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transports.
 Some Army men have contend ed that the Navy, while at home in handling fighting ships, was not familiar with passenger ves- se1s. This point was first raised after the burning of the Manhat- tan at sea en route home from Europe.
 The Manhattan was being oper- ated by the Navy and the cause of the fire still remains a mys- tery. Probably it always will be. For after the Manhattan was brought to port, the Navy did not permit the FBI or any other agency to interrogate those aboard.
 On the other hand, the sink ing of several naval transports off the coast of North Africa, following the Navy landing opera tions, is not chalked up to care- lessneSs or fault. It is true that most of the vessels had unloaded their human cargoes and had set out for home without armed escorts. However, both the Army and the Navy were anxious to get the transports out of the combat zone and it was decided that their speed was sufficient protection against submarines. The destroyers and escort vessels, it was felt, were more needed along the African coast.
 BATTLESHIP ON REEF
 In addition to these losses, the Navy had a big battleship go on a reef in the South Pacific. She has now been rapaired, so that knowledge of the accident can be of no value to the enemy. Never thelesS, Army transport officers point out that the Navy, though supposed to be skilled in naviga- tion, is not infallible.
 The President Coolidge, on the other hand, was under the Army, operated for time by the War Shipping Administration. Here again, however, the Navy is get- ting some of the blame on the ground that it did not properly inform the Coolidge of the pres ence of mines.
 One solution to the contro- versy put forward in Army Circles is to place all of the transports under the Coast Guard. Its personnel are trained in operating in coastal waters, are expert mariners, yet are subject to the final authority of the Navy.
 Whatever the solution, the loss of the big fast passenger ves- sells seriously reduces our ability to send troops in a hurry, and further losses must be prevented at any cost.
 SENATORIAL HASH
 When the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency meets be- hind closed doors the chances are that some weighty financial mat ter is discussed. But 2. Q closed door meeting the other day the committee heard some pointed comments on the merits of hash.
 Senator John 4. Danaller of Connecticut opened the discussion by reporting a rumor that 50 persons had been poisoned by in a certain government cafeteria.
 'I have no official infOrma- ton on the accuracy of this report" declared Danaher. However, Bill, who works in the Senate layat0ry, was saying the other day that no one should eat hash except at home, and even then you ought to be leery."
 T guess that's right" chimed in dFolI Senator AIben Barkiey of Kentucky, Democratic major ity leader. "A friend of mine once told me that he never ate hash away from home, because he didn't know what was In 1t, and never at home, because what was in t."
 NEW ALUMINIUM KING
 /. A stocky little man who looks like Napoleon is busy breaking the monopoly of the Aluminium Company of America. T',cnsh
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Selected Poerr,
LOOKING AT SEEDS
Uois Kingsley Pelton in the Christian
 Science Monitor)

uos Kingsley Pelton in the Christian
 Science Monitor) These packages enclose little world As yet unborn. Within them lie rich hues, And lovely shapes and fragrance still unturied Awaiting sunlight here, are reds and blues Of larkspurs raising slender, wind-blown towers And here caenduias secrete their gold In little fists all tightly closed New flowers have not seen await the day when cold VII vanish. Here are yellow pearls of corn Within whose substance future strength is sealed From these, huge, red tomatoes will be born, And here are peas and beans for some wide field. How many, looking on these seeds, would guess They hide a partnership in loveliness?
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Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady

elgned letters pertaining '@ per- sonnl health and hygiene, mos t0l disease, diAgnosle or treatment, will be answered by pr. Hrn6y lk b stamped eelR-addtessed envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written lA lnk. No reply can Do made Co queries not conform ing Co instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, National Newsa paper Service, Se0 West Madison Street, Chicago lll.
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Q NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
The Heats
 On Somervell, But He Can Take It
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington C0rresnOndent

The No. 1 military man whom the civilian war agencies of the govern
 ment have picked out to concentrate their attack on is Lieut.. Gen. Bre- hon Somervell, commanding the Services of Supply. So successful have been whippers-up of the so- called feud between the Army and the War Production Board that they would have you believe there is no limit to this mans ambition and
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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Forty Years of it

My husband has suffered frcmA clergy for forty years. We sent fof your pamphlet Relief for Allergy' he has had relief from tse verV first dose and TOW can eat anythira { he wants, and sleeps nights with now and then dose or two We are so happy about this and grateful to you for the help you have been to us. tMrs. R, Nell
 Answer-Forty years ago, Ma'aml I, for one, had never heard of "al- lergy." I really wonder whether thd condition has become common iyl recent years or whether we pust did not recognize 1t then. On request If accompanied with self-addressed stamped envelope, the pamphlet Relief for Allergy" will be mailed any correspondent who is allergic.
 In the Bag
 Is the wheat they have in bags at| the feed store fit for human coni| sumption, or can it be treated sc| as to make 1t suitable for humai| consumption? (G. B.
 Arswer--I have consumed a good deal of 1t, but then, I'm not humarI about such things. Send a stamped envelope bearing your address, fol pamphlet Wheat to Eat" Nah difficulty I have encountered iiI buying wheat from the feed stors| is making the man understand m, language--I ask for peek, and h keeps changing the subject until
 give up and say I'll take l5 pounds
 Removing Hair From Legs
 Please recommend what you con sider the best means of removins hair from the legs. tMiss R. DD
 Answer-Mix two teaspoonfuls cE fresh barium Sulfide with three tea spoonfuls of zinc oxide and thre teaspoonfuls of cornstarch. Moiste
 this with water to make a pasts Apply to hairy surface and allol to remain ten minutes-or less tim if any burning sensitive. Scrape o
 paste and hairs with smooth woode blade, and wash skin with severs rinsings of warm water. Some wc men prefer simple shaving wit safety razor. Every girl to her tasts Copyright 1922, John P. Dille CO
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grasp for power. They tell you not o n l y to Watch Somer- velll" but to Watch out for Sonervelli"
 But somehow Somerveil doesn't quite fill the bill of what it takes to be 8 military dictator, or else there is some thing powerfully disarming about I,iS rather clipht.
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A Thought for Today

Blessed shalt thou be when thou cOmest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou gOest out. --Deute-OnOmy 2S:6, The benediction Of these covering heavens Ral on their heads like dewl
 Shakespeare.
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Daily Almanac

Sun rises S:13 a. m: sets 5:27 p. m. (war time).
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
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price is $l20OO and must be raise before April IS next. This effort preserve the beautiful High " from the highway builders-tho' devotees of scenery who tear dow
 whole mountain sides that more nie torists may look upon what Is left should not lack for supporters.
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Washington Merry-G Go-Round DREW Pz PEARSON

President Coolidge Revves Controversy Over Tronspors Blame Placed Navy for Not Giving Mnes Army Men Favor Operation of by Coast Guurd Aluminium Co., Challenger Got Monopoly Fouts Marbles Chomp transport President Coolidge probably American mine brought into the open
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figure, his graying hair, his ready smile, his quick sense of humor, his blue eyes. He is tough, but he can take it as well as dish it out. He laughs about all the things his op- ponents say of him-Somervell is out to wreck WIPE, Somervell wants to take over manpower, Somervell has plans to take over rationing, Somervell wants to run civilian economy.
 To many bureaucratS and some congressman, Somervell is the Army. When they say they are afraid of the Army they mean they are afraid of Somervell. This might be flat tering if it were not also embar- rassing. Gen. George c. Marshall is chief of staff of the Army and Somervell's boss, but somehow no one ever picks on General Marshall.
 The reason General Somervell is picked out for all the hate is that as commander of the Services of Supply he heads up that part of the Army which has most direct dealings with the civilian economy and the other agencies of the government. In the reorganization of the Army general staff, all of the routine pro- curement functions were taken away from General Marshall in order to leave him free for purely tactical duties-planning the fighting of the war. The job of procurement of everything the Army uses except air. planes was given to General Som- ervell, and that makes him the front man.
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THEY'LL PROBE HIM

front man.
 THEY'LL PROBE HIM
 General Somervell will probably be investigated when the war is over, if not before. It would be i'm possible for anyone to be head of a supply organization spending the billions of dollars for which he is responsible without being investi- gated But thoughts of Investigating General Somerveu revive memories of Gen. Charles G. Hell-and-Maria Dawes being investigated by Con- gress after his administration of S. o. s. in France following the last war. General Somerven will be in there pitching, too.
 He comes from Arkansas, he is 50 years old, a West Pointer, an engineer, a lieutenant colonel in the last war with two and a half years service overseas, holder ot DSC and DSM, and he still loves a fight.
 The reason he fights now is that the responsibility is his to see that this biggest U. s. Army ever raised has all the guns, food clothing and equipment it needs for the toughest war it ever fought. General Somer- veil recalls constantly the scandals of the Civil War-embalmed beef civilian purveyors to the Army wax ing fat and rich on war contracts out of which the soldiers who die the fighting got little or nothing He knows by actual experience the supply scandals of the last war. He says his aim in this war is to see that those mistakes are not re- peated.
 He fights other government agencies, true. When the Depart. ment of Agriculture experts who buy food for Lend-Lease express a desire to buy the foods for the Army, he fights it.
 He has fought the War Produc- tion Board and it's various prede- cessors since the beginning of the defense effort. He fought the pri. critics system which simply gave rival manufacturers hunting li- cense to go out pricateering foi materials, and he saw that system junked.
 STILL PITCHING
 He fought WIPES successor to the priorities system, the Production anC Requirements Plan, known a: "PURP" until it was abandoned He fought to put in effect what i' now the Controlled Materials Plan
 Now that GIMP is in effect, Som. ervell is fighting to keep the Sched- uling of materials for Army pro. curement contracts in Army hands Though there are only 184, 900 manu- lecturers in the United States today the Army has l,075,000 heperate contracts. Requirements for mater ials on those contracts fill 16 thick volumes. They are in Army hands now. that is, they are in the hands of civilians in uniform now, ano Somervell is fighting to keep them there and not have them transferred to WIPE or any other government agency. That batle is just begin ming. for the current agreement ii merely an armistice.
 AS General Somervell sees it, he is fighting to keep civilian agencies from taking over the Army-not the other way round.
Nogales international., 1942-11-06

Miss Dorothy Ann Hardy, attrac-
tive young granddaughter of Judge
Charles E. Hardy, of Nogales, is to
be married at Phoenix Sunday Nov.
8 to j. D. Rhodes, a. first lieutenant
in the army air corps and now an
instructor at one of the air bases
near Phoenix. The wedding is to
take place in the Catholic church
on East Monroe street.
The bride-to-be Is the daughter
Of Attorney Leslie G.. Hardy of
Phoenix, formerly of Nogales, and
the late Nora Hardy of this city.
She was born and reared here and
graduated from Nogales High
School. After leaving high school
she attended a business college in
Phoenix
Miss Hardy's father is a chief
deputy at Phoenix in the office of
the county attorney of Maricopa
county-Richard F. Hairless
was elected on Tuesday of this
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Between The
Book Ends
owen FARRELL CLARK)

Some readers shy away from his
tory books and avoid them as they
would the plague. They see the
march of events as mere compi-
lation of wars, names, dates and
statistics recording not progress but
merely change. Those who do this
are guilty of shallow thinking but
even if formal history sometimes is
difficult for the average reader
there does remain informal history
and that can be more exciting and
fascinating than any other type of
history or fiction.
THE TRAMPLING HERD by
Paul Wellman is a history of Ameri-
can cattle ranges which will hold
any readers interest. Wellman
vividly describes the introduction of
cattle into this country shortly af-
ter the Cortez' conquest of Mexico
and he carries that enthralling ac-
count down to the present day.
The reader travels northward on
the long trek with the bold rowing
Spaniards and their clever Mexi-
can vacqueros as they push their
great empire beyond the old Rio
Grande. He settles deeper into his
arm chair and becomes oblivious of
the passing of time as he reads Of
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the Spanish origins of the cattle
industry, the opening of the great
trails, the rise of Texas with its
cattle kings. The winds of yester-
day blow over the northern prairies
again and the trail herders sing
those wonderful old songs. The In
dians and the bison make way for
the railroad and COW towns such as
Dodge City, Abilene, and Cheyenne
roar with life and such legendary
characters as Billy, the Kid, Wild
Bill Hickok, Wyatt carp, Charles
Goodnight, and John Chisulm stand
out from the crowd.
Mr.. Wellman goes on to tell of
the great days Of the cowboy, the
cattlemen's wars, the feud between
the cattlemen and the sheepherder,
the COW puncher and the settler,
the introduction of cattle brands
and the barbed wire fence, nor does
he ignore the story of Gustavus
Swift, the shrewd old Yankee meat
packer, or P. D. Armour, the great
organizer who said that he owed
his success to the fact that he knew
when to keep his mouth shut.
know of no better way of closing
this little review of this fine book
than to quote few lines from one
of those old cowboy songs. Can't
you just hear a COW puncher riding
along singing this:
They say there will be a great
roundup
Where the cowboys like cattle must
stand,
To be cut by the riders of Judgment,
Who are posted and know every
brand.
Perhaps there will be a stray cow
Unbranded by anyone nigh,
boy,
Who'll be cut by the riders of
Judgment
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ST. ANDREWS CHURCH

Rev. George C. Wadsworth, Vicar
Holy Communion, 800 am.
} Junior Church and Church School,
| GAS am.
Morning Prayer and sermon,
HOO am. Sermon subject, wind
from the Wilderness.
The attendance at Junior Church
and Church School last Sunday
was the largest since the present
Vicar assumed charge of st. An
drew's in June, 1941. The dedica-
tion of a "Children's Corner" in
the Parish Hall, by the Vican, as
sisted by Master Michael Fulton
Corley as acolyte, was the high
light of the session.
While attending the annual con-
vocation of the missionary district
of Arizona, which is meeting in
Trinity Cathedral, November 4th to
9Th, the Reverend George G. Wads-
worth is the house guest of the Very
Reverend Edwin Selden Lane and
Mrs. Lane at the Deanery.
Acolytes on duty at st. Andrews
Church next Sunday morning will
be Master William j. Ehringer, Jr,
at 9:45; Master Athol G. Flanagan
and George w. Sohn, Jr., at 11:00.
Miss Joan Gilmore and Miss Sa-
rah Spohn has been asked by the
Vicar to take charge of a Creche
for young children in the Parish
Hall, next Sunday morning at HOO.
This will enable parents to save On
gas and rubber by bringing their
children to the Church School at
GAS and staying until after the
HOO o'clock service, when they can
call for their children. This ar
rangement will begin next Sunday
November 9Th.
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Thursday Dessert
Bridge Club

Mrs. John Jund entertained last
week for members of her Thursday
dessert bridge club at her home in
Sunset Heights.
Guests for the afternoon were
Mrs. E. A. Titcomb, Mrs. N. D.
Pomeroy and Mrs Mary Riley of La
Jolla, California. Members present
were Mesdames C. S. Smith, A. E.
Sanders, Grover MarSteller, P. D.
Clagett, and the hostess.
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EASTERN STAR CARD PARTY
The Eastern Star will hold card
party at 2 pm. Monday at the home
of Mrs. Louis Hudgin, SOL Crawford.
All local and visiting Stars are
invited.
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Mrs. Ben Jones, who has been ill
at .Socorro hospital in Nogales, Son.
ora, was removed to her home on
West street Monday.
********A
Miss Lucille Murchison returned
Sunday from Tucson where she
spent Friday and Saturday.
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Birthday Dinner
At Rancho Grande


sary, G. B. Wilde had number of
friends as guests at dinner party
at Rancho Grande Saturday even
ing.
Covers were laid for DR.. and Mrs.
E. G. Houle, Mr.. and Mrs. James
". Robins, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Manson, H. j. Mallery and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilde.
MRS. BARRY HERE TO
SPEND WINTER
Attorney and Mrs. Frank j. Barry
arrived from Los Angeles Monday
and Mr.. Barry is returning there
this weekend. Mrs Barry will stay
at the Barry home here for the
winter with her granddaughter,
Jacqueline Fits, four year old
daughter of 1t. Commander and
Mrs. William Wilson Fits (Kath-
leen Barry. 1t. Com. Fits, who
was wounded in action some time
ago, is now back in the Aleutian
Islands, where he is on a seaplane
tender. Mrs. Wilson is with their
other child, son, in Seattle.
*********
MRS. CHESHIRE RECOVERING
Mrs. Roy Cheshire is recovering
from an injury suffered a week ago
Sunday during the scrap iron drive
A large pipe filled with cement fell
and struck her on the left leg at
the old c.. G. Cheshire miniature
golf course on Grand avenue. Sew
eral stitches were required to close
the injury. Mrs. Cheshire is now
getting about on crutches.
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PARTY AT RANCHO GRANDE
A party attending the dance at
Rancho Grande Saturday night was
made up of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Bell, Mr. and Mrs. William Hol-
brock, Mr.. and Mrs. Gene England,
and Ralph Wingfield.
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ENCHILADA SUPPER
The regular monthly enchilada
supper will be held at the Method
ist church Tuesday evening.
A**x***NR
Attorney Duane Bird is in receipt
of word that his son, Duane, Jr., is
now at Fort Benning, Georgia. He
was inducted into the army in Sep
tember.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Fast returned
Tuesday night from a trip to Cali
fornia.
&&HaaAhaS
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Herold return
ed Tuesday night from Phoenix
where they visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Pete Munich, former residents of
this city.
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And shipped to the sweet by and by.
I don't see why there's Sc many
To be lost at that great final sale,
Who might have been rich and had
plenty
Had they known of that great final
sale.
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Church school 10 o'clock. Miss
Eta Mae Lewis, superintendent.
Pilgrim Fellowship class, same
hour. Mr.. Russell Smith, teacher.
The congregation will meet with
the Methodist Church for the regu-
lar worship service. Rev. Andrews
will hold the service.
1t is earnestly desired that every
one of our people and friends will
attend that service.
o. A. SMITH, DID,, Minister
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N!I:Ii1iZ35'S13TE

CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sundays: Masses at 7:30, 9 and IL
am. Rosary at pm.
Week days: Mass at 7 and 8.
RT. REV. L. DUVAL, Pastor.
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Patricia MURRAY
To Become
Bride Next Month

Announcement was made at tea
at the home of 1t. Col. and Mrs. w.
S. Murray (Mary Wise) at Fort
Sam Houston, Texas, on October "a
cf the engagement of their eldest
daughter, Mary Patricia Murray, to
1t. Daniel Robert Hopkins, son of
Judge and Mrs. R. J. Hopkins of
Kansas City, Kansas.
The weodlng will take place in the
early part of December.
Miss Murray, granddaughter OF
Former Mayor and Mrs. j. E..
Wise Of Nogales, is a graduate Of
Jefferson High School at San An
tonic and attended the University
of Texas where she was pledged by
Alpha Phi sorority and where she
was a member of the Army Brat
Club. She is now in training at the
Robert B. Green Hospital to become
a nurses aide.
Lieut.. Hopkins is graduate of
Kemper Military Academy. He
later attended the University of
Kansas where he was president of
the Sigma Nu fraternity. He was
studying law when called to- active
duty in the armed forces and is now
stationed at Fort Sam Houston with
the Ordnance Corps.
The bride-to-be was born in No
gales at the old Camp Little base
hospital and moved to Omaha, Neb.,
when she was about three years of
age.
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BACK FROM Ell CENTRIC
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hannah ar
rived Tuesday from Tucson. They
got back Monday from Ell Centre
where they visited their daughter,
Mrs. Don Smith, and husband.
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Mn. and Mrs. R. T. Frazier were |
visitors in Tucson Wednesday.
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|SOCIETYNC[UBSa(PE
Dorothy Ann Hardy To Wed Army Air
Corps Lieutenant At Phoenix Sunday

week as a congressman from Ari-
zona. He has been prominent for
many years in state Democratic
circles.
Nogales international., 1942-11-06
OQUITOA MISSION
BY GRACE WALLACE

Ancient bronze bells swing from
worn mesquite beams
And call all Oquitoa to their
prayers;
In the untended Mission face,
worn to the quick,
Time has made windows holes;
inches are teeth-drawn
cavities,
But the unquenched spirit of the
earthen edifice cries through
its bells
Glorias that cleave and vivify
the air
With music more sonorous than
that day
The tineless cowman Padre heard
them give
Their first struck cry of triumph
to the skies
Of that phenomenal New Spain,
Sprawling in nonchalance
Across the young bejeweled
hemisphere
The Conquistador had raped,
and handed God!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-30
All Trade Unions
Are Bsnished

The teachers are brought In
from Germany.
The teaching OF history and
geography has been stopped.
In all parts Of the German
occupied territory, all Polish scien-
tific. artistic and educational in
stitutions have been closed by the
German authorities.
All trade unions, cooperative
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-30
ARTICLE XII
FROM THE BLACK BOOK Oh
POLAND"

Official Document Of TIE Free Polish
Government N Exiie
Polish universities and schools
have met a fate they had not
known even in the worst times OF
former captivity.
All of the universities and
schools of the academic type have
been closed I'm Poland. as well as
all Polish schools Of various kinds
In the incorporated area, all
the elementary schools which
used Polish for instruction have
been liquidated. In the Govern
ment General" some Of these have
been left.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-30
Girl Thrown by Pony
Gets $3.50 Judgment
Time. star Correspondent

MT. CLEMENS, Oct. Serena
Biedernan. IA. of 1905 Lee place,
Detroit, won a $3.50 judgment to-
day in her suit for $4,000 from
Joseph Provost, whose Shetland
pony threw her July q. 1910, al
Shadyside Park here.
The girl testified she suffered a
broken right arm in the fall and
as result tires easily while play.
ing the piano. Judge James <
'Spier made the award.