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Show WOMAN OF 63 YEARS SWIMS FOR TEN MILES SANTA MONICA. Cal, Sept. 1. Mrs. Anna Van SUke celebrated ths sixty-third anniversary cf her birth yssterday by swimming ten miles m the ocean. , Just before finishing ths swim, she sang a varse of "Ths Star Spangled Banner" to show shs wsa not sxhauatsd, and, sa leaving the water, dressed without asslstanss. 8hs wss In ths sea ulna hours' and twenty minutes- She cams here twelve years sgo suffering from tuberculosis, sc-cordlng sc-cordlng to physicians. They said shs had only a fsw months te live. This le the third consecutive year Mm Van Silks has celebrated her sJnhdav bv a Ions distance ocssn swim, last year shs swam six mllee. |