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Plans Drafted
ToAdd Agencies
In Mobilization
Bureaus Will Help
Meet Production and
Munpower Needs
By james Y. Newton

The Government is drafting
plans for major expansion and
reorganization of defense agencies
to meet the needs of the stepped
up war mobilization program to
be announced late this week by
President Truman, it was learned
today.
Included in these plans for the
immediate and not too distant
future are:
/. Creation of an independent
agency to handle ALLEGATION and
eory Congress Action Seen to Roise Pool
Of Monpower for Droft. Pose AIS
production of military materials
and civilian supplies similar to
the War Production Board which
bossed the home front in World
War II.
2. Establishment of an agency
like the old War Labor Board.
which would handle labor-man-
agement disputes as well as direct
and administer wage controls.
Manpower Authority.
3. The setting up of an au-
thority which would have full
control Of all of the Nations man.
power resources. and the alloca-
ton OF manpower both for mill
tary and home front duty.
The new production agency, it
was understood, will be announced
first. The independent agency
will include the Commerce De-
partment's National Production
Authority. the Defense Power Ad-
ministration and the minerals di-
visions Of the Interior Department,
the Office Of Defense Transporter
tion and, perhaps, most of the
staff Of the National Security Re-
sources Board.
Directing all Of the defense
agencies, including the new pro-
duction setup, the manpower, eco
nomic stabilization and food
agencies. will be an Office similar
to the old Off1ce of War Mobiliza-
ton. which during most of the
last war was headed by James F.
ByrneS.
May Be Headed by Symington.
There is indication that the
new top. mobilization agency will
be attached directly to the Ma
tional Security Council, which is
composed of the President, Vice
President. Secretaries of State and
Defense and other top officials.
Chairman Symington of the
present National Security Re-
sources Board. probably will be
named to head the top mobiliza-
ton agency whether or not it is
attached to the Security Council.
In line for appointment as head
OF the new production board is
William H. Harrison, presently
head of the NPA.
A decision has not been made. it
was said, whether to remove the
Office of Defense Manpower from
the Labor Department and make
it semi-independent agency. But
high officials emphasized that the
work OF that Office in recruiting
workers for military production
and OF the Office of Selective Serv-
ice in handling the military draft
will be closely co-ordinated.
Advanced Discussion.
This work will be handled bv
an authority given the power to
see to it that manpower resources
are used where the greatest con-
trlbution to the defense effort can
be made.
Plans are not so far advanced
for the setting up of a new War
Labor Board. But there is ad-
vanced discussion of handling
(See DEFENSE. Page A-6.)
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BENNEIT z. MEYERS.
-AP Photo.
than he would if he had served
bis sentence.
The board pointed out that
Meyers would be allowed to deduct
one year, eight months and. IA
(See MEYERS, Page A-4)
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Canadian Unit in japan

TOKYO, Dec. 13 (P.-The
Princess Pat light battalion of
Canadians reached a Japanese
port today.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Are Your Dollars Here?
Number of calls to date-366.
Amount of telephone pledges S6371
Pledges from other sources--- 27674
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S34,O45
Still needed -------------S SS52,955
u. S. Plans to Clear Pentogon
Of Nerve Center Personnel

A Government official said
today that it is planned to move
from the Pentagon the nucleus
of personnel which forms the
nerve center of war.
Roger w. Jones, an assistant di-
rector of the Budget Bureau, said
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Government Likely to Leose Apartments
for Agency Offices. Poge B-l
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(see DEFENSE. Page A-e.)
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(See U. N, Page A-3D
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R e a d e ers

An Associated Press Newspor
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w e a ther Forecast

Mostly sunny with high about 30 this
afternoon. Fair tonight with low near 26
in city and % in suburbs Tomorrow
cloudy and cold. (Full report on Page A-2D
Midnight, 80 6 am. 25 IL am. ---35
am. 20 8 am 25 Noon IS
am. ---27 10 am. 80 1p.m. --38
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(See RAILS. Page A-3.)
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(see EMERGENCY, Page A-40
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Hollywood Diary
Wants Susun HAYWARD for African Film
BY SheiIoh Grohom

but the gal will have an exhibition
of them in New York next month.
Gladys is also a fine painter.
Mrs. Clark Gable spent a big
hunk of her British pounds when
she was in England recently-on
a big pile of diamonds.
The James Mascn picture.
Pandora and the Flying Dutch
man." is running into delays in
London because of Ava Gardner's
bullfighter admirer, Mario Cabre.
He is supposed to stab James in
a scene. but it took days to do be-
cause the bullf1ghter handled the
knife so badly.
And Miss Gardner is now blush
ing with humiliation. An English
newspaper has just revealed that
those publicized poems Mario
wrote to Ava at the time of Sina-
tra's visit to Madrid were the same
poems that he wrote to another
girl 10 years earlier! Mario simply
changed the names.
The Hedy Lamar break with
Herbie Klotz is not surprising
Hedy wants to give up her career
when she marries. which means
that the man should have many,
many dollars. Hertie is not that
well heeled.
Captain Andy" in "Showboat," )"
is still uncast. I suggest Louis
Calhern to Producer Arthur Freed
for the role made famous by
Charles Winninger. "Calhern is
too elegant" says Arthur, who
is thinking in terms of someone
like William Demarest. It's all
yours Bill!
II X r
Howard Keel and Kathryn
GraySon are the only two others
set for "Showboat." But Freed is
testing Dinah Shore next week.
He already has tested Peggy Lee.
George Sidney directs, and Rob-
ert Alton viii probably stage the
numbers,
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time of Showing

Ambassador-"The Great Jewe
Robber"; l, $50, $50 and 9:5(
pm.
Capitol-"Duchess of Idaho; II
am, LAS, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm
Stage shows: 1855, $40, 6:25 ano
9:10 pm.
Columbia-"Love That Brute;
II am, 1880, 2:40, 4:30, $40
8:l5 and 1905 pm.
Dupont-"D. o. AZ: 1875, $40
$40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Keith's - Winchester '73";
11:15 an, 1870, 3:25, $50, 7:3s
and 9:40 pm.
Little-"Nanook of the North;
11:20 am, las, 4:15, $40 and
9:15 pm.
Metropolitan - wake Island:
1885. 3:45, $50 and 1905 pm.
National-"The Big Hangover;
1l:20 am, 1:05, 2:50, 4:35, $40
8:05 and 10 pm.
Palace-''My Friend Irma Goes
West; 1925 am, 1880, 3:35, $40
745 and $50 pm.
Playhouse THE Woman OF
Dolwyn"; II am, 1885, 3:35, 5:35
7:40 and 9:40 pm.
Plaza-"Gigi"; II am, 12:45
2:30, AIS, 8, 1850, 9:35 and 11:2C
pm.
Trans-Lux-"Kind Hearts and
Coronets"; II am, 1880, 2:40
4:30, $40, $40 and 10 pm.
Warner - "The Great Jewel
Robber";; 10:45 am, 1875, 4:25,
1920 and 1910 pm.
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Will ~ D. Ol111I1SAId114, OA4C 4dAA1O
producer. Dillingham; was one o
those men about whom there j
q certain aura. He was mai
of great dignity and imposin
nien. His Office was large, taste
full and highly impressive. Tn
hike across 1t was sure to Subdu
any one with whom he had deal
ings, especially young songwriters
Mr.. Ruby was hardly prepared
in view of this. for what was II
store for him when he, Kalmal
and Playwright Guy Bolton wer'
summoned to the presence ont
day. Arriving a little early. Mr.
Ruby was ushered in. walked the
last mile and was rocked back or
his heels by the producers first
words.
"I don't suppose you are aware
of it," said the dignifled c. B., "but
I pitched the first curve ever
thrown with baseball"
X y X X
Mr.. Ruby, who is a strong-run-
ming candidate for the title OF
No. One Baseball Fan of all time
said he has learned better since,
but at the time he was not pre-
pared to argue. Dillingham; fol-
lowed up his statement about
pitching the first curve ball by
spending the next 40 minutes re-
pitching the entire game right
there In his Office.
by the time he retired, the last
man in the ninth, Kalmar and
Bolton had reached a boiling point
by cooling their heels in the outer
office. Bolton was muttering over
and over, dire imprecations on
the head of that so-and@o Ruby
whom he'd pegged for a double
crosser at their first meeting and
this proved it. He's in there ne
gotiating us right out of here. Mr.
Bolton maintained to Mr.. Kalmar
Things were explained salts
factorily later. but Ruby also
learned later how Kalmar and
Bolton felt at the time. One day
Ruby, the rabid baseball man,
and Kalmar, a rabid amateur ma
gician. were called to the Dilling-
ham Office to discuss new musi-
cal show. This time it was Kalmar
who was ushered in, with Ruby
left alone to worry over this Dill
lingham snub, until he learned
what happened.
What happened was that Kali
mar entered the imposing ONCE
and marched up to the desk. Dill
lingham whipped out his hand
kerchief.
"Show me just once again
Bert" he said, "how you do that
trick where you put the cigarette
out in the handkerchief and il
disappears"
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One moment in the lives oi
Kalmar and Ruby which is not tt
be found In Three Little Words
is the sort of thing that deserves
to have a sequel built around it
1t ought to be preserved some.
where. It occurred one summer
afternoon when the two were
busy with various New York shows
Kalmar was in town attending
to some contract business, while
Ruby. who had attached himself
to the New Rochelle Fire Depart
ment baseball team, was of ir
some suburban wild indulging In
his favorite pastime, playing Sec
ond base,
Suddenly Ruby heard, some
where off in the distance, the un-
Evening star., 1950-07-24

expected sound of a horse in full
gallop. He paid little attention
at first. but the thunder of hooves
grew rapidly closer. The New
Rochelle second baseman looked
around just in time to see the
horse cross centerfleld and pull ur
alongside him, reined in by Rider
Kalmar. He pulled some papers
from his pocket and held them
ouG TO Ruby.
Sign here" he ordered.
What are you ?" Ruby
began.
Don't ask questions" Kalmar
interrupted. Sign the papers. "
Ruby held them against the
horses side, borrowed his part
ner's pen, did as he was told and
handed the contracts back.
do you mean to tell me-" he
demanded, that you hired this
horse just to ride out here for a
gag like this?"
Hired it nothing" said Kali
mar. II bought it." He wheeled
and galloped away.
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Research Department: Realism
is q fine thing and a movie re-
viewer would be the lasWto COM
plain about 1t. When it pro-
crosses to disillusionment. though,
and old foundations are shaken,
well, maybe the movies are going
too far. DiSillusionment is the
only thing there is, too, In a
report at hand from Italy, where
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer is filming
"Quo Vadis," apparently without
the question mark which should
follow such q question as ''Where
are you going?" A couple of
dozen members Of a band which
plays for all important Roman
functions have been hired to i'm
personate the band Of ancient
Rome which accompanies Robert
Taylor in the military parade Sc
quences Of the picture. In the
dlm, they will not play their regu-
lar instruments. however. They
will play bagpipes.
The Scottish skirl Of the pipes,
1t was discovered by some bright
young man at MGM who coulN
have minded his own business, is
not Scottish at all. Bagpipes were
introduced to Scotland by Nero's
soldiers.
Evening star., 1950-07-24

William Bacher, producer OF
"Untamed," says the latest plans
are to film this best seller by
Helga Moray Originally titled
Katie Called Katje"), at the end
of this year. Bacher says Susan
Hayward is top choice for the title
role. Tay Garnett, formerly mar
ried to Helga, wants to direct. Sc
does Howard Hawks. The movie
will be made entirely in South
Africa. mostly in Capetown, Dun
dee, and the Drakensburg Noun
tains. Stewart Granger or John
Wayne will be the male lead
hopes Bacher, who shot a lot OF
the backgrounds in South Africa
on recent visit there. He told
me he paid Helga $4,000 for the
screen rights. She is now in Tur-
key writing another best seller
she hopes. The only thing that
could hold up production is If war
spreads.
Claudette Colbert, with her back
in a brace. is making the rounds
of televiSion studios. Claudette has
set her cap at a TV career-as a
director. But she will act in pic
lures again, when her ailing back
is cured.
Arlene Dahl has a romantic
rendezvous in New York. After her
trip to Minneapolis, Arlene flies to
Manhattan to meet Lex Barker,
He returns early in August from
Africa.
Fred AStaire will be teamed
with Vera-Ellen again in Belle
of New York" This was originally
planned for Judy Garland, but
there are no plans for Judy at
Metro. right now. Fred's picture
with Vera-Ellen won't 60 until the
spring. Fred needs a rest.
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Mrs. Edward G. Robinson.
Gladys, to the art world, took q
long look at Picasso's ceramics,
and she is not only doing likewise.
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Brahms and Jazz
Don't Clash Here
By fhe Assocjoied PYe,s
SNtSIOu Tt0So
HOLLYWOOD.

44SA44S4 Il VV\N&Ds
Judy Holiday is a Dixieland
fan, married to a long haired
musician. Out here to make a
picture, she explained that she
and her husband, David Open
helm, have two distinct record COL
lections in their New York home.
I'VE don't clash, though" she
said. I'VE have two soundproof
rooms in our Greenwich Village
apartment. and each has phono-
graph. When David wants to hear
Brahms, ! make my exit and put
a stack Of two-beat discs on the
machine in my own room. That
way we both keep happy"
Oppenheim is a clarir.etist with
recording and New York Civic
Opera Co. orchestras.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
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Drama News and Reviews
Dillingham; Was Dignified,
But UnpredictubIe, Too
By Harry Macarthur

Harry Ruby the songwer who with partner
Bert Kamar the biographical plot the forthcoming
Thee Little Words must have made things for the script
writer Ruby lived full happy life
talk about he did here last week. the anecdotes
In abundance
Evening star., 1950-07-24

No food shortages. The Presi-
dent has stated that neither food
shortages nor rationing are In
prospect, despite the fighting in
Korea. Don't hoard.
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Nurses Make TOYS
As Aids to Training
BY Stanley Baitz

IF THE nursing profession
i ever hits a slump, toy
making might take up the
slack for those nurses who
trained at Emergency Hos
pital.
With lumber and saw, glue
and wire, student nurses
there put together realistic
miniatures of orthopedic pa
tients In hospital beds.
No idle pastime Is this, no
hobby for girls who have
nothing better to do. 1t Is a
unique facet of their training
program. It was devised by
one of the instructors, Mrs.
Josephine Spain, to teach the
students better how to make
q patient comfortable.
Bone injury cases, usually
splinted and in traction,
demand a minimum of mo-
ton. That type Of patient
therefore is most likely to
suffer from bedsores and
other by-products Of immo-
bility. To acquaint them
selves with the best possible
body alignment In all types
of bone cases, the student
nurses study these miniatures.
To make sure they never for
get the lesson, they fashion
the sickbeds and appurte-
nances themselves.
Mrs. Spain got the idea
from a passing suggestion
made by one of her instruc-
tors when she was studying
orthopedics at Catholic Uni
versity. When she got to be
an instructor herself, she
decided to give the idea a try.
Two years ago, for the first
Evening star., 1950-08-27

time, q class of student nurses
at Emergency was assigned
miniature making projects.
The plan was deemed so sue
cessful that it has been en-
ployed since.
To each student Is given
the task of making up a tiny
model of a patient in some
type of cast or traction. The
patient" might have a
broken neck, a broken leg or
skull, or a congenital hip
deformity. If the project is
particularly complicated, two
girls are assigned to 1t.
The ingenuity the girls dis
play in improvising In this bit
of make-believe would do
credit to an Eagle Scout. For
traction weights, they use
washers and corks: pulleys
are made of sewing machine
bobbins and halved thread
spools; pillows and mat
tresses are made of felt; string
acts as rope and paper clips
serve as wire. One girl bent
a coathanger to make the
complicated Stryker frame
a type of bed used for para
plegic and severe burn cases
which sandwiches the patient
in so he can be turned over
every two hours. For the
rollers, she used the wheels
from her little brothers
broken toy automobile. The
actual litter part of the bed
involved much sewing and
stitching. Working in her
spare time, as do all the stu
dents, she completed this
difficult project in five weeks.
The doll patients don't get
Evening star., 1950-08-27

Mrs. Josephine Spoin,
who introduced the mok-
ing Of miniotures Of or
thopedic potients and gear
in her clinicoI course,
shows Student Nurse vir-
ginio Kemp how TO moke
ports for D bed.
phony casts, either. Broken
limbs are actually covered
with sheet wadding, felt, oil
silk and plaster of paris, even
as with real-life patients.
Their beds are equipped with
fracture boards and rubber
draw-sheets. and where 1t Is
necessary, the body is
steadied with miniature sand
bags and gauze "horseshoes"
are properly placed to prevent
pressure sores.
The only touch Of realism
that Is missing Is a hospital
bill for services rendered.
Evening star., 1950-11-01
Bv Doris FIeeson

HARTFORD, Con-, Nov. 1.-The
Connecticut campaign which be-
gan in carnival atmosphere with
Yale quartets, helicopters and
Evening star., 1950-11-01

for cats. What type Of cat do you
have? Is he Persian, Siamese, or
Angora? We like to keep the
breeds together, you know"
told him this was an alley
cat. The kind Of cat that's given
to you. The kind Of cat that no
one ever buys.
He seemed startled. but after
consideration said he could put up
the cat at the regular rate Of 81
q day.
So Duffy is in the pet shop. but
I can't get over paying two bucks
day to board an alley cat.
When I first came to New York
I boarded myself on much less
than that. and I didn't eat cat
food doing it.
But anything to get rid of Duffy.
I'd have gotten him a suite at
the Ambassador, If necessary.
Anything for a nights sleep.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, 1nc)
Evening star., 1950-11-01

our cat Duffy, to New York by
train, was my wife's. It's amaz-
ing how many such ideas wives
have. 7 told her that I had abso-
lutely no experience in transport
ing cats by train and, also. that
Duffy had never been on a train
in his life, and the chances were
that he would act accordingly.
Hell be as quiet as a mouse, ="
Jean said. "Just put him in the
wicker basket until the train
starts, and then turn him loose
in the bedroom"
I don't know what type Of
mouse she had in mind, but
am inclined to think she was
thinking Of a saber- r-toothed
mouse, with tusks, wicked claws,
and a tremendous, curiosity as to
what goes on in a train.
Porter Is Curious.
The porter who carried the
wicker basket caught on real
quick that there was something
alive in 1t.
His curiosity overcame him and
he put his face close to the grilled
opening. All he could see was an
enormous pair Of eyes.
What you got in there, Mister?
A 'coon?"
AS soon as the train started
rolling I let Duffy out Of the
basket and told the porter to
be sure that when he or the con-
ductor opened the door the cat
didn't sneak out in to the aisle.
Despite this precaution. Duffy
got out no fewer than ten times
on the trip. How Duffy managed
to get from car to car don't
know, because Pullman doors are
hard for me to open, but he met
me in the club car and in the
diner.
His entrance to the club car was
a trifle on the spectacular side. /
didn't see him come in, being as
I was engrossed in reading the
Hotel Guide, which trains are
always thoughtful enough to pro-
vide for their passengers. but
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fulness breaks Thomas L. Stokes.
out on the platform to make this
campaign a bitter and personal
one. Respected and outstanding
public figures have succumbed to
it In Incorporate diatribes which,
while familiar in campaign years
among many aspirants for office,
are not characteristic usually of
men Of their caliber.
This has. indeed, been a year
Of hard decisions for our people,
Of facing up to what appears to
be a long ordeal of sacrifices
Korea dramatized for all of us
finally the grim nature of the task
now confronting the free peoples
Of the world-of whom we have
assumed the leadership-in plug
ging up our defenses, military and
spiritual, against Soviet imperial
ism.
That is the overwhelming, all
encompassing issue of our time.
1t is natural, as we grid our
selves for this ordeal, that there
should be much looking back to
more normal times and much
yearning for their return, and
that people should be harassed
at least initially. at the prospect
of more sacrifice, more regimenta-
ton Of their lives and businesses
more required out of their in
comes for taxes, a continuing
draft Of young men from their
homes. In this sort of unhappy
mood there is a disposition to look
for targets at which to strike out
Election Offers Targets.
An election always offers them
So campaign orators on the
Republican side, taking Korea fol
a jumping-of place, dramatize II
as the sad end of a long series o1
mistakes-and there have, oil
course, been mistakes. They play
UP the fears Of Communism here
at home that have been intensi-
fled by spy revelations and the
persistent antics of Soviet Russia
in the world at large. In all o1
this there is the usual exaggera-
tion Of political campaigns, along
with doses Of unpleasant truth.
The Korean victory, it woult
seem, would tend to minimize tht
value Of such a campaign. But
Evening star., 1950-11-01
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. ALL
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER ],

heard one Of the finest feminine
shrieks of all time.
There was Duffy. squarely
astride a woman's head, meaowing
for all he was worth.
The only thing to do at a time
like that is display complete poise
So I walked to the woman and
said, Madam, as much as you
might want to wear my cat on top
of your head. I'll have to have
him."
So I scooped him up and re-
turned to the portable Black Hole
'of Calcutta. Bedroom A. Car
F-152.
Words fail me when I try to de-
scribe what Duffy did to me dur
ing the so-called sleeping hours.
He slept directly on my face. hold
ing on by fastening his claws into
my eyelids.
And he purred. just to show me
he didn't mean any harm.
Jean met me at Pennsylvania
Station and said that while our
apartment was being painted. she
thought we should leave Duffy at
a pet shop. I suggested the East
River.
Breeds Kept Together.
I called a pet shop and I'll swear
this Is what the man said:
Eyes, we have accommodations
Evening star., 1950-11-01
Campaign
Stakes in Connecticut Apparently
Too High for Initial Gaiety Pace

cans are responsible for floods o1
anonymous campaign literature
designed to appeal to religious
bigotry and other prejudicial emo
tions. This is especially directed
at Gov. Bowles. who is contro-
versial figure by reason of his OPA
and liberal associations.
Thomas j. Dodd, former prose.
cutor of the Nazi war criminals
is making speeches ikening the
Republican campaign to the big.
lie technique of the Nazis. He
charges also that Senator JOSEPH
Mccarthy was "bootlegged" into
the State by a front organization
to besmirch the Democratic candi.
dates. Senator McMahon was q
member of the Tydings Commit
tee and signed its report excoriat-
ing Mccarthy.
ADA Brought in.
Representative Lodge has keyed
his campaign to Gov. Bowles' dis
honest" failure to keep his cam
paign promises. He has also
launched q rather curious attack
on the Governor and Senator Nc
Mahon for belonging to Americans
for Democratic Action.
Gov. Bowles is confident that
the bread and butter" vote in the
State is solidly Democratic and
the final Democratic drive this
week is directed at getting it to
the polls.
The rural areas have not re-
ceived much attention in the cam
paign and are probably still safely
Republican. Labor has done its
best for the Democrats but with
a care and tact that would have
prof1ted them in Ohio.
This is one State where people
suggest that it may well be all
or nothing for one party.
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