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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
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VAN DYKE - The pre-nup-
tial party, to which dozen
guests had been invited, honor
ing Irene Leyski, 20, and Ben
ME Bonakowski, 80, Sunday
evening ended on an unexpected
note in which gunfire punctu-
ated explosive cries and iron
bars clattered upon unoffend-
ing heads and arms.
AS a result Steve Zagyzewski,
as years old, of a 2279 Eight
Mile road went to Jail and the
astonished groom-to-be wound
up in Saratoga General hospi-
tai, Detroit.
1t all started, state troopers
of the Center Line detail said,
when Zagyzewski, a guest at the
party, given by Bonakowsk's
aunt, Mrs. Agnes Brzzinski, at
See PLAYFUL-Page 6
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House-Mover Killed
in Fall from Roof
Utility Wire Brushes
Aqed Man from DWELLING

VAN DYKE - August Rog-
opski, SO years of age, of 1890
Ten Mile road, was killed Sum
day afternoon when a telephone
wire captapulted him from the
roof of a house being moved
east on Ten Mile road near
Schoenherr highway.
Joseph Kelso was supervising
the moving job officers said.
According to police, Kelso
did not have a moving permit in
his possession at the time the
accident occurred but stated that
one had been issued. Macomb
County Road Commission rec
ords. however, indicated that
such a permit had been issued
for use on Thursday, July 20.
Road authorities stated that
house-moving permits are never
approved for use either on Sat-
urdays or Sundays because OF
the traffic hazards involved.
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with me. She threw at me that
she was going with other fel
lows"
Parsons said he then hit and
choked her but didn't remember
anything after that until he re-
allied she was bleeding from
the mouth.
The two officials said Parsons
drove his car to the Dawson
station in Detroit and told an
officer at the desk be "choked
my girl friend. I don't know
whether she's dead or not"
Sgt. Willard Leitzel and two
patrolmen then accompanied
See MURDER-Page 8
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Tainted Food
Destroyed by
INSPECTORS

Guarding against a possible
outbreak of food poisoning, city
and state health authorities on
Monday conducted a survey of
various Mount Clemens eating
establishments and. in at least
one instance, found tainted meat
IN a cafe refrigerator which
they summarily destroyed.
State Pure Foods Inspector
Cass Kierblewski and City
Foods Inspector Joseph E. Mil
Ter, who discovered the spoiled
hamburger, saw that "about so
prepared hamburger balls, def.
initely unfit for human con-
SUMPTION" were thrown out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
CanadiansNow
But 100 Miles
from Paris
American Columns
Also Rip Through
Enemy Defenses
BY GLADWIN HILL

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITE N A r (
FORCE, Aug. 8 - (R - Allied
troops advancing in two power
surges at the wings Of a 49,
mile front drove today to with
in a little more than 100 miles
of Paris, and the Germans des-
perately rushed in forces from
Southern France.
Canadian troops hammered
four miles into the main enemy
line below Caen, and Americans
on the southern flank struck
toward lie Mans, only ITO miles
from the French capital. Ad-
vance elements already were re-
ported in lie Mans, road-ani-
rail hub.
The exact sector where the
Allies were little more than lOo
miles from Paris was not specl-
fled. A report that Allied forces
had definitely passed the l0o-
mile mark circulated late today,
but proved erroneous.
At the northern end Of the Al
lied front, the Germans stout
Caen hinge, loosened by an un-
precedented 1,000-plane bonn
bardment last night, was bat
tered again in daylight by 600
US. heavy bombers.
Canadian British troops
stormed over the Orne river in
a four-mile advance. They
punched through once-impreg-
nable anti-tank screen, Selling
stronghold villages by the doz-
en-.
On the Breton Peninsula,
See FRANCE-Page 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Cabin Cruiser
Sinks in River
Several Minor Boot
Croshes Reported

Two boat accidents at the
Clinton river mouth and on
Lake st. Clair during the past
weekend seriously endangered
the lives of boat operators and
passengers, and resulted in the
laundering of one expensive
cabin cruiser and considerable
damage to another.
Lives of other persons were
endangered when several small
rowboats and cupboard motor
boats capsized in choppy lake
waters, and at least one case of
a drifting, disabled craft was
reported, from which two De-
troit youths were rescued by the
Coast Guard.
One boat owner, Karl Neu-
hold, machine shop operator Of
2724l Bohn, Roseville, alleged
See BOATS-Page 6
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$4,000 laps
Slain in Burma
Stilwsll Rips Four
Divisions Apart \,

SOUTHEAST ASIA COM.
MAND HEAD 9 UARTERS,
HANDY, Ceylon, Aug. 3 - N
An Allied spokesman -.
clared today that $4,000 lisp
anese had been killed and four
of the enemy's nine Burma
divisions had been liquidated In
their drive into northeast IN
dia and in 1t. Gen. Joseph W.
Stilwell's successful campaign
in the jungle-sirt Burmese
mountains.
''They have had the 0ell
knocked out of them" The
spokesman said in closing the
books on the japanese incur.
sion into India.
He speculated that the Jap
anese might retreat a. far @
Mandalay.
Allied patrols famed out
beyond the Burmese frontier
base of Tamu and crossed The
Yu River, chasing the disor..
ganized japanese toward tho
Chindwn River, headQuarter3
announced today. Other forces
moving south toward Tiddim
on a highway from ImphAl wsr6
reported making satisfactory
progress.
British and Indian troops
killed 1888 Japanese b.
actual count. Gen. SttlWoll'o
men killed $3.50 in winning ~
North Burma base Of Myitkytno,
and for al North Burma slnco
December, Stilwell be- ~
See BURAaA-Rsss .
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08

PONTIAS, Mich, Aug. 8 -
R)-Prosecutor Donald c. Nog-
gle of Oakland county announc-
ed today that Ernest Parsons,
23-year-old war worker, has
signed a formal confession that
he strangled Louella M. Parfitt,
10, on a lonely county road last
night.
Noggle quoted Parsons as say
ing h., struck the girl twice
across the back of the neck and
then choked her for refusing to
marry him and for going out
with other fellows"
The Pc. cutor and Sheriff
Spencer c. HowaI In said Par
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sons gave them the following &C
count of his actions after finish
ing work in a Detroit war plant
late yesterday afternoon:
IL picked her miss ParfitD
up at 5:45 p. m, and we drove
out Woodward avenue TO Royal
Oak and north on the Rochester
road. We turned right on Nine
teen Mile road. | told her l
wanted to talk TO her and she
started to argue.
II thought a tire was going
flat and I stopped to look at it.
We got out of the car and we
kept arguing. She said she did.
mt want anything more to do
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Field Marshal
Among Victims
Of BIood-purqe
TotoI of Is
Slain So For in
Wake of BOMBING

LONDON, Aug. 8-(P-Field
Marshal Erwin Won Witzleben
and seven other German Army
officers were hanged today. Ber-
lin announced, after a trial in
which they confessed plotting to
kill Hitler and surrender Ger
many to the Allies.
This brought to 16 the an
nounced deaths of alleged con-
spirators in the Berlin-proclaim-
ed plot which eliminated in the
July 20 bomb explosion at a
Hitler headquarters.
Today's executions took place
two hours after conclusion of
the trial Of Won Witzleben and
the seven others, all of whom
had been expelled previously
from the army.
An official account of yester-
days trial, broadcast by DNB,
disclosed the alleged plot
against Hitler had been hatch
ing since last summer. Col.
Count Claus Won Stauffenburg,
named by Berlin as the actual
assassin, was declared to have
brought explosives into Hitler's
presence twice before July 90
but to have refrained from let
ting them go because Heinrich
Himmler. Gestapo chief, was not
with Hitler-"He was to be fin
ished at the same time"
Three former generals and
See HANGINGS-Page 6
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Lorne Marfell
is Missing
in Action

A wellknown Mount Glenn
ems boy. one of four brothers
now serving in Uncle Sans
armed forces, has been reported
by the War Department as mis-
sing in action since July IL On
the European battle front. He
is Pvt. l.. w. Lorne Martell, son
of Lawrence Martell, of 80 Don
street.
Pvt. Martell went ashore in
the June 6 invasion of France,
attached to the Medical Division.
He was last heard from directly
about five weeks ago when he
wrote home stating that he had
gone ashore on D-Day. He Is Is
years of age.
See MARTELL-Page s
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Moose Tightens
on Guam laps
Marines, Soldiers
Smash Forward

u. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Aug.
8-(P)-American Marines and
soldiers on Guam have COM
pressed several t h Gus n d
squirming Japanese into the
northern one-tenth of the island,
bringing complete reconquest OF
the former u. S. naval base very
near today.
Other bad tidings for the en-
envy:
Apparent naturalization of
zap Island, once-mighty Japa-
nese tairbase in the Carolines
800 miles southwest of Guam.
Slicing of the japanese supply
line between Aitape and Wewak
in British New Guinea.
Reports --Tokyo-o originated
of American airplanes over the
Philippines on Monday GU. S.
time).
The Tokyo radio said a large
plane dropped three small
bombs harmlessly into the sea"
near Davo, Mindanao, at l am.
An hour later another plane
fled before reaching Davao."
There were no substantiating
reports from 1t. Gen. George c.
Kenney's Far Eastern air force,
which patrols from the Aus
tralia- New Guinea area toward
the Philippines. There has
been no Allied air attack upon
the Philippines since mid-April,
1912, before the fall of Corregi-
dor.
The japanese bclatedly nc.
knowlcdged a two-day raid by
an American carrier task force
uran the Bonin and Kazan Is.
lsnas, 1000 miles north of
Guam and only about 500 miles
from Tokyo, but said III U. S.
r'lneS were shot down and an
7 '--.c y cruiser damaged
Adm ~raHa. w. NJ PIC.
&C. CUAM-page
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Warren Police
Chief Resigns
Lumex Now Assistant
Fire Department Heed

VAN DYKE Verne Lumex,
for the past two years Warren
township police commissioner,
has reverted to his former status
as assistant chief of the town
ship's~fire department, Super
visor Earl Tallman announced
today.
Lumex' shift to his former
position was at his own insist
ence, Tallman pointed out, in
chacterizing the former police
commissioner as 100 per cent"
in any status. "He did a great
job in handling the traffic pa
troll" Tallman said. snow that
sheriff's officers handle all gen.
eral criminal work Lumex has
expressed a preference for the
work which was his prior to his
association with the police de-
partment."
Tallman, who said that no
immediate successor to Lumex
at the helm of the townships
traffic police is in prospect, said
that Police Sergts. Fred Marlet-
Ia and Michael Helmlinger are
directing the functions of the
department.
Warren township employs a
IL man traffic patrol.
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Captive Says.
Goering Also
IS Wounded
New Revolt Rocks
Germany, Maxi
Officer Declares

ON THE BRITISH FRONT
IN FRANCE. Aug. e(RA
newly captured German intel-
ligence officer asserted today
that Heinrich Himmler, German
Gestapo and IS chief. has been
assassinated and that Reichs-
marshall Herman Goering was
wounded in q new outbreak
against. the Naxi Hierarchy.
(There was no confirmation Of
this report. The officers report
was based on secondhand In
formation and therefore Ii sub
ject to reservation. In this con-
nection. the British radio said
today a German Lieutenant to
ken prisoner in France related
he had given a pep talk" -
his troops and "for want Of other
good news" had told them that
Himmler was dead).
Nine other captives. all Aus.
TRANS. declared he could Cor
roborate the assertion Of the hi
telligence officer. 1--WE heard
that s(Marshal- ErHin)s Aon6znn
was wounded in the hend ~
bomb fragments on the N0et
dy front, but was recovering
one of the Austrians said. Tho
best news came Sunday when
we heard that Himmler had been
killed and that Goering WI
wounded in the attack on Him
mler."
The British first heard the
See REvOLT-PAge 6
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
Gen. McNaiH.'S
Son Also Dies
i'm Action

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8-P
The War Department has an
nounced the death on Guam of
Col. Douglas McNair, 37-year-
old son of the late 1t. Gen. Les
ley j. McNair whose death in
Normandy by prematurely
released bomb from an Ameri-
can plane was disclosed July 81.
No details of the younger Nc
Nair's death were made public
in the War Department an
nouncement yesterday.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08
REPORT MLER SLAIN BY ASSASSIN
EIGHT GERMAN Army OFFICERS HANGED
Leaders
WornJaps
of Danger
Nv the Associated Press

Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso
was quoted by the Tokyo radio
today as warning the japanese
people that American advances
in the Marianas and the New
Guinea area, plus an apparent
intention ito strike at our home
land" had confronted the en-
pire with national difficulties
of unprecedented seriousness"
The broadcast, reported by
See KOISO-Page 6
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Reds Begin
New Attack
Tighten Grip
About Warsaw

MOSCOW, Aug. g. Up A
new eruption of Red Army at
tacks which captured more than
so communities beyond the enc
my's broken Vistula river de-
lenses threatened today to stran-
gle German communications be-
tween Krakow and Warsaw in
the heart of Poland.
Striking out afresh yesterday
from the Vistula bridgehead,
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's first
Ukraine Army reached points
80 miles west of the river, Sow
let field dispatches said.
Thrusting beyond newly &C.
cupied Szydlow, the Russians
directly menaced Kielce, astride
highway and rail arteries Is
miles to the northwest. The di-
rection of the drive raised the
possibility the Red Army troops
might outflank Krakow on the
north.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-08-08

Last reports placed Soviet
spearheads within 81 miles of
Krakow, last big Nazi bastion
before German Silesia, now IS
to 90 miles away.
Montana labor news., 1944-08-24

George Washington to confirm some OF
her asininities she showed her real con-
tempt for all that great man stood for.
And when she summoned the spirits OF
the heroic dead to act as precinct com
mitteemen in her campaign for personal
glorification she revealed complete IN
ability to understand the sacrifices OF
which she attempted to make political
capital.
Why Clare Luce should have had the
effrontery to speak to the mothers OF sol
diers, nobody but Clare can answer Clare
has no sons in battle or anywhere else.
The war mothers of America were insult
ed by her burlesque.
Probably ClairvOyant Clare meant no
harm. She was trying so hard to capl-
talize on her big moment that she flut-
tered around in circles, like a moth IN the
spotlight
Clare set out to charm the Republican
convention delegates. She acted as
though she thought she could sweep them
into a trance, with the help Of George
Washington. and while out Of their minds
they might nominate her for vice presi-
dent.
Then the Republicans would have a
glamor girl to run with their glamor boy.
But the Republicans didn't lose all their
senses. They let her put on her sour act
and then brushed her aside, not realizing
how much her remarks were resented IN
the home where men are away fighting
fo,. +binUs vain LITTLE Clare cannot under
stand.
Clare thought She had what the Repub-
Hcan party needs.
Instead, she has what the Republican
party has too much of "a nice framework
covered with fancy bunting to conceal the
emptiness behind 1.-THE International
Teamster
Montana labor news., 1944-08-24
CLOWNISH CLARE rs
LUCE AGAIN

1t isn't often that George Washington
and the Unknown Soldier are delegates
to the same political convention. But
they were both at the Republican conven-
ton in Chicago, according to Clare Boothe
Luce. She interviewed them over the
radio.
Nobody but Clare could have done this.
To her many extraordinary gifts (accord-
ing to Clare) we must now add that OF
clairvoyance. She can peer beyond the
grave and summon any historic figure
she needs in a political argument.
In fact, most of her arguments sound
like a lot Of people all talking at once
The one in Chicago was more so. Clair
voyant Clare tried too hard to be clever.
. She was butterfly with the wing spread
of a crow.
When she summoned the spirit Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
To obtain a handy scroPb'
Few Cash Bonds
Bankers Report

Opening Of banks TO cash war
bonds resulted in no abnormal
amount of transactions by bond
holders. officials of the war bond
of the treasury depart
ment revealed today.
Arthur Douglas of the war bond
staff revealed d state wide survey
had been conducted among banks
TO ascertain the amount of bonds
caShcd. The FIRST day the banks
were opened for this type of bust
ness a slight increase was noted,
ne said. hut this dropped TO nor
NAL the following day.
'Tt il encouraging To note that
bond holders have not rushed 90
the banks because OF the avail
ability provided under the new
program" he said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
Jackie Cooper,
Pals Cleared

SOUTH BEND. Ind. Oct. 4
QNS)-Jackie Cooper today was
free of charges of contributing 10
the delinquency of two minor girls
at a party in a South Bend hotel
George Bender, "A, a VIZ
trainee at the University of Notre
Dame; Pauline Frederick, 10, Of
South Bend and Ollie Lowery. a
bar waiter, also were acquitted
by Juvenile Referee Albert L.
Doyle.
Bender was accused OF having
improper relations with one girl,
IS. and all four defendants were
charged with encouraging the two
minor girls 10 stay away from
their homes and TO drink liquor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
Soldier S Wife Sues
Pastor as Father

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 4 (INS)
The Rev. DR.. Cecil King. pastor
of the Wayside chapel in Sunland.
was under court order today 10
pay SIS a week to Mrs. Helen
Bonnie Allen for support of her
infant son. pending trial of suit
over the babyS paternity.
Mrs. Allen, a member Of Dr.
King congregation is the wife of
q soldier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
City Board Seeks
35-Acre Park Site

A 35-acre park site on the
Detroit River between Lenox and
Lakewood was in sight for De-
troit today. The parks and
recreation commission yesterday
voted unanimously TO ask COM
mon council for authority to
condemn the area.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
To handy daily insment of this mail
2WOmen. Resembling
Missing Maid. Sought
Continued from Page One

child psychology at Wayne Uni
verSity. said today that there was
no record of any girl answering
the maids description ever hav-
ing attended classes at Wayne.
The father, his face showing
the strain of watching and wait
ing, paced the floor of his modest
home as he talked TO reporters
IL il.l,N
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04

The 330th Field Artillery ASso-
citation will hold its Z3rd annual
reunion at Z p m. Saturday in
Hotel Webster Hall The organi-
zation has membership Of
over 400
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
WAC Recruiting Hiqh

LANSING, Oct. Enlistments
in the WAC in the Sixth Service
Command. which includes Michi-
gan, topped the nation for the
week of Sept. Is to %. WAC re-
cruiting officials announced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04

books in a fruitless hunt for
picture of the maid who vanished
with. her son Saturday night.
Lights burned all night last
night in the home Of the Kings
al 1143l Minden as Clarence +.
King, father OF the missing child,
kept a sleePless watch waiting for
some word of his son.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
1893 Planes in Month

WASHINGTON. Oct. 4 QNS)
The WPB announced today that
aircraft production in September
totaled 1888 planes. including a
record output of long-range super
bombers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
Fair Receipts S40,038

HILLSDALE, Oct. 4 tUP>-
Gate receipts of the recently con-
cluded Hillsdale County Fair
amounted TO S40.03S. an all-time
record. Harry 3. Kelley. score
tary. reported today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04

I'm simply whipped" he
said Right now we know
lot less than we knew the day
the baby disappeared because
then we thought we knew who
the maid was.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
CHECK EVERY CLUE

Police painstakingly checked
scores Of tips.
The most promising a cali from
Deputy Sheriff Adolph EiSen-
gruper, who told police that two
men and a girl carrying Il baby
had stopped Sunday afternoon al
his restaurant on Us y, at
Unionvllle, was exploded when It
was found that the baby held a
bottle of milk 10 his lips unalded
Police reasoned that 4
month-old child could not have
accomplished this
Meanwhile Prosecutor Bowling
Chief of Detectives Wencel and
Inspectors Harvil, George Nc
Lellan and Roy Pendergast of the
special investigation squad de-
cided against asking the county
board of auditors to offer re-
ward for information leading 10
the arrest of the kidnaper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04

T'HE rondo was finished Don got out the first move
u1ent and went 10 his chair again. dream indeed.
Comic to be sure; ridiculous, childish but most mus
cal melancholy
He turned the volume button up full Let the ladies
in the front apartment pound the wall let Their dog
Sophie bark her silly head off. this was Music Then
suddenly ne was very hungry. Why wouldn't he be
Wasn't II noon Besides he hadn't eaten thing all
day yesterday after his breakfast with Wick.
Ordinarily he never thought OF food when he was
drinking This proved he wasn't tight at all If he was
thinking OF food He'd 60 get sandwich or two at the
dehcateSSen,
Nearing the store ne passed movie My God
Carlo, In Camille no less He looked at the stills
nraMlnes conyIighl. 1919. KIM
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04

Order the United States War
Savings Stamps from your De-
troit Times carrier. He'll de-
liver them TO your home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04

not wait either He grabbed up his hat and left stop
ping in at the bar next door for drink
Hi Jack the bartender said.
Oh sure This was the one he been in before The
guy be feeling better he actually spoke To hell
with him He drank the drink and looked around.
This was no place TO hang around in. What did il
offer? Sans was better Sam better too. He paid
and left.
Sam philosopher but he didn't feel like talk
ING philosophy today He asked Where's Gloria?'
Sam said She'll be here in a minute. Rye?'
And soda Some ice"
my that isn't like you. You always take 1t
straight"
Il feel like spreading il out little today. ="
Continued tOmOrrOV)
published Rnehau. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-04
HOPE OF FINDING GIRL

They said that no such action
would be taken while there was
even a faint hope of apprehending
the girl.
Mrs. w. r. Heyn Of 1865
Nashville. who with her husband
owns the home in which the Kings
live. told police she saw a mys-
ferrous car slowly drive past the
King home Saturday night shortly
before 9 p. m.
Police in trying 10 reconstruct
the happenings in the home of
the Kings have estimated that II
must have been about that time
that the maid bundled up the
child and left
Or. Marie RaSey. professor of