VOL. XLVI. XO 14,702.
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HARRIMAN OPENS
IB UPON TUFT
.Puts Ex-Boss Odell to
Work for Hughes.
TELLS HIM TO LINE UP MEN
Pays Cost of Securing a Full
Turn-out at Meeting.
OLD GUARD GETTING BUSY
Whole Anti-Roosevelt Faction Allied
lo Defeat Taft Furnishes Tvro
Thlrds of Votes for Hughes
In the Committee.
CHICAGO, III., Jan. 20. (Special.)
In a special from New York to the
Record-Herald, Walter "Wellman says:
"One 'of the great "Interests" of Wall
Btreet has begun actual warfare on Pres
ident Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. It
1b none other than E. H. Harriman who
Is moving. He is at work for Governor
Hughes, and ex-Governor and ex-Boss
Odell Is his instrument.
There is hio more adroit politician in
the State of New York than Benjamin
B. Odell, Jr. He was Governor. He
became boss. He deposed old Senator
Piatt. For a time he ruled the Repub
lican party of the Empire State with an
iron hand. E. H.' Harriman was back of
him. In the quarrel betwecen Mr. Roose
velt and Mr. Harriman Mr. Odell took
the side of the railway magnate.
Why Odell Wants Revenge.
Already there was coolness between the
President and Mr. Odell. The Harriman
episode made It a frost. The President
threw Ms great. power against Mr. Odell.
He was largely responsible for the boss'
downfall, and Mr. Roosevelt became the
real leader of the party in the state.
When Mr. Odell fell he lost control of
the greater part of it and Representative
Parsons, the President's friend, became
the county leader. Mr. Odell retained
paramount Influence in Borne of the dis
tricts. Of late Mf. Odell has been showing
signs of a burning desire to get back
Into power In state politics. ' He made
overtures to the White House for peace,
more or less sincerely, and was not en
couraged. Antl-Hoosevelt Combine.
When the New York county committee
met In December, the Hughes man
agers made boast that they were going
to pass resolutions indorsing the Gov
ernor for President, but Mr. Odell was
not yet ready to show his hand. Until
a few days before the meeting of last
week efforts were making to form an
snti-Roosevelt, nnti-Taft alliance of such
clever politicians as Mr. Odell, ex-Governor
Frank Black and Mr. Aldridge,
with the Governorship and the two
United States Senatorshlps to be divided
among t,he leaders, but the terms had
not been arranged.
Harriman Vrgcs Action.
Then something happened. Mr. Harri
man was so eager to get in a crack at
the President and nt Mr. Taft that he
telephoned peremptory orders to Mr.
Odell to Newhnrg to line up his men for
the Hughes resolution at the meeting of
the county committee. Mr. Odell had no
recourse but to obey. Moreover, Mr.
Harriman offered to pay the $10 per man
delinquent dues which the rules of the
committee required before members could
gain admission to the hall. Mr. Odell
telephoned his orders to Mr. Gruber. Mr.
Grubcr got the boys together.
Surprise to Parsons.
The Hughes resolution was laid over to
February 20 by a vote of 302 to 222, but
the Parsons administration forces were
surprised at the strength of the vote
against them. Of the 222 votes for Mr.
Hughes precisely 150 were delivered by
Mr. Odell under orders from Mr. Harri
man. The remainder represented the
real, alncere Hughes sentiment.
tilVES VP PART OF FIGHT
IVraker Concedes Taft Delcgates-at-Large,
Not District Delegates.
CINCINNATI, O.. Jan. 20. To fight
for the National Convention delegates
from Ohio's 21 Congressional districts
and to allow Secretary of War Taft to
have the four dclegates-at-large with
out a contest Is the plan of campaign
suggested in an interview this after
noon by United States Senator For
aker. who arrived homo today from
Washington. He said:
"So far ns the state convention is
concerned. I have not changed my
opinion since I was here, that the call
for It is illegal and unjustly burden
some. On that account, as I Tiave
heretofore announced. I shall not
make any effort to comply with Its
terms and conditions, neither will my
friends make any such effort, except
only as their local conditions may
prompt them.
"Of course, the delegates selected to
the state convention will all be for
Taft. for there will be no opposition.
This does not apply, however, to the
Congressional districts. They are not
under the control of the state central
committee and are not bound by any
thing the state convention may do.
Each district will elect its own dele
pates in its own way. What the dis
tricts may do remains to be seen."
PLEASED WITH THE BUILDING
Democratic Committeemen Arrange
Convention Preliminaries.
DENVER, Jan. 20. The Democratic Na
tional Committee's sub-committee on ar
rangements for the remocratie National
Convention assembled here today and be
gan consideration of the plans for -the
Auditorium now under construction. In
which the convention will be held next
July. .
After Inspection of the building ail the
members of the committee concurred in
Joseph I. Brtetow, Who Hu Exposed
Effort of Pacific Mull Company to
Kill Traffic by Panama Route.
the opinion expressed by Chairman Tag-g-art
that the Auditorium will probably
be the most comfortable and desirable
hall in which a National Convention has
ever met.
T GIVES II
GLADYS VANDERBILT'S FIANCE
ATTACKS PHOTOGRAPHER.
Resents Having Snap-Shot Taken In
Forcible Manner Summoned to
Appear in Police CourV,
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. As the out
come of a caning he is alleged to have
given a too zealous photographer, trying-
to get a snapshot of himself and
his bride-to-be. Count Laslo Szechenyi,
who Is to marry Miss Gladys Vander
bilt on Monday of next week, was to
day served with a summons to appear
in Police Court tomorrpw afternoon to
answer a charge of assault.
Edmund T. Reilly, a professional pho
tographer is the complainant. In his
affidavit Reilly sets forth that on the
afternoon of January 13 he was at
tempting to take a photograph of the
Count and his fiancee as they were
emerging from the residence of Mrs.
Cornelius .Vanderbilt on Fifth avenue.
He alleges that he was struck over the
head with a cane. and that his hand
was also iqjured.
Reilly says that he hit back, striking
the Count twice. Magistrate Finn re
fused to Issue a warrant in the case
today, but Instead gave Reilly a sum
mons which the latter served in per
son as the Count was leaving the Van
derbilt house late today. Through his
attorney, Morris Cuker, the Count to
night authorized the statement that he
meant no discourtesy to the American
press, though, as he understood it, the
complainant was a newspaper photog
rapher. The Count added that he would
obey the summons, but at the same
time denied that he had struck Reilly.
CO-EDS RISE IN REVOLT
WANT EQCAJj SUFFRAGE AT CXI-
vERsrrr of califojtria.
Men Attempt to Have Women Dis
franchised and Latter Have a
, Mass Meeting.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 20. (Spe
cial.) The Co-eds of the University of
California at a mass meeting held to
day in California Hall, not only passed
resolutions opposing the plan of John
Tyssowski of the Senior Class to have
the women students disfranchised, but
declared boldly that they will seek to
enjoy part of the control of student
affairs, exercised by the executive com
mittee of the men.
At a meeting of the Co-eds. speaker
addressed the throng of women on the
question of equal rights with the men
in all student affairs, and besides vot
ing against proposed amendment to
ostracise women from the student body
of the University, will start a cam
paign for representation on the execu
tive committee and for right to hold
office in the general student body of
the undergraduates.
A- special meeting will be held by
the women Friday, at which a plan for
equal rights will be discussed. Mrs.
Anna May Woods Parks, president of
the Boston branch of the. Women's
Suffrage League, will address the
meeting for the benefit of those co
eds who do not understand the nature
of equal stiff range.
Miss Annie Blddle, President of the
Women Students, presided at the meet
ing today and raised the point that
the proposed amendment, which will
be brought to the polls on Wednesday,
does not stand for true separation. She
said that the men had no right to call
the student body the "Associated Stu
dents of the University of California,"
when, as a matter of fact, they com
nriee hut half of the undergraduates.
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KEEP MEN OUT
OF ALL SALOONS
Council Will Consider
Drastic Ordinance.,
MEASURE IS ORDERED DRAFTED
Sensational Action Taken by
Liquor License Committee.
HEARING OF CONBOY CASE
Saloonkeeper Charged With Luring
Girl to Ruin Makes Fight to Keep
License Women In Saloons a
Source of Endless Trouble.
Women will be barred from alt saloons
In Portland if the City Council, passes a
proposed ordinance, which was ordered
drafted by the liquor-license committee
yesterday afternoon. The difficult task
of framing this most sweeping piece of
proposed legislation was placed in the
hands of Assistant City Attorney Frank
S. Grant. There Is a disposition Just now
on the part of a number of Co'vicilmen
to pass such a law, as they believe it to
be the only solution of a vexatious prob
lem. This proposed ordinance, the most
drastic ever seriously considered In Port
land relative to saloon legislation, was
brought about by charges filed with the
liquor-license committee by E. F. Noland,
proprietor of a restaurant at Twenty-first
and Sherlock streets, who swore that his
daughter. Miss Hazel Noland, aged 16
years, met her ruin through associations
emanating from J. J. Conboy's saloon.
In several- instances of late the liquor
license committee has encountered the
problem of women In saloons, and it Is
a constant source of trouble to the po
lice as well. Councllmen Driscoll, Wills
and VAjghn are' avowedly In favor of
the proposed ordinance to prohibit
women from entering saloons, and It Is
believed that-there is sufficient sentiment
in the Council to pass such an ordinance.
If It is possible to draft one that will be
legal. It is admitted that this Is most
difficult, and the decision of the City At
torney is awaited with interest. '
Charges Against Conboy Heard.
Yesterday's session of the liquor
license committee was consumed with the
prosecution's case against Conboy, and
three hours were used In this way. The
committee then adjourned until 2 P. M.
today, when the members will meet to
hear the defense, which is represented
by Lawyer H. H. Emmons. There are
12 more saloonkeepers to be , heard,
various charges having been filed against
them by the police, and of the number
five will be heard next Friday, when the
committee will jesume ' business at 2
o'clock P. M. Those then to be tried
are the proprietors of Fallon's saloon,
Denny's saloon, the Armory Canteen sa
loon, the Pup saloon and ther Circuit
saloon. The remainder of the cases will
be set for hearing later.
Hundreds of people packed the Council
chambers yesterday afternoon to hear the
evidence against various saloonkeepers,
and the interest in the case against Con
boy was so intense that no one left the
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room until g o'clock. The saloonkeeper
was charged with selling liquor to
Charles Beckenridge, a minor, and at
times during the progress of the hearing
there were dramatic scenes. Councilman
W. T. Vaughan took a leading part in
interrogating witnesses, although Assist
ant City Attorney Grant was present and
Dr. W. I. Cottcl, chairman of the com
mittee, was . in the chair. It Is really
Vaughn's fight, as he started It by mov
ing to revoke Conboy's license, and has
since waged ,a bitter war against the
place,
Noland Shown In Unenviable Light.
Great ' sympathy was manifested on
every hand for E. F. Noland, who
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Georgw P. Wetmore, Wbo Is Expected
to Be Re-elected Senator From -Rhode
Island.
charges Conboy with contributing to the
ruin of Miss Hazel Noland, but when the
father admitted, in response to questions,
that he invited Conboy to a turkey din
ner in Noland's restaurant two weeks
ago, notwithstanding his serious accusa
tions against the saloonkeeper, it was
evident that the members of the com
mittee felt somewhat surprised.
"Do you mean, Mr. Noland, to tell this
committee that you invited Conboy to
eat turkey dinner at your table two
weeks ago last Sunday?" asked Council
man Wills.
"I run a public house, and every one is
welcome to eat at my tables," replied
Noland.
"Then you let Conboy eat turkey in
your restaurant, although you have
charged that he was the. cause of your
daughter going to the House of the Good
Shepherd?" asked Mr. Wills. '
"Tea," replied Noland.
"Without trying to put him out?" fur
ther asked Mr. Wills. . - ' . - -
The witness nodded in the affirmative.
"Well, if Conboy had done what you
say, had it been in my family," replied
Mr. Wills, "I would have kicked him out
of the city. I don't think you're much of
a man that's my opinion."
"Thank you," was the only response of
Noland.
Conboy Has Champions.
There are some Counciltnen who are
outspoken in favor of Conboy's saloon,
among them T. J. Ooncannon In whose
ward the 'saloon is located, and M. J.
Driscoll. Ooncannon refused to sign a
petition for revocation of the license,
which was presented by Noland, with 75
signatures. Conoannon also coached
Lawyer Emmons, who appeared for Conr
boy, and later signified a willingness to
take the witness-stand in conboy's be
half, whicft he did, but he admitted that
all he knew was "hearsay,'' and was not
allowed to testify.
It is the accepted belief that those
Councllmen who favor Conboy wlllseize
upon the turkey-dinner invitation inci
dent, and that they will fight out theie
side of the case in the Council on the
lines that, were Conboy guilty of the
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HE'S DOCTORED, THE SICKER HE GETS
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Evelyn Thaw Again
Tells Tragic Story.
NOT SPARED BY PROSECUTOR
Gives Defiant Answers to In
suiting Questions.
THAW ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
New Incident in His Grief Over the
Treatment by White Brought
Out Judge Refuses to
Exclude the Public.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw told part of her story to
day for the second time. The repetition
lacked the vitality of the first recital, but
the crowd In the courtroom, where her
husband, Harry Kendall Thaw, Is on trial
for the killing of Stanford White, listened
Intently to every word. Justice Dowling
had ruled that he found nothing In the
law for closing the doors against the
public and there was a great clamor for
admittance from a throng which hung
about the . building all vday long. Mr.
Jerome, failing in bis move to exclude
spectators, took occasion, when It came
his turn to cross-examine the witness, to
bring out all of the details of the first
trial which Mr. Littleton, of the defense,
had omitted on his direct examination of
the witness. Mr. Jerome also sought to
block Mrs. Thaw's testimony in Its en
tirety on the ground that a conversation
which had occurred three years before
the tragedy could not have any bearing
on the mind of Thaw on the night of the
homicide. Justice Dowling over-ruled the
objection.
Mrs. Thaw was on the stand all day
long, and Mr. Jerome . announced when
adjournment for the day was taken that
his cross-examination -would . occupy a
greater part of tomorrow's session.
Jerome Shows His Contempt.
Mrs. Thaw's story was broken into by
the "constantly repeated objections from
the prosecution, - who sought to exclude
all details on the ground of Immateriality.
The frequent objections led Justice Dowl
ing to request Mr. Littleton to cut this
examination as short as possible. Mr.
Littleton took this course of action only
to And that on cross-examination Mr.
Jerome Insisted upon reading from last
year's record nearly every word the
witness had then uttered. He did this
under the privilege of framing new ques
tions. Mr. Littleton objected to It, de
claring that, the District Attorney, by
reading the former testimony in a dis
agreeable manner, was trying to dis
credit her In the eyes of the jury when
he could not discredit her in any way by
a direct question. '
Mr. Jerome made no attempt to dis
guise a tone of complete contempt In
reading the testimony. Contempt also
characterized most of the questions he
put to the witness. Whom he attacked
In the loudest voice he has yet used at
the trial. Mr. Jerome plunged immediate
ly Into the more Intimate details of the
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testimony and made no delicate choice
of words in framing his questions.
Match for Two Lawyers.
Mr. Littleton's objections on the ground
of "offensiveness and impropriety" fre
quently were sustained by the court.
Mrs. Thaw matched herself both with
Mr. Jerome and his assistant, Mr.
Garvan, who was ever at his chief's.
eiDow with new suggestions. She fenced
with them as skilfully as she did a year
ago, and at times rejected the mood of
the District Attorney by answering in a
voice pitched in as loud a key as his
own." The prosecutor's pitiless and ag
gressive questions often struck fire, and
once. . when Mr. Jerome demanded to
Stork In dui A sain.
MADRID, Jan. 20. It Is . semi
officially announced that the Queen
of Spain is again enciente. Accouch
ment Is expected In July.
know if the young woman had told Thaw
certain things, she replied:
"Yes, I told him, but I did not use the
language you are using."
"Don't argue with me, madam," shouted
Mr. Jerome, who then had the reply
stricken from the record.
But one new feature appeared in the
testimony of the witness. This was when
she told abou( Thaw's swallowing the
contents of a bottle of laudanum at
Monte Carlo, in 1E04. in an attempt to
end his life. Previously to this, at the
Grand Hotel, In New York, Thaw had
talked of suicide, his wife' declared, and
had suggested that she also should take
poison, as both their lives had been
ruined. Mrs. Thaw said she humored
Thaw at the time and diverted his mind.
She was out of the room when he finally
took the poison.- - .." - y - -
'"Why didn't you tell us about this at
the first trial?" demanded Jerome.
"Mr. Delmas said it might make Harry
out tqo crazy," the witness retorted, be
fore the District Attorney could stop her.
Public Not excluded.
When the trial was resumed Mr. Je
rome immediately renewed his motion
that the public. Including the repre
sentatives of newspapers be excluded
from the courtroom. Mr. Littleton,
for the defense, said he desired to leave
the matter entirely in the hands of .the
court,
Mr, Jerome declared he understood
Mr. Littleton to join in the motion when
it was made last Friday.
"I said on Friday." retorted Mr. Lit
tleton, "that I would like to spare Mrs.
Thaw from the gaze of the Idly curious.
but as to all points of legality and pro
priety. I reiterate what I said then,
that the matter' rests entirely with the
court."
Justice Dowling said he had consulted
the authorities cited 'by the District
Attorney, and could And no warrant under
the Constitution for excluding the publio
from a capital case. The harm done by
publishing the details of revolting testi
mony, he added, was more than offset
by the safeguards thrown around a de
fendant by granting him a "speedy and
public hearing." ' -
"The court will not exclude anyone who
conducts himself with propriety."
Tries. Vainly to Shut Out Story. .
Mr. Littleton then asked Mrs. Thaw to
take the stand and tell the story of her
experience with Stanford White as she
told It to Thaw in Paris in 1903, when he
asked her to become his wife. .
Mr. Jerome at once made a strenuous
objection.
"Here is a recital of years before the
homicide," declared the prosecutor; "it
Is absurd on the face of it to say that
this conversation three years before ac
counted for the insanity of the defend
ant at the time of the killing."
Justice Dowling 'interrupted to say he
found nothing in the authorities fixing a
time limit to conversations or statements
inducing or tending to induce insanity.
He overruled the objection.
Young Mrs. Thaw was suffering today
from a bad cold ' and coughed fitfully
while testifying. In response to questions
from' Mr. Littleton, the witness told again,
but more briefly than last year, of her
experience in the Twenty-fourth street
bouse, where she was taken to lunch with
Stanford White and drank champagne
and. became dizzy. She told again of the
velvet swing and the mirrored room and
the big Japanese parasol attached to the
celling.
I'ect Smashed the Parasol.
"Every time you were swung up to -the
celling your feet would-crash through the
paper of the parasol," said the witness,
"and a fresh one would be put up."
Evidently induced by Mr. Jerome's con
stant objections and his manner of inter
posing himself between her and her hus
band, Mrs. Thaw's voice had a tone of
womanly defiance in it that was lacking
at the first trial and that did not add to
the effectiveness of her recital.
When the prosecutor occasionally would
take his seat. Thaw would gaze intently
at his wife. When Mr. Jerome was on
his feet,, the defendant would crane his
neck to get a view of the blue-clad fig-
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UP FLEET
IN THE STRAITS
Plot Concocted in Paris
Is Exposed.
IS DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT
Warning Sent to Washington
and Rio Janeiro.
MINES SHIPPED TO BRAZIL
Amateur Sherlock Holmes Overhears
Conversation on Telephone, Which
Starts Him on the Trail Pre-.
- cautions Are Quickly Taken.
PARIS. Jan. 20. The reports
cable! from Rio de Janeiro that
the Brazilian authorities were warn
ed from Paris of a possible
attempt to blow up the American bat
tleship fleet while In the harbor there
are true. Some time ago certain sus
picions indicating' the existence of a
plot to destroy the whole or a por
tion of the fleet, cither at Rio Janeiro
or in the Straits of Magellan, were
aroused and communicated to Rio
Janeiro and Washington. A chartered
steamer was reported to have conveyed
explosives for the use of the con
spirators to Rio Janeiro, arriving there
about the middle of December, and
John Fedher, whose name Is men
tioned in the Rio Janeiro dispatches,'
was one of the men whose names were
revealed here as implicated in the con
spiracy. Story May Prove Hoax.
The alleged plot is supposed to have -some
rather startling ramifications,
but the evidence along this line is far
from conclusive and rests chiefly upon
the statement of an individual whose
record was subsequently proved to be
anything but creditable. Consequently
the whole affair Is regarded with much
skepticism, and indeed the presump
tion has been raised that It may have
been a deliberately concocted scare. In
any event, it is now believed here that,
if the plot actually did exist that
timely warning and precautions taken
have completely frustrated the plans
of the conspirators at Rio Janeiro and
compelled them to transfer their oper
ations further south, If not to abandon
them entirely.
Only a few people here treated the
story seriously, others regarding It as
fantastic, while many dismissed the
whole affair as a myth. The reports
today from Rio Janeiro have been char
acterized as another weird chapter of
the fantastic recital. It Is believed
here that the action of the Rio Janeiro
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
Th Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 48
degrees; minimum. 38 decrees.
TODAY'S Partly cloudy, with poasibly oc
casional Went rain; cooler; westerly
winds.
National.
Bill to make land, law more stringent
against perjury introduced. Page 3.
House debates immigration. Page 3.
Cortelyou asks Senate for more time to re
port on bond issues. Page 3.
Government may run steamers on Pacific
Coast to defeat Pacific Mail. Page 3.
Confirmation of plot to blow up fleet comes
from Paris. Page L.
Politics.
Colorado stockmen uphold Government for
est policy. Page 4.
Harriman stirs up Odell to fight Roosevelt
- by booming Hughes. Page 1,
Poraker gives up fight for Ohio delegates
- at -large, but tries for district delegates.
Page 1.
La Follette men claim Pacific Northwest
States. Page 1.
Iomestic.
Count Szechenyi arrested for assault . on
photographer. Page 1.
Judge McPherson holds Missouri law against
transfer of railroad suits to Federal Court
invalid. Page 4.
Bavorl reveals hiding place of persons
be Is accused of killing. Page 3.
Cupid foils law in Helena by telephone mar
riage. Page 5.
Evelyn Thaw tells her story again and de
fies Jerome. Page 1.
Alabama police cut down lynched negro
, before he is dead. Page 3.
Miners Federation may defeat Nevada
constabulary bill. Page 3.
New York grand Jury begins searching In
quiry Into banking frauds. Page 2.
Little Egypt dies leaving fortune. Page 3.
Pacific Coast.
Ruers trial set for Wednesday after clash
' with Burns in court. Page 2.
Rush of Japs to British Columbia due to
invitation of Dunsmuir and Canadian
Pacific. Page 3.
Co-eds at California University rebel against
rule of male students. Page 1
Hood River will try Initiative for new
county. Page 5.
Six thousand Seattle unemployed storm City
Hall. Page 5.
Commercial and Marine.
Blue mold appears In hops on farms.
Page 13.
'Wheat prices strengthened by green-bug re
ports. Page 33. .
Sharp slump in -smelting stocks, page 13.
German ships Gertrud and Marie Hackfeld
clear with full cargoes of grain. Page 12.
Portland and Vicinity.
Republican clubs plan mass meeting to
recommended ticket. Page 4-
Women may be prohibited from entering sa
loons. Page 1.
inman-Poul3en Lumber Company would
stop East Sixth-street fill. Page 12.
Building to be erected on McGinn property
at Seventh and Washington. Page 8.
City may purchase and operate rock
crushers. Page 7.
Council committee selects site for East Side
police substation. Page 8.
Multnomah Amateur Athletic 'Club will
spend 20, 000 for new athletic field.
Page 8.
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