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few months. paid-up circulation is
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Twenty-eighth - Year-
MEDFOK1). OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933.
No. 54.
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Comment
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By FRANK JENKINS.
JOSEPH W. HAHHIMAN. one of the
natton'a great i bankera. charged
with misuse of bank money, which
means OTHER PEOPLE'S money, at
tempts to commit aulclde, PAILS in
the attempt and will have to go to
trial.
He failed. If the charge la true, In
hla trust as a banker. He failed to
have the courage to face the music
for what he had done. And, finally,
he failed even In his attempt to kill
himself.
Quite a record of failure all the
way around.
NO RECORD of failure In recent
years. Incidentally, la more sad
dening and disillusioning than the
failure of the great New York bankers
to ,llve up to their responsibilities
during the reckless years of the big
boom that preceded the big crash that
elgnaled the beginning of the depres
sion. If our big bankers In those years
had been BIOOER MEN, the crash
might not have been so severe.
If we had had the right kind or
bankera in high placea, It MIGHT
NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.
THE BIG CITY banker laugha at
the little country banker the
patronizing laugh of the big fellow,
who wants everybody to know he Is
big for the Uttle fellow.
But 1 has been the country banker
who has given the country about all
the real banking It has had In recent
years.
IN THE big boom years in which the
depreseion was In the making, the
bl city bankers weren't really
bankera at .all. They were Just
SPECULATORS with other people's
money.
BARBARA HTJTTON. heir to a fifty
million dollar 5 and 10 cent store
estate, will marry Prince Alexis Mdl
vanl, of the Republic of Georgia, it
la announoed from Paris.
The story makes the front page 01
practically every newspaper In the
United States as It should. The front
page Is the place for news in which
large numbera of people are Inter
ested, and large numbera of people
are ALWAYS Interested In the doings
of the rich ami the titled.
It always has been that way, and
It alwaya will be.
WELL, why shouldn't Miss Button
and Prince Alexis marry?
A marriage la a contract, and here
Is a contract that gives both parties
what they wantr He wants her mil
lions snd she wsnte his title.
It's a fsir deal all the way around,
with nobody robbed.
THE PRINCE, you will note. Is a
prince of the REPUBLIC of
Georgia, which Is one of those little
countries of the Near East where
trouble Is always starting.
Over here, we think that about as
ridiculous a thing as could be imag
ined is a republic with princes and
dukea and counts all the useless
frippery of the ancient, outworn and
quite thoroughly discredited Institu
tion of aristocracy.
BUT then Europe and the smaller
countries of Alia that border on
Europe, are about as utterly ridicu
lous as can be conceived by the hu
man mind, anyway.
They might have peace and happi
ness and progress, with a steadily ris
ing stsndard of living for all their
peoples, with poverty and want slowly
pushed Into the background all the
benefits thst go with peace.
And instead they deliberately choose
WAR!
If they have no more sense than
that, why pity them?
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Bill woody, IS. this morning went
fishing for the third time m his life,
and brought in a 382 -pound salmon,
while the more experienced linemen
were looking enviously on.
Young woody came here from Spo
kane, and Is making hi home with
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Filllnger. The
first time he went fishing he hrougnt
In a G-pound Jack salmon, and the
vcond t'-me h successfully landed a
lS-pounder. T:day he clir.iiKCd n.s
fishing jaunu by feadiag the Lwe
ON LIFE SENTENCE
STILL ON RECORDS L
Directed Verdict Brings Sud
den End to Trial On Un
used Indictment in Pre
paredness Day Bombing
HALL OF JUSTICE. San Francisco.
May 34. (AP) Thomas J. Mooney's
long sought "new deal" came to an
abrupt end here today In a directed
verdict of acquittal on a heretofore
unused Indictment charging him
with murder in the San Francisco
Preparedness Day parade bombing.
The end came after Mooney had
abruptly taken active charge of his
own defense In pleading against the
motion of an unwilling prosecution
for a directed verdict. Judge Ward
held, however, that the proceedings
would have no practical value in the
absence of prosecution testimony and
advised the Jury to acquit.
Smiling, Mooney said he was "very
happy in spite of the fact that I
could not verbally deny my guilt."
Judge Ward ordere Mooney re
turned to prison "within two days"
but officers took him from the room
with the idea of returning htm im
mediately to San Quentln where he
is serving a life sentence as the re
sult of his conviction on a like
charge 17 yeara ago.
Without a bit of evidence the
much discussed phase of Mooney 's
case, which has extended to world
wide ramifications and much class
strife, was submitted and settled
settled at least so far as the legal
aspects of the immediate accusation
were concerned, but Mooney an
nounced he would apply immediately
for a pardon. That announcement
was made before the case ended.
PLANS APPEAL TO
I
Llewellyn A. Banks, former local
agitator, orchard 1st and publisher,
convicted of second degree murder
for the slaying of Constable George
J'.-Prescott, March 16, by a Lane coun
ty Jury last Sunday will appeal to
the state supreme court.
This announcement was made Tues
day In Salem, by Frank J. Lonergan.
chief counsel for Banks.
Banks Is under guard in a Eugene
hospital, where he went Monday on
an examination by a doctor, who de
scribed his condition as "generally
rundown." A dally report, ordered
by the court, declared Banks was no
worse. A deputy sheriff guarding
Banks bed, reported he "spent a
sleepless Monday night." The length
of Banks' stay in the hospital de
pends on his health, based on reports
made by a physician named by the
court.
The next legal move In the caw
will be the arguments on the defense
motion for a new trial. They have
20 days In which to do this, and the
state has several days In which to
answer. Attorneys estimate that a
final decision on this phase will not
be made until the middle of June.
In the event the new trial plea la
den led . Banks will be sentenced to
the life term made mandatory by
Oregon law, and removed to the state
prison, unless a stay of execution la
eranted on a defense motion to that
end.
Assistant Attorney -General Moody,
who prosecuted the Banks case, and
Deputy District Attorney Oeorge W.
Nelson returned this morning from
Salem, where they conferred with
state officials on the Banks trial and
kindred cases soon to be brought to
trial.
NEW CENTRAL PT.
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GRANTS PASS. May 34. fSpl )
The Green creek paving Job was
opened to traffic Tuesday morning,
and the crew, of men started the
process of building rock fills and
shoulders along the sides and the
clearing away of debris, it was an
nounced in the local highway office.
This Job was completed on sched
ule for the tourist travel this sum
mer and many of the blind curves and
rough surfaces between Grants Pass
and Rogue River have been elim
inated by this new section of high
way. Th Central' Point - Medford ap
proach will be open in about a week,
accord trig to James G. Bromley, state
maintenance engineer, who stated
that the concrete is now all laid but
that it will be allowed to "cure" for
a while.
- The Ashland highway construction
work will not b finished for abo-.t
a month yet. after which southern
Oregon will have one of the beet
Cadet Conner Found Alive at Military Academy
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BASEBALL 1
American.
R. H. E.
St. Loula ...... 4 8 0
Philadelphia 7 6a
(Game called end sixth; rain).
n.ttrfM! Harilev. Knott and Ruel;
Cain, Claset, Grove and Cochrane.
R. H. E.
Detroit 3 I" 1
Washington 110
Bridges and Hayworth; Weaver and
Sewell. ... .
National.
R. H. T.
New Tor 17 1
Cincinnati - 7 1
Batteries: Uhle, Bell. Starr and
Mancuao; Smith and Hemaley.
(10 Innings) R. H. E.
Brooklyn . 1 0
Pittsburg - 6 14 0
Batterlea: Shaute. Mungo and Lo
pez: Swift. Harris, Chagnon and Pad
den. Finney. ,
R. H. E.
Philadelphia a 8 0
Chicago . 8 10 0
Batteries: Holley. Pearce and Davis;
Warneke and Hartnett.
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AGAINST BANKS
TERN
Four criminal matters against L. A
Banks two lndectments for criminal
libel, one for criminal syndicalism and
one for ballot theft and all the civil
aults pending against him, were
Monday ordered continued until the
new-taxm-jof-tocuit court, starting
Monday, by Circuit Judge H. R. Nor
ton. It was a legal formality to keep
the records straight. Around this
litigation the defense based its "per
secution" claims.
Banks was found guilty by a Lane
county Jury, Sunday, of murder In
the second degree, and faces a man
datory life sentence, under Oregon
law.
At the same time, and In the same
order, the court directed that the
criminal actions pending against Hen
rietta B. Martin, president of the so
called "Good Government Congress."
and catspaw of the convicted agita
tor, In the local turmoil, charged with
"riotous and disorderly conduct," as
the result of the attempted buggy
whlpplng of Leonard N. Hall, Jackson
ville Miner editor, be contlr. .led along
with that of her father, C. H. Brown,
secretary of the "congress," charged
with "slandering a bank."
The Indictments against L. O. Van
Wegan and E. L. Pitch, charged with
abetting Mrs. Martin in her lashing
efforts, comes under the same order.
Both petit Jury and the grand Jury
for the May term were ordered con
tinued until "further orders of the
circuit Judge, or any circuit Judge of
the state of Oregon who may be as
signed to Jackson county by the state
supreme court."
All criminal and civil matters pend
ing In the circuit court are Included
in the decree.
Circuit Judge Norton is holdiiut
court in Josephine county this week,
and will return the end of the week.
BUOENE. Ore., May 34. (ff) The
condition of Llewellyn A. Banks, con
victed ex-publisher, was reported as
"satisfactory" today by Dr. Orvtlle
Waller, who was appointed by the
court to care for him in the Pacific
hospital here.
Banks, who was described as "nerv
ous and run down" as a result of his
three weeks' ordeal In the courtroom,
was taken to the hospital yesterday.
Two guards are assigned to watch
him.
Banks' condition Is not regarded as
serious. He is said to be suffering
from a recurring lung trouble which
forced him to come west years ago.
MITCHELL DEALS
NEW YORK. May 34 AP) Thru
Gerard Swope the. government ob
tained testimony today that after
Charles E. Mitchell aold stock to Mrs.
Mitchell "to record a loss" so that he
would have to pay no Income tax In
1P29 he then made a claim on the
National City company In an effort
to avoid loss on the. stock.
Mitchell, former chcalrman of the
National City bank and National City
company, is on trial for evading in
come taxea in 1920 and 1930 by al
legedly fske sales of stock. Swope
is a director In not Nations City
bank and National City company.
Oregon Weather.
Unsettled tonight and Thursday.
! with rains west portion and showers
rant portion; moderate temperature;
I fresh to strong sou tier If winds QIX
4 aba
B AREDBY SWOPE
Secretary Woodin, Senator
McAdoo, Justice Roberts
Among Favored Clients
Is Revealed in Probe
By NATHAX ROBERTSON
(Associated Press Etaff Writer.)
WASHINGTON, May 24. (P) Uses
of favored J. P. Morgan cllenta aub-
mltted today In the senate's Investl-,
gatlon of the powerful banking firm
Included many of the country's nest
known citizens, among them Secretary
William H. Woodin. Senator William
Glbbs McAdoo and Justice Owen J.
Roberts of the aupreme court.
They were given an opportunity to
buy atoek in the Allengheny corpor
ation in February, 1029. before any
of those named above were In their
present offices, for 20 a share when
it was said to be selling elsewhere for
MS to M7. Acocrdlng to the evi
dence submitted, they took advan
tage of the chance and bought.
Notables Named.
Others on the two lists, one of per
sons getting the opportunity through
the Morgan firm proper and the otner
through its Philadelphia affiliate,
the Drexel company. Included auch
names aa former Secretary of the
Navy Adams, Charles A. Lindbergh.
General John J. Pershing, W. W. At
terbury and many of comparable
prominence.
Newton D. Baker, former secretary
of war, also was on the list of favor
ed purchasers of Allegheny stock from
the Morgan, firm, , ("king jj.ooo snares.
Turning from testimony by--J. P.
Morgan that he' had paid income
taxes in England In the last two
years, although paying none In this
country, Ferdinand Pecora, commit
tee counsel, awept Into the latest
phase of baring long-buried Morgan
secrets.
' Inasmuch as Morgan said he could
not remember, the counsel turned to
George Whitney, a partner. He quick
ly ascertained that In formation of
the Allegheny corporation through
contract with the VanSwearlngens of
Cleveland, Morgan agreed to buy a3a,.
000.000 of bonds for 32,S7S,000 plus
acrued Interest to form a syndicate
for public offering.
FOR SHORT STAY;
Mrs. Edith R. Banks, tried with her
husband, L. A. Banks, for first degree
murder for the slaying of Constable
George J, Prescott, and acquitted
Sunday by a Lane county Jury, ar
rived in Medford yesterday from E'l
gene, and was guest today of Mrs.
Mary Weston at her home on North
Peach, according to report of friends.
Mrs. Banks was not contacted, but
attorneys stated that when they de
parted from Eugene her Intentions
were to return to the university city
later this week, to be near her hus
band. Her daughter, Ruth Mae, who
has made her home with Mrs. Wes
ton since the tracedy, will remain
here, It la understood, until the close
of school. She is a pupil in the
Junior high school.
Attorneys W. E. Phipps and T. J.
Enright, representatives from this
city for the defense in the murder
trial, and all witnesses, had also re
turned to Medford today.
ON .ALL COUNTS
WASHrVOTOX. Senate exon
erate Louderback on ail fiv
counts.
GOLD BEACH, Ore., May 34. fAP)
The was unanimity of opinion that
the thing was an octopus, although
there was only a fleeting and start
ling glimpse si it as it came over
the side of the boat on the line of
Don Cart wright of Dayton. He was
fishing from a boat on the Rogue
river reef Sunday. The hooked octo
pus. variouBly estimated by members
of the fishing party to be from four
to 35 feet in diameter, was hesUly
MORGAN TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE
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rv)r A
J. P. Morgan, head of the banking firm bearing hit name. It thown In thlt Associated Preat tele
photo taking the oath before testifying before the aenata oommlttee In Waahlngton, D. C, Investigating
the titantlo firm. Left to right: Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel; Senator Duncan H. Fletcher,
chairman, and the banker.
Morgan s Enjoyment of
Senate Quiz Is Curtailed
By Fog of Cigar Smoe
By HARRY FERGIJSON
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, May 34. (UP)
The only person who seemed to en
Joy the senate investigation Into the
affairs of J. P. Morgan Co. tody
was a tall man with a gray mus
tache who told the official stenog
rapher his name was J. P. Morgan.
Nobody else had much fun. Ferdi
nand Pecora, counsel for the senate
banking and currency committee, per
spired and rasped angrily at Senator
Carter Glass. John W. Davis, counsel
for Morgan, kept his face screwed up
in a knot of intense concentration.
Chairman Fletoher of the committee
devoted most of his time to trying to
gavel the crowded room Into silence
with a two-for-a-nlckel pencil, and
lost his temper twice.
But Morgan sat back in his chair,
respectfully referred to senators as
"Sir," smiled frequently and laugn
ed out loud four timea. Kleig lights
didn't bother him. Newspaper pho
tographers traditional enemies whom
he has routed innumerable times
received a aenlal smile, a wave of
the hand and the advice:
"Oo ahead and take the pictures;
I oant' escape you this time."
At only two stages of the proceed
ings was Morgan perturbed. The first
time was when Davis beclouded the
air with smoke from a 75-cent cigar.
In the morning session he smoked
three cigars, long ones, too, and right
down to the stub. The air was plenty
thick. In the afternoon session Davis
was on his second cigar, puffing out
a gray halo around Morgan's head.
The banker shifted tn his chair
Davis finished his cigar and reached
in his nocket for another one. It
was probably more smoking than
Davis had done sine the Democratic
convention in Madison Square Oar
den when he was . nominated for,
President after they finally succeed
ed quieting that fellow who kept
yelling: "Alabama casts 24 votes for
Underwood."
By this time the atmosphere was
like a pea-soup fog. Pecora had gone
Into action with a cigar he smokes
two-for-a-quarters and Senator
Cousens was biting at the end of
another one, asking if anybody had a
E!
Jamaa IT Owen, manager of the
Owen-Oregon Balea company, has re
signed aa ohairman of the governor's
relief committee here, following many
weefca of excellent work, and Alfred
8. V. Carpenter has been appointed
to take his place u leader of relief
aotintlea. Mr. Owen stated today
that with the lumber trade once
more on the Increase he found nls
time too filled with personal busi
ness to devote adequat time to re
lief work.
J. O. Mann waa appointed to till
the vacancy occurring on th com
mittee with Mr. Owen's resignation
the committee to SLU ttoe position of
rmm ' 1 y,
match. Morgan squirmed in his chair,
and Davis must have noticed, because
he decided Just to ohew his 7fi-center
this time.
Morgan obviously was a trifle con
fused by the smoke barrage and got
tangled up In the English language.
'My father." he said, "told me It
was Infallible that we would have to
do It "
He must have meant "Inevitable."
Morgan wore a pin -stripe blue suit.
high, stiff collar tht came almo.-t
up to his ears, and a dark tie with
a pearl pin stuck In It. He arrived
on time in the morning and was
punctual again after the noon recess.
While he testified he toyed with a
pencil and a scratch pad.
Once he wrote something in a hl.ih
stilted handwriting, like this: M-a-n-
c-h-e-s " It looked as if he in
tended to writ "Manchester" and
changed his mind. Maybe he was
thinking about grouse shooting In
the north of England one of his fav
orite sports.
He referred to one of his clerks as
a "dark." That's English, too.
What seemed to worry people more
than anything else was the intense
way in which Senator Couzens was
apparently taking notes. He sat di
rectly across the table from Morgan.
Occasionally he asked clipped, curt
questions and then wrote furiously
on the pad.
Everybody figured Couzens was
getting ready to put Morgan through
a blistering cross-examination. What
a drama It would be! Wealth against
wealth Couaens ts the richest man
in the senate and ts supposed to
have about M.OOO.OOO. He is a re
lentless prosecutor, and the taking of
all these notes must mean he was
(retting ready to fire away at Mor
gan. Curiosity ran so high that this cor
respondent strolled over and sneaked
a look over Counens' shoulder. He
had printed the word "Morgan" at
the top of the page snd put a net
dollar sign above it. At the moment
this correspondent did his syplnrj,
Cousens was industriously drawing a
black fence, with three-barred gate,
around the "Morgan."
TILLER TO TRAIL
GUT-OFF URGED
noSFBtmo, Ore., May 34. (TTP)
Inclusion of tihe Tiller-Trail cut-off
on the Paclflo highway with other
state public work project waa re
quested here yesterday by the Doug
las county court. Formal application
waa sent to Governor Julius L. Meier,
the reconstruction advisory board,
state highway commission and bu
reau of public roads.
The cut-off could be completed at
a cost of ea.000.000, would shorten
the distance from Roseburg to Crater
Lake and Klamath Palls by M mile,
contsln leaser grades, fewer curves
and shorten the Rosrhurg-M'dford
trip by 10 niUea, tb application
TRANSIENT'S BODY
FOUND ALONG S. P.
iOLTOE SPREE
H. R. McCoy, fi0 -year-old transient
who was released from the city Jail
yesterday where he had been held on
a charge of being drunk in a public
place, was found dead near the
Southern Pacific track in the south
part of Medford early this morning.
The district attorney's office an
nounced this afternoon that an in
quest will probably be held to deter
mine the cauae or death.
Leonard Henderson reported to the
city police that he found the body
about 8:1B o. clock this' morning.
Deputy Coroner Herb Brown said the
man had apparently been dead since
about eleven o'clock last night.
Joe Dickson, another transient
nrrested with McCoy Monday evening
at a local hotel, said he thought Mc
Coy's wife lived In Shasta City, Calif,
and also stated that the dead man
had acquaintances In Ashland. Mc
Coy Is a native of CorvallU, Dickson
told poitre
Dickson left town this morning
following his appearance In city
court where he was sentenced to ten
days in Jail or allowed to leave town.
According to officers, the two men
had been drinking denatured alcohol
when arrested, and a bottle was in
their possession at the time of their
art est.
T.T.
TO
T
Thomas T. Merrlman, who has op
erated the Merrlman blacksmith and
welding shop in Medford for many
years, died at a lorsl hospital this
morning at the age of S3 yeara. from
heart trouble. He had been seriously
111 for the past three weeks.
He was born in Oakland. Ore., and
came to Medford when about five
years of age. He had resided In Med
ford practically all his life, with the
exception of seven years which he
spent in Pocatello and Bolae, Ida.,
and service in the navy during the
World war.
Mr. Meirlman Is survived by his
wife, Nellie, two sons, Myrle and
PTancIs, one granddaughter, Patricia,
and one sister, Mrs. Vera Plymale, all
of Medford; three sisters, Mae Telfer,
Blanche Miles and Molly Merrlman of
San Francisco, and two brothers,
Cieorge Merrlman of Orange. Cal., and
fiFheron Merrlman of Red Lodge, Mont.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later by the Perl Funeral
home.
WAGES INCREASED AT
COOS BAY SAWMILL
MAP6HFIKLD, May 34. (AP) A
30 per cent Increase tn wages for
common laborers has been announced
by the Coos Bay Lumber company,
recently reopened after having been
closed severs! months. The notices
posted In the plsnt yards, said the
pay for laborers will be raised, from
443 to 4t
OVERJOYED WHEN
Youth Strangely Missing
Since Sunday Found Alive
Say Military Academy
Officials Late Today
WEST POINT, K. T., May 34. (AP)
John 8. Conner of Medford. nr..
aenlor cadet at the tl. ft mimnrv
academy mlaalng alnce Sunday, waa
lound alive tonight.
The announcement wa mudn bv
academy officiate, who In company
with police had been set king the
youth after finding he had left a
note Indicating suicidal Intent.
Conner's abnenee wnji nnturf t
revllle Monday morning? An Inquiry
aiscioaed ne nad not been aeen on
the academy grounds alnce the pre
vious evening.
The academy officiate had aaked
state police, regular army offlcera and
railroad nollce to cn-nnerate In thA
search for Conner after the reserva
tion's 3soo acres had been searched.
News of the finding of John 8. Con
ner, senior cadet at West Point, N. 7.,
tonight (E. S. T.) was relayed to
Miss Mary Conner, sister of the youth
late this afternoon, upon receipt of
the Associated Press dispatch by The
Mall Tribune. Mrs. Guy W. Conner,
mother of the youth called shortly
after, and expressed her gratification
over location of her son.
The dispatch over the AP wire was
the first to be received In Medford
regarding the finding of young Con
ner. Mr. and-Mrs.-Guy -W. Conner later
received tha-following telegram from
Superintendent of West Point W. D.
Connor, as follows:
'Cadet found about six o'clock In
excellent condition, considering that
he has apparently been In woods
without food since disappearance. Now
in hospital taking nourishment. De
tails later."
HELD ON HIT AND
Walter O. Nelson. 33, Portland,
truck driver, employed on road con
struction work, near this city, Is held
on an open charge, following his ar
rest last night as a hit-run driver..
8. W, Baize, 40, watchman on the
new Central Point Pacific highway
road construction, was ' assertedly
struck by Nelson while driving at a
high speed, when Baize attempted
to "flag him down" Tuesday night
about nine o'clock. Baize sustained
Internal Injuries, and a fractured hip
and pelvic bone. He was to undergo
an operation today. Nelson Is alleg
ed to have failed to stop and render
aid, and no charge will be filed unttl
the outcome of the operation is
known.
Nelson was arrested shortly after
the accident tn the west end of the
city. His car was found ditched, and
had a fender and light removed, the
state police say.
According to the authorities, Nel
son was driving on the wrong side
of the road, and nearly struck two
other autos, complaints riled with
the state police claim.
WILL
ROGER?
NEW YOBK, Slay 23. The
phenomenal popularity of the
Roosevelt administration now
meets its severest test. They
are starting to decide where all
this money they have been ap
propriating will come from.
Xow, if he can extract this
money and still receive the
plaudits then there caii be no
doubt of his being a Messiah.
For the taxpayers cheer not
from the heart but from the
pocketbook.
Yours,
fa"'
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