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drink, the more he talked out of turn so to speak. I wanted to take him downtown just before the show let out and buy him a drink, "No, no," he said. "This whiskey of mine is Hitler whiskey. The drinks are on Hitler tonight, not on me. Without going into all the details. I'll explain. I decided to come up here at 12:20 on Sunday and at 1:20 I was on my way. I didn't have enough money, so I called a girl friend of mine who is the Nazi agent at Texas U. and she had $500 deposited in my account the next day. "John took the Southwestern at St. Louis (it doesn't stop at Erie) and claims they wouldn't drop him at Erie but would at Westfield. So Maybelle + Walt drove to Cleveland to get him. He says he was pretty drunk when he got to Cleveland, having consumed 3 quarts en route. At Terre Haute he got off the train for a beer and the conductor wouldn't let him off the right side for the saloon, so he crawled [[underlined]]under[[/underlined]] the train ruining his hat and when he gets to New York he's going to raise hell at headquarters because Bache own 40000 shares of New York Central and John can make 'em shudder in their boots. He says he was so mad, he had 2 beers and delayed the train 5 minutes! (The crack Southwestern). He says he and Walt are going to make a barrel of many out of some oil property which their mother owned [[underlined]]but sold[[/underlined]] and John is in some legal tangle to regain title to it.