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[TALIAN ELEGTORAL MEASURE IS VOTED Returns to Single Constit- uency System Under Bill Backed by Mussolini. By the Associated Pr ROME, February 14 today by a majority of 156 passed the electoral bill proposed by the ®overnment and already approved by the Chamber of Deputies. The vote was 214 to 5 The majority surpassed the expecta- tion of the government, which con- sidered it the more significant be- cause the vote was not taken by roll call, but by secret ballot and showed that some Senators who are followers of former Premiers Giolitti, Orlando and Salandra voted for the Musso- lini measure. The session was featured by a long speech by Luigi Federzoni, minister of the interior To the criticism that he had been favorable to the proportional electoral system five vears ago, Signor Fed- erzoni said an opinion on electoral methods was not a question of faith, but subject to political conditions. In the vear 1919 he considered the proportional ystem historically necessary in order to give new vigor to the national life. Today, when the ®reat political currents had re-estab- lished the struggle betiveen the varties and the program was well defined, he thought a return to the ngle constituency system advis- bla. Naturally, said the minister, even the present bill could be criticized, but ideal perfection in practice could not always be had, and the thing to do was to obtain at least the next thing to it “The problem of the present situa- #on,” he said, “is this: We desire o complete the impetus of the Fascist revolution by directing it into the road of legality _trate the national spirit, the very spirit of fascis s The Senate Wwhich is TESTIFIES ASSASSINATION ORDERED FROM MOSCOW German Communist Tells of Plans, Later Countermanded, to Murder Von Seeckt. B the Associated Press LEIPZIG, Germany Felix Neumann, one munist defendants on trial here for murder and terrofi acts, today testified that G. S. Zinovieff, head of the communist internationale at Mos- 0Ow, had written the German com- munist functionaries branding Gen. von Seeckt as German Kolchak and the greatest menace to the Ger- man Republic 1 the revolutionary proletariat The witness, February of the 16 com- 14— a who had previously testified to receiving orders to kill Gien. von Speeckt, also declared that “President Ebert could not remain in office single day without Von Seeckt's sanction.” umann again described tails of the various plans for the German general’s assassination, which plans were countermanded from Mos- cow. the de- loral Decorations. bouquets, potted plants, see F.— Advertisement Corsuge Gude, 12 699,689 ON RED ROLLS IN RUSSIA, PARTY SAYS Actual Membership Placed 369,436, Exclusive of Army. Figures Gain in Year. By the Associated Press MOSCOW, February 14.—According to the central committee of the Com- munist party there were on the first of December 699,689 communists in Soviet Rus: This figure includes $30,253 candidates for membership in the party, making the actual total of enrolled membership 369,436, which does not include communists in the army, or viet missions abroad. The figures show an increase in the party’s membership of nearly 200,000 over last year's statistics. This in- crease is said to be largely due to the membership campaign which was in- stituted following Lenin's death at Named for West Point. William W. Wales of the Portner, 15th and U streets, has been ap- pointed by President Coolidge a cadet- &t-large at the U. S. Military Academy, subject to the usual examination. —_— SPECIAL NOTICES, CARNATION CAMP OF ROYAL NEIGHBORS are holding a card party Tues. evening, Feb. 17, at § p.m.. at 921 Pa ave. s.e . 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Cempauy Fhoas Majs. We wish it to pene- ' NATIONAL PHOTO ADMIRAL WILLIA Chief of the Bureau of Navigailen of tives te deny charges that he “fixed” (Continued from First Page.) rector of the natlonal littea for aeronautics and James Martin, an aircraft | manufacturer. The committee adopted a resolution, Mr. Perkins said, which would not permit witnesses to change their tes- timony given under oath. Permis- sion in several cases had been grant- ed in the past and at times, he said, the entire meaning had been changed. Hereafter if any witnesses desire to | revise their testimony they must ap- pear in open session and give the corrections on the stand. the resolu- | tion declared. Textinony to Continue. The committee voted down the pro- posal of Mr. Perkins to close the 1t of testimony Wednesday, de- there were matters of such great importance yet to be consid- ered that the work should not be halted now. Further, it was said, if the testimon was closed within the next few days it would be physically | impossible to study the volumes of | testimony now at hand and make a {report to the Congress, which, ad- | journs March 4. Therefore, an effort | will be made to obtain permission to report at the opening of the Decem- n 1d in the meantime the will meet daily with the preparing its report, Mr. Perkins said. . The most important witness at vesterday's open session was Rear Admiral Shoemaker, who appeared to refute testimony given Friday by Lieut. Col. W. G. Schauffier, Afr Serv- ice Reserves, of th caused a report on the 1923 bombing exercises designed for the public over Gen. Pershing's signature to be cen- sored. The admiral read correspond- ence between the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to show that he was a guest aboard the St Mihiel, the observing ship at the bombing of the American battleships | Virginia and New Jersey by Army airplanes, and had no official connec- tion with the fests. claring | ber sesst ittee {view to Denles Conversation Reported. The conversation credited to him by Col. Schauffler, who claims he over- heard the admiral's conmiment to a junior naval officer after reading the statement submitted to him for his approval was: “ItUs true, every bit of it. My God! We can't let this get out, It would ruin the Navy. We've got to change it” This quotation was read by Admiral Shoemaker, who denied, under oath, having used that language in the exact words or any other words that could be construed into the expression given by Col. Schauffler. His aides had been ques- tioned on the matter, and they denied hearing any conversation along the line referred to, Admiral Shoemaker said. The “gentleman” crediting him with that statement, Admiral Shoe- maker said, “must have been drawing on his imagination or dreaming.” As he recalled the incident of the “censored statement,” Admiral Shoe- maker said he was approached by two naval officers and one Army officer with the paper for his approval. He said he had no idea the report would be submitted to him, as he was only a guest and had nothing to do with the bombing. “It was a matter of courtesy on the part of Gen. Pershing.” Denles Statement Changed. “In my opinion, the statement did not entirely state the case,” continued the witness, who added it might have a wrong Influence on public opinion if it went abroad in “the present form.” The paper was not changed in any detail, but Admiral Shoe- maker sald he added two paragraphs to the effect that the water-tight integrity had been partially destroyed before the ships were submitted for bombing through the removal of water-tight doors, piping, ete, in dis- mantling. “The tests would not, I Fope, be considered as conclusive evi- dence that any similar airplane bombs could sink modern battleships Ad- miral Shoemaker sald he wrote and closed with the statement that the tests do show that airplane bombs | can do damage and that the Army Air Service personnel can bomb ac- curately. The admiral read a report from the commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard on the dismantling of the Vir- ginia and New Jersey before they were turned over for the tests which showed the vessels did not possess water-tight integrity. “It would have been impossible to have had water-tight integrity without the ex penditure of great sums of money,” said the witness. With this fact in mind the admiral said he had dis- cussed the bombing with others on the ships in which he declared he did not see why the battleships should not be sunk. Discounts Direct Hit. Information which he said he ob- tained from ordnance experts and which gave the impression that it had been gleaned from the ordnance tests against the battleship Wash- ington, was given to the committee by Admiral Shoemaker. He emphat- ically declared it is the opinion of these and other experts that four 2,000 pound bombs are necessary be- fore a ship is put out of action. Be- fore a battleship can be sunk the bombs would have to irop within is city, that he had | HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 15, M R. SHOEMAKER, the Navy Department, as he appeared yesterday before the special aircraft committee of the House of Representa- Teports ef the bombing of battixhips. Probers to Study Vulnerability Of U. 8. in Case of Aerial Attack 30 feet of the ship and explode 60 feet below the water. A direct hit of a_2,000-pound bomb on the deck of a battleship could not, in the ad- miral's opinion, sink a modern battle- ship, but if it penetrated the deck before it exploded or fell along side and exploded 60 feet under the water it would be “extremely effective,” he said L Admiral Shoemaker cited the re- sults of the bombing of the British warship Agamemnon, which was steaming a zig-zag course. The per- centage of efficiency ranged from 21 to 7 per cent, he said, and the con- clusion was that €0 airplanes from two carriers would have to be em- ployed against similar ships under steam and maneuvering. Anti-aircraft fire from battleships. unsupported by airplanes, will revent bombing planes from serious damage, Admiral Shoemaker said, although he expressed more | confidence in the efficiency of the present anti-aircraft guns of today than those used during the war. Discusxes Bomb Values. The witness discussed the advan- tage of an armor-piercing shell over the bomb. The former penetrates the ship, while the latter, he sald, breaks up on the deck and explodes outward. He admitted, however, that the speed of aerial bombs when dropped from a high altitude was greater than the velocity of a pro jectile trom a gun. The admiral did not advocate the establishment of a separate air corps in the Navy, of which several junior officers had spoken favorably before the committee in the last few days. He argued that it is the Navy's duty to direct and develop the new weapon of warfare and compared aviation to submarines. The duties of a sub- marine officer, he said, are quite as complicated as an Air Service officer. Representative Prall of New York then brought Admiral Shoemaker into a discussion of flying pay for nop-pilots in the Navy. Adm Shoemaker declared the law provilies a certain percentage of non-pilots de- tailed to aeronautics must have a certaln amount of experience in the air and are, therefore, pald for the hazards they take. He said he hoped the future would see the bureau com- posed entirely of qualified aviators and that the number now receiving flying pay, although not pilots, would not increase. Defines Term “Pllot.” Prior to the admiral's testimony, Lieut. B. H. Holcombe of the Bureay of Aeronautics discussed the flight pay for non-pilots. The committee was informed Friday that there are a number of officers who receive flight pay that they “don’t rate” by Lieut. C. A. Sprague, executive officer of ghe Naval Air Station at Anacos- tia, D. C.. Lieut. Sprague's statement was brought out in questioning. Lieut. Holcombe said it was generally understood that the term “fiyer” did not necessarily mean one had to be a pllot. Lieut. Sprague had testified that “non-flying” ofticers were receiv- ing fllght pay when they did not know how to pilot a plane. Lieut. Holcombe quoted legislation creating the Bureau of Aeronautics which sald that officers detalled with the bureau “shall fly,” which there- fore, he said, entitled them to the 50 per cent increase in pay. He said there were only 18 non-pilots receiv- ing flight pay in the service and sub- mitted the names of the officers, of whom the following are on duty in Washington: Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; Capt. Emory S. Land, Comdr. W. W. Webster, Lieut. R. S. Barneby and Lieut. T. T. Patterson. Other Witnesses Heard. The committee also heard Maj. Carl Spatz, Maj. Thomas Milling and Lieut. C'ha.rle.s Austin, all of Langley Field, Va., and Lieut. Frank O'D. Hunter, who had flown here from Detroit in two hours and fifty-six minutes to testif; They all favored the establis] ment of a united air force. Ma, Milling, who was on the stand when the committee adjourned, was requested to appear at 10 o'clock to- morrow moraning and continue his testimony, in which the committee evidenced much interest. Maj. Milling, who has been flying for 14 years and is one of the oldest flyers in the Air Service, testified in refutation of Admiral Shoemaker’s statements about the effectiveness of aerial bombs against the zig-zagging Agamemnon, that Army pilots at Langley Field had been 35 per cent effective against the shadow on the ground of an airship capable of flying at greater speed than a battleship and of maneuvering better. Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries of the Chemical Warfare Service also is scheduled to appear tomorrow. In the two years following the tak- ing over by the state of Esthonia of land formerly owned by nobles, the number of small holdings there in- creased by 22,000. DANCING. HARTLAND JACKSON Health Studio, 1628 K st. n.w.—Learn to danes in 7 lewsons, Al private. Franklin 4710, * not | doing | DISMISSED PRISON Witness Says Priest Cleared Sartain and Fletcher of Bribery Accusation. By the Associated Pross. ATLANTA Ga., February 14.—A. E. Sartain and L. J. Fletcher, formerly warden and deputy, respectively, of the Atlanta Federal Penitentlary, and Lawrence Riehl, Columbus, Ohto, on trial In United States District Court on charges of conspiracy and bribery, will take the stand in their defense early next week, counsel an- nounced tonight. After hearing,_since Monday sensa- tional testimony relative to the al- leged sale of “soft jobs” gt the prison, high gambling among wealthy boot- legger inmates of the institution, and threats sald to have been made by certain prisoners to “frame” Sartain and Fletcher, court recessed this aft- ernoon until Monday. The case is expected to reach jury about next Friday. The name of I. H. Duehay, super- intendent of prisons in the Wilson administration, was brought into the case today when Joseph F. Fishburn, formerly of the Department of Justice, testified he had bcen employ- ed by the former to learn whether Fletcher was gullty, as he desired to assist him financially if he was in- nocent. Duchay testified the character of Fletcher was good and added that he had been his friend for many years. Cleared by Priewt. Thomas P. Hayden, prison who has admitted he took part in a conspiracy to accept $10,500 from seven men convieted in the vannah “rum ring” exposure and sentenced to the penitentiary, told Fishburn in January, 1925, that neither Sartain nor Fletcher had re- celved any bribe moncy so far as he knew, Fishburn testified. In his testimony, Hayden declared he had visited Savannah early last year and while there collected the $10.500 from Willle Haar, who acted as agent for the six other men, in exchange for which “soft jobs” were to be awarded them when they en- tered the prison. Sartain and Fletch- er also were in the conspiracy, he sald Riehl's attorney has admitted his client made the trip, but contends that the latter did not know the purpose for which Hayden went, and | that Riehl never received any bribe | money. 1 The | nesses the Father chaplain, several wit- was design- defense offered whose testimony ed to support its contention that Sartain, Fletcher and Riehl were “framed” and that Hayden alone re- ceived the bribe money. —_— IN JAIL AT TIME OF MURDER, SAYS MAN Suspect Offers Apparently Iron- clad Alibi to Charge of Trunk Killing. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, February 14— Some doubt that Frank J. LeRoy, arrested | several days ago, is the Eugene Le- Roy sought since 1820, as a suspect {in the sensational “trunk murder” of {a woman supposed to be his wife, | was expressed by authorities this | evening, in the face of the man's as- sertion that, at the time of the crime, {he was in the Cleveland, Ohio, House |of Correction. His wife bore out his | alibi, although there were slight dis- crepancies in the stories of the couple. A message from Cleveland said that l|a Frank LeRoy had been at the workhouse there, June 8, 1920. The | trunk, containing the mutilated re- mains of a woman was opened in New York on July 23, 1920, and had been expressed there from a Detroit address about a month before. At the Detroit address, a rooming house, it was learned from the pro- prietress that the body was that of a Mrs. Katherine Jackson LeRoy, who had lived there with a man calling himself Eugene LeRoy, supposedly |her husband. The man had disap- peared and had been sought through- out the country since. The man being held here is a car- nival concessionaire. CHANGED HIS OWN NAME. New German Envoy Devised “Ago” for Brevity's Sake. BERLIN, February 14.—The given name of Baron Ago von Maltzans, the new German ambassador to Washing- ton, has an interesting history, char- acteristic of the direct methods of its bearer. He was christened Adolf George Opto, after his ancestors, but in the interest of brevity and without prejudice to any of those whose name he bore, he made a combination of the three initials and called himself Ago. Baron von Maltzans, with his wife and daughter, will sail for New York from Hamburg on the steamer Albert Ballin February 20. DEPUTY SHOT, DIES. ember of Turk Assembly Wounded Last Tuesday. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 14— Deputy Halid Pasha, who was wound- ed last Tuesday by Deputy All of Afilum Kara Hissar in a shooting af- fray in the Turkish National As- sembly, died today. He had a dis- tinguished ‘military record, having commanded a division against the Greeks with the rank of general. GOOD GARAGES CUT CAR’S The general consensus of opinion of garage owners leads fo the fact that the Drope housing of an automobile adds materially to its life and duration. Metal Best-Built Garages are’ the most logieal type because of the deu- ble protection offered. It protects against fire and theft at the same time it deflects the de- preciating elements of winter weather. THE BEST PLAN The WASHINGTON GARAGE CONBTRUC- TION CO.. 1210 Continental Trust Building, are the originators and builders of these BEST-BUILT METAL GARAGES, and they bave AN ATTRACTIVE LOW TERM PAY- MENT PROPOSITION THAT ALL WASH- INGTONIANS CAN ~ AVAIL, THEMSELVES OF. FPhone Main 7984.—Adv, e HEADS 70 TESTIFY, j visor of radio, WEEPING FOR J0Y, SANDS REARRESTED “Bean King” Taken on Fed- eral Charge After Acquit- tal in State Court. By the Associated Press. ALBICN, N. Y., February 14.—Lewls E. Sands, whose bean interests were thrown into hankruptey five months ago with estimated liabilitles of $1.- 000,000, walked out of the court today after his acquittal by a jury of a charge of grand larceny, only to be arrested on a Federal war- rant charging violation of the Inter- state commerce laws, he was taken to Rochester by a United States marshal for arralgnment and It was understood that = $30,000 bail in which he had been at liberty, while awaliting trial in county court, would be accepted in the Federal case. Sands and Mrs. Grace K. Gerks of Rochester, his confidential business menager, who last night was sent- enced to serve from two to four years in Auburn prison for forgery in connection with the Sands Co, tafjure were Indicted Jointly by the Federal grand jury in January. War- rants were served on both immediate- ly after Mrs. Gerks' conviction on January 26. Mrs. Gerks at that time was left in the custody of the State and Sands was not taken into custody pending the outcome of his case in the county court. The former bean magnate broke down when the jury ennounced its acquittal verdict. Many spectators in the court room, who had known him for many years as Alblon's leading citizen, burst into tears as he tried to thank the jury. Pending action on application for an appeal in the case of Mrs. Gerks, she will not start serving her sentence HOOVER EMISSARIES SETTLE RADIO WAR Peace Envoys From Washington Bring Cincinnati Armistice in Three Hours. By the Associated Press cr ATI, Ohio, February Three emissaries, sent here today by Herbert C. Hooven, Secretary of Com- merce, in three hours settled a dis- pute between stations WLW and WMH regarding division of broad- asting time, which has vexed the Department of Commerce for nine months. D. B. Carson, commissioner of navi- gation; W. D. Terrell, chief super- and S’ W. Edwards, supervisor of radio, met with repre- sentatives of the stations.today, and as a result an amicable time schedule was agreed upon. The agreement is effective at once. s Under the agreement boh stations may broadcast from 8 to 10 p.m.. on Monday nights in different wave lengths for three consecutive months, while during the fourth month these stations will revert to the 10 to 12 o'clock period. WLW concedes an early period on Wednesday evening to WMH. Station WMH divides time one month with WLW on 422.3 meters, and the rest of the month WSAI on 325.9 meters, The crisis in the controversy came last Monday and Wednesday nights, when both WLW and WMH took the air on the same wave length. Con- fusion resulted, the signals of both stations olashing. Protests to Wash- ington followed and Secretary Hoover ordered an immediate investigation. FIRST CASE ON RECORD. Government Takes Initial Step in Radio Conciliation. Action of Department of Commerce officlals in intervening in the Cincin- nati radio row between stations WLW and WMH regarding the division of their broadcasting time marks the first time that the department has ever consented to act as an arbitrator in such a controversy. Officlals here said that while the department has frequently been asked to intervene in such controversies, it has heretofore declined to do so on the ground that to set such a prece- dent would get the department hope- lessly enmeshed. Both of the Cincinnati statfons in- volved in the present trouble reported to the department that they, with sta- tion WSAI had reached an agreement. . Shifts in Philippines. First Lieuts. Thomas G. Hester and ‘Willard B. Barton, Medical Adminis- trative Corps, at Walter Reed Hos- pital, have been ordered to the Philip- pine Islands for duty. Medical officers in the Philippines have been ordered to local stations as follows: Capt Lemuel P, Woolston, Capt. Clarence R. Benney, and First Lieuts. Harry Greeno and Stanley A. Clark to Walter Reed, and Capt. Harry R. Melton to Fort Humph v HOUSE WIRING Estimates Cheerfully Given FLECT. APPLIANCES — MAZDA LAMPS Sheridan Hdwe. & Elec. Co. 2148 P St. N.W. Phone Potomac 1192 LUNCH WFTH US TO-DAY I er W 1203 G st HEALTH CANDIES 404 €0+ 804 Ib 7 A R T Y THE ARGONNE 16th and Col, Rd. Have you seen the Argonne Apartments? Highest and most healthful on 16th St. Unique in modernity, size of rooms, price, etc. Convenient to all cars and bus lines; 24 hours’ efficient service. ARGONNE RESIDENT MANAGER N PREMISES GO0 OI OO0 IIP000 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006000600007 A\ N N SN N A PONNN county | 1925_PART 1. HYLAN, DEFIANT, TURNS TO VOTER AS PARTY LINES UP TO OUST HIM Mayor Convinced Hold on People Can‘ Give Him Victory. Two Terms Are Marked By Adroit Personal Ad- vertising Campaign. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. NEW YORK, February 14.—A first- | class political row is seething here in | the metropolis with Mayor Hylan| hurling deflance at Al Smith, at Tam- | many, at the great majority of the| New York newspapers and avowing | that he is going to be nominated and elected this Fall for another term of | four years at the City Hall If the | mayor's ambitions are not thwarted | it will be his third term. If his health holds good, and a month at| Palm Beach each Winter seems to work wonders in that respect, the| mayor hopes to go on being mayor | for the rest of his natural life. Meantime the politicians of Tam- | many and the State bosses of the | Democratic party are trying to find some means of putting the mayor on the shelf. They frankly are tired of him and all of his ways. They claim he is standing in the way of further rapid transit development. The mayor says he is standing for the people and the 5-cent fare, New York being about the only place in the world where the nickel fare still op- erates Suggest Smith Run. Some of the anti-Hylanites " have | gone ®o far as to suggest that Al| Smith quit the gubernatorial chair at Albany and take the Democratic nom. Ination for mayor. Al is as anxious | a8 the rest of them to put the skids| under the mayor, but he possibly isn't willlng to 80 so far as some of his associates would like, especlally as the governor is said to be casting an eve toward the senatorship in 1926 The mayor at the moment is dis- porting himself in the waves at Palm Beach, while his enemies hereabouts are rattling their political sabres, beating the tomtoms and threatening all sorts of dire things. The mayor has heard the reverberations awa. down there in Florida, and has kept the telephone and telegraph wires hot | with statements and counter accusa- tions. When the mayor takes a va- cation he wants it thoroughly unde stood that politics is not adjourned He thrives on the game. Strength Is Amazing. 1 In view of the manner that he is| berated and lampooned -in nearly all| of the newspapers of the city, and| hammered and lambasted in the polit- ical oouncils of his own party, Mayor Hylan's strength with the people. is little short of amazing. It is so great that he is daring Tammany to try to withhold the nomination from him this Fall Tammany wants to do it, but will it? The Hylan scheme for building up political power has been an interest- ing one, and the reason for his popu- larity with the masses of the people —especially the foreign born—is not far to seek. Once he got into office Will Present Comedy-Drama. A three-act comeda-drama, “Bar-| bara Makes a Splash,” will be given | by the St. Mary's Players at St.| Mary's Hall, Fifth and G streets,| February 18 and 19, at 8:15 o'clock. | Those who will take part ar Henry G. 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York became New “Mayo lan regime. that Mayor Hylan was building th place of learning. paved opened “by Mavor Hylan grounds and play streets have provided, not by rthe city, but Mayor Hylan's committee. All of the soldiers who came from the World War through th port were welcomed not by a ci committee, but “by Mayor Hylar committee. Plans for new parl and other works of have all been The new municipal radio broadca ing station has been Mayor Hyla station. his praises and never will so long he sits at the city hall. The mayo: name has always been before t people, wherever they turned. Sin the radio station opened it has b in their ears every afternoon every night. The returns from t presidential election last Fall we ‘Mayor Hylan's returns. Crities’ Smile Some observers were inclined smile at the self-aggrandizement the mayor, but they smile no long The mayor's plan has had its med. hold he has got on the p constant and clever self-advertisi The more the politicias shout Hylan the more publicity he fee is getting, and he is going to capita ize this publicity once more at t polls this Fall unless Al Smith a he Tammany leaders stand ready bust” the Democratic party wi open in the city and the State even if Tammany did “throw down” the mayor would run j h t t same, and the chances are he would hundred get a plurality of several thousand votes. At the moment certainly 1ooks as though the mun ipal balloting this Fall will “Mayor Hylan's election.” SETH THOMAS Office and Desk CLOCKS At Prices That Will Interest You :|McCALL AND STOLLEY 2d Floor, N, e FOR: INDIGESTION Instant Relief! 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