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Cattlemen protested, got out their rifles again, but to no avail. John Mohler moved ruthlessly on, stamping out every trace of the disease. It spread to the mountains of California, where no graves could be dug. John Mohler herded the cattle into canyons, blasted rock from the hillsides to cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep...
...softball game on Wednesday which the Funsters won 8 to 7, the Bellboys from Lowell staged a three run rally in the last half of the last inning to no avail; but they came back in the baseball game yesterday to nose out the Funsters...
Though "time and change shall naught avail to break the friendships formed at Yale," friendships formed at Princeton apparently do not stand the gaff so well...
...tracing telephone wires, police found two other houses which contained hidden bookie offices. Outside one of them, two WOCD men sat in a car waiting for the police to come out, when two members of the gang drove up. They threatened the students, but "Threatened to no avail...
...direction of India, where Asiatics might be persuaded that they want Asia for themselves. Militarily it would call for tremendous expenditures, at a time when Japan must dig in on a long periphery. Raids and smaller invasions along the Allied supply line to Australia would cost less and avail almost as much. Even Australians are not inclined to take invasion seriously...