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...Chairman Jacob Kaiser, seriously considered boycotting the elections, but finally decided to participate. Their reason in effect was: if we don't participate, it means virtual dissolution of the party. But the Russians probably would continue the party artificially as a stage decoration with weak leaders who would bow to the Russians. On the other hand, our participation may attract the rest of Germany's and the world's attention to the situation in the Russian zone. Germans voting in the zonal elections actually won't be electing councilmen as much as they will be registering...
...Sunday the Herald modestly followed up with a 440-page issue. Bow-tied Publisher Choate was too smart to clutter it with trite messages of congratulation, carried only one-from Harry Truman. The "Boost New England" theme made the kind of Chamber-of-Commerce play that brought in more than enough ads to pay for the jumbo issue...
Hall's crew-Stroke, H. Hall; 7, G. Hall; 6, Cook; 5, Putnam; 4, Harrington; 3, McLaughlin; 2, A. Hall, bow, Rackemann; coxwain, Paul...
Sandbars & Sioux. The typical upper-river sternwheeler, displacing perhaps 300 tons, drew a mere 20-to-30 inches of water, burned some 25 cords of hard wood a day. In emergencies, it could lift itself over shallows by means of special stilt-like spars poised on its bow. In the '70s, military as well as civilian passengers were carried, for there was increasing Indian trouble, much of it traceable to Chief Crazy Horse and his Ogalalla Sioux...
...foot hole in her port side, soon had her forward holds full of water and her fore-decks awash. The William J. Riddle took aboard the Farmer's 57 passengers and crew, transferred them to another U.S. ship, and then made shore at Barry, Wales, with her own bow stove in at the waterline...