BUILDINGS RISING-
Three months yet to go,
and Salem has already this
year passed the 1928 build
ing mark. Note the several
large struct ares now being
built.
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WEATHER
Fair today and probably
Thursday. Not luuch change
In temperature. Max. tem
perature Tuesday 71. Min.
38. Calm; clear. No rain.
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SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 162
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, October 2, 1929
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Local Drum Corps Cheered
Enthusiastically at
Legion Meet
Annual Parade Declared to
Be Largest of Kind
Ever Held
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 1.
(AP) Salem, Oregon's drum and
bugle corps was cheered wildly as
It inarched along: the eight mile
line here today. Oregon held 22nd
place In the line of march. The
delegates, dressed as pirates, pass
ed thousand of postcards made of
Port Orford cedar to those who
lined the streets.
Oregon was to entertain the
convention tonight at the Brown
hotel with an "open house." Ore
gon products were to be served.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 1.
(AP) A pageant of brilliant col
ors, moving between immense
masses of spectators, marched
over a five-mile route today Irh
what was declared by Legion Of
ficers to be the biggest patriotic
display America ever has seen.
There was just one thing in
Louisville all day the American
Legion's annual parade, it start
ed at 11 a. m., and as dusk came
the last of the marching "thou
sands, keeping step with their
drum corps and bands, reached the
reviewing stand and received the
salute of National Commander
Paul V. McNutt.
33.000 Pass in Front
Of Reviewing Stand
It was estimated that 35,000
men and women marched in the
parade, and there were approxi
mately 100 uniformed musical or
ganizations and drill teams with
costumes rivalling or surpassing
the equipment of the crack guards
regiments of Europe. The crowd
which witnessed the spectacle was
aid by Commander McNutt to be
the biggest which ever had seen
a Legion parade, greater even
than the Paris, France, gathering
In 1927.
Even a rough count of the spec
tators was impossible. The local
estimates putting the number at
300,000, almost equal to the to
tal population of Louisville. Thou
sands had come from other parts
of the states and from neighbor
ing states to witness the pageant.
Youth Shown Despite
- Advancing Years
The Logion was at its zenith in
today's exhibit. The "boys of
1918" are still young enough to
lift their feet in a snappy goose
step as they blow bugles and beat
drums, even though, in many cas-
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SPOKANE. Oct. 1 (AP)
The public lands question, slam
med into the western mining con
ventlon by two speakers backing
for the most part the suggestions
of President Hoover, boomed like
a fire damp explosion in a coal
mine as other delegates took it to
the floor.
Members of the western divi
sion, American mining congress;
northwest Mining association;
American institute of mining and
metallurgical engineers. and
Canadian institute of mining and
metallurgy, numbering 586 regis
tered delegates, heard the prom
pie discussed.
The mining men were Interest
ed in a section of President Hoov
er's recent letter to the governor's
conference at Salt Lake City,
which suggested that a commis
sion might be appointed to con
sider return of public lands to the
states, but reserving mineral
rights to the federal government.
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DAD'S IRE EXPRESSED
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Governor Denies Jurisdiction in Maxwell Case
BOARD GETS PROBLEM
Investigation of charges made
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Maxwell
of this eity that their daughter
Maxine had been refused a room
in Susan Campbell hall on the
Unlrersity of Oregon campus be
cause she is a negress, probably
will be made by the state board of
higher education.
This was announced here Tues
day after Mrs. Maxwell had con
ferred with Governor Patterson in
connection with her daughter.
Governor Patterson Informed Mrs.
Maxwell that he had no authority
over the university, and that her
complaint should properly go be.
fore the board of higher educa
tion. ' - Mrs. Maxwell said that
Governor Patterson showed her
every consideration and listened
to her story la detail.
: Mr. Maxwell today branded as
false press reports from Engene
lr jf X
Walter J. Fahy, New York bro
ker, who It is alleged gave the
"Wall 8treet Dinner" to at least
ten Congressmen, who it is fur
ther rumored did not live up to
their reputations as adherents of
the "bone dry" delegation. It was
F ally's dinner that started things
boiling in Washington from pro
hibition standpoint.
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Session Held at McMinnville
To Discuss Scheduled
Abolishment
DALLAS, Oct. 1 (Special)
Officials of the Southern Pacific
company and Oregon stages with
representatives from several
chambers of commerce on the
west side met in McMinnville for
dinner on Monday evening, for
the purpose of discussing the re
moval of all passenger train ser
vice of the west side red electrics.
According to orders now out,
there will be no more passenger
service on the west side, begin
ning October 8, all service excep
ting freight to be handled by
stages and motor transports. Mail
and express service will undoubt
edly be improved by this new ser
vice. Removal of passenger service
is being opposed by the towns of
Corvallis, McMinnville and Inde
pendence, who are now served by
this line of the Southern Pacific,
all of whom had representatives
. at the meeting. Dallas was also
represented although they are not
on the main line and for some
time have not bad train service.
Dean Rogers, president of the
Corvallis Chamber of Commerce
presided at the meeting, and most
of the time was given over to in
formal discussion of the situa"
tion, questions being asked of E.
L. King and J. A. Ormandy of the
Southern Pacific company by the
representatives present as to the
possibility of a through passenger
service for the west side in the fu
ture, bus schedules, mail service,
etc.
The railway officials stated
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Bates Elected to
Command Battery
First Lieutenant Arthur B.
Bates of headquarters battery,
249th- coast artillery, was elected
captain of the battery Monday
night at the regular weekly meet
ing. Bates succeeds Captain Clif
ton M. Irwin, who was recently
promoted to the rank of major
with assignment to headquarters.
Bates is a world war veteran,
having served with the marine
corps. He has been in national
guard service for a number of
years. His election to the cap
taincy is subject to required ex
amination at the hands of the
state guard headquarters staff.
that Susan Campbell Hall was fill
ed to capacity before his daughter
arrived on the campus more than
a week ago. Maxwell said he had
received letters from the univer
sity faculty urging his daughter to
attend the school, and assuring
him that she would be assigned to
a room in Susan Campbell Hall.
These letters were received in Sa
lem before his daughter left for
Eugene, -Maxwell said.
Miss Maxwell wrote her parents
that she had not only been refus
ed a room in the hall, bat that she
had been urged to occupy a room
with another negro girl In a pri
vate house1- some distance from
the campus. "Maxine had no com
plaint at the treatment she receiv
ed from the university girls,"
Maxwell said. "They Invited her
to a girls pajama party and dance
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TO REWJ TO
CANADA TODAY
Commitment to Hospital Is
Promised in Case. He
Remains in City
Alleged Slayer of Two Year
Old Child in Trouble
With Officers
Instructions to be well on his
way toward Canada as soon as
bis business affairs in Salem were
closed, and to close them today
were issued to Edward E. (Scot
ty) Speight Tuesday afternoon by
the deputy district attorney, Lyle
J. Page, when Speight appeared
Tuesday before Page and Justice
Brazier Small with his attorney,
James Mott.
Mr. Page commented after the
hearing that Speight could and
would be returned to the asylum
if be were not on his way to Can
ada within a reasonable time.
Speight's freedom while he re
mains In Salem will depend on
model conduct, reports indicate.
Only Half Hour
Spent in Canada
Speight said Tuesday that he
had returned here after spending
only half an hour In Canada, and
he came back to sell his meat mar
ket because as long as he retained
possession of it, he would not be
permitted to peddle meat on the
other side of the line, as he had
planned to do.
After returning from Canadian
soil, said Speight, he wandered
around in Washington for some
time. He had been discharged
from the state hospital here on the
understanding that Mrs. Speight
would take him to Canada.
This course was taken, it was
learned Tuesday, for the reason
that Immigration authorities were
not sure they could deport
Speight to Canada because of dif
ficulty in establishing his Canad
ian citizenship.
Speight was committed to the
state hospital after an examina
tion made while charges of man
slaughter were pending against
him in circuit court here, these
charges resulting from the death
of two year old Lawrence Walker
when Speight's automobile turned
over at a sharp turn in the road
west of Gervais.
INTRDUBLEHERE
John P. Lewis Accused of
Threatening Two Men
With Revolver
An ex-minister of the Christian
church was bound over to the
grand jury by Judge Brazier Small
Tuesday for Intent to commit a
felony in threatening to "blow
out" the brains of two men who
were working in his prune dryer.
He admitted making the threat to
shoot the men.
John P. Lewis, about 70 years
old, "pulled a gun" on two work
ers in his prune dryer when they
returned from the state fair on
Thursday night later than they
had agreed to be back. Lewis as
serts that his threat was. "I'll
shoot if you strike me." Witnesses
state that the men made no ad
vances on him, but that be threat
ened to shoot them for being late.
Lewis had been in the habit of
bragging about how he was accus
tomed to using a gun to threaten
persons who displeased im, work
ers in the dryer report. Numerous
threats, none of which had been
taken seriously are said to have
been made while the crew was
working.
Besides being a minister, Lewis
was at one time a staunch backer
of the anti-saloon league, putting
in much time as a campaigner for
the movement.
HLOi COAST LINE
JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Oct. 1
(AP) Waters surrounding the
Florida peninsula were believed
to be virtually free of distressed
shipping tonight for the first time
since early last week when the
West Indian hurricane swirled ov
er the Bahamas.
The tug Bafshe towing the Sea
board Oil company barge Tiolene
from Smith's Bluff, Texas, to
Tampa reported Itself drifting K0
miles off Cedar Keys with disabl
ed engines. The crew of 22, how
ever, was said to be in no Imme
diate danger and several coast
gnard boats were reported In the
vicinity of the position given by
the tng.
Confusion arising from the re
ceipt of O S calls from both
the Garnet Hullngs and the "Sa
Una" Saturday night was cleared
up today as shipping circles de
termined that the distress signals
sent out under the two names
were from one tanker. It devel
oped that the Garnet Hullngs was
formerly know as the "Salina."
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SHIPPING NOW SAFE
I Win Race
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Captain W. E. Repner, top, as
sisted by Lieutenant W. O. Erick
son, below, in the United States
army balloon won the Gordon
Bennett balloon race this week. It
was Repner's second consecutive
victory in this annual contest.
There were nine balloons entered
in the international event.
Growers Need 10 Days More
Fair Weather for
Harvest
The big run of the Salem can
neries Just now is on prunes. The
line up is like this:
The Oregon Packing company
is winding up on its run of prunes
but will be on pears several days
yet. This is at the 12th street
plant. The 13th street plant is re
ceiving pumpkins now, and will
begin its run of several weeks on
these this morning.
The Hunt cannery will be on
pears till about the 20th, and on
prunes this week and most of
next. Then will come -pumpkins
and apples.
The Northwest cannery is work
ing on pears and prunes and will
take apples after these runs are
over.
The Starr cannery Is on prunes
and blackberries, and will contin
ue this week and next. The Salem
plant will take no apples this year.
The Portland plant will can ap
ples. Reid, Murdoch & Co., at their
West Salem plants, are working
on a large run of prunes and a
few blackberries; mostly cultivat
ed berries. That plant made a run
on pears, but discontinued canning
these to make way for the large
prune run, using night and day
forces. About Monday, pears (in
cold storage) will be taken up
again, for a run of three or four
weeks. This plant will probably
can no apples this year.
The Producers' cooperative Is
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Phone Lines
To Mayor's
Room Tapped
NEW YORK, Oct. 1. (AP)
Discovery that all the telephone
wires into the city hall office of
Mayor James J. Walker, Tammany
candidate for re-election, had been
tapped was today's preelection
sensation.
The discovery followed antl-Tammanv-
charges that more was
known in high places of the mur
der of Arnold Rothsteln than had
ever been made public, and that
the Tammany tiger controlled a
"tax racket" by which the poor
were made to bear the burdens of
the favored rich.
Seventeen telephone I n s t r u
ments are in the mayor's office
and all of the wires run through a
padlocked cable box In the base
ment. This box had been wrenched
open. An old abandoned wire from
the basement to the third floor
also ran through this and a short
wire had been spliced to this so
that It could be hooked onto any
of the cables to the executive of
fice. Telephone eompany experts,
called In to investigate strange
noises and "fading" on the may
or's wires, discovered marks of
hook-in clips Indicating that a
portable listening set had been
connected with the abandoned
wire In the committee room of the
aldermanic chamber. In the gal
lery outside that room, and in an
anteroom on the third floor.
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QUITS
BEFORE
PAPERS EYED
Alleged British Documents
Will be Viewed After
MacDonald Visit
Question of Possible Forg
ery Raised at Senate
. Investigation
By FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. (AP)
Photostatic copies of a purport
ed secret British document were
turned over to senate investigat
ors today by William B. Shearer,
as the examination of his activ
ities in behalf of American" ship
builders at the unsuccessful 1927
Geneva naval limitations confer
ence came to a temporary halt.
Turning from bis second day's
recital of tales of international
intrigue and propaganda. Shearer
quickly produced the much-discussed
British paper when Senator
Allen, republican, Kansas, men
tioned it. In a high keyed voice,
the witness told of obtaining the
paper in Washington last winter,
during the cruiser bill debate,
from a Judge Summers.
Authenticity of
Papers Questioned
The Kansas senator immediate
ly questioned the authenticity of
the so-called British paper. Be
fore he could read a report on it
from the navy intelligence and
before the document itself was
read or placed In the record, the
committee adjourned Its hearings
subject to the call of the chair
man. This call Is expected to await
the conclusion of the visit in this
country of Premier Ramsay Mac
Donald, who arrives here Friday
to continue the attempt of Great
Britain and the United States to
reach an agreement on naval lim
itations. Shearer said the purported Brit
ish document was signed by Sir
William Wiseman, "who everyone
knows," he continued, "was the
head of the British secret service
in this country during the war and
the chief British spy and who is
now with KuhnLoeb'and com
pany." Shearer remarked that Wise
man's name was added to the pa
per after he had been told by
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PUSSES SUDDENLY
LEWISTON, Ida., Oct. 1.
(AP) The Tribune was informed
that Lieutenant Governor W. B.
Kinne of Idaho, who is also acting
governor, died at Orofino, Idaho,
at 7:12 tonight.
The lieutenant governor was
stricken with appendicitis Satur
day, but an operation was not
thought necessary until Sunday
morning. While Kinne's condition
after the operation was grave be
cause of complications, it was not
believed that death was near.
He rallied Monday and hospital
attaches said that he apparently
was "on the road to recovery."
and no great fears were felt for
his life.
He suffered a sinking spell this
afternoon which resulted in wide
spread rumors that he had died.
Physicians reported, however, that
while the man was "gravely ill"
he was still alive. The end came
at 7:12 p. m.
The lieutenant governor, hold
ing his first major political office,
was acting governor in the ab
sence of Governor H. C. Baldridge,
now In Ogden, Utah, representing
the state at the meeting of the
western division of the United
States chamber of commerce.
JEKKIL-HYDE LIFE
OF PASTOR ISTDLD
LE. MARS, Iowa, Oct. 1. (AP)
The story of an ordained Evan
gelical minister, whose "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde" career revealed
him as a bank robber, was unfold
ed here tonight as preparations
were made to bury Rex Frolkey,
38, who killed himself yesterday
after robbing the. Sioux Center
State bank.
Details of the story were
stranger than fiction, for no mo
tive for the bank robbing was re
vealed. By his own admission
Frolkey had "plenty of money."
Yet the news of the robbery of
the Sioux Center hank was fol
lowed by announcement that three
officers of the Orange City Na
tional bank had identified him as
one of the bandits who robbed
that bank on Jnly 5. of 4,00.
Officers of the Emmett County
Savings bank of Estherville await
ed a picture of the body, hoping
to link the dead man with the
robbery of $2,700 from that hank
on August 30. Officials said they
were investigating other bank
robberies in northwestern Iowa
and southeastern South Dakota
in an effort to leant If Frolkey
had a part in them.
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peared In court in Los Angeles Monday In an Invalid's chair, and won
a stay of Judgment until Saturday.
Pontages
Caught Off Guard
Prosecution Makes Strategic Move Throwing
Millionaire's Counsel Into Temporary
Panic; More Delays Requested
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1. (AP) The trial of Alexander
Pantages, accused of a statutory offense by Eunice Prin
gle, 17-year old dancer, opened in superior court today with
a strategic move by the state which three the defense into
a temporary panic.
Immdiately upon the convening of court Assistant Pros
ecutor Robert P. Stewart
moved for the dismissal of the t
charge of forcible attack, one
of the two counts brought against
Pantages. Judge Charles Pricke
granted the motion, ordering the
multi-millionaire showman tried
upon the single count of a statu
tory offense against the young
dancer.
The defense camp showed its
perturbation immediately upon
the making of the motion, all
three of Pantages attorneys en
tered into a frantic battle for a
continuance of the trial opening
because of the surprise move.
Attorney W. I. Gilbert, Joseph
Ford, and Jerry Geisler argued
that preparation had been made
for the trial on two counts, that
they were unprepared to wage
their case on the single count, and
that the changed situation upset
their plans concerning the calling
of witnesses and also required
further time for preparing new
defense arguments and evidence.
Simultaneously Geisler and
Ford made a second plea for a
continuance on the claim of the
defendant's ill health, which pre
viously had been argued yester
day when a hearing was given on
unsuccessful efforts for a change
of venue. Counsel argued that
Pantages had lost between 15 and
20 pounds in weight, and was oth
erwise in ill health as the result
of the strain of the trial of his
wife, Mrs. Lois Pantages, who
was convicted in the same court
room last week of manslaughter
due to a fatal automobile colli
sion. October Term
Of Court Will
StartShortly
The October term of the Marion
county circuit court department
No. 1 wiU get under way Thurs
day with the return of the grand
jury to consider such criminal
cases as have arisen since the last
term. On Friday and Saturday,
Judge Percy R. Kelly will be here
to hear motions and demurrers
and to set the trial docket.
The trial Jurors called for this
term will report Monday, October
?. Indications are that an unusu
ally heavy docket of eases requir
ing Jury trial Is in prospect. The
grand Jtrry has little work before
it so far as Is known.
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Legion Prize
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Oct. 1.
(AP) Six prize winners in the
American Legion parade were an
nounced tonight by Captain R. W.
Norton, chairman of the contest
committee.
The prize for the drum and
bugle corps traveling the farthest
distance to the convention went
to the Capital Post No. 9, of Sa
lem, Ore.
The first prize winner for the
best strutting drum major was
that of Col. Charles Young Post
drum and bugle corps of Char
lotte, N. C, 97.5 per cent. The
second place went to the drum
major of the Los Angeles drum
and bugle corps, 96 per cent.
First place in the contest of
best baton twirlers went to Lee
Stuttell of Buffalo, N. Y., corps,
96 per cent; the second place
went to the St. Paul drum and
bugle corps, 95 per cent.
Golden batons, bugles, and med
als were the prizes.
September Rain
Below Average
Figures Indicate
Third place In the race for
smallest rainfall notation in the
September records of the Salem
weather bureau, is held by Sep
tember, 1929, with 1918 in first
place and 1903 second. The to
tal rallfall for the past month was
.27 niches, more than 1.5 Inches
below the average of 1.84. In
1918 the minimum was recorded
at .17 inches. September, 1914
expreienced the wettest record
with 4.84 inches of railfalL
Temperature recordings varied
from 92 to 33, the highest being
on September 11 and the lowest
on September 27. Twice more
the reading reached 90, on the
tenth with 90 and on the twelfth
with 91.- ..-
Days on which rainfall was re
corded were September 1, .08; 21,
.02 Inches; 22. .01 Inches; and
23 .18 Inches.
Stench Of
Sewer To
Be Halted
Board of Control Will Get
Summary Order From
Health Body
Hope Seen After Many Years
Of Inaction by Politi
cal State Group
Steps not only to eliminate tie
unpleasant odors which emaBa:
from the state sewer where 5t
empties into the Willamette rivpr
below the Marion-Polk coutny
bridge, but also to overcome tbe
pollution of the river water wni. h
this sewer causes, will be ordered
by the state board of health ichtn
its sanitation engineer completes
an Investigation of the situation
existing there, it was stated Tues
day by officials in the board's of
fice at Portland.
Remedial measures will proV
ably involve chemical purifirfbtioii
of the sewage at the state flax
plant, which is its source, it was
stated, and it is probable that this
will not be done until early ast
year, after thoroueh study of tlie
problems involved.
The investigation to date fcs
disclosed that the odors recently
objected to in a protest filed by
Front street residents, will be
remedied shortly after the fall
rains start, and the health depart
ment deems it wise to delay aetk
until a sure and complete solution
is worked out.
Lack of Kxu-nsiou
Is Cau.se of Smell
This conclusion bears out tl.e
claim made by members of the
city council a year ago when tb:s
nuisance came to public attention,,
that the odors were emitted sim
ply because the mouth of the
sewer was above the water levtl
at the extreme low water period.
Members of the council urged at
that time that the state board vt
control arrange to have the sewtr
outlet extended farther down iato
the river. Members of the board
of control were not convinced
that this would remedy the con
dition. Investigations made locally a
few weeks aao pointed to the
same conclusion. At that time
the mouth of th state sewer ss
still under water, and no odor was
noticeable there, whereas the out
let of the city sewer, a few yards
upstream, was uncovered, and an
unpleasant odor, though not m
objectionable as that which the
state sewer emits, was coming
from tho city sewer.
Later when the river dropped
a few inches lower, the familiar
stench from the state sewer again
made its appearance.
City Sewer Also
Severely CYiticized
The state health department
does not absolve the city tewer
from a share of the blame for the
nuisance, and it is probable that
when the state flax Industry is re
quired to purify its waste by chem
ical means, a similar order will be
issued to the city government.
Extending the sewer farther
down into the water would elim
inate the odor, it was stated t
the board of health office, but in
view of the present campaign of
the state stream pollution com
mittee to reduce the amount of
pollution in the Willamette, tie
more thorough remedy is eipect
ed to be required.
The stream pollution commit
tee, of which Fred A. Williams
city attorney of Salem, is a mem
ber, will hold its next meeting in
Portland next Monday, at wbicb
time problems similar to some I
those confronted here, will be dis
cussed by Engineer Baker of tie
American Paper and Pulp asso
tion, who ha3 had extensive x
perience along this line.
FRENCH FLYER SOUGHT
MOSCOW, Oct. 1. (API So
viet aviation authorities tonirfct
bent every effort toward the
search for Dieudonne Coste,
French aviator, who left Pari
Friday on a long distance flight to
eastern Siberia.
GOLF PRO DIES
MEDFORD. Ora4 W. L. Thomp
son, golf club employs and resi
dent of this city for the past :
months, died today.
Forms Completed
For Fourth Floor
Of Bmlding Here
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 1
-(AP) Forms have bees
completed for the pouring
of concrete for the fourth"
floor of the new five-story
office building for the state
of Oregon at Halem, Knigh
ton A Howell, architects, an
nounced here today. All
concrete work should be
completed before the end ef
this month, they said.
- The structure, which will
-cost about $500,000, Is be
ing erected by Boss B. Hase
mond. Inc. - Plans call for
completion of the buiWtag
early la 1030.
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