Bates_B2278_F1_017

Dick whom we suppose to be "at sea"
again --- probably [underlined] I imagine serching [searching]
for submarines in the Atlantic Coast.
Les is still at March Field or was
at last reports more than a week ago ---
Jocelyn still at that ranch --- did I tell
you that he was put in Class III
which means agricultural exemption.

You will be glad to know that today
we have ripped out that old floor
planking in the basement which was
so rotten & had such a bad oder [odor] -- &
are putting carpet down instead --
only in the front part & down to the
old cement which Mr. Neubold