The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, July 28, 1910, Image 2
DILLON, S. 0.
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The mere fact that a girl has golden
hair doean't prove, to the Boston
Post, that she is brilliant.
1 The man who has religion right
should put on the whole armor, and
then put on his war paint, says Ram's
Horn.
> "Wif some folks," said Uncle Eben,
In the Washington Star, "optimism is
de day befo' pay day, and pessimism
is de day after."
The Greeks called the comet a
"hairy star." Many Americans, avers
the Tx)ulsvllle Courier-Journal, are
calling it a myth.
New York's race tracks are being
transformed into suburban home districts.
Both promote tho race, puns
the Duluth News-Tribune, with a difference.
Horse racing, of itself, makes very
little difference to the American people
as a whole. Horse breeding does.
The trouble ic that without horse racing?and*right
here in New York, so
long the great racing centre of the
New World?the breeding of the
thorqughbred will fall into decline,
propheslses the New York Herald.
And no betting, no racing.
' On* with athletics! We Join Loti
in the cry, Bhouts the New York
World. Give us back the sound woman
with normal figure and the solid
man whose lines are plumb. No more
Tounu sDouiaers, hollow chests and
bulging waistbands. It Is never too
late to cure these eyesores and afflictlcns.
Let physical culture do the
work of Praxiteles of old Greece, and
turn out for our age more men of
beroic mould, more women like
grown-up Tanagra figurines.
The funeral of King Edward was
the subject of discussion at an uptown
club, narrates the New York
Tribune, and one of the elderly men
who took part in the conversation
said that it must have been a grand
x spectacle. "Yes," 6aid another, "it
probably was, but I was present and
saw a parade forty-five years ago?
on May 23, 18 65, to be exact?which
was grander. It took place at Washington,
D. C., and the parading body
of 75,000 was made up of what was
left of the Army of the Potomac.
There were no red coats, no gold lace
Snd no* fine uniforms. Mnn? men In
line wore torn coats and were bareheaded,
but it was a grand sight, the
recollection of which forty-five years
has not destroyed."
Now they have found a tribe of
plgmlee, described as averaging fiftyone
inches in height, in the mountains
of Dutch New Guinea. The "little
people," fragmentary though they
are, are one of the most widely distribute^
races in the world, observes
the New York Mail. Herodotus heard
of them near the .Nile sources, but
never saw them. Stanley discovered
them in the equatorial forests of
Africa. They were known in East
Africa before his day. They persist
in the Phllipp! *s, and now they are
noted in Papua. A shy people they
are everywhere, hiding in the depths
of fordsts, whose shades may have
something to do with their stunted
- stature. Doubtless there are other
(roups of them yet to be discovered
by the explorer.
# Postofflce Inspector Fletcher, stationed
In Indianapolis, recently returned
from an official tour through
the wildest mountain districts of Kentacky
with a high opinion of tho
B'
mountaineers. He says they will divide
their last crust with a stranger
and are thoroughly honest. "Despite
it:e fact that there are many
feuds and the people kill each other,
a stranger is perfectly safe among
them," declares Mr. Fletcher. "As
there are no banks in the mountain
district^, the money sent to them for
their logs and other products is by
registered letter; consequently they
place every safeguard about the
v&ails. There Is one thing they won't
clahunl. and that is to have their mail
erfered with. Whenever a robbery
^ ^urs every man in the neighboryardgl
tarns oat and assists the iuspecA*ea
(In matching the thieves "
cestfn) g'i a 1 1 L
GUILTY.
- A pegro was arrested in Atlanta
m a charge of vagrancy and brought
for* Judge Broylcs.
W"Whj. Stm. Is this youf What
have they arrested you for?"
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Prohibitionists Split and AntiCandidate
is Nominated.
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AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION.
Wet Man on Dry Wave?Vote on
Prohibition Amendment to Constitution
Carried by 20,000.
$450,000,000 Cotton Exported.
Washington, Special.?Cotton, copper,
illuminating oil, wheat?these articles
in the order named, formed the
most important articles exported from
the United States during the fiscal
year just closed. The value of the
kuhwu cAponea was ;**ou,uuv,uuu, OI
the copper $83,500,000; of the illuminating;
oil $62,500,000, and of the
wheat* $47,000,000.
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Dallas, Tex., Special.?Oscar B. i
Colquitt, an anti-prohibitionist, was (
Saturday nominated for Governor by <
a plurality which will probably reach
60,000. Cone Johnson and William
Poindexter, the prohibitionist candidates,
have only about a thousand
votes difference between them. These i
are now id favor of Poindexter, but
may change as some heavy ohnson I
counties are yet to come. "
Former Attorney General Davidson i
is about 20,000 votes behind Poin- <
dexter and Johnson.
The proposition to submit to popu? i
lar vote a prohibition amendment
to the constitution has carried by
probably 20,000. This presents the
situation of an anti-prohibition
Democrat being nominated with a
party demanding the submission of
a prohibition amendment confronting
him. This was caused by the
prohibitionist split on candidates.
25.000 Less Bars.
St. John, N. B.. Special.?There are
approximately 25,0(10 less open bars
within the jurisdiction of the national
division Sons of Temperance of North
America than existed two years ago.
according to a report made at the
annual convention of the organization
in session here last week.
"John D.'s Place" Cause of Protest.
Cleveland, O.. Special.?Because
he placed in the window of his saloon
a sign reading "This is John D.'s
place," John D. Schnapps was arrested..
flic complaint was filed by Frank
F. Marmann, who says he is a friend
of John D. Rockefeller.
Marmann says Mr. Rockefeller is
known as ".John 1).," and he asked
what the oil man's Sunday school
pupils would say if they chanced to
pass the saloon and say that sign.
Scnapps argues as his name is
John D., he has a perfect right to
use it on his sign.
Hit Bank for a Million.
Louisville, Ky., Special.?August
Ropke, assistant secretary and bookkeeper
of the Fidelity Trust Company,
one of the soundest financial
institutions in Louisville, is believed
to have made away with $1,140,000.
the entire surplus of the concern,
according to a statement made by
John \V. Bnrr, president of the company.
Ropke is in the county jail,
where he has been for ten days, unable
to furnish the sum of $25,000.
Ropke was a heavy speculator and
lost large sums, it is said, on Wall
Street and the Chicago board of
trade.
Can Market Molasses Whiskey.
Washington, Special.?A complete j
agreement has been reached regarding
the way in which molasses-made
whiskey may he marketed by the internal
revenue officials and all that
is now necessary is the perfunctory
approval of Acting Attroney-General
Fowler.
Church Will Operate Grocery Store
Washington, Special.?As a means
of raising funds, with which to erect
a new church here the congregation
of the Second M. E. church will
operate a grocery store. The congregation
lias purchased a store and the
pastor, Rev. William Hogan, lias been
put in charge. The name has been
changed to the "Square DeaF Grocery."
Eight Hour Limit.
Washington, Special. ?Attorney
I General Wiekersliam has ruled that
I the eight hour limit will apply to
work done on and for a battleship in
the government shipyards. This decision
allows the manufacturers of armor
which is intended for a warship
to be built in a government yard to
work their employes on such armor
as many hours as the employes will
stand.
The attorney general holds that the
recent act making appropriations for
vessels to be capable of no other construction.
Postal Supplies Depot.
Washington, Special.?Brunswick
Gn., has been designated by order of
the PostofKce Department, as a general
distiilmting point in ihg Southeast
for postal cards, stamped envelopes
and stamped wrappers. The
department will send, bez inning An
gust 1, these supplies in carloads t<
Brunswick to be distributed to port
masters in that section of the Soutl
; as they may be required.
Two Congressmen Nominated i . ?vt
North Caroline. District?? '
Faction ''Independent"?B *<
cans Will Enter Field.
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Wilmington, N. C., S
cause the chairman of tb
committee, and temporary chaiiuia.n
of the sixth district congressional
convention in session here, refused to
recognize delegates from New Hanover
and Cumberland counties for the
reason that they had been "appointed"
instead of elected, in violation of
the Democratic plan, it is claimed,
the executive committee, during a recess
of the convention, deposed the
chairman and re-elected another
chairman who admitted the delegates
from the counties in question.
Oscar L. Clark, of Bladen, was
nominated on the 143d ballot at 1:26 I
M 1IUJ? n I
>. UJ. A-nuujr, ucictthiug wu^rcssman
Godwin and the other three candidates.
The Godwin faction held a "convention"
Friday morning and by declaring
that Godwin should have
eleven of New Hanover's votes and
six of Cumberland's, nominated Hannibal
L. Godwin of Harnett on the
first ballot.
Supporters of Godwin declare that
no matter who makes the race for
Congress in this district H. L. Godwin
will be In the fight and that no
effort will be made to have the matter
submitted to the State executive
committee.
There is no doubt about the Republicans
putting out a nominee and
it now looks like a three-cornered
fight. Godwin's forces declare that
he can win out over the field no matter
how many are in the race and in
fact this declaration was made by J.
C. Clifford of Harnett in placing
Godwin in nomination.
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Sheriff Kills Seven With Two Pistols.
Elliott, Miss., Special.?Five negroes
were killed and two other?
were mortally wounded Thursday
when Deputy Sheriff Caulev, who was
endeavoring to take them into custody
on a minor charge, advanced
on the otlicer with farming implements
as weapons and with the avowed
intention of "cutting him down."
Hearing a warrant charging the
seven with assault, Cauley and two
citizens, dieputized to assist liim,
went to the home of Ilenrv Beck, a
colored farmer, near Elliott. As the
posse approached, the negroes ceased
their work in the field and grabbing
pitchforks and other farming tools,
made for the deputy. Cauley, however,
opened fire with two revolers
before the billigerents came within
striking distance, and, before the
others of the posse had gained their
wits five of the attacking party were
dead and the remainder wounded.
The deputy surrendered.
Several days ago an attempt was
made to effect the capture of the negroes
but the arresting officer withdrew
when they employed similar
tactics to those of Thursday.
R. R. President Left Scandal.
Chicago, Special.?Death eame to
Ira G. Rawn, president of the Monon
Railroad, supposedly from a bullet
fired by himself, but certainly on the
eve of possible exposure as a central
figure of what is declared may be one
of the greatest railway scandals of
the country.
Counsel for the Illinois Central
Railroad when confronted with varbatim
fcopv of questions and answers
at a recent investigation of the company's
affairs, admitted that the
foundation had been carefully laid
with intent to show Mr. Rawn as primarily
responsible for years of crooked
car contracts. His answers, however.
had been steadfast denials of
the implied charges.
Buck's Stove Co. Surrenders.
Cincinnati, O., Special.?A peace
agreement has been reached between
the Stove Founders' National Defense
Association and President Gompers.
of the American Federation of I^abor
This, it is believed, will end the prosecutions
by the Bucks Stove Company
against officers of the American
Federation of Labor.
Boy Dive3 Upon a fltingaree.
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"coi i aim ni'ttco, I ia., {special.?
Death in an almost unheard-of form
waited for Laurence S. Baker, an
11-vear-old Jacksonville lad, when he
dived from a boat while in Lake
Worth Thursday.
A stingaree. a huge, flat-bodied and
gruesome species of warm-water fish
was lurking under the boat. One of
the barbed spines which this fish carries
on its whip-like tail, pierced the
bov's neck, cutting into the juglai
vein. He rose to the surface, crving
for help and bled* to death within
four minutes.
Prominent Citizen a Moonrhiner.
Nashville. Tenn., Special.?A dis- 1
patch from Anniston, Ala., says United
States revenue officers have returned
from Cleburne county after
having destroyed one of the largest
moonshine stills that has been located
in vcars in the home of Charles Pesnell.
one of the most prominent citizens
of the county, who lacked only
20 votes of receiving the nomination
for sheriff in the,May primary. No
arrests were made.
O C < is its Return $puit\ is
'atree.- ? 'J K prest >. call
! 1" V iLL W\L lyrCTION.
&< . 'opulatior Fvj-n v Orcat'.g
a Sensation?Presage Fouucai
Power and Importance?Probabl
Fight Ahead Between Sections.
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Washington, Special.?The ama?
ing growth in the South and Southwest
already is becoming the sensation
of the 1910 census.
Fifty-one counties in Texas show
a population of 817,475 in 1910, af
compared with 552,906 in 1900, a
gain of 46 per cent.
This percentage maintained
throughout Texas will mean a gain
of 1,403,606 people in the State, oi
a total population of almost 4,500,000.
For Nueces county the Census Bureau
reported a population of 21,951:
in 1910, as against 10,434 ten years
ago, an increase of 110 per cent.
Knox county showed a 500 pei
cent advance, and Tom Green count}
close to 400 per cent.
Returns from other States ar<
scattering. Without: exception, the
ngures irom UKianoma ana irom tnt
"Old South"?Louisiana, Mississipp
Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama?
record startling increases.
On the present basis of vepresen
tation in Congress, a member to even
194,000 of the country's population
the returns from only forty-one coun
ties entitle Texas to another membei
of the House. If the ratio of increasi
is maintained, Texas will get sever
additional members, and have a dele
gation consisting of twenty-three.
The scattering lignres from othei
parts of the South and Southwest
most notably Oklahoma, presage i
like advance in political power anc
importance.
For this reason, talk of renewins
the Northern demand for limitin}
Southern representation is bpcomin*
general. The Northern Republican!
are practically sure to make anothe
effort to pass a force bill, under whicl
representation would be based upoi
the vote cast instead of upon tin
census returns.
A bitter sectional fight is sure t<
follow.
Finger Nail Growing on Nose. .
Washington. I). 0., Special.?
There was a man in Washingtoi
Friday with a finger nail growini
from the end of his nose. His nam
J R Knrric nnrl lio Koilo frnr
News Orleans.
Some months ago he had the groate
part of his nose .cut away, and th
surgeons endeavored to mend the dc
feet by grafting his little finger int
the gap.
After several months the root o
the nail which the surgeons ha
failed to remove, began to sprout, an
now the patient is afflicted with
claw on th$ end of his nhoboscis.
He left for New Orleans, where h
will re-enter the Torro Tnflmnrv t
have the surgeons rebuild his nos
with their planes, saws, and chiseh
Well, What is "Fitten Teat?"
Washington. Special.?Prosocution
against manufacturers of ice creai
cones containing borax are to be ir
stituted bv the government under th
pure food law.
Large seizures of cones were mad
recently in different parts of th
country by inspectors of the deparl
meni. ui agriculture. Analysis ot th
cones seized disclosed the nresonc
of borax, a property which has hoe
held to be deleterious to the huma
stomach.
Flour Jumps Fifty Cents a Barrel.
Jeffersonville, Ind., Special.?Th
high price ?f wheat and prospects o
a poor yield in man" localities ar
the reasons assigned by dealers fo
| the jump of 50 cents a barrel o
flour, which has been announced hen
| Farmers say that orchard grass ha
| begun to spront in the shock becaus
of the recent heavy rains, and tha
| the loss will be heavy.
Big Oun Causes Another Accidem
Fort Monroe. Special.?-Eleven ai
tilleryinen are dead and a number o
others seriously injured, including tw
officers, ns the result of tli^hiowin
out of a breech block in a 12-inch gu
at the De .Russey battery during th
coast artillery practice Thursday.
The accident happened while stu
dent officers were endeavoring to sin
a fleet of towed targets, represenl
ing an imaginary hostile fleet, pre
eeedinc tnwanl Wn?liin(?!nn mi.
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battery was under the immediat
command of Sersreant Harry Haa3, c
the 69th company, United Static
coast artiliarv.
French Justice.
Tours, France, By Cable.?A rai
picker named Joseph has confessed 1
the assassination April 21, 1910, c
fl\ ? children of a farmer name
Briere, in the virinity of Charire
IThe father of the children was foun
jruilty of the murder and sentence
to life impiisonment. lie died i
prise n.
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tops Sg&y
2 ii3ES3ii i
i - . * . t
t ' i '.t- .
J tf *11 at. 1 '. .!>?? ? I*
such a manner that the lower-part oi
the trunk was virtually sewrfMtogether*tbus
preventing the blocJfMiota escaping
and also preventing hemorrhages.
Shock killed Mat tern, but he
i conversed with his friends for more
i tLan a hour before death.
Jimaiie Holderfoy, the smallest
, man in Missouri, died at the home of
his father, G. R. Holderby, of Kirks1
ville Friday. The funeral was largely
attended by Kirksville citizens who
were personal friends of the little
man. Jimmie was 28 years old and
stood 3 feet 6 inches high in his
> stocking feet. He formerly acted
1 as driver of one of his father's ice
wagons, but the two prospered in the
r ice business and retired wealthy sev'
eral years ago. Jinlmie was in strikine
contrast in size to the Missouri
? giantess, Miss Ella Ewing, a farmer's
! girl, who lives a few miles from
* Kirksville. Miss Ewing is 8 feet f
' inches tall. She is believed to be the
tallest woman in the history of the
world.
Ira G. Rawn, president of the Moi
non Railway ami one of the best
! known railway men in the country.
- was shot and killed by a burglar at
f his home in Winnetka, 111., a suburb
8 of Chicago, early Wednesday,
i Twenty representative negroes and
a delegation of whites, under Chairman
MeLeod, of the Democratic State
r Committee, visited Mayor Fitzgerald
> and made vigorous protest against
i the production of "The Clansman,"
1 now' being plaved at the American
Music Hall, at Boston,
t The Georgia Senate has passed a
I bill declaring the drinking of intoxil
eating liquors on passenger trains a
? misdemeanor, punishable by tine or
r imprisonment.
ti Joseph Bennorschild sneezed him1
self to death, in a restaurant in New
8 York. After shaking pepper into his
soup he was seized with a tit of sneez0
ing and ruptured a blood vessel, lie
was 51 years old.
As a result of 12 years' study of
the problem of aviation, Robert J.
" McKinley, a Brooklyn inventor, has
1 become mentally unbalanced and is
? confined in a hospital for observation
e and treatment.
0 Sam B. Dobbs, of Atlanta, was reelected
president of the Association
' of Advertising n-'.- -r ?!nerica, a<
e 0 . chosen ar
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l( i cunveno
ti
ime chief
f o Press, at
d J ien with
f5 1) a downa
t, \ew New
Y He had
< b y years,
f .1 parts of
e I d by dis?
j > . *ide, land
ii . nffieials at
t - egate loss
18 o' [ orest fires
11 a '00, while
f \ lost in the
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d the cape
t tea di Ge "
i 3 for faile
i n if est two
,p ' ling valun
: York in
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daughter
< r ' harles L
i juth Nore
e walk, Conn., to Thodore L. Adams
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who was best man at the wedding of
e the bride's father. Mr. Adams is t
T retired business man of Reading and
n 75 years old. His hri<lp ia inci
3 20. The father of the bride not only
F pave her away but returned the comr
pliment of 45 years ago and acted as
best man for the brideproom.
As the result of a mosquito bite
t. re0(
'"in 1 .
' Jan 1 I t.
? losi
^ the
n tior J I - ol
e stcp^uip i ne spread oi tne poison had
proved successful and that the sur'/
peon is now out of danper. Accord(
inp to the specialists who have beer
in attendance, the mosquito had evidently
pathered up poisonous substance
from the cadaver over which
^ ' Dr. Ford was workinp. These were
^ | injected into his blood when the mos
quito bit him.
The moon has lost its legal standing
in Pennsylvania. Joe Goshen, at
Pittsburg, through bi3 counsel
sought release from jail on the
ground that, according to the moor
>f he had served the month's time ic
d which he had been sentenced. Judge
g Robert S. Frazer handed down a decision
that in lagal or criminal matters
the moon has ever since 1821
d by ruling of tho supreme,court, beer
i) eclipsed by the calendar as a measure
. of time.
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m. mwiuM*
lotistn -*ndI i<:<?! of Peop^ 1 j
Viong coast c r7*t tfr|
)f a President to Mm # an. J.fr|
Eastport, Mail iegin? ^HRJ
.ig his ten day Maine |p^
President Taft re heaat
corner of the Um isday.
It -was the first 1 magistrate
of the natic.. . .~?.ed this ijir
section of the State and for Mr. Taft"
it completed travels to the four quartors
of the country. He has not been HL*
to Key "West as President, but he said Wt
that his tours of the L'nited States
always deeply impressed him with the
homogeneity of the people?their mmj?
aims, ambitions and the ideas of true
American citizenship being every- HHC
where the same. - 'IK
In his speech here the President. PajJifj
after stating that the proper way ft.
understand the country is to go ta Wp
the four corners and the places between,
said:
"Now I have been at Seattle, Sara ap
Diego, to the Southern-most point of c,
Florida and now at East|)oi*t, and T ^
have found the same people, the same "juJi
patriotic spirit, the same progressive
civilization at each of these four nMT1
points and also between them. Whera
a man has had 'het privilege be may
he said to understand the America?
nation. It is true that they talk a '
little more through their noses in this ?
part of the country than they do far- jL
ther South, but the style of woman's
bonnet is just the same here as it was %
way down in San Diego. jk
'I hope that in this audience I
am addressing there are some Canad- A
ians. You are close enough to them *j
to know them and to value them as A
neighbors. Canada is a great coun- *
try and we are just learning how A
great a country it is. Speaking for
the administration we are convinced 1
that a closer commercial relation with
Canada will be well i'or both coun
tries and if in the next year we can
come to any agreements by which our
commercial relations will be closer \ mT
we shall think ourselves fortunate. \ j
We have reached a time when neither
ought to be envious of the other, but
each ought to he convinced that the
more prosperous the one the more ^
likely the other is to be prosperous
and that the growth of the trade of
one means the growth of the trade
of the oLier. It is pleasant to see
that all the controversies between
Great Britain and the I'nited States J
which in the oast have been manv arc
now settled or are in ecmrse of.set tle=__^^J3
ment by arbitration. That is the first
time in the history ot the two countries
when that could be said." {
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President Appoints Colore^ Man.
Washington, Special. ?Whitfield ^
McKinley, a negro real estate agent
of this city, has been appointed collector
of customs here, the technical
designation of the oliice being the
port of Georgetown. D. C.
News of McKinley's selection by
President Taft was received here
Tuesday from Secretary Norton at
Beverly. It is stated that the appoint- g
ment signifies the recognition of negroes
in important Federal positions, Ufa
MeKinlev came to Washington
from Charleston, S. C., in 1884, and
has taken an active part in politics. U$?
1,800 Michigan Men Join Strike. U- RJ
Detroit, Special.?Tuesday night i^| * Sj
was estimated that at least l.SOR^Hp
employes of the Grand Trunk in Michigan
hare struck or arc out of work
as the result of the strike inaugurated
on that road Monday. Approxi
maieiy ouu miles or railroad are idle
as far as freight traffic is concerned
and the passenger traffic is said to be
considerably delayed at severe' yvn*
n o Make ' Rnias.
i v. i-nington, < '
. < ment ofi ' * , A
' I carry oi.- !>? "i st
' i of Coi pre
< ' ration and misbranding of inI
i secticides and fungicides.
A series of regulations governing
the manufacture of articles covered
bv the act will be prepared. Incidentally
the Treasury Department if
interested in the matter for the reason
that tobacco, which is subject to
an internal revenue tax, is one of
the ingredients of many of -the preparations
of the character coming
within the scope of the law.
Break U.* Officers' Foolishness.
Washington, Special.?As a conse
quenee of the report of a court of inquiry
that unsatisfactory conditions
existed in the marine *orps largely
as the result of many officers having j
been in Washington too long, the
headauarters staff with only a few
1 exceptions was Tuesday ordered to
new posts in difTerent parts of the
world.
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