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ford Mail
The Weather
Prediction Rain tomorrow
Maximum yesterday 47.5
Minimum today, 31.6
Precipitation 13
Weather Year Ago
Maximum 36
Minimum 20
Oally Seventeenth Year.
Weekly Fifty-Second Year.
. MEDPORD, OllEOOX, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY II, 1923
NO. 241
Portuguese Prince
Sells Insurance in
N. Y. On Commission
Rain Is Interfering
With Grave Diggers
In Salem Cemeteries
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Surgeon Jailed as Bigamist, and Bride
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TRIBUNE
PENS ONI
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VETOED BY
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Bursum Measure Providing for
$108,000000 a Year More
for Mexican and Civil War
. Veterans Returned to Sen
ate Graft for Widows De
, tected in Bill-
r "WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Tho Hur
.,! sum bill providing for an Increase in
' the pensions of Civil and .Mexican
' war veterans was vetoed today by
1 President Harding.
In his veto message tho president
declared the Inereaso in governmen
tal expenditures involved would
amount to "heedlessness" nnd ob
jected also to the bill's "loose pro
vision lor pensioning widows"
In a brief meusuge return to tho
senate, where the bill originated, the
president said:
"I am returning herewith senate
bill 3275, 'an act granting pensions
to certain soldiers, sailors and ma
rines of the Civil war,' without my
approval.
"If the act were limited In Its pro
. visions in behalf of the surviving par
ticipants in the Mexican and Civil
wars and widows of tho war of 1812,
it would still be without ample justi
fication. The commissioner of pen
sions estimates its additional cost to
the treasury to be about $108,000,
000 annually and I venture the pre
. diction that with such a precedent es
tablished, the ultimate pension out
' lay In the half century before us will
'exceed fifty billions of dollars. Tho
1 act make's no pretense of new con
' B'dorations for the needy or depend
ent, no new generosity for. Uie veter
' in Wards of the nation; It IS ail oilt
' right bestowal upon tho govern
ment's peusion rolls, witli a heedless
ncsa for the government's financial
problems which Is a. discouragement
to every effort to reduce expendi
tures and thereby relieve tho federal
burdens of taxations. '
Graft for Widows '
"The most particular objections to
this act, however, lies in Its loose
provisions for pensioning widows.
The existing law makes the widow of
a Civil war veteran eligible to a pen
sion if she married him prior to June
27, lOO.i. In other words, marriage
wit h In i() years of the end of the
Civil war, gives a veteran's widow
a good title to a pension. Tho act re
turned herewith extends Iho mar
riage period specifically to June 27,
1915, and provides that after that
dato any marriage or cohabitation for
two years prior lo a veteran's death
shall make the widow tho beneficiary
of a pension at ?"0 per mouth for the
remainder of her life.
! "In viow of the fact that this same
(hill makes provisions for pensions for
widows of veterans of Iho war of
: 1 S 1 2, tliu possible burden of this
sweeping provision seems worthy of
serious consideration. Frankly, I do
not recognize any public obligation!
to women, who now, nearly sixty
years after the Civil war, bccomol
the wives of veterans of that war.
"Tho government has so many de
fenders to whom generous treatment
Is duo that congress will find it nec
essary to consider all phases of our
obligations when making provisions
for any one group.
"Tho compensation paid lo the
widows of world war veterans, those
who shared the shock and sorrows of
tho conflict, amounts to $24 per
month. It would bo indefenslblo to
Insist upon concentration upon Civil
war widows if we are to pay $30 to
widows.
"WAHREX O. HARDING."
White House attaches said the
Jlursum hill was the first general
pension measure ever to ho roturncd
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HARVEY
GIVES PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Ambassa
dor Harvey was the guest of Presi
dent Harding ut the While House to
day on his flr!t visit to Washington
since going to his London post. Since
his arrival last niitht from New York
when he was taken directly to the
While House, Colonel Harvey hail
made no statement on the purpose of
his visit. Mroadly. however, he comes
to lay before Ihe president and his
advisers In persnnul conference, the
results of his close observation of the
economic and other problems of Ku-
NEW YORK, Jan. 3. Prince
Miguel lie Braganza,-son of Don
Miguel Draganza, pretender to
tho throne of Portugal and grand
son of King Miguel, who reigned
over Portugal from 1S23 to 18IM,
is selling life insurance in New
York.- Ho is working on a coin
mission basis for a firm of insur
ance brokers of which William
nhinelander Stewart, Jr., tho
prince's brother-in-law is a mem
ber. The pretender opposed his
son's marriage to Anita Stewart
In 1909. Miss Stewart was re
ported to have received a wed
ding gift of $2,000,000 from her
mother, Mrs. James Henry Smith.
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BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 3. Con
rent for Dr. B. M. McKoln to return
voluntarily to Louisiana provided he
will bo accompanied by representa
tives of that state was received this
afternoon in a telegram to Governor
Ritchie from Governor Parker of
Louisiana. Counsel for Dr. McKoln,
former mayor of Mer Rouge, who is
wanted in Louisiana for alleged com
plicity in the -Morehouse parish mur
ders and kidnapping last summer,
agreed and Dr. McKoln will leave J
for the south tonight. i
Dr. McKoin was formally discharg-
od from custody by Judge Stein in
city court late today.
DASTItOP, La., Jan. 3 Tho move
incut of adtlitiunitl' statu troops to
ISnstrop to juin tile four companies'
already stationed hero and at Merj
Rouge, tho efforts to locate Harold '
Tccscrstrunl, carbon -plant tlme-j
keeper, whose mysterious disapponr-j
a nee has furnished a new scnsutlun
In the invest igatinn by federal andj
state agents Into nuiskud band opera-.
.1...... II... ,..,,i,.(lrnu fn,. In,-1
ginning Friday an open hearing by
the state attorney general, inadu up
today's surface developments in
Morehouse parish.
The cavalry detachment, forty
men Willi full horse equipment of
tho second sfiundron, 18th regiment,
Louisiana National Cluard arrived to
day. Military officials declared they
knew nutliing of tile reasons for
sending mhlilltinnl trnups.
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SALEM, Ore.. Jan. 3. Governor
Oleolt announced yesterday that if
the I'nited Stales senate confirms tiie
appointment of Judge John S. Coke
of Marshfield as federal district at
torney for Oregon before the expira
tion of Olcott's term on January 8.
he will nppoint John Kendall of
Marshfield as circuit Judge In that
district to succeed Coke.
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PORTLAND, Ore., .Tan. 3. Plans
for nressinif Oregon advertising and
development, for which tho Port
land Chamber of Commerce Is rais
ing a fund of $300,000, were hefore
the Oregon development hoard for
consideration at a meeting today, pre
liminary to the annual meeting of
the Oregon State Chamber of Com
merce here Friday.
ill WHITE HOUSE
THE "INSIDE" DOPE
rope from the vantage point of his
London post.
His visit, significantly coincides
with the adjourned meeting of the
allied premier now being held in
I'nris in an effort to reach an accord
on the problem of (icrman repara
tions. Colonel Harvey's presence here
at this time. It Is suggested, afforrls
a direct means of putting adminis
tration officials. In Intimate touch
with all the background of develop
ments as they take shape at the Paris
conference, to which they are known
tn he giving closes! Httentlnn.
Mllf
FOR
REPARATION
CONFERENCE
NEAR ROCKS
Adjournment Alone Prevents
Open Break Between France
and England in Paris
Poincare Declares Bonar
Law's Proposal" Pleases No
One But Himself.
PARIS, Jan. 3. (By tho Associat
ed Press.) Tho allied conference on
reparations adjourned this evening
until threo o'clock tomorrow, thus
avoiding the immediate break which
had been expected In many quarters.
PARIS. Jan. 3. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The cabinet council
of French ministers this morning in
structed Premior Poincare to move In
tho conference this afternoon the
adoption of the French reparations
plan as the minimum acceptable to
France. In the event the meeting
does not accept the plan, Premier
Poincare was directed to ask the con
ference to register formally lack of
agreement among tho allies.
The council, which met under the
chairmanship of President Mlllerand,
docided unanimously that the British
reparations plan was an abandonment
o the treaty of Versailles.
Krilish Scheme Opposed
Premier Poincare, after the meet
ing continued to rcceivo important
members of the government, among
them Louis iBarthou, president of the
reparations commission; M. Reibcl,
minister of liberated regions, and
Finance Minister LeLasteyrie, in
preparation for his declaration, to bo
made to the conference at the three
o'clock meeting, - . f ' "
In this announcement tho French
premier is expected to declare that
the British plans dainands that
France give up every guarantee
M. Poincare, it was forecast, will
and that the British schemo for su
pervising the execution of the new
arrangement practically makes Ger
many the arbitrator in questions that
may come up concerning tho pay
ment of her own debts.
Premier Poincare, aftor the cab-i
iuet meeting, said the British plan
displeased everybody, not only tho
Freneh but the Italians nnd tho Bel
gians, and that tho proposal that the
Bank or lOngland put its hnnd on the
gold left there by the allies as se
curity for' loans was alarming.
Ho reiterated that tho French
plan was the minimum acceptable lo
Franco and represented tho maxl-J
mum of concessions r ranco wouiu
malto.
PARIS, .lan. 3. (By Iho Asso
ciated Press.) The allied conferees
met this afternoon for their second
session with the delegates appearing
in anything but n choerful mood.
Primp Minister Bonar Law seemed
particularly depressed.
Tho session opened with Premier
Poincare in the chair and with the
ambassadors and experts in waiting
in adjoining rooms as they were yes
terday. 1elou;ntOR Pessimistic
PAU1S, Jan. 3. Tho British pre
mier planned to Bpcak nt the allied
meeting at thrno o'clock this after
noon nnd tell Premier Poincare that
tho British wero willing to discuss
the French plnn if tho British and
other plans wero discussed at the
same time.
If Mr. Poincaro should rcfuso to
examine the British plan further, Mr.
Bonar Law will announce that tho
British Bee no need for further con
ference. -
Members' of the British delegation
said after their mooting this fore
noon that they had no false hopes as
to tho outcome of tho conference. It.
was remarked that the British and
French plans seemed almost hopeless
ly divergent. '
Reports reached the British dele
gation that decisions of the most Im
portant character were before the
French cabinet this morning.
PARIS, Jan. 3. Germany's repre
sentatives in Paris aro awaiting word
from the allied premiers before pre
senting the new German proposals
for a new Gorman reparations settle
ment, no reply having been received
to the request of the German ambas
sador hero that Dr. Karl Bergmann.
tho German spokesman, he heard by
the conference. Dr. Bergmann said
today that a definite refusal to hear
him would result first In his consult
ing his government before ho could
put the proposals In writing.
It was said In German circles that
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Captain Charles PiUo, who Imasl.s that his ancestorH diat'uvercd I'ikca
I't'iilt, enjoying (?) a meal iji the eounty jail at Crown l'oint, Indiana,
where he is ta present sojournins- The father of - his present wile, Mrs.
Mrs. Francis Heile Tile (insert) when he heard of common law relations
with a little lady known as "Mrs. Marjory l'lke" caused the arrest. Tho
captain is an orficer connected with
the father-in-law is an attorney.
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CLUE TO MISSING
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3. Renewed
search for the whereabouts of Mrs.
Clara Phillips, "hn,nimor murderess"
who escaped from1 tho Los Angeles
county jail December 0, centered today
around a note found about 100 feet
from a cabin in a lonoly canyon near
Los Angeles, where, sheriffs deputies
declared last night thoy woro con
vinced she had hidden for at least four
days after her jail break.
The note, welghtod down by a rock
and partly concealed in brush on the
trail leading to the cabin, rend:
"Clara: Will see you Wednesday
night. For God's sake, be careful."
Officers said they would compare
the handwriting of the note with that
of a person under suspicion aa having
aided Mrs. Phillips in escaping. The
moHsago was written in a masculine
hand on tho- margin of a nowspapnr
and officers said they regarded It as
authentic.
It was announced from tho sheriff's
offico that Armour Leo Phillips, tho
murderess' husband, had purchased
groceries at a storo near the cabin
daily during the four days following
his wife's escape, and that another
man had called for them and presum
ably delivered them ut tho cabin.
A rc-qucstioning of Philllni was
planned, tho officers said.
ALFALFA PRICES IN
U. S AVERAGE $23.75
WASHINtiTON, .Ian. 3 More than
half the n-.arketahic surplus or the
1022 alfalfa crop had been marketed
December 15, compared with less
than half the 1321 crop at that time
a year ago, but the amount available
from last year's crop was estimated
to be about L) per cent less than was
sold In the previous year, according
to a statement Issued today by Ihe
department of agriculture. Drought
In the southwest wan said to have
curtailed production of nlfulla and
at the same time to have caused an
unusual demand for It In that .sec
tion, while elsewhere the demand re
mained about normal. The average
price, December 1.1, was $23.75 a ton,
compared with $21.50 September 15.
Timothy prices on tho other hand,
averaged $22.50 a ton in the princi
pal markets Heptember 15 and $21.50
December 15.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
LOS ANGKLKS. Jan. 3. A mes
senger of the Hellman bank was rob
bed of $1.",000 shortly after noon to
day by four robbers in the wholesale
district before tho gaze of at least
Iwn scorn nedestrians. The messen
ger, accompanied by a guard had,'
collected $7,000 fremt'the Globe
Dairy company and $8,000 from tlio (
Sanitary Gold Seal Dairy company,
In front of which the robbery occur-.
rod. They escaped by automobile.
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the Marine hospital at Chicago and
JAIL PUT TO WORK
Tho eounty court today dtcldod to
put tho inmates of tho county Jail
flervlng out - sentences for various
crimes to work on tho county rock
crusher at Jacksonville under the di
rection of Jason Harlmuun.
According to Judgo Gardner the
court felt that tko Inmates of the Jail,
would ho benefitted by tho outdoor
exercise and tho county would he
benefitted by getting somo much
nooded rock ready for the repair of
county roads. Many of tho roads
near Medford aro now In wrotched
shape, particularly the road running
cast to IIIllcreBt Orchard and tho
county court Is anxious to see that
this and other thoroughfares arc put
in decent condition us soon as possi
ble. Rhino F.dwnrds nnd llireo other In-
nmlcs of thu Jail worked at tho rock
crusher this morning and tho others
will have their opportunity In tlio
next few days. . Tho law allows the
court to decrease tho sentences of the
me;t employed if. their work for the
county Is satisfactory.
NEGRO TAKEN FROM
HATTIF.SBirilG, Miss., Jan. 3.
Ben Webster, a negro, was taken
from an eastbound passenger train
on tho Alabama and Vicksburg rail
road at Lawrence Inst night by 25
masked men and bis body was found
today hanging from a bridge 25 miles
from Lawrence, according to reports
reaching here today.
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BKULI.V, Jan. 3. Roports from
Halle state that an attempt was mndo
lust evening to blow up a largo monu
mental group comprising an equestrian
stutuo of Emperor William I and monu
ments to Bismarck and Von Moltke.
Tho latter monument was hurled into
the basin of tho fountain.
Attempts to destroy tho victory
column In front of tho postofNco und
the home of a well known banker were
frustrated by the police.
Ioih' liitcnIlottH Denied,
1 ROM 10, ,ian. 3. The Vatican Is
sued n denial, of the Berlin report
thnt Pope I'liis was soon lo urge
American Intervention lo aid tho eco
nomic und moral, reconstruction of
Kurope.
The Woodmen of tho World will
hold a large Initiation nt the Nat to
night and the new second dcgioe work
will be put on for the first time in
southern Oregon. A number of out of
town delegates arrived today to take
part In the ceremony.
SALIC M, Ore.. Jan. 3. Al-
most continuous rainfall bIuco
Friday, during which timo al-
most fivo inches of rain have
fallen, are delaying burials in
local cemeteries. Sextons ro-
port difficulty in digging graves
and one funeral had to be post-
poned today becauso tho wutor
! seeped Into tho open gravo
faster than It could bo pumped
out.
Modford'a new city administration
Is In lite saddle, having iiHsumi'd of
fico last nitht at their first formal
meet inc. whleh was the first couneil
meeting of the new year. The new
members tiro Mayor K. C. Oaddls, and
Oouneilmen O. O. Alenderfor, J. H.
llutler, 12. 11. Janney, li. V. I'aul,
J. V. Jueobs and A. J. Crosc. The
terms of City Recorder M. L. Alford
and City Treasurer Vebbur ulso began
January 1.
K. l Cmtos, retiring mayor nnd
Messrs Iumsden, Keeno and Dressier,
retiring councilmen. taklnff a fatherly
Interest In the new body, wero pres
ent to see thatchings went off right,
and Messrs. dates and Koeno gave a
few words of advice.
Contrary to expectation Mayor
Ouddis announced few permanent
changes in appointments, having
been unable, becuutio of lack of time
for proper consideration to make
permanent changes nnd decide on
further appointments.
Timothy and Mcnrs Out.
Trobubly the most Interesting
change announced by Mayor Caddis,
of hitlmalo Interest to tho general
public is that Oeorgo O. Timothy is
no longer chief of police after his
five years of servico In that position,
The mayor appointed Chas. Adams,
the well known night patrolman for
several years, as temporary chief of
police. Tho mayor announced that
Chief Timothy had resigned, and thus
caused tho vacancy. O. J. Prcscott
was appointed tmporary policeman
Another change of interest is that
the mayor announced that Kred V.
Mears, city uttorney during tho Cates
administration, had made plans to lo
cate In Southern California In a fev
months, this necessitating the ap
pointment of another man to fill this
position. Mayor tiaddis announced
that ho had named John H. Curkln to
this position, to uHHumn office when
the legislature had adjourned and
after Mr. Meant had cleaned tip nil
pending city law suits and other cily
business.
- Mr. Carkln has been In charge of
tho legal nnd other aspects of the
taking over of properties for delin
quent municipal toxes for several
years past. Therefore, tho mayor-
elect and his advisors deemed It ex
pedient to have Mr. Carkln take over
tho additional duties of city attorney.
at an increased salary, so as to have
all the city business under one: legal
head.
The only other change announced
by Mayor (Sudd is was the appoint
ment of Dr. Frederick O. Thayer as
city health officer, to succeed Dr. K.
It. Vickie. It has been the policy
for years back to pass this office
around with the change of every ad
ministration. No other appointments or changes
are to bo mado until tho new mayor
has had time for mature delibertlon
Future appointments to be made are
the personnel of tho new city water
eommlsKion, and to fill positions on
the public library board and the city
boxing commission. It Is understood
that Charles Dovis Is to bo retained
as superintendent of the water, street
and jlectrlc light departments.
Tho appointments of tho council
men to the several council commit
tecs wore made by Mayor Oaddls ns
follows, the first mentioned to he
chairman of each committee:
Klnuncc O. O. Aienderfer, J. II.
Uutler, K, II. Janney.
Street and sewer II. W. Taiil, .T,
OF HOLD UP GANG.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3. A new kind of
bandit iiueeit, one who ruled tho band
und directed the 'work" for tho fan
elnatlou of perfect technic .rather
than fnr aln, wan Introduced to the
public today by tho polku of Kvunn
ton. "You'd never think I whs n bandit
queen to look at thepo ran, would
you?" Hho mi Id n he tried to miiooth
out her rumpled clothlnK and Klunced
at her cheap Jewelry.
Khc lit Elizabeth Hulllvan, whono
mother run a confectionery More.
"My Rnni? didn't have tho nerve,
that wan the trouble." Hho wild. "My
Hheik, Kleri. wan ok, but I had to
xtcer him. liut that Tommy Ouent
OFF GER ADAMS
NAMED CHIEF
MEDFORD POL EE
OF NEW YORK
Chief Executive Empire State
Wants Amendment to Ut S.
Constitution Allowing Light
Wines and Beer Declares
People of State Opposed to
Prohibition.
AI.HANY. N. Y.. Doc. 3. In a per
sonally delivered moHsago to the New
Yurie legislature today, Governor Al
fred 13. Smith recommended passage
of resolutions urging that the legis
lative machinery ut Washington bo
set in immediate motion to bring
about a constitutional . amendment
permitting light wines and beer.
He also recommended initiation by
this state of a federal constitutional
anu ndment requiring submission to
the people instead of tho legislatures
of all future proposals to amend tho"
federnl constitution.
The legislature, the governor said,
had ratified the lstli amendment in
111 I it by a narrow margin after re
fusing an appeal by him to submit
tho Question to the people in a refer
endum. Ho then recalled the 2.75
per cent beer bill passed by a sub
stantial majority by tho loglsltauro In
mao and subsequently rendered in
operative by tho supremo court de
cision and declared that If "demo
cratic government means what wo all
say It means, surely tho history of.
our stato does not indicate that a ma
jority of the people aro In sympathy
with tho existing Volstead act. If
tho people aro to get relief from thla
situation, they must look to the nu
tional congress." ..
Other recommendations made wcra
for repeal of tho motion picturo cen
sorship law, restoration of tho direct
primary, municipal home ruin and
municipal control of public utilities.
WHITE PLAINS CASE
WHITE PLAIN'S, N. Y., Jan. 3.
Supreme Court Justico Seegor yester
day dismissed an indictment charging
first ilegreo murder against Walter 8.
Ward, wealthy baker's son, holding
that tho prosocution had Invaded the
defendant's rights in delaying trial of
tho caso.
Ward was Indicted for the slaying
of Claronco Peters last May.
W. Jacobs, O. O. Alenderfor.
Light and water A. J. Close, K,
II. Janney, J. W. Jacobs.
Health Mayor Oaddls, J. II. But
ler and A. J. Crose. '
License J. W. Jacobs, O. O. Alon
derfer and A. J. Croso
Flro and building J. II. Duller, U.
W. I'aul und H. H. Jnnney.
Parks anil public grounds E. it.
Junney, li. W. I'aul. Jlayor Oaddls.
.Mayor Outlines Policy
The council meeting win mostly
given over to hearing of tho appoint
ments, paHsngo of the monthly pay
roll and bills, i. rid to getting generally
grounded on the duties of the council.
The first ordinance passed by the
new council, was under suspension ot
the rules, and provided that E. M.
Wilson, tho accountant, be employed
to make an audit of tho city accounts
for the past four years.
In Ills Informal address to tho coun
cil, Mayor Oaddis referred to tho fact
that himself ami tho councilmen were
elected on certain pledges, nnd their
course In public office should bu
shaped to carry out thoso pledges. Ho
referred to the fact that the policy ot
tho old council, of which bo wus a
member, was to hold down expenses
as reasonably as possible in conform
ity with the progress nnd welfaro of
tlie cily, and trusted that that would
continue to be the policy of tho pres
en administration.
Ho naked the councilmen to make
a close study of tljo needs of tho va-
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ARRESTED BY POLICE
woh yellow. Ono nlfiht wo wero wait
ing to pull n Htlrkup nnd he Rot cold
feet. 1 stuck my gun to hit head
and nald, 'I'll blow your bruins out If
you try to quit now,' That brouaht
IiIk ncroKH nil rltfht.
"(Hen idurtod me on. thin Muff. I'd
go out with him and wait in tho ear
while be pulled Mlckupa. but he didn't
know how to work them, no I took
chnrRe. Then we annexed the rent of
tho Kun(f and put over some swell
John."
Jobberies of a theater nnd a kio
cery tnd numerous holdupK woro
confessed, the police nay. Thomar
Oupftt and Thomas Gash were ar
rested and tho polio are neeklny Glen
Kentry nnd two other nton.
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