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CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume UN
TWO SECTIONS
THE BEND 8ULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24, 1945
NO. 42
7
BEN
m
Japs Abandon
Hill Defenses
Near Bamban
U. S. Forces Continue
To Press Over Plains;
Manila 50 Miles Away
By William B. Dickinson -
(United PreM'War Correspondent)
General MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Luzon, Jan. 24 Hi1) Japanese
forces have aDanaonea new, well
prepared defenses in the hills
northwest of Bamban, 53 miles
from Manila, and the fall of that
last bastion shielding Clark field
aDDeared imminent today.
Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold's
14th corps aireaay may oe witmn
50 air miles of Manila at a point
east of Bamban. Concepcion, 53
miles northwest of the Philip
pines' capital and six and a half
miles northeast of Bamban, was
overrun yesterday.
United Press War Correspond
ent Frank Hewlett reported from
the front that the 40th (Califor
nia) division was closing in late
yesterday on both Bamban and
the Bamban airfield, three miles
northeast of the town and the
first of the Clark field airstrips.
Japanese opposition to the
frontal advance on Bamban stif
fened yesterday afternoon. Hew
lett said, but dual purpose antiaircraft-anti-tank
guns silenced
enemy batteries and most enemy
snipers soon afterward fell back
farther south.
The enemy's abandonment of
defense positions completed only
a few months ago northwest of
Bamban was taken as a sign that
he will not attempt a strong stand
even at the Bamban river, which
bisects the Luzon plain a mile
south of the town, Hewlett said.
Engineers Beady
American engineers with bull
dozers, scrapers and other equip
ment were awaiting the caDture
of the Bamban airstriD eazerlv.
vvun nunareas oi acres ot dis
persal area, the field offers un-
plmited possibilities for aerial sup-
pun oi ine unai assault on Ma-
pfia, only a, little more than.60
I kules to the south. '''---
U Filipino civilians told American
uiucerg mat American planes de
stroyed scores of Japanese planes
on the runways and revetments
at Bamban, with the result that
the enemy seldom had used the
field since last September. The
remnants or the Japanese base
force were evacuated to Manila
nine days ago, they said."'
Army engineers were expected
to have the field in operation
within a few days of its capture.
The other 10 Clark field airstrips
lie south of the Bamban river.
Guardsmen on Line
Hewlett said the .advance on
Bamban was being spearheaded
by units commanded by Col. Ed
ward J. Murrav of Sacrampntn.
Calif., former state highway en
gineer, while his subordinates in
cluded Maj. John McSweeny (8925
West 24th street), Maj. Harry
Phittlnb MQ01 fir - i
- vYeai xuiu stitrtu,
BkLt. Col. Maurice Stralta (3172
TOCasadore street), all of Los An
r Wes, and Mai. Rex Stout. Eaen
California national guardsmen
predominate in the 40th division.
Other American units strength
ened the east flank of the Amer-1
lean beachhead with thrusts into
Zarazoga, 19 miles northwest of
Bamban.
General Ben Lear
Given High Post
Paris, Jan. 24 IPI Lt. Gen. Ben
Lrar, commander of all U. S.
army ground forces, has been ap
pointed deputy commander of
American forces in the European
theater, it was announced today.
Lear was named commander tif
jjjumy ground forces last sum
er, succeeding Lt. Gen. Leslie
"" "no was Kiiiea wnue wit
nessing the aerial bombardment
Preceding the American break-
,ueh at St ,n Normandy.
(Washington sources have been
speculating that Gen. Joseph W.
stilwell, former American com
mander in China, Burma and In
wa, would be given the ground
lorces command.)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, su
preme allied commander and con
currently American commander
'n the European theater, already
has delegated Lear to direct the
manpower, including moral and
--..aic aspects. -
Some of the divisions fighting
n the western front received
'heir initial maneuver experience
finer his second army command
"i 'he United States in 1940-41.
, . CHINESE TAKE TOWN
i I Chungking, Jan. 24 UPi Chi
nese troops have recaptured the
'own of Julan, on the Cheklang
coast, and killed an estimated 500
Japanese, a communique said to-
Practice Bomb
Strikes Tavern
In Umatilla
Pendleton, Ore., Jan. 24 UP)
Military and Umatilla county au
thorities today investigated the
apparently accidental dropping of
a practice bomb from an airplane,
which plunged into a Stanfield
tavern Monday night and endan
gered the lives of a dozen men in
side. A four -foot hole was bored
through the floor and the partial
explosion of a five-pound powder
charge buried the missile six feet
In the earth.
Army officers were checking
the possibility the bomb dropped
from a plane on a routine flight
from the Walla, Walla air base
nearby. , .
Klamath, Lake
at
On Exchange
Klamath Falls. Jan. 24 tSrje-
clal) Klamath and Lake county
courts not only persisted today in
protesting a proposed land ex
change transaction between The
Shevlin-Hixon Companyof Bend,
but extended their opposition to
another deal in prospect and
against any other federal forest
land acquisitions in the counties
until the basic issues involved are
ironed out.
The courts in conference here
discussed possibility of state or
county ownership and manage
ment of lands which the Bend
company proposes to transfer to
federal forest ownership in ex
change for an equal value of tim
ber irom the national forests.
Forester Present
W. F. McGulloch, assistant
state forester, was present at the
direction oi JNels Rogers, nis
chief, and in response to a re
quest from .the county courts for
assistance in analyzing the prob
lems involved in the Shevlin-Hixon
deal. The courts have protest
ed the land exchange, mainly on
the grounds that such non-cash
transactions deprive the counties
of their share of the 25 per cent
of forest revenues wlilch they get
from normal cash sales of nation
al forest timber. "
Court members said they reject
the theory that their protests are
jeopardizing Shevlin-Hixon war
production of lumber, as was as
serted by a WPB official here last
week. They pointed out that the
company is already cutting na
tional forest timber, under a bond,
even though the current land
transaction has not been officially
closed. They indicated an opinion
that the company will get what
timber is available, in any event,
if its production is needed lor the
war effort.
Alternatives Discussed
At today's conference, several
alternatives for the current land
exchange were discussed. These
Included:
1. Continued private ownership
of the Shevlin-Hixon land.
2. County ownership w 1 1 h a
arrangement with the state.
3. Joint county-state or state
ownership.
Under the state or county own
ership plan, it was contemplated
the state would manage the land,
and the national forest would sell
timber to Shevlin-Hixon for cash.
Shevlin-Hixon officials, at pre
vious conferences here, said they
are especially concerned about the
forthcoming land exenange pro
gram involving 13,000 acres in
Klamath county.
OPPELN CAPTURED
London. Jan. 24 (IP) Marshal
Stalin announced tonight that the
red army had captured Oppeln,
Silesian stronghold on the Oder.
Standing P
American Troops Bogged Down in Apennines
Chilled By Severe Cold; Canned Food Used
By Eleanor Packard
(United PreM War Correspondent)
Rome, Jan. 24 HP) American
troops on the Fifth army front
are shivering in their foxholes
today not from fear but from
cold.
The temperature has dropped
below freezing in the coldest spell
Italy has seen this winter. And
the American G.I.'s are bogged
down in the Apennlne mountains
which are rugged almost beyond
imagination.
These G.I.'s have everything
the people in the United States
can give them in the way of warm
clothing. But I know from experi
ence that in those mountains
there is a point where no amount
of clothing can prevent a chill
from crawling up your backbone.
In the bitter deadlock of the
Italian front neither side has
moved appreciably. Most of the
rt.T at the front eat nothing but
cold canned rations. The Germans
Chief of RFC
Hints Wallace
Not Qualified
Jones Asserts Man of
Proven Experience Is
Needed to Hold Office
Washington, Jan. 24 IP Retir
ing Secretary of Commerce Jesse
H. Jones, testifying in favor of
legislation to curb the powers of
his designated successor, Henry
A. Wallace, said today that the
government's loan administrator
"should be a man of proven and
sound business experience."
Jones made a public appearance
In a jammed senate caucus room
before the senate commerce com
mittee to state his reasons for be
lieving the former vice president
is not qualified to succeed him as
head of the government's multl-
blllion-dollar lending agencies.1
Wallace will be given a rebut
tal opportunity tomorrow.
Jones gave his views on a bill
by Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga..
which would remove from the
commerce-department all control
over the Reconstruction Finance
corporation and its affiliated agen
cies.
Reminding the committee that
the RFC conducts "the most gi
gantic business enterprise, or ser
ies of business enterprises, that
the world has ever known" Jones
said it affects the entire economy
of the nation. .
Without mentioning Wallace in
the 340-word prepared statement
with which he opened his testi
mony, Jones asserted:
"Certainly the RFC should not
be placed under the supervision of
any man willing to jeopardize the
country's future with untried
ideas and idealistic schemes."
Up To Congress
There was no question, how
ever, that he would apply such a
description to Wallace, the idol
of the new deal democratic left
wing. - .
Jones asserted that It is well
within the authority and respon
sibllity of congress to determine
wnether the rfc ana ns affiliated
agencies are to be separated from
the department of commerce. .
"It seems to me that the para
mount issue before this Committee
in consideration of the resolution
offered fby Senator George," he.
said, "is not the location of the
powers which the congress has,
from time to time, delegated to
the RFC, but in the proper charac
ter of their administration."
Bombers Visit
Nip Home Isles
Pearl Harbor. Jan. 24 (IB
Tokyo reported today that six
Superfortresses attacked the main
Japanese island of Honshu and'
Korea in the last 24 hours.
Two B-29's in separate flights
dropped bombs on the industrial
city oi Nagoya, and a third at
tacked Hamamatsu on the south
east coast of Honshu, the Japa
nese radio said.
Three Superfortresses were re
ported to have flown over north
ern Korea, setting separate
courses over the cities of Keljo,
the Korean capital, Kanko and
Hanan.
Other Superfortresses made a
heavy attack on Japanese mili
tary Installations on Iwo, step
ping stone island midway between
Tokyo and Saipan.
LIFE STILL NORMAL
(Br United Press) ,
The United Press listening post
in New York today recorded the
following news bulletin from the
German radio:
"Life in Berlin continues to be
normal."
are too close and too tough to per
mit lighting of fires to cook hot
food and communications are too
bad to bring It from the rear lines.
The German artillery is becom
ing one of the main concerns of
the Americans. It is getting more
intense as the months go on, some
times even equalling or surpass
ing the volume of allied shelling.
The Germans are said to have
started producing ammunition in
Italian cities immediately behind
the front, particularly in Bologna.
The Fifth army, spearheaded
by the Americans, has not made
any spectacular advances since lt
smashed the Gothic line last Sep
tember. But it and the eighth
army have made a real if not
newsworthy contribution to the
allied cause. Betwen them they
have tied up about 25 German di
visions In Italy divisions that the
wehrmacht desperately needs on
the western and eastern fronts.
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Yanks Race Toward Siegfried
Foe Reported J
To East Front
X
Air Forces Strike at
Nazi Convoys Moving.
Out of Bulge Region
Paris, Jan. 24 IIP) American
forces plunged forward toward
the German Siegfried positions
east of the almost vanished Ar
dennes bulge today amid gather
ing signs that the Germans were
hastily drawing strength from the
western front to meet the crisis in
the east. -The
American advance was roll
ing steadily, and ahead of the
ground forces U. S. tactical air
forces struck at fresh targets
nazl convoys moving east.
Reports came from several sec
tors of the front Indicating that
the fighting in the west was be
ing affected by the German ef
forts to bolster the lines shattered
by the red army in the east.
Divisions Withdraw
Along the British -held Dutch
front, correspondents reported
two German divisions definitely
naa been pulled out oi the line
and sent east. British and Amert
can tactical air forces reported
neavy movement oi German mill'
tary traffic on the lines leading
away from the Ruhr. -
, The American tactical air force
reported it had destroyed 70 more
German vehicles in strikes against
the nazl rear line thus far torlnv.
MovinaTroops
The British reported they ha :hltj0V-
more tnan 1HO German trains in
48 hours, many of them loaded
with troops and war materials.
However, there was little
change in the grim character of
ground lighting. N
' The American Seventh armored
division, with the assistance of
the 508th infantry of the 82nd air
borne division, shoved east of re
captured St. Vith in a push to
drive the nazls, back into their
Siegfried positions from which
they launched the Ardennes drive
Dec. 16.
Army Moves Up
Third army forces moved up in
gains of one and two miles and
along about half the Ardennes
sector the lines were virtually
wnere tney naa Deen before Held
Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt at
tacked. The extent of the forces being
pulled out of the western front by
tne Germans was not yet certain.
One front report suggested that
the German Sixth panzer army
was being sent east hurriedly.
Another speculated that the Fifth
panzer army also was headed that
way. These two armies were the
spearhead of Von Rundstedt's Ar
denes forces.
The French First army's offen
sive on both sides of the Colmar
pocket registered continuing
gains which, it was believed, may
force the Germans to relax their
pressure to the north where Stras
bourg Is threatened.
RUSSIANS BREAK LINES
London, Jan. 24 nil The Berlin
radio said tonight that the Rus
sians had broken 'through the
German front in East Prussia and
reached the Vistula Estuary area
southwest of Elbing In an effort
to cut the last rail line out of the
province.
Only recently Lt. Gen. Mark
Clark, commander of allied
ground forces In Italy, told a
house military affairs committee
that the two armies seldom 'were
numerically superior to the Ger
mans even when on an offensive.
AS' a result Clark considered i
that compared with G.I.'s in other
theaters, American - soldiers in
Italy were swinging more than
their normal weight.
One of the sore spots among
American soldiers is the fact that
no one back home even their
own relatives and newspaper edi
torsseems to realize that a static
front In which two savage ene
mies are deadlocked, does not
mean that fighting Is easy and
nothing is happening.
In fact it is quite the contrary.
It means that the enemies are so
equally matched that victory will
go to the one with the most endurance.
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(NEA Ttlrphoto)
A tJ. S. Army Signal Corps photographer took time out from shooting battling O. I.'s and their machinery of
war to Immortalize this idyllic scene in which enlisted WACs and their guesta loll on a white-sand, palm
frtnged beach and refresh themselves In the moving waters ot a wide bay somewhere In Dutch New Guinea,
U. S. Still Faces Its Greatest
War in History, Harmon Says
Struggle in Far East Will Exceed Conflict
Of Quarter of a Century Ago, Says General
i '. ' Br William -P. Tyree ---. -""C '
A (United Fm Wur Correspondent)
Pacific Headquarters, U. S. Army Air Forces, Jan. 24 (U.E)
The United States still faces the greatest war in its history
in. the Far East, and Japan will still be "on her feet and
fighting in 1946," according to Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon,
chief of American army air forces in the Pacific.
Appealing to the American home front for increased war
production. Harmon said in a radio broadcast that Japan's
main fighting strength has not
that the war will still be "a long way from ended" even when
: ;
Frank 0. Minor, '
Pioneer, Is Dead
Frank O. Miner, 80, Bend pio
neer and one of the city's early
day postmasters,' died yesterday
at the Eastern Star and Masonic
home In Forest Grove, according
to word received by friends here
today. The funeral will be held to
morrow at 3 p. m. at the Holly
wood mortuary, 48th street and
Sandy Blvd., in Portland, with the
services being in charge of the
Masonic service bureau.
Mr. Minor, aside from being ac
tive in Bend civic affairs during
his residence here, also was a
charter member of the Masonic
Blue lodge.
Mrs. Minor, who had been resid
ing with him at the Forest Grove
Masonic home, and a son, Ken
neth, employed In a Portland shlp
yard,"survive him. Mr. Minor was
born Jan. 19, 1805 in the east.
Named Cashier
Coming to Bend in 1904, Mr.
Minor soon thereafter became
cashier for the Central Oregon
Banking and Trust company.
when this firm had a banking In
stitution at the corner of Franklin
avenue and Wall street where the
Standard Oil station now stands.
When he severed his connections
with this firm, Mr. Minor home
steaded several miles up the Des
chutes river.
When Bend's postofflce occu
pied a small frame building where
the Brandls Thrift-Wise drug
store now stands on Wall street,
Mn Minor was postmaster under
the administration of President
Theadore Roosevelt. With the
election in 1912 of Woorirow WI1
snn tn Ihn nroslHnncv Mr Mlnnr
j0ft the postmastershlp.
On May 25, 1922 Mr. Minor be
came an employe of Brooks-Scan-Ion
Lumber Company Inc., and
worked in the company's offices
until Nov. 1940, when he and Mrs.
Minor entered the Forest Grove
home, .
DR. RILEY DIES
McMlnnville. Ore.. Jan. 24 nil
Dr. Leonard William lilley, vet-iuty Imperial wizard of Klan ac
eran religious educator and presl- j tlvltles In Oregon, California,
dent emeritus of Llnfield college, Washington and Idaho, then in
died in Claremont, Cal., yesterday 1937 as grand dragon of the Ore
after an operation, friends here gon chapter led a revival of the
learned today. I movement. !
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yet been engaged and warned
the enemy s home islands are
invaded.
Japan's biggest, best -trained
and toughest army
the Kwantung army is still
in Manchuria, he said, and
there can be no peace in the
Pacific until it has been
beaten. ' '
Army Potent
"If every ship in the Japanese
navy were sunk and the Kwan
tung army in Manchuria still was
in being, we'd have to fight that
army atid lick It," Harmon said.
"Even after .the European war
Is over, and today no man can
say when that will be, we are
going to have on our hands the
biggest war ever fought.
"It will be bigger than all of
world war I. It will be bigger
than a combination of all the wars
ever fought in history up to 1941.
It will take scores of thousands
of American lives."
Harmon asserted that Ameri
can successes in the Pacific thus
far have "not seriously unjolnicd
the Japanese war effort." .
Crash Near Bend
Takes Fli
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es nier s Lite
Portland, Ore., Jan. 24 'Ui Lt.
Richard J. Tricnen, of Remscn,
Iowa, was killed when his P-38
crashed 13 miles northeast of Pine
mountain, near Bend, Ore., Satur
day, lt was announced today by
the Portland army air base.
Trlehen was flying from the
Redmond air field.
Col. S. B. Knowles, Jr., com
manding officer of the Portland
base, which has jurisdiction over
the Redmond sub-base, said next
of kin have been notified' and a
board of qualified officers ap
pointed to Investigate the cause of
the crash.
Ex-Klan Dragon
Dies in Portland
Portland, Ore., Jan. .24 (
Private funeral services will be
held for Fred L. Gilford, former
grand dragon of the Oregon chan
ter of the Ku Klux Klan, who died
of pneumonia yesterday. j
Gifford was active In the Klan
movement In the mld-20 s as dep-
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Japs Plan New
(By UnlUd PrtfaV
Tokyo revealed (today that
Premier Gen. Kunlakl-Koiso has-
yielded to pressure from critics
of his war and home front policies
and agreed to the formation of a
new, all-powerful political party
that would try to shape a "na
tional structure for victory."
A Domel news agency broadcast
Intercepted by KCC monitors in
New York said Kolso had agreed
! to support the new party advo
cated by tne imperial Rule As
sistance association, Japan's totali
tarian party.
Domel offered no details on the
scope and nature of the new or
ganization, which presumably was
being created by the Influential
IRAA as a "front" for a stronger
direction of the Japunese war ef
fort. At yesterday's session of the
DIET, Kolso and his munitions
minister, Shlgeru Yoshida, were
criticized sharply for their failure
to increase production of planes
and munitions during the past six
months, as well as for the short
age of shipping that has hampered
tho flow of raw materials from
China and other Japanese-controlled
areas.
Big "3" Expected
To Talk in Russia
London, Jun. 24 U' The Lon
don Times said today in a Lisbon
dispatch that there never was
much likelihood that tho big three
meeting would be held anywhere
but . on Russian soil, and the
present Red army offensive
makes this even more likely.
"A meeting in tho Black sea
zone Is much spoken of as a prob
ability. My? dispatch said.
it saiu president
would visit American
Roosevelt .
troops in i
Italy and France after meeting i
Marshal Stalin, "if circumstances I
permit." (Continued on page 2)
Propaganda Broadcasts Clog
Airways as Reds Move West
By Robert Dowson
(United l'rew Staff Corrmpomlent)
London, Jan. 24 nil Moscow
broadcasts today reported mass
evacuations oi Germans from Si
lesia, northeastern Germany and
western Poland, and said unrest
in the ranks of the Volkssturm led
to clashes vlth Elite guard units.,!
A shrill discord of propaganda I
broadcasts clogged the European
air waves, some of them renort
Ing that panic had broken out In
Berlin and that tho Germans had
begun to dig trenches around
their capital.
"The decisive battle In the east
Is aproachlng a climax ever more
rapidly," the nazl Transocean
news agency quoted a German
high command source. "It has as
sumed a ferocity and violence
which cannot possibly be surpassed."
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Barrier
I Hitler 5 Oder
Under Attack
Polish Bastion, Poinan,
136 Miles From Berlin,
Besieged By Muscovites
London, Jan. 24 "? Marshal
Stalin announced today that he
had hurled a sixth Russian army
into his unprecedented offensive
paced by assault forces now
storming Poznan, Kontgsberg, and
Germany's Oder river defense
line.
Marshal Rodlon Y.Mallnovsky's
Second Ukrainian army extended
the offensive front another 100
miles southward into Hungary
with an attack along the Hungar-
lan-siovak irontler wnicn broke
through on a 25-mlle front and
carried westward 12 miles.
Swinging forward in line with
Gen. Ivan Y. Petrov's forces in
Slovakia and lower Poland, Malln
ovsky's forces captured the forti
fied border towns oi Jolsvatapol
ca and Rozsnyo, respectively 45
and 38 miles west of Kassa.
Oder Defenses Battered
To the north other Russian
forces were battering the Oder
defenses along a broad front and
fighting into Poznan, Polish bas
tion 136 miles east of Berlin, and
the East Prussian capital of Koe
nigsberg. The German - high - command,
acknowledging wholesale setbacks
from end to end ot the blazing
eastern front, said that the "de
clsive battle" was nearing a cli
max, and had reached a pitch of
ferocity and violence "which can
not possibly be surpassed."
Nazi military spokesmen, con
firming Moscow reports that Poz
nan was under asjault, said two
columns of Marshal Gregory K.
Zhukov's army were storming the
city from the east and south. The
tenor of the spokesman s com
ment and a high command admis
sion, of "embittered fighting"
there indicated the city's fall was
Imminent.
City Attacked
Soviet field dispatches reported
the attack on Koenigsberg and
said that other Russian forces
pushing up through the western
belt of East Prussia were within
15 miles of Elbing, the fall of
which would slam the door on
some 200,000 nazi troops in the
province.
On the other wing of the fast
shifting eastern front, Marshal
Ivan S. Konov's First Ukrainian
army massed on the east bank of
the Oder southeast of the Silesian
capital of Breslau, opened a shat
tering DomDarciment oi uerman
defenses across the river, and
closed against a number of key
towns In the industrial "Ruhr of
the east."
The battle of Silesia swiftly
neared a decision as Konev, al
ready entrenched on the Oder
along a broad front, fanned his
forces out north and south and
reached points 10 to 15 miles from
Breslau," a Moscow dispatch re
ported. Onraiang Mobilize
"The Germans are reported mo
bilizing every able-bodied man.
woman and child to fight with a
fanaticism unparalleled for the
Germans In a desperate attempt
to defer If not avert the doom ot
The often Inaccurate Paris radio
said, without giving Its source,
that the Germans were ringing
Berlin with trenches In apparent
nrenaratlon for a last ditch de
fense. A Brussels broadcast quot-
cd Swedish reports that the evacu-
atlon of Berlin was going on.
A Moscow broadcast immediate
ly following a free German com
mittee appeal for an uprising in
Germany said big scale evacua
tions from Silesia, Pomernnla, and
the border area of Poland were
under way, with the people "be
ing driven on foot toward the in
terior of Germany."
"In central Silesia," the broad
cast added, "clashes have been re
ported between SS units and
Volkssturm men whose wives and
children were being evacuated
forcibly."
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