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President Truman has referred
the iteel wage dispute to the
wage stabilization board. If It is
not able tc resolve the controversy
before the present contract runs
out, December 31st, presumably
the president will Invoke the Taft
Hartley law and order a defer
ment of the strike for 80 days
pending further efforts to work
out a settlement. He is on record
as saying that a shutdown of steel
production is not to be tolerated at
this time.
What is on the block is the
whole wage-price-stabilization
structure. After the steelworkers
are the coal miners with a con
tract running out the last of Feb
ruary, and John L. Lewis has al
ready backed up the demands of
his one-time associate and present
rival, Philip Murray of the CIO
iteelworkers. And after the miners
are all the other labor groups,
organized and unorganized, with a
stake in this issue.
- If the wage block goes, the price
block will go too. It may be that
the concession will be only a notch
or two; but whatever it is the re
sult will be more inflation. Al
though the steelworkers demand a
"sizeable increase" Murray might
be willing to settle for a modest
increase. But the government au
thorities know how contemptuous
John L. Lewis is of wage boards
and wage controls. When they
treat with Murray they are look
ing over his head at Lewis.
The root of the trouble is that
the country is not "sold" on the
emergency. It wants guns and
more butter at the same time. In
fact it sees in the armament pro
gram the prospect of bigger busi
ness and higher wages Sure in
flation is recognized at grave
(Continued on editorial page.)
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Throngs of GIs
Left Stranded
At Terminals
By The Associated Press
GI' by the hundreds waited im
patiently in airport terminals yes
terday stranded or delayed as
they tried to rush home for Christ
mas. Fog over San Francisco, mixups
In nonscheduled airline flights and
Just the normal Christmas rush
were some of the factors that
slowed down the servicemen's
trips.
Some were angered not only by
the possibility that they wouldn't
be home for Christmas, but by the
hours slipping away on their last
leaves before going to combat
In Korea.
Among the latter were most of
the several hundred service men
stranded yesterday at Lockheed
Air terminal in Burbank, Calif.
They slept on floors and benches
or went to hotels when non-scheduled
planes on which they had
bought tickets failed to appear or
had no room for them.
A terminal spokesman said bad
weather had delayed some of the
non-scheduled planes.
Cardinal Spellmaii
Celebrates Mass
In Korean Chapel
WITH FIRST CORPS, Korea,
Monday, Dec. 24 -tP) Archbishop
Francis Cardinal Spellman of New
York today celebrated his first
wartime mass in Korea in a chapel
built from a bombed out quonset
hut. A congregation of 600 soldiers
jammed the newly built chapel. It
was filled shortly before 7:30 ajn.,
when the Cardinal Spellman ar
rived wearing army winter clothes
and donned his mass vestments.
Following mass. Cardinal Spell
man stood outside the chapel and
shook hands with every soldier,
asking his name and home. He
asked each to write' his name and
leave it and relatives address so
he could write them on his return
to New York.
last S;cp?i;;o DAY
'Point 4'
Director
Killed
8 Americans, 13
Others Perish in
Iran Air Mishap
TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 23-6P)-Dr.
Henry G. Bennett, director of
President Truman's Point Four
program, seven other Americans,
and 13 other persons perished last
night in an airplane crash during
a blinding snowstorm just north
of Tehran. I
Mrs. Bennett was- among the
victims. The American party was
coming to Tehran for an official
five-day visit! in connection with
the U. S. Point Four program of
technical aid for underdeveloped
countries. The! tragedy cast gloom
over the American embassy here
which had prepared elaborate
plans to entertain the Christmas
i visitors. ;
The four-erigined plane, which
belonged to Egypt's MISR air
lines, tried doggedly last night to
pierce the . overcast from Iran's
first snowstorm of theseason.
Finally, the Egyptian pubt was
instructed to jgo to Basra, Iraq,
or return to Baghdad, Iraq, where
the plane had -taken off for Teh
ran. It crashed into the base of a
steep 10,000-foot granite range
forming a barrier north of the
capital. Therej were no survivors
of the accident, the worst in
Iran's history! The crash scene
was five miles from the Tehran
airport. j
In addition to the Bennetts,
other Americans aboard were
identified as j Benjamin Hardy,
Dr. Bennett's -public affairs offi
cer; James T. Mitchell, audio
visual specialist; A. C. Crilley, Dr.
Bennett's special assistant; Louis
Henrik Jordal, University of
Michigan botanist believed to
have been onf a mission for the
United Nation! food and agricul
tural organization (FAO); Jesse
Lee Smith, Columbus, Ga., repre
senting the Centennial Cotton Gin
company; and Mrs. m i j e a n
Schneidesgar address unknown).
The other fvictims were six
Iranians, the five Egyptian crew
members, one; German and one
Indonesian, f
The Iranian government sent
expressions of sympathy and con
dolence to thei United States gov
ernment. In Washington, the
White House? expressed deep
shock at the news of the tragedy.
Dr. Bennett lft Washington last
month. f
Dr. Bennett, 65, who was on
leave from his post as president
of Oklahoma A. and M. college,
at Stillwater, Okla., took the post
as head of the technical assist
ance program in November, 1930.
The Bennetts are survived by
three daughters and two sons.
72nd Redding
Anniversary
Due inj Albany
Statesman News Service
ALBANY, ifec. 23 On Christ
mas day, Mr, and Mrs. L. B.
Weaver will celebrate their 72nd
wedding anniversary, and while
no open house is planned this year,
Mrs. Weaver Isaid their door is
always open td friends.
Mr. and MrsJ Weaver were both
born in Illinois, Mr. Weaver at
Winnebago Jaq. 25, 1857, and Mrs.
Weaver at Dufand on Aug. 29, of
the same year
They were Snarried at Durand
on Dec. 25, J879, in their new
home. Mrs. ; Weaver prepared the
wedding dinner for the wedding
party and guests.
In 1910 Mrf and Mrs. Weaver
came to Albany. The passing years
have dealt lightly with the well
known couple, although Mr. Weav
er is now confined to the house
to a great extent.
Mrs. Weaver does all her own
house work pyith the exception
of the laundry which is sent out.
Their home contains many pieces
of furniture i and dishes which
would delights the heart of any
collector of antiques. Among these
is an organ, afgift to Mrs. Weaver
from her father on her 16 th
birthday.
The only children of the couple
died in infancy. However, Mr. and
Mrs. Weaver have near them a
foster child, a great niece of Mrs.
Weaver, whoifs they raised. She
is Mrs. Patricia- Bryant, who with
her four children, give an added
interest to the daily lives of the
elderly couple. Mrs. Bryant's
husband is in f Korea.
TO.GIYE AWAY COAL. '
BONN, Germany, Dec 23-V
The German f coal industry' an
nounced today thai it is giving
200,000 tons of coal for free dis-
Vibution to th4 poor of West .Ger
many m tn next lew weeks.
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Hymns," presented to the public and Fairview employes Friday night. Center piece of the pageant
was the nativity scene with two of the pupils acting as Mary and Joseph, above. The same program
was presented for the students Friday afternoon, and featured the school orchestra and choir. (States
man photo).
Frankfort Mine
Explosion Toll
Climbs to 101
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Dec.
23-(P)-The known death toll in
the West Frankfort mine disaster
climbed to 101 tonight as the
government began an inquiry into
the disaster.
Seventy-eight bodies have been
recovered from the blast-torn tun
nels of the Orient No. 2 mine, and
another 22 were seen by rescue
workers underground. One miner
died in a hospital tonight of in
juries received in the blast.
There were still parts1 of the
mine to probe.
Even as weary rescue workers,
some near exhaustion, wormed
deeper into catacombs of the 50
foot deep shaft, Secretary of the
Interior Oscar Chapman had 12
investigators at the scene.
He himself flew here from
Washington today with John L.
Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers. On hand, too, was
John Forbes, director of the U. S.
bureau of mines.
Together the three went down
in the timber -shattered mine for
a quick look. When Chapman
emerged from the pit, he said he
was on his way to the state capitol
at Springfield to confer with Gov
ernor Adlai Stevenson. He plans
to return to Washington tomorrow.
The rescue work at the large
sprawling mine near West Frank
fort a city of sorrow this Sunday
before Christmas moved along
slowly.
The volunteer workers, most of
them veterans of the coal pits, la
bored under intense heat and
fought a treacherous foe the
same deadly gas which caused the
explosion two miles back from
the shaft some 550 feet below the
surface.
All except three bodies have
been identified. Many of them
were horribly mangled by the
great blast which shook the mine's
12-miles of tunnels about 8:30 p.m.
Friday.
Rooming-House
Blaze Fatal to
Man at Reedsport
REEDSPORT, Ore., Dec. 23-(P)
A body, believed to be that of
Denny Hartsford, a logger, was
found today in the charred ruins
of a combination restaurant and
rooming house here.
Fire broke out in the building
early last Friday. A waitress ran
from room to room awakening
about SO guests and directing them
to safety.
It was thought everyone had
gotten out of the building until
the body was discovered today.
Hartsford was a logger for the
Gardiner Lumber company.
Salem Temperature
Dips Below Freezing
Salem temperatures dipped
again Sunday with a midnight
temperature reading- of 27 .degrees
and a low of 25. expected this
morning, McNary field ''weather
men reported. -The weather was
expected to stay clear and cool
today with temperatures ranging
between 42 and 25 degrees.
IHtungarv Fines 4 U.S.
Fliers $30,000 Each
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 23-J)-A Hungarian military court
convicted four American fliers for: Violating Hungary's borders and
fined them each 360,000 forints (about $30,000) today. A government
announcement said they confessed and acquiesced in the verdict.
If they cannot or will not pay, the announcement said, they will
have to go to jail for three months. There was no immediate hint as
to when or whether the fliers .
would be freed. It was unlikely
that two captains ad two ser
geants would have the equivalent
of $120,000 in their pockets.
"It is a complete surprise to
me," said U. S. Minister Christian
Ravndal when informed of the
development by newspapermen.
"We had no idea when a trial
would be held. I really can't give
any comment now."
U. S. legation officials have not
been permitted to see the fliers,
who were forced down in Hun
gary November 19 while on a
flight from Germany to Yugo
slavia by Russian fighter planes
stationed in Hungary under the
peace treaty. The court ordered
the plane, a C-47 confiscated with
all its equipment, which Hun
garian officials said proved the
fliers meant to help spies and di
versionists in Hungary.
The fliers are John J. Swift of
Glen Falls, N. Y., Capt. David H.
Henderson of Shawnee, Okla., T.
Sgt. Jess A. Duff of Spokane,
Wash., and Sgt. James A. Flam of
Kingsland, Ark.
The government's announce
ment said they admitted that they
"violated the Hungarian border
near Gyula on November 19." It
said they could not give a "satis
factory explanation" why they
possessed military maps of some
parts of the Soviet Union and the
people's democracies, nor why
there were parachutes in "super -fluo'is
numbers," a radio trans
mitter and bundles of warm
blankets in the plane.
Gen. Dean Spent 20 Days Without Food Before
Capture; Red Newsman Tells of Interview
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Dec. 23-(JP)-'A
Communist correspondent,
who said he interviewed Maj. Gen.
William F. Dean in a North Kor
ean prison camp only two days
ago, related today that the long
missing 24th Division commander
saved his last bullet to kill him
self rather than be captured in
the summer of 1950.
But the general was betrayed
by two English-speaking Koreans
who at first befriended hint
only to hand him over to North
Korean troops. Wounded and faint
from 20 days without food, Dean
was quickly over-powered before
he could use his gun. Xt
The dramatic and detailed ac
count of Dean's capture on Aug
23, 1950 and the amazingr story
of the month Dean spent eluding
the Reds in South Korean hill
were told by Wilfred Burchett,
40, correspondent . for the Paris
newspaper Ce Soir. An Australian
by birth, Burchett served , as an
allied war correspondent in south
east Asia and - southwest Pacific
war theaters during World War II.
Burchett's story, tinged only ' in
a few places, with Communist
propaganda, agreed generally
New Sub-Zero
Front Moves
Into Midwest
By The Associated Press
A new sub-zero cold front
moved southeast Sunday through
the northern plains states.
Forecasters at Chicago said
zero to 10 below weather was due
Sunday night in Illinois, Indiana,
upper Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa
and Wisconsin. It was even colder
than that early Sunday at Wausau,
Wis., where the mercury dipped
to 16 below.
Fair weather prevailed over
most other sections of the country.
Traffic conditions continued
hazardous in the middle west, es
pecially in Illinois, due to icy and
snow-packed roads.
The weather moderated Sun
day over the southern plains and
western Gulf states; the central
and southern Mississippi valley
and through the Ohio valley. Over
this area temperatures have gone
as much as 10 to 20 degrees above
Saturday's readings.
Some of the readings reported
Sunday include:
Grand Forks, N. D. -26; Fargo,
N. D. -25; Duluth, Minn. -14;
Glasgow, Mont. -20; Seattle 30,
and Greensboro, N. C. 20.
with earlier reports of Dean's
saga, which had been pieced to
gether from both Communist and
friendly sources.
The story began with Dean's
fight alongside his men as on
rushing North Korean tank col
umns took Taejon July 20, 1950.
It told how Dean fought his
way through a road block, out of
flaming Taejon, after telling his
men they must never surrender.
Although injured himself, the hus
ky general, then 51 years old,
helped carry out wounded men to
safety.
Then, Burchett said. Dean
wandered for a month in the rug
ged hills of South Korea, without
food for 20 days . and losing 60
pounds. Injured, ailing,-and even
unconscious at times. Dean was
surrounded six times, and each
time broke out, Burchett said.
Burchet told how Dean carried
his .pistol with him during the
anguished days he spent eluding!
the Reds. He saved and carefully
polished his last twelve bullets.
These were Dean's words, as
Burchett quoted them in the
Pyongyang prisoner stockade:
"I was absolutely determined
never to become a prisoner of
war.
Pre-Yule
Activity
NearEnd
"Twas the night before Christ
mas . .
Pre-Christmas activities will
shift tonight from the stores and
offices to the homes of area re
sident! as preparations are com
pleted for celebrating the anni
versary of the birth of Christ.
By 6 p. m. tonight most stores
will be closed to permit clerks and
workers to spend Christmas eve
with their families. Some stores
including Miller's will close at
4:30 p. m. Stores will remain
closed Christmas day.
State, county, and city offices
will be open today but most will
be staffed by a skeleton office
force necessary for limited oper
ations. Federal offices except for the
postoffice will not operate today.
But for postal employes the day
will see a flurry of activities de
signed to get Christmas mail de
livered before Christmas day.
Kegular deliveries were made
Sunday to keep the heavy flow
of mail from jamming post office
facilities.
Clear Skies Forecast
Weathermen couldn't promise a
white Christmas, but they ex
pected it to be a bright one. A
high pressure area spread into the
Willamette valley Sunday bring
ing sunny skies and cooler tem
peratures. The weather bureau at
McNary field said it looked like
the weather would stay that way
for tne next couple of days
Lack of precipitation .either rain
or snow, promised some salvation
for people planning out-of-state or
across-the-mountains trips for the
holidays. All major highways were
reported in normal condition for
the season Sunday. Little new
snowfall was recorded over the
state on the weekend.
While residents made final
preparations for the holiday, Sa
lem merchants were looking back
on a highly successful Christmas
season. One merchant said Christ
mas business was just "about
equal" to last year.
Institutions Ready
Parties and dances have been
scheduled at several state institu
tions in Salem tonight. Special
Christmas eve programs are
planned for the Hillcrest school
for girls and at McClaren Boy's
school.
Special Christmas dinners, tur
key and all the trimmings, are
slated for state institutions. At
Oregon state hospital 3,000' pa
tients and attendants will have
distribution of gifts. Several in
stitutions will have Christmas
trees and distribution of gifts
Christmas eve.
The Salvation Army will dis
tribute gifts to inmates at the Ore
gon state penitentiary.
The state purchasing department
reported it had-purchased a liberal
supply of nuts, candies and
oranges for the Christmas holi
day at all institutions. (Christ
mas church services story on
page 2).
Slide Blocks Columbia
Highway for Nine Hours
HOOD RIVER, Dec. 23 -UP)- A
slide blocked the Columbia River
highway for about nine hours to
day. State police said the slide hit the
road five miles east of Viento at
about 6 a.m. A 60-ton boulder had
to be cut up and hauled away be
fore the highway was reopened
at about 3 p.m.
"I was determined to kill 11
North Koreans. The twelfth bul
let was for me."
It did not turn out that way.
Near Chinan, about 80 miles
south of Taejon, he was led into
a trap by two Koreans who had
fed and sheltered him. When
North Korean soldiers closed in
with their rifles. Dean drew his
gun, but one of his "friends"
grabbed his arm before he could
shoot.
The long chase was over for
the Congressional Medal of Honor
winner. The long months of im
prisonment in semi-isolation
stretched ahead.
Most of the time. Dean was
sick, Burchett said. His left 'shoul
der was broken. He suffered from
dysentery or an acute intestinal
infection, and finally malaria.
However, Burchett asserted
Dean regained his health last
September.
. Burchett said he found Dean -in
good health last Friday. They
talked for three hours in a two
room cellar that is his prison.
Dean asked, Burchett said, about
his wife in Berkeley, Calif., and
his son and daughter.
He told Burchett that last Aug
Holiday Accident
Toll Climbs to 318
By The Associated Press
As the early hours ef the lang
Christmas holiday slipped past,
the nation coon ted its mounting
list of dead victims of riolent
accidents.
Traredy visited hundreds of
families erasinr Yuletide joy
with at least 318 lives lost in a
variety of accidents, principally
traffic and fires. Traffic mishaps
killed 235 persons, while 48 were
lost in fires and 35 died in mis
cellaneous accidents daring the
period from 6 pan. (local time)
to 11 pan. EST Sunday.
The national safety council
forecast 606 traffic deaths In the
108 hours ending at midnight
Tuesday. That is the highest
prediction the council ever made
for a holiday period.
Cascades Slide
Halts Traffic on
SP Main Line
Salem train traffic was idle on
the main north-south lines of
Southern Pacific railroad after
tons of rock and dirt crashed
on a freight train south of Cres
cent Lake, derailing seven- cars
and blocking main line tracks
through the Cascade mountains
early Sunday.
No trains had passed through
Salem up to midnight last night.
The slide occurred 32 miles south
of Crescent lake at 4:40 a. m., sta
tion agents said. The first of four
northbound passenger trains was
expected then to reach Salem by
1:30 a. m. today.
Delayed were two, northbound
sections of the Cascade passenger
train, the Klamath, the Shasta
Daylight and all freight traffic, of
ficials said.
No one was injured when the
slide struck the train which was
standing on a siding. The cars,
however, tipped on to the main
line tracks which run alongside.
Blocked tracks delayed the ar
rival of north and south bound
trains all along the route. The
south bound Shasta Daylight was
rerouted through Rose burg and
Ashland, Ore., and will arrive in
San Francisco several hours iate.
Retail Price
Rise Continues
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23-(iip-Retail
prices were increased throu
out the west from October 15 to
November 15 and, in a number of
cities, reached an all-time high
level. Max Kossoris, western di
rector of the bureau of labor sta
tistics, reported today.
During that 30-day period of
both goods and services hit new
peaks in Los Angeles and Seattle.
In other cities food prices were
the principal factors in the rises.
Both Salt Lake City and Denver
reached new all-time highs for
retail food prices in November
while Portland missed the all-time
high of last May by .2 of a per
centage point.
Portland was the only city re
ported that did not show a new
price peak in some category, and
Portland's food price level rose 2
per cent during the October-November
month to 251.8, just one
tenth of a cent below the all time
high reached in May of this year.
TRUMAN TO FLY HOME
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -UFh-President
Truman will fly home
to Independence, Mo., tomorrow
to spend Christmas.
ust 25 his thoughts were of his
wife. That day marked one year
that he was captured. It also was
his silver wedding anniversary.
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 23-C3)
Mrs. William F. Dean, tears well
ing in her eyes, positively identi
fied today a picture from a com
munist correspondent as that of
her husband, the long-missing
commander of the U. S. 24th di
vision. "That's my husband, all right,"
she cried happily when shown an
Associated Press wirephoto of the
general. "There's no doubt about
it
Dean, missing since July, 1950,
was .named on the communist
prisoner of war list handed United
Nations command truce negotiators.-A
communist correspondent
told AP Correspondent Robert D.
Tuckman of interviewing Dean' in
a North Korean prison camp only
two days ago.
Mrs. Dean, informed earlier of
the interview, said the quotations
sounded- like Dean particularly a
joke about his "German goiter."
She also confirmed that August
25 was their wedding anniversary,
as the communist correspondent
reported.
Mexico
Scene
of
Tragedy
TIJUANA. Mt -tw -Pi-
Fire turned, a ga-- Chxistznsai
party for poor : children into a
screaming death trap fin which at
least 41 Dersona rrifet Kr. i.-
night i
One man was reported rm-t
and it was believed his body and
possibly that of other v-t-m
the hot ruins. I
The Miguel Alernan hospital
treated 88 persons and ; reported
32 In serious condition.
Most of the dead and injmr4
were women and rhiMrn r-
A. D. Alberto Rojo, imder-oUree-tor
of the hospital, said. -
i.ne poor cmidren $rere geitiasj
presents from the Christmas trs,
on the stare of th -
auditorium of the Old coliseum
ounaing, when the fire s tartest. -Survivors
said t-r ---.
started scuffling near the tree msA
knocked it over. This caused ttim
electric lighting to short and start
the blaze. j
A different version came from
an official source, however. Dis
trict Attorne- rnnHim rrt-.
jr said an investigation indicated
the fire started from a cigare?
droppef"under stairs near the tre.
asianon said the death toll m
the highest for any fire in Mexi
co's history. I "
-Just A Little Fire" K . - -
It was just a little fire at first
said 13-vear-ekM Tnnr u4.
whose mother was among the vie-
uuis. ine cruia was carried out oi
the building by a man. She didnt
know him. j
"Nobody was afraid right away"
the child said.
Men started throwing' beer ess
the bumine tre utn - -. "-
laughing as they did so. -
instead oz going out, the flame
leaped up and ignited the curtail
on the stage; then roared up t
the ceiling. . .. .
A crowd, estimated "by authori
ties as from 300 to 400, was seated
uieauicr type seats in we naxi
and in a balcony surrounding it.
Most of them were!
women and
children.
Screams Heard J
As the flames roared upwards,
screams broke out. There was s
quick movement in the crowd ancl-
the rush for thm -it tt,rtl
Alarm spread throughout the halL
it naa two doors out one was
locked. t
The only open exit was dowst
f Vl a ft-rtnt cf air. 4a tk. .... ,
The rush to - that I door, with
men, womea and children tum
bling from the balcony to j ch
in, caused a crush that closed rL
Then, the lights went out.
Complete Panie
From then on, the surviver
said, panic became complete.
Little Lenor Medrano said sh
didn't know what happened ta
her mother. She became sepa-
rated from her ' in the darkness
lighted by the terrifying glow
from the fire.
She was being, crushed under
the mass of humanity in the stair
way when the man lifted her m
his shoulders and carried her out.
"It was horrible, horrible, hor
rible," said Louis ALarid. an
nouncer for radio station XEA2
which had studios in the buildings
ne roia ox ma sing nis way irosa
the structure ahead of the maiat
rush. "AH was madness, he de
clared, i
Pressure Tee Lew
The single fire company f the
border city of 40,000 ; reached the
scene but found that water pres
sure was too low for it to check
the blaze. j
The firemen were met at tb
entrance by the rush of maddened
humanity, as it pressed out crush
ing women and children beneatlt
it. I
"Everything was delirium," said
Salvator Urqutza, reporter for S
Tijuana newspaper who assisted
many from the building.
Some jumped from the win
dows, he said. Those who wersv
injured in the fall crawled across
the street to avoid being tramped
upon.
The building destroyed was sr
concrete and wood structure.
The Christmas party was a
annual affair, arranged h-r Drivatar
charities. j
Woman Twice
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WEST FRANKFORT. HL, Dee. !
23-(P)-For the second time in 29
years West Frankfurt's Orient Nev
2 mine has made 48-year-old 11m
Goldie Sandusky a widow. v
. Her second, husband, Stanley
Sandusky, 49, was on of the oca
lost in Fridioriiight's;explcd-v
Twenty years ago her first hus
band, Noah. Avery, was killed in -a
caveih thereTJ - - " M T -
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AXJrW PUCtKTATIOM
Stace Start ef Weata Ta. .
This Tear
Lt Year
.ormar .
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IS 41
Mine Widows