Morning Oregonian., May 28, 1917, Image 1

YOUR DUTY
Every citizen should and
must, if he can, help the
Nation through the Liberty
Loan.
YOUR DEBT
You owe to the Nation
which protects and serves
you a contribution to the
Liberty Loan.
VOL. LYII NO. 17,G33.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY,' MAY 28, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
160 DIE, 1000 ARE
WOMEN MAKE GOOD PDCflT IHnilCTPIM
HOOVER WILL SEEK
ECONOMY IN HOME
GOETHALS TO VISIT
SPANISH SHIP GOES
DOWN IN 5 MINUTES
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WEST COAST YARDS
LOST 111 AIR DIVE
NORTHERN PACIFIC TERMINAL
HOtTSEWIVES TO BE ADMITTED
INTO FOOD ADMINISTRATION.
SECOND OFFICER BELIEVES 1S3
PERSON'S PERISHED.
ALREADY HAS 55 AT WORK.
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Property Losses Placed
at $5,000,000.
STORM TOUCHES 7 STATES
Twister Speeds on Mission of
Destruction and Death
Into Southern States.
TOWNS ARE HOSPITALS
Mattoon and Charleston Begin
Work of Rescue and Dead
Are Taken From Ruins.
t SUMMARY O F TORNADO
I DEAD AND INJURED.
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00 J
, Town Dead. In.
t Mattoon, HI 54 500
nanesion, iu so iou
Other Illinois towns... 18 65
Andale, Kan 26 1 60
Arkansas 9 12
Indiana 7 200
Kentucky 3 17
Tennessee 8 47
Total 163 1052
Property damage, $5,000,000 N
CHICAGO, May 27. More than 160
persons were killed, 1000 or' more in
jured and millions of dollars' worth
of property destroyed by tornadoes
which swept through Kansas on Fri
day, Illinois and Indiana on Satur
day, and parts of Tennessee, Arkansas
Kentucky and Southern Illinois, Sun
day.
Reports, indicate ". that a large
amount of farm implements, needed
to produce the bumper crop desired
this year, was ruined, although the
spasmodic wind struck only here, and
there in its frightful play through the
rural regions. Crop damage is said
to be not heavy in grains.
Mattoon Suffers Most. .
The heaviest toll of life was taken
at Mattoon, 111., a city of 10,000 popu
lation in the broom corn country of
Central Illinois, where ,54 are known
to be dead and 500 injured, with
property loss of $2,000,000.
Charleston, 111., 10 miles east of
Mattoon, was also partly wrecked
Saturday night with a loss of 38 lives
and 150 inj'ured. The property loss
, there is $1,000,000.
The next most serious loss was at
Andale, Kan., where 26 were killed
and a score injured on Friday.
200 Hurt in Indiana.
Dublin, Ky., suffered three dead and
17 injured today. South Dyersberg,
Tenn., was reported tonight to have
lost two killed and 15 injured in a
tornado that swept Dyer County to
day. Near Blytheville, Ark., nine
persons were reported killed and a
dozen hurt.
Reports from Indiana show at least
seven persons killed at Hebron, Kouts
and other places, and the death list
may reach 20. More than 200 were
injured in the Indiana territory swept
by the storm.
Smaller towns in Illinois lost a
dozen dead on Saturday with two
score injured, while in the southern
point of , Illinois , windstorms today
killed a half dozen and injured a
score.
" BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 27.-
Meager reports from Sayre, 15 miles
east of Birmingham, said several were
killed and many injured when a tor
nado struck the town early tonight,
Doctors with ambulances hurried to
the scene.
DYERSBURG, Tenn., May 27. Six
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two probably fatally, in Dyersburg
and South Dyersburg, a suburb, by a
tornado which struck the outskirts of
this city late today and swept through
the central part of Dyer County.
Twenty-two buildings, including three
churches, were demolished, and a num
ber of others were damaged.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 27. A re
port received from Duquoin, 111., to
night said that a tornado killed sev
eral persons and devastated a wide
area near Murphysboro today. Wires
are down.
The village of Willisville, in Perry
County, 111., virtually was destroyed
by a tornado today, according to ad-
(Concludd on Pas 4. Column 3.)
Change Is Being Made Only as Men
Leave Voluntarily North Bank
May Adopt Plan.
Can. women competently fill the places
in the industrial world now occupied
by men?
E. Lyons, manager of the Northern
Pacific" Terminal Company, who has
just employed 65 women for sweeping
out cars and similar work about the
railroad yards to fill the places of men
who have joined the colors or, taken up
edly that they can.
They are doing- the work better
than the men did," he declared, "and
we are well pleased with the change.
T)iA vxmmAn oca fa..?t,1 ni, All. in
their work, and they are not afflicted
with some of the bad' habits of the
men."
Mr. Lyons said that he expected to
have 100 women employed at the yards
before the month was ended. He said
that as rapidly as the men quit women
would be employed to fill their places.
We will retain a few men to do
some of the heavier work," he said.
but the remainder of the work will
be done by women. About 120 people
are employed at the yards in taking
care of the cars." I
Mr. Lyons said that no men would I
be discharged in order to bring about I
the change to women employes, but f
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",a-L -aeir piaes wouiu uU
women as they auit. I
Th "nrlhrn ParlAc Terminal Virda
handles the cars of the Northern Pa-
cine. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
lines. The North Bank Road is con-
temDlatinir the emDlovment of women I
as car cleaners, beginning this week.
STEPFATHER KILLS ELOPER
Suicide Ends Double Tragedy Over
Religious Differences.
LA CROSSE, Wis., May 27. William
Henry Wooden, El years old, murdered
stepdaughter, Hazel Oldenberg
his
Franzen, 19 years old, and a bride of
six days, then committed suicide here
last night by shooting himself and
taking poison.
The girl's elopement was the cause
of the double tragedy. She married
George Franzen on Monday. Religious
differences which they thought would
anger the stepfather caused them to
keep the marriage a- secret.
INTIMIDATION IS RUMORED
Nebraska Banks Scrutinize With
drawals of German Depositors.
LINCOLN. Neb.. May 27. Reports I
recently circulated that pro - Ger-
man sympathizers threaten to with-
draw their accounts from banks invest!-
gating in liberty bonds, has caused the I
Nebraska State Council of Defense to I
instruct county councils to investigate 1
all such cases, which are termed "dls- I
tinctly acts of treason." I
Action will be taken against such
persons, according to tne letter sent I
to county councils by the state council. I
NEGRO CAMP OPEN JUNE 15
Applications for Officers Training
NEW YORK, May 27. Conditions un-I
der which a reserve officers" camp for I
negroes will be established at Fort I
Des Moines, beginning June 15, were I
made public here last night. Appli
cations for admission to the camp will
be received up to and including June 7. 1
All negro men between the ages of I
20 years and nine months and 44 years,
of good education and morals, are
eligible.
ANCIENT SEEDS GROW
Four Beans, Said to be 3000 Tears
Old, Induced to Germinate.
SAN . BERNARDINO, Cal., May. 27.
Four bean seeds, estimated to be 3000
years old, which were planted here by
R. B. Heron, a naturalist, are growing.
he said yesterday.
It was believed the revival of an ex
tinct species would result. The seeds
were found sealed in the wall of a
cliff dwelling in Arizona.
PAGE TWO
PEA SEED WORTH $338,929
More Than 30,000 Acres Planted in
Spokane County.'
SPOKANE. Wash.. May 27. Pea seed
valued at $338,929 has been lent to the
'.farmers of Spokane County by seed-
n f cnn Frn.nclhcn And the Kant
County ' Agriculturist Shinn announced
here.
He said between 30.000 and 40.000
acres In the county that otherwise
would be Summer-rallow have been
seeded to peas.
FLYER ENLISTS IN MARINES
George A. Rawson, Hurt 2 Years
Ago by Fall, Is Accepted.
SEATTLE, May 27 George A. Raw-
son, of Klrkland. Wash., was accepted
yesterday for admission to the Marine
Corps aviation camp in Philadelphia.
Rawson, who was formerly an exhibl
lion xiyer, iu wiin iub nidcnme ail
Staunton, Va., two years ago and spent I
elsrht months In a hosnlta.1 rcnvr1nsr
from his injuries.
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Bull Mo-olont N0te(j
in Most Stocks.
MILLION-SHARE DAYS MANY
Apprehension Over Tax Bills
Fully Disappears.
KAUh TU Bt b I IWIULA I tU
Lloyd George's Announcement of
Check - on - Submarine Warfare
Is Contributing Factor to
Advance in Quotations.
NEW YORK. May 27.- (Special.) If
the stock market Is a reliable barometer
of approaching changes In the lndus-
trjal situation, the United Sta tes Is now
entering unon an era of even greater
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whicn nas been experienced since the
allies began to place orders here run
nng into hundreds or millions or aoi-
lars.
ine stock exchange last week en-
Joyed a great Increase In activity, near.
manufacturing companies which are
expected to be the recipients of tremen
dous orders, both from the Government
and from Great Britain. France. Italy
and Russia.
Million-Share Days Experienced.
Transactions averaged more than a
million shares a day. They were near
tw,ce th ,amu f of
previous week. Itself a fairly active
period.
As the rising market was then get
ting under good headway, the ad'
vances extended through nearly the
ent,re " il'hough they were moder
ate In the rails.
More than 1,350.000,00" hares of steel
changed hands in th s'ix days, bring
ng about a net advance of 11. points.
The copper shares were only less In
demand, although the activity was di
vided among a greater number of is
sues
Tax Bills Cans Caution.
The bull movement had Its origin
In the buying by professional traders
who realized that it was scarcely con
ceivable that the vast sum ' of money
proposed to be spent here In the nex
few months could be distributed among
Industrial corporations and - railroads
without sharply expanding their net
profits.
Until a few days ago the expression
of this view through advancing quota
tlons was checked by a fear that while
giving with one hand the Federal Gov
ernment might take away with the
oiner xnrougn urasnc increases in oust
ness taxes.
Levies Expected to Stimulate.
It is an inescapable conclusion that
considerable share or the vast sum
which must be added to normal Got
ernment revenues will have to be paid
I by business in the form of new taxes,
(Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.
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Written Pledges to Follow Advice
and Instruction Required In
Obtaining Membership.
WASHINGTON, May 27. Enlistment
of the country's housewives into the
service of the food .administration to
accomplish conservation in the home Is
one of the tasks to be undertaken, by
Herbert C. Hoover as food adminis
trator. The women will be recruited,
Mr. Hoover announced today, through
the aid of state food councils, state of
ficials, the Women's National Defense
Council and civic associations.
"It is the Idea of the food adminis
tration," said Mr. Hoover today, "to ask
every housewife to come in as an ac
tual member of the food administration.
to be thus entitled to the badge of ad
ministration and to sign a written
pledge to carry out the advice and In
struction of the food administration
as far as her circumstances permit.
It Is proposed that the advice and
instruction - should, be direct and abso
utely specific"
The advice, Mr. Hoover said, "will be
based on the fact that we eat plenty if
we eat wisely and without waste."
ARMY BARS WOMAN FLIER
Miss Katherlne Stinson Will Not Be
Instructor at Camp.
SAN DIEGO, CaL. May 27. (Spe
cial.) Official announcement that Miss
Katherlne Stinson is not to become an
Instructor at the signal corps aviation
school at North Island was made today
by Captain Herbert Dargue. chief in
structor of flying at the Army school.
"There will be no women In the
American air service In any capacity,'
said Captain Dargue. "The regulations
governing the naval and military aerial
service are explicit on this point."
Two civilian flying Instructors will
be added to the Army school this week.
MRS. CASTNER WILL SPEAK
Washington State Federation to Be
Addressed Next Month.
TACOMA, Wash., May 27. (Special.)
Mrs. C. H. Castner. president of the
Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs,
has accepted the invitation extended to
her to address the Washington State
Federation of Women's Clubs when it
meets next month. Mrs. G. Dowe Mc
Questen, chairman of the programme
committee, received Mrs. Castner's ac
ceptance today.
The Washington meeting- will be cr,
of .the most comprehensive ever held,
and the club woman's part In helping
the country at this time will be among
the topics discussed.
1000 STUDENTS TO FARM
Whole High School at Townsend,
Wash., Is Enrolled.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 27. The sig
natures of 105 students, all that there
are in attendance at the Port Town
send, Wash., High School, are con
tained on cards received here by Im
migration Commissioner Henry M.
White, pledging the signers to perform
farm work during the coming Summer.
The enrollment of students for farm
work, inaugurated a week ago, has now
reached nearly 1000 students, accord
Ing to Mr. White.
SIZE FISH WITH A VICIOUS SLAP
Construction of More
Ways Is Advised. .
EYERY PLANT TO BE UTILIZED
Expansion of Steel Ship Indus
try Purpose of Trip.
L. J. WENTW0RTH AGENT
Portland Man to Pass on All Con
tracts With Government and to
Have Charge of Lumber
Supplies for Board.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, May 27. General George W.
Goethals. head of the Federal Ship
building Corporation, . is planning to
visit the Pacific Coast at an early day.
primarily to Inspect the steel shipyards,
but incidentally to look over yards
which have taken or will take con
tracts for wooden ships.
It Is General Goethals' Intention to
call upon every shipyard on the Coast
capable of building 4000 and SOOO-ton
steel ships, to take Government,-contracts
and to concentrate on the or
ders to the exclusion of all other busi
ness, between now and December 31
1918.
More Waya Are Wanted.
Under the arrangement which Gen
eral Goethals has made with the big
steel plants of the East there will be
no difficulty in supplying the West
Coast yards with steel for Govern
ment ships; rather It Is anticipated the
only handicaps will be labor and yard
facilities.
Established yards will be urged to
Increase their number of ways, and en
couragement will be given to leglti
mate enterprise which is ready to es
tablish new yards for the building of
these ships.
Mr. Went worth to Return.
It is largely with a view to bring
about an expansion of the steel ship
building Industry On the Pacific Coast
that General Goethals will go West.
Such expansion, he believes, is entirely
justified, not alone by the Government
contracts in contemplation, but by the
enormous demand that will arise for
ships after the close of the war.
L. J. Wentworth, of Portland, who
has been designated as General Goe
thals" representative In Oregon, will
leave for home in a few days and will
at once take up his official duties
Mr. Wentworth has volunteered his
services to the Government and his
first task will be to perfect an organl
zation of all shipbuilders on the Colum
bia and Willamette rivers and in Ore
gon harbors. He will In that Jurisdic
tlon perform practically the same serv
Ice to be rendered by Captain John S.
Blaln. of Seattle, In the Washington
district.
Contracts to Be Approved.
As personal representative of General
(Concluded on Pa(! 4. Column l.l
IN THE TAIL.
Craft Breaks In Two, and Life
boats Swept Away No Date
Given in Messages.
LONDON. May 27 Forty-eight pas
sengers and S5 members of the crew
of the Spanish steamer C. De EIa-
gulrre are believed to have perished as
a result of the sinking of the steamer.
A dispatch received by Reuter's Tele
graph Company, the date of which has
not been made public reports the loss
of the C De Elzagulrre. , The dispatch
says that, according to the second of
ficer, the steamer sank In five minutes.
He was awakened by a "great noise
and rushed to the deck and tried to
get passengers into his boat, but the
boat was swept away and almost sim
ultaneously the steamer broke In half.
He saw no other boats afloat except
that In which he and the other sur
vivors escaped.
Among the 48 passengers missing Is
the Spanish Consul at Colombo, Ceylon.
C. De Elzagulrre is a vessel of 4376
tons gross, owned by the Cia Trans
atlantica, of Barcelona.
IOWA DIVIDED ON LAWS
Country Counties Observe Sunday
Closure, Cities oD Not.
DES MOINES, la.. May 27. The third
Sunday of attempted enforcement of
the so-called Iowa "blue laws" found
business running as usual In most Iowa
cities.
In Des Moines cigar stores, drug
stores and refreshment parlors, closed
on two recent Sundays, opened up
again. Twenty-four proprietors were
ordered to appear In court Monday.
Clinton, however, got Its first taste
of "blue law" enforcement, drug and
cigar stores being closed. Two mana
gers and the umpire were arrested at
the ball park.
The laws were as a rule obeyed In the
counties without large cities, and ig
nored in the bigger towns.
SOCIALIST PRESS SALUTE
Wilson Declared Still to Carry Sword
of Washington.
WASHINGTON. May 27. The syndi
cate of the French Socialist press has
sent President Wilson a message of
salutation, saying:
"Honor to you. By your vofce Amer
ica still speaks as Lincoln did. In
your hands is still carried the sword
of Washington. With all the strength
of our thoughts, all the heat of our
emotions, we respond."
Newberg Making Million Tent Pegs.
NEWBERG. Or.. May 27. (Special.)
The Oregon Handle Manufacturing
Company, of this city, yesterday began
turning out an order of tent pegs for
the United States Government. The
order is for l.OuO.000 pegs and the com
pany expects to turn out 20.000 a day
Portlandcr Wounded in Battle.
OTTAWA. May 27. The follow(ng
Americans are included in a list of
Overseas casualties issued here tonight
Killed: F. J. Curtis. Pioneer, Or.
Wounded: C. E. Reeves, Eagle Rock,
CaL; J. Kelley. Portland, Or.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TEFTKRDATR Maximum tmjeratur. 71
degrees; minimum. W aejrreea.
TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds.
War.
Spanish iteamar sinks. 133 probably lost.
Pace 1.
Germans forced to give up sains. Pare S.
Brazil ready to abandon neutrality. Pass S.
German pilot throws annoylns; officer out
by diving; straight to earth. Page 1.
Chairman Den man says General Goethals
Ideas on ship construction are mistaken.
Pag 2.
Wilson in masterly statesman, Vivian I tells
French. Page .
National.
General Goethals to visit Pacific Coast yards.
PtRtt J.
Conferees takes steps to prevent war scj
dais. Pa are 4.
Secretary McAdoo finds people are ready for
sacrifices of war. Pago 15.
jDoniestic
Stock market Indicates advent of era of
sreat industrial activity. Page 1.
Grain trade looks for lower prices. Pas; 4.
One hundred and sixty killed. lOO hurt in
tornado s wee pins; seven states. Pasre 1.
Hoover will try to inject food economy into
homes. Page 1.
Italian mission honors memory - of Wash
ington. Page 3.
Sports.
Pacific Coast League results: Los Angeles.
8-7. Portland 7-0: Vernon 6-2, Salt Lake
5-6; San Francisco 6-2, Oakland U-L
Page 14.
Northwest Steel beats Baby Beavers, 8 to S.
Pa.ge 14.
La Grande and Woodburn are tied, in The
Oregonlan shoot. Page 15.
Portland golfers win deciding lnter-city con
Lest at Eugene. Page 14.
Pacific Northwest.
Attorney-General favors creating deficiency
for Livestock case, i'ago- lu.
Washlngtonlane wonder if liquor can be
brought from British Columbia under new
Federal law. Page 0.
General Owen Summer's portrait unveiled. In
state capitoL Page 11.
Portland sad Vicinity.
Women replace men In yards as car sweep
era. Page 1.
Lieutenant-Colonel McKlnstry, formerly of
Portland, to lead rirat engineers' regl
ment to France. Page 2.
Portland has perfect day. Page 10.
High officials will attend funeral of late
Senator Lane. Page 6.
Dr. W. T. Foster may head Colorado College.
page o.
Patriotic fraternal day at Columbia Park ar
ranged. Page o.
Dr. Penrose, of Whitman College, likens
world war to insanity of Elijah. Page 7.
Democracy at stake In war. says mplre
cay speaaer. fage J 2.
A. E. Mackenzie writes to his father thrill
ing account of big April drive. Page 12.
Ten from Grass Valley Join Navy. Page 12.
Shabuoth service at Jewish Synagogue beau
tit ul and impressive. Page 13.
Church services honor veterans of Nation's
wars. Page 13.
Three oil-laden vessels arrive. Page 15.
War census will reach every nook and
cranny, page l.
Dan Kellaher. candidate, has plan to re
organise Fire Department. Page 10.
John Drew opens at Hetllg tonight. Page IS.
German Pilot Gets Rid
of Annoying Officer.
LIEUTENANT PLUNGES TO FATE
Fearful Subaltern Loses His
Head When Enemy NearS.
FLIER FEELS RELIEVED
Contradictory Instructions Given
and Pilot Confused Cntil He
Finally Takes Bit In Teeth
and Drops to Earth.
(From a Staff Correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press. )
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, via London, May 27. A Ger
man aviator Just shot down within the
British lines told with amazing non
chalance how he lost his passenger in
midair. The prisoner is a corporal and
was piloting a two-seated machine on
reconnaissance work. The passenger
was a new Lieutenant observer whom
the pilot was taking up for the first
time.
The Lieutenant was nervous from tfct
start and kept giving the pilot con
tradictory instructions which caused!
him completely to lose his way. That
is how he happened to get over the
British lines.
I.ientennnt Become Frantic.
The pilot turned his machine east
ward, as he thought, but believed
something must have gone wrong with
his compass. He had not flown a great
distance when he sighted several Brit
ish fighting scouts.
Now the passenger became fairly
frantic and began beating the pilot on
the back, urging him to swing around
in the opposite direction.
This further confused the pilot anct
the first thing he knew one of the Brit
ish machines had opened fire -and shot
him through both legs.
Oflcer Flanges to Death.
The pilot took matters in his own
hands then and to escape from the at
tackers dived almost vertically with tho
engine full on. He did not flatten out
until within 20 feet of the ground, and
then, almost faint from his wounds, he
et the machine slip and landed with a
crash.
A search of the wreckage revealed no
trace of the observer.
"I think he must have been thrown
out." said, the German pilot.
"He was," said one of the pilot's cap
tors, who had seen the officer pitch
headlong to his death.
SECOND DEATH PLOT BARED
Dunn Murder Witness Says First
Attempt Fell Through.
ST. PAUL. Minn.. May 57. A nfv
story of a plot to kill Mrs. Alice Mc
Quillan Dunn while she was in Mon
tana last Fall was related, the police
here say. by William Hlckey. held as a,
witness In the Dunn murder case yes
terday. Hickey told the police, they"
say, that. $4000 was to have been di
vided among the principals of the plot.
but that It fell through.
He Implicated, according to the of
ficers, several persons Indicted In con
nection with the murder of Mrs. Dunn,
including her husband, Frank J. Dunn.
Joe Redenbaugh. Mike Moore and Frank
McCool. Redenbaugh was registered at
Stillwater penitentiary Saturday and
began his life term for the murder of
Policeman Connery in Minneapolis.
HOOD RIVER MEN COMING
Red Cross to Be Represented
at
Portland Conference.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. May 27. (Spe
cial.) When advised by telegraph from
Pacific Coast divisional headquarters
at San Francisco of the proposed Red
Cross rally to be held In Portland at
the Portland Hotel on June 4. the local
chapter of the National American Red
Cross decided to send a large delega
tion of local officials of the organiza
tion and local financial men to attend
the meeting.
In order that they may be able to
return to Hood River In time to vote.
the local men will make the journey
to Portland by automobile.
CARDINAL FOR WAR LOAN
Nation-Wide Education on Character
and Objects Indorsed.
WASHINGTON. May 27. Treasury
officials announced last night that Car
dinal Gibbons had authorised the state
ment that he is "in heartiest sympathy
with the Nation-wide movement to en
courage the widest dissemination of In
formation regarding the character and
objects of the liberty loan."
BERNHARDT AGAIN WELL!
Noted Actress to Leave Xew York
Hospital at Once.
KETV TORK. May 27. Madame Sarah
Bernhardt has so far recovered from
the illness which It was feared for a,
time would prove fatal that she will
leave the hospital at once and go to
Brlarcliff. N. Y.. to complete her convalescence.
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