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TODAY By ARTHUR BRISBANE Socialist in Office New Deal Complete Religious War in Mexico Senator Norris' Idea (Copyright. 1934) DODGE CITY, May 22. A MEBICANS, old fashioned, sur prised to find old proiessea so cialists selectee by the government to supervise and criticize plans for industrial recovery, may find com fort in Europe. Socialism has become, in many places, an important part of the world's political machinery, and without serious damage to what Russia calls "capitalism." Ramsay MacDonald, formerly a worker in the British mines, now Prime Minister, is a Socialist, al ways has been. In his cabinet, working with him harmoniously, are some of the most conservative men in England, including old school tories.

Socialists have been prominent in the French government for years. even "extreme Socialists." Old Clemenceau himself, the tiger who kept Germany out ot France and sent the Kaiser to Holland, was a Socialist, enemy of aristocracy and the church. It was his hostility to the church that prevented him being chosen president of the French republic after the big war. Socialists, like others who believe they could make the world over and better, often find when power comes that the world is doing about as well as it can and that the wise plan is to go along with it. PROFESSOR RAYMOND MOLEY, who ought to know what is what, in the new era writes: "With the passage of the stock exchange bill, the New Deal is practically complete.

There is nothing that the President or any responsible member of the administration has said to indicate that any important further development of government authority is contemplated. This will be reassuring not only to business, but to the vast masses of people who do not want democracy to undertake too much. "The probhm now is om of administration. It is the practical business of operating the structure that has now been built. That means a problem of getting men to do it, for good men make good ad ministration." "The vast masses who do not want democracy to undertake too much" will feel that democracy has undertaken a good deal, if it really means to have business and all its details supervised, managed and controlled by the government.

Passage of the stock market bill means simply an effort to regulate gambling in one form. Men that want to gamble will find other ways to do what they want to do, including stock speculation. You can make laws, but you can't change human beings, as prohibitionists found out, and when you try to change human nature by force you make it worse, usually. Just what government has accomplished, what effects it will produce, and how long they will last, the people, and the government itself, do not yet know Anything done suddenly apart from the regular growth of defec tive human beings staggering up toward civilization does not last long usually. PLATO could write his "Republic," Moore his "Utopia," and we can write our "codes" and our good resolutions.

But civilization grows. It is not made to order. When a hen sits on an egg, if all goes well, you will see a chicken. Talking to that hen or the egg about the superior qualities of an eagle will make no difference. This passing phase of civilization will hatch out the egg on which it is sitting, just as the dinosaur's egg was hatched and the egg of the roc, and the dodo, and all vanished in time.

MEXICO witnesses the beginning of another war against the Catholic church, in the important State of Sonora. The governor. Rodolfo Elias Calles, has ordered every church in Sonora closed and gives the priests 12 hours to leave y. Already religious services had 'been reduced to an absolute minimum. Governor Calles, of Sonora, is the son of P.

Elias Calles, who years ago closed churches in many places in Mexico. The overwhelming mass of Mexico's population is deeply religious and Catholic. It is also an overwhelming population of Indian blood. What the results of an imitation of the Russian effort to extirpate religious will produce with a population similar to that of Mejtico remains to be seen. SENATOR NORRIS, of Nebraska, who wants Presidents of the United States elected directly, by popular vote, would eliminate the Electoral College, sees his bill beaten by two votes.

He will introduce it again and carry it. With such elections, Nebraska, and other states of moderate population, may later lose their Importance in Presidential elections, just as they would lose power in the senate if senators were elected by popular vote throughout the country. The present arrangement of two senators for every, state, no matter how small, gives each state COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS AND UNIVERSAL TELEGRAPH AND CABLE SERVICE The People's Newspaper Weather Forecast By U. S. Weather Bnrcaa Fair todmjr and probably tomorrow; cooler today.

Yesterday' Temperature High, 83, 3 p. lew, 64, 4 p. m. Complete Weathet Statistics on Pint Page. Second Section.

This Newt paper Expraeeee ite Own Opinion On Public Affaire, and Invitee the Opiniont at He Readere an Current Tapiee Volume 76, No. 71 Whole iNo. 23,473 193 4 Published Every Morning Except Sunday. Entered second class natter at the Post Oflice at Beading, Pa, under the Act of March, 1I7. 3 Cents a Copy, 43 ti WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 25 PERCENT BASE OF SILVER URGED BY ROOSEVELT President's Message Asks 50 Percent Tax On Speculators SENATE GETS BILL Borah and Huey Long In Heated Protest, But Passage Is Predicted (Universal Service) WASHINGTON, May 22 President Roosevelt in a special message today called upon congress to pass a bill which will ultimately establish U.

S. currency on a 25 percent silver and a 75 percent gold base. As it was placed before the senate and house critical silver iteg riddled it as "too conservative." Administration leaders gave it approval but throughout the senate silver bloc there was an undercurrent of bitter disappointment. The President's program contemplates not only a 25 percent silver base to currency, but nationalization of all silver stocks "should circumstances require." The measure, however, would limit authority to purchase silver at not more than 50 cents an ounce. Furthermore the silver certificates issued would be based on the actual price paid for the silver.

This did not meet with the re flationary expectations of the silver bloc, and with the ink scarce dry on its pages, the President's mes sage was received with a distinct chill in the senate. There was one surprise. Mr. Roosevelt revealed in the message he already has begun conversations with foreign nations with a view to securing international agreement to use both gold and silver to back currencies. Pittman Introduces Bill As the message was being scan ned by senators, the administra tion's bill was introduced by Sena tor Pittman Nev.) he stoutly championed it as adequate and satisfactory over the mutterings of his silver colleagues.

The bill was offered as a substi tute for the Dies bill, already before the senate. Thus the measure doos not have to be referred to committee. Huey Attacks Bill Senator Long, (D La.) in a savage attack on the measure declared it was a "hearse" and a subterfuge for "worthwhile" silver legislation. As he demanded the bill be drastically rewritten by amendments, he tore up a copy and hurled the pieces to the floor. Pittman, however, continued to laud the bill, unperturbed.

Senator Borah long champion for broad silver legislation declared. "The bill is not what we want and what we must have1." Senator Thomas (D Okla.) an other staunch silverite, said the administration bill falls far short of what is needed. (Turn to Page Fifteen) GASOLINE PRICES BOOSTED AGAIN Gasoline is on the up and up. Prices went up a half cent more gallon yesterday morning. Motorists must now pay 17 i cents for regular gasoline, and 19'i for high test, including a three cent state tax and a one cent federal tax.

On May 9 the price was raised a half cent also. I. 1 1 i Dr. Taylor's Case Surprises Elmer But Not Sen. Erickson's Snooze By ELMER PICKNEY You coulda knocked me down with a feather bed when I read how it came about that Dr.

George W. Taylor quit hosiery arbitration in this here bailiwick colder than a Siberian wolfhound's schnozzle. If you'd have told me that three of the Berks bench called in George Gross for a fourth hand at a rubber of bridge, I wouldn't been more surprised. It just goes to show that there Is something new under the sun, despite what was said by Old King Sol, the famous card sharp. He never was without a flock of queens.

Mebbe Sol knew what he was talking about in his day and night though how he ever got a chance to talk at all, considering the competition he surrounded himself with, is as far beyond me as relativity, or opening up a can of with the little key that comes with it, or remembering who is the other senator from Idaho. Everybody of course knows that Bill Borah is one of Idaho's two, but does everyone know what he's all hot and bothered about? A day or two ago, Borah said if we don't look out we'll have a dictator in these, the U. S. of NRA, PWA, CWA, and the Northeastern Republican League. This Is no time to sleep on our rights, Borah said, giving a sly dig, no doubt, to Senator Erickson of Montana who BEST Of LEADERS AT READING HIGH nBl Asp Li IP I 1 1 01 John P.

Lozo, principal of the Reading High school, is congratulating Miss Marion Heck, 16, of 1502 N. Twelfth shortly after she was named valedictorian of the 1934 June class yesterday. Miss Margaret' Adams, 17, of Esterly, who was named salutatorian, is standing smilingly by. The scholastic race was one of the most closely contested in the history of the school, but nine tenths of a point separating the nine honor students. And who was it said, "Beautiful, but dumb?" Of the nine honor students, six were girls.

Times Staff Photo. (Story on page 3.) START WORK ON PAGODA BOBBLES Corps of Men Repair Damage By Frost and Spring Thaw You won't bobble any more; you'll glide. That, at least was the promise Yocom yesterday Penn driveways have been corn of Councilman concerning Mt. which motorists plaining about for some weeks. "It's true that the mountain drives, especialy the main road to the Pagoda, have been in a pretty deplorable position "this spring Yocom said.

"The hard winter and the frost played havoc with the highways on the hill. However, we have now got the situation under control. Mr. Hoch, the park en gineer, has had a corps of men re pairing the ruts and chuckholes with cold patch. The work ought to be finished within a few days." Yocom said the chuckholes which have annoyed motorists ever since the mountain driveways have been clear of snow, were caused by heavy frost getting under the surface of the roadbed and "lifting" out huge chunks of macadamized material, which was ground up by auto mobiles and washed away by heavy rains.

SERB WORKERS TO DRAW $30,000 State emergency relief board checks for the week ending today will total approximately $30,000, Warren W. Kochel, assistant disbursing officer, announced yesterday. Kochel said the checks will go to 2,500 men erv jged on 72 projects. Last week ypll totalled $26,724, going to men on 65 projects. With a balance of $47,000, Kochel declared SERB work will continue next week, even if another appro priation is not forthcoming from Harrisburg.

Kcel sent his weekly report to He isburg officials yes terday and included an estimate of the funds needed to carry on the work in Berks for the balance of the month. took a snooze while presiding temporarily over the senate the other day. The question, of course, is whether Erickson fell asleep accidentally or whether he did it on purpose. If it was an accident, Erickson should be considered merely lucky. If it was deliberately done, he should bj congratulated.

Anyhow, Borah warned we will have dictator if we don't look out. Ye shads and little fishes, can it be that J. Pierp Morgan is going to run the government again? Morgan hasn't been in the public eye much since the midget sat on his lap. That was a circus stunt, but it wasn't any stunt pulled by my old friend, Dexter Fellowes, from Ringling's. Dexter couldn't be guilty of such a fox paw.

The very idea a midget sitting on Morgan bah! Now if Morgan had been made to sit on the midget's lap ah, that's different. Be that as it may, the reason for Doctor Taylor's resignation couldn't have been stranger than some of the husbands fleeing from a big apartment house fire. For years and years, and even before that, it had been the custom for hosiery bosses and hosiery workers to dig into each other. But lo, and behold! When Dr. Taylor wanted to give the workers the needles, did the bosses cheer? No, they told him to go to you know Quick Action Saves Wife, Caught by Hair in Shaft Schuylkill Ave.

Shoe Repairman Turns Off Power, Gives First Aid While Child Calls Ambulance Whirring wheels of a shoe repair i working at the other end of the mat nine caught the hair of Mrs.j line of revolving wheels. Frances Marzari, 42, of 436 Schuyl KrTwS kill yesterday and only swift jpcred from ncr cot ln the nospital action by her husband, Joseph, who last night. "My hair was down. I switched off the power when he was going to comb it. When I bent heard her screams, averted a fatal: 'er ach for the comb a breeze injury, physicians at St.

Joseph's hospital said laetvnight. 1 Mrs. Marzari, her scalp badly torn, suffered intense pain but will recover, they added. Mrs. Marzari said she had gone to the shop in the front room of their home to get a comb lying on the machine.

Her husband was ADMITS HE MAILED POISON LIQUOR TO 7 Wanted to Get Even with Lodge Member OAKLAND, May 22 JP) The Oakland Tribune said today that Arthur J. Cleu, 40, a printer, confessed at Ukiah, in the presence cf Police Inspectors James Goodnight and L. M. Jewell that he had sent poisoned liquor through the mails to seven members of the Native Sons of the Golden West. The Tribune said Cleti admitted he sent the poisoned liquor as a climax to a series of strange notes signed "The Owl," because of a feud which arose a year ago when he had a dispute with Joe Levy, a member of the lodge.

A year ago Cleu "beat up" Levy, the paper said, becaufe he charged Levy had "insulted" his friends. Cleu told officers, the Tribune stated, that he found the poison on the floor of an engraving plant, and had informed a friend he wanted "to kill some skunks." He said he took a large chunk of the poison and shaved it into the bottles of whisky, which he then mailed to seven lodge members. He also mailed himself a bottle, he stated. ANSWER TO GROSS DELAYED BY COURT Scheduled, to be handed down yesterday, a court decision on the petition of George' J. Gross for an inquiry by the bench into the good faith of a request for a new trial for James A.

Reedy, convicted of fraudulent conversion, will hold over at least until today. The court gave no reason for the delay nor was notice served on Gross when he might expect a de cision. Gross, who was disbarred for contempt of court last Thursday, involved laymen and attorneys in his petition, charging that an effort was made to "whitewash" the Reedy case. Reedy was subsequently refused a new trial and will be called for sentence Saturday. ELECTORAL CHANGE AGAIN DEFEATED WASHINGTON, May 22 (US) second attempt in two days by Senator Norris to have the senate adopt a resolution call ing for a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college failed today.

The vote was 52 for the resolution and 29 against, two votes short of the two thirds majority necessary for passage. The resolu tion also failed by two votes blew wheel. "It so quickly I couldn't do anything. The pain was terrible, and I screamed." Marzari, hearing his wife's cries, threw the switch instantly. Quickly he disentangled her hair and stemmed the flow of blood as best he could while one of his six children summoned the Junior ambu lance.

WATER TANK PLUNGES INTO BUILDING, 5 DEAD Forty Women Narrowly Escape Death CHICAGO, May 22, () Five men died as a tank of water, 40,000 gallons large, crashed through five floors of a west side office building today. Its moorings loosened presumably by last night's high winds, the wooden tank burst through the rcof of the seven floor Oakley building and forced its way down to the sec ond floor. Forty women dressmakers on the top floor, luckily taking a rest period, screamed and dashed for fire escapes as the tank fell upon their machines. On tore the tank, making 20 foot holes in all floors and taking heavy machinery with it. Those who escaped said the building waved as if in the grip of an earthquake.

Police searched the debris for other possible casualties while eight persons were treated for severe juries. TO QUIZ SUSPECT IN GIRL KIDNAPING TUCSON, May 22, Joe Newton, arrested here tonight on a felony warrant charging: him with robbery of an Oklahoma City bank, is to be questioned, it was understood from authoritative sources. In connection with the kidnaping of six year old June Robles. Newton, It was understood, has been under surveilance for some time. Arrival of the felony war rant was seized upon by Tucson authorities as an opportunity to question him about the abduction.

BERKS FARMERS GET U. S. CASH The Federal Farm Adjustment Administration announced yesterday at Washington that It had spent $764,682 in Pennsylvania during April, $662,275 going for the reduction of wheat and tobacco acreage and the balance for administrative costs. Of this amount, Berks county receives a total of $9,521 wheat acreage reduction, $8,950, and tobacco, $971. Tobacco farmers received a total of $476,280 All but about $49.

000 of this amount was disbursed in Lancaster county. FORMER SENATOR DIES MISSOULA, May 22 Joseph M. Dixon, former governor, United States senator, and assistant secretary of the interior in the Hoover administration, died here tonight. He had been ill since his return from a year ago. 1 KILLED, 45 HURT AS STRIKERS RIOT IN MINNEAPOLIS 5,000 Truck Driver Pickets Batter Police In Market Area VOLUNTEER COP SLAIN Infuriated When Non Union Men Attempt to Operate Motors MINNEAPOLIS, May 22 (JP) Death of a businessman blotted the week lonfj; truck drivers' strike today as some 5,000 persons rioted in the city market place whence screeching ambulances, amid jeers of the throng, rushed at least 45 persons, some seriously injured, to hospitals.

Pandemonium raged for a time and blood stained the market area at noon before wcrd that a truce had been declared, shouted by Walter Frank, official of the Central Labor Union, snuffed out the anger of the crowd, fanned to flame at the sight of special policemen with riot guns. As Gov. Floyd B. Olson and law enforcement officers of city and county met to consider the situation, C. Arthur Lyman, vice president and general manager of the American Ball company, a volunteer guard, lay dead in General hospital, victim of the surging mob that wrested control of the restricted market area from the police.

Occupation of the market area, two blocks from the heart of the city, was achieved by the mob at the cost of injuries to 45 persons, 31 of them special policemen. Rush Police Lines Improvised weapons, clubs, hose crammed with iron bolts, and shotguns, pistols and sticks studded the throng of policemen, strikers and sympathizers as the crowd grew steadily larger. By noon the mob had swelled to 5,000. Suddenly a wedge of strikers rushed the police The bliiecoa ts gave way and a wave of shouting, jeering, humanity waving clubs and lengths of pipe, surged into the market place. It was somewhere in the center of the outbreak that Lyman suffered his fatal injury, a skull fracture.

Police Are Beaten Near him, special policemen were seized, held and beaten. Some ripped off their badges and gave them to the strikers. Others, fleeing in desperation, were clubbed down. Rioting broke out today when trucks manned by non union drivers attempted to drive through the cordon maintained by the pickets. DILLINGER NAMED IN $50,000 SUIT TUCSON, May 22 (US) John Dillinger is wanted in Tucson again.

The sheriff's office, which held the desperado and his gang here some month ago, today held a subpoena on Dillinger to have him appear as a witness in a $50,000 damage suit growing out of the murder of Jess Sarber, former sheriff of Allen county, when Dillinger was liberated by his gang October 12. Defendants in the suit are Dillinger, Russell Clark, Charley Mak ley and Harry Pierpont. Lucy A. Sarber, widow of the sheriff, seeks judgment in Pima county against the $35,000 and three automobiles left here by the Dillinger mob. The subpoena commands Dilr linger to "lay aside all business and appear at court on May 23 and fail not under penalty of the law." ARREST COP, GIRL IN PHILA.

HOLDUP PHILADELPHIA, May 22 (JP) Philadelphia policeman and a 20 year old blond girl were arrested today in connection with an attempted holdup of a millinery store. The holdup failed when Mrs. Ruth Leibowitz, owner of the shop, tore off the girl's dress. Flceinc through crowded streets in her underclothing, the girl got a "lift home" from a motorist who later gave information that led to both arrests. Police said they found the policeman, Robert C.

Wisterhood, 31, a member of the force for nine years and Frances Walters at the address pointed out by the motorist. G. A. R. TO PRESENT TABLET TO CITY The city is going to take a tablet.

Not that it's sick, or anything like that. It's not that kind of a tablet. It will be of bronze, and will be presented to the city by the G. A. R.

when it holds its state convention in Reading in August. Members of council learned of the gift from Mayor. Ermentrout at yesterday's weekly conference in the mayor's office. Where the tablet will be placed was not de cided, councilmen agreeing to take the matter up further with G. A.

R. representatives before making definite plans for receiving and unveiling the plaque, Torrid Price War Declared by Rival Number Men Here Tagged at Last Parked Two Years, Red Fire Demon Gets Old Car Parked two years, and not a red tag in all that time. Then the red fire demon tagged it. Slight damage was caused when two cushions caught fire in an abandoned automobile on Spring street near Thirteenth yesterday afternoon. Assistant Chief Strouse, who responded to the still alarm with the Marion fire company, said he was told by neighbors that the car had been parked there for two years and no one knew the owner.

RELIEF TO CITY But High Wind Tears Down Power Lines, Trees in County Riding in on the wings of a 55 mile an hour gale, thunderstorms and showers unleashed their fury on property and shook down a high strung thermometer that had Jumpy Mercury STORMS BRING 1 a. m. 72 1 p. m. 85 2 a.

m. 72 2 p. m. 88 3 a. m.

71 3 p. m. 64 4 a. m. 70 4 p.

m. 80 5 a. m. 70 5 p. m.

84 6 a. m. 8 6 p. m. 74 7 a.

m. 68 7 p. m. 67 8 a. m.

71 8 p. m. 66 9 a. m. 75 9 p.

m. 67 10 a. m. 78 10 p. m.

66 11 a. m. 81 11 p. 64 Noon 83 Midnight 61 Reading yelling for mercy for three days. Trees were blown down and electric light and power services disrupted in some sections of the county, where a dust ladcn wind wreaked more havoc than in the city.

Service men of the Metropolitan Edison company encountered difficulties with lines and service. Bernville and Hamburg were without light and power for nearly an hour in the early evening. Power Lines Down Lightning and heavy winds brought trouble to transformers and lines of the Pennsylvania Power and Light company, and Wyomis sing was without power for 12 minutes late in the afternoon. With rain to cool off heat laden air, the mercury played tricks yesterday but failed to set any new records. The high point of 88.

reached at 2 p. was five points below the record for the day set in 1911. The low, 63, was 23 degrees from the low record of 31, charted in 1907. But the thin red line, showing a level of 88 at 2 p. ran down the ladder to 64 within an hour when skies clouded and released cool water on steaming pavements.

However, the mercury shot up to 80 at 4 p. and 84 at 5 p. m. Today's forecast promises sunny skies and cooler weather. Tomorrow will probably be the same, Weatherman Hathaway said.

TWO HURT AS AUTO SKIDS INTO POLE Two persons were slightly injured last night when their autmobile skidded in wet car tracks and crashed into a pole on Lancaster avenue, near New Holland road. Mrs. Nellie C. Fitz, 47, of 352 Pine driver of the car, suffered a bruised knee and shock. Charles E.

Miller, 73, of 352 Pine received a cut over the left eye and a bruised knee. The injured persons were taken by a motorist to the office of Dr. John H. Rorke, 342 N. Fifth for treatment.

Radio Patrolmen Haggerty and Clemmens investigated. LABOR FEDERATION STATE LEADER DIES HARRISBURG, May 22 () John A. Phillips, president of the State Federation of Labor, said today he hed received a telegram telling of the death cf James E. Kelly, of Wiconisco, secretary of the federation for 12 years. Kelly, re elected for a two years' term at the recent convention in Philadelphia, had been in ill health for a year.

He was a member of Local 1062, United Mine Workers of America. HAVANA EDITOR SHOT HAVANA. May 22 (JP) Pepin Rivero, editor of the newspaper La Marina, was shot tonight and seriously wounded. Operators Bitterly Accuse Each Other of 'Stealing' Writers 7 DROP HALF PAY LIST One 'Bank Retaliates; Boosts 'Hit' Rate to $550 to $1 War has been declared in Reading's number racket. various minor clashes, physical and otherwise, in recent weeks, a mild sensation was hurled forth yesterday by one of the larger number "banks" announcing it will pay $550 to $1, a boost of $50.

This was in retaliation to tactics charged against two of the newer' and smaller banks, who, it is claimed, precipitated the war by "stealing" number writers, boosting their commissions, and finally eliminating the half pay numbers. The larger "banks" claim the half pay numbers, paying but $300 to $1, are basic safeguards to the publis against a bank's "breaking" when a "hot" number wins two or three days running. Where the "war" might lead, it hard to forecast yesterday. The public will gain by the "war" unless the "banks" break. Banks have "broken" in Philadelphia.

New York, and elsewhere, but until now they have always paid off in Reading. N0RTHM0NT TO GET BRAND NEW STREET Who'll Pay, Undecided By City Yesterday Residents of Northmont are going to get a brand new street smack through the middle of their section of the city. Last week 210 of them petitioned council for the improvement of Crescent street. Councilman Muhlenberg today will obtain from council authorization to build an improved thoroughfare, of either concrete penetration or concrete base bessonite top construction, from the Pottsville to the Allentown pikes. The highway will traverse sections of Crescent street and Raymond and Delta avenues.

Muhlenberg said. Whether it will be done at the city's expense or on the per front foot assessment basis had not beeen decided yesterday. The improvement in any event will call for the expenditure of several thousand dollars by the city, which will under any plan be required to pave intersections. ASK YOUTH'S LIFE FOR KILLING DAD SCRANTON, May 22 (IP) The death penalty was asked today for John J. Musick, 19, of Springbrook township, on trial charged with killing his father, George Musick.

Assistant District Attorney James J. Powell, presenting the case to the Jury, described the killing as "one of the most brutal and atrocious" in Lackawanna county history. Powell contended the boy shot his father, and then beat him with a club. He charged that, after telling friends bootleggers had slain the man, young Musick buried the body beneath a coal pile on the Musick farm. George Musick was slain February 5.

State police found his body two months later. News in Want Ads By the Want Ad Reporter A restaurant is for sale. Here's a real opportunity to go in business. Auto owners can borrow up to $300 in a few minutes. Aged people will be well taken care of by an advertiser in the Personal Column.

Young woman is wanted to do general housework. A mortgage of $1,000 is wanted on a home assessed at $2,500. Get your furniture re upholstered. You can get estimates from advertisers in Classification 10. A practical nurse desires a position.

If you need a nurse, you'll find her ad under Classification 26. A $40 steel refrigerator can be bought for $15, and a three piece living room suite costs only $39. An advertiser in the "Wanted to Buy" column will trade in your old ice refiigerator as part payment on a new electric refrigerator. More details about these and many other offerings can be found by turning to the Want Ad Pages..

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