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HauptmannTrial Started
Wednesday in jersey
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'Most Dramatic Murder!
fjEase In Decades To
Hold World-Wide At
- tention
W V;
. . i Fiemington, N. J., Jail. l.?Stoical
jrfruno Richard Hauptmann, former
"German machine-gunner, goes on
"5 trial Wednesday for the murder of
iB?iby I.indberyh?the most dramatic
murder trial in decades.
On the eve of this trial?to be
watched avidly in America ~ and
many foreign nations?New Jersey
authorities secretly reexamined at
tractive Betty Gow, the last parson
in the Snuriacd mountain house of
CoL and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
to see the child alive and who dis
covered the 18-months-old baby had
been stolen from his crib.
It was Betty Gow, back from
: Scotland to testify, who bathed and
, placed the child in its crib. It was
: Betty Gow, who, while Anne Mor
row Lindbergh was preparing to
- retire about 10:30 p. m., spread the
alarm that the world-famoos baby
had been adbucted. ?
Questioning of Betty came at the
end of a day of conferences by At
torney General David T. Wilentz
and his assistants "in Trenton in
preparation of their case against the
Bronx county carpenter.
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In the event the defense, neaaea
by Edward J. Reilly of New York,
challenges the right to try Haupt
mann in Hunterdon county instead
of Mercer ~ county?which divides
the former Lindbergh estate, Betty
may be called to testify that she
found a thumb-guard worn by the
baby in Hunterdon.
Miss Gow has said that she found
the thumb-guard in a chump of
woods near the Lindbergh estate ?
and in Hunterdon county.
The state will contend that the
baby was either dead or dying at
thai point and that the kidnapper?
it maintains Hauptmann was alone
?tore the fastened guard from the
child1* hand as he tore off ita sleep
ing garment It was this garment
that was delivered to Col. Lind
bergh when he paid the $50^000 ran
som.
Shr found the thumb-guard as
she was walking through the woods,
a few days after the kidnapping,
with Mrs. OlKe Wheatley, wife of
the Lindbergh butler who has since
died.
Mrs. Ann Hauptmann, who wjj]
be one of the principal defense wit
nesses, visited her husband in Hun
terdon county jail today. She stayed
her customary half hour and when
she emerged, appeared to be in
spirit*.
Haoptmann's alibi that he was not
in New Jersey on the night of
March 1, 1932, but was in the Bronx
depends largely on her corrobora
tive testimony. She will testify her
huabend called at the bakery where
she was employed and that they
drove to their home at as hour so
late in the evening that he could
not have reached Hopewell by the
time the baby was abducted.
Urn state will maintain that he
did drive to Hopgwull, that he fitted
together a three-piece ladder he had
built, that he raised it against the
nursery window and stele the baby;
that the ladder broke under his
- weight as be descended, that in
hiahaste to get away he dropped
a afeel chisel and that he also aban- ?
;;J donsd-the ladder
Then, the state will attempt to
23??e 5tk-pped ^u^aby.
Mt Bose road five miles away.
?;t mm BejolMm, a?i(Ha? to ?Se
LMbwitto tto, ^rm
drekn whi&: wen usef, in 6?
.totrtrftt
Ws h&Xl3c SCCOUHtS and
ca^aTl^ 160
the number may rtm as high as 300.
I Dr. Condon received six of the f
j 3 ransom notes, sent .by the kid- ,
Bnapper. Morever, he sat with' 1
?"John" in a Bronx cemetery for an
?hoar and fifteen minutes, chattering.
IfiEe saw the man^face, and is ex- i
pec ted to -testify that the man was
lHaaptmann. ' ?
I Other witnesses will include Al- ,
bert C., and Albert D. Osborn, hand
writing experts, who will 8ay the <
ransom , notes wire written by
?Hauptmann, and Arthur. Koehler,
federal wood expert, who will tea- ?
tify the wood aaed inv the ladder j
A 1 *1. I. M mm If . Mil ' S'A I
?came from a oronx lumoeryaru to {
?which HauptnMom had access. i
I Since the passing of some of the
ransom money Jed . to Kanptanum'f J
arrest in September 13, last year, ,
the State will call New ^?s^y state ^
som Ml was presented to
?number of the awn's. car. Pohc^ J
mann's. The story of tie search
for the man wdw was .passing .the J
Bat the defense will maintain that
Ui; German inr.wMriwpa gunner re
ceived Isai I
dore Flsch, a friend, who went Ivack .
lawyer, the defense will try to show ]
L-y- ,| - M
I hflrd ?nii TTfiiinhvutmi 4
Police Question
Raleigh Woman!
Mrs. DooKt&,-Seel3hg
Divorce, Figures I)i;
Washington Shooting \>
Washington, Jan. '1.?One govern- j1
ment employe is dying, a. second is
hunted for shooting him, and the!j
third, an attractive girl, is being!
questioned by police in a strange I
triangle climaxed by a pistol shot!
in the back yesterday afternoon. J
John Mears, 28, a supervisor for!(
the civil service branch of the De-1 (
partznent of Commerce, lies near ;
death in emergency hospital. Two (
blood transfusions, seemingly have L
failed to improve his chances to live.
Henry P. Parrish, 45, an employe!
of the AAA, is hunted. He calmly L
walked out of the rooming house L
he owns at 808 Nineteenth Street, ,
NW., after telling witnesses that he!'
just shot Mears. ' h
The woman, Mrs. Myrtle DooKt
tle, 28, who is the manager of the !
house, was in hysterical condition.
She was being questioned by de-r
tectives. - I
Shortly before Mears was remov- }
ed to the hospital with a bullet in 1<
his back just under the heart, a (
reporter asked him: A .
"Who shot you?" he weasiy re
plied: ? ''? ?' ^
"Parrish," ?
"What did he do it for?"
"Oh, another man's wife."
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Mrs. Doolittle has been separated ^
from her husband, Howard, for
three years, she toM police.
Police srid Parrish had warned
Mears to move out of the house by (
December 29, in a letter.' Parrish J
the officers said was .vjealous of .
Mears. ' j
Parrish and Mrs.; Doolittle' had- ,
been in Raleigh, N. C., over the
Christinas holidays, visiting rela- ]
tices. At 2 p. m., yesterday they re
turned. Mrs. Doolittle went to - her
basement apartment, .-she told por
lice, and a few seconds; later sh$
heard a shot outside her door. She *
looked out and Mears, clad in pa-?,
jamas, was sprawled on the floor, ^
a bullet, fired with the gun appar
ently pressed against his back, was
in his body.
None saw tfce?shot fired. j
A .38 calibre revolver with on* j
cylinder discharged - *aa found in a .
closet in Parrish's room.
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CatefT Japanese
Iikiig helm
Man ^Claiming Finan
cial Link with Japa-;
nc8e^a>y^B#og De
St. Petersburg, Fbu, Jan.: 1.?-A 4
Japanese-who claimed to be financ-j:
Bd by cmpitiy'B navy, and an-1,
aerted Be>vhad taken - pictures of
American ; cities " and waterfronts 11
for expo^to Japan, Win custody
if immigratfon officers here tonight <
pending .word from Washington as j i
to his disposition. ' 1.
Chief flf DntPftiwA JB. EL Iipphard 1
said he. found .the man yesterday l(
sweeping -the waterfront from, the |.
municipal vpier with a long-range J ]
German camera. In the area ; was j
me U. S. S," "Trenton, flagship of the h
special Kami service, squadron sta-l
Lioned here, and the Cout Guard
jase. *. ?
Lapphard said the Japanese had <
ro passport, nor papers of identi-1 (
ic&tion, but gave his name as TosMo I ]
Matsuda, 36, of 611 W. 111th Street, h
!jew York,City. ji
Immigration men steadfastly re- h
Fused to comment on the case, but (
police at the city jail where theh
nan first was confined, said he ap- f
seared extremely anxious to tele-jr
>hone someone in Washington. Per-1 j
nission to use the telephone was re- j j
Fused. Police said the prisoner j,
ivoidd not say to whom he desired ?
:o talk. He later was removed from L
he jail and taken to a hotel by injt-L
nigratioa officers. . <
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Aaked.-.why lie was taxing pic
;ures, Lipphard said the man replied
'For my own amusement,'' but ad
nitted the jfilm, was being sent jo (
N'ew York, where it was to be de- (
reloped and relayed to Japan. He <
ieclined to explain further. ; j J
Since;! entering this country ft .
San Francisco about ,a year ago, I
he prisoner said he had been in I
Detroit, New York, Richmond, Va.,J,
Columbia, S. C., Jacksonville, Fla,, {
ifiami, and St.: Petersburg, taking j
lictures in - each place, Lipphard!
?i<L ; ' '
"He said he was financed by the j
iayy department of Japan," said the .
ichfctire':. chief. "He claimed to be |
i ^reservist ^.withthe rating J
4 a student -commander."
when he was questioned!
>y immigration officers,, he made r
some . -slight changes in his first
itoij^ but stuck io the.-.-'aijrtement f
ibout his financing, and also sidd r
is hadbought a* -Hit -a million dol
ars' worth of .nachinery in the '
Jnited States for his government"
The man would not give further I1
nformation about the purchases, r
laid Lipphard. "I asked him what r
ae had done with the pictures her8
shot en route here and be relied!1
>e had sent the film to New York."!*
A watch' and |47 in -rash . Were r
'ound in his pockets. I
The Japanese was described, as J1
veil educated and speaks English r
luently. "
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JAYS MAN CLAIMED ?
OFFICIAL CONNECTIONS^
New York, Jan. 1.?A woman Kv- - jJ
ng at the address given by Yoehio f
datsuda tonight skid that she un- j
lerstood the Japanese was a lieuten-1
tnt commander in. the Imperial Navy, j .
Declining to disclose , her identity,
she added that Materia had hem a 1
roomer in the household of Mn.1 J
iVilliam Blackmail,' a widow, and r
lad l$ee? recommended, to her by I?
"He is a very fine gentleman, |c
rery quiet and he. told us that helj
vas uhere on Official Japanese bust-.];
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LITERARY ffiUB
Swedish author, by Mrs. J. L Mer- <
fan, and ^accounts of recent trips i
?* Florida and tMba, given by Mrs; t
r. W. Parker and Mrs. G. A. Jones, 3
lome of Mrs. P. E; Jones, . ^ c
A report of the welfare commit- ?
Tffw TaMtha DeVisconti and $
^ Willis/ requested by the S
president' Miss Annie Perkins, at 1
this tin*, reveaded gifto^of dothing t
JPIum padding, coffeeand salted
it . t . S ,1 ? " fcj.
UMVtWglw nal ? 01 CM Hit 617100ft.
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vjOIL ? STOVft vAUSSaS FIRF
Beta Einton Silver fl
S -i CAPHAI, MANAGEBI fl
It's being- kept pretty quiet but!
Ihere is an under-cover movement
to have the Legislature change thej
government of Baleigh.. from the
commission form to a city manager I
form with a Board of Councilman,
according: to the Capital City grapeJ
vine. The present Raleigh City
Commissioners have heexr from one
row to another almost since the day
at election and even the man on the!
rtreet can sense sentiment for a
change in government. None of the!
Wake county members of the Gen*
jral Assembly have expressed them
selves publicity on- the subject but
pressure for the change in youf Cap
ital City is about as sure as death
and taxes.
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COST OP TALKING
The order of the State Utilities I
Commission reducing Southern Bell
telephone rates in 85 North Caro
ina communities has received a de
ny by order of Superior CourtJudge I
W. C, Harris. The court injunction I
ialts the proposed reduction in rates 1
antil the company's appeal is heard
a Superior Court which may be in
January or several months later..!
rhe Utilities Commission, aided by
he office of Attorney General Den- j
lis G. Brumitt, is ready to fight for
he last ditch for the approximately
12 per cent cut. and reliable, al
though non-quotable, sources are qf
he opinion, that lower phone rates!
ire just around the corner:
FERTILIZER
Governor Ehringhaus and Commis
iioner. of. Agriculture William A.
iraham are going to the bat for low
sr fertilizer prices in North. Caro
ina. The Governor writes that he
it- unable to understand the upping
if fertilizer prices ia 1934 over, those
?f the year previous and wants Mr.
araham to assemble data and attend
i conference on the subject to be
leld in the nation's-capital in the
tear future. Fertilizer and gasoline
iricep have bean worrying the Gov
ernor almost as much as the increase
n tobacco prices has pleased him.
BUDGET MESSAGE.
.What's in the repprt of the Ad
visory Budget ConimiBsion to the
xeneral Assembly is a close-guard
id secret anid newsmen snooping
iround the offices of printers for
he State havent been able to learn 1
nuch about, the budget recommenda
ions. You Can put on. thing in your :
>ipe and smoke it, however, that is, 1
hat the budget proposal will contain 1
t suggestion for reenaciment of the
ales tax with some revisions. It '
nay be liberal enough to suggest
hat the sales tax can go by the
inard if the legislators can find the
noney elsewhere. The Budget Com- '
nission is friendly- to the adrainis- :
ration and Governor Ehringhaus 1
tas publicely stated' that the "emer- 1
lency" for which the sales tax was *
mac ted has not passed?you get 1
ehat that means.. The message also 1
nan contain suggestions for higher I
eacher-pay.
diversion
D<nt be surprised if anti-sales I
ax leaders urge that four or live J
niliions of dollars from the taxes
taid; by motorists and truckers for
railding roads' be diverted to replace <
he sales measure. Farmers living 1
>n the secondary road system may
itfc object to this but they want ithe
toles filled up and- the bridges re
ared before their gasoline and li
enae taxes go for some other pur
?se. Most of them' wouldn't object
o lowbr automobile taxes but that
s only a dream-if half the folks after j
i. slice of highway-fund pie get it <
.
NOT WORRIED . i
At one stage of the game it look- ?
id Hke the .St&? Revenue Depart- :
rient might-be in for a good drub- J
ring at the hands of the T i jjiilutjjfijt" |
t is still highly probabte that at- -
ack will-be made on the State's col- 5
ecting agency but the record on in- '
:reaaed revenues will stand OotiEtPi
nisskmer of Revenue A. J. Maxwell i
md his Executive Assistant DriJC 1
3. S. Noble, Jr., in good steed when
hey are called on the carpet before |
xmunittees that will themselves be ;
tvarrassed by need of money to fill
appropriations^ promises. Money
makes the mare go in the General
Awetoblras well as in the colleges
Frinds of Governor Ehringhaus
have spent weeks checking over
names of members of the Genral Af
smbly and are Wearing big smiles
these days. "Administration stal
good majority * of friends in the Sen
proportions can be organized in the
House. But with all that some JRal
eigh political writers profess to hear
rumblings of trouble coming for the
Governor on the eve of the Legisla
ture."
MARRIED LIFE
Watch for a movement in the Leg
islature to pass a law against mars
tied women serving as public school
teachers. Alexander B. Andrews, or
Raleigh, has compiled some figures
which show that approximately 4,poo
married white women are teaching
school in North Carolina. Some
States have rules against employ
ment of - married women in Hie
schools where single ones are avail
able and sentiment for such a law in
North Carolina has been cropping
out in spots recently.
GETTING TAUT
Political lines are drawing tight- i
er in. the (Capital City these days
and you need not be a political.wise
man to* sense the forming of groups
behind the favorite candidates for
Governor the and Eastern Senate
seat in the classic of 1936. Proba
bly the most pronounced single
groups are those behind Governor
Ehringhaus and Senator Josiah W.
Bailey and there's no longer any
doubt many people want the Gover
nor to oppose Mr. Bailey. Other
blocs are forming in behalf of Clyde
R. Hoey, of Shelby; Congressman
R. L. Do""hton and Lieutenant Gov
ernor A. x*. (Sandy) Graham for
Governor. Doughton and Hoey may
make some announcement shortly
but Governor Graham is. expected to
hold his peace until the end of the
legislative session.
'
? LIQUOR ^
Several months ago it was a gen
erally accepted opinion that this
General Assembly would shy away
from any efforts to change North
Carolina's dry- laws but as the time
for convening draws nearer the pro
hibition question has stopped boldly
lAto the spotlight of speculation.
From all. indications the drys still
have tha titration well in hand but
a lot of folks camt. figure out just
|ff?*t is happening to bring out an
apparent change of sentiment in
some quarters. You can find plenty
of officers of the law suffering head
aches since Virginia legalized liquor
and ^ ^ f ^ . j
?pThe annual meeting of The Green
ville Production Credit Association
serving the counties of Pitt and
Greene will be held on January 17
at the.City Hall.in Greenville, N. C.,
it is announced by J. C. Galloway,
secretary of the association.
Not only are all of the farmer
borrowers from the association, the
holders of CJass B stock expected to
be present, bat Mr. Galloway said
that a most cordial invitation was
also extended to all other fanners
in the territory served by the asso
ciation and that it was hoped that
large numbers would accept the in
vitation*
"Every member of the associa
tion," said Mr. Galloway, "is urged
to bring one or more non-members
with him as it is our desire that
eveiry farmer in this section shall
acquaint himself with the credit serv
ice which our organization has to
offer.
"Directors of the association for
the ensuing year will be elected at
this meeting. Evry- member of the,
association is entitled to cast one
vote, regardless of the number of
shares he owns, and it is to his in
terest to vote for men'of the highest
integrity and business acumen.
"At the meeting a complete report
of the year's operations of the asso
ciation, will be submitted. The Pro
duction Credit Corporation of Col
umbia will have a representative at
the meeting who will outline the set
up of the Farm Credit Administra
tion of the third district, the method
of control and. operation of the pro
duction credit associations and will
give .an .explanation of the associa
tion's operating statement from or
ganization through Dec. 31, 1984.
POLLY JOINS US
Bat the old bird doesn't
quite know what it's about, ,
so well just repeat our
selves and wish that 1935
hrings you a load of good
luck, a double helping of
real happiness and a ful
ler measure of the kind of
prosperity that makes
everybody a friend.
. ?
Skill of Airman
Averted Deaths
Pttot Dryer Set Hie
Plane Down in Snow;
Preventing Crash
, ?
Utica, N. Y., -Jan. 1.?How Pilot
Ernest Dryer's quick reaction to
danger sent his lost giant Condor air
transport "mushing down" into an
Adirondack forest Friday night,
thus saving four lives, instead of
crashing it was told for the first
time today by three of the survivors
from their beds in a hospital here.
H. J.' Brown of Boston, himself
an American Airways pilot , being
carried as passenger, was the chief
spokesman.
"When we knew we were going
down, Mr. Dryer rang the bell and
he told me the left engine was out
and the right one .was acting up,
when the ship hit the first tree,
Emie threw the ignition master
switch to shut off the electricity. At
the time he cut down the speed so
that, instead of crashing, he Caused
the plane to mush down in the woods
and snow. ~
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"Then we all climbed one ana
got away from the plane and stayed
latorey from it for five minutes to
give it a chance to cool down (an
added precaution in case of fire.)
= then went to the cabin and:
tried to use the radio but found the
battery master switch was dam
aged. We coundn't. see to repair it
that night and that's why the radio
wasn't heard until next day.
Brown, who left Itica early this
evening, sat between the beds of
Ernie Dryer and Dale Dryer, the
co-pilot Robert Hambrook, of Wash
ington, the other passenger, left the
hospital yesterday.
"There's been talk about one of
US wanting or tryihg to. shoot our
selves and we want to deny that"
Brown said. "We were never in
that condition."
"The first thing we did after
finding the radio out" Brown said,
"was to organise our camp. At no
time wewl'-toe frightened, but we
realised the situation was serious
and that we would get out only by
using our heads. We. ripped part, of
the fEusilage off and used it for leg
gings. We built a shelter out of
Saplings and fabric."
"The hardest part of it all," put
in Pilot Dryer, "was trying to get
sleep. We'd sleep fur half an hour
and then wake up so cold that we
ached."
Brown then explained that they
took turns trying to get sleep and
watching the dark skies for possible
rescue ships.
"There was one interesting thing:
Mr. Hambrook?a very religious
man?started to pray there in the
snow, 16 minutes before the first
ship found us. We all felt that it
was the most convincing evidence
of the power of prayer any of us
ever saw.
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Suiiflvi M ifflf ||yi| rWTUlU
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Art jl <f| WT - ?T* '??% *" * '^V** ".'fi'.'a'' ..^ ^r,*5flk W.1
Godspeed toi the following employees,
who availed themselves of the op
portunity of a nine day tour of the
State of tiw4hange Blossom: James
Monk, Robert Lang, C. H. Flanagan,
W. C. Kerney, Paul Frizzelle, Jr.,
R. D., S. T? and B. M. Lewis, Gog
Eubanks, Roderick Harris, G. > H.
Webb, asst. sales manager, H. A.
Smith, Charies Walaton, Adle Flow
ers, and Jack Langhingfconse. Sev
eral others entitled to the trip were
unable to go on account of illness.
The bus bore banners with the word
ing, "Monk's Warehouse Tour,
Farmville, N. C." and large golden
leaves of tobacco,
ADD MONK ARTICLE. ?
| J. Y. Monk, Jr? Is in charge of
the party. The tourists spent Tues
day night in Savannah and - visited
St. Augustine and nearby points of
interest Wednesday, spending the
second night at- Melbourne, ? Fla.
"Having swell time," was/ the ward
wired back to relatives here Wednes
Iday.
j The same spirit of goodwill and
[ mutual interest between the entire
warehouse .force, buyers and grow
.rs;which has obtained at Maalfa :
-warehouse, since its establishment
[here, was anticipated again dining
irthe season just past, but results
went even beyond the highest ex
pectation of the proprietor of mem
bers of the organisation.
The coveted poundage level was
reached by Monk's warehouse on
Monday, Noymber 17, and a con
siderable margin was reported dur
ing the succeeding weeks, prior to
the close of the most successful sear
son the PVumville market hasever .
experienced?
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON CLUB
. Miss Elizabeth Davis charmingly
entertained her card dab and spe
cial guests; Mrs. A. W. Bobbitt and .
Mrs. Harry . Lang, this week, carry
ing out the- New Year suggeati.m
effectively in the tallies: and decora- ^|
tions, which bore the colors of blue
and silver. High score was compiled
by Miss Elizabeth Fields, who recehr- " f
ed as an award ash trays contain
ing crystaiized fruits, &? ? . ??
A delidous salad course, pinwheel
cookies and coffee wettVattved ja
cards were laid aside. ' ' ?
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The tobacco adjustment contracts
signed last winter by fine-cured to
bacco growers have been extended
into 1935, with certain changes, E.
Y. Floyd, of .State College, annoanc- g?
ed this.week.""
As a resnlt of the l?34 adjusting V-$1
program, Floyd Baid, the surplus of ^.'>1
flue-cured tobacco has been diminat
ed ahd the carryover isslightly be- | ^
low normal Consequently, the al
lotments in 1986 will be a little Bwf- igp
er than last year,
The growers will be given the
privilege of producing either 85 or
90 per cent of their base acreage
and production.^ But growers who ^
produce- 90 per cent will get only
one half as much in rentaljayments -
as those who produce only 85 per
cent, Floyd added. -
The 15 per cent, reduction sche
duled for 1935 is only one half as
nmeh, as the- reduction last year, he ft&? I
continued, And the rental and ad- $p*. I
down to one half the previous
amount.
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^However, ?5r results win conwu^, .
at the rate of $17.50 tat acre on the
land retired from tobacco cultivation.
^ JTS sale^ralue
of the 1935 crop. ly The deficiency, | -
v ' - ., . s ".: ^ "*? ?
| "** * .. niwaihuuL'li* *1W
f 6 |Ww
I ^!ll ,
i Tu6 rental MymtttB will b6 ttwwi