21 Feb 1918 Part A - Green River Republican, Butler County, Kentucky *********************************************************** Submitted by: Butler County KYGenweb GRR Transcription Team Date: 11 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** 1918 Feb 21 Part A This transcribed by Tamara Kincaide < > from images scanned by Alice Warner To be proofread later by Alice Warner, original images available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/butler/photos/grr/26Jan1888.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image GREEN RIVER REPUBLICAN THURSDAY FEB 21, 1918 PAGE A COLUMN 1 Kentucky News Culling An epitome of most important events transpiring in state. LEXINGTON, It was announced here that on or after March 15, through a reduction in freight ration coal in Lexington will be 15 cents the ton cheaper. LEXINGTON, BUTLER F THOMPSON a deputy state fire marshal has been designated assistant inspector of leather equipment at government's Rock Island Arsenal. PADUCAH, Charged with stealing peas and soy beans valued at $80 from GEORGE FISHER a farmer HENRY WOOD was arrested by deputy sheriff CHAS CLARK and Constable LIGE CROSS MAYSVILLE, County judge HARRY P PARNELL has purchased two carloads of coal of which he will sell only twenty five bushels to the needy ones at $5.00 per ton the price fixed by the fuel administrator. PADUCAH, The retention ordinance governing personnel and numbers of various city department employees who will serve under civil service was adopted by the city commissioners. The office of assistant city solicitor was abolished effective March 1. MT STERLING, The Montgomery county grand jury has indicted PORTER C EUBANKS, Deputy United States Marshal, on a charge of willful murder; EUBANKS is charged with killing HENRY M RINGO in this city in December last and has been confined in the Lexington jail. MT STERLING, The Montgomery county grand jury has adjourned here after returning nineteen indictments including one for murder and one for forgery. Judge YOUNG appointed as jury commissioners for the coming year C. C. THOMPSON and JOHN T. WOODFORD and A. B. HART. ASHLAND, A. German sympathizer is believed to have ---- ----- ----- C ompany which did damage to the plant estimated at $50,000. At the time of the fire Ashland was without water due to the ice breaking the intake pipe to the pumping station. LOUISVILLE, JOSEPH J KIMMEL a assistant cashier of the Kentucky Title Savings Bank and Trust committed suicide in the basement of the bank building by sending a bullet through his left temple. Bank officials issued a statement that KIMMEL'S accounts were short but were not prepared to give any figures. AUGUSTA, PATRICK J MALONEY of Wellsburg aged 30 oldest son of MARTIN MALONEY died at the base hospital at Camp Sheridan of pneumonia. He enlisted in the 18th infantry at Cincinnati last summer and his life was insured for $10,000. He tried to salute his captain J M COFFEY a few minutes before he died but was too weak. HARRODSBURG, ELIJAH PRESTON was awarded $3,000 damages against PIERCE ROYALTY in circuit court. PRESTON'S suit was brought to recover for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him when his motorcycle was struck by ROYALTY'S automobile. PRESTON was allowed an additional $100 to cover the damage done to the motorcycle. BOWLING GREEN, Two oil wells were struck in Allen County recently. A well was located on the farm of J R JOHNSON near Gainesville. The land is leased by WILLIAM HAMILTON and produces six barrels an hour. The other well was struck by MCMAHON KIRKPATRICK and YOKE and is located at Petroleum. WINCHESTER, While moving a bed at her home on the Ecton Pike MRS. JESSE PARIDOE knocked a double barrel shotgun over discharging the load of which went through a partition and shot her two children JAMES ALLEN seven and MARTHA MERRETT five, The full charge entered the limbs and feet of the children painfully injuring them but not seriously. DIXON, The body of MRS. JOEY SPARKS 24 years old a pretty young widow has been found buried beneath the flooring of an old livery barn on the outskirts of Clay KY. MRS SPARKS had been choked and shot to death in the opinion of physicians who examined the body. MRS. SPARKS had been missing from the home of her parents MR and MRS WILL VANCE well to do residents of Clay for two weeks. HODGENVILLE, A jury after three hours deliberations acquitted RICHARD ------- and sentenced JOSEPH BAILEY to eight years in the penitentiary for killing BEE CARTER of Buffalo August 22 last. The killing grew out of a will contest in which BEE CARTER was witness. LANCASTER, MRS. BELLE CRUTCHFIELD 68 years old and L TAYLOR 69 years old of Nicholasville were quietly married here. This was MRS. TAYLOR'S ----- matrimonial venture and the fourth for her husband. END OF COLUMN 1 PAGE A, COLUMN 2 GEORGETOWN, J HARVEY ALLEN one of the ----- ---- young farmers in ----- ----- was elected president of the Kentucky Corn Growers Association. LEXINGTON, THOMAS ----- was found guilty of the murder of F S--O-LER on the day of October 1 and sentenced to ---- ---- in circuit court here. NEWPORT, MRS. ---- BOGART who was among the --- ---- families caught in last ---- high water and rescued gave birth to a girl baby as she was being taken from a ----. CYNTHIANA, MR. ----- GIBSON and MISS. L.---- HORTON were seriously injured while ---ing Young GIBSON was about --- --- and probably lose the --- of the eye, MISS. HORTON 'S leg was injured. WILLIAMSBURG, .? W. BO--- has returned from Knoxville with CHARLIE BIRD and ? FOSTER, ----- arrested in the Tennessee city on information from Whitley county on a charge of highway robbery. MATSVILLE, All of the employees of the fourteen tobacco ---- ----- have been ordered to be prohibited on account of tobacco ---- from Adams county Ohio, ---- covered with blankets and quilts, an epidemic of smallpox has ---- in the county. MAYSVILLE, The ----- dog personnel is getting in the work in this county. At Dover with 40 dogs were poisoned. It is thought the state wide campaigned to enact a stringent dog tax law to protect the ----- ----- may have inspired the dog poisoned to show his hand in and go to Dover. EDDYVILLE, W C CUMMINGS a coin dealer here fell on the ice at his home and cut a deep gash in his head, requiring four stitches to close. MRS KIZZIE SMITH of the ---- also suffered a severe fall on the ice when her right wrist was fractured ---- other injuries of --- on the -----. LOUISVILLE, first 3 lines unreadable, left the state, MARGARET O'BREIN ---- in the circuit court here asking that ---- be appointed to take charge of the affairs of the German Saving Funds Association. FLEMINGSBURG, A young man by the name of DILLON of Foxport in the east and of the county and who was working in Indiana at the time of the registration June 5 was taken into custody by the authorities for failing to register. DILLON is the first man in the county charged with trying to evade the registration law. MT STERLING, During the recent cold farmers of Montgomery county have sustained considerable losses by stock freezing and sheep and cattle falling on icy pastures and dying from exposure. Several heavy cattle had broken legs and had to be killed. Many ewes have fallen heavily on ice and unborn lambs were killed. PARIS, County superintendent CAYWOOD has been informed by state superintendent V. O. GILBERT that he can not pay a teacher for lost time on account of inclement weather or other similar cases without violating the law as the law plainly states that a teacher shall be paid by the month for twenty days per month actually taught. WINCHESTER, FLOYD DAY of this city received a unique gift in the form of a full grown wild cat that was killed by a man who discovered it in one of the oil fields near Torrent. A dog scented the animal and when the man arrived on the scene the two were having quite a battle; he went up quietly and gave the wild cat a blow with an axe. WINCHESTER, MRS MARY SMITH of this city has been notified that through the death of her sister MRS JOE CROCKER of Arkansas she will inherit quite a nice part of a large estate. The property consists of thousands of acres of cotton land and valuable stock, The estate is valued at about $75,000. MRS. SMITH is the only surviving sister. There are nieces and nephews to share in the inheritance. PIKEVILLE, TOM CLARK who was sent to the penitentiary about eight years ago from Pike county to serve a term of fifteen years for burglary and who was paroled by Governor STANLEY the latter part of December was drowned in the high water at Stallings WVA on the Dingus Run near Logan WVA and his body which was recovered three days later was buried in Logan county by the authorities there. COVINGTON, The special federal grand jury returned sixty indictments against coal operators a majority of whom reside in eastern Kentucky, They are accused of charging prices for coal in excess of those fixed by Fuel Administrator GARFIELD. PARIS, JAMES ? METCALFE --- of trains on the Kentucky division of the Louisville & Nashville railroad with headquarters in Paris has been appointed by the United States government as minister of trains in France with the rank of first lieutenant. END OF COLUMN 2 PAGE A COLUMN 3 FOUR CONDITIONS NAMED WILSON gives peace terms U.S. will accept from central powers-America was forced into war. Demands of America set forth in address by executive to congress, Or the war of emancipation of world shall go on. WASHINGTON PRESIDENT WILSON addressing congress in joint session replied to the recent speeches by German chancellor VON HERTLING and the Austrian foreign minister Count CZER?IN. Chancellor VON HERTLING'S statement, the president said was very vague and confusing and led to virtually no conclusion. It was very different in tone from Count C----- which the president said had a very friendly tone. The president reiterated that the United States had no desire to interfere in European affairs and would distain to take advantage of any internal ------ or disorder to impose --- own will upon another people. The ---- of the president's address follows. Gentlemen of the congress. On the eighth of January I had the honor of addressing you on the objects of the war as our people conceive them. The prime minister of Great Britain had ---- ---- similar terms on the --- ---- to these addresses the ---- replied on the 24th (next 4 sentences unreadable) Count CZERNIN'S reply which is directed chiefly to my own address on the eighth of January is uttered in a friendly tone He finds in my statement a sufficiently encouraging approach to the views of his own government to justify him in believing that it furnishes a basis for a more detailed discussion of purposes by the two governments. He is represented to have intimated that the views he was expressing had been communicated to me before hand and that I was aware of them at the time he was uttering them, but in this I am sure he was misunderstood. I had received no intimation of what he intended to say. There was of course no reason why he should communicate privately with me; I am quite content to be one of his public audiences. VON HETLING SHOWS JEALOUSY He refuses to apply them to the substantive items which must constitute the body of any final settlement. He is jealous of international action and international counsel. He accepts he says the principal of public diplomacy but he appears to insist that it be continued at any rate in this case to generalities and that the several particular questions of territory and sovereignty the several questions upon whose settlement must depend the acceptance of peace by the 23 states now engaged in the war must be discussed and settled not in general council but severally by the nations most immediately concerned by interest or neighborhood. He agrees that the seas should be free but looks askance at any limitation to that freedom by international action in the interest of the common order. He would without reserve be glad to see economic barriers removed between nation and nation, for that could in no way impede the ambitions of the military party with whom he seems constrained to keep on terms. Neither does he raise objection to a limitation of armaments. That matter will be settled of itself, he thinks the economic conditions which must follow the war, But the German colonies he demands must be returned without debate. He will discuss with no one but the representatives of Russia what disposition shall be made of the peoples and the lands of the Baltic provinces with no one but the government of France the conditions under which French territory shall be evacuated and only with Austria what shall be done with Poland. In the determination of all questions affecting the Balkan states he differs as I understand him to Austria and Turkey and with regard to the agreements to be entered into concerning the non Turkish peoples of present Ottoman Empire to the Turkish authorities themselves. After a settlement all around effected in this fashion by individual barter and concession, he would have no objection, if I correctly interrupted his statement to a league of nations which would undertake to hold the new balance of power steady against external disturbance. It must be evident to everyone who understands what this was ---- wrought to the opinion and ------ of END OF COLUMN 3 PAGE A COLUMN 4 The world that no general peace no peace worth the inflicted sacrifices of these three years of tragic suffering can peace be arrived as in any such social -----. Y-- method the German chancellor proposes the method of congress of Vienna We can not and will not return to that. What is at stake now is the peace of the world. What we are striving for is a new international order to be set upon broad and universal principals of right and justice, no more ----- of shreds and patches. Is it positive that Count VON HERTLING does not ---- that does not grasp it is in fact living in his thought in a world dead and gone? Has he uttered ----- the Relchstag revolution of ---- July, or does he deliberately deny them? They spoke of the conditions of a general peace and of national -------------- or arrangement between state and state. The peace of the world depends upon the just settled of each of the several problems to which I adverted in my recent address ---- the congress. I of course (next 5 sentences unreadable) view to the wishes unnatural connections the racial aspirations the security and peace of mind of the peoples involved, no permanent peace will have been attained. They can not be discussed separately or in corners. None of them constitutes a private or separate interest from which the opinion of the world may be shut out, whatsoever affects the peace affects mankind and nothing settled by military force, of settled wrong is not settled at all. It will presently have to be reopened. NATIONS JUDGE ISSUES Is Count VON HERTLING not aware that he is speaking in the court of mankind that all awakened nations of the world now sit in judgment on what every public man of whatever nation may say on the issues of a conflict which has spread to every region of the world? The Relchstag resolutions of July themselves frankly accepted the decisions of that court. There shall be no annexations no contributions no punitive damages. Peoples are not to be handed about from one sovereignty to another by an international conference or an understanding between rivals and antagonists. National aspirations must be respected peoples may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. Self determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principal of action which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. We can not have general peace for the asking or by the mere arrangements of a pieced together out of individual understanding between powerful states. All the parties to this war must join in the settlement of every issue any where involved in it because what we are seeking is a peace that we can all unite to guarantee and maintain and every item of it must be submitted to the common judgment whether it be right and fair and act of justice rather than a bargain between sovereigns. The United States has no desire or to act as arbiter in European territorial disputes. We would disdain to take advantage of any internal weakness or disorder to impose her own will upon another people. She is quite ready to be shown that the settlements she had suggested are not the best or the most enduring. They are only her own provisional sketch of principles and of the way in which they should be applied, but she entered this war because she was made a partner whether she would or not in the sufferings and indignities inflicted by the military masters of Germany against the peace and security of mankind and the conditions of peace will touch her as nearly as they will touch any other nation to which is entrusted a learning part in the maintenance of civilization. She can not see her way to peace until the causes of this war are removed its renewal ------- is nearly as may be impossible. This war had its roots in the disregard of the rights of small nations and of nationalities which lacked their claims END OF COLUMN 4 PAGE A COLUMN 5 to determine their own allegiance and their own forms of political life. Covenants must now be entered into which will render such things impossible for the future and these covenants must be backed by the united force of all the nations that love justice and are willing to maintain it at any cost. If territorial settlements and the political relations of great populations which have not the organized power to resist are to be determined by contracts of the powerful governments which consider themselves directly affected as Count VON HERTLING proposes why may not economic questions arise? It has come about in the altered world in which we now find that justice and the rights of people affect the whole field of international dealing as much as access to raw materials and fair and equal conditions of trade. Count VON HERTLING wants the essentials basics of commercial and industrial life to be safeguarded by common agreement and guarantee but he can not expect that to be conceded him if the other matters to be determined by the articles of peace are not handled in the same way as items in the final accounting. He can not ask the benefit of common agreement in the one field without according it in the other. I take it for granted that he sees that separate and selfish compacts with regard to trade and the essential materials of manufacture would afford no foundation for peace. Neither he may rest assured will separate and selfish compacts with regard to provinces and peoples. TEST IS SIMPLE After all the test of whether it is possible for either government to go any further in this comparison of views is simple and obvious. The principles to be applied are these; First that each part of the final settlement must be based upon the essential justice of that particular case and upon much adjustment as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent. Second that peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were chattels and pawns in a game even the great game now forever disassociated of the balance of (next 4 sentences unreadable) or compromise or claims amongst rival states. Fourth that all well defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world. U.S. MUST GO ON A general peace erected upon such foundations can be discussed. Until such a peace can be secured we have no choice but to go on. So far as we can judge these principles that we reward as fundamental are already everywhere accepted as imperative except among the spokesman of the military and annexationist party in Germany. If they have anywhere else been rejected the objectors have not been sufficiently numerous or influential to make their voices audible. The tragically circumstance is that this one party in Germany is apparently willing and able to send millions of men to their death to prevent what all the world now sees to be just. I would not be a true spokesman of the people of the United States if I did not say once more that we entered this war upon no small occasion and that we can never turn back from a course chosen upon principle. Our resources are in part mobilized now and we shall not pause until they are mobilized in their entirety. Our armies are rapidly going to the fighting fronts and will go more and more rapidly. Our whole strength will be put in this war of emancipation, Emancipation from the threat and attempted mastery of selfish groups of autocratic rulers whatever the difficulties and present partial delays. We are indomitable in our power of independent action and can in no circumstance consent to live in a world governed by intrigue and force. We believe that our own desire for a new international order under which reason and justice and the common interests of mankind shall prevail is the desire of enlightened men every where. Without the new order the world will be without peace and human life will lack tolerable conditions of existence and development. Having set our hand to the task of achieving it we shall not turn back. I hope that it is not necessary for me to add that no word of what I have said is intended as a threat. That is temper of our people. I have spoken thus only that the whole world may know that our passion for justice and for self government is no mere passion of words but a passion of which once set in action must be satisfied. The power of the United States is a menace to million of people. It will never be used in aggression or for the aggression of any selfish interest of our own. It springs out of freedom and is for the service of freedom. END OF COLUMN 5 PAGE A, COLUMN 6 CRIPPLED ROLLING STOCK SIDETRACKED Cause car shortage instead of turning it over for immediate repair. Thousand of empties thus tied up while the country clamored for coal, Transportation division will undertake to solve problem. Western Newspaper Union News Service Washington, Thousands of crippled freight cars accumulated through the winter because of gross neglect of railroads in making repairs, occupy miles of tracks in east rail centers and are largely responsible for car shortages and traffic congestion it was shown by reports of interstate commerce commissioner MCCHORD to director general MCADOO. These reports based on first hand investigations by a corps of trained inspectors cover the six weeks period since the government assumed operation of the railroads and indicate that one of the most critical ills of rail transportation under private management was the side tracking of cars needing repairs. The transportation division of the railroad administration will undertake to solve the problem of car repair of commissioner MCCHORD'S disclosures. Conditions are worst at Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Altoona, Cleveland and Buffalo it was shown. The Pennsylvania early this week had 1992 so called bad order cars at Altoona, 1233 at Harrisburg, more than 1500 at CONWAY yards near Pittsburg,890 at Cleveland,478 at Philadelphia and 510 at Buffalo. It was estimated crippled cars even at these main terminals occupied 55 miles of track. The Philadelphia and Reading had 2052 bad order cars in its principal switching yards covering 16 miles of track. The Erie had 509 at Buffalo, 367 at Port Jervis and 235 at Jersey city making eight miles of track covered by defective cars. The Western Maryland had 414 at Cumberland alone and the Baltimore and Ohio had 144 in one yard at Philadelphia. These cars could have been quickly repaired during the winter if railroads had made proper preparations for covered repair tracks in advance according to railroad administration. Of the many empty within the last less than 1500 empty coal cars there waiting movement while coal mine operators cried for more cars, also other serious ills. TO RELEASE LICENSED SHIPS FOR WAR Washington All foreign trade of the United States exports and imports was put under license by President WILSON as a part of a general program of the American and Allied governments for releasing ships to transport troops and supplies to Europe. The less essential exports and imports will be reduced to a minimum and materials regarded as necessary will be transported by the shortest hauls possible. The allies working in close cooperation with the United States and its trade routes of the world in many instances will be shifted to bring the most economical operation of tonnage. DEPTH BOMBS HIT GERMAN SUBMARINES Geneva, A Swiss engineer employed for the last 10 months at the electrical works at Kiel and who recently has returned informs the Associated Press that the Germans are making every effort to conceal their submarine losses, especially from the navy, because of increased difficulty in mustering crews. He estimates the Germans lost 30 per cent of their submarines during the time that he was at Kiel, I saw a score of submarines lined up in the canals undergoing repairs he said, they had been hit by depth bombs which Germany seem to fear greatly. AMERICANIZE COAL BELT St. Louis MO. The movement to Americanize the coal belt of Macoupin county Illinois has spread to Mount Olive a few miles north of Staunton, where two men were tarred and feathered and hundreds made to kiss the flag. A similar round up of alleged disloyalties was made at Mount Olive. PETER HEINE a merchant was hauled from a neighbor's basement attired only in his night clothes and was forced to kneel and kiss each of the 48 stars on the flag. VERNON CASTLE DIES A HERO Ft. Worth Texas Capt VERNON CASTLE hero of 150 flights over German lines denied the fighters privilege of death in combat died none the less a hero. He sacrificed his life to prevent a collision in the air which would have meant death to two Royal Flying Corps cadets. ALMOST GOT $50,000,000 New York Three indictments returned here reveal how near the banking house of J. P. MORGAN & CO came to loaning $50,000,000 to a telephone operator who posed as a marquis and confidential agent of the King of Spain. Negotiations were --- between the marquis and the banking firm through which it was promised that Spain would cover the war on the side of the Enterprise AL when the state department took a hand in the matter. END OF COLUMN 6 PAGE A. COLUMN 7 HARVEST OF PACIFIC KELP Floating mowing machines used by the government yields potash, ammonia and iodine. The production of potash in the United States is rapidly increasing according to figures given out by the United States geological survey. In the first six months of this year a total of 14,023 commercial units of available water soluble potash was produced and sold for $5,864,039 at the point of shipment. Of this amount half came from the natural salts or brines the alkali lakes of Nebraska giving about one third the entire production. From kelp $1,348,095 worth was obtained. Potash is sold by the unit, a unit measuring 1 per cent of potash in a ton of materials as marketed that is to day a product carrying 25 per cent may be sold at $4 a unit which would be $100 a ton for the material marketed. The production of 1917 it is stated will be probably in excess of 25,000 tons or two and a half times that of 1916. But this is only 10 per cent of the average normal yearly consumption of the country. Before the war potash could be bought for $40 a ton but since its importation from Germany ceased it has risen to $450 a ton. C. G. HOPKINS in describing the harvesting of the gigantic kelp of the Pacific says that this yield not only potash but ammonia and iodine while the gas generated in the process is used to help the distillation. The United States department of agriculture is harvesting the kelp with float mowing machines. GINGERLESS GINGERBREAD Pumpkinless pumpkin pies having been designed to meet the cry which has gone up for food conservation and having proved a great success with the navy fighters whose hardy stomachs pronounced it a great success, the woman who invented it has come to bat once more with a gingerless gingerbread recipe in response to an enthusiastic letter from the baker of one of the battleships, comments a correspondent. Not satisfied with the triumphs which she has achieved this far and it is reported heavily guarded that the same lady is perfecting wheatless wheat cakes and doughless doughnuts. Her recipe for gingerless gingerbread follows in all its simplicity, Gingerless molassesless, eggless, butterless, milkless gingerbread, Dissolve two cups of brown sugar in a little coffee and one spoonfull of melted shortening, ? tablespoons oleo margarine, two tablespoons of lard a little salt, then a scant cupful of hot black coffee and last but not least pepper to taste. Take one cupful of graham to three cupful of wheat flour and roll it out about one inch thick. DENMARK'S FLAG The flag of Denmark is a plain red banner on it a white cross and is the oldest flag now in existence. For over 300 years Norway and Sweden were united with Denmark under this flag. In the year 1219 KING WALDEMAR of Denmark when leading his troops to battle against the Livonian saw a bright light in the form of a cross in the sky. He held this appearance to be a promise of divine old and pressed forward to victory. From this time he has had the cross placed on the flag of his country and called it the Dannenberg the strength of Denmark. TEST OF DIRECTION Has your wife faith in your judgment? Has she echoed MR. MEEKTON proudly, Doesn’t she let me go down and put coal on the furnace all by myself. NOTHING TO IT JOHN BARRYMORE the actor said at dinner at the players club in New York, The good die young they do this because they see its no need living if you got to be good. CINCINATTI MARKETS Flour, Hay and Grain Flour, winter patents $10.80,11 winter fancy $10.20 do family $9.70 do extras $8.70 low grade $8.20 hard patents $11.25 Hay no 1 timothy $33.50 no 2 $32.50 no 1 clover mixed $32.50 no 2 $32.50 no 1 clover $33.25 Corn quotations on ear corn white ear $4.50 yellow ear $1.50 mixed ear $1.45 Oats no 2 white 92 cents standard white 92 cents no 3 91c Live poultry sale of live poultry and piglets is prohibited by authority of food administrator HOOVER from Feb 11 to May 1, broilers under 2 lbs 23c fryers 2 lbs and over 23c roasting chickens 4 lbs and over 23c roosters 22c END OF COLUMN 7 END OF PAGE A