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The Washington times., 1934-06-23
CEN. NJ ARTHUR
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has been. ordered to submit for
the committees inspection Of his
personal financial records.
Despite its recent commenda-
ton of Mr.. Woodring for uphold"
ing Army procurement regula-
lions, the committee decided to
question him further on the con-
tract change.
Cleared In Report
Mr.. Woodring was cleared Of
violating Army laws relating to
aircraft contracts in a recent
committee report which severely
censured Maj. Gen. Benjamin D.
Foulois, Chief Of the Air Corps.
A subsequent report recommended
General FouloiS' removal.
Chairman Rogers CD Of New
Hampshire expressed the desire
of his committee to interrogate
Mr.. Woodring regarding Colonel
McMullen'S testimony, adding:
"The circumstances in this
matter seem peculiar, we Ger.
tainly would like to hear Mr..
WOOdring's side Of it."
Defending his alteration Of the
contract, Mr.. Woodring told
newspaper men he had done so
in order to protect Mr.. Silver
mans business. He said:
"He was unable to sell the
goods abroad and his business
would have been ruined unless
he disposed Of them in this
country"
Further scrutiny Of the parts
played in the manganese tariff
matter by former Secretary OF
War Hurley and former Assistant
Secretary Of War Payne also ap-
peared likely.
PAYNE Involved
Colonel McMullen testified he
had introduced several officials Of
the Cuban-American Manganese
Company to Messrs. Hurley and
Payne. Letters and data secured
by the committee revealed Mr..
Payne actively opposed the man
ganese duty on the grounds Of
national defense"
Inquiries into War Department
purchases Of motor trucks also
will occupy the committee at its
Forthcoming sessions. It already
has heard q number Of witnesses
on this subject, including Gen,
Douglas Macarthur, chief Of staff
and representatives Of the Quar-
termaSter'S office.
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US. Agents Graduate
In Crin1inOLOgy Study

without the fanfare usually
attached to graduation day. 80
members of the criminology class
Of the Department Of justice
finished their six-week course to-
day and were assigned immedl'
ately to various branch offices
throughout the country.
The men were lectured on dlf'
ferent phases Of crime work by
members Of the Department OF
Justice. Their training also in
cluded target practice. The De-
partment Of Justice graduates
about four classes Of Studeno
agents . year. 4
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Engineer Society
Elects IOWQ Man

ITHACA, ~, June % I.N.S).
c. c. williams, Iowa State Uni"
verSity, was elected president Of
the Society for the Promotion Of
Engineer Education at the forty"
second annual meeting at Cornell
University. H. P. Hammond.
Polytechnic Institute. Brooklyn,
and Dean G. C. Shaad, University
Of Kansas, were named vice presi'
dents.
For the twenty-first consecutive
year Prof. F. l.. Bishop, University
Of Pittsburgh, was elected secre'
tary.
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Carolina Speaker
Dies From ADODLeru

DILLON, s. c., June 23-Sud-
denly stricken with apoplexy,
James B. Gibson, speaker Of the
South Carolina house Of repre-
sentatives. died late yesterday at
his home here. Upon the re-
cent adjournment Of the legisla-
ture he had announced that he
would forego politics in the fu-
ture, but he continued to be
president Of the 1884 State Demo.
cratic convention. He was 81.
and leaves a widow and two
children.
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j. s. WILL OFFER
REWARDSFOR
ENEMIES
DiIIinuer Named as Public
Enemy No. 1;$10,000
To Be Given Captor
BY International News Service

BY InCefnotlOmaA MOVIE OoENA0O
Six Of the foremost public enc
mics" in the country are soon to
be named by the Department OF
Justice and large rewards offered
for their capture, dead or alive.
The list is headed by John, Dill
linger as No. / public enemy. Ten
thousand dollars is the price to be
put on his head, the story stated.
Nelson Is No. 2
other enemies and the prices
were named as follows:
2. George CBaby Face~ Mel
son, one of Dillinger's associates,
$4,000.
3. Alvin Karpis, $1,000.
4. Arthur Barker, $4,000.
5. Homer Van Meter, $1,000.
6. Charles ("pretty Boy") Floyd.
$4,000.
Also, $4,000 will be offered for
information leading to the cap
ture Of Dillinger. and $1,000 for
information leading to the cap
bUlIG VI bAAS OVAASAS'
Congress recently authorized
the Attorney General to offer up
to $25 900 reward for the capture
of any criminal he deemed a pub
lie enemy.
All Are Slayers
All six are known to be Slayers,
kidnapers, bank robbers, and all
around bad men. Nelson and
Van Meter are Dillinger's closest
associates and most trusted lieu.
tenants. Another was Machine
Gun Tommy" Carroll, who was
killed recently by the police in
Iowa. Before he died he was
asked where Dillinger was, and
he gaSped:
~ hid him."
Karapis and Barker are not so
we'll known as the others, but
they are credited with several
kidnapings. including that Of Ed
ward G. Bremen of st. Paul.
Floyd has occasionally associ-
ated with Dillinger, but is more
of a lone wolf. He has been a
dad man" in the Southwest for
years, and is VIGOROUSLY quick on
the trigger.
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ITALY

ROME, June 23.-Works Of
two Italian writer's, Giovanni
Gentle and Senator Benedetto
Croce, were said IN well-informed
Vatican circles today to have been
placed on the Vatican's list Of
forbidden books. Both writers
have been prolific in examining
aesthetic, spiritual, political and
moral questions. Philosophic con-
tents Of many books of the au-
thors were understood to be
deemed irreligious, it was said.
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NORWAY

STAVANGER, June 23-Sur-
vivors Of the sunken liner ORES.
den were today journeying to-
ward Germany on a sister ship,
the Stuttgart, which flew its
flags at half-mast in memory Of
the two women passengers who
lost their lives in the disaster.
An official inquiry revealed that
the Norwegian pilot on the
bridge at the time Of the Ores
den's collision with O hulk had
no certificate for the waters
the accident occurred.
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NICARAGUA

MANAGUA, June 23.-Gen.
Jose Maria Moncada, former
chief executive of Nicaragua, has
described the shooting Of Augusta
Cesar SANDING, famous rebel lead
er, as "a great benefit to the
public" Speaking at q banquet
in Granada, General Moncada
said the Staying was an act of
pure patriotism" and that the
fatal germs Of social decomposi-
ton persisted with him."
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ARGENTINA

BUENOS AIRES, June % (U.SO
Reports that Gen. Hans Kundt,
German militarist who was hired
to command the Bolivian forces
in the Chaco war, has been aSsaS.
sinated by Paragraphs were de.
MED officially last night by the
Bolivian legation here.
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Secretary Ends Life
ODer Hartman FnLL

NEW YORK, June 23 0.N.SJ .
The world came to an end for
Sarah A. Burke, SIS, when Joseph
w. Hartman, banker. was found
guilty Of misuSing the funds Of his
Institution. She was his secretary
for a. years. and he was the hero
Of hsy narrow life.
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Glass Worker Dies
After 6O-FOOt Drop

BALTIMORE, June 23.-Walter
Zeller, Is, is dead Of injuries SUI.
fered late yesterday when he fell
so feet from a roof and fractured
both arms and his spine. Mr..
Zeller, a glass worker, was install
ing glass on the roof when he
missed his footing. He died several
hours later at Mercy Hospital.
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GERMANY

BERLIN, June % Q.N.S0.-A
report from Vienna that changes
in the Austrian cabinet are i'm
pending which would remove
Chancellor Dollfuss from his post
as head of the government, was
printed today in the Berlin press.
According to this report, 8 Anton
Rintlen, at present minister to
Rome and regarded as pro4Ger-
man in his attitude, will replace
Dollfuss as chancellor.
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WOMEN TO DINE

A number of members Of the
Alexandria Business and Profess
sional Women's Club are plan
ming to attend the annual dinner
Of the Washington Club Monday
at the National Womens Club
on Bradley Lane, Washington.
Mrs. j. Alton Sullivan is chair
man of reservations in Alexandria.
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Ryder to Assume
NeU Duties Soon

Upon completion Of his work
ministration within the next few
days, Oscar B. Ryder expects to
assume his new position as q
member Of the United States
Tariff Commission.
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CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as Of June
81. $2,679, 006, 208.46; internal
revenue, $4,414,206.65; customs
receipts, $l4,595,0 59.55.
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FRANCE

PARIS, June % CU.S0.-Mme.
Zebra Coyomdjoglou. wife of q
Bagdad date merchant, and pro-
tector Of Samuel insult, fallen Chi
cago utilities magnate, while he
was in Athens, Greece, yesterday,
booked passage on the liner
Bremen, which sails for the United
States tomorrow. It was under.
stood Mrs. Margaret Bird insult
would also sail for America on
the same boat.
PARIS, June 23.-Fake bombs,
apparently mailed by jokesterS
attempting to initiate the real
explosives used by the Three
Judges Of Hell" in terrorizing the
authorities, have been found /
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postoffices here. A genuine bomb,
however, was also discovered yes
terday. It bore no mark Of the
Three Judges"
The Washington times., 1934-03-08
Foreign Influence Is Evident
In House Committee Report
Bu James T. Williams, Jr.

congressional committee shoult
be squandering the peoples
money cluttering up the records
of an official hearing on a ma
tional defense appropriation
bill with page after page OF
gratuitouS allegations by an
alien that British, French, 1tal''
ian and Japanese aircraft are
vastly superior to American air
craft?
What the American people
will want to know is why a con-
gressional committee should go
out of its way to advertise its
apparent doubt of the reliability
of the testimony of the high
command of the American
Army and the American Navy?
Sinister Purpose
What the American people
will want to know is why any
committee of a Democratic Con-
gress should appear so distrust-
full of the Democratic admins
tration of the War and Navy
Departments and of the expert
judgment of the high command
of the American Army and
Navy as to broadcast alien al.
legations that contradict the
sworn testimony of loyal Amer
ican officials of proven COM
potency?
What the American people
will want to know is under
what article Of the Federal
Constitution the administrative
tasks Of military or naval pro"
curement can be properly madN
a responsibility of the legisla.
tive branch of the Govern
ment.
Ever since the American peo-
pie refused to reject the advice
and counsel of George Wash
ington regarding foreign policy.
this country has been flooded
with foreign agents and foreign
propaganda, the purpose OF
W111C11 was W oGdAA4PCOO OAIO
7 country into Old World polltr
ical alliances.
Is the country now to be
overrun with foreign propa-
gandistS and foreign propa-
ganda the sinister purpose OF
which seems to be to under.
mine the national defense OF
the United States on land and
sea and in the air?
If there are any American
"majorS" hanging around the
British Parliament or any other
European parliament attempt
ing to tell the British govern
ment or the French govern
ment how their armies and
navies should be organized and
equipped, the American people
have yet to know of it.
Copyright, 1884. The Washington
Times Company
The Washington times., 1934-03-08
By James T. ]

Apparently the Democratic
leadership of the House of Rep
resentatives labors under the
hallucination that George Wash
ington did not know what he
was talking about when in his
Farewell Address he bequeathed
to his people this stern warning:
"Asoinst the insidious Wites
of foreign influence, ] conjuTe
you to believe me, felloW citi-
zens, the Jealousy of a free
people ought to be CONSTANT.
LY 0wake; since history and
experience prove that foreign
influence is one of the most
baneful foes of republican gOU-
ernment."
Foreign influence, as exer-
cised by aliens and their dupeS
in the Federal City, is going to
be lone of the most banefu
foes" of our national legislators
unless the congressional COM
mittees stop using the allega'
tions of itinerant aliens to re-
flute the testimony of the high
command of the American
Army and Navy regarding the
National Defense.
Flagrant Example
This has been going on for
more than q year but the most
flagrant example Of this as
founding practice appears IN
the printed hearings on the War
Department appropriation bill
for 1885 before the subcomm1t-
tee of the House Committee on
Appropriations.
The chairman of this sub
committee - Congressman Ross
Collins of Mississippi-accordlng
to the official report Of these
hearings made the following ad-
mission, while the Chief OF the
Army Air Corps was testify1ng
in executive session.
After acceding to the request
of this officer, General Foulois,
not to insert in the public rec
ord the confidential data Of the
War Department regarding the
relative performance Of Amer
lean and foreign airplanes, Mr..
Collins said:
81 haUe charts that sOers pre-
pared by Major M0cKeanzie-
Kennedy, a Britisher, that I Oill
put in the record for tUhat they
are North; / do not Oouch for
them or agree Uith these fig
ures. He says eOery figure has
been checked and rechecked.
They show our planes as being
Uery much below those of Eng
land, France and Italy, and
eUen the Japanese"
What the American people
will want to know is why a
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extent that that recovery includes the expenditure of
money for decent wages.
AND THE CONCLUSION IS INEsCAPABLE
THAT THOSE RECALCITRANT OR RELUCTANT
EMPLOYERS ARE FINDING JUST THE EXCUSE
THAT THEY NEED IN THE RECALCITRANCY
AND RELUCTANCE OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
TO DEAF, PROMPTLY AND WITH ENLIGHTEN
MENT WITH THE FEDERAL PAY RESTORATION
AMENDMENT
Every day that the House continues it's game Of "com
mttee committee who has the bll it is inviting non
compliance by industry with the Presidents program.
With amazing effrontery the very men who are de-
laying the enactment of this essential recovery measure
pretend to be the champions of the general reconstruct
tion program.
If they really have the interest of that program at
heart they will abandon their dilatory and
get behind the McCarran amendment.
All of their arguments against the restoration have
been knocked into cooked hat by the presidential ad
dress to the NRA code authorities.
That address clearly pointed the only way we
travel toward recovery-that way is labeled by the
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CALORY SPENDING
ut I don't > 16 neck, then I'll compromise on I

which uses 116, but I don't
read aloud-or have anyone
read aloud to me. if I can help
it-sew by hand, stand at at
tention, or knit % stitches a
minute on a sweater. I don't
even knit three stitches a min
ute on a sweater.
On some days, when am in
rare form and feel like stepping
out, might expend the 118
calories that are given for
dressing and undressing" but
my work is such that I really
don't have to get on more than
a pair of slippers and a sweater
to be in uniform, and it GER
tainly doesn't take me an hour
to do that, so I couldn't take
credit for the full 118.
On those nights, however,
when I have to put studs into a
dress shirt and button the COL
lar, I guess that I use up enough
calories to make up my quota.
In fact, I note that Saving
wood" uses up 48O calories, and
If saving wood isn't easier than
buttoning q 1512 collar around q
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AZ 44COhS O4ACA4 ~ NS~A~k>A ~~~~~~> S~~
400 calories.
It says that singing exhausts
122 calories, but it doesn't mem
ton humming, and that's about
as far as I ever get. "Typewrit-
ing rapidly" rates 140, but I
don't typewrite rapidly. In fact,
there are hours when I sit at a
typewriter without hitting a key.
I didn't even look to see what
ironing with five-pound iron"
expends, for I wasn't interested.
Sweeping bare floor, 80 strokes
per minute" was also one of the
items I didn't follow along with
my finger to the calory column:
I was disturbed to find that
"walking moderately fast" was
put down at 3.75 miles per
hour 600 calories). I would
consider walking 3.75 miles per
hour as running, and at a
good clip, at that. walking
very fast-5.3 miles per. hour"
uses up the largest number OF
calories in the lst-650-even
more than running at 5.S miles
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I have just been looking at q
table showing the energy, in
calories, expended per hour by
q man weighing 154 pounds,
under different conditions Of
muscular activity, and I am
shocked to find that I must
come under the designation Of
"Calory Hoarder." I guess that
I still must have the first
calory I ever earned.
According to this table, IS
calorieS per hour are expended
by Just sleeping and II by just
being awake. Sitting at rest"
uses UP 100 calories per hour,
making my grand total lit cal
ories when I am sitting at rest
awake, and 165 when I am sit
ting at rest asleep. can't find
any other form of muscular &C.
tivity in the list that I really
go in for, certainly not by the
hour.
For example, there is read
ing aloud" (105), "hand sew
ing" Gid, standing at atten-
ton" (115), and knitting (23
stitches per minute on Sweater)"
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By Robert Benchley

per hour (57O, but we don't
even have to discuss that, al
though I don't see how it can
be. I suppose that it is be.
cause anyone foolish enough
to try to run at that rate
wouldn't be able to finish out
the hour.
All in all, I don't suppose
that, in the twenty-four hours
including the 143 consumed in
being asleep and being awake,
I use up more than 500 calor-
les, which is the exact amount
expended in one hour Of
swimming, according to the
table. But I don't have all
that bother Of changing to q
swimming suit and back to
street clothes again, and I
don't get all wet and blue
around the lips. I think I'll
just spend my 500 a day, and
see what happens.
copyright, 1894, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
ARTICLES By Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
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ONCE-OVERS

something equally worthwhile
from the hostess, to be drowned
out or compelled to listen to the
radio.
Nearly every family has its
favorite stations.
Too often they bring them
in without consulting the guests.
Insisting upon the superiority
of these programs, they will self.
ishly keep them going and COM
ing. j.
Radios are so common that
nearly everyone has a list OF ia
vorites. -.
It is annoying to be obliged
to listen to something person.
ally irritating.
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The Human Side of the News
Bv EdUin C.. Hill
keenan, Proves Nemesis of Gangsters

is determined to turn his per-
sonal attention to Kidding the
country of professional Grimm
ais and ending a reign Of ter.
ror and blackmail to which
noble industries have been sub
jected, as well as individuals.
Through his immediate sub
ordinates-the Attorney General
of the United States and Joe
Keenan, and others in the De-
partment Of Justice-he is al
ready on the job. but the day
will come when Franklin D.
Roosevelt himself will give per-
sonal attention to the job, and
throw into it the extraordinary
vitality Of purpose which is his
that and his singular power
of rousing public sentiment be-
hind him.
Immediate Task
It is possible, even probable,
that he will move for the crea-
ton of some body of national
police, something resembling
Scotland Yard, which will have
authority the country over,
across State lines; some reso-
lutte authority which will know
how to deal with crooked poll
ticians who give protection to
racketeerS and wink at kid
naperS.
Those who know the PreSi-
dent best know that he is sick
of the rapacious greed of Hitter.
ate demagogues and their al.
lance with criminals, and that
he will find a way to crush
them. His present and imme-
diate task is to rescue many mil
lions Of Americans from tn 9
moraSs of poverty caused by the
collapse of an industrial system;
but the other will follow, and
it takes no prophet to surmise
that before the end Of his preSi~
dency, or perhaps before the
end Of his present term, there
will be such a round up Of deS.
peradoes as the country never
knew before. Men like Joe Kee-
nan are doing his work now, but
others must be found Of the
same hard fibre, who will strike
without fear or favor.
Linked together are the
newsetteS that people are marry
ing again and that there is q
big slump in divorces in Reno.
The Blue Eagle apparently has
turned out to be Cupid. Among
other signs of better times
this news must take it's place,
for the depression certainly dis
couraged many pairs of young
things who couldn't believe that
two could live as cheaply as
one. And divorces in Reno have
fallen off about Is per cent.
Along with this DR.. William
E. Sadler, Chicago psychiatrist,
comes to bat with the asser-
tion that money is the cause Of
most marriage failures. So he
told a thousand Methodist min
listers. Money and not sex, says
DR.. Sadler, is what spills the
matrimonial beans, the chief
cause, at all events.
In the order of their i'm
portance DR.. Sadler rates the
following causes Of domestic
discord: Money, sex. tempera-
ment, children, relatives, re-
ligion and sickness. He makes
no mention of plain cusSedneSS.
Copyright, 1894 King Features
SVndfpat0 INel
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Radio Etiquette

Ra0lO ELlqucCCc
When you are entertaining
guests don't force them to lis
ten to your favorite radio pro-
grams.
No matter how excellent, the
entertainment may be boresome
to your guest, who perhaps
would prefer to hear something
totally different.
Few persons like loud tones.
The popular and pleasing
hostess will ascertain what the
guest would like to hear, if any
thing, over the radio.
It is not enjoyable to the per-
son who has something worth
saying or who wishes to learn
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leader INCREASE OF THE CONSUMERS PUR-
CHASING POWER"
Those who would guide us by another way would
lead us into pitfalls and bitches.
THOSE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE WHO ARE
IN DOUBT AS TO THE POSITION THEY SHOULD
TAKE WHEN GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO
VOTE ON THE McCARRAN A MENDM ENT
SHOULD BEWARE OF THESE FALSE LEADERS,
Right now those false leaders have led the House into
detour. They have side tracked the measure which
would send the Government along the pathway it is
urging upon it's citizens.
BUT THAT DETOUR CANNOT LAST FOREVER.
EVENTUALLY THE McCARRAN AMENDMENT
WILL, COME OUT OF THE DETOUR AND REACH
THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.
Then will the membership of that body have an op
portunity to stand and be counted.
BY THAT VOTE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
WILL BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHICH OF
THEIR REPRESENTATIVE WANT TO ABANDON
THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM AND WHICH,
ARE WILLING TO GIVE IT THE SUPPORT
WHICH IT DESERVES.
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Congress cannot step the clear cut duty imposed
upon by the Government program in regard to private
industry.
THAT DUTY COMPELs IMMEDIATE AND COM
PLETE RESTORATION OF THE SALARIES OF
THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
WOMEN WHO CARRY ON THE FUNCTIONS OF
THE FEDERAL SERVICE.
The evasion and equivocation which the McCarran
salary restoration amendment to the Independent Of
fices Appropriation Bill is meeting in the House IN
DICATE CLEARLY THAT SOMEONE IN HIGH
AUTHORITY IN THAT BODY Is OUT OF LINE
WITH THE GOVERNMENTS RECOVERY POLICY.
The dodging and ducking which some members of
that body are executing to be designed to give
succor and to those backward private
employers who are resisting the efforts of the Govern
ment to put the working man back into the buying
market.
Everyone knows that there are few private en-
poyers whom the recent address of the President on
purchasing wages" is just lot of words.
Everyone knows that there some few private en-
poyers who determined to hold back recovery to the