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Show LAST DEBT PAID BY COL. ASTOR By International News Service. WASHINGTON,. July 14. The Inst clolit pald by Colonel John Jacob Aslor, the moat famous victim of thn Tltnulo dlxa.s-ter, dlxa.s-ter, will help to build tho great memorial memor-ial In Washington to Uio men who dW'.d on tho lll-fatcd White Star liner. Mrs. Archibald Forbes, a well-known'New York social leader. Is tho woman to whom tho debt was paid and sho has forwarded to the officers of the Women's Titnnic Memorial Me-morial In this city the dollar bill that was handed to her by Colonel AStor, when the party of which they were mombors settled up for the last bridge earuo pluyed In tho social salon before tho onrushlng Titanic plunKid to her doom. Mrs. Korben's letter, which was forwarded for-warded to Mrs. John Hnys Ihimmond by Mrs. Thomas J. O'Brien. wJfo of the American embassador at Rome, sets forth the fact that the enclosed dollar represents repre-sents tho only money she ha ever won at cards. She adds that when Colonel Astor handed over tho crisp piece of paper, ho made some Jesting remark about the luck of beginners. Mrs. T'orbee's luck held, for a few hours Inter flho was nfloat In a lifeboat while Colonel Astor nnd the other gentlomen of tho nartv hud paid tho price of aolf-IflacrJUcbiff aolf-IflacrJUcbiff urayer.tn the faco of death. o |