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FORECAST: —---- — Served By Leased Wires Wilmington and vicinity: Clear to ui the partly cloudy today and tonight; Wed- ASSOCIATED PRESS nesdav partly cloudy *«ud not much change in temperature. and the UNITED PRESS —---- ''•th Complete Coverage of ^—'—-“---— State and National News VOL. 80.—NO. 120.__ — _ I Found Patrolman Matthew Stin son (above) lakes blanket - wvam*. d William Preno, Jr., 7, from a porch lu Philadelphia, wuere .is- was foiind after fleeing from his home unclothed in the snow to escape a •panking for playing “hookey” from school. <AP Wirephoto). FUND CAMPAIGN STARTS TODAY Red Cross Workers To Launch City - Wide Solicitation With several hundred workers , the local campaign to secure $21, J',3 lor the Red Cross will swing Into high gear today with solici tations beginning all over the com munity. All the kickolf meetings lor the various divisions have been helu, goals accepted, and workers given last minute instructions and kits containing all the information they will need in the drive. The Boy Scout of this area will also aid in the campaign as they will place posters in display win dows and bumper signs on auto mobiles today. The over-all chairman of the lo cal campaign,-J. Kv Cars.veu and N. A Avera, announced that all organizational plans have been completed and that all the down town and residential areas would be covered by the volunteer work ers. Headquarters for the campaign, which will continue until March 14, have been set up in Room 231 of the Customhouse. The distribution of pledge cards has already been made in some of the downtown districts. Persons «re asked to turn them in as soon »s possible. STATE AID ASKED ON RmTE SURVEY City Reo ufcs<.s Engineering Help From State High way Commission A request for engineering aid on • survey to determine a traffic • rtery for Wilmington has been submitted to State Highway com mission chairman A. H. Graham, City Manager .J. R. Benson re vealed yesterday. The letter requesting assistance for the planned survey, with the possible result being the develop ment of plans for an around the town route, was mailed Saturday, Benson said, and no answer is being expected until later in the week. Graham said yesterday, when Questioned whether the erection of • pipe line leading from the oil terminals across the Cape Fear in order to divert heavy tanker traf fic from Wilmington streets might be a solution to the problem, that it was not in the province of the highway commission to expend money for a pipeline to serve oil terminals. JCuntinued On Page Two; Col. 4) HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley -- I'se TiAHtp HEAHIN' 'Bout NOW good times is w'£N DET AIN' 'N0U6M good batin' To 60 ^Roon' V. - . .• {Released by The Pell *Y» „ 5^ diet. Inc t Tr.de Merit d • Re« U S Pet- Office) I Lilienthal Hearings To End Early Today Senate Atomic Energy Committee Votes Tq< Close Confirmation Questioning After McKellar Ends Brut# WASHINGTON, March 3. —iS)— The Senate Atomic Energy com mittee voted late today to close the David E. Lilienthal confirma tion hearings tomorrow. Senator McKellar (D-Tenn) will be given an hour and a half to complete presenting evidence in opposition to the nomiijee for chairman of the Atom.-c Energy commission. Then the hearings, which started Jan. 27, will close. Chairman Hickenlooper (R Iowa) made the announcement after a closed session of the com mittee. McKellar still was asking Lilienthal questions as today’s hearing recessed to permit the members to attend a Senate ses sion. The committee plans a closed meeting with Lilienthal and the other four nominees to the Com mission tomorrow afternoon. Hie kenlo oper said matters involving security and liaison will be dis cussed then. He said h , tee could rea day or Thursv ' rd&r ^ Brings * During today";*ig||||aH$ee ses sion, McKellar \d£90jected Lil ienthal to a grilling which brought protests from Hickenlooper and the exclamation from Senator Vandenberg (R - Mich) that “this is outrageous.” At* one point McKellar recalled Lilienthal’s statement that lie had done his “damndest” to keep from accepting President Tru man’s nomination. “It now looks to me,”, the Sen ator observed, “like^you're doing your damndest to get confirmed.” With some heat, Lilienthal re plied that he is “not here as an applicant for a job” and declared: * “I want to make it clear that it will by no means break my (Continued On Page Two; Col. 3) FOURTH BODY TAKEN FROM DEBRIS AFTER CHICAGO EXPLOSION CHIfA. 3 —(U.R)— The known death toll from gas explosions which demolished a three-story “Loop” building yesterday rose to four tonight when firemen removed t«ie body of Louis Pappas, 53, from the wreckage. CHICAGO, March 3.—(U.R)—A third body was recovered today from the debris of a three-story “loop” building demolished by gas explosions yesterday and firemen continued a search for a man stil! missing. The body found today was identi fied as that of George A. Henry, 43, a postal worker. Only one man still was unaccounted for 24 hours ” the explosions rocked the Loop and shattered thousands of •. .i;, ... s m stores and skyscrapers in the garment warehouse and financial district. Of the 50 persons injured, most of them were cut by flying glass, only four remained in hospitals t. a.-y. Frances Cissna, 18, a wait ress and Albert Ansello, 35, both of Chicago, were reported in seri |ous conditions. TAX REFUNDS GO TO LOCAL FIRMS ACL Recedes Largest Sum In State From U. S.; Listed The Atl;. ,_.ine Railroad company received the largest fed eral tax refund made in North Car olina for the fiscal year ended June 30. 1946, and +wo other-Wilmington firms came in for substantial re bates also, according to word from Washington yesterday. The refunds were for overpay ments of excess profits and income taxes for the year, according to the Associated Press. The railroad’s return was report ed as $5,671,001. Next in line among the Wilming ton refunds was that of $205,011 and $69,405 (excess profits) received by the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company. The third largest Wilmington fig ure was $27,884.18 (excess profitsl received by the Tide Water com pany. The refunds were reported through the annual report of re funds made by the bureau of in ternal revenue, the Associated Press said. Among other North Carolina firms receiving refunds were the follow ing: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company, Winston-Salem, a total of $667,657. 70 composed of $520,578.38 in ex cess profits tax and $157,079.32 in tobacco taxes. Liggett and Myers Tobacco com pany, Durham, a total of $524,799. 33 for overpayment of tobacco tax 0S Robert R. Reynolds, former junior senator from this state, was reported to have received a re fund of $655.66 for overpaid income tax. Other Wilmington returns of overpayment of income taxes, un less otherwise noted include: Wilmington Savings and Trust company, $1,034.13 (excess profits'!. D. P. Xanthos, $1,021.76. Southland Manufacturing com pany $2,384 (excess profits). Sprunt and Sons, $2,577. Annie Gray Sprunt, $2,577. , Mrs. L. S. Saunders $1,540 Will Rehder, $2,639. Roger Moore, $1,872. Dan Keromitis, $1,797. (Continued On Page Two; Col. 1) STALIN RESIGNS MILITARY TASKS Russian Prime Minister Steps Down As Com mander Of Armies LONDON, iviarcn 3—(IP)—Prime Minister Stalin, alter six years as commander of the vast Rusian Military organization, resigned his post as minister of the armed forces today because of the “ex cessive pressure of his main work’’ and handed the job to po litically astute Marshal Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, the Mos cow'radio said tonight. The change in the top military command came as the Soviet Union gradually was deemphasiz ing military activities and de mobilizing millions of soldiers to enter industry and speed up the nation’s current five year plan. Stalin stepped out of the military office only a week before the Four Power Foreign Ministers confer ence was scheduled to open in Mos cow. The brief radio announcement, recorded here by the Soviet moni tor, gave “pressure” of other work as Stalin's only reason for relinquishing one of his many state posts. However, the tremendous task of guiding Russian military forces through the war with Germany undoubtedly tired the 67-year-old Stalin, who has repeatedly been re ported ill since the end of the war. He was away from Moscow when the Soviet Union celebrated his 67th birthday last Dec. 21, but when he returned from his vaca tion it was said he was in normally good health for a man of his age. PROFESSOR FINDS AMBER BORESOME Harvard Man Brands Winsor Novel As “Sec ondary” Literature BOSTON, March 3—(JP) — The morals of “Forever Amher”—the book itself—went on trial today under the only censorship law of its kind in the country and its supporters defended it with the doctrine of “freedom of the press” and Harvard professor’s testi mony that it did not “corrupt or deprave” him. Professor Howard Mumford Jones, who testified that the novel “bored” his wife, was a defense witness in the first case of modern times in which a book itself goes on trial under a new Massachusetts law replacing old codes that tried the bookseller or publisher, and often resulted in the “banned in Boston” brand. Author Kathleen Winsor did not appear when called by the court crier but her novel of a gay beauty of England's restoration court found defenders in the Boston book merchants and the publishers, MacMillan and company. Prosecuting the book as “ob scene, indecent and impure” was Massachusetts’ Assistant Attorney General George B. Rowell empow ered by the new law which says that “court action shall be direc ted against the said book by name.” First defense came from Atty Harold Williams for the Board of Trade of Boston Book merchants who declared that “the basis of this defense will be freedom of the press.” Today And Tomorrow By WALTER L1PPMANN il ----- Freedom At Stake A pamphlet of only about trirty six pa°es has recently been pub lished in Great Britain which poses concretely. and more poignantly than any other con tempor.ry document, the problem of the preservation of freedom in cur time. The pamphlet is the White Paper prerented by the Frme Minister to Parliament, and it is called simply "Eco nomic [survey for 1947." It is worth the most careful sti ' in this country, not only be cause it states the hard facts which will compel us in the fairly | near future to take extraordinary Jmeasures but eIso, because it dis | closes s-o many of the real issues underlying the idealogica] conflict throughout the world. This pamphlet throws more light on the choices which men have to make than can be gotten from most of what is written about the theories of Communism ,on (he one hand and of free entc-r I prise on the other. The broadest, and in many ways the most significant. con clusion which one may draw is (Continued On Page Two; Col. Z) Palestine Blasts Explosion symbols locate Jeru salem, where a British (rfficej-s club was blasted, ' and Haifa, where a bank was wrecked. Eigh teen persons were killed in the explosions—16 of them in the Jerusalem officers club. Ship symbol denotes the Haim Arlosor off, which was aground off Haifa after 1100 uncertified Jewfsh im migrants were unloaded. (AP Wirephoto). IRGUN PROCLAIMS “OPEN WARFARE” Jewish Underground Band Hurls Grenades At British Office JERUSALEM. March 3 — (JP) — Five hand grenades were hurled into a British military office a t Haifa tonight, shortly after the Jewish underground organization Irgun Zvai Leumi proclaimed that “open warfare exists in Pales tine.” A British announcement said there were no casualties in the grenade attack. Irgun claimed that it had suc cessfully attacked British army camps at Petah Tiqva and Hadera.. in retaliation against the imposition of martial law on more than a third of Palestine’s 600,000 Jews. • There wras no confirmation by the British of these claims. Petah Tiqva. seven miles east of the ail Jewish city of Tel Aviv, is in one of the martial law zones. Hadera, 25 miles north of Tel Aviv, still is free from military rule. Pamphlets signed by Irgun tell ing of the purported attacks said “all our soldiers returned safely from recent operations, and we now declare that open warfare exists in Palestine.” The pam phlets reiterated that Irgun ac cepted the responsibility for the explosion Saturday at a British officers club in Jerusalem. Attack Notice The Palestine Post, Jewish own ed newspaper here, said it h a d received an anonymous telephone call saying Irgun “soldiers” would attack two British security zones in Jerusalem tonight. Lt. Gen. G. H. A. MacMillan, commander of British troops i n Palestine, told his headquarters staff tonight that “there is no question of the army in Palestine being at war, with the Jewish pop ulation or anyone else.” In his first address to the staff since he assumed command last month, the general added “the functioh of the army is to assist the police in maintaining law and order, as the police force alone is insufficient in present circum stances.” v Meanwhile the Jewish agency, warning of the possibility of “ab solute anarchy and chaos,” de manded that Britain define terms of martial law imposed yesterday. 250,000 Isolated W i/t h approximately 250,000 Jews isolated from the rest of the world, Jewish and British sources agreed that indefinite continuation of the military rule would result , in financial ruin for the areas af fected. British Maj. Gen. R. N. Gale, military governor of the Tel Aviv area, said martial law “inevitably would spell economic disaster to the community as a whole if it continued for long, as business is going to be hamstrung.” Hagana, armed force of the Jewish agency, accused Britain of “delibeyately destroying the Jew ish economy.” The agency itself said military law had brought “economic damage to hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing whatever to do with terror and crime.” Along The Cape Fear REMEMBER WHEN — Always willing to oblige, we must pass this request on to our kind readers and see if they can help us in gathering some information. A request has arrived from Mr. James Hinton for Along The Cape Fear to attempt to locate any member of the Naval Reserve1 unit which functioned here ‘about 60 years ago. With all the current interest in the Naval Reserve program here, surely someone will be able to help us out in this matter. So please head for those old scrr^j books and see if you can find even a trace of the Port City’s Naval Reserve during the 1880's. » * * * NAMES AGAIN—Not so long ago we were called upon to trace the various names by which the Port City has been known. Then yesterday we had a request to find out when Southport really became Southport. The city located near the mouth of the Cape Fear river was nam ed in honor of General Benjamin Smith and knownj| as Smithville from 1792 until 1887. In 1887 the name of the communi ty was changed, to Southport, the same as you know the county seat ] of Brunswick county today. * * * KNOWN AS THE FORT — To . many an early resident of the Cape Fear area, Southport or Smithville was known as “The Fort” for Fort Johnson. Smithville was too difficult for some to pronounce so a shorter name, “Smiffle,” was often used, history tells us. The erection of Fort Johnson there was approved by the Acts of 1745 and the structure was com pleted three years later, 1748. The commander of the fort prior to 1755 is not known, accord ing to Alfred Moore Waddell’s history. Capt. John Dalrymple is the first known commander of the fort, serving there in 1755. His ap pointment as commander was made by General Braddoot. * * i OTHER COMMANDER — Capt. James Mccre was placed in charge of the fort in -1758 while Capt. j (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) l-p --------- iablioHED 1867 Amman Reiterates America Stands Behind Pledges To Weaker Nations; Republicans Divide Over Budget Cut SENATE BY 64-20 VOTES SMALL CUT Martin Says House Stands On $6,000,000,000 Already Voted THE DAY IN CONGRESS By The Associated Press Foreign — Congressmen dis cussed America’s role in the Balkans if the U. S. takes ■ over British commitments in troubled Greece. Senator George (D-Ga.) said this coun try should make it clear that it is supporting its own, not British, policy. Rep. Rankin (D-Miss.) told the House he does not believe the life of the United States depends on Brit ain "but if Britain falls, Com munism will engulf Europe.” Draft — President Truman asked Congress to let the draft law die March 31, but said a renewal will be sought later if voluntary recruiting fails to keep 1,641,000 men un der arms. The Army announc ed it will discharge its re maining 100,000 chaftees — those in this country by May 15, those abroad by June 30. Merger — . Senator Aiken (R-Vt.) criticized President Truman’s unification bill for the armed forces, declaring it would give the proposed new secretary of national defense "unpredicted power.” The Senate voted to send the measure to its Armed Ser vices committee rather than expenditures committee head ed by Aiken. WASHINGTON, March 3 — (JP) — Differences between Senate and House Republicans on fiscal policy came sharpb’ into the open today as the Senate voted a $4,500,000 budget slash and Speaker Martin (R-Mass.) announced the House leadership will insist on a $6,000, 000. 000 cut. The Senate’s resolution was passed 64 to 20 with every Repub lican on the floor supporting it ex cept Senator Morse of Oregon. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) EXPLANATION OF LAW PRESENTED I City Manager Benson Out lines Changes In Civil Service Act An explanation of the changes in the civil service act desired by the city council was presented to members of the Wilmington police force yesterday by City Manager 1. R. Benson. Benson pointed out at the meet ing that the city governing body sought the authority to name a :hief of police from within or without the department, to make promotions and demotions and make suspensions up to 30 days. Following the afternoon session t was decided by the force to appoint two members from each shift to meet with Senator' Alton Lennon and representative Robert M. Kermon Saturday to io]d a full discussion of all phases if the commission law. He said the administration does lot desire to take away from the :ivil service commission the ■iglft to investigate applicants for lositions on the force and other lowers now vested in the board iy the present law. Benson said yesterday after loon that a change has been ef- ■ ected in the new bill which the ' :ity desires to have adopted. ' Jnder the change, he said, the members of the commission would keep their positions on the ioard until the end of their term, m re-writing the bill, he ex- ' ilained, the part referring to the :ommission as regards the iresent members was inad- j lertently omitted. ^ Result: Only A Back Ache Truck driver Robert Bolduc, 25, of Chicago, walked away from this wreckage with only a back ache, when the cab of his 'truck tractor skidded on an overhead bridge on Chicago’s south side. The tractor smashed through the bridge railing (top, left); fell 40 feet between railway cars (arrow), leaving the trailer (top, center) hang ing over the railing. Bolduc went the full distance in the cab (AP Wirephoto). Chiang’s Men Trap 200,000 Communists The Weather FORECAST: North and South Carolina—Clear to partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday and Tuesday night. Wednesday partly cloudy and not much change in temperature. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. rn. yesterday. Temperatures * 1:30 a. m. 32; 7:30 a. m. 28; 1:30 p. m. 39: 7:30 p. m. 39; Maximum 42; Minimum 27; Mean 35; Normal 5C. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 47; 7:30 a. m. 54; 1:30 p. rn. 35; 7:30 p. m. 43.^ Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. ) inches; Total since the first of the month 0.18 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW WILMINGTON 7:36 a. m. 2:04 a. m. 8:00 p. m. 2:42 p. m. Masonboro Inlet 5:26 a. m. 11:50 a. m. 5:50 p. m. - p. m. Sunrise 6:37; Sunset 6:11; Moonrise J:32p.; Moonset 5:13a. EDUCATION PROBE AIM OF NEW BILL 11 i Woman Senator Offers Measure For Study Of State’s Schools RALEIGH, March 3. —<iP»— A >111, providing for a thorough itudy of the state’s education sys :em by a 25-member commission vhich would report its findings to he 1949 General assembly, was ntroduced here tonight in the Senate by Sen. R. S. Ferguson and ithers. Senator Ferguson is the only voman member of the legislature. Members of the commission vould be named by the governor, ind would be directed to make a ‘comprehensive study of organiza i o n, supervision, curriculum, itandardization, consoli d a t i o n, ransportation, . buildings, person al, a merit rating system for eachcrs, vocational education, and my other problems related to the >ver-all education program of the itate.” The measure requires that the >oard should hold its first meeting irior to May 15, 1947, and at its irst meeting would elect a chair nan and a full-time executive secretary. Smartly Executed Pincers Movement Halts Drive For Changchun NANKING, March 3 — i/Pi — Nearly 200,000 Communists driv - ing towards Changchun have been trapped in a smartly-executed government pincers movement and already have suffered 20.000 casualties, the Ministry of infor - mati'on reported late today. This claim of a major victory on the snowy plains North of the Manchurian capital coincided with information from a reliable source that Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek and his top-ranking officers have agreed to plans' to wipe out the Communists throughout China (Continued On Page Two; Col. 3) OFFICIALS STUDY PAVING PROJECT Surfacing Of Canal Drive At Carolina Beach Is Favorably Viewed Favorable reaction by state high way commission representatives to a request by Carolina Beach of ficials that the highway depart ment pave Canal drive on the north extension of the beach was reported by Mayor T. A. Croom last night following a visit of Division Engineer T. T. Betts and Commission Member J. A. Brid ger to the resort town yesterday. Croom appeared before the highway commission late last year to request that funds for the work be granted. According to Croom, the road un der discussion starts at Cape Fear boulevard and leads north about one mile up the basin. A sand-gravel road is now being used but Carolina Beach officials have requested that the state con struct an asphalt road to be used instead. Yesterday’s visit was for the purpose of a preliminary survey by the highway commission of ficials, Croom said, and pointed out that the final decision on the matter was in the hands of Brid ger. A report on the project is ex pected in about a week, Croom explained. _ Onslow County Gets Gift Of Portrait Of Namesake JACKSONVILLE, March 3—(/P)— Dnslow county at ceremonies a t :he courthouse here today official ly accepted a portrait of its name sake, Arthur Onslow, 18th century statesman and speaker of the Bri tish House of commons. The portrait came as a gift from Lady Halifax, wife of t h e Eormer British ambassador, and a descendant of Arthur Onslow. The print l36 nui3g in the court room as a permanent fixture. Henry Howard Eddy, acting di rector of the State Department of Archives ar.d Histoi'", presented the portrait, and Judge Henry L Stevens accepted. Eddy traced Onslow family his tory back to the 16th century, when Richard Onslow was a speaker of the House of commons. Another Onslow, also named Rich ard, served as speaker during the third parliament of Queen Anne, and was a member of Commons for 28 years. The third great Onslow to hold the speakership was Arthur, who was a member of parliament for 41 years and served 33 years as speaker. “This country can well take pride in the name of Onslow, both of what you and your forebears have made that name mean her: on the Western shore of the At lantic and for what the Onslow family has made it mean in th chronicles of the older nation,' Eddy said. Arthur Onslo.\ was speaker oi Commons when Onslow county was created in 1734. CHEERING CROWDS GREET PRESIDENT Pomp, Ceremony Marks Mexico City’s Wel come To Chief MEXICO CITY. March 3 —iyP)_ President Truman, welcomed to Mexico with pomp and ceremony, declared tonight that t h e United States stands squarely behind its commitments (o protect weaker countries the world over from op pression. Speaking in the National palace alter a thundering joyful greeting as his own ambassador of good will to this sister republic, t h ef American Chief Executive warned that his country, pledged to non intervention, can not be indif ferent, “to what goes on beyond our own border.” He defined his interpretation of the doctrine of non-intervention to mean that “a strong nation does net have the right to impose, its will by reason of its strength,' on a weaker nation.” Mr. Truman spoke after Mexi can Pi esident Miguel Aleman, ex tending his warmest welcome, as serted at the conclusion of a state dinner honoring the American vis itor: C horal Strain "America’s voice is heard in the choral strait* of the countries of the world with ever mere distinct and greater clearness.” President Aleman welcomed United States investments ‘‘with a proper respect” for Mexican laws because "we have economies that can complement one another fruitfully” and "a mature under standing of your own interest* could not oppose the program of our industrialization.” Without specifying conflicts in the past, the Mexican Chief Ex ecutive said: “If prejudices have been an ob stacle (t o inter-American har mony) let us make the education of our children and of our youth a liberation from that inexcusable obstacle.” Mr. Truman flew in from Kan sas City at 10:58 A. M. (EST) for a three-day good-will -visit. His trip got off auspiciously with cheering crowds throwing flower* in his path as he drove to the U. S. embassy. At tonight’s banquet-reception Mr, Truman said that events in one country may have such a pro found effect in other countries that a violation of accepted prin ciples of national behavior is of concern to the whole family of nations. Wholehearted acceptance of 1i\e doctrine that the strong can not impose on the weak is "a part of the basic international law recog nized by all the American repub lics,” Mr. Truman continued, and added: "My own country will be faith ful to the letter and to the spirit of the law.” FUNDS ASKED FOR LOCAL AIRFIELD Congress Requested to Ap propriate $25,000 For Bluethenthal Airport The recommendation that $50, 000 be expended on Bluethenthal airport, with half of the funds to be provided from federal funds and the remainder to be furnished by New Hanover county, was pre sented to congress by department of commerce officials in Washing ton yesterday, it was learned here last night. When advised of the action, a spokesman for the Wilmington New Hanover airport authority said that the county’s share of the improvement fund would figure in the discussion at a joint meeting of the county commissioners and the airport authority which has been scheduled for March 12. The $50,000, if appropriated, will be used for new administration facilities at the airport, according to pfesent plans. -The Commerce department’s action yesterday in making the request to congress for the money came upon the recommendation of the Civil Aeronautics Administra tion. Also included in the fund re quest was $62,000 for the Lumber ton municipal airport, with Robe son county t o furnish a similar amount for field improvements. And So To Bed Love will find a way, even if it takes two round-trip fares to do the job. Last night a would-be Romeo headed for YVrightsviUe Beach and his date. A trifle weary, he decided to take a short nap on the bus going down. Upon awakening he found himself passing through Sea gate on the return trip. “But I wanted to get off at the beach,’’ he told the driver, only to be reminded that he owed the driver for the return fare. “Well, take out another round trip fare.” he said, "as I’m going to keep that date on the beach if I have to ride this bus all night to get there."
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