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The Washington times., 1931-04-13
MARINE KILLING
CLUES FAIL

Members of the homicide squad
today were attempting to deter
mine if Cline Ray Teegarden,
convict from Lorton Reformatory
and former Marine cook, was
ever connected in any way with
Emanuel Thorne, Marine Corps
private who was shot and killed
several weeks ago and whose body
was found in a rude grave near
Capitol Heights, Md, 10 days ago.
Police have heard that ThOrne
and Teegarden served in the
same Marine company, but so far
have been unable to verify the
story. They are seeking to de-
terInine if the two men were
buddieS.
Denies Any knowledge
Teegarden, meanwhile, has been
held in the District Jail, where
he was brought from Lorton last
Saturday morning. He has de
MED any knowledge Of the Thorne
killing.
The only link connecting Tee.
garden with the case was the
discovery by balliStic experts that
his revolver, a .32-caliber gun,
closely resembles the weapOn n
with which ThOrne was shot four
times.
Inspector William S. Shelby
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Stalled Driuer Slain,
Believed Mistaken
For Thief

CHICAGO, April 13 G.N.S0
Police today were investiga ting
the fatal shooting of a man
who was apparently taken for
an auto thief and killed by
the owner Of the car.
James Sterling Fyfe and
James Tracey were on their
way home from a weekend
auto trip when they punctured
q tire in front of the home
of Albert Allen, Fyfe discov-
cred he had no jack.
Seeing Aliens car parked
nearby, he searched it for the
necessary tool.
Allen ran out with a revoL
yer In hand. Fyfe started TO
run.
Allen gave chase and dropped
him with a bullet.
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JAPAN CABINET
QUITS OFFICE

TOKYO. April 13 T.N.S0-
Bearing out forecasts of the last
several days, Premier Yuko Hama
guchi and his entire cabinet to-
day rendered their designations
to Emperor Hirohito.
Political complications, growing
more involved as q direct result
Of Hamaguchi'S prOtracted ILL
ness, moved the premier to with
draw.
It was expected that Baron
Reijiro Wakatsuki, former pre-
mier and chief delegate to the
London naval conference, would
shortly be summoned to the
palace for the premiership.
Informed observers here as
Sumed that the new cabinet, with
one or two exceptions, would con-
siSt of the same membership as
the resigned ministry.
Hamaguchi'S policies will prob
ably be kept in force.
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NEW YORK, April 13 QN.S0.
Two unusual autograph letters
described as having been written
by President Harding and plac.
ing him, while a United States
Senator, as befriending a woman
suspected as a war spy we're re-
vealed today.
Nothing has ever been pub
lished before concerning the let
terS, which form a part Of an
exhibition Of American historical
documents opening here tOmor-
row.
The letters, believed to have
been written by President Hard
ing when he was a United States
Senator in 1918, are addressed
my Dear Jim" and revealed his
anxiety concerning the conduct
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AV|ATR|X SE 7 s
SPEED RECORD

DETROIT, April 10 0N.S3.
Miss Ruth Nichols, famous
aviatrix and visitor at the Ma
tional Air Show here, captured
the woman's airplane speed record
today. The girl pilot sent her
plane over q three-kilometer
course for an average speed Of
21O.685 miles an hour.
The speed shattered the record
formerly held by Miss Amelia
Earhart. The old mark was
1871.
Stepping from her plane, Miss
Nichols said:
"I'm very happy about making
this record. I may try to bet
ter it in q few weeks. Well
see"
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
March Tax Tops 80
Collection by $81,999

Tax collections for the month
of March amounted to $4,445,-
404.O9, exceeding the collection
for the same period last year by
$81, $1,000, according to figures
compiled today in the office OF
Chatham M. Towers, District col
lector of taxes.
The collections for last month
were composed of $2,991, ,954.97 in
real estate tax. $481, ,3O2.41 in
tangible personal property, $685.
098.95 in Intangible personal prop
erty, $124,523.89 in gasoline tax,
and $125, ,637 80 in water rent.
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The civilians were en-
ployes of the Standard Fruit
Company, an American con-
Germ, whose offices and
plantations were wrecked
by a rebel band numbering
several hundred.
A number of houses were re-
ported burned to the ground BY
the insurgents.
Faced by 500 Rebels
The Marines were members Of
detachment from the U. 8. 8.
Asheville, which was despatched
to Puerto Cabezas with the first
outbreak of rebel activity yester.
day.
A brief radio message from the
U. s. s.. Asheville advised naval
communications here that the
American forces had occupied the
town and had driven the rebels
out.
No mention was made in this
dispatch Of the number Of casual
ties suffered by either side. The
message said:
"U. S. 8. AShevilIe sailors and
marines Occgwied Puerto Ca
bezas. The bandits have been
driven out and are retreating
into the interior"
The U. S. S. Memphis, with re-
endorsements on board, was due
at Puerto CabezaS at 2 p. m. to-
day, and officials expressed the
belief the crisis at the Nicaraguan
port was over.
The ASheviIIe forces landed to
find themselves confronted by 500
heavily-armed insurgents, who inn.
mediateIy opened fire.
The Marines returned the vol.
ley, and a sharp encounter 90.
Cured.
Bombing planes were sent out
from Managua to aid the Marines,
who entrenched themselves at
Moss farm for last stand.
The Marine patrol from Puerto
Cabezas, under Sergeant Taylor,
bore the brunt of the first rebel
attack.
The fruit company killings fol-
lowed an earlier outbreak at Log.
town, where Capt. Harlan Pefley,
Of the Marines, was slain by rebel
bandits.
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TIRED HIDING,
SAYSBAKER
To POLICE
Fugitive Since April z Gives
Detectives a Surprise When
He DiscIoses His Identity

Police, having almost torgoCten
the Baker case, due to other muir
ders in washington, were sitting
around discussing matters at
hand when the alleged slayer
walked into the office Of In
spector William S. Shelby.
Takes Police by Surprise
Just before entering the office.
however, Baker approached Police
men j. H. Murphy and M. T.
Lewis, of the Sixth precinct, and
said to them:
"I'm Baker and Pm trying to
find somebody to talk to-"
For fully a minute the police
men stared at the slender man be-
fore realization dawn. Murphy
grabbed MIN by the arm and uSh-
cred him before Tdeut. c. j. P.
Weber. Baker then said to Lieu
tenant Weber:
"I'm Baker"
Lieutenant Weber dropped his
pencil, stared, and said:
"WelI, MIR. Baker, I'm de-
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Church Floor GiUeS
WGy; $50 Injured

OTTER LAKE, Mich, April 13
0.N.S0.-Two hundred and fifty
parishioners of the Methodist
Church here today are recovering
from minor injuries as a result
of the collapse of the floor of
the church at a Sunday after
noon funeral.
The floor gave way without
warning carrying everyone in the
pews to the basement about five
feet below. The pulpit and sane
tuary in which the casket rested
remained intact,
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Buckley Jury Will
VieW Murder Scene

DETROIT, April 13 GNS0,
Testimony at the Gerald Buck.
ley murder trial was completed
today as the celebrated criminal
case entered its eighth week.
The jury of seven men and
five women will be taken to view
the murder scSne tonight and
after closing argument tomorrow.
the fate of the three alleged
gangsters charged with the muir.
der will be given into the hands
of the jurors.
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HOOVER LAUDS
RED CROSS

, Emerging from a winter marked
by two national emergencies
the drouth and unemployment
end during which their work was
bitterly attacked by many mem
bers of Congress, those who di-
rect the work of the Red Cross
assembled here amid the sun
shine and cherry blossoms today
and received the praise of their
chief and President of the United
States. President Hoover said:
During this past year this
great mutual institution of tie
whole people has been put
again to severe tests. .-
"NOt only as to its practical
ability to meet national diSaS-
ter, but a test involving its
whole moral and spiritual pur-
pose.
"YOu have, under most DIFF
ficult handicapS, again demon
Strated that it can meet and
relieve human suffering in any
national disaster"
Refers To Trouble
He referred indirectly to the
controversy with Congress re-
garding the attempt to force a
Government appropriation for
drought relief work, and he put
the date of the beginning of the
Red Cross work as far back as
last August.
cit was that far-sighted &C
tiOn and that early action
which enabled the saving Of
this multitude of people from
infinite suffering. Unfortunate
ly, men less familiar with the
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Dry Agent Loses job
For "ROu0h TGcticS''

Federal Prohibition Agent Car
roll T. Byrd, attached to the st.
Louis office, has been dropped
from the service for trough tao
tics" during a recent prohibition
raid there, Col. A. w. w. Wood
cock, prohibition director. an.
nounced today.
Byrd was charged with striking
an innocent bystander during a
SpeakeaSy raid.
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Funeral Tomorrow
For HOOUer's Uncle

PAWHUSKA, Okla, April 13
0NSO. - Funeral services for
Major Laban j. Miles, 81, uncle Of
President Hoover, who died at his
home here yesterday, were to be
held tomorrow with burial at
Arkansas City, Kan.
It was with Major Miles that
President Hoover as a boy of IA
spent a year after the death Of
his father at West Branch, Iowa.
A native of Ohio, Major Miles
had been prominent figure in
the Indian affairs of Oklahoma.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
79 RGcketeers Slain
In NeW York in 1880

NEW YORK, April 13 QN.S0.
Seventy-nine gangsters and rack.
eteers were murdered by otE4er
gangs and racketeer cliqueS In
New York in 1880, the annual re.
port of Commissioner E. P. Null
rooney, of the police department,
disclosed today.
In all there were 421 murders
here during the year, murder and
manSlaughter cases showing an
increase of 18 per cent over 1929.
A decrease of 284, or per
cent, was reported in crimes Of
violence, the figures including
burglary,
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INN SAFE YIELDS
$500 To YEGGS

Borrowing q saw and monkey
wrench from tool chest i'm the
rear of the kitchen, thieves last
night broke into the Herald
Square Inn, 1903 H st. N. w.
sawed off the door Of the safe,
and escaped with approximately
$500.
George Sachlis, 1917 Ingon1a1
st. N. W., said he left the restau'
rant last night at 10 o'clock.
When he opened the restaurant
this morning he found the safe
was lying in the kitchen with the
door off and all the receipts Of
Saturday and Sunday gone.
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P0ntages Up Today
In LOUe Mart Case

SAN DIEGO, Calf, April 13
O.N.SO. - Alexander Pantages,
theatrical magnate, with four
others, was to appear in court
today for preliminary hearing on
charges growing out of an investi-
CATION into Hollywood'S Sensa-
tional girl bazaar"
PantageS is expected to fight
with a surprise alibi the charge
he misuSed a 16-year-old girl,
Lydia Nitto, alias Alice Blake.
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Hoover Told POIUer
Demand on Increase

Matthew s. Sloan, president of
the Brooklyn Edison Co., called
at the White House today and
paid his respects to President
Hoover.
He told the President the de-
mand for commercial electricity
on both the east and west coast,
has shown a slight gain. He
cited this as an indication that
a revival of business is on the
way.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Lillian Roth Weds
Rich PittSbUrgheT

ATLANTA, Ga, April 13
ONSO-Lillian Roth, motion
picture player, and William C.
Scott, scion of a wealthy Pitts
burgh family, were issued a mar.
riage license here Saturday, 1t
was learned today.
Miss Roth, who had concluded
q theatrical engagement here Fri
day, left her hotel with Scott
Saturday. They later returned
and told friends they had been
married.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Cardinal MundeLein
On His Way to Rome

NEW YORK, April 13 0N.SO
Cardinal Mundelein was to ar.
rive here today from Chicago en-
route to Rome to attend The
opening of the new CollSge of the
Propaganda on April "a. He will
sail tomorrow and spend six
weeks abroad.
Cardinal Mundelein assisted in
financing the college.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Hijacker Wrecks Car
Fleeing Gang Death

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 13
GN.SO.-Anthony La Rosa, 33,
alleged hijacker, was in the de-
tention ward at the City Hospital
here today recovering from a
bullet wound in the head which
he received while being taken
for a ride" in an alleged rum
war.
La Rosa escaped by wrecking
the car in which he was being
given his fateful excursion, police
said.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
u. S. Filters Seeking
Air Endurance Marx

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla,
April 13 QN.SO.-Trying for a
new non-refuelling endurance rec
ord, Walter Lees and Frederic
BroSsy, Detroit flierS, had been
aloft 26 hours at 1852 a. m.
today.
They are attempting to surpass
the mark of rs hours and "a
minutes set recently by two
French pilots. They will have
to stay aloft until lis p. m.
Wednesday to set a new record.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Gun-TOting Drunk
Sentenced to Jail

Ferdinando Quinto, 211 D st.
N. w., was sentenced to six
months in jail by Judge Ralph E.
Given, in Police Court today,
after being convicted of carrying
a dangerous weapon.
Police said that Quinto was ar
rested as he was going from door
to door in the vicinity of his
home with a gun in his hand. He
told the court that he was so
drunk he did not know what he
was doing.
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WANTED FOR BIGAMY

ROCKVILLE, Nd, April 1S.
Lionel H. Smith was held for the
action of the grand jury by Judge
Charles w. Woodward, in police
court here, on a charge Of big
amy. Smith is alleged to have
married Mary e. Scaggs while he
was still married to Letha Smitht.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Salt Cake Dumping
Is Denied bY Mellon

Secretary of the Treasury Mel
lon announced today that several
American firms were not justified
in complaining that Germany was
dumping salt cake on the Amer
lean market at unfair prices. Salt
cake is used in the manufacture
of certain kinds of paper.
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FAIRFAX BOARD FORMED

FAIRFAX, Va, April 13.-The
Fairfax county electoral board for
1881, organized Saturday, includes
Benjamin F. Iden, of Andrew
Chapel, chairman; Benjamin F..
hewitt, of Newington, clerk, and
George B. Bready, Of Herndon.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
8 FILM
CAREER SNAGS
ROMANCE
Ex-Champion Ayers He Still
Loves Wife, But She Has No
Desire for Home and Babies

RENO, New, April 13 U.N.S0.
A copyrighted dispatch to the
Los Angeles Examiner today says:
The Dempseys-Jack and E:S-
telle-are at the parting of ways.
Pinned right down to facts here
late yesterday, the former heavy
weight champion of the world ad-
mitted that he was about to file
papers for a divorce, that he was
doing so at the ,bel1eSt Of his
wife, and that he had hoped to
dodge publicity for her sake and
for the sake of a cinema and
operatic career which he says she
has put above home life and
which has wrecked their future
together. -
Still Loves Her
Here's the way Dempsey puts
it:
'1 have not heard q word
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ID CIVILIANS SLAIN As
j. .S.FORCES OCCUPY
PUERTO CABEZAS

COLON, Panama, April 13 (I.N.S).
Twenty five United States Marines and 10
civilians were reported killed today in clash
with Nicaraguan rebels at Puerto Cabezas,
according to unconfirmed dispatches reaching
here from Bluefields.
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Hardi7gAided Woman Spy
Suspect, Notes Reveal

of a woman described in the let
terS as Carrie"
At the time Carrie" was under
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as Of April
10: $444,388, ,O08.4O, expenditures,
$18,210, 1880; customs receipts,
$11, ,466,O16.27.
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RUTH NICHOLS

{. RUTH NICHOLS
THE WOMAN'S airplane speed
record today was captured by
Ruth Nichols at the National
Air Show in Detroit. Miss
Nichols plane attained a speed
of 210 miles an hour. The
previous record was held by
Amelia EaI1i&rts
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THE WEATHER

Fair and warmer tonight and Tuesdays mOder
ate southwest winds. Temperature yesterday
Highest, 81; lowest, ~.
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geneous mass, and then only
small portions at a time are
sent out into the intestines.
Fourth, the stomach is re-
markably adaptable to all varie.
ties Of food,
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HEALTH AND
DIET
BY Logan Clendening-

THE LATEST news of the
process Of digestion in the
stomach leads a well-known in
vestigator to say that the old
idea that the stomach can
digest nails Is true. Or al
most literally true" as he put
it, whatever that means.
At any rate. the stomach is
an efficient machine. When
one sees the way in which the
combined secretory and n1@tor
mechanism of the healthy
stomach reduces food of the
most diversified nature to
chyme, one can believe that.
An Old Saw
It used to be said that a man
could get along without his
stomach. The kind of diges-
ton that goes on there is &C.
complished in other parts of
the digestive tract-by the pam
creatic secretion in the intes-
tine. But this concept leaves
out the idea of the work the
stomach does in preparing food
for further digestion lower
down. THE stomach" says
an eminent specialist, is the
great organ of food prepara-
ton and the antrum is the
principal motor of the entire
digestive tract"
This preparatory work of the
stomach seems to consist Of
four functions:
First is to produce O fine
communion or n6ingling of the
food material. All kinds Of food
go INTO the stomach, in differ
ent states of "chewedneSS,"
large pieces and small pieces,
and the stomach churns them
up and reduces them to an
homogen eouS mass as to size
and consistency and quality.
Changes the FOCd
Second, it has a buffer, or
sensitizing action, preparing the
food for the action. of the small
intestine, the liver and the
pancreas. It perhaps makes
some chemical change in the
food which renders it more
easily digested lower down. Also
more easily absorbed, for very
little absorption occurs in the
stomach itself.
Third, it acts as a turnstile;
at least the opening Of the
stomach into the intestineS acts
as a turnsti1e. The food is al
lowed by this turnstile to enter
the intestines only after it has
been churned into a homo
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YOUR RULING
STAR
BY William Shwader-
THE YEAR AHEAD
For Those Whose Birthday is
March 28.


For Those Whose Birthday is
March g8.
If March % is your birthday,
during the coming year you
should be able through self
control and well directed energy
to accomplish much. You should
act tactfully and avoid criti-
cism. Matters relating to prop
erty or affairs concerning older
people should be handled dis
creetly.
Important dates-Avoid ex-
cesses of all kinds, take no
risks and maintain routine
from April l to S. July 2 to 7,
IA to Is, August 10 to IS,
September "a to 26, october s
to 8, December 6 to 13, II to
81. Good for general affairs
from April II to "a, April 80
to May 2, August 7 to 20,
November 3 to 15. Contradlc-
tory dates show two opposing
influences.
A child born March % will
be energetic, ambitious and re-
Sourceful. He should be taught
restraint in early childhood or
he is apt to suffer through his
being unable to adjust himself
to any restrictions.
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and the underbrusR checked:
The path wound al q twisted
through The trees, am Deilgnt
followed it idly, &methlng
young and untarnished In her
responding unconsciousN to the
frail green shadows of the new
leaves, to the unstartled birds,
to the dappled sunlight and the
bright blue sky.
She forgot, for a momert, al
most everything, and WAS a
child again, in England.
Before she knew it, she had
come close to the lockwood
hedge and heard voices.
Continued Tomorrow
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trotteur lapin coats, of tweeds
and silks, Of evening gowns, of
a sable scarf like Mary LOUIS,
of quantities Of the very
elaborate underwear and very
heavy perfume which she found
desirable.
A high fence, or wall, ran
around the Lorrimer place. It
seemed to Delight that she
walked miles, on the other
side. She was, she reflected
somberly, pretty nearly always
on the other side. What was
it that Harry had said to
her once? Always on the
outside, looking in, isn't that
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It had been left open. She
peered through, STOPPING in Or
der to do so. She saw trees,
and a path and beyond that
a perfect tangle of lockwood
hedge which reminded her
somehow of England, which
she called and thought of as
Home"
She went down the two shall
low steps, under the little
broken arch and through into
the pretty path. That corner
of the place had, with so many
others, been left to grow wild,
at its own sweet will, with
merely the path kept cleared
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so, old girl?" Mustn't think
of Harry now. To think of
Harry would complicate things
dreadfully. Put Harry out of
her mind. Forget that he
had ever existed. What un-
lucky fate had caused him to
exist, now that this unexpected
alteration in fortunes might
be in store for her. Play her
cards carefully, and relegate
Harry to the limbo of forgot
ten madnesses until the time
came to dispose of him alto.
gether.
Presently, very tired, she
came to a low door in the wall.
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Movie twinkers may sit in delighted buried
beautiful in their hundreds thousands of aneters
gentlemen Aldabarans
they lO gentlemen Oed
in history their thousands Of letters week. the Owy
writer artist his uSuaykindy
weekskmpy indeed of the
turetaker-but WHO huge tremendous
staggering fanma the
but Daniel Cupid esquire!
1t takes all the little cupids that painted
written about in all the pictures myths i'm the
world Adams clothes
yet until ALL of that host handle his mail
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aries! Six telephones Why the boy has million OF the first
the latter private exchange his no less
From all the world the admring the pIeailng the puzzled
the the peous, mperiouS the lOvg the yearnng
letters in.
The that have bent them! The hearts they have
'front.' The hands that have held the the pumed
quill the subby pencil No mOviepark writer no poet
actor musician EDITOR letters human in
all the human mail they receive
million letters from Queens million letters from the maid
the kitchen the actor and the mikman Even from
the Editor and the MOviestar themselves!
BRINBLEY.
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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?

AnsWeTs To Today's Test
Questions On Editorial Page
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pernickel. 8. The dried peel of
O bitter orange. 4. Arkansas,
Missouri, Oklahoma. S. Animals.
s. Before the war. Z. Martin
van Buren,. 8. Oasis. 8. Palm
Sunday. 10. Carbon dioxide.
IL. Enigma. IL. Exulting. 13.
Reward. IA. Disease of the
mind, IS. To wander aimlessly.
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Two theaters in London Of
fer opera five nights a week at
from 10 cents to SIPS, while
tickets for Shakespearian plays
cost 20 cents to $1.50.
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DO YOU KNOW THAT

Free cough drops are sup
piled to afflicted persons Suf-
fering from colds at the Munich
pal Theater in Potsdam, Ger.
many.
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Times Daily Health Hint

Varicose veins usually demand proper support
like an elastic bandage. If in the legs the parts
should be rested horizontally