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WEDFORD MATL TTtTTHTXT';, MKDFORD, ORKf.'OX. .MONDAY, A I'M L'ST 11. 19:50.
AL SMITH
LOOMS UP
AS ISSUE
Shadow of Democratic Can
didate Cast Over 3 Elec
tions Tomorrow, Alabama
Nebraska and Arkansas
Prohibition Also. Issue
Heavy Vote Is Predicted.
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WAKIIIXOTON, Aut,'. II. W'J
Tlie Hhadow of Alfred K. Smith,
J flL'S Demnernllc preHidentl-il ran
dldalo will loom
largo over tlireo
of the four
Htalo prlmiirlerj
to lo held Tuen
day of thin
week.
Voterfl of Ala
bama, ArkiinmiH
and Nobruuku,
will have the
burning Imhuch
of two yearn
uko brought
bark to them
Indirectly while
in the fourth
Btatu where bal
lots are to be
cunt prohibition Ih to flgurea
largely in the vote.
A la ha ma Democrat h itro to
choline a nuceoHfcor to Henator
J. lleflin, ouKled from thin yenr'H
party prinniry heoautte ho failed
to mipport the Democratic preHi
tlentlal canrlldato two yearn ago.
1 lefllu, however, Iuih conducted a
vlgorotiH campaign for ro-eleetlnn
iiH an independent and will be Iho
November opponent of the victor
In the Democratic primary. John
II. RnnUhend, of JiiHper, and Kred
o rie.lt I. ThompHon, Mobile publlnh
cr, lire the Kemitorlal ratidldates In
the primary. It will he the f irt
time In more, than 30 yearn that
the Democratic Hcnatnrlal nominee
facea oiipoNltlon at Iho general
election.
XoitIm Was Smith Aide
Tho Nebrank r ace offered iih
Hh chief IntercHt opposition to
Senator (leurgo W. Norrln, who
left the Itepubltcan fold to hup port
Kmtth In the campaign. However,
farm relief, tariff and prohibition
lire numbered nmoiiK the Ihhuck In 1
the Kcpuhltcan content thero. Nor
rlH Ih oppohed by W. "W. Htobbin,
Htato treiiHurcr and Aaron Head.
The fcUebbln campaign hun boon
rtireclod at NoitIh for failure to
fooperate with tho administration.
S'ho veteran Henator curried to tho
fulcra it claim for vindication of
hia party bolt, annoi-tlng "oventH
that have transpired liavo cleared
Hip of erilielmn."
The Demtieratlc primary In Ne
hrunku off era a camtldulo who
deneited the ritnkn of that party to
suppurt J h over In 1U2X. Thin Ih
Dr. Jennie Al. CullfiiH, oppoKed by
funnei- Senator Ullhort M. Hitch
cock. y- Prohibition Ih Ihniio
v In ArkanaaH, Senator Joneph T.
Roblnaon, tho Democmtlc leader,
han conducted a Hlrenuoun cam
paign HKaliiNt Hum W. Campbell,
little Hock lawyer. Hohlnuon 'han
championed the cuuko of national
prohibition In vIkoi-ouk iiHhlon In
manner that haH led to general
belief he nought to eniinteract any
nffect of IiIh having nlimed (he na
tional ticket with Hmlth.
HecauKO of Utile- opposition to
Hep ubi lean eandlilatcH IntercHt In
Ohio Iiuh eonlnrMl on the Demo
cratic Henatorlal content In which
prohibition hun been tho leading
lHMiie. Tariff, farm, relief and
present economic condltlouM have
contributed lo campaign toplen.
Hobert J. Huckley, of Clevelnnd,
u former representative, advocator
dry law repeal and Clcorge S.
illyera of Cleveland, favora modifi
cation. Tho other candid a Inn In
tho Demorriitlc aenate ruco are W.
V. Durbln, fr many yenra leader
tif IiIh party In the Mate; former
Hepi 'I'Mi'litiillvo John M rHwi'ciioy,
nf WiiusUt. iiixI diarlm V. Truiix.
oni-o Hlulo tllt-cctor uf iiKi-k'tilturt.
No lirlumry uiipoNltlmi furi-H
Hrlmtor Hunciii' l .MrCulloch, tin'
Iti'lHlhlkiin im-umlioiH, who In H
dry.
KmllUK a whirlwind two.wopkK
onlumli;ii of lilltor prl-KiinidltlcM,
ONlahoitm Mi'inon-iitH will ko to
the runoff lirlumry poIIm tomorrow
to nomlimtu it Hovirnor mirl Unlti'il
Htntpii Honutor.
Kor their RiilM'rnutorlHl noiulnoo,
hori'toforo lilwayH olct'toit. thi'y
muni rhooHO hotwppn Krunk Hul
(riini, Okhihonm City oil mllllon
ulro Hurt colorful WHIIiini lli'iiry
(Alfulfu Hill) lliirniy nt TlHhomln
ro, coiiHtilullomil iiutlior JiiHt ro
turni'd fjoni mi in fmoit Hollvhin
rolonlmtlnn HttPinpt, who luiil u
06,00(1 votu lilllinllty In Iho frnt
piimniy July 2D.
rharlpii J. WrlKhtxmnn of Tnlna,
UIho inailo wealthy !y iotrol(iinrH
favora. anil hllnil Thoman P. dure,
for 13 yenra United Htatea nenator.
will content for the Demoeratlc
aenatnrlal nomination. They fln
iHhed the firm primary on virtually
even ternia. The winner faeea a
Htlff Reneral eleetlon content
Itxniniit Henntor W. It. Pine, He
pulilloan and an Independent field
Including J. (', (Jack) Walton,
ouHted aa Rovernor In 192a when
lie ordered martini law to nuell
KU Hlux Klun dlnturhnnecii.
SUNDAY SIZZLE
Eastern Oregon Hottest
Place in State With 102
Only S in Hertford
Mercury Climb, to 108
in Nevada.
(IMATILIA HAS flp flSS
RECORD HEAHN dv nDni itu
V i UIUU 1 1 1
1';.DIJ;T0N. Ore., Auk. u.
(A't Sunday wan "jutit anuther hot
day fur J'endletun and envlroiiH.
The mercury touched a hlh of,
101 dcKrccti. Iast nlKbt's minimuiu
waa till degrecM,
7
PER CENT
July Estimates Cut By Cli
matic Conditions Com
and Wheat Suffer Host
All Prosj)cts Below
Last Year's Output.
1'OKTI.AXlJ, Ore., Aug. 11. (Af)
j To I'matllla went the heat rec
ord for the Htalo .Sunday, on the
luiKiH -of rcpnrtH from tliuno cftlea
anil towns in which the weather
bureau taken obnervatloiiM. Tho
muxlmuiu In tho eunlern DreKon
city wiih 102 deKreea. I'endlcton
wan next in litlo with 101 dcKrcoa.
.Medford had a maximum of !I0
dcKreea. Salem waa next with K II,
and Portland and Albany tied with
un H7.
Other tcmperatureH were: Maker
80, Marhricl 7X, RuKeburK H2.
The maximum In Yakima waa
!), In Walla Walla MA, and livd
illuff, !Mi.
Wiunemucea, Nev., waa tho hut
teat place In the country yeaterday
with a maximum uf 10U degree.
i isr . i mvp.tf U , i
mm
Screen life
Hollywood
Hy Kuhhln ('(mmin.
llolJ.VW'OOD Dual rolea In
Mltcnt pIcttiri'H Ioiik Mince have
eofiaed to be cauae for curioaity,
biU putting tho
a in e phenome
non Into a talkie,
ucltliiK "il actor
to ronveiKo with
himself An the
ereon, o f f c r a
new problems.
.1 a c k M nihil 1 1
ii "Dark StreetHMi
lad the fiiHt dual
talkie role, and
now l.orcttu
Yountf Ih under
aklnK tho fli'Kt
oich role for a
.vomau.
linw Ih It dune?
Very Hlmi)ly
lack .M ti Ilia II and very palim-
takliiKly.
The "picture" portion Ih taken
Just uh In Hih-til picturoH, llio
camera foeuMhiK only on one Hide
of each Hceue in which the dual
character appeai'H.
Ouo nt a Thin.
When this side haa been pho
tographed, the film Ih rewound,
and then the other Hhlo Ih ex
poHcd, while .llsa Young portrays
the other character, on the oppo
hlto Hide of the Hceno. I
In Hcenes where tho two appear
on the name side, one of the kIiIh
always ban Jier hack to the cam
era, and Ih a 'double." The meth
od Ih the Hiune as that used In
Hllent dual rolcH.
(letting the dialog In straight"
h more difficult, although simi le,
t'erfcitinn all depends on timing.
MIhh Young '-ehearseH, HpeakliiK
her llnea while snmeoue cIho reads
her oilier character's.
in Iho filming and recording,
(he sound expert In IiIh booth al
lows only Miw Young'H Uiich to
be recorded, leaving gaps In the
record Hurriclent for the replies.
Then when the nctresH HtepH to
the other side of the mene. in her
other character, the same pro
cedure for timing is followed and
the Much she Hpeaks then fall Into
their proper place on the wax
disk. '
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. (IV
Crop proHpectH in tho United
Stales were reported today by
tho department of agriculture to
have declined nearly seven per
cent during July uh a result of
drought and hot weather.
Tho corn crop this year was
placed at 2, 21 1,823,000 bushels,
buHlng Its forecast on tho condl-j
lion of the crop August 1. That;
compares with 2.802,000,000 fore-j
cust a month ago and 2,1)14, 000,-
000 bunhels produced last year. I
The Indicated production of all
wheat was placed nt 820.U 13,000
bushels, compared with 827,000,
000 bushels hint month and 8 0 ti , - '
000,000 bushels last yeur. j
The preliminary estimate of
winter wheat production was 11117.
aitL'.OOO bushels, compared with
f fix. 000, 000 bushels Indicated last
month, and 578,000,000 bushels
produced last year. Tho quality
of winter wheat Ih 911.4 per cent,
compared with 86.7 last year.
Durum wheat production Is In
dicated at -18,2!(),000 bUHhels, com
pared with f 7,M)0, )(K bushelH laHt
month and 52,000,000 bushels last
year.
The Indicated production of all
olhi;,' spring wheat Is placed at
17 l.1KI2.0O0 bushels, compared with
1113,0110,000 bushels indicated last
month and 17(1,000,000 bushels
produced laHt year.
The Indicated production of
oalH was announced at 1 .!( 1 ti.Iltl!',
00(1 bushels Indicated latir month
and 1.2:14.000,000 bushels produced
last year.
, NATION IS PREPARING. FOR MASS AIR TRAVEL
MAP SHOWS NUMBER OF AIRPORTS. LANDING FIELDS. LICENSED
AND IDENTIFIED PLANES AND PILOTS BY STATES
L 2 4"7"" MAP s,,ows NUMBER OF AIRPORTS. LANDING FIELDS. LICENSED i
LHASII 190 I M IDENT,nD PLANES AND P1L0TS BY STATES .
us mow. H.o. 191 ZylL a
' i : 3s i 15 I "- s 13 299 ?f r LOS.!
J 7 IDWl 0' j 79 St). MINN. 'n. ,5 9 tfJ Jli-V :?oS
U T-J 25 m k isT-Wj ) wcH-ifVCNr
1 J 35 23 '433 1423 28 QJjr
mi I try -- vL ark. (44 51 y AIR TRAVEL.
nt . sss riTA 6 is ) Z 7 DIVISION
LEGEND, J I gi XjtJ
UPPER FIGURES . ) 77JJ&iK 100 13 -A.
LICENSED AND IDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT J-T 7 'l3 '$fjLJL&
AIRPORTS. ALL TYPES X -jf I II
INriltHCOIATK AND AUHILIAHV FICLOB I ttff f '1 " , - ' C 1 II
PIVlHtR FIIOM AKRON AUT : aHANRH hkE ' ttea II
DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE . '"" .mLJ
CENTER FIGURES' TOTAL PILOTS
LOWER FIGURES-
Ozarks Farmer, Who Says He Is 118,
Planning Next Birthday Party Soon
STORY 1
(Continued from Po 1)
OTTAWA, Auk. 1 1 . (!) Can-
atla's spring wheat crop as of July
31 was in a less favorable condi
tion than on June 30, a crop re
port Issued by tho Dominion bu
reau of statistics Indicated.
The condition at tho end ot July
was Kivcn ns 8 5 per cent of the
ten year avernRe. At tno onu or
June, the condition was HI per cent
and tho end of May 9(1 per cent.
However, tho condition was con
siderably bettor than on July HI,
1 1120, when It was sot at 00 per
cent.
F
.
'M AALSlQ, SAY,OL)-i?E JU?T
trarflc act, ttt that the only eom
maudliiK oTI leer in the depart
ment would be the chief. At pres
ent there are five commissioned
besides tho chief. These are two
captains and three lieutenants.
While the newspapermen walled
two ami a half horns to talk with
Hons three 'ofriceiH of the depart
ment appeared and were nlvoii
audience ahead of the press men.
These were Captain Hloom, the
deposed orricer. who applied In
cltixcn's clothes, Lieutenant .
Nichols and officer Huston of
the Halem district.
Hoss denhd thit he had held
se.eret conferences with McMahon,
' He has not Mulled my beach
home for two yearn and bus
never been Inside my houne In
Salem." he said. The letters, ask
Iiik the reslnnatlon. he said, were
written after he went to the beach,
from where he returned last nlnht.
It had been apreed with liaffety.
h shl. that the ehiinRe be not
announced for three Weeks. As
noon as It leaked, he said, he wast has the
WASHINGTON, I). C Aug. 8.
1 tones of ricHlppus, the very
Ki'eat Krandfather of Gallant lix,
marvel of American race tracks,
have been discovered In Idaho
where scientists have identified
amotiK skeletal remains the nilss
Iiik link of the horse family,
I'lesippus bore slight reset n
blanco to tho winner of tho 11)30
Kentucky Derby. Ho was a pro
historic horse about the sixo of
a collie dntf and had three toes
on each foot. While crossing i
swamp I'lesippus Rot bombed In
the mil o and perished. The de
posit that -rinsed over his car
cass preserved tho fossil hones for
more than a million years.
.Modern Horses l.luk with Past
Hut the modern horse's link
with the past can he observed
without vIslthtK a museum.
"Thero are certain apparently
useless structures connected with
the Ioks of a horse," wrote Major
General William II. Carter in
'I h ones of the World.' prepared
for the National Geographic soci
ety, "which give rise to many
theories concerning his probabte
evolution from an animal of dif
ferent typo. There Is on the In
ner surface of each foreleg of the
horse, above the knee, and on the
inner surface of each hind leu,
below the hock Joint, a callous,
elongated piece of skin known as
'chest nut,' which has long been
a subject of invest Iga lion, based
upon the idea that it represents
the former existence of an ap
pendage which has disappeared In
the process of evolution.
"There Is also n bony, wartlike
structure, at the hack of the fet
lock or pastern Joint, quite pro
nounced In some animals, which
selves no useful purpose to the
horse In his present form.
.lit Mother of Hmnotimtcil Horse
"Practically all writers on tho
history of tho horse who have
given serious study to tho sub
ject Incline to the belief that tho
wild horse of the steppes of Asia 1
most legitimate claim as
. says he remembers the presidential
nlootl.in nf 1 S 1 fi it ml ovnrv Mni-
palgn since.
And there's nothing very infirm
about this rugged old farmer. He
thinks nothing of walking the five
mi I oh from hi.s 40-acr farm in the
Ozarks, to Poplar Biuff.
Outside of being partially deaf,
Kemp says he's "as well as a man
reasonably can expect, to be when
he's nenring his 1 1 Oth birthday."
His memory still ia good and hia
eyesight keen.
Tie still likes to cultivMe hi
farmand he says he's been farm
ing for 110 years, since ho was
eight. Even now he always can
find time to ,wt out his shotgun
and go hunting "with the young
folks."
"I was born in Huntingdon, Car-
I roll county, Tennessee," says the
aged farmer. 'My parent. Aaron
and Tab! t ha Kemp, died when I
was young. I was working regu
larly when 1 waa eight.
"And In those days," Kemp re
calls, boys had to work from the
time they could lift a hoe."
His first "regular" job was as a
rider on the pony express and
mall. He was married In Ken
tucky In lS3fi, and his firt wife
died five years later. Two chil
dren were horn to them.
In 1841 he was married again,
this time to the sister nf his first
wife. She died . 40 yours later.
They were the parents of seven
children, six of whom are dead.
One daughter, Amanda, is 5S, and
Kemp makes his home with her.
"Some persons doubt my age,"
t',..., mi,.,, , 1 . ii i.h t or '.nil
other relatives have checked all
possible sources, and tney are cer
tain I was born in 1811-
"Of course am looking for
ward to many more birthdays," he
insists.
SECT DAVISON,
ASST.SEC'YWAR
A LOCAL VISITOR
Head of U. S. Aviation Stops
at Medford Airport On
Country-Wide Trip Re
fuses to Comment On
Politics.
ASHLAND
ASHLAND, Aug. 11. (Spl.)
Kd Dunn's threshing season Ih over
and the result of his wheat har
vest were peacefully resting In sack
neatly filled In the field. Awak
ing eurly this morning, he looked
with sleepy eyes in the direction
of his grain and saw it moving
away. It had been loaded on a
truck and was being taken toward
the Held.
Koul play at work, thought he,
and forthwith ho called the Ash-:
"There seems to bo a shortage
of matches In the western part of
the United States,' F. Trubee Dav
ison, assistant secretary of war,
said yesterday morning when UrM
Ing a cigar after having eaten
breakfast at the local airport. Mr.
Davison refuse to uso a lighter
and also refused to talk about pol
itics or International relations.
Mr. Davison was accompanied
by Pilot Collins, Captain Ira Eaker,
who was a member of tho Question
Mark endurance crew, and Major
D. C. Kmmons. With Collins at
the controls, tho Fleotstor mono
plane lunded at the local port
shortly after 7 o'clock. They had
left Crlssey field, San Francisco,
at 4:50.
On an annual inspection tour
which will continue for another
week, the assistant secretary and
officers have visited air fields along
the extern coast and In the south
ern states since leaving Boiling
field, Washington, D. C, on July
30th.
Captain Eaker stated that they
had encountered good weather,
with the exception of a heavy rain
storm at Flagstaff, Ariz.
This was Mr. Davison's first trip
into Oregon, and although he had
only been in the state a few min
utes, was confident he would en
juy tho flight to Portland. They
expected to land at the Spokane
airport at 1 o'clock.
Previous to visiting in tho south
and west. Mr. Davison, whose work
deals entirely with aviation, made
several ithort inspection tours
through Michigan and northern 4
and mid-weatern states. Two years
ago his observations carried him
to Panama. Captain Eaker ac
companied him on that flight also.
The party commented on the al
ia nd police department and was;
ready to summon the sheriff's of-j tractlveness of the field, but being
flee from Medford. Uy the time
he gain ed the w i d ex pa nses o f
the field, the truck had gone. His
wheat was gone and the Ios pained
him.
However, the pain did not con
tinue long. He learned a short time
later that a truck driver from an
A.shland mill had driven to his
field for a load of wheat that was
to have been waiting for transpor
tation In an adjoining field. .
Ilea verton Sound equipment
will be Installed in Heaver theater.
used to runways where you "wore
out the tires taxiing to the han
gar." the Medford port seemed
small.
Another army plane which did
not stop at Medford, was traveling
with tho assistant secretary, and
the two groups planned to meet In,
Portland before continuing east.
Coquille $35,000 will be ex
pended for installation of trunk
sewer for north end, and paving
of two blocks of North Henry
street.
Theso "hovM lire spry despiiu. i ludr yours. Zero Aglm (rlglil), the
old Turk who says he's I5. 1ms into mi edge on Thomas N. Kemp
(loft) of Poplar Ulutf, .Mo., who claims to Ik IIH, but Kemp says he's
just getting started'.
POPLAR HM'FF, Mo. &) nlnff to celebrate his ll'Jth birthdityi
Speaking of longevity and 1 ."iti-year-' anniversary soon.
old Turks, here's a Vhan" from the This American-horn patriarch
Ozarks who claims 1 IS summon, j ays September 10, 1811. was tho
and who was too old to servo in date of his birth, and folks around.
the Civil war. Poplar Uluff generally accept his
Just now, while Zaro Agha. the j claim.
Turk, Is demonstrating to America j When the War of 1 SI 2 broke
the spryncss of his reputed i.ii mil, Kemp says, ho was just tod
years. Thomas N. Kmp is pluti- dling around learning In walk. Hi
Abu, powerful
TUD
EISA IKE El
SAILEMU
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Market
OtATC capital, county scat, Salem
is the leading outside market of
happy, prosperous Oreson, its sec
ond largest city.
Sixty-two factories, 5,000 farms, all
major state Institutions bring a con
slant Row of wealth to this all
Amerlcan city. Salem's industrial
payroll Is $17,500 per day (Sun
days Included); state and county institutions pay another
$3,500 per day. Each year farmers produce $9,000,000 worth of
cropsi flax, hay, fruits, hops, nuts, berries, livestock.
Over T0,000 paid-in-advance (A. B.C.) subscribers pay $50,000
per year to read Salem's Capital Journal, Oregon's largest out
side daily. Supreme in its field, the Capital Journal is keenly
edited, dignified, alwaysgrowing. It is the key to Salem's prosperity.
Capital Ajounia!
bef-leged with telephone calls and . the source from which tho domos-vl-iix
Hh.tut fin men unprurhia to Heated horse was derived.
ask for Jobs.
John H. Thlmas, Hi, of Council
Iliurfs, la. han chftllanged Helen
Jensen, Council Hluffn, national
spelling champion.
The eighteenth child win horn
'io Mr. and Mrs. A. H. HrxhrrK.
Yorktown, Iowa, farm couple, re
cently. 1
Montell Knapp, 22, Cedar
Ids. la., traveled half way around
tho world In 7 months on 20.
Mrs. Christina Heim, 1 0.1. old
est cltlxen of Sandusky. Ohio, was
born on Friday tho 13ih.
Ministers of Council Hhiffs. la.,
taklnic religion to tho peoplo. ko
Into city park Sunday evening
And preached 40-mlnute sermons.
'Scientists all agree that In pre
historic sues certain typos of
ltap-j horses ran god over parts of Ala
and of North America and South
America, and that while the wild
horses of Asia appear to have de
scended from the original stock,
all such animals had disappeared
from North and South America
befoi o any modort F.uropeans
landed here.
Forest drove Ventilating sys
tem of Star theater improved.
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(vary JV ttO.000 Oregon bvytn rood iSci
twtlvi Mrffnin nwseaf(i.
Albany Ptmot-raf Htra'd La Grand OMrrrtr
AiMand TiW-nft Mcd'ard Moil (nbutt
Anofla AitOfiet Oreson Ciff fnl.-fne
Euf n QtfiUtf Roitbur Ni-v ;tw
GraMi I'osm Couo'tr $a!m Capital JouQal
Klamath fall) HtraM-Ntnt Th DolUl Chronic
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114 inch wheelbose
mm
A BIG and beautiful car, of 114-inch
. wheelbaae ... a car built to
Studebakers 78-year-old standards of
quality. Never has so powerful a car
been sold for so low a price as this
brilliant new Studcbaker Six.
At any price below 1000, there is
no comparable car-per-dollar value.
Check its quality evidence. Let your
eyes and your judgment of perform
ance, comfort, beauty, prove this state
ment to you.
See the car, drive it, verify its many
fine-car features before you decide.
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then Compart I
1 1 4-inch wheelbast
70-horscpowcr engine)
Thermostatic control of cooling
Double-drop frame
Self-adjuiting spring shacklu
Full power muffler
Engine-driven giioline pump
Lanchejter vibration damp (r
Starter button on daih
Cam-and-levcr rtetring
Hand brake on four wheels
Clutch torsional damper
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Readitcr for 4 fnS
Chib Sedan (45
Coupe for S t45
Coupe for 4 ........ 95
Tourer (05
Regal Sedan, 4-door M irfnivfeelij 995
landeuSedan,4-doorMvfnwJ 991
Rejal Tourer (4wtr,mll,) ... 995
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