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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-15
REKosHs VISIT DOUGLAS

Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Rekosh and
daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were
Douglas visitors last evening, having
dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Val Poor The Rekosh family were
Douglas residents for period of
several years and are now leaving
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-15
PUBLIC DESSERT
CARD PARTY IS
PLANNED BY CDA

Instead of being held in private
residences the next public card
party planned by the local chapter
of the Catholic Daughters of Amer
lea will be held in the Parish Hall,
Friday, April 81.
The party, at which guests may
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-15
U5O DANCE
ON TONIGHT

The regular informal dance will
be held in the Odd Fellows Hall to-
night, starting at $3.50 o'clock.
The Servicemens orchestra will
furnish the music tonight.
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for an extended stay in the States. |
They will make their home some
where in Washington, it is planned |
Mr.. Rekosh has been a bulldozer
boss in the Alaska Juneau Mine.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-15
LEAVE FOR sKAGWAY

Richard Mccormick and Henry
Stragier were passengers on last
evenings steamer bound for Skag-
way, where they are to be employed
for the summer.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-15
JUNE GABRIELSON NOW ON
GOVERNORS OFFICE STAFF

Miss June GabrielSon has accept
ed a position on the stenographic
staff of the Governors office, re-
placing Mrs. Ida Bush. An item in
last nights Empire was to the
effect Miss Gabrielson had been ap-
pointed Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-15

Mrs. Jack Jadoff was discharged
Yesterday from st. AIMS Hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-15

Russell D. Madigan, here from
Okla, is at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
PUSH keeps
ON TOWARD
NAzI BASE
French Advance Toward
Casino : Americans
Hit Fortified Posts

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS, Jan. 15.-French troops,
STAYING off five German counter
attacks in fierce fighting on the
right wing of the Fifth Army front
in Italy. pushed forward two more
miles toward Casino, capturing the
village of Acquafondata, seven
miles away from the three import
ant heights in the vicinity
The pressure OF French forces
under Gen. Alphonse JUN has been
applied for a considerable length
of the mountain line and has
greatly strengthened the American
flank.
CThe Berlin radio announced
yesterday that Acquafondata had
been evacuated)
The Americans southwest of Cas-
sino plowed into the strong enemy
Notifications Of Mount Trocchio.
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TWO SOVIET
ARMIE5pU5H
|NT0p0LAND
Have SIN ashed German
Defenses-Ar Nearing
Big Base Of KoveI

SCOW, Jan. Is. - Russian
troops, pursuing badly disorgan-
lied German Army through large
sector west of the Horyn River be-
yond Sarny, have driven to within
10 miles of the big communications
base at Kovel in old Poland, 'front.'
line dispatches declared
To the north the White Russian
Army offensive is battering into the
Pripet Marshes toward Pinsk lis
miles away, and have smashed the
backbone of the Nazi defenses, the
Red Star asserted General Rokos-
sovskys troops are pouring through
the broken enemy line, the Army
newspaper said.
Although the German high COM
mand vainly ordered the line held
between the Sluch and Horyn
Rivers, General Vatutins forces
have battered through. The twin
Russian offensives are rolling west
ward approximately go miles apart
along the only two rail routes serv-
ing east and west traffic through
the Pripet Marshes
The German high command has
announced by radio that the Rus
slams have launched a new Often
sive north of Lake linen" about
ITO miles south of Leningrad on
the long dormant northern front
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
MARINES IN
ADVAN(E0N
ENEMY HILL
Nipponese Resistance Is
Bitter in New Britain
Ground Fighting

ADVANCED ALI E D HEAD
QUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Jan.
15.-There was bitter fighting today
for the control of strategic Hill $50
near Bergen Bay, New Britain.
Almost 500 dead Japs have been
counted by the American Marine
invaders in the two-day period end
ing Thursday night, and enemy
death toll for the entire battle now
stands at approximately 5000.
The growing piles of enemy dead
testified to the bitter resistance
which the Japanese defenders are
throwing against the Marines since
the invasion of the Cape Gloucester
area on December 26.
Latest reports indicated that Hill
ego still has not fallen to the
Leathernecks, but the fighting
Marines are battling up the slope
in the face OF machine gun and
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JOBS,
But 1T IS
WAR WORK

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Jan. Is
Doing their part in fighting the
war, Army officers and men spend
time tapping tin cans of meat with
tiny wooden mallets in the Jersey
City Quartermaster Depot.
Explaining the work, it is said the
men are members of Veterinary
Corps and their duties include
checking up on the condition of
canned foods by the sound result
ing from the taps.
Experts can tell whether the con-
tents of a can is in the same con-
dition as when packed
Another job is to turn over sup
plies of canned milk to prevent
settling of butter fat, and also cans
of salmon to prevent settling of oil.
This job is mechanical and whole
load can be handled at one time.
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JAP FIELDS
In PACIFIC
REB0MBED
Nine Important Bases Sui
fer in Widespread
Destruction
BY WILLIAM WORDEN

HICkAM FIELD, HaWan, Jan
15.-Maj. Gen willis Hale, COM
mander OF the Seventh Army Air
Force, said in an interview that
widespread damage has been done
to Jap airfields in the Central Pa
cific in culminatiye raids on nine
bases which were singled out for
attack.
Two fields suffered 80 per cent
destruction. he said, and a third
suffered 90 per cent.
He said the bombers had flown
100000 miles on the fifty missions,
had met Alb enemy planes, destroy
ed l19 in the air and "a probables.
He said that on some ISLANDS,
notably Mill, the Japs stopped try
ing to defend the field with planes
and resorted to anti-aircraft fire.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
THREE BIG
RR UNIONS
MAKE DEAL
One Bar Removed Toward
Returning Systems Back
10 Private Control

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Three
railroad operating brotherhoods are
expected to give the War Depart
ment formal notice of cancellation
of strike, thus removing at least
one bar to restoration of the roads
to private control.
The unions are said to have
reached an agreement with class
one railroads providing for an over
all wage increase of nine cents an
hour and one week vacation, but
the agreements with 43 short-line
railroads remain to be signed by
the brotherhood chiefs.
1t is expected there will be no
difficulty in the wage dispute in
volving Is nom operating unions of
more than 100000 clerical and
mechanical laboring employees. This
settlement remains unsettled, but
the special Presidential Board con-
tinues hearings on the claims.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
TIME BOMBS
IN ORANGES
FROM SPAIN


LONDON, Jan. 15-Time bombs
hidden in cargoes of oranges shipped
from Spain are delaying distribution
of the fruit in England, the Food
Ministry announces.
The Foreign Office has asked the
Spanish government to determine
the background of the plot.
Two of at least three orange ships
enroute to Britain were found to
have secret caches of explosives. An
explosion aboard one 10 days ago
destroyed 1890 cases, each contain
ing so pounds of oranges. An exam
nation of the next ship revealed a
time bomb the same size or an
orange carefully secreted among the
fruit.
The third vessel has not yet dock
ed, but will be carefully searched.
Fruit hungry Britons were jolted
harder with the news of the delay
of the vessel than word that the
fruit was garnished with bombs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
RACE HATRED
FLARING UP
IN MISSOURI

POPLAR BLUFFS, Mo, Jan. l5.--
At least a dozen OF So Butler County
farmers who went TO Jail rather
than ask for release. on their own
recognizance, following grand jury
indictments over racial flareup,
called their lawyers to get them
out on bail bond.
The farmers are charged with in
citing to riot or kidnapping in con-
nection with the alleged election
Of four Negro families on Deem
Der 8 from rural district occu-
pied by whites.
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3,0o0ST Strike;
RUBBISH GOES
UN(0LLE(TED
Health Of City Of PhiIddel-
phia Mena(ed-C Calling
Of Troops Urged

PHIL ADELE HIA, Jan. BIN the
face of a warning by health offlc-
ials that uncollected rubbish may
cause another epidemic OF influ-
enza,p three thousand Public Works
EMPLOYEES carried the strike into
the tenth day after booing the sug-
gestion last night to repudiate union
leaders and go back to work.
The Philadelphia Record, in a
front-page editorial today, urged
Mayor Samuel to call upon the Gov
eminent TO send in troops.
The strikers get a basic pay OF
1923 a day and ask 10 cents an
hour wage increase.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15

The W ashington
Merry Go Round
BY DREW PEARSON
tMajor Robert Q. Allen on active dutyJ

WASHINGTON - Not since the
days of Hugo Black, then a SEN
ator, exposed the wolf packs of
Washington. have Capitol corridors
and cocktail lounges been so pack
ed with the brazen, charming
gentlemen out to lobby for their
special interests.
Lobbyists have even got to the
point where they threaten to run
candidates against a Senator who
doesn't vote the way they direct.
Most braven instance is the re-
cent backstage by-play to force
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida
to vote for the insurance bill or else
face fight for reelection. The
insurance lobby's play is to run
Ambassador Joe mission to Mos
cow Davies against him.
What happened was that Payne
Midyette, an ex-President of the
National Association of Insurance
Agents, called Pepper from ITALIA
hassee and asked how he was going
to vote on the bill exempting in
surance companies from the Sher-
man Antitrust Act. Pepper said
he was against the insurance COM
panies and against the bill
Midyette then became threaten
ing He is an old friend of Pep
per's and is especially close to
Peppers law partner, now Cir
cult Court judge. But he indicated,
in none too yelled language, that
the insurance lobby was ready to
raise $4,000 each from several diff
ferent groups and put strong
candidate in the field against Pep
per.
Since then, it has developed that
the proposed candidate is Joe
Davies, who would also have the
support of the Florida Du Pont in
terestS.
Meanwhile, Pepper is standing
pat on his vote. Florida insurance
men thought for time they had
him converted and expectantly
awaited his appearance before the
Senate Judiciary Committee. This
was a closed-door session, with
nothing supposed to leak out. Next
morning, however Florida insur-
ance men phoned Pepper wanting
to know why he hadn't supported
their position. They had virtual
transcript of his testimony against
them
All of which illustrates who Is
dominating. at times actually run
ming, Capitol Hill today.
NOTE = Joe Davies is reported
not anxious to run against Pepper,
and he probably won't.
EXIT BOMBSIGHT
There is every indication that the
U. S. bombing to which the Japs
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
PASSAGE OF
WAR BALLOT
PREDICTED

WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.-Advo-
Gates of the Federal War Ballot for
the armer services confidently pre-
dicted passage despite the apparent
steady progress of the States Right
Bill intended to keep Washington
with hands off on the soldier
votes at the coming Presidential
election.
The House has advanced the SEN
ate passed bill to the floor. The
Senate bill leaves the voting prob
lem up to the states. Senator Lucas
predicted the Senate is now ready
to adopt war ballot if it gets a
chance to undo the month old de-
cision.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
new PLANE
N 0W USED
BY GERMANS
Secret Rocket Propelled
Fighter Put in Fight
Last Night

STOCKHOLM, Jan. Is. The
heavy Royal Air Force attack on
Brunswick last night forced the
Nazis to put up their secret rocket
propelled fighter plane which were
uncovered for the first time in Tues
days historic American assault.
The Berlin correspondent of the
newspaper Aftonbladet said the
rocket plane is similar to the newly
announced Jet plane but is driven
from the rear by explosive fuel. 1t
is said this enables the fighter
plane to climb A.. miles in two
minutes instead of the usual 10
minutes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
YuG05LAVIA
AIRFIELD IS
RAID TARGET
Allied Bombers Fly Over
Adriatie 10 Make At
tack, Sibenik Area

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ALGIERS; Jan. 15.-Allied bombers
winged out over the Adriatic today
and attacked the Mostar air field
in the Sibenik area, Yugoslavia,
and also scored hits on several
merchant ships.
Five Allied planes are missing,
and four enemy planes were shot
down.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-15
JEANETTE pIMEBA
PASSES AWAY TODAY

jeanette Pimeba, -year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Pimeba. passed away this forenoon
at ST. AIMS Hospital.
The remains are at the Charles
W. Carter Mortuary pending funer-
al arrangements.
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LONDON, jan Is. = The Royal
Air Force threw the whole weight
Of the pre-invasion campaign to
exterminate the German Air Force
by burying the central German
plane making city Of Brunswick
under a heavy load of explosives
last night. an afterstroke Of the
tremendous American daylight at
tack OF last Tuesday when one OF
the greatest air battles of the pres
ent war was fought.
The Raj dumped 1000 long tons
OF bombs on Brunswick, the British
Air Ministry announced this after
noon. He termed the mission as q
very heavy attack"
This and other operations, yes
terday and last night, cost 80 air.
craft
Great fires were left burning at
Brunswick.
Mosquito bombers returned again
to attack Berlin. and other planes
bombed Magdeburg, southwest OF
Berlin, and targets were also
smashed in northern France.
The overnight blows swung the
offensive into round-th e-clock
attack again following only a few
hours after tn eday-long assault ON
military targets in northern France
by probably l400 planes.
Nine enemy craft were destroyed
by bombers. and eighteen enemy
planes by escorts.
The Allied losses were 16 planes,
three of them heavies.
One hundred Russian bombers
attacked German Black Sea con-
voy with good results.
Far-ranging Raj planes torped-
oed and sunk two vessels off the
coast of Norway.
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DIES ON WEDDING DAY

DUBLIN Three hours after her
marriage, Mrs. Mary O'Toole, %,
feel down stairs on the way to her
wedding party Ker husband who
had returned from his work in Eng
land for the wedding. found her
dead in her bridal clothes.
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CONTORTIONIsT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Here's another
use for a wooden leg Mrs. G. E.
Ingram reports she saw man fast
asleep with his peg-leg for pill
low.
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War Casualties Are
Expeded 10 Be Heavy
When Invasion Breaks
By JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. - The
Secretary of War and other mill
tary leaders have warned that our
war casualties, heavy as they al
ready have been, will become heav-
Ter as land fighting in Europe and
Asia becomes more widespread.
Perhaps the most tragic of all
casualties in many ways are the
wounded and those whose physical
or mental health is permanently
wrecked.
Even now the Veterans Admin
istration is taking steps to see that
ailing servicemen will receive ade-
quate hospital care either immed-
lately or, if their condition should
become. SO bad as to require hos
pitalization, in later years.
In addition, under present law,
veterans are also entitled to hos
pitalization for sickness not con-
nected with their service as long
as beds are not needed for service
connected disabilities. This applies
to veterans of the Spanish Ameri-
can War, Boxer Rebellion, Philip
pine Insurrection, Would War L,
and World War II.
An Act of Congress on Oct. /,
1917, was the first step taken in
this country to provide hospital care
for disabled war veterans Pre-
viously veterans had received med
ical treatment only incidentally to
their care in soldiers homes
Provisions of the act were not very
definite, however, and hospitaliza-
ton threatened to become a COM
plete mess until the problem was
handed to the Public Health Ser
vice
Public Health Service co-ordi-
mated Army, Navy. other govern
ment hospitals and some private
hospitals to provide a total of 49,
489 beds by June of 1920. Largest
load of service connected disabili-
ties tthe only kind cared for at
that time) was 26,869 in 1922, SO
there was safe margin.
New emergencies threatened when
Congress opened free hospital care
to veterans who contracted tuber-
culosis or neuropsy- chiatric disor-
ders before Jan. l. 1925, and when
Congress authorized disqualification
for veterans regardless of the origin
OF their disabilities.
(Confip,Iad On pooa ry,vuol
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Two thousand Long Ions
Of Explosives Dropped
by R. A. f. Raiders
PRE- DRIVE
KEEPS UP "a HOURS
targets in Northern France
Are Hit : Russians
Bomb Convoy

BULLETIN - LONDON, Jan.
Is. Raj bOmbers blasted
Brunswick last night at the rate
of 81 tons of bombs a minute,
setting a new record for bomb
concentration in an attack Of 70
concentrated minutes.
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EXIT BOMBSIGHT

There is every indication that the
U. S. bombing to which the Japs
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-25
JAP FLEET IS BATTLING IN .
 aa. PHILIPPINES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-AP larkcs-Admiral King said that practically all of the Japanesce fledt is included In the battle now raging in the Philippines and that area. Adimarl King said this in a news conference.
 The information of the progress of the battle is fragmentary, but iA indicated that he is unconcerned about the outcome.
 King reported that at least 13 divisions of the Japanese fleet has been turned back, as itmoved east ward through the central Philip
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-25

ito Dry Creek,s':% a < tributar of Snake River, in the Cape Nome Mining and Recording Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and designat- ed as United States Mineral Sur. vey No. 1890, and particularly described in the official plat and field notes now on file in the said Land Office with magnetic varia- tion at each corner of the survey of mean value of IT degrees, 12 min. E., as follows:
 Beginning ar Cor. No. 1 iden-
 tical with Cor. No. 2, Survey
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-25

WINNER - Dorothy Claire Weyer (above) of Hastings. Neb., has been awarded $1,000 Gilbert M. Hitchcock scholar ship for graduate study in jour.
 nalism at Columbia University. No. 1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor. No. IT, Survey No. 1910, Great Western Group Claim Placer from whence U. s. L. M. No. II, bears S.. 86 degrees, B min. w., 7290.75 it.; E. edge Anvil Rock bears N. 40 degrees, 24 min. w.; New ton Rock bears N. degree, B min. w.; Radio Tower at Nome bears s. 43 degrees 24 min. w.; U. s. L. M. No. 1899 bears s. N. IT degrees, IT min. E., 1041.66 fit. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 81 degrees, 08 min. E., 661.90 Cor. No. 5; thence N. 55 de- grees, B min. w., 347.52 it to Cor. No. 1 and place of begin it. 10 Cor. No. 3; thence s. 16 degrees, 01 min. w., 1587.19 it. to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 45 de- grees, 37 min. w., 333.0 it. to g degrees, A min. w.; thence ming, containing an area of 1928 acres.
 There are no conflicting
 The adjoining claims are: On the N, Survey No. 1885
 Doyle Fraction".
 On the E., Survey No. 1182, No
 2 Below Discovery.
 On the $. Survey No. 1166, No.
 Below Placer.
 On the w. Survey No. 1910, Grea'
 Western Group Claim Placer.
 The original certificate of loca. ton of said placer mining claim is recorded in the office of the Recorder of said Mining District and Precinct in Vol. 216, Page 7s of the records of locations of saio District.
 The mineral monument te which this claim is tied is describ.
 U. s. L. M. No. II is a fir post 6-1n. sq. 5 it. above ground ir stone mound. It is situated abou- TO fit. east of the Bessie Road. from Nome and about 2.7 miles N. E of the mouth of Snake River, .ano is in Lat. GA degrees, g min N. Long. 1855 degrees, 9 min. W. Dated the 1st day of August 1914.
 MRS. HELEN M. BOCKMAN,
 Acting Register.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
 FOR PATENT Mineral Survey No. l090)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That Ralph Lomen by and through his attorney-in-fact, Ira D. Or ton, whose post office address is Nome, Alaska, has made applica- tion for United States Patent for the No. 3 Below Discovery placer mining claim situated on Newton Creek, No. 1 a tributary
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-25
SIDNEY ROOD LEAVES FOR JUNEAU a4

Sidney Rood, reindeer super : visor, left to assume his new du- tiest in the service with his off, flee in Juneau. He has been re- placed here by MT. Johnston, who was formerly in charge of the Teller unit. MT. Rood has been active in the Arctic Club and was a member of the local draft board. He will continue tothe States to be win his wife who is now ln a sanitarium in Seattle.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-25

pines, but he aded that; this does not mean that they will stay turn ed back.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-25

A recent arrival in Nome, after a busy season in the Kougarok, is Sig Lautto, who will winter here.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-02-04

Women Honored
Fifty-five Liberty ships have
been named for women.
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in Ok Bow"
Wyoming and they do say things
have happened on the Little Co.
manche since I've been gone"
$50 l guess" said Willy. "This
niger wouldn't know"
He knew all right. There were
no longer beaver to trap in the great
South Park of Colorado, nor shaggy
herds of buffalo to follow north to
the headwaters of the Yellowstone,
and the Mexican girls of Taos and
Santa Fe could not lure old Willy
any more.
Lew waited, smoking and feeling
the kinnikinnick already start to
spin his head. 1t often seemed a
strange thing that he had been
picked out for one of Willy MCKEE
few friends. But it was so, a queer,
loyal, unspoken friendship, which he
knew he was going to need now
more than ever.
"Wyoming," Willy unused across
the fire. mo place for a man now,
but didn't me and Bill Evans find
beaver a heap there that winter?
I can tell you! A pretty smart lot of
boys was camped on the Sweetwater
and the way whisky flowed that time
was some
Still a good place, Wyoming"
Lew said and then brought WHY'S
wandering mind back to the Little
Comanche. "They do tell me that
Tom Arnold is moving his Cross T
up there. Taking four thousand long
horns up the trail this month, all the
way to the north. And I've letter
to trail boss for him. That's the
proposition. But there's Clay Man.
ming, Toms foreman now, who S
been north once or twice himself
and could lead this herd maybe.
Then what am l here for? ] don't
know. Things happen in a c.untry
when mans been gone a year."
"Well, they dol" said Willy. He
smoked thoughtfully for a moment,
his thin cheeks making deep hol-
lows. Then he said, That's one