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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
ROOSEVELT FISHING
IN FAv0RITE SPOT
Barracuda Is Sought in
Bahama Waters.
BIZ United Press

By CnitCd Press
MIAMI, Fla, March 25.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today revisited his
old fishing grounds in the British
waters of the Bahamas, calling at
Cat Cay and Great Inagua Island
in his quest for barracuda and the
gamey bone fish.
Two bulletins via Navy radio to
temporary White House executive
offices at the Miami Biltmore, traced
the course of the chief executive.
The bulletin said;
ITO Secretary Marvin H. Nc
Intire:
The President in Monaghan (de-
stroyer) left Cat Island for
Mathewtown, Great Inagua Island
at 5:45 p. m. Tuesday"
ITO McIntire from the President:
Both ships Monaghan and
Dale spending day at anchor near
Cat Island so miles from San Sal
vador, the landfall of Columbus.
FiShed this morning catching
enough for supper. Proceeding to-
night to Great Inagua Island. Rem
devious there tomorrow with Po-
tomac. All we'll"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
Ohio May Go Over go Feet,
Is Prediction as Rains
Swell Tributaries.
BU United Press


CINCINNATI, O., March 25.-The
Ohio River may be surging toward
another and greater flood at Gin
cinnati, United States Meteorological
w. c. Davereaux reported today.
The new rise probably will pass so
feet, he said He was unable to tell
how much higher the water would
rise.
The river passed it's predicted
crest of SO feet here and rose to
59.6 feet early today and then was
about stationary. 1t was believed
1t would begin to fall, but heavy
rains in the upper Ohio Valley
have sent tributaries out of their
banks and pouring new floods into
the Ohio.
The Ohio has done compare
lively little damage here and its
peak had been SO flattened by
spreading that it's force was
considered to be practically spent.
Widespread suffering existed in
small Kentucky communities on the
other bank, and further small, low
lying communities may be in
undated. But Louisville and other
cities were considered safe. Relief
and rehabilitation efforts were CEN
tered on, the Kentucky shore, where
several thousand families had been
driven from their homes and disease
threatened.
Fifty blocks of Newport and Gov
ington, KY, still were under water.
Homes in Maysville were flooded and
half of Augusta was inundated
where only two of Is business
houses remained dry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
State Flood Near Crest;
NelU Danger at Cincinnati
High Waters Continue to
lnundate LoWIands on
the Ohio.

Ohio River flood waters continued
to spread over southern Indiana
bottom-lands today observers
predicted that by the IA of the
week lowland residents will be re-
turning to their homes.
Dwellers in the villages of Mark
land and Florence, in Switzerland
County, left their homes today as
the river stage rose three feet.
Glass work in Florence schools was
to be halted and the school building
may be converted into temporary
living quarters for the towns 275
inhabitants.
Markland's 200 residents expected
to be isolated from the rest of the
state by the flood waters.
Grocery stores in both towns re-
ported sufficient food to outlast the
flood if excessive rains do not pro-
long the high water.
At Vevay the river reading was
almost 81 feet with 535 crest ex-
pected. Warnings were sent to low
land jewellers not to return to their
homes until they were assured that
the flood crest had passed.
Aurora, isolated by the high We
tiers inundating highways, expected
a 60-foot crest today with recession
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
POLICE HUNTING
HIT-RUN KILLER
Aged Woman Tossed SO
Feet by Impact; Young
Driver Gives Chase.

An intensive search was begun by
police today for the hit-and-
driver who struck and fatally in
jured 80-year-old Mrs Eva Nc
Gill, - NJ Beville-av, while she was
on her way to church last night.
The ar ;ident occurred at Beville-av
and E New York-st.
Her leath brought the Mario
County traffic toll to Is for the year.
The victims body was hurled so
feet and thrown against another
automobile, Without slackening
speed, the driver of the death car
raced east on New York-st.
A description of the vehicle was
given by Richard Trustee, 20, of 1879
S. Ritter-av, who pursued the hit
and-run car but was outdiStanced
when forced to stop for traffic sig
nal.
He said the fugitives car was
dark green or blue coupe. Police
found the cover to the cars crank
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
NEW FIGHT FOR
STEVE MAPPED
Defense Counsel at Odds
With State View, Hints
u. S. Action

The state and defense attorneys
for D. c. Stephenson, former Ku-
KluX Khan dragon, were at odds to-
day over what avenues are open to
him in his fight to escape serving
the entire life sentence for murder,
now that the Indiana Supreme
Court has barred itself to further
action.
j, Edward BARGE, assistant attor-
ney general, said there are but two
immediate state routes open; petit
ton for writ of error coram robis
to the Hamilton Circuit Court
where he was convicted, Nov. a.,
1925, and executive clemency.
Alban M. Smith, La Porte, ste
phenSon's chief counsel, while he
has not decided what the next move
will be today, indicated it would be
made in Federal Court.
Hints at u. S. Action
ut would be absurd for us to file
a writ of error coram nobiS," he
said, since by so doing we would
recognize the Jurisdiction of the
Hamilton Circuit Court, a thing we
always have attacked.
we have claimed that the origi-
nal trial court itself was in con-
spiracy against Stephenson, even
though there might be no error on
its records.
THE Federal Court previously
ruled out our case by holding that
Stephenson hadn't exhausted all
remedies in the state courts. 1t is
evident now that the state courts
have closed their doors to him."
The Supreme Court made perma-
nent a temporary writ of prohibition
directed against Judge Writ c. Wor-
den, La Porte Circuit Court, pre-
venting Judge Worden from hearing
writ of habeaS corpus action
brought by Stephenson.
Climaxing several weeks of legal
maneuvering between Stephenson's
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
JESSE JR.'S MOTHER
Is ORDERED TO TRIAL

Mrs. Livermore Longcope to Face
Court for Shooting Son.
By United Press
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, March
25.-Mrs. Dorothea Livermore Long
cope, divorced wife of Jesse Liver
more, spectacular Wall Street opera
tor, was ordered to trial today for
shooting their 16-year-old son, Jesse
Jr.
The thrice-postponed hearing was
set by District Attorney Percy Heck
endorf after physicians informed
him Jesse Jr would be well enough
to stand court appearance. Since
his release from Cottage Hospital,
where he was in a critical condition
for more than two months, Jesse Jr
has been living with his mother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
Pittsburgh Threatened

By tHtt6d Press
PITTSBURGH, March 25.-Low-
lying sections of Pittsburgh along
the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers
prepared today for more high water
before they had finished clearing
away the debris left by last weeks
record flood.
w. S. Brotzman, Federal metero-
logist, predicted at 10 a. m. that
the waters at the Point" conf1u-
ence of the Monongahela and Allie
gheny Rivers to form the Ohio,
probably would reach crest of be-
tween Bis and 80 feet about mid
night. Flood stage is IS feet.
Such a crest. however would be
is feet below the devastating flood
of last week, which did an estimated
more than $4,000 900 damage, much
of it in PittSburgh's Golden Tri-
angle" business center.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
Brother Denies Victim of
H0gging Was Communist

Shoemaker, Sam Rogers and E. F.
Poulnot, labor organizers, were
seized by a masked mob Nov. 80
after they had been released from
the city police station where they
were questioned concerning alleged
Communistic activities. Shoemaker
died of the tarring and f1ogging
given the trio.
c. A. Brown. Jonn r. Bridges and
c. w. Carlisle, former city police
men, are the first of IL defendants
TO be tried in connection with the
foggings. Former Chief of Police
Richard G. Ellsworth has been in
dicted as an accessory.
L. D. Shoemaker said his brother
was a Socialist in Vermont untig he
realized the party was not strong.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
0ARP SPLIT IS
LAID TO THIRD
PARTY THREAT
ToWnSendites Discouraged
as Co-Founder Clements
Quits Post.
BY MAX STERN
BY MAX STERN
Times Special Writer


WASHINGTON, March 25. -
Townsendites in Congress were out
wardly unruffled but privately dis
couraged today after the resignation
of the Old-Age Revolving Pension
Plans co-founder and vice presi-
dent, Robert E. Clements of Long
Beach, Cal
The resignation, coupled with
Clements statement that it resulted
from fundamental differences be-
tween himself and DR.. Frank E
Townsend, took the capitol by sur
prise.
1T was very unfortunate, said
Rep. McGroarty 3D., Cali, sponsor
of the Townsend Plan bill. ut was
particularly unfortunate in view OF
tht pending investigation"
The schism, it is learned, grew
from DR.. Townsend's announcement
that he would launch third party
movement, a course criticised by
Clements as impractical and dan
gerous to the Townsend Plans sue
cess.
ReOry4 ~izatiOn Also Blamed
The second collision is said to
have followed DR.. TownSend'S reor-
ganization of the OARP'S director
ate. Meeting with his brother, Wal l.
ter Townsend, a Los Angeles hotel
porter, DR.. Townsend is said to have
decided to enlarge the triumvirate-
DR.. Townsend, Conner Smith and
Clements-into a fve-man director
ate. At Kansas City DR.. Townsend
announced two new names, those OF
Or. A. j. Wright, Cleveland ex-
clergyman, and Gilmore Young OF
San Francisco. This move Clements
is said to have interpreted as q coup
by the doctor to diminish his power.
The final difference came over
the presidential candidacy of Sen
ator Borah. DR.. TOWnsend's in
dorSement of Borah was bitterly
opposed by Clements, who held that
Borah was not real Townsendite.
Borah's subsequent criticisms of the
transaction tax, and his suggestion
that I'VE can afford a $60-monthly
pension" instead of the 5000 Town
send one, caused DR.. Townsend to
temper his Endorsement, or at least
his headquarters to do SO.
No one knows who will succeed
Clements. His successor will be
named by the four remaining direc-
tors. But many think that his
mantle will fall on the broad
shoulders of Conner Smith, Okla
homa City lawyer and newly named
vice president of OARP.
Committee May Guide Policy
In the meantime, policies may be
guided by a committee already in
existence. About 10 days ago an at
tempt was made to arbitrate the
Townsend Clements feud and bring
about peace in the management.
DR.. Townsend named DR.. Wright
Clements is said to have named
Tom Wallace (the movements
radio directory, and Wright and
Wallace selected a neutral third,
Frank Arbuckle, a former Califor-
MIA state Senator.
Efforts by this committee to get
the doctor and his former Man Fri
day to shake and make up failed
Clements will be the first witness
at tomOrrow's House investigation
of the Townsend plan. His resigna-
ton is effective April /.
DR.. Townsend will arrive soon to
testify.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25

By United Press
TAMPA, Fla, March 25-A denial
that Joseph Shoemaker. lash
murder victim, was Communist
was made today as Judge Robert T..
Dewell delayed until this afternoon
his ruling on change of venue mo-
ton in the trial of three former po-
licemen accused of fiogging three
labor organizers.
AS Judge Dewell recessed court to
study exhibits in the venue plea,
L. D. Jack Shoemaker, brother of
one of the fog victims, issued a
statement to the press that Joseph
Shoemaker was mot Communist I"
Jurors were ordered to return
this afternoon and witnesses we're
told to report tomorrow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
$4,000 BLAZE
AT FISHERS IS
HELD IN CHECK
Shift in Wind Saves Town
in Hamilton County
From Destruction.
ELEVATOR IS DESTROYED
Residents Form Bucket Bri-
gadeS to Protect Homes
From Flames.
BY TOM OCHILTREE
Times STAFF Writer

FISHERS, Ind, March 25.-A
shift of wind saved this small Ham
ilton County community from de-
struction today as a swiftly burn
ing fire destroyed the Fishers Grain
Co. elevator and burned several
homes at an estimated los sof more
than $4,000
For less than two minutes, the
wind shifted from a westerly di-
rection to a northerly direction,
threatening houses and homes.
Three grainery employees, John
Crossley, Herchell Kessler and Dick
Blackford, were forced to flee from
the elevator as the flames ragged
through the 80-foot wooden struc-
ture $50 feet into the sky.
Six Houses Singed
Six houses were singed by the
flames. Twenty-Five persons in the
threatened area moved their house
hold goods into the street as fire
apparatus played water onto the
houses.
Fire officials believed that if the
wind had remained from the north,
the entire town might have been
destroyed because of lack of water.
Smoke could be seen four miles
down the highway, even after the
fire had passed its peak.
Ten minutes after the fire was
noticed, flames shot through the
structure, and residents formed
bucket brigades to save their own
homes. The elevator was left
smoking ruin as the iron sidings
were crumpled by the heat.
Homes of J. H. Allen. Mrs. Josie
Hartman, DR.. j. P. Heath, R. E.
Harold and Vorie Manship and the
telephone exchange were singed by
flying sparks. The local operator re-
manned at her post, calling nearby
towns for fire apparatus.
M. G. Comas, president of the
grainery, said the loss was partially
covered by insurance. Fishers is
community of about $50 persons Is
miles northeast of indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
CUTS FATAL TO ACTOR
Mccullough, Veteran Comedian. Dies
as Suicide.
By United Press

MEDFORD, Mass. March 25.-
Paul T. Mccullough, Swear old
member of the veteran comedy team
of Clark and Mccullough, died today
from wounds inflicted with a razor
in a suicide attempt Monday night
McCulloughs act in grabbing a
razor from BARRIERS hand arid
slashing his ownthroat and one wrist
was attributed to nervous disor-
der for which he had been under
treatment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
PROCESS TAX PLAN
SHELVED IN HOUSE
Group Feels Other Levies
Will Meet Needs.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The
House Ways and Means tax sub
committee today shelved the Pres
ident's proposal for 1921 100000 in
new processing taxes covering 80
different commodity classifications.
The subcommittee decid d
against congressional consideration
of the processing levies because of
belief that other taxes would Weld
more than 1892 200, 900 annually.
Chairman Samuel B. Hill said.
The other taxes are a corporate
surplus tax and So-called wind
fall tax on uncollected or returned
processing taxes under the old AAA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
Simms Finds Diplomats
MuddIed in Search for
Continental Peace.
ALL PLANS ARE VAGUE
London League Meeting
FIunked Opportunity to
Obtain Compromise.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINIMS
Scripps Howard Foreign Editor

LONDON, March 25.-I
have been an eyewitness to
most Of Europe's troubles for
25 years. | have seen many
a mess and muddle. But
never have | witnessed so
complete or so crazy a situa-
ton as that now confronting
this quarter of the globe.
Despite what official communi-
ques may say, and despite what in
dividual delegates may opine, no.
body seems to have the slightest
idea which way he or anybody else
is headed.
All seem to be aware they are 60
ing some place, but to be pleasantly
ignorant of where they will stop.
stood on the red plush stairway
that leads down from the council
chamber of st. James Palace as
the secret meeting broke up late
yesterday.
Constructive Plans Lacking
Down they all came-the great
leaders of modern Europe-headed
by the handsome and extraordinar-
lily youthful British foreign minister,
Anthony Eden. And they were
/ mostly smiling-behaving exactly
like boys dismissed from classroom
for shamelessly fiunking their les
sons. Which is precisely what they
had done.
To the issue at collective
peace or war in Europe-admittedly
none had an answer.
Everybody seemed vague. None
had constructive proposal-save
one. And his proposal was to adj
journ sine die until somebody
thought up something, whereupon
they would sound a call and meet
again, the next time at Geneva.
Not to be too cynical, one worth
while thing has been done since the
muddling began: Namely, the post
pOnement of hostilities.
COOling-Off Period Here
At one time it looked like war in
48 hours. That failed to material
iZe, and now comes a cooling off
period while Europe waits for its
dc ~ f.,
the League council to ponder.
Perhaps, too, miracle will hap
pen. Perhaps somebody will hit
upon plan whereby Europe's CROP
ing statesmen may find way out.
For the moment, however, there
is a chasm deep enough to swallow
the liner Queen Mary between the
views of the British and the
French.
Between Germany and France is
another chasm even more colossal.
Between Italy and the Locarno
powers, of course, and between her
and the League of Nations, is gulf
that can be bridged only by the
Leagues permission, tacit or ex-
pressed, for her to have her way in
Ethiopia.
The whole conception of collec-
tive peace was never in such dire
peril as today. 1t is the result OF
the failure to apply the rules as
laid down by Woodrow Wilson and
other architects of the league.
None has dared hew to the line
and let the chips fall where they
might.
They backed down on Man.
churia. They backed down on Ethi-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
DEATH SUSPECTS FREED
Alibi for Bloomingdale Murder Is
Substantiated by Police.

State police have released Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene Haddad, of Michi-
gan City, held in the Marion County
Jail since Sunday for questioning in
connection with the attempted
Bloomingdale bank robbery last
week in which a bandit and cashier
were slain. Capt. Matt Leach said
alibis of the couple had been sub
stantiated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
VIOLENCE FLARES IN
GLOVE PLANT STRIKE
indianapolis Firms Plant in
Ohio PiCketed.
By United Press

By United Press
COSHOCTON, O., March 25.-Vio-
lence broke out today at the picket
besieged indianapolis Glove Co
plant, kept idle by 20 striking girl
workers armed with clubs.
Sympathetic men, members OF
unions supporting the strike called
because of 20 per cent wage re-
duction, attacked four youths who
they thought were trying to enter
the plant. One suffered serious
head injuries.
A hundred striking women
kept from their jobs camped in
Mayor w. L. Craig's Office, awaiting
arrival of a government conciliator
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
TRIO. TRIAL Is SET
Filling Station Operator Loses Plea
for Lower Bail,

Sam Trotcky. filling station op-
orator, was arraigned in Marion
County Criminal Court today on
charges of embezzlement and grand
larceny. He pleaded not guilty."
Trial was set for April 2.
Judge Frank Baker denied the
plea of Howard Bates, his lawyer,
for reduction in the bond of SIS, 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
SENATE FIGHT FACES
PETTENGlLL HAUL BILL

Serious Obstacles FOreseen for Act
Passed by House.
By UHitcd Press
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The
Pettengill long and-short haul bill,
subject of bitter controversy in the
House before its passage there late
yesterday, faced an uncertain future
today in the Senate.
Although the measure command
ed House majority of 215 to Al,
there are serious obstacles to SEN
ate approval.
The bill would permit railroads
to charge less for long haul of
freight than the sum total of in
termediate rates subject to 1. c. c..
supervision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
DROP LAMSON CASE.
CALIFORNIA Is URGED

Petitions Ask Abandonment of Effort
to Convict Salesman.
By United Press
SAN JOSE, Cal, March 25.-While
David A. Lamson waited dejectedly
petitions were circulated in at least
two Santa Clara County commun-
tiles today demanding that the state
abandon its three-year- effort to
convict the former Stanford press
salesman of Staying his wife, Allene
Thorpe Lamson. who was found dead
in her bathtub on Memorial Day,
1893.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
CITY INVITES FARLEY
ON TROLLEY LEVIES
Rate Based on Mileage for Trackless
Vehicles Suggested.

The Board of Public Works today
sought a conference with the In
dianapolis Railways to determine
the mileage rate to be paid by the
company for use of the city streets
by trackleSS trolleyS.
A letter was sent by the board
requesting that negotiations be
opened not later than Friday. Track
less trolleys in the city are eSti-
mated to run over approximately
49.3 miles of streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
1884 ARMS EMBARGO
INVALID, JUDGE RULES
Proclamation on Gran Chaco Was
Held Unconstitutional.

By OHtted Press
NEW YORK, March 25.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's arms embargo
proclamation Of 1884, forbidding
shipment OF arms to Bolivia and
Paraguay, who were then at war,
was held unconstitutional today by
Federal Judge Mortimer w. Byers.
The court held this opinion in
sustaining demurrer to the first
of two counts in an indictment
charging the Cartiss- Wright Aero
plane and Motor Co., affiliates and
several individuals with conspiracy
ito defraud the government of it's
functions" in carrying out the
Presidents proclamation.
The defendants were accused of
shipping machine guns to Bolivia
during the Gran Chaco dispute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
MEMPHIS We MAN FINED
Nurse Sent to Prison for Forging
Narcotic Prescription.

Miss Lucille Klein, 80, who claims
she is a graduate nurse from Mem
phis, Tenn, was fined $50 and costs
and sentenced to 100 days in the
Indiana Women's Prison by Mu-
nicipal Judge Charles j. Karabell
today on charges of obtaining mar
cotics by forging a prescription.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
MERCURY TO DROP,
WEATHER MAN SAYS
Freezing Temperatures in
City Possible.

The mercury is scheduled to drop
to freezing some time tonight, the
Weather Bureau predicted today.
Although tomorrow may be
cloudy, the chilly spell is not ex-
pected to last long. Temperatures
held to steady rise this morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
40 HOMES SHAKEN BY
LAND FALL IN MINE

Collapse Brings Quake Fears to
Residents If Illinois Town.
BIZ United Press
JOHNSTON CITY, Ill, March Is.
An earthquake" which shook 40
homes, fiattened out a highway
grade and opened at least one sur
face crack, was diagnosed today as
a land fall in a subterranean mine.
The fall may stop leaking of water
from one mine into another where il
had threatened to halt operations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-25
IRISH OFFICIALS HUNT
ADMIRAL'S MURDERERS
Four Killers Escape After Staying
Harry Boyle SOmerville.
By United Press

marry DOyic SOncFVluc.
By United Press
CORK, Ireland, March 25.-Civil
guards throughout southern Ireland
sought today car in which four
men escaped after killing Vice Ad-
miral Henry Boyle Somerville, re-
tired, one of Great Britain's most
distinguished naval officers, at his
home at Castletownshend.
There were two clewS-tire marks
in the road before the admirals
home and a British recruiting post
er which the assaSsins threw on the
floor in the hall of the home. The
poster was believed to disclose the
motive for the murder, as Somer-
vile had been active in the cam
paign to obtain recruits for the
British navy. Admiral Somerville
was ".