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Dally Eighteenth Yenr.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, SEARCH 12, 1921
NO. 301
MEDFORD
Tribune
FIND
WIFE SLAYER
Parents Give Up Son Charged
With Murder, Sought Since
r February 13 Left Suicide
Notes Fugitive Thought to
Have Been in Bend, Ore.
Crime Was Brutal.
PENDLETON, Ore., March 12 El
don Hutchinson, wanted for the alleg
ed murder of his wire at their homo at
Kelso, Wash., early In February, was
' arrested early this morning at the
home of his father, E. E. Hutchinson,
near Pilot Rock, by T. B. Burfington.
deputy sheriff, and Price Rocob, fed
eral officer.
The apprehensTon of We man came
shortly after his father saw his son
this morning, and it was on informa
tion furnished by the elder Hutchin
son that the officers went to the homo
and placed the youngor man under ar
rest. ', The. officers arrived at the county
jail this morning shortly after 8:30
o'clock with Hutchinson in charge.
When quizzed by Bufflngton and Ite
cob the prisoner talked freoly.
He admitted that he killed his wife.
The crime was committed on Monday
morning, February 4, ho said. Mrs
Hutchinson had not rtressod when lie
killed her, he declarod in his state
ment. He said he did not know what
he was doing until he was in the act
of choking her. Many of tho detnils
connected with the crime he claimed
were not clear in his mind. .
"I've never been right-since I was
about fourteen years old," he said In
explaining how he came to commit the
homicide. "Sometimes It has seemed
that the walls wore rushing In on me
and I've had smothering spells. My
body and my worries have seemed to
part company. I could stick a needle
Into my body and it didn't seem to
hurt much, and the oaln seemed kinda
apart someway."
The two had never had any trouble
of any kind, he explained. He was not
Jealous of his wife because she had
never given him any reason and he
said that she was not jealous of him
"I not only loved her, 1 worshipped
her," he declared. "Sh was a good
housekeeper and worked hard. When
1 was out of work oho did washlim tc
get me a birthday present. All I lived
for was to please her."'
"Sometimes," he continued I" ex
plaining the "spells" he claims to have
Buffered at times. "I would see wrig
gling forms in front of me. It was this
way on that morning."
He had his wife's rings In his posses
slon when arrested this morning. He
does not remember how he happened
to get them after the tragedy, ho told
the officers.
He has no clear memory about cash
ing the check on Monday morning, he
said, though he admitted that he did
receive tho cash. The Hrst night af
ter the homicide he spent at Oregon
City, according to his statement. The
second night he lias forgotten where
(he was, he said. On the third night
he was in a sawmill town near Eu
gene. The fourth night he spent In a
vacated summer cottage on the Mc
Kenzie river. On the fifth night he
said he realized that something was
wrong with him and thon ho had the
desire to end his own life.
"I knew If I did that I'd be lost and
would never have a chance to make
atonement or to meet my wife in the
after life, so 1 decided to koop on liv
ing." ,
"You lost the desire to kill yourself
when you put the proposition right up
to yourself, didn't you?" he was asked.
"Yes," he admitted.
He then conceived the Idea of work
ing to make enough money so that he
muiM enmn In Pilot ROCk tO S66 his
father and then return to Kelso to
give himself up, he Bald. He worked
for R. O. Andrus near Redmond as a
farm hand, boarded a train near there
and nrrlvnrl nt nieth. three miles west
of Pendleton Tuesday afternoon, he ad
mitted. Ho then walked to rnoi no..
h ho arrived at nine o'clock, walk
o,i ihmuzh hn streets and went to the
ram.i. Ho found the grave of his
wife he said and spent an hour praying
and In lying on his wires grave.
he walked to the home oc nis
V. V. Hutchinson.
He tried to sleep In the barn, but the
nivhi wan too cold, so he walked
around to keep warm until this morn
ing. , ,
"I didn't go In last night because I
vantsH m mv father first, but my
little brother, Louis, about ten years
old, saw me this morning and he went
WITH
Century Old Irishman
Still Able to Walk,
Fight, Cuss and Leap
LONDON, March 12. The dan-
gerous age In the case of Owen
Connelly of Laskey, County Sli-
go, Ireland, seems to be an even
hundred years. Connelly, hale
and vigorous, walked nine miles
to tho courthouse recently to an-
swcr a charge of having "used
threatening language und abused
Patrick nrady."
"Ho jumped over a fence and
threatened me with a black-
thorn," declared Brady.
Tho maglstrato dismissed the
case.'
FRIENDJCALLED
Roxie Stimson, Divorcee, Ex
pected to Tell Amazing Story
of Sources of Income of
Jesse Smith, Pal of Cabinet
Officer.
WASHINGTON, March 12. An
amazing story, containing many grave
insinuations, was told before tho sen
ato committee's Dnughertv investiga
tion today by Itoxio Stinson of Co
lumbuB, Ohio, divorced wife of Jesse
Smith, who for years was Attorney
Genera? Daugtiertyta ctor(fidant and
political lieutenant and who commit
ted suicide In the attorney general's
apartment here a year ago.
(WASHINGTON, March 12. The
senate committee investigating the ad
ministration of Attorney Dnngherty
will open its hearings lato this aftor-
noon and will hear as the first witness
Mrs. Roxie Stinson of Columbus, Ohio,
divorced wife of the late Jesse W.
Smith.
Smith, a close friend arid political
'leutenant of Mr. Daugherty, lived
with him In Washington and commit
ted suicide a year ago in their apart
nient here.
Mrs. Stinsnn is expected to testify
s to the sources of Smith's Income,
according to senators, both before and
:iflcr tho Inauguration of president
Harding.
She was questioned yesterday nt
Columbus by Senator Wheeler Of Mon
tnna, prosecutor of the Inquiry, and Is
said to havo outlined an "amazing
story" for recital on the witness
stand.
It was not revealed until today that
Senator Wheeler had mado his trip to
''oliinibti8. He went there on a tip
i caching Chairman Brookhart of the
committee.
The commltteo's information Is that
while Mrs. Stinson was divorced from
Smith eight or ten years ago she re
mained in his confidence almost up to
the time of his suicide.
The testimony is expected to relate,
among other things, to receipt by
Smith of stock shares In tho Pure Oil
company.
She saifT sTio had known Harry M.
Daugherty "for many years," and also
had met his brother, Mai Daugherty.
After the divorce from Smith, she said
her relations with him wore "friend
ly." They had always been friends,
said the witness of Smith, and the at
torney general.
Smith always tried to support her.
she continued, after the divorce In No
vember, 1919. He mado payments In
sums of $500 each.
When Smith and Daugherty camo to
Washington, she said, they lived for
a while In a house belonging to E. B.
McLean. Sho said she was informed
t.hey paid no rent.
Mr. Howland objected to the lins or
Senator Wheeior's questioning, but the
senator declared he did not Intend to
be controlled by counsel.
'I want yon to understand you are
not going to bulldoze mo, said
Wheeler. "You re here by tho cour
tesy of the committee."
"I expect I'll find my place." smlilng
ly responded Howland, after disclaim
ine any intent to bulldoze Senator
Wheeler.
"Counsel for Mr. Daugherty are ex
pected to give large amounts of bI
lence until your time comes to cross-
examine the witness," put In Senator
Ashurst, democrat, Arizona.
Ttpsumine the witness said, her dl
vorced husband frequently visited her
at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, al
ter he came here in 1921, and commu
nicated with her almost every nay,
"by wire, letter or telephone."
DAUGHERTY QUIZ
OPENS, WIFE OF
(VI LEAN IN
DENIAL IN
OIE QUERY
Washinaton Publisher Tells
Senate Loan Feature Only
Connection White House
Doorkeeper Sent Message
at Slemp's Suggestion
Says Curtis was 'Principal'.
WASHINGTON, March 12- Ed
ward B. McLean told tho oil commit
tee today that lie had given it mis
leading information about tho celc-in-ntci
sioo. f)00 loan because he
trusted und .lesired to help his friend
Albert Full.
Tho publisher insisted that his sec
ond storv about tho loan tola to Hen
ntni- Walsh 111 January at Palm Beacli
was correct. He said ho had loaned
the former secretary 1100,000 in
checks for a ranch enterprise, but
that the chocks wcro returned to him
uncasbed.
His nrovlous nssortlon that tho loan
was mado in cash, ho said, was mado
at Kail's request. Tho latter appeared
to be in trouble, ho added, but had
represented to him it had nothing to
dn with oil.
Tho publisher nlso asserted that he
himself had no Interest in mo win
clair or Doheny companies and knew
nothing about the Full oil policies ex
cept what he had rcud in tho news
papers.
Asked about the codo messages ex
changed between Washington and his
cottugo at Palm Beach he was unable
to doclphor or explain many of them
Ho suld William J. Burns had given
ono of his employes a department of
Justice code, but that ho" himself
never had codod a message.-
Ho became a secrot agent of the
Justice deportment, he continuod
shortly after tho beginning of the
Harding administration largely be
cause the official badge would make
it easier for him to get through po
lice lines when traveling with the
president.
The "principal" referred to in one
of the telegrams sent him by his em
ployes, McLean, appeared to him to
refer to Attorney General Daugherty
and did not refor to 'President Cool
iilgo. He Identified the attorney
general as the author of tho message
assuring him not to worry because
everything that could be done "would
bo done by us."
Led into a. long discussion of his
relations with Mr. Daugherty he said
tho attorney general had lived in one
of the McLean houses for seven
eight months after coming to Wash
ington and that Fall had visited there
often. But ho added that Daugherty
"wouldn't do anything wrong for me,
even if ho had been asked.
WASHINGTON, March 12. H. E
McKcnna, chief doorkeeper nt the
Whlto House executive offices was
called before tho oil committee today
and ouestioned about a telegram he
sent to Edward B. McLean In Florida
Informing him of Secretary Slemp's
departure for the south.
'He said McLean had asked him to
send such a notification , and that
Slemp hud suld it would be all right
to do bo.-
E. W. Starling of the White House
secret service detail who also had
communicated with tho publisher by
telegraph, followed McKcnna on the
stand.
Starling testified that his message
related to the employment of E. I
W'llklns of Hopklnsvllln. Ky., In the
McLean household. Wllkins, Starling
suid. was his lifelong friend.
The committee then called E. W.
Snilthers, chief of communications at
tho White House who operated the
Washington ond of McLean's private
wire to Palm Beach.
Smlthurfl declared'' his duties were
"purely mechanical." that he paid no
attention to tho BUbJcct matter of the
messages handled, and that he took
the Job only because ho needed the
extra salary.
Asked as to the Identity of the
"prlnciiial" In the celebrated mes
sage of lat January 29, tho witneBB
said he didn't know who tho "prin
cipal" was unless It waa Senator Cur
tis of Kansas.
McLean was excused from further
attendance on tho committee after he
had been on the stand moro than two
hours.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. March 12.
Pending the arrival this afternoon of
Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts,
special government counsel, and the
filing by them of " bill In equity seek
ing annulment of tho Teapot IJomo.
oil lease to the Mammoth Oil com -
pany. at orney. rereeK y,cM dulea; , oppofle any and ,1
bHA.. jAr.M ,i,0 ,m ,r,i
when a preliminary hearing la held
tomorrow before Federal Judge T.
Blake Kennedy. In addition to the
cancellation of the lease, the gov-
ernment bill la expected to ask a tom -
porary injunction halting operations jointly. more profitable agrlcul
on the Teapot Dpme and the ap-. ture; Is nlB Biogan. He offers no plat-
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ROMANCE OF BREWSTER ON ROCKS AS
PUBLIC OPINION SMITES "FREE LOVE"
i zm j; i i
-L?3.
Corliss Palmer and Kugene V. Brewsler and (inset) Mrs. Brewster.
Eugene V. 'Brewster, millionaire-New York publisher, is all alone
in the half million dollar love nest ie bought for Corliss Palmer. Pub
lic opinion has won another victory over free love. Refused a divorce
by Mrs. Erewster, and shunned by society, he has parted from f'.nliss
with the torse announcement, "Circumstances rcquira that sho (Miss
Palmer) leave New York City and niter her life sufficiently to cclurm
to conditions which we have found impossible to chnnire."
LOCAL QUINTET
LEAVE TONIGHT
FOR STATE IET
Medford Listed As One of the
Leading Contestants Reg
ular Season Lineup to Be
Used Titiii Settled in Two
Districts Last Night.
Tho Medford high school basketball
team will leave
111 is oVOtllllff for
Salem, to contest for tho stato cham
pionship. Tho tenm will play ItB first
gume with La Grande Friday night,
and will bo cheered by a couple of
hundred southern Oregon fans, who
will make tho trip to boo their favor
ites In nction. Tho team will be com
posed of its regular season lineup,
Allen, center, Knlps und C.'haslaln for
wards and Iteichstein and Williams
guards. Tho substitutes have not been
named yet. Coach Callison and Mica
Jacobs will complete tho personnel.
Astoria, the team that put Medford
out of the running last year, was de
feated last night by St. (Helens, and
McMlnnvllle, which was overwhelm
ingly defeated by Medford this season,
is one of tho tourney contenders. Ac
cording to local dopesters. the race
lies between I-a Grande, Eugcno high,
and Midford.
CLATSKANIE, Ore.. March 12.
The St. Helens high school basketball
quintet defeated Astoria hero last
night, giving St. Helen tho right to
represent Columbia und Clatsop
counties at the stuto tournament at
Salcin thlB week.
SALEM, Ore., March 12. McMlnn
vllle high school won tho baskotball
title for district No. 8 last night by
defeating Forest Grovo high school
on the Salem floor. 23 to 22 and will
represent that district in ' the Btuto
intcrseholastlc tournament opening
here Thursday under tho uuspicca of
Willamette university.
2 CANDIDATES FILE
LEI
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SALEM, Ore., March 12. D. C.
LLewsl of Portland and leonard H. Mc-
Bee of Dallas, today filed with the
secretary of Btate their statements as
candidates for the republican nomina
tion for representative In the legisla
ture from the!" respective districts
Lewis Is a candidate to he one of
the representatives from the 18th dls
trict, Multnomah county. "For tho
groator development of Oregon," Is his
slogan, and his platform Bays: "En
deavor to keep down the expenses of
'government; aid In making tho auto-
niob)Io Iawg mor0 equitable; will be
congclcntloug , the dlllcharge of offl-
measures having for their purpose tho
creation of industrial unrest and dig-
rupiion or Duainvsn omuuiij.
Mr. McBee J a candidate to repre
Hent the 12th representative district,
!wnich B p0Jk and Benton counties
ALONG -DESKS:
THE DALLES, Oro., Mar. 12. C.
U. Williams, confessed Mosier bank
bandit and Hert Taylor, larceny con
vict, who escaped from tho Wasco
county Jail Sunday night after locking
up tho night Jailor, was captured by a !
posso in Macks canyon, one of tho
Wildest ,.reglon(ki,alung,tho Doschutos
rlvor curly thlB morning. Tho nosso
led bv Sheriff Levi ChHsman of Wasco
. ,,,. ,,. 1,.,,,h,. uunrlff miirh
ru,-!,. t-i n,,t., Bnii,ri
tha Mirllivos na thev. woro crossing
.the John Pagen sheep ranch near
wiulL. mm llio jiui nrwuRum miuuun
tho officers in pursuit they dashod
into a draw, see-ltlng cover. Ab they
disappeared, fully S00 yards In ad
vance of tho posse, a volley of shot
rained around thorn. Tho pair ro
nmlned concealed for about ton min
utes while tho offlcors searched tho
brush, thon they gave themselves up.
Taylor was armed with a riflo and
Williams carried a pistol.
Tho trial of "Ted tho Greek," othor
wlse known as MadronoH, who la ac
cused by Williams of having been
involved In tho Moslcr robbery wan
schoduled to start this morning but 1
had already boon postponed because
of tho escape of the star witness. It
Is expected that tho trial will get j
under way this afternoon.
Seven deputies from Wosco and
Sherman counties accompanied tho
sheriffs on tho senrch which had boon
carried on Blnco the Jail break. I
When brought back this morning
both WllllaniB and Taylor denied hav
ing left town In a stolen automobile.
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animmsmmun o. , "'projected civic auditorium. 750,000.
toriinl revenue was ordered today by ' J ,.,.,, Kn ' n, .
tllO HCnOin.
A reBOlllllon pr.viuiiiB lor me
vestlgntlon, Introduced by Senator
fnuzens, republican, Michigan, was
nunpicn: wimoui a rnc.ru vmo. ."""-
ator Watson, inninna, will no cuair-
man of tho committee and tho other
members will bo Couzens and Ernst,
Kentucky, -cpubllcons, and
New Mexico, und King, Utah,
Jones,
demo-
crnts.
E
VETS F
WASHINGTON. March 12. Tho
pain-up lite insurance policies wnion
will bo given veterans under - tbo gy a Vva voce vote a resolution of
terms of tho new soldier bonus will fPred by Representative Garrett, the
bo valued at II a day for homo ser
vice ond $1.25 a day for oversea aer
vice, It was decided today by a Bub
committoo of the house ways and
means committee framing tho now
measure.
An additional 25 per cent of the
total amount of tho adjusted sorylco
credit would bo allowed, thUB making:
the basis on which compensation
would bo allowed, thus making the
hasla on which compensation would
he. figured the same aa provided' in
the bill pasBed last session and ve -
toed by President Harding.
No Chance for Cut
1923 Income Taxes
President Is Told
WASHINGTON, March . 12.
President Coolidge was advised
today by Representative Long-
worth of Ohio, republican house
leader, that It would be "utterly
t and absolutely Impossible" to
bring about enactment of leglsla-
tlon reducing tho 1923 Incomo
tnxes by 25 per cent before
March 15.
a
Underwood Carries Alabbama
for Democratic Choice-
Bryan's Choice Finishes
Second Sen. Moses Un
pledged, Runs Last. '
MANCHESTER, N. 1I-. March 12.
lestorduy'B roturna from tho pros!
dcntinl primary In New Hampshire
show election of tho oloven delegates
to tho republican convention pledged
to President Crfollclgo. United States
Senator Georgo H. Moses, tho only
one-of eight candidates for dolegates
at large, who refused to pledgo himself-
for Coolldgo, ran last on tho
ticket.
All democratic contestants stood
unpledged. There was no contest for
tha eight placos as delegates atarge,
, .
, BIRMINGHAM, AIn., March 12.
Senator Oscar W. Undorwood gained
' the Alabama delegation to tho na
M'lftl democratic convention In yos-
terdays primary, according- to In-
i------ ,
plurality of approximately 2000 votes
over U It. MuHgrove. A. jjlnsmoro,
who ran third, mado tho raco us a
backer of William O. McAdoo, how
ever, Mr. McAdoo had announced ho
was not competing in Underwood's
hojrio state and was not represented
by Dlnsmore. .
Musgrove refused to concede defeat
and charged that in some counties the
votos "had been manipulated in in
terests of my opponent."
William J. llryan hud spoken In
support of Musgrovo.
Returns from 69 of tho 67 counties
in tho state gave Underwood 42,209,
Musgrovo 27,285 and Dlnsmore, 8201.
SEATTLE, Mar. 12. Dr. Edwin J.
Brown, a dentist, shown by complete
returns In a municipal election yester
day to havo recoivod a majority of
4H42 over Alfred 1!. Lundln, former
prosecuting uttornoy of King county,
was tho third man In Beuttlo's history
to be ro-eloctod mayor.
John K. Carroll, incumbent; Wil
liam Hickman Mooro, former mayor,
and former councilman Ralph D.
Nichols, former stato senator, and W.
T. Campbell, were elected to tho
council.
A proposnl to Issuo $1,500,000 of
bonds to erect a bridge- over the west
waterway nt tho southern ondof the
harbor, wuh carried, 35,794 to 6131.
Honds of $500,000 for a bridge over
tho lAiko Washington canal, which
will give an additional approach to
. , m ,.. ,i 1 ..
Hi" Hiiinium in Hi" uiiivcrniijr ui
Washington, won 86.480 to 808S. A
' fiulrnmnnl ,. 1 1 1, , I ,. I, II, n imlfl f VfirCll
,,,,, , , B ... T,venlv-1 ncrnn
' (hn ,... fmnt f,,r th Seattle nort
-nn,n,i,in , .,., . hiiilrilnir to he
rontc-fl to tho United HtlllCB for 1mm
rn,,on ,.,.,,. wm )C bought under
U voto of 27,415 to 8614.
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WASHINGTON. Mar. 12 Congres
sional Investigation of criminal
charges Bald to havo boon doveloped
boforo a Chicago grand Jury against
two representatives waa ordered today
before the house
democratic leader, to creato a Bpeclal
house committee to conduct an In
quiry was adopted.
' By thla action tho house reversed
Its decision of yesterday to leave In
vestigation of the charges to the de
partment of Justice and to make no
further effort to have the namos of
the accused disclosed.
In an effort to head off a vote on
the Garrett resolution. Representative
Longworth, the republican leauer,
proposed fhat it be referred to tho
i rules committee, but his motion was
COOLIDGE WINS
HAMPSHIRE VOTE
M'AOOO BEATEN
. lost on a- record vote oi ivi io ids.
WINTRY GALE
SWEEPS AS
ST I LL RAGES
Virginia Isolated, and Seven
Lives Lost in Blizzard At
lantic Shipping Lashed
Dixie States Suffer and
Wires Crippled Forecast
Promises No Relief.
NEW YORK, March 12. Unspent
after 24 hours yesterday's storm blew
northeastward alone the New England
coast, buffeting shore towns and lash
ing the inland country. Tha weather
forecaster Bald it would last through
out the day.
The gale was abetted by a dense fall
of snow and wire communication was
badly hampered.
Seven lives were known to be lost,
five In New York City and two In Phil
adelphia and many personB were in
jured. Virginia received the heaviest blows
yesterday and for hours the state was
cut off from the world. Much damage
was done in Pennsylvania as it was In
New Jersey and along tha Long: Island
Bhore last night.
WASHINGTON, March' 12. Falling
temperatures in the south Atlantic
states today added to the difficulty of
restoring wire communications and
train schedules In the wake of the bliz
zrad which wrought considerable dam
age I nthat region during its north
eastward sweep. The snow and wind
put many telephones., out at commis
sion and caused other damage In Wash
ington and vicinity.
Joseph O'Brien of East ' Rlverdale,
Md., Is reiiorted to have died as a re
sult of a fall through the snow laden
roof of a chicken house. Trains arriv
ing from tho south continued to be late
and few direct telephone or telegraph
lines to the south were in operation
this morning.
Many lines to the oast and west also
remained down. . ;.
CHARLESTON. S. C March 12.
Tho steamship Santiago wna sunk
sixty mllca south of Cape Hatteras,
according to a radio message inter
cepted today by the Charleston navy
yard wireless station. The wireless
mossago. sent bv the -Norwegian
stonniHhlp Cissy, reported tho picking
up of one life boat containing eleven
survivors. ,
Tho message follows: .
"Picked up lifeboat containing aix
sallorB, four flromen, one carpenter, .
from the stoamer Santiago whlcn
sunk sixty miles south of Hatteras.
No other lifeboats seen. Proceeding
Baltimore."
'It waa algncd ''Captain." ; .
KENYON IS SLATED
FOR DENBY BERTH
WASHINGTON, March .12. (By
the Associated Press) Former 8on
ator W. 8. Kenyon of Iowa, now
Judge of tho eighth federal circuit
court Is said to be under considera
tion for appointment as secretary of
the navy to succeed Secretary Denby.
Judge Kenyon arrived here last
night and shortly afterward went to
the Whlto House where ho conferred
with President Coolldgo. . -
His frienda said today he had not
reached a decision, but had an ap- .
polntment with President Coolidge to--morrow
morning.
STILL NO CLUE TO
TACOMA. Mar. 12. County offic
ials are still trying today to Identity
tho man who yesterday ' Bhot and
killed Robert Tolstrop on the mail
boat Edith H-. and then took his own
life. The body of the slayer Is being
held at a morgue here and officers
have been sent to the various com
munities across the bay from Stella
coo in to learn his name and to dis
cover his motive. ;
Army Maintenance.
WASHINGTON, March 12. Main
tenance for another year of the regular ,
army at the present strength of 12,000
commissioned officers and 125,000 en
listed men, la recommended In . the
army appropriation bill. . .-. , .
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