known
as a good spender on Broadway, New
York, than as a good husband on
Peachtree-st., Atlanta, where he lives
part of the tlmc. 9
The rest of the time, says Mrs. Kee
fer in her suit, her husband spends in
New York In the company of some
women she does not know, and bis
principal occupation while here, ac
cording to her, seems to be gravitating
between the Hotel Seymour and th«
Hotel Rector. It was in the cafe o
the latter hostelry that the pa pen
were served by Mrs. Keefer's father
Charles W. Sanders, who was accom
panied by three private detectives.
David Holcomb
with offices on the e
Atlanta National Be
known In Atlanta.
New York for seven
"Ke«
Keefer, attorney
leventh floor of th
nk building, is wel
He has been U
1 weeks.
*t fellows L
Continued on Last Page,