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The Washington times., 1937-08-25
Just Another Debt

WE RATHER suspect that it will be no pleasure to
w you to learn that on Monday YOUR part of the
national debt amounted to two hundred and eightyve
dollars.
A year ago your share only two hundred and
fftyseven dollars but when the total debt passed the
thirtyseven thousand million mark the other day your
personal stake jumped to the new high.
There is lot of talk about Government money!
these days.
Some say more of it should be spent, say less
of it should be spent.
u But if we'd stop talking and think
" "Ooo N4O'''S ing about Government money! and
~ H. impress on ourselves and others that
it is "our money! there would probably be curtail
ment in expenditures.
Sooner later, directly or indirectly, all going
to pay up that two hundred and eghty-five dollars
apiece in addition to paying taxes to keep the Gov
eminent running.
Keep that thought in mind the next time you pass
lightly over the astronomical figures on Government
Indebtedness and expenditures
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Marry-Go-
Round
BY HELEN ROWLAND

You can't be married and
"emotionally free" at the same
time. If you are, it isn't MAR
RAGE - it's something else
again. Because the secret Of a
successful and happy marriage
is TEAMWORK. And you can't
do good teamwork if each Of
you is pulling in a different
direction.
Marriage is a partnership for
the purpose of building a life
together. And there is no other
partnership in which one mem
Der of the firm would feel enti-
tied to go out and devote his
time and interest to a rival.
A man kids himself with the
idea that he can be dead in
love with his wife, and, at the
same time. quite alive to the
charms of other women. But a
woman has a single-track mind
and a one-way heart! and two
men cannot pass each other in
her affections. And she knows
that NO man can concentrate
on more than one woman at q
time.
It is not the marriage laws
or the social conventions which
have put the lock in wedlock:
it is HUMAN NATURE. No man
can think of another man in
his wife's life without reaching
for a club or a gun-no matter
how little he loves her. And it
is absurd to imagine that any
normal woman is going to
SHARE her man with another
woman, calmly and sweetly, as
she would a box of caramels.
No woman wants to be one Of
a CROWD in any mans lifel
Copyright, 1881 By EtnE Features
Syndicate. 1ne.J
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Gains and Losses

TIHE Presidents congressional opposition, both Re-
i publicans and anti-New Deal Democrats are exut-
ing good deal over what they consider the serious
defeats thew handed the President in the session that
closed last Saturday evening. We think the President
did we'll The Wagner-steagall housing bill finally
passed, after lot of compromising
It sets up $500,000000
y u D. 0'"'e" u" volving fund for slum clearance
Sum clearance and modernized housing in slum
areas with construction costs limited to $4,000 per
4 family unit.
This bill was of major Importance, and 1t survived
the attacks of the Southern lawmakers in fairly work
able shape 1t won't wipe out all the slums IN the
country or anywhere all Of them But it will get
the United States started on national sum eradication
! program, which can be enlarged as time goes on.
There we're various non controversial which
the Administration wanted, and which passed, but
which we're little noticed in the big court and housing
and wages-hours fights.
The CCC was extended for another three years Over
the objections of pacsts DESTROYS of disarming their
country in a world threatening to burst into flame Con-
gress appropriated almost billion dollars for the Army
and Navy And it did pass the tax loophoe bill to stop
spirit of the income tax law. In the court fight the
Administration won most of its program for reform
of the lower Federal courts, lost its fight to pack"
re-, Cor unpack) the Supreme Court, but
0""0' won an assurance of fair treatment of
+ VICTORY reasonable New Deal legislation before
the high court through the conversion Of Justice Rob
erts to liberalism the resignation of Justice Van De-
vanter and the appointment Of Justice Hugo L. Black
We think that was substantial victory. Failure to
win all the court detectives be blamed it to
u.s. on one of the few mistakes in strategy the Pres
dent made-his flashing of the court proposal on Con-
gress without previously consulting several KEY Sena
tors and asking them for suggestions
The hours and wages bill lost out; crop control
postponed to top place next sessions calendar in
return for the Presidents agreement to extend cotton
crop loans Government reorganization throttled
FOR the time being.
From The ew Daily
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Mariner Tall I'm

In answer to Americans"
query as to why the President
doesn't do something about the
situation in China, a few of us
who certainly are more patriotic
and a great deal less critical take
this means Of asking this self
styled American a few choice
questions.
He. seems to know exactly
what should be done with the
delicate Oriental problem, but
we wonder if this citizen re-
moves his hat when the colors
pass or if he knows any of the
simple, but significant observ-
ances which mark a service or
ex-service man or a good citi-
zen? Has he ever served on
foreign soil and seen people
scorn the protection of those
colors during normal times?
Has he ever seen the men who
raise and lower the Stars and
Stripes looked upon as a neces-
sary evil Of any port or fort?
Then when military tension de-
velops these "would-be" Ameri.
cans rush to the sacred spot be-
meath that flag where they find
protection behind a real Ameri-
can bayonet.
These people are his sort we
think-staunch and laudatory
patriots in politics and criticism
until their own precious lives
are threatened.
We wonder If this man, or
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Voice Of the People


any others like him, would be
willing to go to China if the
Government should find the
need imperative? The protec-
ton of our officials, mission
aries, and scholars is a necessity,
but would this American" be
conscientiouSly in favor Of an
international crisis just to pro
tect the private fortunes of 9
few? We suggest he criticise
the persons chosen to handle our
nations emergencies less-and
find out what true Americanism
is.
THREE MAD MARINES.
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"I thin k
mass marches
are futile and
that every
thing should
be done by
t he Govern
ment, the po-
lice and the
public in gen.
eral to dis
courage such
demo n S t r a.
tionS. I think
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CO m in g to
Washing t on
to make their
d e m a n d S.
However, a S
long as they
do come here,
and certainly
no one has
the right to
stop tn e m,
every t h ing
S h o Id be
done to meet
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Road N. W.:
IT do not
believe that
anything was
ever really &C.
compliShed by
a group Of
marchers that
they couldn't
have gotten
o t h er W Use.
r a Ike t h e
WPA march
erS, w h a t
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II dom t
think m a S S
marches on
the Capital
do any good.
My opinion is
t h a t t h e y
should not be
q ! ! o W e d 10
come here be-
cause it costs
the marchers
W h a I little
money tn e y
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i a " abiding,
they have a
perfect right
to com to
w a shington,
a ! t hough I
think tn a t
t h e y accom-
plish little in
doing so. I
like the way
t h e Superin-
tendent of Po-
lice is han
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good does it do them to march
on the vacant Capitol, carrying
their banners telling what Con-
gress left undone when it ad.
journed?"
X X
Mrs. Helen T. Clum, of GIT
Montgomery St., Laurel, Md:
II feel that the marchers are
usually wrongly influenced in
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We must present an appear
ance of neatness, not too pune
tilious or exquisite, but just
enough to avoid slovenliness.-
Cicero.
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He who desires only what Is
enough is troubled neither by
raging seas, nor hail-smitten
vineyards, nor an unproductivs
farm,-Horace,
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their requests so that they can
return to their homes as quickly
as possible"
&Ak
]. w. Flynn, of No. 2 Eight
zenith st. S. E.:
LAS long as the marchers are
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might have. They cannot be
properly cared for when, they
get here"
X X
Joseph J. McGarvey, employe
Of the Colonial Wall Paper Com
pany, of GA Rock Greek Church
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The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times in
viteS you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION::

Do you think any good is &C.
complished by the mass marches
on Washington?
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Wise Words

The United States is the only
country with a known birthday.
james G. Blaine.
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ding the situation to keep down
disturbance by offering special
police detail to guard the march
erS"
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in the bands
Of marchers
who come here
with their va
rious requests.
because most
of them GER
tainly a r e
vic tim s Of
C l r c u m
stances, pow
erty stricken,
jobleSS a n d E
d i S | | | u
stoned"
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the spirit is bad when a group
bands together and asks for
Government assistance"
&&&
Miss Eleanor Boswell, a sec.
rotary, of 814 K st. N. E.:
II feel sorry for the people
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Men are conservatives after
dinner.-Ralph Waldo Emer'
son.
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Listen
World!
By Elsie Robinson

Here's one this morning. A
brave, intelligent spirit drove
that rebellious pen:
I'm willing to look for the
silver lining in any cloud but is
there any silver lining to this
one? What's the use Of all this
suffering and humiliation.
Maybe some needed to learn
to work and save but we didn't.
For 10 years my husband and I
have lived thrifty, industrious
lives. We never loafed or
wasted. We were proud and
happy and now-this.
Everything we saved has
gone. We are dressing like beg
CARS, living from hand to mouth.
They say there's blessing in ad-
versity,' but where is the bless
ing In this?"
1 wonder. I've asked that
plenty of times myself. Tramp
ing hot pavements in ragged
shoes, looking in through restau-
rant windows at food I could not
buy, until I drooled with nau.
sea-I've asked that same queS-
ton.
Could any blessing come out Of
my adversely? I didn't believe it.
Yet now, looking back
Story About
Night Trip
I keep thinking about that
story my friend told me about
her night trip along Puget
Sound. She had been auton1o-
billing. through lazy June days.
up and down the country roads
of oregon.
Someone told her about a gar.
den. No stopping Cora If she
hears about a garden. She had
to see it that night. -Four hours
off? They could make 1t by ten.
But the weather had taken
a nasty twist. Over the horizon
a storm was boiling up. The
twilight went out in a sudden
squall of black rain.
The night flung itself upon
them like a bat. In 10 minutes
the road, which skirted the
Sound, was quakir1g smear Of
mud.
Vicious Storm
Brings Terror
Below, there was that vicious
lisp and humble of angry water.
Now and then, between a scud
of cloud, they'd glimpse e twist
ing grayness-see a wave up
flung-snatching at them.
Then the blackness would shut
down again. The wind would
go on showing. squatting its
dead weight on the running
board, plucking at the curtains.
A back tire would spin off
into nothingness For an in
slant, there'd be silence, like a
great cough-with the night
watching and the water waiting.
far below
1t was midnight before they
found a farm, and a sleepy,
fright ned woman let them in
through grudging door. Gar.
den? They'd forgotten there
were such things as gardens -.
forgotten everything but that
snatching terror at their heels.
Bright Mornin~,
Beautiful Trip
Six hours sleep and they
turned back, through a morn
ing carelessly bright as daisy
wreath. Green grass tangled in
a web of silver light. PuddleS,
clear as bits of broken glass,
cupping blueness in their black
earth frame.
Around the bend the tall, cool
vault of forest filled with peace.
And then, ahead. Beyond the
great arch. .swaying in the
sunshine, mile upon mile Of
white foxgloves-tall, pale
spires of blossom, ringed with
yellow butterflies - with the
Sound spreading it's quiet hello
trope between the jade-green
stems. ..-..
Sc, THAT was what they had
passed in the night! That was
what lay within the sheath Of
darkness!
Adversity-the long, black,
idiot nioht of adversitv-is there
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Summer is gone on swallows
wings.
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Traffic Toll

The mounting list OF traffic
victims in the District Of Co
lumbia since January 1, 1887,
is graphically shown by the
death watch"
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THE ANSWERS:

A. ]. Agricola, 1881 st. N. W.:
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THREE MAD MARINES.
Nogales international., 1937-06-19

forty-five-mile zone might have
blue, and sixty-mile zone, out in
the open stretches, green.
That wouldn't make him behave
any more than anything else TO
date; so on his car, according to
the Minnesota Plan, goes a gadget
like light switch, with three con-
facts on it. One says thirty, one
forty-fve, and one sixty When he
hits zone. he turns his switch tC
the right place and his car, though
accelerating and acting perfectly
normally, just won't go any faster
than it's supposed to.
Logic shows that we still can't
make him throw the switch every
time, and we haven't gotten any
where yet, but here's the tie-in,
and the thing that will make it
work. On the front and rear OF
his car are three lights like stop
lights, cOlored TO match the zones,
and when he enters a zone and
throws the switch, the matching
light goes on. 1t he doesn; he
advertises for as far as his car can
be seen that he IS just looking for
trouble, and makes himself liahis
Cor arrest before he ever breaks
the law.
Down il Washington they think
a lot of the Minnesota Plan. and
of the gadget. too, because of
course the two are inseparabie.
What will happen to it no one
knows at the present time, because
the three million miles of Ameri-
can highways will take lot Of
colOred paint. and a lot Of regu-
lation will be necessary TO get the
gadget adopted universally enough
to start painting. But it looks like
an out to problem that started
by being nasty. then turned tragic.
and is now in the worst state of
all. when the basic word CRASH
is becoming something as common
at breakfast as scrambled eggs
something that a man will flip over
with his newspaper page as caSu-
ally as the latest report on Peggy
Hopkins Joyce and then discover
an hour later To be the ultimate
experience of al
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joined the Rotarians in an effort to
stem the tide of Lionism.
One fan said that Ump Cheshire
should have worn his mask back
wards as everytime the pitchers
threw a ball he turned his back to
it and got hit on the back of the
head a couple of times.
Star base stealer of the evening
was Phil Capin Pitchers, a few of
them almost gold enough for one Of
the league teams, were Paul Arend,
Jack Lee, John DeBolt, L. D. Young,
Ferald Parks, and Vincent Williams
As a catcher Herb Chatham was
superb until he played out in the
fifth inning. Lester Mershon, play
ing left field for the Rotarians, got
a good workout as most of the flies
of the Lions landed in his territory.
Two or three times he had to crawl
under cars to find the ball
J. C. Tovrea of the Rotarians
went to bat only once. Swinging
heavily he missed the ball and land
ed astride homepIate. An ambulance
with siren wide open came shooting
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William TitmaS, exalted ruler, ap-
pointed Loren Cress general chair
man for the Jamboree.
This will be the first show of it's
kind in Flagstaff since the days
of '49" celebration given by the Elks
lodge in 1925. MI. Cress was ap-
pointed to head the executive COM
mittee because of past experience.
Both he and Mr.. zerby emphasized
that this is not to be another '49er
celebration, but a modern show with
wheels, concessions, dancefloor, side
shows, bingo, throwing games, and
many other features.
The exact location for the Jam
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popularity called 1.-THE Crash"
If you've ever been in a crash,
you know it's not as simple as the
word sounds. fits a very personal
sort OF symphony. starting with
the scream of tires on the pave
ment. going from the second move
ment, a sort of shuddering, bump
ing whack, into the lighter melO-
dies of tinkling glass. screaming
women and the music of licking.
hungry fame.
Speed does it. and speed alone.
1t doesn't take a student of naval
gunnery to figure out that if a
thing is going fast. 1t hits some
thing hard. Speed hits more than
$4,000 people every year. 1t hits
them very hard and kills them.
The simplest logic in the world
Is to say. Get rid of speed and
the word Crash will soon be as
extinct as the shaving mug" But
speed is like the weather-every-
body dislikes it, but the only man
who can do anything about 1.-THE
driver-dOesn'
That's easy, too, because if he
won't do anything to help himself.
somebody will have to do some
thing for him. Speed cops can
watch him part of the time, and
arrest the most blatant offenders.
sometimes before they kill some
body, sometimes after. But the
consensus of opinion-state, local,
and Federal-is that if these
grown-up children are going to
hurt themselves by running their
kiddie-cars too fast, the kiddie
cars will have to be fixed so that
speed too great for conditions is
just not there. In other words,
mechanical control that holds
down the driver at all times.
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now OFTEN CAN YOU
KISS AND MAKE up?

ElEW husbands can understand
II why wife should turn from a
pleasant companion into a shFew
for one whole week In every month.
You can say I'm sorry" and
kiss and make up easier before
marriage than after. Be wise. IfyOu
want to hold your husband. you
won thea three-quarter wife.
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go ''smil-
ing through" with Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 10
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals Of life: l. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 8. Ap-
preaching middle age" u
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
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LIONS TROUNCE ROTARIANS
SOFTBALL GAME g TO 70.

across the field. A stretcher was
brought out, picked up Tovrea, and
took him off the field. But it was
all a part Of the entertainment pro-
gram and soon Tovrea was back
in the Rotary dugout again, none
the worse for his experience.
Among the stars or the evening
were DR.. M. I. Merritt, at second
base for the Rotarians; Jimmy Man
son. centerfielder for the Rotarians.
Che made a beautiful catch), H. P.
Watkins, Jeff Jones, Al. M: Yonge,
j. B. Page, Julio Arias, George r.
White, Robert Alvarez, Sam Brack-
er, E. Gonzalez, A. j. Mitchell,
Presley L. Cheshire, c. H. McNulty,
T. H. Robinson, Steve Monahan
and Gene Richards
The gate receipts totalled $2l.00.
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. ARE YOU ONLY A.
THREE E-QUARTER WIFE?

MEN. because they are men, can
1x1 never understand a three
quarter wife-a wife who is all love
and kindness three weeks in a
month and hen cat the rest Of
the time
No matter how your back aches
how YOUR nerves Scream-don't
take it out on your husband.
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go ''smil-
ing through" with Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system.
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals Of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhoo1. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3. Ap-
preaching middle age"
Don't be q three-Quarter wife.
take LYDIA e. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go "Smiling Through"
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FLAGSTAFF TO
HAVEJ JAMBOREE

FLAGSTAFF, June 18-Plans for
a Flagstaff ElkS "Jamboree" were
started at an open meeting of lodge
members in the superior courtroom
and the tentative dates selected
were July 25 to August l inclusive.
Twenty shows and concessions
will be brought here by Clyde
zerby and Stanley Coons, profes-
sional showmen. All booths and con-
cessions will be operated by Elks.
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arrangements.
West Coast Lions. always a strong
delegation at these conventions,
have arranged a Fourth District
california and Nevada special
over Southern Pacific lines, and the
northwest states and western Can
ada have named the Chicago and
North Western railroad as their Of
ficial route, with W. L. Mansfield,
St. Paul Minnesota, in charge.
Among the automobile caravans
that will converge on the midwest
metropolis for the Lions convention
will be a fifty-car cavalcade from
Florida, every machine painted in
the royal Lions colorS of purple and
gold.
A four day program including a
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10000 TO ATTEND LIONS
In SOFTBALL GAME g TO 20

major league ball game, moonlight
lake cruise, city tours, juvenile band
contests, and a full two-hour mid
summer ice carnival has been ar
ranged by Chicago Lions, in addi-
ton to the regular business ses-
sions.
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Copyright 1887 by III. Painter)
A Hunting He Will GO-Maybe

Duke of Windsor would hunt big
bad wolf in precipitous mountains.
Wally is not so enthusiastic about
that; she'd sooner him stay home
and play with the three little pigs.
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Fight Purses

Uncle Sam will receive more than
the principals of the Braddock-Louls
fight. All he will have to do, will be
to feint and punch the cash regis
ter and therell be no counter-at-
tack.
Nogales international., 1937-06-19
Pork BarreliteS

Two Congressional Representa-
tives to vie for hog calling suprem-
acy When that takes place all the
members will come on the double.
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well known publisher. He's had
fresh batch of rejection slips printed,
and he hates to see them go to
waste.
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They Might Be Cannibalistic

Lions on the Serengeti Plains OF
Tanganyika regard auto horns as
dinner gongs. In that case, thereu
be no horn on our car when we
make that trip.
Nogales international., 1937-06-19
That Mans Here Again

Frank Wallace demands share OF
Mae Vests property; still claims
he's her husband. We think he wins
the claim of public nuisance num-
Der one.
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RedheadS

Communists beheaded in Berlin,
Germany. In that manner they
know they have them headed in the
right direction.
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What's In A Name:

Max Bear stops Foord in London.
And the C. I. o. is trying to stop
Ford in this country.
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In Minnesota they have plan.
and more and more of the other
Stt:.tes, especially where they have
heavy crash casualties, think the
Minnesota plan is pretty good The
first prerequisite is color coming
Of roads: when a driver can go
thirty with impunity. be sees vel
low painted all over the fences.
lamp posts and everyt hing else A
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Orphans

Company unions held to be legit-
innate. In spite of the fact that they
have no parents.
Nogales international., 1937-06-19
Meow!

Cat of eighteen years gves birth
to kitten. They surely didn't expect
1t lay an egg did they.
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THAT WORD "CRASH"
--latest Developments in the Nations Battle Agai
the Reckless Driver

the Reckless Driver
DUS CRASH KILLS TWELVE says paper Monday FAMILY
ID OF FIVE DIES IN CRASH says another on Wednesday
FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS HEAD FOR CRASE-Thurs
day Even the Friday womans Linen Crash
lar for sports And the depression turning venerable
and white the temples started its lusty youth with what