Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1931, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, . DR’ DERCUM DIES WILSON PHYSICIAN Noted Scientist Stricken at Meeting of Philosophical Society. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 23.—Dr. Francls X. Dercum, noted neurologist and president of the American Philo- sophical Soclety, died suddenly today as he was about to open the annual meet- ing of the famous scientific organization founded by Benjamin Franklin. Dr. Dercum, who had been ill, toppled over as he sat in the president’s chair, surrounded by scientific men from dif- ferent parts of the country, and died in an adjoining room in a few minutes. Dr. Dercum, who was one of the con- sulting physicians during President Woodrow Wilson's illness, was 74, and a resident of Philadelphia. He was very ill last Winter, and friends urged him not to take an active part in the society's annual gathering. Dr. Dercum fainted so quietly in his | chair that many in the audience did! not notice it until h> was picked up and | carried from the room. “He died as a scientist would wish," was the remark made by a scientist when word came that he had passed away. Takes Vacant Chair. Dr. Berryman Scott, professor emeri- tus of goology at Princeton University, took over the vacant chair and. called the meeting to order on time. | After announcing the death of the president of the society, Dr. Scott said. “The meeting will proceed on schedule time. This is as Dr. Dercum would have wished.” The meeting then proceeded with Arthur H. Compton, professor of physics of the University of Chicago, Teading a paper on “The Assault on Atoms and Molecules.” Part of the proceedings were being broadcast and it was announced that cheduled addresses must start on time. Another paper read as Dr. Dercum's body was being removed to his home was on “Lengthening the Span of Life,” by Lee K. Frankel, second vice pres! dent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, in which he said that it may be expected that 10 years will soon be added to the span of life. Dercum President Seven Years. Dr. Dercum was for seven years president of the society, which was founded by Franklin, in 1727, “for pro- moting useful knowledge.” It has met in its present quarters in historic In- dependence Square for 142 years. Dr. Dercum was a native of Philadel- hia and was graduated from the nivers.ty of Pennsylvania in 1877. He began his medical career as a family doctor and built up a large practice. His ability as an anatomist was recog- nized in 1878 when he was appointed as | assistant demonstrator in the histologi- | «cal and physiological laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania. With other Phliadelphia physicians he founded the Philadelphia Neurological Society and became an authority on nervous diseases. He was the author of many papers and works on the subject. Disease Bears Name. Probably the work which will longest keep his name alive in medical annals | was his identification and description of | & disease of the adipose tissue. It is| known in medical literature as “Der- cum’s disease” and referred to by French writers as “Maladie de Dercum.” Dr. Dercum was & member of many | societies within and without the| medical profession. In 1923 France! made him & chevalier of the Legion of Honor. After President Wilson was stricken ‘while on his speaking tour in the West in behalf of the League of Nations, Dr. Dercum was called in on the President’s Teturn to Washington and made many trips to the White House. Dr. Dercum was married in 1891 to Miss Elizabeth Comly of Philadelphia. ‘They had three children. § WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts other than those contracted by myself. JAMES FERGUSON, 1684 32nd st. n.w. 23% I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts other t: 1848 Park rd. n.w. i WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR NO DEBTS Other than those contracted by me person- slly. ARTHUR R. SHU, 5522 Conn. ave. 24 ‘WANTED — FULL OR PART LOADS FOR the below listed cities and points To or from New York.... To or from Chicago.. s %o or from 8t. Lows. .. 21110 A AMERICAN STORAGE, & TRANSFER CO. Adams 1450 Virginia Oratory Judges FINALS WILL BE HELD IN BALLS | OL. WADE H. COOPER (upper tional Bank; Jesse C. Adkins District of Columbia Supreme head of the Washington Bureau judges at the Virginia district National Oratorical Contest. Judge How tive to Congress from the ei which will be held tomorrow ' TON SCHOOL TOMORROW NIGHT. left), president of the Commercial Na- (upper right), associate justice of the Court, and Byron Price (lower left), of the Associated Press, who will act as finals in The Evening Star area of the ard W. Smith (lower right), Representa- h Virginia district, will preside at the meeting, ht at Washingto: h School, Ballston, Va. JOHN G. FAIRCLOTH PLACED ON TRIAL Washington Newspaper Man Charged With Aiding Mis- application of Funds. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 23.—John G. Faircloth, 45 years old, Washington of the Mayflower Publishing Co. of ‘Washington, jointly indicted with Clar- ence F. Schatz, 32 years old, former cashier of the First National Bank of Mount Rainier, pleaded not man and a jury this morning. Schatz is charged with the misap- plication of about $39,000 of the bank funds and Faircloth is charged with aiding and abetting in the misappli- cation of the funds. At the request of William L. Marbury, who is repre- | senting Faircloth, the cases were sep- arated and Faircloth went on trial guilty | when arraigned in United States Court | and went on trial before Judge Coxc.[ RADIO DEBUT MADE BY HELEN KELLE INation-wide Hook-up Enables Audience of Millions to Hear Speech. Miss Helen Keller, blind and deaf since infancy and whose accomplish- | ments have gained her world renown, rill newspaper man and former president | jeft Washington last night after ex- | { eriencing wiii [N STOCK SWINDLE | periencing here ~second | within a day in keeping up with mod- |ern development of science and en- | gineering. | * Having had her first airplane ride | Capital to have luncheon with Presi- dent and Mrs. Hoover, Miss Keller also made her radio debut yesterday, when she broadcast over a ccast-to-coast hook-up of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Teacher Pays Tribute. “I thought of the microphone as my friend,” she said afterward, “and spoke to it as I would a friend.” | Told through the fingertips of her when she flew from Newark to the | | secretary that she was speaking to mil- | lions of persons throughout the country, E. Soberloff, United States district at- |she threw up her hands. “I am dumb- torney, and his assistant, O. Norman |founded,” she Teplied. “Had I known Forest. Mr. Forest, in his opening | that, I would have felt an added sense statement, said that under the Federal | of responsibilit; first. ‘The case is being prosecuted by Simon TAX COLLECTIONS DROP $347.420.373 Government Figures for Nine Months Far Below Pre- vious Year Period. Government tax offictals today sald the total tax collections for the first nine months of the present fiscal year have dropped $347.420,929 below ~the same period last year. Collections from July 1 to April 1, the Internal Revenue Bureau announced to- day, amounted to $1930032,167, com- | pared with $2,277,453,096 for the same period a year ago. Meanwhile, Government._expenditures increased nearly $200,000,000 to con- tribute toward a prospective $700,000,- 000 deficit at the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Nine-Month Increase. For_the nine months expenditures were $3,132,081,892, compared with $2,- 35,946,101 the previous year. ‘The |latest Treasury statement, for last Monday, showed the Government at that time had a $786,594,568 deficit, | compared with a $75,172,160 deficit on the same day last vear. Most of the decline in tax collections for the nine months was due to lower income tax payments, which dropped | $306,829,239 below last year. Income- tax collections dropped to $1,505,853,157 from $1,812,582,396. The report showed income tax pald by corporations last month on 1930 in- | come dropped $104,835,582, compared | with the same month last year. Corpo- rations paid $175.995.836 last month, | compared with $280,831,418 last year. Individuals Pay Less. Individual income-tax collections for |last month of $153,561,918 dropped | $121,351,302, compared with March a | year ago. | " For the nine months corporations | have paid $818.302,644 income tax, com- | | paredwith $946.888,504 the previous | year, while individuals paid $687,550,- 511, compared with $865,793,891. The tobacco tax, the last of the stamp | taxes to show the effects of the de- pression, fell off $4,667,337 for the nine months, totaling $328,404,149, compared | with $333,071,486 the previous year. | Cigarettes, small cigars and cigarette | papers, however, showed an upward | trend in March; cigarettes returning $20,406,189 that month, compared with | $27.496,657 a year ago. A total of | 9,801,886,417 cigarettes were taken from | bond in March, compared with 9,165, 174703 the same month last year. Cigars, other than the small size, | dropped off 14,000,000 in March, totaling 440,472,410 Decline on Playing Cards. | The tax on playing cards dropped | $115715 in the nine months, from $3,923,287 a year ago. The tax on ad- | mission to theaters, concerts and caba- Tets declined $1,101,172, from 83,255,883, Tax on club memberships dropped off $730,956, from $9,019,020. | . Estate taxes declined $7.160.244 to $37,427,951, while tax on capital stock sales or transfers decreased $15,414,370 to $19,571,949. Documentary stamp tax collections decreased $24,074.483 to $47,612,747, while the miscellaneous taxes dropped $3,198,432 to $2,344,986. TAKEN 1$37,000 IS Chicago Grocer Reveals Story of | Fake Market Losses in Confidence Game. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 23.—A little pleasure trip to Martinsville, Ind., and Indian- | apolis cost Matthias Reinert, 75, a re- | | tired crocer, $20,000 in cash and $17.000 in Liberty bonds. day about ylelding that sum to three He told police yester- | pleasant Indianans who had offered to | 5 | show him the secret of successful stock market speculation. | _Until recently Reinert, who lives in | Chicago, had been accustomed to go to | French ' Lick Springs. This Spring, | however, he admitted to friends that banking laws Faircloth was equally as| In her talk Miss Keller urged persons | French Lick was a little too lively—he guilty as Schatz. Faircloth, he said, |to take care of their eyes and preserve | was president of the Mayflower Pub- | lishing Co. of Washington, which issued | a publication of Who's Who in the| South and East, while Schatz was| treasurer of the company. Between | 1928 and 1920 Forest said checks were | drawn by Faircloth on the Mount Rain | fer Bank to the extent of $21,000 and that other “kiting” of checks brought 15. | the total up to around $39,000 2nd that | 5 . 1317 _ave. Local moving also. ALLIED VAN LINE SERVICE. Long-Distance Moving. RN LOADS Regular weekly service and from Washington, Ba. Phia_and New York 'TED STATES STORAGE CQ. IN 418 10th St. N.W. Met WANTED_LOADS TO AND FROM ORI - SRR Apr b and ‘West N LINES. We also by STEEL LIFT VANS anywher MITH'S TRANSFER & STORAGE 13 You St. N.W. _Phone North 33 co. u o) e 343-3343 NT PERMIT YOUR LIVING, ROOM LRE AND RUGS i BT TATES W BCRAPED AND FINISHED machine or hand w 01018 20th st_ ‘A Good Spring' Tonic —for your business printed ge us furnish estimates The National Capital Press| 3210-1212 D 8t. N. NOTICE OF SALE TO CHARGES. iven zn EN Phone National 0650 that &, OF MAY. O'CLOC] its, | disabled the checks were cashed through the Second National Banx and the North Capital Savings Bank of Washington. On October 29 Forest said the Fed- | eral bank examiner called for a state- | ment of the fiscal report, and that Schatz sent for Faircloth and got him to make out new checks for about | $2,000, which then showed that the | checks were still out. Attorney Marbury in his opening ad- |dress said Schatz was the “brains” of the company, and that Faircloth knew nothing of the “kiting” of the checks, being employed solely in a newspaper capacity as editor of the publication 45 | Schatz will be placed on trial as soon | as the case against Faircloth is com- | 28 | pleted. % Child Gives Poppy | To Hoover to Open : Veterans’ Aid Drive I abled Ex-Service Men Make 50,000 Flowers | Each Week. | President Hoover was presented with a “buddy” poppy today at the White House by f7-year-old Hazel Viola| Markinson, daughter of a World War veteran, who made a trip here for this purpose from the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Home for Widows and Orphans of Ex-Service Men in Eaton Rapids, Mich The poppy given the President by the child was the first “buddy” poppy of the scason, inaugurating the 1931 poppy campaign ‘under auspices of the Vet- | erans of Foreign Wars. This poppy was made in United States Veterans' Hospi- tal No. 81, in New York City, where ex-service man patients are making approxiamtely 50,000 a week in | preparation for the annual “buddy” poppy sale, Little Hazel was accompanied by her { | mother and officers of the Veterans of ces, Mrs. L. Fogel, L V. Bighop, 8 an act of (36 . 1910 (36 Stat., the ale. + this twenty- third day of April. 1931 ozl FEDERAL STORAGE COMPANY. H. RANDOLPH BARBEE, SO VOB — Becretary. «of any Dature promptly and capabl 17 @fter by practical roofers Call us !Il:m - Roofing 119 3rd Bt. B.W Company District 0933 during paint-up end_clean-up week 14 pt. Utlac, 4-hour dry? iy shade.. an: Fiih: & rs'and W. R. Winsiow Co., Foreign Wars' National Organization. President Hoover has indorsed the poppy campaign in the following letter, which was delivered to the commander in_chief of the organization: “I warmly commend the annual ‘buddy poppy’ campaign, which is con- ducted under the auspices of the Veter- ans of Foreign Wars, as a means of gen- eral civilian contribution in the relief work for disabled and needy veterans and their dependents. It not only gives tional home for widows and orphans of deceased veterans in Eaton Rapids, Mich.” Kaye Don Welcomed Home. LONDON, " April 23 (#).—Kaye Don, British racer, was welcomed home to- day from Buenos Aires, where he set a speedboat record. I new . | New York. |of employment to disabled veterans, but | also aids in the maintenance of & na- | their sight. She was introduced by her | secretary, Miss Polly Thompson and was paid a tribute by her senor teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, the latter | telling how Miss Keller learned to hear | through touch and later was graduated | from college. Radio Through Fingertips. Miss Keller enjoys listening to the | radio programs, which she hears by | placing her fingertips on the loud | speaker. Miss Keller's visit to this city was in | connection with the visit here by the | delegates to the World Conference on | Wark for the Blind, which was held in | The delegates, now on a tour of various citles, left last night for | Pittsburgh, after having enjoyed a day entertainment here and in Alex- andria. SCHOOL PATROLMAN STRUCK AT CROSSING | A 15-year-old schoolboy patrolman was run down and left lying in the street early today by a hit-and-run driver, whose car struck the boy as he was assisting a young girl across the | intersection of Seventcenth and M| streets. The boy, Benjamin E. Brent, colored, of 1525 Q street, member of the Volun- teer Patrol at Sumner School, escaped with minor injuries about the legs and body. He was able to attend classes after first-ald treatment at the school dispensary. ‘The girl escaped unhurt and hurried on to school in the en- suing excitement, A fellow member of the patrol cb- tained the tag numbers of the auto- mobile and a description of the driver. A lookout was broadcast to police. 3 condition, with Sanitas and tint ceilings. Open 10 rooms (six real bedrooms) decorated throughout, parquet floors, beater, garage. | | room, open fireplace, ventilating fan, windows. Bullt-in garage. and lavatory, garage. stores and transportation. T DT L LR R R R R U RRRNY NATL. MORTG. »‘X“‘S‘%SS“‘%SS“‘S““\“%“W‘W‘% FOUR EXCELLENT HOME VALUES Inspect at Your Convenience 2937 28th St. Just off Cathedral Avenue and west of Conn. Ave. in new house Six large rooms, three baths, 2-car garage. 2634 Garfield St. One-half square from Connecticut Avenue, near Wardman Park. 2 baths, unusually large closets, newly 1411 Whittier St. Just off 16th near Walter Reed, semi-detached brick and stucco English type home containing 9 rooms, 3 baths, full attic, cedar storage , rubber tile in kitchen. Plate glass 3349 18th Street One of the better homes in Mount Pleasant. Eight large rooms, bath ‘The entire property is in excellent condition with &' brand-new roof, deep yard, approximately 170 ft. lost $700 in a poker game. So he chose Martinsville as quieter, and there met a man who called himself J. A. Kirk. He decided to ride back to Chicago with him. On the way they stopped at Indianapolis. On the street, Kirk exclaimed, “why, there’s G. A. Mayo. He’s'the man that made millions in Mexican oil. Let's see where he stands on the stock market.” They_saw, and each put $200 in a| pool. “In mno_ time at all, they had | $300,000—in brokerage receipts. But the “broker” wouldn’t pay them until they put up $300.000 collateral. Reinert’s | share was $37,000. He got it and met | the trio at Gary. There he “bought” | more, “and the market broke.” On the way back to Chicago for more money, he decided he needed police as- | sistance. They are looking for Kirk, Mayo and the “broker.” . BOOSTER TRIP PLANS VIRTUALLY COMPLETED Reservations for Merchants’ Cruise Expected to Be Filled Long Before Sailing Date. Reservations for the annual “Booster trip” of Washington business men, sponsored by the Merchants & Manu- facturers’ Assoclation, which will take place June 12 to 15, will be_ taken up long before the date set for the voyage, according to reports submitted at a meeting of the committee in charge of the affair yesterday. Arrangements for the trip have been virtually completed, according to Dr. M. G. Gibbs, chairman of the Booster Committee of the association. The trip, which will be made aboard a steamer, will include stops at Annapolis, Old Point Corfort and Norfolk. g Nicely decorated firfplace. Oak floors throughout. oil burner, new instantaneous water Will Rogers NEW YORK.—The King and Queen of Siam are here. Now we will get a real test of our wise- crackers’ ability, see who can say something with- out referring to the Siam-~se twins. Iam licaed already and with- draw. Pat Hurley Secretary of War left Washington for Oklahoma in a Navy plane. Was the one the Army owns broke down? Mayor Walker's opponents have wisely decided to withdraw any reference to his private life. They had to withdraw it on account of a biblical quotation “let him with- out sin cast the first stone,” so they would_have to import somebody into New York to make the accusation. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair, probably light frost and colder with lowest tem- perature about 37 degrees; tomorrow fair with slowly rising temperature; moderate northwest winds, diminishing tonight. Maryland—Fair, with light to heavy frost; colder in east and central por- tions tonight; tomorrow fair, rising tem- perature in west and central portions; moderate to fresh northwest winds, di- minishing tonight. Virginia—Fair, with light to heavy frost, colder in east and central por- tions tonight; tomorrow fair with slow- ly rising temperature in north and west portions; moderate northwest winds, di- minishing_tonight. West Virginia—Fair and continued cold tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy with rising temperature. Record for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 59; 8 p.m., 42; 12 midnight, 43; 4 a.m.,, 44; 8 am,, 44. Barometer—4 pm. 29.88; 8 pm, 29.96; 12 midnight, 29.96; 4 a.m., 29.94; 8 am., 30.02. Highest temperature, 70, occurred at 1 p.am. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 41, occurred at 8:20 p.m. yesterday. ‘Temperature same date last year— Highest, 63; lowest, 43. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 5:35 a.m. and 6:42 | pm.; high tide, 11:38 am. Tomorrow—Low tide, 6:28 am. and 7:37 pm.; high tide, 12:10 am. and 12:35 pm. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 5:22 a.m.; sun sets 6:52 p.m Tomorrow—Sun rises 5:21 am.; sun sets 6:53 p.m. Moon rises 8:55 a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Comparative figures of the monthly rainfall in the Capital for the first four months against the average is shown in the following table: Record rainfall mt.)ynlhs were: anuary, 1882, 7.09 inches; February, 1884, 6.34 inches; March, 1891, ;ryfl; inches; April, 1889, 9.13 inches. Weather Various Cities. for the first four 9 8 ] 2 -3 asua Stations. Weather. ***gup1aisas Abilene, Tex... Albany,'N. Y... Atlanta, Ga. Atlantic City’ Baltimore, M Birmingham Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy PBt.cloudy Clear Cleveland, Columbia, S. C. Denver, Colo. uron, 8. Dak.: 3044 Indianapolis,Ind 30.36 Jacksonville,Fla. 30.16 ar Bt.cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear 1 30.06 N 370 Okiahoma' City 3022 60 4 aha, Nebr... 30.46 Philadeiphia Phoenix, Ariz... 29 Pittsburgh, Pa.. 30.24 Portland, Me. .. 29.96 Portland, Oseg. 20.84 Raleigh,” N, C. 30.14 Salt Lake City. 29.70 6: San' Antonlo. .. 30.16 San Diego, Calif 29.86 San_ Francisco. 29.56 St. Louts, Mo.. 30.38 Rain Pt.cloudy Cloud " 2990 Wash. 30.14 Fla 012 D. Glll3002 Spokarle, ampa, Clear WASH., Pt.cloudy FOREIGN. (7 am., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. Loi - 44 Clear (Noon, Green Horta (Fayal), Azores... (Current observations.) Bermuda...... 66 uba. .. 74 82 Hamilton, Havana, Colon, Part cloudy Part coudy Part cloudy SHELL? Or Should We Ask if You Live in a Flat? Well, It’'s Spring IN THE Forest Section of Chevy Chase Take an hour and see a NEW home coming into out- oi-doors living. See the homes that are designed to OPEN UP. The big screened porches, wonderful for bridge. See how a $30,000 house was woven into one at $18,379. And the Laboratory Home Do It Now Close to schools, WE WILL GLADLY SHOW YOU ANY OF THE ABOVE PROPERTIES Most Reasonable Terms & INV. CORP. Nat, 5833 TO INSPECT wrive out Conmnecticut Avenue to Bradley Lane, then turn LEFT two squares (along the g‘mum ©of the Chevy Chase Ciub) to Maple Avenue; then follow our direction signs. APRIL groted that the rope had been tied in a | privilege granted Federal employes re- | 23, 1931. LINKS ROPE DEATH ©-vomeers wa From Civil Service Com- P mission. Coroner Notes Similar Knots s, , seur correspondent ot rne star. and Scratches on Hands MOUNT RAINIER, Md., April 23.— ‘The proposal to pay salaries to town | of Apparent Suicide. officials here will not alter in any de- | gree the privilege granted Federal em- | { ployes residing in Mount Rainier to hold | | municipal office, John T. Doyle, secre- | | T e | fary to ‘sm; Sivil Service Commission, | has advised the mayor and council. SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.—Detec-| Secretary Doyle's opinion is contained | tives sought today to learn whether l’;l !}w"’mf re‘;‘fh'cig !;lyfmmcur?an Floyd | | t ’ | athias in which he says it appears | there was a connection between the | (io'cloition "ag to whether salary is | death of Louise Teuber, whose unclothed | attached to municipal offices is imma- | body was found suspended from a tree | terial under the executive order of Feb- , _ | ruary 14, 1912, permitting Federal em- near San Diego Sunday, and the ap- | pioves ‘to hold office in certain munici- parent sulcide of John Porcellano, 40.| palities adjacent to the District of Co- | Porcellano’s body was found hanging | lumbia. ! I’ o | _“It is not the opinion of this affice,” rom a tree in & cemetery 10 miles south |, Tf 3% POF, The QPRIOR of HECR Amce | of San Francisco Tuesday night. No|pjl] in the Maryland Legislature to au- | | special significance was attached to his | thorize payment of salaries of $200 to | | death until Mrs, Luella D. Pepper, San | the mayor and $125 each to the mem- | | Mateo =County coroncr, discovered | pers of the conucil of the town of Mount | scratches on his hands and face and | Rainier would alter in any degree the [ | | | | 'manner similar to that which had sus- | siding in Mount Rainier to hold muni- Motor Van —freight car or “lift” van —let us advise which. Becuritp Srorage 1140 FIFTEENTH ST A SAFE DEPOSITORY FOR40 YEARS C.AASPINWALL . PRESIDENT pended the body of the 17-year-old girl. | cipal office in that town.” Recalling that bits of flesh had been | found under the girl's finger nails, indi- cating a struggle had preceded her death, Mrs. Pepper communicated with | Southern_ California_ authorities and | learned Porcellano had lived in San Diego. | Mrs. Pepper said the knots which | Porcellano had used corresponded to one | described as having been found in the line around the Teuber girl’s neck. | Relatives said Porcellano was deeply | interested in the occult and carried membership in a Southern California spiritualist organization. Rejuven outdoors. home owner. made-to-measure prices. Don't forget | ] Baked Hash isafzvoritz‘ i when seasoned Bl | with Ll GULOENS ¢.Mustard‘ | HOURS 73 PRING is bringing new life to all It is also fitting that we do the same indoors—and START WITH du Pont TONTINE Window | Shades. 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