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FIRE DAMAGES CHURCH

Fire originating in the basement
damaged the Emmanuel Lutheran
church, 1888 Laurel street, Sunday
night. Damage was estimated at
5000.
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MARK TWAIN'S TOM
LIVES ONCE MORE
Jackie Coogan, Mitz Green and Junior 0urkn Capture
Haunting Beauty of Youth in Masterpiece.
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

TUsT RIeys memory
y will Twans Tom Sawyer"
complete Huckeber
Becky IN the printed
will be his
To ifn in of
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Other Indianapolis theaters today
offer: Tom Brown and the Six
Brown Brothers at the Lyric; Half
Shot at Sunrise" at the Ohio; Gay
Paree Girls" at the Mutual, and,
Hello Thirty One at the Colonial.
Englishs will relight Tuesday
night for the rest of the week with
Strictly Dishonorable" which is still
| in New York.
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er, who is mistaken for the author
of book on aviation.
Because he can write about flying,
every one takes him for a great avi-
ator, and before he knows it, he is
chosen to fly in an air race. Never
having been off the ground, but de-
termined to fly, because of a girl
in the story, this gives Brown every
opportunity to put over his comedy
stuff, and he does it well.
In the cast are Ona Munson,
Laura Lee, Lawrence Grey, Frank
McHugh and Walter Pidgeon.
Funny because of Brown.
Now at the Indiana. (By Connell
Turpen.)
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E. Brown is doing this very thing in
the picture Going Wild" Brown is
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Resolution Prepared

Asserting that the unemployed
should not be forced to exhaust
their own savings before outside as
sistance is extended, a resolution of
5 the meeting declared:
1T is the duty of social workers
to make it clear to the community
that philanthropy can not replace
pay rolls and to bear witness to the
detrimental results of restitution on
the health, education. personal eff
ficiency. family life and employabil-
ity of those suffering from unem-
ployment.
I'm so far as social workers are
convinced of the workability of
plans for insurance, for systems of
unemployment exchanges, standards
of dismissal procedure and for dis
missal warnings and wages. They
have a professional obligation to
lend their active support"
Bill Has Been Drawn
A bill to establish unemployment
reserve funds in the forty-eight
states similar to Workmens COM
pensation laws will be discussed
extensively by several groups led by
The American Association for La
Dor Legislation.
The bill already has been drawn
I'D and will be presented to various
state legislatures in the next ses-
sion. The proposal as explained by
John B. Andrews of New York. Sec
rotary Of the labor association, would
set UP unemployment reserve funds
for the payment Of dividends in the
time of depression
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I believe that this Paramount
production Of Twains story Of real
boy life is bound to become one of
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JOBS PROGRAM
is CONSIDERED
BY SCIENTISTS
Welfare Of Workers Holds
Stage at Convention
in Cleveland.
nsted Press

By Lnited Prsss
CLEVELAND, Dec. 29.-Unem-
ployment and proposals for remed-
ial action occupied an important
section of the program today as the
eighty-fifth annual convention of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and it's
multiple divisions convened here.
Attention from the layman's
standpoint centered on the meet
ings of the divisions Of social and
political science, together with ex-
hibits of scientific development
Identified with the current years
progress.
More than 5000 delegates repre-
senting the American Association
and fifty associated societies we're
expected to be registered when the
general convntion is called to order
tonight at Cleveland public audi
forum by DR.. r. A. Millikan, re-
firing president and holder of a
Nobel prize award. A number of
groups, however, were holding sec
tional meetings today.
Baker on Program
One Of these was the American
Political Science Association, which
IN separate groups treated of The
recent developments in international
law and organization and state
federal cooperation in labor Dr.
ganization.
The latter subject was to be dis
cussed by Newton D. Baker, former
secretary of war; John J. Lee, Mich
igan state supervisor of industrial
cripple rehabilitation; James NJ.
Beck of the National Association
OF Manufacturers, and Noel T.
Bowling Of the Columbia university
law school
Preceding the main meetings, the
American Association Of Social
Workers endorsed the development
Of unemployment insurance, sys-
TENS Of employment exchanges and
standardized methods OF employe
Oismissale
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FOREST AB[AZE
|NMARYLAND

HAGERSTowN. Md, Aug. 13.
The worst forest fire of the
season in this section broke out
late yesterday on the eastern
slope Of South Mountain and is
reported beyond control today,
threatening the Chestnut Grove
public school and a number of
houses.
The fire covers a front of more
than two miles between Rohrers-
vile and Chestnut Grove, partly
along the Washington county
branch Of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. Hundreds of men
recruited from Boonsboro, Sharps-
burg and Rohrersville rushed to
the scene. They fought the fire
all night with backfires in d
vain attempt to check its spread.
Another large fire is reported
burning on the West Virginia
side of the Potomac River op-
poSite Milestone.
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KIDNAP SCARE
MERE VISIT
picture on Page y

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 13 0.N.S0
Charles Kern, wealthy, retired st.
Louis business man and his wife,
who returned here today after a
short visit to Ohio, during which
authorities of two States had
been concerned over the couples
safety, declared curtly that he
and his wife had been visiting
relatives Gin a point in Ohio
AS KernS was said to have had
bank draft for $4,000 in his
possession and was seen to have
left the train at Defiance, Ohio
accompanied by his wife and
two men and enter an automobile
in which there were three other
men, authorities feared that the
elderly couple was in the power
OF a band Of Swindlers.
Kern would say little more
than that I'VE are home and
safe" TODAY. Asked If he still
had the $4,000 check, Kern
answered sharply:
That's nObOdy's business ex.
cept ours. We're back home
and safe and we weren't kid.
naped and that's all I have to
say"
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December Husband
Kills May Spouse

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 13 QN.SJ.-
A December" husband stabbed
his May" wife to death, and
then. killed himself with the
same knife here today because
his spouse had taunted him with
reminders of her first husband,
according to the story given po-
lice.
The double killing took place
in the presence of . , little five
year-old daughter Of the wife by
the forme husband.
Robert Nelson, so, Superintend-
ent Of the commonwealth division
of the General Steel Castings
Company Jtabbed his youthful
wife, Rachel, 90, following argu-
mentS at 2 home-brew party at
their home in wI1Ach Mrs. Nelson
brought her former husband into
the. conversation. police say.
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Gore and Murray Win
Oklahoma Primary

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug.
13 G.N.S9-With two-thirds of
the vote counted in the Oklahoma
run-off election, William H. "Al.
falfa Bill" Murray was leading
Frank Buttram by almost two to
one in the Democratic guberna-
torial race.
Thomas P. Gore, blind former
Senator, was leading Charles j.
WrightSman, Tulsa oil man, by ap-
proximately $4,000 votes for the
Democratic Senate nomination.
In the general election in No
vember. Murray will be opposed
by Ira B. Hill, State senator. who
was nominated by the Repub-
licanS In the July primary.
Gore will be opposed by Senator
w. p. Pine. Republican incum-
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POISON TAKEN
BY ACTRESS
At PARTY
Lima Basquette Attempts to
End Life; Grieved Because
- She Parted With Her Baby

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Aug. 13
G.N.S0.-Lina Basquette, beauti-
full former wife Of the late Sam
Warner, motion picture producer,
will recover, physicians said today
at the receiving hospital where
she was taker after a suicide at
tempt.
The quantity Of poison which
the former actress is believed to
have taken, followi. g a gay fare
well party in her apartment was
not sufficient to end her life.
Parted From Baby
The story of Lima BaSquette IS
the story of a mother, separated
from her child. Some time ago,
her two-year-old daughter, Lita,
was adopted by Harry M. Warner.
brother Of Sam Warner. Miss Bas-
quette then married Pevereli Mar
ley. a film actor, in January, 1929.
They separated last June. and
Miss Basquette gave as the rea-
son her desire to regain her child.
She said she thought if she left
Marley they would give back her
child.
But legal battle failed to ac-
complish her desire, and the child
has remained with the Warmers.
Gown Shop Fails
Miss Basquette then opened a
gown shop, forSaking the screen.
The business venture, apparently,
was not success, and it is be-
lieved that financial troubles
added to her other worries.
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NORRIS To WIN
BY 10000

LINCOLN, Nebr., Aug. 13
II.N.S.).-Senator George M. Nor
ris was virtually assured of vic
tory early today in his fight for
denomination in the Nebraska
Senatorial primary.
Returns from 800 out Of 1880
precincts gave MOTIFS q lead of
$4,000 votes over State Treasurer
w. NJ. Stebbins, endorsed for the
Republican nomination by the
regulars" because of Norris sup
port Of Alfred E. Smith in the
Presidential campaign two years
ago.
indications were that Norris
would win by 10000 and carry
very county in the State.
Earlier returns from 720 pre-
cincts had given the vote as
$4,000 for Norris and 1880 for
Stebbins.
Ex-senator Gilbert M. Hitch.
cock was leading DR.. Jennie
Callfas, supported by the dry and
church groups, by the wide mar.
gin of to / in the Democratic
primary.
Governor Weaver was easily
winning the denomination for
governor, while ex-Gov. Charles
Bryan was clinching the Demo
cratic nomination for the fifth
time.
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MURDER Done.
BEFORE nine
CLOCK
Hearing Held Up; Collins to
Wait Till Jones and Smith
Are Ready; Car Still Held

The hearing on the request Of
the officials Of the District Of
Columbia that Herbert M. Camp
bell, charged with the murder Of
Mary Baker, be removed to Wash
ington will not be held Friday
before United States Commits
sioner j. Barton Phillips, accord
ing to an announcement made
today by Assistant United States
District Attorney William H. Col
Inns.
Collins said it probably will be
held some time next week, but
that depends entirely on whether
Assistant United States District
Attorney Gallon B. Jones, Of
Richmond, and Charles Henry
Smith, counsel for Campbell, say
they are prepared for the hear.
ing.
Campbell Is being held In the
Jail at Alexandria.
Time Of Crime Fixed
Members Of the washington
homicide squad, meanwhile, have
definitely learned that the muir
der was committed before 8
o'clock on the night Of April II,
it was learned today.
A man employed by the Post
office Department and his wife,
who live in Arlington county, Va.
have told the authorities that
they saw the Baker COR parked at
9 o'clock that night just where
it was parked when found by the
police on the morning of April IL.
The girls body was found in the
culvert in that section a few
hours later.
Explanation Given
The authorities attach import.
ance to this testimony, declaring
that it shows that If the Baker
car was then parked on the spot
where it was found the next
morning the girl must have been
killed sometime before 9 O'Clock.
They add that time was required
in which to throw her body over
the Culvert and then park the
car where It was found.
Three Shots Rang Out
Up to the time the statements
were obtained from the letter
carrier and his wife, it was not
definitely established whether
Miss Baker was killed early or
late that evening.
Three witnesses have testified
that they saw a large dark haired
man attacking a woman who
looked like Miss Baker at Six
teenth and B. Streets Southwest
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Ice Coats This Lake!
All Is Frigid at
Promised Land

STROUDSBURG, Pa. Aug 13
UN.S0 Freezing temperatures
and a thin skim of ice were re-
ported today at Promised
Land" a State camp in Pike
county, in marked contrast to
the torrid weather elsewhere
in Pike county. A thin coating
Of ice formed on the edge Of
the lake.
Frost was formed at Lords
Valley, another little village in
the Pocono mountains section
of Pike county.
The temperature here fell to
40 degrees registering the low
est mark ever recorded in
SproudSburg on August 13.
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Hawks. ON TIME
IN FIRST LAP

WICHITA, KanS., Aug. Is
N.N.S1.-Capt. Frank Hawks
arrived at Wichita at 1898
a. M, refueIed his plane and
sped on his way East at 1883
q. m. '
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13 U.N.S0
With the exhaust pipe on his 400
horsepower motor Spouting a
stream Of blue flame as his
famous airplane roared down the
runway Of Grand Central Airport,
Capt. Frank M. Hawks, transconti-
mental speed flier, took off today
at 2:15:27 a. m. Pacific standard
time), in an effort to Shatter the
WeSt-East record held by Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh.
Gaining altitude quickly, Cap
tain Hawks soon had his ship
pointed eastward over the San
Bernardino Valley and diSap-
reared almost before the 200 spec.
tators were aware that he was off
on the 2,500-mile flight.
Hawks hopes to complete the
transcontinental flight in IL
hours, averaging 225 miles an
hour. He will make refueling
stops at albuquerque, N. M;
Wichita, Kan, and Indianapolis.
The present record for a flight
from Los Angeles to New York is
held by Colonel Lindbergh. who,
with hts wife, negotiated the dis,
tance in IA hours and As minutes
last Easter Sunday.
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SAYS FOOD
|5PLENT|FUL

With reports Of soaring food
prices in canned goods and vege-
tables in big industrial centers,
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde
today again assured the nation
there Is no danger of a shortage
in human food due to the pro-
longed drought.
After calling upon President
Hoover and presenting the latest
reports Of the Agriculture De.
partment on the situation, Hyde
said:
No Need to Worry
II have done my best to
point out that there is no dan
ger Of q shortage in human
food. The drought problem is
chiefly . live stock and feed
problem.
There is no need for house
wives to get panicIky over the
situation"
The Administration, It has been
said by officials, stands ready to
take steps to prevent profiteer-
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Coast Gu0rdsnaGn,
"Dend." Said ALiDe

A case of a Coast Guardsman
returning from the dead was re-
ported today to police.
Early in July local authorities
searching for Joseph o. Ocker,
AZ, wanted in Detroit for assault
upon his wife, found a body in
a river near Detroit, and identi-
fled it as that of Ocker.
A few days ago a member of
the Coast Guard received a letter
from Ocker. Officials are now
certain that the man is alive.
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Cal. Shortcwave receivers and
transmitters will put. the conver-
SationS on the air.
The diver will carry a micro
phone with transmitting appa.
ratus which viii relay to the
yacht. The broadcast will start
at p. m. eastern standard
time). Three announcers, one
on the yacht and two in the air
with the women filters, will broad
cast the experiment.
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international Newsreel TelephOto
mrs. Y0ST, DRY,
| c. Q. ? CHIEF

Mrs. EIlis Al. YoSt, head of the
Washington office OF the National
Women's Christian Temperance
Union, has been named to sue
eeed Mrs. Louise M. Dodson as di-
rector Of women'S activities of the
Republican party organization.
Her appointment to the post
was announced by Senator Simeon
e. Fess, chairman Of the Republi-
can national. committee.
Sponsored by Mrs. Hert
Mrs. Yost is the national com.
mitteewoman from West Virginia
and was recommended for the
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Diver in Ocean viii Talk
To Women in Planes

NEW YORK, Aug. IS Q.NS) .
Two-way radio conversations be-
tween a diver on the ocean bed
and II women fliers high above
the waves will be broadcast to-
morrow. the National Broadcast
ing Company announced today.
The rebroadcast of the conver-
satiol1s on q coaSt-to-coast chain
will be made from a yacht from
which the diver will descend into
the Pacific, four miles off Venice,
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NEWENDURANCE
ELLGH It MADE
pictures on Page 81

4tGtWEGS OM EA&G ~
LAMBERT FIELD, ST. LOUIS,
Aug. 13 IN.S0.-They busted
out a niche in the hall of ava
ton fame at 8:52l2 a. m. today
for the little orange and yellow
bungalow Of the sky" otherwise
known as the Greater st. Louis
endurance plane.
For, as the second hand on the
watch Of the official observer of
the endurance flight heSitated at
8:52h, the Greater st. Louis tied
the brief-lived world record Of
$50 hours IL minutes 80 seconds
for sustained flight, set by the
flying Hunter brothers in their
plane, City Of Chicago, on the
Fourth of July.
Right at Home
The occupants of the "little
orange and yellow bungalow"
Dale Red" Jackson and Forrest
O'Brine, were at home in the
aviation hall of fame and didn't
need new accommodations. The
two persistent pilots sailed the
st. Louis Robin into aviation i'm
mortality last summer with the
then world record of 420 hours.
When the flying coal miners
Of Sparta, ILL.,, swooped into fame
with the City of Chicago, and
pushed the st. Louis Robin out
of the limelight, the persistent
pilots, jackson and OBrine, an
nounced their intention of mount
ing to the clouds again to win
back their world-championship
laurelS. n
With fame once more in their
grasp, it is not the intention of
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col 81
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4 Killed, 5 Hurt
In Crash in Foo

CRANBERRY LAKE, N. j.,
Aug. 13 U.N.S0 -Four men were
killed and five others injured,
three probably fatally, in q col
lision between a sedan and a
milk truck in the fog near here
today.
The dead were Tony Amadeo,
jr., 90: his brother, Herman. 80:
Napoleon De Carlo and an un-
identified man.
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post by Mrs. A. T. Hert of Ken
lucky, vice chairman of the ma.
tlonal committee.
Mrs. Dodson resigned her post
as a protest against what she
termed the unfair treatment OF
her friend and former chief
ClaudiuS H. Huston.
While Senator Fess has denied
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Rev. c. Oscar johnson, Of
Tacoma, Wash, will address the
Kiwaniar5 at their weekly lunch
con meeting at the Washington
Hotel. tomorrow at 1890 p. m.
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ToDAY's SCRATCHES
BAINBRIDGE

KInsT RACE Senator Seth, ,IOl,n
Speed, VandI0n, Dey0nshire, Ruthie
Vicente 1faxie, Bachelor Prince.
SECOND RACE-Advertieer ClOimar
South Rarks BRby Wrack, Biggest, War
Air.
THIRD RACE--The Padre, Old Bill
0uN RACE-Baby Delhi Well
FI1TH RAcE President Seth, Lady
SIXTH ACE flying Torch, Mary
NfKginla allow Me, shorty, Frank
R0deatM nllIle March, FIapdoodIe, Mae
sIgVIENTH RACE - Rough Neck,
COquinn, OnAOFa, ROpyleW, Junior C.
Weather, clear; track. fast.
FORT ERIE
FIRST RACE-JeRnne Adele, Eliza
beth B0Ila. Uppity, Rundale, ReeOg-
niti0n. Noon.
SECOND RACE-Spirlt OF Sense. Loves
Orb. Master BObbie, POstville, Sun Man,
THIRD RACE-falr Briar, Ny old
Rose, GarOck, Peace Dove, Vice. just
FOURTH RACE--esoldeB Lax, Bun-
taris, COrpOsant, Madder.
FIFTH RACE-Fair Albert, Wander
eAR Gold. Faaciste.
Weather, clears track, fast.
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THE WEATHER

Fair tonight Thursday partly cloudy with
slowly rising Temperatures; general east winds.
Temperature yesterday-Highest, 7ei low.
est, 81.
Fall we0ther report page 8.
rhe Washington Times IL the oHly afternoon IN
this city publishing the dispatches Of International
News Service and Universal Service.
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REV. JOHNSON TO. TALK

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CHAPTER TX

"Just :. :..inute, young mani"
Rod wheeled around to find Alder
man Durant facing him, his thin
feature, severe.
eyes, sir?"
Lyla jumped up and ran to ner
father as though she sensed that
something was wrong.
"Oh, Daddy, what's the matter|
a. am not habitually an caves :
dropper," the girls father observed
oirectir his glance at Rod and pay
ing Lyla no attention. but l hap
pened te hear what you said. Young
man, yoL. are interfering with some
thing which does not concern you,
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trouble than you ever dreamed Of"
Rods expression became resolu,e.
"Mr. Durent, if you heard what we We
been saying, you know that I love
your daughter, and want to marry
her. And know that she loves mel!
The elder man darted quick look
st his daughter.
"That's true, Daddy" Lyla cried
"a do lo"e him!"
"And you are willing to disobey my
wishes even" the Aldermans voice
broke, then again became incisive,
commanding, EVEN though you
know what it means to me-to us?"
ooh, no. I've told Rod that l in
tend to marry Reggie in spite of-of
my love for him." Lyla sobbed.
"And I don't intend to let her sac
rifice herself for anyone, even you'll"
the youth cried. "Mr Durant, there
must be some way out of this besides
maxi g Lyla marry that fellow"
Young man, I have been in pill
tics for twenty years, and If there
were any way in which l could free
myself of this tangle-which you
seem to know about" his voice be-
came bitter" through the efforts Of
my daughter, whom thought could
trust, would know that way out"
Lyla threw her arms around his
neck. II told him about it, Daddy.
but Thought I did owe it to him t
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the money Hom TIC hs"' iA'
SS5, 1000.
After leaving the gym, Rod calls Lyia.
She begged him to come to see her at once
She tells him that she must marry Reggie,
because his father and her father arc all
tangled in an affair with Wolf, and that II
her father incurs the bankers ill-wih 1t
will disgrace him.
Rod declares that she will not marry
Reggie and starts to leave after threaten
ing tn. Wolf may have to settle WIN
him.
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'But I'll not do it again"

,explain why I must marry Reggie
when we've been-so much to each
other!"
"But you violated my confidence
when you told him!" the Alderman
said inexorably.
But, sir" Rod began.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-03
ROD AND "POP" DURANT
QUARREL

'There is nothing you can say,
young mani" Mr.. Durant cut him
off sharply. II can only ask that you
stay out Of this affair completely.
Your interference can only mean
disaster for me, and if what you say
about caring for my daughter is true.
you must realize that any stigma
which falls on me also affects her"
ooh, Daddy, surely there must be
something"
Nothing, my dear" the Alderman
said more gently.
well, I'm sorry that you won't
let me help" Rod said, starting for
the door, his young face set in hard
lines, "but I don't intend to give
up Lyla for anyone" He turned to
face them. Even you'll" With that
he plunged down the hall and out
of the front door.
your young man seems deter
mined" Mr.. Durant said in a voice
which suddenly seemed old and tired.
} "Oh, he's wonderful, Daddy, and
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ROD GETS AN IDEA

Continued on page seven)
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'T let you off once" Wolf painted {.

fight may amount to and which may get you into NOR