The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

THE WEATHER. Nebraska: Mostly cloudy, colder in east and south possibly light snow In northwest tonight. Tuesday cloudy and colder in southeast. Lincoln Cloudy and colder tonight and Tuesday; lowest temperature tonight 35 to 40. THE LINCOLN STAR HOME EDITION For Police Call B-3321 Fire Alarm B-2222 THIRTY-FIRST YEAR LINCOLN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17,1937.

THREE CENTS THRg I HI BY MISSISaPPI POSSE Roosevelt Expected To Oppose Bonus SEARCH PUSHED FOR SLAYER OF DIXIE DEPUTY Five Negroes Shot, Three Fatally, by Group Hunting for Man Accused of Killing Peace Officer Searchers Open Attack When Fired Upon From Surrounded House. EMPDffiSTATE POLITICAL BUBBLING OVER HOOVER URGES NATION TO GIVE AID TO NEEDY SENATOBIA, Oct. 17 (AP) Three negroes w'cre slain and two others seriously wounded last night by a posse hunting Jesse Williams, 45, negro, accused of killing Deputy Sheriff Walker Williams Sunday afternoon. County JftUer J. T.

Dtxon the surrounded the home of Crawford, at midnight two shots were fired the house. Tha posse returned the fire, kUllng Crawford and two of his sons and wounding wife and another The is combing the Tate county hills for WlUlams, aided by bloodhounds. Slain With Own Gun. The deputy, a son of Sheriff A. C.

Williams, was slain with own the jeJler said, after he had arrested Williams for robbery. His slayer Invaded a church of hw race nearby and broke up services by shouting, have Just killed a The pastor stopped preaching and the congregr.tlon fled. BOARD CONTROL ASKS FOR MORE Seeks An Increase of Next Biennium. Attention Called to Population Growth In Institutions. An Increase of per wnt In i eneral maintenance funds for Ne- 17 penal and charitable to- during the next fiscal biennium asked by the board of control In its advisory estimates prepared for Inclusion in the gub- o.natorlal which will be laid before the legislature in January.

The total maintenance fund asked for is I3.854A31. comparedd with 13.426,250 appropriated for the current biennium, the increase being $428.281. This amount the board feels will be necessary because of several factors, namely: Ckmstantly increasing popu- Increase in the cost of foods, clothing, and other articles. 1. More expense for wear and tear replacement on account of more buildings and equipment required to house and care for the Inmates.

Two years ago the board maintenance requests were pared down about 15 per cent by the governor Campaign that Promises Much Fireworks Gets In Full Swing. NEW YORK, Oct. New York state campaign that wUl set political iwlses pounding from now till November 8 gets into full swing today. Budgets and social betterment apparently will be two of the big talking pdnU. Republican Col.

William J. Donovan, commanding officer of New rainbow division regiment in Prance and former assistant U. S. attorney general, started his campaign at the republican state convention in Buffwo nearly two weeks ago. Democratic Col.

Herbert H. man, general staff officer In 191718. banker, and lieutenant governor for the last four years. wlU sound his keynote at notification ceremonies tomorrow night at ttonal Democratic club in New York City. Criticises Beosevelt.

aceepHng nomination. Colonel Etonoran critlctssd the of state government under Oov. Franklin D. Rooeevelt, and advocated rigid economy. In an informal last week Lehman said he.

too, was for Calls For Support Of Charitable and Welfare Groups. WILL LEAVE FRIDAY. WASHINGTON, Get, Frfsldent Hoover will deliver an addrew at 8:30 v. Saturday the Olympia arena In Detroit. He plans to leave hctp to allow for a series of rear platform appearancca along the roate to the Michigan city.

ashington President Hoover today considered an invitation to deliver his third away from home campaign address in Detroit next Saturday night, and it has been indicated that he might accept. If he so decides, he would leave here Friday and travel over a different route from any followed In his two swings Into the midwest. The route being discussed was said in Informed quarters today to allow him to speak to new audiences from the rear platform of his train In West Virginia and Ohio. White house ofilcials, asked con- Hunting Mishap At Ulysses Fatal To Lincoln Boy Leonard Curry, 15, Dies After Shell Explodes In Jammed Gun. Pour hours after he was accidentally shot by Eara Orlmm.

Ulysses farmer, Leonard Habble Curry, 15, MOTDR TRAINS REQUIRED USE FOUR MAN CREW Scripps-Howard Papers Support Gov Roosevelt. sudden- to Curry. earning the Detroit invitation, would say only that Mr. Hoover had reached no final decision. economy "as strongly as any in thU but not at the pense of a program ot social interment which he praised (Continued on Page Six.

as ttie flexible TARIFF RUUNGPROMISED Supreme Court to Pass On Validity of Certain Phases of Law. WASHINGTON. Oct. supreme court today to review a case involving the validity of certain features of the flexible tar. iff law, but rejected tioning the validity of the entire flexible section under which the president can make changes in rotes.

Also, the Procter Gamble Manufacturing was refused a review to test whether products th seas are ttibject Makes Relief AppeaL WASHINGTON. Oct. After a nationwide appeal for funds to provide for community support of winter relief needs, President Hoover today resumed consideration of plans for continuing his personal campaign for re-election. These Included a determination of when and where. In the three weett remaining before election day, he will make his next appefomnces be.

fwe voters. An Atlantic seabed trip, ending with a speech in New York or New Jersey, was Indicated by republican leaders. But before considering this question and Vhe possibility of traveltog to California near electUm time, Hoover paused last to opim the drive for relief of the welfare and relief mobllixatlTO committee headed by D. Baker. He spoke into a mlcrcmhone at the white hmise only a few after returning Sunday morning from hU second paign swing and speech at Cleve- Masl Accept ResponslWHty.

"We must make our material vision for the support of our charitable and character tuttons," the president said. we 2618 street, I Lincoln, died at Ulysses at 4 Sunday afternoon. The youth, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. H.

B. Curry, had been hunting with his father and Grimm on the farm. Leonard was approximate 1 150 feet In front of Grimm when a shell In the shotgun ly exploded, according The shell had been Jammed. The boy's neck and back were penetrated by the 16 shell shot. iThe boy was taken to Dr.

J. T. home in Ulysses shortly after noon when the accident occurred. He died there. Leonard had gone to Ulysses with his family to visit Mr.

and Mrs. WllHam Combs, his grandparents, over the w'eek-end. Grimm is a close friend of the Besides his parents and Ulysses grandparents, he is survived by a Betty, two brothers, Eugene and Delynn. and another grandparent, John Curry, David City. The boy, who attended Whittier Junior high, wws a member of Tabernacle Christian church and of Boy Scout troop No.

21. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at Rev. Leslie Smith officiating. Burial in David City. School friends may view the body at funeral home after 8 Tuesday.

Ttie time pf the funeral iriU be announced later. State Rail Cominissioii Sorensen Prosecute Roads. An order requiring railroads to employ at least four men to operate gasoline motor cars was issued Monday by state railway commission. The railroads plan court action to resist the order, according to Chairman Charles A. Randall ot the Randall said he thought it was unfair to compel the railroads to employ four men to operate the motor cars, but that the commission had no alternative to issuing the order in view of a ruling by Attorney General C.

A. Sorensen that motor and passenger trains come under the same classification. Puts Sorensen In Hole. The order of the conunission Is unusual and apparently puts Sorensen In a political hole in that It calls for the attorney general to be advised that the railroads have been operating in violation of the sta- utes. It also says that records of the commission will be available to the attorney general for his prosecuting the railways for violation al criminal statutes.

"Something new In the way of or- was only comment, when informed of the order which he had not studied. "1 wiU do what needs to be Two Missouri Pacific and twelve Northwestern trains are mentioned in the orders which were made on complaints of J. Y. Moredlck, leglslattve chairman for th railroad brotherhoods. Moredlck entered complaints that the were not complying with th fuU crew" law of Law Requires Four Men.

This "full law caUs for employment of an eglneer, a fireman, conduutor and a brakeman or on every train of five cars WASHINGTON. Oct. The Scrlpps- Howard chain of newspapers declared their support of Oov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency today.

In 1928 they supported Herbert Hoover. An editorial appearing in all their newspapers today rold: "We believe the nation will be better served if the Hoover admin. Istration is not it has been and is an administration of failure Whether a velt administration can the challenge of the national crisis we do not know. We merely know he and his party offer a fresh and. we believe, a better chance.

mrs fergu HERE TUESDAY Woman Dry Leader Will Discuss Political Situation. Mrs. John Ferguson president of the National Council of Federated Church women. wHl be the speaker at a mass meeting Tuesday after- DEMO NOMINEE IS PACKING FOR SOUTHERN TRIP Governor 'Will Announce Opposition to Immediate Cash Payment to Veterans at Pittsburgh Wednesday, Says N. Y.

Will Present Relief Program. i rnm wcATlltU. i tub WBATUIU. UNOOLN. Oct 17 Fortcast for to- A Cloudv and colder tonight and tewMt temperatura tonight IS dagreaa to Nebraska; Mostly cloudy: cold- er la east and south portions: pos- a ba TV and In west and north-central por- tlona tonight.

ir if Tho tfmperaturt during pMt if and the legislature. The addition of 12per cent at this time leaves the gross amount still less than what was asked for in 1930. For Addltkms and Upkeep, 81.437,310 Besides the money It estimates for general maintenance, the of control is submitting to Tax Commissioner Smiw, for me attention of Governor Bryan, a list of OToposed expenditures for new buildings, adding to or remodeling present structures, buying land, installing permanent miscellaneous repairs and on jdant Investments, and rortam spe- of Ihi, u.t to M.W.S 10 With the maintenance fund In. the total for all Institutional purposes Is $5.291.841. This compares with $8,579,410 asked for two ago, and with $5.003,800 approprl- ted by the legislature in 1931.

At all the Institutions except throe maintained exclusively for women, the board is requesting specific amounU for new buildings or structural Improvements. For the girls training school at Geneva. mdustriai home at Milford, an dthe reformatory at York, nothing is asked beyond small amounts for ordinary repairs and of land are (CJontlnued on Page Six. tured on the hlg to import duties. The court agreed to pass on a case under which the the duty of sodium nitrate imported at New York, brought by the Norwegian Nitrogen Products but denied reviews of cases over cheere and atraw hats Involving the legality of the entire flexible system.

One refusal to para on the validity of the flexible provision wm in a case In which the president had raised the duty on a rer- tain class of straw hats, Imported at New York. Another like refusal was in a case In which the president raised the duty orf cheese, tmpmrted at New York. A third refusal came in a case un. der which the jwesident had raised the duty on a certain cUss of straw hats, also Imported at New York. Chicago Tax Review, Refused.

The fight of Chicago property owners, contesting real estate taxes assessed by Cook county for 1929, will not be reviewed. The court today refused to grant the petition of James E- Bistor, and 2,500 other (Continued on Page Six. Home Made Lion Hunt Under Way COMMERCE, Oct. -Denver M. "homemade Uon hunt got under way this morning in the "Jungles of Island No.

7 In the middle of the Mississippi river, two miles from and Bess, the two Uonesses bought by the Sf- sportsman to satisfy his life-ong deire to go lion hunting, were released from their cage on the wooded Island while the hunters stood about with rifles ready for any emergency. The two beasts, with expresslom registering mild surprise the obening of their cage door, tated for a moment, m- qulringly at the group of heaviiy; armed men and then trotted off briskly into the underbrush. Wright planned to give the lions a four-hOur start and then hunt them down rlth big game rifles. Two native guides and a oi dogs were to be utUlaed. DID YOU Loee something Sunday? Chances are a Star Lost ad will bring it back because the eyes that find lost articles read the Lost and Found ads.

'Ihls ad did the Job. Fox fur. Reward. The cost Is low, a three line ad for one day costing only 66c. give It up for until you have tried a Lost Ad In the Star.

B1234 STAR WANT ADS RESULTS. BRING (Conlnued on Page CANADA MERGER Unlea of Three Synods Approved by Conventioii. Execvtive Board Elected. PHILADELPHIA. Oct, Union of three Lutheran synods in Canada was apiMX)ved today by the eighth biennial convention of the United Lutheran chureh In America.

proposed merger Invdvra the synod of Canada, the Manitoba and Nova Scotia synods, with a church membership of approximately 60,000 persons. Action cm the proposal to merge the thirteen seminaries of the United Lutheran church was made a clal order of business for tomorrow clergymen and three laymen were elected to the executive board of th church In balloting, results of which were announced today. They include Rev. Dr. E.

B. Bunvera of Pittsburgh; Rev. Dr, E. P. Pfatteicher, Rev Ihr.

A. S. Stelmle, New York E. Hlrt of Erie, Bobbin B. Wolf.

Pltteburgh. and J. L. Zimmerman of Springfield, O. their isnns expire In 1898.

GIRL SUFFERS SKULL FRACTURE Thelma Gleason Struck By Car; Companion Also Injured. x-ray examination of Thelma Gleason. 20. 1118 Oak disclosed a fractured Of; E. Lewis, city Physician, Monday.

Miss Gleason, with Gertrude Mecum, 18. 1243 Belmont street, was knocked to the pavement by a car driven by CJurtls 5419 Knox street, night, poUce said. Miss Mecum suffered a concussion of the brain and body bruises. Miss Gleason received ankle besides the tLfm In a serious condition au ot. the said.

Mira Mecum has Improved were crossing the road on North Tenth creek and Oak creek when Murphy car struck them, according to police records. CRAWFORD TEUE DENNISON TIEUP Star Witness Testifies In Conspiracy Case. Says While Policeman Took Orders From Dennison and Others. OMAHA, Oct. its principal witness, former PoUce Sergeant Tom Crawford, on the stand, the government today continued prosecution of 59 Omahans on Uquor conspiracy charges as Federal Judge J.

W. Woodrough considered the admissibility of evidence dealing with two Omaha murders and two near fatal gun attacks. As court convened this morning, United States District Attorney Sandall submitted a lengthy brief, outlining the contention that it can rightfuUy Introduce evidence against the defendants connecting them with the motive, but not the act. In the killing of Harry Lapifius and the ride slaying of George Kubik, prominent liquor wholesaler. Judge Woodrough was expected to rule today on the admissibility of the evidence.

In the meantime the government withdrew from the witness stand Don Kooken, Chicago "Secret investigator who was on the stand Friday when defense attorneys objected to his proposed testimony concerning the slayings and other alleged acts of violence. Crawford created a stir when he mounted the stand. He had frequently promised to provide the government with sensational evi- flamnan orina, ra eimtended that the full crew law did not apply to motor cars. They said there could be no engineer without a loccwnotlve and no fireman without a fire and that there was neither a locomotive or a fire on the motor cars. They maintained that the legislature meant the full crew law to apply only to steam locomotives.

men have been employed on most of the single motor care and three on the consisting of a motor car and trailer. Trains mentioned in the order are Nos, 109 and 110 on the Missouri Pacific and Nos. 11. 22. 111.

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it HARTFORD. Oct. 17 DeLucco, who recently askecl Governor Roosevelt to declare his stand on payment of the bonus, made public a letter today in the democratic presidential nominee said that after cutting federal expenditures, will be time to consider additional expenditures from any surplus in the DeLucco is In local affairs. In the letter Roosevelt expressed the opinion can cut down federal expenditures from 20 to 25 per cent by the elimination of unnecessary offices and overlapping functions of ALBANY. N.

Oct. 17 Governorl Roosevelt will make a campaign speech on the roldler stlon durnlg his forth- Wfftthrr throuirhout tht ftt 7 diirnltr ms lorwi- ft. m. todiiy, pftrtly cloudy to cloudy trln 5 1 comlgn Hlghctt ft ycftr ftgo to- it dfty, 64; loweit, Dry Wet Rcl. it Bulb Bulb Hum.

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cm Page on Page Six. IOWA SUED BY on. COMPANY Mona Motor Seeking To Recover $491,699 Paid in Taxes. DES MOINES, Oct! The Mona Motor Oil company of Council Bluffs today filed an action in Federal court asking recovery of $491,699.83 alleged to have been collected Illegally by State Treasurer Ray E. Johnson, In behalf of the state.

The petition names the American Surety of New York, bondsmen for Johnson, as co-de fendant. The oil company also asks a restraining order prohibiting Johnson and other state officials from Interfering with the business through suits actions or attachments. Attacking the constitutionality of the Iowa laws placing a one cent gallon tax on all gasoline "imported and In Iowa and a two cent tax on all gasoline "used and disposed in low, toe petition claims (Continued on Page Six.) New York Facing Financial Crisis; Bankers Refuse Aid Till Expenses Cut to Bone Walker Blamed for Plight; Tammany Sets Up Howl of Dismay When McKee Reduces Salaries of Officials. out, and whose term expires on January 1, 1933. Tammany has been out of sympathy with moves toward economy.

McKee cut his own salary from $40,000 to declared that Registration Taking On Speed FollowlTiff a stamp Satnrtoy, registration of voters was picking up Monday, two clerka. and pan of the time three, being needed to care for the eants. Hie total reglstrmtlOT when the office Satnrday evening This was a gain of 183 over Friday. There were Itl who eor- rected their reglstratloa ad- NEW YORK, Oct. grave financial crisis today confronted New York, biggest city In America.

The powerful banking groups, which nine months ago saw New York through a financial crisis by floating a $100,000,000 loan and es- tabllshlng a revolving credit fund of $151.000,000, have turned thumM down on loaning the city any more money until a drastic retoench- ment program is put into effect. expenses to the bone, or there will be no financial support from Is in effect the ultimatum of toe bankers to the Tammany-controlled city administration. Anti-administration newspapers lay the blame for the financial plight on the alDged extravagances of the administration ox former Mayor James J. Walker, Tamsnany Sets Up HowL New York City now has a budget-slashing executive in Joseph McKee who went in when Mayor Walker went noon at 3:30, In the ball room of the Cornhuriter hotel, under toe au.spices of the Allied Forces for prohibiticn. She will talk on toe present political situation as it relates to emphaslzng the part women will play in the elec- Mre.

Ferguson has a nationwide reputation as a speaker, having addressed iratherlngs of church women of t.he United States, and Is now engaged in an Intensive campaign covering more than, fifty-five cities in an effort to organise support for the Eighteenth amendment. She also has talked to women in many cities of Europe and South America. Mrs. Ferguson Is toe first and only woman ever to serve as an officer of toe administrative committee of toe Federal CouncU of Churches of Christ in America, for eleven years was at the head of the Chautauqua committee in charge of a Chautauqua In New York City. She also is toe representative on the national radio commission, and holds membership on a number of other national and International commissions.

Judges Remarks In Clark Case Did Not Refer to Lum Doyle The statement published Saturday in The -tar that Attorney Lum Doyle represented Kenneth L. Clark, hen the latter appeared In Federal court sentence on a liquor charge, was in error. appeared with another ae- fendant. and none lemarks in the Clark case referred to Mr. Doyle.

Suit Against Rail Detectives Dropped The $5,000 damage suit of Fred Sanders aUas Gordon Couch, which arose out of a conflict between Sanders and Burlington special agents when the officers ordered him off a box car. was dismissed Monday by District Judge E. B. Chappell when the plaintiff failed to show UP for toe tlral. The Burlington railroad and Special Agents Roy Walker and Ray Carroll were the defendants in the suit.

Sanders filed suit after he was sentenced to ten days in Jail on an assault and battery charge. Four Are Injured In Car Accident DONIPHAN, Oct. Mrs. W. A.

Hossack, postmistress at Sutherland, suffered a rupture of the trachea or wind pipe, from which paralysis of the organ developed. and three other Sutherland women. Mrs. H. P.

Wlgg, Miss Hurst, and Mrs. Hurst, her mother, suffered lesser Injuries Sunday evening six miles west of Donlitoan, when their car went into the ditch. The four women were en route to their home at Sutherland, having spent the day at Lincoln. Eugene Eustice Dies; Former N. U.

Student OMAHA. Oct. cold that developed into pneumwiia several days ago, Sunday ended in the death of Eugene T. Eustice. 25, of Omaha, former University of Nebraska student.

Eustice had spent several years in the engineering school at Nebraska. He was a grandson of Mentor Brown, Kearney newspaper publisher who died a short time ago. Funeral services will be held here Tuesday. Eugene Eustice was a member of Alpha Theta Chi fraternity. 1 ing to sources close to him he has not determined whether toe scene will be Pltteburgh or Indianapolis.

He will speak in the Pennsylvania city on October 19 ond on 20 in Indianapolis, general headquarters of the American Legion. At its recent convention at Portland, the legion demanded immediate payment of the bonus. Mr. Roosevelt refrained from commenting upon reports in New York papers that he would define his stand on the at Pitte- bonus is one of the major issues of toe campaign that Mr. Roosevelt has not discussed In a formal address.

NEW YORK. Oct. 17 New York Times says Oov. Franklin Roosevelt will announce opposition to immediate cash payment of the bonus In an address at Pittsburgh on Wednesday. At the same time, toe paper says, he is expected to link to his (Continued on Pag3 Six.

TRIO BEING HELD IN AnACK CASE Other city officials should be reduced to $12,500 and under; that all city should take a cut to avert financial disaster and advocated the elimination of an army of unnecessary political employes. A howl of dismay went up from Tammany officeholders against McKee, and when the city convgntlon was held recently to nominate a mayor to succeed Walker. McKee was ignored and nominated for toe post. But now that the bankers. Indicating a strong sympathy with the McKee program of economy, iare refusing to loan money to the city or help in floating a loan or to reinforce the credit, Tammany has been brought to a sharp realization that scwnethlng must be at once.

BAND OF CHINESE SLAYS AMERICAN MUKDEN. Manchurit, Oct. unidentified American was killed near Mulantien, east of here today when a tamd of fifty Chinese attacked a detachment of five Japanese troops which was escorting toe Americans, two Koreans and two Manchurians to safety. The attack occurred Rhlle the refugees and their escort were on the way from Hsinpln, 70 miles east of here, to the railway station at Nantsamu. The American was riding in a horse cart which flew the Stare and Stripes.

It was believed he was a Catho. Uo missionary. Two Men and Woman Said to Have Beaten Up Louisville Man. PAPILUON, Oct. Two men and a girl under arrest at Lincoln are wanted here, County Attorney Ralph Nickerson said today.

as suspects in an alleged attack early yesterday on Arthur Derby at his home niar Louisville, Neb. The three are. Don Wilson, 26, and John and Delores Flynn, both 21 Nickerson said he had not yet talked to witnesses, but understood a trio broke into the Derby home, beat up Derby, and ransacked the house before neighbors arrived. Roy Richards. Dave and Orville Marco, neighbors, arrived in time to see two men drag a woman from toe house by toe hair.

They put her in a car and left, threatening to kill Richards and the Marcos if they took the auto license number, the neighbors said. Taken After Ante Chase. The trio who were arrested after an auto chase Sunday are being held in the Lincoln city Jail for county authorities. Those in custody are Delores Flynn, 21, her husband, John Flynn, 21. both of 1736 street; and Don Wilson, 26, 3341 South Forty-second street.

The Sarny county sheriff. Mundeil. phoned state and local officers Sunday asking them to arrest the trio, claiming that they had been involved in a fight near PapllUon. Their car overturned near Omaha prior to toe trouble at PapllUon, according to Mundeil. Deputy State Sheriff Harold Hul- flsh and City Detective.

George Mevcr arrested the trio five miles east of qq A Street. OUT VOTE DRIVE STARTED Nebraska Goal Is 17.7 Percent Increase Over 1928 Total. A non-partisan campaign to get more people to vote in November than did four years ago has been started by the Lincoln chamber of commerce in ccmjunctlon with a nation-wide movement sponrored national mid state Junior chambers. Gayle Walker, state chairman, hopes to see an Increase tax Nebraska of 17.7 per cent over the vote cast in 1928. The goal fcM- the nation is to get 68 per cent of all qualified voters to toe polls as compared to the 54 per cent who visited 1928.

Furthering registration Is the Immediate task of the vote-getting committee. Citizens may register in Lincoln until October 29. Serving with Walker In the drive are Clifford M. Hicks, in charge of finance and statistics; Russell Mattson, chairman of toe luncheon clubs committee; Robert Oliver, in charge of toe committee on advertisers and utilities; Ed Frerichs, rommlttre chairman on churches; Winfield men, women's organlzatiwis; John Skiles, political parties; and Lawrence L. Pike, magarines and newspapers.

As Rogers Sees It SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. is one for Eix: Peru and Colombia are gu- ing to war over a boundary, the usual reason down here, but get this, the land in dispute is so isolated that neither nation can get to it so they are arranging to have the armies meet at some convenient place and fight over a piece of ground that the winner get to after they have won. Chile has had five presidents this fall. One inaugural paaade started out with one president and wound up at the white house with another so they inaugurate two presidents for the price of one. The man in now is afraid to send out his laundry.

When you read this I will be flying the Andes, a long ambition Yours, WILL..