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Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
70 m pany, l.
Rifle Team
Beats Best In
Pennsylvania
.Ocal "ShO0ters" Whip
Company {. First Reg
iment Penna. State
Guard, 1859 To 2195;
Chandler High Scorer.

The rifle team of Company &C.
Delaware state Guard. this city.
added The "scuIp" OF Company "C'.
First Rtsimrnt Pennsylvania State
Guard. with Captain r. Hesslrr as
commanding officer. To their long
list OF cuuqueSts when they defeat
ed The Quaker City aggrt CATION
2%39 To 2l93. at the State Armory
here last Sunday afternoon
Tie rifle men from Philadelphia.
with headquarters AZ Broad and
diamond Streets are the cham
rjnns of the Pennsylvania State
Guard. having met and defeated
every company in the first re2i-
mont Tn" Milford company is
tn" champion of Delaware
Crl William Chandler of Com
pany &C." Milford. was high indi-
Nidual scorer with Il pa out OF a
posSlbl" 3oo. his prone score being
." out OF Il possible loo 1t George
Staples OF Company C.. Philadel-
phia. Was high scorer for his team
with a - out of a possible leo.
Rumer-up for the Delaware indi-
yidual honors was Sgt. David Por-
ter with Il 234 cut ot Il possible 300
Sgt Harry Taylor was second high
scorer for the Ppnnsy team Will
q 30 out of possible 300.
Captain Laurence I.apetina. com
namdin@ officer. Company C.. Mil
ford announced at the close of the
match that the Milford team woulC
invade Philadelphia Ior a return
match on Sunday. May 20
Refreshments We're served at tn,
close ~ the match
The individual scores are as fol
lows. with standing position. kneel
ins and sitting. prone and tota
scores being written respectively:
COMPANY e" ID : G.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Il 90 $ cy c t
IIoilored E}y
Service Here
James VI. Tunnel, Jr.,
OF Georgetown, Deliv-
cred EulOgy Heard by
Vast Crowd.

\ SUSSEX County memorial ser
vice VAS held in Milford last Sat
urduy afternoon from > O'Clock un-
III ! p. IN III Plaza SQualr, and Il
vast thron4 ut lower Delaware folk
assembled u pay tribute 10 their
late "chlrt All local business
houses closed duln@ the service.
Mayor Edward C. Evans Of Mil
ford. was chairman uf TIL" county
wide observance. Introducing Rev.
Dr Frank lIerson. pastor OF Ave
nue. Methodist Church. who III turn
introduced the speaker. James NJ.
Tunnel. j.. Ut Georgetown. son OF
DeIaWurc's senior senator. MIR.
Tunncll paid fine tribute to Il
great man.
Three other lo,ul pastors a.
Sisted with tht Services ttDN. joins
II De~thau,. pasror OF r'uSt Pres
hyterian Church Kev. Joseph :
HIuks. pastor OF Christ Episcopal
Church. and Rev Marion + Hun
9crford rustor OF Calvary Method
isl Church.
Company C.. Delaware State
Guard. and members OF the Girl
Scout Troop. formed honor guards
During the ceremony PVT. Gene
Davidson, member of the Guard
tainted and was administered re-
~to,atlves by the medal detail un-
der the direction of SGT. Robert II
Yprkcs Al Dyer. local barber
kindly oporod his tonsorial parlol
to the medical detachment and they
SET up ncld dispcnsHry There
Mrs Dyer also kindly assisted Will
the casualty.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Are Setting
Up Program
To Observe
We Day Here
Evans Designates
1t AS "Thankfulness"
Event; To Hold Public
Meeting In Charge OF
DIR. Frank HersOn.

Mayor Edward e. Evans OF Mil
tord has just issued a proclamation
and tentative pro l.uh fOr the Oh
Seryance OF VI. Day in Milford
when mat occasion con IS
Instead ot 4 day OF celebration
The mayor has desi-"aled il for
Milford a Day of Thankful
ness
1t will be announced here by the
sounding uf short blasts. OF the fire
siren which will bc picked Up by
the industrial plants and the OCD
sirens.
Would Declare Holiday
If il should oCcm during the day,
d holiday will be declared and in
dustrial plants and other places
will close for the day. If it occurs
al night, the next day will be- de
clared Il holiday for business.
This will be- followed by special
services in all the churches. and
with public meeting i'll the eye
ming at : o'clock in charge of the
Reverend Dr. Frank Herson.
If it should occur after 5 p. m
the meeting will be held the fol
lowing evening.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20

Was sent overseas Marcia l. l9ii
He was graduated from the Milford
High School III l24u after which hr
was employed by lnr DUPONT Com
pauy ia Wilmington in tine advrr-
tisine department and attended
might school ut Eracom oIlr2~
Pie Donald r. Walls. - years III
age. suA uf Mr IHd Nh Bugrou K
Walls. has been wounded IN action
IL Ie;rer uar"d March i irum 4
hospital in France. Private Walls
told his parents thar hr had re-
criytd q nullrt wound in his left
hand He served with the Airhurur
Infantry as a machine 2uuurl. La
Ter he wrote That hr believed that
his outfit was by noW not Tar from
Berlin and Il suppoo, by rhe tlme
| yet back to thu outfit HEY Viii be
IN Berlin
Private Walls enlisted in rhr
regular army in February 1911 lie
Went almost immediately lu pauu-
ma where he served IN he coast
artillery until April. l9l4. whrn
y
Il leave spent with his parents in
Milford. he Went to Fort knoN.
Ky. but later Was transferred 10
the infantry ana stationed al Camp
Gruber Okla. Fort Benuin4. Ga.
and Fort George c. Meade. Md.
before @uin4 overseas IN January,
1919
His brother. Private Carlton Il.
Walls is also serving With the army
III France. Ills brothrr-ilI-l law
STAFF Ser4t Adolph kurZnoWSki is
now awaiting overseas duty. tie
has been stationed Al Fort Miles
and at care May y. j.
Private Walls said that he had
finally met a DelaWarean overseas
Il medical corpsman who is serv-
Ing in the hospital where Privut,
Walls is receiving treatmtnt II,
said the medic lived in Claymon-
hui failed 10 mention his name
Private Harvey ]. Elton. aye -
OF Milford Gardens. Milford was
wounded in action March - il
Germany He is the son 0f Mr.
and Mrs. Frank J Elton OF Milford
enlisted III IN" regular army sN
years ago He was wounucd ii III,
arm ana is now hospitaliZcd ~,
has been overseas with the infantry
for IT months Before entering III,
service he Was i'm business with hi
father. who is a florist in Milford
: y brother Lloyd Robert Elton. i
: home from two years in the Pacific
4 Another brother. Frank Elton. Jr
J. is with a convoy en route To Rus
= Sia.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Set $80O,OOO Bond
Quota For Schools
$5G0.000 For Upstate. %>G,00O For
Kent. Sl10.0OO For Sus>eN

\ war bond quota OF X3oo.oon has
been assigned to Wilmington public
school children as tllrir part III the
Seventh War Loan Drive. il has
been anounccd Ivy The educational
division of the Delaware War HI
nance Committee. Ol the SSo".oou
total expected from all Delaware
schools for the drive. rural New
Castle County students are asked
to buy $2UU,OU in bonds
The remainder OF the state school
quota is divided into $Ho.UGo from
krnt County. H12o.ooo from Sussex
County. and &loo.ooo from New
Castle County Catholic schools.
The schools-at war committee
distributed to city schools sugges-
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Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Canning Sugar Will
Be Available May |
Housewives Must Apply For This
Sugar II Ration Boards

Issuance of sugar for canning
fruits and making iellies will start
May 1T local war price and ra-
tionins board offices. it was an
Lounced hy Charles W. Hardesty,
delaware OPA DIRECTOR
No rationing stamps will be de
clarpd for canning sugar, and
housewives will have To apply for
home canning sugar at the local
r3tionine board Offices
No more than % pounds OF sugar
Der person will be allowed this
year. nor more than 100 rOund2
per family even if there are more
t}an ei2ht persons.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
State Legislature
EndCts 315 Laws
AdJourns Sine-Die
ALkER l.. MIFFI.I\
CONFIRMED Bl SENATE

The Senate Monday con
lilmtd the reappOintmtnI Of
Walker L. Mitflin. OF Dover,
as member of the State
Beard OF Agriculture. revers-
ing its stand of few weeks
ago when Mr Mifflin. who
has served as a member for
the past - years. was re-
jected
MIR. Miffliu was reappointtd
10 term of three years. His
prior term expired ON Fthru-
ury 23 Mr. Miillin is a farm
rr. operating Il large fruit
farm near Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Davis, Noble, Kinder
To Hold Reunion
Meeting Will BE Held At Federal>-
burg Tomorrow Afternoon

The members of the Davis, Noble
and Kinder families are invited to
attend a meeting at the home of
T. Sewell Noble, in fredericksburg.
Md. tomorrow. Saturday. April 21,
at p. IN.
The officers of the Davis. Noble
and Kinder reunion are: President.
John Noble; vice president. Chas.
Kinder and secretary, Wilmer Fell
Davis, who are beginning plans
for the l945 reunion and hope that
all who are interested will attend
this meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Railroad Brakeman
Hurt In Accident
III. &. Hartley. 0i Lincoln. Victim
OF Crash On April IL

Henry G.. Hartley. 26 years old,
of Lincoln City, 4 brakeman on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. suffered
fractured hip and other injuries
around 1920 O'Clock on Wednesday
night. April II. when he was caught
between a freight car and Il pole
and crushed at grade crossing on
Washington Street near Snow Hill.
Md, river bridge.
Hartley. trainmen said. failed to
note the pole near the track as
he held fast to a side-step of one
car OF shifting freight train. He
was rolled and crushed between the
pole and freight car. An ambulance
was called and Hartley was taken
to hospital for treatment. follow
ing examination by Snow Hill
physician.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Delaware Income
Taxes Are Slowed
Over Half 0f Returns Due April
30 Await Filing

More than one half of the State
income tax returns due on April 80.
remain to be filed the State Tax
Department said this week.
So far 50.526 of approximately
llo.0oo returns which are required
to be filed by April 81 have been
filed
The state Tax Department office
at So Kin@ Street j. now open
from $50 a IN. until } p. m daily
excepting Saturday. whrn the clos
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Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Two Local Men
Killed In Acti0n
ofc William H. Scott, Pfc Frank h. Burton
Slain In Germany; William ID. Davis Don
aid r. Walls, Harvey ]. Elton, All OF Mil
ford, Reported Wounded.

Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Scott oi
2u5 East Second Street. Milford.
have received word that their son
Pic. William H. Scott. axe 3d. y no
had been overseas only TWO months
was killed in action III GERMANY
March 3uth, according tu Il t"ie-
gram received from the Wan De
partment Oh Tuesday. April Il.
PVT. Scott enlisted IN the army
three years ago and Went overseas
with an armOred division from t'Urt
Meade. Before entering the army
he was employed at Fort Miles with
Il surveying group. He has ole
sister. Mrs Bradford Kitchens. and
brother. Clarence Scott. OF Mil
ford
His parents. who had not heard
from him for some time. received
the following letter from him OH
April 9. one day before they re-
ceived the notice Of his death. Tie
Letter follows:
Dear Mother and Dad:
am we'll and O. *. Sorry
| didn't write sooner. How is
all the family? | am some
where in Germany Don't Wor-
ry. We get swell treatment
here. We have swell officers.
and they usually 20 to bat Tor
MS. As ever. your loving
son
p. S. How is Bobby?
Pie Frank L. Burton. - year.
old. of Milford. was SLAIN in action
on March 25th in Germany. Privat,
Burton. d paratrOoprr. waS 1h'
brother of Mrs. Donald II. Carrie
of Milford. and the son OF the lat,
Mr. and Mrs Leonard f. Burton
of Pennsylvania. He attende'
school AT Huntingdon. Pa. and lat
er moved to Milford To live Wit
his sister He was employed by III
Masten Trucking Company. II
, had been in the army about on
year. and overseas since Christina.
: Another sister. Mrs Virginia I
} Brooks. of AvOndale. Pa. survives
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur u. Davis {
HCdi .hilAOi u lVNCiNth al NtlCS ttl
: from the War Department on Apr
. y stating their SON William |
. Davis. 94th Signal Company. Thir
5 Army. was seriously wounded j
= Germany on March -. lie was il
: Quoted in the Army in Novembe
f 1912. and received his training ;
g Camp Phillips. Kansas. Camp VI,
three in his company chosen for
+ 13-weeks course at Sn4 S r.
Il School i'll Camp Crowder. Mo. I
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Hare Collected Half
Of Clothing Quota
Garments Being lad e
Ready For Shipment AT
Old Headquarters

The carload of used clothing be
ing collected for the National
Clothing Drive which is now in
progress. is able to report that
more than half the carload which
Milford put as goal has been
collected. This clothing is being
made ready for shipment at the
OCD headquarters on North Wal
nut Street 1t is not too late To
contribute. please see ti:at your
closets are thoroughly cleaned of
all you can possibly spare.
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Beware Of Ticks; They Carry
Deadly Rocky Mountain Fever

warming about this dangerous di-
SedSe.
First reported in Delaware in
l9@2, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
has attacked from to + persons
in tie state each yra until l943
when the eases rose to II. The
statc-~i ide distribution of the II
cases Indicates that the ticks which
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Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20

Five cases of Rocky Mountain
spotted fever were reported TO the
state Board OF Health in Delaware
last year resulting in > deaths and
II cases were reported the year he
fme with deaths. Since this di-
: ease is spread 10y the bite of woou
ticks and since ticks are already
appear iue in this area. the state
Beard of Health is issuing an early
Milford chronicle., 1945-04-20
Education Board To
Use Federal Program
Milford Group viii Take Advantage
Oi School Lunch Program

TIL" Milford Board Of Educatiou
has decided to take advantage of
the Federal Lunch Program in the
high school cafeteria for the re
manning weeks of the school year.
truru To I'nIt. =. rhaStD
Evening star., 1945-09-18
More Light 10 Be Sought
On McKeoueh Nomination

By the Associated Press.
President Truman will be asked
to shed more light" on his nomi-
nation of Raymond S. McKeough
former Democratic House member
from Illinois. to the Maritime Com
mission.
Senator Bailey, Democrat, OF
North Carolina made this comment
yesterday to reporters after the
Senate Commerce Committee, OF
which he is chairman, withheld any
decision on the nomination during
a closed meeting.
II the nomination is disapproved
it would be the first such action on
a nomination by Mr.. Truman since
he succeeded to the presidency.
Mr.. McKeough, has told a Com
merce subcommittee he was the 1914
director of the CIO-Political Action
Committee in Illinois, Wisconsin
and Indiana in support of the
fourth-term campaign of President
Roosevelt. He emphasized, how
ever, that he was not a CIO mem
ber, adding that he was acting in
the nature of an 'employe" and still
was on the payroll.
American Federation Of Labor
opposition to the nomination was
directly based on Mr.. McKeough S
tle-up with the CIO-PAC.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
3 Teachers Needed
For Schools Here as
designations Mount

The public schools still have %
teacher vacancies and more are de-
veloping every day, officials an
nounced today. Woodshops a:
Kramer, Deal and Hine Junior High
Schools have been closed for lack
OF teachers.
The teachers designations have
all been sudden and are due to
changes in their plans, brought
about by end of the war, officials
said. Faced with 80 vacancies last
week, officials filled IL over the week
end, only to find that five more de-
veloped on opening day yesterday.
Hundreds OF pupils will lose wood
shop instruction and valuable equip
ment must be stored till at least
two woOdShop teachers are found
to staff the classrooms at Hine
Kramer and Deal, Lawson J. Can
treli, assistant superintendent oil
schools, said. He has nine other va
cancies to fill, including teachers OF
printing, auto and radio mechanics
upholstery, refrigeration, physical
education, music and Spanish.
Six elementary school teachers
are needed to relieve congestion al
two schools on double shift and al
several others now forced to teach
several classes in the same room, DR.
Carroll r. Reed, assistant superin-
tendent in charge, said
Two more cadet instructors
preferably discharged veterans-are
needed in the senior high schools
DR.. Chester w. Holmes said He
also needs two physical education
teachers for boys. one physics in
structor and one teacher of German
French and Spanish.
Meanwhile Boise L. Bristor, schoo
statistician, said that check O.
opening day enrolment figures re.
vealed about $4,000 students. This
will rise eventually to about 10000
he believes.
Robert L. Haycock, superintendent
Of schools. said that officials want
not only to fill these % teacher va
cancies but to accumulate waiting
lists for jobs in case of more sud.
den designations.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Gen. Thomas A. Terry
Ito Assume Command
OF India-Burma Units

Maj. Gen. Thomas Alexander
Terry, commander of the I'd Service
Command headquarters at Cover
nors Island, N. Y, has been ordered
to assume command of United
States forces in the India Burma
theater, the War Department an
nounced last night.
He will succeed 1t. Gen. Raymond
A. Wheeler, who has been recon-
mended to be the Army's chief of
engineers.
Gen. Terry's successor has been
selected, the War Department said
but no announcement can be made
until he arrives to take over his new
duties at Governors Island at an
early date.
A graduate of West Point in 1903
Gen. Terry Is SO and native OF
Abbeville, Ala. He became a major
general on october l, 1910
Gen. Terry saw service in France
during the World War with the 58tf
Coast Artillery Regiment. He served
in the Philippines from 1886 to 1895
as executive officer of the harbol
defenses of Manila and Subic Bay
Returning to the United States, he
held various posts until in June
l94l, he became commanding gen.
eral of the lst Corps Area at Bos.
ton. Mass He then assumed addi-
tional duties as commander of the
New England frontier defense sector
In May, 1912. he was transferred
to the command of the I'd Corp
Area, now known as the I'd Service
Command.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Hannegan Hits COP
Party Line Voting
By the Associated Press.

Ds tue hssOClAted HleSS.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Sept. 18.-
Democratic National Chairman
Robert E. Hannegan declared in an
address last night that voters must
choose between giving their support
to President Truman's reconversion
program and supporting reaction
leading to depression.
Telling Democratic women's
meeting here that I'VE are no longer
obliged to coddle reluctant Repub-
licans into going along with Amer
lea, Mr.. Hannegan said the Demo-
Gratis won the voters Endorsement
in 1914 for plan to see America
through the crisis OF war and peace.
through the economic problems of
postwar era
The Democratic chairman de-
clared Mr.. Truman has started on
the fulfillment OF the third great
pledge in the Democratic platform"
with his program to maintain Jobs
for American workers"
Meanwhile" he said, certain in
dividual members of the Republican
party leadership we're giving one of
the most shocking demonstrations
OF party-line voting in a time of
war emergency that has ever gone
down in the annals of our country" !"
Mr.. Hannegan asserted that "the
Old Guard leadership already has
taken its stand against the 2l-point
program that President Truman has
put forward to meet and solve the
problems facing America here at
home"
He added that the Republicans
have made endorsement in princi-
pal' OF some proposals and then
offered amendments that would
cancel out the principle they have
indorsed."
Evening star., 1945-09-18

large number of women will serve
in the armies of occupation.
The women testing winter cloth
ing will have one week of classroom
instruction at Camp Lee, Va, and
one week of outdoor life on Mount
Washington, N. H., which is cred
tied with having the worlds worst
weather at certain seasons.
They will live under field condi-
tions on the mountain, sleeping
under Army pup tents in cold
weather sleeping bags. The peak of
the mountain usually is shrouded in
fog, the temperature in September
ranges from 10 to so degrees and
winds frequently reach a velocity of
10 miles per hour.
The uniform they will wear is the
feminine equivalent of the outfits
distributed to 5th Army troops in
,he mountains of Italy.
It consists of layers of Insulating
wool garments covered by outer gar
ments of closely woven, wind resist
ant, water repellent cotton fabric.
The women will wear woolen
undershirts, shirts, high-necked
sweaters, liners and cotton field
jackets. They also will wear long
woolen undergarments, wool trou-
sers and an outer pair of water
repellent cotton field trousers. They
will wear two pairs of old socks un-
derneath a pair of shoepacs, which
is combination rubber and leather
boot.
Gen. Gregory pointed out that
weather conditions in Japan and
Central Europe are comparable to
those OF New England during the
winter. Japan, particularly, is cold,
damp and slushy in many sections.
Evening star., 1945-09-18
1t. Morris, Survivor
OF Jap Prison Ship,
Freed, Wife Is Told

The War Department has noti-
fed Mrs. George E. Morris. jr. 7715
Morningside drive NV, of the lib
Grafton of her husband, 1t. Morris,
38, veteran officer of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, from japanese
imprisonment.
1t. Morris now is approaching the
end of an odyssey in which he is
one of fewer than $50 survivors
of 1919 prisoners who were placed
aboard a japanese ship to be trans
ported from Luzon to the Japanese
home islands in 1914 Mrs. Morris
said his condition is reported as
fair.
1t. and Mrs. Morris last saw each
other on beleaguered Luzon Decem-
ber 81, 1941. There followed for
her mternment at Santo Tomas with
their two children liberation last
February, and finally, return to
Washington, where she is living with
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
w. Schroeder.
Caught First Jap Bombing.
1t Morris was III the Southern
Philippines in command of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey ship Fathomer
in December, 1941. He arrived with
his vessel in Manila Bay the first
day Allied ships there were sub
jected to terrific bombing by the
japanese. He saw his son. Scotty,
who was born in the Army hospital
in Manila, November 10.
He served on Bataan and in Cor
regidor and then was imprisoned
in Cabanatuan and later in the
Infamous Bilabid Mrs. Morris, in
Santo Tomas, communicated with
him through the grapevine.
Last December he was one of l 1,619
loaded on the Oryoku Maru. 1t was
bombed by American planes in Subic
Bay. Thirteen hundred and forty
one survived. They were loaded on
another ship, with horses. In a
harbor of Formosa that ship was
bombed. Finally fewer than 600
thinly clad Americans arrived at a
camp on Southern Kyushu Island
during a blizzard In April they
were transferred to Korea When
American troops liberated them
there were fewer than $50.
Howard Wilder Freed.
1t. Morris is a graduate of the
University of Minnesota and has
been in the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey 18 years. In addition to Scotty
now almost 4, there is Mary Ann, 6
years old.
Another prisoner who has been
liberated is Howard c. Wilder, %,
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
A. Wilder, 2108 Thirty eighth street
Sc. His father is a technical con-
'ultant to the War Production
Board. The family formerly lived
IN San Jose, Calf.
Mr.. Wilder graduated from high
school in California. and then. at
l8, went to Wake Island as a civil
ian worker on the Notifications.
After being taken prisoner he was
held in camp at Shanghai and
,hen on the island of Osaka.
Mr.. Wilder said his son had been
lsed as slave laborer, being paid
from 212 to cents a day. The
War Department has notified the
parents the sons physical condi-
ion is fair Mrs. Wilder has gone
20 California to await her sons
'eturn
Evening star., 1945-09-18
Earl Carroll Skips Own Party,
But | 900 Guests Were There

The nervous man in charge of the
food said thousand persons had
been invited and he always figured
only IS per cent would come to any
party, so he had turkeys and hams
and stuff for only 750 The last 25O
arrivals didn't eat, but they crowded
the three bars.
One of the three head walters
said he counted 8 bartenders, q
chef, 5 cooks, 10 walters, 4 bus boys
3 maids and auto attendants.
All of them were Carroll employe.
but they were working at time anc
a half, he said, because Monday il
the night the Earl Carol Restaurant
is closed.
At least 100 guests brought pres.
ents, which were piled neatly on a
table in the den. Mr.. Carroll hadn't
seen them. At quite a late hour
he hadn't seen his guests. Nor hac
his guests seen him. No one, not
even his press agent. knew where
Mr.. Carroll was.