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Tokio Foreign Office
Whipping Boy for
Diet and Press
Armed Services Exempt
, From Criticism, but
Not Japan's Diplomats
By FRANK H. HEDGES.
TOKIO, Feb. 7 (N.A.N.A., by
Mall) .—America and other foreign
powers play a prominent part in the
debates of the Imperial Japanese
Diet, for the foreign office and its
policies constitute the favorite tar
get of attack in Japan by M. P.’s,
press and public alike. No other
department of the government has
come in for as much criticism dur
ing the current 75th session of
the Diet.
The role played by the United
{States and the nations of Europe
and Asia, of course, is a passive one,
but the abuses heaped upon the for
eign office because of its policy to
ward these powers cannot help
shaping Japanese public opinion to
ward them and, unfortunately, under
present conditions to shape it ad
versely.
There are two reasons why Kasu
migaseki, the popular name given
the foreign office because of its street
address, should bear the brunt of
this vocal and printed disapproval.
First, the foreign policy is more spec
tacular than domestic and, despite
the considerable amount of “secret
diplomacy” still practiced in Tokio,
is largely in the open, where it offers
a fair target to all.
The second reason is less justified.
When an individual or newspaper
wishes to flay the war or navy office,
they dare not do so while the war
with China continues, and so they
attribute the failures of those two
ministers to the foreign office. The
whole of Japan understands this,
but the world at large is too prone
to believe it is actually foreign policy
rather than blunders elsewhere that
• is being arraigned.
Foreign Office Blamed.
One of the most striking instances
of thus hitting at the foreign office
as a “dummy,” while really direct
ing the blow elsewhere, is offered by
a recent editorial in the Asahi Shim
, bun of Tokio, one of the greatest
Japanese newspapers. In dealing
with the stoppage of the Asama
Maru by a British cruiser and the
removal therefrom of 21 Germans at
a point “under the shadow of Mount
Fuji.” the Asahi does not mention
the failure'of the Japanese Navy to
convoy Japanese merchantmen. It
places the blame squarelv on the
foreign ministry, saying ft “should
be so far-sighted as to see what is
going on in every nook and corner <
of the < world,” and asking why it
did not place the Asama Maru "un
der strict surveillance before such
trouble happened.”
Even more pointed, because it re
veals an attitude of mind toward the
war in China which prevails in many
quarters in Japan, but which is not
voiced openly, the Asahi continues:
"This lack of foresight on the
part of the foreign ministry was also
in evidence when it decided to pro
secute the current Sino-Japanese
incident as a result of the firing by
Chinese troops on a Japanese de
• tachment carrying on military ma
neuvers at Lukuchiao on July 7,
1937. If it had this foresight it
would have discovered the numerous
creeks and pillboxes in the vast
stretch of lands that make up
China.”
Criticism of Services Indirect.
, In Japan the army and navy are
aacrosanct—but not so the poor for
eign office. To criticize either of
the armed services brings swift and
severe retribution; hence it can be
done only in an indirect manner.
The real shock to the Japanese
nation at the stoppage of the Asama
Maru and the removal of the 21
Germans was caused by the fact
that these events had taken place
within 35 nautical miles of the en
trance of Tokio Bay and of Japan's
greatest naval port, Yokosuka, which
guards the capital city. How had
it been possible for a foreign man
of-war to approach thus close to
the very heart of the empire with
out detection? True, in this case
the British cruiser had no hostile
Intentions toward the nation, but
might it not happen again under
war conditions? The foreign office
* can hardly be expected to guard the
waters in and around Tokio Bay, but
the navy must not be criticized, and
so the foreign office had to be the
scapegoat.
The same line of reasoning ap
plies to the war in' China. The
Asahi, along with other newspa
pers and numerous individuals, can
not criticize army strategy and army
planning. That is not permitted
in Japan. Therefore, if it is de
sired to point out that perhaps it
would have been wiser to prevent
the minor clash at Lukuchiao from
spreading into major hostilities, en
gulfing half of China and continu
ing into an indefinite period (the
“war” is already nearly three years
old), it is the foreign office rather
than the war office which must be
assailed.
Weak-Kneed Policy Assailed.
Curiously enough, the ministry of
foreign affairs is just as violently
condemned for its “weak-kneed pol
icy” toward China, toward America,
toward Britain and other nations.
Japanese diplomats frequently have
to hear themselves called “the run
ning dogs of the military.”
As to criticism of the foreign of
fice in its own right, the critics are
on sounder ground, but in this case
the United States or some other na
■< tion is made th« dummy-target.
Members of the lower house wax
eloquent in denouncing America be
cause of its abcpgation of the treaty
of commerce and navigation, of
Great Britain because it does not
turn over all its holdings in’China
to Japan and “get out of Eastern
* Asia,” of Soviet Russia for its gen
eral iniquity.
The consequence is that matters
of foreign policy which should be
left to the handling of experts, fa
miliar with the technique, become
domestic footballs. Extreme right
ists, who still look with loving eyes
upon Hitler’s Reich, find it con
venient and expedient to organize
big parades and mass meetings
against Great Britain. Thos# who
look with covetous eyes upon every
inch of the soil of China, even
though it be only "scorched earth,”
castigate the United States as be
ing “Britain’s watch dog in the Par
East.” Those who look backward
with dreamy eyes to the past, when
Japan was isolated from the world,
attribute all the ills in Japan—and
they are numerous enough—to the
’ machinations of Moscow and the
Comintern.
Danger lurks ahead when caution
is left behind.
PHOTOGRAPHS PLANETS—Dr. Paul A. McNally, S. J„ of
Georgetown University, shown at the university observatory
with the 12-inch telescope and camera back with which he
photographed the planets Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars. -
—Star Staff Photo.
Planet Line-up Won't Recur
For 14,300 Years
Astronomical Spectacle to Reach Climax
Wednesday When Mercury Isjat Brightest
The spectacle of five planets sus
pended in the western sky like a
crooked string of lanterns represents
a configuration of the sun’s family
which man will not see again for
14,300 years, says Rev. Dr. Paul A.
McNally, S. J., director of the
Georgetown University observatory.
For the past week thousands of
Washingtonians have wondered over
the brilliant spectacle of Jupiter and
Venus, the latter almost directly
above the other and fairly close to
the horizon. Venus has been ex
ceptionally bright against the back
ground of the sky lit by the full
moon.
The spectacle will reach its climax
Wednesday evening, when the tiny
planet Mercury will be most clearly
visible in the five-planet string, if
the observer looks in the right place.
This planet, already visible after
sunset, is far from easy to see and
identify.
Actually, Dr. McNally says, few
persons, aside from professional and
amateur astronomers, ever hava
seen Mercury.
Usually in Sun's Glow.
It is the smallest of the planets.
It is very close to the sun and
usually is lost in the twilight glow
after sunset or in the dawn light
before sunrise. Each year, how
ever, there are several “elongations”
when Mercury is farther from the
sun than usual, so that it is well
above the horizon at sunset or sun
rise.
Wednesday evening it will be at
its greatest elongation—18 degrees
from the sun and 16 degrees above
the horizon at sunset. This distance
can be visualized, Dr. McNally points
out, by considering that the diam
eter of the moon is about half a
degree. So Mercury will be approxi
mately 30 times the moon’s diameter
above the horizon at the instant of
sunset. At that time the glow will
be widely diffused over the western
sky.
This means that in order to see
Mercury with the naked eye one
must watch very closely for it. It
can be seen, but not very easily
Politics
(Continued From First Page.)
that many States would send dele
gations pledged or instructed for
candidates other than Mr. Roose
velt to the national convention, .
Outlook Not Good.
The outlook is not good unless the
President should definitely withdraw.
Indeed, it looks more and more as
though delegation after delegation,
pledged to Mr. Roosevelt, will be
elected or appointed during the com
ing three or four months.
The entry of the President s name
in the Wisconsin and Illinois presi
dential preferential primaries; the
declaration by the Ohio Democratic
organization leaders that, whether
or not his name was entered in the
Buckeye State’s primary, the dele
gation would be pledged to him, have
taken all the wind out of the sails
of other contestants—except the
Vice President.
Take the case of Mr. McNutt. His
name has not been entered in a sin
gle State primary and probably will
not be offered. Until recently it was
the expectation of the McNutt man
agers to be in the thick of the fight,
to enter their candidate In nearly all
of the presidential preferential pri
maries. It was thought he would be
the White House candidate and that
he would go into the primaries and
gather up the delegates—ready, of
course, to deliver them to the Presi
dent if he should seek another nom
ination.
Mr. McNutt, on his return from
the Philippines last summer, an
nounced he would not be a candi
date if- the President should run
again—and was made Federal se
curity administrator.
The McNutt Plan.
The idea of the McNutt managers
was that when the President took
himself finally out of the picture Mr.
McNutt would have the support of
all these delegates he had picked up
in the pre-convention campaign. It
looked as simple as that—until the
President, by his silence, acquiesced
in the third-term drive.
Then the picture changed. It was
not for Mr. McNutt to enter primary
contests against the man he had
said he would support if he wanted
a third term—not if Mr. McNutt was
to continue to hope for the nomina
tion himself.
Practically the same thing hap
pened to the. candidacies of Post
master General Farley and Senator
Wheeler. So now it looks as though,
due to the silence of Mr. Roosevelt,
the convention will be made up of
Roosevelt delegations, with some off
for Mr. Garner—although they may
be limited largely to the Texas dele
gation.
The only thing that could check
such a development would be state
An interesting feature of this dis
play, says Dr. McNally, is that the
visible string of planets will contain
all those known to man previous to
1781, when Uranus was discovered
by means of the perturbations it
caused in the orbits of the known
planets. Shortly afterward, dis
tant Neptune, seldom actually seen,
was discovered almost simultane
ously by an English and a French
astronomer by calculations of the
perturbations it caused in the orbit
of Uranus.
This was the complete list of the
planets until a decade ago, when
tiny Pluto, farthest from the sun
and not much larger than the earth,
was discovered. Many astronomers
believe that there may be one or
two more planets still more distant.
Actually, Uranus itself will be in
the string Wednesday* evening, but
it will be visible only with a small
telescope. Such a telescope also will
show’ four of the moons of Jupiter,
the brighest of them originally dis
covered by Galileo with the first
telescopic observations.
Calculation Very Difficult.
Any possible planetary configura
tion, Mr. McNally points out, has
recurred before and will recur again,
but calculation of the time of re
currence of any particular pattern
becomes very complicated. All the
planets move at different speeds and
in different orbits around the sun.
The time taken for any planet to
return to a position where it^the
earth and the sun are in a straight
line is known as the synodic period.
That for Mercury is 116 days.
Every 116 days, that is to say, Mer
cury, earth and sun are in a straight
line. The period for Venus is 256
days. That for Mars is 580 days.
All three will be in a straight line
in the number of days which is the
least common multiple of the three
synodic periods. When the other
planets are added it turns out that
this is the first time the spectacle
has been witnessed in the course of
recorded human history.
The caveman of Ice Age Europe
may have wondered at a similar
sight in the western sky.
SENATOR JOHN H.
BANKHEAD.
—A. P. Photo.
ment from the President taking
himself out of the picture, or a sub
stantial vote for Gamer in some of
the preferential primaries. Such a
vote would give the third-termers
pause and the anti-third-termers
more courage.
Party Boosts Idea.
Even in the publicity now sent
out ‘by the Democratic National
Committee the third-term idea is
now being boosted. Charles Michel
son, director of publicity for the
party, after saying that he is entirely
ignorant as to whether the President
wants to run or will consent to run,
points out in his column that the
anti-third-term agitation “depends
on which party the possible third
termer belongs to.” The implication
being that the Republicans would
support a third term for a Republi
can President, and that there is no
reason why Democrats should not
do as much for a President of their
own.
As the pre-convention campaign
continues, it looks .as though Mr.
Dewey must make a good showing
in the preferential primaries if he
is to get anywhere. The old line
Republican politicians, generally
speaking, are against Mr. Dewey—
at this time. If he can demonstrate
sufficient popular strength, some of
them may change.
His two principal competitors,
Senators Taft and Vandenberg, on
the other hand, are hoping for tne
support of party leaders in many of
the States and laying stress on the
primaries. Except in Wisconsin.
There Senator Vandenberg is chal
lenging Mr. Dewey in the preference
primary. If Senator Vandenberg can
taka Mr. Dewey* measure.there, tt
d
Congressional Veto
Power on Trade Pacts
Is Urged by Brown
Hearings Will Start
Tomorrow; Early Vote
In Senate Hoped For
By the Associated Press.
Senator Brown, Democrat, of
Michigan suggested yesterday that
Congress be given the same veto
power over trade agreements that
it has over presidential orders re
organizing Government agencies.
The reorganization orders go into
effect automatically after a 60-day
period unless either house disap
proves.
Senator Brown is counted as a
“doubtful” inember of the Senate
Finance Committee, which will start
hearings tomorrow on legislation to
extend the Reciprocal Trade Act for
three years from next June 12, the
present expiration date. The House
approved the measure, 216 to 168,
Friday night.
Hope for Early Vote.
Democratic leaders hoped for an
earjy Senate vote. Chairman Har
rison of the Senate committee said
the group might report the legisla
tion by the end of this week. Ma
jority Leader Barkley expressed the
opinion that Senate debate might
be completed in a week.
Calling his proposal “left-handed
approval,” Senator Brown said it
might be a possible compromise if
there were a close vote on a pro
posal to give the Senate power to
ratify or reject trade agreements.
Administration leaders asserted,
however, that the ratification pro
posal, advanced by several Senators,
would be defeated.
While foes of the legislation pre
dicted a close vote in the Senate
Finance Committee, Senator Har
rison said there was no doubt that
the measure would be approved.
His view was supported by Sena
tor George, Democrat, of Georgia,
another finance committeeman.
In the general congressional pic
ture, leaders called for a fast pace
early this week.
In addition to the Finance Com
I mittee hearings on the trade pro
gram. there will be a hearing by
the Senate Agriculture Committee
on the $722,000,000 farm bill ap
proved by the House. Farm State
Senators are seeking to add $200,
000.000 for parity payments.
The Senate was scheduled to ap
prove the $107,241,000 supply bill for
the courts and the State. Justice
and Commerce departments. The
House will consider a deficiency ap
propriations measure.
will slow up the New Yorker's pace |
materially. But even if Mr. Dewey I
should win there, the Vandenberg
and Taft campaigns among the
political leaders will go right ahead,
and they are counting on a large
number of delegations.
Other Possibilities.
Republicans are casting their eyes
around in the meantime for other
presidential material. Some of them
have come to rest on Representa
tive Joseph W. Martin, jr„ of Mas
sachusetts, House Republican leader.
Still other toy with the possibility
of naming Gov. John W. Bricker
of Ohio, in the event Senator Taft
cannot make the grade. Mr. Mar
tin's name, however, has been more
and more in the gossip, when dark
horses are mentioned. He is taking
himself off the Republican National
Committee, whether that has any
significance or not. His reason is
that his duties as Republican leader
in the House are so arduous that
he has no time to give to the na
tional committee. Sinclair Weeks,
it is believed, will take his place
as the Bay State member of the
national committee.
Meanwhile, it was made known
that Vice President Garner will not
enter the Nebraska primary because
he believes his entry might hurt
the renomination chances of Sena
tor Burke, one of his chief sup
porters. Mr. Roosevelt’s supporters
have arranged for his entry in the
race.
Mr. Garner was reported to be
lieve that if he went into Nebraska
and there was a sharp New Deal
anti-New Deal fight that Senator
Burke might suffer.
The administration, after work
ing unsuccessfully for a “purge” of
anti-administration Senators in 1938,
was reported to be taking no part in
the contest between Senator Burke
ana Gov. Roy L. Cochran.
Other Developments.
Other political developments re
ported by the Associated Press in
cluded :
Senator Taft told a Springfield
(111.) audience that a farm program
should embody some major features
of the administration system but
should look toward gradual aban
donment of the “suicide theory” of
crop curtailment. He said that so
long as the fanner's income is rela
tively low an agriculture subsidy
would be justified.
Senator Bridges of New Hamp
shire, another Republican candi
date, predicted in an address at
Dallas, Tex., that if the “New Deal
ers have their way and nominate
Mr. Roosevelt for a third term or
any one of their clan, a number of
Southern States will be found in
the Republican column this No
vember—including Texas.”
Senator Norris, Independent, of
Nebraska, a day-in-and-day-out ad
ministration supporter, expressed the
belief that Mr. Roosevelt would not
declare his third-term intentions
until the Democratic convention
meets July 15.
Reports circulated that Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts might have
support of the Republican organ
ization for the position of perma
nent chairman of the G. O. P.
convention.
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Fatal to Smith Reavis
Of Associated Press
As Paris Correspondent,
He Inspired Pact
Outlawing War
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Peb. 24—Smith
Freeman Reavis, 46, for 20 years an
editor and writer of the Associated
Press, died at Post Graduate. Hos
pital tonight following an operation
a week ago to remove a blood clot.
He was internationally recognized
as the man who, as an Associated
Press correspondent in Paris, in
spired the Kellogg-Briand pact out
lawing war.
Although Reavis always depre
cated his part in the history-mak
ing development, the French Gov
ernment issued a book giving the
documentary background of the
treaty—disclosing Mr. Reavis as the
“behind-the-scenes” instigator of
the pact which was signed by virtu
ally every civilized nation in the
world.
Continuing a colorful news career
that had taken him to many domes
tic and foreign bureaus of the news
organization, Mr. Reavis in recent
years was stationed in the New York
office where he was foreign news
editor and later a writer on finan
cial affairs, a position he held at the
time of his death.
Born in Virginia.
He was born at Hanover, Va„
November 11, 1893, and spent most
of his early life in the Pacific North
west. He was educated in arts at
the University of Washington, where
he was a varsity oarsman, and in
law at the University of Virginia.
Surgeons last week resorted to a
new technique of surgery to remove
the clot which formed in Mr. Rea
vis’ abdomen. The operation, origi
nated in Vienna and tried not more
than three times in this country,
consisted of a “fishing expedition”
through the artery by means of a
specially constructed wire.
The clot was successfully removed, •
and Mr. Reavis showed improve
ment, but fatal complications de-1
veloped.
Mr. Reavis’ connection with the j
Briand-Kellogg Pact resulted from 1
what he modestly considered was1
merely a case of thinking up an
idea for a "good news story.”
Asked Briand for Statement.
The writer was "head of the desk”
in the Associated Press Paris Bu- :
reau. Early in 1927 he sought from
the late Aristide Briand, then
France's foreign minister, a senti
ment which might be transmitted
to the United States on April 6. 1927,
the 10th anniversary of America's i
entry into the World War.
When Briand's message reached
the Paris bureau, Mr. Reavis found
this "big news” paragraph:
“If there were need of it between
the two great democracies (France
and the United States) in order to
give high testimony of their desire
for peace and to furnish a solemn
example to other peoples, France
would be willing to enter into an
engagement with America mutually
outlawing war. to use your (Reavis’)
way of expressing it • * • ”
Caused Sensation in Europe.
This idea, suggested by the cor
respondent, created a sensation in
Europe after foreign correspondents
in this country cabled the Associ
ated Press dispatch back to Europe.
A copy went to the State De
partment in Washington, where it
was pigeon-holed until the follow
ing Christmas when President
Coolidge, whose attention had been
called to it by the late Jane Ad
dams, Chicago’s famous social
worker, ordered it studied by Ameri
can diplomats.
Negotiations between the two gov
ernments quickly developed the idea
of a world-embracing peace treaty
—and various other powers rushed
to join in the declaration.
Mrs. Reavis was with him at the
time of his death. The couple had
no children. They resided in Man
hattan.
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Child Is Buried Secretly
As Mother Paces Cell
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24—Five
year-old Geraldine Hardaker was
buried secretly today while her
mother, charged with her slaying,
paced a cell unaware of the services.
Jail attaches said Mrs. Betty Har
daker, 25. who told officers she took
her daughter’s life because she was
“too good to live,” refused her break
fast and walked endlessly behind the
bars.
A coroner’s jury accused her of the
slaying "while of unsound mind.”
CLEVELAND. — ONE-SPEECH
CANDIDATE—Mrs. Frances
Payne Bolton wants her late
husband’s seat In Congress
and hopes a single campaign
speech will put her there. Her
appeal to Republican voters
was made last night In the
populous 22d district that
Chester C. Bolton served for
eight years. If she gets to
complete his term she will be
Ohio's first Congresswoman.
The election is Tuesday.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
U. S. Steel and C. 1.0.
Accused of 'Sham'
Secret Agreement
Bargaining Rights of
Employes in Subsidiary
Prevented, Union Says
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Feb. 24—The United
States Steel Corp. and the C. I. O
were accused by an independent j
union today of entering into "a
secret understanding” to deprive j
employes of a “big steel” subsidiary i
! of their bargaining rights.
The charges were made by the
Steel and Wire Workers’ Protective
Association, Inc., in a complaint
filed at the Chicago office of the
National Labor Relations Board It
named the American Steel & Wire !
Co. of New Jersey and its corporate
parent, United States Steel.
| The independent union, claiming
| to represent 1.500 of the 1.850 work
| ers at the Waukegan. 111., plant of
American Steel, contended the com
pany made a "sham” working agree
ment with the C. I. O. Steel Workers’
Organizing Committee in 1937.
The complainant alleged that this !
was done upon "direct instructions”
from United States Steel, "whose
chief executive had entered into a
secret understanding with the S.
W. O. C.,” and for the purpose of
‘‘promoting and encouraging mem
bership in the S. W. O. C.”
It related that when the inde
pendent union later sought ceytlfi-:
cation as the bargaining agent at
the Waukegan branch, the S. W. O. j
C. argued that all 12 plants of the
company Should bargain as a unit.
The Labor Board upheld the S. W.
O. C., it added, but "genuine col
lective bargaining on a national
scale * * * has never materialized.”
Such "unfair labor practices,” the
union charged, violated the Wagner
Act.
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Slaying Case
•
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TACOMA. Wash., Feb. 24.—Un
dersheriff Clyde Knowles said to
night John Ord, 42, tall, gaunt Ta
coma fireman, had confessed the
wedding night slaying of the man
who successfully had courted his
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lived with Ord for 10 years, clung
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King Pomeroy, 50, who lived in
Mr. Nosler’s home, was beaten
•severely with a poker.
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Ord was arrested after taking
Mrs. Nosier to a hospital.
Mr. Knowles said both Mrs. Nos
ier and Mr. Pomeroy signed state
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killed the bridegroom and injured
them. He gave this summarized
version of their statements:
“Mrs. Nosier and Pomeroy said
that last night Ord came to the
Nosier home and demanded en
trance. Nosier protested and Ord
broke in through a screen door. He
struck Mrs. Nosier, knocking her to
the floor. When Nosier intervened,
Ord shot him. He then picked up a
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stove poker and beat the bridegroom
repeatedly over the head.
"Pomeroy, sleeping in an ad
joining room, heard the shot and
investigated. Ord attacked Pomeroy
with the poker, knocking him un
conscious.
Beat Her With Cordwood.
"Ord then turned his attentions
to Mrs. Nosier, beating her with a
piece of cord wood. When Mrs. Nos
ier regained consciousness she saw
Ord leaning over her husband, pour
ing kerosene on his clothing. Nosier
attempted to rise but Ord struck
him down with the poker and ap
plied a match to his clothing.
"Mrs. Nosier crawled over and
got a rug and threw it around her
husband's body. Ord then shot her
and dragged her onto the front
porch.
“With the house ablaze, Pomeroy
managed to crawl to safety. Ord
drove Mrs. Nosier to nearby Lake
Steilacoom and threatened to throw
her in. Mrs. Nosler’s entreaties
caused him to change his mind and
he drove her to his home, four miles
away
“After Mrs. Nosier promised ta
‘keep her mouth’ shut, Ord took her
to Piece County Hospital, then left.
Later, he returned and was arrest
ed.”
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