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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1936
Entered   at   Wllkea-Barre,   Pa. Al   Second   Class   Mall   Matter
PRICE TEN CENTS
DRAFT FINE FOR STATE LEADER
WITH
HONOR
COAL FIELD VICTORY TO BE FAR-REACHING
Death Trap Is Sprung On West Side Narrows Road
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Glen Alden Company Loses Test On Final Release Of Damage For Injuries
ABUSES CONDEMNED
ISperial  Tu The  Independent)
Harrisburg, Dec. 28.-Far-reach¬ ing in application, a unanimous decision by P6Jin.sylvania Work¬ men's Compensation Board was on record here today as the result of a minor compensation case origin¬ ating in l,.uzcrne Counly with a Nanticoke, Pa., man and Glen Alden Coal Company as principals.
Involving the comparatively small amount of $IS1.39, payment of which was directed to .Toseph Pikutfis of 14fi Noble street, Nanti¬ coke, the board's decision, written by Chairman David L. Ullman and concurred   in   by   other   members
KILLS AND IN HANGS SELF
Murders Wife And Takes 1 Hand Of Grandparent In A   Wild   Shooting   Spree
BITES OFF THUMB
JOB OF CHAIRMAN OF G. 0. P. REFORM FOR LOCAL JUDGE
Retirement From County Bench And Second-Term Pension Met By Increased Salary In Place Holding State-Wide Command For Luzerne's  Vote Chieftain
MANY EFFECTS CONSIDERED
First Car In Crash
The Road Hole
Lexington, Tenn., Dec. 26. (UP)-
A prediction  of Impending trag-1 Narrows    Road,    just    where    the
A   drink-crazed   farmer   shot   and   edy,   made   by   The  Sunday   Inde-   West   Side   highway   leaues   Main killed   his   young   wife   and   then   Pe"dent   weeks   ago,   and   ignored, | street of Larksville and rounds the
FIND LOSI PLANE
 .„„    .,       ,, 1/  ¦     ft,    «      . . , came to fulfillment when the auto-! high  bank  of Boston  Hill  for  the
settles issues  that have  long been   hanged  hwnself  m  tne  front yard   mobiles    of    Thomas    Kirby    and ' approach toward Woodward break moot controver.sy bctv.'een employ-   of his home tonight in a wild shoot-   Willard  Durbin met on a  turn  of, er ers, insurance companies and claim-   ing   spree   during   which   he   »¦•''¦'' \ anls. to wipe out an entire household.
Credit for developing a decision ^he farmer. 26-year-old Addm on the question of employer Ha- lyow, shot off the right hand ot bility in cases such as Pikuta.s's j^^g ^.^j^.^ grandfather, 71-ycar-old daim was given here to Attorney g g ^.^^ ^^^ ^11 off his father's E^ C. Marinnclh of Wilkes-Barrc ^^^ ^,,^,„,b j„ ^ ,1,^ ^^^ ^,8^,, who represented the Nanlicoke man  g,!.j,_„ig
at   two   hearings   be?ore    Referee j _   , .      „, >.    .
Augustin P. Conniff at Wilkes- ' Sheriff John Shaw, who invesli- Barre and tijen defended th; gated the case, said Crow came referee's second -decision when _bom» *tll<ler the influence of liquor Glen  Alden  Coal  Company  appeal-   .^^^ became enraged al his family.
He began the wild orgy by firms a fatal blast at his wife, the mother
the danger ever since completion of the short pave between King¬ ston and Plymouth was followed by subsidence at the foot of Boston Hill, due to abandoned mine Motorists have been aware of i workings of Hud.soM or Glen Alden
The Second Car Coal Company.   On the way from j
Christmas Deaths From   Violence Reach 447 In  The United States
ed    to    Ihe    compensation    board Further   appeal   by   the   defendant
company to higher courts appear-     .        , .,      u  u u
ed   likely   today,   with   outcome  of   "' » thrcc-months-old  baby, this  probable  action  to  be  closely watched  throughout the State. Wide-Reaching Derision
OFCRASHIIIWIS
The nation looks back on a Christmas that was tragic for m||^jLim4£eds, A United Press 'WmlfmM in 37 States and the Pistricl of Columbia disclosed at least 447 persons died violent deaths, ranging in causes from automobile and airplane crashes to
and disarm him, he shot the grand¬ father in the righl hand.    Then his „., .... father,   Joe   Crow,   sought   to   dis-
Pikutas, injured in a minor acci-, ^^.^  ^j„, ^„j ^^^y ,oyght desper¬ ately
When  Grice  sought lo  interfere , Ship   Used   By  John   Wolf   IS   --d^r   atid^ -^cid.^^^^^^  ^,  ^^^
Sought On A Faint Clue victims, sn. died in automobile nf Rorlin Prill Cnr Uain •ccidents. All of the 22 persons Ul    ndUlU    Udll    rur    neip   kiHed in Ohlo were In automobile
accidents and police said the toll was   the  greatest   In  history.
Murder was thp next greatest cause of death. Alabanrta alone re¬ ported   nine   murders.
California, with 41 violent deaths, had more than any other State. Illinois reported 33 and Metropoli¬ tan New York, including New Jersey, had a total of 32. States with more than 20 included Michi¬ gan 24, Alabama 26, Ohio 22, Penn¬ sylvania  30  and  Texas   20.
dent,   became   a   "forgotten   man" j „,^,„      During   the    struggle    the I
HOPE FOR SURVIVORS
St, Paul, Dec. 26  (UP)—Officials
In   the   Glen   Alden's  appeal   from : „ Jj,„e<j ^on  bit off his father s
Referee Conniff s recond ruling as i  ,       .
it   developed   that   the    Issues   in- : '"""">¦
v.-'lved were of greater Importance i     The   farmer   managed   to   retain
than  the money concerned. possession of the gun and attempted :
Chairman Ullman's decision, self- 'o shoot his rnother-in-law, Mrs. , at headquarters of Northwest Air- explanatory as to the chief issues : Mary 'fodd. She snatched up his ijncs here announced tonight that at stake,  follows in  part: | baby and fled to safely. : jj,g  bodies  of  two  pilots  killed  In,
"This   appeal   .squarely   raises   a'    Crow finally shot himself in the i ^^^ ^^ash of a 14-passenger trans-i question of procedure which is In-   right   side.    The   wound   was   nol ; p^^t eight days ago have been re¬ volved   in   a   number   of   appeals,   serious,   however,   and   he   decided I covered, mostly by  thiS  defendant,  pending : to  hang  himself.    Cutting  off  the j     .        j:  „ before  the Board.  On  February 6, : rope   in   his   well,   he   fashioned   •!    •»c<'o''aing 1935, the employer  filed a petition   noose and committed suicide.
to    Information    re- \ ceived   in   a   telephone   call   from
,„   »„„, ,. „„A{t„    ...«..!..- Spokane,  Wash.,   the  bodies,  those
to   terminate   or   modify,   averring,     .j,,^.   Injured   were   rushed   here   of Pilot Joe Li
2 CHILDREN KILLED DOZEN ARE INJURED IN ACCIDENTS HERE
Accidents here yesterday claimed i used a pulmotor for nearly an hour.
POSTSTAIEROAD FORSAFETYMOVE BY LOCAL POLICE
Defect In Pave From Settling Caused By Mining Work Is Menace To Motorists
CITE ONE EXAMPLE
llJL' on 'he sixth day of December,   , emergency treatment.
1934,  the claimant  had  so  far re- , *      '
covered from his injury that he was | „...,,
able   to  resume   work.   Comnensa-! tjipture   Craiy   ^Une^
livermore of Spokane
the lives of two children and sent a  score  of  other  persons  to  hos-
I and  Co-Pilot  A.   A.  Haid,  Seattle, I pitals.   A ten-year-old Luzerne boy 1 were   taken   out   of   tha   wrecked | met Instant death by electrocution
Compensa¬ tion was paid the claimant up until ; December 6, on which date he re-
' plane late today.
Steubenville, Ohio, Dec. 26. (UP) i    Both apparently had been killed Mike Kenton, drink-crazed miner , Instantly, according to Robert Men-
i when he seized a high voltage elec-
' trie   wire   while   at   play.     Scalds
caused by a tumble into a bucket
i of boiling water caused the death
: of  a  four-year-old  child  al  Pitts-
fused  to  sign  a  final  receipt.    No   who barricaded himself in his homo I sing,  division   manager   of  North
further compensation whatsoever ; at Amsterdam, Ohio, with his two I west Airlines at Spokane, who tele- j ^^^ other non-fatal accidents of was paid to him, nor was any peti- i frightened children, and defied | phoned his headquarters here with ; ^J,g¦ ^^^ .^ traffic officers and tion   filed   until   the   sixth   day   of, sheriff's officers  for .several hours, ! the news that the bodies had been   ijo^pitais    g    busy    day    as    mild
February of the following year.       iwas captured tonight when he re-^ found- weather    lured    motorists    to    the,    ^^.., ^     „         „.    „,
Coal Company Wrong treated to a second floor room and i    Mensing gave only a brief report; highways, with a heavy toll of col- | Drummond   street    Pittsttin    died
"After the matter had been twice   .«hot  himself  through  the  jaw.        j of the finding of the bodies.  He in- I lisions "as a result. yesterday afternoon as a result of
before   Dr.   Kirschner   pronounced life extinct.
The youth, a student in tho fourth grade of Luzerne public schools. Is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent (Jacobs) Yuskauckas, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs, Leo Cl- zeski of Kingston: John, at a Vir¬ ginia CCC camp; Joseph, of Brook¬ lyn; Jennie, Frank and Millie. Scalds Fatal to Tot
Ignatius   Giardina,    four,   of   57
heard before the Referee he found      He  was  brought  to Ohio Valley \ dieated,   however,   that   there   had that   the  disability  in   fact  ceased ! Hospital, where  his  condition was : been no fire
on January 3, 1935, but ordered that' described as critical compensation   be   paid   until   Feb- I were  unharmed, ruary 6, the date when the petition to terminate was filed.
"It seems to us there can be little question as to the dates when dis¬ ability In fact terminated. The claimant In his answer to the pe¬ tition averred that his disability continued to January 3, t935, when he fully recovered. The referee so found and the testimony abundant- '•y supports that finding.
"The sole real issue presented for
onsideration  is whether com-
isation should have been termi-
ted   as   of   January   3.   1935,   or
The children
Officers who went to arrest Kenton, after he had. driven his wife from the house today, were halted when he placed the children before him as a shield and defied arrest.
When   Kenton   had   retreated   to
The telephone message was re¬ ceived by Croil Hunter, vice presi¬ denl and general manager of tho airline, who said the mail carried in the plane was intact.
Hope For Second Plane
Salt  Lake  City,  Dec.  26.   (UP) — A Deparlment of Commerce plane the house, deputies were afraid to ' ^^''^^ despatched to Upton, 80 miles u.se tear-gas bombs because of the j ^^s' °f here, today after operators children ' "' '^e municipal airport picked up
Tonight when they .saw the chil-   " 'f'"'J-^lio appeal for aid.   Air- dren go to the second floor of the j P"."^'   •'^'^"'"'   "^''''^'^   '*^*   »'K"«'
I yesterday William 'V'uskauchas. ten, of 817 ' falling into a pail of hot water. As North street, Luzerne, was electro- I his mother was scrubbing the cuted last evening at 5:30 oclock | floor, the child slipped and plunged as two youthful companions stood j headlong into the bucket.   He was
by helpless to aid him. The victim had climbed to the roof of a shed on the property of the Luzerne Coal Company, formerly the Raub mining property, in the Rose Hill section of Luzerne. While his com¬ panions, Leo Kasokas and Francis Nevadonski, stood on the ground, the   young  victim   seized   an   over- i
hurried to Pittston hospital but emergency treatment failed to help him. Besides his parents, he is sur¬ vived by two sisters, Joan and Josephine. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon with services at Italian Presbyterian church with burial in Pittston cemetery.
Patricia Madden, ten, of 88 Divi-
house,    officers   rushed   the    front door.    Kenton, seeing them, ran up
might  have   come   from   survivors of  the   missing   Western   Air   Ex-
ether   the   Referee   wa.   correct   stairs   and   fired   a   revolver   bullet   fJn^.'Tr;.'.,"'^,^^^.1'^''??"!''
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into his head.
OUSE IS DESTROYED BY TOWNSHIP BLAZE
in   the   fog   over   Wasatch   Moun¬ tains 12 days ago.
The message sent  by an appar¬ ently  fatigued  operator  said:
head wire with intention of swing- ; sio„ street, city, was struck by an ing off the shed. The wire carried | automobile as she was crossing 2,400 volts into the nearby mine.     • wallcr street last night.   She was
The power threw the 'Yuskauckas boy into the air and directly upon two other lines of heavier voltage where his body remained held by the current. After a few frantic moments his two companions  ran
Fire   last   night   at   8:30   oclock | to   a   short   circuit   in   the   motor, completely   destroyed   a   one-room j Companies 3 and 7 used chemicals dwelling occupied by Thomas Cox   lo extinguish the flames, on Newport street, Hanover Town-      Companies  4  and  9  were  called
¦hip, A stove is believed to have aet fire to some bedding during Cox's absence. Situated near Brown's Grove, the shack was well ¦blaze when the fire was discov¬ ered, Newtown Fire Company re- ¦ponded but was unable to save any of the structure. For a time it was believed Cox might have the place but New- later  reported   lhat
fceen trapped in •••wn   firemen   li in« was safe.
City fire companies yesterday answered three alarms. A beer truck owned by M. Chaibanick caught   fire   on   Hazle   street,   due  tingulsh it
lo save the automobile of J. E, Spicer of 42 Madison street when the motor backfired and started the blaze. A flre among some old papers created a scare at 66 North Washington street, but firemen from Company No. 2 extinguished the blaze with chemicals.
A slight flre in the home of Anthony Visnewski, Barber street, Exeter, destroyed a radio and gutted    the    livingroom    wall    on
Christmas night. Cause of the 1 eral days ago by air line operators blaze was a short circuit, firemen | at Las Vegas were directed at both assert.   Chemicals were used to ex-  St,   George   and   Salt   Lake   City.
'Help, we need a doctor. We are ! '<"¦ aid. Among the first to reach located east of the beam near j 'he scene was the victim's father. Upton." I He  was  about  to  attempt  to  pull
This area has nol been -subject-1 ::l«„i°r/^,°':L!r".r^"H^„r^';„°^.!',?: ed to the .sy.'ilematic search that has covered the territory south and west of here. The appeal revived hopes lhat some of the seven per¬ sons on the air liner en route from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City might be alive.
While the Department of Com¬ merce plane went to check this latest clue, foilr Marine Corps scout planes and an Army bombing craft continued the checkerboard search In the southwestern Utah region between Miiford and St. George. It was this area from which previous fainl radio signals apparently had come.
Carried Valley :>Ian
Faint radio signals picked up sev-
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bruises.
Joseph   Dorang,   20,   of  65  Mac- Lean street, took advantage of the mild weather to play one last game of   football,   with   the   result   that he   went   to   Mercy   hospital   for treatment.   In    a    scrimmage    his teeth   lacerated   the   Inside   of   his right   cheek.   The   wound   had   to be sewed, rescuers  forced  him  baek,  fearing |     While attending a social gather- the same fate for him. Finally the i ing   Raymond   Yurskevage,   22,   of boy's body was pried loose with a   228   North   River   street,   city,   cut pole but death had already occur-1 an artery in his right hand when rod. Police and firemen of Luzerne | (Continued  on  Page  A-8)
—Special Correspondence—
, Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 26.—War Plymouth to Kingston every driver \ has been declared by the Republi- is conscious of a sudden drop in ] ^an Party; and, in keeping with the pave, a lurching of the driv- f^e exigencies of the situation - ing wheel and a feeling of being ^.jj^ the Democrats consolidating 'out of control." their conquests in Ihe nalional and
State Capitol buildings and in the trenches leading to and from those points of command—there has been resort to the draft. Tho Grand Old Party in the Keystone Com¬ monwealth will be first In the Union  to reorganize.
Judge John Sidney Fine of tho Common Pleas Court of Luzerne County has been drawn from the thinning ranks of leadership and to him has been proposed accept¬ ance of the role of Generalissimo. M. Harvey Taylor, his strategy proved futile and his genius for new Ideas entirely run out, is pre¬ pared to step back into the lines of secondary attack to permit John Fine to become Pennsylvania Chairman of the Republicans. What Does It .>Iean7 If Judge Fine accepts the pro¬ motion to State command of the G. O. P., what are the implications.' There are several of them. First, the Republican Party in Pennsyl¬ vania admits it is al the end of the rope by whicii ils great finan¬ ciers, merchant princes and manu¬ facturers bound the Keystone elec¬ torate to the shriveled but still expansive neck of the G. O. P. elephant. There has been decision that the political line shall not be¬ come the rope of the hangman.
The State Repubhcan Commit¬ tee of Pennsylvania demands that Judge Fine shall step up to the platform, lift the gavel clumsily wielded by M. Harvey Taylor and use it as some kind of magic wand by which the dissipated legions shall be called back to the old standards. The first result of the draft is tp banish the discredited and bring into new power at least one of the men who demonstrated ability in the face of tremendous odds.
Would Quit The Bench Secondary to the withdrawal of the princes of privilege and the economic royalists is the setting up of a sacrifice. Judge Fine, if he accepts the State chairmanship of the G. O. P., must resign from the Common Pleas Bench in Luzerne County, retire from his previous determination to be a candidate for re-election.
That would be real sacrifice for Judge Fine, according to his Lu¬ zerne   County   following.   A   second
One of the most dangerous curves in Narrows Road, a section near Spur Gas Station, where a slight elevation and rough stretch necessi¬ tate constant vigil from motorists, wai the scene of the crash be¬ tween a car driven by Thomas Kirby and another operated by Willard Durbin jr. It was a head- on collision.
Tha mlle-and-a-half stretch Is posted with 20-mile speed-limit signa by Larksville police, who patrol the highway, although it la a State road. A crusade has been started by the police department to cut reckless driving to a mini¬ mum and good results are indi¬ cated.
Those figuring in the disastrous accident: Willard Durbin sr„ 66 Shaver avenue, Shavertown, lacera¬ tions of head, punctured lip; Anna Mae Durbin, 5, of 66 Shaver avenue, contusions of forehead; Mary Lou Durbin, 66 Shaver avenue, frac¬ ture of right clavicle; Thomas Kirby, Devaney Court, Pittston, driver of machine owned by J. C. Allerdyce, fractured skull, possible puncture of lung, injuries to face, head and lip, condition serious; Girard Finan, 23 years old, 23 Gid¬ ding streei, Pittston, compound fracture of right leg; Catherine Semanek. 148 Howard street, Larks¬ ville, student nurse in Pittston Hos-; pital, compound fracture of left leg,   lacerations   of  head   and   lip;
Elizabeth Bitsko, 629 State street term"" w^o7ld'cntTtIe"'him'to" penVion Larksville, 20 years old, fractured i „, ^^^ thousand dollars a year for ribs, spramed right angle; Cath- the remainder of his hfe, a big erine MacLean, 920 Columbia street, boon to a public official who got     7,  fractured  skull,   frac-   j^to   the   limelight   at   the   tender
JAPAN BADLY SHAKEN BY NEW EARTHQUAKE
Tokyo, Dec. 27.-Sunday)—(UP) —A quake described as "one of the strongest ever recorded in Japan" shook Shiba prefecture near the Capital today, demolish¬ ing several houses and causing several landslides.   The quake cen-
comment that "if the quake had centered on land great damage would have resulted."
The tremors, at 9:18 a. m., were felt In Tokyo. Damage was also reported at Shijuoka, Izu and other  coast  sections.   Communica-
tered   under  the  ocean   which   led i tions  were  suspended,  thua  delay- the   meteorological   observatory   to ing details.
Scranton,
tured righl leg, contusions, condi¬ tion serious; Mrs. Harriet Durbin, Shaver avenue, Shavertown, 34, lacerations of forehead, fractured skull, abrasion of right leg.
Willard Durbin, driver of the car coming from Plymouth, is a son of George J. Durbin, Plymouth pharmacist. Catherine MacLean Is a granddaughter of R. R. VanHorn, vice president of Luzerne County Gas & Electric Company. Mrs. Harriet Durbin is a daughter of R. R. VanHorn. The Durbins were returning from a Christmas party given in Alliance Hall by the gas and electric company, and the MacLean girl was to be their guest for a few days.
Miss Semanek and Miss Bitsko were being driven home from their work at the hospital, by Kirby and Finan, when, according to reports, their car met the Durbin machine at the turn. A court case is re¬ ported pending. Catherine Mac- Lean and Mrs. Harriet Durbin are in improved condition and Thomas Kirby still is in a serious condi¬ tion, all patients in Nesbitt Memo¬ rial Hospital
age   in   which   Fine   came   to  the front on the sponsors  ip of Gover¬ nor Gifford Pinchot, So, If Judge Fine is to relinquish
quire from Pennsylvania's Republi¬ can Party a salary of no less than fifteen thousand dollars a year, the assurance of a long term of con¬ trol, and, perhaps, even greater rewards. One of them may be to be called to accept the office of Gov¬ ernor if the G. O. P. strategy suc¬ ceeds in convincing the State elec¬ torate that th? former bosses of the formerly unbeatable organiza¬ tion have really retired and that younger minds have established new guidance with wholesome con¬ sideration of the economic changea that have taken place since the beginning national New Deal. A  Let-Down in Luierne
Third in the effects would be the one that would completely upset the apple-cart of Luzerne County's Court House Organization. With Judge Fine previously accepted as a candidate to succeed himself on the Bench and earn the State pen¬ sion 80 generously bestowed on tho judicial veterans there was exactly the same understanding for Judge Clarence D. Coughlin. Stricken ill during his first regular term he haa been considered as physically fit for judicial duties but far from tha strength that would be required to nicet the demands of a hard elec¬ tion campaign.
Judge Coughlin was Congress¬ man of Luzerne County when John Fine was a struggling lawyer. Friendly sponsors of the youthful barrister, just home from the World War, won for him a desk in the Coughlin law offices nnd it was Coughlin who saw to his be¬ ginnings in practice. The original sponsors carried on the political campaign while the Coughlin in¬ fluence and law practice saw to the economic well-being of the coming political leader.
So, from lawyer pals the two became Inseparable as judges, the nucleus of the influence which, with the aid of the Honorable Benjamin R. Jones, stands supreme In county affairs.
If Judge Fine resigns the Bench, relinquishes his previous desire to succeed himself; and, if he goes to State headquarters to reorganize the Republican Party in Pennsyl¬ vania as John D. M. Hamilton i» attempting to reorganize it in the United States, what about Judge Coughlin?
Two New Candidates
The answer to the question is • supposition: Supporters of Judge Coughlin had been aware of efforta to side-track him. The jurist's own inability to move freely among hia partisans and enter the councils of the mighty became a tremend¬ ous handicap to his re-nomination. But, Judge Fine dictates nomina¬ tions in Luzerne County. Remain¬ ing there as a candidate for second-term judge he could also make Coughlin his running-mate, Coughlin is considered the best mind on the Luzerne Bench.
Coughlin supporters believe that
the opportunity to achieve a second ' if  Judge  Fine  takes  the  helm  of
term and a big pension, he will rc-
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EX-KING OF ENGLAND IS MAN-OF-THE-YEAR
New York, Dec. 26,  (UP)—Time    "She outdid President Roosevelt. Magazine   today   announced   selec- {.  - . She made II Duce's conqueet tion of the Duke of Windsor as its   of Ethiopia look like the proverbial "Man Of The Year." | theft  of  confections   from  an  in-
In a poll of subscribers, the for- | fant— mer  King  Edward  VIII  won  over |    ..ghe   ran   rings  around  Edward President Roosevelt and Mrs. Wai-   yill lis Warfield Simpson. :     .,g^ ' ' ;,  ,^     j^.,  y^^   p,^,       ,
Nomination of Mrs. Simpson for promotion	
"Man Of The Year    was made in        ,    ,    ,      ,,,       ,      ,
numerous letters, typical of which      "It   lool<s   like  she   has  naade  •
was one from William VV. Paul of  bigger catch than Lou Gehrig ever
San Francisco, who wrote:
"Paradoxically,   the   man   of   the year should be a woman. . . .
: will.
"Now you figure out the aniwar -the initial* are W. 8."