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Fiqht to Quench Oil Fire

Later plan was made to halt the
fire. A tunnel was cut into the
ground. starting at q distance of
about go feet from the gusher. The
tunnel reached the oil at point
43 feet under the surface of the
ground.
Pumps forced water, mud and
cement through the tunnel and into
the oil we'll. This was done to cut
down the amount of pressure in the
gusher.
Then a steel plug 40 feet long was
prepared. The idea was to stop up
the hole in the metal casing from
which the flame was coming.
Wind machines were employed to
blow the flames away when the
plug was moved into position. With
the help of derrick, it was put in
place and the fire was ended.
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Tomorrow: Questions About
Planets.
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Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle

AnSWer-Bid one spade. The suit
Is not good one, but there is a
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Don't Take
Nv Word for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
Questions and Answers

@. Please pronounce the word
"incognito. y. M.
A. Not "IN-cog- tub" Ac-
cent the second syllable. In the
third syllable the 'i' is short as in
bit. fit: in-COG-n i-toe.
@. Do the Greek letters Phi Beta
Kappa stand for anything other
faint chance that partner has good
spade support. Also. this is the
cheapest bid you can make-an i'm
portant consideration since your
hand is so weak.
Score 100 per cent for one spade.
so per cent for one no-trump, 80
per cent for two clubs.
Question No. 500.
Today you are Howard Schenken's
partner and, with neither side vul-
nerable, you hold:
AK J9
0J5
. A G 653
%Q43
The bidding:
SChenken Maier You Jacoby
l = Pass 10 Pass
~ Pass CD
What do you bid? (Ansv7~ to-
morrow
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate. 1nc)
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fire, and tried hard to keep such
a misfortune from taking place.
Yet the oil was ignited, perhaps by
a spark.
Scores of men had been toiling
near the gusher to plug" it. When
the flash and roar told them of fire,
they ran for their lives. Their
clothing had become more or less
covered with oil, and they felt
fortunate to escape being burned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-08

West opened the queen OF spades,
South winning with the king. De-
clarer cashed the club king and led
the club ten, fineSSing to EaSt's
queen. South won the spade re-
turn with the spade ace and led a
club toward dummy.
West could place all the high cards
from the bidding and correctly as
sumed that Souths plan was to
cash the clubs and the two high
hearts and then lead a spade to
force diamond lead up to the ace
queen. The only danger, for South,
was that West might be able 70
blank the king of diamonds and win
four instead of three tricks at the
end. And Vests only chance of
heading of South was to make
South think the diamond king had
been BANKED.
On the third round of clubs, there
fore, West discarded the five of dia-
monds, and on dummy's last club
West blandly dropped the jack of
diamonds. Now South looked wor-
.ried Had West BANKED his king
of diamonds? If so, correct play
was to play the diamond ace rather
than throw West in with spade
Or was West just pretending? If
so. the end-play would work after
all
AS it happened, South guessed
wrong by playing for the king of
diamonds to drop So Vests swim
die sidetracked a successful play in
favor of an unsuccessful one.
X
Yesterday you were Merwin D.
Maier's partner and, with neither
side vulnerable, you held:
AQ932
2J5
0AQ65
%743
The bidding:
Maier Jacoby You Schenken
- Pass 10 Pass
~ Pass CD
Answer-Bid one spade. The suit
Is not a good one, but there is a
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
Bndqe SwindIes-No. 10

West knew that South was a fine
player and that he would make his
contract by an end play unless he
could be Sidetracked:
South dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
RUMANIA MAKES
PACT WITH NAILS
Grants Trade Advantages
In Exchange For Prom
Use OF Arms
By ROBERT ST. JOHN

BUCHAREST, April 20.-CR'-
Fearful Rumania, continually pre-
pairing against the possibility OF
involvement in the spreading Eu-
ropean war, today extracted from
Germany a promise to ship LUCE
quantities of munitions and fight
ing planes to this country in eX-
change for minor commercial ad-
vantages.
Rumanian negotiators signed a
trade treaty amendment with DR..
Karl Clodius, German trade nego-
tiator.
Aides of King Carol explained
privately that they were attempting
to stall off greater German demands
with comparatively minor nee
sions while at the same time get
ting weapons to strengthen the
army so that the country ultimate
ly could refuse greater demands
from the Reich.
Rumanian contracts with the
Skoda Munitions Works, in former
Czecho-S lovakia, were confirmed in
Continued OH Page Three; Col. g.
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FLOOD SPREADING
IN OHIO VALLEY
Thousands Left Homeless
And Waters Menace
Pittsburgh Area

MARIETTA, O., April 20 Up -
Floods gripped the Ohio valley from
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati tonight
and turned southern Ohio into a
maze of lakes, isolating entire
towns. Thousands were homeless.
Water rose menacingly around
Pittsburgh's "G'olden Triangle
poured past merchants doors in Ma.
rietta, pioneer Ohio river city of
Is, 900, and climbed th~ree-tenths of
a foot an hour toward a tentative
crest of So or SO feet at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati's flood stage is So feet
and the anticipated crest would be
far below the record of 79.99-foot
stage established in the disastrous
1887 inundation. Severe damage is
not caused unless the crests exceed
flood stage by 10 or Is feet.
Thousands of residents in Ohio
river valley lowlands fled their
homes or moved to second floors.
Marietta merchants moved out
stock. At Pomeroy, O., a general
exodus began in expectation of five
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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Reynaud Offers II Duce
Chance To Join Allies

which constitutes in it's eyes one
of the indispensable bases of peace
a communique said.
Gin Rome authoritative italians
said freedom from British and
French control over the Mediter-
ranean was Italy's chief claim on
the Allies, with whom she fought
in the World war but of whom she
has been hostilely critical as a
acknowledgement ally of Germany in
the current wary
Such an entente is made all the
more desirable in Allied eyes be-
cause Of the spread of the battle
front far to the northward al
though Allied official speeches and
press comment have contained
strong hints that Britain and
France believe they have enough
Continued on Page Six; Col y
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~ c. FDR Hull Drives
To Affect Governor Race

taken at the same meeting by an
other candidate, J. M. Broughton
of Raleigh, who said: There will
be a democratic President next
time who will have to champion
the record of President Roosevelt,
and I shall stand behind him."
The Hull VS.. Roosevelt rift with
in the state party had its inception
one week ago when a group OF
democratic leaders organized a
North Carolina for Roosevelt"
movement. Aim of the organization
was to have this states rs votes
in the democratic national conven-
ton cast for Governor Hoey on
the first ballot, and for MIR. Roose'
welt on all subsequent ballots.
The inference from such a pro-
gram might have been that Cover
(Continued on Page Three; Coi' ~
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Says Transports
Made Trip Without Loss;
Nazis Claim Tuo Sunk
BRITISH SUBS ACTIVE
Two German Troop Ships
Torpedoed; Warplanes
Reported Downed
NAZI CLAIMS UNTRUE
BY DREW

LONDON, April 20.-(P)-
Great Britain reported sue
cessful operations on land
and sea and in the air to-
night as she tainted Ger
many with the declaration
that an Allied fighting force
had been transported across
400 miles of North sea and
landed on the Unfamiliar Nor
Wegian coast without the loss
of a single life.
COMMUNICATES from the war
office and a d m iralty an
nounced that:
1-While Allied transports
had reached Norway I'M
scathed, British submarines
in an attack on a German
convoy torpedoed two troop
ships. whether the trans
ports sank was not stated.)
Three Planes Downed
2.-Three German planes were
shot down and others damaged in
unsuccessful raids on British naval
units and transports, in which the
enemy obtained no hits.
3.-At least four German planes
were shot down in the first large
scale air battles over the western
front since the Norwegian campaign
began.
4.-AIlied forces in Norway "occu-
pied certain positions of vantage
on April 10, and operations there
are proceeding according to plan"
Rejoicing over these reported sue
cesses was tempered by the disclos-
ure that two British cargo ships,
the Mersey and the HaWnby, had
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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MRS. VANDERBILT
SUCCUMBS IN N. Y.
Queen OF '4OO' Was Noted
For Philanthropies,
War Relief

NEW YORK. April 20.-P-Mrs
William K. Vanderbilt, Sr., widow
of the grandson of the founder OF
the Vanderbilt dynasty and long a
reigning queen in New York So
ciety, died late today in New York
hospital.
She was noted especially for her
philanthropies particularly in behalf
of war sufferers, and during the
World War was one of the Red
Cross most active workers. For this
contribution, she was made a knight
of the Legion of Honor by france
in 1919 and received the rank of Of
ficer in the Legion u years later.
The former Anne Hartman, she
was one of eight children of n late
Oliver Hartman, Sr. and made her
social debut in the 1S80's.
Her first marriage was to Samuel
Stevens Sands, Jr., who was Killed a
few ear later while riding in the
Meadowbrook hunt on Long Island.
Her second husband was Lewis Nor
ris Rutherford and after his a
she and. Vanderbilt were married III
London in 1903.
Vanderbilt, the grandson Of Com
1nodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a re-
ceived the bulk of the fortune LETT
by his father, William H.
1t was after the death of MRS.
William .Aster that. Mrs. vanderbilt
took over leadership in the "a
AGO." giving elaborate functions al
the Vanderbilt mansion. Her daugh-
ters. Barbara and Margaret Ruther'
ford, were ~.debutaptes then; supse
quently Barbara married Cyrll Ha'eh
.
Dona ThIsEas etlI. 81
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ELVERUM NOT TAKEN
Swedes Report Nazi Army
Has Been Checked
North OF Oslo
CRUCIAL STAGE NEAR
By THOMAS f. HAWKINS

OlOCkHOLM, April ZU.-
R-With the Allies report
ed to have poured at, least
three divisions into the west
ern Norwegian coast in prep
aration for a major battle
with Germany, the Nazi adj
vance northward from Oslo
was declared unofficially to-
night to have been set back
by a defeat at Elverum, one
time refuge of King Haakon
VII.
Contradicting earlier Swed-
ISL reports that the Nazis had
captured the town of FL
verum, about rs miles north
of German-held Oslo, travel
ers crossing the border from
Norway insisted the bitterly
contested town still is in the
hands of the Norsemen.
Secrecy still shrouds the
present refuge Of King Haa-
kon. Norwegian sources insist
he still is in Norway.
A Huge Force
The reports of allied troop land
ings received by Swedish newspap-
ers said one French and two Brit
ish divisions, estimated at between
80, 1000 and 40, 900 men, came ashore
at Namsos, Mode and Laerdal, pos
sible jumping-off places for drives
on Bergen and Trondheim, t W o
western ports. Other British forces
are reported west and north of
Narvik.
For their part, the Germans were
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
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Nazi Planes
Bomb Three
Vessels
BY ALVIN j.

10y alvin q.
BERLIN, April 2O.-AP)-A
15,OO0-ton British transport was
blasted into flaming wreckage
and a cruiser sent to the bottom
of central Norway's Romsdals
ford late today by a squadron
of German bombers which gave
Adolf Hitler a martial birthday
gift by bouncing ON the British
at the very moment of landing
troops, it was officially ANNOUNCE
ed here tonight.
Throughout wartime Germany,
patriotism was being famed in
a multitude of Observances of
the fuehrer's 51st anniversary
while stern steps were taken in
the struggle to subdue recalci-
trant Norway.
"Nithout LOSSES
The German bombers, escaping
without losses, also effectively at
tackled" British soldiers who already
had landed at Andalsnes, at the head
of Romsdals ford, DNB, officia
news agency reported.
Andalsnes is one of the five rail
heads on the Norwegian west coast
Germany also announced the
bombing yesterday of three British
transports and a cruiser and said on,
transport was sunk. Qn contrast, thu
British reported this afternoon tina
their expeditionary army had beer
to Norway without loss of {
Although it was conceded tina
formidable British forces have beer
landed far to the north, in the Lotto
ten island region opposite Narvik
and at points further south, German
military leaders expressed confidence
that German shock troops could pre-
vent effective cooperation between
British and Norwegian soldiers.
They added, with a great show Of
confidence, that Allied efforts or
soil were bound to be
or less Intellectual because OF
the demonstrated v~ulnerability OF
the British fleet to German all
bombers."
In some German quarters, how
ever, there seemed to be irritation
over the continued opposition Of
Norway, a feeble country from a
military standpoint, but one which
IS taking full advantage of its geo
Continued on Page Thre; Col. y
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By JOHN III. MARTIN

PARIS, April 2O.-GR-Paul Rey-
naud's government today pushed
it's efforts to reach an understand
ing with a thus far unresponsive
Italy while French troops poured
into Norwegian battlefields to col
laborate with their British Allies in
the widened war against Germany.
The premier told the senate for
eign affairs committee in an ex-
haustive international survey that
France, looking toward a "Mediter-
ranean %enteLte,'' has continued "a
friendly exchange of views" with
Italy and Spain since the beginning
of the European war.
"Outside of all theological con-
siderations, the French govern
ment will pursue it's efforts in re-
gard to these two countries in
of a Mediterranean entente
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NORWAY WARNED
NOT TO RESIST
Nazi Commander Declares
Full Dreadfulness'
May Be Felt
By born

OSLO, April 20.-LR-Norway
was warned today in the name of
Adolf Hitler that she will feel the
full sharpness and dreadfulness"
of the German sword" unless she
ceases all resistance to the German
military occupation.
This warning was sounded by
General Won Falkenhorst, C o M
mander-in-chief of the army of &C.
cupation, in an address high-light-
ing a Nazi military parade and de-
monstration in celebration of Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler's 51st birthday.
Continued OH Page Two; Col. g.
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rs Verified Sinkings In
clude Nine Warships;
Others Claimed
GERMANS HARD HIT
Spread OF War To Scandi.
navia Brings Squirt In
Conflict Al Sea
By JOHN A. MOROSO, 3rd
Associated Press Staff Writer

In the two weeks since the Euro
pean wal spread to Scandinavia, al
least 20 ships of nations directly in,
volved in the conflict and six others
have been destroyed, II by naval &C
tivity. The loss of nine Warships has
been admitted-out of the more than
so reported in the combined claims
of all powers.
These figures were established
yesterday after a sitting of the vast
collection of claims and counter,
claims, reports and denials, that fol,
lowed the speed-up of the war after
Germany moved into Denmark and
Norway.
Picture Is Blurred
Of necessity, the picture of what
has happened in the furious battles
off Scandinavian shores is blurred
because of the conflicting announce,
ments Of warning countries. So con,
fused has been the action that prob,
ably even the military leaders of the
nations at war do not yet know the
precise results.
To date, Germany has acknowI,
edged loss of two cruisers; Britain
admits four d~estroyers destroyed;
Norway admits three warships
downed.
The 26-ship total arrived at rep,
resents these admitted losses, plus
others verified by neutrals or eye
witnesses.
A prolonged and spectacular bat
tie between British planes and shore
batteries and German air raiders off
the southeast British coast follow,
ing the mining of two British mer-
chantmen in that area last night eli,
NAKED what Britons said were new
Nazi aerial mine-laying operations
in an effort to block off the flow of
Allied troops to Norway.
The appearance of the German
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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He Flags COP For Charge
New Deal Is Seeking
To Enter War
SPEAKS TO Y. D. c.
Campaign Republicans Are
Waging Pitched On Low
Level, He Says
Bv DOUGLAS B. N

WARM SPRINGS, Ca, April 20.
-lB- President Roosevelt urged
AGAIN tonight that his own party
choose a liberal pair Of candidates
end at the same time waded into
the republican opposition for seek
ING tn frighten the country" by de-
cIaring the present administration
ois deliberately trying to put this
nation into war
It was an out-and-out political
talk that Mr.. Roosevelt made by
radio to a series of countrywide
dinners of young democrats clubs.
And while it carried an obvious bid
for continuance of the New Deal, 1t
offered no tangible clue to the out
standing political question of the
day: Will the President seek a
third term?
Faces Similar Campaign
Asserting that America faces this
year much the same kind of cam
paign as it did in 1882 and 1886, the
chief executive added:
1T seems to me very obvious that
if the democratic party is to defeat
the republican party next Novem-
Der We must nominate a liberal pair
Of candidates, running on a liberal
and forward-looking PLATFORM"
Not once did Mr.. Roosevelt men
ton names. He came closest to it,
when he said;
Il am not speaking tonight of
world affairs. Your government is
keeping a cool head and a steady
hand.
we are keeping out of the wars
that are going on in Europe and in
ASA, but I do not subscribe to the
preachment of a republican aspirant
Tor the presidency who tells you,
IN effect, that the United States
and the people of the United States
should do nothing to try to bring
ABOUT a better order, a more Sc.
continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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Die As Limited Train
Jumps Track In New York
100 OTHERS INJURED
New York Central Express
Train Crashes Against
Rock Wall
BY ALFRED MAS

LITTLE FALLS, N. Y, April 20.
R-Rescue workers pried tonight
into tons of twisted sle~et-covered
steel, once the New York Centraps
proud Lake Shore Limited, seeking
possible additions to a known wreck
death toll of Is persons.
Travelling 50 miles an hour, the
New York-Chicago passenger train
last night jumped the track at a
~six-degree curve, the most abrupt
on the system, and crashed with
terrific and death-dealing force into
a massive stone embankment.
Asleep in Berths
Three hundred passengers, most
of whom were asleep in Pullmans
on the 16-car train, were hurled
from their beds into an inferno of
shrieks, kissing steam and the
groans of the dying.
So badly mangled were the vic
tins that only "a had been identl-
fled, as dusk fell over this pic
turesque Mohawk valley where
some of the Revolutionary wars
major battles were fought.
Approximately 100 others went to
hospitals with broken bones, cuts
and bruises, and physicians feared
some of them may be added to the
death roll of one of the nations
worst railway disasters. EXamina'
ton of wreckage still is incomplete
and Coroner Fred C. Sabin said he
expected discovery of three or
more bodies"
F. E. Williamson, president of
the New York Central, said it was
Impossible" to learn the cause Of
the accident Immediately, but the
systems New York city office said
the locomotives speedemeter show
ed it was roaring westward IA
Continued on Page Six; Col -
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RUSSIA BUILDING
ALEUTIAN BASE
U. S. Army To Ask Funds
For Own Air Defense
On Alaskan Coast
BY REC INGRAHAM

WASHINGTON, April 20.-P)-
Reports that Russia has established
naval and air bases e the Aleu-,
ton islands, congressional sources
said today, are behind intensified
army efforts to strengthen d~efenses
in Alaska.
Informed legislators said they
understood that the army definitely
had confirmed that Russia has con
structed bases on the Siberian coast
less than 100 miles from American
owned islands in the Aleutian chain
which extends southWestward from
Alaska.
The army's high command was
said to take the attitude that the
bases We're designed primarily for
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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WAR MANEUVERS
END FIRST WEEK
Movies OF '~Streamlined'
Army Units Studied
AT Fl. Benning
BY j. r. TRIPLET

FORT BENNING, Ga, April 90
Rp-Friends, foes and neutrals fra
ternized in a theater tent here today
for the official analysis of the first
weeks campaigning in maneuvers
designed to test the streamline6
army corps set-up. It's called a
critique.
A weekend armistice permitted
the peaceful assembly of officers OF
the Fourth Corps Blues, the Provis'
ional Corps Reds and the Referee
Control Group Tor a discussion OF
what they did and didn't do in mock
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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fpv +be Associated Press)

Division Of North Carolina demo-
cratic party leaders into two camps
one favoring the reelection of
President Roosevelt, the other the
election of cordell Hull-is certain
to have r-everberations in the
states gubernatorial campaign, po'
litical sources predicted last night.
These sources said that the seven
candidates for governor
would find it increasingly difficult
MT n align themselves with one
amp or another.
one candidate, L. Lee Gravely of
,oalv Mount, already has ex-
nressed himself in favor of a third
term for President Roosevelt.
G (srav did so in a speech last
rroaaav night at Wilson before the
Junior chamber Of Commerce.
A middle-of-the-road course Vas
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-21
IL DUCE SURE
NAILS WILL WIN
Mussolini Sends Victory
Wire Or Occasion OF
Hitler's Birthday

BERLIN, April 2O.-R-Benito
Mussolini today sent Adolf Hitler
a birthday message expressing de
finite confidence that the German
people will VIGOROUSLY stand the
great test under which it has been
placed"
Hitler replied W i t "hearty
thanks" and an expression of "un-
shakeable belief that the German
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
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ALLIES SAY nine
PLANES DESTROYED
Fighter Planes, ARCHES
And Crashes Make Up
German Losses

PARIS, April 20 Up - Allied
fliers and anti-aircraft gunners
gave a wry twist to Adolf Hitler's
birthday celebration today with a
series Of rousing western front
combats in which nine German
warplanes were reported brought
down-six of them listed officially.
The British royal air force,
claiming four of these six, an.
nounced that another was believed
Continued OF Page Two; Col. 81
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M Meteorological data for the "a hours
s ''@o p. m. Yesterday. ,
son Temperature
m e e a. m Ga; 7:30 a. m. 90: 1:30 p.
mioi IN, 40 ,. nj. 81; maximum IS;
-'"'"'uh 81; mean 81: normal 81.
ION Humidity
se 9 a, m. 80; 7:3O a. m. IS; 1870 p.
" go p. m. g.
Ion Precipitation
NJ. , 4S. a. m. 80; 7:3O. a. NJ. IS: .1:30. p.
TO- $40 p. m. GO.
IT,. Precipitation
m T no5 Tor "A hours ending 7:30 p.
non 10 inches. total since first of the
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we"s1fbSaHlNGT0N, April 20. (P -
and , rni bureau records of temperature
y. m l'inlali for the "a hours ending S
areas m' N the principal cotton growing
S s.s!S and elsewhere:
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WEATHER

FORECAST
ra Hofth Carolina: Cloudy preceded by
III aflzzle in early morning, slightly
s srotsF IN east portion. slightly warm
~ III mountains Sunday; Monday part
~ cloudy and warmer
si .%4In Carolina: Partly cloudy,
dda on. warmer in west portion Sun
on ~'' Monday generally fair and warm
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ris a"L y ,Sa 5:Ha; SUNSET cash; moon
"'e o:50p; moonset 5:O5a.