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(SOufhwesf Pacific
Area
Detroit

MBERTr. PFC. hUcUsT-Mu stspa.nis
Albert. mother. ieisa Yonka.
ELKIss. PVT. EDDrR-Mrs Coldis Klkiss,
mother i72i5 Prairie.
HOWELL, PFC. EARL w.-wm.rd p
Howell. father. 24737 Calvin. Dearborn.
Outstote
BAKER PFC REX v.-Mrt Carrie NJ.
Baker. mother, Dansvilie.
CoELIsK. PVT. JOHN R.-Mu. e.orF.,ss
conlist. mother. Monroe.
FALL. PFC. LESTER L.-Mrp vsrs a pan.
mother SaEinaw
HAYMAN. PVT. WILLIAM J.-Mr,. Cara
NJ. HaymAn, wife, Port Huron.
KING. sIscT. DALE J.-Mrs. Eleanor Hor.
nunE, sister. MT. Morris.
LENT. PFC. DARRELL w.-psrrsu ".
Lent sr., father. Por! Huron.
MoNTRoY. PFC. RoLLIN J.--p,lnsr NO.
roy, brother. Bay city:
NoxoN. T/sGr. EDWIN G.-Mr. p.r,i
No1on. mother. Mason:
PARTLo, PFC DONALD L-Harvsy P,ruo.
PRATT. PVT cHARLEs-Nu Rita p
Pratt mother. Flint.
RAPP. PFC. DAVID John Rspp father.
Merritt. -.
sHURTYR PVT FLOYD H.-Mu ph,uis
M. shurter, wife. Biz Rapids
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Honor Roll
Official Casualty List

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is I'm casualties release N tenavydp say
o cGge status
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COMMUNICATES
By BOB HOPE

recently Mississippi wonder who gave
with OF meat stuck between
before
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My bad the catfish
out
closed used anchor
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NAVY DEAD

AsMUs. sac CHARLES BENJAMIN n -
Mr. and Mrs. Charles b. Atmus ST.. parents
Maryville.
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ARMY DEAD
European Area

Detroit
ANToL rs FRANK-MrS Jetha C. Antol.
wife, 9So7 knodell.
ANTAYA. PVT. EDWARD L.-Mr1 josephine
A. Antaya, vile, 1901 Burgess.
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HAPRis. Ts WILLIAM P-Mrs MarFus
rite Hsrrif wife F1in,
HECTOR PVT WALDO u --Cbarles r.
Hector father Boon
HOWARD PVT HAROLD T-Mrr Krus
Platte. mother. Portland
:, H,i.sERT PFc WILLARD c-NnL Nrd
Hubert mother. Manton
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KfRKER set. KEITH E-Mu Csthsrins
" kirser. wife Grand Rapl5s
KUFTTl, T 8 NORMAN AIRS JohAnnl
kuriu, mother, Paynesvie
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NAACP to File
ClemencY Petition
In Soldier Riot

New York-The NAACP will file
petition for clemency on behalf of
the Negro soldiers convicted of
rioting against Italian prisoners of
war at Fort Lawton, Washington,
last year.
Although some forty-one men
were initially tried, thirteen were
acquitted. One of the accused,
Buckner, was sentenced to six
months confinement and forfeiture
of $18 per month for like period.
The remaining 27 men were given
dishonorable discharges and SEN
fences ranging from one to twenty
five years.
The reviewing authority has sus-
pended the dishonorable discharge
portion and sentence, with refer
ence to ten of the men, and has
placed them in rehabilitation CEN
tiers where they will be given the
opportunity of being restored to
duty at an early date. The sentences
imposed on the rest of the men
have been drastically reduced.
In its petition for clemency, the
NAACP seeks to obtain further re-
duction in the sentences imposed
and to have the dishonorable dis
charges suspended as to all the men
involved.
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Treasury Talk
Against Negroes
Not Officidl

New York-The talk to women
employees of the Treasury De-
partment, advising them not to
discuss the Negro question when
they arrived in Germany twas not
given at the instance of the Treas
ury Department" according to Sec
rotary Fred M. Vinson in a letter
to the NAACP.
When the "a women employees
arrived in Frankfurt, Germany, last
month, correspondents sent stories
to the daily papers in America
quoting one of them as saying that
an Army lieutenant had given them
lecture before they left Washing
ton and among other things had
told them that under no circum-
stances were they to discuss the
Negro question in America as it
would "hasten revolution in the
South" .....
The NAACP also addressed an
inquiry to the War Department
which replied that it was working
on the matter but had not been able
to trace the incident so as to locate
the officer said to be responsible.
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Elk Navy Man
New Director
At Halle O.

Kenneth o. Wilson. has been adj
ded to the staff of Halle Q. Brown
Community House in st. Paul, to
direct men and boys activities, it
was announced this week.
Wilson, a recent discharge from
the United States Navy, served 80
months at Camp Robert Smalls.
Great Lakes, ILL.,, where he was en-
gagged in the physical education
program. He attended Butler Uni
versity in Indianapolis and Purdue
University at Lafayette, Indiana. He
was director of athletics and boys
work at the Phyllis Wheatley Social
Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
and director of the boys program
at Indiana Boys School, Plainfeld,
Indiana.
Prior to entering the Navy, he
played professional football. Mr.
Wilson has just recently published
booklet entitled "The Negro Re-
cruit in the Wrestling Program"
He will be assisted by Louis
House, Paul Ray, and Horace
Brown in carrying on the activities
of the athletic department at Hal
lie @. Brown. Football, boxing,
bowling will head the program of
special features.
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the results OF the tour, this cores
pondent has been particularly OBJ
servant of the methods being used
by Granger.
COurtesies Observed
The sumptuous courtesies are
certainly present. Each member of
the party was flown from his home
city to San Francisco by Navy Air
Transport Service. Along the
route, they were met by Naval
officers who accorded them full
courtesy of the bases. At San
Francisco, the entire party was
housed in one Of that city's finest
hotels.
The climax came when they
boarded the plane to transport them
across the Pacific to Pearl Harbor.
It was their own plane, assigned
to them for the entire six weeks
tour-and what a plane. Reliable
authority has informed this cor
respondent that perhaps not more
than 100 people have had the OPP
portunity of travelling in one of the
Navy's flagship planes.
1t gives a peep into the postwar
air transportation luxuries. It has
hunks in which we slept during the
overnight crossing of the Pacific.
The seats in two separate compart-
ments are arranged on opposite
sides of tables on which one may
write, play cards, eat, etc. A
kitchen and pantry at the rear end
makes it possible to prepare and
serve hot foods. The crew, most
of whom have put in over 1000
hours flying back and forth across
the Pacific, lent to the comfort and
security.
On reaching Pearl Harbor, the
party was met by Commander D.
W. Armstrong, formerly recruit
training officer in charge of Negro
personnel at Great Lakes Naval
Training Station, from which point
most of the Negroes in the Navy
came before the policy of integrated
training was instituted recently.
They are now housed in the Officers
Quarters at Manana Barracks in
Pearl Harbor.
Received by Nimitz
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz has
received them, gave them As
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His father, Frank ST., and a
nephew, Shirley Ellis of Oakland,
were drowned, August 20, when
they rushed to a lake in Winona,
to try out new bathing suits. The
youth, unable to swim, rushed into
the water, and apparently stepped
into a hole or drop-off; the father
went out to try and save him, and
was pulled under by the boy.
Curtis has been in Panama, Eng
land and France. He considers him
self lucky to be back home after
the accident he had with a jeep he
was driving. He was coming around
a curve in a small town in Ger
many and overturned; the jeep went
off in a stream of water. He feels
that it is the only possible thing
that saved him. His brother, Rich
ard "Dick" Curtis, lives in st. Paul
Sgt. Curtis is now living at the
home of Mrs. Minnie Rhodes, 1924
Fifth Ave. s.
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nOunced his candidacy from over
across the river. This gives the
Sanity City four strong candi-
dates, Lee Turpin, insurance man;
Foster Brown, war veteran and
tavern proprietor; and Mr.. Brown
and Mr.. House.
Meanwhile over in Minneapolis,
James Gresham, businessman,
came forward and filed as a candi-
date, and David Faison, Mill City
musician, who placed third in the
last Mayor Of Bonneville cam
paign, also signed on the dotted
line for the 1916 campaign. It was
thought late Tuesday that Cecil
Taylor of the Minneapolis Elks
Lodge, would enter the race if
pressure of fraternal duties would
allow.
The Mayor of Bonneville cam
paign is sponsored by the Associ-
ated Negro Credit Union, which
will use the proceeds for an edu-
cational program to encourage
thrift and the Credit Union move
ment in the st. Paul and Mime
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ficers after such interview with
the men and heard him point out
to them the conditions as he
found them from his personal
observations and talks with the
enlisted personnel. ! have seen
some of them squinch, I have
heard some of them try to justify
the condition reported. And then
have watched Granger as he
jOtted down pertinent Observa-
lions for inclusion in his report
to the Bureau of Naval Person
mel and directly to the Secretary
of the Navy.
There is, of course, no guar
antee, that Granger can give to the
men with whom he talks that their
problems will be solved by telling
them to him. He doesn't attempt
to give them any such impression.
Nor does he leave them with a
feeling of bitterness, despite get
ting them to concentrate on their
gripes and resentments. But the
prestige with which he comes on
the trip as personal representative
of the Secretary of the Navy, the
ease with which he discusses the
problems involved with both Of
ficers and men, and the knowledge
on the part of the officers that his
findings and conclusions will come
before the Secretary of the Navy,
give promise of a tremendous
amount of good being accomplished.
No Rose COlored Glasses
At no time have I received the
impression that Granger is look
ing for silver Innings or through
rose colored glasses. At the same
time, he is not blind to the fact
that lot of commendable things
are happening in the Navy and
that some of the gripes he hears
are not racially founded, but are
common among all enlisted per-
sonnet regardless of race, creed or
color.
The results of his trip, and the
report and recommendations he I'M
doubtedly will make to the Secre-
tary of the Navy, seem destined to
prove the fears and criticisms ex-
pressed are unfounded. He tells
me his procedure has been the same
on both his previous inspections on
the continent.
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apolis communities.
to show that he means business.
The inauguration dance at which
the winning candidate will be an
nounced will be held on the fourth
anniversary Of Pearl Harbor, De-
cember z, at Norway Hall in Min
neapois. Door prizes of $40 and
$40 will be awarded during the
evening.
Individual candidates or organ
izations wishing to file applications
to enter the contest can file at the
following places: in Minneapolis,
the Minneapolis Spokesman, 314
Srd Ave. So; Phyllis Wheatley
House, 300 Aldrich Ave. No.;
Dreamland Cafe, 1855 Fourth Ave.
So; Mpls. Urban League, 2O2
Times Bldg. In st. Paul, candi-
dates may file at: the Halle @.
Brown House, 553 Aurora Ave-;
the Ober Club, 375 st. Anthony
Ave-; st. Paul Recorder, 312 New
ton Bldg, or the St. Paul Urban
League, 356 Cedar St., 4th floor.
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Christopher Columbus
Lands Ed In Jail

Davidson Seventeenth Ave. ST. likes junk Ed David
also likes Christopher Columbus 1t combination of the
two that him to the workhouse Monday morning.
Davidson who had spent great deal of time collecting cast
BEDS broken chairs old mattresses and all of the paraphernaa
de unkmen can't had piled his collection all
house. outside of the house the
Inspecting remen made frequent requests that he get
the congomeration it constituted fire hazard
Ordered to Clean Up
Davidson took his time in complying, and result
hailed about week and told by Judge D. E.
LaBee to clean up the place to the workhouse
Monday morning, fremen dropped by to how he
progressing with the cleanup JOB. Davidson wasn't The in
speeding told him they thought he would have
the workhouse
Davidson got into his truck and presented himself to the
workhouse keeper all ready begin his When the
prsed told him he could be committed without court
order Davidson drove back where the had recessed
to await his appearance
Columbus Was "Great'
When asked for explanation of his failure to clean the
junk he explained he had worked hard Thursday but Friday
postponed the job in Difference the Christopher
Columbus who according to Davidson geat man, seeing
he had discovered America.
He made second trip to the wokhouse,-th time with
proper escort. PS.-He admitted
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lions DlrecCOr.
The. resolution, which will be
presented to Minnesota state eau
Gus delegates at the national
American Legion convention in
November, was unanimously
passed by the Fifth District Ameri-
can Legion, Department of Mime
sofa, at its regular convention at
the Hotel Nicollet on June 8, but
when it came up at the state
"streamlined" convention held
early in September, it was not act
ed upon favorably. The state con-
vention, according to report, did
not have a full representation of
all the Minnesota posts present.
Resolution on Agenda
Ray Barker, Fifth District Com
mander, is said to have taken the
matter up with State Legion Off
Gals, and the resolution will be
presented to the Minnesota state
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ARMY
Sunday, October IA, Sgt. Curtis
attended services at st. Peters A.
M. E. Church, and Rev. H. C. Boyd,
inferentially mentioned, in intro
ducing him to- the audience, the
tragedy. What Rev. Boyd said had
no significance for the Sergeant,
as he did not know of the fatal acct
dent until he went to call on Mrs.
Sarah Nichols, 1908 Clinton Ave.
S., and she mentioned it. However,
neither was sure that it was his
father. Sgt. Curtis then came to
the Spokesman paper to check on
a story that had been published con-
corning the drowning.
When a reporter asked him how
he could account for the fact that
he had not been notified, he said
the drowning had occurred in Au-
gust, and he had instructed his
family before that time not to write
him as he was leaving his company
on September 1. Apparently they
did not try to contact him through
the Red Cross.
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caucus delegates at the national
session next month.
Thomas, in revealing the Ur-
ban Leagues support of the resolu-
ton, said, "Poll tax exemptions for
all veterans, regardless of race,
color, or creed, asked by the Min
neapolis American Legion Post, a
hopeful sign in the Legion's rela-
tions with Negro veterans"
Asks Constitution Change
He emphasized that the Urban
League had, several months ago,
recommended to American Legion
officials that its constitution be
changed to permit Negroes to be-
come members of the Legion in
the seven southern states which not
only exclude them, but which do
not even permit them to organize
separate posts. The League also
proposed that Negro officials be
added to the Legion's national staff.
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minutes of his still valuable time
despite the end of the war, and
posed with them for pictures.
Vice Admiral S. A. Taffinder
commandant of the 18th Naval Dis
trict, invited them to lunch with his
senior officers and his guests, Ogen
Reid, publisher of the New York
Herald Tribune, and Wilbur For
roster, assistant editor of the Trib-
une.
While at Pearl Harbor, station
wagon has been assigned to the
party with a driver; and every pos
sible courtesy and comfort has been
extended and made possible.
All this Granger has taken in
stride. He has never lost sight
of the fact that his main story
concerning racial problems, dis
examinations, disregard of Naval
policy, ETC., can be sifted better
from the gripes of the enlisted
men than from the slanted stories
of some of the officers in charge.
He talks to both groups.
1 have been interested to know
whether he was being skillfuIly
or subtly channeled to pre-pOsted
enlisted men who had been told
what they should say. I have
watched to see whether the Of
tcers made themselves evident
as an intimidation to the men
and thus prevent their letting
their hair down."
There is no way in which any
of this could have happened in
the time we have been at Pearl
HarbOr. All Changers inter-
views have been made outside the
presence of Naval officers. He
has selected the men he desires
to talk to himself. They have
talked freely-and the picture is
not an "all-rOsy" one.
1 have sat with Granger in
some of his conferences with Of
lcers in command and heard
them paint a very pretty picture
of the conditions at their bases.
L have horned" in on some of
his interviews with the enlisted
men and heard them tell story
directly contrary to the picture
painted in the front office. 1
have been present when Granger
would see the commanding Of
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NAACP Moves into Willkie Building

New York-For the third time in
its 36-year history, the NAACP is
moving its national office. On
October Is, the Association will be-
gin occupancy of two floors in the
Willkie Memorial Building, 20 West
10th Street, in midtown Manhattan.
The Association will have the
fourth and fifth floors in the nine
story building. The departments
having space on the two floors will
include administration, legal de-
tense and education, branches and
memberships, public relations, re-
search and information, and the
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Two Year-Old Dies
At MDIs. HOSDitaI

Little William S. Witherspoon,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey D.
Witherspoon, 915 Aldrich Ave. No.,
died at the age of two years at Min
neapolis General Hospital, Satur-
day, October Is.
Funeral services were held at 10
a. m. Monday, October Is, at the
Woodland Funeral Chapel, with the
Rev. H. C. Boyd officiating. Inter
ment was at Crystal Lake Gene
terry.
Aside from his parents he is sur
vived by five sisters, Juan Lee,
Eleanor, Patricia, Gloria and Shir-
ley.
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Crisis magazine.

Crisis magazine.
The entire building will be occu
pied by organizations working fol
causes in which the late Wendell L
Willkie was interested. These in
clude Freedom House, Common
Council for American Unity, Pub
lie Education Association, Anti
Defamation League of B'nai Birth
Citizens Housing Council, World
Student Service Fund.
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Well-Known Professor
To Be Guest Speaker
For NAACP, Oct. 81

DR.. Theodore Brameld, profess
sor of educational philosophy,
will be the guest speaker at the
monthly meeting of the Mime
apolis branch NAACP, Sunday,
October 81, at 400 p. M, at
Phyllis, Wheatley House. His
subject will be, "How Shall
Minorities Combat the Gerald L.
K. Smiths ?"
Prompt beginning of the meet
ing will insure adequate time for
questions.
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Joseph D. Camp, Jr., two-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph D.
Camp, ST., $50 N. Dale St., was
playing in the backyard of GIG St.
Anthony Avenue, at $40 p. m.
Wednesday when he was bitten by
monkey, a fugitive from pet
shop, operated by R. G. Hinshaw,
921 Rondo Avenue. Police took the
youngster to Ancker hospital for
treatment of left eye lid injuries,
and "Little Joe" is now recovering
at his home from the monkey bite.
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Paul Thomson and his "Sweet
Rhythm" band are swinging it out
at Louis Roisner's Post Cafe, South
Robert St. and Highway 100, featur-
ing as vocalist, lovely Mary Walker
above, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
o. J. Walker, 349 Rice Street. The
band is composed of Thomson
piano; Mym Carter, bass; Reuben
Floyd, trumpet, and Ernie Lewis
drums. The members also sing
together as a group, in special
numbers as we'll as individually
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Breaks Leg in Grid Game

Breaks Leg in Grid Game
Richard Randall, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Grigsby, 725 Bradford,
received broken leg in a football
game, Friday, October IL, at North
Commons.
Randall, star player of the Phyllis
Wheatley Settlement House team,
played left-half in the game against
the Ascension team. He was re-
placed in the game by Wilbur Girls
sam.
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81 Urban League Branches
Aid Johnny Baker Post In
Demand for Veteran Vote

NEW YORK. - Fifty-one Urban League branches
throughout the country ready to cooperate in supporting
the resolution by the Johnny Baker Post No. POI of Mime
apois, asking poll tax exemptions for all veterans
CARELESS of race color creed it revealed here this week
by Julius Thomas National Urban League Industrial Rela
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Harry McAlpm Writes of Pearl HarbOr Reception:
Will Granger Whitewash Pacific Tour?
BY HARRY McALPIN

H.
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G.I. Returns to States;
Learns of Family Tragedy
During Church Service

A Minneapolis "C.L" Travelled thousand miles from
Europe to Minneapolis to find that his father and cousin
had lost their lives in tragic drowning two months ago.
It sad homecoming for the GIL, Sgt Frank W.
Curtis who returned Saturday. October 49, from Camp
Coy Wis., where he had been honoraby discharged from the
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Dining Car Union Enters
Bonneville Candidate;
Three Others in Race

Local SIG of the Dining Car Employees union entered
the Mayor of Bonneville race this week. by sponsoring
ST. Paul candidate Harry S. Brown TOT gehart Ave. cafe
waterncharge the Northern Pacific Railroad Anoth
St. Paul candidate tossed his hat into the ring when Louis
House, Halle O. Brown Community House Boys Worker
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Dance at C.. I. o.
Hall Saturday Night

AAoAA OdOuIuu ANASAS
The 20 Limited Club Inc. is spon-
soring its first anniversary dance at
C. 1. o. hall this Saturday night,
October 20. Jimmy Bakers or
chestra will provide the music.
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Dolly Nelson Divorced

Dolly Joan Nelson, sos st. An
thony Avenue, was granted a di-
vorce from Alphonso David Nell
son, 527 st. Anthony.
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Be a booster for your city, its
people and its institutions.
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Chicago Printing Strike
Causes Chicago Bee
To Halt Publication

Chicago-The Chicago Bee, estab-
lished here in 1925, has not been
able to print two editions because
of the printing industry walkouts
in the city. The October z and
October IA issues were the first
two the newspaper has missed since
its organization twenty years ago.
The printers strike affected the Ma
tional Printing Company, pub
fishers of the Bee.
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DIVORCE GRANTED
Doris officer was granted a divorce this
week from Omar Officer.
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Keep off date November 18th
Johnny Baker Post Annual Dance.
ADV,
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ADV.