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FURNITURE! The Jap boy says:
"a swell home is where japanese
servant polishes fine furniture each
day and tell callers the land lady
is at bridge party at Mr.. Jones !"
Play bridge where you please. You
will find the furniture at Durocher's
Bargain Store, Kennewick. 16c
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FOR SALE-One horse 1900. H. ".
Gingrich, Richland, Wash. Tsp

PIANO must be sold. Balance due
SIT. You take over contract on
high grade piano, with only ST
due at S. a month. Address Mr..
Oleson, adjuster, Cline Piano Co.,
108 Union ST., Seattle, Wash. 15-17c
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STARTING on trip soon? Bet
ter have that motor tuned up and
your car completely checked for pos
sible breaks. You'll feel safer. You'll
BE safer. Come in now. Pratt's
Garage.
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mn For Sale or Trade IuI|

BONUS Small coy fur
nished home for sale, or will trade
for Yakima property or equity. Call
1851. 12tf
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YOUR WATCH works for you day
and night. See that it is cleaned
and fabricated frequently. E. H.
Behrman, Jeweler.
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|AIllIllk Miscellaneous

HATS AND CAPs-Hats cleaned
and blocked COO; caps cleaned 25c.
Peterson Dye Works, phone one
two-three, Pasco. 32t1
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lIIIIIIIIl Wante'

WANTED-Gi Girl wants general
housework, either at Kennewick
or Pasco. Call at the second place
East of the S. p. & S. depot. Pre-
fers work in town. Adelia Kippes
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lllllllllI For Sale IIIlIIIlII

FOR SALE-Fresh COW at Beall
ranch. Ice
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FOR SALE 33x5 used tire. good
condition; IA h. p. motor and pull
ley, either 10 or 220-volt. Eichner
Tin Shop.
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In the Superior Court of the State
of Washington, in and for Benton
county.
e. c. TwEET, Trustee, plaintiff
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FOR SALE+Fruit & vegetables of
all kinds; also Melted Gem seed
potatoes. Nick's Fruit stand on the
highway. Phone 2241. 1920
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FOR -Vacaville plums, 1c a
pound and you pick. SO. High
lands. F. 8. Salmon. 16p
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FOR SALE = Good. gentle work
horse; works single or double. J,
I. Hill. =
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ELECTRIC REF RIGERATION-
The modern marvel. See the latest
models in the new Westinghouse
You may own one on easy terms. L.
H. Raymond.
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WANTED Second hand, two-wheel
baby cart reed, good condition.
Phone 1851.
The Washington times., 1936-04-04

WHEN CHE U. s. Government called in gold certificates
who signed himself J. Faulkner surrendered $1,000
to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. These bills
part of the Lindbergh money The identity
of Faulkner has been disclosed Several months
ago signing himself by that (hs signature is
shown below the deposit sp) wrote to Governor Hoffman
Of New jersey declaring Hauptmann guless Nothing
came Of this clue. if. indeed. it q clue.
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at tbs p. M. IS minutes before
Hauptmann was due to go"
Watch Believed Camera
At the top Of the prison steps
each witness was thoroughly
searched by several prison guards.
They were forced to raise their
hands and remove their hats to
show that there was nothing con-
cealed within.
The witnesses were then ad-
mitted and quickly switched to
a nearby room where they we're
again thoroughly "frisked." They
were asked to sign a paper say
ing they were aware of the Law
which prohibited the taking into
the prison of am drug, liquor,
knife, dagger, pistol or camera.
The guards debated q long
time before Surrendering this
writer's wrist watch which he
carried in his trousers pocket be-
cause it had stopped running.
They thought it concealed q
miniature camera.
The word came at 7:45 p. m.
to get ready" From the outside
could be heard the peal of
church bells. The witnesses, one
at a time, moved forward toward
a barred door at the call of their
name. There they were again
thoroughly "friske d" by two
guards, one following the other
as if one alone would not be
trusted, and then each witness
was admitted through a huge
iron-barred door to a semicir-
cular room with a cement floor.
At one side was a small. glass
enclosed cubicle within which sat
two uniformed guards.
Hicks Present
It was nearing p. M. the
scheduled hour of the electrocu'
ton, and some witnesses began
to be nervous. They stood around
on the cement floor and made
talk" Some of them were pale
and silent.
The gold pendulum on the
clock on the wall moved slowly
back. The witnesses were acutely
aware of that clock. It drew
the eye like a magnet.
BY now the So witnesses had
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say something but his well.dis,
ciplined mind said mo" AS he
was half-propelled, half-pushed
toward the chair the witnesses
realized he was not going to
make any last-minute confession,
as some had anticipated.
The clock in the guards hand
was aloft. Eyes of the onlookers
shifted from the man in the
chair to the guard with the clock.
For one instant, as he stood be-
fore the chair, Hauptmann was
like a man petrified, as If turned
to stone. He was uncermoniously
put into the hot seat" by guards
who quickly strapped him in and
Executioner Elliott went to work.
The current snatched Haupt-
mann like blade of grass. What
ever strength and resistance
Hauptmann had in life was as
nothing when the fingers of death
gripped him.
1t was a thrilling, CHASTITY ex-
perience for the So witnesses who
saw the electrocution of the man
who was convicted of committing
one Of the most shocking crimes
in history.
The witnesses began reporting
at the main entrance to the prison
The Washington times., 1936-04-04
PR0BER PLANS
wendell QUIZ !

NEW YORK, April 4 GN.sO.
Paul H. Wendell, disbarred Tren-
ton IN. j. attorney who CON
feSsed" the Lindbergh baby kid.
mapping and murder, will be ques.
toned by District Attorney F. K.
Geoghan, Of Brooklyn, early next
week.
According to Wendel's story, he
was held captive in a Brooklyn
house and the confession" forced
from him. Geoghan's aides have
located tailor shop where q suit
of clothes belonging to Wendell
was cleaned and pressed while the
attorney claims he was prisoner.
According to Geoghan, the man.
ager of the tailor shop says he
can identify the man who brought
the suit to his shop.
Wendell is still in Jail at Trenton.
The Washington times., 1936-04-04
Comfort Found
By Hauptmann
In 43dPSQln1

TRENTON, N. j., April 4
GN.S0.-Rev. John Matthiesen,
who believed in Bruno Richard
Hauptmann's innocence. said that
toward the last the condemned
machine gunner meditated upon
the forty-third Psalm, Chapter 81
of st. John, and the twenty-first
Chapter of Revelation. The forty.
third Psalm:
Judge me, o God, and plead
my cause against an ungOdly
nation; 0 deliver me from the
deceitful and unjust man.
"FOr Thou art the God Of my
strength: Why dOeSt Thou cast
me off? Why go 1 mourning
because Of the oppression Of the
enemy?
20 send out Thy light and
Thy truth; let them lead me;
let them bring me unto holy
hill and to Thy tabernacleS.
"Then will / go unto the altar
Of God, unto God my exceeding
joy; yea, upon the harp will I
praise thee Of God, my God.
"Why art Thou cast down, o
my soul? And why art Thou
Quoted within me? Hope in
God; for shall yet praise Him
who Is the health Of my cOunte-
nance, and my God"
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bulbs, and into the death cham
Der itself. There were four rows
Of seats, stretching across the
width of the room, sufficient
seats to take care Of most of the
witnesses.
There in front of us was that
grim contraption known as the
electric chair. Iron braces
reached out toward it from the
wall and directly over it hung a
thick coil of wire-the electrode
soon to be clapped on Haupt-
mann'S shaved head. And also a
wire coil from below to be con-
tacted to his barred right leg.
Elliott AShen
Elliott, his face aShen, not how
ever from fright, stood calmly to
the left Of the chair occasionally
whispering to his assistant. To
the right Of the chair stood the
The Washington times., 1936-04-04
Hauptmann's Life
In Brief

TRENTON, N. j., April 4
O.N.S0 Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann-born November 26, 1899.
1913-Started to work at IA as
carpenters apprentice.
December, 1918 - Discharged
from German Army.
March 16. 1919-Arrested for
burglarizing burgomaSter's house.
1923-Arrived in New York as
Stowaway.
October 10, 1925-Married Anna
Schauffler, a domestic.
March /, 1932-Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, jr., kidnapped.
April 2, 1932-$50,00 ransom
paid by DR.. John F. Condor.
May IL, 1932-Baby Lindbergh
found dead.
September 10, 1894 - Arrested
for Lindbergh kidnap-murder.
January 2, 1935-Placed on trial
at Pennington, N. j.
February IA, 1935-Sentenced
to die in electric chair.
April /, 1936-Executed.
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six doctors and several others.
They were mumbling to each other
as one by one the other witnesses
took their seats.
Inside the enclosure which was
fenced off by a whitepiece of can
vas about the height Of a tennis
net, stood Kimberling, the doctors,
the guards and others. There
were so many of them they
threatened to obstruct the view.
When reporters stood up to get a
better view, guards standing at
the back of the room ordered them
in undertones to "sit down."
Elliott tested his apparatus. It
was o. K. Kimberling sent out to
see if there was last-minute tele.
phone call. There wasn't. Then
there was q wait.
Hauptmann shuffled in, walking
the last mile" with a firm step
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FISHER CLAIMS
BRUNO BODY

TRENTON, N. j.. April 4 ON
S).-Warden Mark o. Kimberling,
of the New Jersey State Prison, to.
day announced the body of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann will b e
claimed this afternoon at 3 o'clock
by c. Lloyd Fisher, Hauptmann's
defense counsel.
Fisher will claim the body for
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, Bruno'S
widow, the warden stated, but Mrs.
Hauptmann will not come to the
prison.
Elmer Kemp, a local undertaken,
will embalm the body at the prison,
and then it will be turned over to
a New York undertaken.
No funeral plans were disclosed.
The Washington times., 1936-04-04
Col. Lindbergh Silent
On Hauptmann Death

LONDON. April 4 INS0.
While British newspapers issued
extras containing columns Of news
about Hauptmann'S execution, dis.
played flaming posters in huge
type, and printed editorials about
Jersey justice" the central fig.
ures in the Lindbergh kidnapping
case, who are now in this country,
steadfaStly refused to break their
long silence.
Attempts to secure comment
from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
who remained at his English
haven, Long Barn." near Seven
Oaks, Kent, were fruitless. Col.
onel Lindbergh even declined to
accept a telegram asking him to
speak on the passing of Haupt.
mann,
The Washington times., 1936-04-04
DOOMED MAN
SECRETIVE
T0LAST

and that half-crooked, wistful
smile on his deathly-pale face.
1t was allover quickly, although
to the witnesses it seemed like
an age. When DR.. Weisler finally
said, This man is dead" the
guards moved away for a second.
You saw that Hauptmann's blu
ish-grey shirt had been pulled
apart, revealing his bare chest.
1t was brick red. His mouth was
agape, his eyes closed.
The last view Of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann was that Of
Strong-armed guards literally
heaving him out Of the chair in
a great lunge and carry him into
the autopsy room, as if they
couldn't get rid of him quick
enough. Thus was the CHASTITY
announcement of what reporters
have characterized as the crime
of the century"
The Washington times., 1936-04-04
Sister Declares
Hauptmann Was
Murdered

LOS ANGELES, April 4 GIN.
Stiles dead. He's been
murdered"
Repeating these words Mrs.
Emma Gloeckner. sister of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, was in a
state of collapse here today.
The middle-aged housewife re-
ceived news of her brothers execu-
ton in bed with her husband and
beautiful 18-year-old daughter at
her side.
At first she refused to believe
the boy with whom she left Ger
many 20 years ago was dead. When
she realized the truth she broke
down.
Through the long months of
Hadptmann's trials, his faithful
sister has steadfastly refused to
believe him guilty and has con-
Stantly hoped he would be saved.
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Continued from Page u

kAVAA ESQ ~
black and forlornly regarding the
man in the chair.
Rev. Matthiesen intoned:
"Hear, o Lord, when I cry
with my voice! Have mercy also
on me and answer me-"
The clergyman's words cut
through the solemn silence Of the
death chamber as guards quickly
and dexterously strapped Haupt'
mann to the chair.
Faces of the onlookers, seated
in four rows Of chairs stretching
across the white-washed room,
blanched as they saw Robert
Elliott, the tall, quaint and gray
haired executioner calmly and
mechanically step toward the
switch and throw it."
Whir-r-r.r. Whir.r-r-r. Whir-r-r.r.
A low, muffled, whine smote
the eardrums. The deadly whir
cracked and sizzled like a Fourth
of July Sparkler.
Two thousand volts of electri-
city had been shot into Haupt-
mann'S frame. The strapped-in
body lunged forward and upward
and pressed against the black
straps. But the straps held and
the thumbs of Bruno's hands
stuck up straight and rigid.
Whir-r-r.r. Whir-r-r-r. Whir-r-r-r.
Again it came, the second shot
Of juice"
Whir-r-r-r. Whir-r-r-r. Whir-r-r.r.
The third shot.
The first bolt of electricity was
unloosed by Elliott at 8:39 p. m.
This was followed in quick success.
sion by the other two shots"
which somehow seemed shorter.
At 8:42 p. m. the current was
switched off and at 8:4712, DR..
Howard Weisler, after applying a
stethoscope to Hauptmann's inert
form, said:
'This man is dead"
AS each shot of electricity was
sent laundering through Haupt-
mann'S form a dozen lights in the
front Of the electric chair lit up
brightly. Lights also famed
against the black background just
behind the chair in what looked
like a large radio apparatus.
Elliott, his gray hair glinting
under the bright lights of the
room, peered casually at the vic.
tim in the chair. He was doing
a journeyman's job with his own
peculiar dizziness. He was seeing
to it that everything was going all
right.
Standing to the right of the
chair, watching with professional
eyes, were six doctors. When
Elliott finally turned off the
Juice" these physicians moved up
to the chair and studied the vic
tim.
Hauptmann, of course, was
dead. He was dead when the first
1000 volts shot through his body.
When at 8:4712 p. m. he was
pronounced officially dead, the
doctor had no sooner uttered the
words than guards, like vultures
bouncing on their prey, swooped
to the chair, rapidly released the
straps and removed the black
mask from Bruno's face.
There, for a second or two, sat
the lifeless form of Hauptmann.
His eyes were now closed, his
mouth open. A CHASTITY sight. For
a moment it seemed he would slip
to the floor. But the guards were
too fast and too expert. They
seized the body about the legs and
in a quick movement carried the
The Washington times., 1936-04-04
ELECTRIC BOLTS END E4AUPTk1ANNS LIFE, SMILE ON
PRAYER SAID IN GERMAN
AT END OF LAST MILE"

llifeless form through a suddenly
opened door at the rear Of the
chair and into the autopsy room.
The spectators shuddered. An
involuntary gasp broke the 81
lence of the room.
Execution Clicked
EyeWitnesses were struck by an
unusual sight in the death cham
Der. A uniformed guard held q
clock in his appraised hand so on
lockers could keep tab on the
time as each gruesome develop
ment took place.
A few minutes before Haupt-
mann appeared, Elliott held .
dress rehearsal" or a test Of his
own. While the SO witnesses
waited for the aweSome moment
when Hauptmann would shuttle
up to the yellow door to the left,
the executioner looked over his
apparatus like garage me-
chanic would examine a car.
He electrified eyewitnesseS by
suddenly throwing the switch
and lighting up the chair and
the black backdrop just behind
it. A self-satisfied look fitted
across his ashen countenance.
Apparently everything was all
right. He turned the lights off,
stepped back, and waited for
Hauptmann.
Warden Nervous
Warden Mark o. Kimberling,
standing within the enclosure
separated from seats of spec
tatorS by narrow piece Of
white canvas stretched across
the room, paced nervously around
and now and then glanced at
the yellow door through which
Hauptmann was to come.
The warden, a soldierly-looking,
m i d d l e-aged man with horn
trimmed glasses, had just in
structed a prison guard to go out
to the switchboard and see If the
operator had any telephone mes
sage for him. The guard re-
turned, whispered in his ear, and
Kimberling said something back
and waited.
The warden took a clock off
the radiator against the wall and
handed it to a guard standing
inside the enclosure. He spoke to
the guard who then held the
clock high in his right hand so
reporters and others, sitting in
four rows of seats stretched
across the room, could see its
face. Someone spoke up:
'Tt's two minutes fast"
The warden replied:
"I'm sure it's right. It's
Western Union time"
SPECTATORS. WARNED ~
Kimberling gave q final word
of caution to the spectators. He
said:
my guards, standing there
in the rear Of the room, are
watching you closely. want to
be sure no one takes q picture
of what takes place here. You
already have been warned.
you may take your pads
and pencils from your pockets
now. 1 want you to button up
your coats and under no cir.
CumStances are you to put
your hands back into your
pockets for anything once this
man has entered the room.
r m m Der, you are being
watched"
There was a shuttle outside
the yellow door. Then it opened.
In came the Rev. Matthiesen,
Bible in hand, reading from the
Bible in German, and the Rev.
Werner at his side.
Immediately behind came
Hauptmann, two guards at his
side. He looked like a corpse
with living eyes.
Hauptmanns pallid face wore
a sad, wistful smile that swept
the spectators in one swift
glance. Bruno seemed to want to
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"King David" Webs

MARTINSVILLE, Va, April 4.
Name, please?" inquired Marriage
License Clerk T. c. Matthews, at
Martinsville. The colored applicant
said:
king David"
"'What'S that"
"King David Samuel william
FOntaine."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

"Or what?" Doc demanded. Lions or some
thing" Dick suggested weakly, for he believed
the savages were thoroughly capable Of penning
them in with beasts. Doc drew a knife from his
pocket but his fingers trembled SO that he had
difficulty in opening the blade
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

The sail was fastened good anc
tight and then wee Quincy Tiny.
mite exclaimed, Come on, let;
launch our craft and quickly sal.
away.
THE two girls can sit in the rear
and maybe you'd like me to steer.
Jaw, let's take turns" snapped
Copy. you can be the first, to-
day."
Round limbs were placed upon
the ground, SO they could roll the
boat around. When once they sol
it started, pushing was not hard at
all.
They reached the stream and in it
went. Then just a little time was
spent in everybody boarding it.
Fair Colby cried, Don't fall"
"Oh, I'll wade in. I do not mind,
and 1t will help lot, you'll find,
said Scouty. Some one steer the
thing until it's pointed right"
f. He pushed, and then heard Dotty
shout, "Oh, look! The sail is filing
out. Well travel with the breeze
now. What a very pretty sight,"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
CREAD THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTURE

"Oh, gYe. but we've had lots OF
fun. Our boats shaped like gall
leon, and now it's almost finished,
said wee Copy, with a smile.
IT'S well the stream is very near
I'd hate to push this far from here
only hope that it will float. We'll
find out after while"
Then Scouty snapped, Il know
right now. Why, years ago I
learned just how to make a small
boat watertight. This craft will sail
the seas.
Il trust the girls sails big enough
to haul the boat. If it gets rough,
we'll take the sail right down, and
simply coast along at ease
Soon Dotty said, Were set, at
last. Now put our sail up on the
mast. and you will find that it's all
right. We're proud of what we've
done.
THE wind won't rip the sail
I'm sure, unless our workmanship is
poor" And then she eyed the boat
and cried, There's room for every
one"
Evening star., 1936-04-24

chase Of man-made flying contrap-
tions by q tax on pet birds.
In almost any other place in the
world such a levy would raise little
opposition and less cash. But in
Eastern China q tax on pet birds
practically amounts to per capita
tax on adult males. for few are the
men who do not own songsters.
Until recently, the bird cage and
the umbrella were distinguishing
marks of the Chinese soldier moving
up to the front.
The Chinese submits with q mini
mum of grumbling to an assortment
Evening star., 1936-04-24

wood carving. brass casting, bead
work and pottery making-are on ex-
hibition among the African ethno-
logical collections In Field Museum
of Natural History, Chicago.
The pipes come from Central Came
room and were used in ceremonials
participated in by chiefs of the Ba-
mum, Wum, Bali and Ossidinge
peoples. The stems of the pipes are
of carved wood, some being covered
with beadwork in intricate designs.
The bowls are usually Of brass or pot
terry. the metal ones bearing designs
in relief. The tobacco used is of
Evening star., 1936-04-24
American origin, but now cultivated

American origin, but now cultivated
in Africa.
No one but the chief was allowed
to use these pipes. They were smoked
usually in connection with such cere-
monials as function for feeding
the ghost of dead chief" In this
ritual the skull of chief. buried in
q small hut, Is visited by the reign
ing chief and his followers The
ghost" Is "fed" through a tube lead
ing into the grave. The chief smokes
one OF the beaded ceremonial pipes
and twirls a carved wooden staff.
while dancers in canvas costumes,
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Art Collection to Arrive,

SAN FRANCISCO, April "a R).-
The $5,O0O.0 900 Van Gogh art collection
will arrive here tomorrow from the
East. A full police escort will take 1t
to the California palace Of the Legion
of Honor for q month-long show.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

ornamented with human hair, per-
form. A double gong is changed and
q carved ivory horn is blown. Palm
wine Is handed to the chief In q large
horn goblet while the dancers -four
iSh horsehair switches.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

Of taxes. But make his birds tax
able property and his usual indiffer-
ence to government DEGREES changes
into sullen resentment.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

usual today. The honor Of the law
was at stake.
The car was County Judge Virgil
Fallon's. 1t was stolen from a park.
ing place in front of County Attorney
A. E. Henry's home.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
PIPES OF d CRAFTS
SHOWN IN MUSEUM
Wood, Brass, Beadwork and Pot
terry Used by Africans for
Stems and Bowls.

Tobacco pipes as much as 5 and 6
feet long. decorated with designs OF
remarkable artistry, and in construc-
kon combining several distinct crafts
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Chinese RESENT
TAX ON PET BIRDS
Resentment Greets Proposal for
Levy Hitting Practically
All Adult Males.

NANKING R.-Millions Of Chinese
men are grumbling over an economists 8
scheme to raise money for the pur.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
POLICE GRIM

Honor at Stake in Search for
Judges Car.
PAWNEE CITY, Nebr. (P.-The
police, searching for an automobile
theft, were Just little grimmer than
Evening star., 1936-04-24

Coromels mode the woy
you like them! Creomy,
ehewey, delicious coot-
ed with high quoIity ehoe-
oIote. .