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MEDFORi), OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 192V
NO. 260
FLY
IN SENATE
FORI FIGHT
Charges and Counter Charges
Exchanged Over Motion cf
Senator Joseph Ordering an
Immediate Report on Port of
Portland Adjournment Is
Finally Taken.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. After an
acrimonious debate In the senate today
in which charges and counter-charges
were exchanged, motives impugned
and ,angry retorts hurled, over a mo
tion of. Senator Joseph that the judic
iary committee be ordered to report
immediately on the Port of Portland
consolidation bills, so tlioy might be
made a special order, an adjournment
was taken until 2 o'clock without a
.vote.
SPARKS
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. Representa
tives of several Portland bond houses
have announced their Intention to ap
pear before the senate committee on
revision of laws at a public meeting to
be held in the Btate house tonight to
I. consider proposed legislation govern
ing the operation of bond dealers. The
meeting will be held at S o'clock in the
public hearing room.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. Four educa
tional bills, introduced by Representa
tive Overturf of Crook county, at the
request of School Director W. F.
Woodward of Portland, were brought
before the committee on education this
afternoon. Representative Sheldon of
Jackson county is chairman of the
committee and Director Woodward ap
peared in support of. the bills. One
proposed bill provides for the supply
ing of free text hooks in elementary
schools, a second bill makes the school
elections conform to the general elec
tions, a third fixes the term of school
directors In certain districts and the
fourth relates to the qualification of
voters at school elections, removing
the property restriction so that all
citizens may vote.
Loan Is Urged
SALEM, ,Ore., Jan. 24. The state
would be authorized to create a loan
fund for the use of districts created by
owners of logged off land who need
financial assistance In the clearing of
their land, under a Joint resolution
introduced this forenoon in the house
by Representative Miles of Columbia
in collaboration with Senator Norblad
of Clatsop. The resolution would be
submitted to a vote of the people and
if passed would authorize the issuance
of bonds to an amount not to exceed
two per, cent; of the assessed valuation
of the state. ,- t, .i, . y-
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. The Oregon
memberS'of congress are urged to sup
port an amendment to the constitution
of the United States extending the
term of office of the president to eight
years, In a joint memorial introduced
in the house this forenoon by Repre
sentative Lee of Multnomah county.
New Tax System
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. A county
unit system of taxation for school dis
tricts Is to be embraced in a bill now
being prepared by a committee of the
county superintendents association of
the state.
The object is to eliminate the in
equalities that now exist among dis
tricts which long have been unsatis
factory and the . target of criticism.
Under the proposed bill, school dis
tricts would be divided into three
classes, city districts, village districts
or those having from 500 to 1000 pupils
and county districts. Taxation in the
city and the village districts would be
(Continued on Face Six)
PROHIBITED,
PORTLAND, Jan. 24. A meeting,
which according to a Btreet circular,
waB called "in meniorlam of 'bloody
Sunday' in Petrograd, January 22,
1905," was prohibited last night by the
police and thirteen alleged radicals
were arrested and held on charges of
violating the state criminal syndical
ism act. The police announced that
they had Beized a quantity of radical
literature found on the persons of
those arrested, who It was said were
members of the socalled union liberty
league.
, Among those scheduled to speak at
Would Make Hold-Up
in Oregon Punishable
by Sentence of Death
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. Punish-
ment by death will bo meted out
to men for robbery or- attempted
robbery if a bill being prepared
by Senator Hume passes the leg-
islature. S
The Hume bill will make it an
offense punishable by hanging to
assault with intent to kill or to
place any person in jeopardy of
his life by reason of disposition
to kill on the part of the assailant.
The senator believes the measure
would have the effect of driving
a big percentage of Oregon's
criminals from the state.
OVER 27 MILUQN
HELENA, Mont., Jan. 24 The
dairying industry was worth to Mon
tana in 1020, $27,595,010.10, according
to the eighth annual report of W. A.
Fluhr, state deputy commissioner. In
butter production Montana ranked
twenty-first in the United States, the
report states.
Retail milk and cream Is the biggest
item in the $27,5595,010.10. Other
items are: Creamery butter 914,200
pounds at sixty cents, $3,54S,55C; dairy
butter 500,000 pounds at fifty cents,
$250,000; cheese 200,973 pounds at for
ty cents, $106,698.20; Ice cream 700,000
gallons at $1.20 a gallon, ' $840,000;
skim milk and buttermilk at half a
cent $649,761.90; 180,000 calves at $20
a head, $3,GOO,000; fertilizing value per
cow at $20 a head $3,600,000.
The report concludes with a number
of recommendations to the legislature
for amendments to the dairy law, one
that all milk or cream sold at retail bo
delivered in bottles only.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Jnn. 24. Count
Ilya Tolstoi, son of the late .Russian
author, who is here on a lecturo tour,
said he believed that a "nephew of
tho novelist, Tolstoi," mentioned in nn
Associated Press dispatch from Sa-
loniki as among 30,000 refugees
from Crimea, who aro facing starva
tion, was his son, Andrew, a Russian
officer, or possibly tho son of bis
oldest brother. Speaking tho the
plight of the refugees ho said it was
too true."
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MAY BE ADJUSTED
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. An ami
cable adjustment of teachers' tenure
is tho object of a concurrent, resolu
tion introduced today by Senator
Hume of Multnomah county. It calls
for tho postponement of tho Staples
tenure bill now pending and provides
that a special committee of two sen
ate and threo house members bo ap
pointed to Investigate tho tenure
question during the next two years
and report at tho next session of the
legislature.
PORTLAND, Me., Jan. 24. The
Norwegi.-fci steamer Ottawa ' Jarl,
which arrived Saturday night from
England, reported having passed a
7000-ton derelict steamer In latitude
47.90, longtltudo 40. They were un
able to determine her name and said
there were no signs of life on board.
The captal'i expressed the opinion
that the steamer was cither of Span
ish or Italian registry. '
13 RADICALS ARE NABBED
tho nrnhihlted meeting was Elmer
Smith of Centralla, Wash., a defendant
in tho Armistice day murders there
who was acquitted and Ragnar Johan-
son of Seattle. These men were not
n rrocitpH
Am one those held by the police were
W. R. Koppnig. alleged secretary of
the Portland I. W. W. organization and
Valentine Rodrlquez, an alleged i. w.
W nrcanlzer.
Fnllnwine the arrests Mayor George
L. Baker announced that all meetings
of alleged radical organlzatins would
be prohibited in the future. .
HOST "VITAL
M l SINCE
TREMENS
Allied Leaders Gather in Paris
to Iron Out Problems Post
war Period Reparation,
Disarmament Turk Treaty
( and Russia Chief Questions.
PARIS, Jan. 24. Representative
of Great Britain, Franco, Italy, Bel
gium and Japan gathered here today
for a conference which seemed second
in importance only to that preceding
the signing of Uie treaty of Versailles.
The principal figures of the meeting
were David Lloyd George, - British
prime minister and Aristido Brinnd,
who last week assumed tho post of
president of tho council of French re
public. About these men tho negotiations of
tho conference aro expected to re
volve and it was believed when the
conference will have adjourned, the
allied world will have settled long
pending and serious questions.
The importance of these subjects
ranked as follows:
1 reparations, disarmament of Ger
many, enforcement or alteration 01
the treaty with Turkey, relief for Aus
tria and policies to be pursued in
dealing with Russia.
Tho conference, which virtually was
a meeting of tho supreme council orig
inally formed during the peace con
ference, began with tho discussion of
German disarmament.
At ono p. m. tho council adjourned,
after having devoted nearly all of
its first session to hearing Marshal
Foch, Field Marshal Sir Henry
Hughes Vilson of tho British impe
rial stuff and General Maurice Nol-
let, head of tho French military mis
sion in Berlin.
PARIS, Jan. 24. Preferring to the
approaching conference of the al'tcs,
tho Temps says:
"Tho premiers con ferenco canfiot
oxamlno into tho Near East question.
It was under M. Briand s war mi.v.s-
try that the Salonikl expedition which
culminated with the elimination of
Bulgaria aB a war factor, was under
taken tho Lloyd George cabinet de
cided tho campaign of General Al
lenby, commander of tho British
troops in Mesopotamia which settled
Turkey. ,
"Tho military authorities have done
their work well. Now it is up to the
civilians who gave thom. power to
complcto their task.'
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QUITS U. S JOB
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Chester
Rowell of California resigned today as
a member of the new shipping hoard,
effective Immediately. It was announc
ed at the White House that he will be
leaving the hoard to become a member
of the California railroad commission.
Mr. Rowell, a republican, was ap
pointed by President Wilson, Novem
ber 13 for two years. The nominations
of the seven members of the board are
before the senate and whether any of
them will .he acted on remains to be
determined.
ILL DECLINE
LONDON, Jan. 24 Sir Edward Car
son is expected to refuse the premier.
ship of the province of Ulster and also
Intimate his withdrawal from Irish af
fair.! when he receives an Ulster dele
gation tomorrow, pays the Daily Mail.
He will continue his interest in Ire
land, (he newspaper declares, simply
as a well wisher from England.
Sir Edward will go to Ulster next
month to publicly announce his with
drawal and attend the opening of the
Ulster parliament, which ceremony,
the Dally Mall declare, may be per
formed by King George.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 24. George
Howard, sentenced to die for the mur
der of George R. Sweeney in Malheur
county, arrived at the Btate prison yes
terday In charge of II. Lee Noe, sheriff
and two deputies from Vale. Howard's
execution has been set for February
25, hut may be delayed should his at
torneys perfect an appeal to the sii
prciuQ court, .
Elmer Cox and Mrs.
Louis E. Barry Held
For Hearing Thurs.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 24.
(Special. Ex-Captain E. H. Cox,
alias E. 14. Harry, and Mrs. Louis
E. Harry, who were arrested here
last week on a charge of violating
the lodging house ordinance, are
to appear in court tomorrow.
Records at police headquarters
showed that neither of them had
been released on their recognlz-
ance, nor released on ball. It was
said at headquarters, however,
that both had been released on
$50 bail and that they were to
appear for trial before Judge
Rossman tomorrow morning.
The specific charge against the
couple is that they were regis-
tered at a downtown hotel as man
and wife and Cox at least, was
said to have registered under an
assumed name. Tho arrest fol-
lowod their alleged association
with two men who were known to
the city detectives ns bootleggers.
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SCORESJILLED
Over 25 Killed, 50 Injured in
Memphis When Spark From
Workman's Chisel Lights in
Car of Gasoline Entire Dis
trict Burned.
. MEMPHIS, Tcnn., Jan. 24 At least
twenty-five persons, most of thoni ne
groes, were killed, according to pollco
estimates, And fifty or more injured
by an explosion of a tank car of gaso
line near the filling station of the
Colyar-Rcese company, sot off presum
ably by a spark from a workman's
cMsel, which tore to splinters a row
of frame dwellings here today, shat
tered windows within a radius of fif
teen blocks and shook the entire north
end of the city.
The explosion occurred In the center
of a densely populated part of the city
and a short distance from a gas plant.
Twenty frame houses, the length of
a block, were literally splintered by
the force of the explosion and sot
afire.
The resultant fire which, for a time
threatened to spread to a gas plant
and several nearby manufacturing con
cerns was checked before It gained
headway.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 24. Possibly
a score of persons wore killed and fifty
or more Injured as a result of an
explosion of a tank car filled with
gasoline in tho north end of Memphis
today which set fire to a row of small
dwellings, occupied mostly by negroes,
a number of whom are missing and
believed to have been burned to death.
Early police estimates place tho
number of dead as high as twenty-five.
Reports from various hospitals indi
cated that at least fifty had been given
treatment for broken limbs and othor
Injuries.
Oregon's Electoral
Vote May Be Lost,
Delegate Delayed
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 24. A
special to the Portland Telegram
from Washington, D. C, says
Oregon's electoral vote for presl-
dent and vice president may not
be counted unless tho messenger
from that state delegated to bring
it to congress arrives before mid-,
night tonight.
The vote has been received by
mall but under the law the attest-
ed ballot of the state electors
must he delivered to the vice
president by the fourth Monday in
January, which time expires at
midnight tonight.
Walter L. Robb, who was desig-
nated by his fellow electors to
carry the vote of the state to
Washington, was reported BtlU'iu
Portland today. He had been
.planning to leave so as to arrive
in Washington on February 9,
the date on which the lar sped-
fles that official ballots shall be
opened. '-.
GAS0L1N
TANK
AR
EXPLODES
ITALIAN HELD
FOR ROBBERY
ONJAST SIDE
Manuel Francis Arrested With
Property Stolen From Frank
Owens' Gardner in Posses
sion Believed Arrest Will
Clear Up Many Depredations
A robbery at the home of Peter
Young, gardner of Frank Owens, the
thief's tracks on the partially frozen
ground and the lmvlinhuv ability of
Chief of Police Timothy, led to the
arrest of Manuel Francis, an Italian,
and the discovery of another burglary
of Saturday night. Francis is charged
with both crimes.
"Whether guilty or not bis arreHt re
lieves tho residents of tho east hill
section of the city of much apprehen
sion, as they have been norvous about
blin slnco laHt August when bo began
to reside on the second floor of a
large abandoned poultry house. 1
miles southeast of the Frank Owen
residence. Months ago on their com
plaints, Chief Timothy arrested Fran
cis on a vagrancy charge, but County
Prosecutor Kobei-ls refused to press
tho charge as Francis showed posses
sion of a $100 Liberty bond, lie is
also suspected of stealing jewelry from
the residence of John Wellls, just
across from tho Owens residence.
When searched after bis arrest
Sunday a bank book on the First Na
tional bank of Yrcka, Calif., showing
that Frnncis has $991 on deposit, was
found on tho lirisoner. It is thought
that Francis has been guilty of much
of tho potty pilfering and other depre
dations for some ttimo past ill tho
cast end of the city.
Mr. Young discovered Sunday
morning on arising that a thief had
broken Into the screened porch of his
homo during the night and taken
away n side of pork, roll of butter,
Jars of fruit and other edibles. The
thief, ns shown by his foot prints,
had walked twico around tho house
to make sure that tho family was
asleep. Mr. Young at once summoned
Chief Timothy, who followed -tho foot
prints for somo dlstanco when it
dawned upon him suddenly that ho
knew just whore to go to find tho
thief, and accordingly ho made a boo
lino for tho poultry house.
His hunch was a good ono, for thoro
ho found Fruncls frying somo of tho
stolen pork, and laying about 'were
all the stolen goods from Young's
porch. Thon nfter Young had iden
tified all his property thoro yet re
mained a sack of soven loaves of
bread and n bag of enkes to bo ac
counted for "Nothing so simplo," re
marked tho chief to himself sort of
Shortygnrnott like, "the vlllyun has
busted into somo bakery."
Suro enough on investigation Chief
Timothy found that tho East Side
bakery had been broken into during
Sunday night nnd that bread and
cakes had been stolon.
Francis is about 25 to 30 years old,
and wears a full black beard. Ho re
fused to talk following his arrest. On
him was also found Bcvera! letters In
Italian, tho contonts of which Chief
Timothy is nnxioun to know. nnd
therefore Is hunnlng an Interpreter
to read them.
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THE 'MAD MULLAH'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Complete
destruction of the power of "Mad Mul
lah" native ruler of Somallland, Africa
and for thirty-four years a problem to
British authorities was accomplished
within three weeks time by less than
two hundred airmen and eleven fight
ing planes, according to an official re
port on the operation just received
here.
Hombed out of their strongholds, tho
natives were pursued and all tho lend
ers except Mullah captured or killed,
the report stated.
The air expedition was sent out in
1919 but details wero kept secret. It
was tho last of many punitive forcos
sent to Somallland where continual
uprisings have Involved tho Ilrltlsh In
military operations at frequent Inter
vals since 1885.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24 Tho twelve year
old bandit who held up several women
In the Hyde Park neighborhood recent
ly was routed late last night by Mrs.
Albert Ruff. She raised her hands at
his command and then brought her
handbag down on his head, repeating
the action until the lad fled. Mrs.
Ruff chased him a block but was out
illstanccd.
Legislature Votes
$250,000 for Care of
Member's New Baby
SALEM, Oro., Jan. 24. The
houso of representatives tills fore-
noon strayed far afield from the
beaten path of legislative subjects
and passed a Joint resolution ex-
tending official felicitations to
Representative Childs of Linn,
who Is tho proud father of a
brand new boy. Tho resolution
also authorizes the stato trea-
surer to draw from any available
fund, $250,000 for the care and
nurture of the child nnd nuthor-
izes the purchase of a jersey cow
to further provide for tho child's
welfare.
LONDON, .Inn. 24. Tho reports of
death of Premier Lnelno of soviet
ltussia and of a recent attempt to as
sassinate him by means or a Homo,
are characterized In a Moscow wire
less dispatch received hero today as
fantastic rumors.
r-nnF.VTt Ani.'.N. .Tun. 24. Ronorts
uf tho death of Nikolai Lenlno. the
soviet Kusslan premier, are persisting,
according to a llolslngfors dispatch to
tho Hcrlingsko Tldenilu and tho anti-
bolshovik press claims to havo lurtner
evidence of it. Tbeso newspapers re.
,f,.,1 ,,u ulimlflcimt In thin enn noct ion.
adds tho dispatch, tho fact that Le-
nlne has not nuemled several recent
meetings of tho soviet government of
ficials, all of which wcro presided
over by Leon Trotzky, tho minister of
war.
Reports of tho death of Lonlno nnd
of armed nttaekB upon him havo boo.i
so frotiuent In tho past threo years,
only to bo followod by refutation, ex
cept In tho case of certain attempts
upon his life, that nil such reports
havo como to bo received with de
cided reserve
TIES UP TELEGRAPH
DENVER, Jan. 24. A blanket of
snow, eight inch oh doop, covered Den
ver and a largo portion of eantern
Colorado today, resulting in almost
complcto paralysis of telegraph and
telephone communication, cant, south
and north for several hours. Weather
bureau officials declared -it was tho
most severe snow storm of tho bcr
son. -
Precipitation, largely rain, wan re
ported in parts of Now Mexico, Utah,
Oklahoma, eastern Arizona, Colorado,
Kuikuih and Wyoming. .
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TIOSTON, Jan. 24. Schools of base
ball to solve tho problem of obtaining
new players In the majjr and minor
leagues were suggested today by Man
agor Fred Mitchell of the Iloston Na
tionals, who predicted that such train
ing schools would be established at all
baseball parks within a few years.
"It will take time, patience and plen
ty of careful teaching, but it will pay
In the long run," Mitchell said. "Keep
thorn for five years It necessary and if
you get a couple of Marnnvlllos, Horns
bys or Hollochers out of tho lot you
are away ahead.
"Buying and selling of big league
players Is pretty nearly a thing of the
past."
SC1ITT PLEADS GUILTY
WASH. POLICE OFFICERS
. SEATTLE, Jan. 24. John Schmltt,
alias John Smith, today pleaded gut'ity
In superior court hero to a chargo of
first degrco murder in connection
with tho death of Pollco Detectltvo
James O'Brien who was shot and in
stantly killed in a pistol battle with
Schmltt Inst Friday night. Schmltt
will be placed on trial Thursday morn
ing, tho court announced.
Patrolman William T. Angle, whom
Schmltt is said by officers to have
confessed shooting half an hour be
fore tho killing of O'Brien, died late
Saturday night. Patrolman Neil Me
Mlllnn, who wns wounded at the same
time ns Anglne, wns in a critical con
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LENINE IS AGAIN "
REPORTED DEAD,
AGAIN DENIED
BIG
SALE KILLED
Minority Stockholders Alice
Gold and Silver Mining Co.,
Win Fight Against the Ana
conda Court Holds Ma-,
jority Interests Not Author
ized to Sell Holdings. . ,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Minority
stockholders of the Alice Gold and Sil
ver Mining company won the fight to
day in the supreme court to have an-
nulled the sale of that company's pro
perties near Dutto, Mont., to the Ana
conda Copper Mining company.
Tho contention of tho minority that
the sale was void because the interests
controlling tho Anaconda company had
a monopoly of the copper trade was
denied by the supreme court. There 1
was nothing to show, the court said,
that tho Anaconda company exercised
such control over the market at the
time of the sale in 1911.
The minority stockholders claimed
that tho holdres of tho majority in
terest wore not authorized to dispose
of tho holdings against protest of any
of tho stockholders. Tho sale was
accomplished by tho transfer by tho
Anaconda company of $1,500,000 of
Its own stock for tho Allco proper
ties, which tho lower court hold was
authorized and justifiable. -
The court based its decision on tho
f Hidings in lower courts that tho prico
was not evidence that a sale could not
have been mndo nt a hlghor price.,
"Evidence In this caBo," tho court
said, "renders It probablo that the
promoters of tho Amalgamatde Cop
por company whon it was organized, in
189!) entertained dreams of oon- ,
trolling the supply and prico o cop
per In tho Inter-Btato markets of this
country, and in thu markets of tho
world, but wo aro dealing hero with
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tho Anaconda company as it was in
1911."
Koforring to tho contention of the
minority that tho sale should bo an
nulled because it was negotiated bo
tweon two directorates having a com
mon membership, the opinion said:
"John D. Iiynn, at tho tlmo of tho
salo, was president and a director of
tho Allco company; he was also a di
rector and gonoral manager of the
Annconda company. In -1905 ho ob
tained an option on the majority of
tho Alice company stock for $600,000
and carried it until purchased by tho ,
Butto Coalition company, an Amalga
mated subsidiary, of which he was
a director, and that company voted a
majority of tho Allco stock In favor
of tho disputed salo.
"Tho record shows beyond contro
versy that Ryan was the represents-,
tlvo of tho chief investors in the
entorpriso; that ho dominated tho con-' ,'
duct of tho practical adriilnistratli'o
affairs of tho Amalgamated and!iAnn''
conda companies and -that- ho very
certainly was in control' of (the fotiarU-r.
of directors. of tho comi)anlos,.whiohci'
wero, parties to tho sale, ..of , ti,Aliefl; .
properties, , ,,, , , .,,;,,-! ,.i
"Tho relation of a director , to his .
corporation Is of such a fiduciary na
ture thaf'transnctlons between boards
having common members are ' re
garded as jealously by the law as aro
personal deals between a director and
his corporation, and whero the fair
ness of such transactions are chal
lenged, the burden is upon those who
are maintaining them, to show their
entfro fnlrness and where a sale is In
volved, the full adequacy-of tho con
sideration." Tho opinion then pointed out that
tho lower courts had in each case
agreed that tho price offered for tho
Allco properties was "Inadequate"
when tholr vnluo was considered, and
had ordered a public salo before con
firming the prlvnte transactions.
"Salo under tho hammor has come
to bo synonymous with a sale at '
a sacrifice," the court romarked In
refusing to approve this mothod of -establishing
adequacy of considera
tion offered for the property." . .. . ,
TO KILLING 2 SEATTLE
BUT MUST STAND TRIAL
dition today, and physicians said ha
might not recover.
When Schmltt appeared in court
for arraignment shortly after noon
he was limping from tho effects ot
threo wounds received during his fight,
with O'Brien and Detective T. O.
Montgomery. Asked if ho wanted an
attorney, he replied:
"No, I want to plead guilty right
away."
The court, however, appointed an
nttorney to handlo the case in
Schmltt's behalf, nnd set the trial for
Thursday morning. Under the Wash
lngton law, tho Jury may determine
whether Schmitt stall or shall not b
sentenced to lifq Imprisonment,
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