The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 23, 1951, Page 1, Image 1

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The Olivier, Sir Laurence and
bis wife, Vivian Leigh, have come
back to America, playing in two
Cleopatra plays at Ziefgeld the
atre, New York, in their first ap
pearance here since 1946 when
they came with the Old Vic rep
ertory company. They are repeat
ing in this country, on alternate
nights, Shaw's "Caesar and Cleo
patra" and Shakes pearete "An
tony and Cleopatra," which they
carried through last season in Lon
don. The success that attended
them in their home country is ex
pected to follow them in this.
Both have succeeded in pictures,
too. Sir Laurence's great successes
having been in the J. Arthur pro
ductions of Henry V and Hamlet;
and Miss Leigh starred in "Gone
With the Wind."
The two plays catch Cleopatra
at the beginning and the end of
her career as queen of Egypt.
Shaw's play shows her as a girl
of sixteen attracting the interest
of a bald, middle-aged Caesar.
But as Shaw says, "in Egypt six
teen is a riper age than it is in
England."
The play has much less of
George Bernard Shaw than most
of his others, like "The Apple
Cart" and "Pygmalion and Gala
tea," but it is Shaw rather than
Julius Caesar who delivers this
speech to Cleopatra after she jus
tifies her order for the execution
of a traitor, as he hears clamor in
the streets:
"Do you hear? These knockers
at your gate are also believers in
vengeance and stabbing. You have
slain their leader: it is right that
they shall slay you. If you doubt
It, ask your four counsellors
(Continued on editorial page, 4.)
Boy Unaivare
Of Mother's
Fate on Ship
ASTORIA Dec. 22-P)-An 11-year-old
boy played here today,
still not told that his mother and
sister were among the 11 missing
after the fire aboard the Danish
ship Erria.
He is William George Brunlees,
whose grief-stricken father, Angus
Brunlees,- Whitehorse, Y.T., still
has not recovered from the twist
of fate that separated him from
Mrs. Brunlees and their daughter,
Elizabeth, 6, the morning of the
fire.
He left them in the ship's lounge
while he stepped out on deck to
see whether it was safe out there.
Flames exploded behind him, and
he could not get back to his wife
and daughter, who are believed
to have perished in the lounge.
Brunlees said he was taking the
family on a long-planned trip to
Europe.
Townspeople were taking up a
collection for his son, intending to
buy him an electric train for
Christmas one just like the train
he has admired at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Don Richardson, who
took him in after the disaster.
(Story about ship on page 2.)
Truman Sends
Steel Dispute
To Wage Board
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -(JP)
President Truman tonight sent the
deadlocked steel controversy to the
wage stabilization board in an ef
fort to avoid a nationwide strike
New Year's eve
The president said the wage dis
pute between the CIO Steel work
ers and various steel companies
"has now arrived at a stage
where it gravely threatens the
progress of national defense . . .
it is of the utmost importance to
prevent intemrotion in the pro
duction of steel."
The president added "it is for
this reason that I have certified
this matter to the wage stabiliza
tion board. This will provide the
parties with a forum where their
differences may be resolved and
a fair settlement reached, Avithout
resort to a costly shutdown."
The move followed the collapse
yesterday or federal mediation ef
forts to attain a wage agreement
between the union and leading
steel companies. The union is ask
ing wage increases and other ben
efits that might exceed 30 cents
an hour increase.
Canny Bulb
Grower Dies
PORTLAND, Dec. 22-(53-Mer-ton
G. Ellis, operator of a com
mercial bulb farm at Canby and
nationally known bulb expert,
died at a Portland hospital today
following a heart attack.
Ho was born at Dallas, ' Ore
Oct. 29, 1881. ,
Two sons and four daughters
survive.
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in the late afternoon and early evening until Christmas eve. Here Roberts plays the organ while three
carolers supply the words. From left the girls are Virginia Benner, 2675 Lansing ave.; Diane Burk
land, 266 SkopU ave.; and Sharon Anderson, 2145 Carlton Way. (Statesman photo.)
Former RFC
Official Quits
Pentagon Job
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22- (JP) -William
E. Willett, former mem
ber of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation board, resigned sud
denly today from his $11,800 navy
department job. Secretary of De
fense Robert Lovett was report
ed to have taken a hand in Wil
lett's case upon finding the navy
had employed him.
Willett had been working In
the office of Undersecretary of the
Navy Francis P. Whitehair since
October 24 without higher ups
knowing he was in the Pentagon,
officials close to Lovett told re
porters. They said , the first knowledege
in top defense department circles
of Willett's appointment to a per
sonnel and housing position on
Whitehair!s staff came when they
read published stories two days
ago.
Willett was one of five members
whose nomination to that agency
by President Truman was blocked
by a senate subcommittee after an
inquiry into "influence" was used
in the lending agency.
The Willett resignation was
in the form of a one-sentence
memorandum in which Willett
said:
"In view of all the criticism
levelled at the navy department
and the oindersecretary of the
navy (whom I had met only twice
before I saw him in his office as
undersecretary) I hereby resign
my position as director, personnel
policy, office of the deputy for
manpower, to take effect im
mediately." PIERCE IN FAIR CONDITION
Walter M. Pierce, former Ore
gon governor and congressman,
was reported still in "fair" condi
tion early Sunday morning at Sa
lem Memorial hospital. Attendants
said no change was apnarent from ical. hospital, surgical, disability or
his Friday condition. He was tak-' death insurance benefits to work
en to the hospital Thursday nignt. 1 ers, their wives and children.
Western Military Commanders in Europe Convinced Allies
Now Strong Enough to Halt any Russian Invasion at Rhine
Editor's note: Inside Ger
many, two AP correspond
ents pat the qnestion "what
if war comes to western com
mandrrs en the eve of 1952.
Here is their summary of the
military position at this In
vasion crossroads, as told to
Daniel De Luce, who covered
the last war from the Polish
conquest to the Nasi collapse,
and George BonltwoooV for
mer Lieutenant Colonel who
fought and was wounded with
British forces in the Norman
dy landings.)
By DANIEL DE LUCE and
GEORGE BOCLTWOOD
With allied forces in Germany,
Dec 22-i-Pr-If Russia suddenly
attacks, allied . commanders be
lieve they are) strong enough now
to hold ov the Rhine.
A year ago, the grim prospect
was a headlong retreat to the Pyr
enees and the Brittany peninsula.
The idea that most -of Europe
would have to be lost to Russia
before it could be saved Is now
out of data,
TWO SECTIONS 28 PAGES
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from the heme of T. S. Koberts,
Duff Says Demand
For Eisenhower's
Candidacy Grows
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -7P)-Senator
Duff (R-Pa) declared to
day there is a tremendous grass
roots demand" throughout the
country that General Dwight D.
Eisenhower bid for the republican
presidential nomination and that
he Is convinced the general will
do so.
Formally opening Washington
headquarters of an "Ike for Pres
ident" group in the GOP, Duff
told a news conference he plans
to advise Eisenhower about the
"demand" when he visits the gen
eral in Paris, probably early in
1952.
Employers May
Give Welfare,
Health Benefits
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 - (JP) -The
government ruled today that
employers may give workers and
their families health and welfare
benefits without counting the cost
as part of wages.
The move was immediately de
scribed by industry representa
tives as inflationary, and an open
invitation to labor unions to start
a widespread drive to obtain such
benefits.
The wage stabilization board
(WSB) ruled, with industry mem
bers dissenting, that such plans
may be put into effect within
certain limits without counting
the cost toward what is allowed
in the way of wage increases un
der other stabilization rules.
These . rules, in general, allow
pay boosts of about 14 per cent
over January 1950 levels but
greater pay increases are allowed
under various exceptions.
The new ruling is permissive;
employers don't have to give med-
A masive buildup of allied
ground forces in Germany has
been carried through, peacefully,
in r951. Troop strength has more
than doubled.
The United States, for example,
had only 40,000 combat effectives
here at the start of the year. Now
there are 200,000. The British are
well over 100,000.
In the months immediately
ahead, the big western weakness
In Germany is not on the ground
but in the air. The Russians have
more and better warplanes here.
Iii ground combat capability,
the allies have' reached parity with
the. Soviet army group in east
Germany for the first time since
1945. This was possible because
no fresh divisions were sent by the
Kremlin to Gen. Vassily Chuikov.
However, some of his old divisions,
which were at 70 per cent of their
size on peper, have been in
creased to 75 per cent.
Of some 30 Soviet divisions in
east Germany, eight are artillery,
engineer and anti-aircraft which
would be termed corps "or army
troops by the west.
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B-25 Dives into
Denver Area, -
No One Killed
DENVER, Dec. 22-P)-A two
engined B-25 bomber with eight
persons aboard, including -one
woman, crashed in an east Denver
residential section tonight. No
homes were hit and no one was
killed.
Two aboard the plane were in
jured. Lowry air base officials
said the injuries were not believ
ed serious.
One motor appeared to burn as
the plane came down on its belly
about 400 yards from the nearest
dwelling.
The scene was less than a mile
from where a four-engined B-29
crashed December 3, killing eight
crewmen and destroying or dam
aging five homes.
Air force officials at Lowry
field said the plane was from An
drews field, Maryland, and was
taking off for Perrin air force base
near Sherman, Texas.
The crash, at 9:06 p.m. (MST)
was near Monaco and Bayaud
boulevard within the landing
takeoff pattern for the Lowry
east-west runway.
Motorist Runs
Over Himself
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 22-yP-A
motorist ran over himself today,
and somehow emerged without
serious injury.
Myron D. Yax, 42, was thrown
from his automobile when it col
lided with another at an intersec
tion. He landed in the street, and his
automobile caught up with him,
and climbed right up on his chest.
A service station operator had to
get a jack to hoist the car off
him.
Yax came out of it with a
shoulder fracture and cuts on his
head and legs.
The 11 strong allied divisions
in west Germany, plus their corps
and army support, are considered
a match in size and firepower
for the 22 Soviet infantry and ar
mored divisions opposite them.
The allies have more men in
Germany 400,000 to Russia's
330,000. But the ration of combat
personnel is figured at 1 to 1, be
cause fewer Soviet troops, pro
portionately, are detailed to sup
ply tasks.
If Soviet forces in the east zone
remain at their present strength,
the aday has already passed when
they 'could suddenly strike west
ward and seize Europe in a single
onrush.
The allies have enough power
on the ground to bring a surprise
onewave attack to a halt on the
Rhine. There are now six Ameri
can divisions instead of two, four
British instead of two, three
French, and the equivalent of a
mixed division of Canadians, Bel
gians, Danes and Norwegians.
In addition, two French divi
sional cadres are in close reserve
west of the Rhine.
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Th Orecon Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Sunday.
Miners'
Bodies
Burned
. By Earl Aykroid
WEST FRANKFORT. 111., Dec.
22-(VP)-Hopes were fading tonight
for the rescue of from 50 to 60
men trapped in an explosion-
shattered coal mine after 32
burned and tom bodies were
brought to the surface.
Sweating rescue crews con
tinued their desperate probing
through thick smoke and gas to
reach the men 550 feet under
ground at the Orient No. 2 mine
near here. Appeals were broad
cast for more rescue volunteers.
Sobbing wives, sisters and chil
dren of the trapped men waited
courageously for word from the
men who had been working on
their last shift before the Christ
mas vacation.
Terrific Violence
The terrific violence of the un
derground blast last night was
shown in the mutilated condition
of the bodies brought up.
Estimates of the possible toll
ranged to more than 100.
Members of the rescue teams
described scenes of underground
horror hair standing straight up
on the head of one body; other
bodies pressed close to the floor
as if the men made final desper
ate clutches for life-giving air;
bodies with limbs ripped off; oth
ers roasted.
Bodies Identified
Twenty-five of the 32 recovered
bodies have been identified. They
were taken to a temporary morgue
at the junior high school. Four
men, who survived the blast with
injuries, got out last night.
The mine, owned by the Chi
cago, Wilmington and uranKiin
Coal Co., is one of the world's
largest shaft soft coal producers,
producing three million tons an
nually. It includes 12 miles of
sprawling tunnels.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22 -()- The
Post-Dispatch reported tonight it
learned federal mine inspectors
made repeated criticisms of meth
ods to control methane gas in
Orient mine No. 2 at West Frank
fort, 111., but the company took
no steps to comply with the fed
eral inspectors' recommendations.
The mine was the scene of an
underground blast last night in
which as many as 100 miners may
have died.
Mercury Low,
Snow High in
Midwest Area
By The Associated Press
Winter got started officially yes
terday in a nation which already
has had its fill of snow and cold.
The new season found the mid
west covered with snow and Ice.
Low temperatures reached levels
under the zero mark in six states.
Bismark, N.D., had -22 and Chi
cago had -2 before the mercury
line began to edge up.
Travel in many midwestern
areas was slow and treacherous,
and some roads were blocked by
heavy drifts.
More snow was forecast for the
north central states.
The cold front moved eastward
to the Appalachians.
Farther east, comparatively
mild weather prevailed -along the
Atlantic seaboard.
The waves of snow and cold
that have Dassed across much of
the nation during the ' past ten
days have resulted In 265 deaths.
The militarized regiments of
the east German people's police
are in training doldrums, ineir
numbers 50,000 young men un
der Communist indoctrination
are static.
Though a new Soviet buildup
in the heart of Europe is not
yet underway, it could begin any
time. Some allied officers call
1952 "Russia's year of decision."
The high ranking opinion goes
this way:
"They can't wipe us out now
with what they already have in
position. As late as last summer,
they could have done just that
with scarcely an hour's advance
L warning.
r un..j At 1 l Al 2
Dili mey can get khivk. uicu
ground superiority at the jump-off
point in 1952 if they choose to
bring divisions from home. The
weft has to create new divisions,
that's slower.
If there is no full-dress attack
in 1952, it should be too late for
one in 1953. We ought to be able
to hold anything they can mass
in 1953.
"By 1954 well, that's a long
December 23. 1951
U.N. Invites
Visit
List of U.S. Traffic Peafths
Starts on Second Million
Holiday Toll 156; 3 Oregon Deaths
By the Associated Press
The motor vehicle claimed its one millionth victim in the nation
Saturday.
The traffic toll was run up in 52 years, three months and nine
days. The grisly milepost was reached and recorded at 11:27 a.m. Sat.
Dave Dawson, 25, of Danbury, Tex., was the last person to die
among the final 10 victims recorded by the Associated Press in a na
tionwide spot check that began
Wednesday. He died at 9:13 a.m
(EST) Saturday from injuries
suffered in an auto accident seven
hours earlier. Two others were
fatally injured in the same crash.
The total reached the million
mark on the Associated Press tal
ly sheet with the report of the
death of Miss Elma Wischmeier,
52. She died in a Cleveland, O.,
hospital at 7:20 p.m. (EST) Fri
day. News of her death reached
at tabulators at 11:27 a.m. (EST)
Saturday.
The actual one millionth victim
never can be identified. Statistics
early in the century were esti
mates instead of actual figures.
The highway slaughter, current
ly averaging 100 deaths each day,
kept pace with earlier rorecasis.
The National Safety council pre
dicted March 1 that the one mil
lionth fatality would occur in De
cember. On June 29, the council
picked the Christmas holidays as
the time. The council picked the
exact date on Dec. 14.
If the present rate of fatalities
continue, the council says, the two
millionth traffic death will occur
in 1981.
The Christmas holiday period
started on a grim note for many
families Saturday as 156. persons
were killed in traffic, fire or mis
cellaneous accidents.
The breakdown of a count start
ed by the Associated Press at 6
p.m.. local time, Friday, when the
holiday travel period began, show
ed 125 dead in traffic accidents,
22 in fires and 9 from miscellan
eous causes.
Hazardous driving conditions
prevailed in the central part of
the nation. Extreme cold increas
ed the hazard of dwelling fires
resulting from overtaxed heating
systems.
Cold weather, probably tnrougn
Christmas, was expected to keep
the snow and ice on the midwes
tern highways.
Oreeon counted three traffic
deaths today after the start of the
long Christmas holidays.
Icy roads were blamed for two
of the deaths.
A truck skidded from icy pave
ment just south of Portland and
overturned. The driver, Jacob
Wacker, 53, Portland, was killed.
An ambulance skidded from the
icy Mt. Hood highway near Rhod
odendron and crashed into a tree,
killing the driver, Herbert Zach
er, 53, Redmond funeral director.
He was en route to Portland to
pick up a hospital patient, A. H.
Holmes, to take him home for
Christmas. Mrs. Holmes, a pas
senger in the ambulance, was un
hurt. The previous night Kenneth
Jewel Smith, 29, Salem, driver of
a produce truck was killed when
his vehicle ran out of contro on
! the Pacific highway seven miles
south of Ashland. (Story on page
5.)
I time in the future. But it may be
our year of decision as 1952 is
Kussia s. some day wnen tne wesi
em rearmament is completed, we
will have to decide whether to
send our forces into action while
they are at their peak. It will be
hellishly risky, regardless of
whether the answer is yes or no."
But allied armies in Germany
are so far behind the Russians
in air cover that if war were to
come tomorrow, no western gener
al could dare hope to move a di
vision in daylight without heavy
losses. The enemy would have air
supermacy from the start.
This dismal situation Is, In
part, the result of years of em
phasis on strategic bombing by
air command eca and the aversion
of many of them to close support
for ground forces.
Although it is the Rhine Instead
of a Brittany beachhead where the
allies now count on holding, their
highest officers are on guard
against optimism or slacking up.
This vigilance has also spurred
British and French efforts to get
their reserves in shape at homo.
PRICE 10c
Prison
PGE, Indians
To Discuss
Pelton Dam
THE DALLES, Dec. 22-P-The
Portland General Electric Com
pany will try January 7 to clear
another obstacle in the way of
construction of the proposed Pel
ton Dam on the Deschutes River.
Company officials have called a
conference with the Warm Springs
Indians, seeking their approval to
build one end of the dam on
Warm Springs Reservation land.
The Indians informally have
indicated they would approve the
proposal depending on the
amount of money to be paid for the
right but formal approval by 30
per cent of the Indians must be
given.
PGE cleared bne obstacle yes
terday when the federal power
commission gave its approval of
the 22 million dollar dam.
Still another obstacle remains.
The state fish commission has an
nounced it will challenge in the
courts the FPC's authority to ap
prove the project after a state
agency, the fish commission, had
disapproved.
Churchill Lists
3-Year Plan
For Finances
LONDON, Dec. 22 - (JP) - Prime
Minister Winston Churchill called
on the British people tonight to
mobilize for a three-year fight
against national bankruptcy.
They will have to battle alone
without counting on American
money, he solemnly told a nation
wide radio audience.
In the spirit of his famed
"blood, sweat, toil and tears" ex
hortation of the last war, the 77-year-old
prime minister told the
country:
"I have nothing to propose to
you that is easy."
Churchill made his pre-Christ-mas
fireside address to present his
view of the problems confronting
the nation after his conservative
government has been in office
eight weeks. The position is "stern
and grim," he declared.
The prime minister warned
against attaching "exaggerated
importance and hope" to his forth
coming visit to the United States
in January. All that may be ex
pected from America, he said, is
aid in the common defense pro
gram. "But," he warned, "you must
not expect the Americans to solve
our domestic problems for us. In
rearmament and in the North At
lantic organization we have im
mense and intricate affairs in
common; and I want to make sure
that we can help each other as
much as possible."
He asked that domestic political
wrangling cease and that judg
ment on his new regime be sus
pended for a while.
"We require at least three years
before anyone can judge fairly
whether we have made things
better or worse," he said.
The prime minister said when
his regime took office the country
stood within a few months of na
tional bankruptcy. Had affairs
been allowed to drift, he said, the
country would have had to choose
between charity "if wo could get
it" and starvation.
INDEPENDENCE FOR LIBYA
TRIPOLI, Libya, Dec.. 22-JPy
Libya, the poorest natiorx'oo earth,
gets its independence Monday as
a Christmas eve gift" from the
United Nations.
INFLATION IN DICE GAMES
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 - (JP) -Harlem
dice game, broken up to
night by police, was no two bit
affair. Arrested were 40 men.
Seized was $15,000 in cash.
Salem
Portland.
San Francisco
New York
Willamette river 34 feet.
FORECAST (from XT. S. vtitlwr bu
reau. McNary field,! Salem): it uy ,
clocdy with showers and windy today
and tomcat. High today sear 43 lew -tonight
near 34. Salera temperate at
12:01 mjm. today was -34.
No. 270
Reds
On Exchange
OfSickPOWs
MFNSAN. Kstes, Sturfay.
Dee, 23 '(JP)- Communist trwc
delegates today refused to firm
a definite answer to the allied
request for aa Immediate z
ehanre of sick and wmto4
prisoners. n
Brig. Gen. WUlixm P. Naekois.
official U. N. command spokes
man, told newsmen the reo
evasiveness amounted to a - re
jection of the request. Nuckolo
said the morning session of dele
gates, discussing prisoner ex
change was "stormy and fnts-
trsung."
1 1
MUNSAN. Korea J SunHav rw
cember 23-(JP)-The allies dramati
cally invited the communists Sat-
uraay to come south and see for
themselves that somm 37.SOA
puted prisoners are actually South
Korean civilians and not genuine
red army men. ti .
By this offer they sought to
quiet some of the ! red hagglin
which has stalled armistice talks,
and nossiblv also ta hasten an
change of sick and .wounded pris
oners. : ;
Ask Inspection l
The Christmas-time gesture of .
United Nations good faith asked
the reds to come and inspect pris
oners installations near Pusan- mm&
promised that any of the disputed' "
personnel who wanted to return
to the red side could do so at the
proper time. : si . . -
The communist negotiators gave
no reply but might, do so at the
next subcommittee meeting sched
uled at Panmunjon at 11 ajn to
day (9 P.M. Saturday, ES.TJ
Plans Rejected i .
The reds rejected three allied
proposals in the truce supervisioa
subcommittee meeting Sunday
morning. The nronosal m r m,
mostly a re-wording of past ef- -
Brig. Gen. William P VnrVoU
official U."N. command spokesman, -
"u ausoiuieiy noun in g nappen
me u.ui-e supervision seo -sion.
r
The communists refused te
budge from their i
t- M ;
Cdjmps
Evasive
against aerial observation over?
North Korea, limi
struction of airfields and any in
ojt74hjh do i umixea strictly to
ports of entrv. Thov snk;.
else would be interference in
onn rvorean Internal affairs.
Made by A dm. Libby
The reauest for -an imm;..
exchange of sick and wounded
prisoners or ooth sides, and the in
vitation, were made by Rear Adm.
R- f- Libby, head! of the U. N.
subdelegatibn discussing exchange
of prisoners, item four on the con
ference agenda. i ,
,Te eds had protested removal
of 37,500 POWs from the U W
prisoner list after the allies found
were loyal South Koreans.
Libby commented:?
"They are not now and never
have been adherents to yeur
(communist) cause." . .- T
At the same truce' session, Libby
pressed twice for cno&rtv 1
to the U. N. request for informa
tion on 1,000 U. N. soldiers the al
lies think are red captives but
were not included nn thA
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Brother, Sister by
Adoption Married
NORTH BERGEN: W J Tw i
(P)-A brother and sister by adop
tion, who say they I have been in
love for 30 years, were married
tonight. It
George Harold Wickham, M
was wed to Miss Isabel Wickham,
51. whom his narents adnntoA
more than 40 i years ago. Wick
ham, who forgot to kiss the bride,
said he felt a duty to remain sin
gle while his parents were alive.
Now that both his mother and
father have died, there was ne
longer any reason to be separated,
he told newsmen. ?
Honesty Provides
Bicycle for Boy .
KLAMATH FALLS. Dec 22-UPl
-Eifht-vear-old Donald Geben
found a wallet, here three weeks
ago. Inside was $194. Donald turn
ed it over to police, who sent it
on to the owner, S. J Richards,
Los Angeles, f
Police Chief Orville HamQtoa
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terday In a letter that Instructed
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chief says is the "best $58 bicycle
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