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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-11
Let the People Rule


 A northern and southern congressman over a motion picture play which one of them criticized.
 Of 547 persons in the bread line, in New York city, only 25 would accept jobs in wrich wages of from 25 cents an hour and upward were offered.
 A man named Kiss in Austria inveigled 13 women Into promise of marriage, rob- bed them of their possessions, killed them, and buried them in leaden cases. Their bodies have just been discovered. Some have been missing for 10 years.
 Two thrifty New York shoemakers gave all their savings. amounting to $1500, to a stranger, claiming to be a Mexican, for a chest of gold which he said he had stolen from Villa and wanted to sell at d sacrifice. The chest was full of brass.
 After attending revival service in Inc diana and kneeling at the altar. a man went home and killed his mother and daughter and son, and then shot himself to death. leaving letter saying he wanted to join his wife in heaven and to take his family with him.
 In opposing the reelection for Congress the Record of Colorado City. Tex. says that at the last election, thousands of people voted for Davis and knew noth- ing about him save that he had "the voice of burro, the lungs of black smiths bellows, the gall of an army mule. and had been seeking office in every party ever organized in the state"
 The people rule.
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FOUR PITCHERS ARE
 NOT ENOUGH FOR |. GRIND IN SOUTHERN
Dobbs, Schmidt and Fiber field Have Gotten Into Trouble and Signed Ad-
 ditiOnal Hurlers

Atlanta. June 10.-The four -pitSne programme apparently entered uNo' with confidence by some Southern assR
 citation managers at various times duR ing this season, and especially since
 the enforcement of the player limit. has proved fa1lacy. according to num- Der of circuit experts.
 To support their theory they point
 to the Atlanta Crackers. who have @d- herred to the four pitcher scheme since
 about May 1, and the Mobile Gulls, who have been journeying along for sometime with but four hurlers. Mobile has been down to four men since Covington went to Chattanooga. Allen was signed and Harris released.
 The Lookouts, too, experts say. failed to find their stride until Manager El- berfeld abandoned his idea, signing Covington. Johnson and Walker, and
 made pitching redispositions. Then they say the Pelicans started on their recent disastrous road trip with four pitchers and John Dobbs soon found the l trouble and recalled Rube Kissinger. On the other hand, the continued spurt of Nashville with only Wells, Herbert. Rogers and Ellis composing l the Volunteer staff, has known no real
 turning. back. It is said only recent ] ly that Pitcher Kroh was forced off the Nashville mound by a bad arm. But the remainder of the clubs have stuck to the five or even six-pitcher plan. Until the departure of George $. LeClair from Little Rock this week, Manager Starr was carrying six. Mem phis and Birmingham have carried five boXmen consistently.
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IRIS SPEAKER LEADS AMERICAN EATERS; COBB TIES JACKSON
Trio of SOutherners, Rivals for Years, Again Bunched ? at the TOp-kauff Cuts
 Loose on Bases

Chicago, June 10-Tris Speaker leads the American league patters, and Ty Cobb has tied Joe Jackson for the sec ond place, according to averages printed here today, and including records of games played Wednesday. The old trio of southerners who have fought for lead- ing honors for years are punched at the top again. Speaker leads with .369, and Jackson and Cobb follow with 32l- Speaker also leads in runs scored, with 35, and in total bases, with SS. Cobb is one of quartet leading Tn base stealing, with Schalk of Chicago, Walsh of Phil adelphia and Sisler of St. Louis having 12 each. Graney of Cleveland leads in the home runs, with four. Detroit leads ii team batting, with .255 The 300 hit ters of the American league counting only those who have played in half or more of their clubs games are
 Speaker of Cleveland .369, Jackson of Chicago .327, Cobb of Detroit .327 Burns of Detroit .321 Strunk of Philadelphia .313, E. Johnson of St, Louis .311, Heil- man of Detroit .311 Nunamaker of New York .3l9, Milan of Washington .304, Hob- litzel of Boston 1902, Smith of Cleveland 300.
 Leading pitchers for eight or more yan,es. Earned
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Y. M. [. A. TEACHING
 BOYS ID SWIM Campaign Closes With Over 215 Boys Receiving In-
 itial Instruction

The swimming campaign at the Y. M. c. A.. which closed Saturday morn ing, was one of the most successful ever put on by the association. About 215 boys enrolled and 90 per cent of these boys who took the test were suc- cessful in swimming 20 feet or more. In campaigns of this kind 80 per cent is considered good average, but the method of instruction which was used in the last campaign has produced re- markab1e results. The first lesson was given last Monday morning and each morning this has been repeated, making a total of six lessons of 30 minutes each.
 R. E. Mitchell, physical director, ap- preciates the cooperation which was given by the school principals and the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company. twas through these agencies that the association was able to get in touch with great number of boys. R. A. Launey. chairman of the swim ming committee. who is very enthu- siasric supporter of swimming, con siders this campaign one of the great est contributions that the Y. NJ. c. A. physical depayment makes toAthe Bir- mingham district After the tests were given Saturday morning the boys were entertained by Professor Abell, who demon strated the crawl stroke, Eng fish overland, breast stroke, back stroke and the submarine The dives consisted of front and back jacknife, porpoise, half-gainor from the high dive. double turn forward and the jacknife twister.
 Director Mitchell announces that this is only the beginning of the swim ming activities that will be promoted throughout the summer season. A swimming team will be organized in the next few days and will be coached for open competition.
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Commission for China

Peking, May 29.-(Special) )-Rumors that Japan is planning to have China administered by an international com mission have created much comment in the Chinese press This idea is not new in Japan, but has frequently been men toned in Japanese newspapers. Re 7 cently, however. the discussion of this means to preserve peace in China has been very insistent in the Japanesa press. The Japanese idea is that all leading powers interested in China as well as Chinese would have representa- tion in the commission, but Japan would be the controlling influence sup ported by the entente powers. This plan would involve an absolute recog- milton of Japan's special position in the far east. for which the Japanese have heen striving with renewed vigor since the opening of the European war.
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PRINTERS WIN THIRD
 STRAIGHT VICTORY

The fast Roberts & Son team took the American Steel and Wire com pany in tow yesterday by the score of to 8. This makes the third straight for the printers, who since being re- organized have been playing first class ball. Ganong, pitching for the winners, held the Wiremakers hitless until the seventh inning. The Printers pounded Marston for 13 hits, while the Wire makers made seven. The features were the pitching and fielding of the entire Roberts & Son team and. the pitching of Ganong. For the Wiremakers click Mcclure did the hitting Score:
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Want Marriage Laws Revised

Peking. May Special. .)-Newspa- pers printed in foreign languages in China are conducting vigorous cam paign for the revision of Chinese mar riage laws. The Peking Daily News commenting son this says: ''The exist. ing uncertainty, which causes harp ship to individuals, eternal litigation and the frittering away of estates should certainly be removed as speedi- ly as possible. Generally speaking
 the better Chinese seem rather to fla vor monogramy but this is delicate question and one which would have to be very carefully examined before any decision affecting the legality of sec ondary wives could be officially pro- mulgated. But we are glad to see tha. the whole question arouses keen inter- est among the Chinese sthemselves.'
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Philatelists kept Busy

London May 29.-(SpeciaD-Phil ists must be on the alert to keep track of the new stamp issues brought about by the war. s According to information received here Turkey has issued set of five stamps to mark what. purports to be Turkish occupation of Some where in Egypt" Word comes also that the Germans have suppressed the Warsaw Citizens post, and a curious position arises in connection with the stamps of the temporary institution. It is illegal to deal in these Warsaw la bels in Germany and they are regarded as stamps of enemy origin in England, France. Russia and Italy, and conse- quently, it is illegal to import them.
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TRAVELLERS SPLIT
 WITH MOBILE GULLS

Mobile, June 10.-Mobile and Little Rock split even in a double header here today, the locals taking the first to and Little Rock the second 3 to 2. Home runs by Jacobson and Couchman each with a man on base counted all the visitors runs in the first game. C1uchman's wildness gave Mobile two runs in the first inning and bunched hits in the fourth scored the runs that won
 The second game was pitching duel between 'Hardgrove and Hollingsworth Errors by Schmidt and Hanford paved the way to all the visitors runs. The score:
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Four Travellers Hogging
 Batting Honors of League
Cecil Coombs Batting .323-Red Smith and Danny Clark Next With 3O8 and .3O1 Respectively y-Other
 Batting Averages

Four Little Rock Travellers, Walker Manning. Rumler and Jacobson, lead the Southern league batsmen in that order, with averages of .397, .355, 1852 and .349 respectively, thus hogging the batting honors of the league.
 Harris of Chattanooga and Edmond son of New Orleans are tied in mak ing the most hits with 62 each
 Clark of Birmingham and Allison of New Orleans are tied in scoring the most runs with 35 tallies each.
 Here are the players who are hitting 200 or better through the game played Wednesday, June [:
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Models of Captured Gold Shown

Berlin, May 9.-ISpec1aI. )-The lat est attraction at the "War Exposition" which has been open for several months for charitable purposes are the chests and boxes that formerly contained the gold captured aboard the English ship "Appam'' by the Germany auxiliary cruiser "Moewe." The gold itself is safely locked up in the Reichsbank, but at the instance of the admiralty the huge bars were accurately copied in wood and gilded to have the appear ance of the original. Then with the chests they were sent to the exposition as a reminder of the daring exploit of Count Dohna-Schlodien.
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Discovered New Animals

Shanghai. Mey 29-(Special.) )-Ar- thur de c. Sowerby, who has just com pleted a tour of exploration through northern China for the Smithsonian in- stitution of Washington, D. C.. discov- cred 12 new species of mammals. Mir. Sowerby delivered a lecture before the Royal Asiatic society in Shanghai on his recent researches in Shansi, Shen- si, Kansu and Chilli provinces. He ac- companied MT. Anderson, the American collector, on previous trips into the same territory. Before MT. Anderson began his research only 1S0 varieties of mammals were known in northern China. Now over 200 are recognized. MT. Sowerby's recent trip was chiefly for they purpose of checking up the mammals altSady discovered. but in ad- dition he found 12 new species
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Don Flynn of Newman Club
 Leads Hitters in GA. l..
Newman Left Fielder Batting 4Ten Other Players Over 300 Mark k-Flynn Also Leads suggers stealers and
 Run Getters

 ayed S and Jenkins of Griffin respectively
  wit of with O.
 
  on 0
  leads sacrifice O with and Shaw of Rome and Hanson
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School of Mines in China

Kaifeng, Honan Provinve China. May 29-(Special)--One hundred students are in attendance at the government new school of mines, which has just been opened here. Honan province is especially rich in minerals, but the population is poor and mining operations are so ex- pensive that little development work has been done until recent years.
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! GUN CLUB SHOOT

Some good scores were made at the Birmingham Gun club at the. regular weekly shoot, H. c. Ryding breaking 97 out of his 100. and Mir. Barr, ss. Ryding made a long run of 54 without miss and Barr long run of 45
 George Hillman was the only profess sional present.
 Deloney finished with 25 straight after very bad start. He was shooting a strange gun.
 Preparations are we'll under way for the Alabama state shoot to be held on the Birmingham Gun club grounds July P and IS.
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Leading pitchers for eight or more To ,oI

In the National league Daubert main- tains his lead and Schulte hangs on to second place, with Robertson and Zim- merman having passed Doyle. Benny Kauff has at last cut loose on the bases, and with a record of 16 thefts' has tied Max Cary of Pittsburg for the first time. Williams of Chicago is still the pace setter for the home run hitters, with seven, and with Zimmerman is tied for total bases lead, with 9. New York leads in team hitting, with .264 Groh of Gin cinnati is ahead in runs scored, with 32. The Nationals 300 hitters are:
 Daubert of Brooklyn .955, Schulte of Chicago .33S, Robertson of New York .333, Zimmerman of Chicago 1928, Doyle of New York .327, Chase of Cincinnati .32l, Gonzales of St. Louis 1920, Hinchman of Pittsburg .319 Meyers of Brooklyn 311, Wheat of Brooklyn .310, Cravath of Phil adelphia .9O2, Burns of Philadelphia 300.
 Leading pitchers for eight games;
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London, May 2y.-(SpeciaI.J-T0 ald in communications between soldiers at the front and their people at home. the government has arranged for q system Of week end letter telegrams, which may be sent by the troops abroad or by their friends at home for about one fourth the ordinary rate. The week. end rate to Egypt will be 6 cents a word; to Australia IS cents; and to South Africa Is cents. The new ar rangement does not apply. however, to the men in France and Belgium, who are only allowed to use the mails.
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ACIPCO SLAUGHTERS
 LETAW'S DRUG STORE

Hitting and fast fielding on the part of Acipco yesterday gave Acipco 17-to-S victory over Letaw's drug store in the City league. Letaw's errors also proved very costly to them. Features of the game was home run by Tom Martin, one-hand stab into the air by Earl Jones and the hitting and base stealing of Harless and Berry. Score:
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Summary: Two-base hits, Howard, Me- Whorter, Har'ess, Walker, Griffin. Three base hits, Berry. Home run, Martin. Stolen bases, Johnson, Berry 5, Martin, Hairless B. Durrah ?, Davis, Baker. Struck out: Durrah 8. Taylor s. Base on balls
 Durrah l, Taylor l. Hit by pitched ball, by Durrah 3. Double play, Martin to Walker to Harless. Umpire, McDermot
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Giants Defeat Cubs

New York, June 10.--New York won the first game of series with Chicago to- day. to O. Perritt pitched fine ball for the Giants. New York scored its lone run in the seventh. After walking Rari- den and Burns, Lavender was taken out and Mcconnell replaced him. The lat ter struck out Robertson, but Doyle sim gled scoring Rariden. Score R. H. E.
 Chicago ............... GOO 900 000--0 o New York ............ 600 600 1Os-1 0
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Earned

On records including last Tuesday s games the 300 batters of the South ern association are Manning, Little Rock, with .361; Rumler, Little Rock, 344; Jacobson, Little Rock, .337; J. Harris, Chattanooga, 1885; Kores, Nash ville, S31; Ellam, Nashville, S30; Thrasher, Atlanta. .325; Schmidt, Mo- bile, .31S; Coombs, Birmin gham, BY; Edmondson. New Orleans. .317; Smith. Birmingham, .316; Kaufman, Nash vile 314; Elberfeld, Chattanooga, .311; Moran. Atlanta, .311; D. Clark, Birmingham. 309; Street. Nashville, .304; Hyatt. Chattanooga. .301; Mayer, Atlanta, 1901.
 Rumler leads in home runs with sev- en; Ellam and Wares. Little Rock, in stolen bases with Is each; Harris, Chattanooga. in total bases with 92, and in runs scored with 3S, and At lanta in team hitting with .267.
 Leading pitchers for nine or more games.
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Indians Swamp Athletics

Cleveland, June 10.-Cleveland defeated Philadelphia. 10 to 1, today, hitting Shee- han and Crowell hard. Speaker of Cleve- land made five hits in five times at bat, one being double. He drove in two runs and scored three. Score: R.H.E. Philadelphia ........... 900 OOl OOO- l 5 Cleveland ......... 1850 101 'OO*-10 16 l
 Batteries: Coveleskie and O'Neill. Bill ings: Sheehan, Crowell, Wyckoff and My CTS and Murphy.
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Summary: Two-base hits, Tennant 2, Click. Three-base hit, Ganong. Stolen bases, Bailey 2. Click, Lenair. Double play, Wetzel to Click to Albert. Base on balls. Ganong 1. Marston 2. Hit by
 pitched balls, Wilson. Hits, off of Gan ong z. Marston IA. Struck out. Ganong 8. Marston 5. Time of game, 1853. Um-
 pire, Stapleton. Attendance, 300.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
STANDING
Games Today

Washington at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cleveland. New York at Detroit. Boston at St. Louis.
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Seven innings by agreement.
 Summary: Two-base hit. Holly. Sac rifice hits, Dodge. Wares. Starr. Sacrifice fly, Hardgrove. Struck out, Hollings- worth 1. Hardgrove 1. Bases on. balls. Hollingsworth 2. Hardgrove 2. Wild pitches, Hollingsworth, Hardgrove. Time 1:20. Empires, Pfenninger and Breiten- stein
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WESTERN HANDICAP IS NEXT EVENT IN TRAPSHOOT|NG ZONE Scatter Gun Enthusiasts of Middle West to Assem-
 ble in Omaha SHOOT IS CLASSIC
 TOURNEY OF YEAR Eleventh Annual Running of Big Af- fair to Be Held on Grounds of the
 Omaha Gun Club-Expect to
 Have Over 800 Entries
By PETER B. CARNEY
History of the Handicap

Yds.Score 1906 Denver, Col. 227 entries. Won by w. R. Brosby. .21 s7 Tied by R. Thompson Q9 yards): G. G. Pickett U7 yards). In the shoot-off Crosby broke IS. Pickett
 F and Thompson Is. 1907 Denver, Col, POP entries. Won by T. E. Graham .19 99 1908 Des Moines, la, 143 en- tries. Won by B. F. FL bert ........................ ...1S 96 Tied by F. Shattuck Q7 yards), B. F. veach Q7 yards), F. Vermilya O9 yards), w. l.. Mulford
 Q9 yards). At first shoot off Ebert and Shattuck
 both broke 19. Second
 shoot-off Ebert 20, Shat
 tuck 15.
 1909 St. Paul, Minn., 154 en- tries. Won by F. H.
 Bailey ..................... 16 97 1910 Des Moines, la, 119 en- tries. Won by J. E.
 DlcKey .....................l .l7 96 1911 Omaha, Neb., 188 entries.
 Won by William Ridley 19 9S
 Tied by c. c. Collins Gs
 yards). First shoot-off
 Ridley broke 19, Collins
 19. Second shoot-off Rid
 ley broke 20, Collins IS. 1912 Kansas City Mo-, 112
 entries. Won by Frank
 Campbell .................20 94 1913 Omaha, Neb., 15O entries. Won by c. A. Cunning. .19 100 1914 Green Bay, Wis, 95 en-
 tries. Won by F. SchWalbe 19 99 1915 St. Louis, Mo-, 230 en-
 tries. Won by w. J.
 Raup ......................D 70 91 Tied by F. A. Shell Q8 yards) and G. l.. Grubb
 (20 yards). In first shoot off each broke IS. Second shoot-off Raup won with 19. Shell and Grubb hra lxin
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White Sox Win

Chicago, June 10.-The White Sox de- feated Washington in the ninth inning here today. 8 to ?. With the bases full Dumont hit Weaver, forcing in Schalk with the winning run. Score: R.H E. Washington ....... .0O0 900 010--1 8 Chicago ................. .0OO O1O 0Ol-2 0
 Batteries Wolfgang and Schalk; Har- per, Shaw, Dumont and Williams.
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Of the 31 trapshooting tournaments registered by the Interstate associa- tion for the week at hand the most cap. which will be conducted on the magnificent grounds of the Omaha Gun club in Omaha. Neb. This is the eleventh annual running of the Great Western and the third time that Oma- ha has sponsored the event.
 According to hte devotees of the sport alluring'' in the middle west the Great Western this time will so far eclipse previous tournaments that com parison will be superfluous. It is the ambition of the Omaha Gun club to make a mark in this tournament that other gun clubs will have to shoot at for many years. They confidently ex- pect to have 500 entries and close to that number of active participants. If they do they will have more than twice as many as ever before appeared in Great Western tournament.
 The Omaha Gun club has expended in the neighborhood of 5000 in inn proving their club house and trap fa- cilities for this tournament and the business men of Omaha are very much interested in its success from patri- otic standpoint. Every thrapshooter in the country has been invited to take in the Great Western and the Nebraska a. folk do not want any one to leave their country without having a good trip. The state convention of Nebraska Elks will take place in Omaha during the same period-June IS. IA and 15- so Bill and his friends should have an enioya hle time
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
STANDING
Cards Win in Fourteenth

Brooklyn, June 10.-St. Louis defeated Brooklyn in 14-inning game today, to 2 Deli struck out 10 men, Score:
 R. H. E. St Louis .,....... 900 600 O10 600 02--s II Brooklyn ......... 900 O1O 600 900 01-2 s 1 Batteries: Ames and Gonzales; Dell and Myers.
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Browns String Broken

St. Louis, June 10.-Boston broke St. Louis winning streak by taking today's game, to 2 in 10 innings: Score:
 R.H.E. Boston ............ OO1 600 0O1 2-4 o St. Louis .. 900 600 020 0-2 Il ? Batteries: Leonard, Mays and Thomas, Cady; Groom. Weilman and Chapman, Severeid
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SEVERAL NEW EVENTS

There will be several new events in the Great Western this year. The programme is identical with that of the Southern handicap shot some weeks ago. The western introductory, the western overture and the western special will he shot besides and Great western handicap and a special event at 100 targets for women. for which three prizes will be given The Squier money-back system will be in vogue. Six traps and a joker" will be in use There is some talk of staging a five man team shoot-from the middle western states-on the practice day. If the event Is tried and is successful it may be added to the tournament next year.
 The Omaha Gun club is ideally sit- uated. and Omaha itself is geograph- ically perfect for middle western trap shooters. Twenty-three railroads tap the city. which has 71 hotels. The populati tion is close to 100000 It is a city of homes. has 19 parks and 35 miles of boulevards. It is one of the most interesting cities in the middle west. Trapshooters who take part in an Omaha tournament are always will ling to make a return trip-which is the best evidence in the world that things areproperly conducted.
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IOtaIS .-.... .5f Fl "Batted for Albert in ninth.

Score by innings: Roberts & Son ....... 900 120 O0S-6 | Amer. S. & w. Go. ..... 900 900 2O1-3 |
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Others postponed. rain.
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Special Telegraph Rate for Troops

New York Detroit. rain.