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-. The Inside story of the master
mind behind the murder of 9,
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stories ' starting Sunday, Nov. 4
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.' Salem. Oregon, Saturday Mcminn, Norembr 3, 1945
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' On the heels of the army report
reaffirming the declaration of the
western , defense command that
from one to five unidentified air-
- craft 'were - approaching Los An-
geles the night of Jan. 24-25, 1942,
; comes the blnnt statement from a
V Japanese navy spokesman that no
!; The WDC may counter by- saying
( It never asserted the planes were
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; Unidentified. To this day they lack
.' lAMil, mA k irnti am T B4fiA
" lias been one of skepticism.
f . It was a treat battle while it
i lasted,! with - ack-ack ' coughing all
the heavens for the intruders.
4 Mass psychology got a good work-
' and lights. One "saw? a Jap bomb
' r ga down in flames. Another
-' saw sf mysterious balloon in the
skies. There were varying reports
as to the- number and location of
planes. Some even got the planet
Venus, mixed up with' visions of
strange lights far out at sea.
' and no foreign planes in sight nor
. ruins from enemy bombs. The bat
tle of Los Angeles was over. Never
again was there even an attempted
Invasion. - j
The Japs admit shelling of some
oil works near Santa Barbara and
of Fort Stevens, and the dropping
of bombs in southwest - Oregon.
- -That was the extent of the inva-
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Jap intelligence had the plans fo:
'a
Fort Stevens including the range
, of Fort Stevens guns,4-but the sub
marine's shells landed in the sand.
In the case of the airplane bomb
ing in Curry county Jap intelli
gence wasn't so - good. The pilot
. was instructed to bomb military
' Installations, but could find none
on that lonely coast, j ,
: . The Japs never had plans to in
vade either Hawaii or the United
; States. That is belated comfort.
They might have told us that and
spared civilians from many wor-
' ries. Some of them actually moved
back, into the interior. Others de
posited funds in interior banks. If
i we had known they were not coro
: Intf manr husbands would have
:-; been spared the splints - and ban
. - . J. 4 M.t Unit - I nt.aiH.W
J-xnlttees could have! spent' many
mora nights at home. Still these
civilian activities gave a harmless
. - outlet to pent-up patriotism which
might bm blown off with' some
damage. ' I
opdburh Soldier
Dies From Wounds
WVSnt)TrDM Ur-'iiul .UH
..: 1. H. : West of EUiott Prairie, re-
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partment that their ; son, Donald,
. who was In the European theatre
of war and had previously been
. . i reported missing, died December
-. 30, 1945,- from wounds received in
'action. !
; 'r y Donald' rJitere4 th service
Sept. 15, l.'He was a gradu
. - at of Jaw at Willamette univer
iy anda member of the Oregon
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Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH -
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U.S.Equipped
Chinese Army
Attacks Reds
. CHUNGKING, Nov. 2 -(4V A
Chinese communist - dispatch
charged ' today that, the central
government's aew Sixth army
equipped and trained by Ameri
cans, is in action against the. reds
along the southern section of the
Tientsin-Pukow railroad. ;
It was the first accusation that
American drilled and supplied
Chinese troops were involved in
the current strife.-
Previously the communists had
expressed open irritation over the
employment . of United States
transports to take central govern
ment forces to Chinese commun
ist "liberated afc-eas." ft ' 4
The Chinese Sixth army fought
the Japanese in northern Burma
ahead of construction crews build
ing the Stilwell highway. V
Communist sources told j of a
"great offensive" by the govern
ment aimed at opening the Peip-lng-Hankow
line for unrestricted
movements of Chiang's armies to
North China and Manchuria, j
Gen. Kehney
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For Merger !
' WASHTNGTON,": Nov. 2-VP)-Gen.
George C Kenney told Sen
ators today that time was lost in
the war against Japan while the
array and navy argued and Com-
omised. -.. I I
If such delays resulted In pro
longing the war just one iday,
what price can we place upon
the lives we lost?, he asked , I
He asserted the war had dem
onstrated that a single over-all
command is required for victory
in a theatre. He said he was fun
able to understand'' the argu
ments of those who oppose 'uni
fication of the war and navy de
partments under a single cabinet
secretary. : i ' , -
"1 believe it follows naturally
that we must have unity of Com
mand at the head and heart of
our military structure at home,"
said the general who whipped
the Japanese airforce all the way
from Australia to Japan.
Nation V-Bond
Sales Moiint I
WASHINGTON, Nov. -flV
The total sales to Individuals in
the' Victory loan today stpod at
$314,000,000, of which $ f 67,000,
000 was in series. E bonds, I the
war finance-division of the treas
ury reported."; -1 -4 : V"-;
Montana - was -leading the na4
tion in - percentage of E-bond
sales against the quota, -with 20.7
per cent of its state quota sold in
the first five days of the drive.
Eight Montana counties already
had exceeded their E-bond quo
tas, six of them on the first day
of the drive and Powder River
and Treasure counties since then.
The orer-all goal of all securi
ties to all. investors is $11, 000,
000,000. Of this amount $400,000,
000 is the goal for sales to indi
viduals and half of that is the
goal for E-bonds. . .
Private Industry
Survey Planned
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' A survey of private industry in
Oregon outside of. Multnomah
county will be started within the
next few days by John F,' Purr,
Eugene, recently employed by the.
state postwar and development
rehabilitation - commission. ; ' f
John Kelly, commission secre
tary, predicted ; that the survey
would require several . months.
Durr's findings will be reported
to the commission. ,
Figures on file in the commis
sion offices here, .show that cash
now on hand by private Indus
tries, for postwar expansion, ex
ceeds $150,000,000. The survey
was expected to increase this fig
ure materially, Kelly said.
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first to the scene f a trainer plain crash early Friday afternoon on the Keller ranch, 2V4 miles north
west of Cheixuwa, were members of the Keller and Ed Sproed households and the state police (upper
left). State Officer Robert White notes details of th dasoage as he stands beside the splintered pre
pUer to which still dines some f the black beaverdam soil thrwoxh which ft plowed as the plane
overtarned. first word of the? sjecident in Salem referred nwrely to "a plane crash." so Military
Police Sergeants Keith Sorensen, left (above), and Stanley Orsechowskl hastened eat and remained
to view the shattered civilian
City Water, Sewer
Users Out of Salem
May
Official notices should be
urban residences that on a set; day in February or March of 1946
city water and city sewer service are to be cut off from those
properties. j
Members of a special coihmittee ot the. SalemjjLunca
agreed on! this i Friday, That conwaittee seven months ago spon
sored the 'resolution setting De
cember 2 as deadline beyond
which provision, of city services
outside Salem's corporate limits
would be denied. Only residences
to be excepted, under the resolu
tion, were; those in areas which
by that date had petitioned for
admission to the city. One such
area, east of Salem, has asked to
be brought into the city limits.
At its meeting Friday, the
committee voted to take a second
resolution before . the council
Monday night under which or
ders would be issued to the pro
per authorities to send out the
notices so that all may be done
legally. . 1
Giving Time .to Dig
Incidentally, members of i the
committee in submitting such a
resolution tare factually asking
that t the suburban residents' be
given 60-90 days more time in
which to dig wells and sink sep
tic tanks. The Original resolution
contemplated the cutting off of
services early in December..
Even that time may not be suf
ficient unless extra well-drillers
are brought into the Salem area,
but it should .permit, the .estab
lishment of one well in a neigh
borhood. Approximately 300 ru
ral residences are served -with
city water. ?- . -
Materials will be available this
winter, the committee was . told,
and much of the work, could .be
started shortly. ,
Health May Be Affected
Ninety-day notice is all that
any of Salem's rural sewer-con
nection contracts require for can
cellation. 1 -But
the city's health would be
affected also should poor substi
tutions for sewers be hastily In
stalled. Right now Clark creek
(outside the city it is Davidson's
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CAIRO, Nov. 2 -Wi- Shouting,
rioting anti-Zionists fired a syna
gogue and smashed Jewish stores
today in wild clashes in Cairo, in
juring at least S80 personsvand
unverified reports said seven per
sons were killed in Alexandria. '
Riots flared in Port Said, Man
sura, and Zagazig, Egypt, while
planned "Balfour Day" strikes
ind demonstrations protesting
against making Palestine a Jew
ish national home were staged by
Arabs in Palestine, Syria and Le
banon. 1 . V ' -
British officials listed 290 ci
vilians and ; 90 police injured in
Cairo. 'Reports that seven persons
djed m Alexandria's riots could
sot be confirmed immediately."
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Lose Service
By Isabel Childs ;
XJIty EditoiL Tba Statesman
mailed shortly to owners of sub
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Rent Ceilings
On New Houses
May be Higher
WASHINGTON, Nov, 2 -()
Rent ceilings on new dwellings
may be 15 to 25 per cent higher
than those on existing houses.
The OP A, it was learned today,
is considering an Increase in that
range to allow for increased conr
struction costs since . 1939.
i The' Increase would apply to
apartments as well as houses.
I ' This prospect was reported as
the agency announced a 'new pol
icy of establishing rent ceilings
on houses in advance of construc
tion. ' " 'y-
I OP A Administrator Chester
Bowles said the new program is
designed to 'encourage building
and thereby protect tenants from
inflationary rents. ; i -
i: Rent for new units will be
tased on current ceilings for com
parable accommodations in the
Same area, plus allowance for In
creased construction cost. .- '
ditch) flows into Salem carrying
seepage from septic tanks "south
of the city, it is said, and studies
ire being made to determine what
correction mayb made." ' : 1 -"
The committee, of which. Al
derman James Byers is chairman,
with Alderman R. O. Lewis; Leo
N. Childs, Arthur A. Keene and
W. W. Chadwick as members, was
assigned the task of getting the
city boundaries to coincide with
areas, where city services arc of
fered before major, postwar con
struction is undertaken in either
sewer or water systems.
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? Egyptiaa Prime Minister Nokra-
shi Pasha, appealing to the people
to be calm, aaid, "There are no
signs that more events will occur"
and "The people will resume bus
iness tomorrow."' V - J
Maj. ;'"Cen7 T. W. ' Fitjqpatrick,
acting commandant in Cairo, said
the situation was regarded as
.well in hancT-ionlght, but Cairo
police remained out in full force.
Sudanese troops, armed with long
whips, also stood at strategic
points. He said 150 persons, most
ly looters, were arrested. ;
i Steel-helmeted police fired into
the air, used tear-gas, and swung
clubs trying to disperse the
crowds, who seethed into .Cairo
streets on the 2&th anniversary of
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Trainer Plane
Crash Sends
2 to
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l A trainer plane crash in a pas-1
ture on the old Keller place 2
miles northwest of Chemawa sent
Richard Poet, pilot instructor,
and Charles Clare Keller, his stu
dent and owner of both the plane
and the farm, to the hospital
Friday afternoon. Full extent of
their injuries will not be known
unto x-rays are taken ' today,
their physicians said. I '
At; Salem Deaconess hospital
th two men were believed not
Lserlously injured. Keller has a jaw
injury which . the .pictures may
show to be a fracture, and has
bruises, abrasions and. swellings
on his head.: Poet complains of
a sore back but is able to walk.
He also has a cut chin and a gash
over the right eye. j J
Sacked Earthward . ; t
. Recently discharged from the
service, Poet was piloting the
Stearman trainer which he had
been teaching its owner to fly,
had circled the pasture, dipped
into the little valley there and
was apparently preparing to lift
the plane to cross a hill when
the right ! wing dropped and the
plane seemed sucked earthward,
Eunice Keller, 14, told investigat
ing state police. With her friend,
Edna LaFlemme, she had stood
at the pasture gate and waved
to her father and his instructor
as they flew past.
Dug IS Foot Path
The plane's wing dug into the
soft beaver - dam . soil, - cutting a
shallow 15-foot long path before
the plane overturned and came
to rest upside down.
Ed Sproed rents and operates
the farm from Keller where the
accident occurred not far from
th Oregon Electric railroad's
trestle over the beaverdam low
lands. "-.''.
Vandals Do $500
Damage, in Salem i:
Damages which in material 'and
labor will -cost the -city cf Salem
$500 were wrought, by Halloween
vandals. City Engineer J. H, Davis
said Friday. Mutilation or 'theft
of street and, traffic signs -were
principal losses. - : 4
Since neither men'ner mater
ial are available now in suffi
cient quantity to. repair all the
damages, only the most necessary
of the signs, such as those mark
ing' through traffic routes, will be
replaced at once, Davis indicated.
thej Lord Balfour, note promising
the! Jews a national home in Pal
estine. ' v ' '
In Palestine, where Balfour day
coincided wife an announcement
thai Lord Gort had resigned as
high commissioner,' because of his
health, there' were only minor dis
turbances accompanying a nation-wide
Arab general strike.
In- London, the British govern;
ment, through Secretary of Colo
nies George HalL served an ulti
matum to terrorists in Palestine's
Jewish community that unless
there is a cessation of the "das
tardly series ot outrages" in the
Holy Land, negotiations for set
tling the Jewish problem would
be halted. - - ' .
" He referred' to yesterday's or-
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20 Pay Boost
Advocated for 1
Federal Workers
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2j r(P)
The 'steaming wage battle; took
new, sharp turns today, with the
scrimmage spreading into' the
government itself and no solution
in sight ' ! . . I '
Here were the main points: .
- 1. The 'White House threw its
weight behind a proposal to j boost
federal civil service workers' sal
aries 20 per cent. Senator iByrd
(D-Va) protested. ' -
2. The CIO auto workers, seek
ing a 30 per cent wage 'raise,
threatened ; court action to' pre
vent any "unwarranted Increases"
in new car prices. . 4 . j '
2. None Of the labor and man
agement leaders toning in
batches 'from conferences i with
President Truman- predicted
positive results from the labor
management conference starting
Monday. But a few were - hope
ful of some good. '
Arthur S. Flemming, civil ser
vice, commissioner, said he; was
authorized to state that the 20
per cent raise for federal work
ers would be "in conformity: with
the program of the president
The pay : scales of government
workers, he told the senate's
civil service committee, are below
the levels of private industry and
a raise is needed to bring them
"to a plane of equality." )
The endorsement for the 20
per cent raise for the bulk of
government workers wasaccom
panied by this recommendation:
A $10,000 a year raise for; con
gressmen, federal . judges, top
people in the administrative
branch, such as cabinet members,
and more pay for other govern
ment officials such as undersecre
taries and - assistant .-secretaries
and agencyf heads. ;
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Alaska Fears
Bomli Try outs
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (P
Delegate Bartlett (D, Alaska)
warned Navy Secretary Forrestal
today that the proposed test of an
atomic bomb on warships may
have "catastrophic'' results, f-
Explosion of an atom bomb in
north Pacific waters might de
stroy, Alaska's entire $50,000,000
salmon fishing, industry,' he said.
It also might result In . tidal
waves that would cause grave
danger to the territory, he said.
: Int a . letter to the secretary,
which emphasix-ed that the effects
of an atomic, explosion In the sea
are stiQ unknown, Bartlett asked
that .the north Pacific be ruled out
as a site of the experiment. ; -',
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As "tluuikBgiviqg Day;
Thursday,-November 22,' defi
nitely is Thanksgiving day in Ore:
gon, the executive department
announced here Friday. J
Many Inquiries have been re
ceived by the governor. Confusion
apparently "1 has arisen from the
fact that different dates will be
observed In other states. i
ganized attacks on Palestine's
transportation system that tost
five lives and wounded at least
eight persons. He delivered .the
warnings, in reemmonsi while; ftn?
nouncing Lord Gorfs resignation
from the Palestine post. ' ; i .
I Fitzpatrick said the Cairo riot
ing was kept from, spreading to
the European' parts of the; city.
Foreign establishments in the riot
area also were attacked. f ;
He said a synagogue was set
ffire by the rioters with "fairly
extensive", damage. : " t ;
i Declaring the rioters bad
"fought themselves out and "are
now licking; their wounds," Fitz
patrick said he did not anticipate
renewed outbreaks tomorrow. I
Scores
Coiniiiando Kelly
Trades in Rifle j
For Gas Pump j .
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2-HflV
Swapping bullets for gasoline,
ex-Sgt - Charles (Commando)
Kelly, Congressional Medal of
Honor winner, was back today
at a peacetime job of running
a filling station. : j
Kelly,, who won fame by
slaying 40 . Germans single
handed in 20 minutes, said he's
happy filling up tanks. ' I
"It's - an honest living," he
declared. "I like It"'-
GOP Protests
Pearl Harbor
Probe 'Block'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-iiP)-Re-publicans
and democrats fought a
new Pearl. Harbor, battle .on the
senate floor today over republi
can complaints that their inquiries
into the disaster are being blocked.
Senator B r e w s t e r. (R-Me.)
charged he had been, denied; by a
five to three party vote of a senate-house
inquiry .committee the
right to check a tip, that vital doc?
uments are missing from army and
communications commission files. .
Democratic Leader Barkley
(Ky.) said that so far as the com
mittee and its counsel know "there
are no missing papers." i .
The committee decided to start
open hearings November 13. 1
Verbal battle developed when
the two republican senators' took
th floor .to report to - their- col
leagues that they didn't think the
committee's action today lent
self to the impartial investigation
Barkley had promised. - i ;
Savings Plaii
Gommended by
State Chairman
One of the finest things jthat
happened to labor during the: war
and one of the best habits which
can be continued is the payroll
savings plan, William A. - Bing
ham, state chairman of payroll
savings with the i Oregon war . fi
nance ' committee, declared " here
Friday night. j' : ".'.. 'j " .
Speaking to a dinner meeting
arranged to draw together indus
trialists of Marion county but at
tended by only a few in addition
to those who are regular workers
with the war finance -committee,
Bingham urged that the plan be
"sold" over again if necessary.'.
Industrialists are not eager to
push the plan, he said, but Port
land businessmen and industrial
leaders know that the backlog of
war bonds held by war workers
there sent those workers back to
their homes) instead of onto relief
in Oregon. 'T'v-' . I
Among the guests, at. Friday
night's dinner were three of ihe
five girls who have indicated to
date they, will be candidates : for
the Victory Loan queenship
(names not to be announced pub
licly until next week), army offi
cers who are-here arranging' for
the "Airborne Attack" show at
McNary field ' next Wednesday,
and Maj.- C H. Westover, : army
commander at the field," where
first of the planes and gliders
wui arrive Monday.
Sweet Home Ups
Population 96
Population of Sweet Home has
increased 43 per cent (from 1090
to 2141) since the federal census
of 1940,' Oregon's state department
revealed here Friday. j .
A recently completed state cen
sus established the, new figure, on
which state fundi appropriations
will be based.
- Gladstone, 38th city under 2000
population, in which a census has
been taken by- the secretary I of
state under a 1945 law permitting
such account, has a population of
1910,"" an increase of 28 1, or 17 J
per cent ' over that recorded fin
1840, Secretary of State Robert S.
Farrell, Jr, announced. i
Weather
San TTancisco .
Ehigene
Saieaa
PortUnd
Max.
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Willamette river
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ro RECAST (from VS. wtather 'bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Uominf
Jo, followed by mostly clear skies.
Hisacst temperatura m esrces.
12 Gent
Increase
Accepted
AFL to J&tick
By Demands for
1.15 Minimum
PORTLAND. ! Ore- Nov.- i s
(AP) America's hope, for ,
new houses brightened today
as the non-striking half of
the northwest's lumber work- '
era reached i a . compromise
settlement with; operators on
wajre demands, j
The CIO International Wood
workers of America,, who have
krnt the InM vollinir furinr tha
40-day-old AFL strike, accepted '-'
Big Fir pperatos, offer of a.12'4
cent hourly.. increase: Half the
union demand. ' j . - ' -1
" George Brewer,; federal labor
conciliator, hailed the agreement
as America's first industry set-1
uemeni r reacnea inrougn collec
tive bargaining since ,V-J day.. It
ended the danger of-a-CIO strike,
which members .bad authorized if
necessary.- . i ' . .
But the striking AFX, charged
. v w turM AliV tia s I
been sold down' the rhrer by the
low settlement,, j and declared
they would continue their de- v
mands for a $1.10 minimum.
-The-CIO" asked originally for a
inai ma s n s rflnr ntwi f i la hm-A
si.19 minimum ( anq a 25-cent .
nouny -wage increase,.-- .
step iri the dispute-ridden ' lum
ber area boosts the s minimum s
of CIO fir .workers -in western
Oregon and Washington from 90
cents to $1.024 " -
The . CIO was i meeting with :
pine . operators' in Klamath Falls
Tuesday, and , with Willamette
valley and plywood operators
early next week.
, Meanwhile the ! strikins! AFIi
Cumber and Sawmill - Workers
began negotiations with plywood
operators, and scheduled another
meeting with Oregon coast oper
ators for Coos Bay tomorrow. :
Higgin Goses
Plants iii South
. -. By the Associated Press
Andrew. J. Higglns New- Or- '
leans boat builder. prODOsed yes.
terday that AFL -unions purchase r
and operate the three plants h .
closed because of their strike. ;
' ThereH " be no more Higgins
hiring business in New Orleans,' ,
he said in an interview after sud
denly shutting down the plants
on the fourth day of a strike by
about 2000 members of 33 AFL
locals.- j s
His discarded postwar - plans, -Higgins
said, '- caUedV for employ
ment of 30,000 persons "and mil-'
Ideas la payroll sueUy.' Jit tho" j
wartime peak the plants employ
ed 13,000 but the- number hag -fallen
to 2300 sincei
Encounters in
Java Continue
BATAVIA, Nov. 2 - (0) -Shar .
encounters with ! Indonesian ex
tremlsts broke out in Batavia to-
day after heavy fighting at Mage
lang was halted under attempor r
ary truce negotiated with the aid
of President Soekarno of the "In '
donesian Republic"
- Fighting in the capital began ha
Indonesian. - headquarters behind - '
the Hotel Des Indes, and snipers
fired machine guns for an hour
before British Seaforth Highland
ers restored order. Casualties oa
both sides were believed light,
ealri ih T)iifrh nrai katmfw Ansfa
Greece Forced to
or I Aixl
ATHENS, Nov. 2 -(JF)- Gergory
Kassamatis, finance minister In ,
Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos
new" cabinet, said v -today I that '
Greece would seek increased al
lied aid because fit Is humanly
impossible for Greece to live on '
her own lean flesh. , '
". The government's ' first " duty
will be financial reconstruction ot
Greece, he said, and the govern
ment plans steps for equitable,
quick distribution of all available-'
goods and equitable taxation. -.
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