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The Political Mill
Strenuous Session Forecast With Effort
To Settle Neutrality Issue

country under the cash and carry
system. Presumably the President
was expected to keep track Of the
lists of contraband goods announced
by belligerents and to include them
in the cash and carry item.
The administrations program has
in the past proposed to do away
with the mandatory arms and
munitions embargo, substituting free
sale of those articles provided the
belligerents paid for them in advance
and took them away. 1t also pro-
posed to give the President author
ity to ban American ships and
American travellers from entering
combat areas. 1t is believed the
administration will stick to this pro-
gram when Congress meets. Bar
ring that, it may support repeal in
the main of the entire mass of
neutrality legislation enacted from
1895 to 1887 and a return to the
operation of international law as
governing American trade during
war time.
Now Garry Raw Materials.
AS the law now stands, American
vessels are permitted to carry all
kinds of raw materials, foods, ETC.,
| abroad. For the cash and carry
provision is dead as of May i.
The only ban is on the shipment
of arms and munitions.
The session of Congress, despite
all the efforts of the President to
make it a quick and harmonious
one, is likely to be strenuous. AL
ready a sufficient number of Sena-
tors. Democrats and Republicans
alike, have announced their de-
termination to fight repeal of the
arms embargo. They are willing to
strengthen the neutrality laws now
on the books, but not to weaken
them, they say. They would in
many instances be ready to restore
and strengthen the cash and carry
provision which has expired.
Party lines have been broken on
this issue. Democrats like Walsh
of Massachusetts, Clark of Missouri
and McCarran of Nevada are ex-
pected to go down the line fighting
repeal of the arms embargo. Re
publicans who have given definite
assurance they will fight side by
side with these Democrats are Borah
of Idaho, Vandenberg of Michigan
and Nye of North Dakota. On the
other hand, Senators Austin of Yer
mont, White of Maine, and Taft Of
Ohio have indicated they will go
along for repeal of the embargo.
May Affect Nominations.
The fight in the Senate over the
neutrality laws may have far reach
ing effect on the presidential nomi-
nations made by the two major
parties next year. Take, for ex-
ample, the contrasting positions of
Senator Vandenberg and Senator
Taft, both of whom have been put
forward by their friends as candi-
dates for the G. o. P. nomination
Vandenberg's position, after the
Senate debate and after congress
sional action and the reaction of the
country, may be strengthened or
weakened. The same may be said
regarding Tafts position. Thomas
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Fields Fights $4,000
Claim by Physician
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RIVERSIDE, Calf, Sept. "A
w. C. Fields, the man with the big
bright nose and the pompous man.
ner, sought today to convince jury
of 10 women and 2 men a $4,000
medical fee against him was unjust
The actor appeared in Superior
Court for retrial of a suit by DR.
Jesse Citron of Hemet, who says he
gave 24-hour attention in treating
the comedian for bronchial pneu-
monia in 1886.
DR.. Citron, the first witness, re-
lated day-by-day details of his treat
ment of Fields. At the previous trial
he testified, over the actors denials
that Fields consumed alcoholic
beverages to the extent of about
two quarts a day" The $4,000
judgment of the earlier trial was
reversed by the State appellate court
as excessive.
Fields attorney rejected prospec-
tive jurors who indicated prejudice
against ANY one who some time ir
his life used intoxicating liquor"
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Folk
And What
They Do
B!und Secretory's
Bond Held Higher
Than His Masters
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

James Wheeler Hill, national sec
retary of the German-American
Bund, is small and inconspicuous
and might easily slip out of the
country. So District Attorney
Dewey's Office gets $4,000 added to
his bail bond, to help detain him
here until the trial of his chief,
Fritz Kuhn, having to do with the
alleged theft of $14,548 from the
bund.
Mr.. Wheeler-Hill is Fritz Kuhn's
first assistant and closest associate
in the bund Speaking with heavy
German accent, he says he is ma
tive-born American, with no links
whatever with Nazi Germany and
that his life endeavor is to make
America safe for Aryans." He is
pallid little man, "a years old, who
gets $50 a week for his messianic
efforts, less virulent and more tact
full than Kuhn. He is specialist
in the bund rubric of the order and
precedent of Nazi emblems and flags,
the ritual of the bund, its slogans
and rallying cries, but this, he in
sists, must not suggest any connec-
ton with the Nazis. The bund is,
he implies, like the United States
Marines, a gallant rescue squad to
save pure Americanism when it is
just about done for.
Mr.. Wheeler-Hill says he was
born in San Francisco, just before
the fire and earthquake and the
records of his birth were destroyed
in that disaster. He explains his
German accent by his education in
Russia. His father was English and
his mother was Russian, he explains,
and they took him to st. Petersburg,
now Leningrad, when he was an in
FAINT. His parents died and he re-
turned to this country on an oil
tanker in 1920. He was an early
associate of Fritz Kuhn in organ
izing the bund. For some reason
not disclosed, his bail, as material
witness, is now $500, or S2,500
higher than that of Kuhn.
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Proponents OF q. Gould Lincoln.
the Presidents program for amend
ment of the neutrality laws, which
includes repeal of the present arms
embargo, will proclaim their every
desire to keep this country out of
the conflict abroad The President
himself already has announced his
earnest desire to do so. Opponents
of the Presidents program, equally
insistant upon American neutrality,
nevertheless charge that his pro-
gram. will plunge this country into
war.
While all this talk at home about
keeping America out of the war
goes on, the answer may lie en-
tirely with the Germans and the
British. Two things might bring
this country into the war-unre-
stricted attacks by the belligerent
nations on American ships and
Americans travelling on the high
seas and a deliberate determine
tion on the part of the American
people to take sides with their
Subs to Attempt Blockade.
Reports from Berlin are that the
Nazis will have an 'eye for an eye
that if the British undertake to
prevent the shipment of goods from
neutral countries to Germany, in
cluding oil, cotton, steel. wheat and
other materials, they will, with their
submarines, undertake to prevent
the shipment of such goods from
neutral countries to Great Britain
and France Under such-conditions,
when will the Germans begin to
sink American ships? They will fix
the contraband lists to suit them
selves and operate accordingly, just
as the British do.
In some quarters, it is urged that
the only way to keep this country
out of war is to adopt cash
and carry provision, under which
all American goods shipped to the
warning countries would be carried
in foreign vessels-not American
after the goods had been finally
purchased from Americans prior tC
shipment. There was cash and
carry" provision of the neutrality
laws, but it expired May l of this
year. 1t was supplementary, how
ever, to the arms embargo-ano
authorized the President from time
to time to proclaim the goods that
might only be shipped from this
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New Deal Group Numbers Hundreds

The incident than the
Washington politics future
siderable The New Deal is not limited the above named
consists 300 400 officials of whom
administrative while the subordnaes
divisions
followers
their their influence policy
general
sckogetheness the
Government.
Particularly among the lesser New Dealers encouragement very
recalled when the pokesmen
Freedom the background by other
jokngy
prankish liberal
his head round Dealers
Pardon j. p Morgans Washington
Office this floor of the Treasury"
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the arms embargo-although they
couple with this a demand for
cash-and-carry provisions and for
the prohibition of American ships
and Americans to enter combat
zones" during the war. Senator
Herring of Iowa is one of those who
take such positions.
How far the Senate and House
are willing to go in making discre-
tionary the neutrality laws-giving
the President more latitude, as for
example in the designation of COM
bat areas, etc.-only the session will
show. There has been strong senti-
ment in Congress hitherto to keep
this matter of neutrality as much
as possible within its own hands.
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President
Delayed to
Count Noses
Congress Poll Said
To Assure Votes
For Embargo Repeal
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Just why did President Roosevelt
wait to call a special session when it
was apparent from the moment war
broke out September l that such
action would become necessary?
The President has been keeping
his own counsel about it and there
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E. Dewey, New York entry in the
C. o. P. race, is not SO situated that
he has to vote on this issue. But
he may be forced to state his posi-
ton nevertheless.
The attitude of Vice President
Garner on amendment of the neu-
trality laws has yet to be developed
Generally speaking, most of the
prominently mentioned Democrats
for the presidential nomination are
going along with the President in
this matter. Certainly that is true
of Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, now
Federal Security administrator.
Some of the Middle West Demo-
Gratis are lining up behind the Pres
ident in his demand for repeal Of
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destiny certainly
sue Stain and Mussolini
dealing practical
problems working
accept ourselves
judge the political
months
al if will result of the will of
the NORTH American nNewspape Aniance )
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The Capital Parade
Government Jobs for Prominent Businessmen
Caused Exaggerated Report Of New Deal Demise

While their enemies celebrating the banshment
that the New Dealers their
story, with DID, old ending
In this dislike
raised by the influx
Washington
Stephen Early White
brain trust the window These
encouraged the Dealers enemies they dqud
three to
President asked pontblank where matters
Presidents extremely
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questions W il !
be active. They
are. first, what
shall be done to
give assistance
to Great Brit
ain, France and
Poland in their
W ar a G a i n S t
Nazi Germany:
s e C on d, what
shall be done to
prom t e and
sustain our for
eign trade not
withst a n d / n G
war conditions?
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officials
likely that the Dealers
wshu thinking
President without substantial
representation of business his active helpers
AS fer Mr. Eays ntmaton that the brain trust the
followed
BY North Ausrca Nsxsp
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are no official
explanations but
the nearest ap-
proach to an an
alysis of the rea-
sons relates to
the fact that
the administra-
ton has been
quietly sounding
out Senators and
r e presentatives
ana UlQ nOJ ue-
eide to act till
a majority in
both houses was
assured for the
repeal of the
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Like a Two-Edqed Sword

the credit side puts final qeus
plan pressure" themselves into position where they
assumption opponents
based personal ambitions
partsanshp into general opposition the national welfare
national defense of
which the electorate had repeatedly denied them The
opponents the political
proclaim emergency the
claimed the Limited heard from the chief liberal
whether that President
to u
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value the recommendation Of the
departmental officials concerned.
Much is being made now (probably
too mucO of the fact that the in
filtration Of businessmen has been
localized, as it were, in the Treas
ury, War and Navy Departments.
1t is even understood that, if a
real emergency arises, executive
powers will be withheld from the
War Resources Board group and
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We, the People
Presidents Emergency Declaration Held
Greatest Political Coup Of Career
By JAY FRANKLIN.

proclaimed limited
emergency for the Of enforcing American neutrality and
national political
n
dronng
coming with
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MoIey Memoirs Irk White House

striking having given
much attached the selection
Hancock for the
and the additions economists and
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By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The special session of Congress
will have as its major note-what
shall we do to keep America out of
the European war? Two other
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Chief Justice and President of the
United States, were announced to-
day by memorial association which
bears his name.
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HE opinions OF the 0riters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to giDe all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1939-09-14

Y. Cohen, Harold L. 1ckes, Jerome
Frank, Leon Henderson, Isador Lu-
bin, Robert H. Jackson and all the
others will continue as usual to
trot in and out Of the White House
back door in suspiciously free and
easy way Their influence cannot
be said to have declined in the
least. The most that can be made
of the change in the governmental
picture is that the President, un-
derstanding the need for national
union in a dangerous time, has as
raprecaptipo diffarept pattarpS of II
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Plan Taft Shrine

CINCINNATI, Ohio, September IA
tP).-Plans for establishment of a
shrine at the birthplace here Of the
late William Howard Taft, former
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meT, Mr. Roosevelt mas Quietly
occupied the strategic key to the
American political situation.
In numerous Federal statutes, in
addition to the unrepealed portions
of the National Defense Act of 1917,
broad powers are conferred upon
the President in the event of
national emergency" What consti-
tutes a national emergency (aside
from war; has never been clearly
dofroI h,It II ic ohUi01IS that tho
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Thieves are stealing pianos from
churches in broad daylight in Dur
ban, South Africa.
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automatically shifts the balance
of which
extraordinary
conferred by the
in
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IHt UIlIy dIlSWtT 10 IIIIS UIIU IS
to stay out or go in is not exclusi
Dealers and the vast majority of
Americans want to stay out and hope
to stay out of the war. But it is a
matter of record that neither the
Abyssinians, the Chinese, the
Czechs, the Albanians, the Span
iards nor the Poles wanted war,
that they tried to stay at peace and
were not allowed to do SO. Ameri-
can neutrality is at the mercy of
events over which we have little
control While we are not vet the
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associated with
representing different patterns of thought
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
EVERETT ERICKSON
 VISITS IN JUNEAU

Everett Erickson, Professor of the English Department of the Univer- sity of Alaska, arrived on the Bar anof yesterday morning and left for the south aboard the Mount Me- Kinley He visited his scores of friends in Juneau on the brief stop here and those he did not see, he wants to say Hello to through The Empire.
 MT. Erickson is going to Seattle, then to San Francisco and attend the National Educational, Associa- tion convention and may return north via Nome and the lower Yu- kon river ports in time for the open ing of the University in September.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

G. D. Cole was taken from the steamer Baranof yesterday morning and admitted to St. Ann's Hospital for medical supervision.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
HOSPITAL NOTES

Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital over the. week end, D. Simon, a fisherman, is receiving medical at tention for mashed toe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

Charles Murphy was a medical admission to St. Anns Hospital yes- terday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
ATTENTION MASONs

There will be a Stated Communi- cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. l47 Monday evening at 7:30. Work in the M. M. Degree.
 J. w. LEVERS, adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

Mrs. w. B. Metz entered St. Ann's Hospital for medical care this morn- ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

THE MOVES property, corner 4th and Franklin, buildings -- one 1O-room house and one 5-room house, both furnished. Terms. See the owner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

SINGER SEWING Machines, Singer Vacuum Cleaners, Maytag Wash ing Machines, Maytag 110-volt light plants, Ironrite Ironers. Terms: S5 down, S5 monthly. J. H. ANDERSON, Box 101, Juneau, Alaska Distributor. W
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

LATE MODEL HUDSON Sedan in perfect condition. driven onl, a. 200 miles. priced for quick sale or will take light trade-in. Phone TIA
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

FURNISHED 5-room cottage with lot on Main. St., Douglas, Phone l8.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
ATTENTION o.E.s.

Regular meeting, Juneau Chapter No. T, Tuesday. pm. Initiation and refreshments.
 LILLIAN c. WATSON, adv. R Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

NEW ENERAL ELF c T RI o WASHING MACHINES sold on terms like rent" to responsible parties. Phone 616.-Alaska Elec- tric Light & Power Go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

FOR SALE-Henning apartments on Dixon. See Bob Henning at Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

Mae James underwent a major, operation Saturday at the Govern ment Hospital.
 Born to KIT. and Mrs. Jen Fucker at St. Ann's Hospital Friday night was a baby boy weighing 10 pounds 8 ounces, one of the largest babies ever to be born at the Hospital. pr. William M. Whitehead was the at tending physician. q.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

LATE '33 Ford Tudor sedan; 20,0Oe miles, rebuilt engine. Phone Green 462.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

FOR SALE-2-bedroom house: full basement, double lot, FILA terms. Phone Green 610.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

FOR SALE-U & Lunch. Owner quitting business. Write 20. Box c274 or phone 334.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

SHOOT CABIN cruiser Betty B. Phone J. B. Burford at 79,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

FOR SALE-12-gauge pump gun, also 10-gauge double barrel Ithica. Room 227, Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

A baby boy weighing g pounds 3 ounces was born Saturday afternoon at St. Ann's Hospital to MT. and Mrs. Sigurd Swanson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

FOR SALE-Burroughs combination
 adding machine. Phone Black 73O.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

1898 CHEVROLET sedan-pract1- cally new. Inquire 1113 Calhoun Ave. f1
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
LOST AND FOUND

LOST Eastman Kodak Jiffy 620,
 folding style. Please call 721.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

Insertion on same udy.
 We accept ads over telephone from persons listed in telephone directory.
 Phone 374-Ask for Ad-taker.
 FOR SALE FOR SALE-Equity in an lNVES- TORS SYNDICATE CERTIFl- CATE. An opportunity to acquire a Certificate at sizeable saving. Phone Black 414.
 FOR SALE-18-ft. cruiser, Modei A motor, almost completed, Soo- Owner getting larger boat. No. 1e, Johnson Apts. Anytime after 3:30 pm.
 FOR SALE-Used studio couch, Apt. c. Shabaldak Apts. FOR SALE-City lot 5, Block l04, s2oO. Inquire 1014 Eleventh St. or phone 437.
 HORSEPOWER air-cooled Wis., consin marine engine with re- verse gear-new. Sully's Bakery. FOR SALE-2-room house, close Mendenhall bridge, makes splen- did summer home, very reason able. See Herb Vending or in ouire Mons Anderson Sundays. 1888 CHEVROLET sedan-practi- cally new. Inquire 1113 Calhoun Ave. FOR SALE-Burroughs combination adding machine. Phone Black 730. FOR SALE-12-gauge pump gun, also 10-gauge double barrel Ithica. Room 227, Baranof Hotel. THE MOVES property, corner 4th and Franklin, 2 buildings - one 1O-room house and one 5-room house, both furnished. Terms. See the owner.
 32-FOOT CABIN cruiser Betty B. Phone J. B. Burford at 79, NEW GENERAL ELE CTRIC WASHING MACHINES sold on terms like rent" to responsible parties. Phone 616.-Alaska Elec- +.;o T ;oIt Qr Dou,or Co FURNISHED 5-room cottage with lot on Main. St., Douglas, Phone l8
 SINGER SEWING Machines, Singer . Vacuum Cleaners, Maytag Wash ing Machines, Maytag 110-volt light plants, Ironrite Ironers. Terms: S5 down, S5 monthly. J. H. ANDERSON, Box l01, Juneau, Alaska Distributor. W FOR SALE-2-bedroom house: full basement, double lot, FILA terms. Phone Green 610.
 -- ------- ----------------- LATE Fo3 FOTQ luuOI oCudi, S",ooS miles, rebuilt engine. Phone Green 462.
 LATE MODEL HUDSON Sedan in perfect condition. driven onl, a. 200 miles, priced for quick sale or will take light trade-in. Phone TIA.
 FOR SALE-Henning apartments on Dixon. See Bob Henning at Empire.
 : FOR SALE-U & I Lunch. Owner quitting business. Write 20. Box c274 or phone 334.
 FOR SALE-City Float Beer Parlor. Phone 541 after pm.
 ATTENTION O.E.S.
 Regular meeting, Juneau Chapter No. T, Tuesday, 6 pm. Initiation and refreshments.
 LILLIAN c. WATSON, 70 l,, G Ftt SacratarV
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

FOR SALE-City Float Beer Parlor. Phone 541 after 4 pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
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 -CIlecIs Oasl' For Reief' columns l,OaU.

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 To (ylll,e1.liSe rooms for ,'elat ,ils THE EMPIRE .lglL F | jassf caIl 374 n',d tssk for fhe Wa.st . Ad. Dem: elgl|f.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
FOR RENT

BROOM furnished apt, with bath; also Broom cabin. Call at s57 Willoughby Ave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22

TURN your old gold in:o value, cash or trade at Nugget Shop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS

GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nents, s450 Finger wave, 65c. Lola's Beauty Shop, telephone POI, 315 Decker Way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-19
New England Combed for Man, Divorced Wife FoI- lowing Disappearance SPECTACULAR SCENE IN
 NORTHAMPTON, MASS. Husband, Stranger Forced to Accompany Kidnaper
 in Stolen Car

Northampton, Mass, July 19. - (UP) = A former con- vict and his divorced wife - kidnapped after he robbed her present husband and another man = were sought through out New England today. James J. Kehoe, 24, of Hud- son, identified by state police as the abductor of Mrs. Ber- nice Beckwith, 27, forced her husband, Cyril, 30, and a plumbing shop attendant to &C., company them as far as Granby. Abandoning them there after at tempting to shoot Beckwith, he drove off with Mrs. Beckwith. They had not been reported seen 15 hours later.
 Late Report Filed
 Though the kidnap-holdup occur red about 2 p. m. yesterday, it was not reported to police until early evening when Beckwith and the plumbers assistant, Leroy Langdon, reached telephone after two hour hike.
 Beckwith said that when he met his wife by appointment in front of the International Silver Company factory where he works, he found her sobbing on the front seat of the car.
 Mrs. Beckwith told him she was ill., her husband said, and he then noticed man standing behind the car. He helped her from the car and they started across the street to the plumbing shop to call doc- tor.
 That mans armed" she whisper ed as they crossed the street.
 Beckwith asked Langdon to call police. Kehoe entered the shop as Langdon picked up the telephone and, gun in hand, ordered all three to the rear of the shop.
 Taking $l from Beckwith and $S
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