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WORKS PROGRAM HAMIPERED BY ROW Varying Situations in 10 States Complicate Aid for Unemployables. By the Associated Press. Uncertainty in 10 States over relief matters is reported to be hampering administration efforts to turn back to the States the care of unemploy- ables, as planned under the new four- billion-dollar program. Officials familiar with relief plans said the amounts ‘being demanded from the States by Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, represented to a large degree sums needed to take care of the unemployables whose support the Federal Government hereafter will make a State job. With the States regularly contribut- ing such amounts, it was said the way would be cleared for their continuing to carry that load after direct relief from the Federal Government Wwas ended. Matters Complicated. Varying situations that have arisen in the States, however, have compli- cated matters. In Georgia and Louisi- ana much of the trouble is blamed by Federal officials upon Gov. Eugene Talmadge and Senator Long, Demo- crat, of Louisiana. There has been no indication that relief would not be administered in those States by Fed- eral officials as long as the $880,000,000 for direct relief lasts. Secretary Ickes has said that if public works were handled under the four-billion-dollar fund as they have been in the past, Georgia would get little money and Louisiana might not get any. But he was speaking of that portion of the money which might be loaned to the State or municipalities and which would be accompanied by & grant from the Federal Government. In the minds of Washington officials, there, existed no doubt that those two States would receive funds for a wide range of projects which, under the works fund, will be financed wholly by the Federal Government. Much of this money, however, will be spent in co-operation with localities under ar- rangements by which the money will be repaid. The other States figuring in the re- lief fund dispute are Pennsylvania, TTennessee, Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey and Missouri. Supplied for Month. Pennsylvania and Missouri have ar- ranged to supply the money demanded of them for one month. What will be the situation after that month remains to be seen. In each of the States the situation differs. All the States save New Jersey have Democratic governors, and political forecasters predicted the present dis- pute would be reflected in the 1936 presidential campaign. Louisiana, Georgia and South Caro- lina have not gone Republican since the Civil War. But North Carolina, Virginia and Florida bolted Al Smith in 1928 to go for Herbert Hoover. The | Democrats made a clean sweep of Pennsylvania in the last election for the first time in a generation. Ten- nessee and Missouri generally are put into the category of border States— sometimes Democratic but always open to persuasion. New Jersey generally is Republican. ROOSEVELT RISKS BLAME OR PRAISE IN HUGE SPENDING (Continued From First Page.) relief rolis, according to rough esti- mates. F. E. R. A. has called on the States to raise more money for relief than they did last year. The F. E. R. A. schedule calls for State and local con- tributions of $563,775,000 for the com- ing year. This amount is expected to take care of most of the unem- ployables on the relief rolls. Several States are still balking at appropriat- ing the sums requested by Mr. Hop- kins. The policy outlined by him for Georgia was looked upon as a model for future action. Georgia’s share of money for work relief will be administered by the Federal Gov- ernment. After June 1, according to Mr. Hopkins’ warning, the States and localities will be entirely responsible for the rest of the people on relief, excepting the farmers who are being rehabilitated, transients, and those who come under other special pro- grams. Life of Fund Controversial. How long the $4,880,000.000 appro- priation will last is one of the most controversial questions in administra- tion circles. The President has said that he plans to spend it all before July 1, 1936, unless there is sufficient recovery to make it unnecessary to provide 3,500,000 men with jobs. He has spoken of November, 1935, as the month in which he hopes to have the program moving at full speed. On the other hand, he has spoken of July, 1936, as the month in which certain parts of the construction pro- gram may be expected to reach their eak. » Unless expenditures are deliberately held back, there is little chance that there will be any money left in the fund after July 1, 1936, according to some of the best calculators in the administration. They expect the $880,000,000 to be gone by the end of this fiscal year, through an acceler- ation of expenditure via the C. C. C. and the F. E. R. A. work program, plus the natural pick up in P. W. A. construction work following the break- up of Winter and the continued need for relief in the drought areas. That will leave $4,000,000,000. But P. W. A,, F.E R. A, C. C. C. and related ex- penditures for the current year prom- ise to exceed $3,000,000,000. Thus, it is pointed out, three of the four bil- lions for next year will be needed merely to maintain the 1934-35 pace of expenditures. Increased State appropriations will give some aid. The new program will obtain a little leeway from the trans- fer of certain construction items which were financed by P. W. A. this year to the regular budget for next year. If the Bankhead farm tenant bill passes, the $4,880,000,000 fund will be relieved of part of the expense of rehabilitating farmers. But when these allowances are made, officials in the spending agencies of the ad- ministration are still unable to see how the $4,880,000,000 fund can be stretched to carry through the 1936 election, except by holding expendi- tures to their present level, or lower, for the next nine months and conserv- ing the fund for a big push in 1936. Hopes For Industrial Revival. The administration is hoping for substantial aid in reducing unemploy- ment through the revival of the heavy goods industries. But it faces the fact that _there ' are several million unemployed, not on relief, to be absorbed by private industry before any substantial seduction in the relief rolls can be The pump- THE 'SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 21, ‘1935—PART ONE. New D.A.R. Board toMap Plans Maryland Wreck Fatal to Six Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. All that was left of a speeding automobile which crashed into a parked car near Salisbury, Md., yesterday, turning a pleasure trip into death for three couples. A wrecker truck had to be called to pull the demolished vehicles apart before the bodies could be removed. Seen Hurting By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, April 20.—Activities of Dr. Townsend, Huey Long, Father Coughlin and others “are lowering the prestige of the United States in the Far East,” in the opinion of Dr. Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis, president | of the Federal Council of Churches of | Christ in America. “The peoples of China and Japan,” he said, “are upable to understand it is by such fantastic theses as those propounded by Townsend, Long and | Coughlin.” Dr. Holt. who nas spent three months surveying conditions in China and Japan, the Australian South American Southern Methodists. Townsend, Long and Coughlin Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, Head of Federal| Council of Churches, Says Orient Is Dismayed by Fantastic Theses. how the United States is swayed as will leave Monday for Australia to attend the centennial of Methodist Church as fraternal delegate from the Dr. Holt said he believed America's refusal to enter the World Court and U.S.inFar East| the Nation's present silver policy are other factors “‘lessening American in- fiuence in the Orient.” “Oriental peoples, especially the Japanese, are unable to understand America when it preaches world amity and co-operation but simul- taneously refuses to enter the World | Court, which is aimed at the further- | ence of these ideals,” he commented. America's silver buying, he said, | “is adding to China's economic diffi- | culties” and hence causing China to wonder just what is America’s real | attitude toward her. Dr. Holt sald he looked with con- cern on approaching American naval maneuvers in the Pacific ! “In Japan,” he explained, “officials | told me the Japanese government | does not view the maneuvers as a hostile demonstration toward Japan, but that the Japanese people consider | fl}:m unfriendly and view them with alarm.” is limited, in view of the fact that that even if the entire amount is spent before July 1, 1936, it will put only between $1,000,000,000 and $2,000,- 000,000 more in circulation than was put out this year by the Federal Government. For that reason, there is sentiment in the administration in favor of ing power in the new program into & carefully-selected number of months. This is urged on the theory that if industrial production is maintained at a reasonably high level for four or five consecutive months, an additional shot in the arm from the Federal ‘Treasury will create a real spurt and provide the psychological basis for a prolonged rise. On the other hand, the “spending” theory of recovery has few prominent advocates in the upper circles of the administration. The President out- lined and argued for the $4,880,000,000 program as a relief and conservation measure, and is pledged to provide 3,500,000 jobs, presumably for a full year. The carrying out of this pledge would be difficult under a scheme for concentrated spending within a few months. Moreover, persons close to the White House are in a more optimistic frame of mind just at present over the high level of activity of the automobile industry and the marked improvement in some of the heavy godds industries. These signs are strengthening, at least temporarily, the more conservative ad- money, a halt on reform legislation, and a period of quiet as the main needs for recovery. Exchange Tax Planned. China is to have an exchange trans- actions tax. Handsom Castelberg’s silver. Small weekl, On'dh Woodward & 4 priming capacity of the new program trying to concentrate the extra spend- | visers to the President, who see cheap | KANSAN FIGHTS DELAY IN LOWERING RAIL RATE| Homer Hoch Urges I. C. C. to Re- fuse Carriers Another Extension to Work Out Tariff. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., April 20.—Homer | Hoch, chairman of the Kansas State Corporation Commission, today re- quested the Interstate Commerce | Commission to refuse a further delay in putting into effect lowered grain rates, due to become effective in June in territory served by Western rail- | roads. | The roads have sought another delay, contending they did not have | time in which to work out tariffs, but Hoch said a delay would mean farm- | ers would have to pay the higher rates | on their 1935 wheat crop. | “The railroads had no trouble in| | working out their tariffs in three | weeks when increased rates were | granted on other commodities,” he said, “and I can't see why they can't do the same thing in three months for the lower grain rates.” Hoch is a former Republican Repre- ’:elnt:mve from the fourth Kansas dis- | trict. PANSIES IN FULL BLOOM Park authorities are enthusiastic about the “half a million blooms on | the 40,000 plants in the pansy beds” in West Potomac Park, and predict that in 10 days there will be a million blossoms. The pansy beds are near the Inlet Bridge and the rose garden, and annually are attracting more and more visitors, the officials said. | ployed to organize, meet and demon- | | strate. POLIGE BRUTALITY TONEEDY CHARGED Jobless Right to Organize Also Demanded by Lib- erties Union. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. April 20.—Demands that relief workers and the unemployed | be permitted to organize and bargain collectively were coupled with a de- nunciation of police “brutality” in a pamphlet issued today by the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union. | Efforts of the unemployed to or- | ganize and conduct peaceful demon- | strations have been met, the union | charged, with police violence “unprece- | dented in American history.” Six Recommendations Made. After outlining six specific recom- mendations to protect the rights of | the unemployed, the pamphlet said: “It has become a matter of routine to have police stationed at relief bu- reaus. Peaceful demonstrations, or | marches, held in spite of refusal of permits, have been broken up, often with brutality. Demonstrations where permits were issued have been on oc- casions dispersed with equal brutality. “This routine use of police violence, often with frank official approval, against a body of citizens such as the organized unemployed, is unprece- dented in American history.” ‘The pamphlet, sent to the union's | claimed membership of 4,000 persons throughout the country, listed these recommendations: Removal of all police from relief | stations. Establishment of regular complaint bureaus at all relief stations. Unrestricted right of the unem- | SIX CRASH DEATHS NOTT0 BE PROBED Inquest Held Unnecessary in Automobile Accident at Salisbury, Md. By the Associated Press. SALISBURY, Md,, April 20.—There will be no inquest into the deaths of six young persons who were killed in an automobile accident near here to- day, State’s Attorney Rex Anderson Taylor of Wicomico County announced following an investigation. The high rate of speed at which the automobile occupied by the six per- sons was traveling was the cause of the accident, Taylor said. “The cause is so epparent there is no need for an_inquest” he said. The six victims, ranging in age from 17 to 25, “never knew what hit them” when their speeding sedan plowed into a parked truck at Pow- ellsville, near here, said Corpl. C. E. Minnick of the State police, who con- ducted an investigation. Five Died Instantly. Five of them were dead when citi- zens, roused from their beds by noise of the crash, pried the two wrecked vehicles apart. The other died in a hospital here shortly afterward without regaining - consciousness. Minnick said the automobile ap- parently had been speeding through Powellsville and that the driver had been unable to negotiate e curve in the center of the town. The truck had been parked at the side of the street some time previously by Edwin Jones of Accomac, Va. The truck, a report sent to Balti- more headquarters of the State police said, was parked 3 feet off the road on the other side of the highway from that on which the sedan was traveling. Reported to Officials. ‘The accident was reported to State's Attorney Taylor and Magistrate S. King White of Salisbury. The dead: Thaddeus Dykes, 25, 107 Washing- | ton street, Salisbury, driver of the car. Norris M. Dykes, 22, 302 Washing- | ton street, Salisbury. ‘Wisehart Mumford, 19, Salisbury. Miss Violet Templeton, 17, 407 Mary- land avenue, Delmar. Miss Evelyn Willey, 17, Chestnut street, Delmar. Miss Agnes Taylor, 20, Maryland avenue, Delmar. Thaddeus Dykes was married, the others single. Thaddeus Dykes still was behind the wheel of the sedan when the bodies were removed. Sheriff Charles Truitt, Salisbury, said the three girls had attended a church pageant rehearsal at Delmar | earlier last night and that later they had gone for a pleasure ride with no special destination. Police said the car was heading toward Salisbury, apparently for the girls’ homes in Delmar. Funeral services for Mumford will be held Monday at 3:30 p.m. at his home here. Services for the other victims have not yet been arranged. DIVORCED AND WED ALL IN ONE DAY Ex-Wife of “Big Bill” Edwards Becomes Bride of Howard Clayton at Reno. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev., April 20.—All in a day, Mrs. Norma Jones Edwards of New | York was divorced and married again. She was divorced early today from William Hanford (Big Bill) Edwards, rotund former Princeton foot ball star and one-time collector of the port of New York. A few hours later | Right to Organize, Unrestricted right of relief workers to organize and bargain collectively. | No discrimination in relief against | strikers. No denial of right to vote to recipi- | en:s of relief. The pamphlet charged’ that police{ severity toward the unemployed was | duplicated in the courts, W.C. T. U. to Meet. COLESVILLE, Md., April 20 (Spe- | cial) —The Women's Christian Tem- pesance Union of Colesville will meet Thursday at 2 p.m. with Mrs. Claude she was honeymooning with Howard Clayton of New York and Yokohama. Clayton, 47-year-old vice president and treasurer of the Japan Paper Co. of Yokohama and New York, is Mrs. Edwards' third husband. She charged that she and Edwauds, whom she married January 2, 1928, in New York City, have been separated since December, 1929. Clayton, a widower, said they would leave shortly for Seattle and sail from there next week for the Orient. Her divorce from Edwards was granted at a brief private hearing. 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J, when installed yesterday as president general, succeeding Mrs. Russell Willlam Magna of Holyoke, Mass., placed this largest women's patriotic organization on record “for the ideals of America and for the hopes of humanity.” To carry out this principle she pleaded with the membership for “unity, tolerance and charity.” Mrs. Becker's installation, along with her cabinet, and the State re- gents from all parts of the country, brought to a close yesterday morn- ing at Constitution Hall business ses- sions of the Forty-fourth Continental Congress. But festivities continued yesterday afternoon and evening, with a reception by Mrs. Roosevelt at the | White House for all the Daughters, {and the annual banquet, or “love feast,” last night at the Mayflower Hotel. Policies Likely to Conform. Policies of the Becker administra- tion, which have been characterized generally as conservative, are not ex- pected to differ widely from those of | her predecessor, and personal friend, Mrs. Magna, as the two were class- | mates at Smith College, and have been closely associated throughout their D. A. R. careers. Mrs. Becker was a member of Mrs. Magna's ad- ministration, as chairman of the Com- | mittee on National Defense through patriotic education. Giving a key to what she may be expected to do throughout her three- | year term ahead, Mrs. Becker, in her brief speech of installation yesterday sald she was “deeply conscious of the }responsiblmlu" of her new post. hopes of humanity. For myself, and for my cabinet, I pledge to you devo- tion in service that we may fulfill the hope you have in us.” Sees Chance to Serve. portunity for service as we have be- fore us today. As character is the foundation of our civilization, and intellect without character is national | suicide, so may we direct ourselves, |our abilities and our intelligence toward the re-establishment of faith in God, and the spirit of justice and humanity. “I beseech your co-operation,” said Mrs. Becker, “your advice and counsel, that together we may build construc- | tively and serve effectually. | “Differences of opinion are desir- | able, but differences of conviction on | fundamental matters can lead only to the breaking up of society. The great ages of man have been the ages of unity. ' “So I plead for unity within our cent program to which we as a society are committed. May unity, tolerance and charity direct our counsels to- gether.” Debt Cancelling Ritual. Elaborate ceremonies pf the closing session yesterday morning were marked by a picturesque demonstra- tion celebrating the cancellation of the debt on Constitution Hall. Mrs. Magna, who for nine years has been | head of the Constitution Hall Com- mittee, presided over a surprise pag- eant, in which she cut a piece out of a gigantic birthday cake, towering | high above her, brilliantly lighted by | 100 electric candles. Inside the piece | of cake she found a “plum”—a piece of paper on which was written the words: Hall is all wiped out, paid by current funds of the society, as it is possible to do so.” | This referred to action taken by the society a few moments before. Con- tributions to the hall fund had been made at several sessions reducing the debt owed by the organization to one of its own funds to about $100,000. It was then decided to pay off the remainder out of current funds. A glowing tribute to the work of Mr: WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT The D. A. R., she said, “stands for | the ideals of America, and for the | “Never since the dawn of history | has there been such a marvelous op- | “The debt on Constitution | Megna as chairman of the Hall Com- mittee, was read by Mrs. George May- nard Minor, honorary president gen- eral, Mrs. Becker Applauded. Spontaneous applause greeted Mrs. Becker and the new officers and State regents as they marched to the plat- form to be installed in office. Mrs. Becker’s love of simplicity was again evidenced in the selection of the gown in which she took her oath of office. Her gown was of her favorite shade of blue and she carried a simple cluster of gardenias, a gift of Mr. Becker. At the installation ceremony the first officers to receive their ribbons of office were the newly elected and re-elected State regents and State vice regents as follows: Alaska, Mrs. ‘Thomas McCroskey and Mrs. Morgan Christopher Edmunds; Colorado, Mrs. Clarence H. Adams and Mrs. Walter K. Reed; Delaware, Mrs. Wal- ter 8. Williams and Mrs. Howard G. Ely; Florida, Mrs. Guy Voorhees Willlams and Mrs. E. M. Brevard; Idaho, Mrs. P. B. Laney and Mrs. Willlam Wesley Brothers: Illinois, Mrs. Samuel James Campbell; Iowa, Mrs. Harry E. Narey, vice regent; Kansas, Mrs. Loren Edgar Rex and Miss Adelaide Jane Morse; Kentucky, Mrs. Robert Keene Arnold and Mrs. George Hawes; Louisiana, Mrs. J. Harris Baughman and Mrs. Ralph Holden Agate; Maine, Mrs. Victor Abbot Binford and Miss Katherine Eastman Marshall; Massachusetts, Mrs. Prank Leo Nason and Miss Ethel Lane Hersey: Mississippi, Mrs. Wil- liam Kennedy Herrin, jr, and Mrs. Harry C. Ogden; Montana, Mrs. J. Fred Woodside and Miss Mary Flor- ence Bull; Nebraska, Mrs. Frank Baker and Mrs. Reuben Edward Knight; Nevada, Mrs. F'“ier M. Boyne and Mrs. Frederick _I. Sibley: New Jersey, Miss Mabel Clay and Mrs. J. Warren Perkins; New York, Mrs. William Henry Clapp and Mrs. Ar- | thur W. Arnold; North Dakota, Mrs. Harold Theodore Graves and Mrs. A. M. Powell; Ohio, Mrs. John S. Heaume and Mrs. James F. Donahue; Okiahoma, Mrs. Fred G. Nefl and Mrs. Jesse William Kayser; Pennsyl- vania, Mrs. Harper Donelson Shep- | ippine Islands, Miss Ruth Bradley Sheldon and Mrs. Mabel R. Carlson; Rhode Island, Mrs. Arthur Milton | McCrillis and Mrs. Edwin A. Farnell; South Dakota, Mrs. Edgar Rothrock and Mrs. James Brooks Vaughn; Ten- nessee, Mrs. Allen Harris and Mrs. Penelope Johnson Allen; Utah, Mrs. Chauncey Percival Overfield and Mrs. W. E. Fleetwood: Vermont, Mrs. | Charles Leslie Witherell and Mrs. |Irvin. G. Crosier; Virginia, Mrs. Ar- | thur Rowbotham and Miss Claudine | Rutter; Washington State, Mrs. ‘Chlrles E. Head and Mrs. Thomas Drumbheller; West Virginia, Mrs. Gory Hogg and Mrs. Arthur Brag- onjer; Wyoming, Mrs. Thomas Cooper | and Mrs. Hubert Webster, and State and vice State of Cuba, Mrs. Edward | society to go forward on the magnifi- | G. Harris and Miss Clara Heriot | Mrs. Magna was Mrs. Becker, and | White. | National Officers Installed. Mrs. Becker's board of national of- ficers also was installed. The congress confirmed the election last Saturaay by the National Board of Management of Mrs. Henry B. Joy, | Detroit, rccording secretary general, and Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins of the District of Columbia to be honorary vice presidents general for life. They | were installed along with the rest of | the national officers. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, honor- ary president general asked the Daughters to help find an old “Horn | School Book.” like those used in Co- | lonial days. to add to the children's | museum in Memorial Continental Hall. The United States Navy Band. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader, played | for the last session. | Many delegates to thg congress left | last night and early this morning. | but a number planned to attend | Easter services here in the city today. il Sl 4] Friendly Societies Spread. England has more than 20,000 “friendly” societies and branches. COMPANY o pard and Mrs. Ira R. Springer; Phil- | MRS. RODSEVELT RECENVESD. A.R. Reception at White House Precedes Annual Banquet, Closing Congress. Pomp and color prevailed ai the closing social functions yesterday of the Forty-fourth Annual Continental Congress, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. In the afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt re- ceived the delegates and pages to the Congress at a reception in the White House and in the evening the annual banquet was staged at the Mayflower Hotel. Mrs. Roosevelt, herself a member of the great patriotic society, stood in the historic blue room to grees the Daughters, who assembled in the east room. As the delegates arrived in the state suite and during the re- ception the Marine Band Orchestra played selections. All the ceremony of a formal eve- ning reception was carried out, with the military and naval aides in full dress regalia assisting in the general | comfort of the guests. Mrs. Magna Received. Mrs. Russell William Magna, Te- | tiring president general, and the mem- bers of her cabinet were the first to be received by Mrs. Roosevelt, with Mrs. William A. Becker, new chief of the society, and her national offi- | cers immediately following. Both Mrs, Magna and Mrs. Becker wore blue gowns and hats, Mrs. Magna carry- ing a blue muff of flowers, and Mrs. | Becker a pink muff adorned with gar- denias. The pages of the Congress in their all - white costumes made a striking | contrast to the handsome and effec- tive gowns and accessories in every | hue worn by the delegates. The pages ‘!ormed a circle in the long red cor- ridor of the mansion and after the officers and State regents were re- ceived they passed into the blue room to pay their respects to their hostess. The White House was gay with | eyt flowers and greens from the maii- | sion’s conservatories, Easter lilies pre- | dominating in the effective floral dis- | play. After the Daughters were re- ceived many took the opportunity of seeing the formal gardens and the grounds of the President’s home, which were thrown open to them. Rivalry Is Banished. Any feelings of rivalry from the | triennial election battle were aban- doned at the annual banquet last night. There were no formal speeches, following the custom of the society. but flowery expressions of praise and good will were features. The banquet was the largest in the history of the society, with more than 1400 in attendance. The ball room of the hotel was too small to accom- modate the crowd, so tables were laid in both the Chinese room and the lobby. The scene was one of splendor, with the delegates wearing their fa- vorite and most becoming evening gowns. Enhancing the beauty of the fashion show were the many flowers sent to the favorite daughters by their chapters and friends. Seated at the honor table next to others at the table were the four hon- | orary presidents general, Mrs. George Maynard Minor, stanch supporter of Mrs. Becker: Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Mrs. George Thacher Guern- sey and Mrs. Grace Lincoln Hall Brosseau, the retiring and the new national officers and the State re- gents. Many of the chapters had in- dividual tables. | At the close of the function Mrs. Magna and Mrs. Becker received those attending. Music was by the United States Marine Band Or- chestra. . The Banquet Committee consisted of Mrs. Frank S. Hight, honorary chairman; Mrs. Frederick D. Rev- nolds, chairman: Mrs, Frederick T. P: Johnson, vice chairman; Mrs. David D. Caldwell, Mrs. Llewellyn N. Ed- wards, Mrs. A. S. Gardiner, Mrs. Phil- lip W. Gridley, Mrs. Phillip M. Judd, Mrs. Wiliam A. King and Mrs. Ward T. 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