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e unds during the ma months he
les keen in the Service, all Of which
has been spent at his present base.
His address is: U. S. Navy Rec Sta
ton, Key West, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Keller, 342
South Cannon avenue, proudly dis
play a 5-star Service Flag in their
window, representing their five sons
in the Service-Robert, Chester,
Richard, Cecil and Earl
Pvt. Robert E. Keller, whose wife,
the former Miss Esther Weagley,
resides with her parents on Virginia
avenue, joined the Army three
years ago last March and has been
in England for a year and a half In
some of his letters he mentioned
spending several week ends in Lon
don and visiting many places of in
terest.
Pfc. Chester G. Keller, whose
wife, the former Miss Eleanor
Krouse, resides with her mother at
Chewsville, has recently arrived in
the Southwest Pacific. He has been
in the Service since May, 1913.
Pvt. Richard M Keller, who
joined up year ago the 10th Of
this month, has just arrived in
England and no doubt will be on
the lookout for a meeting with his
brother Robert.
Pvt. Cecil A. Keller, whose wife
is the former Miss Dorothy Yeakle,
joined up October 6, 1913. Return
ing to his base at Camp Chatfie, Ar
kansas, after enjoying furlough at
home, he wrote his wife that he is
being transferred to Fort Meade,
Maryland.
Pvt. Earl S. Keller was the last
of the five to enter the Service, 60
ing into the Aylny on January Is.
Married to the toinicr Miss Mildred
Kline, of Leitersburg. who now
makes her home on South Potomac
street, Earl is now enjoying fur
Tough at home, making the trip
from his base at Camp Crowder,
Missouri, not only to see his parents,
his wife and three children, but al
so greet his fourth and youngest, a
bonny boy who made his appear
ance on May Is. At the expiration
of his leave he will report to his
new base at Camp Reynolds. Pa.
Pfc. James III. Miller, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank S. Miller All Nit
cncn avenue, is with the 149th Ord
nance Vehicle Assembly Company,
in Italy, an outfit now operating for
Fe;linsular Ease Sectic l, that re.
duced the time of assembling ur-
gently needed combat trucks from
Is man hours to Is minutes
Trucks shipped from the United
Sta-es in crates are delivered to the
149th right at the waterfront. Sol
diers and Italian civilians start them
through an open-air assembly line
as fast as is ordered, sometimes hit
ting a pace that produces $50 new
trucks in one eight-hour day.
The outfit was the first of its kind
to be activated in the United States.
II xuart to Africa in Nc,xrnrnhar
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-06-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Shep-
pard, 322 West Side avenue, have
TWO sons and two sons-in-law in the
Service.
Seaman second class Russell L.
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son, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred S..
Wilson, 119 Buffalo avenue, Takoma
Park, Md, has been assigned to the
War Training School of the Civil
AeronauticS Administration, op-
Grated here at Moravian College by
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa.
DE PAUL UNIVERSITY, Chi
Icago.-Pvt. Page H. Seekford, son of
Mrs. Viola Seekford, 1929 T street
NV, student in the ASTP unit
stationed here, has been commended
for having shown exemplary ap-
plication and attained exceptionally
high standing in studies pursued in
the basic engineering program" He
was one of "a out of 500 men
commended
CAMP BEALE, Calf. PVT. Vim
cent G. Lascano, 28l0 Erie street
Sc, Naylor Gardens, is member
of Filipino infantry division here,
He is in the gas noncommissioned
officers school of the West Coast
Chemical Warfare School here.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.-Naval
Aviation Cadet w. H. Burgess, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Burgess, 1925
North Veitch street, Arlington, has
completed the course at the Navy
Pre-Flight School here. He has
Evening star., 1944-01-04
Standard OIL Gets Check
For Mexican Properties

Standard Oil Co. of California
today received check for $1,913,.
997.59, representing the first pay
ment on a settlement for it's inter-
est in Mexican oil properties expro-
priated by the Mexican govern.
ment in 1888.
The total settlement with Stand
ard Of California amounts to $3.50, :
1853, plus 3 per cent interest from
the date Of appropriation. The
balance of this sum is payable in
four yearly installments, the last
OF which will be due in September
1947.
The amount payable to Standard
Of California was agreed on by the
United States and Mexican gov
ernments In September. At that
time the two governments also
agreed on settlements of similar
claims by other American oil com
panieS.
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but I'll md one" He meant it.
Even Del Rios balcony was btilging
with spectators who were not seeing
q whole lot by this time.
And Olmstead's, where the night
club partition had been removed to
provide room for dance floor and
added seating capacity. Reserved TO
the gills, with unreserved patrons
begging and sometimes getting
tables for few moments of good
cheer
And Club Jalna. After |, there
was only glimpse to be had of the
new upstairs room, the Mardi Gras.
It was possible to see the plaster
cast carrousals, but more than that,
only vast Pacific of faces floating
through the clouds. The lushly ap-
pointed Jalna itself had to do. But
this was not exactly hardship. Miss
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Navy Fighter Pilot.
Ensign Smith, 81, was a Navy
fighter pilot. and had been on duty
in the Pacific theater since late
summer. In his last letter home,
dated November 7, he assured his
mother that there was nothing to
worry about. Everything was nice
out ION the blue Pacific" and the
ship was like ''big hotel" he wrote
adding that he wished he could see
some action.
Ensign Smiths mother, Mrs
Emma Smith, and his sister, Mrs
Lillian M. Thiebault, who live at
the Pennsylvania avenue address
believe that the action in which
he was reported missing was the
first in which he had taken part
as a "Hellcau" pilot. Both mother
and sister are hoping-and believ-
ing-that he will return.
Letter From Captain.
Yesterday Mrs Smith received a
letter from the commanding officer
OF the aircraft carrier on which her
son was stationed. The Navy cap
tain wrote:
Your sons keen interest in the
Navy and the excellent manner in
which he carried out his duties had
won for him the high regard of his
associates. His loyalty, courage and
fine character gained for him the
affection of all those who had the
good fortune to know him personally.
Alfred is the type of young man that
the Navy can i'll afford to lose and
he will be greatly missed by all of
U.s."
A native of Atlantic City, Ensign
Smith came here three years ago,
and attended Dewitt Prep School,
hoping eventually to go to An
napois. He enlisted in the Navy
Air Corps in April, 1912, however,
and received flight training at the
Georgia PrefignU School, Anacostia
Naval Air Station and the Pensa-
cola (Fla) Naval Air Station.
Before coming here, he was grad
uated from the Holy Spirit High
School in Atlantic City. where he
played football, baseball and other
sports.
Recovering From Wounds.
Corpl. Darcy, %, was reported
seriously wounded while on duty in
the South Pacific theater, but his
wife has since received two letters
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Washington are taking basic flight
instruction here at the Army air.
field. They are Aviation Cadets
Calvin C. Davis, whose wife, Mrs
Mary j. Davis, lives at 1900 Euclid
street NV; Charles R. James, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond r. James
553l Sherrier place NV; John T
Macarthur, jr., son of Mrs. Ethel S
Macarthur, 1880 Sixth street NV.
and Emmett l.. Crouch, jr., son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett L. Crouch.
1901 Brentwood road NE.
CAMP GRANT, Ill.-Among the
recent graduates of the Medical Re
placement Training Center Clerical
School here we're Pvts. Peter Grod-
sky, 1412 Fourteenth street NV;
Alexander Kalatzki, 1900 F street
NV; Eli Grubic, 215 North Green
brier street, Arlington, and Patrick
A. Gavin, 49l1 Newton street, Bla-
densburg, Md.
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~ egWITH ID o.!
FIGHTING MEN@ :
BOILING FIELD, D

BOILING FIELD, D. C.-Arthur
Howard Nylen, jr., 26, son Of Col.
and Mrs. Arthur Howard Nylen, ST.,
1909 Nineteenth road North, Airing
ton. has been promoted to captain
in the Air Forces here. He entered
the service in July, 194l, and was
commissioned on completing avia-
ton cadet training at Brooks Field,
Tex, in April, 1912. He attended
the Harvard school of, business.
KIRKLAND FIELD, N. Mex
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Chapter Dinner Thursday

Frank w. Curtis of New York,
former national president of the
American Society of Tool Engineers,
will be guest speaker of the Potomac
Chapter at its second anniversary
dinner meeting at $50 pm. Thurs
day at the Mayflower Hotel. A
motion picture, Victory in the
Bismarck Sea-" also will be shown.
Evening star., 1944-01-04

Armlger l.. ia
goe, jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. A.
l.. j a G oe. 5000
G on n e C t i c ut
avenue NV, has
b e e n commits
stoned a second
lieutenant on
completing avia-
ton cadet train
ing. 1t. Jagoe
attended H a r.
ward University.
BETHLEHEM,
Pa.--Naval Avi-
a ion Ca d e t
Charles F.. Will
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sented for the. first time here by
the Choral Society March Il In
Constitution Hall, viii be held at
8 o'clock tonight at Central High
School, Thirteenth and Clifton
streets NV. Singers to fiji chorus
vacancies will be auditioned at 7:3O
o'clock tonight and next Tuesday.
Evening star., 1944-01-04
Home Board to Meet

The Board of Lady Managers OF
the Presbyterian Home, 1918 New
ton street NV, will hold its
monthly meeting at II am. Thurs
day at the home, following an exec.
utive meeting at 10 am.
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eating that he is
on the road to
recovery. He will
receive a Purple
Heart decora-
ton.
Corpl. Darcy
is from D e e p
R er, Conn,
but has called
this his home
since November
8. 1912, when he
married the for
ner Miss Barba-
ra Smith of Sill
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from the District
area have been
wounded in ac-
ton, t h e Navy
Department an
nounced today.
The wounded
are Corpl. Fran
els B. roy
whose wife, the
former Barbara
Smith, lives at
9405 Saybrook
avenue, Silver
Spring, Md, and
Pvt. William j.
Micklick, son of
Mr.. and Mrs.
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was on duty at New River, NJ c., at
the time. His wife is living with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Frank F.
Smith, while Corpl. Darcy is over
seas. Corpl. Darcy has two brothers
serving overseas and his wife has
two brothers in the Marine Corps,
one at Paris Island and the other
in the South Pacific.
Evening star., 1944-01-04

lTyner's piano could Be heard and
CALI Calls conjuring seen With IN
lcreasir1g ease Is the hour wore past
II.
No one showed an inclination to
go home and repair the remnants Of
the night.
Thus, it may be said In all con-
f1dence, it was all about town.
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After Dark
Continued From Page B-6.)

hurry its occupants to a place that
dld have tables for proper celebra-
ton.
There was the Del Rio, too, and
II would have been impossible to
conclude that 1943's climax had come
and gone. Fred the Headwaiter
staid and dignified ever since his
inception as headwaiter, had dis
carded his more formal set of greet
mgs. Hi" he was roaring at new
corners. Not a chair In the house
Evening star., 1944-01-04
New Road in Paraguay

A new arterial highway to be con.
structed through Southwestern Par.
aguay will cost approximately $2,.
100000. 1t will serve valuable graz.
ing section without railways.
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Navy Pilot Missing;
I'd. {. Area Marines
Wounded in Action

Ensign Alfred Francis Smith, who
formerly lived at 1904 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc, has been reported
missing in action, and two marines
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: been promoted to primary fight
training at the Olathe (Kans) Naval

PORT H A R.
RISON, Ind. -
P v t. r o 6 e r
D u n n, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w.
F. Du n n, 1464
Clifton S tre e t
NV, h as ar
rived here for
b a ic finance
training. He Is
a former clerk
for S GU t h e r n
r d / ! W a y in
Washington.
IN D E PEND
ENCE, Kans. -
Evening star., 1944-01-04
Fire Cunninq Beef

Ten firms IN Fire expect to can
22,500, 900 pounds of beef before next
March for the United Kingdom.
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KEY NAZI SUPPLY
PORT IS BOMBED
Continued from Page One)

Judging from what happened, :"
said one Raj station command
er, ''the Germans have become
so ratified that whenever our
bombers approach Berlin comes
first and the res, Of the country
is a long. Ions wa' behind
The Ali Ministry itself said the
Germans seemed hopelessly con-
fused by the mosquito to stab at
the capital since tne route taken
by the main force was such that
at almost any point it could have
been directed al Berlin.
when we turned we could see
long line OF fighter flares
stretching % miles ahead, toward
Berlin one pilot reported. There
were no flares in our course te
Stettin.
The German fighters came rae.
ing to Stettin JUS as the last
bombs We're dropped.
Success of the subterfuge was
credited with holding the British
losses down to Is in both attacks
raids on western Germany and
northern France.
Stettin last was raided April 20.
The big night fleet took off early
in the evening and did not return
until dawn from the 1,300-mile
round trip.
Danish broadcast said anti
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u. S. WILL PROBE
HOPKINS LETTER
Continued from Page One)

Subpoenas are to be issued for
Sparks and for DR. Umphrey Lee,
president of Southern Methodist
University, who is named as the
letters eddressee, Lee has denied
receiving such letter and has
said he does not know Hopkins.
No subpoena is planned for Hop
kins, as it is the custom merely
to invite government officials to
appear. None IS planned for Will
kie, either, it was said, although
he will he heard ii he wishes to
appear.
Clark said the Grand Jury will
seek to determine whether there
has been any violation of a sec.
ton of the District of Columbia
code which makes it an ,offense
to make or publish forgery with
intent to injure another. Photo
graphs of tn disputed document,
released by Sparks were publish
ed in the Washington press, Clark
noted. The code provides a penal.
ty, upon conviction, OF one to ten
years Imprisonment
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TAXI ORDINANCE
CITED AS LEGAL
Continued from Page One)

and towns shall have the power
to license, regulate and control
drivers and operators of taxlcabs
within the city or town limits and
to regulate and control operators
of taxicabs operating between the
city or town to points not incor-
porated within radius of five
miles of Sid city or town. %
There are other applicable laws
granting full regulatory powers
contained in the acts and chap
tiers referred to. 1t is my opinion
that the foregoing references to
laws cover the question and sub.
ject matter you presented to me
There is ample legal authority
to cover the right to pass the
ordinances now in effect in the
City, and such ordinances are. in
my opinion, valid under the au-
thority of law, the particular laws
cited, and under the police power
Of the State as exercised by the
Legislature and as granted to the
City,
Ii is understood that the court
records show that the sentiments
of Deputy Judge Loftin are con-
trary to the policy of Judge Smith.
Smith has upheld the city taxi
rate ordinance consistently.
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inside old Poland and Gorodnitsa.
other Russian units were convu4.
ing on Shepetovka, an important
rail junction fartne s-ou.4. me
communique announced. the can
ture of Miropol rail station. As
miles northwest of Berdichev,
which was taken Wednesday, and
only % miles from Shpetovka.
Nearby Novo-Miropol, Stary-Mi-
ropol, Pechanovka, three rail sta
tons, and the town of Chudnov
were overrun in the drive on Shep-
etovka, where the .Korosten-Tarno-
pol and Kazatin-Kowel lines meet.
On the southeastern side of the
250-mile bulge created in F d
Marshal Gen. Fritz Won Mann
STEMS shattered lines, the R d
army announced the capture of the
rail stations of Tomilovka and SUI
kholesy, 10 and Is miles, respec-
lively, southeast of Belaya Tser-
kov.
This Russian thrust was already
boring into one flank of the Ger
man Dnieper bend forces in the
Kanev sector. The other enemy
flank is anchored far to the east
on the Lower Dnieper, and three
other Red armies besides General
Vatutin's are waiting to spring at
the first sign Of a German crack
up.
Thirty-eight miles due south OF
fallen Belaya Tserkov, other Rus
sian units were declared to have
captured hashkov, h e eastern
terminus of railway running to
Kazatin. The seizure of this Kiev
district center gave the Russians
entire possession of that railway
But the prize objective on the
Russian timetable is the Warsaw
Odessa line in the Zhmerinka area.
It's seizure would knock out the
last major German supply Ii n e
north of tne Carpathian mountains,
leaving the enemy dependent upon
less useful roads running westward
into Rumania from Odessa.
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RUSSIANS SWEEP
INTO OLD POLAND
Continued from Page One)

in the days fighting, and 16 ar
mored cars, 63 guns, 1000 rifles,
120 machine-guns, and eight am
munltlon dumps w er e captured.
"a considerable number of pris-
oners was taken" also, the COM
munique said.
On the front above Newell anoth-
er Soviet army captured "advan-
tageous positions" in its offensive
north and west toward the Baltic
states, and west of Propoisk on the
White Russian front raid by a
Red army ski battalion resulted
in the killing of many staff Off
GERS at the headquarters of a Ger
man infantry division, the bulletin
said.
In taking Rakitno inside old Po-
land, the Russians under General
Vatutin drove II miles along the
Kiev-Warsaw railway from Olevsk,
a town on the Russian side of the
old frontier which fell Monday.
The immediate Soviet goal in this
thrust was Sarny, only Is miles
away. Sarny is a junction on the
north-south Vilna-Rowne line.
Although Moscow dispatches or
Monday had announced that Soviet
spearheads were across the for.
mer frontier in the lower Pripet
marshes, this was the first time
a communique mentioned spe'
cific locality. Moscow, however
did not mention the frontier, q
subject of dispute.
It described Rakitno as a dis.
trict center of the Rovno region. .
Rovno, or Rowne, is one of the
principal cities in tn e western
Ukraine in territory acquired by
Poland after the First World wal
and lost to Russian occupation ir
1899.
The Russians were sweeping to-
ward central Poland on a 32-mile
front. At the lower end they cap
tured Gordnitsa, about mile from
disclosed. Gorodnitsa is on t h {
the old frontier. the communique
punctured Sluch river line 20 miles
northwest of Novograd-Volynski.
The broadcast communique re
corded by the Soviet monitor sale
the Russians ran through a tota
of more than IS villages and ham
lets during the day in their steady
slashing of German supply or re
treat railways. and one Axis mil
itary commentator. Capt. Ludwig
Sertorious, said in a broadcast
The Soviet winter offensive nov
is in full swing on an ever-enlarg
ing front"
Germany's greatest danger lay
in the roll of the Red army to
ward the Rumanian frontier. The
communioue announced the cap
ture of Lipovets, Is miles east O.
the immediate rail junction objec
tive of Vinnitsa. and 80 miles from
the Warsaw-Odessa railway run
ming through Zhmerinka, 20 mile:
below Vinnitso. Zhmerinka itself IS
only As miles from the Soviet col
umn which took Lipovets
There still was no indication
however, that the German Dniepe1
bend forces. estimated at between
100000 and 100000 men. had be
gun to withdraw from their pre-
carious positions.
| In addition to Selling Rakitno
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Friday, December Z, 1914
Columbia Golf Star
Is Killed In Action

COLUMBIA. S. c., Jan. III
1t. w. H. Crawford White, former
outstanding amateur Columbia golf
er and MEMBER Of prominent
South Carolina family, was killed
in action in the Chinese theater
Of the war Dec. 30, the War De-
partment notified his mother, Mrs
W. c. White, today. 1t. White was
a bombardier navigator with
Maj. Gen. Clare Chenault's 18th
Airforce.
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JOHN ID, KERNODLE

GRAHAM, Jan. 6. -(R- John
Q. Kernodle, editor and publisher
Of the Alamance Cleaner of Ora
ham, a weekly newspaper with
which he had been connected IS
years, died lat ystrday at tn home
years, died late yesterday at the
home of son in Danville, Va. He
was 81 years old.
Kernodle was stricken with pneu-
rlonia while on visit to his son,
Lovick H. Kernodle at Danville,
and died after only few days
illness.
He was native of Guilford
county and one of he oldest sur
viving alumni of Trinity College,
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THOMAS ROGERS, JR.

ROWLAND, Jan. g. Funeral
services for Thomas Rogers, Jr.,
only son of Mr.. and Mrs. T. C.
Rogers, who died Thursday morn
ing enroute to hospital, will be
held from the home Friday at 3
D. m. Interment will follow in Row.
land cemetery.
The boy, who was born May 4,
1886, and was in the second grade,
had been sick for only a few hours
with acute laryngitis. His mother
is the former Miss Lucille Lundy
Of Sumter, S. c.
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aircraft guns at Copenhagen fired
on the raiders as they passed,
and Stockholm dispatch said the
armada droned over southern
Sweden for more than four hours
early today and was fired upon
by Swedish gunners. One bomber
with crew of seven Canadians
ran out of gas anc landed near
Kalmar on SWeder's east coast.
The crew was safe but the plane
was burned
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JAMES r. ROBERTS

James R. Roberts, II, died at
his home, $40 Harnett Street Thurs
Gay at 11:50 a. m. after long i'll
ness.
Mr.. Roberts is survived by his
widow, Mrs. j. R. Roberts, four
daughters. Mrs. Annie Wright OF
Rocky Point. Mrs. Nina Seydel OF
Kinston, Mrs. Nellie Powell and
Miss Margie Roberts, both Of this
city, two sons, W. A. Roberts and
j. A. Roberts. both of this city,
and one brother, W. F. Roberts
CT this city.
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HELD FOR TRIAL

Probable cause was found
Thursday morning in the case
of Willie Long, Jr., Negro
youth charged with larceny and
receiving in connection with
the disappearance of $1,000
from the bedroom trunk of AL
fred and Ada Brown, Negroes,
December 20, and Judge H.
Winfield Smith referred the
case to Superior court. Bond
was placed at $3.50. Longs
fingerprints were found on the
trunk, it was shown.
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Bet You SIS Gents
That Bron- chu-line
Eases Your Couuh'
or Bronchial Irritation
Resulting from a Cold

So say Brooklyn Pharmacy, f'utreI-
les Pharmacy, Lanes Market st. Phar-
macy, and every druggist in the area.
Cne dose will give you quick unnlis-
taxable relief. A few more doses may
lie all you need and usually half a bot
tie does the trick or your druggist is
authorized to refund the Is cents you
paid for 1t.
No dope-no sweet stuff-won't make
yol drug addict nor upset your stomach,
but Bron-chu-line will Ease Your Cough.
What do you bet? Relief is what you
want and what you get.
Brooklyn Pharmacy
Futrelle's Pharmacy
Lanes Market st. Pharmacy