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Show 'ALDERMAN DARES CITY l OFFICIALS TO DOM OVERALLS (By International News Service) ; PROVIDENCE, R. I. City- govern j ,ment officials are dared by Alderman j Jeremiah E. O'Connel, a daper member of the bar, to wear overalls and old ' clothes in an effort to decrease the! high cost of living. "It is the only way to beat this increasing in-creasing cost of living and hold profiteering, prof-iteering, which will mean disaster if not curbed," said "Jerry," while tho well groomed city officials looked on with a smile. Alderman O'Connoll told the gathering he would be the j first to don overalls and would go a 'step further and wear old clothes and ' I promise not to buy any more clothes I until the prices took a tumble. f"S It is understood that a city hall or- fl ganization Is seriously "considering the question and may appear shortly garbed in old clothes and overalls. If this is a reality, the alderman says j ho will stick to his proposition to the ' ' city government. ' I . |