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to the present time has not had
sufficient case workers to give advice
to parents who feel that they are
unable to continue to carry, the
responsibility for caring for their
children and wish to place them for
adoption. Neither has the board
had sufficient resources to work out
plans for children to remain with
their own parents.
But with the increase in person.
mel made available in the 1910 ap-
preparation, the Board of Public
Welfare will be able to make avail
able the services Of one or two per-
sons to cover such situations and
develop additional resources in the
community to assist the parents.
But the board will not be able to
cover all the needs It knows to exist
and will have to look to the private
agencies to share the work with
them.
Referred to Agencies.
DR.. Ella Oppenheimer. director of
the Bureau of Maternal and Child
Walfare of the Health Department.
said that the need for additional
medical social workers In the ma
ternity clinics OF the bureau pre-
vented them. from offering intensive
case work service, although she
thought that the time to work with
the mother was during pregnancy.
If we had sufficient staff to offer
an advisory service to every mother
who comes TO the clinic for prenatal
medical care, then we could do q
tremendous amount in steering tho
mother to the available community
resources"
The nurses attached to the Bu-
reau of Maternal and Child Welfare
clinics are constantly on the alert
for serious situations, however, DR..
Oppenheimer stated, and refer them
to the medical social worker at the
clinic for guidance.
DR.. Oppenheimer emphasized the
inadequacy of community resources
for assisting families and for help
ing the unmarried mother. "Our
protective and preventive services
for children need strengthening. as
was recommended by DR.. Jacob Ke-
PEGS last spring." DR.. Oppenheimer
pointed out.
Two things are very hopeful for
the future, according to DR.. Open
heimer: The start which has been
made toward enlarging the services
for children offered by the Board
Of Public Welfare, and the in
creased understanding Of the public
Of the dangers involved in the fail
ure to give adequate protection to
mothers and children.
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Soldiers Home to Have Party
For Resident 100 Tomorrow
'Huehey' McGroth Is
Veteran of Civil and
Indian Wars

Hugh Key McGrath, a resident Of
the United States Soldiers Home,
will be 100 years old tomorrow.
The pet Of ward No. 2, "Hughey,"
as the boys call him, sat in his bed
at the Soldiers Home Hospital yes
terday and said, I'm pullin' hard,
boy. to get through that 100-year
mark. Chauncey Depew had 1t right,
The first hundred years are the
hardest And III add, Now we can
start from here"
DR.. Edwin Kagy, Army Medical
Corps, who has charge of Mr.. Nc
Grath, said for the benefit of a lot
OF old-timers that blood pressure
doesn't mean a thing in the life of
this patient, for the doctor ex-
claimed, Mr.. McGrath, on the eve
of his Tooth birth anniversary has
the blood pressure of a man of 90"
And that's about right. Mr.. Nc
Grath hopes to get out of bed to-
morrow and help drink q bottle of
champagne. Also blow out 100
candles on his birthday cake. For
Gen. Frederick w. Coleman, gover-
nor Of the Soldiers Home, ordered a
real birthday party in honor of the
Oldest member of the place.
"Well have champagne and a
birthday cake, If it's the last thing
the old gentleman does" said Gen.
Coleman-and he meant it.
Gen. Coleman is a great believer
In making old folks happy. Mr..
McGrath has been hanging round"
the Soldiers Home for the last IS
years-and he has become sort Of
an institution.
"FIshey" entered the home with
a record any man might be proud
OF. He was just a young fellow
when the Civil War broke out, so
he enlisted in the Union Army
from his home town of Holiday,
Pa, where he was born August IA,
1839-just 80 years after Washing
ton came into being as a city.
Il remember" he says, when
Washington was q mud nat"
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Bark|ey Says People
Demand Rooseve|t's
Militant | LEADERSHIP
Americans Don't Want
Detached and Austere'
Executive, He Declares
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Barkley OF Kentucky,
who led the fight for the Roosevelt
programs In the Senate this year,
asserted last night that the mill
tant leadership" exercised by Presi-
dent Roosevelt was what the people
expect and demand"
The American people, Senator
Barkley said in q radio address re-
viewing the recent legislative ses-
sion, never have been willing that
= President should be a sort Of
detached and austere parsonage as
suming to enforce and execute the
laws enacted by Congress, but TAX
ing no active part In their forma-
ton"
The Senate majority leader said
practically all of Mr.. Roosevelt's
recommendations to the last session
were carried out in full or. were
started on their way to fulflllment
by enactment in either the House
or Senate" He noted that bills in
the recently concluded session would
retain their status when the next
session meets because the same
Congress would be meeting.
Looking back on the turbulent
last session, Senator Barkley COM
mented:
In view Of the approach Of the
presidential election in 1910, pre-
sumo it was too much to expect that
partisan politics would be eliminated
from the deliberations of Congress.
Beyond any doubt, these parti-
san considerations entered into much
Of the thought and discussion which
centered around such subjects as
monetary legislation, neutrality, the
lending program, agriculture and
many other subjects. And while at
such a time it may be impossible to
eliminate partisan considerations, it
ought to be remembered that no
political party can reap an advantage
by course tnat placed partisanship
above the welfare of the country"
Senator Barkley said that while
the Congress that just adjourned has
not fully and completely accom-
phshed everything that it set as its
goal, it has made an outstanding
record of constructive work and it
has set in motion the process by
which all its tasks will be accom-
plished in due time.
THE people of America cannot
afford to allow the blaring headlines
depicting controversies and propa-
ganda to obscure the real things ac-
complished by this session Of
Congress.
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Lundeen to Speak
At Tree Dedication

Senator Ernest Lundeen Of Min
nesota will be guest speaker Tues
day afternoon at the dedication of
an elm tree near the corners of Con-
stitution and New Jersey avenues,
by the National Betsy Ross Club in
honor Of the 150th anniversary of
the formation of the Constitution,
according to Mrs. Margaret Hopkins
Worrell. past national president of
the club
A bronze plaque will be placed on
the tree by Mrs. Worrell after
which a poem, The Flag" will be
read by its author. Mrs. Isabel Lii
kens Gates. The ceremony, sched-
uled to begin at pm, will be post
poned until the following day in
the event of rain.
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Jealous Rage Blamed
For Suitor's S Suicide
After Shooting Two
Wounded Divorce
Tells How He Fired at
Her and Trooper
NJ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SMITHTOWN BRANCH, N. Y.
Aug. 12-The ex-husband of q
Broadway showgirl invaded fash.
ionable North Shore Long Island
house today and in a jealous rage
critically wounded a socially prom
inent young divorcee, shot q State
trooper and then committed suicide
Principals in the tragedy which
followed a quiet house party were
Mrs. Elizabeth Greve Caldwell Car
olin, 81, mother Of two children and
daughter of William Marcus Greve
former New York flnancier; and
Lawrence Sprague, 80, stepson Of DR.
Shirley E. Sprague, prominent New
York City physician.
For half an hour. after chasing
Mrs. Carolin into bedroom in the
home Of Mrs. Madelyn Waterman
Higgins. Sprague threatened death
while Mrs. Carolin waited In terror
and Mrs. Higgins. having called the
police, vainly tried to save her guest
from harm. Mrs Higgins is the foun-
tain pen fortune heiress and es-
tranged wife of a member of the
Higgins ink family.
Opens Fire at Police.
When two State troopers. John
Busch and S. j. Bugala. arrived and
entered the room, Sprague opened
fire with .25-caliber automatic pis-
tol. hitting Busch in the left arm
Then Sprague fired three shots at
Mrs. Carolin. wounding heS in the
abdomen. Breaking free from the
troopers who had seized him. Sprague
then shot himself through the heart.
Mrs. Carolin. whose first husband
T. Grant Caldwell, bus and milk
company executive, valued her az
fections at $3.50 900 In an alienation
of affections suit brought last year
against her second husband. Capt
Edward M. NJ Carolin, a British
subject. was taken to the Southside
Hospital. Bayshore.
He said, Either we make up OF
I'll kill you" she told State Police
1t. Charles La Forge, describing the
scene with Sprague in the bedroom
Il told him we just couldn't make
up. He said, I know you've called
the police. If any one enters the door
I'm going to kill you and get him
and then shoot myself"
Mother Sees Her Troubles Ended.
Mrs. Carolin, who lives with her
two children at Delafield Farm
Noroton, Conn, across Long Island
Sound from here, arrived at the
Higgins home yesterday afternoon to
spend the weekend.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Sprague, mother
OF the young commercial artist, said
her son left her last night after
promising to take her to the country
for a rest because she had been i'll
recently. The New York World
Telegram quoted Mrs. Sprague as
saying Sprague had been a willful
son.
why wasn't he man enough to
kill himself and not harm anybody
else" she caid. II think it was un-
godly Of him. With all I ever tried
to do, failed. God has been merci-
full. He has ended by troubles
Better I looked at his face In his
grave than he look on mine"
Sprague met Mrs. Carolin in Reno
about five months ago, said Mrs
Higgins. His ex-wife is Mary
Frances Clark, who played in the
"Vanities."
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Philippine Vice President
To Sail for Europe
y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Sergio Osmena, Vice President of
the Philippines, left for New York
yesterday to sail Wednesday for
Europe.
He had been here since January,
supervising Philippine legislation in
Congress.
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$2,877,263 AIIocoted
For Maryland Projects
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Federal Works Agency reported
yesterday that $2,877.26 has been
allocated for II projects in Maryland
under the $130 100000 Federal build
ing program authorized by Congress.
Six projects reported under con-
tract were:
Baltimore, Catonsville. branc h
post office, 100000: Bethesda, Ma
tional Cancer Institute, $750OOO
Curtis Bay. Coast Guard Depot,
$350.000; Elkton, postoff1ce. $99 900;
Rockville. post office, s130,263, and
Annapolis, post Office, $135.000.
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Chicago Narcotics Rings
Smashed; 20 Are Seized
1y the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. Aug. 12.-James j.
Biggins, Federal Narcotic Division
supervisor here, asserted today the
principal narcotic distributing rings
in Chicago had been broken up by
the seizure of 20 persons in series
of raids conducted last night by
about so Federal agents.
The defendants, charged with
possession and sale of narcotics,
were arraigned today before United
States Commissioner E. K. Walker.
Bonds of $1,000 to $1,000 were set.
Mr.. Biggins said the agents had
been working on the case for about
six mor.t,,is.
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Mystery Fish BoffIes

A mystery fish, about feet long
and with fms like those of a basking
shark, has defed capture in 300 feet
OF water in an abandoned slate
quarry near Easdale. Scotland. Three
times the fish has broken lines after
swallowing the bait and nearly
pulling the anglers into the water.
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Boy Rushed by Bear
Climbs Tree, Then
Kills 1t in 18 Shots
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAZLETON, Pa, Aug. IA ~
caliber rifle Notwithstanding, IT.
year-old Leo Ravina didn't take
any chances today when attacked
by 160-pound bear.
He sprinted for a tree-rifle In
hand-and scampered up. From
his perch on limb he dropped
bruin with 18 bullets-fired as fast
as he could reload.
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Weather Conditions Last "a Hours.
Pressure continues high of the Middle
Nova Now NG Scotia. "s hoss % millibaps @ anS 1sasi
inches). The small tropical storm is NOV
Ing inland over Northwestern Florida.
Pressure is low from Hudson Bay south
southwestward over the Lake resion and
the Middle and Southern Plains, Noting
ham Island. Hudson Strait. 1OO44 milli-
101O.s millibars t29.s5 inches) A dis
turbance is moving southeastward over
t29 46 inches,. while pressure is rising
alons. the North Pacific Coast, Tatooch
Island. Wash. 1920 millibars (3O.15
inches). During the last "a hours there
have been showers in portions of the Gen.
tral Valleys. the Lake region and in scat
tered areas over the Southern States. except
that rather heavy rains occurred In Dor
tions Of Florida In connection with the
tropical disturbance Temperatures have
Northern Plains
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Weather Report
FURNISHED by Il

FURNISHED
warm. possibly shower
Sunday afternoon showers
coudiness followed by scattered
the interior Sunday showers Monday
Partly cloudy scattered showers in the interior Sunday
showers Monday; not much change in temperature.
West VginiaScattered
n mi
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1,500 Elephants Slain

The game warden of Uganda re-
ports that $500 elephants were
killed there last year.
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Bangkok, Siam, held its first bat
tie of flowers to aid its defense fund
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Record Until 10 PM. Saturday.
HIGHEST. %. 4 pm. Yesterday year
AGO. Sb
Lowest. 70. am. Yesterday year
ago. 64
Record Temperatures This Year
HIGHEST. 90. on June 49,
Lowest, II. on February %.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets
Sun, today 5:1R 7:O7
Sun. tomorrow 5:1Q 7:06
Moon. today 1929 pm. 5:45 am.
Automobile lights must be turned on
ne-half hour after sunset
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
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PART FOUR.
sports, Classified.

Sports, Classified.
Red Sox amass 16 hits in routing
Griffs, 9 to 5. Page Ell
Williams of Bosox is seen as an all
time great. Page E-2
Ward held likely U. s. amateur golf
champion. Page E-3
Device protects straight shooter at
Camp Perry. Page E-4
Crawford of D. c. picked to win big
speedboat title. Page E-5
Bradleys Bimelech easily takes Sar-
atoga Special. Page E-6
Lost and found Page E-7
Classified advertising. Pages E-7-17
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Pittman denounces Ickes as "dic-
tator" of lands policy. Page Al
Squalus tow blocked by mud, next
lift rushed. Page Al
Hope for flyers vanishes as hours
pass without word. Page Az
Wind whips blaze away from Idaho
town. Page Ar
Legion keys convention next month
to Americanism. Page b.
Wallace orders worldwide survey of
possible farm markets. Page B-3
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Readers Guide
News Summary
The Sunday Star, Aug. Is, 1889.
PART ONE.
Main NeDs Section.
Foreign.

I0reIQH.
Hitler-Ciano talks on axis policy are
extended. Page Al
Dutch to use sea to hold of foe if
invasion occurs. Page A.
$500 lost" U. s. passports feared in
spies hands. Page Al
Bombing Of Japanese marks 2 years
Of war at Shanghai. Page Al
Reich would strike at Polish coal in
war, NaNs declare Page A
Slovaks expecting big role in Gre
ating Ukrainian state. Page Al
Pessimism growing in Mexican oil
controversy. Page Al
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River Report.

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers slixhtlJ
cloudy this p.m.
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Monthly precipitation In inches
Capital (current month to date):
MQnfh 1910 AHAraHa r,
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Washington and Vicinity.

washington and Vicinity.
50 nearby municipal ofncials affected
by Hatch Act. Page Al
Regular Army and guardsmen ready
for battle maneuvers. Page Al
Hazen asks Welfare Board report on
adoption law. Page Az
D. c. Soap Box champion takes test
run at Akron. Page AS
Kennedy warns he'll tight for D. c.
reorganization plan. Page B-1
$45,3ls,79 tax collections by D. c.
in year reported. Page B-1
William T. Slattery heads D. c. De-
partment OF Legion. Page b.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Robot Pilots
ell Syndicate. 1nc.)

way or another to keep the plane
at given height or to make it go
higher and higher at a certain angle.
The human pilot can escape from
much strain while the robot is at
work. It is possible for a pilot to
read book and let the machine do
the rest, but in real practice the
pilot keeps tracks of how things are
going. When it comes time to land
he takes charge of the plane again.
Aviation experts were much in
terested when an airplane rose in
England without q single person
aboard. It was under control of
radio waves and robot pilot. After
flying for some distance the plane
came down to a safe landing In the
Croydon airport.
AS time goes on We may feel sure
that robots will make airplane travel
safer and safer. There is little doubt
that some day they will do much
Of the work of landing the airplane.
Good as a human pilot may be, he
has trouble in landing if the air is
foggy. We may expect inventors to
provide robots which, in q sense,
will be able to "see" the ground
through fog.
IeA 'ea3
Tomorrow: Mud Turtles and
Boz Turtles.
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UNCLE RAYS CORNER

When someone speaks of a robot"
we are apt to think of machine in
the form of a man. Yet it need not
be so. A robot is a self-acting ma
chine which seems almost as smart"
as a man, but it does not need to
be in human shape. More often
than not, it does not look at all like
q man.
The word is pronounced like "row-
but" also like "rob-ut." with accent
on the first syllable. It came from
the Czech language and its real
meaning is servant" That is what
q robot is-a servant of mankind.
There are robots on board many
ocean liners. They keep the vessel
in a given course, doing much OF
the work of the pilot. Such a robot
often is called an Iron Mike"
Perhaps even more interesting
are the robots which have been
placed in many airplanes. They are
called robot pilots" or automatic
pilots"
The heart of this robot is a power
driven wheel known as gyroscope.
Spinning at high speed, it tends to
keep the plane in balance, and does
. very good job of it.
Fitted inside gimbal rings the
gyroscope wheel will hold its place
even If the ring framework is tilted.
Because OF this power it Is able to
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AOody . 4ldllO 4AASIl dISS OllCC
that it seldom pays to force de-
clarer to ruff when dummy is well
supplied with trumps. Having stood
just about enough of Edward Hymes,
jr.'s defensive bidding, West doubled
four diamonds and opened the king
of spades. A second spade was
ruffed by Mr.. Hymes, who then laid
down the diamond king. A third
spade was ruffed by declarer with
the diamond jack and he then led a
club. West jumped in with the king,
and although his partner signaled
frantically for a club return, West
played the fourth and fatal round of
spades
At this point Mr. Hymes held only
two trumps, whereas dummy had
three. The queen of trumps was
now played, then the last trump led
to dummy and on dummy's addi-
tional trump Mr.. Hymes threw his
remaining club. This last trump
lead effectively squeezed East, who,
in order to retain his club ace, had
to let 60 of heart. Now a heart
was led from dummy and the jack
f1nessed. The ace and king dropped
all the remaining hearts, and on
his last small heart Mr.. Hymes dis
carded dummy's remaining club to
make his impossible" contract.
X X X
Yesterday you were MerWin
Maier's partner and held:
4 A K xxxx
vAQx
= 10xx
The bidding:
You Burnstone Maier Schenken
IA - - Pass
CD
Answer-Your correct bid is three
clubs. After your partners diamond
bid your hand shows strong slam pos
sibilities. You indicate this by the
cue-bid in the opponents suit.
Score 100 per cent for three clubs,
80 per cent for three spades, 40 per
cent for four spades (this will prob
ably conclude the bidding.
Question No. liz.
Howard Schenken is your partner
today. You hold:
AJxxx
vJxx
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Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Chatterer the Red Squirrel is q
very excitable small person. Indeed,
I know of no one who can get quite
so excited over nothing as can Chat
terer, and when there is cause for
excitement 1t sometimes seems as If
Chatterer would burst and fly all to
pieces with excitement. The discov-
cry that in the night while he slept
in the hollow in the Big Hickory
Tree close by the Smiling Pool the
water had crept over the banks and
flooded the Green Meadows, 80 that
he must stay right thsrs In the Big
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posed that he thought the water
could understand him. But the wa
ter paid no attention to him. OF
course not. It steadily crept higher
and higher up the trunk of the Big
Hickory Tree as If to make fun of
foolish Chatterer. When he saw
this he would have sudden panic
and race up to the very top Of the
Big Hickory Tree and there he
would cling and look over to the
Green Forest and wonder If he ever.
ever would get back there again.
Now, Of course, there wasn't the
sNshtost use n getting - excited.
Evening star., 1939-04-19

There was nothing Chatterer could
do. He was q prisoner in that tree,
but if he had stopped to think about
1t he would have known that ne
was perfectly safe. At least he was
safe until the water should get so
deep that it would reach the top
OF the Big Hickory Tree, and such
a thing as that never had happened
and probably never would happen.
What Chatterer should have done
would have been to make himself
comfortable, be thankful that he
had plenty to eat in his storehouse
N the hollow Ia the tree, and wait
Evening star., 1939-04-19

didn't once think of breakfast. When
he thought of those fine hickory
nuts in his storehouse right there
in that very tree it was to wish
that he never had thought of them
in the first place. If he hadn't
stored them there in the fall, or If
he hadn't thought of them the day
before, he would now be safe at
home in the Green Forest.
Foolish, foolish Chatterer! How
like lot of foolish people he was.
Some folks always must find some-
thing for somebody to blame for all
that happens. Instead Of being
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Hickory Tree, drove Chatterer al

Hickory Tree, drove Chatterer al
most crazy with excitement.
OF course, 1t was a very astonish-
Ing thing, and in a way an exciting
thing, but there was no cause for
Chatterer to act as II he had lost
his senses entirely. He raced all over
that Big Hickory Tree, all the time
scolding and chattering as II he
thought that would help matters.
He would 60 down the trunk Of the
tree almost to the water and there
he would scold Just Is fast Is his
tongue could 60. To have seen him
and heard him PA might have eap.
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patiently to see what would happen

patiently to see what would happen.
But Chatterer didn't do any real
thinking. I suppose it was the feel
ing that he was a prisoner that so
upset him. And that is just what he
was. He was just as much
prisoner as If he had been caught by
Farmer Browns Boy and put In a
cage. He couldn't do what he
wanted to. So what with his fright
and his feeling Of helplessness he
quite forgot to eat. He lost his appe-
tite. When Chatterer loses his ap-
petite you may know that he is feel
Ing very much upset, indeed. Hs
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Trademark applied
For q. 8. Patent Omeo
BY Mormon Marsh
By Bud Fisher

thankful that he was safe, with
plenty to eat and a good place to
sleep, here he was making himself
miserable, unable to eat, half crazy
with fear, all because he didn't sit
down and think q little. Foolish,
foolish Chatterer!
Evening star., 1939-04-19
BY Edqor Rice Burrouqhs

Tarzan saw that the battle was in the balance
Some bold, decisive stroke was required to turn
the tide. In the fighting throng he sought out
Valthor and said Il have a plan. 1t requires
your aid. Both of us may die!" "Where you
lead, follow Valthor answered.
Evening star., 1939-04-19
TwizzIer Answer

If Reedum and Weap both worked
on the advertising campaign 1t
would take them 15-7 days. The
answer q lot Of calculators GEL. Is
5.12 but that Is not right.
Evening star., 1939-04-19

were too few. The commander of the elephant
brigade rallied the remnant of his forces to
resist the advancing foot soldiers. From the
vantage point Of the howdahs his men hurled
deadly spears upon the Cathnean warriors.