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"TV" mi llf IN LAST EDITION POSSIBLY SHOWERS. Sunrise, 4:44. Sunset, TWENTY-SIX PAGES BY LOCAL CAnntER 12 A wrote I 25S entered i bcot5-c1 matter post-office, tndlanjelis, Ind. Iasued THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1934. THREE CENTS MAIL BY ZONES 7.0 TO II A MONTH WHOLI NO.

203 I nn rn rnro) in Lz3 i 1 XX JL AjT2l1 Jr. i BATTING PRACTICE CHANCELLOR HAS FUL CKE GUM SCHOOL OWER; PLEBISCITE SE UDES WOMAN AGAIN met DILLINGER'S BODY TO STAY IN GRAVE Father Decides Removal of Parts of Outlaw's Brain Was Not Mutilation. CONCRETE COVERS COFFIN Two and Half Tons Poured to Prevent Any Theft At )' rr our or -the CHURCH COLLAPSE TENSION IS EASED IN NEW ORLEANS OLD, NEW RULERS to ADOLF HITLER. i 1 A TAIJL VO.V HINDENBERC. With the death of Paul von Hindenburg, beloved German relch president.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumes the presidency through a special cabinet decree. ENTERS VALHALLA Mind of Hindenburg Wavers Only at Last of Valiant Battle to Live; Copyright, 1934, br th Axsoc)itd PrfM. NEUDECK, Germany, August 2. President Paul von Hindenburg, Germany's great field marshal, lies dead here today. To the man who had In his eighty-six years of life through every hell of war, death came qulety.

It slipped lnt the big yellow man sion on the hill of the estate Von Hindenburg loved so well. It was this mansion a grateful nation recently enlarged as a token of Its gratitude. At the bedside, when death came, were four physicians and members of Von Hindenburg' family, including his son, Colonel Oskar von Hin denburg. and two daughters. Frau Irimearde von Brockhuscn, and Frau Anna Marie von Bentz.

Physicians Give Up Hope. The physicians had done their best against a prostate gland; disorder and the infirmities of old age, but, at the last, all they could do was stand by, astonished the strong old heart could stand out against these complications for so long. They had given up hope early last night. All through the last few days the old man's mind had remained clear, but, at the very last, it wavered. Quiet attaches lowered the blue and white Hindenburg flag at the estate.

Their acttlon was the first intimation to the world the Sturdy Oak had withered. The news placed a pall of silence over this community and the re? Germany as well. The sorrow of the villagers was too deep for expres sion. They stood dumb. To the residents of Neudeck and of Continued on Tage Part 1 WARRIOR QUIETLY Mrs.

Clayton H. Ridge. East0 Side Parent-Teacher Work er, Committee Choice. FIVE NAMES ANNOUNCED Nonpartisan Croup Picks Candidates to Success Present Board Members. Candidates for the five positions on the Indianapolis school board who bear the Indorsement of the Citizens Kchool Committee, a nonpartisan group of citizens organfced to sponsor the election of qualified school commissioners in November, were announced at a luncheon meeting of the committee in the Hotel Lincoln Thursday.

The five candidates for whom the committee asks the support of all citizens interested in the welfare of the public schools axe: Mrs. Clayton II. Ridge, 27 South Denny street, active worker in Parent-Teacher groups. Carl Wilde, 3864 Guilford avenue, attorney. Alan W.

Boyd, 522 East street, attorney. Earl Buchanan. 1215 North King avenue, personnel manss'r of the National Malleable and Steel Casting Company. John F. Whit'.

1345 Lexington avenue, retired. By Subcommittee. The ticket was chosen by a subcommittee of the general Citizens School Committee after several weeks of inquiry into qualifications of persons known to have the interest cf schools at heart. The five candidates indorsed by the Citizens School Committee will ek election to the school board positions now held by the group of five school commissioners elected to the board in 1929 with the indorsement of the citizens group. The incumbent school commissioners were elected in the 1923 campaign of the citizens committee to rlcct school board members familiar with educational problems and free from political influence.

Election of the newly announced ticket will be fousht on the grounds of the record of the Incumbent board. Incumbent school board members are Mrs. J. Don Miller. Julian Wet-wl.

Russell Willson. Merle Sidener and Samuel E. Garrison. Announced at Meellnf. The ticket was announced at the luncheon-meeting by Herman C.

Wolff, chairman of the nominating subcommittee. fills motion for adoption of the committee report was seconded by William Mooney. Sr followed by the vote of members of the general committee formally indorsing the five candidacies. Edgar H. Evans, president of the citizens school committee, presided.

Mrs. Ridce, who is the second woman to be nominated for committee support, is the mother of two children, both of whom are graduates of Indianapolis public schools. She is recording secretary of the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers and past president of the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teachers Association. She also is active in the Woman's Department Club. Although listed technically as a Republican, Mrs.

Ridge Is known as an independent voter at the polls. Her husband is associated with the "Stokes pharmacy firm. Wilde is a member of the law firm of Cronk fc Wilde, He has two children attending Indianapolis public schools. lie is a Republican. Boyd also has two children and Is a member of the lae firm of Noel.

Hickam. Boyd and Armstrong. He is a Democrat. Former C'ouncilmen. The other two candidates, Buchanan and White.are former city roursrilmen, been appointed to the city council pending an election following the ouster of the John Duvall administration, Bichanan.

a Republican, has one child who is a graduate of the Indianapolis public schools and another entering George Washington Huh School this fall. White, a Democrat, was state representative from Marion county at the last session of the legislature. He formerly was in the laundry business and has been identified prominently with civic club work. He has three children, all of whom attended Indianapolis public schools. Nominating Committee.

Members cf the nomlnatice 'committee were Mrs. Logan Hughes, Fred Bates Johnson. Thomas D. Sheerin, Kenneth Hoy and Wolff. Educational equipment and understanding of problems of education were among the qualifications weighed by the nominating committee in its selection of the five candidates who were to bear the indorsement of the citizens group.

An attempt also was made to give representation to all geographical parts of the city and to different vocations. A ballot separate from the regular ballots bearing party emblems will be used for candidates for the school board in the fall election. This balloting procedure is in accordance with provisions of a state law that attempts to divorce politics from election of school board members FISHING BOAT WITH CREW OF FIVE MEN IS AGROUND GREEN BAY, August 2 AP.J Tiie lifty-nine-foot fishing boat Wisconsin, carrying a crew of five men, went aground in Green Bay off Ephraim, on the Door county peninsula, today. Reports ia the coastguard station aid it was not believed the boat was In immediate danger. I 1 I I Flags Over Reich at Half- Staff as Nation Mourns Beloved Leader.

CABINET REVOKES DECREE Nazis Now in Full Control c1t Government Future Plans Watched Closely. (Other Hindenburg news on. Pages 4 and 7. Tart Copyright 1934. bsTthT Associated Tms.

BERLIN, August 2.Presldcnt Paul von Hindenburg died today and within seven hours Chancellor Adolf Hitler had succeeded him and ordered nation-wide presidential plebiscite, to be held August 19. Also within that seven hours was formulated a new oath by which th reichswehr the standing army oX Germany will pledge its allegiance to Hitler. Von Hindenburg died in his eighty-seventh year In his country mansion at Neudeck, East Prussia. Almost simultaneous with the announcement of his death came the announcement that the offices of the chancellorship and the presidency had been merged. Army to Take New Oath.

Hitler Is both chancellor and president. Any doubts as to what position th reichswehr, long faithful to Von Hindenburg, might take were dispelled, at least temporarily, by Werner von Blomberg, minister of war, who announced the army would take a new; oath. 'It is expected to be administered within the next few days, The oath reads: "I swear by God this holy oath: That I shall be absolutely obedient to der (the leader) of the German reich and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme head of the army, and that I will be ready as a brave soldier to give my life for his oath." Burial at Neudeck. The ceremony of oath-taking will be followed by three cheers for th new supreme army commander whs is also the supreme commander nf the Nazi Storm Troops and their black, shlrted brethren, the Schutz Staffel and by the two German national anthems, "Deutschland Uber Alles and the "Horst Wessel Song," th latter a Nazi anthem. Funeral services for Von Hindenburg are to be held tomorrow at Tannenburg where he stopped the Russian advance in 1914 and he is to be burled Saturday at Neudeck.

thirty miles away, on the grounds of the estate where he riled. The president had been seriously 111 only since Sunday, rnysiclans have expressed amazement at his heart' stubborn resisttance to disease and the infirmities of age. Cabinet Prepared. When word came. Hitler and hi Nazi cabinet were prepared.

In a guarded session last night the cabinet adopted a decree revoking a law of 1832 under which the president of the supreme court would become interim president. When news of Von Hindenburg end was received, Paul Joseph Goeb-bels. propaganda minister, hurried to a microphone. He announced to the nation that the two offices of president and chancellor had beent merged. Hitler thus assumed absolute power over the third reich.

The lowering of the flag to half-staff at Neuderk told Germany and the world of the death it had expected. Germany went Into mourning, on the twentieth anniversary of Its conscription of troops for the world war. The new president of Germany ii expected to deliver the oration at tha funeral In Neudeck Saturday. In a telegram of condolence to the dead president's son. Colonel von Hindenburg, President Hitler recalled the fact he was on of t.h last persons to see Von Hinderburjf alive.

He called yesterday at the dying man's bedside after an airplsna trip from Berlin. The old man andl the man who was to be his successor shook hands. Hitler's telegram said the news of Von Hindenburg' death reached him "while still deeply moved by the minute, which will remain indelibly Impressed upon me throughout my life the minute I was privileged once more to see and speak to our field marshal and general." The cabinet admonished the German people to go Into general mourning. Flags will fly at half-staff front all public buildings and schools. Ships of the nation will accord the Continued on Tage 5, Part 1 'TIE IS DEAD" silence.

The sorrowing, solemn throngs had no heart for conversation. Just those three words: "He is dead!" Only three words, but what thev conveyed was shown by the taut faces. They meant not only the death ef Germany's grand old man. but als the beginning of a new Nazi epoch. me outcome or wnicn none could foresee.

First extra editions of Berl'n newspapers were devoted exclusively to Von Hindenburg. Columns told of his life as a soldier and a leader for peace. Latest bulletins on his condition shared space with pictures cf the Neudeck estate where he died. Eulogies of his character and anecdotes of his life were many. The news German had drcad-l since Sunday carne.

as the. towns people were on their way to work IVAN PODERJAY INDICTED IN NEW YORK FOR PERJURY NEW YORK. August 2 (A.P.) A New York county grand jury today returned an indictment charging Captain Ivan Poder Jay, husband of the missing Agnes Tufverson, New York and Detroit lawyer, with perjury. The Indictment was based on a charge that when he married Miss Tufverson last December, Poderjay swore falsely to the marriage license application. A complaint filed by Selma Tufverson, sister of the missing woman, alleged she had definite proof of a prior marriage of Poderjay, on March 22.

1933, in England to Mile. Liza una Ferrand. Miss Tufverson haa been missing since December 20, sixteen days after her marriage. SEWER PLANT GRANTED CITY Indianapolis Gets $126,000 for Building Disposal Unit Extension. The Indianapolis New Bureau, 60S Albee Building.

WASHINGTON, August 2. Indianapolis today received a grant of $126,000 from the public works administration for construction of sewage disposal plant extension. The estimated cost of the project is $436,400, and today's allotment is to cover 30 per cent, of the cost of labor and materials. The project will employ 465 men for six months. winter the PWA allotted a loan and grant of $335,000 to the Indianapolis sanitary district for this work, but May 9, by order of Harold L.

Ickes, administrator, the fund was withdrawn at the request of city authorities. This was done so the application could be revised and made into a request for a grant instead. The allotment today is the result of the revised request from Indianapolis. Efforts of the city board of sanitary commissioners to obtain money for Improvement of the sewage disposal and garbage reduction plants have had the support of the Chamber of Commerce. Addition to the disposal plant and acquisition ofnew garbage digesters are the improvements badly needed in order to maintain an adequate sanitary system for the city, according to officials of the sanitary board.

Speed in obtaining PWA money to provide additional garbage reduction and sewage disposal plant equipment has teen stressed by William H. Book, executive vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. The PWA also Increased an allotment to Aurora, for construction of a high school building. The original grant of $26,000 was increased to $32,400 because construction bids received show the cost will be more than original estimates on which the allotment was made, PWA officials said. FREAK TORNADO INJURES VACATIONISTS AT RESORT BALTIMORE, August 2 (A.P.) A freak tornado today struck.

Hickory point, a summer colony near here, wrecked half a dozen houses, Injured approximately a dozen persons and burled a number of vacationists under a mass of debris. The twister, which struck without warning, was preceded by a huge wave which swept up Gray's creek. Residents said It was "ten feet high and 100 yards long. Accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain, the twister swept across the colony and cut a rough swath along the wooded banks of Gray's creek. The wind blew with terrific force for about five minutes.

Residents said "it seemed like an hour to us." DISPOSAL PLANT AWARD WINS APPROVAL IN CITY Pleasure was expressed by Louis J. Borinstein, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Trnirsdiy, on receiving word that the public aorks administration had given Indianapolis a grant for work on the city sewage disposal and garbage reduction plant. "The Chamber of Commerce is very much gratified to hear that the government has approved the grant," Borinstein said. "The chamber has high hopes that bonds for this project can be sold while work toward getting the second grant for the garbage plant goes ahead. -They are two fine projects for fall and winter The city and its people need them, badly.

BOY RELEASES BRAKE: CAR INJURES MOTHER Releasing the emergency brake while his mother was attempting to crank their automobile, Arthur 'Price, age ten, 2144 North Temple avenue, unwittingly caused her to be injured Thursday, The car rolled forward and ran over Mrs. Violet Price, Injuring her leg and chest. She was taken to the City Hospital. The accident occurred In the 3100 block in Phipps street. Teddy Rich, age four, 1501 Gim-ber street, suffered a broken arm and bruises when he ran in front of an automobile in the 400 block in West Merrill street.

He was sent to the City Hospital. A 1 tempt by Ghouls. Beeiding there, had been no malicious intent on the part of Cook county (Chicago) authorities In removing parts of John DH1-inger's brain, the father of the outlaw Thursday issued a formal statement asserting the body would not he exhumed. "I now realize that the parts were removed for scientific pur poses as a possible aid to mankind, the eider Dillinger said. "Because of this fact I will not institute any proceedings against Cook county authorities, and the body will not be removed from its grave.

"When 1 first learned that cer tain parts of the body had not been replaced I was rather indignant, but I have given" te matter considerable thought. The statement wa released through his attorney, Samuel Mantel. If John Dillinger's body is ex humed from its grave in Crown Hil cemetery, it will be necessary to re move two tons of concrete now cov ering the coffin. The Dillinger family had ordered concrete placed on the coffin after it was reported attempts might be made by ghouls to steal the body But when, word was received that Dillinger's brain may have been re placed with plaster of paris, shortly after his death, the elder Dillinger obtained a permit to have the body disinterred. Word then was sent to Crown Hill cancelling the order for the concrete work, but it was too late.

By the time Instructions reached workers, the last of the concrete had been poured and the grave had been sealed again. An official of the Continued on rare 5, Part 1 DILLINGER'S STRAW HAT, GUN, IN 'CRIME MORGUE' WASHINGTON. August, 2 (UJE.) John Dillinger's bloodstained straw hat, his gun, and the girl's picture he had in his watch when shot down, now are part of the grewsome "crime morgue." at the Justice department. The Dillinger relics first were placed in a glass case in the anteroom of the office of J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the bureau of in-.

vestigation. So many employes took time off to Inspect the new display that Hoover moved It to his Inner office. Dillinger's use of a "dummy'' gun to escape from an Indiana jail has resultei in no end of trouble for various prison officials. One convict In a federal prison was found recently with an imitation automatic fashioned out of Iron piping. even had regulation sights on It.

He had been working in the machine shop of the penitentiary. FATE OF GE Officials Send Condolences, but Situation Is Viewed as Dangerous. PARIS, August 2 (A.P.) France sent her condolences to Germany today for the death of President Paul Von Hindenburg, whose passing May mean much to this country. President Albert Lebrun and Pre mier Gaston Doumergue telegraphed Chancellor Adolf Hitler expressions of sympathy. Louis Barthou, foreign minister, sent a message to Konstantin von Neurath, German foreign minister.

Doumergue and Barthou sent aids to the German embassy here to deliver personal condolences on the death of the marshal, who directed German troops in an advance Into France in the world war. The news was received by Barthou Continued on Page 5, Part 1 englaIgrieves at news of death Apprehension Also Manifest in Official Circles Over German Future. LONDON, August 2 CA.P.) Sincere grief and considerable apprehension over the political future of Germany was manifest in British government circles today after the death ol President Paul von Hindenburg. Even In the world war years, when the so-called "Hindenburg pillboxes" on the Belgian coast menaced England, all Britons held the German military leader In great respect. Since then he has been regarded a3 the chief stabilizing force for both republican and Hitlerite Germany.

The news that Chancellor Adolf Hitler had taken over the presidency as well as the chancellorship came as no surprise to official quarters here. Continued en Tare 7, Part 1 MANY ON FRANC TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL SHOT TO DEATH IN TOURIST CAMP HOT SPRINGS, August 2 (A.P.) Ten-year-old Bernice Hoffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J.

Hoffman, of Beaumont, Was shot and fatally wounded at a tourist camp near here today by an unidentified prowler who attempted to enter the cabin occupied by the Hoff-mans. PICKETS ACTIVE AT MINNEAPOLIS Beat Truck Drivers, Causing Damage and Injuries Guardsmen Remain. MINNEAPOLIS, August 2 Immediate termination of the truck drivers strike was proposed today by the employers advisory committee, which recommended a wage scale of 59 cents an hour for drivers and 40'cents an hour for all other workers' In certain classifications. MINNEAPOLIS, August 2 (A.P.) Renewed activity by pickets caused further damage and minor Injuries today as a handful of national guardsmen remained In the city in the truck drivers strike. Several drivers were beaten, trucks disabled and overturned and merchandise scattered by the strikers as squads of guards answered repeated calls for aid.

No arrests were made. The minor disturbances contrasted with the word of strike leaders that they would behave, given Governor Floyd last night when he announced he would have a statement today on the trike situation. He refused then to divulge whether it would deal with the lifting of martial rule. The Governor, however, armed with the right of his office and the might of the national guard, was looked to for the answer as peacemakers pushed new terms for settlement of the strike, which has cost two lives. The guard had been withdrawn from strike headquarters and pickets once more occupied the building, after promising to behave.

The action was approved by the Governor, who announced he would issue a statement later. Eighteen of fifty-three men placed under military arrest were freed last night for lack of evidence. Raiding guardsmen seized the strikers' headquarters at dawn yesterday. Trouble Brews in Yard Strike, CHICAGO, August 2 (AJP.) Trouble brewed today in the Chicago stockyards strike, a comparatively peaceful affair so far. Commission merchants.

Irked by the failure of all attempts to settle the walkout of 00 stock handlers, indicated they would act immediately to resume trading. Since the handlers quit work eight days ago In a demand for better pay and working conditions, the commission men have accepted no shipments of commercial stock for sale at the yards. The resultant inactivity has been a preventive of possible violence. Federal conciliators met with union representatives and company officials yesterday, but neither side would yield from its position. Another conference was planned for today, Carl Steffensen, executive secretary of the NRA regional labor board, announced, but commission men were reported planning to resume trading, rrsardless of the outcome of the conference.

imp ii Two Caught Under Roof Framework of Buildinj Erected in 1 845. Collapse of roof framework on the old abandoned English Lutheran church at New York and Alabama streets, one of the landmarks of the city, Thursday, resulted in the serious injury of two workmen. Grant Ashfprd, age forty-six, 628 Colton street, and Bud Brown, age fifty-nine, 1412 Yandes street, both colored, were pinned under the falling timbers on the second floor of the building after they fell twenty-three feet. They were injured se-riosuly. The building, which was constructed in 1845.

was being razed by the city and FERA workmen to remove a fire hazard. The men were on the framework, consisting of huge tim bers Joined together with mortices and pegs. A wedge was knocked out between two beams and a moment later the men and the timbers plunged to the second floor. Morford Jordan, age forty, 127 West Fifteenth street, and Ed Anderson, age forty-two, rear 910 North Capitol avenue, both colored, leaped to side wall and escaped injury. Firemen from the engine house across the street from the church ran to the rescue of the men caught beneath the debria.

Police also investigated and sent the injured men to the City Hospital. It was said they probably would recover. ADMIT GUILT IN Three Men Bound Over to Lagrange Court for Killing Showman. LAGRANGE, August 2 (SpU James Manuel, John Gordon ahd James Garet, all colored, today pleaded guilty to murder in a justice of the peace court here. They are charged with shooting to death Anthony Larusso, age twenty-six, white, last Saturday, on a Ringling Bros, and Barnum Bailey circus train.

The shooting occurred at Howe, Lagrange county. The three men were bound over to circuit court and are held without bail. Theodore Coleman, colored, is held as a material witness. PRESIDENT'S BOAT SAILS ALONG COAST OF OREGON ABOARD THE CRUISER NEW ORLEANS, EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO ASTORIA, August 2 (AJP.) President Roosevelt sailed along the shores of the United States today, home from an epochal voyage to American territories. The cruisers Houston and New Orleans crept slowly along the Oregon coast t-nd pointed for a swing into the Columbia river, the water avenue of the Pacific northwest.

Refreshed by a month at sea and satisfied with the status of the American ocean outposts, Roosevelt was eager to go over his own continental soil again. His trunks were packed full of reports and data. IM II IDCC muiLu ii CIRCUS MURDER Long and Wamsley Forces Are Still Armed Governor Orders Raid. NEW ORLEANS. August 2 A.F.) Carrying on Senator Huey P.

Long's take over the tax authority In i the eity of New Orleans, the state today appointed tax assessors throughout the eity to supersede the assessor elected by the city last January. NEW ORLEANS, August 2 (A.P.) More men and arms were hurried today to defend city offices against the national guard "commanded" by Senator Huey Long, whom Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley accuses of trying to seize the city's police power. Long made a show of disbanding his 500 guardsmen, mobilized on the edge of the city, and tension in the "war" over the approehing congressional primary eased somewhat. Mayor Walmsley's police force, raised to 1,400 since he added 500 new men, was armed to the teeth.

The bitter struggle between the Louisiana Klngflsh. dictator of state affairs, and Walmsley, leader of the city forces, took a new turn as Governor O. K. Allen ordered guardsmen to search out the city's red light district and gambling dives "without the use of any force, unless otherwise ordered by me hereafter." Mayor Walmsley said the "moral crusade" was just a "smoke screen Continued on Page Part 1 ORESSLER ESTATE MAY BE 5300,000 Actual Value Not Set Out in Will Servants, Friends, Sister Get Bequests. LOS ANGELES, August 2 (A.P.) The actual value of the estate of Marie Dressier, actress, filed for probate today was not given, but was estimated to be at least $300,000.

Mamie Cox. colored maid who was in Miss Dressler's service for a quarter of a century, is to receive and all the wearing apparel. Jerry Cox, the maid's husband and chauffeur and houseman for the screen star, will get $15,000 and her automobiles. Alan B. Walker, a friend of long standing, who, with Mrs.

Walker, was at the bedside when Miss Dressier died last Saturday In Santa Barbara, was named executor of the estate without bond. The actress requested them to live in her Beverly Hills home until it is sold, and Mr. and Mrs. Cox are to continue as servants there until the sale, receiving their regular salaries until the estate settled. Forestalls Importers.

As a precaution against impost errs who might attempt to claim a share of her estate, and against relatives she did not wish to remember. Miss Dressier stated In her will, dated In May, 1934, that she disinherited all persons who might lawfully be determined as heirs-at-Iaw, those she named in the will excepted. Mrs. Robert Morris Phillips, New York society woman and intimate friend of the actress, is to receive a diamond bracelet; Nella Webb, as- Contlnaed en rage 5, Tart 1 GERMANS SHOW SORROW WITH JUST BERLIN; August 2 fAJP.) Three words plunged Germany into the deepest of sorrow and mourning today. "He is dead!" That was all that thousands cculd say.

First news of President Paul von Hindenburg's passing reached most Berlin residents through the immediate half -staffing of flags on government buildings. Solemn groups congregated on street corners. Large crowds be-seiged newspaper offices where before extra editions could be issued telegrams announced the president's death. Then came the radio an nouncement, the news spoken so skvly. the voice so full of Import, that the sorrow was brought home new to listeners.

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