MDE THREE TIMES
TMHHIGHMIHUBE
IS WIRELESS OPERATOR
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Deliver* Message* Which Perhaps
8aved Battalion of British From
Extermination— Three Horsea
Shot Under Him.
BRITISH GIRLS STUDY RADIO
T o Be Used cn Land Stations When
Efficient, Later in Coastwise
Shipping.
London.— English girls are taking
up wireless telegraphy. The Marconi
company has started a special school
fo r training women In wireless tele
graphy at Its North Wales station. A t
present the company Is tnklng only
women o f experience In Morse teleg
raphy, but this Is only a temporary re*
striction.
The course deals with slip reading,
punching, record reading and the gen
eral duties o f a wireless station. The
girls will be drafted to land stations
when efficient and w ill go on night duty
In rotation.
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It Is not proposed to extend the use
o f women to ships fo r the present, but
I f this Is to be altered It probably will
apply only to coastwise shipping.
FIRM OFFERS ENTIRE OUTFIT
Contractors W illing to Give Service*
and Complete Roadmaking Out
fit to United States.
Pittsburgh.— The firm o f James H.
McQunde & Co., a Pittsburgh contract
ing firm, has offered to the govern
ment the services o f father and two
sons, together with a complete road
making outfit, to be assigned to duty
anywhere, at home or abroad, during
the period o f the war at a nominal
cost o f $1 a year.
W hile the tender practically menus
a cessation o f the contracting firm's
business, .lames McQtmie, the head of
the firm, said it me-
nothing more
than a desire to rally round the col
ors In what they conquered their best
capacity.
WEAPON
DOES STARTLING STUNTS
Third Blow o f Flaillike Implemt.,,.
Puts Out U-Boat’s Eye emd A l
lied Crew Escapes.
IS SIVEN VICTORIA CROSS
,
HIS
Thrilling Story of Trawler Skip
per’s Exploit.
Indian Rajput at Camdrai Es
capes Without Scratch in
Oaring Mission.
London— Lieut. Goblnd Singh has
the Victoria Cross and he earned It.
H e Is a Rajput from Indlu and he Is a
brave mun. Three times he dashed
Into what seemed almost certain death
and he eseuped without a scratch, al
though the horses were shot from un
der him. And furthermore he deliv
ered messages which perhaps saved a
battalion from extermination. There
la no prouder Indian In Great Britain
or France than Lleuterihnt Singh. It
Is nothing unusual to see a soldier sa
lute when he passes— Just out o f ad
miration.
Braves Barrage Fire.
It was ut Cambral that he went
through the bullet-swept areas to de
liver his precious messages. The offi
cer In command o f his battalion felt-It
Imperative to send word to the gener
al staff, and volunteers were asked for.
There was no other way to communi
cate. Lieutenant Singh offered his
services. H e mounted a horse and
fared forth Into No Man’s Land. Five
Others had volunteered and been killed
In the rain o f machine gun bullets from
the German lines, but a few hundred
yards away. Singh galloped at full
apeed Into the region o f death. He Is
a skillful ldder and his charger was ex
perienced. A short distance away his
horse fell under him. The Indian fin
ished his trip o f 600 yards a fo o t
The message required a reply and he
volunteered to deliver It. H e sallied
forth on another horse and with hla
body glued to that animal he plunged
ahead with the machine gun fire again
playing on him. A second time his
horse was killed.
H e finished this
journey also on foot running as sw ift
ly as his trained legs could carry him.
His colleagues cheered him as he drop
ped Into the friendly trench and- all
agreed that he led a charmed life.
' Makes Third Trip.
But his task was not finished. His
officer found that If one more message
could he sent to the staff the battalion
might be rescued. Singh said he would
go a third time. The officers offered
him his choice o f horses and he select
ed a splendid animal, which he ca
ressed before undertaking the last and
most dangerous dash o f nil. The dis
tance he had to go was a mile and a
half. H e covered almost half the dis
tance and heard not a shot. But In
stantly a barrage started from the Ger
man guns. A British sentinel In a shell
hole warned him to pause, saying no
human being could get through the
curtain o f shell fire alive. But Singh
Ignored the warning. H e spurred his
horse to new speed. A shell struck
the animal and almost tore It to pieces.
Singh dropped to the ground and half
crawling and h alf dragging himself he
finished his perilous Journey without
receiving a bullet wound. T o the as
tonishment o f the officers who had
watched with breathless excitement
his plunge through the shadow o f
death the Indian asked If he were to
make a return trip. H e was told It
was not necessary. A short time later,
due to the order he had delivered, his
battalion was rescued from a most dah-
gerous position.
SHOVEL
London.— When one's vessel Is In
| danger from enemy submarines any
thing will do as a weapon o f defense,
] as is shown by the story o f a captain
I o f a British traw ler who used a coal
I shovel with good effect against a Ger-
man-U-boat. The trawler, according
[ to the story told by one o f the crew,
was in the North sea In a stiff breeze
when the skipper saw a periscope
j crawl through the breaking surface o f
| the sea about a hundred yards off.
There was no gun aboard and the traw
ler’s best speed was less than eight
knots.
“ It was a situation to dismay most
men,” said the seaman. “ Our skipper,
however, has n fighting spirit. A touch
o f the wheel sent the traw ler’s blunt
bows pointing at the submarine’s
whaleback, and, we wallowed menac
ingly toward the pirate.
“ The U-boat swung round to avoid
the Impact and the sides o f the traw-
ler scraped along the sides o f the sub-
mnrine. The periscope still wns well
out o f the water but wns beginning to
slip down ns the submarine dived.
“ The skipper bawled fo r a hammer,
a crowbar, anything that would hurt.
One o f the crew thrust a coal shovel
Into his hand and he scrambled on the
bulwarks and leaned over, two o f the
crew banging on to hls coat so that he
wouldn’t fall overboard.
Backward
Dn<1 forward he swung the heavy scoop
at tbe fragile periscope, and the third
blow reduced It to fragments.
“ The submarine* commander, hearing
! the noise and wondering what new and
horrible device the enemy had Invent
ed, crept to hls periscope to have a
look, but all was black. H e was blind,
and the traw ler got away In safety.
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Miss Elizabeth Duval, wireless op
erator on the steamship Howard which
plies between Baltimore and Norfolk
and Savannah and Jacksonville. Th«
young lady Is the first o f her sex -tc
hold that position on an ocean-going
steamship. She has just obtained het
certificate as an American seaman.
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SAVING THE WOUNDED
Red Cross Is Doing Heroic Work
in France.
Qeorgla Soldier Says, “ They All Work
ed Like Dogs In That Hell
Out There."
Washington.— “ Test the nerve o f
those Americans,” evidently was the
order given to the German soldiers
facing the sector held by our boys In
France, and gas shells and all other
methods were used. Completely re
pulsed as the Germans were, the test
must have been anything but reassur
ing to them !
A correspondent talked with some
o f the American soldiers wounded in
the attack. One youth, whose home Is
In Savannah, Oa„ and who looked to
be not more than eighteen years old,
made the following highly complimen
tary reference to the American Red
Cross stretcher-bearers and nmbulance
drivers :
“ I ’ve sure got to hand It to those
men with the Red Cross on their arms.
They all worked like dogs In that hell
out there. They seemed to have but
one Idea— to do their duty— and appar
ently cared nothing fo r their own lives
while doing It. They were game right
to the core.”
In this connection It may be said
that there are a certain number of
men who wear the Red Cross whose
names are on the casualty list. I f any
one has thought that a Red Cross
worker goes out on a battlefield only a f
ter the firing has censed and brings In
the wounded, this statement by a sol
dier will correct the wrong Impression.
Stretcher-bearers work under fire— and
the Germans have not hesitated to fire
upon Red Cross workers.
The knowledge thnt the Red Cross
workers will be at hls side almost as
quickly ns he fnlls wounded, to take
him to the first-aid station and subse-
qnently to the hoifpltnls, has given
great comfort to the Amerlcnn troops.
RAISE FISH
DESERTER RETURNS TO FIGHT
8ay* Country Needs More Men a* Ha
Surrenders to Police at Con-
nellsville, Pa.
Connellsvllle, Pa.— Saying the “ coun
try needs more men,” W illiam V. Cur
ry o f Marysville, K.v., gave himself up
to Police Lieutenant Thomas McDon
ald as a deserter from the United
States Marine corps.
Curry says he ran away from hls
division at Newport News, V a„ in Au
gust, 1916. Since the outbreak o f the
war with Germany he said that he has
been constantly tortured by remorse,
and when he heard o f the sinking of
the Tuscanla he could stand It no long
er. “ The country needs more men,”
he said, “ and I might as well be back
If Uncle Sara w ill have me.”
FOOD COSTS 9 CENTS MORE
8tudent Who Has Been Living on 23
Cents a Day Find* He Must
Pay More.
G reenberg, Pa.— Roy R. Mumma o f
Jeanette, Pa., who, while a student at
Carnegie Institute o f Technology has
been living on 23 cents a day, has had
to Increase hls budget H e Is now liv
ing on 32 cents a day.
Since he graduated from Tech last
June Mumma fonnd a Job, saved $400,
took unto himself a w ife and has just
been accepted as a private In the radio-
mechanics branch o f the. aviation serv
ice.
Mumma’s diet program Includes
broad- m,,k- cereals, cocoa, rice, pea-
nut buttPr- fnilt. eggs, meat, gelatin,
oleomargarine and even pie.
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HOHENZOLLERNS DOOMED
IN BACK YARD
President of National Aquarium So
ciety Sponsor for Latest in Con-
servation of Food.
St. Louts.— I f yon want to help Uncle
Sam win the war raise fish In your
back yard. The new food conservation
scheme is going to be tried out here j
with the slogan, “ Keep ten fish In youn
bnck yard.”
S. Chichester Lloyd, president o f the t
National Aqnnrlum society. Is sponsor
fo r the Idea and suggests It be adopt
ed all over the nation. Lloyd In hls !
hack yard last year raised 20,000 fish
In three 500-gallon pools.
With little care the average city j
dtveller with hack yard space enn
raise all the fish he needs for hls j
table, says Lloyd. Many types o f the !
finny tribe are eatable at the end o f j
the first season, he declares. T'ne Ger
man carp Is said to be the most popn- j
lar and It Is pointed out Is a habitue ■
o f every back yard in Germany.
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S-S-S-SURRENDER?
C-C-CERTAINLY NOT!
N ew York.— About to be re
jected at recruiting headquar
ters o f the Marine corps here
because he stammers. Solis Sol
omon O'Hanna said:
“ Dl-look
Here,
d-d-d’you
w-w-war.t a t-t-talklng m-m-mnn
or a f-f-f-flglitlng m-m-mnn?
Pm a f-f-f-fighting m-m-mnn,
lt-but I c-e-an’t g-g-get my words
out
q-q-q-qulck
enough
to
s-s-s-say a-s-s-surrender If the
whole
d-d-d—-d
O-O-Oermnn
army's on t-t-tep o’ me.”
The recruiting officer was
greatly Impressed and took the
case under advisement.
“ Hair-raising stunts" by student
aviators may seem foolhardy to the
aver«s e civilian, but the knowledge
of them w l'l e,,ve many lives in aerial
battle, according to Lieut. Col. Charles
^-ce o f ^the British Royal I lying
corps, who has been startling Wash-
Ington fo r several days with seemingly
impossible feats In the air. Colonel
Lee’s demonstrations have done much
to lessen the criticism In official Wash
ington that student flyers have been
killed because o f foolhardy tricks
rather than in straight flying at Am er
ican training fields: “ The eo-called
danger o f flying lies not with those
who do stunts In the air,” says Colonel
Lee, “ but with those who cannot do
them. Unless a pilot can turn hls ma
chine any way and every way at any
time In order to maneuver fo r position,
all the straight flying In the world w ill
not help him when he has a fight.”
According to an ancient German
legend the fall o f the house o f Hoheq-
zollem will come when the statue o f
! “ Christ on the Cross,” a relic o f the
seventh centnry which stands In
Kaysersburg, decays. The statue 4 )os
been fastly decaying In the past few
years, and since the w ar the authort-
ties have been continuously repairing
the damaged parts because o f the e f
fect o f the destruction o f the statue
would have on the people fam iliar
with the aneient legend.
NEW AIRPLANE BULLET
Special Cartridge Which Sur
passes Any in Use.
W ill Pierce Armor, Flight Can Be Been
Day or Night and la In
cendiary.
Washington.— The war department
authorizes the follow in g:
The present w ar brought forth a
new kind o f ammunition fo r airplane
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SOME REASONS WHY
WHEAT MUST BE SAVED
“ A Man Cannot Think. Work or Fight
Whsn He is Hungry” — We Must
Feed Our Soidierc.
"W e have the preservation of the
world oil cur hands.
Every single
living human being in this republic,
from ocean to crean, should make it
his or her special purpose to save
food."
These are the words of E. F. Cullen,
personal representative of Herbert C.
Hoover, In a recent address.
“ Men will resist any power but the
power of starvation,” said Mr. Cullen
"Hunger in the final analysis, is the
only force that can weaken a nation
ard demoralize an army.
Food is
strength, and without a perpetual sup
ply of strength, the world can stand
in danger of tottering, weakening and
falling Into utter chaos. A man can
not thick, work or fight If he is hun
gry.
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“ The alltee today are practically
wholly dependent upon the United
Staths for food.
Upon this nation
rests the responsibility of preserving
the world from Prusslanism. This is
the taik bf the people of this nation—
to produce and save food enough to
keep a steady stream of essential sup-
plies moving towards the front so
long as It shall be necessary to wage
this war. If at any time we fail in
thl*. we must Inevitably go down, with
the allies, to defeat. This is no ex
aggeration, but a serious fact. It Is
the purpose of the United States Food
Administration to bring the realiza
tion of this fact home to every Am eri
can man, woman and child, and to en
list the individual aid of our hundred
million people In producing and sav
ing food. The Food Administration
is not asking you to eat less; it only
urges that you substitute one nutri
tious food for another equally nutri
tious food, thus saving the vital ato
pies needed by our armies and th*
armies and peoples of the allies. W e
must, during the next three months,
save wheat especially. Our surplus
has already been shipped abroad, and
a hundred million busheis more are
needed. When you eat a slice of bread
less, omit th* crackers with your soup,
or otherwise conserve on wheat prod
ucts, you are contributing towards the
hundred million bushels needed over
there by our fighting men and tha
exhausted people o f Belgium, Franc*
and England who havo tor more than
three years beeh bearing the brunt of
this war, which Is our war. Keep this
In mind, and bring It before the minds
of your thoughtless friends and nslgji-
bors."
SLOGANS STATEWIDE!
Contestants For Liberty Loan
Prize W idely Scattered.
NEARLY
TO W N
EVERY C O U N TY
AND
IN OREGON IS REPRE.
SENTEO IN ■r ftE M A T E R IA L SUB.
MITTEO TO COMMITTEE.
Slogans from over the entire slato
were submitted for use In the Thlrh
•Liberty Loan campaign, in the recent
slogan contest, for the best of which
a $50 Liberty Bond Is to be awarded
opening day, April 6.
Among the slogans which were con*
sldered by the committee as possess*
tng high merit and worthy of especial
mention, are the following which a r »
representative of the entire state:
Open your purse — help kill th *
curse. Miss Hazel McCoy, Dufur; buy
a bond that binds Democracy, W. P.
McMasters, Mills City; the Kaiser
groans at Liberty Loans. Nettle Pago
Scofield, Newberg; Liberty Loans a r*
Liberty's stepping stones, Mrs. J. D.
Slater, La Grande; bury the K aiser
with Liberty Bonds, Geo. A. Barden.
Grants Pass; Uphold the colors with
liberty dollars. Mrs. Edward Hill.
'Marshfield: Over there our boys a r*
watching, H. K. Donnelly, Salem
Break Liberty's chains— Invest your
gains, Buena Fisher, Dallas; Sow
bonds— reap victory, Mias Elva S.
Hall, Vauora; Build freedom’s foun*
datiou with Liberty Bonds, C. E. Logs*
den, Junction City; Our country’s arJ
mor— Liberty Bonds, C. W. Collier.
Milwaukie; The Liberty Bond is vie*
tory’s wand, H. E. Allen, Hillsboro;)
Gold were dross with freedom’s loss.
Count that day lost, whose low de
scending sun, . sees nothing done toi
beat the Hun, both by T. P. McAn*
drews, Baker; Your little mite m ay
win the fight, Mollle E. Strlaght, Oretl
gon City; Protect your homes withi
Liberty Loans, Lonna Powell, Bakerd
Buy a bond— bridge the pond, Mrs. HS
M. McKenna, Astoria; W e ’ll bridge
the pond frith Liberty Bonds, M. B va
Duel, Eugene; Join the band at Lib
erty’s stand, Mrs. L. R. Whitney, Van
couver, Wash.: Another Liberty Loan
insures Entente success, W llna Debill.
Am ity; Provide Pershing power to
punish Prusslanism.
The following slogans are a few o t
those submitted by residents o f Port
land In the contest:
Fight, buy, or show us why, Grace
N. Crow; Patriots all, subscribe to
the call, A. R. Vandervlelen; Liberty,
Loans protect what you own, W. W .
Lawton; Our bonds dictate our sol
f o o d a d m in is t r a t io n f a c t s diers’ fate, Mrs. D. W. Jackson; H avo
a heart, do your part, They also servo
i One ounce less of meat each day who only lend, Jennie A. Marshall;(
for everyone means a saving o f 4,- Yankee Doodle dollars do or die, K eep
400,000 meat animals a year. Save the home funds fighting, W, S. Kirk
your ounce. The sacrifice Is small, patrick; ’Tis freedom's call— lend your
but the result for your country ia all, Be no shirker, be a worker, Flor
large.
ence B. Hoyt; Save America's fato
from German hate, J. N. Reeves; Tho
1,185,000 tons of sugsr will be saved Liberty Loan safeguards the home.
the first year If each of us uses one J. H. Mason; For county and home—
ounce less each day. This will keep 'Liberty Loan/ Geo. E. H all; Be o
sugar plentiful and cheap.
backer, not a slacker, H. O. Furnish?
Subscribe to loan, protect your home.
The Allies are all In the same boat, Miss Myrtle Bates; Can you deny
a long way from shore and on limited while others die, Anna Lavtlle Mc
rations—and Uncle Sam is running Pherson; Ronds are better than Prus
the relief ship. It's up to us to save sian fetters, Ruth Helen Underhill.
the cargo.
tracing, and incendiary purposes.
With the progress o f the war the
more vital parts o f the airplane w ere
protected with light armor, so that It
became necessary to Introduce the ar
mor-piercing bullet.
A s the gasoline tanks were particu
larly susceptible to Incendiary explo
sion, It was necessary to procure a
bullet containing an Inflammable sub
stance, Ignited upon discharge, which
would carry the spark o f flame Into
the tank upon piercing It.
As the target, the enemy airplane,
was within fighting range fo r only
b rief moments at a time, and as there
w ere no means o f determining the fire
effect as on land, a tracer bullet con
taining a bright-burning composition,
Reduction, Production — th* 1918 HOW RETURNS ARE NOTED
which would Indicate the puth o f the
bullet in daylight as well as In dark watchwords.
Map System to Be Used During Thir^
ness, and thereby allow the aim o f the
Liberty Loan Drive.
Food
will
win
the
war.
Sav*
I
t
machine gun to be corrected, was In
Returns from the various rountlea
Produce
It
troduced. The composition Is set on
of the state will be Indlrated at the
fire upon discharge and the bullet files
Oregon State Centra? Liberty Loan
If
you
run
your
household
on
three
through the ulr as a brlRht spark plain
headquarters, Portland, ou a color
ly visible to the machine-gun operator. pounds of sugar a month per person,
scheme map, as will every town and
A t the outbreak o f the war, further when fall comes the grocer won't have
district in which a quota has been
Information was promptly gathered j to hang up tk^ sign "N o Sugar.”
assigned, by a yellow thumb tack.
from the allies and this subject was
The counties will have a large headed
studied by those responsible for this i The second helping is getting to be
tack and the districts a small yellow
work In the United States. O f eourse, bad form.
one.
on account o f the difficulties o f the }
As soon as one-half of the assigned
problem, none o f the special bullets ; There's lots of money to go round,
possessed by any country Is entirely 1 but bacon, beef and wheat can’t make quota has been reached in each town
or district a red thumb tack v,il) re
satisfactory or whnt might be termed the circuit. Save your share.
place the yellow one on the map.
“perfect” In operation.
Waste and want are twin sisters Similarly with the counties on th*
The bullets developed by the United
state map. Each county headquarters
States ordnance department have been and neither beautiful.
will have their own map with til*
tested on land and from airplanes to
county divided into convenient dis
Potatoes for Patriotism.
see If there Is any difference In their
performance when fired from n quickly
By eating potatoes instead of wheat tricts which are to be bulletined like
moving airplane In the upper atmos the people of the United States can wise.
When the full quota in each town
phere and when fired on lnnd.
help win the war.
We have not
T h e s e tests Indicate that the United
enough wheat tor the Allies and our and district is attained It will be des
Stntes has developed a class o f speclul selves. We have an abundance of po ignated by a blue thumb tack. This
.cartridges with n performance fully tatoes. Wheat flour is a concentrated system will afford an accurate check
-qual to or surpassing that attained food and therefore good for shipping; and will Indicate those counties and
Abroad.
potatoes are bulky and are conse districts of the state which are doing
quently
not suited for limited shipping the most effective work In the Third
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space, nor are the Allies so short of Liberty Loan Campaign.
In each town and district a solicitor
potatoes as of wheat. Next to cereals,
AUSTRIAN FOR AMERICA
potatoes have been in this country will be sent out with the Government
FIRST, LAST— ALWAYS
the mainstay of atareby food, which household questionnaire upon which
supplies energy.
Is written pertinent facts concerning
Greensburg, Pa.— Peter Dor-
The more potatoes we eat. the less the individual's ability to subscribe.
zuk, an Austrian shoemaker, Is
wheat wo need. A medium sized po Should the person be unable to sub
fo r America first, last and all
scribe one half of the amount esti
tato. weighing about 3
ounces, sup
the time. H e was sent back
piles about ss much starch as two mated that he is able to, a yellow
from Camp L ee because o f phy
small slices of wheat bread one-half card will be sent into district head
sical disability.
When more than one-half
Inch thick.
In other respects also, quarters.
Before going to camp Dnrzuk
the potato measures up well with but less than the full assignment has
Invested all hls snvlngs, amount
wheat bread and even has the advant been received a red card replaces th*
ing to several thonsunds o f dol
age over It In supplying certain salts Yellow, and a blue card is used when
lars, In Liberty bonds. l ie also
which the body needs to counteract tho full quota of the Individual bas
made a will bequeathing “ any
the acidity resulting front the us* of been subscribed
This system gives
and all properties or money or
such foods as cereals, meat and eggs. an accurate and detailed check on
whatsoever o f value I may have
By eiercltin g her ingenuity the heuao- every person and the state and county
or possess at tho time o f my
wlfe can prepare potatoes la many headquarters will know exactly what
death to the United States gov
different attractive ways, thus lpcreas- can be expected and what Is being
ernm ent”
Ing their proportion la the family diet done.
and conserving wheat and other sta
The master map at Washington. D.
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ples needed for shipment abroad. Aa
w ill Indicate the advance in each
Woman Honored by French.
important use of potatoes, also. Is la state and the entire country.
Cincinnati, O.— An Ohio woman, tha mixing of breads, la which aaah- |
Miss Jeanne Emma Morhard, has re- «d potatoes up to fully ton per cent
Everyman's Pledge.
reived the budge o f the Legion of may be used without detracting from
Am erica shall win this war!
Honor from the French government In Its appea-aace or taste; la fact, many
Therefore, I will work, I will savs^
recognition off hei work as head o f persons hold that potato** pc^reriy I will sacrifice, I will endure. I will
the Franco-Belglan relief fund In Cin mixed In bread. Lai provo* both appear fight— cheerfully, and to my u tm o s t-
and flavor.
cinnati. For 23 years Miss Morhard
os If the whole outcome of the strug
gle depended u*un me alone.
tanght French at Hughes High school.
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