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BRIMS PLAN
FOR UlllOII OF
EUROPE VlilS
Envoys of Nations En
dorse Plans for United
States of Europe
Stresemann of Germany
And Otters at League
Declare it Needed
Geneva, Wr A conference of the
leaders of European suites, meeting
alter luncheon under the chair-
Matiihln at Premier Briand Of
Prance, Monday afternoon decided
that It was wise to create ties of
solidarity among themselves such
as might be described as a Euro
nean confederation, or "United
fitates of Europe."
Premier Brtand's luncheon Mon
Aav whlrh had been awaited with
kpmHt antlciDatlon. may thus be
mtnrlA -Hr hlfttarlC BlffTlif lCanCO.
The man who Inspired the Pact
of Paris, or Kellogg Renunciation
bis genius for diplomacy In at
tracting support to rus raea tor
European confederation,
rh htivhM brought forth the
first step that has been taken In
concert by the countries 01 Europe
towards an Ideal economic "United
States of Europe." -
a mwwmI At vr TManfTa cherish
ed 'project, which he has resolutely
(concluded on page 10. column ai
SALEM AIRPORT
INSPECTED BY
CURTIS FLIERS
The Salem airport and a Salem
nome had some Interesting guests-
Sunday In the personnel of repre
sentatives of the Curtlss Plying
service who arrived at 3:30 Sunday
afternoon In three big Curtlss
planes from Los Angeles. Captain
Harry O. Claiborne, leader of the
stood. Is a cousin of Dr. T. C
Smith, Jr, and during their three
hour stay in Salem the entire group
was entertained at the Smith home
on North Winter street.
In the party were Captain Clai
borne and his wife who accompan
ies him on most of his flights, Lieut.
B. H. Wilkina, ex-navy ace; Lieut.
Bobby Robinson, chief test pilot for
the Curtlss company and the stunt
flyer who did most of the stunting
tn the moving picture "Wings," and
with Colleen Moore and Gary Coop
er In "Lilac Tune"; William Blrren,
factory survey man; Malachy A.
Hynee, special representative; Miss
Helen Blew of Eugene, who Joined
the party there.
Captain Claiborne was flying the
sister ship of the St. Louis Robin,
recent endurance plane champion,
The party la making stops at
every airport in their 4,000 miles
trip, noting weather conditions J
landing facilities and hangars.
Forty fields had been visited before
arrival In Salem. They started
from Los Angeles a week ago. They
will go to Seattle, Spokane, through
Idaho and Into Salt Lake and the
south before returning to southern
California.
The three planes were the objects
of much scrutiny at the Salem air
port Sunday, the filers having to
fight their way through the crowds
to reach their planes when they
left here at :40 o'clock. They ar
rived tn Portland at i o'clock.
M'NAB MAY 8E
MABEL'S SUCCESSOR
San Francisco, iPt The Chron
icle Monday said John L. McNab
who nominated Herbert Hoover
for presidential candidate 'at the
Repukheu National Convention
last psar, was under consideration
for appointment as assistant Attor
ney Oensral of the United States,
tn charge of prohibition enf ores
activities. That McNab was being consider
ed was said to have been disclosed
In the circulation of questionnaires
among federal Judges inquiring as
to McNab's stand on numerous Is
sues, particularly the prohibition
laws. Questioned, McNab said he
knew nothing about the report that
he was being considered.
Mabel Walker Wlllebrandt re
cently resigned the assistant at
torney generalshro.
Good Evening!
DON UPJOHN
OFFERS
Sips for Supper
Walk for your health, the doctors
advise, and Arthur Wvatt, custodian
of the courthouse, figures there's
40 miles of good walking in mowing
the courthouse lawn. Inasmuch as
he mows It once a week, Arthur
should be what we'd call downright
healthy. ,
In the amateur golf cham
pionship down at Pebble Beach
the Doe was Willing but the
flesh was weak.
Chief Vollmcr of the Berkeley po
lice, the well known police expert,
has been named to psychoanalyze
the police of America. We wish be d
start in on Walt Thompson, we Be
lieve maybe that's what's the matter
with Walt he a never been psycho
analyzed. Some friendly party who called us
by our first name, but whose voice
we couldn't recognize through the
kind of fog that choked It up, called
us late last night and asked If we
supposed Ella Wilson would have a
space in the pavilion under the new
grandstand at the state fair for an
exhibit of Oregon home brew pro
ducts. We opined maybe. But, from
the sound of revelry by night we
beard back of the telephone, we
doubt If there'll be any home brew
left by fair time.
We almost recognised whose
home brew It was ar smelling
the party's breath ever the
hone but on account of the
smoke settled over town, we
eouldn't quite make It.
"There ought to be a law prohib
iting newspaper-editors from mak
ing asses of themselves," says an
editorial In the Albany Democrat-
Herald. For instance, as the Albany
editor did In the matter of a l
cott on Salem because of the North
Santlam highway.
The atate college committee
finds the river a polluted be
low Salem that the fish canoe
live In It Bat how about the
poor fish who have to live la
Salem with the Willamette riv
er Inside of them?
SPANISH WAR
VETS AT DENVER
Denver, Colo. P) A brass band
blared out "There'll be a Hot Time
In the Old Town Tonight," the
song made famous during the Span
ish-American war as the boys of
OS assembled on street comers, In
hotel lobbies and marched In par,
ade along Denver streets Monday.
Attired In blue shirts, khaki trou
sers and rakish Vs campaign hats,
the veterans assembled at the mu
nicipal auditorium to officially open
the thirty-first annual national en
campment of the Spanish American
war Veterans.
Several special trains arrived
Sunday bringing 25,000 veterans and
members of the women's auxiliary.
Additional thousands will pour Into
tne city Monday, including a car
avan of 33 automobiles carrying vet
erans and auxiliary members from
cauiorma and Oregon.
FUNERAL SERVICES
Pratum Funeral services for Al
fred Meyer, fanner of this dlstrclt
who died Saturday afternoon, will
be held from the Rigdon mortuary
In Salem Tuesday afternoon at
1:30 o'clock with Interment In the
Pratum cemetery. Meyer had been
in 111 health for several years and
bad spent most of his life In this
section of the county. Besides his
widow he is survived by two daugh
ters, Edna and Myrtle and a young
son, Irving Meyer.
Republicans Select
Huston as Chairman
National Committee
Washington (UP) The republican national committee
Monday elected as its new chairman, Claudius H. Huiton of
Tennessee. The action was taken in accordance with the
wishes of President Hoover after the recent resignation of
Dr. Hubert Work of Colorado
tional committee through the Boov-
er presidential campaign.
Huston becomes President Hoov
er's new political pilot charged with
the responsibility of preparing for
the next national campaign.
The meeting was called by Dr.
Work to accept his resignation and
elect a successor.
FIRE CHARRED
CORPSES TELL
OF DISASTER
Fatal Plunge of Huge
Plane on Mountainside
Is Pictured
Path Cut Through Tops
of Trees by Careening
Ship in Descent
Gallup, N. M. (LP) The charred
bodies of seven men and a woman,
victims of the crash of the air lin
er City of San Francisco into the
side oi Mt. Taylor last Tuesday.
were .moved toward their final rest
ing places Monday while officials
began a series of investigations to
determine, if possible, responsibility
for the largest tragedy of the air
A gruesome caravan carted the
remains of the five passengers and
three crew men from the scene
of the liner's plunge, near the sum
mit of Mt. Taylor, over a precarious
trail 20 miles to Grants. The bodies
then were placed aboard ambulan-
ces and sent to Gallup and Albu
querque to be prepared for burial,
The first official investigation of
the crash came late Sunday when
(Concluded on page 10, column 6)
THOUSAND FIGHT
FOREST FIRES IN
COOS COUNTY
Marshfleld. Ore., UP) More than
one thousand men were fighting
forest fires In Coos and Curry
counties Monday. The flames, fav
ored -by low humidity and riding on
the wings of a northwest wind,
threatened millions of feet of Port
Orford cedar, hundreds of acres
of green Umber, ranch houses and
even towns in tne besieged area.
Fire patrol officers declared Mon
day the situation was worse than
it has been In many years.
The town of Powers was threaten
ed by the flames Monday and fire
fighters were being concentrate in
the city.
All logging operations have been
shut down and the crews placed on
the fire lines.
One hundred men were battling
a blase two miles long and a half
mile wide at Twelve-Mile creek. It
started Sunday from a donkey, en
gine. Fifty men were rushed to Rock
Creek to check the spread of flames
In logging operations there.
Two hundred men were fighting
another blaze at Cunningham creek.
There are hundreds of smaller
fires while a dozen others are tak
ing on serious aspects In various
parts of Coos county.
JEW STABBED AT
WAILING WALL
Jerusalem (IP) Many quarters of
Jerusalem were In a high state of
nervousness Monday as the result of
another stabbblng near the wailing
wall.
A Jew on his way to the wall to
pray, was stabbed by an Arab and
seriously wounded. He was removed
to a hospital.
A similar occurrence took place
on the Jaffa road. A trooper fired
on the Arab assailant, and both the
Arab and the Jew whom he had
stabbed were taken to a hospital.
who was chairman of the na
In stepping aside at this tune,
Work makes way for an aggressive
organiser who Is expected to Inaug
urate a new and more highly effec
tive regime tn republican party af
fairs. Work now joins the growing
ranks of former Hoover political
(Concluded on Dees It. column TF
G. O. P. Head
.gasawtaBnsaaaatsas-.
Claudius H. Huston of Chatta
nooga, TeniL, elected chairman ef
the National Republican committee.
NORRIS MOVES
TO BAR VARE
FROM SENATE
Washington (IP) An old fashion
ed monkey wrench, the Vara case,
was dropped deftly Into the tariff
machinery in the senate Monday,
when George W. Norrls, the farm
bloc senator from Nebraska de
manded immediate settlement of the
three year old dispute over seating
Senator-Elect William S. Vare of
Pennsylvania.
As a strong opponent of the tariff
hill whlc hhe believes will not bring
further relief to agriculture, Norrls
proposed a resolution denying Vare
his neat.- - ----- - .. -v. Ji
The resolution has the -highest
nrlvlleRes and supercedes even the
pending tariff Din. its euect wiu oe
to delay Indefinitely the debate on
the pending business unless repub
lican leaders find some means oi
side-tracking It.
Republican Floor Leader Watson
managed to block It for the day
when he requested time to look It
over. Norrls agreed to tne brief
respite bu only after he obtained a
ruling from Vice President Curtis
that his resolution was bigger bus
iness under the senate rules than
the tariff bill, allowing him to get
It in place of the tariff at any time.
The Vare resolution may lead to
extended debate. The same coalition
group which Is fighting the tariff
bill the farm bloc members and the
democrats all are fighting against
Vare.
LIST OF DEATHS
LUZON GROWS
Manila OPt Communication lines.
slowly being repaired after the pass
ing of the typhoon which swept the
Island of Luzon last week, Monday
brought reports of mounting death
lists and tales of great damage done
by the storm.
More than 300 persons were re
ported killed on the Island, thous
ands were homeless and hungry and
great havoc had been wrought to
crops. Starting In the southern pro
vinces a week ago Sunday, the ty
phoon swept to sea, then turned,
descending on the' northern pro
vinces of Tayabas, Rlzal, Laguna
and Bulacan with great fury, de
stroying homes and crops.
Manila was deluged by torrential
rains, water mains were broken and
for several days a water shortage
loomed, being barely averted by
flumes built from Novallches dam,
12 miles north of the city. The relief
was minor, however, for only small
flows were brought In and for a
greater part the city was dependent
on artesian wells.
Army planes were circling over
the devastated regions surveying the
stricken areas and aid was being
sent wherever passible. .The U. 8.
destroyer Idsall was enroute up the
eastern coast of Luzon on a relief
expedition.
10,000 REWARD
GOES TO GEO. RICE
St. Louis, Mo. IP Pilot George
Rice of the Western-Air express and
Ms eo-puot or any passengna on
toe plane who aided in the discov
ery of the charred wreckage of the
Trans-Continental Air Transport
liner, City of Ssa Francisco, will re
ceive the 110,000 reward offered by
T. A. T. otnciais and the parent of
O. F. Canfleld, courier aboard the
wrecked plane, Donald A. Bartiett,
assistant general manager of T. A.
T. here announced Monday.
Paul F. Colllngs, general super
intendent of the company, la tn the
district now taking evidence to de
termine who shsll receive the re
ward or how It shall be divided
Bartiett said.
BATTLE RAGES
ALONG BORDER
OFtURIA
Chinese Report Heaviest
Fighting in Progress
Along Entire Frontier
Border Villiages Captur
ed by Russians and
Retaken
Shanghai UP) The official Ku-
omlng News agency of the nation
alist government Monday night
stated that the heaviest fighting
yet to occur In the Marchurion
dispute between Russia and China
was going on between Russian and
Chinese troops along tne "entire
Mancburlan-Siberian frontier."
An official communique of the
Manchurian government Monday
stated that the border village of
Pogranlch Naya, on the northeast
ern frontier of Manchuria, had been
captured by Rusrlan soldiers and
retaken by tne cninese tronoay
night after two days of violent
fighting.
The official Kuomin news agency
of the nationalist government Mon
day night reported that "an anti
cipation of a general Russian of
fensive, Chinese reinforcements ere
now rushing northward from Muk
den for both Manchull and Fog-
ranichnava fronts." The agency
declared the heaviest fighting yet
tu occur In Manchuria was in tiog
as between.. Russian and Chinese
soldiers along "the entire Man
hurlan-Siberlan frontier."
Harbin (JP) Despatches from Pog
anlchnaya 'State Russian troops
ipened artillery and machine gun
ire simultaneously and atso launcn
(Concluded on pa 11, column 7)
SHIP DISASTERS
TAKE BIG TOLL
OF LIFE ABROAD
Br United Press
A series of shipping disasters oc
curred abroad over the week end
with a heavy toll of life, aitnougn
many were rescued. .
A death toll of probably M, many
of them children, was recoraea
when the Finnish lake steamer nu-
ru went down Saturday near Tarn
merfors. Many others were saved.
Twelve of the crew were feared
lost or burned to death and three
drowned when the British tanker
Vlmerla caught fire at Rotterdam,
The Danish freighter Dan went
down In tfie Baltic Saturday. She
carried a crew of 3D and so far only
one man has been reported picked
up. He said he saw others in a life
boat.
The Swedish steamer Heimdall
struck the rocks off the coast of
Sweden on Sunday and went down.
The forty passengers and crew of
30 escaped in lifeboats.
The British steamer Highland
Prince went on the rocks off the
coast of Spaia Near Vigo the M
passengers and crew of 9S went
ashore in lifeboats. It was feared
the vessel would be lost.
The Munson liner American Le
gion, which went aground on the
breakwater at Montevideo, Uruguay,
last week, has been refloated and
proceeded to New York from Rio
De Janaerlo at I am. Monday after
repairs.
ANDREW J. BASEY,
.PIONEER, PASSES
Andrew J. Basey, SO year old,
died at nine o'clock Sunday morn
ing after an illness of two and a
half years. His wife, Mary, survives
him. Their home is at (01 South
Capitol street. Surviving children
are Walter a Basey of Portland,
Mrs, Ida Dleeue of Portland, Ira I.
of La Orande, and Mrs, Iva Klnge
iey of Portland.
Basey owned one af the leading
livery stables In Salem more than
40 years ago and at that time was
one of the city's best known resi
dents. He was afflicted with a stroke
of paralysis more than two years
ago.
Arrangements for the funeral
have not yet been made.
DROWNS AT AURORA
Aurora. Ore. IIP) John Llckess,
V), Portland, was drowned In the
Willamette river near here Sunday
when he was seized with cramps
while swimming.
WOMEN SENT OUT
aw urn VH tuai THB sJUB tUa KDI
Tell Of Destruction
R RSI mt RH m W. IS IB
FROM FIRE AREA
Forty women evacuated
railroad of the Silver Falls Timber company between Silver-
ton and tne company's Camp 14, 35 miles southeast of Sil
verton, gave vivid descriptions of a battle aeainst timber
and brush fires which have
ranches and destroyed logging
equipment and buildings In tne Sll
ver and Bridge creek areas upon
their arrival In Silverton Monday
morning.
They brought news of an uniden
tified elderly woman seriously burn
ed by the fire which swept away the
old buildings at Camp It, and re
ported the destruction of numer
ous homesteads in the path of the
flames, which are sweeping east
ward. The Bridge creek fire has ap
proached within S miles of Camp 14
and a shift In the wind to the west
will doom that camp, company of
ficials predicted.
Logging operations have been en
tirely suspended and every avail
able logger and rancher has been
pressed Into service to fight the
fires.
Many of the women arriving at
Silverton told of losing everything
in their homes as they were lapped
up by the advancing flames.
HIGHER DUTIES
DEMANDED BY
FARM BUREAUS
Washington ) The tariff pro
gram of organized American seri
culture, calling In many cases for
higher rates on farm products than
those already proposed, lay oeiore
the senate Monday as It came at
last to the opening of debate upon
the tariff biU.
The Immediate order of business
wss consideration of the proposal
of Senator Simmons of North Caro
lina, ranking democrat of the fl
nance committee, that the treasury
department be asked for Income tax
Information showing the recent pro
fits and losses of Individuals and
corporations affected by tariff re
vision. Then, the program agreed
upon called for general debate on
the administrative provisions of the
tariff measure.
SubmlUod by a group of national
agricultural organizations, the pro
gram of the farmers asked restora
tion of the higher rates on sugar
and on tobacco proposed in the
house bill and for Increases in the
duties on cattle, hides, cheese, case
in, dried milk, staple cotton and nu
merous vegetable products.
The dictum of the farmers algnl
fantly avoided any mention of the
republican independents' demand
that tariff revision be confined to
agricultural products. It took no
cognizance of the Industrial sched
ules in the tariff bill and called for
enactment of the tariff measure be
fore the regular session opens In
December.
ENGLAND SCORCHES
IN TORRID WEATHER
London VP) The unusual heat
which has scorched the British Isles
for the lsst few days continued
Monday unabated. A temperature of
BS degrees Fahrelnhelt was record
ed over a large part of England
Sunday, driving thousands from
town to country and seashore. Even
there little relief was to be obtained.
More than a quarter million peo
ple crowded Thlngwall park, Liver
pool, Sunday to attend a pontiflcial
mass celebration. The park was so
packed the majority could not kneel.
The heat was Intense and more
than 600 persons had to submit to
ministrations of nurses and ambu
lance! after prostration and fainting
attacks.
JUROR COLLAPSES
AT GASTONIA TRIAL
Charlotte, N. C. (IP) The trial of
1 textile workers charged with
murder of Police Chief Aderholt of
Oastonla, was ended In a mistrial
here Monday on account of the col
lapse of one of the Jurors.
Judge M. V. Bsrnhlll took this ac
tion after J. O. Campbell, npsweaper
vendor, and one of the Jurors, suf
fered a nervous collapse on his way
to Monday's session, which would
have opened the third week of the
spectacular trial.
from points alone the lotrcrinir
swept over homsteads and
MAJOR FIRES
CONTROLLED IN
LANE COUNTY
Eugene, Ore. WV All major for
est fires which for the past four
days have been ravaging sections of
Lane county, were reported under
control Monday. Patrolmen in the
several fire fronts held hope that
tne situation would be well In had
soon.
With all fires at least partially
controlled, checks upon losses were
being made Monday. It was impos
sible to make an estimate although
It was known that the losses would
amount to many thousands of dol
lars. Heroic work by fire fighters and
a lucky "break" saved the town of
Hale. A freak top fire actually
leaped over the little settlement
but the town was spared. A ground
fire that raged among the dwellings
was staved off by an army of wa-
s carriers--. ..
-A fire -that started Saturday be
tween Penn and Flags in the Penn
Lumber company holdings had
reached green timber Monday and
the chances of holding It were good.
One thousand feet of logging road
trestle was destroyed as was thous
ands of feet of fine timber on the
Sky line. This tire was believed of
incendiary origin.
The Triangle lake fire which
burned over a course nine miles
long has reached the Biuslaw na
tional forest and Is in green tim
ber. Settler's cabins were In little
danger, although trucks were Mon
day moving household goods away
from the community.
The big Nelson creek fire near
Not! was nearly under control.
TORNADO SWEEPS
OKLAHOMA TOWN
Norman, Okla. &P A tornado and
cloudburst, sweeping northward
from Wayne, 35 miles south of here,
struck Norman early Monday, rip
ping roofs off six houses and dam
aging airplanes at the municipal
airport. No one was Injured.
At Wayne, the storm wrecked a
cotton gin and five houses on the
outskirts of town. A heavy rain, af
ter the high winds, broke down all
communication lines.
The winds struck Norman with
such violence that window panes
were shattered. Roofs on small
houses were picked up and carried
as far as 100 feet, a United Report
dispatch reported.
BROCK TAKES OATH
TENNESSEE SENATE
Washington (IP) William E.
Brock of Chattanooga, successor of
the late Lawrence B. Tyson, as sen
ator from Tennessee, was sworn In
to office Monday by Vice President
Curtis.
Brock, who was appointed by
Governor Norton, to flu the vacan
cy was escorted to the vice presl-
dent's dais by bis colleague, Sena -
tor McKeUar.
Two Girls Accused of
A ttempting To Bribe
Pantages Witnesses
Los Angeles (AP) Two Hollywood young women wen
in iail under J25.000 bail each, chanted with suRgesting to
state's witness that $25,000
would testify against the state in the fortncomlng criminal
sssauit trial of Alexander Pantages,
millionaire theater magnate,
The two. Nancy Lee. 25 year old
sculptress, and her half sister, Jan-
Ice Hill, 10 year old stenographer,
were charged by dl'trlrt attorney
Buron Pitts with msklni the offer
In a note written fa t" '
whera llr'f.v ;
EASTERN PART
OFCOUIITYKIT
Women Evacuated From '
Logging Camps as the
Flames Close In
Wide Area Threatened by
Old and New Fires in
Eastern Marion
Scores of men under the direction
of the state forester's department
and logging companies, their rank
swelled by other hundreds of vol
unteers who are seeking to prevent
further destruction of property,
were desperately fighting stubborn '
fires In the eastem-sart of the
county Monday.
Fire in the Marquam district.
which probably- claimed one life
Saturday, blazed up anew Monday
morning and was reported out of
control and spreading tn the tim
ber In the Albright bills section.
The Scotta Mills fire department Is
engaged in preventing Its further
spread while a bucket brigade was
formed at Marquam. The origin
of the fire Is not known but It
started near a hop house. Change
In the wind has also caused the or
iginal fire to start anew.
Embers from the Butte Creek fire
In the Molalla section an believed
to have started a tire tn the Bridge
Creek district, 1? miles from SMver
ton in the Silverton HHnr sullsn, -.
destroying the Seband home val
ued at 3,600 and all the outbuild
ings. Up Silver Creek the SO foot high
Horseshoe bridge on the north Sil
ver creek logging railroad, was .
burned out In addition to the twin
bridges. A train load of Are fight
ers were rushed to the district Sun
day evening.
Sixteen men who had been fight
ing fire at the old camp, are be
lieved out of danger though trapped
by the loss of the bridge. Other
fighters have been sent Into the
Mehama district where a stubborn
fire has been raging for a week ar ;
10 days. Low humidity caused a
oessatlen of logging operations over
the week-end.
Another fire Is 'reported to have
burned over the W. P. Emery sheep
ranch In the Reynolds station sec
tion about eight miles southeast of
Silverton. It la reported traveling
in the direction of the Knaus ranch,
one of the best equipped properties
in tnat district.
Second growth timber en the
Charles Alexander place eight miles
from Silverton In the Silverton
Hills area, has also been destroyed
while the fire has done consider
able damage to the Cap Tows place,
where It has been burning more or
less for the last 10 days. Neighbors
were called to save the Oross place,
formerly the Harry Kreb property,
and the fire Is spreading along the
railroad track In the general direc
tion of the Bridge creek conflagra
tion. Fire has also been burning
for several days on the Dr. P. A.
Loar farm, but was believed under
control late Sunday though a quan
tity of fine timber has been burned.
Southwest of Bcotts Mills and
about six miles above Crooked Fin
ger, fire la raging In the Bucket
Camp country, burning a number
of empty homestead places and the
Ablqua Helghths school building.
Both the Ccotts Mills and Mb
Angel fire departments were called
out Saturday afternoon when a
fire starting northeast of Marquam
a few days ago, got out of control.
traveling southwest, burning stub-
Ible fields, timber and buildings In
1 its path. Its speed was hastened by
(Concluded on pass t. column
might be given him if he
The two were arrested by the dis
trict attorney and two of his Invest
igators In a rooming bouse In which
Pitta said he was convinced they
had been "planted" but a week age
by persons seeking to mUmldsU
prov. "titlon witnesses In the case
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