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FootilbaDIl Scores
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Oregon State J32
Portland 6
Oregon 15
Idaho----- - 8
Washington 27
U.GL.A. 6
California 40
Wisconsin 14
Minnesota 16
Northwestern 19
Michigan 40
Purdue- 0
(Complete
Army
Illinois; -
u.s.c ----
Rice f-
Wash. Stole f
Montaiyi -j
Stanford
Santa Clara
Notre Danie
Mich. State ;
Ohio State
Iowa ? J
in sports section)
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21
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26
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mo mad I
dians
Th report of state school ia
spctors who found that 42 schools
out of 367 do not have hot and cold
water will excite nostalgic mem
ories among those whose school
ing goes back to the turn of, the
century and beyond. Water was
something that came out of a
pump and you had to work a
handle up and down, a handle
which was almost out of reach of
the small tots when it was up.
Water also was something con
tained in a metal bucket on a shelf
In" the corner of the room.; At in
tervals during theday a "favored
oupil would take the pail and dip
per and go up and down the aisles !
giving each pupil a drink. $
It took a long campaign to git
individual drinking cups or bub
bling fountains. As for hot water,
that was something brewed in la
teakettle on the kitchen stove, arid
avoided by youngsters like caster
oil. Kids came to school with dirt
caked in the crevices of their hands
and ears that showed long absence
of contact with water, hot or cold.
Girls often asked to have their
seats changed to escape BO from
some unkempt urchin. j
As for toilets, foul-smelling
privies sufficed; sometimes they
were so offensive the boys sought
the comfort of the nearby woods;
Installation of indoor flush toilets
- was?1 a snajor revolution, both iai
school and home
One thing they did have In the
'old schoolhouse was heat. Big
stoves, later glorified Into circu
lating heaters and sold at
(Continued on editorial page.)
Ill
Thi
Of Series
In
rdW
in
nents in
Oppo
Race Cynical
Wallace Says
TACOMA, Wash., Oct. S-WV
Benry Wallace said tonight Ameri
can policy-makers have put on
"crusaders robes to save the
world from communism but their
crusade is as "cynical and "de
ceitful as Adolf Hitter's.
Earlier, In Seattle, Wallace sent
telegrams to President Truman and
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, demand
ing to know exactly how they
stand on the Franco regime in
Spain, economic aid to Israel and
leniency toward nazis in Ger-1
many,
By Carle Talbot
CLEVELAND, Oct. &-VP-Steve
Gromek stood the hapless Boston
Braves on their collective heads
today before 81,897 customers, a
new series record, as the Cleve
land Indians took a Virtual strang
lehold on the world baseball
championship with a 2-1 victory
over the National leaguers.
Gromek, right out of Manager
Lou Boudreau bottom drawer,
gave the Indians a 3-1 advantage
in games, putting them in a posi
tion to close out the" series tomor
row behind Bob Feller.
Larry Doby's third - inning ho
mer, the first of tlie series, pro
vided Gromek his margin of victory.
Home Ran in Seventh
The only score the Braves made
off the 27 - year - old righthander
was a well-tagged ; home ruii in
the seventh byMarv Rickert,the
minor league outfielder who! got
in the playoffs at the last minute
because of an injury to Jen neatn.
Today's vast crowd, although
slightly under the major league
record of 82,781 which saw a mio
season Cleveland - Philadelphia
doubleheader in the vast munici
pal stadium here, paid $370,779X3,
also a new series marr. ine oia
series attendance record was 74,-
089 set in Yankee stadium last
year, and the previous high gate
was made nere yesterday
814.47. - f - r . I;
The Indians: today beat the big
tobacco - chewing fellow wno
licked them in the Boston opener.
Johnny Sain.
Sals Yields Five Hits
They clipped him for only five
hits, 'all in the first five frames.
But one of their blows was a dou
ble by Boudreau with an under
ling on base in the. first inning, and
another was a home run smash
by the negro outfielder, Larry Do
by, deep over the right center field
railing in the third. .
In all, Gromek gave up seven
ihits, but Rickert was the only
1 Brave to see third base.
a string of 23 scoreless innings: for
the Braves, starting in the second
game. It was exactly the 200th
home run ever jut in a world ser
ies game.
Today's throng raised its blood
pressure only twice when Doby
socked the winning hit, and when
Boudreau was called out at third
by Umpire Bill Stewart. Cleve
land's favorite villain, after de
livering his timely double in the
first inning.
(Play-by-play, page 9)
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180
Work to Start
Tomorrow on
ort
Salem Airv
Construction equipment was in
place today for an early Monday
beginning on an $80,000 improve
ment project at Salem airport.
First job is to be straightening of
the cityfs South 25th street exten
sion by: cutting across the field to
the weit side site of the contem
plated administration building.
; Contractor is the C. T. Malcolm
company. The project is financed
by civil aeronautics authority and
the city, with Salem contributing
$35,000,
jThis program will include 10,000
squarejfeet of apron, improvement
of the! access road. 1,065 feet of
taxi ways and 4,400 feet of drainage
system;
Chest Total at
57 Per Gent of
$110,000 Goal
Fiveimore percentage points to- Pred with 20j the Primaries'
ard Salem'V community chest ! for a am of 1'608" . .
Potential
Vote at
New High
Marion county and Salem regis
trations for November's general
election have soared to new re
cords. County Clerk Harlan Judd
announced Saturday after final
tabulations were completed.
A total of 41,558 Marion county
voters were counted Saturday, ex
ceeding'by 1,118 the 1940 general
election high of 40,440. The figure
is 2,712 above the primary regis
tration total this year 38,846.
Salem's 36 precincts Saturday
showed a total of 19,125 registered
voters 752 more than 18,373
in 1940. New voters registering
since the primary election totaled
1,140.
Over the entire county, 25,247
republicans are registered for the
general election, compared with
23,898, for the primaries. Demo
crats total 16,179 against 14,605
at the primary. They gained jB25
more than the GOP.
Precincts outside of Salem
showed 22,483 registered, as com
Hundreds Seairclhi for Body
The progressive party candidate ! Judge Stays
r president delivered this double 1 " J .
j Union Penalty
for president delivered this double j
salvo in the midst of a fast-traveling
effort to increase his strength
In the state of Washington, where
his party has put up more than
100 candidates for various offices.
His likening of U. S. foreign pol
icy to Hitler came In a speech be
fore l.zoo at the armory here.
- He said America's policy really
comes out of "schemes born of
the fear of peace" and "dreams of
world conquest."
ward Salem's community
goal were added Saturday as the
total of collections and pledges
reached $62,635, or 67 per cent of
the goal to be reached by Friday.
The automotive and transporta
tion division headed by W. L.
Phillips, jr., continued to top the
field with an $3,485 total, 85 per
cent of its quota. Not far behind
were the industrial and general
gifts divisions, with 76 and 70 per
cent, respectively.
Reports will continue to be sub
mitted twice daily by the many so
licitors and campaign workers, un
til the annual drive for $110,000
closes. !
Other divisional reports Satur
day afternoon: Professional. $7,727
or 84 per cent; mercantile. $10,217
or 63 per cent; education, $2,399
or 61 per cent; women, $5,534 or
45 per cent; contractors, $4,406 or
44 per cent; governmental, $3,278
or 33 per cent: utilities, $1,050 or
33 per -cent; West Salem, $400 or
13 per cent; rural, $295 or 7 per
cent.
MISSING MAN FOUND
ASHLAND, Ore, Oct 9 -UP)
fouce reported today that Ken
neth Peabody, jeweler here who
had been missing since Sept. 23,
has been located at the Arlington,
Wash- home of a distant rela
five. Circumstances surrounding
the businessman s appearance at
Arlington were not known here,
Animal Craclccrs
SV WARREN GOODRICH
1 r
"see ttfi got another omo
Cf thoto bouncing boru"
NEW YORK; Oct 9 -OP)- A
federal circuit court judge today
stayed execution of penalties, in
cluding a $20,000 fine, against a
department store union for defy
ing a non-picketing injunction.
Meanwhile, however, officials
of local 1250, CIO retail, whole
sale and department store union
announced they were complying
currently with a Taft-Hartley in
junction barring them from pick
eting two Oppenheim-Collins de
partment stores.
Tacoma Dock!
Men to Work
TACOMA, Oct 9 -VP- AFL
longshoremen here voted tonight
to work all ships in the harbor de
spite picket lines of the CIO mari
time unions. l '
Ed Coester, president of the AFL
Maritime Trades Council, an
nounced the decision.
The plan to work the ships was
announced yesterday but it i re-
quired ratification by local members.
Weather
Max. Mln. Precis.
Portland
Saa Traadaco
Chicago
7 44
a 43 jn
4 48 M
IS 4 J00
43 48 J00
New York .
Willamette river 1J feet !
FORECAST (from UA weather ; bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy today, becominf cloudy with
rains and cooler Monday. High today
near 85. Low tonight near 48. Weather
favorable for moat farm activities to
day, becoming unfavorable Monday.
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SALEM PSECIPITATION
(Sept. 1 te Oct. IS)
This Year
LaatYear
Average
' S.4I
Husband Gets
4300 Fine for
Branding Wife
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 8-UrVA hus
band who held a heated electric
iron against his wife's cheek was
fined $300 yesterday by City Judge
J. Grellner.
But the court's action in waiving
two-thirds of the fine if the hus
band stayed away from his wife
ws criticized by Clarence
Schlingman, chief parole officer
of the city court. He said Ross
Iacona, S3, is not "probation material."
Iacona's wife, Anna. 24, testi
fied her husband branded her with
a long bum on her left cheek dur
ing an 'argument over custody of
their Hvo children.
fl guess it was worth it," she
said. "I've got the children now."
The couple separated a month
ago.
Today's Statesman
SECTION 1
"ae-i-tlie-Newt Page 1
editorial, features , Page 4
S porta section. , Pages 7, a, 9
Dally Comics Pag 11
Classified ads Pages 14, IS
SECTION 2
WomrB's sectioai Pages 1-4
Sunday Gardening Page S
Radio log .... Page 8
polk slaying case Page 8
SECTION 3
Sunday comics
In precincts outside Salem the
republican male signup of 6,928
led the women's 6,015. But in Sa
lem the men lagged behind with
only 5,848 men registered against
the potential women vote of 6,
456. Outside Salem the male demo
crats also hold a lead of 4,975 to
4292, but in the city the women
lead 3.359 to 3.193.
Registered republican voters in
Salem precincts total 12,304 and
the democrats 6,552, the republi
cans having gained 609 votes since
the May primary election.
A compilation of minority party
registration voters outside Salem
showed eight progressives, 14 so
cialists, 40 prohibition, 71 in
dependents and 17 mi.cilanb.
Candidates on
Trail of Votes
In Middlewest
By the Associated Press
Governor Dewey and President
Truman head for the hills and
prairies of the jnidwest again to
night (Sunday) shuttling about
on their special trains three weeks
ahead ofUhe presidential election.
Each will appear in Illinois, In
diana and Minnesota, among other
states. Dewey's republican drive
will take him as far southwest as
Oklahoma.
Mr. Truman, after carrying his
democratic campaign through Del
aware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and upstate New York, hurried
back to Washington yesterday to
meet Secretary of State Marshall,
who flew in from Paris in the
president's own plane.
Dewey's first major speech this
week will be at Pittsburgh Mon
day night, after a day of back
platform appearances through Pen
nsylvania. On the same night Mr.
Truman talks at Akron, Ohio.
Henry A. Wallace, the Progres
sive party nominee, was to talk in
Minneapolis tonight, flying in from
the Pacific Northwest where he
has been stumping Washington
state.
Gov. J. Strom Thurmond, the
States' Rights Democratic candi
date, scheduled a talk at Green
ville, S.C. his home state.
California Gov. Earl Warren,
who has been criss-crossing the
nation advocating unity and the
election of his running mate, Dew
ey, headed for Nebraska and Wy
oming. The democratic vice presi
dential nominee. Senator Barkley
of Kentucky, was due for a rest
in San Francisco.
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Calls Off
Mission
.
A bicycle out of control carried 10-year-old Larry Louce to his death In the Willamette river Satur
day afternoon. Shown here are a few of the hundreds of people whs lined the stream t1 wfeteb fr
ne ooay. ine bicycle (at the right) was recovered. The parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Eoce, are
siaiuung at uie river s edge just to the right of the man with the bat at left-center. I
(Statesman pboto)
Neutrals Start
Move to End
Berlin Crisis
PARIS, Oct. MPy-Efforts of the
security council's "neutral six to
settle the Berlin clash and dodge a
to ".e rerorted tonight under
scrutiny in the Kremlin.
f United Nations sources said pro
posals on Berlin by the six mem
bers were transmitted to Moscow
by soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Vlshinsky. Their nature
was not disclosed. Earlier reports
said it involved lifting the soviet
blockade while the four-power for
eign ministers council attempts a
merman settlement.
Some sources said the need to
await a Kremlin reply caused the
six members to favor delaying un
til Tuesday or later Jthe next coun
cil meeting on the Berlin, issue.
Juan A. Bramuglia, of Argentine,
temporary council president for the
uerim debate, met today with rep
resentatives of the other five
smaller nations Belgium, China,
oiomoia, Syria, and Canada.
Truman Happy
Honest Man9
Found Glasses
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Oct. S
(JP)- Mort Cohn, assistant pro-
Kiain director at a radio station
here, received a personal note of
thanks today from President
i ruman.
Cohn found Mr. Truman's
glasses, which the president left
on the speakers' stand after ad
dressing a democratic rally here
October 1, and mailed them back
to the White House.
"I'm glad an honest man In
stead of a souvenir hunted found
the glasses," the president wrote.
"I was quite worried because
they could not be replaced im
mediately. This was the first
time I had pulled a stunt like
that."
Harry B. Read. Manager of
Power Co-op, Dies in Hospital
Harry B. Read, 58, manager of
the Salem Electric, died early Sat
urday morning at a local hospital.
Read, ailing for a number of
years, became seriously ill Friday
afternoon and was taken from his
office to the hospital
He was born at Seattle, Aug.
29, 1892, and later operated
radio repair shop at Hood River.
A pioneer in development of
broadcasting in the northwest.
Reed operated the old Hallock and
Watson station in Portland before
station employed call letters.
He was one of the founders of
Portland station KXL. and also
owned! the facilities which later
became koln. Moving to Salem
in 1934, Read established KSLM,
which .he operated until selling to
Glenn McCormick.
Bead helped ; organize Salem
Electric, a cooperative power firm,
and managed the business until
his death.
An initiative measure to give
the cooperative a franchise in
Salem will appear on the city bal
lot in November. An active op
ponent of Portland General Elec
tric company. Read was largely re
sponsible for completion of the
initiative petitions.
Surviving Read are his widow,
Mrs. Evelyn Read of Salem; two
sisters, Mrs. Phoebe Wieler of
Quincy, Wash.; and Mrs. Faith
McHenry of Bremerton; a brother,
Walter Read of Los Angeles; an
adopted son, William Allen Read,
and a step-son, Gilbert Rollin
Read.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. at the W. T.
Rigdon chapel.
Reds Still Do Not
Have A-Bonib,
Marshall Indicates
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -(IP)
Secretary of State Marshall ap
peared tonight to be convinced
that Russia does not have an
atomic bomb.
This came out at his news con
ference explaining why President
Truman was interested, for a
time, in the idea of sending Chief
Justice Vinson on a special mis
sion to Moscow. Marshall said
that Mr. Truman was worried
over Soviet unwillingness to
agree with the atomic control
plan voted by a majority of the
members of the United Nations
security council.
He said that Mr. Truman has
"very special position in the
matter. When asked what he
meant by that he said that the
president's position is unique in
all the world.
His hearers in the news con
ference clearly understood that
he meant that President Truman
is the only human being who has
the final control of an atomic
bomb. i
Boy Plunges to Death On
Bike In Willamette River
river.
playing on
tragedy
r
95iO0O,O06Vi
Be of Vote Age
Larry Louce, 10, of 2135 N. Liberty it, drowned Saturday aftejr
noon when he rode his bicycle down a stetp trail at the fool; of Colurn
Dia street and plunged into the swift-moving Willamette
Larry and two young companions, city police said, were
tne muddy path with their bicycles about 3:45 pjn. when
occurred.
Riding with the boy at the time
were Robert Williams, 11, of 2103
N. Liberty st and David Bancroft,
8. of 373 Columbia st.
Young Williams made a heroic
attempt to pull the drowning boy
from the water, but was forced to
give up and swim for shore after
the victim went down for the third
time. '
The Williams boy told Officer
Lee Weaver that he, Larry and
David Bancroft rode down the
grade as they had often done In
the past when Larry's bike failed
to stop at the river's edge, and that
the bike shot out into deep water.
Police recovered the bicycle a
few minutes after arriving and
started to drag the area for the
body. Detective Leonard Skinner,
a pilot, chartered a plane and flew
at low level over the area for more
than an hour.
The search was abandoned about
6:15 pjn. because of darkness. More
than 500 persons aided police in
scanning the river banks for two
miles below the scene in a futile
effort to locate the youth.
The boy is survived by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Louce.
The family moved to Salem about
a year ago from Minnesota.
Police said the search would be
resumed again early this morning.
Cities along river north of Salem
have been notified to look for the
body.
Plug Your Ears
To Outbursts of
Youth, Is Adiice
DETROIT. Oct. 9 -(JPy- Let your
children call you names when they
get angry. It's good for them.
This advice was given at a men
tal hygiene conference by Dr.
Luther E. Woodward, of New
York, consultant for the national
committee for mental hygiene.
For example. Dr. Woodward
said, his small daughter had once
told him she'd like to "cut you up
in little pieces and stuff you In the
furnace and close the door."
"Just take the outpourings of
negative emotions in due course
and make nothing of them, the
doctor said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 JP)-
The United States will jbavc about
95,000,000 men and women of vot
ing age by election dayj November
2, the; census bureau estimated to
night.,
Many of them will be Ineligible
to vote for various reasons and
many: who will be eligible won't
actually vote. The census bureau
made! no attempt to predict the
vote final, but its data worked out
to this: ! !
; The vote will be 45,380,000 j if
ballots are cast at the 1944 (Roose
velt 4 Dewey) rate, or 46,525,000
if at the heavier 1940 (Roosevelt-
Willkje) rate. f
The census bureau said 56.4 per
cent of the voting- - age civilian
population cast ballots Jin the 1944
race, ! making the total vote that
year 4",967,263. j I
! The comparative percentage lor
1940 was 59.5. The total was 49,-
820.312 votes. S
Th 95,000,000 estimate for the
voting age population ion Novi 2
allowed for a population increase
of about 250,000 a month over the
bureau s last previous estimate on
July t
I i
George Gerlinger
Dies in Portland;
Fuheral Monday
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 9-(fiy-George
T. Gerlinger, 76, promi
nent Oregon lumberman, died at
his hme here tonight.
WASHINGTON. Oct ft -fJPI
President Truman disclosed to
day that he had considered and
rejected &n the advice of Secre
tary of State Marshall an extra
ordinary mission by Chief Jus-
va XT I t.ll it ' .
iJT VtJ the American people feel! about
Jf "the atomic nrohlem " S i
1 . : ' . 1
Vinson was to nave undertak
en a personal attempt to straight
en the Russian leaders out on this
grave matter, Mr. Truman said
in a statement . . i.
The plan was dropped, he said,
because of the general situation
as reported by Marshall and be
cause of the "possibilities of mis
understanding" which might grow
out of a single-handed action by
the United States. j
Reports ef Split Dened B j
Marshall, In a late daV news
conference, noted that he had
seen reports of "a split between
the president and the secretary
of state."? He added emphatically:
"There is no foundation for thiB.
Marshall flew home from the
Paris meeting of the United Na
tions this morning to give Mr.
Truman. his views; the president
himself cut short his political
campaigning to talk things over
with his secretary of state, t
' They met amid published re
ports of a projected-and-itban-doned
mission to Moscow by Yin
son. These reports went tincon
firmed and undented up to the
late day White House statf-mc-nt.
Then, after two White r House
conferences In which Marshall
and Undersecretary of State Robert
Lovett sat in, the White r House
released Mr. Truman's explana
tion of what he had proposed and
why he had dropped It ki , J j
Statement Issued I 1
The facts, said Mr. Tfuman,
are as follows: !
"On last Tuesday, when I com
municated with Secretary Mar
shall, I told him of my con
tinuing great desire to see peace
firmly established in the ' world,
and of my particular concern at
this time over the attitude takes
by the Soviet representatives fe--garding
the atomic problem, i :
"I said that I was wondering
whether their attitude did not re
flect a misunderstanding in the
minds of the Soviet leaders so
serious, from the standpoint ef '
world peace in general, that "we
yrould be remiss if we. left vn
done anything . that might con
ceivably serve to dispel It. I
asked the secretary whether he
felt that a useful purpose -would
be served by sending to Moscow
Chief Justice Vinson, in an ef
fort to make the Soviet leaders
understand the seriousness and
sincerity of the feelings of the
people of the United States about
these matters. f
Misunderstanding Feared f ;
"Secretary Marshall described
to me the situation wnicn ne .
forH In Pari and. In the licht
of his report and he possibilities
of misunderstanding to which any
unilateral action, however desir
able otherwise, could lead at pres
ent, I decided not to tajie inia
step." !".. . i -
International control of atomic
energy has been one of the major
problems of the U. N. In7 Paris,
although the Russian blockade of
Berlin has provided the j most
serious immediate concern. i j -Marshall
at his news Confer
ence which was timed right
after the White House ftatement
said that the United , btatea
stands ready to enter any nego
tiations with Russia in tne coun
cil of foreign ministers pro
vided that first the Berlin: block
ade is lifted.
240,000,000 to Be
Spent at Jlanfordj
SPOKANE. Oct. 9-TVSen.
Ifarrv P. Cain fR-Wash.) said to
day that an average of $20,000,000
a month will be spent for the next
12 months' on the atomic energy
plant at Hanford,i wasn. ine
plant produces plutoniumj which
is usea in mc prouueuou
atomic bomb. if .
was president of the Wjl-
e Valley Lumber company,
former director of the Poft
branch, Federal Reserve
Tragedy Alters
State's Picture!'
That will be the topic of the
first of a series of stories, to
start in The Oregon Statesman
on Tuesday, October 12. onthe
state's political set-up.
National and international af
fairs have been driving the Ore
gon scene from the front pages
all year. Thousands of our new
residents haven't had a real
chance to know their adopted
state.
That's the "why" of this
Statesman's new series which
will detail Oregon's govern
ment its 1948 candidates and
the Issues faced.
Starting Tuesday In
OrrgOuCDtiLtwnao
He
la met
and a
land
bank.
, His' widow is a former national
committeewoman of the repub
lican Iparty and for many year a
leader in party affairs in Oregon.
; Gerlinger was born in Chicago.
He moved to Oregon in 1 1903.
i Suijviving are his wiiow, Iretie,
and jthree daughters.) Funeral
Services will be held Monday in the
Trinity Episcopal church.
I T
Independent Papers
In Argentine Hit
i BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 9-(M-The
Independent newspapers La
Nacian and La Presna, hardest hit
by a j government decree limiting
Argentine papers to 16 pages daily,
today, moved to comply with the
order; by slashing advertising and
editorial space. Neither criticized
yesterday's government order,
READY TO NEGOTIATE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9-(-Secretary
of State Marshall said
tonight the United States stands
ready to negotiate with Russia In
the council of foreign ministers! at
any time provided that the Ber
lin blockade Is lifted.
100.000
tso.ooo
$60,000
$40,000
$20,000
$110.00
V 1
f'i
$90,010 f
$70,000
$30,000
$10,000
410,000
Salem Chest ,
Goal 0110,000
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