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Betrothals Announced
For September Weddings

Mrs. Clara Gelshecker Of Dedham
Mass, has announced the engagement
~ i1er daughter. Pose Clara. to Mr.
Francis Dale cronin Of Washington
the wedding will take place September
10 In Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Boston Mass
Mr.. Cronjn Is professor Of economies
IN the College Of Arts and Sciences Of
Georgetown University. and also Is Sec
rotary 10 the newly appointed presi-
dent ri the university, the Rev w
Coleman Nevis S. j Mr. Cronin is
native If Boston. and has been resi-
cent ~ Washington for four years, hav-
ing come here in 1924 as secretary IN
the former president NJ the university
the Rev Charles W Lyons 6. j.. and
attending also the School ~ Foreign
Service. from which he was graduated
last June with degree Of doctor Of
philosophy.
The wedding Of Miss Audrey Barbara
.JosepFtasi. daughter Of Rear Admiral
ard Mrs Louis VI Josephthai, tn Mr.
Cornelius Ruxtof1 Love. jr- son Of DR.
End Mrs. Cornelius Ruxton Love Of
Brooklyn H. T. will take place Friday
in the home Of the bride parents. All
View, Premium Point, New Rochelle
~. Y. The ceremony will be attended
by relatives only After wedding trip
Mr.. 1--we and his bride will live in a
. pert house apartment on the roof of
the Surrey At 20 East sepenty-sixth
street. New York
The marriage ri Miss Catherine Viz
GINA Terrett daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Terrett Of this city and viz
E1nia. IN Mr. Arthur Charles Parsons
Wili take place Tuesday evening st q
O'Clock in the Church Of the Epiphany
4 reception will be held at the home of
the brides parents for members ~ the
two families and the wedding party
A number NJ prenupiial parties have
been given In honor Of the bride-eiect
Miss Ruth Terreti. sister of the bride
:pili be mald Of honor and the only ST.
fendanf Mr. Raneg Trlrnbie pill be
hest man for Mr Parsons. snd the
ushers RIil he f1r Charles r. Hale, Mr.
Charles f. Kramer. lf,, MIR James r,
Dcnkar Mr. Psm l.. Parsons and Mr.
Robert " Terrett.
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Col. and Mrs. Stengle
Hosts TO New Workers

Lieut. Col and Mrs. Charles ]. Stsn-
gle Of ASH Kansas avenue northwest.
entertained over last SUNDAY col
Charles Ehen, Lieut. Col Nelson Miles
Holden and Mai, George Straub Of the
New York Area, and also Col John
Martin al Elizabeth NJ !
Col Stengle formerly vas a Repre-
sentative in Congress from the sixth
New York district but Is now the
editor of the Natiensl Farm News pub
ltshed In this city and A member Of
bath the Federation az Citizens ASso-
eiations and the Citizens Advisory
Council.
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Washington Society Halls
News from Outside World
AS Gratifying Innovation
Sport Life Supplying Agreeable Substitute for
Continuous Dining and Dancing Program
of Capitals Long Seasons
BY sALLIE V. III. PICKETT.

to WaShngtonianS the sporting
but dining through the Capitals social
The carpet knight horseback sailing ship or
making the tennis golf far interesting
than merely
Of social life at high tide at mountain seaside resorts with
than the usual fervor.
ABOR marks the beginning of the festivities
~ OF with apparently brilliant
10 FOCUS on peroo Inc junior
with international
matches starting Saturday with September IL and Is the other
days for the exhibition.
HOUSE parties untold
North Shore
VIII witness the annual horse show of the Myopia Hunt
program being of the largest daring
a petition for the womens amateur golf championship
United States Yesterday the qualifying
nt Tor the Faracre Challenge Cup started the
nueS To-Day tomorrow Life the famous
though
present much charm at this
England States
LIS Maiestys Ship Australia will Annapolis
number OF prominent Navy officials will
and the officers of the ship
napos will be Admiral and Mrs Charles
MRS Robson VIII give Tuesday afternoon in their
Admiral Capt commanding Australia will
come TO Washington Wednesday The only entertainments
here uncheons the
Douglas Robinson the senior officers the Metropolitan
the odcers
Club visitors viii
for festivities there in the evening
THE Argentina Senior Mabran who arrived in
Washington at the end of the
pointed Ambassador to be received President
Honoo Pueyredon and will not Joined
and their family until the Winter
without an accredited to this post the
me newly appointed Ambassador from Toxic is not
until the late Autumn or early Winter
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1901 garden yesterday.
Gen. John j. Pershing will be ths
guest OF honor at dinner this evening
or Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt, who viii entertain in their
Summer home. Beau,ieu. at Newport
! where Gen. Pershing Is their guest
over the holiday.
Commissioner Jefferson Myers OF the
United States Shipping Board and Mrs.
Myers will give a dinner tonight az
the Army and Navy Club In honor OF
Capt. S. Steele Sandberg. United States
Shipping Board commissioner from
California, who will leave shortly for
months trip on the Pacific Coast. and
Mrs. o. p, M, Brown and Mrs Paris z.
Brengle, who go abroad early in Sep
TENDER. Other guests viii be Mr. and
Mrs. Charles /. Wheeler of San Fran
cisco and Dr. Paris E. Brengle.
Mrs. Bessie Parker Bruggeman,
chairman of the United States En-
ployes' Compensation Commission. en-
tertained at luncheon on the willard
roof garden yesterday.
Mr., and Mrs. J. Paul Yoder, formerly
Of Washington. now of Miami Fla. en-
tertained a small company at 'trop-
icaI luncheon yesterday at the Ma
tional Press Club Mr.. Yoder brought
North fruits grown IN his own garden
at Miami, Fla, which we're served al
the luncheon.
Mrs, Yoder has been in Washington
for most of the Summer, visiting her
mother, Mrs Leona E. Kidwell, and
was Joined here at tine end of the week
VHHeF
his family in CHEVY Chase Mr.. Yodsr
will return to the South this week and
will b. Joined there later in the season
by Mrs, Yoder and their young daugh-
ter. Leona
Mai Julia StimSon was entertained
at tea Saturday afternoon, August IS.
by her mother. Mrs. Henry A. Sttnson
of New York. Who with Rev. DR. Stin-
SON Is spending the Summer at the
Greylock Hotel at Pittsneid. Mass.
Mrs Fenton Bradford was hostess Al
luncheon Saturday August IS, at
Taits-on 1.-The Beach, IN san Francisco,
i'll compliment to the Minister Of Egypt
and Nine, Samy. who are spending sew
erai months in the Far West, Others
In the party we're Mai and Mrs. Henry
r, Claggett, Mrs z. r. Steacy Of York,
Pa; Judge and Mrs. Frederick C. VAL
entine of Los Angeles. Mrs. +, B. SUIT
ton and Mr., and Mrs. William P,
Mullane OF san Mateo and Mrs. James
C'Neil OF Los Angeles
Mrs. Bradford motored back to Los
Angeles the first of the week and will
not return 10 her apartment at Ward
man Park Hotel unth the firSt OF No
vemher,
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Mrs, Bessie Parker Bruggeman,
chairman of the United States En-
ployes' Compensation Commission. en-
tertained at luncheon on the Willard
roof garden yesterday.
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Col. and Mrs. w. A. Carleton q
Camden, N j.. are passing several days
at the Willard Hotel. where they ar
rived yesterday.
Maj. and Mrs c. c. Early of Raleigh.
N. c., who have been at the Mayfiower
since Friday, viii leave washington
this morning for Raleigh. where Mai.
Early Is on duty at the North Carolina
state College. Maj and Mrs. Early
have lust returned from a six-morth
trip to Europe. and they stopped in
Continued on Sixth Page.)
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Honor Functions Listed,
Past and Prospective

Senator James z. Watson of Indiana
vas hest at luncheon on the willard
roof garden yesterday.
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"That'-that's precisely one cf
the things that dissatisfy me.
Two years ago you'd have known
It and been concerned about it,
would not have had to tell you"
He nodded.
There's lot Of truth In that"
he said. That Well; suppose
that's part Of the price we have
to pay for success. can't be
with you AZ much here a. was
at home. The demands upon me
here are many tires as nu-
n1erous, ana much more pressing
81 know all that, my dear. But
does Il occur to you that New
York makes demands on me, too
land that yCu do. since we've
been here"
1T certainly does" ne said. He
got mp and began to walk about,
.6nd his eyes were sOmbre. "And
lit has also struck me that you
have failed TO nneet those der
mands."
Il know it." she said. And,
in one way, I'm sorry In another
I'm not. You mean, don't you,
that we haven't the sort Of life
here that you'd ike that we
don't 30 around with certain peo-
pie You want to be intimate with,
that we haven't Wen, that we
haven't made the grade, sociaiIy?"
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II expect you to think that. "
she said. I'm q way, it's q great
omplilnent- because It shows that
at least haven't made parade
OF things. j hate women who do
that. John-I'm interested in
something you just said-about
how you'd thought Of me. Have
you, as q matter OF fact, thought
very much about me since We have
been here in New York;
''Oh, Lord!" he said. II thought
/ was one husband who was safe
from that kind Of talk! Eileen,
I've been one Of the busiest men in
America since we've been here.
il I've seemed to neglect you,
that's the reason. That, and--
well -V
That's not what meant at al"
she interrupted. TITS something
much subtler and much more
frightening. You've often been
frightfuIIy busy, but until lately,
you've always thought Of me q
great deal. Lately well. you
haven't.
She rose.
Let's have our coffee now" she
said. I'm the living room. We
can talk there. And we've q lot to
say, I think. Because-Johr,
things can't 50 on this wayT'
CHAPTER IS
-:lat's queer" said John, as he
foil red Eileen into the living
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room. THAT you should say that.
Becaus. sells that was just about
what I'd been thinking myself"
''Then it's not 50 strange that I.
should think It, too, II TT" said
Eileen. win you have some
coffee?"
''I-oh. / don't care-yes." ne
said.
Carefully she poured q cup for
him, another for herself. She WAS
calm, assured, serene. John, on
the other hand, was nervous and
fiLgety, he almost upset the cup
as he took 1t from her.
what do you mean-things
cant 90 on as they are2" he said.
What have you to complain
about, Eileen?"
"A good DEAL" she said. -"Oh, /
know very well, of course that
I'm entirely well off in some
ways-that most people would
think It absurd IL they heard I
wasn't contented. have plenty
Of money. a generous husband. i
can do as I please and have what
Il want, within extraordinarily
wide limits. But I want d good
deal more than that you SEE
John"
II want you to have whatever
you want" he said slowly. TITS
news TO ma that you're dissatis.
fled. Eileen"
"1 don't doubt IT," she said.
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Nop Go On with The Story.

He gave her . quick glance.
, But IL the words had any hidden
meaning her eyes did not betray
h.
{ That's 80, no doubt" he said.
II was glad to see it again,
though I never thought I'd come
to have any affection for New
York-for the city itself, I mean.
Butt don't KNOW get an
awful kick out OF these buildings
they're putting up. with their set
hacks and their towers"
They're very beautiful" said
Eileen. "Mr. Fielding said the
other day that he thought in
few years New York would be the
IoyeIiest city the world has ever
Il guess that's right, said
John. TOO bad they didn't strike
The idea sooner. How's he doing
with the house,"
VERY wen, I think" said
Eileen. ''I'm not wholly pleased
with everything. but it's much
better. on the whole. than I ex.
pected. from the way he talked.
Once more John gave her a
curious. slightly puzzled. look.
There was . new note. q note he
had never heard before, In Eileen's
voice. Decision rang sharply in
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mayor and the Board Of Super
visors and q Hawaiian band to
hang Ieis about our necks?"
Steplaanie's short upper lip
quIrked merriiy: why not? Why
all that retinue Of yours? They'll
be there, won't they, Jerry-aH
when they write pages and pages
like tlIat?''s
Like wI1at?"
"Oh. those fat letters in the
long, spidery scrawL You get one
every day. Were those from
Heinie? And the one that looked
printed came from Saxon? At
least those two will be there. won't
they?''
"No. They don't know when
we're arriving. No one win be
there"
Jerry turned, her heart knock
ing holly, and gave a last, haSty
survey to her face. It was pale
with an intense burning pallor.
why do l expect him?" she
thought nervously. when didn't
even tell him the train? That's
all right! He knows we're com.
ing. He could find out from syI-
via"
Stephanie gave a large, absent
Sigh: Then I'll have to wait, /
suppose. I'm dying to see you In
action, Jerry. I'm going to copy
all your tricks and make myself
frightfully fascinating. Do you
know I've never received an anna
tory epistle In my life? And I'm
dying tor
Jerry glanced into Stephanie's
flushed, glowing eyes and thought
with q pang: waiting for love,
Stephanie too. DefenseIess before
it like all the fool women I'm the
world. He won't cone-of courser'
She stacked the suitcases. ''You
wait, Stephanie, I'll get the red
caps. We're in"
A knocking. A mans voice.
Jerry's heart bounded. But, the
next her arms were about Robert
Caples and she was saying with q
little sob: "Oh. it's you--only you,
you homely old love with your
long dill pickle nose In the self.
same spot. You're just in time"
ITO carry mel" interrupted
Stephanie with her gallant and
friendly naivete. How do you do,
Robert? You see I knew there'd
be borrowed lover to carry me
about till I've time to acquire sew.
eral Of my own. It's awfully nice
Of you"
Robert laughed and lifted the
elfIn Stephanie with a great gen.
tleness.
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resolutely. They would have less
than 5000 a month clear-per-
haps considerably less than this
then with another
mortgage?
"It's up TO me-she thought
quietly. II better get on the
boaty'
That night Jerry wrote to Mac
Phail, the teacher at the art
school who was interested In her
work and had advised her to try
illustrating.
eve got to get q job--a real,
paying job with q regular pay.
ing salary. II that place with
Erskine 10 still open win you
speak for me-
She paused with q peculiar
feeling Of guilt. Six weeks ago
ErsIIine, interior decorator, wanted
an assistant y q girl with
artistic training. Jerry had re.
fused. What a comedown for q
brilliant genius person such -
she!
She now thought hotly; I've
never made any kind of decent
effort" She grew crimson with
her memories. stalling around
waiting for Saxon Rhodes. Will.
ing-slavishly willing and eager
to lose her indentity In his.
Openly she had denied this-had
talked largely Of her own future
and of a two-fold blooming.
She knew in her heart that
Saxon and her love for him had
suffered-the only future she
wanted.
Now-he had cast her off-oh
yes--it amounted to this. " .
And good thing" she
thought, pressing her fingers
till the knuckles showed white.
'Now I'll get out on my
own.
MacPhail answered in a wire:
IF you can get here by the
first of the year, Erskine will
hold the place.
Just before Christmas they
started home. All the way Jerry
thought excitedly as though the
future would be settled Sn this
one incident: "Will he meet me?
VIII he be there to meet me?
III know by that"
CHAPTER 80
Stephanie, perched on the sofa
In the little stateroom, pulled a
snug hat over her dark, rudy
hair. Her hands trembIed ex.
citedly. Almost In, aren't we?
suppose thereTI be a vast
crowd to meet U.S."
"Oh, you do, do you? The
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what she had just said; It was as
Il she had gained, somehow. a
new respect Tor her own opinions.
'WelI, that's good, he said.
"You can change things around,
] suppose. IL there's anything you
don't like?
II expect toll fully intend to, Z
said Eileen. I'll never again live
IN q place like this apartment,
hating IL every minute"
''Oh, comets not az bad az all
that!' said John. II meant sup
pose it's pretty freakish- but
after all--lots Of people like it-1
''No normal person likes it, !"
who have good word Tor It are
creatures like Tony Larue. We
made a frightful mistake letting
him bully US as he did-why not
admit it,"
II suppose you mean made .
mistake"
"No. / don't. I meant just
what I said that we'd made q
mistake. I know better, and j
4au no puSlnG&G " 8ANG III a. =
did, simply to avoid an argument. !"
"Well-f' John grinned at her.
ana pushed his chair back q
little. eft seems to me you're
stepping out. Eileen I never
heard you carry on like this be-
..I'm sorry" she said. "Am / as
positive as all that? That's the
trouble with meek people, Of
coursethey go along, and no one
ever expects them to assert them-
selves, and when they do--Well-!
$50 you're planning to assert
yourself, are your" he said, banter
ingly. She nodded. Going to stop
being the downtrodden little wife?''
That's exactly right she said,
modding again. and with greater
vehemence. Its ~nly fair to pre-
pare you for the change. isn't it7s
He laughed.
1--WE never thought of you a.
precisely downtrodden," he said.
II should say that you usually
manage to do about a. you please. "
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but rye cost fearful lot.
Four months in the hospital. And
Athe doctors and nurses. I found
oat and it amounts TO about
$500. Then there's all the hotel
bills.
"Can Maria make the grader
Maria can always make q
grade, stephanie. I've found that
out about her"
To herself, Jerry thought with
terror: $4,000! Ye Godsv
But Maria gave . serene, ire
sponsible answer TO her fears:
we have plenty. / took out q
mortgage OF IS, 900 on the apart
ments. That viii cover all the
bills here"
but the operation for steph-
anie in the spring? And the
living when we go homer"
I'm the spring, well have TO
take another mortgage-the place
can stand it,"
you have to pay interest on
mortgages. Nara"
I'm aware OF this"
But not sufficiently aware of
1t to disturb her. She was sitting
before mirror now and comb
ing the rich black hair away
from her smooth, beautiful fore
, head. She glanced from her
image to Jerry and said with a
deep, trembling laugh. mot long
ago, Jerry, wrinkle seemed
important to me. Now I'd be
content to wear mittens like an
old lady"
Have q heart. Marza-don't
get reiigious!''
"I've always been religious
Jerry. People who feel deeply
are
Jerry in her corner figured
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create . home to which / can
be proud ana happy to invite
guests. You've laid responsibility
upon me without giving me any
authority. It won't DO. John.
can't do business that way.
Business? Were not talking
about businessEs
Eyes We are. You regard your
homo. me, your our social po-
sition a. business assets or LA
bfIities, as the case may be. I'm
perfectly willing to do that, too
only, IL It's to be that way,
must have 70 say - to how things
are managed
Wei, ] leave everything u
YOU
yes when its too late. You
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There passed between him and
Maria a long, deep look Of under
standing. Marza's eyes lighted.
Roberts humble and eager az !
boy's-always when he looked at
Maria.
"she's told him." thought ferry.
'.As IL that would matter to .
love like his!''
She went out 1efore them. But.
she wouldn't look around pretend
ing even to herself that she wasn't
seeking him nor even remotely
expecting him. She walked ner-
vously- uninterrupted TO the boat.
She sat on the edge Of Steph-
anie,s wheel chair and blinked be-
cause Of the glare on the water.
The whole house was filled
with flowers. Inga and Sylvia
had dinner ready.
Stephanie, wild with excitement
and delight kept ordering: Push
me over tlere-the view-A-nOW to
the kitchen. Oh, stop for q chat
with Inga--I know you, with the
Kewpie face and the red hair.
ooh, and you're Sylvia with
your eyebrows coming together
and awfully good-the last sur.
viving good girl, I know every
thing"
In loud aside to Jerry: "Read
the notes, why don't you! Who in
heaven sent all the flowers?
Your men? Which from Saxon?
Oh, quick-how can you be so
stolid about it? Does this hap.
pen often in the wild and woody
west? What thrill! Roses and
gardeniaS in December! They
must be vastly richg'
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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II don't IKE to put It quite that
way"
"But It's true, isn't TT"
Yes! Yes, 1t is
"And you think It's all my
1aMIt?''
''WelI, that's q woman's part
as q rule
Very true. But, my dearyou
haven't let Il be mine. You have
never consulted me. You've de-
cfded-then you've expected me
TO do what you want. You haven't
asked me if the women you exc
pect me to make friends with
appeal to me-if want them for
my friends. You haven't let me
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bought the Long Island house. II
was 4 great mistake. Those PEG
pie down there would resent any
attempt we made TO set e know
them. Just AZ you're making,
you've always made = mistake
about people ike the TosterA
they not genuine. John. They're
not the real thing"
''Oh, Conner he said. That's ab.
surd. I know all about Foster.
And. In any event, he's d man
I have to stay with.
ssWhy?''
because I'rn associated with
him in extremely important AZ
fairs. dependent on his continued
goodwill"
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
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Timely Topics

It is estimated that 1000, 900
Chinese are destitute and in a
state Of sen1i-starvation in the
provinces Of Shantung and Chilli.
Pet dogs in Paris, Francs, are
wearing on their left paw silver
plates, resembling wrist watches,
bearing the name and address
OF the wearer.
In the past five years $4,000
women In Chefoo, China, have
lost their livelihood at hairnet
making because of the popularity
Of the bobbed head.
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eos4. Girls Dress.

1884. Girls Dress.
Cut In 4 sizes: s. 10. IL, and II
years. A 12-year size requires
~ yards OF 36-inch material to-
getfer with q yard OF contrast.
ing material for trimming bands,
and. facing on collar, cuffs and
belt, cut lengthwise. Price. Toe.
send 1Oc In silver or stamps
for our UPTO-DATE SPRING
AND SUMMER 1928 BOOK OF
FASHIONS
0am@ los N Otampa - esan fop
WARRINGTON TIMES Mngasans
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Congressional Club
Cook Book
BY MRS. WV. a. RODENBERG
coRN oYsrERe

4 +
CORN OYSTERS
Score the corn down the center
Of each row OF grains, then with
the back Of the knife press out
the pulp. leaving the hull on the
cob. To wery pint Of pulp allow:
3 hsapfng tablespoons 81 flour.
q teaspoonfuI oE salt.
4 dash cayenne.
dash black pepper.
Beat the eggs separately; add
first the yo1ks to the corn, then the
salt, cayenne pepper and flour,
then the whites Of eggs. Mix
gently. Put two tabIespoonfuls
OF lard or b ter IN 4 frying pan.
When hot drop the mixture by
spot II In 1t; when brown on
one side turn and brown the other.
Serve very hot.
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NOVEL PHONE
|. AT HARVARD
NOVICE TELEPHONE" il

A NOVICE TELEPHONE il
a employed 1t Harvard Univer-
sity to train speechnakers. The
machine not only permits the
speakers classmates to hear him
more distinctly but at viii, and at
any time the speaker himself can
stop talking. and listen to just
what he said and just how he
said 1t.
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Queer Doings

Hsllum gas Is reported dis
covered at Q depth of 1900 feet
I. at the town of Rueeselshetm.
Germany. II Is said to be the
. first In Europe, and will be
worked for airshfpa.